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Ep. 49 : Oh No, Mookie And Last 30 Days Breakouts · Cards & Categories

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  Hello, and welcome everybody to episode forty nine of Cards and Categories. I
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  am Mike cool Art from Rasball, joined as always by my very good friend
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  Jeremy Brewer, also from Rasball. How are you doing tonight, Bud doing
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  fantastic, sir. I am ready to go. I'm excited to be here.
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  As always every week I look forward to this, So let's get going.
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  Yeah, I am already sweating because I am up in my upstairs attic
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  recording this in my office. That for those that don't know out there in
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  the Midwest, we are having quite the heat wave and it's been fun.
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  I'm excited to see my electricity bill after this month. It's going to be
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  brutal. But we should get my air condition went on my car because I'm
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  cool like that, Really, I'm not cool like that phrase that is not
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  cool at all. That sounds miserable, Like that's maybe the like worse than
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  like your house air conditioning breaking, because you're just like baking in the car
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  while you're driving, Eh, going to the inner sego seventy to roll the
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  windows down. You'll be fine. All right, Well, there we go.
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  That is some Midwestern genius right here. But let's get into it.
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  We are recording tonight on June nineteenth, and we are post the Mookie Bets
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  kind of hand post mortem. So if you aren't aware of it, he
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  broke his hand on Sunday with HBP and should be out six to eight weeks.
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  Doesn't seem like he needs surgery right now, but this bone that Mooki
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  Bets broke is somewhere in that like general hand wristeria, and it's really the
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  worst case scenario if you have a hit by pitch coming inside. We just
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  had a scare actually last night with Aaron Judge who got hit on his left
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  hand and had to leave the game. But looks like he's going to be
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  okay. Knock on wood as we it does seem like it has been the
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  year where initial tests don't show anything and then a subsequent MRI or X ray
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  shows more. But with Mookie Bets here, you are certainly hurting out there.
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  If he's on your fantasy team, he was your first round pick.
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  He's been absolutely everything that you could have expected him to be up until this
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  injury. And what hurts even more is actually the Dodgers are going through a
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  really soft portion of their schedule that they're in Colorado right now, then they
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  go to Anaheim, and then they go to Chicago to face the White Sox.
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  So I'm expecting the Dodgers lamp to be putting up, you know,
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  twelve to fifteen runs every game here over the next little stretch. That it
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  was a good opportunity in rotisserie leagues to really start racking up some runs,
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  RBI and homers for Mookie Bets. But I know you've got a couple of
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  shares out there, and I'm sure you're reeling anything that you can do to
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  console any listeners out there on how to handle this injury for your fantasy teams.
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  When you cry, eat lots of ice cream that helps. Besides that,
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  No, this this is a tough one because you know, if you're
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  in a redraft league, like there's really nothing you can do to replace Muki,
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  Like you can't replace that production. He's he's out at six to eight
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  weeks, and so you're not hamstering the whole season, especially in like a
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  head to head league with playoffs, so that you need to you want to
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  go really acquire something to replace them. So you're kind of stuck in that
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  situation. You know, go out there, pick up guys off the waiver
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  wire and try to cycle them through and hopefully get something hot, but otherwise
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  you're kind of stuck. I think it really gets interesting in more of a
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  Dynasty format. I've had a few folks ask me because I personally take a
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  little blame for this, because I post my top one hundred hitters this weekend
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  Sunday mid day with Mookie number one, and here we go. So I
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  think it was like four hours later, I'm like, where's the edit button
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  on my articles? Can't fix that? And somebody asked the question of what
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  should I do with Muki. I'm in the Dynasty League. What SHOULDE type
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  of return should I look for in Muki? And my response was, you
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  know, if you think you can win this year, and like, trading
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  Muki is what it takes. You are looking for the return of a healthy
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  Mookie like that. If you're trade him in Dynasty League, you are looking
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  for first round, top three pick overall value. You do not trade him
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  for anything less than a first rounder that you believe in. That is,
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  you can't you can't part them off. You can't try to get three guys
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  to plug holes, grab a closer like, no, don't do that.
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  That is a mistake. We are talking six to eight weeks and he will
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  be back. So that's you know, that's the hard dynamic there is.
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  If you want to move him, you still have to price him like he's
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  healthy, especially in the Dynasty League. So I highly doubt many people will
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  move Moki unless you bring salaries and all kinds of other weird keeper rules in
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  a play where he may have been moved anyway, but at this point,
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  got away from get healthy, get back, ridge the gap with the best
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  you can. Yeah, and I think that's even a monumental task if you
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  do have him in some sort of dynasty keeper situation, because whoever is trying
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  to buy him on the other side is trying to get the injury discount.
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  Because that is what I hate about these hand and wrist injuries is even though
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  Muki is MOOKI, I don't think he's gonna be himself the rest of this
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  summer. That the rest of the season, I think you're looking at maybe
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  eighty percent eighty five at max of like what his normal production is. So
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  that certainly is great. It's probably like a third or fourth round value,
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  but it's gonna really kind of whittle away what you were expecting in the long
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  run. But I think this kind of gets us into what we're going to
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  cover a little bit in the second half of the show, is we sorted
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  through the last thirty days lists on ras ball to get the player raiders and
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  see, you know who's really had some really big pop up performances over the
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  last month. Because I think some of the there are lots of players in
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  the playerpool who in your shallow leagues, some of these guys might still be
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  available, and in deeper leagues, I think all of them that we're going
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  to be discussing, I would be buying at their kind of current value because
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  these guys are all has started to show new sorts of skill sets and new
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  sorts of ways that they're approaching the games, and lots of them are young,
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  so they're kind of just hitting that development ramp up. So that's a
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  consideration too, is like, not only if you have Mkie Betts and you're
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  trying to replace them, how can you try to find somebody who has like
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  started to show some extra skill and started to break out a little bit,
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  but trying to kind of catch the tail end of that rocket up. Yeah,
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  that's that's where I think you need to go out to the Freegan pool
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  and do exactly that. Like, and I don't want to be over simplistic,
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  but look at the last fourteen days, take the top free agent that
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  plays the same position and plug them in. Yeah it's seven days from now.
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  Do it again. Do it again, like you look to ride the
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  hot hand until you find something that actually sticks. Like that's that's being very
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  simplistic. Yeah, And I mean if you're in a situation where you had
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  bets and you are going to try to piece together a placing in your overall
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  fantasy league, that you've also got to be looking at this schedules, Like
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  not only are you looking at those top four those last fourteen days, last
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  seven days, and even with that, like I'm usually looking at more like
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  a volume thing just to see who's actually playing the three day window that we're
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  going to be discussing. I like, because you can see a little bit
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  more skill start to come to surface. It's not pure luck. And like
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  I I this usually happens a lot when like I'm going through last seven and
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  last fourteen to write up my Waiver Wire articles is that you can like also
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  see what teams have played the Rockies and the White Sox and some of these
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  other terrible pitching teams because there's a little bubble and that those players as stats.
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  So if you want to catch that on the front end, you've guys
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  start looking at those Rocky schedules, those White Sox schedules, those Athletics schedules,
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  projecting them out a little bit to see what the matchups will be and
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  trying to stream ahead of your other teammate or your league mates too. So
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  that's something to keep in mind going forward, because yeah, last week,
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  I think we jinxed this last week pretty hard. In terms of last week,
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  we were excited that we had lots of space and time to discuss Series
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  two coming out because there weren't many injuries between Mooki and all the other ones
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  we're about to discuss. It's been quite the bloodbath again this week as the
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  next major one that we have also hit the Dodgers Yoshinobo Yamamodo. Initially it
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  looked like a string triceps he's been placed on the il, and subsequently they
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  found out it's a rotator cuff, so that's not great. News in terms
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  of the kinetic chain and where it's working its way back. What are you
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  doing with Yamamoto in dynasty leagues? Because this is I think the number one
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  concern I had in terms of him coming over is could he handle the workload
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  of pitching a major league baseball He is a smaller guy. He used to
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  pitch in Japan once a week, so it's a different schedule here in MLB.
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  And it looks like his shoulder wore down. So are you considering maybe
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  moving on from him in dynasty keeper situations in terms of just trying to unravel
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  yourself before maybe something more significant happens. Yeah, I think that's a fair
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  point. I would I'm not too aggressive at this point. I think I'm
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  listening to offers. Is the way I look at it. Like if I
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  invested heavily and you know somebody's will to pay, I would say ninety cents
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  in the dollar. I'm I'm I'm willing to listen and look at it,
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  but I'm not selling too early in a dynasty league. You know, he's
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  still very young, and you know we've seen this with a number of players
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  that have come over that it seems like they they do struggle the first year
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  or two, like adapting their bodies to the workload, and then after that
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  point then all of a sudden they seem to take off. And so the
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  talents there, the skill is absolutely there. I'm willing to kind of give
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  it a shot and wait until he does get healthy, and then if he
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  does get healthy and starts looking good, I'm definitely looking to sell them right
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  now. I'm probably being a little headstincs. I think the value as low
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  as it's going to be for a while. That said, rotator cuffs,
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  they are very, very backy. That is not something you want to mess
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  with. Even if they say he's back healthy. That's one of those ones
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  that he will feel fine, but he will he will lose miles per hour
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  on that fastball he this. The shoulder takes a lot more time to build
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  up the strength. It's not an elbow where it's just like you know,
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  flapjack kind of type thing going on where you just don't feel like it's there.
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  The shoulder, you feel like you've got it, you just don't have
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  as much power, and that takes a good while to build up. And
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  I and I think if he's really truly you know, strained that rotator cuff,
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  and the fact that they're saying it's going to be some time, not
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  season ending like I'm I'm thinking he's back in like September throwing a little bit
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  just to try to show he can do it. Maybe make it back for
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  the playoff type of thing in the bullpen roll. Otherwise, I'm not too
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  too thrilled about the last rest of the season here. So but I take
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  it from your the way you asked the question that you might be looking to
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  move on a little more aggressively than even I am. So what are your
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  thoughts here on yaw with Moto. I don't know. I was open enough
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  to kind of feel you out and see where you were at. I think
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  I'm starting to consider it if you do hold Yamamoto, because I mean,
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  part of the problem is everybody else kind of sees it coming from a mile
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  away. But I think it's something you have to wait for him to get
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  healthy from and then move him in the off season. Hopefully he's healthy by
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  line so that you can consider this. But it is also just the overall
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  strategy I'm always kind of taking with pictures, as you know, and like
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  in one of our aut new leagues. I had a very cheap Jared Jones,
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  and I moved him the first moment I could for Juan Soto. That
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  it's a it's a constant game of trying to juggle the performance of your pictures
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  and maximize the value that you can juice out of them in the trade market.
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  And I think part of the problem. Actually, in another week I
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  was in I was close to trading Yamamoto before this start that I was within
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  like an hour or two of executing a trade, and it got pulled back
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  as Yamamoto left that outing, and so like that's how quickly you can disappear
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  on you. So it's really I think one of the most difficult parts of
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  playing in dynasty and keeper leagues is just trying to balance your overall rotation and
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  preparing for the possibility that some of these guys will just never return to that
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  peak because of shoulder, elbows, whatever else might go on. Yeah,
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  I think that same league, I have a rotation of Blake Snell, Spinster
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  Striter, Shane McClanahan, Shane Bieber, and Max Scherzer. So I think
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  you and I are playning on different ends of the same spectrum here yeah,
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  maybe this is why like the trades happened in our league's I guess it's like
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  very mutually beneficial. Okay, if you have fifteen pitchers, as long as
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  only a third of your staff's hurt, you're good. Yeah. As I
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  also, like say big and had like I knew that Spencer Raghetty that start
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  when he had to sub in for Verlander the other night was not gonna go
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  well. And I still rolled with it because is Detroit and I it's okay.
