WEBVTT 1 00:00:12.759 --> 00:00:16.440 You like fantasy ball, sense talk chasm that I shall 2 00:00:16.519 --> 00:00:19.480 not me hear myself stops fans and they can't even 3 00:00:19.600 --> 00:00:26.079 count some of uniforcasom s rodo you ain't better the health? 4 00:00:26.320 --> 00:00:29.039 Well yeah, several charges on everyone coming. 5 00:00:28.879 --> 00:00:32.280 Else and I'm alreadium to hear my baby sounds just 6 00:00:32.399 --> 00:00:33.560 like your name was, Mark. 7 00:00:33.679 --> 00:00:38.840 And it's a ride by podcast. It's a rapop podcast. 8 00:00:39.600 --> 00:00:41.560 It's a rapp podcast. 9 00:00:42.439 --> 00:00:45.039 It's a ride bo podcast. 10 00:00:47.920 --> 00:00:52.280 It's a rap up podcast. Don't have a rap up podcast? 11 00:00:52.399 --> 00:00:55.119 Got a turn? It should rap bo podcast. 12 00:01:08.200 --> 00:01:12.359 Hey, everybody, welcome back in the rast Ball Fantasy Baseball Podcast. 13 00:01:12.599 --> 00:01:15.719 I am beat on, joined by the One, the only, 14 00:01:15.920 --> 00:01:18.519 the Fantasy Master, Lethario himself. 15 00:01:19.040 --> 00:01:21.079 Gray. All right, how's it going over there? 16 00:01:21.120 --> 00:01:21.319 Great? 17 00:01:21.680 --> 00:01:22.879 Hey, what's going on? 18 00:01:22.959 --> 00:01:23.120 Man? 19 00:01:23.159 --> 00:01:26.120 You know, I'm a little annoyed. To be honest, I'll 20 00:01:26.159 --> 00:01:28.920 be honest with you. Hey, Hey, good to see you. 21 00:01:29.040 --> 00:01:34.079 I'm a little annoyed though. I every actually every year 22 00:01:34.519 --> 00:01:36.920 around this time. You know why I'm mad? Right? You 23 00:01:37.079 --> 00:01:41.239 know you know what's coming. You know what's coming, don't you. 24 00:01:41.760 --> 00:01:46.560 Every year around this time I get so annoyed at 25 00:01:46.719 --> 00:01:51.519 the Hall of Fame inductions. I hate it. Man, I 26 00:01:51.560 --> 00:01:55.200 hated so much that that Barry Bonds is not in 27 00:01:55.239 --> 00:01:57.879 the Hall of Fame. Like it's like, I really feel 28 00:01:57.920 --> 00:02:02.439 like baseball is gas lighting all its fans by not 29 00:02:02.560 --> 00:02:06.120 putting Bond in the Hall of Fame. And this weekend 30 00:02:06.280 --> 00:02:12.800 was especially bad because Jeff Kent, Jeff Kent, of all people, 31 00:02:13.319 --> 00:02:17.719 of all people, Jeff Kent gets inducted into the Hall 32 00:02:17.800 --> 00:02:24.400 of Fame, the guy who directly benefited from Barry Bonds. Like, 33 00:02:24.719 --> 00:02:26.639 what are we doing? Man? 34 00:02:27.520 --> 00:02:27.800 God? 35 00:02:27.919 --> 00:02:34.719 Is it frustrating? A really angry but a way to 36 00:02:34.759 --> 00:02:36.879 start a podcast. I'm so mad. 37 00:02:40.199 --> 00:02:43.039 Yeah, Gray, I mean we have we have Barry Bonds 38 00:02:43.039 --> 00:02:49.199 not in but with him obviously Roger Clemans and Sammy Sosau, 39 00:02:49.479 --> 00:02:53.159 Many Ramirez. This was his last year for the ballot. 40 00:02:53.879 --> 00:02:57.520 He'll go He'll go to the you know, the players vote. 41 00:02:58.439 --> 00:02:59.439 So yeah, it's it's a. 42 00:02:59.400 --> 00:03:02.639 Really Manny's never getting in. He'll never get in with 43 00:03:02.680 --> 00:03:06.240 the Veterans Committee. If they don't let Bonds in on 44 00:03:06.280 --> 00:03:10.240 the Batterns Committee, they're never letting Manny in. And you know, 45 00:03:10.319 --> 00:03:13.120 it's honestly, like I say, like it feels like everyone's 46 00:03:13.240 --> 00:03:16.960 gaslighting us because it's like with our own eyes we 47 00:03:17.159 --> 00:03:21.919 watched these baseball We watched them and we were like, 48 00:03:22.159 --> 00:03:27.280 oh wow, and it's like, okay, but they cheated like well, 49 00:03:27.319 --> 00:03:32.639 first of all, ah, First of all, Pudge Rodriguez was 50 00:03:32.759 --> 00:03:36.599 nicknamed Pudge because he was so stocky. And then when 51 00:03:36.599 --> 00:03:39.639 he got traded to the Tigers and they started suspending 52 00:03:39.680 --> 00:03:44.960 people