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Speaker 1: Pretty society. Jason's everyone at Rich Wilson Welkin of Fantasy

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Baseball Live, and today is May twenty fourth, about three

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o'clock in the afternoon. As always, he heard of my

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good buddy mister Tim McCleod and said, we are celebrating

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the Memorial Day weekend. But unfortunately, if you're on the

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eastern side of the Mississippi, it's been raining since Thursday

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night and I think it's going to continue to rain

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into tomorrow. Baseball games have been canceled. It's not very

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pleasant weatherwise.

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Speaker 2: No, we're enduring the same the same thing here. It

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was cool up until yesterday. It started warming up a bit,

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but it's still only mid high fifties here. The sun's

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out today, but it rained all day yesterday. So if

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your weather is coming from the western part of where

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you're currently residing, yeah, you get some more raine to

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look forward to. Rich.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we were watching the Oriel game because it's usually

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on if they're you know, they're playing, and you get

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to see. It wasn't raining down in Baltimore, but it

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was gray and overcast and kind of gross. And I

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made the comments to Laurie. I said, you know, you

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pay eighty bucks for this ticket, You're going to happen.

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I mean you have to go. You go to a

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minor league baseball game, you pay fifteen dollars for it.

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If it's like this, you stay home.

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Speaker 2: You know, it's like yeah, yeah, yeah, it's a loss

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one can can you know? Deal take care of fairly? Yeah,

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deal with take care of fairly easily. I switched where

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I am. I switched as far as live games are concerned.

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I switched to Milwaukee from Many even though it is

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further to Milwaukee. I know if I get tickets for

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a game there, barring a huge disaster, the game's going

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to be played and you go to Minnesota, Yeah you

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could be you could be sitting in the rain for

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two hours before they cancel a game. So yeah, if

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I have a choice, I'm going to go to an

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indoor stadium any day of the week.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I look, it's it's it's indoor. I get it.

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I've been to the Dropic Canda, which I think it's

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a bad RAPPI thic. It was a very good experience

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for me. But it is weird to be inside of

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a dome to watch a game. I get that, But

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you're right, it's seventy two degrees.

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Speaker 2: It's very nice, exactly. Yeah. You know, when you buy

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your ticket, you don't have to worry about getting a

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replacement for a rain delay that you can't attend, So

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you know, yeah, for us US folks in the rural

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part of the world, it's sort of important.

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Speaker 1: Speaking of the Milwaukee Brewers, they were up one and nothing,

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but it looks like the Dodgers just caught up. But

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Milwaukee's been strong this season, Timmy. They pretty much stret

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they see the Dodgers are thirty two and twenty, but

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the Brewers are in thirty and nineteenth. So they're out

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there on the heels of the Dodgers for the best

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record in the National League.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and the Brewers are getting it done. Hey, they

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do have a strong lineup, there's no doubting that. But

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when you compare you know, Jake Bauers and Garrett Mitchell

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and Salfrele to pick any three on the Dodgers, it

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wouldn't seem like a fair play. But that's not the case.

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They're playing good baseball. And today, you know, Brandon Sprout

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was holding his own, but now through four innings he's

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up to three hits three walks. I have a feeling

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that sprout is going to be not sprouting much after

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we get through the fourth inning. He's up to almost

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eighty pitches now, So another inning, maybe two, and I'd

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be about it.

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Speaker 1: I would think, Yeah, the lineup, I get back to

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that point. I mean it's a it's a great point.

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But Cheerio Terrang and William Contrera's pretty dark strong to

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start it off. To get down to the Dodgers, I mean, Rojas,

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kim rushing, Hernandez is having an okay season, pay Us,

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I mean it's it's the Dodgers are strong at the top,

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but the back of the lineup is is not great.

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Speaker 2: No, And if you look at say the top five, okay,

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you got Otani hitting two seventy three, Bets one sixty four,

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Freeman two sixty two, Kyle Tucker two fifty, and pay

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Us at two eighty. Now compare that to the top

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of the Brewers lineup, where you got Cheerio at two

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ninety seven, Terrang at two ninety five, Contreras at three

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oh three, Bowers at to eighty two, and Andrew Vaughn

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at two ninety five. That number started to jump, so

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to at you, doesn't it thats a huge betting average

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that they're getting out of the top five in Milwaukee.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, then you take a look. I mean the Power

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next best power that is William Contreras. I mean, that

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guy's got massive power and Cheerio he can he can

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hold his own against. You know, the Power probably has

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more power now than Betts and Freeman. Probably it's not

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as much as Tucker, but I mean, you know, you

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go person for person and it's not as lopsided as

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one might think.

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Speaker 2: Exactly. Yeah, totally agree.

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Speaker 1: Yep. Let's see, I was watching the Oriole game and

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the Detroit Tigers can't hit a lick. But of course

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they're winning three to two on the Oriols. But uh,

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good news there if you're Gunner Henderson fantasy manager. He hit.

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He hit a home run off for Fraan Ravalde, so

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left steel lefty, which was good to see because he

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has really struggled of late against left handed pitching.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, there's just not enough offense between those two teams. No,

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it's you know, Cole Keith went one for two with

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an RBI today. Matt Berling is batting just over the

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Mendoza line three for four. Uh. There's problems there there,

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there really is, and they better turn it around fairly quickly.

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As far as Baltimore is concerned. Holiday hit a home run,

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which was nice to see yesterday.

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Speaker 1: Yes, sir, he did hit one the day because it

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didn't start.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, they started working him back in there slowly.

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But if Jackson Holiday can start resembling a little bit

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more of what we saw the last year, that's going

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to help Baltimore considerably, I would think.

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Speaker 1: I think the lineup is okay. I mean, Taylor Word's

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a good player. Henderson's a great player, if you know,

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again left lefty props. He's starting to come back. He's

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hitting two thirty think he does twelve of them run

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to day. Retchman's fine. Alonzo's you know, going to hit

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a lot of home runs.

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Speaker 2: You know.

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Speaker 1: The matter average is not what it used to be.

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Bessiah is going to be a mash. I mean it's

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a good lineup. It's the pitching that's just awful. This

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but awful tim.

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Speaker 2: Yeah it Uh, you know Brandon Young pitch well today,

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but he has been. It's Brandon Young and yeah, it

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considers he's in number four or five. But you know,

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when you start looking at that lineup, the rotation in Baltimore,

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Trevor Rodgers is terrible. Yeah, he's regressed to the point

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of being the Trevor Rogers we saw at the got

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the long time of the trade.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, got the motive. Yeah, he doesn't look

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like he pitches the night because it's a it's a

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evening double hitter. And let's see if he gets one

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of Shane Boz has just been okay. You know, I

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was hoping he would take a step up like we've

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seen with Taj Bradley, and it just hasn't happened. You

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just know, and you look put it together and.

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Speaker 2: You look at Chris Bassett, who came over from the Jays,

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had a great year last year, but it was used

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more as a swingman, long guy, and I think being

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a part of the rotation at thirty seven, I think

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the Orioles were asking for a bit more than maybe

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Chris Bassett can deliver. At this stage of his career.

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I think he was much better working, you know, four

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and five inning stints following an opener or coming in

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when somebody was either heard or struggled early in a game.

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but as a starter full time, I don't know rich well.

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Speaker 1: So you've got Trevor Rogers, who it doesn't look like

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a major league pitcher to me. I mean, he's he's

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got he's got decent stuff. He doesn't throw hard enough.

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gets hit hard. That's what's happening. Kyle Bradish is a

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good picture. Ooz should be better. But I mean that's

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two decent guys in Boz and Bradish, and after that

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it's Bassett Young and Trevor Rodgers, and that's just not

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good enough. And they're back to the same problem they've

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been in for the last three years. Not enough pitching.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, two out of five is forty. Yeah, that's just

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about with the one lost record will end up Yeah,

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maybe a little higher, but not much.

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Speaker 1: Yep. And Boz is underperforming. So Bradish is a better pitcher.

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He hasn't pitched us. He had a really good out

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in his last one, but he's not been very good

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to date. But I mean, I think once he knocks

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off the rust off of Tommy John, I think he's

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going to be okay, it's just I mean, they just

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don't have one or two guys. You compare that to

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a Dodgers of rotation or Yankees rotation. I mean, it's

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Speaker 2: Mm hmm. Yeah, there's room for improvement. And that's one

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of the reasons that I was surprised they moved Grayson Rogaz.

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Speaker 3: No.

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Speaker 2: No, and not that Grayson Regaz has been the end all,

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the be all, but yeah, it just didn't a good arm.

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Speaker 1: It doesn't have a good arm anymore. I mean, I

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just don't get it. I don't know what they're doing.

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I think heads are going to roll this offseason. It

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has to well.

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Speaker 2: At some point in time. Yeah, somebody's gonna pay the price.

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That's just the way the game is.

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Speaker 1: Yankees and raised Timmy playing to is zero zero after seven.

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I looked at this game a little while ago, without looking,

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what is Aaron Judge's batting average?

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Speaker 2: Without looking, I know he's been struggling. Uh, I'm gonna

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say to forty eight.

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Speaker 1: It's very good. To forty six.

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Speaker 2: Ooh, I got to buy me a lottery ticket today.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, wow, that.

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Speaker 2: Was just a pure guess.

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Speaker 1: I mean the pending right there, but the contact rate

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just hasn't I mean, look, it just hasn't been there.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but the Yankees strong suit has been there. Starting

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pitching unbelievable. Yeah, Warren has stepped it up. Who's pitching today,

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whether there's always yeah, Weather's always, to me been a

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good pitcher. He just couldn't stay healthy, and I think

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they have to be careful with him. But hey, Garrett,

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Garrett Cole had himself a pretty good debut, didn't he.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. I looked at the base lossavant data and his

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velocity was actually up prior to the surgery. Just a smidge,

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but it was up. The secondary pitches were not as

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sharp as they will be once he you know, just

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knocks off the russ and throws more. But it got

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through healthy. The velocity was there. I think in you know,

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six weeks, he's going to be probably back to Garrett Cole.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. And for those that made the investment at draft

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time and stashed him away, that could be absolutely huge

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in the second half of the season.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. I was one of those. I drafted him hoping

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that he would come back. I was afraid of Zach Wheeler.

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I should have drafted Zach Wheeler as well, because I

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don't get it, Timmy. I thought TOS resolution TOS was

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supposed to be a death nail, and Zach Wheeler is

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just I mean, he looks better than ever.

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Speaker 2: Apparently Zach Wheeler didn't read that article. Yeah, and again

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it just goes to show you, Yeah, hey, if you

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stayed away away from Zach Wheeler, that was probably the

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right move to make. There's no doubt my mind it

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was the right move to make. But sometimes the right

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moves to make don't turn out to be the right moves.

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And that's why we play the game right, or else

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we'd all call it call of the Year a week

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after we have our drafts, crown or winner and awhere

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you go.

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Speaker 1: So I grabbed him in our draft and hold league

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that you know that we've got with the podcast or

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cut through whatever you call it. Say we mock draft

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that we play through, and I drafted both Wheeler and Cole,

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and Wheeler lasted to like my number four five starter,

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and I just thought that was I mean, I was

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thinking I said this on the podcast. It's like I

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get it, But I mean, he is Zach Wheeler, so yeah,

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maybe he can define logic and it appears to be happening.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, yeah, you can. You can be very right

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and very wrong at the same time. When it comes

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to the game of baseball. That argument applies to Zach Wheeler.

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Speaker 1: Cleveland Guardians are thirty one and twenty three with great pitching.

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And I have to tell you a guy that I

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got dead wrong was Messic. I didn't like the size,

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I didn't like the athleticism. Twenty four ear Haine looks

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absolutely fantastic. And I think you just have to give

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grace to anybody any picture that's coming through the Cleveland

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Guardians organization that they're going to be better than their

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profile and their stuff and whatever metric you want to

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look at the Guardians just make them better pictures.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's not power hitting, it's the strength of that organization,

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that's for sure. And they've tailored it around their strengths,

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which is the pitching, defense and putting the ball in play. Yeah,

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and you know, you look at Williams Coney Messick. I

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thought Tanner b Biby was going to be an age

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and he's the number four right now. But Messic is

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in two leagues. Is my best picture to date and

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it's not even close. And I picked him up, I

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believe as a number four or five something like that. Yeah,

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it wasn't something I put a lot of thought in.

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secured my top of the top tier arms that I wanted,

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and well, yeah, Parker Messic story, Yeah, why not, I'll

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take him. And he's turned out to be one of

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one of my more astute moves. I think I've got

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him in two maybe three leagus.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Parker Messic is six foot tall, reportedly twenty five

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pounds man at another twenty or thirty on that. It's

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a big, heavy set, shortest type of picture that throws

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ninety three point six and.

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Speaker 2: Everything you everything you hate a starter, right, everything?

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Speaker 1: I hate start every but he's got lost. He's got

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a seventy great change up. It's a forty five with

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rate on. It doesn't really have well he's got it,

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doesn't really have a very good, uh breaking pitch at all,

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but he's getting by with no one can touch that

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change up. He throws it a lot, and the four

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seamers just a lot better, even though it's not coming

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out very hot. I don't get it, man, but that's

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that is the that's the secret sauce of the Cleveland Guardians.

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They take guys like this, and Shane Bieber was was

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the same guy, right, He couldn't throw. He was a

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better physical specimen the messic, but ninety three miles an hour,

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didn't have the big fastball, And yet he want to

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sign Young Award.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, up, down, in out.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Don't walk people, Yeah yeah, make make the other team,

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aren't it. And if you can do that consistently, like

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so many can't in this game today, you're going to

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have success. You know, you don't have to throw the

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ball at ninety eight miles an hour to be successful,

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but you have to know where it's going all the time.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Messick just has great command of his pitches. I mean,

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that's what it's all about location with him, and I

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mean he is he is, He's really good. And I

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just flat out and missed. I If Parker Mestic number

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two come two to do Oho comes out, I'm gonna

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feel exactly the same way. Just so everybody knows. The

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next guy comes up looking like Parker Messick, I'm going

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to have the same philosophy because you just can't bet

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on elite command from a guy and the Pixie Dust

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known as the Cleveland Guardians. Maybe if he comes up

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as a Guardian, I would feel differently the Parker Messic

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two Dodo comes up as part of the Red Sox. No,

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I'm not, I'm not. I'm gonna trash them just like Parkers.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you don't have too many shares of tug Bully

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on your rosters.

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Speaker 1: Dude, I don't. But now he's not with the Cleveland Guardians.

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He got traded to the Giants. So now all of

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a sudden, I was becoming interested if you read my

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last kind of updates on on tugbo and I'm like,

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maybe there's something there. And also they got traded to

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the to the Giants, I'm like, oh, I just became

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uninterested because if the Guardians trade you and you and

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you kind of look like Parker Messic Tugboat, you know,

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and they trade you, it might mean that they don't

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think that they can turn into that guy.

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Speaker 2: Yeah he's not two point oh point and that's yeah.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, the Guardians need to find some power to him.

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And I'm not going to try try to tell you

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how to do your job, because you do it way

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better than But may I give you a name.

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Speaker 2: You may give me a name, as long as it's

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not Joski.

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Speaker 1: Well he's out of baseball, isn't he.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think so. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. But Ralphie Velasquez, Yeah, just got just got promoted

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to Triple A. Wrote about him two or three times

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already the season. The last time I wrote he could

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get promoted directly from Double A. But maybe a couple

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of couple three weeks in Triple A and you'll see him.

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So it's been one week in Triple A. So he's

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got big boy power.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he is on my radar and recently and he

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will make it. Yeah, well exactly. You go through their

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lineup and other nose Ramirez and the latter. Yeah, Menzardo

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can hit the ball a long way. He doesn't enough,

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you know, and then you get sheman. You know who

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has really really performed well for the Guardians this year?

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Uh is Angel Martinez?

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, I had by the way, Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I mean me too. I picked him up

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late to fill the middle infield slot, hoping he would

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get full time at bats. And yeah, he has worked

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very very well for the Guardians this year.

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Speaker 1: Nine home runs.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and I don't know how many stolen bases he's got,

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because I imagine it's pretty close to nine as well.

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Eight hmm.

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Speaker 1: Do you look at the stats every day and memorize them.

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I mean, this is pretty crazy. I after the batting

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avert of Aaron Judge, you miss it by two hundreds

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of point, you get one.

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Speaker 2: I'm out of a bad day.

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Speaker 1: It's impressive, man, it's impressive. Geez I.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know you were talking earlier about we were,

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you know, getting a life and having a life. Yeah, okay,

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you know where I sat. No explanation required.

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Speaker 1: The Mets and Marlins are zero zero after six, and

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I mean the Mets are just struggling. My buddy a

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j Ewing with two more hits, hitting two eighty two,

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another stolen base, up to three stolen bases, Christian Scott

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with decent start.

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Speaker 2: Glad you see that. I've got a couple of cherries

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and yeah, glad to see it.

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Speaker 1: But the Marlins owned the Mets. I mean they the

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Marlins always beat the Mets. So that's probably gonna happen

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here at the pack at the back of the last

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three endings here.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, Owen Casey seems to have been woken up

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a little bit of the past few games. He's starting

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to hit the ball a little bit. He's not in

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the lineup today, but he seems to be playing a

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little bit, a little bit better. But again, it's not

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other than Otto Lopez, who's been All World and should

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be in the All Star He's betting three thirty eight

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other than Auto Lopez and Xavier Edwards, and they're not

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power edders. And that lineup has been up, down and

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all over the worst.

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Speaker 1: So riddle me this, mister McLeod. How does Xavier Edwards

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have six hume runs in six stolen bases?

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Speaker 2: Ah, he has yoked six balls and they vanished to

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creep over the fence if you see you look at

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edward stat cast page. Okay, and it explains it all,

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doesn't it. It really, it just speaks for itself. I Hey,

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I like, but why is he only.

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Speaker 1: Have six stolen bases? I mean he's got good speed.

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Twenty seven stolen bases last season.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think they're gonna come. I think you'll end

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up with twenty twenty five stolen bases. Uh, but you're

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look at that, you know, his average exit.

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Speaker 1: The loss of the league seven point six right.

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Speaker 2: Barrel percentage six point four hard hit. Yeah, he has

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added a.

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Speaker 1: Little bit of he has added a little bit of

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loft to a swing. It's an out of eleven point

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eight degrees, which could be the reason for you know,

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slightly more home run power. Doesn't mean more power because

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his bat speed ranks ninth in the ninth percentile on

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the league. So he's not hitting it. Just doesn't swing

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very hard, but he makes a great contact. He's fast. Yeah,

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there's a lot to like with Xavier Edwards.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you look at the squared up percentage chase percentage

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with percentage K percentage, they're all ninety percent plug chases

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eighty seven. But I mean, you know, the walk rate

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is there for value in obp leagues. It's it explains

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his numbers pretty much to a t, except the six

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home runs which should probably be three, which will end

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up at eight or something like that.

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Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, so he'll get twenty three stolen bases, eight

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home runs and.

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Speaker 2: Score a pile.

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Speaker 1: Yep. The Twins are up six to four on the

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Red Sox and Redsucks are just really really struggling.

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Speaker 2: Yeah they are, and every time it looks like they're

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gonna get ready to do something with your sheeta, Okay,

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which they probably should. He hits a home run, yeah.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, his first well, he hit his first home run. So,

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I mean, every time it looks like d Ran is

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starting to get going, he just oh for is it

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for for a while? That guy's that's been a brutal season.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. At the top of the lineup today, Duran's at

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That's that's not good. Jay's fans are holding their breath

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hoping for some good news because they had two.

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Speaker 1: Dylan Ceas went out.

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Speaker 2: And so did Gladdie.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah yeah, but apparently the X race came back

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negative and Vladdie he was.

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Speaker 2: Hit right yeah on the elbow.

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Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, just a contusion and CEA's just a mild

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hamstring so hopefully, hopefully not too bad. There. Can we

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come back to Jared Duran? Sure, How can you, as

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a Major League Baseball organization hit a guy leadoff that's

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got an one base percentage of two fifty nine.

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Speaker 2: Come on, you can't do that, No, you can't do that.

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Speaker 1: He's all he's hitting on. I don't know how many

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times it's top of the lineup, but it's been more

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than once. He's been there a lot.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, no, you just can't do that. That does not

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that does not compute at all.

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Speaker 1: They must really hate Christian Campbell.

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Speaker 2: I think it's up there on the list. Yeah that.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I mean, so Guards playing in front of

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them really and they don't have a chance this season.

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Speaker 2: Tim.

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Speaker 1: They need to bring these kids up, let them play

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and figure out who's good and who's not. And if

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Christian Campbell can't play, they need to just you know,

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cut them and trade them or do something and say

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we made a mistake there and move on. But I

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don't understand what. I don't understand what's going down there.