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  I rolled with Grew Thorpe the other day just because I was so excited
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  that Drew Thorpe was up and he I mean I saw reports of Drew Thorpe
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  in his first game, was like, oh, I was surprised, you
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  know, his fastball played. We weren't concerned. I'm like, I watched
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  like two indies of that thing, and that fastball was not playing, Like
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  every hit was a hard hit out, and I'm like, man, this
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  is gonna be bad. And I just rolled with them the next time through,
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  like well, why not play with fire again? I mean, yeah,
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  you know that when you bench them there, that's when they're gonna go
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  off. But speaking of justin Verlander, he is also hitting the il with
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  a next strain, And I think this is also really concerning. A lot
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  of the reports that I was seeing around it weren't overly concerned because when you
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  think of next, I think a lot lot of us can relate to you
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  know, you slept wrong, You've had had neck for a couple of days,
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  and it can just kind of you know how that can burden you trying
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  to work at a computer desk and just run errands that trying to pitch seems
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  impossible. But I think what really worries me about this is in pitchers a
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  lot you see a relationship between the shoulder and the neck kind of coming together
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  in injuries. And this also goes back to I mean, last year Verlander
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  was missing time because of that shoulder. He's been battling it again this year,
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  and I mean, I think this is really starting to get to a
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  point where I think we're about in the same boat with Verlander in terms of
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  just like, I don't know if you can count on him for the rest
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  of the season, because it's very evident that he's pitching through some sort of
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  more major shoulder issue, I think, and just trying to gut it.
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  Out to rack up the stats for Hall of Fame voting and just his overall
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  legacy, I think, and I know that sounds maybe a little bit harsh,
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  but it does also seem like he's not going to be willing to leave
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  the game before the game leaves him. And so I just want to see,
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  like, if you're maybe starting to see the same sort of signs here
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  with Justin Ferlander, and considering especially like, yeah, if you're in a
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  pretty shallow league, I think there's a pretty good case to be made that
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  if you need the roster space, Justin Verlander can probably be placed back into
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  your free agent pool. Yeah, I think you're right there. It's the
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  Nelson Cruz of pitchers. Yes, you know, win, you know,
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  super talented, amazing, it's just a matter of win. And it's just
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  like your one injury away from this being the end, not by your choice,
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  but by the team's choice. It says, yeah, I just can't
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  invest here anymore. And this is the second year in a row that we've
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  seen verlanders fastball drop off from a speed perspective. You know, back in
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  twenty twenty two, he was throwing ninety five on his foreseeing fastball. He
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  is now down to ninety three and a half miles an hour, So he's
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  lost a mile and a half per hour on that fastball and that pitch,
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  you know, the value of that pitch has basically become neutral. And back
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  two years ago, that pitch was like the best pitch he had by far.
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  That in like one of the best fastballs in the majors. With the
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  movement that he had on that guys were hitting, I don't know that they
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  were hitting pretty much like two thirty off off the thing if that now they're
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  hit about two hundred, slugging like two eighty to ninety off of fastball,
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  and now they're looking like four to seventy off the thing. You know,
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  the strikeouts are are, you know, way off, Like it's just it
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  does look like he's either hurt or he's just hit that point. And so
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  I'm not sticking around your point shallow leagues, I'm not. I've got so
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  many ile spots taken up this year everywhere else. I've got like eight guys
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  on aisle, which is half my bench spots in some leagues because you just
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  can't, especially dynasty leaser, you can't drop guys like it's it's it's tough.
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  So I'm I'm willing to start moving on from Berlander here, especially if
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  somebody else just looks at this and goes, oh, it's just gonna be
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  you know, a few weeks. Maybe you can get a little something out
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  of them. Yeah, we're gonna work on trying to enforce your resolutions here
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  for next year. Yeah, it's I'm a lost cause I did. I
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  didn't own any shares of Orlander this year. Sure as are. On the
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  other hand of a different question, I mean, I think that's gonna work
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  out, as he's going to be back here pretty soon. You with Verlander's
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  injury spent, Getty should walk into that rotation in Houston and continue having a
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  full time role. And I know people might have been scared off after he
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  did have that just dud of an outing with seven orned runs over an inning
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  and a third, But like I said, keep that, keep in mind
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  that he did not know he was starting that morning until Justin Berlander came in
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  and said, hey, my NeXT's not working correctly. So whenever you have
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  a starter in that type of situation, you shouldn't be playing them unless you're
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  me and are extremely foolish, because what I was also caught up in is
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  Spencer Agetty's been starting to turn the corner down in Houston that before that,
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  in six starts, he had thrown thirty one innings with ten point five k
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  nine with a three nineteen RA and kind of morphed into what we were hoping
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  he could be in terms of this. Sure, maybe the walks will be
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  high. They were in the mid fours over nine during that time. But
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  he provides good strikeouts pitches for a decently decent team and has a pretty good
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  skill set. It's just kind of waiting for all those things to bold together
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  that I'm in on Spencer Araghetty going forward, because, yeah, assuming he
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  doesn't have to be told that he's starting just hours before a game, he
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  should be a much more dependable starter. Yeah. I'm probably a little more
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  on the watch with Raghetti's just the overall profile is not as ideal for me,
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  so I'm being a little bit more patient on that one. But hey,
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  it to get lucky, you gotta make the move now. Yeah,
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  exactly. Okay, next injury we have is Boba Schett hit the injured list
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  with a calf strain up in Toronto. The corresponding move was that the Blue
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  Jays called up Irrelvus Martinez, who still hasn't made his debut. I think
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  that, yeah, he's been he last night, didn't get into the game
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  on Tuesday night, he's not in the lineup, so he's just kind of
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  hang out in Toronto, sitting on the bench, soaking it all in.
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  But with Bushett going down, it should allow as In Barger to really shine
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  in terms of like getting a full time role that was already kind of slated
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  to happen once they cut Dan Vogelbach and Spencer Horowitz should also maintain his full
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  time role as they're really starting to move away from David Schneider, who's been
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  struggling. On top of it all, I mean, the Toronto lineup is
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  just an absolute mess, Like none of these players that are playing up to
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  their expectations and it's just really dragging all their stats down. I can tell
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  you that as a more than fifty percent Vlad junior owner, I think across
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  my leagues just I don't even know what that happened. I was the one
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  on here selling him in January and he just kept falling. But now I
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  know why, and so I guess this is more of like, I'm just
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  checking in to see what are you doing with Bobachett because he was really really
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  struggling before this. I all sent slashing two thirty seven, two eighty six,
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  three forty two. It's only an eighty WRC plus four homers four steals.
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  It's been a really really poor season. That's I mean, that's worse
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  than Paul de Young's line that you would have been better playing Paul to Young
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  all season in your fantasy leagues over Bobachett. So I've never had Bobachett shares
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  because it's always been too expensive for me. And this is part of the
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  reason why he just never really hit the ball hard enough to be able to
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  counteract when the I went away. And it looks like maybe that's starting to
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  happen, And what are you doing him with longer term leagues? And for
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  this year? Yeah, I mean I Bobachett has been dropping down my rankings
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  significantly this year. Uh, going this weekend before before the injury, I
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  had him down a number fifty seven overall hitter like right nex like Tyler O'Neill
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  and Jaron Duran ondress andress him Andez like yeah, you know, not not
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  anything to write home about it, And you hit the nail on the head
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  like he he had a great first year and decent second year and since then,
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  like the power hasn't been there. Really a guy that seems like he
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  should have been able to take advantage of the rule changes for so on bases
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  hasn't done anything with that. So I have really moved on from Boba Schett.
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  Like if I somehow still have him, am I shopping him right now?
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  Probably I'm still probably shopping him. I'm probably trying to sell him for
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  thirty cents on the dollars. Yeah, I was already like seventy five cents
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  on the dollars. So I'm moving on hard from Bushett. Uh to your
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  point, like what else is coming up? Mark Martinez doesn't excite me too
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  much under Power. He does looked better this year and the miners from not
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  striking out every that, But you know, I I think that he's going
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  to be a little overwhelmed when he gets you know, a few chances.
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  So he's a guy that I would want to see a little bit more from.
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  The guy that's actually a little bit more intriguing to me is is Spencer
• 24:11
  Horowitz a lot better profile, not nearly the same name as his name value
• 24:18
  as the rest of these guys, But I think he has a lot to
• 24:22
  bring to the table, and he's a guy that I'd be willing to throw,
• 24:30
  you know, throw some throw some bab money at and try to try
• 24:33
  to pick him up depending on where you're sitting. We're talking about a guy
• 24:36
  that you know, really knows how to control the bat. He this year
• 24:41
  in triple A, he walked sixteen percent of the time, struck out fifteen
• 24:45
  percent of the time. He had ten homers, nine steals, Like he
• 24:48
  consistently is kind of a middling power, middling steel threat with middling average like
• 24:55
  but all of this is just above average, And so that's the kind of
• 24:59
  guy that sneaks under the like. This is a weird comparison because I just
• 25:03
  don't, you know, see them if you look at them to compare,
• 25:07
  but like a tiny fan type of guy, where like he's just just good
• 25:12
  and nobody's too excited about it, so everybody kind of passes him up.
• 25:17
  And he also has got good eligibility. He can play in multile different positions.
• 25:19
  So I Horriwitz, if anybody is the guy that I'm kind of keen
• 25:23
  in on because if he's gonna have a role here and he's able to maintain
• 25:26
  that, I'm I'm willing to see kind of what comes out of it.
• 25:30
  So, but to your point, dumpster fire in Toronto and uh, if
• 25:34
  I if I'm not touching that lineup, I'm not too upset. I'm actually
• 25:38
  using that lineup inversely to go shopping throughout my leagues to see who's in troubles.
• 25:44
  Yeah. Yeah, I think it's a it's a great call, and
• 25:47
  I agree. I think Horwitz probably is maybe the one of the players that
• 25:52
  I mentioned that will have a shot at becoming relevant in like twelve and ten
• 25:56
  teamers, parbably because he's leading off and so that just creates lots of good
• 26:02
  run opportunities. He should produce a WRC plus in excess of one hundred,
• 26:07
  should have second basem eligibility, so that's gonna be fantastic. I think in
• 26:12
  longer term leagues, I'm keeping a very close eye on both Martinez and Barger.
• 26:18
  I think Barger could actually maybe push to some relevance in leagues this season
• 26:23
  that he hits the ball really hard, he doesn't walk very much. But
• 26:27
  if he can just start putting the bat on the ball a little bit more.
• 26:32
  He really struggled to strikeouts his first time in the majors, but he's
• 26:37
  been showing all the skills that you needed at Triple A that he's kind of
• 26:41
  got to prove it now that he can translate it into major league baseball.
• 26:45
  Martinez is just twenty two, and I think that if you're in a longer
• 26:48
  term dynasty keeper league, this is the type of player where like it's a
• 26:55
  little bit of like the anti Bobaschett coming up, where the k rate is
• 27:00
  extreme and so you're thinking, ah, man, maybe this guy is going
• 27:03
  to be flawed and just not be able to hack it. But the ability
• 27:07
  for him to hit for power is well known. He impacts the ball great,
• 27:12
  and I think that, like, if he can get a good taste
• 27:15
  this season, I'm not sure if I'm interested as much for the rest of
• 27:19
  twenty twenty four just because of that k rate, but if he can flash
• 27:26
  some pretty nice max exit velocities and show I think this is a good opportunity
• 27:32
  to use some of those new batswing metrics, especially the bat speed, to
• 27:36
  see just what he's doing. And I think it could be an opportunity to
• 27:41
  buy in the off season, especially if Toronto embarks sun and overhaul of this
• 27:45
  roster. Martinez should enter that lineup on an everyday basis for twenty twenty five.
• 27:52
  Yeah. I think you're right. He's the longer play of this group
• 27:57
  and he has always seemed to struggle every stop when he first got there.
• 28:02
  Yes, and so he if he can get if this is their chance to
• 28:06
  get him kind of loosened up. Besides the fact he's sitting every game since
• 28:10
  got called up. You think it's Baltimore, but at least you know if
• 28:15
  you need to get some games in this season and then next year would be
• 28:18
  we'll be fun to watch. Yeah, definitely. Okay, next injury we
• 28:22
  have is Michael Harris, the second down in Atlanta, straining his hammy,
• 28:26
  So he should be out probably two to four weeks, somewhere in that range.