because the steroids, Pudge suddenly became Slim Rodriguez. So 53 00:03:45.400 --> 00:03:49.439 talk to me about steroids being in the Hall of Fame. Also, oh, 54 00:03:49.560 --> 00:03:54.319 Mike Biazza and Backne, Oh I do get that. Oh, oh, 55 00:03:54.400 --> 00:03:57.639 Mike Biazza sartainly started going through puberty at the age 56 00:03:57.680 --> 00:04:00.719 of thirty. Okay, yeah, sure, right, yeah, that's why he 57 00:04:00.759 --> 00:04:05.719 had Backne. Come on, man, come on, man, I so 58 00:04:05.879 --> 00:04:11.800 fired up. It's ridiculous though, seriously, because if anyone's like, oh, 59 00:04:11.800 --> 00:04:15.479 Barry Bonds was cheating like a he was never caught 60 00:04:15.520 --> 00:04:16.079 for cheating. 61 00:04:16.160 --> 00:04:20.600 B Steroids wasn't even illegal when he was doing them. 62 00:04:20.879 --> 00:04:24.079 There was no lung against steroids. It wasn't like, oh, 63 00:04:24.279 --> 00:04:28.040 you can't do steroids in the major leagues. 64 00:04:29.319 --> 00:04:31.639 There was no there was no rule on the books, 65 00:04:32.160 --> 00:04:36.240 and they put Bud Ceiling in the All Fame. He 66 00:04:36.480 --> 00:04:39.319 was the guy who orchestrated all this. 67 00:04:39.720 --> 00:04:42.079 Ah, I'm so mad. 68 00:04:43.199 --> 00:04:46.480 Saved the game? He did, ray And how exactly did 69 00:04:46.759 --> 00:04:50.399 that happen? How exactly did he He saved the game? 70 00:04:50.759 --> 00:04:54.519 Oh my god, save the game by covering up everything 71 00:04:54.560 --> 00:04:57.839 with his ugly ass to pay. That's how Ceilings saved 72 00:04:57.920 --> 00:04:58.360 the game. 73 00:04:59.399 --> 00:04:59.639 God? 74 00:05:00.279 --> 00:05:03.279 Oh, why would I start a podcast so mad? 75 00:05:04.600 --> 00:05:06.839 I mean, if you're looking for somebody to cover stuff up, 76 00:05:07.160 --> 00:05:09.800 it should start, like the search should start with somebody 77 00:05:10.079 --> 00:05:12.279 with a good tu pay, Like you know what, I 78 00:05:12.319 --> 00:05:14.639 didn't even know that was real. Like this is a 79 00:05:14.680 --> 00:05:16.879 good start, This is a this is a good start 80 00:05:16.920 --> 00:05:19.360 to what we're looking for at this position. 81 00:05:19.759 --> 00:05:20.639 What else have you come? 82 00:05:21.000 --> 00:05:23.920 Actually he covered up steroids as well as he covered 83 00:05:23.959 --> 00:05:30.040 up his bald head. Oh fired up? 84 00:05:32.680 --> 00:05:34.439 Well, Grey, I don't know if this topic is gonna 85 00:05:34.639 --> 00:05:36.480 gonna make you any less fired up. 86 00:05:36.560 --> 00:05:38.920 But let's talk about let's talk about Jose. 87 00:05:38.920 --> 00:05:43.680 Cabbiero's uh, you know day week, you know, this time 88 00:05:43.720 --> 00:05:48.439 of the year for for him, he's been and we 89 00:05:48.639 --> 00:05:52.319 shoot a few warnings and finally got called out and 90 00:05:52.319 --> 00:05:55.079 and there was a little bit of a bench clearing, 91 00:05:55.279 --> 00:05:58.879 and you know, the whole the whole thing over his 92 00:05:58.879 --> 00:06:02.600 his what you want to call it, his hitting preparation, 93 00:06:03.000 --> 00:06:06.800 Gray with with the with the shot clock on the 94 00:06:07.079 --> 00:06:09.720 on the or the pitch clock sorry wrong sport the 95 00:06:09.720 --> 00:06:10.319 pitch clock. 96 00:06:12.279 --> 00:06:16.199 And then of course in the same week Gray, he 97 00:06:16.360 --> 00:06:17.120 is called. 98 00:06:17.199 --> 00:06:21.600 Or he's he's given a ruling defensively that he purposely 99 00:06:21.720 --> 00:06:28.240 dropped an infield liner to make his double play hold off. 100 00:06:28.319 --> 00:06:32.240 That's it feels like COVID. 