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Dynasty Sports Life Ep 209 Second half baseball draft with Craig · Dynasty Sports Life

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  Speaker 1: Be in this league podcast network. There's this Dynasty Sports Life,
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  Speaker 1: a podcast about playing fantasy baseball, basketball, football, and hont
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  Speaker 1: three hundred and sixty five days a year. Here's your host,
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  Speaker 1: Jesse Sylvia.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome to the Dynasty Sports Life. Jesse Severe with you
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  Speaker 2: to talk about the wonderful world of Dynasty fantasy sports.
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  Speaker 2: What is going on. Of course, last week no episode.
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  Speaker 2: It is that summertime when I disappear. You'll probably hear
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  Speaker 2: some reference to that on this show because it was
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  Speaker 2: Europe based and we have a European guest today. European.
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  Speaker 2: It sounds exotic to me, but we'll see. Actually, I
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  Speaker 2: think Britain isn't part of Europe anymore. I'm not sure
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  Speaker 2: that Craig can claim that title. In any event, it
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  Speaker 2: is still timed. People are starting to get fired up
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  Speaker 2: with football people, and that means that your baseball leagues,
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  Speaker 2: it's time to pounce. It's time to get in there
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  Speaker 2: for that post all Star break and get her going.
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  Speaker 2: That's what today's episode is going to be about. And
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  Speaker 2: of course Summer League has just concluded and NHL we
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  Speaker 2: are in the dregs, but there's still a couple of
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  Speaker 2: things hanging out there, So there's still those leagues are
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  Speaker 2: probably gonna go a little bit quiet for a little
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  Speaker 2: bit of time, but that just means we like to
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  Speaker 2: talk to about them even more in the dynasty space.
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  Speaker 2: But today, as I said, baseball, Craig Vosage after this
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  Speaker 2: live from the chile cool homes of southern England. It
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  Speaker 2: is Craig Bissage here once again living in a climatological paradise.
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  Speaker 2: How are you doing today, Creig?
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  Speaker 3: A lot cooler than I was a few days ago.
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  Speaker 3: I tell you we had temperatures up into thirty seven range,
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  Speaker 3: so you know, sort of around about the one hundred mark,
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  Speaker 3: which meant indoors it was like forty or forty one,
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  Speaker 3: forty two because of all the installation and red houses are.
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  Speaker 3: It hasn't rained here for nearly three weeks. I think
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  Speaker 3: we had a forest fire about two miles away from
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  Speaker 3: where I live, which is just unheard of here. They
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  Speaker 3: don't happen. It just rains too often. Nothing's ever dry enough.
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  Speaker 3: And I live surrounded by a lot of hills and
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  Speaker 3: stuff to the north called the South Downs, and they
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  Speaker 3: are just brown with desperate need of rain. But I'm
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  Speaker 3: managing now we're down to about twenty two seventy one
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  Speaker 3: something along those lines. And yeah, if we'd done this
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  Speaker 3: quite a few days ago, i'd add my shirt off.
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  Speaker 3: I'd have been taking you to a gun show and
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  Speaker 3: the safety catches would have been off.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my gosh. You can obviously see why there was
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  Speaker 2: no episode last week. Everybody part of that, though, because
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  Speaker 2: I also foolishly chose late July to go to Europe
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  Speaker 2: because we're taking our vacation over there, and yeah, it's
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  Speaker 2: freaking hot. It is freaking hot over there. So I
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  Speaker 2: don't know about this, Craig. You guys need to I
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  Speaker 2: keep trying to tell Craig, all you need is some
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  Speaker 2: air condition over there. I lived in the South of
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  Speaker 2: the US, and all you do, you know, you can't.
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  Speaker 2: It is so darn hot and miserable. But whenever you
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  Speaker 2: walk into an indoor space in the American South, you
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  Speaker 2: will be absolutely nubed with fifty five degree air conditioning
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  Speaker 2: before you even can come in.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, but that's cheating, isn't it. Air Conditioner breakfast is
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  Speaker 3: for WIMPs.
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  Speaker 2: No, it's not cheating, Craig, it's they. We used to joke,
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  Speaker 2: the Vikings fans would joke a little bit that packers
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  Speaker 2: are like, we're tough. We have the outdoor stadium in
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  Speaker 2: the middle of the winter. Why wouldn't you be tough
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  Speaker 2: and have the stadium outdoors? And Minnesotans are like, we
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  Speaker 2: just have the sense to come in out at the cold.
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  Speaker 2: When it's cold, you put a roof up. My friends,
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  Speaker 2: and the Minneapolis being north of Green Bay, it seems logical.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, to be fair, we're about one thousands miles
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  Speaker 3: north in Brighton. I live right in the south coast
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  Speaker 3: of England. The latitude and longitude speaking, we are like
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  Speaker 3: about twelve hundred miles one thousand miles north of Green
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  Speaker 3: Bay ourselves. It's not like we've much like we're in
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  Speaker 3: the south or anything. But I mean it was so
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  Speaker 3: bad here. We had a regular health warn and so
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  Speaker 3: it was risk of death. We had train lines, not
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  Speaker 3: running businesses, clothes, schools, clothes. We're just not built for it.
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  Speaker 3: It's as simple as that. And sort of the flip side.
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  Speaker 3: I know they'll be c k and people like that
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  Speaker 3: who live in the South of America who will laugh
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  Speaker 3: at the temperatures that I say and stuff or Chad
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  Speaker 3: in Arizona. But We're just not built for it. It'd
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  Speaker 3: be like their houses trying to survive through minus fifteen,
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  Speaker 3: do you know what I mean? The houses are not
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  Speaker 3: built for that. It's just the way it is. And
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  Speaker 3: it's definitely getting hotter and hotter here in the summer.
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  Speaker 3: But it's the real lack of rain which is the
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  Speaker 3: real problem at the moment.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, today, Craig, we're just going to have to
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  Speaker 2: make it rain from a fantasy sense for people who
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  Speaker 2: are just miserable and hot where they are at least
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  Speaker 2: it's yeah, yeah, So here the other thing, Craig, that
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  Speaker 2: I will and then I promise I will stop telling
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  Speaker 2: vacation stories as an excuse for why I didn't show up.
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  Speaker 2: But it's an interesting exercise we have today because we're
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  Speaker 2: gonna be talking about the second half of the baseball
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  Speaker 2: season and who we might draft now, and we'll get
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  Speaker 2: into the exact rules. But last week, when I was
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  Speaker 2: in Europe, I also got a taste of you and
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  Speaker 2: Thomas and all the other guys from Europe drafting our
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  Speaker 2: leagues because there was our second half league in one
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  Speaker 2: of the home leagues here was scheduled to draft at
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  Speaker 2: three A m all right, three am.
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  Speaker 3: Over there, welcome to Wells.
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  Speaker 2: And I was. I tried to get somebody to drafted
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  Speaker 2: for me. I couldn't find anybody. I woke myself up
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  Speaker 2: in the middle of the night. The fantasy wife is
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  Speaker 2: completely thinking I'm insane, and I spent it was a
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  Speaker 2: two hour draft, Craig. From three to five in the morning.
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  Speaker 2: I was wandering around in the heat and the dark.
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  Speaker 3: You never have a holiday when you play fantasy sports,
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  Speaker 3: or at least when you take them seriously. If you
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  Speaker 3: remember with the three sport draft, I believe my youngest
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  Speaker 3: daughter was being born in hospital at the time, trying
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  Speaker 3: to juggle the birth making picks, and I did it.
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  Speaker 3: Got to take priorities here. But yeah, that is a
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  Speaker 3: taste of us, and now you can probably get a
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  Speaker 3: little bit of a sense of why. To Thomas and I,
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  Speaker 3: it's quite irritating when it's eight o'clock in the evening
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  Speaker 3: and we've had about two picks during the day and
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  Speaker 3: then someone says willing to trade this pick on the
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  Speaker 3: clock and you're on deck and you're thinking, I want
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  Speaker 3: to go to bed soon, and we've had two picks
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  Speaker 3: all day, and now I've got to wait for you
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  Speaker 3: to try and trade this pick. Yeah, it's a different
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  Speaker 3: animal when you're drafting over here. It doesn't matter whether
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  Speaker 3: it's slow drafts or live drafts. It's just a different animal.
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  Speaker 2: It was doubly confusing for me because first of all,
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  Speaker 2: I had no sense of place or where I was
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  Speaker 2: or north, left, south, up those directions right that when
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  Speaker 2: I was making this draft. But also I was disoriented
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  Speaker 2: by the fact that player evaluations changed. I don't know
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  Speaker 2: about you, Craig during the season. I shouldn't admit this
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  Speaker 2: because I'm doing a fantasy podcast here, but hey, it's Dynasty.
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  Speaker 2: It's the long term anyway. But I'm not listening to
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  Speaker 2: every podcast. I'm not trying to micromanage the every single
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  Speaker 2: player and how they're doing. Guys who were on my teams,
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  Speaker 2: I have a pretty good sense of how they're doing.
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  Speaker 2: Guys who I did not have interest in or never
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  Speaker 2: picked up off a wire, I don't always have a sense.
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  Speaker 2: So when I sat down to draft, which unfortunately, because
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  Speaker 2: i'd been trying to get a pinch draft, I hadn't
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  Speaker 2: spent a lot of time prepping for it, I was like,
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  Speaker 2: what the heck, what is this season this player is having?
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  Speaker 2: Or what is going wrong here?
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  Speaker 3: And yeah, it's felt a strange season as well. In
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  Speaker 3: so we've had things like Fernando ta Teas junior just
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  Speaker 3: being pretty mediocre for his standards, Aaron Judge going down
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  Speaker 3: the pitching apart from a few, like a lot of
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  Speaker 3: the high name pitchers have just been and that mid tier,
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  Speaker 3: the mid gluttony of pitchers have just been all over
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  Speaker 3: the place. It's felt like a really bizarre season in
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  Speaker 3: terms of from where we are now to the start
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  Speaker 3: of season values. But I kind of that because especially
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  Speaker 3: when you're playing leagues like ours, where we've had it
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  Speaker 3: traditionally in the first five years or so, the same
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  Speaker 3: sort of people were in the playoffs or near the
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  Speaker 3: top all the time. That's starting to swap around a
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  Speaker 3: bit and getting it like that. There's no easy matchups.
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  Speaker 3: I don't feel in any of the sports anymore. You
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  Speaker 3: don't sit there thinking, oh, I'm playing X, so gimme
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  Speaker 3: or I'm playing Why that's going to be a gimme
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  Speaker 3: in any of the sports now, because I think, like
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  Speaker 3: with baseball, it's become a lot less predicting, NBA is
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  Speaker 3: becoming a lot less predictive, and NFL is just never predictive.
