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Ep. 142 : May Player Of The Month PC · Cards & Categories

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  Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome everybody to episode one forty two of
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  Speaker 1: Cards and Categories. I'm Mike cool Ard from Baseball Perspectives,
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  Speaker 1: joined as always by my very good friend Jeremy Brewer.
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  Speaker 1: How are you doing tonight, buddy? We are in prime summer.
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  Speaker 1: First pod of June.
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  Speaker 2: We are in prime summer. I'm going to get back
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  Speaker 2: to actually podcasting from my basement. But it's been like
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  Speaker 2: a month now that I've been podcasting from different places.
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  Speaker 2: I'm in Wisconsin today. I was in Nashville three weeks ago.
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  Speaker 2: I did up for my deck because a lot of
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  Speaker 2: power last week. So I'm on a run here. But
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  Speaker 2: I'm it doesn't matter where we're at, what time it is,
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  Speaker 2: we are going to podcast. We're going to talk about baseball.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm throws.
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  Speaker 1: I appreciate your dedication, but yeah, it's been a good
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  Speaker 1: kickoff to the summer where lots of great college world
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  Speaker 1: series action to open the past couple of weeks. And
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  Speaker 1: on top of it, you can tell it's getting warmer
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  Speaker 1: because I don't know about you, but it does feel
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  Speaker 1: like all of my pictures are getting sheld, feels like
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  Speaker 1: offenses are up. It feels like people are bonking home
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  Speaker 1: runs off of others heads.
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  Speaker 3: Did you see the Joe Adele clip.
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  Speaker 1: Is this not going down in the pantheon, especially coming
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  Speaker 1: on the on the other end of him robbing three
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  Speaker 1: home runs and then Jose knsekoing himself in the same season.
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  Speaker 1: That is that is the highest of highs and lowest
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  Speaker 1: of lows.
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  Speaker 2: My friend, I did see somebody say that there's only
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  Speaker 2: been twice in history where a air has been made
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  Speaker 2: and the ball has hit off a player and gone
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  Speaker 2: for a home run. And they're both Joe adel because
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  Speaker 2: because good Jose canseeka wasn't an air because he didn't
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  Speaker 2: even touch the ball with his gloves, so it just
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  Speaker 2: went off its head. But Adella, this is the second
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  Speaker 2: time now he has done this where he has managed
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  Speaker 2: to hit it with his glove and ricochet over the field.
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  Speaker 2: I think I don't think the other one of him had,
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  Speaker 2: but I think the other one was off the glove.
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  Speaker 2: But for all the athletic ability there the wherewithal the
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  Speaker 2: mad awareness breading is not the highest for Joe adel No, No.
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  Speaker 1: It doesn't appear to be. We've been taken too. On
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  Speaker 1: BP today after the box score banter that came out
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  Speaker 1: we're taking calling Joe Adel while Luigi Byron Buxton, which
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  Speaker 1: I think is so fitting, it's so perfect that yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to dropping that every time I.
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  Speaker 3: Get to Okay, well, we've got a great show coming up.
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  Speaker 1: Today we're gonna do our typical monthly Player of the
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  Speaker 1: Month PC. So we just wrapped up May and this
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  Speaker 1: afternoon we are speaking here on Wednesday, June third. Thankfully,
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  Speaker 1: this afternoon they put out the awards for the month
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  Speaker 1: so that we were able to put together our PC picks.
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  Speaker 1: We've got some fun ones, so some interesting repeaters I
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  Speaker 1: would say, where we had to dig deeper into the
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  Speaker 1: baseball card just whole collection of these guys where we
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  Speaker 1: don't have as many selections available, and then some new ones.
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  Speaker 3: So it's gonna be.
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  Speaker 1: I think, some fun picks. We're gonna actually lead off
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  Speaker 1: with card news here. We're gonna get back to the
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  Speaker 1: roots of cards and categories. Put in the cards first,
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  Speaker 1: because we do have a major piece of news in
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  Speaker 1: terms of hobby and card collecting where it came out
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  Speaker 1: this past week that PSA is temporarily gonna pause all
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  Speaker 1: of the card grading tiers under eighty dollars, So if
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  Speaker 1: you're not familiar with card grading. What happens is PSA
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  Speaker 1: one of the major card grading companies, if not probably
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  Speaker 1: like the premiere one. They are certainly the most trusted
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  Speaker 1: and most valued in the market. You certainly have other
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  Speaker 1: options like Beckett, and you know, you can get all
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  Speaker 1: the way down to the weirdo ones with the dudes
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  Speaker 1: that like just put slabs together in their basements and
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  Speaker 1: call it Pete's Grading Company or whatever. But because of that,
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  Speaker 1: because you can get a lot of random companies, has
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  Speaker 1: become the bell weather in the hobby for decades and
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  Speaker 1: decades now at this point, and so they certainly get
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  Speaker 1: the greatest volume, but they've also been getting more and
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  Speaker 1: more investment. You know, they had announced previously a two
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  Speaker 1: hundred million dollar expansion. As the card collecting game is
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  Speaker 1: getting bananas. But you know, this is probably the bread
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  Speaker 1: and butter of most people's collections was sending in cards
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  Speaker 1: that were less than eighty dollars. And then what would
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  Speaker 1: happen is when you send in the card and based
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  Speaker 1: on the value on the grade that it gets, that's
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  Speaker 1: how you would be charged. So you know, most singles,
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  Speaker 1: most kind of common cards are in this eighty grade
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  Speaker 1: tier and then from there, you know, you can see
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  Speaker 1: that PSA is really catering to the higher end clients
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  Speaker 1: with this decision.
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  Speaker 3: Because they didn't say anything about.
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  Speaker 1: Over eighties, I'm guessing they'll be more delayed, but certainly
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  Speaker 1: they've got a huge backlog. It sounds it's like around
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  Speaker 1: ten million cards. Where again, this also is an all
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  Speaker 1: baseball where basketball cards have taken off, especially with Victor
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  Speaker 1: Women Yama, and you've got foll people submitting all their
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  Speaker 1: cards for football to be ready for the season in
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  Speaker 1: a couple months as well as like, honestly, I think
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  Speaker 1: a lot of this is Pokemon. Pokemon cards have really
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  Speaker 1: gone bananas over the past year or two. It is
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  Speaker 1: all over like my Instagram feed where I actually like
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  Speaker 1: watch lots of different sports cards, but like, you can't
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  Speaker 1: avoid the Pokemon cards even though I'm not into them,
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  Speaker 1: and honestly, they're kind of intriguing too.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not gonna lie.
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  Speaker 2: But I don't understand it, but it's intriguing.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, So what's your take here, brew Like, this is
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  Speaker 1: gonna be a hindrance obviously to the hobby overall, but
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  Speaker 1: it's also maybe a decent hallmark in terms of showing
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  Speaker 1: the growth that's still going on, but we're also seeing
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  Speaker 1: kind of where PSA has decided to focus their efforts,
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  Speaker 1: and there continues to be lines drawn in the sand
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  Speaker 1: throughout the hobby in terms of haves and have not.
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  Speaker 1: So what's your take on this? Do you think that
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  Speaker 1: like PSA will stay the industry lead and if you
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  Speaker 1: have any suggestions for grading cards or going to different companies,
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  Speaker 1: certainly drop the knowledge on the folks out there.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it's I think this is not surprising.
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  Speaker 2: PSA is the hallmark, and I don't know if it's
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  Speaker 2: because of the quality. BGS Beckett might actually tend to
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  Speaker 2: be the hardest greator and if you can get a
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  Speaker 2: black label from them actually worth more than any PSA
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  Speaker 2: ten by eight multiples. But PSA has become the gold
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  Speaker 2: standard and because of that, everybody wants it, everybody's going
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  Speaker 2: to be dedicated to it. And you know the volume
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  Speaker 2: place ten million card backlog on their value, which you know,
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  Speaker 2: even submitting value, I just actually submitted I spent like
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  Speaker 2: once or twice a year. I submitted a fourteen card
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  Speaker 2: order in mid May. It is due back to me
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  Speaker 2: in late August, So it's a good three month turnaround,
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  Speaker 2: and I think the average costs that point they had
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  Speaker 2: bumped it up was maybe twenty eight dollars a card
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  Speaker 2: to grade, and I hope I'm maybe get up charge
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  Speaker 2: in there somewhere. Thanks so, mister Otani if I hit well.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, they're looking at the big cards, the
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  Speaker 2: big players, that's who they want to get through, and
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  Speaker 2: they don't have to push things through faster they will
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  Speaker 2: because the more they get through, the more well incomes in.
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  Speaker 2: It's it's going to play pay dividends for them. But
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  Speaker 2: the really interesting thing to me is going to be
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  Speaker 2: the supply and demand, right because you've got, especially the
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  Speaker 2: football season coming up here. You've got some of those
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  Speaker 2: bigger names as quarterbacks. People are hoping to break out,
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  Speaker 2: and if you didn't get them graded, you're out of
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  Speaker 2: luck unless you're going to those high tiers. And so
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  Speaker 2: you're actually going to see some populations of typical cards
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  Speaker 2: with baseball season going to the playoffs, with football season
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  Speaker 2: starting up, where you're going to be seeing a little
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  Speaker 2: more less supply with the high demand, which is going
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  Speaker 2: to drive some of those PSA prices up significantly. And
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  Speaker 2: we're seeing it even in some of the vintage markets
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  Speaker 2: right now where PSA prices are up and I expect
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  Speaker 2: to continue. So it's good for the hobby, it's bad
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  Speaker 2: for the hobby all at once. But the essays the standard,
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  Speaker 2: there's not much you can do about it.
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  Speaker 3: Yep.
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  Speaker 1: I think those are all very fair takes. The other
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  Speaker 1: bit of news we had on the card side over
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  Speaker 1: the past week is it does look like the main
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  Speaker 1: chase card from TOPS series one twenty twenty six was uncovered.
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  Speaker 1: It's currently on Golden Auctions, which is an upper tier
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  Speaker 1: of eBay essentially where actually I don't know who bought
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  Speaker 1: who between I'm guessing eBay back went and bought Golden
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  Speaker 1: Auctions back in the day, but don't quote me on that,
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  Speaker 1: but it used to be it's own separate auction house.
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  Speaker 1: But it is more for higher end cards and higher
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  Speaker 1: end items. And so what appeared there was the Redemption
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  Speaker 1: card that was the number one chase card from series one.
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  Speaker 1: It was a graded nineteen fifty two Tops Mickey Mantle
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  Speaker 1: rookie card. Where you know, right now as we're speaking
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  Speaker 1: here on June third, you still got till the end
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  Speaker 1: of the month, still June twenty eight, getting your bids
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  Speaker 1: one hundred and twenty k is what's at right now.
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  Speaker 1: This thing's probably gonna push half a million, if not more.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know where this thing could go
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  Speaker 1: because you've kind of got one we just talked about
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  Speaker 1: that issues the PSA two. I mean, this is gonna
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  Speaker 1: be a very nice card and it's gonna be an
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  Speaker 1: authenticated Mickey Mantle. And then three, you're layering in that
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  Speaker 1: it came back to you via the TOPS redemption as
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  Speaker 1: being the main chase car from twenty twenty six, so
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  Speaker 1: it's got a little bit more provenance to it that,
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  Speaker 1: especially when you get into like Mickey Mantle PSA graded
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  Speaker 1: territories that are of acceptable grades, they have a provenance
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  Speaker 1: to them the way that like high end art does,
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  Speaker 1: where people care about where the Mickey Mantles came from
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  Speaker 1: and who owned them. And I think adding that layer
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  Speaker 1: of the TOPS redemption to the story of this Mickey
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  Speaker 1: Mantle will be very huge going forward. So do we
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  Speaker 1: give up on ripping Series one?