101 00:06:32.399 --> 00:06:36.639 Jose Cabriero is that guy in the comment section yelling 102 00:06:36.680 --> 00:06:40.000 about the ziplings and how he can write it all 103 00:06:40.040 --> 00:06:42.439 the way to the end, and you you have to 104 00:06:42.519 --> 00:06:44.759 let him in like this is this is what it's 105 00:06:44.800 --> 00:06:45.279 feeling like. 106 00:06:45.360 --> 00:06:48.879 Gray. Well, you know, I have actually complicated feelings on 107 00:06:49.040 --> 00:06:52.959 Jose Cabriiro, because, like, I think the pitch clock is 108 00:06:53.199 --> 00:06:57.000 legitimately good. I think it's I like the pitch clock. 109 00:06:57.120 --> 00:07:00.639 I mean I you know, as anyone who's familiar RAS ball, 110 00:07:00.759 --> 00:07:03.959 I write five times a week. I cover all the games, 111 00:07:04.319 --> 00:07:06.279 so it's nice for me that the games go a 112 00:07:06.319 --> 00:07:09.439 little bit faster. It was a little bit tough when 113 00:07:09.480 --> 00:07:13.040 it was like four hour games. So from a personal standpoint, 114 00:07:13.120 --> 00:07:16.240 I like two and a half hour games. I don't 115 00:07:16.279 --> 00:07:18.959 mind them. I like the pitch clock. I I do. 116 00:07:19.120 --> 00:07:23.319 I like, I like it a lot. But on the 117 00:07:23.360 --> 00:07:27.000 other hand, so this is how it gets complicated because 118 00:07:27.600 --> 00:07:31.319 like what Jose Cabrierra was doing was like, you have 119 00:07:31.399 --> 00:07:33.480 to you have to make eye contact with the picture 120 00:07:33.519 --> 00:07:36.199 at eight seconds left on the clock. Uh, and at 121 00:07:36.240 --> 00:07:38.800 that point the pitcher can then start his wind up. 122 00:07:39.399 --> 00:07:42.360 And they were saying that Cabiiro would get into the 123 00:07:42.399 --> 00:07:46.879 batter's box, stare it, stare it like the opposing dugout, 124 00:07:47.560 --> 00:07:52.920 like just looking off, looking off in mid distance, like, uh, Jose, 125 00:07:53.519 --> 00:07:56.040 you gotta you got an eye problem, bro, What why 126 00:07:56.079 --> 00:07:58.199 are you not turning your head? So he would just 127 00:07:58.279 --> 00:08:02.439 like stare straight ahead and look at like the first row, 128 00:08:02.879 --> 00:08:06.040 like he was making eye contact with a lady or 129 00:08:06.040 --> 00:08:09.680 something in the first row, and then at eight seconds 130 00:08:10.480 --> 00:08:13.480 he would turn to the picture, and that's when the 131 00:08:13.480 --> 00:08:16.000 picture could start to wind up. So now if he's 132 00:08:16.120 --> 00:08:19.759 looking so if Cabrierra was looking at the dugout or 133 00:08:19.879 --> 00:08:23.959 you know, the lady in the first row eating cotton candy, 134 00:08:24.360 --> 00:08:26.639 and he was saying like, if he was looking at 135 00:08:26.680 --> 00:08:30.000 her and the picture started to move, then the picture 136 00:08:30.000 --> 00:08:33.799 would get called for a pitchclock violation. If it was 137 00:08:33.840 --> 00:08:37.919 before eight seconds left and then so he was so 138 00:08:38.000 --> 00:08:41.120 Cabrierra was actually using that as an advantage, like he 139 00:08:41.279 --> 00:08:45.200 was getting a lot of pictures to move before he 140 00:08:45.240 --> 00:08:48.879 looked at them, and they were getting called for pitch violations. 141 00:08:48.879 --> 00:08:53.159 Now this week, the uh, the Office of the Commissioner, eh, 142 00:08:54.679 --> 00:09:00.519 the Office of the Commissioner said that Cabrierro can't do that, honestly. 143 00:09:00.759 --> 00:09:03.399 So that's where I get really conflicted, because it's like, 144 00:09:03.960 --> 00:09:07.600 why can't he do it? That's the rule. You just 145 00:09:07.679 --> 00:09:11.240 have to look at the picture with eight seconds left. 146 00:09:11.480 --> 00:09:14.279 So if I want to be, you know, trying to 147 00:09:14.320 --> 00:09:16.639 play head games and not look at the picture before 148 00:09:16.639 --> 00:09:21.720 eight seconds, it's like, okay, I mean what, Like I 149 00:09:21.759 --> 00:09:25.799 don't know. I honestly don't even know how this became, 150 00:09:27.080 --> 00:09:30.120 Like how this even became a rule where Cabiiro was 151 00:09:30.159 --> 00:09:32.879 wrong because like as much as I do like the 152 00:09:32.879 --> 00:09:36.200 pitch clock, he's