Speaker 1: Green incitations. Everyone at for twelve A look in the
Fantasy Baseball Live. Today is the nineteenth of June. Juneteenth
here in the United States federal holiday. Hope everybody is
getting a chance to take the day off, Tim, I
see it might be a holiday for the Canadians as well.
You're you're up on guitar sixth to nothing in the
World Cup play.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, it doesn't get invited than that. What sport
are we talking here?
Speaker 1: Hey, they might make it into the into the knockout round, Tim,
that's a big deal.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it is a big deal. It really is. And
based on the you know, I've seen some of the
parades and such, and yeah, it looks like everybody's having
a grand old time. I loved the Japanese fans what
they did after their game. I don't know if you
caught that. No, No, they in Dallas, they cleaned their
section of the building. They were all sitting in one
block basically, okay, and they cleaned it at the end
of the game. They picked up all their garbage.
Speaker 1: The different you have the Asian culture in the US culture,
I mean, we're just throw the stuff.
Speaker 2: Yeah, somebody gets paid, paid to paid to take care
of that. No it I saw. I saw it on
Twitter and they said, no, we're not going to leave
the place in the mess. I smiled. I thought that's cool.
Speaker 1: So in our little town here we have the Jets
training camp. Training facility is in town. Maybe it's two
miles from us, but right next to the Jets training
camp is the the Newark Red Bull of the New
Jersey Red Bull, which is the professional soccer team, their
training facility. And since one of the big venues is
here in New Jersey, a lot of the teams, the
World Cup teams are training and you know, coming in
and training in the facility, so they've blocked off a
huge section for fans of whatever country that is. So
they you know that the guys will come driving in,
you know, and they'll be waving and signing autographs. It's
it's quite a scene. It's quite a scene.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I can, I can just imagine. Yeah, I know.
It's Uh, we didn't partake, Tim, No, I was gonna say,
you weren't out there. You weren't out there waving your
leg and we.
Speaker 1: Were not waving our flag. We we had to take
care of our grandchildren, both both of our with our
son and daughter in law. We're both traveling, so we
had to do the night shift, so we would drive
by this facility, you know, on the way there. It
was a it was a backup, just everybody watching, everybody
watching the players come in.
Speaker 2: So okay, yeah, And I was going to say, I
can just imagine how much excitement the Jets training facilities
if there's still the Jets, you know, are we hoping
for five hundred and we'll call it a good year?
Speaker 1: I mean it is terrible, they're terrible. But look at
the White Sox. I mean, the White Sox are terrible.
And all of a sudden, you know, I'm reading Ken
Rosenthal's article today and he's mentioning them potentially being the
Derek Scooble Sweepstakes. It's like, what planet are we on?
Speaker 2: And did he did he quote me?
Speaker 1: I didn't.
Speaker 2: He ignored my predictions and all the rest of that.
Speaker 1: No, this is getting this is getting crazy. Tim. We're
we're halfway forty done, so next week and we'll be
halfway done this season. And the White Sox look good
and they're they're in it. They look really really good.
Speaker 2: America, you will be coming back and you know, you
look at right now, they're they're one game under the
forty win mark, which puts them last year to probably
sometime in mid to late August. They're having a great year.
I'm happy. I'm happy for the organization in the community.
Speaker 1: Coulson mctgomery hit his twentieth home run last night. He's
on pace for forty and they don't have any batting average.
Actually in a rise kind of player would be actually
be an interesting pickup for them. They're all power and.
Speaker 2: What's that I was gonna say, except for maybe medrof
and Antonagic and Antony Antonology not g Yeah, and they're
playing they're playing very well. Yeah, you know what I mean.
They're they're doing exactly what they should be doing. So yeah,
it's it's cool.
Speaker 1: It's cool.
Speaker 2: I love it.
Speaker 1: Oh, tim, So, Tim and I were bemoaning just all
the injuries on our teams, and uh, I have Mike
Trout on three or four teams and getting the news
that he's out for the season with a hamstring pool
Timmy was really discouraging.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, it's tough when you see day to day
until twenty twenty nine, right, I know.
Speaker 1: So, first of all, he is not ass for the season.
But I'm being a little bit snarky because Mike Trout
is the He's just let's face Timmy, he's a slow healer.
He is a slow Yes.
Speaker 2: Yes, if you're expecting him back, okay, in the minimum
ten days, okay, whatever you're drinking, passed me the recipe, okay,
because I love him too.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's back in ten days. But I mean, it's
just I just can't count on it.
Speaker 2: So no, there were, there were. The reality of the
situation is such that no, you can't count on you
really can't. And that's a big blow. And I lost
you on Monday, you know, all of a sudden, Angel
Martinez's bruce foot is broken, okay, and Brandia Rose Arena,
who is supposed to be in the starting lineup, is
on the I L And I'm you know, I got
one league where I have utilized we only make once
some we have once a month, have okay, I have
utilized every possible combination to still hold an active lineup.
So I'm impressed about that. But at the same point
in time, the next injury, I'm playing light. It's it's
you know, I had a lot of shares of a
Rose Arena, and I don't need him spending any more
time on the I L.
Speaker 1: And neither do the neither do the Mariners. Yeah, I
mean that's the desperate offense.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it's but you know what the two kids
are playing all right?
Speaker 1: Yeah remember send and and and uh and Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah they're solid.
Speaker 1: But you were you were a naysay or an Emerson
cold Emerson. Yeah it gears, remember you just you kept
going back to the all the shortstops of old how
they've all underperformed. So yeah, it's good to see him performing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it most certainly is. And I know it's shocking rich,
but I can't be wrong. It happens.
Speaker 1: Hey man, all the all I'm gonna say is, of
all the things you got wrong, you're making up for
it with one call in the White Sox. I mean
that's just insane. I can't get over.
Speaker 2: Well. Well yeah, and you know, yeah, you look at
his counterpart in Toronto, and he's on pace for just
about what I thought he would be, and that's close
to thirty home runs and eighty plus RBIs. Yeah, Okamo
was doing flying for himself as well. It's it's funny
I've been watching him you know, but he they put
him in the seventh slot. Okay, he hits a couple
of home runs and he's hot, and they move him
to three and he goes over twelve in three games.
They put him back in the seventh slot, and maybe
they should just leave him in the seventh slot because
he seems to be very comfortable and at the back
back end of that lineup. So maybe will pick up,
but not quicker than he did on Louis Ireland.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Maybe. I mean I get the math on the
lineup construction. I'm not sure I quite get it, because
after any number one, you know, it doesn't matter, doesn't
like you know what I mean. It's like, if you're
hitting seventh, then you know, if if a couple of
minutes in the first inning, then you might be hitting
second in the second and you know, something like that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's no logic to it except for the fact
that there's a trend happening. He seems to be hitting
well in the seventh spot.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so it sounds like even like the even odd strategy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, fun, yeah, exactly, yeah, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: There is not a stat that baseball doesn't have, and
if they don't have it, somebody will create it very quickly, right.
