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Speaker 1: Greedy's socitations. Everyone. It's Rich Wilson. Welcome to Fantasy Baseball Live.

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The day is July third, and it's about nine thirty

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in the morning, Tim, and my Apple watch says it's

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eighty eight degrees already here in beautiful New Jersey. The

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weather here, I don't know what it's like in Canada.

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It has been absolutely you go out, it's like a furnace.

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It's hot, it's humid, and it hasn't rained and at all,

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so we haven't had any chance to cool down. It's

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absolutely miserable.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I wouldn't want temperatures like that. It's been warm here.

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It's almost seventy degrees here at eight twenty five in

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the morning, and it's to be up in the mid eighties.

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And I think, I think southern Ontario and you know

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that we call it the Golden the Golden Horseshoe that

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work from Toronto through the Montreal high population, they're they're

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experiencing a lot of the same weather that you are

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right now. And you know, you get you know, the

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humidity is ninety eight percent and it's that hot. It's

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it's hard to go anywhere without ending up soaking wet.

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And miserable. It's just too hot. It's not good.

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Speaker 1: It's not good. I get my run in about six

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o'clock in the morning. I hate running that early because

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I'm half asleep, but otherwise, I mean, it's dangerous. You

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just can't do it. And I know there's going to

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be day games this weekend with the ballplayers, and I

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don't know. Wasn't it a Vasquez? I read that he

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fainted yesterday, So so I mean, I mean, it doesn't

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matter how well off, how good of shape you are.

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I mean, you can't handle this weather. It's tough.

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Speaker 2: No, no, you gotta be constantly hydrating, constantly, and be

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very very careful. I know, with my ticker issues, I'm

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not even supposed to be out in weather or much

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over eighty degrees. When I go to Arizona on a

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really hot day, what I'll do is I'll sit through

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the first two three innings and go to my car

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and sit there for ten to fifteen minutes with the

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AC on, cool my body temperature down a little, and

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then go back and watch baseball for a bit. But

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you know, you can't cool around in temperatures like this.

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It can lead to some serious issues.

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Speaker 1: Three I can remember three distinct days of it being

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the hottest I've ever been one, and this stands above

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everyone else. We try to go to the US Open,

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the tennis match every chance we get, which is an

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amazing sporting it and it's just an amazing time there.

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But we don't go and sit in the big stadium.

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You sit in the outlining stadiums and see some of

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the qualifying rounds. But we went one year. I think

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it got to be one hundred and four degrees and

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you're sitting in the sun in the asphalt already. It

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was unbullieved. I mean, Laurie and I talk about that

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day all the time, how hot we were. Remember that

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second time was in Glendale watching a White Sox and

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whatever of the sitting in that hot sun, going oh

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my god. It was early October and it was again

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one hundred degrees and it was no humidity, but you

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just baked. And then the third time was at English

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Race Track in New Jersey when Matt and his buddies

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used to love to go to something called the Warp Tour,

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which is the outdoor venue of of emo bands and

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just bands, and it was at a it was at

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a drag strip. They had all these stadiums all over

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the dragstrip and it was again one hundred and three

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hundred and four degrees and I remember people just falling over.

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I mean, people were always at the cooling stations and

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the first day kids they were. Everybody was to dehydrate it.

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And I remember going back to my car watching some

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bands after about an hour, going back to my car,

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just sitting in the air conditioning for five minutes before

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you go. Yeah, it was those really hot days stand

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out on you.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, no, they definitely do. And like Arizona. I've got

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a lot of friends that live in Arizona, and I

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asked them, like, how do you survive the summers? They

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were always asking me how do we survive the winters?

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And Nicol, how did how do you survive the summers?

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And what they all said the same thing. You get

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up at six thirty seven o'clock in the morning, you

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go out, you do your grocery shopping, you take care

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of everything you have to do out in the public,

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and by ten ten thirty in the morning, you're back home,

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air conditioning comfort, and you don't go out. It's a

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simple is that.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Yeah, it's it's crazy stuff. But we're here to

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talk baseball, my friend, and reviewing the first half and

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looking to the second half. But my first question is

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are halfway point? What lessons have you learned? I'm gonna

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I'm going to hijack the podcast him. Can we talk

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about Amaya.

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Speaker 2: Waiting?

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Speaker 1: I just I'm just pitched and and this is why.

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And let me emmote for a moment, and then you

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can comment. If a picture I get it. If a

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picture is no good, you know, Michael Lorenzen, I use

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him as a pitching in Colorado. You're expecting a five

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and a half year, a three to four innings, just

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that that's who the picture is. And he's consistently bad.

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But yeah, yeah, yeah, am Ia pitch on the twenty

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fifth of June against at Detroit, six innings, two hits,

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ten strikeouts, in one walk, and then back on the

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uh MA had the no hitter. Six innings, two strikeouts,

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four walks. I mean, somehow he's a joint no hitter.

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But then he's got these intermixed with zero point two

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innings at Kansas City. I mean, you're gonna start him

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at Kansas City.

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Speaker 3: It's seven, Yes, you're gonna start the Lorenzo the Kansas

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City exactly.

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Speaker 4: It's five urned runs.

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Speaker 1: And then and then the debacle one the third innings

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at minnes home against Minnesota again, four hits, five urn runs,

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five walks. This guy, Timmy, you always say he's consistent.

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He's inconsistent in his consistency anywhere.

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Speaker 2: But yeah, if you've.

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Speaker 1: I'm not done. If you take a book at the

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at the games, I think it's twelve games started. The

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only team that he's played at, I think that has

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a winning record. That's any good as Milwaukee. Every it's

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been Detroit, Cleveland, Kansas City, the Athletics, Minnesota, Seattle twice,

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Los Angeles Angels. Who the hell is this guy? He stinks.

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I I can't trust him, and I know I'm gonna

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put him on my bench and he's going to go

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out in pull six innings, three hits, nowhere runs in

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eight strikeouts.

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Speaker 2: Now yeah, it's frustrating his hacker. You know, I don't

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have any ancestry. I cannot explain this. The stuff is

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good enough a three ear a pictures with high strikeo

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better than strikeout burning numbers. But it's like he's there

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some days, but he's not, you know, I mean, like

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we see the er, like you said, two thirds of

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a nitting fiber and runs, Well, how do you how

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do you pitch it?

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Speaker 5: No?

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Speaker 2: Here, I don't care whether it's one of the worst

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teams in the game. Are one of the best teams?

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Tell us a no hitter. You gotta know what you're

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doing to strike out ten major league batters, even Kansas

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City batters. Okay, you got to know how to throw

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the ball. Yet he will look like the second coming

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of Cy Young one day and totally unfit to be

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in the game the next. I don't get it. I

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can't figure it out. This stuff is good, this stuff

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is good enough that he should be a very good,

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above average pitcher. But it's like when he loses it, it's gone.

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Speaker 1: It's gone.

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Speaker 2: I mean, there's it's the coming back.

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Speaker 1: The extremes are unbelievable. I mean, you get guys going

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and get blown up every once in a while. I

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get it, But how can you go back to backs

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games of double digit strikeouts sandwiched in between two stinkers

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where it's five earned runs and at ending or less.

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I mean, I I don't understand that.

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Speaker 2: I don't either. I got no answers for either Zippo

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not a single. I don't know what is. I don't

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know what is happening. It seems like once he loses it, okay,

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it's there's no coming back, and that shouldn't be Okay,

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there's you know, I'm going back to Yogi Bear in

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a statement, ninety percent of the game is half mental. Okay,

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we're seeing an example of that. I think with a Maya,

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the skills are there, but at some point in time,

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if and when he loses it, it's gone.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. I tell hy I took a look at the

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in the specific games, and it's not location. I mean,

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when he loses it, he can't. He can throw strikes,

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but he has no command. It is straight down the

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heart of the plate, just meatballs and just getting his

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forcing which just gets destroyed.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. I don't know what the answer is as a

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team or as a manager, but maybe what they should

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try is if he starts a game and he doesn't

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have it, okay, just get him out of there right away,

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because at this point in stage of the game, odds

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are pretty good that he ain't coming back from that.

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Speaker 1: Okay, So but it can unravel though, I mean that's

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I mean, what do you have a guy up warming

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in the bullpen in the first standing before the game starts.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean yeah it does. Yeah, I'll agree with you, Philos. Yeah,

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I can't save your ear a.

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Speaker 2: A little bit, wouldn't it.

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Speaker 1: It's it's it's it's very bizarre. It's very very frustrating.

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I mean, I just I mean, I mean, I look

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at the data and is the four seamers really not

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a very good pitch. I know, he throws ninety five

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miles an hour, but it's flat as an arrow I mean,

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or straight as an arrow, flat, you know, whatever you

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want to call it. I mean, it's just it's got

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a great slider forty rate. No one can hit a

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split finger, but he just doesn't have a very good fastball,

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and when he loses his his command of it, it

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just gets destroyed.

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Speaker 2: Well yeah, I hey, I'm in last place in Labor Mixed, okay,

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and I have Amaya and five inning Freddy. Is that

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explain where my pitching is this year in that league?

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Speaker 1: I know?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's yeah. And you know what, I'm at the

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stage right now where I'm just gonna wheel the mode

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every start because my ear am are totally destroyed because

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of the two of them. Hunter Brown was my number

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one in that league, the Boots, So I've been dealing

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with injuries. I'm just wheeling him out, okay, and I'll

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take whatever he gives me. Yeah, because I'm sitting last

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the air and whip and there's no coming back from that, right,

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So i might as well take the strikeouts that he's

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going to give me when he gives them to me.

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Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure. I'm pretty sure I don't have all

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of his good starts because I was afraid to put

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him in. I'm almost I'm confident I have all of

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his bad starts. I'm pretty sure. Ye, well, yeah, we're

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safe now. And then you put him in and it's oh.

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Speaker 2: Come on, well yeah yeah, because you're playing the game

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the right way. Okay, he's struggling, so you don't start him.

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He pitches a no hitter, you put him back in. Yeah,

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no hitter, okay. Then he allows five and runs in

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two thirds of an inning that's counting. Then you take

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him out because he's a bombing. He throws another ten

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STRIKEO Jim. Yeah, that's that's tough to work with.

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Speaker 1: It's it's it's it's impossible. It's impossible. Yeah, I mean

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you either just have to close your eyes and deal

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with it or just drop him. I mean he feels like, yeah,

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you can. You can do yourself a lot of good

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by just dropping him, at least mental good. I'm getting

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to that point. I've got him in one Dynasty League

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and I got him on the NFC team, and I

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feel like, I just I hate the guy.

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Speaker 2: I just do.

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Speaker 1: I don't want to put him in it's it's it's

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too frustrating.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, totally get it. I totally get it. I don't

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know what I'm gonna do for next year. I'm hoping

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we see a little bit of consistency in the second half.

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he's going to be on my touchless next spring.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. And then if he has a good seat, and

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if he if he continues the way he is and

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you personally, you just got lucky. I mean that's all

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ill is. Yeah, and you just got lucky.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Well, it's much the same with Freddie Peralta. You got unlucky.

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Speaker 1: I think it's I think it's the Mets. I don't

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like to pin stuff on performances on a team situation,

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but that from everything I'm reading, is just the clubhouse

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is just a mess. And I'm just wanted to front.

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I mean, because he's a walk here. I mean, like

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this is the year that he should be doing. He's

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going to get traded. I think he I think he.

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Speaker 2: Improves, yes, and when he does get traded, I think

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restore a lot of the value lost because they'll go

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into free agency negotiations saying, hey, the Mets are a mess.

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He was a proroduct of that mess. We got him

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out of there. He pitched well after, after he escaped

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the doldrums, and I think if he gets traded, then

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turns things around and returns to the brawl so that

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we've seen in the past. I don't think it'll affect

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his free agent standing all that much. But it's easy

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to blame the Mets, right.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree, Yeah, it's but if he doesn't to me,

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then he's he's losing money left and right. I mean,

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it's it's not a good situation anyway. I'm going to

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go back and ask you get back to our notes

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were at the halfway point. Yeah, what what lessons have

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you learned or reminded of when reflecting on the first half.

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Speaker 2: I got about six or seven of them here, but wow, yeah, yeah,

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and I think they're all fairly, fairly valid. Number One,

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you can never have enough starting pitching in today's game.

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It's yeah, you just can't dan you Nope.

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Speaker 1: You can't. They get hurt and they underperform, and you

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also can't. You can't sit there and say, oh, I

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drafted enough pitching. If a guy gets off to a

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strong start, he's on the way where you got to

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pick him up.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, you got to be aggressive very much.

