WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.879 --> 00:00:06.360 Howdy and welcome to the Three True Outcomes podcast, presented by Baseball Perspectives. 2 00:00:06.960 --> 00:00:10.560 I'm your host, Ian Leftqwitz and joining me as always from suburban Michigan. 3 00:00:10.560 --> 00:00:13.679 It's Ben Murphy. Ben. How are you doing? Oh far, well, 4 00:00:14.199 --> 00:00:25.440 Mama, I blame Okay, it's a good bet good Okay, I'm 5 00:00:25.480 --> 00:00:28.879 doing Willie, And how are you? Yeah, No, we're doing well. 6 00:00:28.920 --> 00:00:33.600 We're exploring some cookie noises and some some mouth sounds for podcast listeners. 7 00:00:33.640 --> 00:00:38.520 Will uh just wipe that in later, I guess. Um. Meanwhile, 8 00:00:38.719 --> 00:00:42.280 from our nation's capitals, Jared Wise dared, how are you doing? Sadly 9 00:00:42.320 --> 00:00:46.359 devoid of cookies? Other than that, I'm doing well though. Um did 10 00:00:46.399 --> 00:00:49.960 you guys see the the Sesame Street meme? Which good job to the sesame 11 00:00:50.039 --> 00:00:56.320 Street content creator of being abandoned on deserted island? Who do you keep with 12 00:00:56.399 --> 00:00:59.640 you? Oscar Grover Elmo or cookie Monster? Just in case you missed that, 13 00:01:00.159 --> 00:01:02.399 I saw that, But then I saw that the replies were starting to 14 00:01:02.399 --> 00:01:04.359 get pretty dark, and I don't want that. Yeah, well, okay, 15 00:01:04.359 --> 00:01:07.200 so two things. One like Twitter has to be deleted, right, 16 00:01:07.239 --> 00:01:14.879 because yeah, that's like it's sesame Street asking about like cookie and you don't. 17 00:01:14.920 --> 00:01:18.519 You don't need to take this into cannibalism. That's fine. Um number 18 00:01:18.519 --> 00:01:21.359 two, we decided the answer has to be Grover. Um. I don't 19 00:01:21.359 --> 00:01:25.599 know, I don't know where you all landed, but why Grover Um? 20 00:01:25.599 --> 00:01:29.280 Because I can deal with anxiety, but everyone else is like gonna be too 21 00:01:29.359 --> 00:01:34.319 much for an island, like almost too perky, and cookie Monsters too cookie 22 00:01:34.359 --> 00:01:38.879 and Oscars too crutchy. Yeah, and I think Paula Popkins had a right 23 00:01:40.000 --> 00:01:42.920 opinion about cookie Monster, which is like if he cut off the cookies, 24 00:01:42.959 --> 00:01:48.480 what what's sobere cookie Monster? Like, I don't know. Did you read 25 00:01:49.040 --> 00:01:53.640 Cookie monsters ama on Reddit? He seems like a pretty good dude. Okay, 26 00:01:53.680 --> 00:02:04.879 okay, Well that's uh a lot to think about. So So in 27 00:02:04.920 --> 00:02:13.319 today's focused episode, um, we have we have some so of exciting stories 28 00:02:13.319 --> 00:02:20.199 coming up. We are interested in talking about the new rules like everybody else, 29 00:02:20.639 --> 00:02:23.280 but maybe thinking about them with the score sheet perspective. Um, we 30 00:02:23.280 --> 00:02:30.240 will little Uh yeah, didn't you hear do a lipis on? No? 31 00:02:30.319 --> 00:02:35.360 I mean that's a that's a two percenter? Yeah? Yeah, sorry, 32 00:02:35.400 --> 00:02:39.800 I should know my audience a little better. Um. We also have h 33 00:02:40.719 --> 00:02:44.439 well, our version of a National League preview, which is like the others 34 00:02:44.520 --> 00:02:49.400 but worse, and uh then we'll get out of our hair. Mail back, 35 00:02:49.400 --> 00:02:52.960 captain. Is today a quiet week for for us? It's a super 36 00:02:53.039 --> 00:02:57.919 quiet week. It's said, I'm lonely. Do you feel like cookie monster 37 00:02:57.960 --> 00:03:02.400 without cookies? Actually? Yeah, that's probably an aped analogy. Okay, 38 00:03:02.439 --> 00:03:07.479 so how how can you how can we best remedy the situation? You can 39 00:03:07.479 --> 00:03:09.800 also send me cookies, that'd be okay, or you can send an email 40 00:03:09.800 --> 00:03:15.319 to scoresheet at Baseball Perspectives dot com. All right, Oh, and before 41 00:03:15.319 --> 00:03:20.120 I forget some site news, I guess we have ads now, yeah, 42 00:03:20.159 --> 00:03:23.840 we have ads. We should have definitely definitely warned you about that. Holy 43 00:03:24.360 --> 00:03:29.479 holy cats, they're loud. We're looking at it, at it, and 44 00:03:29.960 --> 00:03:32.599 we want to kind of figure out I think if it is worth it for 45 00:03:32.680 --> 00:03:38.520 us and particularly Ben, if it is paying for itself. So we'll find 46 00:03:38.520 --> 00:03:43.360 out. So I will be strangely cut off mid sentence a little later in 47 00:03:43.360 --> 00:03:46.560 this podcast, and we'll figure that out later. Thank you for joining us 48 00:03:46.560 --> 00:03:51.479 on this journey. If any of the listeners are audio engineers and want to 49 00:03:51.520 --> 00:03:53.719 help out, that would be wonderful. Yes, Oh, for sure. 50 00:03:54.039 --> 00:04:02.159 Yeah, I don't know lead like casual tips for like I just usually throw 51 00:04:02.199 --> 00:04:05.719 stuff in audacity and I'm sure it's got some kind of audio leveling in there, 52 00:04:05.840 --> 00:04:10.280 but I don't know how to find it, and I'm too lazy to 53 00:04:10.280 --> 00:04:15.240 search for it myself. What is it Every third person has a podcast at 54 00:04:15.240 --> 00:04:20.160 this point. Maybe you're one of them. Let us know. Um oh, 55 00:04:20.279 --> 00:04:24.040 and I have I have one more note. Um, So, I 56 00:04:24.040 --> 00:04:29.040 don't know if you've been looking through the Baseball Perspective slack channel, but one 57 00:04:29.079 --> 00:04:32.680 of the things that they have put together that I was just reading because I 58 00:04:32.680 --> 00:04:39.920 am an exciting person right before this podcast, they have they shared the twenty 59 00:04:40.240 --> 00:04:46.639 nineteen Player Name and Pronunciation Guide MLB. Oh that's good, which is super 60 00:04:46.639 --> 00:04:55.040 fascinating. Yeah, you should probably have it for like life. Yeah yeah, 61 00:04:55.079 --> 00:04:58.519 good for talking about baseball players. Um. The thing that strikes me 62 00:04:58.759 --> 00:05:04.800 as very apparent, and we may get to this later in the nationally preview 63 00:05:04.839 --> 00:05:12.160 as well. Um boy, they are really counting on people to have English 64 00:05:12.160 --> 00:05:15.000 as their first language, is Spanish as a second. Just Elby is like, 65 00:05:16.160 --> 00:05:23.160 um, you know, they don't have like Sharber in the pronunciation guide, 66 00:05:23.199 --> 00:05:30.639 but they have like Perez or Panis or like hayeseus, like I know 67 00:05:30.680 --> 00:05:33.839 how Louise is pronounced. At this point, it is twenty nineteen, I've 68 00:05:33.879 --> 00:05:39.000 experienced that name. Um. The one that got me was like right up 69 00:05:39.000 --> 00:05:47.160 early on. Um, so Stefan Crichton. Um. They do a pronunciation 70 00:05:47.160 --> 00:05:53.879 guide for his name, formerly of the Baltimore Reals now Arizona Diamondbacks. Um, 71 00:05:53.920 --> 00:05:59.879 but only Stefan. So I was just wondering, do they think that 72 00:06:00.079 --> 00:06:12.959 everybody in baseball has read Jurassic Park? Seems plausible? I buy it. 73 00:06:13.839 --> 00:06:18.079 So yeah, definitely, um, definitely the most exciting document I read today. 74 00:06:18.240 --> 00:06:21.680 Oh yeah, that's pretty good. I like this. Um, so 75 00:06:21.720 --> 00:06:26.959 we can we can continue throughout throughout the podcast with that. But before we 76 00:06:27.040 --> 00:06:31.399 do that, let's, uh, let's move on to the rules. So 77 00:06:33.120 --> 00:06:38.560 everyone like, we're not breaking news for anyone, right, Uh. I 78 00:06:38.680 --> 00:06:44.240 totally didn't just be we're probably breaking I definitely didn't look them up while you 79 00:06:44.279 --> 00:06:51.399 were just ranting about whatever the pronunciation thing was. I was MLB cut for 80 00:06:51.800 --> 00:06:57.519 summary. Uh that's not open on my browser right now. So for right 81 00:06:57.560 --> 00:07:02.199 audience of one, I like to think I'm the every man here. Yeah, 82 00:07:02.399 --> 00:07:11.639 that's that's fair that I think you provide right, you provide the every 83 00:07:11.639 --> 00:07:19.560 man perspective that this podcast is sorely lacking. Um yes, uh okay, 84 00:07:19.680 --> 00:07:24.959 So I guess we should introduce the rules, the role changes. I think 85 00:07:25.000 --> 00:07:30.040 everyone knows, but UM do we just want to like quickly talk about our 86 00:07:30.120 --> 00:07:36.720 feelings about them. So just the extremely quick breakdown, right, is that 87 00:07:38.199 --> 00:07:43.319 UM. In twenty nineteen, so aning breaks are going to be shortened, 88 00:07:43.519 --> 00:07:48.800 the waiver tread deadline is eliminated. UM all starting home in Derby nonsense. 89 00:07:49.240 --> 00:07:54.279 Mountain visits are reduced from six to five, which you know will change everything. 90 00:07:54.959 --> 00:07:59.480 Twenty twenty there will be bigger changes. So the active roster is going 91 00:07:59.519 --> 00:08:01.920 to grow from twenty five to twenty six. The September roster is going to 92 00:08:03.040 --> 00:08:07.360 go down from forty to twenty eight. Players are going to have to be 93 00:08:07.399 --> 00:08:11.639 fielders or pitchers, and a certain amount of pitchers are going to be capped 94 00:08:11.680 --> 00:08:18.920 as an assigned to the roster. The injured list which is the former DL, 95 00:08:18.279 --> 00:08:22.759 and the option period is going from ten days to fifteen, so you 96 00:08:22.800 --> 00:08:30.240 can't screw around with options in the same way, and the three batter minimum, 97 00:08:30.439 --> 00:08:37.639 so relievers are going to be forced to either complete inning or finished three 98 00:08:37.679 --> 00:08:41.840 batters. Um. So, Jared, you have time. You've had time 99 00:08:41.879 --> 00:08:48.879 to digest this, so while Ben is having time to digest cookies. What 100 00:08:48.120 --> 00:08:54.720 was your take when you first heard these rules coming down the pike. Um, 101 00:08:54.720 --> 00:09:00.480 I guess it, generally speaking, I was kind of surprises, to 102 00:09:00.559 --> 00:09:03.600 be honest, I don't know. I think in the sense that baseball tends 103 00:09:03.679 --> 00:09:09.279 to not have rule changes much less like that other significant but like notable ones 104 00:09:09.559 --> 00:09:13.120 all at once. So I guess I was surprised to see him. I 105 00:09:13.159 --> 00:09:16.279 don't know that it moves the needle or anything that much, but I was 106 00:09:16.279 --> 00:09:20.679 surprised to see baseball taking any sort of action. Yeah, you mean other 107 00:09:20.759 --> 00:09:26.159 than like forming exploratory committees right for the next decade, right, Yeah? 108 00:09:26.279 --> 00:09:30.399 Yeah, we will see if stepping out of the box is okay, and 109 00:09:30.440 --> 00:09:37.559 we'll study that for fifteen years. Yeah. You know, I'm of two 110 00:09:37.559 --> 00:09:41.639 minds about this. As we talked about I guess you know past podcast is 111 00:09:43.000 --> 00:09:48.320 I am probably a little less precious about the rules than most and more into 112 00:09:48.360 --> 00:09:52.080 the burn it down and fix everything territory, move fast break things. Yeah, 113 00:09:54.519 --> 00:09:58.480 but like to me, this feels like fiddling in search of an answer. 114 00:10:00.799 --> 00:10:03.840 It doesn't seem like the fixing the thing that is actually broken. You 115 00:10:03.879 --> 00:10:07.960 know, I didn't hear you mentioned, but in the thing that I was 116 00:10:07.519 --> 00:10:13.240 totally not just reading, they said that as part of the active roster going 117 00:10:13.320 --> 00:10:16.919 up from twenty five to twenty sixth, there is an um as yet undecided 118 00:10:16.960 --> 00:10:22.919 cap on the number of pictures that each team can carry. He mentioned that, 119 00:10:22.159 --> 00:10:28.240 Okay, okay, yeah, and there are there are some scoresheet implications 120 00:10:28.240 --> 00:10:31.480 behind that, so you know, we can get into that briefly. Um, 121 00:10:31.879 --> 00:10:37.840 I think we should finish with the MLB level implications. Yeah, I 122 00:10:37.840 --> 00:10:45.679 guess. I was also surprised at how um they at least seem on the 123 00:10:45.720 --> 00:10:50.320 surface like they might be like meaningful changes, right. I think some people 124 00:10:50.320 --> 00:10:52.559 have quantified some of them and said like, oh, that's probably not going 125 00:10:52.600 --> 00:10:54.759 to impact as many situations as you think. But um, like Jared, 126 00:10:54.759 --> 00:11:00.559 I was a little surprised at how um more, how much more they were 127 00:11:00.639 --> 00:11:05.279 than I'm used to baseball being as like an institution or whatever. The other 128 00:11:05.279 --> 00:11:07.960 thing I was wondering, And I guess I don't know if you guys are 129 00:11:09.120 --> 00:11:16.960 familiar or not. Had they done anything to try to themselves quantify or prospectively 130 00:11:18.039 --> 00:11:22.039 like as these things come up, like try to measure and evaluate the impact 131 00:11:22.080 --> 00:11:28.240 of these changes, or is it like as as much as it seems just 132 00:11:28.279 --> 00:11:33.279 sort of like shooting in the dark. I don't know exactly how to answer 133 00:11:33.360 --> 00:11:37.000 that, but I think the one the answer I have off the top of 134 00:11:37.080 --> 00:11:43.440 mind is yes, they have basically entered into a partnership with the Atlantic League 135 00:11:43.480 --> 00:11:48.559 and forced the Atlantic League to start doing more severe changes and are going to 136 00:11:48.639 --> 00:11:54.039 use it as a test kitchen for them going forward, Which is not to 137 00:11:54.080 --> 00:12:00.279 say that these changes have been evaluated, but yeah, I think any in 138 00:12:00.320 --> 00:12:05.679 the future will be. It seems weird to say, oh, you need 139 00:12:05.759 --> 00:12:09.200 to have a place where we can test some of these things before implementing them. 140 00:12:09.240 --> 00:12:11.519 But oh, by the way, here's like eight real changes that we 141 00:12:11.519 --> 00:12:16.200 haven't tested yet that we're going to implement in the next two years. And 142 00:12:16.240 --> 00:12:22.120 it's very fascinating because like, um, you know, as a effectively wild 143 00:12:22.480 --> 00:12:26.240 a podcast you should probably be listening to in addition to Slash instead of this 144 00:12:26.320 --> 00:12:31.399 one mentioned some of the language on this is like a little slippery and I 145 00:12:31.440 --> 00:12:37.519 haven't quite like locked down like some of the what they mean, like you 146 00:12:37.559 --> 00:12:41.120 know, there will be pictures. Some of the players will be pictures. 