Latest / Cards & Categories / Ep. 98 : June Players Of The Month PC
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- 0:16Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome everybody to episode ninety eight of Cards
- 0:20Speaker 1: and Categories. I'm my cool aide from Rasball, joined as
- 0:23Speaker 1: always by my very good friend Jeremy. We were also
- 0:26Speaker 1: from Rasball. How are you doing tonight, buddy?
- 0:29Speaker 2: I am doing just fine. I'm so excited. We're two
- 0:32Speaker 2: episodes away from one hundred episodes. I'm certain, I would
- 0:37Speaker 2: say so. I'm proud that we've got this far, so
- 0:40Speaker 2: excited about tonight is one of my favorite episodes we
- 0:42Speaker 2: do every month. So I'm ready to go and excited
- 0:46Speaker 2: that we didn't jinx anybody last week. From the podcast
- 0:48Speaker 2: that I recall, it's usually it's kind of a go
- 0:51Speaker 2: to for us, So I think we came through unscathed
- 0:54Speaker 2: for once.
- 0:55Speaker 1: I don't believe we do, because I did it all
- 0:57Speaker 1: on my column this weekend. I've definitely got hiro Estrada beamed,
- 1:01Speaker 1: and I got Justin Grobleski sent down. It's been a
- 1:04Speaker 1: bad couple of weeks for me and my piece of
- 1:06Speaker 1: like just luck. But yeah, our Jinkx powers have been
- 1:11Speaker 1: pretty good here on the podcast. So you alluded it
- 1:14Speaker 1: to you alluded to it. Our main segment is going
- 1:16Speaker 1: to be covering those June player of the months and
- 1:19Speaker 1: picking PC cards to go into the pod PC. And
- 1:22Speaker 1: this is an important episode to make sure that you
- 1:24Speaker 1: get into those show notes and details so that you
- 1:27Speaker 1: can see the links not only to all of these
- 1:29Speaker 1: news and notes we're going to discuss, but we also
- 1:31Speaker 1: have links to eBay's ebays listings of the cards that
- 1:37Speaker 1: we're going to talk about. Some of them are active,
- 1:40Speaker 1: so you could purchase them if you really want to.
- 1:42Speaker 1: And then you're also going to want to go to
- 1:44Speaker 1: rasball dot com check out the post related to this episode,
- 1:48Speaker 1: because right there you'll have access to seeing all the
- 1:52Speaker 1: cards in one go. It's really convenient and you can
- 1:55Speaker 1: follow along as we describe these cards as opposed to
- 1:58Speaker 1: just letting us use our tones to be able to
- 2:02Speaker 1: try to paint the picture of what they look like.
- 2:04Speaker 1: I think we've got some really fun cards this week
- 2:06Speaker 1: because or this month, because we've got some new folks
- 2:10Speaker 1: getting into the PC. No Aaron Judge, no show Heyo Tani,
- 2:13Speaker 1: so we'll be able to mix it up a little bit.
- 2:16Speaker 1: But before we dive into all that, let's get into
- 2:18Speaker 1: some of the news and notes. And of course, we
- 2:21Speaker 1: have had the full all star teams announced since we
- 2:24Speaker 1: last talked last week. No huge surprises, I don't think
- 2:29Speaker 1: it is also very interesting because I think this is
- 2:31Speaker 1: maybe one of the first times I've noticed where the
- 2:34Speaker 1: discourse around snubs has shifted to where people will like
- 2:40Speaker 1: rudimentally list out their snubs that they had from the
- 2:44Speaker 1: initial list. I mean, Juan Soto is probably the biggest one.
- 2:47Speaker 1: But then there's been a big acknowledgment that everyone recognizes that, hey, actually,
- 2:53Speaker 1: you know, eighty ninety percent snubs are gonna end up
- 2:56Speaker 1: being on the All Star team as pitchers bow out
- 2:59Speaker 1: other players just kind of you know, if they're nursing
- 3:00Speaker 1: a little something, we'll baby bow out. So we should
- 3:03Speaker 1: be able to pick that up. But what do you
- 3:05Speaker 1: think is have we finally reached like the point in
- 3:08Speaker 1: snub discourse on the All Stars where we've gotten like
- 3:14Speaker 1: post snub talk where we're just like too smart for
- 3:17Speaker 1: that stuff. Now?
- 3:18Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I don't think that's like it was that
- 3:20Speaker 2: much credit. Like I think the sentiments true, like Joe
- 3:24Speaker 2: Ryan was just announced the All Star Team instead of
- 3:27Speaker 2: Hunter Brown, so like one snub off the board, he's
- 3:30Speaker 2: already in. I still think there is some version of it,
- 3:34Speaker 2: like and let's let's just call out Sodo is very
- 3:37Speaker 2: much a snub. One fifty seven WRC plus having a
- 3:42Speaker 2: fantastic season. He's twenty one homers, ten steals, six six
- 3:47Speaker 2: rounds with two RBIs, Like, that's an All Star type season.
- 3:51Speaker 2: There's no questions about it. And if if that was,
- 3:55Speaker 2: if the name wasn't one Soto, it was something else
- 3:58Speaker 2: that would that profile would be in the All Star Game,
- 4:01Speaker 2: And it's just like expectations for something so high. But
- 4:03Speaker 2: the end of the day, he's probably gonna be in
- 4:05Speaker 2: the All Star Game, Like, I don't think there's probably
- 4:07Speaker 2: a question. Somebody's gonna get hurt, somebody's gonna be nursing something,
- 4:11Speaker 2: and the guys are gonna make it in. So I
- 4:13Speaker 2: do think we've maybe reached a little bit of equilibrium
- 4:15Speaker 2: that then the roster size plus the like plug in
- 4:19Speaker 2: guys are is kind of the right measure of the league.
- 4:24Speaker 2: And I also think we've got to the point where
- 4:27Speaker 2: maybe we've all just become accepting that like All Star
- 4:29Speaker 2: means something, but it's not the thing, because I feel
- 4:34Speaker 2: like at one point there was this like you're an
- 4:37Speaker 2: All Star, it's beholden to the grail. Of being called
- 4:41Speaker 2: an All Star and then when there's an injury sub
- 4:44Speaker 2: it was like, well, that guy's a fake All Star.
- 4:46Speaker 2: Like I think we're past all that. I think it's
- 4:47Speaker 2: just like, you're one of the better players in the league,
- 4:50Speaker 2: and congratulations, here's a nice reward for it. You're hurt,
- 4:53Speaker 2: you can't make it, so'll come out, have a fun
- 4:55Speaker 2: time where your jersey and it's just fun to see
- 4:58Speaker 2: the best players in the league. And I think we've
- 4:59Speaker 2: got to that point, which is I think fantastic. So
- 5:03Speaker 2: I'm excited to see I'm excited to have the break,
- 5:06Speaker 2: get to see some of the best players in the
- 5:08Speaker 2: world all on the same field.
- 5:10Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I totally agree that I'm in the same
- 5:13Speaker 1: sort of boat where especially you just look at baseball's impossible.
- 5:17Speaker 1: I don't know how these guys do this nowadays on
- 5:20Speaker 1: both sides. That like, not only is like pitching really hard,
- 5:25Speaker 1: and like you're looking at just being able to physically
- 5:30Speaker 1: do that. You know, I don't know how those arms
- 5:33Speaker 1: can handle throwing ninety five plus miles an hour so often,
- 5:37Speaker 1: and then hitting is obviously not easy, but pitching isn't either.
- 5:42Speaker 1: You look at some of these hitters like you especially
- 5:45Speaker 1: compare them to some of the like players of your
- 5:50Speaker 1: in terms of everybody can hit the ball out of
- 5:53Speaker 1: the park one through nine nowadays. On top of it all,
- 5:56Speaker 1: like if you're throwing anything less than probably like ninety four,
- 6:00Speaker 1: like you're in a danger zone. These guys are well
- 6:02Speaker 1: tuned to be able to just hit a hundred mile
- 6:05Speaker 1: of our heats. So it's a it's a hard sport,
- 6:08Speaker 1: and you'd also look at the injuries out there too.
- 6:10Speaker 1: I totally agree it's a it's a great celebration of
- 6:13Speaker 1: the sport overall. And I think the other kind of
- 6:15Speaker 1: hot take that's where I've really been seeing floating around
- 6:18Speaker 1: out there is where do you come down on the
- 6:20Speaker 1: one All Star Pro team takes? I personally love it
- 6:23Speaker 1: because I love to see the representation and like, honestly,
- 6:28Speaker 1: if Shane Smith isn't an All Star, like in an
- 6:30Speaker 1: All Star game, like, that's pretty cool, that's pretty awesome.
- 6:32Speaker 1: It's cool to get like the one player from every
- 6:35Speaker 1: team in my boat? What about you?
- 6:38Speaker 2: Yeah, I generally like it to the extent that it's
- 6:44Speaker 2: really hard for me to look at Shane Smith and
- 6:46Speaker 2: Hunter Goodman, the other guys in the All Star Game
- 6:49Speaker 2: instead of one SODA's like I'm a little like it's
- 6:52Speaker 2: like I feel like you have maybe you have to
- 6:54Speaker 2: play a certain like level you have to have you know,
- 6:56Speaker 2: you can't be you have to win at least like
- 6:58Speaker 2: thirty games, uh something for the All Star Game to
- 7:01Speaker 2: have it. Also, like let's come up with a little
- 7:03Speaker 2: different system here, Like if you're if you're so guy
- 7:06Speaker 2: darn bad, uh, then you can't have it. So the
- 7:09Speaker 2: Rockies didn't get the White Sox with my system when
- 7:11Speaker 2: Shane Smith would have made it by a single game.
- 7:15Speaker 2: But like raise the bar a little bit is kind
- 7:17Speaker 2: of where I'm at. But at the end of the day,
- 7:20Speaker 2: like it is cool because every team game, everybody's every
- 7:25Speaker 2: fan has a guy to celebrate, it has the guy
- 7:27Speaker 2: to cheer four. But what I do stroll with a
- 7:30Speaker 2: little bit is like I have a struggle separating like
- 7:32Speaker 2: the guys like who would have made who would have
- 7:35Speaker 2: been considered an All Star just on merit, and who was
- 7:38Speaker 2: the best to the worst, And so that is like
- 7:43Speaker 2: you know, I'll look at just a few of the
- 7:45Speaker 2: players out there, like I'll just call it my my
- 7:47Speaker 2: my car Cardinals team here and Brendan Donovan was on
- 7:51Speaker 2: is an All Star Brendan Donovan really an All Star? Like,
- 7:55Speaker 2: I don't know if you would have been an All
- 7:56Speaker 2: Star like I would like to know. Did he get
- 7:59Speaker 2: there on mayor or was he like the token player?
- 8:03Speaker 2: Like I don't know, somebody, can you give me an
- 8:04Speaker 2: asterisk on these guys, so just so I know, like
- 8:07Speaker 2: who's who's the wanna be? So I don't know, So
- 8:10Speaker 2: I'm okay with it, but I feel like it does
- 8:13Speaker 2: kick a few guys out with other the day. It's
- 8:15Speaker 2: not the worst thing in the world.
- 8:17Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I think that's fair, and I mean, if
- 8:19Speaker 1: anything to it also gives those All Star game managers
- 8:23Speaker 1: somebody use light in games and be able to grind
- 8:27Speaker 1: out lots of innings that they need to. That's how
- 8:29Speaker 1: you end up with Elias Diaz All Star Game MVP.
- 8:32Speaker 1: I think we'll be seeing, you know, an Enning or
- 8:35Speaker 1: too out of Shane Smith and Hunter Goodman playing the
- 8:37Speaker 1: back half of the game because you don't feel bad
- 8:40Speaker 1: about using those guys when their teams are so far
- 8:43Speaker 1: out of it. It's not like they're independent race that matters.
- 8:46Speaker 2: So I think the biggest question for you is who
- 8:48Speaker 2: do you look at these two rosters. Who do you
- 8:51Speaker 2: have ignored the fact that the American League's won like
- 8:53Speaker 2: seventy of the last seventy one All Star Games or
- 8:55Speaker 2: whatever the numbers theme. Who do you Which team to
- 8:59Speaker 2: you looks better on paper?
- 9:02Speaker 1: I mean a little bit of it will depend on
- 9:05Speaker 1: the starting pitcher, I suppose, but I mean, then again,
- 9:07Speaker 1: you're only going an ending your two. I think the
- 9:10Speaker 1: NL has the upper hand again for me, just because
- 9:13Speaker 1: the pitching is a tick better. I think you know,
- 9:16Speaker 1: you're looking at Skeens and Wheeler and Robbie Ray Edwin
- 9:22Speaker 1: Diaz as well as like I like the lineup a
- 9:25Speaker 1: little bit better. I'm a little not sure about the
- 9:28Speaker 1: couple of Tigers players between Glabor Torres and Haave Bayas
- 9:31Speaker 1: getting in there for the AL and the The pitching
- 9:33Speaker 1: is just a tick weaker outside of Trek Scooble for me.
- 9:37Speaker 1: So I'm leaning an L this year. What about you?
- 9:39Speaker 2: Yeah, I wrote there as well, like look at the
- 9:42Speaker 2: bottom the bottom of the perceived line with al with
- 9:45Speaker 2: Reddy Green, Hobby Bias, Ryan O'Hearn, like it's just like
- 9:49Speaker 2: it's it's a it's a little uh dicey there and
- 9:52Speaker 2: then you compare it to the n all like the
- 9:53Speaker 2: same positions and like the the struggle positions are like
- 9:57Speaker 2: Pete Crow Armstrong and so like you just it looks
- 10:02Speaker 2: like a much deeper, stronger lineup overall, and I think,
- 10:05Speaker 2: to your point, a deeper bullpen, if you may. Again,
- 10:10Speaker 2: it kind of comes down to what's actually going to
- 10:13Speaker 2: take place from a kind of game setup, because I
- 10:17Speaker 2: think the one spot where there is a little bit
- 10:19Speaker 2: of edge, the Als, I think they're back end bullpen
- 10:22Speaker 2: guys are stronger, and sometimes that plays in the All
- 10:26Speaker 2: Star game when you start putting all your starters throughout
- 10:29Speaker 2: the game and when you have hater Amuna's kind of
- 10:33Speaker 2: filling things out, Like I feel like that's some of
- 10:35Speaker 2: the strongest back of the bullpens. So I do think
- 10:38Speaker 2: if the ALE can get a lead into some of
- 10:40Speaker 2: the late Ian this is gonna be really hard to
- 10:41Speaker 2: turn that around. But overall, I feel like the National
- 10:44Speaker 2: League's is the stronger team, and I feel like they
- 10:46Speaker 2: have been for a few years. They just haven't really,
- 10:49Speaker 2: you know, delivered fully to the extent that they should have.
- 10:52Speaker 2: So it'll be it'll be fun. I'm looking forward to it.
- 10:55Speaker 1: Yeah, I am too. I love the all strike game.