• 28:30
  Could be back a little bit earlier if there was a DA spot available
• 28:34
  down in Atlanta, but there never will be with Marcelo Zena, so in
• 28:40
  his stead, the Braves will be playing a platoon of Forrest Wall and Ramon
• 28:45
  Loriano to replace him. Only the deepest like and all only leagues should you
• 28:49
  be considering those players? Wallt does intrigue me because he's put up some crazy
• 28:53
  STOLEM based numbers. I just don't know how much he can get on to
• 28:56
  be able to use that speed. It's a little bit of like Darren Blanco
• 29:00
  for the Kansas City Royals that if he's got a role and you're in an
• 29:06
  only league, sure, but otherwise those guys aren't gonna be usable in any
• 29:11
  other leagues. But with Michael Harris the second, it's been a little bit
• 29:15
  of a tough year here as he has regressed from where he was last year.
• 29:18
  And I really thought he was destined for a big year because of his
• 29:22
  ability to move up in that Atlanta order. He's only hit two fifty and
• 29:27
  put up an eighty three WRC plus. It's been just to really I don't
• 29:33
  know what to make of Michael Harris. So I'm coming to you the Batter
• 29:37
  Savant to see if you can interpret his page for me on Fangrafts and on
• 29:42
  Baseball Savant to tell me what is going on with this guy? Yeah,
• 29:48
  I mean, I hate to say this, but like I think this is
• 29:51
  who he is now. You know, if you go back and look at
• 29:56
  prior years like his Baseball Savan page, like all this red and things like
• 29:59
  that. But he's always really struggled with his approach to the plate. He's
• 30:07
  never been the guy that walks a ton, that really controls the strikeouts,
• 30:11
  and that's always really been an achilles heel for him. You know, this
• 30:15
  year he's bottom fourth percentile in walk rate. He's been a little better from
• 30:22
  the strike up perspective, but he also chases the ball all the time,
• 30:26
  so he's swinging at hate said, bad pitches, and that's that's not ideal.
• 30:33
  If you look at the average for MLB on percent chase and if you've
• 30:38
  seen looked at this, don't look yet, it's twenty eight point four percent.
• 30:42
  Guess the chase rate for Michael Harris. Oh, I don't know what
• 30:47
  the league chase rate is. The league is twenty eight four. Leagu's twenty
• 30:51
  eight four, twenty eight four. I think Harris is around forty usually forty
• 30:56
  three. Okay, so yeah, he's around fort He's been thirty nine thirty
• 31:00
  eight. Now he's jumped up to forty three. And he also makes contact
• 31:06
  at a better rate on those than the league as well, and so I
• 31:11
  can tell you that's not good because you're not making contact with right pitches and
• 31:18
  when you do that, it just doesn't lead to good results. So when
• 31:22
  he's making contact with the right pitches, that's where you see you know,
• 31:26
  this high you know, max x of velocity and the bat speed, all
• 31:33
  those things look good. His max xCE velocity this year top six percent in
• 31:37
  the league. Because when he's making contact in the right pitches, it works.
• 31:42
  But you don't say, the right ones but don't work, And so
• 31:45
  that that's really the downfall of Michael Harris's bat speed is top twenty percent of
• 31:52
  the league. It's that's really really good. And so we've talked about this
• 31:56
  before. He is a guy that needs to be the top of the lineup
• 31:57
  taking advantage of his speed like that. But I think the reason that Landa
• 32:02
  struggled with him is that he's he's just not the matured as a hitter as
• 32:07
  they hope. I mean, he's still only twenty three years old, so
• 32:10
  he's still a young guy. But it's been a tough year and I think
• 32:16
  this is likely who Harris is unless he's going to really adjust his approach.
• 32:22
  Yeah, and I think a lot of that played approach is what causes these
• 32:29
  up and down streaky just streaks, yeah, streaky streaks that you can see
• 32:35
  it if you go to the splits on his Fangrass page and just look at
• 32:39
  like the monthly batting averages throughout his entire career. It is quite the roller
• 32:45
  coaster ride. And so it works because in aggregate in a rotisserie league,
• 32:50
  it gets you to where his value usually is. It's just that I think
• 32:54
  this year we haven't seen one of those upswings yet, so we're I think
• 33:01
  it's actually a pretty good buying opportunity if you have a disgruntled Michael Harris owner
• 33:07
  in your league that I think this will kind of even itself out more so
• 33:12
  by the end of the season that who knows, maybe this was supposed to
• 33:15
  be his predestined hot streak here that he's on the eyel for. But that's
• 33:19
  also why I think there are players out there in the pool that are really
• 33:24
  good rodo players and awful awful had to head players, and this is one
• 33:29
  of them. Because the ebbs and flows of Michael Harris's season are just so
• 33:34
  extreme, you're going to be losing a lot and head to headgame head to
• 33:37
  head leagues, but in a rotisseary league, I love this type of player
• 33:42
  because you just put him in one of your outfields spots and just don't look
• 33:45
  at those last fourteen days on him sometimes and just like let it go.
• 33:52
  I can't do that. I tinker too much. I got to lose.
• 33:55
  Yeah, you gotta like have some steady eddies. So it's good if he
• 34:00
  played on the West Coast, I'd be fine because then I wouldn't know it's
• 34:05
  fantastic. Yeah, all right. Well, the next injury is one that
• 34:09
  I think we were all waiting for the shoe to drop on this, and
• 34:13
  that is Kyle Bradish going down and needing Tommy John surgery. He kind of
• 34:17
  had it in secret today after he was placed back on the al with that
• 34:22
  elbow sprain that kept him out in the beginning of the season. I appreciated
• 34:27
  his service during this season in terms of the innings that he provided because they
• 34:32
  were like ACE level innings in terms of what we were looking for from our
• 34:37
  fantasy leagues. In his thirty nine point one innings, he put up a
• 34:42
  twelve point one knine with a two seventy five era. I wrote that to
• 34:46
  be able to move into first place in the Experts League for rasball. So
• 34:52
  there was one week where I was the team of the week because I had
• 34:55
  like a eighty innings with like a sub one ear and someone whip and Kyle
• 35:00
  Bradish was part of that reason. So goodbye, sweet Prince Kyle Bradish for
• 35:06
  all the great work that you did in those thirty nine innings. But we
• 35:07
  will see you in twenty twenty six. And this hurts if you're an Orioles
• 35:15
  fan, because here's your rotation right now. It is ugly. It is
• 35:19
  Corbyn Burns who might win the cy Young anchoring it at the top, followed
• 35:22
  by Grayson Rodriguez, and then you have Albert Suarez, Katee Povich, Cole
• 35:28
  Irvin Dean Kramer should be back soon, but John Means is out with Tommy
• 35:32
  John. Tyler Wells is out with Tommy John. The next man up in
• 35:37
  triple A is either Bruce Zimmerman or Julio Tehran. So it's starting to get
• 35:44
  really dicey in Baltimore. We kind of talked about this in the preseason,
• 35:47
  and so I guess, is there anything that you think you might change strategy
• 35:53
  wise from like owning any of these pictures in Baltimore or like their release or
• 36:00
  even maybe they're bats that like, do you think that there is some sort
• 36:02
  of malaise that could happen that could bring the entire team down. Yeah,
• 36:07
  So I think the only angle I have on this one one because I'm not
• 36:12
  really interested in any of the pictures. Maybe Povich just to see what happens,
• 36:17
  but even him, I'm a little little dicey on with that profile.
• 36:22
  The play to me is guys like Hessen, Kirstad Connor Norby, probably not
• 36:30
  Mayo, but any of those kind of Ryan Mountcastle maybe a little bit,
• 36:36
  but he's skept the playing time. Any of those guys that they're kind of
• 36:37
  messing around with and they can't quite figure out what to do with they're getting
• 36:42
  traded. They are gonna get traded into a decent spot where they're gonna play
• 36:47
  every day, and that is exciting to me. So if you're looking through
• 36:52
  trying to figure out, you know, what to do about it, I
• 36:54
  think those are those are the guys. Maybe a Kyle Stowers know he's still
• 37:00
  got some potential down there as well. That's where I'm kind of looking at
• 37:04
  this one, hoping for uh, to catch a little lighting the bottle maybe
• 37:08
  in Austin Hayes gets out of out of Baltimore because they're still a good team
• 37:15
  and a good team. They're a really good team, and they're pitching is
• 37:21
  dreadful. They're hitting is fantastic, so you need to go out there and
• 37:25
  rectify that. And I think that they thought Bradish was gonna get was gonna
• 37:30
  be that. And don't get me wrong, to your point, he was
• 37:31
  free money, fantastic. I use him as well and just pluged him in
• 37:37
  every time, and he was not up or down. He was just steady
• 37:39
  at any great looks fantastic. The only reason you he was hurt is they
• 37:44
  announced it. He didn't look hurt, so that that's disappointing. But that's
• 37:50
  my my take. That's my only angle is I'm I'm some of those hitters
• 37:53
  where I was a little bit maybe shopping them or using this trade fodder.
• 37:57
  I'd be holding on it a little bit now because I think they might get
• 37:59
  an opportun to hear before too long. Okay, yeah, I think that's
• 38:01
  a great take, all right. The next injury we have is Anthony Rizzo,
• 38:07
  first baseman for the New York Yankees fractured his It was technically like his
• 38:13
  radial neck where they're starting to get really specific with the injury names. It's
• 38:16
  a part of like your radius that is near your elbow. It's just like
• 38:22
  a area on the actual radius. So that is what he broke on his
• 38:29
  forearm. I think he's going to be out like six to eight weeks,
• 38:31
  pretty much the same timeline that like Wilson Contrero's has been on. And I
• 38:37
  mean, honestly, it might be the best thing that happened to the Yankees
• 38:40
  because they were already starting to run into a little bit of an issue of
• 38:45
  like what do we do with Anthony Rizzo as he was hitting only two twenty
• 38:50
  three with an eighty four WRC plus and eight homers. It just wasn't coming
• 38:55
  together for him, as I think, Age is really sorry to catch up
• 39:00
  with him, and he just isn't able to impact the ball the way he
• 39:04
  used to and get around on it. So there were always murmurings that the
• 39:08
  Yankees could be bringing up Ben Rice, which is what they did to be
• 39:13
  able to take Anthony Rizzo's spot. And I know that you and I were
• 39:16
  really excited about that because in our Autney league that we were talking about with
• 39:21
  those Mookie bets and Wan Sutto shares, we got into a headhead auction of
• 39:28
  bidding for Ben Rice, who I think he's going to be a pretty significant
• 39:32
  ad this weekend in fab bids, because this dude's walking into Yankee Stadium as
• 39:38
  a left handed bat with Ketra eligibility and he looks legit Like I it was
• 39:45
  one game last night, but it's a little bit in the same way of
• 39:50
  like you could just tell when you saw the first few at bats and the
• 39:52
  majors from Why at Langford that you're just like, this guy knows how to
• 39:58
  not be blown over in the box and can hold his own And I mean,
• 40:02
  this is exactly the type of magic where like this turns into just a
• 40:09
  little bit of like a run for a Yankees player. And so I know
• 40:14
  that you're in on Ben Rice too, So tell me what you see in
• 40:16
  the profile and what excites you about Rice. Well, first of all,
• 40:21
  I have to know, because this has been killing me. Yeah, you
• 40:23
  put Ben Rice up for nominations in this league, and I have to believe
• 40:29
  you did not have the same bid on him when you put him up.
• 40:32
  Is when it finished because he got called up after the fact. What bid
• 40:36
  did you have in on him when you nominated him? Because I had a
• 40:38
  different bid and I changed it, and I was I was after ben Rice,
• 40:43
  and I want to know if I would have had him because we we
• 40:45
  had the exact same bid and tiebreaker. I was having the standings. So
• 40:49
  you got ben Rice and so what was your bid for the wherever we're listening?
• 40:53
  We ended up at six dollars where you took him home on that one?
