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Ep. 47 : May Players Of The Month PC · Cards & Categories

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  Hello, and welcome everybody to episode forty seven of Cards and Categories. I
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  am Mike Coolard from Rasball, joined tier as always by my very good friend
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  Jeremy Burr, also from Rasball. How are you doing tonight, buddy,
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  I'm doing just fine. I'm looking forward the episode tonight. I know we're
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  gonna talk a little bit more cards and fantasy for a change, So I'm
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  excited, especially because I was trying to go to card sho this weekend and
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  I failed, and so I need to fix and so here we are.
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  We're this is more personal than anything. Yeah, exactly. Speaking of personal,
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  we are doing our personal collection, our PC for the month of May,
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  the Players of the Month. We're keeping it going. We've really enjoyed
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  this segment that I think it a good chance for us to also recap what
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  has happened the previous month before, and I think especially as we get deeper
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  and deeper into the season. In the Fantasy realm, all the stats blur
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  together because you see the year to date line and don't really always realize the
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  peaks and valleys of a season. But this will be fun. So this
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  week we are obviously doing the May Player of the month PC because it's our
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  first recording here in June. We're recording this on Tuesday the fourth, and
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  you ready to get into the news and notes, ready to dive in,
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  Let's go there. Hopefully nobody got hurt this week. Okay, yeah,
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  we do have some injuries. Although I will post to this. I think
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  another piece that I really like reading at the end of every month is from
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  Baseball Perspectus. Rob Mainz does like a monthly recap, and he actually brought
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  up that May was one of the lowest injury months that we've had in quite
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  a few years, so it really did dip off. That we comment on
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  it last week that the injuries seemed to tail off, and I think they
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  actually did, and they picked up a little bit this week, but nothing
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  I think, two earth shattering in our player pools for those fantasy teams.
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  So the first one, I really, I really think it's because everybody was
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  already hurt. I honestly, going back to his April Rob Mains' April stuff
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  too, it wasn't terrible in April either, that's just kind of a normal
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  April. I think what it is is we're all so connected nowadays that,
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  like you know, all of these injuries immediately, and you just can feel
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  the deluge of it, you know, yeah, you can feel it.
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  And it's also it's we all know in the earth the first few months,
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  everybody's told getting back not fully into it, like that's when people get hurt.
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  And so when when you get in the warmer weather, things are,
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  you know, people are coming back from those spring training injuries, it just
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  feels different, even though it's really probably not not any different. So anyway,
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  let's go, Okay, the first injury we've got is actually two San
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  Diego Padres hitting the injured list. We've got both you Darvish and Joe Musgrove
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  being placed on the IL with a strain groin for you Darvish and that baky
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  elbow for Joe Musgrove. So I think this is now his third or fourth
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  time on the IL for this elbow in the past year. I know that
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  it blew up on it, like literally blew up with like fluid after they
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  came back from that Mexico series last year, and it seems to really still
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  be an issue for Joe Musgrove there. And to replace them in the rotation,
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  the Padres are continuing to roll with Randy Vasquez, and I have called
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  up Adam Maser to make his major league debut tonight as we speak, so
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  we'll probably have more on him as we see what Maser offers us in the
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  majors. But Brew, I'm focused more here on Darvish and Musgrove here because
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  in some of the shower leagues that I'm playing in, like you know,
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  the RcLs, the rasball commenter leagues, that is certainly territory where you Darvish
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  and Joe Musgrove can be cut because there's really no bench or iye able to
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  speak of. But I mean, are you entertaining cutting them and maybe some
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  standard ten and twelve team leagues right now, because this is both of their
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  second trips to the IYOL this season in twenty twenty four. Yeah, I
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  think you know, of both of them, I'm probably more likely to move
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  on from Musgrove at this point. You know, it's not just the injuries
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  to your point, is it's multiple and performance, which to me, they're
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  probably clearly connected there. And even if he comes back, I don't know
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  if I'm playing him right away because I just don't know if I can trust
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  it. It's kind of like his good buddy Blake Snell, that he's hurt
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  and playing terrible, So what are you investing in? Darvish, on the
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  other hand, is one that I'm a little bit more willing to kind of
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  see how things play, you know, and with it being a hamstring issue,
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  they called him day to day, you know, hopefully he's back shortly.
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  I'm a little bit more willing to give Darvish so some rope here.
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  He's looked quite a at better than musk Grove has, though you know,
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  it's thirty seven year old Darvish. There's only only so much more where you
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  can do on the seventeen pitches that he throws. So I think it's gonna
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  be a hold for me on Darvish, definitely in twelve teams, ten teams.
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  If I need the spot, I'm willing to move on Musgrove even a
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  ten team, I'm cutting bait this point. I'm probably only holding him in
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  a pretty deep dynasty situation at this point, just to see if he gets
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  healthy and maybe comes back next year. Yeah, I think that makes sense
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  because, yeah, that elbow has been extremely bocky there for Musgrove, and
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  you were speaking of his buddy Blake Snell. He also hit the eel with
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  a groin injury. It looks a little bit of like the recurrence of what
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  he had before before it was a hip and maybe it's rotated a little bit
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  down into the groin, but either way, still was not looking sharp in
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  his outings in his return from the ile. Blake Snell not gonna take home
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  another NLSI Young Award this year. I don't think at all that. I
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  don't even think that. Last time he was on the injured list, we
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  discussed whether or not we would cut him, but the skills were still there
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  in terms of like the arsenal, the pitch, the stuff plus pitches were
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  there, the velocity was there. He kind of looked like regular old Blake
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  Snell. But now that he's been injured twice, are you in the same
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  boat with Darbish and Muscrove here in tens and twelves where you might be moving
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  on from Blake Snell? Yeah, I he's his name, I think I
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  am Yeah, No, I think think if you loose to Snell last year,
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  it felt like the entire year, even though he was winning the cy
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  Young, that the wheels were just waiting to fall off and now it's the
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  opposite side where it's just like things look so much better than his performance.
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  But when you have an ERA round ten, you would expect that the metrics
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  are going to say that they're a little better if you're a major league pitcher.
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  And I think it's one of those at this point, like you can't
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  you can't trust him to start, and how many good starts is going to
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  take to trust him? And I think that's the issue. He's got to
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  get back healthy, got a show he's healthy, and you probably need like
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  three four good, like reasonable starts from him and then go into a good
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  matchup before you actually feel comfortable starting him. So like, let's just assume
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  that he's back and they're gonna like give him time this time around just to
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  make sure he's healthy. So let's just say he's back at the end of
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  June. You spend all of July just waiting, especially with All Star break,
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  to make sure that he's doing what you want him to do. So
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  you finally decided August to roll with the guy that's like best case scenario.
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  And so yeah, and in ten twelve teamers, I'm cutting Blake Snell.
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  I have no problem with it. I'm even in those kind of dynasty spots
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  right now, I'm I'm a little iffy. I'm you know, I'd like
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  to roll with him and see see what plays out. But if if you've
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  got a higher keeper value on him, time to eleven go, you know,
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  maybe somebody else will pick him up and get to go on the roller
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  coaster instead. But yeah, Snell is somebody that I'm also moving on from.
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  At this point, You've got you gotta be aggressive, and you can't
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  at this point in the season. You can't be waiting around for guys like
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  Snell to get back when there's other guys coming up, like Sureser, He's
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  he's finally gonna get back on his rehab assignment. You know, maybe there's
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  somebody else out there that you could be throwing that bench or I l spot
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  at it. It's I'm not there for Snell. Yeah, and I even
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  think in dynasty situations it might be a tough keep. I think he's going
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  to be turning thirty two in December. He has a thousand innings on that
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  arm now in the major leagues, So the MILA is really starting to crack
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  up on Blake Snell. You do wonder kind of what the back end of
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  that career is going to look like, as he just not only are those
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  a thousand innings there, but they're a hard one thousand innings because he's thrown
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  so many pitches to be able to maintain his approach where he's throwing it out
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  the strike zone so much. Yeah, and I think you have to recognize
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  with a guy like Snell. And I had a similar conversation with some readers
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  on Rasball this weekend about Ellie de la Cruz, Like, you have to
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  recognize streaky players are streaky players. So if you're going to own them,
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  if you're going to lean into them, you have to lean into them.
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  You have to expect the ups and the downs. And that's where you know,
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  I had the conversation about Ellie and folks be like, oh, he's
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  the worst player in the world. He's been off this month, Like yeah,
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  but he could win the MVP just in July alone, and so like
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  you have to know that that's what you're buying, and you just set it,
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  forget it and look at the end of the year and go, yep,
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  good, that's who Snell is too. And if you're not willing to
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  just weather that entire storm and hook your season to it. Don't own the
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  guy, don't go after it. It's not worth it. So yeah,
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  I think that he's he's to your point on the later end of his career,
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  and unfortunately we might just have more downs and ups at this point in
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  time. Yeah, as somebody who I can't honestly remember the last time I've
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  had Blake Snell in a fantasy season, partly because of what you're saying,
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  is that that is not the way I approach pitching, where you like,
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  set it and forget it and just kind of let the player ride that.
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  I love tweaking and tooling all the matchups and looking at the weather and where
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  the wind is blowing each day and things like that, And that is not
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  somebody that Blake Snell can really be, because you could play that game and
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  he'll look like he has the perfect matchup, blow up, give seven,
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  give up seven runs, then walk into New York and you know, throw
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  a complete game shot out or something. So uh, yeah, I guess
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  keep that in mind as you're listening to these two Blake Snell haters discussing his
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  outlook overall. Okay, the next injury we have is actually in New York.