- 10:57Speaker 1: I think it's great fun. Okay, well, let's get into
- 11:00Speaker 1: some regular news and notes. It's a little bit of
- 11:02Speaker 1: a lighter slate this week. I don't know if it's
- 11:04Speaker 1: just the fourth of July weekend kind of like slow
- 11:06Speaker 1: down the news, or if we've kind of also hit
- 11:09Speaker 1: a little bit of a lull in terms of the
- 11:11Speaker 1: injuries out there, because the guys who were starting to
- 11:14Speaker 1: break down already broke down, and so we're looking at
- 11:18Speaker 1: a relatively healthy league. Knock on wood, obviously. I just
- 11:22Speaker 1: the Jinx is probably going to come back strong after
- 11:24Speaker 1: I uttered those sentences. But before we get into some
- 11:27Speaker 1: injuries and call ups, let's get into a house cleaning
- 11:30Speaker 1: in Washington, as they fired both Mike Rizzo and Dave
- 11:33Speaker 1: Martinez there fascinatingly right before the MLB Draft, where the
- 11:39Speaker 1: Nationals do you have the number one pick? I mean,
- 11:42Speaker 1: it's pretty obvious that, like the GM, Mike Rizzo wasn't
- 11:45Speaker 1: you know, the end all be all with that pick.
- 11:47Speaker 1: But a little bit of flux to be able to
- 11:49Speaker 1: work through in terms of trying to re coordinate the
- 11:52Speaker 1: communication in the front office and just kind of like
- 11:54Speaker 1: the chain of command. It's it's a strange move for that,
- 11:58Speaker 1: and then you layer in and we're just a few
- 12:01Speaker 1: weeks away from the trade deadline. But whatever was going
- 12:04Speaker 1: on in that Nationals front office, it was not so
- 12:09Speaker 1: hot between it and the Learners as they finally let
- 12:13Speaker 1: Mike Rizzo go. He obviously brought home the twenty nineteen
- 12:16Speaker 1: World Series for the Nats, which they didn't really get
- 12:19Speaker 1: to celebrate well, which is kind of a bummer for
- 12:22Speaker 1: them because I think we would have been talking a
- 12:24Speaker 1: little bit differently about this Nats team if they had
- 12:27Speaker 1: kind of like the year of ballpark revenues in twenty
- 12:30Speaker 1: twenty and just you never know what that timeline kind
- 12:33Speaker 1: of could have held for them. You're also looking at
- 12:35Speaker 1: maybe Strasburg could have found some other groove, or they
- 12:39Speaker 1: would have been able to find a way to keep
- 12:41Speaker 1: Won Soto and Anthony Rendon around or something like that.
- 12:44Speaker 1: But with all that, we've talked about this a little
- 12:47Speaker 1: bit because this has been a fascinating season for managers
- 12:51Speaker 1: getting fired. Dave Martinez is also out the door here.
- 12:54Speaker 1: Any impact that you're looking at here for the Nationals
- 12:58Speaker 1: as it pertains to this shake up just overall in
- 13:02Speaker 1: terms of also maybe anybody that you're looking at for
- 13:06Speaker 1: the trade deadline where maybe they will make different moves,
- 13:10Speaker 1: or somebody in their system that you were hoping might
- 13:13Speaker 1: have gotten a call up that Mike Rizzo might have hated.
- 13:17Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's it's it's too early to tell.
- 13:19Speaker 2: I think the most curious part, like you said, is
- 13:21Speaker 2: the time being kind of with with the draft and
- 13:24Speaker 2: what that's going to mean. At the end of the day.
- 13:26Speaker 2: It probably is going to change a whole lot of
- 13:27Speaker 2: what's going to take place there. If I'm going to
- 13:30Speaker 2: try to stretch it to an on field impact, which
- 13:33Speaker 2: I really don't think that there's a substantial one right now,
- 13:35Speaker 2: and let's be honest, not the strongest team in the
- 13:39Speaker 2: Nationals there. I'm really curious to see what will happen
- 13:43Speaker 2: from a managerial perspective. And the Nationals has been a
- 13:47Speaker 2: team that really likes to push it on the base
- 13:49Speaker 2: pass and kind of likes to run. And they're top
- 13:54Speaker 2: ten and steals this year, but you know with five
- 13:59Speaker 2: they'd be top four. Like they're they're right in the
- 14:01Speaker 2: mix there of a team that runs almost as much
- 14:04Speaker 2: as anybody else outside like the Tampa's the Milwaukee's and
- 14:09Speaker 2: it'll be interesting to see. They're not terribly efficient at
- 14:13Speaker 2: doing that when they when they run, and so it'll
- 14:15Speaker 2: be interesting to see if a new manager comes in
- 14:19Speaker 2: and kind of takes away. I don't call it the
- 14:22Speaker 2: fun of the Nationals, but the fun of the Nationals
- 14:24Speaker 2: is they're like playing loose and goose and it doesn't
- 14:26Speaker 2: really matter because they know they're out of it, and
- 14:28Speaker 2: tries to put a little more discipline in a young team,
- 14:31Speaker 2: which is probably what they actually need. So I do
- 14:33Speaker 2: think that there's a potential for some of that loose
- 14:37Speaker 2: run get out there and go after things, things that
- 14:40Speaker 2: could maybe get a little bit of a pullback. But
- 14:43Speaker 2: I think really it's more you know, looking long term
- 14:46Speaker 2: to see are, you know, are they going to do
- 14:50Speaker 2: a full rebuild. So it's you know, Kyle Finnegan out
- 14:52Speaker 2: is you know, is c J. Abrams gonna gonna get
- 14:57Speaker 2: the hook? It feels like they've kind of, you know,
- 15:00Speaker 2: had their way around with him. So it'll be interesting
- 15:03Speaker 2: to see more from a personnel perspective what takes. But
- 15:07Speaker 2: right now it's kind of wait and see for me.
- 15:10Speaker 1: Yeah, No, I think that's a really good point on
- 15:13Speaker 1: the stolen basis that this has been a team that
- 15:15Speaker 1: has run very recklessly over the past couple of years.
- 15:18Speaker 1: We'll see whether or not they've rained that in because
- 15:20Speaker 1: it's very important for cej Abrams and James Wood too
- 15:24Speaker 1: that like a lot of James Wood's value, like those
- 15:27Speaker 1: extra stolen bases really rack up quickly. So that's a
- 15:31Speaker 1: good point. Okay, let's move on to an injury here. Well,
- 15:36Speaker 1: all the injuries, we're going to start with the biggest one.
- 15:39Speaker 1: First New York Yankee starter Clark Schmidt went down with
- 15:44Speaker 1: Initially it was just an elbow sprain, or not even
- 15:47Speaker 1: an elbow sprain. They were looking at like a forearm tightness.
- 15:50Speaker 1: And then of course the dread of Tommy John was
- 15:53Speaker 1: talked here. I don't think he's actually undergone the knife
- 15:56Speaker 1: yet because they haven't even moved him to the sixty
- 15:58Speaker 1: day il and I haven't read anything about this, but
- 16:00Speaker 1: he should go underneath the knife and knocks him out
- 16:03Speaker 1: for the rest of twenty twenty five, obviously, and twenty
- 16:05Speaker 1: twenty six, Clerk Schmidt had been throwing really well, like
- 16:09Speaker 1: he was really rounding into the form that I was
- 16:14Speaker 1: expecting him to have when I picked him as like
- 16:16Speaker 1: my bye in the preseason. It was a three thirty
- 16:19Speaker 1: two e over seventy eight and two thirds innings. I was, man,
- 16:22Speaker 1: it was really nice wherever you had him considering the
- 16:25Speaker 1: draft cost. But there's actually a silver lining here because
- 16:29Speaker 1: my boy Camp Schlitler is taking over for that rotation
- 16:32Speaker 1: spot in New York pitching as we speak. He I
- 16:36Speaker 1: was watching a little bit of the outing before we talked.
- 16:39Speaker 1: Here were speaking on Wednesday, July ninth, and he I
- 16:45Speaker 1: think he's actually wrecked up. Let me pull up his line,
- 16:47Speaker 1: but he was looking really good. I really liked what
- 16:50Speaker 1: I was seeing. It's a very easy, like ninety seven
- 16:53Speaker 1: out of the hand, where it kind of jumps on you,
- 16:55Speaker 1: where it almost looks like the ball accelerates halfway down
- 17:00Speaker 1: when it's coming to the plate. Because he is six'
- 17:02Speaker 1: six and it's just so, smooth you don't expect it
- 17:05Speaker 1: to be ninety six out of the. HAND i think
- 17:07Speaker 1: it was throwing The mariners off when they were seeing.
- 17:11Speaker 1: It and you, know it wasn't a bad outing overall
- 17:15Speaker 1: in terms of allowed a couple of, runs allowed a
- 17:17Speaker 1: homer To Jorge, polanco but you know who it actually
- 17:21Speaker 1: reminded me of but in kind of a good way
- 17:23Speaker 1: Is Ben Brown, like it's the same, size it's the
- 17:26Speaker 1: same sort of. Fastball but the buggerboo we've always had
- 17:29Speaker 1: On Ben brown is the dude needs a third and
- 17:32Speaker 1: a fourth pitch Cam schlittler has. It he has a
- 17:35Speaker 1: five pitch. Mix so it was working and keeping all
- 17:37Speaker 1: the mariners. GUESSING i think you can pretty much Add
- 17:40Speaker 1: schlittler wherever you, can because you look at the winds
- 17:43Speaker 1: he could rack up for The. Yankees you got to
- 17:46Speaker 1: be able to kind of roll that dice with him
- 17:49Speaker 1: and see where it ends. Up he was fantastic before
- 17:52Speaker 1: debuting here In TRIPLE, a he put up a two
- 17:57Speaker 1: well across two stops is a two eighty two YEAR.
- 17:59Speaker 1: Ai it was a three eighty or a At TRIPLE
- 18:02Speaker 1: a with a thirteen point THREE k. Nine the walks
- 18:05Speaker 1: were a little bit high at three point. Four BUT i,
- 18:07Speaker 1: mean considering that the stuff that he, has it's. Nasty
- 18:10Speaker 1: you'll take. It what do you think About schlitzler?
- 18:12Speaker 2: Here, YEAH i think it'll Be i'm not fully fully by.
- 18:16Speaker 2: IT i think he's mid back rotation stuff with upside
- 18:21Speaker 2: at this. Point he does a good job keeping on the.
- 18:23Speaker 2: Ground his controls a little. IFY i know you say
- 18:26Speaker 2: is a five pitch, mix he hasn't, Really he's he's
- 18:29Speaker 2: leaned on two maybe three. Pitches is kind of varied
- 18:33Speaker 2: this this. Year he's kind of a lot more to the,
- 18:36Speaker 2: slider WHICH i think is you, know has definitely helped.
- 18:40Speaker 2: Him So i'm. INTRIGUED i think he's kind of a
- 18:43Speaker 2: back end ad right. Now for, ME i always struggle
- 18:46Speaker 2: With yankees'. PITCHERS i think it like there's the, glitz the,
- 18:49Speaker 2: glam like there's a pressure and some guys figured out
- 18:53Speaker 2: and some guys. Don't SO i think there's there's definitely potential.
- 18:56Speaker 2: Here But I'm I'M i want to see it a
- 18:59Speaker 2: little AND i haven't got a chance to watch any
- 19:03Speaker 2: of the highlights of the start. TONIGHT i was indisposed, previously
- 19:06Speaker 2: so miss missed the. Debut BUT i think it's a
- 19:11Speaker 2: Guy i'm gonna watch and. SEE i want to see
- 19:13Speaker 2: it feel, right like that's uh for a guy like,
- 19:16Speaker 2: this Who i'm like mid, rotation back. ROTATION i want
- 19:18Speaker 2: to see what the stuff looks like and see HOW
- 19:21Speaker 2: i feel versus just look at the.
- 19:23Speaker 1: Numbers, yeah it'll be fascinating to see where it clocks
- 19:25Speaker 1: in on like the stuff plus ratings and. Everything BUT
- 19:27Speaker 1: i think it will come in pretty. Well so, Yeah
- 19:30Speaker 1: i'm recommending him wherever you can pick him. Up so
- 19:33Speaker 1: let's move on to the next, injury because, honestly some
- 19:36Speaker 1: of these injuries they're not terribly like, impactful but you,
- 19:39Speaker 1: know we need something to talk about on a pod.
- 19:41Speaker 1: Weekly so so we've Got Rehys. Hoskins first baseman for
- 19:46Speaker 1: The Milwaukee brewers went. Down he suffered a UCL's brain
- 19:49Speaker 1: in his, thumb and that has opened the door For
- 19:52Speaker 1: Andrew vaughan to debut for The Milwaukee, brewers which is
- 19:55Speaker 1: WHERE i wanted to steer this direction or discussion BECAUSE
- 20:01Speaker 1: i was checking out his numbers before this call up
- 20:03Speaker 1: for vaugh and The brewers might have fixed him a little.
- 20:08Speaker 1: Bit so the biggest things that we had always complained
- 20:11Speaker 1: about With vaughan was unable to pull the. Ball just
- 20:15Speaker 1: not great, contact you, know just not good hard contact.
- 20:20Speaker 1: Consistently was he done In TRIPLE A it was only
- 20:24Speaker 1: we're looking at sixteen games sixty five played appearances At
- 20:27Speaker 1: TRIPLE A. Milwaukee but in that stop he put up
- 20:31Speaker 1: his highest poll rate that he had did anywhere with
- 20:33Speaker 1: The White sox that was a non rehab, stop put
- 20:38Speaker 1: up his highest MAX tv of the season down In
- 20:41Speaker 1: TRIPLE a at one to eleven point, four that he
- 20:43Speaker 1: hadn't done in nearly like one hundred almost like one
- 20:49Speaker 1: hundred and ninety bad ball events for The White. Sox
- 20:52Speaker 1: SO i was skeptical that The brewers would be able
- 20:56Speaker 1: to do, this but there was one organization out of
- 20:59Speaker 1: a handful that could have Turned andrew vaugh. AROUND i
- 21:02Speaker 1: think The brewers are probably up. There any interest now
- 21:05Speaker 1: In Andrew vaughn after you've seen him a little bit
- 21:08Speaker 1: In TRIPLE a At. Milwaukee he did pop a homer
- 21:10Speaker 1: in his first game with The, brewers technically in a
- 21:14Speaker 1: short side platoon on roster, resource but it's With Jake,
- 21:18Speaker 1: Bauers SO i think if he's, hot they'll probably play
- 21:21Speaker 1: him a little. Bit any interest In andrew.
- 21:23Speaker 2: Baugh, Here i'm gonna watch. HIM i think it's the
- 21:26Speaker 2: way LIKE i feel like been burned four to five
- 21:29Speaker 2: times On Andrew, vaughn so like not fully going, there
- 21:32Speaker 2: but like you're, right like things are different For, Vaughan
- 21:36Speaker 2: like he's hitting, line drives to keep the ball on the,
- 21:38Speaker 2: Ground he's pulling it like he's definitely changed his, approach
- 21:43Speaker 2: but there's also this small sample. Size there's also the you,
- 21:46Speaker 2: know new. Organization just he just is he pressed a little,
- 21:51Speaker 2: Bit LIKE i just don't know what to make of.
