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Speaker 2: I hear my baby sound just like your name was Mark.

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Speaker 1: Got a turn?

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Speaker 1: Rap bo podcast? All right, welcome everybody to the Rasball Podcast.

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I am my cool art filling in this week for Beaton,

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and I am joined by the man with the Lima plan,

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the mustachioed Master Lithario himself, the bespectacled man of wonder,

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great Albright. How are you doing tonight today, buddy?

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Speaker 2: Hey, I'm good man. We uh yeah, we have a

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beat On. This is so beat On. Last week he

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got it, he got a new job and he was like,

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I'm gonna be out of the country for the next

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two weeks. So I was like, Okay, where are you headed?

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And He's like Zurich like is like beat On is

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the man of mystery, like you know, like he's you

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ever see the TV show The Patriot that's basically beat On.

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He's he's a spy, I am. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we're working in like real high end like Swiss banking.

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He's got all these Swiss bank accounties, got clear out?

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Maybe yeah? Is he auditioning for the new Bond? Possibly?

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actually beat On is a act as an anagram for Bond,

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he was basically Bond. I've always wondered why Beaton was like, Okay,

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to start this podcast, I have to uh put the

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red wire with the green wire and then snip the

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blue wire at the same time. I don't know why

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he was always walking me through that, but you know

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it worked out. Okay, guy?

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Speaker 1: Is that is that what the flag in the background

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of his normal video is covering. It's like his like

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secret layer with all of his fancy weapons from Cube

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and all of the beautiful women that are like hanging

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out with him.

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Speaker 2: He's got he's got like you know, in the old

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Batman has like the statue that like you press the bine,

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you open the head and press the button. He's actually

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got ahead of himself. He just opens That's how the

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podcast starts. He just presses the button inside of his

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own head. You know what the great thing is, he'll

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never listen to this.

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Speaker 1: Well, what miss we miss you this week? Beat On?

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I am filling in. I am usually on the Cards

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and Categories podcast, So check that out. It comes out

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usually on Thursdays. But I think we've got a great

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show lined up for you. We are speaking on Sunday,

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May twenty fourth, right in the smack dab of the

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Memorial Day weekend and all of the Major league action

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we've had, so I mean, it's been a busy weeks

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since you potted last time with beat On, so I

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think we should probably just dive right into it, right, Yeah,

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all right, let's get into some call ups, because the

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first one we have is a significant one. We have

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Dylan Cruz coming back for the Washington Nationals, who did

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not cover himself in glory and Triple A before this

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call up. It was a two fifty eight three forty

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five four thirty two slash line. That's a one oh

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two WRC plus in forty one games at Triple A.

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two fifty three forty eight slash line over twenty four

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plate appearances one stolen base, which is probably just about

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all you can count on from Dylan Cruz nowadays, right,

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is it just stolen bases and a bunch of blah otherwise?

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well we are our big call up this week is

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Dylan Cruz, and then you start going over his numbers

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and you're like, oh, man, wait, what happened there? Uh

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Dylan Cruz, right, I mean, he was supposed to be excellent.

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up in a fifteen team mix league for just for

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the chance for the upside, But more than likely you're

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gonna be relying on him in an NL only, I

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would say at this point until we see something, because

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like he was in the minor leagues not really performing

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very well this year that is, and he ended up

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a surprise to start the year they send him down.

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you know, a handful of steals. But I just, I mean,

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most mixed leagues. I would say, if you're in a

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twelve team mix league, he's likely on waivers and that's

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probably where he should be until he can show something,

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because it's just like he's just not hitting the ball

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very hard like right now. You know, it's a small

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sample size, but since he got called up, his hard

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hit rate is eighteen point eight percent.

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the eighteen point eight percent, and there's it's very hard

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to be any sort of value for you know, fantasy.

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like great and and sadly on top of it, it's

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not even actually dribblers the second base, it's pop ups

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the second because his fly ball rate is almost forty

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four percent, so he's basically he's hitting a ton of

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two one hundred and twenty foot outs to like the

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right fielder. It's not good. Like I would not pick

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up Dylan Cruz probably in a fifteen team mix league.

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guess someone will pick him up in a fifteen team

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mix league, but it won't be me. It just I

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just don't see enough there. And Anna only. Sure, I mean,

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you know, you throw a couple bucks out him if

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he's on waivers, more than likely in Anna only. He's

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already rostered in most leagues, so it's like a mood point.

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But sure, and only you go for it, UH fifteen

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teen mix league. I would imagine he's gonna go for

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you know, out of one thousand dollars. I would assume

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somewhere in the uh fifteen to twenty five dollars range.

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Someone will try it, you know, on the fire. But

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look at just look at a hot guy on waivers

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versus Dylan Cruz. If you're really desperate for like an outfielder,

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like I know my in one of my leagues. I

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lost Mickey Moniac, and Dylan Cruise will not be the

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guy I'm going for in that league to fill in

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for Moniac. It'll be, you know, it'll be someone like

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Jake McCarthy or something, someone is like you know, that

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has like some chance to be like of some value

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to me. So I you know, unfortunately, I really did

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like Dylan Cruise when he first got called up. I'm

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basically as out as you can be right now on him.

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Speaker 1: Yep. I think that's all very fair. I am one

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of those people with a bid in on Cruise and

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my TGFBI. But it's exactly at the level that you

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dropping an extraneous piece to be a bench outfielder slash

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maybe stolen base option in a fifteen teamer, And I

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think that's pretty much all it is. It's a pretty

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boring slash line. I don't think you're gonna get a

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lot of power out of Dylan Crue, as you said,

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and so unless we see a significant swing change, I

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really did mess up his swing, because there were reports

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out of spring training he didn't make the club because

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all he could do was it pop ups. And I

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think it's gonna be a lost season for Cruise as

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he tries to refine whatever bit of magic he had

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as a prospect, because it's gone at this point.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, no, definitely it was. I mean, the the

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Nationals passed over who to select Dylan Cruise who.

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Speaker 1: I think it was just White Langford, right, yeah, yeah,

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Langford and a lot of the folks, but Langford was.

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Speaker 2: About four or five hundred other people. Obviously they didn't

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they didn't least pass over at Paul Skeens to pick

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Dylan Cruise. At least there's that they did. They did

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pass over Max Clark and why Langford Walker Jan Kains.

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MLB draft. But yeah, I don't know, man, you know,

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if you're in a keeper or dynasty league, I guess,

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you know, hold on and see maybe he can have

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that swing change like you mentioned, But right now he

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looks very lost.

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Speaker 1: Yes, I totally agree. Okay, next call up we have

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is in the same division as the Nationals. It's in

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New York with the Mets. As Jonah Tong has been

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called up for this year. It was not exactly a

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smooth line for him in Triple A before this call up.

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It was a five to sixty eight er over thirty

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eight innings with a fourteen point three percent walk rate.

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in his debut against the Marlins just on Friday, went

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only three innings, two k's, but didn't allow any runs.

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terms of like do they want to stretch him out

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more or are they just looking for him to be

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this opener or are they sending him right back down

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to Triple A? So what are you doing with donah

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Tong this weekend in terms of putting in any bids

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where he might be available in leagues?

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Speaker 2: What are the Mets doing? Could fill a good hour

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of this podcast. That's a great question. What Sky?

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Speaker 1: I think that's the point of Blue Sky right in general?

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Speaker 2: What are the Mets doing? You know, when the Mets

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signed Jorge Polanco and Louis Robert Jr. I was one

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of the loudest critics of that. Of those and Marcus

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Simeon too. Well, they actually they I believe they traded

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for him, but when they brought those guys in, I

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was one of the loudest critics of that of those moves,

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whatever the Mets are doing, like with with those moves,

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in the past now because like now they've had you know,

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they have they brought up Tongue. Have you mentioned they

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went with you ing they're Christian Scott Like, it looks

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like they're at least realizing, you know, I mean it

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is May twenty fourth, but it's good that they've released

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realized at this point. So, you know, some props to

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the fact that the Mets have realized that their fortunes

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were going nowhere fast and they started looking towards the future.

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sort of been a bit of a mess this year

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with his command is uh, you know, his walk rate

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is a walk per nine in Triple A was five

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point seven. It's just like it's it's unosterable if he's

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going to be anywhere near that in the Major League.

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So assuming he hasn't fixed himself just randomly by getting

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promoted to the major leagues. I'm assuming he's still somewhat

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broken as far as command goes. And so with that thought,

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I'm not really that interested. I you know, I feel

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like if he's in, you know, in a fifteen team

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mix league, he's again, like I feel like he's even

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lower than Dylan Cruz because he's a starter, So there

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should be other guys you can just stream. Even in

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a fifteen team league, you should be able to stream

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guys like I saw Kwait teng was in my was

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on waivers in one of my fifteen team mix leagues,

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like Tong is just like better left to someone else

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until like he looks like he's fixed his command, which

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you know, I mean, three innings this weekend doesn't really

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tell me anything. It's just such a small sample size that, like,

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you know, I'm looking at this point, I'm still looking

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at his minor league numbers and they weren't great, and

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starting him in any league outside of NL only, Like

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would be benching him until I saw something. I wouldn't

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put him directly into my lineup until like he looked decent.

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So you know, if you have room, I guess to

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play with and to see what happens. Okay, fine, but

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you know they have you know, the Mets, they haven't

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really committed to Tongue staying up, and you know they

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have Senga, who's I believe code Senga is out on

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a minor league rehab, so he's not I don't that

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far back play. Holmes is obviously out for a while

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with the Phibia. But I think Jonah Tongue is worth

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a flyer in a fifteen team mix league or deeper.

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But I wouldn't start him necessarily, and I wouldn't go

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near him in a twelve team mix.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think I agree that, especially he can't find

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the zone right now. It was a forty five percent

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zone rate INTERPA before being called up in the outing

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this weekend, it was a thirty nine percent zone rate.

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So it's not like those walks are being created out

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of nowhere or tough calls on the edge of the zone,

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like he can't find the zone right now, and especially

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somebody who is a curveball kind of change up forward

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pitcher like Tong. If you can't find the bottom of

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the zone, these MLB hitters will just allow it to

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go out of the zone and not swing. So yeah,

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I think I'm there with you. Someone who might be

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a strikeout upside play, but what he's showing right now

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nothing more than And I'll only really deep fifteen team

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mix leagues, So let's get to our next one. We

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actually have a pair of outfielders to talk about, and

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they're both in Pittsburgh. Esmerlin Valdez was touled up this week,

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who was absolute like All Star last fall in the

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Fall Stars Game and the actual kind of Fall League

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overall out in Arizona. Everybody who went to first but

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Arizona got to see a little bit of him in action.

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We also have Yo Stinson Garcia, who you guys talked

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about a little bit last week, but he we actually

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got to see some action out of him this past week.

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Both of them are kind of playing for the same spot,

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so they're kind of in a face off sort of

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situation trying to get this fourth outfield, maybe get into

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a corner outfield spot for the Pirates. So far, Yostinson

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Garcia over his first eighteen play appearances, it's a two

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ninety four three thirty three two ninety four slash line.

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Esmerelin Valdez is at nine plate appearances with a one

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twenty five to twenty two five hundred, but was hitting

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much better with ten homers at two fifty three average

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in the Triple A before this. Which one of these

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guys do you like better? In Pittsburgh?

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Speaker 2: Man? You know, I I watched a home run off

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of as Morel Valdez is Bad today and I was

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just I fell in love. I felt I fell in

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love with Valdez today. I was just like randomly watching him.

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He looks like, you know, watching because I when he

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first got called up last week, I comped him to

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Craig Munroe is super random. From not watching him, I

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feel like, well, he's got he's got He's definitely got

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that like a dollas Garcia, you know power or like

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I was also seeing like frail uh reyis like he's

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got that, like he's got that easy power where you

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know the h I mean the strikeouts aren't even that

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bad for him in the minors, Like I'm comping him

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to guys who have strikeouts and like not necessarily the

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kind of contact that Valdez has. So I don't know,

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I really was like I was expecting to be like eh,

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but I'm really kind of liking them a lot. I

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imagine he's gonna go for a decent amount in FAB

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this week. I I do worry about the playing time

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because like even you know, one of the things I

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absolutely hate is when I see something like with the

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Pirates did on Sunday, whereas like Valdez hit a homer

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and then there was a pitching change and the Pirates

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pulled them from pulled Valdez out of the game. So

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it's like, obviously he's not I mean, if he's not

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facing rities, I mean that's bad like that, Like, it

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doesn't get any worse than a hitter not facing ritis.