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Speaker 4: So Fosters a great example.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and that leads into my next when the draft's important,

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but working hard and utilizing the free agent pool is

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paramount to success, especially with the number of young players

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being promoted. And they're not all going to be success stories,

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but there are going to be some. And we're going

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to see these younger players earlier and earlier all the time,

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and more of them. It's a six month grind. You

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can't take time off and expect to finish at the

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top of your league. You've got to be working it

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hard all the time.

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Speaker 1: I think that's fantas asked to give me. Give me

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your third one.

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Speaker 2: Buy an elite closer. Okay, your top five.

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Speaker 1: This coming from the guy that that signed Diaz. Yes,

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that that that didn't work out so well, but I

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get you.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Mason Miller, Lewan Duran, Kate Smith. You know, barring

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the injury situation, Edwin Diaz and Josh Ada, I'm sure

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we'll also be up on top. The bets have done

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very well this year. The teams that are struggling are

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the teams with mediocre arms oh okay, and very limited

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proven history for the most part. Now I said you can,

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you can go through and you look at a role

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as Chapman Munos has turned during his season around, there

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are very very few new guys. Per Se is the one.

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Speaker 1: He's the guy that kind of pops into my mind

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because I because I I obviously I think it's not

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a secret that I despise closers. But I did pick

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up Jacob Blounts in a few leagues, along with everybody

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else that you recommended. But that was the one that

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I got right, or you got right. I got right,

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And it's just Russian Roulette with closers. I mean that's

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you're just guessing.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I I know next spring, I'm going to

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make it a point to Wana Ross or one of

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direct Josh Hader or Louis Iarland or said.

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Speaker 1: Another guy that that that that popped up the season

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as well.

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Speaker 2: But for the most part, if you look through the

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saves and look through the top fifteen or so, there's

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a lot of veteran returning closures on that list. So

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I think it's important to get one for stability purposes. Yeah,

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it's yeah, do.

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Speaker 1: You really have six or do you know what? A yeah,

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I've got I've got to habit. Give me one more?

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Speaker 2: One? Okay, one more? Uh, I'm torn between two here.

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The real game is constantly evolving and changing. We have

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to do the same. The ability to adapt is crucial

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when building and running a fantasy game.

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Speaker 1: Give me an example.

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Speaker 2: Okay, I did this right, because one of my other

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points is the bugs, Bundy types, rabbits. They're a thing

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in the past. Okay. The overall stolen base leader is

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Nasim Nunez with thirty two. He's rostered of forty three

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percent as of yesterday, and as late as week twelve,

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only twenty five percent you got to get some power

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with that speed. Now, fifteen years ago to ten years ago,

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you a guy like Nunias would have been rostered to

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the tune of one hundred percent right out of the gate.

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You know, the stolen base potential was so so high,

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maybe not one hundred. He would have been rostered at

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seventy five percent by week three of the season as

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soon as he started running okay. In today's game, and

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with the changes to the the bases okay and the

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increased stolen bases, a guy like Nunia is, like I said,

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as a today, he's rostered a forty three percent, and

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he's he is your stolen base leader. You've got to

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get power with that speed game today. You can't go

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with the rabbits. The one pier types would not survive

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in today's game. And if you think they would, then

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you're gonna you're gonna have some problems.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's why I never understood the Chandler Simpson going

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in as high as did I. It's just right, and

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you've you've just got to You've got to have Aaron

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Judges at all the other positions, not all of them,

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but I mean, Aaron Judge gets hurt obviously, but you've

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got to you got a big power to make up

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for that, and the math becomes extremely difficult to make

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it work.

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Speaker 2: So I totally agree with you. Yeah, it's a lot different.

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If you've got a guy that hits ten twelve home

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runs and seals twenty five bases, that's right, you, Yeah

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you could, Yeah, you can work with that. But the

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guys that are short categories, it gets tough, and it

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gets tough quick.

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Speaker 1: Which player did you get wrong at the draft table?

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Non injury? But you just thought he'd be better?

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Speaker 2: Oh? The guy that I got really really wrong was

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led Junior four homers, thirty four? Are you as I thought?

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After after last year and everything that came down? Megan

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the World Series coming within an inch of the Big

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Prize and he had a good year last year. I

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thought a monster year was in the store. I really did.

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And I got that badly, badly wrong. I didn't see anything.

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There's no indication, nothing, It just yeah, it just hasn't happened.

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It's it's sort of sad, it really is. I was.

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I was. I was deadly wrong. Right right across the

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boarder the black girl.

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Speaker 1: I think he's going to pull a James Wood. James

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Wood was the same thing in the second half last season,

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where the power just completely disappeared and he was still

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hitting the ball hard. It just wasn't happening. I just

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have to believe you hit the ball as hard as

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Lad Junior does, you're going to hit home runs and

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he's got to leverage. I get it, but even still,

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you should be able to hit some home runs. I'm

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it's shocking what he has done.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. No, that's that's the one that I got very

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very wrong.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm going to give you that one was hard

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to determine. It was wrong to me. Mine was I

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didn't do my homework because Jacob Marcy is my guy,

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and the all of the all of the signs were there,

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and I just didn't dig in deep enough.

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Speaker 2: One.

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Speaker 1: There's some bad splits in there that have really become

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a problem. He can't hit lefties and the power, which

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you know, I thought he was hitting the ball hard

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last season. So I did my homework there, but I

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didn't look back to other seasons and you see low

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eggs and velossity, low egs, velossity, and then you see

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this anomaly sitting there with his time up in the

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major leagues and that was a red flag that he

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needs to be able to replicate that over a longer

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period of time, and he's not been able to do that.

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And then you throw in the fact that, yeah, he's fast,

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but he's not a burner. I got it wronged him.

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That has just not worked out for me at all.

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Speaker 2: No, and hey, that bear fair enough. There were there

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were some indicators there and hey, you missed them. I

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think a lot of people missed them, Okay, and uh,

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we're going to see a correction next spring, guaranteed.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean, like I think he's a fourth outfielder.

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That's what I thought we was coming through the minor leagues.

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Like I just I just got carried away with the

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season last year and I just dig in deep and

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that just bums me out.

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Speaker 2: Well, it happens. There's a lot of players in the game,

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and there it's it's tough to stay on top of everything.

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Speaker 1: It really is which player did you get right? And

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wish she had more shares of.

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Speaker 2: Oh well I got three of them.

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Speaker 1: Maya uh.

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Speaker 2: No shot yes, uh Kazuma Comortal oh yeah call yeah,

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oh yeah? I Hey, I liked him coming out of

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Japan a lot more than everybody else, and I didn't

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get as many shares a lot of the leagues I'm in.

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I got sniped on Oakramoro. I think I've only got

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two shares, and it's not for lack of triting trying that.

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The other Louis Berlin, that's obvious. I was onto him

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and I, hey, I've still I've got about seven shares,

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but I wish I had three more to make it

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a full sweep. And the one guy that I have

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no shares of that I got right, it just didn't

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work out right at the draft was your Dan Alvarez.

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I man, he's having He's having the type of year

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that you know he had. He had thirty plus home

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runs four seasons in a row. Last year he was hurt.

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It was a terrible season. But I think too much

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weight was put on last year's injury riddled season when

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it came into drafts, and I just wish I had

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more shares of your Dan Elverz. I believe in him

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this year and so far he's getting it done.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. I look at at Okamoa, hits the ball really

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really hard. I mean he's gonna strike out a ton

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and there's no speed, So I mean, I think there's

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always gonna be pressure on the batting average. The guy

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that surprised me of the two sluggers was how good

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Mirakami was when he was playing.

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I'm hoping he comes back and plays the

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way he was playing before. I mean, how hard he

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hit the ball, how young he is. That guy looks

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like that. That guy looks like Kyle Schwarber Tennant's you know,

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I know Kyle Schwarber is a unicorn, but maybe there's

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a second one coming.

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Speaker 2: Well, yeah, I got that one wrong too. I did

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a ton of research and followed his career, and he

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always in Japan had trouble with high heat, especially inside Okay,

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so I was I was concerned about that heading to

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Major League Baseball, and I saw that as a flaw

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that could be exploited by pitching. Obviously, Murakami disagrees because

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he's in the high Okay. Yeah, I don't know what

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happened in Japan. I don't know what he has done,

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if anything, but I was I was more bullish by

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a long shot on Okamotov than I was on Murcami

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because of the concerns of him hitting the basketball, and

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he has grove proved me and everybody else that actually

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did the research. Okay, the yeah, he can do it.

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So yeah, I'm excited about the future as well.

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Speaker 1: Where ninety four mile hour exit VELOSSI one fourteen max.

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There is good angle at fourteen point five, but man,

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it could be even more. I mean he's he's walking

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eighteen percent of the time. It's exactly what Kyle Schwarber does.

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Speaker 2: Yeh, yep, low batting average OVP and it yeah, and

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fifty home runs that'll work.

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Speaker 1: That'll work. Yeah, I mean it's for sprint speed. So

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00:28:14,880 --> 00:28:17,519
he's he could seal a few bases. I hope he

471
00:28:17,599 --> 00:28:20,359
doesn't because we don't want him pulling hammies or anything

472
00:28:20,480 --> 00:28:24,680
like that. But uh, he was impressive. So let's take

473
00:28:24,720 --> 00:28:27,279
a quick break. We've already gone for three minutes and

474
00:28:28,039 --> 00:28:30,480
ten of which I was complaining about Amaya, so.

475
00:28:32,400 --> 00:28:37,079
Speaker 2: Justifiably justifying that bastard Sasaki is right in there too.

476
00:28:37,440 --> 00:28:50,559
Speaker 1: Damn Japanese pictures. Was a soccer last night that bastard.

477
00:28:52,960 --> 00:28:56,319
Speaker 2: I saw the Dodgers came back from a sixty from

478
00:28:56,400 --> 00:29:02,400
a six run deficit to win the game, and I, yeah,

479
00:29:02,480 --> 00:29:05,480
I didn't. I didn't see the I didn't see his line.

480
00:29:05,680 --> 00:29:11,279
Speaker 1: No three runs. I was a back to backstinkers after

481
00:29:11,359 --> 00:29:13,319
pitching so well for over a month.

482
00:29:14,400 --> 00:29:19,039
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, you got adopt a new country, my friend.

483
00:29:23,640 --> 00:29:27,160
Speaker 2: The market for finished starting pictures is a limited rage.

484
00:29:27,960 --> 00:29:31,640
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah. So he against the White Sox he gave

485
00:29:31,720 --> 00:29:34,799
up seven runs, and against these Padres he gave up

486
00:29:34,839 --> 00:29:38,039
six runs and three innings. It's been He's hit a

487
00:29:38,079 --> 00:29:39,880
bit of a skin over the last four games.

488
00:29:40,640 --> 00:29:44,440
Speaker 2: Mmmmm yeah, something to watch and sit him in his

489
00:29:44,599 --> 00:29:47,400
next one, of course, I will hit her.

490
00:29:50,519 --> 00:29:53,279
Speaker 1: Just just done with these. I'm done with these Japanese

491
00:29:53,319 --> 00:29:57,119
pictures for now, and you're you're telling me before we

492
00:29:57,160 --> 00:30:00,640
got on on onto recording, Tim Sky at the two

493
00:30:00,759 --> 00:30:03,880
best Japanese pictures, I wanted to give you a zero

494
00:30:04,000 --> 00:30:06,920
point zero coming to next season. I'm done with them.

495
00:30:07,480 --> 00:30:11,920
I'm done. I got suckered in the Sasaki and I

496
00:30:11,960 --> 00:30:13,480
got suckered in the mine. I'm done.

497
00:30:13,799 --> 00:30:17,799
Speaker 2: I'm done by you Knownseto. You heard it here first.

498
00:30:18,359 --> 00:30:20,160
Speaker 1: Look. If he's the next Yaw, I'm mode, I'm gonna

499
00:30:20,200 --> 00:30:24,920
tip my cap to whoever picks them up. I'm done, okay,

500
00:30:25,319 --> 00:30:26,960
all right to me? Let's go through our first half

501
00:30:27,000 --> 00:30:29,319
of MVPs, and I think we are truly at the

502
00:30:29,400 --> 00:30:32,359
first half mark here. What is your personal MVP?