kind of right. I mean he's doing 153 00:09:36.399 --> 00:09:40.440 I mean he's doing he's within the letter of the law. 154 00:09:40.720 --> 00:09:44.240 Like he's not looking at the picture until eight seconds, 155 00:09:44.320 --> 00:09:46.039 but as long as he looks at the picture at 156 00:09:46.039 --> 00:09:49.480 eight seconds, the picture can start then. And this is 157 00:09:49.519 --> 00:09:51.960 all you know, it's like, I mean, he was messing 158 00:09:52.039 --> 00:09:54.960 up the picture's rhythm for sure, but that's the idea. 159 00:09:55.080 --> 00:09:57.320 I mean, that's the whole point of hitting is to 160 00:09:57.399 --> 00:09:59.759 try and get the picture out of their game, and 161 00:09:59.840 --> 00:10:02.559 the pictures deal is to get the hitter out of 162 00:10:02.559 --> 00:10:05.799 their game. So I'm really kind of conflicted here. I 163 00:10:05.799 --> 00:10:09.720 feel like Cabriero is being painted as the bad guy, 164 00:10:10.240 --> 00:10:12.639 and I don't really see him as the bad guy. Like, 165 00:10:12.960 --> 00:10:17.200 I don't know, man, I I and I mean I 166 00:10:17.480 --> 00:10:20.279 I think I think Cabrierra was right to not look 167 00:10:20.279 --> 00:10:22.840 at the picture until eight seconds. He he found a 168 00:10:22.879 --> 00:10:24.559 loophole and he was exploiting it. 169 00:10:24.639 --> 00:10:29.360 I don't know. Yeah, the example of the examples I've 170 00:10:29.360 --> 00:10:31.720 seen kind of thrown together where it's like, oh, here's 171 00:10:31.720 --> 00:10:34.759 the examples where he's violating it. It's like he looks 172 00:10:34.759 --> 00:10:37.159 at the picture, but then he immediately looks either back 173 00:10:37.240 --> 00:10:40.600 towards the dugout or like down and so he like 174 00:10:40.679 --> 00:10:43.879 makes eye contact, but like then he looks elsewhere to 175 00:10:44.000 --> 00:10:46.480 kind of throw them off again to make it seem 176 00:10:46.559 --> 00:10:48.159 like he didn't make eye contact. 177 00:10:48.519 --> 00:10:50.639 That's so those are the ones that I've seen. 178 00:10:51.679 --> 00:10:54.759 Very funny, I mean, that's so hilarious. If that's what's 179 00:10:54.799 --> 00:10:59.080 going on, uh, Cabrierra. I mean, baseball needs a villain. 180 00:10:59.200 --> 00:11:01.799 So if Cabriero wants to step up and be the villain, 181 00:11:02.200 --> 00:11:05.679 that's awesome. I love it. You know, I'm all for 182 00:11:05.799 --> 00:11:13.080 him being a total idiot. I love it. I but yeah, 183 00:11:13.200 --> 00:11:14.720 I mean if he looks at the picture and then 184 00:11:14.759 --> 00:11:18.200 looks away and the picture starts, and then the picture 185 00:11:18.200 --> 00:11:21.080 gets called for a ball because of that or a 186 00:11:21.080 --> 00:11:25.039 pitchclock violation, which is a ball he would, then then 187 00:11:25.080 --> 00:11:28.279 there should be some sort of replay to see if 188 00:11:28.360 --> 00:11:30.639 Cabriirero looks at the picture like that's I mean you 189 00:11:30.679 --> 00:11:33.480 need to do You need to have replay involved then, 190 00:11:33.840 --> 00:11:37.159 like the like, if he looks at the picture and 191 00:11:37.159 --> 00:11:39.120 the picture starts and then the picture gets called for 192 00:11:39.200 --> 00:11:43.279 a ball or a violation, then the picture should say okay, 193 00:11:43.320 --> 00:11:45.759 well time out. Let's look at the replay and see 194 00:11:45.759 --> 00:11:47.600 if he looked at me like that, and then it 195 00:11:47.639 --> 00:11:50.279 should be a strike. Like they're like, there needs to 196 00:11:50.320 --> 00:11:54.240 be some like, you know, accountability. If Cabriirero is looking 197 00:11:54.279 --> 00:11:56.240 at the picture, but if he's just looking at the 198 00:11:56.320 --> 00:11:59.720 dugout and never looking at the picture, then I don't 199 00:11:59.720 --> 00:12:01.360 see the problem. 