WEBVTT 1 00:00:12.759 --> 00:00:16.440 You like fantasy ball sense talk chasm that I shall 2 00:00:16.519 --> 00:00:19.480 not me hear myself stops fans and they can't even 3 00:00:19.600 --> 00:00:26.079 count some of uniforcasom s rodo you ain't better the health? 4 00:00:26.320 --> 00:00:29.039 Well yeah, several charges on everyone coming. 5 00:00:28.879 --> 00:00:32.280 Else and I'm alreadium to hear my baby sounds just 6 00:00:32.399 --> 00:00:35.600 like your name was, Mark. And it's a ride by podcast. 7 00:00:36.759 --> 00:00:38.840 It's a rapop podcast. 8 00:00:39.600 --> 00:00:41.560 It's a rapp podcast. 9 00:00:42.439 --> 00:00:45.039 It's a ride bo podcast. 10 00:00:47.920 --> 00:00:49.560 It's a rap up podcast. 11 00:00:50.479 --> 00:00:52.280 Don't have a rap up podcast? 12 00:00:52.399 --> 00:00:55.119 Got a turn? It should rap bo podcast. 13 00:01:08.000 --> 00:01:12.079 Hey, everybody, welcome back into the rasp Ball Fantasy Baseball podcast. 14 00:01:12.519 --> 00:01:17.000 I am beat On, joined by Spain's Numero Uno fan 15 00:01:17.920 --> 00:01:20.359 Gray Albright the Fantasy Massallethario. 16 00:01:20.400 --> 00:01:21.400 How you doing over there. 17 00:01:21.239 --> 00:01:27.920 Grey yohabla Espano beat On? Yeah, like I said, Numero 18 00:01:29.040 --> 00:01:35.719 of all that, I said Numero Numero, uh fan out 19 00:01:36.000 --> 00:01:45.200 of Espana, Uh uh yo lago, uh huego. 20 00:01:44.680 --> 00:01:52.439 In uh Madrid, oh Madrid, Barcelona, Bara Bartholona, I uh 21 00:01:52.879 --> 00:01:57.040 juabo a Bartholona go. 22 00:02:01.640 --> 00:02:04.439 I don't know that there was anything there was any 23 00:02:04.519 --> 00:02:08.520 substance there, but thank you for your giving us your 24 00:02:08.560 --> 00:02:10.199 Spanish comprehension then I. 25 00:02:10.840 --> 00:02:16.000 Yeah, you know, I'm I'm I'm more than dual dual lingo. 26 00:02:16.400 --> 00:02:20.560 I'm try lingo. You know, I try. I try lingo. 27 00:02:21.120 --> 00:02:25.360 That's what I do that that feels appropriate, including English, 28 00:02:25.439 --> 00:02:27.879 you know, you try to speak English. 29 00:02:29.280 --> 00:02:30.400 In that language. 30 00:02:30.680 --> 00:02:37.000 I do. I do actually speaking of English. So I 31 00:02:37.120 --> 00:02:39.800 was I went to Hawaii for the during the All 32 00:02:39.840 --> 00:02:45.159 Star break. Thanks thanks for asking. And so we were 33 00:02:45.199 --> 00:02:48.879 staying at this hotel, right, and I'm like, I'm gonna go. 34 00:02:49.360 --> 00:02:54.080 I'm gonna go do some laps. Even though so a 35 00:02:54.120 --> 00:02:58.680 little inside scoop on on gray oh break can't really 36 00:02:58.719 --> 00:03:02.759 swim so well. So uh so I'm like, I'm gonna 37 00:03:02.759 --> 00:03:04.199 go down and do I'm gonna go down and do 38 00:03:04.319 --> 00:03:07.360 some laps, right so uh, you know, stretch out the 39 00:03:07.400 --> 00:03:12.159 old arms and and and and and and flippers, the uh, 40 00:03:12.400 --> 00:03:15.439 the feet. Uh so I uh so I go down 41 00:03:15.520 --> 00:03:19.039 to uh, I go down uh to the pool and 42 00:03:19.199 --> 00:03:24.240 uh people are like, it's it's Maui man. People are chill. 43 00:03:24.479 --> 00:03:29.159 People are hanging out by the pool, just relaxing, the reading, 44 00:03:29.280 --> 00:03:32.599 reading a book or two. Maybe. So I go, I 45 00:03:32.639 --> 00:03:37.520 go and do one of those jackhammers right, let those cannonballs. 46 00:03:38.000 --> 00:03:42.719 Oh right, into the water, the big, big old splasharoo 47 00:03:44.280 --> 00:03:46.360 I do I do one of those. Like, I'm like, 48 00:03:46.479 --> 00:03:51.360 shamou going into the the water, You'll get splashed. I'm like, 49 00:03:51.439 --> 00:03:54.199 you know, it's a pool, it's it's hot out, you'll 50 00:03:54.319 --> 00:03:57.599 enjoy the water, the water splashing, right, So I, uh, 51 00:03:57.840 --> 00:04:00.879 I go in the pool. I'm doing I'm doing laps. 52 00:04:02.080 --> 00:04:06.199 According to my uh my Apple watch, I did twenty 53 00:04:06.360 --> 00:04:09.919 laps and uh like that's like three hundred yards like 54 00:04:10.000 --> 00:04:13.319 a lot. Like some of that was like, So what 55 00:04:13.360 --> 00:04:15.240 I would do is because the pool was only three 56 00:04:15.319 --> 00:04:18.160 feet deep, so I would just like swing my arms 57 00:04:18.240 --> 00:04:21.360 and fool my Apple Watch into thinking I was swimming. 