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So I'm a little bit concerned about the playing time.

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I wish, you know, the fact that they called them

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up and they're like still with you know, Jake Magnum

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or whoever is starting in front of them, Like I

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kind of wish they would just commit to Valdez. I

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don't think they are, though, because like you know, like

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I said, I mean, you you see a guy gets

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pulled after a home run just with a pitching change,

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that's a sign. So I like, I like what I

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saw off of like his power so easy, I mean, god,

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it's like that's that's a beautiful thing to see, and

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the fact that he makes a lot of contact. Like,

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I am incredibly interested, but I wish the h I

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wish the bats were were better. So I'll say, like

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fifteen team mix league, I think he's worth a flyer.

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I probably wouldn't go crazy, like I like him more

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than Dylan Cruz just but it's really a matter of

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whether or not you can you know, whether or not

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you can like sit him on your bench and see

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if he's gonna play, because Dylan Cruz does have the bats,

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So in reality, Dylan Cruise is probably gonna be more

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valuable just because he has at bats where Valdez if

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he doesn't have at bats, I mean, he's kind of useless.

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So I do like I like what I saw though,

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so I kind of feel like you throw a couple

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bucks at Valdez to see if you can get him

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in a fifteen team mix league, and if you do,

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then you know, maybe you play him this week coming up,

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maybe you sit him to see what his playing time's like.

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But I do worry that, you know, and that's also

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with Garcia as well. Uh he he doesn't have playing

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time either, so neither of them really have playing time.

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I like valde is probably a bit more than Garcia,

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but I don't love the lack of at bats potentially,

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so you know, I kind of like Valdez enough to

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take a flyer though, just to see what happens, because

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you know, a guy that kind of power, he should

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be the playing time should shake out in his favor

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at some point, you would assume, you know, because like

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you look at the Pirates lineup and it's like it's

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not terrible, but there are areas where like Ozuna is

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so cooked, right, Oza probably should retire. He won't because

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he's under contract and making money, so you know, but

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Ozuna really should go to the bench. Magham is like

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fine for you know, because he's you know, better fielder,

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probably a bit you know, he's got some speed. So

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I don't know, but I do think there's ways to

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get Valdez into the lineup. So I kind of am

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interested in seeing if that happens, but right now you

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really gotta go. You gotta either be in a daily

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league where you can move him into the lineup when

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he's actually in it, or you just put him on

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your bench in a fifteen team mixed league and see

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what happens.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I think that's I think I'm also with

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you on Valdez. It's a much better bat when you

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just also watch it. You're just like, Wow, this dude

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has something a little special. And I mean the Pirates

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have started him three straight games in right field while

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they've been dhing O'Neil Cruz and then benching Marcelosuna except

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for against lefties, and honestly, I think that's probably the

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ideal Pirates line up there to cut Ozuna, move Cruise

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to DH position and then and play both Garcia and

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Valdez and the corner. Make Mangum a fourth outfielder, speedy guy,

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kind of late defensive replacement that you just can't trust.

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The Pirates though, right like, this is an organization that

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loves shooting themselves in the foot with their what I mean,

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they have to take a little time to reload the

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Flint talk every time because you know they're pirates. There's

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an old school gun joke there. But this is a

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franchise where you can't always count on them making the

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best decision for their prospects. But hopefully the talent wins out.

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And I'm with you that if there's somebody to take

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a fire on, it's Valdez, just in the case that

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it really does all click together, all right. Next promotion

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we had is in Arizona. It's Tommy Troy, who actually

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has come through the system mostly as an infielder, like

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a shortstop second baseman, but we'll be getting full time

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at bats. It looks like in left field as Lurtis

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Guriel Junior is down for the Dbacks and they put

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Tommy Troy out in left field for it looks like

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eighteen games this year. And you know what they said,

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Good luck, kid, get out there, enjoy left field. You're

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in the majors now. It was a good batting line

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in TRIPLEA, but it was the PCL, so keep that miners.

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The three oh seven, three ninety seven four forty nine

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slash line in forty four games for Troy, so that's

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only a one oh nine WRC plus because of the PCL.

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In his debut today, he's laced two doubles, but one

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was off Jose Kintana and the other was off Seth Halverson.

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So kind of like the lowest rungs of MLB pitching,

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but good to see him at least get those first

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major league hits today. What do you make of Tommy

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Troy in Arizona?

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Speaker 2: You know, I kind of like Tommy Troy because of

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the speed, So you're right with the PCL like you can,

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you can. His power might not translate as well, but

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I do think the speed will translate. So as long

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as he's got speed, and the Diamondbacks already said that

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while Gourriel is out the Tommy Troy is gonna play

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left field for them, so he's gonna have the bats.

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He's got speed, He's always been able to make decent contact,

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even though his h K rate did balloon a little

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bit in Triple A this year, but it's still decent enough.

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I'm I'm a little bit interested. I think probably Tommy Troy,

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because he's gonna have at bats and he does have speed,

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I would probably say, and he's also I mean I'm

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guessing here, but I think he's probably gonna be cheaper

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in most fab situations, and he's probably gonna be more

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available than you know, even Dylan Cruz or Valdez. I

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would say Tommy Troy is a good, sneaky pick for

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like a two week run where maybe you get some steals,

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maybe he hits a home runner or two, and if

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he does, you know, do well, the Diamondbacks could figure

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out a way to keep him around even when Gouriel returns.

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So I you know, I I think it's this. I

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think Tommy Troy actually could be something more than just

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like he's obviously l only, but I think he could

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actually be more than that. I'm kind of interested in

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Tommy Troy. Like his his bat I think will play.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I totally agree. And on top of it too,

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like once he picks up that outfield eligibility playing with

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the Dbacks here over the next week or so, you're

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looking at a guy who's middle infield, outfield eligible and

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deep leagues. That is money, that's found money. I think

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there's a lot of great things in Troy's profile. So yeah,

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I think out of all the guys that we've talked

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about on the heating side, so far he's I think

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he's less talented than Valdez, but he's probably got a

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better path to playing time in Arizona right now, and

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if he plays well, there's no reason to kick him

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out of the lineup because it's kind of like the

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time is now for Tommy Troy in terms of the

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promotion cycle and everything like that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, No, totally. I I one hundred percent of gree

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I think I think Troy is probably the least talked

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about well, I mean, I don't know what other people

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are gonna be talking about, but I think he's probably

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gonna be the least you know, uh sought after guy

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in fab and off of waivers, and he actually could

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turn into the best profit out of all these guys.

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Like I'm you know, like I've already said, Dylan Cruz

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worries me, Valdez is really interesting. But the playing time

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Tommy Troy actually has got speed, a little bit of power,

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can hit for a decent average, and he's gonna have

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playing time over at least the next two weeks. So yeah,

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I like Tommy Troy.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that's a great call. Okay, we are

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going to go just down the street for me here

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in Chicago for the next round of call ups, where

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we've actually got two. One of the dudes who maybe

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the National should have drafted in that draft, Matt Shaw

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went down and has hit the iel. So they brought

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up Pedro Ramirez, an infielder who has been extremely hot

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for the Cubs at Triple A to start the season

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three twelve, three ninety five, five seventy four slash line

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with nine homers, nineteen stolen bases, one thirty six WRC

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plus brew and I covered him a couple of weeks

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on the Cards and Categories podcast. We were big fans.

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They've also called up Elvin Kevin al Kantara there in Chicago,

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where I'm a little bit less interested in all Kantara

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just because he seems to be more of like a

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00:27:23,240 --> 00:27:26,079
fourth outfielder type. It's gonna be hard for him to

474
00:27:26,119 --> 00:27:29,559
crack the rotation. But Pedromires has showed a lot of

475
00:27:29,599 --> 00:27:32,599
great stuff here in twenty twenty six for the Cubs

476
00:27:32,759 --> 00:27:36,079
in Iowa. What do you make here of Pedro Omras

477
00:27:36,119 --> 00:27:38,519
and Kevin al Kantara for the Chicago Cubs.

478
00:27:39,400 --> 00:27:42,519
Speaker 2: Well, I'll do al Kantara first. I think he's probably

479
00:27:42,920 --> 00:27:45,400
a he could probably be an all star in like

480
00:27:45,839 --> 00:27:49,400
the KBO. I don't really see him doing much for

481
00:27:49,480 --> 00:27:53,000
the Cubs. I mean, I think there's a good chance

482
00:27:53,079 --> 00:27:56,279
that like he probably should go overseas and be like

483
00:27:56,400 --> 00:28:01,039
a great a great star for either in Japan or Korea,

484
00:28:01,079 --> 00:28:03,759
because I just don't see it for him unfortunately. I

485
00:28:03,839 --> 00:28:08,559
think he's you know, is his k rate is just abysmal,

486
00:28:08,759 --> 00:28:12,680
and I mean, you know, God blessed, but I just

487
00:28:12,759 --> 00:28:16,640
don't see it with him. Uh Paigro Ramirez is actually

488
00:28:16,799 --> 00:28:21,319
really kind of interesting. My biggest problem so Pedro Ramir's

489
00:28:21,359 --> 00:28:24,680
you know, power, great speed, uh hit for a decent

490
00:28:24,720 --> 00:28:27,279
average like you mentioned all that stuff with uh you know,

491
00:28:27,440 --> 00:28:30,319
had a sort of a breakout here in uh Triple

492
00:28:30,400 --> 00:28:34,319
A this year with at twenty two years old, uh

493
00:28:34,960 --> 00:28:37,880
uh at Iowa, I think, uh the problem for me

494
00:28:38,240 --> 00:28:41,119
is even more so than a bunch of the guys

495
00:28:41,200 --> 00:28:43,960
we mentioned before. I really don't see where Patro Like

496
00:28:44,079 --> 00:28:46,599
It's like Pedro Ramirez got called up to fill in

497
00:28:46,680 --> 00:28:49,400
for Matt Shaw and Matt Shaw didn't have a job,

498
00:28:49,519 --> 00:28:52,240
So I don't know Petro Ramrez is got I don't like,

499
00:28:52,319 --> 00:28:54,279
I don't know where these guys are gonna go like

500
00:28:54,400 --> 00:28:57,680
I know al Qatar is not gonna play. I really

501
00:28:57,759 --> 00:29:00,079
don't know where Pedro Ramirez is gonna play, Like, I

502
00:29:00,160 --> 00:29:03,319
have no idea, Like I I like him for like

503
00:29:03,559 --> 00:29:07,880
a flyer in an NL only league. Maybe, like so

504
00:29:08,279 --> 00:29:12,480
maybe Confordo goes to the bench. I don't know, there's

505
00:29:12,759 --> 00:29:16,039
I mean, you know, Ian Happ has been struggling, so

506
00:29:16,200 --> 00:29:19,279
he's been like I think he's like been out the

507
00:29:19,400 --> 00:29:21,960
last couple of days, you know, trying to get a

508
00:29:22,079 --> 00:29:26,839
mental break. So I don't know, maybe Pedro somehow they

509
00:29:26,920 --> 00:29:29,720
shuffle their lineup to get Pedro Ramir some at bats there.

510
00:29:29,960 --> 00:29:33,319
I don't know. I just don't see the adbats. Unfortunately,

511
00:29:33,680 --> 00:29:35,400
I like him, but I don't know, I don't see

512
00:29:35,440 --> 00:29:36,000
where he plays.

513
00:29:36,599 --> 00:29:38,920
Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's all you do have to wonder, like

514
00:29:39,000 --> 00:29:41,960
if the Cubs maybe do tap him for a few

515
00:29:42,039 --> 00:29:45,519
more games just because I mean, they're struggling. They've lost

516
00:29:45,680 --> 00:29:47,440
what I think nine in a row or something now,

517
00:29:47,519 --> 00:29:51,039
and things are not going well for the Chicago Cubs,

518
00:29:51,079 --> 00:29:53,960
and so if they need to find something to give

519
00:29:54,119 --> 00:29:57,640
them a little bit of a boost, Pedro Muirs might

520
00:29:57,680 --> 00:30:00,839
be it. As they're looking at especially, you know, Michael

521
00:30:00,839 --> 00:30:04,000
Bush has really been cooling off to Dancy. Swanson is

522
00:30:04,839 --> 00:30:07,799
lost and old this year, but the defense will play.

