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Bourbon N' Ball - Impact This Rookie Class · Military Broadcast Radio | MBR Talk

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  The people have spoken. Austin Riley, who's, you know,
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  he's not playing anymore, but when he was 1.8, still at 128
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  strikeouts, that was months ago. And we're back for another
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  season. To deliver.
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  From a fantasy perspective for next year, he's going to be a
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  top three shortstop again probably, you know, second
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  round. I think a mid second round is
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  about where he should go. Have your drink ready.
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  Then you hold off, wait, and you hope that Perdomo's there for
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  you in the 5th or 6th, but if he's not then your entire
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  strategy just shit to bed. And prepare to be entertained.
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  Guys like Riley Green, Spencer Torkelson, you know those guys
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  need to also perform. Gary Carpenter in the heat of
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  the moment. And those guys, all three of
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  those guys I just listed are all streaky guys.
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  Welcome to another season of bourbon involved.
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  I'm Doug, like you. Be from Clearwater, FL over
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  there. Finish your drink, go to bed,
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  it's Friday night. Have fun guys.
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  Take care man. It's such a grand entrance man.
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  Bourbon ball show 78. Excited to be here.
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  Third season fantasy baseball, fun stuff going on, man.
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  I'm Doug again. That's my my lifetime buddy over
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  there. Mikey V from Clearwater, FL
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  here. We're bringing bourbon to ball.
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  The question of the day is why bourbon?
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  Why ball? Well, it's a very simple answer.
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  We like our bourbon. So I topped off today and we
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  like our baseball, fantasy baseball, and the stats that we
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  give you are from our ESPN points league.
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  It's a weekly league. We set our line up on Monday.
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  Someone gets hurt during the week, then it's tough luck.
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  And that's the same outcome for anybody if somebody gets hurt
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  during the week. So the points that we give you
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  are based off of that league. But again, if you're a top ten,
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  you know, producer and points leads, you're a top ten and Cats
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  League and roto and all that kind of stuff, so that all that
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  stuff can really translate into whatever format you use.
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  So very exciting stuff. Of course, we're coming to you
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  from Patriot Radio. We're coming to you from
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  military broadcasting radio and BR.
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  We have a YouTube page, we have a Facebook page.
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  Go ahead and like us, follow us, all that good stuff.
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  But there was some military affiliation associated with
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  that. I myself was a paratrooper in
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  the Army for over six years. I have jumps in Ireland,
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  Germany, the Netherlands, and I am a combat veteran.
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  I had over a year in Afghanistan in all of 2012.
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  Yeah, my grand grandfather was part of Robo One as a medic, and
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  my father was in the Air Force during the Vietnam War.
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  He was drafted, so lot of connections there as well, Doug.
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  Wow, crazy stuff, man. Crazy stuff.
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  All right, man, we have a ton of stuff to talk about today.
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  I know I sent you over the script.
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  What do you what do you think about it?
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  Some good stuff in there. Man, we're talking about the
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  Young Bucks. I love it.
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  Can't, can't wait. That's it.
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  Let's just hop right in. Let's go around the league.
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  All right, all right, let's talk about actually, I mean, this guy
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  is actually come up as a a top five front runner for Cy Young
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  in the National League, if you believe it or not, even
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  considering he didn't have some of the best starts early on, did
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  give up couple runs here and there, but he does throw very
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  hard. And I'm talking about the
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  Brewers starting pitcher Jacob Marinowski.
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  He is the flamethrower. He last Friday after our show,
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  watching that game, he had an historic start, which was
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  unbelievable, really unbelievable.
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  He was going up against a pretty hot Yankees team at the time,
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  right? Not only did he strike out 11
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  batters, he threw 10 pitches of at least 103 miles an hour or
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  faster, earning him five of the fastest pitches by a starter in
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  MLB history. 5 pitches by a starter.
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  We all know Adrolius Chapman, he owns the overall fastest pitch,
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  105.8 miles an hour, which is ridiculous.
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  That was back in 2010, I believe that was probably with the
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  Cincinnati Reds, if that. I mean, he's a, he's a journey
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  man. So he's been everywhere.
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  But he did get a start with the Reds, and I'm assuming that's
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  probably back then. But not to take away from Jacob
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  Barowski, but I'm going to butcher that for the rest of the
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  segment. But take a look at the
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  highlights. I have his strikeouts right
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  here. And man, you talk about nasty,
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  you talk about fast, you talk about control.
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  Like how often does a guy who throws that hard have control?
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  And to be able to do all that and won equals a pretty special
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  season so far. So take a look at the highlights
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  right here. One of the most electric
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  fastballs in the big leagues, Kowski's first bullet 102
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  Grisham in the games against some high level talent for 100
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  miles an hour. Then Rice is back hand injury
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  night, Max freed and a swing at a missing to Aaron Judge in
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  there for a strike. Is he A1 Judge to Aaron Judge
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  Key and the two strike pitch lined in the right field and
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  right at field. Had a great start in the Miz. 3
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  up, 3 down with a couple of KS. So man, I mean that was that was
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  a ridiculous first inning right there.
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  I mean, I think 6 of the pitches were were over 102.
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  So it is AI mean man, the stat line itself, you know, one and O
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  6 innings pitched, 11 strikeouts, two walks, 0 and
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  28.88 struck out every single starting player at least once,
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  which is a it's a feat all on its own.
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  I mean, if this was a guy last year that some people actually
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  really did compare him to Paul Skeens, right?
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  I think. But after this performance, he
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  might have to say he might look just a little better when he's
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  going, when he's going, he's going.
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  How's that? I won't say I don't like to
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  compare players. But listen, right now he's a top
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  ten starting pitcher. He just went 7 innings, struck
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  out 10, gave up nowhere and against the Padres Wednesday,
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  not that the Padres are any good, but still the year, a 2.12
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  ERA, 80 strikeouts. I mean, I think he, and this is
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  my hesitation with him is that there is that dreaded innings
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  cap that we talk about every year with rookies and I know for
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  sure he'll get his at some point this year.
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  The second one is he throws so hard.
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  You just hope that he doesn't go out and he hurts himself.
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  You know, like a like a Jacob the Grom of the world, right?
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  I mean, how many times has he had Tommy John?
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  Twice. You know, same thing Verlander,
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  like the guys that throw hard sometimes are the guys that get
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  hurt and that's my only hesitation.
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  But I love him. Sit and forget starting pitcher
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  in a redraft, though, knowing that there's an innings limit,
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  right? You own a mic.
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  I mean, what's your thought? You know, you're going to you're
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  going to try to deal them in a in in that type of league or I
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  mean, obviously ours is a keeper.
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  You must definitely be thinking about maybe keeping them.
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  But is it? And if there is any hesitation,
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  what would it be? No, I, I think he nailed it.
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  I think it's, you know, he's 67200 pounds, like he's a pretty
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  big guy, you know, tall guy, but £200 was 6-7.
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  I wish there was just a little bit more meat on him.
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  I think that would help him out a little bit.
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  But I'll tell you what, man, guys, as a stud, there's just no
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  other way to put it. He's a hoss.
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  He's he's, I think the real deal.
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  I think it was a little taboo last year that he kind of made
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  the All Star game after only appearing in what, 3 or 4
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  appearances from Milwaukee? But now you kind of get the
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  reason why they showcase them because of just how electric he
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  can be. And obviously he's been putting
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  it together this year. He's been looking great, Clearly
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  top 15, top ten pitcher. At times you can even argue top
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  five because of the strikeouts he has, you know, top five in
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  the league. So, you know, I I value him at a
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  pretty, pretty penny right now, especially if you're in a
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  dynasty league, especially if you're in a keeper league.
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  I think more dynasty league. Obviously, you know, you, you,
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  you hit the jackpot. That's a guy that obviously
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  you're not going to be trading or moving anytime soon.
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  But like keeper leagues, you know that, you know, 1-2 year
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  keepers like what we do, Doug, where you can only keep them for
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  a minimum time. I think it's a great value.
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  You know, this guy went probably 8-9, ten 11th round, depending
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  on the leagues. He he was falling back a little
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  bit in the pitching categories early on.
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  So you could have got a great price on him.
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  I you know, I did it was like what, eighth round, ninth round,
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  Doug. So, you know, I have to put that
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  into consideration to get a guy that could potentially be the
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  top five guy going into the next, you know, couple years
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  potentially. Like you said, it's injury, you
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  know, precautions up there. He's so young.
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  We don't know a lot about him yet, right?
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  We don't know what those patterns look like yet with him,
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  but everything is trending up in my opinion with Jacob
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  Rosarowski. I think he's legit.
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  I'm keeping them. When I say I keep them, I mean
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  I'm not moving them in a in a season trade, whether if it's a
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  re draft league or not. And I have to consider keeping
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  him in, you know, our keeper league, Doug, that goes without
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  saying. Would there be a reason outside
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  of injuries where you wouldn't consider keeping him?
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  What would make you say, well, you know what?
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  What would make you think twice, you know?
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  Man, it's really there's not a lot of cons I think with him
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  right now. You know the age, obviously the
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  the unknown of what this is going to turn into being.
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  But if he has gotten compared to a guy like skins, you respect
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  the same projectile, which means and almost a better off landing
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  spot being in Milwaukee. I I think it's a good place to
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  be. It's a winning organization
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  these last few years, best record in the National League
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  last year, playing pretty good ball.
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  This year they're getting healthier.
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  So he's going to have run support.
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  He's going to get wins. He's going to get you extra
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  points. Maybe it's the innings limit
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  this year. You know, you touched on that a
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  little bit. I do think he's probably going
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  to get cut a little bit. I'd say sometimes this summer,
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  you know, July, August or so, get him ready for September, for
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  maybe a playoff push in El Central.
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  They want to make sure he's there.
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  He's going to be their guy. But I think it's maybe just the
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  age restriction. Maybe that's the only thing,
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  just because again, this year he might only finish with like 160
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  innings, 170 tops, which is again, still a very good year,
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  still very successful. But maybe that's the only thing.
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  I don't know. Do you do you have anything in
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  mind? No, I mean, it's just it's I
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  don't want to compare it to like a Garrett crochet type where,
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  you know, he looks really, really good and they don't maybe
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  shut him down when they should. They just let him go and you
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  know, not, not you might not see that come into effect the year
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  that next year, but you will at some point.
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  And we're we've seen it this year with crochet with the arm
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  issue, right. And no one would ever say, well,
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  that's probably from two years ago because no one, you know, no
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  one really kind of looks that far back sometimes when they're
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  looking at this stuff. But that would be my hesitation
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  is how are they going to control them?
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  What are they going to do to kind of minimize the innings
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  that his arm is going to see? I mean he throws a hell of a lot
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  harder than Garrett Crochet. So that's another kind of scary
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  situation where you know how many, like we talked about the
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  Jacob the Groms of the world. You know, Jacob the Grom was
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  throwing 9899 hit a hundred couple times and you know, it's
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  just an injury play career. I don't want to say it's because
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  he throws so hard because some of the injuries I think he had,
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  like, you know, hamstring and and stuff, but I might that
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  would be my hesitation. I would, I mean, I would have to
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  see how they handle him. You know, I, if he pitches more
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  than like 175 innings, I don't know, man.
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  I'd be, you know, a little hesitant, just a little, just
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  because of how he throws and how hard it is, you know?
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  That's a very good point. You know, the the crochet
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  comparison, I get where you come from with that.
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  That makes a lot of sense, right?
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  That's a guy that was getting stretched out in Chicago, really
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  got stretched out in Boston last year.
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  And then I know this year he's running into the, I think the
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  wear and tear, a little bit of getting stretched out doesn't
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  mean, you know, next year, this year when he comes back, he's
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  not going to be the same guy. But there's just kind of some
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  roadblocks sometimes when you do get to that point where you are
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  going to be pitching 180, a 190, maybe even 200 innings more
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  consistently. This is the test.
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  This is the very, very beginning steps of Jacob Zorowski's career
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  of starting to build up these these inning limits.
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  But The thing is with Jacob Zarowski and same thing with
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  Garrett Crochet, the ceiling is so high for both of them that
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  they could beat top three guys, top five guys, You know, you
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  just mentioned like he's a top five Cy Young candidate for the
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  National League right now. Lot, a lot of high ceiling
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  potential for both of them. So I think that's what the
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  appeal is too. I'm willing to take that risk
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  sometimes, depending on your options, on what you have on
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  your team. You can play the safety game,
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  you can play with the distant guys, right?
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  You know, the top guys, the top picks.
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  You're going to get more consistency with that.
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  Jacob Mesorowski, I don't think there's enough track record,
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  like I said, about injury prone, but I mean, the ceilings are so
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  high dunk, I just can't get over it.
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  He's just. So I think with your point
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  though, too, is like, so if we keep the guys, we lose the round
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  we draft. So you got him in the eighth or
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  ninth round. You know, losing an eighth and
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  around 8th or 9th round pick for that isn't, wouldn't be a bad
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  gamble. As opposed to say, I, let me say
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  I draft him in the 2nd. And if he, if he does get hurt,
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  well then man, I just kind of lost my like everybody who
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  drafted to school, you know, they, they draft him in the
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  first round. Now he's not, he might, you
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  know, he might not be there for a couple months.
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  So it's a tough pick to have and to get wrong.
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  But because you got him in the 8th or the 9th, I think, and you
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  lose him around then, if he does get hurt, it's not as big of a
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  sting as it would be if you lost a second round pick or third,
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  you know? Yeah, yeah, because you don't
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  have all your eggs in your one basket there with him.
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  And again, Jacob Mudarowski, in most leagues this year, he was
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  drafted as you're probably #3 number four guy, you know, he
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  was just a little bit further down, but you know, next year
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  he's going to be drafted as people's maybe potentially #1 So
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  that's why I see like, hey, 8th inning, I can get a number one
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  guy so late on. And I can do this for two
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  straight years where I can get who's my 8th pick for a guy that
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  could be, again, a potential top five pitcher like that.
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  That's, that's very appealing. And then that way I can kind of
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  focus on other, you know, priorities on how I want to
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  reshape the draft on, you know, how you want to mold that.
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  Moving forward too, so. You know, there's just a lot of,
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  a lot of opportunity with him. And I, I, I'll tell you what, if
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  you do want to trade him in your leagues, just make sure you get
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  what you, you know, should get for him, not just the, you know,
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  a throw in a 2 for one for Mesirowski.
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  You know, that's I, I think you got to make it a little bit more
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  complicated than that. Yeah, I totally agree.
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  He's he's worth a, you know, a top third round hitter at the
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  very least. So, you know, but again, the
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  thing that the the counter is a lot of people are going to say,
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  well, listen, I don't want to trade for a guy that might not
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  be there for me in the playoffs when they when it counts, you
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  know, and that's, that's the pill you'll have to swallow in a
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  lot of those leaves if you do want to move them.
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  So you might have to lower the expectations just because of the
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  potential cap that they might put on him.
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  Yeah, I'm hoping that cap starts July, August, so that way when
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  playoff season comes in September, hopefully he's
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  playing for a division race and they're going to need him down
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  that stretch, I'm hoping. I mean, if you if they were
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  smart, they'd address it now and go with a six man rotation or
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  something. You know, I mean, they have long
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  relief guys like Henderson down there in Milwaukee that they
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  could just throw in and spot start and score the six man for
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  now. And you know, it'll add up to
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  about 170 innings. You know, of course, if you get
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  into the playoffs, that's a different beast all together.
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  But at least with the six man rotation, you're really limiting
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  the starts and you're eliminating the innings like the
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  Dodgers are doing with their rotation, which honestly,
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  they're lucky they did because we all knew the injuries were
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  going to come and we're going to talk about some of those big
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  injuries to that rotation. Including a brand new one about
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  1/2 hour ago. So.
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  Oh, I can't wait to get that one.
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  I know you are. All right, all right, so not not
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  to be done. Last Friday, Boston Red Sox
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  starting pitcher Conley Early struck out eight Tampa Bay Rays
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  over 7 innings, walked one, allowed, no earn, all while
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  getting the win. Now, this was a pretty
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  impressive start for him. Take a look at this and tell me
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  if he doesn't look electric during this start.
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  Yeah, going to be a challenge here for Narvaez.
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  Hopefully this has got a pretty. Good part of the plate, first in
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  and 1st hitter. There will be a strike 22 from
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  the lefty and struck him out fastball 94.
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  To. Make Boston team where
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  championships were expected. They all did.
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  Swung on the miss, Strike three, 2022 wave and a miss.
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  Baseball. They put pressure on you there.
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  That's going to be in there. The breaking ball lands for
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  strike three. Cortez off the bag in the three.
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  Two look like he went. He did.
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  That's going to be strike three and the 2.
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  Two again, and in there for strike three.
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  I mean, I got to tell you, man, the guy look good.
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  He he gave fantasy owners that was a 26.36 point swing right
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  there with the win. And here's a little fun little
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  stat. He actually made history.
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  He made MLB history with that by becoming the first MLB player
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  ever since 1900 to start and allow three or fewer runs and
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  five or fewer hits in 11 of their first 12 career starts.
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  Interesting what they they come up with for, for history in
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  these days. I mean, anything could be
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  history at this point. So listen, he was one of the top
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  prospects for the Red Sox for the last couple years.
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  He was talked about as being like a centerpiece for some big
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  trades in the offseason. For the last two years, Red Sox
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  never pulled the trigger on getting on getting rid of him.
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  And I think now you know why, right?