- 21:52Speaker 2: It AND i think that the expectations For Andrew vaughn
- 21:57Speaker 2: are so substantially in the basement THAT i can watch
- 22:00Speaker 2: for it's like two three weeks here and then really
- 22:02Speaker 2: decide what to, do and nobody else is gonna be
- 22:05Speaker 2: jumping on. Him So i've definitely got him watch. Mode but,
- 22:08Speaker 2: like this is what you want to see when you
- 22:10Speaker 2: see a guy like this get. Traded you want to
- 22:12Speaker 2: see something changed in the. Profile is it? Good is it?
- 22:14Speaker 2: BAD i don't really know, yet BUT i like this
- 22:19Speaker 2: the fact that we see something, different and for a
- 22:21Speaker 2: guy that always had the, pedigree always seemed like you
- 22:24Speaker 2: should be more than he is if that's the only
- 22:28Speaker 2: hope we. Have so it was kind of fun to
- 22:30Speaker 2: see them on the on the mount yesterday For Mizrawski
- 22:33Speaker 2: kershaw uh and like just see, this like, Wait Andrew vaugh's,
- 22:38Speaker 2: back like, uh and you, know here we. Go let's
- 22:41Speaker 2: let's see what he can.
- 22:42Speaker 1: Do, YEAH i think that's a spot on assessment there
- 22:45Speaker 1: For andrew Von, okay let's move on to the next.
- 22:47Speaker 1: Injury we've Got Shelby, Miller Arizona diamondbacks, closer de facto,
- 22:52Speaker 1: closer just because these guys keep. Falling you, know it Was,
- 22:56Speaker 1: puck it Was Justin, martinez and Now Shelby miller is going.
- 23:01Speaker 1: On the il looks pretty. Foreboding he's battling the dreaded
- 23:04Speaker 1: forearm strain that you know always kind of turns Into
- 23:09Speaker 1: Tommy john within pretty short. Order it feels like he
- 23:13Speaker 1: is thirty four and a half gonna turn thirty five
- 23:16Speaker 1: later this. Year so it does feel like if that does,
- 23:18Speaker 1: happen it'd probably be the end For Shelby, miller which
- 23:20Speaker 1: would be, Bittersweet but in terms of just the way
- 23:25Speaker 1: his careers turned, Out i'm not EVEN i, MEAN i
- 23:29Speaker 1: got you to Analyze Andrew vaughn. There you want to
- 23:32Speaker 1: try to analyze This Arizona diamondbacks. Bullpen the team is
- 23:35Speaker 1: starting to fall. Apart they have two games below five.
- 23:38Speaker 1: HUNDRED i wouldn't be surprised that they sell here at the,
- 23:40Speaker 1: Deadline SO i don't know how many saves are gonna
- 23:43Speaker 1: be there down the. Stretch Kevin ginkel looks like the
- 23:46Speaker 1: leader in the, clubhouse but at the same time he
- 23:50Speaker 1: has not exactly been the Typical Kevin ginkle this. Year
- 23:54Speaker 1: he has a NINE era in twenty, innings even though
- 23:58Speaker 1: the strikeouts are still there at the walk have been,
- 24:00Speaker 1: awful and he's just really kind of struggled with men
- 24:04Speaker 1: on bas so other options in here ARE i don't
- 24:07Speaker 1: even know who these dudes. ARE i don't know Who
- 24:10Speaker 1: Kyle bacchus. IS i don't know Who John curtis. IS
- 24:15Speaker 1: i Know Jalen, beeks but he's also been pretty rough of.
- 24:18Speaker 1: Late any interest in need of these guys or any
- 24:21Speaker 1: or any dark. Horses, yeah.
- 24:25Speaker 2: This is a tough. Fo LIKE i think it's just
- 24:28Speaker 2: fair that like the name Of Kevin ginkle just like
- 24:31Speaker 2: embodies this bullpen of LIKE I i just it's a
- 24:35Speaker 2: it's a. Landmine LIKE i Think ginkle has always been
- 24:40Speaker 2: LIKE i want to be a, CLOSER i want to
- 24:41Speaker 2: be good something, man and just like he does it
- 24:43Speaker 2: for like two weeks and then like walks take over
- 24:45Speaker 2: and he just can't close out a. GAME i Think
- 24:48Speaker 2: beaks actually has some of the nastier. Stuff but to your,
- 24:51Speaker 2: point earlier just is very up and down backus of
- 24:56Speaker 2: of all the, guys actually looks a little. Intriguing he's
- 24:59Speaker 2: a big, guy has a little bit more, control you,
- 25:02Speaker 2: know keeps the ball on the. Ground he does some
- 25:05Speaker 2: some good. Things but he's a guy that's like bounced
- 25:08Speaker 2: between the miners and the and the. Majors actually he's
- 25:13Speaker 2: bounced around the miners for for a. While he's just
- 25:15Speaker 2: now getting his taste of major league baseball and he's
- 25:21Speaker 2: got a whole nine and two thirds. Innings like it's
- 25:25Speaker 2: he looks like maybe one of the more interesting, guys
- 25:27Speaker 2: but he's also. Lefty like so you, have like everybody
- 25:30Speaker 2: you look, at there's just not something that's. Exciting So
- 25:33Speaker 2: I'm i'm avoiding this bullpen like there's just literally nothing
- 25:37Speaker 2: good that can come from. This you need to pick
- 25:38Speaker 2: up like four guys to try to find the hope.
- 25:43Speaker 2: Here and it's not like there's the young gun coming
- 25:45Speaker 2: up like you're. Hoping i'm thinking Like Tampa, bay where
- 25:48Speaker 2: Like Mason montgomery was like he's the closer to the,
- 25:50Speaker 2: future even though he was like a hot mess and
- 25:52Speaker 2: he you know that said down like he was the
- 25:55Speaker 2: guy that you were like if something happens and like
- 25:57Speaker 2: three or four guys go, down they're gonna have to
- 25:59Speaker 2: go To, LIKE i don't there's not a guy in
- 26:01Speaker 2: this bullpen that seems to have that like are you
- 26:04Speaker 2: gonna just stick With Jake? Woodford like, no it's not
- 26:08Speaker 2: going to be going to be the. Play and SO
- 26:11Speaker 2: i think team might be struggling and not a clear
- 26:18Speaker 2: horse in the race. HERE i Would i'd be avoiding this.
- 26:21Speaker 1: One, yeah, YEAH i totally. Agree AND i think it's
- 26:24Speaker 1: also a little bit of like what you're talking about
- 26:27Speaker 1: With Andrew vaughan there WHERE i think you can wait
- 26:31Speaker 1: a little bit to see whether or not this sorts itself,
- 26:33Speaker 1: out BECAUSE i don't think there's a lot of folks
- 26:35Speaker 1: in those other fantasy leagues around you that are clamoring
- 26:39Speaker 1: to get in on this. Action and maybe if somebody
- 26:43Speaker 1: rises above it all you can jump. In BUT i
- 26:46Speaker 1: just don't know if it will. Happen it's a pretty,
- 26:48Speaker 1: rough rough, bullpen and it's kind of what has been
- 26:52Speaker 1: the achilles heel of This arizona team the entire, year
- 26:55Speaker 1: on top of just the overall. Health SO i would
- 26:58Speaker 1: be staying away IF i, can, okay next injury we
- 27:01Speaker 1: have Is Andre semenez hitting the il with an ankle.
- 27:05Speaker 1: Injury seems like it will be a couple of. Weeks you,
- 27:10Speaker 1: know he's gonna be in a walking, boot and it
- 27:12Speaker 1: seems like a sprain kind of turning into a bit
- 27:14Speaker 1: of a lost year For Andre, semenez who through two
- 27:17Speaker 1: hundred and thirty eight played appearances is hitting two, eighteen
- 27:20Speaker 1: three hundred and three twenty, two has come with ten stolen.
- 27:23Speaker 1: BASES i think he's actually gonna be like a little
- 27:25Speaker 1: bit of a sleeper for me next year because it's
- 27:28Speaker 1: been such a rough year with injuries For. Menez that,
- 27:32Speaker 1: LIKE i think he's gonna fly under the. Radar and
- 27:35Speaker 1: this is a guy who the glove just will play
- 27:38Speaker 1: all day. Long that The Blue jays have no problem
- 27:40Speaker 1: playing him at second, base batting him in. Ninth that
- 27:44Speaker 1: not sure If i'm in On Jim andez for the
- 27:45Speaker 1: rest twenty twenty, five especially given this ankle and him
- 27:48Speaker 1: being a speed, Asset but twenty twenty six might be
- 27:50Speaker 1: fascinating the man who's coming up to replace Him, inez
- 27:54Speaker 1: your Boy Joey Lo brafido getting full playing time In
- 27:59Speaker 1: toronto now because this team has risen to first. Place
- 28:02Speaker 1: kind of out of nowhere while just kind of like
- 28:05Speaker 1: playing a bum of the week in a corner outfield
- 28:08Speaker 1: spot between, like, uh it Was Ellen, roden Then Nathan
- 28:12Speaker 1: lucas was out, There Jonathan class was out. There, uh
- 28:15Speaker 1: they've been Running David schneider back out there a little.
- 28:18Speaker 1: Bit they just are cycling people in and out of that.
- 28:21Speaker 1: Spot but Low braffido might be able to claim it
- 28:23Speaker 1: because of. That he was batting two seventy, eight three fifty,
- 28:27Speaker 1: four four twenty two with six homers and ten stone
- 28:30Speaker 1: bases down At. Buffalo but the most important part is
- 28:34Speaker 1: he'd cut the k right down to twenty one point nine.
- 28:36Speaker 1: Percent that all added up to one TEN wrc plus
- 28:39Speaker 1: he's twenty six years. Old interest in your, Boy Joey, Liprafito.
- 28:45Speaker 2: Yes the veiled. Interest it's it's to your, point like
- 28:48Speaker 2: there's a job to be taken, here and he's made some,
- 28:53Speaker 2: improvements like he he's kind of gotten when he was With,
- 28:57Speaker 2: houston he was he got so such a free swinging
- 29:00Speaker 2: approach that that was REALLY i think. Exploited and it
- 29:03Speaker 2: looks like he's made some adjustments and you could argue
- 29:06Speaker 2: that the power is, down But i'd argue he's just
- 29:09Speaker 2: had some some tough luck there from a home run
- 29:12Speaker 2: for fly ball, ratio he's only hit about nine percent
- 29:15Speaker 2: out in tripla For. Toronto, well you know when he
- 29:19Speaker 2: was At, houston it was like twenty five, percent and
- 29:21Speaker 2: so like he's like a third of. That SO i
- 29:23Speaker 2: think that the power is still, there it's just hasn't been.
- 29:26Speaker 2: There he's already homeward once since he got called, Up
- 29:30Speaker 2: SO i think that there's there's sneaky value. Here, again
- 29:35Speaker 2: we can go back to the dback's. Bullpen we can
- 29:38Speaker 2: talk About Andrew. VAUGHAN i think Little brafido fits in
- 29:40Speaker 2: that as. Well like nobody's running out to grab and
- 29:42Speaker 2: nobody's gonna go head over heels for. Him but, like
- 29:45Speaker 2: take a look, here watch does he look comfortable as
- 29:48Speaker 2: he is he keeping the strikeouts? Down is he picking
- 29:50Speaker 2: up a few walks? Here? Like is he hitting the ball?
- 29:53Speaker 2: Hard this is a guy that does have that is
- 29:57Speaker 2: like a very well rounded skill set that could play
- 30:01Speaker 2: higher from a fantasy perspective than a real world perspective
- 30:04Speaker 2: because chipping some, steels he's gonna ship in some. Power he's,
- 30:08Speaker 2: gonna you, know score, runs he's gonna get on base
- 30:11Speaker 2: like he's gonna do all of those, things and so
- 30:13Speaker 2: if he can claim that, Job i'm actually very intrigued
- 30:17Speaker 2: by him back of my. Outfield let me be very,
- 30:20Speaker 2: clear it's not like he's a first round next, year
- 30:23Speaker 2: BUT i think he's a, sneaky sneaky guy. HERE i
- 30:27Speaker 2: expect him to be in the waiver wire articles for
- 30:29Speaker 2: the next few weeks, here depending on what he what he.
- 30:32Speaker 2: Does but if he shows that he's really made a few,
- 30:34Speaker 2: adjustments this, this this guy could be. Sneaky So I'm i'm.
- 30:40Speaker 1: Tempted, Yeah, YEAH i think that's a very Fair. So,
- 30:42Speaker 1: YEAH i think, certainly if you're like an ale only,
- 30:45Speaker 1: league he's a he's an immediate. Pickup but if you're
- 30:48Speaker 1: in something, deeper a little bit more of a. Watch
- 30:50Speaker 1: but especially the rest of this, week if he can
- 30:53Speaker 1: take hold of that left field, job it's his for the.
- 30:57Speaker 1: Taking In toronto and they're home and. Along so. Okay
- 31:00Speaker 1: next injury we have Is Los Angeles. Dodgers Max munsey
- 31:04Speaker 1: went down with a knee. Injury it's a bone. Bruise
- 31:06Speaker 1: it was a pretty gruesome looking slide As MICHAEL. A
- 31:10Speaker 1: taylor went right into his knee and it looked like
- 31:13Speaker 1: it was waste more serious than it ended up. Being
- 31:15Speaker 1: it looked like it was going to be some sort
- 31:17Speaker 1: OF acl tear or other, tendon but luckily just a bone.
- 31:22Speaker 1: Bruise he should be back In it looks like six ish,
- 31:24Speaker 1: weeks which is good for The dodgers because this team
- 31:27Speaker 1: is thin on bench depth because it is all star
- 31:31Speaker 1: power right. Now it looks Like Tommy edmond is taking
- 31:34Speaker 1: over third, base But Miguel rojas is also getting plenty
- 31:37Speaker 1: of playing time. There key K hernandez would be getting playing,
- 31:41Speaker 1: time but he also hit the aisl with elbow. Inflammation
- 31:47Speaker 1: what are you doing here with This dodger? Situation Because
- 31:50Speaker 1: tommy had been after we really gave him going praise
- 31:53Speaker 1: early in the season when it looked like he might
- 31:55Speaker 1: do a twenty five twenty five season has certainly not
- 31:58Speaker 1: kept that pace. Up you look at the depth, behind
- 32:03Speaker 1: not really. MUCH i am a little. Intrigued i'm. Looking
- 32:05Speaker 1: Alex freeland has been playing some third base down a TRIPLE.