523
00:30:08,200 --> 00:30:10,559
They're gonna have a tough conversation, I think as the

524
00:30:11,160 --> 00:30:14,319
season goes on, to decide, you know, do we continue

525
00:30:14,839 --> 00:30:18,839
taking the l with Dansby Swanson hitting in our lineup

526
00:30:18,960 --> 00:30:21,680
when we've got somebody like patro mirrors ready to go?

527
00:30:22,680 --> 00:30:22,880
Speaker 3: Yeah.

528
00:30:23,119 --> 00:30:26,640
Speaker 2: I mean I don't have his swinging. I don't have

529
00:30:27,319 --> 00:30:30,799
how fast he's swinging Swanson that is, I don't have

530
00:30:30,839 --> 00:30:32,279
it in front of me. But I would have to

531
00:30:32,359 --> 00:30:35,480
assume he's he's had a bit of a falloff. I

532
00:30:35,480 --> 00:30:38,960
would have to assume it because his numbers scream to

533
00:30:39,079 --> 00:30:43,319
me a guy who has hit the age of like,

534
00:30:43,759 --> 00:30:47,799
you know, the point of no return for aging vets,

535
00:30:47,839 --> 00:30:51,079
where it's like, yeah, I mean, you know, he's good

536
00:30:51,160 --> 00:30:54,799
for a couple of days. It's not really good enough

537
00:30:54,880 --> 00:30:57,799
to be in the line up all the time. It's

538
00:30:57,880 --> 00:31:01,519
just like, you know, it's a real big flashing red

539
00:31:01,640 --> 00:31:05,720
light when a guy like Swanson has a under twenty

540
00:31:05,799 --> 00:31:09,759
two percent strikeout rate and is hitting one eighty nine,

541
00:31:10,160 --> 00:31:13,799
Like that's that's really bad. Like the things don't get

542
00:31:13,920 --> 00:31:17,599
much worse than when a guy isn't striking out and

543
00:31:17,839 --> 00:31:22,480
still hitting for an absolutely atrocious average. Like that's as

544
00:31:22,640 --> 00:31:26,200
bad as things get really for a hitter. We've seen

545
00:31:26,240 --> 00:31:29,359
it before from vets in the past, Like it's what

546
00:31:29,519 --> 00:31:33,640
happens when guys get older and you know, there things

547
00:31:33,839 --> 00:31:36,079
just like their swing just as does not do as

548
00:31:36,160 --> 00:31:38,720
much as it used to do. So even when they're

549
00:31:38,759 --> 00:31:41,200
making contact, the balls just sort of like you know,

550
00:31:41,440 --> 00:31:42,519
plops off their bat.

551
00:31:43,720 --> 00:31:47,039
Speaker 1: Yeah, and it looks like actually the bets beeat's pretty

552
00:31:47,880 --> 00:31:51,200
similar to prior years. But I think he's been old

553
00:31:51,279 --> 00:31:53,920
man for a little bit where he's been selling out

554
00:31:54,079 --> 00:31:57,400
because the whiff has been increasing and the hard hit

555
00:31:57,519 --> 00:31:59,960
rate is ticked down a little bit where he's swing

556
00:32:00,279 --> 00:32:02,039
as hard as he can because he needs to to

557
00:32:02,119 --> 00:32:03,720
get as much as he can out of the bat,

558
00:32:04,160 --> 00:32:06,079
and it's just not there for Swanson.

559
00:32:06,319 --> 00:32:11,079
Speaker 2: But yeah, there you go. That's it. And that doesn't right, Yeah, no,

560
00:32:11,160 --> 00:32:13,759
that I mean that makes sense, And that doesn't magically

561
00:32:13,839 --> 00:32:14,319
get better.

562
00:32:15,559 --> 00:32:16,000
Speaker 1: It does not.

563
00:32:16,799 --> 00:32:19,480
Speaker 2: That's like, you know, the beginning of the end. Unfortunately.

564
00:32:19,880 --> 00:32:21,680
Speaker 1: Yeah, time for him to be a house husband. I

565
00:32:21,759 --> 00:32:24,400
mean I would too if I had a wife like him.

566
00:32:25,359 --> 00:32:30,440
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's married to a Yeah.

567
00:32:29,720 --> 00:32:32,920
Speaker 1: From the US women's national team, so he doesn't even

568
00:32:32,960 --> 00:32:33,720
need to work anymore.

569
00:32:34,160 --> 00:32:38,240
Speaker 2: Yeah, guys, you know that. Actually that that brings up

570
00:32:38,279 --> 00:32:40,160
a good point for me. Like so many times you'll

571
00:32:40,160 --> 00:32:43,880
see like a Rod or any of these guys, these

572
00:32:44,279 --> 00:32:48,359
retired guys are like at the or they're doing broadcasting,

573
00:32:48,519 --> 00:32:51,680
and I'm like, you made like three hundred million dollars.

574
00:32:51,759 --> 00:32:55,599
Why are you not like on the beach somewhere. I would, honestly,

575
00:32:55,839 --> 00:32:58,519
I mean, I love I love doing this. This is

576
00:32:58,799 --> 00:33:00,960
this is a joy for me. But if you gave

577
00:33:01,000 --> 00:33:03,920
me three hundred million dollars, you would never see me again.

578
00:33:04,200 --> 00:33:06,799
You would be like, hey, whatever happened a grey, I

579
00:33:06,839 --> 00:33:10,640
don't know, he got three hundred million dollars, That's what happened.

580
00:33:11,319 --> 00:33:14,960
Speaker 1: Yes, I totally agree. It confounds me as well. Okay,

581
00:33:15,039 --> 00:33:17,519
we've got one more call up, and this one is uh.

582
00:33:18,039 --> 00:33:19,839
I want to get your take on this, because even

583
00:33:19,960 --> 00:33:22,799
I'm confounded by this as a as a semi Cardinals

584
00:33:22,839 --> 00:33:25,240
fan here, even though I've got the socks stuff in

585
00:33:25,279 --> 00:33:29,039
the background where Brian Torres, he was in the minor

586
00:33:29,119 --> 00:33:33,000
leagues forever twenty eight years old, finally made his MLB

587
00:33:33,160 --> 00:33:37,720
debut this weekend and it went fantastically. After hitting three

588
00:33:37,839 --> 00:33:41,480
thirty six, four fifty four, four seventy seven a one

589
00:33:41,599 --> 00:33:44,359
forty nine WRC plus with two homers and ten stole

590
00:33:44,440 --> 00:33:48,359
bases in TRIPLEA, they brought Brian Torres up and he

591
00:33:48,480 --> 00:33:51,440
hit his first homer in his debut and put up

592
00:33:51,799 --> 00:33:54,960
a three seventy five average in the first couple of games.

593
00:33:55,680 --> 00:33:58,200
Looks like he should be the starting every day left

594
00:33:58,240 --> 00:34:01,000
fielder for the Cardinals. While Nathan True is out, the

595
00:34:01,160 --> 00:34:04,880
devil magic is alive in Saint Louis. So is this

596
00:34:05,319 --> 00:34:09,119
gonna last or is this something that's gonna disappear into

597
00:34:09,159 --> 00:34:14,039
the Wind'm.

598
00:34:11,880 --> 00:34:16,519
Speaker 2: I'm gonna I'm putting my money on wind. I'm going

599
00:34:16,760 --> 00:34:20,760
I'm going wind in this case, I think there's a

600
00:34:20,880 --> 00:34:23,719
good chance that, like, you know, looking at his stats,

601
00:34:23,800 --> 00:34:27,000
like in Triple A he was, you know, ripping the

602
00:34:27,039 --> 00:34:30,559
cover off the ball, but also like I'm assuming the

603
00:34:30,639 --> 00:34:33,920
Cardinals were looking at at him and being like, yeah, well,

604
00:34:34,039 --> 00:34:36,719
I mean he's twenty eight years old. He's not ripping

605
00:34:36,800 --> 00:34:39,559
the cover off the ball in Triple A, then like,

606
00:34:40,079 --> 00:34:41,400
what are we even doing here?

607
00:34:41,519 --> 00:34:41,679
Speaker 1: Man?

608
00:34:42,679 --> 00:34:46,639
Speaker 2: I honestly think like there's a situation where he was

609
00:34:46,719 --> 00:34:50,440
hitting so well in triple A that like he he

610
00:34:50,559 --> 00:34:53,119
had his confidence at an all time high. He was

611
00:34:53,480 --> 00:34:57,400
called up, confidence is even built even higher. So he's

612
00:34:57,519 --> 00:35:00,920
still continuing a hint, because he's in the zone that

613
00:35:01,079 --> 00:35:04,119
hitters get in and you know, like a hosh potato.

614
00:35:04,480 --> 00:35:07,760
I just I see it as like a guy who

615
00:35:07,920 --> 00:35:10,480
just happens to be hot right now, and there's no

616
00:35:10,599 --> 00:35:14,400
way this lasts. You know, one case I can think

617
00:35:14,480 --> 00:35:19,679
of in the past, Joey Menez for the Nationals, Like

618
00:35:19,840 --> 00:35:23,079
he was right, so he hit so well in the

619
00:35:23,199 --> 00:35:26,639
miners as an old guy old, I mean, I think

620
00:35:26,679 --> 00:35:28,639
he was probably like twenty seven or twenty eight. He

621
00:35:28,760 --> 00:35:31,079
got called up and he continued to hit well, and

622
00:35:31,159 --> 00:35:34,679
that lasted actually like a full season. So there is

623
00:35:34,760 --> 00:35:37,920
a chance that Brian Torres just continues to hit. But

624
00:35:38,039 --> 00:35:40,559
at some point we're going to get a rug poll

625
00:35:40,840 --> 00:35:43,639
and Torres is no longer going to be good, because

626
00:35:44,320 --> 00:35:46,559
I mean he's not. I mean, there was a reason

627
00:35:46,599 --> 00:35:48,719
why he was in the minors for so long. It's

628
00:35:48,800 --> 00:35:53,199
like he wasn't in the minors for eleven years because

629
00:35:53,239 --> 00:35:56,639
he's so good that they didn't want to intimidate other

630
00:35:56,800 --> 00:35:59,159
teams with him. I mean there's a reason.

631
00:36:00,800 --> 00:36:03,400
Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, I think so too, honestly, and it it'll

632
00:36:03,440 --> 00:36:05,159
only it'll be useful for a couple of weeks while

633
00:36:05,239 --> 00:36:07,679
Church is out because depending on your league, you might

634
00:36:07,800 --> 00:36:10,599
have second base am I eligibility for Torres too, and

635
00:36:10,719 --> 00:36:13,400
that'll be huge. But it is gonna be, I think

636
00:36:13,599 --> 00:36:16,800
a bench piece for the Cardinals down the stretch. So yeah,

637
00:36:17,239 --> 00:36:19,320
it's a fun story and it was a fun weekend

638
00:36:19,400 --> 00:36:22,480
so far in Cincinnati. But I think it's a bit

639
00:36:22,599 --> 00:36:25,480
of a flash in the pan for Torres, so that

640
00:36:25,719 --> 00:36:27,639
covers us for the call ups. Let's get into some

641
00:36:27,719 --> 00:36:30,480
hot and cold players of the last thirty days. The

642
00:36:30,559 --> 00:36:33,880
first one I've got is one who I've just been

643
00:36:33,880 --> 00:36:35,559
getting founded by. I want to get your take on.

644
00:36:36,280 --> 00:36:38,719
Is Xavier Edwards? A power hitter. Now he has been

645
00:36:38,960 --> 00:36:42,320
super hot in our player Raider for quite some time now.

646
00:36:42,880 --> 00:36:47,280
He has risen to the twentieth over the last thirty

647
00:36:47,360 --> 00:36:50,400
days on the strength of five homers out of that

648
00:36:50,559 --> 00:36:55,480
bat in mister slap dick prospect himself. So is he

649
00:36:55,639 --> 00:36:57,679
mister power dick prospect?