Speaker 1: So, I don't know if you've been following some of
the rhetoric going back and forth on the positioning of
Major League Baseball versus the player Association, but they're starting
to talk about things on the fringes and avoiding the
big topic of heart salary caps and things like that.
And the one thing that has come up over the
last few days is Major League Baseball is suggesting changes
to the international market and the domestic draft. So first
of all, in the domestic draft, going from twenty rounds
to twelve rounds and you've got to be eighteen years
old to be drafted, and cutting the budget from four
hundred million dollars to two hundred million dollars and making
it hard caps. So if pick round one, pick number
five is worth seven and a half million dollars, that's
what you get. There is no seven point six, there
is no six point nine. It's what it is. So
what you're thinking about that.
Speaker 2: Well, I have a question for you, and hopefully you
can give me a clear definition. They're also looking at
excluding high school players from the draft, and the age
I heard that was proposed for the draft was twenty
years of age.
Speaker 1: It's eighteen at least that's what they're we're still in
negotiat they're still in negotiations, but as eighteen. So you've
got to be eighteen as of September first.
Speaker 2: So how are they going to handle high school players?
Speaker 1: They won't get drafted. They'll have to go to college.
Speaker 2: Well, you can't force someone you go to college. So
you know the human that's a human rights, that's a
human right.
Speaker 1: Well, I mean okay, yeah, so they don't have to
do anything.
Speaker 2: That's court, that's going to coay.
Speaker 1: No, wait a minute, they can sit on their ass
for a year, do absolutely nothing.
Speaker 2: Or they are two years or two years, three years
if you're seventeen, all right, or you.
Speaker 1: Can go to it. Well, I don't think it's twenty again,
I I just read it this morning. I think it's eighteen.
Let's say they compromise on nineteen, so they'll go. They'll
there are academies out there now that are post high
school academies that you know they do you just play baseball, right,
and they'll probably become more important. And then others will
just simply go to college and get free ride to college.
They won't go to class and they'll play baseball.
Speaker 2: Ye. Well yeah, but again you're delaying service time by
a year, maybe two years. That is correct that you're Yeah, yeah,
as if that's going to have the odds are better
that the Rockies pitcher starter is going to win the
Cy Young before that'll ever be voted to.
Speaker 1: I disagree, and I'm going to tell you why because,
and I talk to international as well, they're thinking about
going to an international draft as opposed to just what
goes on now is all the monkey business behind the scenes,
that clean that all up, and they'll go to an
international draft. I think that the Players Association will will
kind of allow this kind of stuff to happen because
they're trying to protect free agency et cetera, et cetera,
and the existing players and the guys coming into the draft.
These high school players aren't in the Players Association, so
they might give that to the owners in exchange for
not putting hard salary caps and things like that, and
the owners will take that because ultimately that's what reduces salaries.
You get older years, etc.
Speaker 2: Sure, etc.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So you're they're gonna win on the back end
keeping salaries suppressed.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, the only thing is everybody in the world
knows the game's getting younger. Okay, so you suppressing the
youth is not a smart business model. I don't think
you should be encouraging you, right, But now I agree
with you.
Speaker 1: Because the best players are these guys or Jacob Mezerowski,
those are your best players. Twenty three years old, two
years of major league experience and just shoving it.
Speaker 2: But yeah mc mcgonag' goll, the kid in Pittsburgh, and yeah,
all those kids pushing Now, what they're saying is, yeah,
we want to push them back a year or two. Duh.
Speaker 1: So you push them back. So instead of Miserowski being
twenty two, twenty three, now he's twenty five, twenty six
with two years experience, and then all of a sudden,
when he was ready eligible for free agency, he's thirty
thirty one and the team goes, oh, he's old, he's
an older player. We're not going to pay him that
much and binger they win.
Speaker 2: So yeah, yeah, exactly. Yeah, No, I don't think that.
I don't think that proposal. I just don't think it'll wash.
At least it shouldn't.
Speaker 1: It should, but I think it will will.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it could but again, I I don't think the
whole heck of a lot matters on this end anyways,
until they get down to the hard issue and the
bottom line is of players. I can't see them caving
on the on a cap. That's not going to happen.
Speaker 1: So and yeah, so my logic here, Timmy, is is
the but the owners know that as well, so they
get all of the little stuff that actually have bigger,
bigger implications than the Players Association might no going into.
Speaker 2: This, Yeah, I don't know. I'm going to give the
Players Association a little bit more credit that they will
check the future of the game. But you look at
the number of players that as the game is getting younger,
the number of players that actually get into a big
dollar contract as a percentage of the total group is
an infinitely small one, but less than three percent, right
end up with the O Tawani or you know, the
it's probably one percent.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's a very very small number. But everybody
thinks they're going to be show Hey Otani, I think
they're going to get the and that's what the it
seems like that's what the Players Association tries to protect
as opposed to the masses, which is I think where
they should be focusing on.
Speaker 2: I totally agree, hundred percent. You want to you want
to look for the better of the whole of the group,
which is what a union should In fact, Yeah, hey,
did they have the numbers? They ain't. How many people
get the big bucks? Nobody, you know what I mean,
and a very very small number of players. And you
see more and more like the Milwaukee model, you know,
offering Laura you know, seven on thirty one and Pratt
seven on fifty five. That's sort of you know, hey.
Speaker 1: Hey, Cooper practice, that's got the call.
Speaker 2: Tim Yeah, I know I mentioned him last week and
because I was sort of looking at him and and
you know, after the Laura saying yeah, nice, nice to
see him up there. They moved on from Joey Ortiz.
I guess, I guess, so I guess and Renee Reneefo
I think DF eight and yeah, it's good.
Speaker 1: He really really fell from grace in a hurry.
Speaker 2: Den.
Speaker 1: He was a pretty good baseball player about two years ago.
Speaker 2: He was and just disappeared here today Korea tomorrow.
Speaker 1: All right. So one of the things we're going to
do on our take ten with ten because this is
our wild card. We could do anything we want to
do well. We could do anything we want to do always.
But today we're going to draft the first round of
twenty twenty seven. So we're going to pretend Timmy that
it's the late February and you and I are on
mclock and what we know about what we know about
the twenty twenty six season is all we know as
of the nineteenth of June here.
Speaker 2: So.
Speaker 1: Let's draft me. I'm going to give you the hother
okay of going number one, And I will say this
is going to be challenging because a lot of the people.
If you take a look at who's on the top
of the list, it's the James Wood, Nick Kurtz, Jordan
Walker of the World and not the show Hey O, Tani,
Aaron Judge. So where do those guys go? How much
credence do you give to the performances we're seeing so far?
And that's why I think this is going to be fascinating.
What do you think?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's going to be fun. I'm looking
forward to doing. I'm gonna go with the obvious pick
at number one, rich and I think it's clarified and obvious.
Why at language?
Speaker 1: Okay, I thought you were the same about Miguel Vargas.
Vargas we might call that. I don't, I don't. I
don't even know what you do with these guys, Andy Paus.
I mean, is that a second round pick next year?
I don't know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that makes two of us right now. But I'm
going Bobby with.
