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Ep. 82 : Card Market Buys For 2025 · Cards & Categories

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  Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome everybody to episode eighty two of Cards
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  Speaker 1: and Categories. I'm Mike Coolard from Rasball, joined as always
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  Speaker 1: by my very good friend Jeremy Burr, also from Rasball.
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  Speaker 2: It's just the two of us tonight.
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  Speaker 1: After we did all those preview pods the past six weeks,
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  Speaker 1: it feels a little intimate.
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  Speaker 2: You're ready for just the two of us to chat tonight.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not sure. It's actually snowing outside here in Centralllinois,
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  Speaker 3: so we've got a nice ambiance. So let's talk spring
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  Speaker 3: training baseball baseball cards. Just you and me with little
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  Speaker 3: snow in the background. It's very, very romantic, so I
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  Speaker 3: think we can pull this off.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, well, I'll throw a log another log on the
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  Speaker 2: fireplace for us.
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  Speaker 3: I appreciate it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, Well.
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  Speaker 1: Since we are both from rasball, certainly do you check
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  Speaker 1: out those rasball subscriptions. I'm going to link to that
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  Speaker 1: in the notes here. Also check out anything else.
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  Speaker 2: We're talking about.
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  Speaker 1: We are going to do a show here today talking
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  Speaker 1: about investments, especially at the major league level, is where
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  Speaker 1: we're going to focus because hint, hint, we're coming back
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  Speaker 1: for the minor league level next week. The prospect level
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  Speaker 1: of card investments. So we're looking at players who either
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  Speaker 1: are you know, we think they could jump forward in
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  Speaker 1: terms of just notoriety or overall ability. So kind of
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  Speaker 1: rounding out the previews we've done in the past few
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  Speaker 1: weeks where we can go back if you want to
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  Speaker 1: go back through. I think it's a great preview series
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  Speaker 1: gives you. I mean we talked about like forty five
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  Speaker 1: players a pod for six straight pods to give you
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  Speaker 1: insights to all sorts of prospects buys sells. Certainly go
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  Speaker 1: check that out and check out all the work from
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  Speaker 1: all the guests we had on But as I was
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  Speaker 1: saying with the ras ball connection here, certainly coick in
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  Speaker 1: the show notes to get those rass Ball subscriptions. Check
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  Speaker 1: out what you can sign up for the year long
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  Speaker 1: is definitely the most economical option.
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  Speaker 2: Will get you access to tools like the.
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  Speaker 1: if you sign up for that ras Ball subscription, we would.
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  Speaker 2: Highly suggest it.
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  Speaker 1: And with that too, we've got ras Slam that kicked
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  Speaker 1: off literally today as we're recording here on March fifth.
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  Speaker 2: It is a points based best ball league.
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  Speaker 1: I know that you've been drafting here all day and
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  Speaker 1: you are actually in the same league as our editor
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  Speaker 1: in chief, the Mustachio Lithario himself.
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  Speaker 2: Gray. Alright, so how's that been going for you?
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  Speaker 3: Well, we've actually been making progress. We are just just
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  Speaker 3: about in the fourth round. We've got one more pick
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  Speaker 3: left from the third round, so we are flying, which
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  Speaker 3: is fantastic because from my experience in the past with Raslam,
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  Speaker 3: that's not always the way it goes. Sometimes you get
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  Speaker 3: to the evening and you're like, okay, we're the sixth
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  Speaker 3: picked overall, because you do get quite quite some time
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  Speaker 3: to make your pick. I think you get four hours
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  Speaker 3: to make your pick if you if you need it
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  Speaker 3: at least at this point. But hey, I'm actually really excited.
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  Speaker 3: I ended up with I think the tenth pick overall
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  Speaker 3: in our draft, and I uh, before the Gunner Henderson
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  Speaker 3: a little tweak of his news came out today, I
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  Speaker 3: grabbed Gunner Henderson and followed up with the pall Skians
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  Speaker 3: probably the only place I'll own Paul Skan because is
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  Speaker 3: probably the only places I would actually picked him in
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  Speaker 3: the second round, which I was thrilled with. But the
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  Speaker 3: most exciting thing for me is to your point, our
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  Speaker 3: our Edward Chief, our our guru, Gray loves Brent Rooker,
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  Speaker 3: And if anybody listens to this podcast, there's another guy
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  Speaker 3: that loves Brett Brooker just as much, and that's myself.
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  Speaker 3: And I've got the next pick, and I'm taking Brett
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  Speaker 3: Rooker before Greg gets a chance for it. And I'm
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  Speaker 3: not sure if I'm picking it because he fits my
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  Speaker 3: team or if I'm picking it slightly out of spite
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  Speaker 3: to make sure Gray knows that I'm taking Brett Rooker.
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  Speaker 3: But either way, he's gonna be on my team. And
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  Speaker 3: I'm really excited about this. And I'm just waiting for
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  Speaker 3: the chat, the rasball Rider Chat to to throw some
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  Speaker 3: things at me when when Gray Record realizes that I've
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  Speaker 3: that I've grabbed one of his, one of his boys.
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  Speaker 3: So how about you? How's your drafting? Once? Have you
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  Speaker 3: guys made it through three rounds yet?
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  Speaker 1: No, we're stuck mid in the second. We've got it's Trust.
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  Speaker 1: Matt Trust is in my league with me, as well
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  Speaker 1: as Jordan White, who was on the NL Central preview
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  Speaker 1: here so it's a it's kind of a funny league
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  Speaker 1: of lots of Rasball lumps and there. I'm also in
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  Speaker 1: the TGFBI that's going on right now that's hosted by
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  Speaker 1: Justin Mason from Friends with Fantasy Benefits and Fangrafts. That
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  Speaker 1: is an all industry like experts league, and I'm in
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  Speaker 1: that one with Beaton from Rasball, who posts the regular
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  Speaker 1: podcast that runs on Tuesdays. And it's been quite fun
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  Speaker 1: in that one because we're starting to get pretty deep
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  Speaker 1: where I think we're in the eighth round right now,
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  Speaker 1: but Beaton and I are just sniping the hell out
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  Speaker 1: of each other on all the picks because we're just
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  Speaker 1: creating super ras Ball teams and it's it was It
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  Speaker 1: would work great if feed On wasn't kind of sitting there.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure he's mumbling the same self stuff to himself.
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  Speaker 1: As you know, we're just constantly taking i think the
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  Speaker 1: next player on each other's queue out from each other.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a great time. It's one of those that
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  Speaker 3: you know, I actually do love slow drafts just because
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  Speaker 3: it lets your draft while not taking times away from
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  Speaker 3: other things going on in your life. And I think
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  Speaker 3: it's absolutely fun my phone bings. I'm like, all right,
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  Speaker 3: I gotta catch up what's been happening, who's been gone,
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  Speaker 3: and what am I going to do next? When it
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  Speaker 3: gets there? And I have yet to be sniped in
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  Speaker 3: my first three rounds, I think I'll make it the
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  Speaker 3: fourth as well. That's probably as far as it goes.
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  Speaker 1: Counting your eggs before the chickens has there, Yeah, exactly
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  Speaker 1: the other way around, the chickens for the eggsact.
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  Speaker 3: You know, either way, I'm happy about it. I'm not
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  Speaker 3: sure which came first, the chicken or the eggs.
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  Speaker 1: And I mean, if you're still looking to get in
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  Speaker 1: on some drafting action, We've still got space in our
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  Speaker 1: RcLs our Raspball Commentary leagues. I will link to that
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  Speaker 1: into the show notes. It's a great space to kind
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  Speaker 1: of also practice drafting that it's a most of the
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  Speaker 1: leagues are free, and I think there's still a few
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  Speaker 1: that might have buy INDs of like ten twenty bucks.
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  Speaker 1: Nothing significant, but great kind of daily moves to keep
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  Speaker 1: you engaged in that in that format as well as
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  Speaker 1: like there is an overall kind of bragging rights. The
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  Speaker 1: way that RAS Slam is set up where all of
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  Speaker 1: the RcLs are competing against each other, and I love
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  Speaker 1: it just to be able to kind of practice new
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  Speaker 1: team builds. I mean, it's free leagues. The rasball commenters
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  Speaker 1: are sharp that, like, I am always on my toes
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  Speaker 1: in these drafts and in the in the season moves
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  Speaker 1: that it's great because you get you know, oddball teams
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  Speaker 1: where they're maybe trying to build off of aces or
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  Speaker 1: all upside or you know, just taking lots of risk
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  Speaker 1: and other safer teams, and like it's great. It's a
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  Speaker 1: it's a good tool to be able to help you
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  Speaker 1: get into draft season here. But with that, let's maybe
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  Speaker 1: get into some of the latest and greatest news that's
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  Speaker 1: happened over the last week. We haven't had too much
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  Speaker 1: going on, but a few moves and injuries that are
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  Speaker 1: going to significantly impact our fantasy game. First one we
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  Speaker 1: have is I think this was kind of in the
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  Speaker 1: works when we recorded last week, but officially kind of
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  Speaker 1: the signing happened since is that Kyle Finnegan is rejoining
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  Speaker 1: the Washington Nationals. Should walk right in as the closer
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  Speaker 1: there and be able to fill that seat that he
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  Speaker 1: occupied there, even though Washington cut him in the off
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  Speaker 1: season at the arbitration deadline because they didn't want to
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  Speaker 1: go to arb with him, But ultimately they ended up
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  Speaker 1: saving a couple million dollars bringing back Finnegan on a
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  Speaker 1: one year deal. And I don't know if I want
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  Speaker 1: to kind of direct this conversation just on Finn again,
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  Speaker 1: because I think he is what he is at this point.
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  Speaker 1: You can kind of expect him to be a mid
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  Speaker 1: ish mid tier ish closer just because of availability and
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  Speaker 1: that path to the job in Washington, But what are
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  Speaker 1: you doing with closers? Because we haven't touched on it
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  Speaker 1: too much. We've had little smatterings of the conversations through
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  Speaker 1: draft season based on some of our buys and cells.
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  Speaker 1: But I've found it to be one of the most
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  Speaker 1: confounding markets as I've been getting into draft season, is
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  Speaker 1: like how are you working your way through like the
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  Speaker 1: upper tiers of the position, And then you know some
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  Speaker 1: of these open jobs as well, like are you trying
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  Speaker 1: to invest early and heavily or are you just gonna
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  Speaker 1: leave it to scrambling on the waiver wire in your leagues?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it is an oddynamics, like it feels like every
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  Speaker 3: year there's more and more like issues with bullpens and
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  Speaker 3: less guaranteed jobs. That's why actually fink And is slightly
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  Speaker 3: attractive because yeah, he has he should have the job
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  Speaker 3: without question. But that's like it used to be. It's like, okay,
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  Speaker 3: there's twenty five closers, there's a few unsettled jobs. Now
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  Speaker 3: I feel like you were lucky if we have like
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  Speaker 3: ten or fifteen pretty confident jobs, and then you're kind
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  Speaker 3: of chasing it. So for me, I'm still trying to
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  Speaker 3: avoid the top end. I think the top is just
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  Speaker 3: not the place that that I want to play it.
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  Speaker 3: There's just too much other upside out there, and there's
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  Speaker 3: too much volatility in any closer, let alone a pitcher
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  Speaker 3: that has an arm that might want to fall off.
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  Speaker 3: Plus they have a job that they could potentially lose,
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  Speaker 3: And so I'm playing more in that probably you know, eight, nine,
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  Speaker 3: tenth closer off the board through the fifteen seventeen, like
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  Speaker 3: trying to get probably like two of those guys and
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  Speaker 3: then take a few late dart throws of kind of
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  Speaker 3: young up and comers, guys that I think have decent potential,
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  Speaker 3: and then I'm going after a few fireballers that are
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  Speaker 3: maybe a second tier second in the bullpen, and it
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  Speaker 3: used to be, like I said, it used to be
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  Speaker 3: like I really want three closers. I feel like now
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  Speaker 3: if I can get two guys that I know have
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  Speaker 3: a job and I can get some upside elsewhere, I might,
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  Speaker 3: you know, stumble into some saves. I'm actually pretty happy
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  Speaker 3: with that. So it's definitely changed over the years, and
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  Speaker 3: I think this year's no exception. It's just you got
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  Speaker 3: to be ready to snipe right in middle of the
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  Speaker 3: draft and grab a few of those guys before all
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  Speaker 3: of a sudden pickings get way too thin, so because
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  Speaker 3: you can't be playing chickens a little bit with with
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  Speaker 3: this role. So I don't about you. Are you are
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  Speaker 3: you playing the high end of these guys or are
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  Speaker 3: you kind of in the same boat as me.
