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Speaker 2: Else and I'm alreadium to hear my baby sounds just

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like your name was, Mark.

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Speaker 1: Everybody, Welcome back. In is the rasp Ball Fantasy baseball Podcast.

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I am beat on, joined by the abs umpire backing official,

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the Fantasytorio Gray.

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Speaker 2: Alright, what's U's I Actually? I just realized something that

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I would be a terrible baseball player for a lot

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of reasons, mostly because mostly because I can't play baseball,

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but I'm the least athletic person you may ever know

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in your life. But other than that, though, I was

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thinking that with the ABS, I wouldn't want to tap

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my head because I have such good hair.

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Speaker 1: But you already have a hat on, Gray. I wonder

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if you would already have a hat or a helmet on.

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Speaker 2: Actually, you know how they have that oti where it's

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like if he's pitching and he could stay in the

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game to keep hitting. I wonder if they can make

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an exception for me where I could, like I can

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like tug my ear like Carol Burnett or something, rather

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than like half my head because they're like, you know,

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the guy is so good hair wise, right, so he

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doesn't want to tap his hair, and there's a lot

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of people the fans come to see O Tani hit

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and Gray's hair, so you know, like we shouldn't make

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an exception here. I think I could see that, I

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could see that happen, and so you know, I might

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be able to play baseball after all, even with the

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head tapping.

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Speaker 1: I think we have to address the hitting and throwing

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part as well as potentially you have to wear a

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helmet and a hat. You know, those these things are

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no honestly though, this is a serious thing.

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Speaker 2: So I went to the eye doctor today. I go

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to the doctor every time we talk. So I went

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to the eye doctor today and he dilated my pupils.

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Good band by the way, anyway, So I had to

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wear sunglasses and Coog's. The old wife was like, hey,

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you could still walk Ted. You can wear your sunglasses

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and walk Ted, And why don't you put on a hat?

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And I was like, do you know me, I'm not

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wearing a hat. I wear a hat. Are you seriously?

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I think someone replaced my wife with a robot omp

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because I don't wear hats. I don't know. No, I

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won't say.

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Speaker 1: Gray the first time I met you, the very first

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time I met.

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Speaker 2: You, That's true. I went through a phase where I

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was wearing a pink fedora, but I grew out of it,

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right exact. Can I say one thing with the with

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the robot arms though, I love it. I love it.

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I love it so much. I'm jumping up and down.

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I love it. Oh my god, I'm so absolutely gobsmack

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thrilled with the robot arms. It could not be a

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bigger success. And you know, I actually think that I

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don't mind. I wouldn't mind if it was like five

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possible overturns rather than two. But I don't actually mind

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that there's a limited amount, because then it gets to

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the point where it's like you have to actually think

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about whether or not you want to tap your head.

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So I kind of like even the fact that there's

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a limited amount of them. I love it. I love

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everything about it. I'm sorry. I love the pitch clock,

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I love of the d H Universal d H. I

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love the abs. I'm sorry, maybe Robman, it isn't that bad.

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I know it sounds crazy to say, but I love this.

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I love the abs, I love the robots, I love

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everything about it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't love everything about it, but this has

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gone pretty well so far. I'm enjoining it. You know,

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we'll see how how it adapts. I mean, it's here

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to stay. Every all of everything you just said is

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here to stay. So whether we liked it or not,

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it's part of it's part of the game now.

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Speaker 2: So okay, So if people miss this, this was actually

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a absolute highlight of Opening weekend when it comes to

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the robot OMPs. So i'll I'll explain the scenario. So,

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the twins were facing Ryan Hellesley, the Oreos closer, and

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Josh Bell. It was a three two count and the

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ball and Helsley threw the pitch and the ump called

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it a ball. Josh Bell started to first and Hellsley

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tapped his head. He tapped his hat and so he

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called a challenge saying it was actually a strike and

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it actually turned into a strike. So Bell was out.

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Helseley was correct, and Derek Shelton, the Twins manager, storms

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out of the dugout. This is the funny part. He

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storms out of the dugout and he starts arguing with

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the umpire so to actually to recap real quick the

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people can follow along the umpire who called the ball

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in favor of Derek Shelton's Twins. Derek Shelton's now arguing

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with him, so ridiculous. He's arguing with him that the call,

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the challenge call, wasn't done fast enough by Ryan Helsley.

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made the call in his favor. It's ridiculous. It's the

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most ridiculous thing I've ever seen in my life. Absolutely brilliant, brilliant.

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Speaker 1: I guess Rod Healsley hit it and like immediately, like

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as soon as you kind of tapped his head, he

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did it. It's like the shades of when you call

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customer service and they're like, well, how slow it was

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and how long were you dated They're like, I was

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there for twenty minutes, when in reality it was like

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three minutes maximum, that's what it was giving like just

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was like thirty No, it was like a second, and

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it was like a tail second.

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Speaker 2: It was like literally, once he realized the call was wrong,

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he was like, oh, he tapped his head and it

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was like and then. But the best is the fact

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that Derek Shelton is arguing with an umpire who.

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Speaker 1: Called it in his favor.

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Speaker 2: It's like, what are you arguing with When you're arguing

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with the robots man, There's nothing to argue with with

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the umpires. The umpire literally made the call in.

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Speaker 3: Your favor, and you're arguing that's the best.

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Speaker 2: That is Like, I don't know if we're ever going

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to get to that. I mean, at some point, I

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feel like the managers are going to figure out that.

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It's like, why would I argue with an umpire who's

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calling in my favor? It's so dumb. I love it.

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It's the dumbest thing I've ever seen in my life

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that Derek Shelton is mad at the umpire who called

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in his favor. Ah, so dumb. It's so dumb. But

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of I'm looking forward to, like like it takes. I know,

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baseball players may not be the smartest guys in the world,

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so it might take a little bit of a little

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time before they realize they can start gaming the system.

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But I want to start seeing like I want to

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see catchers like catch the ball in the zone zone

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and quick the ball out of the zone so the

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hitter thinks it's a ball like I want.

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Speaker 1: I want.

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Speaker 2: I want people to or we're also like the psychology

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of like if an umpire misses a call, does that

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make him more hesitant to call the next one? That's

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borderline Like it's all this stuff that I feel like

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there's a lot of psychology to the fact that they're

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now reversing balls and strike calls. I love it, man,

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I'm I'm a fan.

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Speaker 1: I mean, for years, umpires have had leaning so like

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they lean a little inside or they call a little high,

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and so I do feel like it'll just be an

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adjustment to where umpires are gonna have to go. I

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always call the outside corner. I guess I can't give

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that anymore, which'll I guess kind have sucked the pictures

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and catchers a little bit. They can't use the umpire

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system to kind of move move the strikes a little bit.

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of holding umpires in particular accountable, and getting the calls

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right more often than not. We'll see how you know,

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how many calls or how many times they go to

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it during the season. But I'm with you that I'm

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glad it's not like ten times or any like an

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unlimited amount because I don't I know me personally, if

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I was hitting, I'd be like tapping my home at

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every pitch, Like no, that was that was definitely a.

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Speaker 2: Ball, totally, absolutely, one hundred percent agree that it's like it. Actually,

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when you start to think about it, it does make

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sense that it's a limited amount of challenges because you

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don't want people tapping on every call. It's like that's ridiculous.

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it may as well just be it may be an

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automatic robot umps and have the home polate. I'm just

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calling like plays at the plate, Like, there's no reason

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for a home plate umpire if it's all challenges. So

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don't mind. I don't even mind the limited challenges because

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it's like then you have to then you're like playing

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into like do I tap my head here because I'm

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not sure if that was a strike or a ball,

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like depending on if you're the picture of the hitter

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or a catcher. So yeah, I mean there's a lot

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Speaker 1: I like it, yeah, And I like that it's it's

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one of those things where it's kind of like the

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in out in tennis, Like it's a quick review. We

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don't need to sit here and look at it eighty

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five times on our view screen. It's it's we just

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it's yes or no it's a ball or strike.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I mean it's like almost instantaneous, like so

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it's so fast I already know the answer.

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Speaker 1: They just have to relay it down, yeah, to the

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umpire totally.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, no, completely, Yeah, No, it's awesome.

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Speaker 1: Okay, let's move on to some fantasy baseball stuff here.

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Let's start with the top ten on the play Raider.

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And I say ten, like you say top twenty in

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your rankings, and then you go to like sixty eight

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each position, So I don't think we're gonna go to sixty,

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but there's ten to twelve here. I think let's start

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with then number one on the play Raider, and that

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is my pick for Rookie of the Year, Chase the Latter.

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Speaker 2: That okay, okay, okay.

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Speaker 1: He has four games, great, seventeen play appearances, and four

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home runs. He's hitting three fifty three. I mean, is

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it a drop somebody from your roster and add him

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regardless of league size? Do you completely buy this? Where

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are you at on Chase the Latter?

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Speaker 2: No? I don't completely buy this. I do think like

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in the preseason, like October, I write up like a

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top ten or fifteen rookies that are gonna, you know,

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play this play in the upcoming year. And Chase the

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Latter was actually a guy who I wrote up. I

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want to say, is as far back as like twenty

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twenty four, like I've liked Chased the Latter for a

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few years now, and then I believe it was in

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twenty twenty four he had he fractured his foot and

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he had a hamstring and both of those things knocked

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him out for a ton of games, like I think

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over one hundred games, and then in twenty twenty five

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he had more issues with his foot and it didn't

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seem like it was healing correctly and he was knocked

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out again. I want to say, a good another one

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hundred games, like he missed a lot of time. So

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and on the field, but that you know, like you

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he's injury prone, and if he's and if he doesn't

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get injured again, then great, he's you know, he's on

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trade for him with anyone who's like, you know, who's

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very valuable. Uh look at Chase the latter. More like

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you know a guy who is currently hot who could

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stay valuable for power and and average, Like I I

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think he could hit for a decent average right now.

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Strikeouts are high, but that's only four games against a

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very good Mariners pitching staff, and also, by the way,

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four homers against a very good Mariners pitching staff, so

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the power is real. I think he can hit for

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a decent average. He has no speed whatsoever, and he

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has injury concerns, but if he can stay in the field,

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we could see a thirty homer two seventy season from him,

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which is, you know, I mean, not that different than

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like say, Rafael Devers. So yeah, I like Chase the

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Latter a lot. I'd say, you know, don't go too

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crazy for him, because there could be injury concerns, but

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otherwise he's he's good. There's no reason to think he's

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suddenly gonna stop hitting, no.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I wouldn't think so. There's there's always gonna

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be struggles, and everybody struggles at some point during the season.

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So not saying he won't do that, But yeah, I

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like Chase the Latter. Like I said, I had him

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picked for my ALE Rookie of the Year, so obviously

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I like him. Just let's run some names real quick

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and and see who you would potentially you know, look

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at it dropping forward. The latter would you drop pretty

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much anybody in the outfield in Colorado. So I guess

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the top would be like Brenton Doyle, Jordan Beck.

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Speaker 2: I would put the latter above the entire Rockies outfield.

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Speaker 1: Okay, how about how about you know, up and coming

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and you know, a lot of a lot of people

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like drafting him Dayly and Lyle.

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Speaker 2: Kind of different, you know, I know, I hear I

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would go. I would go Lyle.

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Speaker 1: Still, all right, and with this is just a line,

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we're just gonna keep calling it. Ian halp Ian Hap

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or Chase the latter.

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Speaker 2: Now, like I prefer you in half, I mean the.

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Speaker 1: Bank production and half is just too good a passage.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I would say a trickier one would be Kevin McGonagall,

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but I would I would probably lean McGonagall because his

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hit tool is just a next, next, next level. Not

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that the water is not good though, I do like

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the latter, But I would go McGonagall over the latter.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't really have any problem with that. I mean,

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they're both kind of in the same leve. In regards

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to prospect pedigree, I would say from just a games

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plate standpoint, maybe McGonagall gets the edge there because a

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lot of chase a lot of injuries. I have not

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been related, but as you mentioned, he's had two fairly

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serious foot is shoes in the same foot, so that's

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always concerned. Foot is shoes can just pop up randomly.

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So I think I'm with you, and then I would

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probably lean McGonagall still, But I don't know. I mean,

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I guess not because I had chased a lotter as

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my Rookie of the year, So I'm just gonna stick there.

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Speaker 2: Word.

