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Ep. 44 : Droppable Bats · Cards & Categories

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  Hello, and welcome everybody to episode forty four of Cards and Categories. I'm
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  Mike Coolard from Rasball, joined here as always by my very good friend Jeremy
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  Burr, also from ras ball. How are you doing tonight, Bud?
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  Doing just fine, getting ready for the summerting, ready for the warm heat
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  to start, taking fly balls out of the ballpark. So really ready for
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  the summer to be here. But lots going on this week. I don't
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  feel like as many injuries. I don't think we've lost five obliques this week,
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  but definitely a lot going on. So excited to get into it today.
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  Yeah, I mean, I guess I should knock on wood, but
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  it was a very slow pitcher injury week, which has been really rare.
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  But yeah, I think a part of it too, is like with this
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  summer, all those balls flying out of the ballyard, you're gonna be able
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  to analyze everybody's individual swings. Now as stat Cast released a lot of bat
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  metrics. I was gonna say bad at ball, but it's just straight up
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  bat metrics in terms of swing length and things like swords and just like all
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  all sorts of other stats in terms of like sweet spot percentage, and I've
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  been really enjoying like the just being able to see like what new options we
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  have along with like average swing speed, which I did learn is actually I
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  think maybe a little bit more telling than average bad at ball speed, because
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  I was listening to Effectively Wild today and Mike Petriello from MLB dot com was
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  on there and explained actually that the average swing speed is of their like top
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  ninety percentile and above like average swings, so it is like all the swings
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  that they're working on. I was to first it'd just be like everybody's straight
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  up average. But with this, how are you incorporating some of these new
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  batmantrics into your analysis? Being the local top one hundred hitter guy, Yeah,
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  it's I haven't figured it out. I think that's the funny part is,
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  like, you know, you don't have to be an expert to know
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  if you swing hard, the ball goes further. I remember playing back in
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  my playing days and I had a coach one time and told me, you're
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  pretty good, just swing harder. Uh. He was very good as a
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  coach, by the way, just like you weren't already trying, you know,
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  yeah, just because clearly I was just going up there and swinging apparently
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  like Louise Rayas if you haven't looked U Louise Arrayahs is by far away the
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  slowest of bat speed out in the MLB, but makes up for it by
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  squaring up a ball, and so I guess we shouldn't be surprised by that.
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  And then on the old other end of the spectrum is none other than
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  who we expect gian Carlos Stanton right swing as hard as possible, just hoping
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  he runs into one. So yeah, I think that to me, it's
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  one of those I'm kind of looking for the outliers, uh, you know,
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  the big names that are kind of jumping up to the top of the
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  list, that have really good bat speed and if they could just kind of
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  controlled a little bit, could start to run into something. So, you
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  know, just throwing a few names out of you that kind of jump out
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  of like, hey, this might be somebody's interesting to look at. Christopher
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  Morell top six in average bat speed this season. I think that definitely jumps
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  out there as as an interesting one. Joe Adell eighth on bat speed.
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  There it starts a lot of guys here expect Julio you know, shore Brow
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  and Neil Cruz Soto, all kinds of guys jumping out there. But you
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  know, it's gonna be interesting to see se how well this tracks against actual
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  production from a power perspective. And I'm loving the fact that you just could
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  actually see a lot more a lot more slices of the data that we didn't
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  have before. Makes it makes it fun. I don't know how telling it
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  is. I don't know how well it's going to play long term, but
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  it gives us another queue to you guys that swing hard, hit the ball
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  a long way, and I bet you there's some weird correlation here between strikeout
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  rate, how hard you swing, and how well you barrel the ball that
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  really directly points to your power production. So I got some regression analysis to
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  do later tonight. Yeah, And I mean, I'm gonna be leaving it
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  to you or other experts out there to maybe parse a little bit of this
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  data for me. I do agree that, like it is a little hard
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  to try to figure out what we're doing with it, especially given that we
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  only have twenty twenty four data right now, so it's kind of difficult to
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  see any sorts of trends. And I think we're It'll especially come in handy
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  is if you think somebody is banged up in not playing at one hundred percent,
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  you can compare their you know, swing speed for the past however many
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  days, hopefully slicing and dicing the data to his average to be able to
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  figure that out. That I think that's going to be one of the keys
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  that comes out of the here. But otherwise, I do think a lot
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  of these things were already kind of included in barrels and hard hit percentage and
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  things like that. It's just kind of cool to actually get the data behind
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  it. And a lot of these things are also just confirming what the eye
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  test was already telling me. You know, of course, tall dudes have
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  long swings, and of course Jinkao hits it really hard. I think the
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  most fascinating thing for me is I have been enjoying the scatterplot of average bat
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  speed versus squared up percentage that the stat cast has, and you can just
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  see the outliers with a rise and stanton like you're talking about. But the
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  other huge outlier in his really like all in quadrant is Juan Soto, and
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  so it just really goes to show that Juan Soto is maybe the greatest hitter
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  that we've seen with then I don't even maybe since like Griffy, but even
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  Griffy didn't have necessarily like the eye or back control that Juan Soto has that
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  you might all have to go all the way back to Ted Williams. Like
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  that's how superb wan Soda. I didn't want to say, but that was
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  the name that was in my head. Like when you talk about pure like
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  control and power that know what they're doing with the stick, like Soto sticks
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  out and like there is I can't take another name out that I think of
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  other than Ted Williams with that curdus of that capability. There's other guys,
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  don't get me wrong, but yeah, it jumps out. The one that
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  jumps to me, which you know, you look at this top to bottom
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  right power hitters at the top, maybe a few guys are like oh,
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  wine drive guys that they get by guys at the bottom they're more singles hit
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  or things like that. The one that's really jumped out to me, and
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  this is where it would be wonderful to have year over year data is Justin
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  Turner for the Blue Jays. He is in the first percentile or batspeed,
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  and he has hard hYP metrics right in the middle of the league, you
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  know, his sex sluggings sixty fourth percentile, Like it is the one thing
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  way down there and that really jumps out, which for me, for a
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  guy hit twenty three homers last year, it's really drawn into question of like,
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  is he's finally slowing down? And so I think that's the kind of
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  thing that I'm going to start to pull from this. Are is this gonna
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  be something that actually normalizes faster than some of the other other metrics that we
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  have. Yeah, I think along with that too, is we're missing the
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  component of the weight of the pack. That there's that factor too, because
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  obviously, you know kind of classic physics, you do wonder if maybe just
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  Justin Turner is up there carrying I'm not gonna lie, I don't know exactly
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  what ounces of bats are considered super heavy, but you know, I know
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  Babe Bruce smung a really heavy bat, and so maybe he's got up there
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  with a George Herman Ruth bat that that might be a factor too. So
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  I think there's it's gonna be fascinating to see where this goes and kind of
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  what we can take from it going forward, but I'm sure that we'll start
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  getting it integrated into all sorts of projections and other sorts of pieces of data
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  analysis that we've come used to in our fantasy baseball game. Well, you
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  have to you have to love the fact that they added swords. They added
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  the pitching ninja swords on there. And I don't know, have you looked
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  to see who is number one in swords so far the season? No,
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  I didn't. I didn't look at the swords. Who is it? So
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  we have from the Angels of Anaheim. I'm not really technically Anahei anymore,
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  but more fun to say zach Netto. He has thirteen swords this year and
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  he's leading Kyle Schwarz and rally for Nando C. J. Abrams. Like
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  all these guys there's like they're just swing incredibly hard and sometimes look like an
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  idiot doing it. And then you have Zacnetto doesn't swing hard at all.
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  It just looks like a fool up there. So I guess that's I don't
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  know that that gives any value whatsoever. Like that statistic is just fun.
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  Yeah, it'll be more interesting to use that, I think on the pictures
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  side. But it's just I think it'll equivalate to if you think about like
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  what a sword is, it's usually picture generated to you. I think is
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  that you know, it's somebody who I traditionally think of has a nasty slider
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  that tunnels well with a fastball and is really fooling guys. So I think
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  that's going to be useful maybe from a picture side. But even even when
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  Mike Petrell was talking about and effectively wild, he was saying it's just for
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  funds, He's like, he's I mean the fact that you know they actually
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  define it as there's actually an actual definition. But the sword is when a
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  pitcher makes the better look awful, Like there's a true definition of like swinging
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  strite incomplete swing, tenth percentile uh speed swing, Like all these things was
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  just like just they look bad. So I think that's gonna be fun.
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  That that's gonna move you automatically down to my rank just a little bit.
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  Okay, yeah, that'll be. It'll be. I didn't think about that,
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  like, yeah, using it to tick down because of just recognition,
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  Yeah, exactly, just that now it's more of just being petty. Okay,
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  Well, we've got a great show lined up today. In our second
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  half, we are going to analyze some fantasy bats out there that, honestly,
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  we're just over a quarter of the way into the season, so you're
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  looking to possibly cut some of the guys that you spent decently high draft capital
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  on just because of poor performance. And so we'll go through guys that were
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  cutting, guys that were keeping, guys that were watching in terms of bats
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  that just haven't been performing us from the fantasy side. And let's start with
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  two of them in our news and notes and injury section that we open up
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  with, because I think they would both would have ended up in our cuts
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  possibly at least I know the first one I'm going to talk about would have
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  been maybe a little bit more of a on the edge for me, but
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  the second one certainly a cut. And the first one we're going to discuss
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  here is Dancy Swanson, shortstop for the Chicago Cubs, was felled with a
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  sprained knee. It sounds like he's been battling it for a little while,
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  so we were both looking for news on the injury before we started potting here
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  on May fifteenth, that it doesn't seem like he's got like a set return
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  date, but usually sprain knees are somewhere like two to four weeks. But
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  Dancy Swanson's also been struggling this year, So do you think that this sprain
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  knee has been affecting a lot of that production? And I mean, are
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  you possibly cutting Danceby Swanson in leagues where you might need that roster spot.
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  Yeah, I I think I am, Like, I does the knee potentially
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  put a little uh I'll say slow in the giddy up for the swing,
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  Yeah, a little bit. But at the end of the day, like
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  this is the third season and you know, or I guess two seasons in
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  a row where he's really been dropping off. I could argue it's the third
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  in a row that he's been dropping off, where his uh hey rates you
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  know, continue has continue to rise, his averages dropping, his hard hit
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  rates are are dropping. Like he's he just doesn't look right, whether it's
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  injury or not. You know, I'm I'm kind of okay with moving on
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  Dansby. If he's out two to four weeks and maybe he needs a little
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  time to rehab on the back of it with being need I wouldn't be too
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  surprised. I want to see that that get tested out, like if we're
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  talking, you know, mid to late June, he gets back. I'm
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  okay moving on from Dansby. You know, if I looked at his thought
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  profile and it was like really red in twenty two, this is very deep
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  analysis, by the way, it was deep red quase I read, and
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  now it was just average, Like he's he just has not kind of kept
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  up with with what he needed to and he's coming back as just an average
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  player at this point. And he's not running a ton, he's not hitting
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  for a ton of power, not yet on base like it's it's just average
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  production across the board. I didn't look at his wrs T plus, but
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  hopefully that low, oh below average so and he was just average last year.
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  So I moved on from Dansby. I'm not too concerned with him coming
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  back. You know, if if he was healthy, i'd probably have been
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  on the border or say, hey, I'm willing to give him a little
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  bit more leash. But now that he's hurt, it's time to move on.
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  Yeah, And I do remember during drafts season that Danceby Swanson was always
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  one of those players when I would look at the values in my draft sheets.
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  He's usually using bad X and putting it through the auction calculator on fangrafts,
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  but it always popped that he was consistently in like a standard five x
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  five twelve team Roto league was up near like twenty dollars in value, and
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  you'd just be like, huh, I don't know if I get that.
