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Ep. 116 : Arizona Fall League Standouts With Dynasty Baseball Pickups · Cards & Categories

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  Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome everyby to episode one sixteen of Cards
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  Speaker 1: and Categories. I'm Mike cool Art from Rasball, and I
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  Speaker 1: am joined by a duo here for our guests on
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  Speaker 1: the pod. This week, we've got Dynasty Baseball Pickups Taylor
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  Speaker 1: Corso I'm gonna introduce you here first. Let everybody know
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  Speaker 1: how you're doing tonight and where they can reach you
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  Speaker 1: on socials too, because you've been on the pod before.
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  Speaker 1: But it's great to have you back. Thanks Mike.
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  Speaker 2: Fun to be here. Fun to be back on the pod. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: you can reach me at Dynasty Pickups on both Twitter
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  Speaker 2: or x and Blue Sky and I'm doing great, excellent.
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  Speaker 1: Well, yeah, if you are looking to hear. Last time
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  Speaker 1: Taylor was on the pod, it was back our in
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  Speaker 1: our West preview. I didn't actually look up to see
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  Speaker 1: like what our our picks was. Where I'm gonna look
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  Speaker 1: it up during this podcast to see what our picks were,
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  Speaker 1: to see how they played out, just to see who won.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe the overall game of making the picks all those
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  Speaker 1: and all West teams. But Dynasty Baseball Pickups, you're also
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  Speaker 1: your duo. You do a podcast together, and this the
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  Speaker 1: other half of your podcast is Kyle Sontag, who's also
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  Speaker 1: joining us here from the Great White North. Kyle, how
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  Speaker 1: you doing tonight, buddy.
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  Speaker 3: I am doing well. I'm currently traveling for work, so
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  Speaker 3: I apologize if we get some interesting background noise. You
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  Speaker 3: can't ever predict what's going to happen in a hotel.
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  Speaker 3: But I am doing well and I'm excited to be here.
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  Speaker 3: Thanks for having us on.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and let everybody know where they can reach you
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  Speaker 1: on socials as well.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely, you can find me at Sonny Underscore ONEH eight
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  Speaker 3: on X and that's Sonny with an O and Sonny
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  Speaker 3: one O eight on Blue Sky.
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  Speaker 1: Well as your guys. The name of the pot I
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  Speaker 1: do love that. It's just like it's right there. Dynasty
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  Speaker 1: Baseball Pickups, You guys are some of the best in
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  Speaker 1: the entire just fantasy baseball landscape of what I've listened
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  Speaker 1: to and found online for just finding those nuggets in
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  Speaker 1: your deep leagues to be able to add and let
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  Speaker 1: those shares and those players mature and grow, and I
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  Speaker 1: mean ever since you guys have been potting. We both
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  Speaker 1: launched in summer twenty twenty three, so we both kind
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  Speaker 1: of took off at the same time. You guys have
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  Speaker 1: helped me tremendously in my keeper and Dynasty leagues that
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  Speaker 1: like you've helped me find so many great gems Like
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  Speaker 1: I think about to earlier this season when you were
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  Speaker 1: one of the first people that I've heard of that
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  Speaker 1: were in on Cam Schlittler and Treyye Savage and just
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  Speaker 1: some of these other arms. Especially you guys are all
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  Speaker 1: over it. And if you need details on anybody in
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  Speaker 1: Complex League Ball or low A Ball and you need
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  Speaker 1: some insights, you guys are my go to for a podcast,
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  Speaker 1: So love having you on. Because of that twist on
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  Speaker 1: reviewing prospects and Dynasty Baseball pickups, I figured it'd be
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  Speaker 1: great to wrap up the Arizona Fall League with you both.
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  Speaker 1: That's where Taylor and I met at First Pitch Arizona
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  Speaker 1: out there last year and went back for the second
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  Speaker 1: time this year and had a blast, And so I
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  Speaker 1: figured with that there's been lots of stand up performances
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  Speaker 1: in the Arizona Fall League that we can bring in
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  Speaker 1: the gurus of Dynasty Baseball Pickups on so that you
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  Speaker 1: can give some insights to the listeners of cards and
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  Speaker 1: categories out there. So some initial thoughts here from you
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  Speaker 1: guys in terms of the Arizona Fall League before we
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  Speaker 1: get into the news and notes, what did you think
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  Speaker 1: of this year's overall crop of players and anything that
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  Speaker 1: really kind of stood out to you as you were
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  Speaker 1: looking at the statistics and some of the performances that
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  Speaker 1: happened out there overall this season compared to others.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I guess I'll go ahead. I you know, for me,
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  Speaker 2: theirson a fall league can sometimes be a try. There's
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  Speaker 2: always those guys, you know, like we've seen in past
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  Speaker 2: years with Matt Murvis and Jacob Marcy, last year with
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  Speaker 2: Caleb Durbin, that these guys get, you know, a lot
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  Speaker 2: of hype in redraft leagues. I didn't really see that
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  Speaker 2: same caliber of player this year. I think the the
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  Speaker 2: best player and we'll I'm sure talk about him later
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  Speaker 2: was the best prospect there and Kevin McGonagall, So that
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  Speaker 2: wasn't really a surprise in what he did. So I
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  Speaker 2: think it was kind of lacking from that really surprised,
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  Speaker 2: big value boost prospect. But I think that's kind of
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  Speaker 2: a good thing. There was a lot of really you know,
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  Speaker 2: interesting prospects that performed well in the league, and so
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  Speaker 2: you know that I think there wasn't a lot of
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  Speaker 2: performances that I came away from and said, oh, that's
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  Speaker 2: a complete mirage like that, you know, that's a trap
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  Speaker 2: or anything like that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I definitely agree with Taylor on that there there
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  Speaker 3: wasn't that big kind of breakout that there has been
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  Speaker 3: in the past, like he said, with a nervous or
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  Speaker 3: a Marsie. There were some names I think that really
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  Speaker 3: improve their value, and will maybe get into some of
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  Speaker 3: those later on here, But for me, there were kind
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  Speaker 3: of two camps in that regard this year where there
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  Speaker 3: were the ones that I think you can buy into
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  Speaker 3: a little bit, because in my opinion, the hype that
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  Speaker 3: they're getting now, the rise that they saw through the
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  Speaker 3: AFL was more to get them to kind of where
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  Speaker 3: I thought they should have been previously, where people maybe
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  Speaker 3: didn't recognize how good of a season they had in
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  Speaker 3: twenty twenty five in the regular season. So I think
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  Speaker 3: that there's that group that again is kind of just
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  Speaker 3: now getting the recognition they probably deserved already. But then
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  Speaker 3: there were a few names that while they weren't, you know,
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  Speaker 3: the biggest risers of the AFL or the best performers,
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  Speaker 3: there were still a few names that you saw get
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  Speaker 3: a little bit more hype, largely due to velocity. Really,
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  Speaker 3: it was a Tony Blanco junior who was just hitting
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  Speaker 3: the snot out of the baseball every time you heard
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  Speaker 3: his name, And it was the Luis Perals on the
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  Speaker 3: pitching side who was touched triple digits every time you
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  Speaker 3: touch the mound. And I think those guys are getting
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  Speaker 3: a little bit of hype because of that. But for me,
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  Speaker 3: those are players that are maybe becoming sell high candidates
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  Speaker 3: because I think the hype that they're receiving right now
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  Speaker 3: goes beyond where their actual value is. And if you
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  Speaker 3: can take advantage of that after something like the AFL,
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  Speaker 3: where those sorts of things are front and center because
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  Speaker 3: it's the only baseball going on, this is the perfect
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  Speaker 3: time to take advantage of that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think those are fantastic insights there. So, like
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  Speaker 1: I said, we will get into more of the Arizona
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  Speaker 1: Fall League here, but let's cover some news and notes first,
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  Speaker 1: because we have had a few transactions as we've gotten
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  Speaker 1: into the beginning of free agency, We've seen qualifying offers accepted.
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  Speaker 1: We had four of those accepted. But I don't want
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  Speaker 1: to get into those as much because I want to
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  Speaker 1: focus our conversation on those prospects. But a couple of
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  Speaker 1: these transactions that have happened recently I think are big
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  Speaker 1: enough that I want to get both of your insights.
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  Speaker 1: Is just premiere fantasy players to see what you're doing
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  Speaker 1: with them. So the first one is Josh Naylor re
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  Speaker 1: signing in Seattle. There and we don't exactly have the
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  Speaker 1: full terms of the contract. We know it's a five
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  Speaker 1: year contract. We do also know that the clubhouse dog
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  Speaker 1: in Seattle helped secure this deal for the Mariners, as Honestly,
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  Speaker 1: I think that's a pretty good representation of why Naylor's
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  Speaker 1: Also going back as the vibes on that Seattle Mariners
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  Speaker 1: club seemed immaculate down the stretch, and they've had a
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  Speaker 1: sore need for a first baseman for a long time.
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  Speaker 1: It feels like almost since like John Olivude, maybe that
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  Speaker 1: the Mariners haven't been fielding a great first baseman. Coming
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  Speaker 1: off of a stretch where Naylor hit two ninety nine,
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  Speaker 1: three forty one, four ninety with them, put up nineteen
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  Speaker 1: steals in fifty four games with the Mariners, and nine homers,
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  Speaker 1: also did not seem phase by T Mobile Park. So, uh, Taylor,
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  Speaker 1: let's get your take here first. For Josh Naylor going
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  Speaker 1: to twenty twenty six, what does this do for his
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  Speaker 1: value for you re signing in Seattle?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I think it's value steady, right. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: I think, you know, he proved that he can perform,
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  Speaker 2: like you said, like at T Mobile Park, which is
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  Speaker 2: not an easy thing to do. I think when he
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  Speaker 2: initially got traded over there, a lot of people, including myself,
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  Speaker 2: for thinking that, you know, he was going to struggle
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  Speaker 2: in that new ballpark and everything, and he did the opposite.
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  Speaker 2: He had his best stretch with the Mariners there. I'm
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  Speaker 2: really curious to see how much he runs next year
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  Speaker 2: because that nineteen stolen bases is just insane. I don't
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  Speaker 2: think we're gonna see, you know, him run to that extent,
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  Speaker 2: but who knows. I think it's a good landing spot
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  Speaker 2: for him. Obviously he's happy there, fantastic for the Mariners
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  Speaker 2: and their fan base, so all the way around, it's
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  Speaker 2: a good deal.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I totally agree, Kyle. I mean, what's your take here?
