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Ep. 5 : Flailing Franchises, Topps Chrome Platinum Anniversary, Prospect Bats · Cards & Categories

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  All right, welcome everybody to episode five of Cards and Categories. I'm Mike
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  cool Art from rams Ball here, joined as always by Jamy Burr, also
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  from rams Ball. Jeremy, how are you doing today? Doing fine?
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  Today is a nice day here in central Illinois, nice and nice and windy,
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  but I'm doing well. Exciting day of baseball at least last I looked
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  a few minutes ago, there was no hitter being thrown by Michael Lorenzen,
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  so maybe something for us to keep an eye on as the day goes on.
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  Here he's actually in the looks like they're in the ninth and he's two
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  ounce away, So might be an exciting, exciting pod here, unless somebody
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  breaks up in the next five montes. So yeah, you also, do
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  you want me to go back two episodes and delete ear takes on Michael Lorenzon
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  falling up? I probably should because I'm pretty sure like that was the big
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  take I pad was Lorenzen's not gonna be able to hold it, hold anything,
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  and he is now through eight and two thirds five k's nowhere and runs.
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  I don't. I don't think it's a perfect game. So he has
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  okay walked for he's walked for you guys. He's also thrown a ton of
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  pitches like this is a I'm impressed that they're letting him go the song he's
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  had one hundred and seventeen before he faces Joey Manesas right now. But he's
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  a rental. He's a rental. He's a rental arm. That is true.
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  I have been noticing though that with the immaculate grade. I know you're
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  not as big of an immaculate good guy, but I've noticed when you go
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  in and especially you see some of these arms from like the seventies and eighties
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  and you're like, Wow, this dude just like totally fell off a map
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  after throwing a top five side young year or having like one of the years
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  that counted for like a two hundred inning three it's not a three enter kid
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  is number three hundred really usually, but it's like two hundred, two hundred
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  k twenty win like square, and you're like, wow, he fell off
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  a month, and you like look and it's like, uh, Mike Scott's
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  really good example of this in the eighties, Like I think there was one
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  year he put up like two hundred and seventy innings and just like clearly blew
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  out his arm. Like everything after that was total garbage. And so it's
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  just really strange that they're letting Lorenzen do this because the Phillies will need him
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  down the stretch in some capacity. It's not the steadiest rotation and he could
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  even come out with the bullpen, but he just spiked one eight feet short
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  of the of the plate trying to get this strike out. Hey, you
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  get they can't get a hit if they can't reach it. But yeah,
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  we'll keep an eye on this. And otherwise, since we met last week,
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  a lot of things have gone a little crazy in the baseball world.
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  And I am going to get up here and talk about the Chicago White Sox.
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  I think that's probably one of the biggest stories that's happened. And I
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  think we're probably a little bit late in the news cycle to get our take
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  on the Jose Ramires Tom Anderson fight. It's almost old news at this point.
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  But everything that's shaken out since then, especially with the Kenyan Middleton comments
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  about there being just no leadership in the White Sox clubhouse and accusations of rookies
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  sleeping in the bullpen, which it's gotta be Gregory Santos. I think he's
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  talking about. When I'm at games, I see Gregory Santos hanging around the
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  bullpen a lot, and I have a feeling he might be the one napping
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  under there. But it's you need to rest as a future closure. You
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  need rest, So I don't see the problem. It's true. He's just
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  in it for the health. You think, Yeah, there it is.
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  Michael Arnton, no hitter, Michael lorens A no hitter, as is we
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  astutely predicted a few pods ago. I think that's what I said, right,
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  Yeah, I think he said he would be untouchable, untouchable or touched
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  up often. So Michael rooms and no hitters for the Phillies. That's exciting
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  to see. But yeah, back to Kenyon Middleton, his comments, it
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  was very interesting to see what, you know, kind of his his perspective
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  and his excitement of like the rules upon being traded to the Yankees, of
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  he must shave. He was almost excited about that because there was some structure
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  where he's going. I just can't imagine what that clubhouse is like, especially
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  trading the big names they did, the clubhouse leaders like Lancelin. You know,
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  it's it sounds like it's just mass chaos over there at this point,
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  Well, it didn't even sound like Lancelin was a leader. It's kind of
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  a totally rudderless ship. And honestly, I think it makes sense that when
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  you kind of look at how they've played and how it's all fallen apart,
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  and I honestly, I do think a big part of it is because the
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  White Sox are family owned by Ransdorff, and it reminds me a little bit
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  also kind of the Bears here in town where I don't know, sometimes with
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  family businesses, like they're not quite maybe pushing as hard to get every cutting
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  edge, and there is like a sense of just trying to do things that
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  are right by people and things are operating smoothly. I think I especially see
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  that within the Sox, Like I just look at Ricon, like Ricon as
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  no business being a general manager anymore. Kenny Williams has been around forever,
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  and there's lots of other people in positions throughout the organization that just have been
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  around forever. And I think it's because Ryan Storft just kind of doesn't have
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  that care like once he got that two thousand and five championship he got what
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  he wanted out of the White Sox and at this point it's just a cash
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  cow. He's done the same thing with the Bowls. So he used to
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  have Bowl season tickets and you could kind of seeing the same ballets hang over
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  that organization. And so what's kind of crazy though, is like I think
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  this is a part of Socks fandom. Like I grew up, as you
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  know, more of a Cardinals fan in Central Illinois with you never had like
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  an ill will against the Socks, always had a soft spot for them because
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  would still come up to Chicago on the South Side and see games as a
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  kid. It was certainly much cheaper than Saint Louis so or Wrigley and easier
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  to get to as noticed with all the parking lots around it. That makes
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  kind of guaranteed rate feel infamous with all of its partying. But like that
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  partying is part of like what being a Sox fan is. There's like a
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  camaraderie and the misery, and like I see it so often that like what
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  Sox fans love about the Socks more than anything else is being there with their
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  friends, being there with their family and even just like the last game that
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  I went to recently, I just ran into three friends that like I hadn't
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  seen and we were all at the same game and didn't plan it at all.
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  And I see that happen throughout the games constantly. It's a strange environment
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  for like such a large city to have such a small town feel and it
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  happens all the time. SOX games. Yeah, I was just you know,
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  kind of taken aback by just the i'd say, the level of carelessness,
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  uh and responsibility, you know, napping the bullpen, you know,
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  missing team meetings, missing fielding drills, and like no repercussions whatsoever. And
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  I I know, I personally played baseball for fifteen twenty years and I distinctly
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  remember a time where I got called out out by a coach for for something
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  and you know, the accountability that I even played when you know, not
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  nearly major league level. But I had a scenario where we're in practice where
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  you know, you taking BP, You're supposed to swing, you know,
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  bunk the first ball, take ten swings, and then on the last pitch
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  they'll call like a hit and run or something like that. So you have
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  to try to hit the ball outside the zone just to protect the runner and
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  I remember that. I you know, I was going through the sequence and
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  then the pitch I got on the hit and run. It had to be
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  like ten feet out of the box, like literally impossible to hit to hit,
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  and I just let it go. I just let it go because I'm
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  like, that's a past ball, Like there's not a chance in the world,
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  like I could throw the bad at the thing. And I was running
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  laughs after that because I did not protect the runner and I'm sitting here in
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  the socks, like I didn't have to even show up to the meeting.
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  Yeah. So it's it's just this you know, dynamic that like being a
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  ball player, it's like an expectation of structure, like you're there to do
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  your job, do what it is, and you show up in an environment
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  like that. It's it's probably almost debilitating because they've their entire careers, they've
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  had the structure of what to do, where to go, and you just
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  have to follow the path and then play the game. And here there's just
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  like yeah, whatever, you feel like. It's so, I mean,
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  can we be surprised with performance on that? I mean I'd struggle with that
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  for sure. No, And I wonder too that's why we haven't seen free
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  agents signed there that Like the largest free agent contract they've ever handed out was
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  the Ben Intendee five years, seventy five million this past off season. That
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  that's absurd. That like in today's total stereotypical hero of Ben Attendee, just
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  like the look of the guy that maybe the California surfer or whatever you want
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  to call him, Like it feels like the guy that would fit that culture.
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  Yeah, so maybe that's why he got the big contracts, Like,
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  oh, another guy that just will just fly by sea his pants, He's
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  gonna fit well here. Yeah, and maybe like the pressure that he had
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  been feeling in Boston for all the years, like he was their big prospect
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  and lots of people had a lot of expectations for him. Part of it
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  too, is honestly, Ryan Storff and Hahn and Williams have been just up
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  in arms over like trying to get Ben Attendee ever since he was in that
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  draft. Like they loved him more than a fat kid loves cake, you
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  know, in fact his other cakes. So that's that's saying something right there.