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  An ERA 316 nasty fastball kind of revived the Red Sox staff in
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  a way lowering that that ERA for overall as a staff, it's under 3
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  in the last couple weeks. Pitching today against a a
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  really good Braves team, only allowing one run still looks
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  pretty good. He's got 4 strikeouts, 1 earned
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  and three hits and three innings and 55 pitches.
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  So still looks pretty good. I mean, not much bad.
• 21:10
  You could say, you know, 9495 pretty good change up.
• 21:14
  Like I think this could really and and I think going into the
• 21:19
  offseason, we said like the Red Sox pitching staff is going to
• 21:22
  be fine. You know, Rangers wars looks
• 21:23
  good. Honestly, we didn't I didn't
• 21:25
  really like the Sonny Gray signing, but it is what it is.
• 21:28
  And then that was more for death and then you got crochet, but
• 21:31
  he's hurt. But it's still a pretty good
• 21:34
  pieced up rotation even at this point.
• 21:38
  So I I mean, the the really only issue with them was going to be
• 21:42
  there their offense, and that's something that they still
• 21:45
  haven't really addressed. But I like kind of early, I
• 21:47
  think, you know, he's going to be dominant.
• 21:50
  I'm not to the extent of Jacob Mesorowski, but he's still going
• 21:53
  to be really good. You know, I don't think I would
• 21:56
  keep him if I was in any type of league minus like a dynasty or
• 22:00
  something. But I, I mean, he, you could,
• 22:04
  he's one of those guys where he could maybe claws way into like
• 22:07
  the top five rounds next year and then become a keeper.
• 22:12
  You know, that's a scenario I can see happening.
• 22:15
  But I do like him. And I did want to talk about him
• 22:17
  just a little bit before we start digging into the Red Sox
• 22:20
  in a second. No, I mean, Connor really looks
• 22:23
  great. This is one of the guys looks
• 22:24
  like it's about to shake out. Well, it's been a minute since
• 22:28
  the Sox had not one just but two.
• 22:31
  I mean, I love Peyton Tolley as well.
• 22:32
  I think he is a character. How about that?
• 22:36
  How about that? I think he's a character, but he
• 22:39
  is electric on the mound as well.
• 22:40
  So I think both these guys are going to be the future of this
• 22:43
  rotation moving forward. We you said we're not worried
• 22:47
  about the rotation. We they had all the pitching in
• 22:49
  the world, whether they had injuries or not, they were going
• 22:52
  to be OK there. It's the offense that's going to
• 22:54
  be the problem. But Connor early you touched on
• 22:58
  it. I, I think this is kind of like
• 22:59
  a like AI don't want to compare him to Jacob Zarowski.
• 23:02
  I really want to compare him because of the draft position,
• 23:05
  maybe because like you said, Jacob Zarowski was, you know, an
• 23:09
  eighth, seventh round pick, Connor early this year.
• 23:12
  He went way later in drafts. He wasn't on anyone's radar
• 23:15
  really. But maybe next year, like you
• 23:17
  said, maybe a 5th, 6th, 7th round pick moves up in that, but
• 23:21
  then takes that step forward as well.
• 23:23
  Because again, you got to think this year he's building out
• 23:26
  those innings now. He's starting to really, you
• 23:29
  know, put himself in a position where he is going to get this
• 23:31
  opportunity to get stretched out this year and he looks great.
• 23:37
  He looks great, lefty pitcher. He's got that great kick.
• 23:41
  Smaller guy too on the mound. Not a big guy, but he throws
• 23:44
  with a lot of power. I love it, not going to lie.
• 23:48
  It's it's refreshing to be honest, because I feel like it's
• 23:52
  been, I don't want to say since Jon Lester, but maybe you can
• 23:56
  think of someone else. But it's been a minute since the
• 23:58
  Red Sox have really developed their own guy in their rotation,
• 24:05
  like their own front run starter Bellow has been kind of a
• 24:09
  headache this year and just really a pain in the butt all
• 24:12
  around. And then really, I can't think
• 24:16
  of anyone else. Can you think of anyone else,
• 24:18
  Doug? I'm having a hard time thinking
• 24:19
  of anyone else in this organization that stepped up in
• 24:21
  the past. I'd say even 10 years.
• 24:25
  Stretch it out. No, I really can't.
• 24:27
  And and it's funny you bring up Toli because Toli was, I, I
• 24:31
  believe, ranked higher than early and a lot of people
• 24:34
  thought, hey, if you're going to trade one guy, trade early, keep
• 24:37
  Tolley. But they decide to keep them
• 24:39
  both, which in hindsight now is a great move.
• 24:43
  And early is producing much better.
• 24:46
  He looks like he's ready for for Major League Baseball and
• 24:49
  hopefully he will be a staple in his rotation for a very long
• 24:52
  time. You know, you go into next year
• 24:54
  with Ranger Suarez and Garrett Crochet and an Early and the
• 24:58
  Tolley and you know it doesn't look that bad anymore.
• 25:02
  I think they're like their rotation next year, in the next
• 25:05
  four or five years is set to be honest with you.
• 25:09
  Yeah, I think you nailed it. I think with crochet, you know,
• 25:13
  being your frontline starter, you got caught early in there.
• 25:15
  Now you can you expect Peyton Tolley to to stay up in the
• 25:18
  majors. You know, they're going to have
• 25:21
  Ranger Suarez. He signed A5 year deal though.
• 25:23
  He's going to be around for a minute.
• 25:25
  So you got four guys right there alone that you expect to see,
• 25:29
  I'd say in the next 5 years. Like that's the idea is to have
• 25:32
  these young guys in the rotation.
• 25:33
  You got the the veterans in there.
• 25:35
  You throw a little sunny Gray in there, right?
• 25:38
  Like you got a little formula going on in there.
• 25:40
  It's the, the rotation's great. It's just the bats.
• 25:43
  Like I just can't get over that. This offseason, they didn't
• 25:47
  spend really anything to to improve that offense, which
• 25:51
  needed improvements. They expect the guys to do more
• 25:54
  than what they expected, like a Roman Anthony, Jared Duran.
• 26:00
  They're just not they're not performing.
• 26:01
  And they expected these guys to be the the leaders of the bats,
• 26:06
  I guess to say, but they're not. So it's been it's been rough.
• 26:11
  It's tough to watch Doug. It's a little disappointing.
• 26:14
  And that is a great little entrance into the Red Sox as a
• 26:17
  team. All right?
• 26:19
  So listen, my question is going to be right, Is there still
• 26:22
  hope? Is playoffs still on the table?
• 26:24
  You know, we talked about the staff in ERA under 3 of the last
• 26:28
  couple weeks. Honestly, I think one of the top
• 26:31
  10 rotations in all baseball because of that just in the last
• 26:34
  two weeks, not overall, but in the last two weeks.
• 26:37
  So, you know, playoffs, wild card, you know, they're 10 1/2
• 26:40
  back in the East, the last place unfortunately, but it's still
• 26:44
  early. They're just three games out of
• 26:46
  the wild card. That's honestly a little more
• 26:48
  attainable than the rest. But like you said though, you
• 26:52
  know, they set these expectations for these younger
• 26:55
  guys and tried to do this little cut and paste with the lineup,
• 27:00
  getting a Durbin and, and, and, and maybe bringing up Marcel
• 27:03
  Meyer a little earlier. And so it's just, to me, there's
• 27:07
  just no really veteran presence in that lineup.
• 27:13
  And people will say, well, Duran Duran is not really a veteran.
• 27:17
  Like to me he's not, you know, he a veteran is someone who's
• 27:20
  been in this league for a decent amount of time, you know, 7-8
• 27:24
  years. To me, that's a veteran, right?
• 27:26
  Someone who's established, who's who has credentials, who can go
• 27:30
  into a line up and and slug. He can't slug.
• 27:33
  Duran is not a slugger. He you know, he had one really
• 27:36
  good year where he looked like me, He might have been a 5 two
• 27:38
  player. He was stealing bases, extra
• 27:41
  base hits, home runs, you know, a 280 average.
• 27:44
  He looked like a poor man's Kyle Tucker.
• 27:46
  Be honest with you. He did.
• 27:48
  But that hasn't equated the last two years.
• 27:52
  So what are you going to do? I think honestly, if they want a
• 27:57
  shot, changes need to happen. They need to do something.
• 28:01
  What can they do? I don't know, But they need a
• 28:04
  bat and I think they know that. So it's going to be interesting
• 28:08
  to see what they do. I mean, there have been some,
• 28:11
  you know, you, you read online these crazy trades that are
• 28:13
  happening. Hey, you know what?
• 28:15
  You know, maybe the Red Sox can strike a deal with Arizona and
• 28:17
  get Corbin Carroll or something silly like, no, let's be honest.
• 28:22
  Something's not going to happen, right?
• 28:25
  There are a couple teams that it could, I know, you know, Seattle
• 28:31
  has just been underperforming and maybe they might want to get
• 28:34
  out of that Josh Naylor contract, Who knows?
• 28:37
  I know it's really, really early to just even talk about it.
• 28:40
  But you know, it's there's there's talk on like Boston news
• 28:45
  that the Red Sox want to get out of the range of swords contract.
• 28:47
  It's just, you know, that's just how it is.
• 28:49
  So I think there's players to be had and I think they need to go
• 28:54
  out and they need to get at least one.
• 28:57
  What position? At this point, I wouldn't even
• 28:59
  care the position. You just go get a better bat.
• 29:02
  Forget the position, just get the better bat because anybody
• 29:05
  you you trade for could probably just fill into the roster
• 29:10
  anyway. If you've this, if there's a
• 29:13
  good third baseman out there, you go out and you get him and
• 29:15
  you do something with Durbin, whatever.
• 29:17
  You know, if there's a good shortstop there, like you go out
• 29:20
  and you get the best bat available and you just plug them
• 29:22
  in the lineup and that's, that's all you do.
• 29:25
  You don't try to manipulate it. You don't try to move people
• 29:28
  around to make it work. You get the guy, you plug him in
• 29:31
  and then the odd man out is just the odd man out.
• 29:34
  That's it. You're absolutely right.
• 29:38
  You can get any infant, any infielder.
• 29:41
  You can replace anybody in that infield.
• 29:43
  I think you can replace pretty much anyone in that outfield,
• 29:47
  probably, except to bright you and you're a better baseball
• 29:52
  team already. Are they going to do it?
• 29:55
  Probably not. It's been a John Henry shit
• 29:58
  show, just to say the least. But is there opportunity out
• 30:02
  there? Yeah, I think there's an
• 30:03
  opportunity. There's a lot of guys available.
• 30:07
  I think, like you said, Doug, struggling teams might be
• 30:09
  thinking otherwise, might be thinking a different direction.
• 30:12
  Maybe something's already happened to their team, like the
• 30:14
  Giants. I mean, I heard a crazy rumor
• 30:17
  that Devers could be coming back, but nothing like what a
• 30:19
  deal that would be. You know, you get rid of the
• 30:21
  money and then all of a sudden get the the player back without
• 30:24
  the money. That's crazy.
• 30:26
  But obviously in there rumors. Here's the other thing when I
• 30:30
  throw what you dug up because you know, Jimmy was in the chat
• 30:33
  through the night too. He was talking about the socks a
• 30:35
  little bit. I mean, how many more assets do
• 30:38
  the socks really do have? More like a perspective, a
• 30:41
  prospect perspective. You know, we talked about Connor
• 30:45
  Early, you know, what the what's the value for him, you know, and
• 30:48
  a Peyton Tolley. Like if you're going to go out
• 30:50
  and get a big guy, I feel like some of these names might have
• 30:53
  to come up and get moved. And at this point, do you even
• 30:57
  want to move these assets at this point?
• 31:00
  I don't know. I really don't because of Connor
• 31:02
  Early and Peyton Tolley. It's go early in their careers
• 31:05
  and they look so promising, so young.
• 31:08
  I don't know if I'm ready to give up that yet.
• 31:10
  I'm not really sure you're not going to give up Roman Anthony.
• 31:13
  You know, you already made all these other crazy trades to get
• 31:17
  in order to get in this position.
• 31:20
  You know, with Sonny Gray getting moves and then you move
• 31:22
  Kyle Harrison, who you just got in the demonstrates in
• 31:25
  Milwaukee, who's pitching great. Like what do you I mean, like
• 31:29
  how many how many more guys do you have of value to go out
• 31:33
  there and get a really good player without really trading a
• 31:36
  a blue chip guy? That's that's where I I just
• 31:39
  feel like the socks are putting themselves in a really difficult
• 31:42
  position when it comes to like player leverage, especially in
• 31:48
  the near future unless they spend money.
• 31:51
  I think it's all about who they can get.
• 31:53
  You know, if you go out and a lot of people say maybe Jordan
• 31:56
  Alvarez might be available. If he's available, you might
• 31:58
  have to think about trading one of those guys.
• 32:01
  I personally would rather keep Connor early.
• 32:03
  I like the left. I like how he throws.
• 32:06
  I like, I like everything about him.
• 32:08
  I would keep going early and maybe trade it totally.
• 32:10
  But I mean, they do have some chips.
• 32:12
  I mean, they have that young infielder who's who's ranked top
• 32:15
  five prospect in baseball. I forget his name.
• 32:18
  I want to say he's a second baseman or a shortstop, but he's
• 32:20
  an infielder and he's pretty good in their system.
• 32:23
  You know, they, they do have some chips, but it's all going
• 32:27
  to come down to who's out there. Like who, who are you going to
• 32:30
  trade him for? And if in, I mean, you know,
• 32:33
  we've, I've heard you're not in the last week and a half because
• 32:37
  Houston just looks so rugged and so rough.
• 32:40
  And they're kind of approaching that rebuild stage because they
• 32:43
  swung and missed on Amina and that the, that Japanese pitcher
• 32:48
  that they just signed for, I think it was like 3 or 4 years.
• 32:51
  So they just want to on that. And now it's like, OK, I think
• 32:56
  we need to rebuild. And so that's where they're at.
• 32:58
  And so if that is where they're at, then you can see a Yuan
• 33:02
  Alvarez come off the books. And if he does, what's it going
• 33:05
  to take if it takes a Tolley? I I would you hate that.
• 33:11
  No, I wouldn't hate it. It's just that I know you're
• 33:13
  going to have to move one of those guys in order to do a deal
• 33:15
  like that. Like you said, like Corbin
• 33:17
  Carroll, you know, if you said, hey, Corbin Carroll for Peyton
• 33:20
  Tolley and maybe another player or two, I think that'd be fair.
• 33:23
  I think that's a fair trade. I think that's fine.
• 33:26
  But man, it's just, I don't know, I, I get a little nervous,
• 33:32
  you know, I don't want them just to sell the farm and then also,
• 33:34
  you know, be, you know, left with nothing in their hands
• 33:37
  after so. Well, I'll be honest, some of
• 33:41
  the trades they really lost out on, you know, Kyle Harrison,
• 33:44
  like you said, the guy's pitching lights out.
• 33:47
  Not to say that he'd be pitching that good if he was here, but
• 33:50
  he's pitching good anyways. You know, you can't hate some of
• 33:54
  the moves they made. You know, the you can go back to
• 33:58
  all the way back to the bets trade and say, well, they
• 34:00
  screwed the pooch on that. But you know, what were they
• 34:04
  going to get out of them if they signed up for that eight-year
• 34:06
  contract, like 3 good years? And then what the IL like he
• 34:10
  he's been the last two years is just ILIL, you know, Xander
• 34:14
  Baulgard. So I mean, he wanted an 8 year
• 34:16
  contract. I mean, he really hasn't looked
• 34:18
  amazing since he's been to San Diego, honestly, and they
• 34:23
  unloaded this entire endeavours contract and he looks horrible.
• 34:26
  So the the stars that they traded, you can make the case
• 34:31
  that honestly, they weren't bad. You know, they didn't really get
• 34:35
  a ton back. I think, you know, I I did the
• 34:38
  Conor Wong he you know, with Sal, he looked pretty decent,
• 34:41
  really good last year, you know, still not getting a plate
• 34:43
  appearance this year. But I mean, he's still back and
• 34:47
  you can just, you can at least make an argument.
• 34:50
  They made some right moves in all this.
• 34:54
  They do. I, I think you're right on that.
• 34:56
  It's just like, again, like when we were talking about Kyle
• 34:58
  Schwarber last year and like, what were the best places for
• 35:00
  him to really land to become a Hall of Famer, right?
• 35:03
  We were talking about I was going to be on that projectile.
• 35:07
  I think maybe Dever's not so much because there's clearly
• 35:10
  something else there along with just not just a talent in
• 35:13
  baseball. Like he hated Boston for some
• 35:15
  reason. He just turned on us, which is
• 35:17
  whatever. But I think exam the Bogarts, if
• 35:19
  you had a contract with him and he stayed in Boston, I think he
• 35:22
  would have played a little bit better than what he's been
• 35:24
  playing in San Diego. That's just kind of yeah.
• 35:27
  It's just, it's odd. I don't know.
• 35:29
  It's going to be wrong. It can be totally wrong, but
• 35:32
  you're right. You know, if you look at their
• 35:33
  records and look at their stats and see if they've gone since
• 35:37
  they've left, Boston hasn't really been that great.
• 35:39
  No Endeavors has looked atrocious.
• 35:41
  He's horrible. He's the worst.
• 35:44
  He's the worst man. I mean, hey, think about it
• 35:47
  though, if he does end up coming back.