503
00:30:33,720 --> 00:30:39,079
Speaker 2: My personal MVP is sal Stewart. Wow, okay, I only

504
00:30:39,240 --> 00:30:42,599
have two shares, but in those two leagues, he's carrying

505
00:30:42,640 --> 00:30:45,680
me and he's put me in a position where I'm

506
00:30:45,759 --> 00:30:48,440
in the running for a potential money finish. Yeah. He

507
00:30:48,559 --> 00:30:50,839
was the twentieth first basement off the board and he's

508
00:30:50,920 --> 00:30:55,279
currently seeing ninth in homers. Was seventeen sixty RBIs good

509
00:30:55,359 --> 00:30:58,640
per second at first, eleven stolen base is good per

510
00:30:58,799 --> 00:31:04,480
second at first, and and eight thirteen obs. Sal Stewart

511
00:31:04,599 --> 00:31:07,240
could could earn me some cash this year, so I

512
00:31:07,640 --> 00:31:09,759
had to nominate him as my personal MVP.

513
00:31:10,880 --> 00:31:13,359
Speaker 1: My guy coming into the season was ben Rice. Tim

514
00:31:13,480 --> 00:31:16,240
knows this like all of our Patreon members know. He said,

515
00:31:16,279 --> 00:31:20,440
you cannot leave the draft without ben Rice. Twenty three

516
00:31:20,480 --> 00:31:24,000
hondre runs, fifty seven runs, fifty four RBIs two sixty

517
00:31:24,079 --> 00:31:26,759
nine batting average. She has slowed down since Judge has

518
00:31:26,799 --> 00:31:29,599
been out. He's been a little bit hurt as well.

519
00:31:29,759 --> 00:31:31,839
But I mean the twenty three home runs in a

520
00:31:31,920 --> 00:31:34,680
Ratisaray league and everything else that just said they're all

521
00:31:34,799 --> 00:31:38,160
banked and been rice to me, has just been money

522
00:31:38,279 --> 00:31:39,960
just at your catching position.

523
00:31:41,359 --> 00:31:46,440
Speaker 2: Yes, no, great, great call by you and great results.

524
00:31:46,519 --> 00:31:49,839
And yeah, hey, every everybody in New York is quite

525
00:31:49,920 --> 00:31:52,160
hitting since Judge has been over for the most part.

526
00:31:52,160 --> 00:31:55,079
Speaker 1: So chis Chishm seems like the only guy that's hitting.

527
00:31:55,359 --> 00:32:00,319
Speaker 2: So yeah, yeah, and we'll see what happened. And now

528
00:32:00,319 --> 00:32:02,279
that he doesn't have a lollybob in his mos in

529
00:32:02,359 --> 00:32:05,319
the oshield, cheer lord, I shake my head as some

530
00:32:05,440 --> 00:32:08,599
of the stupidity I see. And that was right up there.

531
00:32:09,799 --> 00:32:13,400
Speaker 1: I agree. I remember there was a survey out for

532
00:32:13,480 --> 00:32:16,559
the most overrated player a few years ago. They asked

533
00:32:16,599 --> 00:32:20,640
players about who the yeah Geschisholm won in the landslide.

534
00:32:21,160 --> 00:32:23,680
So and I think it's that kind of crap, like

535
00:32:23,799 --> 00:32:25,680
he's got all the talent in the world, Like what

536
00:32:25,759 --> 00:32:26,400
are you doing man?

537
00:32:27,759 --> 00:32:31,880
Speaker 2: Yeah, like, yeah, yeah, you're looking at a hundred percent

538
00:32:32,039 --> 00:32:36,519
body with a ten percent brain sitting on.

539
00:32:38,599 --> 00:32:40,680
Speaker 1: Yep. Totally agree. All right, let's move to catching, tim

540
00:32:40,680 --> 00:32:41,920
Who you got what?

541
00:32:44,039 --> 00:32:47,240
Speaker 2: Okay, who do I gotta catcher? I got a guy

542
00:32:47,279 --> 00:32:49,799
that was drafted seventy fifth off the board with an

543
00:32:49,839 --> 00:32:53,839
ADB of four seventy. Now he's slowed down recently, but

544
00:32:54,000 --> 00:32:56,799
he's still sitting right now at the break with thirteen homers,

545
00:32:56,920 --> 00:33:00,960
fifty four RBIs and what is really impressive, twenty nine walks,

546
00:33:01,039 --> 00:33:05,039
twenty eight stricos, eight twenty five ops. If you grabbed

547
00:33:05,119 --> 00:33:08,160
Liam Hicks out of the free agent pool, you gotta

548
00:33:08,200 --> 00:33:09,279
be one happy gamber.

549
00:33:10,200 --> 00:33:12,759
Speaker 1: That's a great call. He was when I lost a

550
00:33:12,799 --> 00:33:15,359
couple of catchers early on, he was sitting in the playerpool.

551
00:33:15,440 --> 00:33:18,440
I just didn't believe. But yeah, you're right, he's been very,

552
00:33:18,559 --> 00:33:21,200
very good. I think I might have taken your guy though,

553
00:33:21,519 --> 00:33:25,640
and that is Dylan Dingler. You did yes, nineteen home runs.

554
00:33:26,160 --> 00:33:28,519
I'm sure you know that. I don't have Dingler anywhere.

555
00:33:29,000 --> 00:33:33,279
You could have gotten in the sixteenth round. Dylan Dingler, Tim, Holy.

556
00:33:33,119 --> 00:33:36,319
Speaker 2: Moly, Yeah, I've got him in one of the leagues

557
00:33:36,359 --> 00:33:39,880
with Sale Stewart. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Yeah,

558
00:33:40,119 --> 00:33:45,359
it's been amazing. Yeah, he was a number two catcher,

559
00:33:46,079 --> 00:33:49,319
a late number two catcher, grab and he's one of

560
00:33:49,359 --> 00:33:50,559
the best in the game this year.

561
00:33:51,119 --> 00:33:53,279
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's crazy. Let's let's take a look at his

562
00:33:53,440 --> 00:33:55,759
data to see if this is real or not. I

563
00:33:55,759 --> 00:33:58,720
don't know him anywhere. Let's see Dingler type of Dylan

564
00:33:58,839 --> 00:34:02,720
Dingler here. Sure, oh boy, look at that. Now he's

565
00:34:02,759 --> 00:34:06,240
a great defensive catcher. Wow, pop times eighty nine percent

566
00:34:06,319 --> 00:34:09,199
off framing ninety eight percentile. We don't care about that.

567
00:34:09,320 --> 00:34:12,679
We care about his average exit of velocity at ninety

568
00:34:12,760 --> 00:34:15,920
point three. It's above that ninety percent threshold. A seventeen

569
00:34:16,000 --> 00:34:16,960
degree launch angle.

570
00:34:17,079 --> 00:34:18,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a powery guy.

571
00:34:19,079 --> 00:34:21,239
Speaker 1: So that's a twenty twenty five home run guy.

572
00:34:22,079 --> 00:34:23,039
Speaker 4: Straight down rate.

573
00:34:22,960 --> 00:34:26,800
Speaker 1: Of twenty one percent. League average is twenty two. That's good.

574
00:34:27,280 --> 00:34:29,480
He does swing at everything, so there's a six point

575
00:34:29,599 --> 00:34:33,679
eight percent walk rate, and his and his chase rate

576
00:34:34,159 --> 00:34:36,480
is also very poor. So he's not going to give

577
00:34:36,519 --> 00:34:39,639
you a big average. So that two sixty nine feels

578
00:34:39,719 --> 00:34:42,960
a little is expected as two ninety six. That's interesting

579
00:34:43,000 --> 00:34:45,599
because of our hardy hits the ball. But it feels

580
00:34:45,639 --> 00:34:47,840
like like a two fifty with twenty to twenty five

581
00:34:47,880 --> 00:34:51,480
home runs and not a great ad in a one

582
00:34:51,559 --> 00:34:56,079
base percentage league. But that's a low win number one catcher,

583
00:34:56,159 --> 00:34:58,639
maybe even a top top ten catcher.

584
00:34:59,719 --> 00:35:02,159
Speaker 2: Yeah. I was going to say, yeah, those numbers add

585
00:35:02,239 --> 00:35:06,119
up to top ten for me. Yeah, he did.

586
00:35:06,400 --> 00:35:08,280
Speaker 1: He's just hitting the ball a lot harder than he

587
00:35:08,320 --> 00:35:12,960
did last season, so yeah, good for him. All right,

588
00:35:13,119 --> 00:35:16,519
let's move to first base, Tim, who.

589
00:35:16,360 --> 00:35:19,880
Speaker 2: Do you have? Okay, this one is a tribute to

590
00:35:19,960 --> 00:35:22,719
you because I actually took a look at there's several

591
00:35:23,000 --> 00:35:29,199
first basemen that could definitely apply, you know, Jonathan Mirandez Stewart.

592
00:35:30,039 --> 00:35:33,280
But this one, this one's for you, Rich. This guy

593
00:35:33,599 --> 00:35:36,360
was the thirtieth first base outfielder off the board with

594
00:35:36,440 --> 00:35:41,440
an eightyp at two seventy one eighteenth basically an eighteenth

595
00:35:41,519 --> 00:35:45,360
round pick, thirteen homers, which puts him in the top

596
00:35:45,519 --> 00:35:50,639
twenty fifty one RBI's good for thirteenth overall an ops

597
00:35:50,719 --> 00:35:54,159
of eight to eleven, and that would be one Ryan

598
00:35:54,360 --> 00:35:58,400
over Oh yeah, I y yeah, yeah.

599
00:35:59,159 --> 00:36:01,000
Speaker 1: A bunch of late in a bunch of leagues. It's

600
00:36:01,039 --> 00:36:03,280
boring old Ryan on her yep.

601
00:36:05,000 --> 00:36:07,199
Speaker 2: Yeah. If you picked him up as a late pick

602
00:36:07,239 --> 00:36:10,239
as a corner infielder, he's been goal for you this year.

603
00:36:10,679 --> 00:36:11,320
He really has.

604
00:36:11,639 --> 00:36:13,679
Speaker 1: He played well last season when he was with the

605
00:36:13,760 --> 00:36:15,440
Orioles and he got traded to the I think it

606
00:36:15,480 --> 00:36:18,239
was the Padres he got traded to, and he used

607
00:36:18,239 --> 00:36:20,880
to be just a platoon guy. He's still not great

608
00:36:20,920 --> 00:36:24,079
against left handers, but I mean there's there are plane

609
00:36:24,760 --> 00:36:27,039
the pit Pirates are playing him full time, so and

610
00:36:27,159 --> 00:36:29,440
he's contributing. I love Ryan o'hearan.

611
00:36:31,280 --> 00:36:33,119
Speaker 2: Yep, there's my first basement.

612
00:36:33,519 --> 00:36:36,639
Speaker 1: My guy, is this is crazy. I have no I

613
00:36:36,800 --> 00:36:39,599
I can't explain it. That's Miguel Vargas nineteen home runs,

614
00:36:39,639 --> 00:36:43,639
eleven stolen basis. He was the thirty fourth first baseman

615
00:36:43,760 --> 00:36:47,320
off the pork. Can you explain to gal Vargas should

616
00:36:47,360 --> 00:36:48,280
we have seen this coming?

617
00:36:49,840 --> 00:36:52,320
Speaker 2: Well, he did come under the Dodgers system at one

618
00:36:52,360 --> 00:36:53,320
point in time, didn't he.

619
00:36:53,760 --> 00:36:55,679
Speaker 1: Yeah, but have you taken a look at his uh

620
00:36:56,639 --> 00:36:59,159
his stack cast page. I mean it is all red.

621
00:36:59,480 --> 00:37:03,880
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's washing top to bottom right.

622
00:37:04,159 --> 00:37:07,159
Speaker 1: I mean it's crazy. I mean he doesn't expand the

623
00:37:07,199 --> 00:37:11,280
strike zune. The whiff rates are good, the walks a ton.

624
00:37:12,239 --> 00:37:15,280
I don't know why he's only hitting two forty four.

625
00:37:15,360 --> 00:37:20,519
I mean is expected batting averages two seventy eight exit velocity.

626
00:37:20,679 --> 00:37:23,800
Exit velocity is ninety miles an hour with huge launch.

627
00:37:24,719 --> 00:37:27,239
I think there's growth in this. I think he could

628
00:37:27,239 --> 00:37:29,280
be a two fifty two sixty hit or with twenty

629
00:37:29,360 --> 00:37:33,199
five thirty home runs with high on So this is

630
00:37:33,239 --> 00:37:33,960
a dude, man.

631
00:37:35,440 --> 00:37:39,480
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you toss in the speed game. Yeah, second

632
00:37:39,559 --> 00:37:40,519
third round pick.

633
00:37:42,280 --> 00:37:45,519
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I I mean again, he's only twenty six.