650
00:36:57,760 --> 00:37:05,320
Speaker 2: Now we got I think he's mister got into a

651
00:37:05,599 --> 00:37:11,199
few meatballs in the last couple of weeks stick. I

652
00:37:11,840 --> 00:37:15,039
don't really see I don't see the power you know,

653
00:37:15,320 --> 00:37:20,199
necessarily changing as far as he goes. I mean, maybe

654
00:37:20,440 --> 00:37:24,320
he gets to like twelve homers this year, which you

655
00:37:24,360 --> 00:37:26,280
know is a lot for him, a guy who came

656
00:37:26,320 --> 00:37:29,440
into the year with like three to five homer power

657
00:37:29,880 --> 00:37:33,119
and now it's like if you know, if Fernando Tattoos

658
00:37:33,239 --> 00:37:36,559
Junior was doing what Edwards is doing, I'd be so happy.

659
00:37:37,800 --> 00:37:39,880
I would, you know, I would. Actually I would probably

660
00:37:39,880 --> 00:37:42,360
still be complaining because it's still not enough of what

661
00:37:42,480 --> 00:37:44,880
I wanted from Tattoos, but it's still it would be

662
00:37:44,960 --> 00:37:47,400
more than what he's doing anyway. You know, I don't

663
00:37:47,440 --> 00:37:52,199
really see Exavier Edwards, like you know, there's like there's

664
00:37:52,239 --> 00:37:54,559
definitely like the hard hit is up, so I mean

665
00:37:54,639 --> 00:37:57,480
that's good. His fly balls are up a little bit,

666
00:37:57,800 --> 00:38:01,440
his homer per five balls, you know, better than it was.

667
00:38:01,840 --> 00:38:05,159
Like there's there's some signs here that he is more

668
00:38:05,199 --> 00:38:08,440
of a twelve homer guy, which you know, I don't

669
00:38:08,440 --> 00:38:11,320
think anyone was really anticipating from him. So that's good

670
00:38:11,559 --> 00:38:15,599
considering it still has you know, thirty steel speed and

671
00:38:16,360 --> 00:38:20,159
great average, like he's a well rounded player. As far

672
00:38:20,199 --> 00:38:23,679
as that goes like, you know, pretty low strikeout rate,

673
00:38:24,320 --> 00:38:27,760
hitting threeho eight as we record this actually three thirteen.

674
00:38:28,840 --> 00:38:32,159
But anyway, yeah, I mean I would take from him

675
00:38:32,960 --> 00:38:39,599
twelve homers, thirty two steals, three two, even go down

676
00:38:39,639 --> 00:38:43,159
to two eighty five two ninety five average. I mean,

677
00:38:43,199 --> 00:38:46,639
even that, that's a great line. I mean, I wish

678
00:38:46,719 --> 00:38:49,719
I had him on team, on more teams. Actually, I

679
00:38:49,760 --> 00:38:51,239
don't even know if I have him on any teams,

680
00:38:51,280 --> 00:38:54,559
but yeah, I wish I had him. I think he's legit.

681
00:38:54,920 --> 00:38:58,760
I have no problem, like, you know, buying high on him,

682
00:38:58,960 --> 00:39:02,039
if that's an option, I wouldn't, you know, I wouldn't

683
00:39:02,079 --> 00:39:05,480
expect you know, the fact that he's got six homers

684
00:39:06,000 --> 00:39:11,400
through fifty ish games. I wouldn't expect a twenty homer

685
00:39:11,519 --> 00:39:14,760
season necessarily at some point, I think the power is

686
00:39:14,800 --> 00:39:16,920
going to level out a little bit. But still, you know,

687
00:39:17,079 --> 00:39:20,079
like I said, twelve homers from that is from that

688
00:39:20,360 --> 00:39:22,400
from the rest of that line, because the rest of

689
00:39:22,440 --> 00:39:24,960
the line is so good. That's good. I like them.

690
00:39:25,440 --> 00:39:27,960
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I think you're I think that all those

691
00:39:28,000 --> 00:39:30,320
takes are fair that I think we've seen somebody who

692
00:39:30,400 --> 00:39:33,199
has up their game a little bit, and somebody who

693
00:39:33,480 --> 00:39:36,000
I didn't expect it either, that he's just become a

694
00:39:36,039 --> 00:39:38,440
better hitter. I think being able to play in Miami

695
00:39:38,519 --> 00:39:41,199
has allowed him to develop at the big league level. Yeah,

696
00:39:41,400 --> 00:39:44,000
stample of approval from both of us on Xavier Edwards

697
00:39:45,000 --> 00:39:47,000
on the pitching side, when you look at the last

698
00:39:47,039 --> 00:39:51,159
thirty day player Raider the top four horses, as you

699
00:39:51,199 --> 00:39:54,519
would expect, you got the miz Mizerowski, you got Chris Saale,

700
00:39:55,039 --> 00:39:59,480
Zach Wheeler, Cam Schlitzler number five and six. Some new

701
00:39:59,719 --> 00:40:04,480
up rising arms here between Kyle Harrison and Max Meyer.

702
00:40:04,599 --> 00:40:07,559
Over the past month, Kyle Harrison's been worth They've both

703
00:40:07,639 --> 00:40:10,360
been worth about forty bucks. Kyle Harrison has been on fire,

704
00:40:10,480 --> 00:40:14,280
a one thirty two ra with well, no, I'm reading

705
00:40:14,320 --> 00:40:16,400
the long wrong line that is his fit a one

706
00:40:16,679 --> 00:40:19,679
a point ninety six ERA over twenty eight innings with

707
00:40:19,840 --> 00:40:24,119
forty one k's and Max Meyer has a one fifty

708
00:40:24,199 --> 00:40:27,639
one ERA over thirty five and two thirds innings with

709
00:40:27,880 --> 00:40:31,480
forty k's himself. What do you what do you think

710
00:40:31,480 --> 00:40:33,679
about these guys? Do you think either of them will

711
00:40:34,039 --> 00:40:35,880
we'll stay at this level for the rest of the year.

712
00:40:36,199 --> 00:40:39,320
And if there's one that you prefer over the other

713
00:40:39,760 --> 00:40:42,239
let me know between Kyle Harrison and Max Meyer.

714
00:40:43,800 --> 00:40:47,039
Speaker 2: So with Kyle Harrison, I think there's gonna be like

715
00:40:47,159 --> 00:40:52,519
there should be some sort of uh punishment or at

716
00:40:52,599 --> 00:40:56,920
least day some sort of like, uh, you gotta like go,

717
00:40:58,159 --> 00:41:00,760
I feel like you gotta wear a shirt or something

718
00:41:00,840 --> 00:41:05,199
that says like I traded away Kyle Harrison. If you're

719
00:41:06,079 --> 00:41:09,159
on the Giants or the Red Sox in their front office,

720
00:41:09,239 --> 00:41:12,039
like you, there should be some sort of like a

721
00:41:12,280 --> 00:41:15,280
hazing or a punishment of some sort, Like you can't

722
00:41:15,400 --> 00:41:18,480
just get rid of Kyle Harrison and have him break

723
00:41:18,599 --> 00:41:21,039
out in this big of a way and just be

724
00:41:21,280 --> 00:41:25,360
like oops, like someone should get fired, is what I'm saying.

725
00:41:25,639 --> 00:41:28,840
There's a there's a real like there's a there's some

726
00:41:29,199 --> 00:41:32,880
like serious like come to Jesus stuff that needs to

727
00:41:32,960 --> 00:41:35,639
happen with the Giants and the Red Sox. If you

728
00:41:35,800 --> 00:41:37,400
looked at Kyle Harrison.

729
00:41:37,000 --> 00:41:41,239
Speaker 4: And you were like, I don't know, I don't like

730
00:41:41,800 --> 00:41:45,079
either that or the Brewers are cheating, like there's something

731
00:41:45,159 --> 00:41:48,360
going on because like he got unlocked, and I don't

732
00:41:48,400 --> 00:41:52,039
know why he wasn't unlocked previously, but someone needs to

733
00:41:52,159 --> 00:41:53,599
like look at themselves in the mirror.

734
00:41:53,639 --> 00:41:56,639
Speaker 2: And be like why didn't we unlock Kyle Harrison because

735
00:41:56,920 --> 00:41:59,239
we had them, like if you're the Giants, we had

736
00:41:59,280 --> 00:42:01,599
them for a year and we did nothing with them.

737
00:42:01,880 --> 00:42:04,639
Then the Red Sox just like got them for Devers

738
00:42:04,679 --> 00:42:07,639
and that just got right up. They're just like, ah, whatever,

739
00:42:08,519 --> 00:42:11,159
we don't need we don't need the return for devers

740
00:42:11,320 --> 00:42:14,280
like whatever. I mean, we were just trying to unload devers. Anyway,

741
00:42:14,519 --> 00:42:16,519
I don't know what the Red Sox are doing either,

742
00:42:16,920 --> 00:42:20,440
but I mean, honestly though, Kyle Harrison has been unlocked,

743
00:42:20,599 --> 00:42:24,159
and someone needs a reason why the Giants or the

744
00:42:24,239 --> 00:42:27,000
Red Sox didn't do it, like like there's some I

745
00:42:27,119 --> 00:42:29,719
know the Brewers are excellent when it comes to the stuff,

746
00:42:29,880 --> 00:42:33,400
so I mean I'm not saying like like the Brewers

747
00:42:33,480 --> 00:42:36,280
did not do as good as the Brewers always do,

748
00:42:36,559 --> 00:42:40,199
but I mean you gotta think like someone really needs

749
00:42:40,239 --> 00:42:43,400
to like pay up for like what they did, Like

750
00:42:43,920 --> 00:42:46,960
I would be collected. I would fire Buster Posey and

751
00:42:47,440 --> 00:42:51,400
Breswall absolutely, but I mean there's something something needs to

752
00:42:51,480 --> 00:42:54,400
be like said here with like Kyle Harrison that was

753
00:42:54,559 --> 00:43:00,559
like unset so it's been said now anyway, Obviously, I

754
00:43:00,719 --> 00:43:05,800
like Harrison. I think I think he's probably like I mean,

755
00:43:06,079 --> 00:43:09,480
the my biggest concern really is probably gonna be how

756
00:43:09,519 --> 00:43:12,800
many innings can he throw this year? You know, he

757
00:43:12,960 --> 00:43:15,440
should be able to. I would assume he can go

758
00:43:15,840 --> 00:43:21,000
more or less a full ish season, like maybe one

759
00:43:21,079 --> 00:43:25,280
hundred and forty innings, which is enough. I mean, that's great.

760
00:43:26,079 --> 00:43:28,559
I think if he can go one hundred and forty innings.

761
00:43:29,400 --> 00:43:32,719
I see nothing in his profile, like, you know, he's

762
00:43:32,760 --> 00:43:35,599
not gonna stay necessarily as a one to seventy seven

763
00:43:35,679 --> 00:43:39,119
era pitcher. But I see nothing in his profile telling

764
00:43:39,239 --> 00:43:43,519
me like, right now he looks like, at worst a

765
00:43:43,719 --> 00:43:46,800
two point seventy five e RA a guy, which is like,

766
00:43:47,000 --> 00:43:49,440
I mean, if you're getting that from Kyle Harrison over

767
00:43:49,519 --> 00:43:51,280
the course of one hundred and forty to one hundred

768
00:43:51,280 --> 00:43:53,440
and fifty innings, I mean, you take, you're taking it

769
00:43:53,519 --> 00:43:57,199
all day, and that's basically like, you know, you would

770
00:43:57,280 --> 00:43:59,679
have been over the mood if you got that from

771
00:43:59,760 --> 00:44:03,960
say like Tyler Glass now, I mean like that would

772
00:44:03,960 --> 00:44:06,159
have been like you hit the Glass now lottery if

773
00:44:06,159 --> 00:44:08,320
you've got those, if you got that sort of numbers

774
00:44:08,360 --> 00:44:11,840
from him, So yeah, I think Kyle Harrison is basically

775
00:44:12,760 --> 00:44:15,719
at worse the number two, probably a number one, I

776
00:44:15,760 --> 00:44:18,880
would probably I would. I mean, it would be hard

777
00:44:18,960 --> 00:44:22,039
to rank him outside the top twenty starters if I

778
00:44:22,159 --> 00:44:25,280
were re ranking, And I mean, that's really good. That's

779
00:44:25,639 --> 00:44:30,039
you know that I think is probably even maybe just

780
00:44:30,159 --> 00:44:32,840
because we haven't seen it before, so I'm you know,

781
00:44:33,000 --> 00:44:37,679
I'm giving I'm underestimating a little bit, but if you know,

782
00:44:37,760 --> 00:44:40,639
if he can continue what he's doing, he's closer to

783
00:44:40,719 --> 00:44:44,440
a number ten to twelve starter. But just because we

784
00:44:44,519 --> 00:44:47,159
haven't seen it before, I'd probably rank him around twenty

785
00:44:47,840 --> 00:44:50,559
rest of the season. But still, I mean, excellent numbers.