Speaker 1: I'll rap bastard. That's what I was I was hoping
you would fall.
Speaker 2: No. I like Bobby with a lot. You know, even
even with the home runs and RBIs being down a
little bit because of the team situation. You're looking at
a guy that I think is twenty five to thirty
one run potential and forty to sixty stolen bases. Yeah,
I gotta go Bobby with over over the consensus number
one from the past couple of years. And again, if
you're looking at a league where you've got two old
hit her pitcher and they're molded into one, or you've
got daily moves with Otani and you've got access to both,
it's hard to pass on the hitting pitching. But I'm
I'm just gonna go Bobby Wit and play it. I
think relatively safe, assuming his knee is solid, which he
got removed from the game last night because of Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean, as long as it's not you know, knee surgery,
hopefully it's just something that's bruised, it'll come back. But
I mean, temmy, I honestly, I think Bobby Witt is
the only one that makes sense in this first round.
To me, I mean, it's like I'm literally sitting at
number two and James wits at the top of the list.
Twenty home runs, thirteen stolen bases in two seventy seven
batting average. Nick Kurtz has got off slow, but he's
like hitting the home run every day. He's got seven
stolen bases. I mean, this is paulk Colch his prime.
I mean, I I think he's got He's got a
two ninety one batting average I think is one pace
percentage is like four to twenty. You're something that, I mean,
it's crazy, that's what Nick comes is doing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's they're at number two, and you know, how
how do you ignore Tani and how do you ignore
one Sodo who will always put up good, good numbers,
you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think at this juncture, both of those
guys are the safer, the safest kind of picks. I mean,
you could decide you're going to go pitching crazy and
go with Jacob Mazerowski. But what is Soda doing here?
Sodo was seventeen number one six dolear basis hitting three hundred. Yeah,
so do I go there or do I go show
here tani And you're worried the showy atanis now at
least getting twenty to twenty five days a year off
now because they're not hitting him when he's pitching in general.
Speaker 2: So in general, yeah, but it's pitching numbers are so ridiculous. Yeah,
does he is? He's e or a much over one
right now.
Speaker 1: I think he gave up four runs. I think it's
like one twelve or something like that. I mean it's
something very low. And I've seen people because in our
fan tracks leagues we have you can change pitchers and
hitters on Friday, and I see people who will put
show Heyo tani as in the pitching slot so on
the weekends when he's pitching on the weekend, which makes
sense because if he's only going to start in the
field two days versus pitch one day, I mean, that
does make a lot of sense, which just gives me
more value. So I'm going to take show.
Speaker 2: Heyo, Tani, can't blame you one bit, not one bet. No,
that would have been that would have been my pick.
And I'm I'm going to make this painfully simple. I'm
going one soda.
Speaker 1: With three, bastard.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, no, it's for me. It was a choice
between the two. And I think more leagues are going
to multiple moves, you know, Monday Friday sort of thing,
and as a result of that, that gives Otani that
you know, hey, if he's pitching in the first half
of the week, okay, then he's not going to be
If he's pitching on a Tuesday Wednesday, he's not pitching
till the following Monday. You throw him in as a
hitter on the weekend and take what you can get
out of it, because it's probably going to be at
worst better than your average player.
Speaker 1: I think. I still think in daily moves league, you
don't even think he's just the number one.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree, yep, I agree.
Speaker 1: All right, Well that's it.
Speaker 2: That's how we're done.
Speaker 1: We're done. Next question, Okay, oh lord, you know.
Speaker 2: Whoever you whoever you pick, you can defend it and
argue against it at the same time, and be.
Speaker 1: Right, how can you not take James Woods here? James
Wood here, I mean sixty eight runs, he's scored sixty
eight runs. Tim he's on pace for one hundred and
forty runs. Score run scored is probably in advertiseary league
might be the most challenging category to accumulate. I think
I got to go James Wood.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but then again, you look at Aaron Judge three
of the past four seasons is at fifty plus home
runs and driven in one hundred, and you look at
Cruise and you look at there's a lot of things you.
Speaker 1: Can How old is How old is Aaron.
Speaker 2: Judge inhuman or dog years?
Speaker 1: I mean, look, yeah, a huge man like that. I mean,
that's that's my That's always been my concern with Aaron Judge.
Taking him in the first round up and dead wrong,
except for the season he's hurt, he's in fact, it's
going to be a disaster for people that took him
in the first because you're not going to get a
whole lot of time from him.
Speaker 2: Yeah. No, it's any first rounder that you lose is
a problem. We're we're going to run into another problem
the consensus number four pick this year. Who's dealing with
a hamaid di your issue? What do you do with
Jose Ramirez?
Speaker 1: But he's he's been, it's true, But he's not a
guy that rarely gets hurt. I guess Jus rarely gets
hurt as well. So I guess they don't get there.
They're not hurt until they're hurt.
Speaker 2: Right, So yeah, then they are? Yeah?
Speaker 1: All right, So I got James with So I'm stepping
out a little bit, not going with one of the
safer picks. So where are you going to?
Speaker 2: Ah, I'm going to be boring. It's just a case
of how boring. I I gotta go with Aaron Judge.
I simply have to. The home run RBI potential is
such that I just can't pass in the fifth fifth
slot with Aaron Judge and hope that he gets in
five hundred plus at bats.
Speaker 1: Well, I mean, I get it. I mean, so I'm
not even thinking about your pick now, I'm worried about
my pick. I mean it's it's I mean, it's it's safe.
I guess Aaron Judge hold is Aaron Judge.
Speaker 2: I guess thirty three.
Speaker 1: Old is Aaron Aaron Judge. Hoops, Aaron Judge is thirty four,
he'll turn He'll be he'll be thirty five years old
on April twenty six next season.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so he'll be thirty six the next time he
plays ball. And you know what, a lot of these decisions,
you know, we're we're making them based on the season
happening and everything going forward. Everything gets skewed and changed
around it. If you way, if there is a delay
to the start of the twenty seventh season, and what
you know, what would be you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: I think you go conservative if if you're if the
season is going to be three months, right, that's when
that's when the Aaron Judges of the world become a
lot more safer.
Speaker 2: I don't think so. Yes, yeah, and again yeah, you
run into the hot guy, the hot hand at the
beginning of a three month season, and then it can
carry you a long way. Right. Yeah, it's interesting.
Speaker 1: Well, the only well, we've picked five guys, and the
only one that's even remotely interesting is James Would. Everything
else has been like we're drafting last February, and I'm
going to continue with that boring trend. Tim and I'm
going to go Elid La Cruz.
Speaker 2: That would have been my pick. I like that pick.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Yep, he's supposed to be back. They're saying, I
think he starts a minor league rehab today, so he
should be back Tuesday.
Speaker 2: I would assume, I would think sometime sometime next week. Yeah,
I would expect the stolen bases to be down a
little bit for a week or two, and so he
knocks all the rust off and feels comfortable with that. Hammy.