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  Speaker 1: I think I'm generally in the same boat as you.
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  Speaker 1: But I mean, if some of those upper end guys
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  Speaker 1: do fall a little bit, and you know, there's not
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  Speaker 1: necessarily like a standout bat or I mean usually I'm
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  Speaker 1: not going for a picture at that range because of
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  Speaker 1: some of the just great pitching options that kind of
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  Speaker 1: appear like after the sixth round. I mean, part of
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  Speaker 1: it too is I think there are a lot of
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  Speaker 1: land mines in that upper tier, Like most of them
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  Speaker 1: were my cells when we went back through those divisional
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  Speaker 1: previews between like Hater and Devin Williams and Ryan Helsley
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  Speaker 1: and Felix Bautista, that there's a lot of arms there
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  Speaker 1: that scare me, so I shy away from a lot
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  Speaker 1: of them. But then I do come back round to
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  Speaker 1: like trying to get in on like a Andre's Muno
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  Speaker 1: so Hughan Duran, And then I've been loving just popping
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  Speaker 1: Kenley Jansen where I can, because like at that point,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I understand he could maybe not be the
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  Speaker 1: great ratio ass that some of these other guys are,
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  Speaker 1: but at the end of the day, it's sixty innings
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  Speaker 1: and the volume of saves you get from somebody like
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  Speaker 1: Jansen's fantastic. And then yeah, I think that that like
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  Speaker 1: kind of tier with Jansen, with like him and Jordan Romano,
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  Speaker 1: Chris Martin, Justin Martinez. There's a lot of interesting arms
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  Speaker 1: on good teams too. That's the really kind of key
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  Speaker 1: is I think I'm starting to once you get deeper
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  Speaker 1: into the draft, trying to hone in on good teams
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  Speaker 1: where it's a pretty steady closer like not playing around
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  Speaker 1: with any of the closing options in Boston, not playing
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  Speaker 1: around with any on the Chicago Cubs, just because, like
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  Speaker 1: I think it's going to be a very volatile and
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  Speaker 1: hostile closer marker all of twenty twenty five.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm probably playing maybe a round or two earlier
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  Speaker 3: than some of those geta mentioned like the Ryan Walker,
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  Speaker 3: Pete Fairbanks type type area I think is a really
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  Speaker 3: attractive area for me to like grab a few closers.
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  Speaker 3: But then you're right, I'm I'm really interested in going
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  Speaker 3: after some like high upside guys with like uh, you know,
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  Speaker 3: even a Seth Seth Halverson in Colorado. He looks like
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  Speaker 3: he could be the only Colorado picture worth draftings. I'm
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  Speaker 3: not sure that that's a really great endorsement of him,
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  Speaker 3: But like a Calvin Foucher, you know, even uh, you know,
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  Speaker 3: a rebound from like a Bednar or something like that.
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  Speaker 3: Those are all intriguing that I'm willing to try to play.
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  Speaker 3: But I want to probably grab a handful of those
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  Speaker 3: intriguing guys, maybe the Tyler holten over in Detroit who
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  Speaker 3: likes to try to do a little bit of everything,
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  Speaker 3: and he's going to back into you know, seven or
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  Speaker 3: ten saves and that's better than anything else. So, uh,
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  Speaker 3: definitely an interesting dynamic. Gotta have the guys got to
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  Speaker 3: play for him. But I'm avoiding much of that top end, gotcha.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, let's get into the next signing that we had,
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  Speaker 1: and that is Jose Kintana inking a one year deal
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  Speaker 1: with the Milwaukee Brewers, and so he's coming off of
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  Speaker 1: a decent season with the New York Mets. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I guess part of this is also driven by I
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  Speaker 1: write the waiver wire call, so he's like in terms
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  Speaker 1: of like fifteen teamers and things like that. I think
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  Speaker 1: this is a decent signing spot for Kintana given last year,
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  Speaker 1: you know, coming off of a season with a three
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  Speaker 1: seventy five VRA over one hundred and seventy third innings,
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  Speaker 1: ten wins, ten losses, and just kind of like an
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  Speaker 1: option is like he takes the ball every fifth day,
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  Speaker 1: and like maybe you find some good matchups. I think
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  Speaker 1: where I want to go with this conversation is the
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  Speaker 1: Milwaukee Brewers thinned out pretty fast here. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: if you've looked at their rotation since the spring has started,
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  Speaker 1: but we have Aaron Ashby getting hurt again. We have
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  Speaker 1: Dall Hall hitting the sixty day il today. Brandon Woodruff
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  Speaker 1: still hasn't worked his way back to game action, and
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  Speaker 1: that scares the living daylights out of me. So honestly,
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  Speaker 1: there's a good shot Kintana sticks in this rotation for
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  Speaker 1: the Brewers for a long time, given the rubber arm
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  Speaker 1: that he has.
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  Speaker 2: But I mean maybe you're a little bit higher on
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  Speaker 2: Kingtona than I am.
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  Speaker 1: But anybody else maybe in that Brewer system that is
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  Speaker 1: also kind of like wow, now that I look at this,
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  Speaker 1: there's maybe a pathway to some more opportunity than I
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  Speaker 1: thought there was a couple of weeks ago.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I there's I would say, there's nothing
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  Speaker 3: too exciting from a what's already up there. I do
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  Speaker 3: still have some intrigue with Woodruff. I think he is
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  Speaker 3: going to get back, and he's still young enough that
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  Speaker 3: he can has a good shot, and he's always been
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  Speaker 3: a workhorse so that the shoulder injuries are not easy
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  Speaker 3: to get over. But I think he's got a shot there.
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  Speaker 3: Probably the only guy that I'd be really too intrigued
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  Speaker 3: with maybe is if like Jacob Mizerowski, you know, gets
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  Speaker 3: a chance but long term, I wonder if he's gonna
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  Speaker 3: be much more of a bullpen type arm. He just
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  Speaker 3: he doesn't have the control that really seems like it's
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  Speaker 3: gonna play in in a rotation. So I think he's
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  Speaker 3: an interesting one, but beyond that, there really just isn't
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  Speaker 3: a ton in that in that system right now. Like yeah,
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  Speaker 3: let's it's like we were talking with the Mets and
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  Speaker 3: you're like, oh, give me a brand sprout or give
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  Speaker 3: me you know, see see what this means for some
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  Speaker 3: of those guys, Like no, this just doesn't seem to
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  Speaker 3: exist here that all the guys I would like to
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  Speaker 3: see an opportunity or the guys that are heard it's
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  Speaker 3: Aaron Ashby's DL hall As treverort Gazer like it's it's
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  Speaker 3: those guys. So yeah, I'm I'm kind of just watching
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  Speaker 3: from afar, and I I don't know if there's really
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  Speaker 3: any starter that I really want to own on this team,
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  Speaker 3: even like a Freddie Peralta, Like there's a lot of
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  Speaker 3: warning sides with him. So I'm I'm probably, like I said,
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  Speaker 3: the one I'm only interested in like Brandon Woodruff, just
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  Speaker 3: because I'm the price is so cheap and if I'm wrong.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't really lose out on too much like the
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  Speaker 3: rest of these guys, Like I feel like I know
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  Speaker 3: if I'm gonna be wrong drafting them.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I don't mind.
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  Speaker 1: Like Tobias Myers, Nester Cortez, Aaron Safali is like really
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  Speaker 1: late kind of round options. But I think it's gonna
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  Speaker 1: be something to keep an eye on because Milwaukee he
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  Speaker 1: does seem to develop pitching. We'll have to see if
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  Speaker 1: maybe David Stearns was like this spur of that and
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  Speaker 1: is taking it to New York with him. But if
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  Speaker 1: they do develop more of these pitchers that were in
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  Speaker 1: High A, Double A last year, certainly watch those minor
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: league stats from the Milwaukee Brewers system because they can
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: shoot to the majors pretty quickly, and there's a great
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: opportunity just with that team and the wins I think
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: they'll provide.
• 16:28
  Speaker 2: Okay, let's get.
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: Into a couple of injuries that we have really affecting
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: our fantasy pools. The first is Atlanta Braves catcher Sean
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: Murphy out again to start the season four to six
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: weeks now with a cracked rib on a hit by pitch.
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: I noticed you stuck this through in our Autunu draft
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: this past Sunday where honestly I missed this news where
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: Sean Murphy. I think he went down with the injury
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: on Friday, but we actually didn't get word until like
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: Monday or Tuesday that it was a cracked rib from
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: the Braves. But on Sunday you snuck through a one
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: dollar Drake Baldwin in our autonew League. Currently, it does
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: look like he's starting to be slated for full time
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: play in spring training. He's starting just about every day,
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: splitting it with Chadwick Trump and Kurt Casali, who are
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: the veterans there in camp with the Braves. But so far,
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: through seventeen plate appearances, Drake Baldwin slashing three h eight
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: four seventy one, three eighty five hasn't struck out in
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: those seventeen plate appearances, which you love to see. How
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: high is too high to take Drake Baldwin in drafts
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: right now in terms of catcher rankings, Yeah.
• 17:35
  Speaker 3: It's a really tough one because you know, the the
• 17:37
  Speaker 3: rib injuries, those are kind of thinicky as far as
• 17:40
  Speaker 3: when you might get back. They've got given Murphy quite
• 17:43
  Speaker 3: a bit of money, so like they they definitely want
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: to get something out of him. So I think, you know,
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: best case right now for for Baldwin is that he
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: does get the job out of Camp. I think it's
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: really going to come down to how far off to
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: think Sean Murphy is, Like, is he gonna be back
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: like two weeks in the season. That that's the case,
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: they probably try to use Chadwick Trump to try to
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: sneak by and not start the clock on Baldwin because
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: I think ultimately it ends up being a timeshare situation.
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: Is I think what happens here they try to you know,
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: it's there's not a whole lot of room in that
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: lineup from like a DH perspective. You got this Marcelo
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: Zuna guy that is he can't really play the field,
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: that never has been able to even put him in
• 18:23
  Speaker 3: the past, and so it's not like some other situations
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: where you might see like a Salvador Perez, you know,
• 18:29
  Speaker 3: kind of a splitting time between them things like that.
• 18:32
  Speaker 3: I think it ends up being pretty much a time
• 18:34
  Speaker 3: share between Drake Baldwin and Sean Murphy throughout the whole year,
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: and it just comes down to who's healthy. And unfortunately
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: for Baldwin, I don't think the Braves are gonna move
• 18:43
  Speaker 3: on from Murphy because of what they've committed to him,
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: and he has been pretty guys sharing good in the past.
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: So I think I'm excited for it because I think
• 18:52
  Speaker 3: Baldwin gets a shot and I'm hopeful to a degree
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: that he does make the opening day roster and he's
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: able to kind of get off to a hot start.
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: So that means the Braves take their time with Murphy
• 19:02
  Speaker 3: and then he stays in that time share. But I'm
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: I'm much more interesting in a long term dynasty aspect
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: than I am on a redraft at this point because,
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: like I said, I think Murphy's gonna still split time
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: with them throughout the season. But if you're in a
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: two catcher league, we split time with Baldwin might be
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: just as good as a lot of those second catchers.
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think this is a great opportunity to like
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: maybe sneak Baldwin into the back end of a team
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: if you've got two catchers. And then I mean, I
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: guess we'll kind of see.
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: I want to see.
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: Another week of actual play with the Braves to see
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: how often they're running Baldwin out there compared to Trump
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: and Kassali and Candy Leone I think is in Camp two,
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: so there's a lot of catchers there. They can't sign
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: any there's no catchers on the market, so they're stuck here,
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: and so it is going to be I think if
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: Baldwin is playing pretty often within another week, honestly, I
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: might start moving him into like fifteen team terror toy
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: as even one catcher league that if your two catcher
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: league for twelve teamers. Absolutely he's got to be off
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: the board just given the upside.