147 00:12:41.159 --> 00:12:43.559 There will be a cap on them, and we'll talk about the cap later, 148 00:12:43.159 --> 00:12:48.240 like, okay, well what's a picture? Yeah. I do sort 149 00:12:48.240 --> 00:12:52.399 of wonder if that's intentional, though, Yeah, it says on this one 150 00:12:52.440 --> 00:12:54.600 that so again I'm reading the MLB cut for so many teams will have to 151 00:12:54.639 --> 00:12:58.559 designate players as either fielders or pitchers or if there's someone like Shahiotani a two 152 00:12:58.559 --> 00:13:01.440 way player, otherwise their rules and when a fielder can enter the game as 153 00:13:01.440 --> 00:13:09.960 a picture. So they're basically trying to make sure that pictures are less specialized, 154 00:13:09.080 --> 00:13:15.120 basically like less effective as a US. Right. Well, it's interesting 155 00:13:15.159 --> 00:13:18.720 to me because I don't I don't quite see the point of it yet other 156 00:13:18.840 --> 00:13:26.120 than there was like a scourge of position player pitching uh last season, which 157 00:13:26.200 --> 00:13:30.120 is, you know, awesome. Yeah, I was gonna say, it's 158 00:13:30.159 --> 00:13:35.679 so entertaining. So I guess the interest is in making baseball like slightly less 159 00:13:35.679 --> 00:13:41.200 awesome by adding twenty game arbitrary rules. And I mean I may have talked 160 00:13:41.200 --> 00:13:46.279 once or twice on this podcast about how I feel about arbitrary twenty game requirements, 161 00:13:48.279 --> 00:13:56.960 So I don't yeah, I wasn't like a super fan of that that 162 00:13:56.039 --> 00:14:01.320 particular distinction. I think it like it makes more sense and concert if they 163 00:14:01.320 --> 00:14:05.840 are going to try to ratchet down the number of pitchers who have spots and 164 00:14:05.960 --> 00:14:13.360 maybe force more two way players, which seems exciting. But a number of 165 00:14:13.399 --> 00:14:18.639 two way players, then like, why wouldn't you just designate the like for 166 00:14:20.679 --> 00:14:24.840 position players that are your best garbage time pitchers as two way players or whatever? 167 00:14:26.919 --> 00:14:28.799 Right, So this is saying they have to actually pitch. You can't 168 00:14:28.840 --> 00:14:31.519 just destignate them. Yeah, that's fine. So you just make sure they 169 00:14:31.519 --> 00:14:35.559 get in some kind of garbage time at some point so that they keep their 170 00:14:35.600 --> 00:14:39.679 designation. But they would have to be in twenty games, I suppose. 171 00:14:39.399 --> 00:14:43.120 Okay, So it's it's a chald right. It's one of those things that 172 00:14:43.480 --> 00:14:48.039 like it's hard for me to understand how Shoheo Tani ever becomes a two way 173 00:14:48.039 --> 00:14:52.440 player again, because it seems like there's a lot of pressure for him not 174 00:14:52.480 --> 00:14:56.159 to be once he has become like a DH this year, because then he'll 175 00:14:56.240 --> 00:15:01.799 will have to be designated as a a field or a pitcher next year, 176 00:15:01.240 --> 00:15:05.120 and then you know, based on that there will be restrictions on when he 177 00:15:05.159 --> 00:15:16.279 can come in or play. Is it possible that baseball hates fun? I 178 00:15:16.480 --> 00:15:20.240 think I think the love and hate of fun is tangential to the rule. 179 00:15:20.320 --> 00:15:28.159 It's like not a consideration one way or the other. Yeah, Or they 180 00:15:28.200 --> 00:15:35.240 are trying to think about fun in the sense of maximizing like play per minute 181 00:15:37.399 --> 00:15:41.639 as opposed to like, you know, cool stuff happening during the game, 182 00:15:41.919 --> 00:15:46.039 which is a little longer. So you know, that's definitely an angle. 183 00:15:46.080 --> 00:15:52.120 But they are I think laser focused on pace of play. I for me, 184 00:15:54.080 --> 00:15:58.360 you know, I think some of the manipulation around pitching is interesting, 185 00:15:58.679 --> 00:16:03.360 but I feel like they are just going to be a little less dra conient 186 00:16:03.399 --> 00:16:07.360 about it than I want, and it's actually going to cause some negative repercussions. 187 00:16:07.360 --> 00:16:10.879 Like I think I have a feeling they are going to force every team 188 00:16:10.919 --> 00:16:15.799 to have thirteen pictures from now on, and it doesn't feel like that's the 189 00:16:15.879 --> 00:16:22.799 answer. That's what Nate Silver thought we should do, like not thirteen specifically, 190 00:16:22.840 --> 00:16:26.559 but right it wasn't that thing that he run on five thirty years about. 191 00:16:27.480 --> 00:16:33.039 Yeah, Well, I think they should restrict pictures or the number of 192 00:16:33.039 --> 00:16:36.320 pictures in a game as well, or well, I think they shouldn't actually 193 00:16:36.360 --> 00:16:38.480 restrict number of pictures in a game, which I haven't seen people talking a 194 00:16:38.519 --> 00:16:42.000 lot. But to me, it seems like the actual problem, and it 195 00:16:42.039 --> 00:16:45.720 seems like the answer to a number of related problems, which is too many 196 00:16:45.759 --> 00:16:52.279 one pictures, which I think is more insidious than too many one batter pictures. 197 00:16:52.639 --> 00:16:59.120 I think too many breaks, too many anonymous relievers. I think if 198 00:16:59.159 --> 00:17:03.160 we are more restrictive of pictures per game, that seems to get more at 199 00:17:03.200 --> 00:17:07.240 the answer. But I think they're more interested in pictures on the roster at 200 00:17:07.319 --> 00:17:15.920 one time. Do you think I was thinking five or six, with maybe 201 00:17:15.519 --> 00:17:22.279 the other pictures designated for um like extra endings. If a game goes extra 202 00:17:22.319 --> 00:17:26.359 endings, you can the rest of the roster can play. What if it's 203 00:17:26.359 --> 00:17:33.319 like a blowout and dudes are just getting shelect okay, yeah, but like 204 00:17:34.000 --> 00:17:37.880 okay, you need some kind of like exception for that, just like for 205 00:17:38.000 --> 00:17:44.279 extra endings, yeah, or some negative like what is the negative consequence if 206 00:17:44.279 --> 00:17:48.680 they have to blow the well, like I think at some point you get 207 00:17:49.359 --> 00:17:56.799 an allowance for more pictures available if a single picture has like pitched a certain 208 00:17:56.880 --> 00:18:00.799 number of pitches without getting outs or maybe just a number of pitches in total, 209 00:18:00.960 --> 00:18:10.200 but like or batter's faced or whatever. Yeah, yeah, they're not 210 00:18:10.240 --> 00:18:14.680 going to do it. It's it's interesting, but to me, that feels 211 00:18:14.720 --> 00:18:18.720 more like the thing that they are trying to maximize and like putting pressure on 212 00:18:18.759 --> 00:18:22.440 the roster to be like we're going to force thirteen or eleven or ten pitchers. 213 00:18:23.640 --> 00:18:29.759 Just it doesn't seem to quite get at it or a little more tangentially, 214 00:18:30.240 --> 00:18:33.920 and I feel like the twenty six man roster with thirteen pitchers is going 215 00:18:33.960 --> 00:18:41.240 to be actively bad in some ways because not every team has thirteen pitchers now 216 00:18:41.279 --> 00:18:48.400 and it's just bringing in bringing in room for one more like one inning pitcher, 217 00:18:48.480 --> 00:18:52.519 which again, these are generally like anonymous players who are striking out everybody. 218 00:18:55.480 --> 00:18:57.799 And I do think that is kind of the scourge of the game. 219 00:18:57.839 --> 00:19:00.240 And I think that wasn't the NME slver article. I kind of agree with 220 00:19:00.279 --> 00:19:08.920 that, and you know, I think we could pivot to the scoreshet implications 221 00:19:08.960 --> 00:19:15.359 soon too, and it is it's interesting there as well. I don't know 222 00:19:15.359 --> 00:19:25.039 if anyone has any other thoughts about the rules as they stand. No, 223 00:19:25.720 --> 00:19:30.000 Yeah, so you know, I think thinking about this from a score sheet 224 00:19:30.039 --> 00:19:37.720 perspective, it's the roster stuff is really the most interesting to me because it 225 00:19:37.799 --> 00:19:42.599 does it is going to change the game that we play, maybe somewhat imperceptibly, 226 00:19:42.640 --> 00:19:49.640 but probably a little bit more than than even in real baseball, just 227 00:19:49.680 --> 00:19:55.519 because again, real baseball, they have the option lists, and they have 228 00:19:55.839 --> 00:20:00.400 minor league and farm systems and independent leagues, and they can get an infinite 229 00:20:00.400 --> 00:20:07.039 supply of players and we can't. So as the active roster grows, it's 230 00:20:07.079 --> 00:20:10.599 going to change the game a little bit, I think certain in certain ways, 231 00:20:10.680 --> 00:20:14.799 probably ways that we would like. In certain ways, it'll make things 232 00:20:14.799 --> 00:20:18.759 a little harder. So you know, I think, first of all, 233 00:20:18.960 --> 00:20:23.640 moving from twenty five players to twenty six means obviously that more innings and at 234 00:20:23.680 --> 00:20:27.799 bats are going to be leached out in the system, right, which is 235 00:20:29.359 --> 00:20:34.400 kind of already a problem. Like if you look at the way, what 236 00:20:34.559 --> 00:20:41.160 is it like a third more pitchers have pitched in two thousand nineteen than like 237 00:20:41.279 --> 00:20:47.960 twenty years ago. It like this, I don't have the study in front 238 00:20:48.000 --> 00:20:52.319 of me, but it's spiked pretty significantly even recently, and so you have 239 00:20:52.359 --> 00:20:56.039 all of these innings like just leaving the system and in the meantime, you 240 00:20:56.119 --> 00:21:00.839 have benches shortening and shortening, and you have at bats leaving the system, 241 00:21:00.960 --> 00:21:07.640 and you know, like we were looking today at drafting a second baseman in 242 00:21:07.680 --> 00:21:11.559 one of our leagues, and there were no second basement left. You know 243 00:21:11.680 --> 00:21:18.839 that there just aren't like backups at any position, so you just like draft 244 00:21:18.880 --> 00:21:21.440 the guy in triple A and hope the starter gets hurt. I guess. 245 00:21:23.440 --> 00:21:26.559 So I think in that sense, moving from twenty five to twenty six may 246 00:21:26.640 --> 00:21:34.799 help. You know, are we going to see more? I guess the 247 00:21:34.880 --> 00:21:37.400 question is what are we going to see out of that twenty six man? 248 00:21:37.759 --> 00:21:44.519 Right? Like, as benches grow by one player, because most teams I 249 00:21:44.559 --> 00:21:49.200 think have thirteen pitchers at this point, which is depressing but true. So 250 00:21:49.240 --> 00:21:53.480 if the benches themselves grow by one player, does that mean we are going 251 00:21:53.519 --> 00:22:00.799 to see more defined roles? I guess, Like will we go back to 252 00:22:02.000 --> 00:22:10.359 infielder, outfielder, catcher, person who can hit, or will teams just 253 00:22:10.440 --> 00:22:14.880 take you know, like every day's gonna go Yeah, I get to keep 254 00:22:14.920 --> 00:22:21.119 my third emergency catcher and then call it a day. I think it's going 255 00:22:21.160 --> 00:22:23.480 to be a mix of stuff, depending on the players that are available and 256 00:22:23.680 --> 00:22:26.960 the teams. Yeah, it's gonna say. I think this savvy of the 257 00:22:26.039 --> 00:22:30.240 front office is going to play a factor there, and you're gonna see some 258 00:22:30.440 --> 00:22:37.000 differentiation early on and then probably some conformity after you know, season yeah two. 259 00:22:40.240 --> 00:22:42.079 Yeah, And you know, I think there's an aspect to this that 260 00:22:42.279 --> 00:22:47.519 is exciting. Like it has gotten more and more difficult to find platoon partners 261 00:22:47.599 --> 00:22:52.920 for your left handed hitting players, you know, especially in fielders, but 262 00:22:52.039 --> 00:22:59.480 also outfielders, you know it, it's more difficult to do some of that 263 00:22:59.680 --> 00:23:06.039 eighty style roster management with the team these with teams these days, and maybe 264 00:23:06.240 --> 00:23:10.440 carrying an extra position player is going to allow you should be a little more 265 00:23:10.559 --> 00:23:17.359 artful about taking players out, about having pinch hitting, you know, like 266 00:23:17.759 --> 00:23:22.759 it's the things on the margins that are like extremely impactful to a game, 267 00:23:23.119 --> 00:23:30.559 like score sheet, you know, which is kind of based on I'm not 268 00:23:30.640 --> 00:23:33.279 sure if I agree with it, but I don't have any evidence to back 269 00:23:33.319 --> 00:23:38.240 it up. It doesn't feel like pinch hitters and like lead any defensive replacements 270 00:23:38.279 --> 00:23:44.480 have that much of an impact. But I no, I think that's fair. 271 00:23:44.519 --> 00:23:47.599 I think it's more I would say, more impact on your roster construction 272 00:23:47.640 --> 00:23:52.000 than impact on the game like you can as a manager. I think you 273 00:23:52.119 --> 00:23:55.640 will be able to make more choices in season. I think that would be 274 00:23:55.720 --> 00:24:00.880 true if the in game controls allowed that sort of flexibility. I think the 275 00:24:00.960 --> 00:24:06.119 problem is that like in game controls don't allow you to really have like finite 276 00:24:06.359 --> 00:24:11.599 control over like give you enough specificity in those different situations to be able to 277 00:24:11.759 --> 00:24:18.000 like use those extra assets in a way that's that impactful, like so that 278 00:24:18.079 --> 00:24:22.240 it wouldn't the fact that you can't make those in game tactical decisions in real 279 00:24:22.319 --> 00:24:29.319 time means that it's much harder to leverage the value that those like roster construction, 280 00:24:29.440 --> 00:24:32.680 flexibility, whatever would give you. And like, I don't think. 