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  Speaker 2: Now?
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  Speaker 1: Is this is it over where we uncovered the big one?
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  Speaker 1: Everyone out there looking for the Wanka Golden Ticket. You
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  Speaker 1: can stop your ripping right now? Or you know, is
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  Speaker 1: this something where if you're again glad to see just
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  Speaker 1: the value that's kind of coming through the top series
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  Speaker 1: one ripping that happened that you know this card was
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  Speaker 1: in there, it was uncovered, and somebody's about to hit
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  Speaker 1: a huge payday for it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I do love to see it. I
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  Speaker 2: do love to see those cards getting pulled. It's one
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  Speaker 2: of those things where it's life changing. To your point,
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  Speaker 2: we don't know if this is going to go. For
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  Speaker 2: the example they use for the Sneaky Mantle card was
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  Speaker 2: a PSA five five and PSA six goes for about
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  Speaker 2: two hundred and twenty KSA five about two hundred k,
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  Speaker 2: But they did not say what it's going to be.
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  Speaker 2: And so to your point, you know, a PSA eight
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  Speaker 2: goes for just a hundred million, a PSA nine goes
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  Speaker 2: for four, and so if this is a PSA seven
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  Speaker 2: or something like that, you know we're talking a four
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  Speaker 2: hundred thousand dollars card. It's life changing for over pulls it,
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  Speaker 2: and it just means that anybody can't and I think
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  Speaker 2: we've seen it more and more that it's not just
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  Speaker 2: the breakers that get an opportunity to pull these cards.
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  Speaker 2: That's and that's the fun thing about it. Even if
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  Speaker 2: it is through a breaker, somebody else gets it. Most
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  Speaker 2: most breakers will pull up there into the bargain. Maybe
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  Speaker 2: not at all, but I'm excited for it. I'm not
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  Speaker 2: saying that it really changes ripping series There's one if
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  Speaker 2: you ripping Series one just for this card, that's kind
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  Speaker 2: of like going back when the guys would trying to
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  Speaker 2: build the Golden Mirror to get the bounties on it. Like,
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  Speaker 2: it's probably not the right financial decision, but if you
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  Speaker 2: have that money to play that game, you probably don't
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  Speaker 2: care if the financial decision. So that's not why anybody
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  Speaker 2: else is ripping Series one, or at least you shouldn't.
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  Speaker 2: But again, it's it's exciting to see something.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I totally agree. So I think that's
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  Speaker 1: a very good take. Well, we've got a few additions
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  Speaker 1: and updates that happened to that Baseball card release calendar
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  Speaker 1: where this is like when things get really cooking in
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  Speaker 1: terms of what's on the release calendar gets a little aggressive,
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  Speaker 1: I think too, where we've already seen a little bit
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  Speaker 1: of shuffling and it happens very rapidly week to week
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  Speaker 1: in terms of new pre orders, new release dates, and
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  Speaker 1: lining things up for those tops printing presses. So coming
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  Speaker 1: up this week, we've got on June fifth, twenty five
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  Speaker 1: Tops Chrome Platinum coming out. I've already seen on Reddit
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  Speaker 1: it's hitting shelves and random walmarts where the suppliers maybe
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  Speaker 1: jump the gun a little bit, but it should be
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  Speaker 1: hitting shelves everywhere on Friday. If you do get the
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  Speaker 1: opportunity to rip it or find it in the wild,
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  Speaker 1: I would say go for it. Like whenever you get
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  Speaker 1: the chance to get something before it officially is out
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  Speaker 1: on its release date, and you get that couple of
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  Speaker 1: days to be able to get ahead of the pack,
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  Speaker 1: to get your cards listed and maybe pack possibly even
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  Speaker 1: package it's shipped out from eBay.
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  Speaker 3: You've got to take advantage of that, right group.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you absolutely have to. I mean, that's one of
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  Speaker 2: the best ways to rip is when you can get
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  Speaker 2: that quick return. It's it's not as easy as it
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  Speaker 2: used to be to kind of break even, but there's
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  Speaker 2: a good chance you get one or two hits, you
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  Speaker 2: can probably kind of get most of your money back,
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  Speaker 2: maybe say eighty percent. So yeah, even though maybe Chrome
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  Speaker 2: Platinum is not the you know, the product I still
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  Speaker 2: think if it's out there, if it's the few days
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  Speaker 2: before release, absolutely give it a shot. If you're waiting
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  Speaker 2: for a week or two after, this is probably why
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  Speaker 2: it's so out.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, Then we've got Top Series two coming out next
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  Speaker 1: week twenty twenty six, on June tenth. That will be
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  Speaker 1: the main pod that we have next week, so keep
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  Speaker 1: that in mind. We will have all the overview, all
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  Speaker 1: the checklist details for you as you're out there ripping
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  Speaker 1: Series two, because it is we focus on the series
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  Speaker 1: major releases, and that is one of the big ones.
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  Speaker 1: Flagship Series two. You've got June seventeenth, currently twenty twenty
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  Speaker 1: five Top to Dynasty and twenty twenty six Donnars Elite
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  Speaker 1: June nineteenth, twenty twenty five, Tops Inception June twenty fourth,
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty six Tops Tier one July fifteenth, twenty twenty six,
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  Speaker 1: Niny Immaculate Collection. I think I got all the twenty
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  Speaker 1: fives and twenty six is correct there. I double checked
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  Speaker 1: my work a few times, but it will get confusing
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  Speaker 1: as we get the overlap of twenty five and twenty six.
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  Speaker 1: It continues all summer, which is a pain in the
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  Speaker 1: as right.
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  Speaker 2: It absolutely is. But these are some of the best
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  Speaker 2: releases of the year if you ask me as far
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  Speaker 2: as like the kind of cards and the quality cards.
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  Speaker 2: Inception Tier one, Binus, Tribute Sapphire. It's a little out
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  Speaker 2: of price rang for most, but like there's some amazing
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  Speaker 2: cards in there. And Series two, which we'll we'll talk
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  Speaker 2: about another time, probably a week from now. It's loaded
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  Speaker 2: and it's gonna be fun. It's gonna be one of
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  Speaker 2: the best Series two in a number of years, So
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  Speaker 2: I think it's gonna be really fun. And they've got
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  Speaker 2: some Princess presses going going over at Tops for sure.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, Well, if you want to see the full calendar,
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  Speaker 1: there's also some pre orders that are coming up over
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  Speaker 1: the next couple of weeks. In terms of these are
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  Speaker 1: all twenty twenty six products, Dynamic Tools from Tops, Finest
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  Speaker 1: from Tops, Tribute from Tops, and Bowman Sapphire. So if
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  Speaker 1: you're looking out for those pre orders, check that out
• 15:07
  Speaker 1: in the show notes where if you're down there, you
• 15:09
  Speaker 1: can also sign up for a ras Ball subscription that
• 15:12
  Speaker 1: will get you access to all the fancy Schmancy ras
• 15:15
  Speaker 1: Ball tools that we've got. The hitter Tron it's the
• 15:18
  Speaker 1: instreaminator event on fire recently where especially this week, I
• 15:22
  Speaker 1: streamed on Hintertron the Jack Caglion series in Cincinnati where
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  Speaker 1: he's actually come to life. I picked up that Jose
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  Speaker 1: Serie Grand Slam that happened on Monday, where if you
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: had gone into the hitter Tron and just sordered by
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  Speaker 1: home runs, you would have popped both those guys based
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  Speaker 1: on availability. So the tools work. They come through for
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: you on your subscription. I highly suggest them, and especially
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: as you're into the thicket things right now, they are
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: reflecting everything in terms of weather, daily matchups, and recent performances,
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: so they've got all the considerations that you need to
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: make your daily lineup to say. Now, let's get into
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  Speaker 1: the news and notes that happened in regular baseball that's
• 16:04
  Speaker 1: affecting our fantasy teams out there, and I think you're
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  Speaker 1: gonna notice a theme for the first three, especially if
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: you're in those show notes, you'll see that they all
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  Speaker 1: are reading the same. But we're gonna start in Cincinnati
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  Speaker 1: where Ellie de la Cruz going down with a hamstring
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  Speaker 1: strain and that is allowing Edwin Arroyo to come up
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  Speaker 1: and play shortstop in his stead. It was an interesting
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  Speaker 1: kind of development here for Ellie in terms of when
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  Speaker 1: he got hurt on Sunday, They're like, oh, it's it's
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  Speaker 1: just a minor hamstring strain. He'll play through it, and
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  Speaker 1: you're just like, no, there's no way. But also maybe
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  Speaker 1: considering what they made him play through last year, Edwin
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  Speaker 1: or Royo was coming up with a pretty substellar line
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  Speaker 1: in TRIPAA eleven homers, nine stolen bases, three twenty three,
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  Speaker 1: three eighty three, five sixty two slash line a one
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  Speaker 1: forty three WRC plus As a twenty two year old
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  Speaker 1: down there.
• 17:00
  Speaker 3: I will say he does chase a lot.
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: He's got thirty seven percent swing percentage, which would be
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: like in the bottom twenty five.
• 17:09
  Speaker 3: Of the league.
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: And so we'll see how the profile holds up in
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: terms of getting to the majors, because all the projections
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: are also reflecting that right now where they've got him
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: over like a full season, he'd be about a ten
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: to ten player with a two to fifty average. So
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: what are you doing here with Ellie the rest of
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: the season in terms of what you might be doing
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: to discount that speed because of the hamstring strain, and
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: then what's your take on Edwin Royo joining the Reds.
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I think for Ellie you definitely have to,
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: you know, discount the speed. I don't know what number
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: you want to put on it, maybe call it like
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: a three quarters of what you would have expected the speed.
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: I gonna say it's been down already, but it has
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: been a little less of the last few seasons. So
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: you know, maybe we were going to end up with
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: a twenty steal Ellie. It's not going to be the
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: sixty seven steel La of twenty four, and we weren't
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: expecting that anyway, but you might end up with more
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: of the like I said, a twenty steel Ellie Della
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: Cruz here. And then you know, I think you have
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: to just assume that it's going to take him some
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: time to get back, and he is very much raw athleticism,
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: so he'll have some peaks and valleys when he gets back.
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: On the flip side, Arroyo here is. I think you're right,
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: he's got some some questions in the profile, but he's
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: looked really good this year and I think he's worth
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: a dart throw in any twelve teamer, maybe even a
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: ten teamer. Depends on deep that that league is. He
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: kind of makes me think of like a William Domas type,
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: you know, maybe maybe a high end outcome for him
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: as a Dancy Swanson. Like he's got some speed, he's
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: got some pop, you know his he does work the count,
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: he will take take a walk. So I do like
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: what I see here, and I think this isrobably the
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: best case for a scenario for him to get a
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: chance to play, because it was gonna be hard to
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: break in that lineup with how much hitting that they had,
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: and so this is a very clean Ellie's out Arroyo's in.
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: See how he plays. If the Royal does well, we're
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: going to see on the rest of the season, if
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: he kind of struggles and tries to figure the things out.
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: He's still young, he goes back to the miners, and
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: next year he's better for it because he'll be his
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: you know, he's twenty two, he's you go into twenty
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: three year old season next year.