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: Yep, No, I'm absolutely fine with it. I'm very happy
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: to own a one dollar Drake Baldwin.
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: That's a great pickup, great sneak.
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: Okay, next injury we have is I've actually got it
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: in our rundown as a Louis heel shoulder injury. But
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: I think since that piece of news came out, he's
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: actually been diagnosed with a strained lat in his out
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: six weeks.
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: So we touched on this a little bit. This is
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: pretty close to.
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: The Montess trade that or injury that happened the other week,
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: where you know, put a pitchers out six to eight
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: weeks to start the season. What are we doing with
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: them going into the season in terms of just the
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: injury projection, because Louis Hill is coming off a pretty
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: decent season, even though the walks were, you know, pretty
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: high at four and a half per nine, but you know,
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: a three fifty fifteen wins, a Rookie of the Year
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: with a one nineteen whippy with all those walks because
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: he's so nasty, the strikeouts were there for him. He
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: had a total of one hundred and seventy one and
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty one and two thirds innings. So
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: I was kind of intrigued in Heel as like a
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: kind of later strikeouts option. Now I'm totally out. This
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: is the type of injury where I'm totally out. I know,
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: you're the more kind of injury risk not adverse person,
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: And so is this another one where you're maybe still
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: stashing on the il or are you kind of starting
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: to get into the camp where I am where Like, honestly,
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: at this point in spring training, these type of guys
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: just don't seem to bounce back.
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, Louise Heel has never a kind of
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: guy that really fit into the profile guys I liked
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: in the first place. He doesn't have any control. He
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: relies on some bait of luck. He doesn't keep the
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: ball on the ground, like there's other things that don't work.
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: The only thing I really liked was the strikeouts. And
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: he plays for the Yankees, which gets some win. It's like,
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: and so you start to put some things that are
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: going to double down on, you know, keep you know,
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: I could see him usually flying open and put the
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: ball up to the zone. Double and now those fly balls,
• 22:13
  Speaker 3: the control is going to take time to get back.
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: Like I just I'm not too interested at all. I'm
• 22:19
  Speaker 3: I'm more interested in what's gonna happen with that Yankees rotation.
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: I mean, they're probably sitting there, you know, more happy
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: that they didn't trade Marcus Stroman. And but you know,
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: I'm I'm I've got i got two names I want
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: to throw out there for you that I'm interested in. First,
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: we've got Will Warren, who has looked pretty gouch starnk
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: good in spring training. He's he's gone through eight innings,
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: he's got a one thirteen eras he got one run.
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: Strikeouts are there. Control looks to be there, like he
• 22:50
  Speaker 3: looks like he's doing some some pretty good work. And
• 22:53
  Speaker 3: you know, he's they've got no reason to keep him
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: in the minors. He's twenty five years old. He's kind
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: of done his thing across his career. He's last year
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: he had one hundred and thirty Indians in the minors.
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: A year before he was one hundred and twenty nine.
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: So who's right there. So he's built up. So I
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: think Will Warren is gonna be a very interesting guy
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: and then a dark horse I got for you. And
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: this is much more hope than actual analysis. Is Luke Weaver.
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: Luke weaver history of starting isn't. I mean, he was
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: kind of looked like a shutout closure last year, but
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: he isn't in the mold of a closer. He has
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: multiple pitches. He just found one that was actually working
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: much better for him. And so he's always had that
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: ability to to kind of go deep into games. And
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: so I doubt they're gonna pull him out there. They
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: want him setting up for Devin Williams. I think he's
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: gonna be in the fireman role this year. But you know,
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: if I'm the Yankees and I'm looking at my options,
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: I'm not too excited by Marcus Stroman. I'd much rather
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: give a Luke Weaver run because I'm not I'm not
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: paying him that much. You know, he was a waiver
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: pick up back in twenty three, and so that or
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: Will Warren. So I the end of the day, I
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: think that from a fantasy perspective, there's some there's some
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: injury here.
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: The Will Warren call is a really good one because
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: Stroman does have an option that vests into.
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: A player option.
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: If he puts up one hundred and forty innings this year,
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: they'll be to guarantee his salary at eighteen and a
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: half million dollars for twenty twenty six. Pretty much means
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: Marcus Stroman is not throwing one hundred and forty innings
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: this year.
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: So that's that's a bad business. If they let him
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: throw at millions. They're just not happy right now.
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: Well, yeah, I mean there's there's a there's a union
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: grievance filing coming. But you know down the road when
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: Stroman is obviously held back because I mean.
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: He should get this fifth job.
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: But I wouldn't be surprised that the Yankees just go
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: with Bill Warren considering how electric he's looked in the spring.
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: That that is a I think a great call, and
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: from a fantasy perspective, Warren is certainly much more intriguing
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: than Stroman right now, just because of that upside.
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: Yep, absolutely so He's a guy I'm kind of watching
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: later in drafts seeing if I can maybe pick him
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: up or just see what happens, because you know, the
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: the downside is very very limited with Warren.
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: All right, let's get into another piece of news, not
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: an injury piece of news, I mean, could lead to
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: an injury maybe eventually, but we got essentially. The Astros
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: have come out and they've said it that this was
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: an intriguing kind of SoundBite that came through during the winter.
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: But jose Al Tuovy looks like he's slated to play
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: most of his games in left field now for the Astros,
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: which if you find video of it, it is really hilarious. Obviously,
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: the first like joke that was made that is it
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: looks like one of the kids during the home run
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: derby like shagging fly balls in the outfield because it's
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: pretty spot on. He is not the tallest sky still
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: and the glove is just like it's as big as
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: his body practically, and it looks really funny when he's
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: just kind of out there because it just you've not
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: used to it.
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: Jose Al Tuove, it's.
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: A weird move because it looks like Brendan Rodgers is
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: going to win that second base job and Houston, which
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: I mean, I'm putting a star rate next to his name.
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: I've always kind of liked Brendan Rodgers and didn't like
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: that the Rockies couldn't figure out what to do with him.
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: But I think my question with this is just like
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: what on earth?
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: Like, what are we doing?
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: What do you do with players like this where you're
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: making a significant change. Meryl did it, Jackson, Merril did
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: this last year, went to center field. But he's twenty
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: two years old, oh two vas thirty four and trying
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: to play left field.
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: Now, Yeah, I mean I'm not I'm not really taking
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: too much into account with it. Like if they're give
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: them the shot, they think the s and do a
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: two days a veteran. He's a professional hitter, So I
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: don't think it's gonna play on both sides of the
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: ball for us. If anything from a fantasy game and
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: gives them some positional flexibility, I think that that's actually
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: kind of a win. But the bigger thing I'm watching.
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: Is Win's Nolan Ernando going to be a hough Ston astro?
• 26:52
  Speaker 3: Like that's my question because like this this was the
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: move was they were doing this because they want to
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: free up third base for Bregman. Move A zc Parades
• 27:00
  Speaker 3: over to second and al two van left. Now they're
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: still moving two eight to left and they're gonna roll
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: out Brennan Rodgers or Mauritio Dubon, Like I don't think so.
• 27:11
  Speaker 3: I'm maybe I'm not as high as you and Brennan Rodgers,
• 27:13
  Speaker 3: but I just doesn't feel like the right move there.
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: And I well, I think there if they're doing it
• 27:17
  Speaker 3: for defensive purposes bringing in a former gold Glover at
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: third base, and Ernando is not too shabby the deal either.
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: Uh.
• 27:25
  Speaker 3: So I'm just waiting for that one to work out.
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: And I know we saw some rumors maybe a week
• 27:28
  Speaker 3: back that they were re engaging in talks and they
• 27:30
  Speaker 3: were shot down and things like that, so it doesn't
• 27:32
  Speaker 3: seem like that door is completely closed. And you know,
• 27:36
  Speaker 3: the Cardinals want to get rid of Aeronado, so gouts
• 27:39
  Speaker 3: turned bad. Uh, they might take Brendan Rodgers back.
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: So yeah, I mean, he did reject the trade to Houston,
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: which is a little bit of a factor. I think honestly,
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: one of the names that really this brings intrigue back
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: to you is Shay Whitcomb, who looked blocked by that
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: Estoc Paradus trade. He is gonna be in his age
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: twenty sixth season, but last year in triflea put up
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: two ninety three, three seventy eight, five thirty batting line,
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: one hundred and twenty three WRC plus with twenty five
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: homers twenty six stolen bases. It's somebody who lots of
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: like Dynasty players have been getting in on, but certainly
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: if Houston is opening up more space for him, I
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: think that becomes another name to watch as we get
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: into spring, because let me see their lineups over the
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: past couple of days. What comes playing pretty regularly at
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: third and then at second is Brendon. A lot of
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: Brandon Rodgers though, so I think it's between those two
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: and Dubon kind of goes back to his utility role.
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: But it's something to keep an eye on, is.
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: What the Astros are doing with Whitcomb and Rogers over
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: the next kind of week or so, while you're also
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: watching those Braves lineups for Drake Baldwin. Okay, well, we've
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: got a few pieces of updates to the card calendar.
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: We've still got those Panini products that are on there
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: that have been kind of slated into our news notes
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: for a while. If you go into those show notes now,
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: you'll see that we actually got a date now for
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: twenty twenty four Heritage High Number. It is coming out
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: in three weeks from when we're talking today. Slay had
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: come out on March twenty six. Should be an intriguing
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: project because our product, because it's gonna have lots of
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: those rookies that we had in twenty twenty four, including
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: Paul's Skiens and the likes. So I think there's probably
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: gonna be I also wonder if maybe that's part of
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: the reason why it took so long to get Heritage
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: High Number out out the doors. That there's you have
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: to think that the Paul Skeens on card Heritage Auto
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: is going to be a hot ticket as well as
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: probably Jackson Turio, Jackson Holiday, and Jackson Merrill. So when
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: they had to go out and collect all those autographs,
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: I think that's probably why some of these delays occurred.
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: With Heritage High Number.
• 29:55
  Speaker 3: Yep.
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: I've usually kind of like been shying away from the
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: past couple of years because it's it's also been like
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: tough hits in terms of heritage. But are you intrigued
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: by High Number coming out in a few weeks.
• 30:07
  Speaker 3: I'm slightly intrigued to your point. It feels like it's
• 30:10
  Speaker 3: gonna be a better class than it has been in
• 30:13
  Speaker 3: the past. There's been some pretty pretty big clunkers as
• 30:17
  Speaker 3: far as heritage. I had number the last few years,
• 30:19
  Speaker 3: and those are the products that you know, and I
• 30:22
  Speaker 3: don't know it's going to come out to the hobby
• 30:23
  Speaker 3: boxes for Heritage High Number usually in the eighty ninety
• 30:27
  Speaker 3: dollars range, cheaper hoppy box. But like even some of
• 30:30
  Speaker 3: the recent stuff like was you can find a box
• 30:32
  Speaker 3: for like forty bucks, you know, just a year or
• 30:35
  Speaker 3: two later because there's nobody. There's nobody in some of
• 30:38
  Speaker 3: those products, and so I'm slightly intrigued. Bicks. It can
• 30:42
  Speaker 3: probably be where the price point is that for me,
• 30:45
  Speaker 3: because it is going to be a kind of hit
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: or miss, Like it's one of those Viking grab it
• 30:48
  Speaker 3: at a good cost on a release day, I'll probably
• 30:51
  Speaker 3: probably give it a shot. Otherwise I'll probably wait it
• 30:53
  Speaker 3: out and see because it does feel like they've overproduced
• 30:56
  Speaker 3: it a little bit more in recent years, and so
• 30:58
  Speaker 3: some of those fun things heritage where you're looking for
• 31:01
  Speaker 3: the air cards and all those things, like it's you're
• 31:04
  Speaker 3: getting like one a box where it used to be
• 31:05
  Speaker 3: like three or four, and all you're getting is your
• 31:09
  Speaker 3: quasi sps, which with Heritage, I don't want to call
• 31:11
  Speaker 3: it sp the high number of sps that they're like,
• 31:14
  Speaker 3: do you get one of your two packs? So it's
• 31:16
  Speaker 3: not quite the same thing. So I like it, but
• 31:19
  Speaker 3: I'm I'm probably gonna pass unless I get, you know,
• 31:21
  Speaker 3: find a smoking deal on a release day.
