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Chris Andrew. They got the neck
spotting talent. They stay on track,

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home run hitters, fielding stars,
finding prospects near and plum jt up with

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Chris Andrew finding the stars. It's
what they do. Overlook prospects cover future

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legends for you to roster. Welcome
to the JTR thirty monthly update. We

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back in episode thirty eight, Chris
and I presented our picks for the most

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overlooked prospect in each organization. Our
rough measurement for overlook status is if a

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player is rostered in fewer than twenty
percent of fan tracks leagues. Each month,

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any prospect that has hit that twenty
percent rostered mark, and we do

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reserve the right to round up when
we're looking at those numbers, well that

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player to there we see you list
and find a new overlook prospect to take

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his place. Conversely, if we
decide we might have missed the mark,

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we may move a prospect to the
nothing to see here list and find a

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new prospect to replace him as well. Each month we'll put out these brief

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mini episodes letting you know who we're
moving off and who's taking his place.

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We're also going to pick one of
our holdovers and provide an update on how

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he's doing. If you want to
see the full list that indicates which episode

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we first talked about each prospect,
check out the Dinisty Guru website. We're

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I'll be publishing the fully updated list
each month. In one quick note,

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there won't be any randomly inserted obscure
song titles in the JT thirty updates.

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I hope that's not too disappointing for
you. Chris wants to take it away.

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Who are you bringing into the GTR
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first, before I welcome in my
new person, I do want to

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send Jacob Melton off with a fond
farewheill. He was my Houston astro prospect

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that I thought was underranked, and
I still think he has overlooked, under

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ranked, overlooked, although I've seen
him sneaking into some top one hundred lists,

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but he's still like around twenty percent
rostered, which is surprising since in

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fan tracks, since it's such a
Dynasty heavy program, I guess or website.

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But he's keeping those k rate gains
in in check. That was his

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biggest concern, and he's getting those
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for nine on the base paths.
So he is doing awesome and I wish

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him well as he leaves our JTR
thirty list. But that makes room,

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as you said, for Zach Cole
Junior, another outfielder in the Houston system

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who's got the tools that gets you
the counting stats, and like other outfielders

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in the Houston system, his batball
skills are kind of going to be the

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deciding factor to his fan to see
relevance for us. Zach Cole, I

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think is actually how he is found
in fan grass. But Zach Cole Junior

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in fan tracks was a twenty two
draft pick out of ball State Missouri Valley

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Conference. For those of you who
follow I went to an arrival Missouri Valley

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Conference school, So okay. Anyway, he's you know, he's built again,

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much like many other in the Houston
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two, two hundred pounds. I
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that in my opinion, but he's
got room to add more. Kind of

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reminds me of a little bit shorter
Kyle Tucker. Not the hitd tool,

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of course, but at least appearance
was he was solid last year, nineteen

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homers, thirty seven stolen bases between
Hya or Loway and Hia. He's just

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starting to play though this year he
hasn't gotten into any game, well,

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any meaningful games. He's been playing
some conflict complex. Wow part of me

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as he's rehabbing a hamstring injury.
So he's been mashing the ball in those

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four games seven to fourteen slug but
he's also struck out in seven of his

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sixteen played appearances, so he's you
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percentage. I want to say it's
around like four percent right now, which

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for someone who could jump up once
he starts playing, probably at double A

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this year, Zach Cole, I'm
surprised. At four percent is all that

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he's rostered currently. I you're going
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him up. It's at one percent. Oh wow, that's a great you.

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Yeah. So, I mean,
I think it's just because people are

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kind of weary with Houston outfielders.
You know, outside of Talker, there's

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really been no one that they've developed
of note that it is consistently good.

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You have Chas McCormick, you know, and he's probably the best, but

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for me, it just kind of
feels like, you know, prospect fatigue

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of Houston outfielders is kind of a
thing. You're right, they have a

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type and he fits right in that
type. But yeah, yeah, it's

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so good, and that'll be a
fun one to watch. I have.