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Speaker 2: No, I it's not even organized chaos. It's just chaos. Yeah, yeah, no,

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it's you know, there's there's some great young talent in

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that organization. But yeah, like you said, you got Yoshida

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and so Guard hitting what one, two, three, four, fifth,

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and six in their lineup today? No, No, that's not

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take the hit, do what you gotta do and move on.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, Franklin arises two more home runs on

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Friday night or Thursday nights. I mean, he's just playing

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extremely well, and I don't get moving moving Mayor, Marcela Mayor.

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He's hitting two seventeen. He's just he's just not an

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offensive threat at all.

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Speaker 2: Well, and I was just going to on top of that,

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they got their best two young pictures in their rotation

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every day, so they're burning up service time on those

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two pictures, Connley Early and Bayton Tolett and leaving the

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bats down on the farm. Hey, if you're going to

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burn service time, do it for everyone, you know what

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I mean, Like, hey, go all in.

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00:26:54,720 --> 00:26:58,960
Speaker 1: Not happen well. And their defense, they have promoted a

468
00:26:58,960 --> 00:27:03,880
lot of guys has been promoted. Roman Anthony Hurt been promoted,

469
00:27:04,240 --> 00:27:07,640
Kristin Campbell been promoted. So I mean they have brought

470
00:27:07,839 --> 00:27:11,279
and Jared Duran promoted in the last couple of years Ruffao,

471
00:27:11,839 --> 00:27:16,039
uh Saydan Rafael. So they have brought guys up. It's

472
00:27:16,240 --> 00:27:19,160
just it hasn't come together. And a lot of their

473
00:27:19,400 --> 00:27:22,440
positional players just haven't delivered. A Roman Anthony spent a

474
00:27:22,559 --> 00:27:24,759
zero this season. You and I thought he'd be very good.

475
00:27:25,119 --> 00:27:29,480
Now he's hurt, and you're right there. Their pitching is

476
00:27:29,839 --> 00:27:33,119
looks really really strong, and they've got some other young

477
00:27:33,160 --> 00:27:34,759
pitchers that are coming up, and they got to get

478
00:27:34,799 --> 00:27:37,720
these bats to play. And Jared Durant to me is

479
00:27:37,759 --> 00:27:40,839
the biggest mystery. I'm not sure what happened there. He

480
00:27:40,920 --> 00:27:44,359
hits the ball hard, he's fast, it's just not happening

481
00:27:44,440 --> 00:27:44,920
this season.

482
00:27:46,440 --> 00:27:49,079
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, I think I think something's got to change

483
00:27:49,119 --> 00:27:51,480
really quickly or Craig Roselow is going to be looking

484
00:27:51,519 --> 00:27:52,039
for a job.

485
00:27:52,519 --> 00:27:55,240
Speaker 1: I'm surprised he hasn't he hasn't been fired already.

486
00:27:56,039 --> 00:27:58,720
Speaker 2: Yeah. I I was a big band of Craig Roselow

487
00:27:58,799 --> 00:28:00,640
early on because he did a lot of work with

488
00:28:00,680 --> 00:28:03,720
the Japanese players. He's an Australian a and he was

489
00:28:03,759 --> 00:28:09,920
an advanced scout that was responsible for several several signings

490
00:28:10,440 --> 00:28:13,160
end in Boston's ways. So I was a big fan.

491
00:28:13,279 --> 00:28:17,400
But I'm I don't like what I'm seeing right now.

492
00:28:17,440 --> 00:28:18,599
Somebody's going to pay for that.

493
00:28:20,079 --> 00:28:23,839
Speaker 1: So Jared Duran ninety third percent tilent sprints pizza. You

494
00:28:23,880 --> 00:28:26,279
can steal as many basis as he wants. Ex Velocity

495
00:28:26,359 --> 00:28:29,480
is still solid at ninety point two, down a little

496
00:28:29,519 --> 00:28:32,400
bit from last season. It's still good enough. His launch

497
00:28:32,400 --> 00:28:34,880
angle's kind of increase. He's just striking out too much

498
00:28:34,920 --> 00:28:38,359
and rarely walk so his hit tole is just not

499
00:28:38,559 --> 00:28:42,599
where it needs to be and that's what's holding them back.

500
00:28:43,640 --> 00:28:45,640
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, at some point in time, if you want

501
00:28:45,680 --> 00:28:48,759
to be a lead off that getting on base is

502
00:28:48,920 --> 00:28:52,519
rather important, isn't it Not the twenty five home runs,

503
00:28:53,119 --> 00:28:56,960
it's the three forty plus OVP that will drive your future.

504
00:28:59,160 --> 00:29:02,440
Speaker 1: His his one base percentage last year was three thirty two.

505
00:29:02,519 --> 00:29:05,720
The year before that was was two three forty two.

506
00:29:05,799 --> 00:29:08,559
But I mean, if you look at it, his expected

507
00:29:08,680 --> 00:29:11,799
batting average was two forty two sixty. That's where it's

508
00:29:11,799 --> 00:29:13,839
been about. And then all of a sudden you add

509
00:29:14,200 --> 00:29:16,920
the lack of walks and that one base percentage is

510
00:29:17,240 --> 00:29:20,519
expected one base percentage is more like three ten. So

511
00:29:21,039 --> 00:29:23,440
he should never be hitting at the top of the lineup.

512
00:29:24,559 --> 00:29:27,880
Speaker 2: No, totally agreed, yeah.

513
00:29:27,400 --> 00:29:29,160
Speaker 1: To me to take a break, come back, and I've

514
00:29:29,160 --> 00:29:45,160
got specific questions for you. So I'm gonna apologize ahead

515
00:29:45,160 --> 00:29:48,839
of time to all of our non Patreon members. There's

516
00:29:48,839 --> 00:29:51,960
gonna be a lot of commercials in today's podcasts because

517
00:29:52,000 --> 00:29:57,160
I've received a notice from a speaker, which is our distributor,

518
00:29:57,240 --> 00:30:02,039
that the rates this week weekend for ads are way

519
00:30:02,119 --> 00:30:04,680
up for some reason, so they're encouraging us all to

520
00:30:04,680 --> 00:30:06,680
put ads in the podcast.

521
00:30:06,839 --> 00:30:08,680
Speaker 2: So Jimmy gets a raise.

522
00:30:08,880 --> 00:30:12,279
Speaker 1: Timmy gets a raise. So if you want to want

523
00:30:12,279 --> 00:30:15,480
to have the podcast without any ads, simply become a

524
00:30:15,519 --> 00:30:19,319
Patreon member and you go ad free there. So I

525
00:30:19,359 --> 00:30:22,480
apologize ahead of time on that. We will go a

526
00:30:22,480 --> 00:30:24,920
little bit long today, Timmy, because we were not able

527
00:30:24,960 --> 00:30:27,559
to do it a podcast on Friday. I thought I

528
00:30:27,599 --> 00:30:31,480
had grandparent duty turned out early on Friday morning, got

529
00:30:31,480 --> 00:30:34,119
a call from the kids and one of the grandkids

530
00:30:34,200 --> 00:30:37,599
was not feeling well, so we canceled the playdates. So

531
00:30:38,039 --> 00:30:40,599
but it was too late to throw notes together, so

532
00:30:40,799 --> 00:30:41,599
I just let it go.

533
00:30:42,680 --> 00:30:45,079
Speaker 2: Well, and you know what it was. It was good

534
00:30:45,119 --> 00:30:47,240
that you did that because I was planning a quiet

535
00:30:47,279 --> 00:30:50,279
day on Friday and I ended up driving six hundred

536
00:30:50,279 --> 00:30:51,519
and fifty miles.

537
00:30:52,359 --> 00:30:53,559
Speaker 1: Oh that's right, you told me that.

538
00:30:53,680 --> 00:30:57,279
Speaker 2: Where did you go again, Terrace Day, Ontario. It's about

539
00:30:57,319 --> 00:31:03,319
three hours three hours east of thunder Bay, which is

540
00:31:03,359 --> 00:31:05,519
four hours from here in the first place, about twelve

541
00:31:05,559 --> 00:31:08,279
thirteen closer thirteen hour day.

542
00:31:08,319 --> 00:31:11,880
Speaker 1: Anyways, Yeah, I'm all moved in at our new place,

543
00:31:11,920 --> 00:31:14,599
which is nice, and starting life, starting to get back

544
00:31:15,480 --> 00:31:19,200
somewhat to normal, which is which is good. So actually,

545
00:31:19,279 --> 00:31:21,559
yesterday we didn't have a whole lot to do, which

546
00:31:21,680 --> 00:31:25,039
was a nice failing like, wow, JESU is great.

547
00:31:25,519 --> 00:31:27,839
Speaker 2: Put your feet up and relax because you've earned You've

548
00:31:27,880 --> 00:31:30,599
earned that right with the hectic lifestyle you've led over

549
00:31:30,599 --> 00:31:31,119
the past couple.

550
00:31:31,319 --> 00:31:34,519
Speaker 1: There's nothing to put his feet up on. Tim None

551
00:31:34,519 --> 00:31:36,559
of the furniture has arrived yet, so.

552
00:31:37,160 --> 00:31:39,720
Speaker 2: Not even in an old popcase that you used to

553
00:31:39,759 --> 00:31:40,680
put your records in.

554
00:31:40,920 --> 00:31:43,720
Speaker 1: Nothing, so we've got I used to take it. So

555
00:31:43,759 --> 00:31:47,880
we got two chairs, you know, like you know, side chairs,

556
00:31:47,880 --> 00:31:49,519
I guess you would call it, which we sit in

557
00:31:49,519 --> 00:31:52,599
in the living room, and then we have two dining

558
00:31:52,680 --> 00:31:56,000
room chairs that are being used as footstools. But the

559
00:31:56,039 --> 00:31:59,440
dining room chairs are a little higher than the chairs,

560
00:31:59,480 --> 00:32:02,079
so you're feet are elevated a little bit, and it's

561
00:32:02,519 --> 00:32:06,119
it's uncomfortable. Yes, it's not good.

562
00:32:07,079 --> 00:32:09,279
Speaker 2: You want to talk about uncomfortable. When I was young

563
00:32:09,359 --> 00:32:12,279
and stupid and partying, I used to sleep on three

564
00:32:12,279 --> 00:32:16,640
dining room chairs when I couldn't find a crash at well. Yeah,

565
00:32:16,720 --> 00:32:18,920
you just set them up all together with a little

566
00:32:18,920 --> 00:32:21,200
space and hey beats the floor.

567
00:32:22,799 --> 00:32:25,079
Speaker 1: So one of the one of the things. So one

568
00:32:25,079 --> 00:32:27,359
of the reasons we live in a high Rise. It's

569
00:32:27,640 --> 00:32:29,960
the eight stories. We live on the fourth seventh stories.

570
00:32:29,960 --> 00:32:33,519
We live on the fifth floor. But we're now facing

571
00:32:33,680 --> 00:32:35,839
the green, which is where all the action goes on

572
00:32:35,960 --> 00:32:36,480
in our town.

573
00:32:36,599 --> 00:32:36,720
Speaker 2: Right.

574
00:32:37,480 --> 00:32:40,000
Speaker 1: We used to face the back, which is quiet. There's

575
00:32:40,079 --> 00:32:43,640
no views, so to speak, you look at another building.

576
00:32:44,119 --> 00:32:47,160
But now we have these gorgeous views. It's it's absolutely stunning.

577
00:32:47,480 --> 00:32:51,799
The downside, Tim, is you face South Street, which is

578
00:32:52,359 --> 00:32:56,160
where all the bars are, and there are people coming

579
00:32:56,160 --> 00:32:57,880
out of the bars at two thirty in the morning.

580
00:32:57,880 --> 00:32:58,839
It's not a lot of fun.

581
00:32:59,640 --> 00:33:03,000
Speaker 2: So no, I was good, but you got free entertainment,

582
00:33:03,160 --> 00:33:04,400
right man, it's like.

583
00:33:05,920 --> 00:33:06,400
Speaker 1: At night?

584
00:33:06,519 --> 00:33:09,240
Speaker 2: Man, is this guy? Guy? Is this guy gonna fall

585
00:33:09,240 --> 00:33:11,759
on his face before he takes fifteen steps? I'll take

586
00:33:11,759 --> 00:33:13,799
the over, Laurie can take the under. You know what

587
00:33:13,880 --> 00:33:14,799
I mean? Here, you get it.

588
00:33:16,440 --> 00:33:18,880
Speaker 1: So the music, I think there's a music ordinance, so

589
00:33:18,960 --> 00:33:21,559
they have to turn the music or close the windows

590
00:33:21,640 --> 00:33:25,759
or something by eleven or twelve. So that's not so bad.

591
00:33:25,880 --> 00:33:29,160
But it's the guys, and it's always the guys stumbling

592
00:33:29,200 --> 00:33:31,480
out of the book. The bars free last. So we're

593
00:33:31,519 --> 00:33:35,640
gonna get We're gonna get some soundproofing windows in our bedroom.

594
00:33:35,799 --> 00:33:38,359
So so we're gonna be looking into that.

595
00:33:39,200 --> 00:33:42,640
Speaker 2: Okay, Yeah, you have a balcony you can sit over

596
00:33:42,880 --> 00:33:43,880
n or anything like that.

597
00:33:44,319 --> 00:33:48,160
Speaker 1: No, we don't. We have Juliette doors, so you kind

598
00:33:48,160 --> 00:33:52,920
of okay. They they are all these doors that you open,

599
00:33:53,039 --> 00:33:55,240
but there's there's no balcony, but you can open them

600
00:33:55,279 --> 00:33:58,400
and it's beautiful. It's it's beautiful. I now we have

601
00:33:58,440 --> 00:34:00,640
to deal with is all the drunks at two thirty

602
00:34:00,640 --> 00:34:03,079
at nine? So that's it's always something.

603
00:34:02,799 --> 00:34:04,839
Speaker 2: Tough, it's always something.

604
00:34:04,920 --> 00:34:08,440
Speaker 1: Yeah, speaking of it's always something. Now, Stephen Kwan is

605
00:34:08,480 --> 00:34:12,800
three for three today, but it's been absolutely brutal form.

606
00:34:12,880 --> 00:34:15,559
Travis Passana has now moved to the leadoff spot. So

607
00:34:16,280 --> 00:34:20,719
first of all, does Pasana get maybe an uptick in

608
00:34:21,599 --> 00:34:24,280
value now that he's moved to, you know, the top

609
00:34:24,320 --> 00:34:26,960
of the lineup, and will he be able to stay there?

610
00:34:29,119 --> 00:34:32,800
Speaker 2: Well, I think Stephen Kwan will dictate a lot of that,

611
00:34:33,440 --> 00:34:37,320
and if Kuan picks up his game, Bazanna might end

612
00:34:37,360 --> 00:34:39,199
up in the two spot. But is there a much

613
00:34:39,280 --> 00:34:41,719
that much difference being the leadoff spot in the two

614
00:34:41,800 --> 00:34:44,519
spot in the Cleveland lineup? They're both going to get

615
00:34:44,559 --> 00:34:46,639
the extra bats they're both going to get.

616
00:34:48,199 --> 00:34:49,639
Speaker 1: Is not batting second, is he?

617
00:34:51,119 --> 00:34:53,480
Speaker 2: No? No, he's way down in the lineup. But if

618
00:34:53,559 --> 00:34:56,440
Kwan returns to the top of the lineup and Bazanna

619
00:34:56,480 --> 00:34:58,360
gets moved into the two spot, that's what I was

620
00:34:58,400 --> 00:35:01,760
sort of referring to. I don't think lead off or

621
00:35:01,840 --> 00:35:04,599
number two for Bazanna. I don't think it changes the

622
00:35:04,639 --> 00:35:07,599
game or the end result. He's going to get the

623
00:35:07,599 --> 00:35:10,800
same number of it bats. He's going to score runs.

624
00:35:11,960 --> 00:35:15,599
So wherever Bazana is one or two, I don't think

625
00:35:15,599 --> 00:35:18,239
it makes that much of a difference status wise. But

626
00:35:18,880 --> 00:35:19,960
I don't think he's ever.

627
00:35:19,800 --> 00:35:23,719
Speaker 1: Going to hit two because that's Jose Ramirez number two

628
00:35:23,719 --> 00:35:27,039
in that lineup for last five years and at the

629
00:35:27,159 --> 00:35:30,280
water hitting third, and they're looking for somebody that can

630
00:35:30,320 --> 00:35:33,159
hit home runs fourth, and then Quant's all the way

631
00:35:33,199 --> 00:35:34,719
down in seventh today.

632
00:35:35,679 --> 00:35:40,719
Speaker 2: Well, based on his batting average, now granted there's there's

633
00:35:41,559 --> 00:35:44,920
a pretty ugly babout involved, Yeah, that's where Kwan should be.

634
00:35:45,000 --> 00:35:46,480
Should be down seven eight, nine.

635
00:35:47,800 --> 00:35:52,760
Speaker 1: Run two stolen basis. Yeah, from a fantasy standpoint, again,

636
00:35:52,800 --> 00:35:56,840
three hits to day, there's absolutely no reason to own

637
00:35:57,320 --> 00:36:00,679
Stephen Kuant because I mean, he's all about bat It's

638
00:36:00,719 --> 00:36:02,480
it's Lewis a rice. If he's not going to give

639
00:36:02,519 --> 00:36:03,920
you batting average, what's the point.

640
00:36:05,320 --> 00:36:07,719
Speaker 2: Yeah, A lot of his value is tied into the

641
00:36:07,800 --> 00:36:10,920
leadoff spot run score in batting average. If he doesn't

642
00:36:10,920 --> 00:36:14,239
have it, you shouldn't have him active. Now again, we've

643
00:36:14,280 --> 00:36:18,320
seen a pretty lengthy resume from Stephen Kwan, so I

644
00:36:18,320 --> 00:36:20,960
don't know if I would cut him loose quite yet,

645
00:36:21,480 --> 00:36:23,840
but I sure wouldn't. I sure wouldn't strive to have

646
00:36:23,920 --> 00:36:24,440
him active.

647
00:36:25,079 --> 00:36:26,840
Speaker 1: I've got him sitting on my bench by the way

648
00:36:26,880 --> 00:36:28,679
Pazzana and just hit a home run.

649
00:36:29,599 --> 00:36:35,440
Speaker 2: Okay, third season, Yeah, Stephen Kwan might want to buy

650
00:36:35,519 --> 00:36:39,719
shares in the seventh eighth spot moving forward, because then

651
00:36:39,800 --> 00:36:41,360
is a good We're going to be a good player.

652
00:36:41,920 --> 00:36:42,199
He's not.

653
00:36:42,280 --> 00:36:44,119
Speaker 1: He's not going to be a great player, though he

654
00:36:44,159 --> 00:36:47,360
can really hit. But from a fantasy standpoint, I don't

655
00:36:47,360 --> 00:36:49,519
think the power and the speed that he sole on

656
00:36:49,559 --> 00:36:51,880
a lot more bases than I thought he was going to.

657
00:36:52,079 --> 00:36:55,800
I think he's more of a fifteen fifteen kind of guy,

658
00:36:55,880 --> 00:36:58,440
twelve to fifteen kind of guy. But he should hit.

659
00:36:59,480 --> 00:37:01,400
Speaker 2: Yeah, Louis Arise with a little bit of power and

660
00:37:01,440 --> 00:37:03,639
a little bit more speed.

661
00:37:03,400 --> 00:37:06,920
Speaker 1: Than Kwan or a better version of step Yeah.

662
00:37:06,880 --> 00:37:11,199
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, or what Stephen Kwan once was. Yeah he

663
00:37:11,320 --> 00:37:14,679
isn't right now, Yeah, that's yeah. But I agree with you.

664
00:37:14,719 --> 00:37:16,559
I don't think you know, we're never going to rave

665
00:37:16,599 --> 00:37:22,960
about Travis Bizana as a round three pick, round two pick. No,

666
00:37:23,519 --> 00:37:26,400
there won't be enough power speed to generate a lofty

667
00:37:26,599 --> 00:37:30,360
position in draft drankings. So I could be a good player.

668
00:37:30,400 --> 00:37:32,199
But I'm pretty.

669
00:37:31,880 --> 00:37:34,840
Speaker 1: Close with the Cleveland Guardian system, so I I know

670
00:37:34,880 --> 00:37:38,800
a bunch of guys there. Their philosophy is they want

671
00:37:38,840 --> 00:37:42,199
Travis Measana one through nine. That's that's how they want

672
00:37:42,239 --> 00:37:45,039
to build their team. They want really good baseball players

673
00:37:45,079 --> 00:37:48,920
with great instincts, who make great contact, get on base

674
00:37:49,360 --> 00:37:53,840
with speed and power. And that's they told me, point blank,

675
00:37:53,880 --> 00:37:57,239
if we could have a guy like that one through nine,

676
00:37:57,480 --> 00:37:59,880
we'd be very very happy. With the pitching they have.