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  Speaker 3: So to now, I just I kind of like seasons
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  Speaker 3: like this where you feel like you really have to
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  Speaker 3: work for your wins every single week, regardless of who
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  Speaker 3: it is that you're playing.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, the things are upside down from time to time,
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  Speaker 2: and this week we're going to try to figure out
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  Speaker 2: how that is going to work for us. The exercise
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  Speaker 2: that we've constructed to perform today is a second half draft,
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  Speaker 2: and what we're going to be doing is going through
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  Speaker 2: just a very basic roster catcher per second, third, short
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  Speaker 2: three outfielders, three starters and a reliever each. And I've
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  Speaker 2: done that. It's kind of a fun format where we've
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  Speaker 2: chosen too. I've done this before with hockey. We do
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  Speaker 2: a hockey draft every year as a podcast where we
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  Speaker 2: go on fan tracks under seventy five percent owned, So
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  Speaker 2: let's just take the obvious guys off the board. Let's
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  Speaker 2: talk about the players who maybe surprising to be here,
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  Speaker 2: because we know at this point a lot of dead leagues,
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  Speaker 2: a lot of guys out for the season were more
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  Speaker 2: than seventy five percent owned. But who is still out
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  Speaker 2: there at a value. And if you think these percentages
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  Speaker 2: sound odd or you think the players we're talking about
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  Speaker 2: become reaches. Keep in mind Van Trax leagues tend to
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  Speaker 2: be very deep leagues, and they tend to be dynasty leagues,
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  Speaker 2: so the cutoff for seventy five percent is pretty brutal
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  Speaker 2: in this.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and you you also have to bear in mind
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  Speaker 3: that even in twelve sixteen leagues and stuff, each of
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  Speaker 3: these positions need to be filled, and they're going to
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  Speaker 3: be filled with predominantly one hundred percent ownership guys. So
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  Speaker 3: we're talking about the guys. We're talking about guys that
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  Speaker 3: are bench guys in below really aren't we We're not
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  Speaker 3: talking about anyone that if someone's drafted in a twelve
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  Speaker 3: team like standard league, would be drafted into any of
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  Speaker 3: their starter spots. So these are more guys that are
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  Speaker 3: probably coming out of value. There's no suspects because let's
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  Speaker 3: be honest, if they are likely to be called up
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  Speaker 3: for the second half of the half of the season,
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  Speaker 3: their price probably far exceeds any of these types of
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  Speaker 3: guys anyway, so they're not really coming out of value.
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  Speaker 3: So but yeah, it was an interesting exercise looking through.
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  Speaker 3: It's definitely not what you would call a star studied
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  Speaker 3: all roster that I've got here, but hopefully we've got
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  Speaker 3: a few interesting names that will peak a bit of
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  Speaker 3: interest maybe creates them hopefully in other leagues, not necessarily ours,
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  Speaker 3: but some opportunities to potentially buy a bit lower because
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  Speaker 3: they're not necessarily big name guys, but might have sneakily
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  Speaker 3: surprising usefulness. Shall we say.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, or maybe has snucked through to your wayb
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  Speaker 2: wire even depending on who we're talking about, Greig, why
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  Speaker 2: don't you get us started with your catcher?
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  Speaker 3: Okay, So the catcher I've gone for is partly because
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  Speaker 3: of injury and partly because the team he plays for,
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  Speaker 3: and that's still to rushing of the Dodgers. The news
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  Speaker 3: about Will Smith is not looking good. I would be
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  Speaker 3: surprised to see Will Smith play again this season. And
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  Speaker 3: if he does play, I think you're going to get
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  Speaker 3: more than enough time out of rushing for it to
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  Speaker 3: be worth worth the gamble. Sixty four percent owned, available
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  Speaker 3: in plenty of leagues and not consider one of the
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  Speaker 3: top top catchers, and it is one hundred and eighty
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  Speaker 3: six at bats this year, He's got ten home runs,
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  Speaker 3: thirty one thirty RBIs at average of two four seven
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  Speaker 3: and on base percentage of three four. One part of
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  Speaker 3: this is just the Dodgers. If you're playing nearly every
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  Speaker 3: day as a catcher for the Dodgers, regardless of whether
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  Speaker 3: you're hitting eighth, you're going to have good guys batting
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  Speaker 3: in front of you, good guys batting behind aview. Secondly,
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  Speaker 3: eight hundred ops is not to be sniffed at as
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  Speaker 3: a catcher. And if you extrapolate those one hundred and
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  Speaker 3: eighty six up bats and the stat line over a
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  Speaker 3: full season, which I hate doing because no two hundred
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  Speaker 3: that period is ever the same, different teams, different pictures, forms,
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  Speaker 3: et cetera. Stuff. But you're looking at thirty home run
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  Speaker 3: power there and one hundred odd RBIs and runs is
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  Speaker 3: what it's out to enter full season playing time. Not
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  Speaker 3: that I would expect that out of him, but it's
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  Speaker 3: enough there to show that there's enough potential there for
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  Speaker 3: him to have a bit of power, do well enough
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  Speaker 3: in the runs and count runs and RBIs and the
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  Speaker 3: county stats. Probably not going to be great for your
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  Speaker 3: average or on base percentage in terms of helping it,
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  Speaker 3: but he's not going to hinder it too much. So
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  Speaker 3: I think that's a pretty worthwhile speculative targets.
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  Speaker 2: What's your thoughts, Yeah, it really so much of it
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  Speaker 2: just depends on Will Smith. But you're right, absolutely it
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  Speaker 2: is scary, don't Russian was a guy I always looked
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  Speaker 2: at it. You always used to see that c comma
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  Speaker 2: of which you kind of like in fantasy. But he's
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  Speaker 2: really not playing very much outfield occasional DH before Will
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  Speaker 2: Smith went out, But I guess line up the.
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  Speaker 3: Other thing to bear in mind here with the guys
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  Speaker 3: that we're picking, none of them are guys that you
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  Speaker 3: can't move off of in a heartbeat, you know what
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  Speaker 3: I mean. We are literally just trying to find guys
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  Speaker 3: who will provide who we think could provide better value
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  Speaker 3: than what their percentage ode is for the rest of
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  Speaker 3: the season. And given that I don't expect much out
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  Speaker 3: of Will Smith for the rest of the season, I
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  Speaker 3: think rushing is as good a bet as any of
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  Speaker 3: the other catchers that are below that seventy five percent threshold.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, my catcher is going to be a guy who
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  Speaker 2: in this some of the time, you guys might be like,
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  Speaker 2: I can't believe he's under seventy five percent, or I
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  Speaker 2: can't believe he's over seventy percent. Francisco Albarez is actually
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  Speaker 2: at sixty three percent. And even though he's a man,
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  Speaker 2: and even though the Mets are really in amazing form here,
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  Speaker 2: he is actually having a reasonable year now. It's it
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  Speaker 2: has had ups and downs, and it definitely had some
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  Speaker 2: downs early along with the the whole team around him,
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  Speaker 2: but is back on the upswing. He's got eleven home
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  Speaker 2: runs on the season that would be tied for second
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  Speaker 2: in his career, and I think he's usually going to
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  Speaker 2: surpass it, maybe not hit his career high of twenty five,
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  Speaker 2: but he'll hit a mid two fifties tight batting average
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  Speaker 2: for the year. But in the last little while it's
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  Speaker 2: actually even a little bit better than that. It's not
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  Speaker 2: a loaded lineup, but there are guys hopefully coming back,
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  Speaker 2: and we'll see how much the Mets decided to sell
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  Speaker 2: the trade deadline. But Albarez had some injury time that
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  Speaker 2: he missed too.
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  Speaker 3: The thing, isn't it. He's just got to stay healthy,
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  Speaker 3: isn't he.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, sure, sure, but he's back. That was about a
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  Speaker 2: month ago. I believe in.
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  Speaker 3: I kind of feel like there's a Patson with Alvarez
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  Speaker 3: off a week, he'll go three games hitless, then he'll
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  Speaker 3: hit I've hit a home run. The following day he
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  Speaker 3: hit two home runs, and then he'll be out for
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  Speaker 3: three weeks with some finger stuff, rinse and repeat. But yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I like that. I like that.
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  Speaker 2: Cole all right, on the first base who you got?
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  Speaker 3: So I've got Curtis Mead of Washington Nationals first base
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  Speaker 3: and third base eligible. So I'm cheating a little bit
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  Speaker 3: by putting him at first base, but plenty of playing
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  Speaker 3: time at the moment, on fire at the moment over
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  Speaker 3: the last thirty days. Bear in mind this is also
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  Speaker 3: covers the All Star breaks. So I was lazy and
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  Speaker 3: just hit the last thirty day tab on for Andres.
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  Speaker 3: But over his last thirty days as as a three
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  Speaker 3: to zero three batting average, three to sixty one on
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  Speaker 3: base on the season, has two hundred and seventy app bats,
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  Speaker 3: seventeen home runs, forty seven runs, forty eight RBIs, and
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  Speaker 3: not kidding your bating average at two fifty six three
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  Speaker 3: point fifty. So the theory is playing time isn't a concern.
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  Speaker 3: He's on good form at the moment. The power seems
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  Speaker 3: legit at Washington Nationals lineup. Did you know that they're
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  Speaker 3: right up there in RBI's and runs scored this season.
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  Speaker 3: I think there might be top out of any team
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  Speaker 3: in the majors.
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  Speaker 2: Wow wow, So yeah.
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  Speaker 3: You can't criticize. You can't criticize the lineup in terms
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  Speaker 3: of the hitting like we have have been able to
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  Speaker 3: do for what feels like a decade or whatever, but
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  Speaker 3: probably not that long because they did win the World Series,
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  Speaker 3: but quite a long time. So you kind of feel
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  Speaker 3: that the runs and the RBI opportunities are going to
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  Speaker 3: be there in a lineup which is I think they
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  Speaker 3: are top in terms of the most runs scored and
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  Speaker 3: Jay he's on good form and only seventy three percent
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  Speaker 3: owned and has a load of good matchups coming up.
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, that was my guy for first base.
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  Speaker 2: Craig, You're going to have to explain to me why
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: type France is only let's see eighteen rostered in fantasy right.
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: Now, just because it's just yeah, but I think four
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: or five of them are in the last four, so
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: I think it might just be a slow but the
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: only reason I know that it's got picked him up
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: in three sport this morning. But yeah, it might just
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: be slow on the uptake of either not one, the
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: Padres lineup is rubbish. Let's face it to probably a
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: bit of the slow on the uptake of form in
• 18:19
  Speaker 3: picking up on the form. And three maybe it's just
• 18:23
  Speaker 3: a story we've seen before and even though he's on
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: a nice hot streak, we just don't really believe him.
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: That would be my comeback to it. Yeah, sell him
• 18:32
  Speaker 3: to me, Jesse, I've just picked him up.
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: In three.
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: Okay. The first sales point is a negative one, which is,
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: take a look at these freaking first basemen and there's
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: some multi eligible opposition guys. But still in half a season,
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: ty France has got twenty eight runs, fourteen homers, thirty
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: nine RBI, a steal in a two seventy five average.
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: He's hitting in the middle of a lineup in what
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: is still you talked about Tatis. You can talk about
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: some of the other guys who've faded over time, but.
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: There's no.
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: Line up. Oh, pul Guards, he's breaking my heart. But yeah,
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: but ty Franz is he is just a boring, competent player.
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: But he's also missed enough games that he's only had
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: two hundred and eighteen at bats this season, which is
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: less than half, not less than half, but is there's
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: guys who've had almost four hundred this year, So he
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: hasn't missed extensive time due to injury, and he's getting
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: to play a little bit against both right and left handers.