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  I did drop that I was listening to some nineties hip hop over the
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  weekend and I was I don't remember what song it was. I'm going to
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  find it, maybe use as an outshore or something. But this is a
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  terrible seg But speaking of terrible family businesses, the other big news of the
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  week is the Baltimore Orioles. This isn't even on field related, but finding
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  their announcer, well, I guess not finding, but suspending their announcer Kevin
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  Brown for having disparaging comments about the Orioles record against the Rays a couple of
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  weeks ago on a broadcast, which still like astounds me because like I've been
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  reading more and more about it, and it sounds like that stat information and
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  kind of stat blast that they covered before that game in the pregame was provided
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  by Orioles PR and like Orioles like information for how the team had been doing
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  against the Rays. So if you don't know what we're talking about, essentially
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  what Kevin Brown did is he had a segment on a pregame for the Orioles
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  broadcast in which they covered how terrible the Orioles had been in Tropicana Field over
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  the past few years and how terrible the record had been and how it had
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  been turning around because obviously the Orioles are in first place. They're doing really
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  well. They've started being able to field teams that can win against the Rays
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  in Tropicana, and Peter Angelos apparently took that personally and has put Kevin Brown
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  on the shelf for these comments that I think maybe Angelos thinks that they were
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  they were criticizing him unfairly for the terrible teams that the Orioles trotted out during
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  the tanking. But I don't know. I can't get inside Peer Angelos's mind.
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  All I know is it's a weird story. It's I just can't believe
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  like it's happened, like on what a buzzkill on such a great season.
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  Yeah, I think the what really kind of struck me is is the kind
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  of point you kind of alluded to earlier. Like it wasn't like he went
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  off on some rant on his own being like, oh, the Oriels has
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  been terrible and we never can win. This team has been mismanaged to miss,
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  you know, like they had graphics prepared for this segment like he was
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  he was speaking from a script and then they were flashing up the stats about
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  what he was talking about. It was I was sa premeditated, like and
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  you know he he didn't go do all that research. We all know that
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  he's the voice. He's not he's not the one doing the stats behind the
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  scenes. So it's it's just it's crazy that you know, he he was
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  just executing, probably reading the teleprompter or whatever. H those guys is doing
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  the broadcast booth and being held accountable for something that he didn't even put together.
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  So I I see your point, Like, I find it befuddling.
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  I don't quite understand the move, if anything, you know, way to
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  alienate your fan base. You know, from what I can tell, he's
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  a pretty well respected, you know, announcer for the team, and you
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  know, trying to get pr or whatever you're trying to do not going well.
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  So unfortunate for Kevin on there the Orioles curious to see what happens next.
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  It's kind of hard to come back from that, I feel like from
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  the Orioles ownership perspective to come back and let him announce in the future.
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  Yeah, I don't know, how how do you think they unwind it?
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  Like I've been trying to think through that scenario in my head today, is
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  how on earth do they even bring him back and like take the l on
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  this than that clearly in the public, like everyone loves Kevin Brown. Like
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  in terms of watching MLB TV, I've always prioritized Orioles broadcast because of Kevin
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  Brown. He's insightful, he's got a great voice, he's got a great
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  cadence, and on top of it all, like Orioles fans last night,
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  we're chanting to free Kevin Brown, and the Orioles broadcast was ignoring it,
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  and like on top of it with it is that like Kevin Brown's also really
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  well respected, like amongst all the other broadcasters, and Benetti from the Socks
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  has been tweeting lots of supportive stuff and said supportive stuff about Kevin Brown.
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  One of my favorite tweets about it is from Meg Rally, the managing editor
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  at Fangrass. She tweeted yesterday, I guess two days ago on Monday might
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  have been a strategic error to suspend a well liked member of a profession whose
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  denzians broadcast their thoughts to a big audience for two and a half at hours
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  every day. I don't know, and so like I think that sums it
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  up perfectly It's like all this is doing is dragging the Orioles through the mud,
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  making people remember how terrible that tank was, when they should be all
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  focusing on this fratastic team with their dong bong that's rolling through the al least
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  like it's a hot knife through butter. You know, Like that is the
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  shift in the direction of like where people are looking at this Oriols team and
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  what they're going to be focused on for the next couple of weeks has just
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  been totally thrown out of whack because of what the Angelis is wanting to do
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  here. I mean, I'm about ready to see the announcement that Dan Snyder
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  picked up the Orioles after dismissal from the NFL. But I mean, if
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  you look at the management, I say, the ownership of the team,
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  they remain without release for Camden Yards after the season. They're now suspended,
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  to your point of beloved announcer, And I don't know how they come back
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  from this, right I don't. I would just be surprised if he wants
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  to come but come back to announce. The only way I see this is
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  they have to crawl and apologize going back. I mean, they have to
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  own their mistake and that it was they took something out of context and didn't
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  have all the information and acted too swiftly. If unless the only thing you
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  do is following your own sword here and prop the guy back up and say
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  that we made a mistake. And I don't see them doing that. I
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  do not see them admitting to that. So it I almost think at this
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  point that tells you the Orioles team is performing in spite of the ownership and
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  the leadership of that team, not because of the way they've they've operated.
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  Man here would have been my saying. I mean, I guess that's a
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  good example of like what Adley Ruschman has brought to the Orioles, because he
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  is the leader of that clubhouse. And I think the Orioles have sometimes fallen
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  short, like in our lifetimes, especially like thinking back to some of those
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  teams of the nineties where they put Paul Merril together with Ripken and had Mike
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  Mussina around, and they were really strong in the Al East, but maybe
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  the Angelos Malays kind of got to them the way the Rheinstorff's get to the
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  Socks nowadays, and the reason that they're pulling through this currently is Adley Rutchman
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  is the buster Posey of this group and is united all of his guys again
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  behind that bong dong. Maybe it's the bong dong. Maybe the bong dong
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  is the the big winner here and that's the Clubhouse sat leader. And if
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  I get to say bong dong more, I'm all for it. I think
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  there's probably a keyword search here for the Razzble article that goes along with this
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  pod. You need to make sure gets in the search engine optimization SEO for
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  this one. Yeah, Bong Dong bing bong or for all the righteous Gemstones
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  fans out there, the Uncle Baby Billy's Bible bonkers that he was doing this
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  year of it. Yeah, I'll try to think of something. I'm not
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  exactly the punniest guy, but I'll try to. You're on a roll tonight.
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  I appreciate it, though you're welcome. The other thing that I figured
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  we could discuss just because I think it's gonna go down is one of the
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  iconic moments of the year. Was Julio Rodriguez is catched of It was a
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  Fernando Tatis deep fly out that he robbed, and I'll link to the actual
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  video, because I don't think I can ever do the video justice. It's
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  just amazing the way that he he fakes out literally the entire crowd and Logan
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  Gilbert Logan Gilbert looks really dejected. But Julio Rodriguez goes back to the wall,
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  tries, goes up against the wall and looks like he misses making a
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  home around robbery catch and kind of comes down looking dejected. And then everyone's
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  like, oh man, he gave up the homer. And then just a
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  few seconds later, after kind of sheepishly walking around, Julio flashes up the
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  ball with just like a big grin on his face and does an ex motion
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  for you know you're out. And I mean, I love Julio Rodriguez.
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  He's just like a great entertainer. He knows his role and he's really good
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  at being in the moment. I mean, anyone that watched last year's home
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  run Derby and the show that he put up, as well as this year's
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  home around Derby in the first round when he set the new record in Seattle,
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  like, he's super young, and I think he's going to be one
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  of the faces of MLB going forward. And this is just gonna, like
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  be one of those moments that you're gonna see on Julio Rodriguez's highlight Rules forever,
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  and honestly, it's probably destined to be an SSP a super short Print
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  run for his bass card next year. Yeah, I think it kind of
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  rings in the new era of player in baseball that shows the emotion, right
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  right. I think a few, you know, a number of years ago
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  we looked at guys like Javier Baias and be like, oh man, the
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  guy's just a you know, a fool. He's showing everybody up. But
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  I feel like the tides are finally turned and you've got guys like Julio for
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  any to tease, Juan Soto another number of other young guys. They're showing
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  emotion on the field and they're having fun, and it makes the game more
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  fun to watch, more fun to be a fan of it and support like
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  these guys they're not it's not just about their play, it's about the personalities
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  and how they sell to sell the game. So I think it's exciting to
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  see the question I have for you though. I was reading up on,
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  you know, kind of his comments on this this catch, and I want
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  to call a little b us on him here. He said that he did
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  not did not know what he was doing. He thought He said that he
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  believed everybody knew he caught the ball and that he was just kind of walking
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  then and then when he realized that everybody didn't know, he just kind of
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  showed showed everybody. Are you buying this? No, not at all,
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  Like this is There's no way you can watch that video and not think that
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  like it was on purpose, like he's I mean, this just goes to
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  him, I think, being a great entertainer, it's like an almost like
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  a professional wrestling he will sort of moved to like also pushing the narrative throughout
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  the media that like, oh yeah, I didn't mean to do this on
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  purpose and absolutely not, Like it really reminds me of the Randy Rosarina like
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  crossing of the arms gesture, and it looks I think that Julio was trying
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  to maybe like channel that a little bit and find his own signature moment and
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  so uh no, I do not believe that for a single second, but
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  I was looking back. He made a similar play in late June against the
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  Orioles. Uh somepler thing going back, going towards left center there, leaping
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  grab you know, slams against the wall. You can't quite tell he catches
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  it. Second he hits stick around, he's pumping his chest, he's he's
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  flinging the ball and he's all excited that that's his natural reaction. And I
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  don't think he premeditated. He didn't go out there like I'm gonna rob my
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  buddy Fernando Tatise and I'm gonna show him up, like no, But the
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  second he landed and he knew that that was kind of this. Hey,
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  everybody just wasn't quite sure if I caught or not. He was playing that
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  thing up. So I'm right there with you. I you know, it
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  wasn't premeditated, but he knew exactly what he was doing. I mean,
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  uh, the first split second, Uh, he realized that, oh people
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  don't realize it, and he just went with it. And kudos kudos to
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  him. It was entertaining, it was it was the right thing to do.