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: Yep, I think I'm right there with you on a
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: Royal where certainly great pickup anywhere where, especially you know,
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: if you had La go down, you can add him
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: just easy plug and play. And then I mean, there
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: is certainly the downside where he struggles and goes back down,
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: but there's also the upside where he plays well enough
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: to overtake second base from Matt McClain long term two.
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: So there is a lot of different pass with the arroyo,
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: and he's got enough talent to be able to take
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: that gamble to see what happens at m I before
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: you kind of make a full full right off of him.
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: If the o swing crops back up in the majors. Uh, okay,
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna go to Chicago. The White Sox Murataka Murakami
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: down with a hamstring strain, and this one was suffered
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: while running to first base, which was I joked about
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: this on the ras Ball podcast this past week, where
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: that is the mortal enemy of the Chicago White Sox
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: is running down the first base line. Just ask Eloy Jimenez, Luis,
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: Robert Jon Mancata, and now Munataka Murakami is amongst that group.
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: I mean, honestly, you've gotten your money back on mrcami
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: already with his Tony Homer's two forty average and forty
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: RBIs and forty runs for where you drafted him. It
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: was a total w So, I mean he's not gonna
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: be You're not gonna be able to replace that level production,
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: but like you can find something like a Nate Low
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: or even in Andrew Vaughn's available in lots of leagues
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: to be able to make you do until Murakami comes back.
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: Or you could also pick up maybe.
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: His his replacement, which is Jacob Gondals, which we haven't
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: talked about him maybe like since his draft because he
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: came up as a shortstop and was out of Ole Miss.
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: A first round pick in twenty twenty.
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: Three, but was seen as more as like a glove first,
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: kind of light bat quick to the Major's draft pick,
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: and that's what he had proved to be up until
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: this year.
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: He certainly made a swing change.
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: He's definitely swinging it harder because you know the in
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: game power at a thirty forty graade on it on fangrafts.
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: Coming into the season, He's popped nineteen homers to go
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: with eight stolen bases in Triple A before the promotion.
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: Do keep in mind, though, that Charlotte plays pretty offensive heavy,
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: but still it was a three seventeen four, nineteen six
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: sixty eight slash line, a one to sixty eight.
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: WRC plus before he came up.
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: All all of the metrics on prospects Savant were up
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: this year as well too, and then he showed up,
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: and you can see that he's probably got about league
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: average bat speed, which I don't think he probably had
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: before this year. I haven't seen a metric of like
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: his bat speed prior to this year, but all the
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: indications are that they're up for Jacob Gonzalez through sixteen
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: plate appearances as we're speaking, a two eighty six three
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: seventy five, two eighty six slash line. But you know,
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: he's keeping the strikeouts in check enough if I think
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: if he can keep it under thirty percent, he can
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: hang and he's going to play first base, I think
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: until Marrakami is back. So what's your take on Murakami
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: long term for the rest of the season and what
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: you're doing Jacob Gonzales as well.
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think Murakami, like he comes back, I think
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: he's gonna be the guy that we've seen. I you know,
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: his game's not speed, so I'm not terribly concerned that
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: is really going to be a big thing. But you know,
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: maybe the recovery time is good. Get some some time
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: to study things up, and he comes back just as
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: good as ever because he was on a crazy pace
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: and I don't see any reason why it should continue.
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: On the other side, Gonzales, he's intriguing to me. Definitely.
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: If I'm picking between like a Royo and Gonzales, I'm
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: going to Royo Gonzales. He's shown some pop this year.
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: The big concerning thing for him is he's not a
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: big fly ball power guy. This year in Triple A
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: his home run for a flyball rate is thirty percent.
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: That's like Aaron Judge esk. His career is roughly five percent.
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: That's a six x on it. And I know he's mature,
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: he's improved his swing things like that, but that's just unsustainable.
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: And so I think he's more of a high floor,
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: low ceiling type guy. Am I that I'd be kind
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: of intrigued by playing with it if you can get
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: him cheap. Maybe more of a deeper league kind of guy.
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: Like if I'm going for comps again here, I'm thinking
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: like a Brandard Crawford type of the guy. This a
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: little bit, you know, good across the board, maybe a
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: little bit above average, but just it's like he's the
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: kind of guy they're like, Yeah, I mean, I'm okay
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: if I end up with him, But I'm not like,
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: he's not like your planet a ever. That's kind of
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: what I see with jac and Gonzalez if things hit.
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: But hey, you're the White Sox guy, so you know
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: all of this better than I do, so I have
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: to trust you on it.
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I think he can be Okay.
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: It's gonna be very much like Colson Montgomery E And
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: that can maybe work and it might not work. So
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: it's a pretty hard line I think to walk, and
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: I think he will be worth adding in most leagues
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: Jacob Gonzalez that is, but also yeah, lower on the
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: priority list compared to Edwin Arroyo. I would also be
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: seeking out maybe other options that are available before I
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: dip into Jacob Gonzales, where I have no problem, just
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: like pulling the trigger on Edwin Arroyo immediately is and
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: am I.
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: No, I'm what, I'm right with you, okay.
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: Next piece of news, we have Taoscar Hernandez down with
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: a hamstring injury for the Dodgers, as he is the
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: third in our hamstring injury trio. Before this, he was
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: just Taoscar Hernandez, so it was set in and forget it.
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: You know, it's obviously goes hot and cold, but like
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: by the end of a three year period, it's always
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: going to be thirty homers with like at two sixty
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: five average in mid eighties runs a RBI, so you're
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: not dropping ta Oscar probably where you got him in
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: his stead in the majors. The Dodgers have called up
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: first baseman corner outfielder Ryan Ward, who may be known
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: to listeners out there because he put up an insanely
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: bonkers twenty twenty five Minor league season at Triple A
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: with thirty six homers, sixteen stolen bases two ninety three
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: eighty five p fifty seven slash line. He was doing
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: just about the same thing with six homers and six
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: stolen bases before.
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: The call up this year.
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: The caveat is he's a twenty eight year old, kind
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: of low defense, low ceiling corner guy that like this
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: is your typical classic quad A guy, but in the
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: middle of the Dodgers' lineup. It should be on the
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: strong side of platoon, probably hitting eighth most of the time,
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: eighth or seventh somewhere in the towards the bottom. That's
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: still the Dodgers lineup, So there's certainly some utility in
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: L in L only leagues right now while Taoscar is out.
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: Do you think you would be picking up Ryan Ward
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: in anything shallower than that?
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I I'm I think he's a guy
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: worth a flyer if you need a utility bat or
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: something like that, because it is the Dodgers lineup. He
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: does have some pretty good power, but he's nothing like
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: to write home about, Like he's not he's not the
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: fastest swinger, he doesn't hit the ball incredibly hard. He
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: just he's a really smart player. And you know, if
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: he was really this other world talent they could plug in,
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: he would have been up long long ago. And you
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: can see that they're just they're just giving a shot
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: and really didn't see what they with ta Oscar. Really,
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: the piece that I'm interested in is this, is this
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: the tipping point for like a James tips you know,
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: That's That's really what I'm kind of watching for. Is
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: Ward gonna do enough while he's up in this tay
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: Oskar going to come back, you know in four to
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: five weeks or does James Tibbs get a chance, and
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: that's the bat that I'm very excited about because that's
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: a potential twenty five thirty homer bat the way things
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: have looked so Ryan Ward, Yeah, plug him in, maybe
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: a deep twelve team fifteen teamer if I'm looking for
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: a utility corner guy that I end up with injuries.
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: But beyond that, I'm more look at the tea leaves
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: open praying for James Tibbs entrance.
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I think it would have been Tibbs,
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: except for I did read today that, like I guess,
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: Tibbs has been nursing something minor and only dhing and
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: obviously they don't really have a DH spot famously open
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: in Los Angeles.
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: You know, it's a little occupied by somebody named.
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: Somebody, And so.
• 27:32
  Speaker 3: If Tibbs was able.
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: To play the field, it's possible he might have gotten
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: this call over ward. So something to keep in mind
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: that if you see Tibbs starting to play the field
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: again in minor league games, might be worth an ad
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: even in like twelve teamers, because the power has been
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: unreal for James Tibbs this year, and if he can
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: get into that outfield and try to carve out a
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: little bit of playing time and prove himself. There's no
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: reason for the Dodgers not to just keep riding him,
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: so good name. There next injury we have. This one's
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: a doozy and I don't it's I can't tell where
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: my panic meter is at it. Sometimes it's really low
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: and sometimes it's like through the roof.
• 28:10
  Speaker 3: I'm talking.
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: Connor Griffin has gone on the IL with a flexer
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: strain in his right arm, and so it's we don't
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: even really have a great timeline, Honestly, I've been trying
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: to poke around and find one, but the pirates have
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: come out and said that the aisle stay is going
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: to be a short one. This is an injury where
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: we talk about all the time on the pitching side.
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: It's a precursor to Tommy John surgery. It's a precursor to
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: elbow issues obviously, Like you can play through it a
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: little bit more as a as a hitter, and they
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: could try to DH him in Pittsburgh, but they do
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: have Marcel Zuna around and on top of it, Like,
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: you don't know exactly how a flexer strain can still
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: impact a guy at the plate, especially considering he's a
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: right handed batter, so it is where the power will
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: come from for Connor Griffin. So before the Iel stint
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: was living up to every expectation two seventy three, twenty seven,
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: four oh two with four homers and fourteen stolen bases.
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: I mean, I guess maybe there are some people who
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: wanted him to be like the second coming of Prime
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: a Rod, But I think this is what you would
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: have recently accepted if you had given the Connor Griffin
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: kind of outcomes of the year. That lots of stolen bases,
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: the bit of pop and a two seventy average. Fantastic
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: for a twenty year old. So what are you doing
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: with Griffin? Are you worried about this in terms of
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: it may be leading to an elbow surgery? Or are
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: you taking the pirate's word for it?
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah, this is this is a tough one because you
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: are playing with fire. If you're in all my comments
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: are for re draft leagues. If you're in a dynasty
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: keyper situation, don't even think about it. Don't even be
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: playing games.
• 29:50
  Speaker 3: There's no way you can't be.
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: No.
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but from a redraft perspective, it's not is a
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: non zero chance that you do not see Connor Griffin
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: in this year. Now, I'm not saying that that's a
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: high chance, and we're probably talking single digits, maybe a
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: ten percent chance or something like that, because that flecture
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: tendons dream can be a doozy again, they actually spend
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: a short time, but not getting all the details is
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: a little concerning. And so this is the one situation
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: if you're not hurting for speed, that I think you
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: actually can get probably an overpay for Connor Griffin because
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: you know, you can easily sell this as, hey, I
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: need more power, right, needs something different from position, and
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: I'm not going to wait for him to get back.
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: And somebody else is gonna want to pay for Connor
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: Griffin because they missed out the drafty. They wish they
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: had a chance for him. They still think he's the
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: next great thing. So I think you can actually turn
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: them around with a pretty decent profit and kind of
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: get a dollar I'm a dollar type of thing for
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: for Condor Griffin or even more, because there are a
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: lot of people out there that they're still thinking is
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: that there's gonna be a rod this year, right, I
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: think that's that's very true. For a lot of people.
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: So I'm actually willing to shop counter Griffin regraft leagues
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: with this news. Do I say he's gonna miss the season? No,
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: But I but when those news comes out next week
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: and it says that, I'm not overly shocked either. And
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: so that's one of those ones where I think you
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: have to be willing to gamble and when you're wrong,
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: oh well, but the chances you're right, you actually came
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: out like abandoned.