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that totally makes sense.
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: Okay, Well, with that, we're going to take a short break,
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: but we will be back after that break to get
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: into some of our card buys for twenty twenty five.
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: Stick around, all right, Welcome back everybody from that break.
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: So we're going to get into some card buys and
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: investments here for twenty twenty five Faith focusing on major
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: league players and kind of up and comers for this segment.
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: So now is a really great time to kind of
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: start collecting cards of players who might break out going
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: into the season, because we've covered this a few times
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: that usually, like the card market peaks most when baseball
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: comes back at the beginning of the year, so like
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: spring training and to opening Day. There's another kind of
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: little peak around the All Star break in terms of
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: you know, the players that have made new All Star teams,
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: as well as just board baseball fans finding something to do,
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: flocking to eBay, kind of getting card collections updated. Then
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: usually another little bit of like a spike towards the
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: end of the season, getting to the playoffs because of
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: you know, as players round out their seasons and have
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: put up the numbers and people can kind of see
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: where they're at on leader boards, they start making investments
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: again as well as the playoffs just kind of drive
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: intrigue in the card market, as we've seen in actually
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: one of the guys that we're going to talk about
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: here this segment, but you'll see spikes in the market.
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: As you know, intrigue happens throughout the playoffs because players
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: are hitting big home runs, they're doing crazy things, winning
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: World Series stuff like that, and so we figured now
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: is a good time to focus on some players that
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: we're looking to invest in because the card market for
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: them is you know, flat, or a little bit down,
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: or just kind of hasn't taken off because these cards
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: have been either in the market for a little bit
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: and the players kind of cooled off from their original
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: prospect pet status in the greater baseball sphere, or you know,
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: our players that we're looking think can really break out
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: into another level of stardom getting into this year. So
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: this coincides well with all those team previews that we
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: did the past six weeks where we did the buys
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: and cells, because I think one thing that we really
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: kind of focus on here in this podcast is dynasty values,
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: fantasy values, and card values all kind of trend in
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: the same directions.
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: So you can certainly go back to.
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: A bunch of those divisional previews that we covered, and
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: I'm sure those would also be great names in terms
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: of the players that we're buying and selling to track
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: those card markets for the similar things in terms of
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: guys that you want to sell at peak or cards
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: that you want to invest in for those players.
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: So with that, we've.
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: Got three kind of main categories, and in each main category,
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: we've got two players that we want to highlight and
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: make some PC picks. So we haven't done any PC
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: picks in a few pods. It's been a little while,
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: so it'd be great to get some cards. Check out
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: this post on rasball dot com where you can see
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: pictures of all the cards and not just listen to
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: us talk about them.
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: That way you can actually get the visual.
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: Obviously, there's links to all this in the show notes
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: too if you just want to see the links to,
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: especially the eBay links that we're looking at for these cards. Okay,
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: so Brew you were the ones that kind of put
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: together these kind of different categories for us and different players.
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: So let's get into the first one, which is breakout guys, Like,
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: what are you looking for in a breakout player quote
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: unquote for card investments? Like what sort of hallmarks in
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: both the player themselves, their traits and their card market.
• 35:16
  Speaker 3: Yeah, so I for for me, you know, I'm looking
• 35:19
  Speaker 3: uh for guys with really just upside, That's what I'm
• 35:24
  Speaker 3: looking for. Guys that are going to out reform expectations.
• 35:27
  Speaker 3: That's really where where I'm starting. And for for guys
• 35:30
  Speaker 3: that are you kind of mentioned there's you know, guys
• 35:32
  Speaker 3: when you're getting called up and the prospects and things
• 35:34
  Speaker 3: like that. It's kind of predictable when they're they're gonna
• 35:36
  Speaker 3: pop like that when they get called up, is like,
• 35:39
  Speaker 3: is the the best time to to to invest to,
• 35:43
  Speaker 3: you know, Kurt Teil your investment and and cash in.
• 35:46
  Speaker 3: But for for me, as I'm looking at guys that
• 35:48
  Speaker 3: are already up in the majors, I'm probably I'm breaking
• 35:50
  Speaker 3: into a few groups like breakouts U and these are
• 35:52
  Speaker 3: guys that like they they've they're already there generally and
• 35:56
  Speaker 3: probably a little bit younger, and for whatever reason, it
• 36:00
  Speaker 3: feels like they haven't truly made an impact yet, they
• 36:02
  Speaker 3: haven't truly hit their full potential. I'm also looking at
• 36:06
  Speaker 3: the market they're in and maybe some of the scarcity
• 36:10
  Speaker 3: of their cards. And we'll talk about few guys here
• 36:11
  Speaker 3: that will fall into some of those those categories. I'm
• 36:15
  Speaker 3: also looking at guys that have had some some rough seasons,
• 36:17
  Speaker 3: like they might have had a down season from an
• 36:19
  Speaker 3: injury perspective or just an overall performance perspective, and that
• 36:24
  Speaker 3: I think is, you know, it was just kind of
• 36:25
  Speaker 3: an off year and so their card market may have
• 36:27
  Speaker 3: tanked because man, they're just not doing anything to do
• 36:30
  Speaker 3: wasn't on the national stage whatever reason, and they're primed
• 36:34
  Speaker 3: to be healthy and you know, kind of reclaim that
• 36:37
  Speaker 3: spot in the upcoming year. Those are great guys to
• 36:39
  Speaker 3: try to invest in. And then the last one are
• 36:41
  Speaker 3: really those guys that barely, you know, barely made it
• 36:44
  Speaker 3: to the majors. They maybe got a cup of coffee
• 36:46
  Speaker 3: in September, showed a little potential, but they've lost that
• 36:50
  Speaker 3: that that call up card, and there's you know, people
• 36:54
  Speaker 3: have kind of moved on because you know, they've already
• 36:56
  Speaker 3: been called up and they if they didn't hit the
• 36:57
  Speaker 3: ground running in the first month and blow over away,
• 37:00
  Speaker 3: I've kind of they've kind of moved on. They've kind
• 37:01
  Speaker 3: of forgotten about him. So those are kind of the
• 37:04
  Speaker 3: areas we're gonna kind of walk through here. And so
• 37:07
  Speaker 3: the first one we're gonna we're gonna hit is we're
• 37:09
  Speaker 3: gonna talk about the breakout guys. And then we talked
• 37:11
  Speaker 3: about in our divisional breakdowns a ton of breakout guys.
• 37:16
  Speaker 3: But these are the kind of guys that, like I said,
• 37:18
  Speaker 3: for whatever reason, they seem to be undervalued in the
• 37:20
  Speaker 3: fantasy drafts, and the same thing than for the card market.
• 37:25
  Speaker 3: Talking about guys like a Trevor Laarnich who really has
• 37:28
  Speaker 3: a great potential this year to bust out, and he
• 37:31
  Speaker 3: might you know, jump on the scene all of a sudden,
• 37:34
  Speaker 3: Folks are like, wait, I should pick up it up
• 37:36
  Speaker 3: from that guy and jump. So that's just an example.
• 37:38
  Speaker 3: But the two first guy we're gonna hit on today,
• 37:42
  Speaker 3: let's talk about Jordan Westburgh, one of my favorite breakout
• 37:46
  Speaker 3: guys this year. And I threw him on the list
• 37:50
  Speaker 3: here specifically because great breakout potential, really good team. Actually,
• 37:55
  Speaker 3: Baltimore card collectors, believe it or not, seem to be
• 37:59
  Speaker 3: pretty evasive, especially the last few years of they. I mean,
• 38:02
  Speaker 3: they've always loved cal Ripken, but it seems like they've
• 38:05
  Speaker 3: you know with the Adleys and the Jackson Holidays and
• 38:08
  Speaker 3: the Gunner Henderson's, and you know, everybody in that realm
• 38:11
  Speaker 3: is really kind of pumped up that that market. And
• 38:14
  Speaker 3: I think Jordan Westburg is the next guy that plays
• 38:16
  Speaker 3: in that that market. And his cards are gosh tarn
• 38:20
  Speaker 3: cheap right now. It's nobody is treating him like anything
• 38:24
  Speaker 3: like a Gunner Henderson. Like first moment Autumn, hundreds hundreds
• 38:27
  Speaker 3: of bucks. I had one sold it for twenty bucks
• 38:29
  Speaker 3: a few years ago. Poor life choice. But so Jordan
• 38:34
  Speaker 3: Westburgh's first guy, I'm gonna tsk to you to kind
• 38:37
  Speaker 3: of say, what card for Jordan Westburg would you be
• 38:40
  Speaker 3: looking to throw into your PC?
• 38:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: So what I picked here for a PC pick. It
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: actually goes back a little bit to that Al East
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: preview that we did with our boy Marmou's dad, because
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: he picked Jordan Westburg for his prospect pic to click
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: you for year Bye picked Heston Kurstad So I figured
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: why not combine both of them into one fantastic card.
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: That happened in Bowman Draft twenty twenty, And that's when
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: I believe they were both drafted. If I'm correct, let
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: me look and confirm that, yes, they were both drafted,
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: So they're both technically like this is a Bowman first
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: as well for both of them. And it's a beautiful
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: card from the twenty twenty Bowman Draft set. It's just
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: a dual franchise futures card with Heston kurst Ed signing
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: on the top Jordan Westberg on the bottom. And I
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: even picked the of twenty five version to get that
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: orange variation because that is like the one consistent variation.
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: I think across all Tops products is twenty five is orange.
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: And I think part of the reason why Orioles cards
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: are so hot is because they always pop with the
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: orange and black, especially when you get that in the
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: orange parallel. One of my main PC investments is a
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: pretty well centered up, pretty clean orange Manny Machado Rookie parallel.
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: So whenever we do have Orioles, I've noticed when I
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: went back through the PC list, we pick a lot
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: of orange Orioles cards. This is in that long list,
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: so that you can get two breakout candidates on one card.
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: You know, killed two birds with one stone. That's not
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: even like the correct saying anymore, because you know it's
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: we're anti violence nowadays. But what do you think about
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: this pick?
• 40:24
  Speaker 3: I mean, I love it all the fact that you
• 40:26
  Speaker 3: got another my guys in there with hesseen kearstab making
• 40:29
  Speaker 3: it because I think both of them actually have great
• 40:31
  Speaker 3: potential this year. And you're right, there's just something about
• 40:33
  Speaker 3: the orange with the Orioles. A love the fact that
• 40:35
  Speaker 3: they've got the home in the away jerseys in the
• 40:37
  Speaker 3: in the pictures as well. So it is a really
• 40:40
  Speaker 3: really clean card and I can't tell it doesn't look
• 40:43
  Speaker 3: like it's a sticker on it. It doesn't. I couldn't
• 40:45
  Speaker 3: really tell from the pictures. I didn't blow it up
• 40:49
  Speaker 3: large enough so I could be wrong, but I couldn't.
• 40:51
  Speaker 3: I didn't see. Uh, yeah, it might be an actual
• 40:55
  Speaker 3: on card auto.
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: So it's it a hard signed So yes, you're right.
• 41:00
  Speaker 2: I thought maybe it was a sticker at first. It
• 41:01
  Speaker 2: looks like it's got the spots, but I think it's
• 41:03
  Speaker 2: on card.
• 41:04
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's what That's what I was thinking. So I
• 41:05
  Speaker 3: actually I love this. This pick is a really really
• 41:08
  Speaker 3: cool card.
• 41:09
  Speaker 2: All right, well book card did you pick for Jordan Weisburg.
• 41:12
  Speaker 3: Yeah, So I went going to caveat pretty much all
• 41:14
  Speaker 3: my cards here. I went with a little bit of
• 41:16
  Speaker 3: that investment focus as we talked about in the intro.
• 41:19
  Speaker 3: I wanted to pick cards that I thought would actually
• 41:21
  Speaker 3: pop in value themselves along within the PCs, so they
• 41:24
  Speaker 3: might not be in my pcso too long because I
• 41:26
  Speaker 3: might be cashing in. But I'm going with the twenty
• 41:30
  Speaker 3: twenty four Top Stadium Club Westburg rookie. But it's the
• 41:34
  Speaker 3: design variation for the auto INSUD of fifty and it's
• 41:39
  Speaker 3: a very just clean card. It's an on card auto.
