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Speaker 1: This is the in This League Fantasy Podcast network, in

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This League Fantasy Baseball podcast online at in this League

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dot com. Now here's your host, Bogman and the Welsh.

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Speaker 2: What's a Friend as are welcome into the in This

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League Fantasy Baseball podcast with Bogman in the Welsh little

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bit lighter of a Bogman. After multiple years, there's been

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a big change here at ITL Bogman cut his hair.

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You're a bald man. Now you've officially you look like Debro.

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Speaker 3: I do that picture that I took and sent to you. Yeah,

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like right after my haircut, I was like, God, I'm

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like doing the full Debro here.

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Speaker 2: How long had you had the hair? Four years?

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Speaker 3: I was out for four years twenty twenty one when

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we moved here. I think I got one haircut, so

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I I think twenty twenty two was the last time

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I cut my hair, So four years.

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Speaker 2: That's crazy. I told I think he looks phenomenal bald,

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and I think you should make a commitment to being

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bald for a while. But I feel like you're not

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gonna make that commitment. You're gonna do the crazy hair

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thing again.

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Speaker 3: Well listen, it's this sounds so insulting to people that

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are balding. It is hard for me to keep this

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this short right because it'll be grown out in three days.

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You won't be able to see my scalp again. So

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it's hard to keep that like really clean bald look

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all the time.

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Speaker 2: I just have to.

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Speaker 3: It's as much maintenance as having long hair is, so

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at that point I'd rather just have the hair. But

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there's a funny scene in thirty Rock where this bald guy.

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I don't know if you guys know what thirty Rock is,

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but basically it's a behind the scenes of an SNL

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type of show that Tina Fey directed for a while

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on NBC. But Alec Baldwin plays this guy, Jack donneghe

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who's like her boss and he's the CEO, and you know,

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he's kind of he's kind of a prick. But there's

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a guy working on the show that's bald and he

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puts on, uh, you know, a two pay and Alc

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Baldwin's like, Pete, I know you're wearing that as a joke,

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but I really think you should consider it. Okay, you

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are the opposite of Alec Baldwin in that, because every

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single time I shave my head.

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Speaker 2: Welch's like bugman.

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Speaker 3: I know it's a joke, and I know you're bald

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only for a couple of days, but I really think

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you should consider keeping it. You're like, you're like the

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the opposite of Jack Donnegey whenever I shave my head.

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Speaker 2: I just I think you should consider keeping this forever.

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Because I said, I told him he should keep it

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for a year. Just try try a year. You've done.

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I mean, you've cut your hair like four times in

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the last fifteen years because you grow your hair out

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every time. You should just like even at the end,

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you know what, the rest of this year, five and

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six and a half months, go, six and a half months,

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roll the ball. I think you look good. I think

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your people are gonna love you more. It's gonna you're

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gonna be Anna like me more. I think you're gonna

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be a fan favorite on Fantasy Pros. They love the

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bald guys. You and Debro. You have a good beard.

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Like I just think you should do a small commitment

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and then if you don't like it, you don't like

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the work, it goes in and people start, you know,

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making bald comments. Then you go back to growing your

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hair and shoving it in their face and you'll know

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you can do another four years or whatever.

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Speaker 3: I do think it's gonna grow back way more gray

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than it was when I got it, So we'll see.

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That might that might made me consider it. If it's

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all gray coming back, maybe.

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Speaker 2: Everyone just yell at bogs the key ball, but the

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hair is gone. The baseball is back. And if you

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have to stop talking about the cell opportunity of Murakami.

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I Munna Taka Murakami as fifteen homers on this season,

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and he becomes the first MLB player in history to

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hit a homer in the first game of a series

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in eight straight games. I would first say that that

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is a wildly stupid stat. This is all this series

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it is. Oh yeah, sorry, I'm sorry serious, but I'm

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just going to say this. You didn't watch leading off today,

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but Joe did his dumb stat thing, and now it's

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becoming a bit because like when I get these whole like,

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you know, he did one the other day, it was like,

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you know, only two pitchers in the first sixty three

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games and blah blah blah, and it's just like, okay,

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and then he did one today, you know about Waldschmidt whatever.

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I think stats are getting stupid and when you start,

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I mean filtering the stats into weird dumb little things. Sure,

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I poke at it, so this one is kind of dumb.

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Speaker 3: But it's definitely one of those. And I didn't go

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looking for it. I just heard it. On Quick Pitch

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last night, so I put it on the sheet as

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I was watching Quick Pitch.

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Speaker 2: But it's it's just an interesting stat.

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Speaker 3: And it's always interesting when a rookie comes in and

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does something.

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Speaker 2: That no other ballplayer this time. He's been around for aoki.

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I understand that. Okay, first exposure to the big leagues, right.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm not how many thousands of players

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have had an opportunity to do this and none of

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them ever had, right, So sure, it's just it's an

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it's an interesting stat. You would call it a dumb stat,

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Yes it is. It is a dumb stat, but it

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just shows Markami is doing things that just haven't been

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really done before. I mean guys coming in and started hot,

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but this is a this he has started so hot

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with the homers that it's a rare feat.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and this one isn't like one that I would

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really really pick across. It's just kind of funny that

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they're like, all right, you know, he's homered in the

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first game of eight straight series, and you're just like,

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all right. The more important thing is is like Murakami

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has fifteen homers and I kind of wish I had

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just I don't know leaned more into like you would say,

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I was probably one of the better defenders of Murakami

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in the draft season. I wasn't happy you talk to

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Speaker 3: I feel like your your your opinion kind of switched

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on him, and that was that was early in spring training.

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Speaker 2: It's like the first week of spring training. No, you're

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one hundred percent, And that's exactly where I'm getting at.

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I was never like because I was the one that

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definitely was buying into a lot of the off season

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news of like you can't hit high vloh blah blah blah.

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But yeah, Anthony K really kind of changed my mind.

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going on, and then I kind of I held that

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and that might have been stupid to people, because I

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know people get really dumb about you know that I

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would focus on that, but like, you know, my positivity,

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I'm like, hey, listen, I Murakami might be a deal.

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I kind of believe this. Blah blah blah. I wish

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I had leaned into it more because I think it

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would feel better at this point, but I kind of

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ruined it too by being very like, you probably need

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to trade Murakami. The problem is is like I kind

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of still feel that way, but like maybe this is

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just who he consistently will be, because I think the

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argument is we see these fifteen homers and we're just like,

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all right, well, what's going to happen when things get

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really bad? And we might be needing to stare at

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being like maybe this is the bad you know what

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I'm saying, Like he's got a twenty one percent barrel rate, ridiculous,

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almost sixty four percent hard hit rate, ridiculous average xvelocity,

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some of the best in the league. He gets the

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ball in the air, he pulls it, he walks seventeen

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percent of the time. That stuff is sticky. That's crazy.

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The negative though, is he has a sixty six percent

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zone contact rate and a thirty five percent k percentage,

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he's hitting two thirty three with an expected batting average

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of two twenty five. So it's hard to come to

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terms with, like what vert because we don't have enough

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sample size, what version of Murakami is this? Clearly the

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power is through the roof and not sustainable, but are

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things going to get worse? And I think you look

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at the zone contact rate and strikeout rate and you go, boy,

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it might get worse or could the power just not

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be as big? And all of a sudden he hits

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for more contact because he is one of those guys

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that doesn't chase outside the zone. And it's like he

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just needs to improve his own contact. So I know

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I'm saying a lot of things. I just don't know

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who Murakami is going to be. But we have been saying, like,

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you probably need to sell yet all he does is

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hit homers. He's the Chris Carter of home runs here.

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All Chris Carter did was catch touchdowns. All Murrakami does

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is hit homers. So like, I'm at the point where

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I don't even know what you do with Murakami. It

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feels like the safest thing is to sell bogs. But

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like this bad contact version has like the league leading.

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Isn't he leading in the league in homers right now?

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Speaker 3: He's second? Judge and Schwarber have sixteen, So ridiculous. Do

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you know that he has the same amount of runs

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as Kyle Schwarber. He has two fewer hits and he

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has two more rbi and four more walks. Now, Schwarber

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also has more doubles than him seven to one, so

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way more extra bates.

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Speaker 2: It's for Schwarber.

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Speaker 3: He's also hitting five points below Murakami, Like, I feel

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like those guys are similar in value right now. Obviously

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we trust Schwarber more because we've seen do it over

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a full season and all of that, but you might

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have Schwarber in Morikami that might be just what he

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ends up being.

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Speaker 2: So it seems like that right now. I think I

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still think you're right in that.

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Speaker 3: My initial instinct is to sell from the hot start here.

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And the reason you can nine hundred plate appearances, that's

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what they always say. Nine hundred is what we know

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we have, so Markami can still go way up and

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way down.

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Speaker 2: So but the reason you can, the only reason you

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can have this conversation is because the homers are so elite.

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That's it. Yeah, Like if he had nine homers and

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he's hitting two thirty and he has these slumpy things

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that he doesn't have a homer at the start of

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every series, people are the interest is going to be

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so much lower and we're not going to be out

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there for it. But the reason you can do it

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is he is hot as hell in the home run department,

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and that you can play that. But you know, the

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more I've thought about this, here's another thing I'm thinking about.

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So I've mentioned he's seeing over fifty percent fastball percentage.

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The clear thing. He's hitting one sixty three against breaking pitches,

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and he's overperforming against off speed by almost one hundred

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batting average points. So that would be two pitch types

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that would be under two hundred. But so like, let

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me reverse the butt here. What you would look at

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is you would go, Okay, well, pitchers need to like

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pitch him less fastballs and then he's really going to struggle.

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Now's the butt. But he doesn't chase. He doesn't chase

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outside of the zone. He's an in zone guy. So

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it's like you're not getting like he is hitting poorly,

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just might not end up going down because you got

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to throw him in the zone you gotta be, and

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that's where he'll still sixty six percent zone contact rate

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is wildly stupid in the worst way. When you know

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you're getting stuff that's inside the zone, you should be

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a lot better about that. But he is forcing players

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into that that It's like, actually don't know if the

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floor is that much lower than where we're at, So like,

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does that mean there's more ceiling. So I'm starting to

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make this case that, like you can't really buy Murakami

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because I'll bet you Murrakami's cost I'll bet you well,

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maybe not now, but like a week ago, Pete a

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Lonzo when he was struggling, I'll bet you Murakami was

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in that same vein right now. But like, I just

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don't think he can go low enough that there's gonna

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be like a buying opportunity. But you know, maybe maybe

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he's just not a sell. You know, maybe he's going

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to even out a little bit more. We just don't

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know if it's a really cell high opportunity. It's out there,

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But he continues to roll Man, just an interesting conversation

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to have around Murakami. Maybe now that I'm kind of

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like maybe getting away from advocating to sell, now he'll

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really really struggle and suck but like that's that's in

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his game that I mean, it's it is so volatile,

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it is so weird. Maybe it's going to become closer

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to looking like a Schwarber like, but you know, he

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is also the way he attacks the game, he's forcing

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pictures to approach him in a certain way that it's

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like maybe you just really can't have the fastballs go down,

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and that's going to create this floor where he's going

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to just pull the living crap out of balls and

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he you know, he's Adam done. He's like Adam Done

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two point zero.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, Adam Done is probably a pretty accurate description.

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He's gonna walk a lot, he's going to hit a

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lot of homers, and he's going to strike out a ton.

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So I think Adam Done is pretty is a pretty

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good comparison.

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Speaker 2: Kind of cool thing. The new I can't really ever

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keep up with all the cards, but I think it's

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like Top series because Tops has their flagship series. They

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have Series one, the Series two, and then they have

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the Update series and it goes at different points of

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the season. And I guess in Series two there's a

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Murr Commy card there that's just like an old Frank

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Thomas card. It was like this horizontal where Frank Thomas

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is like sitting and they mirrored the picture of like

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Murakami doing the same thing. I kind of love that

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posed for it or did they? Yeah, like murk Commy

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like posed for it, like I like when they do

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stuff like that, like they did with Jackson Holiday with

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the Billy Ripken you know thing like I like that. Yeah,

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they really didn't. One they don't. I think they didn't

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do the you know, well that's what I wanted to see, Okay,

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I get it. No, No, they changed I think to

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fun face. I think, yeah, I think that's what it is.

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Like I like when they do stuff like that. Murrcammi

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uh has one of those so very very fun fact too, Murk.

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I can only get my kid out to like one

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spring training game and Murkammie was like the one kind

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of I guess star now that he got to meet

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and he got the photograph and stuff. Actual we went

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to the White Sox and Murakammi came right over to him.

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That was pretty cool. All right, So Mrkkammy talk in there.

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I'm very curious what you guys think. But I'm just

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starting to get to this space where it's like, you know,

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we're so focused on he's overperforming that maybe this isn't overperformed.

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Maybe the power is overperforming, but maybe like this is

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some of the worst versions and maybe things are gonna,

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you know, start altering in a better spot. I don't

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know a lot of debuts, rookie debuts. You were joking,

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it seemed like as soon as we stopped recording, then

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all of a sudden, big important things happened where it

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was like, hey, Spencer Jones is being called up to

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the majors and our boy Ryan Waldschmidt. So just real

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quick on Spencer Jones. I have said for a long time,

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absolute freak of an athlete. He's six foot seven. He

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can run, he can hit for huge power, but like Murkam,

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that boy can strike out and he has a big

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strikeout problem, but he has endless power in a small environment.

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He's also changed his swing, very weird to people because

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it's got a Otani niss to it.

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Speaker 3: He looks like Otani in the box. Yes, exactly like Otani.

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Speaker 2: I saw someone put out there. They're like this dude

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actually just like looks like Otani his face. But that

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was I say, yeah, I know that's very funny. I

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saw it in a couple different places, so American twin,

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you know, at the end of the day, like I,

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I hope we've set people up with understanding, Like you

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gotta know, Spencer Jones is all it's like Markami, but

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with stolen base potential, but there might be a lot

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less contact potential. Right now, he has a fifty percent

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strikeout rate so far in his like two games or

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whatever that he's played. His bat speed looks elite, his

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hard hit looks elite. Like I do think he could

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be a serviceable player, but he's not there in Points League.

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But Ryan Waldschmid's a crazy one. I think I literally

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said the problem with Walshmitt coming up Bogs was they'd

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have to dfa Alec to Thomas, and it just didn't

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feel like they would ever do that. And then they

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finally did. They literally dfa'd Alec. I got hit up

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by like four different people about it the minute it happened,

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and I think Alex was a little salty. I don't

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know if you saw that stuff Like Hazen Haysen ended

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up saying like they didn't option him, they actually defaid

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him because the words he said was like you won't

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know your worth until we make you available to all

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the teams type of thing, because Alec put on Twitter

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on Instagram like take things personally. Remember that whole Randy

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Rose Arena thing, pointed cal Rawley. He like Instagram that photo,

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and I think he was pissed. And the Diamondbacks were

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kind of alluding to, like, hey, listen, if you are

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this valuable in a major leaguer, then other teams will

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trade for you or claim you. If not, you know,

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we gave you an opportunity, we're going to send you

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down and just got to fix the stuff. Bottom line

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though this is they're committed to Ryan weld Schmith. If

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you dfa Alec Thomas, they're making the commitment to Ryan Waldschmidt.

