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Ep. 28 : NL West Preview & Stadium Club Release · Cards & Categories

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  Hello, and welcome everybody to episode twenty eight of Cards and Categories. I
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  am Mike Coolard from Rasball, joined here as always by my very good friend
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  Jeremy Brewer, also from rasball. How you doing tonight? Group? Doing
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  just fine? Is a wonderful, wonderful evening here in central Illinois despite the
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  weather that we've been having where everything is freezy, but that's okay. It's
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  almost baseball season and that makes everything feel so much better. So excited to
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  get into the podsnight for sure. Yeah, And it's obviously great time of
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  year to just sit inside and look at spreadsheets of baseball. So like that's
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  what I've been diving into. Starting ross decisions, keep your decisions, and
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  lots of fantasy leagues are coming up here soon, and lots of leagues are
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  getting to draft planning because the Career Series is March twentieth, and that's going
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  to really compress the draft season, I think. So if you are commissioner
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  out there and are just learning that, good luck trying to get that all
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  figured out over the next four to six weeks. So I always love those
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  early series and it's like your league goes in as like the guy that hit
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  two home ruws in the early series and like the stat's cow, he was
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  like, how high is this guy? Is a no name gonna go like
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  he's going to like the fifth rounds somewhere, I'm getting by two homers.
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  Yeah, set it and forget it, baby, right exactly. But yeah,
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  this week we're going to do a preview of the NL West. Will
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  be joined by Matt Trussell from Rasball, our editor and he's the one that
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  runs the RcLs, all the raz Slam leagues and updates, so he will
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  be previewing all of the NL West teams with us after we get into some
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  news, and we're gonna do a cards section here with the news because we'll
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  get to it after the quick transactions. But Stadium Club twenty twenty three drops
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  on Wednesday, the twenty fourth, so we're recording this a little bit earlier
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  in the week on the twenty third, so we're previewing that release and when
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  you hear the spot, you should be able to go out and buy Stadium
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  Club wherever you can find it. So, like I said, let's get
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  into some news and transactions. So we've got a couple of reliever moves to
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  kick off the analysis for fantasy this week, and the big one is Josh
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  Hater signing in Houston for the I think they're technically calling it the biggest contract
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  for reliever in history because of like the delayed money in the Edwin Diaz contract,
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  but Josh Hater is going to the Houston Astros for ninety five million dollars.
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  The lefty has been, I would say a little bit of like a
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  volatile reliever over the past couple of years. After being just a steady eddy
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  like fourteen K nine forty saves Monster for the beginning of season, has started
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  to kind of show a little wear and tear and battle walks in his time
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  in San Diego a little bit after doing that in Milwaukee too before leaving town.
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  So Josh Hader is ending up in Houston, taking over for Presley and
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  pushing him out the door. Brew. What do you think about this landing
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  spot for Hater and what it means for his fantasy value? Yeah, I
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  don't know if it really changes for me Josh Hater's fantasy value besides guarantee that
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  he has, you know, a job. Maybe you know, I can
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  argue if anything, because Ryan Presley's there that maybe there's a little more pressure
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  on him that you know, if he doesn't perform, then he's does a
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  little bit shorter leashed to a degree. But I just don't see that with
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  Josh Hater. So I don't think there's really anything to worry about. Is,
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  you know, one of the top three four closers in the game from
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  a fantasy perspective, and he should continue to go there. I think the
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  Josh Hater move is less about Josh Hater than it is about Ryan Presley at
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  the end of the day. So love Hater there. I think he's gonna
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  be great and we'll invest with confidence if somebody else doesn't beat me to it.
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  So how about you, do you like landon spot? Yeah? I
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  totally agree there that if you had any hesitations with Hater in the past,
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  or just like the Walks, I could see, like you know, him
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  maybe not being your cup of tea and wanting to go somewhere else for a
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  closer one because of that that you think that there is some sort of blow
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  up happening. But when it's all said and done, Hater has still been
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  a really dependable source of strikeouts and a low ear RA and should be a
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  low whip even with some of those walks. But he's just a really great
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  closer that yeah, should be top three four and I'm willing to take him
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  if he's there, and you know, I'm looking for a closer around his
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  time, So I don't think there's any problems with being in Houston and it
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  should be a pretty comfortable situation, good winning team for him. Yeah.
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  So really, like I said, I think the bigger impact is Ryan Presley,
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  which was he was going off the board, you know, picked one
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  hundred one ten somewhere in there is and he was kind of right at the
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  beginning to that second tier of closers, like the guys that actually have a
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  job that you rely on, like what used to be back in the day
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  you could be like twenty twenty five guys were like yeah, they're they're closers,
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  and it's like the last five guys are trying to figured it out like
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  anymore, Like if you're trying to get like solid reliable closers, there's like
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  maybe two per team like at best, and Presley was absolutely one of those
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  guys in kind of like the Alexis Diaz, Pete Fairbanks like kind of area
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  and you just kind of, you know, set it, forget it.
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  He would, you know, every once in a while, have a little
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  miss step and then he'd be fine again. Like he was perfectly fine.
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  So especially if you drafted early. Ouch, this really really hurts those teams.
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  And I'm Presley's value absolutely tanks with with this move. I didn't see
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  it coming. I didn't see the Astros picking up Hater. I think we
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  all thought he was going elsewhere and here we are. Yeah, And I
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  mean I had a few just I wasn't sure about like Brian Presley, his
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  stuff backed up a little bit last year. He didn't look quite as sharp
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  that I was touting Brian Brahew a lot in my columns last year, and
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  just from talent perspective and just it didn't look like Presley was very healthy.
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  So you're kind of waiting for that shoe to drop. He held on to
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  the closer drop all year. So Presley, I think in that second tier
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  was maybe a little bit of a riskier pick than people I think we're giving
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  him because of what a bray you was doing. But obviously this totally closes
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  the door on Presley. And I wouldn't be surprised if a Brewer is actually
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  still kind of like the number two in line there because from a skills perspective,
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  a bray You honestly might even be the best one in that pen with
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  that electric fastball and the wipeout slider. But I think Houston really loves being
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  able to use Brian a bray You in mix and match spots and putting him
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  in the highest, highest leverage. So don't want to give him that full
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  closer role, you know. Yeah, But I mean they will be a
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  dangerous bullpen, that's for sure. Like it gives them lots of options,
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  lots of things to play with, and a lot of matchups they can play.
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  So makes perfect souch from a baseball perspective. Like I said, from
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  a fancy perspective, hater doesn't get much what's changed in this one. Just
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  Presley gets the tumble. Yeah, exactly. So we've got another reliever slash.
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  I don't, Well, he's not going to be closing yet. He's
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  going to be a setup man, and that is going to be Robert Stevenson
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  signing with the Angels. So I think this is a great landing spot for
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  him because he's one step away from being a closer, which I think people
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  were thinking Stevenson could step in somewhere and take over a closer's job. He
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  really broke out last year with the Rays as they retooled his arsenal former number
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  one pick with the Cincinnati Reds and bounced around to places like Colorado. I
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  mean, Robert Stevenson's been everywhere, and so I think that he's got a
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  really great landing spot in Anaheim where he's backing up Carlos Estevez, another shaky
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  closer. So this is a guy that last year, like Presley, I
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  was calling for his demise most of the year, and he even lost the
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  job for a little bit. I remember hose Kihata getting some slaves in there,
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  and it was just a little bit of a mess, just like the
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  rest of the Angel season. So Robert Stevenson, like I said, setting
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  up, but maybe providing some sort of Brian A. Bray You esque fantasy
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  value for right now and with one eye at the closer job, brew,
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  what do you think this means for Robert Stevenson And are you taking him in
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  maybe some standard like twelve teen to fifteen team drafts. I absolutely am taking
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  Robert Stevenson, and maybe I have missed reports. I haven't seen anything outright
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  says that Stevenson is not going to be the closer. Okay, yeah,
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  right, two of the Angels, and I look at Estevez and I go,
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  man, this is a guy that you know, seems like he's always
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  out of a job, like he's barely kept his era in the threes.
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  His indicators are always in the fours, like just Shakey's all get shaky.
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  And Stevenson was absolutely brilliant when he made some adjustments down down the stretch for
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  the Rays. So I think that this is one of those guys that I
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  am picking up a lot in drafts, especially if people are not sure if
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  he is the closer or not, because regardless, he gives you great ratios,
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  great strikeouts. He's gonna be fantastic for your ratios. But I think
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  that there's a good chance that Stevenson leads the Angels and saves this year,
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  and I don't think it takes that long, if at all, for him
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  to claim that role. So I love this landing spot for Stevenson because I
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  think this is one of the few spots where he legitimately could be the closer
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  out of the gate, depending on how things go in spring training. All
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  it takes is Steves to look a little shaky, and you know, the
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  Angels many don't. They don't have time to mess around like that team has
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  gott to try to deliver, so they're not going to give as much of
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  a leash at all. Yeah. No, I think that's a great read
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  too. So I like Stevenson's skills that. Yeah, he should hopefully get
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  a shot at that because I think he would excel as a closer and even
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  if the Angels are bad, like finding something that is steady with that type
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  of talent level is tough. Yeah, I think that the biggest winner out
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  of all all of this jose Leclairic from the Rangers. Everybody thought the Rangers
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  going to go out and get somebody at the back of that bullpen and they
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  didn't. And uh, he looks like the incumbent closer for the Rangers on
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  a good team. Still, Scar scares me a little bit exactly like he
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  has. But like he's probably the clear winner here of Yeah, stay in
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  the job that not many folks thought he'd have. I totally agree, And
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  I mean, you want to talk about a guy with walk issues. Jose
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  Leakirk is maybe like number one with the bullet on that list that he is
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  a tough guy to watch and it's it's a high wire act, but wow,
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  that would be quite a boon if you've drafted jose Le clok early or
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  hold him in Dynasty or in these sort of keeper formats, because it could
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  be a really cheap thirty plus saves at the end of the year when it's
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  all said and done. Yeah, you might get some heartburn during it,
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  but still he's got one of those guys it's like, yeah, uh,
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  pre closer, why not? Yeah, okay. And a couple of smaller
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  signings. We've got James Paxton's signing with the Dodge to fit in at the
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  back end of that starting rotation whenever he's healthy. So James Paxton, obviously
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  we know what we're getting into with the big maple here. He's never really
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  been able to keep it together in terms of health since he's gone down with
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  I think shoulder and Tommy John since he really shined in Seattle. So Brew,
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  I know you've always been a big time James Pactiston fan. What do
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  you think about him landing in LA and is he going to end up on
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  eighty percent of your teams are ninety percent of your teams. Yeah, I
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  think the the over unders ninety seven percent of my team's for James Paxton.
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  I absolutely love James Paxton, love the skill set. When he's healthy,
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  he has everything that I'm looking for in a pitcher. It's just when he's
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  healthy. I think the only reason I might not own him this year is
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  because he's landed with the Dodgers and somebody else is going to be like,
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  hey, if the Dodgers believe in him, then I believe in him.
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  So there might be some some Dodgers truthers out there, but I really like
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  the landing spot for James Paxton. I really think there's a lot to be
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  desired and he's not. You know what. He's been brought into his last
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  few roles with the Yankees with Boston, like folks are looking for him to
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  be a front line starter, hoping for that frontline starter, and he does
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  not have to be that with the Dodgers, Like he just has to try
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  to stay healthy and be who he always has been. So I like it.
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  It excites me for James Paxton. I just hope the helium doesn't bring
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  the number for me under the ninety seven percent. Yeah, I do think
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  that there will be some helium because it is LA and this is James Paxton
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  has a great strikeout record, and it's gonna be tough, I think to
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  pick him up because I think others are going to be excited if he is
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  there and you can find him in a spot where you can cycle him in
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  and out and have you know, spot start and be prepared to stash him
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  to injury lists. It's great, but I think it's going to be a
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  little tough because people love the landing spot. I'm gonna try to snipe some
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  easy wins out of James Paxton in LA. So absolutely speaking of a former
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  Dodger. Here a very short tenure in Titteltown, Joey Gallo outfielder signing with
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  the Washington Nationals on a one year, five million dollar deal, and it's
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  I think this is a great landing spot for Joey Gallo to try to find
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  some semblance of value again, even though I mean he had some last year
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  in terms of like real life value. Put up a one oh four WRC
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  plus and can be a DH corner guy. And I don't know if you
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  could have thought of like a better spot for him to land than Washington,
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  where he should get quite a bit of playing time and a chance to make
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  good And if he plays really well, gallow should be able to play himself
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  right out of Washington and into a contender the deadline. So, Brew,
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  do you see Joey Gallo being able to like be ownable in Washington, because
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  like he's known for his power. I think he'll bring the power. The
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  question is whether or not you can stomach the batting average and if Joey Gallo
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  himself can even cross the Mendoza line, which he hasn't been across since twenty
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  nineteen. Yeah, I want to make the case that you can own him
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  like an OBP league, And I still want to think I gave you that
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  case when he's barely you know, breaking three hundred at times with his OBP.