58 00:04:22.040 --> 00:04:25.240 I just like so I would walk through the pool 59 00:04:25.439 --> 00:04:28.560 going like this with my arms, just swinging them and flapping. 60 00:04:30.360 --> 00:04:33.920 So you're doing like the old person at the hy. 61 00:04:33.279 --> 00:04:36.920 Yah, yeah, I was doing. I was doing aqua aerobics right. 62 00:04:37.040 --> 00:04:42.240 So anyway, So anyway, long story short is, so finally 63 00:04:42.360 --> 00:04:44.480 someone who works at the hotel comes up to me 64 00:04:44.519 --> 00:04:49.199 and he's like, sir, like, yeah, what's up man doing 65 00:04:49.240 --> 00:04:53.000 my I'm doing laps right, So he's like, uh yeah, 66 00:04:53.040 --> 00:04:55.360 you see that the sign over there. I'm like, which 67 00:04:55.399 --> 00:04:58.839 which sign is? That it's like the one, the one 68 00:04:58.879 --> 00:05:04.399 that says this is a inquility pool, Like it's like 69 00:05:04.519 --> 00:05:10.920 you're you're you're disturbing people's tranquility. Oh my, my, my bad. 70 00:05:11.639 --> 00:05:14.279 So that was that was my trip to Mallei. 71 00:05:15.279 --> 00:05:17.720 And now we know what kind of places Gray stays at. 72 00:05:18.040 --> 00:05:21.800 He stays in places that have tranquility pools that you're 73 00:05:21.839 --> 00:05:23.519 not supposed to swim laughs in. 74 00:05:24.879 --> 00:05:27.519 That's the key piece of information. 75 00:05:27.639 --> 00:05:27.879 Gray. 76 00:05:28.639 --> 00:05:31.120 Now somebody's going to track you down next All Star break. 77 00:05:31.879 --> 00:05:34.120 Congratulations on share that much information. 78 00:05:34.399 --> 00:05:40.120 Shall We've missed a couple of weeks of call ups 79 00:05:40.160 --> 00:05:42.480 with the top one hundred with the All Star Break, 80 00:05:43.040 --> 00:05:44.399 so let's cover a few of those. 81 00:05:44.480 --> 00:05:44.759 Gray. 82 00:05:45.560 --> 00:05:48.160 Louis Laura was called up for the Brewers. He didn't 83 00:05:48.160 --> 00:05:53.240 really have a place to play initially. That may be changing, 84 00:05:53.360 --> 00:05:56.519 but he's pretty much a speed first type of prospect. 85 00:05:56.720 --> 00:05:59.560 In seventy eight games of Triple eight at nine home runs, 86 00:05:59.560 --> 00:06:02.439 twenty four stone bases, he was sending three, twenty one, 87 00:06:02.639 --> 00:06:04.560 four thirty two and four seventy. 88 00:06:05.279 --> 00:06:07.879 What are your thoughts here on Louis Laura, SU, you'd 89 00:06:07.920 --> 00:06:10.160 be picking him up now that he might have an opportunity. 90 00:06:11.879 --> 00:06:15.959 Yeah, you know, with with South Freelick going down, I 91 00:06:16.000 --> 00:06:20.160 believe he injured his shoulder. Maybe he was in the 92 00:06:20.199 --> 00:06:26.360 pool doing the doing the walking laps, but South really 93 00:06:26.439 --> 00:06:30.360 hurt his shoulder. So there's so there's some room for 94 00:06:30.759 --> 00:06:36.639 Louis Laura to play. And I'd say, you know, because 95 00:06:36.680 --> 00:06:41.360 of the speed alone, speed transfers from one level to 96 00:06:41.399 --> 00:06:44.360 the next. So I would say because of the speed alone, 97 00:06:44.800 --> 00:06:47.839 he's worth picking up. Now, if you don't need steals, 98 00:06:48.160 --> 00:06:51.399 then yeah, you could probably ignore him for the most part. 99 00:06:52.199 --> 00:06:56.480 He does make decent contact in a very small sample size. 100 00:06:56.519 --> 00:07:01.720 He has a fifteen percent strikeout rate actually yeah, just 101 00:07:01.800 --> 00:07:07.319 under fifteen percent, and also a ninth almost eighteen point 102 00:07:07.360 --> 00:07:10.879 five walk great eighteen point five percent walk