786
00:44:51,440 --> 00:44:55,000
Max Meyer, I think is you know, I think Max

787
00:44:55,079 --> 00:44:58,760
Meyer is taking the sort of standard path for most

788
00:44:58,960 --> 00:45:02,199
starters where it's like they you know, they show signs

789
00:45:02,239 --> 00:45:04,519
and they don't really break out until the third year.

790
00:45:04,840 --> 00:45:07,559
He looks like he's he looks like he's doing what

791
00:45:07,719 --> 00:45:12,039
he should have been doing. And I I'd say he's

792
00:45:12,079 --> 00:45:14,760
a little bit below Kyle Harrison. For me, I would

793
00:45:14,760 --> 00:45:18,639
say he's probably closer to like maybe a thirty to forty,

794
00:45:18,840 --> 00:45:21,239
a top thirty to top forty guy. But is still

795
00:45:21,320 --> 00:45:23,840
I mean, it's nothing to sneeze that. I mean, Max

796
00:45:23,920 --> 00:45:27,599
Meyer looks good. He looks like a solid number two

797
00:45:29,199 --> 00:45:33,559
maybe three, you know, depending on some a little bit

798
00:45:33,679 --> 00:45:37,280
depending on wins, and uh, you know, his his walks

799
00:45:37,320 --> 00:45:40,039
are a little bit high, I mean, not terrible. I

800
00:45:40,079 --> 00:45:44,119
don't I don't mind them necessarily like I do like him,

801
00:45:44,519 --> 00:45:47,960
but you know, probably closer to a he's at a

802
00:45:48,039 --> 00:45:51,840
one point zero five whip right now, he's probably closer

803
00:45:51,920 --> 00:45:56,719
to like maybe a one twelve. Uh, he's got probably

804
00:45:56,840 --> 00:45:59,159
he's at a two five two yar ra right now.

805
00:45:59,280 --> 00:46:02,840
He's probably close till like a three five to three six.

806
00:46:03,280 --> 00:46:05,800
Not bad numbers, though, I mean, these these aren't bad

807
00:46:05,840 --> 00:46:09,599
at all. So I like Max Meyer a lot. Harrison's

808
00:46:09,599 --> 00:46:11,639
above them, though, Yeah, I think.

809
00:46:11,519 --> 00:46:13,639
Speaker 1: I'm there with you too, and especially those strikeouts, like

810
00:46:13,679 --> 00:46:17,000
the strikeouts for Harrison are otherworldly at this at this

811
00:46:17,119 --> 00:46:20,760
point that you're starting to push number one starter. So yeah,

812
00:46:20,840 --> 00:46:22,880
I think those are great takes. Let's flip to the

813
00:46:22,960 --> 00:46:25,679
cold side here, because I think it is time to

814
00:46:26,000 --> 00:46:28,079
maybe have a little bit of a requiem on two

815
00:46:28,159 --> 00:46:31,079
of these guys that have been hanging out, you know,

816
00:46:31,480 --> 00:46:34,639
maybe not towards the bottom bottom of our player raider,

817
00:46:35,039 --> 00:46:37,679
but certainly not where they should be. I'm glad you're

818
00:46:37,679 --> 00:46:39,280
looking at the year to date player Raider on this.

819
00:46:40,039 --> 00:46:42,559
Let's talk about these two first rounders. First, we have

820
00:46:42,679 --> 00:46:49,079
Gunner Henderson of the Overhols at eighty ninth. Then that's

821
00:46:49,199 --> 00:46:52,280
worth roughly thirteen and a half dollars of value just

822
00:46:52,320 --> 00:46:54,960
because you are still getting those home runs out of

823
00:46:55,400 --> 00:46:58,960
Gunner Henderson. This other guy was a first round pick,

824
00:46:59,119 --> 00:47:01,639
maybe more so around the corner into a second round.

825
00:47:02,000 --> 00:47:04,159
This is especially killing me because I thought I'd made

826
00:47:04,199 --> 00:47:06,840
off like a bandit my TGFBI squad. I had taken

827
00:47:07,159 --> 00:47:09,239
both of these dudes in my first and second picks,

828
00:47:09,280 --> 00:47:12,320
and you can imagine what place or what spot in

829
00:47:12,400 --> 00:47:15,159
the standings that club is taking. But the second guy

830
00:47:15,239 --> 00:47:19,800
is Fernando Tatis Junior, picked up second base eligibility only

831
00:47:20,079 --> 00:47:22,840
has been worth a dollar on our player Raider has

832
00:47:22,920 --> 00:47:27,000
yet to hit a home run, is just barely hanging

833
00:47:27,079 --> 00:47:30,280
on in terms of value. What have you been doing

834
00:47:30,639 --> 00:47:33,519
with Henderson and Tatis and how are you evaluating them

835
00:47:33,559 --> 00:47:34,840
for the rest of twenty twenty six?

836
00:47:35,880 --> 00:47:39,559
Speaker 2: Oh my god, they're awful, you know, I mean, what's that?

837
00:47:39,800 --> 00:47:42,679
Fool me one? Shame on you, fool me twice. Connor

838
00:47:42,719 --> 00:47:45,679
Henderson's gout. This is going on like fool me five times.

839
00:47:45,760 --> 00:47:50,000
Now he's really guy. I mean, he's really sucker me

840
00:47:50,119 --> 00:47:53,960
and Gunner Henderson. It's like I say to Gunner Henderson,

841
00:47:54,320 --> 00:47:57,320
just be normal man. Like last year it was like

842
00:47:57,519 --> 00:48:02,400
no power speed average. This year is like power speed

843
00:48:03,480 --> 00:48:07,599
striking out and what strike out? Nearly twenty eight percent

844
00:48:07,639 --> 00:48:11,280
of the time, Like where did that come from? Gunner

845
00:48:11,360 --> 00:48:17,360
Henderson's has some serious problems to strikeouts, and it's like

846
00:48:18,199 --> 00:48:20,679
understatement of the year at this point, Like I don't

847
00:48:20,760 --> 00:48:25,360
really know that, Like I mean, because strikeouts really do

848
00:48:25,639 --> 00:48:29,719
stabilize as one of the fastest stats in baseball, So

849
00:48:29,840 --> 00:48:34,400
it's really concerning that you have Gunner Henderson who just

850
00:48:34,559 --> 00:48:37,960
like cannot make contact all of a sudden, Like I

851
00:48:38,079 --> 00:48:41,000
don't know, Like I think it was something like today

852
00:48:42,400 --> 00:48:44,920
is like the and it's sort of weird because it's

853
00:48:45,000 --> 00:48:49,960
like a matter of not being he's not being aggressive

854
00:48:50,119 --> 00:48:52,639
enough in some ways, and then in other ways he's

855
00:48:52,679 --> 00:48:55,840
not he's being too aggressive. So it's like he's basically

856
00:48:56,440 --> 00:49:00,159
not he is not recognizing pitches, which I'm I mean,

857
00:49:00,199 --> 00:49:03,639
at his age, he's been in the league enough like

858
00:49:04,000 --> 00:49:07,360
this should not be an issue for him. So the

859
00:49:07,480 --> 00:49:11,039
fact that it is, it's like, it's really kind of concerning,

860
00:49:13,280 --> 00:49:15,559
right I we I mean, I don't know the power

861
00:49:15,679 --> 00:49:23,119
still there. Like his gunner Henderson's homer today Sunday was

862
00:49:23,199 --> 00:49:24,920
the first, it was the it was on the first

863
00:49:25,000 --> 00:49:28,079
pitch of the bat. It was the first time he

864
00:49:28,119 --> 00:49:30,599
has swung at the first pitch of the bat is

865
00:49:30,679 --> 00:49:33,840
since April tenth, and he was the first o oh

866
00:49:34,079 --> 00:49:39,199
kurpall since August fifteenth, twenty twenty four. So that, uh

867
00:49:39,519 --> 00:49:43,199
so that was from you know, someone someone, a reporter

868
00:49:43,599 --> 00:49:44,320
put that out there.

869
00:49:44,440 --> 00:49:47,480
Speaker 1: So I thought you were digging deep through the archives.

870
00:49:49,880 --> 00:49:52,000
Speaker 2: So that, I mean, that's you know, it's a it's

871
00:49:52,039 --> 00:49:54,440
a bit of a lie of sports bureau like okay,

872
00:49:54,519 --> 00:49:57,079
who cares. But it's also it says a lot. It

873
00:49:57,159 --> 00:50:00,159
says a lot about the guys, like he's he's not

874
00:50:00,360 --> 00:50:04,159
selecting pitches, he's not swinging, he's not being aggressive, he's

875
00:50:04,199 --> 00:50:08,760
not knowing what he's swinging at. Like there's something wrong there.

876
00:50:09,000 --> 00:50:11,320
I don't know what's going on. He's actually a strikeout

877
00:50:11,400 --> 00:50:14,360
rate is over twenty eight percent. This is coming from

878
00:50:14,360 --> 00:50:17,639
a guy who last year struggled a lot and still

879
00:50:17,719 --> 00:50:22,360
had a twenty one percent strikeout rate, Like seven percent

880
00:50:22,519 --> 00:50:26,199
on a strikeout rate for a guy who's twenty four

881
00:50:26,280 --> 00:50:29,239
and has been in the league for five years, Like

882
00:50:29,440 --> 00:50:32,800
what is going on? Like, I don't know, man, it's

883
00:50:32,920 --> 00:50:38,480
not good though, Like everything looks exceptionally bizarre when he

884
00:50:38,920 --> 00:50:43,039
like his numbers just under the surface, like first strike,

885
00:50:43,320 --> 00:50:49,079
his first strike percentage is up way up, as his

886
00:50:49,239 --> 00:50:53,119
percentage of pitches he's swung out outside of the strike

887
00:50:53,239 --> 00:50:56,960
zone up from twenty seven percent to thirty five percent.

888
00:50:57,199 --> 00:51:01,719
Like what that's bad? Like that's really bad. So anyway,

889
00:51:02,599 --> 00:51:04,880
I mean the I'm glad the power is still there,

890
00:51:05,039 --> 00:51:10,000
but I you know, I've now I've decided to, uh,

891
00:51:10,599 --> 00:51:14,400
I'm hoping for a two forty five to two fifty

892
00:51:14,480 --> 00:51:18,199
five type year from Gunner. I'm up on the I've

893
00:51:18,239 --> 00:51:19,840
given up on the hope of a two to eighty

894
00:51:20,000 --> 00:51:24,119
plus year, So hopefully he gets up to two fifty five.

895
00:51:24,599 --> 00:51:28,679
But since the power and the speed are there, you know,

896
00:51:29,239 --> 00:51:31,360
I think there's you know, there's a little bit of

897
00:51:31,440 --> 00:51:34,599
hope for value, but you're looking at closer to like

898
00:51:35,000 --> 00:51:41,480
a top forty to fifty player versus a top twelve player.

899
00:51:42,360 --> 00:51:47,679
And then Tatus is just man is depressing. Tatis's numbers

900
00:51:47,719 --> 00:51:50,039
are super depressing as wellful.

901
00:51:51,239 --> 00:51:56,280
Speaker 3: Because like Tatus is actually so Tatus is actually making

902
00:51:56,320 --> 00:52:00,840
a lot of hard contact and he's like he's I mean,

903
00:52:00,960 --> 00:52:04,320
his the ball is just like going straight into the ground,

904
00:52:04,440 --> 00:52:09,000
like he's I think his average his average distance on

905
00:52:09,159 --> 00:52:11,559
a fly ball is like three feet.