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  So you know, Gallo is like, is it fair to say the
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  diet Kyle Schwarber, who I'm already out on and so like it's just less
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  horrors and more strikeouts and a worse average, Like you know, he is
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  the true three outcomes player. And I do like the fact that he should
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  get some plaining time with the Nationals' I'm shocked that he got five million dollars
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  on to your deal. Like if I could be that bad at my job
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  for for five years and still get five million, Like I'm in the wrong
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  line of work for sure. So I'm out on Joey Gallo. Like maybe,
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  like I said, an OBP league, but like even then, it's
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  just a headache that's not worth it. So I don't know, are you
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  buying Joey Gallo? Am I off here? No? I don't think I
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  am that. I think there will be situations where you're obviously gonna depend on
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  him because you're gonna run into injuries and he's gonna be sitting there on the
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  waiver wire and when you're only trying to get you know, a week or
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  two out of gallow that batting average isn't sinking you too hard. But yeah,
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  even in like an N only league, it's almost hurting him that he
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  is gonna play pretty much full time in Washington, I think because he's gonna
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  just take at bats and grind hit your batting average. You know, we're
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  talking a guy who hit won seventy seven last year, one sixty the year
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  before one one and that's really tough to stomach because the even the ceiling there
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  is what maybe two fifteen to twenty. Like the nice thing about Schwerber is
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  like the ceiling is like two forty. You know that there is a path,
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  there's at least, oh, there's at least yeah forever. But with
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  Gallo there's the and the floor is like one fifty, like and they might
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  let him play. Yeah, I mean, you know, I was at
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  least hoping, like if you look at a guy like Gallo, like maybe
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  at least he has like splits, like at least maybe he crushes lefties,
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  but no, he's just as bad against the lefties easy as the righties,
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  or I don't want to say bad, like he's again he's one of those
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  players like he can change a game with a swing single swing of bat,
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  like from a major league perspective, like there's some value in that, especially
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  in today's game, but like from a fantasy perspective, like he just completely
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  torpedoes like so bad. I wish I had had the time to in mathematical
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  skills to do the deviations from the mean, uh state of debuations from the
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  mean, because like he you know, Gallo has just got to be so
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  far off, Like how many good average hitters do you have to have if
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  you own Joey Gallop and startom, Like you must have to have like the
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  top ten that the average you know, fantasy players to offset Joey Gallop to
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  even be like average. Like there's there's some some math out there penalty wise
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  that says these guys are just undraftable. Yeah, I absolutely agree that it's
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  gonna be tough. So okay, yeah, that should wrap us up for
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  news previews, and I think we're just gonna jump right into the cards section
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  now and we're gonna it's been a couple of weeks since we've had a full
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  card section on cards and categories, but this week definitely warranted it as we
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  have the release of twenty twenty three Top Stadium Club coming out on January twenty
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  fourth, and that will be released in hobby boxes half hobby boxes. They're
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  like, what's the exact term, I forget hobby compacts. Hobby compacts,
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  so we were looking at the stats on them. Essentially you get about half
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  of what's in your normal hobby box, so it's about half the price,
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  and then you actually do have retail here I'm like Bowman's Best. I looked
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  it up. You have got retail blasters for a stadium club, And I
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  think that's where most people have interacted with Stadium Club in the past, that
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  it has been a pretty traditional, big retail product when it debuted back in
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  the early nineties. I think ninety one was the first year, if I'm
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  remembering off the top of my head, just because I'm a big Stadium Club
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  fan. As we've talked about around here, the Stadium Club is known for
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  its photography, especially that you've got just interesting in different photos from when you
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  know you're looking at your flagship product. Usually it has a pretty standard pose
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  in terms of either you know, a batter in the batter's box or a
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  pitcher pitching. That a pretty good shot to be able to see the player
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  in a normal baseball action with their face. Stadium Club mixes it up.
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  You've got off field photos, you've got random photo shoots, you've got celebrations,
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  you've got momentous like parts of players' games, and so it really mixes
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  it up in terms of adding an artistic photograph like just to any sort of
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  collection. So I think Stadium Club has been known as that since I don't
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  I mean, even looking back on maybe like the ninety one set, it
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  wasn't quite as much known that way. But you even think about like the
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  Griffy from the ninety one Stadium Club set, it's a picture of him with
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  a backwards hat on. So they were really even trying to I mean,
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  that was pushing the envelope back in nineteen ninety one, you know. So
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  in going into ninety two, ninety three, ninety four, when I think
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  Stadium Club really started hitting its stride, you started seeing different types of typography
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  too, Like I really think about the ninety four Stadium Club in terms of
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  like it even shortened it to TSC on the front of the cards when it
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  started listing the name of the brand, and you think about like the blocky
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  type face letters on nineteen ninety four. So for the twenty twenty three set,
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  I don't think you're getting quite as far off the reservation with kind of
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  their design. It's been a pretty standard design the past couple of years in
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  terms of you know, having a full photo and then a kind of I
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  don't even know how to exactly describe it. I would it's like a modern
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  sports feel like a you think about like the sports bugs they put on NFL
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  Fox games, like at the bottom, and how they're changing it every year.
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  That's the way I feel like stadium Clubs kind of name patterns on the
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  front of the cards have been going, is that they're got this modern,
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  sleek, just sports feel to it. So twenty twenty three, Stadium Club
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  is finally coming out. We thought it was dead. I can I'm just
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  very excited, as you can probably tell from all my explanations going off on
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  these tangents and different paths about Stadium Club that I've opened up for our discussion
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  here brew, But what excites you the most about Stadium Club going into twenty
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  twenty three here? Yeah, I think what I mean, besides the fact
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  that the Stadium Club's here, we didn't think Stadium Club wouldn't make it potentially,
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  I said this year was probably last year, So you know, I
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  think that that's that's the big, you know, piece for me. I
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  really just love that the products love the design this year. I'm looking I'm
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  trying to look up some of the old designs because the twenty three design reminds
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  me of a design design from a few years back, maybe like ten years
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  back that it looks oddly oddly familiar, that they didn't break the mold that
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  much, but the photography does it all. This is one of those ones
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  where like if you're ripping this set for nothing else but just for the beauty
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  of the cards, the even if it's not the collectibility the Stadium Club,
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  you know, values tend to be like all over the place with Stadium Club,
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  Like it could just be a matter that photo like one Soda the Sodo
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  Shuffle card from Stadium Club Chrome from a few years ago, Like that card
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  blew up at one point, it still has holds a lot of value.
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  There's motani just because of the pictures of these iconic moments things like that that
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  they capture that no other Tops product seems to do is just fantastic. So
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  you definitely have to love that. The other part I love about Stadium Club
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  is it's accessible for the collector. We were talking hobby boxes at one hundred
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  and twenty dollars, hobby compacts at sixty to twenty five bucks per blaster,
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  that is very very accessible. And when you're getting a hobby box, you're
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  getting two autos with that. If you're getting a Compact, Like I think
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  at this point, like I'm looking at the compact is literally just half of
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  a hobby box trying to make it more affordable for the collector, which I
• 24:10
  thought is brilliant, Like it's brilliant for them to do. It's like half
• 24:14
  the cards, half the hits, half the price, Like it's great what
• 24:17
  they're doing there. So I really really like that. It depends on what
• 24:22
  you're looking for. If you're looking for autos, you have options. If
• 24:26
  you're looking more for all the parallels, which I know I'm not going to
• 24:32
  steal your thunder because I know you love the parallels, I'll let you run
• 24:33
  through that. But if you're looking for the parallels, blasters are the way
• 24:37
  to go. If you're not looking to try to guess the autos, those
• 24:41
  those blasters are just chuck full of different parallels and opportunities to get those.
• 24:45
  So love the set, love the photography, and it's one of those that
• 24:52
  I always have a handful of cards from the guys that I PC from Stadium
• 24:57
  Club, the Rookies, things like that, just because the iconic imagery and
• 25:03
  guys like that, I've always pceed like a Kink gravy Junior or something like
• 25:06
  that, Like you almost want to have every season of his Stadium Club cards
• 25:11
  just because of the the uniqueness of the of this release. So love and
• 25:15
  Stadium Club really looking forward to seeing it this year. I know you and
• 25:21
  I both talked about our resolutions for the year and not ripping as much.
• 25:26
  I don't know, does this count as is twenty twenty three Stadium Club in
• 25:32
  Oh, definitely ninety four. Yeah, I think it's a freebie. It's
• 25:34
  it's it's kind of like you know when you when you eat a dessert,
• 25:37
  but then you had a vegetable at dinner, Like it cancels it out right.
• 25:41
  It's so very excited for Stadium Club this year. Yeah, exactly,
• 25:48
  And so I know we endorsed this a lot with the holiday set too,
• 25:52
  But this is a great set for if you're just starting in on cards and
• 25:56
  want to start on cards. Stadium Club. Those retail blasters are affordable and
• 26:03
  they're going to be fun. I guarantee that even if you don't maybe hit
• 26:07
  anything too valuable, the cards are going to be beautiful and you're going to
• 26:11
  really enjoy looking at them as just like a baseball fan overall, because they're
• 26:18
  always interesting. I've always loved Stadium Club ever since I was a kid,
• 26:22
  and they're bringing back a lot of the same inserts. So you've got a
• 26:25
  lot of your classic inserts here from Beam Team, which is a pretty tough
• 26:30
  poll this year. Usually these have been a little easier to pull. But
• 26:34
  it's maybe like the classic Stadium Club parallel. Honestly, it's more classic from
• 26:41
  a basketball perspective because some of the Beam Team Jordan's back in the nineties are
• 26:45
  really really slick cards and go for a lot of money. But you got
• 26:49
  Beam Team back, and it's a tough pole. Like I said, one
• 26:52
  in every two hundred and fifty seven hobby packs. So if you hit one
• 26:56
  of these Beam Team inserts in anything that you're ripping, it's a nice card
• 27:00
  and gonna be worth a decent penny, even in the based form. But
• 27:06
  you've also got Chrome back, so which is a little bit sad because that
• 27:10
  they did cancel Stadium Club Chrome, which was my favorite. It was a
• 27:14
  separate Stadium Club set. But they've had these Chrome inserts for I would say
• 27:21
  since the late nineties is really when they started, probably like ninety nine two
• 27:23
  thousand, and they've also caused confusion over the years because you don't some people
• 27:30
  don't know whether it's like the insert chrome parallel from regular Stadium Club or if
• 27:36
  it's Stadium Club chrome the base, but they use different photos they have over
• 27:41
  the past couple years when TOPS has had that, So there's only ninety cards
• 27:45
  in the chrome checklist of you know, you're looking at pretty much the stars
• 27:48
  and rookies there that they wanted to make chrome parallels of. And those chrome
• 27:55
  parallels even have parallels, So it's parallels on parallels that you've got your regular
• 28:00
  chrome parallel, your refractor parallel, your orange refractor parallel, your purple refractor,
• 28:06
  your pearl white refractor, your gold minted refractor, which again are rare.
• 28:11
  They used to be a lot more common and in the retail boxes,
• 28:14
  but that's one in every two hundred and fifty seven hobby packs now and then
• 28:18
  ultimately superfractor chrome. So one thing that stands out to me on these chromes
• 28:23
  is compared to the regular parallels you're getting with the set the parallels, I
• 28:29
  will admit this is maybe like my one thing I don't like about modern Stadium
• 28:33
  Club is that the parallels are lazy, that all they're doing is changing the
• 28:37
  color of the foil on the card. So traditionally, when you have like
• 28:42
  a flagship card, the actual like border or the background or even on these
• 28:47
  chrome ones, the background is tinted the color that I just listed off.
• 28:51
  But on the base card parallels Stadium Club, they're just swapping out the little
• 28:57
  chrome or like the foil on the log in the foil on the name.
• 29:00
  So here's the parallels that you've got of those base cards, and every card
• 29:06
  in the base three hundred card set I believe right, three card set,
• 29:11
  three hundred card set, so every one of those cards has one of these
• 29:15
  parallel one of these parallels for it. So red foil, black foil,
• 29:21
  black and white, Sepia members only, which will have like a different members
• 29:26
  only stamp. That's been that goes all the way back to the beginning of
• 29:30
  Stadium Club Photographers proof, which is another again another just different stamping on it.