But yeah, no, I like Elie Dela Cruz. I really
I think it's in the right area. You got power,
you got speed, He's young, h five hundred healthy at
bats out of La Dela Cruz could be absolutely monstrous.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think I still think he gets five hundred
of pats this season. Timmy, Let's uh, let's give you
another couple of minutes to make your decision. Let's take
a quick break and come back, and I think gets
an extra time last year show A Tony Aaron, Judge,
Bobby Witch, Jose jan so To, Jose Ramirez, Ronald Acuna Jr. Scooble,
Eli de la Cruz, Julio Rodriguez, Paul Skeins, or your
top ten. So far, we've got Otani, Judge wit Soto
already selected, and I I'm been the only one that's
been creative here and I have thrown in James Wood.
Where are you going?
Speaker 2: Tom Okay? Time for some creativity. Based on what we've
seen this year, this guy could be so dominant in
a full season. I can't pass up the opportunity for
two hundred and fifty plus strikeouts in fifteen to twenty ones.
I'm going with Misowski at seven.
Speaker 1: You know, that's that's a great call. I mean I
was I was going to take him. He was going
to go in the first round for me, So.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I've got to I've got basically two pitchers
possibly a third in the first round, and like, looking
at what he is doing, you know, the risk is
off the charts, There's no doubt of both that. But
if he can get two to three seasons of what
he's done in the first half of this year and
before his arm falls off, and I'm not I'm not
voting for horror hoping for that situation, but what he's
doing is is unheard of. He's on a pace for
two hundred and fifty plus stray oats. That is a
huge edge, not to mention the e are, the whip
and everything else that goes along with it. I hey,
I just can't pass on Miserowski middle middle of the
first round right now.
Speaker 1: I read I read an article I think it was.
It was this morning. It was principally talking about Zach
Wheeler facing Missowski, and Wheeler was just an all of
this guy. Uh and it was it was from a goop,
It was from a geeky pitching standpoint, he said. He
basically talked about the fluidity of his a livery and
the fact that it is so clean, so simple, there's
no herky jerky in it at all. And he's throwing
an average is one hundred point one miles an hour,
and wheel are just like, you can't hit that. I mean,
it's just there's it's the seven halft average major League
and a half feet.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so that one hundred miles an hour on an equivalent,
it's about one hundred and three and a half one
hundred and four miles, which is even stupider than a
hundred you know what I mean, because that's the big thing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's yeah, yeah, he's he's I mean I I
think he's the number one picture off the board. No
disrespect to Trek Scooble or Paul Skins. What Jacob Mazerowski
is doing is just crazy. I agree with you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, Tim, let me ask you a question. I'm
looking forward to this.
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna I it. We're drafted together. I see
this because we're trying to figure Look, I'm looking at
Nick Kurtz. It's just a crazy season, particularly one based
percentage leagues. He's a first round pick right given his
on base percentage. But have you seen Pete crow Armstrong
is doing again? I mean he did it last season,
is doing it again.
Speaker 2: I mean hot cold, hot cold, hot, cold, on off
like a light switch. Okay, we saw the second half
of last year, so we know what the potential is.
We saw the first half last year. We knew what
the potential is, and after a slow start, we're seeing
more of the first half recently. Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I so let me let me tell you some data.
Let me tell you some date.
Speaker 2: Not for me, I get.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you some data here. Last year's average
x ZLASI was eighty nine point five. This year it's
jumped up to ninety one point eight. That is significant,
particularly when your launch angles at twenty degrees. Right, I
mean that is a guy that's going to hit thirty
to thirty five home runs. He's fast, I mean ninety
fifth percentile. His strike gut rates a little high, and
it probably is always going to be. But the thing
that was always bothering me was his walk right the
last two seasons five four and a half percent last season,
seven point eight this year. And a guy who's only
twenty four years old. I mean, I mean, there is
batting average risk, there is on base percentage risk here,
but we're talking a guy who has stepped it up
as hitting the ball a lot harder with his launch
and his speed. I think just a thirty thirty guy
that might hit two fifty to sixty. I gotta go
with Pete crow Armstrong and I was a peak crow
armstrung coming in as a hater. And I mean, when
I'm looking at Timmy is a guy that's really really good.
Speaker 2: Yeah he is right now, I get I'm not fine.
I'm not yeah, I'm not totally convinced. What what could
happen if he can make it through the rest of
the season without going into a two week plus swoon,
like you know, I'll play, Yeah, I'll get I'm being yeah,
if he can go the rest of the season, I'll
even expand on that three weeks, three to four weeks.
If he can go the rest of the season. Hey,
players are going to be hot and players are going
to cool off. I think that's that's just a fact
of the game. But once you go into a swoon
where you're cold for like a month, that's a problem
to men.
Speaker 1: But still, if if, if I may, he was still
thirty one thirty five last season for that again this
year with walking a little bit more again to eighty
seven one based percentage last season was disconcerting. But if
it's a three twenty three thirty one based percentage and
back to back thirty thirty seasons, I mean, at some point,
don't you have to say it is what it is?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm I still yeah, I still have my I
still have my my concerns. I do as yeah, and
it's yeah, until until we see a little bit more.
I'm going to go on the safe on the safe
side where I perceived to be a save the safety.
Speaker 1: Okay, uh, you're on the CD.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and Yeah. One of the areas that a lot
of my teams have lacked this year is is home runs.
You know, I've got a lot of shares on Michael Bush. Yeah, lady,
thanks for number four the other night. I appreciate that.
I was expecting that third week of April.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's been brutal, Tim. I mean, I haven't been
thinking I traded. Yeah, I gave up a line. I'm thinking, Hey,
twenty five thirty one runs at highland base percentage and
it's four. That's the number between three and five to me.
Speaker 2: That's four, yeah, four, yeah, exactly. And golf, Okay, it's
a wonderful expression in baseball. If they had to, dude,
and they scored no points, stop with me. Anyways, So
I'm gonna I'm gonna go with a guy that has
bounced back after a massive year of injury after injury.
Who twenty one, hit thirty three, and then thirty seven
and then thirty one and thirty. He's hit twenty four
homers this year with fifty five RBIs that we're not
halfway through un That's where Dan Alvarez.
Speaker 1: I mean, look, he's like, I don't know if he's
the favorite.
Speaker 2: I want the power for MVP.
Speaker 1: But it's it's been, it's been really good. But Conley, Timmy,
I mean there is huge you know. I mean you
know the problem, right, it's he couldn't be hurt. I
mean it's a stick.
Speaker 2: But you know what, if you take a look back, Okay,
he could be hurt, but in four, including this year,
of the past five years, he hasn't been. And he's
a lock for mid thirty home runs with the ceiling
being fifty five fifty five plus home runs. I'm gonna
give him. Last year was a bad year. If he
would have had problems in the first half of this year,
I'd be a lot more concerned, But he hasn't, and
I think he's if he can stay. I think he's
a lock for forty one to ten with an OVP
this year. I think his obp's four hundred plus. That's
a good that's a good ball player.