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You already saw some of the stuff on display. Guy

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can run hit that. I think it was a double,

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Like he's got some real good power potential. There's some

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strikeout in his game as well. But like Ryan Waldschmidt,

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I'm picking up over Spencer Jones. I think I'm picking

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up over eman Travis Bizana, who you know is stealing

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a lot of bases and stuff. But like Ryan Waldschman,

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to me, has like a solid floor to be a

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twenty twenty type guy in the majors. And I think

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some of it is like you're just starting to see

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some of it on display. He's gonna have an adjustment period,

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but like, this is why you wanted to stash him, dude.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, Walschmitt looks like a real bad so

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I'm really really excited to see what he has. I

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don't think anybody that they're going to bring up has

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the defense that Alec Thomas would have had in center.

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But I mean, I think eventually you could stick Corbin

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in center and make him one of the best.

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Speaker 2: Yes, I've always kind of wondered, like, ya, why don't

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you put Corbin in center? Go put Walshmant in right,

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and then when Lawler comes back you could or Lawler

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you could put in right if you want. He had

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a third base arm or shortstop arm, you can put

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him in right, and Walt Walshman can play all the positions.

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But yeah, I don't know why it's always fine.

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Speaker 3: Honestly, I think it's just for less plays so he

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can't get hurt fielding and keep his bat in the lineup.

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I honestly think that that's what it is.

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Speaker 2: I think it's the best case they have put together

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the most athletic version they can and all would be

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fantasy relevant. Lawler was starting to lock in. That's a

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former shortstop, Ryan Waldschmidt. He's solid across the board. He's

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so likable too. You're gonna love Ryan Waldschmidt. I'm I'm

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picking him up in twelve teams and picking him up

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where I can. He's probably already picked up. But if

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he gets dropped because you know there's a strikeout problem,

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he might go through some like little adjustment periods. I

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think once he figures things out, watch the hell out.

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Ryan Waldschmid is going to be the dude. So that's

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a you know, that's that was a really exciting development,

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but also his kind of depleted the market of prospects

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that seem to come up. Robbie Stelling came up, so

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it's like after that, I really don't think there's like

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a huge, huge name. There's the Twins have a couple

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of dudes. Marlins also have a pitcher. But like we're

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in a weird period where I think it's going to

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start taking some double A guys going to triple A

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to replenish, but Ryan Walschmant was the final cog that

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I'm going to be picking up. Speaking of Robbie Snelling,

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Robbie Snelling went five, walked for, gave up three earned runs,

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struck out two, but all of those earned runs came

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in the first inning, which was kind of interesting just

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to monitor. But you know, he was a little bit

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walky there. Do you have any thoughts on Robbie Snelling's debut.

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Speaker 3: I mean not really. I was a This was a

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weird start against Washington. I didn't get to see a

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lot of it. I think he's gonna be fine, but yeah,

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just kind of a weird, rocky start.

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Speaker 2: Really. He went primary curveball, which was kind of interesting

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over the four scene, but you know, forcing fastball. He

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was throwing ninety five thirty percent fifth percentage on the curveball,

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and his change up felt like he threw a slider

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a little bit less. I'll be really interested to see

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what the next few starts are. It's a solid curve ball,

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but I just don't think he was maybe properly. I

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mean also had like a I think Joe Mack might

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have caught him. You've got a weird catching situation going

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on over there too, so there's a lot of adjustments on,

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you know, how he has to throw. I think his

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stuff was on display. I wouldn't be massively discouraged. Probably

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not a ten team guy, which I said before twelve team.

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I'm holding on to Robbie Snelling to see if he

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readjusts couple backs, A couple of pitchers are back, are

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boy Blake Snell three innings, four and runs, had a

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walk at five strikeouts versus the Atlanta Braves. Is there

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any kind of apprehension after the first start? I say no,

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because he always comes out the gates slow. But any

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thoughts on Snell?

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Speaker 3: No, I mean, I don't like the fact that he's

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you know, injured to start the year and this is

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you know, picking up more steam. But he was great

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when he came back last year. I think he's gonna

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be fine. So yeah, no issues with Snell as far

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as I'm concerned. Oh man, I gotta get better. Man.

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Speaker 2: I love that I have, just I think I've single

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handedly ruined him. Maybe it's just you and Joe. I

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can't get we can't do a Blake Snow conversation without

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without Joe or you doing the voice. It's great, it's

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so funny. Do other people do it at all? Do you?

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Is it like Disa Rico or Frank or does anything.

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Speaker 3: I don't know if they're doing like an impress of

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him every single time, but uh, everybody knows if if

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you bring up links now, there's like a sixty percent

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likelihood someone's going to do a voice for him.

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Speaker 2: The hydrated. I know, like Spore won't because spor is

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like friendly with him in their little streamer world and stuff.

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I said that just like it sounded dismissive, but like

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in the streamer world, Paul's got like twenty five thousand

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on like twitch or whatever, So I'm not discounting anything.

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But like he won't, he won't do all of that.

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But I wonder if anybody else does that, That's what

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I would say. Yes, I guarantee you they do. Oh

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my man, like Asa Onsider, we're up, which is good.

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You know those were up a bit. But yeah, I'm

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super encouraged by Slack. Blake SNeW looks very looks very

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hydrated for sure. Carlos Reddon four and one third, three

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hundred runs, five walks, four strikeouts against the Milwaukee Brew

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so the same question. He is back after an extended

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period of time, any apprehension or do you chuck this up?

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Is the full return? But like no, I'm yeah.

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Speaker 3: I mean, look, if if you didn't want to start

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any of these guys, any really any really pitcher in

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their first start back, I'm okay with that. Like, but

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I think for these guys I probably would have just

469
00:22:36,759 --> 00:22:37,440
rolled them.

470
00:22:37,720 --> 00:22:41,680
Speaker 2: So Carls, But is there any apprehension moving forward now?

471
00:22:41,920 --> 00:22:44,160
Speaker 3: Like, not any more than you initially would have had

472
00:22:44,160 --> 00:22:48,039
with Carlos Raddan, Like, I'm I'm never drafting Carlos Radon.

473
00:22:48,119 --> 00:22:51,079
I can't stand that he is always on the injury list, right,

474
00:22:51,359 --> 00:22:53,359
But if you drafted him, you know that about him.

475
00:22:53,400 --> 00:22:58,000
So no, I think that him coming back is great.

476
00:22:58,200 --> 00:23:00,720
I don't have any shares and I wouldn't trade for

477
00:23:00,720 --> 00:23:03,319
any shares of calls are done, So maybe there's apprehension

478
00:23:03,319 --> 00:23:06,119
in that case, But I feel like you know you're

479
00:23:06,160 --> 00:23:07,279
getting with him.

480
00:23:07,599 --> 00:23:09,880
Speaker 4: I think there's a positive, there's positive to be had

481
00:23:10,000 --> 00:23:12,400
that if if you had picked him up, I think

482
00:23:12,400 --> 00:23:15,440
that's a good win, just because his villa was way

483
00:23:15,559 --> 00:23:19,519
up almost two miles prour on his fastball, essentially two

484
00:23:19,559 --> 00:23:20,680
miles per hour in his sinker.

485
00:23:20,839 --> 00:23:24,000
Speaker 2: This is way down too. He walked five Yeah, I

486
00:23:24,079 --> 00:23:25,960
mean I get that, but it's slot. But all the

487
00:23:26,039 --> 00:23:29,079
vilo was up, slider was up. Like if it was down,

488
00:23:29,119 --> 00:23:31,720
that would have been a concern. If it was average,

489
00:23:31,759 --> 00:23:33,440
you'd have been like, okay, fine, but it was like

490
00:23:33,480 --> 00:23:36,519
you had aggressive velo up. But yeah, the walks in

491
00:23:36,599 --> 00:23:39,000
the first start were bad. I'm just encouraged by it.

492
00:23:39,359 --> 00:23:42,359
I'm encouraged because he's been a not in. I mean,

493
00:23:42,400 --> 00:23:46,480
he's walked like nine percent before. But if he's like

494
00:23:46,559 --> 00:23:49,119
eight to nine percent with that strikeout rate, like I

495
00:23:49,119 --> 00:23:51,559
think things are going to roll very positively. So I'm

496
00:23:52,039 --> 00:23:53,960
I feel good regardless of the first start, and I

497
00:23:54,000 --> 00:23:55,480
agree with you. I probably wouldn't have been able to

498
00:23:55,480 --> 00:23:58,640
help myself with Snell. I would not have started Redonna

499
00:23:58,720 --> 00:24:01,720
his first But then maybe.

500
00:24:01,880 --> 00:24:05,440
Speaker 3: I mean, who has more experience Welsh then coming off

501
00:24:05,480 --> 00:24:09,880
the IL and starting a game than cols.

502
00:24:09,079 --> 00:24:15,480
Speaker 2: Well, Blake Snell. It's the favorite thing, that's true, more

503
00:24:15,559 --> 00:24:18,960
returned starts off the IL than streams. He had probably

504
00:24:18,960 --> 00:24:22,319
in twenty twenty five. So I would argue that also

505
00:24:22,480 --> 00:24:25,319
Nick Lodolo first start back five and one third five

506
00:24:25,359 --> 00:24:28,319
and runs four. I'm sorry five, hits four and runs

507
00:24:28,480 --> 00:24:33,759
one walk, two strikeouts again. Anything with Lodolo any extra.

508
00:24:33,640 --> 00:24:39,559
Speaker 3: Yeah, always Lodolo is always hurt. So yes, I will

509
00:24:39,559 --> 00:24:42,920
not roster Lodolo. I'm not trading for him. And if

510
00:24:42,960 --> 00:24:45,319
he has three great starts in a row, I'm looking

511
00:24:45,319 --> 00:24:47,920
to move him because the dude lives on the inter list,

512
00:24:48,000 --> 00:24:51,920
so that one. Yes, if Lodolo comes back and looks great,

513
00:24:52,000 --> 00:24:53,640
try to move him as soon as you can because

514
00:24:53,640 --> 00:24:54,559
he's probably gonna.

515
00:24:54,319 --> 00:24:56,559
Speaker 2: Get hurt again. Yeah, I actually think it's so sick

516
00:24:56,559 --> 00:24:59,200
of dealing with Lodolo. I kind of think I'm with

517
00:24:59,279 --> 00:25:01,599
you on that. Like I of his stuff was up

518
00:25:01,880 --> 00:25:04,119
so in the same kind of Dawn camp, but like

519
00:25:04,200 --> 00:25:07,079
he's a perpetual injury. You know, he's the new blister. God,

520
00:25:07,680 --> 00:25:11,279
something happened. Yeah, there's always, there's always something. It feels

521
00:25:11,279 --> 00:25:13,200
like I'm actually shocked that he pitched twenty eight games

522
00:25:13,279 --> 00:25:16,160
last year. That actually like does not register to me

523
00:25:16,759 --> 00:25:19,400
that he did that. But he's never pitched more than that.

524
00:25:19,759 --> 00:25:22,200
But prior to that, it's been nineteen seven, twenty one,

525
00:25:22,319 --> 00:25:24,799
twenty eight and he's got one so far this.

526
00:25:24,799 --> 00:25:27,000
Speaker 3: Show, And I guarantee you if you go back and look, dude,

527
00:25:27,079 --> 00:25:29,880
it's all like, you know, is he gonna make his

528
00:25:30,079 --> 00:25:30,680
next start?

529
00:25:30,720 --> 00:25:32,920
Speaker 2: Are we sure? There's a lot of that with him?

530
00:25:33,119 --> 00:25:38,079
So I just I've had enough in a really positive market.

531
00:25:38,160 --> 00:25:43,319
Here Spencer Strider six innings, one hit, eight strikeouts against

532
00:25:43,720 --> 00:25:47,839
the Doyers. I will admit I was like, I have

533
00:25:47,880 --> 00:25:50,000
no interest in even though I'm a big Strider guy,

534
00:25:50,960 --> 00:25:54,240
I was a I'm not interested in doing this Strider

535
00:25:54,319 --> 00:25:57,240
thing because the you know, the Velo had been down

536
00:25:57,440 --> 00:26:02,000
and it looks inconsistent and bought a bottom. But he's

537
00:26:02,079 --> 00:26:07,200
got a sub three ERA currently his fastball. It's the

538
00:26:07,519 --> 00:26:09,240
narrative I was going with before it was after the

539
00:26:09,279 --> 00:26:12,160
first start, is he had a declining fastball Velo every

540
00:26:12,200 --> 00:26:15,119
single year of his career. Right now he is stabilized.

541
00:26:15,279 --> 00:26:18,000
His slider is up over last year, which is a

542
00:26:18,000 --> 00:26:21,559
big positive. His fastball is literally on target right now.

543
00:26:21,960 --> 00:26:24,440
It's getting banged around, but the slider is not. And

544
00:26:24,480 --> 00:26:26,400
that's a big key because he was a three pitch

545
00:26:26,440 --> 00:26:28,759
pitcher or two pitch pitcher before. He's now a three

546
00:26:28,759 --> 00:26:31,519
pitch pitcher. With the curveball and the slider both have

547
00:26:31,519 --> 00:26:35,119
a zero batting average against. Both have absolutely bonkers with

548
00:26:35,319 --> 00:26:38,400
rates right now, and he's setting it up with the fastball,

549
00:26:38,680 --> 00:26:41,559
which has an under ninety mile prior exvelocity, so he's

550
00:26:41,559 --> 00:26:45,079
inducing weaker contact with the fastball and the secondaries are

551
00:26:45,079 --> 00:26:48,000
getting it done. I think it's a pretty great story.

552
00:26:48,039 --> 00:26:50,839
Thirty five percent k percentage. His walks look stupid, but

553
00:26:50,960 --> 00:26:53,880
that's from the very early start. It's like, I will

554
00:26:54,160 --> 00:26:56,599
hat tip to like Spencer Streider or someone you want

555
00:26:56,640 --> 00:26:57,759
to I don't know if I want to trade for

556
00:26:57,960 --> 00:27:00,920
necessarily because of the name value, but like things are

557
00:27:00,920 --> 00:27:03,559
trending in like a really good direction. Yeah.

558
00:27:03,640 --> 00:27:07,039
Speaker 3: I would say I'm probably most on the fence about

559
00:27:07,079 --> 00:27:10,920
Spencer Strider because after that first start in Colorado, like

560
00:27:10,960 --> 00:27:12,759
the Villo was down and everything, and I was kind

561
00:27:12,759 --> 00:27:14,519
of like, well, let's not worry about the Villa in

562
00:27:14,599 --> 00:27:17,559
his first start back, and it's in Colorado, right, so

563
00:27:17,720 --> 00:27:20,519
I was kind of unbothered by the Vilo dip, and

564
00:27:20,519 --> 00:27:22,119
then the Villo came back here and you look good

565
00:27:22,119 --> 00:27:24,599
against the Dodgers. I think I'm kind of on the

566
00:27:24,640 --> 00:27:27,079
other end as well, like I'm not one hundred percent

567
00:27:27,079 --> 00:27:29,000
completely sold that he's all the way back and he's

568
00:27:29,000 --> 00:27:33,119
great now. So I think I'm kind of lukewarm on Strider.