• 29:37
  Orange foil to one ninety nine, Purple foil of seventy five, which
• 29:41
  is hobby Compact exclusive, So if you're chasing purple foils, they're going to
• 29:45
  want only want those hobby Compact boxes. Blue foil of fifty, rainbow foil
• 29:51
  board. So I will say that this is where you're starting to get a
• 29:53
  little bit of variation because the rainbow foil board will actually be printed on like
• 29:59
  a more a refractory card stock, and it's a lot like the rainbow foil
• 30:04
  you'll see in the traditional flagship. You've also got first a issue which is
• 30:10
  only ten copies again, another stamp that goes on there, and then finally
• 30:14
  your gold rainbow foil one of one. So just a more limited refractor and
• 30:21
  parallel set here just because you've got less variation in terms of like those foils.
• 30:26
  And I think they're really already leaning on people wanting the base card,
• 30:30
  wanting that beautiful photograph, so they cut back the parallels here a little bit.
• 30:34
  Yeah, I will say that the one downfall with the parrels is a
• 30:38
  look this year, I think that we have to know that the print run
• 30:41
  is going to be ridiculous. Yeah, when you're looking at in a hobby
• 30:45
  box, you're expected to get one chrome card in the entire hobby box.
• 30:52
  That that's rough, that's crazy. So it's you don't realize how rare some
• 30:57
  of these cards are going to be. So you're looking out there you're getting
• 31:00
  a unnumbered chrome card and it costs you one hundred and twenty bucks to get
• 31:07
  it. Now, Yeah, I get that's not really how the math works,
• 31:11
  but like that is what you used to feel like you get like four
• 31:15
  or five of those in a box of cards something like that. So I
• 31:18
  think that the print run is very high this time around with with Stadium Club,
• 31:25
  and so it's not necessarily going to hold a ton of value. But
• 31:29
  again, it's a lower priced product, which you know, it's meant to
• 31:30
  be the entry level product, and so many collectors do love it that it
• 31:34
  does generally sell well, holds value relatively well too, because people love to
• 31:41
  put these sets together. So I think that that is exciting. I am
• 31:45
  curious, though, your thoughts on the auto checklist of Stadium Club. I
• 31:51
  know premium auto checklist is always Stadium Club's calling card, right, what are
• 31:56
  your thoughts? Yeah, for people that don't know he is being sarcastic there,
• 32:01
  because very very Yeah. The And what's kind of crazy though is Stadium
• 32:07
  Club it is maybe like the most hot and cold auto checklist that you know,
• 32:14
  you're getting the best hall of famers and rookies in this set. You
• 32:17
  know, you got Derek Jeter at Lee's Frank Thomas showhy signs, so you've
• 32:24
  got like the tippy top signing, and then you've also got Quada dudes who
• 32:30
  like are barely staying on rosters in the checklist. So it's a very That's
• 32:36
  what I think. What makes it a very interesting price point too, is
• 32:38
  that I think it would be more expensive if it wasn't for this checklist of
• 32:44
  autos being all over the place, Because if you think that you're going to
• 32:47
  go in trying to pull Frank Thomas, you might end up getting a Ford
• 32:52
  Proctor, who actually I don't even know who that is, Like I am
• 32:55
  looking at the I guess I shouldn't disparage four Proctor like that, but he's
• 33:00
  next to Frank Thomas on the checklist. I've never heard of Ford Proctor,
• 33:05
  So it's it is quite the gamble from that perspective. But like we keep
• 33:10
  kind of reiterating here, the price point is so low that you're paying for
• 33:15
  the enjoyment of the rip here. So I don't think people are chasing these
• 33:21
  autos as much as you know, you're trying to in some of the higher
• 33:24
  end products that we've talked about where you're really chasing those hits the Sodium Club.
• 33:30
  I think this is also why the foil parallels are kind of like as
• 33:34
  disappointing as they are, is because they know people aren't trying to chase hits
• 33:38
  in this product as much as they're trying to just enjoy ripping cards. It's
• 33:43
  very much like a it's a lot like Collector's Choice from Upper Deck back in
• 33:46
  the day, where I mean it is like a collector's product and something that
• 33:52
  you're opening for the enjoyment of baseball cards. Yeah. Absolutely, I have
• 33:57
  to ask you are you going to rip and if you had your choice,
• 34:00
  if you can just pick between your hobby box, your your hobby compacts you
• 34:05
  or your retail blasters, what are you doing? What do you what are
• 34:07
  you doing with your rips for Stadium Club. I personally, I think I'm
• 34:13
  staying away from hobby compact is. I won't be opening those because I would
• 34:17
  need the rather open the hobby box and get like the full experience and the
• 34:22
  jumbo box stoppers are always fun, like, especially if you get one of
• 34:27
  your PC personal collection guys, that it's always going to look great like I'm
• 34:31
  looking right now at a jumbo boxtopper from last year of Ozzie Smith doing his
• 34:37
  patented flip and so the jumbo box stoppers are really fun and getting that extra
• 34:44
  autos really good too. But this is actually one product where I will rip
• 34:50
  some retail just because I really like Stadium Club cards, so I will keep
• 34:55
  them. And the odds here, especially on hitting some of the those parallels
• 35:00
  as you alluded to, is not bad for retails. So yeah, I
• 35:05
  think I'm gonna do a little bit of the hobby box and a little bit
• 35:07
  of the retail blasters, but staying away from the hobby half boxes or whatever.
• 35:15
  What about you brew? Yeah, I mean, I this is gonna
• 35:17
  be a cop out answer, but I'm like, whatever I get my hands
• 35:20
  on first is probably gonna be the the clear answer here because the Stadium Club
• 35:25
  does tend to sell pretty well at the beginning, and I don't know what
• 35:30
  you just feels like the distribution channels for tops and fanatics the over the last
• 35:35
  year or so have become a little inconsistent. You know, release days not
• 35:38
  even until tomorrow night. You can always find cards on eBay from Stadium Club
• 35:43
  and at the same time you go your hoty local hobby shopp you might not
• 35:45
  find anything like. It just feels very inconsistent. So I think if I
• 35:51
  find a Stadium Club, I'm gonna buy it, regardless of what format it's
• 35:54
  in, give it a shot if it goes well, and go do the
• 35:58
  same thing again and just enjoy the rip on State Club. This is one
• 36:04
  to save for sure. Yeah. Absolutely, And then I also kind of
• 36:07
  wanted to highlight a couple of other insert sets just because compared to other sets
• 36:14
  we've talked about, the inserts on Stadium Club I really enjoy too and have
• 36:19
  that classic twist as we talked about with being team. But they're also bringing
• 36:22
  back Stadium Club in three D SC and three D inserts, which are only
• 36:27
  one hundred copies each. But they are very throwback nineties kind of instavision cards
• 36:35
  where you can look at them and like, I'm not even exactly sure how
• 36:39
  to describe them, but once like you see one, any nineties person would
• 36:45
  immediately know what I'm talking about in terms of the little like instavision causing like
• 36:52
  the movement of the player and showing like a highlight. And so I have
• 36:58
  one from when they had these inserts in the late nineties of a rod is
• 37:01
  the one that I remember, and it's gonna be cool to find some of
• 37:07
  these. They're very very short printed, so they're one in every twenty one
• 37:09
  hundred hobby packs, which is crazy list of ten and one hundred copies each.
• 37:15
  Like I said, so it's only the biggest stars. I think these
• 37:19
  are going to be hot commodities. Yeah, I think so. I think
• 37:22
  to your point, it harkens back to like that late nineties. I think
• 37:23
  I had like a Mark McGuire, like during his ninety eight season type thing
• 37:29
  where you can kind of watch the highlight if you may, as you kind
• 37:31
  of rotate the car, and so I think that these will like harken back
• 37:36
  to those collectors of the late nineties, which was like those were fun cards,
• 37:39
  like those are things you were after, and now at the fact that
• 37:43
  they are hard to find and a largely printed product like the dollars are going
• 37:49
  to be very shocking on these. I don't think people realize that you're gonna
• 37:52
  you know, there's probably be something that sell low. So it was like,
• 37:53
  what's this. This is nothing exciting because it makes rise of the nineteen
• 37:58
  eighties cards. But then I think that there's gonna be a very very strong
• 38:01
  Fletcher's market for the the I'm gonna call it the Instavision cards. Uh sc
• 38:07
  and three D Instavision division. I feel like it was the nineties. The
• 38:13
  nineties version was called Instavision. I thought so, and maybe instavision is too.
• 38:20
  Let me look that up. Maybe you are correct, they said,
• 38:29
  yep, that's why. Yeah, it's got it's just a nineties version.
• 38:31
  So I will not sleep tonight until I find out what it was that I
• 38:37
  was actually called back. I think it still was called sc and three D,
• 38:44
  but inst divisions going around for a long time too. Yeah. And
• 38:46
  then the other one I wanted to highlight instant I mean, Instavision is a
• 38:51
  cool one where but it's I think the other insert to highlight here is Triumphants,
• 38:55
  which I was a dummy. I didn't really realize this until last year,
• 39:00
  that the Triumvirance set is like sets of three and you can put them
• 39:06
  together as puzzle pieces. Did you know this or am I? Oh?
• 39:08
  I know it's okay, so I'm breaking the news to you too. So
• 39:12
  each of them, it's a thirty card set, and each of the thirty
• 39:15
  cards breaks down into like three littler sets where when you put them all next
• 39:22
  to each other, they actually like interlock and they fit together, and so
• 39:25
  they're great when you get like a subset of that, and so you know
• 39:30
  you've got team ones like you've got an Orioles one with cal Adley Gunner,
• 39:35
  You've got like a Mariner's one with each Row Griffy Julio. But then a
• 39:39
  really cool one this year is like I said, usually traditionally these are teams
• 39:44
  where they have like three teammates, but they have a cool one this year
• 39:47
  of Jackie, Willie Mays and Hank Aaron is one of the Triumvirate sets.
• 39:52
  So I think these are another kind of fun one to put together if you
• 39:58
  have a team that you're chasing here and I enjoyed putting together the Triumphants red
• 40:04
  parallel set of the Cardinals last year, so it's it's a fun one to
• 40:07
  chase and looks great when you display them all together. And yeah, hopefully
• 40:13
  if you didn't know, now you know that Triumphants it works all together and
• 40:16
  so you'll see them. They're like die cut cards that when you pull one,
• 40:22
  you always are like, man, what is the shape? But once
• 40:24
  you put all three together. It makes a lot more sense. Yeah,
• 40:29
  I leorthily knew every day, right, So now I'm gonna be searching the
• 40:32
  internet now trying to find these pictures of these of these cards. Yeah,
• 40:38
  and so, like I said, we're recording here on the twenty third statement
• 40:44
  Club drops tomorrow should be on tops dot com and retail locations hobby locations that
• 40:50
  you're looking for. And it also puts the capstone on twenty twenty three releases.
• 40:55
  I think that I was looking at the release list unless they've got something
• 41:00
  else in the hopper at Tops that they haven't told us about the way that
• 41:04
  they revived Stadium Club and a couple of other anniversaries coming like two years.
• 41:08
  Yeah, exactly that. Yeah, maybe Stadium Club Chrome is coming like yeah,
• 41:14
  Holidays twenty twenty four. But this should put be the last twenty twenty
• 41:19
  three series that is coming out, as they are going to crank every printing
• 41:24
  machine that they have up to one thousand for twenty twenty four Series one coming
• 41:31
  out here in just three short weeks, so it's coming around the corner really
• 41:36
  fast. Get wait, I know it's going to be a great blast.
• 41:40
  So brew anything on Stadium Club that we might have skipped over that you wanted
• 41:45
  to go through. I think we think we hit it, did a good
• 41:50
  job, best lucked everybody ripping it out there, hopefully find some cool cards.
• 41:53
  And I'm looking forward to just sneaking through and finding what's the what's the
• 41:58
  unique things they went after after this year. I know last year I really
• 42:00
  loved the Dyersville, the Field of Dreams cards they had in there, with
• 42:06
  like the White Sox walking through the basic corn. So I think there's fun.
• 42:09
  What I'm just looking forward to finding like what little intricacies do they sneak
• 42:14
  in this year that nobody knows about until it comes out? Yeah, exactly.
• 42:20
  And if you hit any cool cards while you're ripping some stadium club,
• 42:22
  you can hit us up on Twitter at Cards Categories or email the pot at
• 42:28
  cards Categories at gmail dot com. And yeah, We're going to take a
• 42:31
  short break and be back with Matt Trussel from Rasball to preview the NL West.