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  Speaker 1: And maybe I'm going to put you against the fire
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  Speaker 1: a little bit. Would you think the stolen bases settle
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  Speaker 1: at for twenty twenty six. Like, when you're punching in
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  Speaker 1: your projections for twenty twenty six, where are you setting
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  Speaker 1: that level for Joshneeler Because it was a bit of
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  Speaker 1: a blip, but it also worked.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, It's that's the big question mark with him, right
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  Speaker 3: because you look at the Savant page and it's a
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  Speaker 3: very small, dark blue bar for somebody that stole as
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  Speaker 3: many bases as he did. And when you look at him,
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  Speaker 3: he's not the kind of player that you think is
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  Speaker 3: going to run wild like he did with the Mariners.
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  Speaker 3: So I'm really curious to see if that's something that
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  Speaker 3: they have just unlocked in his game and if he's
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  Speaker 3: going to be able to continue that or if it
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  Speaker 3: does fall off. I think it'll probably fall off a
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  Speaker 3: little bit. I don't think he keeps up that pace
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  Speaker 3: that he had to end the year with Seattle. But
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  Speaker 3: even if he gives you, I think he might be
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  Speaker 3: in that you know, twenty ish range kind of like
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  Speaker 3: what he did with Seattle to end the year. I
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  Speaker 3: think he might do that over the entire season. I
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  Speaker 3: think you still have to be really happy about that.
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  Speaker 3: Out of your first.
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  Speaker 1: Basement, Yeah, I totally agree. I think that you get
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  Speaker 1: from a stolen based perspective out of first space is
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  Speaker 1: definitely gravy on top of it all. So yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: think this is a great landing spot for Naylor. And
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  Speaker 1: you did hint at it that the Savant page has
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  Speaker 1: him on the third percentile for sprint speed, which is
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  Speaker 1: a bummer. One of the tropes we have here on
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  Speaker 1: this pod is how fast is somebody? Mainly driven by
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  Speaker 1: Jake Berger because he used to run like a eightieth
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  Speaker 1: percentile sprint speed. Our new patron saying of the pod
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  Speaker 1: is now Shay Langlears, who I think is like eighty
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  Speaker 1: fifth percentile. He's a speedy dude. So it's always a
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  Speaker 1: bummer when you see these more robust players have these
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  Speaker 1: very tiny sprint speeds because we like the combo of
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  Speaker 1: the robust player, big sprint speed. Okay, let's get into
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  Speaker 1: the next transaction where we've got two players swapping teams.
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  Speaker 1: That's how a trade works. This one really lit Blue
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  Speaker 1: Sky on fire in terms of the number of oakes,
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  Speaker 1: the number of takes, and honestly, it feels like what
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  Speaker 1: people feel about this trade is all over the place.
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  Speaker 1: I am talking about angels and Orioles got together Grayson
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  Speaker 1: Rodriguez for Taylor Ward straight up, so Taylor Ward will
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  Speaker 1: be a free agent after the twenty twenty sixth season
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  Speaker 1: and joins the other eight outfielders that the Baltimore Orioles have.
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  Speaker 1: Grayson Rodriguez, who knows if he's got a working elbow.
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  Speaker 1: The Angels took the gamble there, brought him across as
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  Speaker 1: he did not pitch at all in twenty twenty five
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  Speaker 1: and underwent an elbow de bridment surgery I believe late
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  Speaker 1: in the season, so who knows what his ETA is?
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  Speaker 1: And then you also throw in the factor of you know,
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  Speaker 1: when I think of really first rate training staffs, Los
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  Speaker 1: Angeles Angels is certainly one that pops right into my mind,
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  Speaker 1: right of course. Not No, You've got Mike Trout there.
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  Speaker 1: You've got all sorts of other issues that have happened
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  Speaker 1: with the Angels. So I'm not even sure like who
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  Speaker 1: won this trade. It's gonna take maybe a decade to
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  Speaker 1: figure this out because of just how it all branches out.
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  Speaker 1: But Kyle, let's go to you first this time. What
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  Speaker 1: do you see in terms of does Taylor Ward carve
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  Speaker 1: out enough playing space in Baltimore. Do you like that
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  Speaker 1: landing spot for him? And then any chance we see
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  Speaker 1: Grayson Rodriguez return to any sort of former glory with
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  Speaker 1: the Angels.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I'll start with Taylor Ward. I do think he
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  Speaker 3: carves out regular playing time there in Baltimore. I don't
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  Speaker 3: think you give up on somebody like Grayson Rodriguez, even
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  Speaker 3: with all of the injury concerns. I don't think you
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  Speaker 3: give up on him if you aren't getting back a
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  Speaker 3: player that you think can play for you pretty much
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  Speaker 3: every day. But you alluded to it like this trade
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  Speaker 3: just makes no sense. They me and Taylor have been
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  Speaker 3: talking about it. I went back and forth with a
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  Speaker 3: bunch of people on X too. You said Blue Sky
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  Speaker 3: was lit up X was the same way. I just
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  Speaker 3: I don't get it. They traded from a from a
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  Speaker 3: position of to get another player in a position of depth.
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  Speaker 3: It's the exact opposite of how these deals should work,
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  Speaker 3: and it just makes no sense. But I think it
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  Speaker 3: speaks volumes to where Grayson Rodriguez is at. And if
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  Speaker 3: you weren't concerned about him already, the fact that he
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  Speaker 3: is now with the Angels to really concern you. I
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  Speaker 3: do still think there's a chance that he is a
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  Speaker 3: viable and semi valuable fantasy and dynasty asset, But I
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  Speaker 3: don't think we are going to get anywhere near the
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  Speaker 3: top end talent that we were once promised with him.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think I'm with you on all those points, Taylor.
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  Speaker 1: What's your take here? Is it similar to Kyle's or
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  Speaker 1: I mean, this thing could go a million different ways
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  Speaker 1: that I've seen some people who have been really high
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  Speaker 1: on the Angels for picking up an arm like Grayson Rodriguez,
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  Speaker 1: other people who have been really high on the Oils
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  Speaker 1: finding a guy in ward who should be a mid
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  Speaker 1: thirties homer bat. So where do you land? I'm with Kyle.
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  Speaker 2: I think, you know, there's so many This trait is
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  Speaker 2: so strange, and twenty four hours later, I still can't
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  Speaker 2: really wrap my head around it because you look at
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  Speaker 2: you know, the Oils acquiring a rental who's a corner
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  Speaker 2: outfield bat. They have a crowded situation in their outfield.
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  Speaker 2: They have a crowded situation at DH. I mean they've
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  Speaker 2: got Colton Cows or Tyler O'Neil, Dylan Beavers that was
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  Speaker 2: their outfield before this trade. Plus they added Heston Kershtad
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  Speaker 2: and Enriqui, Bradfield Junior knocking on the door in the miners,
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  Speaker 2: and you have a dh situation where you have to
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  Speaker 2: get at bats for guys like Basio potentially Kobe Mayo. Like,
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  Speaker 2: there's a lot of moving parts and that offense, and
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  Speaker 2: they just added one more. They needed pitching, and you
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  Speaker 2: know they need more pitching now. I think the only
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  Speaker 2: way the Ools make this deal is if they're very
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  Speaker 2: concerned about the medicals with Grayson, and you know that's
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  Speaker 2: not a you know, novel take. I think everybody's thinking
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  Speaker 2: that same thing. From the Angel's perspective, I like this
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  Speaker 2: because they're cashing in a rental for a high upside
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  Speaker 2: starting pitcher. Now, the Angels as an organization have a
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  Speaker 2: terrible track record, like you mentioned Mike with injuries, they
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  Speaker 2: have a terrible track record with pitching. I will say
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  Speaker 2: they did hire Mike Maddox this year as their pitching coach.
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  Speaker 2: He's a well respected coach, been in the league a
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  Speaker 2: long time, coming over from the Rangers. So maybe they
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  Speaker 2: make some changes there. I think it's a high upside
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  Speaker 2: gamble by the Angels, but I have serious doubts that
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  Speaker 2: he's gonna be healthy. And I think, you know, I
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  Speaker 2: was talking to Kyle about this yesterday. I can't think
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  Speaker 2: of another time where maybe a dynasty asset lost so
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  Speaker 2: much value in a trade than this one with Grayson
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  Speaker 2: Rodriguez because a lot of people were still high on him.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of people were thinking, you know, he was
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  Speaker 2: going to come back healthy, maybe eventually turn into the
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  Speaker 2: ace or number two he was supposed to be. And
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  Speaker 2: now I think you have to have serious concerns that
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  Speaker 2: that's going to happen. So his values probably at an
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  Speaker 2: all time low right now.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think I agree there that like, there's no
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  Speaker 1: way the Orioles make this trade knowing the medical history
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  Speaker 1: of Grayson Rodriguez and what he could be, especially considering
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  Speaker 1: how many years of control he has left, that this
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  Speaker 1: is what they needed. They don't move this on from
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  Speaker 1: him unless they knew this was the best they could
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  Speaker 1: do in Taylor Ward. So I think one more thing
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  Speaker 1: I want to discuss here is what are we doing
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  Speaker 1: with this Baltimore outfield because their entire team is made
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  Speaker 1: out of outfielders at this point that they've even got
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  Speaker 1: Kobe Mayo, who probably should be an outfielder at first base.
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  Speaker 1: They've got Colton Kowser, Dylan Beaver's Taylor Ward currently on
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  Speaker 1: their outfield and roster resource. The entire bench is all
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  Speaker 1: guys who've played the outfield between Ryan Mountcastle, who's more
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  Speaker 1: of a first baseman now, Jeremiah Jackson, Tyler O'Neill later
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  Speaker 1: Tavaris is in this team now too, So it's all outfielders.
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  Speaker 1: Rip to any of the Enrique Bradfield junior shares out there,
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  Speaker 1: because I don't see how he cracks this rotation of
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  Speaker 1: players in twenty twenty six. But there's got to be
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  Speaker 1: a trade coming, right Kyle.
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  Speaker 3: That's exactly what I was thinking. I don't think they're done.
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  Speaker 3: It's a really weird move to make as the first
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  Speaker 3: of your off season, But like you said, like they
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  Speaker 3: are just loaded in the outfield, it would be shocking
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  Speaker 3: if they didn't trade some of that depth for shocking pitching.