• 41:42
  Speaker 3: I'll give Westbirds maybe a little demerit here. He doesn't
• 41:45
  Speaker 3: have the best auto. It's kind of just a little
• 41:47
  Speaker 3: bit of a scribble.
• 41:48
  Speaker 2: I was gonna say.
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: When I was looking at as auto, I was like,
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: the one word that comes to my mind is demure.
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: Like it is like the most like shy little scribble
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: of an auto that I've ever seen.
• 41:59
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it is. But like when you're talking about cards
• 42:02
  Speaker 3: that you're hoping pop, like if Jordan really breaks out
• 42:05
  Speaker 3: this year, it's gonna be rookies, it's gonna be on cards,
• 42:08
  Speaker 3: it's gonna be great photos. And what speaks better than
• 42:11
  Speaker 3: that than design variations and stadium club And so that's
• 42:14
  Speaker 3: kind of why I jumped on this one is right
• 42:16
  Speaker 3: now we buy it on eBay for seventy five bucks.
• 42:18
  Speaker 3: I'm sure I don't looked at Sol's. There's probably forty
• 42:20
  Speaker 3: fifty that you've been able to pick them up for.
• 42:22
  Speaker 3: And that is gonna shoot through the roof if he
• 42:25
  Speaker 3: does what I'm hoping that he does. So I think
• 42:28
  Speaker 3: it's a really clean card. I also absolutely love the
• 42:31
  Speaker 3: Orioles when they're wearing their orange jerseys. We just talked
• 42:34
  Speaker 3: about it there, so I didn't get the orange otherwise,
• 42:36
  Speaker 3: but the orange jersey definitely plays in this one. So
• 42:40
  Speaker 3: adding it out of fifty to the PC, I love it.
• 42:43
  Speaker 2: Great pick.
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: Okay, who is the next breakout guy that you have
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: picked for us to discuss here?
• 42:51
  Speaker 3: Yeah, So next guy I am going with, and I'm
• 42:53
  Speaker 3: gonna clarify this could be considered a Homer pick, but
• 42:57
  Speaker 3: I don't think it is because he's no longer on
• 42:58
  Speaker 3: the Cardinals. I'm going with Tommy Edmund And there's a
• 43:02
  Speaker 3: few reasons here. You know, Edmund did have some injury
• 43:06
  Speaker 3: issues last year and that kind of held him back,
• 43:08
  Speaker 3: so I could throw him in maybe like the guys
• 43:11
  Speaker 3: that had down seasons, but he came back in the
• 43:14
  Speaker 3: the postseason and just lit it on fire for for
• 43:17
  Speaker 3: the Dodgers. He was pretty got starn good. I don't
• 43:20
  Speaker 3: have the numbers in front of me, but yeah, he
• 43:22
  Speaker 3: was okay, and his card market the of any market
• 43:26
  Speaker 3: out there. I think the Dodgers card market is one
• 43:29
  Speaker 3: of the hottest out there. And that said, I also
• 43:33
  Speaker 3: when I look at a lot of a lot of
• 43:36
  Speaker 3: team collectors have to have it. I want them have
• 43:38
  Speaker 3: to have their guys in their jersey. It doesn't seem
• 43:41
  Speaker 3: to be the same way for the Dodgers, uh since
• 43:43
  Speaker 3: there their whole team is like this amalgamation of like
• 43:47
  Speaker 3: stars that started elsewhere. And so you know, Mookie Bets
• 43:51
  Speaker 3: in the Red Sox uniform, Freddy Freeman and the Braves
• 43:54
  Speaker 3: like uh O Tani, the Angels like they the collectors
• 43:58
  Speaker 3: don't care. They're fine with that. When a lot of
• 44:00
  Speaker 3: other teams, like the Yankees, just like I've got my
• 44:03
  Speaker 3: Derek Jeter and here's the Yankees uniform. It's got to
• 44:05
  Speaker 3: be that way, right, And so Edmund what's really intriguing
• 44:10
  Speaker 3: about him is he's in that Dodgers market. He has
• 44:13
  Speaker 3: a lot of potential. He should have a full time job,
• 44:15
  Speaker 3: and he looks to be healthy. Also, Edmund has a
• 44:19
  Speaker 3: very very thin card market from what from a production standpoint,
• 44:24
  Speaker 3: there's not been a lot out there. So when we
• 44:27
  Speaker 3: hit the postseason last year, his cards went, which were
• 44:30
  Speaker 3: always kind of high because of the limited market, they
• 44:33
  Speaker 3: doubled and tripled in price. And they've come back down
• 44:36
  Speaker 3: a decent amount, but not all the way to where
• 44:38
  Speaker 3: they were before then. And all it takes is a
• 44:41
  Speaker 3: little bit more of that magic, and we're doubling tripulently
• 44:44
  Speaker 3: and again. So anyway, I'm going on a on a
• 44:47
  Speaker 3: soapbox here, but Tommy Edmund is as a breakout for
• 44:52
  Speaker 3: the PC. What are you throwing in there?
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah, And this is a card that actually personally pulled
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: at one point and I sold during that Tommy had
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: been World Series craze that it did hurt to depart
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: with it because it was a beautiful card.
• 45:09
  Speaker 2: Is one of my favorite cards in my collection.
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: I'm going with the twenty twenty Stadium Club Chrome Tommy
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: Edmund Auto. It's just a beautiful photo of him swinging
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: the bat goes back to I mean almost at this point,
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: can't have a PC card show without picking something from
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: twenty twenty Stadium Club Chrome because it's just continues to
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: be like one of the most impressive sets that has
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: been released I think ever.
• 45:36
  Speaker 2: Like personally, it's just beautiful photographs.
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: This is a great shot of Tommy swinging it left
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: handed while in front of the crowd, and you just
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: it just feels like a Saint Louis Cardinals game right
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: in front of your face on this card. What I
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: also love about it is that because you talked about
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: this where because Edmund had a very limited number of cards,
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: never had a bowman first, just given that his prospect
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: status was never great coming up that you know, he
• 46:06
  Speaker 1: debuted in card sets, not that outside of minor league
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: cards in twenty nineteen an update and didn't have any autos,
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: just had kind of the base card.
• 46:17
  Speaker 2: So the autos that came out in twenty twenty all
• 46:20
  Speaker 2: have RC's on them, all rookie card designations, even though
• 46:24
  Speaker 2: they're technically not rookie cards, so it's kind of like
• 46:26
  Speaker 2: a semi error. But they're the first time he's ever
• 46:29
  Speaker 2: kind of had signatures on anything, any autos, on anything.
• 46:33
  Speaker 2: So I think it makes an.
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: Intriguing buy from that perspective, should be relatively affordable, and
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: I can tell you that this is one of those
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: cards that pictures will never do a justice. It looks
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: beautiful in person. That's why it's my choice.
• 46:45
  Speaker 3: Yeah, And I can't disagree because I was in the
• 46:47
  Speaker 3: exact same boat. I had this card, and I sold
• 46:49
  Speaker 3: this card at the peak of the postseason last year.
• 46:52
  Speaker 3: I want to say, like after his one of his
• 46:54
  Speaker 3: breakout games, I think I've flipped this for maybe one
• 46:57
  Speaker 3: hundred and twenty five dollars, when you know I probably
• 46:59
  Speaker 3: bought it for twenty And funny thing is we were
• 47:02
  Speaker 3: preparing for this this podcast. I was kind of looking
• 47:04
  Speaker 3: through and the link you actually have in the show notes,
• 47:08
  Speaker 3: I actually had favorited in my watch list on eBay
• 47:11
  Speaker 3: to see if I could buy my card back. That's great,
• 47:14
  Speaker 3: and so we'll see. I might be actually adding the
• 47:16
  Speaker 3: PC later later tonight, but but well, we'll see. So
• 47:22
  Speaker 3: I thought that was a great pick, and I might
• 47:24
  Speaker 3: have gone there myself myself, but since you got there first,
• 47:29
  Speaker 3: I went with probably the the other key Rookie Auto refractor,
• 47:36
  Speaker 3: which is the twenty twenty Tops Chrome Update version, and
• 47:41
  Speaker 3: it is a fantastic card. It's one of those back
• 47:45
  Speaker 3: in the twenty twenty Tops Chrome Update refractors weren't numbered.
• 47:49
  Speaker 3: Typically there are like out of four ninety nine. These
• 47:52
  Speaker 3: are not numbered, So I don't know exactly what the
• 47:54
  Speaker 3: prep run was. But this is absolutely sick card. I
• 47:59
  Speaker 3: don't know any other way to put it. Is Edmund.
• 48:02
  Speaker 3: He's got his full on red Cardinals Jersey. Also from
• 48:07
  Speaker 3: the left side of the plate in this card, I
• 48:11
  Speaker 3: believe it's a sticker auto. It's kind of hard to see,
• 48:14
  Speaker 3: but I believe it is. But it also having that
• 48:17
  Speaker 3: refractor just pop and he's got the meanest mug look
• 48:20
  Speaker 3: on his face in this one. So absolutely love it.
• 48:24
  Speaker 3: I'm a big sucker for twenty twenty chrome cards, you know,
• 48:28
  Speaker 3: as you and I both kind of got back into
• 48:30
  Speaker 3: the hobby around that time with with COVID, and so
• 48:33
  Speaker 3: I had a heck of a lot of twenty twenty cards.
• 48:35
  Speaker 3: I tried to do the Rainbow of Tommy Emond in
• 48:37
  Speaker 3: twenty twenty and it just never got there. I got
• 48:40
  Speaker 3: a lot of Supia Tommy Edmond cards sitting around, But
• 48:45
  Speaker 3: so this is another one, kind of same deal. I
• 48:48
  Speaker 3: believe I owned this one as well and sold at
• 48:49
  Speaker 3: the same time, and now I'm trying to kind of
• 48:51
  Speaker 3: recoup it. So I think there's maybe just a little
• 48:55
  Speaker 3: seller's remorse here in RPC for Tommy Edmond. But the
• 48:59
  Speaker 3: thing is, like, when the season starts, I think we
• 49:01
  Speaker 3: might be going back to the same spot where we
• 49:03
  Speaker 3: were in the postseason. So if you're gonna buy something
• 49:06
  Speaker 3: from a Tommy Edmund, especially if he's getting a full
• 49:08
  Speaker 3: run with the Dodgers and he does anything close to
• 49:11
  Speaker 3: what we've known he's been able to do with the Cardinals,
• 49:13
  Speaker 3: he just gets a full healthy season, He's gonna those
• 49:17
  Speaker 3: cards are gonna be up there for sure. Maybe not
• 49:19
  Speaker 3: the one hundred and twenty five dollars for a rookie
• 49:22
  Speaker 3: chromato like wasn't the postseason, but eighty ninety hundred bucks.
• 49:26
  Speaker 3: I wouldn't be shocked at all.
• 49:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly.
• 49:28
  Speaker 1: And I do think he's also one of those players
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: where once you get him on your team. Maybe again,
• 49:34
  Speaker 1: this is a little bias from our Cardinals kind of
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: point of view, that I think the Dodgers fans will
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: fall in love with him and so that will kind
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: of drive up the market even further. And yeah, now
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: is the time to get in because there just aren't
• 49:49
  Speaker 1: very many signed cards of Tommy Edmund out there in
• 49:52
  Speaker 1: the market period. And so you can even see it
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: a little bit when you do these eBay searches on
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: the two cards that we mentioned.
• 49:57
  Speaker 2: It's pretty shallow.
• 49:59
  Speaker 1: And Cardinals collectors are pretty serious, so a lot of
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: them have great memories of Edmund and are probably retican
• 50:05
  Speaker 1: to let those cards.
• 50:07
  Speaker 2: Go out of their PCs the way that we were.
• 50:10
  Speaker 1: And yeah, or maybe in the boat that we are
• 50:12
  Speaker 1: right now, where we're having a little bit of virus
• 50:15
  Speaker 1: remorse and won our cards back.
• 50:18
  Speaker 2: Okay, next category.
