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Ep. 97 : Hitting Category Helpers · Cards & Categories

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  Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome everybody to episode ninety seven of Cards
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  Speaker 1: and Categories. I am my cool Art from Rasball, joined
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  Speaker 1: as always by my very good friend Jeremy Brewer, also
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  Speaker 1: from Rasball.
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  Speaker 2: How you doing tonight, Buddy, doing fine? Welcome to July.
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  Speaker 2: We are I'm gonna say, officially halfway through the baseball season.
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  Speaker 2: I don't what's your definition of halfway through baseball seasons?
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  Speaker 2: Eighty one games? Was the All Star break? I think
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  Speaker 2: there's a very there's a good argument for both what
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  Speaker 2: camp to use to them.
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  Speaker 1: So I mean, I sit in the eighty one game mark,
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  Speaker 1: so we did pass that this past week. Unfortunately, like
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  Speaker 1: that is not what fangrafts use this. So when you
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  Speaker 1: when I'm referring to it in a writing form, I
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  Speaker 1: guess I'm not very consistent about it. Now that I
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  Speaker 1: think about it, Probably should tighten that up. As a
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  Speaker 1: you know, semi professional blogger baseball writer.
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  Speaker 2: I think that's really the only thing that's holding you
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  Speaker 2: from full professional is really is this decision? I mean,
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  Speaker 2: it's a tough, tough one. I get it. I have
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  Speaker 2: never never figured it out. So I was just curious
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  Speaker 2: where you sat.
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  Speaker 1: What about you? Where you said eighty one games or
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  Speaker 1: pre post All Star break.
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  Speaker 2: I'm eighty one games all the way. It's the All
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  Speaker 2: Star break. It's just it's too late. You can't really
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  Speaker 2: claim that that way. It's a good break, but it's
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  Speaker 2: not halfway through the season. We're halfway through the season.
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  Speaker 2: Extrapolate all you want.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I think what could make it easier too,
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  Speaker 1: is that the break was pretty much just about on
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  Speaker 1: the end of June, so when you're doing splits and stuff,
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  Speaker 1: makes it a little easier to run in manual game
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  Speaker 1: logs and stuff like that. But we are speaking right
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  Speaker 1: now on Tuesday, July. I guess it's Wednesday. My bad.
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  Speaker 1: I had to day off, totally lost sense of time.
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  Speaker 1: July second, it is a Wednesday, my dudes. And we
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  Speaker 1: had the announcement of the All Star rosters, the starting
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  Speaker 1: rosters today, so that's pretty awesome. But we are going
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  Speaker 1: to talk a little bit about actually examining our fantasy
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  Speaker 1: rosters in the second half of the show today. That's
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  Speaker 1: gonna be our main focus because it is the halfway point.
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  Speaker 1: As you mentioned there, it's a great time to really
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  Speaker 1: start evaluating what you got to do in your fantasy leagues.
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  Speaker 1: To be able to move up those roador standings, especially
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  Speaker 1: during the All Star break. Like when you're used to
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  Speaker 1: setting those lineups, looking at those daily matchups, looking at
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  Speaker 1: the streaminator just to figure out what you're gonna do.
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  Speaker 1: You don't have that during the All Star break, and
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  Speaker 1: it's a fallow period, So why not start analyzing those
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  Speaker 1: teams to figure out where you need to make moves.
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  Speaker 1: We figured we'd focus on the hitting side, find bats
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  Speaker 1: that can help you move up in certain categories, especially
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  Speaker 1: because we have Rasball's top one hundred hitter guy here.
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  Speaker 1: So I think we've got a great show have us.
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  Speaker 1: Let's get into some of those news and notes. Let's
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  Speaker 1: first open up with the injuries, because we've got quite
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  Speaker 1: a little slew of injuries that have hit us here.
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  Speaker 1: First one, we've got a the first rounder who I
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  Speaker 1: mean eventually he was a first rounder by the end
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  Speaker 1: of draft season, DH outfielder for the Houston Astros, Jordon Alvarez.
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  Speaker 1: It sounds like he's gonna be out much longer now
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  Speaker 1: with his hand injury. He suffered a setback in his
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  Speaker 1: rehab from They didn't know what the hand injury was
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  Speaker 1: at first, then discovered there was a small fracture, and
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  Speaker 1: who knows kind of what else is going on, considering
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  Speaker 1: this team has flubbed quite a few injuries over the
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  Speaker 1: past few years, including Kyle Tucker's shin injury from last
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  Speaker 1: year another one we're gonna talk about right after this.
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  Speaker 1: But this doesn't look great for Jordon, who's always been
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  Speaker 1: battling knee issues. Now he's got the hand issues. We're
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  Speaker 1: seeing some other players that have been battling through wrist
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  Speaker 1: and hand things recently between like Corby and Carrol Francisco Alvarez.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe we'll have listening to trails on us here pretty soon.
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  Speaker 1: It is not a pretty sight when you're a power hitter.
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  Speaker 1: What are you doing in leagues where you have Jordon
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  Speaker 1: right now? Is he cut a bowl possibly? Or is
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  Speaker 1: it something you've whethered it this long? You've got to
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  Speaker 1: just stick the course.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know who he's cuttable at this point,
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  Speaker 2: just because he's such a professional hitter, and even in
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  Speaker 2: the small sample size he's played this year, he's he's
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  Speaker 2: hit the ball extremely well. His numbers don't show it,
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  Speaker 2: and you know, one hundred of bats three homers hitting
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  Speaker 2: two ten like, they don't show it. But the underlying
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  Speaker 2: metrics look a lot healthier than that. From a power perspective,
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  Speaker 2: the average is down a little bit, but again sample
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  Speaker 2: or a hundred bat sample size. But you can't just
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  Speaker 2: let the guy like you were on go knowing that
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  Speaker 2: what he could do late in the season when people
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  Speaker 2: are getting you know, you got call ups happening, people
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  Speaker 2: aren't getting any everyday at bats. Like getting this kind
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  Speaker 2: of guy back at that point in the season is
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  Speaker 2: a boon that said, I'm I don't know that you're
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  Speaker 2: getting one hundred percent. You weren't on Alvarez back. If
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  Speaker 2: and when he does come back, I just think it
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  Speaker 2: would be rash to cut him right now. It's but
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  Speaker 2: this handager, I think when when it first happened, we
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  Speaker 2: talked about it. It is just hard to know is
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  Speaker 2: he really like gonna heal and how long is this
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  Speaker 2: gonna like hold the power back, you know, the grip
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  Speaker 2: on the bat that it's just such a concerning thing.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm not cutting him, but I'm also not really
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  Speaker 2: relying on him, like I think this sits in the
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  Speaker 2: in the ballgame of I'm seeking out a replacement for
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  Speaker 2: and hoping I don't need that replacement the whole rest
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  Speaker 2: of the season.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that makes sense. What about maybe Dinastair
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  Speaker 1: and keep your leagues where you have had yard On
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  Speaker 1: and you've got him at a decent price, he would
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  Speaker 1: have been capable for you, but you're in the race.
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  Speaker 1: Do you maybe move a yord On piece to try
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  Speaker 1: to cash in on it or are your concerns so
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  Speaker 1: considerable long term you're just cashing in on your don
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  Speaker 1: wherever you can. And in dynasty keeper.
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  Speaker 2: Leagues, I think both apply in dynasty keeper leagues, to
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  Speaker 2: be honest, like he is one of those kind of
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  Speaker 2: guys that like he is I don't say one trick
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  Speaker 2: pony because he's more and more than that, but he
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  Speaker 2: doesn't have the speed, he doesn't do the other things
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  Speaker 2: that you know, force him to be like a little
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  Speaker 2: bit better of a floor And it's a first rounder
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  Speaker 2: and I'm I'm concerned, Like he's you know, he'll be
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  Speaker 2: what twenty nine next season, and so that's you're starting
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  Speaker 2: to get to that point of like man injuries have
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  Speaker 2: have like had of lingered for him in the past,
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  Speaker 2: and it feels like it's this one is more concerning.
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  Speaker 2: So I especially when I'm in it, I am this
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  Speaker 2: is the perfect thing to be, like, Hey, I think
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  Speaker 2: this guy's gonna be great next year, we don't loose
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  Speaker 2: the first rounder. But I can't wait around because I'm
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  Speaker 2: going for it this year. Like you can make a
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  Speaker 2: great sales job here and pick up a good piece
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  Speaker 2: the rest of the way through. But even if I
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  Speaker 2: wasn't quite an like and I had a good price,
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  Speaker 2: I'd be kind of testing that market right now. I'm
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  Speaker 2: not saying some pennies and the dollar, but you know,
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  Speaker 2: give me three quarters and I call it good.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, No, I think that's totally fair. The other thing
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  Speaker 1: to keep in mind is, you know, if you go
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  Speaker 1: out to your league and you're trying to shop your
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  Speaker 1: don and you're just met with crickets and silence, keep
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  Speaker 1: it keep an eye on, I would say, when he
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  Speaker 1: does return, just that bat speed, just to see where
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  Speaker 1: it clocks in to determine, you know, do you maybe
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  Speaker 1: even need to lower that price from seventy five cents
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  Speaker 1: on the dollar to fifty or lower to be able
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  Speaker 1: to just extract some value if it is looking like
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  Speaker 1: that hand is becoming something that could round into a
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty six issue. So just something keep in mind.
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  Speaker 1: I would say, with your don I alluded to this injury.
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna stick in Houston for this one because same pattern.
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  Speaker 1: They caught it within a couple of days, probably because
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  Speaker 1: like they knew they couldn't mess this one up in Houston.
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  Speaker 1: Is Jeremy Pania got beamed in the ribs over the weekend,
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  Speaker 1: went in for an initial X ray. They said no
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  Speaker 1: significant damage, but they were sending him for more imaging,
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  Speaker 1: more testing. That more imaging, more testing, kicked back a
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  Speaker 1: cracked ribcage, you know, a broken rib within where he
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  Speaker 1: got hit, which I mean this also confounds me. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know how this keeps happening, considering like this happened
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  Speaker 1: with Orvin Carroll too, that like what type of imaging
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  Speaker 1: do they have where they can't pick this up? Or
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  Speaker 1: is it like such a fine break where like if
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  Speaker 1: you and I like this happened to us, they would
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  Speaker 1: call it a bone bruise and kick us out of
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  Speaker 1: the emergency room and tell us to go just like
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  Speaker 1: take some Adville or something. Is it that kind of level?
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  Speaker 1: Do you think or do you think there is something
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  Speaker 1: wrong with the Houston astros here in terms of this
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  Speaker 1: injury pattern, because Jeremy Penna has been MVP candidate any
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  Speaker 1: other year non Judge and Cal Rowley running four point
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  Speaker 1: one war He's clocked in as one of the most
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  Speaker 1: valuable shortstops within our player Raider. He's clocked in number four.
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  Speaker 1: He's out of Francisco Lindor right there with a three
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  Speaker 1: twenty two, three seventy eight, four eighty nine slash line,
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  Speaker 1: eleven homers, fifteen stolen bases. It's been a monster year
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  Speaker 1: for Penia. So, yeah, what are you doing with Penia
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  Speaker 1: and anything? You think that this speaks to on a
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  Speaker 1: larger level for the Houston Astros or just a bunch
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  Speaker 1: of coincidences.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I do. There's something in the water
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  Speaker 2: there in Houston right now, at least on the medical staff,
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  Speaker 2: and I I'm concerned, Like I look at this, and
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  Speaker 2: to your point, like Corporate Carrol a different team, I'd
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  Speaker 2: be like, ah, like it was so minor. They didn't
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  Speaker 2: pick it up like when not. But it's not just that,
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  Speaker 2: But they also didn't seem to announce like a time
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  Speaker 2: frame or anything else with it, which to me, if
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  Speaker 2: if it truly is the bone bruised version, if it's
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  Speaker 2: just a very hairline crack or something like that. They're
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  Speaker 2: saying it's a hairline crack. A few weeks, you know,
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  Speaker 2: get some rest, and he'll be back. We just want
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  Speaker 2: to be to be healthy. They're not saying that. So
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  Speaker 2: to me, there's like red flag upon red flags here.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm I'm not entirely thrilled with what I'm seeing here,
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  Speaker 2: and I'm I'm probably you know, looking to shop pain
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  Speaker 2: you to see if somebody else believes it's just a
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  Speaker 2: short term thing. And the other side of it is
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  Speaker 2: if you actually look at paina under the covers, like,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know how much of this is real. Like
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  Speaker 2: the guy can run, the guy could hit for a
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  Speaker 2: decent average, The power I think is a little bit overstated.