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Speaker 1: Somebody else we really liked, and I think we might

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have even you might have even proclaimed him the number

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one of the season at his position is Shae Langlers,

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who threw three games, has three home runs, is hitting

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five hundred. Is Shane lang Leers the number one catcher

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this year?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean we're gonna We're gonna go over a

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bunch of guys here who are from the top ten

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of the player Raider. I feel like, I don't know,

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maybe I'm wrong about this, but I think Shane she

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Langaliers is gonna be for me is the best bet

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out of all the guys we talked about to finish

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the highest on the Player Raider at the end of

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the year, Like a lot of these guys are gonna

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be like they're gonna be kind of flashing the pans.

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Where Shane lang Leers, I think is the real deal.

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I'm I'm not saying he's gonna be top ten overall

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for the Player Raider at the end of the year,

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but I want to be shocked to see Shane Langaliers

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in the top thirty. I think he's the number one catcher. Yeah.

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I like Shane Langleers more than Cal Rawley. I think.

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I think I'm gonna be kicking myself that I didn't

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just rank him that way in the preseason that I

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said that more as like a bold prediction type of

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thing where I was like, you know, saying, Langoleiars is

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going to be the number one catcher, where I should

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have just ranked them that way. I love Shae Langaliers.

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I think he's got thirty five homer power. He hit

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two seventy seven last year with a nineteen point seven

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percent strikeout rate, so it doesn't strike out a lot

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hits for a good average and thirty five homer power

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and he stole seven bags last year and in that

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park with the A's Shane Langaliers. Man, I feel like

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Shae Langaliers is going to be so good this year.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, there's definitely the park to be considered

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in that equation for sure, Just like there was when

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you were looking at Nick Kurtz and Brent Rooker and

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Shaderstrom and and honestly the entire pitching staff you were

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thinking about even rostering one of them. You're like, oh,

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maybe not. They got to pitch in that park, so

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absolutely all that place to their benefit, love shangling and

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the lears. And again, like you said, he's probably the

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one of this group that finishes at the top of

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the play Rader Chase the lotter definitely has the capability

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to do that. I don't think we would project him

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to do that as of right now. A guy who

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you know, would would have been crazy to say that

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about early in his career and put him not above

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those two is Mike Trout, who's currently number three on

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the Player Rador with two home runs, I stole a

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base and he's hitting for sixty two. Maybe he's just

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trying to finally get out of you know, LA data high.

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You know he's got He's got five years left on

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his deal, So maybe there's time he can get out

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and join the Dodgers. You can just move across the city,

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let's see.

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Speaker 2: Uh that actually makes me think, is it? That kind

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of depressed me a little bit because that makes me think,

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probably in five years, that's gonna be the end of

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Mike Trout's career. But I mean that's probably not that

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far of a stretch considering he'll be thirty nine. God,

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where's the time go? We're already talking about the end

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of Mike Trout's career. Yeah, I mean, I I don't

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mind Mike Trout if you have him in your league

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and you know, ride ride him while he's uh healthy.

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But I mean I wouldn't put you know, I wouldn't

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put him for more than like maybe one hundred and

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twenty games, one hundred and twenty five games and at

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some point, like he's gonna I don't even know if

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that might even be a high estimate for games played

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because he's playing center now and he's like going all

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out and like like that's cool and all, but I mean,

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how many courtizon shots as he's got in his back

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bro at some point, at some point, it's gonna it's

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gonna fall apart again. I mean, it's sad to say,

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but I would put his I would put the over

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under for his first thirty game. IL stint at like

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May tenth or something like. It's not I I really

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would be shocked if we get to the middle of

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May and he's still playing like this. So, you know,

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enjoy it for now.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I don't know when the injury is

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gonna come, so I don't know that I put an

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over under on like when it's gonna come, I'd say,

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you know, probably an under on one hundred games, given

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that they're gonna if they're really gonna try and play

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him center all season, which seems seems ridiculous. I feel

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like most teams would be like, you know what, here's

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our agent, veteran, I know, too much money, I can't

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stay healthy. Let's d h him. But hey, you know

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it's the Angels. So here we are. Mike'shout playing center

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field at you know, thirty six years old or thirty four, sorry,

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thirty four, and I want to put extra years on

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him just yet, Let's move on to the next guy though.

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Luke Rayley. Luke Raley had four games fifteen played appearances,

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he has three home runs. He's inning two eighty six

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with a forty percent strikeout rate, and it's it's kind

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of irrelevant. I mean, if you have a couple of strikeouts,

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strikeout rate is pretty high. But what are your thoughts

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here on Luke Rayley?

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Speaker 2: Uh, this feels like one of those just random, like

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he feels like hospittato, Like this just feels like a

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random hot weekend and maybe that hot weekend stretches into

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a hot week or two. But we've seen Luke Railly

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now for like six years. We know he gets hot

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for a week or two and he you know, comes

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down and cools off, and you know he's fine for

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if you have room to grab a hot bat, go

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for it. But I would still put his over under it.

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Like I don't know, fifteen, fifteen to seventeen homers total,

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So I mean he's got three already, you know, so

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I don't expect ton.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so I'm not expecting a whole lot from Luke Raley.

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Let's move on to Jake Berger, who in three games

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has two home runs. He's sitting four sixty two. I

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think this is a guy you kind of liked in

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draft season, right.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I actually I think I might have made him.

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I think he I made him my comeback player of

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the Year or no, actually I think I said a

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dollas Garcia. But I did like Jake Berger as a

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as a bit of like a comeback from last year.

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And also like I felt like the price was good

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enough where it wasn't it was, the price was decent

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in rafts that is. And you know, he he still

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has twenty five plus homer power. It's just a matter

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of you know, it's just a matter of him playing. Really,

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you know, last year was I feel like last year

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we're going to look back in retrospect and just be like, oh,

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that was, you know, just a bit of a lost season.

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So yeah, I like Jake Berger. I don't mind, you know,

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he is what he is. I mean, it's not like

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he's kind of like chased a Lotterer, like a poor

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man's chased the lotter. So I don't like, I don't

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I don't hate Burger. I just don't think like, you know,

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I mean, he is, you know, twenty five to twenty

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seven homers, zippo speed and probably two forty five ish average,

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which is fine. I mean, there's nothing wrong with that,

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but you know it is what it is, nothing.

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Speaker 1: Wrong with that at all. Let's move on to Alec Burlison. Yes,

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three games planted appearance is a home run, a stolen

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base and he's hitting three sixty four. What are your

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thoughts here on Alec Berlison, who I don't know, I'm

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probably not in on, but hey, what do you think?

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Is is it somebody you like?

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Speaker 2: You know, I mean for you know, for deeper leagues

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and for his price, he's probably one of the more

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valuable guys. He's kind of like Ian Hap and like

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no one really wanted them in drafts. But is he

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really that bad? No? I mean he's fine, but he

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just doesn't really have much upside. Like it's like his

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his ceiling is like, you know, twenty two homers to

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eighty average, and you know, it's fine, there's nothing wrong

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with that. It's just not the most exciting line and

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no real speed maybe you know, maybe five to seven steals.

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You know, as we all know, is the guy wants

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to run. He could run more because you know Josh Naylor.

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But Ali Bernlson, Yeah, I mean he's okay, He's not

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a top ten Player Raider guy, though at like, you know, longer,

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I'd say by next week, he's gonna be at at

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some point. Like he's just he's kind of like, you know, runs,

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he's counting stats basically, but he's fine.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, he's just a very boring, like fifth or rotational outfielder,

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and that's fine. But if you're in a shallow league

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or you have somebody more exciting you, you know, it's

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fine to all switch, sit him on your bench, or

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go ahead and go grab somebody else. Good for him

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to getting off the good start to the season. Though

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we talked about one catcher, We're gona talking about two

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catchers in the show, which is the only time all

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season we may do that. Outside of the positional rankings,

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Will Smith three games, eleven played appearances, two home runs,

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and he's hitting two seventy three. It kind of felt

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like he was just kind of ignoring draft season as well.

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He's just consistent. Right, there's nothing really to report here.

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Speaker 2: No, not really. I'm surprised you haven't mentioned Brandon Donovan,

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the other the world's other be don your namesake. Brandon

470
00:28:23,279 --> 00:28:26,039
Donovan's actually in the top ten on the Player Raider

471
00:28:26,480 --> 00:28:28,880
as of today. I don't know when you. I don't

472
00:28:28,920 --> 00:28:32,319
know when you did this list, but yeah, Brandon Donovan,

473
00:28:34,039 --> 00:28:36,599
I think people because people also in the comments on

474
00:28:36,720 --> 00:28:39,759
Rasbell had some questions. So I just wanted to say

475
00:28:40,079 --> 00:28:45,279
real quick on Brandon Donovan, I think he is exactly

476
00:28:45,400 --> 00:28:48,079
who's who he thought he was. He just had a

477
00:28:48,400 --> 00:28:51,960
he had a well on Sunday. He got lucky with

478
00:28:52,079 --> 00:28:54,440
a whole I'm not lucky, but I mean the home

479
00:28:54,519 --> 00:28:59,480
run barely cleared defense. And I don't think Brandon Donovan

480
00:28:59,559 --> 00:29:02,640
now is a home run hitter. It's just like it's

481
00:29:02,680 --> 00:29:05,400
just a small sample size thing. So I just want

482
00:29:05,480 --> 00:29:08,960
to say that real quick. And for Will Smith, yeah,

483
00:29:09,000 --> 00:29:11,880
I don't think anything of Will Smith really either. You know,

484
00:29:12,160 --> 00:29:16,480
he's fine for counting stats and like you know, he's

485
00:29:16,480 --> 00:29:18,039
in a good line He'll be in a good line

486
00:29:18,119 --> 00:29:22,119
up all year. But I don't think he's suddenly breaking

487
00:29:22,160 --> 00:29:24,119
out or something. He's Will Smith.

488
00:29:25,240 --> 00:29:28,279
Speaker 1: Yeah, Will Smith is who he is. And yeah, Brendan Donovan,

489
00:29:28,599 --> 00:29:31,559
I agree. I don't think there's anything. I don't think,

490
00:29:31,759 --> 00:29:35,119
you know, breakout season incoming at age twenty nine, going

491
00:29:35,160 --> 00:29:38,880
from Saint Louis to Seattle. I don't really foresee that

492
00:29:38,920 --> 00:29:41,720
he's gotten, he's gotten a couple of pitches just right

493
00:29:41,799 --> 00:29:44,160
up in his wheels at Wheelhouse that he's been able

494
00:29:44,200 --> 00:29:48,200
to just barely hit out of the park. So again,

495
00:29:48,319 --> 00:29:51,920
good for him. Would not expect it to continue. Somebody,

496
00:29:51,960 --> 00:29:54,839
I think there may be something here, and that's Nolan Chanelle.

497
00:29:55,039 --> 00:29:56,920
Four games t when he played appearances he has two

498
00:29:56,960 --> 00:30:01,440
and runs, he's inning three thirteen. He's just kind of

499
00:30:01,519 --> 00:30:05,319
been slowly getting a little bit better each season. Is

500
00:30:05,359 --> 00:30:07,960
this the we're gonna see a little bit more than

501
00:30:08,000 --> 00:30:12,559
a slow rise or is this another one where just

502
00:30:12,599 --> 00:30:15,400
a nice weekend where we're still gonna get Nolan Chanelle.

503
00:30:15,559 --> 00:30:18,799
Speaker 2: I thought, you know, I thought like you and I

504
00:30:19,240 --> 00:30:22,119
I was thinking Nolan Chanelle might be breaking out. I

505
00:30:22,240 --> 00:30:25,039
was thinking similar, I think to what you were thinking.