569
00:27:33,880 --> 00:27:36,759
I think for the most part, if you ask me

570
00:27:36,799 --> 00:27:39,359
one way or the other, I'm trading him away instead

571
00:27:39,400 --> 00:27:43,480
of acquiring him because of this recent injury history and

572
00:27:43,519 --> 00:27:45,599
the Velo dips and all those things.

573
00:27:45,880 --> 00:27:49,200
Speaker 2: Can I ask you who'd rather sure? Who would you

574
00:27:49,400 --> 00:27:52,240
rather be invested in the rest of season, Spencer Strider

575
00:27:52,359 --> 00:27:57,240
or Shane McClanahan. McClanahan has also turned things around. I'll

576
00:27:57,240 --> 00:27:59,599
give you the numbers real quick, since I rolled that

577
00:27:59,640 --> 00:28:02,759
at you. He's got a two six ERA, a one

578
00:28:02,799 --> 00:28:06,920
point zero seven whip. His fastball, though, is still down

579
00:28:06,960 --> 00:28:08,720
a year over year by about a mile and a

580
00:28:08,759 --> 00:28:12,079
half and it but it's doing similar characteristics as Striders.

581
00:28:12,440 --> 00:28:15,960
It's around ninety five. It's got the highest batting average against,

582
00:28:16,160 --> 00:28:20,200
but it's weaker contact, and he's doing business with his changeup.

583
00:28:20,240 --> 00:28:23,559
In his slider. He's got sub two hundred batting averages

584
00:28:23,599 --> 00:28:26,599
against really solid whiff Numbers's kind of got wiff numbers

585
00:28:26,599 --> 00:28:29,079
all across the board. He's kind of settled in a

586
00:28:29,119 --> 00:28:31,839
little bit. Twenty four percent k percentage, nine point nine

587
00:28:31,839 --> 00:28:36,160
percent walk rate. He does have a full expected ERA higher,

588
00:28:36,279 --> 00:28:39,000
so two point six ERA three point five to five expected,

589
00:28:39,039 --> 00:28:42,039
but that's still solid. You get to pick one McClanahan

590
00:28:42,200 --> 00:28:43,480
or Strider rest of season.

591
00:28:44,000 --> 00:28:47,400
Speaker 3: I would probably just say McClanahan right now because I

592
00:28:47,440 --> 00:28:49,960
know he's healthier, so or I know he like he

593
00:28:50,039 --> 00:28:52,440
looks healthier right now, I would say. I would say,

594
00:28:52,440 --> 00:28:54,799
I'd say they're both in the same bucket, right they

595
00:28:54,799 --> 00:28:59,200
both have crazy upside and a crazy low floor. I

596
00:28:59,319 --> 00:29:02,039
just mcclann hand has how many starts this year? Four

597
00:29:02,119 --> 00:29:02,640
or five?

598
00:29:03,400 --> 00:29:04,160
Speaker 2: Seven? Okay?

599
00:29:04,319 --> 00:29:06,000
Speaker 3: So yeah, I would go with the guy that has

600
00:29:06,039 --> 00:29:09,400
more starts this year and looks like more consistent. I

601
00:29:09,440 --> 00:29:11,920
still think there's ups and downs for Strider.

602
00:29:11,960 --> 00:29:14,759
Speaker 2: Three straight starts of giving up nowhere and runs. McClanahan

603
00:29:14,839 --> 00:29:18,400
has two, and I mean he's taking advantage of like

604
00:29:18,519 --> 00:29:21,079
he's had the twins. The Giants and the Blue Jays

605
00:29:21,119 --> 00:29:23,599
have been struggling, but still it's not nothing. Are you

606
00:29:23,680 --> 00:29:26,240
still selling both of them over buying either one of them?

607
00:29:26,319 --> 00:29:26,440
Speaker 1: Though?

608
00:29:26,480 --> 00:29:30,720
Speaker 2: Because I think that's where I'm still at a good question.

609
00:29:33,519 --> 00:29:36,279
I don't know, man, I feel like I feel like

610
00:29:36,400 --> 00:29:40,160
McClanahan has negative juju still on him. I think I

611
00:29:40,319 --> 00:29:44,400
might buy McClanahan right now, because there's still Velo dip,

612
00:29:44,440 --> 00:29:46,720
there's still lack of trust even though he's out there.

613
00:29:47,119 --> 00:29:49,720
To me, the problem with Strider is he's and I

614
00:29:49,720 --> 00:29:51,519
could be wrong about this, I feel like he just

615
00:29:51,599 --> 00:29:53,640
clicks back into his old value, you know what I'm saying,

616
00:29:53,640 --> 00:29:56,079
Like as soon as it's like something really good and

617
00:29:56,119 --> 00:29:58,920
it's just like, Okay, no, we're back to Spencer. Strider

618
00:29:58,960 --> 00:30:02,039
top fifteen sp he was ranked really high preseason. I

619
00:30:02,039 --> 00:30:04,440
feel like I'm still just some negative stuff with McClanahan

620
00:30:04,519 --> 00:30:05,480
that maybe from.

621
00:30:05,279 --> 00:30:07,359
Speaker 3: A costs is always going to be a better buy though,

622
00:30:07,440 --> 00:30:10,839
right like unless it's like, you know, Strider has TJ

623
00:30:10,960 --> 00:30:14,680
again or something. Right, So like I think that McClanahan

624
00:30:14,759 --> 00:30:16,680
is always going to be cheaper, but I still think

625
00:30:16,680 --> 00:30:17,920
I must sell on both of them.

626
00:30:19,200 --> 00:30:21,240
Speaker 2: I'm open to selling them both, but I think I'm

627
00:30:21,319 --> 00:30:24,079
open to buying it. Might be open to buying on both,

628
00:30:24,079 --> 00:30:26,440
but maybe more particularly Shane McClanahan, but also like I

629
00:30:26,519 --> 00:30:29,200
was a Shane McClanahan defender, so that's probably like a

630
00:30:29,240 --> 00:30:32,559
little bit more prevalent here. Also in the world, Ryan

631
00:30:32,599 --> 00:30:36,440
Walker experiment officially done and Eric Miller, I believe is

632
00:30:36,480 --> 00:30:38,880
coming back because I think a lot of people were

633
00:30:38,960 --> 00:30:42,480
got him just completely blanked on who was the person

634
00:30:42,480 --> 00:30:46,400
that everybody jumped on when Eric Miller was look at

635
00:30:46,400 --> 00:30:50,119
the Giants depth chart because I don't remember. Eric Miller

636
00:30:50,160 --> 00:30:53,759
is looking to come back and he might be the guy.

637
00:30:54,039 --> 00:30:55,599
But do you know what I'm talking about here? I'm

638
00:30:55,640 --> 00:30:59,839
trying to are you win Keaton win? Was it Keaton

639
00:31:00,599 --> 00:31:01,480
or Caleb Killian?

640
00:31:02,119 --> 00:31:02,200
Speaker 1: No?

641
00:31:02,319 --> 00:31:05,559
Speaker 2: It was Killian, That's it. So Caleb Killian is listed

642
00:31:05,559 --> 00:31:08,960
as the current starter with Eric Miller out, but I

643
00:31:09,039 --> 00:31:11,440
think Miller's about to come back and I kind of

644
00:31:11,440 --> 00:31:13,960
feel like he might go back into that role. So

645
00:31:14,759 --> 00:31:16,440
the bottom the most important thing is is like you

646
00:31:16,480 --> 00:31:18,839
gotta be doing Ryan Walker if you weren't already. So

647
00:31:19,039 --> 00:31:22,119
who would you go with? Are you going with Miller

648
00:31:22,200 --> 00:31:23,960
or do you go with Killian? Because Killian is currently

649
00:31:24,000 --> 00:31:26,519
active in going No, I think I'd go with Miller.

650
00:31:26,599 --> 00:31:30,720
Speaker 3: Miller had a couple saves, you know, before going out,

651
00:31:30,960 --> 00:31:32,799
and he kind of seemed like their guy.

652
00:31:33,279 --> 00:31:34,960
Speaker 2: His era is still in the threes.

653
00:31:35,160 --> 00:31:37,279
Speaker 3: But I do think it's going to be an ugly

654
00:31:37,400 --> 00:31:40,319
mix until they go ahead and trade for somebody, right,

655
00:31:40,640 --> 00:31:41,440
and that is if they do.

656
00:31:41,519 --> 00:31:43,119
Speaker 2: They're not going to trade it. No, they're trading away.

657
00:31:43,160 --> 00:31:45,799
They just traded Patrick Bailey away. The Giants are in

658
00:31:45,920 --> 00:31:49,599
sellout mode. There's a reporter that so good best he's

659
00:31:49,720 --> 00:31:52,759
the best best defensive player in baseball over the last

660
00:31:52,799 --> 00:31:56,079
two years. He's the best defensive catcher by rating out there.

661
00:31:57,119 --> 00:32:00,200
They get some good for him. They got they they

662
00:32:00,240 --> 00:32:03,640
traded for the twenty ninth overall pick in the draft.

663
00:32:03,880 --> 00:32:07,480
It's a compensatory pick, which was essentially three million dollars

664
00:32:07,559 --> 00:32:09,559
in the pool. And the rumor if they can trade

665
00:32:09,559 --> 00:32:12,960
for picks now, well only only compensatory, not actually right,

666
00:32:13,119 --> 00:32:15,160
but the rumor is that they're going to try to

667
00:32:15,920 --> 00:32:19,680
convince Rock Chelaski to have a bonus pool that no

668
00:32:19,680 --> 00:32:21,640
one else will want to pay, so he falls to four.

669
00:32:21,799 --> 00:32:24,559
I don't think that's going to happen. But they invested

670
00:32:24,640 --> 00:32:26,359
in there. But the point of this is is they

671
00:32:26,400 --> 00:32:29,000
are they're selling team. The report out there is they

672
00:32:29,000 --> 00:32:30,799
want to get rid of Devers's contract, they want to

673
00:32:30,799 --> 00:32:33,000
get rid of Lee. I think the Giants have made

674
00:32:33,000 --> 00:32:35,640
the commitment that they fed up. They're going to go younger,

675
00:32:35,680 --> 00:32:37,400
and they're going to try to start selling off pieces.

676
00:32:37,400 --> 00:32:39,440
So they're not trading for anybody.

677
00:32:39,000 --> 00:32:41,160
Speaker 3: Then it's going to be a big, ugly mix, and

678
00:32:41,640 --> 00:32:43,400
if I have to pick one, it's going to be

679
00:32:43,440 --> 00:32:44,000
miller for me.

680
00:32:44,400 --> 00:32:47,559
Speaker 2: I agree, all right. Injured Cole Reagan's placed on the

681
00:32:47,559 --> 00:32:50,599
io with left elbow impingement, So that gives the answer.

682
00:32:50,640 --> 00:32:52,519
We were kind of speculating he's not going to two

683
00:32:52,559 --> 00:32:55,000
start next week. Be sure not. He's going on the

684
00:32:55,039 --> 00:32:57,559
il Logan Webb speaking of giants on the io with

685
00:32:57,599 --> 00:33:00,200
a knee Brews so just big old giant elf me

686
00:33:00,279 --> 00:33:02,799
on wanting to draft him everywhere that I did. Jacob

687
00:33:02,839 --> 00:33:06,480
Wilson diagnosed with the left shoulder sprain. MRI is happening today.

688
00:33:07,599 --> 00:33:09,519
It's gonna be great. He hasn't been awesome this season.

689
00:33:09,519 --> 00:33:11,480
He got his average backup, but the counting stats are

690
00:33:11,480 --> 00:33:12,279
still pretty like.

691
00:33:12,720 --> 00:33:15,319
Speaker 3: It feels like this is happening right when he's starting

692
00:33:15,359 --> 00:33:18,720
to click back, So that sucks. I don't know, and

693
00:33:18,839 --> 00:33:21,519
I mean I know you aren't bigger on Will's leg.

694
00:33:21,960 --> 00:33:25,079
I have a couple of shares of him. They clearly

695
00:33:25,119 --> 00:33:25,799
have not worked.

696
00:33:26,000 --> 00:33:27,559
Speaker 2: It's just like what he looks like. He's gonna be

697
00:33:27,599 --> 00:33:29,680
like a fifteen to ten guy with a two ninety

698
00:33:29,720 --> 00:33:33,839
average and maybe some like he's okay, he's fine. Wilskatres

699
00:33:33,920 --> 00:33:35,839
was hit by a pitch on the hand, so extrays

700
00:33:35,880 --> 00:33:38,160
were negative, so that's good. Taj Bradley was placed on

701
00:33:38,200 --> 00:33:42,839
the aisle with right heck inflammation. That thinks because.

702
00:33:42,640 --> 00:33:45,400
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I don't know, like the corner, it seems

703
00:33:45,480 --> 00:33:48,240
like it and how long is peck inflammation gonna keep

704
00:33:48,240 --> 00:33:49,640
you out? I feel like we don't have a lot

705
00:33:49,640 --> 00:33:51,519
of you know, good data on.

706
00:33:51,440 --> 00:33:53,839
Speaker 2: That, so now I don't it's not gonna be good.

707
00:33:54,319 --> 00:33:56,559
Speaker 3: Yeah, I know, it seems like it's not good. So

708
00:33:57,039 --> 00:33:59,920
hopefully he's back soon. And this is minor, but we

709
00:34:00,039 --> 00:34:00,880
really have no idea.

710
00:34:01,640 --> 00:34:04,039
Speaker 2: Adasa Barjara this weird like range of motion issue in

711
00:34:04,079 --> 00:34:06,400
his elbow after he woke up on Sunday. Maybe slept

712
00:34:06,400 --> 00:34:08,480
on it wrong, So I guess watch that. Kerry Carpenter

713
00:34:08,639 --> 00:34:10,639
placed on the aisle with an acy joint spring in.

714
00:34:10,800 --> 00:34:13,119
Jake Mangam, who I just saw the other day, was

715
00:34:13,159 --> 00:34:16,880
placed on the IL, and Nick York was recalled guys

716
00:34:16,880 --> 00:34:19,719
coming back. Mookie Betts could be back today, so that's

717
00:34:19,760 --> 00:34:20,320
a good sign.

718
00:34:20,440 --> 00:34:22,559
Speaker 3: I think he is going to be back today. I

719
00:34:22,559 --> 00:34:25,039
don't know that we've heard any official announcement, but it

720
00:34:25,079 --> 00:34:28,119
really seems like he's going to be back today. Like

721
00:34:28,199 --> 00:34:30,039
e Resource was saying, yes.

722
00:34:29,960 --> 00:34:31,679
Speaker 2: I think everyone's like, oh is it this? Is that?

723
00:34:31,719 --> 00:34:35,719
Like Mookie's not been trending in like an elite direction anymore.

