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Ninety five miles an hour riding to
his head. He hopped down the first

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with the lump on his face,
and on the very next pitch he up

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and stole second face with greatst be
He wasn't born, he hadn't done.

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Boy howdy, Welcome to prospect.
Besides podcast, this is the nasally John

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c Riley's sounding voice of Nate Handy. A biologies for that only shake what

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your mama gave you. I am
also coming off of a COVID stint,

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so apologies. I hope you're able
to bear with it, hope that I

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am able to bring you some content
and some entertainment that makes it worth it.

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But yeah, so doing a podcast
not something I have ever done before.

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It's a little unnatural, but I
will do my best. And you

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know, if you're gonna get a
little bit of a b side mentality about

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some dynasty prospects, you might have
to endure feeling a little unnatural as well.

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I figured it was only fair to
give you a little bit of an

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introduction, even though it's dreadful for
me to talk about myself like this.

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So I reached out on Twitter to
some of my followers asking them to ask

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me some questions that might be useful
to listeners. So let's get into it.

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Let's see at Jazz for Ball,
Jamie asked, how long have you

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been playing fantasy? What kind of
leagues do you play in? And are

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you any good at it? Great
question. I think two thousand and six

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was the first league I ever played
in. Year after White Sax won the

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World Series, primarily just one league
for most of that time, some good

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buddies, a unique twelve team points
league, very wild pitching scoring. But

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I wanted to branch out. I
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I wanted to get more into prospects. So I found I took over

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a team and at thirty team points
league, and that's when I started to

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get, you know, a little
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and you know, putting more money
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in five to seven leagues. I
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I am commissioner of I'm in.
I tailed three Sport, which is a

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sixteen team head to head I mean
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fourteen team rodo what else? Oh, there's like a five year drafting whole

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thing, and then yeah, that
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way out. Am I any good? I mean I wasn't for a really

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long time. That longest standing league. I just wanted for the first time

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this last year. So it wasn't
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you know, I think part of
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id take players I had no business
take and I was just trying to be

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hip and cool or something, trying
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I was like two years ahead on
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But I think I've gotten much better
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I played in a lot of like
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and did pretty well on that.
I think overall, I think I'm either

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pretty even or have made money,
if that's how you want to measure if

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you're you're good at fantasy or not. But I think my Dynasty game is

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on the up and up, and
I think a lot of that has to

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do with, you know, things
we're going to be discussing moving forward in

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this podcast. So thanks that that
was a great question. At sports m

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Therapy one two three, asked,
how long have you been following prospects and

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what credentials do you have speaking about
prospects? Who hard hair? Good question.

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I would say I have been paying
attention to prospects since MLB pipeline was

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the thing. I don't know late
nineties is that it, but I mean

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just glancing those over and reading them. When m ILB dot tv came to

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be, definitely got more into it. I mean, I'm I'm addicted.

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That's my favorite sport to watch was
minor league baseball, and I think that's

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where I might have some quote credentials. I'm not an expert, I am

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not a scout. I am an
enthusiast who needs an outlet, someone to

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talk to, so to speak about
what they've been watching all the time.

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Imagine watching what you think is the
greatest movie you've ever seen, and no

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one else has seen it. That's
what I kind of feel like. If

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I don't have some sort of content, I guess is the word to put

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out there. So I hope that's
our relationship writing at pitcher List. I

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have made some friends, some friends
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in their endeavors like this, I
have also I don't know. I'm in

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an online sense, have befriended a
few people inside baseball, have conversations with

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them. And here's the cool part
about that is even some dumb guy like

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me has brought some things to light
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writers notice. Something baseball is is
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universe. No one sees it all. I like to think of myself as

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maybe like maybe like a local news
anchor or something like that, like like

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Carney Nebraska, whereas someone like the
Welsh might be you know, he's like

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national. You know, he's like
a he's like Crown Kite or's whatever.

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I don't even know if that analogy
is correct. But we all have credentials

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as baseball fans and you know something
about prospects. That's what it's kind of

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interesting to me is, you know, we all watch Major League baseball and

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we all have, like, you
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best player is. But I mean
it might be obvious now with a Tani,

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but you know what I'm saying,
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lot more opinions in Major League Baseball
than there is a minor league baseball.