• 40:58
  Where was your bid? So I guess I didn't even like include that
• 41:01
  wrinkle is that I actually put ben Rice up for bid before he even came
• 41:05
  up, that the correct announcement of the injury came up because I lost J
• 41:09
  T rail Muto and was making a bye with Lilgano Hoppy. But I just
• 41:14
  needed the next kind of lightning in a bottle catcher, and I was like,
• 41:17
  hey, you know what, I bet the Yankees bring Ben Rice up
• 41:20
  here within the next month, and that's the route that I went. So
• 41:23
  I initially only had like a two dollars bid in and then when Rizzo got
• 41:30
  hurt, I upped it to five. And then the morning yesterday morning,
• 41:35
  like right before it was about to execute. I was like, you know
• 41:37
  what, six, I have enough calorie salary cap room. I'm gonna go
• 41:42
  six. I'm really glad that I did. I had a three dollar bid
• 41:45
  on him when you first put him off. Oh, so you would have
• 41:47
  won him that time too, And I put a six dollar bit on the
• 41:52
  second Rizzo got hurt. Well, it makes you feel better in the in
• 41:55
  the next in the next five games the Yankees, in the next seven games,
• 42:01
  in the next nine games, the Yankees face six left handers. So
• 42:07
  I'm not sure how much Ben rice action I'm going to get in, but
• 42:10
  uh yeah, I'm looking forward to some hot summer weather in the Bronx.
• 42:15
  But what do you mean about his profile? Yeah, you know, this
• 42:19
  is one of the kind of guys that I really do like from a hitter
• 42:22
  perspective, that he has a little bit of speed, not crazy speed,
• 42:27
  but it's gonna call it sneaky speed. The kind of guy that can you
• 42:30
  know, toss in five in bases throughout a season, maybe maybe sliding more.
• 42:35
  He's got good power. You can project him for a twenty twenty five
• 42:39
  homer type of guy without too much trouble. And there's a good floor.
• 42:44
  Like he he is a patient hitter at the plate. He's never really shown
• 42:49
  a strikeout issue in the minors. He's he's always been able to get on
• 42:52
  base, and he's just consistently He's one of those guys that consistently has delivered
• 42:59
  every single level that he's been at. He you know, if you look
• 43:02
  at his numbers there, I don't think that he's ever struggled outside of like
• 43:07
  his first season in a ball he had twenty games, he had two ten
• 43:13
  like in twenty twenty one. Beyond that, like, he has been a
• 43:16
  hitter every single level, and you know they you know, defense is more
• 43:22
  of the question with him than anything else. He and he's also a smart
• 43:28
  guy, student of the game. I could just be making this assumption,
• 43:31
  but he's a Dartmouth guy, so like you got to be smart to go
• 43:35
  to Dartmouth. We're get a baseball scholarship. So who knows, But like
• 43:38
  he just seems like a really really good, solid player that isn't going to
• 43:45
  be bothered to your point by the big lights in the Bronx. You know,
• 43:50
  is if you looked at what he's done the last So if you went
• 43:57
  in for twenty twenty four. Well, I was trying to look there's different.
• 44:06
  I lost the notes here. There is this the start of twenty twenty
• 44:09
  three, one hundred and thirty three games in the miners hit three h two
• 44:14
  four sixteen OBP five sty sent a slug with thirty five homers in twenty stolen
• 44:17
  bases, struck out less than twenty percent of the time. So things looked
• 44:22
  fantastic. So I'm I really like the profile. I think there's a lot
• 44:27
  of potential there. To your point cut your eligibility, Yeah, I think
• 44:30
  you broke it down and just really well, that's all the same sort of
• 44:35
  stuff I saw, and maybe like the one thing that I would add is
• 44:38
  that you put that walk rate in the Yankees lineup too. That is exactly
• 44:44
  what you're looking for in terms of being able to provide some floor and from
• 44:49
  a run production RBI production. And so yeah, he debuted last night Hit
• 44:54
  six to the lineup, and Rice is getting that start tonight at seventh in
• 45:00
  the batting order, supporting Garrett Cole, who is making his Yankees' debut tonight
• 45:05
  as we are speaking, actually already wrapped up his outing because he went sixty
• 45:12
  two pitches over four innings and allowed two runs. On let's see what happened
• 45:17
  here. It looks like he had a ground world double that Ryan O'Hearn hit
• 45:22
  off of him, and then also gave up a ramone Urias. Oh no,
• 45:30
  he didn't give up that homer, but then he couldn't get out of
• 45:32
  the fifth. That's actually what happened. He ran into some trouble and ramone
• 45:36
  Urias drove in Cedric Mullens there, and so his velocity also looks like it
• 45:42
  was down. So Cole's velocity last year was averaging around ninety six point seven.
• 45:47
  In the outing tonight it was ninety five point one, which actually isn't
• 45:52
  too bad considering usually guys ramp up a little bit as the season goes on.
• 45:57
  And you also have to think Cole didn't get a spring training. He's
• 46:00
  probably still working his way back into things. So I like to see that
• 46:05
  overall. Obviously, we just talked about Kyle Bradish his elbow not responding correctly
• 46:12
  after being diagnosed with the sprain early in the spring. Garrett Cole took a
• 46:15
  little bit longer to take to get back, and so I'm sure that sprain
• 46:21
  is still there in some capacity. But the Yankees actually have had some success
• 46:25
  for this and with this in the past that Masahiro Tanaka also had the same
• 46:30
  sort of issue where he had a sprained UCL he pitched through. So I'm
• 46:35
  glad to see that Cole's actually up in his velocity range. And I'm wondering,
• 46:38
  you know where you placing him in terms of the top starting pitchers in
• 46:43
  the game now for the rest of the season. Yeah, I mean it's
• 46:46
  it's Garrett Cole and number one, and he's looked good. I don't know
• 46:52
  if I put him number one, but I you know, Corbyn Burns might
• 46:58
  be right up there at number one, and then Garrett Cole. He's easily
• 47:01
  in the top three or four for me without looking too closely. And so
• 47:06
  I it's just a matter of how long it's gonna take for him to get
• 47:09
  back to full innings full strength. But I think because the Yankees, they
• 47:17
  they don't really have a strong lead out there in the in the Al East
• 47:22
  because Baltimore, but they also don't want they want to have Cole the rest
• 47:25
  of the season. I think they're gonna baby him a little bit to get
• 47:30
  him back into things. I mean, that's kind of what they did tonight.
• 47:32
  They he could have stuck around and he got in trouble. It's Garrett
• 47:36
  Cole, he could he could get out of trouble. So I think they're
• 47:38
  gonna baby him for a little bit here next, maybe three or four starts
• 47:42
  before they really turn a loose. But at the same time, it's Garrett
• 47:45
  Cole. You're if you have him, you've held him this long, you
• 47:49
  are plug and playing every single time on who it's against. He is probably
• 47:53
  the top two three pitchers pitchers in the game right now. Yeah, I
• 47:57
  mean, I think that's fair that you probably we got Burns and Wheeler that
• 48:01
  are ahead of him in my book. And then I mean, I'm just
• 48:05
  looking at Marmo's dad's rankings right now the top one hundred Scoobal came in third,
• 48:09
  and he's been getting a little unsteady recently. Tyler glassnow comes after him.
• 48:15
  I think if you had to like pick one starter, Glass now would
• 48:21
  go like or like one start, Glass now would go over Cole. I
• 48:23
  think. But when you consider the entire injury history behind Glass now has never
• 48:29
  made more than twenty starts in the season. That's probably why Glass now isn't
• 48:34
  number one. But yeah, I mean I think Cole is going to enter
• 48:37
  right back into that conversation because we've lost a lot of arms at the top
• 48:40
  of the list there as the season has gone on. Yeah, you're not
• 48:46
  wrong, that's that's the nature. Yeah exactly. Yeah, it is not
• 48:52
  very nice to those who practice it. And the last topic I wanted to
• 48:55
  get on is, I mean mostly a send to Josea bray You as the
• 49:00
  Askers released him this week and they are eating the rest of that contract.
• 49:06
  I'm honestly I'm not sure where a bray You will land. If he does
• 49:12
  land anywhere that maybe there's a possibility the White Sox bring him back for a
• 49:15
  commemorative period of time. But he looked so lost, and you want to
• 49:21
  talk about not only like Anthony Rizzo, where like things have just like fallen
• 49:25
  apart, but things totally collapse on jose bray You. It's just like when
• 49:30
  you're living on that edge a little bit like Nelson Cruz You you alluded to
• 49:32
  as well, where once you're getting into that advanced age like that, it
• 49:37
  doesn't take much in terms of the quick twitch muscles and hand eye coordination to
• 49:43
  go in baseball for once MVP and multi time all start to just turn into
• 49:50
  somebody who doesn't even look like you could play indie ball. So yeah,
• 49:54
  like I said, I just wanted to dedicate this space to jose bray You
• 49:57
  to send him off, because we've talked about this before that if bray You
• 50:01
  didn't start his career in Cuba, I think we would be talking it about
• 50:06
  him in Hall of Fame consideration, like he would have had probably Nelson Crusius
• 50:13
  numbers with better hits overall, and just probably more All Star games. And
• 50:17
  he was a monster when he was in Cuba. So bray You will be
• 50:23
  sitting at home for the near future. And in the meantime, it looks
• 50:27
  like the Astros are going to go with John Singleton and like they're doing a
• 50:35
  weird kind of plat tune there with like Singleton, Trey Cabbage, Carotini and
• 50:39
  Chas McCormick are kind of getting rotation into the lineup as they're waking their way
• 50:45
  through. But our boy Joey lo Berfdo should be eligible to be recalled in
• 50:53
  a few days, so he went down on the eleventh, so I have
• 50:58
  to imagine he's going to work his way back in here, although Dana Brown,
• 51:02
  the GM for the Astros, actually said they're not going to play Lowperfito
• 51:07
  at first base, but I'll believe that when I see it, considering low
• 51:09
  Berffito just looks like a first baseman and I think he could hack it just
• 51:15
  fine. But yeah, well what do you make of that? The career
• 51:19
  of Jose braw and what maybe this could turn into first base wise in Houston.
• 51:28
  Yeah, to the Jose Carobras career. Yet he you know, he
• 51:30
  was a twenty seven year old when he came over from Cuba and he just
• 51:36
  off the races the second he hit. So if you if you project out
• 51:38
  his entire career in the majors, we were talking probably a guy that hit
• 51:44
  four hundred home runs, you know, he hit two eighty five to ninety,
• 51:50
  like he had an MVP Like you're definitely talking about, I wanna say,
• 51:54
  a French Hall of Famer playing first base, like, but a guy
• 51:58
  that's definitely in the conversation. And so I think kudos to Jose Breu.