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: That's always the danger. He's a small first baseman, he's
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: five to ten. That's why over the years he's been
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: placed in different places around the infield. But I think
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: he's going to be all right. He's going to be
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: the boring guy who's just going to help me not
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: lose this league. But his career high, by the way,
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: in home runs is twenty. He's got fourteen in two
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: hundred and forty three.
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: A multi day Billy Butler type, isn't he boring? Steady
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: kind of needs to hit to keep his playing time.
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: But he isn't going to let you down. He's going
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: to get at bats and he isn't going to wear
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: you either. But like you said, under in the seventy
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: five percent or less mold first base, third base was
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: a desert in terms of what was available.
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: Absolutely, so how about second? Was that any better for you?
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: Still a bit cheese on top? I think you guys
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: call it oatmeal, Like he says, a boring, but cheese
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: on toast is what we would call it. So I've
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: got Cole Young seventy percent owned, and he isn't going
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: to blow you away on anything. Three hundred and fifty
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: nine at bats on the year, thirteen home runs with
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: forty eight RBIs and runs isn't bad and two fifty
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: six average doesn't get on base a on just three
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: point fifteen. But what piqued my interest is over the
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: last month he does have seven home He is about
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: in sixty three over the last month. So it was
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: a guy that seems to be on a decent bit
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: of form. I haven't watched them out as much of late,
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: but seems to be on a decent bit of form.
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: Another guy that a bit typhons you feel, isn't going
• 21:16
  Speaker 3: to let you down in terms of the playing time
• 21:19
  Speaker 3: will be there. You do bits and bobs, but there's
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: still a bit of upside there, something to dream on
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: as well. So that was my theory with Cole Young
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: at second base.
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I've been writing we had to do mid season
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: top fifty lists over a Baseball HQ, and I was
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: sitting there like, yeah, Michael Royo, he should be just
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: around the corner, all these Mirroress prospects that are on
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: their way, there's just a big gaping hole in Seattle
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: at second base. And then I looked at what Cole
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: Young was doing. I was like, I held on to
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: this dang guy for all of his struggle years. He
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: was a good object lesson for me. Of these prospects
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: will come up, they'll struggle, you'll want them off your roster,
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: and then they'll turn to do potentially competent major leaguers
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: after the time that he just had to pull the plug.
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: So yeah, I'm excited. Coul Young is having himself a
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: very nice year.
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: He's still so young, and at second base, like as
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: we saw this year, it's not an easy position to
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: get great production of production. And the two highest ADPs
• 22:19
  Speaker 3: at the start of the year were Kettle Marte and
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: Jazz Chisholm, and then there seemed to be a bit
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: of a drop off in terms of the ADP. Like
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: I said, it's got three hundred and fifty nine at
• 22:28
  Speaker 3: bats at thirteen home runs and not killing your average
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: at two five six. If he can be a boring
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: twenty two home run two sixty kind of hitter with
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: some aftercent runs and RBIs you're not going to grumble
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: at that at all, especially as there's still a bit
• 22:43
  Speaker 3: of upside and potential growth to be there. I know
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: growth isn't necessarily a guarantee in a sport like baseball,
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: but yeah, this is pretty much as the Albis kind
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: of territory, isn't it. Really?
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: I went, probably, I don't know if this is mainstream
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: or not. Craig explained to me how in the year
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: twenty twenty six, the guy who is leading the major
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: leagues in stolen bases is only sixty five percent owned
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: in Nasi nas Nascy nunaz Man.
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: I've got him at shortstop.
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: Well, he's played eighty two games a second.
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, it's true. The reason I put him at
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: shortstop was because I put Cole Yug at second base.
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah it's yeah. I played with the mid either one.
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: I actually just look to see which one he played
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: more at. But regardless, this is insane, so youus it.
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: You'll probably have some takes on him too. But he's
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: hit to a decent average and he's in that Washington
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: lineup that you're talking about. Really, it kind of strikes
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: me as a thirty leagues he is going to be.
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: Owned, but it's thirty seven stolen basis to be precise,
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: isn't it that he's gone He's yeah, forty two runs,
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: and that forty two runs is coming just two hundred
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: and seventy six at bats, so you're looking at sort
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: of one hundred run pace over a full season of ours.
• 24:01
  Speaker 3: And the thing that also picked my interest is is
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: on decent form as well. His last thirty days, he's
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: got ten stolen bases and hitting over three hundred and
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: getting on base over thirty eight percent of the time.
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: So it's not I'm not necessarily expecting that to stay.
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: But stolen bases are not the easiest things to come by,
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: as we know, and he is a very reliable source
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: of them, especially if he can get on at that
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: near Although he's hit three hundred to the last month,
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: he is only back in two forty six for the season,
• 24:34
  Speaker 3: but maybe somewhere in the middle, it's more reasonable to expect,
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: especially with the speed. But yeah, like you said, that
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: Nationals lineup if they can if he can get on base,
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: and that Nationals lineup can start batting in I think
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: James Wood's still leading off, isn't it if Noons is
• 24:51
  Speaker 3: backing near the bottom of the lineup pretty much absolutely.
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: If you look at the last few games, he's bat
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: at seventh, eighth or no. The only batting places he's
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: had in the last couple of weeks. That's basically he
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: had one start. He had one time he went out
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: and batted second this year. Other than that, it's been
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: six through ninth. How does somebody lead the major leagues
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: and stolen bases from that place in the lineup? Pray, Yeah.
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: But the other thing is, when you've got James Wood
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: leading off, it's not a bad place necessarily to Yes,
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: you're going to get fewer out bats, but you got
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: you got James Wood must be leading the league or
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: very close to in runs. It must have a healthy
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: amount of RBIs as well. It's not a bad spot
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: for him. Sometimes a few less that bats for a
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: guy like new Nurse, who isn't going to be amongst
• 25:42
  Speaker 3: counting stats kind of guy isn't a bad thing when
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: you're hitting in front of a rely but very good
• 25:46
  Speaker 3: it's James Wood.
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you're right about It's interesting about the Nationals. You're
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: right about them in terms of their rebuilding team. They're
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: one that I can everybody's started to give up for
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: dead on. They traded off what Kensey Gorn other guys
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: in the preseason. They're fifty and fifty. They have the
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: same record as the Rangers. They would basically be in
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: fighting for a playoff position in the AL. In the NL,
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: it's a different story. There's a lot more teams that
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: are higher for the ranks, but still d Backs Cardinals
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: just barely ahead of them.
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: But it's not just them, it's like the Pirates. I
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: don't know now, but a couple of weeks ago, when
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: someone posted in the chat like being negative about paraphrasing
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: someone was undervalueing a pirate or said, why are they
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: undervalueing this pirate? Someone said because it's the Pirates, and
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: I was like, that batting lineup has been really performing
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: this year. They had three they've got three guys in
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: the top twenty five in baseball, or they did who
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: were in the top forty three guys in the top
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: twenty five leaders for LBI in the hole of baseball,
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: Brian Reynolds has the second most runs in the National League.
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: Something ridiculous like that. Again, a lineup that you consider
• 27:00
  Speaker 3: in your own mind through over time just being weak
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: and there's not gonna be much run support and the
• 27:07
  Speaker 3: opportunities and all of that jazz. They're right up there
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: in the numbers, Like in terms of fantasy starts, right
• 27:13
  Speaker 3: up there. Season we're talking about, they.
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: Would be a game and a half clear in the
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: ALE West and they would be one game back in
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: the AL Central the Pirates, and they're in fourth place
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: in the NL Central because the NL Central is for
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: the first the Central is the juggernaut.
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: Right now, there really are, Yeah, West, It's a bit
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: of a mess at the moment. To be fair, boy,
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: it is.
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: It is, There's no question about that. But yeah, So
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: when we come back to Nason Nunez, I think a
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: worthy guy to consider here. I don't know how. It
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: may be one of those things you talked about how
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: his average has gone up during the year. When a
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: guy starts out with a low average, you start thinking,
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: you start putting him in a box as the guy
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: who will get your steals, but he'll kill your bat
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: in average. Yeah, I'm trying to was Hoseig heaby did
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: he have an awful batting average too? I soon remember
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: that he did. These guys who are just going to
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: get you the stolen bases, but they're gonna murder everything else. Now,
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: some Nunias might not do that. He might be Okay,
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: you're batting average, and when you leaks.
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: You find sometimes guys like that can be have really
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: fluctuating averages. If you think back to Michael Bourne, Like
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: Michael Bourne could hit three twenty or he could hit
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: two forty, and if you ever drafted him after he
• 28:33
  Speaker 3: had hit three hundred with our gazillion stills, you'd be
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: aving to draft him in the third round or something,
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: but you were never going to get anything more than that.
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: It was always a bad draft move because you were
• 28:44
  Speaker 3: never ever he was never ever gonna outperform his ADP
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: on a very good season. So I always just think
• 28:51
  Speaker 3: with guys like that, Nasie knew as that batting average
• 28:54
  Speaker 3: can really fluctuate with speedy guys. There's so many little
• 28:59
  Speaker 3: factors that can make the difference with getting hits and knots,
• 29:03
  Speaker 3: because we're all about guys that don't have yet anything
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: really in the power tank.
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Okay, on to shortstop, Craig, what do you got.
• 29:11
  Speaker 3: I've got a third base before I've got shortstop. And
• 29:14
  Speaker 3: that's Eve Nunez was my shortstop, but third base spit
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: more cheese on toast. I've got a zequal Duran eligible
• 29:22
  Speaker 3: at first base, second base, third base, shortstop, outfield. I
• 29:26
  Speaker 3: don't think has actually played a ton of third base,
• 29:28
  Speaker 3: but I put him here because he fits into the
• 29:31
  Speaker 3: mostly in the seventy percent mold, and it is quite
• 29:34
  Speaker 3: barren is third base. Three hundred and six outbats on
• 29:37
  Speaker 3: the ear, ten home runs and seven stolen bases, forty
• 29:41
  Speaker 3: one runs and fifty RBIs, which surprised me. And he's
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: hitting two sixty five for the year, which isn't a
• 29:49
  Speaker 3: killer so boring. Not a ton of power, not a
• 29:54
  Speaker 3: ton of speed, but a little bit of both doesn't
• 29:56
  Speaker 3: kill your average. Plenty of paying time and eligible absolutely
• 30:01
  Speaker 3: everywhere except for catcher, So just seemed solid cheese on
• 30:06
  Speaker 3: toast to me.
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: I don't think I've ever had cheese on toast. I'm
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: a little I don't know what I would do with it.
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: What kind of cheese exactly? Is this some sort of
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: weird British cheese?
• 30:16
  Speaker 3: No, you don't have cheese on toast over there?
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: Are you throwing velveto on that thing? Craig?
• 30:20
  Speaker 3: You so traditional cheese traditional cheese on toastes. So you
• 30:28
  Speaker 3: have bread, I know, you have bread and you have cheese,
• 30:30
  Speaker 3: so you get.
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: Like wet in Wisconsin.