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I think it's a fine line to walk.
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: It will depend a lot on the rest of your
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: team and kind of where you are in the standings
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: and everything. I don't know if I'm quite paulsy enough
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: to pull off something like that, but it could be
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: a boom. So something to consider if you're out there
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: sitting on Griffin in a redraft league, like you said,
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: if you're in a keeper dynasty situation, it's a no go.
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: It's a non starter trying to even approach the Hunter
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: Griffin owner. So something to keep in mind as we
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: get through the next.
• 31:54
  Speaker 3: Few weeks and get our next update.
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: Like I think that'll be the biggest thing on Griffin
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: is seeing how it progressed and when he actually gets
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: back to thrown a little bit. Next injury, we are
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: going to Miami where Uri Perez hurt himself stretching after
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: like he was in the middle of a fantastic start.
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: It had been tough for eury Perez owners out there.
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: Through mid May he had put up a five thirty
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: three ERA and then you know, in late May he
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: had a great outing against the Mets, one run over
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: six and a third and then was cruising against the
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: Blue Jays nine k's four shutout innings. Decide to try
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: to loosen himself up in the dugout in between innings
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: and strained what's called I think it grassillis muscles.
• 32:39
  Speaker 3: What they're calling it officially, it's a groin muscle.
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: It's you don't need to get more specific than it
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: being a groin muscle. But he must have torn the
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: heck out of it because he is out roughly eight
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: weeks so two ish months, which could shut him down
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: for most of the season because he's gonna need a
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: three probably two or three rehab start stint to be
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: able to get back up to speed.
• 33:06
  Speaker 3: So it's tough out there.
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: And what are you doing with fury Prez, Because I mean,
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: I think he's probably cutable, but the talent has been
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: tremendous and we saw it before he went down with
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: this injury.
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you don't want to cut your Perez, but it's
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: not like the worst decision if you have, if you're
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: kind of back into that corner. You know, from an
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: overall performance perspective this year, like, yeah, the strikeouts are there,
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: but the whip's beIN up. He's just not gonna win
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: games for the Marlins. You know, his his peripheral stats
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: have been a little questionables. Fit's then over four and
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: you know he's had a little bit of luck, and
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: so you can you can kind of look on the
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: side and say, yeah, that plus an injury, I'm not
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: really gonna jump to try to do everything to retain
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: the guy. So I'm willing to see that the cut.
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: This is just tough for the Marlins though they started
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: the season with such an amazing depth of rotation that
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: actually dealt to glay guys like Ryan Weather, and with
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: all the injuries and things like that, and you know,
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: they wanted to try to Brad Sandiella Cantero. So it'll
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: be interesting to see what this means. It looks like
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: the Marlins are going to have to packing things in soon,
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: sooner than they expect. But yeah, Ury Perez, he's for
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: the fantasy game. Not much more of this year than
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: I would rely on. Yep.
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: Okay, Well, we've got some prospects. First, We've got some
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: pretty big injuries to discuss. We've got Aiden Miller, shortstop
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: from the Philadelphia Phillies, their number one overall prospect. Has
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: been battling a back issue that has lingered since last
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: year on him actually, and finally underwent surgery. They're saying
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: it's all relatively minor, so on and so forth, but
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: we're talking about a twenty one year old dude already
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: battling back issues in the minor leagues. It was a
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: fantastic twenty twenty five season where he hit two sixty
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: four three ninety two four thirty three across two levels,
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: with fourteen homers in fifty nine stolen bases over one
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: hundred and sixteen games. I'll admit I've never been a
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: huge Ada Miller guy. I think it's a speed profile
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: with it's a lot of It's like Anthony Volpie slash,
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: a little bit juiced by double A reading, which really
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: We've seen him multiple times now over the years, and
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: I'm surprised that people haven't fully adjusted where double a
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: writing will boost the heck out of everybody's numbers. It's
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: done it to many many a Phillies prospects, from Scott
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: Kingrid to Dominic Brown and many many others. So yeah,
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: as you can tell, I've always been lukewarm on Ada
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: Miller just as an overall profile and kind of like
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: watching any of the tape I see on him. But
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: what do you think about Miller? Is this may be
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: a chance to buy in if you have some interest,
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: or is the back surgery and the back issues just
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: a total non starter for you?
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I'm kind of like you. I've never
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: really been high on Miller. And as I kind of
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: look at this, I mean having any procedure called radio
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: frequency ablation of the facet joints. First of all, I
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: don't know what that means, but it doesn't sound I
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: want to see it.
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: It's just like it's just like the grassless muscle or whatever.
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: It's like, what is this actually? Are they just like
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: putting like one of those like thera guns against his
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: back or what do they do?
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: They're just like doing cuppying on his back or something like.
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: That's all they're doing. But like, you know, to your point,
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: the Phillies have not been great at developing prospects, whether
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: it's ready or whatever it may be. And his profile
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: has been the speed profile. He's not been a very
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: efficient uh baserunner in the minors, and so I think
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: a lot of things. You know, there's there's some risk
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: in that profile. And then you add back injuries and
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: I can't remember a guy that like you have like
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: back injuries and all of a sudden, the rest of
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: his career was like great, Yeah, Like I think our
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: you know, our exhibit A is always Christian Yelich, and
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: it's like, you know that he's awesome, and he's gonna
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: this time almost every year just because his back hurts. Like, yeah,
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: you don't want the twenty two year old or whatever
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: with the that back like And so I'm concerned here.
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: I probably would not be Chasey Miller. I wasn't big
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: on the first place, but this not being able to
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: make it through a minor league season and have to
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: stop for back surgery for your top prospect is very
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: concerning to me. So I'm gonna steer clear. I'd be
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: offloading if I had.
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: Okay, I think I agree with all those points. The
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: other injury, we had another top prospect, this time for
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: the Colorado Rockies. Their number one pick and fourth overall
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: from last year. Ethan Holliday went down with surgery on
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: a stress fracture in his left foot. So he's actually
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: out for the entire season after this stress fracture injury
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: and surgery. I mean, he was hitting really well at
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: low A before this, and it's good h level. He
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: was only nineteen years old. It was a two sixty
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: two three ninety five five p fifty seven slash line,
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: was a one thirty five WRC plus nine home runs
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: with thirty two ribis in thirty two games. A little
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: bit more swing and miss than you'd like to see,
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: the contact rate only like seventy two ish percent and
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: the k rate around twenty eight percent, but.
• 38:17
  Speaker 3: Has good commanded the zone.
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: So I think the other thing too is you have
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: to adjust like he's certainly closer to the nat Holiday
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: end of the spectrum than he is on the Jackson
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: Holiday end the spectrum. Ethan Holiday is bigger than Jackson
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: and Ethan Holiday just also has the power profile where honestly,
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: I think he probably settles more as like a power
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: hitting third baseman at his peak. But what are you
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: doing here with Holiday? Because the swing and miss has
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: certainly kept a decent number of folks away, especially in
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: FYPD drafts. He probably fell more than you would expect
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: compared to his prospect rankings and his uh clout with
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: the card collecting game. But he is who he is too, Like,
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: this is a dude who's going to be a power
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: back in Colorado at peak when he gets through the system.
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: So when is your take on Ethan Holiday and especially
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: his future with this surgery?
• 39:14
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I think this is more of the
• 39:16
  Speaker 2: watch type of thing to see. Is this kind of
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: a one off type of thing? You know? Back injuries
• 39:20
  Speaker 2: are one thing, like we talked with Miller, But I
• 39:23
  Speaker 2: also have to say that stress fractures in the feet
• 39:27
  Speaker 2: tend to be something that seems to kind of come
• 39:29
  Speaker 2: and remain as well. So I'm a little concerned with that.
• 39:33
  Speaker 2: But he's still nineteen. We still got a long way,
• 39:35
  Speaker 2: Like we weren't expecting anything from him from pro probably
• 39:38
  Speaker 2: like three years, and he looked like he was you know,
• 39:41
  Speaker 2: adjusting to single a ball. So I'm not terribly concerned.
• 39:45
  Speaker 2: I think the biggest thing is what the Rockies are
• 39:46
  Speaker 2: doing or they need to get him healthy. There's not
• 39:48
  Speaker 2: like any timetable associated They're not trying to do anything special.
• 39:52
  Speaker 2: The fact that he's missing games in the minors right
• 39:54
  Speaker 2: now is not really big deal. We're really, like I said,
• 39:57
  Speaker 2: three years out on Ethan Holiday, and I I think
• 40:00
  Speaker 2: you're right, Like I almost look at like the the
• 40:02
  Speaker 2: spectrum of Matt Holiday, Jackson Holiday, and I feel like
• 40:04
  Speaker 2: he's on the opposite end of both of those because
• 40:07
  Speaker 2: I feel like both of them.
• 40:08
  Speaker 3: Are a little bit more holiday triangle.
• 40:10
  Speaker 2: Holiday triangle. I like that you got the the skill set,
• 40:14
  Speaker 2: the bad Neverge skill set and the power skill set,
• 40:16
  Speaker 2: the speed skill set, and the holiday. Seems like he
• 40:18
  Speaker 2: did get the bad average, he got way more power
• 40:20
  Speaker 2: and doesn't know how to run. And so it's really interesting.
• 40:24
  Speaker 2: But that's probably the best profile for Colorado if you're
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: if you're going to have it. So I still I
• 40:30
  Speaker 2: don't think this really changes my assessment of Holiday at
• 40:33
  Speaker 2: this point.
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that's all fair, And I mean I
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: think if you're actually a Holiday fan and you don't
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: have them, it might be a good time to inquire
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: in your dynasty and keeper leagues where yeah, it's not
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: like a griffin where like it's a total non starter
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: to even ask for holiday, where I think heath and
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: holiday can be had, and now that the owner probably
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: sees a major injury on there, the price is probably
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: discounted a touch. Okay, next bit of prospect news that
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: will round us up.
• 41:00
  Speaker 3: We've got one call up.
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: Well it's a set of callups, but only one of
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: them is super fantasy relevant. I just wanted to call
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: out the Cardinals called up this past week in both
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: Nelson Valasquez and Jimmy Crooks. I wanted to call out
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: the Flaskz because it was pretty sweet redemption against the
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: Cubs that the first pitch that he saw back in
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: the majors, Uh slammed a homer off of showed to
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: at Imanaga. So that was awesome to see this past weekend.
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: As you know, it was a great series between the
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: Cubs and the Cards, and I think it's gonna be
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: a fun summer between the two. The focus here is
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: Jimmy Crooks because Cooks is looking at pretty much full
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: time catching at bats, where he is slept to be
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: the strong side a platoon for the Cardinals for the
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: time being. He is a left handed hitter and before
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: his promotion he was hitting two sixty two, four twelve,
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: five sixty seven down at Triple A Memphis, so one
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: fifty two WRC plus with thirteen bombs, when previously his
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: career high in the season was fourteen last year over
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: ninety eight games at Triple A and so it is
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: looking like another changed profile in terms of Jimmy Crooks,
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: who especially came through the system as a glove first
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: defense first catcher. The power it's kind of developed to
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: where I mean this is actually an intriguing bat for
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: fantasy because if he can play most of the time
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: and get full time at bats as a left handed
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: hitter and hang at the major leagues, we might have
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: found somebody to help solve the catcher issue that we've
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: been running into and discussing over the past few weeks.