- 32:09Speaker 1: A he's not on the forty man, roster so that
- 32:11Speaker 1: would require a move. There but he is a pretty
- 32:14Speaker 1: highly blanked prospect fifty future value On fangrast's switch hitter
- 32:19Speaker 1: twenty three years old has been HITTING i just was on,
- 32:23Speaker 1: it but THEN i flipped. Away he has been hitting
- 32:25Speaker 1: two sixty, four three eighty four thirty six down there
- 32:28Speaker 1: with a one to TEN wrc plus great walk, rate
- 32:32Speaker 1: good power speed. Combo so are you maybe Targeting freeland
- 32:37Speaker 1: or is this just kind of maybe the landing spot
- 32:40Speaker 1: For aohenniosuarez at the end of the day at the trade.
- 32:42Speaker 2: Headline, YEAH i, think if, anything that's probably more. LIKELY
- 32:46Speaker 2: i think that The dodgers are probably gonna sit pat
- 32:49Speaker 2: here because with the bone bruise once he should be.
- 32:51Speaker 2: Back he was having a comeback, Year SO i think
- 32:54Speaker 2: that there's positive. There you, know my hope AND i
- 32:57Speaker 2: don't see a good path this will movie, Clears but
- 32:59Speaker 2: Like Dalton, rushing maybe somehow gets more playing time out
- 33:02Speaker 2: of this would be maybe my my one hope, Here
- 33:04Speaker 2: but there's not really a logical path for. That it's
- 33:06Speaker 2: not Like Freddie freeman's gonna switch over to third base
- 33:09Speaker 2: And russians need to play, First Will smith's gonna play
- 33:11Speaker 2: first something like. That you, know maybe there's gonna be
- 33:15Speaker 2: a little opportunity in the outfield, there but to your,
- 33:18Speaker 2: point it's it's then maybe it Gives edmond a chance
- 33:21Speaker 2: to get a little more positional flexibility and you, know
- 33:26Speaker 2: bring some of that value back that we thought was,
- 33:27Speaker 2: there Gives Hisung kim a little bit more, runway all those.
- 33:32Speaker 2: Things but at the end of the, day there's not
- 33:34Speaker 2: like a one guy that seems like he's gonna get
- 33:36Speaker 2: great playing time out of. This it's probably gonna rest
- 33:39Speaker 2: a few, guys guys rotate through AND i think months
- 33:42Speaker 2: he'll be back in you, know a handful of, weeks
- 33:44Speaker 2: unless this is like The Kyle tucker bone, bruise which
- 33:47Speaker 2: is actually a, break but that's a whole different ballgame
- 33:51Speaker 2: when you Have houston sharing injury information The.
- 33:54Speaker 1: Dodgers, yes that's totally a great point. There so, okay
- 33:59Speaker 1: that is gonna wrap it up for injuries for this.
- 34:01Speaker 1: Week let's get on to some call up some. Returns
- 34:04Speaker 1: so the first one is a pretty major one in
- 34:07Speaker 1: terms of the prospect. Name we've Got Colson, montgomery shortstop
- 34:10Speaker 1: debuting for The Chicago White. Sox was called up and
- 34:14Speaker 1: had a very soft cushion of a landing beable to
- 34:17Speaker 1: play against The rockies this weekend when he, debuted so
- 34:20Speaker 1: that helped him hit a triple for his first major league.
- 34:24Speaker 1: Hit has also made some really good plays in the.
- 34:27Speaker 1: Field he's a legit shortstop in terms of the. Glove
- 34:31Speaker 1: i'm not so sure about it from the fantasy side,
- 34:34Speaker 1: here because down In TRIPLE a before he was called,
- 34:37Speaker 1: up it was a in total to eighteen two ninety
- 34:41Speaker 1: eight four thirty five slash. Line that's an eighty THREE
- 34:44Speaker 1: wrc plus Because charlotte's a pretty good hitters, park so
- 34:48Speaker 1: that's tough to do In. Charlotte it came with a
- 34:50Speaker 1: thirty three percent strikeout, rate only eleven. HOMERS i mean
- 34:54Speaker 1: not only, ELEVEN i mean eleven's pretty, solid and the
- 34:58Speaker 1: strikeout rate there is. Tough. NOW i have been seeing
- 35:00Speaker 1: some chatter from folks, saying, hey you know, What, montgomery
- 35:04Speaker 1: he was startling so bad at the beginning of the
- 35:06Speaker 1: season that The whiteside actually sent him back to The
- 35:09Speaker 1: Arizona complex to work on his swing a little. Bit
- 35:12Speaker 1: came back in Mid june from that little, stint and
- 35:16Speaker 1: after that hit two sixty six three twenty four five
- 35:21Speaker 1: sixty three from then until his call. Up you know, what,
- 35:26Speaker 1: though it also came with that thirty three, percent kay,
- 35:29Speaker 1: Right and it was a three fifty one babup only
- 35:32Speaker 1: a one SEVENTEEN wrc plus because LIKE i just, Said
- 35:35Speaker 1: charlotte is a great place to hit for TRIPLE. A
- 35:39Speaker 1: i'm not in On montgomery at all from fantasy for
- 35:41Speaker 1: a couple of, years, THOUGH i will say this guy
- 35:44Speaker 1: is a legit major leaguer from the gloves, side so
- 35:46Speaker 1: you you're hoping that he can, learn BUT i just
- 35:49Speaker 1: don't see how he doesn't strike out at anything lower
- 35:53Speaker 1: than like a thirty five percent clip at the majors
- 35:56Speaker 1: until he really fixes some. Things what do you think
- 35:59Speaker 1: any upside For montgomery?
- 36:00Speaker 2: Here, NO i THINK i think you're right on, There
- 36:03Speaker 2: like he's gonna be lucky to hit about them And dooza,
- 36:05Speaker 2: line AND i think it's gonna be the way that this.
- 36:08Speaker 2: Plays he's he, is you, know key shorts off the
- 36:12Speaker 2: future for The White, Socks LIKE i think he will
- 36:14Speaker 2: grow into something. Here but there he's being called up
- 36:18Speaker 2: honestly early just because there's no penalty for, them like
- 36:20Speaker 2: they were to call him probably early next, year so
- 36:22Speaker 2: they're not losing a year of control or anything like.
- 36:25Speaker 2: That so kind of get get the feel, out get
- 36:27Speaker 2: the young guy some playing. TIME i think they've probably
- 36:30Speaker 2: parisional a little little, fast BUT i think this might
- 36:33Speaker 2: he might be kind of one of those mature, players
- 36:35Speaker 2: young guys that just needs a chance to try on
- 36:37Speaker 2: the major league. Level but the strikeouts are a major
- 36:40Speaker 2: issue he. Is he is flailing up there at, times
- 36:44Speaker 2: and it's it's SOMETHING i would, avoid you, know pretty pretty.
- 36:49Speaker 2: Substantially and the other pieces he has zero supporting support around.
- 36:53Speaker 2: Him so it's not just one of those because he
- 36:55Speaker 2: has decent. Power it's not one of those where you're, like,
- 36:58Speaker 2: well the average might, stay but he can pop some
- 37:01Speaker 2: homers and maybe get some counting. Stats like, no he's
- 37:03Speaker 2: not gonna get the counting stats either because The White
- 37:05Speaker 2: socks aren't going to. Score goshturn run to save the.
- 37:07Speaker 2: Life So i'm out o out On montgomery. Here he
- 37:13Speaker 2: only gets ads because he's a, name he's got name.
- 37:17Speaker 2: Value but right now the bat is not where it
- 37:19Speaker 2: needs to.
- 37:19Speaker 1: Be, YEAH i totally, Agree and until you see some
- 37:23Speaker 1: sort of significant change in that strikeout, rate it's not
- 37:27Speaker 1: really worth, ROSTERING i think, anywhere because it's just such
- 37:30Speaker 1: a bad batting average without the counting, stats so you
- 37:33Speaker 1: can't even Like Michael, tolia where like the stats kind
- 37:37Speaker 1: of around it make it almost. Justifiable you, know, Yeah,
- 37:42Speaker 1: okay let's go to a reading statement from the injury.
- 37:46Speaker 1: List we're going to go To sacramento The athletics this.
- 37:49Speaker 1: Week you want to talk strikeouts. Here Zach geloff came
- 37:53Speaker 1: back finally from the injured. List he was on there
- 37:57Speaker 1: for a long time for a handmate injury and then
- 38:00Speaker 1: also suffered a setback with a stress reaction in his
- 38:04Speaker 1: ribs while he was down on his rehab. Assignment it
- 38:07Speaker 1: is a great opportunity given just that park for the,
- 38:11Speaker 1: summer it's going to play extremely, hot And sacramento should
- 38:15Speaker 1: have second base to us hisself for a little while
- 38:17Speaker 1: As Luis urias also hit THE il with a hamstring.
- 38:21Speaker 1: Injury but it has been a rough go For Zach
- 38:24Speaker 1: geloff since he came back in four. Games fifty k,
- 38:28Speaker 1: rate that's always kind of the. Issue, honestly this guy
- 38:31Speaker 1: Is Colston montgomery just without the switch. Hitting it's just
- 38:35Speaker 1: an absurd k rate drives down that batting. Average but
- 38:40Speaker 1: there is like a possibility of double digit homers and
- 38:44Speaker 1: stolen bases given the park especially and just the lineup
- 38:48Speaker 1: the way that it's going to. Turn do you have
- 38:50Speaker 1: any interest In Zach gelloff for the rest of the.
- 38:52Speaker 2: SEASON i think the interest is if you're in a
- 38:56Speaker 2: row league and you're you're struggling for a categories and
- 39:00Speaker 2: like from a speed or power, perspective and your average
- 39:05Speaker 2: is already in the, tank galeaf is your, Guy, like
- 39:09Speaker 2: BUT i think that you, know because he's in the,
- 39:13Speaker 2: lineup is a lot stronger it was when he was
- 39:14Speaker 2: there last. Year he he is a very efficient base,
- 39:18Speaker 2: stealer you know in twenty, four twenty five of twenty
- 39:22Speaker 2: eight from a steal, perspective twenty, three fourteen or, sixteen
- 39:25Speaker 2: he's he's very efficient in the base. Pass, like so
- 39:28Speaker 2: that power JUST i almost call it sneaky power for
- 39:32Speaker 2: a guy his, size that comes up a little bit
- 39:33Speaker 2: more than what you'd. Expect SO i think that there
- 39:37Speaker 2: is like some intrinsic value. Here but your, point, like
- 39:42Speaker 2: it's not slam, dunk it's it comes with a lot of.
- 39:45Speaker 2: Caves so if if you can sustain a bad batting,
- 39:49Speaker 2: average then, YEAH i think there's some value. Here but
- 39:54Speaker 2: he's been off for so long and got so much
- 39:57Speaker 2: rust to work, Off LIKE i think IT'S i think
- 39:59Speaker 2: it's gonna take a little bit of time for this
- 40:01Speaker 2: to work, through so you, know good luck to. Him
- 40:03Speaker 2: lucky That urius is on the, il so he has
- 40:06Speaker 2: that run to kind of shake the rust. Off But
- 40:09Speaker 2: i'm only playing here If i've already kind of botched
- 40:12Speaker 2: the that average. Category that's the only area That i'm intrigued.
- 40:15Speaker 1: With, YEAH i think that's totally. Fair so just a
- 40:19Speaker 1: name to, WATCH i would, Say and especially you look
- 40:22Speaker 1: at that handmaid injury. TOO i do wonder how much
- 40:25Speaker 1: power is going to be in. There so certainly he'll
- 40:28Speaker 1: get a little help from the, ballpark but we'll have
- 40:31Speaker 1: to see it all come. Together. Okay with the baseball
- 40:34Speaker 1: card release, schedule we actually have one. Update we have
- 40:36Speaker 1: an addition on Not, October we're not quite that. Far august,
- 40:41Speaker 1: sixth we're going to Have Tops, Archives Signature Series Active
- 40:45Speaker 1: players addition is on the, Schedule so if you're not
- 40:48Speaker 1: familiar with that, product it is one where you essentially
- 40:52Speaker 1: buy like an eighty to ninety dollars lottery ticket and
- 40:55Speaker 1: hope that the one card that you get in there
- 40:57Speaker 1: is better than Some Joe schmoe auto because what they
- 41:02Speaker 1: also do it is a fun product in terms of
- 41:05Speaker 1: tops goes out there and collects old, cards you, know
- 41:08Speaker 1: mostly just base cards and, inserts so pretty common cards
- 41:12Speaker 1: has them autographed buy players and then re stamps them
- 41:17Speaker 1: and puts them into this. Product so it is kind
- 41:18Speaker 1: of cool from that, perspective especially you get on card
- 41:22Speaker 1: autos of cards that haven't traditionally had autographs in the.
- 41:26Speaker 1: Past but certainly if you're looking for anything specific in this,
- 41:30Speaker 1: product you're much better off just kind of waiting to
- 41:33Speaker 1: buy the single, ICE i would, say in, turn instead
- 41:35Speaker 1: of buying the eighty dollars lottery. Ticket so have you
- 41:39Speaker 1: opened any of these? BEFORE i never, have just BECAUSE
- 41:41Speaker 1: i don't have the.
- 41:42Speaker 2: Guts, No i've, not BUT i have done a break
- 41:47Speaker 2: or two with. THESE i think this is one of
- 41:48Speaker 2: those few products where you can actually do a break
- 41:52Speaker 2: because you're going after six ten boxes of, that and
- 41:58Speaker 2: you might have to pay for your team for twenty thirty,
- 42:00Speaker 2: bucks and if you, miss you. Miss it's not a big,
- 42:04Speaker 2: deal but you can hit pretty. Big so it's a
- 42:07Speaker 2: very interesting. Product you. KNOW i actually sometimes get a
- 42:10Speaker 2: little miffed to it as, well because somebody does pop
- 42:14Speaker 2: out that card from the case all of a, sudden
- 42:16Speaker 2: you end up with this card that you think may
- 42:17Speaker 2: have been put out back in the day because they
- 42:19Speaker 2: stamped and everything like, that you can't remember what set
- 42:22Speaker 2: it's actually. From so it's a fun little. Thing BUT
- 42:25Speaker 2: i with, You i'd wait till the secondary market unless
- 42:28Speaker 2: you truly want a lottery.