506
00:30:25,880 --> 00:30:28,319
And while you were saying that, I looked up his

507
00:30:28,519 --> 00:30:34,160
game log for last year and would you believe would

508
00:30:34,240 --> 00:30:40,480
you believe Nolan Chanelle had back to back homers April thirteenth,

509
00:30:40,599 --> 00:30:45,400
twelfth and thirteenth of last year, So you know, and

510
00:30:45,720 --> 00:30:48,640
that led nowhere and that was, you know, I mean,

511
00:30:48,680 --> 00:30:52,240
within the first two weeks of the season. So I

512
00:30:52,279 --> 00:30:55,519
don't know. I kind of thought this might have been

513
00:30:55,559 --> 00:30:58,519
a breakout in Nolan Chanelle. I kind of felt similar

514
00:30:58,559 --> 00:31:01,440
to you. But you know, now that I look at

515
00:31:01,480 --> 00:31:04,880
his game log from last year, I mean he did,

516
00:31:05,400 --> 00:31:07,640
he did have moment. He did have back to back

517
00:31:07,720 --> 00:31:12,160
games with homers, and it didn't do anything. It didn't

518
00:31:12,240 --> 00:31:14,920
lead to anything. So I don't know, man, I I'm

519
00:31:15,039 --> 00:31:19,119
kind of now, I'm I'm kind of backpedaling in my

520
00:31:19,240 --> 00:31:22,279
thoughts on Nolan Chanell. I was kind of more excited

521
00:31:22,319 --> 00:31:27,039
about him before I saw that. Yeah, it's too it's

522
00:31:27,079 --> 00:31:29,200
too early to say. It's probably too early to say

523
00:31:29,200 --> 00:31:32,440
for all these guys to be totally honest, but I mean,

524
00:31:32,559 --> 00:31:36,279
I I don't know. I did like Chanel for a

525
00:31:36,400 --> 00:31:40,519
couple years and he did nothing, so I kind of

526
00:31:40,599 --> 00:31:43,599
want to believe, but I don't know. It's too early

527
00:31:43,680 --> 00:31:47,160
to say it's a good sign though. I mean, if

528
00:31:47,200 --> 00:31:50,359
he has two more homers this week, and you know

529
00:31:50,400 --> 00:31:52,920
we're talking about him next week with four homers and

530
00:31:53,000 --> 00:31:56,400
still hitting three hundred, I might, I might be, I

531
00:31:56,480 --> 00:31:57,720
might be more excited again.

532
00:31:59,160 --> 00:32:01,480
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I would say the thing that the

533
00:32:01,559 --> 00:32:03,799
things that I'm monitoring, or the launch angle and the

534
00:32:03,839 --> 00:32:07,720
hard hit, they've both been climbing a little bit each season.

535
00:32:08,240 --> 00:32:11,279
And so if there's a little bit of like he

536
00:32:11,359 --> 00:32:14,279
maintains the launch angle and he maintains the hard hit,

537
00:32:14,799 --> 00:32:18,680
that gets him to a more reasonable position. I don't

538
00:32:18,720 --> 00:32:22,160
think there's a huge, like thirty home run breakout coming,

539
00:32:22,720 --> 00:32:26,640
But if he could just get to the low twenties

540
00:32:26,640 --> 00:32:30,240
in home runs and at two seventy average, like, that's fine.

541
00:32:30,319 --> 00:32:34,039
That's fine for a you know, deep league corner infield guy.

542
00:32:34,119 --> 00:32:38,240
And that's really all I think he is. So yeah,

543
00:32:38,359 --> 00:32:41,400
I like him. I think that there's value here. But

544
00:32:41,519 --> 00:32:45,200
even with a breakout, I don't think we're seeing crazy stuff.

545
00:32:45,200 --> 00:32:48,960
It's he's got a great eye. He does not hit

546
00:32:49,039 --> 00:32:52,359
the ball particularly hard. He is not, you know, on

547
00:32:52,440 --> 00:32:56,359
an Aaron Judge staying level in regards to have eggs

548
00:32:56,359 --> 00:32:59,279
of losity and hard hit. But if he just lift

549
00:32:59,319 --> 00:33:01,559
a few more than then maybe there's there's a little

550
00:33:01,559 --> 00:33:06,440
bit of fantasy goodness here. All right, let's talk about

551
00:33:06,480 --> 00:33:09,359
some rookies. Great gonna move outside of the play rader

552
00:33:09,400 --> 00:33:11,480
a little bit, but you know, these are the guys

553
00:33:11,519 --> 00:33:13,799
that we don't have as much track record on. So

554
00:33:14,640 --> 00:33:19,000
where we formulate our opinions early can give us value

555
00:33:19,160 --> 00:33:23,559
or really screw us later on JJ Weatherhold is number

556
00:33:23,559 --> 00:33:26,960
twelve on the play Rader. Actually three games, fifteen plate

557
00:33:27,039 --> 00:33:29,440
appearance is he has a home run, a stolen base.

558
00:33:29,680 --> 00:33:32,799
He's hitting three h eight in a sub seven percent

559
00:33:32,880 --> 00:33:35,599
strikeout right, which I believe it means he struck out once.

560
00:33:36,440 --> 00:33:40,039
So where what are your thoughts here? On JJ weatherhol

561
00:33:40,079 --> 00:33:41,440
We didn't know if he was gonna have a job

562
00:33:41,720 --> 00:33:44,119
or not coming out of camp, and they said he was,

563
00:33:45,240 --> 00:33:47,079
But now he does and he's performing.

564
00:33:47,880 --> 00:33:51,440
Speaker 2: He also has a six point seven walk, right, do

565
00:33:51,480 --> 00:33:53,200
you know how many times that means he walked?

566
00:33:54,279 --> 00:33:55,200
Speaker 1: I'm guessing what.

567
00:33:57,119 --> 00:34:00,440
Speaker 2: You're good? Look at v don I think the B

568
00:34:00,680 --> 00:34:07,920
stands for brain. I think I think Weatherholt is probably

569
00:34:08,079 --> 00:34:10,800
like there was so many I mean, there's so many

570
00:34:10,840 --> 00:34:14,119
different narratives that sort of latch onto in the preseason.

571
00:34:14,519 --> 00:34:19,679
It's kind of hard to know what exactly to go with. Uh,

572
00:34:19,719 --> 00:34:22,159
and like you know, and it's like oh, if one

573
00:34:22,480 --> 00:34:27,719
if one thing works, and and that's like somehow confirmation

574
00:34:27,840 --> 00:34:30,559
bias then jumps on and it's like yeah, weather Holt,

575
00:34:31,119 --> 00:34:36,000
And you know, I could see Weatherholt being a you know,

576
00:34:36,679 --> 00:34:41,920
top seventy five overall fantasy player. With like, you know,

577
00:34:42,039 --> 00:34:49,000
twenty homers, fifteen steals to seventy average, like everything is there.

578
00:34:49,760 --> 00:34:52,519
I think, you know, he was probably a little bit

579
00:34:52,599 --> 00:34:55,280
underrated in the preseason, and like you know, a lot

580
00:34:55,320 --> 00:34:57,559
of people like I don't know how many leagues I

581
00:34:57,639 --> 00:35:02,280
was in, whereas like Connor Griffin was going before weather

582
00:35:02,360 --> 00:35:07,199
Hold or for more money in an auction, which never

583
00:35:07,280 --> 00:35:10,039
really made sense. Like I mean, I know at some

584
00:35:10,079 --> 00:35:12,440
point Connor Griffin's gonna get called up and everyone's gonna

585
00:35:12,440 --> 00:35:14,360
be like, oh, kind of Grifflin. But I mean weather

586
00:35:14,440 --> 00:35:18,519
Hold's good, like there's no there's no reason why, and

587
00:35:18,559 --> 00:35:21,719
he's like, what's he batting leadoff for? You know, the

588
00:35:21,760 --> 00:35:25,039
Cardinals not a good team obviously, but you know, batting

589
00:35:25,119 --> 00:35:30,719
leadoff for a major league team, that's something. Yeah, I

590
00:35:30,840 --> 00:35:35,679
like Weatherholt. You know, he's he's shown incredible plate discipline

591
00:35:35,800 --> 00:35:38,800
for his entire minor league career. There's no reason to

592
00:35:38,840 --> 00:35:41,679
believe that that's going to just dissipate. I think the

593
00:35:41,800 --> 00:35:47,079
power looks real, the steals are real. Everything's there. I

594
00:35:47,079 --> 00:35:50,760
mean five tool player for you know, a five category

595
00:35:51,000 --> 00:35:55,320
for fantasy. Maybe I'm even under selling them by top

596
00:35:55,360 --> 00:35:59,679
seventy five, Like if he gets to twenty homers in

597
00:36:00,199 --> 00:36:03,400
he steals in two seventy, it's gonna be top fifty.

598
00:36:03,599 --> 00:36:04,159
Speaker 1: It's good.

599
00:36:04,360 --> 00:36:07,519
Speaker 2: I mean, there's nothing wrong with JJ Weatherholt. It'll just

600
00:36:07,599 --> 00:36:09,880
be like, you know, probably a little bit of hit

601
00:36:09,960 --> 00:36:13,559
on excuse me on counting stats because the Cardinals aren't

602
00:36:13,639 --> 00:36:16,639
very good, but you know that is what it is.

603
00:36:17,679 --> 00:36:20,440
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean you basically just described your boy. Michael

604
00:36:20,440 --> 00:36:21,639
Harris is what I just heard.

605
00:36:22,079 --> 00:36:26,039
Speaker 2: Yeah, Michael Harris. Yes, Michael Rhris is the second not

606
00:36:26,199 --> 00:36:32,360
his dad. I saw Michael Harris the second home word,

607
00:36:33,360 --> 00:36:35,920
I believe this weekend and I went to look at

608
00:36:35,960 --> 00:36:38,280
the box score and I was like, oh, yeah, he's hitting.

609
00:36:38,679 --> 00:36:42,639
I mean some of the lineups this I mean, I

610
00:36:42,639 --> 00:36:44,599
think we're gonna talk about lineups in a little bit,

611
00:36:44,920 --> 00:36:47,599
but some of the lineups this opening weekend was like,

612
00:36:47,679 --> 00:36:50,400
oh my god, this guy is so crackers. Like what

613
00:36:50,760 --> 00:36:54,239
is like what Michael Harris is seconds hitting nine? Like

614
00:36:54,679 --> 00:36:58,679
people somewhere along the line someone said to a major

615
00:36:58,760 --> 00:37:03,159
league manager something about like, oh he's the second leadoff guy.

616
00:37:03,719 --> 00:37:06,679
That like that's stuck man, that that's stuck in the

617
00:37:06,719 --> 00:37:10,159
major league manager crawl, and it's like that ain't coming

618
00:37:10,239 --> 00:37:13,480
out that is in their brains. And they see a

619
00:37:13,519 --> 00:37:17,320
guy who's got like leadoff potential, but they have a

620
00:37:17,400 --> 00:37:20,000
leadoff hitter already, and they're like, oh, I'm gonna put

621
00:37:20,039 --> 00:37:24,400
him ninth, Like what, No, No, don't put him ninth,

622
00:37:24,519 --> 00:37:27,920
put him second, put him number two in the order.

623
00:37:28,559 --> 00:37:32,679
Oh man. Like it's like, I like Ozzy Alby's and all,

624
00:37:32,800 --> 00:37:36,760
and I don't mind him hitting like third, but I

625
00:37:36,800 --> 00:37:39,840
mean it's kind of crazy to be like Michael Harris

626
00:37:39,840 --> 00:37:43,599
the second ninth and Ozzy Alby's hitting third, Like I mean,

627
00:37:44,400 --> 00:37:46,280
and you know, I'm not a fan of Michael Harris

628
00:37:46,280 --> 00:37:48,840
a second, but still, I mean that's crackers. Like that

629
00:37:48,920 --> 00:37:52,639
makes me no sense, Like put Harris the second in

630
00:37:52,679 --> 00:37:57,599
the two hole, Drake Baldwin hit three, Ozzy Alby's hit

631
00:37:57,639 --> 00:38:01,480
clean up or fifth, like Matt Olsen hit clean up,

632
00:38:01,679 --> 00:38:04,760
Ozzy Alby's hits fifth or you know, even six, but

633
00:38:05,920 --> 00:38:09,039
Harris hitting ninth, Like what doesn't make sense?

634
00:38:09,079 --> 00:38:09,320
Speaker 1: Yeah?

635
00:38:09,960 --> 00:38:10,320
Speaker 2: I don't.

636
00:38:10,360 --> 00:38:13,639
Speaker 1: I don't understand it. And I mean everything you said

637
00:38:13,679 --> 00:38:17,480
is accurate. That the part that really confuses me is

638
00:38:17,559 --> 00:38:22,840
mike Y Strimsky hitting above him like they're both lefties.

639
00:38:23,679 --> 00:38:26,760
Like why is you Strimsky hitting in the middle of

640
00:38:26,800 --> 00:38:31,639
the lineup and Michael Harris is eighth or ninth, Like

641
00:38:31,679 --> 00:38:34,480
do you do you understand the players that you have?

642
00:38:34,840 --> 00:38:40,920
Speaker 2: Like no, no, no idea, no, no clueless, no, because

643
00:38:40,960 --> 00:38:43,719
they'll be like Michael Harris the second will hit ninth

644
00:38:43,920 --> 00:38:47,199
and it's like Mauricio de Bond's above him, Dominic Smith's

645
00:38:47,199 --> 00:38:51,280
above him, Your Shrimpsky's above him, Like what is above him?