724
00:34:36,679 --> 00:34:39,000
I think I'll be I'm not training for him. If

725
00:34:39,039 --> 00:34:41,039
he gets hot, I probably am looking to trade him away,

726
00:34:41,360 --> 00:34:43,320
to be honest with you. But if anything, the most

727
00:34:43,360 --> 00:34:45,000
important thing is if you owned him, you're finally going

728
00:34:45,079 --> 00:34:48,440
to get that production. Ronald Kunya did agility drills in

729
00:34:48,480 --> 00:34:53,039
the outfield this weekend, so that's a positive. They're they're

730
00:34:53,119 --> 00:34:55,000
kind of down playing if he's going to come back

731
00:34:55,000 --> 00:34:58,039
when he's eligible on Wednesday, but for seople, he could

732
00:34:58,079 --> 00:34:59,079
be back this week.

733
00:34:59,119 --> 00:35:02,000
Speaker 3: Hopefully in a week yeah, I would say in seven

734
00:35:02,119 --> 00:35:05,760
days probably the most if all that goes well. But

735
00:35:07,119 --> 00:35:09,920
you know, no rehab assignment needed for a hamstring injury

736
00:35:09,920 --> 00:35:11,599
from Ronald. Can't you just get him right back in

737
00:35:11,599 --> 00:35:12,320
the lineup please?

738
00:35:12,880 --> 00:35:14,639
Speaker 2: Hunter Brown, through a VP on Friday, is going to

739
00:35:14,639 --> 00:35:16,840
begin a rehabit signment soon, so that's a big positive.

740
00:35:16,880 --> 00:35:19,199
Garrett Cole was able to make his most recent rehab

741
00:35:19,280 --> 00:35:22,280
start after it was pushed back. He had a really

742
00:35:22,320 --> 00:35:24,639
good out and he went five. They said they wanted, like,

743
00:35:24,679 --> 00:35:27,039
I think two more starts. Kind of wonder if they

744
00:35:27,119 --> 00:35:29,239
might alter and just say after this last start they

745
00:35:29,239 --> 00:35:31,599
feel really good. If not one more, so, worst case,

746
00:35:31,639 --> 00:35:34,519
he's back next week. Jeremy Paine is expected to start

747
00:35:34,519 --> 00:35:37,400
a rehab assignment on Tuesday or Wednesday. We've been without him,

748
00:35:37,440 --> 00:35:40,079
so that's huge. I would expect that's going to be

749
00:35:40,079 --> 00:35:42,360
three or four games. Tyler Glass now is placed on

750
00:35:42,360 --> 00:35:46,960
the eye with back spasms. He's just a disaster all

751
00:35:47,000 --> 00:35:50,320
the time. It's a good season, but disaster. Trevor Rodgers

752
00:35:50,360 --> 00:35:52,239
throw a simulated bullpen on Saturday. He's been on the

753
00:35:52,280 --> 00:35:55,199
aisle since April twenty ninth with a flu, with a

754
00:35:55,239 --> 00:35:57,480
bad flu. Bog mean, I know you don't like. What

755
00:35:57,559 --> 00:35:59,119
kind of flu is it? Aunt Hunt.

756
00:36:01,239 --> 00:36:04,760
Speaker 3: Was he on any cruise ships's? Oh, he he's on

757
00:36:04,800 --> 00:36:06,920
a cruise ship. Well, let's get him back in society.

758
00:36:07,000 --> 00:36:08,960
Then let's get him off that cruise ship. Let's definitely

759
00:36:08,960 --> 00:36:11,760
not blow it up. Get him around a bunch of

760
00:36:11,760 --> 00:36:13,880
people and a big crowd of people. Let's do that.

761
00:36:13,880 --> 00:36:17,679
Speaker 2: That's right. Shane Bieber is gonna face Live Hitters on Tuesday.

762
00:36:18,280 --> 00:36:20,599
They say he's still pacing to come back some point

763
00:36:20,639 --> 00:36:22,679
in June. I gotta be answer you that he's not

764
00:36:22,800 --> 00:36:26,119
someone I'm looking to pick up and stash. If you've

765
00:36:26,119 --> 00:36:27,599
got like a bunch of e L spots and you're

766
00:36:27,599 --> 00:36:29,280
not using any of them and you wanted to do that,

767
00:36:29,320 --> 00:36:31,639
I guess that's fine. But like he's not in active

768
00:36:31,639 --> 00:36:33,599
where someone's like, hey, would you cut blah blah blah,

769
00:36:33,599 --> 00:36:37,199
Like no, I wouldn't. I'm really not. So that's me. Yeah,

770
00:36:37,280 --> 00:36:37,519
I do.

771
00:36:37,719 --> 00:36:39,480
Speaker 3: I do like the fact that some of these guys

772
00:36:39,480 --> 00:36:43,440
are starting to break you, Like Tyler Glass now, You're liked,

773
00:36:43,440 --> 00:36:45,400
you're like me with Tyler Glass now at this point,

774
00:36:45,480 --> 00:36:48,400
because it's just so he's just always on the injuryless

775
00:36:48,440 --> 00:36:50,519
he lives there. So I do like the fact that

776
00:36:50,559 --> 00:36:54,280
you are getting kind of uh, you know, primogeny and

777
00:36:54,280 --> 00:36:56,360
and being an old man about these injuries like I

778
00:36:56,440 --> 00:36:58,840
have been, so that is at least enjoyed.

779
00:36:59,000 --> 00:37:00,639
Speaker 2: I'm trying. I am trying to a little bit where

780
00:37:00,679 --> 00:37:02,840
guys are they are kind of starting to be like

781
00:37:02,960 --> 00:37:05,840
off of my list where I'm because I've always there's

782
00:37:05,840 --> 00:37:08,000
always like a point where it's like well, you know,

783
00:37:08,239 --> 00:37:10,519
at this cost blah blah blah. There are guys that

784
00:37:10,559 --> 00:37:12,679
are I'm starting to be done with. I'm definitely like

785
00:37:12,760 --> 00:37:15,559
if you are currently injured, my interest level is like

786
00:37:15,719 --> 00:37:18,639
very low, Like especially in the seas. I'm just not

787
00:37:18,880 --> 00:37:21,480
messing around with any of those guys. Where we Brendan

788
00:37:21,519 --> 00:37:24,599
Donovan's going to be activated on Friday, Kyle Teal is

789
00:37:24,599 --> 00:37:27,679
going to beginning a rehab assignment this week. Bryce Miller

790
00:37:27,920 --> 00:37:30,280
is activated, and apparently the manager as saying he's going

791
00:37:30,320 --> 00:37:32,199
to be part of a six man rotation at first,

792
00:37:32,599 --> 00:37:35,519
and then they're potentially looking at piggybacking Luis Castillo and him.

793
00:37:35,559 --> 00:37:39,519
That's a really interesting development where like I kind of

794
00:37:39,559 --> 00:37:42,159
don't know, like are they going to start it with Mill?

795
00:37:42,320 --> 00:37:44,079
Like how are they going to work that is Miller.

796
00:37:43,960 --> 00:37:47,320
Speaker 3: Steel, Miller will come back in that's what they want

797
00:37:47,360 --> 00:37:50,679
to do the opposite. I find it's so weird that

798
00:37:50,840 --> 00:37:53,840
they just told us all of this, like, yep, he's

799
00:37:53,880 --> 00:37:56,079
going to be a six man rotation because we're not

800
00:37:56,239 --> 00:37:58,239
off until like the fourteenth or something. They don't have

801
00:37:58,239 --> 00:38:00,599
a day off for a long time, so they don't

802
00:38:00,639 --> 00:38:02,119
have a day off a long time, so going to

803
00:38:02,199 --> 00:38:04,920
six man when he initially gets back, and then they

804
00:38:04,960 --> 00:38:07,519
told us just yep, and after that we're piggybacking him off.

805
00:38:07,559 --> 00:38:09,679
Speaker 2: Luis Castillo starts. I think we're just going to see

806
00:38:09,679 --> 00:38:10,280
what that looks like.

807
00:38:10,360 --> 00:38:12,280
Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, I think it's also weird that they

808
00:38:12,360 --> 00:38:14,920
laid all of that out because anything can change.

809
00:38:14,639 --> 00:38:17,239
Speaker 2: But no, I think that's fine because I think that

810
00:38:17,400 --> 00:38:20,079
gives a public per I think it's great. It's just rare.

811
00:38:20,639 --> 00:38:22,800
It's just very dicey with Luis Castillo right now, Like

812
00:38:22,840 --> 00:38:25,400
you do know, he is like he's been terrible. He

813
00:38:25,559 --> 00:38:29,039
is like a bad next start and a bad piggyback

814
00:38:29,079 --> 00:38:32,119
away from being dfa'ed, you know, or full on putting

815
00:38:32,159 --> 00:38:34,440
the bullpen or being tree like there's something that's going

816
00:38:34,519 --> 00:38:37,920
to happen. I'm just not sure he's a guy. And

817
00:38:37,960 --> 00:38:39,599
I know you have the control of him and stuff.

818
00:38:39,679 --> 00:38:41,039
I'm not sure he's a guy you can just throw

819
00:38:41,039 --> 00:38:42,880
in the bullpen like I think he might be a guy.

820
00:38:42,920 --> 00:38:44,440
You got to get off the roster if you're going

821
00:38:44,480 --> 00:38:46,719
to do that and that, and that's really tough. So

822
00:38:46,960 --> 00:38:49,360
things are looking down for Bryce Miller, good for or

823
00:38:49,400 --> 00:38:51,599
down for Luis Castillo, up for Bryce Miller. That's so

824
00:38:51,719 --> 00:38:54,320
Yami is rejoining the rotation on Tuesday. Box you want

825
00:38:54,360 --> 00:38:57,760
to go see him on Tuesday. Note Washington stay home

826
00:38:58,119 --> 00:39:00,559
and then Chris Martin threw VP on Saturday. Should be

827
00:39:00,599 --> 00:39:02,639
having a rehab assignment soon. So a bunch of injury

828
00:39:02,679 --> 00:39:04,519
stuff out there. Let's take a break when we come back.

829
00:39:05,039 --> 00:39:07,559
Let's look at who's been hot the last seven days,

830
00:39:07,880 --> 00:39:09,440
talking about some of the leaders. We've got a couple

831
00:39:09,400 --> 00:39:11,679
of slump players in there, and then we'll do as

832
00:39:11,679 --> 00:39:13,920
well with some pitchers and we will do it all

833
00:39:14,000 --> 00:39:17,679
right here after this on itl But wait, let let

834
00:39:17,760 --> 00:39:18,840
me explain something to you.

835
00:39:19,119 --> 00:39:22,960
Speaker 1: I am not in this league. You're in this league.

836
00:39:23,199 --> 00:39:31,719
Speaker 2: I'm the dude. You are one pathetic loser. The hotness

837
00:39:31,719 --> 00:39:34,280
over the last seven days from a batting average perspective,

838
00:39:34,320 --> 00:39:37,800
how about Brandon marsh five nineteen average, Riley Green is

839
00:39:37,840 --> 00:39:40,440
number two, four seventy six, Josh Naylor's been up there

840
00:39:40,760 --> 00:39:42,960
four point fifty eight, Harper's hitting over four hundred, and

841
00:39:42,960 --> 00:39:46,480
Andy pa has hitting over four hundred as well. Bugs

842
00:39:46,519 --> 00:39:49,039
Brandon Marsh are we are we in on Brandon Marsh

843
00:39:49,119 --> 00:39:49,440
right now?

844
00:39:49,639 --> 00:39:51,360
Speaker 3: I mean, I had no idea that Brandon Marsh was

845
00:39:51,360 --> 00:39:53,119
having such a good year. I don't have him anywhere,

846
00:39:53,119 --> 00:39:55,840
but he is hitting three fifty three right now with

847
00:39:56,000 --> 00:39:59,400
twenty two runs and four homers, three sole bases, twenty

848
00:39:59,400 --> 00:40:02,280
one RBI. I do, I do think this is a

849
00:40:02,400 --> 00:40:06,480
nice surge. Like I said, I think he's sixtieth right now.

850
00:40:06,519 --> 00:40:10,000
I'll just double check after we got updated.

851
00:40:09,599 --> 00:40:10,840
Speaker 2: Numbers for Brandon Marsh.

852
00:40:10,880 --> 00:40:14,880
Speaker 3: He's currently forty eighth, by the way, after that good

853
00:40:14,920 --> 00:40:18,239
game last night too, So forty eighth right now. That's

854
00:40:18,280 --> 00:40:21,519
a top four round player in a twelve man league. Obviously,

855
00:40:21,559 --> 00:40:24,639
I don't think he's gonna perform like this for the

856
00:40:24,679 --> 00:40:26,360
rest of the season. There is gonna be a slump

857
00:40:26,400 --> 00:40:29,559
in here. But right right while he's hot, he's been great.

858
00:40:29,920 --> 00:40:34,239
Speaker 2: I will say, though, he looks like maybe he's changing

859
00:40:34,280 --> 00:40:38,159
as a batter because his barrel. So it's similar to

860
00:40:38,280 --> 00:40:39,800
like what, let me see if the bat speed has

861
00:40:39,800 --> 00:40:41,840
gone down too, because this will be interesting if that's

862
00:40:41,840 --> 00:40:45,400
the case a little bit, so, you know, like the

863
00:40:45,519 --> 00:40:48,679
Luisa Riise type of guys of the world where you

864
00:40:48,719 --> 00:40:51,320
know they don't barrel a lot. Oh I didn't look,

865
00:40:51,400 --> 00:40:54,039
did his swing get longer at all? Usually those guys

866
00:40:54,159 --> 00:40:56,000
kind of starting that process where they like the swing

867
00:40:56,079 --> 00:40:58,760
is gonna get a little bit longer. You're stopping the

868
00:40:58,800 --> 00:41:01,559
process of trying to barrow and blah blah blah, and

869
00:41:01,639 --> 00:41:03,880
you're just making contact. His barrel rate's gone down, and

870
00:41:03,920 --> 00:41:05,639
the reason I'm saying this, the bear rate's gone down,

871
00:41:05,679 --> 00:41:08,159
and his strike uts have gone down dramatically under twenty

872
00:41:08,199 --> 00:41:11,159
percent k percentage, dramatically lower than he's ever done in

873
00:41:11,199 --> 00:41:14,239
his career. He's making more contact in the zone. His

874
00:41:14,360 --> 00:41:18,039
expected batting average is three h five, so it supports

875
00:41:18,039 --> 00:41:21,239
where he's at. But he is still actually hitting the

876
00:41:21,239 --> 00:41:24,119
ball hard. But he's not pulling it, he's not barreling it,

877
00:41:24,239 --> 00:41:27,719
and he's not striking out, and he's actually underperforming against

878
00:41:27,760 --> 00:41:30,159
off speed pitches. He's hitting two seventy three. He should

879
00:41:30,199 --> 00:41:33,239
be better than three twenty seven. He's not gonna be

880
00:41:33,239 --> 00:41:37,480
a three fifty hitter, but like, could he be if

881
00:41:38,519 --> 00:41:41,960
two eighty fifteen fifteen, Maybe one of those goes in

882
00:41:42,000 --> 00:41:44,920
the opposite direction. I kind of think his savant page

883
00:41:44,960 --> 00:41:47,480
looks good. There's a lot of quality a hit. He's

884
00:41:47,480 --> 00:41:50,199
not whiffing. He does chase a lot, so that'll be

885
00:41:50,239 --> 00:41:53,159
interesting to see like if the chase turns into a

886
00:41:53,239 --> 00:41:56,480
lot worse strikeouts. So I'm not going nuts, but he

887
00:41:56,559 --> 00:41:58,599
shouldn't be out. I don't know what his percentage owned

888
00:41:58,679 --> 00:42:00,480
or anything like that, looks like he just shouldn't be

889
00:42:00,480 --> 00:42:03,400
available out there. I'm very intrigued by Brandon.