634
00:37:45,679 --> 00:37:48,800
Maybe the man strength just came the season because last

635
00:37:48,880 --> 00:37:52,639
year it was, you know, average exit velocities down to

636
00:37:52,679 --> 00:37:54,639
the it was eighty nine point seven. I guess that's

637
00:37:54,679 --> 00:37:55,159
pretty good.

638
00:37:55,239 --> 00:37:55,880
Speaker 2: But uh.

639
00:37:57,679 --> 00:38:00,559
Speaker 1: Yeah, he just it just blew up the season and

640
00:38:00,639 --> 00:38:02,039
the power just went way up.

641
00:38:03,519 --> 00:38:07,599
Speaker 2: Yeah, big time. He's I've got him in three leagues

642
00:38:07,800 --> 00:38:11,800
and the one with Sale Stewart. Yeah, I've got Dingler

643
00:38:11,880 --> 00:38:15,679
and Vargas. Yeah, they've been good to me, very good.

644
00:38:16,719 --> 00:38:18,119
Speaker 1: Who's your second basement, my friend?

645
00:38:19,320 --> 00:38:23,719
Speaker 2: My second basement is a guy okay that was owned

646
00:38:23,760 --> 00:38:26,119
in less than fifty percent of the leagues up until

647
00:38:26,199 --> 00:38:30,400
week eleven of the season and then game June and

648
00:38:30,639 --> 00:38:34,679
he had eleven home runs and drove in twenty seven

649
00:38:34,880 --> 00:38:37,880
in June. That started changed everything. He's up to sixteen

650
00:38:37,920 --> 00:38:41,760
home runs, fifty nine RBIs, which is good for third

651
00:38:41,840 --> 00:38:46,039
in homers, and I believe the leader in RBIs Luis

652
00:38:46,119 --> 00:38:49,000
Garcia of the Washington Nationals. We haven't talked too much

653
00:38:49,039 --> 00:38:54,400
about him, but man, he had a June and yeah,

654
00:38:55,000 --> 00:38:58,239
that's he's eligible a second, he's playing at first, you're

655
00:38:58,320 --> 00:39:02,440
using him at second. That's a that's a great player

656
00:39:02,559 --> 00:39:03,079
this year.

657
00:39:03,719 --> 00:39:07,360
Speaker 1: Another guy that eggs of losses really popped up this

658
00:39:07,480 --> 00:39:10,880
season up to ninety two point two with more launch

659
00:39:10,960 --> 00:39:14,199
on it. So, yeah, the power is pretty real. I mean,

660
00:39:14,639 --> 00:39:16,920
he never walks to me four point three percent of

661
00:39:17,000 --> 00:39:20,119
the time, so so that's the problem. He's a low

662
00:39:20,199 --> 00:39:23,079
one base percentage guy and he's always been that.

663
00:39:24,760 --> 00:39:28,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, but when you look at every Yeah, hey, you

664
00:39:29,000 --> 00:39:32,199
can't argue with sixteen homers and fifty nine RBIs. That's

665
00:39:32,960 --> 00:39:34,840
and you know, and hey, granted a lot of it

666
00:39:35,000 --> 00:39:38,079
was generated in junior. You added him off the waiver

667
00:39:38,239 --> 00:39:40,679
where you know, towards the end of me to fill

668
00:39:40,760 --> 00:39:45,039
in for an injury somewhere. Man, you group some huge rewards.

669
00:39:45,920 --> 00:39:48,760
Speaker 1: Now the stolen bases are gone, right because he's not fast.

670
00:39:49,239 --> 00:39:53,880
So he's definitely traded power for I was traded stolen

671
00:39:53,920 --> 00:39:56,119
basis for power. Just he's filled out a little bit.

672
00:39:56,280 --> 00:39:59,519
But yeah, it looks like the power is real. A

673
00:39:59,599 --> 00:40:02,000
low one base percentage guy, and that's gonna be his

674
00:40:02,119 --> 00:40:06,000
property hits free agency if he ever gets there because

675
00:40:06,400 --> 00:40:07,679
teams aren't gonna want to pay for that.

676
00:40:09,039 --> 00:40:12,400
Speaker 2: No, No, and you've gotten interested. You've got an interesting

677
00:40:12,639 --> 00:40:15,519
player that was plucked out of the free agent pool

678
00:40:15,559 --> 00:40:15,920
as well.

679
00:40:16,519 --> 00:40:20,480
Speaker 1: Yeah, I got Casey Schmidt, which is he's eligible everywhere now.

680
00:40:20,559 --> 00:40:22,920
His his run scored and RBIs are a little suppressed.

681
00:40:22,920 --> 00:40:25,039
It just because he plays with the Giants and they're terrible.

682
00:40:25,440 --> 00:40:27,719
Sixteen arm runs, seven solar bases and a two eighty

683
00:40:27,760 --> 00:40:29,880
three batting average. A guy that you can plug in everywhere.

684
00:40:29,880 --> 00:40:33,119
I got in several leagues and it's worked out quite

685
00:40:33,199 --> 00:40:36,079
well for me. And wasn't a guy who was targeting

686
00:40:36,760 --> 00:40:39,519
I needed a I don't know, second third base or

687
00:40:39,559 --> 00:40:42,599
whatever whatever he was. He was there and I've kept

688
00:40:42,679 --> 00:40:44,880
him ever since and it's been really good.

689
00:40:46,039 --> 00:40:49,760
Speaker 2: Yeah. Uh, it's gonna be I'm going to have a

690
00:40:49,880 --> 00:40:53,440
fun time with my rankings come next fall. There's uh,

691
00:40:54,039 --> 00:40:56,039
you know, what do you do with guys like Schmidt

692
00:40:56,079 --> 00:40:59,320
and Garcia. Yeah, it's it's gonna be fun.

693
00:41:00,719 --> 00:41:04,519
Speaker 1: I think Spit might be a little bit more well rounded,

694
00:41:05,000 --> 00:41:07,880
a little less risk than Garcia, just because of the

695
00:41:08,519 --> 00:41:11,239
concern about the on base percentage. But I don't know.

696
00:41:11,360 --> 00:41:13,360
It's a good it's a good question. Let's move on

697
00:41:13,440 --> 00:41:15,880
to shortstop. Let's see, should we take a break. Let's

698
00:41:15,880 --> 00:41:17,360
take a break, come back, and we'll move on the

699
00:41:17,400 --> 00:41:33,119
short stop and finish this segment up. Sweet Tim.

700
00:41:34,079 --> 00:41:36,800
Speaker 2: Yeah, I had to add a couple of big, big,

701
00:41:38,079 --> 00:41:41,679
bulky starting pictures, or at least one. Anyways, I thank

702
00:41:41,719 --> 00:41:49,719
you for the Thank you for the clip. Her large it. Yeah,

703
00:41:49,800 --> 00:41:52,920
it wouldn't fit in my wouldn't fit on my my

704
00:41:53,039 --> 00:41:53,880
ip owen Ridge.

705
00:41:54,599 --> 00:41:57,400
Speaker 1: Yeah. I was at at Frederick for a couple of

706
00:41:57,519 --> 00:42:01,199
games watching the Orioles high the I reach out to

707
00:42:01,280 --> 00:42:04,519
some of my buddies in Baltimore and asked about a picture.

708
00:42:04,559 --> 00:42:06,800
I wanted to take a look at Cayden Hunter, who

709
00:42:06,960 --> 00:42:11,199
was not who was definitely impressive. But after he was

710
00:42:11,199 --> 00:42:14,079
out of the game, I think it was with the Orioles,

711
00:42:14,360 --> 00:42:17,880
this this guy came in to him. He was enormous.

712
00:42:17,960 --> 00:42:19,800
I don't know if I've seen a guy that big

713
00:42:19,880 --> 00:42:23,559
in a long time, six three or so, but I

714
00:42:23,639 --> 00:42:25,760
looked him up because I never really heard of him.

715
00:42:25,800 --> 00:42:28,000
And it's ad two hundred and seventy pounds. I'm looking

716
00:42:28,079 --> 00:42:30,960
at the guy and going, ain't no way he's he's

717
00:42:31,159 --> 00:42:32,480
three twenty three.

718
00:42:32,599 --> 00:42:33,599
Speaker 2: He was huge.

719
00:42:34,320 --> 00:42:35,119
Speaker 1: He was huge.

720
00:42:36,760 --> 00:42:39,599
Speaker 2: Yeah, he wasn't fitting inform.

721
00:42:40,880 --> 00:42:43,760
Speaker 1: It was impressive. That was it was impressive.

722
00:42:43,920 --> 00:42:47,559
Speaker 2: Man. So hey, he's got a future in sumo if

723
00:42:47,599 --> 00:42:48,800
the pitching thing don't work out.

724
00:42:49,119 --> 00:42:53,079
Speaker 1: Wow. He was an LSU kid too. I'm like, wow,

725
00:42:53,599 --> 00:42:56,440
LSU would recruit a guy like that. But I guess

726
00:42:56,559 --> 00:42:58,800
he's got a good arm. He's a reliever for sure.

727
00:42:58,960 --> 00:43:01,760
But I hope he makes it because I want everybody

728
00:43:01,840 --> 00:43:05,400
to see this guy. He is enormous. But yeah, it

729
00:43:05,480 --> 00:43:09,000
was a great game. Mike Davis, Man, that guy. That

730
00:43:09,119 --> 00:43:12,199
guy's got some serious professional with bats under He just

731
00:43:12,519 --> 00:43:15,760
does not make that bad at bats. That's that's a

732
00:43:15,840 --> 00:43:16,840
good baseball player.

733
00:43:19,000 --> 00:43:22,079
Speaker 2: You heard it first from the great Rich Wilson.

734
00:43:22,320 --> 00:43:24,320
Speaker 1: Okay, let's go to short stop, Timmy. Do you got.

735
00:43:25,719 --> 00:43:25,920
Speaker 4: Oh?

736
00:43:26,320 --> 00:43:28,119
Speaker 2: I got a guy that I took late as a

737
00:43:28,159 --> 00:43:32,440
middle infielder in one of my leagues, and he's currently

738
00:43:32,559 --> 00:43:35,360
leading the league with a three thirty six bad, seven homer,

739
00:43:35,440 --> 00:43:40,119
sixteen stolen bases, fifty five runs scored. It's not bad

740
00:43:40,199 --> 00:43:42,920
for a fourteenth round pick and one auto Lopez.

741
00:43:43,679 --> 00:43:47,639
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you love yourself some auto Lopez. Yeah, that's yes,

742
00:43:48,480 --> 00:43:52,519
that's a good call. Uh, Mike guy, I don't even

743
00:43:52,519 --> 00:43:54,079
know what to make of this. He did hit another

744
00:43:54,199 --> 00:43:56,559
home run. It's up to six hour runs and fourteen

745
00:43:56,599 --> 00:43:59,679
stolen bases, and I think it's safe to say he

746
00:43:59,800 --> 00:44:02,559
was He was a guy that was really interested in

747
00:44:02,679 --> 00:44:04,840
we was coming up through the Cleveland organization. I thought

748
00:44:04,880 --> 00:44:08,199
he'd be a pretty good player, and he was terrible

749
00:44:08,239 --> 00:44:11,159
to him. I mean, this is Brian Rocchio. Could not

750
00:44:11,320 --> 00:44:13,719
hit the broad side of a barn, had a little

751
00:44:13,719 --> 00:44:16,320
bit of speed, just no power at all. And I

752
00:44:16,400 --> 00:44:19,760
look at his data and I'm not I don't really

753
00:44:19,800 --> 00:44:22,639
see any power still. I'm not sure where the home

754
00:44:22,719 --> 00:44:26,079
runs are coming from. But he's hit a little bit.

755
00:44:26,239 --> 00:44:30,239
He rarely strikes out, and Rochio has been helpful. I

756
00:44:30,360 --> 00:44:32,559
don't know if it's sustainable.

757
00:44:32,679 --> 00:44:32,760
Speaker 2: But.

758
00:44:34,639 --> 00:44:36,920
Speaker 1: There you go. I mean, this is a guy that

759
00:44:37,079 --> 00:44:39,400
you've got really, really late. He's probably still sitting on

760
00:44:39,480 --> 00:44:40,119
waiver wires.

761
00:44:41,440 --> 00:44:45,159
Speaker 2: Yeah, probably is. Yeah, but five homers, six homers, fourteen

762
00:44:45,239 --> 00:44:48,000
stolen based, two seventy batting iverul just plug that in

763
00:44:48,159 --> 00:44:49,679
middle in field, that works, doesn't it?