646
00:38:51,519 --> 00:38:54,400
What are you talking about? Why wouldn't you put the

647
00:38:54,480 --> 00:38:57,280
Bond above him? Why would you put Don Smith of them?

648
00:38:57,440 --> 00:39:00,400
I know Dom Smith hit the Grand Slam, but an

649
00:39:00,400 --> 00:39:02,920
opening day, but still, I mean, come on, man, that's like,

650
00:39:03,199 --> 00:39:06,880
I mean, like that doesn't look sense, Like like it's

651
00:39:06,920 --> 00:39:09,440
not like like you don't have to have your your

652
00:39:09,679 --> 00:39:15,920
best guy, your best possible, your your second best leadoff

653
00:39:16,000 --> 00:39:20,000
hitter hit ninth. Like that doesn't make sense. That's like,

654
00:39:20,320 --> 00:39:23,159
if you have a leadoff hitter and then you have

655
00:39:23,239 --> 00:39:26,079
a guy who's the second best leadoff hitter, you don't

656
00:39:26,119 --> 00:39:33,400
put them below Dom Smith? What ah, it's crazy anyway, Yeah, I.

657
00:39:33,320 --> 00:39:35,239
Speaker 1: Mean we're not talking about it, and we're not talking

658
00:39:35,280 --> 00:39:38,480
about like the best offense in baseball like it was

659
00:39:38,840 --> 00:39:42,400
you know, three four years ago or whatever year that was,

660
00:39:42,559 --> 00:39:45,480
Like at that point you could maybe make the case

661
00:39:45,519 --> 00:39:48,840
for it. Now you like, the Braves offense kind of sucks.

662
00:39:48,960 --> 00:39:52,159
You need everybody you that can hit at the top

663
00:39:52,199 --> 00:39:56,320
of that lineup helping Ronald Acunia do something with this

664
00:39:56,840 --> 00:39:59,039
roster because everybody has just falling off.

665
00:39:59,320 --> 00:40:02,119
Speaker 2: No exactly, I just want, like, I want someone who's like,

666
00:40:02,199 --> 00:40:05,039
who here's a major league manager to be like, well, yeah, no,

667
00:40:05,079 --> 00:40:07,199
he's hitting ninth, so he can he can turn the

668
00:40:07,280 --> 00:40:09,599
lineup over. I want I want someone to hear that

669
00:40:09,679 --> 00:40:12,800
and be like, but you know that means he's gonna

670
00:40:12,800 --> 00:40:17,360
get less at bats than everyone above him, Right, you

671
00:40:17,440 --> 00:40:20,679
can't turn the lineup over. If Maurice who Dubon is

672
00:40:20,760 --> 00:40:24,960
hitting above you and making an out, that's the end

673
00:40:24,960 --> 00:40:29,840
of the lineup. That's dupond. If Dubon's hitting in front

674
00:40:29,880 --> 00:40:31,000
of him, then.

675
00:40:31,000 --> 00:40:34,920
Speaker 3: There's no way to turn the line up after doesn't

676
00:40:34,960 --> 00:40:35,599
make sense.

677
00:40:36,199 --> 00:40:38,119
Speaker 2: It's crazy, okay.

678
00:40:38,079 --> 00:40:41,239
Speaker 1: And the first time through the rotation, which is you know,

679
00:40:41,400 --> 00:40:43,519
then the one that you can play out the most,

680
00:40:44,079 --> 00:40:47,280
it's most likely he's gonna get third in the third inning,

681
00:40:48,079 --> 00:40:52,119
and like, and even if he gets on there's two

682
00:40:52,199 --> 00:40:55,840
outs in the third inning. Like it's just it's so dumb.

683
00:40:56,800 --> 00:40:59,440
Let's move on, Gray, Let's talk about some other rookies.

684
00:41:00,000 --> 00:41:02,840
I'm gonna talk about a comedy has three games, three

685
00:41:02,840 --> 00:41:06,400
home runs, three thirty three and a thirty strikeout. Right,

686
00:41:06,440 --> 00:41:10,880
he loves the number three like nobody I've ever seen her.

687
00:41:10,880 --> 00:41:17,320
Speaker 2: Thirteen played appearances. Uh yeah, I you know, I think

688
00:41:17,559 --> 00:41:22,320
more comedy. So I said this earlier with Devers and

689
00:41:22,800 --> 00:41:25,760
the laughter, but I I feel and I said I

690
00:41:25,880 --> 00:41:28,639
actually I wrote this on rasball, but I feel like

691
00:41:28,840 --> 00:41:31,599
more comedy. At the end of the day, it's gonna

692
00:41:31,639 --> 00:41:34,639
be like and speaking of the Braves, I think more

693
00:41:34,760 --> 00:41:37,559
comedy is gonna be like the guy that you wish

694
00:41:37,639 --> 00:41:41,360
you took instead of Austin Riley at the back end

695
00:41:41,480 --> 00:41:44,079
of the top one hundred. Like more comedy for me,

696
00:41:44,400 --> 00:41:47,679
Like like he's he looks like a thirty homer hitter.

697
00:41:47,840 --> 00:41:51,079
I mean, there's there's definitely gonna be some strikeout concerns

698
00:41:51,119 --> 00:41:53,960
and a little bit of average concerns. So he hits

699
00:41:53,960 --> 00:41:59,039
two forty and thirty plus homers, and he's also got

700
00:41:59,039 --> 00:42:01,320
a little bit of speed too, like he might steal

701
00:42:02,239 --> 00:42:05,639
ten bags. So yeah, I like more Kami a ton.

702
00:42:06,000 --> 00:42:09,599
I drafted him everywhere. I More Kami is probably my

703
00:42:09,800 --> 00:42:14,239
most rostered player. I drafted him everywhere because I know

704
00:42:14,320 --> 00:42:17,599
there's no way the White Sox were bringing him in

705
00:42:17,719 --> 00:42:20,280
and paying that money and not playing them. So we

706
00:42:20,360 --> 00:42:23,519
knew that for sure. And if you look at his numbers,

707
00:42:23,559 --> 00:42:26,119
we have a large enough sample size now with with

708
00:42:26,239 --> 00:42:30,119
hitters coming over from Japan, we know what guys are

709
00:42:30,119 --> 00:42:33,960
gonna do. And more Kami hit fifty six homers, stole

710
00:42:34,039 --> 00:42:38,360
twelve bags, and hit three eighteen in Japan. He's not

711
00:42:38,400 --> 00:42:40,519
gonna do that in the US. But he's not gonna

712
00:42:40,559 --> 00:42:42,920
be a total bust either, Like he's not gonna be

713
00:42:43,000 --> 00:42:46,280
like awful. We know he's gonna hit for power. He's

714
00:42:46,360 --> 00:42:50,559
got a power swing. Like I'm I love I love

715
00:42:50,599 --> 00:42:52,320
more Kami.

716
00:42:52,760 --> 00:42:56,840
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think I love him too. He has three hits.

717
00:42:56,840 --> 00:43:00,480
They are all home runs. Great, so he just that up.

718
00:43:00,559 --> 00:43:02,719
Just everything he hits. You can just be a home run.

719
00:43:02,760 --> 00:43:06,719
That'd be phenomenal. Let's talk about another guy, Dominic Canzone

720
00:43:07,119 --> 00:43:10,079
four games, twelve plate appearances to them runs. He's hitting

721
00:43:10,159 --> 00:43:14,079
three hundred, has not struck out yet. I do not

722
00:43:14,280 --> 00:43:17,320
have a lot of shares about Dominic Canzone if I'm

723
00:43:17,320 --> 00:43:19,159
being honest, but should I agree?

724
00:43:20,599 --> 00:43:24,239
Speaker 2: Yeah, I like them. I wrote a sleeper post on

725
00:43:24,280 --> 00:43:27,760
him and it was probably the least red post of

726
00:43:27,800 --> 00:43:31,960
mine for the last ten years. I really like Canzone.

727
00:43:31,960 --> 00:43:34,639
I mean his hard hit percentage. You look at his

728
00:43:34,800 --> 00:43:38,960
like like last year he only hit eleven point two

729
00:43:39,000 --> 00:43:45,199
percent of balls quote unquote soft. Everything else was either

730
00:43:45,320 --> 00:43:49,960
medium or hard contact. He hits a decent homer per

731
00:43:50,000 --> 00:43:53,159
five balls, always been decent. His five balls have been

732
00:43:53,199 --> 00:43:57,039
good line drives. He's a good hitter. I you know,

733
00:43:57,119 --> 00:43:59,599
I feel like he was also going at like four

734
00:43:59,719 --> 00:44:03,280
hundred and fifty overall in drafts, so it was super late.

735
00:44:03,440 --> 00:44:06,039
So it was definitely about the price a little bit.

736
00:44:06,119 --> 00:44:11,280
But I liked Canzone then I still do. I don't know.

737
00:44:11,360 --> 00:44:14,320
It's like it's a little bit tough because he will

738
00:44:14,360 --> 00:44:17,320
platoon because he's a lefties, so he's not going to

739
00:44:17,400 --> 00:44:20,639
face any lefties, so that's a little bit of a

740
00:44:20,760 --> 00:44:25,519
problem for his overall value. But I don't think he's

741
00:44:25,559 --> 00:44:28,280
going to be that different than Carry Carpenter.

742
00:44:30,639 --> 00:44:32,920
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I would rather have Carry Carpenter, But

743
00:44:33,159 --> 00:44:34,679
I think at the end of the year, the line

744
00:44:34,760 --> 00:44:37,039
might be similar, just because Carry Carpenter never plays a

745
00:44:37,039 --> 00:44:40,199
full set of games, so I could definitely see that.

746
00:44:41,119 --> 00:44:44,360
I didn't know if can Zone had a job, and

747
00:44:44,920 --> 00:44:47,760
he's definitely down in the lineup. So those are my

748
00:44:47,760 --> 00:44:51,079
biggest concerns with them, and that ballpark as well. But

749
00:44:51,920 --> 00:44:54,400
so far, so good with him, and absolutely if you

750
00:44:54,480 --> 00:44:57,199
have him or if he's available, I would grab him

751
00:44:57,199 --> 00:44:59,920
and ride him while he's hitting well. And you know,

752
00:45:00,079 --> 00:45:03,000
he only had eighty two games last year. He performed

753
00:45:03,039 --> 00:45:05,400
well in those eighty two games, so we can just

754
00:45:05,440 --> 00:45:08,199
do that for a full season. That's that's a useful player.

755
00:45:09,880 --> 00:45:12,559
Let's talk about the guy that I was very sad

756
00:45:12,599 --> 00:45:15,519
to leave the Cubs, and that is Owen Casey. Through

757
00:45:16,000 --> 00:45:18,199
three games, ten plate appearances, he has a home run

758
00:45:18,239 --> 00:45:21,199
in stone base, he's hitting five hundred. I believe one

759
00:45:21,199 --> 00:45:24,880
of those is a game winning hit. So yeah, everything's

760
00:45:24,960 --> 00:45:29,559
going great. Owen Casey is phenomenal, and the Cubs are

761
00:45:30,440 --> 00:45:32,000
you know, we have one win.

762
00:45:34,920 --> 00:45:39,360
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's early, you know in Casey speaking of dumb

763
00:45:39,400 --> 00:45:44,320
managers with lineup decisions. On Sunday, Owen Casey was sitting

764
00:45:44,440 --> 00:45:49,760
for Austin Slater. Come on, man, I mean the only

765
00:45:50,599 --> 00:45:57,239
really the only bright spot for the Marlins, like future wise,

766
00:45:57,360 --> 00:46:00,400
Like you know, I like Xavier Edwards and marsh and

767
00:46:00,519 --> 00:46:04,159
Otto Lopez, but like for like a guy who they

768
00:46:04,199 --> 00:46:08,000
went out and got with, Owen Casey, like they traded

769
00:46:08,079 --> 00:46:12,199
for him. They obviously they they have like high hopes

770
00:46:12,239 --> 00:46:17,360
for him, and they're benching him for Austin Slater, a

771
00:46:17,519 --> 00:46:21,480
quad a thirty three year old, Like come on, man,

772
00:46:21,760 --> 00:46:25,400
Like that's just dumb. Like it's like you're three games

773
00:46:25,400 --> 00:46:28,880
into the season and you're benching like you're one real

774
00:46:29,039 --> 00:46:32,599
like like Owen Casey. They you should if you're the Marlins,

775
00:46:32,599 --> 00:46:34,880
you should want to see him face everyone. You should

776
00:46:34,920 --> 00:46:38,679
want to see what he's capable of. Instead you bench

777
00:46:38,760 --> 00:46:41,840
out for Austin Slater Like what, let's just stupid.