890
00:42:03,159 --> 00:42:07,440
Speaker 3: Thirty seven percent still only he's a top fifty player

891
00:42:07,639 --> 00:42:09,639
right now. I don't know, dude, he definitely needs to

892
00:42:09,639 --> 00:42:13,519
be rostered more. But I question this for the long

893
00:42:13,639 --> 00:42:18,679
term for a couple of reasons, Like I just he's

894
00:42:18,679 --> 00:42:21,920
never he's never hit above what is his all time

895
00:42:21,920 --> 00:42:24,400
out to eighty right in his career average is to

896
00:42:24,559 --> 00:42:27,079
sixty seven. He is I mean, look, maybe he made

897
00:42:27,119 --> 00:42:30,079
adjustments and this is just improving this year, but he's

898
00:42:30,119 --> 00:42:33,280
also you know, his best year was sixteen homers, nineteen

899
00:42:33,400 --> 00:42:37,039
stolen bases in twenty four. Last year was eleven and seven.

900
00:42:37,719 --> 00:42:40,440
UH like projections would have him sitting somewhere in the

901
00:42:40,559 --> 00:42:44,400
fifteen sixteen homers and around ten solemn bases and hitting

902
00:42:45,199 --> 00:42:46,679
they got him for the rest of year, hitting like

903
00:42:46,719 --> 00:42:49,840
two sixty five to sixty two. Two seventy seven is

904
00:42:49,880 --> 00:42:54,000
the highest on UH these projection sites. So I think

905
00:42:54,000 --> 00:42:55,639
he's gonna come back down to earth. But does that

906
00:42:55,679 --> 00:42:57,519
mean he's not a good player. No, I mean he's

907
00:42:57,559 --> 00:43:01,239
a obviously hitting very well right now. We can't say

908
00:43:01,280 --> 00:43:05,159
that nothing has improved. He's swinging more, right, which I thought,

909
00:43:05,199 --> 00:43:07,480
looking at his strikeout rate going down and his walk

910
00:43:07,559 --> 00:43:09,880
rate going down, that he was swinging less. But he's

911
00:43:09,880 --> 00:43:13,280
actually swinging way more and making more contact on outside

912
00:43:13,280 --> 00:43:13,960
balls too.

913
00:43:14,119 --> 00:43:16,559
Speaker 2: And the thing with that too, because I'm trying to

914
00:43:16,599 --> 00:43:19,639
look and see this swing longer. Well that's what I

915
00:43:19,679 --> 00:43:23,000
was getting up. Oh okay, not well, because I thought,

916
00:43:23,000 --> 00:43:26,000
like if it got dramatically slower and longer and he's

917
00:43:26,079 --> 00:43:28,400
keeping in the zone and making that type of contact.

918
00:43:28,559 --> 00:43:30,519
But the weird thing is he's still he's hitting them

919
00:43:30,519 --> 00:43:33,360
all harder than he's done before. He has lowered his

920
00:43:33,360 --> 00:43:37,360
his bat speed versus twenty twenty three and twenty four

921
00:43:37,920 --> 00:43:40,840
is almost down a full mile per hour. But like

922
00:43:40,960 --> 00:43:43,239
there's not a lot of other significant stuff like his

923
00:43:43,360 --> 00:43:46,679
ideal attack angle. The angle it's a little bit high.

924
00:43:46,679 --> 00:43:49,559
Like it looks like he's he's just found like a

925
00:43:49,639 --> 00:43:53,400
softer spot in where he's attacking and he's not chasing,

926
00:43:53,440 --> 00:43:54,440
and he's making more.

927
00:43:54,280 --> 00:43:57,079
Speaker 3: Com he's going after more balls is honestly what it

928
00:43:57,159 --> 00:43:59,400
is because his swing percentage this year is fifty point

929
00:43:59,440 --> 00:43:59,960
nine percent.

930
00:44:01,320 --> 00:44:03,880
Speaker 2: His highest getting striking out less, which I know.

931
00:44:03,880 --> 00:44:06,360
Speaker 3: It's weird, is forty seven point six percent, But his

932
00:44:06,480 --> 00:44:09,920
zone swing percentage is exactly the same at sixty five

933
00:44:09,960 --> 00:44:13,320
point eight percent. Now that has gone up about two

934
00:44:13,360 --> 00:44:16,239
percent eighty nine point eight last year ninety one point seven,

935
00:44:16,360 --> 00:44:19,679
but its outside contact. He's swinging more eight percent more

936
00:44:19,960 --> 00:44:21,880
twenty eight point seven last year to thirty six point

937
00:44:21,960 --> 00:44:25,440
nine this year. But his outside contact has also gone

938
00:44:25,519 --> 00:44:28,920
up over ten percent. So that's why it's like from

939
00:44:28,960 --> 00:44:30,760
fifty three point three, it's why he's not walking.

940
00:44:30,840 --> 00:44:35,119
Speaker 2: He's chasing those pitches, but the quality of contact has

941
00:44:35,119 --> 00:44:39,199
become better. He's actually seeing like almost seven percent less fastballs,

942
00:44:39,639 --> 00:44:41,679
and he's seeing a lot more breaking pitches and he's

943
00:44:41,760 --> 00:44:44,599
hurting those, but he's hitting four to forty nine against fastball,

944
00:44:44,679 --> 00:44:48,239
So it's like he's doing such damage against fastballs, he's

945
00:44:48,280 --> 00:44:51,719
pushing counts into like these breaking pitches that he's still

946
00:44:51,719 --> 00:44:54,400
doing damage. It's just a really interesting profile that it's like,

947
00:44:55,039 --> 00:44:56,719
maybe we could try to decipher all of it as

948
00:44:56,800 --> 00:44:58,360
much as possible for the end of the day, Like

949
00:44:58,880 --> 00:45:02,280
he's just making a a lot better decisions and the

950
00:45:02,400 --> 00:45:05,119
quality of contact is showing in it, you know, like that,

951
00:45:05,239 --> 00:45:06,920
Like he's twenty eight years old, it feels like Brandon

952
00:45:06,920 --> 00:45:09,400
marsh is thirty four, feels like he's Jason Worth. He's

953
00:45:09,400 --> 00:45:11,400
been in the league for twenty years.

954
00:45:11,559 --> 00:45:14,360
Speaker 3: Think we've all just replaced Charlie Blackman in our mind

955
00:45:14,440 --> 00:45:16,000
with Brandon Marshall.

956
00:45:16,039 --> 00:45:18,039
Speaker 2: But it's like this is the prime twenty eight is

957
00:45:18,119 --> 00:45:20,760
kind of like that. It's been a quintessential like twenty

958
00:45:20,800 --> 00:45:22,960
eight to thirty or twenty seven to twenty nine, like

959
00:45:23,000 --> 00:45:25,639
those are prime years, and like a lot of this

960
00:45:25,719 --> 00:45:27,559
looks really good. He might fall off the planet, but

961
00:45:27,559 --> 00:45:29,760
I'm picking him up. I think he is super interesting.

962
00:45:31,320 --> 00:45:33,320
We can talk about another guy that was in the

963
00:45:33,400 --> 00:45:36,760
batting average department, because he's kind of everywhere. Homer's last week,

964
00:45:37,039 --> 00:45:40,039
Kyle Schwarber led with five with four, we had Harper,

965
00:45:40,119 --> 00:45:42,239
and then we had Andy pa Andy Paias also had

966
00:45:42,280 --> 00:45:44,800
a four hundred average. He was also near the tippy

967
00:45:44,840 --> 00:45:48,159
top of leaders. When we talk about RBI, I've kind

968
00:45:48,159 --> 00:45:49,840
of thought Andy pa Has is a guy that is

969
00:45:49,880 --> 00:45:52,159
going to come back down to Earth. It's just not

970
00:45:52,199 --> 00:45:54,599
happening though. Still he's hitting three thirty three, nine homer,

971
00:45:54,679 --> 00:45:58,199
six dolen bases. Hard hit rate is top six percentile

972
00:45:58,199 --> 00:46:01,679
of the league, fifty three point four. That's crazy. His

973
00:46:01,800 --> 00:46:04,760
expected batting average is three zero two, so it's also supportive.

974
00:46:04,760 --> 00:46:07,960
His strikeouts are down, his walks are up, kind of

975
00:46:08,000 --> 00:46:10,519
like Marsh he's not quite barreling as much, but he's

976
00:46:10,559 --> 00:46:13,039
getting the ball in the air. He's actually pulling the

977
00:46:13,079 --> 00:46:15,960
ball less, which is finding like a lot of weird success.

978
00:46:16,039 --> 00:46:18,599
This is another one of those guys where there's some

979
00:46:18,639 --> 00:46:21,760
stuff that just seem seems like a little bit odd,

980
00:46:22,440 --> 00:46:25,119
but it's a quality, like he's just a beast. What

981
00:46:25,199 --> 00:46:26,960
is he ranked in Yahoo right now? He's got to

982
00:46:26,960 --> 00:46:29,800
be like top fourth towards Oh jesus, I say top thirty,

983
00:46:29,840 --> 00:46:35,000
but that's that is top thirty six today. Now, okay,

984
00:46:35,800 --> 00:46:38,519
everything looks really good. He's still been really pull heavy.

985
00:46:38,599 --> 00:46:41,719
That works. It looks really beneficial for like the Dodgers,

986
00:46:41,719 --> 00:46:44,320
because you can really pull the ball at home for

987
00:46:44,400 --> 00:46:47,000
right handed hitters. But he's got more homers on the

988
00:46:47,079 --> 00:46:48,920
road right now than at home, and he's hitting three

989
00:46:49,000 --> 00:46:51,280
hundred both on the road and home, like he is

990
00:46:52,519 --> 00:46:55,400
he's the trippiest guy. He looks just so damn. Maybe

991
00:46:55,400 --> 00:46:58,880
just the word is consistent. He is uber consistent right now.

992
00:46:59,119 --> 00:47:01,679
There is no current falloff and there's really nothing that

993
00:47:01,840 --> 00:47:05,280
supports any massive falloffs. So he just might be one

994
00:47:05,280 --> 00:47:08,199
of the best honestly investment this year.

995
00:47:08,639 --> 00:47:12,920
Speaker 3: It's recently it's been the opposite, because he's hit seven, eight,

996
00:47:13,239 --> 00:47:16,760
six for most of the season, and then over the

997
00:47:16,840 --> 00:47:21,320
last couple games, specifically this series against the Dodgers, he

998
00:47:21,400 --> 00:47:26,440
hit fourth, than fifth, then third for the Dodgers on Friday,

999
00:47:26,440 --> 00:47:29,960
Saturday Sunday, and before that he had had one where

1000
00:47:30,000 --> 00:47:33,679
he hit third against Miami on April twenty ninth, a

1001
00:47:33,719 --> 00:47:36,760
couple five's in there, one of the thirty against the

1002
00:47:36,880 --> 00:47:40,000
Rockies on the eighteenth of April. So they will put

1003
00:47:40,039 --> 00:47:43,559
him up at third occasionally, but fifth and fourth as well.

1004
00:47:43,719 --> 00:47:48,000
So not only is he getting better and not slumping,

1005
00:47:48,079 --> 00:47:50,719
but he's moving higher in this Dodgers lineup two, which

1006
00:47:50,760 --> 00:47:52,800
is exactly I mean, that's why I had Kyle Tucker

1007
00:47:53,159 --> 00:47:55,199
so high in my rankings. It's because he's going to

1008
00:47:55,320 --> 00:47:58,000
hit fourth for the Dodgers. Well, Poz is doing it

1009
00:47:58,079 --> 00:47:58,440
right now.

1010
00:47:58,679 --> 00:48:01,000
Speaker 2: Well, I'm intually when Mookie comes back though, what that does?

1011
00:48:01,039 --> 00:48:04,119
But like, also, you hit over three hundred, team's gonna

1012
00:48:04,159 --> 00:48:06,159
have to pay attention to us. Yeah, they have to.

1013
00:48:06,280 --> 00:48:08,639
Even in Dodgers, who'd you ray to have rest of season?

1014
00:48:09,000 --> 00:48:12,119
Andy pa has from Mookie Betts, pohz not close? Andy

1015
00:48:12,159 --> 00:48:13,360
pais or Freddy Freeman.

1016
00:48:14,920 --> 00:48:18,079
Speaker 3: Freeman did hit another homer yesterday finally, but I'm still

1017
00:48:18,079 --> 00:48:18,880
going pa haass.

1018
00:48:19,039 --> 00:48:22,599
Speaker 2: All right, here's the really good one. Pot has Kyle Tucker.

1019
00:48:24,079 --> 00:48:26,440
Speaker 3: I'm still saying Tucker there, but it's not by a lot.

1020
00:48:27,000 --> 00:48:28,360
I mean, pot Tucker hitting.

1021
00:48:28,639 --> 00:48:32,119
Speaker 2: Eight has less homers, less stolen bases, three forty three, Obie,

1022
00:48:32,199 --> 00:48:35,079
I mean, I don't know, man, Kyle Tucker's like a

1023
00:48:35,119 --> 00:48:38,159
superha take pass over Kyle Tucker. I legit might take

1024
00:48:38,159 --> 00:48:39,280
potus over Kyle Tucker.

1025
00:48:39,760 --> 00:48:43,159
Speaker 3: I mean, Kyle Tucker is just like a fastball only guy.

1026
00:48:43,280 --> 00:48:43,920
Speaker 2: Right, So.

1027
00:48:45,679 --> 00:48:47,920
Speaker 3: I understand that I don't think I'm there yet with

1028
00:48:47,960 --> 00:48:51,800
Piaz after you know, like, what is this h seven

1029
00:48:51,840 --> 00:48:54,679
good weeks or six good weeks? But uh, I'm it's

1030
00:48:54,719 --> 00:48:57,239
not far. I'll say that he has been incredible.

1031
00:48:57,599 --> 00:48:59,880
Speaker 2: Yeah, just Tucker's profile has been I mean, we know

1032
00:49:00,679 --> 00:49:04,800
what Tucker can like explode into and stuff like that,

1033
00:49:04,480 --> 00:49:06,519
so that it is not sustainable either.

1034
00:49:06,599 --> 00:49:08,960
Speaker 3: For Piez at three seventy four, like there there are

1035
00:49:09,079 --> 00:49:11,639
signs that regression will come, but I mean how much

1036
00:49:12,559 --> 00:49:14,559
it doesn't knock him down in the lineup again, I

1037
00:49:14,559 --> 00:49:15,320
don't know if it will.