764
00:44:50,119 --> 00:44:53,159
Speaker 1: It does? And that's surprised. I actually gave me a

765
00:44:53,199 --> 00:44:56,000
little warm fuzzy because I said, I thought I saw

766
00:44:56,079 --> 00:44:57,679
something in them, and then I look at the data,

767
00:44:57,679 --> 00:44:59,800
I'm like, yeah, I see something in I'm not sure

768
00:44:59,800 --> 00:45:06,599
it's much, but for at least uh, you know, getting

769
00:45:06,639 --> 00:45:09,400
to mention here and actually being a viable major league

770
00:45:09,400 --> 00:45:10,440
baseball player. Good for him.

771
00:45:11,360 --> 00:45:13,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, we talked a lot about him and Arius. We

772
00:45:14,079 --> 00:45:15,840
talked a lot about the two of them, didn't we

773
00:45:15,960 --> 00:45:19,800
about the same same period of time, And neither one

774
00:45:19,880 --> 00:45:25,000
has really shown the potential that we thought was there

775
00:45:25,199 --> 00:45:27,559
until this year with Rogio, so good on him.

776
00:45:27,639 --> 00:45:31,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, and Arius, I like, wrote you better than Aris.

777
00:45:31,039 --> 00:45:33,519
But Arius turns out to have the louder tools. He

778
00:45:33,679 --> 00:45:36,800
just hasn't well, He's hurt a lot this season. I

779
00:45:37,000 --> 00:45:39,880
think ultimately he's going to be the better fantasy players. Again,

780
00:45:39,880 --> 00:45:43,480
I think the tools are louder. But you know, Roach's

781
00:45:43,519 --> 00:45:45,920
gotten gotten, had start on him, So we'll see how

782
00:45:46,000 --> 00:45:48,639
long all works. Out's third base, my friend?

783
00:45:49,920 --> 00:45:53,639
Speaker 2: Yes, Well, hey, you know who, thanks for leaving for me?

784
00:45:54,079 --> 00:45:56,400
You know who I got to mention. He went off

785
00:45:56,440 --> 00:46:02,519
the board nineteenth. He's currently tied for second with nineteen

786
00:46:02,559 --> 00:46:04,679
home runs at third base. He's tied for first with

787
00:46:04,800 --> 00:46:09,079
Junior Camenero at fifty four RBIs typer fifth and Rooms

788
00:46:09,119 --> 00:46:12,320
scored with forty four. Fifth INBA S was seventy eighty

789
00:46:12,320 --> 00:46:14,960
seven future Hall of Famer Kazuma Lo Comortal.

790
00:46:16,079 --> 00:46:19,119
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a great call by you. Absolutely great call.

791
00:46:19,199 --> 00:46:20,760
We talked about him at the top of the show.

792
00:46:21,760 --> 00:46:25,159
Great call. Another guy that I liked a lot, and

793
00:46:25,280 --> 00:46:27,400
I held on to him in One Dynasty because I

794
00:46:27,480 --> 00:46:28,960
was stubborn, and I'm.

795
00:46:28,880 --> 00:46:29,599
Speaker 2: Glad I did.

796
00:46:29,719 --> 00:46:34,079
Speaker 1: And that is Curtis Mead. I if you would have

797
00:46:34,239 --> 00:46:38,719
asked me last season, Timmy, is he Asia Baum or

798
00:46:39,000 --> 00:46:41,719
fourteen home run bound? I would have said Asia Bounce.

799
00:46:41,880 --> 00:46:46,000
I mean he was terrible. And again he's only hitting

800
00:46:46,039 --> 00:46:48,599
two twenty seven. But as a corner guy that you

801
00:46:48,679 --> 00:46:51,000
could scrape off the waiver army, Curtis Mead has been

802
00:46:51,000 --> 00:46:51,480
pretty good.

803
00:46:52,480 --> 00:46:54,400
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's been real good. And I remember when he

804
00:46:54,719 --> 00:46:58,559
was drafted by the Rays. Good friend of mine, Buck

805
00:46:58,639 --> 00:47:00,800
Davidson's a big race fan, and he saw him in

806
00:47:00,880 --> 00:47:04,480
his first early Major league at bats. He was doing

807
00:47:04,559 --> 00:47:07,559
pictures for SI I think it was There's Somebody at

808
00:47:07,599 --> 00:47:10,519
the time, and he really liked Curtis Meat and the

809
00:47:10,679 --> 00:47:14,199
Rays really like Curtismad. But it just never happened in

810
00:47:14,320 --> 00:47:18,519
Tampa Bay and as a late bloomer, I think we're

811
00:47:18,599 --> 00:47:22,119
seeing some of what a lot of people saw a

812
00:47:22,239 --> 00:47:25,679
long time ago, finally developing. So good on Curtis Meat.

813
00:47:25,719 --> 00:47:26,519
I'm happy with the kid.

814
00:47:27,320 --> 00:47:30,400
Speaker 1: And I can't tell you why I kept them in

815
00:47:30,440 --> 00:47:32,960
one leaguecause I dropped him everywhere else. I just I

816
00:47:33,119 --> 00:47:35,800
just went it was a pretty good it was pretty

817
00:47:35,800 --> 00:47:38,239
good team, and I just was able to hold on

818
00:47:38,360 --> 00:47:41,079
to him and it's worked out. But I mean, dumb luck.

819
00:47:41,159 --> 00:47:43,800
Sometimes you get lucky. And I don't know if it's

820
00:47:43,960 --> 00:47:47,039
totally believable the Curtis Meat, but he's having a good season.

821
00:47:47,400 --> 00:47:50,000
All right. We got three outfielders, Sore, Timmy, and I'm

822
00:47:50,000 --> 00:47:54,599
gonna go first, Okay, I'm gonna go with PCA. Look,

823
00:47:54,679 --> 00:47:56,679
I know he's a second round pick, but he's on

824
00:47:56,840 --> 00:48:00,920
pace for forty forty and if that happens, that's a

825
00:48:00,960 --> 00:48:05,679
top three pick some I mean, yeah, gotta give it

826
00:48:05,719 --> 00:48:09,119
up for PCA. I was not on PCA this season.

827
00:48:09,159 --> 00:48:11,440
I did not believe because of the hard hit rates

828
00:48:11,599 --> 00:48:15,880
just weren't there. When I failed in my analysis was

829
00:48:16,119 --> 00:48:18,440
that he was really young. He's hitting the ball a

830
00:48:18,480 --> 00:48:21,639
little bit harder, he's just a really good baseball player

831
00:48:22,480 --> 00:48:25,719
and you can't deny what he has done. I know

832
00:48:25,800 --> 00:48:28,039
you're not a total believer yet, I'm not even sure

833
00:48:28,159 --> 00:48:29,920
I am, but you got to give it up for

834
00:48:29,960 --> 00:48:31,360
when PCA is done so far.

835
00:48:32,559 --> 00:48:35,679
Speaker 2: Yeah, No, it's an amazing season. And I saw more

836
00:48:35,719 --> 00:48:41,280
of the second half of last year than the first half. Okay,

837
00:48:41,599 --> 00:48:47,639
and I'm I'm still not totally sold, but man, he's

838
00:48:47,679 --> 00:48:51,280
having an amazing year and you can't take that away

839
00:48:51,360 --> 00:48:55,039
from him. If he produces even at an average level,

840
00:48:55,079 --> 00:48:58,000
if he didn't fall off a cliff in the second

841
00:48:58,039 --> 00:49:01,079
half half break, yeah, he's gonna be a first round pick,

842
00:49:02,000 --> 00:49:02,719
and rightfully so.

843
00:49:03,519 --> 00:49:05,119
Speaker 1: Yep, he's been great. Timmy, who's your guy?

844
00:49:06,400 --> 00:49:08,840
Speaker 2: But okay, I'm following in the same sort of light

845
00:49:08,960 --> 00:49:13,920
as you are with your first pick. I know James

846
00:49:13,960 --> 00:49:16,920
Wood went off the board as an early third round pick,

847
00:49:18,280 --> 00:49:23,119
but right now he's a top five pick. Heading into

848
00:49:23,199 --> 00:49:29,320
twenty twenty seven, he has sixteen more runs scored than

849
00:49:29,360 --> 00:49:32,280
the runner up at that position. He's leading with seventy

850
00:49:32,400 --> 00:49:36,280
five runs scored. He's second in home runs, third in RBI,

851
00:49:36,480 --> 00:49:39,880
is toss in thirteen one basis, he's got the second

852
00:49:39,920 --> 00:49:42,320
best OPS with a nine to eleven, behind only one.

853
00:49:42,440 --> 00:49:46,119
So he was a tenth outfielder off the board, and

854
00:49:46,280 --> 00:49:49,400
as a tenth outfield off the outfielder off the board,

855
00:49:50,280 --> 00:49:52,440
he's proven to be a bargain at that drafts buck.

856
00:49:52,960 --> 00:49:56,239
Speaker 1: He scared many of us because of us the second

857
00:49:56,320 --> 00:49:59,400
half as well. But yeah, but yeah, it was He's

858
00:49:59,440 --> 00:50:00,719
been great, good call.

859
00:50:01,639 --> 00:50:03,840
Speaker 2: We can we can see him in PCA, both in

860
00:50:03,920 --> 00:50:05,599
the top five next year potentially yea.

861
00:50:05,920 --> 00:50:08,440
Speaker 1: And we'll see which one actually if they both go

862
00:50:08,559 --> 00:50:12,519
in the top five, who has whose season this year

863
00:50:12,679 --> 00:50:14,519
was really real or not? So I have to try

864
00:50:14,559 --> 00:50:17,360
to figure that out. I would probably go James Wood

865
00:50:17,400 --> 00:50:21,880
over PCA just because of the I mean, James would

866
00:50:21,920 --> 00:50:24,880
hits the ball so hard that you have to believe

867
00:50:24,920 --> 00:50:27,280
that that's going to stick. But then again he's six

868
00:50:27,360 --> 00:50:30,239
foot seven, so you worry about the contact will make.

869
00:50:30,360 --> 00:50:34,039
But anyway, I got I gay. I left you with

870
00:50:34,159 --> 00:50:37,320
the a couple of easy ones for starting pitcher. I

871
00:50:37,400 --> 00:50:39,079
only put down two starting pitchers.

872
00:50:38,880 --> 00:50:39,239
Speaker 2: My bad.

873
00:50:39,719 --> 00:50:42,280
Speaker 1: But I took the easy one for outfield, and that's

874
00:50:42,360 --> 00:50:45,800
Jordan Walker. I think this is this is one of

875
00:50:45,880 --> 00:50:48,719
the best stories in the for the entire season. Everybody

876
00:50:48,840 --> 00:50:52,599
knows about it. He was left for dead by everybody.

877
00:50:53,119 --> 00:50:56,559
If he got him as your number five outfielder, consider

878
00:50:56,599 --> 00:51:00,960
yourself fortunate. It was a great call by you. But uh,

879
00:51:01,480 --> 00:51:02,280
I mean he's been great.

880
00:51:04,039 --> 00:51:07,719
Speaker 2: Yeah, he has totally. And the player that I'm going

881
00:51:07,760 --> 00:51:13,440
to pair up with Jordan Walker again. Not a bad

882
00:51:13,639 --> 00:51:17,760
second half, a horrible second half, and I'm going with

883
00:51:18,039 --> 00:51:22,599
Andy Pahous of the Dodgers and ADP of one thirty. Okay.

884
00:51:22,679 --> 00:51:24,920
It's still been an up and down season. He's been

885
00:51:25,000 --> 00:51:28,760
hot and cold, but as an outfielder, he is currently

886
00:51:28,800 --> 00:51:32,360
at the position. Titra ninth and homers were sixteen, okay,

887
00:51:32,519 --> 00:51:36,320
and his sixty RBI is trail only Jordan Walker. That's

888
00:51:36,559 --> 00:51:39,639
not too shabby for the thirty first outfielder off the board.

889
00:51:39,679 --> 00:51:42,800
It's nice to see. Like I said, there's still some

890
00:51:43,199 --> 00:51:48,840
inconsistencies there, but there's value as the thirty first oatfielder

891
00:51:48,920 --> 00:51:49,880
off the board big time.

892
00:51:50,000 --> 00:51:52,079
Speaker 1: He was so bad in the playoffs. If you recall

893
00:51:52,119 --> 00:51:55,480
they benched him. No, he did not hit at all

894
00:51:55,559 --> 00:51:56,280
in the playoffs.

895
00:51:57,599 --> 00:52:02,800
Speaker 2: No, he was over September October. Yeah, but we talked.

896
00:52:02,559 --> 00:52:02,920
Speaker 4: About it.