Speaker 1: Oh, it's great ball. It's a great ball play. It's
just the at the injury risk. Totally get it. I
mean again, we can you said it and we got
started off after Bobby Witt and maybe show hey Otani,
I mean, everybody else has got question marks that you
can argue for him in that spot, and you can
argue for him two rounds later. So I mean, it's yeah, Temmy,
this is painful. I'm on the clock now, and.
Speaker 2: Golly, which which one are you going to pray for?
Help for them? It would be the question, Well.
Speaker 1: I mean, here's here's my here's my dilemma. Look, I
hate her arms aren't coming into the season, so everybody
will watch you out. And I felt the same way
about Nick Kurtz ye And I'm wondering if Nick Kurtz
is Kyle Schwarber. I mean with speed, well, not a
lot of speed, a little bit more speed stolen bases,
but who you know, quite frankly is a better hitter.
That's not fair. It makes better contact than Kyle Schwarber.
But this is the guy that let me just read
you some of the stats on on uh.
Speaker 2: Go. I'll tell you if you don't take Nick's Nick
Kurtz next, I'm taking him with the pick after if
that makes any difference.
Speaker 1: Nick kurtz average ex of velocity is ninety four point
two with a one fifteen point nine max ex. He
has only got a launch of a launch angle of
twelve point six degrees if he adds a little bit
to that, and you're talking fifty to sixty home runs,
I mean, it's it's gonna be massive.
Speaker 2: And if he starts, if he starts joking, the man
in that park, hold on, get that.
Speaker 1: I think that park. I think that's important. That's important.
He's playing half as half his games and a launching pack.
By the way, my buddy cage jump. I know it
was the Angels. Him looked really good last night, so.
Speaker 2: He did look good. Yes, I agree, Nick Kurtz.
Speaker 1: Is walking twenty percent of the times.
Speaker 2: Bendery and Fi. That twenty percent is because pitchers don't
want to throw them anything. Probably, I wonder what his
intentional walk rate is. Yeah, they're not given they're not
giving him stuff to hit. And what's nice about that
walk rate is they're not giving him stuff to hit
and he's saying, okay, I'll take it. He's not trying
to force the issue in swinging wildly out of his
own you know, chasing pitches right right, That's that's mature bad,
isn't it.
Speaker 1: It's yes, all the all of the above. I mean,
the only thing that I mean there is swing and
miss in this game. It's come down a little bit
this season. But there is batting average risk. I mean,
if we take a look at this babbit, it's probably
sky high, but it's babbittist three ninety two, so that's
batting average. One Batting average is not real, so it
could be. It could be Kyle Schwarber of a two
forty fifty with fifty plus home runs, and you say, well,
why not just take Kyle Schwarber at that spot. That's fair,
But maybe you go with the youth and a little
bit of more athleticism at this juncture and you get
the ten stolen basis, which puts him over Kyle Schwarper
for me. So I'm gonna take the batting average risk
with Nick Kurtz. Come back with some batting average in
the second and third round, and I'm going Nick Kirks
with the tenth overall pick.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no problems at all with that, none whatsoever. Like
I said I would, I would have taken him next
ed you're not taken him.
Speaker 1: You're on the clock, my friend.
Speaker 2: I'm going boring Rich. Hey, he's dealing with the hand
that hammied. Sorry, lousy fun. I gotta go with Jose Ramires.
I'll take them eleven. I think I think there's still
twenty home runs, thirty thirty vi strolen bases in there,
with a good average, lots of run scored. Jose Ramirez
is gonna fall, but as he falls, I think there's
a potential for some nice rewards towards the middle middle
back of that first round.
Speaker 1: I agree with you, all right. I'm debating between two players.
Speaker 2: Okay, I think I know what one of them is.
Speaker 1: I hate O'Neil Cruz, always have. He just doesn't hit.
I like guys that can hit. But he's got fourteen
home runs and twenty one stolen bases. Few hit the
ball harder than him, fewer faster than him. If he
can stay healthy, which he's been mostly healthy. It's this
is kind of an anomaly on This is a twenty
five to twenty five guy with some batting average risk.
I'm debating between him in my game, Ben Rice, which
you get a guy that plays full time, assuming Aaron
Judge does an Aaron Boone doesn't decide to platoon him,
and you get catch your eligibility.
Speaker 2: No you don't.
Speaker 1: We're still gonna be catching eligibility going forward.
Speaker 2: No, he hasn't got he hasn't got any games this
year yet.
Speaker 1: Oh really, Okay, let me just verify that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think I took a look at it because
I've got him. I've got him in the first round.
I've got memories in the first round as well, and
I was just double jacking.
Speaker 1: Yeah, forty two at first base and twenty five, So
you don't then that leans me to that leads me
to O'Neil Cruz.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So I'm taking guys that I don't like so far.
I don't like let's see pe Crow Armstrong, I don't
really like Nick Kurtz because they're all flawed, and I'm
not sure I really like O'Neil Cruz. But I mean
it is what it is. I mean, these guys have
been fantastic. It's speed and speed and power in O'Neil's
cruisees case. Same with pee Crow Armstrong and massive powered
Nick Kurtz. And I'm just gonna deal with the batting
average risk.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I get it. Well, what I'm finding is interesting
with the two of us going back and forth, here
is you picked two players I didn't have on my
list he didn't have, which.
Speaker 1: I find past Nick Kurtz or O'Neil Cruz.
Speaker 2: No Pete Crow Armstrong and O'Neil Cruz. I didn't have
either one of them on my list, which is I
don't know if it's an overlook on my part, but
I did have Ben Rice. I It's uh, it's just
interesting because I think where that where that identifies is
the fact that there's a whole bunch of players after
the top three to four picks that you can argue
for and against very very easily. And the option you
know what I mean, your your options are such like
I I've I've got a guy who's who's consistently been
a top ten pick that I'm not touching in the
first round. Well, and that's Ronald pun Jr.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we're going to talk about it. We have a
whole section on Himah yeah. But it's funny because when
Tim does the rankings, and the question I always ask
Tim is like, who's going to fall? Who's not going
to be in the top ten that was there in
the top ten last year. If we take a look
at last season's top fifteen, I already went to a
tiny judge wit Soda Ramirez. They're probably first round draft
picks next season. Correct, Yes, Ronald Cony is at six,
Scooble probably is, Julio Rodriguez, Corbyn, Carroll Crochet, Fernando Tantis
Junior definitely not at thirteen. Henderson definitely not. Kyle Tucker
has been not very good this season at.
Speaker 2: Fifteen seven home runs. Yeah, no, that's no alo.
Speaker 1: We seeing a lot of turnover here in the first round.
Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely, and there are there's there's some tough picks
in that first round. I've still got two or three
kids that are going to be somewhere around the wheel
and it's it's gonna be fascinating. We're going to see
it very different. I think first round next.
Speaker 1: Year, Timmy around the clock, thirteen, who you got.
Speaker 2: Oh, I can't, I can't pass. So he's not having
the best of years, but considering he started off with
an ERA of about seventy or eighty after opening day,
I still think right now he is Paul, Yeah, the
safest picture out there to come in next year with
an ERA under three with Messa strikeouts and he's just
a really good picture. I've got Paul Skeins is my
number two right now behind Miserowski and could you have
one right Yeah, I got Miserowskie one and I've got
Skeens too. The guy that I don't have in the
first round is Schooble?