• 42:37
  Stick around, Hello, and welcome back from the break everybody. We
• 43:00
  are joined for the NL West preview here by our editor and the organizer of
• 43:07
  the RCL. Good old Matt Trussell. How you doing, Matt, pretty
• 43:10
  good. How are you. We're doing great. We are de thawing here
• 43:15
  in the Midwest, so it's been slushy. But how are things going up
• 43:20
  for you in the upper Northeast. Yep, Sam, Here in Maine,
• 43:23
  we had actually I got home from work today and all of the snow on
• 43:27
  my roof had fallen and blocked my door. So that was fun. Here.
• 43:34
  That's fantastic. And like I said, we're going to preview the NL
• 43:37
  West, even though you're on the opposite side of the country. We figured
• 43:40
  that this would be a good spot to bring you in and let you get
• 43:45
  in any Dodgers cracks that you want. And I'm sure we've all got plenty
• 43:49
  of Rockies jokes loaded and ready to shoot out the cannon here, so we,
• 43:53
  I think, are just going to dive right into it. So if
• 43:57
  you are familiar with the format from the past Cup weeks, what we've been
• 44:00
  doing is going through the fantasy prospects of every team in a given division.
• 44:06
  Like I said, today, we're going to do NL West, So we're
• 44:09
  going to go through each team alphabetically and pick one by one cell from a
• 44:15
  fantasy perspective of you know, it can be either we don't like the ADP,
• 44:20
  we don't like their skills, whatever we kind of think about these players.
• 44:23
  So we're going to start off the top with the NL winners from last
• 44:29
  year, the Pennant winners and wildcard team. I almost sad NL West winners,
• 44:32
  but they took home the wild card. That is the Arizona Diamondbacks.
• 44:37
  Snakes alive. They are looking like a much better spot for fantasy prospects this
• 44:43
  year. I think when last year, you know, everybody gave them a
• 44:45
  punching chance maybe at that wild card, but they should be one of the
• 44:50
  heavy favorites for another playoff spot in the NL. So we've got lots of
• 44:54
  great players that have come up in Arizona. Matt, who are you going
• 44:59
  to pick for your buy and sell from the Diamondbacks? Yeah? Such a
• 45:04
  fun team too. I like, I love watching the Diamondbacks fun offense.
• 45:07
  But I'm actually gonna switch it up and go with a pitcher for the buy
• 45:10
  and go with Brandon. Brandon fat sitting at He's his NFBC ADP was two
• 45:19
  eleven when I checked checked earlier as a nice one of those like he feels
• 45:24
  like he's in that range of pitchers that you just kind of shotgun approach and
• 45:28
  take a take a lot of shots on and hope one of them hits.
• 45:30
  And he's got that. You know, the highly regarded prospect that when he
• 45:35
  came up last year was not good. Uh, I know, I streamed
• 45:39
  him a few times and to our cls and it was pretty brutal. But
• 45:44
  then when he when they got to the playoffs, he really picked it up
• 45:46
  and really looked good. And he seems like that type that you know,
• 45:50
  struggles in his debut but then that next season really can put it together and
• 45:54
  could be a nice hit late. Yeah, I think that's a great pick.
• 45:59
  He is one of my considerations for a buy. Didn't quite make the
• 46:02
  cut, but I think similar to you, I had him pop up a
• 46:07
  lot in the waiver wire analysis that I was doing last year after he was
• 46:09
  a hot commodity during drafts last year burned a bunch of people ended up on
• 46:15
  all sorts of free agency waiver wiver waiver wires for fantasy, And yeah,
• 46:21
  I think he's a great pick here. So who you're gonna go with for
• 46:23
  your cell in Arizona? My cell is going to be Gabrielle Moreno. Yeah,
• 46:30
  it's just the super boring catcher and he's he's at one forty six.
• 46:36
  He was above a lot of catchers who I would rather have, and your
• 46:40
  lot, your other your last guest, Adam was kind of touched on this
• 46:44
  with Sean Murphy. It's like, it's catcher you can you can for sure
• 46:47
  wait on and I'm not. I'm definitely not reaching early for Gabrielle Moreno.
• 46:52
  Okay, I think gabriel or Moreno had just like a crazy playoffs last year,
• 46:57
  which I feel like it's like going that's a degree as well, but
• 47:00
  like such a terrible regular season. I don't think it's balanced out. The
• 47:05
  Moreno seemed to con his own during the playoffs, which I think is actually
• 47:09
  driving a degree of that that draft adp at this point, because like it
• 47:15
  showed you like that, I can dream on him potential, even though that's
• 47:19
  not the ceiling that he could deliver. So I'm right there with you.
• 47:22
  Moreno. He's interesting, but right that cluster of all kinds of other really
• 47:27
  interesting catchers, he might be too high within that that group. Well,
• 47:32
  agree I might. I think I'm just gonna jump the gun here because he
• 47:36
  was by bye. I love Gabrielle personally, Yeah, so I think he's
• 47:42
  so he's currently the eleventh catcher girl going off the board. But I think
• 47:45
  what I like about him, along with like Bo Naylor, is these guys
• 47:51
  are offensive first catchers that are so young that it's going to take them,
• 47:57
  I think a little bit to find their footing. And in his first year,
• 48:00
  I think Gabriel Reno did a great job of finding his footing. You
• 48:02
  know, on the year, he put in a solid, you know,
• 48:07
  two eighty ish average, and I think what especially came with that was he
• 48:12
  hit three thirteen in the second half as he settled in. You have to
• 48:15
  remember he was traded over from Toronto, didn't come up with this Arizona system.
• 48:19
  So I'm sure he's still learning a lot of these pitchers and learning how
• 48:22
  to game call and just learning the system that if there's anybody outside the top
• 48:29
  ten catchers that I can see kind of making that big jump up to being
• 48:32
  like a top six catcher maybe, And I mean I think it's Gabriel Moreno
• 48:38
  that, like, I almost like him as much as Janiar Diez. Like
• 48:43
  Diez has more power, but Moreno brings a really great average in his bat
• 48:47
  that I think you can almost pencilhim in for two eighty. He came up
• 48:52
  with a great bat. He's always hit everywhere he's gone. He's young.
• 48:57
  I just really like what I've seen from Moreno, and he was amazing down
• 49:00
  the playoff stretch too, So it's more of like I've seen a lot with
• 49:05
  like my eyes on him, and I think that he can just grow more
• 49:08
  and more into that role in Arizona. It's fair on the batting average.
• 49:13
  I think that's a that's a good call. I think I'm just I'm gonna
• 49:16
  be the twelfth person to take a catcher and I don't feel like Moreno's gonna
• 49:20
  fall to me. So yeah, I think that I'm gonna be like the
• 49:22
  thirteenth or fourteen Twelfeen League type of thing. Is like look at that point,
• 49:28
  like once you get to like ten, it's just like, hey,
• 49:30
  pick a litter. There's like another ten guys. I'm like, well,
• 49:32
  sure if that's what I'm stuck with. Yeah, exactly like Jonaheim, whoever,
• 49:37
  maybe Garber, I'll take whoever. And the thing with Moreno, I
• 49:44
  see like he reminds me a little. And this is my homewerness of yachting
• 49:47
  air Molina from a coming up defensive catcher. First, you know, had
• 49:52
  his kind of moments with the bat, but then it's like, it's going
• 49:55
  to take him, you know, three, four or five years to really
• 50:00
  start to become that hitter that you hoped he was. Like, I think
• 50:02
  Burreto's more advanced than that. Let me let me own that to start with.
• 50:06
  But I my worry with him is that it's gonna take him a few
• 50:09
  years still before he really unleashes that full potential. I think he has a
• 50:15
  higher ceiling than some of those other guys, but I just don't. I
• 50:17
  don't know if it's gonna happen in twenty four. So glad to see first
• 50:21
  team. We're already disagreeing, and that's what makes a good content. Yeah,
• 50:23
  exactly right. Right then, so do you want me to give my
• 50:28
  cell or what do you think prove? Okay, go for it, go
• 50:30
  for your sell. Let's let's see if we can double up on this one
• 50:34
  as well. Because to me, there's an easy cell on the Arizona Diamondbacks.
• 50:37
  But that's just because I always sell the same guy. Okay, let's
• 50:39
  see if I can hit it. My cell is Meryl Kelly, and it's
• 50:43
  mostly it's like a it's a where he's going and then draft that. And
• 50:47
  I think maybe it's a little bit of just my draft strategy too that we've
• 50:51
  discussed over the past few weeks. I'm usually in the second, third,
• 50:54
  fourth round trying to pop a pretty good starter just so that I can get
• 51:00
  pretty solid work, you know. Obviously, like Garrett Cole's like the best
• 51:04
  person that you can get in that group, I think, But man,
• 51:07
  I would love taking Burns, Wheeler, Gossman. Luis Castillo is not as
• 51:12
  much, but you know, George Kirby. There's lots of good anchors for
• 51:16
  pitching staffs up there. And so when you're coming back around to Meryl Kelly,
• 51:21
  the where he's going in the draft, it's a little rich for me.
• 51:23
  He's going around pick one point fifty right now in ADP. But in
• 51:29
  that area, it's just there's better upside to be found between like Chris Saale,
• 51:35
  Michael King. You know, these guys that have a higher strikeout rate
• 51:38
  but might have warts in terms of being young or not totally proving it,
• 51:45
  or maybe having a little bit of an injury history. I would rather try
• 51:49
  to chase a little bit of that upside than falling back into Meryl Kelly.
• 51:52
  I mean, if there's a situation where I somehow got backed into Bobby Miller's
• 51:59
  My First Picture or something, then I might be coming around to Meryl Kelly.
• 52:01
  But when you're taking Meryl Kelly, I think at one point fifty,
• 52:07
  who should be a steady like mid to upper threes. Ear Ray, Well,
• 52:12
  he did outperform his fifth and X fIF last year. You know,
• 52:15
  he does have a good defense behind him, but it's you know, a
• 52:19
  kind of boring profile in terms of eight nine, K nine, and you
• 52:24
  know I'm looking for something with a little more upside at that point in the
• 52:28
  draft. Well, we were not doubling up. I will tell you that.
• 52:32
  Okay, I don't disagree with with Kelly. The thing I worry about
• 52:37
  with Kelly is he kind of showed a strike out upside last year. Upside,
• 52:40
  he showed strikeouts last year which he really hadn't in the past, and
• 52:45
  that would be a concern I have with him. But no, I'm going
• 52:49
  I'm going deeper in both of view of like five rounds deeper in the draft
• 52:52
  on both my buy and so so, starting with my buy I am buying
• 52:59
  Tommy Fam. Tommy Fam down at you know, pick at three seventy or
• 53:04
  something like that, So free, I think is by definition at that point
• 53:07
  in time. I know he's gonna be thirty six opening day, but he
• 53:13
  did just go off a season where he went sixteen homers, twenty two steals,
• 53:17
  and with the fifty games with Arizona, he was trending towards like one
• 53:22
  hundred and seventy runs plus RBI combined, so like a very very reasonable,
• 53:28
  like eighty eighty eighty eighty five, eighty five type pace with that, and
• 53:31
  he's seventy eight outfielder off the board like he is way late. But for
• 53:37
  a guy that can give you a little combination of everything, I love what
• 53:42
  he can do. He can deliver the value of the guys who went one
• 53:44
  hundred picks earlier. So if you're looking to like make a decision of like,
• 53:47
  oh what do I do with in my outfield, you can just wait
• 53:51
  and grab Tommy Fam. It's kind of the old guys like Justin Turner's and
• 53:54
  stuff like that, where he's like, eh, he's over the over the
• 53:58
  hill. So because of that him, I love him. He seems like
• 54:01
  he's kind of gotten a new life there in Arizona, So I think there's
• 54:04
  gonna be a lot to capitalize on there. He's gonna be by a dollar
• 54:07
  guy in options all all preseason for sure. Yeah, and he's actually he's
• 54:14
  a free agent right now. So oh sorry, but I think everything I'm
• 54:17
  putting, I'm putting him on the dive of the Backs just because that's where
• 54:22
  from an NFBC perspective. Sorry, you are right, he is still like
• 54:25
  he's listed in the data as an Arizona player. But I think this is
• 54:30
  a great point to like talk about him, because I think he's everything you
• 54:35
  said is is spot on. So even like, honestly it doesn't matter where
• 54:40
  he signs, I think that he's got the talent to be able to have
• 54:44
  that shine through. And when you're looking late for some power speed combo,
• 54:50
  I don't think you can go wrong with Tommy Fan. He just just become
• 54:52
  pretty consistent over the past couple of years in terms of what he could bring
• 54:55
  you. So I love the pick. Well, so now I got to
• 55:00
  look up my next guy to make sure he's actually on the Diamondbacks. But
• 55:06
  I'm I'm pretty confident in this one that uh Swarez is on the Diamondbacks and
• 55:13
  is my cell just for no other reason that that guy is a walking disaster
• 55:16
  for a fantasy team. I know he's going off the board, is like
• 55:21
  your back end corner infielder type guy, but I don't care. The only
• 55:28
  thing he wasn't like the top five leader boards last year was he was number
• 55:31
  two at strikeouts, behind Kyle Schwarber. And Kyle Schwarber is the only one
• 55:37
  that could make that happen, to make that work, and we're we're talking
• 55:40
  about a guy that still was like low twenties home homewer power. So yeah,
• 55:45
  you know, Arizona maybe doos that a little bit, but like,
• 55:49
  man, he just torpedoes the rest of your team. And I'm still surprised
• 55:52
  people aren't even drafting or considering him, even deep leagues. It feels like
• 55:57
  the type of guy that you should just stay away from h to every degree.