281 00:24:33.880 --> 00:24:36.519 I don't think that would be like the place where it changes. I think, 282 00:24:36.640 --> 00:24:38.920 like I agree with what you're saying about like playing time and the other 283 00:24:40.000 --> 00:24:45.759 opportunities, but I think, you know, in terms of the like more 284 00:24:45.880 --> 00:24:48.960 nuanced stuff, I don't. I don't know. My hunch would be that 285 00:24:48.960 --> 00:24:51.599 I wouldn't have that big of an impact, Like I said, I have 286 00:24:51.680 --> 00:24:55.319 no evidence for that. Yeah, none of us do, including all By, 287 00:25:00.000 --> 00:25:03.000 So I don't know. So there's also you know, moving the minimum 288 00:25:03.079 --> 00:25:07.960 injured list an optional list, which is happening now from ten days to fifteen. 289 00:25:08.880 --> 00:25:14.759 Again, I think like by restricting the set of relievers a little bit 290 00:25:14.839 --> 00:25:19.039 more and trying to rain that in a little bit, I do think it 291 00:25:19.079 --> 00:25:25.839 will make scoresheet a little better. I don't like, I think the game 292 00:25:25.920 --> 00:25:33.440 works better if there are fewer relievers getting innings per season. Yeah. I 293 00:25:33.599 --> 00:25:37.440 don't know if this is going to have a big impact on that, but 294 00:25:37.799 --> 00:25:45.559 you know, every little bit helps. I guess it's part of the decrease 295 00:25:45.599 --> 00:25:48.440 of the forty person arrester to make it so that it's harder to use the 296 00:25:49.359 --> 00:25:56.440 injured list as like a shuttle taxi squad type of thing. I think they're 297 00:25:56.519 --> 00:26:00.599 unrelated, but I do think, yes, I think by and large, 298 00:26:00.720 --> 00:26:04.119 yeah, the twenty cutting the forty man roster to twenty eight is only four 299 00:26:04.240 --> 00:26:10.799 September, and that's only the major leagues. Um yeah, but yeah, 300 00:26:10.839 --> 00:26:15.599 I think gets to prevent the Los Angeles Dodgers from using their team like using 301 00:26:15.640 --> 00:26:21.599 their farm system like a Texas squad, and maybe other teams as well, 302 00:26:21.799 --> 00:26:26.599 but really the Dodgers. Yeah, Um, cutting from forty to twenty eight 303 00:26:26.680 --> 00:26:36.480 in September is to me a mild bummer but they are not playing. They 304 00:26:37.119 --> 00:26:41.039 like MLB does not really care about like my love of seeing like a Koy 305 00:26:41.200 --> 00:26:45.599 Dixon and John Lindsay get three at bats in September and finally make the major 306 00:26:45.680 --> 00:26:52.480 leagues. That's not like other other than me, and like the families of 307 00:26:52.559 --> 00:26:56.000 those players. I guess no one is really caring. But I like I 308 00:26:56.079 --> 00:26:59.079 do like cups of coffee. I thought it was fun. Um, I 309 00:26:59.119 --> 00:27:02.680 didn't think it was a big packed on the game, but yeah, I 310 00:27:02.799 --> 00:27:03.640 mean I agree, I think it is fun to heather, there's that, 311 00:27:03.759 --> 00:27:07.559 but I don't know. I think it's It's always been crazy to me that 312 00:27:07.640 --> 00:27:11.680 the September Rusters are just so different. I think from a game perspective, 313 00:27:11.720 --> 00:27:15.160 it doesn't make sense. That's fair, that's fair by September. I'm like, 314 00:27:15.480 --> 00:27:18.480 bring on the thing that is different. But sure, yes, I 315 00:27:18.799 --> 00:27:22.960 can see if you actually care about a team that is in contention back getting 316 00:27:22.960 --> 00:27:33.359 annoying. Fortunately none of us have. That's too much experience in that matter. 317 00:27:34.880 --> 00:27:41.240 So the three batter minimum I think has gotten the most the most play, 318 00:27:41.279 --> 00:27:45.119 even though I don't think it's the most impactful of these by far. 319 00:27:45.680 --> 00:27:48.920 But I guess it's the one that will have the most impact on an individual 320 00:27:49.039 --> 00:27:55.839 game. And there are a couple of questions here about how scoresheet is going 321 00:27:55.920 --> 00:27:59.000 to handle us, Like one, you know, do we think the real 322 00:27:59.079 --> 00:28:03.599 life rule is going to affect score sheet? And to how do we think 323 00:28:03.640 --> 00:28:07.759 scores sheets should implement the real life rule? Um? So just to take 324 00:28:07.799 --> 00:28:12.799 them out a time? Um? So do you do either of you think 325 00:28:12.839 --> 00:28:21.440 this will change scores sheet anyway? Moving by team scores sheet? Um, 326 00:28:21.960 --> 00:28:33.680 do you think like fewer lugi's is going to impact roster construction? I don't 327 00:28:33.759 --> 00:28:40.240 think materially it will. I think to find the best relievers that Yeah. 328 00:28:41.160 --> 00:28:45.480 Yeah, I kind of agree, And I kind of think this is true 329 00:28:45.559 --> 00:28:47.960 even in real life. I don't think that many players are going to like 330 00:28:48.079 --> 00:28:51.799 lose their jobs or have their jobs change. This seems like a very mild 331 00:28:52.359 --> 00:28:56.039 um position to me, especially since you know, if there are two outs, 332 00:28:56.799 --> 00:29:00.279 you can put in your lugie. Right. Yeah, the part of 333 00:29:00.279 --> 00:29:03.799 the role seems weird to me, But I mean, you're good all teams 334 00:29:03.839 --> 00:29:06.039 are going to have the left in the bullpen or like the second length the 335 00:29:06.079 --> 00:29:11.000 bullpen. I don't Yeah, I don't think this changes that much. Yeah, 336 00:29:11.359 --> 00:29:15.480 right, And I don't think mid ating pitching changes were really like the 337 00:29:17.200 --> 00:29:19.640 You know, I guess right, just because something is not at the biggest 338 00:29:19.680 --> 00:29:23.440 problem doesn't mean you can't fix it. But sure, I didn't really see 339 00:29:23.480 --> 00:29:30.240 the sense of problem at all, to be perfectly honest, No, I 340 00:29:30.359 --> 00:29:33.480 agree. Now let me ask, So, I've heard some people talk about 341 00:29:33.720 --> 00:29:38.400 liking it because it adds additional strategy to the game in terms of managers. 342 00:29:38.480 --> 00:29:45.960 Now I'm making having to make more or different decisions about pitchers. Do you 343 00:29:45.200 --> 00:29:52.880 agree that, and does that impact your view of this change? I guess 344 00:29:53.000 --> 00:30:00.839 I haven't actually thought of it that hard. I suppose it is. Maybe 345 00:30:00.880 --> 00:30:06.400 it will. I guess what is the implication that they're managers are going to 346 00:30:06.440 --> 00:30:11.160 have to decide whether going that putting in a player is worth it if they're 347 00:30:11.200 --> 00:30:15.279 facing two lefties and the third righty. Yeah, or you know, there's 348 00:30:15.319 --> 00:30:18.000 two outs and you put your lefty in, but he doesn't get that out 349 00:30:18.039 --> 00:30:22.519 and then stable for the manager to have to consider. Yeah, yeah, 350 00:30:22.599 --> 00:30:29.200 I could see that. I right, it's probably a different set of constraints, 351 00:30:29.359 --> 00:30:32.559 right, it's not like a better one, but maybe it is. 352 00:30:32.799 --> 00:30:38.000 I think it'll make like top tier lefties marginally better, or lefty hitters marginally 353 00:30:38.079 --> 00:30:45.200 better, which is good. I guess many of the best hitters, or 354 00:30:45.400 --> 00:30:51.400 like a disproportionate number of the best hitters, are left handed, so it's 355 00:30:51.440 --> 00:30:56.319 probably better for MLB to get their numbers slightly higher and to have them, 356 00:30:56.839 --> 00:31:02.079 you know, have more impact in big situations. But you're probably still gonna 357 00:31:02.200 --> 00:31:06.039 like angle things to have the left handed hitter face Jim Tommy, if you 358 00:31:06.079 --> 00:31:10.519 know what I mean. It also seems likely that amongst the managers, it's 359 00:31:10.559 --> 00:31:14.079 not going to change how we differentiate them, Like the savvy managers are going 360 00:31:14.160 --> 00:31:17.680 to be able to handle it, and the Mike Matheinis are going to bungle 361 00:31:17.720 --> 00:31:22.440 it, just like you would expect. And it's just another maybe data point 362 00:31:22.519 --> 00:31:27.400 in how you would build evidence about whether a manager was competent and you know, 363 00:31:27.640 --> 00:31:32.720 capable of handling the strategic opportunities in front of him. But it doesn't 364 00:31:32.759 --> 00:31:37.039 seem to me like it's gonna drastically change some of that math for people, 365 00:31:37.960 --> 00:31:40.200 right, It's true, I guess we have a different set of managers now 366 00:31:40.319 --> 00:31:45.000 like the managers are ten years ago. Like a couple that would lars out 367 00:31:45.039 --> 00:31:52.680 there and two outs, just like walking to the mound without like before realizing 368 00:31:52.240 --> 00:31:57.880 m Yeah, Like, I don't know. I think this is one that's 369 00:31:57.880 --> 00:32:05.440 a little wait and see. So I guess my next question is, should 370 00:32:05.480 --> 00:32:15.519 scores sheet do this? Yes, scores sheet should do this, okay because 371 00:32:15.559 --> 00:32:22.240 you think it would mirror real life baseball. Yes, because that's scores sheets 372 00:32:23.119 --> 00:32:29.200 if not stated at least implied intention. Yeah, but would you really put 373 00:32:29.240 --> 00:32:32.000 this ahead of other things on the list of things that you would want to 374 00:32:32.000 --> 00:32:37.599 have scoresheet implement. I mean, I guess it depends what else is on 375 00:32:37.680 --> 00:32:43.240 the list, but it seems pretty important based on what scores Sheet is now, 376 00:32:44.839 --> 00:32:46.160 right, So you're saying it's probably more important than even some of the 377 00:32:46.279 --> 00:32:51.880 changes we'd like to see scores She'd make, just because it's a fork from 378 00:32:52.079 --> 00:32:54.319 the rules of baseball. Yes, that's less fun than other changes, don't 379 00:32:54.319 --> 00:32:57.680 get me wrong, and parting we would rather would have more fun with similar 380 00:32:57.680 --> 00:33:00.759 stuff. But I think so long as scores sheet is going to be attempting 381 00:33:00.759 --> 00:33:06.000 to murror baseball, then it should attempt to murror baseball. Okay, And 382 00:33:06.920 --> 00:33:13.119 like to you, having the ability to hook at point two five is just 383 00:33:13.319 --> 00:33:20.920 not like it's not worth the m that advantage, or I guess the hook 384 00:33:20.960 --> 00:33:23.720 at point two five could just end after three batters, right, yeah, 385 00:33:24.000 --> 00:33:27.920 that no matter what? Or three batters at the end of the half ending? 386 00:33:28.440 --> 00:33:34.000 Yeah? Um. Does it feel like you would have less control? 387 00:33:35.319 --> 00:33:37.799 As Ben said, like the control you have over your in game decisions is 388 00:33:37.839 --> 00:33:44.160 a little bit like second order, right, Like you don't have immediate tactical 389 00:33:44.240 --> 00:33:50.359 control over the team, but you can set preferences that the simulation then kind 390 00:33:50.400 --> 00:33:52.720 of implements. I think second orders agree we describing that. I like that, 391 00:33:54.559 --> 00:34:04.920 Thank you m right. Do you do you feel like this will add 392 00:34:04.960 --> 00:34:08.079 another constraint, like distorting the impact that you can have setting the lineup sheet? 393 00:34:10.480 --> 00:34:14.599 Sure? Yeah, maybe a little bit, but I mean that's that's 394 00:34:14.599 --> 00:34:16.800 how the system is set up right now, right, So that's just the 395 00:34:16.840 --> 00:34:20.599 way it is. Yes, it doesn't mean I'm happy about it, but 396 00:34:20.800 --> 00:34:24.519 some things will never change. Do you think it's just a difference in how 397 00:34:24.559 --> 00:34:28.039 you set your hooks or do you think it's like an actual, like new 398 00:34:28.119 --> 00:34:31.880 parameter about like does this picture enter an ending with you know, less than 399 00:34:31.920 --> 00:34:37.679 two outs or whatever? This reliever? Jared, I think the way you 400 00:34:37.719 --> 00:34:44.440 were saying it was a parameter, right, Yeah, that rather rather than 401 00:34:44.639 --> 00:34:47.719 like put the control on the user's side and like force the user to have 402 00:34:47.840 --> 00:34:53.039 minimum point seventy five, just like create a rule that even if the hook 403 00:34:53.159 --> 00:34:57.880 is point two five, even a zero, if the picture comes in they're 404 00:34:57.920 --> 00:35:02.400 facing three batters or until that into the happening. Yeah, I meant more 405 00:35:02.519 --> 00:35:09.199 that it would change how you think about setting the hook numbers because you know 406 00:35:09.400 --> 00:35:14.159 that the picture has to face the minimum of three batters, like you might 407 00:35:14.280 --> 00:35:19.440 hook oh pictures lower when you're entering the hook numbers because the assumption is that 408 00:35:20.079 --> 00:35:23.000 they're probably gonna end up facing more batters in general than you would really want 409 00:35:23.039 --> 00:35:25.800 them to. Yeah, that's a good point. I would do that. 410 00:35:30.960 --> 00:35:34.840 Yeah. Yeah, that sounds like a really good idea. Free advice, 411 00:35:34.880 --> 00:35:39.199 all right, Hot tips for twenty twenty. Just have to implement it in 412 00:35:39.280 --> 00:35:45.400 scoresheet and then we've got some great advice for you to have to play the 413 00:35:45.440 --> 00:35:49.719 three edible game that does not quite exist yet. That's what I'm here for. 414 00:35:50.079 --> 00:35:52.760 That sounds like sounds like my calling. Yeah, it sounds like a 415 00:35:52.800 --> 00:36:01.960 good idea. Yeah. So anything else about well, yeah, I mean 416 00:36:04.280 --> 00:36:06.599 I think we don't talk about too much. You can say for anything. 