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  And uh, you know, Kudusta Tatis or taking him stride. I
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  think he was almost a third base by the time he realized he was actually
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  out in the play. So I do feel I think The biggest one that
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  I feel sorry for here is Logan Gilbert. I mean that he was pitching
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  a gym and for a second here his confidence is broken because he just gave
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  up a homer. Frando Testis Junior and little do you know, he's just
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  your center field, is just messing with the whole stadium. So, uh,
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  that's that's that's tough on your teammate. He probably deserved a little razzying
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  after the game. Yeah, I mean, yeah, you are. You
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  are in a very very hard ass mood today between the socks and really like
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  defended the picture. I mean I thought, maybe, yeah, maybe,
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  like Logan's just like two series of a dude, and maybe and help him,
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  you know, loot him out he's doing. But uh, yeah,
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  we'll get on to the rest of our show now that we're actually gonna mix
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  it up a little bit. I know that we've been using kind of the
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  three act play set up. We're actually going to kind of twist together X
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  two and three and go into some prospects that from the hitting side that we
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  think will be getting called up here within the next few weeks, especially because
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  I think there's going to be a wave of guys that come up kind of
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  the way Corbyn Carroll did last year that you only need to keep your plate
• 23:21
  appearances under I think it's one hundred and thirty last time I checked to be
• 23:25
  able to be eligible for rookie status next year. And so as people are
• 23:30
  still kind of like massaging overall time on the roster and getting towards free agency,
• 23:38
  the teams will probably start calling up players just around the beginning of September,
• 23:45
  maybe a little bit earlier on some of these good teams. So we
• 23:48
  want what we want to do is go through some of those bat prospects and
• 23:52
  discuss what their fantacy value will be as well as what we think their card
• 23:57
  market will do between where stands now and where we think you'll go in the
• 24:02
  future with the call ups. So with that in mind, we're also going
• 24:06
  to cover the baseball card news right now. So I do, unfortunately have
• 24:11
  one correction to issue from last week. I was the one that brought up
• 24:15
  that Tops Chrome Cosmic Chrome would be coming out last week, but that was
• 24:18
  only just the pre order that came out last week on August third. That
• 24:23
  that was so it was on last Thursday, and it sold out immediately it's
• 24:29
  going to be I think, another hot set, and it's another good looking
• 24:32
  set. It's going to be fun for whoever can get their hands on it
• 24:36
  and rip some But the actual boxes if you ordered on that pre order,
• 24:41
  won't be coming until August thirtieth ish, depending on, of course, the
• 24:45
  TOPS stripping method. But if you're looking to buy it in your hobby stores,
• 24:49
  Tops Cosmic Chrome will be out August thirtieth, and I think we'll do
• 24:55
  a bigger coverage kind of as it's coming out, because I didn't get to
• 24:57
  rip any of it last year. But it's a beautiful set again, and
• 25:02
  I think it's going to do really well if you're looking for something to rip,
• 25:06
  if you're either an old kind of baseball card collector or somebody new,
• 25:10
  I think it's good just because it's going to be such a fun one to
• 25:12
  rip. Yeah. I think the other one that we have to call out
• 25:18
  actually came out today, twenty twenty two Tops Chrome Platinum Anniversary. Uh,
• 25:23
  and we'll reiterate twenty twenty two, not twenty twenty three Platinus Chrome Platinum Anniversary.
• 25:30
  The same thing last year was one of the last sets out for the
• 25:34
  prior year or I think probably was the last set out. Actually it wasn't
• 25:38
  that it wasn't which was remember Bigley came super late. Yep, that's that's
• 25:47
  right. So but TOPSCROWM Platinum Anniversary, it's a newer sets just started doing
• 25:55
  and this year's it's kind of going back to nineteen fifty three design, you
• 26:00
  know, with the beautiful chrome cards. You know, I was looking at
• 26:03
  the parallels. You know, more than two dozen different parallel types all the
• 26:08
  way from your ex fractors to your prison refractors, many diamond refractors. You
• 26:14
  have literally I think every different refractor version that they when they tossed in the
• 26:18
  product. The one interesting one this this year that I was I was looking,
• 26:23
  uh, was they have what they call a twall variation of the autos
• 26:29
  and I think it's uh or a blue out of ninety nine the ones that
• 26:34
  I've seen so far for the chrome and essentially what the twall is is kind
• 26:40
  of a repeating pattern of i'd say wallpaper on the back makes me think of
• 26:45
  the tops logo fractors and the kind of background design. But this one has
• 26:49
  a lot of i'd say old school baseball images in the background, so you
• 26:53
  got kind of the Christy Mathewson style pitcher in the background winding up you got,
• 27:00
  i'd say Lou garg type swing, uh pick pit pictured. Just a
• 27:04
  lot of old school style artwork of of ball players. And I think it's
• 27:10
  a real cool card and I think it's gonna, you know, probably hit
• 27:15
  be a pretty good hit with with the hobby, not for the collectibility,
• 27:18
  just because it's unique, it's it's fun, it's interesting, so something to
• 27:21
  keep an eye on and pick up your favorite player. Beyond that, personally,
• 27:26
  not not a I'm not a huge fan of the top Scrown anniversaries.
• 27:29
  It's not one of those that's gonna hold it really significant value. Not a
• 27:33
  set that since it's been around, not been around that long that people are
• 27:36
  consistently collecting. I'm sure there's a few guys doing their rainbows here and there,
• 27:40
  but uh, it's still a fun rip, still a fun product to
• 27:42
  look at, just not not necessarily the highest demand in the hobby marketplace.
• 27:48
  Yeah, and that's why I'm not gonna rattle off all would you say,
• 27:51
  like seventeen parallels was it? Or I was more than two dozen? I
• 27:55
  stopped, I stopped two dozen. Yes, it's it's it's more than two
• 27:59
  dozen will to such the length of the checklist, but it is quite the
• 28:03
  extensive, extensive group. Yeah, and but because of that, I'm yeah,
• 28:07
  I'm just like you. I'm not a huge fan of this set either,
• 28:10
  just because I did rip a little bit of the twenty twenty one Tops
• 28:15
  Chrome Platinum Anniversary when it came out last year, and it was fun,
• 28:19
  but it's not really worth its value in the rip, and I don't think
• 28:23
  it's going to hold its value. It reminds me a lot of some of
• 28:26
  the just like Strange Flare and Flear stuff that would come out that was it
• 28:33
  looked really nice and it's fun to rip that would come out during the late
• 28:37
  nineties and nearly two thousands, and a lot of the like Upper Deck stuff
• 28:41
  as well, that it was really fun to rip and it looked really cool
• 28:45
  and the card stock is thick and like just really gratifying. But you can
• 28:51
  get those cards like a dime a dozen for so many of those sets,
• 28:56
  and unless you're getting a really nice parallel or just like even some of those
• 29:02
  rookie cards, it didn't hold their value just because there were so many other
• 29:04
  rookie cards that I think the big chasers here are going to be the Wanders
• 29:10
  and the Julios in this set. But again I think because it's coming out
• 29:15
  later than everything else, and because it's not quite as iconic as like there
• 29:19
  their standard based cards that like, I'm not sure it's going to really hold
• 29:25
  up as well in the long run. Yeah, I have to agree.
• 29:27
  I think the other big chases Bobby Wit within this one, along with Wonder
• 29:32
  and Julio. So definitely some some big names and some cards will have some
• 29:37
  value, but overall just a fun product and I would say not much more
• 29:41
  if you're looking to capitalize on it. So just going with right expectations and
• 29:45
  it could be a fun product for you. Okay, Yeah, that's the
• 29:49
  wrap up of the news of the card sections. So we're gonna take a
• 29:52
  little break here and then we'll be back getting into our prospect backs discussion.
• 29:57
  Stick around, all right, Welcome back everybody to cards and Categories. We're
• 30:22
  going to go through some batting prospects now and focus on guys that we think
• 30:27
  are going to get called up here before the end of the year and get
• 30:30
  some playing time in the majors, and also analyze what their card market might
• 30:34
  do so looking at kind of where it's standing right now and where it could
• 30:38
  go in the future, so that we're going to look and see if there's
• 30:41
  any guys that we like to increase in value or you know, might even
• 30:47
  go down value or stay steady. So we're gonna just gonna go back and
• 30:52
  forth, and one of us is going to do the real life analysis kind
• 30:56
  of like the real life fantasy analysis, and the other one will do the
• 31:00
  card analysis. So I'm going to kick it off here with I mean,
• 31:04
  we didn't discuss any Cardinals talk in the first half, so it's time to
• 31:07
  get it and now get yourself ready, Jeremy. But I'm gonna go and
• 31:11
  start the discussion on Mason Wynn. I think it's was pretty obvious that they
• 31:18
  Cardinals were clearing space for Mason Winn to come up when they shift Paul DeYoung
• 31:22
  out to Toronto. And honestly, Mason Winn probably would be up by now
• 31:27
  if it hadn't been for he's currently nursing a butt strain. Yes, is
• 31:37
  that the official report that that guy works for the Orioles? Now, yeah,
• 31:45
  but yeah, it's a it's a glute strain. And so He's been
• 31:48
  in Triple A all year as a twenty one year old and has not played
• 31:52
  since the sixth now at this point, which actually he's only he must have
• 31:57
  only been like pulled from that because obviously in the minors that get mondays off.