• 30:35
  Speaker 3: You get all sorts of cheeses everywhere these days. Didn't
• 30:37
  Speaker 3: you gout just something like a mature cheddar or something
• 30:40
  Speaker 3: like that. You grate it and then you you toast
• 30:44
  Speaker 3: one side of the bread and then take it out
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: the toast, and then you put the cheese on the
• 30:48
  Speaker 3: non toasted side and had a little bit of Worcester
• 30:51
  Speaker 3: sauce or Tabasco sauce, you know, whatever tickles your fancy.
• 30:55
  Speaker 3: You put that under the You put that under the grill,
• 30:58
  Speaker 3: and then it all bubbles up and it's melted cheese
• 31:01
  Speaker 3: on toast.
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: You mean, okay, I have so many questions. First of all,
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: what do you mean by put it under a grill?
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: Didn't you just put it in a toaster? Are you
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: warming up? Two implements for this?
• 31:10
  Speaker 3: No, proper cheese on toast has to be done underneath
• 31:12
  Speaker 3: the grill. So you know, obviously we have toasters, but
• 31:17
  Speaker 3: if you're don't proper cheese on toast, you want the
• 31:19
  Speaker 3: cheese to be underneath the heat to bubble up and
• 31:22
  Speaker 3: melt properly, do you know what I mean? So?
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: Okay, So then you're throwing wooster sauce, which I've never
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: taken on anything but a steak, or in a recipe.
• 31:34
  Speaker 3: What's sauce or tabasco sauce or you know, whatever tickles
• 31:39
  Speaker 3: your fancy different tastes.
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: That sounds pretty darn good, Craig Tomorrow.
• 31:46
  Speaker 3: Now when you want to upgrade, you've got beans with
• 31:52
  Speaker 3: melcher cheese on top of toast.
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: No, I know you lost me there. The doing extreme
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: toast things was going to work.
• 32:00
  Speaker 3: Biting, But you haven't lived in two had baked beans, Honestly, Jack, and.
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: Everybody around me has not lived after I've had baked beans.
• 32:10
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's true. That's true.
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: Okay, let's go. I'm I'm gonna see your cheese toast
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: and raise you some some unseasoned oatmeal. With Willie Castro
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: at third base again, this is a guy who is
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: eligible absolutely everywhere. Again, he would have been still a
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: good second base option for me, but he's a Araqi.
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: He's been hitting. He's got three home runs in his
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: last what six games as we record this, his average
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: is solid to sixty three. That's plenty good enough for
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: what you need nine home runs on the year. Of course,
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: like I said, it is just rising because of some
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: of those recent ones and the ability to just put
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: him anywhere, and six stolen bases on top of that.
• 32:52
  Speaker 3: I supposically it's a carbon copy here of a sequel Geratte.
• 32:56
  Speaker 3: Isn't it absolute carbon copy?
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: There's hope, there's always hope that the Texans will upgrade.
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: I don't know that there's hope or really reason. Texas
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: Rangers are in first place, so they I think they'll
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: keep Duran is going to be a super sub regardless.
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: He's going to stand there.
• 33:12
  Speaker 3: But I could counter that with there's also the chance
• 33:16
  Speaker 3: but the Tigers just being terrible trading Willie Castro when
• 33:19
  Speaker 3: someone was saying, actually we could use a utility bench
• 33:22
  Speaker 3: back be perfect for us.
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: Yes, I don't know what happened. There was it an
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: off season deal? Yeah, it must have been an off
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: season signing because yeah, I still think of him as attacker.
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: That's how anonymous he is. Craig. He can slip on
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: in divisions west east to west and we cannot know it.
• 33:45
  Speaker 3: Let's move on from our cheese on toast and o mare.
• 33:48
  Speaker 3: When sticking with the Rockies. My outfielder is your boy. Yep,
• 33:56
  Speaker 3: there he is, yeah hundred, only one hundred and four
• 34:01
  Speaker 3: rap bats on the season, but just three home runs,
• 34:05
  Speaker 3: cup of stolen bases, but contributed quite nicely in the
• 34:09
  Speaker 3: runs and RBI department with twenty six runs twenty five
• 34:12
  Speaker 3: RBIs making a ton of contacts in two eighty eight
• 34:16
  Speaker 3: and one prospect pedigree there come into the league, performing nicely.
• 34:23
  Speaker 3: Playing time isn't going to be too much of an issue.
• 34:26
  Speaker 3: Only sixty eight percent owned. That could rise if this continues. Jesse,
• 34:30
  Speaker 3: I know you're a big fan, and I thought that
• 34:33
  Speaker 3: you'd probably have him here as well. Anything to add
• 34:36
  Speaker 3: on top of what I said, not much.
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: He's slowed down a little bit recently. He really got
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: hot there for a while. He was up to well
• 34:44
  Speaker 2: over three hundred, and now he's calmed down a little bit.
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: But yeah, he's just he's a good player. He's in
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: a good situation. And it seems like the Rockies, even
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: though I just teased them a moment ago, there's good
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: things happening there. There's better things happening there.
• 35:00
  Speaker 3: I turned to a bit like Cole Young. There's something
• 35:04
  Speaker 3: to dream on here. It isn't just cheese on toast
• 35:08
  Speaker 3: or unseasoned oat meal. If there's guys that you are
• 35:12
  Speaker 3: potentially gonna trade for longer than necessarily this season, you
• 35:18
  Speaker 3: know you're looking at your Curtis Mejia, Cole Young's and
• 35:21
  Speaker 3: Cora carriage as having that something to dream on. It
• 35:25
  Speaker 3: doesn't mean it's a guarantee that it's all going to
• 35:28
  Speaker 3: work out and they'll be fine and stuff, but you're
• 35:31
  Speaker 3: certainly wanting to take a bit more of a gamble on.
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah, all right. My first guy that I'm going to
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: throw into this Craig is aj Ewing of the Mets.
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: I'm kind of surprised. Maybe that's just because he was
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: was a prospect with maybe not quite as much name
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: value coming into the year. But he's come up, he's
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: gotten established seven.
• 35:52
  Speaker 3: Holds, and fam gave up a first for him, didn't.
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: He What did Vam give up for me for? Could I? Singer?
• 36:00
  Speaker 3: I think he gave a first for you?
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: Ing?
• 36:03
  Speaker 3: I think, and I think didn't you give you a third?
• 36:05
  Speaker 3: For Senger? I think he gave you a third or something?
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: It might have been something, Yeah, it was something.
• 36:10
  Speaker 3: I'm not criticized in the move. Get your guy, and
• 36:13
  Speaker 3: every single one of us will draft guys in the
• 36:15
  Speaker 3: first round who will turn into Zilch not even make
• 36:19
  Speaker 3: the majors, or if they do be or it's not
• 36:22
  Speaker 3: a criticism at all.
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: Just and by the way, he has won an overall
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: title and three sport Now you and I have as well,
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: but fam has always been like this and he freaking
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: wins titles, so it's hard to complain.
• 36:35
  Speaker 3: So then that's the beauty of this kind of format,
• 36:38
  Speaker 3: I think, or the three spot kind of form. It
• 36:40
  Speaker 3: really does allow lots of different strategies to be successful.
• 36:46
  Speaker 3: And there's so much flexibility within your trading, within your
• 36:50
  Speaker 3: roster construction, where you prioritize your assets and how you
• 36:53
  Speaker 3: shift your afflets. There is no right or wrong way.
• 36:57
  Speaker 3: Some people live a lot more for than now out
• 37:00
  Speaker 3: and devalue the picks, and others don't. And you know,
• 37:04
  Speaker 3: like you and I get to a point where we
• 37:06
  Speaker 3: probably overvalue picks, but always can work. And as we're
• 37:10
  Speaker 3: finding out this year and last year, it's in all sports,
• 37:15
  Speaker 3: it's fun. The bottoms moved up and the tops moved down,
• 37:17
  Speaker 3: it's bunching right up. Anything can happen.
• 37:21
  Speaker 2: And again I will just take a moment, because I
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: do tease him on the show somewhat. But our man,
• 37:27
  Speaker 2: fam Rob is he has made. He has zegged in
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: a way that most of this league doesn't. He almost
• 37:34
  Speaker 2: never makes a pick in the draft. He sees he
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: gets five new picks come online. He sees that as
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: five opportunities to upgrade.
• 37:41
  Speaker 3: But but he's got an overall title. He's one football
• 37:44
  Speaker 3: two or three times. I think, doesn't it it's if
• 37:47
  Speaker 3: the system works, system works for the system works, and
• 37:50
  Speaker 3: just winning the overall title is essentially five buy ins?
• 37:55
  Speaker 3: Isn't it for five years worth of buy ins to
• 37:58
  Speaker 3: chuck his football wins in the And there's probably some
• 38:01
  Speaker 3: cash outs in baseball, possibly basketball, I don't know. But
• 38:05
  Speaker 3: Fan's up in terms of his involvement in terms of
• 38:09
  Speaker 3: profit in the league. Yeah, and he doesn't go the
• 38:11
  Speaker 3: pick rail.
• 38:13
  Speaker 2: He is an accountant, so I think he's figured this
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: out anyway. All right, why don't we take a quick break.
• 38:18
  Speaker 2: We're gonna come back and we're gonna go over some
• 38:21
  Speaker 2: more players. Okay, Craig, we're back. We're one outfielder down,
• 38:42
  Speaker 2: two outfielders to go. Who you got next?
• 38:46
  Speaker 3: Tommy Edmund another Dodger back from injury, sixty two percent
• 38:50
  Speaker 3: owned second base outfield eligible, and it's only had seventy
• 38:56
  Speaker 3: six at bats this year. And then those seventy six
• 38:59
  Speaker 3: out bats, it's got play home runs on a couple
• 39:00
  Speaker 3: of stolen bases, but it's making plenty of contact fifty
• 39:05
  Speaker 3: one getting on base at four thirty clip. Again, very
• 39:10
  Speaker 3: small sample size on just seventy six at bats, but
• 39:13
  Speaker 3: it's Dodgers lineup. There's We're at that point of the
• 39:16
  Speaker 3: season where there's injuries and opportunities to play. Edmunds shown
• 39:22
  Speaker 3: flashes of power surges before, He's shown flashes off stolen bases,
• 39:26
  Speaker 3: light surges before, and because of the injuries, really devalued
• 39:32
  Speaker 3: his ownership. It's a guy I'm more than willing to
• 39:34
  Speaker 3: take a gamble on at that price, just given the
• 39:39
  Speaker 3: upside of the lineup.
• 39:42
  Speaker 2: We remember Edmund for being really good and flexible in
• 39:48
  Speaker 2: his Cardinals years, and I tend to think of him
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: as older than he is. He's only thirty one.
• 39:54
  Speaker 3: And I think of him as a bit younger. I
• 39:57
  Speaker 3: think of him as twenty nine.
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: Maybe because we haven't seen him as much, that's part
• 40:01
  Speaker 2: of it. But he hasn't had more than four hundred
• 40:03
  Speaker 2: plate appearances. He was a Cardinal back in twenty twenty three,
• 40:06
  Speaker 2: he came into the Dodgers. He's been injured, but when
• 40:10
  Speaker 2: he's around. Actually, his first two years of the Dodgers,
• 40:14
  Speaker 2: he was Those were his two relatively bad seasons for
• 40:18
  Speaker 2: him as a hitter. Last year was his.