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  Speaker 3: They really need to go get some pitching more than
• 17:30
  Speaker 3: ever now. But like you said, there's got to be
• 17:32
  Speaker 3: another deal coming.
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: To play Devil's advocate there, Kyle, We've been saying that
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: for two years now.
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: So exactly, I mean, everybody has with the michae Elias
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: regime right that, like, does he finally pull that trigger?
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: I guess it is going to be the question of
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: the offseason. Taylor. I've got a different question for you, though.
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: Any of those outfielders that you still are into even
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: with the glutt because like, let's say that Elias does
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: Elias things here and keeps most of them where we
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: still got the log jam going into draft season next year,
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: any of those players in those outfielders from Baltimore really
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: stand out to you to where you're like, hey, I'm
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: still in on this guy because I think he will
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: rise to the top out of this group. Yeah.
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: I mean, I think if you can get any kind
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: of discount on Dylan Beavers, you should pursue it. I
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: think he's the one who I think will probably take
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: the biggest hitt and value because I think he's the
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: one that, when all is settled, is probably not going
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: to have the starting role just because he doesn't have
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: a huge track record, although he did perform, you know,
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: pretty good in his small sample last year. So I
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: think that's the one that I would be jumping in on.
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: I also see a situation where we see, you know,
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: something like what happened with Kyle Stowers in Heshton Kirshtad
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: and he him getting a new start somewhere else. That
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: would be something I would be interested in speculating on,
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: you know, as like a pickup on the wire, a
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: very cheap throw in, because you know, you never know,
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: oh Lanta change of scenery might help some of these
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: talented players.
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: I think that's a great call. This is a pro
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: Dylan Beaver's podcast. So you picked the right guy. Okay,
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: one more bit of news before we get into the
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: Arizona Fall League coverage. Right before this pod recorded, we
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: had Rys sol Iglesias re signing with the Braves for
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: one year, sixteen million dollars. This was the most obvious
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: landing spot for rysol Iglesias returning back to Atlanta, especially
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: given that there was no guy that really lined up
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: to be the next closer, and so they're gonna have
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: to go on the market. Why not go with the
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: one that you're familiar with if you weren't aware of it.
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: Twenty twenty five was a wacky season for ryiso Iglasias
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: because the first half era for forty two blue saves
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: left and right. When I was doing some of my
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: roda wire blurbs. I wrote so many rysol Iglacias blown
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: save blurbs because it seemed like he was doing it
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: once a week. Turns it around in the second half.
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: So it was thirty six and two th innings in
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: the first half, thirty and two thirds in the second half.
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: I'm using the All Star break because that's what Vangrafts uses.
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: One seventy six era in the second half and you're like, oh,
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: he's back on track. Everything's looking great, except for everything
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: on their hood is flip flopped in the first half.
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: Better k MISBB, better ground ball rate, better hard hit rate,
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: I believe too, But like everything looked better from a
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: pitching perspective for Rysolglacias in the first half. The luck
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: monster just kind of flipped on him because in the
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: second half, degradation of the k MISBB, degradation of the
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: ground ball rate, but got luckier with those babbit gods. So, Taylor,
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: I'm going to you first here, what are you making
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: of rysol Iglesias going into next year? Is he more
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: of that first half or second half player or is
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: it a kind of a classic case of where you
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: just got to take the whole season and go with
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: that going forward, as this is a guy who is
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: gonna be thirty six the spring, and you can take
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: the projections, set it and forget it.
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's more of that that second one.
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: I had no idea that it was that wild. I
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: was looking at the Fangrafts page right now. Three sixteen
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: babbit the first half, one eighty one babbit the second half. So,
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: like you mentioned, the Babbitt gods were all over the
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: place with him. I think he's going to settle in
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: as a solid, not great reliever which will be locked
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: into a closer role, and I think that has a
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: lot of value in fantasy leagues obviously. So I think
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: right now he's just one of those closers that you know,
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: you're you're sure he's got a role, So I would
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: feel comfortable investing in him. I don't think he's done
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: as a reliever. I think he had some bumps in
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: the road, like we see a lot of relievers have.
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: He's old, but we've seen, you know, older relievers still
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: have success, So I would still be investing with in him.
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Kyle, what's your take here in ryso Iglesias, you
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: still feel comfortable with him or did any of the
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: performance from twenty twenty five skills you away?
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: No, I still feel pretty good about him. I think that,
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: like you said, it was a weird, weird year, but
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: when you look at his overall numbers and the expected numbers,
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: they're pretty much right in line with what he actually did.
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: So I think when you go into twenty twenty six,
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: I think you can take him pretty comfortably right around
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: where you would have taken him coming into twenty twenty
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: five and feel okay about that.
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: All right, Okay, Well, before we get into the years
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: n Afall League stuff, I guess I should have I
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: lied just a little bit ago. I've got one more
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: news item, just because if you are listening here for
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: the baseball cards, we're not going to get into it
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: too much in this podcast. We will certainly get back
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: into it when my fearless co host Jeremy Brewer returns
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: from Disney for next week. Look at that baseball card
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: calendar down in the show notes or wherever you're listening
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: to this podcast, because it has gotten re updated, reconfigured
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: from when we last put out a podcast. Everything's getting
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: lined up for the holiday release season, and Tops is
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: still sorting through the issues that have come through with
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: baseball and basketball cards being printed at the same time,
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: we've got a very stacked December. Is there's a lot
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: of product that Tops tries to get out the door.
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: Check that out in the show notes. If you're looking
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: for that baseball card calendar. I will be back next
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: week to talk about it more before Thanksgiving, just to
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: kind of give you background on where the calendar is going,
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: what products you should be looking at for any holiday purchases,
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: and so on and so forth. But with that, let's
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: get into those Arizona Fall League stats, because if you're
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: not aware, I guess I should probably explain this off
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: the bat, is that if you're not aware of what
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: the Arizona Fall League is, is a prospects league that
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: plays out in You've guessed at Arizona during the fall,
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: after the season, when the minor league season wraps up.
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: So really, what this is traditionally known as is more
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: of a finishing school. These are guys who are usually
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: kind of on the fringes of forty man rosters or
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: have Rule five decisions coming up for them, or prospects
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: who had a great season. They're just kind of going
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: to the Arizona Fall League to play against the best
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: of the best that have been sent out there to
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: see if they can hack it for twenty twenty six.
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: Just kind of allows teams to get further looks at
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: players and also in some cases they'll put players out
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: there and kind of show them off before trade season
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: hits for the offseason, and like I said, were some
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: of those Rule five and forty man crunch roster decisions.
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: So we just had the Arizona Fall League wrap up.
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: This past week, Taylor and I attended the home Run Derby,
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: which saw an absolute fireworks show from Tony Blanco. I'm
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: actually in the background of the MLB Instagram post for
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: it because I was in like the second row for
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: that home run derby. I just could not resist sitting
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: that close to Tony Blanco when he was hitting those
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: absolute piss missiles out of the stadium. It was something
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: I have never heard that was the loud just crack
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: of the bat and seeing those balls just like fly
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: off of his bat Appo tacos to like dead center,
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: just magnificent rainbows off of Tony Blanco's bat. Was that
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: one of the most impressive baseball feats you've ever seen
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: Taylor because it was for me.
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, I mean I think that's what like
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: eighty great power looks like. It's just it's a different level.
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: I mean you could tell when he when he got
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: ahold of those balls. They were just flying and I
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: think he hit one. I think it was one hundred
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: and twenty two miles an hour or something like that
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: in that home run derby, which is just kind of
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: crazy because you think of like the speed at which
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: the pitch got to him. But yeah, it incredible, incredible
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: power on display. Whether he hits enough for that power
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: to matter in the real game, yeah, that's debatable.
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah exactly. I mean he's gonna look really great in
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: an MPB uniform that I mean he look out Murataki.
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: I always stumble over this on the pot. It's so embarrassing,
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: Murataka Murakami. Lookout for him for your home run record
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: in MPB, because Tony Blanco Junior is coming for you
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: when he makes his way overseas. Because I agree, I
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: don't see it working in the majors. It's just too
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: big of a swing, too much swing. And miss Kyle,
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: are you on the same page with us for Tony
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: Blanco because he was probably the talk of the years
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: in a fall league because that helped run derby performance
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: and the exit velos, but not probably a prospect your
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: rostering and dynasty. Correct.
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: No, I am one hundred percent there with you guys.
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: Like I said a little bit earlier, he's one of
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: my biggest cell candidates because of the hype he's gotten
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: off of the AFL. It might be the largest discrepancy
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: ever for a prospect between power and hit tool, Like
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: is this eighty grade power twenty grade hit could.
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: Be yeah, I mean yeah or lower. It does make
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: me pine for a home run derby only league, though,
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: because Tony Blanco Junior would be the king of that,
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: that's for sure. Okay, well, let's get into some of
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: these real prospects, because I figured what we'd do is
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: we'd run through some of the awards winners from the
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: Arizona Fall League. They hand out MVP, Offensive Player, Pitcher,
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: Breakout Player. They also hand out like a a Stewardship
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: Award and some other like really wacky awards. But We're
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: going to focus on the ones there performance based, and
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: then I'm going to pass it over to you guys
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: to get some other takes on three players a piece
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: that really stood out performance wise for you in this
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: Arizona Fall League in what you're doing with them in
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: dynasty and keeper situations out there. So let's start off
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: with the greatest and the best. The MVP of the
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: Arizona Fall League this year was none other than pretty
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: much number one prospect. It's between him and Connor Griffin
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: across the board. Kevin McGonagall, shortstop slash, probably third baseman
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: when he hits the MLB from the Detroit Tigers, lit
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: the league on fire. Led the league in total bases
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: by putting up a three sixty two five hundred slash
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: line with five homers, nineteen rbi and twenty two runs
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: and ninety played appearances. It was a fantastic performance from McGonagall,
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: exactly what you want to see from a super premier
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: prospect like this, to go to the Fall League and
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: just eat it up, alive, win the MVP, show that
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: he's rayed around the corner. So Kyle, let's start with
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: you here first. How far up your boards right now
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: is Kevin McGonagall in terms of dynasty rankings and is
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: it somebody where you Obviously he's going to cost you
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: a lot. He's rostered and every Dynasty league got there.
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: But do you like the situation in Detroit and do
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: you like the performance enough for McGonagall that you would
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: actually pay premium dollar for him this offseason to go
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: acquire him.