• 35:50
  For. And and they not only did they,
• 35:52
  you know, offload the contract, they get them back at a free.
• 35:55
  I mean man talk that you can't complain like you an.
• 35:58
  Instant. Upgrade.
• 35:59
  As much as he's garbage, he's an instant upgrade.
• 36:02
  He really is. You need a third baseman.
• 36:05
  He's he would be the. Best player.
• 36:06
  In the lineup. That goes to show you how bad
• 36:08
  the lineup is. They need a third.
• 36:11
  Like, you know, if you go back 365 days, this is about the time
• 36:15
  where John Henry Flew is playing out this Kansas City to talk to
• 36:18
  him. Like from a year from now.
• 36:21
  Who would have thought that you'd be looking for 1/3
• 36:23
  baseman? You thought you had Bregman.
• 36:25
  You didn't think you needed Devers.
• 36:27
  You wanted to move in the first. Then all of a sudden now you,
• 36:31
  you don't have 1/3 baseman. Durbin's been terrible.
• 36:34
  Talk about a player that's been really bad, really, really bad.
• 36:38
  Super frustrating. Super frustrating for soccer
• 36:40
  fans this year. Yeah, well, like I said, it kind
• 36:45
  of makes it look like those moves actually did pay off.
• 36:48
  But hey, time will tell. We'll see what happens.
• 36:51
  So let's keep the trend going with these younger guys here.
• 36:53
  And let's let's talk about Cardinals rookie sensation,
• 36:58
  shortstop, second base JJ with a hold.
• 37:00
  Guy's a stud, man. He had an interesting game on
• 37:03
  Friday as well. He hit a Little League home run
• 37:08
  which is when the the batter scores due to an error so it
• 37:12
  rounds around the entire base. Pretty funny.
• 37:16
  Giant Southfield Junghui. He had a similar play last night
• 37:19
  against the Dodgers where he hit one as well.
• 37:21
  But take a look at J JS and man it just makes you laugh, I'll
• 37:24
  tell you. It's a hard crop ball base hit
• 37:29
  to right, it scores. Mason win.
• 37:32
  How the fuck Gets by Tatis and rolls all the way to the wall.
• 37:36
  Church scores. Scott is around, Here comes
• 37:39
  Weatherholt. He's going to make it all the
• 37:41
  way home. It's a Little League Grand Slam
• 37:44
  for JJ Weatherholt and the Cardinals have a four nothing
• 37:49
  lead. A Little League Grand Slam
• 37:52
  that's even worse in Tatis. God, the year he's having
• 37:55
  they're talking about him going on Red Sox.
• 37:57
  I don't think I'd want him. He's he would be just as bad.
• 38:00
  So so anyways, look at I think if JJ doesn't make NL rookie of
• 38:04
  the year I I don't know who would.
• 38:07
  He's been a gem and an asset in the world of fantasy.
• 38:10
  He's drafted in the 21st round like you got him in the 21st
• 38:14
  round. Shortstop, second base
• 38:17
  eligibility already 121 fantasy points averaging 2.8 a start.
• 38:23
  Crazy. The real question is can he
• 38:25
  maintain the production right? Solid team in the thick of
• 38:29
  things in a very competitive NL Central.
• 38:33
  As an owner, you do you think? I mean, we all know how baseball
• 38:37
  is. We know it's a game of
• 38:39
  adjustments and pitchers will make adjustments.
• 38:41
  Batters have to make them and then the pitcher.
• 38:43
  So it's almost like a game of chess, one move after the other.
• 38:47
  What's your take? What is your take?
• 38:50
  I mean, the guy's a gamer for sure.
• 38:52
  I just, I don't know if it's if, if he'll maintain it, That's my
• 38:56
  thing. Or he might fall into a slump
• 38:58
  and then kind of bust out. But because you've been chopping
• 39:01
  them around lately, so I think you think something's going to
• 39:04
  happen where it might not be sustainable.
• 39:07
  What do you think? So early in the week, we were
• 39:09
  talking about Sal Stewart, how he took a little dip, you know,
• 39:13
  obviously from his hot hog April, and, you know, being a
• 39:16
  stud. JJ Witherholt.
• 39:19
  Look, he he's been electric for the Saint Louis Cardinals.
• 39:22
  They needed some new blood in that team.
• 39:25
  They needed a lead off guy. They got their second baseman
• 39:28
  clearly looks like he's going to be their future with Jordan
• 39:30
  Walker, who's been playing great, obviously.
• 39:33
  And yeah, there's an adjustment period.
• 39:35
  Like you said, it's a game of chess.
• 39:37
  People are going to figure you out.
• 39:38
  You're going to see what you can do, what you can't do, and
• 39:40
  they're going to expose that for a bit.
• 39:42
  Now it's up to the batter to make that adjustment, right?
• 39:46
  It it's so early in the season too, still.
• 39:49
  But yeah, I do think there's going to be a little bit of a
• 39:51
  dip. I'm trying to see the dip
• 39:53
  already. You know, he was really
• 39:55
  consistent. He was OBP was I think over like
• 39:58
  8:30 for a bit. I think now it's dipped under
• 40:01
  800 and now his batting average I believe is like 23232 or so.
• 40:06
  Maybe bumped up a little bit from a couple hits from the
• 40:09
  other day. But yeah, he's.
• 40:11
  He. He's electric, he steals bases
• 40:13
  so he doesn't strike out often. So he's not going to kill you at
• 40:17
  times right now. So it's not a bad guy to have.
• 40:21
  You know what he reminds me of the maybe just a little bit more
• 40:23
  pop and just maybe a little bit more swag, but it's like a a
• 40:27
  Jacob Wilson type. You know, he's going to make
• 40:29
  contact a lot. He's going to hit those those
• 40:32
  straight, you know, fastball down the middle for homers at
• 40:34
  times and yields to bases. He might strike out a couple
• 40:38
  times more than Jacob Wilson does.
• 40:40
  But really, that's the kind of player I see JJ with a Hulk as,
• 40:45
  and I do think he is going to be a fantasy relevant guy for years
• 40:49
  to come for sure. This year is just going to be an
• 40:52
  introduction. This year is an introduction to
• 40:54
  the league, the travelling, the adjustment that he's going to
• 40:58
  have to make on the day-to-day. I don't think he's an elite
• 41:02
  hitter, right? So I do think when he does go
• 41:04
  through these slouches, they're going to be rough at times where
• 41:10
  I got him in the drafted, like you said, I drafted him in the
• 41:12
  21st. I sniped him.
• 41:13
  I that's my, that was my guy. You know, both drafts that we
• 41:17
  did together. I, I can get good value for him,
• 41:21
  you know, back in return, I got a couple of injuries happening.
• 41:24
  So it's like, hey, you know what, this is the guy that I
• 41:26
  could dangle out there. He was kind of like my second,
• 41:29
  third backup guy, you know, for each of those positions at 2nd
• 41:32
  and short, you know, now I can go out, maybe get a pitcher
• 41:36
  that's pretty good, you know, pretty decent, that can get me
• 41:39
  over the hump, you know, with some of the injuries that I'm
• 41:41
  starting to get. So it's just kind of like that
• 41:43
  kind of shopping value that I guess I'm trying to do right
• 41:47
  now, you know, trying to bolster up that rotation.
• 41:49
  Doug. I mean, you definitely can.
• 41:53
  Like I said, I mean, we, we've talked about kind of selling
• 41:58
  high on a player and, and going out and getting a position you,
• 42:02
  you might need to fill on your roster or upgrade a position.
• 42:06
  I mean, that's the, that's, that's the quintessential what
• 42:09
  you're doing is, is what we do in the show, right?
• 42:12
  I mean, it's what we talk about. Go out and do it.
• 42:15
  I think I still think he's going to be solid.
• 42:17
  I mean, I honestly, I don't think he's going to fall off a
• 42:21
  Cliff. 2.8 a start is a lot for a rookie.
• 42:29
  I could see that come down, but even if it's 2.42 point 5A start
• 42:33
  and he finishes the year with A2 four or two five, that's pretty
• 42:36
  good. That is pretty good.
• 42:39
  You know, I think he's like top four or top five in shortstop.
• 42:43
  So in a position that was so deep, and I think he was drafted
• 42:48
  as a shortstop for you anyways, you went out and got him as a
• 42:51
  shortstop. So like you said, he was like
• 42:53
  your second or third backup at that point.
• 42:56
  Now you can go out. He's got tons of value and get
• 42:59
  your guy. So.
• 43:01
  And and I do have Jacob Wilson and he's on the IL.
• 43:03
  We'll talk about it in a little while.
• 43:05
  We might have to talk after the show.
• 43:07
  Might have to break some bread and discuss after the show.
• 43:11
  Yeah. We can have a conversation.
• 43:14
  All right, so let's move on from some of the some of the rookies
• 43:19
  and that's kind of fun to talk about those guys and see what
• 43:21
  they're doing and where they're going.
• 43:22
  And let's talk about Mariners catching DH Cal Riley.
• 43:28
  So on Tuesday, he ended an over 38 hitless streak, which was
• 43:31
  actually put him in the top 10 for hitless streaks.
• 43:35
  The owner of the number one spot, and I know you already saw
• 43:37
  this, but, and I think we already know we don't even need
• 43:40
  to look at this was Chris Davis, good old crash from Baltimore,
• 43:44
  who went over 54 from 2018 to 2019.
• 43:50
  Oh my God. Fun note, Davis is also getting
• 43:53
  paid until 2037. Oh my God.
• 43:59
  So it's it's kind of funny when he actually ended the the over
• 44:03
  38 streak with Cal and some of his teammates didn't have a good
• 44:06
  time about it. So take a look at the hit that
• 44:09
  ended it and then they actually asked for the ball back to keep
• 44:12
  the ball. It's pretty funny.
• 44:14
  Take a look at this clip. Oh, everybody take a nice deep
• 44:23
  breath in a rejoice, Cal Raleigh finds a knock.
• 44:26
  He is a board. Yes, and he is very happy about
• 44:32
  it in first base. The.
• 44:33
  Long hitless drought has. Come to an end.
• 44:36
  Now look at this. Look at him smile.
• 44:38
  Getting carrying the mail for your boy.
• 44:40
  Randy's out there going, man, That's my catcher, right?
• 44:43
  There. We go silent treatment here in
• 44:45
  the dugout. Oh no, no those.
• 44:46
  Guys were too happy for him. Look at Seitzer.
• 44:49
  I mean, every single person was up.
• 44:51
  Standing up when that ball dropped into right center field.
• 44:55
  Oh, neither's got the ball. Awesome, awesome stuff.
• 45:03
  I, I think that's, that's hilarious to kind of laugh it
• 45:06
  off. You know, deep down, though, he
• 45:07
  was pretty kind of pissed off, right?
• 45:10
  I mean, you're, you're, you're this guy that just hit 60 plus
• 45:12
  home runs last year and now you go over 38.
• 45:16
  I mean, it's a streak that lasted almost two weeks.
• 45:18
  You never hit in two weeks. That's insane to think about,
• 45:23
  dude. I mean, he has since hit the IL,
• 45:26
  but his season numbers come on 161, seven homers, 18 ribby, 16
• 45:32
  runs, 57 strikeouts. He was on pace for over 200.
• 45:38
  He's got two stolen bases. He gave you 48 points, one point
• 45:40
  to a start. Listen, I hate to say that we
• 45:45
  told you so, but we told you so. We said this last year, we said
• 45:51
  it the year before. If he's not hitting home runs
• 45:53
  all the time, he's he's going to be a tough contributor to
• 45:57
  fantasy. He really is.
• 45:59
  And you're seeing that, you know, seven home runs strikes
• 46:02
  out a lot. His home runs offsets those
• 46:04
  strikeouts. And when they're not there to
• 46:05
  offset it, you're seeing it. You're seeing it and I, you
• 46:10
  know, I, I kind of feel bad for the people that drafted him
• 46:12
  early. You know, he was a second
• 46:14
  rounder late first, maybe in some really deeper leagues.
• 46:17
  You know, if you're in a 12 man, 18 man league, he's probably
• 46:22
  going in the first round at the end of it for sure.
• 46:24
  You know, if not, he's in early 2nd, but and and he could have
• 46:28
  even been a keeper for some people and it kind of just
• 46:32
  scratches your head. I mean, it's funny.
• 46:34
  I was thinking about, I thought about Tim in our league, our
• 46:37
  money league and how he did that stupid trade that ruined the
• 46:41
  league. So, you know, he traded Aaron
• 46:43
  Judge in school for crochet last year because he wanted crochet.
• 46:46
  And you know, we don't put vetoes on because we think
• 46:49
  people are adults. They can make their own
• 46:52
  decisions. But when a trade is that a
• 46:53
  gorgeous, you have to like step in and be like, come on, man,
• 46:57
  let's come on, you're trading 2 for one.
• 46:59
  Just imagine what his team would look like today because he was
• 47:01
  going to keep Cal Riley. He was going to have Garrett
• 47:03
  crochet. If he was still in this league,
• 47:05
  he would be in last place. There's no doubt about that in
• 47:07
  my mind. But he's not in the league.
• 47:12
  Cal Riley went in the second round.
• 47:15
  What do you do with Cal? You know, I mean, when he comes
• 47:18
  back one point to a start, you could find that off free agency
• 47:23
  like that like nothing. And it's weird because honestly,
• 47:27
  catchers will Smith's only giving you 1.9.
• 47:31
  You know, luckily I picked up Herrera off the IL.
• 47:33
  He's giving you 2.4. He's a top five catcher right
• 47:36
  now. You know, plays every day.
• 47:37
  DH is a lot. So what are we doing with Cal?
• 47:42
  What are you doing with Cal if you're an owner?
• 47:46
  I'll do I'll be I'm going to be the first to say it, though.
• 47:49
  First I was wrong. I I thought Cal Riley, I knew
• 47:52
  last year was an outlining career year, right, MVP
• 47:55
  candidate type year, but I thought he at least could hit,
• 47:58
  you know, 3540 bombs this year. Doesn't mean he still can't
• 48:02
  obviously with the terrible start that he just had.
• 48:05
  But I don't think that's really going to happen anymore.
• 48:08
  I don't think that's a realistic lofty goal.
• 48:11
  The way he's been playing, the way the Seattle Mariners been
• 48:14
  playing in general. It's just not that same spark
• 48:16
  that we saw last year. And then Cal Riley was obviously
• 48:20
  a huge part of that spark too, but we're just not seeing it
• 48:23
  anymore. I don't know.
• 48:25
  I would obviously be shopping him for sure.
• 48:27
  And I feel like when we talk about catchers, if you don't
• 48:31
  get, you know, a decent catcher, the free agent market sometimes
• 48:35
  can help you out a little bit. There's a lot of good guys this
• 48:38
  year that came off a free agency.
• 48:40
  If you you probably missed them at this point.
• 48:42
  But you know, deeper leagues, maybe not so much, but in like,
• 48:46
  you know, a 10 man league, a presario, you know, was probably
• 48:49
  available from Baltimore. Liam Hicks obviously breaking
• 48:52
  out this year, playing catcher in first.
• 48:54
  Like there were guys out there after the draft that you could
• 48:58
  have went out and you could start him and, you know, you
• 49:00
  don't know what you're going to get sometimes, but that's how
• 49:02
  catcher goes. I mean, with Cal Riley, if you
• 49:05
  want to trade for him, you can hope and pray that the old Cal
• 49:09
  Riley of last year of 2025 comes back.
• 49:12
  But you know the cost of Cal Riley at this point.
• 49:15
  Doug, man, what are you trading for Cal Riley at this point?
• 49:18
  I mean, you're not going to be trading a lot, right?
• 49:21
  You're not going to be really wanting to put up anything for
• 49:24
  that matter. He's drafting him in the second
• 49:26
  round and then all of a sudden you're really dreading him for a
• 49:30
  guy that you might have even just picked up.
• 49:32
  That's plain good. Like I'm not giving any value
• 49:35
  away from for Cal Riley at this point.
• 49:38
  I'm just, I, I, I want to pay pennies on the dollar, Doug.
• 49:40
  That's what I want to pay for him.
• 49:42
  I want pennies on the dollar. Yeah, and unfortunately I don't
• 49:46
  I don't think owners would take pennies on the dial dollar.
• 49:48
  So they're going to be stuck with him and that's not
• 49:50
  something you would want. You know, like I said, I owned
• 49:53
  Will Smith. He kind of went in a little
• 49:55
  slump. He hit a home run the other day,
• 49:56
  which was nice. So I went out and I picked up a
• 49:58
  Herrera and I started Herrera and I kind of struck gold.
• 50:01
  I'm not going to lie. You know, doesn't strike out a
• 50:04
  lot. 2.4 star. I mean, that's what you want for
• 50:07
  a catcher. He DHS.
• 50:08
  So more, more times than not, he's in the lineup every day
• 50:11
  because he DHS, he only catches like once or twice a week, which
• 50:14
  is nice. But if you can go out and you
• 50:16
  can get a Herrera or a a really good free agent catcher and then
• 50:24
  that might ease the pain of trading at Cal Riley for pennies
• 50:27
  on the dollar. But if you can't do that, then
• 50:30
  you're kind of stuck with them because you're not going to want
• 50:32
  that, right? It it, I don't know unless you
• 50:35
  can, unless you have a backup catcher like I don't.
• 50:39
  I like I honestly I wouldn't mind offering a Will Smith for a
• 50:42
  Cal Riley straight up. I mean, two underperforming top
• 50:47
  tier catchers, no drafts, That's not really a bad deal.