897
00:52:05,280 --> 00:52:08,079
Speaker 1: Like we talked about it. Is the postseason going to

898
00:52:08,119 --> 00:52:11,400
affect his draft status, and is this the real Anti

899
00:52:11,440 --> 00:52:15,280
Pais or was the I mean what in it turned out?

900
00:52:15,679 --> 00:52:18,079
Maybe he was hurt, maybe he just got into a funk.

901
00:52:18,119 --> 00:52:21,719
Who knows. But he's been very good, very much. So

902
00:52:22,920 --> 00:52:27,280
my guy's a little bit kind of under the raidar here,

903
00:52:27,320 --> 00:52:29,239
and that's Angel Martinez. I know he's on the IL,

904
00:52:29,400 --> 00:52:31,960
but before that eleven Hoero runs, nine stolen basis, he

905
00:52:32,079 --> 00:52:35,719
was in two hundred and seventieth out off the porch.

906
00:52:36,400 --> 00:52:39,239
I am a proud owner of him and my NFPC

907
00:52:39,719 --> 00:52:42,280
league and it was just trying to fill out my roster,

908
00:52:42,480 --> 00:52:44,960
and so it's a great way for her to pick

909
00:52:45,039 --> 00:52:45,559
up for people.

910
00:52:46,960 --> 00:52:48,480
Speaker 2: Yeah, I had him in three I have him in

911
00:52:48,559 --> 00:52:52,639
three leagues and absolutely nothing to complain about with as

912
00:52:52,679 --> 00:52:55,480
far as the production is concerned from Angel Martinez. And

913
00:52:56,159 --> 00:52:59,119
let's let's hope he's back. He's out of his walking mood.

914
00:52:59,199 --> 00:53:01,679
Let's hope he's back shortly after the All Star break

915
00:53:01,960 --> 00:53:06,679
and he continues playing steady solid baseball.

916
00:53:07,519 --> 00:53:10,519
Speaker 4: Give me your third guy, my third guy.

917
00:53:11,559 --> 00:53:15,320
Speaker 2: I gotta I gotta go with Carsonvenger the Mets. Okay,

918
00:53:15,440 --> 00:53:17,840
he was a eighty third oat fielder off the board

919
00:53:17,880 --> 00:53:21,280
with an ADP of three forty ninety four, ten homers,

920
00:53:21,320 --> 00:53:24,039
eleven stolen bases, forty five runs scored in a two

921
00:53:24,079 --> 00:53:26,800
fifty nine batting average. I'll take that as a number

922
00:53:26,880 --> 00:53:29,400
five oakfielder and be very very happy.

923
00:53:31,719 --> 00:53:34,719
Speaker 1: I think that's great. I mean coming up on his

924
00:53:34,840 --> 00:53:39,599
heels though, as aj Ewing, guy's been really good. Four

925
00:53:39,679 --> 00:53:43,239
home runs, eight stolen bases, a two sixty eight batting average,

926
00:53:43,280 --> 00:53:45,320
three to fifty two one base percentage in his first

927
00:53:45,320 --> 00:53:48,760
one hundred and fifty seven at bats. Average EGGX velocity

928
00:53:48,880 --> 00:53:52,000
is eighty nine with a twelve degree launch. That's fifteen

929
00:53:52,039 --> 00:53:55,440
to twenty home runs ninety eight percent Island sprint speed.

930
00:53:55,599 --> 00:53:57,239
That's a guy who can seal as many bases as

931
00:53:57,320 --> 00:54:01,079
he wants. Let's hope you ge Dancer the awfulness of

932
00:54:01,280 --> 00:54:04,880
the Mets. But Juing is also off to a very

933
00:54:04,960 --> 00:54:07,480
good start just for his major league baseball career.

934
00:54:08,559 --> 00:54:11,320
Speaker 2: Totally agree, and you know I traded for him this

935
00:54:11,519 --> 00:54:14,000
week and I'm hoping for big things moving forward.

936
00:54:14,360 --> 00:54:16,400
Speaker 1: Let's keep our fingers scroll. Let's be the starting pitching

937
00:54:16,440 --> 00:54:17,960
to me, I'll let you go first. I only got

938
00:54:18,440 --> 00:54:20,360
two so my battle.

939
00:54:20,159 --> 00:54:27,400
Speaker 2: There h well, I I I gotta go, and you're

940
00:54:27,440 --> 00:54:31,679
gonna you're gonna laugh at this one. I'm going. My

941
00:54:31,840 --> 00:54:36,679
number one pick was the one thousand, one hundred and

942
00:54:37,000 --> 00:54:43,559
thirty fifth player off Forard the FC drafts. Okay, I

943
00:54:43,639 --> 00:54:45,519
went heavy on all three of the North Americans to

944
00:54:45,599 --> 00:54:48,440
return to Major League Baseball this year. Haunts didn't make

945
00:54:48,440 --> 00:54:50,320
it out of the gate or two innings worth out

946
00:54:50,360 --> 00:54:53,440
of the gate. Anthony k has been up and down,

947
00:54:53,800 --> 00:55:01,599
but Foster Griffin has been nothing short of in uh uh,

948
00:55:02,119 --> 00:55:04,920
he's the best of the bunch. Two ninety three eras

949
00:55:05,079 --> 00:55:07,159
thirteenth best in the league, a one or four whip,

950
00:55:07,679 --> 00:55:13,440
eleven strikeover inning with ninety eight again. Yeah, Foster Griffin

951
00:55:13,519 --> 00:55:15,679
has been huge for me. Yeah.

952
00:55:15,719 --> 00:55:17,440
Speaker 1: I left him for you because I think that's why

953
00:55:17,440 --> 00:55:19,239
I only have two, because I had him and I

954
00:55:19,320 --> 00:55:21,360
decided I got to get him to you because that's

955
00:55:21,559 --> 00:55:23,400
that was a well called for you I have in

956
00:55:23,440 --> 00:55:25,559
a couple of leagues. Thank you very much, mister McLeod.

957
00:55:26,639 --> 00:55:28,639
Speaker 2: I'm glad it's sustainable.

958
00:55:30,519 --> 00:55:32,920
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't think he is as good as

959
00:55:33,920 --> 00:55:37,559
I mean, he has a lefty what's his expected but

960
00:55:37,760 --> 00:55:39,880
it's three ninety so it's a run worse than this

961
00:55:40,480 --> 00:55:44,920
era is just doesn't throw hard, so I don't know,

962
00:55:45,039 --> 00:55:46,440
throws everything under the sun.

963
00:55:46,400 --> 00:55:51,599
Speaker 2: Though, m hmm, yeah, no, it's I I think if

964
00:55:51,679 --> 00:55:57,000
you if you look at him as a number three

965
00:55:57,199 --> 00:56:00,880
four type starter hitting into next year, you'll do fine.

966
00:56:01,039 --> 00:56:03,480
I think if you plan on looking at him as

967
00:56:03,599 --> 00:56:06,119
a number two starter, I think you're going to pay too.

968
00:56:06,039 --> 00:56:11,079
Speaker 1: Much for Yeah, for seven different pitches, that's a lot.

969
00:56:11,559 --> 00:56:15,320
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh yeah, he'll throw the kitchen sink at you

970
00:56:15,440 --> 00:56:17,079
and then some yes. Yeah.

971
00:56:17,119 --> 00:56:18,800
Speaker 1: I mean when you don't have a big fastball, you

972
00:56:19,119 --> 00:56:24,079
just got a kitchen sink, and those guys typically don't last.

973
00:56:24,960 --> 00:56:27,639
But I mean it doesn't matter. We're talking about the

974
00:56:27,639 --> 00:56:30,119
first half. Well done, Well.

975
00:56:29,960 --> 00:56:33,800
Speaker 4: Done, mister Mcca. Thank you, Kyle Harrison.

976
00:56:34,119 --> 00:56:36,679
Speaker 1: Look, I was big when he got traded to the Brewers.

977
00:56:36,840 --> 00:56:39,360
I alerted all of our patron members that this is

978
00:56:39,400 --> 00:56:42,199
a guy that I find me be very interesting and

979
00:56:43,920 --> 00:56:47,079
bad on the Boston Red Sox. They had him, they

980
00:56:47,239 --> 00:56:50,639
couldn't figure him out, and he's been fantastic. Two fifty

981
00:56:50,679 --> 00:56:53,920
seventy or eighty eight wins, ninety six strikeouts. You gotta

982
00:56:53,920 --> 00:56:57,320
got him in the twenty ninth round Kyle it's I

983
00:56:57,840 --> 00:57:01,400
thought it was I thought it was pedable when he

984
00:57:01,480 --> 00:57:04,800
got traded, and when you go to Milwaukee, they help

985
00:57:05,000 --> 00:57:06,639
sort out pictures. He's great.

986
00:57:08,679 --> 00:57:12,159
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, it's hey. The change of scenery made all

987
00:57:12,239 --> 00:57:14,440
the difference in the world. I believe there, and we're

988
00:57:14,480 --> 00:57:18,360
seeing the guy that we thought the Giants drafted a

989
00:57:18,480 --> 00:57:21,280
number of years ago. Good, good on the Brewers, Good

990
00:57:21,320 --> 00:57:22,119
on Kyle Harrison.

991
00:57:22,400 --> 00:57:25,079
Speaker 1: The thing that frustrated me with the Red Sox they

992
00:57:25,199 --> 00:57:27,760
were they were doing the right things. They was smart

993
00:57:27,800 --> 00:57:30,239
that they drafted. They were so smart they traded for him.

994
00:57:30,679 --> 00:57:33,400
Then they had him introduce a cutter because they knew

995
00:57:33,440 --> 00:57:35,119
that the people were on the fast so they were

996
00:57:35,199 --> 00:57:38,559
doing all the right things. And then they either panicked

997
00:57:38,760 --> 00:57:41,639
or they just you know, they had the opportunity to

998
00:57:41,760 --> 00:57:44,639
make the trade for five inning Freddy. I mean they

999
00:57:44,639 --> 00:57:47,119
had to give up Kyle Harrison, and they did. And

1000
00:57:48,280 --> 00:57:50,880
Harrison's this year at least, it's been a way better

1001
00:57:50,960 --> 00:57:52,679
pitcher than than Freddy Peralta.

1002
00:57:54,360 --> 00:58:02,239
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's yeah, yeah, it uh amazing pickup. If you've

1003
00:58:02,400 --> 00:58:05,400
if you've got Harrison and any of your starting other

1004
00:58:05,519 --> 00:58:10,679
starting pitching worked out, you're in a good position moving forward,

1005
00:58:11,079 --> 00:58:11,920
very very good.

1006
00:58:12,000 --> 00:58:14,679
Speaker 1: Eight wings. All right, give me give me your second guy.

1007
00:58:14,960 --> 00:58:20,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, my second guy. I need you to explain this woman, okay,

1008
00:58:21,440 --> 00:58:27,280
because I can't. Oh yeah, oh yeah, right now. Currently,

1009
00:58:28,800 --> 00:58:32,239
this guy has the fifth best ERI in all of

1010
00:58:32,320 --> 00:58:36,559
baseball at two twenty one. He's won seven games. He's

1011
00:58:36,559 --> 00:58:41,199
a former Detroit Tiger, Tiger who has really never been

1012
00:58:41,199 --> 00:58:44,920
able to control the walks, and he's only he's allowed

1013
00:58:44,960 --> 00:58:47,960
thirty eight innings. Is but how do we explain the

1014
00:58:48,000 --> 00:58:49,280
dworder or Rodriguez?

1015
00:58:49,639 --> 00:58:51,800
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, with the.

1016
00:58:51,840 --> 00:58:53,480
Speaker 2: Fifth best ERI in baseball?

1017
00:58:53,719 --> 00:58:54,159
Speaker 1: Like I.

1018
00:58:56,000 --> 00:58:57,480
Speaker 2: I can't.

1019
00:58:58,239 --> 00:59:02,079
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I he former Red Sox thirty three

1020
00:59:02,199 --> 00:59:05,719
years old. That I liked him when he was with

1021
00:59:05,800 --> 00:59:08,360
the Red Sox, but that was back in ten years ago.

1022
00:59:08,440 --> 00:59:10,800
Speaker 2: I mean it's far away.

1023
00:59:11,199 --> 00:59:16,320
Speaker 1: I mean two years of five earras is expected ERI

1024
00:59:16,480 --> 00:59:21,079
this season? Ready drum roll tim for eighty nine. I

1025
00:59:21,239 --> 00:59:24,960
think this is all going to correct. He doesn't throw

1026
00:59:25,039 --> 00:59:31,719
the ball hard is expected, batting averages two sixty four

1027
00:59:31,960 --> 00:59:34,760
off the stuff even though people are not hitting it.