grade. So yeah, 103 00:07:10.920 --> 00:07:14.639 I mean it's just it's only a week's worth of games, 104 00:07:15.319 --> 00:07:18.319 what we call it, twenty seven plate appearances, so obviously 105 00:07:18.399 --> 00:07:21.879 not a huge sample size. But you know, he's hitting well, 106 00:07:22.040 --> 00:07:27.319 hitting over two seventies so far, with you know, once 107 00:07:28.040 --> 00:07:31.399 one steal. So but I think the steals are really 108 00:07:31.399 --> 00:07:34.639 going to be what is you know, the main draw 109 00:07:34.759 --> 00:07:39.279 for him, right, I do think there could be some 110 00:07:39.319 --> 00:07:44.959 potential for power potentially, I could see a homer too, 111 00:07:45.399 --> 00:07:48.279 but I wouldn't. I wouldn't count on that. I would 112 00:07:48.720 --> 00:07:51.399 you know, I would hope for steals and maybe some 113 00:07:51.639 --> 00:07:55.759 average and anything else is just you know, cherry on top. 114 00:07:56.560 --> 00:08:00.319 So you're probably looking at, you know, fifteen teen mix 115 00:08:00.399 --> 00:08:06.480 leagues and deeper depending on needs. In a twelve team league. 116 00:08:06.560 --> 00:08:09.639 Twelve team mix league. Yeah, I mean, if he got 117 00:08:09.720 --> 00:08:13.959 if he got hot, then sure, but I don't think 118 00:08:14.000 --> 00:08:16.959 you really unless you really are desperate for steals. I 119 00:08:17.000 --> 00:08:20.959 don't think in a twelve team mix league he's really like, uh, 120 00:08:21.120 --> 00:08:23.680 he's necessary to pick up in one of the in 121 00:08:24.040 --> 00:08:26.600 that shadow of a league. So yeah, I mean I 122 00:08:26.639 --> 00:08:30.160 would say probably fifteen team mix league or deeper for 123 00:08:30.319 --> 00:08:32.360 right now, unless you're desperate for steals. 124 00:08:33.440 --> 00:08:37.159 So you're saying self Failak was replaced by self fairly. 125 00:08:38.480 --> 00:08:44.200 Yeah, yeah, so so no, Actually, I think what I 126 00:08:44.320 --> 00:08:47.639 said was, I think he's actually probably closer to h 127 00:08:48.320 --> 00:08:50.039 a cheap. 128 00:08:51.240 --> 00:08:56.879 Or a poor man's Bryce Terrang, because I mean Terrang's 129 00:08:57.080 --> 00:09:01.320 so Terrag's profile is more speed in power, even though 130 00:09:01.639 --> 00:09:04.960 he has him for a decent amount of homers in 131 00:09:05.039 --> 00:09:08.440 the majors. But I'm not gonna I'm not saying Louis 132 00:09:08.639 --> 00:09:13.519 Laura is gonna be Bryce Terrain this year. He's probably 133 00:09:14.039 --> 00:09:18.320 He's probably not, So I wouldn't count on that. I 134 00:09:18.320 --> 00:09:21.600 mean he's twenty one years old, so I would count 135 00:09:21.639 --> 00:09:26.320 on nothing really that much other than steals and maybe average. 136 00:09:26.399 --> 00:09:31.480 I think South Frielick, I mean, South Freelick's fine as 137 00:09:31.519 --> 00:09:34.519 a comp. I just think he's a little bit lower 138 00:09:34.600 --> 00:09:38.440 on average he has. I mean he hit for average 139 00:09:38.519 --> 00:09:41.399 last year. This year he has. He was hitting two 140 00:09:41.480 --> 00:09:45.799 thirty six so and he only had six steals on 141 00:09:45.879 --> 00:09:49.360 the year. South Freelick I think is I don't know. 142 00:09:49.440 --> 00:09:52.039 I feel like he's a little he's a little bit less. 143 00:09:52.279 --> 00:09:54.639 I mean I think I like Louis Laura a bit 144 00:09:54.679 --> 00:09:59.720 more than South Freelick. I don't. I don't really, I 145 00:09:59.759 --> 00:10:02.440 didn't really I didn't like self Reelic at all. That's 146 00:10:02.679 --> 00:10:06.720 I mean, I'm belaboring a point here. Yeah, I mean 147 00:10:07.320 --> 00:10:09.360 Louis lar is fine for deeper leagues. 148 00:10:10.440 --> 00:10:13.559 Yeah, say fifteen team, Like you said, that's that's about 149 00:10:13.559 --> 00:10:16.039 where you want to look if you need speed in 150 00:10:16.080 --> 00:10:19.559 like a daily twelve team league. I wouldn't mind grabbing him. 151 00:10:19.639 --> 00:10:22.000 He should be, you know, a good bet for that, 152 00:10:22.200 --> 00:10:25.600 and he does. He's taking walks across pretty much every 153 00:10:26.159 --> 00:10:28.960 stop that he's had, so that's part of his profile. 