906
00:52:12,280 --> 00:52:15,280
Speaker 2: Basically he's just pounding the ball into the ground. Everything.

907
00:52:15,639 --> 00:52:20,440
It's awful. I don't and honestly, like again, like like

908
00:52:20,599 --> 00:52:24,639
his launch angles were never like amazing, but now it's like,

909
00:52:24,840 --> 00:52:27,639
oh my god, man, like what is going on here?

910
00:52:28,400 --> 00:52:29,599
Speaker 1: This is so bad.

911
00:52:31,519 --> 00:52:33,920
Speaker 2: So, I mean, and the fact that you know, he's

912
00:52:33,960 --> 00:52:37,800
still making some contact. It's not like, you know, I mean,

913
00:52:37,920 --> 00:52:40,400
not that hitting two thirty eight is assially the best

914
00:52:40,440 --> 00:52:42,960
thing in the world. Actually he's forty nine as of

915
00:52:43,079 --> 00:52:45,719
right now. But still, I mean it's not obviously it's

916
00:52:45,800 --> 00:52:48,960
not great. But the k raid is you know, Okay,

917
00:52:50,960 --> 00:52:56,000
his walk RDE is fine. So I'm assuming, you know,

918
00:52:56,280 --> 00:52:58,280
if we can get a hot streak out of him.

919
00:52:58,960 --> 00:53:04,840
I mean, I'm I'm now hoping for like fifteen plus homers,

920
00:53:04,920 --> 00:53:06,960
which you know, if you told me I was getting

921
00:53:07,000 --> 00:53:09,840
fifteen plus armers from datis I don't think I would

922
00:53:09,880 --> 00:53:13,599
have draft him in the top seventy five, So I'm

923
00:53:14,400 --> 00:53:18,960
obviously I'm very concerned. But I mean, I I you know,

924
00:53:19,159 --> 00:53:23,480
I said probably like a month ago now to sell

925
00:53:23,599 --> 00:53:28,159
him low, and that was a month ago at this point. Yeah,

926
00:53:28,239 --> 00:53:30,280
I mean, at this point, I don't know, man, I

927
00:53:30,679 --> 00:53:33,360
you know, like it depends on what you can get

928
00:53:33,400 --> 00:53:38,079
in the trade, but I would probably top I would say,

929
00:53:38,320 --> 00:53:41,719
hopefully you can get top fifty value. But I mean,

930
00:53:41,920 --> 00:53:46,440
if I were redrafting right now, I would probably I

931
00:53:46,480 --> 00:53:49,360
don't know, I'd probably take a flyer at like, you know,

932
00:53:49,760 --> 00:53:53,000
between fifty and seventy five overall, and that would be

933
00:53:53,159 --> 00:53:56,239
just like holding my nose hoping he could come out

934
00:53:56,280 --> 00:53:59,000
of it, because nothing in his line is really saying like,

935
00:53:59,119 --> 00:54:00,719
oh yeah, he's gonna definitely get better.

936
00:54:01,480 --> 00:54:04,280
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, I mean it is rough on both ends

937
00:54:04,360 --> 00:54:06,800
for them, so I yeah it And they're kind of

938
00:54:06,840 --> 00:54:10,159
impossible to trade because, as you alluded to, like how

939
00:54:10,199 --> 00:54:12,480
do you find the right value, Like you shelled out

940
00:54:12,559 --> 00:54:15,480
a number one or like a top twenty pick for

941
00:54:15,599 --> 00:54:19,280
both of these guys. So trying to just eat that

942
00:54:19,679 --> 00:54:22,800
this early in the season just hurts so much. Even

943
00:54:22,880 --> 00:54:26,480
though yeah, It'll be fascinating to see where they come

944
00:54:26,559 --> 00:54:29,880
in at the twenty twenty seven draft table as well,

945
00:54:29,920 --> 00:54:33,239
because these du dudes are gonna fall off an absolute cliff,

946
00:54:33,320 --> 00:54:35,639
I think if they're kind of staying on this trajectory

947
00:54:35,800 --> 00:54:38,440
and on top of it, like I kind of expect

948
00:54:38,519 --> 00:54:43,559
them to, because I haven't seen any glimmers of hope

949
00:54:43,599 --> 00:54:45,320
out of either of them. It's it's been a tough,

950
00:54:45,400 --> 00:54:47,280
tough season for both Tatis and Henderson.

951
00:54:48,000 --> 00:54:51,480
Speaker 2: I h yeah, I mean I think it's probably early

952
00:54:51,599 --> 00:54:56,559
still to say, but I would I would guess Tatis

953
00:54:56,639 --> 00:55:01,760
and Henderson, Gunner and Tattis, they're probably I would probably

954
00:55:02,280 --> 00:55:06,159
compt them to where like Jackson Merrill went this year.

955
00:55:07,320 --> 00:55:10,480
I think like around fifty to sixty maybe somewhere in

956
00:55:10,559 --> 00:55:11,039
that range.

957
00:55:11,280 --> 00:55:14,239
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that's fair. Okay, Well, now that we've

958
00:55:14,320 --> 00:55:18,280
depressed everybody greatly enough with Gunner, Anderson and Beranando Tatis

959
00:55:18,679 --> 00:55:21,119
to you want to talk about some late May bullpens,

960
00:55:23,320 --> 00:55:25,960
because we've got some fun ones too. First, we're going

961
00:55:26,039 --> 00:55:29,960
to get into the Washington Nationals bullpen, who they did

962
00:55:30,119 --> 00:55:34,880
return Clayton Beeter this week and he is being entered

963
00:55:34,920 --> 00:55:40,679
into the fray with Gus Varland, Richard Lovelady, Brad Lord,

964
00:55:42,199 --> 00:55:45,159
who knows. Maybe John Wetland is still there he transferred

965
00:55:45,199 --> 00:55:50,639
down from Montreal. It is a rough bullpen there in Washington,

966
00:55:50,719 --> 00:55:53,840
but the team keeps winning. They're around a five hundred team,

967
00:55:54,079 --> 00:55:56,920
they are. It's a great offense. So, like, there are

968
00:55:57,079 --> 00:56:00,199
plenty of save opportunities around. What do you do with

969
00:56:00,320 --> 00:56:03,039
Beater coming back to the National's bullpen coming off of

970
00:56:03,119 --> 00:56:06,480
his injury? Are you investing in him or are you

971
00:56:06,599 --> 00:56:09,880
sticking maybe with Gus Barland, who is technically the leader

972
00:56:09,920 --> 00:56:12,440
in the clubhouse according to roster resource, But the latest

973
00:56:13,039 --> 00:56:16,559
save went to our boy, Dicky Lovelady, who has bounced

974
00:56:16,599 --> 00:56:20,639
around on dfase and waiver wires in real life, not

975
00:56:20,760 --> 00:56:26,440
even on fantasies rosters for years. So it's a tricky

976
00:56:26,480 --> 00:56:29,000
bullpen and we've got to resolve it because unlike you know,

977
00:56:29,119 --> 00:56:31,159
like the Angels bullpen, which I've given up on because

978
00:56:31,159 --> 00:56:33,880
that team's about to win about forty games, we've actually

979
00:56:33,960 --> 00:56:37,159
got real wins and real saves to chase in Washington.

980
00:56:37,960 --> 00:56:42,559
Speaker 2: Yeah, no completely. I think you know, Dick love Lady,

981
00:56:43,559 --> 00:56:46,079
I think his name says it all. It's like you

982
00:56:46,199 --> 00:56:49,480
can't commit there, he's not going to commit. He's a

983
00:56:49,559 --> 00:56:53,000
commit phobe. I would assume from that name, I would

984
00:56:53,079 --> 00:56:58,199
assume that anyone in the if you're chasing national saves,

985
00:56:58,320 --> 00:57:02,760
I would say, go with the guy who's like been

986
00:57:03,440 --> 00:57:06,800
the best as far as the most saves and also

987
00:57:07,679 --> 00:57:10,559
the best era, and that's Varland. I think, you know,

988
00:57:10,800 --> 00:57:14,360
I think he's been decent enough where I don't mind

989
00:57:14,519 --> 00:57:19,679
Varland if you're looking for saves. Beeter. Actually, I in

990
00:57:20,119 --> 00:57:23,679
one twelve team mixed league, Beeter came off of the

991
00:57:23,840 --> 00:57:27,159
AL and I dropped him because I just didn't have

992
00:57:27,320 --> 00:57:30,440
room for him. And I mean, I wouldn't say that

993
00:57:30,559 --> 00:57:34,119
team's doing that great, so I I, you know, if

994
00:57:34,159 --> 00:57:37,119
anyone could have used saves, probably I could have. But

995
00:57:37,280 --> 00:57:39,679
I didn't have room for Beeter coming off of the AL,

996
00:57:39,840 --> 00:57:44,000
and I just don't see it. So I would say Varland,

997
00:57:45,800 --> 00:57:50,079
I don't like love Lady like the problem with the

998
00:57:50,119 --> 00:57:53,719
problem actually with all these guys except for Varland. Farland's

999
00:57:53,880 --> 00:57:57,480
numbers look okay, But Beeter and love Lady like they

1000
00:57:57,599 --> 00:58:00,400
both are like walking in the world like it's like

1001
00:58:00,559 --> 00:58:04,039
their command is such a mess that even though peters

1002
00:58:04,119 --> 00:58:06,960
eer A looks okay, but his walk grade is like

1003
00:58:07,599 --> 00:58:11,440
six point six walk per nine and Love Lady is

1004
00:58:12,079 --> 00:58:16,039
five point six. I honestly, I don't think i'd mess

1005
00:58:16,119 --> 00:58:18,440
with either of them, just because I feel like there

1006
00:58:18,519 --> 00:58:20,639
could be a blow up around the corner at any point,

1007
00:58:21,599 --> 00:58:25,880
and Varland has really been okay. I kind of wish

1008
00:58:27,400 --> 00:58:32,199
I wish uh Drew, But Tara would just commit to

1009
00:58:32,360 --> 00:58:35,280
Varland because I don't see why not. I mean, you know,

1010
00:58:35,440 --> 00:58:38,480
I think he's I think he's their best bet, so

1011
00:58:38,760 --> 00:58:39,519
I would go him.

1012
00:58:40,159 --> 00:58:44,199
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that's where I'm at too, So yeah,

1013
00:58:44,360 --> 00:58:46,920
Varland is still my favorite choice out of that bullpen.

1014
00:58:47,440 --> 00:58:51,000
Let's go to the Sacramento A's bullpen, because this one's

1015
00:58:51,039 --> 00:58:52,880
been getting wild over the kind of the past couple

1016
00:58:52,880 --> 00:58:55,320
of weeks. We've had Jack Perkins, who looked like the

1017
00:58:55,440 --> 00:58:59,280
man to own and roster there for the Athletics, but

1018
00:58:59,400 --> 00:59:01,400
he's really kind of backed up over the past couple

1019
00:59:01,440 --> 00:59:04,079
of weeks and looked really shaky even when he's kind

1020
00:59:04,119 --> 00:59:07,639
of gotten opportunities here and there. So according to Roster Resource,

1021
00:59:07,679 --> 00:59:10,519
we've got a three headed monster here as well, between

1022
00:59:10,719 --> 00:59:14,639
Hogan Harris who picked up a save on Wednesday, Mark

1023
00:59:14,719 --> 00:59:17,400
Later Junior, who picked up a save on Thursday, but

1024
00:59:17,519 --> 00:59:20,880
that was also partly because Hogan Harris had pitched back

1025
00:59:20,880 --> 00:59:23,800
to back games on Tuesday and Wednesday. The winner on

1026
00:59:23,920 --> 00:59:27,519
Thursday was Joel Kuhnel, who has been in and out

1027
00:59:27,559 --> 00:59:30,199
of this kind of like closer situation.

1028
00:59:31,920 --> 00:59:32,199
Speaker 2: He is.

1029
00:59:33,199 --> 00:59:35,760
Speaker 1: It's a have you watched him pitch much? Because it

1030
00:59:36,079 --> 00:59:39,880
is goofy. He is a very low strikeout guy, very

1031
00:59:40,000 --> 00:59:43,639
low velocity junk baller. I love this type of pitcher.

