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Speaker 1: Health well, yeah, several charges on everyone something else and

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Speaker 3: Your name was, Mart.

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Speaker 1: And it's a ride by podcast.

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Speaker 2: It's a rapop podcast.

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Speaker 1: It's a rapop podcast. It's a ride bo podcast. It's

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a rap up podcast.

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Speaker 3: I don't have a rap up podcast. A turn off.

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Speaker 1: It's a rap bop podcast. Welcome back everybody. It is

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the rass Ball Fantasy Baseball podcast. I am being on

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joined by the one, the only the fantasy master left.

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Are you himself? Great? All right? Hey? Doing on this

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fine pre opening day Monday? Gray?

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Speaker 3: Ah good good, I'm good. I'm you know, it's like

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it's it kind of feels like the calm before the storm.

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I'm ready to go. Got everything locked in my award

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winning rankings, are you know, are basically locked my number

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one from my number one rankings from twenty twenty three,

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twenty five. Yeah, things are things are good. I'm good.

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I have a post nasal drip, but other than that,

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I'm okay, man, I'm okay.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Gray, It's almost like when I joined the podcast,

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good things started to happen for you. You know, the

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rankings got got better. You're now number one. You know,

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we're just slowly things have improved. We've we climbed to

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number one in the South Korea Fantasy Baseball charts. It's

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just all positive things, positive movements you have.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, for people who are are listening in South Korea,

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thank you. I don't know how to say thank you

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in Korean, but thank you. You're probably better off that

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I don't try and pronounce something in creative. Ah See,

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look at us, we're basically we're both basically Korean, not

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just you, basically the same thing. Gray.

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Speaker 1: We've got a lot to get to you. Let's just

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get into it. Gray're we're almost here. At opening day,

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we have the first round of fab and waiver wires. Happened.

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I'm sure that happened in a lot of places. How

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do you go about mixing up fab and waiver wire

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here at the first one before season starts and early

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in the season, do you mix up your rosters? Whenever

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you see something? Are you riding with you know the

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team that you drafted, and then I guess we can

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talk about how you're setting your lineup. Is it the

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same thing where you're you know, I drafted them, That's

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who I'm starting. Are you looking at matchups already and

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playing in that game right off the bat?

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Speaker 3: It was actually, uh, I just on my on my desk.

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I have a pin that my dog Ted gave me.

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It says good boy. So it's like I feel like

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I wonder if Ted gave that to me, as like

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he was mocking me. I I'm a you know what,

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good boy though? Is uh? That's a good transition into

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what I'm gonna say with UH, with your players that

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you just drafted, they're all good boys, Brent. They're at

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this point I have I have no qualms with anyone I,

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you know, other than injuries. I'm not looking to drop

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or trade away anyone, you know. I I firmly believe in,

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like you know, the guys you just drafted. For some

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people literally like hours ago, there's no reason to get

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rid of them other than like maybe you auto drafted

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someone by accident. Like other than that, I or injuries obviously,

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kind of conservative when it comes to early fab Like

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pick anyone up in any of my uh my waiver

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wire leagues this first week. I you know, I I

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sat out most of them. We'll talk about some of

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the guys who were actually picked up as we go

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injuries that opened up doors for some people. So there

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were a few pickups, but no one I really you know,

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it's like, I I just drafted these teams. Why why

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am I dropping them? I'm you know, I I feel like,

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as of right now, they're all good boys.

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sitting out in free agency. But for the most part,

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people on rasball that, like, you know, unless you like

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unless you really got hit hard with injuries or again,

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like you auto drafted something and like you need to

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make changes. Like I don't really even believe in early

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season trading because it's like, what, what do you need?

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that term? Like why didn't you draft better if you

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need the trade? I don't understand like trading before the

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season either, Like it's like, you know you drafted these guys,

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why don't you give them I'm a shot, like you know,

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like for instance, you know this is not I don't

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believe this has anything to do with our podcast outline today,

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and you then you also drafted Jacob de Gram and

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you drafted heyesus Lozardo and you're like, well, I think

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I have too much pitching. It's like, yeah, you probably do.

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too much pitching, but why did you draft too much pitching?

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than oops. But yeah, so I mean other than like

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in oops, I messed up my draft. I don't see

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the point of really trading early on either outside of

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like you know, obviously, if you get hit by injuries

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or so something, then you do what you gotta do.

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in the last the last round of your draft and

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you're like, nah, you know, like I I don't really

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love this middle reliever or this hit or flyer. I'm

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gonna drop him and pick up this other guy on

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FAB Like, Okay, yeah, I mean that's fine. I mean

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the last guy on your team and you see someone

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better on waivers that you're like, yeah, I want to

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switch them out. But if you're switching out like I

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don't know, say, like your cornerman or something, it's like

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why did you draft that cornerman? I don't know? But anyway, Yeah, yep.

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Speaker 1: There you go. Everybody. Grant never ever made a mistake

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in a draft. Accidentally drafted much of one category or

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one position is set from day one and he does nothing. No,

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Gray really doesn't do a lot of trades. You pretty

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much have to send him one he's winning.

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Speaker 3: Uh no, no no no no no no no.

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Speaker 4: No no no no, you have to you have to

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send me a trade that I'm winning, and also text

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and DM me and be like, hey, can you look

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at your trade?

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Speaker 1: Maybe get on the podcast and before the podcast starts,

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be like, hey, I sent you a trade offer that

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also helps.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's still gonna be like a month later, though

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like a month later time. A good time to trade

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with me is when you're my uh my podcast co

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host and you're able to speak directly to me and

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be like, hey, man, could you look at the trade

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I sent you.

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Speaker 1: I'm not starting the recording until you look at the trade.

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You didn't give me an answer, Gray.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a that's a good that's a good avenue

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to trade with me.

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Speaker 1: I'm certainly more open to trade. I think back when

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certain analyst leagues had trading, I was like one of

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the only people who pulled off trades. So I've always

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been open to trading. You know, there's times in the

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draft where you maybe you're overloaded a position, or you

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grabbed too much of one category because value was there

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and you didn't want to see it falling to other people.

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don't mind training if you see that you are lacking

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a category or a position, or you.

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Speaker 3: Know, I feel like you're misrepresenting what I said. I

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don't see the point of trading before the season starts.

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Once the season starts and you start to see you

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have too much of one category, then yeah, I mean,

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obviously I can understand trading at that point, but I'm

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saying right now, like once the season starts and like,

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you know, this guy who you thought was going to

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be your first baseman goes down with an injury, and

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now you're weak in power, so you have to trade

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some steals for power. Yeah, all that makes sense. I'm

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just saying before the season starts, I don't see the

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point of trading because you just drafted this team. You

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have no idea what you have. I don't know what

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know if Chandler Simpson's gonna steal forty bags in April,

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sort of up in the air as of right the second.

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starting position, because you can look at your team sometimes

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and you go, oh, I ran it through the war

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room and it says I am plus five steals, you know,

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five points and steels, which is more than five steels.

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third basement, it might be better for me. And again,

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these things can happen. You can leave your draft with

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people you didn't necessarily want, especially, you know, like in

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an auction where you maybe price get caught price enforcing

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on a certain player and you ended up with an

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extra person that does something or is a position that

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not not perfect, and you do have an idea of

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kind of what you need. Sometimes. Last week, somebody commented

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to mention that they wish we had talked about the

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Minnesota rotation battle. I didn't throw it in there. I'm

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not sure why. I think maybe because we had talked

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about it in the spring training before. But we'll talk

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about it now. Even if it's maybe not useful for

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that particular person's draft, but I think it'd be useful

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in general. It looks like mckabele, Todd, Taz Bradley get

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the last two rotation spots. I mean on Richardson kind

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of had seemed like he had one locked up, but

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that's official as well. Zebby Matthews gets sent down of

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those three staying up. Are you interested in those three?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? Yeah, I think Zebbie Matthews is he's a drop

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don't you know, Taz Bradley, Uh, you know, he stayed

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with the Twins rather than going to rather than going

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to the WBC to try and win the spot, and

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it worked for him. And you know, he his stuff

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a he's always had good stuff, it's just never really translated.

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pretty good. You know, it's all spring training is obviously

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small sample size, but it looks like he's still struggling

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a bit with command. So I'm a little bit on

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the fence with Todge Bradley. Bradley for like maybe fifteen

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as of right now. And then with mc abel which

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he's a good flyer for every league. I you know,

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obviously at the end of the draft where you're making flyers,

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I don't have uh. You know, I wouldn't say I

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would project him for you know, one hundred and seventy

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five innings of you know, one hit ball. But there's

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there's definitely some upside here with mckabel. He was also

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which we call it, a top prospect who was traded

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with you know, they they wanted him for Duran, so

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they obviously the twins, that is, they obviously have some

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you know, pretty high hopes for him. So I think

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they want them to succeed, which is you know, a

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definitely plus. I I feel like with mcabel there's a

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chance here for a breakout. I mean, his spring looked

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really good. So I'm I'm in on both Abel and Bradley.

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on Bradley, but both are still just flyers at this point.

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Speaker 1: And what about WR Simeon Oil interesting?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, you know, obviously I think he's probably

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at this point, I think he's worth getting in on

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because the the in deeper leagues obviously, because like you know,

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he he could be something. But I don't see I

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don't see right now the hype for him, or at

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least I don't feel I don't feel the point of

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getting in on SWR in like twelve team mix leagues,

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fifteen team mix league for sure. I don't necessarily love

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SWR as at least for right now, as much as

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I like Able, and even I probably put Bradley above

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SWR for right now because like there's just the case

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are super low for SWR at least what he's shown

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in the majors and in spring training this year, like

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low case, you know, if he on command. Command has

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been a little bit better in spring but still kind

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of effy in his major league career. So yeah, I'm

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not as I'm not as jazzed up about SWR.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, he's somebody I like as a you know, a

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late round guy in fifteen team leagues, but in a

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twelve team league, he's really got no place other than

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the streamer. He is very good at home, so you

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can just slot him in for home starts and that's fine. Todd.

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Bradley does look good this spring, and these strikeouts are up,

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which is nice to see after they were down last season.

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It was kind of anomaly and you're wondering where the

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strikeouts went and the velocities up, which is also a

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good thing for somebody who's had injuries in his past. Yeah,

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with you, I think mckabels looked good in same kind

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of as Todd Bradley, Like, the strikeouts have really shown

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up here in spring as a thirty five percent in

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strikeout rate. That's not something I necessarily expect from him,

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but just to see that he has the strikeout upside

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in the individual outing is nice to see. Whereas, like

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you said, with what Richards in SVR, it doesn't seem

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like he really has that upside, or at least he

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hasn't shown it at a major league level. Another piece

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of big news this recently has been Kyile Stoward's injury.

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He has a Grade one DM string strain. It's gonna

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cost him at least three to four weeks. Seems like

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Griffin Conine and Liam Hicks should see some more playing time.

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What are your thoughts on drafting Stours and then are

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you interested in Co nine.

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Speaker 3: Or Hicks Stours? I think I lowered to about two

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hundred ish overall in my rankings. I think he's probably

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draftable if you have an IL slot and you can

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wait on him. But I'm pretty concerned because like he

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had a hamstring injury that's sort of lingered for you know,

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a couple months, I believe, and it's like it doesn't,

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you know, every time he keeps reinjuring it, which is

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really concerning. So you know, I'd still take the flyer

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on him for the ILS slot leagues. You know, I

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think someone else would probably if I were still drafting.

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I think someone else would probably take the flyer on

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him before I would if it was a league where

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there's where there's no ie L slots like an FBC

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or something. So eh, I mean, he's fine still, I guess,

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but I'm you know, I'm concerned. It's like a hamstring

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injury that keeps reoccurring, and you know he's had he

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had problems staying healthy last year. It's all. It's a

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little bit worrisome. You know, whis sucks because I did

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like him a lot and as yeah, I like.

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Speaker 1: Star Wars two. I have a share too. It is

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unfortunate to see him go down. I think willam Nicks

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is interesting in regards to catcher. If he's playing part

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time catcher and then dheen the other days, that becomes

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very interesting. And he's available and just about every league.

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I think I actually picked him up in a two

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catcher league, so he's out there and available on a

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you know, a pretty decent bat at least not one

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that's gonna hurt you and one that's getting playing time.

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Moving over, let's talk about the Braves rotation. Spencer Streider

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out at least a month with the oblique injury. You know,

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Diddy Wint's is the one that everybody was excited about.

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But it sounds like Corey Suarez is actually going to

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be the fifth starter for the beginning of the season.

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They're saying Flint is gonna be a long reliever and

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then they're gonna send him down to Triple A to

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work as a starter. At least that he's the current plan.

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Could also see him bringing in a freaking agent or

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making a trade. But as the roster currently sits, are

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you interested in Jose Suarez or did a did he

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a flints?