• 28:47
  Speaker 3: I love Kevin McGonagall. I'll preface it by saying that
• 28:51
  Speaker 3: I think that he's my number two prospect right now,
• 28:54
  Speaker 3: behind as you said, Connor Griffin. It's the argument there
• 28:57
  Speaker 3: of ceiling versus floor. Not that McGonagall doesn't have a
• 29:02
  Speaker 3: nice ceiling, it's just not quite where Connor Griffin is at.
• 29:05
  Speaker 3: He's got arguably the highest ceiling in all of the
• 29:08
  Speaker 3: minor leagues right now. But I think you know a
• 29:11
  Speaker 3: little bit more so what you are getting from Kevin McGonagall,
• 29:14
  Speaker 3: aside from the fact that you just don't really know
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: what position he's going to play, and that in all
• 29:21
  Speaker 3: honesty isn't necessarily a bad thing, because we know that
• 29:24
  Speaker 3: he's got the bat, So the likelihood that he moves
• 29:28
  Speaker 3: off of shortstop, if anything, is maybe a good thing
• 29:31
  Speaker 3: because his bat, the power that he can provide, just
• 29:35
  Speaker 3: the overall skill set that he has is going to
• 29:37
  Speaker 3: be even more valuable at a second base or a
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: third base, depending on where he moves, then it would
• 29:43
  Speaker 3: have been at shortstop because this is the type of
• 29:44
  Speaker 3: skill set we typically see at shortstop, right that well
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: rounded profile. He's going to hit you some home runs,
• 29:50
  Speaker 3: he's going to steal some bases, he's going to have
• 29:51
  Speaker 3: a really nice slash line. If you can get a
• 29:56
  Speaker 3: strong shortstop type of offensive profile at one of those
• 30:00
  Speaker 3: other positions, it is a really nice boost to your
• 30:05
  Speaker 3: team because you're getting him in at another position where
• 30:10
  Speaker 3: again you're probably not getting that much. You look at
• 30:12
  Speaker 3: the dynasty landscape at second base or at third base,
• 30:15
  Speaker 3: it's pretty ugly right now. And you look at the
• 30:18
  Speaker 3: prospect situation at those positions especially, it's really ugly. Taylor
• 30:23
  Speaker 3: and I are starting to prep for some of our
• 30:24
  Speaker 3: positional breakdowns at some of this stuff, and those positions
• 30:28
  Speaker 3: just look horrible right now. I'm not going to sugarcoat
• 30:31
  Speaker 3: it at all. They do not look good. So I
• 30:35
  Speaker 3: do have a hard time really going in and buying
• 30:39
  Speaker 3: a prospect like this before they've debuted, because you just
• 30:43
  Speaker 3: don't know what's going to happen. You look at somebody
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: like a Christian Campbell last year, right everybody was super
• 30:49
  Speaker 3: excited to see his debut. He got up there and
• 30:52
  Speaker 3: he looked amazing, but then the league kind of figured
• 30:55
  Speaker 3: him out. Maybe there was some other stuff going on
• 30:58
  Speaker 3: from reports I've heard, he lost some weights that kind
• 31:02
  Speaker 3: of affected the way he was able to impact the ball.
• 31:04
  Speaker 3: But point being, you never really know what you've gotten
• 31:07
  Speaker 3: a prospect until they are in the big league. So
• 31:09
  Speaker 3: if you are going to go all in and buy
• 31:12
  Speaker 3: a prospect, you're probably looking at someone like the Kevin McGonagall,
• 31:16
  Speaker 3: who has a nice ceiling, but has a much safer
• 31:19
  Speaker 3: floor than a lot of other players with the type
• 31:21
  Speaker 3: of ceiling that he can provide. I'm just not sure
• 31:24
  Speaker 3: that I am willing to pay the premium price that
• 31:27
  Speaker 3: you would need to because of the risk involved anytime
• 31:30
  Speaker 3: we're talking about.
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that's totally fair. Taylor. What's your take
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: on Kevin McGonagall.
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I agree with pretty much everything Kyle said.
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: I will say, like I was a little bit slow
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: to buy into Kevin McGonagall. I was always the lowest
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: ranker on him at Prospects Live, which Kyle and I
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: write for. So I've come around. He's my number two
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: rank prospect at this point. But to Kyle's point, like
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: now is not the time to buy him. You had
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: ample opportunities in Dynasty League. If you don't have him
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: by now, you wait till he makes his debut. Inevitably,
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: most rookies will struggle, Like Kevin McGonagall kind of fits
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: in that same mold to me as like a Jackson Holiday, right,
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: that guy kind of known for being a high floor,
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: good all round player. We saw Jackson Holiday go through
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: his struggles and you know, still hasn't reached his ceilings.
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: So you know, I think there's a similar path for
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: Kevin mcgonagh. I'm not saying that he won't hit the
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: ground running.
• 32:28
  Speaker 3: He very well could.
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: But a lot of prospects, you know, more often than not,
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: will fail in their first look at the bigs and
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: their value will take a hit in Dynasty League. So
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: that's that's the time to trade, not not right now.
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I think that's all fair. Okay, let's move
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: on to even though McGonagall won the MVP, he did
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: not win the Offensive Player. I mean, I think they
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: also split this so that they can have different players
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: called out. But this guy was also fantastic in the
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: home run Derby went into the finals with Tony Blanco
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: as Merlin Valdez, also from the Pittsburgh Pirates, And I mean,
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: if there was anybody who was probably with McGonagall in
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: the discussion for the MVP, it was certainly Valdez. He
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: mashed in the Arizona Fall League over eighty played appearances,
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: hit eight homers, twenty seven rbi, A three sixty eight
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: five thirteen eight forty two slash line while he was
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: out there. And this is also capping a fantastic breakout
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: year for Valdez, as in twenty twenty five, played across
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: two levels High A and Double A, hit twenty six homers,
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: seventy five seventy five runs, scored eighty six rbi over
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: one hundred and twenty three games, slash two eighty six, three,
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: seventy six, five, twenty. So this dude is a slugger.
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: Valdez is and the Pittsburgh Pirates don't have a great
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: roster and so I'm almost like, I'm wondering when he
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: might debut, if it is in twenty twenty six, and
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: just given this breakout performance for Valdez throughout the year,
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: I'm curious in your guys' take of what you're doing
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: with him in Dynasty because he is certainly shooting up
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: boards and are you a part of that ride? So Taylor,
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna start with you here. What is your take
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: on Esmerlin valde Valdez. What are you doing with him
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: this offseason? And rounding into twenty twenty six.
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I like as Merlin Valdez a lot. I wrote
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: him up last year and while I was doing research
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: for him, I was searching through X for highlights, and
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: I noticed that every time there's a tweet about him,
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: he will repost it with emojis. So he just got added,
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: I believe, to the forty man roster, and his tweet
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: about it was pirate flag, pirate Flag, pirate flag.
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: LG Flame Flame. So like, he's just a fun dude.
• 34:44
  Speaker 2: And if you watch, I mean you probably saw this
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: at the home run derby, he was cheering the loudest
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: of any of the players when Tony Blanco won, you know,
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: his org mate. The first thing he did was run
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: up and hug him, and like he was cheering for
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: Tony harder than I think he was cheering for himself.
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: So just seems like a really, really good dude. I'm
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: really rooting for him. I think what he's done on
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: the field has been extremely interesting. You know, two straight
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: years with twenty plus home runs, two straight years with
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: an ISO over two thirty. His contact rate, his swinging
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: strike rate have improved every year since twenty twenty one.
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: Now they're still below average. He's still defensively limited to
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: first and corner outfield. But I think this is sort
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: of like, if you're going to invest in that corner profile,
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: this is a guy who's worth investing.
• 35:29
  Speaker 3: In.
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: Our last Prospects Live Dynasty rankings for Prospects, we had
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: him ranked at one thirty five, which I think kind
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: of shows you he's a little bit outside the top
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: one hundred. Maybe with the performance in the Fall League,
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: you can bump him up closer to that top one
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: hundred or maybe even in it, but I wouldn't go
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: too much higher because again, that defensive limitation, some of
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: the contact concerns, there's still a lot of question marks
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: going forward. But I'm definitely rooting for him.
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I think that's a great take. Kyle, what's
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: your take on Valdez.
• 35:58
  Speaker 3: I'm right there with Taylor. I kind of mentioned earlier
• 36:01
  Speaker 3: there are some prospects who are rising from their AFL
• 36:05
  Speaker 3: performance that I think are rising to where they maybe
• 36:07
  Speaker 3: should have been beforehand. And I think fel Dez is
• 36:09
  Speaker 3: one of those guys. And a big reason why is
• 36:11
  Speaker 3: when he got moved up to double A. And I
• 36:14
  Speaker 3: was part of this myself, because when he got moved
• 36:16
  Speaker 3: up to double A, he really struggled for a stretch.
• 36:19
  Speaker 3: He just he couldn't put that on ball, He couldn't
• 36:22
  Speaker 3: put the ball in play. He had a rough go
• 36:24
  Speaker 3: of it. But he turned things around and basically ended
• 36:27
  Speaker 3: the year with super consistent numbers across both levels. And
• 36:31
  Speaker 3: I'm just not sure that some people kind of readjusted
• 36:35
  Speaker 3: after he corrected things in double A, and I think
• 36:38
  Speaker 3: with his performance in the AFL, it's brought people back
• 36:41
  Speaker 3: around to where they should have been to the start
• 36:46
  Speaker 3: of the AFL. When he did end the regular season
• 36:49
  Speaker 3: on such a strong note, I have him basically right
• 36:52
  Speaker 3: where Taylor is saying he's my number ninety nine. I
• 36:54
  Speaker 3: think right inside the top one hundred. If you look
• 36:58
  Speaker 3: at the power pat here, that alone says he should
• 37:01
  Speaker 3: maybe go higher. But for all the reasons Taylor said,
• 37:04
  Speaker 3: as far as some of those limitations that he does have.
• 37:06
  Speaker 3: I think we have to look at him as kind
• 37:09
  Speaker 3: of that back end top one hundred name with potential
• 37:12
  Speaker 3: to rise if he continues to show growth in the
• 37:15
  Speaker 3: hit tool that Taylor said he has been showing year
• 37:18
  Speaker 3: over year.