• 50:52
  I don't know that's that's kind of a fair deal.
• 50:54
  I think Will Smith's the safer pick, but.
• 50:57
  Right. Not this year.
• 50:58
  I don't know, it's been weird. I feel like Dalton Rushing has
• 51:01
  actually been playing better than than Will Smith on that
• 51:04
  team and they're giving him more at bats and but yeah, I I don't
• 51:10
  know a Will Smith or a Cal Riley.
• 51:13
  Don't hate it. Don't hate it.
• 51:15
  I. Mean it's a fun trade, but like
• 51:16
  I said, I mean I can't afford to do it because you know I have a
• 51:21
  Kyle Schwarber just hit a second home run today this.
• 51:25
  Guy's on fire. But I can see I can do that
• 51:29
  because I, I, you know, I, I struck gold picking up a free
• 51:33
  agent catcher. You know, that's why I have the
• 51:36
  options. Some, you know, if if some
• 51:39
  owners own Cal and they don't have that option, then it's
• 51:41
  going to be tough. It's a tough pill to swallow.
• 51:43
  So listen, at this point, you own them.
• 51:45
  You're not going to trade them for for what you don't think
• 51:47
  he's worth. You're going to hold on to them
• 51:50
  and you're going to have to ride them out.
• 51:51
  If that means keeping them on the bench and picking up a free
• 51:53
  agent catcher for a couple weeks.
• 51:55
  I mean, the whole team, the the team as a whole is just
• 51:57
  underperforming. We talk about it all the time.
• 51:59
  Like you. It looked like maybe Josh
• 52:02
  Kneeler was coming out of a little funk that he had to begin
• 52:05
  the year and he really hasn't looked good the last week.
• 52:09
  Kind of, you know, not striking out as much as he was earlier
• 52:12
  the year, but still doesn't look amazing.
• 52:15
  And honestly the only good player on the team, believe it
• 52:17
  or not, to me. Anyways, Brendan Donovan came
• 52:21
  back and he went like 4 for four the other day and a AAA AA
• 52:24
  single and another single. I mean, he looked great.
• 52:28
  That to me is the only player that's producing and it that
• 52:32
  entire team is just underperforming and it's a tough
• 52:34
  thing to see. And it really is, you know, you
• 52:36
  had thought that they were going to go really, really far, but
• 52:40
  you know, and it and you didn't think that the offense would let
• 52:43
  him down. You thought more of the
• 52:44
  pitching. And it's kind of been the
• 52:45
  opposite. The pitching is really kind of
• 52:47
  held their own for the most part.
• 52:49
  And the offense is just struggle.
• 52:52
  It's crawling. It is crawling.
• 52:55
  It's too bad too, because they did go out out of their way to
• 52:58
  to build out a pretty good offense, you know, to get it
• 53:00
  Brandon Donovan to to go out and re sign a Josh Naylor.
• 53:03
  Like that's a little unorthodox of the Seattle Mariners in their
• 53:06
  history. So they did, I think their part
• 53:09
  in the front office. I I think they should be
• 53:11
  credited with building a good roster and putting themselves in
• 53:15
  contention in that AL West, but they just got to perform better.
• 53:19
  I I think they still can too. That division's kind of up in
• 53:21
  the air, I feel. But they, you know, Houston's
• 53:25
  not playing really good baseball really either.
• 53:27
  So I, I just think that's a division that they can still
• 53:29
  easily win. They just need to get their
• 53:31
  their shit together really. That's all it is.
• 53:34
  Just like the fox. Yeah, I agree.
• 53:36
  And then last but not least, we're going to talk about real
• 53:39
  quick. I mean, man, we're almost
• 53:41
  halfway through. Time's fine.
• 53:44
  Let's talk about some more history here.
• 53:46
  So on Tuesday, history was made as Braves first base and Matt
• 53:50
  Olson cracked the top 10 for most consecutive games played.
• 53:55
  Honestly, when all is said and done at the end of the year, he
• 53:57
  could probably crack the top 8, which is an an amazing feat on
• 54:01
  its own. Honestly, number one is, well,
• 54:04
  maybe the top 2 is going to be pretty tough.
• 54:07
  Take him a couple more years to do that.
• 54:09
  But I mean, man, Olson has quite a year so far for Atlanta,
• 54:14
  really keeping the team, you know, on his back really, you
• 54:17
  know, I think with the help of of Baldwin and Albies, you know,
• 54:22
  and having one of the best rotations, I think in baseball,
• 54:26
  man, I'll tell you one of the craziest things.
• 54:27
  Chris Sale gave up nowhere and in six innings and still got a
• 54:30
  loss. Wildest thing I've ever seen in
• 54:33
  baseball. How do you give up nowhere and
• 54:35
  get a loss? I'm.
• 54:36
  Sorry, that's bad error. That's what it was.
• 54:39
  Yeah, I know, I know. But on the year, look at Matt
• 54:42
  Olson, 29414 homers, 37 ribbies, 36 runs, 47 strikeouts.
• 54:47
  Strikeouts are there. He's got a stolen base, 157
• 54:50
  points, 3.6 a start. But on the week, just eight
• 54:53
  points, 1.3 a start, 8 strikeouts.
• 54:56
  We all know he's a very streaky guy, similar to like an Aaron
• 54:59
  Judge type. And I think what he's going
• 55:01
  through right now and and believe it or not, Aaron Judge
• 55:04
  going into today, same exact eight points, 1.3 a start for
• 55:07
  the week, both exactly the same crazy.
• 55:10
  But I think what we're seeing right now might be that stat,
• 55:14
  that correction for Olson. I think maybe he's starting to
• 55:16
  fall back down to earth. Amazing to start the year.
• 55:20
  But that Braves team is just an enigma.
• 55:22
  It's like when one fails, everybody fails on offense.
• 55:25
  It's like they'll either post, you know, four or five runs or
• 55:29
  zero. It's there's the it's tough to
• 55:31
  get in between at the end of the day.
• 55:34
  So when they're shut out, they just shut out.
• 55:37
  But I think you're seeing, you're seeing Matt Olson come
• 55:41
  back down to earth. I'm not saying I I wouldn't
• 55:44
  trade him. I mean, you can still hold on to
• 55:45
  him, but again, you know, he's not hitting home runs.
• 55:47
  He's striking out. He's got almost 50 this year.
• 55:50
  So on pace to to do what he always does 180 plus strikeouts.
• 55:55
  I would just still start them. Nothing, nothing bad about him.
• 55:58
  Keep him in your lineup. But I don't know, he was a guy
• 56:01
  I, I never really kind of went for.
• 56:03
  So if I did own him and he started hitting like this man, I
• 56:07
  mean, you could go out and you can, you can get a top top, you
• 56:10
  know, first round, second round pick for, for what he's doing
• 56:13
  right now, for sure. You probably got him around the
• 56:15
  3rd or the 4th, but you know something to think about for
• 56:20
  sure with him. I, I definitely think it is.
• 56:23
  I think he's having a pretty good year.
• 56:25
  Let's just call for what it is so far.
• 56:27
  It's been pretty good years for him so far.
• 56:28
  Bounce back, I call it and and really for the whole Braves team
• 56:32
  too, we knew they were better on paper than what they played last
• 56:35
  couple years. I think they're signing it be
• 56:37
  better, which is great. Obviously Chris Sale being at
• 56:40
  the helm of that. But Matt Olson, you know,
• 56:44
  Speaking of Chris Sale watching that outing and I'm sure you
• 56:46
  watch that game too, Doug. You know, obviously I was
• 56:49
  watching some of the Matt Olson at bats and I'm looking and I'm
• 56:52
  like, OK, it looks great up there.
• 56:54
  You know, it's 22 count. You know, he's ball 3.
• 56:58
  Looks like a good eyed. I'm like OK, looks like he's
• 56:59
  going to come back and you know, get this walk dude balling with
• 57:02
  dirt and he's just swinging at it and it's just the free
• 57:05
  swinger. I think he's just thinking, oh
• 57:07
  that all the success. I'm just going to start free
• 57:09
  swinging. I don't know what's up with
• 57:10
  that. But yeah, I think this is a sell
• 57:13
  high guy. This is a great sell high guy.
• 57:15
  At this point, first base is kind of sneaky deep.
• 57:19
  Also. So if you didn't hit on him, you
• 57:23
  might have hit on someone else that you might have on your
• 57:25
  roster or maybe even picked up, like I said, like if you picked
• 57:28
  up the Liam Hicks, I mean, he's been great this year.
• 57:31
  And again, first base eligibility, so he's a little
• 57:33
  flexible. So if you wanted to go out and
• 57:35
  trade it, Matt Olson, and let's say you're not a Matt Olson guy,
• 57:38
  let's say Doug, you're not a Matt Olson guy.
• 57:40
  And you had Matt Olson, you're like, man, that's great, but I
• 57:45
  hate him. I don't like him.
• 57:46
  You know, he's a strong word, but let's say I don't like him.
• 57:50
  So what do you do? You're going to Dingle him out
• 57:52
  there. I think you can get a lot of
• 57:53
  good value for him because if you're a Matt Olson guy, you're
• 57:56
  you're rubbing your hands thinking, oh, he's back.
• 57:59
  This is him. You know, this is the the MVP
• 58:01
  here. This is the MVP Matt Olson that
• 58:03
  I know it's not, it's not it's it's may people are starting to
• 58:09
  figure each other out. There's a lot of tape on Matt
• 58:12
  Olson. There's been a lot of
• 58:13
  unsuccessful at bats for him. So I think I go back to the tape
• 58:17
  from last year and say, hey, what's working for pitchers and
• 58:20
  what's, you know, the zone that we need to be pitching them in
• 58:22
  and what what are we going to be doing for pitchers and stuff?
• 58:24
  So I think it's time to come out just like a Sal Stewart, like I
• 58:27
  said again, you know, kind of figuring it out.
• 58:29
  But then, you know, pitcher is a chess game.
• 58:31
  Like you said, that's the perfect analogy, Doug, I just
• 58:34
  can't get over that analogy. You're so you're so good at
• 58:36
  that. You're so good.
• 58:41
  But yeah, I'm a seller. I'm I'm selling Matt Olson and
• 58:44
  honestly, I'm probably selling anyone on the Braves team at
• 58:46
  this point. From an offensive perspective,
• 58:49
  there's really no one. Maybe Drake, Drake Baldwin,
• 58:52
  maybe I'd hold onto. But other than that though, I'd
• 58:56
  probably dangle it just about everyone out there, including
• 58:58
  Albies. We're going to talk about that
• 59:00
  later on. Don't don't give out my secrets.
• 59:03
  Don't give out the don't give the cliffhangers, my friend.
• 59:07
  They're all right. So that was going around in the
• 59:11
  league. That was actually really fun.
• 59:12
  I'm surprised it took an hour. Just really good stuff to talk
• 59:14
  about. Let's dive into the Hurt Locker
• 59:16
  real quick and then take a break.
• 59:22
  Everybody. Hurt sometimes.
• 59:31
  All right, let's. What I'll do is I'll run through
• 59:36
  like I always do, the regular, the people who have just hit the
• 59:41
  IL. Then we'll start talking about
• 59:44
  some updates. There are some more.
• 59:49
  I did add an extra update to the list that I did see today, which
• 59:52
  is very encouraging. So I got Dodger starting
• 59:56
  picture. You had Tyler Glass now he was
• 59:57
  placed on the 15 day IL with back spasms.
• 1:00:00
  This puts him back around late May, early June.
• 1:00:03
  I did see the update that he's going to take longer than the
• 1:00:05
  minimum. So now it's looking like early
• 1:00:07
  June. Hey, still a great year.
• 1:00:10
  You still hold them, you know, 3 and O39 innings, 49 strikeouts,
• 1:00:14
  13 walks, a 27 ERA. Was giving you 15 point win a
• 1:00:17
  start, 106 points total. That's a really good pitcher.
• 1:00:21
  You want to hold on to him, He'll be fine.
• 1:00:23
  Same thing. Giant starting pitcher Logan
• 1:00:25
  Webb, he was placed on the 15 DIL with a bruised right knee,
• 1:00:28
  putting him back in the rotation.
• 1:00:30
  They they say about the same time like late May, early June 2
• 1:00:34
  and 448 innings, 42 strikeouts, 15 walks, a 5 ERA, 63 points,
• 1:00:39
  7.9. That's a guy that you probably
• 1:00:41
  want to hold just so he UPS his value when he comes back and
• 1:00:44
  then unloads if you want to unload them.
• 1:00:46
  But right now it's tough to see the value in that.
• 1:00:50
  Next up, this one hurt. This one I took to heart right
• 1:00:52
  here, a shortstop, Jacob Wilson, He was placed on the 10 day IL.
• 1:00:55
  He's got a left shoulder which was partially dislocated on a
• 1:00:59
  diving catch. No timetable on his return, but
• 1:01:02
  for now they're saying at least a month. 292 three homers, 19
• 1:01:05
  Ribby's, eighteen runs, only 20 strikeouts, 2 stolen bases, 90
• 1:01:09
  points, 2.3 a start really turned it around after a very,
• 1:01:12
  very slow first couple weeks for him.
• 1:01:15
  Next was is the one of the surprising pitchers Twins
• 1:01:18
  starting pitcher Taj Bradley landed on the 15 DIL.
• 1:01:22
  He's got a right pectoral inflammation.
• 1:01:25
  They're thinking it's possible he could take longer than the
• 1:01:27
  minimum. So I guess maybe in early June,
• 1:01:28
  mid June type return would be in the cards for him.
• 1:01:32
  Really good year, amazing year so far for him.
• 1:01:34
  This is the prospect that Tampa Bay envisioned when they when
• 1:01:37
  they had him and called him up. 4 and 147 innings pitch 52,
• 1:01:41
  strikeout 17 walks AT28070 already he's giving you 14.9 to
• 1:01:45
  start. Almost 120 points. 1/19/56
• 1:01:48
  total. Really good numbers for him.
• 1:01:51
  This one I did update today, Yankee starting pitcher Max
• 1:01:54
  Freed, he was on the he was day-to-day, but it and I my
• 1:01:59
  notes on here look like he was headed to the a lengthy IL stint
• 1:02:02
  after being removed from the game earlier this week against
• 1:02:04
  the Orioles did a left elbow soreness.
• 1:02:08
  He was then placed on the IL earlier today.
• 1:02:10
  No timetable yet. They want to let the
• 1:02:12
  inflammation go down before conducting more tests, but for
• 1:02:15
  now, they're calling it just a bone bruise.
• 1:02:17
  Kind of pretty good year, you know?
• 1:02:19
  4 and 361 innings, 50 strikeouts, 19 walks at 32 ERA,
• 1:02:24
  11.3 a start, 112.6 points total.
• 1:02:27
  And then last but not least, we have Mariners catcher DH.
• 1:02:29
  We just talked about Cal Riley. He was placed on the 10 day IL
• 1:02:32
  with a right oblique strain. This is the first time in his
• 1:02:34
  career he's landed on the IL. Believe it or not, as of now,
• 1:02:37
  there's no timetable for this. They take they, they need time
• 1:02:40
  like hamstrings to heal. You can't kind of rush it.
• 1:02:42
  You can't go put in a lineup and take the minimum.
• 1:02:44
  So it might take a little longer than the 10 day.
• 1:02:47
  I'd probably say early June type return would be in the cards for
• 1:02:50
  that. 161, seven homers, 18 baby, 16157 strikeouts, 2 stolen
• 1:02:55
  bases, 48 points or 1.2 a start. That's the list I got.
• 1:03:01
  Oof. I mean, let's start with Cal
• 1:03:03
  Riley, obviously. Disappointing so far.
• 1:03:06
  Yeah, I think he's going to be on the IL.
• 1:03:08
  For a little bit I I. Think he's going to be on there
• 1:03:10
  for a second. So again, we've talked about the
• 1:03:12
  trade value for him. It's already being at pennies.
• 1:03:14
  I don't think there's anything lower than pennies at this
• 1:03:16
  point. So you're just going to have to
• 1:03:18
  IL and wait and see on him. Go back to the top of the list.
• 1:03:22
  I've made Kyle Glass now talking about the Glass man for a
• 1:03:25
  second. Obviously a terrific year so
• 1:03:27
  far. You had him, Doug.
• 1:03:28
  You traded him at an extremely high value.
• 1:03:30
  We talked about that last week. You got Paul Schemes in the deal
• 1:03:34
  that you put Kyle Glasslow in and then almost immediately this
• 1:03:37
  guy hits the shelf. Lower back spasms, tall guy
• 1:03:41
  always on the shelf. We know this is always coming
• 1:03:44
  every year. No surprises.
• 1:03:45
  That's why he went later in drafts.
• 1:03:47
  That's why he wasn't projected as high as as he could have been
• 1:03:50
  with the potential that he has. So we'll see you when he comes
• 1:03:54
  back. And again, there's no rush for
• 1:03:56
  the Dodgers because they already have that.
• 1:03:58
  So just expect to just IL him keep him on the bench.
• 1:04:03
  Jacob Wilson, I mean, like you said, he's been hitting the ball
• 1:04:06
  really well lately before he hit that.