677
00:38:00,039 --> 00:38:02,719
They think it compete every year well.

678
00:38:02,800 --> 00:38:05,159
Speaker 2: And the thing is they don't have to pay those players,

679
00:38:05,480 --> 00:38:10,239
not compared to not compared to uh Pete Lonzover. You

680
00:38:10,280 --> 00:38:12,360
know what I mean, A big home run bat, you

681
00:38:12,440 --> 00:38:15,159
pay a big strole and base bat with some part

682
00:38:15,199 --> 00:38:18,039
where you're going to pay those guys. That group that

683
00:38:18,119 --> 00:38:22,800
they're funneling and looking at are never going to be

684
00:38:23,280 --> 00:38:26,039
the eight year, three hundred million type player.

685
00:38:26,360 --> 00:38:29,360
Speaker 1: That's right. Yeah, so it makes a lot of sense.

686
00:38:29,400 --> 00:38:30,840
Speaker 2: It's just yeah, sure it does.

687
00:38:31,320 --> 00:38:33,679
Speaker 1: But they're winning. I mean, they want a lot. Over

688
00:38:33,679 --> 00:38:36,119
the last few years, it's all been about pitching. If

689
00:38:36,159 --> 00:38:39,960
they could just get some cheap power, and I love

690
00:38:40,000 --> 00:38:42,239
what they did with ree Hoskins. It's just not working.

691
00:38:42,320 --> 00:38:44,639
Speaker 2: But that's if you're what you gotta do.

692
00:38:44,760 --> 00:38:47,119
Speaker 1: Yeah, if you're a cheap ball team, that's what you

693
00:38:47,199 --> 00:38:50,719
gotta do. And maybe Nathaniel low would have been a

694
00:38:50,760 --> 00:38:53,920
better pick. They were probably both the same amount of money.

695
00:38:53,960 --> 00:38:56,920
And yeah, it looks like Nathaniel Lowe's up to seven

696
00:38:56,960 --> 00:38:59,800
home runs hitting a little bit more. Reee Hoskins just

697
00:39:00,000 --> 00:39:01,840
doesn't look like he's got a thing left.

698
00:39:02,519 --> 00:39:05,599
Speaker 2: Well. The batting average is bad from Hoskins, which is

699
00:39:05,719 --> 00:39:09,000
at least something. Hoskins could go on and tear at

700
00:39:09,000 --> 00:39:11,079
any point in time and hit three four home runs

701
00:39:11,079 --> 00:39:14,719
in a week. He's got that and I believe that potential.

702
00:39:15,159 --> 00:39:19,079
He just hasn't done yet. So I'm not I'm not

703
00:39:19,119 --> 00:39:22,320
throwing Hoskins for the wolves quite yet. Give me another

704
00:39:22,320 --> 00:39:24,599
two three weeks and if we haven't seen enough tick

705
00:39:24,639 --> 00:39:27,760
in the power. Yeah, but I'm trying to exercise some

706
00:39:27,840 --> 00:39:31,320
patients because I think Cleveland's trying to exercise patients, so

707
00:39:31,360 --> 00:39:34,360
I'm going to follow their lead. For now, we'll.

708
00:39:34,159 --> 00:39:39,199
Speaker 1: Talk about Kevin Alcantara and Pedro Ramirez. I think you've

709
00:39:39,239 --> 00:39:42,559
talked about Ramirez in your YAI yep, So we'll talk

710
00:39:42,559 --> 00:39:45,159
about both of those. But one thing that was interesting

711
00:39:45,239 --> 00:39:48,639
Friday night, very quietly. It's funny how all the fanfare

712
00:39:48,679 --> 00:39:53,039
when the guy gets promoted. Oscar Jones got demoted back

713
00:39:53,079 --> 00:39:56,599
to Triple A after he hit a home run I think,

714
00:39:56,679 --> 00:39:59,440
and yeah, show showed a little bit for a couple

715
00:39:59,480 --> 00:40:01,559
of games, but in the end he just didn't hit enough.

716
00:40:01,679 --> 00:40:05,280
And it's what I worry about with Spencer Jones long term.

717
00:40:05,719 --> 00:40:07,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I I picked up the news on

718
00:40:08,039 --> 00:40:12,679
page sixty three at the Times. Yeah, you're right, exactly. Yeah,

719
00:40:12,719 --> 00:40:15,840
well yeah, when you get called up, Okay, you got

720
00:40:15,840 --> 00:40:19,199
the byline right across page one, when you're demoted, Yeah,

721
00:40:19,400 --> 00:40:24,039
it's break before the obituaries wherever they.

722
00:40:23,280 --> 00:40:28,079
Speaker 1: It's just not there. But see he had twenty seven

723
00:40:28,199 --> 00:40:30,199
plate appearances. No, he didn't hit a home run. My

724
00:40:30,280 --> 00:40:33,159
bat struck out forty four percent of the time. So

725
00:40:33,239 --> 00:40:36,840
what is that twelve strikeouts and twenty seven apparents or

726
00:40:36,840 --> 00:40:37,440
something like that.

727
00:40:37,960 --> 00:40:40,000
Speaker 2: So he was as advertised, wasn't he.

728
00:40:40,360 --> 00:40:42,880
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it's yeah, we didn't hit a home run.

729
00:40:42,920 --> 00:40:45,760
But I'm sure I looked at his Baseball savon page

730
00:40:45,840 --> 00:40:48,079
the Eggs of Alcis. I mean that he just hits

731
00:40:48,119 --> 00:40:51,840
the ball hard and it swings really long. He's got speed.

732
00:40:52,280 --> 00:40:56,239
I don't know. I he he flummexes me, Tommy, I

733
00:40:56,280 --> 00:41:00,639
don't know. Somebody else can take over this answer Jones

734
00:41:00,679 --> 00:41:02,440
babysitting and I'm done. I don't know what to do

735
00:41:02,559 --> 00:41:03,239
with him anymore.

736
00:41:03,920 --> 00:41:06,280
Speaker 2: Yeah, well yeah, except you don't have money any of

737
00:41:06,360 --> 00:41:07,639
your teams, do you? No?

738
00:41:08,079 --> 00:41:11,360
Speaker 1: And people people constantly it's like they don't listen to

739
00:41:11,400 --> 00:41:14,280
the podcast, and my Dynasty leagues, I constantly get offered.

740
00:41:14,360 --> 00:41:19,039
I think they're messing with me. Spencer Jones, Like, I'm

741
00:41:19,079 --> 00:41:23,920
not giving somebody today, offered to trade, offered to give

742
00:41:23,960 --> 00:41:27,239
me somebody for my Ranger of Suarez, Timmy, who is

743
00:41:27,239 --> 00:41:30,440
the bigger Ranger Suarez fan than me. Nobody. You're not

744
00:41:30,480 --> 00:41:30,880
getting my.

745
00:41:30,840 --> 00:41:41,199
Speaker 2: Ragerez he is, Yeah, you pay for him, that's right near. Yeah,

746
00:41:41,360 --> 00:41:42,159
I get.

747
00:41:41,920 --> 00:41:45,519
Speaker 1: That nobody wants to pay for him because he's Ranger Suarez,

748
00:41:45,559 --> 00:41:48,599
But in the end, he wins games, has low ear A,

749
00:41:48,880 --> 00:41:52,199
strikes out a handful of guys eight per nineties. He's

750
00:41:52,239 --> 00:41:54,639
a great number four guy that I'm not getting rid of,

751
00:41:55,079 --> 00:41:57,400
not for some stiff Yeah.

752
00:41:57,480 --> 00:42:02,119
Speaker 2: No, the offers that I'm getting steady are uh Edward Rodriguez,

753
00:42:02,320 --> 00:42:05,679
Bailey over I'm getting all of the dreg pitchers that

754
00:42:05,719 --> 00:42:09,880
are having great years that we know are going to correct. Okay,

755
00:42:10,599 --> 00:42:14,280
well you want a premium you want a premium player

756
00:42:14,880 --> 00:42:19,760
for somebody who is significantly overperforming at this point in

757
00:42:19,880 --> 00:42:22,519
time in the season. I can tell you what you're

758
00:42:22,519 --> 00:42:26,280
going to get back from me, not a nothing. I'm

759
00:42:26,320 --> 00:42:30,360
not interested in overpaying for. Yeah, I had I had

760
00:42:30,400 --> 00:42:33,599
one offer for ed Rodriguez and what did they want?

761
00:42:33,679 --> 00:42:38,000
One of my closers, either Barlin or Munos whatever, because

762
00:42:38,039 --> 00:42:40,280
I've got some extra closures. But what I want with

763
00:42:40,400 --> 00:42:43,480
Edward Rodriguez' e RA is two something right now? Is

764
00:42:43,519 --> 00:42:44,840
expected era is.

765
00:42:47,719 --> 00:42:48,320
Speaker 1: Something like that?

766
00:42:48,800 --> 00:42:52,440
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, you know, trade me. The statue have already

767
00:42:52,480 --> 00:42:56,440
accumulated okay, and I might be interested, but no I'm not.

768
00:42:56,559 --> 00:42:57,440
I'm not. I'm not.

769
00:42:58,639 --> 00:43:02,039
Speaker 1: If you could trade the stafts that have already been accumulated,

770
00:43:02,159 --> 00:43:03,119
that would be awesome.

771
00:43:04,280 --> 00:43:09,039
Speaker 2: Well, it would change the whole trade dynamic thing rather significantly,

772
00:43:09,079 --> 00:43:11,440
wouldn't it. Yeah, you'd be willing to take a chance

773
00:43:11,480 --> 00:43:14,880
on somebody who's off to a hot start, knowing that

774
00:43:14,960 --> 00:43:18,559
you got those in the bank, and also knowing that

775
00:43:18,639 --> 00:43:24,480
there are certain limitations as far as the future is concerned. Yeah. Yeah, yeah.

776
00:43:24,599 --> 00:43:27,400
Speaker 1: Also people would be looking to it, couldn't. I mean,

777
00:43:27,800 --> 00:43:30,639
all of a sudden, Edward Rodriguez has a lot more

778
00:43:30,719 --> 00:43:32,639
value than he does now, then he might train him

779
00:43:32,679 --> 00:43:35,760
for Louis Viarland. But you're Louis Varland's like my Ranger Suarez.

780
00:43:35,760 --> 00:43:40,000
You're not getting Louis Varrett. Tim's got Louis. That's this guy.

781
00:43:40,199 --> 00:43:43,320
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly. You want it, you pay for it. I'm

782
00:43:43,360 --> 00:43:47,119
sitting in a league right now where there I'm down

783
00:43:47,119 --> 00:43:50,440
near the bottom. My team basically sucks injury after injury,

784
00:43:51,119 --> 00:43:55,320
but I own the save category. And there's five teams

785
00:43:55,360 --> 00:43:57,960
within five points of each other, and they all need saves,

786
00:43:58,280 --> 00:44:00,639
and they're all trying to lowball me on them. I'm sorry,

787
00:44:00,719 --> 00:44:03,400
I will cut them loose to watch you spend your

788
00:44:03,440 --> 00:44:06,159
fab before I'll trade for garbage.

789
00:44:07,400 --> 00:44:09,920
Speaker 1: Is Joe what was the name, Joel Knell? Is he

790
00:44:09,960 --> 00:44:14,599
one of your guys on that No, No, you sucker

791
00:44:14,679 --> 00:44:19,199
me into getting spending a lot of fat on him anyway,

792
00:44:20,320 --> 00:44:25,159
nexcept frank letta rise still still you know, they just

793
00:44:25,159 --> 00:44:28,880
don't want them up for some reason. And now they're

794
00:44:28,920 --> 00:44:32,400
going with Marcella Mayor. Let's talk about Marcella Mayor two

795
00:44:32,480 --> 00:44:36,000
sixteen batting average two eighty six, one base percentage. I

796
00:44:36,119 --> 00:44:37,679
was really wrong in him. I thought he was going

797
00:44:37,760 --> 00:44:39,559
to hit, thought to be a little bit of power,

798
00:44:39,599 --> 00:44:42,760
a little bit of speed, and he just can't hit.

799
00:44:43,000 --> 00:44:46,199
Speaker 2: No, I am. I'm looking at the statcast page right now.

800
00:44:48,199 --> 00:44:52,880
Speaker 1: Ex velocity nine percent loft. He's a double cider at best.

801
00:44:53,639 --> 00:44:58,199
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm looking at the percentiles on u x Oba

802
00:44:59,000 --> 00:45:02,880
fifth percentile X batting average seventh percent, dile x slug

803
00:45:03,159 --> 00:45:09,199
seven percent, dile average X of velosity fourteenth percentle Other

804
00:45:09,280 --> 00:45:13,960
than bat speed, he swings, he swings swings hard, but

805
00:45:14,079 --> 00:45:16,719
other than that, he's not over fifty percent. I don't

806
00:45:16,719 --> 00:45:19,320
think in any category if you have k percent sixty

807
00:45:19,360 --> 00:45:22,760
five nineteen point one. He's not striking oda luck, but

808
00:45:22,880 --> 00:45:25,440
other than that, it's solidly blue.

809
00:45:25,840 --> 00:45:28,159
Speaker 1: So if we look at the bat speed, and the

810
00:45:28,199 --> 00:45:30,519
bat speed's as good as it usually, the bat speed

811
00:45:30,840 --> 00:45:34,280
is what you glob one to and say, if a

812
00:45:34,360 --> 00:45:38,199
guy's going to swing hard, eventually he should be able

813
00:45:38,239 --> 00:45:40,519
to have higher x velocity and hit for power. And

814
00:45:40,559 --> 00:45:44,239
that's the theory. And he's not been able to translate

815
00:45:44,320 --> 00:45:48,400
that really get bat speed into exit velocity, which might

816
00:45:48,519 --> 00:45:52,079
mean he's just not strong enough yet, right, So I

817
00:45:52,079 --> 00:45:53,880
don't know if they get him through a weight program

818
00:45:53,960 --> 00:45:56,599
to get him a little bit stronger, and he's got

819
00:45:56,599 --> 00:45:58,960
to start elevating the pitches otherwise it's just going to

820
00:45:59,039 --> 00:46:02,599
be doubles. And he makes good he makes very good contact.

821
00:46:02,599 --> 00:46:04,880
But what we've learned, if you don't hit the ball hard,

822
00:46:05,239 --> 00:46:07,400
you're gonna have a low batting average. And that's what's

823
00:46:07,719 --> 00:46:10,880
killing Bricela Mayor. I'm still not willing to give up

824
00:46:10,920 --> 00:46:12,840
one up tell me, but it's been brutal and I

825
00:46:12,880 --> 00:46:16,480
don't see anything changing the season. He's gonna have to

826
00:46:16,480 --> 00:46:19,199
have an off season where he comes on looking bigger

827
00:46:19,199 --> 00:46:21,559
and stronger before all so we go, oh, maybe we've

828
00:46:21,559 --> 00:46:22,559
got something now.

829
00:46:23,400 --> 00:46:26,239
Speaker 2: Yeah, with that expected batting average or two oh one.

830
00:46:26,480 --> 00:46:28,840
That's not reason for optimism, is it.

831
00:46:29,039 --> 00:46:32,519
Speaker 1: No? No, no, it's not good. And Franklin rise. I

832
00:46:32,559 --> 00:46:35,559
guess you just don't think he's ready, or maybe they're

833
00:46:35,599 --> 00:46:38,199
just trying to Maybe it's fair to give Marcela Mayor

834
00:46:38,679 --> 00:46:41,480
a shot to see if he's got value. Maybe that's

835
00:46:41,480 --> 00:46:42,280
the right thing to do.

836
00:46:43,119 --> 00:46:45,760
Speaker 2: We are going to see her rise up before the

837
00:46:45,840 --> 00:46:47,639
end of the year, though, I'm convinced of that.

838
00:46:49,039 --> 00:46:53,280
Speaker 1: Garrett Cole, look great, Any concerns must start. You're not

839
00:46:53,800 --> 00:46:56,199
weren't looking at matchouts, you just start. He's Garrett Cole.

840
00:46:56,800 --> 00:47:00,280
Speaker 2: Wheel them out there. Yep. Yeah. You've only got so

841
00:47:00,280 --> 00:47:02,280
many starts between now and the end of the year.

842
00:47:02,400 --> 00:47:05,320
Take advantage of every single one of them.

843
00:47:05,679 --> 00:47:07,400
Speaker 1: Tim and I did. I think it was a couple

844
00:47:07,440 --> 00:47:09,880
of weeks ago. Tim, we went through the top forty

845
00:47:09,960 --> 00:47:13,119
starters starters, so and I said, Christoph Sanchez is having

846
00:47:13,159 --> 00:47:16,559
a tough season, and I was dead wrong. I mean,

847
00:47:17,639 --> 00:47:21,480
the first like three weeks weren't very good. But there

848
00:47:21,480 --> 00:47:23,360
was a report out and I couldn't believe it. I'd

849
00:47:23,360 --> 00:47:28,519
actually go back and check and two thirds scoreless innings.

850
00:47:29,039 --> 00:47:32,320
I mean, I haven't heard it's a record, but oh

851
00:47:32,360 --> 00:47:34,760
my gosh, that's unbelievable in the modern game.

852
00:47:35,960 --> 00:47:39,360
Speaker 2: Yeah. The I was listening to that game on the radio,

853
00:47:39,559 --> 00:47:43,719
the last game he pitched, and he was just dominating

854
00:47:43,840 --> 00:47:48,000
flat oh, dominating. His next start, he's got an opportunity

855
00:47:48,039 --> 00:47:51,519
to set the all time Phillies record, which is held

856
00:47:51,800 --> 00:47:54,079
by somebody who was a Grover.

857
00:47:55,840 --> 00:48:01,079
Speaker 1: Cleveland. Yeah, he was a president I think New Jersey.

858
00:48:02,519 --> 00:48:07,000
Speaker 2: It was back in twenty eleven. Yeah, so he's already

859
00:48:07,039 --> 00:48:09,559
got the modern record. Now he's looking at the old time.

860
00:48:10,320 --> 00:48:12,639
And I wouldn't bet against him with the way he's

861
00:48:12,679 --> 00:48:16,239
pitching right now. He allowed six earned runs going back

862
00:48:16,280 --> 00:48:20,159
into mid April or whatever. Then he allowed to earned

863
00:48:20,199 --> 00:48:22,199
runs in his next start, and since then he has

864
00:48:22,239 --> 00:48:25,360
allowed nothing but Zero's very, very impressive.

865
00:48:26,039 --> 00:48:30,360
Speaker 1: Very it's yeah, I don't know, you can't. I mean,

866
00:48:30,360 --> 00:48:35,159
it's just dumbfounding what he's doing. And and it's it's

867
00:48:35,159 --> 00:48:37,480
not like he's pitching six innings then this is all

868
00:48:37,480 --> 00:48:42,760
he looked at a couple nine, you know, complete games,

869
00:48:42,760 --> 00:48:43,199
a seven.

870
00:48:43,280 --> 00:48:48,760
Speaker 2: It's just crazy quality start leagues. Yeah, he's got to

871
00:48:48,800 --> 00:48:51,039
be up here at the top of the list right

872
00:48:51,079 --> 00:48:53,679
about now in all in any format, he's up at

873
00:48:53,719 --> 00:48:56,599
the top of the list. But yeah, he's going deep

874
00:48:56,639 --> 00:49:00,800
into games. He's pitching very effectively. Yeah, it's it's impressive.

875
00:49:01,440 --> 00:49:05,480
Speaker 1: I used to work quietly here. Jonatoan quietly got the call.

876
00:49:05,880 --> 00:49:07,559
But it looks like he's going to pitch out of

877
00:49:07,599 --> 00:49:09,519
the bullpen. Is there any interest?

878
00:49:11,320 --> 00:49:14,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, because I think he's going to They're going to

879
00:49:15,000 --> 00:49:17,760
increase the workload. I think he's going to pitch behind

880
00:49:17,800 --> 00:49:21,880
an opener, which automatically, if he can go three innings,

881
00:49:22,159 --> 00:49:26,280
you know, automatically generates interest. So yeah, I would have

882
00:49:26,360 --> 00:49:29,440
to say, yeah, I was sort of split between him

883
00:49:29,480 --> 00:49:31,719
and the other kids who was going to get the call.