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: All right, Yeah, I'm right there with you guys that
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: I love this profile for Feltz and I'm really excited
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: to see what he can do going for it. I
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: hope he gets a shot in Pittsburgh this year because
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: he's exactly kind of like the spark plug player that
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: just MLB in general needs, not let alone the Pirates
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: that I hope he's got a bright future in big
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: career ahead of him. All right, let's move to the
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: mound a little bit. As the picture of the year
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: in the Arizona Fall League was James Hicks of the
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: Houston Astros system, and it was quite the performance. Fourteen
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: shoutout innings with a twelve point two K nine that
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: was nineteen strikeouts to two walks, one hit by pitch,
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: a point five to seven whip. Just a great performance
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: for this arm. That was a thirteenth round pick out
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: of South Carolina for the Astros back in twenty twenty three.
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: Was struggling with injury to start the season, and so
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: that's really why he went to the Arizona Fall League
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: was to stretch out further. But at double A this
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: year is a five P fifty nine era A four
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: to fifty two whip with an eight point nine K
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: nine over forty six and two thirds innings. So, Kyle,
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna start with you here, Hicks isn't really on
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: too many kind of dynasty prospect radars, especially given it's
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: a little bit of like a funky arm slot I
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: think for this game cock and not exactly the cream
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: of the crop coming out of the thirteenth round. So
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: anything that you saw on this performance or is it
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: too small of a sample size in the Arizona Fall
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: League to move a pitcher performance up or down like this?
• 38:55
  Speaker 3: Yeah? I Taylor and I talk about it every time
• 38:58
  Speaker 3: we talk about the AFL. We have to look at
• 39:01
  Speaker 3: these stats with a grain of salt, regardless of which
• 39:04
  Speaker 3: side of the ball we're talking about, but specifically when
• 39:06
  Speaker 3: we're talking about pitching, there are so few innings thrown
• 39:10
  Speaker 3: for all these guys. One good or bad outing can
• 39:14
  Speaker 3: swing the numbers so far one way or the other
• 39:17
  Speaker 3: that there's just not a whole lot that can be
• 39:19
  Speaker 3: taken from this. And like you said, this is a
• 39:21
  Speaker 3: bit of a funky arm slot. It's not your traditional
• 39:26
  Speaker 3: high upside prospect. You look at the profile on fangrafs.
• 39:31
  Speaker 3: He's got one pitch that grades as average or better
• 39:35
  Speaker 3: right now, and it's a slider. He's supposedly got really
• 39:39
  Speaker 3: good command, but kind of walks that well. I shouldn't
• 39:42
  Speaker 3: say he's got supposedly good command. He's got good command.
• 39:45
  Speaker 3: He doesn't walk a ton of guys. In my opinion, though,
• 39:47
  Speaker 3: this is probably just a reliever. And when you look
• 39:50
  Speaker 3: at his twenty twenty four season, half of his appearances
• 39:53
  Speaker 3: in the minor leagues were as a reliever. He came
• 39:56
  Speaker 3: out of the bullpen be in twelve out of his
• 39:58
  Speaker 3: twenty five games, sorry, thirteen out of his twenty five games.
• 40:02
  Speaker 3: So I think every year we get some interesting performances
• 40:06
  Speaker 3: on the pitching side of things in the AFL, but
• 40:09
  Speaker 3: even more so than the hitting side of things. I
• 40:12
  Speaker 3: just don't think there's much we can take from the
• 40:15
  Speaker 3: AFL performances of these arms.
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that's fair, and I think so what's
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: great about the AFL this year is Prospects Savant run
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: by Duke Hill, who we saw out at first pitch Arizona.
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: Has all of the stats, all of the actual kind
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: of like metrics that you're looking for from traditional Baseball Savant,
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: but with all the performances here in the AFL, he's
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: got his own rating for a stuff plus that kind
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: of mimics you know, Sarrus's stuff plus. And none of
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: the pitches from Hicks is one hundred or above. The
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: best has actually changed at ninety six and actually doesn't
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: say he has a slider. But I talked to Duke
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: about this. A lot of sliders and curves get like missed, mixed,
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: messed up in the system. And so it's that his curve,
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: Oh I actually should have just scrolled. He just wasn't
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: throwing a slider very much. It was a ninety two
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: on the rating, curve was a ninety four, So maybe
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: he was even trying new stuff out in the AFL
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: here for Hicks Taylor, Any different thoughts here on Hicks
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: or is this somebody where the performance and as I
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: just discovered, the pitch mix was a little different you
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: might be buying in No.
• 41:23
  Speaker 2: I think it's like you guys said, I mean, he's
• 41:25
  Speaker 2: twenty four years old, doesn't have great stuff, you know,
• 41:28
  Speaker 2: missed most of the year with injury, and then when
• 41:29
  Speaker 2: he was on the field didn't pitch well. I think
• 41:32
  Speaker 2: this is a back of rotation arm at best. And yeah,
• 41:36
  Speaker 2: he's not one that should be rostered outside of like
• 41:38
  Speaker 2: the deepest dynasty leagues.
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: Okay, I think that's fair. All right, let's move on
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: to one last award before we get into some of
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: your favorite picks. The breakout player of the Ares of
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: the Fall League this year was catcher Slash first baseman
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: from the Chicago Cubs. Owen ayers he is a twenty
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: four year old switch hitter who was in A ball
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: this year after being there in twenty twenty four, a
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: nineteenth round pick in twenty twenty four out of Marshall
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: So very small school. But a lot of the reports
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: that I've been reading about him from this AFL and
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: from the season have been relatively glowing, and he was
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: a it was a so so year, I would say
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: for him in a ball as a twenty four year
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: old two thirty eight three forty one four twenty slash line,
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: that's a one to twenty six WRC plus six homers,
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: seven stolen bases. In the Arizona Fall League, he slashed
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: three seventy nine five point thirty nine five ninety one
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: with three homers and sixteen RBI in eighty nine played appearances. So, uh, Taylor,
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna start with you this time. What are your
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: thoughts here on Owen airs? Is this a season where
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: you are you see a breakout coming or is this
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: a guy who you think is maybe a little bit
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: old for his competition and is taking advantage of it.
• 42:55
  Speaker 2: I mean, he's definitely a little older, But I think
• 42:58
  Speaker 2: what you can't thake is what he did on the
• 43:01
  Speaker 2: stat cast side. You mentioned the prospects of leaderboards for
• 43:06
  Speaker 2: the AFL. I mean, he put up really nice numbers
• 43:10
  Speaker 2: in terms of ex velocity top ten an average EV
• 43:12
  Speaker 2: at ninety four miles an hour, one ten point six
• 43:15
  Speaker 2: max is respectable, very good. So I think that combination
• 43:19
  Speaker 2: shows that there's there's some legit power there. We need
• 43:23
  Speaker 2: to see him against more advanced competition before we can
• 43:25
  Speaker 2: boost him up too much. I think this again, is
• 43:27
  Speaker 2: a guy who probably doesn't need to be you know,
• 43:30
  Speaker 2: rushed out and rostered. You don't need to pick him
• 43:32
  Speaker 2: up in your FIP or anything. But he's definitely now
• 43:34
  Speaker 2: a name that should be on radars and watch lists
• 43:37
  Speaker 2: to see, you know, what he can do this next season.
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I think that's all fair. Kyle. What's your
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: take here on Owen airs from the Cubs?
• 43:45
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think Taylor nailed it. This is a player
• 43:47
  Speaker 3: who has kind of put himself on the fantasy radar,
• 43:51
  Speaker 3: but isn't somebody that you need to rush out and
• 43:53
  Speaker 3: go add right now. He's somebody that probably put on
• 43:57
  Speaker 3: your watch list and you should see what twenty two
• 44:00
  Speaker 3: twenty six looks like. Hopefully we get to see him
• 44:02
  Speaker 3: against more age appropriate competition because he will be, you know,
• 44:07
  Speaker 3: twenty five years old. I believe early in the season
• 44:12
  Speaker 3: he turns twenty five, So hopefully we see him not
• 44:15
  Speaker 3: only start the year in HIA, but progress to at
• 44:18
  Speaker 3: least double A and get a better idea of what
• 44:20
  Speaker 3: he looks like against more age appropriate competition. But he's
• 44:23
  Speaker 3: definitely somebody who needs to be paid attention to. He
• 44:28
  Speaker 3: doesn't need to be added, but you need to be
• 44:30
  Speaker 3: aware of Owen ayers.
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I totally agree. So yeah, I also wasn't aware
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: of how I read that prospects of vant Page was
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: until you call the doubt, Taylor, and it is. It's good,
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: but it is a great environment to hit it in
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: Arizona with the thin desert air. And yeah, like you
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: guys have both spelled out, let's see how it works
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: against more Apple upper level pitching in the minors. Okay, well,
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: let's get into some of your favorite picks just that
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: didn't win an award, that had performances that really showed
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: another tier where you're moving them up your dynasty ranking
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: sports from these AFL games that happened over the past
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: couple months. So, Kyle, I'm gonna start with you here.
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: Who is your first player that you're really highlighting from
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: the AFL and have started diving into and moving up
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: your rankings.
• 45:20
  Speaker 3: Yeah, so I will preface by saying I didn't really
• 45:23
  Speaker 3: move any of these guys up my rankings due to
• 45:26
  Speaker 3: their AFL performances, but I think that the kind of
• 45:30
  Speaker 3: general thoughts in the prospect community, in the dynasty community
• 45:34
  Speaker 3: around these players has been elevated because they were in
• 45:38
  Speaker 3: the spotlight more in the AFL. And the first name
• 45:41
  Speaker 3: that I'm looking at here is a teammate of our
• 45:43
  Speaker 3: AFL MVP. I'm looking at Max Anderson, who plays a
• 45:47
  Speaker 3: lot of the same positions as Kevin McGonagall. He can
• 45:50
  Speaker 3: kind of play all over the infield, a little bit,
• 45:51
  Speaker 3: a second little bit, a short little bit of third base.
• 45:54
  Speaker 3: But he had a really good year in general in
• 45:57
  Speaker 3: one hundred and twenty two games between a trip a slash,
• 46:00
  Speaker 3: two ninety six three point fifty four seventy eight nineteen
• 46:04
  Speaker 3: home runs, just three steals. That's not a big part
• 46:07
  Speaker 3: of his game, but he does an excellent job putting
• 46:11
  Speaker 3: that to ball and getting the ball in play and
• 46:13
  Speaker 3: making things happen because he struck out just sixteen percent
• 46:17
  Speaker 3: of the time. Now he's got an aggressive approach, so
• 46:19
  Speaker 3: he doesn't walk much either. It's a six percent walk rate.
