Latest / Foul Territory / MLB Power Rankings, Hunter Greene’s FIRE, Kristian Campbell’s rise
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Anythink's contin Paris is gonna win a bating title too.
- 0:02Speaker 1: So that's why he's and I think Cam is he's
- 0:05Speaker 1: pining for a job on that staff.
- 0:13Speaker 2: It's Cam, it's Braun, it's Krafts. You know what we
- 0:16Speaker 2: haven't done in a minute, Kraft.
- 0:20Speaker 1: Give ranks.
- 0:22Speaker 2: Oh no, well that's been two weeks. We're gonna do those.
- 0:24Speaker 2: Look at that Cam smile. He's excited to get involved
- 0:27Speaker 2: on power rankings.
- 0:28Speaker 3: I know, I cannot wait. I cannot wait. I'm high
- 0:32Speaker 3: ten games in eleven games in Yeah, I can't wait
- 0:36Speaker 3: to see what you guys have. I know I'm excited
- 0:39Speaker 3: about mine. I'm excited. I'm excited for Cratzy to disagree
- 0:43Speaker 3: at probably like three of my seven through team I
- 0:46Speaker 3: can't like.
- 0:46Speaker 4: I'm really excited for that.
- 0:49Speaker 2: Yeah, this is where you find out who doesn't like
- 0:55Speaker 2: you on say YouTube and social media comments, and who
- 0:58Speaker 2: really doesn't like you and thinks that you don't know
- 1:01Speaker 2: ball or don't watch their team enough. This is a
- 1:03Speaker 2: good stuff. So we'll get to that. But first off,
- 1:08Speaker 2: let's give away some Adidas cleats, shall we. So we
- 1:11Speaker 2: threw this up there on Twitter this morning, like this post.
- 1:16Speaker 2: It's on ft Twitter right now at foul Territory TV.
- 1:19Speaker 2: Very easy to find and you can comment. The comment
- 1:23Speaker 2: is a really tough question. Your favorite player? We were
- 1:26Speaker 2: not specific. We just want to see that you have
- 1:28Speaker 2: a pulse. Who is your favorite baseball player? Can you
- 1:31Speaker 2: name one that you love for a chance to win
- 1:33Speaker 2: a pair of Adidas at a zero impact plus florals
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- 1:42Speaker 2: So if you're like, oh, I don't want that pair
- 1:45Speaker 2: it doesn't fit, We're going to get you the pair
- 1:47Speaker 2: that fits your foot. So good luck to everyone. Did
- 1:52Speaker 2: you guys comment on it? I put Ricky Henderson. I
- 1:55Speaker 2: IP love Ricky and actually the shirt kind of helps
- 1:58Speaker 2: to represent the the A's fam a little bit. The
- 2:02Speaker 2: green is for the Gators today. But still love Ricky.
- 2:05Speaker 2: Did you guys comment? And if not, do it now?
- 2:07Speaker 2: But who would you put as your favorite player? Many
- 2:10Speaker 2: people put kratz in Aj as their favorite players, but
- 2:13Speaker 2: I feel like they were just kissing up to the contest.
- 2:16Speaker 2: It is a randomly selected contest, so that doesn't work.
- 2:23Speaker 4: You can always huh, who'd you say? You can always
- 2:30Speaker 4: say always say one player?
- 2:32Speaker 1: Right? Yeah?
- 2:33Speaker 2: I mean yeah, you know you don't have to take
- 2:35Speaker 2: it too seriously. But who would you put on there?
- 2:40Speaker 4: I would probably I mean, I grew up being a
- 2:42Speaker 4: Griffy fan.
- 2:43Speaker 3: I'm the eighties baby, so it's kind of It was Griffy,
- 2:46Speaker 3: Andrew Jones and Mike Cameron, but I probably would have
- 2:49Speaker 3: put Griffy.
- 2:51Speaker 1: You were barely in the eighties. You ain't that old kid,
- 2:54Speaker 1: you like you were like you were just you were
- 2:56Speaker 1: getting on the end of the end of the eighties.
- 2:58Speaker 1: I put Guard Stubbs with my face favorite player.
- 3:00Speaker 4: Well, it was cool.
- 3:01Speaker 1: One of the first commenters, Michael Sockman Beer, he put
- 3:06Speaker 1: me as a favorite player, So, I mean, I feel
- 3:09Speaker 1: like I feel like he never saw me play. But
- 3:11Speaker 1: that's okay. I'm not against it. Thank you, Michael Sockman Beer.
- 3:16Speaker 1: Appreciate you.
- 3:17Speaker 2: Wow, that's good. That's deep with that shout out. I
- 3:20Speaker 2: thought you were originally talking about Tocman, your buddy in
- 3:22Speaker 2: the Biggs, but you went next level on.
- 3:25Speaker 4: That shot man.