• 40:20
  Speaker 3: I think both years he started really hot and then
• 40:23
  Speaker 3: just fell off a cliff. Like judging by his injury history,
• 40:27
  Speaker 3: he might have actually literally fell off a cliff.
• 40:29
  Speaker 2: But I've been to both Saint Louis and California. I
• 40:34
  Speaker 2: haven't been to La believe it or not, but I've
• 40:36
  Speaker 2: been to more cliffs in California than they are on Missouri.
• 40:40
  Speaker 3: I love that.
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we have there's ways in California.
• 40:44
  Speaker 3: We have loads of cliffs here because I live on
• 40:46
  Speaker 3: the South coast and it's they've got the White Cliffs
• 40:49
  Speaker 3: of Dover and so that's not far from here, and
• 40:53
  Speaker 3: it's yeah, plenty of cliffs around here. So Tommy Edmund
• 40:55
  Speaker 3: don't come to Bryan on holiday.
• 40:59
  Speaker 2: Tommy Edmund is a good pick there. If he can
• 41:02
  Speaker 2: stick in that Dodger's lineup, it could be terrifying. I
• 41:06
  Speaker 2: am going to go with a guy who's underperformed a
• 41:09
  Speaker 2: little bit. But I have some I'm kind of betting
• 41:12
  Speaker 2: on the com this time, and that's going to be
• 41:14
  Speaker 2: Bradon Montgomery of the White Sox. And I'm not saying
• 41:18
  Speaker 2: he's got a season behind him that is worthy of
• 41:23
  Speaker 2: much more, much more ownership than he's had, but he's
• 41:28
  Speaker 2: still getting himself established in the major leagues.
• 41:32
  Speaker 3: Another team who have a surprisingly decent offense, despite the
• 41:39
  Speaker 3: facts at the start of the year people wouldn't touch
• 41:41
  Speaker 3: their hitters because they didn't think it will be pretty
• 41:46
  Speaker 3: hollow starts.
• 41:47
  Speaker 2: Really, Yeah, he's a big time prospect. He's come up,
• 41:51
  Speaker 2: he's got some good things, a good average exit VLO,
• 41:55
  Speaker 2: he's got a few things that are working for him already,
• 41:57
  Speaker 2: and even though he's kind of gone through a little
• 42:00
  Speaker 2: bit of the ringer, I think that there's better times
• 42:03
  Speaker 2: ahead in I guess if I'm guessing on some of
• 42:07
  Speaker 2: these second half guys, I'm going to say that that
• 42:11
  Speaker 2: Brida Montgomery's in your future is going to be better
• 42:13
  Speaker 2: than his first six weeks in the majors.
• 42:15
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a pretty safe bet more often than not,
• 42:19
  Speaker 3: isn't it.
• 42:20
  Speaker 2: All Right, who do you have as your third outfielder.
• 42:23
  Speaker 3: Not terribly exciting. Again on the theory that Pittsburgh's got
• 42:27
  Speaker 3: a decent lineup, stolen bases reliability is harder to come
• 42:32
  Speaker 3: by cheap steals. Jake Mangum eighteen stolen bases on the
• 42:38
  Speaker 3: year at a three hundred average on two hundred and
• 42:41
  Speaker 3: forty four app bats. Not a ton of power, just
• 42:44
  Speaker 3: two home runs on the year. But if you can
• 42:46
  Speaker 3: give me stolen bases and a you know, close to
• 42:48
  Speaker 3: three hundred average in a decent Pittsburgh Pirates offense, that
• 42:52
  Speaker 3: feels still feels weird to say. I think it's a
• 42:55
  Speaker 3: value at just forty three percent owned.
• 42:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that's I think that's another good pick
• 43:01
  Speaker 2: in that In the aforementioned Twilight Draft, I did take Mangum,
• 43:05
  Speaker 2: I think in the last round, and I was, again,
• 43:07
  Speaker 2: who is this guy?
• 43:08
  Speaker 3: But he is at the type of Rice, wasn't I
• 43:11
  Speaker 3: think it was at the Rice had a hot start,
• 43:15
  Speaker 3: and yeah, it finds himself and the Rays just tend
• 43:19
  Speaker 3: to have everybody at some point, didn't they.
• 43:23
  Speaker 2: All Right, Craig, I am gonna throw a huge curveball here.
• 43:27
  Speaker 2: This is a player's name I never expected to say.
• 43:32
  Speaker 2: I almost thought was too much to even bring up
• 43:34
  Speaker 2: as a prospect as a failed prospect, because it was
• 43:38
  Speaker 2: almost too cruel. But Craig Khalil Watson is kind of
• 43:42
  Speaker 2: fantasy relevant now. Is it sustainable, Yeah, probably not. But
• 43:48
  Speaker 2: he's already got nine stolen bases in his first eighty
• 43:51
  Speaker 2: six Major League at bats. He's battery not disastrous two
• 43:57
  Speaker 2: thirty three. Now that the challenge with him is his
• 44:03
  Speaker 2: his average has really dropped off from June to July.
• 44:05
  Speaker 2: So far we're still we're not all the way through
• 44:07
  Speaker 2: the July, so you don't know about the whole sample,
• 44:09
  Speaker 2: but his stolen bases have spiked. He's had seven stolen
• 44:12
  Speaker 2: bases in forty eight at bats just this month. I
• 44:16
  Speaker 2: have a feeling that we talk about the guy who's
• 44:18
  Speaker 2: going to get you to the stolen bases maybe hurt
• 44:21
  Speaker 2: your batting average. Look no further than Khalil Watson, who
• 44:24
  Speaker 2: also is in the the traditional desert of the Cleveland
• 44:31
  Speaker 2: Guardians outfield where they just can't seem post Grady size
• 44:34
  Speaker 2: more especially with Kwan, just talk about he is the
• 44:38
  Speaker 2: White Cliffs of Dover collapsing into the sea. Because Stephen
• 44:41
  Speaker 2: Kwan is.
• 44:42
  Speaker 3: Just Greggie saw. It was not wasn't it. It was
• 44:45
  Speaker 3: like for good, he just not forty season, went till ten.
• 44:52
  Speaker 3: In drafts, you know, everyone's darling at pick six or whatever,
• 44:56
  Speaker 3: and that's yeah, that was it. It's pretty much guy.
• 44:59
  Speaker 3: So I'm hearing is you're basically saying Khalil Watson is
• 45:03
  Speaker 3: the Shawshank redemption. Redemption just more more tunneling through shit
• 45:07
  Speaker 3: and no redemption. It's hard to a little bit of redemption.
• 45:13
  Speaker 2: This guy was absolutely dump. He was left for dead
• 45:17
  Speaker 2: in the minor row the Marlins picked him. He was
• 45:21
  Speaker 2: almost a example of how the Marlins were drafting poorly
• 45:26
  Speaker 2: because he just but he was.
• 45:28
  Speaker 3: He was Eric Cross's boy, so he was well off
• 45:30
  Speaker 3: the whitlist before it even started. I think I think
• 45:34
  Speaker 3: he had him as his ninth top prospect before he
• 45:36
  Speaker 3: was even drafted or something, or straight out the draft
• 45:39
  Speaker 3: was ninth overall prospect, not ninth and first year player draft.
• 45:42
  Speaker 3: So it was insane. So that that told me enough.
• 45:46
  Speaker 2: That was one of those years that there were lots
• 45:48
  Speaker 2: of big time shortstops coming out call and he was
• 45:53
  Speaker 2: the one who just boy while some of them rose.
• 45:56
  Speaker 2: Was he the same year as I'd be wit or
• 45:58
  Speaker 2: something like that?
• 46:00
  Speaker 3: Do you know what, You get to a point where
• 46:02
  Speaker 3: the years just blend into one, don't they. It's been
• 46:05
  Speaker 3: what like twenty seven years playing this game for me,
• 46:10
  Speaker 3: three of them twenty four of them have been like Dynasty,
• 46:13
  Speaker 3: so no twenty one starting in two thousand and five
• 46:16
  Speaker 3: or two thousand and four. So yeah, a lot of
• 46:18
  Speaker 3: the draft years just blend into one.
• 46:19
  Speaker 2: If like, man, this guy was a belly flop and yeah,
• 46:23
  Speaker 2: now he's actually relevant. We'll see how long that lasts.
• 46:27
  Speaker 3: But knows again, but again, but again, sometimes there's like
• 46:33
  Speaker 3: we were talking earlier with sort of your col Carrigs
• 46:35
  Speaker 3: and your Cole Youngs. Sometimes it's worth just taking that
• 46:40
  Speaker 3: punt on something to dream on, rather than your Zegraal
• 46:43
  Speaker 3: Duran's and your Willie Castros that you just know are
• 46:47
  Speaker 3: not going to be anything more than what they are,
• 46:49
  Speaker 3: if that makes sense.
• 46:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, was Watson? Was he the one who got
• 46:54
  Speaker 2: thrown out of a minor league game?
• 46:56
  Speaker 3: Yeah he had he had seen Yeah, he had a
• 47:00
  Speaker 3: few disciplinary issues shows so touch of the dama ants.
• 47:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah. I was just gonna say Chummer had the
• 47:07
  Speaker 2: dummerand and baseball only as.
• 47:11
  Speaker 3: They'll probably retire about the same time. I Reckon as well,
• 47:14
  Speaker 3: like twenty twenty eight.
• 47:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it won't be long for jah. Okay, let's move
• 47:20
  Speaker 2: on to the pitching side. We said we're doing three
• 47:22
  Speaker 2: three starters and a reliever. So who's your first starter?
• 47:25
  Speaker 3: I thought you just said three sharters.
• 47:27
  Speaker 2: I think for wells you Yeah, I think the pictures
• 47:33
  Speaker 2: were tougher even than there.
• 47:35
  Speaker 3: No, I didn't. I found I found the pictures. No,
• 47:38
  Speaker 3: I found the pictures a bit more interesting. But I
• 47:42
  Speaker 3: think I found the picture is a bit more interesting
• 47:44
  Speaker 3: because pitching has just been so unpredictable this year. It's
• 47:49
  Speaker 3: tough out there because I felt this year, now bear
• 47:53
  Speaker 3: in mind only playing one baseball league and that's free sport,
• 47:56
  Speaker 3: but I felt I've really had to work really hard
• 47:59
  Speaker 3: to construc up my like pitching roster this year. Not
• 48:02
  Speaker 3: helped that. Basically, all my clothes, all five of my clothes,
• 48:05
  Speaker 3: have pretty much spent significant time on DL. But I
• 48:08
  Speaker 3: R whatever it is. But I'm happy where I'm at now.