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  With Clark Schmidt going down with a strained lat it should keep him out
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  four to six weeks, which I was bummed because I've been on Clerkschmidt for
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  a while and I've been waiting for a year like this year where he was
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  breaking out with a two fifty two ear ra over sixty and two thirds innings
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  came with over a strikeout an inning, that he had increased his k rate.
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  He was, you know, getting pretty lucky in terms of a two
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  ninety one babe and an eighty four percent left on page percentage with a low
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  ground ball rate. So maybe the correction is still kind of coming for Clerkschmid
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  as we get into the warmer months here in the Bronx. But with this
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  injury it should keep Louise Heel, who we will discuss more on the Player
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  of the Month PC section in the rotation for the foreseeable future. Garrett Cole
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  is on his way back, is making his first rehab start at some point
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  this week and that should probably put him within I don't know how long you'll
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  take Cole to ramp up, because you got to think he's in pretty decent
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  shit he's been thrown for a while, but maybe a couple more weeks on
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  coal, And so I mean, that's great if you're a Luise Heel owner
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  out there, because you were wondering what's gonna happen to him. It did
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  look like he was gonna end up back in the bullpen, or maybe they
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  would keep him stretched out in triple A. But what do you make of
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  this for the whole kind of Yankees rotation overall, and especially like, yeah,
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  Louise Heel has been absolutely electric for a month. As we're going to
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  be discussing here pretty soon, that is this maybe a buying opportunity on Luise
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  Heel out there? Yeah, that's hard to say if it's a buying opportunity
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  because he's looked so good that anybody that owns him is not willing to let
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  him go for cheap. But at the same time, if you want to
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  acquire him, there's enough question marks so that you don't want to pay full
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  price, and so buy an opportunity if somebody's selling, But I doubt you
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  have the seller that matches up without buyer. I think that the piece that
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  is more interesting is to your point, was Garrett Cole who actually did about
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  an hour ago, uh complete his first rehab stints there with with in double
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  A, he made a whole third, three and a third innings, struck
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  out five guys, give two hits and that's it. And so it looked
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  like Garrett Cole And so I think, if anything, this just maybe moves
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  him back a little bit faster, seeing that he does look pretty pretty good
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  in that those rehab starts. Because I think the Yankees are gonna want to
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  get get their ace back. It is unfortunate for Clark Schmidt. I think
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  to your point, he was over achieving. He's I don't want to call
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  him an innings eater because guy can barely make out of the sixth inning,
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  but he he is kind of that very mid rotation starter. Uh. At
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  the end of the day, he's he's not going to be amazing. He's
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  going to be a four e ra A guy. He's going to get you
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  a strikeout an inning and hopefully he doesn't blow up anywhere. And I think
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  that's who clerkshpit is nothing wrong with that, but I think he was playing
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  a little over his head so far this season, and so the Yankees it's
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  gotta be thrilled that Garrett Cole is gonna be back because I didn't get the
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  warm and Fuzzy's reading the injury reports there on on Schmidt. The four to
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  six shutdown is always worse than a four to six. I l stint the
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  four to six means we're shutting you down. We'll let you know of just
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  six whether we're gonna we're gonna ramp the things back up. Yeah, exactly,
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  And with the way Luis Heel is pitching, there's no need to rush
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  Clark Schmidt back, And especially given where the Yankees are sitting right now,
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  they look pretty unstoppable in terms of rolling their way to a division titles.
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  So it is possible maybe they slow cook Clark Schmidt on his return back from
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  that injury and maybe even move him to a bullpen role if they need to
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  really slow play that lat injury over the rest of the summer. Yeah,
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  I think that's actually a very likely outcome as he comes back in long relief
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  and opener status things like that, and just stretches out well and adds to
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  that the capacity to keep that bullpen rush. So I think that's a really
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  really good call. Yeah, And yeah, with Garrett Cole. That is
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  really crazy. I can't believe that he's actually not getting Tommy John. And
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  it does remind me a little bit of like where we were sitting early in
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  draft season with Kyle Bradish. As you know, he came out with the
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  sprained elbow and looked again also destined for Tommy John, but has looked really
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  good in his return. His Orioles teammates, unfortunately, will not be avoiding
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  that fate, as both John Means and Tyler Wells are undergoing UCL procedures.
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  And I just kind of wanted to call this out because like it was crazy
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  what John Means was doing before he went down with that injury, but it
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  did seem like he pushed that ligament a little bit too far again and blew
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  out. So that'll be his second UCL repair. I think just the way
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  that the Orioles have also phrased these injuries that it does sound like Means is
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  going to go undergo some sort of bracesert surgery and I'm not sure what's going
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  to happen with Tyler Wells, but anything maybe to add in here that any
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  sort of like maybe cheap buying opportunity in some sort of super deep format or
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  moving on from both these guys in every single format. Yeah, for me,
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  I'm moving on from both these guys. There's nothing exciting enough in the
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  profile that when you end up with the UCL, especially at this point in
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  the season, that's the hard part. If it's you know, the symptoncer
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  strider right right at the beginning, Shane Bieber, like, you know,
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  there's a chance that they're going to come back and miss a month or two
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  next season and then work back how I'll walk or Bueler right, Whereas at
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  this point in the season you're talking, you're out a full year plus you're
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  ramping back up to hopefully come back in like late August, and so the
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  team's not going to want to force that through and get a guy coming back.
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  So there you're essentially out almost two years at this point, rest of
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  this year and all next year. So then you have rust like, that's
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  too long for me to wait on guys that are in that kind of middle
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  layer of starting pitcher because you just don't know what you're getting when you come
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  back, and what you give up an opportunity costs from that roster spot is
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  just not worth it. So both these guys I'm I'm moving on from you
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  know, I'm maybe slightly intrigue here from a I'm gonna call it a volume
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  perspective with like a Cole Irvin or something like that. If I want to
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  squint a little bit and say, hey, where do I pick something up
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  short term? Maybe in a two start week, not a strikeout guy by
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  any means, and probably performing over his head a little bit as well.
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  But I do think any picture for the Oriols right now is interesting now based
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  on that offense, and so I would give him a look, But neither
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  guy I'm holding on to, and nobody that's really jumping that rotation right now
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  that I'm terribly excited about now. Trade perspective though, that's where it's interesting
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  for Baltimore is who are they going to try to bring in? And I
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  know one of your hometown boys there, Garrett Corchetes, been starting to make
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  us his round and nocks with San Diego, which I mean that's just a
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  j preller, like who do I feel like talking about today? You know,
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  but hey, maybe if Crochetes on the trade block, there's probably not
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  a better connection there than Baltimore with some young hitters for a young starter.
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  There might not be a better match out there in the ball game today.
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  Yeah, I mean, honestly, it wouldn't also be maybe surprising if the
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  Orioles pursue blakexl from the Giants to like bring him over and saying, hey,
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  like Blake, we're gonna make sure that we let you walk after season
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  or whatever and make that happen. But yeah, it's going to be interesting
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  because there is a lot of pitching out there, especially in the NL.
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  The NL, there's a lot of real rough teams in the National League,
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  and so it's going to be I think fascinating to see maybe how quickly that
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  hot stove heats up as team see the chum in the water and start,
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  you know, really surrounding it like a bunch of sharks. So with our
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  last piece of injury news, we're gonna stick in the Al East, and
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  that is Jordan Romano, the Toronto Blue Jays closer, going down with elbow
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  inflammation once again. And this looks like it's just gonna be another kind of
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  rough season for Jordan Romano in terms of injuries. Again, it's not his
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  first time on the injured list this season, and I also just wanted to
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  bring this up because if Yimi Garcia is out there in your leagues at all,
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  I think, as long as he's sitting in that closers role for Toronto,
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  Garcia is like a top five or six closer. I think that his
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  peripherals have been absolutely absurd this year. He's posted a one to fifty seven
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  ERA and twenty three innings that's come with an eleven point four K nine.
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  But the nastiest part of this all is on the stuff plus rating. The
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  stuff plus rating on slider is a one ninety four where one hundred is average,
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  and he throws it twenty ish percent of the time. It's an absolutely
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  filthy pitch and he's throwing a really hard fastball off of it too that has
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  just a really great shape. He's really rounded into a premier pitcher. And
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  I mean, if Toronto keeps going south, this is going to be one
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  of the top gets I think for a bullpen arm in the league at the
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  deadline, if Toronto even really wants to move on from him, because he's
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  been such a valuable piece for him over the past two years. Garcia out
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  there in Toronto, I absolutely love that. Like I think he's also a
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  great person, maybe to go out and try and buy if you can see,
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  like there any daylight there where you know somebody is trying to sell a
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  little bit higher on Garcia and maybe you see that like this Romana injury might
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  yield an entire rest of the season from the closer spot with Garcia. But
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  yeah, I brew do you love Emy Garcia as much as I do?
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  And what do we think about Joerner Remino's kind of like longish term like arc
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  with the Blue Jays kind of going forward now that things have really gone awry
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  in terms of injuries for him the past couple of years. Yeah, I
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  do like Garcia. I like his profile. I like a lot of what
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  he brings, you know, very consistent, very very stable arm. To
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  me, he's I don't know if i'd call him a top five seven.
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  I can't what term you use there, especially pitching there in Toronto with how
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  that team's looked. I think the other thing is with Romano, it's it's
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  not like anything is structurally wrong. He just looks off ya and doesn't feel
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  great, which is almost the worst scenario here for Emmy Garcia is because Rono
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  is like gonna reset on the injured list and then come back and going to
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  work him back into the role. Then Garcia's value drops and then he gets
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  hurt again. Like I feel like we could be on a roller coaster with
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  Garcia at this point. So it doesn't mean you don't pick him up,
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  because I think you do. I think you just have to recognize that.