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I've actually got three changes, and
it's more than I intended, and I

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hope I'm not overreacting too soon to
some slow starts. But all three were

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players who I thought were kind of
risky to include in the first time,

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so I don't have a whole lot
of problem moving them off. But I'm

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going to start in the Saint Louis
organization where I had one been show in

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there, and I'm gonna he continues
to struggle at high A, I'm going

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to move him to my nothing to
see here list and bringing in the Cardinals

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pitching prospect Zach Showalter. No relation
to Buck Showalter. Zach was drafted out

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of high school in the eleventh round
of the twenty twenty two draft by Baltimore

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and traded over to Saint Louis last
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pro this year, he's only given
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year in low Ay, He's got
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percent walk rate. Fastball slider combination
could be a reliever risk unless he develops

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a third pitch, so that's something
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Showalter is my new pick for the
overlook prospect at three percent rostered in fan

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tracks currently. You know, I
just tried trading the way Zack Showalter in

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a deep league for him. I
got denied for Maser. I tried sending

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Showalter and Johnny Farmelo thought some hype
with Farmelo would ride the hype. But

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uh huh, sorry, that's my
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do have him rostered? I do, I do. I am part of

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the three three percent not that classy
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and I'm having trouble there. But
I did find a picture there who I

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think I want to talk about.
But first I had Mitch Jebb in there.

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Uh Mitch had a little little uh
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But he's just getting off to a
very poor start two three nineteen slash

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line, so I'm going to move
off of him. And hope he turns

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it around, but right now,
for now, I'm I'm going to move

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him off the list and bring in
a Hunter Barco. Hunter Barco was also

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drafted in the twenty twenty two draft, second round pick out of the University

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of Florida. A six foot four
left handed pitcher with right now thirty k

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rate and a seven percent walk rate
in a one eighty two batting average against.

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And he's playing in a high a
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and slightly above average control and interesting
note, he had Tommy John at the

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end of his college career, so
he was drafted, was in rehab and

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just now is kind of ramping up, so a little bit behind in terms

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of age to level, but seems
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had my tj In, a big
left hander who has been throwing strikes and

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throwing them well. So he's rostered
in five percent of the leagues. And

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if you're somebody who likes to stockpile
pitchers, he maybe somebody want to either

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stash or definitely put on your watch
list. I think he's going to be

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he's got the profile. Somebody's going
to kind of move up and with those

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three pitches in the control likely to
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my third and final change is in
the Arizona organization where I had a wildered

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Patino again slow start to twenty four
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And I'm surprised that Andre's Shaparro is
only a rostered in eight percent of

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leagues. He's a short third baseman
who came up in the Yankee system and

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got a lot of talk not this
previous year, but the year before as

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somebody who coming up along with Volpi
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wherever the Yankee is going to find
the place for him is going to be

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knocking on the door, and just
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attention last year in trip La somebody
who started in the Yankee system as a

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seventeen year old back in twenty sixteen. So one of those guys where it

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seems like he's been around forever and
maybe there is some prospect fatigue, and

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I think we talked about that in
our last episode about somebody else, Chris.

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But what we have years still twenty
five years old in Triple A,

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which is perfectly appropriate for the level
with a three forty four, four thirty

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six, five ninety seven slash line
with nine home runs. And he hit

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twenty five home runs in Triple A's
for the Yankees last year, so it's

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not like he's coming off a bad
year. See, I don't know why

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his name fell off the radar.
I don't know why he's only ranked in

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eight percent. So I had my
two when I came across this name and

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thought, I need to add a
third this week and talk about Shaparo and

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hopefully get people's attention on him and
at third base. I don't think there's

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a whole lot in front of him
in the Diamondbacks. A big fan of

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Gino Suarez, but he has a
knack for not staying healthy. And if

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not this year, I think next
year Shaparo could get a break, a

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chance to break into that lineup there. Well, the only one I would

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say is Davey Delos Santos, because
he's back in there. I think,

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or is he a double A or
is he a double A? He might

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be a double A. I think
he's at double A now, but he's

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playing very well. Yeah, So
that's a really good point and I think

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technically he's got to be on the
forty Man too, if I understand how

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that whole deal works. But yes, Farrow, he did kind of just

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disappear for reasons unknown to me too, East coast bias. Yeah, so

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those are the changes we had before
we signed off on the on the mini

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episode, anybody in your list,
you just want to kind of point out

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that, uh, you know you're
happy with what they're doing so far?