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  Speaker 2: I think that you know, the Crawford boxes are helping
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  Speaker 2: him a little bit more like he's just gone full
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  Speaker 2: pole heavy and so you know, that's you know, who
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  Speaker 2: he had generally has always been. But that's what's driving
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  Speaker 2: a lot of these these homers. And there there's they're
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  Speaker 2: not like make it out mile a lot. He's got
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  Speaker 2: a lot of just barely stuck out type of things here.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm just not overly sold on paina long term,
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  Speaker 2: and with the Astros bumbling around the injury injury list here,
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  Speaker 2: I'd rather look elsewhere. And my worry is the rest
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  Speaker 2: of the leagues can do the same.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think so too that I think the rest
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  Speaker 1: of your league will see this fantacy trade coming from
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  Speaker 1: a mile off if you trying to move Paenia and
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  Speaker 1: capitalize on that upper tier value. He's also I think
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  Speaker 1: going to already be like lined up for a bust,
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  Speaker 1: kind of like evaluation going to next year. But I
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  Speaker 1: mean I'm intrigued just because he does really work those
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  Speaker 1: Crawford boxes. I think that like, if you find yourself
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  Speaker 1: in a league where nobody else wants Jeremy Panha, then
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  Speaker 1: I'm happy to have him as my starting shortstop. It's
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  Speaker 1: just kind of not something that I'm usually seeking out,
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  Speaker 1: But I think you probably get a couple more years
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  Speaker 1: of Painia where they are pretty.
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  Speaker 2: Incredible.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe not like this Francisco Lindor level, but you know,
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  Speaker 1: a notch down, you know, back end of a top
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  Speaker 1: ten of shortstops out there, so very very usable piece
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  Speaker 1: within our fantasy realm. So next injury, we have this
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  Speaker 1: one kind of hit out of nowhere. This afternoon and
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  Speaker 1: when I'd originally drafted the rundown, I had to go
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  Speaker 1: back and update it. We've got Atlanta pitcher Spencer Schwellenbach
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  Speaker 1: hitting the eye out with a broken elbo that he
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  Speaker 1: like induced himself just through pitching. So we haven't gotten
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  Speaker 1: great specifics on this because it is such fresh news
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  Speaker 1: out of Atlanta. In turn, it looks like roster resource
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  Speaker 1: has Hearston Waldroup taken over for the rotation spot. It also,
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  Speaker 1: if anything, Didefuente's struggled tonight but looked sharper than he
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  Speaker 1: had in the first couple of outings, which I like
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  Speaker 1: for Fuentis. We've talked about him plenty, but let's focus
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  Speaker 1: on Schwellenbach here. It's been a really fantastic season for
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  Speaker 1: him so far. You know, he was up to a
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  Speaker 1: three h nine ERA in his seventeen starts. But this
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  Speaker 1: is what I was always worried about with Schwellenbach is
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  Speaker 1: that when he came through the amateur system at Nebraska,
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  Speaker 1: here's a shortstop slash closer underwinter. Tommy John Surgery hasn't
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  Speaker 1: really had a great repertoire of building up starting pitching injuries,
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  Speaker 1: and I think that's maybe a little innings, starting pitching innings,
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  Speaker 1: and that's where this injury ended up coming from. So
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  Speaker 1: what are you doing with Schwellenbach in both just single
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  Speaker 1: season leagues here for US twenty twenty five and more
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  Speaker 1: long term keeper situations.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean this is a tough one because I
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  Speaker 2: I oddly feel better about this one than I do
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  Speaker 2: bout anything happened with Houston. And I don't know what,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I shouldn't say that with a picture with
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  Speaker 2: an broken elbow, but it's you know, it seems like
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  Speaker 2: it's really their treating is a minor issue saying four
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  Speaker 2: weeks things like that, and Atlanta has always been a
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  Speaker 2: relatively transparent club and relatively pretty good at saying what's
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  Speaker 2: actually going on. So I feel a little bit better
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  Speaker 2: about that, you know, It's it is a little concerning
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  Speaker 2: from all, maybe more of a long term perspective of just,
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  Speaker 2: you know, how well does he hold up? Because I
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  Speaker 2: think I said the one comment I saw him saying
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  Speaker 2: something about like he's added velosity this year, and he
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  Speaker 2: thinks that that might have been part of it. Is
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  Speaker 2: just adding that velocity put that extra stress on the elbow, Like, well,
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  Speaker 2: it's kind of what we want you to do. You're
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  Speaker 2: more effective when you have more velocity, and those things
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  Speaker 2: kind of go together, and so like it does give
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  Speaker 2: me a little pause, like the thing is worth pitching
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  Speaker 2: like any picture, Like he's still young, he's twenty five,
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  Speaker 2: Like I think he's you know, even if I get
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  Speaker 2: O two three really good solid season that you're probably
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  Speaker 2: happy in the dynasty league just with the fickle nature
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  Speaker 2: of the position. So I'm I'm hopeful he's back this year,
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  Speaker 2: but I think it's like long long term, maybe not
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  Speaker 2: the next year or two. I think that is a little,
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  Speaker 2: you know, red flag to kind of keep an eye on.
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  Speaker 2: I would let this one be the one that, you know,
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  Speaker 2: breaks the camel's back. But if this like this kind
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  Speaker 2: of thing, like I would say a wear and tear
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  Speaker 2: injury keeps kind of seeming to occur with him, especially
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  Speaker 2: in that elbow, then I would probably be looking to
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  Speaker 2: move him on. The thing is, he's just so valuable
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  Speaker 2: right now and from a pure stuff perspective, like I
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  Speaker 2: feel like he's one of the more trusted pitchers in
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  Speaker 2: the league right now. So it's hard to really move
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  Speaker 2: on from from an injury risk perspective until you really
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  Speaker 2: see is this truly just kind of like a play
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  Speaker 2: it safe with our young ace or if is it
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  Speaker 2: truly like an enduring thing?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think my concern level or level of concern
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  Speaker 1: here is much higher than yours. This is not a
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  Speaker 1: profile that I ever thought would last. As you know,
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  Speaker 1: I have him in our auto neew league where I
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  Speaker 1: kept him.
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  Speaker 2: But mostly you can trade him to me if you'd
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  Speaker 2: like to. I'll take him.
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  Speaker 1: I mean I might if you if you want to
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  Speaker 1: do it, because this is not the type of injury
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  Speaker 1: I like to see. Like period, if you're if your elbow,
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  Speaker 1: the bones in your elbow are breaking under the stress
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  Speaker 1: that you're putting them on. Putting on them as a
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  Speaker 1: starting pitcher not good. You know, I was just looking
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  Speaker 1: it up and it's it's not fun to draw this comparison.
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  Speaker 1: It smells a lot like Chris Medlin to me, where
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  Speaker 1: it just doesn't work. There's not enough like history of
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  Speaker 1: long and heavy workloads to be a starter. I think,
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  Speaker 1: you know, if they transitioned Swollenbach into some sort of
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  Speaker 1: reliever role, he might be able to do this in
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  Speaker 1: shorter bursts. But I just don't know if he can
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  Speaker 1: hold up to this where he didn't do it for
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  Speaker 1: so long throughout the amateur level at college, and then
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  Speaker 1: you can see it in his minor league kind of
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  Speaker 1: come through for Schwellenbach because they were already bathing him
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  Speaker 1: after he had that elbow surgery back in college, and
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  Speaker 1: we're trying to slowly stretch him out. I think we've
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  Speaker 1: reached a point where like it's just not maybe gonna
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  Speaker 1: fully work. If you're gonna break your elbow during the
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  Speaker 1: middle of the season. It's to me, honestly more concerning
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  Speaker 1: in terms of like a red flag than any sort
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: of UCL injury, because like those, it just seems like
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: the rubber band snaps, you repair the rubber band. This
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: is like a structural I'm not sure if the bones
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: around Schwellenbach's arm can handle this. So I am highly concerned.
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: I think it's a great profile and I love it,
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: and it's gonna tent me whenever it's healthy. But I
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: don't know if we're ever gonna get more than like
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: one hundred, one hundred and twenty inning burst of Schwellenbach
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: at any point.
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah, this this and I think this goes to I
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: think we've talked about before on the podcast being comfortable
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: in the who you are as a fantasy owner and
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: lean into that. Look at my pitching staff and at
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: new it is slittered with guys like this, and it's
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: it's it's I'm gonna hit like one out of two
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: and I'm gonna be thrilled. But it doesn't you have
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: to be comfortable with that kind of strategy, you know,
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: the actually the guy that it kind of to a degree,
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: Schwellenbach makes me think of like early career Noah Cindergarden
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: before he had all the issues and you know, really,
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: you know, not quite the same velocity, but that's what
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: ended up being the issue for Cinderguard is still I
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: think there's a little more control Swellenbach, maybe a little
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: less velocity, but at the end end of the day,
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: relatively similar profiles, good ground ball guys, good control, high octane,
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: and then an injury happens and it starts to drop
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: off that velocity, which makes all those things a little
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: bit more manageable to take care of from a hitting perspective.
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: So that like, that's the like em if you're right,
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: that's what I'm looking at, And cinder Guard wasn't really
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: that much valuable, Like a twenty two, twenty three year
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: old seasons. So we'll see. But I'm I'm all drink
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: the kool aid for at least till the next next
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: go round.
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah, And I'm I think what you bring up is
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: a fair point that, like, you can't ever be walking
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: out of drafts at the end of the season or
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: at the beginning of the season and thinking that Schwambach
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: can be year one or two. I think it's what
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: it is that if you're counting on him as more
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: of like a three four starter in your staff, so
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: like in a snake draft, it's gonna be really hard
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: to get that value. So he's not gonna fall to you.
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: But maybe he does in an auction or a keeper situation,
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: then yeah, roll with it. But you can't. He's not
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: one of those guys. I think this is what I
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: had like issue with on the Cole Reagan's price at
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: the draft table this past year. It's the same sort
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: of thing. It's not someone who I feel comfortable moving
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: up to that level of reliability that you need out
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: of a one or two fantasy starter where you do
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: need to pin them to your roster and really like
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: count on them making it through a season, you know,
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: except for you know, a Tommy John or something, but
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: like not something like this.
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah, this is just we can go around round because
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: I've also got it owns Cole Reagans. So this just
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: goes perfectly too. Like like I said, the different strategies
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: because you're I think you're right if your trust him
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: as number one. That that that's where you're going wrong.
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: If you're buying him in bulk, buying those guys in
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: bulk and the threes and the fours and the fives,
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: and you're like, I know something's not gonna work out here,
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: but I also know my catch lightning the bottle, and
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: that might win my league. That's that's a viable st strategy.
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: It also might blow up on you like it does
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: to me at times.
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, and I'm not even like against your strategy.
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: I'm just saying, like, you got to prepare yourself for that.
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you gotta play these guys, and you got
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: to play it against the value of what the rest
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: of your league is doing. You know, you weren't buying
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: these guys at the draft table, you know what I mean?
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: At full this this is very much a dynasty ish strategy.
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: That you can play, which is if I can invest
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: in guys with ace upside for a quarter of the price. Yes,
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: and I might have to cast one or two off
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: over time because wenot as long as I'm netting out above,
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: it's viable file options.
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: So yeah, okay, I think that's all fair. Well, speaking
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: of Cole Reagans, we have another rotator cuff felling a
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: starting pitcher in our pool. Tyler Molly, the right hander
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: from the Texas Rangers, been on the IL for a
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: hot minute since mid June, but has been transferred to
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: the sixty day IL because they found a rotator cuff strain.
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: They've that he's not going to be back before the
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: trade deadline, which is really bad for the Rangers, who
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: are sorry to fade out of the race. They're I mean,
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: they're behind the Angels at this point too, which isn't great.
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: Molly would have been a great person to put on
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: the trade block, considering he is a free agent after
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: this year, and it's been one of those years where
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: like everybody's been waiting for him to unwind because it
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: is a two thirty four ra through seventy seven innings
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: for Mali, but it's only come with a six and
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: a half K nine the FIP, I mean it's a
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: full run at three thirty six higher. But you also
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: look at the x FIP four to thirty four. You've
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: also got an XCRA a four seventeen. So everything was
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: lining up where there was a lot of regression coming
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: back for MOLLI one thing rates and Barrels brought this
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: up this past week. Texas plays really really pitcher friendly
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: nowadays compared to the rest of league. That might have
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: been a factor here with Molly as well as you
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: also look like some reason, Patrick Corbyn's like a viable
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: picture in the major leagues right now for I think
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: the same reason. But what are you doing anywhere with Molly?
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: Because I mean I think at this point, if you
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: had him stashed, you can move on. But any reason
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: that you're you think that he might be worth putting
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: on your roster still.