• 52:01
  He's fantastic from a fantasy perspective, He's always been a fun guy, always
• 52:06
  underappreciated in the fantasy game. But love Jose Brew. I hate to say
• 52:12
  it, but I'm guessing this is the end for Jose Breo. He's still
• 52:15
  got a year and a half left in that contract. I know, you
• 52:16
  can go play for league minimum somewhere the old There's two teams that can sign
• 52:22
  him. It's the White Sox and the Dodgers, because the Dodgers signed everybody
• 52:27
  and their mother that falled on hard times to a minor league deal, just
• 52:30
  because everybody probably calls them up and then plays at Triple A. I don't
• 52:34
  know this one chance at a ring like one six, one hundred and sixty
• 52:37
  second chance or something, I don't know. But then to your point,
• 52:42
  the Astros, I'm not sure what they're doing at first base there. You
• 52:45
  know, I would actually be wouldn't be surprised to see Kyle Tucker play some
• 52:50
  first base when he comes back from his injury. Looks like he's been a
• 52:52
  little slow to you know, get healthy, and they want that bat in
• 52:57
  the lineup, and so if they can keep you know, he's got to
• 52:59
  get those legs back under him, and if he's still got a little gimp
• 53:02
  to the step here, putting him at first base, is it not necessarily
• 53:07
  a bad idea. He's played there a little bit before in the past,
• 53:10
  I recall, so it'll be interesting to see. I don't think there's any
• 53:15
  huge moves. I think Little Brafito is the most interesting guy. If he
• 53:17
  can get constant, consistent of bats and really show what he's done with the
• 53:22
  minors and the translates, that's where it gets more exciting for me. But
• 53:25
  to your point, it seems like Houston's not fully convinced on Little Brafito at
• 53:30
  this point. Yeah. I agree. Well, that's going to wrap up
• 53:34
  our news and notes sections. So before we get into some of those hot
• 53:38
  hitters over the past thirty days, let's get into a few small card related
• 53:45
  discussions. So the first one we have is that the pre order for TOPS
• 53:49
  Chrome twenty twenty four came out this week, and they didn't put the release
• 53:52
  date out yet, so you're pre ordering for some unknown date. But it
• 53:58
  does seem that TOPS Chrome should be scheduled to come out probably late July ish
• 54:05
  if I had to kind of like read the tea leafs and based on when
• 54:07
  it usually does come out in the past, but the pre order is pretty
• 54:13
  significant this year. You're looking at a hobby box has jumped up to one
• 54:16
  hundred and ninety dollars for one hobby box that comes with one autograph in there,
• 54:22
  four pack for twenty four packs, four cards per pack, that is
• 54:28
  ninety six cards. That's almost two dollars a card out of a hobby box
• 54:31
  for tops chrome, which is stuff, it's like a it's a level we
• 54:37
  haven't seen since like the nineties, when honestly, like it was just a
• 54:42
  total manufacturing revelation that they were able to even make like finest and chrome cards
• 54:49
  that it like totally broke people's minds. So considering all of the chrome product
• 54:52
  out there, that is very steep, and you can see exactly why it's
• 54:57
  going to be priced like that. Elie de la Cruz is lapped right on
• 55:00
  the front of this product. They're let you know that, hey, this
• 55:02
  is the Elie de la Cruz Rookie Card Show, and if you want a
• 55:07
  jumbo box, you're looking at three hundred and ninety bucks. That was just
• 55:12
  a shade over three hundred I think last year. So that's also increased significantly
• 55:16
  same specs as last year, where you only get three autographs for the jumbo
• 55:22
  box, so you're paying you know, almost one hundred and thirty dollars per
• 55:29
  I mean actually exactly one hundred and thirty dollars per an autograph chance, which
• 55:31
  is absolutely bananas because again, once you see the checklist here, we talked
• 55:37
  about Series two actually having a surprisingly good autograph checklist, but the Chrome checklist
• 55:45
  is going to be peppered with all sorts of rookies. And you know that
• 55:49
  the likes of like a Chuckie Robinson has signed hundreds of more autographs than Elie
• 55:54
  de la Cruz has. So I just wanted to get your feel here on
• 55:59
  twenty twenty four tops Chrome and just kind of the signs that it is throwing
• 56:05
  up for us in this hobby overall. Yeah, it's It's a real tough
• 56:08
  one because one of my favorite products of the entire year. It's fantastic to
• 56:13
  open. I love all the different variations that you get with blasters and the
• 56:17
  hangars that you can get that usually have their own different variations. All the
• 56:22
  parallels are fun, they look they look cool. They can do so much
• 56:27
  more with those chrome finishes on them. So love it. To your point,
• 56:30
  man, is it getting expensive? It is? It is? You
• 56:34
  know, for me, it's becoming one of those breakers type of games with
• 56:37
  with chrome at this point, like if you want in, uh, it's
• 56:42
  your if you're chase. Even if you're chasing like the big names like the
• 56:45
  La and things like that, you were just so much better off buying into
• 56:47
  a Break or something like that, because if you're paying over one hundred bucks
• 56:52
  per like an auto just going after that that jumbo box, Like, it's
• 56:58
  not unreasonable that you're just gonna, you know, be totally totally disappointed.
• 57:02
  You're gonna and I'm just gonna pick random names from the checklist here, like
• 57:06
  all right, well, I got my Blake Rutherford auto. I've got my
• 57:12
  Davis Schneider which has actually been a terrible one and then might be good in
• 57:16
  the long run. Yeah, and then I I'm really gonna bring him home
• 57:21
  here with my Parker Meadows auto. Like, and I got a few hitters
• 57:25
  in there, right, It wasn't there's no midderal Leavers, Victor Bob Vodnik,
• 57:31
  Hunter Stratton from the Pirates. Yeah, I mean there's it's it's unfortunately
• 57:38
  just such an wide open auto checklist that you know, the likelihood that you
• 57:45
  really become out of even a jumbo box with one interesting auto is i'd say
• 57:52
  pretty low, and that's that's a pretty decent investment. And that's I think
• 57:54
  the problem we've seen with Chrome is that a lot of others that have a
• 58:00
  little more variation and a more cards available in the packs, you can kind
• 58:06
  of claw your money back to a certain degree, it's not as big of
• 58:08
  a penalty, but with Chrome, ripping that, like, it's not unreasonable
• 58:14
  that you can come through with three autos and like two numbered cards and a
• 58:17
  few parallels out of like that Jumbo plus all your base and you're looking at
• 58:22
  like, I've got forty bucks worth of cards here. It's you know,
• 58:27
  it's not unreasonable that that's where you land. And that's a pretty pretty i'd
• 58:31
  say standard outcome that you're looking at with Chrome. Uh So I'm I'm probably
• 58:37
  staying away from Chrome because if you think if you're gonna break it, if
• 58:39
  you're gonna go, you have to go to the Jumbo. I think that's
• 58:42
  that's where you have to go, uh because that's aspective, yeah, from
• 58:45
  an odds perspective, because otherwise you're not getting there, and you know,
• 58:51
  even going with the blasters and things like that, you're you're with those thirty
• 58:53
  dollars blasters these days, it's just it's gonna be tough. So I will
• 58:58
  be part taking in chrome, but to to that point, mostly from a
• 59:00
  breaker perspective going after my Cardinals, trying to find some Mason Win autos or
• 59:04
  something like that. But otherwise you're gonna be hard pressed to be ripping a
• 59:10
  lot of chrome. Yeah, and I mean blasters actually were last year were
• 59:15
  thirty five. I wouldn't be surprised if they're forty this year. Geez,
• 59:19
  that's clearly I didn't brought by any blasters last year. Yeah. Yeah,
• 59:22
  Well, speaking of Mason winning those Cardinals, I'm also going to I just
• 59:27
  want to get your reaction to this funny video that the Cardinals posted this on
• 59:30
  their Instagram this week, and I'll link to it in the show notes.
• 59:35
  Obviously, it's a great video of and lots of other teams have done this
• 59:38
  too, where the players are walking in and they've got a hobby box out
• 59:43
  there for the players to walk in and pick a pack and just kind of
• 59:47
  provide some free content for the Cardinals on the social media channels in terms of
• 59:52
  going through those cards and partnering with tops the packs that they had for this
• 59:59
  edition was twenty twenty three Alan Ginter. And so they're ripping it and going
• 1:00:04
  through and you know, you got your like Albert Poole's cards, your Jackie
• 1:00:07
  Robinson's, somebody pulled the Nolan Gorman auto and was joking about getting that signed
• 1:00:13
  later. I think, just like the nugget of this entire video and they
• 1:00:16
  totally bury the lead is that Michael Sianni out of this box of Alan and
• 1:00:22
  Ginter hobby, which is it's a tough product from a hobby perspective, that
• 1:00:28
  it's one of those products where the people that love Alan Ginter love Alan Ginter
• 1:00:32
  and love ripping it and getting all this the goofy little cards with the pictures
• 1:00:37
  of food and stuff. But Michael Sianni just pulls out an autograph Corbyn Carroll,
• 1:00:43
  like rookie card of the mini framed and it's just like Corbyn Carroll card
• 1:00:47
  signed, just like total deadpan. And I just wanted to show that to
• 1:00:55
  you and chare it with you because I knew you would appreciate it. That
• 1:00:59
  Yeah, how like anyone else's reaction that actually collects cards would have been freaking
• 1:01:04
  out. That's like one of the best polls in that product, like and
• 1:01:07
  they just just randomly tossed this box down and said, hey, just pull
• 1:01:10
  one out. And I mean I loved all the interactions, Like I think
• 1:01:14
  Lars Nuba was the first guy in. There's like you can never took the
• 1:01:15
  first back. You always gonna dig deeper in the box, like yeah,
• 1:01:20
  he knows what he's doing, right, And then to your Shani comes up
• 1:01:22
  and makes the best pull, like you know, uh, not the best
• 1:01:27
  pull of the product, but like one of the best cards that you'd be
• 1:01:30
  looking for, which is a Corbick Carroll Rookie auto. And maybe it's the
• 1:01:34
  fact that SI's got enough cash in his pockets with those big league paychecks.
• 1:01:37
  Maybe it's that it's a competing player and you can't be excited for them.
• 1:01:42
  But you know, it's just like literally there was like to your point is
• 1:01:45
  deadpan, Like he's just like this doesn't matter at all, And I'm like,
• 1:01:50
  can you literally picked the wrong guy to be ripping this this product?
• 1:01:54
  Like Mason Winn was all about it, like he was like a kid in
• 1:01:58
  the candy shop through looking for things. Miles Michaelist maybe not the same because
• 1:02:02
  he was just looking for anybody else with a mustache. But yeah, put
• 1:02:07
  him and Esther Cortez together and we've just got a comedy comedy gold. But
• 1:02:12
  I appreciate that. It made me feel good. And I wonder what happened
• 1:02:16
  to that corporate Carol Atto, like he's just sitting somewhere, Yeah, on
• 1:02:22
  the intern's desk for whoever was recording that video. For sure, that was
• 1:02:27
  like that guy's whole paycheck for a week. Absolutely. Okay, Well,
• 1:02:30
  we're going to wrap it up here and take a little break. We will
• 1:02:34
  be back after that break discussing hot hitters from the past three days that we
• 1:02:38
  are looking to acquire and pick up in leagues out there, So stick around,
• 1:03:00
  all right, Welcome back, everybody. Let's get into these last thirty
• 1:03:04
  day hot performers. And I mean I was going to intro this section with
• 1:03:08
  how we actually approach picking up players, but we kind of got into that
• 1:03:13
  after our Mookie Betts discussion. So if you skipped ahead to the section that
• 1:03:17
  you just wanted the analysis on these players, you should actually go back.
• 1:03:22
  And I'm not like a full time podcast producer. I have a regular job
• 1:03:27
  during the day, so I can't like bookmark everything you just have to rewind
• 1:03:31
  for a while. You can kind of see the order of where everything is.
• 1:03:34
  It's probably like what like the first ten minutes in when we discuss it,
• 1:03:38
  Go back find it and you can understand how the both of us approach
• 1:03:43
  picking up players and kind of deciding whether what we're seeing is a hot streak
• 1:03:49
  that's just been kind of babbit fueled or if it's actually a skills based change.
• 1:03:52
  And I think a lot of that comes into play when we're talking about
• 1:03:58
  last thirty days product. So that's why we're looking at it here. The
• 1:04:02
  tools on ras ball are fantastic for helping you be able to analyze these things,
• 1:04:08
  mostly because I just love that our tools immediately gives those dollar values for
• 1:04:13
  you in a standard twelve team league, that it just converts the overall production
• 1:04:17
  into numbers that I think you can understand a little bit more tangibly than when
• 1:04:24
  you're going through most of your websites out there, like CBS or fan tracks
• 1:04:29
  whatever. It gives you like a score or ranking of the player, and
• 1:04:32
  you don't know exactly how that's able to line up with others. And so
• 1:04:38
  I will link to that in the show notes that you can check out the
• 1:04:41
  last thirty day standings that we're using, and you can certainly parse that into
• 1:04:45
  last seven and then from there you can get the subscription tools I allow you
• 1:04:49
  to do things like the streaminators for pitching and hitting. I love that because,
• 1:04:54
  especially if you're facing a tough decision on a week where it's sometimes hard
• 1:04:58
  to synthesize a player with like seven games with his five games and trying to
• 1:05:02
  calculate out the dollar values, Rudy's already done it all for us. So
• 1:05:06
  it makes the decision making process just that much quicker and I really appreciate it.