• 46:22
  Speaker 3: You're going to want to look at him more in
• 46:24
  Speaker 3: your average leagues than OBP leagues. But this is a
• 46:29
  Speaker 3: player who has kind of a really well rounded skill
• 46:32
  Speaker 3: set without being plus in any one facet of the game.
• 46:38
  Speaker 3: So he's not somebody that's going to hurt you anywhere,
• 46:42
  Speaker 3: but he can help you in a lot of places.
• 46:44
  Speaker 3: And when we look at what he did in the
• 46:45
  Speaker 3: AFL and why he started getting more attention is because
• 46:49
  Speaker 3: he put up just some bonkers video game numbers. Now again,
• 46:53
  Speaker 3: take everything with a grain of salt in the AFL
• 46:57
  Speaker 3: and if nothing else tells you that this slash line
• 47:00
  Speaker 3: should because it's a four forty seven, six h nine
• 47:04
  Speaker 3: eighth nine slash the fourteen hundred ops, which is just absurd.
• 47:08
  Speaker 3: Four home runs, one stolen base, and he walked twice
• 47:12
  Speaker 3: as much as he struck out. I believe it was
• 47:14
  Speaker 3: eighteen walks to nine strikeouts. So that really shows you
• 47:18
  Speaker 3: what the bat to ball skills look like. He is
• 47:22
  Speaker 3: tremendous at putting back to ball. He's not going to
• 47:24
  Speaker 3: strike out a lot, and in all honesty, his best
• 47:27
  Speaker 3: format might be those points leagues. I know, not everybody
• 47:30
  Speaker 3: plays points. Not everybody you know is positive when they
• 47:33
  Speaker 3: think of points leagues. But he is a player that
• 47:37
  Speaker 3: is just going to be a really steady presence. The
• 47:40
  Speaker 3: trick here is going to be where he ends up playing.
• 47:43
  Speaker 3: Because we've already talked about, you know, a guy like
• 47:45
  Speaker 3: Kevin McGonagall and where does he fit into the picture.
• 47:48
  Speaker 3: They're obviously going to get him into that lineup before
• 47:52
  Speaker 3: they start worrying about a guy like Max Anderson. So
• 47:55
  Speaker 3: what you know, scraps. Is he able to pick up
• 47:58
  Speaker 3: from a playing time perspective. When we talk about a
• 48:00
  Speaker 3: McGonagall maybe playing several positions, we talk about a guy
• 48:03
  Speaker 3: like Cole Keith who's getting moved around all the time.
• 48:06
  Speaker 3: The Tigers kind of already have this player, So that's
• 48:09
  Speaker 3: my one concern is where does he really fit in?
• 48:12
  Speaker 3: But I do really like the bat of Max Anderson.
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I do too. It's it is a superb bat.
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: And you do wonder if the Tigers may be a
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: little bit disappointed that Glaber Torre has accepted that qualifying
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: offer because they needed that extra space in the infield.
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: But certainly they've got all off season to find some trades,
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: and I think Max Anderson's somebody to really start going
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: into twenty twenty six because I think he's ready. He's
• 48:37
  Speaker 1: shown what he he has needed to in the minors
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: and is ready for the primetime. All right, Taylor, I'm
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: going to pass over you. Who is your first pick
• 48:45
  Speaker 1: from the AFL of players that have really stood out
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: to you?
• 48:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah, mine's gonna be josh Adam Schevski And I would
• 48:52
  Speaker 2: spell that last name, but we don't have all night,
• 48:54
  Speaker 2: so I'm gonna move on two seventy seven, four fifteen,
• 49:01
  Speaker 2: five thirty eight in the AFL, tied for fourth and
• 49:04
  Speaker 2: home runs with four, fifth and extra eight hits with
• 49:06
  Speaker 2: nine eighteen percent walk rate twenty percent strikeout rate, chipped
• 49:10
  Speaker 2: in four steals as well. All of that at age twenty,
• 49:13
  Speaker 2: which is two years below the average age of the
• 49:16
  Speaker 2: AFL player. Really good to see after he performed well
• 49:21
  Speaker 2: in single A last year one eighty seven WRC plus,
• 49:23
  Speaker 2: but then struggled upon a late season promotion to High
• 49:26
  Speaker 2: A in the AFL, like I mentioned, showed solid contact
• 49:30
  Speaker 2: and power ninety one point eight average TV one on
• 49:33
  Speaker 2: nine point six Max ev. He's kind of in that
• 49:37
  Speaker 2: mold with with Max Anderson, where like he's not a
• 49:39
  Speaker 2: great defender. There are some long term questions, particularly in
• 49:43
  Speaker 2: the farm system that he's in in Milwaukee, where they
• 49:46
  Speaker 2: have just a ton of position player prospects that are
• 49:49
  Speaker 2: really highly regarded. So you kind of wonder like will
• 49:53
  Speaker 2: he rise to the surface, will he you know, be
• 49:56
  Speaker 2: in purgatory for a while. Good news is that he
• 49:59
  Speaker 2: is a left handed hitter. The short sight platoon concerns
• 50:01
  Speaker 2: are not really there. I just think it's a good
• 50:04
  Speaker 2: combination of solid power in hit tool, and I think
• 50:08
  Speaker 2: he's one who, you know, after a little bit of
• 50:10
  Speaker 2: a downturn at the end of last year, he's rebounded
• 50:12
  Speaker 2: his stock maybe back to where it was earlier last season.
• 50:15
  Speaker 2: So I think he's like a top two hundred prospect.
• 50:19
  Speaker 2: Nothing noteworthy, but definitely a guy who's worth rostering in
• 50:22
  Speaker 2: a lot of leagues.
• 50:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah, And I think the other great thing to come
• 50:25
  Speaker 1: out here with am am Schefski is that the he
• 50:30
  Speaker 1: was one of the fifteen youngest bats in the league too,
• 50:33
  Speaker 1: So that shows we just described off the get go
• 50:37
  Speaker 1: that this is more of a finishing school in terms
• 50:41
  Speaker 1: of going out to the AFL. So it shows he
• 50:43
  Speaker 1: was a high school pick in twenty twenty three, that
• 50:45
  Speaker 1: the Brewers have a lot of faith in what am
• 50:48
  Speaker 1: Chefski can do going forward. So somebody to really put
• 50:51
  Speaker 1: on your radar that, even though he was in only
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: high A ball this year, maybe he's a quick riser
• 50:56
  Speaker 1: through the system next year. All right, Kyle, I'm going
• 50:59
  Speaker 1: to go back to you, who's your next pick?
• 51:03
  Speaker 3: Yeah? The next guy that I'm looking at here is
• 51:05
  Speaker 3: somebody that frankly, I didn't have on my radar as
• 51:10
  Speaker 3: much until the end of the year. He started getting
• 51:13
  Speaker 3: some hype towards the end of the year, and the
• 51:14
  Speaker 3: AFL really helped that. And that is Angel's outfield prospect,
• 51:18
  Speaker 3: Roddy Rodriguez. Now he's still a deeply name. I've got
• 51:22
  Speaker 3: him ranked just outside my top four hundred, but he
• 51:24
  Speaker 3: did put up a really strong year in single eight. Admittedly,
• 51:28
  Speaker 3: he's a little bit old for the level. I believe
• 51:30
  Speaker 3: he's twenty two years old now and just finished the
• 51:34
  Speaker 3: season in Single A, but in one hundred and twenty
• 51:36
  Speaker 3: five games, really strong slash line two eighty one, three
• 51:40
  Speaker 3: seventy two, four seventy fourteen home runs here, thirty eight
• 51:43
  Speaker 3: stolen bases, twenty three percent strikeout rate, eleven percent walk rate.
• 51:48
  Speaker 3: So it's a really well rounded profile. And he continued
• 51:51
  Speaker 3: to show that in the AFL where he slashed four
• 51:54
  Speaker 3: thirty three, five, fourteen, six fifty. So that's another slash
• 51:58
  Speaker 3: line or another OPI sorry, above a thousand. He got
• 52:02
  Speaker 3: on base more than half the time as well, just
• 52:05
  Speaker 3: insane numbers there again video game like one home run,
• 52:08
  Speaker 3: five steals, twelve k's pen walk. So again, just showed
• 52:12
  Speaker 3: off a really well rounded profile. And I think when
• 52:16
  Speaker 3: we you know, typically think about the Angels. We're not
• 52:19
  Speaker 3: a big fan of their system, we're not a big
• 52:22
  Speaker 3: fan of their development, we're not a big fan of
• 52:24
  Speaker 3: how they handle their prospects. But this is a player
• 52:27
  Speaker 3: that they've actually maybe held back a little bit more
• 52:30
  Speaker 3: than some of their other guys. They haven't pushed him
• 52:32
  Speaker 3: nearly as aggressively, and because of that, he's not been
• 52:35
  Speaker 3: on the forefront of our minds. But Roddy Rodriguez is
• 52:38
  Speaker 3: somebody that I think deserves more attention than he's been getting,
• 52:41
  Speaker 3: and the AFL helped him get some of that.
• 52:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think this is a great pick. And then
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: it is Rowdy Rodriguez the reason that Perry Manacian moved
• 52:50
  Speaker 1: on from Taylor Ward this week. I mean, he's got
• 52:55
  Speaker 1: to be right.
• 52:56
  Speaker 3: They don't have anybody else that they're going to push aggressively,
• 52:58
  Speaker 3: so why not Roddy Rodrigue.
• 53:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly. They didn't promote anybody too aggressively this past year,
• 53:05
  Speaker 1: so they're like, man, I'm itchin. I've been itchin and
• 53:09
  Speaker 1: whoof this Angels lineup? I haven't looked at it in
• 53:12
  Speaker 1: a while. But they've got some work to do, so
• 53:16
  Speaker 1: the path is open for Rodriguez. I mean, this is
• 53:18
  Speaker 1: a team that just like moved Christian Moore all the
• 53:22
  Speaker 1: way through the miners with like no issues. Just Kiren
• 53:25
  Speaker 1: Paris shot through immediately. Honestly, I think Nelson rod is
• 53:29
  Speaker 1: probably a name to watch for this opening day outfield.