• 56:00
  So yeah, I'm going deeper in the draft, deep enough to even
• 56:02
  pick guys that are not on the Diamondbacks at this point, but but yeah,
• 56:08
  you need those far as was the guy I am definitely avoiding on the
• 56:13
  Diamondbacks. Yeah, I think he was probably my second choice for a cell
• 56:17
  and I think, yeah, everything that you mentioned is a reason. And
• 56:22
  Arizona is a terrible place to hit, so like that's tough as well as
• 56:27
  like remember when it wasn't. Yeah, so it's so funny. It's like
• 56:31
  it's like the right field line is so interesting now that's not it. Yeah,
• 56:36
  Yeah, that human door really changed everything. It's like that one I've
• 56:37
  got to always think about and we brought it up because Groove brought it up
• 56:42
  for me like last month. That Kansas City is technically a hitter spark now
• 56:45
  too, I've always got to like mentally reconfigure that. Yeah, that one's
• 56:51
  confused not for home runs, which is the weird thing. Everything else is
• 56:54
  the hitter parts just depressed his home runs. But it's yeah, I'm still
• 56:58
  surprised by that one really does enjoy it. So yeah, Well, if
• 57:02
  we want to talk haters parks, we're going to the ultimate one next in
• 57:06
  Coors Field with the Colorado Rockies. That honestly, that's maybe all it's good
• 57:10
  for that is fantasy and DFS picks, because the Rockies are going to be
• 57:17
  contending with the White Sox and the A's for worst record in the league.
• 57:22
  I think they're pretty pretty awful teams. So let's see what sorts of glimmers
• 57:28
  of hope we might be able to find for some buys and any cells that
• 57:31
  we've got, so trust I'll pass it over to you for your buy and
• 57:35
  sell. Yeah. I feel like we're gonna probably agree on this one because
• 57:38
  there's only one glimmer of hope in Colorado and that's Nolan Jones. Give me
• 57:45
  all the shares please, I'm going to be I'm going to be very over
• 57:49
  exposed to Nolan Jones this year. Just all those all those tools in that
• 57:53
  park is his gold. His ADP is fifty three, and I'm I'm definitely
• 58:00
  looking for him and I might be the guy that jumps the gun on him
• 58:06
  in like the third round, but fourth roundill be good. Yeah. I
• 58:09
  actually I had Nolan Jones is my second second by I started to write him
• 58:14
  up found another guy, but I know who's going to steal him, so
• 58:17
  I'll let him go first when we get there. But I do agree with
• 58:22
  Nola Jones. Every time I look at him, I just want to say,
• 58:23
  like, nah, he's not that good, Like it's not ADPs too
• 58:28
  high. Every time I look at him and go but really like it doesn't
• 58:31
  it doesn't feel like he should be do we do is? But there's like
• 58:34
  not a lingering side behind it says maybe hold up, you know, hold
• 58:37
  up the high train here. So I like that. I like that call.
• 58:42
  Man, I'm going to be wrong on him, and hopefully I'm not.
• 58:45
  Yeah, I mean it's and the steels are huge. Like if it
• 58:47
  wasn't for the steels, I think I could get behind him being a possible
• 58:52
  sell. But you always forget about them. He just doesn't fit like your
• 58:54
  mental image of what he looks like as a player. Yeah, all right,
• 59:00
  what about yourself? Everybody else unless I'm unless I'm, like you said,
• 59:10
  making a DFS line up for ANITA streamer in an RCL league for for
• 59:15
  a day, I struggled looking through to find even another player I'd be comfortable
• 59:22
  rostering. I guess till bar I'm not. He's the next highest and no
• 59:29
  thanks. Yeah, So I think I think it's interesting because I'm going to
• 59:32
  jump on the train here, which my cell was every single picture strong things
• 59:40
  I was going to say down to dang it. So I guess with with
• 59:45
  that, do you want to hitch your bye here because I think I know
• 59:49
  where you're going, because I don't think it's Nolan Jones, but I think
• 59:52
  I know who it is. Uh well, I mean I'll add a little
• 59:57
  bit to the cell train here that I also had no one just because honestly,
• 1:00:01
  they've only got five players going into the top three hundred, which is
• 1:00:05
  absurd for the Colorado Rockies. You would think that every single one of their
• 1:00:08
  starting bats would be owned, but that's how poor they are. And Charlie
• 1:00:15
  Blackman like at this point, like I thought black One was out of the
• 1:00:19
  league like five years ago. Yeah, somebody's still roaming the outfields in Colorado
• 1:00:23
  for some reason. Yeah, And so my buys are one is home streams.
• 1:00:30
  So like this was a big part of my way for wire column last
• 1:00:34
  year is there's lots of weeks where it lines up with the Rockies have a
• 1:00:38
  full state of home games. And so if you do have a weekly league,
• 1:00:42
  dipping down into the pool for like a Jacob Stallings maybe as your second
• 1:00:46
  catcher isn't a bad call because you're just gonna get coors Field volume. And
• 1:00:52
  this year, honestly, it's even gonna be harder because I was looking at
• 1:00:55
  the Rockies schedule this morning, and it doesn't it's not quite as clean where
• 1:01:00
  it used to be. Like week on a Monday, leave on a Sunday.
• 1:01:06
  It's a lot of split weeks. So that makes the Rockies even more
• 1:01:08
  worthless than they traditionally have been. But yeah, every every picture, I
• 1:01:14
  don't even think in an inn only league, I want to be owning any
• 1:01:15
  pitcher here, and I'm gonna get around to my buy. I don't know
• 1:01:20
  if you're actually gonna call this broup, but you talked about him a little
• 1:01:22
  bit ago. It's Charlie Blackman. He's going four hundred and twenty ninth.
• 1:01:28
  I'm just a spairy guy, So yeah, he is maybe like along with
• 1:01:34
  Tommy fam and we've talked about Andrew mccutchenon in this fame too, that these
• 1:01:38
  guys are so old and forgotten. But he's hitting leadoff in Colorado like he's
• 1:01:44
  he's at least worth owning for the games in coors Field and using him then
• 1:01:50
  and putting him back on your bench. But you can't beat that for a
• 1:01:53
  really late, late, late outfield piece that you know, if I can
• 1:01:58
  play him in Colorado and try to juice something like a two nine what would
• 1:02:02
  pass out to like a two ninety with eighty runs like fifteen to twenty stone
• 1:02:07
  bases and you know, sixty rbi. That's usable. So we're talking real
• 1:02:14
  late stuff. But I love Charlie Blackman. Well, I Despair is the
• 1:02:19
  guy I should apologize. I'm not going to, but I should, So
• 1:02:24
  I'm going to give you. I do have a buy here and trust you
• 1:02:30
  kind of hints that the only other option was is he kill Tovar, and
• 1:02:36
  Tovar is going with his adp here was he's a twentieth shortstop off off the
• 1:02:43
  board at this point, shortstop is pretty deep. And the reason that I'm
• 1:02:46
  slightly interested in Tovar besides whole he actually tipped me off on him a while
• 1:02:52
  a while back, is he was, if I recall, the youngest hitter,
• 1:02:59
  yeah, youngest qualified hitter in the major leagues last year, and he
• 1:03:04
  still delivered some pretty decent numbers. And I think there's more to be had
• 1:03:08
  there. I think the power was kind of what it is like he's a
• 1:03:12
  fifteen homer guy, probably not more than that, and that's probably Colorado homer
• 1:03:15
  guy, not anywhere else. He's probably still like a two fifty hitter.
• 1:03:19
  He's not crazy. The thing is the guy can run and he doesn't steal
• 1:03:22
  as many bases last year is every other stop in the minors showed, and
• 1:03:28
  everybody else in the majors last year was was doing. So that just stood
• 1:03:31
  out to me as like he probably has thirty or forty steals in them.
• 1:03:35
  He just was learning the league, he was growing, and being that young
• 1:03:40
  and actually doing relatively decent to me, shows that there's a decent amount of
• 1:03:45
  growth. This pick takes a leap of faith to a degree. But you
• 1:03:50
  know, if you're waiting on a short sup middle infield, you know Tovar,
• 1:03:52
  guy that could pop thirty or forty steals that late is interesting and you
• 1:03:58
  know he's got the cores aspect that's always fun to just greem upon. So
• 1:04:03
  I do. I do think there's probably two hitters worth owning on the Rockies.
• 1:04:08
  So the pickens were slim, but I do think Tovar is an interesting
• 1:04:11
  one, even if we are stretching the definition of buy just a little bit.
• 1:04:16
  No, I agree with that as a as a middle infielder especially,
• 1:04:19
  I like that, And props to the Rockies too for actually playing him.
• 1:04:24
  They get it. They get the bad rap of never playing there. They're
• 1:04:27
  youngsters, but they Yeah, can we read into that, like do they
• 1:04:30
  not believe it? Like? Why is right? Yeah? If you believe
• 1:04:35
  that, I'm like Brendan Rodgers, go talk to the guy. You can't.
• 1:04:39
  You should not be starting more than, like you know, sixty percent
• 1:04:42
  of the games, and you should start changing positions most of the time.
• 1:04:46
  Yeah, I mean, you're gonna only get Ezekielle Tovar in love for me.
• 1:04:49
  I think I've been reading and hearing things about you know, the plate
• 1:04:55
  skills are awful. I'll fully admit that that he chases everything, he swings
• 1:05:00
  at everything. But you know where that works Coors Field when you put that
• 1:05:03
  ball in play. I want to see that ball in play. I want
• 1:05:06
  to see Tobar swinging and trying to put into gaps. And he's young,
• 1:05:12
  he's been on the field for his glove a lot, and I think those
• 1:05:15
  types of guys develop into good hitters eventually in good ballplayers. So yeah,
• 1:05:19
  I like Tobar is a good pick there. So yeah, we're going to
• 1:05:25
  move over to Los Angeles, where obviously they're the biggest news of the offseason.
• 1:05:30
  The Dodgers signing anybody and everybody and until you know the end of time
• 1:05:35
  when the heat death of the universe captures up to us. All. So,
• 1:05:41
  the Dodgers have a super team going on. And unlike the Rockies,
• 1:05:45
  who we just said only have like five players in the top three hundred,
• 1:05:48
  just about every Dodgers player is drafted fifteen guys in the top three hundred right
• 1:05:55
  out. Yeah, exactly, So we've got lots of options here. Trust
• 1:05:59
  who are you going to go with for your buy and sell in Los Angeles?
• 1:06:02
  Yeah, I'm buying into the hype on cool Whip Actually just put out
• 1:06:10
  an article to day, so by the time you hear this, it'll be
• 1:06:14
  a couple of days old. But go find it. If you haven't,
• 1:06:15
  haven't read it, and if you weren't sold on him, you will be.
• 1:06:19
  Cool Whip knows this stuff. And he did a really nice comparison of
• 1:06:25
  the other the other Japanese pictures who have come over, and Yamamoto is by
• 1:06:30
  far the best of that bunch, and I don't it looks like he's gonna
• 1:06:33
  be gonna be a lot of fun. No no arguments here. I love
• 1:06:39
  youngmo I. The only concern I have is is every somebody else gonna love
• 1:06:43
  him more like it's you know, there's gonna be somebody probably every draft that
• 1:06:46
  just wants to find him and be able to claim victory that they got him.