884
00:49:32,559 --> 00:49:37,440
And I'm interested, but I'm not going to pay anything

885
00:49:37,480 --> 00:49:41,280
for the privilege because we've seen some wild numbers coming

886
00:49:41,280 --> 00:49:44,679
out of Triple A and Jonah Thong, So I'm not

887
00:49:44,920 --> 00:49:49,119
walked everybody. Yeah, the walks have been off the charts,

888
00:49:49,239 --> 00:49:53,440
and I'm interested, but if I can, if I got room,

889
00:49:53,440 --> 00:49:58,840
and I probably don't, mostly cistachium my will, but again,

890
00:49:58,960 --> 00:50:00,960
those walks concerned, they really do.

891
00:50:02,440 --> 00:50:05,679
Speaker 1: Tosh Bradley was back touchout. It was ninety nine point

892
00:50:05,760 --> 00:50:07,920
eight where I saw his upper woman, so it's called

893
00:50:08,039 --> 00:50:10,400
triple digits. I didn't think he was ever going to

894
00:50:10,440 --> 00:50:13,480
throw that hard. He's been if you could say, healthy, tended.

895
00:50:13,559 --> 00:50:16,679
This is one of the real breakout pictures this season.

896
00:50:17,760 --> 00:50:21,400
Speaker 2: Totally agree, and nice to see him back in the game.

897
00:50:21,480 --> 00:50:25,599
I know it's fantasy folk. That was, you know, on

898
00:50:25,639 --> 00:50:27,480
top of all the injuries, that one sort of came

899
00:50:27,519 --> 00:50:32,760
out of nowhere, okay, and it was at the at

900
00:50:32,800 --> 00:50:34,480
a point in time when I think a lot of

901
00:50:34,559 --> 00:50:38,440
us had just lost aces and arms were falling off.

902
00:50:38,519 --> 00:50:41,159
It's nice to see him back. He'll be a difference

903
00:50:41,199 --> 00:50:45,800
maker this year for a lot of fens was I think.

904
00:50:45,639 --> 00:50:49,679
Speaker 1: This season, and maybe it's just recency bias on my standpoint,

905
00:50:49,679 --> 00:50:52,719
but the number of young pitchers that have just taken

906
00:50:52,760 --> 00:50:56,760
the next step forward. I mean Taj Bradley, Cam Schlittler,

907
00:50:56,880 --> 00:51:00,719
we talked about, Parker Messick Weathers has looked really good.

908
00:51:00,760 --> 00:51:02,800
So I mean, you take a look at these kids

909
00:51:02,800 --> 00:51:05,280
that have always had really good stuff. Maybe they couldn't

910
00:51:05,280 --> 00:51:07,639
stay healthy, maybe they walked too many, and all of

911
00:51:07,639 --> 00:51:10,000
a sudden you're looking down and you're seeing low three era,

912
00:51:10,760 --> 00:51:12,880
mid two Eras and some of these guys with a

913
00:51:12,920 --> 00:51:16,159
ton of wins. It's this has been a really interesting

914
00:51:16,280 --> 00:51:20,559
season that we talked last last week or week before last,

915
00:51:21,119 --> 00:51:24,639
that upper forties has been tough, but you get into

916
00:51:24,760 --> 00:51:27,360
when you were drafted, you get into the forty through

917
00:51:27,440 --> 00:51:31,079
ninety level pitching, that's where that's where those guys have

918
00:51:31,199 --> 00:51:32,960
really made hay this season.

919
00:51:33,079 --> 00:51:36,320
Speaker 2: Well yeah, and you didn't even mention like Miserrowsky.

920
00:51:36,719 --> 00:51:41,239
Speaker 1: Yeah, all those guys, they're all that same, They were

921
00:51:41,280 --> 00:51:44,119
all that same kind of the before starter and they've

922
00:51:44,199 --> 00:51:45,840
all so many of them have hit.

923
00:51:48,920 --> 00:51:53,360
Speaker 2: It's going to make it very interesting drafting next year.

924
00:51:53,440 --> 00:51:55,360
And it's something I'm going to have to put a

925
00:51:55,400 --> 00:51:57,599
lot of thought into. How do you want to attack

926
00:51:57,679 --> 00:52:01,079
pitching next year? Seeing what we've seen this year with

927
00:52:01,960 --> 00:52:05,639
you know, the injuries out of the top twenty five

928
00:52:05,719 --> 00:52:08,679
starters heading into the season, and now are these guys

929
00:52:08,719 --> 00:52:10,920
are going to all be top twenty five starters next year?

930
00:52:11,000 --> 00:52:15,559
Were the same thing where does a where does a

931
00:52:15,559 --> 00:52:19,119
bargain begin? And an overpayd start sort of thing, it

932
00:52:19,159 --> 00:52:21,199
would be fascinating to go through it.

933
00:52:21,519 --> 00:52:24,159
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a really good point because you take these

934
00:52:24,599 --> 00:52:28,000
top ten guys all these young twenty six year olds

935
00:52:28,039 --> 00:52:29,639
that are having I mean, how many are going to

936
00:52:29,679 --> 00:52:32,360
be able to duplicate what they did this year next year?

937
00:52:32,880 --> 00:52:34,880
And then all of a sudden you get Hunter Brown

938
00:52:35,679 --> 00:52:38,079
a bit of a doing the cheat because he didn't

939
00:52:38,159 --> 00:52:41,320
accumulate the innings and or maybe he struggles when he

940
00:52:41,360 --> 00:52:43,960
comes back. But now he comes back next season, he's healthy,

941
00:52:44,000 --> 00:52:46,679
and as it turns back in the Hunter Brown, it's

942
00:52:46,760 --> 00:52:49,400
the same thing that you did on Zach Wheeler this season.

943
00:52:49,559 --> 00:52:51,800
You know, you've got to be able to play both

944
00:52:51,800 --> 00:52:53,079
of those sides of the coin.

945
00:52:54,559 --> 00:52:56,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's not an easy going to balance. It

946
00:52:56,960 --> 00:52:57,639
really isn't.

947
00:52:59,159 --> 00:53:03,440
Speaker 1: I'm not by the way, if Uri Perez is a

948
00:53:03,480 --> 00:53:06,599
bargain next season, I'm playing it.

949
00:53:09,119 --> 00:53:11,679
Speaker 2: I'll have a hard time not doing the same thing.

950
00:53:11,800 --> 00:53:15,719
Speaker 1: Rich stuff is outrageous.

951
00:53:15,400 --> 00:53:19,000
Speaker 2: It is, it really is. I don't know what's going

952
00:53:19,039 --> 00:53:24,440
on there, but I'm expecting at some point in time

953
00:53:24,480 --> 00:53:27,880
this season and into the future, Eurie Perez I think

954
00:53:27,880 --> 00:53:30,039
has the potential to be a top ten starter in

955
00:53:30,079 --> 00:53:33,039
the game. We haven't seen it yet, but I'm not

956
00:53:33,159 --> 00:53:36,599
willing to rule that out as an option moving forward.

957
00:53:38,239 --> 00:53:40,880
Speaker 1: Totally agree with you, So I actually trade it for

958
00:53:40,960 --> 00:53:44,360
him in a dynasty league. I think I got value.

959
00:53:44,559 --> 00:53:47,400
I'm sure I got ripped off. I thought I got value.

960
00:53:47,960 --> 00:53:50,159
So I'm pretty excited to have him, I think now

961
00:53:50,199 --> 00:53:54,639
in three leagues. So I'm trying to quietly accumulate Uri

962
00:53:54,719 --> 00:53:57,880
Perez when he has allows the outing going, hey, I'll

963
00:53:57,880 --> 00:53:59,199
take him off your hand.

964
00:54:00,159 --> 00:54:02,079
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm all of you. I'm that type of guy.

965
00:54:02,519 --> 00:54:04,639
Speaker 1: Yeah. To me, it's they can break, come back and

966
00:54:04,679 --> 00:54:07,519
do your waiver report. I think it's a good waiver report,

967
00:54:08,000 --> 00:54:22,199
so I'm excited to go through it. I'd say a

968
00:54:22,320 --> 00:54:30,360
names got one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven,

969
00:54:30,599 --> 00:54:36,559
twelve thirteen, about fifteen, eighteen eighteen names uh, and we'll

970
00:54:36,559 --> 00:54:39,760
take time out. There was a knock knock battle going on.

971
00:54:39,880 --> 00:54:42,880
Tim did a knock knock joke on Steven Mattz and

972
00:54:42,920 --> 00:54:46,039
he told me to make sure that the AI assistant

973
00:54:46,039 --> 00:54:48,800
didn't change it. So I told my AI assistant, don't

974
00:54:48,880 --> 00:54:51,719
change the knock knock joke for Tim. He's very proud

975
00:54:51,800 --> 00:54:54,000
of it. And then I said, why don't you give

976
00:54:54,039 --> 00:54:56,880
me some alternatives and we'll see which one is better.

977
00:54:56,960 --> 00:55:00,519
So people as we speak are voting now on Tim's

978
00:55:00,599 --> 00:55:04,440
knock knock joke versus the AI assistant lock knock joke,

979
00:55:04,519 --> 00:55:07,559
which I think I thought they were all bad, but

980
00:55:07,840 --> 00:55:11,159
I'm going to put Tams as the least offensive of

981
00:55:11,280 --> 00:55:13,480
the knock dock joke, So I would put you in

982
00:55:13,519 --> 00:55:14,400
the lead on those.

983
00:55:16,239 --> 00:55:18,519
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I was sitting back, obviously with too

984
00:55:18,559 --> 00:55:23,039
much time on my hands, trying to be creative. Then, uh,

985
00:55:23,440 --> 00:55:26,480
after you decided you I'm want to turn your options

986
00:55:26,519 --> 00:55:28,840
to your assistant. Yeah. I just want to kick the

987
00:55:28,920 --> 00:55:31,920
cass and take no prisoners. Okay, I'm going to put

988
00:55:31,920 --> 00:55:34,239
you in your place this week, AI assistant.

989
00:55:34,880 --> 00:55:37,760
Speaker 1: I think it's funny. I mean Tim, Tim not only

990
00:55:37,800 --> 00:55:41,400
writes the not only writes the dock doc joke, but

991
00:55:41,480 --> 00:55:45,599
he gives direction and he says rich with a long pall.

992
00:55:45,800 --> 00:55:49,119
So it's the times plant director at the same time

993
00:55:49,559 --> 00:55:57,920
telling the character me, what the I've known you, I've

994
00:55:57,920 --> 00:55:59,159
known you for twenty years.

995
00:55:59,320 --> 00:56:03,360
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah I could. I can pick your pocket with

996
00:56:03,400 --> 00:56:12,760
the best of the I It's like, okay.

997
00:56:11,599 --> 00:56:14,000
Speaker 1: Are we are we supposed to? Are you gonna plague

998
00:56:14,000 --> 00:56:15,639
you and I'm gonna play me? Is that how you

999
00:56:15,639 --> 00:56:16,960
want to do the knock knock joke?

1000
00:56:17,800 --> 00:56:18,079
Speaker 2: Sure?

1001
00:56:18,239 --> 00:56:23,840
Speaker 3: Okay, go ahead, Tim, Okay, let's try this with precise

1002
00:56:23,960 --> 00:56:25,519
rich knock dock.

1003
00:56:26,840 --> 00:56:29,199
Speaker 1: Rich very reluctantly, who's there?

1004
00:56:31,239 --> 00:56:31,360
Speaker 2: Uh?

1005
00:56:31,639 --> 00:56:36,000
Speaker 1: Door? Okay, I'll play along.

1006
00:56:36,400 --> 00:56:36,760
Speaker 2: Door.

1007
00:56:36,760 --> 00:56:39,119
Speaker 1: Who doormat?

1008
00:56:39,320 --> 00:56:42,440
Speaker 2: Something that Steven hasn't been over his past three appearances.

1009
00:56:44,320 --> 00:56:47,920
Speaker 1: And this is my direction, my direction last scene shaking

1010
00:56:47,960 --> 00:56:50,840
his head impounding the zero point zero button, So let

1011
00:56:50,880 --> 00:56:59,480
me do the zero get that I laughed harder at.

1012
00:57:00,079 --> 00:57:03,400
But how I'm supposed to react?

1013
00:57:04,199 --> 00:57:08,519
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, no, I I saw more size okay,

1014
00:57:08,679 --> 00:57:10,400
and baby.

1015
00:57:12,159 --> 00:57:16,440
Speaker 1: One of But what was funny? It wasn't just the joke.

1016
00:57:16,559 --> 00:57:22,440
It was directions to me, like how I should react.

1017
00:57:23,400 --> 00:57:26,800
Speaker 2: That wasn't the dead was I figured out how you would.

1018
00:57:27,559 --> 00:57:30,280
Speaker 1: It's very funny. So let's let's do the A. I'm

1019
00:57:30,320 --> 00:57:32,360
gonna just go a couple of them. He gave us

1020
00:57:32,360 --> 00:57:35,800
five because he's a show off and has infinite amount

1021
00:57:35,840 --> 00:57:38,440
of knock knock jokes. I didn't like the first one

1022
00:57:38,480 --> 00:57:41,559
that he actually gives us a title. Option two is

1023
00:57:41,599 --> 00:57:46,360
the Matts problem. Tim says, knock knock, I say, who's there?

1024
00:57:46,760 --> 00:57:52,320
Tim says algebra? I say algebra? Who algebra? Algebra? You

1025
00:57:52,400 --> 00:58:01,639
a hint, Steven Matts is solving his problems. Think that's funny, right, Uh?

1026
00:58:03,800 --> 00:58:06,719
Speaker 2: Yeah, algebra, I would say, but you got algae on

1027
00:58:06,760 --> 00:58:07,639
your bra wash it?

1028
00:58:08,760 --> 00:58:09,119
Speaker 1: Okay?

1029
00:58:10,440 --> 00:58:10,519
Speaker 2: Uh?

1030
00:58:11,039 --> 00:58:13,840
Speaker 1: Who's their ground ground? Who ground mats? Which is what

1031
00:58:13,960 --> 00:58:16,719
hitters should be doing more often. That was a pretty

1032
00:58:16,719 --> 00:58:19,639
good one. I'll give them on one. On that last

1033
00:58:20,679 --> 00:58:22,760
last one we'll do. This is actually pretty good one too.

1034
00:58:23,000 --> 00:58:24,000
Knock knock? Who's there?

1035
00:58:24,159 --> 00:58:24,400
Speaker 3: Ray?

1036
00:58:24,760 --> 00:58:24,960
Speaker 2: Ray?

1037
00:58:25,000 --> 00:58:28,880
Speaker 1: Who? Remember when Steven Matts was struggling not lately?

1038
00:58:29,400 --> 00:58:32,920
Speaker 2: Pretty good? That's pretty good.

1039
00:58:33,000 --> 00:58:37,840
Speaker 1: So, uh, I think it's actually kind of crazy that

1040
00:58:37,920 --> 00:58:40,840
we live in a technology world that you can actually

1041
00:58:41,480 --> 00:58:46,039
give an entity, not a subject, and create a knock

1042
00:58:46,079 --> 00:58:47,559
knock joke. Isn't that crazy?

1043
00:58:48,480 --> 00:58:50,320
Speaker 2: Well, I'm just glad I didn't lose.

1044
00:58:51,000 --> 00:58:53,360
Speaker 1: Okay, I don't think you're gonna lose. So some of

1045
00:58:53,360 --> 00:58:55,599
them are pretty good, But I don't think you're gonna people.

1046
00:58:55,800 --> 00:58:58,079
People love you, by the way, so you'll win just

1047
00:58:58,119 --> 00:59:03,119
because of that. Anyway. Let's got your Timmy Kevin Alcantara.

1048
00:59:03,119 --> 00:59:08,039
Speaker 2: Or yeah, yeah, yeah, you got him? Good news, Yeah,

1049
00:59:08,079 --> 00:59:10,239
fifteen homers in his first one hundred and fifty triple

1050
00:59:10,280 --> 00:59:13,760
a bats. Bad news. He struck out sixty times in

1051
00:59:13,760 --> 00:59:17,760
those same one hundred and fifty seven at bats. Power

1052
00:59:17,800 --> 00:59:21,000
is enticing, but I'm not going to spend on that

1053
00:59:21,119 --> 00:59:25,760
power when I know he's striking out what forty odd

1054
00:59:25,840 --> 00:59:27,159
percent of the time, not.

1055
00:59:27,159 --> 00:59:30,000
Speaker 1: Quite forty, but it's yeah, it's a lot. I'm gonna

1056
00:59:30,000 --> 00:59:32,800
give you. I'm going to give you a comp m

1057
00:59:32,920 --> 00:59:41,119
Joe Adell. I think if Kevin al Contra can become

1058
00:59:41,239 --> 00:59:44,679
Joe Adell, I think, but Joe Adell came up, speed

1059
00:59:44,719 --> 00:59:47,119
and power. We thought he was going to hit, couldn't

1060
00:59:47,119 --> 00:59:49,960
do it. Kevin al Contra speed and power, but I

1061
00:59:50,000 --> 00:59:52,639
thought he was going to hit, can't hit. I think

1062
00:59:52,679 --> 00:59:56,000
if Kevin al Contra can carve out a Joe Adell

1063
00:59:56,119 --> 00:59:59,079
type of career, I think that would be a great

1064
00:59:59,159 --> 01:00:01,280
thing for him. Whether he does or not, I don't know.

1065
01:00:01,440 --> 01:00:03,079
But he's got big boy power.

1066
01:00:03,960 --> 01:00:07,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's no doubting the power none whatsoever. It's just

1067
01:00:07,039 --> 01:00:08,960
whether or not he's goetting back two hundred.

1068
01:00:09,400 --> 01:00:12,880
Speaker 1: It's six foot six, he's a really tall and skinny.

1069
01:00:12,920 --> 01:00:15,519
It's it's gonna be a lot of swing and miss.

1070
01:00:16,280 --> 01:00:19,599
Speaker 2: Yeah, and just hey, just know what you're getting into

1071
01:00:20,840 --> 01:00:23,760
and make the decision based on the eyes wide open,

1072
01:00:24,320 --> 01:00:26,440
not dreaming. That he's gonna add two seventy.

1073
01:00:27,400 --> 01:00:30,159
Speaker 1: I know Matt Shaw got got injured and he put

1074
01:00:30,239 --> 01:00:32,159
him to the Endine is that why Kevin al Contract

1075
01:00:32,159 --> 01:00:32,679
got the call?

1076
01:00:34,639 --> 01:00:40,480
Speaker 2: Uh? I would have to chase, chase the timeline on

1077
01:00:40,679 --> 01:00:45,920
that one. UH wonders for Shaw and the other cub

1078
01:00:46,000 --> 01:00:52,159
call up. I think I think I think he was Shaw.

1079
01:00:52,239 --> 01:00:55,599
I think Alcar was just a Contract, was just a

1080
01:00:55,639 --> 01:01:01,880
call up. I don't think it was who's replacing David Frye.

1081
01:01:01,960 --> 01:01:07,199
Maybe Reese Hoskins. I yeah, No, I don't think. I

1082
01:01:07,199 --> 01:01:12,440
think the first Ramirez was because of the Shaw injury.

1083
01:01:12,480 --> 01:01:12,920
I believe.

1084
01:01:13,599 --> 01:01:16,239
Speaker 1: Okay, let's go to Paedro Ramirez and just do the

1085
01:01:16,280 --> 01:01:20,280
cups here. Peter Ramirez has been one of the best

1086
01:01:20,320 --> 01:01:22,920
performers in Triple A this season our Patreon members now,

1087
01:01:22,920 --> 01:01:25,280
I've written about him a ton. He's made a couple

1088
01:01:25,360 --> 01:01:28,119
of hot Prospects of the week, so it was really

1089
01:01:28,119 --> 01:01:30,559
good to see him get the call. Timmy, what what

1090
01:01:30,559 --> 01:01:32,679
what are your what's your what's your thinking here?

1091
01:01:34,079 --> 01:01:39,679
Speaker 2: Well? My thinking is that if I'm not mistaken, I'll

1092
01:01:39,760 --> 01:01:43,880
just confirm that he's replacing a player that could be

1093
01:01:43,880 --> 01:01:46,360
out for a while. I think it's a shoulder injury.

1094
01:01:47,440 --> 01:01:47,920
Speaker 1: With Shaw.

1095
01:01:48,079 --> 01:01:51,480
Speaker 2: Uh yeah, let me just confirm that. I'm pretty sure

1096
01:01:51,480 --> 01:01:53,719
it's a shoulder. No, it's a back injury.

1097
01:01:54,079 --> 01:01:55,159
Speaker 1: Yeah, lower back yet.

1098
01:01:55,239 --> 01:01:58,719
Speaker 2: Okay, Yeah, so he could be up for a while,

1099
01:01:59,360 --> 01:02:03,920
and I think he can play pretty much all over

1100
01:02:03,920 --> 01:02:09,880
the place. Candy Ramirez, Uh, let me let me tell

1101
01:02:09,920 --> 01:02:10,639
you real quick.