Speaker 1: Really? Why not?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 1: Superman? Superman? Yeah, he had an elbow surgery. Is back
in three weeks, four weeks.
Speaker 2: Yeah. How old is to Reek Schoogle.
Speaker 1: I'm going to say thirty thirty one?
Speaker 2: Yeah, and he's going to be changing locales. I like
to Reek Schooble, but I'm not going to draft him
in the first round. Next year he's twenty.
Speaker 1: He'll be thirty in November.
Speaker 2: Okay, Yeah, I like to Reek Schooble, but I won't
pick him, and I'll pick ball schemes ahead of him
and go with the youth and upside.
Speaker 1: You can't be more wrong. I'm on the clock, Trek Scuoble. Yes,
what's your next question? Okay, Okay, there we go.
Speaker 2: You know that. Yeah, I mean, Kim, you suck.
Speaker 1: Okay, No, No, I mean, I totally, I totally get
from I mean, it's it's it's the arguments again. We
can make arguments back and forth on this, but you
take it out. There's remarkable pictures. I mean, Cam Schlitzler,
Tim One eighty two ear a striking out over a
battern inning on a really good baseball team. You have
to believe Scooba is going to be in a good
baseball team. He's not going back to the Tigers, probably
go to the Dodgers or somebody like that. Yeah, but
pretty much Schlitder Scott seven wins, he's he's on pace
for fifteen to eighteen wins and a you know what
is that going to be? One hundred and seventy five
one hundred and eighty strikeouts in a low e ray.
I mean, that guy's been amazing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you take him ahead of Yamamoto.
Speaker 1: I think you take Yamamoto because of this of the
security there. But Schlittler is really good.
Speaker 2: Yeah he is. I I've got the second round. My
early thoughts are the second round will be filled with
pitch and good but it's not gonna lie. It's not
gonna last. I think, Yeah, we're we're gonna see you
know you should there's Amamotos. They're gonna all be gone
in the second round. Early. That's my that's my early.
Speaker 1: Let's set it up for Tim's last pick. Bobby with
Junior show, Hey, tani wan So to James Wood, Aaron Judge,
Ellie Dealer, Cruz, Jacob Miserawski, Tim stretching on the Misserraskie
Great Pick, Pete Crow, Armstrong, Jordan Alvarez, Nick Kurtz still
don't know about that one, but he went anyway, Jose
Ramirez and Neil Kruz, Paul Skins, Trek Scooble. And the
first pick on the wheel is.
Speaker 2: Who, uh, it's just the wheeler? Is this the fourteen?
Speaker 1: This is fifteen? This is fifteen. Oh, if you'd have
been paying attention to me, I went one through fourteen.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm gonna give you. I'm going pick go ahead.
I I was gonna say, I didn't break up my
advocates for this exercise. Apparently, if I was picking at
the wheel and it shook down in this sort of configuration,
more or less, I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go with
Corbyn Carrol.
Speaker 1: Hey for good.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know he had you know, he had the
injury to start the season off or whatever. And I
think you know, you look at his history, Okay, I
think you're looking at fifty I think you're looking at
twenty to twenty five home runs, and I think you're
looking at thirty stolen bases in the bank with a
good batting average, solid OVP in the three sixty three
seventy range. He's the type of guy that would the
power speed. I wouldn't let him fall in the second round.
Speaker 1: That's fair. Yeah, I agree. I mean everything looks really
good with him. It's league average strikeout rates, league average
walk rates slightly above walk rates, and nile on speed,
and he hits the ball really hard for a guy
that's not very big. It's really impressive.
Speaker 2: Grip it and rip it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I mean it's a it's a great pick.
And if people stretch for like a Nick Kurtz, that's
probably going to allow Corbyn Carroll to fall, or if
you get a people that are going heavy with pitching
in the first round, Corbyn Carroll could fall.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I think it's I think it's very real.
Speaker 1: You want a bonus pick, you're gotta take a bonus pick.
You're gonna take the second pick on the wheel.
Speaker 2: Well, are you want to take it? It's your turn
and you get.
Speaker 1: Let's see, let me let me go back. So painful
to do this, and.
Speaker 2: Then I'll tell you who I'll tell you after if
you don't pick the guy that I pick. I'll tell you.
I'll tell you who I who I grab. It would
be my It would be a dream, a dream pairing
based on where I've seen happen to my teams this year.
Speaker 1: I mean, Holy Rorigas having a pretty good season.
Speaker 2: Mm hmmm.
Speaker 1: Let me let me take a look here, Holy, I
would say, let me just before I say Huli Rodrigas.
I just want to see what we're doing. Heres is
thirteen and nine, two forty one batting average. But it's
a little depressed that he's still hitting the ball really,
really hard. I'm going with Hilio Rodriguez.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's fine picking. Yeah, that gives you, It gives
you power and speed. I would have went with Kyle
Schwarber and fun for the big home home run with
pairing him up with Carol Yeah, home run speed. And
I would have said, Okay, my next two picks will
both be pitching. Yeah, and I'll I'll forgive you mobile.
I'll have as on the Schlitlers and Yama Motors of
the world and try and try and find some of
the mid tier pitching. But you know, when you look
at this list, Yeah, Donald Cuna Jr. Is still sitting there.
Ben Rice is there. You want young players. I think
it's a bit early for McGonagall, But if he tears
it up in the second half, Mcgonagall's ands.
Speaker 1: Not so much power though.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Sal Stewart's interesting. Yeah, there's a lot of there's
a lot of picks pending what happens in the next
couple of months that could slide up, could slide down.
But it's fascinating. It really is as to the as
as to the options that are available. And you know,
if you don't get one of the big five top
i'll say top ten pitchers, then where do you go?
You you know, this year so far we've been proving
wrong and that we're getting guys coming out of nowhere.
You go with young pitchers and cross your fingers we
see a repeated this year. Did the older veterans bounce
back and move up the board. There's just so many questions.
Speaker 1: You have to hope that Hunter Browns drops to the
fourth round and you can grab them because everybody's going
to be on the young guys. I mean that that
might that would be a my guy. Early. Urie Perez's
coming back right, he had a rehab start maybe he's
a guy that gets suppressed and because everybody else is
moving up. But you know, the schlittler's the chase burns.
Somebody's gonna get hurt.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well they've all got most of them have got
hurt this year. So yeah, it's it's a tough decision.
You go safe with the bats, but then the bats
been getting hurt, so like I mean, there's no such
is there any such thing other than one solo for
the most part, and Bobby, they are safe, No, none
of them are. Really.
Speaker 1: Let's take a break, Timmy come back fun exercise, and
let's talk Ronald 'cunya why he didn't go in the
first round. My old school, Timmy, I stole used Rota
Ward And there was a global in Ronal d'cunya and
an excerpt from Walt Weiss saying he is a long
way from returning. And i'd said, wow, Ronald Acunya, I said,
let me take a look at his injury history. Here.