• 32:02
  So he's only missed a couple of days, and all the information about
• 32:06
  the injury doesn't sound overly concerning or really serious. But he's gonna need a
• 32:13
  little bit of recovery time and put it back together because he's ready to hit
• 32:17
  the majors. I never thought I would be saying this, just because,
• 32:22
  especially during spring training, like Mason Wynn was disappointed he didn't make the opening
• 32:27
  day roster and break camp with the team, which I thought was a little
• 32:34
  a bit of like Hubris on his side, like maybe a little bit of
• 32:36
  cockiness. But all he's done is gone down in Triple A and shown everyone
• 32:40
  that he should have been in Paul the young spot all season. So he
• 32:44
  did start a little bit slow to the season, but especially as of late,
• 32:50
  I have been just like kind of watching this because I bring him up
• 32:52
  every once in a while my waiver wire waiver wire articles for suggestions because it's
• 33:00
  start at and I'll only like to pick him up then recently fifteen team and
• 33:04
  now it might be starting to get to twelve team territory because since the beginning
• 33:08
  of July, he's had a one sixty six WRC plus down in Triple A.
• 33:13
  He's got a slash line of three forty five four oh nine six ninety
• 33:16
  nine. That's an eleven o nine ops. So he is just annihilating the
• 33:21
  ball. It comes with a fourteen point two percent k right and an eight
• 33:27
  point seven walk rate, So he's got just a crazy eye like he's making
• 33:32
  contact, he's stealing bases. He has seventeen stone basses, and I think
• 33:37
  this is the biggest thing about him because when you would look at his ISOs
• 33:40
  sometimes I worry about guys with like this that are a lot of speed that
• 33:45
  in the minor leagues that can put up big ISOs because they just run like
• 33:52
  the unslick outfielders and left field and center field in the minor leagues, you
• 33:57
  know, well babble balls and these speeds can turn singles into doubles and doubles
• 34:01
  into triples. But Mason Winn has seventeen bombs in Triple A this year too,
• 34:07
  So his ISO that he's showing down there. The one eighty three ISO
• 34:10
  currently is legit, and so I think he's going to be a really big
• 34:15
  impact bat coming up all those I think all the the projections are blow on
• 34:22
  him. I think he's going to be a real big, kind of like
• 34:25
  two seventy two eighty hitter in the majors probably I think lower probably homers than
• 34:32
  you're seeing right now, maybe like it'll round out in the mid teens,
• 34:36
  but a chance to be thirty forty stolen bases, and he's going to be
• 34:40
  a really huge, fancy prospect before that. So if you've got a chance
• 34:46
  to acquire him and a dynasty league and somebody's dangling him, I would jump
• 34:51
  all over him. I think down the stretch he could come up and really
• 34:53
  light Saint Louis on fire because he just might be the kick in the pants
• 34:57
  that they need to show that they want to turn around and be competitive next
• 35:00
  year. Yeah. I think we were talking right right before the break about
• 35:04
  rookie eligibility, and you write one fifty played appearances, but it's also less
• 35:07
  than forty five days on the on the active roster, and so I think
• 35:10
  that's gonna you know, kind of a combination. So you're gonna see guys
• 35:15
  coming up here, you know, mid to late August, kind of getting
• 35:19
  that a cup of coffee and trying to see what they're made of. But
• 35:22
  I think you're absolutely right on on Mason Winn. He's it's just a matter
• 35:27
  of time before he's up there and making an impact. So I think what's
• 35:30
  interesting, so we'll talk about the other side of this one. As far
• 35:32
  as you know, you hit the fantasy points, and I think you're right
• 35:37
  on from a card market perspective. Mason Winn, I think has a lot
• 35:42
  of the pieces that we look for in a high upside prospect and the guy
• 35:46
  that can hold his value long term. Uh he's he's got a really good
• 35:51
  hitting profile. He's plays a premium position, And I think what gets kind
• 35:58
  of left behind in the fancy world but is actually important and very important in
• 36:01
  the card market is he's got a star. He's got star qualities, he's
• 36:07
  got he's got a crazy personality. Uh. Actually actually had an opportunity to
• 36:10
  meet mens Mason Winn last year myself, and he's extremely genuine guy. He's
• 36:15
  got the you know, the smile that will sell and he's got a rocket
• 36:20
  for an arm, and he will make crazy plays and so just kind of
• 36:22
  like we were talking about Hulu Rodriguez earlier and the kind of statement plays and
• 36:27
  the fun things that he does. I think Mason Wynn has a chance to
• 36:30
  kind of play in that that zone as well, and that that boosts the
• 36:32
  card market values. What I think it's really interesting with Mason Winn and when
• 36:37
  we talk about prospects and what their card value is going to be, we're
• 36:42
  usually talking about their first Bowmen cards, first Bowment papers, chromes, autos,
• 36:46
  those types of things. Mason Wynn, for for whatever reason, I
• 36:51
  have to go look. I think the Cardinals just had a few killer drafts
• 36:53
  that might might have driven this. But he does not have a first Bowmen
• 36:57
  Auto card, which is something to be said for a player that is making
• 37:01
  the mark that he has at this point. So what you're actually seeing the
• 37:06
  market, which is interesting, is a number of folks out there actually getting
• 37:10
  in person autos sent off to PSA authenticated in marketing as his first Bowmen Chrome
• 37:15
  autos, and they're selling like a first Bowmen Chrome Auto. They're seeing those
• 37:21
  authenticated going for two three hundred dollars on the open market right now, before
• 37:25
  he's even been called up, before there's even a talk of it, and
• 37:29
  you know his Bowmen Chrome cards is first or in that ten to fifteen dollars
• 37:34
  range. So I think a guy that if you want to make a quick
• 37:38
  investment or uh and then if you've got a chance to pick up some cards
• 37:42
  of his being in that big card market because the cardinals do sell very well
• 37:46
  from a card perspective, I think he's got a chance that he's you know,
• 37:51
  cards that you might be buying for five ten dollars right now the second
• 37:52
  he gets called up or going for twenty twenty five. There's a quick return
• 37:57
  on somebody like him. Now, it always comes down to how he plays
• 38:00
  when he gets up there, there inevitably going to take a dip unless he
• 38:06
  goes crazy. But what's interesting about a guy getting called up late like him,
• 38:08
  if he has a good month, he can kind of ride that too
• 38:13
  next season and kind of maintain those values because then the hype train is just
• 38:15
  going to go crazy. So I really like Mason Wimm from a fantasy perspective,
• 38:21
  from a card perspective, So loving your first your first pick here,
• 38:24
  and we had to get back to the Cardinals. So I really appreciate you
• 38:28
  give me a chance to get my soapbox out. Yeah, I knew we
• 38:30
  couldn't stay away for too long. And I mean, I think that's great,
• 38:35
  good points all across the board. And I think along with what you're
• 38:37
  saying about maintaining that value is that this is the type of guy that will
• 38:43
  sell during the winter if he does have a nice finish down the stretch.
• 38:46
  That the card market dips overall during the winter, and somebody like when could
• 38:52
  just keep things going. I think Jordan Walker did a lot this last year
• 38:57
  is that it was clear that Jordan Walker was getting close coming up, and
• 39:00
  his prices never cooled off really during the winter the way that you see across
• 39:06
  the board. So yeah, I'm gonna flip it back to you Brew.
• 39:08
  You can pick the next dude and and examine him from a fantasy slash real
• 39:15
  life perspective. Yeah, I'm gonna grab a guy here out of Miami,
• 39:20
  Xavier Edwards. And Edwards he's been a decent prospect name for a number of
• 39:24
  years. I think if I recall Sandy San Diego, Tampa Bay, he's
• 39:30
  been a few trades and he actually had a cup of coffee earlier this year,
• 39:35
  just for a handful of games maybe a few few weeks, and hit
• 39:37
  fine, but it didn't really maintain the spot. But he has been absolutely
• 39:44
  destroying the ball in the minor leagues. You know, if you look at
• 39:49
  the bar to break the major league team when in Miami, you know he's
• 39:52
  gonna pass guys like Brian de la Cruz, Abasil Garcia Sanchez, not the
• 39:57
  biggest names that are really gonna gonna keep him down. So he's definitely got
• 40:00
  the opportunity to come up. Uh you know, this season, he's he's
• 40:05
  played in seventy seven games down in Triple A. He's gone thirty for thirty
• 40:10
  three and steel He's got a crazy twenty seven percent line drive rate, and
• 40:19
  uh, well, I think is most impressive for a guy that is a
• 40:22
  contact hitter. But historically he's been in the ten to fifteen percent strikeout right.