• 1:04:08
  I else then and that's what you expected from going into the
• 1:04:12
  year. So it was a little
• 1:04:14
  disappointing. We saw the play together kind
• 1:04:16
  of, you know, diving at shortstop, just looking that
• 1:04:19
  shoulder. Really, really tough to watch, a
• 1:04:20
  lot of pain. So hopefully it's not too bad,
• 1:04:26
  like you said, if you can kind of just weather it for 3-4 weeks
• 1:04:28
  or so at shortstop. And again, he went later in
• 1:04:33
  drafts. So you probably already have
• 1:04:35
  your replacement on your team already.
• 1:04:37
  If you don't, you're going to have to look at other options.
• 1:04:40
  I mean, there's not a lot out there for short stops, I feel,
• 1:04:43
  or at least from a fantasy perspective.
• 1:04:45
  So we'll see what happens there. So Todd Bradley.
• 1:04:50
  Like you said, came from the rays.
• 1:04:52
  Shout out Griffin Jacks getting stretched out for starting roles
• 1:04:55
  moving forward, which is very fun to watch down here for me.
• 1:04:58
  But to watch Taj Bradley be so successful.
• 1:05:01
  It's been disappointing as a Rays fan down here to see his
• 1:05:04
  extent just all of a sudden pop out of nowhere after committing
• 1:05:09
  to him for so many years. Taj Bradley's one of my guys.
• 1:05:12
  He really is. And I I said that even before
• 1:05:15
  the season started. He is a very good pitcher that
• 1:05:18
  was ready to break out. He's only 26, really found his
• 1:05:22
  stride this year, so it's kind of a tough time to hit.
• 1:05:25
  Yeah, yeah. I'll pick the whole information.
• 1:05:27
  That just sounds painful. That just sounds like that's
• 1:05:29
  just going to be a minute before he comes back.
• 1:05:32
  That's not going to be minimum. So obviously he's going to over
• 1:05:35
  perform from where he drafted him.
• 1:05:37
  So it's a hit. Yeah, for sure.
• 1:05:39
  Because you had all the bonus points.
• 1:05:41
  I call him. I call him bonus points.
• 1:05:44
  But yeah, you're going to have to find somewhere else next
• 1:05:47
  week. There's a couple of other two
• 1:05:49
  starters out there that could be free agents.
• 1:05:51
  It's kind of risky, but one's Matt Painter pitching for the
• 1:05:55
  Phillies Kind of been up and down this year.
• 1:05:58
  He's had some clunkers, but he's also had some pretty good
• 1:06:00
  starts. So he could be out there free
• 1:06:06
  agency, the Jared Jones. Is coming back.
• 1:06:08
  Pretty soon, but I think we're going to talk about him in a
• 1:06:10
  second too. So I think he's might be out
• 1:06:12
  there if someone didn't stash him.
• 1:06:14
  So there's other options out there.
• 1:06:15
  I think for starting pitching, if if you look deep enough, I
• 1:06:18
  think what you can't replace is a Max Reid though.
• 1:06:21
  Can't replace a Max Reid guy. Was drafted what?
• 1:06:24
  High, second, low third round, give or take.
• 1:06:29
  Clearly A1A. You know, starting pitcher, 2
• 1:06:33
  type guy going into drafts. Playing for the Yankees, we get
• 1:06:36
  a lot of opportunities to win baseball games.
• 1:06:41
  Having a pretty good year so far this year.
• 1:06:43
  Top 15 guy. The strikeout's a little bit
• 1:06:47
  down. I like to see him up tick a
• 1:06:48
  little bit, but he is going to be on the ili think for a little
• 1:06:52
  bit as well. So again, tough guy to replace.
• 1:06:55
  You're going to have to get strategic, maybe make a move,
• 1:06:59
  trade if you have a gap now, if you don't have the depth that
• 1:07:03
  you're going to have to make a move.
• 1:07:05
  So tough list. I hate to see these guys that
• 1:07:08
  are pitching well and then hit the list.
• 1:07:10
  You know, last year, Shane Bieber, obviously we love Shane
• 1:07:14
  Bieber on this program. We saw how good he was pitching
• 1:07:17
  last year, then all of a sudden hits the shelf.
• 1:07:19
  Same thing with kind of like a Taj Bradley here.
• 1:07:21
  Then you also have Logan Webb on this list too.
• 1:07:23
  Also, I think he's been pitching her all year.
• 1:07:26
  He's been not the the same guy that we've seen last year.
• 1:07:29
  So I think there was an overdue IELTS then and he should
• 1:07:32
  probably take his time because they're not playing good
• 1:07:35
  baseball anyway. So it's nothing to rush back to.
• 1:07:40
  Yeah, it's it's a tough list. Because these are guys.
• 1:07:42
  A lot of these guys are like top three, top four round picks all
• 1:07:45
  together. You know, Webb, Webb and Freed
• 1:07:47
  probably went around the same time.
• 1:07:49
  Cal Riley went really early. Like these are guys that you,
• 1:07:52
  you know, Tyler Glasno. Yeah, they went later.
• 1:07:54
  But for the most part, a lot of this list is is a lot of guys
• 1:07:57
  that went pretty, pretty early in drafts.
• 1:08:00
  So it's tough to see for sure, but on the flip side, you got.
• 1:08:04
  Some people coming back so. Let's talk updates real quick.
• 1:08:06
  Let me run run through this list.
• 1:08:08
  We'll break it down for you Mike Mike can break it down.
• 1:08:10
  Excuse me and then we'll we'll take a quick break.
• 1:08:13
  So you got Red Sox 90 pitch of Garrett crochet.
• 1:08:16
  He threw a twenty pitch bullpen session Wednesday.
• 1:08:18
  It's the first time he threw any type of session since landing on
• 1:08:22
  the IL Next step will be to any bullpen session this weekend,
• 1:08:25
  then live hitters next week, putting him right on track for
• 1:08:28
  an early June return, which is nice to see unless you know he
• 1:08:31
  hits. He hits a snag, but fingers
• 1:08:32
  crossed he doesn't. This one was a fun one.
• 1:08:34
  I like to add just because I love Justin Verlander, Tiger
• 1:08:38
  Stony pitcher Justin Verlander. He faced live hitters this past
• 1:08:40
  week. He'll need a few more rehab
• 1:08:42
  starts before rejoining the rotation.
• 1:08:44
  So that could be a probably like a mid June type return for him.
• 1:08:48
  Speaking of catchers we were talking about earlier, Chicago
• 1:08:50
  catcher Kyle Thiel began a rehab assignment Tuesday.
• 1:08:52
  He could be activated early next week.
• 1:08:54
  So that's something to keep an eye on if you do need a catcher
• 1:08:56
  and you owned a Cal Riley who hit the IL.
• 1:09:00
  And then Speaking of Jared Jones, Pirate signing pitcher
• 1:09:03
  Janet Jones. He threw 4 scoreless innings,
• 1:09:05
  struck out four in his latest rehab start on Tuesday, threw 52
• 1:09:08
  pitches. So he's going to need a couple
• 1:09:10
  more to be stretched. But early June, late May is
• 1:09:15
  looking like his return, which is really good because couple
• 1:09:17
  years ago he was he was a really, he was a great pitcher
• 1:09:20
  for for Pittsburgh. And then you got Yankee starting
• 1:09:23
  pitcher Garrett Cole. I know we talk about him every
• 1:09:26
  week, but Dave not calling him up yet and they still won't.
• 1:09:30
  We'll probably talk about him again on this on this segment
• 1:09:33
  next week as well. Excuse me.
• 1:09:35
  He pitched 5 innings in his last rehab start on Sunday, Allowed
• 1:09:38
  two are in strikeout, 8 threw 77 pitches.
• 1:09:42
  They say two more rehab starts before being called up so late
• 1:09:46
  May, early June. And the last but not least, I
• 1:09:49
  did add this on here, Pedro, Padres starting pitcher Lucas
• 1:09:53
  Giolito. He pitched 6 innings, struck out
• 1:09:55
  three. He only gave up one one urn in
• 1:09:57
  his last rehab start. The club's debating whether they
• 1:10:00
  want to bring him up this weekend or give him one more
• 1:10:03
  start in the minors. He's been pitching every 4th day
• 1:10:06
  in the minors and his last start he went 75 pitches.
• 1:10:09
  So I don't think they would be a wrong answer either way.
• 1:10:12
  You call him up, you have him go 8590.
• 1:10:15
  Not that bad, but they might might be in the need for him.
• 1:10:20
  They may need that that rotation needs to get a rest.
• 1:10:23
  So I would say probably maybe call him up And man, Speaking of
• 1:10:31
  Speaking of the red. The Red Sox earlier.
• 1:10:34
  Myself, mayors just tied the game with a home run.
• 1:10:36
  Good to see. Yeah, there's no decision.
• 1:10:39
  He didn't get a quality. Start so.
• 1:10:40
  I'm happy man. But OK, that's the list.
• 1:10:43
  I own Lucas Giolito. I own Gary Cole.
• 1:10:45
  Very happy to see them come back.
• 1:10:47
  I I might even actually start Lucas Giolito next week in one
• 1:10:50
  of my leagues just because I have Max Reid.
• 1:10:53
  I had Tyler Glass. Now I'm strapped for starting
• 1:10:55
  pitching and it's that's what I have to do.
• 1:10:59
  That's what I have to do. But I'll be 4 and 2, so whatever
• 1:11:03
  I can afford to to do that. You got time.
• 1:11:05
  You got time on your hands when it comes to that.
• 1:11:07
  No, on the list. I mean, Garrett Crochet, good to
• 1:11:09
  see him coming back soon. I mean, Kyle Teal, you nailed
• 1:11:12
  it. We talked about, you know,
• 1:11:14
  replacements for Kyle Riley going on the IL.
• 1:11:16
  This is a guy that performed in the WBC.
• 1:11:19
  So this is a guy I think he's ready to take that next step.
• 1:11:22
  He's going to hit you for average.
• 1:11:23
  I think he's going to have some pop at his bat too.
• 1:11:25
  He is going to be fantasy relevant.
• 1:11:28
  He will be. So I think this is a time to get
• 1:11:30
  him right now if someone else already didn't pick him up.
• 1:11:34
  Jared Jones, obviously great to see Electric when he's healthy.
• 1:11:37
  He could be the real deal. That's an Oklahoma guy.
• 1:11:40
  And then Derek Cole, obviously we talk about him all the time,
• 1:11:44
  Probably talk about him next week, but we'll see.
• 1:11:46
  Really excited about him coming back.
• 1:11:48
  I think the Yankees are as well, especially with Max Freed
• 1:11:50
  hitting the IL now. They're going to see him come
• 1:11:52
  back. Andrew, don't he's been coming
• 1:11:54
  back pitching again. So that's been good to see.
• 1:11:56
  And then I guess there's another injury, Doug, I think Blake
• 1:12:00
  Snell, if I read it correctly, I believe he is back on the IL
• 1:12:03
  today as well. It sounded like he actually had
• 1:12:07
  some. He has the scubal, he's got the
• 1:12:09
  loose, the loose bones. So it looks like he's going to
• 1:12:12
  be gone for a little bit in that rotation.
• 1:12:15
  So between him and and Glasgow this week, they both went down.
• 1:12:20
  Yeah, I know. I saw they have.
• 1:12:23
  They they penciled in What's his name?
• 1:12:27
  Will Klein. To start tonight.
• 1:12:29
  And against the angels. So but I will say I like, I mean
• 1:12:34
  just I don't want to like get off topic, but that staff, I
• 1:12:37
  mean yesterday Sheehan looked really good like he went 6.
• 1:12:43
  I think he had about 6 strikeouts only gave up to one
• 1:12:46
  of them. But that was really an error
• 1:12:47
  that I don't think that was his fault at all.
• 1:12:49
  He looked good and you know, honestly, night and day for him
• 1:12:53
  in his starts, but he could be turning the corner.
• 1:12:56
  You know, it's not a bad rotation still.
• 1:12:58
  I mean, Yamamoto is not the Yamamoto, but we'll talk about
• 1:13:01
  him later on too. But you still have show a, you
• 1:13:04
  have Yamamoto, you have, you know, Sheehan and.
• 1:13:11
  And Klein is. ERA he's two and one with a 227.
• 1:13:14
  So it's not horrible, but I mean, The funny thing is the
• 1:13:19
  guys you actually paid for are all on the IL, You know, I mean
• 1:13:23
  you you busted out big contracts for Snell and big contracts for
• 1:13:25
  Tyler Glides. Now when they're not there, it's
• 1:13:28
  it and it's funny 'cause it's like this is how they win,
• 1:13:31
  right? They got the big names.
• 1:13:33
  They don't, they're not there for the regular season because
• 1:13:36
  they're resting for the playoffs and the playoffs come and they
• 1:13:39
  go in and they're in playoff mode.
• 1:13:40
  I mean, Blake's now, but he's how many times He had 10
• 1:13:43
  strikeouts, 10 plus strikeouts twice in two games last year.
• 1:13:47
  You know, he comes back and he just becomes a a playoff guy and
• 1:13:50
  then people think he'll be fine for the regular season and they
• 1:13:53
  fall into it and they race an early pick on him, but then he
• 1:13:55
  gets hurt. Same thing with Glass now, but
• 1:13:57
  that's the success. You know, this team, they'll
• 1:13:59
  stumble to the finish line, but when they get there, those guys
• 1:14:02
  will be there and it's like it kind of just always works out
• 1:14:05
  for them. It's just so weird.
• 1:14:07
  Yeah, it's a. Competitive division too.
• 1:14:11
  So it's it's. It is weird.
• 1:14:13
  It's weird, but it's fun to talk about, all right?
• 1:14:20
  Let's take a quick break and then we'll come back and talk
• 1:14:22
  about who's hot and who's that. How's that sound?
• 1:14:25
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• 1:14:28
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• 1:14:31
  We'll be here. You got about a minute and a
• 1:14:32
  half, All right. You going back in there's.
• 1:14:37
  Still men out there. God damn.
• 1:14:48
  When I go home people ask me, hey who?
• 1:14:54
  Why do you do it man? Wow, some kind of war junkie.
• 1:15:01
  I won't say a goddamn word. What?
• 1:15:06
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• 1:15:10
  it. They won't understand it's about
• 1:15:15
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• 1:15:19
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• 1:16:09
  All right, is that time we're going to breeze through the?
• 1:16:11
  Who's hot, who's not? Section coming up right now,
• 1:16:13
  we're going to post a picture. I'm going to talk about the two
• 1:16:15
  hottest hitters, give you some honorable mentions.
• 1:16:18
  Mikey will come in, take control, break them down a
• 1:16:20
  little bit more. We'll do the same thing with
• 1:16:22
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• 1:16:26
  really cold this past week. So let's start out with who's
• 1:16:29
  not? All right, there you have it
• 1:16:34
  here. We go.
• 1:16:37
  There's the list right there for you, man.
• 1:16:40
  Some surprises, some not too surprises you.
• 1:16:45
  Know it's a it's a fun. List and I got to say I'm
• 1:16:48
  playing against Kurtz this week, so it was tough to see him hit
• 1:16:51
  that Grand Slam yesterday. Ace ace first baseman Nick Kurtz
• 1:16:56
  96% own a 409 average this past week.
• 1:16:59
  Two home 1, two home runs. Excuse me, One was a Grand Slam,
• 1:17:02
  8 ribbies, seven runs, five strikeouts, even a stolen base,
• 1:17:06
  41 points, 6.8 a start. Next up and and this one's wild,
• 1:17:11
  'cause it's like every time I looked at the score for a
• 1:17:14
  Mariners game, it just showed him on the bottom hitting a home
• 1:17:17
  run. It was I was like, dude, this
• 1:17:19
  guy's on fire. It seemed like it.
• 1:17:21
  Anyways, you get Mariners outfield at first baseman Luke
• 1:17:23
  Really. 10.4% owned, A-350 average, 4 homers, 11 ribby, 7
• 1:17:29
  runs, six strike, gots, no stolen bases, 38 points, 6.3 a
• 1:17:33
  start. You got some honorable mentions.
• 1:17:35
  JJ Ballet, 37 points, Byron Buxton 36, Kyle Schwerber 34 and
• 1:17:41
  Bobby Witt junior. Good to see him turn the corner.
• 1:17:43
  He's got 32 points on the week. Yeah, he's been playing really
• 1:17:47
  good baseball. Lately.
• 1:17:49
  I was watching some of his highlights this week and he
• 1:17:50
  looks really, really good. Looks like he's been to the
• 1:17:52
  Bobby, Bobby Whit for him that we know of last year.
• 1:17:56
  Man, what a fun list. Let's start with Nick Kurtz.
• 1:17:59
  I mean, finally, like welcome back to the hot list.
• 1:18:02
  Nick Kurtz spent a minute, but you made it.
• 1:18:05
  You made it back. I mean, obviously the Grand Slam
• 1:18:08
  juiced it up a little bit, but he is starting to hit.
• 1:18:11
  I mean, two home runs, 8 RBIs, you know, the five strikeouts
• 1:18:15
  was also pleasant surprise too. You know, cut that down a little
• 1:18:19
  bit. So 41 points the week.
• 1:18:22
  Fantastic. This is the guy that you thought
• 1:18:24
  you were drafting. Hopefully he can keep it up.
• 1:18:26
  I don't know if he's going to keep it up.
• 1:18:28
  I hope he does. But you ride with them at this
• 1:18:31
  point. You also ride with Luke Riley at
• 1:18:33
  this point as well. This is a name that we don't
• 1:18:36
  really talk about often. We talk about how poor the
• 1:18:38
  offense has been Seattle and but really we don't highlight the
• 1:18:42
  guys that actually have been hitting well.