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We seem to agree, and that's
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backwards to me in a way,
because there's so much more unknown about these

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players that are still developing, and
that's why it's become my favorite watching a

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I don't know Joey Estes twenty twenty
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awesome. Young people are just more
resilient and more capable of change than old,

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krusty people like us, you know
or me. I shouldn't call you

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old and rusty because I don't know
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don't know. We all have credentials
if we watch I think pay attention to

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things. I think we all can
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you. That's a that's a great
question. At Casey Casey ninety nine asked

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if I have access to data,
I mean, no more than anybody else.

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Get some backdoor savant stuff from a
couple of the minor leagues. You

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know that some of the friends that
I mentioned, we'll share some things with

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me, but I'm not a huge
numbers guy. We'll get into a little

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bit more of that a little later
here at Saddleback Jewels, asked me if

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I played baseball. Yeah, I
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and I pitched up through my sophomore
year of high school, where I yeah,

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regrettably. To be honest, I
wish I could play literally now.

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I kicked some fucking ass, gave
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dreams that I had until my very
early twenties. And then I got back

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on the mound playing with some some
ex college guys. I don't know how

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old was I thirty five when they
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I lived too far away. I
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a lot of fun to get back
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right at cute in Jersey. Four
six six asked me where do I Where

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do I live? And um do
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live in Narnia. Basically, I
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feet where the snow is here forever. But it's not too far from Denver.

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I mean, it's minor league baseball
desert, so no. I got

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out to Grand Junction a few times, but when it contracted, Colorado lost

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all their minor league affiliates. It's
unfortunately not but to be honest with you,

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I don't think i'd be very good
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to share stuff like this. Then
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won't be able to get. You
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there's also a reason why. You
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almost exclusive video, you can you
can watch a lot more. You can

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slow things down. You don't know
what that guy just through. I guess

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what I can pose it and rewind
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I think I would just be way
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that. But but yeah, I'm
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asked me who my favorite team was. Well, I came to my baseball

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age, if you will, living
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answer. Hey, what's the station
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am, Actually no one knows the
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God bless us to everyone, and
our last one is from at third base

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Carly. You must have played some
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man. Are you single? Well? At third base Carly, I am

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happily married, but thank you all
right, So a B side prospect.

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What is that? What's that all
about? What's that mean? I guess

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we'll just kind of do a little
origin story about four years ago or so

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joined il Army. Highly recommend it. Get on in this league, dot

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Com, Patreon, look at their
little different tiers of membership. Bogmin and

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the Welsh are great. They remember
why we played fantasies. They have fun,

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so much fun. And so I
was a fan that joined up Covid

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Into the world came twenty twenty and
I was at unemployed at home home with

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my kids for like a year,
going stir crazy like a lot of us

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were. I've been dealing with Todd's
all day talking ABC's tell them what sounds

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a cow makes. It's a move, motherfucker. I saw that picture list

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was looking for a writer. I
think Welsh put a good word in for

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me with Nick Bollock, and it
took me on and one of my first

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assignments was to write five or six
I think it was organization's top fifty prospect

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lists for Fantasy daunting task after no
minor league season, not really being prepared

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the year prior, when maybe I
was watching some of these guys that I

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would be writing about them, but
did the best I could. I think

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it came out all right. And
you know, naturally, the biggest question,

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or one of the big questions you
get from readers is which one of

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these guys on the bottom half of
your list do you think you're gonna pop?

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And you know, that's that's a
great question. That's kind of the

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penultimate question with Fantasy. Who are
the guys that I need to get to

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before everybody else, And that's going
to be kind of the big focus of

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this podcast is those guys kind of
on the fringe come you know, potential

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come ups and stuff like that,
and players that I watch that I'm putting

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some bets down that might be and
we have some success with that initial list.

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Tovar Grissom. I think jo Kenzino
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But we'll get into we're gonna future
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by division, little b side history
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and stuff like that. But during
that process of the first iteration of it,

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I threw the list of thirty names
to my good buddy Matt Vogel,

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who's you know, baseball guy Dynasty. Good friend and I was like,

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Hey, what do you think about
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don't know. Listen, it looks
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So when I wrote the articles,
I tried to and I'm sure it was

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pretty corny but incorporated some music stuff
involved, and so yeah, that's where

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where B side comes from. I'm
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naming rights or something like that.
And then yeah, well there's a good

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pile of cash on your mom's nightstand, so why don't you just grab some

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of that, Ladies and gentlemen,
We got him. So last season,

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I was focusing on Prospect Pictures,
doing a series picture list called Prospect Picture

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List and Review. I think that's
what it was called. Series got cut

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short about midway through July because I
lost any sort of internet service. It