1032
00:59:43,719 --> 00:59:47,719
But in Sacramento, you're asking for trouble. And so I

1033
00:59:47,760 --> 00:59:50,079
think your leaders in the in the clubhouse right now

1034
00:59:50,119 --> 00:59:53,400
are probably Hogan, Harrison, Mark Later Junior. But how are

1035
00:59:53,519 --> 00:59:56,840
you waiting through this messy situation in Sacramento?

1036
00:59:58,000 --> 01:00:00,360
Speaker 2: You know, so Hogan is so it's kind of he goes,

1037
01:00:00,440 --> 01:00:04,400
Hogan Harris is, uh walk per nine is seven point one,

1038
01:00:04,599 --> 01:00:11,039
which is hilariously awful. I mean, Hogan Harris is like

1039
01:00:11,400 --> 01:00:16,760
he's got nineteen walks in twenty four innings, So that's awful.

1040
01:00:17,639 --> 01:00:21,360
And then Mark Lander Junior actually has really good commands

1041
01:00:22,360 --> 01:00:26,599
and solid strikeouts and has a six point two three ERA,

1042
01:00:27,280 --> 01:00:30,079
So what do we do with that? Right? I mean?

1043
01:00:30,440 --> 01:00:33,800
And then like you mentioned, Koonel is like I mean,

1044
01:00:34,280 --> 01:00:39,840
he basically throws the contact like he's a like he's

1045
01:00:39,920 --> 01:00:43,119
like a nineteen thirties pitcher. I mean it's like he's

1046
01:00:43,239 --> 01:00:47,960
got a five point two k per nine and somehow

1047
01:00:48,039 --> 01:00:51,519
a two point one eight e arra. So you know,

1048
01:00:51,760 --> 01:00:54,559
I think I think it's probably a three head monster.

1049
01:00:54,760 --> 01:00:58,079
I mean that doesn't really it's not really super helpful.

1050
01:00:58,239 --> 01:01:02,480
But you know, because as of right now, I would

1051
01:01:02,559 --> 01:01:07,000
say I have Mark le So you know, personally, I

1052
01:01:07,119 --> 01:01:10,280
have Mark Letter Junior, and I have benched him for

1053
01:01:10,400 --> 01:01:13,039
the better part of the season because he just hasn't

1054
01:01:13,079 --> 01:01:16,480
looked good as far as like giving up runs, which

1055
01:01:16,639 --> 01:01:19,679
is like, you know, important part of being a closer.

1056
01:01:20,039 --> 01:01:24,199
And Hogan Harris has been so terrible for like he

1057
01:01:24,280 --> 01:01:26,840
has like a one point sixty seven whip so like

1058
01:01:26,960 --> 01:01:30,639
Hogan Harris's numbers, like his era has been fine, but

1059
01:01:30,760 --> 01:01:33,360
I mean some of these numbers with Hogan Harris have

1060
01:01:33,440 --> 01:01:37,280
been so awful I wouldn't trust them. So that leaves

1061
01:01:37,519 --> 01:01:42,320
Joel Knell, who feels like he could potentially have a

1062
01:01:42,400 --> 01:01:45,320
blow up at some point, but he's been fine and

1063
01:01:45,719 --> 01:01:48,920
if you're just looking for saves, he's got, you know,

1064
01:01:49,199 --> 01:01:53,400
like he's leading I think it's between him and Oh

1065
01:01:53,480 --> 01:01:56,719
actually they all have four saves a piece. That's funny,

1066
01:01:57,039 --> 01:01:59,440
but they all have four saves. But I would say

1067
01:01:59,559 --> 01:02:02,000
Canal well at least, you know, I mean, he's got

1068
01:02:02,039 --> 01:02:05,119
a decent e array and he's not going to kill

1069
01:02:05,159 --> 01:02:07,199
and his whip is one point oh two so he's

1070
01:02:07,239 --> 01:02:10,000
not going to kill you on the ratios, and he's

1071
01:02:10,079 --> 01:02:12,599
got as many saves as the other two guys. So

1072
01:02:12,719 --> 01:02:15,920
I would just go him, you know, if you know,

1073
01:02:16,000 --> 01:02:18,960
push came the shove and I really needed saves. But

1074
01:02:19,880 --> 01:02:22,800
and it's a tough bullpen to really roster anyone.

1075
01:02:23,320 --> 01:02:25,440
Speaker 1: Yeah, And it's also like one of those bullpens where

1076
01:02:25,440 --> 01:02:27,280
you're trying to like look for the next man up.

1077
01:02:27,320 --> 01:02:30,119
I don't know if there is. It's just like decided

1078
01:02:30,480 --> 01:02:33,480
we're gonna not go with any high leverage relievers this

1079
01:02:33,599 --> 01:02:36,239
year in Sacramento. And it might be funny because it

1080
01:02:36,320 --> 01:02:38,519
might cost them because they are in the middle of

1081
01:02:38,559 --> 01:02:42,280
that Ale West Race and without a bullpen, I don't

1082
01:02:42,320 --> 01:02:43,840
see how they get across the finish line.

1083
01:02:44,400 --> 01:02:46,599
Speaker 2: If they, I mean imagine they would have held on

1084
01:02:46,760 --> 01:02:50,800
to Mason Miller like that would be they would honestly,

1085
01:02:51,000 --> 01:02:53,599
they would probably be the favorite for the Al West

1086
01:02:53,760 --> 01:02:54,079
right now.

1087
01:02:54,639 --> 01:02:56,800
Speaker 1: Yeah, and it would just make things easier because I

1088
01:02:56,880 --> 01:02:59,719
think part of like what's happening that bullpen is, you know,

1089
01:03:00,000 --> 01:03:02,480
the roles are uncertain and people don't know what they're

1090
01:03:02,480 --> 01:03:04,719
gonna do on any given day. It just makes it

1091
01:03:04,800 --> 01:03:07,760
more difficult than you can actually imagine, you know, when

1092
01:03:07,760 --> 01:03:09,440
it's your day and day out job to sit in

1093
01:03:09,480 --> 01:03:12,519
a bullpen all day. Okay, well, let's move on to

1094
01:03:12,840 --> 01:03:15,880
the next situation, because in the second half of May

1095
01:03:16,000 --> 01:03:21,079
here the Yankees have discovered that bad David Bednar shit.

1096
01:03:21,159 --> 01:03:25,679
The Bednar exists because it has been very brutal. Four innings,

1097
01:03:26,400 --> 01:03:30,679
six strikeouts, four walks, five earned runs. It's eleven and

1098
01:03:30,800 --> 01:03:34,960
twenty five era, it's a nine walk per nine, a

1099
01:03:35,039 --> 01:03:38,880
thirteen and a half k per nine. It's David Bednar

1100
01:03:39,000 --> 01:03:42,199
having no idea where it's going. So are you worried

1101
01:03:42,239 --> 01:03:46,280
here is this blip for David Bardnar the beginning of

1102
01:03:46,320 --> 01:03:48,480
the end? Or is it just kind of a classic

1103
01:03:48,599 --> 01:03:50,920
David Bednar goes through it every year at some point.

1104
01:03:51,840 --> 01:03:54,679
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I you know, because like I think

1105
01:03:54,840 --> 01:03:58,000
Boone is pretty loyal to these guys, Like for the

1106
01:03:58,119 --> 01:04:01,760
most part, and it's not like he doesn't Fernando Cruz.

1107
01:04:01,800 --> 01:04:05,239
I do like Fernando Cruz, so I could see rostering

1108
01:04:05,280 --> 01:04:10,320
Fernando Cruz just to see if Bennar can't stay in

1109
01:04:10,440 --> 01:04:13,320
the role. But I do think Bennar is gonna get

1110
01:04:13,320 --> 01:04:17,000
a lot of chances to fail, and he could fail.

1111
01:04:17,199 --> 01:04:20,679
I mean we've seen him before, Like he got hit

1112
01:04:20,840 --> 01:04:23,519
so hard in Pittsburgh one year. I think it was

1113
01:04:23,599 --> 01:04:26,239
a twenty twenty four he got you know, he got

1114
01:04:26,280 --> 01:04:31,119
replaced in Pittsburgh. He left went to the Yankees as

1115
01:04:31,320 --> 01:04:33,079
like you know, they were like, you know, we'll go

1116
01:04:33,159 --> 01:04:36,760
with Dennis Santana for you, So you know, I mean

1117
01:04:36,840 --> 01:04:41,400
there is like a chance here Bennar could potentially get replaced.

1118
01:04:42,159 --> 01:04:45,159
It wouldn't it wouldn't shock me. But I do think

1119
01:04:45,760 --> 01:04:49,559
there's They're probably not one hundred percent there yet. So

1120
01:04:50,320 --> 01:04:54,079
I mean, I don't mind the flyer on Fernando Cruz

1121
01:04:54,159 --> 01:04:57,480
because he has been so good, Like his command is

1122
01:04:57,519 --> 01:04:59,920
a little bit wonky, but his k's are really good.

1123
01:05:00,719 --> 01:05:03,320
He's always managed to uh, at least for the last

1124
01:05:03,360 --> 01:05:06,519
two years, he's managed to have like solid ratios. I

1125
01:05:07,440 --> 01:05:11,119
don't mind taking a flyer on cruise and seeing what happens,

1126
01:05:11,440 --> 01:05:15,880
and if Bennar continues to be terrible, then I think

1127
01:05:16,039 --> 01:05:19,599
Cruise is the guy, at least I would assume so,

1128
01:05:19,920 --> 01:05:23,400
because I mean Duval, we know Duval is just like

1129
01:05:23,480 --> 01:05:25,960
a bit of a mess himself. So I mean, I

1130
01:05:26,119 --> 01:05:30,320
know Duval has a closer experience quote unquote, but he

1131
01:05:30,480 --> 01:05:33,679
hasn't He wasn't good in San Francisco to the point

1132
01:05:33,719 --> 01:05:36,719
where they they replaced him because he was such a mess,

1133
01:05:36,760 --> 01:05:38,639
and they you know, they got rid of him. So

1134
01:05:38,960 --> 01:05:43,559
I'd say Cruise is worthy of a flyer to like

1135
01:05:43,800 --> 01:05:48,519
handcuff Bednar. But I'm not willing to say we're at

1136
01:05:48,599 --> 01:05:50,880
the point where Bennar is getting replaced yet, but I

1137
01:05:51,000 --> 01:05:54,800
do think like by the time, by this time next

1138
01:05:54,880 --> 01:05:59,079
week Bennar has three more terrible outings, he could be out.

1139
01:05:59,280 --> 01:06:02,599
I mean, he needs to fix he needs to right

1140
01:06:02,679 --> 01:06:06,480
the ship and quickly, but he will have a chance

1141
01:06:06,519 --> 01:06:06,920
to do that.

1142
01:06:07,800 --> 01:06:10,320
Speaker 1: Yep, yep. I think that's all very fair. All right,

1143
01:06:10,360 --> 01:06:13,559
We've got one more kind of situation in terms of

1144
01:06:13,639 --> 01:06:16,480
saves and closers that got a little bit hairy and

1145
01:06:16,599 --> 01:06:20,639
dicey over the past week. So in Chicago, the White Sox,

1146
01:06:20,800 --> 01:06:22,760
I mean as we speak, they're five hundred. They're right

1147
01:06:22,800 --> 01:06:25,079
in the middle of this wild card, so they're actually

1148
01:06:25,159 --> 01:06:27,679
kind of chasing these wins. I think they're also right

1149
01:06:27,719 --> 01:06:30,000
in the middle of the division that I think they're

1150
01:06:30,000 --> 01:06:31,280
going to try to make a little bit of a

1151
01:06:31,400 --> 01:06:33,760
run for it and see what can happen. And because

1152
01:06:33,800 --> 01:06:36,320
of that, Sir Anthony Dominguez, he hadn't pitched all week

1153
01:06:36,400 --> 01:06:38,880
until today. He got a little bit of just throw

1154
01:06:39,000 --> 01:06:42,039
time against San Francisco as we're speaking on Sunday. But

1155
01:06:42,280 --> 01:06:46,000
it's also been dicey when you've had Sir Anthony Dominguez

1156
01:06:46,039 --> 01:06:48,920
on the on the mound. The walks have been substantial,

1157
01:06:48,960 --> 01:06:52,800
a thirteen point three walk percentage, and the k's are

1158
01:06:52,960 --> 01:06:55,800
down from last year too, So you know, he hasn't

1159
01:06:55,920 --> 01:06:59,480
looked fantastic when he's been out there. He has blown

1160
01:06:59,639 --> 01:07:03,119
three save opportunities, and the latest save in that White

1161
01:07:03,159 --> 01:07:06,800
Sox bullpen went to Grant Taylor, who is I mean,

1162
01:07:07,239 --> 01:07:09,719
on track to almost be like the next Mason Miller.