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  I don't know where we're going to go from here, because Romano is the
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  guy. If healthy there, I don't think there's any question he's earned that
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  role. He deserves that role. It's just things look off. But the
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  number the numbers have been okay, from an actual results perspective, they've not
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  been fantastic, and the peripherals have been pretty poor actually, But yeah,
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  if there's nothing structurally wrong, they're going to work him back in once he's
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  ready. Okay, all right, then let's move in to some just other
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  transactions in terms of demotions. Promotions, we discussed a little bit last week
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  that as we get deeper and deeper into June, it really becomes kind of
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  prospects season as these guys are demoted, promoted kind of shuffled around, and
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  one of the big ones that we are getting this week is Connor Norby is
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  coming up for the Baltimore Orioles. He is one of their top prospects as
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  a infielder. He should be playing second base here, taking over for Jorge
• 23:11
  Mateo, who is hitting the concussion injured list with uh. It's actually really
• 23:17
  strange injury in terms of he was on deck waiting to start, you know,
• 23:23
  taking practice swings and Cedric Mullens bunked him on the head with this helmet
• 23:27
  while in the on deck circle. So little oriol On Oriel crime there that
• 23:32
  will send Horaye Mateo to the concussion list. I think that as long as
• 23:37
  Mateo is out is how big of a window Norbery is going to get.
• 23:41
  And I think out of all the Orioles prospects I've this has been the one
• 23:48
  that I haven't quite been on as much as Connor Norby as especially this year,
• 23:52
  things have been a little tougher under the hood as he his overall k
• 23:56
  percentage has increased a triple a to thirty point seven percent. He has posted
• 24:03
  some pretty good numbers in terms of the power and being able to produce a
• 24:07
  one to twenty seven WRC plus there as a twenty four year old. But
• 24:12
  brew do you think that there's any chance that Karen Orby makes some noise in
• 24:17
  this week up with Baltimore and finds his way onto the roster. Is there
• 24:21
  a chance? Yes, The question, to your point is how long is
• 24:26
  Mateo out? And first of all, first thing, Cedric Molds is hitting
• 24:29
  solid for a while. But right, but I think it is a question
• 24:36
  of how long's Mateo out? And Canorby could get out hot because the Orioles
• 24:41
  have now called up a handful of guys and not really giving them a chance,
• 24:45
  and so it's like there's they know that they're gonna start their clocks.
• 24:48
  They need to get some exposure. Maybe they're trying to show that they're ready
• 24:51
  for the majors. They can claim that they're a young major league ready talent
• 24:55
  for trade season. I don't know, but I I mean Norby there's to
• 24:59
  me, there's there's lot to like. He's for the last three years,
• 25:03
  he's been basically a two to ninety hitter with you know, call it twenty
• 25:07
  to twenty five home run power, ten steals, Like, there's nothing terribly
• 25:14
  concerning with his game. Strikeouts were up a little bit this year and in
• 25:18
  triple A, so I actually kind of like the guy. I don't think
• 25:22
  you're looking here at like a All Star by any means. I think you're
• 25:26
  looking at a really, really solid contributor. And so I could squint and
• 25:30
  say, hey, back in starter for second base as he gets under his
• 25:33
  belt. Definitely a great middle endfield option. And so I like what Norby
• 25:38
  has. I just don't think I can put a ton of stock into the
• 25:41
  Orioles and the young guys that are trying to establish themselves the rest of this
• 25:45
  year because they just have too many that play the same positions and they'd rather
• 25:48
  play Orgeman tayl So's. That's the challenge. Yeah, I agree that it's
• 25:56
  just like it is a mess to try to sort out, and like trying
• 25:59
  to hold any of those fringe prospects, even if they have the skills,
• 26:03
  it just makes it really tough to find a set role for them on the
• 26:07
  major league team unless they are just another worldly talent like Gunner or Adley or
• 26:12
  Jackson Holliday. So it'll be interesting, I think, to see what happens
• 26:18
  with Norby here, and maybe he'll end up going a little bit more of
• 26:21
  like the Joey Ortiz route where they bring him up here and there to give
• 26:25
  him a couple of shows and then trade them at the deadline. Yeah,
• 26:29
  I think you're you're onto something there. Yeah, Okay. The other big
• 26:33
  promotion demotion that we had was I was actually kind of waiting for this shoe
• 26:38
  to drop. I was not surprised when he was demoted yesterday. And that
• 26:42
  is Spencer Torkelsen from the Detroit Tigers has been sent down to Triple A to
• 26:48
  just work on hitting. It's been rough for Torkalsen that the month of May
• 26:56
  was especially brutal to him, as he ended up hosting a one ninety one
• 27:02
  average over twenty five games. He just slipped all the way down the batting
• 27:07
  order in terms of hitting like second, third, fourth, and was hitting
• 27:10
  eighth, seventh towards the end of the month, and it was clear that
• 27:15
  Detroit was ready to shuttle him out as they were kind of moving him lower
• 27:19
  and lower in the lineup and even you know below guys like a Kiel Badou
• 27:23
  and Matt Vierling and just trying to catch any lightning in a bottle. The
• 27:27
  lightning in a bottle they're going to try to catch out of Triple A is
• 27:32
  with Justin Henry Aloy I texted you when he got called up that I was
• 27:37
  this close. I was so close to including him in our prospect like stashul
• 27:41
  prospects discussion last week when we went through guys that we thought could be getting
• 27:45
  called up soon, and this was pretty much the exact move that I was
• 27:49
  envisioning that Spencer go down work on trying to make some contact. We're going
• 27:55
  to bring up justin Henry mLOY to see what he can do for us to
• 27:57
  see. Honestly, this is a pretty big situation for mLOY going forward,
• 28:03
  because this is a make or break moment I think for him to show Detroit
• 28:07
  whether or not he can truly stick at a corner infield position and hit enough
• 28:12
  to justify sticking around the organization, or if he just becomes a bench bat
• 28:18
  or is shipped out of town, you know. And so with that,
• 28:22
  I mean, I think right now Malloy's maybe like a fifteen teamer ale only
• 28:27
  probably pick up just because I'm just not sure how he's going to do in
• 28:32
  the first go around in the league, but I'm excited to see what he
• 28:34
  can do. Brew Are you using this to kind of change any of your
• 28:41
  long term projections or views? On Maloy and what are you doing with Spencer
• 28:47
  Torkelsen in all sorts of league depths across the board. Yeah, so I
• 28:52
  think starting with Maloy, I haven't definitely not watch Katie or I think you're
• 28:56
  right, maybe fifteen teamer definitely an ale only leagues is where I'd be making
• 29:00
  a look at play there. But you know, as I look at Maloy,
• 29:03
  you know, it's not hard to squint, squint look at those projections
• 29:07
  and feel like, yeah, they're about right where you know, he's being
• 29:10
  projected for like a two thirty average kind of middling power, and we'll see
• 29:14
  what what else happens, like maybe not too thirty average, But you know,
• 29:18
  I don't have significant hopes here. I just don't know that he has
• 29:21
  enough power to kind of stick it one of the quarter outfield positions. And
• 29:25
  so I do think he finds his way long term into kind of that fourth
• 29:27
  outfielder type type role or you know, shuttling in at first DH things like
• 29:34
  that. It for for the forks on the other side, that that's that's
• 29:38
  hard. He looked so good at the end of the last season. He
• 29:41
  had so much prost and promise. He thought he finally works through it.
• 29:45
  So now that he's just been absolutely dreadful, you know, I I'd be
• 29:49
  willing to take a flyer on him in the dynasty type league, and you
• 29:52
  know, depending on the price, I'd be willing. I think there's enough
• 29:55
  talent there that's some guys that just need a reset and come back and they're
• 30:00
  better than never do I think that's likely outcome, No, but I'm willing
• 30:03
  to take that gamble if the price is right. I think that's maybe the
• 30:07
  twenty percent outcome is that he comes back and you know, figures it all
• 30:11
  out and comes back to where we were hoping he went this year versus he
• 30:15
  ends up being kind of a bench bat as well. But I think the
• 30:18
  Tigers are also telling you that they still think there's something there, because if
• 30:22
  they thought he was a bench bat, he'd still be with the major league
• 30:25
  team. He wouldn't be down in tripa A trying to get some seasoning all
• 30:30
  at Jordan Walker right with the Cardinals, like the when when you send the
• 30:34
  guy down that was a starter, it's because you believe he can come back
• 30:37
  as a starter. You don't send them down to get a little season to
• 30:41
  be called back up to be a bench bat. So I got a little
• 30:45
  little more hope with with Thorkelsen, but with bated breath for sure. Yeah.