417 00:36:06.639 --> 00:36:08.880 But I think to me this raises a couple of interesting questions. Is one 418 00:36:08.920 --> 00:36:13.239 of which is, you know, what what do we or what do people 419 00:36:13.519 --> 00:36:16.800 want out of a sim? Do they wanted to mirror Baseball exactly? Or 420 00:36:16.880 --> 00:36:21.880 do you want the option of playing around with your own changes like this um? 421 00:36:22.519 --> 00:36:25.159 Or are the ones you know, UM subtle or large? Because you 422 00:36:25.239 --> 00:36:30.119 can imagine sim where you have the option of changing this rule not or changing 423 00:36:30.159 --> 00:36:35.519 whatever other rules? So this should you know? Do you do people want 424 00:36:35.559 --> 00:36:38.000 a sim exactly like baseball or do you want the ability to play around with 425 00:36:38.000 --> 00:36:44.159 stuff? Right? And I guess the example would be in particular, Out 426 00:36:44.199 --> 00:36:50.239 of the Park seems to be the like dominant simulation in this sphere, being 427 00:36:50.280 --> 00:36:55.440 able to change a bunch of rules off and on both I guess in terms 428 00:36:55.440 --> 00:37:01.360 of like lineup and roster construction, and also um, you know, I 429 00:37:01.440 --> 00:37:05.280 think rules about how the game is played. If I recall, they have 430 00:37:05.360 --> 00:37:10.559 a pretty experience setting screen that is filled with a lot of I was gonna 431 00:37:10.599 --> 00:37:14.599 say, I tried to get into Out of the Park and it was kind 432 00:37:14.599 --> 00:37:19.199 of overwhelming. So I think my best case scenario for something like this is 433 00:37:19.280 --> 00:37:24.079 that there's options for customization, but the defaults are available to let it just 434 00:37:24.679 --> 00:37:32.199 run like MLB, and there's like some depth to how the different parameters are 435 00:37:32.400 --> 00:37:37.480 defined in the different options for customizing how it works, so that there's like 436 00:37:37.639 --> 00:37:42.639 a you know, like beginner sort of level of like here are some of 437 00:37:42.679 --> 00:37:45.639 the tweaks that you might want to make at first, and there's like a 438 00:37:45.719 --> 00:37:49.000 spectrum that starts there at the beginning of level, then goes to something more 439 00:37:49.119 --> 00:37:52.480 complicated or sophisticated, you know, at the other end of the spectrum, 440 00:37:52.480 --> 00:37:58.239 and that you know, the sims should sort of guide somebody through the fact 441 00:37:58.280 --> 00:38:02.360 that not all of these options are created equal and it should be easy for 442 00:38:02.480 --> 00:38:06.880 somebody who wants to have it be as close to Major League a small as 443 00:38:06.920 --> 00:38:12.159 possible to just sort of dive in and have that experience. Right. I 444 00:38:12.320 --> 00:38:16.320 think one of the things to think about is that I think every customer, 445 00:38:16.480 --> 00:38:22.559 every customization that you add, means you have to like test the range of 446 00:38:22.639 --> 00:38:29.320 customization, so it like it's a simple choice that makes the ultimate algorithm much 447 00:38:29.360 --> 00:38:37.639 more complex and then also provides humans a the possibility of gaming the system a 448 00:38:37.719 --> 00:38:42.239 little bit more easily. Yeah, I think developing something like that would be 449 00:38:43.199 --> 00:38:46.639 very onerous, right, like what I described, Sorry, developing the thing 450 00:38:46.679 --> 00:38:51.400 that I described would be very time consuming. But yeah, Jared's question was, 451 00:38:51.440 --> 00:38:54.400 like, what do you want to some of them? Because like right, 452 00:38:54.480 --> 00:38:58.840 well, because like Out of the Park is heavily on customization side. 453 00:38:59.039 --> 00:39:02.400 Yeah, but um, I can also like destroy the computer in that game 454 00:39:02.960 --> 00:39:07.719 over probably like you know, a season or two and I'm winning one hundred 455 00:39:07.880 --> 00:39:13.480 ten games a year. It was just smarty pants over here. Yeah, 456 00:39:14.320 --> 00:39:15.840 it was the last time you had a squashy team in that mini games. 457 00:39:17.119 --> 00:39:22.280 Maybe we should start a different podcast two seventeen, right, our Murphy team 458 00:39:22.320 --> 00:39:25.599 won one hundred and eight. Gonna hang out to that, okay, right, 459 00:39:27.320 --> 00:39:32.679 yeah, my points. Yeah, it's my second question though, do 460 00:39:32.760 --> 00:39:37.559 you think um so you talked about how MLB is using the Atlantic League for 461 00:39:38.199 --> 00:39:44.400 testing out some of these changes. Do you think for something like say the 462 00:39:45.840 --> 00:39:50.880 the three better rule that MLB has a sim or tested out in something like 463 00:39:51.039 --> 00:39:53.480 and out of the Park or something related or in do you think that is 464 00:39:53.519 --> 00:39:57.519 something that is worth considering for a way to test some of the stuff out. 465 00:40:00.119 --> 00:40:06.280 That seems amazing and I want to play it. I think that's a 466 00:40:06.400 --> 00:40:12.519 good idea. And it comes from like the business side of your head, 467 00:40:12.880 --> 00:40:15.079 not the like baseball fan side of your head, because the baseball fan side 468 00:40:15.119 --> 00:40:20.519 of your head would realize that, like that's not how they rule. But 469 00:40:20.679 --> 00:40:22.039 yeah, I think I think it makes a lot of sense. I would 470 00:40:22.039 --> 00:40:29.159 be surprised if they had taken the time or been able to find something that 471 00:40:29.239 --> 00:40:32.440 allowed them to like look at the confluence of all these things, because I 472 00:40:32.519 --> 00:40:37.840 think I think the thing that makes it difficult is not that any one of 473 00:40:37.920 --> 00:40:42.519 these things is a challenge to quantify or understand. Right, you can look 474 00:40:42.559 --> 00:40:45.719 and see, like how many pictures face fewer than three batters. That's very 475 00:40:45.760 --> 00:40:49.760 trivial. The thing that's difficult is looking at when you do that and you 476 00:40:49.880 --> 00:40:52.800 change the roster size, and you change the cap on number of pictures on 477 00:40:52.880 --> 00:40:57.079 the roster, and you change you know, whatever else. It is like 478 00:40:58.039 --> 00:41:02.199 as those things accumulate and like start interest secting, that's where it becomes complicated, 479 00:41:02.199 --> 00:41:07.800 and that's where like the unintended consequences happened. I don't think I guess 480 00:41:08.280 --> 00:41:10.800 I say this without knowing exactly what you can do and outside the park, 481 00:41:10.880 --> 00:41:15.960 but like I'd be a little bit surprised if Emily be Head gone to that, 482 00:41:15.360 --> 00:41:24.360 to that like that's a good idea. Yeah, Like maybe they might 483 00:41:24.440 --> 00:41:30.199 have done it just the way you would like create a situation and AlSi because 484 00:41:30.320 --> 00:41:34.920 it seems to me less like simulating the game of baseball than more like just 485 00:41:35.079 --> 00:41:39.960 thinking about the ramifications. So I am just imagining a whiteboard and a lot 486 00:41:40.000 --> 00:41:45.519 of post it notes. Is it one of those like actual white boards or 487 00:41:45.559 --> 00:41:47.840 is it one of the like clear glass boards like the people in Numbers had 488 00:41:49.079 --> 00:41:55.519 like fifteen years ago numb three years numbers. Yeah, the television show. 489 00:41:55.840 --> 00:42:01.039 Um, yeah, great question. I think it's probably more sophisticated than post 490 00:42:01.079 --> 00:42:07.760 it notes on a whiteboard. But you know, I don't think it would 491 00:42:07.760 --> 00:42:09.119 have been easy to look at the confluence of all things. I think they 492 00:42:09.199 --> 00:42:14.480 probably did quantify what they think the impact of each of the things would be, 493 00:42:14.599 --> 00:42:15.719 and they sort of held their thumb up and we're like, Okay, 494 00:42:15.800 --> 00:42:20.480 that looks like it's going to be about enough of an adjustment for what we 495 00:42:20.599 --> 00:42:25.639 want and not too much, and like we're not worried about them, you 496 00:42:25.719 --> 00:42:31.320 know, creating some kind of unintended situation. But that's just my hunch. 497 00:42:34.559 --> 00:42:39.440 Okay, Yeah, I mean it's interesting. There's a lot to come, 498 00:42:40.679 --> 00:42:47.599 and you know, I look forward to seeing how these changes affect both the 499 00:42:47.719 --> 00:42:52.599 real baseball game and our fake baseball game, both of which we left. 500 00:42:52.079 --> 00:42:55.920 Yeah, before we move on, just one note. I did scroll down 501 00:42:57.519 --> 00:43:02.639 in the Cut four to the featured headlines, and the top headline currently on 502 00:43:02.760 --> 00:43:10.920 Cut four is Greg bird homeward off Jalen Beaks in True Avian Showdown. So 503 00:43:12.280 --> 00:43:21.159 I just wanted to give cut fuller props for for that headline, which may 504 00:43:21.239 --> 00:43:28.039 be the headline of the year and it's only March. Yeah. Sorry, 505 00:43:28.159 --> 00:43:31.079 you just bring that up because you want to us to talk about fantasy birding. 506 00:43:32.239 --> 00:43:37.280 Oh sure, Um, where did I see this? I sent this 507 00:43:37.360 --> 00:43:42.199 to you and I forgot already where we found it. Oh dead Spin, 508 00:43:42.400 --> 00:43:45.840 Yes, dead Spin. If you missed this, Google go to dead Spin 509 00:43:45.920 --> 00:43:52.639 and search for fantasy burdening, which is a thing. Um. I don't 510 00:43:52.679 --> 00:43:57.400 know if it's quite as strange as a Fantasy SNL league, which we are 511 00:43:57.519 --> 00:44:06.599 in, but definitely fantasy birding is is a pretty close approximation of my work 512 00:44:06.679 --> 00:44:15.239 life and home life. So it's confusing to me. Um, I will 513 00:44:15.280 --> 00:44:19.599 say, uh, and yeah, if you're if fantasy birding sounds like a 514 00:44:19.679 --> 00:44:22.239 thing to you. It does sound like about the best game fantasy birding that 515 00:44:22.320 --> 00:44:34.039 you can possibly make. So yeah, God bless um. So meanwhile, 516 00:44:34.079 --> 00:44:38.880 I think we wanted to briefly do season previews over the next couple of weeks. 517 00:44:39.960 --> 00:44:45.599 UM. But because we are you know, probably not your first option 518 00:44:45.639 --> 00:44:49.800 for season previews, we will probably be a little quicker and a little more 519 00:44:49.920 --> 00:44:52.480 loose about it. Um. And And to start, I think we wanted 520 00:44:52.519 --> 00:44:57.679 to go by league this week. We want to talk about the nationally because, 521 00:44:57.679 --> 00:45:02.559 as I say, saved the best for last UM, So we wanted 522 00:45:02.559 --> 00:45:07.159 to just briefly talk about you know, what have you, what we're looking 523 00:45:07.239 --> 00:45:09.679 forward to? UM, what we think have we think the season's gonna go. 524 00:45:10.559 --> 00:45:15.280 Um. And to start kick us off, I think we're gonna go 525 00:45:15.480 --> 00:45:20.760 to our man on the street, the average the average fan's opinion himself. 526 00:45:22.119 --> 00:45:25.039 What are you? What is your Nation league preview? UM? So when 527 00:45:25.119 --> 00:45:31.360 I look into a season preview, I like to keep it at a high 528 00:45:31.440 --> 00:45:36.679 level. I'm not a fan of anyone particular team, but as much as 529 00:45:36.719 --> 00:45:40.920 I'm a fan of baseball, I like drama and excitement, So I'm looking 530 00:45:42.119 --> 00:45:47.760 for situations where there's gonna be, especially like late in this season, really 531 00:45:47.840 --> 00:45:53.000 exciting pennant races or you know, divisional wildcard races. And that's why I 532 00:45:53.039 --> 00:45:57.360 think the National League is so fun. Um. I know, last year 533 00:45:57.400 --> 00:46:01.679 it was like super intense and at least at times and then obviously resolves by 534 00:46:01.679 --> 00:46:06.559 the end of the season, but also like a lot of unexpected things can 535 00:46:06.599 --> 00:46:09.760 happen. And one of the things that I've noticed is that the projected standings 536 00:46:09.800 --> 00:46:14.039 depending on where you go, very pretty wildly in a lot of situations. 537 00:46:14.719 --> 00:46:16.599 I think almost everybody has the Dodgers in the West, but you know, 538 00:46:16.639 --> 00:46:21.440 in the Central and the East, projection and systems are sort of all over 539 00:46:21.480 --> 00:46:23.159 the place in terms of who they think is going to be the best team 540 00:46:23.239 --> 00:46:28.320 and how good they're going to be. And you know, I think there's 541 00:46:28.320 --> 00:46:30.679 sort of a consensus that the whatever team wins each division, it's going to 542 00:46:30.719 --> 00:46:34.559 be somewhere between you know, like eighty six and ninety wins or something like 543 00:46:34.599 --> 00:46:37.440 that. But you know, depending on where you look, you'll see, 544 00:46:37.119 --> 00:46:43.599 you know, in the Central either Cubs or Cardinals or Brewers obviously in the 545 00:46:43.679 --> 00:46:46.360 East, Phillies or Nationals. I even saw Braves in a couple of places. 546 00:46:46.880 --> 00:46:51.199 So I just think, like, from the highest level perspective, the 547 00:46:51.280 --> 00:46:54.880 National League will be pretty exciting to see how all those different teams shake out. 548 00:46:54.920 --> 00:46:59.800 And you know, whether the Cubs end up proving pacoda or wrong. 