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  And part of it was because the projections were very bullish on him, Like
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  I'm looking at Steamer before season, they had him projected for twenty two homers
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  and ten stolen bases with a two fifty average. That's already started to tick
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  down as Steamer has him down for a two to forty three average now going
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  forward and what would pace out to about sixteen seventeen homers. So all the
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  projections are picking up the poor production from Swanson out the gate here in twenty
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  four and you do wonder. I mean, he is thirty, which is
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  I mean, it's old a little bit in baseball terms, but he's also
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  been around and played a lot of games. He's played a lot of postseason
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  series that you do wonder what the wear and tear on him being a shortstop
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  has been. And obviously, like once you start hitting thirty, that aging
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  curve kind of comes for everybody in Major League Baseball, So I think dan
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  Sby Swanson is just maybe running into that a little bit. And obviously the
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  unknown is what the spray knee was doing it to his production as he's trying
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  to play through it. But I do think that this is kind of where
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  I don't especially if he's battling because sprainnee, you're not looking for too many
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  stone bases out Dansby Swanson, and that was really what kind of buoyed his
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  value all the time for our fantasy game. Is that like he would be
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  almost like I said it, forget it, ten to fifteen stolen based sort
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  of player, and then without that kind of production holding him up, it
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  makes him a lot more difficult to roster. Yep, I think you're right,
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  and I think the time is to cut bait with the Vanderbilt Star.
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  Yeah, okay, well this next thing, I actually cut bait in one
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  of our league's on him, and that is Cabrian Hayes' third baseman for the
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  Pittsburgh Pirates. He hit the injured list for a general back issue and this
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  has just been an ongoing problem now for Cabrian Hayes for three or four years,
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  honestly, pretty much all of his career since he's been called up and
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  manned the hot corner for Pittsburgh. And that's a lot of the reason why
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  I cut him. It was in our Autnew League, which is a forty
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  man roster dynasty, like a salary salary captain dynasty format, And that's a
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  big reason why I cut him is because at this point, you want to
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  talk about an average hitter. Cabrian Hayes is a ninety seven WRC plus on
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  his career with a two sixty two average, what paces out to honestly like
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  a mid teens homers and mid teen stone base guy with just not very much
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  in terms of runs in RBI because he plays for the Pirates and this back
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  injury, I'm just kind of tired of it because I don't know if it's
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  actually something he's ever going to overcome. And Hayes almost is the equivalent of
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  the infield Brian Byron Buxton to me, in terms of like Buxton deals with
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  his knees. It looks like Hayes just can't get over these back issues that
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  have really lingered for a long time. And so that's why I moved on
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  from him. Are you moving on from him in leagues where you might have
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  had ownership shares? Yeah, you know, if Yandy Diaz and Brian Byron
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  Buxton had a child, it would have been to Brian Hayes. And I
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  say that because Diaz can't put the ball in the air and Buxton can't say
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  pay healthy. I was about to be like, where's the defense come from.
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  I said, oh, yeah, Buxton dot Yeah. But you know
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  I'm going to be the contrarian just a little bit here. And not that
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  I don't agree. I actually almost tried to pick him up after you dropped
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  him in our league. Financial has got a little tight in that one due
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  to some other transactions, so I've had to back off of that, just
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  just for anybody out there's listening. And he still forbid. I will not
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  be bidding on him now. But when I say I'm back off with a
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  little bit, is that in a deeper league, I think this is the
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  one place I would look to potentially buy Hayes. And when I say bye,
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  I'm not like going out to acquire him. I would be willing to
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  pick him up and put on my bench and the reason for that is with
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  two changes, he stick injuries beside, he needs to hit the ball in
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  the air more, which I think we would know that's the issue if he
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  does that. And he's really changed the approach of the plate this year.
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  He is not swinging as much. He's got a little cav on bigio on
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  us and the things that he's swinging at, I'm making contact with the things
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  outside the zone and he's not swinging at the things inside the zone when they
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  are pit and so that's caused him to a lot of his metrics look poor
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  because it's kind of this poor pitch selection as he's he appears that he's trying
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  to be more patients showing up. He's striking out less, you know,
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  and that's a good thing generally, but he wasn't terribly bad strikeout to start
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  with. And so you know, as the walkserver almost doubled this year versus
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  last year, strikeouts have dropped maybe five points, and it looks like that's
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  intentional, and I think he just needs to figure out, like that's not
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  who you are. You just need to a little aggressive. So that to
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  me is a quick fix, and that brings him back to where he was
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  last year, and then if he can hit the ball in the air,
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  he's actually really exciting. So the only reason I'm looking at him maybe as
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  a buye is that it's not too hard to see him being more valuable.
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  But I'm not spending more than a free agent pick up on him at this
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  point. So it's it's one of those that when you're talk talking about droppable
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  in a league where you get cash back for your fab bye or something like
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  that, Yeah, no problem with it. If you need to make another
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  move, no problem with it. But I'm not fully out on him at
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  this point. Okay, the next injury we got just happened today to your
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  beloved Nick Lodolo from the Cincinnati Reds, as he is shelved with a strained
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  groin on his left leg. That's the same leg that he's had the troubles
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  with on the calf, and supposedly he's only going to be on the injured
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  list for the minimum stay that that's what they're saying in Cincinnati. Seems like
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  it's a pretty minor groin issue. But this is now kind of like what
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  I think, this is why I was out on the dolo as I was
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  worried about this sort of outcome is you know, the lower leg stretch fracture
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  that he dealt with last year didn't seem to have fully healed a that's really
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  what he was battling again within the spring, and now we're seeing where that
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  comes through on the Kennedict chain. In response with the Reds just called up
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  a reliever that they moved. Actually, I think they were just rolling with
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  a six man rotation now that I look at it, So maybe it makes
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  it kind of easy on the Reds there. But Nicklodolo had been pitching fairly
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  well, you know, in terms of providing those strikeouts that we've been looking
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  for in our fantasy game, especially in the back end of the pitture pool.
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  I had a three thirty four er to go along with a two ninety
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  five. I don't disagree that Nickotldolo is a talented pitcher, but this injury
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  history has just become really worrisome for me. And so this is I mean,
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  I don't have any shares because where he was going in drafts or on
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  auction values during the draft season just was out of my range. But I'm
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  checking in on you to see what you're thinking about your boy Nickelodolo down in
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  Cincinnati. Now, I love Nickelodola as simple as that. You know it's
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  and you knew that was the answer. Like Nickelodola does all the things you
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  look for. It's the health, it's the question. And you know,
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  I look at this one as, yes, he's hurt, but they're being
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  cautious, like he didn't get hurt in a start, like he basically was
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  having a nagging injury, some nagging stuff, and they're like, hey,
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  we're not testing this. Like the guy's being really good, Let's give him
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  a week off. You'd like skip a start and come back. Like that's
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  the way I'm looking at this one. If somebody's panicking, I'd take the
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  gamble on him. But the Dola was pretty gosh turned cheap at the draft
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  table. Everybody's scared of the injury. But there's really nothing in his profile
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  that shows that he's not like the picture that he is right now. There's
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  nothing in this profile says he's not going to continue to be the guy that
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  delivers a reasonable whip, strikes out eleven or twelve per nine, carries a
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  mid threes the high threes era, like there's nothing to say, that's not
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  who he is. It's just the injury risk. And so if somebody's if
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  somebody is looking to get out on Lodolo, I don't think this into the
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  injury that takes him out. Now. It could just be another month or
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  two because this Dolo Brian Hayes version and he could be out at that point.
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  But yeah, I'm still sticking around with Lodolo. There's gonna be a
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  little regression at some point here, but if they're taking care of them,
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  I'm I'm I'm just peachy. Okay. Yeah, so neither of us have
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  changed, uh with the needle at all. On Nicolodela. That's great.
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  Again, Remind me next year when we have these New Year's resolutions about pictures
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  and injuries. That was the most empty resolution I've ever made. Yeah,
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  Okay. The next injury we got, and I think this one's going to
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  be more impactful to our fantasy game than I think people may be giving credence
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  to off the bat is First baseman Reese Hockens Hoskins for the Milwaukee Brewers went
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  down yesterday with a strained hamstring. Looks like this one's going to keep him
• 23:56
  out about a month, so that should put him back sometime in mid to
• 24:02
  late June. Why say this is pretty significant for our fantasy game is that
• 24:07
  corner infield and first base has been kind of rough honestly, as you know,
• 24:12
  people like Bladimir gral Junior has fallen on his face and Pete Alonso hasn't
• 24:17
  been hitting great. So actually, Hoskins comes in as currently our eleventh ranked
• 24:25
  first baseman on the Player Raider to date, it's technically twelve if you type
• 24:30
  in first base, but I took out sole prize. You're not using him
• 24:33
  at first base, so that's pretty I mean, he's gonna that's a pretty
• 24:37
  big chunk to replace, especially given the power production you were getting Avays Hoskins.
• 24:41
  He had provided nine homers and twenty seven RBI. The batting average is
• 24:47
  where it's been for him at two thirty three, but that was a really
• 24:51
  steady source at first base for RBIs and home runs. Looks like the majority
• 24:56
  of the playing time will be siphoned up by Jake Bowers and Gary Sanchez in
• 25:02
  Milwaukee, which I'm kind of interested in Gary Sanchez. He's been sawd this
• 25:07
  year as well. Now, so going forward that that could be a pretty
• 25:11
  nice pickup for our catcher pool overall that Gary Sanchez has been hitting for good
• 25:18
  power and doing his Gary Sanchez thing now picks up a few more at bats
• 25:22
  as ree Hoskins is on the injured list, So Brew, I mean,
• 25:27
  I think we're both holding Reee Hoskins because of just like I said, he's
• 25:33
  the eleventh ranked first baseman that's usable in all leagues. But do you think
• 25:38
  that Jake Bauers and Gary Sanchez you want to be taking a shot on either
• 25:42
  of them while Reece Hoskins might be up for a month. Yeah, You're
• 25:47
  absolutely right. Hoskins as a hold, not much you can do there.
• 25:49
  So it's unfortunate, you know, neither I see the intrigue with Sanchez.
• 25:55
  I've been burned too many times. I'm just not picking up that that that
• 25:59
  hot play at this point. But you know, I kind of look at
• 26:03
  as a question of is this another chance for Tyler Black to get called up
• 26:06
  here in a week or two? You know, I think that would be
• 26:08
  the most exciting thing that comes out of this for me, is Black gets
• 26:12
  up. It's a chance, you know, I feel like he didn't really
• 26:15
  when he was called up he just didn't have a chance where he was.
• 26:18
  He was sent back down, so that would be the piece, And I'm
• 26:21
  kind of watching to see, Hey, does does Tyler Black get called up
• 26:25
  here and get a chance to actually, you know, become a mainstay and
• 26:29
  force a Joey Ortiz or something like that out once once Hoskin comes back.
• 26:34
  So that's what I'm watching for. Is it gonna happen? Probably not.
• 26:38
  I think they would have already made that move if that's the case, But
• 26:44
  who knows. We'll see. Yeah, I don't think they are because it
• 26:47
  does seem like, despite his thirty six percent strikeout rate right now, that
• 26:52
  Jake Bowers is going to get plenty of playing time in Milwaukee. There.
• 26:56
  I've fallen Jake power so many times just because he was such a hot prospect
• 27:00
  coming up, and you can just see it in the profile like it's it.
• 27:07
  It's intriguing because of the stolen bases he can provide at first base.