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Well, yeah, what was your
New Year's resolution? True? My New

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years resolution? I'm staying on topic, I promise, uh, you know,

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aside from losing weight and uh,
it's okay not drafting Rose Martinez.

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What was yours? Well? Mine, I didn't make one. I don't

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make one. But Zebi Matthews my
overlooked prospect for the Minnesota Twins. I'm

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pretty sure his was to not throw
a or not walk a batter, not

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throw a ball, not walk a
batter in twenty twenty four, because that

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is how he has started his twenty
twenty four season, and he is starting

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to fly. I've seen him on
Twitter, I've seen him in you know,

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different patreons or whatnot that I subscribe
to more and more heat, hope

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I look this morning, he's still
only rostered in ten percent of leagues,

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and that is surprising to me.
I believe when we first talked about him,

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I was like, you know,
if he doesn't strike anyone out and

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he's you know, he loses that
command as he gets into the upper levels,

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he might be quick off my list. Well, he's striking out eleven

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and a half nine and his two
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to start the season at high A. Hasn't walked a better like I talked

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about. He's doing the exact opposite
of what I was fearing. So if

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you play in the ninety percent of
leagues where he is not right rostered,

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should change that quick quick? Make
him graduate off my list. I'm trying

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to help you out, but he's
he is rostered in most of the leagues

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that I'm in as well. Yeah, so I must listen to our podcast

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sometimes to my chagrin. Have you
any positives on your own? A few?

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But I want to talk a little
bit about Nico Porca Grego, who

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is in the Philadelphia system. And
he is, I say, the nineteen

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year old who's playing at the low
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Doesn't have the home runs yet,
but quite a few doubles. He's getting

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on base. It's kind of fifty
grade speed, but hasn't stolen any bases

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yet. But he's on a currently
enough six game hitting streak. He's had

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five multi hit games over the season, and just putting the bat on the

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ball, and I'm really kind of
happy to see what he's doing. He's

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got a this guy's give him a
seventy grade hit tool and he for a

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future grade on the hit tool,
and he is starting to show why he

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is not a big guys five to
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don't think the power is ever going
to be overwhelming, but if he continues

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to put the bat on the ball
and get on base, I think he's

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going to continue to provide some value. So for a little little if he

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kind of putting him on there,
especially when I took off Gabriel Ring Colin

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Junior, who is hitting very well, and it may have been too quick

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to move him off, but I
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So that's part of the fun here, is identifying people and having the

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humility to say I might have given
up on this guy too soon or jumped

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on this other guy too early,
But that's part of the fun of what

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we do and part of the fun
of the jt R thirty I think thank

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you all right. Well, as
promised, this one is just a mini

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episode, a quick quick update for
you. The full chart is on the

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Dynasty Guru website, so you can
go on there and find the article and

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see not only the chart but who
who we've moved off for various reasons as

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it grows, And like I said, there'd be a quick note next each

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name letting you know what episode to
go back and listen to to hear a

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deeper explanation of you know why we
think each of these players are are overlooked

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and and need to be rostered in
your leagues. So good luck with everybody,

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and we will see you next week
when we come back with our full

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episode. We're talking about outfielders and
catcher ranking, So Chris take care of

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keep an eye on the prize and
everybody else. Thank you for your time.

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Chris Andrew, they got the neck
spotting talent. They stay on track,

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home run hitters, fielding stars,
finding prospects near and love jat up

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with Chris Andrew Finding the Stars.
It's what they do overlook prospects that on

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trouver future legends for you to rosta
coming the stats with their eagle lies.

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They see the sparks where talent lies
swing up the bat ditch from the mountain.

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Chris Andrew. They know who's bound, every swing, every throw,

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