549 00:47:00.400 --> 00:47:06.440 Uh, you know how the Phillies, um, you know free agent rebuild 550 00:47:06.519 --> 00:47:10.880 went, how the youth coming up for the Nationals ends up doing all those 551 00:47:10.960 --> 00:47:14.840 kinds of things. I think, um, you know, I'd be interesting 552 00:47:14.880 --> 00:47:16.840 to see it. And that's that's sort of the extent of my National League 553 00:47:16.880 --> 00:47:21.320 preview. And I think that's that's a good sort of one minute take for 554 00:47:21.519 --> 00:47:29.679 the casual almost fan used to be fan, has has has been fan. 555 00:47:30.559 --> 00:47:32.639 We need to amalgamate that into something more clever. But you get what I'm 556 00:47:32.679 --> 00:47:38.280 saying. That was a surprisingly upeat. Well you expected it to be more 557 00:47:38.400 --> 00:47:42.920 sour and cynical. I don't know what I expected. But the world is 558 00:47:43.039 --> 00:47:52.519 ending in the National League is trash. The Dodgers are gonna win. Yeah, 559 00:47:52.599 --> 00:47:58.679 Dared just thought I was going to be more down on things. That's 560 00:47:59.320 --> 00:48:04.119 how I feel. Um, yeah, no, that I think that's true. 561 00:48:04.119 --> 00:48:08.519 I think there's a lot too. Uh, there's lots like about the 562 00:48:08.679 --> 00:48:13.119 National League, which leads me to my first question. I think you were 563 00:48:13.119 --> 00:48:17.039 talking about different protection systems. Um, what would like annoy Cubs fans the 564 00:48:17.239 --> 00:48:21.320 most this season? Like, do you think they should end the season? 565 00:48:21.519 --> 00:48:25.280 I'm thinking last day of the season, like they have seventy nine wins and 566 00:48:25.440 --> 00:48:30.119 they should like actually have to figure out whether they want to win eighty and 567 00:48:30.239 --> 00:48:34.679 then they can go like see told you so, which I feel like would 568 00:48:34.719 --> 00:48:44.639 be really so many jokes some on Yeah. I mean. The other thing 569 00:48:44.679 --> 00:48:49.000 that's interesting is like a lot of these projection systems have the gap between the 570 00:48:49.079 --> 00:48:52.679 best team and the worst team except for the Marlins. I guess, um, 571 00:48:52.239 --> 00:48:54.840 maybe like the worst team in the West, you know, especially in 572 00:48:54.880 --> 00:49:00.559 the Central like five teams all pretty close together. If it ends up being 573 00:49:00.599 --> 00:49:01.920 that, like five teams are separated by ten games at the end of the 574 00:49:01.960 --> 00:49:06.920 season, that's going to feel like, I think, a pretty exciting run 575 00:49:07.159 --> 00:49:10.480 right down to the finish. So right, I think you can like fourteen 576 00:49:10.679 --> 00:49:16.119 teams are currently going for it, yeah, which is um which is probably 577 00:49:17.199 --> 00:49:22.079 on the part of some teams, but yeah, totally um So, Jared, 578 00:49:22.119 --> 00:49:27.800 any high level thoughts do you want to start going division by division? 579 00:49:29.079 --> 00:49:31.239 H yeah, I mean we can just I mean, the only division thing 580 00:49:31.360 --> 00:49:34.719 is I don't even I was gonna say this is a warm take, but 581 00:49:34.719 --> 00:49:37.000 I don't even know if it is. And maybe I'm just it's because I'm 582 00:49:37.039 --> 00:49:40.320 in the uh the Naly's territory. But I sort of going to say that 583 00:49:40.360 --> 00:49:44.039 the Central is going to be more exciting than the East. Yeah, I 584 00:49:44.159 --> 00:49:46.480 think the ESSENTI will be more exciting than the East. Two. Um, 585 00:49:49.320 --> 00:49:52.239 it's interesting. I don't know that I agree with that. I think it's 586 00:49:52.280 --> 00:49:55.119 going to be probably tighter race. I feel like, wait, what do 587 00:49:55.199 --> 00:49:59.880 we mean by exciting then? To me, well, to me, it's 588 00:50:00.000 --> 00:50:04.920 not just the race. I think the NALY East has the more fascinating teams. 589 00:50:04.960 --> 00:50:07.880 To me, the better teams, like the more talented teams, more 590 00:50:08.000 --> 00:50:14.320 talented and perhaps more flawed, um, and easier to troll fan basis, 591 00:50:16.719 --> 00:50:21.000 So in that sense, like somebody is going to be miserable, so somebody's 592 00:50:21.039 --> 00:50:28.199 easier to troll than Cubs fans. Those kids are not that easy to troll 593 00:50:28.199 --> 00:50:30.360 because they have expected losing for a very long time and now they expect winning 594 00:50:30.360 --> 00:50:37.599 for a very long time, and it's just it's hard. I think I 595 00:50:37.760 --> 00:50:43.840 believe in you. Yeah, you've got a lot of practice trolling baseball fans. 596 00:50:45.519 --> 00:50:51.239 Thank you, Jared. With any particular storylines that you thought of for 597 00:50:51.320 --> 00:50:55.159 the NL Eastern Central um that made you decide that, like your warm take 598 00:50:55.239 --> 00:51:00.440 was that the Central would be more exciting, Um, I mean, I 599 00:51:00.440 --> 00:51:01.840 don't. I don't know about the storylines in general. Just I guess I've 600 00:51:01.880 --> 00:51:06.679 been hearing a lot of how any team can win the in the least, 601 00:51:07.159 --> 00:51:10.760 but I think that Marlins can. But any team could win the inal Central. 602 00:51:12.800 --> 00:51:15.519 H Wait, the Reds could win the Innal Central. Yeah, I'm 603 00:51:15.559 --> 00:51:20.960 not saying they will, but I think I could build a reasonable case for 604 00:51:21.159 --> 00:51:24.559 it without like I think able the reason the case for it that that's not 605 00:51:24.639 --> 00:51:28.519 totally insane. Yeah, I think it's easier for me to build a case 606 00:51:28.599 --> 00:51:30.760 for the Reds and the Pirates at this point. Actually, that's fair. 607 00:51:31.360 --> 00:51:36.239 I'm seeing a couple of people have the Pirates worse than the Reds, but 608 00:51:36.360 --> 00:51:40.280 like a bunch of a bunch of places have like all of like both of 609 00:51:40.360 --> 00:51:46.559 them in the well and whatever the other that third place team is like right 610 00:51:46.599 --> 00:51:52.920 around five hundred. Yeah, I think the Pirates probably have a higher four 611 00:51:52.119 --> 00:51:57.000 than the Reds do, but maybe a lower ceiling. So I think I 612 00:51:57.079 --> 00:52:00.880 could see a way that the Reds break out basically if they're pitching just all 613 00:52:00.920 --> 00:52:05.320 comes together at once, um, which does not seem likely. But you 614 00:52:05.440 --> 00:52:07.599 know, no, But I mean that's why sometimes I think it's it's more 615 00:52:07.719 --> 00:52:12.039 useful to think of these things instead of even looking at just projected when the 616 00:52:12.159 --> 00:52:15.719 losses is like the distribution of possible outcomes, and something like the Reds I 617 00:52:15.800 --> 00:52:19.920 think has a much much more variation. You know, it's got a wider 618 00:52:19.960 --> 00:52:27.400 distribution than some of these other teams are. Yeah, are there any teams 619 00:52:27.480 --> 00:52:32.280 that you like more or less than let's say your standard projection system or consensus? 620 00:52:37.480 --> 00:52:42.960 I have some in the chamber. Yeah, if that works. Um, 621 00:52:43.559 --> 00:52:45.519 I don't think the Rockies are going to be very good this year, 622 00:52:46.639 --> 00:52:52.440 and I think I don't know that that's such a what is your barometer for 623 00:52:52.599 --> 00:52:57.559 very good? Yeah? I think I think there are. I put it 624 00:52:57.639 --> 00:52:59.719 this way, I think there are a lot more ways that things go wrong 625 00:53:00.000 --> 00:53:04.480 and right for them, because if you look at what the Rockies are fundamentally 626 00:53:04.880 --> 00:53:10.199 is just like a team based around the success of young pitching. And to 627 00:53:10.440 --> 00:53:16.280 me, that does not seem like a super long term strategy for success, 628 00:53:17.519 --> 00:53:21.559 particularly course fields. But you do it because it Colorado, because it's young 629 00:53:21.559 --> 00:53:23.199 pitches, because I mean a lot of people are high on Marquees and Freeland 630 00:53:23.320 --> 00:53:29.239 was you know good. So why do you think that I just remember the 631 00:53:29.360 --> 00:53:32.599 Mets from twenty fifteen or even the Bravest from a couple of years. It's 632 00:53:32.599 --> 00:53:36.679 just, you know, if you have strength and young pitching, that like 633 00:53:37.000 --> 00:53:40.480 the thing the simulation can't really project is like how many arms get shredded in 634 00:53:40.519 --> 00:53:45.239 a season? Oh? I good? But yeah, yeah, like it 635 00:53:45.719 --> 00:53:47.400 I'm short, right, Like if you do Monte carl like you can, 636 00:53:47.840 --> 00:53:52.639 and I'm sure there's more variability in the Rockies performance. But you know, 637 00:53:52.840 --> 00:53:55.920 I like, I think the arms in general, and I think these arms 638 00:53:55.960 --> 00:54:02.000 in particular. It it seems worrying to me. I think I kind of 639 00:54:02.119 --> 00:54:12.360 like the Diamonbacks better. Um, the Diamondbacks who have like essentially forgotten to 640 00:54:12.559 --> 00:54:19.559 fill a couple positions. But um, but I don't see the NLST as 641 00:54:19.639 --> 00:54:24.199 being super competitive. To be honest, I don't know if there's on the 642 00:54:24.320 --> 00:54:29.880 Diamondbacks though, right It's it's a good question. I think, Um, 643 00:54:30.440 --> 00:54:32.480 we will talk about that a little bit. But like in terms of breakout 644 00:54:32.519 --> 00:54:37.039 players, I think could tell Marte might be a player that I like. 645 00:54:37.320 --> 00:54:42.400 Um, I think I could see David pral To holding his games. Um 646 00:54:42.559 --> 00:54:45.480 it's you know, it's hard to imagine like a really great experience for them, 647 00:54:46.000 --> 00:54:50.280 But I think they have enough players who I think are interesting enough. 648 00:54:50.800 --> 00:54:57.159 I could see Weaver and John Duplantier coming up perhaps being interesting. I think 649 00:54:57.199 --> 00:55:02.039 they are kind of volatile players with some skills. I think Robbie Ray could 650 00:55:02.079 --> 00:55:06.519 be great. You know, he struck out I think the most players in 651 00:55:06.639 --> 00:55:09.320 spring training. I think he's walked among the most players in spring training as 652 00:55:09.360 --> 00:55:13.360 well. So maybe it's the full Robbie Ray experience, but I think he 653 00:55:13.519 --> 00:55:16.239 was, you know, severely under valued last year. I don't know. 654 00:55:16.360 --> 00:55:20.840 I'm not gonna talk myself into the Diamonbacks so much as I think both teams 655 00:55:20.840 --> 00:55:22.920 are gonna be about five hundred and I think people have more hope for the 656 00:55:23.000 --> 00:55:31.639 Rockies than that the Diamondbacks got a pretty great new outfielder. Uh oh yeah, 657 00:55:31.920 --> 00:55:37.480 no, that took me a second. I don't know if I'm going 658 00:55:37.519 --> 00:55:40.760 to get used to that yet. Um, So that that is Adam Jones, 659 00:55:42.159 --> 00:55:46.159 formerly of the Baltimore Orioles. Always at the Baltimore, always in the 660 00:55:46.199 --> 00:55:54.440 Baltimore Orioles. Yeah, formerly of the Seattle Mariners. That's very get out 661 00:55:54.480 --> 00:56:01.360 of here. Um. And in terms of like teams that I see outperforming 662 00:56:01.400 --> 00:56:09.880 their projection is it is a ghost to say the Cubs depends on which projection. 663 00:56:10.559 --> 00:56:15.920 Um. Yeah, what about the Cardinals. Um, it's a good 664 00:56:16.039 --> 00:56:21.280 question. Like if their young pitching stays healthy, it seems like their offense 665 00:56:21.719 --> 00:56:28.440 is gonna be good. Right, Yeah, I agree, And there's like 666 00:56:29.280 --> 00:56:32.920 there's a lot that's good about their offense. And the Cardinals as always have 667 00:56:34.559 --> 00:56:38.199 like forty players waiting the wings who are just like sixteenth round picks from like 668 00:56:38.440 --> 00:56:43.159 Iowa State, who are like twenty six and ready to hit like thirty home 669 00:56:43.239 --> 00:56:49.159 runs. I don't know exactly how that happens, but I do. Like 670 00:56:49.679 --> 00:56:52.639 I saw Edmundo Sosa it spring training. I was like, oh, you 671 00:56:52.679 --> 00:56:54.039 know, I like him a little bit. Oh god, they just have 672 00:56:54.159 --> 00:57:00.079 a thousand of these players or like Gyramunho is sitting around like too deep and 673 00:57:00.519 --> 00:57:06.320 like, yeah, he could be a starter. M Tyler O'Neill. Right, 674 00:57:06.440 --> 00:57:08.360 they are just like a bunch of players who are good, good, 675 00:57:08.440 --> 00:57:14.239 and deep. Um. I don't love Miles Michelis. I don't really love 676 00:57:14.280 --> 00:57:17.639 Adam Wayne, right. I think Carls Martinez is kind of hurt. I 677 00:57:17.760 --> 00:57:24.559 think Mike Waca is on the way to being hurt. Um. You know, 678 00:57:24.760 --> 00:57:28.679 I don't think that's a surprise. I think that's why the Cardinals aren't 679 00:57:28.679 --> 00:57:34.880 like locks to win this. But it does seem like I was gonna say 680 00:57:34.880 --> 00:57:42.679 house to Cards, what's a what is the thing I should say? Instead? 