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: No, I think at this point, you know, his value
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: was innings and pitching for a pretty pretty decent team.
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: They could support him, and he was running on some
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: luck at this point. Rotator Cuff not loving it. You
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: know he's gonna be shut down for a decent decent
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: while you cast them off because he wasn't an anchor
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: to your team. You're much better taking that spot, that
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: roster spot, and dedicating it to another guy that might
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: be making a break for it, like like right now,
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: like Mike Soroka's guy I'm really interested in. He seems
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: to be kind of tinkering around the edges doing some
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: things like finding those kind of guys that might turn
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: into something or is just as valuable as what you
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: got with here. So I'll let him go. I'm setting
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: them off in the sunset.
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: Yep. I think that's all totally fair, all right. Next
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: injury we have was kind of a gross one with
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: Griffin Canning of the New York Mets. Was you know,
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: coming off the mound trying to get into a fielding
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: play looked like an inkle injury, and initially that's how
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: it was reported, but if you watch the video, it
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: was pretty clearly an achilles like right off the bat,
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: the same sort of thing that happened to Halliburton in
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: the NBA Finals.
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: Like this, Haliburton, Yes, that it's uh, there's kind of
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: like an epidemic going on out there in terms of
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: just achilles blowing out all across all sorts of sports
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: Aaron Rodgers a couple of years ago.
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: I think there is like something to you like modern
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: sports really do push the human form to its pretty
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: like maximum level. Gryffin Canning is evidence of that. It
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: had been a much better season until the past month
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: or so, where the walks were really starting to catch
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: up to him. He had a four point one walk
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: per nine over his seventy six and the third innings
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: will be out for the rest of the season here.
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: So the focus in the Mets, especially considering they are
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: well except for this most recent kind of stretch where
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: they've really been playing like absolute crap is you've got
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: a lot of wins on the line for starting pitchers.
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: So they have brought up Blade Tidwell, who continues to
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: look just like a reliever to me, like he can't
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: get through orders more or lineups more than really. Like
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: once saw it again tonight he pitched and was doing
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: okay his first go through, but then ended up giving
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: up a couple of taters and just like I said,
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: the stuff will play up in the bullpen for Tidwell.
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: So there's quite a few options molling about in that
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: minor league system for the Mets. Between Jonah Tong, and
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: you've also got your boy Brandon Sprote, and you know
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: other options down there as well, So they've got plenty
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: of players to go to. I actually kind of like
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: Noa McLain myself a little bit. But any of those
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: really stand out to you where you would be prioritizing
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: one of them over the other, maybe in some fab
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: bidding this weekend.
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think if I'm gonna pick one of those
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: over the others, it's you actually went right there. I
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: think it's Nolan McLain. I think Sprote has taken a
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: step back this season and they need to figure out
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: what that is. I think Tong might be the best
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: of the bunch, but he's still you know, he's younger,
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: he's still got more time to go. He's only had
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: a little bit of time and he's only fourteen starts
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: at the Double A level, and so I think you
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: want to give him a little bit more chance to
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: develop again. He might be the most dominant guy, but
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: I think Nolan McClain is your guy that you go
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: go with here. He's twenty three, almost twenty four, solid,
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: solid down the farm's got two twenty five era which
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: he's performing probably a little bit better than than his
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: actual talent level. But because of that, he's the kind
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: of guy that is not like I don't think he
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: has like unbelievable ceiling. I think he's got mid rotation potential.
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: And so that's the guy that you are comfortable bringing
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: up and seeing what you got, and the risk is
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: as large as pushing a guy like Tong or guy
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: Sprote who's struggled in their development. I think Nolan McLain
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: has done what he needs to from a development perspective.
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: It's not his first go around the upper miners. He's
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: had you know, a few seasons there. Uh. Just last
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: year he got you know, one hundred and ten innings pitched,
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: and so he's still got probably another good sixty seventy
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: innings in the arm this year left to go. So
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: if i'm if i'm prioritizing won, it's Nolan McClain Jonah
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: Toong probably long term.
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: Okay, Yeah, I think I like that too. All right,
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: let's get into a couple of hammy injuries in the
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: al centry Al Central. First, we have outfielder Slash dh
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: from the Detroit Tigers carry Carpenter going down with a
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: hammy strain, and it's been a solid season I would
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: say for him, not fantastic, not exactly like the worst
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: in the world, but he has been stuck in a
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: strongside platoon only two hundred eighty plate appearances, over which
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: he has slashed two fifty seven, two eighty five, four
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: ninety four with sixteen bombs. The other is Luis Robert
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: Junior from the Chicago White Sox. Not great timing for
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: the trade deadline here for the White Sox as Robert
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: goes down with a hammy injury. Things have been absolutely
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: dreadful for him this season. Over two hundred and eighty
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: five plate appearances of his own, he's gone one eighty five,
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: two seventy three thirteen. That is not great. That's a
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: sixty three WRC.
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: Plus.
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: He's still had value in fantasy because he has twenty
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: two steals eight homers as well, so a little bit
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: of pop, but has pretty much become like a stolen
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: base only play at this point. What are you doing
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: with both of these guys because they both have pretty
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: sordid injury pass now at this point, like they are
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: always set for an yearly annual il trip or two
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: because and it's always soft tissue for both of these,
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: which is not exactly great for long term. But if
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: I had to stick one on your roster for the
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: rest of the season, make you use one of these spots?
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: You going with Carpenter, Robert.
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: This is so such an easy, easy question. It's Carpenter
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: all day, no question about it. Like that, that's a
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: guy that you know exactly when you're gonna play him,
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: and you know exactly what you're gonna get. He's he's
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: an above average hitter in his platoon and he's gonna
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: hit for power in the middle of that lineup. Robert
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: like he might go oh for the next week and
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: the seal three bases and then pop a war home
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: runs like the next week, and then go oh for
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: the next month like he like it's it's just so
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: unreliable as there. We all know the talent's incredible, uh
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: with lous Robert, but like he is, he is completely
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: lost at the plate. So like, I'm going to take
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: the new even though Carver's got the tune issues and
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: things like that. You know, I don't love the injury here,
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: but like when he's healthy, which is not all the time,
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: you know, what she got. I think Robert, like, I'm
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: not even thrown put him in the lineup if he
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: is healthy, like I'm worried about that.
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that's all very fair. And on top
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: of it too, like if this does really sap Robert
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: to where he can't be traded, I don't know what
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: his motivation to come back for the rest of the
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: season really is. He kind of gets into that shady
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: territory that we've seen of maybe like yon Mancata to
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: where the White Sox just maybe they don't want him
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: to come back either because they want to see how
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: some of these other outfielders might be able to handle
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: the majors. So I'm with you, you've got to be
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: stashateway carry bonds. All right, we have a third handy injury.
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: I probably maybe should have group this guy in with
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: those other two because you could use the roster spot
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: on someone uncovered last week, Jordan Lawler. This one does
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: sound more significant than the Carpenter or Robert Ones, which
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: sounded relatively mild. But the phrasing the Diamondbacks are using
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: around this injury, for Lawler is missing several weeks, which
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: then it's probably pushing you to almost to a mid
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: August return, because if they're reble to shut him down
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: get him ramped back up. The Diamondbacks also at that
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: point might have sold. They're big league roster, so there
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: might be you know, a spot at third base with
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: Aohenio Suarez being on the trade block for the d Backs,
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: We're still stashing away Lawler, even with this hammy injury
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: that he's gone is going through.
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think he's he's still worth the stash, and
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: I think it's because you can see a better path
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: the plane time with low pressure, which is probably exactly
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: what he needs after struggling in his few stints here
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: in the majors. It is disappointing to see because like
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: I thought he was gonna be a guy like up
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: in a week or two, trying to like press press things,
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: especially as they were deciding am I selling or not.
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: I think this actually makes it maybe more likely the
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: dbacs are going to sell, and so, yeah, this is disappointing.
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: I don't want to label him injury prone yet, but
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: it does seem like he's been a little bit banged
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: up more than we would like. And you know, I
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: think they're saying minimum one month right now, So you
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: know what you said mid August, like that might even
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: be generous, Like it feels like it could be more
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: of a September time frame before we're talking Jordan Lawler again.
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's also like one of those things where it's
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: almost starting to get a little Kobe Mayo ish too,
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: where the injuries and the lack of action from the
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: Dbacks speaks a lot to I think what Lawler's opportunity is.
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: And so it's going to be a fascinating situation as
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: we watch this unfold. I think, yeah, I think you've
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: nailed it on Lawler. It will be a really important
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: stretch to see what he can do with this injury,
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: to shake that injury prone label possibly and also like
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: see if he can do this for an entire season
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: at the big league level. So with that, that wraps
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: up the sad injury news for getting into. I almost
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: opened with this because this made me so happy.
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: I will sit this segment out. I know this is
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: this is all you.
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: Because we have big news in Colorado. They've finally done't
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: They've called up my boy yan kill Fernandez because when
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: I cut when did I cut him? I'm gonna look
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: that up real quick in our auto New League, because
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: I just ran into a roster crunch finally where I
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: had to cut him. And of course, what does yan
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: Kill Fernandez do when I cut him? After I've been
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: holding him since June twenty twenty three on and off,
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: trying to just like stash away this. You cut him
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: a little bit about ten days ago, Okay, so on
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: the twenty fourth. Yeah, and let's see since the twenty fourth,
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: because he went on an absolute monster tear over five
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: games after that. He popped three homers hit three thirty three,
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: including like just an absolute monster blast in Vegas. It
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: went out of the park in Vegas as like four
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: hundred and eighty feet deep. That's what kind of forced
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: this call up. Finally, the Colorado Rockies have woken up
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: to the fact that Sam Hilliard is not a major
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: league player. They cut him to make space on both
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: the forty man roster and twenty six man roster for Fernandez.
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: Looks like jan Kill should be in a strong side
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: platoon role while he's getting this opportunity. And man, it's
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: great to see him play because in person I love
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: him even more. He's like such a little like tank
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: shape and he wears the jersey pretty open. I'm still
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: really high on yan Kill Fernandez. Do you think I
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: get back to the point in our auditio league that
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: I can actually reauction him or is he gonna get
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: hoovered out from her knee? Me?
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: Oh no, you don't get that opportunity because because I
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: because you know this is I didn't do it. I
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: almost did, just pure spite. But you know, I think
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: it's one of those that it it goes, but it's
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: gonna go one of two ways. Right, It's either he's
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: gonna come up and he's gonna kind of make it
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: like Jordan Beck type of impact and like he's gonna
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: show like the Colorado airplays well with him and somebody's
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: gonna take the gamble, or he's gonna go over the
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: next like three weeks and get sent back down And
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: you're like, well, I'm not gonna auction him now. I
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: might as well wait till the next time. Like, I
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: just don't think they're gonna give him a shot to play,
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: And it'll be interesting to see to your point, like
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: how much does he get platooned they actually just give
• 34:44
  Speaker 2: him a full run. It's the Rockies. There's no reason
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: not to see what they truly have here. So uh,
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: it'll be it'll be fun to see the guy I
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: can hit that. There's no no question about that. It's
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: just how well is it gonna translate?
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean the one thing you're gonna have to
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: keep in mind too, is I I mean I covered
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: this pretty extensively in my piece this weekend. The Rockies
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: have maybe the best schedule for hitters of the entire
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: season coming up in July. They have a bunch of
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: games and cores, but then they their road series are
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: like at Sincy and at Boston, which are both hitters parks,
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: so lots of just great opportunities for the Rockies offense
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: and lineup to try to make up some ground. We
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: As I said, we're speaking on July. Second, it's part
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: way through jan kil Fernandez's MLB debut. First at bat
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: saw two pitches grounded out, the second pitch to the
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: to the pitcher.
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: So that's like the perfect MLB debut, You just roll
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: over the first one and think it out of the
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: way exactly.
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: So we'll see what Jan kill can do there in Colorado.
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: I want them to do great, but maybe not so
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: great that I've got there's no way I'm making it
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: three weeks.
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: No, there's not I got extra cash. I'll just I'll
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: just do it for fun.
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: And people are going to try trading back to me
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: for a king's ransom. It's kind of awful.
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: Do you want kill for Schwellenbach? Think about it. We'll talk,
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: we'll talk, we'll talk, Okay.
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: All right, Well, I mean you've just brought up swallanblock.