- 42:29Speaker 1: Ticket, YEAH i think that's totally. Fair so, otherwise the
- 42:32Speaker 1: schedule has been relatively the. Same we will be Covering
- 42:36Speaker 1: Tops chrome release later this, month but until, then that's
- 42:41Speaker 1: really the major release that's coming. Out so we are
- 42:44Speaker 1: going to take a short break now and we will
- 42:46Speaker 1: be back to talk about Those player of The month
- 42:49Speaker 1: award winners and MAKING pc picks for our. Pod so
- 42:53Speaker 1: it's gonna be a fun time stick, around all, Right
- 43:16Speaker 1: welcome back. Everybody we are going to get into a
- 43:19Speaker 1: discussion of Our player of The MONTH pc. Picks so
- 43:23Speaker 1: if you're not familiar with what this is is what
- 43:26Speaker 1: we do every month is we go through THE Mlb
- 43:28Speaker 1: players of the month and then MAKE Pc Personal collection
- 43:32Speaker 1: picks for our. Podcast it's just kind of a fun
- 43:34Speaker 1: little list that we keep running to be able to
- 43:37Speaker 1: commemorate these players and discuss some cool looking. Cards, so
- 43:41Speaker 1: LIKE i said at the top of the. Show if
- 43:43Speaker 1: you are looking for pictures of these, cards certainly go
- 43:46Speaker 1: into those show. Notes we've got links to all the
- 43:48Speaker 1: eBay auctions that we've kind of found these cards, from
- 43:52Speaker 1: and we've also got on rasball dot com the related
- 43:55Speaker 1: post for this podcast has all of the pictures of
- 43:59Speaker 1: the cards all in one stop for, you so you
- 44:01Speaker 1: can just scroll, through follow along as we make these
- 44:05Speaker 1: picks and describe these cards as we commemorate these Great
- 44:08Speaker 1: june twenty twenty five months that all these players have.
- 44:11Speaker 1: Had so we've also gotten the show notes a listing
- 44:14Speaker 1: of all the OTHER pc picks that we've had over
- 44:18Speaker 1: the years for either The player of the month, selections
- 44:21Speaker 1: or we also just kind of do this for other
- 44:24Speaker 1: moments in, time either like you, know first rounders investments
- 44:29Speaker 1: for a, season we Did hall Of fame, Stuff Ricky
- 44:31Speaker 1: henderson cards when he passed. Away so it's kind of
- 44:35Speaker 1: a FUN pc pod, tradition and so we're keeping it.
- 44:39Speaker 1: GOING i know that we love. This it's just a
- 44:41Speaker 1: great time to talk about lots of great, cards most
- 44:45Speaker 1: of them we can't, afford but it's fun to look
- 44:47Speaker 1: at these and, HONESTLY i think we kept it pretty
- 44:50Speaker 1: reasonable this, month so we did.
- 44:54Speaker 2: Well that's not saying much because we've got off the
- 44:56Speaker 2: deep end a few, times BUT i think we didn't
- 44:59Speaker 2: need the fifty k budget this. Time we kept it
- 45:02Speaker 2: with the.
- 45:02Speaker 1: Thinkers, yeah that's. True so, yeah and it also. Helps
- 45:07Speaker 1: we didn't have any, otani we didn't have any, judge
- 45:09Speaker 1: we didn't have any schemes this. Month so a fun
- 45:11Speaker 1: month to also mix it up a little. Bit so
- 45:13Speaker 1: we love it being able to dive into some of
- 45:15Speaker 1: these players where they don't maybe get the same shine
- 45:19Speaker 1: in the baseball car collecting hobby that some of those
- 45:22Speaker 1: main dudes. Do so let's kick it. Off we're gonna
- 45:25Speaker 1: go to the al where we have the player of the,
- 45:27Speaker 1: month none other than Cal. Rally what an intredible month for.
- 45:31Speaker 1: Him he hit three hundred three ninety eight six ninety
- 45:34Speaker 1: with eleven bombs twenty SEVEN rbi is now up to
- 45:38Speaker 1: thirty six total, homers eclipsing his career best of thirty
- 45:42Speaker 1: four for last. Year three straight seasons of thirty plus,
- 45:45Speaker 1: bombs and THAT i mean back in twenty twenty two
- 45:48Speaker 1: is a twenty seven bomb, season so he's honestly like
- 45:52Speaker 1: on a pretty historic pace at this point where the
- 45:55Speaker 1: prices On Kyle rowley are starting to tick. Up That
- 45:58Speaker 1: mariners are a low, key sneaky LIKE pc collecting a
- 46:04Speaker 1: team to collect out there where like the hot players
- 46:06Speaker 1: will they have great followers up In seattle and The
- 46:09Speaker 1: Pacific northwest that will buy up these. Cards AND i
- 46:13Speaker 1: mean especially when you're looking at What cal's been doing
- 46:18Speaker 1: on pace for you know about like a tennis win.
- 46:22Speaker 1: SEASON i don't think he's going to keep it, up
- 46:23Speaker 1: but you're looking at eight probably almost practically in the.
- 46:26Speaker 1: Bank he's a great. Defender there's not going to be
- 46:29Speaker 1: too many at the catchers from this era that are
- 46:31Speaker 1: going to be like In hall Of fame. Discussion so
- 46:33Speaker 1: if he keeps us up for a few more, YEARS
- 46:34Speaker 1: i think he might be one of the few that pushes.
- 46:37Speaker 1: That SO i think it's a great, time even though
- 46:41Speaker 1: the Cal rally prices are, increasing to maybe get in
- 46:43Speaker 1: on the, action because not only are the prices, increasing
- 46:48Speaker 1: people are also digging out those Cal rally cards that
- 46:50Speaker 1: maybe they've had hiding out in. BOXES i probably will
- 46:53Speaker 1: be doing that soon BECAUSE i ripped a lot of
- 46:56Speaker 1: twenty twenty two, product which is where his rookie cards
- 46:58Speaker 1: are AND i Know i've got Cal raley Like bass
- 47:01Speaker 1: rookies And chrome rookies that are just tucked away in
- 47:04Speaker 1: random spots that are now worth a handful of dollars
- 47:07Speaker 1: that you can stack those up move them On eBay pretty.
- 47:09Speaker 1: Quick so we got a couple of great selections. Here
- 47:12Speaker 1: where did you go with your? Pick Jair?
- 47:15Speaker 2: WELL I i this this was fun LIKE i AND
- 47:17Speaker 2: i knew exactly WHAT i wanted WHEN i sell cal in,
- 47:20Speaker 2: HERE i just didn't know if it. Existed and the
- 47:24Speaker 2: good news is it. Did Cal, rally for those who don't,
- 47:27Speaker 2: know has a wonderful. Nickname it is The Big. Dumper
- 47:30Speaker 2: AND i had to find a card With Big dumper on,
- 47:34Speaker 2: it AND i didn't know what was gonna. BE i
- 47:35Speaker 2: didn't know if it would be one of those don
- 47:37Speaker 2: ross like nickname cards and what was to, be BUT
- 47:40Speaker 2: i found. It twenty twenty Two Padini National. Treasures these
- 47:46Speaker 2: are cut, signatures is what cut material, Signature so it's
- 47:51Speaker 2: it's kind of like a quasi relic where like where
- 47:54Speaker 2: it says Big dumper is actually like jersey, cutouts kind
- 47:58Speaker 2: of like the triple. Threads if you and then it
- 48:01Speaker 2: is a sticker, auto but it's an auto out of
- 48:04Speaker 2: forty nine is non, licensed so, that you, know maybe
- 48:07Speaker 2: a little bit. Drawback but it is a just, fun
- 48:11Speaker 2: fun card because it's a fun. Nickname and you, know
- 48:15Speaker 2: this was kind of before he was, truly truly kind
- 48:18Speaker 2: of breaking out as the big. Hitter so he's got
- 48:20Speaker 2: him on there and his catcher's, gear which is the
- 48:23Speaker 2: one thing with an unlicensed catchers work because that you
- 48:27Speaker 2: generally can't see the. Logos and SO i JUST i
- 48:31Speaker 2: just love this, card love the fact that we got
- 48:33Speaker 2: the nickname. There it's On eBay right. Now we got
- 48:35Speaker 2: six days left on auction at fifty one. DOLLARS i
- 48:37Speaker 2: have no idea where this one's gonna, go BUT i
- 48:39Speaker 2: think it's gonna go for a pretty Petty but it
- 48:41Speaker 2: was just such a fun. Card AND i always love
- 48:44Speaker 2: all these ones that have the kind of the patch
- 48:46Speaker 2: relics with words on them where they where they do something.
- 48:50Speaker 2: Unique So Big Dumper Panini National treasures.
- 48:53Speaker 1: For, Me, YES i think this is a great. Choice
- 48:56Speaker 1: it's not marked as a rookie card Right i'm looking
- 48:59Speaker 1: at her, NOW i don't see a rookie. Card it
- 49:01Speaker 1: is technically A rookie card because they came out in
- 49:03Speaker 1: twenty twenty two For Cal. Rawley great choice here between,
- 49:07Speaker 1: yeah the nickname and like you, SAID i love catchers
- 49:12Speaker 1: on Unlicensed Panini donors products because you can't tell and
- 49:15Speaker 1: it's it's. Great you can't actually tell that there's no
- 49:19Speaker 1: LIKE mlb logos on this when he's in the catching.
- 49:21Speaker 1: Gear great addition to THE pc.
- 49:23Speaker 2: Here, yeah and if you actually read the back of the,
- 49:26Speaker 2: card the description of them is it's just. AMAZING a
- 49:29Speaker 2: switch hitter dripping in power is the way is the?
- 49:33Speaker 2: Subscribe SO i could have been more. Accurate, yes all,
- 49:37Speaker 2: right where did you go With? Cal all?
- 49:39Speaker 1: RIGHT i stick in twenty twenty. TWO i went with
- 49:43Speaker 1: The Classic Tops Chrome rookie, autographed BUT i did The
- 49:48Speaker 1: Aqua wave refractor of one ninety. Nine he's wearing the
- 49:53Speaker 1: classic Cl Mariners aqua, jersey which is my. Favorite just
- 49:56Speaker 1: reminds me Of King Griffy. Jr in this. Picture while
- 49:59Speaker 1: the swing and probably hit a tater on this ball
- 50:03Speaker 1: looks like it's maybe A milwaukee based on the, background
- 50:06Speaker 1: so it's A it's just a great photo Of Cal
- 50:09Speaker 1: rowley about to tee up a. Ball the little backstory,
- 50:13Speaker 1: though IS i pulled one of these back in the,
- 50:15Speaker 1: Day so, YEAH i pulled like from A jumbo back
- 50:21Speaker 1: WHEN i was ripping the twenty twenty two, product this exact.
- 50:25Speaker 1: Card so what's kind of funny, too is like, THIS
- 50:27Speaker 1: i think it's a good example of like how much
- 50:30Speaker 1: the market is, hot especially right when products are. Released
- 50:32Speaker 1: because the one That i've got linked in the show
- 50:35Speaker 1: notes it's A psa ten that's listed for a thousand,
- 50:39Speaker 1: bucks but most of the other ones were going three
- 50:42Speaker 1: to three. Fifty so Card Pavilion Santa. ANA i, MEAN
- 50:45Speaker 1: i can see why you have ninety eight point two
- 50:47Speaker 1: percent positive feedback rating trying to rip people off with this.
- 50:51Speaker 1: Card it might be an increase, too because there's not
- 50:54Speaker 1: many of them out. There because the one THAT i,
- 50:56Speaker 1: MOVED i moved it really quick to somebody out in
- 51:00Speaker 1: The seattle area because when you get the color match
- 51:03Speaker 1: of the aqua chrome refractor with the waves and he's
- 51:08Speaker 1: already wearing that teal, jersey it it. Pops especially in.
- 51:13Speaker 1: Person it was one of the most beautiful Cards i'd.
- 51:15Speaker 1: Seen but, LIKE i think you can get this card raw,
- 51:18Speaker 1: Somewhere LIKE i, said around three three fifty to show
- 51:22Speaker 1: how hot this card was on when it was released
- 51:26Speaker 1: and just kind of measuring up how vital it is
- 51:30Speaker 1: to get cards listed when you actually rip. Them. IS
- 51:34Speaker 1: i THINK i sold it back in the day for two,
- 51:36Speaker 1: Fifty so he was not a Cal rawly was not
- 51:39Speaker 1: a hot name coming out of this. Product like he
- 51:42Speaker 1: was a decent sized, prospect you, know but nobody kind
- 51:45Speaker 1: of saw this coming where he was going to start
- 51:47Speaker 1: challenging The ale home run record or anything like. That
- 51:51Speaker 1: and it's only increased in, value like one hundred bucks
- 51:54Speaker 1: from WHAT i sold it for back on when the
- 51:57Speaker 1: product was. Released SO i think it's a good example
- 52:00Speaker 1: of like when we describe these cards that when they're
- 52:03Speaker 1: released and we're, like, hey rip this if you've got,
- 52:06Speaker 1: it list it when you've got, it do it quickly
- 52:09Speaker 1: and get it in that. Window, otherwise like you might
- 52:13Speaker 1: as well be prepared to hold and take a. Loss
- 52:15Speaker 1: this is a great example of.
- 52:16Speaker 2: That, YEAH i THINK i think it's first of, all
- 52:18Speaker 2: it's a great. Card it is a fantastic, Card like
- 52:21Speaker 2: this color match In seattle is is a really tough
- 52:24Speaker 2: one to. Do and this card, is like you, say
- 52:26Speaker 2: it's teal and aqua like it's basically the same. Thing it.
- 52:30Speaker 2: Is it is a, beautiful beautiful. Card the wave refractors
- 52:33Speaker 2: are always. Good BUT i think to your, point like
- 52:36Speaker 2: it's absolutely, correct Is Kyle rally's card market could not
- 52:40Speaker 2: be hotter right. Now there's one other guy in the
- 52:43Speaker 2: list that maybe trumps that from a hotness of the
- 52:46Speaker 2: card market. Perspective but when these, guys when these cards
- 52:51Speaker 2: come out right, away the cardcore fans for those teams
- 52:58Speaker 2: want the rookie, cards they want the, autos they want
- 53:00Speaker 2: to have that in their, collection and this is they
- 53:02Speaker 2: want to make sure that they get. It and so
- 53:03Speaker 2: that's that's where those car prices go. Up then they
- 53:05Speaker 2: come down over time because the supply demand, right supply goes,
- 53:08Speaker 2: up people are able to acquire, them and then all
- 53:10Speaker 2: of a sudden they take, off and it's. It there
- 53:14Speaker 2: is a degree of anability to catch that because if
- 53:18Speaker 2: you would Have i'm guessing if you would have sold
- 53:20Speaker 2: yours a month after that product came, out it probably
- 53:24Speaker 2: would have been one twenty five or one hundred or
- 53:26Speaker 2: something like. That it would have been much much, less
- 53:29Speaker 2: just because the initial rip hype is.
- 53:32Speaker 1: Gone, Yeah AND i mean the other factor here, too is,
- 53:37Speaker 1: like don't forget about the set collectors. Too when you're
- 53:40Speaker 1: looking at The Aqua Wave refractors of one ninety, nine
- 53:45Speaker 1: not the most difficult set in the world to put,
- 53:48Speaker 1: together and there are just people who loved doing. THAT i,
- 53:51Speaker 1: mean there Was i'm trying to there was somebody who
- 53:54Speaker 1: was trying to put together like the red refractor set
- 53:58Speaker 1: On reddit THAT i saw recently from like twenty twenty
- 54:01Speaker 1: three Tops, Chrome.
- 54:02Speaker 2: Like that's just that's just.