• 1:05:13
  So let's kick it off here with the first player who in the last
• 1:05:16
  thirty days ranking as we are talking here on June nineteenth, has come in
• 1:05:23
  at I just thought I'm gonna loss him. Oh, he was fourth with
• 1:05:26
  twenty six dollars in value. Just to also give you just an overall kind
• 1:05:31
  of Aaron Judge heat check, he was number one of those lists of forty
• 1:05:36
  six ish dollars. So the last thirty days will also shade more towards pitchers.
• 1:05:42
  So forty six dollars out of a hitter is pretty absurd in the standings
• 1:05:45
  because it usually is somebody like in the twenties and thirties. Fourth right now
• 1:05:50
  twenty six point four dollars is Carlos Correa, who has been on a heater
• 1:05:55
  the past month as he has hit six homers with twenty five rbi, slashing
• 1:06:00
  three sixty one four hundred six point twenty, which has been really fantastic considering
• 1:06:08
  all the drafts that I was in this year, Carlos Carea was free because
• 1:06:13
  we denigrated his good name here on this podcast as well, because he just
• 1:06:17
  didn't provide speed and didn't provide enough in the bat to be able to make
• 1:06:23
  up for it. But if he's going to continue hitting like this, he
• 1:06:27
  turns into a Marcelo Xena at shortstop, which is exactly what you want out
• 1:06:30
  of Carlos Korea. I guess my question is to you, is this sustainable?
• 1:06:36
  Great question? And I just had somebody ask that this week over on
• 1:06:43
  ras Ball, and no, no, you don't think so, Okay,
• 1:06:45
  I don't think so. Like, but this was he Frank, this is
• 1:06:49
  not sustainable. Like the last six games. Yeah, the last six games
• 1:06:54
  he has a WRC plus of three hundred and fifty seven that I think he
• 1:06:59
  broke it, like he's seventeen four thirty h during that time, you know,
• 1:07:04
  he's hitting six oh seven, like with a babe up of six oh
• 1:07:08
  nine, Like, it's only one eighty one WRC plus over the past month,
• 1:07:13
  So that's a little bit more reasonable. But yes, yeah, so
• 1:07:15
  he's been hot as I'll get out. But when I say, it's not
• 1:07:18
  sustainable, like if you look under the covers, what he's doing right now,
• 1:07:24
  what he's looked like in twenty twenty four is one hundred times better than
• 1:07:28
  was last year. But this is the same relptively looks the same as he
• 1:07:32
  was in twenty twenty two. And that's the season where he hit two ninety
• 1:07:36
  one twenty two homers, seventy runs, sixty four RBIs, and didn't steal
• 1:07:42
  a base. He was decent, but he just he doesn't doesn't run.
• 1:07:49
  He had his power. Even though he hits the ball really hard, he
• 1:07:54
  doesn't put it in the air enough to really drive those homers. He actually
• 1:07:59
  has a pretty high round ball rate and then his a lot of line drives,
• 1:08:03
  which is great for a real world player. So the production that he's
• 1:08:09
  doing right now is he's just he's just playing out of his mind and it's
• 1:08:13
  it's gonna come back down and it's gonna settle into a useful player. But
• 1:08:19
  that's about where it's gonna land, because there there's nothing showing up in what
• 1:08:24
  he's doing right now that shows that he's like made some substantial change that he's
• 1:08:29
  doing anything besides being healthy and hitting the ball hard on the line. So
• 1:08:33
  I'd be looking to sell Korea hard right now because he is absolutely at the
• 1:08:39
  peak value. If if you can convince somebody that you know, he's he's
• 1:08:44
  over any injuries, he's you know, in a great space and he's gonna
• 1:08:48
  win your league, like you can turn him into something pretty good, and
• 1:08:51
  I would be jumping all over that right now. So don't get me wrong.
• 1:08:55
  If you bottom where you bought him for, you're absolutely thrilled. It's
• 1:08:58
  kind of hard to like a lot, but I think you do yourself a
• 1:09:02
  favor selling a guy that's got a six and nine babe up in the least
• 1:09:06
  six six games. Well yeah, I mean all sample sizes. Yeah.
• 1:09:11
  I actually I think I might be one of those buyers, just because when
• 1:09:14
  you do go to a savant page, it pops right away. You can
• 1:09:17
  see why that I think he is healthy, and I think that was the
• 1:09:24
  only thing really kind of holding him back in the initial preseason, along with
• 1:09:30
  obviously the lack of steals. But like he's battled back injuries and leg injuries
• 1:09:35
  and plant ore fascy Eydea is all things that kind of sap that natural power.
• 1:09:40
  And I think he's really found it over this past month because the barrel
• 1:09:45
  rate's gotten up to eleven percent, and sure he is hitting more ground balls,
• 1:09:48
  but he's been doing it and he's been doing it against weak competition,
• 1:09:54
  which I know I caveat it a little bit earlier, but the entire Ale
• 1:09:59
  Central weak competition, and so like this is exactly the type of Carlos Korea
• 1:10:03
  that can eat the White Sox and the Tigers like alive in terms of especially
• 1:10:12
  as the games increase down the stretch against some of these Ale Central teams that
• 1:10:17
  I mean even Kansas City and I mean Cleveland's pretty solid up and down,
• 1:10:23
  but you will find soft spots in that rotation from time to time. Kansas
• 1:10:27
  City does not have a great bullpen overall, and so I think that's a
• 1:10:30
  lot of what Korea is doing here is just kind of marrying up that health
• 1:10:35
  with his natural skill to be able to take advantage of what he's got.
• 1:10:39
  I mean, I'm certainly not like out there trading significant pieces for Carlos Karia,
• 1:10:44
  but I do think that like he's got the capability in that bat to
• 1:10:49
  be something like a top ten or twelve shortstop maybe rest the way, because
• 1:10:54
  just of the power production overall good lineup in Minnesota, that it's going to
• 1:11:00
  be hard to sell him if you certainly picked him up for cheap. But
• 1:11:03
  I think this is the type of player where, especially when we think back
• 1:11:06
  to you know, if you're trying to replace somebody like a Mookie Bets or
• 1:11:12
  somebody that really was offering substantial production for you, you've got to try to
• 1:11:17
  find it somewhere, and you might have to pay a little bit more than
• 1:11:20
  you're expecting for Carlo's carry out. But I don't think you're ever going to
• 1:11:24
  have to pay like top ten or twelve shortstop prices for him. That you
• 1:11:28
  would have to think whoever's out there selling him and has him as an extraneous
• 1:11:32
  piece would take down take back some sort of discount based on even what his
• 1:11:36
  current stats are. Yeah, we'll see. I think it's one of those
• 1:11:42
  interesting ones that I think you hit on the very in there. It depends
• 1:11:46
  how your league views him. Like if if your league is fully rational has
• 1:11:54
  dug under the covers and sees him like you just said, is that,
• 1:11:57
  you know, a ten twelve type short stuff up. I'm perfectly fine with
• 1:12:00
  that because I think that's who he probably is. If the league sees him
• 1:12:03
  as like a top five because he's hot, this heater and they're willing to
• 1:12:08
  pay for it, come on, give me that money. I'm taking it
• 1:12:11
  all the nice. Okay, Well, the next player is one that I'm
• 1:12:15
  actually kind of proud of because this was my breakout pick when we did the
• 1:12:18
  n AL West, when we were just kind of like, this is a
• 1:12:23
  tough team to find somebody to break out from because the San Francisco Giants love
• 1:12:28
  just mixing and matching and using weird dudes like Nick Ahmed whenever they can.
• 1:12:32
  But Elliott Ramos has absolutely arrived for the San Francisco Giants. In the last
• 1:12:40
  thirty days, he has been twelve on our player Raider twenty three dollars in
• 1:12:45
  value with nine homers, slashing three, twenty seven, four, twelve,
• 1:12:48
  six, twenty five And yes I will admit that this is another babbit fueled
• 1:12:56
  like hot streak as it's I have it for the month, but his total
• 1:13:00
  for the year is at four fourteen. But this is another guy who absolutely
• 1:13:04
  just hits the snot out of the ball and it shows up immediately on a
• 1:13:09
  savant page. He's actually got a seventeen percent barrel rate on the year right
• 1:13:14
  now, it's sixteen percent. On his career like fifteen point eight percent.
• 1:13:17
  He's posted hard hit rates above fifty percent. And this is exactly like the
• 1:13:24
  form of Elliott Ramos that I thought could be in there. I just I
• 1:13:30
  didn't actually pick up any shares of him outside of the Rasball Commentary League,
• 1:13:34
  because I mean, it was just such a shot in the dark. But
• 1:13:39
  he has cut his k rate a little bit, just enough to be able
• 1:13:43
  to let that ball just get smoked when he actually hits it. And so
• 1:13:49
  he is only twenty four, which is surprising considering just how long Elliott Ramos
• 1:13:57
  has been a prospect for us. But I think this is another guy that
• 1:14:02
  I'm out there buying. I think it's gonna be tougher because he is a
• 1:14:04
  twenty four year old, but the production has been there and he's showing with
• 1:14:11
  his bat what the peak is, and I think he will eventually settle into
• 1:14:15
  something that's a little bit more akin to like his bat X number, which
• 1:14:19
  he's already significantly increased, like all these numbers. At the beginning of the
• 1:14:25
  year had him like just above the Mendoza line for batting, I think,
• 1:14:29
  And now he's firmly in like the two forty two fifty range and has converted
• 1:14:33
  himself about into like what we wanted out of Porgeshilaire, I think. And
• 1:14:42
  so I think, with that kind of in mind, what are you doing
• 1:14:45
  with Ramos? I know this is another babbit monster, but I think there's
• 1:14:49
  a lot that has changed in his profile overall that I'm hoping you can get
• 1:14:54
  on board with too. Yeah. So I'm generally on board with Ramos well,
• 1:15:00
  mostly because his name's Elliott, not Elliott as everybody wants to try to
• 1:15:03
  pronounce it. And to your point, he hits the ball incredibly hard and
• 1:15:10
  it looks like legit like it looks like he knows what he's doing with it.
• 1:15:15
  The two pieces of cold water I'm gonna throw on it. And it's
• 1:15:17
  not that I don't like him. I own him. Somewhere, and I'm
• 1:15:20
  taking advantage of it, and I think he's going to continue to do that.
• 1:15:23
  It is, you know, he he does have some baby block,
• 1:15:28
  but he also is not a fly ball hitter, and he's playing in San
• 1:15:32
  Francisco and he's hitting the home runs for fly balls one on of three basically
• 1:15:41
  thirty two percent of the time. The league leaders for qualified guys doing right
• 1:15:46
  now. Number one is Gunner Henderson at thirty one percent. Two is Air
• 1:15:51
  Judge at twenty nine percent, Then Shohe at twenty seven, Jan Soda,
• 1:15:58
  Marcelo Zuna at t twenty five, and you get to Stanton Schwarber twenty four
• 1:16:01
  to twenty. He is hitting. He is getting very lucky from a home
• 1:16:06
  run perspective, and so I think you have to expect that those numbers are
• 1:16:11
  going to come down and he's not going to have the same power numbers that
• 1:16:16
  that he does right now. If you can expect that, then you're you're
• 1:16:24
  probably in the right mind space. The other piece that I look at is
• 1:16:28
  if you can look at his bad ball profile and again spot I love how
• 1:16:30
  they compare him to guys like the guys that they compare him to. I'm
• 1:16:34
  like, yep, that's exactly who Ramos is. And this scares me just
• 1:16:39
  as much as it hypes me up. It is Taoscar. Her name is
• 1:16:43
  Colton Kowser, O'Neill, Kruz, JD. Martinez, Gian Carlo Stanton.