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Speaker 3: Uh? Jose Suarez is uh, looks like his fastball has

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been down a little bit in camp at sitting at

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like ninety two is usually at ninety three. He's probably

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n L only I would say, uh even there even

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in only kind of iffy, but non at all and

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n now only just about everyone is roster ball who's

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in the NL? So yeah, I guess, I guess Jose

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Suarez is fine. There not really much strikeouts, uh if

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he commands, you know, kind of kind of if he

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if he starter for even for NL only, did your

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Flentez looks actually really interesting?

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Speaker 5: So I I feel like in every league that uses

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middle relievers, he feels like a guy who you know,

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you could probably find a spot.

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Speaker 3: In your on your team form. I think, uh, you know,

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at worst, he you know, he he gets his his

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stuff doesn't play as well in April, and he gets

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sent down to become a starter or whatever, to get

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stretched out, and you could just drop them, you know

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if it's uh, you know, he's basically a flyer at

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this point. So I like the flyer though for a

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middle reliever, like even in like a twelve team mixed

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league like an RCL, you get Diddy or Fuentes with

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good strikeouts, solid you know, possibly excuse me, solid strikeouts,

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and possibly maybe he piggybacks with Sorez, so maybe he

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gets like the the fourth and fifth inning of a

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start where the braves are up, and maybe you get

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a couple of vulture win So yeah, I like, I

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like Flentes a lot. And then if he's really good

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as a middle reliever, and he gets sent down for

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a couple of weeks. At that point you can decide

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if you want to hold on to him, and if

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he was really good, maybe you do want to hold

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on to him. Maybe maybe it's worth it, even in

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a shallower mixed league. So yeah, I like, Uhane is

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a ton and one thing on Strider. I'm you know,

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I said to not draft Strider, so I would just

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want to pat myself on the back.

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Speaker 2: No, I'm not bad myself on the back of an injury,

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but I mean I will say, an obleak it sounds

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it sounds.

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Speaker 3: Ominous, man, I you know, I he it says three

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to four weeks for Strider tent to attentively, and then

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I think there's also potential here for you know, even longer,

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because like, if he has any a setback with an obleaque,

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it's not good.

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Speaker 1: Man.

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Speaker 3: I'm sorry, I don't want to be the bad news here,

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but if you have Strider, I would, you know, fingers

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crossed that he's okay in a month, because like if

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he goes out and he tries to rush things and

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he re injures himself, that's gonna be another month and

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you're now you're looking at like June. So yeah, I

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mean hopefully he's fine.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean the velocity never coming around was a

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huge red flag for me, even if he didn't come

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out with this injury. Just it feels like something wasn't right,

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and obviously something wasn't right. He's sitting ninety three to

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ninety five. He's traditionally been a ninety seven plus guy,

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So just never felt quite like Spencer Strider was back

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to where we wanted him to be. You know, it

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sounds like you're a little bit more interested in flintest

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than I am. I just kind of looking at the numbers.

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The stuff is nasty. I've seen him throw at least

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once in the spring here and he's, you know, a

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ninety seven mile on our fastball, art slutterer, hard slider.

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You know, he does find in that. I don't know

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if that tradition he is going to transition to being

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a starter long term with just two pitches, but they

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do look nice. He's been great this spring training, but

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he's gotten kind of hit around in the miners at

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different times. I would caution using him as a middle

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reliever in a shallower league to start the season. I

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would take my shot on more consistent middle relievers, if

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that was kind of my play, especially his first three

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days where you probably only have a few starters that

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are going. But yeah, I do like him, and I

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think he's worth rostering and monitoring. But I'm not necessarily

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throwing in my roster to begin the season. Over in

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Tampa Bay, Taylor Walls is out with an oblique injury.

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Carson Williams appears to be set to start at shortstop

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for Tampa Bay. What are your thoughts he here? Last year,

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Carson Williams had twenty three runs twenty two stone Bases

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at tripa A. He at two thirteen, three eighteen, and

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four forty seven in spring training, and he has had

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thirty two played appearance at the home round of stone

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Base and he's hitting three hundred. Is this somebody that

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you're interested in anything other than only leagues and deep

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leagues or are you potentially looking at Carson Williams in

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as a mixed or a middle infield option.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, he was. Actually, he was one of the guys

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who some people picked up in in like the fab leagues.

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I'm in this past Sunday, Carson Williams was one of

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the guys mcabel I think was picked up too. I

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actually drafted mckabel, so it's a little foresight, a little bit.

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I think I think Carson Williams could be interesting if

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he could figure out of strikeouts, like in you know,

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in the spring a twenty one point nine percent strikeout

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rate in fourteen games. Small sample size, but strikeout rates

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normalized stabilize fairly quickly, so you know, if he's figured

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out his strikeouts, you couldn't Carson Williams could be a breakout.

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I mean, it wouldn't shock me if he can somehow

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hit to fifty because he has good power and good speed.

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They're really the only thing that's really dragging him down

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is the strikeouts. He looks like he could be a

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one eighty hitter, though, like if the strikeouts come back

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in uh, during the season, Like he does not look

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like he can hit two hundred in the major leagues

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as of like right as of like right now, if

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you ignore spring training. But if spring training is any indication,

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I don't know, it's hard to say because like with

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spring training, you know, in general, it's kind of like

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throw out, you know, it doesn't really like all the stats,

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you can throw him out because like outside of velocity

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and you know, maybe like you know, with hitters, it's

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so hard because they're facing guys. It's like, who who

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did Carson Williams face in order to have a under

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twenty two percent strikeout rate? I don't know. Did he

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face guys who are throwing one hundred percent? I have

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no idea. So, you know, as far as Carson Williams goes,

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I don't mind the flyer in a mixed league, but

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it's you know, it could be it could be for

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it could be a guy you're gonna drop after a week,

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Like it depends, like if he if he's figured out

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his strikeouts, then it could be a huge pickup for you.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it could be. Uh, you're right, he does have

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power speed. There's definitely some potential there. The swinging strike

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rate is pretty much in line with kind of what

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he did in the minors. I would expect the k

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rate would event the kind of climb to where that

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is given that the swinging strike rate is is where

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it is, so I'm not necessarily buying the k rate improvement,

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but you're right if it does, if he's figured something out,

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that would be worth monitoring for sure. And for what

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it's worth, he has a ninety four point three average

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ex evelocity's hitting this hard hit is sixty six point

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seven and so two out of every three balls he's

471
00:29:25,079 --> 00:29:28,240
putting in play, he's hitting hard, which is great to see.

472
00:29:28,359 --> 00:29:30,519
So maybe even just if he can give you a

473
00:29:30,559 --> 00:29:33,119
few weeks here at the early part of the year

474
00:29:33,119 --> 00:29:35,440
where he's just hot coming off the spring training, that

475
00:29:35,480 --> 00:29:39,119
could be useful. But long term, I'm not necessarily overly

476
00:29:39,160 --> 00:29:42,319
excited about Carson Williams. And to your point, at the

477
00:29:42,319 --> 00:29:45,039
beginning the season or show if you have a shortstop

478
00:29:45,079 --> 00:29:47,680
in a middle infielder you like, I'm not necessarily dropping

479
00:29:47,680 --> 00:29:51,680
anybody to pick him up. Gavin Lux heading to the

480
00:29:51,720 --> 00:29:55,279
aisle with a right shoulder impingement. Ben Williamson is taking

481
00:29:55,480 --> 00:29:59,000
over last year in Seattle. He had eighty five games

482
00:29:59,039 --> 00:30:00,759
in the majors. He had a home on five Stonlee

483
00:30:00,759 --> 00:30:03,440
bases hit two fifty three. He had fifty two games

484
00:30:03,440 --> 00:30:05,440
in Triple A's where he had five home runs ten

485
00:30:05,480 --> 00:30:09,559
Stone bases hit three fourteen. He has forty eight plan

486
00:30:09,680 --> 00:30:12,680
appearances in spring training where he's hit three thirty three

487
00:30:12,720 --> 00:30:17,839
with two home runs in two stolen bases. Any interesting

488
00:30:17,920 --> 00:30:20,839
in Ben Williamson getting the starting job here.

489
00:30:24,039 --> 00:30:30,519
Speaker 3: I mean probably not Ale only Ben Williamson. Ale only

490
00:30:31,039 --> 00:30:34,960
maybe a fifteen team mixed league guy, if you're really

491
00:30:35,039 --> 00:30:38,759
desperate at m I or utility. I uh, you know,

492
00:30:38,799 --> 00:30:43,759
I'm interested because he hit two homers in the spring. Now,

493
00:30:43,799 --> 00:30:47,640
I don't know the exact circumstances of those two homers,

494
00:30:47,640 --> 00:30:51,400
but I mean he's never had any power, so if

495
00:30:51,440 --> 00:30:56,839
he's somehow unlocked power, then he could be interesting potentially.

496
00:30:57,000 --> 00:31:01,359
But I you know, I think the Rays, I feel

497
00:31:01,400 --> 00:31:05,519
like this is probably a temporary situation. Gavin Lux is,

498
00:31:05,680 --> 00:31:09,319
you know, someone who the Rays went out to get.

499
00:31:09,519 --> 00:31:12,559
So I feel like they, you know, they want they

500
00:31:12,599 --> 00:31:15,039
want Gavin Lux, you know, I mean they traded for him.

501
00:31:15,079 --> 00:31:17,599
I think they want Gavin Lux to be their guy.

502
00:31:17,839 --> 00:31:21,720
So I don't think Ben Williamson is probably a long

503
00:31:21,799 --> 00:31:23,839
term solution for the Rays. So he's probably not gonna

504
00:31:23,839 --> 00:31:25,880
be a long term for fantasy leagues.

505
00:31:26,799 --> 00:31:29,880
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm with you. Let's move over to Dodger Land,

506
00:31:29,920 --> 00:31:33,039
where they sent Hi Song came down. Thirty played appearance

507
00:31:33,319 --> 00:31:36,400
in spring training. He had home run five stone bases.

508
00:31:36,440 --> 00:31:38,480
He was hitting four oh seven, four forty eight and

509
00:31:38,559 --> 00:31:41,319
five nineteen, so he did just about everything he could

510
00:31:41,319 --> 00:31:44,119
offensively to stay up in the majors. It seems like

511
00:31:44,200 --> 00:31:46,880
Miguel Rojas will be the starter at second base Santiago

512
00:31:47,039 --> 00:31:51,160
Espinal and Alex Friedland in the mix there as well.

513
00:31:52,160 --> 00:31:55,200
It was a little surprising that he got sent down,

514
00:31:55,359 --> 00:31:57,559
and maybe it's just they want him to play every day.

515
00:31:57,599 --> 00:32:00,680
That's pretty much all I can think of, because Freeland

516
00:32:00,759 --> 00:32:03,279
is pretty awful at the plate.

517
00:32:03,160 --> 00:32:09,079
Speaker 3: Right, I know, I don't. I don't really know why

518
00:32:09,440 --> 00:32:13,960
Dave Roberts hates Hi Sung Kim, but he seems like

519
00:32:14,039 --> 00:32:19,240
he does. Maybe I don't know. I mean it's a uh,

520
00:32:19,880 --> 00:32:24,519
it's it's there's something going on there because like I mean,

521
00:32:24,680 --> 00:32:28,400
I Sung Kim so far in like, uh, you know

522
00:32:28,680 --> 00:32:33,599
his uh major league wat's mccalln his major league career.

523
00:32:34,079 --> 00:32:37,240
I mean, he's looked good. I don't I don't understand

524
00:32:37,279 --> 00:32:40,680
it because Freeland does look terrible, right, Like Freeland can't

525
00:32:40,759 --> 00:32:45,759
make any contact whatsoever. He even hit one eleven. Freeland

526
00:32:45,839 --> 00:32:49,920
hit one eleven in spring training, So I mean, I

527
00:32:49,960 --> 00:32:53,240
don't know. And then I Sung Kim hit four oh

528
00:32:53,279 --> 00:32:58,799
seven in spring training, hit two eighty last year, As

529
00:32:58,960 --> 00:33:01,559
I don't know. I mean, Kim looks good, man. I

530
00:33:01,559 --> 00:33:04,359
don't know what's going on with the Dodgers and Kim.

531
00:33:04,480 --> 00:33:08,880
I can't figure it out. I honestly, it feels like

532
00:33:09,000 --> 00:33:13,480
the biggest, like no brainer to put Kim in as

533
00:33:13,519 --> 00:33:18,559
the starter and send Freeland down and have Rojas just

534
00:33:19,839 --> 00:33:22,759
rotate as a utility guy like that. It feels like

535
00:33:22,799 --> 00:33:26,960
a so basic. I don't know, man, I don't know.

536
00:33:27,160 --> 00:33:30,559
I'm at a loss. But Freeland outside of Ennow only

537
00:33:31,400 --> 00:33:36,759
is not worth your while and Rojas is the same situation.