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: So what's your take on Jimmy Crooks. Do you think
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: he can swim or sink in this first Well, I
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: guess it's not his first go with the Cardinals, but
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: it's going to be a pretty extended run.
• 42:46
  Speaker 2: It looks like, yeah, I think he's definitely has potential value. Like,
• 42:50
  Speaker 2: let's be careful a little while the breaks here as
• 42:53
  Speaker 2: far as the overall power potential, Like we talked about
• 42:56
  Speaker 2: Jacob Gonzalez earlier and I kind of joked about it
• 42:58
  Speaker 2: as third percent home run to flat ball rate. Jimmy
• 43:01
  Speaker 2: Crooks has a forty five percent home run a fly
• 43:04
  Speaker 2: ball rate, so if he pops up, it goes out
• 43:06
  Speaker 2: of the park. So I think we have to be
• 43:08
  Speaker 2: a little cool in it there on the power. But
• 43:10
  Speaker 2: that's not say he doesn't have power. He does, you know,
• 43:12
  Speaker 2: hit a decent amount of fly balls. He does a
• 43:15
  Speaker 2: good job. He's a really more of a line drive hitter,
• 43:18
  Speaker 2: which is actually going to be great for the catcher position,
• 43:20
  Speaker 2: which is going to kind of boost up that that
• 43:21
  Speaker 2: batting average overall. But to your point, it's got then
• 43:25
  Speaker 2: this is guy that's going to be in a like
• 43:27
  Speaker 2: a decent lineup. The Cardinals, what six through nine hitter
• 43:32
  Speaker 2: has been dreadful this year, and so as long as
• 43:35
  Speaker 2: he's you know, batting six, he's got to on base
• 43:37
  Speaker 2: in front him. This should be really interesting. So I'm
• 43:40
  Speaker 2: willing to take a gamble here is it going to
• 43:42
  Speaker 2: work out. I don't know, but it looks like to
• 43:46
  Speaker 2: your point in the catcher's position, where it's become a
• 43:48
  Speaker 2: lot thinner, a lot faster. This is definitely a guy,
• 43:50
  Speaker 2: especially in two catcher leagues. You got to take a
• 43:52
  Speaker 2: take a gamble on and then kind of figure things
• 43:54
  Speaker 2: out later because the Cardinals really don't want to an
• 43:57
  Speaker 2: Herrera catch catching. Whether it's because of its catching or
• 44:01
  Speaker 2: it's just because you got to keep them healthy and
• 44:02
  Speaker 2: keeps that path of the lineup, but it's probably a
• 44:04
  Speaker 2: combination of both. I think Brooks is definitely worth worth
• 44:08
  Speaker 2: a low yep.
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: I think so too, where it's actually like I think
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: he follows actually pretty close to like a Carson Kelly
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: e like player. So if Carson Kelly is usable in
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: your fantasy league, then Jimmy Crooks is as well. So
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: all right, that's going to wrap us up for the
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: news and notes sections. We are going to take a
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: short break. Let you find those show notes to wherever
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: you're listening to us, because it's going to be important
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: when we come around after the break to discuss the
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: May Player of the Month PC Cards.
• 44:55
  Speaker 3: All right, welcome back everybody.
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: If it is your first time listening to us do
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: this Player of the Month PC. A little bit of
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: background for you. What we do every month is we
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: go buy MLB's Player of the Month awards and pick
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: two PC cards quote unquote. PC is personal collection in
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: baseball card collecting and the hobby, and so what we've
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: done is we've kept a long running list from when
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: we started this tradition on the podcast. You can find
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: it in the show notes. It's linked down there where
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: you can see all the different cards that we've put
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: in the PC.
• 45:27
  Speaker 3: So it's just a fun.
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: Commemoration of these players as well as something to follow.
• 45:33
  Speaker 3: Along and maybe invest in.
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: You know, we do certainly have plenty of high end
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: cards in that PC and one of ones that can't
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: be obtained, but we've also got some low end cards
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: and base cards, and you can find a version that
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: kind of suits your budget and what you want to do.
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: But I think this is a fun way to build
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: a collection too, because in the same vein of like
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: getting a binder full of all the Rookies of the
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: year or all the MVPs, if you do Player of
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: the Months and you collect some cool cards, I think
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: you can put together a pretty nice little collection that
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: will also hold as value because it's well sorted.
• 46:08
  Speaker 3: And well manicured.
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: So with that, go into those show notes though, because
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: you're gonna want to click into the related Raspball link
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: where you can see pictures of the cards we're going
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: to discuss. We're going to do our best to with
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: our dulcet tones to tell you how these cards look
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: and how they make us feel. But the best way to,
• 46:29
  Speaker 1: I think, follow along is to go to that rasball
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: post and look at the cards themselves while we're trying
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: to describe it. So brew with that intro, I know
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: you love this segment. You excited to get into some
• 46:41
  Speaker 1: player of Player of the Month awards.
• 46:44
  Speaker 2: I absolutely do. It's a fun way to look at
• 46:47
  Speaker 2: players in their cards that you don't typically look at.
• 46:50
  Speaker 2: And I think we have a fuse tonight where I
• 46:53
  Speaker 2: was surprised at the selection or lack thereof of the
• 46:56
  Speaker 2: players and that was fun, and that you have the
• 46:59
  Speaker 2: exact opposite in the spectrum with a few of them
• 47:01
  Speaker 2: as well, So this was definitely fun. I had a
• 47:04
  Speaker 2: blast kind of picking out cards for the PC and
• 47:07
  Speaker 2: I definitely tried to spread it across the price points.
• 47:10
  Speaker 2: I think I did a decent job here, and there's
• 47:12
  Speaker 2: a few that were into my mind, no brainers. I
• 47:14
  Speaker 2: think I got to the list first before you did,
• 47:16
  Speaker 2: so I think I may have stolen one of them.
• 47:20
  Speaker 2: And so we'll see as we go along.
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: Yes, absolutely, Okay, Well let's start on the al where
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: the hitter of the month for May was Nick Kurtz
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: of the Athletics, and it was pretty easy to see
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: why he had a forty eight game on bass streak
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: because this dude is just a walk machine. Nobody wants
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: to throw it into Nick Kurtz's happy zone, and no
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: wonder why, because he obliterates it every time it comes
• 47:48
  Speaker 1: in there. He hit three thirty three with five homers,
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: twenty six RBIs and a ten to twenty five ops.
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: But like I said, the walks have been crazy. Twenty
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: one walks in twenty eight games. He leads the league
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: in OBP at four forty and especially if you've drafted
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: him in an opp league, Dude, he is an absolute stalwart.
• 48:08
  Speaker 2: Like he's Joey Bottom. He is Joey Pretty.
• 48:11
  Speaker 3: That's a good point. Yeah, he's Joey Votto.
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: And we haven't even gotten through the warmest months in
• 48:15
  Speaker 1: Sacramento that this could be like Joey Voto plus so like. Certainly,
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: for all of the concerns that people had on the
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: Nick Kurtz profile coming into the year, I think he's
• 48:26
  Speaker 1: alieved a lot of them. He is the most often
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: PC person on the list that we're going to talk
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: about tonight, not of all time, that's Aaron Judge and Otani.
• 48:36
  Speaker 3: It's one of those two. I don't know, but Nick.
• 48:39
  Speaker 1: Kurtz has been in the PC three previous times for
• 48:42
  Speaker 1: Rookie of the Months and Rookie of the Year last year.
• 48:46
  Speaker 1: Where are you going where Nick Kurts this time?
• 48:49
  Speaker 2: Well, it was really tempting to and to her point,
• 48:51
  Speaker 2: we've got a lot of cards on him that there's
• 48:53
  Speaker 2: a lot of options that it was really tempting just
• 48:55
  Speaker 2: to like go into eBay and search Green because I
• 48:59
  Speaker 2: love that parallel that is green. But I held off
• 49:03
  Speaker 2: and I went with just a classic. I had to
• 49:05
  Speaker 2: go with the classic from a rookie perspective, so I
• 49:07
  Speaker 2: went with his twenty twenty five tops Heritage High Number
• 49:11
  Speaker 2: Real one Red inc Auto, which is out of seventy six.
• 49:16
  Speaker 2: For those that have listened to this podcast, they folks
• 49:20
  Speaker 2: all know We absolutely love our heritage real one autos.
• 49:24
  Speaker 2: The red autos are the more rare of the two.
• 49:27
  Speaker 2: They are hand numbered. I still don't know if they're
• 49:30
  Speaker 2: hand numbered by the player or somebody else. My guess
• 49:32
  Speaker 2: is somebody else. But the version I've linked showed out
• 49:36
  Speaker 2: as eight out of seventy six and is a wonderful
• 49:39
  Speaker 2: red signature. You can't really read the signature whatsoever. But
• 49:44
  Speaker 2: the thing I love about these cards is the old
• 49:46
  Speaker 2: card stock. It's the old card stock, and it feels
• 49:49
  Speaker 2: so real, harkening back to kind of our days as
• 49:52
  Speaker 2: we started collecting cards. And so this is a classic
• 49:55
  Speaker 2: to me. You know, if you want to go out
• 49:57
  Speaker 2: and buy one on emay, it's a pretty penny, a
• 50:00
  Speaker 2: little over two grand, so to buy these, I'm guessing
• 50:04
  Speaker 2: I haven't looked. I'm guessing they've got up recently based
• 50:07
  Speaker 2: on the performance. But this is this is a classic,
• 50:10
  Speaker 2: and these hold value. These absolutely hold value long term.
• 50:15
  Speaker 2: So I couldn't pass this one up. It was too easy.
• 50:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and because they just hit so many sweet spots
• 50:21
  Speaker 1: in terms of what people collect in the hobby. I mean,
• 50:23
  Speaker 1: one people try to put together this set of writing autos,
• 50:27
  Speaker 1: which is crazy two.
• 50:30
  Speaker 3: It's a high end rookie card. Three.
• 50:32
  Speaker 1: The nineteen seventy six design is beautiful, especially for the athletics.
• 50:36
  Speaker 1: You get you get the green, you get the yellow,
• 50:38
  Speaker 1: you get it in the border, and then you get
• 50:41
  Speaker 1: that little first Baseman logo. It's a it's a perfect
• 50:44
  Speaker 1: kind of match all across the board and you don't
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: even have to kind of the nice thing about the
• 50:48
  Speaker 1: card design too, is you don't have to worry about
• 50:50
  Speaker 1: it not including Oakland or Sacramento or whatever, where it's
• 50:53
  Speaker 1: not one of those weird cards where it looks strange
• 50:56
  Speaker 1: because it only says athletics.
• 50:58
  Speaker 3: So great choice. You can't go wrong with an on.
• 51:01
  Speaker 1: Card, red ink tops heritage auto of a rookiep.
• 51:05
  Speaker 2: Can't, hey, you go wrong. But so my point, did
• 51:08
  Speaker 2: you go with green because I was sentenced? Uh?
• 51:13
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I pretty much did.
• 51:15
  Speaker 1: I almost did that where, you know, going into eBay
• 51:19
  Speaker 1: and just typing Nick Kurtz card green. But then I
• 51:22
  Speaker 1: did remember that when we talked about Bowman in the preview,
• 51:27
  Speaker 1: when we did it a couple of weeks, how much
• 51:29
  Speaker 1: I loved the Electric Sluggers cards and this Nick Kurts
• 51:33
  Speaker 1: card slaps dude. It is I'm a sucker for anything
• 51:37
  Speaker 1: with lightning bolts, real and kind of cartoony lightning bolts
• 51:42
  Speaker 1: when it comes to cards, and this one delivers on
• 51:44
  Speaker 1: both ends. Plus you get the green background with the
• 51:48
  Speaker 1: yellow lightning bolts and the yellow jersey from Nick Kurtz.