- 3:26Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly. One more announcement and then we'll charge. Tomorrow
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- 4:02Speaker 2: and I'm working on some other cool guests that will
- 4:06Speaker 2: join us. More on that tomorrow. Let's charge.
- 4:11Speaker 4: Let's charge about?
- 4:14Speaker 2: Can we gotta start with Hunter Green eight and two
- 4:16Speaker 2: third shutout innings, four hits. The era is down to
- 4:19Speaker 2: one three to one after a few starts as the
- 4:22Speaker 2: Reds and the Giant seven game winning streak with a
- 4:26Speaker 2: two to nothing dub. So some really good pitching performances yesterday.
- 4:30Speaker 2: This one stood out. This is a guy who I
- 4:32Speaker 2: think is reminding everyone that last year he was very
- 4:35Speaker 2: much in the running for Cy Young and he's doing
- 4:38Speaker 2: things that even in a game with so much VLO,
- 4:41Speaker 2: no one else is doing. Carrying that Vello into the
- 4:44Speaker 2: ninth inning, He's pumping ninety nine plus in the ninth
- 4:47Speaker 2: inning with the eighty nine slider, almost got the CG.
- 4:50Speaker 2: He's had one before. What did you think of these swings,
- 4:53Speaker 2: missus and Takes?
- 4:55Speaker 4: Yeah, it was phenomenal.
- 4:57Speaker 3: The thing that stood out to me more than anything
- 4:59Speaker 3: is where his confidence level is right now. I mean
- 5:02Speaker 3: he was pumping ninety nine to one hundred throughout the game,
- 5:05Speaker 3: but now you can tell that he's starting to pitch.
- 5:07Speaker 3: And I even wonder, and I would love to hear
- 5:09Speaker 3: from Cratzy when you talk about a pitching standpoint. I
- 5:12Speaker 3: think he's still learning, right. I saw a couple of
- 5:14Speaker 3: two seamers at ninety nine. You saw the fourth seamer.
- 5:17Speaker 3: I mean he was north and south with it the slider.
- 5:20Speaker 3: But I think back early Verlander, right when Verlander could
- 5:25Speaker 3: pitch around ninety five ninety six and then go get
- 5:27Speaker 3: that one hundred, because when I watched guys in that game,
- 5:30Speaker 3: there were a few balls that were squared up right
- 5:32Speaker 3: because guys are sitting ninety nine and one hundred. But
- 5:34Speaker 3: I think he could even mess with timing even more
- 5:37Speaker 3: if he could find a way to maybe just back
- 5:39Speaker 3: off early in the game.
- 5:41Speaker 4: Here and there.
- 5:42Speaker 3: But it was a phenomenal performance and he needed to
- 5:44Speaker 3: have that kind of performance because when you look at
- 5:46Speaker 3: what Logan Webb.
- 5:47Speaker 4: Been on the other end, he was nasty as well.
- 5:49Speaker 3: So it was it was fun fun to watch that
- 5:51Speaker 3: out in between those two guys.
- 5:54Speaker 1: Yeah, there was just there was nothing to be had
- 5:56Speaker 1: on the offensive side, especially when when Hunter Green, you
- 6:00Speaker 1: know we're talking about specifically, is able to spot that
- 6:02Speaker 1: fastball down in a way. That is something that is
- 6:07Speaker 1: it's forgotten. Not that teams don't want to do it,
- 6:10Speaker 1: not that players don't pitchers don't want to do it,
- 6:13Speaker 1: but that's what the Braves have built their entire pitching
- 6:16Speaker 1: philosophy on. People come back at me and say, ah,
- 6:20Speaker 1: Strider did this. Strider, I get it. There's some dudes
- 6:23Speaker 1: that get into more of the new pitcher mold, and
- 6:26Speaker 1: I think Hunter Green coming out of high school, being
- 6:28Speaker 1: a dude that threw triple digits out of high school,
- 6:31Speaker 1: Everyone's like, Oh, he's going to be in the big
- 6:33Speaker 1: leagues immediately. Doesn't happen for everybody. He's still twenty five.
- 6:37Speaker 1: He's still twenty five years old. This is now his
- 6:39Speaker 1: fourth full season in the big leagues, and he has
- 6:43Speaker 1: the tutelage of Derek Johnson. DJ is one of the
- 6:46Speaker 1: best pitching coaches to be able to know how to
- 6:49Speaker 1: make your mechanics really streamlined, but also be able to
- 6:54Speaker 1: make all your pitches usable in the zone for outs.
- 6:59Speaker 1: And I think that's what I've seen in the last
- 7:00Speaker 1: two years is he doesn't need to be a twelve
- 7:04Speaker 1: to fifteen punch out guy a game. He can go
- 7:07Speaker 1: a little bit longer, hopefully with this new ability to
- 7:12Speaker 1: mix and match in the zone. He's still pumping one hundred.