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was kind of insane. But during
that time, you know, some some

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folks reach out to me and we're
you know, appreciating my work, which

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was you know, awesome and felt
great. Uh. Jeff Potts of Baseball

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America was one, and I've struck
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James Anderson had me on his show
that was you know, all nice and

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fun. I feel free to go
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But point being because I really want
to try to maintain some of that feel

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with this podcast. And you know, when I first started, you know,

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producing some content, I really wanted
to try to keep myself out of

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it in a sense and just observe
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maintain some of some of that feel. I really enjoyed doing that series,

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but the amount of hours were just
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I have a job that I can
watch a lot of stuff, work

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overnights at a hospital with a lot
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that, I think it will be
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don't know, maybe convey to you
what it is that I look for and

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how I try to value some things
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talk a little bit about one of
the first pieces that I did at Picture

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List, which was called using NFBC
ADP and MLB draft histories to make informed

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mistakes. I think that's what we
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did was my guy, Colin Charles, wrangled historical NFBC ADP, DAD an

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MLB draft data and we put them
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of different types of players fantasy wise. So the NFBC stuff it was ADP

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rank, So the highest that players
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fifteen reached inn. N FBC doesn't
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may have been valued highly in a
fantasy sense. And these are just kind

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of a few of the most interesting
takeaways that I took to just keep me

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sort of in a very general sense
what a prospect might be worth looking at,

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like college hitters, college arms,
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top twenty pick in the MLB Draft, high school arm or hitter had

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one third of a US rate That
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at all. College players were approximately
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When you got to around the fiftieth
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of the preps made the bigs,
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did. When you got to about
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made it two thirds of the college
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were approximately three years. Prep players
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the big leagues. Now, since
the condensing of the miners, I think

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it's pretty safe to say that that's
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you will. I would almost maybe
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or half a year. During this
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prep arms taken in the top five
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not find very much fantasy success.
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same fantasy heights as the big money
prep arms. I think this seems to

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be changing some though. Um,
you know, just more technology, more

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knowledge. I think teams are getting
better at avoiding those same sort of busts

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that they had. Can see it
now with like, yeah, Andrew Painter,

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it's looking pretty insane. Um,
I feel like they were there seemed

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to be like this chase to get
like the next Clayton Kershaw. You know,

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it's a prep arm that just quickly
ascended, you know, from from

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high school arm to fantasy stud for
a very long time. I happened to

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be on quite a Andrew Painter kick
right now. I traded Luis Robert for

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Painter and twenty twenty four first round
pick in the first year player draft.

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I don't know if that was smarter
or not, but I did it.

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It's an easy answer. Then we
looked at just kind of some top prospects

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top prospect list from that time,
came up with might be the biggest takeaway

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from it. You know, if
if we can know how to value the

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cream of the crop, so to
speak, I think everything else could just

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kind of cascade down and as you
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we might be able to kind of
value these guys at. But kind of

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compared top five prospects from that time, the top five draft picks, and

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here is what we took away.
So top five draft picks, the sample

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sizes of these are fairly small,
so seventy nine of them over that time

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span, twelve and a half percent
of them. Ten of them became top

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ten fantasy players, twenty percent of
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percent, Top fifty, thirty four
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top two hundred, so roughly fifty
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player. Twenty two twenty three percent
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Now, the top five prospects,
there was ninety five of them, and

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granted over this time span, you're
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know those aren't fantasy related, so
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But eleven point six percent made top
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top twenty five, thirty five percent, top fifty sixty four percent top one

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hundred, which is, you know, double the rate of what a top

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five draft pick was. Eighty seven
percent became top two hundred, whereas you

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know, only fifty percent of the
top five draft picks did. The number

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one draft pick overall MLB draft pick
became top ten. Now is there's fifteen

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of them, right, So five
of the fifteen thirty three percent became top

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ten assets, forty six point seven
became at least top twenty five, fifty

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three point three percent became top fifty
sixty percent top one hundred, and seventy

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three percent at least top two hundred. So a number one draft pick seemed

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pretty safe, you know, relatively
speaking, the safest. The number one

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overall prospect became a top ten asset
eighteen point eight percent of the time,

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compared to thirty three percent of the
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Thirty one percent, top twenty five
or better, forty three percent top fifty

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or better, eighty one percent top
one hundred or better. They did better

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becoming top one hundred compared to the
number one draft pick, but not at

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being super elite. It's a lot
of number one. Has it ever occurred

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to you that instead of you know, running around blaming me, you know,

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given the nature of all this new
shit, you know, this could

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be a lot more complex. I
mean, it's not just it might not

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be just such a simple you know
what in God's holy name are you blathering

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about? I don't know. So
at best, the best prospects in the

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game we can count as being like
now one in five are really going to

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pan out for us fantasy wise,
at least that's how it was historically.