• 30:48
  Absolutely, And if you want to talk about sending people down for knowing
• 30:55
  that he want them to be starters long term, We've got another just real
• 31:00
  strange situation in terms of watching his entire arsenal fall apart. That is,
• 31:04
  Redebt Meers from the Los Angeles Angels has been optioned after just an ugly stretch
• 31:11
  of outings. As a Redetmers lover and owner of him for a long time
• 31:17
  in our autunew league, I actually I was looking it up. I had
• 31:19
  owned him since like mid twenty twenty one, and it was really rough trying
• 31:26
  to pull him through this latest stretch that saw his earray balloon to six fourteen
• 31:32
  on the season, and just the stretch of games was awful, Like after
• 31:38
  he came out of the gate hot for his first four starts, his first
• 31:41
  four starts hit a one nineteen ear array, struck out eleven point nine K
• 31:48
  nine, and then after that first start against Baltimore on four twenty two,
• 31:55
  and no, the new fangrab is just oh, it's not let me look
• 32:02
  at stuff now, because it's been going through like upside or updates and as
• 32:07
  they've moved to like different player cards and stuff. But I can tell you
• 32:10
  the last month and a half of redet Mers has been straight poo poop,
• 32:15
  and it's been awful that like just getting absolutely shelled. He's leaving fastballs over
• 32:22
  the heart of the plate. Just nothing seems to be working for him,
• 32:27
  and you do have to wonder if there is just a malaise of like,
• 32:30
  man, I'm on the Los Angeles Angels and I'm stuck here might be hitting
• 32:35
  Redebtmors a little bit. But certainly it's also been strange because the tools are
• 32:39
  still there in terms of the velo, the stuff, plus ratings on his
• 32:45
  arsenal from the fastball and the slider, things have been pretty consistent. It's
• 32:50
  he's always kind of struggled here and there with his control. And yeah,
• 32:54
  I do think that he's cuttable in any leagues that you're holding him, except
• 33:00
  for like true dynasties out of new The nice thing is you get the salary
• 33:04
  back and there's only like the forty man rosters, So with that consideration he
• 33:08
  became a little bit more cuttable there. But in Dynasty leagues. Are you
• 33:15
  still maybe like going to keep tabs and read detmers and see where he's going,
• 33:19
  or are you like me and maybe just angrily cutting bait wherever you can.
• 33:23
  Yeah, I mean, at the end of the day, I'm probably
• 33:25
  just cutting bait. I've never been really big into two Deptbers, just because
• 33:29
  the walk issues that he has, Like it seems like he's always teetering,
• 33:32
  and he's a blow up kind of guy. Blow up look great, blow
• 33:35
  up look great, and to your point, unless you're really riding the waves,
• 33:38
  he's he's dangerous. So I think that that's a that's definitely a struggle.
• 33:44
  The interesting thing with him is he actually look at like the underlying peripherals,
• 33:46
  look at his ex FIP, his XCRA. This is the best season
• 33:49
  he's had. I know, he's actually better than than he has been.
• 33:52
  I got to fanying resh page. I made a detour to Raphael Devers because
• 33:55
  I can't type. But like he's looked, looked good. Velocity's the best
• 34:00
  that's been his career. Like, I think it's one of those guys that
• 34:02
  absolutely needs a reset. You're right, just playing for the angels, maybe
• 34:07
  just too long. So I think there's probably this is a great opportunity.
• 34:09
  He's probably gonna gt fliped somewhere, get a chance, I'll say reclamation team.
• 34:15
  I mean the Angels probably are a reclamation team, but it would be
• 34:17
  interesting to kind of see where where that all works out. Yeah, I
• 34:22
  totally agree. The next transaction that we have for this evening is Royce Lewis
• 34:27
  is returning from the IL, which meant that Edward Julian is the one optioned
• 34:32
  in Minnesota as it kind of mostly became the default move to put Julian down,
• 34:39
  as he's been all right and certainly has provided some power for us in
• 34:45
  our fantasy game, but the strikeouts have been pretty tremendous and are a part
• 34:50
  of Julian's game, as well as the batting average being a little bit low.
• 34:53
  But I think this was mostly because Julian had options left and Minnesota couldn't
• 34:59
  do anything with Kevin Newman and Manny Margo but wanted to keep Willi Castro around
• 35:07
  and so for Royce Lewis. Of course, now that he returned, he
• 35:10
  blasted a homer tonight as we're talking here. On Tuesday night, Conna Norby
• 35:15
  also homered for his first career hit. So it's been a night of these
• 35:21
  players kind of following us as we discuss them. And I think, obviously,
• 35:25
  if you've been holding Lewis for this long, he's an immediate must start
• 35:30
  and move into your lineups. And what are you doing maybe with Julian in
• 35:35
  leagues like twelve and fifteen teamers where you actually might have a bench spot for
• 35:43
  him. And I've always liked the talent and Julian, I think I might
• 35:46
  hold him, But Brew, what are you doing? Yeah, I think
• 35:49
  it's it's fair to try to hold him just to see how things shake out.
• 35:52
  Because You're right, Lewis is the spot he's got. I mean,
• 35:54
  guys hitting a thousand three play appearances, I believe, and I think he
• 36:00
  has two homers in those as well, so he's doing just fan just fine.
• 36:04
  Yeah, he was two for two to start the season before he got
• 36:07
  hurt with one. Yeah, well he had the double two Oh okay,
• 36:10
  well sorry double. But the issue with Juliam here is is he going to
• 36:19
  cut down on the strikeouts? Like because he's casting here a second coming type
• 36:22
  thing here that he's got these great tools. I guess he can run a
• 36:25
  little bit more than Europe did. But if he's still going to strike out
• 36:29
  at thirty four percent of the time, which is top six and the majors
• 36:31
  for qualified hitters this season, that that's not going to play long term.
• 36:36
  So I think that's part of it. Is not that you know he was
• 36:38
  good, but when you're hitting two O seven and you are striking out well
• 36:45
  over third of the time, yeah, you've got to get that, get
• 36:46
  that sorted out. But I think he does have the talent to do it.
• 36:50
  So I think it's probably the best case scenario move for the for the
• 36:53
  twins, and you know, I think give it a month or two,
• 36:57
  especially in dynasty formats. I'm willing to hold him. I'm not holding Ulians
• 37:00
  there anywhere from a redraft perspective. I'm cutting bait from a redraft perspective most
• 37:06
  likely. Okay, that is fair, all right, Well, we've got
• 37:09
  a lot of card discussion coming up here after the break, but I will
• 37:15
  just place in everybody's head for next week, we will be discussing Tops Series
• 37:20
  two coming out as that is being released on June twelfth, so we will
• 37:24
  have a big overview of that coming next week. That's really the big one
• 37:28
  on the calendar. Donrius is also coming out next week. I don't think
• 37:31
  either of us are really much of donorous guys. That kind of ends up
• 37:36
  in some of my collection pieces nowadays as unlicensed you know, mostly you're buying
• 37:43
  lots and a bunch of those donorous cards are in there, but I use
• 37:45
  them as kind of filler, honestly that they are. They've gone downhill since
• 37:52
  if you've collected in the eighties and nineties and knew what donors used to be.
• 37:57
  So we will be focusing mostly on Top Series two next week for that
• 38:00
  checklist overview, but like I said, we've got a big overview of the
• 38:07
  Players of the Month PC coming up right after the break stick around all right,
• 38:27
  welcome back everybody, as we get into our Player of the Month PC
• 38:30
  discussion and as we did last month for the April Player of the Month PC's
• 38:38
  if you go to rasball dot com and look up the actual post that corresponds
• 38:44
  with this podcast, you will see there that we've included pictures of all of
• 38:49
  these cards there, so certainly check that out on rasball dot com and that
• 38:53
  way you won't have to kind of be punching every link in as you're listening
• 38:57
  to this on whatever podcast platform we were using that. I mean, as
• 39:02
  you're punching stuff in on that podcast platform, why not rate and review us
• 39:06
  while you can. We would have definitely appreciate that. But certainly the links
• 39:10
  are in the show details too, if you still want to do it the
• 39:15
  old school kind of first forty ish pods of our run throwback in terms of
• 39:23
  just punching in each little link off of your podcast notes. But yeah,
• 39:30
  check it out on RASBOLB where we've got the pictures. We're gonna dive right
• 39:32
  into it as we've got Aaron Judge winning the Player of the Month for the
• 39:38
  Batter in the Al and I think this was maybe the easiest choice of any
• 39:44
  of the awards that are issued on a monthly basis that he was absolutely on
• 39:51
  fire for the month of May. He hit three sixty one four seen.
• 39:54
  He had a nine to eighteen slug with twenty seven RBIs and twenty eight games
• 40:00
  to go with fourteen homers twelve doubles. And this looks like the Aaron Judge
• 40:06
  that put up the sixty two homers just a couple of years ago. He
• 40:08
  looks fully healthy. The Yankees are absolutely rolling in the al East right now.
• 40:14
  So if you drafted Aaron Judge, I mean you might end up with
• 40:17
  like a top two or three player in the Fantasy game this year if he
• 40:22
  kind of keeps anything close to this pace going forward. Because at this point
• 40:28
  that month was so huge. It's going to be a huge season for Aaron
• 40:30
  Judge. No matter what I see on our list this month, We're getting
• 40:36
  a little more obscure with some of these picks, as just like what we
• 40:39
  had for last month. Aaron Judge was included in our first Round Picks Selection
• 40:45
  PC back in the fall, and with that I took the chrome negative refractor
• 40:52
  of his rookie card, so that one's off the board. Although I guess
• 40:55
  we did pick the double up on the mookie bets, but I know that
• 41:00
  we didn't want to do the negative refractor again. So I'll let you go
• 41:04
  here first, Brew, what card are you putting in the PC for Aaron
• 41:07
  Judge in the month of May. Yeah, I'm going with a card that
• 41:10
  a type of card I've always wanted to own, and I think it works
• 41:14
  very well for Aaron Judge. And that is the game used Tier one bat
• 41:22
  Knob Relic one of one and I'm trying to see what year I'm looking at
• 41:27
  here. This is a twenty twenty three auto card. And if you've never
• 41:31
  seen these cards, it is exactly what it sounds like. It is literally
• 41:36
  the end of the bat knob from a game used bat that they have shaved
• 41:40
  off and put into the card, and so the circle of the bat knob
• 41:45
  is right in the middle of the card. It's got some nice wear on
• 41:47
  it. This one actually has a little bit of writing on it. That's
• 41:52
  probably It's hard to make out because it's a little beat up, but most
• 41:54
  likely his number or the link of the bat, one of the two of
• 41:59
  those. As I look at Aaron Judge cards, I have to say this
• 42:01
  for most Yankee cards, I tend to get disappointed by Yankee cards in general,
• 42:08
  just because of the team colors. You know, I love a good
• 42:13
  color match, and when you start looking at the Yankees color matching black,
• 42:16
  gray and pinstripe doesn't really play too terribly much for finding, you know,
• 42:23
  the really the slick card. And so when you look at Aaron Judge cards,
• 42:28
  you know, I had to go look at something very obscure. We
• 42:30
  are going a little in the higher end this time, this this card not
• 42:35
  too long ago sold on eBay for three thousand, six ninety five dollars.