- 7:15Speaker 1: It's not like he's a thumber now, like he's still
- 7:18Speaker 1: pumping a hundred. But to me, a big change for
- 7:20Speaker 1: him this year that I think could elevate him from
- 7:23Speaker 1: last year being a cy Young contender to this year
- 7:25Speaker 1: being a top three guy. Travino behind the plate, Jose
- 7:30Speaker 1: Travino has caught some aces before in his career, He's
- 7:33Speaker 1: had success, and I think that relationship will just continue
- 7:37Speaker 1: to grow. He did an amazing job last night with
- 7:40Speaker 1: him back there, so it's exciting for me to watch
- 7:41Speaker 1: this guy.
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- 8:43Speaker 3: Cratzy makes a great point that I think is really huge,
- 8:47Speaker 3: and it takes a guy like Hunter Green with that
- 8:49Speaker 3: type of stuff to buy in. When you watch that game,
- 8:52Speaker 3: Cratzy's right. He attacked in spots in the zone where
- 8:55Speaker 3: he wanted to get contact, where he wanted to get
- 8:57Speaker 3: early outs. Because when you're throwing ninety eight to one hundred,
- 9:01Speaker 3: guys are looking to ambush, right, They're not trying to
- 9:03Speaker 3: get behind the count.
- 9:04Speaker 4: They want to get to you early. But you watching Crassy,
- 9:07Speaker 4: that's a great point. Early, early in those counts, there
- 9:10Speaker 4: were fastballs up up on the up, up, outer, half down,
- 9:14Speaker 4: and end right below the zone where even some of
- 9:18Speaker 4: them square it up. They were outs and they were
- 9:19Speaker 4: quick outs.
- 9:20Speaker 3: So I think right there learning that and understanding like, yes,
- 9:24Speaker 3: I want to punch out and you're gonna get it,
- 9:26Speaker 3: but if I get these quick outs, that's gonna really
- 9:29Speaker 3: benefit me well.
- 9:30Speaker 4: And that bullpen also.
- 9:35Speaker 2: Yeah, And I mean to your point, Cam, look at
- 9:40Speaker 2: what Green just did yesterday, and let's comp a team
- 9:44Speaker 2: that's gonna be high up on our war power rankings
- 9:47Speaker 2: later the Dodgers do they have a picture that can
- 9:51Speaker 2: go that kind of deep. Now, the quick counter I'm
- 9:55Speaker 2: gonna take away from people is they don't need it.
- 9:57Speaker 2: Their bullpens, dasty I agree, but do they have a
- 10:00Speaker 2: guy that can go that deep? And the reason I
- 10:02Speaker 2: ask it is Hunter gring out hurt last year and
- 10:04Speaker 2: he's had TJ and all of that. But is there
- 10:07Speaker 2: any correlation to guys that are kind of letting it
- 10:12Speaker 2: all eat for four or five innings versus a guy
- 10:16Speaker 2: who's figuring out how to navigate a lineup and get
- 10:18Speaker 2: through an entire game, right, not throwing your max blow
- 10:22Speaker 2: at all times. I guess Hunter Green might not be
- 10:24Speaker 2: the best example for this case since he throws so
- 10:27Speaker 2: freaking hard, but he can throw even harder. I mean,
- 10:31Speaker 2: you can go one oh one. I think he's got
- 10:33Speaker 2: as high as one o two or one o three.
- 10:36Speaker 2: So I know there's been reports out there trying to
- 10:38Speaker 2: figure out. You know, of course every pitcher is a
- 10:41Speaker 2: taking time bomb, but what's causing more of an issue?
- 10:44Speaker 2: And I wonder if you know cruise control helps to
- 10:47Speaker 2: at least prevent larger.
- 10:49Speaker 3: Issues, right, and again when you mentioned that, hell, Hunter
- 10:54Speaker 3: Green might be trying to be around cruise control pitching
- 10:57Speaker 3: around ninety seven to ninety nine, like that might be
- 10:59Speaker 3: his crew control, because I mean, Kratzy's been behind the
- 11:02Speaker 3: play catching it. I've hit it, but it looks pretty
- 11:05Speaker 3: effortless when you watch him throw, so he could be going, hey,
- 11:09Speaker 3: I am kind of taking backing off a little bit,
- 11:12Speaker 3: so I can have that one hundred and maybe one
- 11:14Speaker 3: hundred and one late in the game.
- 11:15Speaker 4: So I don't know, Scott, but that's a great point.
- 11:17Speaker 3: And but to answer your question about the Dodgers, I
- 11:19Speaker 3: think the Dodgers have two guys. I think Yamamoto's the
- 11:21Speaker 3: guy that can go deep in games. And watching Glass
- 11:24Speaker 3: now and I know it was raining watching his breaking
- 11:27Speaker 3: ball Cratzy, I mean, I think he might have the
- 11:29Speaker 3: best curveball in the game. So I think it's a
- 11:32Speaker 3: matter of him being in the strike zone, watching that
- 11:35Speaker 3: hundred great performance right finding his areas that he needs
- 11:38Speaker 3: to tunnel and get those early outs. But I think
- 11:41Speaker 3: Glass now facing him and then watching him now, even
- 11:43Speaker 3: the progression of his off speed stuff, I think he
- 11:46Speaker 3: has that wipeout type of stuff where he could go
- 11:48Speaker 3: CG if.