538
00:33:37,720 --> 00:33:39,880
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I mean, we know the Dodgers clearly don't

539
00:33:39,920 --> 00:33:43,240
give a crap about the tax, the luxury tax, so

540
00:33:43,559 --> 00:33:45,319
I really don't know what it is. Like back in

541
00:33:45,359 --> 00:33:47,799
the day, the Red Sox wouldn't bring up Rusty Castillo

542
00:33:47,920 --> 00:33:50,279
because they would add a bunch of salary and they'd

543
00:33:50,279 --> 00:33:54,319
get the luxury tax. The Dodgers are way beyond that.

544
00:33:54,400 --> 00:33:57,599
They they're just gonna hit the luxury tax every season

545
00:33:57,640 --> 00:33:59,880
they allow it. So I really don't know what's going

546
00:33:59,880 --> 00:34:05,200
on on there. You know, they win World Series, I

547
00:34:05,200 --> 00:34:07,839
guess it doesn't matter if they mismanage a little here

548
00:34:07,880 --> 00:34:08,199
and there.

549
00:34:09,719 --> 00:34:10,920
Speaker 3: Yeah, Yeah, that's fair.

550
00:34:13,400 --> 00:34:15,519
Speaker 1: Dylan Cruise was sent down. It's a little bit surprising

551
00:34:15,599 --> 00:34:17,960
as well, although he did not exactly make a strong

552
00:34:18,000 --> 00:34:21,360
case for himself in spring training, hitting one o three,

553
00:34:21,679 --> 00:34:25,880
two oh six, one oh three. Those are the right

554
00:34:25,960 --> 00:34:31,199
numbers in case you were listening. I mean, where are

555
00:34:31,239 --> 00:34:34,760
you at on Dylan Cruz in general? I mean, not

556
00:34:34,960 --> 00:34:40,920
making the Nationals starting the lineup seems like a big

557
00:34:41,039 --> 00:34:44,800
drop for him. I mean, in fairness, the outfield is

558
00:34:44,840 --> 00:34:48,559
one of the best things in Washington, but still like

559
00:34:48,639 --> 00:34:51,800
there feels like he could start for I don't know,

560
00:34:52,039 --> 00:34:57,519
Andre Schaparro at d H instead of that, but the

561
00:34:57,639 --> 00:35:01,519
Nationals do not feel like that is Is Dylan Cruz

562
00:35:01,599 --> 00:35:03,639
just a lost cause? Uh?

563
00:35:03,760 --> 00:35:07,480
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I think I think, uh, Dylan Cruz

564
00:35:07,599 --> 00:35:12,920
is now in that Jared Klinic bucket of like maybe

565
00:35:13,320 --> 00:35:17,599
they figure it out some sometime, and maybe they figure

566
00:35:17,599 --> 00:35:20,719
it out some place, but it's probably not for the

567
00:35:20,800 --> 00:35:23,599
team that they're currently on. I I just don't, I

568
00:35:23,639 --> 00:35:28,679
don't know. I feel like Dylan Cruz, Dylan Cruz looks

569
00:35:28,679 --> 00:35:33,480
pretty lost man to lose out to Jacob Young and

570
00:35:33,480 --> 00:35:38,079
Andre Shapiro. Shapiro, by the way, hit one fifty eight

571
00:35:38,199 --> 00:35:41,719
in spring training, so and Jacob Young I think had

572
00:35:41,800 --> 00:35:45,119
like three three games maybe in spring training. I mean,

573
00:35:45,440 --> 00:35:49,079
I don't know, I've I hope, I just opened the page.

574
00:35:49,119 --> 00:35:53,480
He had five games, he hit one hundred, Like that's

575
00:35:53,519 --> 00:35:57,039
your that's the competition you lost out to. So I

576
00:35:57,079 --> 00:36:01,639
don't know. I mean they they're eaching Dylan Cruz a lesson.

577
00:36:01,719 --> 00:36:07,320
I guess, I don't know really if that lesson's gonna

578
00:36:07,360 --> 00:36:12,440
take or if or if he's really like he's he's

579
00:36:12,559 --> 00:36:16,079
damaged goods. Maybe, I don't know. He looks bad. I

580
00:36:16,119 --> 00:36:19,320
mean it's not like I mean, you said this already,

581
00:36:19,360 --> 00:36:22,000
but it's not like Dylan Cruz made a great case

582
00:36:22,039 --> 00:36:25,519
for himself. So he got sent down because he's he

583
00:36:25,599 --> 00:36:28,679
really was terrible in spring training and he wasn't good

584
00:36:28,760 --> 00:36:33,199
last year. So yeah, I think Dylan Cruz at this

585
00:36:33,280 --> 00:36:36,960
point is undraftable and uh or I mean, I guess

586
00:36:36,960 --> 00:36:39,559
if we're out of we're we're basically out of draft season.

587
00:36:39,679 --> 00:36:44,400
He's he's droppable in everything, but and no only like

588
00:36:44,480 --> 00:36:47,280
even in a in a fifteen team mixed league. It sucks,

589
00:36:47,320 --> 00:36:49,840
but you got to cut your losses. I would lose

590
00:36:49,920 --> 00:36:50,559
Dylan Cruise.

591
00:36:51,559 --> 00:36:54,039
Speaker 1: Yeah, we say that we have a draft to night

592
00:36:54,159 --> 00:36:56,639
and I have a draft tomorrow, but yes, most draft season,

593
00:36:57,119 --> 00:37:03,880
well people listen to this, you know, yes, absolutely one

594
00:37:03,880 --> 00:37:07,159
more injury grade. Then we'll get into some some spring

595
00:37:07,239 --> 00:37:12,679
training performers. Trey Espiage, Yee Savage shoulder and penchment injury

596
00:37:12,800 --> 00:37:16,000
scheduled to start the minor league game on Wednesday, which

597
00:37:16,039 --> 00:37:18,159
is nice to see that hopefully isn't too big of

598
00:37:18,199 --> 00:37:21,800
a deal. He's gonna begin the season. I l though,

599
00:37:22,559 --> 00:37:25,639
how far are you dropping him in your rankings? And

600
00:37:25,719 --> 00:37:28,199
that means Eric Lauer, Cody Ponts, Max Sure's are all

601
00:37:28,239 --> 00:37:32,679
in the rotation. How do you feel about them?

602
00:37:33,079 --> 00:37:40,079
Speaker 3: Uh? So I dropped ye Ye Savage too roughly. He

603
00:37:40,199 --> 00:37:44,360
went from for me, he went from like a low

604
00:37:44,480 --> 00:37:49,880
number to high number three to a flyer as a

605
00:37:50,239 --> 00:37:55,920
sixth starter in the like you know, to grab another

606
00:37:56,000 --> 00:37:58,760
teammate of his, in like the Cody Ponce range of

607
00:37:58,840 --> 00:38:03,000
like you know, two two twenty to two fifty. Overall,

608
00:38:03,360 --> 00:38:08,119
I think is where tray Ye Savage is now at.

609
00:38:08,360 --> 00:38:12,880
He's he's fine for like he's similar in the same

610
00:38:12,920 --> 00:38:15,840
respect as like Kyle Stowers, and like he's fine for

611
00:38:15,920 --> 00:38:18,840
an IL league where you can take a flyer on

612
00:38:18,920 --> 00:38:22,920
a guy I think actually not to compare him to Stours,

613
00:38:22,920 --> 00:38:26,719
because I think Ye Savage, I think is probably fine.

614
00:38:27,400 --> 00:38:31,320
I think there's you know, I think, you know, in

615
00:38:31,320 --> 00:38:36,960
in reality, it's like, do you have a guy throw

616
00:38:37,280 --> 00:38:42,440
one hundred and twenty innings from April through August? Or

617
00:38:42,440 --> 00:38:48,079
do you have him throw from May fifteenth through as

618
00:38:48,199 --> 00:38:51,000
far as you go in the playoffs. I think that's

619
00:38:51,039 --> 00:38:54,119
what they're doing with Ye Savage. I'm actually not that

620
00:38:54,199 --> 00:38:57,960
concerned about him as far as like injuries go. I mean,

621
00:38:57,960 --> 00:39:00,800
it doesn't sound good as shoulder and pinsmen, but I

622
00:39:00,840 --> 00:39:03,559
feel like it's kind of made up, probably to limit

623
00:39:03,599 --> 00:39:05,920
his innings. I don't know, I mean, I'm just it's

624
00:39:05,920 --> 00:39:09,880
all speculation. He could be actually injured. I have no idea.

625
00:39:10,239 --> 00:39:14,280
My guess is they're just limiting his innings, which is good.

626
00:39:15,000 --> 00:39:17,920
But for fantasy, you have to have an IL slot

627
00:39:18,000 --> 00:39:21,119
to you know, hold on to him. Probably in most

628
00:39:21,199 --> 00:39:24,800
leagues at least, you know, maybe I guess in a

629
00:39:24,840 --> 00:39:27,760
fifteen team mixed league n FBC where you don't have

630
00:39:27,800 --> 00:39:31,119
an IL slot, I guess he's fine to stash on

631
00:39:31,159 --> 00:39:36,320
your bench. But you know, I still would I mean,

632
00:39:36,400 --> 00:39:38,960
I would draft him. I would just draft him like later,

633
00:39:39,280 --> 00:39:41,320
and if you're you know, and if you're done with

634
00:39:41,400 --> 00:39:44,440
your drafts and you're like you can pick him up,

635
00:39:44,639 --> 00:39:47,119
I would pick him up. I have no problem with you, Savage.

636
00:39:48,000 --> 00:39:51,119
I just feel like you're you're looking more closer to

637
00:39:51,320 --> 00:39:55,639
like may Ish.

638
00:39:55,920 --> 00:39:58,280
Speaker 1: Yeah, I had him as my AL Rookie of the

639
00:39:58,400 --> 00:40:01,519
Year in our sophar Lives. That will come out probably

640
00:40:01,519 --> 00:40:04,960
by the time you hear this. I change that given

641
00:40:05,000 --> 00:40:07,119
the injury, just because I don't know when we'll see him.

642
00:40:07,519 --> 00:40:09,760
But I still think you could actually be AL Rookie

643
00:40:09,760 --> 00:40:12,039
of the Year. I think we're probably gonna get a

644
00:40:12,079 --> 00:40:14,679
similar number of innings as we always were to your point,

645
00:40:14,840 --> 00:40:17,320
so I really probably should have just left it. But

646
00:40:17,599 --> 00:40:19,920
just in case he doesn't ever actually throw this year,

647
00:40:20,360 --> 00:40:23,119
I would ahead and change my pick there. But if

648
00:40:23,159 --> 00:40:25,079
he wins it, I'll come back here and let her

649
00:40:25,119 --> 00:40:28,239
by know that it is here recorded on the podcast

650
00:40:28,280 --> 00:40:31,440
that I did half him down. Any interest in lower

651
00:40:31,519 --> 00:40:34,800
pots or sure, if.

652
00:40:35,000 --> 00:40:39,039
Speaker 3: If there's a chance for a uh, dear dear listener,

653
00:40:39,239 --> 00:40:41,559
if there's a chance for a victory laugh from a

654
00:40:41,800 --> 00:40:45,119
beat on or eye, we will take it. It will

655
00:40:45,159 --> 00:40:51,800
be that's what we're saying. I love that if he

656
00:40:51,960 --> 00:40:54,760
does possibly win the AL Rookie of the Year, I

657
00:40:54,800 --> 00:41:03,320
will mention it again. It's true, brutally honest from being

658
00:41:03,400 --> 00:41:05,679
on I'm sorry, what was your question?

659
00:41:06,360 --> 00:41:08,199
Speaker 1: Flower, Pots shares are any interesting?

660
00:41:08,639 --> 00:41:11,079
Speaker 3: I like Ponts actually a decent amount. I don't like

661
00:41:11,239 --> 00:41:15,039
lower or Shores are really I mean fine for streamers,

662
00:41:15,119 --> 00:41:18,880
but I don't think they're really like outside of Ale only.

663
00:41:19,079 --> 00:41:22,039
I don't think there's anything there. Ponce is actually I'm

664
00:41:22,079 --> 00:41:25,199
kind of interested in Ponce. I kind of feel like

665
00:41:27,440 --> 00:41:30,079
I might have actually picked him for Comeback Player of

666
00:41:30,079 --> 00:41:31,519
the Year. I like Ponce.