• 27:10
  But do you have any interest in Jake Bowers? Because it does. I
• 27:14
  mean, it does look like he's gonna get playing time in Milwaukee, So
• 27:17
  I mean, it's not like a where we have to worry about him getting
• 27:21
  benched or cut that like, as long as Hoskins is out for this month,
• 27:25
  Jake Bowers should be in there. Yeah. I think he's an interesting
• 27:27
  streamer at this point, like when and it feels weird to stream stolen bases
• 27:32
  and I know that's your specialty in the way you wire discussions of like watching
• 27:36
  to see maybe who's catching and getting a chance to take a corner infield first
• 27:41
  basement that can actually get to some steals is what's intriguing there. So maybe
• 27:47
  as a streamer, I might be interested if I really don't have great,
• 27:51
  you know, first base corner infield options, i'd be interested, But long
• 27:55
  term I'm staying away. Okay, gotcha? Okay. Then the next injury
• 28:00
  have is the most significant one that we've got on the evening, and that
• 28:03
  is Jung Ho Lee from the San Francisco Giants ran into the wall the other
• 28:08
  day. Looks like he separated his shoulder and he's going in for a second
• 28:12
  opinion with I think it's doctor Neil Trash tomorrow on Thursday of sixteenth. That's
• 28:18
  never what you want to hear because that usually pretends some sort of significant surgery,
• 28:25
  which is unfortunate for the rookie center fielder. I'm guessing that you've probably
• 28:33
  I don't even know if you've had any shares of Jungo Lee, just because
• 28:37
  it doesn't really seem like our type of player in terms of just that batting
• 28:41
  average first sort of profile that we're looking for a little more power. But
• 28:47
  what are you doing with Lee? I mean, it's possible he might be
• 28:51
  out for the rest of the season, but even going forward and maybe some
• 28:53
  sort of keeper dynasty situations. Yeah, I think you know, if you're
• 29:00
  in a redraft league, I'm holy until the news comes out is where I'm
• 29:04
  at here. Just make sure. But I think you're right. The writing's
• 29:08
  on the wall. He's going to be out for a while. If I'm
• 29:11
  in a redraft or in a dynasty type league, you know it got a
• 29:15
  hold. And he's the kind of guy just assuming he's gonna be out for
• 29:18
  a while. I'm looking at the trade deadline trying to flip for a team
• 29:23
  that's out of it and saying, hey, I know he's out now,
• 29:26
  he'll be back next year. He can keep him cheap, that kind of
• 29:27
  thing. That's why i'd be looking to But I'm just not that excited about
• 29:32
  him. I'm just you know, there's there's a lot of heart, there's
• 29:34
  a lot of hustle, there's a lot of fun. There's a that's a
• 29:37
  good ball player. But from a fancy perspective, it's just not what you're
• 29:40
  looking at. I'm actually more excited about the guys that I keep playing time
• 29:44
  than I am for for Johno Lee here, Yeah exactly. I mean,
• 29:48
  I think my favorite of the guys who are in there now is Luis Mato
• 29:53
  should take over center field for Lee going forward, and Helio Ramos has been
• 29:59
  in left field as Jorge Hilaire has been down with an injury. I'm more
• 30:03
  of a Ramos guy because I love the just the hard hit metrics that Ramos
• 30:07
  produces. That he is going to strike out a lot. But if you
• 30:11
  want to talk about somebody who can absolutely smoke a baseball and be able to
• 30:18
  find some of that power and honestly reminds me a little bit of like Joe
• 30:23
  adell Is, Helio Ramos you know, had that prospect type, has the
• 30:29
  contact issues, still waiting for the all the tools to come together as twenty
• 30:33
  four year old. But yeah, what do you see in Ramos? In
• 30:37
  Matos down there in San Francisco. Yeah, I'm a huge fan of Matos.
• 30:42
  I really think there's a luck like there. You like the high upside,
• 30:48
  high power guys. I kind of like the guys that maybe the floor
• 30:51
  is a little a little bit more. Matos is the kind of guy,
• 30:53
  like his career high of strike up percent was sixteen percent in high A Like,
• 31:00
  this is a guy that the walks basically as much as he strikes out.
• 31:03
  You know, he he consistently hits you know, high two hundreds,
• 31:07
  three hundred in the major or in the minors, and decent power. So
• 31:12
  we're looking at the guy who's you know, a fifteen fifteen to twenty twenty
• 31:17
  type guy at his peak, and he's just twenty two, Like he's he's
• 31:19
  still young, still figuring it out. So you know, he is a
• 31:26
  small guy too, he's five to eleven one sixty, So the power actually
• 31:30
  is very incredible for that, and it's questionable how much that will play in
• 31:33
  San fran But you know, I really like Matos. I think he's the
• 31:37
  kind of guy that you can, you know, once he gets solid playing
• 31:40
  time, you can plug him in towards the fourth fifth outfielder spot and be
• 31:44
  really happy with results, so I hope he gets a chance to run with
• 31:48
  it, and I think he's the kind of guy that will make the most
• 31:49
  of it. Yeah, I mean, I think both of them are worth
• 31:52
  picking up for any of the guys that we've talked about so far. If
• 31:56
  you're just kind of looking for a bat to slide in to a util spot
• 32:00
  or outfield spot that Ramos and Matos should both get, I would think maybe
• 32:07
  a month because it's more so like when Juage Hilaire and Michael Confordo come back,
• 32:12
  that will dictate the playing time for them, although Matos might stick over
• 32:16
  Ramos just given his ability to play center field. I think Ramos can fake
• 32:22
  it in center field, but Mottos is a much more legit centerfielder of the
• 32:25
  two. Yeah till you make it? Healal, Okay, Well let's get
• 32:30
  into some more fun news then, And I mean this isn't fun for the
• 32:36
  picture that was involved, but we did have Ronel Blanco getting ejected yesterday for
• 32:42
  sticky stuff, which I guess I'm just gonna ask you point blank, do
• 32:46
  you think that this is ben Why Ronel Blanco has produced so well to open
• 32:52
  the season, And I won't lie. I was a little worried last week
• 32:57
  when we were doing our Player of the Month see that Ronel Blanco would end
• 33:00
  up winning it for the al in terms of the Picture of the Month.
• 33:06
  But thankfully Jose Barrio scott over him because our pickings would have been very slim
• 33:12
  on the Ronel Blanco rookie card front. I looked it up that one of
• 33:15
  us would have had to pick some minor league cards in it, which I
• 33:17
  mean it would have been the worst thing. It would have been a little
• 33:21
  fun going back to finding some single A cards of Ronel Blanco. But yeah,
• 33:24
  it does look like he's going to accept his ten games suspension and be
• 33:30
  out for a couple starts. But are you reconsidering Ronel Blanco's profile maybe going
• 33:36
  forward, brew considering that maybe he was using sticky stuff for a decent amount
• 33:42
  of that stretch. Yeah, I mean, I have to say, it's
• 33:46
  like if there was one guy, like in the Majors, if you went
• 33:50
  through like the Rolette Roulette wheel of like pictures me, like, who do
• 33:52
  we think is playing so far out of the league that they got to be
• 33:55
  doing something special? Like Blanco would have been like the top five easily like
• 34:00
  may if not leading the crowd. I mean, don't get me wrong,
• 34:04
  like that he's pitched well, but we've got a thirty year old that's kind
• 34:07
  of breaking out, you know. It's it's truly like Babe fueled, left
• 34:13
  on base fuel, Like there's so much of this that looks like, goes,
• 34:16
  this isn't real. But at the same time, like why has this
• 34:22
  control gotten better? Why has he been able to have some of the results
• 34:24
  he has, Like like it's just it's too convenient, it's too easy when
• 34:30
  you look at the story and be like, well, not shocked on that
• 34:35
  one, Like again, how true it is? Whatever, I don't care.
• 34:39
  I was not in on Blanco to start with. I'm definitely not in
• 34:43
  now. And if it was true, you know that it has to stop.
• 34:46
  You know that he absolutely has to stop. And we do know that
• 34:50
  when they kind of started locking down on the sticky stuff in the past,
• 34:53
  like pictures, performance dropped the ones that were questionable those pictures, their performance
• 35:00
  dropped for I'd say it was like two three months for them to figure out
• 35:04
  how to pitch it out the sticky stuff. So I've got I got no
• 35:07
  no interest in Blanco here and come on, it's just Houston, Like,
• 35:12
  guys, have you not learned your lesson? Yeah? And I mean I
• 35:17
  do think that Blanco has made some changes that weren't all sticky stuff in terms
• 35:22
  of especially the integration of his change up that I think that has been what
• 35:27
  has led him to success this year. But especially if you own row now
• 35:31
  Blanco right now, you got him for free, like you can't them either,
• 35:36
  Yeah, exactly. So I mean you're just gonna want to stash him
• 35:39
  for a couple of starts here. And I mean I do think that,
• 35:43
  like going forward, Houston is going to start turning the corner a little bit
• 35:46
  and providing more wins for you if you have Houston pictures. So it does
• 35:52
  look like he's pretty set in that rotation going forward. I mean that's what
• 35:55
  a no hitter will do for you, I guess, but that I think.
• 36:00
  Yeah, I think he's still gonna be usable in pretty much every league
• 36:04
  out there. But you're gonna like want to pay close attention to when Blanco
• 36:09
  comes back to see if there is any degradation in his skill set without or
• 36:15
  with knowing that he's got just extra eyes on him from the Sticky Stuff band
• 36:22
  and his suspension that he's about to serve. Okay, well, let's get
• 36:25
  oh, go ahead. I just had to say, uh, Dallas Braid
• 36:29
  has to argue with you on the no hitter keeps your rotation spot. But
• 36:36
  I mean I think he still kept it, but he did not for long.
• 36:42
  That's a yeah. That's one of like a phill Humber thing. That's
• 36:44
  even worse throwing up game. And just like that's true. I think by
• 36:47
  the end of the season he was in a bullpen somewhere. Okay, well,
• 36:52
  let's move on to a couple of fun debuts that we got over in
• 36:55
  the past week since we talked. We'll open with the big one. We
• 37:00
  talked about it last week because we knew he was starting on Saturday. That
• 37:02
  is Paul Skeens from the Pittsburgh Pirates. He pitched against the Cubs, went
• 37:07
  four innings with seven strikeouts. I'm throwing away the earned run line there for
• 37:14
  him a little bit because two of those runs that Paul Skins gave up was
• 37:19
  a part of the really crazy six straight bases loaded walks that the that the
• 37:23
  Pirates gave up on Saturday. It was like a two and a half hour
• 37:29
  half inning partly because there was a rain delay in between, Like the Pirates
• 37:32
  couldn't even get out of it before the rain hit. But I don't know
• 37:37
  how much of the start you were able to catch. Brew I caught the
• 37:40
  first couple innings of it. And last week we were talking about Paul Skins,
• 37:45
  the top twenty pitcher. I'm still in that like camp in terms of
• 37:51
  maybe not top twenty, maybe like top twenty five, top thirty ish,
• 37:54
  just because if there was one kind of flaw that Paul skin Means showed on
• 38:00
  Saturday was that, like this stuff is so nasty sometimes, like it's hard
• 38:05
  for him to control. Obviously, he was dealing with MLB debut jitters as
• 38:10
  well, so that was affecting his control here and there. But I mean,
• 38:15
  he just throws such a great slider and the splinker gets great movement that
• 38:20
  sometimes it's hard for it to like stay in the zone. So I think
• 38:24
  he might struggle with that a little bit going forward. You're also dealing with
• 38:28
  just how long the Pirates will allow him to pitch. I think he threw
• 38:31
  eighty four pitches got through four innings on Saturday, but again that still gave
• 38:37
  you seven k's because even if he might struggle from time to time with that
• 38:42
  control. Nobody's touching that that stuff. It is so nasty and honestly,
• 38:47
  it reminds me a lot of like a Randy Johnson from the right side or
• 38:52
  something that I think Paul Skeens is going to be a formidable pitcher in our
• 38:55
  game for a long time. But yeah, did you catch any of the
• 38:59
  start and what were your takeaways from his debut? Yeah? I did not
• 39:04
  actually catch much of the starts, just had to stick to highlights myself,
• 39:07
  which was which was really unfortunate because I was looking forward to it. But
• 39:10
  yeah, my takeaways are a few. First of all, I don't know
• 39:15
  if you've looked at the top ten fastest pitches by a starter this year for
• 39:21
  the whole season. I'm going I want to read you the list here.