1038
00:49:15,599 --> 00:49:18,079
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I'm not sure it looks too dramatically lower

1039
00:49:18,079 --> 00:49:20,800
than Kyle Tucker. But you could argue this version of

1040
00:49:20,880 --> 00:49:22,920
Kyle Tucker is kind of like the worst we've seen

1041
00:49:22,920 --> 00:49:24,440
in a bit where we're seeing the best of Andy

1042
00:49:24,440 --> 00:49:27,159
pay has and when it flips like it's it's a

1043
00:49:27,159 --> 00:49:29,480
good reminder of like, you know, Kyle Tucker is a

1044
00:49:29,519 --> 00:49:31,840
twenty five to twenty five guy. It's just we're in

1045
00:49:31,840 --> 00:49:33,880
a space now where I'm not sure that Andy Pius

1046
00:49:33,960 --> 00:49:36,960
is not a thirty fifteen guy or a thirty twenty guy.

1047
00:49:37,000 --> 00:49:39,440
He's got nine homer six stolen bases right now in

1048
00:49:39,519 --> 00:49:42,559
six weeks, Like, he doesn't hit twenty five homers, it's

1049
00:49:42,559 --> 00:49:44,360
going to be a surprise. He doesn't hit for a

1050
00:49:44,400 --> 00:49:46,079
high batting average, it's going to be a surprise. And

1051
00:49:46,159 --> 00:49:48,719
if he's stealing a little bit more like I don't know,

1052
00:49:48,920 --> 00:49:51,400
you know, if Kyle Tucker, if if any Pius is

1053
00:49:51,519 --> 00:49:55,800
too seventy with thirty homers and fifteen stolen bases. How

1054
00:49:55,840 --> 00:49:57,480
different is that going to be from a Kyle Tucker

1055
00:49:57,480 --> 00:50:00,000
that hits to sixty and his twenty five to twenty

1056
00:50:00,719 --> 00:50:03,119
and there might be more running RBIs from Andy pa Haus.

1057
00:50:03,159 --> 00:50:05,639
So like very interesting thing to follow like the rest

1058
00:50:05,639 --> 00:50:05,840
of them.

1059
00:50:05,880 --> 00:50:08,039
Speaker 3: And this has really been since the second half last

1060
00:50:08,079 --> 00:50:11,519
year for Tucker, right like the first half which Chicago

1061
00:50:11,559 --> 00:50:13,679
he hit to eighty, second half he at two thirty one.

1062
00:50:14,000 --> 00:50:15,599
Speaker 2: He went from.

1063
00:50:15,159 --> 00:50:18,440
Speaker 3: Seventeen homers in the first half to five in the

1064
00:50:18,480 --> 00:50:21,039
second half, and you know, in less than half the

1065
00:50:21,119 --> 00:50:26,239
games in the second half too. But it's been it's

1066
00:50:26,280 --> 00:50:29,360
been like six months for Kyle Tucker struggling.

1067
00:50:29,480 --> 00:50:32,039
Speaker 2: So it's not a nothing thing here over in the

1068
00:50:32,480 --> 00:50:35,360
RBIs no one had more RBI last week than Luke

1069
00:50:35,480 --> 00:50:38,480
Raley with ten, nine from C. J. Abrams and then Bellinger,

1070
00:50:38,559 --> 00:50:41,599
Jake McCarthy and Andy pal Has both had eight. Two

1071
00:50:41,639 --> 00:50:43,239
guys to talk about it in here one is Luke

1072
00:50:43,320 --> 00:50:45,320
Raley just want to continue this. This is I was

1073
00:50:45,400 --> 00:50:47,920
kind of in on him early in the year being

1074
00:50:48,199 --> 00:50:52,639
like a version of Kerry Carpenter where he's just like

1075
00:50:52,679 --> 00:50:54,039
all right, Well, if you haven't me be the strong

1076
00:50:54,079 --> 00:50:57,360
cyplatoon guy. If he continues at this pace, what else

1077
00:50:57,360 --> 00:51:00,000
are you gonna do? It looks like old vintage Jock Peterson.

1078
00:51:00,519 --> 00:51:04,280
He has fort bats versus lefties. Yeah, he is just

1079
00:51:04,400 --> 00:51:07,159
quintessential against rities right now. And he is hitting two

1080
00:51:07,239 --> 00:51:10,800
fifty three with eight homers. He's got a wall to

1081
00:51:10,880 --> 00:51:15,239
wall profile four percentile hard hit rate of fifty four

1082
00:51:15,239 --> 00:51:17,199
percent twenty two percent barrel, which is one of the

1083
00:51:17,199 --> 00:51:20,519
best in the league. His expected batting average says he

1084
00:51:20,559 --> 00:51:24,320
should be hitting twenty points higher expected. Wilba's top seven

1085
00:51:24,360 --> 00:51:27,360
percentile average ex velocity is in the top five percent

1086
00:51:27,400 --> 00:51:29,639
tile of the league. He's getting the ball in the air,

1087
00:51:29,719 --> 00:51:31,920
you know it. He's pulling the ever living crap out

1088
00:51:31,920 --> 00:51:34,960
of it. He has been a demon in that right

1089
00:51:35,400 --> 00:51:39,679
side platoon, and I think you can justify these guys now.

1090
00:51:40,000 --> 00:51:42,119
I will say he has one of the worst zone

1091
00:51:42,159 --> 00:51:45,920
contact percentage I've ever seen, sixty one percent on baseball spot.

1092
00:51:46,280 --> 00:51:50,159
That's insane. So you know something to monitor, like when

1093
00:51:50,199 --> 00:51:53,320
it goes awry, and they have all these options, you know,

1094
00:51:53,480 --> 00:51:55,320
being on the lookout for it. Plus he has a

1095
00:51:55,360 --> 00:51:58,199
babbitt of three forty, so things could fall off, but

1096
00:51:58,199 --> 00:52:00,960
they haven't for a month, and even as a platoon player,

1097
00:52:01,000 --> 00:52:04,519
he has been very fantasy relevant with those numbers. But

1098
00:52:04,599 --> 00:52:07,239
do you think, like, even all of this being said,

1099
00:52:07,280 --> 00:52:09,800
he's just still not a ten man guy. He's a

1100
00:52:09,880 --> 00:52:12,519
twelve man ye, race would you give him based on

1101
00:52:12,599 --> 00:52:16,280
his hitting profile versus like, you know, like how easy

1102
00:52:16,320 --> 00:52:18,119
it might be able to fall apart? Yeah?

1103
00:52:18,239 --> 00:52:22,119
Speaker 3: Not much, right, Like we've seen Luke Rayley before. He's

1104
00:52:22,159 --> 00:52:25,000
thirty one. It's not like he's a spring chicken or anything.

1105
00:52:25,159 --> 00:52:28,480
So I think when the slump happens, I'm willing to

1106
00:52:29,079 --> 00:52:31,840
jettison him pretty quick. But it hasn't happened yet, So

1107
00:52:33,000 --> 00:52:35,079
if he keeps this up, he's fine to be a

1108
00:52:35,119 --> 00:52:37,159
nice fellain bat whenever you need him on the bench

1109
00:52:37,599 --> 00:52:40,880
or whatever. But uh, yeah, I think you're right in

1110
00:52:40,920 --> 00:52:43,960
the fact that like ten man's, he's definitely not roster

1111
00:52:43,920 --> 00:52:47,559
for twelve man's he's very borderlined, So you're probably looking

1112
00:52:47,559 --> 00:52:48,840
at deeper leagues for Luke Brayley.

1113
00:52:48,960 --> 00:52:51,159
Speaker 2: Then who would you rather own him or Jake McCarthy

1114
00:52:51,199 --> 00:52:54,519
who has two homers seven stolen bases but is hitting

1115
00:52:54,559 --> 00:52:59,719
two eighty nine with the Rockies a three sixty OBP Diamondbacks.

1116
00:52:59,760 --> 00:53:03,679
It's laughable when you look at them. Definged Alec Thomas

1117
00:53:03,679 --> 00:53:06,800
and they traded him away for absolutely nothing. He does

1118
00:53:06,840 --> 00:53:09,519
not have the class of Colorado splits. He's actually hitting

1119
00:53:09,559 --> 00:53:13,639
better on the road. He's stealing aggressively on the road

1120
00:53:13,639 --> 00:53:15,159
as well. All of his stolen bases have come on

1121
00:53:15,159 --> 00:53:19,159
the road weirdly, But you know, McCarthy, he's just kind

1122
00:53:19,159 --> 00:53:21,360
of lowered the profile. He's not trying to hit big

1123
00:53:21,400 --> 00:53:23,559
homers anymore, though he is getting the ball in the air.

1124
00:53:23,639 --> 00:53:25,719
Colorado can crete really good things. He's got a super

1125
00:53:25,800 --> 00:53:29,360
low hard hit rate. Barrel kind of stinks, but his

1126
00:53:29,440 --> 00:53:33,440
expected batting average says he is supportive two eighty five.

1127
00:53:33,800 --> 00:53:36,159
His strikers have gotten super low. He's getting on base.

1128
00:53:36,199 --> 00:53:38,440
They've got a bunch of guys, but Mickey moniac seems

1129
00:53:38,480 --> 00:53:41,800
like a regression. Candidates, we've talked about Beck and Doyle

1130
00:53:42,239 --> 00:53:45,599
kind of like do you trust McCarthy and is it

1131
00:53:45,679 --> 00:53:46,679
McCarthy or Rayley.

1132
00:53:47,079 --> 00:53:49,119
Speaker 3: I don't know if I trust McCarthy, but I think

1133
00:53:49,199 --> 00:53:51,400
him and Raley go in the same bucket. So it

1134
00:53:51,440 --> 00:53:53,880
honestly depends on what I need. If I need swipes.

1135
00:53:53,920 --> 00:53:56,519
I'm gonna take McCarthy and if I need power, I'm

1136
00:53:56,559 --> 00:53:58,960
probably gonna stick with Luke Rayley, and I think that's.

1137
00:53:59,199 --> 00:54:01,440
Speaker 2: You both could make it interesting player if you Combo

1138
00:54:01,679 --> 00:54:02,360
really could.

1139
00:54:02,840 --> 00:54:04,840
Speaker 3: Yeah, if you if you could platoon those guys on

1140
00:54:04,880 --> 00:54:06,599
a day to day basis in the better matchup, they

1141
00:54:06,639 --> 00:54:09,679
would make a pretty good But I think McCarthy fits

1142
00:54:09,679 --> 00:54:12,119
in that same boat right where I'm not picking him

1143
00:54:12,159 --> 00:54:15,000
up in ten, I'm not picking him up in twelve,

1144
00:54:15,400 --> 00:54:17,880
so he's probably for a deeper league still. But I

1145
00:54:18,000 --> 00:54:19,760
do like the little run that he's been on. It's

1146
00:54:19,800 --> 00:54:22,199
been nice, but we've seen McCarthy do this so many

1147
00:54:22,280 --> 00:54:24,360
times as diamondback man. So go on a nice run

1148
00:54:24,719 --> 00:54:27,519
for three weeks and then he'll do that for six weeks.

1149
00:54:27,599 --> 00:54:29,559
Speaker 2: So I kind of think in a five outfielder league

1150
00:54:29,559 --> 00:54:32,000
and twelve team, I think he could be relevant. Who

1151
00:54:32,519 --> 00:54:34,840
sold bases? He definitely is well. I guess this is

1152
00:54:34,840 --> 00:54:37,599
an easy answer, McCarthy or marsh rest of season, I'll

1153
00:54:37,639 --> 00:54:39,760
right that Marsh. Yeah, I would rather Marsh too, but

1154
00:54:40,280 --> 00:54:42,519
you're getting some stolen bases. That's going to become relevant

1155
00:54:42,559 --> 00:54:45,800
here in just a second runs Harper Ward wit a

1156
00:54:45,880 --> 00:54:47,719
bunch of players with six. Those were your leaders. I

1157
00:54:47,719 --> 00:54:49,440
don't think there's a ton to talk about here because

1158
00:54:49,440 --> 00:54:51,079
I want to kind of move it to the stolen bases,

1159
00:54:51,639 --> 00:54:55,360
your league leader over the last week as story Ruiz. Yes,

1160
00:54:55,519 --> 00:54:58,360
Stree Ruiz with the Marlins with six, Bizana we can

1161
00:54:58,400 --> 00:55:00,280
talk about in a second with five, and only Brew's

1162
00:55:00,280 --> 00:55:03,719
had four. But Astrue Ruiz up the seven stolen bases.

1163
00:55:04,000 --> 00:55:07,840
He's got a couple homers, he's getting playing time. He's

1164
00:55:07,840 --> 00:55:10,599
not hitting for average and it doesn't support it at all.

1165
00:55:10,639 --> 00:55:13,239
But he's weird. He is barreling, he is getting the

1166
00:55:13,239 --> 00:55:15,920
ball in the air, he's hitting the ball hard. The

1167
00:55:16,000 --> 00:55:18,599
problem is is he has no batting average support and

1168
00:55:19,280 --> 00:55:22,480
his strikeout rate is absolutely crazy. But dude's still second

1169
00:55:22,519 --> 00:55:24,239
and third. The other day when I was watching him,

1170
00:55:24,280 --> 00:55:26,599
like in this short amount of playing time, in twenty

1171
00:55:26,599 --> 00:55:29,599
two at bats, he has seven stolen bases. Like that's crazy.

1172
00:55:29,679 --> 00:55:32,880
Is there anything there with you with Estray Ruiz? For sure,

1173
00:55:32,920 --> 00:55:34,920
if you need stall bases, but that is it?

1174
00:55:35,079 --> 00:55:35,280
Speaker 3: Right?

1175
00:55:35,400 --> 00:55:37,079
Speaker 2: Like, like you said, you're not going to get a

1176
00:55:37,119 --> 00:55:37,559
lot left.

1177
00:55:37,559 --> 00:55:40,960
Speaker 3: But this guy has only been back since April twenty fourth,

1178
00:55:41,400 --> 00:55:43,519
and he's the forty first player over the last two

1179
00:55:43,519 --> 00:55:46,519
weeks according to Yahoo because of these swipes. So if

1180
00:55:46,559 --> 00:55:49,719
you're just if you're in a row and you're sitting

1181
00:55:50,639 --> 00:55:53,280
at dead last in stall bases, you need to add

1182
00:55:53,360 --> 00:55:55,280
Ruiz and just stick him in there and let him

1183
00:55:55,280 --> 00:55:59,559
help you get some saw bases. So they are running

1184
00:55:59,679 --> 00:56:03,480
him ragged, and I think they're just giving him every

1185
00:56:03,480 --> 00:56:05,840
opportunity to steal all the bases he wants, and he's

1186
00:56:05,840 --> 00:56:09,119
gonna just keep doing it. So I think him on

1187
00:56:09,159 --> 00:56:10,880
the Marlins is a good combo, right.