• 1:18:44
  And Luke Riley deserves a spot on this list.
• 1:18:47
  I mean, four more runs in a week, 11 RBIs, just an absolute
• 1:18:51
  stud. Just absolutely crushing it to
• 1:18:53
  Seattle. And if his teammates can pick up
• 1:18:56
  on that, that would also be great.
• 1:18:58
  But some of the the honorable mentions, I'm really excited to
• 1:19:01
  talk about JJ Podete. So.
• 1:19:05
  I've been watching a lot of Cincinnati Red games.
• 1:19:07
  Doug JJ Bladay is electric. He bats right behind Sal Stewart
• 1:19:12
  now. He bats fit and I feel like
• 1:19:15
  every time I watch him at bat he is at least getting a base hit.
• 1:19:19
  He has just been on fire for them.
• 1:19:21
  Also showing a little bit of pop as well.
• 1:19:23
  So if he's still free agent in some leagues, you got to go out
• 1:19:27
  and snag them, you got to ride the high hand while you can.
• 1:19:29
  This is the type of guy that you do go out and get.
• 1:19:32
  So if he's available, go get him, pick him up.
• 1:19:34
  Byron Buxton, Speaking of pickups, he was dropped in our
• 1:19:37
  league way too early and maybe in some other leagues too.
• 1:19:40
  People thought the old Byron Buxton was there.
• 1:19:42
  Nope. Byron Buxton is here to stay
• 1:19:45
  from last year. Clearly he's prepared the corner
• 1:19:47
  in his career where he's figured out majorly kidding and he's
• 1:19:50
  actually producing at a very high level for an outfield
• 1:19:54
  fantasy position. So great to see him on this
• 1:19:56
  list. I mean Kyle Schwarber, I'm
• 1:19:58
  watching the highlight right now.
• 1:19:59
  Kyle Schwarber's two home runs today.
• 1:20:01
  This guy is just a monster. He is looking to skip another 50
• 1:20:05
  plus home run season under his belt.
• 1:20:07
  Picked up where he started off last year and he should be a
• 1:20:10
  must start in all fantasy lineup.
• 1:20:12
  He's just an absolute beast for that.
• 1:20:15
  Philly's team that's trying to turn a corner, so they just
• 1:20:18
  intentionally walked them. They don't want to smoke.
• 1:20:20
  They rather they rather pitch to a Bryce Harper with the bases
• 1:20:23
  loaded up by three. That as Kyle Schwar would have
• 1:20:26
  tie the knee. That's the kind of hitter that
• 1:20:28
  he became. So great to see this.
• 1:20:31
  It's a fun list, Doug. Great list, Great list of guys,
• 1:20:35
  bunch of dudes. All right, let's start talking
• 1:20:38
  about. I'm going I'm going up against
• 1:20:42
  Jimmy has Bryce Harper, so I got to kind of watch that.
• 1:20:45
  Don't want another Grand Slam. So let's talk.
• 1:20:49
  Excuse me, throwers up with the bases load.
• 1:20:52
  Yeah, I was going to say, OK, let's talk.
• 1:20:54
  Pitching real quick when we already talked about him earlier
• 1:20:57
  today in a segment around the league.
• 1:20:59
  We're going to talk about him right now, Brewers starting
• 1:21:02
  pitcher Jacob Mesorowski. He's 97.3% owned one and O and
• 1:21:05
  two starts. So you got a no decision, but 13
• 1:21:08
  innings pitched, 21 strikeouts, two walks, no earned 47.24
• 1:21:14
  points and they weren't gimmies. Home versus the Yankees, home
• 1:21:17
  versus the Padres, pretty tough starts.
• 1:21:20
  So to see him with those numbers is really good.
• 1:21:23
  Dylan Cease, this was the guy we had on a buy low segment.
• 1:21:26
  You know, this is a guy that we had Blue Jays starting to pitch
• 1:21:29
  it, 98.7% owned, he wouldn't want to know and two starts.
• 1:21:33
  So we got a no decision, 14 innings pitched, 19 strikeouts,
• 1:21:36
  three walks, 1 earned, 44.72 points, Really good weeks.
• 1:21:40
  Honorable mentions. Chase Burns, he's coming into
• 1:21:43
  his own this year too. 43.76 points.
• 1:21:46
  Parker Messick, starting pitcher for Cleveland, 41.92 points,
• 1:21:50
  offering Bailey over 40.32 points.
• 1:21:54
  And that was because of a a complete game shut out that he
• 1:21:57
  pitched. And then last but not least, you
• 1:21:59
  have Anthony Kay, who I believe pitches for the White Sox with
• 1:22:03
  37.28 points. And that White Sox rotation
• 1:22:06
  might be a little underrated. A little underrated.
• 1:22:09
  It's upon rotation, you know, between.
• 1:22:11
  Between Martin, you got Burke going today.
• 1:22:14
  Like there's there's some guys in that rotation for sure.
• 1:22:18
  I mean, Leah, I mean, we already talked about Jacob Mesorowski.
• 1:22:20
  I don't want to keep popping on it, but he's been great.
• 1:22:22
  But like you said, I think Chase Burns, you can almost say he's
• 1:22:26
  on that same exact projectile as a Jacob Mesorowski.
• 1:22:30
  He's been pitching really good 6th innings, getting strikeouts
• 1:22:33
  left and right, get a strikeout pitcher, power guy, and I think
• 1:22:37
  he's got a good home in Cincinnati.
• 1:22:38
  I think that's a guy that we're going to have to keep an eye on
• 1:22:41
  at next year's drafts as well. But he's been playing great this
• 1:22:44
  year. Great to see him make this top
• 1:22:46
  list. Dylan Sees, I guess I made a
• 1:22:48
  mistake. I traded Dylan Sees in a bat for
• 1:22:51
  Logan Webb and that's just not going to fly.
• 1:22:53
  Dylan Sees, Power pitcher, strikeout, top three in the
• 1:22:56
  league and strikeouts absolutely crushing up in Toronto.
• 1:22:59
  Really good to see spent what, $240 million on them so far.
• 1:23:04
  They're getting their money's worth.
• 1:23:05
  So great to see him on this Bailey over.
• 1:23:08
  But you just said he had the the Maddox.
• 1:23:10
  He had the other 100 pitches, complete game, kind of an
• 1:23:13
  outliner game. Not a Bailey over guy anymore.
• 1:23:16
  Obviously got burned by him a couple times.
• 1:23:18
  Obviously I'm also playing against them.
• 1:23:19
  So I feel a certain way about all this.
• 1:23:21
  So I'm just going to leave it alone.
• 1:23:22
  I'm going to just throw it away and just say this is a one off,
• 1:23:25
  but Parker Messick. That's the guy I really.
• 1:23:30
  Do want to talk about that guy's actually becoming the front
• 1:23:33
  runner rookie of the year in the AL.
• 1:23:37
  You know, that kid from Detroit is a very, very good, but you
• 1:23:41
  have to kind of consider Emir Kami as well.
• 1:23:43
  But this kid Parker, if he can keep this up and pitch really
• 1:23:47
  consistent throughout this year and get enough innings under his
• 1:23:50
  belt, you have to consider him as rookie in the year in the AL.
• 1:23:53
  So again, great list of guys here.
• 1:23:56
  Little bit of new old school guys.
• 1:23:59
  It's it's it's a good mix. I like it.
• 1:24:01
  I like it. Yeah, I like I said, it's.
• 1:24:04
  It's funny that we had. Talked about Dylan sees for some
• 1:24:08
  some time a couple weeks ago on the show.
• 1:24:11
  And I like I said, when I saw him come out opening opening
• 1:24:14
  night and he looked electric against the A's, I thought this
• 1:24:18
  was going to be kind of a special year for him.
• 1:24:20
  And it's really turning out to be just that which you like to
• 1:24:23
  see. You know, it's the guy that
• 1:24:24
  maybe the Padres were just like, you know what, you can have him.
• 1:24:27
  You want to pay that much for him.
• 1:24:29
  And like you said, he's kind of showing his worth.
• 1:24:30
  So it's good. I think it's a good story
• 1:24:32
  personally, but I absolutely agree.
• 1:24:35
  All right. So who's not?
• 1:24:38
  There it is. It's like a lineup.
• 1:24:40
  Look at Kevin Gosden's face. It's like we just line these
• 1:24:43
  people up. The only one smiling is Max
• 1:24:44
  Reid. Maybe because he doesn't have to
• 1:24:46
  pitch anymore. He's got a little break.
• 1:24:49
  He's he's got a two week vacation.
• 1:24:51
  First and foremost, you got Ranger shortstop Corey Seger,
• 1:24:54
  who's 82 points. I think the funniest thing about
• 1:24:56
  these who's hot who's not list is that to see the drastic
• 1:25:02
  change in ownership in a week. Corey Seeger was owned a 95% of
• 1:25:08
  the leagues just a couple weeks ago.
• 1:25:10
  He was a hot. He was he was hot.
• 1:25:12
  He was a hot streak. But now 82.7% owned.
• 1:25:17
  That is wild. A0 average, no homers.
• 1:25:20
  One ribby. One run, 8 strikeouts, no stolen
• 1:25:23
  bases -5 points. Jazz, same thing.
• 1:25:27
  Second third baseman eligibility 85.1% on.
• 1:25:31
  This was a guy everybody talked about.
• 1:25:33
  Oh my God, you want this guy? Dual eligibility?
• 1:25:37
  He's going to be great. Pick him up.
• 1:25:38
  Plays for the Yankees. Contract year.
• 1:25:41
  What more could you ask for? You Add all that up, that's
• 1:25:43
  going to be a All Star year. 158 on the week, no homers, 1 ribby,
• 1:25:49
  no runs, 10 strikeouts -3 points.
• 1:25:52
  Not a fan of him. Never was honorable mentions.
• 1:25:55
  You had Cal Riley, Mike Trout, Kristen yelich -2 and Tyler
• 1:26:00
  soderstrom -1 yeah, the sold. Man, I thought he was going to
• 1:26:05
  turn it. Around a little bit.
• 1:26:06
  He's been struggling this year so far.
• 1:26:08
  At this point it really hasn't been that same same night like
• 1:26:11
  you saw in years previous. So far I mean.
• 1:26:16
  Man Corey Seeger 0 batting. Average woof.
• 1:26:22
  Terrible. We.
• 1:26:24
  Talk about guys all the time, right?
• 1:26:25
  We talk about. Guys that can lose your weeks,
• 1:26:28
  Corey Seeger's one of those guys that can lose your weeks -5 for
• 1:26:31
  the week that's really bad. That's just you.
• 1:26:33
  You'd rather have a vacant. That's the worst possible
• 1:26:36
  scenario in my opinion. And like you said, he was
• 1:26:40
  running a little. Bit of a hot bath.
• 1:26:41
  For a little bit, but yeah, just a really, really bad week.
• 1:26:46
  You know, Texas has kind of been the weird team.
• 1:26:49
  I, I don't know, I and I think he needs to change the scenery
• 1:26:51
  too. I I think he needs to get out of
• 1:26:53
  Texas and go somewhere else and try to find, find some type of
• 1:26:57
  spark, because it's not Texas, that's for sure.
• 1:27:01
  Jazz. I'm not a Jazz.
• 1:27:04
  Guy never been. Jazz Guy, We talk about jazz
• 1:27:06
  sometimes. We don't understand where the
• 1:27:08
  rankings come from. We know from boys from CBS
• 1:27:11
  sometimes and the way they they juice up guys like they juiced
• 1:27:15
  up Jazz, like he was going to be a top three second baseman and
• 1:27:19
  man, he's been anything but that.
• 1:27:22
  Honestly, Doug, I think he's droppable. 85% owned in leagues,
• 1:27:27
  doesn't score a lot of points for him.
• 1:27:29
  I think. I think the name is the only
• 1:27:31
  reason why he's at 85%. If you put blank bases up there
• 1:27:35
  with their stats, he used to be more like 50 percent, 40%.
• 1:27:39
  Like this guy shouldn't even be rostered at this point.
• 1:27:42
  Maybe that's a hot take, maybe not, but that's just my opinion
• 1:27:44
  on it. To see Mike Trout on here again,
• 1:27:47
  big strikeout guy. He doesn't hit the power or the
• 1:27:50
  home runs or anything like that. He can kill you after that.
• 1:27:53
  You know, Cal Riley talking about enough about Kyle Riley.
• 1:27:56
  He's not going to be around for a little bit.
• 1:27:58
  Christian Yelich, you know, the guy that's not usually talked
• 1:28:01
  about on this list on the who's not, but unfortunately just
• 1:28:04
  didn't have that great of a week.
• 1:28:06
  So and again, Tyler Swordstrom, there's kind of been a
• 1:28:09
  disappointment I think so far at this point.
• 1:28:11
  I had high expectations going into the year for him.
• 1:28:13
  Maybe he turns it around, maybe I'm overreacting.
• 1:28:16
  It's halfway through May. But hey, you know, we're just
• 1:28:19
  about 1/4 of the way through the season.
• 1:28:20
  So at this point, you know, we can say there's a bigger sample
• 1:28:24
  size out there now to say, you know, is, is this true or not
• 1:28:28
  true, you know, with some of these guys?
• 1:28:31
  Yeah. And and.
• 1:28:32
  Then I mean just to harp on the. Pitcher, you'll notice the
• 1:28:34
  common theme there is that you got 2 Yankees.
• 1:28:36
  We talked about the struggle that judges having this week.
• 1:28:39
  They're out of first place. I mean, the whole team right now
• 1:28:41
  I think is, I mean they're playing the Mets right now.
• 1:28:44
  They're up for zip, but it's the Mets and Clay Holmes is your
• 1:28:47
  starter. So these are the games that you
• 1:28:49
  should win, which they they are probably going to win today.
• 1:28:52
  But I mean, they're, they're struggling a little bit as a
• 1:28:55
  team offensively, you know, Max Freed, 99.7% on.
• 1:29:00
  I don't think that's ever going to change though, because when
• 1:29:02
  he's healthy, he's good. But you know, O and 29 innings
• 1:29:07
  pitch, 7 earned, four walks, 8 I mean, 987 KS, four walks, 8
• 1:29:12
  earned, excuse me -6.88 points. Well, you can sit there and say,
• 1:29:16
  well, his last night he got pulled.
• 1:29:18
  Well, what about the start before that?
• 1:29:20
  He still got a loss. So he he kind of wasn't in the
• 1:29:23
  right frame of mind even before he got hurt, right.
• 1:29:26
  His first start was in Milwaukee against the Brewers.
• 1:29:29
  The second when he got hurt was in Baltimore against the
• 1:29:32
  Orioles. Then you got Blue Jays starting
• 1:29:34
  pitcher Kevin Gozman. This is the guy we had a sell
• 1:29:36
  high guy when he was going. I mean, man, we're 2 for two
• 1:29:40
  early year, but two for two, I'll take it.
• 1:29:42
  A 94.4 average. Again, that was like 98 at the
• 1:29:46
  beginning of the year, you know, O and 1/4 and 2/3 innings
• 1:29:49
  pitched, 5 strikeouts, no walks, 6 earned -3.76 points.
• 1:29:55
  That was against Tampa Bay at home.
• 1:29:57
  That probably could have, should have been a winnable start in my
• 1:30:00
  opinion. But, and it's weird 'cause when
• 1:30:02
  you look at Gosman's numbers, like quality starts for him have
• 1:30:06
  been really tough to come by. I don't know what it is.
• 1:30:09
  I really don't like he's not walking a ton of people, zero
• 1:30:12
  walks. They're just really getting to
• 1:30:14
  him, I think. So it's his turn to make the
• 1:30:17
  adjustment. And then on the flip side of
• 1:30:19
  that, you had a lot of lot of Dodgers on here.
• 1:30:21
  You had Blake Snell, who gave you -2.56.
• 1:30:24
  You had Yamamamoto who only gave you a point.
• 1:30:26
  Ron Doan gave you 3, and then Bryce Miller actually first
• 1:30:29
  thought back from the IL. He didn't look too bad, didn't
• 1:30:31
  give you negative points, but didn't give you a ton.
• 1:30:34
  He gave you 3.56 points. Yeah, it's.
• 1:30:38
  It's a fun list again, you know. When you say Blake's now, when
• 1:30:41
  you say Carlos, Ron Doan, those are the guys that are just
• 1:30:43
  coming back from injury trying to get that feet under
• 1:30:45
  themselves still, you know, so I I kind of just.
• 1:30:49
  Chalked those up as kind of. Like a a shrug.
• 1:30:52
  You know, I think there's just there's going to be some time
• 1:30:54
  for those guys to, to get 100% the use of the, the day-to-day
• 1:30:59
  again from a Major League level level.
• 1:31:02
  And you know, they they'll figure it out, You know, except
• 1:31:06
  Blake Snell. So he's on the IL again.
• 1:31:09
  But hey, it is what it is. Again, you're going to have to
• 1:31:12
  stash Max Freed. That is what it is as well. 99%
• 1:31:16
  on obviously drafted very high. He's going to have to wait him
• 1:31:19
  out. That's just how it goes.
• 1:31:20
  And then Kevin Gosman, I watched this game, Doug, this was on
• 1:31:24
  Monday night. It was a rematch of Drew Rosman
• 1:31:27
  and him from the week prior. And man, it was like day and
• 1:31:31
  night for both of them, really. When I noticed with Kevin
• 1:31:34
  Gozman, though, like you said, there was no Watts, but he was
• 1:31:37
  leaving it over the plate. I remember Junior Caminero
• 1:31:39
  coming up. I think he had a couple of base
• 1:31:41
  hits off of them, but I remember they were hit hard they.