• 39:23
  Number one is Paul Skins. Number two is Paul Skins. Number three is
• 39:29
  Paul Skins. Let me break this down for you. It's Paul Skans until
• 39:35
  number ten is Jose Soriano, so he just the rest of that that ploy
• 39:39
  there, But Paul Skans one start has the top nine fastest pitches for a
• 39:45
  starter this year, averaging I think he has seventeen over one hundred miles an
• 39:49
  hour, and not that I expect him to keep this up, but you
• 39:52
  know, he one start with fifteen k for nine the leader right now in
• 39:58
  the clubhouse for kate for nine, with how Strider hurt, with having Snell
• 40:00
  hurt, with Cole hurt, like those guys that do it is Gett Crochet
• 40:05
  at twelve ker nine and then you're talking about guys, there's only about seven
• 40:09
  guys and eleven kper nine like he could be lapping in the field quickly from
• 40:15
  a strikeout perspective, and so you're right where I do think he's not quite
• 40:19
  sure where it's going sometimes and my leagues that definitely works majors that that could
• 40:23
  end up being a pitch count issue. And you also still pitch for the
• 40:28
  pirates, so wins could be an issue. But I'm still putting them just
• 40:31
  inside my top twenty pitchers just solely for the fact that those strike caluds are
• 40:37
  gonna be so unbelievable and that's gonna drive the massive amount of his value,
• 40:42
  especially in Indians leagues. If you have an Indians cap schemes is gonna be
• 40:46
  absolutely fabulous. And I am so sad that I don't have any shares of
• 40:51
  Paul Skans to cheer on and watch. But if this is what he did
• 40:53
  in that first start, I just look for him to get comfortable, get
• 40:57
  rid of the jitters. Things are gonna get fun. Yeah, I mean,
• 41:00
  I guess it'll be a question of how many innings he gets in this
• 41:04
  year. I mean back in college he was throwing tons and tons of innings,
• 41:07
  like one hundred and thirty innings and stuff like that. So it's not
• 41:10
  that he's not able to handle the workload. It's just seeing how careful the
• 41:15
  pirates want to be with him. Uh. Even with that concern though,
• 41:20
  like use them while you got them, and you know, yeah, worry
• 41:24
  about that when they start tapering his innings, send him, sending him down,
• 41:30
  putting him on PHANTOMI ol, Uh, Just I ride Paul Skeens as
• 41:35
  long as you can. I think he's set it and forget starter in absolutely
• 41:38
  every league right now, You're absolutely right. How about how about the other
• 41:44
  big name that yet called up. I know your boy, Robert Gasser.
• 41:46
  What what was your TA take on his debut? I really liked his debut
• 41:52
  on Friday against the Cardinals. I mean that is helped that he was facing
• 41:57
  the Cardinals. They make anybody look good. I was gonna say, they're
• 42:00
  making a lot of pictures look really good. And this is I wrote about
• 42:06
  it on Saturday and the Waiver Wire piece that I love Robert Gasser. We've
• 42:10
  talked about him a few times here on this pod, because even with Jacob
• 42:15
  miss Rowski in Milwaukee, I think Gasser's probably the better pitching prospect just because
• 42:22
  mister Rowski doesn't know where the ball is going. Ever, that he's kind
• 42:29
  of a classic flamethrower with control issues, and Robert Gasser is a pitcher man
• 42:35
  like he he throws out of a really nice low lefty slot. It was
• 42:42
  a good fastball, a good sweeper or slider. I think he throws both,
• 42:46
  but I think they kind of get interchanged a little bit. I think
• 42:51
  that Gasser there was a little question in terms of whether or not he would
• 42:54
  stick into the rotation going forward, but he pitched again today, looked pretty
• 43:00
  good against the Pirates. Gave up only one run over five innings, only
• 43:04
  had two k's, so the strikeouts will be certainly lower with Gasser. But
• 43:07
  this is a guy who seems to just be a good solid pitcher, like
• 43:15
  he won one hundred and thirty five innings in Triple A last year and this
• 43:20
  year he should get full run as they kind of really let him go as
• 43:24
  a twenty five year old. I think that Gasser with these two starts,
• 43:30
  has pitched well enough to show Milwaukee that, hey, like you can keep
• 43:34
  me in the rotation and trust me. And maybe they do move to like
• 43:37
  a six man rotation or something there, but I think they're going to want
• 43:39
  to use Robert Gasser as much as they can. I think you call it
• 43:45
  the important piece. Heiers. He's twenty five, Like he's he's not at
• 43:47
  the point that you need to try to keep him in the minors and protect
• 43:51
  him and he's now and take advantage of it. Like I think that's that's
• 43:57
  what it looks like for Gassers. So maybe we'll try to to give him
• 44:00
  a little bit more rest here and there. But he's definitely one of the
• 44:04
  guys that I'm if he's available, I'm grabbing, and I'm I'm probably putting
• 44:08
  on my bench and trying not to pitch him unless the matchup is just too
• 44:14
  too good to pass up. But I think he's one of those ones you
• 44:19
  want to kind of see because you know the outcome. Like, you're not
• 44:22
  shocked if he ends up being a really good pitcher, right, You're not
• 44:23
  shocked by it. You're also not shocked if you're in like a month,
• 44:27
  you're you're dropping them. Like it can go either way, but the talent
• 44:30
  is good enough that you want to find You don't want to wait and find
• 44:32
  out while somebody else picks them up. Yeah, And I mean even if
• 44:37
  the strikeouts haven't been there so far, that they could be there in the
• 44:40
  future. I mean, this is a guy who ran twelve kprinhein last year
• 44:45
  and so like some of that is obviously pitching its Triple A pitchers. The
• 44:51
  next start blinds up against the Marlins, so that's going to be pretty brilliant.
• 44:54
  I think I'm trying to game this out. The rumors play the White
• 45:00
  Sox the weekend, like not the weekend right after the Marlins, but the
• 45:05
  weekend after that, and he might line up for one of those. That
• 45:08
  would be okay. I'll take back my statement that I'll throw on the bench
• 45:13
  unless you have good, good teams against the Marlins, and the White Sox
• 45:16
  might be two of the best and after starting against the Cardinals' that's a pretty
• 45:20
  nice little sampirate pushy run there. Yeah, yeah, I mean that,
• 45:24
  And like I'm looking even forward, he could also get Tigers, Reds,
• 45:30
  and Angels, like he's definitely if he sticks the Brewers schedule this year.
• 45:35
  Yeah, it's yeah that there's a lot of really soft teams on the Brewers
• 45:39
  schedule coming up. They do have one road series against the Phillies the first
• 45:46
  week of June. But yeah, writing down a note to himself, pick
• 45:52
  up all Brewers pictures, that is a soft, soft schedule. But okay,
• 45:59
  that's good. To wrap us up for our opening here on news notes
• 46:02
  and injuries, we are going to take a short break and we'll be back
• 46:07
  to discuss highly owned bats that we might be considering cutting in our fantasy leagues.
• 46:13
  Stick around, all right, Welcome back, everybody. We are going
• 46:32
  to get into a discussion of highly owned bats out there that we might be
• 46:38
  considering moving on from. These are all going to be guys that we spent
• 46:43
  pretty decent draft capalon either in terms of high draft picks. I think most
• 46:47
  of these guys would have been in the top ten rounds of any kind of
• 46:51
  standard twelve team fantasy league out there, or these guys were all demanding probably
• 46:59
  ten plus bucks at your auction tables as well. So these are players that
• 47:04
  we certainly had to spend some sort of draft capital that made it hurt when
• 47:09
  we picked them a couple of months ago. But we're now a quarter of
• 47:15
  the way into the season, as teams have played roughly forty two ish games
• 47:19
  apiece, and it's really time to start a reevaluating some of these players,
• 47:23
  as we got into it early with Danzy Swanson and Cabrian Hayes of players who
• 47:30
  would fall into this bucket, especially like we explained with Dansby Swanson, like
• 47:35
  the projections have already started to pick up on some of the skills degradation,
• 47:38
  and that's probably gonna start happening here with some of these players as well.
• 47:43
  As you know, they've produced a forty game set of less than stellar production
• 47:49
  for us out there, so it's time to consider moving on from some of
• 47:52
  these players. We're not going to exactly help you with like how to fix
• 47:57
  it and who to pick up, but that's why you can out my waiver
• 48:00
  wire piece on Saturday to help you out. But these are certainly some I
• 48:04
  mean some of these players I would be cutting them. For those guys I'm
• 48:08
  suggesting on those waiver wires, but more of maybe like a philosophical question,
• 48:14
  strategy question for you, brew like what type of milestone or point in the
• 48:21
  season are you looking at hitters to consider dropping them or really reevaluating their profiles
• 48:28
  overall? Yeah, I think I don't really want to give any credence for
• 48:32
  the first month, and really I feel like you can draw true conclusions after
• 48:37
  two months, is the kind of way I look at it. The problem
• 48:43
  being it's probably in between there is when the rest of the market's moving,
• 48:46
  So you've got to be a little predictive at that point in time. That
• 48:51
  said, like, I think anybody that you had kind of questions on going
• 48:54
  to the season, has you know, didn't do great last year, but
• 48:59
  begs pointing to something like close to thirty days, you gotta cut paid,
• 49:02
  you gotta start looking elsewhere. Guys that have much more of a track record
• 49:07
  something like that. I'm gonna give them a little bit more time just to
• 49:09
  see because everybody has an off month, like you don't want it, you
• 49:13
  know, you have a off month in the middle of the season after a
• 49:15
  hot start and you haven't good in the year, nobody even has that conversation,
• 49:17
  so you want to be careful that you don't run to that. But
• 49:21
  it's it's kind of a slight scale, like first routers, give them their
• 49:23
  time. You know, a guy in the tenth fifteenth, you got to
• 49:27
  be willing to move off. So I'm usually looking between that one to two
• 49:30
  month time frame, give them, you know, thirty to forty games and
• 49:35
  kind of where a lot of their ratios start to stabilize and the noise comes
• 49:38
  out. That's that's where I'm looking. Well, that's perfect because that's exactly
• 49:42
  where we are. So that's where we're at. It's like we've planned it.
• 49:45
  Yeah, and so let's start with a few players where I think you
• 49:52
  can strongly consider cutting them in terms of just the production overall and what they've
• 49:58
  provided for you. That like, I understand why you might be entertaining cutting
• 50:02
  some of these players, but certainly these are guys that we're still holding onto,
• 50:08
  and a couple of them are first rounders. I will raw them off
• 50:10
  for you and then you can give me thoughts on each player we have.
• 50:15
  Julio Rodriguez Corbyn, Carroll, Boba Schett, and Paul Goldschmidt as players where
• 50:22
  certainly have stumbled out the gate, all four of them, but we are
• 50:27
  still going to be holding them going forward. Give a little bit of insight
• 50:30
  onto why you might be holding these players still. Yeah, I think I'll
• 50:34
  break them into kind of to two groups here, and I think there's the
• 50:37
  the upside guys like the and I'm gonna call it, it's Julio and Corbin,
• 50:43
  right, Julio Rodriguez and Corbyn Carroll, They're the upside there. They
• 50:45
  are superstars like they they can win your league. I don't care how terrible
• 50:51
  they're playing. You are not cutting them that you have to hold onto them
• 50:54
  because you because you need to see them figure figure it out. Of the
• 50:59
  two of them, I'm really not concerned with Julio, like his production's been
• 51:02
  down, but underneath the covers, things look really no different than what they
• 51:07
  were to start last year. He looks pretty much the same guy, and
• 51:10
  even in just the last few games he seemed to kind of pick things up.
• 51:14
  So I think people were kind of souring because they were expecting so much
• 51:16
  from him that when he was you know, he only has two homeers stufar,
• 51:20
  but he's stole in nine bases. You know, he's His underlying metrics
• 51:23
  look pretty much the same as they have in the past. The big difference
• 51:28
  is a home run for fly per fly ball rate is five percent. His
• 51:31
  career rate, I guess excluding this year is like twenty percent. It's like
• 51:36
  four times so you know, I'm not an expert here, but four times
• 51:39
  two his numbers of home runs. We'd be talking about a guy that has
• 51:44
  eight homers, nine steals, hitting two sixty. The county stats are a
• 51:47
  little low, but like that's just fine. Like so the Julio I'm not
• 51:52
  too concerned with Orben I'm a little bit more. He's banged up to a
• 51:55
  degree, so I'm a little concerned with him. But again, you can't
• 52:00
  cut the guy that has, you know, top of the line sprint speed,
• 52:05
  amazing control with the bat. He has very good bat speed we can
• 52:08
  now see, and he just has them been barreling things up. So but
• 52:13
  it is also we were talking about it being an injury flag that that is
• 52:19
  really helpful. I think with Corbyn Carroll is that like if his bat speed
• 52:22
  still prey solid. I think there's been a lot of murmurers out there about
• 52:25
  his shoulder really bothering him in that creating the slow start. But if the
• 52:30
  bat speed's still there, that does help us show that Hey, maybe it's
• 52:32
  just a little bit of a tweaking and approach. Yeah, so I said,
• 52:37
  both those guys to me, you break them out and say you're starting
• 52:40
  them even you know, I don't even mention these guys. I've had guys
• 52:44
  on my top one hundred and being like, why are you being so nice
• 52:45
  to Corbyn Carroll Like, it's guys, rest of the season, He's gonna
• 52:49
  be okay. On the other side of it, Boba Shet Paul gold Schmidt,
• 52:53
  I am more concerned with, like the production. You can't cut these
• 52:58
  guys. I still can't think you can cut these guys. So there's just
• 53:00
  too much potential there, even from just a peer accounting stats perspective, but
• 53:06
  things just look bleak. It is not ideal. But those are the kind
• 53:13
  of guys I'm looking more at. I'd consider benching them, depending what you
• 53:16
  have to replace. I'm probably a little lower on Bushett than I am on
• 53:22
  Goldman, but that's just because Bashet's profile in the past has been average and
• 53:29
  a little speed plus power, and I don't think he's even doing that,
• 53:34
  and it doesn't look like there's a really clear turnaround. But again, you
• 53:37
  you can't at this point Boba sheet because he's still a really, really talented
• 53:43
  ball player, regardless of what the metrics say. The same for Goldman.