154 00:10:29.000 --> 00:10:30.639 That's one of those things that if you can get 155 00:10:30.639 --> 00:10:33.159 that from somebody who's speed first, it does kind of 156 00:10:33.200 --> 00:10:38.080 help booy their their potential slumps in between because they 157 00:10:38.120 --> 00:10:40.879 don't particularly hit the ball hard. I will remind you, though, 158 00:10:40.919 --> 00:10:43.279 that self predic was supposed to be a great average 159 00:10:43.320 --> 00:10:47.240 hitter when he was a prospect, so it just just 160 00:10:47.360 --> 00:10:48.960 never really panned out. 161 00:10:49.759 --> 00:10:50.720 But let's move on Gray. 162 00:10:50.799 --> 00:10:54.559 Let's talk about the A's another injury opening up spot. 163 00:10:54.720 --> 00:10:56.399 Nick Kurtz is going to miss a little bit more 164 00:10:56.440 --> 00:11:00.320 time as they're looking into his injury. So Tommy White 165 00:11:00.480 --> 00:11:03.120 was called up by by them and he's gonna get 166 00:11:03.120 --> 00:11:05.919 some more playing time. Seventy six games of triple A, 167 00:11:06.080 --> 00:11:08.720 he has ten one runs, two stone bases. He's hitting 168 00:11:08.720 --> 00:11:11.840 three oh three, three fifty three and four sixty five. 169 00:11:12.559 --> 00:11:14.080 What are your thoughts here on Tommy White. 170 00:11:15.480 --> 00:11:18.159 Uh, it's hard to It's hard to be excited about 171 00:11:18.159 --> 00:11:21.600 Tommy White for a couple of reasons. Number one reason 172 00:11:21.720 --> 00:11:26.559 is the more Tommy White's around, the less Nick Kurtz 173 00:11:26.639 --> 00:11:29.440 is around. And that that hurts. That hurts me, That 174 00:11:29.559 --> 00:11:33.720 hurts my feelings, I want Nick Kurtz back. I don't 175 00:11:33.759 --> 00:11:37.360 really want Tommy White. There. My other big the other 176 00:11:37.360 --> 00:11:41.279 big drawback is the ground ball rate, uh for Tommy White. 177 00:11:42.320 --> 00:11:45.360 I mean it's just it's pretty horrendous for a guy 178 00:11:45.559 --> 00:11:49.960 with uh, you know, supposed power. So I would you know, 179 00:11:50.519 --> 00:11:54.919 i'd probably say al only for Tommy White at this point, 180 00:11:56.200 --> 00:12:00.320 you know, potentially for power. But I mean I don't. 181 00:12:00.480 --> 00:12:02.679 I don't know where the power is coming from if 182 00:12:03.559 --> 00:12:06.960 he's grounding into that many, if he's grounding out that much. 183 00:12:07.840 --> 00:12:11.159 So yeah, I mean it's hard. It's hard to get 184 00:12:11.200 --> 00:12:14.879 super excited about a guy with a fifty or greater 185 00:12:15.159 --> 00:12:19.399 ground ball rate, even if he does have power. So yeah, 186 00:12:19.399 --> 00:12:23.639 I mean I guess maybe eventually he's you know, I 187 00:12:23.679 --> 00:12:27.200 mean he's he's twenty three. Uh so maybe at some 188 00:12:27.279 --> 00:12:30.519 point he gets a swing adjustment, so you know, in 189 00:12:30.559 --> 00:12:35.120 the grand scheme of things, maybe he's better than you know, 190 00:12:35.879 --> 00:12:39.720 what we're seeing so far in his career. But I don't, 191 00:12:39.879 --> 00:12:44.320 I don't. Outside of AO only, I'm not interested. 192 00:12:44.559 --> 00:12:47.159 Yeah, I think in a you know, a fifteen team, 193 00:12:47.240 --> 00:12:50.279 I could maybe look at him as a corner infielder 194 00:12:50.320 --> 00:12:53.240 because there's just there's a lot of bad corner infielders 195 00:12:53.240 --> 00:12:56.240 out there, and he does get to play in bing bong, 196 00:12:56.360 --> 00:12:57.679 so that certainly helps. 