1028
00:59:35,480 --> 00:59:37,760
This this is danger Will Robinson.

1029
00:59:38,800 --> 00:59:41,360
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's been danger Will Robinson all year and he's

1030
00:59:42,039 --> 00:59:42,960
still sitting with it.

1031
00:59:45,000 --> 00:59:46,119
Speaker 4: Takes a couple of mines.

1032
00:59:46,239 --> 00:59:48,039
Speaker 1: It takes a couple of them mines. That's a vert.

1033
00:59:52,039 --> 00:59:54,920
He'll be supposed to be get myself A.

1034
00:59:56,280 --> 01:00:02,800
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's got he's got an adverb right.

1035
01:00:03,320 --> 01:00:08,960
Speaker 1: Exactly, isn't he isn't a mina? Uh but you know,

1036
01:00:10,079 --> 01:00:12,760
look you got it right. I mean it's he's been great.

1037
01:00:12,880 --> 01:00:17,400
I would I'd be moving them to being very very careful.

1038
01:00:18,519 --> 01:00:19,920
Speaker 2: Soil.

1039
01:00:20,119 --> 01:00:22,679
Speaker 1: Yes, this one is a so. I mean, look, the

1040
01:00:22,760 --> 01:00:27,000
White Sox have been great. Davis Martin's got nine wins,

1041
01:00:27,320 --> 01:00:29,079
He's got ninety straight counts.

1042
01:00:29,159 --> 01:00:33,280
Speaker 2: I mean, we had the white Pig, we had the

1043
01:00:33,320 --> 01:00:37,320
white socks peg for nine wins at the break, didn't we. Man.

1044
01:00:37,480 --> 01:00:41,079
Speaker 1: It's just everything that the White Sox have touched this

1045
01:00:41,280 --> 01:00:44,320
season has worded for them, and sitting at the top

1046
01:00:44,360 --> 01:00:46,480
of the list is Davis Martin.

1047
01:00:46,760 --> 01:00:51,119
Speaker 2: Come on, yeah, yeah, every time I see that name,

1048
01:00:51,159 --> 01:00:55,440
I think Dean. I don't know why, but yeah, I

1049
01:00:55,880 --> 01:01:01,360
think I think of Dean. But yeah, amazing person, amazing

1050
01:01:01,760 --> 01:01:02,719
and he's somebody.

1051
01:01:02,719 --> 01:01:06,079
Speaker 1: He's not that good. He's the back of the rotation guy.

1052
01:01:06,119 --> 01:01:09,920
He's not the good. So yeah that doesn't matter.

1053
01:01:10,440 --> 01:01:12,800
Speaker 2: But you can't take away what he's done. Yeah, it

1054
01:01:13,280 --> 01:01:15,000
goes wins.

1055
01:01:15,400 --> 01:01:17,400
Speaker 1: It is a spend guy, right, he's got high spen

1056
01:01:17,599 --> 01:01:20,519
so good. It does vertical break all those things that

1057
01:01:20,599 --> 01:01:22,719
you like to see. But it's uh, I mean, it's

1058
01:01:22,920 --> 01:01:24,920
just average stuff in general. O can give me your

1059
01:01:25,000 --> 01:01:25,559
last picture.

1060
01:01:27,400 --> 01:01:31,559
Speaker 2: I we got to mention this guy. We simply have to.

1061
01:01:32,079 --> 01:01:32,199
Speaker 5: Uh.

1062
01:01:32,239 --> 01:01:36,519
Speaker 2: And NFBC drafts, he was picked up at one eight

1063
01:01:36,639 --> 01:01:40,239
seventy nine for his ADP. He was a forty third

1064
01:01:40,559 --> 01:01:45,039
pitcher off the board, So takeaway Davis probably drafted as

1065
01:01:45,159 --> 01:01:51,840
a top thirty, somewhere around thirtieth starting picture, and he

1066
01:01:52,119 --> 01:01:56,760
currently leads everything in the world as far as pitching is.

1067
01:01:56,960 --> 01:02:00,679
He's on pace for three hundred strikeouts, one forty seven

1068
01:02:00,719 --> 01:02:05,800
e RA nine winnsdays. Jacob Miserski man that that first

1069
01:02:05,880 --> 01:02:08,679
half has been one of the best. He's best first

1070
01:02:08,800 --> 01:02:13,000
halfs we've seen in a long long time. If ever,

1071
01:02:13,400 --> 01:02:15,599
he's only allowed fifty four hits in one hundred and

1072
01:02:15,639 --> 01:02:21,159
four innings. Yeah, zero point seven to eight whip like amazing,

1073
01:02:21,599 --> 01:02:24,320
absolutely amazing. I just hope throwing it one hundred and

1074
01:02:24,440 --> 01:02:27,079
five and a half miles an hour, whatever, you know,

1075
01:02:27,199 --> 01:02:29,559
whatever he's caught, I just hope he can sustain that

1076
01:02:29,760 --> 01:02:34,400
moving forward without injury, and we're going to we're going

1077
01:02:34,519 --> 01:02:38,760
to see generational type starter with Miseroski.

1078
01:02:40,719 --> 01:02:44,800
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think he'll get hurt, but I'm right there

1079
01:02:44,840 --> 01:02:46,760
with you. Yeah, you dike a toe to toe with

1080
01:02:46,880 --> 01:02:48,599
Chase Burns, and Chase Burns Beatlem.

1081
01:02:48,840 --> 01:02:52,239
Speaker 4: So it was yes night or a Wednesday night, one

1082
01:02:52,280 --> 01:02:52,679
of the nights.

1083
01:02:52,760 --> 01:02:59,280
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, Burns got his tenth win and Misserowski didn't.

1084
01:02:59,360 --> 01:03:02,679
Burns the city sixth overall with a two forty ARRA

1085
01:03:02,679 --> 01:03:06,360
among starters, so he ain't having a bad season either.

1086
01:03:06,400 --> 01:03:12,760
Speaker 1: One. Yeah, all right, So believers, relievers our final thing,

1087
01:03:12,840 --> 01:03:15,199
and I said, I hate them all, but I'll throw

1088
01:03:15,360 --> 01:03:19,239
in Jacob Latz as my guy got about the waiverard,

1089
01:03:19,239 --> 01:03:20,800
Thank you very much for Tim, And I'm going to

1090
01:03:20,880 --> 01:03:23,400
suggest that Tim's going to tell you it's Louis Varlin,

1091
01:03:23,800 --> 01:03:24,679
but I could be wrong.

1092
01:03:26,199 --> 01:03:31,239
Speaker 2: Well, this guy was the one thousand, two hundred and

1093
01:03:31,480 --> 01:03:35,960
forty third player off the board with an adyp A

1094
01:03:36,039 --> 01:03:39,559
bench shy of four to ninety, and he was somebody

1095
01:03:39,679 --> 01:03:42,000
that I wanted badly on my team and I have

1096
01:03:42,039 --> 01:03:45,360
a ton of shares. I'm just gonna you know, Louis

1097
01:03:45,440 --> 01:03:48,639
Iarlin seventeen saves, point ninety eighty or a point ninety

1098
01:03:48,679 --> 01:03:51,760
six whip. I love it when a plan comes together,

1099
01:03:51,960 --> 01:03:55,519
and Louis Irlin was one of my plans going back

1100
01:03:55,599 --> 01:04:01,599
to the last offseason. I just saw the potential, especially

1101
01:04:02,239 --> 01:04:06,679
with Hoffman and the Jays, you know, not upgrading that

1102
01:04:06,800 --> 01:04:09,000
closer position. I like what I saw at the end

1103
01:04:09,039 --> 01:04:12,400
of last year. So I'm ecstatic with the way Louis

1104
01:04:12,480 --> 01:04:14,079
Barlin has pitched so far this year.

1105
01:04:14,559 --> 01:04:17,400
Speaker 1: It's it was your best call. Uh. It doesn't make

1106
01:04:17,519 --> 01:04:18,400
up for Maya, but.

1107
01:04:22,119 --> 01:04:24,000
Speaker 2: Nothing will ever make up for Maya.

1108
01:04:28,920 --> 01:04:29,840
Speaker 1: Deserves Ero.

1109
01:04:31,400 --> 01:04:35,000
Speaker 2: Just because, just because real.

1110
01:04:34,920 --> 01:04:37,239
Speaker 1: Quickly, give me a player or two that you think

1111
01:04:37,320 --> 01:04:40,519
will improve significantly here in the second half. Let's give

1112
01:04:40,920 --> 01:04:42,199
our listeners some hope.

1113
01:04:43,760 --> 01:04:46,559
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, Well, the the easy answers are Plaid Junior

1114
01:04:46,639 --> 01:04:50,679
and Fernando or Tatiase, but we've dealt with that extensively

1115
01:04:51,360 --> 01:04:53,719
in the past. I got a couple couple of names

1116
01:04:53,760 --> 01:04:56,480
that I just sort of mystify me that I think

1117
01:04:56,639 --> 01:05:00,400
have potential to do much better in this second half.

1118
01:05:00,559 --> 01:05:05,400
Versus Riley Green, Okay, how can a player with that

1119
01:05:05,559 --> 01:05:10,679
hit too okay and have eleven home runs and only

1120
01:05:11,000 --> 01:05:14,239
thirty eight Our RBIs in the first half. I think

1121
01:05:14,280 --> 01:05:16,880
we're going to see Riley Green hosts much better numbers

1122
01:05:16,920 --> 01:05:17,719
in the second half.

1123
01:05:18,000 --> 01:05:20,280
Speaker 1: Well, first of all, the first stink, so that's part

1124
01:05:20,320 --> 01:05:20,760
of the freeze.

1125
01:05:21,159 --> 01:05:28,840
Speaker 2: Rbs are way down, definitely, but thirty eight, yeah, it's

1126
01:05:28,880 --> 01:05:31,039
got to be improvement coming out of Riley Green. The

1127
01:05:31,119 --> 01:05:34,800
second guy I got is Kyle Stowers. My Bowl prediction

1128
01:05:34,960 --> 01:05:38,079
he gets to twenty plus home runs and eighty RBI's

1129
01:05:39,039 --> 01:05:42,400
call the hunch for whatever. But I think a better

1130
01:05:42,480 --> 01:05:44,880
second half is in order, and I think we've started

1131
01:05:44,880 --> 01:05:46,760
to see him turning around a bit in June. So

1132
01:05:48,079 --> 01:05:50,960
I like Kyle Stowers a lot for the second half.

1133
01:05:51,000 --> 01:05:53,559
Speaker 1: Look, get the twenty home runs and how many RBIs.

1134
01:05:54,840 --> 01:05:56,119
Speaker 2: Twenty plus and eighty plus?

1135
01:05:57,559 --> 01:06:03,360
Speaker 1: Okay, good stuff. Final question for you before we get

1136
01:06:03,400 --> 01:06:05,119
out of here, and we're just gonna hold off on

1137
01:06:05,159 --> 01:06:06,840
who Tim's gonna pick up. You have to find that

1138
01:06:06,920 --> 01:06:09,000
out this week because we're getting a little long in

1139
01:06:09,039 --> 01:06:11,800
the tooth here. What is your number one closer and

1140
01:06:12,000 --> 01:06:14,679
waiting and preparing for the trade deadline.

1141
01:06:17,000 --> 01:06:21,599
Speaker 2: The two obvious ones Garrett Woodluck and Luke Weaver.

1142
01:06:24,800 --> 01:06:27,239
Speaker 1: If they don't get moved themselves and.

1143
01:06:27,280 --> 01:06:29,480
Speaker 2: If they get moved themselves, they could find themselves in

1144
01:06:29,559 --> 01:06:32,039
a serving in a closer role with their new team.

1145
01:06:33,400 --> 01:06:37,400
So I'm not too concerned about either one of those

1146
01:06:37,480 --> 01:06:41,599
two guys because they're good pictures. So wherever they end up,

1147
01:06:41,719 --> 01:06:45,760
hopefully they end up where exactly where they are right now.

1148
01:06:46,079 --> 01:06:51,119
With Devin Williams getting moved and Chapman, I think that's yeah,

1149
01:06:51,159 --> 01:06:53,280
that's four collusion. He ain't going to be in Boston.