• 50:19
  Speaker 1: Of players that we have that you touched on with
• 50:21
  Speaker 1: the down season guys. So, who are some examples of
• 50:25
  Speaker 1: investments here for down season guys that you're looking to
• 50:27
  Speaker 1: buy in for for twenty twenty five.
• 50:29
  Speaker 3: Yeah, so's just some guys to call out in this range.
• 50:32
  Speaker 3: This is kind of like your Austin Riley's of the
• 50:34
  Speaker 3: world who definitely had a down year last year, A
• 50:36
  Speaker 3: Dollas Garcia, maybe a Randy rose Arena, all guys that
• 50:39
  Speaker 3: have had really hot card markets in the past, but
• 50:42
  Speaker 3: they really soured last year. To you know, Arose Arena
• 50:46
  Speaker 3: had a down year, got traded, Garcia just had an
• 50:49
  Speaker 3: off year, and Riley. I don't. I couldn't. I honestly
• 50:53
  Speaker 3: could not tell you what was wrong with Riley. It
• 50:54
  Speaker 3: looks like the exact same player. The results just weren't there,
• 50:57
  Speaker 3: and all of those guys, they're their markets softened considerably.
• 51:01
  Speaker 3: But we've got two guys that we're gonna call out here.
• 51:04
  Speaker 3: Let's start with a pretty well known name. I don't
• 51:07
  Speaker 3: know if you've heard of this guy, Mike Trout. He
• 51:10
  Speaker 3: was He's pretty good from what I recall, and he
• 51:14
  Speaker 3: started hot last year he started hot last year and
• 51:17
  Speaker 3: then the injury hit in his cards with just through
• 51:20
  Speaker 3: the basement like it was not good. Like I mean,
• 51:24
  Speaker 3: I have a single, actually have two Mike Trout rookie
• 51:27
  Speaker 3: cards in my collection. I got the Bowman Rookie and
• 51:31
  Speaker 3: then the Tops Rookie. And we're talking base paper rookies here.
• 51:34
  Speaker 3: We're not talking the chromes or anything exciting. And I
• 51:36
  Speaker 3: remember paying probably five hundred dollars for my Trout Rookie
• 51:39
  Speaker 3: and it's no, by no means like a perfect card.
• 51:42
  Speaker 3: And now those things are probably you know, two fifty
• 51:44
  Speaker 3: three hundred, which is still incredible for a paper rookie,
• 51:47
  Speaker 3: but it tells you how far his market has fallen.
• 51:50
  Speaker 3: So I think he's one of those guys that he
• 51:53
  Speaker 3: is a generational talent. Everybody knows that is just the
• 51:56
  Speaker 3: kind of recency bias, and maybe it's Otani effect like
• 52:00
  Speaker 3: overshadowing Trout that I do think if he's healthy, which
• 52:05
  Speaker 3: it's peers that he is this year, he gets, let's
• 52:07
  Speaker 3: call at least a half season of health and does
• 52:11
  Speaker 3: what Mike Trout can do playing left field, and I
• 52:15
  Speaker 3: think his hard market hits right back up because he
• 52:17
  Speaker 3: is a no doubt first ballot Hall of Famer and
• 52:22
  Speaker 3: you can't not have him in your PC. So with
• 52:25
  Speaker 3: that said, uh, there are plenty of options for Mike
• 52:28
  Speaker 3: Trout and I don't I don't have we added Mike
• 52:30
  Speaker 3: Trout to our PC. I don't think he has.
• 52:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I was thinking.
• 52:33
  Speaker 1: I was like, this might have also been a good
• 52:34
  Speaker 1: way to shoehorns and Mike Trout cards into our PC.
• 52:37
  Speaker 1: Because we haven't picked any, and there's thousands upon thousands
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: out there just about it was not easy to narrow
• 52:44
  Speaker 1: it down.
• 52:45
  Speaker 3: Yeah. So with that, where are you going with your
• 52:47
  Speaker 3: Mike Trout choice? Okay?
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: Well I decided I'd go something a little more economical,
• 52:53
  Speaker 1: just because, like, this is a player where the high
• 52:57
  Speaker 1: end gets pretty high pretty quick because of what you
• 53:01
  Speaker 1: just explained in terms of his Hall of Fame trajectory
• 53:03
  Speaker 1: and what people have been stashing away. My personal favorite
• 53:07
  Speaker 1: Mike Trout card is the twenty nineteen card of his
• 53:10
  Speaker 1: where he's making that leaking grab in front of center
• 53:14
  Speaker 1: field and robbing a home run. That this is kind
• 53:16
  Speaker 1: of one of the iconic Mike Trout plays of his
• 53:19
  Speaker 1: career when he went up and made this grab. Also
• 53:22
  Speaker 1: just absurd that you can just see the physicality of
• 53:25
  Speaker 1: Mike Trout within this photo.
• 53:26
  Speaker 2: He looks like a linebacker making this play. I'm going with.
• 53:30
  Speaker 1: The Tops Chrome Sapphire version of the car. You just
• 53:33
  Speaker 1: get add a little flare. I've even found a PSA
• 53:36
  Speaker 1: ten version that you can pick up. But you can
• 53:39
  Speaker 1: certainly pick this up cheaper if you just buy the
• 53:41
  Speaker 1: card raw. It was hard to find just raw versions
• 53:45
  Speaker 1: out there. It's kind of one of another one of
• 53:47
  Speaker 1: these cards that people have tucked away because I think
• 53:50
  Speaker 1: it is a popular card out that the twenty nineteen
• 53:53
  Speaker 1: design for Trout, that one, I mean, I think twenty
• 53:57
  Speaker 1: nineteen was a prestyle design and then two you get
• 53:59
  Speaker 1: this icon photo on it.
• 54:01
  Speaker 2: It's become a pretty popular card for collectors out there.
• 54:04
  Speaker 1: So, yep, that is my pick, twenty nineteen Tops Chrome
• 54:07
  Speaker 1: Sapphire Edition Mike Trout. That's the first Mic Trout card
• 54:10
  Speaker 1: in the PC.
• 54:11
  Speaker 2: It's official.
• 54:13
  Speaker 3: Yeah, So you know, I do love this card. And
• 54:17
  Speaker 3: I'm trying to look up the print run from a
• 54:19
  Speaker 3: twenty nineteen Sapphire because I know the few years before
• 54:21
  Speaker 3: it was like two fifteen, and I want to say
• 54:22
  Speaker 3: it was around three hundred.
• 54:25
  Speaker 2: Or still when they were really short printing it.
• 54:27
  Speaker 3: Yeah, so this is so when they were really short
• 54:29
  Speaker 3: printing it.
• 54:29
  Speaker 2: So I know I couldn't find too many of them
• 54:32
  Speaker 2: out there.
• 54:32
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I haven't been able to find the print run.
• 54:34
  Speaker 3: But like I said, the few years before, it's like
• 54:37
  Speaker 3: twenty sixteen, twenty seventeen, it was around two to fifty.
• 54:39
  Speaker 3: I think twenty eighteen twenty nineteen, I think it bumps
• 54:41
  Speaker 3: to about three hundred if I recall. But regardless, the
• 54:48
  Speaker 3: way to describe the card is absolutely right. It is
• 54:49
  Speaker 3: an iconic photo of Mike Trout. I have this card
• 54:52
  Speaker 3: in the Rainbow foil. That's my budget version, and it's
• 54:56
  Speaker 3: one I've I've been tempted to grade myself just because
• 54:59
  Speaker 3: it is such a cool card. And you know that
• 55:04
  Speaker 3: the sapphire aspect, I absolutely love sapphire. This is and
• 55:07
  Speaker 3: I think for folks that are familiar sapphire, this isn't
• 55:09
  Speaker 3: the blue sapphire. This is what I would actually call it,
• 55:11
  Speaker 3: more of the atomic version of the sapphire, because a
• 55:14
  Speaker 3: lot of the sapphire cards wore have that blue and
• 55:16
  Speaker 3: I think that started more in that twenty twenty timeframe
• 55:19
  Speaker 3: where they moved a more true blue for the Sapphire,
• 55:22
  Speaker 3: So I think it's a great pick. You had to
• 55:24
  Speaker 3: go high end, and I do not falster.
• 55:26
  Speaker 2: You for it. Excellent ware? Did you pick here?
• 55:30
  Speaker 3: Well? I had a little fun with this one. So
• 55:33
  Speaker 3: first of all, I love my Trout cards. I added
• 55:36
  Speaker 3: my first actual auto to my PC about two months ago,
• 55:42
  Speaker 3: and it's it's it's awesome to have an on card
• 55:44
  Speaker 3: auto for Mike Trout. But I had to go with
• 55:48
  Speaker 3: the twenty seventeen Tops Dynasty Patch Auto for Mike Trout.
• 55:55
  Speaker 3: And the version I picked is an out of ten,
• 55:57
  Speaker 3: so it's you know, pretty pretty cheap one about nine
• 56:00
  Speaker 3: hundred dollars you want to buy now on eBay. But
• 56:02
  Speaker 3: the reason I'm going with this one is, if you
• 56:05
  Speaker 3: recall back in twenty twenty one, Tops did a through
• 56:09
  Speaker 3: the Year's Dynasty run where they took iconic cards and
• 56:15
  Speaker 3: which were most all almost all one of one and
• 56:18
  Speaker 3: printed them on an insert card with like a border
• 56:22
  Speaker 3: around it that said through the years and the you
• 56:25
  Speaker 3: can't tell them the photo that it's not a one
• 56:27
  Speaker 3: of one card. And the card market has been so
• 56:31
  Speaker 3: messed up around these card for years that people actually
• 56:34
  Speaker 3: pay like fifteen twenty dollars for these, and then every
• 56:36
  Speaker 3: once in a while somebody pays like three hundred dollars
• 56:38
  Speaker 3: because somebody kind of doesn't advertise the way they probably should.
• 56:41
  Speaker 3: So I'm not endorsing that, but it's the kind of
• 56:44
  Speaker 3: kind of this folklore card for a number of players.
• 56:48
  Speaker 3: It's not just Mike Trout. There's a ton of them
• 56:49
  Speaker 3: out there, but Mike Trout is one of the better
• 56:53
  Speaker 3: ones in that Through the Years set in twenty twenty one,
• 56:58
  Speaker 3: and I wanted to fly like that card. But that
• 57:01
  Speaker 3: card itself I was not able to find. I don't
• 57:03
  Speaker 3: know that that one actually exists, because well it does exist,
• 57:06
  Speaker 3: it's the one of one version, so hns. I couldn't
• 57:08
  Speaker 3: find it, and so maybe it hasn't been pulled, who knows.
• 57:12
  Speaker 3: But I found the out of ten version, which is
• 57:15
  Speaker 3: the exact same design, just a slightly different picture of him,
• 57:19
  Speaker 3: And I'm like, how cool would it be to have
• 57:21
  Speaker 3: like that? I mean, the one on one bed, so
• 57:23
  Speaker 3: would be cool. But like that card where everybody's been
• 57:26
  Speaker 3: buying this, everybody's seen that image, tons of people have
• 57:29
  Speaker 3: in their collection, but I would actually have the card,
• 57:32
  Speaker 3: and so I stretched it a little bitcause I couldn't
• 57:34
  Speaker 3: find the card, but such a cool card, great patch
• 57:38
  Speaker 3: Auto absolutely love it. So I just liked the little
• 57:40
  Speaker 3: extra story that went along with it.
• 57:42
  Speaker 2: That's fantastic.
• 57:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I didn't realize that when you made this pick
• 57:45
  Speaker 1: that that's a that's a good like kind of extra
• 57:47
  Speaker 1: layer to this.
• 57:48
  Speaker 2: Honestly, the fact that this grated.
• 57:51
  Speaker 1: Nine and a half Beckett version of this card out
• 57:54
  Speaker 1: of ten on auto on card nice patch, nine hundred
• 57:59
  Speaker 1: bucks for Mike Trout, that shows how this used to
• 58:02
  Speaker 1: probably be a four thousand and five thousand dollars card right.
• 58:05
  Speaker 3: Absolutely, it absolutely was Like there is not a better
• 58:08
  Speaker 3: time right now to buy Mike Trout than than this.