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: We're gonna go back to Atlanta because they did today
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: cut Alex Fred. You go to open up space for
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: Jerks and Profar, who's done with his suspension. Profar just
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: walking straight into a starting role there in Atlanta and
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: should hold it down to some assuming that he can't
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: doesn't get suspended again. Scrippy right in the middle. That
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: that's pretty solid order, although the back end of that
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: order in Atlanta is looks cooler on paper than it actually,
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: I mean name value of paper. Maybe not if you
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: don't just don't look at the stats of Ozzy Albi's
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: Michael Harris and Nick Allen behind him. But what are
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: you doing with Profar? Do you think he can be
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: anything down the stretch?
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, he was a guy I called out
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: my in my article this last week is a watch
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: for the top one hundred because you know, he if
• 36:59
  Speaker 2: he comes back when they when they said he was
• 37:02
  Speaker 2: you know when they when he was going to come back,
• 37:03
  Speaker 2: that the expectation was he was going to hit number
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: two in the lineup. He's actually hit number five night
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: and did hit a homer, and so you know that
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: that plays pretty well and it's very uh and he
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: was actually batting leadoff the before he went down. So
• 37:21
  Speaker 2: it's interesting to see. But if he's as long as
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: he's the top like half of that lineup, it's a
• 37:26
  Speaker 2: good spot to be. There's enough value with Kuna's and
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: the Olsen's and the Zunas, like you're you're gonna get
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: some production, whether it's RBIs runs, whatever it's going to be.
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: And I mean of all the things that we talk about,
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: like yeah, it's a it's a suspension, PD A suspension
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: like not like the greatest thing to come come back from.
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: But it's not an injury. It's it's it's not so
• 37:49
  Speaker 2: this would have been a guy that would one hundred
• 37:51
  Speaker 2: percent have been drafted valued. He hit twenty four bombs
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: last year total ten bases He's not going to be
• 37:57
  Speaker 2: a major stolen based threat. But you know, if you're
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: talking like a two sixty average pops ten homers, ten
• 38:06
  Speaker 2: to twelve homers and steals seven bases of the rest
• 38:08
  Speaker 2: of the way something like that, that's incredibly valuable. So
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: I think Profar as long as the Russ shakes off,
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: which I think it should, I'm probably gonna have him
• 38:16
  Speaker 2: in the top one hundred hitters, probably in the back
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: quarter before too long. And I just wanted to see,
• 38:22
  Speaker 2: you know, where he batted in the lineup and really
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: what was gonna take place there. But at this point
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: in the season, that's it's kind of like a free
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: trade because a lot of folks were just like forgotten
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: about him.
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I think that's very fair. So, and it's
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: also one of those things where if he struggles, you
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: can just throw him right back into the waiver wirepool.
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: I don't think it's anything where that's like league winning.
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: It's more of like rounding out of winning roster sort
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: of production. Correct, All right, let's move on to Texas,
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: where we have Jake Berger returning from his oblique injury,
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: and to make room for him on the big league roster,
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: the Rangers sent down Josh Young. So when we went
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: in to our season previews, this is the reason I
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: had Josh Young as as a cell because like, I
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: just didn't like the profile. I didn't know that the
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: ball was gonna be less bouncy, because I think that
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: is what's costed him here too, where I think the
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: extra drag and the ball the bounced, the bounciness just
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: not quite being there is eating dudes like Joshung alive
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: where they were always not like super powerful, but enough
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: power to where you know, the old ball allowed the
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: game to play. And you can see just in his
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: home run per fly ball rate the way that that
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: has just eroded from twenty five percent in his rookie
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: year down to seventeen point eight percent to fifteen point
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: two percent, down to eleven point four percent this year.
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: Just not enough extra oomph, despite still hitting the ball
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: just about as hard, hitting just about the same barrel
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: rate a little bit down it's at eight point three percent,
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: but it's also a little I mean, the pole rate's
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: not that bad. The thirty nine percent poll rate. I
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: guess maybe that park is eating young to live too.
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: But we're also talking about a guy here, who is
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: twenty seven. He's losing this roster spot to Billy McKinny.
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: As part of the other reason that they're deciding to
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: keep Josh Smith at first base instead of moving him
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: back to left field, letting Billy McKenny play left field,
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: instead of putting Young out there, maybe they are going
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: to retool what he's doing a little bit, but it's
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: kind of starting to get to pooper. Get off the
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: potty time for Josh Young. What do you think?
• 40:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it is, like I really think he's
• 40:37
  Speaker 2: a very talented hitter. I do like when he came up,
• 40:39
  Speaker 2: like he looked like a solid hitter. You know, he
• 40:42
  Speaker 2: was a top ten draft pick. Like, there's definitely talent there,
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: but all the injury time that that's really cost him.
• 40:50
  Speaker 2: And I look at the profile and I think I've
• 40:54
  Speaker 2: started to adjust the way I look at a certain
• 40:57
  Speaker 2: type of hitter which does hit Josh Young, Which is
• 41:00
  Speaker 2: that hitter that's with power, what no walks in high strikeouts,
• 41:04
  Speaker 2: Like it's it's the guy that doesn't have plate discipline
• 41:07
  Speaker 2: and that has power, and that's such a volatile profile.
• 41:11
  Speaker 2: It can work, like you Heneo sores, it can work,
• 41:14
  Speaker 2: but Also, when you talk about volatility, who also shows
• 41:17
  Speaker 2: up on the meters you Heneo sous right, And so
• 41:20
  Speaker 2: I think that's kind of what we have here, is
• 41:23
  Speaker 2: that that profile can work, but it's very on very
• 41:26
  Speaker 2: thin ice, and if you just if things aren't going well,
• 41:31
  Speaker 2: you get off kilter a little bit, you have very
• 41:35
  Speaker 2: little fall back on and you're sent to the miners
• 41:37
  Speaker 2: packing because it's hard to maintain when your calling card
• 41:42
  Speaker 2: is hitting the ball to the ballpark, getting the runs
• 41:44
  Speaker 2: and RBIs from it in the middle of the lineup,
• 41:47
  Speaker 2: and when you're not doing the other little things around it.
• 41:50
  Speaker 2: If that falters at all, you're You're a zero on
• 41:53
  Speaker 2: the team. You're not useful at all. And so I
• 41:56
  Speaker 2: was actually I was actually looking through a guys that
• 42:00
  Speaker 2: kind of fit that like this year, and there are
• 42:03
  Speaker 2: some surprising names there that when I'm starting to look
• 42:06
  Speaker 2: at that and be like, hmmm, it's making me you know,
• 42:09
  Speaker 2: second guess Pete crol Armstrong is kind of fits into
• 42:13
  Speaker 2: that that bucket a little bit. Now he has the speed.
• 42:15
  Speaker 2: So I think that that, you know, is what cancels
• 42:17
  Speaker 2: him him out to a degree.
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: It's her home park too, especially the way that Wrigley
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: has been playing this year is for a left handed batter.
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: It's just been really boosting his profile.
• 42:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but then I started to look at some other
• 42:30
  Speaker 2: names and I'm like, oh, yeah, these are the kind
• 42:32
  Speaker 2: of guys that I'm a little concerned with, like the
• 42:34
  Speaker 2: Joe Adell's falling there and things like that logan O
• 42:37
  Speaker 2: Hoppy falls in there, Hunter Goodman falls in there, You're
• 42:42
  Speaker 2: Tascar Hernandez's fall in there, Trevor's story, Like there's these
• 42:46
  Speaker 2: guys that like have talent and if you don't have
• 42:48
  Speaker 2: a second piece, Like again I go to the story
• 42:50
  Speaker 2: like there's a second piece there with the speed, but
• 42:54
  Speaker 2: that profile is scary. And when I list those guys,
• 42:59
  Speaker 2: it's the kind of guys that they're gonna win leagues
• 43:02
  Speaker 2: at times, but they can also lose them. And that's
• 43:05
  Speaker 2: that's what you have to know that you're getting into
• 43:07
  Speaker 2: with this with this kind of kind of player. So yeah,
• 43:11
  Speaker 2: it's you just have no one to get off the train.
• 43:12
  Speaker 2: And I think the Rangers are trying to pull it
• 43:14
  Speaker 2: the reset button like a few teams have done, like
• 43:16
  Speaker 2: Tyler Fitzgerald for the Giants just gonna sit down in
• 43:18
  Speaker 2: a similar similar deer, he'll go go reset yourself up
• 43:21
  Speaker 2: Burgers himself. Yeah, I got activated, Uh did the same thing.
• 43:25
  Speaker 2: So I think they're hoping for lightning the model. But
• 43:28
  Speaker 2: when this profile is off, it's off bad.
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, And I mean I think part of it
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: too is like young might just need a different scenery too,
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: in terms of like I just don't know if he's
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: like a first division type of starter, you know what
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: I mean, Like, this is a guy who would anchor
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: first base for the Pittsburgh Pirates for.
• 43:48
  Speaker 2: A decade, exactly who I thought you were just saying.
• 43:50
  Speaker 2: You know this, this is like Pedro Alvarez all over again.
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: But like in Texas when they're trying to move up
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: the standings and have a lot of money investing in
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: the right It's not a guy that can just let
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: flail away at the big league level and hope he
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: puts it together. All right, Well, let's talk about one
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: more promotion. Your boy Colby Thomas from the Athletics got
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: called up this week and currently roster resource has him
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: in a short side platoon role, but he started both
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: of the games that he's already been up for because
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: the glove plays. We saw it in the first game
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: in his MLB debut where he just he has a cannon,
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: so just rifled out a dude at home against the
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: Rays where he did the classic like flip as you
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: throw to It's also like just a great baseball clip
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: because the one that's been shared around the internet, you
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: can't actually see the play at the plate because of
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: the angles in the minor league stadium. There's a dude
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: just blocking your view of the play at the plate,
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: So you have to take the UMP's word for it
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: that Colby Thomas gunned the runner down. But I think
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: this also might just be kind of spelling trouble for
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: Tyler Stalderstrom, who has been much rougher here in June.
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: If we have, if you haven't looked recently after that
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: great start with the one forty nine WRC plus in
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: April leaving the league in homers, you know, through the
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: end of April, I believe it has been a two sixteen,
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: three twenty seven, three oh seven. That's a three zero
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: seven slug Tyler Solderstrom while playing half of his games
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: in Sacramento through June. So it's he's certainly starting to
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: take more walks, but he's starting to maybe be a
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: little bit too passive. So what are you doing here
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: with Kolbe Thomas and Tyler Solderstrom is like, Thomas, is
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: this enough playing time to maybe start picking him up
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: in twelve and ten teamers or is it something where
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: you're still waiting a little bit.
• 45:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think if you're in a more of a
• 45:49
  Speaker 2: dynasty keeper, I might take the gamble on Thomas right now.
• 45:53
  Speaker 2: I'm not convinced with the way they called him up
• 45:55
  Speaker 2: and the way they kind of shared the news that he's,
• 45:58
  Speaker 2: you know, gonna be fourth outfielder, like they did not
• 46:01
  Speaker 2: talk like he was gonna be a full time starter,
• 46:03
  Speaker 2: And so I think that keeps the the price down
• 46:06
  Speaker 2: a little bit. And I don't think that he's gonna
• 46:09
  Speaker 2: be taking Tylers holders From's jobs by by any means,
• 46:12
  Speaker 2: with how amazing he was and that for the you know,
• 46:15
  Speaker 2: first you know, half, first half, the half, first quarter
• 46:17
  Speaker 2: of the season, and so I think that that's going
• 46:21
  Speaker 2: to kind of keep Thomas's value in check to start.
• 46:25
  Speaker 2: So I'm willing to watch what happens. I think long term,
• 46:28
  Speaker 2: I'm a big Colby Thomas fan. I I was actually
• 46:31
  Speaker 2: frustrated when he got called up in the kind of
• 46:32
  Speaker 2: the chatter was that he wasn't going to get full
• 46:35
  Speaker 2: time playing time, because I still want him over Denzel
• 46:37
  Speaker 2: Clark all day. But it'll be a matter of can
• 46:42
  Speaker 2: he bring that full profile. Can he can the speed play,
• 46:45
  Speaker 2: can the defense play? Can all those things happen that
• 46:48
  Speaker 2: will allow him the playing time to make the adjustment.
• 46:51
  Speaker 2: I think Nick Kurtz a ton of talent. There was
• 46:54
  Speaker 2: an adjustment period. I think that's what we have to
• 46:57
  Speaker 2: see with Colby. I think there will be an adjustment period.
• 47:00
  Speaker 2: So I'm not rushing, but I do think he is
• 47:03
  Speaker 2: gonna be valuable. I'm just not sure how quickly it's
• 47:05
  Speaker 2: going to be. So I'm not banking on like the
• 47:08
  Speaker 2: redraft twelve teamers right yet. Unless I see to your
• 47:12
  Speaker 2: point that he is getting full playing times. You pinch
• 47:14
  Speaker 2: it in this first game. Next two games he's had
• 47:17
  Speaker 2: full playing time, So like, if that continues, then I'm
• 47:21
  Speaker 2: a little bit more intrigued.