- 11:50Speaker 1: Not a no no, at some point, here's the best curveball.
- 11:55Speaker 1: Here's the best curveball in the game. I mean, I
- 11:56Speaker 1: guess I'm trying to think of like any other bullpen
- 12:00Speaker 1: pieces that would have just like a wipeout curveball. Nobody
- 12:04Speaker 1: has the twelve six curveball like him coming from six
- 12:07Speaker 1: foot seven and pairing off of it ninety nine with
- 12:12Speaker 1: cut like, could he go that distance? Absolutely he could.
- 12:17Speaker 1: I don't know that everybody can throttle throttle pitches back.
- 12:21Speaker 1: I don't know that they can. I would love to
- 12:24Speaker 1: see it, and I think that's where Hunter Green could be.
- 12:27Speaker 1: But even Hunter Green, is he you know, is he
- 12:29Speaker 1: a ninety seven and ninety nine guy and then pop
- 12:32Speaker 1: a one oh two or you know, I think each
- 12:35Speaker 1: guy has to learn that, and each guy has to
- 12:37Speaker 1: have the backing of the organization because if Tyler Glass
- 12:41Speaker 1: now tries to like throttle his fastball and he gets
- 12:44Speaker 1: throttled and he gives up two pumps during that time,
- 12:48Speaker 1: you know, the team's gonna be like, wait a minute,
- 12:50Speaker 1: Like we're looking for you to throw all of your
- 12:53Speaker 1: best pitches ninety two, one hundred times, and then we'll
- 12:57Speaker 1: go ahead and get the next guy in there who's
- 13:00Speaker 1: going to do the exact same thing, and we're gonna
- 13:02Speaker 1: win the ball game. So it's it's not just a
- 13:04Speaker 1: pitcher thing. It's an organizational thing too.
- 13:08Speaker 2: And by the way, to finish this and then we'll
- 13:10Speaker 2: get to Max Munty and the Reds are focusing on
- 13:13Speaker 2: pitching development more than people think. It's great American small park.
- 13:16Speaker 2: The offense actually has been the problem for them to
- 13:19Speaker 2: start the year. Even yesterday they scored two runs. What
- 13:21Speaker 2: did my notes that they took down say when I
- 13:23Speaker 2: did some math on their scoring, So they scored in
- 13:26Speaker 2: a two game span, believe it was twenty five runs
- 13:31Speaker 2: in a two game span. And the other nine they've played,
- 13:34Speaker 2: they've scored sixteen times. And they had the two run
- 13:38Speaker 2: double late from done. Obviously Web was really good. But
- 13:42Speaker 2: they might be a pitching heavy team. They might be
- 13:44Speaker 2: a team that's identity is their pitching staff, giving them
- 13:48Speaker 2: length and giving them swing and miss, which you know
- 13:50Speaker 2: has been a problem for them for a long time.
- 13:52Speaker 2: Chase Burns, their first round pick last year, was a
- 13:54Speaker 2: shocker for many instead of Charlie Condent, Rat Lauder was
- 13:57Speaker 2: a first round pick for them the year before. They
- 13:59Speaker 2: are hunting for pitching right now because it's tough sometimes
- 14:03Speaker 2: for them to recruit it, so good for them. A
- 14:04Speaker 2: little bit of a different flavor of the Reds than
- 14:07Speaker 2: we're used to, and we'll see if Obviously the offense
- 14:09Speaker 2: can bounce back. Let's hit some inside edge stats, shall we.
- 14:23Speaker 2: Christian Campbell, you're up first, since you got paid in
- 14:25Speaker 2: the past week. He's set in the table a lot
- 14:29Speaker 2: for the Red Sox when nobody's on base. So here
- 14:32Speaker 2: it is the on base percentage is at around fifty
- 14:35Speaker 2: seven percent when the bases are empty. It is early
- 14:40Speaker 2: in the season. We get it. But we're looking him up,
- 14:43Speaker 2: seeing where he leads in a category, and Cam that's
- 14:46Speaker 2: a good one because when the bases are empty, I
- 14:49Speaker 2: care less about slug than I would if there's people
- 14:54Speaker 2: on or driving in a runner. Obviously with a runner
- 14:57Speaker 2: a third and less than two outside whole deal, this
- 15:00Speaker 2: is empty. Get someone on.
- 15:01Speaker 4: Base, absolutely, listen those situations. Situations great great rallies.