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I think, now what since like
the vlad tiny tiny is different, but

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Akunya, I don't know those classes. I think we've just seen a lot

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of influx of young talent right now. Sometimes I wonder if that plays into

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some of the overvaluing that I was
seeing in my leagues of some of the

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bigger prospects that you know, you
start playing at that you start playing dynasty

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at that time, and you're like, man, all these guys are all

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these young guys are just gonna pop, and the previous fifteen years or so

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it wasn't really so much like that. And breaking down the MLB draft a

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little bit more, I think I've
found a couple spots that we're kind of

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sneaky good in a fantasy sense,
Like college outfielders that were drafted fifty one

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to one hundred, college pitchers drafted
twenty one to fifty or paid like those

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draft picks, you know, they
did better than first round prep arms by

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a significant amount, just fantasy success
wise. Prep infielders drafted twenty one to

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fifty, about eighteen percent of those
became twelve team relevant. Prep outfielders drafted

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fifty one to one hundred, about
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then prep infielders drafted in that same
range or paid like they were drafted in

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that range, only seven percent became
team relevant. So it was pretty apparent,

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and you know, just an overall
sense, college players were much more

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productive, much safer. Now,
all that being said, it's still imperative

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to me that we you know,
you got to evaluate every player, you

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know, individually and they're not all
going to fall under these same outcomes as

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as their peers, their demographic peers, so to speak. When I was

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working on this stuff, I reached
out to people much smarter than me,

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folks who work and investment and insurance
fields, and you know, I'm completely

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naive. I asked them, Hey, if I have, you know,

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this investment, and it's a fifty
percent chance at being this, a twenty

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percent chance to be in this twenty
percent chance to be in this, or

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I have this investment that is you
know, thirty percent, this, thirty

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percent, that thirty whatever. Right, Um, is there a way to

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like quantify which one's better? And
you know that might sound like a really

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stupid question, but I don't know
math. People are wizards, morlocks and

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things. I don't know, they
do magical things. So I asked that

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and the response always was, well, there's no way to, you know,

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quantifiably say one is better than the
other. It all depends on what

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are your needs, what are you
wanting to get out of it? And

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so I sort of took that and
thought about that a lot more. And

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I have to say that that has
really applied to me prospecting here, trying

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to what do I want that I
have to answer that question first before I

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can decide how to value these prospects. So that's why a lot of ways,

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I just have some trouble with numbers, certain numbers that I feel like

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are trying to quantify unquantifiable things.
And I'm not taking away the use of

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these numbers. I think they can
be useful for things. I think they're

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just tools that I haven't found to
be my main tools prospecting, like ranks,

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because they're trying to which I understand
is put a value on everybody relative

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to each other. I want to
know the value of the player relative to

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what I'm seeking, if that makes
sense. And some other numbers I have

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problems with, or scouting grades,
it's just not a language that I speak.

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I don't pretend to understand. And
you know, we're talking about developing

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players. You know, Valley or
whoever has got a whatever grade they put

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on his curveball, Well, what
was it at the end of the year.

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Because especially when it comes to pitching
grades, individual pitch grades, pitching

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evolution is pitch evolution is crazy to
me these days. Look at Gavin Stone

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this last year, he went from
an unremarkable changeup to arguably the best change

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up in the minor leagues. And
I know they'll have future grades and stuff

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like that. I just I don't. It confuses me more than it helps

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me. I guess it's a good
way to put it. But ultimately my

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biggest issue with numbers is that I
was taught or picked up or learned or

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I don't know, was imprinted on
me in some way that numbers good research

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should only lead to better questions,
and I feel like when we used numbers

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in the baseball world, it's always
about this is my answer, this is

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my number. I want to use
the numbers to try to get better questions

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answer things. That's where I really
value getting eyes on players watching them.

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It will often bring to light things
that numbers will not. And then the

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inverse is correct too. Don't get
me wrong. There are numbers that will

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will tell me my eyes were full
of me, and you know, obviously

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the best way to do it is
to use both to find your good questions.

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But like a good example was one
of my we'll talk about him a

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little bit in the future, but
jo Hendrick Pinango was off two killers start

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this year, tapped into the power
that he wants that we were hoping for.