• 42:38
  You got a discount there if you thought I was gonna go for four.
• 42:42
  And it is, like I said, it is just a fabulous card,
• 42:45
  the type that you know you'd love to look to own for any player.
• 42:51
  And oddly, I'd like to say it's actually a pretty good deal on this
• 42:54
  type of card, because some of those can go five, ten thousand,
• 42:59
  and matter of you know, if you get a chance to you know,
• 43:02
  I wonder what that would be if you threw up there today. This one
• 43:06
  ended in April, and so you know, Judge wasn't doing a whole lot
• 43:10
  of the time. Go that card up here. Now it might go for
• 43:13
  double, but it is a fantastic card, one that I would love to
• 43:16
  have in the collection. Never will somebody else owns that they're not given it
• 43:22
  back. Well, let's go into our virtual one of all of our monthly
• 43:24
  PCs. But I can also say that I think this one might have also
• 43:29
  gone a little bit cheaper on eBay, as Team Penske twenty one is not
• 43:32
  exactly the most recordable eBay seller on there, with a one hundred and two
• 43:38
  feedback points, which is really low in the baseball card game, only ninety
• 43:44
  seven point two percent positive, so that's not a great ratio. Whoever did
• 43:49
  buy that card from Team Penske twenty one might have been taking a little bit
• 43:52
  of a gamble on this big time one of one. I think this is
• 43:54
  also a great choice because if there's anything that the Yankees also just exude its
• 44:00
  kind of opulence, and Tier one's a great set for that with the gold
• 44:06
  leaf kind of surrounding the bat knob as well as there's a pretty good chance
• 44:09
  that that bat knob comes from a twenty twenty two bat. I don't know
• 44:15
  like how they source those bats for Tier one on these bat knob relics,
• 44:19
  but if that's the case, then that knob came from the historic sixty two
• 44:23
  homer season. Just another little kind of cherry on top of everything else with
• 44:29
  this great card. Yeah, that would be the thing is they actually had
• 44:31
  that one with the authentication sticker to see the game from that season. That
• 44:36
  would just add even more providence to the card. But now you just get
• 44:40
  to imagine it is and just tell everybody that it is and nobody else can
• 44:45
  prove you wrong. Okay, well, I'm going to pick the twenty twenty
• 44:49
  two Stadium Club number one sixty one chrome refractor for Aaron Judges to put in
• 44:54
  the PC. Now, this is very important that you get the chrome refractor
• 44:58
  from the normal Stadium Club upset because the image is very different from the normal
• 45:05
  Stadium Club set from twenty twenty two versus the Stadium Club Chrome. And so
• 45:09
  the Stadium Club Bass card had this wonderful picture of Aaron Judge in front of
• 45:15
  the corn during the Iowa game from twenty twenty one, and it's just a
• 45:21
  very I think it's an iconic photo in terms of it also harkens back to
• 45:24
  his twenty twenty two short print from that series from series one or whatever it
• 45:32
  was the Flagship Base Flagship ountat remember a series wan Er Series two, but
• 45:36
  the short print there is also another field of Dreams card. This one is
• 45:40
  more affordable, especially if you get just the Base Stadium Club. But I
• 45:45
  went with the Chrome here because as much as I love Stadium Club, all
• 45:50
  of the chrome cards from the twenty twenty two set are all misprinted. They
• 45:55
  all have this weird line on the back where it says the sign of all
• 46:00
  autograph cards is witnessed by a TOPS risk representative to guarantee authenticity, and that's
• 46:06
  only on auto cards. That nobody deleted that line from any of the chrome
• 46:12
  like bas refractors or chrome rainbow refractors from the twenty twenty two Stadium Club set,
• 46:17
  so it's not like a short print or anything in terms of that.
• 46:22
  But it's just really I think the jous position of having this wonderful, absolutely
• 46:28
  beautiful, well centered piece of art card with Aaron Judge in front of this
• 46:32
  cornfield on it, and then you flip it over and just see Tops this
• 46:37
  incompetence staring at you at the bottom of the card is just too perfect.
• 46:40
  I love it. I think it's a fantastic card. Like I said,
• 46:45
  the base version will only run you a couple bucks, So if you're looking
• 46:49
  for a cheap version of the PC cards that we're putting in, that would
• 46:53
  be the choice. If you're looking for the chrome or the chrome refractor,
• 46:58
  there aren't many out there because this is a pretty popular card with Yankees collectors,
• 47:01
  Aaron's Judge collectors that it will run you a pretty penny. One I
• 47:06
  linked to is one hundred bucks, but I think you could probably find a
• 47:08
  little better deal than that. Yeah, I think this is a great card.
• 47:13
  I did not realize that they had the signings burbage there on the back.
• 47:16
  That's a nice little easter egg to find. And I have to say,
• 47:20
  as a Midwest born and raised baseball player myself played in a few stadiums
• 47:25
  there with the horn as the backdrop, and it is kind of just a
• 47:30
  different feel if you're playing in the Midwest and you're surrounded by corn and when
• 47:35
  you hit the home run, it just never comes back. There's a whole
• 47:37
  different different ballgames. Just to see a major league player of the statue of
• 47:40
  Aaron Judge Blake like he's on a little league field is something to be said
• 47:45
  there for So I think this is a great pick, very iconic image to
• 47:47
  your point, and much more attainable card than where I went. Yeah,
• 47:55
  good black tracking down the one of one there. Okay, So from the
• 48:00
  NL side, the hitter of the month was Bryce Harper of the Philadelphia Phillies.
• 48:06
  Just had a monster month in terms of hitting for a nine to ninety
• 48:12
  ops. He also tied for the NL league in homers with seven RBIs.
• 48:17
  He put up twenty four So you can see already how crazy Aaron Judges month
• 48:23
  was compared to Bryce Harper that you know, had an output of homers that
• 48:28
  was almost twice as many and actually was twice as many right on the nose.
• 48:32
  And on top of that too, it's also weird that Judge only had
• 48:37
  twenty seven RBIs to site the fourteen homers, and that's because Juan Soto also
• 48:40
  had a crazy month of May and hit a bunch of homers wasn't on in
• 48:45
  front of Aaron Judge very often. So there are a lot of solo homers.
• 48:50
  But with Bryce Harper, we've got hundreds of thousands of different cards maybe
• 48:55
  to pick from. This is maybe one of the most printed guy like in
• 49:01
  the entire hobby between Obviously it's got to be like anybody from the nineties from
• 49:07
  like Ken Griffey Junior, Barry Bonds, Frank Thomas is up there. But
• 49:10
  in terms of like the modern era stuff, you've got to think Bryce Harper
• 49:14
  and Mike Trout probably have the most cards out there in terms of not only
• 49:19
  being in pretty much every flagship and update, but also any insert set that
• 49:24
  ever goes out includes Trout and Harper. So out of all the cards out
• 49:29
  there. Wy did you pick to put in the PC this month? Brouke,
• 49:31
  Yeah, so I think you make a good point. There's a few
• 49:35
  of them out there, and I went the option of the spectrum this time.
• 49:37
  I went with Bryce Harper's twenty twelve tops number six sixty one. That's
• 49:43
  his bas rookie card, but the screaming version as they reference it. He
• 49:49
  has a few what you'd call original rookie cards, which is an interesting dynamic
• 49:53
  in itself where it's hard to tell which one's really the true one. But
• 49:58
  it's a great picture of him. Looks you know, if you were to
• 50:00
  guess, it looks like he's just slid in the second base after hitting a
• 50:05
  double and he stood up and he is just screaming top of the lungs into
• 50:09
  the dugout, you know, clenched fist. He's so pumped at that moment.
• 50:15
  And the reason I picked this card not only is his rookie card,
• 50:19
  and that's you know, I love to have a rookie of all the stars,
• 50:22
  just to be able to have him in the collection. Look back one
• 50:23
  day and say, hey, I got his his rookie card. But it
• 50:27
  is the to me, is the epitome of Bryce Harper, like the fire
• 50:30
  that that guy has, what he brings to the game, and probably also
• 50:36
  the downfall of Bryce Harper is the fire he has that he brings to the
• 50:37
  game, right, And so I absolutely love this card. I think it's
• 50:42
  true to who he is and he isn't going to change and I'm and I'm
• 50:45
  thrilled with that. This is a card that's we're gonna call it twenty five
• 50:50
  bucks is the is the peak on this card From a kind of a raw
• 50:53
  perspective, if you're looking something grated, you're clearly gonna go U up quite
• 51:00
  quite a bit. On the PSA ten perspective, you're talking more of a
• 51:06
  eighty ninety dollars card here for Bryce Harper. But again basic simple love a
• 51:12
  little white border on the outside, nice little framing. Back when you know
• 51:15
  twenty twelve, when the designs were a little bit simpler but just cleaning classy.
• 51:22
  You gotta love twenty twelve designs as well, So pretty simple pick for
• 51:25
  me. I'm guessing that you went a little more creative than a rookie card,
• 51:30
  a base rookie card. Where did you go with with Bryce Harper?