• 1:16:47
  Can you think of more guys that have like power but like cold streaks,
• 1:16:53
  tons of tools, but scary you to death? Like that is exactly what
• 1:16:57
  Ramos is and so he he's gonna be fantastic sometimes he's not others again to
• 1:17:02
  my planet earlier, I'm thrilled that he's on the West coast when he's on
• 1:17:05
  my teams because he just set them and ride with it and then you'll be
• 1:17:09
  happy at the end of the day. Yeah, I mean, I think,
• 1:17:13
  but those are some pretty big bats considering Ramos has been free and I
• 1:17:15
  think that, like, but that's exactly I don't think he's maybe like as
• 1:17:20
  good as Taoscar, but certainly, like you think about like Jad Martinez and
• 1:17:26
  Stanton, like what's kind of going for them as I get old as some
• 1:17:29
  of what we talked about with the bray new and the quick twitch and the
• 1:17:32
  hand eye coordination speed and so I mean Ramos is twenty four, Like this
• 1:17:36
  is right when it should work. I don't think it's gonna last for a
• 1:17:43
  significant amount of time, but I think, especially if you're looking at him
• 1:17:45
  in a keeper dynasty window, you've probably got a good three or four years
• 1:17:49
  where he can keep some semblance of what that bad X projection was, you
• 1:17:56
  know in the two forty two fifties, something it would project out to like
• 1:18:00
  a twenty five to thirty homers with like eighty to ninety RBIs, which is
• 1:18:05
  I mean, like I said, it's right where ta Oscar Hanandez has kind
• 1:18:09
  of been traditionally. And so when you consider the draft cost, and again,
• 1:18:14
  like I think the babeb here has been pretty lucky when you look at
• 1:18:20
  it on the surface. Same thing with that fly ball rate, where it's
• 1:18:24
  one out of every three is a homer. But the dupe has put up
• 1:18:28
  a twenty percent barrel rate for a month too, So like when you put
• 1:18:30
  up a twenty cent barrel rate, you're gonna be getting some quote unquote like
• 1:18:35
  luck in that home run to fly ball rate because there's just going to be
• 1:18:40
  so many of those balls that are fly balls that deserve to go out.
• 1:18:44
  And so I think that's what I would keep in mind if I'm going out
• 1:18:48
  there buying. But I think he is a player where because of the strikeout
• 1:18:55
  rate and because you see that babbeb over four on his fangrass page that it
• 1:19:00
  could worry his current owners. And I think you can find some price in
• 1:19:05
  terms of trading for him that would be below what his production value is,
• 1:19:10
  but isn't going to actually like you know, be sky high for what he's
• 1:19:15
  at right now. So certainly, yeah, I'm out there and trying to
• 1:19:19
  like poke around and see where Ramos owners are at his skill level in my
• 1:19:26
  leagues, nothing wrong with it. Just know what you're getting into the roller
• 1:19:30
  coaster rye and a lot of power. Okay. Next guy we have is
• 1:19:33
  shortstop David Hamilton from the Boston Red Sox, who has put up twenty one
• 1:19:39
  point nine dollars of value slashing three fourteen, three fifty nine, four seventy
• 1:19:45
  seven with a surprising three homers that uh, he's popping out these little homers
• 1:19:50
  out of venway, which is part of it, and I think is obviously
• 1:19:55
  always going to be a part of his value, which is great. But
• 1:19:58
  the drive, main driver here is the stolen basis as he's swiped fourteen bags
• 1:20:03
  over the last month, has really taken claim to that shortstop job in Boston.
• 1:20:11
  I think this is a guy who certainly, if you've picked him up
• 1:20:14
  and you have him, it's going to be really hard to get rid of
• 1:20:17
  him. And I guess if you are out there owning him, what types
• 1:20:21
  of offers are you entertaining for him? Because the speed asset here is really
• 1:20:28
  significant considering you're looking at a player who has a decent played approach and a
• 1:20:34
  decent batting average I think floor because of the speed and the park that he
• 1:20:40
  plays in that it's I think could be a little bit more valuable than what
• 1:20:44
  we looked at with like a Billy Hamilton in the past. Yeah, I
• 1:20:47
  think it's it's gonna be interesting with him because he does have the speed that
• 1:20:53
  is just not what he's sold four bases in the game but two days ago.
• 1:20:58
  Yeah, well, I guess that's one thing. But you know,
• 1:21:01
  to your point, he's got a decent floor, looks like he's got the
• 1:21:05
  role, And that was my concern was like when you came back, like,
• 1:21:09
  uh was was he still going to have a role? Looks like yeah,
• 1:21:12
  absolutely, Like they're they're not gonna be moving anybody around trying to take
• 1:21:15
  his role. So I think that's gonna be the interesting piece to to to
• 1:21:20
  see of how much that speed sticks around and does he get on base enough
• 1:21:26
  to use it. So I think that really you're looking are you in a
• 1:21:30
  rotal league and does he fit your your team if you don't need steals,
• 1:21:33
  you're looking for the team that needs steals and you can capitalize on it you
• 1:21:35
  need steals. You're holding on to him like he is one of those kind
• 1:21:39
  of one trick ponies at the end of the day that really could be important
• 1:21:43
  to your team might be a guy that you also need to ship off if
• 1:21:47
  you also are running out with like an l de la Cruz and a few
• 1:21:49
  other guys that have some pretty pretty good speed. Yeah, And I mean,
• 1:21:55
  what do you think is maybe left in the tank speed wise that most
• 1:21:59
  of the rejections have him like eighteen to twenty stolen bases overall. But do
• 1:22:04
  you think that there is even upside to that? Yeah? I think there
• 1:22:10
  is. I think he's shown it and the Red Sacs are willing to let
• 1:22:12
  him run. I'm not seeing he's a sixty stolen based type of guy.
• 1:22:15
  But over a full season, if he does get the full playing time,
• 1:22:18
  forty stolen bases doesn't seem out of reason. I mean, he's done twenty
• 1:22:23
  and fifty games. I think teams will get smart and are giving a little
• 1:22:28
  more focus and so that will cut down the opportunities. And I think he's
• 1:22:30
  you know, he's got, he's got had some luck in getting on and
• 1:22:33
  what he's done in the role because injuries have led him to that playing time.
• 1:22:39
  So yeah, over full season, I would be shocked at forty forty
• 1:22:43
  five stolen bases for him. Yeah. So, I mean I think this
• 1:22:45
  is compared to Correa and Ramos, he's also going to be the trickiest to
• 1:22:51
  trade for because of that that whoever is looking at Hamilton and the stolen based
• 1:23:00
  total and sees where he's ranked over the past month is going to be into
• 1:23:04
  all the things that we're into. So I think compared to Ramos and career,
• 1:23:09
  he's gonna be just a little bit harder to negotiate a trade for because
• 1:23:14
  you need somebody that isn't looking for the stolen bases and has just a little
• 1:23:18
  bit of a wiggle room on Hamilton there, Yeah, absolutely. I think
• 1:23:24
  you're right. He's gonna be. He's gonna be. He's gonna cost you
• 1:23:27
  a pretty penny because he means something to somebody exactly. All right, Well,
• 1:23:31
  now let's switch it over to the pitching side, and the first two
• 1:23:35
  guys that we're going to discuss, actually I think are kind of in the
• 1:23:39
  same boat where I've been really starting to get into these pitchers who throw multiple
• 1:23:45
  fastballs, and so part of it is the just ability to be able to
• 1:23:49
  control the zone and the count. And it goes back to recent Justin Troy
• 1:23:54
  piece on fangrafts that I'll link in the show details. It just explains how
• 1:23:59
  lots of guys getting by even though like some of their stuff might not look
• 1:24:03
  good and some of the savant pages might not look good because when you're mixing
• 1:24:09
  like a cutter, a forcing fastball, a two seamer, and like a
• 1:24:13
  sinker and just kind of all tunneling them, well, it's really hard for
• 1:24:17
  batters to pick up what's what, and especially if you can dot those into
• 1:24:23
  the zone, then that gives the picture a great advantage. The other great
• 1:24:26
  advantage for us from the fantasy side is that these pictures because the savant pages
• 1:24:30
  don't look great. The stuff page, the stuff plus pages maybe look a
• 1:24:34
  little muted. The overall package of how they pitch makes the projections not think
• 1:24:43
  that they're going to keep up the type of pace that they're on, and
• 1:24:45
  so that just creates and just buying arbitrage opportunity in our fantasy game, because
• 1:24:51
  anyone who is using those projections to evaluate those players, I think will underestimate
• 1:24:59
  what true talent is. And so the first one that we have in this
• 1:25:01
  category is somebody who I've used a lot in my waiver wire piece and it's
• 1:25:09
  just surprising checking in on him every week and seeing him steadily climb and produce.
• 1:25:14
  That is Jake Irvin from the Washington Nationals, who over the last thirty
• 1:25:18
  days has been worth thirteen point six dollars, and that is because of a
• 1:25:24
  two two nine e RA with a one one three whip over thirty five and
• 1:25:29
  a third innings only comes with three wins because it is the Washington Nationals.
• 1:25:33
  But with Jake Urban's overall profile, what I also like is that not only
• 1:25:38
  does he have those multiple fast balls like I just discussed, but he's got
• 1:25:42
  a really, really nasty slider that he rates as a one forty four on
• 1:25:46
  the stuff plus scale from Enosarus, and he's just put together a lot of
• 1:25:53
  really great things for me. I don't think that honestly, he's probably on
• 1:25:56
  a lot of waiver wire still sitting in those free agent pools. And even
• 1:26:00
  if you want to go out and acquire him, I think Jake Irvin is
• 1:26:03
  going to be really really cheap because whoever owns him thinks that they've already banked
• 1:26:11
  all the great work from him and see that the projections have him slated for
• 1:26:16
  something like a mid foes era the rest of the way. But I just
• 1:26:19
  don't see it that. Like, I think Jake Irvin is going to be
• 1:26:23
  somewhere more like a mid threes guy because it's all working for him. His
• 1:26:28
  Savant page says that it's a similar package to Seth Lugo, and I think
• 1:26:30
  that's a great kind of person to point to as our north star here.
• 1:26:36
  Yeah, I think that for what you pay for him, Jake Irvin is
• 1:26:41
  very interesting because I don't want to say it, but I feel like steady
• 1:26:45
  Eddie kind of guy, Like he just is very consistent. He doesn't really
• 1:26:50
  walk a ton of guys. He doesn't really strike out a ton of guys.
• 1:26:56
  You know, he doesn't really give up that many homers. He doesn't
• 1:27:00
  really put the ball in the air. Like he's just a slightly above average
• 1:27:02
  in each of those things, which is good. And I think he's just
• 1:27:06
  being hidden on the Nationals to a degree. And it don't get me wrong,
• 1:27:09
  I'm not saying he's a top twenty, top thirty, or top forty
• 1:27:11
  pitcher by any means, Like he is the definition of you lost your rotation
• 1:27:15
  to injuries and you need to get a guy in for innings because, especially
• 1:27:18
  if you're in an innans cap league, he's actually not ideal because the strikeouts
• 1:27:23
  aren't that attractive. But if you are running out of innings, it's better
• 1:27:27
  to have the guy than I have anybody. And so I think Irvan's one
• 1:27:30
  of those guys that I don't think is going to get blown up, Like
• 1:27:34
  I don't think he throws pretty goshdarn hard to your point, like with that
• 1:27:39
  fastball. You know, he's a ninety four ninety five guy, and you
• 1:27:44
  know, he he does seem to, you know, change it up a
• 1:27:47
  little bit, you know, with with having a you know, good I
• 1:27:53
  think sinker kind of pitch. Yeah, sinker cutter like he he's just kind
• 1:28:00
  of dabbling across multiple different pitches. And so yeah, Urban is an interesting
• 1:28:08
  one. Don't expect a lot of wins or things like that, but hey,
• 1:28:11
  if you're if you're shopping at this point, well for starting pitchers,
• 1:28:15
  there's a lot worse choices than Jake Urban. Yeah, I do agree,
• 1:28:18
  And I mean you brought up a great point with the low walk rates and
• 1:28:23
  home run rates. That that's also you'll see it like it pops out immediately
• 1:28:26
  on the Fangrass page. He has a just under a two per nine walk
• 1:28:30
  rate, but the projections all have him slated for something like a three home
• 1:28:34
  run rate. He's got a point eighty four when all the projections have him
• 1:28:39
  more like in the mid one twos ish. So that's where exactly like what
• 1:28:44
  I'm talking about in terms of like, I don't he's just changed from what
• 1:28:48
  the projections have picked up. And it's gonna be you've rug out a little
• 1:28:53
  bit of a runway before I think it all gets integrated. Yeah, and
• 1:28:56
  I won't even say he'd changed like from twenty nine team through twenty twenty two.