• 40:27
  He has a five percent strikeout right this year and Triple A. It's
• 40:30
  just incredible. Power is still gonna be light. He's you know, he's
• 40:35
  a ten home run type guy on a good day in Miami might actually pull
• 40:38
  that that down a little bit and he's been kind of a three hundred hitter
• 40:43
  almost wherever he's been, so you know, there's definitely some potential. But
• 40:46
  what really excites me since the starters July, he's sitting four thirty seven,
• 40:52
  albeit with a babe up of four thirty two, so like, take it
• 40:54
  with a grand of salt. He sit four homers. He's got fifty nine
• 40:59
  runs and RBIs come buying and seventeen steals in one hundred and forty five plate
• 41:02
  appearances. And I'm gonna challenge es unless you've looked this up, how many
• 41:07
  times do you think he's struck out one hundred forty five plate appearances? Uh,
• 41:12
  so that's since July. If he's got a five percent, I mean,
• 41:16
  but he's hot too. Oh okay, that not I oversold that seven
• 41:22
  strikeouts since Angels. Still, it's that's incredible, And so I think he's
• 41:30
  uh, he's always been a really toolsy prospect and got a lot of potential,
• 41:34
  and it's just a matter. It's like, is he can recognize it.
• 41:37
  You know, he's twenty four now, so there's not much point holding
• 41:39
  him back down. I don't believe he is on the forty man yet.
• 41:45
  So they have to make uh some move there. I could be wrong on
• 41:47
  that one, but I don't recall him being being on the well, I'm
• 41:52
  sorry, he is on the forty banks. They can call him up briefly
• 41:53
  earlier this year. So correction on that one. We'll just delete that on
• 41:58
  the pod. But but yeah, I think Vier Edwards is really exciting and
• 42:02
  he's going to be available in a lot of leagues. I don't think,
• 42:06
  you know, he doesn't have that prospect type like the twenty one year old
• 42:07
  coming up like a Mason Win. So I think he's an exciting and fantasy
• 42:12
  prospect. Yeah, And honestly, he's just one more Jazz Chisholm injury away
• 42:16
  from probably getting that center field job for the rest of the season. So
• 42:21
  gona take like two two three days like that just shows him seems like he's
• 42:23
  hurt every other day. Yeah, Xavier Edwards has the positional flexibility. You
• 42:29
  played center and second base, so that's really nice. I heat to a
• 42:32
  brisker bubble though that I think compared to everyone we're going to talk about today,
• 42:37
  that Xavier Edwards is card markets easily the worst of all these guys that
• 42:43
  bouncing from San Diego to Tampa in the infamous Slaptic Prospect trade when Blake Snell
• 42:52
  was on the Twitch stream and saw that the race picked him up and called
• 42:58
  him mister slap dick prospect. That the market for any prospect that is moving
• 43:06
  between my our league systems like that, especially between like the worst card markets
• 43:12
  between Tampa and Miami, Like those teams just don't sell well. And San
• 43:15
  Diego does all right, but like it's usually because it's like Tatis and you
• 43:20
  know, guys who are really really just popular as well as like Xavier Edwards
• 43:24
  doesn't probably have like the just the the charisma that Win does that we were
• 43:31
  talking about. I mean, the only way that I could see that changing
• 43:35
  is like if he does maybe start signing some cards as mister slap Dick,
• 43:38
  that would be really great for him. That might boost the things a little
• 43:42
  bit. But the card that we're looking at here for Xavier Edwards is the
• 43:46
  twenty twenty Bowman card. That's where his first is at. But you can
• 43:51
  get his bass auto for roughly twenty to thirty bucks. It looks like maybe
• 43:58
  even as low as like fifteen on a good day for you. But I
• 44:02
  like looking at the refractors, those are of four ninety nine and they have
• 44:06
  the refractor furnish on them, but even those are going somewhere between thirty to
• 44:10
  fifty and psa tens on like the base or in the seventy five to eighty
• 44:16
  range. So if you want to get into collecting Xavier Edwards and hoping maybe
• 44:22
  he like picks up a stolen base title or becomes a story whereas down down
• 44:27
  the line, I mean, I think there might be a little bit of
• 44:30
  helium to the prices, but not much. I mean, I think it's
• 44:35
  capped about as far as it can go right now, and it's going to
• 44:37
  take a really huge leap forward in his game to find something different as well
• 44:43
  as like this type of guy just doesn't really hold value too well. That
• 44:47
  like, I could totally see Zaviy Edwards coming up and making a big fancy
• 44:52
  impact for people in dynasty leagues, especially next year, Like he could easily
• 44:58
  make it to the Marlins roster and have a season like Estuary Reeves had this
• 45:01
  year in terms of you know, swiping you know somewhere I don't even know,
• 45:07
  like the way the stolen bases work, like the sky's almost limit and
• 45:12
  so yeah, like I said, I hate to burst your bubble, but
• 45:15
  Xavier Edwards that the guys that we talked about and I would be throwing my
• 45:19
  dollars into for collecting is the last guy that I want to look at.
• 45:23
  Yeah, I think the only path he really has to card V value relevance
• 45:29
  is I'm gonna call it the Randy Rose Arena path. Is you know a
• 45:32
  guy that switched teams really didn't have a whole lot of prospect following, and
• 45:37
  you could pick you know, his cards up for a dime a dozen type
• 45:40
  of thing, and then if he gets hot at the right time on the
• 45:44
  right stage, there's going to be this giant peak and then it's gonna drop
• 45:47
  off real fast. So you know, he's not the cards I'd go,
• 45:52
  well, you know, actually getting looking to get rid of If you can
• 45:54
  pick up a big lot for cheap, it might be a you know,
• 45:58
  a better gambled in Vegas, but I wouldn't be spending a whole lot of
• 46:02
  time on his card market to your points. So I'm right there with you.
• 46:07
  Who Who's who's your next guy? Who do you want to hit next?
• 46:09
  So yeah, I'm going to the other side of the cardinals rival I'm
• 46:14
  going to discuss PCA Pete crow Armstrong from the Cubs. So he was recently
• 46:19
  called up to triple A on August first, he had been down Double A
• 46:23
  and was showing that he belonged somewhere higher because he's a twenty one year old
• 46:30
  right now. Even with that, he was crushing in Double A with a
• 46:34
  two eighty nine, three seventy one five twenty seven slug which is impressive considering
• 46:37
  he's a glove first prospect. All that work is good for one thirty four
• 46:43
  w RC plus down double A, and his main calling card is speed.
• 46:47
  He put up twenty seven steals down there. The other thing that I love
• 46:51
  about him is this is very off tangent and not relevant to anything except for
• 46:57
  nineties baseball movie lovers, is that his mom is the is the mom in
• 47:02
  Little big League. So Bill Haywood's mom in Little big League is his mom.
• 47:07
  He went to the same high school as Lucas Glito and Jack Flaherty.
• 47:10
  He's from LA so he's got a little bit that that Hollywood streak in him.
• 47:16
  But he should be up for the Cubs this year just based for his
• 47:21
  glove alone. All of the prospect reports are glowing and have him slated for
• 47:27
  multiple gold Gloves, And the thing about him is like it's such superlative defense
• 47:34
  that like his floor is almost like a Kevin Kiermaier type and the ceiling can
• 47:38
  be beyond that because once you get a star center fielder who can put the
• 47:45
  bat on the ball the way that he can, and surprisingly he's like a
• 47:49
  spendy dude, but he hits it with a lot of authority. He had
• 47:52
  that two thirty eight ISO and double A and he's struggling right now in the
• 47:57
  bump up to triple A a little bit. He's only got on one seventy
• 47:59
  four three twenty one, but four seventy eight on the slash line. He's
• 48:05
  got two homers in six games with that's good for a three or four ISO.
• 48:09
  I know it's a little bit of a small sample, but like it
• 48:12
  shows that there's real popping this bat. So I like him long term value
• 48:16
  that like if you're looking for I would say that like compared to Mason Winn,
• 48:22
  like in his peak peak row Armstrong might not steal as many bases is
• 48:28
  Win, and his batting average will probably be a little bit lower because he's
• 48:30
  a little bit more of a power hitter, but this the Homers will probably
• 48:35
  be in the same range and maybe a little bit more just like slug more
• 48:38
  doubles and who knows what could happen in Wrigley, Like if it stays hot
• 48:43
  and he gets a really nice week of windy air going straight out north,
• 48:46
  like he could at some point pop something like a twenty thirty or twenty forty
• 48:53
  season. Yeah, I think the Mason Win comparison is a good one when
• 48:58
  we talk about the card market side of of PCA here, Uh, he's
• 49:02
  probably a step below Win when you when you look at that card market,
• 49:07
  you know, he has the penalty of being not being with the team that
• 49:09
  drafted him. I know it's just six games he played with the Mets before
• 49:14
  coming over to the Cubs, but you know, all his his cards and
• 49:17
  we're you know, we're talking for for Pete Crow. I think it's again
• 49:21
  that same uh twenty sorry, twenty twenty uh time frame as far as all
• 49:28
  these these moments first and you know, he's gonna be a little bit cheaper,
• 49:32
  he's still but he's definitely got that prospect status and he's also got that
• 49:37
  big market. So if you're looking at the first Chrome autos for for Pete
• 49:40
  Crow arm Strong, you're probably in that one hundred and fifty one hundred and
• 49:44
  seventy five dollars range for for one of those cards, and I would expect
• 49:46
  when he gets called up, that's probably gonna spike to two twenty five,
• 49:51
  two fifty somewhere in that range for for a week or two. Uh.