667
00:41:32,719 --> 00:41:34,920
Speaker 1: Yeah, I like Pots as well, especially out of those

668
00:41:35,239 --> 00:41:38,840
those three that we're just looking at them. Let's move

669
00:41:38,840 --> 00:41:42,719
over to some spring training performers. Gray, We're gonna question

670
00:41:42,840 --> 00:41:45,280
whether what you said off the top is true and

671
00:41:45,599 --> 00:41:48,480
people pretty much are what you thought they were when

672
00:41:48,519 --> 00:41:50,920
you drafted them, or whether that's changed a little bit

673
00:41:51,039 --> 00:41:53,920
given what they're doing in spring training. And of course,

674
00:41:54,039 --> 00:41:56,639
to do this, I'm gonna bring back your favorite game,

675
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676
00:42:01,239 --> 00:42:05,000
If you're new to the podcast Scientific Fact, It's it's

677
00:42:05,039 --> 00:42:10,039
it's happening, It's real. Believe it, sex Panther, sixty percent

678
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of the time. It works every time. Occasionally it's you

679
00:42:13,400 --> 00:42:16,000
know it's working now, but it's gonna be a little

680
00:42:16,039 --> 00:42:18,320
hit or miss, and then I don't believe you, which

681
00:42:18,400 --> 00:42:21,239
is I don't believe you, it's not real, don't don't

682
00:42:21,280 --> 00:42:24,119
buy it. Answers. We've talked a lot about these guys

683
00:42:24,159 --> 00:42:29,000
already in positional previews and in the spring training. Will

684
00:42:29,000 --> 00:42:31,119
try and not spend too much time on any one. Guys.

685
00:42:31,119 --> 00:42:34,000
We're going here, Gray, that's it.

686
00:42:34,400 --> 00:42:37,440
Speaker 3: You're saying that just that's an audience of one that

687
00:42:37,599 --> 00:42:41,519
is just under directed directly to me, isn't it.

688
00:42:41,559 --> 00:42:44,039
Speaker 1: I'm just putting that out there into the universe, Gray,

689
00:42:44,400 --> 00:42:47,760
and we're starting with the hottest Matt in spring, my

690
00:42:48,000 --> 00:42:52,440
boy Matt McLean. Seventeen games, fifty six pint appearance. He

691
00:42:52,480 --> 00:42:55,559
has seven home runs, two stone bases. He's hitting five

692
00:42:55,679 --> 00:42:58,920
twenty nine. He is a ten point seven percent strikeout rate,

693
00:42:58,960 --> 00:43:00,880
an eight point nine percent walk right. He is a

694
00:43:01,000 --> 00:43:04,280
ninety two point six average eggsiplosity, a fifty five point

695
00:43:04,360 --> 00:43:08,159
six percent hard rate hard hit rate, along with a

696
00:43:08,159 --> 00:43:11,960
five twenty six pabot. One of your thoughts here on

697
00:43:12,000 --> 00:43:15,760
Matt McLain, who has looked like the guy I thought

698
00:43:15,800 --> 00:43:19,039
he would be last year. Is this is this the

699
00:43:19,039 --> 00:43:21,760
the sign that I was just a year early? Or

700
00:43:21,840 --> 00:43:24,760
is this him just just bumping that adp up again

701
00:43:25,119 --> 00:43:25,840
for another year.

702
00:43:26,679 --> 00:43:29,920
Speaker 3: I'm gonna this is gonna be uh, I think music

703
00:43:29,960 --> 00:43:31,719
to your years, But I'm gonna I'm gonna say Matt

704
00:43:31,800 --> 00:43:36,239
McClean is scientific fact, he's uh yeah, he's finally healthy.

705
00:43:36,440 --> 00:43:39,679
I like, uh, I like Matt McClain. I think, uh,

706
00:43:40,119 --> 00:43:43,079
I think the narrative is is there, It's it's crisp

707
00:43:43,079 --> 00:43:45,400
been clear to me. I think, uh, you know he

708
00:43:45,440 --> 00:43:48,519
was he was still injured last year and now he's

709
00:43:48,599 --> 00:43:52,599
healthy and now he looks good again. I Uh, I

710
00:43:52,960 --> 00:43:56,800
have no problem Matt McLean. I think, uh, you know,

711
00:43:56,920 --> 00:44:00,480
spring training, you could throw out spring training, but his

712
00:44:00,760 --> 00:44:05,280
numbers are undeniable for like a guy who is finally healthy,

713
00:44:06,280 --> 00:44:10,079
he looks good. I'm I'm in all right.

714
00:44:10,119 --> 00:44:16,440
Speaker 1: Would you rather have Matt McClain or uh Saddani Rafael.

715
00:44:17,760 --> 00:44:23,519
Speaker 3: Uh? I'm gonna go Rafaela.

716
00:44:23,760 --> 00:44:28,239
Speaker 1: But it's close, okay, I mean I can kind of

717
00:44:28,239 --> 00:44:33,199
see both ways on that one. Matt McLean or Ozzie Albie's.

718
00:44:34,920 --> 00:44:38,400
Speaker 3: I'm kind of I kind of like Albee's too, but close,

719
00:44:38,639 --> 00:44:43,360
I mean in that ballpark, I would say probably Matt

720
00:44:43,440 --> 00:44:46,079
McLean's like a little bit after both of those guys,

721
00:44:46,119 --> 00:44:46,960
but close.

722
00:44:47,599 --> 00:44:51,679
Speaker 1: Okay, him or Bryson Stott.

723
00:44:52,880 --> 00:44:56,440
Speaker 3: You know, I'm kind of I'm kind of cool on

724
00:44:56,599 --> 00:44:59,960
Bryson stop because of the I don't love the fact

725
00:45:00,119 --> 00:45:02,639
that it looks like he's gonna be platooning. I'm gonna

726
00:45:02,639 --> 00:45:05,920
go Matt McLain, all right, so we have we.

727
00:45:05,880 --> 00:45:08,199
Speaker 1: Have a general idea where you have him at second base.

728
00:45:08,679 --> 00:45:11,119
I think the only one that I might put him

729
00:45:11,119 --> 00:45:14,119
over that I asked you is is Ozzy. Alby is

730
00:45:14,199 --> 00:45:18,159
just it's it's hard for me to buy in that

731
00:45:18,199 --> 00:45:20,639
he's just gonna all of a sudden figure things out

732
00:45:20,719 --> 00:45:26,000
after being just absolutely horrendous for the last two seasons.

733
00:45:26,039 --> 00:45:28,199
I know he had a couple of good months last

734
00:45:28,239 --> 00:45:33,400
season that made his season look mid instead of absolutely terrible.

735
00:45:34,119 --> 00:45:37,800
But nothing this spring shows me that he's figured anything out.

736
00:45:37,920 --> 00:45:40,760
The k's are way worse than they ever have been.

737
00:45:40,920 --> 00:45:44,840
He's not walking the average is terrible. He's not hitting

738
00:45:44,920 --> 00:45:47,960
the ball hard, Like I just don't I don't see

739
00:45:48,000 --> 00:45:50,199
what is going to trigger Ozzy Alby's to all of

740
00:45:50,239 --> 00:45:52,400
a sudden become what we thought he was or what

741
00:45:52,480 --> 00:45:57,599
he used to be. Jake Bowers thirteen games in spring training,

742
00:45:57,679 --> 00:45:59,920
has six some runs, three stone bases. He's hitting four

743
00:46:00,079 --> 00:46:04,079
seventy one five eighty one eleven forty seven. He has

744
00:46:04,119 --> 00:46:06,119
six home runs in thirteen games in spring training. He

745
00:46:06,159 --> 00:46:09,880
had seven home runs last season eighty six games. He

746
00:46:09,920 --> 00:46:12,280
has a ninety eight average EGGS velocity and a sixty

747
00:46:12,280 --> 00:46:15,519
three percent hard hit. Obviously, this goes for all spring

748
00:46:15,559 --> 00:46:18,840
training stats, is all small sample size. But are you

749
00:46:18,960 --> 00:46:22,840
interested in a Jake Bowers bounce back because he's essentially free?

750
00:46:22,880 --> 00:46:23,159
Speaker 5: Gray?

751
00:46:24,440 --> 00:46:28,199
Speaker 3: Uh No, I don't believe you Jake Bowers.

752
00:46:28,840 --> 00:46:32,239
Speaker 1: Okay, I would maybe move him to six panther in

753
00:46:32,320 --> 00:46:35,639
a very deep like league in fifteen team only, but yeah,

754
00:46:35,800 --> 00:46:38,760
I went the I don't believe it either, White Langford,

755
00:46:38,840 --> 00:46:40,920
I don't know that there's really changing his draft stock

756
00:46:41,000 --> 00:46:42,920
anything at this point, and that's why you don't see

757
00:46:42,920 --> 00:46:45,719
some of the top names up here either. But fourteen games,

758
00:46:45,760 --> 00:46:47,920
he has five home runs. He's hitting four forty four

759
00:46:48,400 --> 00:46:50,920
five twenty four nine four is a ninety eight and

760
00:46:50,920 --> 00:46:55,199
a half average EGGS velocity a seventy four percent hard hit.

761
00:46:55,760 --> 00:46:57,880
But he's also just been a monster in spring training

762
00:46:57,960 --> 00:47:00,000
every year. He had four to twenty four last year,

763
00:47:00,480 --> 00:47:04,760
three sixty five in his twenty twenty four season spring training.

764
00:47:05,639 --> 00:47:09,679
Are you buying a full Wyatt Langford breakout, which I

765
00:47:09,719 --> 00:47:13,320
mean that essentially takes him into like the first or

766
00:47:13,480 --> 00:47:16,079
early second round if he breaks out even anymore.

767
00:47:16,559 --> 00:47:19,880
Speaker 3: I you know, you stole a bit of what I

768
00:47:19,920 --> 00:47:23,280
was gonna say, Like every year he's so good in

769
00:47:23,320 --> 00:47:27,719
spring training, and I think it shows us what Wyatt

770
00:47:27,800 --> 00:47:32,239
Langford would do if he were like on the Diamondbacks

771
00:47:32,559 --> 00:47:38,119
or in Cincinnati maybe, or like in a better park.

772
00:47:38,320 --> 00:47:41,519
Like I just don't think he's I'm not a Wyat

773
00:47:41,599 --> 00:47:44,920
Langford guy. I mean, I'm out on Wyatt Langford. I

774
00:47:44,960 --> 00:47:49,199
don't believe this spring training, just like we shouldn't have

775
00:47:49,280 --> 00:47:52,360
believed the last two spring trainings from him. He looks

776
00:47:52,440 --> 00:47:55,559
great in spring, but once you throw him into that

777
00:47:55,760 --> 00:47:59,760
terrible park in Texas, he becomes exactly who he's been.

778
00:48:00,119 --> 00:48:04,480
So yeah, I'm not sold on Whya Langford. I mean,

779
00:48:04,960 --> 00:48:07,480
you know, I'm not gonna say I don't believe you

780
00:48:07,639 --> 00:48:11,199
because I think he's still you know he is who

781
00:48:11,239 --> 00:48:15,400
he is. I just don't buy this spring training from him.

782
00:48:15,880 --> 00:48:18,440
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm I'm not necessarily saying it because of the

783
00:48:18,480 --> 00:48:21,159
spring training, but I kind of feel like this is

784
00:48:21,239 --> 00:48:24,519
the year Wyat Langford breaks out. I have him as

785
00:48:24,559 --> 00:48:29,679
my most valuable fantasy hitter in our superlatives, so I'm

786
00:48:29,679 --> 00:48:33,039
gonna say this is scientific fact he's breaking out, and

787
00:48:33,079 --> 00:48:35,239
it really has more to do with the manager change

788
00:48:35,280 --> 00:48:38,039
in that he is one of the fastest players out

789
00:48:38,079 --> 00:48:40,719
there and for him to only steal twenty bases a

790
00:48:40,760 --> 00:48:44,079
year seemed ridiculous. So it's not so much even about

791
00:48:44,119 --> 00:48:46,559
his spring as I feel like the manager changed in

792
00:48:46,599 --> 00:48:50,639
a more aggressive base path version of why A. Langford

793
00:48:50,800 --> 00:48:53,519
just brings his value up to where it should have been.

794
00:48:55,119 --> 00:48:57,639
Chase the Latter has played thirteen games, he has forty

795
00:48:57,679 --> 00:48:59,960
played appearances. He has a home run, he's sitting fortunately

796
00:49:00,119 --> 00:49:03,960
nine five hundred six fifty seven. He has a sixty

797
00:49:03,960 --> 00:49:06,039
one percent hard hit rate, a ninety three point six

798
00:49:06,199 --> 00:49:09,039
average eggs of last league, and he has the starting job.

799
00:49:10,079 --> 00:49:12,280
Are you now interested in Chase the Latter that he

800
00:49:12,360 --> 00:49:16,280
has since he's officially been given a starting role in

801
00:49:16,320 --> 00:49:17,800
the opening day roster.

802
00:49:19,079 --> 00:49:20,800
Speaker 3: I kind of figured he was going to be the

803
00:49:20,840 --> 00:49:24,159
starting right fielder anyway. I always thought he was gonna

804
00:49:24,159 --> 00:49:26,800
be in the lineup, or maybe at one point I

805
00:49:26,840 --> 00:49:29,239
thought he was in DH but then they got Rhys Hoskins.