197 00:12:58.759 --> 00:12:59.480 That's really the. 198 00:12:59.399 --> 00:13:01.600 Only thing that's holding me up here at this point 199 00:13:01.679 --> 00:13:03.919 is the is the park. He does hit for a 200 00:13:03.919 --> 00:13:06.200 good average, he doesn't really strike out. So those are 201 00:13:06.519 --> 00:13:09.879 those are two positives on him. But I, like you said, 202 00:13:09.919 --> 00:13:14.000 I think it's mostly gonna be ale only for him. 203 00:13:14.519 --> 00:13:16.600 A little bit of a blast room past here, Gray 204 00:13:17.559 --> 00:13:20.120 Christian Incarnacy o on Strand. 205 00:13:20.159 --> 00:13:22.360 Is backup in the eight majors. 206 00:13:22.679 --> 00:13:25.960 If you didn't catch the catch his transaction, you're not alone. 207 00:13:26.000 --> 00:13:28.159 I didn't realize he had moved. But he is over 208 00:13:28.240 --> 00:13:31.679 in Baltimore. Triple A seventy one games, nineteen them runs 209 00:13:31.720 --> 00:13:34.519 two stone bases. He's hitting two sixty six three or 210 00:13:34.519 --> 00:13:37.879 four five forty four. You know, as somebody who was 211 00:13:37.919 --> 00:13:43.360 once an interest to us in the fantasy landscape, are 212 00:13:43.399 --> 00:13:45.360 you any do you have any interest. 213 00:13:45.120 --> 00:13:47.399 In him now? Yeah? 214 00:13:47.440 --> 00:13:51.559 I mean you know one place that a once failed 215 00:13:51.639 --> 00:13:56.519 prospect goes that's gonna definitely help him as a Baltimore 216 00:13:57.000 --> 00:14:04.440 They're they're numerous prospects that we're still waiting on. Maybe, 217 00:14:05.720 --> 00:14:09.240 you know, maybe after Dylan Bieber's and Kobe Mayo catch on. 218 00:14:09.480 --> 00:14:14.399 Christian Carci Strand can get on that shuttle, shuttle to 219 00:14:14.720 --> 00:14:21.240 h fantasy value. I think Christian and Garcia Strands. Let 220 00:14:21.320 --> 00:14:25.000 me see what his minor league numbers. Oh okay, So 221 00:14:25.559 --> 00:14:29.799 I clicked the minor league numbers to pop up, and 222 00:14:30.799 --> 00:14:34.320 my my browsers pinwheel is going. It's it's taken a 223 00:14:34.320 --> 00:14:41.639 little while for all the minor league numbers to propagate here. Okay, 224 00:14:41.840 --> 00:14:44.039 so now that the minor league numbers are now up, 225 00:14:44.360 --> 00:14:47.679 hold on, let me let me scroll up, give me, 226 00:14:47.720 --> 00:14:55.080 give me a minute. Hold on, still scrolling, still scrolling. Okay, 227 00:14:55.679 --> 00:14:59.879 we're here. Yeah, I mean he's you know, maybe Christian 228 00:15:00.000 --> 00:15:06.440 Garcia Strand could win in MVP in the KBO potentially, 229 00:15:06.679 --> 00:15:08.159 I mean I could, I could see that. 230 00:15:08.320 --> 00:15:08.679 I don't know. 231 00:15:08.759 --> 00:15:11.879 I mean, you never know. I guess guys could catch 232 00:15:11.919 --> 00:15:16.720 on later, uh, you know a little bit of post 233 00:15:16.879 --> 00:15:20.679 prospect hype possibly at some point. But right now, I mean, 234 00:15:20.759 --> 00:15:24.600 unless you see something from in Garcion Strand, there's no 235 00:15:24.679 --> 00:15:27.360 reason to pick him up. And even I would say, 236 00:15:27.399 --> 00:15:30.279 even in I don't even know if he's rosterbull and 237 00:15:30.399 --> 00:15:33.480 Ale only leagues at at this point, I mean you 238 00:15:33.600 --> 00:15:35.320 have to see something. I mean, he doesn't even have 239 00:15:35.480 --> 00:15:36.879 he doesn't even really have playing time. 240 00:15:38.559 --> 00:15:38.759 You know. 241 00:15:38.840 --> 00:15:42.320 The crazy thing is, I mean he's really like his 242 00:15:42.399 --> 00:15:46.879 stats are still good whenever he's in the miners. Unfortunately, 243 00:15:47.440 --> 00:15:49.279 I mean, he's always in the miners. 244 00:15:49.600 --> 00:15:49.879 Uh. 245 00:15:49.919 --> 00:15:53.279 And there's clearly I mean as crazy as you know, 246 00:15:53.440 --> 00:15:57.039 as as crazy making as it was for those years 247 00:15:57.039 --> 00:15:59.200 when he was in Cincinnati, and I would be like, 248 00:15:59.240 --> 00:16:02.679 why don't they I mean, at this point, you gotta 249 00:16:02.759 --> 00:16:08.039 figure the league has decided that he's a quad A player. 