- 15:09Speaker 3: At the end of the day, I talk about team
- 15:11Speaker 3: at bats through him getting on base, I guarantee you
- 15:16Speaker 3: he's having some.
- 15:16Speaker 4: And if you watch him, he grinds his at bats out.
- 15:19Speaker 3: He's not easy out, he's taking his walks, he's doing
- 15:22Speaker 3: everything that you need a leadoff guy to do so.
- 15:25Speaker 3: And he has the potential to have a rookie rally.
- 15:29Speaker 3: You talked about your favorite player, Ricky Henderson. He can
- 15:32Speaker 3: he has the ability to make it one nothing before
- 15:34Speaker 3: you know it. So I've said it before. I talked
- 15:37Speaker 3: in spring training. I'm a huge Christian campbell guy, and
- 15:40Speaker 3: he is only going to get better, especially around guys
- 15:43Speaker 3: like Alex Bregnant.
- 15:45Speaker 1: How do you do this? How do you come up
- 15:47Speaker 1: to the big leagues and have much good great? It's
- 15:51Speaker 1: wild to me. I don't care if you come up
- 15:53Speaker 1: at thirty or twenty two years old. It's something I
- 15:58Speaker 1: don't know if it's able to be taught. But if
- 16:01Speaker 1: it is, and the Red Sox are doing it in
- 16:03Speaker 1: the minor leagues, whoa like that's a game changer? Does
- 16:07Speaker 1: look at one so too? People will be like, ah, man,
- 16:09Speaker 1: they only hit two eighty this year. Last year, he
- 16:12Speaker 1: only hit this batting average. He's got like a four
- 16:15Speaker 1: something on base percentage like four like hot, like man,
- 16:19Speaker 1: four hundreds Like to me, that's crazy to be able
- 16:22Speaker 1: to do. And he's an elite star. To be able
- 16:25Speaker 1: to get this from a rookie is huge, and how
- 16:28Speaker 1: he does it this early in his career is awesome
- 16:31Speaker 1: and should have held out every time he gets on,
- 16:34Speaker 1: I say, there's an extra million pocket. Should have held
- 16:36Speaker 1: out longer Hey, he is.
- 16:42Speaker 2: Fifth fifth lowest in the American League in swing rate. Right,
- 16:46Speaker 2: so he's taken a lot of pitches. He got thirty
- 16:47Speaker 2: nine percent on that category, and best in baseball in
- 16:51Speaker 2: batting average on fastballs this season five hundred. Again, it's
- 16:56Speaker 2: two weeks, but it's cool.
- 16:58Speaker 4: But but those two things tell something huge.
- 17:03Speaker 3: He's gonna do a lot of damage because, like Crassy said,
- 17:06Speaker 3: the league right now is going, Okay, young guy, let's say,
- 17:09Speaker 3: if you can lay off of this one and you
- 17:10Speaker 3: can lay off of that one. Oh, well, now he's
- 17:12Speaker 3: in a two zero count. Now he's in a two
- 17:14Speaker 3: to one count. Well, we don't want to walk this guy.
- 17:16Speaker 3: We don't want to put him off. So have a
- 17:18Speaker 3: lot of opportunities to get good pitches to hit. So
- 17:21Speaker 3: it's gonna be scary. Like Crazy said that he controls
- 17:24Speaker 3: his own like this right now.
- 17:26Speaker 4: His numbers.
- 17:26Speaker 3: If he could continue to keep that right there, oh
- 17:29Speaker 3: my goodness, the sky's the women for Christian Campbell.
- 17:33Speaker 1: If I were to tell a young kid to get
- 17:34Speaker 1: when he gets called up, what's the one piece or
- 17:37Speaker 1: what's the hitting advice that you would give me, I
- 17:39Speaker 1: would say, don't miss a single heater. Don't swing at
- 17:43Speaker 1: any of the breaking balls. Like if you can train
- 17:46Speaker 1: your brain, train your eyes and your body to do that,
- 17:50Speaker 1: Max Monsey, Max was talking about it there. He's like,
- 17:52Speaker 1: hew Nola's curveball is is pretty tough. If you watch
- 17:56Speaker 1: Max's at bats back and he's one of the best
- 18:00Speaker 1: at staying in the zone. He doesn't chase out the zone.
- 18:03Speaker 1: He won't swing at that curveball until two strikes. So
- 18:06Speaker 1: if you're Christian Campbell and that's the recipe for success,
- 18:11Speaker 1: best way to not strike out on a splitter, a curveball.
- 18:15Speaker 1: You know the pitches that you see guys getting sworded
- 18:17Speaker 1: on and swing and miss on hit the fastball that
- 18:21Speaker 1: he throws right before the curveball he's gonna throw and
- 18:23Speaker 1: he's doing that right now, So kudos to him and
- 18:26Speaker 1: the hitting coaches that are around him.