• 49:54
  Just everybody wanted the demand, but I think it having the different jersey will
• 50:00
  kind of hold that that value back a little bit. You can't pick up
• 50:04
  his his bass chrome first for you know, eight ten dollars. Uh,
• 50:07
  and that has gone up over the last i'd say year or so. That
• 50:12
  used to be a guy you could pick up for a dollar or two.
• 50:15
  And so definitely you can see uh. And I think it's probably a symptom
• 50:19
  of the Cubs haven't really had a hitting prospect with the pettigree for jeez,
• 50:25
  sometime. I can you're you're more of the sage guy to remember who that
• 50:30
  was. But I cannot think of a great, uh Chicago hitting prospect coming
• 50:35
  up in the last few few years. You have to go back to kind
• 50:38
  of your your Bryant's time frame to actually get another big name, and the
• 50:44
  card market was not what it was now what it was then. So,
• 50:47
  uh, pe Crow I think has some potential. Uh definitely can be there.
• 50:53
  And to your point on the fantasy side, I think the card side,
• 50:57
  he does have a nice little floor there because he says that that kind
• 51:00
  of Kermeyer and I love that comp type of of of career. Uh,
• 51:05
  They're still gonna be collectors for him because they just the love of the defense,
• 51:08
  the He's gonna make things look easy, He's gonna be fun to watch.
• 51:12
  So he's he's always gonna have a nice little floor there. Yeah,
• 51:15
  definitely, And I'm what set was he in did for twenty twenty Yeah,
• 51:22
  twenty twenty bowmen draft is where his first was. So a lot of the
• 51:28
  guys we've been talking today, I've been in twenty twenty bowmen or twenty twenty
• 51:30
  bowmen uh draft, and you know those cards look nearly identical. So yeah,
• 51:37
  So who's your next guy that you wanted to go over? Yeah,
• 51:40
  so next one I want to go over. I want to go back to
• 51:43
  do the Baltimore Orioles Tech. Talk about Heston Krestad. You know, Heston
• 51:49
  was I think the number two pick a number of years ago in the draft,
• 51:53
  and part of that was a sign ability. So he probably wasn't number
• 51:57
  two, you know, hit her in the draft by any means. He
• 52:00
  was, he was, he was top ten quality, but he was.
• 52:02
  He was picked there for sign ability for sure. But uh, you know
• 52:07
  he's he's had his share of struggles health wise, but you know he's he's
• 52:10
  coming back. He's made it. Uh, looking good in the Miners at
• 52:15
  the end of the day. From a fancy perspective, he's a solid bat.
• 52:19
  You know, he's Uh, God, I think uh he was seventeen
• 52:23
  nineteen or sorry, not seventeen nineteen. He goes nineteen homers across the two
• 52:29
  highest levels of the Miners this year, hitting three hundred at each of those
• 52:34
  stops. Uh. Baltimore is trying to win, and you can see them
• 52:37
  bringing up their their prospects. Uh, you know, starting the year with
• 52:40
  Gunner bringing up guys like uh. The Cows are trying to inject youth and
• 52:45
  excitement into that team, and I think that Curst has that the next guy
• 52:52
  on that list. You know, at this point, they the Orioles need
• 52:55
  to move away from Jorge Mateo playing center field. Kurstad's not gonna a centerfield
• 53:00
  He's more of a DH first basement maybe corner outfielder where he hasn't been getting
• 53:05
  reps this season. But you know, a guy like Austin Hayes uh could
• 53:09
  play some center. He's played a few games there, and so I wouldn't
• 53:13
  be shocked to see Mateo get the boot otherwise known as designated for assignment because
• 53:20
  he's he's he started hot this year and he's but he has just been dreadful
• 53:22
  since then. Uh, and you know, cows are even though he's got
• 53:25
  some prospect pedigree, since he's been called up, he really has not delivered.
• 53:30
  So you know, I think he's got a chance to get called up.
• 53:32
  He is not on the forty man at this point, so there is
• 53:36
  a little bit more room. But like I said, Jorge Mateo being designated
• 53:39
  takes care of that pretty gosh darn easily. So I think Kurstar gets called
• 53:44
  up. I think I'm thinking more early September as they are making that final
• 53:47
  push for the postseason there in the Al East, and I think, you
• 53:52
  know, he's going to be more average power, not not not going to
• 53:57
  have a whole lot of speed, but he has a potential to to be
• 54:00
  a two nineties on his best days and twenty to twenty five home runs at
• 54:07
  his peak, which there's a lot to like about that. Yeah, And
• 54:12
  getting to his card value, I mean, I think the guys that we
• 54:15
  discuss, he's probably got the hottest one, and it's giving me the hardest
• 54:19
  to break in and find something because he was the number two overall pick and
• 54:22
  then included in that Bowman Chrome or in that Bowman Draft set from twenty twenty,
• 54:29
  kind of like right in the prime that was released right in the prime
• 54:32
  of like the pandemic and everyone trying to get into baseball card collecting. So
• 54:37
  people have been on Curse Dad's market from the get go. So looking at
• 54:43
  his prices, honestly, I was looking at eBay where you go back and
• 54:46
  just hit sold. There hasn't been a ten of his auto sold recently.
• 54:52
  So that's of the chrome and of the refractor. If you're going to be
• 54:57
  looking for just a ungraded version of the chrome, you're looking somewhere between one
• 55:04
  hundred and twenty two hundred and fifty and upwards of two hundred and two fifty
• 55:08
  for the four hundred and ninety nine numbered refractors, so that's pretty expensive.
• 55:15
  And even just the bass chrome probably runs you can run you five to ten
• 55:20
  and any of the paper first will be pretty cheap, just because like there
• 55:24
  are lots of those out there. But it's not going to be Honestly,
• 55:29
  if I'm holding a Heston curs Dad, that is, he does autos and
• 55:32
  stuff, I would be selling as immediately when he gets called up, because
• 55:37
  I think that's probably when his value beaks. Like I think he's a solid
• 55:40
  bat heat but like would you even rattled off there, like three hundred twenty
• 55:45
  five, like it's all right, Like that's pretty good, but like it's
• 55:50
  not coming with a lot of stolen bases. It's not coming with a lot
• 55:52
  of longevity. You know, he's already twenty four because he came out of
• 55:58
  college, So I don't think it's somebody that's going to hold a lot of
• 56:01
  value going to the future that once he comes up and makes that debut.
• 56:07
  I'm moving as much of my Heston Curstad's dash as I can, and maybe
• 56:14
  you can hold and hope that like he goes and tries to get Rookie of
• 56:17
  the Year next year or does something momentous and like HiT's a big home run
• 56:22
  in the playoffs or something. But that's that's playing roulette. I think that
• 56:28
  the best time to sell will be when the Orioles call Heston Curstad up and
• 56:32
  put him in that lineup the first day. I have to fully agree with
• 56:37
  you on this one, and also be in the lineup with other guys like
• 56:39
  Adlie and Gunner and things like that. It's just even your own fan base
• 56:44
  that are going to view you as you know, the fourth or fifth guy
• 56:46
  to collect, So it's gonna hold him down. So I'm excited about him
• 56:51
  from a fancy perspective, probably less from a card market perspective. Yeah,
• 56:55
  definitely. So yeah, let's get onto the next guy, who, honestly,
• 57:00
  I've been the most excited about probably this year in terms of how they've
• 57:06
  shot through prospect rankings and shot through the minor leagues, and that is Cult
• 57:10
  Keith from the Detroit Tigers. So Coult Keith. I mean, I think
• 57:15
  the story also really starts that he looked really fantastic in the Arizona Fall League
• 57:21
  last year. All the prospect towns and all of the fantasy gurus that were
• 57:24
  down there could not stop raving about him that the contact of his bat looked
• 57:30
  great. He just looks like a complete hitter. And he was taken during
• 57:36
  the twenty twenty draft, late fifth round, and actually that was the last
• 57:42
  round during that COVID draft, So the Tigers really found a gem there.
• 57:45
  And all he's done since he's gotten into their system has just been mashing the
• 57:51
  ball, except for a brief stop and advanced day in twenty twenty one.
• 57:54
  That this year he's had a meteoric rise. As a twenty one year old.
• 58:00
  He just blew right through Double A. He put up a one sixty
• 58:02
  two w RC plus with a three twenty five, three ninety one, five
• 58:07
  eighty five line with fourteen bombs in two hundred and seventy six plate appearances.