• 1:06:50
  So but there I see it on the upside with them, and I
• 1:06:55
  am loving him in dynasty type formats. Yeah, right now, he's pick
• 1:07:00
  fifty nine on an FBC and I'd taken Nolan Jones, Yamamoto four or five
• 1:07:05
  turn I'd be pretty sweet. Yeah, all of that. If it's available,
• 1:07:11
  like it's, it's climbing, the cost is climbing. So he's got
• 1:07:14
  a min pick since the beginning of the year at twenty five, and it
• 1:07:17
  might go higher and higher as draft season comes along. Because I agree Yambodo
• 1:07:23
  has electric stuff and he's a great buy there. So who are you going
• 1:07:27
  to go with for yourself? My cell is Freddy Freeman number nine. At
• 1:07:32
  the moment he is, I don't know he's I have a really hard time
• 1:07:39
  getting excited for Freeman, And you know, he's if you want to play
• 1:07:43
  the ultimate safe first rounder. If that's your style, great, that doesn't
• 1:07:47
  tend to be my style. When I draft, I tend to chase upside
• 1:07:51
  as you can probably tell buy my buy so far. And he's thirty four
• 1:07:57
  years old. He's the oldest player in the first round. The decline's coming,
• 1:08:00
  and I don't want to be there when it happens, so that'll be
• 1:08:03
  a pass. Yeah. And so let's say you had like the chance to
• 1:08:09
  take Freddy Freeman. What guy that's going behind him are you going to take
• 1:08:14
  instead? Let's see, let's see where where everybody's at. So yeah,
• 1:08:21
  other guys you got to going, like just behind him would be like Tetis
• 1:08:26
  Soto, Judge Strider, oh a tattoos all day. If he's there,
• 1:08:30
  I'd take Tatis. Yeah, one hundred times out of one hundred over Freeman.
• 1:08:34
  Yeah, I think that's fair. Yeah. Yeah, I personally I
• 1:08:40
  like Freeman because I like the batting average, I like the combo that you
• 1:08:43
  can get all five categories. But I mean, I think that's fair.
• 1:08:47
  I can see the warts on him, and I can see like why you
• 1:08:51
  might not want to take him where he's going, but it is very tempting
• 1:08:56
  after what he's been putting up for the past few years. Yep. Yeah,
• 1:09:00
  I think I think the good point that you made trust was depends in
• 1:09:02
  your style is how do you like the draft? I yeah, exact you
• 1:09:05
  in the early rounds like I am buying more and then I'm going crazy with
• 1:09:12
  my injury risk and all kinds of upside stuff later. If you heard our
• 1:09:15
  New Year's Resolution podcast, mine was to avoid all the injury guys. I
• 1:09:19
  think in the first by cell, I picked like three injury guys to buy.
• 1:09:24
  So you know, we never we never change. But it really comes
• 1:09:28
  down I think the strategy on how you like to approach things with with Freeman.
• 1:09:33
  Yeah, and so Bruf, let's go to you for your bysel is
• 1:09:38
  your because of that is your by newly minted Dodgers picture James Paxton probably here
• 1:09:44
  well ironically my bible and until James packed in the sign and I did not
• 1:09:50
  because of the timing, did not think through Paxston, even though Cooley knows
• 1:09:55
  my deep, deep love for James Paxton. And I think I've owned for
• 1:09:59
  like ten years straight in every single league and probably will get but no,
• 1:10:03
  my buye it is really this is a big stretch here, not very talented
• 1:10:09
  MOOKI bets Muki's number five off the board. On average, there are six
• 1:10:14
  different guys going number two overall at least since the beginning of the year NFPC
• 1:10:19
  data, And to me, Muki is the clear number two on the board
• 1:10:27
  just because he can go across the stat sheet. I know he's not delivering
• 1:10:30
  the same steals as everybody else, but he is the only guy that you
• 1:10:33
  can look at and say, he might you know, lap the field in
• 1:10:36
  runs. He might you know, outpace everybody by twenty thirty runs. And
• 1:10:43
  that's like you kind of forget about the runs category to a degree, and
• 1:10:47
  you know you kind of expect everybody to filter out, like he could actually
• 1:10:50
  push you completely over the top. Well, he hit almost forty home runs
• 1:10:54
  last year and you know it's hitting three hundred, like yeah, like yeah,
• 1:10:57
  he's not a Kunia. I get it. But again, I buy
• 1:11:01
  floor a lot of times early in the draft, so I just think that
• 1:11:04
  he can really set you apart, you know, big bye here moving from
• 1:11:09
  number five to number two. Uh in my push, But I'm taking moviie.
• 1:11:14
  That's set number two off the board all day in the drafts. I
• 1:11:18
  think that, I mean, I think that's fair. I keep wondering that
• 1:11:21
  myself myself too, when you see the eligibilities that BOOKI has too that it's
• 1:11:27
  like, man, let's just you don't get somebody at the top of drafts
• 1:11:30
  that can play second and outfield, and a lot of leagues go qualify it
• 1:11:34
  short too, So it's it's a lot to be able to work with and
• 1:11:39
  be able to go so many different directions with your team. I just want
• 1:11:43
  to be in the league where he went eighth off the board. But so
• 1:11:46
  for my cell, I'm going to the pitching staff as well. Tom Tyler
• 1:11:50
  Glasnow. Tyler Glasnow is the tenth starting pitcher off the board. He has
• 1:11:57
  the most immaculate skill set. I love everything out of Tyler Glassnow except for
• 1:12:01
  the fact that he never can make a start. So Tyler glass Now,
• 1:12:05
  I think I went back and looked. He's been the Majors for eight years,
• 1:12:10
  and I want to read off to you the number of starts he's had
• 1:12:12
  every year. And yes, I know twenty twenty is in there, but
• 1:12:15
  you won't be able to pick it out. Four starts, thirteen starts,
• 1:12:17
  eleven, twelve, eleven, fourteen, two, and then twenty one.
• 1:12:23
  The guy's only made more than fourteen starts once his entire career. That's like
• 1:12:28
  a third of a season. And that's your that's middle of the fourth round.
• 1:12:32
  Is your your number one starting pitcher. I mean, I'm not hitching
• 1:12:36
  my wagons to that, even if he the skills he has and playing on
• 1:12:41
  the Dodgers like that, ADP is just just rising. I'm steering very clear
• 1:12:46
  of glass now, just because the hell skills, love him, love the
• 1:12:49
  environment, love what he's doing there. But come on, it's just I'm
• 1:12:54
  not touching it. Yeah, I think that's fair. It is a good
• 1:12:59
  part for you that Tyler Glasnaw is like the one guy you won't touch.
• 1:13:02
  But I get it, like it's it's a lot. He's have to be
• 1:13:04
  a certain degree of injury risk, like a guy in Price. He's going
• 1:13:10
  in like the third round, you know, Yeah, that's I think.
• 1:13:14
  What What's what scares me is like I'm putting all my eggs in the basket
• 1:13:17
  for my ace. I'm gonna take the ace and I'm gonna wait for a
• 1:13:21
  few rounds for anything else, and we could be out out in May and
• 1:13:25
  he's done for the years, exactly. Okay, all right, Well,
• 1:13:30
  I'm glad that the Dodgers gave us more fodder here because Mike buy and Cell
• 1:13:32
  are different from everyone that we've already had. So my buye here is Evan
• 1:13:39
  Phillips. Once we saw that Josh Hater wasn't coming to LA, I think
• 1:13:44
  the Evan Phillips prices should have started shooting through the roof. They really haven't.
• 1:13:48
  I guess his men pick right now in the month of January is like
• 1:13:51
  down to seventy three, so there are some people that are really excited about
• 1:13:56
  him. I just don't see who gets an end Phil's way for the closer
• 1:14:01
  rule that like the Dodgers have been mixing and matching at the back of that
• 1:14:04
  bullpen, you know, the way most analytically inclined teams do nowadays. But
• 1:14:12
  they've also shown the pensionts to just let somebody close, like with Kenley Janssen
• 1:14:16
  over the years, if they've got the outstanding talent to do it and just
• 1:14:21
  the nails, and I think Evan Phillips does. He's absolutely got filthy stuff.
• 1:14:28
  He looks fantastic on the mound with his presence. Might not have the
• 1:14:31
  highest K nine for a closer, but he's got fantastic control just like doesn't
• 1:14:38
  blow up on you, so I think you can count on he put up
• 1:14:41
  a two O five era. Last year, Steamer has him for a three
• 1:14:45
  six two, But like, I think there's a good possibility, like there's
• 1:14:48
  no chance that he would be over like a two to eight, so like
• 1:14:51
  you could easily update his projections to reflect that. And again last year he
• 1:14:58
  had a point eight three whip Steamer has him for a one twenty one.
• 1:15:00
  Any projection system you're looking at, I think is going to be underrating Evan
• 1:15:03
  Phillips. And I think he's probably like a top five closer for me because
• 1:15:10
  great team, great skill set, and he's just a fantastic pitcher. No
• 1:15:17
  argument here, I think there's no no. I like that. It makes
• 1:15:20
  a lot of sense with the Hater for going else Hater caused a lot of
• 1:15:25
  problems. Yeah, that's and so with the cell I'm staying in the pitching
• 1:15:33
  staff, and that's Walker Bueler. I know this one's going to hurt you,
• 1:15:38
  Brew because you love Walker Beeler. But I just can't get behind the
• 1:15:42
  price until I see more than like two triple A innings or whatever he put
• 1:15:46
  up in one start last year. I need to see a little bit more.
• 1:15:49
  Coming back from a second Tommy John injury, we know that it takes
• 1:15:55
  a little while for control to come back for TJ guys, and given all
• 1:16:00
  of the arms that the Dodgers have, and can you know, make spot
• 1:16:03
  starts and help out with the bullpen. I mean you look at like somebody
• 1:16:08
  like Bruce dar Gratorol can be stretched out a little bit and go multiple innings.
• 1:16:12
  I just don't like where Walker Buehler, Like the floor here is super
• 1:16:17
  low in terms of you know, him not being able to make a lot
• 1:16:20
  of starts, and I just need to see more out of him before I'm
• 1:16:26
  buying in at the price where he's going, it's just way too rich for
• 1:16:29
  me. Yeah, this hurts. I'm not gonna lie. I do love
• 1:16:34
  Walker Buehler. Walker Buehler is uh, there's no a cinder guard if you
• 1:16:40
  look back, like if you look at guys that have the skill set that's
• 1:16:44
  to be unbelievable and just derailed by injury. Like I feel like I've having
• 1:16:49
  Daja vu again with the cinder guard back to day, like all the strikeouts,
• 1:16:54
  great control, ground ball, picture that all these things that you really
• 1:16:58
  look for, and then he just didn't get healthy and lost to velocity and
• 1:17:02
  it was over. That's I'm hanging out to hope. But I have to
• 1:17:06
  agree with you, like, I think you got to see it this year
• 1:17:10
  before you actually invest. Don't get me wrong, I'll probably end up with
• 1:17:14
  a share whichever league he kind of he kind of falls in, but especially
• 1:17:18
  Dynasty League. I'm probably gonna be over investing there. But I think you're
• 1:17:24
  right. Buehler's Bueller is way too tempting, and I think that the Dodger
• 1:17:29
  shine is gonna gonna force people to make a mistake on Walker Bueler. Yeah,
• 1:17:35
  I mean he's going in front of Justin Verlander, Like that blows my
• 1:17:40
  mind. I don't see how you would want to take Verlander over him.
• 1:17:45
  Maybe, you know, if we see that Buehler halfway through the season is
• 1:17:48
  like really found it. But at this point, like in January, I
• 1:17:53
  just can't poof. That's crazy. I would take Justin Verlander one hundred times
• 1:17:58
  half one hundred over him. Okay, yeah, there's a lot of guys
• 1:18:01
  in that range. I'd take over him. Yeah, exactly right, I
• 1:18:04
  like you. I mean, yeah, looking at the other guys around him
• 1:18:08
  in ADP, that's that's brutal. Yeah, you're looking for like a second
• 1:18:11
  starter, second third starter, So it's tough. Yeah, a lot of
• 1:18:14
  fun stuff there. I love Vivvy Gray. There's a lot of cool relievers,
• 1:18:18
  you know, you get get all the way down so you can cool
• 1:18:21
  your favorite Meryl Kelly, Yeah, sitting there. So there's a lot,
• 1:18:25
  there's a lot of interesting stuff right at that same point that does not have
• 1:18:29
  that flag. Yeah, okay, we're gonna go just down the southern California
• 1:18:34
  coastline down to San Diego for the Dads. The Padres been a really rough
• 1:18:40
  offseason for them as they've had to ship one soda out of town and the
• 1:18:45
  they are slowly but surely unmantling some of those high price contracts that they've got
• 1:18:50
  going on. So should be taking a little bit of a step back,
• 1:18:53
  but still a pretty competitive team, and I think, especially on the pitching
• 1:18:58
  staff, we've got a lot of good kind of questions and opportunities going on.
• 1:19:02
  But same thing I think with the bats. Lots of interesting bats still
• 1:19:05
  here in San Diego. So trust who you going with your buy and sell
• 1:19:10
  from the Padres. Yeah, my buie is actually another guy who i'd take
• 1:19:14
  over, Walker Bueller, that's in that same that same range and Joe Musgrove.