250 00:16:08.919 --> 00:16:10.240 So I don't know if I don't know if he's 251 00:16:10.279 --> 00:16:13.080 ever gonna play. I mean, you know, Uh, in just 252 00:16:13.159 --> 00:16:18.039 a half a season of the minor leagues this year, 253 00:16:18.480 --> 00:16:22.320 he hit nineteen homers. I mean, so he clearly doesn't 254 00:16:22.320 --> 00:16:24.960 need to be in the minors. But I don't think 255 00:16:25.000 --> 00:16:28.279 anyone thinks he can hit in the majors. So unfortunately, 256 00:16:28.440 --> 00:16:31.879 I don't. I don't think he's worthwhile in really any 257 00:16:31.960 --> 00:16:35.840 league outside of maybe a flyer and an ale only. 258 00:16:35.960 --> 00:16:36.799 But that's about it. 259 00:16:38.159 --> 00:16:40.639 Yeah, And he did that nineteen home runs with a 260 00:16:40.759 --> 00:16:45.039 thirty point six percent strikeout rate in Triple A as 261 00:16:45.080 --> 00:16:47.960 a twenty six year old Gray. 262 00:16:48.120 --> 00:16:52.879 Yeah, no, that's KBO baby. We call that the old 263 00:16:53.080 --> 00:16:58.039 KBO and a future MVP at the KBO level, don't 264 00:16:58.200 --> 00:17:02.600 I don't know, man, Yeah, thirty at twenty six years old. 265 00:17:02.639 --> 00:17:05.680 If you have a thirty percent strike out right, you 266 00:17:05.799 --> 00:17:08.400 either you need like you need to go to Max 267 00:17:08.519 --> 00:17:12.720 Monthsey's warby Parker and try and get new glasses, or 268 00:17:13.279 --> 00:17:15.400 it might it may not be working for you. 269 00:17:16.319 --> 00:17:19.599 Yeah, there there may be something that he needs to adjust, 270 00:17:20.160 --> 00:17:22.119 something to monitor. Just wanted to bring him back up 271 00:17:22.119 --> 00:17:24.319 because it was more funny to me to see his name, 272 00:17:24.359 --> 00:17:27.960 and then there's anything. Owen Murphy was called up by 273 00:17:28.000 --> 00:17:31.960 the Braves. He has two relief appearances, one short start 274 00:17:32.359 --> 00:17:34.039 you know this is more if he gets a shot 275 00:17:34.039 --> 00:17:35.359 in the rotation are you interested? 276 00:17:35.440 --> 00:17:37.880 Type of thing? Ray and sixty innings and triple A. 277 00:17:38.000 --> 00:17:40.880 He had a three eight eight you'r aa one eight 278 00:17:40.960 --> 00:17:44.440 with twenty seven percent strekout rate and eleven percent walk rate. 279 00:17:44.640 --> 00:17:46.039 Any thoughts here on Olden Murphy? 280 00:17:48.680 --> 00:17:50.680 No, really, I mean I think he was already sent 281 00:17:50.720 --> 00:17:54.720 back down. If he gets called back up, maybe for 282 00:17:54.759 --> 00:17:58.680 a fifteen team mixed league if he gets a good matchup. 283 00:17:58.839 --> 00:18:01.599 So like a streamer in a fifteen team mix league, 284 00:18:01.640 --> 00:18:05.039 and uh, you know, obvious interest in n now only 285 00:18:05.119 --> 00:18:07.079 if he gets called back up. But I think he 286 00:18:07.200 --> 00:18:09.480 was very sent down, So yeah, I don't think there's 287 00:18:09.480 --> 00:18:10.400 anything really there. 288 00:18:11.240 --> 00:18:13.440 Yeah, it feels like if they do need a fifth starter, 289 00:18:13.640 --> 00:18:16.559 it would be j R. Richie, you know, first, give 290 00:18:16.599 --> 00:18:20.160 them the first opportunity. Uh, your boy, our boy, Didier 291 00:18:20.240 --> 00:18:22.759 flint Sez is still in the in the bullpen as well, 292 00:18:22.880 --> 00:18:25.680 so they do have a couple options already. 293 00:18:25.400 --> 00:18:26.480 Up on the major league roster. 294 00:18:26.599 --> 00:18:32.079 Potentially, Let's go ahead and do some first half of prolatives. 