• 53:45
  Then we were talking about MVP just like two years ago, right, he
• 53:49
  still is that same guy. He's slowing down things like that. But don't
• 53:53
  don't mistake an all star MVP level player playing average as you need to cut
• 54:00
  him because he's blowed your expectations when you caught him. You might be trying
• 54:04
  to pick up the guy that is his upside is the average player. Yeah,
• 54:09
  And I mean I think with gold Schmidt, especially given how many Cardinals
• 54:15
  games you and I watch, I don't know what your take is, but
• 54:19
  like when I'm watching Goldschman at the plate, he just looks caught in between
• 54:22
  in terms of like maybe like with the Cardinals coaching staff is caught telling him
• 54:27
  and what he did in drive line, and like you can tell he's thinking
• 54:30
  too much at the plate. You saw it a little bit actually this past
• 54:34
  weekend where he just found his groove a little bit more that I do think
• 54:38
  that gold Schmidt will turn it around. Bobachett, I'm I agree with you
• 54:44
  there. That part of it too is like, uh, I don't have
• 54:46
  any Bobachett shares, because like I was not really pegging him for more than
• 54:52
  like twenty homers, like ten stone bases and like a two eighty two ninety
• 54:58
  average, and that's not where he was being drafted. So I think this
• 55:02
  is just maybe like a little bit of a wake up or if you did
• 55:05
  have Boba Schett, like, hey, I'm sorry, but he's not necessarily
• 55:08
  like a borderline first rounder the way he was a couple of years ago.
• 55:12
  He has settled into I think more of an accumulator at the shortstop middle end
• 55:17
  field. For you, Corporin and Carroll we just talked about in terms of
• 55:21
  I think that like it's just been a little bit of an odd start that
• 55:24
  he played an extra month last year, and I think he's been starting to
• 55:29
  turn it around as well too. Julio is actually a player where in terms
• 55:34
  of like a dynasty situation keeper situation, this start maybe has me a little
• 55:40
  bit concerned in terms of what his ceiling could be, just because of and
• 55:46
  I think a lot of it isn't actually julio skills problem. I think,
• 55:52
  as you said, like the skills are are there and they're still showing up.
• 55:55
  It's actually more of a T Mobile Park problem. It is the worst
• 56:00
  parked hidden on a three year rolling average by by far. Like it is
• 56:06
  the darkest shade of blue. It's really like the biggest picture park that we
• 56:09
  have in our league right now. On top of it, it's also number
• 56:15
  one for strikeouts. And I learned this from Rates and Barrels. You know,
• 56:19
  Sarrus was saying that lots of players hate hitting there because the batter's size
• 56:23
  is actually like a skew kind of It looks askew in center field because of
• 56:28
  like the way that the park is designed in the seats around it, like
• 56:31
  the seats around it are angled, even though like the batter's eye is flat.
• 56:37
  It just creates like a really weird visual for players. And I think
• 56:42
  that's why it is so high for strikeouts, is because everyone's struggling with that
• 56:45
  batter's eye in T Mobile Park. And I just don't like that for what
• 56:51
  that pretends for Julio's production going forward, not only for his own in terms
• 56:57
  of strikeouts, but like that lineup around him is always continually brutal. But
• 57:01
  I think it's because a combination of like Jerry to Poto, I don't know
• 57:07
  if he's got the greatest approach to like what he's looking for in a hitter,
• 57:10
  and then on top of it, he's cycling through hitters so often none
• 57:15
  of them can adjust to that batter side in Seattle, And so because of
• 57:20
  that, like I think it's just a little bit of like a hey,
• 57:22
  you know what, if I do get some sort of Godfather offer for Julio,
• 57:27
  I might consider moving on it, because I don't know if his ceiling
• 57:30
  is gonna quite be as high as like what I would consider a Kunya or
• 57:37
  Muki or Fernano tatisis to be, even though the talent is certainly there.
• 57:42
  Yeah, I think the one other thing with Julio is he hits the top
• 57:44
  of the lineup. He's either too or leading off, and so when you
• 57:46
  talk about accumulating like stats, like, yeah, he need them more on
• 57:52
  the run side, but from the RBI side, he's just not gonna get
• 57:54
  what you need there, Like he's the guy that you want hitting three or
• 57:58
  four, and that's just deal, and that's not where he's at. So
• 58:01
  there's a few things there. I think you make a good point that he's
• 58:04
  one of those that he's gonna at some point he's gonna get hot, like
• 58:07
  Huo is gonna be, you know, player of the Week or something like
• 58:09
  that, maybe in the player of the month, because he's gonna go crazy.
• 58:13
  That's the time to look at the Dynasty League. I think he is
• 58:15
  a really interesting guy to try to flip, but it's gonna be so hard
• 58:19
  to do so, like I recognize it's so hard to do it because the
• 58:23
  second guess that you can do when he does it again the next month and
• 58:28
  then he ends up, you know, going downhill like it's it's hard.
• 58:30
  It's definitely hard, but you have to you have to make big moves to
• 58:35
  win the game. Yeah, exactly. Okay, Well, then let's get
• 58:38
  into a four pack of players who I think some of them we're cutting and
• 58:45
  some of them maybe not that. Like I think we'll probably have a few,
• 58:50
  maybe more disagreements here, but I will open that we have a four
• 58:55
  pack of Nolan Jones, Xander Bogart's, Carlos Korea, and Jake Berger in
• 59:00
  this pool. I will. Actually I'm gonna start with Xander because if there's
• 59:06
  anybody in this group that I'm cutting, it's actually him. We came into
• 59:12
  the season, he was my fade on the padres when we did our season
• 59:16
  previews that like you could just see it in terms of his overall profile coming
• 59:22
  over from Boston that the the power was starting to degrade, the just overall
• 59:30
  kind of like walkability was starting to come a little like it was becoming shakier,
• 59:36
  and just the approach overall of Xander Bogart's had been more of an accumulator,
• 59:42
  as you know twenty nineteen when he popped thirty three bombs. Has been
• 59:46
  long in the rear view mirror for Xander Bogart's and I think it's really starting
• 59:51
  to come into fruition this year. I think part of it too, is
• 59:53
  he's learning a new position kind of on the fly, being second base after
• 59:58
  being used to being a shortstop. I don't that's helping his mental approach,
• 1:00:01
  but yeah, Xander Bogart is somebody who if I'm in a shaller league,
• 1:00:07
  like a ten team league, I think you can move on from Xander Bogarts
• 1:00:09
  because even where the projections are going to take you back to in terms of
• 1:00:15
  like a two mid two sixties average mid teens homers with your requisite runs an
• 1:00:22
  RBIs in the Padres lineup. In a ten team league, you've probably have
• 1:00:29
  been able to find that again somewhere else or be able to like find something
• 1:00:32
  akin to it. So, twelve teamers, I'm certainly putting Xander Bogarts on
• 1:00:37
  notice if you can somehow trade him. I don't. I can't believe anybody
• 1:00:42
  would be buying low on him. But maybe only a couple more weeks though,
• 1:00:47
  like in a twelve team or before again, like if there is a
• 1:00:51
  hotter name out there, or maybe you're chasing stolen bases or just need to
• 1:00:58
  find some other way to shake up your roster, I think Xander Bogarts can
• 1:01:00
  be amongst those cuts. Yeah, I think you know. I can't really
• 1:01:06
  disagree with most of what you have you said there. That's like, that's
• 1:01:08
  where I sit is in a twelve teamer generally with a deep line of middle
• 1:01:14
  endfields like that, I think Xander is now your middle endfielder. Like I
• 1:01:16
  think that's where you're sitting. But you're sitting there going is he going to
• 1:01:21
  be worth it? But it's gonna be hard to find for a middle endfielder,
• 1:01:25
  a deeper like twelve team or fourteen teamer, something that's much better than
• 1:01:30
  Xander on the waiver wired depending on how deep your your league is. So
• 1:01:36
  I'm kind of watching in those. But you're a ten teamer, I think
• 1:01:38
  you move on. I think you absolutely can move on from Xander at this
• 1:01:42
  point. I want to play the flip side though, with uh Carlos Korea.
• 1:01:47
  And I know that you know, Correa has been kind of banged up
• 1:01:52
  here and there, but I'm actually intrigued by Carlos Korea. It this hurts
• 1:01:58
  me to say, because he is he on this podcast specifically, we have
• 1:02:04
  expo expoused the concerns with Carlos Korea and how we stay away from it.
• 1:02:08
  And as I was looking at him a little deeper, I was I was
• 1:02:13
  slightly intrigued. Like as you start to look at his profile and how he's
• 1:02:17
  hitting the ball, he looks a lot more like the twenty twenty two version
• 1:02:22
  of Carlos Korea than the twenty twenty three version. The strikeouts are down,
• 1:02:28
  the walks are up, you know, the hard hit rate is kind of
• 1:02:31
  right where you want to be he's hitting in the sweet spot. His ex
• 1:02:37
  batting average is three or one. Like he he's actually got unlucky at this
• 1:02:42
  point in time, and he's had some pretty pretty okay numbers. It's just
• 1:02:47
  that the power he hasn't had the power there. And also in that Twins
• 1:02:52
  lineup, they've been not scoring the most runs, so his rum production has
• 1:02:55
  been down. But you know, I think with how down people were on
• 1:03:02
  Korea kind of entering the season, I think it's actually intriguing that he's one
• 1:03:07
  that might have more left in the tank. So I'm hesitantly holding Correa,
• 1:03:14
  even though I might have not had him to start with going into the season.
• 1:03:19
  So I don't know how I can hold the guy that I never owned.
• 1:03:22
  But still I think that there's some positive regression coming for Carlo's Korea.
• 1:03:25
  Yeah, I mean, I think the bat is still there. I think
• 1:03:30
  my biggest issue with Carlo's Korea is he's an absolute zero in the storm based
• 1:03:34
  department up the middle, and that is a pretty significant spot where you're trying
• 1:03:40
  to get some storm bases that taking a zero. This is why we also
• 1:03:45
  don't really like Luisa Rise, is that it's just a position where you need
• 1:03:51
  to be providing some speed because if you're not, you're behind your opponents.