• 58:11
  Speaker 3: I've never seen it. And you know, you look at
• 58:15
  Speaker 3: the guys over the years that's retired, that have been
• 58:18
  Speaker 3: you know, all stars, and you know the guys like
• 58:20
  Speaker 3: Mike Trout, the future Hall of Famers, like their cards
• 58:22
  Speaker 3: hold value and it even slightly goes up over time.
• 58:25
  Speaker 3: Like there is a ton to be said for that.
• 58:27
  Speaker 3: And so I don't see much like we've got to
• 58:30
  Speaker 3: be at the floor for Mike Trout on where his
• 58:32
  Speaker 3: cards are, and especially some of these niche cards, I
• 58:35
  Speaker 3: think you're only gonna go up. So maybe I'll put
• 58:38
  Speaker 3: a five dollars offer on it after we finish here.
• 58:41
  Speaker 3: Good fue, Okay, all right, So the next guy, I'm
• 58:46
  Speaker 3: gonna throw him out there and you're gonna get the pick.
• 58:48
  Speaker 3: Another guy that I absolutely absolutely love here Josh Young
• 58:53
  Speaker 3: of the Texas Rangers. He absolutely looked fantastic in twenty
• 58:57
  Speaker 3: twenty three. He battled injury all way through twenty twenty four,
• 59:01
  Speaker 3: so we add a down season, but he is an
• 59:04
  Speaker 3: absolute beast at the plate. He's a great glove in
• 59:07
  Speaker 3: the field. He plays in a good market in Texas
• 59:11
  Speaker 3: and on a good team, and so like, if you're
• 59:13
  Speaker 3: looking at a guy who could absolutely break out, absolutely
• 59:16
  Speaker 3: be playing the postseason in October getting that hype, I
• 59:19
  Speaker 3: think Josh Young is absolutely in that ballgame, and his
• 59:22
  Speaker 3: stuff is dirt, dirt cheap right now. I'm just shocked
• 59:26
  Speaker 3: by by what you can find out there. So I
• 59:29
  Speaker 3: had to throw him on the list because I think
• 59:30
  Speaker 3: there's only upside with Josh Young. Cards. Where are you
• 59:33
  Speaker 3: going with your Josh Young?
• 59:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah, this is a good way to sneak him into
• 59:38
  Speaker 1: this conversation after I denigrate him last week on our
• 59:41
  Speaker 1: West preview when he bought him and I saw him,
• 59:44
  Speaker 1: which I'm noting because yeah, maybe in a couple of
• 59:47
  Speaker 1: weeks we'll.
• 59:47
  Speaker 2: Just have a Joe A Dallas section.
• 59:53
  Speaker 3: I'll just buy his like it was the Bees, is
• 59:55
  Speaker 3: my league card from the Bees.
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 2: Cityvs.
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 3: I couldn't remember what was saying. I wanted to say
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 3: Sacramento too, but.
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 2: No, yeah that's the A's.
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 3: Now say minor league team. Sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry athletics.
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 2: Fancy So Josh Young I picked.
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 1: He does have a lot of great cards from twenty
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 1: twenty three and from I believe twenty twenty one was
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 1: his Bowman draft year. Lots of lots of cards there
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 1: for Young. Because he was a first round.
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 2: Pick, I had to go with.
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 1: So what I was thinking is, you know, if I
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 1: am a Texas Rangers collector and I wanted to put
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 1: myself into that mindset, I think I want to get
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 1: like the most Texas card that I can. And I
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 1: think you found it here or I found it here
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 1: in the uh Josh Young twenty twenty three home field
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 1: advantage insert rookie card that this is the We've covered
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 1: this the past couple of releases. That Tops rolls out
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 1: this quote unquote home field advantage insert which is a
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 1: short print slash case hit and it features lots of
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 1: different pictures that kind of relate to that market. And
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 1: they nailed it here with the Josh Young card for.
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 2: The Texas Rangers.
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 1: It's got a cowboy hat, it's got a covered wagon, it's.
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 2: Got an oil pumping machine thing.
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 1: I don't even know the official name for it, because
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 1: I'm not in like oil and gas, but you know
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 1: what I'm talking about, the Texas State Seal. And then
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 1: you know what, we really had to hammer it home.
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 1: Even though the Rangers are located in Dallas. We put
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 1: the Alamo on this card for you, just Texas, Texas, Texas.
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 1: It looks fantastic. The coloration of it all kind of
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 1: works too, in terms of like all the colors of
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 1: those little things that they put on the card with
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 1: Josh Young all are kind of this faded brownish color
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 1: and it causes Young to really pop on the card. Currently,
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 1: a pretty cheap home field advantage rookie card in terms
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 1: of going somewhere like the fifteen to twenty dollars range,
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 1: certainly could up if you see Young having a big season.
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 2: So that's my pick for Josh Young and.
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 3: RPC I think you did a great job, Like is
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 3: Texas the core? And so I had to as I
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 3: was looking on the side of like what does the
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 3: Houston home field advantage look like, because it looks like
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 3: Texas just tole the entire state and Houston's just got
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 3: like the the space shuttle going off behind all and
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 3: like a just kind of like a city escape from Houston.
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 3: I'm like, man, they did Houston dirty in this one, Like.
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, it's also it's hard to emulate humidity in
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 1: a card.
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 3: It's very true. That's that. That was the foil refractor
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 3: part of it, I guess, But yeah, no, this is
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 3: like like your point, like they really went after they
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 3: put the Alamo in here. But the thing is like.
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 2: My favorite San Antonio.
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 3: But the side of the state, you you could absolutely
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 3: see Josh Young and the cowboy hat and the big
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 3: belt buckle like I probably could. And Josh Young is
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 3: also I think, very much into the hobby, which is
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 3: another great great part of things. He's he's been known
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 3: to buy his own card. So so so from my side,
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 3: I went to I went a little higher end here.
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 3: I went to twenty twenty three Tops Reverence, Rookie Patch
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 3: Auto out of five Josh Young on card Auto. I
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 3: don't know if you've played much in the Reverence space before.
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 3: These are cards we rarely talk about. They are in
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 3: the flagship products as inserts, generally out of five autos,
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 3: and so they're incredibly hard to find. And I actually
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 3: have a Reverence card in my collection Jack Flaherty that
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 3: I picked up maybe a year or two ago when
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 3: Jack Flaherty was flailing around and didn't have much of
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 3: a following. But they are absolutely beautiful, well put together card.
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 3: Some of the best designs that you see out there.
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 3: They are cleaning. This has got Josh Young in his
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 3: Red Rangers jersey. You know, the patch appears to see
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 3: slightly blue, so I'm not quite sure what's going on there,
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 3: but it is a is a beautiful card and one
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 3: that would absolutely be gum up any Josh Young collector's collection,
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 3: so I had to add it to mine as well.
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think this is a great choice.
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 1: I didn't actually know that about Reverence, but this card
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 1: does have like a top Sterling feel to it, with
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 1: a little bit lower, tighter priced tier, and honestly looks
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 1: better than some of the Sterling cards that come out
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 1: can that almost kind of look stuffy like in terms
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 1: of just like they're too nice. And so this has
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 1: got a nice little in between. Josh Jung has a
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 1: beautiful autograph too. Compared to what we just said about
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 1: Jordan Westburg, this one is fantastic. You know, you can,
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 1: I like the little touch of the triangles for his
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 1: jas and then like Josh is written all the way out.
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 1: But then Young is kind of like summarized real quick.
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 1: You can tell that he collects cards and cares about
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 1: cards because he took a good, good, just like focused
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 1: job of making sure his auto looked fantastic on this card.
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's it's absolutely great. And the thing with Josh Young,
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 3: if you pull like a one of one auto of his,
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 3: you could probably trade with Josh Young himself.
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 1: That's true. You can probably reach out to him. I
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 1: know Bobby Witt does that too. That if you do
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 1: find those Mike trouts on there too, Like if you
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 1: find a player that's a collector, really easy to get
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 1: a hold of them and trade it for something else.
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I believe I saw something Josh Young did, uh
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 3: where he did a kind of meet up at a
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 3: Rangers game with a fan or actually think it was
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 3: maybe it was actually a Boston game when they were
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 3: visiting and he fan came on the field. They you know,
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 3: made a trade of you know, a few game bats
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 3: autographed by Young and some photos and traded the card
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 3: for it, and you know, it's it's a really cool thing.
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 3: He just seems to be a really great guy. So
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 3: that's awesome.
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 1: All right, Well, let's get into our next category, which
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 1: is kind of like out and out young guys who
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 1: you know, these kind of fall into that category of
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 1: what we were talking about. But prospects lose their shine
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 1: sometimes in both dynasty keeper fantasy situations but also cards
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 1: where you know, players if they don't pop right away
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 1: and they don't reach the major leagues super quick, people
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 1: fade them pretty fast. They get lost in dollar boxes,
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 1: and they're easy to make investments and be able to
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 1: kind of yield some profit once they make first All
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 1: Star team, start making some hay and MVP votes, or
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 1: just kind of start really rising up the rinks. So
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 1: what types of players are you looking to hunt in
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 1: this category?
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 3: Yeah, so you're right, kind of guys here, like think
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 3: of almost any guy that got called up last year
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 3: and didn't burst on the scene, right, And so we're
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 3: talking your Jordan Walker's, your Jordan Lawler's hestin kearstats, Jordan Beck's.
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 3: Apparently if your name is Jordan, it works really well.
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 3: I didn't realize that about the list that I put together,
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 3: but it's like.
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 2: On the Jackson's Jackson and Jordana.
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Jackson and Jordan. That's a good investing strategy. But
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 3: the two guys we're going to focus on, and I'm
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 3: stretching one of them because I'm gonna make a call
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 3: here that you know, has the potential to be a
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 3: face forook franchise. Actually, I'd argue both of these guys
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 3: have that potential. And I think that there are guys
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 3: that maybe less in my fantasy game, but much more
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 3: like that hard nosed type player that team like fans
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 3: just fall in love with because their grit, they have
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 3: good defense, they they do have little things, right, Like
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 3: that's kind of like the Tommy Edmund we talked about,
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 3: Like it's that kind of player that like you resonate with.
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 3: He's like, that's that's the kind of player I'd be.
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 3: I wouldn't be the Peede Alonso matching Homers. I'm the
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 3: kind of the guy that's you know, got my my
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 3: jersey dirty, and that's the I'm hoping for the best.
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 3: So first guy clout here is not the biggest card
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 3: market going to own that. It is Connor Norby for
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 3: the Marlins. Norby did leave a better card market in Baltimore,
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 3: and I think Baltimore still regretting that trade for from
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 3: last year. But Norby has absolutely the potential to be
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 3: a breakout this year. He looked pretty good in the
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 3: limited sample he had with Miami just last last year,
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 3: so I think that he has potential to kind of,
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 3: you know, break out. He had seven homers, three stolen bases,
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 3: and thirty six games for the Marlins, and he's consistently
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 3: been kind of one of those you know, twenty five, fifteen,
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 3: twenty five, twenty kind of guys in the minor leagues
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 3: and again just a guy that really has a ton
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 3: of grits. So really excited about him. I think he's
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 3: going to be a guy that the Marlins rely on
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 3: for a number of years to come. So where did
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 3: you go with Connor Norby?
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 1: So, Connor Norby in twenty twenty five, it's going to
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 1: be as rookie cards, So I think we probably have
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 1: only scratched the surface of what our choices could be.
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 1: Maybe he'll have a big season or make some of
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 1: the rookie of the months so we can get some
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 1: more kind of Norby PC cards in there. But I
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 1: had to go with a brand new twenty twenty five
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 1: card that just came out a couple of weeks ago, and.
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 2: I really love this card. It's so beautiful.
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 1: It's the nineteen ninety insert autograph on card auto of
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 1: Connor Norby from twenty twenty five, so it's got that
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 1: nineteen ninety design that we covered when we did the
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 1: preview of Top Series one for the thirty fifth anniversary,
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 1: and the garish colors of the nineteen ninety borders just
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 1: pop with the garish colors of the Miami Marlins that
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 1: I think this is like a fantastic example of like
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 1: where it can all go right when the colors line
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 1: up from just like nineties design and just kind of
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 1: teal and black and orange and blue, and there's a
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 1: little yellow in here so red. I absolutely love this card,
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 1: and it's a great shot of Condor Norby batting. Just
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 1: a fantastic little pickup that I think all these like
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 1: nineteen ninety insert cards are going to be pretty popular
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 1: for the rookies given that they're on card and the
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 1: ninety design just looks amazing kind of in the reprints.