• 1:31:43
  Were very hard. You know, they they were
• 1:31:45
  barreling up him on Monday. So I don't know what's going on
• 1:31:50
  with the Gozman AM IA big. Fan of the gods man sometimes.
• 1:31:55
  Sometimes I like the gods, man. Sometimes he can get me 6
• 1:31:58
  innings, 10K's and a win. Like he, he just got that
• 1:32:00
  capability. But we also know the the bad
• 1:32:04
  that comes with the good sometimes with him.
• 1:32:06
  And like you said, Doug, if that velocity was at 98 pumping in
• 1:32:10
  April and all of a sudden now it's down to 94, you have to
• 1:32:13
  kind of question maybe there's something going on there with
• 1:32:15
  him. So just to keep in mind, you
• 1:32:18
  know, if you have an opportunity to maybe, you know, maybe move
• 1:32:21
  them if you got them you. Know maybe we're.
• 1:32:23
  Trying to give you some a sneak peek of what could happen in the
• 1:32:26
  next couple days if he doesn't pitch well on Sunday and you
• 1:32:31
  know, maybe he is having some, some issues.
• 1:32:33
  So it's, it sucks. It honestly, I don't want to
• 1:32:38
  spend too much time on it, Doug, but Toronto's not playing good
• 1:32:40
  baseball. Toronto's losing a lot of
• 1:32:42
  baseball games. They just got beat tonight 9th
• 1:32:44
  inning. So they're they're not playing
• 1:32:46
  well. Yeah, no, I I get you.
• 1:32:50
  I think that window to. To trade Gozman though for value
• 1:32:53
  wise is closed. I think you know what you're
• 1:32:56
  going to get to for him tomorrow or today versus what you could
• 1:33:00
  have got for him maybe 2 weeks ago.
• 1:33:02
  Is is drastically different. I don't think.
• 1:33:05
  I think it definitely went down a couple notches in my opinion
• 1:33:08
  anyways. Oh, it did.
• 1:33:10
  It definitely did. And that's how it.
• 1:33:11
  Goes sometimes it just they can switch in in a week or two then
• 1:33:15
  all of a sudden you value shot or you value skyrocketed.
• 1:33:20
  You know, either way sometimes, but Gosman right now it's down,
• 1:33:23
  stock is down and that's why we do these hot or not skits is.
• 1:33:27
  Because they're based off weekly stats, not yearly.
• 1:33:30
  So it'll give you an idea of, well, who's trending up and
• 1:33:33
  who's trending down. It's like the stock market of
• 1:33:35
  fantasy baseball really is how I picture it.
• 1:33:39
  And just to not. Don't want to get too a little
• 1:33:42
  off topic, but Soto just hit a home run offshore that's
• 1:33:45
  back-to-back. Days with a home run, so maybe
• 1:33:47
  he. Might be turning in the right
• 1:33:49
  direction and they're going to put people on base for him they.
• 1:33:52
  Got to give gifts guys on base for him.
• 1:33:54
  I'm hoping when Lindor comes back that can.
• 1:33:57
  Really ignite I I really am, you know, but we'll we'll have to
• 1:34:00
  see what happens. So, all right, let's talk about
• 1:34:03
  some Wheeling deal in here, All right.
• 1:34:13
  Now this is what I mean. This is going to be selling.
• 1:34:15
  The hype, I'm going to start with people I'm selling and let
• 1:34:17
  me tell you, this one might throw you off a little bit
• 1:34:20
  because you're going to be like, well, what?
• 1:34:21
  But if there's a good argument to be had here, so just throw me
• 1:34:24
  to the wolves right away. There he is.
• 1:34:27
  King Tuck. We all know the Tucker men right
• 1:34:29
  from the Astros. Listen, Dodgers off fielder Kyle
• 1:34:32
  Tucker, he's 99.7% on. I'm not saying he's horrible.
• 1:34:35
  I'm not saying you should go out and trade him tomorrow.
• 1:34:37
  But hear me out first, OK? This is him on the week.
• 1:34:41
  He's got a 263, no homers, ribby, three runs, 4 strikeouts,
• 1:34:45
  no stolen bases, 14 points to a start.
• 1:34:48
  All right, again, numbers on the week.
• 1:34:50
  All right, OK. But you know what scares me a
• 1:34:54
  bit? He has four home runs on the
• 1:34:56
  year. He has four.
• 1:34:59
  He's on pace for just about 20, maybe even less, right?
• 1:35:03
  You look at his case, he's at 36 for the year.
• 1:35:06
  That's not bad. But he's never broken 100
• 1:35:09
  strikeouts in a year. He's on pace to break 100
• 1:35:12
  strikeouts right now. OK, Everyone expected a great
• 1:35:15
  3030 year from him being with the Dodgers.
• 1:35:19
  He's three stolen bases. This is not the output you
• 1:35:23
  expected from your late 1st, early second round pick.
• 1:35:26
  It's just not, you know, listen, he's got a lot of name appeal.
• 1:35:30
  He's playing for the Dodgers. That definitely helps,
• 1:35:33
  especially if you're looking to sell.
• 1:35:34
  You know, I'd be tempted to at least see what's out there.
• 1:35:37
  If I owned him, I really would. You know, there are players that
• 1:35:40
  are in the outfield eligible right now that are that, that
• 1:35:42
  are just outperforming him, which is crazy to think about.
• 1:35:45
  You know, Randy, Rosarina, Burleson, O'Neill, Cruz, Buxton,
• 1:35:49
  Paje, Trout Woods, like all people that were drafted much,
• 1:35:52
  much, much later than Tucker. I don't think Tucker's overrated
• 1:35:56
  at all, don't get me wrong, But I think the the lack of the
• 1:35:59
  power and speed that he usually does have that you're not seeing
• 1:36:03
  kind of scares me. And as an owner, that might make
• 1:36:06
  me look to see what's out there and what's available to trade
• 1:36:09
  because those stats are just wild to see their their career
• 1:36:13
  lows and career highs for strikeouts.
• 1:36:16
  So those are just things you should really pay attention to
• 1:36:18
  because it it's that Dodgers lineup is kind of struggling a
• 1:36:22
  little bit. You know, Otani, one of the
• 1:36:25
  longest Hitler streaks he's had in his career this year just a
• 1:36:28
  week ago. And so just things to think
• 1:36:32
  about, you know, not to say he's horrible.
• 1:36:34
  He's still averaging like 2.8 to start, but I would kind of be
• 1:36:38
  inclined to see. What's out there?
• 1:36:40
  Before. If it does get any worse, well
• 1:36:44
  if you get the. Depth to to shop around this.
• 1:36:46
  Is the guy to shop around, you know, with it's a guy that's
• 1:36:49
  underperforming. You drafted him high, but I
• 1:36:51
  think you nailed it with the name appeal.
• 1:36:53
  The name appeal I think is almost kind of his biggest asset
• 1:36:56
  because we know what is track it is.
• 1:36:59
  He's got a pretty good track record.
• 1:37:00
  He's an overall, you know, 52 type player when he's a healthy
• 1:37:04
  guy. I don't know what's going on in
• 1:37:06
  LA with him right now. I do think he will shake it up.
• 1:37:08
  I do think he's a good better hitter than what he's been
• 1:37:10
  performing with. Again, the track record shows it
• 1:37:14
  and I think I'd stern, I'd stay firm with the value of a Kyle
• 1:37:20
  Tucker, like you said, late first round, second round type
• 1:37:23
  guy, you know, maybe early third round in some leagues, whatever.
• 1:37:27
  But really for the most part, I think you if you shot a Kyle
• 1:37:31
  Tucker, I would expect I think a pretty good value back.
• 1:37:36
  Still. And whether if you believe.
• 1:37:39
  It or not? If you're not a believer, it's
• 1:37:41
  like you know what? Then you make the deal.
• 1:37:43
  You just may go out and you make a good deal.
• 1:37:45
  Now, what kind of value do you want to get for a Kyle Tucker?
• 1:37:48
  I think there's good value out there for a Kyle Tucker.
• 1:37:52
  You're not going to get these guys that are over performing
• 1:37:54
  right now and they're playing at a high level, but the guy that's
• 1:37:57
  also maybe not playing at a high level either is probably the
• 1:37:59
  guys that you want to target, especially guys that were
• 1:38:02
  drafted around the same time. For sure.
• 1:38:06
  I think there's a lot of opportunity there.
• 1:38:08
  What do you think, Doug? What would you do with the Kyle
• 1:38:10
  Tucker if you had a Kyle Tucker? Well, he's not performing.
• 1:38:13
  Where I think he. Should be, not.
• 1:38:15
  To say that he can't, but let's just I hate when people, you
• 1:38:19
  know, people say, oh, well, you know, you know, we can turn it
• 1:38:22
  around like he can. But Willy, you know, show me
• 1:38:25
  before you tell me that's I'm a man who likes to see things
• 1:38:28
  happen as opposed to hear them happen.
• 1:38:32
  At this point, if I was a Kyle Tacorona and I was going to shop
• 1:38:36
  him around, I'd probably do it 2 For one, I do a quality.
• 1:38:40
  Picture a quality hitter. Because A1 for one right now
• 1:38:44
  would be a tough sell for for both people involved.
• 1:38:47
  Like you're selling Tucker for a one person and I might be giving
• 1:38:52
  up a great person who's hitting now, but who's to say that he
• 1:38:54
  can't? You know what I mean?
• 1:38:55
  It's like I think a trade with a Tucker would be a 2 for one.
• 1:38:58
  And I'm not saying like bottom of the barrel 2 for one, like 2
• 1:39:01
  OK guys. I'm talking about two really
• 1:39:03
  good guys for a Tucker to me would would make more sense than
• 1:39:07
  A1 for one. That's all what 2 guys?
• 1:39:10
  I I mean, man, that's you would really have to sit down and look
• 1:39:14
  at your roster and figure that out.
• 1:39:16
  You know that obviously I think an outfielder would be in there
• 1:39:18
  and I would probably maybe throw in a pitcher, but it would be
• 1:39:23
  it'd be tough. I'd have to see what the what
• 1:39:25
  what you would have on your roster.
• 1:39:27
  That would make sense, Really. Yeah, I was thinking.
• 1:39:31
  You know my the 1st. Thing that pops in my head for
• 1:39:33
  like a one for one would be like a Jackson Cheerio.
• 1:39:36
  Jackson Cheerio got drafted, you know, fourth, fifth round or so,
• 1:39:40
  came back from his injury about a week ago.
• 1:39:42
  So pretty good baseball hit for average, right?
• 1:39:45
  So is he the type of guy that you would, you know, be inclined
• 1:39:48
  for for Kyle Tucker, even though, yeah, he went a few
• 1:39:50
  rounds later and there's really not much of A track record this
• 1:39:55
  year yet with Jackson. But is that something that you,
• 1:39:58
  if you just want to give up on the Kyle Tucker experiment all
• 1:40:00
  together? Maybe that's a person I go out
• 1:40:02
  to. But like you said, maybe a guy
• 1:40:04
  like a Roman Anthony in another piece, you know, a guy that's
• 1:40:07
  really underperforming. Obviously does have the tools to
• 1:40:10
  be a better hitter. Maybe you put him in, maybe you
• 1:40:12
  get another starting pitcher in there, you know, but it's tough
• 1:40:17
  because everyone values guys differently.
• 1:40:19
  I would say. Is she in, you know, is she in
• 1:40:21
  in a Roman Anthony for Kyle Tucker?
• 1:40:24
  I don't know. I think it's a little light
• 1:40:26
  still. It's it's kind of tough to think
• 1:40:28
  about it on the spot, but I think that's something.
• 1:40:30
  I think you're right. I think A2 for one would be
• 1:40:32
  perfect for Kyle Tucker. Yeah.
• 1:40:36
  Yeah, I mean, I, I think. Maybe like someone a little
• 1:40:39
  better than than those guys, but, you know, not not too much
• 1:40:43
  better, you know? Yeah, I I agree with that.
• 1:40:48
  Next up, this is who I'm selling.
• 1:40:50
  And this is really more for value right here.
• 1:40:53
  There he is. Look at that.
• 1:40:55
  I I looks like snow starting pitcher for the Giants.
• 1:41:00
  You got Robbie Ray. He's only 78.4% on which is kind
• 1:41:03
  of silly on the year. 3 and 550 innings pitch.
• 1:41:06
  Forty strike, 49 strikeouts, 20 walks.
• 1:41:09
  A little high a 3 ERA, three O 4 which is really good. 81 points,
• 1:41:13
  10.1 a start. Very rosterable.
• 1:41:15
  Startable on the week 1 and 1. 10 and 2/3 innings, 9
• 1:41:21
  strikeouts, 4 earnings, six walks, 20 points.
• 1:41:24
  He first start was a win at home versus the Pirates, which is a
• 1:41:27
  really good team. Second was a loss against the
• 1:41:30
  Dodgers, which is to be expected with the offense.
• 1:41:32
  Listen, I think Robbie Ray with these overall numbers is
• 1:41:35
  pitching like a Cy Young contender again, like he did
• 1:41:37
  with Toronto. Great numbers overall.
• 1:41:40
  We all knew that. The Giants offense though,
• 1:41:43
  looked a little rough. And I think that's what you're
• 1:41:45
  seeing and that's why I have him on here as a cell.
• 1:41:49
  Because when you're giving up two earned and three earned and
• 1:41:52
  you're not winning any of those outings, that's that's more the
• 1:41:55
  offense and how you're pitching. I mean, listen to this, right?
• 1:41:58
  Give up two earned at Cincinnati, got the loss. 3
• 1:42:02
  earned at the Nationals, got the loss, 3 earned.
• 1:42:04
  Tippa Bay lost 3 earned at the Dodgers in the loss.
• 1:42:06
  He literally can only give up 1 earned run.
• 1:42:09
  Any more than that and he gets the loss.
• 1:42:11
  It is a wild sad story for that entire rotation.
• 1:42:16
  Still drafted him in the 19th round.
• 1:42:18
  Right around that's you hit a home run.
• 1:42:21
  With the pick. Now here's your chance to cash
• 1:42:24
  in on it. A lot of pitchers have gone down
• 1:42:26
  with injuries. Desperate teams sometimes offer
• 1:42:29
  more than they normally would for a really good pitcher.
• 1:42:32
  Here's a chance to to capitalize and take advantage of that.
• 1:42:35
  You know, maybe look to upgrade a different position.
• 1:42:39
  Chances are when you drafted him in the 19th round tells me he
• 1:42:42
  was probably a bench guy that you took a gamble on.
• 1:42:44
  You paid off on the gamble. Now's your chance to move them.
• 1:42:47
  So I would probably look to maybe trade them on a team that
• 1:42:51
  maybe does have a Max freed and A and a Tyler glass now that hit
• 1:42:54
  the IL today, you know, and and try to offer a try to get a
• 1:42:58
  little more because desperation is a huge thing you could take
• 1:43:01
  advantage of in fantasy. I absolutely.
• 1:43:05
  Agree. Hey, I'm a Robbie Ray guy.
• 1:43:07
  Doug, you. Know that I'm a big Robbie Ray
• 1:43:08
  guy and he's been pitching so good this year.
• 1:43:11
  I don't know, I'm, I might be on the other side of that on his
• 1:43:16
  performance just because I'm what I'm doing right now is I'm
• 1:43:18
  going to see what his contract looks like because I think they
• 1:43:20
  just picked up his option. He's an unrestricted free agent
• 1:43:23
  2027. So right now, this is actually
• 1:43:26
  his last year with the Giants. The way the team has been
• 1:43:29
  playing, there could be an implosion on that team.
• 1:43:32
  We talked, we kind of hinted about it earlier in the show and
• 1:43:35
  Ronnie Ray is kind of that perfect candidate to say, hey,
• 1:43:39
  I'll tell you what, we'll trade you.
• 1:43:40
  Robbie Ray, he's $25 million this year.
• 1:43:43
  Obviously, if he's traded halfway to the years 12.5, let's
• 1:43:47
  say, if you could just eat 10 mil or 6 mil or half of it,
• 1:43:50
  right? You know, And then you just all
• 1:43:52
  of a sudden on maybe a contending team, there's a lot
• 1:43:55
  of teams I think that would love Robbie Ray going into September
• 1:44:00
  and August and really boostering people's rotation that are in
• 1:44:03
  contention. And I think he's just one of
• 1:44:06
  those guys that you got to seek out.
• 1:44:08
  So the run support, yes, I 100% agree.
• 1:44:11
  He doesn't get it, which sucks because we saw the last year
• 1:44:15
  with Paul Skeens and the Pirates.
• 1:44:17
  And obviously it kills you in vanishing with the points
• 1:44:21
  because wins do add up. And if you lose, you know, four
• 1:44:25
  or five wins, that's 4050 points off a guy that's that's a ton of
• 1:44:28
  points, you know, throughout the year.
• 1:44:30
  So, but yeah, I think right now. I'm still holding.
• 1:44:34
  I still. Think he's a great pitcher and I
• 1:44:36
  do think there's an opportunity for him to move from the Giants
• 1:44:40
  if they continue to keep losing the way they are.
• 1:44:43
  They have way too much money on their payroll to keep afloat.