- 54:03Speaker 1: Insane but he had gotten up TO i think he
- 54:05Speaker 1: was up to one hundred, something and so like there
- 54:07Speaker 1: are people who do put sets together of the, stuff
- 54:11Speaker 1: and so it's the same sort of. Thing when they
- 54:13Speaker 1: find something, quick they will snap it. Up so that
- 54:16Speaker 1: goes into, just, yeah if you're gonna if you're gonna
- 54:19Speaker 1: pay for a brand new, product make sure that if
- 54:22Speaker 1: you want to try to recruit those, costs you do
- 54:24Speaker 1: that right away and it's not worth. Holding, okay let's
- 54:27Speaker 1: move on to THE nl for THE Nl player of The,
- 54:29Speaker 1: month al sar Snub Juan soto was the winner In
- 54:33Speaker 1: june after he hit three twenty two four forty seven
- 54:37Speaker 1: or four seventy four seven twenty. Two also hit eleven
- 54:41Speaker 1: homers As, honestly The mets played like poopoo In, june
- 54:46Speaker 1: But Juan soto finally broke, out which was great for
- 54:49Speaker 1: everybody who drafted him in the first. Round there's a
- 54:53Speaker 1: lot of cards. Here he's been around for quite a.
- 54:56Speaker 1: While even though The bowman draft card of his For
- 54:59Speaker 1: sodo WAS i don't like it. Personally it just makes
- 55:05Speaker 1: him look. Frail he's like a little thin seventeen year
- 55:07Speaker 1: old and he wasn't in too many products early, on
- 55:11Speaker 1: just because he wasn't a super super huge prospect back
- 55:16Speaker 1: in the. Day but ever since he's, debuted he's been
- 55:20Speaker 1: in every set multiple. Times this is kind of In
- 55:23Speaker 1: Aaron judge, territory where it's almost impossible to not find
- 55:26Speaker 1: A Wan soto card you, Like so what card you? Picking,
- 55:30Speaker 1: WELL i.
- 55:32Speaker 2: Was almost, surprised BUT i GUESS i shouldn't. Be but,
- 55:34Speaker 2: like so this is his First player of The month award,
- 55:36Speaker 2: ever and so it was the pickings were. Free we've
- 55:40Speaker 2: not done this before With, soto and SO i knew
- 55:44Speaker 2: exactly which CARD i was going, for and my only
- 55:48Speaker 2: question was whether you were going to get there. First
- 55:50Speaker 2: and we went different, directions BUT i went back to
- 55:55Speaker 2: the twenty Twenty Top Stadium Club Chrome refractor number one
- 55:59Speaker 2: oh four For sodo in The Nationals jersey and this
- 56:03Speaker 2: is a card is known as The Sodo shuffle, card
- 56:06Speaker 2: and this is one of the most iconic pictures on
- 56:09Speaker 2: a card Of. Soto he's in his, blues blues and
- 56:13Speaker 2: reds from the from The National days and he's got
- 56:16Speaker 2: that wonderful stare. DOWN i don't know who he's staring
- 56:19Speaker 2: down on the. MOUND i actually actually should look that up. Sometime,
- 56:22Speaker 2: ironically it's somebody on The. Mets it's A mets sketcher behind.
- 56:26Speaker 2: Him posh makes this even. Better but he has got
- 56:30Speaker 2: that stare down and it is gonna become an iconic
- 56:33Speaker 2: collectible card in the. Industry like a lot of twenty
- 56:37Speaker 2: twenty Two Top Stateum Club chrome that was just a
- 56:40Speaker 2: low print run with a lot of fantastic. Imagery but
- 56:45Speaker 2: this is just a very very classic. Card and the
- 56:48Speaker 2: One I'm i've got linked in the show notes is
- 56:52Speaker 2: available two hund fifty dollars their best offer out On.
- 56:54Speaker 2: eBay i think these ones end up probably selling more
- 56:56Speaker 2: in the one hundred and fifty kind of range somewhere in.
- 57:00Speaker 2: There but for just a simple refractor, card which is
- 57:05Speaker 2: not that incredibly. Rare there's such kind of a cult
- 57:09Speaker 2: following of this because of the iconic nature of the.
- 57:12Speaker 2: Photo And i've owned versions of this card multiple times
- 57:17Speaker 2: BECAUSE i end up acquiring them That i'm, like, ah
- 57:20Speaker 2: but like the hype of this image is not gonna,
- 57:22Speaker 2: last AND i sell them and then lo and, behold
- 57:24Speaker 2: the value continues to go. Up like it's just a
- 57:26Speaker 2: very very iconic card of One. Soto SO i still
- 57:31Speaker 2: think of him as A nationals guy, first now that
- 57:33Speaker 2: he's played on what four? Teams it was just crazy
- 57:36Speaker 2: for a guy at his. Age BUT i absolutely love this.
- 57:41Speaker 1: Card, YES i think this is a great, choice also
- 57:45Speaker 1: a funny choice considering we're just talking about don't tuck
- 57:48Speaker 1: your cards. Away this is the one that actually did
- 57:51Speaker 1: age really well because even the bass card you can
- 57:53Speaker 1: get twenty to twenty five bucks four and it's just
- 57:56Speaker 1: because twenty Twenty Stadium Club chrome is maybe gonna go.
- 58:00Speaker 1: Down it's just about like the best set that's come
- 58:02Speaker 1: out in like the past twenty five years or, so
- 58:05Speaker 1: because it's just absolutely beautiful and on top of it,
- 58:11Speaker 1: all LIKE i was in the middle of the pandemics
- 58:13Speaker 1: of the print runs were right before things really took
- 58:17Speaker 1: off and got, crazy and so they didn't quite know
- 58:20Speaker 1: what they had in terms of the set From, tops
- 58:22Speaker 1: and so it's pretty low print. Run, also just like
- 58:26Speaker 1: the design is so, great not only the photography, great
- 58:29Speaker 1: but LIKE i love the little all lowercase names on
- 58:33Speaker 1: all of the stadium club chrome cards with the box
- 58:38Speaker 1: colors of the team that the player is. On so
- 58:43Speaker 1: everything's perfect about these cards and so great. Choice all,
- 58:48Speaker 1: right see if you get upstage, me where did you?
- 58:50Speaker 1: GO i don't THINK i, can BUT i. DID i
- 58:53Speaker 1: went to what was just About Wan soto's First New
- 58:58Speaker 1: York mets, card and that came in twenty twenty Five
- 59:01Speaker 1: Tops heritage this year because he wasn't in the REGULAR
- 59:04Speaker 1: tops flagship until series. Two AND i went with the autograph,
- 59:09Speaker 1: card just the regular blue on card. AUTO i didn't
- 59:12Speaker 1: go with the red which will run you quite a
- 59:15Speaker 1: bit of. Money it's about a thousand. Bucks this one's
- 59:17Speaker 1: a little bit. Cheaper it's only a few hundred. Bucks,
- 59:19Speaker 1: also not too many pictures out there because it was
- 59:21Speaker 1: a redemption up until probably about a month ago when
- 59:25Speaker 1: people were finally starting to get these cards. Back BUT
- 59:28Speaker 1: i also like the Base auto here because you get
- 59:32Speaker 1: the Blue auto matches The New York mets jersey that he's.
- 59:35Speaker 1: Wearing it's just a really great card Of Wan soto zoomed.
- 59:39Speaker 1: In BUT i think just when you add in the
- 59:42Speaker 1: history of he's going to be In New york for
- 59:44Speaker 1: a long, time you're looking for one of his First
- 59:47Speaker 1: New York mets cards to commemorate This player of The
- 59:50Speaker 1: month award of. HIS i don't think you can go
- 59:53Speaker 1: wrong with A tops heritage on card. Auto, yeah you absolutely.
- 59:58Speaker 2: Can't CAN i go? Wrong the real one autos are very.
- 1:00:01Speaker 2: Collectible they're on. Card it's, uh they rarely have any
- 1:00:05Speaker 2: errors with, those like there's no smudging and they just look.
- 1:00:08Speaker 2: Fantastic the only only DRAWBACK i have is you fooled
- 1:00:11Speaker 2: me when you put this in the show, notes because
- 1:00:13Speaker 2: WHEN i the thumbnail for this listing is just the redemption,
- 1:00:17Speaker 2: card and so, like did you just put a redemption
- 1:00:21Speaker 2: only in THE? Pc like that's. Bold that's a bold
- 1:00:25Speaker 2: move right. There But i'll give you a little work.
- 1:00:28Speaker 2: Credit you waited for the redemption to be, redeemed and
- 1:00:30Speaker 2: thank for sure you actually.
- 1:00:31Speaker 1: Knew what this thing looked, Like so that's, yeah maybe
- 1:00:35Speaker 1: we should we can noted that that go down in
- 1:00:38Speaker 1: history with a redemption. Card that'd be. Funny that's. Great,
- 1:00:42Speaker 1: okay well let's move on to some. Pictures so on
- 1:00:45Speaker 1: THE al, Side Hunter brown from The Houston astros is
- 1:00:48Speaker 1: YOUR al picture of the month From. June he put
- 1:00:51Speaker 1: up thirty and a third innings with a one nineteen ear. Array,
- 1:00:56Speaker 1: really if it wasn't For Tweks, schoble he'd be running
- 1:00:59Speaker 1: away for with the Cy YOUNG i think right now
- 1:01:02Speaker 1: in THE Al but at least he is gonna Give
- 1:01:04Speaker 1: Treek schooble a run for his money. There As Hunter,
- 1:01:07Speaker 1: BROWN i haven't had a chance to check his stats
- 1:01:11Speaker 1: just BECAUSE i don't have him anywhere that especially in our.
- 1:01:14Speaker 1: Leagues you have overed him up. EVERYWHERE i loved him
- 1:01:18Speaker 1: coming in the. SEASON i just couldn't get. Him but
- 1:01:20Speaker 1: it's a two twenty one E ra nine to three
- 1:01:23Speaker 1: record over one hundred and ten innings with a ten
- 1:01:25Speaker 1: and a HALF k. Nine, yeah that's pretty. Fantastic THAT'S
- 1:01:28Speaker 1: ace level. Stuff what's your pick For Hunter brown to
- 1:01:31Speaker 1: go into OUR? Pc?
- 1:01:32Speaker 2: Yeah SO i went with on, Here like Hunder brown
- 1:01:35Speaker 2: had a lot of cards out, there but it is
- 1:01:37Speaker 2: definitely the kind of the the plethora of picture auto
- 1:01:41Speaker 2: cards that just don't really do it for. Me and
- 1:01:44Speaker 2: Then i've ran into this one And i'm, like, yep
- 1:01:48Speaker 2: no brainer, Here AND i BECAUSE i didn't realize That
- 1:01:51Speaker 2: tops have put these, out which was The All aces
- 1:01:55Speaker 2: which we've talked, about actually we just talked about a
- 1:01:57Speaker 2: week or two, ago The All aces cards around The
- 1:02:00Speaker 2: All kings card timeline here and this Is Hunter brown's
- 1:02:04Speaker 2: twenty twenty Three Tops Update All Aces Rookie auto out.
- 1:02:09Speaker 2: There those were all out of just twenty five and
- 1:02:12Speaker 2: it is a Sticker auto will give it, that but
- 1:02:13Speaker 2: The All aces cards absolutely. Pop he is The ace
- 1:02:19Speaker 2: Of clubs in the in this, card and it's got
- 1:02:23Speaker 2: a kind of refractor on the white behind it and
- 1:02:27Speaker 2: very very clean. Signature plus season is The All blues
- 1:02:31Speaker 2: for The, houston which has a great contrast with the.
- 1:02:33Speaker 2: Card SO, i LIKE i, SAID i didn't realize and
- 1:02:36Speaker 2: MAYBE i just missed it that you, Know tops has
- 1:02:38Speaker 2: actually done Auto rookie autos on The All aces and
- 1:02:41Speaker 2: this just stands out as a fantastic card because the
- 1:02:43Speaker 2: All aces really do pop as an. Insert so that's
- 1:02:48Speaker 2: WHERE i had to go if you want it right,
- 1:02:49Speaker 2: now it isn't one card On eBay right, now because
- 1:02:52Speaker 2: he gives you the little notications that says that it's
- 1:02:54Speaker 2: available for about six hundred dollars your best. Offer i've
- 1:02:56Speaker 2: seen some sold in the three to four hundred dollars,
- 1:02:58Speaker 2: range which is just incredible for a, picture uh to
- 1:03:02Speaker 2: have that like be very, clear like some of Your
- 1:03:04Speaker 2: hall Of fame pictures rookies and autos and stuff like
- 1:03:07Speaker 2: that are like one hundred and fiftywo hundred. Bucks so
- 1:03:09Speaker 2: like this is peak market right now For Hunter. Brown
- 1:03:12Speaker 2: SO i WOULDN'T i might this one might be the
- 1:03:14Speaker 2: one the cool weight. On but it is a beautiful.
- 1:03:16Speaker 1: Card, yeah AND i mean of twenty FIVE i think
- 1:03:19Speaker 1: is probably the big factor here. TOO i mean, also
- 1:03:22Speaker 1: this is another one WHERE i wouldn't be surprised if
- 1:03:24Speaker 1: somebody's tried to put this set together in terms of
- 1:03:27Speaker 1: they're only being twenty. Five but this is back when
- 1:03:30Speaker 1: all aces first came, out and, yeah it's it's a
- 1:03:33Speaker 1: fute so great. Choice all, Right, well all, RIGHT i
- 1:03:38Speaker 1: know what you did, here And i'm so proud of. You,
- 1:03:40Speaker 1: yes all, Right i'm going back to PRE covid minor
- 1:03:47Speaker 1: league baseball. Cards, Here i'm getting the Pimplely Hunter brown
- 1:03:51Speaker 1: from the twenty Nineteen Tri City Valley, cats number. Three
- 1:03:55Speaker 1: just a straight on dopey photo of like an eighteen
- 1:03:59Speaker 1: year Old Hunter brown when he was first drafted and
- 1:04:02Speaker 1: sent to short season. Ball AND i, MEAN i guess
- 1:04:06Speaker 1: he wasn't, eighteen he was what he was twenty, One so,
- 1:04:10Speaker 1: yeah he was out Of Wayne, state you, know real huge.
- 1:04:13Speaker 1: Selection so there's not a lot of these floating around out.
- 1:04:16Speaker 1: There it's a pretty basic minor league. Card but you're
- 1:04:19Speaker 1: not going to find. ANYTHING i, mean we're actually gonna
- 1:04:21Speaker 1: have a card of somebody younger as we get into.
- 1:04:24Speaker 1: This but it is just a classic, rookie a ball
- 1:04:30Speaker 1: low a card where just like this card's also probably
- 1:04:34Speaker 1: beat up in so many like five year, olds like
- 1:04:37Speaker 1: just like toy like. Chess right, now it's like a
- 1:04:41Speaker 1: fifteen to twenty dollars card because it Is Hunter brown's first.