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: All right, I think that's all fair. All right. One
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: more piece of news, ending this section on a sad note,
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: as we had Dave Parker pass away this past week
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: at the age of seventy four. He had been battling
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: Parkinson's disease for a long time, and so that's why
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: especially there was a big push to get him into
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: the Hall of Fame. So that did happen this past January. Unfortunately,
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: Parker won't be there in Cooperstown this summer to be
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: able to see the induction and everything, which is is sad,
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: but at least we got to know that he knew
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: he was inducted into the Hall of Fame. It will be.
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: Network recently over the past couple of years put out
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: a really good documentary on Parker in terms of just
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: kind of going through and showing like what he's been
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: through with Parkinson's disease. Because this guy was just like
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: an all world athlete when he was with the Pittsburgh
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: Pirates and led them to I believe two titles during
• 48:17
  Speaker 1: his time. Let me check that again. Nope, just one,
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: because he picked up another one another World Series title
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: later in his career with the A's and he won
• 48:26
  Speaker 1: an MVP with the Pirates. He was a seven time
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: All Star overall, won the first Home Run Derby when
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: he was a member of the Cincinnati Reds I believe
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: once he he was from Cincinnati, so that was a
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: great reunion for him going back played for in total
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: two four six teams Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Oakland, Milwaukee, California, and Toronto.
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: So he's a fun dude for the Immaculate Grid because
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: you know, also Hall of Famer put up three hundred
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: and thirty nine career homers forty point one war on
• 48:59
  Speaker 1: Baseball Reference with twenty seven to twelve hits. So, like
• 49:03
  Speaker 1: I said, great play on Immaculate Grid. Great like also
• 49:07
  Speaker 1: emblematic run of flagship tops through kind of the junk
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: Wax series especially I think about, you know, starting off
• 49:15
  Speaker 1: in those colorful seventies uniforms and designs, going through you know,
• 49:21
  Speaker 1: being in some of just the most overproduced sets that
• 49:23
  Speaker 1: we've ever seen when he was in the Reds and
• 49:26
  Speaker 1: then that nineteen ninety one card where he's on the
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: California Angels. It's just I like it. I don't know
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: what it is about it, but it's a cool card
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: from that set. Dave Parker's always looked great on a
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: baseball card. If you want to see some of our
• 49:40
  Speaker 1: selections for our PC for him, go back to episode
• 49:45
  Speaker 1: seventy when we talked about Dave Parker when he got
• 49:48
  Speaker 1: inducted into the Hall of Fame, but he certainly will
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: be missed, So wanted to open up and see if
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: you had anything to add on Dave Parker, any thoughts
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: or memories. We've caught just the tail end of his career,
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: so you might have seen him a little bit in
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: the playoffs and stuff, but we didn't see the prime.
• 50:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we didn't got to see the prime. And like,
• 50:06
  Speaker 2: that's that's what the fun of going back and looking
• 50:09
  Speaker 2: at a guy like this, especially in the seventies and eighties,
• 50:11
  Speaker 2: when like, you know, the game was definitely evolving from
• 50:15
  Speaker 2: the kind of vintage era of you know, your maize
• 50:19
  Speaker 2: and your mantles and your musuals, your Errands and all
• 50:22
  Speaker 2: those you know, big names, and then you know, Dave
• 50:27
  Speaker 2: Parker was just a consistent force. I don't know who
• 50:31
  Speaker 2: to compare him to today, but like for you know,
• 50:34
  Speaker 2: a good like fifteen years, like you know, a few
• 50:40
  Speaker 2: down years with injuries, but otherwise, man, this guy could mash.
• 50:42
  Speaker 2: He was always hitting twenty to thirty bombs. You know,
• 50:45
  Speaker 2: he was always stealing a handful of bases. He's you know,
• 50:47
  Speaker 2: a two ninety career hitter, like his his nineteen seventy
• 50:51
  Speaker 2: eight season for the Pirates. Thirty homers, hundred and two runs,
• 50:54
  Speaker 2: hundred and seventeen RBIs, twenty steals, three thirty four average.
• 50:57
  Speaker 2: That is just an unbelievable season. And so he was
• 51:01
  Speaker 2: a great, great player. And I always look at him
• 51:05
  Speaker 2: as like, I feel like one of the most intimidating guys,
• 51:09
  Speaker 2: the stuff to the plate, Like there was just something
• 51:11
  Speaker 2: about him. You look him on a baseball card too,
• 51:13
  Speaker 2: like he just he looks like like a big beast,
• 51:16
  Speaker 2: just a guy that would be scary to face as
• 51:22
  Speaker 2: a pitcher. So sad to be missed to your point,
• 51:25
  Speaker 2: sad that he's gonna miss the ceremonies. But great career,
• 51:29
  Speaker 2: great person, you know. Sorry, sorry to his family. All
• 51:34
  Speaker 2: the prayers to the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Oakland, Milwaukee, you know,
• 51:37
  Speaker 2: and more fans out there in baseball.
• 51:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, and I mean yeah, I think he was
• 51:43
  Speaker 1: a behemith a plate too. That was part of the intimidation,
• 51:45
  Speaker 1: was a part of his game six five, two thirties
• 51:48
  Speaker 1: where he clocked in at really was one of the
• 51:50
  Speaker 1: only players that size back in the day, and certainly
• 51:54
  Speaker 1: someone who would have been really cool to have stat
• 51:56
  Speaker 1: cast back in the day, because you watch some of
• 51:58
  Speaker 1: the highlights and he just absolutely annihilates the ball that
• 52:02
  Speaker 1: you're talking, like gian Carlo.
• 52:04
  Speaker 2: Exactly what I was thinking. Exactly I was thinking.
• 52:06
  Speaker 1: So, yes, we will miss you, Dave Parker. And with that,
• 52:10
  Speaker 1: we're going to wrap up this news and no section.
• 52:12
  Speaker 1: We're going to take a quick break, but then we
• 52:15
  Speaker 1: will be right back to talk about hitters to acquire
• 52:18
  Speaker 1: to chase rodo categories. All right, welcome back everybody. We
• 52:39
  Speaker 1: are going to dive into analyzing some players that you
• 52:43
  Speaker 1: might want to be picking up to make up ground
• 52:45
  Speaker 1: in those hitting roto categories. So, as I said at
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: the top of the show, this is a great time
• 52:51
  Speaker 1: with the All Star break coming up to analyze those teams,
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: and you're really going to start looking at where can
• 52:57
  Speaker 1: you make moves pick up some extra roto points in
• 52:59
  Speaker 1: those as we get down to the stretch run here
• 53:04
  Speaker 1: over the next couple of months, we've passed the halfway mark,
• 53:07
  Speaker 1: so it's really gotten to the point where your team
• 53:10
  Speaker 1: is probably what it is and you've got to start
• 53:13
  Speaker 1: making some trades or some aggressive pickups on those waiver
• 53:16
  Speaker 1: wires to be able to just win those couple of points.
• 53:20
  Speaker 1: And especially like at this point. I don't know about you,
• 53:22
  Speaker 1: but like you're starting to realize maybe there are categories
• 53:25
  Speaker 1: you can start punting a little bit more where you know,
• 53:28
  Speaker 1: if you've fallen into kind of like a good spot
• 53:30
  Speaker 1: with stolen bases or saves. I feel like this happens
• 53:34
  Speaker 1: a lot to you, you can start kind of shedding off
• 53:37
  Speaker 1: some of that value and reallocating into different spots. So
• 53:41
  Speaker 1: what we're gonna do is we're actually gonna only talk
• 53:43
  Speaker 1: about four categories. We're gonna talk about home runs, RBI,
• 53:46
  Speaker 1: stolen bases, batting average, and we're gonna focus on hitters.
• 53:51
  Speaker 1: Two reasons I'm doing that. One, pitching is fickle, so
• 53:54
  Speaker 1: like you can try, you can chase like wins and
• 53:58
  Speaker 1: k's through two starters a little bit. But your best
• 54:01
  Speaker 1: call is using the ras ball streamingator. You can find
• 54:04
  Speaker 1: the link to that in our show notes, where you
• 54:06
  Speaker 1: can sign up for a subscription that can help you
• 54:08
  Speaker 1: just kind of make up some ground. Closers or closers.
• 54:11
  Speaker 1: Classic sagnof saves ain't got no face. You're just chasing
• 54:15
  Speaker 1: the saves. You're just going for the relievers on the
• 54:17
  Speaker 1: best teams. I'm also skipping focusing on runs because actually,
• 54:22
  Speaker 1: like runs is one of the things where I'm at
• 54:24
  Speaker 1: the draft table. Maybe this you can tell me that
• 54:26
  Speaker 1: it's a mistake to not focus on runs here, or
• 54:29
  Speaker 1: maybe you're in agreement with me. Runs is something when
• 54:32
  Speaker 1: I'm at the draft table I care about a whole
• 54:34
  Speaker 1: lot because it comes through in the valuations, and it
• 54:37
  Speaker 1: comes through in terms of like what teams are good
• 54:39
  Speaker 1: and stuff. When I get in season, I'm chasing runs
• 54:43
  Speaker 1: a lot less because what I'm doing is I'm chasing
• 54:46
  Speaker 1: Homer's and RBI because I'm just trying to find like
• 54:49
  Speaker 1: the good power hitters, also chasing average, where it's actually
• 54:53
  Speaker 1: a flip. At the draft table, I'm not really focused
• 54:57
  Speaker 1: on average, but I will in season to try to
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: like see where my team is trending and then what
• 55:03
  Speaker 1: I can fold in from there. The reason I don't
• 55:05
  Speaker 1: really look at runs is because like I'm generally looking
• 55:09
  Speaker 1: at lineup position and like the power production and that
• 55:14
  Speaker 1: just kind of produces runs in season, like and usually
• 55:18
  Speaker 1: if you draft well and you use your values well,
• 55:21
  Speaker 1: it picks up the runs for you. And it's really
• 55:24
  Speaker 1: tough I think to sometimes chase it in season to
• 55:27
  Speaker 1: where like it's a little bit of my strategy for
• 55:29
  Speaker 1: average at the draft table gets flipped with runs in season.
• 55:32
  Speaker 1: Is that unreasonable or am I No?
• 55:34
  Speaker 2: It's something I'm actually kind of laughing because I'll slightly
• 55:37
  Speaker 2: inverse to what my actual approaches is. I actually chase
• 55:41
  Speaker 2: average and not runs of the draft table, but for
• 55:43
  Speaker 2: the almost exact same reason, because I'm I'm looking for
• 55:48
  Speaker 2: guys that are going to booy the average with that
• 55:52
  Speaker 2: I can trust, and so it gives me more flexibility
• 55:54
  Speaker 2: in those other power categories and things like that, to
• 55:57
  Speaker 2: be a little bit more reckless if I need to
• 55:59
  Speaker 2: in the draft. But I'm looking for the guys that
• 56:02
  Speaker 2: hit for average that will booy it, which typically are
• 56:04
  Speaker 2: towards the top of your lineup, which typically produce runs.
• 56:07
  Speaker 2: And so it's like I think you end up I
• 56:08
  Speaker 2: just look at the other side of the equation to
• 56:10
  Speaker 2: a degree and looking to booy that and recognizing that
• 56:13
  Speaker 2: they have similar characteristics. So I think by I think
• 56:16
  Speaker 2: we're actually both ending up in a similar spot, because
• 56:18
  Speaker 2: if you hit for a high average, you and up
• 56:20
  Speaker 2: on top of the lineup, you actually score runs. I
• 56:22
  Speaker 2: think you're looking from a run perspective towards the top
• 56:24
  Speaker 2: of the lineup guys usually get better on base and average,
• 56:27
  Speaker 2: and so I think, in a weird way, we actually
• 56:29
  Speaker 2: look at the same thing, but I end up focusing
• 56:31
  Speaker 2: on average as my proxy for that kind of profile
• 56:34
  Speaker 2: because I don't Again, I'm trying to open up my
• 56:36
  Speaker 2: options later in the draft when I can chase steels
• 56:41
  Speaker 2: or power or something like that and sacrifice average, which
• 56:44
  Speaker 2: you might just be sacrificing runs from a similar perspective.
• 56:47
  Speaker 2: So two different ways to go about the same thing.
• 56:50
  Speaker 2: But it's just like it's ironic that we think we're
• 56:53
  Speaker 2: doing the same thing. Whether who's right, I don't know.