295 00:18:32.079 --> 00:18:33.039 Give some awards away. 296 00:18:33.160 --> 00:18:33.400 Gray. 297 00:18:34.079 --> 00:18:37.720 Let's talk about the MVP spot and by value, because 298 00:18:37.720 --> 00:18:39.440 we can obviously go out and look at the player 299 00:18:39.519 --> 00:18:42.720 raider and see how good James would and Jacob z 300 00:18:42.839 --> 00:18:46.119 Rowski were in the first half. But by value, who 301 00:18:46.160 --> 00:18:46.880 is your MVP? 302 00:18:47.119 --> 00:18:49.640 Gray? Uh? 303 00:18:50.799 --> 00:18:53.799 Well, I would have to say, uh, you know, I 304 00:18:53.799 --> 00:18:57.200 guess Jordan Walker, right because I feel like he was 305 00:18:57.599 --> 00:19:02.519 He was probably drafted at you know, roughly the last 306 00:19:02.720 --> 00:19:07.480 round of twelve team mix leagues around at least like 307 00:19:07.599 --> 00:19:12.400 two twenty overall. I would say, and then for you know, 308 00:19:12.480 --> 00:19:16.519 any like if you're if he's getting drafted like you know, 309 00:19:16.720 --> 00:19:20.000 in the last rounds of a twelve team mix league, 310 00:19:20.039 --> 00:19:24.079 and then like you figure as a fifth outfielder in 311 00:19:24.160 --> 00:19:27.759 a fifteen team mix league. You know, like say like 312 00:19:27.880 --> 00:19:33.200 three hundred ish overall. I mean there's not that's like, 313 00:19:33.319 --> 00:19:35.440 you know, if you can get a guy at three 314 00:19:35.519 --> 00:19:39.599 hundred overall and have a top five season, I mean 315 00:19:39.720 --> 00:19:42.799 I think you're you know, Jordan Walker is gonna be 316 00:19:42.799 --> 00:19:44.680 It's gonna be hard for Jordan Walker to not be 317 00:19:45.880 --> 00:19:51.799 the Fantasy MVP for the year, considering where he was drafted. 318 00:19:52.200 --> 00:19:55.920 Even like you know, knock on wood, nothing bad happens, 319 00:19:56.160 --> 00:19:59.160 but even if he takes the second half off, he's 320 00:19:59.200 --> 00:20:02.319 already given more value than you could have ever expected. 321 00:20:02.359 --> 00:20:06.720 So I'll say Jordan Walker for MVP for value. 322 00:20:06.960 --> 00:20:09.480 Yeah, I think that's a pretty clear award. 323 00:20:09.960 --> 00:20:13.039 Honorable mention to Otto Lopez, he wasn't drafted as late 324 00:20:13.480 --> 00:20:17.519 as Jordan Walker, but certainly deserving of the war our 325 00:20:17.720 --> 00:20:18.680 NL only Gray. 326 00:20:18.880 --> 00:20:20.759 I remember I was on Jordan Walker. 327 00:20:21.359 --> 00:20:24.079 He went for seven dollars, which was one more than 328 00:20:24.119 --> 00:20:27.680 I was going to go on him. That's felt crazy 329 00:20:27.839 --> 00:20:30.480 to go seven even I was like, why is anybody 330 00:20:30.480 --> 00:20:31.279 bidding against me? 331 00:20:31.480 --> 00:20:34.160 At seven dollars on Jordan Walker. 332 00:20:35.240 --> 00:20:38.119 I really really wish I had spent the extra dollar 333 00:20:38.720 --> 00:20:42.160 on on Jordan Walker. That would have that have drastically 334 00:20:42.200 --> 00:20:46.720 helped my team kind of just pick up a little 335 00:20:46.759 --> 00:20:50.519 bit of the you know, little slack here as I'm 336 00:20:51.240 --> 00:20:53.200 I'm still top three in that week's not too worried, 337 00:20:53.240 --> 00:20:54.680 But yes, Jordan Walker. 338 00:20:54.359 --> 00:20:55.640 Has been a monster. Gray. 339 00:20:56.799 --> 00:20:59.880 All right, Gray, let's move on to least valuable Player. 340 00:21:00.319 --> 00:21:02.839 We don't have to worry about draft cost here because well, 341 00:21:03.000 --> 00:21:06.680 that's that's baked into the least valuable part of this award. 342 00:21:07.279 --> 00:21:11.119 There are plenty of candidates. Some of my fantasy teams 343 00:21:11.440 --> 00:21:15.200 can't attest to that who is your least valuable player 344 00:21:15.240 --> 00:21:15.640 this year? 345 00:21:17.640 --> 00:21:20.240 So one guy, I was like, I was totally out 346 00:21:20.279 --> 00:21:24.160 on I was. I was actually I felt a little 347 00:21:24.200 --> 00:21:30.119 bit like the price for him was so absurd that 348 00:21:30.519 --> 00:21:32.519 I was not only out on him, but I also 349 00:21:32.559 --> 00:21:35.920 I didn't even write an overrated post other than I 350 00:21:36.079 --> 00:21:39.880 mentioned in a few posts like don't draft them because 351 00:21:40.279 --> 00:21:45.480 it's insane to draft him. But I feel like you 352 00:21:45.519 --> 00:21:49.200 can't get much worse than cal Raley. He was. He's 353 00:21:49.559 --> 00:21:52.039 I mean, he's barely in the top four hundred on 354 00:21:52.079 --> 00:21:54.920 the Player Raider and he was going in like the 355 00:21:54.920 --> 00:21:59.480 top twenty five overall. Lea, It's just awful. I mean 356 00:21:59.519 --> 00:22:02.640 not I mean, there is injury, but there's also even 357 00:22:02.640 --> 00:22:05.559 when he's not been injured and he's been on the field, 358 00:22:05.640 --> 00:22:09.240 it's like he's hitting one sixty three as of the 359 00:22:09.279 --> 00:22:15.960 recording of this. It's awful. It's it's barely rosterable really. 