- 1:04:44Speaker 1: Card also a cool card because The Tri City Valley
- 1:04:49Speaker 1: cats don't exist. Anymore it's The New York Penn. League
- 1:04:52Speaker 1: if you remember when they did the consolidation of the minor,
- 1:04:54Speaker 1: leagues The New York Penn league was one of the
- 1:04:56Speaker 1: ones that got eliminated because there is no low a
- 1:05:00Speaker 1: rookie ball anymore that it's you, Know complex ball or
- 1:05:02Speaker 1: The Dominican league. Ball so also just kind of a
- 1:05:05Speaker 1: relic of times, before even though you know it's only
- 1:05:09Speaker 1: six years. Ago it's great to have a fun card
- 1:05:12Speaker 1: here Of Hunter. Brown and if you get in, person
- 1:05:15Speaker 1: you'll have to count up how many pimples you can
- 1:05:16Speaker 1: see on his, face Because i'm. Intrigued he is very
- 1:05:20Speaker 1: very fresh faced.
- 1:05:21Speaker 2: Here this is absolutely. GREAT i love the quirky minor league.
- 1:05:27Speaker 2: Cards and to your, point like nobody has these like,
- 1:05:31Speaker 2: It like you didn't collect, these you just happened to
- 1:05:33Speaker 2: go to the game and pick them, up LIKE i
- 1:05:35Speaker 2: don't know how they're distributed at, times BUT i think
- 1:05:37Speaker 2: this is this is a great. PICK i love being
- 1:05:39Speaker 2: going on to the low end on some of these
- 1:05:41Speaker 2: guys and just finding the fun the fun. Cards so,
- 1:05:44Speaker 2: good good.
- 1:05:44Speaker 1: Selection all, Right well let's move over to THE nl
- 1:05:48Speaker 1: for our picture of the month there and it is
- 1:05:51Speaker 1: the thirty five year old ageless Wonder Zach, wheeler who
- 1:05:55Speaker 1: put TOGETHER i mean it was a pretty Bananas june
- 1:05:58Speaker 1: WHERE i got a shout out this week in THE
- 1:06:01Speaker 1: rcl updates From trust because of how ridiculous like my
- 1:06:05Speaker 1: era has been, recently it's all Of Zach, wheeler to
- 1:06:07Speaker 1: be honest with, You he In june put together a
- 1:06:11Speaker 1: point five point five EIGHT era with forty two strikeouts
- 1:06:16Speaker 1: in thirty one, innings also. PAIRED i mean it was
- 1:06:20Speaker 1: a sub one whip as, well which wasn't even his
- 1:06:22Speaker 1: best monthly whip of the. Year it's a point eight.
- 1:06:24Speaker 1: Seven In may he had a point eight. One we're
- 1:06:28Speaker 1: looking at, honestly it's probably the year That Zach lueber
- 1:06:31Speaker 1: finally wins the. Cy Young Paul skeins has been right
- 1:06:34Speaker 1: there with, him but when you factor in pitching for
- 1:06:37Speaker 1: The phillies going to the, playoffs it just being an
- 1:06:40Speaker 1: incredibly masterful season From Zach, wheeler who's now at a
- 1:06:43Speaker 1: two to one SEVEN era of one hundred and sixteen
- 1:06:46Speaker 1: innings with a eleven and a HALF k nine nine
- 1:06:49Speaker 1: and three. Record that's pretty dirty. Stuff so we've got
- 1:06:54Speaker 1: another guy who's been around for a long time, here
- 1:06:58Speaker 1: so we've got a lot of different cards to choose.
- 1:07:01Speaker 1: From lots Of New York mets cards too from back
- 1:07:04Speaker 1: in the. Day so surprisingly cheap cards. TOO i don't
- 1:07:08Speaker 1: know if you've realized that too when you're looking At
- 1:07:10Speaker 1: wheeler cards that it's a it's a pretty good buyers
- 1:07:14Speaker 1: marker For Zach wheeler cards out. There so even the
- 1:07:17Speaker 1: cards that we, found they're very rare but not that badly.
- 1:07:20Speaker 1: Priced so if you're in the market For Zach wheeler,
- 1:07:23Speaker 1: cards not a bad time to. Strike would you PICK.
- 1:07:26Speaker 2: Yep to your Point pitcher, Cards they're more available than
- 1:07:30Speaker 2: you would. THINK i went with the twenty twenty four
- 1:07:32Speaker 2: to five star For Zach, wheeler and it is his
- 1:07:36Speaker 2: patch auto is a jumbo patch and it looks absolutely
- 1:07:40Speaker 2: beautiful out of. Ten and this is the funny thing
- 1:07:44Speaker 2: is is like this is a massive, patch But i'm
- 1:07:48Speaker 2: not quite. SURE i think it's like the bottom of
- 1:07:50Speaker 2: like the p on The phillies uniform and that they
- 1:07:53Speaker 2: put it in sideways the. Card so MAYBE i have
- 1:07:56Speaker 2: the best patch utilization from a tops but it's an
- 1:08:00Speaker 2: on card. Auto it's really got great kind of artwork
- 1:08:03Speaker 2: and graphics on the, card and SO i really wanted
- 1:08:06Speaker 2: something unique For Zach. Wheeler so with the out of,
- 1:08:10Speaker 2: TEN i was really proud of myself UNTIL i saw
- 1:08:12Speaker 2: what you added WHICH i think you may have blew
- 1:08:14Speaker 2: me away in this. Category SO im going to add
- 1:08:18Speaker 2: to THE. Pc it's available right. Now it's abot two
- 1:08:20Speaker 2: hundred ney. Bucks to your, point most Of Zach wheeler
- 1:08:23Speaker 2: big autos even numbered out of ten or probably one
- 1:08:25Speaker 2: fifty two, hundred they're very much, available even with the
- 1:08:28Speaker 2: kind of crazy historic season he's, Having so add this
- 1:08:32Speaker 2: one of THE pc with the crazy patch on. It
- 1:08:37Speaker 2: BUT i don't THINK i did good enough to beat
- 1:08:39Speaker 2: you on this, one So i'll let you talk about
- 1:08:42Speaker 2: your your amazing mind On Zach.
- 1:08:43Speaker 1: Wheeler, WELL i, mean FIRST i want to comment THAT
- 1:08:45Speaker 1: i think you've put the most phallic card into OUR
- 1:08:48Speaker 1: pc because the patch on this, thing when you late
- 1:08:54Speaker 1: sideways like, that that is quite the. Design SO i
- 1:08:57Speaker 1: won't just leave it at. That all, Right, Well i'm
- 1:09:01Speaker 1: gonna stick in twenty twenty five as, well But i'm
- 1:09:03Speaker 1: going to go to tops tribute and also in of.
- 1:09:06Speaker 1: Ten so this one has already sold. It it was
- 1:09:10Speaker 1: one twenty five or best Offer. CAMP i mean it
- 1:09:12Speaker 1: was only it was a pretty new. SELLER i guess
- 1:09:15Speaker 1: you look at it a sixty six overall feedback, rating
- 1:09:18Speaker 1: BUT i mean still for how incredible of a card
- 1:09:21Speaker 1: it is we're looking. At this is one where you,
- 1:09:24Speaker 1: DEFINITELY i mean you're probably already clicking on rasball dot
- 1:09:27Speaker 1: com to go see that phalloc card That brew just.
- 1:09:29Speaker 1: Picked but this, one it's probably the favorite one That i've.
- 1:09:33Speaker 1: Picked i'm not usually like the one that chases the
- 1:09:36Speaker 1: cool patches and autos for OUR, pc but WHEN i saw,
- 1:09:40Speaker 1: THIS i couldn't resist. It you're looking AT i specifically
- 1:09:43Speaker 1: called out in the listening to the five out of
- 1:09:46Speaker 1: ten BECAUSE i don't think the other ten are as
- 1:09:48Speaker 1: great as this. One if you ever found this one
- 1:09:50Speaker 1: back in the wild, again it is a just fantastic
- 1:09:53Speaker 1: card of tease up the patch with the star on
- 1:09:59Speaker 1: the of one of the eyes on the, phillies so
- 1:10:02Speaker 1: it's just like a whimsical card to kind of also
- 1:10:05Speaker 1: harken in a little bit to the fan the fanatic,
- 1:10:09Speaker 1: there and Then Zach wheeler signed on top of. It
- 1:10:13Speaker 1: so it's not like the card. Assigned it's the patch
- 1:10:15Speaker 1: itself assigned with an authentication with the auto going across
- 1:10:20Speaker 1: the authentication, sticker which it. WAS i don't really recall
- 1:10:24Speaker 1: the last Time i've seen that on a. Card So
- 1:10:26Speaker 1: Zach wheeler just slapped his autograph right on top of all.
- 1:10:29Speaker 1: This then the like just cherry on top of it
- 1:10:33Speaker 1: all Is The phillies are one of the few, teams
- 1:10:35Speaker 1: along with The Saintless, cardinals that use chain stitching still
- 1:10:39Speaker 1: on their patches on the front of their, jerseys which
- 1:10:41Speaker 1: is a really old School this is Very Uni watch of.
- 1:10:44Speaker 1: ME i was a very long Time Uni watch blog.
- 1:10:48Speaker 1: Reader so they it's just a different type of stitching
- 1:10:52Speaker 1: where it just adds a layer of texture that really
- 1:10:56Speaker 1: pops and you put that on the red. Jersey this
- 1:10:58Speaker 1: goes to just all checks all the boxes of what
- 1:11:03Speaker 1: you want from a dope jumbo pot patch. Card so
- 1:11:07Speaker 1: whoever sniped this one for one hundred and twenty five,
- 1:11:10Speaker 1: bucks congrats to, you BECAUSE i think you just picked
- 1:11:13Speaker 1: up a really really fantastic card of somebody who's gonna
- 1:11:17Speaker 1: end up winning the Cy young this. Year.
- 1:11:19Speaker 2: Yeah SO i love this, card AND i did you
- 1:11:23Speaker 2: do the fun thing THAT i love with these ones
- 1:11:25Speaker 2: when they have the authentication on the, card because they're
- 1:11:31Speaker 2: usually double authenticated is what it is is BECAUSE i
- 1:11:33Speaker 2: think a patch out of an authenticated jersey so that
- 1:11:35Speaker 2: it gets like separated and SO i followed. Delinea while
- 1:11:39Speaker 2: you were, TALKING i followed the lineage back of this.
- 1:11:41Speaker 2: One this patch is actually from the twenty twenty three
- 1:11:45Speaker 2: postseason twenty twenty THREE, nlcs so it's not just that
- 1:11:49Speaker 2: so the red alternate jerseys that they use in the
- 1:11:52Speaker 2: twenty twenty THREE. Nlcs so it's not just a cool,
- 1:11:56Speaker 2: patch it is game game. USED i don't Know wheeler
- 1:12:00Speaker 2: actually pitched in that. GAME i go look that. Up
- 1:12:03Speaker 2: you may have just sat in the, bullpen but it
- 1:12:05Speaker 2: is game used quote unquote from the THE, nlcs which
- 1:12:09Speaker 2: is just even. Better and Maybe i'll find the box score.
- 1:12:12Speaker 2: Later who, knows maybe wheel just uh win went off
- 1:12:16Speaker 2: in that. Game so definitely a fun one to. See
- 1:12:21Speaker 2: actually just pulled up the box store And Zach wheeler
- 1:12:26Speaker 2: was the winning. Pitcher, wow seven, innings eight, strikeouts one
- 1:12:30Speaker 2: earned run for The phillies one six to one of
- 1:12:33Speaker 2: The diamondbacks in that game AN. Lcs so, like that's a,
- 1:12:37Speaker 2: grab that's a that's a that's a fantastic. Card that's
- 1:12:41Speaker 2: something you grab and you can market The let's not
- 1:12:44Speaker 2: out of that?
- 1:12:45Speaker 1: One, yes, yeah so, yeah if you ever find that
- 1:12:48Speaker 1: one in the, MILD i would snatch it up because
- 1:12:49Speaker 1: it's certainly more valuable than one hundred and twenty five.
- 1:12:53Speaker 1: Bucks it was bought four or maybe best, off or
- 1:12:55Speaker 1: maybe it was. Cheaper that's. Crazy, yeah LIKE.
- 1:12:57Speaker 2: I, said you made you made my pick look just.
- 1:12:59Speaker 1: Silky, yes sorry about. That, Okay well let's move on
- 1:13:03Speaker 1: to those. Rookies so in the al we Have Nick
- 1:13:07Speaker 1: kurtz from The athletics won The rookie of The month For.
- 1:13:11Speaker 1: June so back to Back athletics spinarios after we Picked
- 1:13:15Speaker 1: Jacob wilson cards last. Month In, June, kurtz even though
- 1:13:20Speaker 1: he actually like didn't play the full month as he
- 1:13:22Speaker 1: was working his way back from the. Aisle From june ninth,
- 1:13:25Speaker 1: on hit two sixty four three twenty nine five ninety,
- 1:13:28Speaker 1: seven was seven homers and had just like a barrage
- 1:13:32Speaker 1: of like homers there in the late stretches of games
- 1:13:37Speaker 1: to win games or tie them. Up it was a
- 1:13:40Speaker 1: huge month for, him especially after you, KNOW i don't
- 1:13:43Speaker 1: know how many questions you got about Dropping Nick kurtz
- 1:13:46Speaker 1: in in. LEAGUES i got them, constantly as you, know Entering,
- 1:13:51Speaker 1: june before that, injury he was hitting two forty five
- 1:13:53Speaker 1: three fifteen four forty, seven so the power was still
- 1:13:56Speaker 1: there with five, homers but people were EXPECT i don't,
- 1:14:00Speaker 1: know fifty homers out Of Nick krts or. Something they
- 1:14:03Speaker 1: probably look pretty stilly if they dropped him at any,
- 1:14:06Speaker 1: point because he's been a steady first baseman for fantasy
- 1:14:09Speaker 1: purposes since. Then not as many cards as you, know
- 1:14:13Speaker 1: being a rookie, here but more than you'd think because
- 1:14:16Speaker 1: he's been a part of Like TEAM usa and signing
- 1:14:19Speaker 1: for those cards for quite a long. Time so which
- 1:14:23Speaker 1: card did you put to put into THE pc For Nick? Kurtz?
- 1:14:27Speaker 2: Yeah, WELL i think this is actually is fun BECAUSE
- 1:14:30Speaker 2: i WENT i went with a classic. HERE i had
- 1:14:32Speaker 2: to go with The bowman First, auto BUT i went
- 1:14:35Speaker 2: with his chrome sapphire green out of ninety nine first.