1188
00:56:11,519 --> 00:56:14,639
Speaker 2: The other one is Travis Bozana. Bazana has not gotten

1189
00:56:14,639 --> 00:56:17,920
the average up, you know, hitting only one ninety four,

1190
00:56:18,400 --> 00:56:21,639
but he's got one homer, seven stolen bases, and he

1191
00:56:21,679 --> 00:56:26,679
has a two hundred plus boost to his OBP. He

1192
00:56:26,679 --> 00:56:30,519
has a three ninety six OVP. His expected batting average

1193
00:56:30,519 --> 00:56:32,159
is telling us a different story that he should be

1194
00:56:32,239 --> 00:56:35,800
hitting around two seventy. He's only striking out twelve percent

1195
00:56:35,800 --> 00:56:38,039
of the time while walking over twenty percent of the time.

1196
00:56:38,559 --> 00:56:40,639
And I think it's interesting is he's just not tapped

1197
00:56:40,639 --> 00:56:42,920
into Like the expected batting average is telling us a

1198
00:56:42,920 --> 00:56:44,920
story he should be better, but he hasn't tapped into

1199
00:56:44,920 --> 00:56:46,360
the things that he does well, which is get the

1200
00:56:46,360 --> 00:56:49,039
ball in the air and pull it, and he does barrel,

1201
00:56:49,280 --> 00:56:51,679
and I think that's to come as he starts to

1202
00:56:51,760 --> 00:56:54,880
learn to be a bigger, better professional. He's not chasing.

1203
00:56:55,559 --> 00:56:58,159
He has an almost eighty eight percent in zone contact percentage.

1204
00:56:58,360 --> 00:57:01,239
I actually think this this is a very good buying

1205
00:57:01,280 --> 00:57:04,880
opportunity for Travis Bizana in whatever capacity, whether it's dynasty

1206
00:57:05,119 --> 00:57:08,840
that are kind of in redraft. He's a little fringy

1207
00:57:08,880 --> 00:57:11,039
to own, even in twelve team, But like I think,

1208
00:57:11,920 --> 00:57:14,039
I think I'm interested in it because I think Bazana

1209
00:57:14,079 --> 00:57:16,000
can start to unlock a little bit. So I'm still

1210
00:57:16,079 --> 00:57:17,960
very pro Travis Bizon. I think there's a lot in

1211
00:57:18,000 --> 00:57:19,800
his profile that is telling the same thing. I don't

1212
00:57:19,800 --> 00:57:20,960
know if you feel different.

1213
00:57:21,039 --> 00:57:24,320
Speaker 3: No, not at all. I mean I think everything you

1214
00:57:24,400 --> 00:57:26,840
just said is reasonable.

1215
00:57:27,159 --> 00:57:27,320
Speaker 2: Hit.

1216
00:57:27,400 --> 00:57:31,280
Speaker 3: The homer that he hit was pretty nice and clear

1217
00:57:31,320 --> 00:57:33,719
defense by a lot, So like, I think it's all

1218
00:57:33,719 --> 00:57:34,679
coming together for him.

1219
00:57:35,119 --> 00:57:37,440
Speaker 2: So yeah, I'm trying to roster Bizan or wherever I

1220
00:57:37,480 --> 00:57:40,039
can real quick. You put over the last two weeks

1221
00:57:40,079 --> 00:57:42,079
some slumping bats. I just want to throw this out

1222
00:57:42,119 --> 00:57:44,480
to you. Tell me a guy that you're not interested

1223
00:57:44,559 --> 00:57:46,679
in buying. Here are the batting averages over the last

1224
00:57:46,719 --> 00:57:50,679
two weeks. Ooh Show Hey one e four, Neto one seventy,

1225
00:57:50,800 --> 00:57:54,280
could Tell one six, Machado hitting one fifty six, Jazz

1226
00:57:54,320 --> 00:57:58,960
one eighty eight, cal Rawley point zero two eight, Sal

1227
00:57:59,039 --> 00:58:02,079
Stewart hitting one fifty before Secar won thirty three, Beshitt

1228
00:58:02,119 --> 00:58:05,519
one ninety six, and Matt Chapman one sixteen. Who of

1229
00:58:05,559 --> 00:58:08,440
this list does not interest in you in?

1230
00:58:08,679 --> 00:58:11,079
Speaker 3: I got three, okay, I got three that I don't

1231
00:58:11,119 --> 00:58:14,840
want to buy. Cal Rawley is too cold, I'm not

1232
00:58:14,840 --> 00:58:17,840
buying it. Oh two eight. That's ridiculously bad. I don't

1233
00:58:17,840 --> 00:58:19,880
know what's wrong with him. I don't need I don't

1234
00:58:19,920 --> 00:58:21,719
know if he needs to go get Lasik or if

1235
00:58:21,920 --> 00:58:26,480
something else is bothering in. But he looks miserable this season.

1236
00:58:26,599 --> 00:58:28,719
So number one, don't want to buy cal Raley, he's

1237
00:58:28,760 --> 00:58:33,239
too low. Salas start of one four, Suarez working his

1238
00:58:33,280 --> 00:58:36,719
way back to I think I would rather sell Sala

1239
00:58:36,800 --> 00:58:41,159
Stewart than buy him right now, So that's one as well.

1240
00:58:41,239 --> 00:58:43,639
And then I'm just never buying Secret. He's always hurt

1241
00:58:43,679 --> 00:58:45,440
and he's hitting one thirty three right now. I'm just

1242
00:58:45,480 --> 00:58:48,039
never gonna do that so, uh, those are those are

1243
00:58:48,039 --> 00:58:51,320
the three for me. I would say the biggest one

1244
00:58:51,360 --> 00:58:54,960
to pull away is that I'm just not buying Calro

1245
00:58:55,119 --> 00:58:58,000
unless he's like super duper cheap, and I just don't

1246
00:58:58,039 --> 00:59:01,039
think you're gonna get that. So because people spend a

1247
00:59:01,159 --> 00:59:04,039
second or third round pick on him, so interesting, I am.

1248
00:59:04,199 --> 00:59:05,559
I'm not trading for cal Raley.

1249
00:59:05,760 --> 00:59:08,559
Speaker 2: I agree with you on cal I do not agree

1250
00:59:08,599 --> 00:59:11,039
with you on sal Stewart. I'm opposite. I'm I think

1251
00:59:11,039 --> 00:59:12,559
I want to buy on him right now, even though

1252
00:59:12,559 --> 00:59:15,320
he's got big counting stats. The average is dipped, but

1253
00:59:15,360 --> 00:59:17,039
he's the kind of expected adding image of two to

1254
00:59:17,079 --> 00:59:19,800
seventy four, low strikeout rate, Like if anyone is selling

1255
00:59:19,920 --> 00:59:22,440
him on value, I'm doing it the other guy. I

1256
00:59:22,480 --> 00:59:24,840
don't want those Bobashett. I don't want Bobachett at one

1257
00:59:24,920 --> 00:59:28,360
ninety six. I don't feel great about Bishett. I don't

1258
00:59:28,360 --> 00:59:29,960
think he brings a ton to the table, even when

1259
00:59:30,000 --> 00:59:33,079
his average comes back up low no stolen bases, low power.

1260
00:59:33,400 --> 00:59:35,719
I'm not interested in him. Let's go over to the

1261
00:59:35,760 --> 00:59:37,800
pictures on the in the pitching market, A couple of

1262
00:59:37,840 --> 00:59:41,679
the big ownership, the guys that you have high percentages

1263
00:59:41,719 --> 00:59:44,760
that performed really well. Chris Sanchez seven innings, seven strikeouts

1264
00:59:44,800 --> 00:59:49,360
against Colorado Boom. Chris Sale continues to sign young run

1265
00:59:49,800 --> 00:59:54,119
seven innings, seven strikeouts against the Dodgers. Jacob de Grom

1266
00:59:54,440 --> 00:59:57,719
seven innings, ten strikeouts against the Cubs. Dylan Sees also

1267
00:59:57,719 --> 01:00:00,599
went seven struck out ten those from really big ones.

1268
01:00:00,639 --> 01:00:03,719
Logan Gilbert needed it bad six innings, ninth strikeouts, gave

1269
01:00:03,800 --> 01:00:06,039
up only one hit. That was huge. I don't know

1270
01:00:06,119 --> 01:00:09,199
if that's gonna be a misnom or like a like

1271
01:00:09,400 --> 01:00:11,079
a one off or something like that, but I think

1272
01:00:11,119 --> 01:00:13,159
you really needed that from Logan Gilbert, and I kind

1273
01:00:13,159 --> 01:00:14,599
of think it might be the start of like a

1274
01:00:14,639 --> 01:00:16,480
really good trend. I don't know if you feel the

1275
01:00:16,480 --> 01:00:19,119
same on that. I mean I don't.

1276
01:00:19,360 --> 01:00:21,440
Speaker 3: I don't have like a as strong an opinion on him,

1277
01:00:21,480 --> 01:00:25,199
but he absolutely needed that good start. So hopefully it,

1278
01:00:25,519 --> 01:00:29,760
you know, projects him to more, uh more starts like this.

1279
01:00:29,920 --> 01:00:31,920
But I don't have anything. I was just happy to

1280
01:00:31,920 --> 01:00:33,800
see Jose Soriano get back on the horse.

1281
01:00:34,119 --> 01:00:36,199
Speaker 2: Yeah he did too. Jose Sarning with seven to two

1282
01:00:36,239 --> 01:00:40,920
thirds seven strikeouts against Toronto. Joe Ryan after feeling like

1283
01:00:40,960 --> 01:00:44,440
he's gonna have elbow surgery, one hundred and seven pitches.

1284
01:00:44,480 --> 01:00:47,119
He went six innings five strikeouts against Cleveland, So I

1285
01:00:47,119 --> 01:00:50,719
guess that's good. The young dudes, Schlitzler, Miserowski, and Burns

1286
01:00:50,760 --> 01:00:54,320
continued to rock. Schlitzler struck out six Brewers, give up

1287
01:00:54,360 --> 01:00:57,599
only two hits. Jacob Miserowski struck out eleven Yankees, give

1288
01:00:57,679 --> 01:01:00,280
up two hits and six innings. Burns had a less

1289
01:01:00,280 --> 01:01:02,280
of an exciting game. He did go six, only struck

1290
01:01:02,280 --> 01:01:05,119
out two against Houston, but he continues to roll. Parker

1291
01:01:05,159 --> 01:01:08,400
Messik five and two third seven strikeouts against Minnesota. We

1292
01:01:08,559 --> 01:01:10,960
like to see that a little bit lower. These guys

1293
01:01:10,960 --> 01:01:12,880
are over fifty percent, but just want to throw these

1294
01:01:12,880 --> 01:01:15,920
guys back out. Bracks and Ashcraft seven innings, six strikeouts

1295
01:01:15,960 --> 01:01:19,480
against the Giants. Foster Griffin I talked about him A

1296
01:01:19,480 --> 01:01:22,559
ton has gone over fifty percent. But seven innings ninety

1297
01:01:22,840 --> 01:01:25,559
two in Miami. How many quality starts in a row

1298
01:01:25,639 --> 01:01:27,079
is Foster Griffin put together?

1299
01:01:27,119 --> 01:01:27,239
Speaker 3: Now?

1300
01:01:27,280 --> 01:01:27,719
Speaker 2: I want to go.

1301
01:01:27,760 --> 01:01:31,400
Speaker 3: Look, he has been incredible. I feel like we've talked

1302
01:01:31,400 --> 01:01:32,960
about him every time he started.

1303
01:01:33,000 --> 01:01:35,480
Speaker 2: He's been I did Waiver Wire videos on him and stuff,

1304
01:01:35,519 --> 01:01:37,280
and people were weird about it. But it's like he

1305
01:01:37,360 --> 01:01:39,760
keeps rolling him and Jensen like those type of guys.

1306
01:01:39,760 --> 01:01:40,960
You just got to pick him up. You got to

1307
01:01:41,000 --> 01:01:42,400
roll him out there, all right.

1308
01:01:42,480 --> 01:01:46,679
Speaker 3: So yeah, seven innings, one earns, so one, two, three, four,

1309
01:01:47,239 --> 01:01:51,079
four in a row. And before that, before his four

1310
01:01:51,119 --> 01:01:53,159
in a row, he didn't clear over five and a

1311
01:01:53,199 --> 01:01:55,679
third innings and his first four starts, but his last

1312
01:01:55,679 --> 01:01:58,599
four have all been quality, all gone at least six

1313
01:01:58,880 --> 01:02:02,559
and three runs or fewer, and twice two times he's

1314
01:02:02,559 --> 01:02:05,639
had zero runs one one time and they are making

1315
01:02:05,800 --> 01:02:08,800
errors behind him because there's three runs that he allowed

1316
01:02:08,920 --> 01:02:11,440
to Milwaukee but none were earned. And in that last

1317
01:02:11,480 --> 01:02:14,039
start against Miami, he allowed two runs when only one

1318
01:02:14,119 --> 01:02:17,519
was earned with his nine strikeouts. So he's been really

1319
01:02:17,559 --> 01:02:20,280
good recently. So he has to be over fifty percent.

1320
01:02:20,320 --> 01:02:22,400
If he's not on your on a roster right now,

1321
01:02:22,400 --> 01:02:24,079
he should be. He's maybe incredible.

1322
01:02:24,280 --> 01:02:26,639
Speaker 2: And my boy Randy Vasquez five innings won and run,

1323
01:02:26,719 --> 01:02:29,079
six strikeouts against Saint Louis. There was like a little

1324
01:02:29,320 --> 01:02:32,280
blip earlier on. But those are guys that I think,

1325
01:02:33,199 --> 01:02:35,280
like Randy was a guy that I'm not like looking

1326
01:02:35,320 --> 01:02:36,719
to stream. I'll kind of want to hold on to

1327
01:02:37,519 --> 01:02:39,639
Braxton was the same thing. But you know, Griffin, he's

1328
01:02:39,639 --> 01:02:42,000
starting to move into the territory. Maybe you don't want to,

1329
01:02:42,599 --> 01:02:45,199
Maybe you don't want to do that. The under fifty

1330
01:02:45,239 --> 01:02:47,440
percent guys some guys that pay attention to quite a

1331
01:02:47,440 --> 01:02:50,679
few Diamondbacks. Ryan Nelson six and two thirds seven strikeouts

1332
01:02:50,679 --> 01:02:53,559
against the Mets, and Roder Rodriguez went eight and one

1333
01:02:53,679 --> 01:02:56,599
third four strikeouts against the Mets, and then Merril Kelly

1334
01:02:56,800 --> 01:02:59,760
seven innings, six strikeouts against the Mets. So all of

1335
01:02:59,800 --> 01:03:02,880
them had been poop excepted Wardo. Really the whole rotation.

1336
01:03:03,119 --> 01:03:05,760
They all got right against the Mets. Is there anybody

1337
01:03:05,800 --> 01:03:08,280
that you like are more aggressively buying on. I know

1338
01:03:08,320 --> 01:03:10,480
Meryl's gonna probably want to feel like that, but he's

1339
01:03:10,519 --> 01:03:13,880
been absolutely no. Which one are you, Petard?