681 00:57:42.760 --> 00:57:47.199 Okay, it doesn't seem great for them to kind of hold that pitching 682 00:57:47.239 --> 00:57:51.320 depth through the season, and we may see a lot more picture to play 683 00:57:51.440 --> 00:57:53.800 than we want out of this team. It's been a few years since I 684 00:57:53.880 --> 00:57:57.960 paid real attention to baseball, and I was pretty shocked that Adam Wainwright was 685 00:57:58.000 --> 00:58:01.000 still in the rotation for the Cardinals. I was shocked, and I have 686 00:58:02.840 --> 00:58:06.840 you could have got got me a bead decent of sum of money that he 687 00:58:07.079 --> 00:58:16.599 was not pitching anymore. He's thirty seven now, yeah, thirty seven yeah, 688 00:58:16.880 --> 00:58:22.039 And I mean he's probably there, you know, for some of the 689 00:58:22.079 --> 00:58:25.519 season for like leadership, because the end of his season was not as bad 690 00:58:25.559 --> 00:58:30.719 as the beginning. Um, you know, I don't think he's going to 691 00:58:30.920 --> 00:58:36.760 necessarily end the season on the team. But you know, they I don't 692 00:58:36.800 --> 00:58:42.079 think they have as much depth as I might expect. But obviously we haven't 693 00:58:42.079 --> 00:58:49.199 talked about Jack Flaherty, who is I think everyone's favorite breakout pick and third 694 00:58:49.320 --> 00:58:55.840 round Uh you know Fantasy Baseball pick. You hit at him too, You 695 00:58:55.960 --> 00:58:59.840 just like killed the rest of the rotation. No, I mean I agree 696 00:58:59.880 --> 00:59:02.360 with everyone else, like he's very exciting to watch, but yeah, the 697 00:59:02.400 --> 00:59:07.440 rest of the occasion is not really Guys who I am tracking or enjoyable, 698 00:59:08.000 --> 00:59:16.519 find enjoyable, um, anything else. I you know, one thing I 699 00:59:16.760 --> 00:59:22.039 wanted to do is go around the league quickly. I worked out some players 700 00:59:22.119 --> 00:59:27.840 that I feel like are my players for each team? Oh boy, Yeah, 701 00:59:29.360 --> 00:59:35.119 and just just to go team by team and like a quick team preview 702 00:59:35.159 --> 00:59:38.960 for each um and what we think of them. The Brave maybe just me 703 00:59:39.039 --> 00:59:44.199 crushing their announcing teams because I have now finally watched every team in spring training 704 00:59:44.519 --> 00:59:46.360 announcing. It's just it's just bad this year. I do need to talk 705 00:59:46.360 --> 00:59:54.000 about this somehow. Um, the Braves are I you know, I don't 706 00:59:54.039 --> 00:59:59.639 think the Braves set themselves up very well this offseason. But um, I 707 01:00:00.000 --> 01:00:04.320 I think they're young. Pitching is has been looking good so far in spring, 708 01:00:04.679 --> 01:00:07.039 so much as that means anything, But you know, they have so 709 01:00:07.119 --> 01:00:10.880 much depth and a lot of players who I'm who I'm liking. I think 710 01:00:10.960 --> 01:00:16.079 Kyle Wright has looked better than I thought he was. Um. I have 711 01:00:16.199 --> 01:00:22.000 been tracking Bryce Wilson all spring. I think he might actually be the best 712 01:00:22.079 --> 01:00:28.679 of the Braves young starters at this point. I'm looking forward to him. 713 01:00:28.840 --> 01:00:30.840 The Marlins have a really interesting rotation, and I think I'm going to end 714 01:00:30.960 --> 01:00:34.639 up liking about four fits of their rotation by the end of the season. 715 01:00:37.079 --> 01:00:39.760 I know, well, but there is something to it. I don't think 716 01:00:39.800 --> 01:00:44.599 they are a dismal team. We will get to those tomorrow or next week. 717 01:00:45.159 --> 01:00:51.239 Um, there's like the offense is just a train wre It is just 718 01:00:51.639 --> 01:00:54.880 a real nightmare. I don't think there's anything worth talking about there. But 719 01:00:55.440 --> 01:01:00.840 um, you know, I do like Trevor Richards quite a bit, and 720 01:01:00.119 --> 01:01:05.679 I you know, we drafted Caleb Smith in the mock and I think there's 721 01:01:05.760 --> 01:01:10.079 some potential upside there. I have really liked what I've seen from Pablo Lopez, 722 01:01:12.320 --> 01:01:15.360 who it looks like he's going to win a spot of spring training perhaps, 723 01:01:16.800 --> 01:01:21.119 you know, I think that could be three fists of an interesting rotation. 724 01:01:21.519 --> 01:01:24.480 I think Nick Nidert is a player who have been tracking pretty closely since 725 01:01:24.519 --> 01:01:31.199 he came over, kind of a control type pitcher who I think has actually 726 01:01:31.239 --> 01:01:36.199 performed at the upper levels, who I'm pretty excited by. You know, 727 01:01:36.320 --> 01:01:38.440 again, like I said with the Rockies, you're not going to do great 728 01:01:38.559 --> 01:01:42.920 if the strength the core of your team is in young pitching. But I 729 01:01:43.000 --> 01:01:46.920 do think they have a bunch of like number three starters that might prevent them 730 01:01:47.000 --> 01:01:55.199 from being like truly horrible this year. The Mets are I don't know what 731 01:01:55.320 --> 01:02:01.000 to say about the Mets right that that has been a strange team. They 732 01:02:04.440 --> 01:02:07.000 they they do not strike me as a team that has put together all that 733 01:02:07.079 --> 01:02:09.480 well. But you know, like a kind of a fantasy version of like 734 01:02:09.760 --> 01:02:15.440 let's just accumulate assets and see what happens. M So, you know, 735 01:02:15.639 --> 01:02:20.039 I think there's a lot of players playing the same position, players who are 736 01:02:20.079 --> 01:02:24.400 going to be out of position. Um very bizarre. I am curious about 737 01:02:24.440 --> 01:02:28.679 I'm at Rosaria, who I have been down on, but I will track 738 01:02:28.760 --> 01:02:31.719 him very closely. Uh, this season. You know, I think there 739 01:02:31.920 --> 01:02:40.360 is um some breakout power potential. Um. You know, he's not a 740 01:02:40.480 --> 01:02:44.960 very good defender in score sheet, but maybe that will go up a little 741 01:02:45.000 --> 01:02:49.679 bit as well. Um. You know, and I think he's one of 742 01:02:49.719 --> 01:02:53.400 the few Mets with like a solid job and position at this point. So 743 01:02:54.159 --> 01:02:58.440 uh, you know it's interesting. I would be, um, I'm curious 744 01:02:58.440 --> 01:03:01.159 if he breaks out, and you know, I would kind of bet the 745 01:03:01.320 --> 01:03:07.400 under on it, um, but I'm willing to be wrong. Uh. 746 01:03:07.519 --> 01:03:13.360 The Nationals. What do you think of the Nationals as a nearby resident? 747 01:03:13.559 --> 01:03:17.719 Or it doesn't seem like anyone is thrilled about them this year? The Nats 748 01:03:17.800 --> 01:03:23.320 fans are, Um are they Do they feel like they have lost her? 749 01:03:23.639 --> 01:03:27.800 Like I know we did talk about that a little while. Guys. Do 750 01:03:28.119 --> 01:03:31.440 they still feel confident like we got this division? Yeah? Well I don't 751 01:03:31.480 --> 01:03:37.079 know about confident, but yeah, I don't think I think they're they're they 752 01:03:37.159 --> 01:03:44.639 would generally say they're cautiously optimistic, okay, always always the state you'd like 753 01:03:44.760 --> 01:03:47.599 to get their pant bais into its right. It's the pitching for them, 754 01:03:47.679 --> 01:03:53.639 I think, yeah, not the offense necessarily. Yeah, I mean it's 755 01:03:53.679 --> 01:03:59.840 interesting because they have like the top end pitchers as as always, and they've 756 01:04:00.079 --> 01:04:03.960 kind of filled the back end this year with like Jeremy Hellickson Annibal Sanchos. 757 01:04:03.960 --> 01:04:10.440 According to this um, there's something interesting about Adimal Sachas. He had he 758 01:04:10.519 --> 01:04:13.320 had like a sneaky good year last year, and I guess anyone could be 759 01:04:13.360 --> 01:04:18.159 good now is the lesson I went into a hyperbaric chamber. I looked at 760 01:04:18.280 --> 01:04:21.679 whatever it is that like Steve Rodder looked at in Captain America, and now 761 01:04:21.760 --> 01:04:29.159 I'm like a number two starter. Great, Okay, cool? Um. 762 01:04:29.440 --> 01:04:31.239 I feel like for me, like a lot of this team is riding on 763 01:04:31.360 --> 01:04:36.000 Victor robe Less being good, and I'm very curious to see if that is 764 01:04:36.119 --> 01:04:39.840 the case. I feel like we'll finally have a season with him, and 765 01:04:40.039 --> 01:04:45.199 he's the player who I would be tracking from the nationals. Um. You 766 01:04:45.320 --> 01:04:53.679 know, like I think some of again what the MLB stack Cast podcast people 767 01:04:53.679 --> 01:04:58.400 were saying about kind of poor exit velocities, like does he truly have any 768 01:04:58.480 --> 01:05:02.480 power whatsoever? Um, you know, that could definitely put a limit on 769 01:05:02.679 --> 01:05:08.039 his ability. He's he looked in spring when he hit with some power, 770 01:05:08.920 --> 01:05:12.360 but I'm curious what he would do with like a solid three hundred fifty of 771 01:05:12.440 --> 01:05:18.920 bats. Yeah. Um, the Phillies, Um, you know, they 772 01:05:20.159 --> 01:05:24.280 some big players who I am curious about how they're gonna do. But I 773 01:05:24.639 --> 01:05:28.039 like, basically know how Bryce Harper is gonna He's gonna be good, right, 774 01:05:28.079 --> 01:05:31.039 He's Bryce Harper. It'll be good. Bold statement. Yeah. Um, 775 01:05:32.280 --> 01:05:36.280 you know, I feel like Nick Pavetta is the hipster pick. Everyone's 776 01:05:36.280 --> 01:05:41.159 talking about Nick. Everyone loves Nick Pavetta. I like him too. I'm 777 01:05:41.199 --> 01:05:44.320 gonna so I'm gonna say, like tracking him, but I'm curious about I 778 01:05:44.400 --> 01:05:47.760 feel like this is a real make or break season for Vince Velasquez as well. 779 01:05:47.960 --> 01:05:54.599 And um, I I have always liked him a little more than consensus, 780 01:05:55.039 --> 01:05:57.320 but you know, my hopes have been fading. I feel like, 781 01:05:58.760 --> 01:06:00.440 you know, this is the year where getting side once and for all. 782 01:06:00.480 --> 01:06:06.320 If he is like a playoff caliber starter, or if he is just like 783 01:06:06.360 --> 01:06:11.440 a setup guy who is you know, clockey innings for a while, or 784 01:06:11.519 --> 01:06:15.400 Daniel Cabrera. Um, you know, I think I feel like there's more 785 01:06:15.519 --> 01:06:21.400 there, but it just hasn't been. Um. I had totally forgotten about 786 01:06:21.480 --> 01:06:28.280 Daniel Cabrera. I was like I was, I had my microphone music because 787 01:06:28.280 --> 01:06:30.599 I've been coughing. But I did like a whole like head explode moment when 788 01:06:30.679 --> 01:06:34.039 you said Daniel I don't remember. Oh yeah, he's alive. That was 789 01:06:34.119 --> 01:06:41.880 from like when I used to pay attention. So he's gonna put it together 790 01:06:42.000 --> 01:06:49.000 one of these seasons. Um, the in the central I you know, 791 01:06:49.360 --> 01:06:57.320 the Milwaukee Brewers are I don't know, you know, I think the hitting 792 01:06:57.519 --> 01:07:00.480 is obviously going to be pretty solid. Um. I don't feel like there 793 01:07:00.519 --> 01:07:03.920 are a lot of players who like I have particularly been drafting on a lot 794 01:07:03.920 --> 01:07:09.960 of teams in scoreesheet from the Brewers. UM. On the pitching side, 795 01:07:10.039 --> 01:07:15.000 I feel like there's a little bit more action going on year. I feel 796 01:07:15.039 --> 01:07:18.920 like Brandon Woodruff has ended up on our teams. I think Corbyn Burns hasn't. 797 01:07:19.000 --> 01:07:23.239 But is interesting. I am curious to see, uh, you know, 798 01:07:23.320 --> 01:07:27.679 if the starters take a step forward. UM. I saw Adrian Houser 799 01:07:27.880 --> 01:07:30.960 was sent to Triple A to be a starter. I'm curious about his future. 800 01:07:31.719 --> 01:07:34.519 I could see the Brewers having like five different starters by the end of 801 01:07:34.519 --> 01:07:41.960 the season than they do right now. Um. The Cardinals we just talked 802 01:07:42.000 --> 01:07:45.800 about, I don't none of their players have ended up on our teams really 803 01:07:45.119 --> 01:07:49.719 or are players who I think we are that interested in? Um, I 804 01:07:49.800 --> 01:07:56.079 guess Tyler O'Neil is somebody who is. So I was muted. Um I 805 01:07:56.159 --> 01:07:58.920 was gonna ask you about Jimmy Neilson on the Brewers. It seems like, 806 01:07:59.199 --> 01:08:01.400 yeah, he's coming back on an UFN of his before. Do you think 807 01:08:01.480 --> 01:08:06.599 we're gonna see a return to form there as he looked in this spring? 808 01:08:08.320 --> 01:08:11.400 He's behind, but I think he just started pitching. I think he got 809 01:08:11.440 --> 01:08:15.079 into a game last week and he's going to be a week or two behind. 810 01:08:15.960 --> 01:08:17.960 I do like him as a pick this year again, like I feel 811 01:08:18.000 --> 01:08:23.239 like for four starters you want, you wanted enough of them that you're you 812 01:08:23.439 --> 01:08:27.560 had don't have picture triple A, right, so sometimes you have to take 813 01:08:27.760 --> 01:08:33.319 like your potted plant like Dan Stralis of the world. But I you know, 814 01:08:33.800 --> 01:08:36.359 I think I also like some home run picks, and I feel like 815 01:08:36.479 --> 01:08:45.640 Jimmy Nelson would be a pretty good one at this point. But so sorry, 816 01:08:45.680 --> 01:08:51.720 so the Cardinals again, like Tyler Neil Harrison Bader, I'm interested in 817 01:08:53.039 --> 01:08:55.920 if he can keep this up for a season. I always liked the cut 818 01:08:55.960 --> 01:08:59.199 of his jib, But you know it's a veteran team. We know what 819 01:08:59.279 --> 01:09:01.720 they are, and like I said, I'm fading almost all of their starters, 820 01:09:01.960 --> 01:09:08.880 so I don't know. I think they will probably win the division and 821 01:09:09.600 --> 01:09:16.000 bore me the Cubs. Speaking of boring teams, at this point, I 822 01:09:16.039 --> 01:09:18.159 don't think there's a lot of mystery left to the Cubs. You know, 823 01:09:18.560 --> 01:09:26.960 like they are not super exciting anymore, and I guess they're still young. 824 01:09:27.760 --> 01:09:30.520 They still have fun players, but I don't think they have a lot of 825 01:09:30.560 --> 01:09:39.920 surprising players left. I am mostly curious about their rotation and if you Darvish 826 01:09:40.039 --> 01:09:42.800 in particular, who's ended up on a lot of our team has bounces back 827 01:09:44.520 --> 01:09:46.840 the spring has not been particularly hopeful. I think he had one bad start 828 01:09:46.880 --> 01:09:50.439 where he like walked the park, which is always concern of his, but 829 01:09:50.680 --> 01:09:54.560 I feel like that was one before. I feel like from what I've been 830 01:09:54.600 --> 01:09:59.800 hearing some of the velocities back, I'm I feel like he's somewhat undervalued. 