• 51:51
  Speaker 1: Everything pops, it all marries up, and then you get
• 51:54
  Speaker 1: the mojo layered on top of it. It's only a
• 51:57
  Speaker 1: twenty five dollars card. It's a beautiful, beautiful car card,
• 52:00
  Speaker 1: and Yeah, I couldn't pass it up because everything about
• 52:04
  Speaker 1: this ticked every box that I think we'd like in
• 52:06
  Speaker 1: terms of our personal pieces. And I mean, honestly, I'm
• 52:10
  Speaker 1: pretty close to pulling the trigger on this twenty five
• 52:12
  Speaker 1: dollars card myself because it's a beauty.
• 52:15
  Speaker 2: And if you really want all the details in the back,
• 52:17
  Speaker 2: it reminds you that Nick Kurt's nickname is Big Ash.
• 52:22
  Speaker 2: And that's why I love bomings. They just give you
• 52:24
  Speaker 2: the little extras.
• 52:25
  Speaker 1: I will say, for some weird reason, I noticed this
• 52:28
  Speaker 1: because if you're going by the links that we have
• 52:30
  Speaker 1: down in the show notes too, the link that I've
• 52:33
  Speaker 1: got to on this card that's the back of his
• 52:37
  Speaker 1: regular twenty twenty six Bowman card.
• 52:39
  Speaker 3: It's not the.
• 52:39
  Speaker 1: Back of the Electric Sluggers card, so I was wondering, Yeah,
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: that would be cool if the back of the Electric
• 52:48
  Speaker 1: Slugger has had the normal Bowman back, But it is
• 52:51
  Speaker 1: to have something you know, more corny about being an
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: electric slugger and probably talking about slugging percentage. So you
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: will not get that back if you order this card,
• 53:00
  Speaker 1: which actually makes me more tempted to order the card
• 53:02
  Speaker 1: because I could order it, buy it, and then submit
• 53:05
  Speaker 1: one of those not the right product claims that may
• 53:08
  Speaker 1: get it for I know I've never done that. I've seriously,
• 53:11
  Speaker 1: I've never done that. That's nice, that's some nasty business,
• 53:15
  Speaker 1: but you know what I know people do that on
• 53:17
  Speaker 1: Evey constantly. Okay, over on the NL side, our player
• 53:21
  Speaker 1: of the month, our batter of the month, just like
• 53:24
  Speaker 1: we all predicted. JJ doble Day from the Cincinnati Reds
• 53:28
  Speaker 1: got called up on April twenty fifth and just went
• 53:32
  Speaker 1: blazing hot in May where we talked about this a
• 53:35
  Speaker 1: couple of weeks ago. It's just JJ bil Day with
• 53:37
  Speaker 1: just more power and it's all working right now. It
• 53:41
  Speaker 1: does not hurt that he's in Great American Ballpark, but
• 53:44
  Speaker 1: seems to have found a great fit with the Reds
• 53:47
  Speaker 1: former a himself. He hit three ZHO one with eight homers,
• 53:51
  Speaker 1: twenty five bombs and a ten eighteen ops in May.
• 53:55
  Speaker 1: And we've actually got quite the large backlog of JJ
• 53:59
  Speaker 1: bl Day cards to choose from because he was such
• 54:01
  Speaker 1: a huge prospect coming through college baseball and being the
• 54:05
  Speaker 1: fourth overall pick in twenty nineteen, so lots of options.
• 54:09
  Speaker 1: He's never been in the PC before. Where did you
• 54:11
  Speaker 1: go for JJ Bday?
• 54:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah? Well, with JJ, I literally would look just to
• 54:17
  Speaker 2: see if he had any cards really in a Reds jersey,
• 54:20
  Speaker 2: which I don't know why he would have, but he
• 54:21
  Speaker 2: does not unless there was the Tops now that I missed,
• 54:24
  Speaker 2: which is also very possibly just may not be out
• 54:26
  Speaker 2: there yet from a production perspective. So that means I
• 54:30
  Speaker 2: had to go to the Miners because I didn't want
• 54:31
  Speaker 2: to day jersey of anything else than the Reds because
• 54:36
  Speaker 2: everything else has not gone so well. And so I
• 54:39
  Speaker 2: went down to twenty twenty Tops Heritage Miners, and I'm
• 54:43
  Speaker 2: going with one of my favorite cards out there, and
• 54:46
  Speaker 2: it is the quarter Relic. It's out of fifty and
• 54:51
  Speaker 2: what you get with this is an actual genuine nineteen
• 54:54
  Speaker 2: seventy one US quarter built into the card as the relic.
• 55:00
  Speaker 2: Feels like there's something probably against US mint policy based
• 55:04
  Speaker 2: on this, but it is a just you know, we
• 55:07
  Speaker 2: love heritage. That's a black design got him with the hammerheads.
• 55:11
  Speaker 2: He just kind of almost like he's running in from
• 55:13
  Speaker 2: the outfield and it has a full on twenty five
• 55:16
  Speaker 2: cent quarter there. So if anything ever happens, you know
• 55:19
  Speaker 2: you've at least got twenty five cents invested in this card.
• 55:22
  Speaker 2: It's about twenty bucks on eBay, so one of the
• 55:24
  Speaker 2: cheaper ones we'll talk about tonight. But it's just such
• 55:27
  Speaker 2: such a cool, unique relic that I've loved and it
• 55:31
  Speaker 2: he kind of goes back to the did you do
• 55:33
  Speaker 2: the manufactured relic? Do you do a napkin relic? Do
• 55:35
  Speaker 2: you have a big patch? No, we just went completely
• 55:38
  Speaker 2: different and we put a quarter in a car why.
• 55:40
  Speaker 3: Yep, Yep.
• 55:41
  Speaker 1: It's a fantastic card and it's got the nineteen seventy
• 55:45
  Speaker 1: one kind of black border design with the post modern
• 55:48
  Speaker 1: kind of nineteen seventy one on it. It just works
• 55:50
  Speaker 1: really well with the black chaersey that he's wearing and
• 55:53
  Speaker 1: hammer heads across the top that like the Marlins have
• 55:56
  Speaker 1: some of the greatest names for their minor league affiliate.
• 56:00
  Speaker 1: Where I do this all the time in my writing.
• 56:02
  Speaker 1: Whenever I can say all the way out Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp,
• 56:06
  Speaker 1: I make sure I do it absolutely.
• 56:08
  Speaker 2: There's there's no reasons too, all right, Where did you
• 56:12
  Speaker 2: go with jj Okay?
• 56:13
  Speaker 1: Well, I went back to his college days, because, like
• 56:17
  Speaker 1: you said, there's no cards really of him in Red's
• 56:19
  Speaker 1: uniforms that I could find either, So they certainly will
• 56:22
  Speaker 1: be coming.
• 56:23
  Speaker 3: They'll be in tops.
• 56:24
  Speaker 1: Update in other products as we get them throughout the year,
• 56:28
  Speaker 1: especially if Jaja will day works his way into the
• 56:31
  Speaker 1: All Star Game. So I went back to his Vandy days.
• 56:34
  Speaker 1: I went with twenty nineteen Panini Prism draft. I've got
• 56:37
  Speaker 1: an auto out of there, and it's a great card
• 56:41
  Speaker 1: of just the Well, it's the Panini version of Mojo.
• 56:44
  Speaker 1: So it's called it's mislabeled in the eBay listing I
• 56:49
  Speaker 1: had it, it's called hyper Mojo and so of forty nine,
• 56:53
  Speaker 1: and it's got a sticker auto on it. This one
• 56:56
  Speaker 1: it's got the j's are a little bit cut off,
• 56:58
  Speaker 1: but you got your classic kind of Panini Prism design.
• 57:01
  Speaker 1: And you've got JJ badet in the black with gold
• 57:05
  Speaker 1: pin stripe Van Derbert Jersey where they didn't have to
• 57:08
  Speaker 1: photoshop this. They have an ncuable A license, so that's
• 57:11
  Speaker 1: a definite bonus from Panini. And he looks absolutely ripped
• 57:15
  Speaker 1: in this card. That like, he looks in better shape
• 57:18
  Speaker 1: from back in his draft year than he does now.
• 57:20
  Speaker 1: But I love this card from JJ Blada also got
• 57:23
  Speaker 1: a sneak you in a mustache. It's a sneaky little
• 57:26
  Speaker 1: mustache on it. Another twenty dollars card. So if you're
• 57:29
  Speaker 1: getting into JJ biday collecting, the time is now my friend.
• 57:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and what I want, I mean those bander built
• 57:36
  Speaker 2: jerseys there to die for. They're fantastic. To your point,
• 57:40
  Speaker 2: the fact that this is licensed from Paniti is just
• 57:44
  Speaker 2: great and it's I still find it surprise with how
• 57:47
  Speaker 2: well he's played this card. You know, his autos are
• 57:50
  Speaker 2: this reasonable at this point, so I think this is
• 57:54
  Speaker 2: a great pick, great ad PC.
• 57:56
  Speaker 1: Yep, Okay, let's get into those pictures. So on the
• 58:00
  Speaker 1: al side, this is quite the shock that he's back again.
• 58:05
  Speaker 1: He won a Rookie of the Month last year for US,
• 58:08
  Speaker 1: so he already or two years ago, so he already
• 58:11
  Speaker 1: has a PC selections, a couple of piece selections. I'm
• 58:15
  Speaker 1: talking Houston astro starting pitcher, current number one starting picture
• 58:19
  Speaker 1: of air rotation, Spencer Aarraghetty. The on field results were fantastic,
• 58:23
  Speaker 1: a point nine to three ERA with you know, including
• 58:28
  Speaker 1: a stretch where he allowed one run in thirteen and
• 58:32
  Speaker 1: third innings over including taking a no hitter into the
• 58:37
  Speaker 1: eighth inning against the Rangers on May fifteenth. Overall, though
• 58:43
  Speaker 1: the peripherals are pretty mid, it was a four nineteen FIP,
• 58:48
  Speaker 1: so the pendulum will swing back the other way for
• 58:51
  Speaker 1: certain on Spencer Araghetty. As you know, the k mis
• 58:54
  Speaker 1: BB was only four point two percent in May. It's
• 58:57
  Speaker 1: just that the babeb really worked out for it was
• 59:00
  Speaker 1: a fantastic little one sixty two batting average one ninety
• 59:04
  Speaker 1: seven babups. So don't get too high on your fantasy
• 59:07
  Speaker 1: horses with Spencer their Araghetty. But he turned the month
• 59:10
  Speaker 1: in of luck in for a Player of the Month
• 59:13
  Speaker 1: award in the al We've already taken two Arighetty cards
• 59:17
  Speaker 1: off the table. So where are you going?
• 59:20
  Speaker 2: Well, this is this is the one that I just
• 59:22
  Speaker 2: couldn't couldn't resist and actually was looking He's pitching tonight
• 59:25
  Speaker 2: and starting to Lady Horror runs.
• 59:28
  Speaker 3: He asked.