1163
01:07:09,760 --> 01:07:12,039
He's been a lights out reliever for the White Sox

1164
01:07:12,119 --> 01:07:15,320
this year, kind of has been an opener, has pitched

1165
01:07:15,519 --> 01:07:19,000
in high leverage situations. It's a one seventy eight era

1166
01:07:19,360 --> 01:07:22,079
a one oh four FIP over twenty five and a

1167
01:07:22,159 --> 01:07:27,280
third innings this season. So what's your wererio meter for

1168
01:07:27,719 --> 01:07:31,119
Sir Anthony Dominguez. And I mean Grant Taylor also might

1169
01:07:31,159 --> 01:07:33,559
not be terribly available in deeper leagues because people were

1170
01:07:33,639 --> 01:07:36,559
using him for ratios. But if Grant Taylor isn't available

1171
01:07:36,880 --> 01:07:39,760
is available in any of the leagues that you're looking at,

1172
01:07:39,920 --> 01:07:41,639
are you swooping up to pick him up?

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: No, absolutely, I feel like Grant Taylor could potentially be

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like the pickup of the year when it comes to bullpens.

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I you know, Sir Anthony di Mingaz really hasn't been

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very good for quite a while now, Like there is

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there was a time there where like he's gotten a

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chance as the close games in the past, he had

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so many opportunities to be a closer, like a lot

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01:08:06,320 --> 01:08:09,320
more opportunities to be a closer than like most people

1182
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who stink. I think he's like in Philly, he had

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01:08:13,840 --> 01:08:17,520
opportunity after opportunity, and he just kept lowing the he

1184
01:08:17,760 --> 01:08:20,199
kept losing the job because he just wasn't that good.

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Speaker 1: You know.

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Speaker 2: I think at one point they went to Hector Nirez

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over him. And Hector Neras wasn't good. So yeah, I mean,

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I don't think Dimingez is the answer for the White

1189
01:08:30,800 --> 01:08:34,800
Sox and grand Taylor is so clearly the answer, Like

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01:08:34,960 --> 01:08:39,560
it's like you you really gotta be trying to lose

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01:08:39,680 --> 01:08:43,479
games to go to Dominguez instead of Grand Taylor, because

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01:08:43,600 --> 01:08:46,319
like it's not a matter of like you know, like

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with Bednar and Fernando Cruz, like Bednar can be very good,

1194
01:08:50,840 --> 01:08:53,760
so I can understand why you'd want him to be

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01:08:53,920 --> 01:08:58,600
the closer, but with Dominguez and Taylor, like Taylor is

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01:08:58,720 --> 01:09:01,600
so obviously the guy, like it's head and shoulders, Like

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01:09:01,680 --> 01:09:05,439
there's no reason why you would go to Domingas. Now,

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01:09:05,640 --> 01:09:08,520
you know, clubs do funny things, and I don't know,

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01:09:08,680 --> 01:09:11,600
maybe it's a an arbitration thing. I don't know. I

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01:09:11,600 --> 01:09:15,439
don't know why. For whatever reason they you know, maybe

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01:09:15,479 --> 01:09:17,800
they want Dimngas to be the closer. Maybe they think

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01:09:17,840 --> 01:09:19,000
he can't do anything else.

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01:09:19,199 --> 01:09:20,039
Speaker 1: I don't know, but.

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01:09:20,439 --> 01:09:24,720
Speaker 2: I'll say that, like grand Taylor looks like he could

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01:09:24,800 --> 01:09:28,760
be a top ten closer if he's given the job

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01:09:28,920 --> 01:09:31,520
from this point forward, Like I would put him up

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01:09:31,520 --> 01:09:33,560
there with like some of the best closers in the

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01:09:33,640 --> 01:09:36,159
game if he got the job right now.

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01:09:37,039 --> 01:09:39,680
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it's I think that's very fair. Four

1210
01:09:39,760 --> 01:09:43,239
above average pitches on stuff. Plus it's a nasty, nasty

1211
01:09:43,359 --> 01:09:46,000
repertoire for Grant Taylor. So if he is still hanging

1212
01:09:46,000 --> 01:09:48,199
out in your leagues, I would go pick him up

1213
01:09:48,319 --> 01:09:51,079
for the saves and on top of it, honestly, he

1214
01:09:51,159 --> 01:09:54,039
should be added just for the ratios work that he

1215
01:09:54,079 --> 01:09:56,439
can provide in terms of I would rather be playing

1216
01:09:56,880 --> 01:09:59,640
Grant Taylor every week than some of the number five

1217
01:09:59,680 --> 01:10:02,800
start they are available on your waiver wire. So yeah,

1218
01:10:02,880 --> 01:10:05,159
I think you got two recommendations for Grant Taylor right here.

1219
01:10:05,800 --> 01:10:08,520
All right, we got a few waiver wire ads I

1220
01:10:08,560 --> 01:10:11,399
think to suggest. You want me to start with pitching,

1221
01:10:11,479 --> 01:10:12,439
you want to start with hitting.

1222
01:10:14,319 --> 01:10:17,640
Speaker 2: I'll go through the hitters. Okay, So guys on the

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01:10:18,000 --> 01:10:21,560
seven day player Raider at rasball dot com who are

1224
01:10:21,800 --> 01:10:29,119
under seventy five percent still probably rostered and maybe more

1225
01:10:29,199 --> 01:10:33,000
leagues and deeper leagues. But so here's some hitters who

1226
01:10:33,079 --> 01:10:37,159
have been hot, quote unquote calm and Zarto has been hot.

1227
01:10:37,279 --> 01:10:39,720
Casey Schmidt. I don't know why he's not rostered in

1228
01:10:39,840 --> 01:10:42,000
more legs, and he should be rostered one hundred percent

1229
01:10:42,039 --> 01:10:44,760
of leagues at this point. Casey Schmidt, I'm about to

1230
01:10:44,920 --> 01:10:48,880
drop Vlad Junior for Casey Schmidt, Like, let's go. Casey

1231
01:10:49,000 --> 01:10:52,560
Schmidt has been so good. Ezekiel Durant has been hot

1232
01:10:52,680 --> 01:10:55,399
for a bit now. Josh Bell. You know, when Josh

1233
01:10:55,439 --> 01:10:58,680
Bell gets hot, he stays hot for about a week

1234
01:10:58,880 --> 01:11:01,439
or so and until he's traded to another team, then

1235
01:11:01,479 --> 01:11:05,760
he goes cold for three months. Zach Geloff has been hot.

1236
01:11:05,840 --> 01:11:09,560
Shouldn't be probably unrostered. He should probably be on one

1237
01:11:09,640 --> 01:11:13,159
hundred percent of leagues. Let's see. Jake Bowers is hot.

1238
01:11:13,279 --> 01:11:17,239
Kyle Stowers is finally showing signs. He's actually he's at

1239
01:11:17,319 --> 01:11:21,960
ninety nine percent rostered, so he's not available anywhere. Mike Yastremsky,

1240
01:11:22,560 --> 01:11:28,239
he's been hot. Javier Saya Sanjaya who also he came

1241
01:11:28,319 --> 01:11:30,800
in I think I believe he came in second for

1242
01:11:30,880 --> 01:11:35,199
American Idol. Uh, he's been hot. Miguel Andrew Harr has

1243
01:11:35,279 --> 01:11:39,560
been hot. Alec Baum finally has is showing signs.

1244
01:11:39,760 --> 01:11:39,880
Speaker 4: Uh.

1245
01:11:40,279 --> 01:11:44,800
Speaker 2: Dominic Smith has been hot as getting playing time over

1246
01:11:44,880 --> 01:11:49,279
there in Atlanta Lords Goryo. Actually he just got injured,

1247
01:11:49,359 --> 01:11:53,920
so strike that Blake Dunn has been hot, David Hamilton

1248
01:11:54,319 --> 01:11:59,159
has been hot. Jake McArthur has been hot, and also

1249
01:11:59,560 --> 01:12:03,000
he's gonna have every day playing time and maybe hit

1250
01:12:03,119 --> 01:12:05,640
in like the top three of the lineup because Mickey

1251
01:12:05,680 --> 01:12:08,199
Mooniac's out for a little bit. So he's been hot.

1252
01:12:09,000 --> 01:12:13,520
Jose Fernandez has been hot, and Tristan Peters, altfielder for

1253
01:12:13,600 --> 01:12:16,479
the White Sox, has also been hot. So there's some

1254
01:12:16,640 --> 01:12:17,119
names for you.

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01:12:17,600 --> 01:12:19,840
Speaker 1: I like him. That is a great collection. Lots of

1256
01:12:20,000 --> 01:12:23,279
multiple eligibility guys in there too, so lots of great

1257
01:12:23,319 --> 01:12:26,079
additions there on the pitching site. It's actually kind of

1258
01:12:26,159 --> 01:12:29,039
a fun week in terms of low ownerships and two starters,

1259
01:12:29,119 --> 01:12:32,079
so I think a handful that we've got opportunities that

1260
01:12:32,119 --> 01:12:36,000
should be relatively available Zebbi Matthews at Chicago White Sox

1261
01:12:36,079 --> 01:12:39,640
and at the Pirates where that ownership is probably ticking

1262
01:12:39,720 --> 01:12:43,000
up on Matthews but should still be relatively available. Kumar

1263
01:12:43,159 --> 01:12:47,640
Rocker has two starts at home in Texas, one of

1264
01:12:47,760 --> 01:12:51,479
if not the best pitchers, parks against Houston in Kansas City,

1265
01:12:52,239 --> 01:12:56,000
both not great offenses. We've got Anthony k of the

1266
01:12:56,079 --> 01:12:59,119
Chicago White Sox two home matchups against the Twins and

1267
01:12:59,159 --> 01:13:02,159
the Tigers who have both than scuffling and Anthony Kaye's

1268
01:13:02,159 --> 01:13:04,439
been looking pretty solid. So if you're looking for two

1269
01:13:04,479 --> 01:13:07,399
starters that are available, I'm attacking those three. And then

1270
01:13:07,399 --> 01:13:09,359
if you're just looking for guys that just have one

1271
01:13:09,520 --> 01:13:12,319
start coming up and you just need a stream for

1272
01:13:12,479 --> 01:13:15,960
this upcoming week, I'm looking at Griffin Jacks against Baltimore

1273
01:13:16,119 --> 01:13:19,439
in Baltimore. He's been slowly but surely stretching out for

1274
01:13:19,520 --> 01:13:21,960
the Rays. Should be getting into a position where he

1275
01:13:22,039 --> 01:13:24,279
can go five to six innings and gets you wins.

1276
01:13:24,720 --> 01:13:27,600
And then I'm going with it again. I'm coming back

1277
01:13:27,640 --> 01:13:30,119
to you, David Peterson. I can't quit you. The Rads

1278
01:13:30,119 --> 01:13:33,239
are terrible. David Peterson gets a start against the Reds

1279
01:13:33,319 --> 01:13:35,880
at home this week, so I think those are that's

1280
01:13:35,880 --> 01:13:38,800
a good collection of guys to attack. And with that

1281
01:13:39,520 --> 01:13:43,199
Gray we made it through this Memorial Day pod. Anything

1282
01:13:43,279 --> 01:13:45,479
to send off all the people out there listening to

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01:13:45,920 --> 01:13:49,920
the pod on the wires all across the country, all

1284
01:13:49,920 --> 01:13:55,920
across the land. Now, lads, all right, see everybody and

1285
01:13:56,880 --> 01:13:59,640
have a great rest of your Memorial Day weekend. We

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01:13:59,680 --> 01:14:04,279
will see you next week for some more Rasball Baseball

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