• 56:56
  Speaker 1: It's also like it's a little bit of like the
• 56:58
  Speaker 1: like river cutting through the riverbed with us that like
• 57:02
  Speaker 1: maybe our draft strategies have just molded together over time,
• 57:06
  Speaker 1: like grown that way because we're in the same draft
• 57:08
  Speaker 1: room so often that I wonder if it just naturally happened.
• 57:11
  Speaker 2: Yes, is like I could ever find these run guys.
• 57:13
  Speaker 2: So I'm just gonna go the average.
• 57:16
  Speaker 1: It's great, Okay, Well that is why we're gonna skip
• 57:19
  Speaker 1: runs though, So because I got to write the run average,
• 57:22
  Speaker 1: I guess y, I guess if you want to, you
• 57:25
  Speaker 1: can maybe bring up the runs guy, But let's focus
• 57:28
  Speaker 1: on home runs first. So I'm gonna pass it over
• 57:31
  Speaker 1: to you what player, Like I said, this canna be
• 57:33
  Speaker 1: something you're either trading for so you'll throw in a
• 57:35
  Speaker 1: few extra chips to make sure you bring them home,
• 57:38
  Speaker 1: or some of these guys will be on the waiver wire.
• 57:40
  Speaker 1: So who are you going to for homers?
• 57:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm gonna start with the guy that waiver wire
• 57:45
  Speaker 2: esque is what I'm gonna call h I'm looking at
• 57:49
  Speaker 2: CBS ownerships because it was firstly, get pulled up fifty
• 57:53
  Speaker 2: rostered in that league, and it's Austin Hayes for the
• 57:57
  Speaker 2: Cincinnati Reds. Hayes is was injured and out and so
• 58:01
  Speaker 2: he's only thirty six games into his season. He's hit
• 58:05
  Speaker 2: seven homers so far on a two ninety three average,
• 58:08
  Speaker 2: and some of that actually came bunches right right when
• 58:10
  Speaker 2: he when he got back. But the reason I'm calling
• 58:14
  Speaker 2: him out, and to be clear, he's only got like
• 58:16
  Speaker 2: two homers in the last months, So it's it's as
• 58:20
  Speaker 2: far as like games played. He missed a lot of time.
• 58:23
  Speaker 2: But yeah, yeah, and so but the thing I like
• 58:27
  Speaker 2: with him is he is playing in the number one ballpark,
• 58:30
  Speaker 2: four home runs over the last three years, tied with
• 58:33
  Speaker 2: the Dodgers. There it's not number one this year, it's
• 58:35
  Speaker 2: like number three or four, but it's it's right up there.
• 58:38
  Speaker 2: He's hitting clean up for threads and he is a
• 58:44
  Speaker 2: guy that traditionally has had really really strong power, and
• 58:50
  Speaker 2: his ISOs up this year, so you're seeing a little
• 58:52
  Speaker 2: bit more of that contact coming through that that we're
• 58:57
  Speaker 2: really kind of leaning, leaning into and hoping for the best,
• 59:01
  Speaker 2: uh from from him. His hard hit rates kind of
• 59:04
  Speaker 2: in his career average, and but he's he's seen a
• 59:08
  Speaker 2: little bit of jump in the home run for fly
• 59:09
  Speaker 2: ball rate as well, and you know, we're seeing the
• 59:13
  Speaker 2: fly ball rate be the top of his career metric
• 59:17
  Speaker 2: as well. And again smaller sample size, he hasn't plays
• 59:19
  Speaker 2: many games. Like all these little things add up to
• 59:22
  Speaker 2: like I feel like Austin Hayes is gonna have a
• 59:24
  Speaker 2: homer barrage at some point, and I think that the
• 59:28
  Speaker 2: price is right to go after that. I don't think
• 59:31
  Speaker 2: it's hard to acquire Austin Hayes because he's not been
• 59:36
  Speaker 2: too crazy yet. Other only other thing I'll call out
• 59:41
  Speaker 2: barrel rate this year fourteen point three percent against a
• 59:44
  Speaker 2: seven point five percent career average, so like guys hitting
• 59:50
  Speaker 2: the ball exit velocities. You know, second best season of
• 59:55
  Speaker 2: his career. So a lot of good things look like
• 59:59
  Speaker 2: they're happening for Aus Hayes. And I just love the
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 2: spot and I love the price, So give me the
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 2: Austin hay Shares, and if I'm needing homers, there's worse
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 2: guys to get.
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 1: I yeah, I think this is a great choice. Also
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 1: for Urbis that probably could have played as well. But
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 1: you also like this profile also screams that he's making
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 1: a conscious decision to really attack the crap out of
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 1: pitches that he finds in a sweet spot. The last
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 1: time he did this was in twenty twenty one, and
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 1: you know what happened after twenty twenty one, Baltimore moved
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 1: the left field fence back. So I think now that
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 1: he's back in Cincinnati, Hayes's where it's a great home
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 1: run park. He's always had this in his game where
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 1: he can uncork it. And you look at actually like
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 1: the plate discipline compared this year to twenty twenty one
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 1: when he put up twenty two bombs, it's pretty similar.
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 1: So I think there's an approach change where Hayes can
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 1: toggle it on and off for a contact approach, and
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 1: he's just going balls to the wall in Cincinnati as
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 1: the cleanup hitter. So I think this is a great call.
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 1: It's only going to get hotter in Cincinnati as the
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 1: summer goes on. That park is gonna be an absolute
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 1: bandbox here soon.
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I like your call it. I had not looked
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 2: at his pitch selection, but his career average for first
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 2: pitch swinging is thirty percent. This year it's forty three
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 2: point four. He is being an ultra ultra aggressive and
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 2: he is swinging like first thing he sees in the zone.
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 2: He's swinging like he's not trying to pick and like
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 2: some guys you need to be patient and pick your
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 2: right pitch, wait for the mistake. Other guys like don't
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 2: get in behind the count and just go. And it
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 2: feels like that's that's kind of where Austin Hayes is,
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 2: all right, who'd you pick for your your homer? Homer Helper?
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 1: All right, we keep going back to this. Well, I'm
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 1: still ready to keep getting hurt, partly because I alluded
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 1: to this with the yan Keel call up. Actually I'll
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 1: have a couple of these guys from the Colorade Rockey's.
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 1: As we're talking to lie Is, it's such a crazy
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 1: month for the Rockies. They're either at home or Cincinnati
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 1: or Boston. They also get the White Sox this weekend
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 1: in Colorado. It's just going to be like a bunch
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 1: of fifteen to twenty games. I think that's some pretty
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 1: awful pitching staffs. But the other thing that happens with
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 1: the coors Field effect is that once they play like
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 1: a bunch of games together, the Rockies just get used
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 1: to the way the ball breaks a little bit more,
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 1: I think in coers Field at the altitude, and so
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 1: you're gonna get I think a little bit of that effect.
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 1: So that's why I'm picking Michael Tolia here. He came
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 1: back up on June sixteenth. He's hit three homers since
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 1: then over sixty played appearances. The average is poor. It's
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 1: two twenty eight, still striking out a ton, But there's
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 1: nobody else to play for a space here in Colorado
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 1: that I think they're so far out of it they
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 1: just kind of want to let Tolio run with this
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 1: job as long as they can. I mean, he's even
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 1: kind of hitting like six seventh in the order, so
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 1: it's not a prime spot, but you just look at
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 1: the one all that time that he's gonna be getting
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 1: corps Field here soon too. We know the powers there
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 1: for Tolia. It's a very like Joey gallowesque profile. But
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 1: then three like, you're gonna get more bites at the
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 1: apple because that lineup's gonna turn so many times in July,
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 1: I think. So that just kind of creates a situation
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 1: where you also notice I'm not talking about any of
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 1: the like advanced stats Ontolio because they're bad. I talked
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 1: about this in my piece this past weekend. He is
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 1: a terrible major league baseball player. But you know what,
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 1: we're playing fantasy baseball, and if this guy can run
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 1: into enough homers for us, you're looking at somebody who's really,
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 1: really cheap. And you're looking at first base, which has
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 1: been getting starting to It was already kind of a
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 1: poor first base group, but it's starting to get poorer
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 1: with like Paul Goldschmidt playing less, Carlo Santana's starting to
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 1: fall apart. You can move over to Michael Tolli I think,
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 1: and you're also at the point of the season where
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 1: hopefully that two twenty backs isn't killing you quite as
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 1: bad because you've got enough other good work around it.
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I actually like this. I actually picked him up
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 2: in our new league recently, uh, just as a as
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 2: a flyer, because I think he's the kind of guy that,
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 2: in the right situation, can can really just do things
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 2: in bunches, and he did last year, and so like
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 2: it's one of those you know, might have been a
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 2: career year last year, but I haven't things, but like
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 2: even a stat cast looked from you know, fantastic last year.
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 2: So like he's on it before, maybe you can find
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 2: it again. But you're right, like the guy has power.
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 2: The guy can absolutely crush the ball. And he's been
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 2: doing he's looked I would say he's looked better since
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 2: he's been back up over the last few weeks. That's
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 2: not really saying a whole lot, because he looked really
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 2: really bad before. And so I I like, I like
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 2: where you're going cheap option not gonna really hurt you.
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 2: And again I'm by a guy I'm like inserting into
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 2: my lineup. He's kind of the guy that I'm like,
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 2: I need, I'm gonna need some power I'm gonna throw
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 2: my bench and then like if I really need to
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 2: pull that trigger, He's the kind of guy I want
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 2: to plug it into it. So really good call here,
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 2: and I think that there's a there's there should be
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 2: some fun with Michael Tollia at some point in the season.
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 2: It's just a matter of whins it gonna happen.
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly, I mean maybe this weekend against the White Sox.
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 1: That's what I'm hoping for. Okay, let's get over to RBI.
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 1: Let's go into your pick for RBI. Who's helping you
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 1: in that category?
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah, So I'm gonna go with kind of a homer
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 2: pick here, and I'm gonna go with Alec Burlison for
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 2: the Cardinals. Burlison has is guy. It's one of those
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 2: guys like you just look at me, like, how are
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 2: you a Major League baseball player? Like he like quintessential
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 2: Beer League softball pitch softball players is Alec Burlison. But
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 2: he's hitting number three in that lineup every single day,
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 2: and he's got good talent get it on base ahead
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 2: of him, and he is pouring in the RBIs. He
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 2: only has thirty seven on the season, but if you
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 2: look back. Over the last roughly, you know, call it
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 2: two ish weeks, he has half of his RBI production
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 2: in just those two weeks. He's he's hit two fifty nine,
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 2: but he's hit five homers, sixteen ribies. He's only struck
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 2: out about thirteen percent of the time over that period.
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 2: So he's really kind of found a spot in what
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 2: does I say, a surprisingly decent lineup, and I don't
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 2: think the cost to acquire him is gonna be that significant.
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 2: I think he's owned. I haven't looked to see if,
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 2: but I think he's owned in a few more places
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 2: than like a you would see for Austin Hayes or
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 2: anything like that.
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 1: But he probably is. He's probably near like seventy five percent.
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah, seventy five eighty somewhere in there, but like not
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 2: got everybody's relying on it. Like, so, I think he's
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 2: gonna be sneaky valuable. And it's again because the overall
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 2: season numbers aren't that crazy. You know, he's only got
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 2: twenty seven runs in seventy five five games, and the
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 2: RBIs did were very slow to come considering that he
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 2: was not batting number three in the for the entire
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 2: entire season. I think that he was batting seventh, eighth,
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 2: you know, pinch hitting, like he's really just come into
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 2: his own and playing time the last few weeks here,
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 2: So I'm going Burlison, and it's more just situational on
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 2: a team performing better than we would expect. Excite, except
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 2: for the last series with Pirates where they've scored like
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 2: no runs.
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a little tough one. Uh yeah, this is
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 1: a great call. Honestly, this is such a sneaky great
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 1: call that certainly this is a guy who is not
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 1: going to cost a lot in the draft market or
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 1: in the trade market either in terms of going out
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 1: and acquiring Burlison. It should only cost like a mid
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 1: tier pitcher or like a back end am I because
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 1: there's no steals really in the game, and like people
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 1: see Bush Stadium, No it's a it's a it's a
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 1: pitcher's park. Don't really want to maybe acquire Burlison. But
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 1: here's a few things that I think we can point
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 1: to of like why this is such a great pick. One,
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 1: the Cardinals are eighth right now and run scored in
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 1: the league, so they are a pretty high scoring offense,
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 1: and that's even been playing in that picture friendly park
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 1: that's been relatively cold. Two. I mean, just look at
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 1: the last month. Since the beginning of June, he's played
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 1: twenty seven games, twenty one ribies, So that's like one
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 1: hundred and forty RBI pace right there already over the
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 1: past month for Burlison. Three, he's a good peer hitter.