• 48:11
  Speaker 3: But I've really had to chin and ban and really
• 48:14
  Speaker 3: got lucky with picking up Sean Berg after someone dropped
• 48:17
  Speaker 3: in JT. Gin has been more than serviceable. Lucky to
• 48:21
  Speaker 3: pick up those guys but I found there's a lot
• 48:22
  Speaker 3: of guys that have been in that bracket which are
• 48:25
  Speaker 3: interesting enough for me that I found it easier than
• 48:27
  Speaker 3: the it is. But first one I got is not
• 48:31
  Speaker 3: particularly exciting as a picture, but consistent and he just
• 48:35
  Speaker 3: all he does is seemed to do it nearing week
• 48:38
  Speaker 3: in week out, and that seventy four percent. And Houston
• 48:41
  Speaker 3: Astro's picture Paul Lambert. They were high on this guy
• 48:45
  Speaker 3: in the off season, brought him over from career or
• 48:48
  Speaker 3: wherever it was. Type. I don't follow that nonsense over there,
• 48:53
  Speaker 3: but ninety two innings pitch on the year, ninety one
• 48:55
  Speaker 3: ks and the K numbers are fine. Eight wins, seven
• 48:58
  Speaker 3: quality starts and a three point three e R and
• 49:01
  Speaker 3: a one point one whip. It's just been missed a
• 49:04
  Speaker 3: consistency for my team, and he still just keeps like
• 49:07
  Speaker 3: even now, just I feel so comfortable putting in my
• 49:10
  Speaker 3: line up week in week out. Austroi's lineup isn't great,
• 49:14
  Speaker 3: not winning a ton of games, but I just feel
• 49:16
  Speaker 3: confident it's going to go out there and get me
• 49:18
  Speaker 3: under three, under two or three and runs every time
• 49:21
  Speaker 3: with a K and N and type guy with decent
• 49:24
  Speaker 3: whip numbers. He's twenty nine as well.
• 49:28
  Speaker 2: I need to average. Came out with tetsu Emi and
• 49:32
  Speaker 2: you brought in some great pictures from the Far East
• 49:35
  Speaker 2: this year. Yeah, oh yeah, No, I like that pick.
• 49:40
  Speaker 2: He's a guy who definitely has snuck up, but this
• 49:43
  Speaker 2: is what happens sometimes the guys who go over there
• 49:45
  Speaker 2: and come back and have done something different with their
• 49:49
  Speaker 2: craft have a second life in the Major League. So yeah,
• 49:51
  Speaker 2: but Peter Lambert was definitely on my He's just barely
• 49:54
  Speaker 2: under the seventy five percent threshold, but still.
• 49:58
  Speaker 3: It's the eye test thing as well. I'm a huge
• 50:00
  Speaker 3: Astro's fan, but I don't feel that well. The guy's
• 50:03
  Speaker 3: basically got three eer on half a season. His whip
• 50:07
  Speaker 3: is one point one. Opponents are batting under two hundred
• 50:10
  Speaker 3: against him. It's just mister reliable and he just looks
• 50:15
  Speaker 3: in control and comfortable virtually every game that I see him.
• 50:19
  Speaker 3: So I think he's under range because I think that
• 50:21
  Speaker 3: there's a lot to be said for a nine kper
• 50:24
  Speaker 3: nine type of guy who has that low eer low whip,
• 50:28
  Speaker 3: even in a mediocre ish style. Jordan Alvarez isn't mediocre,
• 50:33
  Speaker 3: but the lineup isn't for the Jordan alvarezs, but I
• 50:37
  Speaker 3: think he's massively undervalued.
• 50:40
  Speaker 2: I will start, and the reason I found this a
• 50:44
  Speaker 2: more challenging exercise is I feel like it's not that
• 50:49
  Speaker 2: Peter Lambert has been consistent that consistency has been lacking
• 50:54
  Speaker 2: in the guys that we're looking at here. I feel
• 50:56
  Speaker 2: like there's all of guys here who could if I
• 51:00
  Speaker 2: was actually drifting them for a team, could destroy your
• 51:03
  Speaker 2: season once starts with what this type.
• 51:06
  Speaker 3: There's a whole load of your sort of you're a
• 51:09
  Speaker 3: Rainaldo Lopez and Martin Perez types out there which are
• 51:13
  Speaker 3: given enough hope to be interested. But how much trust
• 51:16
  Speaker 3: can you put in kind of things? Do you know
• 51:17
  Speaker 3: what I mean?
• 51:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah? My first pick here is actually a guy who
• 51:22
  Speaker 2: at least has been fairly consistent, although his results haven't
• 51:25
  Speaker 2: been through the roof, but we've seen some kind of
• 51:28
  Speaker 2: promise in the past, and that's Brandon five. He is
• 51:31
  Speaker 2: at least since he's been returned from the bullpen, four
• 51:37
  Speaker 2: straight wins and four straight starts he's had over He's
• 51:40
  Speaker 2: had five or more innings in all four of those starts.
• 51:43
  Speaker 2: He doesn't strike anybody out is part of his problem,
• 51:46
  Speaker 2: and that does not portend well for his long term
• 51:50
  Speaker 2: success in MLB. But again, hasn't had really that that
• 51:54
  Speaker 2: disaster start, or at least not in quite a while.
• 51:57
  Speaker 2: Two point three e er here in July and four
• 52:01
  Speaker 2: point two six in June, but he didn't play all
• 52:04
  Speaker 2: that much in June. He's had that. That was because
• 52:07
  Speaker 2: again he was in the bullpen for some of that time.
• 52:09
  Speaker 2: But I don't know, Craig, it's a rough it's a
• 52:13
  Speaker 2: rough group here, but.
• 52:15
  Speaker 3: Which the description that you just gave pretty much could
• 52:19
  Speaker 3: have been the exact same description for my next guy.
• 52:24
  Speaker 3: Four winds in a row doesn't strike anybody out Jake Bennett.
• 52:31
  Speaker 3: So he's got four winds in a row, four winds
• 52:34
  Speaker 3: in the Red Sox. Red Sox are red hot at
• 52:38
  Speaker 3: the moment, like they looked from being well out of
• 52:40
  Speaker 3: it to some ridiculous thirteen game winning streak or whatever
• 52:44
  Speaker 3: it was. But he's won his last four starts he's pitched.
• 52:48
  Speaker 3: He's only had nine starts on the year of bullpen
• 52:51
  Speaker 3: stuff as well, fifty three innings pitched, but only thirty
• 52:55
  Speaker 3: eight k's so, like you said, doesn't strike out a ton.
• 53:00
  Speaker 3: He's got two five ERA and a zero point eight
• 53:03
  Speaker 3: seven six whip so classic innings eater there, doesn't it.
• 53:09
  Speaker 3: And I don't mind riding those innings eaters for those
• 53:12
  Speaker 3: quality starts and potential wins and era and Whip help
• 53:16
  Speaker 3: whilst they're hot.
• 53:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that is That is fine, and I'm
• 53:23
  Speaker 2: going to hop on my soapbox for just a second, Craig,
• 53:27
  Speaker 2: I don't want to hear it from Red Sox fans
• 53:29
  Speaker 2: that their ownership is cheap or that their team has
• 53:32
  Speaker 2: been mismanaged. I think that the rap Field Devers trade
• 53:36
  Speaker 2: is looking okay in retrospect. I don't know the Rafield Devors.
• 53:40
  Speaker 2: I don't think that was done. Even at the time,
• 53:42
  Speaker 2: I didn't think that was done.
• 53:43
  Speaker 3: Would they want to be playing Mookie Pett's four hundred
• 53:45
  Speaker 3: million or what a three hundred and fifty million?
• 53:47
  Speaker 2: Now, That's the thing is, I think people totally lose
• 53:52
  Speaker 2: track of They totally lose track of that. The people
• 53:56
  Speaker 2: have lost track of the fact that the way that
• 53:58
  Speaker 2: the the way that MLB has constructed their salary, and
• 54:02
  Speaker 2: I know I've been on this one multiple times here.
• 54:04
  Speaker 2: They've made it punitive basically to have the veterans on
• 54:09
  Speaker 2: their team because there's so much they are paid so
• 54:12
  Speaker 2: much more than the suppressed rookie league scale that they're
• 54:17
  Speaker 2: almost always an investment that's going to kill your team.
• 54:21
  Speaker 2: Now it's like, wow, why can't you No, you don't
• 54:24
  Speaker 2: want that. You don't want Steven Strasburg on your team.
• 54:27
  Speaker 2: That's not the way this works. You wouldn't want to
• 54:29
  Speaker 2: be necessarily paying for this portion of Xander Bogart's career,
• 54:33
  Speaker 2: just like you didn't want to pay for Albert pooholtz
• 54:36
  Speaker 2: last phase of his career or his mid to last phase.
• 54:39
  Speaker 2: It's just it's just not a good thing. You don't
• 54:42
  Speaker 2: want to do that.
• 54:43
  Speaker 3: Yeah, as an Astros fan and anyone who knows me
• 54:48
  Speaker 3: will attest to this, but I'm always happy for the
• 54:51
  Speaker 3: big guys to walk. When you're talking mega money, we can.
• 54:56
  Speaker 3: I don't want to be tied to a Kyle Tucker
• 54:59
  Speaker 3: or a at Carl or whoever for nine years god
• 55:04
  Speaker 3: knows how much money, because I just think it hinders
• 55:08
  Speaker 3: our flexibility in the future so much. I'd rather suck
• 55:12
  Speaker 3: for a few years and at least have the flexibility
• 55:15
  Speaker 3: to do something, then end up with a half dead
• 55:19
  Speaker 3: Mike Trout taking up so much cap space that it's
• 55:24
  Speaker 3: just impossible to build around. And another thing about Red
• 55:28
  Speaker 3: Sox fans, the amount of World Series, Super Bowls, and Chips.
• 55:36
  Speaker 3: I just I respect, I respect all three franchises a lot,
• 55:40
  Speaker 3: but I struggle with the woe is Me Alasa Lac
• 55:45
  Speaker 3: like mentality goes. There's fan bases out there that it
• 55:50
  Speaker 3: was me for a while as a Baylor, Minnesota Jets
• 55:54
  Speaker 3: and Astros fan. It was pretty dark there in the
• 55:57
  Speaker 3: two thousands, still Baylor at the Astros themselves out and
• 56:02
  Speaker 3: they've got Super Bower after World Series, after NBA Championship,
• 56:07
  Speaker 3: So a few down years isn't going to hurt. It
• 56:10
  Speaker 3: really is, especially when you've got the flexibility of not
• 56:15
  Speaker 3: having those that Mookie Bets contract and the Xander Bogart's
• 56:19
  Speaker 3: contract on your books. I know they've got Chris Albert,
• 56:22
  Speaker 3: but do you know what I mean? For all the
• 56:25
  Speaker 3: criticism it got, I thought it made sense and that's
• 56:28
  Speaker 3: not revisionist history stuff. I was saying that in the
• 56:31
  Speaker 3: chat room at the time, and I'll still stand by it.
• 56:33
  Speaker 3: I wouldn't. I don't want a good Mookie Bets for
• 56:36
  Speaker 3: a couple of years on a ten year contract or whatever.
• 56:39
  Speaker 3: I would rather have that flexibility to dip in and
• 56:44
  Speaker 3: out and offer those good rookie extensions. Throw the throw
• 56:49
  Speaker 3: four for one hundred a good rookie or whatever. Do
• 56:51
  Speaker 3: you know what I mean?
• 56:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, and they made they took that shot on
• 56:55
  Speaker 2: Christian Campbell. And if you really want to complain, hey,
• 56:59
  Speaker 2: they threw the Garrett Crochet, a guy who had significant
• 57:02
  Speaker 2: career injury history, and now he's one of those guys.