• 51:34
  Yeah, I wanted to get something in a Phillies uniform and it's a bummer
• 51:37
  that. Actually his first Phillies flagship card in the twenty nineteen set is kind
• 51:43
  of boring that the twenty card is a little bit more iconic. He's also
• 51:46
  streaming in that, but has the helmet flying off with the fanatic little i'm
• 51:52
  not even what do you call it, like a bandana or whatever head wrap
• 51:57
  that he's got on. But I actually to go with a very recent card
• 52:00
  that's from the twenty twenty three tops Now set. This is number nine nine
• 52:06
  to two, the short print version, which was a rainbow foil number two
• 52:10
  one hundred short print that the card for the base tops Now version was to
• 52:16
  commemorate when Bryce Harper hit the two homers in that NLDS game against the Braves.
• 52:23
  But the short print rainbow foil version actually is centered up picture of Bryce
• 52:30
  Harper when he's staring down Orlando Arcia when he's rounding second base after hitting one
• 52:36
  of the homers that if you recall from that series, there's a lot of
• 52:39
  kind of bad blood between the Braves and the Phillies, as Orlando Arcia the
• 52:45
  game before or like one of the games before Bryce Harper made a mistake and
• 52:52
  when the Braves went into the locker room, Orlando Rcia was screaming at a
• 52:55
  boy. Bryce at a boy, and apparently that fired up the Phillies and
• 53:00
  got underneath Bryce's skin. That's where the staredown came from. So it's kind
• 53:05
  of an iconic piece of Philadelphia Phillies lore, and I think also just shows
• 53:09
  kind of like that connection between Philadelphia and Bryce Harper. Overall, this is
• 53:15
  gonna run you a pretty penny because of all of those factors that Bryce Harper
• 53:20
  is a pretty popular player out there, lots of PCs, but also the
• 53:23
  Phillies are a pretty popular team in terms of like the collecting world, there's
• 53:27
  lots of Phillies fans out there, and if you are a Phillies fan,
• 53:30
  this has got to be one of the target cards for your collection overall.
• 53:35
  So the one that I've linked to is around five hundred bucks. That's the
• 53:39
  PS nine version. Even raw goes around that range, and the ten will
• 53:45
  run you a thousand bucks or so. So it is a rare card,
• 53:47
  there aren't very many of them out there, but certainly an iconic and very
• 53:52
  cool card it is, and I think it's the epitome of tops now,
• 53:55
  which is there's value to be found, but it's it's every once in a
• 54:01
  while they make an iconic card and the values through the roof on those things.
• 54:07
  Uh, but the vast majority of murn dollar boxes like it's it's an
• 54:09
  interesting dynamic. And I don't have a whole lot of top stout cards,
• 54:15
  but they do make some really good ones. When they're taking those those photos
• 54:17
  in the instance and making someone of it the disappointing pieces, why don't they
• 54:22
  use the photos in your flagship products like that photo should be used as one
• 54:29
  of his you know, iconic series one type card or sp or something like
• 54:32
  that. It's like, come on, guys, uh, you gotta you
• 54:36
  gotta use what you got there. Uh and and make the best of it.
• 54:38
  Don't waste on a top stout card, but good pick none none the
• 54:43
  list. Yeah. They also did not go full bore and include Orlando Arcia
• 54:46
  in the card, which I mean, maybe that's too disrespectful, but I
• 54:51
  mean they should have. Yeah. Okay, well we're gonna move on to
• 54:57
  our first combo person in terms of doing this monthly PC as Louise Heel from
• 55:02
  the New York Yankees won both the Pitcher of the Month and the Rookie of
• 55:07
  the Month in the al and for good reason. He pitched thirty eight point
• 55:10
  two innings for six wins. He had six starts, six wins, punched
• 55:16
  out forty four in those eighty thirty eight and two thirds with a point seven
• 55:23
  ERA. That I mean, he was absurdly electric, only allowed three total
• 55:29
  runs, two of those were on solo shots. So, like that is
• 55:34
  an impressive month from Louise Heel, who has come out of nowhere to become
• 55:38
  a really like dominant pitcher and one of the top pitchers in our fantasy game
• 55:43
  right now that I know. I suggested trying to pick him up in a
• 55:46
  trade earlier, but I'm now kind of regretting the folly of my ways there
• 55:51
  because, like, I don't know who would be trading you, Louise Heel,
• 55:53
  because whoever has them, I'm sure they're doing really well in all their
• 55:57
  pitching standings. And that's the main reason why Louis Heel oddly has a ton
• 56:02
  of cards because as like a New York Yankee, when you come through their
• 56:07
  system and you roll out into one of their flagship sets, it doesn't matter,
• 56:13
  like if you're a utility man. Or Louis Heel, who came up
• 56:16
  as kind of like a swingman kind of relief prospect. He has a ton
• 56:21
  of cards in his twenty twenty two year from when he was a rookie in
• 56:25
  the flagship. He's got nineteen hundred and fifteen cards in total, even though
• 56:30
  he's only been around for a couple of years. That's kind of crazy and
• 56:34
  just shows how much kind of the printing has gone crazy over the past couple
• 56:39
  of years, and also what happens when you are a New York Yankee.
• 56:43
  So with that we were able to distill it down to our two favorite cards.
• 56:46
  Brew I'll let you pick first here. Yeah, well, I will
• 56:50
  say, you know, I look at Louis Heel as one of those like
• 56:52
  maybe biggest cell now canvas from fancy perspective because there are so many red flags.
• 56:58
  But speaking of flags, I am going to a what I consider iconic
• 57:04
  card. I mentioned earlier how it is hard to find Yankee cards that I
• 57:07
  really love from the I Appeal. So I found the most I Appeal card
• 57:09
  I possibly could from Luis Heel, which is twenty twenty two National Treasures it
• 57:14
  is his rookie card, unlicensed, but because he is facing the other direction,
• 57:17
  you can't tell the difference, which is okay for me. His auto
• 57:22
  patch out of twenty five, like I said, from National Treasures, and
• 57:28
  the patch on that one, it is about a quarter of the patch from
• 57:35
  what I'd say. It's the sleeve of the Yankees logo from the Jersey,
• 57:38
  which is always interesting to me. When it's an out of twenty five and
• 57:40
  has such an iconic patch like that should be saved for out of five,
• 57:45
  out of ten or one of one. But this is an absolutely beautiful card.
• 57:50
  Patriotic is all get out. It's got the stars, it's got the
• 57:52
  stripes, and of anything, that's what actually color matches with the Yankees logo
• 57:58
  is the stars and the stripes. So I found the closest color match I
• 58:01
  possibly could from Louis Heel. It is interesting. The one thing I cannot
• 58:07
  tell about this card is it really does look like a a pat or a
• 58:13
  sticker auto. But he signed past the sticker, so I'm really confused about
• 58:17
  that and how he managed that. But that's okay. I'm sure somebody just
• 58:22
  finished it for him, knowing tops and fanatics, but actually not even tops
• 58:27
  and fanatics here, and I started we're talking unlicensational treasures here. But yeah,
• 58:32
  love the card. It's it's great if you are interested in it.
• 58:37
  Again, maybe not the best selling here from a Chase the Brakes on eBay
• 58:42
  seventy two feedback ninety eight point six, so maybe a little questionable. We're
• 58:45
  only asking five thousand dollars for this card, so I'm sure you can get
• 58:51
  it for four if you are interested. But this is the one I'm adam
• 58:53
  to my virtual PC today. But I would also be selling if I had
• 58:59
  this card today because his value, especially from a pitching perspective, will never
• 59:02
  be higher. Oh yeah, I mean actually, like I've probably got some
• 59:07
  Lewis Heel like autos from twenty twenty two. I've got a dig out of
• 59:09
  boxes to try to list on eBay while I can, because like I pulled
• 59:14
  a few and I was just like so disappointed as he's been out with shoulder
• 59:17
  injuries and battled all sorts of problems. But yeah, now's the time to
• 59:22
  get those least heel cards listed while he's hot. And this is a beautiful
• 59:27
  card, man, This is like one of the craziest cards I've ever seen
• 59:30
  that if you just only listen to us describe these cards and never actually look
• 59:36
  at them, this is maybe the one out of all of them that I
• 59:37
  would look them up, because I don't think it's not that like we're not
• 59:43
  great wordsmith's here on this podcast, but there's no way we can do any
• 59:46
  justice. Like how crazy patriotic and just like perfectly matched this card is.
• 59:52
  This is one of those cards. And you said we are not artists with
• 59:57
  our words, but if you were to pain to card to just do it,
• 1:00:00
  like you could take Louise Heel off this card and I still want the
• 1:00:04
  card. It's true, Like I don't care take the player's name off and
• 1:00:07
  take the auto effort. This card itself is a work of art. With
• 1:00:12
  the pats that they have and with with the vibrant colors of the flag that
• 1:00:15
  they've managed to work in here. It is just absolutely phenomenal that they have
• 1:00:21
  have this. And again it is player Warren slash us. So I'm going
• 1:00:24
  to say it's used in some game here, but it is. It is
• 1:00:29
  just a it is a work of art for Louis Heel. So I went
• 1:00:34
  with the the high end perspective I'm kind of yelling around here. Where did
• 1:00:39
  you go with Louise Heel do anything crazy? Yes? I also went super
• 1:00:44
  high end, so I went the one of one rookie patch auto route here
• 1:00:49
  and this is from twenty twenty two tops Inception is up on eBay right now.
• 1:00:55
  You can get this one for the low price of two thousand dollars.