778
00:46:42,480 --> 00:46:46,119
Speaker 1: It's not like they have a shortage of lefties to binch,

779
00:46:46,239 --> 00:46:49,519
Like it could have been anybody in that lineup except

780
00:46:49,519 --> 00:46:50,239
Owen Casey.

781
00:46:50,320 --> 00:46:55,800
Speaker 2: Really right, Yeah, it's just dumb. It's just so dumb. Yeah,

782
00:46:55,840 --> 00:46:58,000
I mean, I like going Casey. I think people are

783
00:46:58,000 --> 00:47:01,800
worried a little bit about his strikeout rate. Potentially if

784
00:47:01,800 --> 00:47:04,800
he's getting benched against lefty, is that's gonna hurt his

785
00:47:04,840 --> 00:47:08,480
counting stats, but he does have good power, a little

786
00:47:08,480 --> 00:47:11,800
bit of speed. I think you probably do worse in

787
00:47:11,840 --> 00:47:15,719
like fifteen team next league, and deeper in the twelve

788
00:47:15,760 --> 00:47:18,000
teen mixt League. You're probably gonna have to platoon a

789
00:47:18,039 --> 00:47:21,079
little bit. But I like it on Casey. I'm I'm

790
00:47:21,119 --> 00:47:22,760
excited to see what he can do this year, but

791
00:47:23,000 --> 00:47:26,000
I don't know if he's He's not on the same

792
00:47:26,079 --> 00:47:31,440
level as like more Comedy or weather Holt, But yeah,

793
00:47:31,559 --> 00:47:33,039
I do like him, though.

794
00:47:33,960 --> 00:47:35,480
Speaker 1: Now I don't think you will be this year. I'm

795
00:47:35,519 --> 00:47:37,440
not saying he can't be long term, because again, I

796
00:47:37,480 --> 00:47:40,239
really do like his bat, but this year I would

797
00:47:40,239 --> 00:47:43,320
assume he's gonna run into some growing pains at some point,

798
00:47:43,920 --> 00:47:46,639
just because there are gaps in that swing. Let's talk

799
00:47:46,679 --> 00:47:50,639
about Brady House for the Nationals. He has three games

800
00:47:50,679 --> 00:47:52,719
fourteen playing Appearency is a home run. He's sitting in

801
00:47:52,800 --> 00:47:55,960
three zero eight. Is this is this something we should

802
00:47:55,960 --> 00:47:57,519
put on our radars here? Great?

803
00:47:59,199 --> 00:48:03,840
Speaker 2: Probably not, But I mean in an NL only, there's

804
00:48:04,000 --> 00:48:09,239
there's worse guys to have, like potential upside from I

805
00:48:09,760 --> 00:48:12,119
don't know if he's I don't know if he's really

806
00:48:12,119 --> 00:48:16,719
on mix league. Maybe fifteen team mix league and deeper,

807
00:48:16,800 --> 00:48:21,840
but it's kind of borderline. I don't mind him for

808
00:48:22,039 --> 00:48:25,079
upside though, and I will be watching to see if

809
00:48:25,119 --> 00:48:28,199
like he can string together a couple more good games,

810
00:48:28,199 --> 00:48:30,920
because he could get on twelve team mix league gradars.

811
00:48:30,920 --> 00:48:33,440
But I don't think he is yet.

812
00:48:34,440 --> 00:48:37,719
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't think he's quite in a shallow twelve

813
00:48:37,800 --> 00:48:40,039
team like our rcl A lot. I know there's definitely

814
00:48:40,079 --> 00:48:42,880
deeper twelve teams. I've played in deeper twelve twelve teams,

815
00:48:43,239 --> 00:48:44,800
so I think in those you could you could take

816
00:48:44,840 --> 00:48:47,480
a shot on him. And he's hitting, you know, third

817
00:48:47,480 --> 00:48:51,760
in the lineup most days, which if he's hitting three, four, five,

818
00:48:52,599 --> 00:48:55,760
that in itself is gonna have value. So I really

819
00:48:55,800 --> 00:48:57,920
don't mind grabbing up Brady House if he's sitting out

820
00:48:57,960 --> 00:49:01,559
there next up South Stuart. I think I was asked

821
00:49:01,559 --> 00:49:04,639
about him a couple of different places. Three games, thirteen

822
00:49:04,639 --> 00:49:07,719
played appearances. He's a home run and he's hitting seven

823
00:49:07,920 --> 00:49:12,239
hundred grade. I have self Stewart everywhere you mentioned you

824
00:49:12,239 --> 00:49:16,199
know guys that might be our most owned players across leagues.

825
00:49:16,519 --> 00:49:18,599
Mine very well might be sal Stewart.

826
00:49:19,159 --> 00:49:22,639
Speaker 2: Yeah, he might be my my, my biggest regret for

827
00:49:22,760 --> 00:49:26,119
not rostering him. I like him a lot, I just

828
00:49:26,159 --> 00:49:30,960
don't have him. He's gonna like if you give him

829
00:49:31,079 --> 00:49:34,719
five hundred at bats, five hundred and twenty at bats

830
00:49:34,800 --> 00:49:37,679
or something. You know, it's hard to see. It's hard

831
00:49:37,679 --> 00:49:41,519
to see him really being that bad. Like he's never

832
00:49:41,599 --> 00:49:44,840
really had a strikeout issues in the minor leagues. He's

833
00:49:44,880 --> 00:49:49,960
super young, he's got huge power, a little bit of speed.

834
00:49:50,480 --> 00:49:55,000
Like he another guy who I mean, if I'm you know,

835
00:49:55,239 --> 00:50:00,000
saying like, what's you call it? If what's his face?

836
00:50:00,159 --> 00:50:03,000
More common? Can be better than Austin Riley. I mean

837
00:50:03,079 --> 00:50:06,000
south Stewart can too. I don't see why not. I

838
00:50:06,440 --> 00:50:10,400
like south Stewart a ton. I think he's he's the

839
00:50:10,480 --> 00:50:12,800
shallowest of leagues. I like south Stewart.

840
00:50:13,719 --> 00:50:17,840
Speaker 1: Yep, agreed. Now we have your boy, Kevin McGonagall. We

841
00:50:17,880 --> 00:50:22,800
already know that you love him. He's hitting four seventeen, Gray,

842
00:50:22,840 --> 00:50:24,000
did you want to say anything real quick?

843
00:50:24,079 --> 00:50:26,440
Speaker 2: Yeah, So he's hitting four seventeen and he had a

844
00:50:26,480 --> 00:50:30,960
home run robbed by Jackson Merrill. I mean, come on, mcgonaga, man,

845
00:50:31,000 --> 00:50:32,360
we gotta go no.

846
00:50:34,119 --> 00:50:38,760
Speaker 1: Logical all right, Grety, We're moving on to the injuries section.

847
00:50:38,880 --> 00:50:42,679
Of the podcast. Jackson Churio has a hairline fracture in

848
00:50:42,679 --> 00:50:45,360
his hand. He's out two to four weeks. Happened in

849
00:50:45,400 --> 00:50:49,880
the WBC. He returned to Action had MRI that revealed

850
00:50:49,920 --> 00:50:52,559
he does have a hairline fracture. So that that sucks,

851
00:50:52,639 --> 00:50:55,559
especially if you drafted him in that period between the

852
00:50:55,639 --> 00:50:59,920
WBC and you thought he was healthy like myself. South

853
00:51:00,039 --> 00:51:02,559
Frank is locked in in the outfield. But who else

854
00:51:02,599 --> 00:51:05,760
in the outfield is locked in? Or is this just

855
00:51:05,800 --> 00:51:08,320
a rotational group here in Milwaukee?

856
00:51:10,000 --> 00:51:16,800
Speaker 2: Uh? Well, I think, uh, actually, I think, uh, David

857
00:51:16,880 --> 00:51:20,239
Hamilton ended up. So David Hamilton won the third base

858
00:51:20,320 --> 00:51:24,639
job over your boy Rangifo. I know you were upset

859
00:51:24,639 --> 00:51:25,039
about that.

860
00:51:26,800 --> 00:51:29,119
Speaker 1: I'm sorry for your your al onely or you're in

861
00:51:29,159 --> 00:51:29,920
a lonely team.

862
00:51:29,800 --> 00:51:34,840
Speaker 2: Gray, Yeah, yeah, you know my uh. Like, the good

863
00:51:34,920 --> 00:51:38,440
news is no, the bad news is in tow Wars,

864
00:51:38,599 --> 00:51:42,760
I drafted Louis Rengifo for two dollars. The good news

865
00:51:42,880 --> 00:51:45,559
is I drafted David Hamilton for a dollar.

866
00:51:46,119 --> 00:51:51,760
Speaker 3: So, I mean, honestly, if I get you know, thirty

867
00:51:51,840 --> 00:51:55,159
five to forty steals from the both of them, it's

868
00:51:55,199 --> 00:51:56,920
for n no only, I'll take it.

869
00:51:57,400 --> 00:52:03,719
Speaker 2: Anyway, Yeah, south Free is locked in. I think Garrett

870
00:52:03,760 --> 00:52:11,360
Mitchell is probably platooning with Blake Perkins. Garrett uh, and

871
00:52:11,400 --> 00:52:16,360
then uh Lockridge is there too, so probably well, I guess,

872
00:52:16,559 --> 00:52:20,639
I guess it's like four guys for three spots, but

873
00:52:20,760 --> 00:52:23,519
Freelick plays every day, so it's more like three guys

874
00:52:23,519 --> 00:52:28,320
for two spots. So Lockridge, Mitchell, Perkins. I like Mitchell

875
00:52:28,880 --> 00:52:34,079
and Lockridge. Perkins is like, I feel like he's probably

876
00:52:34,159 --> 00:52:38,880
just gonna face lefties when one of when Mitchell or

877
00:52:39,079 --> 00:52:41,760
or someone comes out of line of Mitchell or Bowers

878
00:52:41,880 --> 00:52:46,400
or or someone. And then Gary Sanchez, Oh you didn't

879
00:52:46,440 --> 00:52:48,400
mention that you want to talk about Andrew Vaughn too.

880
00:52:49,199 --> 00:52:51,760
Speaker 1: Yeah, Andrew von has the hand manufacture in his left hand.

881
00:52:51,800 --> 00:52:55,559
Just continues that injury line for this year four to

882
00:52:55,639 --> 00:53:00,280
six weeks. Jake Bowers and Gary Sanchez, as well as

883
00:53:00,360 --> 00:53:03,400
Jefferson Cuero who was called out all in the mix there.

884
00:53:03,480 --> 00:53:05,599
So I'll let you, I'll let yeah.

885
00:53:05,679 --> 00:53:10,199
Speaker 2: So, I mean, how embarrassing is it that, like Lindor

886
00:53:10,280 --> 00:53:17,280
and Jackson Holiday, all these guys that have like the

887
00:53:17,360 --> 00:53:21,320
ham like the hammet, but like the invites for the

888
00:53:21,360 --> 00:53:25,159
fractured hammit bone went out in like February, Like where

889
00:53:25,199 --> 00:53:33,880
Andrew Vaughn, what are you doing? Check your evites bronath.

890
00:53:31,519 --> 00:53:33,800
Speaker 1: The stairs that nobody's nobody's delivered.

891
00:53:33,840 --> 00:53:40,800
Speaker 2: Now, yeah, I think, uh, I think Andrew Vaughn's you know,

892
00:53:40,880 --> 00:53:43,719
he's probably we're looking four to six weeks, so he's

893
00:53:43,760 --> 00:53:49,039
probably replaced by a combination of Gary Sanchez and Jake

894
00:53:49,159 --> 00:53:54,639
Bowers righty lefty platoon there at first base. And then

895
00:53:54,960 --> 00:53:57,480
you know, like you mentioned, they brought up Jefferson Quero,

896
00:53:57,559 --> 00:54:00,360
who's gonna be you know, he'll he'll fill in for

897
00:54:00,559 --> 00:54:05,280
Contreras when Contreras needs a day off from being behind

898
00:54:05,320 --> 00:54:09,199
the plate, which isn't that much really, but occasionally he's

899
00:54:09,239 --> 00:54:13,800
gonna d h and that moves probably moves Yelich to

900
00:54:13,880 --> 00:54:18,119
the outfield, which moves Lockridge probably out. So there's a

901
00:54:18,159 --> 00:54:23,599
lot of moving parts. But Jefferson kiro is not it's

902
00:54:23,679 --> 00:54:27,239
not really roster bull and anything but an NL only,

903
00:54:27,400 --> 00:54:30,159
and even in an NL only, like you gotta be

904
00:54:30,199 --> 00:54:34,119
pretty desperate. I think, like I saw, like, you know,

905
00:54:34,760 --> 00:54:37,559
there's some bids in a couple of my leagues where

906
00:54:37,559 --> 00:54:39,840
I was like, I don't I don't understand what's going on.