200 00:12:01.600 --> 00:12:04.000 So I would say, no more replay. I don't want 201 00:12:04.039 --> 00:12:07.080 I don't want replay. That's defeating the purpose of the 202 00:12:07.120 --> 00:12:11.200 pitch clock in the first place. At that point, let 203 00:12:11.559 --> 00:12:12.159 let's do this. 204 00:12:12.879 --> 00:12:14.759 I know, I agree, I agree with that, but I 205 00:12:14.799 --> 00:12:18.159 will say the replay. You do that once or twice, 206 00:12:18.440 --> 00:12:20.559 and Cabriyrre is gonna get the pitcher that he can't 207 00:12:20.600 --> 00:12:24.240 keep doing it. So I understand, I don't want more replay, 208 00:12:24.320 --> 00:12:26.799 but you know it's like you do it once. No, 209 00:12:27.120 --> 00:12:27.679 here's what we do. 210 00:12:27.759 --> 00:12:30.399 Great at eight seconds, it does not matter what the 211 00:12:30.440 --> 00:12:33.200 batter is doing. At eight seconds, the pitcher can throw. 212 00:12:33.759 --> 00:12:34.600 Yeah, if you pick. 213 00:12:34.679 --> 00:12:37.039 If the batter is not ready, screw it, that's you pitch. 214 00:12:37.240 --> 00:12:39.519 You can fast pitch him, you can slide pitch him, 215 00:12:39.559 --> 00:12:39.879 you can. 216 00:12:39.799 --> 00:12:40.559 Do whatever you want. 217 00:12:40.840 --> 00:12:43.960 If he's not ready, he's not ready, like or you 218 00:12:43.960 --> 00:12:46.480 can even say, like seven seconds, you give him extra 219 00:12:46.559 --> 00:12:49.840 second off of what they have to have him get ready. 220 00:12:50.200 --> 00:12:53.919 But it's seven seconds. Pitcher goes like, you're not ready. 221 00:12:54.080 --> 00:12:57.720 No, totally, the pit the hitter can't. The hitter can't 222 00:12:57.799 --> 00:13:02.039 quock time out and can't can't. Yeah, the hitter has 223 00:13:02.080 --> 00:13:05.080 no more control over the situation at eight seconds. I'm 224 00:13:05.120 --> 00:13:05.799 with that role. 225 00:13:06.519 --> 00:13:08.759 Yeah, no, that way, we don't know any whatever you play, 226 00:13:08.840 --> 00:13:11.840 there's no like questions of did he make eye contact? 227 00:13:11.879 --> 00:13:13.080 Did he not look? 228 00:13:13.120 --> 00:13:15.480 If the batter's ready, he makes eye contact, the pitcher 229 00:13:15.519 --> 00:13:17.000 can go, yeah, that's fine. 230 00:13:17.559 --> 00:13:19.720 Eight seconds and seven seconds. 231 00:13:19.919 --> 00:13:22.879 Just batter. Actually, how about we not even make the 232 00:13:22.879 --> 00:13:26.200 batter be ready like at eight seconds? Like it sounds 233 00:13:26.240 --> 00:13:30.200 like we're in the front office trying to figure that. Okay, 234 00:13:30.360 --> 00:13:33.720 so how about this. The batter is obligated to be 235 00:13:33.759 --> 00:13:36.480 in the box and be ready at eight seconds. Whether 236 00:13:36.600 --> 00:13:39.919 it happens, like, whether he's there or not doesn't matter. 237 00:13:40.000 --> 00:13:42.360 If he does not call time out and he's not 238 00:13:42.480 --> 00:13:45.279 in the box, it's too bad. The pitcher can start 239 00:13:45.360 --> 00:13:46.000 his wind up. 240 00:13:47.320 --> 00:13:48.200 Yeah, I'm fine with that. 241 00:13:48.639 --> 00:13:51.600 Okay, we got absolutely that. We figured it out. 242 00:13:52.039 --> 00:13:54.080 I mean, we can also just take six seconds off 243 00:13:54.120 --> 00:13:55.759 the clock and we'll just call it the pitch clock 244 00:13:55.799 --> 00:13:59.519 and it'll actually be the pitch like the pitcher has 245 00:13:59.559 --> 00:14:01.320 to start wind up by that time. 246 00:14:01.919 --> 00:14:05.240 Better you be ready by then. That's also an easy solution. 247 00:14:05.679 --> 00:14:06.480 Yeah. 248 00:14:06.679 --> 00:14:09.600 Yeah, there's there's so many ways to do this where 249 00:14:09.639 --> 00:14:13.159 this doesn't even come into play. But let's let's we've 250 00:14:13.240 --> 00:14:16.559 we've ramble for a long time. Great, let's let's make 251 00:14:16.679 --> 00:14:18.759 let's move this to a fantasy side. Let's at least 252 00:14:18.799 --> 00:14:23.679 talk about Jose Cavierro rest of season Jose Caviero or 253 00:14:24.360 --> 00:14:25.159 Chandler Simpson. 