- 1:14:40Speaker 2: Auto this version is actually THE psa. Ten was actually
- 1:14:43Speaker 2: kind of fun about this one. Though WHEN i picked
- 1:14:45Speaker 2: this one out this, morning it was available On. eBay
- 1:14:49Speaker 2: it sold this morning at nine or four. Am you
- 1:14:51Speaker 2: can actually see that kind of detail on, here and
- 1:14:54Speaker 2: so it sold for about eleven hundred. Dollars so pretty,
- 1:14:58Speaker 2: popular pretty in demand card on card. Auto and when
- 1:15:02Speaker 2: we talk about color, match especially with, sapphire those things
- 1:15:04Speaker 2: are just. Beautiful they absolutely. POP i Think kurtz has
- 1:15:08Speaker 2: a ton of. Capability like you, Said i've definitely had
- 1:15:10Speaker 2: some conversations of the Take Jack kaglian Over Nick kurtz
- 1:15:15Speaker 2: a million, times And i'm, LIKE i don't think About
- 1:15:17Speaker 2: i'm not so sure about, that. GUYS i Think Zian
- 1:15:19Speaker 2: kurtz might actually be the better player long, term so
- 1:15:22Speaker 2: it'll be interesting to see how that. Plays no offense
- 1:15:24Speaker 2: To caags. There but this is just a beautiful. CARD
- 1:15:28Speaker 2: i do think that some of the most more Recent
- 1:15:31Speaker 2: bowmen has devalued a little bit because the print runs
- 1:15:33Speaker 2: have jumped, up But sapphire itself still retains a little
- 1:15:36Speaker 2: bit of that exclusive aspect and being able to get
- 1:15:41Speaker 2: out of ninety nine is an, absolutely absolutely cool. Card
- 1:15:44Speaker 2: So Nick kurtz first auto going to THE.
- 1:15:47Speaker 1: Pc, YEAH i think this is a great. Pick and
- 1:15:50Speaker 1: you can't go wrong with color Matching athletics cards in
- 1:15:54Speaker 1: both green and. Yellow they both just look fantastic THAT
- 1:15:57Speaker 1: i think this is a great, Choice so, yeah can't go.
- 1:16:01Speaker 2: Wrong all, Right what did you do to add YOUR
- 1:16:05Speaker 2: pc For Nick?
- 1:16:07Speaker 1: Kurtz, OKAY i alluded to this a little bit because
- 1:16:12Speaker 1: you can buy an. Autograph this is a little sick
- 1:16:15Speaker 1: at the same time that you can actually do. This
- 1:16:17Speaker 1: you can buy an autograph Of Nick kurtz back when
- 1:16:20Speaker 1: he was fourteen years old playing for TEEN. Usa out
- 1:16:23Speaker 1: of the twenty Eighteen Panini stars And stripes THE Usa baseball,
- 1:16:26Speaker 1: SET i picked the silhouette, signatures which gets you a
- 1:16:30Speaker 1: little bit of a patch of THE usa jersey and
- 1:16:36Speaker 1: of extremely awkward photo Of Nick kurtz going By nicholas
- 1:16:40Speaker 1: back then as he was playing for TEEN. Usa AND
- 1:16:44Speaker 1: i think he was actually more so of a picture back.
- 1:16:47Speaker 1: Then it doesn't exactly say on the, card but print
- 1:16:50Speaker 1: ron is about one hundred and ninety. Nine and it's
- 1:16:55Speaker 1: also this looks like the signature of a fourteen year.
- 1:16:58Speaker 1: Old it's. Fantastic and you can also compare it to
- 1:17:01Speaker 1: that First bowman auto signature that you've, got and so
- 1:17:05Speaker 1: you can see them side by side to just kind
- 1:17:07Speaker 1: of see how his signature is developed over the. YEARS
- 1:17:11Speaker 1: i love it. So LIKE i, SAID i don't know
- 1:17:15Speaker 1: HOW i feel about the overall just kind of industry
- 1:17:19Speaker 1: of baseball cards actually leveraging fourteen year olds to get
- 1:17:23Speaker 1: their crafts and put them in. Cards but when you
- 1:17:27Speaker 1: give me the opportunity to pick one like, this it's too,
- 1:17:30Speaker 1: fun not TOO.
- 1:17:32Speaker 2: I think this is this is a great. PICK i,
- 1:17:34Speaker 2: personally we've talked about. BEFORE i love THE usa. Card
- 1:17:37Speaker 2: there's a little bit of me, like, YEAH i hit
- 1:17:38Speaker 2: the fourteen year old. Again it's the. Signature like to your,
- 1:17:41Speaker 2: point it does look like a fourteen year old signed this.
- 1:17:43Speaker 2: Card like he's, LIKE i don't what AM i, Doing
- 1:17:47Speaker 2: but he honestly is signed the. Card he probably signed a,
- 1:17:49Speaker 2: sticker but that's. True BUT i do think This we've
- 1:17:54Speaker 2: talked about this, like these are the kind of cards
- 1:17:56Speaker 2: that can transcend the career for a players because it's
- 1:17:59Speaker 2: THE usa. Jersey it's never gonna be affiliated with the.
- 1:18:02Speaker 2: Team so Wherever Nick kurtz's career takes, him this can
- 1:18:06Speaker 2: always stay in YOUR, pc regardless of if you know
- 1:18:09Speaker 2: he gets traded or something like. That if you just
- 1:18:10Speaker 2: saw A Nick kurtz, fan this is in THE pc.
- 1:18:13Speaker 2: Forever so good. Pick love THE usa. Cards they are,
- 1:18:17Speaker 2: absolutely absolutely. Fun but they're not cheap right now And
- 1:18:21Speaker 2: Nick kurts prices are going.
- 1:18:22Speaker 1: Up, YEAH i, mean this one's relatively. Affordable you can
- 1:18:25Speaker 1: get it for probably about one hundred. Bucks so if
- 1:18:27Speaker 1: you want in on the ground floor and get one
- 1:18:30Speaker 1: of the ugliest autographs you've ever. Seen it's not a
- 1:18:33Speaker 1: bad or hout to. Go so, okay let's move over
- 1:18:37Speaker 1: to THE. Nl so the rookie of the month here In,
- 1:18:43Speaker 1: june you probably could have guessed. It it's only the
- 1:18:45Speaker 1: hottest name in all of baseball right, now especially after
- 1:18:48Speaker 1: that TWELVE k game against The dodgers last. NIGHT i
- 1:18:50Speaker 1: don't know if you caught any of. That it was.
- 1:18:53Speaker 1: Bananas he's absolutely. Untouchable talking About Jacob missierowski for The Milwaukee.
- 1:18:58Speaker 1: Brewers of, course he put together a month Of june
- 1:19:02Speaker 1: that was only two, weeks but he still put up
- 1:19:05Speaker 1: nineteen strikeouts in sixteen innings with a one thirteen year.
- 1:19:08Speaker 1: Array he's the buzz of baseball right. Now i'll be,
- 1:19:13Speaker 1: HONEST i don't know how long the limbs stay together
- 1:19:16Speaker 1: for this to keep. Rolling but the extension that he
- 1:19:19Speaker 1: gets while throwing one hundred miles an, hour it's. Untouchable
- 1:19:23Speaker 1: it's Like Randy johnson from the right side that it's
- 1:19:27Speaker 1: just breaking baseball right. Now incredible. Player not very many
- 1:19:32Speaker 1: cards to pick, from just given that he was a
- 1:19:34Speaker 1: pretty recent, draftee and you, know all these cards have
- 1:19:38Speaker 1: also really been hoovered up over the past couple months
- 1:19:40Speaker 1: as this is not the time to buy A Jacob missioski.
- 1:19:44Speaker 1: CARD i can tell you that because the prices are absolutely.
- 1:19:48Speaker 1: Insane but we don't have to buy these. Cards we're
- 1:19:52Speaker 1: just putting them into our POD. Pc what are you?
- 1:19:54Speaker 2: Picking, Yep So i'm going With Jakob mezroowski's twent For
- 1:20:00Speaker 2: Panini flawless out of twenty five Prominent swatch auto and
- 1:20:05Speaker 2: it is a dual patch auto. CARD i believe it's
- 1:20:09Speaker 2: actually on. Card it is kind of hard to, tell
- 1:20:12Speaker 2: but it doesn't appear to be on. Card he actually
- 1:20:14Speaker 2: has a very very nice. Auto and WHY i went
- 1:20:18Speaker 2: with this one, is you, know it's it appears that
- 1:20:22Speaker 2: it's actually a major league. Card it's not because he
- 1:20:26Speaker 2: wasn't in the majors at the, time but he appears
- 1:20:28Speaker 2: to be in The Milwaukee. JERSEY i know it's not,
- 1:20:31Speaker 2: licensed there's a logo. There The jersey relic cutouts appear
- 1:20:35Speaker 2: to Be milwaukee, colors and so like from a COLLECTOR pc,
- 1:20:39Speaker 2: perspective you, want you, know the hot guy in The
- 1:20:42Speaker 2: milwaukee colors and with The milwaukee. Patches this is the
- 1:20:44Speaker 2: only way you're gonna get, it and it's just a beautiful.
- 1:20:47Speaker 2: Card flawless is a very collectible, set SO i thought
- 1:20:50Speaker 2: this one really popped was relatively affordable for A misraowski
- 1:20:54Speaker 2: card where they're going right now six hundred bucks or
- 1:20:56Speaker 2: best offer if you want. It but considering some of
- 1:20:59Speaker 2: the other things are happening in his market, there this
- 1:21:02Speaker 2: is actually relatively affordable at this point in. Time so
- 1:21:06Speaker 2: add The flawless dual patch auto to THE.
- 1:21:09Speaker 1: Pc, YES i think this is a great. Pick really
- 1:21:12Speaker 1: great design on The flawless from twenty twenty four as well.
- 1:21:16Speaker 1: Too it's just really really clean in terms of like
- 1:21:19Speaker 1: something that you want to make a piece that like
- 1:21:21Speaker 1: you kind of put up and prop up on a.
- 1:21:23Speaker 1: Shelf you can't go wrong with twenty twenty Four. Flawless
- 1:21:27Speaker 1: it just looks so clean and you got the the
- 1:21:29Speaker 1: pops of the color from The jersey. PATCHES i love.
- 1:21:33Speaker 1: It great.
- 1:21:33Speaker 2: Pick all, right finish us. Out where did you? Go
- 1:21:37Speaker 2: did you break the?
- 1:21:38Speaker 1: BANK i mean you could break the, bank because the
- 1:21:41Speaker 1: one That i've got is actually still up for auction
- 1:21:45Speaker 1: seventy six. People if you did in last twenty four,
- 1:21:47Speaker 1: hours we've got four days left two eight Bucks i'm
- 1:21:51Speaker 1: just going with some bread and butter, here just the
- 1:21:53Speaker 1: way that you did With Nick. Kurtz you can't go
- 1:21:55Speaker 1: wrong with A Milwaukee brewers First bowman color. MATCH i
- 1:22:01Speaker 1: went with The Blue wave just BECAUSE i love The
- 1:22:03Speaker 1: wave cards in. Person that they don't have a photograph quite,
- 1:22:07Speaker 1: Right but once you see one in person and you
- 1:22:09Speaker 1: do put it in like a display and want it
- 1:22:11Speaker 1: on your, shelf you can see it from all angles
- 1:22:14Speaker 1: in terms of just the light refracting through the. WAVES
- 1:22:17Speaker 1: i love. It so nothing too, Fancy, honestly the card
- 1:22:21Speaker 1: here is pretty awkwardly Photoshop missy And rowski as. ALL i,
- 1:22:25Speaker 1: mean lots Of bowman cards, are but whoever did the
- 1:22:29Speaker 1: photoshop job here on This Smiths rowski card did not
- 1:22:32Speaker 1: take the time and think that they would be doing
- 1:22:34Speaker 1: it on the right Handed Randy johnson. Here a little
- 1:22:37Speaker 1: bit of a shame because just look at that, patch
- 1:22:40Speaker 1: the patch on the arm with THE m with The.
- 1:22:43Speaker 1: Wisconsin it doesn't look natural at. All but great, card
- 1:22:48Speaker 1: like you, said pretty solid auto this. One i'm gonna
- 1:22:51Speaker 1: guess it's probably gonna land around a couple thousand bucks
- 1:22:56Speaker 1: and then could really get out of hand as people
- 1:22:59Speaker 1: get bored doing The All star, break and this is
- 1:23:02Speaker 1: coming up. There the other thing we didn't actually talk about,
- 1:23:04Speaker 1: IS i don't know if you, Saw eBay is changing
- 1:23:07Speaker 1: the way that they do bidding on some of their auction.
- 1:23:09Speaker 1: Items so that's going to factor in here. Too if
- 1:23:12Speaker 1: you are a Degenerate eBay bidder the way that we.
- 1:23:16Speaker 1: Are what's happening is they are extending auctions when there's
- 1:23:22Speaker 1: like bidding towards the, end so it adds another two.
- 1:23:25Speaker 1: Minutes so it kind of creates the situation where it
- 1:23:29Speaker 1: will always increase the price for the seller And eBay
- 1:23:34Speaker 1: at the end of the. Day but what it's also
- 1:23:37Speaker 1: kind OF i think helpful is that like it prevents,
- 1:23:40Speaker 1: sniping WHICH i think had gotten a little out of,
- 1:23:42Speaker 1: hand especially there's lots of people that are running robots
- 1:23:44Speaker 1: to be able to snipe cards and get in the right.
- 1:23:48Speaker 1: Bids but this kind of forces you to put in
- 1:23:50Speaker 1: the bid that you think you'll pay for the. Card
- 1:23:53Speaker 1: but also we'll make it higher at the end of the,
- 1:23:55Speaker 1: day so we'll see where This Missy rowski card winds.
- 1:23:58Speaker 1: Up LIKE i, said you can still bid on it
- 1:24:00Speaker 1: while this podcast is out for the first couple of.
- 1:24:02Speaker 1: Days check it out if you want. It but LIKE i,
- 1:24:05Speaker 1: SAID i don't know if it's going to be something
- 1:24:07Speaker 1: reasonable or a great. Investment but if you're A brewer's card,
- 1:24:10Speaker 1: collector maybe one of your last chances to get one of.
- 1:24:13Speaker 2: These, YEAH i think it's a good. Pick you read
- 1:24:16Speaker 2: the photos, shop, well it leaves a little to be,
- 1:24:18Speaker 2: Desired but that is just Classic bowman for you, there
- 1:24:22Speaker 2: great card out of THE. Pc the prices on these
- 1:24:24Speaker 2: things right now are just. Insane they're going. Crazy this
- 1:24:27Speaker 2: is the. Guy earlier we talked about prices jumping through the,
- 1:24:30Speaker 2: roof Like misterowski's prices have gone through the. Roof absolutely
- 1:24:35Speaker 2: from a fantasy, game from a card, perspective like he
- 1:24:38Speaker 2: is one of the hottest things out. THERE i actually
- 1:24:39Speaker 2: just trade him in on one of our leagues Because
- 1:24:41Speaker 2: i'm making a run for. It but, GUY i think
- 1:24:44Speaker 2: his arms will fall off at some point in time.
- 1:24:47Speaker 2: Here but, great great. PICK i think it's a great
- 1:24:50Speaker 2: addition to THE.
- 1:24:50Speaker 1: Pc, yes all, right well that was. Fun so those
- 1:24:54Speaker 1: are The JUNE pc. Picks we're going to wrap up
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