1102
01:02:10,880 --> 01:02:12,760
Speaker 1: He's with the Cubs, right, let me go to the

1103
01:02:12,840 --> 01:02:16,920
Cubs and the Cubs everybody. I use something called m

1104
01:02:16,960 --> 01:02:20,679
I LB Tracker. I think it's an I think it's

1105
01:02:20,719 --> 01:02:24,719
an MLB product now. But they've added some wonderful new

1106
01:02:24,960 --> 01:02:29,760
capabilities this season. And yeah, now tell us every every

1107
01:02:29,880 --> 01:02:34,519
position that the player is playing, and I can tell

1108
01:02:34,559 --> 01:02:37,519
you that. So that's the last. So to twenty twenty six,

1109
01:02:38,880 --> 01:02:43,320
let's see Kevin Ocntras Pedro Ramirez. Pedro Ramirez has played

1110
01:02:43,360 --> 01:02:46,320
fifteen times at second base, twenty five times at third base,

1111
01:02:46,880 --> 01:02:49,440
one time, one time in left field.

1112
01:02:50,320 --> 01:02:53,320
Speaker 2: Okay, so yeah, he can he can play where he needed,

1113
01:02:53,360 --> 01:02:55,079
So I think there's gonna be enough at bats there.

1114
01:02:55,199 --> 01:02:59,400
That was that was my concern. I sure could be

1115
01:02:59,400 --> 01:03:03,039
out for a while while I included your narrative and

1116
01:03:03,079 --> 01:03:06,639
your description of his of his skills heading into the season,

1117
01:03:07,400 --> 01:03:11,320
and I like the line, especially if he learns to

1118
01:03:11,440 --> 01:03:15,400
lift the ball. Okay, well, he's up to nine home

1119
01:03:15,480 --> 01:03:19,239
runs now, so I think I think he read this

1120
01:03:19,400 --> 01:03:21,679
capsule and said I kind of added some lock to

1121
01:03:21,719 --> 01:03:23,599
my ball because Rich Wilson says I'm gonna be a

1122
01:03:23,599 --> 01:03:26,159
better and he's at nine homers until in nineteen bases

1123
01:03:26,199 --> 01:03:29,400
posted three twelve average. If I have a choice between

1124
01:03:29,440 --> 01:03:34,519
the two, Ramirez and le Contra, I'm going with Ramirez.

1125
01:03:34,760 --> 01:03:36,480
I like the overall skill set better.

1126
01:03:38,519 --> 01:03:43,280
Speaker 1: I actually agree. This is what So I've written one

1127
01:03:43,360 --> 01:03:46,280
hundred and sixty or so Catholic one hundred and fifty

1128
01:03:46,320 --> 01:03:50,000
eight capsules already. Paedroramiers is one of those that I've

1129
01:03:50,079 --> 01:03:53,039
updated for the season. Most of the time, Timmy, I

1130
01:03:53,119 --> 01:03:56,239
do not look at what I wrote before. So this

1131
01:03:56,920 --> 01:04:00,480
is what I wrote about patro Emirs tull summary, proof,

1132
01:04:00,639 --> 01:04:06,239
loft and modest power boost elevated Ramirez fantasy relevance. There

1133
01:04:06,280 --> 01:04:09,360
you go. I think said, here's our fantasy manager should

1134
01:04:09,360 --> 01:04:12,679
approach Ramirez with some spec skepticism, but given his proximity

1135
01:04:12,719 --> 01:04:15,159
to the majors in the early power uptick, he's a

1136
01:04:15,159 --> 01:04:17,800
reasonable ad. In deeper formats. The ceiling isn't that of

1137
01:04:17,840 --> 01:04:21,480
an impact player yet a middle infield option and deeper leagues.

1138
01:04:21,480 --> 01:04:26,679
He can absolutely fit that. So I told people to

1139
01:04:26,719 --> 01:04:29,159
go out and grab them and hopefully they did and

1140
01:04:29,480 --> 01:04:32,320
now they're going to be able to benefit from that. Yeah,

1141
01:04:31,840 --> 01:04:35,119
so that has worked worked out well. So let's go

1142
01:04:35,239 --> 01:04:38,480
back to number two, which is Shane Bieber. Forgot about

1143
01:04:38,480 --> 01:04:39,079
Shane Bieber.

1144
01:04:41,119 --> 01:04:44,719
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's been such a long time between pitches. I

1145
01:04:44,760 --> 01:04:48,960
can see where that's usually possible, but apparently he's starting

1146
01:04:49,079 --> 01:04:53,039
his rehab his timent. Next week is the time frame

1147
01:04:55,039 --> 01:04:58,079
if he's healthy and the skills are such that, yeah,

1148
01:04:58,119 --> 01:05:01,840
it's worth sitting on him for three weeks. Let's hope

1149
01:05:01,880 --> 01:05:05,840
he stays healthy and he slots into the Jay's rotation.

1150
01:05:06,079 --> 01:05:07,719
Sometime towards the middle of June.

1151
01:05:08,320 --> 01:05:10,039
Speaker 1: I was pretty sure Alex Bohm was going to be

1152
01:05:10,039 --> 01:05:11,760
on this list because it seems like you said home

1153
01:05:11,800 --> 01:05:14,719
run every day this week. So he has been very hot.

1154
01:05:16,079 --> 01:05:20,159
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's Alex is hitting bombs and you know it's

1155
01:05:20,199 --> 01:05:22,679
funny he's making a sous ayra to Don Mattingly because

1156
01:05:22,719 --> 01:05:25,239
Don maddingly had nothing but good things and praise to

1157
01:05:25,280 --> 01:05:28,360
say when he took over when he took over the team,

1158
01:05:28,719 --> 01:05:34,760
and yeah, yeah, yeay, kudos to Don Maddingly, he called

1159
01:05:34,760 --> 01:05:36,920
that when he's gone seven or twenty two homes over

1160
01:05:36,960 --> 01:05:41,840
the past week, take advantage of the hot streak, find

1161
01:05:41,840 --> 01:05:45,599
a whole for him in your corner. Excuse me, or

1162
01:05:45,679 --> 01:05:46,840
d H slot.

1163
01:05:48,119 --> 01:05:52,079
Speaker 1: I have some things to say about Dylan Cruz. May I, yeah,

1164
01:05:52,199 --> 01:05:57,559
you may so. Dylan Cruz started the season in the

1165
01:05:57,599 --> 01:06:00,920
minor leagues, did not play well, and one of the

1166
01:06:00,960 --> 01:06:05,000
things that the Washington Nationals told him to do was

1167
01:06:05,039 --> 01:06:10,280
to elevate. Start elevating to basically get the ball off

1168
01:06:10,320 --> 01:06:13,480
the ground, and they would not. They told him they

1169
01:06:13,480 --> 01:06:16,119
weren't going to promote him until he stopped hitting more

1170
01:06:16,159 --> 01:06:20,239
balls on the ground. Apparently that happened, so he started

1171
01:06:20,239 --> 01:06:22,320
to elevate more. He start. They said they didn't care

1172
01:06:22,360 --> 01:06:25,599
if every ball was caught in the outfield. They wanted

1173
01:06:25,679 --> 01:06:28,239
him to get the ball in the air. He started

1174
01:06:28,280 --> 01:06:30,599
getting the ball in the air. Good things started to happen.

1175
01:06:30,840 --> 01:06:33,760
He finally gets to promotion, but guess when he got

1176
01:06:33,840 --> 01:06:37,960
the promotion to him. He got the promotion two days

1177
01:06:38,199 --> 01:06:43,840
after he could secure another year of team control for

1178
01:06:43,920 --> 01:06:45,320
the Washington Nationals.

1179
01:06:45,679 --> 01:06:46,239
Speaker 2: So it just.

1180
01:06:50,440 --> 01:06:54,760
Speaker 1: Their edict to him corresponded to the time that he

1181
01:06:54,800 --> 01:06:57,760
would be called back up. There was a big story

1182
01:06:57,760 --> 01:06:59,760
about I think it was on the Athletic which I

1183
01:06:59,760 --> 01:07:03,159
thought I laughed out loud. I'm like, yeah, that figures.

1184
01:07:03,440 --> 01:07:06,320
Speaker 2: Yeah, Dylan Cruz is not signing a long term deal

1185
01:07:06,360 --> 01:07:08,800
with the Washington Nationals or to the other part of

1186
01:07:08,840 --> 01:07:09,760
the story, right.

1187
01:07:10,000 --> 01:07:12,800
Speaker 1: Well, not if you're not play better. He's he's not

1188
01:07:12,840 --> 01:07:13,679
gonna have there.

1189
01:07:13,880 --> 01:07:15,840
Speaker 2: So yeah, it doesn't matter.

1190
01:07:16,039 --> 01:07:18,960
Speaker 1: His clients, so that's why they want the extra So

1191
01:07:19,039 --> 01:07:21,239
they still believe in him. I think all this says

1192
01:07:21,280 --> 01:07:26,280
they still believe in him. Do you believe in him? Tim?

1193
01:07:26,599 --> 01:07:30,599
Speaker 2: I picked him up as a reserve pick, basically a

1194
01:07:30,719 --> 01:07:34,079
ladder round pick. Yeah, I just kept him on my reserve.

1195
01:07:34,159 --> 01:07:36,559
So I've still got him in two leagues. So yes,

1196
01:07:36,599 --> 01:07:37,400
I still believe.

1197
01:07:37,920 --> 01:07:41,039
Speaker 1: Okay, I'm not sure. I mean, he's got to hit

1198
01:07:41,079 --> 01:07:43,119
the ball harder, because when I did the analysis over

1199
01:07:43,159 --> 01:07:45,880
the over the winter, I'm saying, I said to our

1200
01:07:45,880 --> 01:07:47,639
Patreon and this is not a major league guy. I

1201
01:07:48,199 --> 01:07:51,440
don't I was really high on him coming through the miners,

1202
01:07:51,599 --> 01:07:55,280
really high on when the Nationals drafted him, but it

1203
01:07:55,360 --> 01:07:57,760
was pretty ugly guys get better, but he's got to

1204
01:07:57,800 --> 01:07:58,199
get better.

1205
01:07:58,239 --> 01:08:03,480
Speaker 2: Tim, Yeah, he does what we're looking at right now.

1206
01:08:03,599 --> 01:08:05,960
Can't be that finished product, or he doesn't have to

1207
01:08:06,000 --> 01:08:09,480
worry about Scott Borrows negotiating any sort of long term deal.

1208
01:08:10,039 --> 01:08:15,960
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's for sure, Jutinski. Garcia, the password saw him.

1209
01:08:16,000 --> 01:08:21,399
I saw the game yesterday. Didn't look great, But what

1210
01:08:21,479 --> 01:08:24,640
about the password, Tim.

1211
01:08:23,920 --> 01:08:26,800
Speaker 2: Well, you can be rest assured. There are two players

1212
01:08:26,840 --> 01:08:30,039
that I will not mention again on the waiver wire

1213
01:08:30,159 --> 01:08:33,640
this year. One is Garcia and the other is mike

1214
01:08:34,159 --> 01:08:40,560
Y Stremski. Okay, my spell check limits have been exceeded

1215
01:08:40,600 --> 01:08:46,159
by having them both in one article. Totally Rich Garcia,

1216
01:08:46,880 --> 01:08:49,279
he's hitting right now. He's gone five or sixteen with

1217
01:08:49,319 --> 01:08:52,359
an RBI. We know the powers there and I think

1218
01:08:52,359 --> 01:08:57,840
it's going to eventually surface speed too. Yeah. I don't

1219
01:08:57,840 --> 01:09:00,520
think he's run as much as the potentially he could,

1220
01:09:00,560 --> 01:09:04,319
and we might see that now. But yeah, I think

1221
01:09:05,279 --> 01:09:11,439
this game though mm hmm, and a lot of consonants.

1222
01:09:12,000 --> 01:09:15,439
Speaker 1: You better hope that he doesn't hit him, he doesn't contribute.

1223
01:09:15,520 --> 01:09:18,880
Because you and I were on the air. When I

1224
01:09:18,920 --> 01:09:21,920
was on the clock in my NFC slow draft, I

1225
01:09:22,039 --> 01:09:25,039
wanted to take Joe, I wanted to take the password,

1226
01:09:25,680 --> 01:09:30,000
and you wanted me to get the reliever from Los Angeles,

1227
01:09:30,039 --> 01:09:30,680
Ben Joyce.

1228
01:09:32,359 --> 01:09:36,199
Speaker 2: So there's no no rejoicing. There is there.

1229
01:09:36,840 --> 01:09:41,560
Speaker 1: Guess who's on my team, mister didn't rejoice not he

1230
01:09:41,680 --> 01:09:45,479
is not. He's still I don't think he's he's is

1231
01:09:45,479 --> 01:09:48,960
He started a minor league rehab yet, so he can

1232
01:09:49,039 --> 01:09:50,279
still have value. I don't know.

1233
01:09:51,399 --> 01:09:54,439
Speaker 2: Yeah, that makes two of us right now. Yeah. I

1234
01:09:54,520 --> 01:09:56,960
wasn't counting on him being as long as he has been.

1235
01:09:57,760 --> 01:09:59,800
Speaker 1: Yeah, Spencer Hurwitz.

1236
01:10:00,760 --> 01:10:05,760
Speaker 2: Yeah again, I'm trying to trying to look each and

1237
01:10:05,800 --> 01:10:08,319
every week to see who's hot and who's not. And

1238
01:10:08,399 --> 01:10:11,640
right now Horowitz is playing well. One homer hit, a

1239
01:10:11,640 --> 01:10:15,159
second one today off Dylan Ceas with a solo shot

1240
01:10:15,239 --> 01:10:17,720
the lead off the game. So that's two homers ten

1241
01:10:17,880 --> 01:10:21,800
RBIs every twenty five batting average over the past three weeks.

1242
01:10:22,520 --> 01:10:25,079
He's sitting on the strong side of a pull of platoon,

1243
01:10:25,600 --> 01:10:29,560
in the leadof spot of that. Hey, if you're looking

1244
01:10:29,600 --> 01:10:33,960
for a corner infield this weekend, give Horwitz a look

1245
01:10:34,000 --> 01:10:35,479
and take advantage of that hot streak.

1246
01:10:36,800 --> 01:10:38,960
Speaker 1: I mean, it's take a break, come back and let's

1247
01:10:38,960 --> 01:10:40,680
look at some more games and then we'll come back

1248
01:10:40,680 --> 01:10:42,039
and finish up your waiver A long the.

1249
01:10:41,960 --> 01:10:54,479
Speaker 4: List, okay, bringing them okay.

1250
01:10:55,039 --> 01:10:58,399
Speaker 1: Vinnie Pasmentina went one for three, raising his batting average

1251
01:10:58,479 --> 01:11:00,560
to two hundred.

1252
01:11:01,479 --> 01:11:05,159
Speaker 2: Small steps, small steps.

1253
01:11:06,199 --> 01:11:09,039
Speaker 1: So the Royals are up six to three over the

1254
01:11:09,119 --> 01:11:12,279
struggling Seattle Mariners. Timmy, they just can't hit.

1255
01:11:13,439 --> 01:11:17,039
Speaker 2: No. Then you know, Brian will coming off a strong start,

1256
01:11:17,520 --> 01:11:19,960
was rolling into the fourth inning and then allowed four

1257
01:11:20,119 --> 01:11:22,560
under runs in the fourth I think it was, and

1258
01:11:22,680 --> 01:11:27,239
he was gone at four and two thirds and up

1259
01:11:27,279 --> 01:11:32,560
and down season so far. Uh. The Dodgers, ooh, they

1260
01:11:32,600 --> 01:11:35,520
scored some runs. Let's hope that Yamamoto was in when

1261
01:11:35,520 --> 01:11:37,800
they scored him. I could use the w how he

1262
01:11:38,039 --> 01:11:40,079
was Please tell me?

1263
01:11:40,159 --> 01:11:40,359
Speaker 1: Yeah?

1264
01:11:40,439 --> 01:11:44,359
Speaker 2: Six six and two thirds. He hits a walk, strikeouts.

1265
01:11:45,079 --> 01:11:48,560
Speaker 1: The Orioles walked it off. They ken Lee Jansen came

1266
01:11:48,560 --> 01:11:51,760
in for the save and blew it. Who got the

1267
01:11:52,800 --> 01:11:55,119
I don't know who got the Was it a home run?

1268
01:11:55,159 --> 01:11:55,279
Speaker 2: Oh?

1269
01:11:55,399 --> 01:11:59,960
Speaker 1: Cowser cows are three run home run off? Wow, second

1270
01:12:00,079 --> 01:12:01,000
home run of the season.

1271
01:12:01,439 --> 01:12:04,760
Speaker 2: He's up to two h Dougie Cowser comes through in the.

1272
01:12:05,760 --> 01:12:10,760
Speaker 1: That's funny, that's good. That's good McCloud. Let's see and

1273
01:12:10,840 --> 01:12:13,840
so the Dodgers up five to one, as Tim was saying, uh,

1274
01:12:14,119 --> 01:12:17,640
twins six to four over the Red Sox. Let's see

1275
01:12:17,640 --> 01:12:21,920
if anybody's done anything with the Red Sox. Now, contraretus

1276
01:12:22,000 --> 01:12:25,520
with another home run. Let's see what else is going

1277
01:12:25,560 --> 01:12:29,279
on here? Still Zeros, the Mets and Mets and Marlins.

1278
01:12:30,359 --> 01:12:33,159
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, nobody wants to win that game. The Yankees

1279
01:12:33,199 --> 01:12:39,000
came came back with Yes, Aaron Judge with a two

1280
01:12:39,039 --> 01:12:42,119
runs shot, making a winner out of Tim Hill. I

1281
01:12:42,119 --> 01:12:45,840
believe it is. Yeah, Okay, yeah.

1282
01:12:45,680 --> 01:12:48,319
Speaker 1: Tim Hill blew it on Friday night too, so good

1283
01:12:48,359 --> 01:12:51,159
to see him bounce back a little bit. All right, Tim,

1284
01:12:51,279 --> 01:12:54,880
let's get back to you, my friend. We've got uh,

1285
01:12:54,960 --> 01:12:57,640
let's see Smich Horwitz he did, Stephen Matt's already and

1286
01:12:57,720 --> 01:13:00,239
Troy Melton with the Detroit.

1287
01:13:01,239 --> 01:13:02,720
Speaker 2: Yeah we missed Wade Meckler.

1288
01:13:03,119 --> 01:13:05,119
Speaker 1: Oh well, let's know, we'll good to Tray Melton and

1289
01:13:05,159 --> 01:13:06,880
we'll go back and get Wade Meckler.

1290
01:13:07,039 --> 01:13:10,560
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, Melton looks like he's just already. Apparently the

1291
01:13:10,600 --> 01:13:12,680
Tigers are bringing him on the road with him. His

1292
01:13:12,720 --> 01:13:16,439
next start is going to be with the Tigers the

1293
01:13:16,560 --> 01:13:19,640
rehab eleven and two thirds. He only allowed tour and runs,

1294
01:13:19,760 --> 01:13:23,520
struck out sixteen basketballs where it should be mid high nineties.

1295
01:13:24,359 --> 01:13:27,319
Next week, the Tigers have the Angels from the White

1296
01:13:27,319 --> 01:13:32,119
Sox on the schedule. Buy him, get him active, and

1297
01:13:32,319 --> 01:13:33,119
start him next.

1298
01:13:33,000 --> 01:13:37,039
Speaker 1: Week with met arm I like tree mounton a lot.

1299
01:13:37,199 --> 01:13:40,319
Speaker 2: So yeah, he's a starter that I'll spend some money

1300
01:13:40,319 --> 01:13:40,920
on this week.

1301
01:13:41,920 --> 01:13:45,119
Speaker 1: Wade Meckler, outfielder with the Los Angeles Angels.

1302
01:13:45,520 --> 01:13:50,840
Speaker 2: Really well, Hey, he homered off of Jacob de Grom

1303
01:13:51,159 --> 01:13:53,640
okay in his first big league at bat. How can

1304
01:13:53,680 --> 01:13:57,760
you not roster a player with that potential? Hey, I

1305
01:13:57,800 --> 01:14:00,520
think he's going to play for a while. You're looking

1306
01:14:00,520 --> 01:14:05,640
for an outfielder with a little bit upside. Yeah, he's available,

1307
01:14:06,640 --> 01:14:08,399
Give give him a look in deeper leagues.

1308
01:14:10,000 --> 01:14:13,199
Speaker 1: Who was the father played baseball as well?

1309
01:14:14,359 --> 01:14:16,600
Speaker 2: I'm not sure on that one, Rich.

1310
01:14:18,920 --> 01:14:22,720
Speaker 1: Wave Metler, Troy Melton, Nick Morribido, which we talked about.