254 00:14:26.840 --> 00:14:34.000 Uh I, you know, I'm gonna go Calliero mostly because 255 00:14:34.120 --> 00:14:38.279 I feel like, uh, well, he knows when to look 256 00:14:38.320 --> 00:14:38.759 at the picture. 257 00:14:39.440 --> 00:14:43.799 No. No, I'm going Cabro mostly because he adds a 258 00:14:43.840 --> 00:14:46.679 little bit of power. I mean it's very minimal, and 259 00:14:46.919 --> 00:14:53.759 uh uh, I think like Chandler, like Chandler Simpson, like 260 00:14:54.039 --> 00:14:56.360 I think it's probably a little bit of the grass 261 00:14:56.440 --> 00:14:59.279 is greener on the other side, because like, I actually 262 00:14:59.320 --> 00:15:02.480 have Simpson in a few leagues, and I wish I 263 00:15:02.559 --> 00:15:06.600 had anyone but him that could steal bases because I'm 264 00:15:06.639 --> 00:15:09.720 kind of sick of starting Simpson. To be totally frank, like, 265 00:15:09.759 --> 00:15:14.279 I wish I had like nacyum Nunez or Caballero instead 266 00:15:14.279 --> 00:15:18.679 of Simpson. So yeah, I'm gonna go caby Hero over Simpson. 267 00:15:19.639 --> 00:15:26.519 Okay, how about how about your former boy? 268 00:15:27.480 --> 00:15:30.960 Oh man, you're going back like five years to say 269 00:15:31.480 --> 00:15:41.200 my bully. I I don't think like Boba Schett like 270 00:15:41.279 --> 00:15:45.360 I actually so, I put in a bit recently for 271 00:15:45.440 --> 00:15:48.720 Boba Schett to pick him up, but that was a 272 00:15:49.200 --> 00:15:53.639 uh an L only league. It was NL only league. 273 00:15:53.679 --> 00:15:56.039 He was dropped in an NL only league. So that 274 00:15:56.080 --> 00:15:58.159 gives you an idea of where I think boba Schett's 275 00:15:58.200 --> 00:16:01.039 value is right now. I think it was wrong to 276 00:16:01.120 --> 00:16:03.080 dropping him in the and I only I like, I 277 00:16:03.080 --> 00:16:05.480 would have picked him up if I had, if my 278 00:16:05.559 --> 00:16:10.279 bid had won. But anyway, I'll go kaby Ro for Bobachhet. 279 00:16:11.240 --> 00:16:12.679 All right. How about Jareddaran? 280 00:16:14.519 --> 00:16:16.799 Uhh, that's tough. 281 00:16:17.360 --> 00:16:17.519 You know. 282 00:16:17.639 --> 00:16:19.159 Duran's really been terrible. 283 00:16:19.360 --> 00:16:23.639 He's been awful as he's awful, it's. 284 00:16:23.480 --> 00:16:27.720 Uh yeah, I wonder if he gets traded. I'm going 285 00:16:27.840 --> 00:16:31.120 Caballero over Duran. I think I think Duran needs a 286 00:16:31.240 --> 00:16:33.120 Duran is probably the number one guy who needs like 287 00:16:33.159 --> 00:16:34.320 a change of scenery. 288 00:16:35.759 --> 00:16:38.519 Yeah, I could see that, although that may just also 289 00:16:38.559 --> 00:16:40.679 take everything he has going, because if you can't hit 290 00:16:40.720 --> 00:16:42.360 in Boston, like, where the hell are you gonna hit? 291 00:16:44.519 --> 00:16:49.440 Rockies? What are you up to? Hey? Hey, sack Sack Town, 292 00:16:49.559 --> 00:16:50.279 what's up man? 293 00:16:51.159 --> 00:16:54.200 Rockies in dust? Feel like a very Jared dar in 294 00:16:54.320 --> 00:16:57.960 place for him to go. But anyways, how about speech 295 00:16:58.039 --> 00:16:58.960 to Josh Naylor. 296 00:17:00.840 --> 00:17:04.880 Uh, I'm still going nail Or over cabri Era. 297 00:17:05.759 --> 00:17:08.720 Yeah, I think I would to unless you need like 298 00:17:08.839 --> 00:17:12.960 Cabriira's position flexibility, like if that's a big thing for you, 299 00:17:12.960 --> 00:17:15.759 you have limited benches or you know, a bunch of 300 00:17:15.759 --> 00:17:17.960 injured guys. I could see that, But yeah, I would go. 301 00:17:18.079 --> 00:17:20.920 I would go Nailer and uh, you know, just be 302 00:17:21.000 --> 00:17:24.000 professional here. I'm gonna I'm gonna go with a transitional 303 00:17:24.039 --> 00:17:24.359 guy here. 304 00:17:24.480 --> 00:17:24.680 Greg. 305 00:17:25.079 --> 00:17:27.240 Hey, look Durbin, who's getting more playing time? 306 00:17:27.960 --> 00:17:33.799 Mm hmmm, Uh, that's tough, man. I think I'd probably 307 00:17:33.839 --> 00:17:37.000 go Durban. But it feels like a toss up. It 308 00:17:37.039 --> 00:17:37.960 feels pretty close. 