• 57:06
  Speaker 2: So the time that you thought your team did something particularly,
• 57:09
  Speaker 2: but you're not entitled to a title every year, dang
• 57:12
  Speaker 2: it in your four sports. And that's about what they average.
• 57:16
  Speaker 3: How often does it really work when you have so
• 57:19
  Speaker 3: much let's eliminate the Dodgers here, but when you have
• 57:22
  Speaker 3: so much money tied into a couple of positional players,
• 57:27
  Speaker 3: it never often works. So that might Trout and Otani.
• 57:31
  Speaker 3: It's I really feel that you spend your money on
• 57:37
  Speaker 3: your pitching and you try to get the best value
• 57:43
  Speaker 3: dolla in your hitting, because hitting is one of nine spots. Obviously,
• 57:50
  Speaker 3: defense matters and stuff like that as well. Pictures fully
• 57:54
  Speaker 3: influence the game every time they're on the mound, whereas
• 57:57
  Speaker 3: your one batter in a lineup of nine, the post
• 58:00
  Speaker 3: got to hit the hit to you for you to
• 58:01
  Speaker 3: matter on defense.
• 58:03
  Speaker 2: Okay, so we've made it through that Red Sox pitcher.
• 58:07
  Speaker 2: I am going to throw out a player whose stats
• 58:10
  Speaker 2: are never impressive, but he has been rather good for
• 58:15
  Speaker 2: the season, and that is going to be Bailey Over
• 58:18
  Speaker 2: of the Minnesota Twins seventy four percent roster. And talk
• 58:21
  Speaker 2: about guys, we're really talking about guys who can't strike
• 58:24
  Speaker 2: anybody out. Bailey Over isn't even striking out seven per
• 58:28
  Speaker 2: nine innings. His walks her a little bit up. But
• 58:31
  Speaker 2: I'll tell you what that four to three to two
• 58:33
  Speaker 2: ERA seven and three record even wins in seven to
• 58:37
  Speaker 2: three and fourteen starts so far this year. He hasn't
• 58:39
  Speaker 2: even been out there for every start. But the other
• 58:43
  Speaker 2: thing is Twins have one of the easiest schedules left,
• 58:46
  Speaker 2: and they have a lot of young guys that they
• 58:49
  Speaker 2: could bring up. It might not be that bad of
• 58:52
  Speaker 2: a roster you talk about. The Twins were supposed to
• 58:54
  Speaker 2: have almost a White Sox level bad roster, and now
• 58:59
  Speaker 2: the White Sox are really good and the Twins are
• 59:02
  Speaker 2: They're not bad.
• 59:04
  Speaker 3: Is there not an argument for a lot of these
• 59:08
  Speaker 3: prospects to not be called up until after August twenty
• 59:11
  Speaker 3: sixth now to keep their eligibility next year for the
• 59:15
  Speaker 3: Rookie of the Year extra pick thing.
• 59:19
  Speaker 2: Okay, what day did you say there?
• 59:21
  Speaker 3: I think August twenty sixth is about off to you
• 59:26
  Speaker 3: call a guy up after that and he's going to
• 59:28
  Speaker 3: get not enough at bats to still be rookie eligible
• 59:31
  Speaker 3: next year and thus have the chance that the extra
• 59:35
  Speaker 3: the extra pick rewards for it. And the Rookie of
• 59:40
  Speaker 3: the Year isn't always the obvious guy, especially when it
• 59:43
  Speaker 3: comes to pitching. So yeah, that would be my only
• 59:47
  Speaker 3: sort of throwback in terms of recording.
• 59:49
  Speaker 2: There's this is the reason why I wouldn't pick a
• 59:51
  Speaker 2: Walker Jenkins. And I'll tell you, as I've been writing
• 59:54
  Speaker 2: up thing freaking everybody who goes to Saint Paul is
• 59:59
  Speaker 2: getting hurt. The Twins TRIAA is just crazy. Like I'm
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 2: every other week great for this article I have for
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 2: write up the major prospects who get injured. And it's
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 2: like kal and Culpeper and Walker Jenkins and Emanuel Rodriguez
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 2: and Hegbert Perez is even up there and doing well, right,
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 2: it's Heedburg. Yeah, they all get hurt in Saint Paul.
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 2: I don't know what the deal. I've been to Saint Paul.
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 2: I didn't get hurt there, but I guess I didn't
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 2: go to the baseball stadium. But there's something going on.
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 2: But I wouldn't pick Walker Jenkinson's my outfielder. But Bailly
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 2: over still gets to benefit from the five weeks that
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 2: he's in the lineup as far as potentially winning the
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 2: game when teams are out of it, and hey, the
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 2: Twins could even go for it, right they're one game
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 2: outside the playoffs.
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 3: That's an advertised that after all that team and glue
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 3: in the off season with owner ship, the Twins are
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 3: losing money left, right and center. They trade it off
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 3: every one and the team for it.
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 2: It seems like so they last year. Everybody was like
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 2: traded everybody. There's nobody left on this team well about
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 2: five hundred now, and there's a reason for that.
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 3: I think there's an element of romanticism in baseball. We
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 3: struggle to get in a lot of the other American sports,
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 3: like in terms of teams that don't look good. Everyone
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 3: starts zero and zero in March, and there's always a
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 3: team or two, and this year there's more of them.
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 3: Whether it's the nationals pirates, White Sox twins that always
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 3: well outperform what they're expected to do. I remember it
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 3: was it twenty fifteen the Astros. It was really dark
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 3: back in the sort of tends. We had Chris Johnson
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 3: and Jason Castro as our three and four hitters, with
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 3: Bud Norris as our race. It was dark and was
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 3: great with the worst in baseball. But twenty fifteen and
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 3: was it two fifteen?
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 2: I think it was earlier than that. It was like
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 2: twenty ten or eleven, because I went to those games.
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 2: Is it used in for three months that year? I
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 2: was there when talking.
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 3: About when we made the wild Cards really surprising beat.
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 3: We beat the Yankees in their own backyard and that
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 3: was like Dallas Kaikos site out of nowhere, side bite
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 3: stuff and Tuvey and I think maybe Carea debuted and
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 3: stuff like that. But yeah, I think it was about
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 3: twenty fifteen. But that just came out of nowhere and
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 3: a dynasty was born from me. So you just never know.
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 3: And I just think in baseball sometimes and this is
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 3: why exercises like this, some of these guys could be
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 3: more than what we were advertising them to be. You
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 3: just never know. In baseball because there's so much human
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 3: element and so much mental strength required in the sport,
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 3: and the intangibles make such a difference. So we can
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 3: talk about speed this, velocity that, but what goes on
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 3: upstairs is what really matters in a lot of these
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 3: cases as well, because you can have all the tools,
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 3: all the but no idea. Do you know what I mean?
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 3: It's putting it all together?
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah for sure. Okay, that's two my pitchers. Who is
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 2: your third starter?
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 3: So Milwaukee sixty percent owned Shane drow and seventy six
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 3: in his seventy six k's three point two era one
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 3: point one A four whip been good over the last
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 3: last month as well. Sub three are sub three r Yeah,
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 3: the Twins Twins, I was about say the buck went
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 3: after that, not the Twins, all the Bucks, the Brewers
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 3: seeing company him Enix decent. You can never write off
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 3: a brewer's picture full stop, regardless of whether he has
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 3: a name value or not. And probably a guy I'm
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 3: feeling quite comfortable for with the rest of the season.
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 3: Even if this spot isn't one hundred percent guaranteed, I
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 3: think there'll be ways they will use and plus all this,
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 3: how much more will miss pitch. They you know, there
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 3: was something about them using miss more creatively is going
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 3: to create potentially more rnings of opportunities for other guys.
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 3: So I feel pretty good about the line up for
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 3: the rest of the way.
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 2: She thoughts, I'm checking your roster in three sport. He's
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 2: not on there. What's the deal Crag's Is he all right?
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 3: All right?
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 2: I would have thought you would have got to him first,
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 2: but I guess I'm wrong on that one. But yeah,
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 2: but who saw this coming? Again, just anybody who gets
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 2: turned in the Brewer's rotation, and they've had enough injuries
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 2: that there have been a few guys coming through. But
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 2: again the Brewiser example, a four. Letting these guys go
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 2: sometimes isn't the worst thing, and then signing Christian Yelich
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 2: to the biggest contract in franchise history is sometimes not
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 2: as effective. So I don't know, man, and don't I'm
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 2: not showing for the owners. I'm saying that the economics
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 2: are messed up, But they're just messed up in a
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 2: different way than people say.
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 3: At least formula with their pictures that seems to work.
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 2: Like yeah, but part of it is varying arm angles
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 2: and stuff like that. So it's part of the diversity
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 2: of the.
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 3: Pictures too, of course. But if you're continually paying elite
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 3: pictures rookie scale deals, you can afford to waste a
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 3: load of money on Yelich.
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah, quote afford. But yeah, I see what you're saying,
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 2: And yeah, they just seem to have a bottomless pit
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 2: of this. Zebbie Matthews will be my last pick. And
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 2: he is not necessarily performing the way you want to
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 2: perform five point four e r a one point three
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 2: four to three whip, but he fighting injuries.
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 3: This guy, I've never seen the appeal never, like really
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 3: yeah it was it last year or the year before.
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 3: Never ever done it with the eye test for me,
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 3: like never, I've never seen him and thought think thought, yeah,
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 3: this guy is blowing my hair back. Never and when
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 3: he was a prospect and getting a load of a
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 3: load of hype and then like the potential opportunities in
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 3: the Millwark Minnesota last year, never was interested. Never done it.
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 2: I've been talking about how there's a player who players
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 2: who could just destroy your season in one game, and
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 2: Zebbie Matthews probably did that the day before we recorded
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 2: here on Sunday with three Indians at the Cubs and
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 2: eight Ernie's given up. So yeah, I don't know, Craig.
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 2: I'm just I'm struggling at this point with the starting pitchers,
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 2: and Zebbi's at least a guy I've been tracking for
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 2: a long time in my thirty team. I think the
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 2: Barry Baker League, even though Barry Baker's not in anymore,
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 2: but the Great Barry Baker League. I've had Zebbi for
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 2: years and he's been fairly effective when I brought him up,
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 2: except for this weekend.
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 3: And I think North Korea has finally caught up with
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 3: Barry Baker and he's in some gild South.
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 2: Oh geez, he's a pharmacist, Craig, he's busy. I don't know, man, Yes, no,
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 2: maybe not a pharmaist. And that's Josh Lloyd. That's a
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 2: whole different situation.
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 3: I think he's an ass an ass is. That's right.
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 2: That's a tough thing, and he's he's going to keep
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 2: your ear n each going.
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's an impossible task, but that's yeah.
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 2: Shouts up to Barry. All right, and now the closer.
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 2: That's our last guy.
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 3: Who you got, Okay, I got Grant Taylor Chicago Whites,
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 3: partly because he's starting picture eligible and who doesn't love
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 3: a closer or a relief picture late in his relief
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 3: picture is starting a picture eligibility been great this season,
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 3: the two seventy four era and a one point we Okay,
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 3: maybe that's not elite when it comes to relief pictures,
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 3: but if he was. If it was, he'd obviously be
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 3: much higher. Rowned. He's got three saves in his last
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 3: four games, so it looks like he now has the
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 3: full trust. Sixty seven k's and just under fifty innings.