• 58:14
  Even for like all that power, he's striking out only twenty two point eight
• 58:17
  percent of the time, which is you can live with, especially because he's
• 58:22
  walking about ten percent of the time. It was nine percent of the time
• 58:24
  there and it's eleven percent right now in triple A. He's taking a little
• 58:30
  bit of a step back, but he's a twenty one year old at triple
• 58:32
  A with a w ninety one or a ninety one w RC plus with a
• 58:37
  slash nine of two seventy three forty six, three forty two. Yeah,
• 58:44
  this is like I think this is the guy that the Tigers thought Tarkleson would
• 58:47
  be and they kind of got lucky that he just kind of fell into their
• 58:52
  laps as a left handed bat, which I think their lineups sorely needs going
• 58:57
  forward. A lot of their guys are right handed, with especially Torque and
• 59:02
  Riley Green, they're kind of holding it down that it would make sense that
• 59:07
  Colt Keith will come up and kind of be another piece to help the Tigers
• 59:10
  see if they can push into contention next year in the Al Central, which
• 59:15
  it doesn't take much. I mean, just look at those teams right now.
• 59:19
  So I think they're going to give him a cup of coffee just because,
• 59:22
  like he's proven so much. You've got to kind of show some good
• 59:24
  faith to some of these Tigers fans who saw that rebuild kind of fizzle out
• 59:30
  with the and especially just Hovey bayas his contracts up. All the oxygen now
• 59:37
  of the momentum they were going for. They'll have Tweak scouble back next year
• 59:40
  for a full year. They should have Casey Mayers back that the time is
• 59:45
  now, I think for Coult Keith, and I was a little surprised I
• 59:49
  didn't bring them up when they got rid of Jonathan Scope and made some moves
• 59:52
  at the deadline, especially with Condelario. But you can tell that they're trying
• 59:57
  to toy with his service time and it reminds me a lot of kind of
• 1:00:00
  what Corbyn Carroll did down the stretch last year for the Diamondbacks that I think
• 1:00:05
  Colt Keith in the second week of September will be up for the Tigers.
• 1:00:09
  Yeah. I think Colt Keith is is a really interesting player, and I
• 1:00:15
  think the interest, you know, goes over to the card mark as well.
• 1:00:17
  And to your point, the meteoric rise he's had this year, you
• 1:00:20
  can see it in his card prices. You know, back in in May
• 1:00:23
  time frame, his card prices are probably half of what they are now.
• 1:00:27
  You could pick up his first chromes for a dollar. Now they're going for
• 1:00:30
  five or six. You know, his his autos, you know, you
• 1:00:34
  might have been paying sixty seventy bucks to get well now they're going for almost
• 1:00:37
  one fifty. So you can definitely see that he's he's got that helium from
• 1:00:42
  from his production. Now, I do have to say that I'm only going
• 1:00:46
  to put him a notch above our Xavier Edwards discussion earlier. At the end
• 1:00:52
  of the day, Colt Keith isn't a high round draft pick. He's not
• 1:00:57
  the most exciting guy to watch, and you know, he has that similar
• 1:01:01
  profile that we just talked about with with Kirstad, where he's it's good,
• 1:01:06
  it's valuable from a fantasy perspective, but it's not going to light the world
• 1:01:09
  on fire. So and at the end of the day, the Detroit card
• 1:01:15
  market is not one of the hottest things out there, and so you know,
• 1:01:20
  he he gets called up, I expect a little spike up in his
• 1:01:22
  values, but because of the kind of seasons he's had, I think he's
• 1:01:28
  one of those that is already getting some of that that helium. There's there's
• 1:01:31
  some guys that have helium over time, but they're you know, high draft
• 1:01:36
  picks. They got this prospect profile and then when they get called up,
• 1:01:38
  like everybody's excited about them in their cards spike. Then you get these other
• 1:01:42
  guys that don't have that pedigree, but then they're getting them the news,
• 1:01:45
  they're they're making headlines they're they're getting popular and people are picking them up,
• 1:01:49
  and there's kind of ramping up before they get called up, and they just
• 1:01:52
  don't get that peak right at the end when they get called up, because
• 1:01:55
  they're already there everybody that's interested, it's already kind of grabbed them. But
• 1:02:00
  I uh, but they're not grabbing say, national headlines with their call up.
• 1:02:04
  So I don't see a whole lot changing for Colt Keith once he gets
• 1:02:07
  called up with his his his profile, the time to buy is already passed.
• 1:02:10
  It was in the spring, and long term, I don't see that
• 1:02:16
  his cards are going to hold a heckful lot of value. If you're a
• 1:02:20
  Detroit fan, probably a really good player to collect, because he's going to
• 1:02:22
  be reasonable, gonna be fun to watch, and you know, and he's
• 1:02:27
  he looks like he has a chance to really be a part out lineup for
• 1:02:29
  a long time. So it's great for a PC no personal collection, Uh,
• 1:02:34
  probably less foe if you're if you're looking to make a quick buck on
• 1:02:37
  on the call up. Yeah, I mean, so there is going to
• 1:02:42
  be one thing here I'm going to disagree with you on. I think that
• 1:02:45
  he probably has gotten to just about his peak on these cards. But he,
• 1:02:50
  I think, compared to anyone else that we're discussing here, has the
• 1:02:54
  chance to have a much better long term career. I think just being twenty
• 1:03:02
  one and how fast he got through the minors this year, and just all
• 1:03:07
  of the prospect reports are really glowing about him. And he's been moving from
• 1:03:13
  a fancy perspective too, like he's moving up into top ten dynasty lists,
• 1:03:16
  and there's a real good chance that he could be a big cornerstone for the
• 1:03:22
  Tigers going forward. So I think if like that's the path that you see
• 1:03:27
  charted for him, like and you see, I mean, I think this
• 1:03:30
  guy could be somebody who you know, hits somewhere between thirty and forty bombs
• 1:03:36
  a year for a decade, like in terms of sticking around and almost like
• 1:03:40
  a left handed Austin Riley. It reminds me a little bit of And so
• 1:03:45
  I think there is a chance that like long term, like his prices are
• 1:03:50
  where they are now and they're pretty high, but like long term, I
• 1:03:52
  think that could stay high or go higher, because like he's got the chance,
• 1:03:57
  I think, compared to some of these other dudes of just being the
• 1:04:00
  dude, you know, like he's got the chance of being a franchise cornerstone
• 1:04:03
  for the Tigers, and especially if he can lead them to like a couple
• 1:04:06
  of playoff runs, like he could cement himself as like kind of one of
• 1:04:11
  the better players as this generation. Yeah, I think that's the profile of
• 1:04:15
  the guy that if you think he's gonna be there long term, which I'm
• 1:04:17
  not sure. I'm not sure I'm in the same boat as you with with
• 1:04:20
  cold Keith. I think there's a lot of potential there. I'm not sure
• 1:04:23
  that I see it for you know, fifteen year career home runs. I
• 1:04:28
  think that's what I heard you say. But I think that he's the kind
• 1:04:33
  of guy that if he does get the cup of coffee now, it kind
• 1:04:35
  of breaks that that prospect seal. And then unless he just goes crazy at
• 1:04:40
  thin of the season, but playing Detroit, like you have to go real
• 1:04:43
  crazy to get the publicity, I think his market drops off in the winner
• 1:04:47
  and you're gonna be able to pick his cards up for you know, pennies
• 1:04:50
  on the dollar to what it was right now. And if you really do
• 1:04:54
  think he has that long term potential, that's probably the time to buy and
• 1:04:58
  stock it away because you know, the first All Star team he makes,
• 1:05:00
  the first you know week where he reels off five home runs, his value
• 1:05:04
  is going to spike. And then you also might be able to grab something
• 1:05:08
  to grade for long term, to just set away for a rainy day,
• 1:05:12
  So the price of the mission is probably fit there over the winter. Yeah.
• 1:05:16
  No, I think that's a really good point that, Like, I
• 1:05:19
  think that he is someone like you almost kind of like cross your fingers that
• 1:05:25
  he struggles a little bit in a September call up from both the fantasy and
• 1:05:28
  a baseball card perspective, because if his price is dropping anywhere, like I'm
• 1:05:33
  buying that, like if he settles back and is you know, his even
• 1:05:39
  just his bass crumbs, you know, if they're settling back into like the
• 1:05:42
  dollar and two dollar bins, like I will stop up as many of those
• 1:05:45
  as I can, because he's just so young and like the types of people
• 1:05:49
  who get to the levels and produce at the levels that he has already,
• 1:05:56
  like the outcomes are usually pretty good. Let's get the last guy on on
• 1:06:01
  my list. I think, uh, you know was the last guy in
• 1:06:04
  your list, and we've talked about him before on on the pod here.