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 1: It's like kind of John Krucky, honestly, like.
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 2: Yep, yep, that's very fair.
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 1: What really I think shows that more than anything else
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 1: is look at his sweet spot percentage on Savant. It's
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 1: always been really good. And when you watch him play baseball,
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 1: he just knows how to square up the ball right
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 1: and then PLoP it right where he wants. And then
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 1: when you're on Savant. Also look at his spray chart.
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 1: He's just like punching singles right in front of the
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 1: outfielders constantly. You know what that racks up RBIs when
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 1: you're hitting third and fourth of the lineup. So this
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 1: might be the best pick out there for an RBI
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 1: category pickup.
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah, there's in you know, you look at comparisons for him.
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 2: You know, number one similar batter is Vinie Paso, And
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 2: like Vinnie, if you try to acquire him and be like, well, no,
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 2: it's like he's they're pretty much the same player, Vini.
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 2: I think his values more than his actual capability. Bur
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 2: Listen is actually the other side. But they're pretty much
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 2: the same guy.
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 1: Okay, well we're going to get into my pick. It's
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 1: probably a little higher, and so it is going to
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 1: cost you a trade certainly that he's going to be
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 1: owned in pretty much every league out there. But I
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 1: think at this point the trade value for Brent Rooker
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 1: has probably slipped a little bit, or like the trade
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 1: cost I would say for you know, when he was
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 1: coming into the season, he was really set up to
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 1: you know, maybe push something like forty. So the stolen
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 1: basis have fallen back a little bit. So whoever picked
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 1: him in your roster might be or in your league
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 1: might be a little disappointed that they spent probably like
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 1: a maybe a second or third round pick on him
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 1: and have only been getting like a twenty ish dollar
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 1: player out of him so far. Where's that clock and
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 1: our player raider that would have been, It's about the
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 1: fiftieth overall player, so it's a little bit more of
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 1: like a fourth rounder, and so just that little sliver
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 1: of value is where I think you need to thread
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 1: the needle on Rooker, partly because he's been looking much
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 1: better over the past month with a two eighty seven,
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 1: three eighty four, four eighty one slash line. So one
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 1: forty two WRC plus fourteen RBIs four homers as there
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 1: were like he was one of the guys who especially
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 1: like when the ball was not quite acting the same.
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 1: He he called that out and I think he started
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 1: to tweak his game. I just saw it in like
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 1: a homer this afternoon. He just knows how to hit,
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 1: and his pushed his game to be able to line
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 1: up for it. What I'm also looking at here, too,
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 1: is I think there might be a little bit of
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 1: an understanding that the Athletics have already played most of
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 1: their games in Sacramento. It's actually the opposite because the
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 1: Rays have done that. The Race have played the majority
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 1: of their games so far in Tampa. So you're like, Rais,
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 1: you know, bandbox minor league stadium stats are gonna start
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 1: being tapered a little bit as we get further down
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 1: into the season. It's the opposite. Right now for the A's,
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 1: they've played forty two games at home, forty seven on
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 1: the road. So they actually have more left in Sacramento
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 1: as we're speaking on July second than they do on
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 1: the road. And I don't think that's the prevailing kind
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 1: of thought pattern out there, because what they did is
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 1: they lined it up so that there's just like not
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 1: in July as much, or not in Sacramento for July
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 1: as much, but August they're there three out of five weeks,
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 1: and then they split September between Sacramento and on the
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 1: road August and Sacramento is gonna get crazy. So I'm
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 1: suggesting approach to that Brent Rooker owner right now. See
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 1: what the price is, and I'd probably be happy to
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 1: pay it at this point because I think we're looking
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 1: at a pretty big second half of Brent Rooker.
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I don't disagree. I actually because I do Brtt
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 2: Rooker in some spots, and I it's funny because he's
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 2: twietly just doing what he did last year, like in
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 2: an odd way, like it's not too far off. We're
• 1:12:33
  Speaker 2: a little past halfway we talked about at the end
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 2: of the show, but more or less, you double what
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 2: he's doing and that's pretty much what he did last year,
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 2: and you know, give him a little bit of a
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 2: few more months and it is exactly what he did
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 2: last year if you chip in a steel or two.
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 2: So I think there's just that to your point, like
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 2: his his value jumps so high that now if he's
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 2: not doing if he's not like carring your team, people
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 2: are like, eh, it's not the career year for Brent
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 2: Rooker was last year. He still incredibly valuable. The year
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 2: before he hit thirty bombs at two forty six and
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 2: he was still valuable. And he's better than that now.
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 2: So I love Rooker. If somebody's willing to let the
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 2: guy go, absolutely take every opportunity to do that, because
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 2: Brent Rooker is probably one of the best, if not,
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 2: you know, he's not Aaron Judge, but he's probably in
• 1:13:21
  Speaker 2: the top five to ten power bats in the game
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 2: in my opinion, and that situation he's got cannot be better.
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah, totally agree. Okay, Well, let's move on to one
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 1: of the most fickle categories we toy with in our
• 1:13:36
  Speaker 1: fantasy baseball realm, spoile and bases. Who's your pick here?
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah, So I called him out earlier as being volatile,
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 2: and it's absolutely true. The thing is with speed that
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 2: doesn't matter as much. I'm talking about Trevor's story of
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 2: the Boston Red Sox, who on the season has thirteen
• 1:13:54
  Speaker 2: steels in actually twelve homers, but he's only hitting two
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 2: thirty seven, struck out almost thirty percent of the time,
• 1:14:00
  Speaker 2: and he has been he started hot, he got incredibly cold,
• 1:14:03
  Speaker 2: and he's picking it up again and looking more valuable.
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 2: But the reason I'm calling out from a steels perspective
• 1:14:10
  Speaker 2: because he has a decent amount of steals over the
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 2: last like thirty days, I think you know, four or five,
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 2: but I think he's got more in there. This is
• 1:14:19
  Speaker 2: a guy from a sprint speed perspective, is in the
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 2: mid eighties percent of the league, and he's not at
• 1:14:26
  Speaker 2: his peak when he's like twenty five, where he was
• 1:14:28
  Speaker 2: like ninety seven percentile. But for a thirty two year old,
• 1:14:31
  Speaker 2: I think folks don't see him as a speedster, but
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 2: he truly is. The Thing that really intrigues me, though,
• 1:14:38
  Speaker 2: is if if you went on stack casting, you don't
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 2: if you haven't played around with the run data out there,
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 2: it's it's it's really interesting data. But they actually have
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 2: a stat that they call a steal attempt percent. So
• 1:14:52
  Speaker 2: it's how often do you steal of the opportunities you
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 2: have when you're on base? And throughout his career it's
• 1:14:58
  Speaker 2: always been like the two percent, even like high one percent.
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 2: But the last two years, which were injury riddled in Boston,
• 1:15:07
  Speaker 2: so let's let's own that. But injury riddled, he was
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 2: a four percent and five percent, he was running a
• 1:15:13
  Speaker 2: lot more. This year it's back down to that two
• 1:15:15
  Speaker 2: and a half percent. And I feel like Boston's more
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 2: willing now that they recognize Trevor Story is not gonna
• 1:15:22
  Speaker 2: be this like amazing power hitter and just carry the
• 1:15:24
  Speaker 2: whole team. They're like, let's take the value and get
• 1:15:27
  Speaker 2: from Trevor Story however we want to. And so I
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 2: think that he has the red the red light, the
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 2: green light red sox that the green light doesn't work.
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 2: I think he has the green light to run, and
• 1:15:37
  Speaker 2: he's he just hasn't. He's been such a slump that
• 1:15:40
  Speaker 2: he hasn't been doing next. He hasn't been on Baby.
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 2: He's frankly enough, but he's got the big contract. He's
• 1:15:46
  Speaker 2: gonna be there. He's gonna, you know, be a fictional lineup.
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 2: He's a pretty much during decent defender, So I think
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 2: he's gonna stay in there. I just think they're gonna
• 1:15:53
  Speaker 2: let him run more. And I think, is he kind
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 2: of heats back up, He like, you're gonna get the
• 1:15:57
  Speaker 2: steels steals in bunches. So that's my my call out there.
• 1:16:00
  Speaker 2: I think honestly, I think people have cast off river
• 1:16:03
  Speaker 2: story because of how bad he was for like forty
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 2: five daysish, and so I think now he's a sneaky,
• 1:16:09
  Speaker 2: sneaky steels guy and the powers there too.
• 1:16:12
  Speaker 1: Yeah, No, I think I think this is a pretty
• 1:16:15
  Speaker 1: good call because, like the other factor too, is I
• 1:16:17
  Speaker 1: wonder if he's also been spurred to run a little
• 1:16:20
  Speaker 1: bit more because everyone around him is kind of younger
• 1:16:23
  Speaker 1: and he's kind of the old vet of this team
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 1: that you know, feels like he's got to justify, especially
• 1:16:29
  Speaker 1: if he's gonna stick at shortstop over a lot of
• 1:16:32
  Speaker 1: these other young infielders around him. I think he's got
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 1: to show that he can handle it. So I think
• 1:16:38
  Speaker 1: this is a great call. Also, like a player who
• 1:16:42
  Speaker 1: you know right now is hitting two thirty seven, but
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 1: it's been better over the past month at two eighty three,
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 1: a little babip driven, but that's also something where it
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 1: just opens the door to acquire him a little bit more,
• 1:16:56
  Speaker 1: because a two thirty seven average looks a little grosser
• 1:16:59
  Speaker 1: when you're trying to add it all up on the
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 1: other side, when you're making that trade. So I think
• 1:17:05
  Speaker 1: this is a great call out.
• 1:17:08
  Speaker 2: Okay, all right, where did you go?
• 1:17:10
  Speaker 1: I am going to go with somebody who is two
• 1:17:13
  Speaker 1: for seven on steel attempts this year. This is I
• 1:17:19
  Speaker 1: will admit that this looks a little bit of a
• 1:17:22
  Speaker 1: stretch on paper, but I'm going to go with my boy,
• 1:17:25
  Speaker 1: Luis Ronhifo from the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, mostly
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 1: because he's probably been left for dead in some leagues
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 1: where he's just hanging out.
• 1:17:36
  Speaker 2: On the wire.
• 1:17:38
  Speaker 1: Maybe he's on the back end of a roster in
• 1:17:40
  Speaker 1: your league, and that person, I can guarantee you, has
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 1: almost been looking at every opportunity to cut bait on
• 1:17:46
  Speaker 1: renhefo that they can, but if they haven't been paying attention,
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 1: he's been much better over the past month, and especially
• 1:17:54
  Speaker 1: over the past let me look at it again. If
• 1:17:57
  Speaker 1: you just kind of add up the past two two weeks,
• 1:18:01
  Speaker 1: you're looking at somebody who has put up around a
• 1:18:06
  Speaker 1: two ninety three average over twelve games, he's not picked
• 1:18:10
  Speaker 1: up another steal. But this is a guy who last
• 1:18:12
  Speaker 1: year picked up twenty four steals for you, and a
• 1:18:16
  Speaker 1: lot of that was just volume based in terms of
• 1:18:19
  Speaker 1: being on base, and a little bit of a factor
• 1:18:23
  Speaker 1: here too is Hnifo and Ron and Washington never have
• 1:18:27
  Speaker 1: seen eye to eye.
• 1:18:28
  Speaker 2: I don't know what it is.
• 1:18:29
  Speaker 1: Ron Washington kind of like, I mean, we wish him
• 1:18:32
  Speaker 1: the best. He is out for the rest of the season,
• 1:18:33
  Speaker 1: which I think is helping Renifo's case. Here is what
• 1:18:35
  Speaker 1: I'm about to say, but we do hope that he
• 1:18:38
  Speaker 1: gets into a speedy recovery. But he's also a bit
• 1:18:42
  Speaker 1: of a stubborn guy, and so when he gets into
• 1:18:44
  Speaker 1: kind of these spats with players, players can really fall
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 1: on this wrong side. And I think that's what happened
• 1:18:48
  Speaker 1: to when Heifo, he was starting to fall into a
• 1:18:51
  Speaker 1: part time role. Now has regained it as the Angels
• 1:18:54
  Speaker 1: have re entered the race and they realize, oh, actually,
• 1:18:57
  Speaker 1: this dude is maybe like one of our better hitters.