- 18:29Speaker 2: Two weeks into the big leagues. Right now, we'll do
- 18:32Speaker 2: some injuries suck. Here's one. Zach Eflin exited with shoulder fatigue.
- 18:37Speaker 2: His manager Brandon Hyde said he's gonna get more testing done.
- 18:42Speaker 2: They're missing Grayson Rodriguez right now. Obviously, Kyle Bradish was
- 18:47Speaker 2: a big boy starter for them, but has been out
- 18:49Speaker 2: and you know, missed, He's gonna miss what a year
- 18:53Speaker 2: or whatever? So is he gonna come back later this year?
- 18:55Speaker 2: And I don't know what the update is on him yet.
- 18:57Speaker 2: I Mean, the point we're getting to here is the
- 19:01Speaker 2: starting pitching depth is thin for this team. I'm gonna
- 19:04Speaker 2: leave this one okay, because I'm basically battling certain Orioles
- 19:08Speaker 2: fans that are trying to defend what they've done with
- 19:10Speaker 2: their rotation. So I've talked about it. I feel like
- 19:13Speaker 2: almost every day, you know, their rotation looks like shit,
- 19:17Speaker 2: and they did not work on it this offseason and
- 19:19Speaker 2: now injuries are appearing. Cam. So what do you think
- 19:23Speaker 2: of this Oriols team that could win a World Series
- 19:27Speaker 2: if they did what they were supposed to do and
- 19:29Speaker 2: grab an ace this offseason.
- 19:31Speaker 3: I think we've all said it, you know, and I
- 19:34Speaker 3: think this, and this is the issue that will continue
- 19:36Speaker 3: to arise as we watched them for the last two
- 19:38Speaker 3: seasons put together an extremely competitive group. Right, But you
- 19:44Speaker 3: can get in trouble holding on the prospects.
- 19:46Speaker 4: Right.
- 19:47Speaker 3: There becomes a time where in the big leagues veterans
- 19:50Speaker 3: do matter. And I know, you get these prospects and
- 19:53Speaker 3: you want to bring them up when and the transition
- 19:55Speaker 3: to jump from the from Triple A, Double A to
- 19:58Speaker 3: the big leagues isn't always that easily. Watched Jackson Holliday
- 20:01Speaker 3: last year struggle a little bit. Now he's starting to
- 20:03Speaker 3: come into his own, starting to look the part. But
- 20:06Speaker 3: you know, when you have those moments where injuries happen,
- 20:09Speaker 3: you need betteran guys that can step.
- 20:11Speaker 4: Into those roles where you don't lose as much.
- 20:13Speaker 3: They had the opportunity possibly use some of those prospects
- 20:16Speaker 3: as chips to go out and get some pieces that
- 20:19Speaker 3: you still could have control control of.
- 20:22Speaker 4: AKA Garrett Crochet, he's one of them.
- 20:25Speaker 3: But you look, you know the lack of Lance Lynn,
- 20:28Speaker 3: a guy that's out there who eats innings. There were
- 20:31Speaker 3: moves to be made that they didn't make. And right
- 20:33Speaker 3: now it's you know it has it. They won last night,
- 20:37Speaker 3: but I believe it will come back to bite them
- 20:39Speaker 3: in the blood. The one place where I really are
- 20:42Speaker 3: okay is when I look at this bullpen. If they
- 20:45Speaker 3: can find a way to have a league going into
- 20:47Speaker 3: the seventh, eighth, and ninth, I like the back end
- 20:49Speaker 3: guys so uh that that's the plus right now for
- 20:52Speaker 3: the for the o's.
- 20:53Speaker 1: Mh, I'm really high on the o's. I think they're
- 20:57Speaker 1: going to figure out this pitching issue. I don't love
- 21:00Speaker 1: what they did. I don't love that they didn't get
- 21:01Speaker 1: crochet push harder from Burns.
- 21:03Speaker 2: Let's go over an injury. Spencer Arraghetty part of that
- 21:06Speaker 2: Astro's rotation looks like he's gonna miss significant time because
- 21:09Speaker 2: he broke his thumb and it's on his pitching hand
- 21:13Speaker 2: line drive playing catch yesterday in Seattle Astros Mariners series
- 21:19Speaker 2: cam during VP. They're actually accidents all the time in
- 21:24Speaker 2: situations like this where I look around, how many times
- 21:27Speaker 2: have you seen this?
- 21:28Speaker 1: Right?
- 21:28Speaker 2: Because you guys were on the field every day?
- 21:30Speaker 1: Oh oh that almost got him?
- 21:32Speaker 2: Oh right, all the time with baseball's I mean, I
- 21:36Speaker 2: would get that I'm on the field reporting and you
- 21:39Speaker 2: would just look and you're like, oh, the phant almost
- 21:41Speaker 2: got smoked, or oh that player out there playing catch
- 21:43Speaker 2: almost got smoked.
- 21:45Speaker 1: It happens a.