He played eighty two games in twenty twenty one, one
hundred and nineteen and twenty two, fifty nine and twenty three,
forty nine, twenty four, ninety five and twenty five and
so far as sixty four games. If you add all
of that up, that is forty percent of the games
Ronald Acune has played in, not Timmy, in not two years,
the last five years. So my question to you is
why are people still taking this guy in the first
round and how is he any different than Byron Buxton.
Speaker 2: He isn't. Except for twenty twenty three, he played more
than fifty nine games. I can't. He's got two years.
Speaker 1: I meant to say one hundred and fifty nine. I'm sorry,
one hundred fifty nine.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, Other than two years, okay, and you can,
you can. You can look at look at look at
the numbers, clear as a bell, other than two years
twenty nineteen okay, where he hit forty one homers and
still goal thirty seven bases and twenty twenty three, which
was monstrous, where he hit forty one homers and stole
seventy three bases scored one hundred and forty nine runs.
Other than those two years, it's been a tale of disappointment.
And those are the only two things you're missing is
twenty nineteen and twenty twenty three, and the a that
he can repeat at that level and get in one
hundred and fifty games. Well, I be drafting Ronald Cunia
next year. No, he's on my do not touch list.
I just you look at the numbers. He's fallen into
the same category for me now as Byron bucks Fork.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the same guy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, high high, incredibly high risk. Now the rewards can
be absolutely huge, But do I want to base my
full season on that level of risk? And you would
be drafting him, you know, early, early in the second
or late in the first. That's just way too much risk.
I've got to stay away. And yeah, hey, you gotta
go with You got to go with with what the
reality of the situation is. Yeah, do you want Byron
Bucks And yeah, he's had a couple of good years
now after a run of what eight seven or eight
years of disppointment. You got to take the odds on
the disappointment as compared to the odds on success.
Speaker 1: Right now, I think with Yeah, I don't know if
Akunya's his injury woes have caused him to his exit.
Velocity is down ninety two point seven and twenty five
ninety point one this season, so I mean, I don't
I mean, he is twenty eight, so you wouldn't expect
any kind of any kind of fall off for age yet.
But I don't know. I just speed sprint speed's at
fifty one percentile. So he's no longer the seventy stolen
base guy. He just isn't. He's more of a twenty
five kindstole but is still really really good. But all
of a sudden you start to take a look at
the risk that all the injuries are tallying up, and
then it's you know, with the skill, particularly the speed
starting to degrade a little bit, you go, why am
I going to take that risk? And so I think
he's a blass for me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, No, you're looking at it at bad total so far.
Assuming he gets in six hundred, okay, which he did
in those two great years, since then, he hasn't exceeded
five hundred in the season. If you take what he's
done this year, okay, extrapolated over a full season, you're
looking at a twenty home run, forty five stolen based
type player, which is a first round pick. But when
you put the mitigating factor of he's only had two
full seasons out of the past eight, No, that's that's
a pass for me.
Speaker 1: I think we're in violent the agreement. And you know, look,
if you decide the next season to take him early
in the second round because it's Ronica to get it,
I get it. And you can win a league that way.
But you know, it's just you're just you know, you're
just guessing. You're guessing at that juncture.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, you're you're doing do the same thing you
did with Byron Buckston. You're crossing your fingers and you're
hoping things. That's right, Yeah, against the odds. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well, I got a lot more topics, Timmy, but we're
starting to run out of time, so I'm just going
to go one more before you get your hitter and
your pitcher. And that is the situation with Seattle. I
don't know if you've been following it. They're up to
a six man rotation, but now they're doing piggybacking, which
is they take one of the starters, they give them
the first four or five innings, and then they put
the other starter to pitch the last four or five innings.
But it looks like it's more four to four closer, right,
four four and one.
Speaker 2: And.
Speaker 1: I mean I get it, Timmy. They've got great pitching
in there a major league rotation, and then they've got
Ryan Sloan and Kate Anderson both can probably pitch in
twenty nine other rotations already, and they're just sitting wait
to come up. First of all, what do you think
about this piggyback six man rotation that is evolving there?
And how do you manage it as a fantasy manager?
Speaker 2: I don't like it. I am taking the Luis Castillo
approach to this piggybacking, and he didn't like it either,
not one bit. I think the easiest way. Yeah. Like
looking last night Brian Woolfich and he has had an
up and down season. Okay, On the May thirtieth, okay,
he tossed seven innings of shutout ball. His next two outings,
he allowed twelve earned runs. Last night against Baltimore, he
shut them down on three hits over seven innings for
the walk nine case. How was Brian Wigan to feel
about piggybacking. He's gonna be ticked. I think it's gonna
cause way more problems than it's ever gonna solve, and
I don't think it's gonna work. I think what the
Mariners have to do is they have to find a
way to move Louis Castillo and George Kirby, possibly even
Bryce Miller. Makes some trades for bats, get them off
and then start bringing then then look at bringing Sloan
and Kate Anderson into the mix, because I just don't
think this piggy back thing is going to be received
well by the pitchers. And if it's not received well,
we know what the results are gonna be. Right, Yeah, yeah,
it's gonna be tough. So trade trade some of your
pitching seattle for some offense and bring those kids up.
Speaker 1: I think for fantasy managers this it makes it too
hard because you're set your lineups and you're you're I
don't know about you, but I look at the guy's
got a little starting notation next to him. I go, okay,
starting this, look, I'm gonna put him in. Now you're
gonna see a guy that doesn't have you see Bryce
Miller knows starting uh designation, but he's really going to
get an opportunity to win the game because he's coming
in in the fifth inning. And then you threw in
I don't know, pick another guy, Brian wu who starts
and goes for innings, and I mean it's good. You're
gonna have to actually start to really dig into this
to see what's actually going on. I just that takes
too much time and people aren't going to do it.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, not only the time factor, but all of
a sudden. Okay, you know you're saying you're your first
guy's gonna go one to four. Okay, Well, if he's
allowed two hits, he's got to shut out through four
innings that he can automatically ank him. No, they'll keep
them in there for another in then you'll then you'll
have the guy following you were counting on the win,
fighting for a save that's right, and hoping he goes
a full four innings, okay or three innings afterwards. It's
gonna it's gonna be a night there. I don't think
it's gonna wash. I don't think it's gonna work, and
I'm I'm just gonna see how things shake down. But
what I think See had last to do is trade
some of that pitching. You don't trade Wu and you
don't trade Logan Gilbert. But other than those two, move
two of the next three for some offense. Because your
offense is dreadful at best, you need a big back
and pitching will get you that bad oh yeah, so
wh yeah, so move move the pitching and gets Sloan
and Anderson into the rodation in a way, you go.
Speaker 1: Totally agree with you. It's funny. This piggybacking happens all
the time in the minor leagues when nobody cares about
wins and losses, and and nobody's playing fantasy baseball, nobody's
betting on these guys. It's it's just it's the minor
leagues and nobody really cares, and it's like, so it
works well from a developmental standpoint. It works well because
you're you're able to get guys in for four or five,
But when it matters in the major leagues, it's not
something I think it's sustainable. I totally agree with you.