• 59:30
  Speaker 2: But this is the way I said, Like, when this
• 59:32
  Speaker 2: name came up, there was one card I had to
• 59:34
  Speaker 2: go look to make sure. And you know, I don't
• 59:35
  Speaker 2: like to look at our past PC picks, but I
• 59:38
  Speaker 2: had to go with the the one, the only. This
• 59:42
  Speaker 2: is my third heritage card row. So I'm on a roll. Yeah,
• 59:45
  Speaker 2: you are twenty five tops heritage nickname variation because Spencer
• 59:50
  Speaker 2: Araghetty's nickname is Spaghetti and so there's nothing like getting
• 59:55
  Speaker 2: the Spaghetti card with Spencer Araghetty. And that's all you
• 59:59
  Speaker 2: have to say. And we were to talk about the
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 2: design from twenty twenty five with Nick Kurtz red Ink Auto.
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 2: It's the same exact design. It looks fabulous. Raghetty has
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 2: just a say, dumbfounded look after we threw a pitch.
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 2: I'm not quite sure. Maybe you just got to lit
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 2: up for a home or maybe it how I got
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 2: so lucky to win the Player of the Month, I
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 2: don't know. But whenever I say Spencer Raghedty, the first
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 2: thing I think is Spaghetti and you just can't go
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 2: wrong with it. So I had to add the spaghetti
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 2: card to the.
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 3: Piec Yeah, this thing's perfect.
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 1: When I saw it, I was like, oh man, this
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 1: is such an amazing card. Also because like there's plenty
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 1: of people that probably pulled this and they're just like,
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 1: what the hell spaghetti? If you Alex Spencer Araghetti is
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 1: like a household MLB name, So there's probably some of
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 1: these that people don't even know they have. But what
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 1: a fantastic card. This is gonna go down I think
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 1: in terms of like cool cards of this era, this
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 1: spaghetti card I think has gotta be up there because spaghetti, man,
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 1: it's in.
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 2: It's ten bucks, ten bucks on you if you we'll
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 2: get it right now.
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 3: Great choice. I love it all right?
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 2: Where'd you go to? Spencer? Uh?
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 1: Okay, Well, this is one of the guys when we
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 1: were talking about there's not a ton of choices. He
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 1: hasn't been in a lot of different sets because he's
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 1: just not a big name. He's not a terribly great pitcher.
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 1: That it's kind of impressive that he came away with
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 1: this award considering all of the other pitching performances that
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 1: happened in May, but most of them happened in the
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 1: NL which is why he got away with it. I'm
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 1: going to tops Now twenty twenty four for his rookie card,
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 1: especially this is the one that comes from his first
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 1: MLB career win, and it's just great because you get
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 1: the great action shot of arag Getty pitching in the
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 1: now defunct Space City uniforms, which it just kind of
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 1: works with the whole arag Getty get up. You know,
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 1: he's got this long hair and this beard, and it
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 1: just is a lot of moving parts that is coming
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 1: at you when he's throwing. You get the sense of
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 1: that in the movement of this card. It's also a
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 1: relatively rare card. The print run on this card from
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 1: tops Now was only five h five again harkens back
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 1: just talking about this isn't a hot name in the
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 1: collecting world, Spencer Arraghetty, so there aren't many of these
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 1: out there. So it is going to run you like
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 1: forty to fifty bucks because there just aren't very many
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 1: copies of this tops Now card.
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 3: I know it's an easy choice.
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 1: Going tops Now for rookie cards, but we didn't have
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 1: a lot of choices for Araghedtty. And you can't go
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 1: wrong with this if you actually are building a spencer
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 1: Araghetty PC.
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and I think you're right. I think the rarity
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 2: of some tops Now cards is rookies are a little surprising,
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 2: and with tops Now you always get a chance for
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 2: those parallels. So this is if you have kind of
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 2: like a PC player that's not the biggest name, that's
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 2: a fun way to go chase them. So this is
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 2: a good card. Well. The Space City City connect on
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 2: this as well, so definitely definitely a good ad.
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 1: Well on the NL side, I mean, technically it was
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 1: a race between two dudes, the Miz and Christopher Sanchez,
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 1: but it wasn't a contest that Sanchez here had.
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 3: To win the award.
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 1: He did not allow a run in May thirty nine
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 1: inning with forty five ks to three walks and a
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 1: zero ERA. This is a case though, where there was
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 1: not very much luck involved. It was actually a two
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 1: sixty six babbot, which is pretty normal. Is a one
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 1: oh nine fifth. Christopher Sanchez is just pitching out of
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 1: his mind right now. Is currently on a stretch where
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 1: it's forty four and two third Scollers innings. He's pushing
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 1: up against the oral Herscheizer record already set the franchise
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 1: record breaking the great Grover Cleveland Alexander one of my
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 1: favorite immaculate grid names to use, especially if you're looking
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 1: for somebody to cover Cubs, Cardinals, and Phillies. Hall of
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 1: Famer checks every box. Christopher Sanchez checks a lot boxes
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 1: in terms of being a great pitcher. He's been in
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 1: the PC once before, he won one Player of the
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 1: Month award before. Where we again, this is a guy
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 1: who does not have a lot of cards available, but
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 1: after this year, he's about to have a bonanza of cards,
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 1: I think, because he's become one of the elite pitchers
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 1: in Major League Baseball.
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 3: So with all those.
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 1: Pieces laid out for you, where'd you go for Christopher
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 1: Sanchez to put a PC card?
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 2: Well, before we go there, he just had his streak
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 2: broken bottom Man Jackson Merrill broke at fifty and two
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 2: thirds innings scoreless for the fifth longest streak in MLB history.
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 2: So yes, he had to win the award, there's no
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 2: question about it. But June's here, it's another month. Things
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 2: are things are a changeing. But and it wasn't the
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 2: seventh end of the game, So you was screwed, just fine,
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 2: But you're right, there were not a lot of cards
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 2: out here for Christopher Sanchez, and so I just I
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 2: went with an oldie, but of good as far as
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 2: one of my favorite parallels from recent sets. I'm going
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 2: to twenty twenty five Top Series one and I'm going
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 2: with the Team Logo border variation, which it's a twenty
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 2: dollars card. It's not a rookie or anything like that,
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 2: but I don't think I've found a team border Team
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 2: logo border variation I have not liked. It is just
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 2: such a cool design and it just pops, and I
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 2: just wanted something that just spit into that cool card,
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 2: and I didn't want to go on license, to be honest,
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 2: and so I'm going with the team logo version for
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 2: Christopher Sanchez here to add to the PC one dollar
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 2: card we're adding in for very reasonable prices today.
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and I mean even though he's wearing the City
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 1: Connect jersey that doesn't really match with the red, it
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 1: works pretty well because there's a lot of blue on
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 1: this card.
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 1: This is another one where I might have included it
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 1: myself if you didn't, because you can't go wrong with
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 1: one of these logo variations, and especially given the limited
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 1: number of choices that we had for Christopher Sanchez that
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 1: it was a great choice.
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 2: All right, where did you go with mister Sanchez?
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 1: Okay, well, I'm impressed that I dug this one up,
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 1: and this guy is probably well person, this person's probably
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 1: impressed that they still have this card and have it
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 1: dug up, because it is quite the doozy of a card. Now,
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 1: I found a twenty twenty two Panini Prism rookie autograph
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 1: of Christopher Sanchez in red red donut refractor here, So
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 1: if you're not familiar with all of the Panini Prism refractors,
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 1: that's the one where you kind of get dots and
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 1: circles around it and it pops.
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 3: It really does pop.
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 1: It's not it is unlicensed, but it's pretty well covered
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 1: up and you get apparently that's Christopher Sanchez's signature.
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 2: Nothing's brutal, let's be honest, but yeah, it is a
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 2: you kind of got the prism motif on the front.
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 1: Where it's somewhere like yeah, I mean, somebody who's really
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 1: into new metal music certainly designed this card and put
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 1: a lot of different real kind of metal materials into it.
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 1: It's of thirty five, so that's a weird number and
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 1: on top of it, it'll cost you one thousand dollars
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 1: right now, which whenever this card was pulled, it was probably.
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 3: Sitting in a dollar box.
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 1: So the ROI on this card, for whoever has owned
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 1: it is been significant. It has gone through the eBay
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 1: authenticity process. So whoever has this, Yeah, so whoever has
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 1: this now did pay a few hundred bucks for this card.
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 3: But yeah, I.
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 1: Bet who even like whoever pulled it originally is really
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 1: kicking themselves now that it's a thousand dollars card. But
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 1: nothing terribly fancy. But there's not a lot of choices
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 1: for Christopher Sanchez, and especially if you want an autographed
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 1: card of him, you can't go wrong with the color
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 1: match like this one.
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 2: No, No, you were absolutely right. This was this was
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 2: what I was seeing, was I was looking through Sanchez
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 2: like this. If you're going to pick an autograph, this
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 2: is going to be the one. Like I said, his
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 2: autograph needs some work. And for as amazing as he's
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 2: been the last few years, I'm shocked there's not more
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 2: cards of him. That's good. That's gonna change. That absolutely
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 2: has to change.
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 1: So okay, well, let's move on to those Rookies of
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 1: the Month in the al Side and somebody we discussed previously,
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 1: it's none other than Munataka Murakami. A fantastic month from
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 1: him where he popped twelve homers or no, he added
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 1: eight homers in May, hit twelve in March and April
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 1: before that, and I mean, what.
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 3: Can you say.
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 1: He's just been absolutely amazing. He's been in a stellar
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 1: power bat. He's been a stellar kind of presence in
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 1: terms of just all of the clips that you get
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 1: of him being so joyous in the dugout to where
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 1: Munataka Murakami is certainly the face of the White Sox
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 1: right now, and it's a bummer we don't get to
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 1: see him for a couple months. So we're just gonna
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 1: have to look at these cards we're gonna put on
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 1: our PC where you go in for Munataka Murakami.
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 2: I was so excited to get to add this card
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 2: to the PC. I debated if I should actually physically
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 2: add this card to the PC because it is amazing
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 2: and I haven't pulled the trigger yet, but I am
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 2: going to some of my favorite things to do, which
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 2: is I'm to go across the pond to Japan. I'm
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 2: looking at the twenty twenty one BBM Genesis Combo jersey card,
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 2: which means it is moon To talking to Maria Kami
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 2: and Charioki Saito, who if you're paying attention right now,
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 2: was the MVP last year over in Japan and is
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 2: having a killer season this year. It is very likely
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 2: to be posted and following Murakami over, so you could
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 2: have two guys here on this card. It's a really
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 2: card out of thirty both kind of pen stripes, red
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 2: pin stripe for Murakami, black pin stripe for Cyto, and
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 2: you could have this card coming over with two guys
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 2: that are breaking out from Japan in the MLB, and
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 2: it could just go go nuts. And so I'm so
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 2: excited to have this one with a PC because Genesis
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 2: from BBM is just a classic, absolute classic kind of breakoff.
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 2: I don't there's not really the comparison. Maybe like a
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 2: Tier one or a five star is kind of the
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 2: vibe get from Genesis, and it's just such a cool card,
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 2: and the relics and things like that are much harder
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 2: to come by over in Japan. So love adding this one.
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 2: Two guys that I actually have collected over the last
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 2: few years and one I've not been able to gather
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 2: and if I had that, probably what it's sold by
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 2: now because it is going through the roof.
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it is a sick card. You've got the dual patches.