831 01:10:00.000 --> 01:10:03.199 I feel like Anatana has been somewhat undervalued, and maybe even Cole Hammils, 832 01:10:03.880 --> 01:10:09.199 And obviously that means I am probably closer to other projection systems than Pacoda, 833 01:10:10.279 --> 01:10:19.720 which is unfortunate because obviously I would like the Cups too poorly. The Pirates 834 01:10:19.960 --> 01:10:23.720 have become like a deeply boring team as well. This is what I was 835 01:10:23.720 --> 01:10:28.520 talking about with them. With the Central Division, I feel like the teams 836 01:10:28.600 --> 01:10:33.600 are less interesting, probably except for the Reds, because they've just stayed in 837 01:10:33.680 --> 01:10:39.279 stasis for a while, and teams that Saint Stasis don't interest me quite as 838 01:10:39.399 --> 01:10:44.880 much. I am curious about Chris Archer. I feel like he's been a 839 01:10:44.920 --> 01:10:48.359 player that we've been targeting, and I feel, you know, I guess 840 01:10:48.439 --> 01:10:55.119 the question is whether like he's had a couple of seasons in a row where 841 01:10:55.159 --> 01:11:00.800 he's kind of severely underhit his FIP and you know, like when a player 842 01:11:00.840 --> 01:11:03.800 does it three times a row, sometimes they were like, well that's who 843 01:11:03.840 --> 01:11:11.199 he is now, but sometimes it might actually be just rolled tales three times 844 01:11:11.239 --> 01:11:15.479 in a row. I do think he has probably a bad fastball, But 845 01:11:15.239 --> 01:11:21.840 you know, also maybe getting out of that Fuddy Duddy Rays organization and into 846 01:11:21.880 --> 01:11:28.800 the Pirates Progressive organization is really gonna change things for him. Is that a 847 01:11:28.880 --> 01:11:33.439 control? I don't know. The Reds have been the most fun in the 848 01:11:33.479 --> 01:11:39.600 mission by far, just they've been the team I've been interested in, you 849 01:11:39.680 --> 01:11:45.479 know, exciting young players everywhere they have. Their pitching is not so hot, 850 01:11:45.640 --> 01:11:47.279 but I feel like they have a wave of pitchers coming behind this one. 851 01:11:50.000 --> 01:11:53.000 You know, I think a lot of players who haven't been on the 852 01:11:53.039 --> 01:11:56.039 stage for a while. I don't really think it's going to work out for 853 01:11:56.119 --> 01:12:00.520 them the way they think it is, but I'm I'm glad to see that 854 01:12:00.520 --> 01:12:03.720 they're actually going for it. It feels fun and different. The player I 855 01:12:03.800 --> 01:12:10.760 marked for them, obviously is Jesse Winker, whom we have been tracking for 856 01:12:10.920 --> 01:12:16.319 a breakout for some time, and I think that'll do it. Not Queak, 857 01:12:18.840 --> 01:12:23.359 Yeah, hel Pueak is great. He is fun. I have not 858 01:12:23.439 --> 01:12:26.399 gotten used to seeing him in Red yet, and I don't know that I 859 01:12:26.479 --> 01:12:30.800 ever will. Yeah, especially since I think there's like a seventy percent chance 860 01:12:30.880 --> 01:12:32.560 the Reds are gonna be like threey and thirty five and he's gonna be traded 861 01:12:33.840 --> 01:12:40.520 by June. But you know, he's a person who deserves a bigger stage. 862 01:12:40.520 --> 01:12:44.079 But I don't think he's like as unknowable as a player. I think 863 01:12:44.119 --> 01:12:47.680 there is a version of Jesse Winker that just like the power finally comes and 864 01:12:48.880 --> 01:12:56.359 he's a superstar. I wish I'd be excited to see diving backs we talked 865 01:12:56.359 --> 01:13:00.239 about. I do think could tell Marte is a breakout pick. I like 866 01:13:00.439 --> 01:13:03.600 leek Weaver in the rotation, and like a few other players. I think 867 01:13:03.640 --> 01:13:10.399 they have some upside again, like probably upside from a lower base in the 868 01:13:10.520 --> 01:13:15.800 card, and the Rockies have more downside from a higher start. So I 869 01:13:15.880 --> 01:13:17.399 do think they'll end up in roughly the same place. But I would rather 870 01:13:17.520 --> 01:13:29.079 be the Diamonbacks organization at the moment. The Rockies are. They're they're fun. 871 01:13:29.159 --> 01:13:31.560 I'm looking forward to seeing Harmon Marquez pitch, but I don't feel like 872 01:13:31.640 --> 01:13:38.399 that is one of our players necessarily. I would like to see what Ryan 873 01:13:38.600 --> 01:13:42.159 McMahon does with a series of at bats, and I don't know if he's 874 01:13:42.199 --> 01:13:45.720 going to get them because Garrett Hampson is running for his job. Literally, 875 01:13:45.840 --> 01:13:50.359 he's very fast, and Brendan Rodgers is coming up behind him. Obviously, 876 01:13:50.439 --> 01:13:54.439 then you'll still have room at first if Daniel Murphy gets hurt again. But 877 01:13:55.319 --> 01:13:58.800 I just want to see what Ryan McMahon is and I feel like this year 878 01:13:58.840 --> 01:14:02.720 will go a long way towards plaining it. And I have just thought like 879 01:14:03.520 --> 01:14:10.840 the millennial version of Kelly Johnson. H yeah, which would be a fun 880 01:14:10.920 --> 01:14:16.520 player. I've always liked Kelly Johnson much more than consensus. The Dodgers are 881 01:14:16.840 --> 01:14:24.640 always fun, right yeah. Um their best player is a triple a claim 882 01:14:24.920 --> 01:14:27.960 that they had this year. Who's gonna come up mid season and hit like 883 01:14:28.000 --> 01:14:31.880 forty home runs or strike out thirty and like, well, I didn't think 884 01:14:31.960 --> 01:14:39.119 Felix pa was good, but I guess I guess that's just how it happens 885 01:14:39.239 --> 01:14:43.199 now. Um. You know, other than the obvious things, like you 886 01:14:43.319 --> 01:14:46.479 know, Walker Bueler is going to be fun to watch for however many games? 887 01:14:47.199 --> 01:14:50.600 Um, And you know, I would like to see what most of 888 01:14:50.640 --> 01:14:54.840 these players are. I think they have a lot of exciting stories. Um. 889 01:14:55.279 --> 01:15:01.000 I am curious about Ross trip playing in particular who Um I think friend 890 01:15:01.039 --> 01:15:04.720 of the Pod Night Stevens has been drafting steadily in every league I see unate. 891 01:15:05.479 --> 01:15:10.079 Um. I you know he ruster Play made the All Star team last 892 01:15:10.159 --> 01:15:14.119 year, so I guess that's not quite a breakout. But um, I 893 01:15:14.279 --> 01:15:17.479 do think there is an aspect where he has been underdrafted because he's kind of 894 01:15:17.520 --> 01:15:20.359 a swing man. But he probably could have a job by the end of 895 01:15:20.399 --> 01:15:25.159 the year. You know, it's always hard to say. It's always hard 896 01:15:25.159 --> 01:15:29.640 to say whether being a starting pitcher for the Dodgers is like a good thing 897 01:15:29.760 --> 01:15:31.439 or not, because they'll just throw you into like the sixth inning in the 898 01:15:31.439 --> 01:15:34.840 playoffs. Anyways, Like, oh, well, the world has changed. 899 01:15:35.680 --> 01:15:41.560 The Giants are so depressing. Yeah, I feel like they are the most 900 01:15:41.560 --> 01:15:45.239 depressing team in baseball. Uh, it's okay. You guys won three World 901 01:15:45.279 --> 01:15:48.079 Series. You you can have a boring team for a few years. But 902 01:15:48.800 --> 01:15:54.840 there's just like, at least at least the Orioles are like hilariously dismal, 903 01:15:57.520 --> 01:16:00.640 Like this team is just like old and bad, and like maybe there's a 904 01:16:01.600 --> 01:16:04.640 way in which they like pull it, like they don't have you know, 905 01:16:05.199 --> 01:16:10.079 I could see a world where like Buster Posey and brand Crawford and Evan Longoria 906 01:16:10.119 --> 01:16:13.439 stay healthy for a year and like they surprise a little bit, but then 907 01:16:13.479 --> 01:16:17.760 they're just like old and good or old and Okay, I don't see I 908 01:16:17.840 --> 01:16:20.960 don't see a world where they're like exciting. Who is that is that a 909 01:16:21.039 --> 01:16:29.960 ghost of Evan Longoria? Yeah, well you're talking about how they won a 910 01:16:29.960 --> 01:16:31.880 bunch of World Series. I was like, yeah, but Evan evn't didn't 911 01:16:31.920 --> 01:16:40.439 win any World Series. Oh boy. Um. Yeah, so I had 912 01:16:40.439 --> 01:16:43.239 a really hard time finding a player that we've been drafting a lot of leagues 913 01:16:43.279 --> 01:16:47.000 from them. I like Brandon Crawford. He's he is our backup shortstop at 914 01:16:47.000 --> 01:16:50.760 a bunch of leagues, just because, um, you know, Scorre sheet 915 01:16:50.800 --> 01:16:56.119 over values or perhaps correctly values his defense. I think over values his defense 916 01:16:56.119 --> 01:17:00.760 in particular. But um, you know, I like he is a starter 917 01:17:01.279 --> 01:17:04.359 who still has maybe some ability. Um, We've been ending up with Drew 918 01:17:04.359 --> 01:17:08.640 Pomerans in a bunch of leagues, um or at least one that I know 919 01:17:08.760 --> 01:17:12.880 of, and I think target him in a couple others. Uh. I 920 01:17:13.640 --> 01:17:15.520 Again, that's just kind of the innings and like a little bit of upside. 921 01:17:15.640 --> 01:17:19.359 There's just not a lot going on that I'm excited about here. But 922 01:17:19.439 --> 01:17:23.000 that brings us to our last team, the Padres. Uh. And I 923 01:17:23.319 --> 01:17:26.960 just had as my notes for this team, um, the San Diego Padres. 924 01:17:27.600 --> 01:17:35.000 I am excited and all I plan on watching them a bunch of this 925 01:17:35.079 --> 01:17:40.439 year. This is it's a fun team. They have so many, um, 926 01:17:40.880 --> 01:17:45.840 talented and young and exciting players. I don't know that they're good yet, 927 01:17:45.279 --> 01:17:47.760 Um you know, they could be a year away. They could be 928 01:17:47.840 --> 01:17:51.800 the Cubs. There's of twenty fifteen, you know what I mean, or 929 01:17:51.880 --> 01:17:56.720 the Astroid Like there there's a lot to look at, and you know, 930 01:17:56.760 --> 01:18:00.199 I think we're gonna learn a lot about you know it, Frenchie Cordero, 931 01:18:00.279 --> 01:18:04.760 is it, fronmil Reyes, is it? Areas? You know? Who 932 01:18:04.960 --> 01:18:10.000 is going to break out? I think Francisco Mahia is a player who we 933 01:18:10.279 --> 01:18:14.159 kind of bashed a little bit in the mock draft and then he just hit 934 01:18:14.479 --> 01:18:16.479 the terror out of the ball the spring. I don't know, there is 935 01:18:16.520 --> 01:18:21.920 a version of him that's really good. And the pitching side like they're like, 936 01:18:23.239 --> 01:18:26.560 I don't know, Like obviously no one else has seen Chris Paddock the 937 01:18:26.600 --> 01:18:30.199 spring, but he's so fun. He's so fun. Master Rama is really 938 01:18:30.239 --> 01:18:32.600 good. This is gonna be a really good team. And they just have 939 01:18:33.119 --> 01:18:36.880 like players out there. Ear do you remember to Nelson Lamet, Yes, 940 01:18:38.239 --> 01:18:41.560 he's back. He's just gonna be pitching for them again and like maybe a 941 01:18:41.680 --> 01:18:45.039 number two starter. Who knows they have like eight of them. Um, 942 01:18:45.359 --> 01:18:48.960 there's a lot going on. There's even more beneath the surface. And if 943 01:18:49.000 --> 01:18:54.319 they ever get boring, like Fernando Tatiste Junior is like a couple months away. 944 01:18:54.840 --> 01:18:57.600 I'm not, like, I don't think I'm a biggest fan, but 945 01:18:57.800 --> 01:19:00.600 like, you know, so you're gonna have the best player at that point 946 01:19:00.680 --> 01:19:05.199 in the miners come up mid season. That's always exciting, very much. 947 01:19:05.239 --> 01:19:09.159 Looking forward to the season. I can't wait until they get the brown and 948 01:19:09.279 --> 01:19:15.039 mustard uniforms back. Padres Forever, Padres for life. That's it. Oh 949 01:19:16.880 --> 01:19:23.760 yeah, what a quick whip around. Yeah, so hopefully. I don't 950 01:19:23.760 --> 01:19:30.640 know if that's a good analysis, but it certainly filled time. Any other 951 01:19:30.760 --> 01:19:33.720 remaining thoughts, I have exhausted my notebook. No, thank you. I 952 01:19:33.760 --> 01:19:38.800 think it was good. Okay. I think, after all, the Padres 953 01:19:39.199 --> 01:19:43.279 are the team that I'm most excited to watch. Yeah, I think that's 954 01:19:43.359 --> 01:19:46.159 fair. It's not because I was born there. I think like all the 955 01:19:46.319 --> 01:19:50.439 like, it sounds like there's a wide variety of possible outcomes for them. 956 01:19:50.600 --> 01:19:54.960 That's exciting, right, And there's a version of them that wins like sixty 957 01:19:55.039 --> 01:19:59.920 games too, which is exciting. Well, yeah, there's a lot of 958 01:20:00.279 --> 01:20:02.760 ways to be exciting. Or a version that wins forty seven games and that's 959 01:20:02.800 --> 01:20:10.920 exciting in its own life. Yeah, there's no version that wins forty seven 960 01:20:10.960 --> 01:20:17.000 games. It's unfathomable. Yeah, you have to be trying to be that 961 01:20:17.119 --> 01:20:20.880 bad. We'll get there next week. We just have to figure out how 962 01:20:20.920 --> 01:20:28.600 we're going to remember to preview the other fourteen teams as well, do an 963 01:20:28.640 --> 01:20:35.680 hour just on the Orioles deep looking. Um. But with that, UM, 964 01:20:36.960 --> 01:20:40.840 what is the best thing you saw this week? I feel like we 965 01:20:40.920 --> 01:20:44.319 could all answer this roughly the same way since the last time we recorded. 