- 21:46Speaker 2: Lot, and then of course you have this situation where
- 21:48Speaker 2: he's gonna miss a little I would say probably a
- 21:51Speaker 2: month or two with something.
- 21:52Speaker 4: Like this and a much needed arm.
- 21:55Speaker 3: When you talk about Spencer Arraghedy and how good he's
- 21:58Speaker 3: been and the glimpses of dominance that he's been able
- 22:01Speaker 3: to show.
- 22:02Speaker 4: But man, it gave me goosebumps.
- 22:05Speaker 3: How many times you've been in the cage or being
- 22:07Speaker 3: behind the turtle as guys are hitting VP and and
- 22:10Speaker 3: not no offense to my pictures, but you know, they're
- 22:13Speaker 3: usually talking ball usually, you know, trying to figure out
- 22:16Speaker 3: how to get better and hold that grip. But they're
- 22:19Speaker 3: those are the guys that are usually not paying attention.
- 22:22Speaker 3: Those are the guys that usually get caught sleeping, sleeping
- 22:26Speaker 3: out there. And unfortunately, I've seen guys get hit. I've
- 22:29Speaker 3: seen position players get hit as well. But yeah, man,
- 22:32Speaker 3: this this is definitely a bummer, especially when you talk
- 22:35Speaker 3: about a guy not getting hurt, you know, actually competing.
- 22:39Speaker 4: So this is a big one for the astros.
- 22:42Speaker 1: It's so tough to actually get hit by something. Only
- 22:45Speaker 1: one ball is hit during VP at a time. Pictures
- 22:50Speaker 1: like throwing, they're like, can you have some stand and
- 22:53Speaker 1: watch for me? Like unless your back is too Like
- 22:57Speaker 1: let's say your left field and your right hander and
- 22:59Speaker 1: you're rowing down the line farther. I get it, but
- 23:03Speaker 1: how tough is it to go? He hit? Okay, come
- 23:07Speaker 1: set like the pitch. Watch again, Okay, get the ball back,
- 23:12Speaker 1: Guys Like I don't want to be bothered with that.
- 23:15Speaker 1: That's tough, especially when something like this happens. I bet
- 23:17Speaker 1: every astro pitcher is gonna have somebody watching them. You
- 23:22Speaker 1: can't have nine guys lined up on the line and
- 23:24Speaker 1: one bullpen catcher. That's like, I got you, guys, I
- 23:27Speaker 1: got you guys. Yeah, it's like the ball's getting rocketed
- 23:30Speaker 1: out there. The low low chance the ball is actually
- 23:32Speaker 1: gonna hit you. All you have to do is move.
- 23:34Speaker 1: Sucks that he couldn't see it coming, so tough.
- 23:38Speaker 3: Or don't move kratzy even you know what they used
- 23:40Speaker 3: to say, if you don't move, it won't hit you.
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- 24:46Speaker 2: Cam is getting involved for the first time, so Cam
- 24:49Speaker 2: I usually go last, but Crafts will lead off so
- 24:53Speaker 2: you can see how he brings it and where he
- 24:55Speaker 2: points out something that might get questioned. They'll run through
- 24:59Speaker 2: his one through ten. Then we'll get your thoughts after that,
- 25:02Speaker 2: and we like to make fun of each other after
- 25:03Speaker 2: we lay out our one through ten, like where was
- 25:05Speaker 2: this team? Kratz?
- 25:07Speaker 1: You go first, all right? Because Aj is not here,
- 25:12Speaker 1: we can enjoy our power rankings. Hates power rankings, so
- 25:16Speaker 1: we can enjoy them today my power rankings go as
- 25:20Speaker 1: they have the whole year. It's gonna take a lot
- 25:22Speaker 1: to up, you know, take the take out the top two.
- 25:26Speaker 1: I go Dodgers, Phillies, and now I got the American League,
- 25:29Speaker 1: which I didn't have the American League before the top
- 25:31Speaker 1: five last time. I'm going Orioles just because I love
- 25:34Speaker 1: to see Scott squirm. I think this team's gonna do
- 25:38Speaker 1: awesome stuff and I'm buying that Gunner Henderson's back since
- 25:41Speaker 1: the last time we did this, Rangers might be the
- 25:44Speaker 1: best team in the American League. I just couldn't put
- 25:47Speaker 1: them third yet, so that's fine. Yankees have done nothing
- 25:50Speaker 1: but beat the teams that they've played. The d Backs
- 25:53Speaker 1: are probably the worst record of those top eight teams.
- 25:58Speaker 1: I think. I just think could tell Marte injury might
- 26:03Speaker 1: come back to by me having them in the top six.
- 26:06Speaker 1: But I'm fine with it. The Red Sox have proven
- 26:09Speaker 1: and they weren't in my top ten before. They've proven
- 26:11Speaker 1: that they should be because they can swing it, they
- 26:14Speaker 1: still can't pitch. The Padres have somehow captured my imagination
- 26:19Speaker 1: right now because this offense just absolutely smacks the ball.