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 1: So that's where I'm going for my Connor Norby PC pick.
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I absolutely love it. I'm actually jealous you made
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 3: this pick because I I didn't look before the show
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 3: to see what you you had picked here, and you're right,
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 3: like it's I love the back in the day, the
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 3: framed cards, like how clean it could be. And his
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 3: auto is no Josh Young auto. There's there's definitely a
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 3: C in there, maybe an O U and that literally
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 3: might be it.
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 2: It must be an N is an M and I
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 2: don't know.
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 3: Just guess. Uh, well, don't don't go look at my card.
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 3: I think you got a you in there, but I
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 3: mean you and his name. So but I think it's
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 3: a great, great card. And you're absolutely right. The Marlins
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 3: have this that they're kind of a goofy color scheme
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 3: to their entire team, and with the goofy color scheme
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 3: of that nineteen ninety design, it just works. It just works.
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 3: So definitely got the retro vibe going.
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah, what was your pick?
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 3: Here for Connor Norby, I had to go back to
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 3: basics here just I don't know why, but I just
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 3: love this card. I went with his first Bowman Chrome Auto.
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 3: It's you know, it's probably like a forty dollars card,
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 3: nothing too exciting. It is in the Orioles jersey. I
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 3: didn't go with the color match or anything like that.
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 3: But for a guy that I think is going to
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 3: break out, to your point, doesn't really have much in
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 3: the rookie card market yet, So if you're looking to
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 3: kind of jump out there and buy it, the twenty
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 3: twenty five stuff still has the twenty twenty five price
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 3: point in the early sheen on it. The Bowman stuff
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 3: doesn't yet. So going down a little bit of a
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 3: limb here because I'm going to a different team's jersey.
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 3: But I do think Condor normally value. If I'm looking
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 3: for value here, the first Bowen Chrome is going to
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 3: be the card that pops for him when he really
• 1:11:42
  Speaker 3: hits a pig.
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I think this is a great pick.
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 1: You can't ever go wrong with the first Bowman Auto
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 1: and twenty twenty one. I did like the twenty twenty
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 1: one Bowman design that it kind of gets back to
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 1: what you're talking about with the nineties Top or the
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 1: nineteen to eighty tops design, where nice kind of frame
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 1: around the card and on top of it, great fun
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 1: facts on the back. I didn't know Connor Norby was
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 1: from Minnesota and went to Eastern Carolina University.
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 2: And the last little tidbit that they put on the
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 2: back of this card has drawn Adam Frasier comps. Nothing
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 2: higher praise than that.
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 3: No higher praise than be given. Oh geez, it's great.
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 1: Okay, who is the next player that you identified to
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 1: make some PC investments here?
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 3: All right? Well, this is the last one of the
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 3: pods tonight. We are going with a guy that I
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 3: know is close to your heart, and I probably picked
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 3: him from a slightly different lens than what you are
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 3: because I know you've been just talking about his potential
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 3: breakout from fancy perspective. I'm looking at it from one
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 3: of the elite defenders in the league and from a
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 3: pure fan perspective, fans falling in love perspective. I think
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 3: this guy is going to be top now. She seems
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 3: like a clean cut guy that just works hard and
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 3: then plays just amazing defense, and that is Pete Crow.
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 3: Armstrong of the Chicago Cubs. He just seems to have
• 1:13:02
  Speaker 3: that potential to really just ignite a fan base, get
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 3: behind him, get behind that type of play that hard
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 3: knows effort. So I think he also has potential to
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 3: do great things on the field. But I think it's
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 3: like he kind of hits that perfect sweet spot of effort,
• 1:13:19
  Speaker 3: kind of likability, big card market with the Cubs, So
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 3: I think there's a ton of ton of potential here
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 3: for his cards, even though he's in kind of the
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 3: newer cards that tend to be a little overprinted. So
• 1:13:31
  Speaker 3: with that PCA, Pete Crow Armstrong, what do you got so?
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 1: First, I mean, I don't know if i'd actually like
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 1: consider clean cut, considering like he is actually kind of
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 1: punk rock in terms of like he was doing the
• 1:13:45
  Speaker 1: bleach bond hair and he put the stars in the hair.
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 1: But that's actually like why I like him too, is
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 1: that he does have this little bit of like flare
• 1:13:54
  Speaker 1: to him, honestly, I think, and part of it I
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 1: think comes from his upbringing that I mean, he grew
• 1:14:00
  Speaker 1: up in Hollywood, went to Harvard Westlake with like Lucas Giolito,
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 1: Jack Flaherty, everybody else that they always talk about that
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 1: comes from there. His mother was the actress in Little
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 1: Big League, was Bill.
• 1:14:14
  Speaker 2: Haywood's mom, Ashley Crow.
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 1: So I've always been tracking Pete crom Armstrong from that
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 1: because Little Big League is, like, I mean, it's easily
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 1: my favorite baseball movie of all time and might be
• 1:14:26
  Speaker 1: just like one of my just regular favorite movies of
• 1:14:30
  Speaker 1: all time because you know, it's like one of those
• 1:14:31
  Speaker 1: movies that you see when you're eight years old and
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 1: you can never find a flaw in it after you
• 1:14:36
  Speaker 1: see it that first time. But because of that, I
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 1: think that like that's another level here for Pete Crow Armstrong.
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 1: It's not only does of everyone we've talked about here
• 1:14:44
  Speaker 1: tonight other than I mean Mike Trout, but like in
• 1:14:48
  Speaker 1: terms of the chance to be a baseball superstar and
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 1: like a media superstar, I think PCA could really start
• 1:14:55
  Speaker 1: threading that needle because I mean, he's only twenty two.
• 1:14:58
  Speaker 1: He can relate to some of the younger kids in
• 1:15:00
  Speaker 1: some of the conversations that I've had that I've seen
• 1:15:04
  Speaker 1: like him have in interviews from like the Cub's Caravan stuff.
• 1:15:07
  Speaker 1: He just is an engaging personality. So I love this
• 1:15:11
  Speaker 1: pick for just an investment player overall, I just had
• 1:15:15
  Speaker 1: to go with a little bit of a bread and
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 1: butter pick here he is his rookie cards were in
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 1: twenty twenty four. I went with the twenty twenty four
• 1:15:23
  Speaker 1: Golden Mirrors short print parallel because I think it gives
• 1:15:27
  Speaker 1: you a little flare of like that fun that PCA
• 1:15:30
  Speaker 1: can bring to the game where I do think that
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 1: he's going to add his own style to baseball overall.
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 2: And in this card.
• 1:15:36
  Speaker 1: He's warming up in like a full sweatsuit and it's
• 1:15:40
  Speaker 1: just like all blue just kind of captures who he is,
• 1:15:44
  Speaker 1: I think in terms of an approachable and just like
• 1:15:50
  Speaker 1: regular kind of dude vibe that like can kind of
• 1:15:53
  Speaker 1: really resonate with all sorts of people. And like you said,
• 1:15:57
  Speaker 1: great market with the Cubs in Chicago, I mean, can't
• 1:16:00
  Speaker 1: go wrong with investing in a Golden mere SSP of
• 1:16:03
  Speaker 1: any rookie card that's kind of coming through and rising
• 1:16:07
  Speaker 1: through baseball.
• 1:16:08
  Speaker 2: So that's my pick here for PCA.
• 1:16:10
  Speaker 3: Yeah, good pick, and even get the ivy in the
• 1:16:12
  Speaker 3: background this one, which is a nice little little kick nicker.
• 1:16:15
  Speaker 3: So yeah, I think you're absolutely right. There is something
• 1:16:18
  Speaker 3: the marketability of PCA is gonna be gonna be huge,
• 1:16:21
  Speaker 3: as you know, as long as he you know, gets
• 1:16:22
  Speaker 3: off the schneid here a little bit and runs and
• 1:16:26
  Speaker 3: does some good things, make some big plays. Yeah, I
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 3: think that's why I threw Pete Crow on here is.
• 1:16:31
  Speaker 3: I think there's a ton of potential for him, and
• 1:16:33
  Speaker 3: like the collect the collecting collecting community hasn't really jumped
• 1:16:37
  Speaker 3: on PCA too much yet at this point, So for me,
• 1:16:43
  Speaker 3: I had to go back. We talked about sapphire earlier
• 1:16:47
  Speaker 3: with with Mike Trout, and I had to go there.
• 1:16:50
  Speaker 3: Twenty twenty four Sapphire, Pete Crow Armstrong and the reason
• 1:16:54
  Speaker 3: beams As I mentioned, Sapphire went and blue posts that
• 1:16:57
  Speaker 3: kind of twenty nineteen timeframe and the Pete Crow Armstrong
• 1:17:03
  Speaker 3: blue sapphire. If we talk color matches, cubs being blue,
• 1:17:08
  Speaker 3: sapphire being blue, Yeah, you don't get better color matches
• 1:17:11
  Speaker 3: than the cubs sapphire cards. And I'm this hurts me
• 1:17:13
  Speaker 3: to say. It's especially when you try to collect your
• 1:17:17
  Speaker 3: cardinals red sapphire cards that are only out of five,
• 1:17:22
  Speaker 3: so I have none. But when when I when I
• 1:17:25
  Speaker 3: look at Pete Crow in this you know, great up
• 1:17:28
  Speaker 3: front up close picture of him and Batty's dance. I
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 3: got the left go of it up there, and just
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 3: again the color match is just unbelievable. The other little
• 1:17:38
  Speaker 3: little thing I love about this card, Crow Armstrong, is
• 1:17:42
  Speaker 3: not the shortest last name, and you can actually see it.
• 1:17:45
  Speaker 3: You see this as a front shot and you can
• 1:17:47
  Speaker 3: actually see the name like mid back wrapping around because
• 1:17:51
  Speaker 3: of that, So I thought that was also hilarious as well.
• 1:17:53
  Speaker 3: So this is just great.
• 1:17:54
  Speaker 1: I was going to call that out if you passed
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 1: it over to me and didn't call that out, because
• 1:17:58
  Speaker 1: that is, like, it is a very unique thing I
• 1:18:00
  Speaker 1: think about PCA, and now that they also have like
• 1:18:03
  Speaker 1: the normal sized letters back on their jerseys, like it's
• 1:18:06
  Speaker 1: gonna be fascinating to see how they fit Crow Armstrong
• 1:18:09
  Speaker 1: on this.
• 1:18:11
  Speaker 3: Yeah, this is probably the only time in our podcast
• 1:18:13
  Speaker 3: that we've ever been able to talk about Jared Salt Tolmachia.
• 1:18:16
  Speaker 3: So I had to throw, you know, at least get
• 1:18:18
  Speaker 3: that in there, because that's one of the best parts
• 1:18:19
  Speaker 3: of you know, little weird things about baseball. You actually
• 1:18:22
  Speaker 3: my p Crow Armstrong just doesn't it rolls off, the
• 1:18:25
  Speaker 3: tongue doesn't stick on a jersey. So well, but yeah,
• 1:18:28
  Speaker 3: this lots of lots of fun cards today added to
• 1:18:31
  Speaker 3: the PC finishing it out with a cub even though
• 1:18:34
  Speaker 3: maybe not my favorite thing to do, but I know
• 1:18:37
  Speaker 3: you being up there in Chicago have to absolutely love
• 1:18:39
  Speaker 3: these ones.
• 1:18:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and this is a great choice. This was one
• 1:18:42
  Speaker 1: of the ones that I considered when we were researching cards.
• 1:18:45
  Speaker 1: So I'm glad that you picked it, and it's it
• 1:18:48
  Speaker 1: is funny the way that we can be on the
• 1:18:49
  Speaker 1: same wavelength here even though like we're independently researching that
• 1:18:54
  Speaker 1: love this card pick for all the reasons that you
• 1:18:56
  Speaker 1: just hit. All right, Well, that's going to wrap us
• 1:18:58
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• 1:19:14
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  Speaker 1: talking picture breakouts. So there are like picture buys and
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