• 1:00:59
  But which more reputable seller here. We've got Jazzmy prov with a twenty eight
• 1:01:04
  to fifty nine feedback rating one hundred percent positive, so maybe you will be
• 1:01:07
  into this tops Inception RPA from Louis Heel and twenty twenty two inception. I
• 1:01:15
  really liked the design in terms of like it was like molecular and eighties and
• 1:01:23
  also like had this kind of chemical engineering feel with like the bonds of the
• 1:01:28
  chemicals that you draw on stuff. And this patch is wow, what a
• 1:01:34
  You can't get a much better patch as a Yankees fan. This is cut
• 1:01:37
  right out of the center of the n Y on the on the chest and
• 1:01:40
  so it is smacked right in the middle of the cards, so you get
• 1:01:45
  a little bit of like that ny action the negative space created by the white.
• 1:01:50
  I think it's just a beautiful card. That they've centered up the sticker
• 1:01:53
  auto, which is a bummer from Inception because this would be really crazy if
• 1:01:59
  this was an an on card auto. But I don't think you're gonna be
• 1:02:02
  able to find like a much better pseudo color matched as well RPA of Luis
• 1:02:08
  Heel out there, because the one of ones from Inception that you're were like
• 1:02:15
  this kind of like black or graphite or something like that. So it all
• 1:02:19
  looks pretty well. It all works together pretty well in terms of bringing together
• 1:02:23
  the Yankees and just a nice photo of Luis Heel there. So I think
• 1:02:28
  it's a it's a great example of like where you can go right with Tops
• 1:02:32
  and cheception overall that like when you get a really nice patch, you get
• 1:02:37
  a really kind of good looking color match, Tops Inception can can work in
• 1:02:42
  like the best circumstances for sure. Yeah, I personally love Tops Inception.
• 1:02:45
  It's one of those that doesn't actually hold its value ironically for how beautiful the
• 1:02:50
  cards are. It does over time really teams seem to drop the value.
• 1:02:54
  But they are beautiful cards. They're great. And the one you picked out
• 1:02:59
  here because it is basically has the Yankees logo well centered there. It is
• 1:03:05
  a great, great patch and he managed to sign on the stick with this
• 1:03:07
  time, which was great to see as well. Yeah, I kept it
• 1:03:10
  all together so I didn't have to worry about somebody doctoring over the top of
• 1:03:15
  it. Okay. The next player that we have is from the NL Pitcher
• 1:03:21
  of the Month, and that is Chris Sale of the Atlanta Braves, who
• 1:03:24
  in May produced a zero point five to six ear array in thirty two innings
• 1:03:30
  of work, won all five of his outings. He had an absurd forty
• 1:03:35
  five to two strikeout to walk rate last month, and gave it all right
• 1:03:39
  back on June first, as he allowed eight runs against the Athletics at home.
• 1:03:45
  Just a total gut shot. If you've had Chris Saale, he kind
• 1:03:49
  of led me to the top of the Pertz League for a little bit in
• 1:03:52
  our rasball commoners leagues because that May as good as Louis Heels was that May
• 1:03:59
  from Chris Sale was otherworldly. That like, if you took him the fact
• 1:04:04
  that he's still even like pitching at this point and is giving you sixty five
• 1:04:08
  innings total of a three point zero sixty ra you've got a feel like you're
• 1:04:13
  one of the luckiest people alive because this has been quite the resurgent year for
• 1:04:17
  Chrisale so far down in Atlanta. With that in mind, Brew, what
• 1:04:21
  do you pick in for your PC here for Chrisale. Yeah, So I'm
• 1:04:27
  gonna speak out of both sides of my mouth here because I just said that
• 1:04:30
  it's really hard to pick Yankees cards because of the lack of color match when
• 1:04:33
  your colors are black, gray, and white. And here we are with
• 1:04:38
  the white Sox, and I'm gonna go with a color match of a black
• 1:04:41
  card. And so I'm going with the twenty eleven tops Chrome Rookie Auto black
• 1:04:46
  Refractor that is out of one hundred. It is, you know, a
• 1:04:54
  iconic card for Chrissale, having that Rookie Auto. There's just something about Chris
• 1:05:00
  Sale when he first came up, like I don't know, it's possible that
• 1:05:03
  he was lankier than when he is now, but I feel like he was
• 1:05:06
  like this that leanky throw on the big black jersey building on him and just
• 1:05:14
  slaying at home. Like there is nothing like that when Chris Sale first came
• 1:05:17
  up. And I think this is a fantastic example of where a black color
• 1:05:24
  match works, which is generally going to be a chrome refractor like the chrome
• 1:05:30
  black refractors hit different And this is the only one really of Chris Sale that
• 1:05:34
  I could find a real true chrome black refractor outside of like a heritage or
• 1:05:41
  something like that. This is a key one here. So the one I'm
• 1:05:45
  talking about here is a pop one because it's graded by BGS is eight point
• 1:05:49
  five. That doesn't necessarily mean it's a great thing to be a pop one
• 1:05:53
  because you're not talking about a PSA and you're also not talking about the greatest
• 1:05:56
  grade. But you can have it for a very cheap price of roughly nine
• 1:06:00
  hundred dollars out there from a more reputable cellar. It appears over on eBay.
• 1:06:05
  But this is a fantastic card if I'm you know, a White Sox
• 1:06:11
  fan. The only thing that could be make this better if it was number
• 1:06:13
  forty nine out of one hundred. This one's number fifteen. So I'm sorry
• 1:06:16
  I didn't hit the the holy Grail from a black refractor with Chris Sale,
• 1:06:23
  but had to happen with the White Sox jersey because that's who Chris Sale is
• 1:06:25
  to me, So loving this one, Yeah, I think it's a great
• 1:06:29
  choice, and surprisingly like that's a good price on such a rare card,
• 1:06:34
  And honestly, like Chris Sale has always been relatively cheap, And part of
• 1:06:41
  it too is maybe like what makes this card iconic in my mind is like
• 1:06:45
  Chris Sale like had two pictures, it felt like on his rookie cards.
• 1:06:49
  It's like, yeah, just like he they pumped out all those cards so
• 1:06:54
  fast because he came up so quickly and was lightning out of the gate that
• 1:06:58
  like the hype didn't white get to build the way it did with like Steven
• 1:07:01
  Strasburg, you know, and so like it fel felt like Tops rushed a
• 1:07:06
  lot of those Chris Sale cards out the door back in twenty eleven and only
• 1:07:11
  used a few photos of him. But I'm surprised that his prices are still
• 1:07:16
  relatively cheap overall in the hobby, because I mean, he's gonna be in
• 1:07:20
  the Hall of Fame discussion when this career wraps up. He's at forty nine
• 1:07:25
  and a half fangrafs War right now, with one hundred and twenty eight wins.
• 1:07:29
  It's just gonna be a little bit of a factor of like, you've
• 1:07:30
  got to put some pictures in and Chris Sale, if he's able to put
• 1:07:35
  together a few more years. Is gonna be in that conversation. I think
• 1:07:40
  for something like a Mike Mosina or honestly like Kevin Brown should be in.
• 1:07:46
  But he's in that sort of like range as a picture overall. You know,
• 1:07:50
  Yeah, I agree. He It's gonna be tough because the wins and
• 1:07:56
  the health factor for him, but talent wise, there's no question he is
• 1:08:00
  absolutely that kind of picture. So you're right, there's lots to like Aboutchrisale.
• 1:08:04
  This is kind of card that I'm taking and trying to get out of
• 1:08:06
  the case and just keep it raw. Yeah, that would be awesome.
• 1:08:11
  Okay, Well, with my card, I'm going to pick a variation of
• 1:08:15
  the twenty twenty four Tops Big League number fifty seven, the Blackfoil, partly
• 1:08:19
  because I wanted to find the foil, Like there's like a sparklefoil one that's
• 1:08:25
  of ten, but there weren't any of them listed. So the Blackfoil is
• 1:08:30
  the only picture that I've got, and that one is of twenty five.
• 1:08:33
  Pretty affordable card right now. You can get there's a couple of the Money
• 1:08:38
  Bay and they're going around like that ten to twenty dollars range. I only
• 1:08:41
  pick this because this is Chris Sale's only current card that's out there in a
• 1:08:45
  Brave's uniform, So obviously he'll be included in either Top Series two or Tops
• 1:08:53
  Updated as a Brave and be probably in more sets as we get further and
• 1:08:57
  further into twenty twenty four. Here, if you want a picture of Chrisale
• 1:09:02
  pitching in in Atlanta Braves uniform, you're gonna have to go to Tops big
• 1:09:05
  League right now. And along with it, I also kind of wanted to
• 1:09:09
  put this card in there because I have really enjoyed twenty twenty four Tops Big
• 1:09:13
  League. I think it was a pretty solid set that I almost kind of
• 1:09:16
  wish this was the flagship design over what the flagship design was this year.
• 1:09:21
  And yeah, this is, I think, just a fun card and you
• 1:09:26
  get all the great information on the back of the card that comes with Tops
• 1:09:31
  big League, and honestly the back of the card too, like the back
• 1:09:34
  of the cards on the Flagship are so boring this year that it's great to
• 1:09:38
  see just a little bit of design on the back of these Big League cards.