• 1:29:00
  He never really walked more than two and a half guys per any or
• 1:29:04
  sorry, per nine for any that'd be pretty rough. And so like,
• 1:29:08
  yeah, he lost some time with injury there, but then he got to
• 1:29:13
  triple A in the majors last year and he was he he had a little
• 1:29:15
  control issues as he was trying to figure things out. I'm not surprised by
• 1:29:18
  that. So like, he just feels like he's getting back to who he
• 1:29:21
  is. So I'm taking it exactly, Okay. The next guy who I
• 1:29:27
  think falls into this bucket of the multiple fastballs and is just using them to
• 1:29:31
  their maximum ability right now is Tobias Myers from the Milwaukee Brewers, who has
• 1:29:39
  been worth twenty one point six dollars over the past thirty days on our Player
• 1:29:43
  Raider. That is thanks to a two ten Era and a point ninety seven
• 1:29:47
  whip. The babbitb Pier is certainly driving a lot more of the luck as
• 1:29:51
  a two thirty eight Babbitt. But the nice thing with Myers is he pitches
• 1:29:57
  for the Milwaukee Brewers and that means more wins. He should stick in the
• 1:30:00
  rotation for Milwaukee because Robert Gasser is going to be out for a significant time
• 1:30:08
  here and that is going to keep that door open, I think for Myers,
• 1:30:11
  and he's just been pitching well enough, as I stated there, with
• 1:30:15
  that past thirty days to be able to be valuable. I think he's even
• 1:30:19
  though the value of the past thirty days has been higher than Irvin, I
• 1:30:24
  think he's not as good as Irvin, and you can see it right in
• 1:30:28
  kind of like the FIP where it's a four to sixty six right now,
• 1:30:30
  but that also includes a little bit of just really not as great work in
• 1:30:35
  the earlier in the season. As you know, I think he's really refined
• 1:30:40
  his arsenal more and more over this past month to be able to emphasize all
• 1:30:44
  those different fastballs and offerings. And just like Irvin, his overall like fastballs
• 1:30:50
  and cutters and sinkers all rate below average on the stuff plus scale, but
• 1:30:58
  I think they all play up because when they come out of the same tunnel,
• 1:31:00
  you don't know which way they're going. And the other reason I have
• 1:31:04
  him ranged a little bit below Irvin is his walk rate has been a little
• 1:31:10
  bit more elevated than urban throughout the minor leagues, and even in this season.
• 1:31:14
  He also has a lower ground ball rate, so I mean, if
• 1:31:16
  you're in a league where Ervin is missing and maybe the owner of Jake Iervin
• 1:31:24
  also listens to this podcast or reads my pieces and is bought into the Jake
• 1:31:28
  Irbin experience. I think Myers is a worthy reconciliation prize. Yeah, I'm
• 1:31:35
  I think you're right on there. I'm I'm probably a little further down on
• 1:31:40
  Myers. I think there's potential there, but I'm more spot starting. Maybe
• 1:31:45
  with Tobias Myers, like the luck metrics are like you'd not Bryce Elder of
• 1:31:51
  like last year where it's just like the train's coming and you just get off
• 1:31:56
  the tracks, right. I think with Tobias he's not been as good as
• 1:32:00
  what like Elder was, but he's also got like I feel like every luck
• 1:32:03
  metric you look like he's on the wrong side of it, right, his
• 1:32:06
  babeit has been low, his left on basement high, his home runs for
• 1:32:10
  fly balls been lucky. Like, it just seems like he's gotten a lot
• 1:32:15
  of luck across a lot of areas. And I'm not I wouldn't be surprised
• 1:32:18
  to see a guy with a four and a half era coming out of it.
• 1:32:21
  So he's a guy that I'd consider if I see a few good starts
• 1:32:26
  or maybe a good two start week, but I'm probably shining a little bit
• 1:32:30
  away if I'm having to go that deep because I don't trust myself to not
• 1:32:33
  play guys when I have him on my team. Yeah, I mean for
• 1:32:36
  some personal issues. Yeah, and even with that two thirty eight babbitit is
• 1:32:42
  pretty low. But the Brewers do have a good defense. They're actually fifth
• 1:32:46
  in the league in BABEB. It's a two seventy seven BABEP that they have
• 1:32:50
  as a pitching staff, which makes sense. A Dominis and terrang are solid
• 1:32:55
  up the middle, and obviously you have Jackson Curio out in center field.
• 1:32:59
  So that's consideration here as well, is that you're starting to be able to
• 1:33:03
  see which teams have the elite defenses, and I think Milwaukee is in that
• 1:33:09
  boat, which is part of the reason that they've been playing so well.
• 1:33:14
  Okay the disagree. Yeah. The next guy that we have actually slots in
• 1:33:17
  right behind Myers on our last thirty days. That is Hunter Brown from the
• 1:33:23
  Houston Astros, who's been worth also twenty one point six dollars, but it's
• 1:33:26
  come with a three era of point eighty four whip thirty five strikeouts to eight
• 1:33:33
  walks in thirty one innings. He's accumulated two wins in that time. He
• 1:33:39
  just picked up a win as we've been talking tonight against the White Sox.
• 1:33:44
  This dude has been on an absolute tearor and honestly like pitching like a top
• 1:33:49
  twenty pitcher since maybe like mid to early May. After he had those few
• 1:33:57
  hiccups early in the season, he's been really the lights out and I think
• 1:34:01
  he's turned into There was a lot of hype I think around Hunter Brown last
• 1:34:05
  year because last year, honestly like the season had a bit of like the
• 1:34:11
  opposite shape to it, where he started really strong then faded down the stretch.
• 1:34:16
  I think as he just got worn down by the Major League Baseball schedule.
• 1:34:21
  This year, it seems like the skills, I don't know, like
• 1:34:27
  what he struggled with in April. Maybe there was a tipping situation, or
• 1:34:30
  maybe that just like some sort of new regime change gave him different suggestions.
• 1:34:36
  But Hunter Brown has been absolutely electric as a starting pitcher. And I mean
• 1:34:42
  I think this is maybe after the win with the White Sox night, maybe
• 1:34:46
  people will be starting to wake up to this. But you've got to get
• 1:34:50
  in and try to acquire Hunter Brown. I think especially in leagues where you
• 1:34:55
  have Los Yamamoto or are falling behind and pitching, because this guy looks like
• 1:35:00
  he could be, like I said, like a top twenty, top fifteen
• 1:35:02
  pitcher. Rest away the way he has been for the past month. Yeah,
• 1:35:06
  he's been fantastic since the start of May. I mean he's not counting.
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  Today's area is about two and a half. If any problem is he's
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  he struggled with a long ball a little bit during that time period, and
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  in the last three starts he's only getting up one run, including tonight,
• 1:35:20
  and that was a home run. But he's he's striking out ten eleven guys
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  for for nine. He's keeping the walks in check, like and he says
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  nasty stuff, and he also what would interest me? And he and this
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  is not the guy that you can just go up. There's some leagues you
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  know he's mid eighties percent owned, like he's he's still out there in a
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  few shallower leagues. But you know, the hope here is he's a guy
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  that you can potentially go tell alone or hey, he's been lucky because he's
• 1:35:47
  been a little lucky even on with his hot streak, but hey, you
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  saw how bad he was the beginning of the season. Like you could probably
• 1:35:55
  still get him for a little discount because his era is still you know,
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  like I fors I mean mid fours after tonight, and so on the surface,
• 1:36:03
  the overall metrics don't look that great. But he made a pitching a
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  pitch mix change kind of you know, mid May, and it really came
• 1:36:15
  down to using his two seamer a little bit more and he went back to
• 1:36:23
  a cutter that he had used previously, and so he kind of brought those
• 1:36:26
  pitches back and he's attacking the top of the zone with them, which he
• 1:36:30
  really hadn't been in there earlier in the season. So it seems like he's
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  using pitches a little different. He's attacking right he's and lefties a little different
• 1:36:42
  he had and it's just paying dividends. And so literally it was a shift
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  in approach. That's when I see a guy with a shift and approach,
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  and all of a sudden, the results file follow. I am much more
• 1:36:53
  intrigued than a guy that doesn't seem to have done that. So I am
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  all in on Hunter Brown. I was before the season and I regret not
• 1:37:00
  sticking to my guns and acquiring him in more spots because I actually I own
• 1:37:05
  him multiple spots. I actually cut him one and gone right back because of
• 1:37:10
  that. But I love Hunter Brown. I'm so excited about him going forward,
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  and I think there's still a little buying window left on him, but
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  it is closing very, very fast. And that's a good point on the
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  mixed pitch change because it actually moves him further, like closer in to the
• 1:37:25
  bucket that I was talking about of like the multiple fastballs, because he's throwing
• 1:37:29
  the four seam, the sinker, and the cutter all together, and it's
• 1:37:32
  the same sort of thing, like, yeah, if you can locate that
• 1:37:35
  each of those pitches in the zone, once you're starting to throw those on
• 1:37:39
  the edges, batteries don't know which way that fastball is moving and at that
• 1:37:43
  point they're guessing, and even if they're making contact with it, if it's
• 1:37:48
  a sinker instead of a cutter that they were expecting, it's landing on a
• 1:37:51
  different spot of the barrel. And yeah, that's fantastic for Hunter Brown,
• 1:37:57
  and compared to the other guys, he's working with much more velocity. Just
• 1:38:01
  also a nasty, nasty curveball compared to the other guys are relying a little
• 1:38:06
  bit more on sliders. So yeah, I think that this might be one
• 1:38:12
  of the last times that you get to buy Hunter Brown because the era is
• 1:38:15
  at four seventy two then on that surface level, and so if you are
• 1:38:20
  in a league where that Hunter Brown owner isn't digging into those last thirty day
• 1:38:25
  stats, I think you can find a pretty serious discount because I mean,
• 1:38:30
  yeah, where do you put him maybe in your top ish pictures that I
• 1:38:34
  was talking about, Like, is twenty to fifteen too high right now?
• 1:38:39
  Yeah, I think that. You know, I'm a little hesitant there,
• 1:38:44
  but there's been enough injuries that I think he might be sneaking into that,
• 1:38:46
  into that like it's part of it. I look at him like as probably
• 1:38:49
  a top twenty five thirty guy on an overall basis, but we've had enough
• 1:38:54
  injuries in that top tier that I think he is actually sneaking into the back
• 1:38:58
  of the top twenty just based on skills alone and now seeing a pitch mixed
• 1:39:02
  change paying off, I'm I'm willing to take the gamble of them on a
• 1:39:09
  top twenty and call that for the rest of the season with Hunter Brown.
• 1:39:12
  Okay, yeah, because then I mean, let me see, I mean,
• 1:39:19
  yeah, I think that it can be in there, just because,
• 1:39:23
  like I think he's been looking better than Pablo Lopez for sure. He's Yamamoto's
• 1:39:28
  falling out of there, and you're gonna be I think that's gonna push him
• 1:39:33
  kind of into like Logan Webish, you know. So Logan web on Marmo's
• 1:39:40
  dad's rankings is twenty six, and so yeah, I think wherever you've got
• 1:39:44
  like Flarity ranked, I would be putting Hunter Brown, like maybe right next
• 1:39:48
  to Flarity. It's kind of like the same sort of profile. It's just
• 1:39:51
  that like it hasn't shown up I think quite on everybody's radars because that era,
• 1:39:56
  like it we said, is four seventy two, very unsightly. Yeah,
• 1:40:00
  this is the kind of guy that if you did this in the opposite
• 1:40:02
  you'd be like, oh, okay, just a bad few starts and let
• 1:40:05
  them get back on the hill. Okay, Well, I think that's gonna
• 1:40:12
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