966 01:20:44.479 --> 01:20:48.279 It's possible. I would say there's one thing that almost made it for me. 967 01:20:48.880 --> 01:20:51.960 Okay that I want to mention. Um. So, as I was 968 01:20:53.079 --> 01:20:59.079 poking around as you do, doing what i'll loosely called research, I found 969 01:20:59.159 --> 01:21:04.439 this story. This is uncut for with a clip of each Row. I 970 01:21:04.479 --> 01:21:10.000 don't know if you've seen this clip or heard of it. So he's forty 971 01:21:10.079 --> 01:21:15.680 five years old now, and basically the clip is just of him throwing a 972 01:21:15.800 --> 01:21:21.319 laser beam from right field. I think it's, you know, into third 973 01:21:21.399 --> 01:21:24.720 base. It looks like on a runner, this like trying to tag in 974 01:21:24.760 --> 01:21:31.199 advance. And as like, as far back as my baseball fandom goes, 975 01:21:32.760 --> 01:21:35.319 I was like rooting for the Mariners for a long time as a kid, 976 01:21:35.399 --> 01:21:40.039 and Ichi was always really exciting and he was the kind of player that was 977 01:21:40.039 --> 01:21:43.800 super easy to root for. So it's kind of sad that his like major 978 01:21:43.920 --> 01:21:47.199 league career is over, but it's really amazing to see him still out there 979 01:21:47.439 --> 01:21:54.439 like doing awesome stuff. And yeah, I will concur I've been watching the 980 01:21:54.520 --> 01:21:57.760 Mariners a lot more than I expected to this spring, just because like, 981 01:21:57.840 --> 01:22:01.640 I don't want to let it go, you know, um, and you're 982 01:22:01.800 --> 01:22:06.640 now I I am definitely gonna watch at least the second game in the series 983 01:22:06.760 --> 01:22:13.199 just in case. Um, you know, I think there have been better 984 01:22:13.319 --> 01:22:15.720 players than Cho in our lifetimes, but I don't. I don't know that 985 01:22:15.800 --> 01:22:18.880 there's been one more fun. Yeah, that's a good way to say. 986 01:22:19.960 --> 01:22:25.239 Um, so I am, um, you know, sorry to see him 987 01:22:25.319 --> 01:22:29.600 go. Uh we assume. Yeah. Part of it also thinks he'll just 988 01:22:29.840 --> 01:22:36.279 play until sixty five somewhere. But um, but you know, I'm excited 989 01:22:36.359 --> 01:22:40.159 to see the next couple of games, and I hope it's a tribute to 990 01:22:41.000 --> 01:22:45.920 one of the greatest and most extraordinary players of our lifetime, the reason why 991 01:22:46.000 --> 01:22:51.640 baseball is good. Yeah, it's like, uh, I was gonna going 992 01:22:51.720 --> 01:22:56.720 around about baseball being fun again, but I'll save it. You can imagine 993 01:22:56.760 --> 01:23:02.079 what I was gonna yeah, um yeah, so anything else I can. 994 01:23:02.279 --> 01:23:05.960 I can talk about the best thing that I saw this week. Yeah, 995 01:23:05.960 --> 01:23:10.880 it might be the same thing, like, yeah, yeah it was you 996 01:23:10.960 --> 01:23:18.439 guys. Oh I was gonna say in New York. Oh no, yeah, 997 01:23:19.439 --> 01:23:23.840 I mean you guys were cool. Yeah. We record, we record 998 01:23:23.960 --> 01:23:27.079 together, but we don't, you know, see each other. That's why 999 01:23:27.159 --> 01:23:31.680 we do a podcast, Um, scheduled time to talk, but um, 1000 01:23:31.960 --> 01:23:34.720 you know, it's occasionally good to see each other. We do it around 1001 01:23:35.000 --> 01:23:40.439 a score sheet draft, of course, which is at once the best and 1002 01:23:40.600 --> 01:23:45.479 worst reason to be together because it is a It is a seven and a 1003 01:23:45.520 --> 01:23:50.159 half hour live draft that used to be longer. Thank you to everyone for 1004 01:23:50.960 --> 01:23:58.840 shortening it. Um. It is like a sweet pain, and it is 1005 01:23:58.920 --> 01:24:03.439 something that I'm glad to be able to do with friends. So it is 1006 01:24:03.479 --> 01:24:09.640 also a great reminder as to why we don't draft scoresheet teams live. Usually 1007 01:24:10.680 --> 01:24:14.359 you all should be very happy for the draft feature. There are just so 1008 01:24:14.439 --> 01:24:16.159 many players. There's so many players, and so many of them are bad. 1009 01:24:16.279 --> 01:24:18.920 And then you're in like the thirteenth round and you're like, oh my 1010 01:24:19.039 --> 01:24:23.960 god, there's twenty two rounds more of this, and we just took like 1011 01:24:24.159 --> 01:24:29.439 orgieslair, like where you know it is. It gets dismal and you're like, 1012 01:24:29.479 --> 01:24:31.399 oh, we're just gonna be here for six more hours looking through depth 1013 01:24:31.520 --> 01:24:35.960 charts of the Chicago White Sox middle relief. It's not great. Yeah, 1014 01:24:36.039 --> 01:24:43.279 that was totally thing I did. I took a nap during this draft job 1015 01:24:43.479 --> 01:24:47.119 because it was so clear that I was going to be worthless, and like, 1016 01:24:47.279 --> 01:24:50.880 let's be honest, I was tired. I don't sleep enough. Yeah. 1017 01:24:51.239 --> 01:24:56.199 I set up like the spreadsheet that allowed Ian to feel like he was 1018 01:24:56.279 --> 01:25:00.199 informed or informed enough, and then past out on the couch for a little 1019 01:25:00.199 --> 01:25:04.239 while. And I only missed two draft picks. I only missed two draft 1020 01:25:04.319 --> 01:25:09.680 picks in like I don't know, yeah, yeah, something like that. 1021 01:25:11.840 --> 01:25:15.600 It's it's it can be rough sledding, but I was glad y'all were there, 1022 01:25:15.920 --> 01:25:17.319 So I don't know if that's the best thing you Also this week, 1023 01:25:18.960 --> 01:25:21.359 I think it's worth shouting out like some of the stuff we did in New 1024 01:25:21.439 --> 01:25:29.720 York because I had a specific thing. But what was your um? I 1025 01:25:29.800 --> 01:25:33.079 guess it was probably the video game exhibit at the US moviming picture. I 1026 01:25:33.159 --> 01:25:36.840 mean, I figured that was, um gonna overlap with yours, so I 1027 01:25:38.000 --> 01:25:41.920 was hesitant to user. But um, you know, the one thing I 1028 01:25:41.920 --> 01:25:45.720 would say is like it was basically just like a giant trip of nostalgia. 1029 01:25:46.279 --> 01:25:50.479 So it wasn't necessarily that I'm saying, like the exhibit itself was amazing. 1030 01:25:50.520 --> 01:25:55.880 I thought it was like solid, not amazing. UM, But you know, 1031 01:25:55.920 --> 01:25:59.640 it's basically just like they took a bunch of video game systems that they 1032 01:25:59.720 --> 01:26:02.920 bought of eBay and like put them down so everybody could play on them. 1033 01:26:03.039 --> 01:26:10.800 And that's that's fine. Every museum do this exactly, It's like, and 1034 01:26:10.960 --> 01:26:15.039 there were so many more people interested in that exhibit as a result. Right, 1035 01:26:15.079 --> 01:26:19.399 they could have very easily botched that by making it I'd say, more 1036 01:26:19.560 --> 01:26:24.359 museum, but instead they didn't, and I think that was part of the 1037 01:26:24.560 --> 01:26:29.319 brilliance of it. Um. The met has so many rooms and all of 1038 01:26:29.399 --> 01:26:33.239 them are filled with art. Full of them, not even one of them 1039 01:26:33.359 --> 01:26:39.520 to save for sports games from the nineteen nineties and late eighties, Okay, 1040 01:26:39.600 --> 01:26:44.119 can we speaking of that? The huge like oversight was that there was no 1041 01:26:44.680 --> 01:26:48.239 RBI baseball at this ye and I think we should set up the exhibit for 1042 01:26:48.439 --> 01:26:55.079 a second, just so everybody, um it is they were doing it and 1043 01:26:55.159 --> 01:26:59.680 it was the last day was of the exhibit was the day we were there. 1044 01:26:59.800 --> 01:27:01.840 So check to see I don't know where it's going next, but check 1045 01:27:01.920 --> 01:27:06.159 to see if it travels. It's something like sports the history sports video games, 1046 01:27:08.039 --> 01:27:14.520 um and oh boy, there were so many of them except oh, 1047 01:27:14.560 --> 01:27:17.680 there's also no Techmo right well, there was no playable Techno. I guess 1048 01:27:17.960 --> 01:27:23.720 there was like a shout out to Techmo on the wall, but I would 1049 01:27:23.760 --> 01:27:29.680 have played nothing else in Techmo super Bowl. Some people like Techmobo Bowl and 1050 01:27:29.760 --> 01:27:31.800 Techmobo Tacks and that was like before by time. I think Techno super Bowl 1051 01:27:31.840 --> 01:27:35.399 was where it really shined. You could pick every team. They had eight 1052 01:27:35.479 --> 01:27:43.640 plays instead of four. I wish they had ice hockey for a tari Ice 1053 01:27:43.680 --> 01:27:49.279 hockey was a great game, Like what do you have an ice hockey lineup? 1054 01:27:50.680 --> 01:27:56.000 So nothing nothing Nintendo's Nintendoom Sceny guys are the fat chevy guys are the 1055 01:27:56.039 --> 01:28:00.560 guys in between you were playing with you as kids, Jared, Yeah, 1056 01:28:00.640 --> 01:28:01.359 no, I mean that's a fantastic game that should have been there. Two 1057 01:28:01.600 --> 01:28:04.880 game me wrong. I suck you for Atari was I think two v two 1058 01:28:05.439 --> 01:28:09.119 but it was Atari, so there were there were no attributes to the players. 1059 01:28:09.159 --> 01:28:15.039 It was just TV two. It was amazing. Um yeah, so 1060 01:28:15.680 --> 01:28:19.399 you do you all have a game that you were most nostalgic for, perhaps 1061 01:28:19.479 --> 01:28:26.319 that you saw there I think out of ones that I saw so he didn't 1062 01:28:26.319 --> 01:28:28.840 actually get to play it, But NBA Jam was there. I thought that 1063 01:28:29.000 --> 01:28:31.119 was a good a good catch, like it would have been a huge oversight 1064 01:28:31.199 --> 01:28:35.079 if that hadn't been there. Um. And I also really liked NFL Blitz. 1065 01:28:36.800 --> 01:28:42.199 NFL Blitz was always like like I think all my friends preferred Madden and 1066 01:28:42.279 --> 01:28:45.560 I was like, no, like I don't need any of that. NFL 1067 01:28:45.640 --> 01:28:49.399 Blitz was exactly the football game that I wanted, and it was just as 1068 01:28:49.479 --> 01:28:53.800 fun as I remember. That's great. It feels like sports games have gotten 1069 01:28:53.800 --> 01:28:59.159 away from that so severely, and like just there is something to like tech 1070 01:28:59.359 --> 01:29:02.640 siber Ball or NFL, but just like you know, and maybe there is 1071 01:29:02.720 --> 01:29:08.479 like some lesson for our for like a sim to just like pare it down 1072 01:29:08.520 --> 01:29:13.640 to the essentials and just like crush it make it fun. Yeah. Yeah, 1073 01:29:13.640 --> 01:29:15.680 I feel like Rocket League did that. Yeah, that's yeah, that's 1074 01:29:15.720 --> 01:29:20.119 a good point. Um, Jared, did you have a favorite or most 1075 01:29:20.159 --> 01:29:24.840 nostalgia game? Uh? Well, might have been a Gritski sixty four. 1076 01:29:25.079 --> 01:29:29.680 I put a lot like going. Uh there's also that handheld baseball game with 1077 01:29:29.800 --> 01:29:31.279 the buttons by your left and right thumbs. What is it? I feel 1078 01:29:31.279 --> 01:29:35.319 that's called as my mantel? Right, Yeah, it was it the the 1079 01:29:38.399 --> 01:29:45.680 yeah electronic baseball let. Yeah, um, yes, it's I don't know, 1080 01:29:45.880 --> 01:29:48.279 like I can't say you were excited, but I can say you were 1081 01:29:48.319 --> 01:29:56.800 as excited as I see you to see that it was really No, it 1082 01:29:56.880 --> 01:29:59.760 was like a special moment because I didn't have that connection you just I just 1083 01:30:00.119 --> 01:30:04.520 I was like, oh wow, it was like something visceral yet that I 1084 01:30:04.640 --> 01:30:06.960 hadn't seen it. I mean it must have been man, you know, 1085 01:30:08.039 --> 01:30:13.119 like twenty five years at least more. Yeah, exciting. Um for me, 1086 01:30:13.760 --> 01:30:21.479 definitely NHL ninety four the game that cemented my bizarre and um inexplicable Vancouver 1087 01:30:21.560 --> 01:30:27.640 Canucks fandom. Babel Burret was so good, Trevor Lindon, Courton Hall bro 1088 01:30:27.840 --> 01:30:31.079 it was. It was good. What a good team. Um. And 1089 01:30:31.439 --> 01:30:36.159 I will also give a shout out to base Wars certainly my favorite baseball game 1090 01:30:36.399 --> 01:30:42.840 of the Nintendo era. Um oh and sorry, yeah I was. I 1091 01:30:43.000 --> 01:30:45.640 was. It turns out I was no longer good at the game, but 1092 01:30:45.279 --> 01:30:48.520 when I was six, I was really great at it because I didn't play 1093 01:30:48.560 --> 01:30:54.479 it as a baseball game. I played it as essentially Mortal Kombat, where 1094 01:30:54.800 --> 01:30:58.960 I got a So the caceed of base Wars. If you haven't played it, 1095 01:30:59.079 --> 01:31:01.239 it is bonkers. I suggest you get an emulator just for it. 1096 01:31:02.720 --> 01:31:08.159 It is a game where robots play baseball and if they ever end up, 1097 01:31:08.880 --> 01:31:13.359 tags have been outlawed. Instead of tags, the teams, the players just 1098 01:31:15.039 --> 01:31:19.840 I don't know, like shoot each other, as though Rugnette Odor had taken 1099 01:31:19.920 --> 01:31:24.239 over the league and had decided, like, this is how we're doing it 1100 01:31:24.319 --> 01:31:28.039 from now on, We're just going to yeah, no tags, just like 1101 01:31:28.319 --> 01:31:32.920 violence. So you have like different types of players, and I forget what 1102 01:31:33.039 --> 01:31:39.319 it was. There was one like there was one of the types of robots 1103 01:31:39.359 --> 01:31:42.760 where you could just I think it was like a sword or you could just 1104 01:31:42.840 --> 01:31:47.640 like corner a player and just get him into the corner and like just defeat 1105 01:31:47.680 --> 01:31:51.479 them. And so what I would do as a six year old is I 1106 01:31:51.520 --> 01:31:59.079 would get a team of that type of player eventually and just like get into 1107 01:31:59.199 --> 01:32:05.840 rundowns until I defeated all of the other robots enough that the other team exploded, 1108 01:32:09.039 --> 01:32:13.520 which again like, maybe not great for pace of play, but I 1109 01:32:13.640 --> 01:32:21.520 do think rob Manfred should form and explained that that. Sorry, there's one 1110 01:32:21.560 --> 01:32:27.960 other thing I remembered those goes my own in the middle of your thing. 1111 01:32:28.119 --> 01:32:31.760 Was no King Grify Junior pssess Major League Baseball. I was disappointed about that 1112 01:32:31.880 --> 01:32:35.239 too. I felt like, maybe it's just me because I was like the 1113 01:32:35.319 --> 01:32:40.199 peak of my Mariners fandom. Um, but yeah, I was like, 1114 01:32:41.840 --> 01:32:46.079 no, not having that game was very very sad, very sad. So 1115 01:32:46.680 --> 01:32:49.920 yeah, so sadness your favorite sports video game in memory. If this is 1116 01:32:49.960 --> 01:32:53.840 setting you down to stout delaying and you made it this far, God bless 1117 01:32:54.199 --> 01:32:59.119 um squirrels, exhibit like you're saying, and check out the exhibit if you 1118 01:32:59.199 --> 01:33:00.760 can. It is the best thing you can do other than see each other. 1119 01:33:02.159 --> 01:33:06.319 So we won't keep you any longer. We'll be back soon next week 1120 01:33:06.399 --> 01:33:13.920 with an American League preview where we cover fourteen teams in some detail and fifteen 1121 01:33:13.960 --> 01:33:20.159 teams and just a great amount of thing. Until then, I'm Leftwood's on 1122 01:33:20.199 --> 01:33:24.279 behalf of Ben Murphy and Jared Wise. Thanks again for listening and have a 1123 01:33:24.359 --> 01:33:24.720 great day.