1311
01:14:22,880 --> 01:14:26,560
They're talked about last week anyway. So he's up kind

1312
01:14:26,560 --> 01:14:31,680
of a bit of a carbon copy of aj Ewing. Yep,

1313
01:14:31,800 --> 01:14:35,359
maybe maybe Ewing's a little bit more advanced at the moment.

1314
01:14:35,439 --> 01:14:39,279
Even though that Nick Morbito is older. But what are

1315
01:14:39,279 --> 01:14:41,640
your thoughts on Nick Morbito this this season.

1316
01:14:42,840 --> 01:14:46,319
Speaker 2: Well, there's no doubting the speed. Okay, he's stolen fifty

1317
01:14:46,399 --> 01:14:48,840
nine and forty eight bases the past few seasons. The

1318
01:14:48,920 --> 01:14:51,920
question is whether the hit tool is ready. So far,

1319
01:14:52,119 --> 01:14:56,520
he's zero for seven in his first week with the Mets.

1320
01:14:58,199 --> 01:15:02,159
I think in deeper league he's definitely a bye. But

1321
01:15:02,760 --> 01:15:04,960
we got to count on the Mets having some patients

1322
01:15:05,439 --> 01:15:09,079
to light him unlock at elite speed, and I personally

1323
01:15:09,359 --> 01:15:13,199
am not sold at this point in time. It's hard

1324
01:15:13,199 --> 01:15:15,520
to be. After an over for seven start. We don't

1325
01:15:15,560 --> 01:15:18,279
know what the Mets are gonna do. Hopefully they exercise

1326
01:15:18,399 --> 01:15:19,079
patients rich.

1327
01:15:19,880 --> 01:15:22,479
Speaker 1: I don't think they will. I don't. I didn't get

1328
01:15:22,520 --> 01:15:25,199
why he got called up to begin with. I mean,

1329
01:15:25,239 --> 01:15:28,039
I think you got to. You gotta absorb and digest

1330
01:15:28,079 --> 01:15:29,800
a little bit of a j ewing to see what

1331
01:15:29,880 --> 01:15:31,880
he can do. Not bring up a guy that's just

1332
01:15:32,079 --> 01:15:34,600
like him, maybe not as good, but just like him.

1333
01:15:34,920 --> 01:15:37,000
And Nick Morbido try to figure out what to do,

1334
01:15:37,239 --> 01:15:39,399
and I think there's just too many miles to feet.

1335
01:15:39,439 --> 01:15:42,720
I do like Morbido long term, but I wouldn't be surprised.

1336
01:15:42,760 --> 01:15:45,319
Eventually they move them, particularly if a j Ewing is

1337
01:15:45,319 --> 01:15:47,640
the guy that sticks.

1338
01:15:48,159 --> 01:15:50,319
Speaker 2: Yeah, the guy that they're planning around for the next

1339
01:15:50,359 --> 01:15:54,079
three or five years. Yeah, so that makes sense.

1340
01:15:54,760 --> 01:15:59,439
Speaker 1: Uh see, we did Paedro Ramirez, Kiri Tang. It's great

1341
01:15:59,520 --> 01:16:02,000
outing theyterday. I watched that game. He was pretty impressive.

1342
01:16:03,319 --> 01:16:08,239
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, he looked good and uh yeah that's

1343
01:16:08,640 --> 01:16:11,520
I picked him up in virtually every league I'm involved in,

1344
01:16:11,720 --> 01:16:14,600
and yeah, I was pretty happy with the results. I've

1345
01:16:14,600 --> 01:16:17,359
elevated him to a status on my teams. Now, Rich,

1346
01:16:18,159 --> 01:16:20,680
I think this is the I think this is the week.

1347
01:16:21,640 --> 01:16:24,239
If you don't get him this week, you're he won't

1348
01:16:24,239 --> 01:16:26,800
be available next not after that last start.

1349
01:16:27,239 --> 01:16:29,560
Speaker 1: Now you've elevated him to ACE just because you're all

1350
01:16:29,640 --> 01:16:30,279
your guys are.

1351
01:16:30,239 --> 01:16:35,079
Speaker 2: Hurt because pitching sucks. Yes, mine especially.

1352
01:16:38,079 --> 01:16:40,680
Speaker 1: Okay, it was actually you know, it's funny. I should

1353
01:16:40,680 --> 01:16:42,199
have written this dand it was a guy that I

1354
01:16:42,239 --> 01:16:44,840
wanted to tell you about as a possible pick up.

1355
01:16:44,920 --> 01:16:46,880
But I'll try to find that. If you talk a

1356
01:16:46,920 --> 01:16:50,960
while about Brian Torres, why is he on this list?

1357
01:16:51,319 --> 01:16:55,439
Speaker 2: I could talk about him forever, Rich, He's the guy

1358
01:16:55,439 --> 01:16:58,039
that we love Okay, he's a twenty eight year old

1359
01:16:58,479 --> 01:17:04,279
who is a key mumulated over. But they're three thousand,

1360
01:17:04,439 --> 01:17:08,039
one hundred and eighty two Minor League and Puerto Rican

1361
01:17:08,119 --> 01:17:13,399
Winter League at bats over eleven seasons. And he finally

1362
01:17:13,399 --> 01:17:17,359
got the call and lo and behold three for eight

1363
01:17:17,359 --> 01:17:21,319
in a doubleheader with a home run, two RBIs, two walks.

1364
01:17:22,039 --> 01:17:24,840
The kids got a little pop, a bit more speed

1365
01:17:24,880 --> 01:17:29,039
than the walk, and his career strikeout to walk where

1366
01:17:29,079 --> 01:17:33,079
he's four sixty one to forty. Over the past few years,

1367
01:17:33,119 --> 01:17:37,720
he's really developed his hit tool. I don't know why

1368
01:17:37,760 --> 01:17:40,600
he has sat in the minors for as long as

1369
01:17:40,600 --> 01:17:43,319
he has, but looking at what he's done over the

1370
01:17:43,359 --> 01:17:46,159
past two years, he's more than deserving him an opportunity,

1371
01:17:46,199 --> 01:17:48,560
and I'm rooting for him big time. The other thing

1372
01:17:48,600 --> 01:17:53,199
that's real interesting about Brian Torres, if you happen to

1373
01:17:53,239 --> 01:17:57,720
play in fan track leagues, he also brings along with

1374
01:17:57,800 --> 01:18:03,720
him catcher eligibility, and I think that's something that fantasy

1375
01:18:03,760 --> 01:18:07,640
managers of Drake Baldwin and Ryan Jeffers will be looking

1376
01:18:07,720 --> 01:18:12,800
for this weekend, so that sort of elevates him a

1377
01:18:12,800 --> 01:18:20,520
little bit. I paid, Yeah, Drake Baldwin is out for

1378
01:18:20,720 --> 01:18:24,359
a couple of weeks or so. They're expecting it to

1379
01:18:24,439 --> 01:18:27,840
be maybe just the minimum fifteen. Jeffers is a handmade

1380
01:18:27,920 --> 01:18:30,960
situation that's at Yeah, yeah.

1381
01:18:30,760 --> 01:18:34,720
Speaker 1: You're the hamdmaid You're the hamdmaids there of the bone,

1382
01:18:34,800 --> 01:18:38,920
bone chips. That's the sexy injuries this year.

1383
01:18:39,840 --> 01:18:42,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, so you got two of your top five catchers

1384
01:18:43,079 --> 01:18:46,600
in Baldwin and Jeffers. They're going to need replacing this week.

1385
01:18:47,119 --> 01:18:50,119
So that sort of elevates Brian Torres stock in my mind.

1386
01:18:50,159 --> 01:18:52,680
I paid seventeen and got him last night in one

1387
01:18:52,680 --> 01:18:56,399
of my leaves, so I'm sort of happy about that.

1388
01:18:57,840 --> 01:19:00,640
Speaker 1: Tommy Troy with the Arizona time, I just kind of

1389
01:19:00,680 --> 01:19:01,800
liked Tommy Troy.

1390
01:19:03,039 --> 01:19:07,199
Speaker 2: Yeah, I kind of like him too. The problem being,

1391
01:19:08,199 --> 01:19:15,279
Lords Guriel is dealing with a hamstring hamstring strain, and

1392
01:19:15,319 --> 01:19:19,039
the d Becks have turned to Tommy Troy, which is

1393
01:19:19,119 --> 01:19:23,399
all fair and well, but the Diamondbacks also seems fairly

1394
01:19:23,439 --> 01:19:26,560
confident that Gariel is going to need a minimum stint.

1395
01:19:27,600 --> 01:19:32,239
So yeah, it's exciting that Tommy Troy got the call,

1396
01:19:32,439 --> 01:19:35,840
But for how long would be my question? So I

1397
01:19:35,880 --> 01:19:39,479
would temper expectations based on that he's not taking Lord's

1398
01:19:39,720 --> 01:19:45,359
Guriel job. That's not happening. So yeah, if you're looking

1399
01:19:45,399 --> 01:19:48,520
for a short term replacement, a short term price.

1400
01:19:52,319 --> 01:19:55,760
Speaker 1: Tim spent so much time spelling out Yustremsky. He put

1401
01:19:55,800 --> 01:20:01,039
outfit or with a small O.

1402
01:20:02,399 --> 01:20:06,720
Speaker 2: I break their names down into him and Garcia. I

1403
01:20:06,760 --> 01:20:10,039
break the names down into four sections so I can

1404
01:20:10,079 --> 01:20:12,760
hopefully get it spelled right and then check twice. I

1405
01:20:12,840 --> 01:20:15,800
won't be mentioning either of those guys.

1406
01:20:15,880 --> 01:20:18,359
Speaker 1: Name is impossible. I mean, you gotta. You just got

1407
01:20:18,359 --> 01:20:20,520
to memorize that. You can't fanatically sound that way. You

1408
01:20:22,560 --> 01:20:25,239
have a shot at it. You can get close. I

1409
01:20:25,239 --> 01:20:26,520
don't think you can get closer to.

1410
01:20:27,479 --> 01:20:32,119
Speaker 2: So yeah, I put host and then I go yn

1411
01:20:32,279 --> 01:20:34,000
x on. That's how I spelled.

1412
01:20:35,880 --> 01:20:39,800
Speaker 1: Yeah. I always struggled with Ramirez until I realized it

1413
01:20:39,840 --> 01:20:40,439
was ram.

1414
01:20:44,600 --> 01:20:49,479
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, we all have our ways of beating the system, right.

1415
01:20:49,399 --> 01:20:52,479
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean two illiterate guys. I mean, and I

1416
01:20:52,560 --> 01:20:55,560
got to come up with tricks anyway. Michaeus Trimsky a

1417
01:20:55,720 --> 01:20:56,840
flash for the past.

1418
01:20:58,039 --> 01:21:03,199
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, going going back to February, it was looking

1419
01:21:03,359 --> 01:21:08,479
like an extra bat, and he played like an extra bat. Okay,

1420
01:21:08,479 --> 01:21:11,720
for the part, first part of the season, but over

1421
01:21:11,760 --> 01:21:14,920
the past couple of weeks three homers, eight RBIs thirteen

1422
01:21:15,000 --> 01:21:20,600
twenty four ops. It's fine that it's time at seven

1423
01:21:20,640 --> 01:21:24,439
percent rostered in CBS to get him mind your roster

1424
01:21:24,560 --> 01:21:28,119
and take advantage another veteran player on a street, take

1425
01:21:28,159 --> 01:21:30,640
advantage of that streak and roll them out there.

1426
01:21:32,000 --> 01:21:36,279
Speaker 1: Here's my guy, Tim. Okay, you're probably gonna say no,

1427
01:21:36,479 --> 01:21:40,399
and I totally can, but this is an open mind.

1428
01:21:40,439 --> 01:21:43,840
This is one of my guys. Okay, he's now in

1429
01:21:43,920 --> 01:21:45,960
triple as a pitcher's a left handed pitcher.

1430
01:21:46,880 --> 01:21:48,319
Speaker 2: Okay, he hit.

1431
01:21:48,439 --> 01:21:51,279
Speaker 1: He had an outing on Wednesday. Seventy eightings, pitch four

1432
01:21:51,319 --> 01:21:56,359
hits nowhere runs, ninth strikeouts and no walks, touching nine

1433
01:21:56,439 --> 01:22:00,239
not touching, ninety nine miles an hour, ninety miles our

1434
01:22:00,359 --> 01:22:04,000
averaging ninety six point seven throws hard.

1435
01:22:05,079 --> 01:22:06,479
Speaker 2: Yeah, here's left.

1436
01:22:07,119 --> 01:22:10,319
Speaker 1: You probably don't know who this is, do you not?

1437
01:22:10,399 --> 01:22:11,319
Speaker 2: Off the top of my head.

1438
01:22:11,399 --> 01:22:15,800
Speaker 1: No, that's because you've you've put him out of your

1439
01:22:15,840 --> 01:22:20,439
head because he plays for the for the Sacramento Athletics.

1440
01:22:21,359 --> 01:22:25,159
This is Cage Jump who's having He was off to

1441
01:22:25,239 --> 01:22:30,159
a tremendous season last year. It's not as good this season,

1442
01:22:30,840 --> 01:22:34,279
but he's playing in Las Vegas. Get this to him.

1443
01:22:34,399 --> 01:22:36,720
He'll be on my Hot Prospects of the week. It's

1444
01:22:36,720 --> 01:22:40,000
got a five sixteen ERA at home in a two

1445
01:22:40,119 --> 01:22:43,399
point one nine earra on the road. He's got to

1446
01:22:43,479 --> 01:22:45,399
learn how to pitch in adversity if he's going to

1447
01:22:45,399 --> 01:22:48,880
pitch in Sacramento. But this is a good picture, big stuff.

1448
01:22:49,039 --> 01:22:50,319
Speaker 2: Yeah, I like.

1449
01:22:50,359 --> 01:22:54,880
Speaker 1: Cage jump getting an opportunity. I haven't looked at you know,

1450
01:22:54,920 --> 01:22:58,560
who's got to jump over no pun intended to get

1451
01:22:58,600 --> 01:23:03,079
a shot. But he's this is a this is a dude.

1452
01:23:03,119 --> 01:23:06,000
If he can I don't know, hang in there against

1453
01:23:06,039 --> 01:23:08,079
in Sacramento and pitch well on the road.

1454
01:23:09,880 --> 01:23:13,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, No, I'm I'm not adverse to taking a look

1455
01:23:13,039 --> 01:23:17,279
at him at all. I would just include the usual caveats.

1456
01:23:17,880 --> 01:23:20,560
His home park sucks, yes, and it's going to be

1457
01:23:20,760 --> 01:23:24,039
it's going to be tough to pitch there. But I

1458
01:23:24,039 --> 01:23:27,319
I certainly would not exclude him from a future waiver

1459
01:23:27,399 --> 01:23:29,640
wire because of that. I would just qualify it.

1460
01:23:31,159 --> 01:23:34,439
Speaker 1: I just think the arm is too good. Nobody is

1461
01:23:34,479 --> 01:23:38,399
thinking about this guy because he's in Sacramento. I mean,

1462
01:23:38,439 --> 01:23:42,399
it's he's pitched. It's ninth starts in triple A and

1463
01:23:42,840 --> 01:23:45,359
with a really good outing, I think now might be

1464
01:23:45,399 --> 01:23:47,800
the time to jump on him. So that's that's my

1465
01:23:48,680 --> 01:23:51,520
cage jump tip for everyone.

1466
01:23:52,560 --> 01:23:53,479
Speaker 2: It's a solid tip.

1467
01:23:54,079 --> 01:23:54,600
Speaker 1: There you go.

1468
01:23:55,279 --> 01:23:56,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, no issues here.

1469
01:23:57,079 --> 01:23:59,119
Speaker 1: Let's take a break and come back and let's look

1470
01:23:59,119 --> 01:24:01,239
at the closers. Just yawn, run through it.

1471
01:24:02,359 --> 01:24:03,279
Speaker 2: That sounds fair to me.

1472
01:24:13,079 --> 01:24:16,119
Speaker 1: The first the first guy is really annoying because Grant

1473
01:24:16,119 --> 01:24:19,119
Tailor should have been the closer from the beginning. I

1474
01:24:19,199 --> 01:24:21,319
don't get it. I mean, this is a guy who's

1475
01:24:21,319 --> 01:24:23,680
got a great arm. It'd be one thing to me,

1476
01:24:23,680 --> 01:24:26,680
if I may emote, it'd be one thing if they

1477
01:24:26,760 --> 01:24:28,960
said that they're going to move him from the closer

1478
01:24:29,079 --> 01:24:31,600
role a Lah Chris Sale and some other guys and

1479
01:24:31,720 --> 01:24:34,960
moving to the starting rotation. They got him as a

1480
01:24:35,079 --> 01:24:38,560
two inning guy, sixth and seventh inning guy. I don't

1481
01:24:38,560 --> 01:24:42,319
know what. They're just wasting this guy. It makes no

1482
01:24:42,439 --> 01:24:44,720
sense to me at all, either make him a closer

1483
01:24:45,079 --> 01:24:47,439
or turning him into a starter, but making him a

1484
01:24:47,560 --> 01:24:49,920
multi any reliever is just dumb.

1485
01:24:51,319 --> 01:24:55,239
Speaker 2: Well hey, yeah, no, it's a good rand. It's a

1486
01:24:55,239 --> 01:24:58,000
fair rand. I haven't you agree with it? The white

1487
01:24:58,079 --> 01:25:02,840
sowks don't. That's and that's where we sit right some

1488
01:25:03,079 --> 01:25:06,920
major league teams. Yeah, thirty eight strikeouts in twenty five

1489
01:25:06,960 --> 01:25:09,239
and a third. He hasn't allowed near and run in

1490
01:25:09,279 --> 01:25:11,399
ten straight parents even got to save in there.

1491
01:25:11,800 --> 01:25:12,520
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't think.

1492
01:25:14,279 --> 01:25:20,800
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I think moving forward, based on what

1493
01:25:21,000 --> 01:25:24,600
we know, we're going to see the occasional see save.

1494
01:25:24,640 --> 01:25:27,960
We're gonna see strong peripherals and potential for more of

1495
01:25:28,000 --> 01:25:35,119
Sir Anthony na Minga's falters, which is possible. Okay, I

1496
01:25:36,119 --> 01:25:37,800
would take a bet on that if you gave me

1497
01:25:37,840 --> 01:25:39,640
a little bit, you know, you wouldn't have to give

1498
01:25:39,680 --> 01:25:42,399
me high odds. I think you got to get them

1499
01:25:42,439 --> 01:25:48,279
rostered just for that zero point zero era and the

1500
01:25:48,319 --> 01:25:51,640
strikeout potential. I think, like I said, there's gonna be

1501
01:25:51,640 --> 01:25:53,760
more saves to come. I don't know what. The White

1502
01:25:53,760 --> 01:25:55,640
Sox are obviously trying to stretch them out. They want

1503
01:25:55,680 --> 01:25:59,479
them into a into the rotation next year or whatever,

1504
01:26:00,079 --> 01:26:04,279
but the World Series right now.

1505
01:26:04,399 --> 01:26:07,920
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm going to push back on that. They're not

1506
01:26:08,079 --> 01:26:11,119
stretching him out. Let's see, I'm looking at his game

1507
01:26:11,159 --> 01:26:15,199
blog one two. He started off the season one two, three, four,

1508
01:26:15,359 --> 01:26:18,439
five five. His first five outings, he pitched one inning,

1509
01:26:18,800 --> 01:26:21,039
Then they let him pitch one in a third inning,

1510
01:26:21,399 --> 01:26:25,439
then two innings. Then he bopped and bopped between one

1511
01:26:26,720 --> 01:26:29,119
one and the third and one and one and two

1512
01:26:29,199 --> 01:26:33,239
thirds until uh May ninth, when he pitched two innings,

1513
01:26:33,560 --> 01:26:36,359
pitched two innings on the seventeenth, one inning on the nineteenth.

1514
01:26:36,359 --> 01:26:38,840
That got the safe that they're not stretching him out.

1515
01:26:39,479 --> 01:26:41,680
He's a They've moved them from the ninth inning to

1516
01:26:41,920 --> 01:26:44,000
the seventh inning, and every once in a while they

1517
01:26:44,079 --> 01:26:46,600
let him pitch the eighth inning. To explain that to me,

1518
01:26:46,640 --> 01:26:47,399
the guy throwing.

1519
01:26:48,960 --> 01:26:53,079
Speaker 2: The way he talks lied like a rug. Yeah, that's

1520
01:26:53,119 --> 01:26:56,600
the only how you explain. He went two innings on

1521
01:26:56,720 --> 01:27:00,800
May ninth, then one and two thirds one to one. Yeah,

1522
01:27:00,920 --> 01:27:05,680
it's they're saving him for next year year. Okay, Well

1523
01:27:05,720 --> 01:27:06,399
why there's.