806
00:49:29,320 --> 00:49:32,840
But anyway, uh, the latter. I like the latter. You know,

807
00:49:32,920 --> 00:49:37,719
I'll say sex panther because I think he's probably just

808
00:49:37,880 --> 00:49:42,280
hot right now. But you know, a hot spring can

809
00:49:42,360 --> 00:49:46,079
roll into a hot April, and for a guy like

810
00:49:46,199 --> 00:49:49,079
Chase the latter, all you really need is like in

811
00:49:49,079 --> 00:49:51,599
a in a twelve team mix league, you just need

812
00:49:51,639 --> 00:49:55,599
a hot bat at utility and then you roll that

813
00:49:55,639 --> 00:49:58,760
guy into another guy who becomes hot in like the

814
00:49:58,760 --> 00:50:00,760
middle of April or the end a bro or if

815
00:50:00,800 --> 00:50:04,239
the latter stays hot, you hold them all year or whatever.

816
00:50:04,360 --> 00:50:07,199
But yeah, I like the lotter. I would say sex

817
00:50:07,239 --> 00:50:08,000
panther for now.

818
00:50:09,199 --> 00:50:11,960
Speaker 1: Yep. And by the way, this is who I put

819
00:50:12,000 --> 00:50:14,239
in as my replacement for a Rookie of the Year

820
00:50:14,840 --> 00:50:19,159
is Chased the latter. Austin Riley fifteen games, five home runs,

821
00:50:19,159 --> 00:50:21,239
one stone base. He has hit three ninety five, four

822
00:50:21,320 --> 00:50:24,039
seventy eight and eight sixty eight. The bad ball is

823
00:50:24,079 --> 00:50:26,280
still really good. It's always been really good. It's in

824
00:50:26,360 --> 00:50:30,840
line with recent years. That being said, Austin Riley has

825
00:50:30,880 --> 00:50:33,159
not been where we thought where we want him to

826
00:50:33,159 --> 00:50:35,960
be in recent years. So are we getting back to

827
00:50:36,199 --> 00:50:42,039
thirty plus home run to seventy five plus Austin Riley?

828
00:50:42,119 --> 00:50:45,400
Are we still going to be in the twenty twenty

829
00:50:45,440 --> 00:50:47,559
five home run to fifty five guy?

830
00:50:48,519 --> 00:50:50,639
Speaker 3: At this point, I think people would be over the

831
00:50:50,679 --> 00:50:54,159
moon if they got twenty five runs from Uster. I mean,

832
00:50:54,199 --> 00:50:58,239
he hasn't cracked twenty homers in two years now, so

833
00:50:59,039 --> 00:51:03,880
I mean, I you know, I think this is it's,

834
00:51:04,280 --> 00:51:09,119
you know, with a evet like Austin Riley in the

835
00:51:09,239 --> 00:51:13,599
in spring training, facing all these like you know, meatballs

836
00:51:14,079 --> 00:51:17,280
that are getting thrown by guys who are just trying

837
00:51:17,320 --> 00:51:22,119
to break the roster for other teams. I don't know

838
00:51:22,280 --> 00:51:24,559
if I could really trust any of it. So I

839
00:51:24,599 --> 00:51:30,000
don't know. I mean, Austin Riley is probably I would say,

840
00:51:30,119 --> 00:51:34,400
I don't believe you for the spring training, but I

841
00:51:34,440 --> 00:51:38,039
don't know. Maybe maybe he enters April hot and you know,

842
00:51:38,119 --> 00:51:40,519
we get something better from Austin Riley. I mean, he

843
00:51:40,559 --> 00:51:42,679
can't even he doesn't even been able to stay healthy

844
00:51:42,679 --> 00:51:45,599
the last two years. So I first, I would take

845
00:51:45,920 --> 00:51:48,960
one hundred and fifty games of Austin Riley and twenty

846
00:51:49,000 --> 00:51:51,440
five homers, and you know, if you get that, I'll

847
00:51:51,480 --> 00:51:53,400
be like, oh, great, at least there's that.

848
00:51:54,840 --> 00:51:58,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree with pretty much everything you said there.

849
00:51:58,559 --> 00:52:01,039
And if third base wasn't just a train wreck, he

850
00:52:01,119 --> 00:52:04,079
would probably drop even further in the rankings. Just that

851
00:52:04,159 --> 00:52:05,639
you get a point a third base, you're like, oh,

852
00:52:05,880 --> 00:52:09,559
there's there's really boring people and people without full time

853
00:52:09,599 --> 00:52:11,719
playing time. So I guess we'll put Austin Riley here

854
00:52:11,719 --> 00:52:14,719
in the rankings. Yeah, I would love to see him

855
00:52:14,760 --> 00:52:18,360
bounce back, but I'm not necessarily behind it. Josh Smith

856
00:52:18,400 --> 00:52:21,400
has seventeen games, fifty three plate appearances. He's hitting three

857
00:52:21,480 --> 00:52:26,079
ninety five, eight seven fifty six. Obviously not somebody that

858
00:52:26,119 --> 00:52:29,840
we're clamoring over, But is Josh Smith worst rostering in

859
00:52:29,880 --> 00:52:31,760
twelve team leagues? Just see if he can carry some

860
00:52:31,800 --> 00:52:34,079
of this over. He has four home runs three stolen

861
00:52:34,079 --> 00:52:36,159
bases in spring training to go with those numbers already

862
00:52:36,199 --> 00:52:36,480
right out.

863
00:52:36,960 --> 00:52:41,400
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think you know, I wouldn't be shocked to

864
00:52:41,440 --> 00:52:47,400
see Josh Smith become a twelve homer, twelve steel two

865
00:52:47,440 --> 00:52:50,760
fifty hitter, like he's been every other year of his career,

866
00:52:51,039 --> 00:52:53,480
so I don't believe you, Josh Smith.

867
00:52:54,679 --> 00:53:00,159
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm gonna go with maybe scientific fact, just because, like,

868
00:53:00,199 --> 00:53:02,960
if he can just get hot and give himself a month,

869
00:53:03,079 --> 00:53:05,880
month and a half where he's he hits more home

870
00:53:05,960 --> 00:53:09,039
runs than he should, you know that that's gonna skew

871
00:53:09,079 --> 00:53:11,400
the numbers. So I'm gonna say, just because he's hot

872
00:53:11,480 --> 00:53:14,079
right now, I'll give him a scientific fact, and then

873
00:53:14,159 --> 00:53:17,199
maybe he hits you know, five home runs in the

874
00:53:17,239 --> 00:53:20,159
first month, month and a half and that's more than

875
00:53:20,199 --> 00:53:23,840
he ever has before, So that could be nice, But

876
00:53:24,039 --> 00:53:26,480
I really don't. I'm not looking at him to break

877
00:53:26,480 --> 00:53:31,159
out or anything excessive. Kobe Mayo fourteen games, forty played

878
00:53:31,159 --> 00:53:33,719
appearances to him, runs a stone base. He's sitting in

879
00:53:33,719 --> 00:53:37,000
three eighty nine four hundred and six thirty nine. He's

880
00:53:37,000 --> 00:53:39,360
a fifty percent hard hit rate in ninety one average

881
00:53:39,360 --> 00:53:43,400
eggs velocity, a ten percent strikeout rate. Are you interested

882
00:53:43,400 --> 00:53:45,400
in Kobe Mayo, who all of a sudden has a

883
00:53:45,519 --> 00:53:46,719
job locked up as well?

884
00:53:48,559 --> 00:53:51,480
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean in the fifteen team mix league, sure

885
00:53:51,559 --> 00:53:54,320
I would take a flyer, but I I don't think

886
00:53:54,320 --> 00:53:58,280
he's on twelve team mix league radars. Yet, so I'll say,

887
00:53:58,440 --> 00:54:01,199
I'll say he's sex panther. I mean, there's a chance

888
00:54:01,239 --> 00:54:05,119
here he could become more because you know, I mean

889
00:54:05,159 --> 00:54:09,079
he was always he was considered a top prospect at

890
00:54:09,119 --> 00:54:11,800
one point and he's still you know, he's only twenty four.

891
00:54:11,960 --> 00:54:14,840
So yeah, I mean I'll say sex panther with the

892
00:54:14,840 --> 00:54:16,280
potential for scientific fact.

893
00:54:17,239 --> 00:54:21,320
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm with you. Moving on, Shae Leanngeliers. Nineteen games,

894
00:54:21,320 --> 00:54:24,119
fifty four playing appearances, seven home runs three forty eight

895
00:54:24,280 --> 00:54:28,320
four forty four eight ninety one, ninety four average eggs

896
00:54:28,440 --> 00:54:32,119
lossy forty one point seven hard hit. This is a

897
00:54:32,159 --> 00:54:35,760
lot of people's, you know, favorite to be the number

898
00:54:35,800 --> 00:54:39,400
two catcher. I guess behind cal Rawly. It might be

899
00:54:39,480 --> 00:54:41,639
my favorite at number one because this is pretty much

900
00:54:41,679 --> 00:54:45,239
what cayl Rawley did last spring, was just absolutely mashed

901
00:54:45,239 --> 00:54:46,119
and garried it over.

902
00:54:46,760 --> 00:54:46,960
Speaker 3: Lego.

903
00:54:47,039 --> 00:54:49,360
Speaker 1: Lear has already showed us he has the power. What

904
00:54:49,440 --> 00:54:50,239
are your thoughts on her?

905
00:54:50,679 --> 00:54:54,719
Speaker 3: Shae lang Layers, Shae Langeleiers, absolute scientific fact. I would

906
00:54:54,760 --> 00:54:57,800
not be surprised if Shae Langaliers is the top catcher

907
00:54:58,119 --> 00:55:00,800
in baseball this year. It would not shock me at all.

908
00:55:00,840 --> 00:55:03,599
I mean cal Rowley came out of nowhere to hit

909
00:55:03,679 --> 00:55:07,920
you know, sixty and and a decent average. He is

910
00:55:08,199 --> 00:55:12,719
cal Raley is more of a thirty homer to forty hitter.

911
00:55:13,000 --> 00:55:17,440
Shae Langoliers is going to hit thirty five and two sixty.

912
00:55:17,599 --> 00:55:19,480
He's gonna Shae lang Lear is gonna be the number

913
00:55:19,480 --> 00:55:22,679
one catcher. There you go, bold prediction. Let's go.

914
00:55:24,119 --> 00:55:28,039
Speaker 1: There you go. Moving on Cole Young nineteen games, sixty

915
00:55:28,119 --> 00:55:31,119
three plate appearances, six on runs, three stone bases. He

916
00:55:31,199 --> 00:55:33,719
is hitting three or two eighty one, three forty nine

917
00:55:34,159 --> 00:55:37,320
six sixty seven. He has a ninety five point eight

918
00:55:37,679 --> 00:55:41,000
at which as velocity and a fifty five point eight

919
00:55:41,079 --> 00:55:45,119
percent pard hit gray. This is not necessarily what I

920
00:55:45,199 --> 00:55:47,760
thought we'd get from Cole Young, but Cole Young is

921
00:55:47,880 --> 00:55:53,480
absolutely destroying baseball's right now. Any chance this carries over

922
00:55:53,519 --> 00:55:54,119
for Seattle?

923
00:55:56,519 --> 00:55:59,719
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, you know, Cole Young is, he's uh

924
00:56:00,559 --> 00:56:04,960
twenty two, and he's had he's got some prospect pedigree.

925
00:56:05,039 --> 00:56:08,960
I don't mind. Actually cool Young. I think he's going

926
00:56:09,079 --> 00:56:13,639
basically unnoticed in drafts, and he does have power speed

927
00:56:13,960 --> 00:56:18,119
and can hit for a decent average for fifteen team

928
00:56:18,199 --> 00:56:21,639
mix league. I mean, you know, he's hitting at the

929
00:56:21,639 --> 00:56:25,280
bottom of the Mariners order, so it's not gonna be fantastic,

930
00:56:25,400 --> 00:56:29,079
But for am I in a fifteen team mix league,

931
00:56:29,159 --> 00:56:32,039
probably not the worst thing you could do. I don't

932
00:56:32,039 --> 00:56:35,320
think he's on twelve team mix league radars yet, so

933
00:56:35,360 --> 00:56:37,440
I'll say Cole Young sex panther.

934
00:56:38,599 --> 00:56:40,320
Speaker 1: Yep, I'm with you. I think it's six panther, and

935
00:56:40,360 --> 00:56:42,239
I think there's a non zero chance he can move

936
00:56:42,320 --> 00:56:45,119
up in the order, maybe not to like the top five,

937
00:56:45,159 --> 00:56:47,239
but I think he'd sit at six pretty easily, with

938
00:56:47,840 --> 00:56:50,639
the bottom of that order being very flexible if he

939
00:56:50,719 --> 00:56:54,639
just continues to mash Dalton Varsha in nineteen games in

940
00:56:54,679 --> 00:56:57,880
spring training, fifty four played appearances, five home runs, he's

941
00:56:57,920 --> 00:57:01,360
hitting three eighty four to twenty six twenty is a

942
00:57:01,519 --> 00:57:05,239
seven point four percent strikeout rate in a fifty four

943
00:57:05,760 --> 00:57:09,880
point three percent hard hit. Yeah, and it's not somebody

944
00:57:09,880 --> 00:57:13,039
that there's a mystery to us. But is Dalton Varshow

945
00:57:13,119 --> 00:57:16,159
potentially ready to take the step that we thought he

946
00:57:16,199 --> 00:57:18,079
would take after his twenty twenty two season.