• 1:03:54
  So I mean if you are, you know, way up in speed and
• 1:04:00
  or you know have Ellie or Capairo or even like a Kuoney or something just
• 1:04:05
  to be able to make sure that you have enough speed, then yeah,
• 1:04:10
  I think Carl's career could fit in that situation, but it does take a
• 1:04:15
  lot of good roster management, like taking a Luisa Rise or Joey Gallo in
• 1:04:18
  his prime that like you've got to prepare around it to be able to counteract
• 1:04:24
  that lack of speed, especially in a rotisary league. That like that's going
• 1:04:30
  to be I think Carl's career's fatal flaw going forward is that because like,
• 1:04:33
  yeah, prime Carl's career when he was not stealing bases, you know,
• 1:04:38
  back in twenty seventeen, but like you know, hitting over three hundred and
• 1:04:43
  hitting mid teens or mid twenties homers with one hundred runs rbi, like that
• 1:04:48
  works because then you can be a zero in stolen bases because you're so productive
• 1:04:55
  from the pere bat side. But if he's kind of trending wards where he's
• 1:05:00
  at actually right now, that's you know just below twenty homers something like seventy
• 1:05:06
  RBIs seventy d runs in a two seventy average. That doesn't cut it up
• 1:05:13
  the middle with no speed. Yeah, he's he's he's intriguing, but you're
• 1:05:18
  at the speed really does her at the position. So all right, let's
• 1:05:24
  talk about Nolan Jones. I think I think we can bucket him and Burger
• 1:05:28
  together because we've both been banged up, and I think the situations are kind
• 1:05:32
  of similar in terms of, like the teams around them are awful, which
• 1:05:36
  is really limiting a lot of the counting stats that we needed out of them
• 1:05:42
  to be able to be useful players. But I can admit in the places
• 1:05:45
  where I have Jake Berger and Nolan Jones, I haven't cut either of them
• 1:05:49
  yet, but they are on watch. Like Jake Berger just returned from a
• 1:05:53
  strange oblique, I'm giving him a little bit time to see if you can
• 1:05:58
  start finding a little bit of a groove. He has not. He's looked
• 1:06:00
  really awful. Nolan Jones is probably still a couple of weeks away from returning
• 1:06:03
  from the IL, but again, same thing. I want to see if
• 1:06:06
  that back is healed up. What are you thinking on both Jones and Burger
• 1:06:13
  here. Yeah, if I if I had to pick one, I would
• 1:06:15
  I would be sticking with Burger is who I'd be saying, Okay, I'm
• 1:06:18
  surprised by that. Yeah, and I just on the surface, I get
• 1:06:25
  where you're surprised. But I spent a little time looking at Nolan Jones and
• 1:06:30
  his underlying metrics. I'm sitting here going, why are we surprised that he's
• 1:06:34
  not playing well? Like the guy ran a four hundred babit last year.
• 1:06:40
  He struck out basically a third of the time, and you know, he
• 1:06:44
  put the ball on the ground like in the mid forty percent of the time.
• 1:06:48
  Like it wasn't a recipe for success, Like it doesn't work. I
• 1:06:53
  know he's fast, I know he can move, but like if you're getting
• 1:06:56
  lucky to get on base, you're striking out a lot, Like it's definitely
• 1:07:02
  there's some questions there. I know we were hoping for growth, but I
• 1:07:06
  think where he was he was getting drafted because I mean he hit that twenty
• 1:07:10
  twenty plateau with only one hundred and six games. I think we were like
• 1:07:14
  projecting all these great things and not looking and saying like man like he he
• 1:07:17
  has got to get those strikeouts down, and he's he was incredibly lucky to
• 1:07:23
  to deliver that. So I think right now, I'm Jones is a guy
• 1:07:27
  that I am shopping hard. I am shopping him hard of you know,
• 1:07:30
  he's gonna be back soon, He's gonna be healthy. He's a twenty twenty
• 1:07:33
  guy. Last year he was pacing for thirty thirty. I you know,
• 1:07:36
  I just got to move on because I need somebody now, Like i'd be
• 1:07:39
  shopping him really hard. And so I'm I'm probably holding Burger over Jones.
• 1:07:44
  I'm probably not cutting either of them until they're back healthy and we can see
• 1:07:47
  what happens. But I'm, like I said, I feel it feels weird
• 1:07:51
  to say that, but I'm a little bit more interested in Burger just because
• 1:07:57
  he looks like he who he was last year was who he at is.
• 1:08:00
  I don't know the Jones is who he was last year. Yeah, No,
• 1:08:03
  I think that's fair. Yeah, I think I'm the other way around.
• 1:08:05
  I would like if I had to make you know, I had a
• 1:08:11
  team and only one spot left, and I'm debating between Jones and Burger,
• 1:08:14
  I would keep Jones just because the whole Colorado of it all that like,
• 1:08:19
  I always fall in love with that, and if you're able to at least
• 1:08:23
  play him for those games, that's that's pretty nice. Yeah, that's fair.
• 1:08:29
  Okay, Well, let's get into some guys that I think we've got
• 1:08:32
  more so in our drop bucket, and we'll open it up with Actually,
• 1:08:39
  just because you put him on the list, I don't know if I'm dropping
• 1:08:42
  him quite yet. I would have had him more in the borderline that I'm
• 1:08:45
  still giving him a couple more weeks, but I want to hear why you
• 1:08:48
  are out there dropping Yankee second basement Labor Torres. Oh well, Labor Torres,
• 1:08:56
  let me let me go here. Yes, I've never been a fan
• 1:09:00
  of of of Glaber Torres. You know, most of the power that we've
• 1:09:05
  seen with Glaber has been really connected to luck over the years. He's when
• 1:09:11
  he kind of spikes his home run for fly ball right, he's a guy
• 1:09:15
  traditionally he's a five or six percent home run for fly ball Right. The
• 1:09:17
  two seasons that he had big home run, it doubled that. But that's
• 1:09:21
  just not who he's been historically. And he's old camping yards. Yes,
• 1:09:28
  very true, which was which was very helpful for him. He also is
• 1:09:31
  one of those guys that you know he has a little speed but always teases
• 1:09:40
  you with it doesn't deliver as much as you want. So I look at
• 1:09:45
  Glabar, is I say drop him? Is shop him like, let's be
• 1:09:48
  fair, like you have to look at the market. I would be shopping
• 1:09:51
  him hard. I really just don't think that there's much to like in this
• 1:09:56
  profile. The strikeouts that jumps significantly since last year, they're back to kind
• 1:09:59
  of where they were before. But again, the ball's not leaving the yard
• 1:10:01
  like it kind of had before, which I think is actually who he is.
• 1:10:05
  And so if you look at that, look at his twenty twenty one
• 1:10:09
  season, that's what he's profiling with right now. And the twenty twenty one
• 1:10:13
  season, one hundred and twenty seven games, he had nine homers, fourteen
• 1:10:15
  steals in a combined one hundred and one runs in RBIs that's who I think
• 1:10:20
  glay Bar actually is. Not the guy we've seen the last few years that
• 1:10:26
  no had some luck and again last year he cut the strikeouts. I don't
• 1:10:30
  know how he did that what he did, but I just doesn't seem like
• 1:10:33
  that's sticking it seems like his his career trajectory is this low twenty strikeout guy,
• 1:10:38
  not the mid teens. So I'm I'm calling it a cut, but
• 1:10:44
  it's more of a I think there's a lot of soluble value here. You
• 1:10:46
  can still get some other glay Bar. I would be pushing him hard on
• 1:10:48
  the trade market getting something out because somebody's gonna believe him. Somebody's gonna be
• 1:10:53
  like, oh, he's just been, you know, scuffling a little bit.
• 1:10:55
  He'll figure it out. I just don't think there's a lot to like
• 1:10:58
  here in that profile for Glabar, and I really think he just had a
• 1:11:01
  good two year run with a little bit of luck. Yeah. I mean,
• 1:11:06
  I think why I'm still holding him is I'm still buying into the contract
• 1:11:12
  your narrative here as he is going to be a free agent in the offseason.
• 1:11:15
  Part of it, too, is he's just historically like a really poor
• 1:11:19
  April player. He's got a career ninety two WRC plus in March and April.
• 1:11:26
  He does strike me as one of those players a little bit like Jose
• 1:11:29
  of Bray you two, where I don't know if it's the cold weather or
• 1:11:31
  just the need for everyday reps to be able to get back into the game,
• 1:11:36
  but has just always struck me as a slow starter in his career.
• 1:11:42
  The other reason I'm still holding onto Glabor is that even with the poor performance
• 1:11:47
  so far, he's on pace still for like seventy five ish runs in RBI,
• 1:11:53
  like you know, that like a piece, and because that Yankees lineup
• 1:11:57
  is so formidable, like he's gonna keep playing and giving you those numbers.
• 1:12:02
  So even if, like you know, the average might be significantly lower than
• 1:12:06
  it was in previous years, like you still might end up with a guy
• 1:12:12
  who is mid teens homers and stolen bases and giving you enough run in RBI
• 1:12:17
  production where certainly wasn't worth what you were drafting him for. But yeah,
• 1:12:23
  I've actually got a decent number of shares of Labor because, like I just
• 1:12:29
  liked where he was going in the second base kind of value during draft season.
• 1:12:32
  And I can tell you part of it too, is like the options
• 1:12:36
  for picking up other players is really poor on a lot of those leagues,
• 1:12:42
  you know. It's like you're debating about like Jorge Matteo and on our one
• 1:12:48
  of our big leagues where our big home league where I have him as my
• 1:12:53
  second basement, Like, yeah, maybe Joey your teas, so like that's
• 1:12:56
  part of it, is like you're kind of stuck with him. But yeah,
• 1:12:59
  if somebody did come to me with an offer for labor torres in any
• 1:13:02
  of those leagues, I would certainly be biting at that bait. Yeah,
• 1:13:08
  And the thing I look at with him is he was he has seen more
• 1:13:13
  fastballs this year than he did last year, and he's traditionally struggled with the
• 1:13:16
  fastball, and like last year, last two years, he kind of seemed
• 1:13:19
  to figure it out a little bit, like he was a little bit positive
• 1:13:24
  run value. Last year he was kind of even like it seems like they're
• 1:13:27
  pounding them harder and harder with the fastball and he just can't handle that a
• 1:13:30
  high, high heat. He just can't handle it. And you look at
• 1:13:33
  the you know, I love the futures a mont who compared to similar batting
• 1:13:38
  profiles, And I read this list and there's not a single guy on this
• 1:13:43
  and I'm like, yeah, reliable, exciting. I want Matt Chapman,
• 1:13:47
  Donnovan, Solano, Ody Bellinger, Cedric Bullens, Billy McKinney, Like nobody
• 1:13:54
  there. This was like, yeah, reliable. Those are all like streaky
• 1:13:58
  is all get out hitters that like they hell a good season, then they
• 1:14:01
  are a disaster. And I just feel like that's where labor's going. Maybe
• 1:14:04
  I'm just negative, but somebody else take them. Yeah, Okay, well
• 1:14:12
  let's get into I mean, all five of these next guys that we're gonna
• 1:14:15
  discuss. I mean, I would certainly be looking to drop them that,
• 1:14:19
  Like, I don't even know if you can really shop these guys that they're
• 1:14:24
  pretty droppable at this point. I think we'll open with the one that probably
• 1:14:30
  costs you the most at the draft table this past spring, and that is
• 1:14:34
  George Springer from the Toronto Blue Jays. And things are brutal right now.
• 1:14:41
  If after one hundred and sixty one plaited appearances, Springer is slashing two hundred
• 1:14:45
  two seventy three two ninety, that's a sixty six WRC plus he's only given
• 1:14:50
  you three homers. The six stolen bases are nice, but certainly he's also
• 1:14:57
  only got six ribs, and so he's got as many RBIs as he does
• 1:15:01
  stolen bases. For you. Everything I said there is certainly a waiver wire
• 1:15:09
  sort of bat and in fact, like, if anything, because he plays
• 1:15:13
  every day, that average is just grinding your rotisserie batting average. That maybe
• 1:15:18
  the stole and bases are nice, but the nice thing about getting somebody in
• 1:15:24
  the mold of like a Raji Davis back in the day was that they weren't
• 1:15:28
  playing full time to give you those stolen bases. So if the batting average
• 1:15:31
  was poor, didn't hurt you that badly. But the fact that Springer is
• 1:15:35
  still marching out there every day hitting two hundred for you, that really hurts.
• 1:15:41
  And on top of it, we're just seeing, like I think him
• 1:15:45
  just get old in front of our eyes. The hard hit percentages down,
• 1:15:47
  the barrel percentages down, maxyv is down. He's thirty four years old.
• 1:15:54
  I mean, I don't have any George Springer shares because I was worried about
• 1:15:58
  this based a little bit on his profile from last year that you could kind
• 1:16:02
  of see where the hard hit rates were already dropping for Springer as he entered
• 1:16:09
  his mid thirties. But what about you, Brew, Are you dropping Springer
• 1:16:13
  where you got him? And or are you any signs of hope here?