309 00:17:38.880 --> 00:17:42.359 Yeah, it does. I think I'd probably still go Caballero there, 310 00:17:42.400 --> 00:17:45.160 but you know it is, it is very close. 311 00:17:45.279 --> 00:17:48.279 And as I mentioned, Durban is getting more playing. 312 00:17:48.000 --> 00:17:53.359 Time because the Red Sox have made a couple of moves. Actually, 313 00:17:53.359 --> 00:17:55.559 I guess Durbin was getting the same playing time. Just 314 00:17:56.799 --> 00:18:00.599 I'm gonna get a new new teammate here and Curtis 315 00:18:00.640 --> 00:18:03.200 Mead coming from the Nationals as the Red Sox trade 316 00:18:03.240 --> 00:18:07.400 away cononly early Curtis maid has eighty seven games this year, 317 00:18:07.559 --> 00:18:10.319 seventeen home run six dollar bases. He's hitting two fixed 318 00:18:10.359 --> 00:18:15.480 four three fifty to five hundred, nineteen percent strikeouts eleven 319 00:18:15.480 --> 00:18:19.680 point nine percent walk should slot in as the everyday. 320 00:18:19.240 --> 00:18:21.359 Second basement for the Red Sox, and in. 321 00:18:21.359 --> 00:18:24.920 Theory, before we get to like the trade value and everything, 322 00:18:25.000 --> 00:18:26.880 let's just talk about the players. What do you think 323 00:18:26.880 --> 00:18:28.599 about Curtis meat with the Red Sox? 324 00:18:30.920 --> 00:18:34.680 So? Okay, so I was, you know, I was perusing 325 00:18:35.759 --> 00:18:41.599 people's opinions on the socials, uh, for the Curtis Mead 326 00:18:41.799 --> 00:18:45.960 Early trade, and it seems like it's kind of like 327 00:18:46.079 --> 00:18:51.519 a one of those like posters, like depending on which 328 00:18:51.640 --> 00:18:55.839 angle you look at it, it's like, oh that's a rose, 329 00:18:56.200 --> 00:19:04.079 Oh that's a toilet. It's kind of like it depends 330 00:19:04.119 --> 00:19:09.119 on how you perceive Curtis meeting finally early on whether 331 00:19:09.240 --> 00:19:11.200 or not this trade was a win for the Red 332 00:19:11.240 --> 00:19:15.880 Sox or than that's because like so early, as of 333 00:19:16.200 --> 00:19:19.039 you know, three months ago, people thought Early was going 334 00:19:19.119 --> 00:19:22.240 to be a huge prospect, like they like he was. 335 00:19:22.839 --> 00:19:27.079 I believe he was touted higher than even Peyton toll 336 00:19:27.480 --> 00:19:30.960 uh and everyone at the beginning of this season was 337 00:19:31.000 --> 00:19:36.559 like Curtis Mead is a quad a player and it's 338 00:19:36.559 --> 00:19:39.440 a joke that the Nationals are even starting them. So 339 00:19:40.119 --> 00:19:43.200 like the fact, and then you know that obviously switched 340 00:19:43.440 --> 00:19:48.920 this season, but did three months of this season change everything? 341 00:19:49.279 --> 00:19:52.880 Is I guess where people's perceptions of this trade are, 342 00:19:53.039 --> 00:19:57.039 and it's like, I I don't know. I mean, I 343 00:19:57.079 --> 00:20:00.680 would trust that the Red Sox know more about Early's 344 00:20:00.920 --> 00:20:05.480 arm than anyone else. So if they think like he's actually, 345 00:20:05.720 --> 00:20:10.160 you know, really cooked, then I mean I could see 346 00:20:10.200 --> 00:20:12.599 why they would want to dump him for Curtis Mead. 347 00:20:13.039 --> 00:20:17.079 On the other hand, Curtis Mead looks really good, but 348 00:20:17.160 --> 00:20:19.839 maybe the Nationals see something and they're like, oh, he 349 00:20:19.880 --> 00:20:23.640 can't keep this up. So it may be it may 350 00:20:23.680 --> 00:20:26.240 be a basic like it may be six and one 351 00:20:26.319 --> 00:20:29.640 half a dozen of another and they're both not very good, 352 00:20:30.319 --> 00:20:34.759 or they're both very good, or one's good and one's not. 353 00:20:35.440 --> 00:20:39.319 It's really tough to say. Uh. As for like