947
00:57:19,840 --> 00:57:22,400
Speaker 3: Yeah, I I you know, I like Dalton Varshow. I

948
00:57:22,440 --> 00:57:24,559
wrote a sleeper post for him. I love him. I

949
00:57:24,599 --> 00:57:28,960
think uh I'm surprised that people were so sort of

950
00:57:29,119 --> 00:57:33,719
met on him after his previous season, because, like, you know,

951
00:57:33,760 --> 00:57:35,920
he hit twenty homers in less than a half a

952
00:57:36,000 --> 00:57:39,679
year last year, Like he's unlocked something with his power.

953
00:57:40,320 --> 00:57:43,159
I think it's real. I think it's scientific fact. Baby,

954
00:57:43,239 --> 00:57:45,719
give me the Dalton Varshow shares.

955
00:57:46,519 --> 00:57:47,159
Speaker 1: Absolutely.

956
00:57:47,199 --> 00:57:51,840
Speaker 3: I loved shares. Yeah, man, I don't know.

957
00:57:51,880 --> 00:57:55,239
Speaker 1: I don't really understand his draft cost. I mean, I

958
00:57:55,239 --> 00:57:57,679
guess maybe you're just looking at the numbers. You're like, oh,

959
00:57:58,599 --> 00:58:01,079
he only hit twenty one run last year, but it

960
00:58:01,159 --> 00:58:05,599
was in seventy one games. Maybe that's it. I don't know.

961
00:58:05,840 --> 00:58:09,039
I love Dalvon Varshow though, a great late source of

962
00:58:09,239 --> 00:58:13,480
home runs. Let's talk about some WBC performers. Their spring

963
00:58:13,519 --> 00:58:16,360
training numbers aren't exactly great because they were away. But

964
00:58:17,039 --> 00:58:20,199
Junior Cavanaro hit three fifty four nine eight fifty with

965
00:58:20,280 --> 00:58:24,000
three home runs. You were already high on him. I mean,

966
00:58:24,039 --> 00:58:26,519
are all concerns just absolutely out the window at this point?

967
00:58:27,199 --> 00:58:31,440
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, totally. I think I think someone on our

968
00:58:31,559 --> 00:58:35,719
site actually wrote him as a bust for this year,

969
00:58:35,840 --> 00:58:39,840
and I was like, Oh, people just say stuff, and

970
00:58:39,880 --> 00:58:41,840
it's like, you know, for the most part. I do

971
00:58:41,920 --> 00:58:44,559
it too. It's like you say something today and by

972
00:58:44,639 --> 00:58:47,039
next week you've totally forgotten what you've said, and you're like,

973
00:58:47,159 --> 00:58:50,480
did I say that? I don't know, but I'm saying

974
00:58:50,639 --> 00:58:53,320
Junior caviniro is like he's a I mean, he's a

975
00:58:53,360 --> 00:58:54,199
superstar bro.

976
00:58:55,440 --> 00:58:58,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think we said it in the position all

977
00:58:58,079 --> 00:59:02,159
the average could definitely come down. The power is absolutely real.

978
00:59:03,400 --> 00:59:05,239
I think I have him down from him where ADP

979
00:59:05,400 --> 00:59:09,199
has him because of the average, But he's absolutely every

980
00:59:09,239 --> 00:59:11,880
bit of the power, and based on spring training, the

981
00:59:11,880 --> 00:59:14,960
average may not drop it all either. Jared duran has

982
00:59:14,960 --> 00:59:18,280
said three thirty three four to twelve thousand, he had

983
00:59:18,320 --> 00:59:20,920
three home runs and two stolen bases during the WBC.

984
00:59:21,119 --> 00:59:23,880
This is somebody who I've been grabbing all draft season

985
00:59:23,880 --> 00:59:27,519
because I do not understand his draft value at all. Great,

986
00:59:28,079 --> 00:59:31,000
am I wrong? Or is the general public just drafting

987
00:59:31,079 --> 00:59:32,039
Jared Durant too late?

988
00:59:33,159 --> 00:59:36,400
Speaker 3: Yeah? I mean I think maybe it might be a

989
00:59:36,400 --> 00:59:39,039
little bit of a hangover from last year because people

990
00:59:39,039 --> 00:59:41,360
got burned on him when they drafted him too high.

991
00:59:41,440 --> 00:59:44,320
But now now he feels a little bit too low

992
00:59:44,639 --> 00:59:50,480
and also at worst his easy value. So yeah, I'm

993
00:59:50,519 --> 00:59:53,519
with you. Man, I would draft Jared Duran think he

994
00:59:54,039 --> 00:59:58,599
I think is probably Jared Duran is probably a top

995
01:00:00,039 --> 01:00:03,880
say a top forty hitter, and he's going at or

996
01:00:04,239 --> 01:00:07,400
not just a hitter, top forty player and he's probably

997
01:00:07,480 --> 01:00:12,320
going at like what's seventy, So he's easy value in drafts.

998
01:00:12,599 --> 01:00:14,239
Speaker 1: Yeah, I just see him sitting there and it just

999
01:00:14,400 --> 01:00:18,119
it's it's mind boggling to me every single time he's

1000
01:00:18,159 --> 01:00:22,159
going after his teammate Roman Anthony. Right now, Gray, if

1001
01:00:22,159 --> 01:00:23,840
I asked you to give me just the pie in

1002
01:00:23,880 --> 01:00:28,400
the sky Roman Anthony progestion, like everything clicks for him,

1003
01:00:28,920 --> 01:00:31,039
Like what does that look like?

1004
01:00:32,079 --> 01:00:34,800
Speaker 3: Yeah, man, I don't I don't understand the Roman Anthony

1005
01:00:34,800 --> 01:00:38,599
thing at all. I'm I'm totally like missing out on

1006
01:00:38,800 --> 01:00:42,039
like the Roman Anthony gene because I don't see it.

1007
01:00:42,119 --> 01:00:48,599
I mean, if he does it, great, but like what

1008
01:00:48,800 --> 01:00:54,679
twenty five, twenty five, two eighty maybe is Like that's

1009
01:00:54,719 --> 01:00:57,320
pie in the sky too, Like I don't don't I

1010
01:00:57,360 --> 01:01:00,559
don't buy I don't buy the power. I don't think

1011
01:01:00,559 --> 01:01:04,599
i'd buy the speed, like I'm saying pie in the sky. Like, realistically,

1012
01:01:05,360 --> 01:01:11,800
he's a twenty homer seventeen to twenty two Homer twelve

1013
01:01:11,960 --> 01:01:16,199
steel two seventy hitter. I mean, it's so boring and

1014
01:01:16,400 --> 01:01:18,519
I don't see what people are seeing in Roman Anthony.

1015
01:01:18,719 --> 01:01:20,800
I'm missing it, to be honest.

1016
01:01:21,199 --> 01:01:23,800
Speaker 1: No, I mean it feels he feels like Alex Bregman,

1017
01:01:23,840 --> 01:01:27,679
who was a phenomenal real life baseball player. But for

1018
01:01:27,800 --> 01:01:31,400
our game is very, very boring outside of the super

1019
01:01:31,920 --> 01:01:35,320
crazy bouncy ball years. And you know that other thing

1020
01:01:35,360 --> 01:01:39,320
that Houston was doing for a little while. Yeah, Ezekiel

1021
01:01:39,360 --> 01:01:41,719
Tovar another ADP wonder for me. He is hitting four

1022
01:01:41,760 --> 01:01:44,800
seventy one, five hundred and six forty seven. Really want

1023
01:01:44,800 --> 01:01:47,599
to brink him up to say, please stop ignoring Ezekiel Tovar.

1024
01:01:47,719 --> 01:01:49,280
It's absolutely ridiculous.

1025
01:01:49,679 --> 01:01:52,679
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, it's probably too late in the game for us,

1026
01:01:53,119 --> 01:01:56,400
you know, be giving people draft advice. But yeah, Tofar

1027
01:01:56,639 --> 01:02:00,559
was going too late for what Tofar is gonna do. Uh,

1028
01:02:00,599 --> 01:02:06,119
He's he's as reliable as they come. It just you know,

1029
01:02:06,519 --> 01:02:09,920
minus last year when there was an injury, and he's

1030
01:02:09,960 --> 01:02:12,519
healthy now. So yeah, I'm I'm in on to Far

1031
01:02:12,599 --> 01:02:13,000
as well.

1032
01:02:13,679 --> 01:02:16,559
Speaker 1: Yeah, those injury hangovers, they're really they're really dragged down.

1033
01:02:16,599 --> 01:02:22,440
ADP O'Neil Cruz I mean he's been he's been great here,

1034
01:02:23,599 --> 01:02:25,480
or he was great, I guess I should say in

1035
01:02:25,480 --> 01:02:30,079
his limited time in the WBC, only five at bats,

1036
01:02:30,360 --> 01:02:33,960
but he had two home runs and hit six hundred gray. Uh,

1037
01:02:33,960 --> 01:02:37,159
this is our favorite dream upon guy. Should it happen,

1038
01:02:37,559 --> 01:02:38,719
could happen?

1039
01:02:39,239 --> 01:02:43,559
Speaker 3: I think with I think O'Neil Cruz is uh someone

1040
01:02:43,639 --> 01:02:49,199
who probably actually that's not true. I was gonna say,

1041
01:02:49,400 --> 01:02:51,920
well he did, he did two years ago, Okay, So

1042
01:02:51,960 --> 01:02:53,960
what I was gonna say was he's probably a guy

1043
01:02:54,000 --> 01:02:59,039
who he feasts on bad pitching. And in spring training

1044
01:02:59,480 --> 01:03:02,840
you see pitching in a WBC, I mean you see

1045
01:03:02,920 --> 01:03:05,119
kind of fie pitching from someone I don't know who

1046
01:03:05,119 --> 01:03:08,840
he was facing, I honestly, but I was gonna say that.

1047
01:03:08,960 --> 01:03:11,519
And then last year in spring training he looked terrible

1048
01:03:12,159 --> 01:03:14,400
O'Neill Cruz, that is. And then but then the year

1049
01:03:14,440 --> 01:03:17,199
before he was great in spring training, but then that

1050
01:03:17,360 --> 01:03:22,039
injury happened. So I don't know. Maybe maybe O'Neil Cruz

1051
01:03:22,039 --> 01:03:24,639
it puts it together to a certain extent. I mean,

1052
01:03:24,679 --> 01:03:27,599
even in spring training he has a thirty one percent

1053
01:03:27,599 --> 01:03:33,239
strikeout rate, so he's still gonna hit to twenty ish.

1054
01:03:33,679 --> 01:03:36,920
But maybe you know, maybe the power and speed are

1055
01:03:36,960 --> 01:03:40,960
finally there to a well, I mean the speed was

1056
01:03:41,000 --> 01:03:43,679
there last year. Maybe the power it gets a little

1057
01:03:43,679 --> 01:03:46,280
bit of an uptick. Maybe he goes maybe he does

1058
01:03:46,519 --> 01:03:52,960
like a thirty a thirty thirty two thirty year maybe.

1059
01:03:53,840 --> 01:03:56,519
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean for the average, the way he hits

1060
01:03:56,519 --> 01:03:59,039
the ball, it's ridiculous. He's only a twenty home run guy.

1061
01:04:00,159 --> 01:04:03,360
He has a ninety nine point two average ev in

1062
01:04:03,480 --> 01:04:06,400
a sixty eight point eight hard hit here in spring training,

1063
01:04:07,039 --> 01:04:09,920
and those are you know, not abnormal numbers for him.

1064
01:04:09,960 --> 01:04:13,000
He just he absolutely mashes the ball. He just misses

1065
01:04:13,039 --> 01:04:16,519
it an awful lot. Let's talk about the pictures real quick.

1066
01:04:16,599 --> 01:04:19,400
Louis seven Reno came out of nowhere to throw seven

1067
01:04:19,519 --> 01:04:22,280
in a third innings eleven k's two four five year

1068
01:04:22,320 --> 01:04:27,719
a one oh nine whip. I mean, I would I

1069
01:04:27,719 --> 01:04:29,679
I don't even think he was on my draft board.

1070
01:04:29,800 --> 01:04:34,000
But if you take would you potentially look at grabbing

1071
01:04:34,119 --> 01:04:37,159
Luis seven Reno and starting him on the road.

1072
01:04:38,079 --> 01:04:41,719
Speaker 3: Yeah? Yeah, I was gonna say, like, I think Sevenrino

1073
01:04:41,800 --> 01:04:46,079
is a decent uh draft pick or def a decent

1074
01:04:46,119 --> 01:04:50,480
pickup for road starts, But I wouldn't start him in Sacktown.