907
00:54:39,880 --> 00:54:47,320
Here like between Jefferson Quiro and Davison, Dave Vison, Dela

908
00:54:47,599 --> 00:54:51,639
Santos in the Marlin Like I mean, I I don't

909
00:54:51,679 --> 00:54:54,719
mind Delo Santos if he has a job, but like

910
00:54:55,039 --> 00:54:57,239
he was called up for like a day, like and

911
00:54:57,280 --> 00:55:00,000
they the Marlins. If the Marlins don't want to play,

912
00:55:01,199 --> 00:55:04,559
who's I mean, who's playing of that? If the Marlins

913
00:55:04,599 --> 00:55:06,760
ain't playing them, then I don't know why you're why

914
00:55:06,760 --> 00:55:10,679
you're picking them up. But yeah, so Quero is another

915
00:55:10,719 --> 00:55:13,639
guy where like you know, bids were made and I

916
00:55:13,719 --> 00:55:17,480
don't know, I don't think Quero is playing, which is

917
00:55:17,639 --> 00:55:20,119
it's a little weird for a team to call up

918
00:55:20,119 --> 00:55:23,480
a top prospect and I'm not playing them. But there's

919
00:55:23,519 --> 00:55:26,800
just no I mean, William Contreras is their everyday catcher

920
00:55:27,639 --> 00:55:31,079
and they have so many other guys who need DH spots,

921
00:55:31,159 --> 00:55:33,920
so Quero is is not really going to be in

922
00:55:33,920 --> 00:55:34,800
the mix that much.

923
00:55:35,880 --> 00:55:37,480
Speaker 1: Yeah, and then since we talked about it and you

924
00:55:37,519 --> 00:55:41,119
brought it up, the Brewers are actually so they're sitting

925
00:55:41,199 --> 00:55:44,199
Yellich versus Lefties, and Contreras is getting the time at

926
00:55:44,239 --> 00:55:48,079
the H versus lefties instead of Yelich, which is really

927
00:55:48,119 --> 00:55:54,280
weird because Yelich hits lefties better than Contreras and has

928
00:55:54,320 --> 00:56:00,360
always hit lefties fine, So very confusing in regard to

929
00:56:00,400 --> 00:56:04,280
what they're doing there. And also, Yelich isn't like an invalid.

930
00:56:04,320 --> 00:56:07,760
He can go play left or right field. In Milwaukee,

931
00:56:07,800 --> 00:56:12,639
It's it's not really a difficult place to play the corners.

932
00:56:12,719 --> 00:56:15,920
So I don't really understand what's going on there, But

933
00:56:15,960 --> 00:56:18,360
for now, if you don't Yellich, it's a little bit

934
00:56:18,639 --> 00:56:21,119
concerning that he's gonna be sitting there, if he's gonna

935
00:56:21,159 --> 00:56:24,639
sit versus lefties, And in addition to only being d

936
00:56:24,920 --> 00:56:27,280
H like, that's feels weird.

937
00:56:27,800 --> 00:56:31,519
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, completely, if you're if you're speaking about more

938
00:56:32,440 --> 00:56:38,079
ridiculous lineup decisions, then to bring this full circle back

939
00:56:38,119 --> 00:56:43,159
to Derek Shelton, the the idiot in charge of the Twins.

940
00:56:43,559 --> 00:56:48,559
I mean, this is this is classic just MLB manager brain.

941
00:56:48,920 --> 00:56:54,920
He had Austin Martin hitting leadoff and Royce Lewis hitting eighth.

942
00:56:55,199 --> 00:56:58,280
Now you know, I'm not a huge fan of Royce

943
00:56:58,360 --> 00:57:05,079
Lewis eighth and Austin Martin's hitting lead off, Like why

944
00:57:05,119 --> 00:57:08,480
why why would you do that? Like what what does

945
00:57:08,880 --> 00:57:12,000
like why would you do like that doesn't make sense, Like,

946
00:57:12,119 --> 00:57:17,719
you know, Royce Lewis is actually good, right, Like, let

947
00:57:17,960 --> 00:57:20,679
just bear with me here. Royce Lewis is actually good

948
00:57:21,159 --> 00:57:26,480
and Austin Martin is not good? So what you're doing?

949
00:57:27,079 --> 00:57:31,079
Why would you do that? Like Derek Shelton, it's just

950
00:57:31,320 --> 00:57:33,960
like as soon as the Twins hired him to be

951
00:57:34,039 --> 00:57:36,719
their manager, it should have been like, oh, the Twins

952
00:57:36,719 --> 00:57:40,199
don't they're not trying to win. That's it. You can't

953
00:57:40,239 --> 00:57:43,960
spell Twins without wins. But it ain't happening in Minnesota

954
00:57:44,159 --> 00:57:47,719
because like, whatever they're doing, man, it's not good. I

955
00:57:48,599 --> 00:57:51,960
honestly can't figure out how you could come up to

956
00:57:52,039 --> 00:57:55,159
the come up and be like, Okay, this is the

957
00:57:55,199 --> 00:57:57,440
lineup right here. Seeing now we're gonna go with Cody

958
00:57:57,480 --> 00:57:59,000
Clemens maybe leading off?

959
00:57:59,079 --> 00:57:59,800
Speaker 1: Like what wait?

960
00:58:00,760 --> 00:58:03,440
Speaker 2: Time out? I would be like if I was a

961
00:58:03,559 --> 00:58:09,440
coach in Minnesota, like time out, timeout coach, Derek mister Shelton,

962
00:58:10,599 --> 00:58:14,920
Cody Clemens, No, man, don't want to hit him lead off? Like, okay,

963
00:58:15,079 --> 00:58:17,480
how about we hit Austin Martin leadoff? No, we need

964
00:58:17,519 --> 00:58:21,800
another time out. Not Austin Martin either. Man, you actually

965
00:58:21,880 --> 00:58:28,440
have good players in the Twins lineup Keishaw, Boxton, Royce Lewis.

966
00:58:28,599 --> 00:58:31,880
I mean, there's guys. There are guys there, but the

967
00:58:31,920 --> 00:58:34,159
guys you're putting a lead up, they're not good.

968
00:58:35,760 --> 00:58:39,559
Speaker 1: Yeah, Cody Clemens and Austin Martin seem to have actually

969
00:58:39,639 --> 00:58:46,960
settled in as the split d leadoff hitter for the time.

970
00:58:47,000 --> 00:58:49,800
My mind is just blown because it doesn't make any sense.

971
00:58:49,880 --> 00:58:54,679
You're like, is Cody Clemens good against any particular hand.

972
00:58:54,760 --> 00:58:58,679
You're like, maybe he's really really strong versus writings, And

973
00:58:58,880 --> 00:59:01,920
the answer is no, he had two nineteen last year

974
00:59:02,000 --> 00:59:05,480
versus righties Austin Martin. I'm not even gonna gonna go

975
00:59:05,639 --> 00:59:09,199
down that that. Like, I have no idea what's going on,

976
00:59:10,199 --> 00:59:15,400
Like Cody Clemens has a sub two eighty five on

977
00:59:15,639 --> 00:59:20,719
base like what Like there is no argument for why

978
00:59:20,800 --> 00:59:23,519
either of them belongs at the top of the lineup.

979
00:59:25,480 --> 00:59:28,159
I mean, there's there's a bunch of these. The leadoff

980
00:59:28,239 --> 00:59:32,360
was the biggest just assault of terrible decisions in this

981
00:59:32,480 --> 00:59:36,639
opening week. Gray. We had Rob Refschneider, who I didn't

982
00:59:36,639 --> 00:59:39,880
even realize was in baseball anymore. Like I was pretty

983
00:59:39,920 --> 00:59:43,480
sure he went to Korea and played. Jake Croninworth has

984
00:59:43,559 --> 00:59:48,880
led off twice. Odeo Cruz and Jared Triolo are splitting leadoff.

985
00:59:49,280 --> 00:59:53,159
I love Odeo Cruz, but he is not a leadoff

986
00:59:53,239 --> 00:59:58,440
hitter by any stretch of the imagination. Gray Like, these

987
00:59:58,480 --> 01:00:03,880
things are happening and it's absolutely absurd the.

988
01:00:04,039 --> 01:00:08,960
Speaker 2: H I saw the Pirates lineup a day that they

989
01:00:08,960 --> 01:00:11,360
were facing a lefty and O'Neil Cruz was out of

990
01:00:11,400 --> 01:00:16,039
the lineup and Jared trio Trillo is it was hitting leadoff,

991
01:00:16,320 --> 01:00:19,440
and I was just I I think I spit, I

992
01:00:19,440 --> 01:00:21,519
spent my I did a spit take with boba in

993
01:00:21,599 --> 01:00:23,960
my mouth. I was like, what is what is that?

994
01:00:24,840 --> 01:00:29,000
Wait a minute, Jared Triolo is hitting leadoff? That's I

995
01:00:29,039 --> 01:00:31,920
mean for NL only Jared Triolo gets a little bit

996
01:00:31,920 --> 01:00:35,800
of a bump because he's he's basically playing against everyone

997
01:00:36,159 --> 01:00:41,000
and hitting leadoff against lefties. O'Neil Cruz, though, I gotta say,

998
01:00:42,000 --> 01:00:45,440
I think O'Neil Cruz not only does he need a

999
01:00:45,519 --> 01:00:51,199
change of scenery for sure, but I think he might

1000
01:00:51,280 --> 01:00:54,960
be a boss. Even as late as he was going

1001
01:00:55,000 --> 01:00:58,760
in drafts at like one hundred overall, Like he does

1002
01:00:58,880 --> 01:01:02,199
not look like it does not look good for O'Neil Cruz.

1003
01:01:02,280 --> 01:01:04,920
Man I'm sad to say it, because you know, I've

1004
01:01:04,920 --> 01:01:08,920
been a fan of his, but he's striking out against

1005
01:01:08,960 --> 01:01:13,559
everyone and not playing against half of them. It's not good.

1006
01:01:14,519 --> 01:01:17,960
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean last year he had a phenomenal April

1007
01:01:18,000 --> 01:01:20,440
that kind of held up a lot of his season

1008
01:01:20,519 --> 01:01:24,280
in regards to just the overall numbers. We're gonna need

1009
01:01:24,320 --> 01:01:27,119
a couple of seasons like that at this pace right

1010
01:01:27,159 --> 01:01:29,599
now or month, sorry, a couple of months like that

1011
01:01:30,039 --> 01:01:33,719
at this pace. One last lineup thing just just you know,

1012
01:01:34,400 --> 01:01:37,280
really grinds my gear. So I gotta bring this one up.

1013
01:01:38,079 --> 01:01:41,679
Joe Adell. You know, the Angels, we know, we know

1014
01:01:42,199 --> 01:01:46,719
they hate him, They've hated him for years, but like

1015
01:01:46,840 --> 01:01:50,400
to be this blatant about it, Gray, this blatant about

1016
01:01:50,440 --> 01:01:56,000
it is ridiculous. He's hitting behind Jolan Mancata, Jorge Hilaire

1017
01:01:56,639 --> 01:02:01,119
and Nolan Chanel. Again, I kind ofel for like a

1018
01:02:01,159 --> 01:02:04,599
deep league quarter and field spot. That's fine, Like Yoan

1019
01:02:04,719 --> 01:02:10,159
Moncata barely belongs in Major League Baseball anymore, and Jare

1020
01:02:10,400 --> 01:02:13,920
Hilaire is essentially the same thing. If the Angels and

1021
01:02:14,000 --> 01:02:19,039
the Pirates and the White Sox and the Rockies didn't exist,

1022
01:02:19,199 --> 01:02:21,840
you know, these players would be out of baseball.

1023
01:02:22,119 --> 01:02:26,320
Speaker 2: Year like yeah, Like I would say, like Yon Mankata,

1024
01:02:26,719 --> 01:02:30,119
like he's hitting like under a hundred right now as

1025
01:02:30,159 --> 01:02:34,639
we record this. So I would hope that Kurt Suzuki,

1026
01:02:34,800 --> 01:02:40,920
the Angels manager, if I would hope by like Tuesday

1027
01:02:41,639 --> 01:02:44,840
of this week, he would be like, oh, gotta probably

1028
01:02:44,840 --> 01:02:49,360
shouldn't be hitting fifth. He should probably figure it out.