360 00:22:17.599 --> 00:22:21.640 It's it's been pretty bad. I would uh honorable mention 361 00:22:21.720 --> 00:22:27.039 a few guys here. Obviously, Mookie Betts has been just horrendous. 362 00:22:27.400 --> 00:22:30.119 He just has not done anything for you this year. 363 00:22:30.640 --> 00:22:33.839 Along with Kyle Tucker and Vlad they've both been very 364 00:22:33.839 --> 00:22:36.599 disappointing considering where you drafted. 365 00:22:36.319 --> 00:22:38.640 Him and the expectations for them coming to the season. 366 00:22:39.880 --> 00:22:43.480 You know. Also with the with cal Raleigh, I feel 367 00:22:43.519 --> 00:22:46.440 like this is a thing that I've mentioned this before, 368 00:22:46.599 --> 00:22:49.839 and it was in relation I think to uh Aaron 369 00:22:49.960 --> 00:22:54.519 Judge when he was going uh for the al home 370 00:22:54.599 --> 00:23:00.759 run record, which is a silly record, but anyway, when 371 00:23:00.880 --> 00:23:02.839 Avery Judge was going for and they brought in like 372 00:23:02.880 --> 00:23:06.119 the bouncy balls. I feel like with Cal Rowley, like 373 00:23:06.400 --> 00:23:10.640 he definitely I mean, he was definitely good. Last year 374 00:23:11.279 --> 00:23:15.079 for most of the year, but at a certain point, 375 00:23:15.880 --> 00:23:17.920 I feel like they brought in new balls for him. 376 00:23:18.839 --> 00:23:22.160 There's no way, there's no way he like because like 377 00:23:22.319 --> 00:23:26.400 I just opened up his player page just to remind 378 00:23:26.480 --> 00:23:29.359 myself of like what he did last year, and like 379 00:23:30.119 --> 00:23:35.720 sixty homers. It's just absurd that he hit sixty last year. 380 00:23:35.839 --> 00:23:39.880 It's like, I mean, he's he's definitely a home run hitter, 381 00:23:40.039 --> 00:23:44.680 but he's like a thirty to forty home run guy. 382 00:23:44.880 --> 00:23:49.319 Like sixty homers last year, like man Man was that 383 00:23:49.319 --> 00:23:53.079 that was just such an absurd year from him. And 384 00:23:53.119 --> 00:23:57.079 the fact that people got people bought in at like 385 00:23:57.599 --> 00:24:00.680 the full cost. I actually think, you know, with cal 386 00:24:00.759 --> 00:24:03.799 Rawley specifically, I feel like there was a little bit 387 00:24:03.920 --> 00:24:07.839 like I wonder how many people who rostered cal Rawley 388 00:24:08.039 --> 00:24:12.960 last year and got all that basically for free. I 389 00:24:13.000 --> 00:24:15.160 wonder how many of those people got in again this 390 00:24:15.319 --> 00:24:18.279 year at cost, because I feel like there was a 391 00:24:18.319 --> 00:24:22.119 bunch of people who were like, oh, you know, I 392 00:24:22.119 --> 00:24:25.160 I was playing with house money because I you know, 393 00:24:25.200 --> 00:24:29.400 I got sixty homers for free basically last year, so 394 00:24:29.559 --> 00:24:33.880 this year I'll pay the top twenty five price. And 395 00:24:34.440 --> 00:24:37.599 also like and just you know, it's like I I, 396 00:24:37.759 --> 00:24:40.559 you know, I'm paying the price for last year this year. 397 00:24:41.160 --> 00:24:44.559 And I also think that they still had in their 398 00:24:44.799 --> 00:24:48.039 like it was still like in their psyche to be like, oh, 399 00:24:48.279 --> 00:24:52.279 you know, I sixty homers like that was so great, 400 00:24:52.519 --> 00:24:55.880 Like they were still feeling the effects of that cal 401 00:24:56.000 --> 00:25:00.039