• 1:44:48
  Just keep losing. It just doesn't doesn't make
• 1:44:51
  sense between Devers, between Chapman, between Adamas, between
• 1:44:57
  Lee and the outfield, between, you know, Robbie Ray's
• 1:45:00
  25,000,000, there's just a lot of money out there.
• 1:45:02
  So I, I, you know, again, just think there's an opportunity
• 1:45:06
  there. So I'm hold, I'm a, I'm a Robbie
• 1:45:09
  Ray Holder. Like I said, man, I I.
• 1:45:12
  Would not. Hate you to hold because you got
• 1:45:14
  to steal on him. And you know, we all know when
• 1:45:17
  he's healthy how good he can be. Proved it with Toronto.
• 1:45:21
  I'm just saying if if you have a pretty decent rotation and you
• 1:45:26
  can afford to let somebody go and you need help somewhere
• 1:45:29
  else, why not try to try to make the move?
• 1:45:33
  That's all I mean I. I wouldn't, you know, but yeah,
• 1:45:37
  there are a lot of if he does get traded, like I, I would love
• 1:45:40
  to see him get traded because Giants aren't doing him any
• 1:45:43
  favors, right that we talked about the offense.
• 1:45:46
  So that would probably best case scenario that he does get
• 1:45:50
  traded. But if he doesn't and you're
• 1:45:54
  stuck holding a guy that's probably going to finish 500
• 1:45:56
  with, you know, a 334 ERA where on any other team he'd probably
• 1:46:03
  be like, you know, 13 and five or something.
• 1:46:05
  So that's, yeah, he'd be toast. He'd be toast.
• 1:46:10
  Yeah, All right, so let's. Talk about buying a hype and
• 1:46:12
  this. Was a guy that you had mentioned
• 1:46:14
  earlier today talking about the Braves team and he's my boy.
• 1:46:19
  I think this is a great time to buy if you if you need a second
• 1:46:23
  basement. There he is second baseman for
• 1:46:27
  the Braves. Ozzie Albies, 96.6% own not the
• 1:46:31
  best week, you know, a .83 average, no homers, 2 ribbies,
• 1:46:34
  one run, 4 strikeouts, just two points, but they're not
• 1:46:37
  negative. So it's all right.
• 1:46:38
  It's not too bad. I think this right now is the
• 1:46:40
  ultimate by low for him. Not a great week.
• 1:46:44
  Not a great week for the entire team, as we talked about with
• 1:46:47
  Matt Olson's numbers. And it also probably didn't help
• 1:46:51
  that they played nine games away, right?
• 1:46:53
  They were in Colorado, then they were in Seattle, then they went
• 1:46:55
  to the Dodgers. So they were they were gone.
• 1:46:56
  They were on the road for the last week and a half.
• 1:46:58
  You know, that's a lot of travelling.
• 1:47:00
  They're home tonight. But still, you know, I mean, the
• 1:47:04
  thing about his numbers, he's only got 24 strikeouts on the
• 1:47:07
  year. That's a number he's really cut
• 1:47:09
  down on. That tells me he's making
• 1:47:10
  contact. You know, he's still hitting
• 1:47:12
  290, which is not too bad. And you also got to take into
• 1:47:16
  account the Acunia junior factor.
• 1:47:17
  He's out. The team has really struggled
• 1:47:20
  that leadoff. You know, the lineup changes
• 1:47:22
  every day. And as much as I think Acuna is
• 1:47:25
  overrated, he does make the lineup go just because.
• 1:47:30
  People realize when he's in. The lineup where they're going
• 1:47:32
  to hit, right? I mean, if Acuna is that in
• 1:47:35
  leadoff, that means Albi's probably going to be in the
• 1:47:36
  middle. But now he's not there.
• 1:47:39
  He's on the IL still a couple weeks away.
• 1:47:41
  Albie's bats lead off. Sometimes he's third, sometimes
• 1:47:44
  he's 4th. So he's everywhere just because
• 1:47:46
  he's trying to fill these roles. You know now, now they have
• 1:47:48
  Mauricio Dubin starting lead off.
• 1:47:50
  I mean, it's it's a tough thing to swallow when you're when
• 1:47:54
  you're an owner and these people that are figures, key figures in
• 1:47:59
  a lineup are hurt. So I you.
• 1:48:03
  Know he's still a couple weeks from.
• 1:48:04
  Returning, I still think I'd buy on Albie's right now just
• 1:48:07
  because this, this is probably the floor, you know?
• 1:48:10
  Yeah, he's been struggling this past week.
• 1:48:12
  He's still the 4th 2nd baseman. He averages 2.7 to start.
• 1:48:18
  The Braves are still a great team offensively, regardless of
• 1:48:21
  the struggle. You know, and I'll say it again,
• 1:48:23
  when one guy struggles, the entire team does.
• 1:48:25
  That's just how they are. But I think this is a great
• 1:48:28
  chance to buy or upgrade on a position that a lot of people
• 1:48:31
  punt on during drafts. You know, second base is a
• 1:48:33
  position where people are like, you know, what if I'm not
• 1:48:35
  getting, you know, these two guys or whatever, I'm just going
• 1:48:38
  to wait. And L BS was probably one of the
• 1:48:41
  guys that went earlier. So I think it's a great chance
• 1:48:44
  to go in and buy, buy, buy an L BS and plug them in.
• 1:48:46
  So I, I think I'm buying, I'm buying Alby's.
• 1:48:51
  I mean, you, you, you're an Alby's guy, Doug.
• 1:48:53
  I mean, this guy has bounced back this year from last year
• 1:48:56
  and showing some more, some more hope than what he what he was
• 1:49:01
  doing previously. And the whole team, I think, is
• 1:49:04
  playing better offensively as a whole, maybe not at this moment,
• 1:49:07
  but as a whole from like last year.
• 1:49:10
  Last year, I just feel like they couldn't get anything together.
• 1:49:12
  No one stepped up for that Braves.
• 1:49:15
  Line up and they had a. Really, really tough year,
• 1:49:17
  except for Chris Sale, but this year it's a different.
• 1:49:21
  Story we're talking about. Matt Olson we're talking about.
• 1:49:24
  Alby's we're talking about a little bit Michael Harris a
• 1:49:26
  couple weeks ago who was hot for a little bit.
• 1:49:29
  Like now we're starting to talk Braves offensive baseball again,
• 1:49:32
  and I think Albiz is the centerpiece of that.
• 1:49:34
  He's the guy that kind of makes it go round, right?
• 1:49:36
  Like you said, he's batting second, he's batting third, he's
• 1:49:39
  batting 4th. Like he can bat wherever he
• 1:49:42
  needs to in that lineup, which means he's going to get
• 1:49:44
  opportunities for RBIs, runs. This is the player he is.
• 1:49:48
  I'm a buy, you know, 2.7. That's startable all day in my
• 1:49:52
  book, especially at a position at second base.
• 1:49:55
  Yeah, I'll definitely buy. I.
• 1:49:57
  Would definitely give an. Asset up if I needed a position
• 1:49:59
  like second base yeah, I I. I think you have to give.
• 1:50:05
  Up a little something there you know first thing that came to
• 1:50:08
  mind Doug think about it like a Bregman right, a Bregman for
• 1:50:12
  albies. I don't think Bregman's really
• 1:50:15
  crushing it right now but I don't know if he's loving
• 1:50:18
  Chicago at this point. I don't know, I really can't get
• 1:50:21
  a a pulse on Bregman, but an Albies, you kind of know what
• 1:50:25
  you're getting with them. So what are your thoughts?
• 1:50:28
  What are your thoughts though? That's maybe I'm talking crazy.
• 1:50:32
  No, no, no, I mean. Again, it's all about like the
• 1:50:36
  right trade and if I'm trading in LB's, obviously he was
• 1:50:39
  drafted as my primary second baseman.
• 1:50:41
  So I would probably want, if I didn't pick up a good player off
• 1:50:44
  off the free agent wire, I'd probably want one back in return
• 1:50:46
  and somebody else, you know you would.
• 1:50:49
  I think you would have to do a 2 for two like an LB's and another
• 1:50:52
  player for, you know, a, a, a second baseman you have and
• 1:50:56
  somebody else, you know, or, or yeah, I mean, now I'm thinking
• 1:51:00
  about it like Ajj Weatherholt. You play second base, right?
• 1:51:03
  Throw him in the tree with Albies and then do a, you know,
• 1:51:05
  do A2 for two. It's kind of even all that out.
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  I mean, that's not a bad trade. Honestly.
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  Actually that's. A That's a pretty good
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  foundation. Yeah, it really is right.
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  And I love the Braves. I love the line up.
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  So I, I, like I said I would, I would buy low because I really
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  do think this is his floor. And if this is his floor, then
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  we've seen the ceiling. It can go pretty well.
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  I mean, he's got a decent amount of home runs already.
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  I think he's got like what, 8 or 9 for the year?
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  I mean, you know, he's kind of right on pace with almost thirty
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  home runs, which is wild for a second baseman.
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  And he's gotten there before. So it's not like he can't do it.
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  But yeah, I would, I would definitely try to buy him if if
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  I could. I I would.
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  Oh, yeah. No, I think that's.
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  AI think that's a really good buy.
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  Located right now. All right, so let's go.
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  With another one and this. One is, I mean, man, we just
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  talked about this guy. We talked about the rotation
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  there. He is doing some.
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  Yoga. We all know who that.
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  Is that is Mr. Yamamoto the starting pitcher for the Dodgers
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  99.8% owned This is there's a big explanation to why I have
• 1:52:15
  him as a buy low. You could also, Yeah, I would
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  just say it by level. Let me go over his year numbers
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  here. He's 3 and 350 innings pitched,
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  48 strikeouts, ten walks, a three, 6 ERA, 97 points, 12.1
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  start. Not too bad.
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  Last start we talked about him on the cold list.
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  Oh, and one, six and a third. It's 8 strikeouts, 5 earned, no
• 1:52:35
  walks. Only gave you one point.
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  That was at home versus the Dodgers.
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  Listen, this is not the guy people were expecting to see
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  after drafting him around the third in drafts.
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  So he went around the third round in drafts.
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  I I think they expected someone that would give them probably a
• 1:52:51
  little lower ERA, maybe a low three, maybe a little more
• 1:52:55
  strikeouts per inning. But you can't knock the numbers
• 1:52:58
  he has. He's still fantasy relevant, but
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  man, look at his last four starts. 3 earned at San
• 1:53:05
  Francisco, 3 earned home versus Miami, 3 earned at Houston, and
• 1:53:09
  now 5 earned at San Francisco. Not sure owners are.
• 1:53:13
  Jumping ship just yet? But I think this is a great
• 1:53:17
  opportunity to go out and offer something for him.
• 1:53:20
  You know, if they come back with a counter, then you know,
• 1:53:23
  they're looking to unload. Then you got some, you know,
• 1:53:25
  some talking to do you know, pitchers for a great offense?
• 1:53:29
  He pitches for a great offense. But again, we always say
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  expectations are key. And with him and the innings he
• 1:53:36
  pitched last year with the playoffs in the World Series,
• 1:53:38
  those expectations probably could be a little limited
• 1:53:40
  because they might probably have an effect on the way he's
• 1:53:43
  pitching right now. To be honest, I think he's a
• 1:53:46
  great arm. Probably went a little too early
• 1:53:48
  in Jeff's just because of the playoff production.
• 1:53:51
  To me, he probably should have went around or two later.
• 1:53:53
  Probably when like I think of Ryan Wu or George Kirby win,
• 1:53:59
  that's probably the round couple rounds later that he went, he
• 1:54:02
  should go. That's just me, but I think.
• 1:54:05
  This is a great chance to get. A guy who is an SP2A number 2
• 1:54:10
  starting pitcher, not the SP one that he was probably drafted as.
• 1:54:15
  Probably a little cheaper. Yeah, last year he went deep in
• 1:54:20
  the playoffs. He pitched.
• 1:54:21
  Really. Well, in the playoffs, we know
• 1:54:22
  the World Series story and there's always going to be
• 1:54:26
  fatigue. I, I truly do believe there's
• 1:54:28
  always fatigue after a long playoff push, especially when
• 1:54:31
  you're trying to win the whole entire thing.
• 1:54:34
  And they did that with Yamamoto. They they put him in the
• 1:54:36
  bullpen. They hadn't come out like they
• 1:54:38
  they really, they stretched him to the Max, I think last year.
• 1:54:42
  And I think this year you're starting to see a little bit of
• 1:54:44
  a slow start with them because of that.
• 1:54:46
  You know, I think he's still pretty tired, to be honest with
• 1:54:49
  you. I think there's between the
• 1:54:50
  World Baseball Classic 2 on top of that, you know, playing for
• 1:54:54
  Team 10, there's been a lot of pitching that has been done, I
• 1:54:58
  say in the past even six months for Yamamoto, maybe seven
• 1:55:02
  months. October, right?
• 1:55:03
  Yeah. So maybe seven months.
• 1:55:04
  So still that's that's a lot of pitching for a lot of, you know,
• 1:55:07
  dead time out there too. Yeah, dangle, dangle.
• 1:55:13
  Yamamoto. If they're countering like you
• 1:55:15
  said, they're interested in it, what would I give?
• 1:55:18
  For a Yamamoto at this. Point look, I still think he's
• 1:55:21
  an elite. I still think he's a top ten
• 1:55:24
  guy. I think he plays for the
• 1:55:26
  Dodgers. So he's still going to get win
• 1:55:27
  opportunities like more than often than not.
• 1:55:31
  And now with Snow and Glads now hurt, I think they need him more
• 1:55:36
  than ever to step up. They need the old Yamamoto to
• 1:55:40
  come back and pitch 6-7 innings, give up 1 and get the win.
• 1:55:44
  Like they need to start to relieve some of that rotation
• 1:55:47
  and some of that bullpen. I think now because of the
• 1:55:50
  injuries that have been happening.
• 1:55:51
  So I'm. I'm buying.
• 1:55:53
  I'm buying. Yeah, I am too.
• 1:55:56
  It's. Just a matter of what it would.
• 1:55:57
  Take for him, you know, I don't want to overpay, but just
• 1:56:00
  because I know, you know, when he's not going, he's not like an
• 1:56:06
  elite guy. You know, you literally, you
• 1:56:08
  look at his last four starts, 3:00 and 3:00 and 3:00 and 5:00.
• 1:56:10
  That's, I mean, that's a lot of hard runs.
• 1:56:13
  You know, so it when he's not going, he's not going, but when
• 1:56:17
  he is, he is. So it's tough to because he's
• 1:56:19
  been so night and day. Like he, he started off really
• 1:56:22
  hot this year. I think his ERA, the first month
• 1:56:24
  was like a 28 and now it's just ballooned to A-36 just because
• 1:56:28
  of his four starts. Which Yamamoto am I going to
• 1:56:32
  trade for and what am I going to get?
• 1:56:35
  And then on flip side of that, I don't want to trade somebody
• 1:56:37
  that I think I know he's consistent that can, you know,
• 1:56:40
  give me these, you know, give me a good average every start he
• 1:56:44
  goes out there and then get somebody who's just so
• 1:56:47
  inconsistent. That's the question.
• 1:56:49
  I would be kind of. Contemplating when?
• 1:56:51
  I'm offering this trade for Yamamamoto, that's all.
• 1:56:55
  It's it's really more about. What I'm going to give up?
• 1:56:58
  I want him, but what am I going to give up for?
• 1:57:01
  That's the only question. Yeah, I mean.
• 1:57:04
  Again, on the spot it's tough, but.
• 1:57:06
  It's you're going to have to give up something for him.
• 1:57:09
  So he's still on the Dodgers. He's still their number one.
• 1:57:12
  And like I said, they're going to he's going to produce.
• 1:57:14
  He's still going to produce. I don't I think he will come
• 1:57:17
  back from these bunkers. We'll call him, you know, these
• 1:57:20
  three-year and these five year and I think he'll be back.
• 1:57:22
  So I still think if you're a Yamamoto owner, I'd keep the
• 1:57:27
  price tag. I still I I would keep it at a,
• 1:57:31
  you know, a Tier 1, Tier 2 type player.
• 1:57:34
  In return. So yeah, it's, it's a tough one,
• 1:57:38
  but you're going to have to give it up, yeah.
• 1:57:42
  Yeah, no, I agree. I agree.
• 1:57:46
  Well, that's all right, man. Look at that.
• 1:57:47
  We got. Right through.
• 1:57:49
  Right on time. Right on time.
• 1:57:53
  What a great show, man. Started off talking about some
• 1:57:56
  of the younger guys, which is always fun to talk about.
• 1:57:58
  Start talking about IL guys, who's coming back, who's hot,
• 1:58:03
  who's not this past week. And of course some of these
• 1:58:05
  really good buy low, sell high candidates.
• 1:58:08
  So really great show. I had a good time talking about
• 1:58:11
  it. It's about that time.
• 1:58:14
  Any good games on tonight? Not like last week, probably
• 1:58:18
  still still watch a couple but and my drink is about finished
• 1:58:22
  so might be time to go to bed in a little while.
• 1:58:24
  That's all. So for Mike?
• 1:58:27
  UV I'm Doug, this is. Brevan and Ball, we appreciate
• 1:58:30
  you guys. We'll be back here live again
• 1:58:32
  next week going over the same stuff, different people, same
• 1:58:35
  numbers. We'll see what happens, but
• 1:58:37
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• 1:58:40
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