1075
01:04:50,719 --> 01:04:52,079
I would I would never do it.

1076
01:04:52,920 --> 01:04:55,760
Speaker 1: No, his the era was double well wait road versus

1077
01:04:55,760 --> 01:04:58,480
home last year. He can't he can't start any pictures

1078
01:04:58,719 --> 01:05:02,719
for the A's at home. Daniel Palencia five innings, nine

1079
01:05:02,800 --> 01:05:06,800
k's nowhere and runs, one walk, got the save for

1080
01:05:07,000 --> 01:05:10,000
the win. What are your thoughts here on Daniel Polentcy.

1081
01:05:10,119 --> 01:05:13,360
Is he climbing up your closer rankings as he just

1082
01:05:13,480 --> 01:05:18,760
looked absolutely phenomenal in the WBC or you kind of

1083
01:05:18,800 --> 01:05:20,880
just locking them in where he was.

1084
01:05:22,199 --> 01:05:25,519
Speaker 3: Yeah, No, I think he's open my eyes in the WBC.

1085
01:05:25,719 --> 01:05:29,559
I liked what I saw in that final game, the

1086
01:05:30,239 --> 01:05:33,480
only game I saw the WBC. But he looked good.

1087
01:05:33,679 --> 01:05:36,679
I mean, he looked like a closer. I wouldn't be

1088
01:05:36,719 --> 01:05:40,440
shocked to see him have a thirty five plus save

1089
01:05:40,639 --> 01:05:46,159
season with good ratios. You know, his his command can

1090
01:05:46,199 --> 01:05:49,760
get a little bit sideways the times, Belle, he can

1091
01:05:50,440 --> 01:05:53,679
keep his command in order. And yeah, I mean I

1092
01:05:54,159 --> 01:05:55,880
like him. I like what I saw.

1093
01:05:56,840 --> 01:06:00,199
Speaker 1: Yeah, I do too. I've officially moved him into my

1094
01:06:00,280 --> 01:06:04,360
top ten at closer, so he has climbed the ranks

1095
01:06:05,199 --> 01:06:09,719
all during the offseason. Here EDWARDA. Rodriguez seventy and nine

1096
01:06:09,800 --> 01:06:13,880
k's two walks, three earned runs, and again another guy

1097
01:06:13,960 --> 01:06:17,119
I pretty much was just ignoring. I know the war

1098
01:06:17,199 --> 01:06:19,960
room never really lets you do that with e. Rod.

1099
01:06:20,039 --> 01:06:22,840
But what are your thoughts on EDWARDO Rodriguez.

1100
01:06:25,519 --> 01:06:34,440
Speaker 3: Uh, yeah, no, no, I'm not into Eduardo Rodriguez. I think, uh,

1101
01:06:35,360 --> 01:06:37,840
you know, I I think actually nothing else. That was

1102
01:06:37,880 --> 01:06:40,159
a good show. That was a good sign of like

1103
01:06:41,440 --> 01:06:46,199
with the WC WBC, like, how much does it really mean,

1104
01:06:46,400 --> 01:06:49,000
like you know, like guys have a good guys that

1105
01:06:49,119 --> 01:06:53,199
get like even during the season, like Edward EDWARDO. Rodriguez

1106
01:06:53,280 --> 01:06:55,440
might have a good starter or two, but it doesn't

1107
01:06:55,840 --> 01:06:57,199
change who he is.

1108
01:06:59,679 --> 01:07:02,199
Speaker 1: No, completely agree, and you already made the frame of

1109
01:07:02,280 --> 01:07:06,440
reference kind of for WBC, but also as an additional one,

1110
01:07:06,679 --> 01:07:09,360
James Paxton, who didn't pitch last year because he wasn't

1111
01:07:09,360 --> 01:07:12,039
good enough to make any rosters, went four in a

1112
01:07:12,079 --> 01:07:15,800
third eight case, two walks, zero earned runs. So there's

1113
01:07:15,880 --> 01:07:18,159
there's a little bit of reading between the lines here

1114
01:07:18,159 --> 01:07:22,800
for WBC. Let's talk about some velocity gains Gray Bryce

1115
01:07:22,880 --> 01:07:25,920
Miller only one outing in spring training because of some

1116
01:07:26,199 --> 01:07:29,239
injured things here there, but velocity is up to ninety

1117
01:07:29,280 --> 01:07:32,079
four point from ninety four point eight to ninety seven

1118
01:07:32,159 --> 01:07:36,480
point three in spring training. I feel like Bryce Miller's

1119
01:07:36,519 --> 01:07:39,119
kind of been one of those risers here in spring

1120
01:07:39,159 --> 01:07:43,840
training already, but with this now, I feel like it's

1121
01:07:43,880 --> 01:07:45,960
it's just going to kind of kind of jump this

1122
01:07:46,119 --> 01:07:47,800
last few drafts.

1123
01:07:48,760 --> 01:07:53,519
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, I think, you know, with velocity in general,

1124
01:07:53,599 --> 01:07:57,920
but Bryce Miller specifically, I think it doesn't really like

1125
01:07:58,079 --> 01:08:00,719
it doesn't move them up a ton for me. But

1126
01:08:00,960 --> 01:08:04,880
it's like, if I'm between you know, Bryce Miller and

1127
01:08:05,480 --> 01:08:08,079
another guy of like you know, like say I don't know,

1128
01:08:08,199 --> 01:08:11,519
Brandon Fat or something like, if I'm between them and

1129
01:08:11,559 --> 01:08:13,559
it's the end of the draft, I'll be like, yeah,

1130
01:08:13,599 --> 01:08:16,359
I'll take Bryce Miller flyer because you know, I mean

1131
01:08:16,399 --> 01:08:18,119
his VLOS is up, so you know why not.

1132
01:08:19,399 --> 01:08:22,960
Speaker 1: Yep, I agree, And I actually like Bryce Miller quite

1133
01:08:22,960 --> 01:08:25,439
a bit for a bounce back season and you know,

1134
01:08:25,600 --> 01:08:28,800
definitely banged up last year. So kind of just writing

1135
01:08:28,840 --> 01:08:31,520
that off, I will say, it's it's not a high

1136
01:08:31,600 --> 01:08:34,880
K profile, so there's only so much to really chase

1137
01:08:34,920 --> 01:08:39,920
here with Bryce Miller unfortunately as well. Moving on, let's

1138
01:08:39,920 --> 01:08:43,640
talk about Randy Vasquez. Eighteen in the third innings is

1139
01:08:43,680 --> 01:08:46,880
a four nine one one oh four on the on

1140
01:08:46,920 --> 01:08:50,960
the ratios, but the vlosity's up to ninety five point

1141
01:08:51,079 --> 01:08:55,199
six from ninety three point four last year. Again, not

1142
01:08:55,319 --> 01:08:58,520
a big name. But are you interested at all in

1143
01:08:58,640 --> 01:08:59,640
Randy Vasquez here?

1144
01:09:00,560 --> 01:09:03,600
Speaker 3: Uh? You know it's funny because I'm not really interested

1145
01:09:03,640 --> 01:09:07,079
in Randy Vasquez at all in mixed leagues, But in

1146
01:09:07,079 --> 01:09:10,920
an N only, I was like, I felt like in

1147
01:09:10,960 --> 01:09:13,920
an only he was a guy who I was like

1148
01:09:14,520 --> 01:09:16,760
someone else drafted him. I was, I was like kicking

1149
01:09:16,760 --> 01:09:20,439
myself for not taking him first, because I like Randy

1150
01:09:20,520 --> 01:09:25,600
Vasquez for NL only, but for mixed leagues, I mean,

1151
01:09:26,000 --> 01:09:28,199
we need to see something in the in like the

1152
01:09:28,239 --> 01:09:29,039
season first.

1153
01:09:30,840 --> 01:09:34,159
Speaker 1: Yeah, a couple of bullpen guys that could move around

1154
01:09:34,239 --> 01:09:38,159
either closer or potentially starter as Tyler Phillips and Brendan Little.

1155
01:09:38,880 --> 01:09:41,159
They are both up a couple of miles per hour

1156
01:09:41,239 --> 01:09:44,880
this spring training. Any interest in either of these guys?

1157
01:09:45,319 --> 01:09:50,000
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think Tyler Phillips actually looks really good. Yeah,

1158
01:09:50,039 --> 01:09:54,239
Brandon Little as well. I mean velocity. You know, it's

1159
01:09:54,520 --> 01:09:58,560
small sample sizes, but velocity with the relievers. Could you

1160
01:09:58,560 --> 01:10:01,039
know that couldn't matter? I don't. I don't think you know.

1161
01:10:01,079 --> 01:10:03,159
I don't think it's gonna matter as far as like

1162
01:10:04,399 --> 01:10:08,199
saves go for Brandon Little because I think, well, you know,

1163
01:10:08,319 --> 01:10:12,840
as of right now, Hoffman is fine with the Jays,

1164
01:10:13,840 --> 01:10:17,880
but Tyler Phillips, you never know, with like Miami, I

1165
01:10:17,920 --> 01:10:21,960
mean there's not I mean, you know, Fairbags goes down

1166
01:10:22,079 --> 01:10:25,840
because of injury, as he will you know, he hasn't yet,

1167
01:10:25,880 --> 01:10:27,920
but he will at some point because he always does.

1168
01:10:29,000 --> 01:10:31,239
And someone's got to step in, so you know, it

1169
01:10:31,319 --> 01:10:33,079
might be Foucher, it might be Phillips.

1170
01:10:33,399 --> 01:10:33,760
Speaker 1: I don't know.

1171
01:10:33,800 --> 01:10:38,279
Speaker 3: Phillips isn't a bad flyer for and No, only like

1172
01:10:38,520 --> 01:10:42,720
a middle reliever, and and Little is probably the same.

1173
01:10:43,279 --> 01:10:46,479
But for al yep, I agree with both those.

1174
01:10:46,520 --> 01:10:48,920
Speaker 1: And Tyler Phillips has lost and he has been climbing

1175
01:10:49,319 --> 01:10:52,119
the last three years, so even looking at his past

1176
01:10:52,199 --> 01:10:55,800
numbers kind of feels a little irrelevant given that he's jumped,

1177
01:10:56,159 --> 01:11:01,319
you know, four plus miles per hour over spring or

1178
01:11:01,399 --> 01:11:05,359
over the last couple of years. So like both those guys, Uh,

1179
01:11:06,159 --> 01:11:09,239
you know, there's a few guys got some down formed

1180
01:11:09,279 --> 01:11:11,600
in spring training. These are more just names to kind

1181
01:11:11,600 --> 01:11:15,000
of file away. Ryland Thomas too runs one stone base

1182
01:11:15,079 --> 01:11:18,119
forty six re signs five home runs one stone base

1183
01:11:18,159 --> 01:11:21,000
he hit four ten and Leo Defrees three home runs,

1184
01:11:21,039 --> 01:11:24,600
four stone bases he hit four twenty six U some

1185
01:11:24,720 --> 01:11:27,720
other guys. This is really not anything like those guys

1186
01:11:27,760 --> 01:11:31,439
are at least monitoring type of names. These guys I

1187
01:11:31,479 --> 01:11:34,800
just want to mention because they deserve some mention. Brandon

1188
01:11:34,840 --> 01:11:37,319
Ward stole the most stone bases that ever in spring

1189
01:11:37,399 --> 01:11:42,079
training with nineteen. Jared to Lee was still fourteen. Drew

1190
01:11:42,119 --> 01:11:45,039
Anderson returned from the KBO. He has thirteen in pitch

1191
01:11:45,600 --> 01:11:48,399
six ninety are one oh eight with thirty three percent

1192
01:11:48,439 --> 01:11:50,680
strike out rate in nine point eight percent walk rate.

1193
01:11:51,439 --> 01:11:54,439
Ryland Thomas re signs, Leo DeFries. Those are the three

1194
01:11:54,479 --> 01:11:57,399
main ones in this list. Gray, Are you interested in

1195
01:11:57,520 --> 01:12:00,920
monitoring or potentially stashing any of the deep leagues?

1196
01:12:02,920 --> 01:12:06,239
Speaker 3: I mean, if if the league is deep enough, I guess, yeah,

1197
01:12:06,439 --> 01:12:08,840
sure I have the leagues deep enough. I actually I

1198
01:12:09,439 --> 01:12:13,319
actually kind of like Drew Anderson. You know, at some point,

1199
01:12:14,520 --> 01:12:18,399
what's his face is going to go down? Lander h

1200
01:12:18,760 --> 01:12:21,279
Verland is going to go down. At some point I'm

1201
01:12:21,319 --> 01:12:25,680
assuming or someone will go down. And you know, I

1202
01:12:25,680 --> 01:12:29,199
think Drew Anderson, I mean I think he's more than

1203
01:12:29,239 --> 01:12:32,600
just an overlaver. I'm kind of surprised. I was kind

1204
01:12:32,600 --> 01:12:34,640
of surprised when they went out and got Verlander because

1205
01:12:34,680 --> 01:12:37,399
I feel like Drew Anderson is I mean, I think

1206
01:12:37,399 --> 01:12:40,640
he's a starter now, you know, he was good in

1207
01:12:40,720 --> 01:12:41,640
the KBO.