Speaker 2: To be a singer final broak, Hey you're going to
I was just gonna see you got Lois Louis Castillo
or yeah, or Brian wu with one hundred and seventy
innings under ninety strake oats and two wins in three saves.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, I mean the one thing that I don't
know if we can prove or not until it's actually done,
is does it save these pictures? And if you're the scattle,
they're going to go, wait, we don't give a rats
ass about fantasy Baseball and betters and who can or
even what the pictures say. If we get to the
postseason and we're healthy and then all of a sudden,
we have our pick of the litter to put whatever
picture we want in we want. We think the matchup
is perfect for Brian wo so we started in game two. No,
we think that the matchups are perfect for Bryce Miller.
We put him in there, and it gives us all
the flexibility. This is just what we're gonna do. I
get that argument as well.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, no, it's a legitimate argument. But at some
point in time, pictures are going to say, you know,
I am playing for a contract. I think my agent
should probably talk to you. You know what I mean.
You know, I don't think it's gonna I get what
you're saying. It makes it, and it does. There's a
semblance of sense in there. But at the same point
in time, you know, these players are playing for contracts.
I know the team's don't really you know, but the
players care. You're two years away from free agency. And
you're a long guy because you're taking one for the team. Well,
when it comes time for the new contract, is the
team going to take one for the player. No, they'll
use those numbers and say, oh, you're worth acts instead
of why right.
Speaker 1: Totally agree with you, Timmy, let's take let's take our
final break and come back and see what Tim's gonna
pick up. Many people just rip through the They fast
forward through the podcast to get to this segment. They
just care about who you're picking up. Give me the
two guys, Send me the hitter and the picture that
you are focusing on for this weekend.
Speaker 2: Well, what's really interesting with both the hitter and the pitcher? Okay,
is there both from the same team and they are
both rostered to the same level in CBS. Isn't that
a coincidence?
Speaker 1: Maybe it's the same guy.
Speaker 2: No, there is no show a Prett in the Milwaukee system,
but there is a Cooper Pratt, and I like what
he did at triple a six home run, sixteen stolen
bases so far, so good to strike out to walk
right in the minus thirty seven thirty four and that
twenty four percent roster says there's an opportunity, So I
gotta go with Cooper Prett of the Milwaukee Brewers.
Speaker 1: Kind of figured that's who you would go for with
your I actually think there's he's going to be more
of a better real life player because he can really put,
can really play defense, and is a great hitter. So
there's a little bit of Kevin McGonagall in there. I
think mcgonaga's probably got more potential power that mcgonagall's not
showing it yet. And Pratt's got a little bit more
speed than McGonagall does, even though mcgonaga's got a lot
stole the basis. But I think if you look fundamentally
at the player, they're both going to be really great
real life players. How good of fantasy players are they
going to be good? Probably elite, I don't know, but
it's it's a great it's a great call. I mean,
he's out there and he's going to get a chance
to play.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's uh, I'm excited to see what you can
what you can string together. And yeah, as you mentioned,
you know Nikos now gone and Joey Orgiz I don't
think is going to be a full time player. You know,
the Brewers are Tizition some of these young kids. We're
going to see Lara before the summer is over, Okay,
I think that's a given. Yeah, And you know they're
trans They've got a good team already, and transitioning these
young players in and adding them to that lineup only
makes them a better team. Milwaukee could have a nice
run in the playoffs this year. They really could. I
like what the Brewers are doing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and they still got depth, Tommy, I mean they
still got Yeah, And I don't think my day is
going to be up. But Jet is still in the
minor leagues, so there's something set there. I don't think
he's having a very good season, at least haven't written
about him very much, so that might mean he's either
injured or not having a great season. But they still
have depth there. So I'm gonna say, your picture is
it Robert Casser.
Speaker 2: No, it's a former relief pitcher. I searched high and
lower pitching and it sucks. Really the options available are
not great. Okay, then that's probably not great. As being kind,
I'm going with Shane Drohan. Oh jeez, okay, yeah, yeah,
twenty four. There's a reason I only had one picture.
Jay Ritchie last week and he got smoked in his outing.
So I'm going with Drohan three fifteen ninety are one
seventeen web strikeout r inning. He was, he was a
reliever up until I think four outings ago. Okay. They
moved him into the rotation and he's pitching well. Okay,
and he's one of the few few pitchers you're going
to see in my way. We were articled in this
week because the options. You know, you look at Philadelphia, Okay,
they did the obvious with Andrew Painter, but I went
through and tore their system apart last night looking for pitching.
There ain't any. It's yeah, hey, their their big move
was signing with Cody Allard. He's he's the guy that
they're looking at. I think.
Speaker 1: Prospect, Yeah yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: He's been around forever and it's Kolby Allard. Right, So
that's the I can't am I gonna recommend, No, I'm
not gonna no. So I don't know what the Phillies
are gonna do with that mess, but they need to
find a fifth pitcher. Covera's pretty bare in their minor
league system.
Speaker 1: It is. Indeed, Jet Williams just nine home runs thirteen
strikeounts only hitting two twenty three in kind of a
good stretch, decent strikeout rate league average, always has walked
a ton that continues not hitting the ball very hard
only eighty seven point eight miles per hour with a
ton of leverage. So that's how he's getting all the
home runs. So it's not a home run hitter, but
he's got great speed, can hit a little bit, but
I mean he's not having the kind of the three
eighty five slugs, so I mean it's it's a bit
of an all or nothing kind of swing that he's
got going on. He just doesn't hit the ball very hard.
So so he still sits there in the minor leagues
as they go in different directions.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, it's uh, it is nice to have that
depth though, and you know there there will be injuries
and yeah, yeah, look you got you've still got h
Tyler Blake. You know who else is in the Brewer
system that I wasn't aware of. I'd just forgotten all
about him? Is one of our favorite blasts from the
past in a kid. Yeah, yeah, he's still sitting there.
So yeah, yeah, Eddies Eddie's Leonard. There's another name from
the past.
Speaker 1: Right, yeahs from the Dodger. I think it's eaties, but
could be eddies. Yeah, I thought it was like the
ice cream.
Speaker 2: But okay, yeah they got they've got that.
Speaker 1: Let's uh, let's hold that for Sundays. Put a pen
in it. Great stuff. Over an hour here, So I
need to let you go so you can do it,
get on about your day and I've got some stuff
to do, so we'll be back on Sunday, Tim and
uh hope maybe draft a second round on Sunday.
Speaker 2: And go through more of the same questions. That was
a fun exercise.
Speaker 1: That was a fun exercise. I'm glad we kind of
drafted it together, so trying to talk through each one
of the picks. So we'll see. We'll do it again
towards the end of the season, see what we come
up with, Temmy. That's it. That's a wrap, my friend.
I will see you on
Speaker 2: Sunday, safe you will, and we'll catch your all Sunday.