1340
01:03:15,360 --> 01:03:17,280
Speaker 3: If it's one of them, it has to be Rodriguez,

1341
01:03:17,360 --> 01:03:19,960
because I think he has one bad start all year,

1342
01:03:20,119 --> 01:03:23,119
like the re and this is to his credit. I

1343
01:03:23,400 --> 01:03:27,559
got it eat Crow here because I thought after that

1344
01:03:27,599 --> 01:03:29,639
World Baseball Classic Star I was like, yeah, of course

1345
01:03:29,679 --> 01:03:32,199
he goes out there and dominates Team USA and he's

1346
01:03:32,199 --> 01:03:34,440
going to give up seven in his first start for

1347
01:03:34,480 --> 01:03:38,199
the Diamondbacks. He's been good all year. He has two

1348
01:03:38,239 --> 01:03:40,719
games where he's given up four earned runs. That was

1349
01:03:40,760 --> 01:03:44,639
against Baltimore on the fifteenth of April and then twenty

1350
01:03:44,719 --> 01:03:46,880
second of April against the White Sox back to back,

1351
01:03:47,159 --> 01:03:50,039
but he has come back and allowed two or fewer

1352
01:03:50,559 --> 01:03:52,800
in each of his next three starts. Only went four

1353
01:03:52,840 --> 01:03:55,639
and two thirds against Milwaukee, but seven innings against Pittsburgh

1354
01:03:55,679 --> 01:03:57,920
and then eight and a third almost through a complete

1355
01:03:57,920 --> 01:04:01,480
game against the Mets the other day. So yeah, I

1356
01:04:02,079 --> 01:04:04,639
think EDWARDO is the guy because Merril Kelly's been smashed,

1357
01:04:04,639 --> 01:04:07,840
shows Ryan Nelson and I'm afraid of those like blow

1358
01:04:07,920 --> 01:04:10,320
up starts for those guys. You Rod has not had

1359
01:04:10,320 --> 01:04:12,920
that yet. Two games of four earned runs. He has

1360
01:04:12,920 --> 01:04:14,280
not turned into a pumpkin yet.

1361
01:04:14,360 --> 01:04:17,119
Speaker 2: So out of the crier, I think you're all streamers,

1362
01:04:17,239 --> 01:04:19,920
but you know, I'm I'm keep an eye on all

1363
01:04:19,960 --> 01:04:22,000
of them. Edward has been probably the most consistent, which

1364
01:04:22,039 --> 01:04:24,840
is crazy Conley early forty four percent on Who's seven

1365
01:04:24,880 --> 01:04:29,199
innings eight strikeouts against Tampa Bay, get gets dustin May

1366
01:04:29,280 --> 01:04:32,599
six innings, seven strikeouts against the Padres Chris Bassett. He

1367
01:04:32,719 --> 01:04:35,440
was kind of after the opener, went six innings, six strikeouts,

1368
01:04:36,039 --> 01:04:39,440
Walker Bueller, six innings, two strikeouts, anybody. I mean, that

1369
01:04:39,519 --> 01:04:42,199
was kind of a wide range justin maybe with sixteen percent,

1370
01:04:43,559 --> 01:04:46,480
Bassett fifteen percent, Walker, Buler eight percent, anybody of interest.

1371
01:04:48,159 --> 01:04:53,360
So's I mean innings, nine strikeouts, thirty percent would probably

1372
01:04:53,360 --> 01:04:55,119
be the one in there, just because I mean, the

1373
01:04:55,159 --> 01:04:58,280
Cardinals are surging right now, they're playing really good baseball,

1374
01:04:58,360 --> 01:05:00,719
So McGreevy it would probably be the guy out of

1375
01:05:00,719 --> 01:05:03,280
that group. For me, I'm probably still stubborn in the

1376
01:05:03,360 --> 01:05:07,119
crap pitching department. Hazus Lozardo turned into a pumpkin again.

1377
01:05:07,159 --> 01:05:10,920
Three inning, six or and runs, three walks, six strikeouts.

1378
01:05:11,639 --> 01:05:13,559
That one really hurt because I've been a buyer on him.

1379
01:05:13,599 --> 01:05:15,639
He had these really bad starts, a couple of good ones,

1380
01:05:15,639 --> 01:05:17,880
but now as the ras up over five, but he

1381
01:05:17,920 --> 01:05:20,039
has a three point one to nine expected he Lray,

1382
01:05:20,079 --> 01:05:21,960
so I cannot quit him. I am buying him after

1383
01:05:21,960 --> 01:05:24,920
the bad start, maybe one last opportunity. You feel different

1384
01:05:24,960 --> 01:05:28,559
about it, like it's frustrating. You can't be this inconsistent

1385
01:05:28,599 --> 01:05:30,880
and hiss expected the Ray. It can be as good

1386
01:05:30,880 --> 01:05:32,639
as it wants to be, but it doesn't help if

1387
01:05:32,960 --> 01:05:35,199
he's gonna have a crap you know, crap numbers.

1388
01:05:35,480 --> 01:05:38,360
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think, uh, I think I'm one s he

1389
01:05:38,519 --> 01:05:41,199
start away from just being done with Asarro, like I

1390
01:05:41,440 --> 01:05:44,920
think that's why I yet but yeah, one more just

1391
01:05:45,159 --> 01:05:47,880
really as he start and I think I've just had it.

1392
01:05:48,119 --> 01:05:51,800
Speaker 2: He's not having a good year in the closer department.

1393
01:05:52,280 --> 01:05:55,880
Two blown saves from or El's from closers David Bednar.

1394
01:05:56,159 --> 01:05:58,320
He ended up getting a loss against Milwaukee, and Riley

1395
01:05:58,360 --> 01:06:02,719
O'Brien versus Padre is a blown save. So I don't

1396
01:06:02,800 --> 01:06:05,239
I'm not really necessarily worried about either one of those guys,

1397
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especially not Bednar. So I think.

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Speaker 3: O'Brien's been kind of hit or miss recently. Uh and

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with that team playing so well, I don't know if

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you could keep him in that role if he's gonna

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keep blowing it. So h O'Brien is he's worrying me

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01:06:22,239 --> 01:06:24,039
a little bit, But yeah, I'm not. I'm not worried

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01:06:24,039 --> 01:06:29,639
about uh, I'm I'm not worried about Bednar quite yet.

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Speaker 2: Yankees are winning a lot of games in the non

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01:06:32,280 --> 01:06:38,159
closer save department. Juan Mahia, John King, We had Oland Garcia,

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01:06:38,239 --> 01:06:41,880
Toby Meyers, Ecnes Gomez. Nothing I at least Garcia. I

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01:06:41,920 --> 01:06:43,519
don't think it's just gonna be honest with you. None

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I'm gonna pull from, you know, I'm getting out like

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none that are gonna do anything for me that I'm

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going to go and like actively pick up. I don't

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01:06:49,960 --> 01:06:52,000
know if you feel different about anybody. Ecnes is kind

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of interesting.

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Speaker 3: But no, I mean not not out of this group,

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just a couple of situations maybe, like I feel like

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the Washington situations wherever they want to go with it.

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Although Varlin has been great, but yeah, really I'm just

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01:07:08,159 --> 01:07:09,400
Riley O'Brien.

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Speaker 2: Going back to him.

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01:07:10,159 --> 01:07:13,199
Speaker 3: He gave up two runs against the Podreys, he had

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01:07:13,280 --> 01:07:15,599
too clean one against Podres, won against the Brewers, but

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01:07:15,639 --> 01:07:18,280
also two runs against the Dodgers, then a clean one

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01:07:18,280 --> 01:07:20,920
against Pittsburgh and in two runs against Seattle. So it's

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01:07:20,960 --> 01:07:24,440
really been all since the twenty fifth, Like the last

1424
01:07:24,559 --> 01:07:27,559
fifteen days, sixteen.

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Speaker 2: Days for Riley O'Brien has have been the struggle.

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01:07:29,760 --> 01:07:34,400
Speaker 3: So I yeah, who is behind Riley O'Brien for the

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Cardinals right now?

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01:07:36,079 --> 01:07:39,880
Speaker 2: They're pretty rough it. I'm drawing a blank there because

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01:07:39,880 --> 01:07:41,559
there was that battle of like is it going to

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be O'Brien or Bopa bop.

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01:07:44,800 --> 01:07:51,000
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm looking Jojo Romero had a hole, Soriano Seorg Sorian,

1432
01:07:51,280 --> 01:07:54,079
Ryan Stanek. Remember he had to save initially, but his

1433
01:07:54,159 --> 01:07:57,440
ERA is still up over six. So uh yeah, I

1434
01:07:57,440 --> 01:08:00,840
mean that bullpen is rough right now. So yeah, blown

1435
01:08:00,840 --> 01:08:03,320
say anything. Grisefo, who is another guy that you could

1436
01:08:03,360 --> 01:08:06,519
probably put in there, got the loss on seven pitches

1437
01:08:06,599 --> 01:08:10,039
in that game, So tough in the Cardinals bullpen right now.

1438
01:08:10,360 --> 01:08:12,159
Speaker 2: Josh Ecknes should be a guy pay attention to if

1439
01:08:12,159 --> 01:08:14,880
he gets the next save, just f y, so look

1440
01:08:14,880 --> 01:08:17,319
out for that. If he gets another save opportunity coming up,

1441
01:08:17,319 --> 01:08:20,319
he might be someone I speculate on. That is it

1442
01:08:20,399 --> 01:08:23,439
from there. One last thing baseball. We did lose an

1443
01:08:23,439 --> 01:08:26,960
old baseball great, Bobby Cox. Bobby Cox died over the weekend,

1444
01:08:27,520 --> 01:08:31,159
an old Atlanta brave great. That's always you know, like

1445
01:08:31,359 --> 01:08:33,520
like I always had Bobby Cox in my mind, was

1446
01:08:33,520 --> 01:08:35,199
in the same like I don't know why, I know

1447
01:08:35,279 --> 01:08:38,439
this is like a long change, but like Lsorda, you

1448
01:08:38,479 --> 01:08:40,680
know what I mean, like those type of that world

1449
01:08:40,720 --> 01:08:45,960
of LaRussa, Yeah yeah maybe yeah, that old world, old managers,

1450
01:08:46,000 --> 01:08:50,159
old school managers, Jim Leland, you know, all those type

1451
01:08:50,199 --> 01:08:52,920
of old guys. No one has been thrown out of

1452
01:08:52,920 --> 01:08:56,399
more games of Bobby Cox like I have that. It

1453
01:08:56,520 --> 01:08:59,399
is a stat Yeah, it's no one, Yes, it is

1454
01:08:59,800 --> 01:09:01,520
I I actually sent it to my buddy the other

1455
01:09:01,600 --> 01:09:04,000
day because he's like, I'm trying to explain to my

1456
01:09:04,039 --> 01:09:07,560
wife how Bobby Cox was part of my childhood because

1457
01:09:07,680 --> 01:09:10,359
the Braves were always on TBS. Because Ted Turner, who

1458
01:09:10,399 --> 01:09:12,399
also passed. I have the numbers. By the way, I

1459
01:09:12,439 --> 01:09:13,399
have the top five.

1460
01:09:13,960 --> 01:09:16,520
Speaker 3: It's him by a lot, isn't It isn't like he

1461
01:09:16,600 --> 01:09:18,640
has like one hundred and sixty and the next guy

1462
01:09:18,680 --> 01:09:20,439
has like not a lot.

1463
01:09:20,520 --> 01:09:22,960
Speaker 2: I don't know. I'll tell you the top five are

1464
01:09:23,319 --> 01:09:26,520
going from five up. Tony LaRussa had ninety three, the

1465
01:09:26,520 --> 01:09:30,319
fifth most ejected manager of all time, Earl Weaver ninety six,

1466
01:09:30,920 --> 01:09:35,039
Leo Dortier one hundred, John McGraw one hundred and twenty one,

1467
01:09:35,159 --> 01:09:39,359
and then Bobby Cox a full season one hundred and

1468
01:09:39,399 --> 01:09:43,159
sixty two. He's been throwing out one full Major League

1469
01:09:43,199 --> 01:09:46,880
baseball season. And did you see the last.

1470
01:09:46,640 --> 01:09:49,560
Speaker 3: Time he went and uh he threw out the first

1471
01:09:49,640 --> 01:09:53,640
pitch and handed the lineup card to the to the

1472
01:09:53,720 --> 01:09:55,920
umpire and then the umpire threw him out, you know,

1473
01:09:56,039 --> 01:09:57,720
as like a ceremonial thing.

1474
01:09:57,800 --> 01:09:59,199
Speaker 2: It was no, that's great.

1475
01:09:59,279 --> 01:10:01,119
Speaker 3: It was like after he retired, he just went out

1476
01:10:01,199 --> 01:10:03,439
to throw the first pitch in an old umpire that

1477
01:10:03,520 --> 01:10:05,439
he knew. It's like, you're out of here, you know,

1478
01:10:05,960 --> 01:10:08,680
that is kind of we're kind of I mean that

1479
01:10:08,680 --> 01:10:10,960
that was the Braves, like growing up, that was the

1480
01:10:11,000 --> 01:10:12,399
Braves run in the nineties.

1481
01:10:12,439 --> 01:10:15,159
Speaker 2: Man, that was that was their guy, their skipp And

1482
01:10:15,239 --> 01:10:17,960
we're kind of out. We're kind of out on like manager,

1483
01:10:18,079 --> 01:10:20,520
that's another record that'll probably never get broken. Like that's

1484
01:10:21,000 --> 01:10:23,760
kind of out in that world because it's like you

1485
01:10:23,800 --> 01:10:25,960
got a lot of automated balls and strikes, which is

1486
01:10:26,000 --> 01:10:31,079
like it there's a lot being less being put on umpires,

1487
01:10:31,560 --> 01:10:34,880
you know, for you know, for and turn less less

1488
01:10:34,960 --> 01:10:37,880
chances to argue for a manager. Yeah, and also like

1489
01:10:37,920 --> 01:10:40,000
I don't know, there's like a little bit less of that.

1490
01:10:41,720 --> 01:10:44,680
What's the I don't know, Like guys are nicer, you

1491
01:10:44,720 --> 01:10:46,199
know what I mean, Like it's a lot more media

1492
01:10:46,239 --> 01:10:48,960
stuff Like I don't I feel like you don't have

1493
01:10:49,119 --> 01:10:53,039
the scroungey like angry type of guys enough of them

1494
01:10:53,079 --> 01:10:55,000
that are you have some old school guys and whatever.

1495
01:10:55,039 --> 01:10:56,920
I just don't feel like there's enough of those guys

1496
01:10:56,920 --> 01:10:58,640
out there anymore that don't give an f and that

1497
01:10:58,640 --> 01:11:00,600
are gonna get thrown out. Everybody's like, I.

1498
01:11:00,600 --> 01:11:03,680
Speaker 3: Don't know, John Boys still does pretty good, you know,

1499
01:11:04,279 --> 01:11:08,640
uh doing all the layovers and interpreting all those guys

1500
01:11:09,720 --> 01:11:11,680
player crime than you.

1501
01:11:11,640 --> 01:11:14,000
Speaker 2: Have like with managers. I don't know, Bobby Cox will

1502
01:11:14,279 --> 01:11:16,840
forever be remembered for that. So that was that was

1503
01:11:16,880 --> 01:11:19,199
sad to see over the weekend, all right, But that

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01:11:19,359 --> 01:11:21,199
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