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 1: You've also got two stripes on it with the kind
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 1: of like it's like a Tier one motif in the
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 1: background where it's a black background. You got the players
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 1: back to back, and then like the gold leaf and
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 1: just I'm not quite sure exactly what you would call
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 1: those flowers and stuff, but it's a beautiful card. It's
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 1: also just very Japanese, where like, yeah, this is what
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 1: BBM cards look like, and it's tough to kind of
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 1: pinpoint exactly.
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 3: What it is.
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 1: I mean, I'm not a design major or anything, so
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 1: if you do know the design, hit us up and
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 1: let us know.
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 3: But like it is, I love it. It's beautiful. What
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 3: a choice.
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 1: It is going to be a pretty penny, but certainly
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 1: worth it if you're going to be playing in that
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 1: type of market.
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 2: All right, where did you go? Because I know there
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 2: was a card number two on my list and I
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 2: think you picked card number two. It was on my list,
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 2: So where'd you go with Murakami?
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and this one.
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 1: I mean, I think it was a pretty easy choice,
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 1: especially we're going back to twenty twenty six Bowmen, which
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 1: has been fantastic. By the way, Like I haven't ripped
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 1: any of it, but I've been enjoying watching people rip
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 1: it and see people's hits on Reddit, because it seems
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 1: like people are doing pretty well, especially with retail blasters.
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 1: Because one of the bigger cards that's been hit out
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 1: of the set actually surfaced on Reddit. I was inspired
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 1: by it to pick my card because somebody did hit
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 1: the Munataka Murakami anime Kanji variation and they posted a
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 1: picture of it about a week ago on Baseball Cards Reddit.
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 1: Then I don't know what they're up to, but hopefully
• 1:11:57
  Speaker 1: they're on a private island somewhere, because the first I
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 1: picked is not even the super super super short print
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 1: that the anime kanji one is. I just picked the
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 1: regular anime card, which is a two to three thousand
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 1: dollars card. Right now, if you're not familiar with what
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 1: the anime cards are is, you know, it's exactly what
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 1: it sounds like. It's an anime version of Moudataka Murakami
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 1: on it. It is technically a rookie card because it came
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 1: out in twenty twenty six Bowmen. Not very many rookie
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 1: cards available of Murakami right now because he wasn't in
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 1: Top Series one. And on top of it, it's kind
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 1: of got this TV background where it harkens back to
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 1: the nineteen fifties Bowman set where they had a different
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 1: design that had a TV kind of motif on it,
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 1: where the first anime cards that's what they use was
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 1: that old fifties Bowman design, and now they're using different TVs.
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 1: So the one for this year's design is something I
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 1: would call maybe like a late eighties.
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 3: Television set, So it pops.
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 1: This thing has got crazy broad appeal between the Japanese
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 1: card market, the American baseball card market, even people on
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 1: like the Pokemon side. I think I've been getting into
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 1: these anime cards. So it's going to be a pretty penny.
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 1: Like I said, it's a two to three thousand dollars card,
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 1: it's a super short print, and on top of it,
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 1: I don't know when it goes down because there's not
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 1: many of them out there, and it just hits all
• 1:13:19
  Speaker 1: the sweet spots for collectors.
• 1:13:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah, there's a supply and the man with this one
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 2: and really started with Otani and his anime cards and
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 2: where they came through Bowman and we're kind of just
• 1:13:31
  Speaker 2: fall right in the same footsteps. And so yeah, this
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 2: is a great pick. I almost did this one until
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 2: I saw the other one and adds my PC. So
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 2: if you can, if you don't mind, just toss them,
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 2: you know, a grand my way. After you finished buying
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 2: this one, I'll pick up mine as well.
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 1: Okay, okay, cool, no problem, All right, now we get
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 1: to the goofball.
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 3: TJ.
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 1: Rumfield won the Rookie of the Month. I'm just coming
• 1:13:54
  Speaker 1: down with it from the Colorado Rockies first baseman who
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 1: came over from the New York Yankees and has been
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 1: really successful with the Rockies, especially in.
• 1:14:03
  Speaker 3: May, put up.
• 1:14:06
  Speaker 1: Four homers twelve RBI with a three ten batting average
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 1: eight eighty three OPS. He's addable in all fantasy leagues,
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 1: should be third and first base eligible in pretty much
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 1: every league too, where you can absolutely always stream him
• 1:14:21
  Speaker 1: at home. But he's been hitting well enough on the
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 1: road that he's actually a valuable corner infield piece for
• 1:14:27
  Speaker 1: our fantasy game. Pretty much no cards because he came
• 1:14:32
  Speaker 1: out of nowhere. And the way that he was acquired,
• 1:14:35
  Speaker 1: you know, through just a really really minor trade where
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 1: a few arm just one arm on how Chavilli went
• 1:14:44
  Speaker 1: back to the Yankees. So this was not a big
• 1:14:49
  Speaker 1: prospect for the Yankees. But I mean, there's gonna be
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 1: a handful of cards here and there. Actually didn't even
• 1:14:56
  Speaker 1: get a first until Bowman twenty twenty six. That's how
• 1:14:58
  Speaker 1: under the radar he's been despite being drafted all the
• 1:15:01
  Speaker 1: way back in twenty twenty one by the Phillies.
• 1:15:04
  Speaker 3: So, like I said, not a lot of cards that pick.
• 1:15:07
  Speaker 3: But where'd you go for T. J. Rumdel?
• 1:15:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah, there was not a lot. And when there's not
• 1:15:11
  Speaker 2: a lot, I like to go to the miners and
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 2: see what they got. And that's where I stuck. I
• 1:15:14
  Speaker 2: went with the twenty twenty two Choice Sports cards his
• 1:15:18
  Speaker 2: Hudson Value Renegades card number twenty four and it's an
• 1:15:24
  Speaker 2: in person Autumn and so somebody went out there and
• 1:15:27
  Speaker 2: added the value to the card to bring it up
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 2: to roughly what's available now is at forty dollars card
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 2: because there's really nothing out there. I've noticed this with
• 1:15:34
  Speaker 2: a few players that really have really thin early cards,
• 1:15:37
  Speaker 2: is that things like this all of a sudden become
• 1:15:39
  Speaker 2: the value because it doesn't get supply and demand. And
• 1:15:42
  Speaker 2: this is Rumfield. The stat line in the back of
• 1:15:46
  Speaker 2: his card is twenty seven games, zero homers, zero steals.
• 1:15:49
  Speaker 2: He hit one double in seventy six at bats, so
• 1:15:52
  Speaker 2: you could tell he was really trying to figure things
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 2: out at single a clear water there the year before
• 1:15:58
  Speaker 2: getting the Hudson Valley. And he looks like a little kid.
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 2: He looks like a little kid getting ready to go
• 1:16:04
  Speaker 2: up to bat. There he's got the long under armour on,
• 1:16:07
  Speaker 2: and yeah, it's just cool to see somebody's coming up
• 1:16:12
  Speaker 2: and then all of a sudden making some of them themselves.
• 1:16:14
  Speaker 2: And I wanted to leave the bowl and pick it
• 1:16:16
  Speaker 2: to you, but I think this is just a cool,
• 1:16:19
  Speaker 2: kind of cool first card to get and there's not
• 1:16:22
  Speaker 2: gonna be money out there. The TJ. Rumfield autographed with
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 2: the Renegades because he was not he was he was
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 2: not the be's knees with the Renegade.
• 1:16:31
  Speaker 3: No, absolutely not.
• 1:16:32
  Speaker 1: I mean certainly, I think he's probably about to have
• 1:16:34
  Speaker 1: a Rockies rookie card and update with this performance, so
• 1:16:38
  Speaker 1: he's probably locked that in for himself and we'll probably
• 1:16:40
  Speaker 1: have some rookie autos. So if you're looking for stuff
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 1: for T. J. Rumfeld, they'll probably be coming out later
• 1:16:46
  Speaker 1: this year. But if you want license products for this year,
• 1:16:51
  Speaker 1: I'm going back to twenty twenty six Bowmen. Like you said,
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 1: he had the first and autos in twenty twenty six Bowmen,
• 1:16:58
  Speaker 1: he was so like under the raid and the deal
• 1:17:01
  Speaker 1: to the Rockies was so like just.
• 1:17:03
  Speaker 3: Out of nowhere.
• 1:17:04
  Speaker 1: I mean, I guess they executed it well before that
• 1:17:07
  Speaker 1: was printed, but it was in late eight or late
• 1:17:10
  Speaker 1: March during spring training. No, no, no, never mind, that's
• 1:17:14
  Speaker 1: when he was called up to the Rockies. I'm looking
• 1:17:15
  Speaker 1: at the transaction tracker wrong. He was actually dealton January.
• 1:17:19
  Speaker 1: But still they probably had the cards out for autograph
• 1:17:22
  Speaker 1: well before that, because Rumfield's in a Yankees uniform on
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 1: his Bowman first cards, even though it took him forever
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 1: to finally get a Bowman first after being drafted in
• 1:17:31
  Speaker 1: twenty twenty one, didn't even get a first with the
• 1:17:34
  Speaker 1: team that drafted him in Philadelphia. I had to go
• 1:17:38
  Speaker 1: and get the auto in purple for the for the Rockies.
• 1:17:40
  Speaker 1: So these are pretty cheap cards. The one that I
• 1:17:44
  Speaker 1: linked to it already sold at forty bucks, which is
• 1:17:48
  Speaker 1: pretty cheap for a Bowman. First of a guy who
• 1:17:51
  Speaker 1: is going to be in the Rookie of the Year
• 1:17:53
  Speaker 1: running right now in the NL, even though I.
• 1:17:54
  Speaker 3: Mean doesn't really stand a chance. But it's a of two.
• 1:17:57
  Speaker 1: Fifty purple auto and they're out there because people certainly
• 1:18:01
  Speaker 1: bought into the Yankees in breaks out there, got this TJ.
• 1:18:05
  Speaker 1: Rumfeld card and immediately wanted to move in and now
• 1:18:08
  Speaker 1: have the opportunity.
• 1:18:09
  Speaker 3: So congrats to anybody that hit the TJ.
• 1:18:13
  Speaker 1: Rumfeld autos out of Bowman twenty twenty six. Nothing too
• 1:18:16
  Speaker 1: outstanding on this card. It's a normal Bowman design, but
• 1:18:19
  Speaker 1: it's got the purple background.
• 1:18:22
  Speaker 2: And this is what we always kind of talk about
• 1:18:24
  Speaker 2: with Bowman and how it is so difficult in the
• 1:18:26
  Speaker 2: prospecting game is so crazy because you can get you
• 1:18:30
  Speaker 2: could one just sold yesterday his base Bowman sold for
• 1:18:33
  Speaker 2: twenty bucks. His Baseballman Auto for twenty bucks. And this
• 1:18:36
  Speaker 2: is a guy that's producing at the major league level.
• 1:18:39
  Speaker 2: He was the Rookie of the month, and yet it's
• 1:18:43
  Speaker 2: gonna be five x to buy a guy in single
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 2: A that they have all the hype. It's such a
• 1:18:48
  Speaker 2: funny product. That's so funny how the Baseball Card World
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 2: handles him. But hey, if you want to get the TJ.
• 1:18:55
  Speaker 2: Rumfield and how he's running right now, go for it
• 1:18:58
  Speaker 2: because that's basically the only card available.
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 1: Yes, exactly. Okay, Well that's going to wrap us up
• 1:19:05
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• 1:19:08
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• 1:19:11
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• 1:19:14
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