1524
01:27:06,239 --> 01:27:10,560
Speaker 1: Only pitching more stressful situations too. Yeah, I mean, don't

1525
01:27:10,600 --> 01:27:12,720
you become a better pitcher when you're pitching in a

1526
01:27:12,760 --> 01:27:14,880
more stressful situation than the sixth inn.

1527
01:27:16,239 --> 01:27:21,399
Speaker 2: Yeah? I would think so, Yeah, I I I don't know,

1528
01:27:21,560 --> 01:27:25,039
I just don't know. I would be taking and doing

1529
01:27:25,079 --> 01:27:28,520
one or two things with grand Taylor. I would have

1530
01:27:28,600 --> 01:27:32,399
him as my closer, and I would move him into

1531
01:27:32,439 --> 01:27:36,920
the rotation next spring, or I just move into the

1532
01:27:36,960 --> 01:27:38,000
rotation right now.

1533
01:27:38,319 --> 01:27:38,600
Speaker 1: Yep.

1534
01:27:39,159 --> 01:27:42,199
Speaker 2: Let's see two innings, three innings, three and the third,

1535
01:27:42,319 --> 01:27:45,880
three and two thirds four build up that arm strength.

1536
01:27:46,600 --> 01:27:49,199
Grand Taylor is not not a twenty year old kid.

1537
01:27:49,960 --> 01:27:52,000
Speaker 1: But he is still young. He just turned twenty four.

1538
01:27:53,079 --> 01:27:57,479
Speaker 2: Yes, but twenty four, by starting pitching metrics, is now old,

1539
01:27:57,560 --> 01:28:00,640
isn't it. That's a three year veteran. Like it's not

1540
01:28:00,880 --> 01:28:01,319
like he's a.

1541
01:28:01,359 --> 01:28:04,680
Speaker 1: Kid, not like that. But I I get your point.

1542
01:28:04,760 --> 01:28:07,880
Speaker 2: Yes, there was a little market there.

1543
01:28:08,079 --> 01:28:10,880
Speaker 1: Yeah right, it's a little but I get your point.

1544
01:28:11,760 --> 01:28:15,439
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's twenty four years old. He's not He's not

1545
01:28:15,520 --> 01:28:17,560
a kid? Is he a twenty four?

1546
01:28:17,680 --> 01:28:20,239
Speaker 1: He's a kid? I mean he's a kid. He literally

1547
01:28:20,399 --> 01:28:23,319
just turned twenty four. He turned twenty four four days ago.

1548
01:28:25,000 --> 01:28:30,880
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, yeah, but how old Chase Burns? How old

1549
01:28:31,000 --> 01:28:33,680
is Miserowski? How old is you know? That mid tier

1550
01:28:33,680 --> 01:28:35,520
we were talking, But they're all in the same age group,

1551
01:28:35,560 --> 01:28:36,079
aren't they.

1552
01:28:36,840 --> 01:28:40,279
Speaker 1: Chase Burns, it is probably younger. Wouldn't be surprised. I

1553
01:28:40,399 --> 01:28:46,159
see Chase Burns is twenty three and Misserowski is what

1554
01:28:46,319 --> 01:28:48,319
came up as a high school kid. So he's probably

1555
01:28:48,359 --> 01:28:54,119
younger as well. Now same same exact age, twenty four months,

1556
01:28:54,239 --> 01:28:56,439
twenty four years, one month, twenty one day, so he's

1557
01:28:56,479 --> 01:28:59,680
a month older than great. Yeah, he's spent two years

1558
01:28:59,720 --> 01:29:00,680
of start in the big.

1559
01:29:00,560 --> 01:29:04,600
Speaker 2: Leagues, right exactly. Okay, so it's time for the White Sox.

1560
01:29:04,640 --> 01:29:06,720
Pardon the expression, but it's time for them. You should

1561
01:29:06,840 --> 01:29:09,640
get off the pot do something. Either make them a

1562
01:29:09,680 --> 01:29:11,439
reliever and you could be one of the best in

1563
01:29:11,479 --> 01:29:15,199
the game, or convert him to being a starter. But

1564
01:29:15,680 --> 01:29:21,920
this they're wasted. They're wasting each pitch he throws with

1565
01:29:22,039 --> 01:29:24,479
his current status as a wasted pitch, isn't it.

1566
01:29:25,359 --> 01:29:28,039
Speaker 1: So they can do what the race did keep when

1567
01:29:28,039 --> 01:29:31,319
they kept Griffin Jacks up and converted him into a

1568
01:29:31,479 --> 01:29:34,399
starter on the Major League Rochester. Or they get to

1569
01:29:34,439 --> 01:29:36,319
send them down to Triple A for the next three

1570
01:29:36,319 --> 01:29:39,680
weeks and let them get out to four or five innings,

1571
01:29:39,720 --> 01:29:42,039
then bring them back up and let them finish the

1572
01:29:42,119 --> 01:29:46,399
job in the major leagues. But I don't get him

1573
01:29:46,439 --> 01:29:49,359
setting up or being the seventh inning guy for Sir Anthony.

1574
01:29:49,399 --> 01:29:51,960
I don't get that. I know Sir Anthony has saved

1575
01:29:51,960 --> 01:29:55,039
a lot of games. Sir Anthony is dangerous. I mean,

1576
01:29:55,079 --> 01:29:58,800
and if the White Sox think they can at least

1577
01:29:58,840 --> 01:30:01,079
have a decent showing this season, then you got to

1578
01:30:01,119 --> 01:30:04,199
get your best guys and in the most high leverage situation,

1579
01:30:04,359 --> 01:30:08,000
and that is Grant Taylor. It's not, sir, Anthony.

1580
01:30:08,880 --> 01:30:11,800
Speaker 2: Let's go back to April nineteenth, just to further reinforce that.

1581
01:30:11,960 --> 01:30:16,119
On April nineteenth, Taylor threw one in two thirds innings.

1582
01:30:16,119 --> 01:30:21,000
He threw thirty nine pitches. Okay, thirty nine pitches on

1583
01:30:21,119 --> 01:30:23,960
April nineteenth. He hasn't equal that number since.

1584
01:30:27,640 --> 01:30:30,600
Speaker 1: I don't get it. I mean, I get handling guys

1585
01:30:30,640 --> 01:30:32,840
with kid gloves, but this doesn't make any sense to me.

1586
01:30:33,880 --> 01:30:36,359
Speaker 2: No, these are kid kid gloves are handling him with

1587
01:30:36,479 --> 01:30:43,079
it just it just doesn't It doesn't compute, not to me. Anyways,

1588
01:30:43,119 --> 01:30:43,800
It's interesting.

1589
01:30:44,119 --> 01:30:46,119
Speaker 1: I'm looking at roster resource. I was just going to

1590
01:30:46,159 --> 01:30:48,840
see where they had him slotted in. They say he's

1591
01:30:48,880 --> 01:30:52,199
a co closer because he got one saved. They say

1592
01:30:52,239 --> 01:30:55,359
he's a coloser. What do you want?

1593
01:30:55,680 --> 01:30:59,399
Speaker 2: No, No, that he's not a co closer. That's Anthony Minge.

1594
01:30:59,520 --> 01:31:02,720
So yeah, okay, well they're wrong, Okay.

1595
01:31:02,479 --> 01:31:05,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's got one save on the season.

1596
01:31:05,600 --> 01:31:11,840
Speaker 2: That's Tim Cloud Move. No, Tim McLoud. Tim McLoud move

1597
01:31:11,880 --> 01:31:13,640
would be recommending him to Rich Will.

1598
01:31:14,039 --> 01:31:22,880
Speaker 1: That's Joel Taping spelled Joel Canal or Canale. Let's just

1599
01:31:22,880 --> 01:31:25,760
see how many strikeouts this guy has. Let's see here

1600
01:31:26,279 --> 01:31:30,159
five point two through he's really really throwing strikeouts now,

1601
01:31:30,199 --> 01:31:34,760
I mean, uh, twelve strikeouts. He's got twelve big ones.

1602
01:31:34,800 --> 01:31:41,399
Speaker 2: Tim, He's probably got the wrong body tape for the job. Okay,

1603
01:31:41,800 --> 01:31:43,920
but no, I I.

1604
01:31:43,520 --> 01:31:46,079
Speaker 1: What you're right about, Grant Taylor. I think we talked

1605
01:31:46,119 --> 01:31:48,760
about I just not neither one of us understand what's

1606
01:31:48,760 --> 01:31:51,399
going on. But the arm is special, and.

1607
01:31:51,880 --> 01:31:54,159
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's getting it done. So you got to get

1608
01:31:54,199 --> 01:31:55,840
him out. You got to get him out there.

1609
01:31:56,000 --> 01:31:59,479
Speaker 1: Yeah, particularly in this world where it's uh, you know,

1610
01:31:59,560 --> 01:32:01,880
somebody E are going down at least to get four

1611
01:32:01,960 --> 01:32:05,920
or five strikeouts a week from from a talent that's

1612
01:32:05,920 --> 01:32:07,960
probably not going to blow up that often, just because

1613
01:32:08,000 --> 01:32:10,560
he throws so hard. I think, Yeah, it's a good

1614
01:32:10,560 --> 01:32:13,680
call by you. And then it's the ageless Kirby Yates.

1615
01:32:13,800 --> 01:32:15,920
Is he now going to get the guy? He's going

1616
01:32:16,000 --> 01:32:22,880
to get? The starts over? What was it? The two guys, Yeah, Seffrage.

1617
01:32:22,279 --> 01:32:28,439
Speaker 2: And John Hyer, John and Backman, and I think it

1618
01:32:28,560 --> 01:32:32,319
is lighter than lighter somewhere else. You know what, He

1619
01:32:32,399 --> 01:32:36,880
got the last save? Okay, the Angels bullpen is nothing

1620
01:32:36,920 --> 01:32:39,279
to write home to mother a boat. He got the

1621
01:32:39,359 --> 01:32:43,199
last save. I think the next opportunity probably rulls his way.

1622
01:32:43,239 --> 01:32:45,760
He did save thirty three games for Texas in twenty

1623
01:32:45,800 --> 01:32:49,600
four So hey, you want to toss a dart. Odds

1624
01:32:49,760 --> 01:32:53,359
our best right now in l l A. If you're

1625
01:32:53,399 --> 01:32:56,680
looking at Yates as compared to the other auptions that

1626
01:32:56,760 --> 01:32:57,520
are sitting.

1627
01:32:57,199 --> 01:32:59,840
Speaker 1: There, now, that's the tem a clown we've all grown to.

1628
01:33:00,960 --> 01:33:03,479
Gets one save, makes the closer report.

1629
01:33:03,920 --> 01:33:08,000
Speaker 2: That's our guy, that's our man. Yeah, ask me how

1630
01:33:08,000 --> 01:33:10,279
many shurees I have a Kirbyates.

1631
01:33:09,760 --> 01:33:14,319
Speaker 1: Rich Zephyr, John Bachman, and Kirby Yates are listed as

1632
01:33:14,560 --> 01:33:19,960
co co closer Coco Coke closer. So yeah, Curbyates is

1633
01:33:20,000 --> 01:33:22,159
at the top of the list according to rosters. So

1634
01:33:22,199 --> 01:33:23,600
you're in violent agreement with him.

1635
01:33:24,399 --> 01:33:27,399
Speaker 2: Well, hey, you get that last save and one is

1636
01:33:27,439 --> 01:33:28,800
the start of a streak.

1637
01:33:28,520 --> 01:33:31,039
Speaker 1: Right I am, I'm tapping out.

1638
01:33:33,560 --> 01:33:34,399
Speaker 2: I'm not shocked.

1639
01:33:35,159 --> 01:33:38,640
Speaker 1: I got my Varland going, I got Mahogan Harris and

1640
01:33:38,680 --> 01:33:40,479
I think he's on the IEL at the moment. I

1641
01:33:40,520 --> 01:33:44,520
and oh my buddy Vodnik one on the il crushing

1642
01:33:44,600 --> 01:33:47,920
blow there. Yeah, he was. Yeah, I don't know how

1643
01:33:47,960 --> 01:33:50,239
long he's gonna be on, but I'm getting by Timmy.

1644
01:33:50,239 --> 01:33:54,119
I I've been able to follow the Tim McCleod strategy

1645
01:33:54,720 --> 01:33:56,880
and it has worked. I will give you kudos. It

1646
01:33:56,920 --> 01:33:58,960
has worked. It has cost me most of my fab

1647
01:33:59,279 --> 01:34:00,800
but it has.

1648
01:34:01,000 --> 01:34:02,119
Speaker 2: I didn't say it was free.

1649
01:34:04,359 --> 01:34:07,600
Speaker 1: I have, but I have enough saves in most leagues

1650
01:34:07,640 --> 01:34:09,239
and I'm actually doing pretty well.

1651
01:34:09,279 --> 01:34:11,640
Speaker 2: But good guys.

1652
01:34:12,319 --> 01:34:17,039
Speaker 1: Literally, I've literally rostered guys from trying to get saves

1653
01:34:17,039 --> 01:34:19,000
that I've never heard of in my life. I mean,

1654
01:34:19,399 --> 01:34:21,159
I just don't and this is what I do for

1655
01:34:21,199 --> 01:34:22,760
a living. And I like, I don't even know this

1656
01:34:22,800 --> 01:34:26,479
guy is. Tim said grab him, he got the save them.

1657
01:34:27,520 --> 01:34:29,279
Speaker 2: You know what you need to do, Rich that would

1658
01:34:29,279 --> 01:34:31,720
help me or dementually is I would like you to

1659
01:34:31,720 --> 01:34:34,680
go through all the teams and pick the top ten

1660
01:34:34,840 --> 01:34:38,720
starters Okay, who are going to fail? Okay, so I

1661
01:34:38,760 --> 01:34:41,279
can have a reference source for my closure report. That

1662
01:34:41,359 --> 01:34:45,000
was that? Yeah, because that's what it is. They're all

1663
01:34:45,000 --> 01:34:47,199
failed starters, right, Yeah.

1664
01:34:47,239 --> 01:34:49,399
Speaker 1: For the most part. Yeah, I mean that's that's that's

1665
01:34:49,439 --> 01:34:51,640
usually what happens. But I mean, like Zephyr John, I

1666
01:34:51,680 --> 01:34:54,720
mean he was a third round pick in twenty nineteen.

1667
01:34:55,199 --> 01:34:58,079
He just got lost in the shuffle because Covid was

1668
01:34:58,119 --> 01:35:01,720
the following year and this guy in twenty nineteen. Almost

1669
01:35:01,720 --> 01:35:05,640
all of them became that were starters became relievers because

1670
01:35:05,640 --> 01:35:07,760
they lost so much time and the teams wanted to

1671
01:35:07,800 --> 01:35:10,720
try to extract value. Another draft came out and all

1672
01:35:10,720 --> 01:35:12,319
of a sudden, you had a lock. You had a

1673
01:35:12,359 --> 01:35:15,279
log jam, and then they got rid of short season

1674
01:35:15,319 --> 01:35:18,279
balls and it's it's the Zephyr John's never got a

1675
01:35:18,359 --> 01:35:21,119
chance to do anything and they became relievers.

1676
01:35:21,479 --> 01:35:26,439
Speaker 2: Yeah, because how many actual relief pitchers were drafted as

1677
01:35:26,600 --> 01:35:29,800
relief pitchers and started their career in Major League base Well,

1678
01:35:29,800 --> 01:35:33,000
probably in a very very small number. The one that

1679
01:35:33,159 --> 01:35:36,359
comes to my Chadkirk Cordero in Washington. He came out

1680
01:35:36,399 --> 01:35:39,680
of college I believe as a closer. But and the

1681
01:35:39,880 --> 01:35:42,039
guy that throws with his left and right arm, I

1682
01:35:42,079 --> 01:35:47,520
believe he was a bullpen arm the most part. Yeah,

1683
01:35:47,680 --> 01:35:48,600
but he's a starter now.

1684
01:35:48,600 --> 01:35:50,199
Speaker 1: It was only throwing right handed, which is a bit

1685
01:35:50,239 --> 01:35:50,840
of a bummer.

1686
01:35:51,399 --> 01:35:56,760
Speaker 2: But yeah, yeah, but not very many pitchers begin their

1687
01:35:56,840 --> 01:36:00,279
major league career as closers right out of the draft

1688
01:36:00,479 --> 01:36:03,000
or you know, signed as a free agent whatever.

1689
01:36:03,159 --> 01:36:07,319
Speaker 1: You know, I'll double down on that and tell you

1690
01:36:07,359 --> 01:36:11,239
that if if a team drafts a closer, they rarely

1691
01:36:11,279 --> 01:36:17,920
don't make it. Yeah, it's it is the guys. It's

1692
01:36:17,960 --> 01:36:18,960
the guys that come down.

1693
01:36:20,800 --> 01:36:22,680
Speaker 2: From starters. Yeah, that makes sense.

1694
01:36:23,039 --> 01:36:25,119
Speaker 1: Sometimes they'll get a shot because somebody. Every once in

1695
01:36:25,159 --> 01:36:27,640
a while team will spend a second round pick on

1696
01:36:27,720 --> 01:36:30,680
a on a guy who was a closer, the best

1697
01:36:30,680 --> 01:36:33,640
closer in college in the last ten years, and you

1698
01:36:33,720 --> 01:36:36,560
look up and they're you know, they're still in Double A.

1699
01:36:37,439 --> 01:36:38,960
So it happens.

1700
01:36:38,960 --> 01:36:41,239
Speaker 2: All. Yeah, I know, if you're going to be drafted

1701
01:36:41,279 --> 01:36:43,079
as a closer, you better throw the ball one hundred

1702
01:36:43,119 --> 01:36:44,880
miles an hour with accuracy.

1703
01:36:45,279 --> 01:36:51,479
Speaker 1: Yeah, but if those guys are in college, it typically

1704
01:36:51,760 --> 01:36:53,560
if you're going to throw ninety eight miles an hour

1705
01:36:53,600 --> 01:36:55,840
topping that a one hundred, a college coach is going

1706
01:36:55,840 --> 01:36:58,560
to start you because that's their best chance of plinning

1707
01:36:58,560 --> 01:37:01,399
because a college kid, typical college kid can't hit one

1708
01:37:01,439 --> 01:37:03,600
hundred miles an hour. Even though if it's not a strike.

1709
01:37:04,520 --> 01:37:06,640
So and then if you're in high school and you're

1710
01:37:06,640 --> 01:37:09,359
throwing that hard, they're gonna the kid's gonna want to

1711
01:37:09,399 --> 01:37:12,319
start so he can sign for big money throwing ninety

1712
01:37:12,319 --> 01:37:16,960
eight miles an hour. So that's why they're rare that

1713
01:37:17,000 --> 01:37:20,159
they're coming out as relievers to start the games off. Tammy,

1714
01:37:20,239 --> 01:37:23,000
let's take a final break, come back, a lot of fun.

1715
01:37:23,960 --> 01:37:24,920
Speaker 2: Yeah it was a good show.

1716
01:37:26,079 --> 01:37:37,079
Speaker 1: Yeah up, great for commercials. All right, Let's see what's

1717
01:37:37,119 --> 01:37:39,960
happening with the games here as we wrap up. The

1718
01:37:40,000 --> 01:37:43,119
Dodgers up five to three, the Kansiity Ruels now up

1719
01:37:43,279 --> 01:37:47,039
eight to three. Let's see who's done damage here. Garcia

1720
01:37:47,119 --> 01:37:51,079
with two hits, sal Perez three for four. No one

1721
01:37:51,159 --> 01:37:52,720
hit a home run at all?

1722
01:37:53,239 --> 01:37:56,119
Speaker 2: Yeah, no home runs, ye, Seth Lugo.

1723
01:37:55,960 --> 01:37:58,399
Speaker 1: In life, you know that. I don't know what the

1724
01:37:59,680 --> 01:38:02,560
mayors have to do. They year in and year out,

1725
01:38:02,600 --> 01:38:03,880
they just don't have any hitting.

1726
01:38:05,760 --> 01:38:09,600
Speaker 2: Well they Hey, Julio Rodriguez is now up to night

1727
01:38:09,640 --> 01:38:14,640
home runs after a slow start. But yeah, justin Crawford,

1728
01:38:15,399 --> 01:38:23,800
Josh Kneeler Rosine is having a look. Really, the hot

1729
01:38:23,840 --> 01:38:28,640
streak's over. Then you get young, you got Canzoni.

1730
01:38:29,319 --> 01:38:34,000
Speaker 1: Look at Emerson, my guy four.