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 3: So with that starting pitching eligibility, it's a guy that
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 3: I think's well worth having a little LICKSI.
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah, there's multiple guys who I could go with. Yeah,
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 2: and that's a good shout. He is a talented picture
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 2: for the White Sox, and the White Sox are looking good.
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 2: There were multiple options that really relief picture was especially
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 2: only picking one was not the worst position on this exercise, Craig, because.
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 3: It was always good for read if pictures, and especially
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 3: this time. We'll try again.
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 2: Under seventy five percent, you've got Kenley Jansen, and what
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 2: are the odds he's not been good enough to trade
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 2: and the Tigers probably aren't going anywhere. He could retain closer,
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 2: he could keep getting you saves. Jo Andre's Gomez with
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 2: the Twins got twelve saves this year, but I've already
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 2: taken two.
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 3: It was just over there. Isn't he as well? And
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 3: if he doesn't get moved, you're likely to keep that job.
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 2: But I am going to go back to since I've
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 2: been on an anti Boston screen, let's give Boston a
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 2: little love here. Because Garrett Whitlock man. I took him
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 2: before the season in some leagues because he's just a
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 2: it's just a killer when it comes to ratios two
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 2: point zero six era, a point nine one for And
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 2: while a lot of these guys will come out of
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 2: the woodwork for the year and you're like, I didn't
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 2: you never see these guys, you could see Garrett whitlock coming.
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 2: He's this isn't the first time that he's done this
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 2: type of thing. And I assume at some point, I
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 2: don't know whether they will make way for him. I
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 2: don't know whether he is in line for some of
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 2: those spots, but he's taken the Cave Smith path of
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 2: He's just so freaking good as a setup guy. That
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 2: maybe eventually he'll get that closer role. I feel like,
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 2: I don't know what if you track your Woodlock at all?
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 2: Do you like him?
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 3: I've always found with Whitlock, he's a guy that says
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 3: to perform and pat my interest, not for like a month.
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 3: I'm talking historically as good as good as any picture
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 3: or advice broke. Oh yeah him, and then his role
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 3: changeses to some middlewely he gets tull over the park
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 3: and then I end up dropping him. And then a
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 3: year later, oh, hang on, Whitlock's doing so? Interested in
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 3: it again? Guy fort So mightbe on the problem. But yeah,
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 3: there's always been like because it's an art. He does
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 3: pass the eye test when he's on as well. Do
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 3: you know what I mean? It doesn't look like a
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 3: guy that could be a really doublant pitcher. But I
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 3: would say twice once, betten, twice shot. I think I've
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 3: been bitting about four times. It's like I just struggled
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 3: to go back. But yeah, stranger things have happened. He's
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 3: not Drey Palmer rans but who is.
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 2: Grow palm rans Man. Yeah, he's got the He's got
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 2: a one hundred percent chase rate this year. His walk
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 2: rate of four point five percent is ninety eight percent.
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 2: He's pitching insane when he's out there. It's just ridiculous.
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 2: And even though he has missed some time, when the
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 2: Red Sox put him out there, he's just money. So yeah,
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 2: I excuse me. I am a huge fan in in
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 2: Le's see here in July. So far he's pitched eight times,
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 2: he's not given up an ear run, and he's got
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 2: a point for to one whip. So that's that's about
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 2: as good as you can theoretically.
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 3: To city question. He's still at the Red.
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 2: Sox, right, Yeah, he's still with the Red Sox because.
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 3: The Red Sox are red hot on the moment a
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 3: bet with Jake Bennett. There's a lot going right for
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  Speaker 3: the Red Sox. It'll be interesting to say when this
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  Speaker 3: red hot form stabilizes a bit all tanks, what happens
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  Speaker 3: with guys like Bennett and Whitlock.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but it's not like that's benefited him in the
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  Speaker 2: way of vulture winds. He doesn't have any vulture winds.
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  Speaker 2: He does have a stave in the last month in
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  Speaker 2: two on the year, I believe. But but yeah, when
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  Speaker 2: everything is going right for your team, then everything's going right,
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  Speaker 2: and I guess we'll see.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, all right, Craig has he got starts and picture
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  Speaker 3: eligibility as well or.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think so. He has in the past, but
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  Speaker 2: he doesn't have it this year. No, because there has
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 2: been talking he's actually thirty years old. There has been
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  Speaker 2: talk about floating him in the rotation I think in
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  Speaker 2: past years, but that's not what's going on now. And
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  Speaker 2: it's not like he he's not a strikeout. Maybe he's
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  Speaker 2: one strikeout per any but you just they can't hit
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  Speaker 2: it stuff.
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  Speaker 3: But it can be underrated though. You get those guys
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  Speaker 3: in there that really help your ratios. Whether it's a
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  Speaker 3: Holderman or Sabrowsky or something not going to get a
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  Speaker 3: ton of saves. But when you're able to have guys
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  Speaker 3: like that can really stabilize it's your era and whip.
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  Speaker 3: It allows you to take a few more chances with
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  Speaker 3: your starting pitching in terms of streaming or drafting later.
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  Speaker 2: I think absolutely. Okay, Craig, we've been through the we've
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  Speaker 2: been through the exercise. Now, any final thoughts on this
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  Speaker 2: whole thing.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: My final thoughts are I'm glad the World Cup's over.
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  Speaker 3: I feel absolutely drained by that. I'm glad the heat
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 3: wins over. We've still got plenty of cricket left in
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 3: the summer. We still got plenty of baseball league. Some
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 3: summer league was something else. Ork a bit about that offline,
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  Speaker 3: and I hope everyone enjoys the rest of the summer
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 3: and gets we'll be getting into football territory soon. And yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I'm really excited for football Sason this year because I've
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 3: only got the one team, actually, Teller, I've still got
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 3: a team in that league with that Matt Lawson started
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 3: because Matt Lawson isn't running it anymore, so I'm decided
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 3: to start. And yeah, I'm really excited for football this year.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sure everyone is. I'm your thoughts on football.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm just in such a haze from It's just
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 2: been a crazy summer. Between the Hockey Show, we put
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 2: on thirty team thirty two team previews, so I'm recording
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 2: three of those today, and we did five episodes, four
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 2: episodes on the NHL Draft, which just came up. My
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 2: basketball drafts are coming up in a week, so I
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 2: just football. It hasn't been on my mind much since
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 2: we saw our rookie drafts back in the being in
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 2: a June.
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  Speaker 3: I keep looking at my team because I really like it.
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 3: This year. It's the most confident I've felt in my team,
• 1:13:55
  Speaker 3: so I'm guaranteed the ninth place finish. It works. But yeah, right,
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  Speaker 3: excited for a bit of red zone action Sunday night. Yeah,
• 1:14:03
  Speaker 3: I'm excited. I've been for football, I think, because I
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 3: think I I'm just starting to appreciate the easiest easiness
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 3: off the once the one line off a week.
• 1:14:13
  Speaker 2: Don't worry, though, They'll make sure that it's spread across
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 2: all seven days. Pretty soon.
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 3: The thing that's significant on my fancy team will be
• 1:14:19
  Speaker 3: on red zones, you know what I mean. So it's
• 1:14:21
  Speaker 3: all in one plate. So yeah, yeah, we just need
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 3: to get the summer out of the way. Now do
• 1:14:26
  Speaker 3: you call it full? We call it autumn.
• 1:14:28
  Speaker 2: But yeah, it's not the stupidest part. I feel the
• 1:14:31
  Speaker 2: same way. There comes a point in the summer where
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 2: I'm like, the fall sports are so awesome. I just
• 1:14:36
  Speaker 2: want the summer to be over. And then I turn
• 1:14:38
  Speaker 2: around the next day and I'm like, what do you mean?
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 2: I want the summer to be over? Summer's nice, Autumn
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 2: is great, but the problem with autumn is freaking winter
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 2: is right there, just waiting for you.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, i'magually you're probably gonna get a brutal So you're
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 3: expecting brutal winters in Vancouver or not at all.
• 1:14:55
  Speaker 2: Just get a little bit of rain. We probably get
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 2: snow once a year.
• 1:14:58
  Speaker 3: Oh wow, you're not going to be shoveling snow.
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 2: I sold my snowblower Craig and tossed all but one
• 1:15:07
  Speaker 2: of my snowshovels. It is going to be so good.
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 3: Ah, you should have moved years ago. I'll tell you what.
• 1:15:17
  Speaker 3: Daily in the mid exhaustedly just thinking about it, To
• 1:15:21
  Speaker 3: be honest with you, just like to start your day
• 1:15:24
  Speaker 3: that way to go to I just couldn't imagine it.
• 1:15:27
  Speaker 3: I really couldn't. We love if we have half an
• 1:15:30
  Speaker 3: inch of snow, pretty much everywhere is closed and everyone's
• 1:15:33
  Speaker 3: in apocalypse mode.
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 2: Anyway, I think the most important thing that I need
• 1:15:40
  Speaker 2: to know at this point is it a pleasure.
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 3: Or a chore? Do you know me, Jesse, It's always
• 1:15:46
  Speaker 3: a pleasure and ever sure nice.
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 2: I'm glad to hear that we're still consistent on that point.
• 1:15:50
  Speaker 2: Thank you for coming out to Greg and well I'm
• 1:15:53
  Speaker 2: sure we're talking again.
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 3: I'm sure we will.
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 2: Before I get out of here, I will just tell
• 1:16:07
  Speaker 2: you that you can thank the boys in this league
• 1:16:10
  Speaker 2: for hosting and posting this episode. You can check out
• 1:16:14
  Speaker 2: my work Baseball HQ. I just wrote up an article there.
• 1:16:18
  Speaker 2: Every two weeks, I write about players who are hot
• 1:16:23
  Speaker 2: or cold in the minor leagues and guys who recently
• 1:16:26
  Speaker 2: taught prospects, have been injured, coming back from injury, or
• 1:16:29
  Speaker 2: have been promoted. I also just participated in the mid
• 1:16:34
  Speaker 2: season h Q fifty, where we all ranked our top
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 2: fifty prospects for the baseball mid season, and that was fun.
• 1:16:41
  Speaker 3: I wrote up a.
• 1:16:41
  Speaker 2: Couple of the prospects who are changing trajectory in my mind.
• 1:16:46
  Speaker 2: And you can also check out the show Fantasy Hockey Life.
• 1:16:50
  Speaker 2: That's the one that's really it's just burning me up
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 2: right now. We're doing thirty two episodes for thirty two
• 1:16:56
  Speaker 2: teams over the summer, as we always do. We've done
• 1:16:59
  Speaker 2: it for many years in a row now and we're
• 1:17:01
  Speaker 2: just past the halfway point. Plus we did four episodes
• 1:17:03
  Speaker 2: on the NHL Draft. That is the place if you're interested,
• 1:17:07
  Speaker 2: if you're hockey curious, that's a great place to listen
• 1:17:10
  Speaker 2: to my partner Victor Nugnio and myself talk about the
• 1:17:14
  Speaker 2: cool things that happen over in Dynasty Fantasy Hockey. And
• 1:17:17
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• 1:17:27
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