• 1:06:08
  But Ronnie Mauricio, uh for the Mets, I think is a is a
• 1:06:14
  guy that I'm shocked he's not called up already, but I think that the
• 1:06:17
  writings on the wall here so uh, ninety eight games so far down on
• 1:06:23
  the farm, he's almost twenty twenty on the season. He's seventeen, nineteen
• 1:06:27
  someteen Homer's nineteen seals. And you know, he just got his first start
• 1:06:31
  of the season at third base, and I was, I was reading from
• 1:06:34
  one of the New York Beat writers and I am I cannot remember his name
• 1:06:39
  off the top of my head, but basically, you know, it became
• 1:06:43
  they're planning to rotate him. They're at Syracuse between second, short and third,
• 1:06:46
  probably twice a week at each each position, and he had not been
• 1:06:50
  playing third base. You know, he you know, mainly was was getting
• 1:06:55
  starts there at a short stop. But they're they're clearly looking to get some
• 1:06:58
  flexibility. And if you look at the Mets and what they have on the
• 1:07:02
  major league level at a third base, it's like Mark Ventos, who had
• 1:07:08
  a you know, really solid h Minor league go of it, but he's
• 1:07:12
  kind of a all or nothing power hitter and just has not produced for the
• 1:07:16
  Mets, So they clearly have a gap there at third, and they're probably
• 1:07:20
  still trying to see what they have from from Ventos, but as they look
• 1:07:25
  really towards the window for them being twenty four, twenty five more twenty five,
• 1:07:30
  I think the Mets have to give Mauricio a call up here and give
• 1:07:34
  them some positional flexibility. So if they do this for a few weeks,
• 1:07:38
  he could end up with you know, three and positions depending on your league
• 1:07:42
  settings for a fantasy perspective, and having a guy that can hit for power,
• 1:07:47
  can run a little bit. He's not gonna destroy destroy your average by
• 1:07:53
  any means. He's not going to be a three twenty hitters, not going
• 1:07:55
  to be a three hundred hitter by by any means. You know, He's
• 1:07:59
  probably a guy that's I would say settles in it two sixty, two seventy,
• 1:08:02
  somewhere in that range. But he has been, you know, very
• 1:08:08
  very impressive for the Mets and the Miners this year, and I think he
• 1:08:13
  gets called up September one, yeah, if not before, because like with
• 1:08:17
  Brett Batty going down this week, it's kind of clear that they want to
• 1:08:21
  give Mauricio a shot and see exactly maybe where he fits for next year.
• 1:08:26
  And I take back saying that Heston Christad was going to be the most expensive
• 1:08:30
  guy we're going to talk about, because I think it's actually Ronnie Mauricio,
• 1:08:33
  and it's mostly just this is the New York effect, like they're I don't
• 1:08:39
  think there's any set of teams or any area of the country that I've made
• 1:08:45
  more money off of from selling baseball cards than the Yankees and the Mets in
• 1:08:48
  New York, because I mean, it just kind of is like it's like
• 1:08:53
  it's like the document Ken Burns's documentary Baseball, where you're just like, what
• 1:09:00
  the hell can like there's baseball outside of New York and Brooklyn, and like
• 1:09:04
  all he does is like view it through that lens. But like, honestly,
• 1:09:09
  it kind of goes that way in the baseball card world too, that
• 1:09:12
  like Yankees and Mets prices are always ridiculous and they're the hype around the players
• 1:09:17
  is way outsized for how good they are, and so yeah, and even
• 1:09:25
  with Mauricio, it's a little bit like what you're talking about with polt Keith,
• 1:09:29
  that like your time to buy Mauricio has passed like during spring training and
• 1:09:33
  up until like May April time his base Auto Chrome which he's from the twenty
• 1:09:41
  nineteen Bowman Chrome set that that was only going for like forty fifty bucks raw
• 1:09:46
  and now it's going well past one hundred and twenty five, and like it's
• 1:09:51
  just skyrocketing. The day that he gets called up, like that card's gonna
• 1:09:55
  probably be pushed two hundred to fifty and it's gonna st there, I think,
• 1:10:00
  probably for a bit, just because like the way that METS hype works
• 1:10:03
  and kind of the way that like just hype in New York the Big Apple
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  works overall, like it'll stay there but then like fall off a cliff,
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  like as soon as he struggles it all or is dealt or like I don't
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  know, like I could see Moriicio like having a good kind of long term
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  career, but I mean he's been around since twenty eighteen in the met system
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  and it's kind of been percolating for quite a while. Like he's twenty two
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  and next year will be his twenty three year old season. That like I
• 1:10:39
  know, it sounds ridiculous that like that's a little old, but like compared
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  to like some of these guys that we really see the ground like hit the
• 1:10:45
  ground running and like take off like have usually done it by the time Ronni
• 1:10:50
  Risio is at now. So I'm definitely staying away from Ronnie Marisio probably all
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  the time. That like the window for buying to Ronni Mauricio has long passed
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  and trying to sell him to Mets fans, and even if he struggles here
• 1:11:04
  in September, like, I think it's not going to dip enough over the
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  offseason to ever get to a point where unless he like really goes on some
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  sort of crazy like Rookie of the Year MVP like run, like, the
• 1:11:18
  prices will just kind of never be worth investing in. From a card side,
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  Yeah, I think it's also one of those interesting guys most of the
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  guys we talked about actually in the twenty twenty set, and he's one of
• 1:11:30
  the few that's from a pre COVID timeframe, and so I think there is
• 1:11:33
  actually a little bit of a supply difference in guys like the point. But
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  to your point, if it was any other market, I think that would
• 1:11:42
  actually play to the collector's advantage. But I'd say even more of the Mets
• 1:11:46
  more of the Yankees. The volatility there, it's how fast they turn on
• 1:11:51
  their players is incredible. Unless you're David Wright, then you can do no
• 1:12:00
  right, I think in the big Apple there for the Mets to degree.
• 1:12:04
  So I'm with you there. If you have them, make sure you got
• 1:12:09
  them dug out. And second he gets called up, that price is going
• 1:12:12
  to double or triple depends on what card you're talking about there, But I
• 1:12:15
  can see his chromes going up to thirty dollars when you probably could pick him
• 1:12:19
  up for five bucks earlier this year. So I think there's definitely a market
• 1:12:23
  for it if you already have him. Otherwise I'm with you. I'm staying
• 1:12:29
  away. I'd want no part of most any investment in the Mets space from
• 1:12:32
  a card perspective. Yeah, next actually, and that's a good point that
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  with the twenty nineteen set, because just to let people know in case you're
• 1:12:42
  not aware, like, the print runs really started increasing during twenty twenty to
• 1:12:46
  twenty one and beyond that as card collecting became more popular, print runs have
• 1:12:51
  gotten larger and larger. So twenty nineteen is really one of the last years
• 1:12:55
  that has a little bit more of a limited print run. And that's a
• 1:12:58
  really good point that like when he does debut, there's probably not even going
• 1:13:01
  to be enough of just the base chrome cards to like really meet the demand
• 1:13:08
  out there, So the supply, it will be definitely the time to move
• 1:13:11
  those cards. And especially if you like our collector and you had you were
• 1:13:16
  ripping back in twenty nineteen, it's possible like you could have some buried in
• 1:13:20
  boxes somewhere as you've kind of been inundated with more cards throughout COVID, and
• 1:13:27
  it never hurts to kind of look back through what you got and see if
• 1:13:30
  maybe you got any ron and your Mauricio is sitting in there. Yeah.
• 1:13:33
  Absolutely, I know what I'm doing after the pods tonight. I'm I got
• 1:13:36
  some old cards to search through and find the one Ronny Mauricio in the in
• 1:13:42
  the mix. Yeah, and how many more Michael Lorenzen not takes. You
• 1:13:45
  have to do lead off the internet? Yeah, I need to. You're
• 1:13:49
  right that might be the first step is get rid of all my Michael Lorenzen
• 1:13:53
  takes. I'm sticking to my guns. This was a flash in the pan.
• 1:13:58
  It was it was Babepp driven from this perspective. Yeah, and pitching
• 1:14:03
  ins Nationals didn't hurt either, but true. Yeah, I think that will
• 1:14:08
  wrap us up for this week here on cards and categories. Jeremy, thanks
• 1:14:11
  again for joining me and remind everybody where they can find you. Yep,
• 1:14:16
  I'm still not sure what we're calling things these days. So Twitter and x
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  at Jay Bruer won seven on raz ball on the weekends, usually Sundays,
• 1:14:25
  sometimes Saturday's top one hundred hitters head of profiles. You can find me there,
• 1:14:29
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• 1:14:32
  It's always fun, Mike, how about you? Yeah, and you
• 1:14:36
  can also find me at raz ball. I run the waiver wire piece on
• 1:14:40
  Saturdays. You can find me on Twitter slash x at end cool seven and
• 1:14:47
  yeah. Otherwise, I really suggest getting onto raz ball if you're not right
• 1:14:51
  now and getting a subscription for It's obviously getting into crunch time for fantasy baseball,
• 1:14:58
  so looking at those streaminator to see who's coming up and has the best
• 1:15:01
  projections over seven games. Rudy has a really complicated algorithm that I don't understand
• 1:15:09
  and never will, but he's got all sorts of factors in there. In
• 1:15:12
  terms of you know, parks and line up positions and who's catching for pictures,
• 1:15:17
  and lots of factors that I think lots of other sites don't fully consider,
• 1:15:24
  so it's always been a great tool for me. He's in the streaminator
• 1:15:27
  that comes with a raz ball subscription, but also fancy football season is right
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• 1:15:44
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• 1:15:46
  any of our articles and we'll have the show details for this pod on there
• 1:15:54
  as well. I know we rattled off a bunch of card information and referenced
• 1:15:58
  a bunch of videos and stuff, so you can always find links to that
• 1:16:01
  on raspball dot com as well as in the notes on this show. So
• 1:16:06
  thanks again for joining us here this week on Cards and Categories, and we'll
• 1:16:11
  see you next week. M