1208
01:12:41,640 --> 01:12:45,560
Speaker 1: So I don't know, we'll see, Yeah, definitely worth monitoring.

1209
01:12:45,680 --> 01:12:47,880
Like I said, was good in KBO in return and

1210
01:12:48,039 --> 01:12:50,800
wouldn't be the first guy we've seen come back from

1211
01:12:50,920 --> 01:12:55,079
overseas and be better than what they were as a prospect. Here.

1212
01:12:55,800 --> 01:12:57,720
There's a few guys we talked about preseason, but just

1213
01:12:57,800 --> 01:13:00,399
kind of wanted to officially say where they're goingkon of

1214
01:13:00,439 --> 01:13:04,359
Griffin sent down. No surprise there, Marcela Mayer is going

1215
01:13:04,399 --> 01:13:07,439
to start at second base, while Christian Campbell sent down.

1216
01:13:07,960 --> 01:13:10,199
I think the surprise is maybe just that Christian Campbell

1217
01:13:10,279 --> 01:13:15,079
sent down given some availability for spots in Boston, a

1218
01:13:15,079 --> 01:13:18,840
little bit surprising potentially there. Jason Leming got sent down,

1219
01:13:18,960 --> 01:13:22,279
seems really odd, but I think we kind of saw that.

1220
01:13:22,800 --> 01:13:26,039
And then Carson bingj makes opening day roster. Like I said,

1221
01:13:26,079 --> 01:13:27,840
I think we've talked about all these within the last

1222
01:13:27,880 --> 01:13:29,479
couple of weeks. But anything you want to say about

1223
01:13:29,479 --> 01:13:30,199
these guys.

1224
01:13:29,960 --> 01:13:34,800
Speaker 3: Greg, Carson Benge is for me is kind of surprising

1225
01:13:34,840 --> 01:13:40,119
how little he's getting in the preseason. Doesn't seem like

1226
01:13:40,159 --> 01:13:43,600
anyone's really, like you know, talking about him at all.

1227
01:13:45,760 --> 01:13:49,680
Might be because he didn't have his spot in the

1228
01:13:49,720 --> 01:13:54,079
lineup short up yet, so maybe now people will be

1229
01:13:54,119 --> 01:13:56,640
a little bit more excited. But like you know, Carson

1230
01:13:56,680 --> 01:14:01,520
Benj fifteen homers, twenty two steals to eighty one last year,

1231
01:14:01,600 --> 01:14:05,880
and the miners has, like you know, it's a pretty

1232
01:14:05,920 --> 01:14:10,319
good prospect, good power, good speed, may not kill you

1233
01:14:10,399 --> 01:14:13,920
an average I'm kind of interested in Carson Benj if

1234
01:14:14,000 --> 01:14:16,960
nothing else. Fifteen team, mixed leagues and deeper.

1235
01:14:18,560 --> 01:14:21,039
Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree, And I think we kind of said

1236
01:14:21,039 --> 01:14:24,439
that on the last podcast, the one before that came there.

1237
01:14:24,600 --> 01:14:26,399
They all kind of come together at this point in

1238
01:14:26,439 --> 01:14:29,880
the preseason a little bit. You know, we're at like

1239
01:14:29,920 --> 01:14:33,199
an hour, ten hour fifteen Gray, There's some other people

1240
01:14:33,239 --> 01:14:36,000
I kind of had mentioned here that we would talk about.

1241
01:14:36,399 --> 01:14:39,199
I'm just gonna pick a couple of the buzzy names

1242
01:14:39,199 --> 01:14:41,600
and the ones that people have been asking about and

1243
01:14:41,960 --> 01:14:44,520
talked to you about them. On the pitching side, Mick

1244
01:14:44,560 --> 01:14:48,439
Abel has a thirty five percent kra a sub five

1245
01:14:48,439 --> 01:14:52,039
percent walk rate. Velocity seems to have jumped. And then

1246
01:14:52,079 --> 01:14:55,079
Matthew Libertor has had a great spring training in fifteen

1247
01:14:55,079 --> 01:14:59,279
innings sub two ear a sub one. It's actually point

1248
01:14:59,359 --> 01:15:02,640
eight whip with a thirty four percent strikeout rate and

1249
01:15:02,720 --> 01:15:05,600
a sub four percent walk rate. What do you think

1250
01:15:05,640 --> 01:15:08,039
about Mick abel and Matthew Libertre Who were some of

1251
01:15:08,039 --> 01:15:11,079
the pickups that I saw made off off of the

1252
01:15:11,119 --> 01:15:14,199
free agency? And why are this passing? Uh?

1253
01:15:15,119 --> 01:15:18,560
Speaker 3: So Abel I discussed in the in the opening when

1254
01:15:18,560 --> 01:15:20,960
we talk about the twins rotation. I like able a

1255
01:15:21,039 --> 01:15:24,960
lot Liberateurs. Actually, so his velocity is up, as you mentioned,

1256
01:15:25,039 --> 01:15:27,800
I think, or maybe you didn't mention it, but his

1257
01:15:27,880 --> 01:15:31,560
vossity is up a little bit at least I think

1258
01:15:31,680 --> 01:15:37,600
Libertour is also like basically free off of waivers in drafts. Whatever,

1259
01:15:38,199 --> 01:15:41,880
you know, your circumstances are. At this point, I like

1260
01:15:42,039 --> 01:15:46,439
LiBeratur more now than I did last week. And you know,

1261
01:15:46,640 --> 01:15:50,079
I mean, someone's gotta throw one hundred and fifty innings

1262
01:15:50,159 --> 01:15:54,319
for the Cardinals, and maybe Liberteur is, like you know,

1263
01:15:54,479 --> 01:15:57,520
maybe he's able to keep his ratio is under control

1264
01:15:58,159 --> 01:16:01,600
with his newfound velocity, and he adds some strikeouts. I'm

1265
01:16:01,760 --> 01:16:05,119
I'm interested. I you know, I like Nick Abel better

1266
01:16:05,279 --> 01:16:07,479
than Libertour, but I'm interested in Liberator.

1267
01:16:08,279 --> 01:16:10,920
Speaker 1: Yep, I agree. And then the last couple of names

1268
01:16:10,920 --> 01:16:13,920
are gonna throw at you are some spring training strugglers.

1269
01:16:14,039 --> 01:16:18,199
Gray James Wood is hitting all of one thirty six

1270
01:16:18,439 --> 01:16:21,479
with a single home run and a thirty four percent

1271
01:16:21,600 --> 01:16:26,760
strikeout rate. Uh, you know, Nick Kurt's another young guy

1272
01:16:26,840 --> 01:16:29,720
that we all liked. He has three home runs but

1273
01:16:30,159 --> 01:16:33,880
is hitting all of one ninety two. And then the

1274
01:16:34,079 --> 01:16:37,840
top three pitcher, Garrett crochet velocity is down a little

1275
01:16:37,840 --> 01:16:40,319
bit from ninety six point four to ninety five point

1276
01:16:40,479 --> 01:16:44,119
six and he has a seven three six ERA in

1277
01:16:44,239 --> 01:16:48,119
fourteen and two thirds innings in the k rate is

1278
01:16:48,239 --> 01:16:52,680
down to twelve point seven. Any concern on these three,

1279
01:16:53,199 --> 01:16:55,439
you know studs that are being drafted very highly.

1280
01:16:56,600 --> 01:16:59,600
Speaker 3: So, so this is what I'll say about that. In

1281
01:16:59,800 --> 01:17:04,279
Jay general. Last year George Springer hit one O eight

1282
01:17:04,800 --> 01:17:08,319
and had one of the worst spring trainings of everyone

1283
01:17:08,800 --> 01:17:12,159
went on to have a huge bounce back year. Garrett

1284
01:17:12,199 --> 01:17:16,000
Crochet last year had eight walks in fifteen and two

1285
01:17:16,119 --> 01:17:20,159
thirds innings and look like he was a mess. He

1286
01:17:20,279 --> 01:17:24,680
went on to have the best starter year. Jose Barrios

1287
01:17:24,840 --> 01:17:28,159
was great last year, and I think we know how

1288
01:17:28,239 --> 01:17:33,119
that turned out. So I don't really I'm not worried

1289
01:17:33,119 --> 01:17:37,159
about any of these guys. Is James would and Nick

1290
01:17:37,279 --> 01:17:43,319
Kurtz a little bit concerning because or kurtscerning because they're

1291
01:17:44,000 --> 01:17:47,439
young and have strike al papensities. Yes, I mean it's

1292
01:17:47,560 --> 01:17:50,439
it's a little bit concerning, but I mean you got

1293
01:17:50,560 --> 01:17:53,000
to you gotta do a trust fall at some point

1294
01:17:53,079 --> 01:17:55,359
and be like, you know what, They're gonna figure it out.

1295
01:17:55,520 --> 01:17:59,439
They're talented enough, and this is just spring training, so

1296
01:18:00,039 --> 01:18:04,119
you know, the slay gets wiped clean in two days

1297
01:18:04,399 --> 01:18:07,520
as of right now. So I'm I'm I'm not thrilled

1298
01:18:07,600 --> 01:18:11,560
that James Wood can't can't hit the ball, and Nick

1299
01:18:11,640 --> 01:18:14,720
Kurtz is striking out a lot, and and and I'm

1300
01:18:14,920 --> 01:18:18,479
I'm a little bit concerned. But also I wouldn't draft

1301
01:18:18,600 --> 01:18:23,560
Garret Crochet, But I'm really not concerned about Crichet. With

1302
01:18:23,720 --> 01:18:26,319
that said, I mean, you know you'd prefer to see

1303
01:18:26,319 --> 01:18:26,880
them do well.

1304
01:18:27,079 --> 01:18:30,399
Speaker 1: I guess yeah, I certainly would rather see them do

1305
01:18:30,520 --> 01:18:33,840
well than struggle, especially with the things that you're worried

1306
01:18:33,840 --> 01:18:38,399
about in their profile. I moved down Kurt's one spot.

1307
01:18:38,680 --> 01:18:40,640
It's not that big a deal. It really has more

1308
01:18:40,680 --> 01:18:43,640
to do with people who are healthy and with a

1309
01:18:43,680 --> 01:18:45,680
lot of all the all the hammock bone guys who

1310
01:18:45,920 --> 01:18:49,039
are going to make opening day rosters. And then I

1311
01:18:49,119 --> 01:18:52,279
will say James Wood, I did drop a few spots

1312
01:18:52,479 --> 01:18:56,399
just the second half and the continued struggles in the

1313
01:18:56,439 --> 01:18:59,439
spring train and have me worried. He is super talented.

1314
01:18:59,520 --> 01:19:02,600
I still have him at thirty one in the overall,

1315
01:19:02,720 --> 01:19:05,239
so I'm certainly not giving up on him by any means,

1316
01:19:06,039 --> 01:19:09,520
but it is dropping him from where I had him before.

1317
01:19:10,399 --> 01:19:12,520
So I did want to mention that I, you know,

1318
01:19:12,640 --> 01:19:16,279
normally spring training doesn't do anything, but James Wood's continued

1319
01:19:16,319 --> 01:19:20,000
struggles after the second half they're they're concerning enough to

1320
01:19:20,079 --> 01:19:22,720
me that I don't necessarily want to waste the second

1321
01:19:22,800 --> 01:19:28,119
round pick on somebody that's potentially gonna give me what

1322
01:19:28,239 --> 01:19:30,840
he did in the second half, which was absolutely terrible.

1323
01:19:32,880 --> 01:19:34,720
All right, Gray, any last comments before we get out

1324
01:19:34,720 --> 01:19:38,359
of here. Uh now, okay, Then if you have specific

1325
01:19:38,479 --> 01:19:41,199
questions as we get the opening day, you can find

1326
01:19:41,279 --> 01:19:43,479
us on x I am at rasbeat on Gray is

1327
01:19:43,520 --> 01:19:46,279
at Rasball. You can find us on YouTube dot com

1328
01:19:46,439 --> 01:19:50,399
slash rasball Fantasy, or on the rasball dot com site

1329
01:19:50,479 --> 01:19:51,399
in the comments section.

1330
01:19:52,439 --> 01:19:53,720
Speaker 3: Good luck to you in your leagues.

1331
01:19:54,039 --> 01:19:56,880
Speaker 1: May you set the perfect lineups in this first three

1332
01:19:56,960 --> 01:19:59,960
day four day period and we'll see you next week.

1333
01:20:00,399 --> 01:20:02,199
Speculator great alright, Lates