1150
01:06:53,599 --> 01:06:58,400
Hopefully they stay in Boston and New York respectively. Okay,

1151
01:07:00,079 --> 01:07:03,599
and hey move into the closure role. But one of

1152
01:07:03,639 --> 01:07:05,639
the reasons I'm not is because they could end up

1153
01:07:07,079 --> 01:07:09,760
if the if Luke Weaver is traded to Detroit, he

1154
01:07:09,840 --> 01:07:11,559
becomes their number one closure, isn't he.

1155
01:07:13,559 --> 01:07:17,440
Speaker 1: Why would anybody get traded to Detroit? Aren't they sellers?

1156
01:07:19,840 --> 01:07:22,000
Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, you would think. So. How about Baltimore? If

1157
01:07:22,079 --> 01:07:24,280
Luke Weaver gets traded to Baltimore, He's the closure there,

1158
01:07:24,360 --> 01:07:28,119
isn't he. Ryan Helsley supposedly is dealing with an arm issue.

1159
01:07:28,920 --> 01:07:30,800
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's a good call.

1160
01:07:30,960 --> 01:07:33,039
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I think the Orioles are buyers. I

1161
01:07:33,119 --> 01:07:35,159
think most people in the American leaguer are gonna be buyers.

1162
01:07:35,239 --> 01:07:37,840
But I wouldn't think the Tigers would, although they played

1163
01:07:37,840 --> 01:07:38,920
a little better of late.

1164
01:07:41,000 --> 01:07:43,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, you wouldn't think so. I just I just pulled

1165
01:07:43,960 --> 01:07:48,039
that name out of mind. But yeah, there are.

1166
01:07:49,679 --> 01:07:54,199
Speaker 1: Let's take a real quick look here. So yeah, I

1167
01:07:54,239 --> 01:07:57,760
mean the Troit. Yeah, the Troit is seven games out.

1168
01:07:57,800 --> 01:08:00,320
I mean seven games out. Let's say they get a

1169
01:08:00,360 --> 01:08:02,960
little hot here in the you know, they're four or

1170
01:08:03,039 --> 01:08:06,239
five games out. Are they buyers or sellers?

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01:08:09,159 --> 01:08:13,800
Speaker 2: Who knows? I would think they'd be sellers. Moving they

1172
01:08:13,840 --> 01:08:18,680
should move Google. Okay, so that that changes. That changed

1173
01:08:18,720 --> 01:08:23,319
the discussion discussion entirely. Assuming they move Google, and I

1174
01:08:23,359 --> 01:08:25,239
can't see them holding on to them because I think

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01:08:25,239 --> 01:08:27,880
they can still patch a pretty benny for him to

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01:08:28,399 --> 01:08:29,000
the right team.

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01:08:29,560 --> 01:08:32,880
Speaker 1: I would think you would have to, you would have

1178
01:08:33,079 --> 01:08:36,000
to move Schooble. But the Red Sox are only six

1179
01:08:36,039 --> 01:08:37,880
and a half games out, I mean the wild this

1180
01:08:38,000 --> 01:08:39,760
is the Wildcard. Only six and a half games out

1181
01:08:39,760 --> 01:08:42,680
of the wild Card. I mean, but maybe the calculus

1182
01:08:42,840 --> 01:08:46,439
becomes particularly with the Tigers. I totally agree with you.

1183
01:08:46,800 --> 01:08:50,239
They have to trade Schooble because he's in his walk gear.

1184
01:08:50,960 --> 01:08:55,600
But the Red Sox are probably have to do the calculus. Well,

1185
01:08:55,600 --> 01:08:58,600
even if we make somehow scratch into the playoffs, we're

1186
01:08:58,640 --> 01:09:02,079
going to go very far, particularly if Crchet doesn't come back.

1187
01:09:02,880 --> 01:09:06,439
So that would argue that they would be sellers even

1188
01:09:06,520 --> 01:09:08,159
if there are just a few games out.

1189
01:09:10,119 --> 01:09:11,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, and who's paying for Trevor's story?

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01:09:13,640 --> 01:09:13,840
Speaker 1: Yeah?

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01:09:14,000 --> 01:09:18,520
Speaker 2: And yeah yeah, like Chapman, I can see you know, Hey,

1192
01:09:18,840 --> 01:09:26,800
there's there's teams out there hurt. Yeah, the break, Yeah,

1193
01:09:26,880 --> 01:09:30,680
he'll be back after the break. So yeah, yeah, I believe. So.

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01:09:31,680 --> 01:09:33,960
Speaker 1: I mean, the Athletics only three and a half games out,

1195
01:09:34,079 --> 01:09:35,800
but uh, they really.

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01:09:37,560 --> 01:09:40,720
Speaker 2: They should be buyers. Oh, their bullpen has probably cost

1197
01:09:40,800 --> 01:09:44,600
him ten ten plus games this year. Okay, that changes

1198
01:09:44,640 --> 01:09:48,560
the equation very quickly. Come on, Oakland, listen up. By

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01:09:48,680 --> 01:09:51,319
a bullpen, you don't have one. You got all the

1200
01:09:51,439 --> 01:09:55,439
offense in the world sitting there, minus unfortunately Brent Rooker,

1201
01:09:55,479 --> 01:09:58,279
who's lost for the season. But they got enough offense

1202
01:09:58,399 --> 01:10:01,560
in Oakland that they can they can make it work.

1203
01:10:02,000 --> 01:10:05,720
Go buy yourself a bullpen, Get get with the program.

1204
01:10:06,479 --> 01:10:09,800
Speaker 1: So here's a here's an interesting case. Minnesota Twins three

1205
01:10:09,880 --> 01:10:13,479
games out of a wild card, four games under five hundred.

1206
01:10:13,680 --> 01:10:17,039
Not a good team. What are they buyers?

1207
01:10:19,760 --> 01:10:21,520
Speaker 2: No? Because the owner is a tight water.

1208
01:10:22,439 --> 01:10:24,039
Speaker 1: They have to move Joe Ryan, don't they.

1209
01:10:26,640 --> 01:10:28,439
Speaker 2: I'm not sure on Ryan. I'd have to work that

1210
01:10:28,560 --> 01:10:28,920
one out.

1211
01:10:31,560 --> 01:10:36,680
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know. When does Joe Ryan become a

1212
01:10:36,840 --> 01:10:41,199
free agent. Let's see what the Google machine says, unrestricted

1213
01:10:41,359 --> 01:10:44,520
after the twenty twenty seventh season, so it's next year.

1214
01:10:44,840 --> 01:10:46,600
It's a perfect time to train him. You could get

1215
01:10:46,640 --> 01:10:48,760
a boatload of players for Joe Ryan.

1216
01:10:50,439 --> 01:10:54,199
Speaker 2: Yes, you're good, but just like everybody else in the

1217
01:10:54,279 --> 01:10:56,640
AL Central, there are only three games out right.

1218
01:10:57,319 --> 01:11:01,880
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's that's it. Yeah, we still got We still

1219
01:11:01,920 --> 01:11:04,239
got a month left before the trade deadline, so a

1220
01:11:04,319 --> 01:11:08,800
lot can happen. But if it's as wadded up as

1221
01:11:08,880 --> 01:11:11,479
it is now in a month, it's really going to

1222
01:11:11,560 --> 01:11:12,239
make it interesting.

1223
01:11:13,520 --> 01:11:15,520
Speaker 2: I would love to see the White Sox go right

1224
01:11:15,640 --> 01:11:20,560
crazy and I had a big starting pitcher and you know,

1225
01:11:20,600 --> 01:11:24,680
improve upon their bullpen maybe a little bit. That'd be fun.

1226
01:11:25,239 --> 01:11:26,079
I'd love to see it.

1227
01:11:27,399 --> 01:11:30,119
Speaker 1: I would too that that would be great. I wouldn't

1228
01:11:30,159 --> 01:11:32,960
go too crazy because they're gonna get Murakami back. That's

1229
01:11:33,000 --> 01:11:37,600
a power that's an old eighties seventies power driven team

1230
01:11:37,720 --> 01:11:41,239
with Murakami and Caull. Some Montgomery and it just just

1231
01:11:41,359 --> 01:11:45,039
got power all over the place. But they need some pitching,

1232
01:11:45,119 --> 01:11:48,239
and I don't think it's Noah Shultz again, I was

1233
01:11:48,279 --> 01:11:51,359
worried about his walk rate. It's occurred. So if they

1234
01:11:51,439 --> 01:11:54,279
could bring in a Joe Ryan or but Trek Scooble,

1235
01:11:55,119 --> 01:11:56,399
I mean that would be amazing.

1236
01:11:57,479 --> 01:11:59,279
Speaker 2: Well yeah, to go along with that, grip it and

1237
01:11:59,439 --> 01:12:01,600
rip it off fence. Yeah, that would be fun.

1238
01:12:02,119 --> 01:12:04,600
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, for sure, Tommy, that is a wrap, my friend.

1239
01:12:04,600 --> 01:12:06,960
Thanks for staying a little extra for us, but uh,

1240
01:12:07,800 --> 01:12:10,560
we came. I gave you a lot of good content here,

1241
01:12:10,720 --> 01:12:15,600
so you're still there?

1242
01:12:16,600 --> 01:12:21,079
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, Sorry, No, I wasn't nodding office not

1243
01:12:21,279 --> 01:12:22,039
that time yet.

1244
01:12:23,479 --> 01:12:26,840
Speaker 1: All right enough, Yeah that is a rap. Any any

1245
01:12:26,960 --> 01:12:27,680
final thoughts?

1246
01:12:30,439 --> 01:12:34,399
Speaker 2: Uh? Can I give? Can I give a hint on

1247
01:12:34,640 --> 01:12:36,760
what hitter I'm going to target for this weekend?

1248
01:12:37,600 --> 01:12:38,600
Speaker 1: Why don't you just tell us?

1249
01:12:40,199 --> 01:12:44,560
Speaker 2: Okay, m hm, so far he's been magic, as Merlin

1250
01:12:45,159 --> 01:12:47,039
well is of the Pirates.

1251
01:12:47,439 --> 01:12:50,520
Speaker 1: Yeah as really he's been very good. I agree with you.

1252
01:12:51,960 --> 01:12:53,319
Speaker 2: Yeah, young young kid.

1253
01:12:53,720 --> 01:12:56,600
Speaker 5: Uh whereas he got six home runs now and seven

1254
01:12:56,680 --> 01:12:59,640
at bats or something like that. My pirates, Yeah, he's

1255
01:12:59,640 --> 01:13:03,720
gonna my pirates that's your pirates, Pirates and your White

1256
01:13:03,760 --> 01:13:11,000
Sox in the World Series, Robbie. See how see how

1257
01:13:11,159 --> 01:13:14,680
Robbie likes his planning to make things equal come that series?

1258
01:13:14,800 --> 01:13:15,000
Speaker 2: Huh?

1259
01:13:16,199 --> 01:13:18,880
Speaker 1: How are the uh? What are the Pirates doing here?

1260
01:13:19,920 --> 01:13:21,279
Speaker 2: And they've faltered a bit lately.

1261
01:13:22,279 --> 01:13:24,840
Speaker 1: Skeins has been more mortal recently.

1262
01:13:26,439 --> 01:13:26,640
Speaker 5: Yeah.

1263
01:13:26,840 --> 01:13:30,279
Speaker 2: I think he's gone ten games with other w Yeah.

1264
01:13:30,640 --> 01:13:33,319
Speaker 1: They're they're five hundred three games out and there's a

1265
01:13:33,439 --> 01:13:35,159
bunch of teams in front of the unfortunate. Well, the

1266
01:13:35,239 --> 01:13:38,239
Miami Marlins for four games. When did this happen? The

1267
01:13:38,279 --> 01:13:41,560
Miami Marlins are four games over, five hundred one game out.

1268
01:13:43,279 --> 01:13:45,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, Marlin's and White Sox in the World Series. That's

1269
01:13:46,000 --> 01:13:46,560
even better.

1270
01:13:47,680 --> 01:13:51,439
Speaker 1: Wow, Wow, impressive. All right, Tommy, that is a wrap,

1271
01:13:51,520 --> 01:13:55,760
my friend. We will talk to you on Sunday. Have

1272
01:13:55,840 --> 01:13:58,319
a good week and happy Fourth of July to everybody.

1273
01:13:58,560 --> 01:14:01,760
Enjoy the barbecues. Don't don't stay out in the sun

1274
01:14:01,800 --> 01:14:03,239
too long. That's my advice.

1275
01:14:04,479 --> 01:14:08,640
Speaker 2: Yes, make sure you're well hydrated and happy. Forth to

1276
01:14:09,159 --> 01:14:11,680
all my American friends. Be safe, be well, rich, and

1277
01:14:11,840 --> 01:14:12,840
we'll catch a Sunday