• 1:19:18
  I'd much rather much rather have Musgrove over Bueller. There. Muscove is
• 1:19:24
  just always chronically underrated. I feel like coming into this year, well,
• 1:19:29
  going back to last year, he was hampered by you know, dropping a
• 1:19:31
  weight on his toe in spring training, which, right, I feel like,
• 1:19:35
  really set him off the whole season. But he's a guy I'm definitely
• 1:19:40
  looking at bouncing back and and can really can really shoot up and return a
• 1:19:44
  lot of value there at around one ten one hundred, that's that's pretty ideal
• 1:19:48
  as a as a two three, that's that's yeah, that's where I'm looking.
• 1:19:54
  Yeah, I agree, and great, just great volume of innings too,
• 1:19:58
  just always post when he's not dropping weights. Yeah, I feel like
• 1:20:02
  Muscrow still somehow has like a cloud over him for with the Pirates. It's
• 1:20:06
  just like that anybody with the Pirates I just don't want to touch. I
• 1:20:10
  think it's a common thing, like kind with the White Socks and the Rockies
• 1:20:14
  and so now, Like even though he's been conver fewyears and shown this like
• 1:20:16
  what he can actually do, I think people still like it's Joe must grow,
• 1:20:20
  Like come on, yeah, I think we have a lot of memories
• 1:20:26
  fantasy baseballish. That's true, all right, who are you gonna go for
• 1:20:30
  yourself? Uh so my cell is actually that's this is short memory and that's
• 1:20:35
  you darbish who just brutalized me last year, and I'm not touching this year.
• 1:20:40
  I I almost dropped him a few times that last year. He just
• 1:20:46
  if he's he seems broken and if he's not, I'll let somebody else take
• 1:20:50
  the shot on him. I mean, he's going low enough or it's not
• 1:20:54
  that risky of a shot. But yeah, I don't. I just that's
• 1:20:59
  a sour taste in my mouth. But I'm not going back to Yeah,
• 1:21:01
  I totally understand. And I was looking at him to put him, you
• 1:21:06
  know, somewhere in the bicell. And the home runs have gotten out of
• 1:21:10
  control, Like I think I lost sight of that a little bit last year,
• 1:21:13
  that it's really tough to depend on somebody like that when they're just letting
• 1:21:19
  the ball fly out of the park consistently. I mean, look at like
• 1:21:23
  lanceln It just like erects you and it comes out of nowhere. Yeah.
• 1:21:30
  Yeah, seven earned runs and three innings. Those are always rough, and
• 1:21:33
  it feels like it takes forever to dig out of those holes, but you
• 1:21:36
  get you get down in them really quick. Yeah, exactly. Just it's
• 1:21:41
  so tempting. Oh, it's fun to watch this stuff. It's just tempting
• 1:21:44
  to take him. But when you look at the other options, you look
• 1:21:47
  at the volatility, it's just like, no, you better better stay away.
• 1:21:51
  So I think he's gonna be one of those drafts that like, he
• 1:21:55
  may drop a long way and it's just gonna be sitting there at the top
• 1:21:58
  of the draft board and it's gonna be so gus starting attempting to commit to
• 1:22:02
  it and then if you do, probably gonna regret it. Yeah. I
• 1:22:06
  think that's totally fair. So Brew, who are you gonna go with your
• 1:22:11
  buy and sell in San Diego? Well, we're gonna keep going through the
• 1:22:15
  rotation here and a guy that I I absolutely love, Michael King. Uh
• 1:22:20
  just coming over from from the Yankees. Uh. You know, I know
• 1:22:24
  the track record's not too long, not too deep, but he was lights
• 1:22:30
  out last year. He really seemed like he fit well in the rotation.
• 1:22:34
  This is a guy that brings the strikeouts, has pretty pretty good control,
• 1:22:40
  decent ground ball rates, things that I love. You know, his last
• 1:22:43
  seven starts last year he had a two two e ar, a one oh
• 1:22:46
  nine whip, five percent walk rate, and thirty two per k rates.
• 1:22:49
  So that was just a unbelievable stretch at the end of the year. And
• 1:22:55
  uh, I'm a little surprised that the Yankees let him go. But I'm
• 1:22:58
  thinking Michael King over guys like Jordan Montgomery, Hunter Green, Chris Bassett,
• 1:23:02
  and even the Walker Bueler that we were just talking about earlier. So I
• 1:23:08
  like Michael King at my buy in San Diego. Yeah, I think that's
• 1:23:13
  a great pick. That he was someone that I was considering as well,
• 1:23:16
  that he was fantastic in his starts down the stretch for the Yankees, and
• 1:23:21
  so I think he showed a lot of what we would have had questions about
• 1:23:26
  if he had been moved into the rotation of the offseason. That doing that
• 1:23:30
  in season's even tougher. So now that he is an off season to prepare,
• 1:23:32
  I love him as a pick. So who are you gonna go with
• 1:23:35
  for yourself? Yeah? So for mysel, I'm going down the draft board
• 1:23:42
  a little bit here in the catchers category. When we were talking Luis camp
• 1:23:45
  Pisano. The reason I'm going to sell because he is the seventeenth catcher off
• 1:23:49
  the board. Going a little deep here, but he has been going as
• 1:23:53
  high as number eight for his mid pick as far as catchers, and you
• 1:23:58
  know, you can easily look him. He was just twenty five years old
• 1:24:01
  and he's got all this upside. But last year he was bullied by a
• 1:24:05
  high baby if he had almost a three forty BEBA. And if you just
• 1:24:09
  look at his splits from a career perspective, you know he's got a WRT
• 1:24:14
  plus against the lefties of almost one seventy, but then eighty against the writings
• 1:24:19
  like he is very inconsistent. He's platoon bound, and I'm surprised that he's
• 1:24:25
  even been taken as a starting catcher in a two catcher league for Campusado here
• 1:24:30
  so shocked to degree that he's been taken at the number one in some of
• 1:24:34
  the draft data that we were seen. So I'm definitely out on Louis Campusano.
• 1:24:40
  Yeah, I think that's fair that I have been on here touting a
• 1:24:45
  bunch of young catchers, but Campusano I've never really been into. I just
• 1:24:48
  it's a lot of prospect like projection on him as opposed to actual production over
• 1:24:55
  the years, and so I think he needs to turn a corner and actually
• 1:24:59
  shows something for me to start believing in him at all. That there's so
• 1:25:02
  many young late catchers as we keep covering that Campusano, I think is maybe
• 1:25:08
  the one landmine in all of them. Yeah, absolutely, all right,
• 1:25:12
  well's set, let's say cool, let's hit your your picks for the Padres.
• 1:25:16
  Okay, so my buy is going to be pretty deep. That actually
• 1:25:23
  I don't even know if I ever looked up as ADP data, so I
• 1:25:26
  will look that up now. And that is Giro Iraute, one of the
• 1:25:31
  prospect arms that the Padres have. And this is also kind of like a
• 1:25:35
  in general, like all these kind of back end Padres arms. I really
• 1:25:41
  like them that like, not only is like Michael King, I think a
• 1:25:45
  really great get, but like Johnny Brito is going to be on a lot
• 1:25:47
  of my teams as a late pick, as well as Drew Thorpe. That
• 1:25:55
  there's a lot of opportunity at the back end of the Padres rotation. And
• 1:26:00
  I think my favorite of them all though is Gyry Artdey. Last year,
• 1:26:03
  he was absolutely insane that he put up in double A over twenty nine innings,
• 1:26:11
  so he got seven starts seven starts over thirteen games in late summer.
• 1:26:15
  He's also he was twenty one when he moved up, so he's very young
• 1:26:19
  that we're looking at somebody with a fifteen point six K nine there, but
• 1:26:24
  it did come with a lot of walks five point two walks k per nine.
• 1:26:28
  So he's got just electric stuff that he's learning to command. And I
• 1:26:33
  think with the offseason you got to hope that he's put a little bit that
• 1:26:38
  work in because he wasn't really having these issues until I think he probably bumped
• 1:26:43
  up his velocity during the twenty twenty COVID time. You just see it like
• 1:26:47
  in terms of his growth, where twenty nineteen he came in and wasn't as
• 1:26:50
  much of like a strikeout artist in rookie ball and then came back with just
• 1:26:56
  some filthier stuff that he's been rising through the Padres system. He's got lots
• 1:27:00
  of good stuff written about him from Baseball Perspectus and Eric Longenhangen that I think
• 1:27:05
  he's got the most electric arm in this Padre system. And so when we're
• 1:27:10
  talking the very very end of drafts, you know he is going I still
• 1:27:15
  should have looked that up while I was talking I looked it up. He's
• 1:27:19
  going seven forty four off the ball. Yeah, exactly, I'm pretty sure.
• 1:27:25
  Except in your one hundred roster league he is three. Yeah, So
• 1:27:30
  like question to you, are you drafted him uh in or only if you
• 1:27:34
  have a minor spot. Yeah, so that if you do have minor league
• 1:27:38
  spots, definitely situations there or draft and holds like I would be looking at
• 1:27:42
  him. I mean your standard like twelve team. He's more of like a
• 1:27:44
  watchless guy, you know, And only I would be picking him and like
• 1:27:47
  holding him because I think he's got the stuff to either rise through spring training
• 1:27:54
  or come up quickly because the back end of this padre's rotation is just gonna
• 1:28:00
  be like they're trained to patch up the boat while it's sinking. So you
• 1:28:05
  know, right now in the four or five spot on roster resource you have
• 1:28:09
  Pedro Avila and Randy Vasquez. They're okay, but like I just don't see
• 1:28:14
  it happening and sticking all year, and who knows with Michael King's injury history
• 1:28:18
  and you Darvish, as we just talked, has been really rough. So
• 1:28:21
  I think because of the opportunity, Erarte will get in there quick, just
• 1:28:27
  because they got to try to win now that like they have Machado tatist,
• 1:28:32
  Bogart signed these big contracts and they've got to try to put this together and
• 1:28:38
  make a wild wild card team on the fly. Well here I heard it
• 1:28:43
  first, gyro Urarte. Yeah, it's a good deep cut. It was
• 1:28:46
  a pretty cut. And we'll come back to this, I think July next
• 1:28:50
  ye year, and you'll look like a genius or world forgot. I know.
• 1:28:55
  This is coming from the guy who spent like three months all summer talking
• 1:28:59
  about Mike McGreevy and my Waiver Wire article. So fair point for you.
• 1:29:09
  Yeah, just throwing the biases out there, just letting everybody know. Okay,
• 1:29:15
  uh for my cell though, I'm gonna go with Xander Bogart's. I
• 1:29:17
  think it's a little bit of like the name is more valuable than the actual
• 1:29:23
  production. That last year he did pick up soul and bases along with everybody
• 1:29:27
  else. You know, he got back up to double digits at nineteen,
• 1:29:30
  but he only gave you a two eighty five average with nineteen homers. Now
• 1:29:35
  that he's left Boston, and so I think what made Xander a good pick
• 1:29:41
  where he's going now, which is you know, around pick one hundred,
• 1:29:45
  So that's historically kind of where he's hung out. What he's been good about
• 1:29:49
  in that range over time has been the floor that he gives you on that
• 1:29:54
  Banning average, because Boston's a great place to hit, best place after Coors
• 1:29:59
  Fee. So with that gone and hitting in the marine layer in San Diego,
• 1:30:03
  it really drove down his average and everything around him is also not as
• 1:30:09
  offensively good that the bottom half of the Padres lineup is just like the back
• 1:30:13
  half of that rotation where they're gonna have to figure that on the fly and
• 1:30:16
  it's gonna hurt his RBIs his runs that I would rather pass on. Where's
• 1:30:23
  Andre Bogotz is going? And you know there's tons of shortstops going in that
• 1:30:27
  range that provide a little more upside between Folpi or Trevor Story or Willie Dominis
• 1:30:32
  in a contract year going later, Jackson Holliday, I'd rather go that route
• 1:30:38
  and save my pick where Bogart's is going right now? Yeah, both interesting.