fantasy, 354 00:20:39.839 --> 00:20:42.160 I like this move for Curtis Mead. As you mentioned 355 00:20:42.200 --> 00:20:46.079 earlier with Duran, Fenway's a great park. You're you'd be 356 00:20:46.200 --> 00:20:49.799 hard pressed to find a better one in the in 357 00:20:49.839 --> 00:20:53.079 the al outside of like Bing Bong. Uh, It's a 358 00:20:53.400 --> 00:20:57.240 you know, it's for a righty too. Curtis Mead's alrighty 359 00:20:57.920 --> 00:21:01.119 for a righty hitting balls off the wall is like, 360 00:21:01.400 --> 00:21:03.640 you know, it's a dream man, Like he's a two 361 00:21:03.799 --> 00:21:08.559 fifty four hitter so far this season. He's probably two 362 00:21:08.599 --> 00:21:12.359 seventy five in Fenway just for polling balls. I mean, 363 00:21:12.680 --> 00:21:15.720 it's just natural common sense. Like if a guy's gonna hit, 364 00:21:16.119 --> 00:21:19.559 you know, three hundred and twenty foot fly balls and 365 00:21:19.759 --> 00:21:23.119 have it become a double, it's gonna be better for him. 366 00:21:23.519 --> 00:21:26.200 So I yeah, I mean, Curtis Mead gets a I 367 00:21:26.240 --> 00:21:30.279 think he gets a pretty good boost up in value. 368 00:21:30.000 --> 00:21:33.400 The only real concern I have for me is exactly 369 00:21:33.599 --> 00:21:37.759 how are they deploying him. I'm assuming if he goes 370 00:21:37.759 --> 00:21:41.240 a second and he's every day that's great. I'm all 371 00:21:41.279 --> 00:21:45.920 for it. I wonder if they're just gonna, like, you know, 372 00:21:45.960 --> 00:21:48.400 because they have they haven't really as of the recording 373 00:21:48.400 --> 00:21:53.279 of this, we haven't seen a post trade lineup, so 374 00:21:53.400 --> 00:21:56.039 we don't know exactly right now, so it's a little 375 00:21:56.039 --> 00:21:59.240 bit of speculation. But if Meat is gonna be everyday 376 00:21:59.240 --> 00:22:03.279 second baseman, great, no, then you know, then he's probably 377 00:22:04.039 --> 00:22:10.359 a top ten second baseman, maybe even higher. If he's 378 00:22:10.839 --> 00:22:13.759 used in any sort of platoon, then we'll have to 379 00:22:13.759 --> 00:22:17.119 see how the platoon is. Uh. But it's hard because 380 00:22:17.119 --> 00:22:20.640 he's a righty, like I said, and alrighty getting platooned 381 00:22:20.759 --> 00:22:24.240 means he's only facing lefties, which would be awful for 382 00:22:24.319 --> 00:22:26.640 his value. But I don't know why the Red Sox 383 00:22:26.640 --> 00:22:30.079 would trade Connolly early to have Curtis Mead come in 384 00:22:30.119 --> 00:22:33.240 and only face lefties like That's that would be crazy. 385 00:22:33.359 --> 00:22:37.440 So I'm assuming Curtis Mead is gonna play nearly every day. 386 00:22:37.640 --> 00:22:40.400 He's gonna hit somewhere in the uh you know, top 387 00:22:41.640 --> 00:22:45.920 five of the lineup at worst, maybe in the top three, 388 00:22:46.480 --> 00:22:49.359 and he's gonna be uh, he's gonna be very valuable. 389 00:22:49.359 --> 00:22:51.720 He's gonna get second base eligibility, he's gonna have. It's 390 00:22:51.759 --> 00:22:55.319 a nice little boost for Curtis Mead. You know, he's 391 00:22:55.319 --> 00:23:00.519 not gonna suddenly start, you know, stealing thirty bags, and 392 00:23:00.640 --> 00:23:02.559 you know, he's not gonna he's not gonna become the 393 00:23:02.759 --> 00:23:04.880 uh you know, he's not gonna become a first rounder 394 00:23:05.319 --> 00:23:07.359 just with this trade. But I think he gets a 395 00:23:07.359 --> 00:23:10.839 little nice boost and uh, yeah, it's not bad. Chris 396 00:23:10.839 --> 00:23:16.640 me is definitely a target for AO only, And I 397 00:23:16.640 --> 00:23:19.880 mean he should really be rostered by now in any 398 00:23:20.039 --> 00:23:23.559 mixed league. Yeah, I mean he should have been for 399 00:23:23.599 --> 00:23:25.880 a while. He's been, he's been solid all year. 400 00:23:27.720 --> 00:23:29.519 Yeah, I mean, I feel like this is really gonna 401 00:23:29.519 --> 00:23:34.400