• 1:16:18
  Yeah? Well, I'm not proud to say I recently traded for him in
• 1:16:20
  one of our leagues. But really, you know, as I look at
• 1:16:25
  Springer, I'm not dropping Spring yet. I think that I will say that
• 1:16:28
  of all the guys we're talking about, I'm not dropping Springer yet. Because
• 1:16:31
  you're right, I think we are starting to see the decline. I just
• 1:16:35
  as I look at the metrics underneath I look at what he's doing, I
• 1:16:39
  don't think the decline's as steep as what we're seeing. I think he's more
• 1:16:44
  like you just look at his his average and his power. Last years,
• 1:16:47
  they've like just kind of ticked down year over year, and I think we're
• 1:16:51
  seeing another tick down year. But he's had some pretty rough luck with that.
• 1:16:57
  And so if that luck turns around and he ends up being a two
• 1:17:00
  fifty hitter that hits fifteen homers and steals twenty bases, like, I'm not
• 1:17:02
  shocked at all if that's who he is the rest of the season. So
• 1:17:08
  I think there's still enough in there. But like, is not the George
• 1:17:11
  Springer from two three years ago who we were hoping went twenty five fifteen and
• 1:17:15
  hit two seventy, Like we just filled the stat sheet. The other problem
• 1:17:18
  is he's playing for the Blue Jays who just looked terrible. Oh yeah,
• 1:17:21
  they've been awful, And so I think that that also is a take against
• 1:17:26
  him. But like I said, I think there's enough under there that I'm
• 1:17:29
  still interested in him. I'm still willing to have him, but it's really
• 1:17:33
  hard to play him right now. And it comes down to not the other
• 1:17:38
  not the not the home runs, not the steals. It's the counting stats,
• 1:17:41
  which right now really really bother me with Springer is he's just not getting
• 1:17:45
  a chance to round out the sheet, and it's because he's hitting lead off
• 1:17:50
  for a team that's not playing well. So he's not you know, over
• 1:17:55
  the last like three weeks, I think he's knocked in two runs and I
• 1:18:00
  was either of those, and one of those was a homer, So like
• 1:18:05
  that's not boating well, So I'm concerned, but I still think we're on
• 1:18:11
  the slow decline where he's still a very valuable bat. But may or of
• 1:18:15
  them were three or four outfielder. So if you're in a shallotteen team,
• 1:18:18
  like, yeah, absolutely, you know, cut bait with him three outfield
• 1:18:21
  leagues. I think you can cupbait as well. But I'm I'm willing to
• 1:18:25
  give Springer a little bit a little bit more here because I think there's some
• 1:18:28
  some good positive regression on him. But the Blue Jay scare me. Yeah,
• 1:18:33
  I mean I think in twelve team areis if you've got a decent option
• 1:18:38
  on the wire, I mean I'd be moving that direction. Fifteen. I
• 1:18:43
  might still be giving him a little more leash, but he's certainly on watch.
• 1:18:47
  Let me see if I can pull up who like I would prefer over
• 1:18:53
  him that would be available, just because it takes a little while to get
• 1:19:00
  through all this information on CBS, but yeah, some available guys would be
• 1:19:05
  I think I would move on to like Brandon marsh over him, Ryan O'Hearn
• 1:19:13
  if he's still out there. I mean Ryan O'Hearn, I would be taking
• 1:19:16
  over George Springer right now. You've also got you know, Lars Newpar's been
• 1:19:21
  having like really good bad at ball metrics. I'm wondering when that pulls around,
• 1:19:28
  even like a giant de Luca, you know, I think you know
• 1:19:30
  there's gonna be options, I think, and especially if you're looking maybe of
• 1:19:33
  moving down the list on trades too, like you might be able to so
• 1:19:41
  find somebody that you could I mean maybe even like moving him for like a
• 1:19:45
  Nolan Jones and trying to see if you can cash in on Jones coming back
• 1:19:48
  in Colorado. But yeah, I'm not not too bullish on Springer going forward.
• 1:19:56
  It's fair that's what we're talking about. Yeah, okay, so next
• 1:19:59
  one one we have is first baseman Spencer Torkalsen from the Tigers, who is
• 1:20:04
  woof Yeah. This is some of these lines that we've been looking at as
• 1:20:10
  we've been working on. This has been crazy and they're just rough. He's
• 1:20:14
  hitting two twenty two eighty six three forty This is six twenty six ops with
• 1:20:18
  two homers on the season. That really hurts considering he's coming off of a
• 1:20:25
  thirty one homer season. He's only twenty four. I think lots of people
• 1:20:28
  were looking for that growth out of Torkalsen, but he's really struggled with barrels.
• 1:20:32
  He's really struggled with putting the bat on the ball. I've even there's
• 1:20:40
  been, you know, rumblings in Detroit that he's been moving down the order
• 1:20:45
  a little bit and you've been able to see like a J. Hinch has
• 1:20:49
  talked about like maybe him riding the pine in the future that uh, this
• 1:20:54
  isn't looking great for Spencer Trokosen because like he's maybe a couple more weeks away
• 1:20:59
  of playing like this from being back in Triple A. I think because they
• 1:21:02
  have the options on him. He's young enough where his career is not lost,
• 1:21:06
  but he looks lost at the plate. And so I'm I'm certainly like,
• 1:21:12
  yeah, in ten teams, twelve teams, I think it's certainly worth
• 1:21:17
  moving on from Spencer Torklesen, maybe cutting him especially. Maybe the one variable
• 1:21:25
  is that we talked about with Reez Hoskins a little bit, is that first
• 1:21:28
  base in corner Enfield is pretty shallow. But yeah, if you've got an
• 1:21:31
  option, I just don't see anything right now in terms of like what we've
• 1:21:38
  seen over the years from Parkleson, in terms of like his inability to hit
• 1:21:43
  the ball kind of for contact consistently just hasn't ever materialized. So I'm not
• 1:21:49
  really in on Turkleson going forward. What about you? Yeah, Torkleson is
• 1:21:55
  really a tough one, like as far like long term, like redraft right
• 1:21:59
  now out easy cut the guy. He looks absolutely atrocious at the plate.
• 1:22:04
  And but what what throws me off a little bit Torkleson's he tried to dig
• 1:22:09
  underneath and a lot of times with something like that, you see a significant
• 1:22:12
  change, or you saw a lot of luck or something like that. Like
• 1:22:15
  there's not a really clear driver here. He just appears to be lost.
• 1:22:20
  He's trying to pull the ball more, which you know hitters tend to and
• 1:22:24
  they're struggling. They tend to pull the ball more, roll it over more
• 1:22:27
  to third base or first I guess, righty, righty, lefty here.
• 1:22:32
  But you know that I'm struggling with this because I'm not seeing something like it's
• 1:22:36
  not like he's chasing the ball all the time. It's not like, you
• 1:22:40
  know, he's really changed the approach. He just isn't hitting the fastball well.
• 1:22:46
  And I was going doing the same thing we did with Labor. I
• 1:22:51
  was looking at the guys that they compare him against over at Savant and similar
• 1:22:56
  batters to Toorkleson, Royce Lewis, Pete Alonzo, Austin Riley, like really
• 1:23:02
  good hitters. And so I'm struggling as I look at him, like I'm
• 1:23:05
  not sure, but he it literally looks like it's one of those like this,
• 1:23:10
  maybe if the skills haven't degraded, but he's just really breasting of the
• 1:23:13
  plate and is really really struggling. So I think the talent' still there.
• 1:23:16
  So he's the onely guy, like in a dynasty league. If somebody goes
• 1:23:19
  on from you know, from him, I might be picking him up just
• 1:23:23
  to put him on my bench, because I think that there is a pretty
• 1:23:26
  good upside here at some point if he figures it out for a low cost.
• 1:23:30
  But like not a guy I'm relying on by any means, Like you
• 1:23:33
  can squint and look and go, yeah, I see something here, because
• 1:23:35
  he was a darling coming in the off season right people thought he was gonna
• 1:23:40
  break out, and I still see that in there. I still see it
• 1:23:42
  in there. But he just absolutely looks lost, and I don't think it's
• 1:23:46
  going to turn around anytime soon. When you start pressing, you need a
• 1:23:49
  reset, and I think you're right like it. He might get sit down
• 1:23:53
  and I don't. I don't, wouldn't fault, would not fault Detroit one
• 1:23:57
  one bit for doing so. Yeah, I agree. Okay, let's go
• 1:24:01
  on to our next bat where we are likely cutting, and that is Ian
• 1:24:08
  Happ, outfielder for the Cubs, who has opened the season, hitting two
• 1:24:12
  nineteen with one homer, one stolen base. The runs are there. The
• 1:24:16
  RBI is a little bit light at thirteen, but certainly this has been a
• 1:24:23
  struggle out the gate. As you've seen the strikeout percentage spike for Ian Hap.
• 1:24:29
  He has gone up to a twenty eight point strikeout rate, the barrel
• 1:24:33
  rate has dropped to seven percent, with a hard hit rate also falling to
• 1:24:39
  thirty six percent. I think he's a free agent after this year as well,
• 1:24:43
  too, so he's a little bit like the Glabor camp of you'd wonder
• 1:24:46
  if he's trying to press a little bit for that big deal. But what
• 1:24:53
  actually worries me about Ian Happ going forward to is that there's a lot of
• 1:24:58
  talent on that Cubs team, and if he doesn't kick it into a higher
• 1:25:02
  gear here pretty soon as the Cubs claw with the Brewers for the Inel Central
• 1:25:09
  title over the summer, I don't think it's unreasonable that, you know,
• 1:25:15
  Ian might be riding the pine more as they put Pete crow Armstrong in center
• 1:25:19
  field for his defense and just shuffle things around to keep hot bats and hot
• 1:25:24
  players playing over Ian Hap, who's currently just struggling significantly. I think Another
• 1:25:30
  reason that you can be looking to cut him is the upside's not exactly like
• 1:25:36
  crazy huge that you can see this in you want to talk about players projections
• 1:25:42
  really falling off. You know, he is in the two forties across the
• 1:25:46
  board. I think that's where the batting average will be at for the rest
• 1:25:51
  of the season at max. And then you know you're looking at somebody who's
• 1:25:57
  only going to give you maybe low teens homers handful of storm bases that you
• 1:26:01
  compare it to where his preseason projections were. They've all taken a step back
• 1:26:05
  on Ian Hap and because of that, I mean, I think certainly ten
• 1:26:11
  teams you can you've probably already moved on for me in Hap, but I
• 1:26:15
  think this is probably the week in twelve teamers that you've probably got to make
• 1:26:18
  a move on Ian Happen getting him off of your squad as well, because
• 1:26:23
  it's just been real bleak out there. Yeah, I think Ian has value
• 1:26:27
  in the past has been he's relatively well rounded, like there wasn't one thing
• 1:26:30
  that was great, but he was also that player that was just like on
• 1:26:35
  the edge of being good, and you know, speed like he's he's delivered
• 1:26:42
  ten to fifteen stone bases. He's literally just league average speed power. He's
• 1:26:46
  fifteen to twenty power guy. But if you look at the homers, he's
• 1:26:49
  hit like, you know, the vast majority of them just barely making it
• 1:26:54
  out like they're He's not the guy that's hitting all these no doubters all over
• 1:26:58
  the place like in so he's with any little skill skill regression, he becomes
• 1:27:04
  this guy that isn't a Gutnam based isn't it for power? It is barely
• 1:27:09
  running like that's I think that's what's happening. And so you're absolutely right.
• 1:27:15
  They have other talent there. He'll have a leash still, but unless he
• 1:27:18
  really turns things around, and there's nothing that I'm looking at but tells me
• 1:27:23
  he will, like it looks like he just is kind of balling on the
• 1:27:27
  wrong side like of the meme this time around this year, And I think
• 1:27:32
  there's gonna be owners that kind of cling on to him because they know what
• 1:27:36
  he has done in the past, but not realizing that he was skinna,
• 1:27:41
  you know, squeaking by by the skin of his teeth. Uh, these
• 1:27:44
  these priorities. So yeah, half is one. I'm I'm very easily out
• 1:27:47
  on this point, I'm dropping him twelve team or no, no questions asked.
• 1:27:51
  Yeah. And this next guy, I think also is another player who
• 1:27:58
  has been squeaking by by the skin of his teeth is Nick Castillanas from Philadelphia
• 1:28:03
  outfielder. He is currently slashing two oh six two seventy six three h nine.