• 1:18:59
  Speaker 1: Because I think what you're looking at is something that
• 1:19:01
  Speaker 1: can be a league average line, which is pretty much
• 1:19:04
  Speaker 1: what most of the projections have him set for you know,
• 1:19:09
  Speaker 1: average around a two fifty to sixty mark. But I
• 1:19:13
  Speaker 1: think he can paces back out to twenty steels again
• 1:19:16
  Speaker 1: just as he gets more comfortable and gets his legs
• 1:19:19
  Speaker 1: underneath him. Now that he's actually getting on base, I
• 1:19:23
  Speaker 1: think he's going to be really cheap second and third
• 1:19:26
  Speaker 1: base eligible as well. So lots of spots where you
• 1:19:28
  Speaker 1: might be able to use the least from Heifa.
• 1:19:31
  Speaker 2: I really don't want to like this one, to be honest,
• 1:19:35
  Speaker 2: but like there's a very valid point here is that
• 1:19:39
  Speaker 2: he runs. They let him run. He's not doing well.
• 1:19:42
  Speaker 1: With it, no, but he didn't last year and.
• 1:19:44
  Speaker 2: He's not that fast, but like for whatever reason, they
• 1:19:46
  Speaker 2: let him run, and maybe they were kind of holding
• 1:19:48
  Speaker 2: him back this year. So like when you're looking like steels,
• 1:19:51
  Speaker 2: like they're hard to find unless you're like, you know,
• 1:19:54
  Speaker 2: throwing Chandler something on this this this note here, but
• 1:19:57
  Speaker 2: like that was the obvious one, right, But to your point,
• 1:20:01
  Speaker 2: he's two for seven last year it was twenty four
• 1:20:05
  Speaker 2: for thirty one, so it was a heck of a
• 1:20:06
  Speaker 2: lot more efficient. But his whole career he's not been
• 1:20:08
  Speaker 2: that great. But if this was flipped the other way
• 1:20:12
  Speaker 2: and he was five for seven, you'd be like, oh, yeah,
• 1:20:15
  Speaker 2: I kind of see it. And to your point, he's
• 1:20:16
  Speaker 2: getting on base moore or things like that. So I
• 1:20:18
  Speaker 2: don't want to like it, but I think I think
• 1:20:20
  Speaker 2: it's a sneaky decent pick. Sneaky decent. This is as
• 1:20:23
  Speaker 2: far as I'm going to go for you with luish
• 1:20:25
  Speaker 2: Renhifo here.
• 1:20:26
  Speaker 1: I appreciate it. Thanks, Okay, Well let's move on to
• 1:20:29
  Speaker 1: that batting average. So who's your pick for a batting
• 1:20:31
  Speaker 1: average pickup?
• 1:20:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so I'm I'm it's probably the first time I've
• 1:20:36
  Speaker 2: ever actually put this guy on some like type of
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 2: bio of any sort whatsoever. And maybe that's just a
• 1:20:42
  Speaker 2: nature of how gosh darn far he has fallen. And
• 1:20:47
  Speaker 2: that's a Bobashet of the Torontoto Blue Jays. And you know,
• 1:20:51
  Speaker 2: Bose had a decent decent year. He's hitting two seventy two,
• 1:20:57
  Speaker 2: three eleven, four to twenty seven. He's got eleven homer
• 1:21:00
  Speaker 2: stolen four bases, which isn't really what we expect him
• 1:21:02
  Speaker 2: to be, but his k rates come out, come down.
• 1:21:07
  Speaker 2: He's his baby's actually relatively low is lower last year,
• 1:21:10
  Speaker 2: but career babip is three thirty three. He's at three
• 1:21:13
  Speaker 2: oh one, So he's definitely kind of on the the
• 1:21:15
  Speaker 2: the unlucky side of things right now. Uh. He also
• 1:21:20
  Speaker 2: is a guy that from like, uh you know, actual
• 1:21:23
  Speaker 2: like hard hit rate perspective, has actually hit the ball
• 1:21:27
  Speaker 2: a little bit harder than historically he has, and his
• 1:21:29
  Speaker 2: expected batan average is three h nine against the two
• 1:21:32
  Speaker 2: seventy two. He's running like he's just Boba Sheet's always
• 1:21:37
  Speaker 2: been a really really pure hitter. Look at the spray chart.
• 1:21:40
  Speaker 2: Besides the power, he's more of a true pole guy
• 1:21:43
  Speaker 2: from a power perspective, but his he uses all feels.
• 1:21:46
  Speaker 2: You know. He's just a really really solid ballplayer that
• 1:21:50
  Speaker 2: gets hits. And I think he, like the markets actually
• 1:21:54
  Speaker 2: swung so significantly the other way because Boba Sheet, when
• 1:21:57
  Speaker 2: he first came up, it was he is going to
• 1:21:59
  Speaker 2: be the next best thing, you know. He he was
• 1:22:02
  Speaker 2: putting up crazy numbers. He was twenty twenty one season,
• 1:22:06
  Speaker 2: he sold twenty five bases at twenty nine homers, scored
• 1:22:09
  Speaker 2: one hundred and twenty one runs, went in two ninety eight.
• 1:22:11
  Speaker 2: Like he was a first round value. He was Corbyn Carroll,
• 1:22:14
  Speaker 2: he was Julio Rodriguez, he was all of those guys
• 1:22:18
  Speaker 2: and I feel like the market has soured so significantly
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 2: of boast that they've and the fact that his average
• 1:22:25
  Speaker 2: has dropped, they're just saying that that's real because the
• 1:22:29
  Speaker 2: market softened on him. So I think Boba Schet's actually
• 1:22:32
  Speaker 2: relatively available. And if you're gonna pick a guy that's
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  Speaker 2: gonna hit three thirty the rest of the year, there's
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  Speaker 2: not many out there that you want to put money on,
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  Speaker 2: and Boba Schet's absolutely one of them. So, like I
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  Speaker 2: said first time, I'm probably ever recommending by Boba sheet
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  Speaker 2: because I think the market has gone so far the
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  Speaker 2: other way which I was leading that train. I was
• 1:22:52
  Speaker 2: driving real hard down the hill, and I think the
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  Speaker 2: train just kept on going and folks have overreacted to it.
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  Speaker 2: So I think now ST's actually become a buying opportunity
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  Speaker 2: specific to batted average.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think this is a great call. I honestly,
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  Speaker 1: it'd been a while since I checked in on Boba Schet,
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  Speaker 1: and he is back to smoking the ball a lot
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  Speaker 1: that like this is back to, you know, when he
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  Speaker 1: was running that two ninety batting average. He's essentially right
• 1:23:17
  Speaker 1: there again, but it's only a two seventy two. He
• 1:23:19
  Speaker 1: has been out the past couple days with a knee issue.
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  Speaker 1: But if anything, that kind of might crack open the
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  Speaker 1: window on being able to acquire him in a trade,
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  Speaker 1: because yeah, I mean, I think this is all signs
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  Speaker 1: pointing to somebody who should be hitting two ninety to
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  Speaker 1: three hundred if he keeps up this production, and the
• 1:23:37
  Speaker 1: batting average is twenty points lower than that, So I
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  Speaker 1: think there's certainly ground to be made up with Bobachett
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  Speaker 1: and batting average.
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  Speaker 2: Great pick, All right, let's finish it out. Who is
• 1:23:48
  Speaker 2: that amazing pick that I know you're gonna go to Colorado?
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  Speaker 2: You led this one in because you said you're gonna
• 1:23:54
  Speaker 2: pick another guy, So, uh it's Hunter Goodman, right, No, sorry.
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  Speaker 1: Fernandez batting average. No, I'm picking Jordan Beck. So this
• 1:24:06
  Speaker 1: is another guy who I think has turned a corner
• 1:24:07
  Speaker 1: where folks might not be totally familiar with with what
• 1:24:11
  Speaker 1: he's been doing recently. You know, it is a twenty
• 1:24:14
  Speaker 1: seven percent strikeout rate on the season, but he's been
• 1:24:17
  Speaker 1: hovering it closer to like twenty four to twenty five
• 1:24:21
  Speaker 1: over the past month. The seas since June first, at
• 1:24:24
  Speaker 1: twenty three point four percent twenty four point twenty three
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  Speaker 1: point four percent. That's why I said, right, yeah, And
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  Speaker 1: so that's a lot more contact than we were expecting
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  Speaker 1: from the guy who, honestly, I was worried when he
• 1:24:37
  Speaker 1: came up he might be whiffing at a third the time.
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  Speaker 1: You can also see it. It's a little bit like
• 1:24:43
  Speaker 1: Alec Burlson, where he's making great contact with the sweet spot,
• 1:24:48
  Speaker 1: spraying the ball a little bit more and that will
• 1:24:51
  Speaker 1: play beautifully in Coors Field. This season in Coors Field,
• 1:24:55
  Speaker 1: Jordan Beck has a three to twenty four batting average
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  Speaker 1: at home. I think this dude is he figured out
• 1:25:00
  Speaker 1: course field pretty well hitting second or third in the lineup.
• 1:25:04
  Speaker 1: We were just talking about what the Rocky schedule is
• 1:25:07
  Speaker 1: for July. You're also looking at again that lineup turn
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  Speaker 1: how many times he's going to get to the plate
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  Speaker 1: batning second or third. This is a guy who can
• 1:25:17
  Speaker 1: make a lot of quick work for that batting average
• 1:25:20
  Speaker 1: while he's playing in Coors is much rougher on the road.
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  Speaker 1: It's been two fourteen this year, but he has hit
• 1:25:26
  Speaker 1: more homers oddly, but so that is something to keep
• 1:25:29
  Speaker 1: in mind. You know, if you're in weekly, daily leagues,
• 1:25:31
  Speaker 1: maybe have a way to push him in and out
• 1:25:34
  Speaker 1: of your lineup, but considering the price that you might
• 1:25:38
  Speaker 1: have to pay to acquire Jordan Beck, or honestly, he's
• 1:25:41
  Speaker 1: probably still sitting out there on waiver wires like he was.
• 1:25:43
  Speaker 1: One of my suggestions this last week. He was under
• 1:25:46
  Speaker 1: fifty percent on CBS leagues and that's a free three
• 1:25:51
  Speaker 1: hundred batting average when you're playing him at home. Add in,
• 1:25:55
  Speaker 1: he's pretty much like a twenty twenty talent at this point,
• 1:25:59
  Speaker 1: lots of runs. I love this profile for Jordan Beck,
• 1:26:03
  Speaker 1: a lot of it because of the price. It's a
• 1:26:05
  Speaker 1: little bit of like Brenton Doyle without kind of like
• 1:26:08
  Speaker 1: the actual like name brand to it. Where Doyle. I
• 1:26:13
  Speaker 1: think people got used to having him be good last year.
• 1:26:17
  Speaker 1: They just haven't kind of updated their priors of Jordan Beck.
• 1:26:21
  Speaker 1: Strikeout artists from last year is now Jordan Beck singles machine.
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  Speaker 2: It's it's funny if these Colorado hitters, it feels like
• 1:26:29
  Speaker 2: it was like every years just like uh, Michael Tolia
• 1:26:31
  Speaker 2: looks amazing, not so much and then uh, you know,
• 1:26:35
  Speaker 2: we just see Britton Doyle taking off and not so much,
• 1:26:38
  Speaker 2: and maybe Jordan Beck's doing that right now, Like I
• 1:26:40
  Speaker 2: don't Tovara did the same thing. I don't. I don't
• 1:26:42
  Speaker 2: know who to rely on. But to your point, you
• 1:26:45
  Speaker 2: look at him, I just randomly picked. It's like the
• 1:26:46
  Speaker 2: last three weeks and he'sitt in two ninety nine xp loost,
• 1:26:49
  Speaker 2: he's just about ninety. He's cutting down the strikeouts, like yeah,
• 1:26:52
  Speaker 2: sure there's a little baby bluck and things like that.
• 1:26:54
  Speaker 2: That's what happens here. But to your point, he's probably
• 1:26:57
  Speaker 2: relatively free in mostly or like fifty percent of the leagues.
• 1:27:02
  Speaker 2: And so I think this is a good call. Like
• 1:27:04
  Speaker 2: I've not paid much attention to Beck because every time
• 1:27:07
  Speaker 2: I looked, it just like a no, no, too much concern,
• 1:27:10
  Speaker 2: too much concern. But this this is the type of
• 1:27:12
  Speaker 2: the time of the season where you got little holes
• 1:27:14
  Speaker 2: in your lineup that if you can be playing platoons
• 1:27:17
  Speaker 2: or playing home away splits, things like that, Like that's
• 1:27:21
  Speaker 2: that's managing right there. That's that's the end season work
• 1:27:24
  Speaker 2: that can make things happen. So I like, I think
• 1:27:26
  Speaker 2: this is a sneaky good pick here. I'll take this
• 1:27:29
  Speaker 2: one over at Luis renheathol.
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