• 53:33
  Speaker 1: But I'm gonna put Rowdy Rodriguez right there too, considering
• 53:37
  Speaker 1: you never know what the Angels are gonna do and
• 53:39
  Speaker 1: how long they're gonna let a player marinate or not
• 53:43
  Speaker 1: marinate down in the miners. All right, Taylor, who's your
• 53:47
  Speaker 1: second pick?
• 53:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm gonna go with a bit of a homer
• 53:49
  Speaker 2: pick here, and that's Parks Harbor of the San Francisco Giants.
• 53:52
  Speaker 2: He came over to the Giants in the community of
• 53:54
  Speaker 2: all deal with the Yankees at the deadline last year.
• 53:58
  Speaker 2: Was not initially a fan of his pro file, but
• 54:01
  Speaker 2: I think he's changing my mind. And shout out to
• 54:03
  Speaker 2: Kyle for writing him up towards the end of last
• 54:05
  Speaker 2: year as a pickup in our article series. But really
• 54:09
  Speaker 2: just a dominant AFL performance. I mean, he could have
• 54:12
  Speaker 2: been a candidate for the Offensive Player of the Year.
• 54:14
  Speaker 2: Led the league in extra base hits and doubles fifth
• 54:18
  Speaker 2: and isolated power seventh and home runs third, in batting
• 54:21
  Speaker 2: average fifth and OBP fourth, and both slugging and ops
• 54:24
  Speaker 2: eighteen percent, walk rate twenty six percent, strikeout rates a
• 54:27
  Speaker 2: little higher than you want to see, but again, small sample,
• 54:29
  Speaker 2: I'm willing to let it pass. Overall solid contact at
• 54:32
  Speaker 2: seventy five percent and big time, big time power. So
• 54:36
  Speaker 2: stat cast, if you measure based on players that had
• 54:38
  Speaker 2: twenty five or more played appearances, he was top five
• 54:41
  Speaker 2: and average TV at ninety four point six, top six
• 54:43
  Speaker 2: and MAXIV at one fourteen point three, and he was
• 54:46
  Speaker 2: first in barrel percentage. So really kind of an exciting
• 54:50
  Speaker 2: player performing at the AFL. And it just continues what
• 54:53
  Speaker 2: he did since coming over to the Giants because post trade,
• 54:57
  Speaker 2: in twenty five games the end the season, he posted
• 54:59
  Speaker 2: an OPS over one thousand, a three ten ISO in
• 55:02
  Speaker 2: a one ninety five WRC plus, which is like insane,
• 55:05
  Speaker 2: insane numbers. However, we got to mention he was a
• 55:08
  Speaker 2: twenty three year old at high A, so that's very
• 55:10
  Speaker 2: old for the level. I think that's less an indictment
• 55:13
  Speaker 2: on him as a player and just more of a
• 55:16
  Speaker 2: very weird strategy the Giants had last year where they
• 55:19
  Speaker 2: were very conservative with promotions. You saw a lot of
• 55:21
  Speaker 2: their players at levels that they were older for the level.
• 55:26
  Speaker 3: You know, Parks Harbor.
• 55:28
  Speaker 2: We still have to see him against you know, high
• 55:31
  Speaker 2: higher minors competition, but I will say he's never posted
• 55:34
  Speaker 2: WRC plus below one forty. He's pretty much hit everywhere
• 55:37
  Speaker 2: he's been. I think he's a guy who's really on
• 55:40
  Speaker 2: the rise. In our our last rankings, we had a
• 55:42
  Speaker 2: Prospects Live consensus break on him was four to eleven.
• 55:45
  Speaker 2: I think he's more of like a top three hundred prospect.
• 55:48
  Speaker 2: Really curious to hear where you have him, Kyle, because
• 55:49
  Speaker 2: I know you're working on your rankings right now as well.
• 55:52
  Speaker 3: Yeah, let me take a quick look here. I still
• 55:55
  Speaker 3: have him back towards four hundred, but that's a ranking
• 55:59
  Speaker 3: I have really wrestled with because of, like you said,
• 56:03
  Speaker 3: everything that he showed once he got to San Francisco
• 56:06
  Speaker 3: and then the fact that he did kind of put
• 56:07
  Speaker 3: himself more in the spotlight in the AFL here. I
• 56:11
  Speaker 3: do think somewhere in that three hundred to four hundred
• 56:13
  Speaker 3: range is probably what we're looking at. And honestly, when
• 56:16
  Speaker 3: we're looking at those that range of the rankings, it's
• 56:20
  Speaker 3: almost one, maybe two really big tiers. So you can
• 56:24
  Speaker 3: argue him just about anywhere in that range, but I
• 56:27
  Speaker 3: can't argue the fact that he maybe deserves to be
• 56:29
  Speaker 3: closer to three hundred than where I have him right now.
• 56:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah, And I mean also, this guy was an undrafted
• 56:36
  Speaker 1: free agent after playing at Georgia North Carolina. Been absurd
• 56:42
  Speaker 1: ever since he's been in the minors that I like
• 56:44
  Speaker 1: that chip on the shoulder aspect to it. That like,
• 56:47
  Speaker 1: it seems like Harber has something to prove to all
• 56:50
  Speaker 1: the major league franchises that passed on him in the
• 56:53
  Speaker 1: draft and allowed him to be an undrafted free agent.
• 56:56
  Speaker 1: So maybe where do you see Taylor? Like, is he
• 56:59
  Speaker 1: a first baseman, is he a third baseman? Can he
• 57:02
  Speaker 1: swing a corner? Where do you see his eventual position being?
• 57:06
  Speaker 3: That's a great questot It's a room at first right now?
• 57:08
  Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, first, the thach, third's not locked up or anything, right.
• 57:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah, there's a lot of positions spoken for. I think
• 57:19
  Speaker 2: that's one of those things where you'll just let things
• 57:21
  Speaker 2: play out. I don't worry too much about future position
• 57:25
  Speaker 2: for guys, especially when they haven't hit double a yet.
• 57:28
  Speaker 2: I think, you know, maybe if all the same players
• 57:31
  Speaker 2: are there, maybe you can stick him in the corner
• 57:33
  Speaker 2: outfield spot or something like that. But I think the
• 57:35
  Speaker 2: bat's gonna play. I think the defense is a question.
• 57:38
  Speaker 2: But again, we just have to see him do it
• 57:40
  Speaker 2: against you know, double A and higher competition, because the
• 57:44
  Speaker 2: gap between High A and Double A is enormous and
• 57:47
  Speaker 2: we've seen so many prospects for from well and the
• 57:49
  Speaker 2: low miners, particularly an older age, who struggle when they
• 57:52
  Speaker 2: get to the higher minors. So that's gonna be a
• 57:53
  Speaker 2: real test for him. But if he he hits the
• 57:55
  Speaker 2: ground running at double A, which I really hope the
• 57:58
  Speaker 2: Giants are not stupid enough to send him back to,
• 58:01
  Speaker 2: you should go to double A. And if he hits
• 58:02
  Speaker 2: the ground running, I think he's one that could really
• 58:04
  Speaker 2: rise up less.
• 58:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I think that's fair. And this type of player,
• 58:09
  Speaker 1: I feel like the Giants always find it's kind of
• 58:10
  Speaker 1: like the Michael Morse like kind of archetype where they
• 58:16
  Speaker 1: ride him hot. It's great, especially and if you're in
• 58:18
  Speaker 1: a daily league and can play him against lefties. But
• 58:21
  Speaker 1: he's got one or two like mid thirties homer seasons
• 58:25
  Speaker 1: in that bat. So Harper is definitely a name to
• 58:27
  Speaker 1: watch going forward. Okay, your last pick here, Kyle, of
• 58:32
  Speaker 1: your favorites from the breakouts at the Fall League.
• 58:36
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Now, I know I've said don't look too much
• 58:38
  Speaker 3: into what any pitchers do in the AFL, but I
• 58:42
  Speaker 3: do have a pick on the mound here for my
• 58:44
  Speaker 3: last one. Here, I'm looking at Jake Bennett of the Nationals.
• 58:48
  Speaker 3: I currently have him ranked just outside my top four hundred.
• 58:52
  Speaker 3: A big reason why he got sent to the AFL
• 58:54
  Speaker 3: is the fact that he did get Tommy John He
• 58:57
  Speaker 3: missed all of twenty twenty four. He threw seventy five
• 59:00
  Speaker 3: innings in twenty twenty five, so not a bad innings total.
• 59:03
  Speaker 3: But when you look at the Nationals rotation, they need help,
• 59:06
  Speaker 3: and they need it soon, and they need it bad,
• 59:09
  Speaker 3: so you send him there. I think almost as that
• 59:12
  Speaker 3: kind of finishing school. Despite the fact that he ended
• 59:14
  Speaker 3: the year in Double A, it wouldn't be shocked if
• 59:17
  Speaker 3: we see him in the majors. Probably not opening day,
• 59:20
  Speaker 3: but maybe by mid season. We see James Bennett making
• 59:23
  Speaker 3: his big league debut, and he's not going to be
• 59:26
  Speaker 3: a big time upside guy, not a ton of strikeouts
• 59:29
  Speaker 3: or anything. Despite the fact that he actually led the
• 59:32
  Speaker 3: AFL in strikeouts. But we look at what he did
• 59:36
  Speaker 3: in the regular season. It was a really strong year,
• 59:39
  Speaker 3: seventy five innings, as I said, a two to seven
• 59:41
  Speaker 3: ERA one oh eight whip, just a twenty one percent
• 59:45
  Speaker 3: strikeout rate but a six percent walk rate, And that
• 59:48
  Speaker 3: really speaks to who he is because it's four average
• 59:51
  Speaker 3: or better offerings. Here, the fastball is solid. It actually
• 59:55
  Speaker 3: ticked up a little bit when he returned from Tommy
• 59:58
  Speaker 3: John in twenty twenty five. Here he's kind of low
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 3: to mid nineties, tops out around ninety six. He's also
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 3: got a curveball, a slider, a change up. The change
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 3: up is probably his best pitch, but the command is
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 3: arguably his best tool and allows everything else to play up.
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 3: So when we look at a guy like Jake Bennett,
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 3: it's not necessarily somebody that is going to, you know,
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 3: wow you and be the ace of your fantasy team
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 3: or anything. But he could end up being a steady
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 3: contributor who you know can help your team significantly in
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 3: strong matchups. In particular, he didn't have a fantastic AFL,
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 3: But as I said before, you can't take these numbers
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 3: too seriously because one bad outing can really swing things.