1029
01:02:49,719 --> 01:02:52,639
And I'll say that hopefully I'll give him the benefit

1030
01:02:52,639 --> 01:02:54,480
of the dad and say, you know, he's a new manager,

1031
01:02:54,519 --> 01:02:57,880
hopefully he can figure it out. But what kind of

1032
01:02:58,039 --> 01:03:01,159
marbles does a guy have in his had to have

1033
01:03:01,239 --> 01:03:05,039
the major league baseball managing job and be like look

1034
01:03:05,039 --> 01:03:09,079
at like past stats, like getting familiar with players and

1035
01:03:09,119 --> 01:03:11,960
being like, Yam, Mancatta is gonna hit in front of

1036
01:03:12,519 --> 01:03:18,280
Adele Like what You're a new manager, you're coming into

1037
01:03:18,280 --> 01:03:22,239
the league. You look at your players and you've evaluated

1038
01:03:22,280 --> 01:03:24,719
them and this is what this is what you've come

1039
01:03:24,800 --> 01:03:26,920
up with that Ya Mancata should hit in front of

1040
01:03:27,000 --> 01:03:29,920
Joe Adell Like what? Like what?

1041
01:03:30,119 --> 01:03:30,239
Speaker 1: Like?

1042
01:03:30,360 --> 01:03:34,360
Speaker 2: I feel like there's certain lineup decisions where it's like

1043
01:03:34,840 --> 01:03:38,400
the manager should get like he should get fined, he

1044
01:03:38,440 --> 01:03:42,119
should be fined, like Kurt Suzuki should be fined because

1045
01:03:42,119 --> 01:03:44,599
it's like, yeah, you're a new manager, but you should

1046
01:03:44,719 --> 01:03:45,599
know better than that.

1047
01:03:45,719 --> 01:03:45,960
Speaker 1: Man.

1048
01:03:46,159 --> 01:03:48,199
Speaker 2: I mean you can look at guy's stats and be

1049
01:03:48,360 --> 01:03:52,320
like st Moncott is not good, like you know, like

1050
01:03:52,360 --> 01:03:55,119
you can see that, right, Like that's a that's the

1051
01:03:55,159 --> 01:03:59,239
first little check to see if like you know what

1052
01:03:59,239 --> 01:04:04,039
you're doing. That's her. That's a safeguard here because if

1053
01:04:04,039 --> 01:04:06,480
you can't figure out ya Moncata is not good by

1054
01:04:06,559 --> 01:04:09,880
just looking at his status and it's like, I don't know, man,

1055
01:04:10,159 --> 01:04:14,599
I feel like maybe you shouldn't be bad. I got worries, man,

1056
01:04:14,719 --> 01:04:18,559
I got worries about you because Yamankata hasn't been good

1057
01:04:18,920 --> 01:04:23,159
since twenty nineteen. And we and if we and you've

1058
01:04:23,159 --> 01:04:25,920
listened to Raspbell podcast, you know there was a bounty

1059
01:04:25,920 --> 01:04:27,119
ball in twenty nineteen.

1060
01:04:28,039 --> 01:04:29,760
Speaker 1: For sure. I don't even think you have less to

1061
01:04:29,840 --> 01:04:37,000
us to know the twenty nineteen was an absurd, absurd year. Absolutely, Gray,

1062
01:04:37,119 --> 01:04:40,960
that's that was ridiculous. Yeah, I mean there's half the

1063
01:04:41,039 --> 01:04:45,960
angels belong in you know, Japan, and then I just

1064
01:04:45,960 --> 01:04:48,840
feel bad for the three or four that actually belonged

1065
01:04:48,840 --> 01:04:50,280
in the majors. It's it's terrible.

1066
01:04:53,599 --> 01:04:57,159
Speaker 2: Is at least at least half the Angels team belongs

1067
01:04:57,199 --> 01:04:59,760
in Japan, But there's a few that belong in Korea.

1068
01:05:03,559 --> 01:05:07,400
You know, let's be honest and ya Mancata might be

1069
01:05:07,480 --> 01:05:08,599
one of them.

1070
01:05:08,679 --> 01:05:11,119
Speaker 1: Look, he could definitely get a job in Japan. He

1071
01:05:11,199 --> 01:05:14,719
just wouldn't hold it and he ended up in Korea. Grady, No,

1072
01:05:14,840 --> 01:05:17,519
I mean they got rid of Broun Washington. You're like, Oh,

1073
01:05:18,079 --> 01:05:20,599
there's really only only up to go, and I really

1074
01:05:20,760 --> 01:05:23,800
I'm not so sure anymore. Grey, not so sure that

1075
01:05:24,039 --> 01:05:27,320
is the direction that they're gonna go. Uh, let's let's

1076
01:05:27,360 --> 01:05:29,360
sagged off it up. There's a lot of a lot

1077
01:05:29,360 --> 01:05:31,280
of stuff here in the season and then we'll get

1078
01:05:31,280 --> 01:05:34,480
out of here. Carlos the Stevens went for X rays.

1079
01:05:34,679 --> 01:05:37,280
It was negative on his inkle after he got hit

1080
01:05:37,320 --> 01:05:41,559
with a comebacker. That followed him blowing a huge, huge

1081
01:05:41,559 --> 01:05:43,960
game is the worst. It was worse than any appearance

1082
01:05:44,199 --> 01:05:47,000
he had all last year when nobody liked him as

1083
01:05:47,039 --> 01:05:50,519
a as a reliever. Gray, are you worried about Carlos

1084
01:05:50,679 --> 01:05:54,400
Estevez outside of the injury? It sounds like nothing, you know,

1085
01:05:54,480 --> 01:05:56,800
not a real big deal there, But you concerned enough

1086
01:05:56,800 --> 01:05:59,000
that you would look at grabbing Lucas or sag or

1087
01:05:59,039 --> 01:05:59,599
Matt Strong.

1088
01:06:00,199 --> 01:06:03,199
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I'm I'm pretty concerned because not only was

1089
01:06:03,239 --> 01:06:06,440
there the walking boot, but also a steveez was you know,

1090
01:06:06,639 --> 01:06:09,960
throwing like eighty one miles per hour. So things things

1091
01:06:09,960 --> 01:06:12,760
aren't great for Carlos of Stevez right now. So I

1092
01:06:12,760 --> 01:06:17,360
would pick up er Seg everywhere. I think he's I

1093
01:06:17,360 --> 01:06:18,159
think he's the guy.

1094
01:06:19,199 --> 01:06:22,559
Speaker 1: So yeah, yeah, I agree, And I was drafted him

1095
01:06:22,880 --> 01:06:26,519
in deeper leagues in the preseason because of this reason.

1096
01:06:27,159 --> 01:06:30,639
Houston Brian Bray gives up runs in a non safe situation.

1097
01:06:31,440 --> 01:06:35,760
Speaker 2: Any concern there, Actually, yeah, I picked up Brian King

1098
01:06:36,239 --> 01:06:40,000
in a couple of leagues where, you know, just as

1099
01:06:40,039 --> 01:06:41,079
a speculative pick.

1100
01:06:41,760 --> 01:06:42,159
Speaker 1: I think.

1101
01:06:42,639 --> 01:06:45,360
Speaker 2: I mean, I'd be concerned if I was a Brew because, like,

1102
01:06:46,559 --> 01:06:49,119
you know, if because Hater, I mean, at some point,

1103
01:06:49,320 --> 01:06:51,719
Josh Hater's coming back. So it's not like the Astros

1104
01:06:51,920 --> 01:06:54,920
need to keep Abre in the closer role. It's like

1105
01:06:55,599 --> 01:06:58,079
they just want to get saved. They don't care who's

1106
01:06:58,079 --> 01:07:01,320
getting them. So yeah, if I if I was like

1107
01:07:02,039 --> 01:07:04,800
Espata over in Houston, I would just go to Brian

1108
01:07:04,880 --> 01:07:07,199
King if I were him, So I would be worried

1109
01:07:07,239 --> 01:07:08,480
if I had Brian Bradill.

1110
01:07:09,440 --> 01:07:13,719
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm not worried immediately, but I don't dislike the

1111
01:07:13,760 --> 01:07:17,239
preemptive Brian King, especially in some of our leagues that

1112
01:07:17,280 --> 01:07:22,079
are very deep and very competitive. Over in Cincinnati, Amelia

1113
01:07:22,239 --> 01:07:26,159
Pegan has a blown save in a four out appearance.

1114
01:07:26,280 --> 01:07:28,280
That's not a usual thing for him to do it

1115
01:07:28,360 --> 01:07:31,719
for out saved, but he did blow in Any concerns

1116
01:07:31,800 --> 01:07:34,519
here because again, this is a guy that we all

1117
01:07:34,559 --> 01:07:36,719
thought he was losing. They closed the role at some

1118
01:07:36,719 --> 01:07:40,199
point last year. Is it actually gonna happen this year?

1119
01:07:41,639 --> 01:07:44,880
Speaker 2: I wouldn't be shocked. I don't think he's lost it yet,

1120
01:07:44,920 --> 01:07:48,800
but I mean, I would say Pegan is probably I

1121
01:07:48,800 --> 01:07:52,440
don't know, maybe two or three blown saves away from

1122
01:07:52,679 --> 01:07:58,239
you know, Tony Santillion or Ashcroft or someone coming in

1123
01:07:58,320 --> 01:08:01,360
and getting saves. But right for right now, i'd put

1124
01:08:01,440 --> 01:08:04,440
On still has the closer job, and he's, you know,

1125
01:08:04,639 --> 01:08:07,800
not the safest guy, but he's relatively safe. Still.

1126
01:08:08,719 --> 01:08:11,159
Speaker 1: Yeah, he still feels like he's the guy, don't. I

1127
01:08:11,159 --> 01:08:14,079
don't think Cincinnati is a organization that's going to make

1128
01:08:14,119 --> 01:08:17,479
a change overly quickly, so that helps him out as well.

1129
01:08:17,840 --> 01:08:21,279
I do like Tony Santillion as a just general pitcher,

1130
01:08:21,399 --> 01:08:23,680
So you could do worse than describing him if you

1131
01:08:23,720 --> 01:08:26,279
have an extra spot in your lineup and just throwing

1132
01:08:26,319 --> 01:08:31,039
him out there. Tampa Bay, Griffin Jacks the temporary, temporary

1133
01:08:31,079 --> 01:08:34,680
assigned closer for Tampa Bay because there's never really one

1134
01:08:35,680 --> 01:08:39,760
he blows to save. There's always good relievers in Tampa Bay.

1135
01:08:39,800 --> 01:08:43,840
Speaker 2: Any concerns here, Yeah, I would be concerned. If I

1136
01:08:44,000 --> 01:08:48,880
was a Griffin Jacks owner Clevenger, probably it would be

1137
01:08:48,880 --> 01:08:51,479
the guy who I would He's a lefty though, but

1138
01:08:51,600 --> 01:08:53,800
I mean he'd probably be the guy who I would look.

1139
01:08:53,920 --> 01:08:58,359
But it could be anyone. Really. I still think probably

1140
01:08:58,359 --> 01:09:01,600
i'd put Griffin Jacks at the top of the depth

1141
01:09:01,640 --> 01:09:04,760
chart for saves. But yeah, I mean it's tended of.

1142
01:09:05,880 --> 01:09:08,079
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's helped a little bit because Garrett Clevenger also

1143
01:09:08,079 --> 01:09:10,439
got hit around a little bit, so I think that

1144
01:09:10,560 --> 01:09:14,359
buys Griffin Jackson a little bit more time. I think

1145
01:09:14,359 --> 01:09:16,800
the guy who could become interesting is Brian Baker if

1146
01:09:16,800 --> 01:09:19,600
they both continue to struggle. But there's also Edwin. You

1147
01:09:19,600 --> 01:09:21,560
say that he's coming back at some point, He's gonna

1148
01:09:21,560 --> 01:09:25,279
take the job back over over in Minnesota, Cole Sands

1149
01:09:25,319 --> 01:09:27,840
gets the save. It's always kind of that up in

1150
01:09:27,880 --> 01:09:30,600
the air. Do you think it's Cole Sands or is

1151
01:09:30,600 --> 01:09:34,319
this still just a split it's the twins. There's not

1152
01:09:34,359 --> 01:09:35,039
gonna be a closer.