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He was on par with Saderstrom,
if not better, and then he

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just fell off a cliff statistically production
wise. Why was that? What we

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find out he's playing with an injury, right, Kate Cavallei, who I

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mentioned previously, is curveball execution got
so much better. People to have taken

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some notice to that now, But
they're also talking about it in a sense

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of like usage, Well the usage
went up. Well, yeah, the

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usage went up because he finally could
execute it and would throw it more.

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You know, So just a lame
example of putting some stuff together and players

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stats tell you about the history of
their production. More prospecting, especially b

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siding, we want to look for
the things that are going to bring change

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in the future, that are going
to be different in the future. How

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we necessarily go about do that is? And I think evergoing process and and

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just some generic thoughts about when I'm
watching pictures and hitters. When I'm watching

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pictures, I always think about this
guy a cheat code guy or is he

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more precision? Does this guy have
just god given offerings that are gonna lead

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to success or does this guy put
the ball where he wants to at such

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a higher clip than everybody else that
that's going to lead to his success.

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And then when you get the marriage
of the two is when you get the

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real the real studs, the real
fins thinking about hitting. And I admit

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I have much to learn, but
I want to see very balanced guy.

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I want to see, you know, good swing decisions and all that.

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I want to see efficient strokes.
I want to see a guy who's able

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to catch the ball you know,
behind him, directly, you know,

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center to him and in front of
him. Leads to all the fields.

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Hitting Often guys who can just react
to velocity, lean inside and they can

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look away. I often think about
a tweet out there were was don tape

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of Chett talking about waft. Like
I said, about catching the ball behind

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you. So I'm more drawn to
like aggressive young hitters who want to get

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their swings in, guys who hit
the ball the other way at a young

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age already and then just kind of
go from there. When it comes to

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like power, I don't know.
To me, it's more about the shape

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of the home run, the nature
of the home run, than it is

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the quantity of them. But we
I'm sure we'll talk a little bit more

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about that as we move along,
wrapping things up. I just wanted to

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leave with a couple of rules,
a couple of things to think about.

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If we're gonna if you're gonna come
along and do some B siding with me,

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loosen up, accept some of the
warts. We aren't contemplating a first

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round pick. There are reasons that
these guys are B sides. These guys

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do pop. Look at an All
Star game, Look at Paul Goldschmidt,

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who was once I believe, an
eighth round draft pick out of Texas State,

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who just won an MVP. Don't
overdo the age for level thing.

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I think there's a really there's a
lot of misc poor understanding of it right

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now since the minor leagues have changed. Just saw Keith's law. Somebody posted

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in the Prospect Prospect one room.
Then he didn't did all of his production.

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Casey Schmidt did all of his production
when he was an a ball at

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twenty three. Well that was a
half year older. So don't overdo the

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age for level thing. Understand that
a lot of the style, a lot

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of the players that were looking at
are like you know, potentially edge of

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roster guys, guys make forty man
rosters all the time that are in fantasy

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radars, and those guys do pop. Don't be afraid of the lack of

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recognition by the fantasy world of a
player that you might be into. Pull

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the trigger sooner rather than later,
especially if, especially if your league allows

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for turning and burning prospect pickups,
and you know understand your league format.

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Try to understand the type of player
that you want. And yeah, I

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think I'll stop rambling here. Appreciate
you joining me. I look forward to

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getting into some of this stuff and
actually talking about players. I think that'll

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be a lot more exciting than this
stuff. Going to try to drop an

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episode every week every Monday, I
think is the plan. Next week we

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will do the NL West and we
will talk about B sides. I am

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watching from that division. Don't hesitate
to reach out to me on Twitter if

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you like at prospects No, that's
not it. At Pitching Specs, we

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have survived the first episode the Prospect
B Sides. Thank you, and I

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want to give big shout out again
to Wells thanks for letting me do this.

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And I also want to give a
shout out to my good friend Chad

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Staley, who's a successful musician and
music guy. Hard working Americans, great

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American taxi and Nighthawks. He's been
involved in a lot of things, but

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he was also involved with Chicago Farmer
I'm a fan of and they both graciously

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let me use the clip that brought
us in and we'll bring us out.

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Be well. Taught to you Monday, ninety five miles an hour riding to

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his head. He hobbled down the
first with the lump on his face,

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and on the very next pitch he
up and stole second face with greatst speed.

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He wasn't born, but he had
the daddy ass. Uniful