• 1:09:43
  And yeah, if Chrysale I think comes up again for any more PCs
• 1:09:46
  later this year, hopefully we get a few other Braves cards considered. Yeah,
• 1:09:51
  you're right, there's lots like about big League this year, which is
• 1:09:54
  interesting to say when we lost Opening Day, but we still had Big League
• 1:09:59
  for the low in collectibles here. Uh And to your point, this is
• 1:10:02
  an out of twenty five black foil for only twenty bucks. Yeah, that's
• 1:10:08
  that's really reasonable. There's something about Chris Sale that's that's just cheap. I
• 1:10:13
  guess. I guess, so I don't. Yeah, not enough respect on
• 1:10:15
  his name in the hobby. Okay, well, we've got one player left,
• 1:10:20
  and that is the NL Rookie Player of the Month. That award went
• 1:10:26
  to the Milwaukee Brewers's Joey Ortiz, who hit three oh seven, three ninety
• 1:10:32
  one, five eighty seven, good for a one seventy four WRC plus in
• 1:10:36
  May. That came with four homers and twelve RBI. This is exactly what
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  I thought, kind of like peak Joey RTIs could be, as he put
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  up a double digit walk rate and only a twelve percent k rate, that
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  he's just a good kind of classic hitter in a little bit of like a
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  mold of like what prime Jonathan India was. I think I think that like,
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  that's what Joey Ortiz can be for us in the fantasy game. And
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  the nice thing too, is that he is a little bit younger than when
• 1:11:09
  Jonathan India came around. So if you're in any sort of like dynasty situations,
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  I think I would be buying into Joey RTIs. He looked really amazing
• 1:11:17
  and he fits in with the Milwaukee Brewers just approach overall really well. It's
• 1:11:23
  a great team and a great landing spot for him that I think Brewers fans
• 1:11:28
  in the long run, it'll make it easier to swallow that Corbyn Burns trade
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  at the end of the day once they kind of see that Joey RTIs is
• 1:11:34
  going to be contending for All Star nods at second base for the next five
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  to six years. I think in Milwaukee, Yeah, I think, I
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  think you're absolutely right here with Ortiz. Like that Jonathan India comp is a
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  great conflict. Also, maybe not the greatest thing for Ortez because the arc
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  of that early career, But I do I do think you make a good
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  call there on Ortiz. This is probably his peak, but peak just some
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  good solid under the radar value for Joyrts. Yeah, and hopefully I mean,
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  if he what's costed India has been injury. So if he can avoid
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  injury and stay healthy, I think Joey RTIs can kind of keep being this
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  where you're looking at like a two seventy shitter with fifteen to twenty homers,
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  fifteen to twenty steals and you know, really good counting stats, so great
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  middle and field option with that though he is he only had his rookie cards
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  in twenty twenty two update for the first time last year, so he's got
• 1:12:33
  a very much more limited selection. Doesn't even have like a bowman first auto.
• 1:12:39
  He has a regular bowman first, but he doesn't have any autographed bowman
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  first So he is a little rare from that perspective in today's game that there
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  wasn't a lot of early signings or lots of early cards for Joey RTIs,
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  So if you do have autographed cards of him, they are a lot more
• 1:12:57
  limited and I think could hold a little bit more value out there in the
• 1:13:00
  market. But with that in mind, Brew, what is you picking?
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  What are you picking for the PC this month for Joey Artis. Yeah,
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  I'm I'm following your lead here with your Chris Sale pick in the Braves Jersey
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  and I found what I believe is the only Joey RTIs card in a Milwaukee
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  Brewers jersey, which is his tops Now card that had a print run of
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  four twenty eight. This card was came out in what was this April?
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  I think it's twenty sixth from his first MLB home run and a walk off
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  against the Yankees and extra so right at the beginning of the season here that
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  first month. Great great card, great looking card. You know him's finishing
• 1:13:53
  his swing on that MLB, first MLB home run. So as a PC
• 1:13:59
  clib if you are, this is one of those ones where I actually love
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  to collect rainbows of tops Now. If there's like a moment that especially,
• 1:14:09
  like if you attend to that game or something like that, that's the kind
• 1:14:13
  of thing to go after because the tops Now cards do. Because we can't
• 1:14:16
  get through a whole pod without talking about parallels. Tops Now cards generally come
• 1:14:21
  in a out of forty nine, blue, out of twenty five, Purple,
• 1:14:25
  out of ten, Red, out of five Orange, and out of
• 1:14:28
  one gold in addition to the base card, and those were just randomly inserted
• 1:14:32
  with the base cards when you purchase them. So I had to go for
• 1:14:36
  the one card that I could find, or Ties in the Bruers Jersey,
• 1:14:40
  because to me, he wasn't really ever, it wasn't with the Oriols enough
• 1:14:44
  to actually be an oriol He is a brewer, and that's where he's starting
• 1:14:47
  to make his name, and so you had to find that card and stick
• 1:14:51
  with it. Even though Orioles color match cards are one of my favorites,
• 1:14:57
  and I'm trying not to forecast where you went. I didn't look ahead,
• 1:15:01
  but that was really really tempting, but I had to stick with the Milwaukee
• 1:15:05
  Brewers. I would say whites at the end of the day. Yeah,
• 1:15:10
  I totally understand, and I did go that route with the Orioles, especially,
• 1:15:15
  this card was too goofy to not pick. If you do recall from
• 1:15:18
  twenty twenty three TOPS Update, this is when they started doing the parallels that
• 1:15:26
  synced up with whatever holiday was around the release. So it for the twenty
• 1:15:30
  twenty four Series one, it was right around Easter and Spring, so there
• 1:15:36
  were you know, bunny parallels, Easter Egg parallels, so on and so
• 1:15:40
  forth. Twenty twenty three TOPS Update had all the Halloween parallels, so you
• 1:15:45
  know, exactly where I'm going with this. With the Baltimore Orioles jersey,
• 1:15:48
  the base one does look cool still that you know, if you want just
• 1:15:53
  the regular black and orange stripes a little less goofy, that is a much
• 1:15:58
  more obtainable right out there, But i'd go Zany I went with the Halloween
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  skeletal, the Skeleton parallel, which is number two of fifty. So honestly,
• 1:16:10
  even this it's a ten dollars card, it's kind of a steal for
• 1:16:14
  how rare of a rookie card this is, and given just like how ridiculous
• 1:16:19
  it is with the goofy dancing skeletons in the background on this card of you
• 1:16:25
  know, some player of some repute who you know, could It's just I
• 1:16:30
  think it's just really funny, like if you I'm just trying to imagine like
• 1:16:33
  cal Ripkens, like tops rookie card being with the skeletal parallels Skelton parallel as
• 1:16:42
  well, just like you know this, if this does go on to be,
• 1:16:45
  like you know, just like a really nice career for Joey Ortiz overall,
• 1:16:49
  it'll just be funny looking back that his rookie card all had all these
• 1:16:55
  weird Halloween parallels that just look absolutely beautiful, and so we are cementing this
• 1:17:01
  one into the May Player at the Month PC had to get a Halloween in
• 1:17:05
  there. I love the fact that I call it color match and that was
• 1:17:09
  not the color match I was thinking with the orioles, but I guess Halloween
• 1:17:14
  and orange they worked well together. So I think it's a great, great
• 1:17:16
  pick and a great way to kind of round out our Player of the Month
• 1:17:19
  PCs here on the pod call. So loving this segment. I think it's
• 1:17:25
  one of my favorites that we do. And there are some cool crazy cards
• 1:17:29
  out there. If you get a chance, jump out to the pod notes,
• 1:17:32
  look through these cards, tell us your favorite one in the comments,
• 1:17:35
  because yeah, there's nothing better than a going from a bat knob or a
• 1:17:43
  refractor auto to Aaron Judge standing the cornfield and Joey Ortiz with a skeleton behind
• 1:17:49
  him. Yeah, exactly. We run the gamut in here this month.
• 1:17:54
  But yeah, if you also have any cards that you think would be better
• 1:17:59
  fits for PC, you can also email us at Cardscategories at gmail dot com.
• 1:18:03
  Drop us a line there, let us know what you would want to
• 1:18:06
  put in your PC. For some of these players we can consider them,
• 1:18:11
  especially if they come up for more Player of the Months that some of these
• 1:18:15
  we didn't get any repeats this month, but I think we're probably going to
• 1:18:18
  in the future, and so we're gonna have to get creative, especially if
• 1:18:21
  there's another Joey Ortiz Player of the Month Rookie of the Month award, because
• 1:18:27
  he does not have very many cards and we will run out of cards to
• 1:18:30
  pick very soon. So brew let everybody know out there where they can find
• 1:18:34
  you on socials and if they want to reach your pieces, Yep, find
• 1:18:40
  me over on Twitter slash exit Jybrewer one seven. Also can find me on
• 1:18:45
  the weekends on Sundays generally with the top one hundred hitters for the rest of
• 1:18:49
  the season, dropping those every other weeks, filling in in the off weeks
• 1:18:54
  with hit or profiles, looking at those guys that you should be picking up
• 1:18:57
  or letting go of based on what they look like for the rest of the
• 1:19:00
  season. So come out, argue in the comments, tell me where I'm
• 1:19:04
  wrong, because I get a guarantee I'm not always right. So Cooley,
• 1:19:09
  what about you? Where can they find you? Yeah, you can find
• 1:19:12
  me on Twitter slash X and Blue Sky at m cool seven. You can
• 1:19:17
  find my articles on ras ball on the weekends doing the waiver wires, So
• 1:19:23
  we will be back up there on this Saturday going through options for picking free
• 1:19:30
  agents up and replacing some of the injuries that we might have discussed here,
• 1:19:33
  or trying to see how much you should bid on some of those new promotions
• 1:19:38
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• 1:19:42
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• 1:19:58
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• 1:20:01
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• 1:20:05
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• 1:20:15
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• 1:20:18
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• 1:20:23
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• 1:20:28
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• 1:20:33
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• 1:20:39
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• 1:20:45
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• 1:20:47
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