• 1:28:09
  That's a five eighty five ops from Nick Castillanos. That is brutal considering
• 1:28:15
  if you were drafting him, you were looking for lots more power. Uh.
• 1:28:18
  This is another guy who I actually don't have any shares of because I
• 1:28:21
  was out during draft season. You could see it last year that he was
• 1:28:27
  starting to show show old man skills as a thirty one year old, that
• 1:28:30
  the contact rates were starting to drop. The overall just kind of batted ball
• 1:28:35
  metrics in terms of well, not his barrel rate, but uh, I
• 1:28:42
  guess twenty twenty two he was banged up though as well. So, I
• 1:28:45
  mean when you consider that some of the hard hit rate metrics were starting to
• 1:28:49
  taper off, and he just looked a lot more lost at the plate last
• 1:28:54
  year with his twenty seven point six percent k rate, and that has come
• 1:28:58
  back again this year. That Cassianos he go to his Baseball Savont Page.
• 1:29:03
  Everything is blue, which is not great if you're kind of a DH only
• 1:29:10
  slugger feigning it in the outfield. You know that if you're not bringing anything
• 1:29:14
  to the plate, that's really tough. I think again, this is another
• 1:29:17
  guy where the projections have already kind of caught back up, and you can
• 1:29:23
  see it in the steamer line. He's only projected for two forty nine average,
• 1:29:27
  fourteen homers, six dolen bases. Honestly, that's pretty much Ian happ
• 1:29:31
  going forward, which is not what you want out of your power slugger if
• 1:29:35
  you're the Phillies or a fantasy owner. So yeah, I'm in the same
• 1:29:40
  sort of boat with Nick cassianis that if there is an intriguing option on your
• 1:29:45
  fantasy waiver wires, I think you've probably already moved on in a ten team.
• 1:29:48
  I hope you have in a twelve team. I think this is probably
• 1:29:53
  the time to cut him loose, because it does look like this is where
• 1:29:58
  cassianis is career kind of is about to really fall into a chasm, and
• 1:30:03
  this is kind of the type of guy who looks like dfa DH fourth outfielder
• 1:30:11
  fodder. Yeah, you know, I think the only thing that's held Castianos
• 1:30:15
  on this long is that, you know, not too long ago, he
• 1:30:18
  was a thirty homer guy hitting three hundred in Cincinnati, and he's had some
• 1:30:23
  playoff roics, like he's looked fabulous in the brightest lights, and so that's
• 1:30:27
  kind of shielded him from really who Nick Castianos really really is. And I
• 1:30:32
  have nothing to disagree with what you said there, he just isn't doing what
• 1:30:39
  you need him to do, especially as the DH like he's JD Martinez five
• 1:30:44
  to ten years earlier. That just put JD. Martinez is like a mid
• 1:30:47
  forties guy, but feels right. But yeah, he's younger than this.
• 1:30:55
  JD Martinez is one year younger than us. Oh god, old, I
• 1:31:02
  feel like I can run faster in Martinez. Different discussion, but yeah,
• 1:31:08
  I think Castiano he's an easy, easy cut at this point. I don't
• 1:31:14
  you can't even trade the guy. It's not even worth trying to. Yeah,
• 1:31:17
  I think I totally agree with you. Okay, Well, that's going
• 1:31:21
  to bring us to our last player for this consideration, and that is our
• 1:31:27
  April Player of the Month. We just create a PC for him last week,
• 1:31:30
  and now we're cutting him. That is Colton Kowser from the Baltimore Orioles
• 1:31:34
  As. After he opened March and April with a three h three three seventy
• 1:31:41
  two six thirty two line with six homers, things have gone just a little
• 1:31:47
  bit south in May, as he has hit one twenty five two thirty seven
• 1:31:54
  eight uh to open this month with a twenty eight point nine k percent,
• 1:31:59
  which actually isn't as bad as I thought it was going to be. Let
• 1:32:01
  me see if you started dipping into April, though, it's he started even
• 1:32:06
  slumping into like the end of April that you know, over his past twenty
• 1:32:12
  games you're looking, it's been one forty eight average with a thirty one point
• 1:32:16
  five percent strikeout. Right, This is why Colton Kowser was always kind of
• 1:32:21
  risky out the gate. You probably didn't invest any draft capital into him,
• 1:32:26
  but I know plenty of people out there spent just about a quarter to half
• 1:32:32
  of their fab budget on him back in April. But this was where you
• 1:32:38
  could see it all falling apart. For Kowser is that he's always had strikeout
• 1:32:42
  issues coming through the minors, and when he has gotten major league opportunities,
• 1:32:47
  sure he does hit the snot out of the ball, but he's swinging so
• 1:32:50
  hard it's hard to make contact at the same time, and he's going to
• 1:32:55
  start running into issues Like Ian Half in terms of playing time, I think
• 1:33:00
  that this is a loaded franchise in terms of the bats and the one and
• 1:33:04
  who they're bringing through development in the minors that Colton Kowser is not assured of
• 1:33:12
  his spot in that lineup, much like Ian Happ or what we're talking about
• 1:33:17
  with Spenser Torkosen that you can easily see where Kowser gets sent back down to
• 1:33:23
  Triple A if this continues on for much longer. But yeah, I'm this
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  one. I'm I can see holding Kowser just because the upside is pretty tremendous.
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  We saw it in April, but now that the league is adjusting back
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  to him, he's been struggling to readjust so if you are looking for a
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  little bit more of like a ceiling guy, I think compared to anybody else
• 1:33:45
  we've talked about, Kowser probably has it just because of his youth and his
• 1:33:51
  just overall newness to the league. But things have been really brutal. If
• 1:33:56
  you've had him for the past three four weeks and certainly, I can understand
• 1:34:01
  if it's time for you to move on, Brew What do you think do
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  you think Kowser has the skills to turn this around and be like useful or
• 1:34:13
  is it just like a straight cut and don't look back. I think there
• 1:34:17
  there is a CounterPunch coming with Colton Kowser is just because he's he's gone,
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  you know, so far each way, so I think he can pull a
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  little of this back. You know, it looks like, you know,
• 1:34:30
  he's he's really just struggling with the outside pitch, like he outside third of
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  the plate. He is just dreadful. He can't do anything, as the
• 1:34:38
  leagues figured that out, and they are pounding him away and he can't do
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  anything anything with it, which I think is kind of the the issue for
• 1:34:45
  him. I also think at the same time, he's one of those that,
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  you know, he's struggled. He's not playing against the lefties that much.
• 1:34:56
  They're pretty much poluting him at this point. And I think that's the
• 1:35:00
  biggest concern with Kowser is playing time in Baltimore. We've talked about this a
• 1:35:05
  few times. Baltimore is just loaded with hitters and young hitters. They've got
• 1:35:11
  guys sitting in the minors with Mayo Norby, here's Tad on the bench like
• 1:35:18
  that, there's guys that they can they can turn to, and they will
• 1:35:21
  turn to. And even though I think Cowser is kind of in between the
• 1:35:25
  two things we've seen so far this season, I don't think he's a phenomenal
• 1:35:30
  hitter. He had a ton of luck to start the season. We talked
• 1:35:31
  about that with the Rookie of the Month selections, But I'm not quite straight
• 1:35:40
  cutting him. But I'm hard looking at trading him and not regretting it.
• 1:35:45
  I'm I'm absolutely wanting to be looked at as the Patsy that was like,
• 1:35:49
  well, I'm cutting Baked because this guy looks and everybody else thinking like,
• 1:35:53
  hey, I'm getting ah, You're just you're just scared from a couple of
• 1:35:56
  rough weeks, Like I'm not sure if I can tell you that used car,
• 1:36:00
  please please take it. So I am worried about Kowser. I do
• 1:36:05
  think he's better than what he's been the last few weeks. I don't think
• 1:36:08
  he's goods what he was earlier in the season. That's like the easiest thing
• 1:36:11
  in the world to say, I get it. Yeah, but I think
• 1:36:15
  he's like a bottom of the order league average hitter at the end of the
• 1:36:17
  day. Yeah, I mean, I think part of it too is he's
• 1:36:21
  gonna be one of these super streaky hitters given the swing and missing his game.
• 1:36:27
  You can see it in the like similar batters on his Baseball Savant page.
• 1:36:30
  There are some pretty streaky dudes in there in terms of Tascar Hernandez O'Neil
• 1:36:34
  Cruz Elie de la Cruz, who just have massive power but massive strikeouts because
• 1:36:42
  they swing so hard and you know sometimes that can't run into a pitch every
• 1:36:47
  time. The thing that separates Kawser from those three, though, is that
• 1:36:51
  Kowser, like we've harped on here, just doesn't have a lock on playing
• 1:36:57
  time. So he needs to produce to be able to keep playing, I
• 1:37:00
  think, and this is an Orioles team that is in a dogfight for the
• 1:37:04
  Al East. They really can't ride out all the ups and downs and just
• 1:37:09
  kind of take I think if you plugged in Colton Kowser and just had him
• 1:37:13
  play for an entire year, like he'd be like a two forty hitter with
• 1:37:16
  thirty five bombs and you know, a handful of storm bases and you know,
• 1:37:21
  something akin to like eighty runs and one hundred rbi, which would be
• 1:37:26
  fantastic, but it would the peaks and valleys would be extreme through that season.
• 1:37:31
  And the problem that I think Kowser is going to face in Baltimore and
• 1:37:35
  makes them cuttable is that, like, I don't know if he's going to
• 1:37:39
  be allowed to play through those valleys, and so certainly, like I'm actually
• 1:37:45
  a little surprised at Kowser's on the Orioles. I thought he was going to
• 1:37:46
  be one of the dudes who was moved out of town, especially if he
• 1:37:49
  had moved in that Milwaukee trade for Burns, that would have been great.
• 1:37:54
  But certainly, like, yeah, if Kowser was on a different team where
• 1:37:59
  he didn't have to worry about who was behind him and looking over his shoulder
• 1:38:01
  the entire time, I think he would be an easy keep because that's just
• 1:38:08
  a really nice roto profile to be able to ride for an entire season.
• 1:38:12
  At this point, I just don't know if he gets that opportunity in Baltimore
• 1:38:15
  for an entire season. Yeah, I think you're absolutely right. So it's
• 1:38:17
  it's it's weird to say because I don't think we're selling the player as much
• 1:38:23
  as it is the situation. Yeah, I think I agree there. Okay,
• 1:38:27
  well that should wrap us up for this week. We will be back
• 1:38:31
  again next week. I know you've got some top one hundred hitter profiles coming
• 1:38:36
  out on this weekend where you're you're releasing your your fresh top one hundred,
• 1:38:43
  right, is that the plan? Yep, be releasing the top one hundred
• 1:38:45
  for the rest of the season. You know, it's we really shook it
• 1:38:48
  up a few weeks ago, had to make a lot of big moves,
• 1:38:50
  and hopefully we're kind of settling in a little bit now for the rest of
• 1:38:54
  the season. But this is this is where it gets tough, because,
• 1:38:57
  you know, are you the guys we just talked about, like how far
• 1:39:00
  down do you move them? How far out are you looking? Because we're
• 1:39:03
  talking the rest of the season, We're not talking about what they've already done.
• 1:39:06
  And I think that's where where it gets interesting because remember of the times
• 1:39:10
  that I have folks asking questions like, again, Julio's terrible, why is
• 1:39:15
  he ranked still in the top you know fifteen, Why aren't you doing something
• 1:39:17
  that I think because Julio can still be a top fifteen player he should be.
• 1:39:21
  Now we've talked about he's not maybe a top five, which people want
• 1:39:25
  to want him to be. But I think that this is where it gets
• 1:39:29
  gets tough from ranking perspective, is you're looking where can the rest of the
• 1:39:32
  season be? When will guys be healthy? What can they do for you
• 1:39:35
  the rest of the season. It's not about what they've already done and what
• 1:39:39
  they're already done. That's just just icing on the cake or the water to
• 1:39:44
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• 1:39:45
  coming out this Sunday, jump out there, argue about it because I know
• 1:39:49
  we're coming back next week and you're going to accuse me of everything I got
• 1:39:53
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• 1:39:56
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• 1:40:01
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• 1:40:04
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• 1:40:24
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