1731
01:38:33,159 --> 01:38:42,399
Speaker 2: Four yeah, one rbi. Yeah, look at that. Yeah, Yeah,

1732
01:38:43,680 --> 01:38:47,199
I think there's enough offense there. But what's where I

1733
01:38:47,199 --> 01:38:51,399
have found disappointing in Seattle. This here is Yeah, Brian

1734
01:38:51,479 --> 01:38:54,800
wu is had he's been up down all over the place.

1735
01:38:55,720 --> 01:39:00,560
Luis Castillo is not the Luis Castillo we knew at

1736
01:39:00,560 --> 01:39:04,119
one point. Now. Yeah, and they got a couple of

1737
01:39:04,159 --> 01:39:09,560
big arms sitting down in the minors. That's, hey, we're

1738
01:39:09,560 --> 01:39:12,000
gonna see those arms sooner as compared to later. I

1739
01:39:12,039 --> 01:39:14,079
think if if the Mariners want to get back in

1740
01:39:14,199 --> 01:39:16,720
this thing this year, simple as that.

1741
01:39:17,560 --> 01:39:20,840
Speaker 1: Yeah. The run score of the Seattle Mariners is two twelve.

1742
01:39:22,319 --> 01:39:26,479
That's not very good. So No, the Blue Jays are

1743
01:39:26,479 --> 01:39:29,119
two fourteen. But the Red Sox are the only team

1744
01:39:29,279 --> 01:39:31,520
in the American Lace blow that at one eight nine.

1745
01:39:31,600 --> 01:39:34,760
The Royals are one ninety nine, Troit Tigers are two

1746
01:39:34,840 --> 01:39:37,960
or three. That's where they're sitting. And runs scored is

1747
01:39:38,039 --> 01:39:41,880
down with the Royals and the Tigers. Tim that's the

1748
01:39:41,920 --> 01:39:45,119
Angels have scored more runs than the Mariners.

1749
01:39:46,279 --> 01:39:53,279
Speaker 2: That that is not good at all, not good at all. Well, Yeah,

1750
01:39:54,399 --> 01:39:56,600
it looks like, yeah, immotos in line for the win.

1751
01:39:57,560 --> 01:40:02,279
Nice to see. I'm curious to see who's who the

1752
01:40:02,319 --> 01:40:06,960
Twins have put out there up six four over the

1753
01:40:07,000 --> 01:40:10,239
Red Sox. Who have they entrusted their ninth inning to

1754
01:40:11,119 --> 01:40:17,359
the guy I wanted to see, mister Gomez and he's struggling,

1755
01:40:18,920 --> 01:40:21,600
just allowed to run six'. FIVE i sort of Like

1756
01:40:22,000 --> 01:40:23,279
gomez and you, know sort Of.

1757
01:40:24,640 --> 01:40:27,560
Speaker 1: Oh they seems like it's just been A russian roulette

1758
01:40:27,560 --> 01:40:29,720
there in terms of he's getting. Shot, yeah.

1759
01:40:30,039 --> 01:40:31,960
Speaker 2: Exactly, yeah it's been all over the.

1760
01:40:32,000 --> 01:40:36,079
Speaker 1: Place it looked like The athletics are up three to.

1761
01:40:36,119 --> 01:40:38,800
Nothing they're you, know, interesting they're hanging in there at

1762
01:40:38,800 --> 01:40:42,119
twenty six and twenty six doing. Okay your Guy cortis

1763
01:40:42,960 --> 01:40:46,279
with another another home, run up batting three point fifty

1764
01:40:46,319 --> 01:40:47,439
with a nine eighty six.

1765
01:40:47,520 --> 01:40:52,840
Speaker 2: Ops, YEAH i DON'T i don't know what is going

1766
01:40:52,920 --> 01:40:55,600
to happen. THERE i got a decision to. Make Tommy

1767
01:40:55,640 --> 01:40:59,359
troy scored a run one for one in The diamondbacks

1768
01:40:59,399 --> 01:41:04,520
game over The, rockies And Corbyn carroll with a triple

1769
01:41:04,720 --> 01:41:08,960
and he's now up to what twenty seven twenty eight? RBIs.

1770
01:41:09,239 --> 01:41:13,239
Yeah ryan Wal schmidt with his fifth stolen, Base keep, running, Run,

1771
01:41:13,479 --> 01:41:14,439
ryan run.

1772
01:41:15,319 --> 01:41:17,720
Speaker 1: Back to the. Athletics they're gonna have to do something

1773
01:41:17,760 --> 01:41:21,359
With Lawrence, butler tim platoon guy batting one sixty eight

1774
01:41:21,560 --> 01:41:24,239
three home, runs it's just not getting it. Done and

1775
01:41:24,880 --> 01:41:28,039
right after that Is Tyler sodastrom baton one ninety four.

1776
01:41:28,880 --> 01:41:32,479
Run these are guys that really contributed five home, runs

1777
01:41:33,039 --> 01:41:36,119
guys that really contributed last, season and they're not getting it. Done.

1778
01:41:37,279 --> 01:41:42,880
Speaker 2: Well, No and you look At cortez today with the home,

1779
01:41:42,960 --> 01:41:46,720
run his, fifth and he's batting three forty seven and

1780
01:41:46,800 --> 01:41:49,880
you look down and the other big contributors so far

1781
01:41:49,960 --> 01:41:54,640
today for The a's is bold one per woman the

1782
01:41:54,720 --> 01:41:57,399
run scored in AN. Rbi they're gonna have to get

1783
01:41:57,439 --> 01:42:03,720
those guys in the lineup every day. Somehow and you're you're,

1784
01:42:03,800 --> 01:42:08,600
right at some point in, Time, yeah there's going to

1785
01:42:08,640 --> 01:42:11,319
be a change. There there has to. Be it's as

1786
01:42:11,359 --> 01:42:13,760
simple as. That and right, there and if they go

1787
01:42:13,840 --> 01:42:19,079
with the best, players yeah there's a. Problem somebody's going

1788
01:42:19,159 --> 01:42:20,920
to hit TRIPLE a that isn't going to be real

1789
01:42:21,000 --> 01:42:23,199
happy to be IF i have to, BELIEVE.

1790
01:42:22,920 --> 01:42:25,600
Speaker 1: I have to believe it's it's going to Be, uh

1791
01:42:25,840 --> 01:42:27,800
it's going to Be Lawrence. Butler let's see where he

1792
01:42:27,880 --> 01:42:32,079
went in. DRAFTS i think he went pretty early one ninth.

1793
01:42:32,159 --> 01:42:36,600
Speaker 2: Round, yeah, yeah because there's twenty twenty potential sitting, there, Right.

1794
01:42:36,760 --> 01:42:39,119
Speaker 1: Yeah guess what not?

1795
01:42:39,239 --> 01:42:43,279
Speaker 2: Happening, yeah, no it's not, happening not not thus, far

1796
01:42:43,520 --> 01:42:47,079
that's for. Sure The astros up big on The, cubs

1797
01:42:47,680 --> 01:42:51,199
who scored all the runs for The. Astros Jeremy Pinya,

1798
01:42:53,000 --> 01:42:55,600
no no home, run but one before with a couple of.

1799
01:42:55,680 --> 01:42:59,159
Rbs Christian walker has been hitting these on fire, lately

1800
01:42:59,479 --> 01:43:04,319
one or three RBIs And Nick allen that nobody has. Rostered, yeah,

1801
01:43:04,399 --> 01:43:10,760
okay it's. True him And go drilled for seven and

1802
01:43:10,880 --> 01:43:11,800
runs today.

1803
01:43:13,119 --> 01:43:18,560
Speaker 1: And The mets lost got walked off by The marlins fort.

1804
01:43:18,640 --> 01:43:20,520
ENOUGH i had to be A Grand slam home, run,

1805
01:43:20,720 --> 01:43:23,840
right it's the only way that, happened, Right, yeah there

1806
01:43:23,840 --> 01:43:28,920
it Is. Hernandez pinch, It, no not a. Pinch he

1807
01:43:29,000 --> 01:43:32,800
came in for casey Grand slam walk. Off oh, boy

1808
01:43:33,399 --> 01:43:37,640
the uh the guy From Oh, Fleming Frank fleming's not

1809
01:43:38,439 --> 01:43:39,199
gonna be happy.

1810
01:43:39,239 --> 01:43:44,439
Speaker 2: Tonight, well he's gonna look At hernandez's five seventy one. Ops,

1811
01:43:44,680 --> 01:43:47,079
okay and, yeah sitting one night.

1812
01:43:47,239 --> 01:43:50,600
Speaker 1: Three and walked off A Grand slam off of who,

1813
01:43:51,319 --> 01:43:52,960
Oh Devin, williams.

1814
01:43:52,600 --> 01:43:57,399
Speaker 2: Ooh oh, yeah there's gonna be there's there's an epic

1815
01:43:57,520 --> 01:43:58,880
Rin oh, yeah.

1816
01:43:59,000 --> 01:44:02,439
Speaker 1: He's probably it's probably already out There, Fairbanks fairbanks with

1817
01:44:02,560 --> 01:44:05,199
the win as. Well, timmy that is a, wrap my.

1818
01:44:05,239 --> 01:44:06,279
Friend what you got going on this?

1819
01:44:06,359 --> 01:44:10,279
Speaker 3: Week uh, say, well say a little bit of, work

1820
01:44:10,560 --> 01:44:14,239
a lot of baseball and that's that's pretty. Much it

1821
01:44:14,479 --> 01:44:17,119
can just give me another another quiet and quiet, week

1822
01:44:17,399 --> 01:44:19,640
try to stay out of. Trouble come up with a

1823
01:44:19,680 --> 01:44:24,560
new knock knock material for? You WHAT ai assistant who

1824
01:44:24,720 --> 01:44:27,000
struggled with the caliber he pace this?

1825
01:44:27,079 --> 01:44:27,720
Speaker 2: Week he?

1826
01:44:28,000 --> 01:44:32,039
Speaker 1: Did he thinks he can solve it by knowing all

1827
01:44:32,079 --> 01:44:34,520
the knock knock jokes in the. World he doesn't have

1828
01:44:34,560 --> 01:44:36,680
the creativity of the Great tim, mcclown that is for.

1829
01:44:36,720 --> 01:44:40,279
Speaker 2: Sure, well, Thanks, RICH i appreciate. It and what's on

1830
01:44:40,319 --> 01:44:42,000
the schedule for you this? Week you didn't catch any?

1831
01:44:42,000 --> 01:44:47,159
Games oh, yeah, yeah, Yeah so The yankees are playing

1832
01:44:47,600 --> 01:44:50,840
or The Summerset patriots are playing THE i think.

1833
01:44:50,720 --> 01:44:53,680
Speaker 1: The Toronto double. Eighteen So i'll catch a bo gets.

1834
01:44:53,760 --> 01:44:59,199
There i've got uh next weekend On friday him off

1835
01:44:59,239 --> 01:45:02,720
to a high school tournament to watch a bunch of

1836
01:45:02,840 --> 01:45:05,760
kids in The. Northeast so it's, uh so that'll be,

1837
01:45:06,720 --> 01:45:08,840
yeah that'll be fun to get a chance to see

1838
01:45:09,159 --> 01:45:13,319
a bunch of high school kids. Playing and, Yeah i'm

1839
01:45:13,399 --> 01:45:16,920
watching some play players for some scouts That i'm doing work.

1840
01:45:16,960 --> 01:45:20,520
For it's really nice to. ME i, GO i, go

1841
01:45:20,600 --> 01:45:24,119
AND i watch write my, report give it to MY ai.

1842
01:45:24,239 --> 01:45:26,319
Assistant he makes it looks, good look, good AND i

1843
01:45:26,399 --> 01:45:27,840
send it. In that's HOW.

1844
01:45:30,520 --> 01:45:32,000
Speaker 2: I gotta get me one of them. Fellows.

1845
01:45:32,640 --> 01:45:37,760
Speaker 1: Fantastic it's the greatest thing. EVER i mean, this this

1846
01:45:37,840 --> 01:45:41,680
is changing the. World i'm telling, you it's it's. Fantastic but,

1847
01:45:41,800 --> 01:45:44,399
yeah so that's and you, know just more moving related.

1848
01:45:44,479 --> 01:45:48,359
Stuff and we're actually going to, uh we're going to

1849
01:45:48,399 --> 01:45:50,600
because a couple of weeks from now we have to

1850
01:45:50,600 --> 01:45:53,680
cancel The sunday. SHOW i will be in Des, Moines.

1851
01:45:53,920 --> 01:46:00,800
Speaker 2: Iowa my wife close to, me my.

1852
01:46:00,840 --> 01:46:06,039
Speaker 1: Wife's niece son is getting, married so we're going for

1853
01:46:06,199 --> 01:46:09,039
a wedding and to get From New jersey To Des

1854
01:46:09,079 --> 01:46:13,239
moines eye with, him twenty five hundred dollars was the

1855
01:46:13,319 --> 01:46:17,319
price of a. Ticket this was before the gas inflation

1856
01:46:17,439 --> 01:46:19,840
because of the. WAR i don't know what the hell

1857
01:46:19,920 --> 01:46:22,439
is going. On In Des, moines but twenty five hundred

1858
01:46:22,479 --> 01:46:24,760
dollars for a flight to get To Des moines From

1859
01:46:24,800 --> 01:46:25,600
New jersey was.

1860
01:46:25,760 --> 01:46:30,199
Speaker 2: Outrageous, well, yeah and you're probably Flying Piper.

1861
01:46:30,319 --> 01:46:34,720
Speaker 1: JEROKEE i think it's a real jet To chicago and

1862
01:46:34,760 --> 01:46:37,680
then and then a little tiny jet From. CHICAGO i,

1863
01:46:37,720 --> 01:46:41,920
mean it's. CRAZY i, Was i'm, like DO i have to?

1864
01:46:41,960 --> 01:46:45,800
Go so it's five thousand dollars my wife AND i

1865
01:46:45,880 --> 01:46:48,560
to go see a? Wedding come, on.

1866
01:46:50,399 --> 01:46:54,760
Speaker 2: Aren't they? Sorry so my my.

1867
01:46:54,800 --> 01:46:57,439
Speaker 1: Son and, daughter they were gonna they were gonna bring

1868
01:46:57,479 --> 01:47:00,399
their families and they found that much. Ticket it's where

1869
01:47:00,680 --> 01:47:05,640
and now they're just sending a representative and dad's a very,

1870
01:47:05,880 --> 01:47:08,039
car SO i have to get the car From it's

1871
01:47:08,039 --> 01:47:10,399
the whole. Thing but they're lovely people.

1872
01:47:10,119 --> 01:47:11,720
Speaker 2: And they're, like they're.

1873
01:47:11,520 --> 01:47:13,600
Speaker 1: Very dear family. Members so we're going to. That THAT'S

1874
01:47:13,640 --> 01:47:17,199
i think on the, tenth eleventh Of. June so that's

1875
01:47:17,199 --> 01:47:18,880
coming in peop Believe june is right around the.

1876
01:47:18,880 --> 01:47:23,600
Speaker 2: Corner, yes it most certainly. Is the thirty first is Next,

1877
01:47:23,640 --> 01:47:26,279
sunday and then we roll into the month Of. JUNE

1878
01:47:26,560 --> 01:47:28,920
i think getting back to the flying, thing just for a,

1879
01:47:28,960 --> 01:47:31,560
SECOND i think what you're going to see is you're

1880
01:47:31,600 --> 01:47:34,640
not going to see any, plane any planes half. Full

1881
01:47:35,359 --> 01:47:38,399
they're gonna they're gonna consolidate. Flights the airlines will work,

1882
01:47:38,439 --> 01:47:41,039
TOGETHER i, think even if they have to to try

1883
01:47:41,079 --> 01:47:43,479
and find a way to get you, know a flight

1884
01:47:43,560 --> 01:47:46,840
occupancy up over the ninety percent. Level so it's going

1885
01:47:46,920 --> 01:47:50,720
to be a really awkward end also really expensive. SUMMER

1886
01:47:50,760 --> 01:47:52,800
i think for those who choose to fly rich.

1887
01:47:53,159 --> 01:47:56,119
Speaker 1: Could be could be again this. ONE i bought these

1888
01:47:56,159 --> 01:48:00,039
tickets before the price of gas went, up SO I

1889
01:48:00,039 --> 01:48:01,479
i don't know WHAT i don't.

1890
01:48:01,479 --> 01:48:02,279
Speaker 2: KNOW i.

1891
01:48:02,279 --> 01:48:04,359
Speaker 1: Mean Des moines is one of those weird cities that

1892
01:48:04,399 --> 01:48:07,920
it's pretty, big but they don't have a big airline presence,

1893
01:48:07,960 --> 01:48:11,319
there so it's exagal jets coming in so they can

1894
01:48:11,399 --> 01:48:15,239
really keep the you, Know Spirit airline was a was

1895
01:48:15,319 --> 01:48:18,000
an airline that just went out of. Business and when

1896
01:48:18,039 --> 01:48:22,159
you lose those low cost, airlines it raises the raids

1897
01:48:22,239 --> 01:48:24,800
up for everybody because now you don't because there was

1898
01:48:25,239 --> 01:48:27,319
they used to find it To newark and they only

1899
01:48:27,359 --> 01:48:30,520
went to half a dozen, cities but you had to

1900
01:48:30,560 --> 01:48:33,920
compete With Spirit airlines into the, cities and now they're.

1901
01:48:33,920 --> 01:48:37,760
Gone And Jeff blue is having some financial. TROUBLE i mean,

1902
01:48:37,800 --> 01:48:41,640
it there's you know that becomes. Problematics air. Airline air

1903
01:48:41,640 --> 01:48:44,319
travel is getting very, expensive and it's a real real

1904
01:48:44,359 --> 01:48:46,359
bummer BECAUSE i can't go To Des, Moines, tim AND

1905
01:48:46,399 --> 01:48:50,600
i want to go to Des. Moines so what's, yes

1906
01:48:51,119 --> 01:48:53,159
what's in Moinem what it was? Corn?

1907
01:48:54,520 --> 01:48:57,279
Speaker 2: Yeah oh there's lots of. Corn, yes, YES i was

1908
01:48:57,319 --> 01:48:59,319
going to, say, yeah that's ONLY i think about eight

1909
01:48:59,359 --> 01:49:00,479
ten hours, me that's.

1910
01:49:00,479 --> 01:49:03,520
Speaker 1: Close, well we can meet up of the go to

1911
01:49:04,880 --> 01:49:06,840
The TRIPLE. A The cubs are, there.

1912
01:49:06,760 --> 01:49:11,279
Speaker 2: Right, yeah, yeah, yeah, no it's about ten twelve HOURS

1913
01:49:11,319 --> 01:49:13,039
i think for me to get to the. Morning, yeah

1914
01:49:13,039 --> 01:49:15,119
it's not a bad little LIKE i was almost going

1915
01:49:15,199 --> 01:49:17,920
to go See joe bondamnsa there a few years. Ago

1916
01:49:18,479 --> 01:49:21,319
oh really, yeah they got a nice little concert hole. There.

1917
01:49:21,399 --> 01:49:25,399
Ah but then, everything just the time and the timing

1918
01:49:25,439 --> 01:49:27,479
of it just wasn't. Good but we'll.

1919
01:49:27,560 --> 01:49:30,600
Speaker 1: Come we'll go to A Chicago Cubs TRIPLE a. Game

1920
01:49:30,680 --> 01:49:33,479
SO i think the wedding's on A friday, night So

1921
01:49:34,439 --> 01:49:37,960
saturday night we'll be, free, man BECAUSE i think. SO

1922
01:49:38,239 --> 01:49:40,079
i think we come back On. Sunday so so many

1923
01:49:40,079 --> 01:49:43,560
people did the, show but At friday night's the. Wedding Then,

1924
01:49:43,680 --> 01:49:46,600
SATURDAY i think there's after wedding, stuff BUT i Think

1925
01:49:46,600 --> 01:49:49,119
saturday night we're going to be. Free so maybe wells

1926
01:49:49,920 --> 01:49:50,960
to The cubs game if they're.

1927
01:49:50,960 --> 01:49:55,960
Speaker 2: Playing, No i'll see how my busy schedule, looks AND

1928
01:49:56,000 --> 01:49:56,600
i thank you for.

1929
01:49:56,640 --> 01:49:59,640
Speaker 1: That all, right all, right my, friend have a good week.

1930
01:49:59,680 --> 01:50:02,039
Time everybody, else good luck with. Everything we'll talk to

1931
01:50:02,079 --> 01:50:02,319
you Next.

1932
01:50:02,359 --> 01:50:05,880
Speaker 2: Sunday, yeah be, safe be, well and good fortune to

1933
01:50:05,960 --> 01:50:09,079
everybody filling those holes in your roster this. Evening