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 3: It was a four and a half VRA one two
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 3: five whip. But again, he led the AFL in strikeouts
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 3: and he had a five kDa walker ratio, which was
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 3: third in the entire AFL. So that's kind of who
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 3: he is. It's not a high strikeout guy, despite the fact,
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 3: again that he led the AFL. But he's just going
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 3: to be that steady presence in your rotation.
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think this is a great pick. If there's
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 1: another patron saint of this podcast, the crew and I have,
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 1: it's large pitchability lefties, and so Jake Bennett is six
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 1: foot six, came from Oklahoma. This is exactly my type
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 1: of player. I think that you can always get them
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 1: very cheap in fantasy circles too, because especially for a lefty,
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 1: you know, if the velocity doesn't scream off the charts,
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 1: it still might be average or above average velocity for
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 1: a lefty, and that gets hidden in everything. On top
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 1: of everything else, the Nationals agree with you here, Kyle,
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 1: because he was added to the forty man roster yesterday
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 1: to be protected from the Rule five draft, I believe.
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 1: So I think it's all lining up for Jake Bennett.
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 1: To debut for the Washington Nationals in twenty twenty six.
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 1: It's a matter of when not if. All Right, Taylor,
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 1: your last pick, who you going with for your last
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 1: of the players in the AFL that stood out to you?
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Kyle went with an Arm for his last pick,
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 2: so I'm going to choose an Arm as well, but
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 2: pretty much the opposite. He's not large, he doesn't have
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 2: pitch ability, and he's not a lefty. But it's Anderson Brito.
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 2: This guy is a strikeout machine. He was third in
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 2: the AFL and strikeouts. Should mention he pitches for the
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 2: Houston Naturals organization. Third in the AFL and strikeouts twenty
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 2: two strikeouts and just eleven point one innings, almost two
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 2: strikeouts per inning. First in K per nine, as you
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 2: can imagine, seventeen point five percent or sorry, seventeen point
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 2: five k per nine. The ratios were fine, three point
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 2: nine seven ERA, one point one.
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 1: To five whip.
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 2: But this is a guy who has a high octane fastball,
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 2: high nineties, hits one hundred. He pitched in the Fall
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 2: Stars Game for an inning. I think he averaged ninety
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 2: eight in that game. Slider gets plus grades as well.
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 2: So potentially two plus pitches in the fastball and slider
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 2: Fangrafts gave his curveball a fifty five above average grade,
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 2: so potential for three above average to plus pitches. The
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 2: real question with him is going to be the command
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 2: and control. In the AFL, he did have a lot
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 2: of walks five point six walks per nine that really
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 2: continued a trend that we've seen, you know, throughout his career.
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 1: Last year.
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 2: That's pretty much right in line with what he did
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 2: when he was pitching in the minors. I will say
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 2: he missed a lot of last season due to injury,
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 2: but pitched well when he was on the mound three
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 2: point two eight e er a two point nine to
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 2: one FIP, thirty one percent strikeout rate at hya there.
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 2: You know, like I mentioned, he's a strike out machine.
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 2: He's never had a strike out rate below thirty percent
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 2: for a full season. And what's crazy is kind of
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 2: his path to where he is now because he's one
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 2: year removed from making his pro debut in the DSL
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 2: summer of twenty twenty four, he was a rare case.
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 2: I remember at the time me and Kyle were talking
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 2: about it on our podcast that he actually got moved
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 2: from I'm the DSL too complex mid season because he
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 2: was so dominant there made it all the way to
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 2: single A that year. You know, pitched in High A
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 2: this year. As I mentioned, he's not a large guy.
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 2: He's listed at five to ten. There are reports that
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 2: he's maybe a little bit taller than that, maybe five
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 2: to eleven, maybe six foot, but still pretty undersized. And
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 2: with the control concerns, you know, this might be a reliever.
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 2: But if everything hits, this is like a high strikeout,
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 2: mid rotation starter and one of the better pitchers in
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 2: the Astros system. So I think he'll get an opportunity.
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 2: And you know, we've seen a lot of Astros pitchers
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 2: over the years come out of nowhere and make an
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 2: impact for fantasy. So I don't know that he's one
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 2: that you know, you need to again roster and kind
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 2: of those shower dynasty leagues. But I think he's probably
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 2: similar to Parks Harbor in that, you know, top three
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 2: hundred or so prospect range. But yeah, he's a guy
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 2: who I'm I'm getting more and more excited about.
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that's a great call, and like you said,
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 1: this is not necessarily a great rotation for the Astros.
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 1: They still have Jason Alexander hanging out in that rotation,
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 1: and who knows what you're getting from Lance mccollors and
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 1: Spencer Arraghetti. There they did it, Miguel Yolo, I believe,
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 1: is how you say it to their forty man roster today.
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 1: So that's somebody to watch as well. But I think
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 1: Brito's right there that I like this type of arm too,
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 1: because if it doesn't work as a starter, honestly, he
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 1: could probably relieve right now in the majors given the
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 1: electricity in that arm. And this is exactly the type
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 1: of guy who turns into a shut down, lockdown closer
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 1: out of nowhere if it doesn't work as a starter.
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah, still just twenty one years old. This year upcoming
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 2: year will be his age twenty one season, so definitely
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 2: still young heart throwing. You just gotta hope he can
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 2: find some command and stay healthy.
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 1: All right. Well, that's gonna wrap us up here for
• 1:05:55
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• 1:06:20
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• 1:06:24
  Speaker 1: so much guys for coming on this pod. Taylor, it
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 1: was another great first pitch Arizona. We are going to
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 1: get Kyle out there one day. He's going to have
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 1: the blast of his life and he's going to be
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 1: a part of all the traditions that happen out there
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 1: and never want to leave again. So Kyle, we're going
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 1: to see you next year, you think.
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 3: I sure hope. So. Me and Taylor have been talking
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 3: about it, and maybe the one thing that swung me
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 3: the most. He mentioned a two am trip to the
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 3: batting page. Did he wasn't able to make, but that
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 3: just sounds fantastic. I really hope I can make it
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 3: out there next year. I'm going to try everything I
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 3: can to get out there in twenty twenty six.
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's just like wall the Wall baseball, and it's
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 1: just so so much great going on. And I will
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 1: say that it was nice going back for a second
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 1: year this year because like I knew the the kind
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 1: of cadence of what all the the schedules are going
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 1: to be, and so like I was able to like
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 1: take a nap one day just because I was like,
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 1: you know what, I'm on vacation. I'm going to take
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 1: a nap here. But Taylor, anything about first picture is
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 1: only that you really want to call it because it
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 1: is like it is the best time if you love baseball, Right, yeah, I.
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  Speaker 2: Disagree with everything you're saying. It was my second year too,
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  Speaker 2: and same thing, like you kind of learn, Okay, you
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 2: don't necessarily have to go to every single panel. There's
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 2: amazing panels all throughout the day, but you also have
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 2: to sleep at some point. And that's the hardest part
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 2: is just fighting when you're going to sleep, because it
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 2: never stops. It's panels, games, drafts all day long and
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 2: night long. And then you got the bar, then you
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 2: got the after party, you got the two am batting cages.
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 2: Like you just you can't sleep. But one of the
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 2: most amazing times and even you know, I would say
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 2: even better at the second year, like it was. It
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 2: was awesome. So highly recommend anyone you know, whether you're
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  Speaker 2: you know, content creator or just in like one fancy
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 2: home league and you just love fancy baseball or just
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 2: baseball in general, love talking with like minded people.
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  Speaker 1: Check it out.
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  Speaker 3: It is amazing.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, can't say enough great things and can't say enough
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 1: great things about you guys and your podcast. Dynasty Baseball Pickups.
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  Speaker 1: Can really catch it wherever you find podcasts. It is
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 1: one of the great prospect podcasts out there. Lots of
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 1: great information you guys find all sorts of great players
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 1: out there. And what I also appreciate about your your
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 1: podcast is that you call out your w's and your
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 1: l's and so there's a lot I think you can
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  Speaker 1: learn from the l's over the years in terms of
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 1: like reevaluating your strategies and seeing you know, are you
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 1: falling in love with a type of player too much
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 1: or what has caused missus and it just allows you
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 1: to get better and better. So I've appreciated all the
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 1: insights that have come through your podcast over the years
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 1: that it's been great checking it out.
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 2: Thanks, Mike. Really really appreciate those words. And if anyone's interested,
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 2: we usually will typically release on Saturdays. We just started
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 2: our off season content, so we'll be weekly from now
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 2: until the playoffs start next year. So check us out
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 2: again anywhere podcasts can be found.
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 1: All right, and Taylor, let everybody know one more time
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  Speaker 1: where they can find you on socials, reach your work
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  Speaker 1: and just kind of connect with you.
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you can find me again at Dynasty Pickups on
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 2: both X and Blue Sky. My work is over at
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 2: Prospects Live, and occasionally I will be roaming around the
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 2: Fantasy Baseball Discord, so you can check me out there
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 2: as well.
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 1: Kyle, what about you? Where can people find you?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: Once again socials, I am Sunny Underscore one eight on
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 3: X and Sunny one O eight on Blue Sky, also
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 3: on Prospects Live. This offseason, we've been pumping out a
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 3: ton of content. Lately. We've been working on some twenty
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 3: twenty eight lineup prediction which are incredibly daunting because you
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 3: never know what's going to happen in a year, let
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 3: alone three years like that. We've been right now player
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 3: blurbs left and right. I think we've got like thirty
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 3: some players for every team our Dynasty league. Greg who
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 3: Camp has said, we're writing up blurbs for every fantasy
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 3: relevant player in baseball, and I would argue a lot
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 3: of the time we're getting into some irrelevant players as well,
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 3: So there's a ton of content being pumped out and
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 3: Famous Taylor you can find me roaming the Fantasy Baseball
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 3: Discord from time to time, just talking baseball, you know,
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 3: not always fantasy relevant, but always talking baseball.
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 1: All right, Well, thanks guys once again for joining the podcast,
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 1: and if this is one of your first times checking
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• 1:10:51
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  Speaker 1: the pod and get us into different ears out there.
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  Speaker 1: We will be back, same time, same place next week
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  Speaker 1: with another pod covering more about fantasy baseball and baseball
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  Speaker 1: cards for raspball. Thanks everybody,