1153
01:09:35,159 --> 01:09:38,399
Speaker 2: Yeah. I think Derek Shelton's a moron, so I don't

1154
01:09:38,399 --> 01:09:41,119
think they really are gonna have a closer. I feel

1155
01:09:41,159 --> 01:09:43,720
like it's gonna be a fluid situation all year. Cole

1156
01:09:43,760 --> 01:09:46,840
Sands might get, you know, fifteen saves on the year,

1157
01:09:47,119 --> 01:09:51,119
and Taylor Rogers gets ten and maybe and then the

1158
01:09:51,159 --> 01:09:55,159
field gets five, but it's gonna I feel like it's

1159
01:09:55,199 --> 01:09:57,640
never it's never gonna be just Cole Sands.

1160
01:09:58,000 --> 01:10:02,800
Speaker 1: Yeah, I would agree. Over in Texas, Robert Garcia gets

1161
01:10:02,880 --> 01:10:07,039
the save opportunity but gets pulled so it doesn't get

1162
01:10:07,039 --> 01:10:09,000
the blowne say, but does give up a couple of hits.

1163
01:10:09,520 --> 01:10:12,239
Chris Martin comes in, What are your thoughts here on

1164
01:10:12,359 --> 01:10:14,000
the Texas closer situation?

1165
01:10:14,399 --> 01:10:17,119
Speaker 2: Yeah, and then I think Garcia then came in the

1166
01:10:17,159 --> 01:10:22,239
following game and had a clean inning in a close game,

1167
01:10:22,279 --> 01:10:27,079
but a non safe situation. So I'd still go Garcia,

1168
01:10:27,239 --> 01:10:31,560
but it'll probably be like I i'd put him above

1169
01:10:31,640 --> 01:10:34,079
Cole sands, but I would say Garcia is probably like

1170
01:10:35,319 --> 01:10:39,239
seventeen to twenty saves and Chris Martin gets like seven

1171
01:10:39,319 --> 01:10:39,720
to ten.

1172
01:10:41,600 --> 01:10:44,159
Speaker 1: Yeah, I could definitely see that. I could also see

1173
01:10:44,239 --> 01:10:46,840
Chris Martin just kind of taking the job at some

1174
01:10:46,880 --> 01:10:50,399
point if Robert Garcia falters. But there's nothing yet to

1175
01:10:50,439 --> 01:10:53,399
say Garcia is going to struggle. I'm not overly concerned

1176
01:10:53,439 --> 01:10:56,600
about it. Over in Saint Louis, I think a lot

1177
01:10:56,600 --> 01:10:58,920
of us thought it was Riley O'Brien or if not him,

1178
01:10:59,039 --> 01:11:03,560
Jojo Romero. But Ryan Stannik gets the first look this

1179
01:11:03,760 --> 01:11:07,000
Saint Louis. Ryan Stanik, is this just gonna be a

1180
01:11:07,359 --> 01:11:11,079
Minnesota Twins esque mess? What are your thoughts here?

1181
01:11:11,520 --> 01:11:13,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think I think it might actually be more

1182
01:11:13,840 --> 01:11:17,079
of a mess than the Twins, even because Stannic is,

1183
01:11:17,439 --> 01:11:21,000
I mean, he's a mess, like he's he's really bad.

1184
01:11:21,039 --> 01:11:23,720
He couldn't find the plate, and I think both of

1185
01:11:23,760 --> 01:11:30,920
his starts, or excuse me, both of his appearances or yeah,

1186
01:11:31,079 --> 01:11:35,439
I think or JJ, excuse me, Jojo Romero I think

1187
01:11:35,479 --> 01:11:39,479
came in earlier in the game. Riley O'Brien came in earlier,

1188
01:11:39,920 --> 01:11:43,439
and they both looked good. But where they were better,

1189
01:11:43,720 --> 01:11:48,119
you know, better situations for them, harder, harder situations. So

1190
01:11:48,239 --> 01:11:50,000
this is just gonna be I think there's just gonna

1191
01:11:50,000 --> 01:11:53,520
be a fluid sort of mess all year. I would

1192
01:11:53,600 --> 01:11:56,760
probably avoid unless you really need the saves.

1193
01:11:57,439 --> 01:12:01,640
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's probably a good out look on the on

1194
01:12:01,760 --> 01:12:05,640
the Cardinals bullpen in general. It's not like I actually

1195
01:12:05,720 --> 01:12:09,239
like Riley Brian and Jojo Romero from a pitching standpoint.

1196
01:12:09,760 --> 01:12:11,720
I just feel like they're just gonna be moved around

1197
01:12:11,760 --> 01:12:13,960
and they're gonna do all sorts of things. I don't

1198
01:12:13,960 --> 01:12:15,960
know what the Cardinals are doing. They may even be

1199
01:12:16,800 --> 01:12:18,680
as weird as it sounds. Maybe they're trying not to

1200
01:12:18,720 --> 01:12:21,039
give them saves for arbitration. I know that's not the

1201
01:12:21,079 --> 01:12:25,359
most far fetched thing, but it's not like, you know,

1202
01:12:25,439 --> 01:12:29,079
it's I don't know, it seems weird there in Saint Louis.

1203
01:12:29,119 --> 01:12:34,439
So yes, just avoid athletics. Mark Letter Junior, I believe

1204
01:12:34,479 --> 01:12:37,319
he got the first look. What are your thoughts here

1205
01:12:37,760 --> 01:12:39,640
for the athletics.

1206
01:12:40,239 --> 01:12:42,920
Speaker 2: Again, it's kind of a mess. And Hogan Harris is there,

1207
01:12:43,000 --> 01:12:48,960
Mark Letter Junior, Sterner Justin Sterner, I don't know. I

1208
01:12:49,000 --> 01:12:55,720
mean probably would go Hogan Harris as like in the lead,

1209
01:12:55,920 --> 01:12:58,880
but I mean none of them are. I don't think

1210
01:12:58,920 --> 01:13:02,479
any of them are are surpassing twelve saves to be honest.

1211
01:13:03,560 --> 01:13:06,920
Speaker 1: Yeah, I like Hogan Harris out of him. Mark Lighter

1212
01:13:07,000 --> 01:13:10,880
had the opportunity, but he's he's performed poorly. So I

1213
01:13:10,920 --> 01:13:14,640
think it's Hogan Harris, Mark Lighter, and then Scott Barlow

1214
01:13:14,760 --> 01:13:19,319
could randomly sneak in just because he has previous closer experience.

1215
01:13:20,640 --> 01:13:26,199
One last one the Angels, our favorite organization Gray Jordan Romano.

1216
01:13:26,960 --> 01:13:32,840
Speaker 2: I guess he's the closer, Yeah, question Mark, Yeah, he's Yeah,

1217
01:13:32,920 --> 01:13:36,720
I think Jordan Romano. I mean maybe because he has

1218
01:13:36,880 --> 01:13:40,520
a past history of being successful, but I feel like

1219
01:13:40,600 --> 01:13:45,359
he could be a surprising like twenty plus save guy.

1220
01:13:45,560 --> 01:13:50,039
I don't mind Jordan Romano, uh, because like, the Angels

1221
01:13:50,039 --> 01:13:54,199
don't really have anyone else you know, well, I mean

1222
01:13:54,279 --> 01:13:57,119
Kirby Yates at some point I guess could come back,

1223
01:13:57,720 --> 01:14:04,239
but he's he's been injury prone and he's old. Stevenson

1224
01:14:04,760 --> 01:14:08,239
has elbow inflammation. I mean, the the Angels don't really

1225
01:14:08,279 --> 01:14:11,439
have anyone else here that I feel I could, like,

1226
01:14:11,760 --> 01:14:15,239
you know, take the job and run with it. From Romano,

1227
01:14:16,439 --> 01:14:21,880
I don't know. I tend to think like Jordan Romano,

1228
01:14:22,159 --> 01:14:25,600
while has been awful for the better part of like

1229
01:14:25,720 --> 01:14:29,720
two years, he could still put together a decent year. So,

1230
01:14:30,520 --> 01:14:34,720
you know, not not a huge vote of confidence, but

1231
01:14:35,359 --> 01:14:37,319
I would pick up Jordan Romano.

1232
01:14:39,199 --> 01:14:42,920
Speaker 1: If you need saves. You know, everybody's available. If I

1233
01:14:42,920 --> 01:14:44,760
if I was not desperate for saves, I think I

1234
01:14:44,800 --> 01:14:47,680
would I would probably just avoid. But I get it.

1235
01:14:47,720 --> 01:14:49,960
He looks like he's the guy. And as you mentioned,

1236
01:14:50,279 --> 01:14:53,760
I have no idea who in LA would be the

1237
01:14:53,880 --> 01:14:57,039
guy other than him, because Drew Palm morianswho I thought

1238
01:14:57,079 --> 01:15:00,359
might be the guy who's been terrible uh pretty much ever, buddy,

1239
01:15:00,800 --> 01:15:03,199
So I really don't know who might be that be

1240
01:15:03,359 --> 01:15:06,239
the guy there one.

1241
01:15:06,079 --> 01:15:10,000
Speaker 2: Of my uh in one of my fab leagues. Out

1242
01:15:10,000 --> 01:15:14,800
of a thousand dollars, Jordan Romano, how much would you

1243
01:15:14,960 --> 01:15:18,159
have if you need saves? How much would you have

1244
01:15:18,279 --> 01:15:20,239
put on Jordan Romano.

1245
01:15:22,520 --> 01:15:28,279
Speaker 1: In a fab league? Probably like like ten twelve percent

1246
01:15:28,479 --> 01:15:31,079
at most, if I really, like, if I didn't draft

1247
01:15:31,119 --> 01:15:32,159
saying yeah.

1248
01:15:32,079 --> 01:15:34,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean, I wouldn't want to drop

1249
01:15:34,880 --> 01:15:39,159
one hundred uh token on Jordan Romero. You know what

1250
01:15:39,239 --> 01:15:40,760
I'm saying, I want to I wouldn't want to put

1251
01:15:40,760 --> 01:15:44,640
a Benji down on Romero at one hundred dollars, I

1252
01:15:44,640 --> 01:15:46,640
wouldn't want to do one hundred out of a thousand.

1253
01:15:46,760 --> 01:15:49,039
I wouldn't want to do it. But someone in my

1254
01:15:49,159 --> 01:15:56,079
league put five hundred and fifty five dollars, five hundred

1255
01:15:56,079 --> 01:15:59,800
and fifty five dollars out of a thousand Jordan Romero,

1256
01:16:00,239 --> 01:16:03,640
I literally like, I I threw my computer out the

1257
01:16:03,680 --> 01:16:07,520
window for that person. I was like, you know, I

1258
01:16:07,560 --> 01:16:10,399
don't got you. I don't understand, okay, but you know

1259
01:16:10,439 --> 01:16:14,079
what you're above me, and the standings right now in

1260
01:16:14,119 --> 01:16:15,039
the last.

1261
01:16:18,319 --> 01:16:22,520
Speaker 1: After three days, they're they're above you. Uh yeah, I

1262
01:16:22,560 --> 01:16:25,439
will say. If I'm looking at this, and I already

1263
01:16:25,439 --> 01:16:28,600
said I don't believe in Jordan Romato. If we're looking elsewhere,

1264
01:16:28,800 --> 01:16:31,720
it's not your pairent Promerance, I think he might be cooked. Unfortunately,

1265
01:16:32,800 --> 01:16:35,800
Ryan Zephyr John I think could do it, and Chase

1266
01:16:35,840 --> 01:16:38,560
Selfseith could do it. So those be the two guys

1267
01:16:38,600 --> 01:16:40,720
I would monitor. I don't think you have to pick

1268
01:16:40,760 --> 01:16:43,279
them up as of right now, because also the Angels

1269
01:16:43,279 --> 01:16:46,239
aren't that good of an organization or a team, despite

1270
01:16:46,239 --> 01:16:48,640
although I think they are currently the first or second

1271
01:16:48,720 --> 01:16:52,039
best offense in baseball, but I do not expect that

1272
01:16:52,119 --> 01:16:55,840
to keep up. There you go, Gray. If you still

1273
01:16:55,880 --> 01:16:57,880
have any questions, you can find us on x I

1274
01:16:57,920 --> 01:17:00,159
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1275
01:17:00,199 --> 01:17:02,680
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1276
01:17:02,720 --> 01:17:07,039
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1277
01:17:07,079 --> 01:17:10,920
in the comments section. May your lineups be perfect, May

1278
01:17:10,960 --> 01:17:13,239
all your calls and your pickups work well. And I'll

1279
01:17:13,239 --> 01:17:14,039
talk to you later. Greg.

1280
01:17:14,279 --> 01:17:14,920
Speaker 2: All right, lads,