• 1:30:45
  He's an interesting guy, right. It's sometimes those players you just don't
• 1:30:48
  know what to do with them, Like you can see a buy or a
• 1:30:51
  cell and so you just don't draft them at all, so you don't know
• 1:30:54
  what to think. Like that's example, Bogart Smiths is like I look at
• 1:30:58
  I was thinking the same thing when I first started looking from like sell Xander
• 1:31:01
  all day, and his numbers are like, man, he was better last
• 1:31:04
  year than I thought he was, but I still can't buy him. So
• 1:31:09
  yeah, he's one of those guys that I think you just I'm just avoiding
• 1:31:11
  him because I have no idea what to get out of him. And when
• 1:31:14
  that's the case, like is he gonna steal twenty bases or five? Hard
• 1:31:17
  to build a team around that, I agree, somebody will be higher on
• 1:31:24
  him than I am. Yeah, absolutely, Yeah, that's why I'm thinking
• 1:31:28
  too. All right, let's go back north in San Francisco up to San
• 1:31:32
  Francisco North in California. That's what I meant to say. And I think
• 1:31:39
  this is going to be another interesting I'm looking forward to this discussion because what's
• 1:31:43
  kind of weird is the Giants also only have five players in the top three
• 1:31:47
  hundred right now like the Rockies, but the overall team is certainly different.
• 1:31:53
  They're going to be a much better team, a competitive team playing for wild
• 1:31:56
  card, but it's more so that they're playing like the Rays with platoons everywhere,
• 1:32:01
  got some uncertain arms coming through in new roles. So trust there's a
• 1:32:06
  lot going on in San Francisco. But I think that's also right for us
• 1:32:10
  fantasy players to find good opportunities. So who are you going with for your
• 1:32:14
  buy and sell? Yeah, there is, it's how do you think of
• 1:32:17
  it done? I went a little bit deep on this one, and this
• 1:32:21
  is more of one of those injury injury stashes, and that's grabbing Robbie Ray
• 1:32:29
  really late free basically, I think it was out four ninety eight and just
• 1:32:34
  you know, stashing them if you've got one of those leagues with a lot
• 1:32:38
  of injury spots or you know, I probably won't snag him in an RCL
• 1:32:42
  because we only have three injury spots and those those always get tight. But
• 1:32:47
  a league with more than that, I think that's a really good, really
• 1:32:51
  good stash for the second half of the season. Yeah, I think that's
• 1:32:56
  fair. I like that. I like that pick just because your point like,
• 1:32:59
  you're not investing much there, and he's the kind of guy that at
• 1:33:01
  the end of the day, like if you have to cut him loose.
• 1:33:03
  In April, or may because you got a roster crunch. You're like,
• 1:33:06
  well, oh well it was worth trying, right, and it was a
• 1:33:11
  free be to a degree, so maybe you're there later in the in the
• 1:33:15
  summer you're like, I really need drike outs. Just wait for Robbie Ray.
• 1:33:18
  You might kill you on the rest of them everything else and it might
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  be brutal, but yeah, you win somebody loose. Yeah. I also
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  like that, you know, he's not stretched out to start all the time,
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  that the giants could do a Sean and I A with him and use
• 1:33:33
  him as like a following an opener and kind of find spots to pick and
• 1:33:38
  choose for him. Yeah, he can be really effective in that kind of
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  role. Yeah, okay, who's your cell? Yeah, it's hard to
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  find a sell. Like you said, everybody's so low. I guess if
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  I had I went just go right to the top and devall. If I
• 1:33:54
  have to sell somebody, I feel like that's he's kind of in that upper
• 1:33:59
  low were upper I guess closer range that I'm probably just gonna skip and wait
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  for a guy like Evan Phillips a little bit later, who who I like
• 1:34:08
  a little more and can can save almost fifty picks and get equivalent, if
• 1:34:14
  not better production from So yeah, I think that's fair. The problem I
• 1:34:18
  have with theval and this is like completely a West Coast bias, is that
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  he's the kind of guy that go to sleep with and then wake up in
• 1:34:26
  the morning and he's he's given up five earned and won the slaves. Say,
• 1:34:30
  but I missed it, and so I didn't check the team, and
• 1:34:32
  then I come back later like his era is now like four and a half,
• 1:34:36
  I'm like, what happened? Like I, which is again that's zero
• 1:34:41
  like fantasy relevance. But the fact that like he seems to BLOWO saves in
• 1:34:45
  the middle of the night, that I miss it, and then I come
• 1:34:46
  back and be like, I'm shocked that those things happen. But he seems
• 1:34:50
  volatile. He seems like one of those guys that's just waiting to blow up
• 1:34:55
  at some point and lose the job and never get it back. Right,
• 1:34:57
  Yeah, wait to have Jordan Hicks step in, Yeah, absolutely, or
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  the Rogers Brothers is gonna start, Yeah, gonna right in the middle.
• 1:35:06
  Yeah, Okay, I think those are great picks. So Brew, I'll
• 1:35:11
  let you go here. What you got for your buy and sell from the
• 1:35:14
  Giants. Yeah, so I'm gonna I'm gonna start with my cell just because
• 1:35:17
  we're talking talking pictures here. So my self for the Giants is Kyle Harrison.
• 1:35:26
  Kyle Harrison's going two seventy five something like that off the board. And
• 1:35:32
  the problem with Harrison is not the talent, it's the volatility. And he's
• 1:35:38
  the kind of guy that you're like, gonna, you're you're messing around with,
• 1:35:42
  Like he's got control issues. We think maybe not, who knows,
• 1:35:45
  it's kind of hard to tell sometimes, but he's you like to see a
• 1:35:49
  juicy matchup and you're like, I'm gonna start him in this matchup. He's
• 1:35:53
  gonna go up against the pirates or whoever. And then he just walks like
• 1:35:57
  seven guys and kills your gives up six earned and they just leave him out
• 1:36:01
  there to to go deep in the game, to let the bullpen rest.
• 1:36:04
  And so I think that my problem with Kyle Harrison is I have them on
• 1:36:08
  my team. I'm going to constantly torpedo myself because I'm gonna make the wrong
• 1:36:13
  choice and I just I need to peck myself because I'm gonna see those and
• 1:36:15
  I'm gonna want to lay into it. I'm gonna miss the great start and
• 1:36:18
  try to start in the next week. Like I'm just scared of the roster
• 1:36:23
  management issues with with Kyle Harrison again that analysis of anything of him, just
• 1:36:29
  the fact that I can't manage my own lineups. You got to know your
• 1:36:34
  own weaknesses, right, Yeah, injury guys and young starting pitchers. From
• 1:36:42
  a buy perspective, one of my favorite buys of all hitters is on the
• 1:36:47
  Giants. I love NATO's He is a guy that reached the majors at twenty
• 1:36:54
  one. He only batted under three hundred and one stop in the minors.
• 1:37:00
  He was a great consistent hitters, you know, he was kind of a
• 1:37:03
  fifteen to fifteen guy between the miners and the majors, and he was walking
• 1:37:10
  more than he struck out before he got called up last year. So he
• 1:37:13
  has great plate discipline. So he's one of those kind of guys that just
• 1:37:16
  I mean a little growth from a twenty one year old getting twenty two to
• 1:37:21
  twenty three, you know, really getting up there if he's already going fifteen
• 1:37:25
  to fifteen, has a capability to hit three hundred with great plate approach.
• 1:37:29
  It's not that hard to squint at him and go, could he go twenty
• 1:37:31
  twenty and hit three hundred? Well, yeah, he absolutely could, and
• 1:37:35
  he's basically free. So I don't know. I didn't look at roster resources
• 1:37:40
  to see what they says. I just think that his talent deserves an opportunity
• 1:37:45
  to be starting in the San Francisco outfield. But he's going at roughly pick
• 1:37:51
  six hundred at this point. So I absolutely love Luis Matto's and I'm going
• 1:37:56
  to be absolutely frustrated if he is not starting for the Giants. Yeah,
• 1:38:02
  he's currently slated for Triple A, but I think that's fair because they're always
• 1:38:06
  mixing and matchin and Jazz is hurt. Confordo was hurt that. I think
• 1:38:13
  I saw a little bit of that in the outfield too, because my BI
• 1:38:15
  is actually Helio Ramos and kind of like the same thing. He's currently scheduled
• 1:38:19
  for the short side platoon of like one of those positions with Confordo on YAZ.
• 1:38:25
  But it's mostly because the bad of ball data on Helio Ramos is a
• 1:38:30
  lot better than you would think it would be. That even though he really
• 1:38:33
  struggled last year when he was in the major's only put up a one seventy
• 1:38:38
  nine two thirty three three h four slash. I mean it was only over
• 1:38:43
  sixty played appearances, so we're not talking a huge sample size, but that
• 1:38:46
  came with a thirty three percent strikeout rate. He's struck out won every three
• 1:38:50
  at bats. But what's crazy about it is he has great contact rates in
• 1:38:57
  zone. He's got a eighty nine contact rate. So what he's actually needing
• 1:39:02
  to do is being able to, you know, swing maybe a little bit
• 1:39:08
  less on the edges. Like his O swing's not even terrible, it's thirty
• 1:39:11
  five percent, but out his own contact rate is forty six percent, So
• 1:39:15
  you're looking at somebody who maybe needs to learn to lay off a slider a
• 1:39:18
  little bit. And when he does get the bat on the ball, his
• 1:39:24
  exit maxit exit below last year was one twelve point seven, so that's pretty
• 1:39:30
  good. You're looking at a barrel rate. Again, it was a pretty
• 1:39:32
  small sample size, but of thirteen percent, he hits the ball hard.
• 1:39:36
  So I think that you know, now that Ramos has gotten a taste of
• 1:39:41
  the majors, hopefully they can retool him a little bit over the offseason and
• 1:39:45
  he can get a chance to shine in one of those outfield spots. Well,
• 1:39:50
  we'll see. You have both picked guys that the miners all year.
• 1:39:56
  This will be a good recap to come back to exactly. I mean both
• 1:40:00
  talented though they're they're both I like, I like both the picks. Well,
• 1:40:03
  just that it's so frustrating over there with with all their platoons and yeah,
• 1:40:09
  you read through the line up there just like nothing inspires like excitement.
• 1:40:13
  You like, I just draw to La Monte Wade, Wilmer, Flores Conford
• 1:40:16
  to J D. Davis, like Pa patrick Ley, like nothing there just
• 1:40:19
  like, yes, I'm really excited. But they're they're all like that solid
• 1:40:25
  player that you just wish there's a little bit more. I guess that's why
• 1:40:28
  they love bron Brennan Crawford for all those years. That's the Giants type of
• 1:40:31
  player, the guy that like he just could be you just hope that he
• 1:40:35
  could turn the corner. And now they're just they're just average. Yeah,
• 1:40:40
  it will be weird not having Brandon Crawford there this year, So it's we
• 1:40:45
  strange, like fans. So yeah, and I guess, I mean I
• 1:40:53
  didn't really have a so I guess maybe it's my Confordo here because of like
• 1:40:57
  what we're talking about. He's not good defensively. This isn't a team that
• 1:41:00
  can have like a full time DHS. They needed to swap people in and
• 1:41:03
  out, and it would be really tough to see where Confordo maybe fits in
• 1:41:10
  long term. You know, any sort of small injury I think to Confordo
• 1:41:14
  and they, the San Francisco Giants, I think will jump on that to
• 1:41:17
  be able to like phantom ale him as long as they can. So I'm
• 1:41:21
  saying away from Michael Confordo and would rather take a shot on some of these
• 1:41:26
  deeper up and coming outfielders that we just talked about. Yeah, I like
• 1:41:30
  it awesome, Well I think, I mean, I would ask everybody's pick
• 1:41:38
  for this division. But anybody not going with the Dodgers. This is last
• 1:41:42
  week we ran into this too, and seeing if anybody was not picking the
• 1:41:45
  Braves for the N East any reason, we wouldn't. Anyone wants to go
• 1:41:49
  out a limb and not pick the Dodgers here to win the division. Like
• 1:41:59
  I'm still I'm still shocked. I was looking at their ADP and we were
• 1:42:02
  joking about the fifteen guys in the top three hundred. That's literally every starting
• 1:42:06
  hitter, every starting pitcher in the closer. Now, yeah, it's not
• 1:42:11
  quite that bad because she hands no longer in there. You know, Paxson's
• 1:42:14
  probably to take it spot. Like literally every starting player on your team is
• 1:42:18
  being drafted for relevance and fantasy like, that's that's just not fair. Like
• 1:42:25
  on fantasy game, we're trying to pick the best of the best. Like,
• 1:42:27
  well, I want to see the team out there that just drafts the
• 1:42:29
  entire Dodgers roster and then still wins their fantasy Like, that's just not fair.
• 1:42:36
  Trust, what about you? You got any reason to doubt the Dodgers
• 1:42:40
  this year? No, I like Bruce Spike call just just for Spie,
• 1:42:45
  But no, it's I mean, it's it's their division to lose. So
• 1:42:49
  yeah, I totally agree. So that was a great overcap. I think
• 1:42:54
  of the you know West, we hit some top tippy top of the draft,
• 1:42:58
  you know, top ten guys and some really late minor league guys.
• 1:43:01
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• 1:43:05
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• 1:43:14
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