- 26:23Speaker 1: But what I love is they're running the bases, the Mets,
- 26:26Speaker 1: because there's an whole group of Mets fans on Twitter.
- 26:29Speaker 1: They have to stay in my top ten or they
- 26:32Speaker 1: will burn my Twitter count down. And the one defense
- 26:36Speaker 1: team that I have in the top ten now because
- 26:39Speaker 1: they play some elite defense is the Giants. Everybody else
- 26:43Speaker 1: on here is pitch hit elite MVP. I don't think
- 26:47Speaker 1: the Giants have an MVP candidate on their team, and
- 26:51Speaker 1: yet they all pick it. They got gold or possibility
- 26:55Speaker 1: of gold everywhere around there, and they're fun to watch.
- 26:58Speaker 1: You can't not put a now eight and two team
- 27:02Speaker 1: in your top ten going ten games into the season.
- 27:08Speaker 2: Most cool, Cam, I think he's a psycho for putting
- 27:11Speaker 2: the Orioles that high. Everybody looks at power rankings a
- 27:15Speaker 2: little bit differently, right, You're not going just off the record,
- 27:17Speaker 2: you see right now. You're going on some recency bias,
- 27:20Speaker 2: but not too much. You gotta take a grain of salt.
- 27:23Speaker 2: But they're five and six and their starting rotation is
- 27:27Speaker 2: kind of in shambles. You think they're a top three
- 27:32Speaker 2: team for power rankings? Cam, do you want to pile
- 27:34Speaker 2: on with me?
- 27:36Speaker 3: No, I'm just like you said, people look at power
- 27:40Speaker 3: rankings differently, And it makes me want to say that
- 27:43Speaker 3: was kind of lazy of e K, Like.
- 27:46Speaker 4: No, where are we right now? Ten games? Eleven games in?
- 27:49Speaker 3: Like I get if we were going back and talking
- 27:53Speaker 3: about at the beginning of the season, but right now
- 27:55Speaker 3: eleven games in?
- 27:56Speaker 4: I love e K. I just feel like this was
- 27:58Speaker 4: a little lazy. I feel like it was a little lazy.
- 28:01Speaker 1: I mean, I mean, should I put the Dodgers farther
- 28:04Speaker 1: because their third in their division? Should I put them?
- 28:07Speaker 1: Should I put them behind behind the Padres? And if
- 28:10Speaker 1: we're going ten games in? Is that how we're doing
- 28:12Speaker 1: it now? Eric?
- 28:13Speaker 2: They're nine and three, The Oarls are five and six series.
- 28:18Speaker 1: They split a.
- 28:19Speaker 2: Series with the Blue Jays, the Orioles, they lost the
- 28:23Speaker 2: Red Sox, they lost a series to the Royals. They
- 28:26Speaker 2: haven't won a series yet. So did you Did you
- 28:29Speaker 2: have them in your top three before the season started?
- 28:31Speaker 2: Like what vaulted them in the last two weeks?
- 28:35Speaker 1: The Braves and the uh Diamondbacks jumped out, So it
- 28:41Speaker 1: just moved just slid up into my slit up in
- 28:44Speaker 1: the bracket.
- 28:47Speaker 2: Okay, all good. I can't wait to see them in
- 28:51Speaker 2: the World Series.
- 28:52Speaker 1: Game one is Grayson rod Ris true hope. So games
- 29:00Speaker 1: the Mariners are out of it and they'll be Brian
- 29:02Speaker 1: wo in game two.
- 29:04Speaker 2: Okay, now we're talking. Then I would vault them up
- 29:07Speaker 2: the power rankings. All right, Cam, you're up.
- 29:11Speaker 4: Look, let's just pull it up. Let's just pull it up.
- 29:14Speaker 4: Let's let it out. Cam's power rankings right here.
- 29:18Speaker 3: You know, unlike Cratzy, I'm gonna go from teen and
- 29:20Speaker 3: down to one. I've got the Diamondbacks right there. You know,
- 29:23Speaker 3: we cover them the other night, Scottie, and not one
- 29:25Speaker 3: thing that I still like, even with the Katel Marte
- 29:27Speaker 3: and the offense hasn't got to where they're gonna go,
- 29:31Speaker 3: and they still find a way to manufacture runs. And
- 29:33Speaker 3: I look at the starting rotation. I still like the
- 29:35Speaker 3: rotation out there. There are some question marks for me
- 29:38Speaker 3: in the bullpen, but I had to bump. But I
- 29:40Speaker 3: had to bump the O's out of ten because I
- 29:43Speaker 3: still like the d Backs ability to find a way
- 29:45Speaker 3: to score runs and win.
- 29:46Speaker 4: The Angels. I've got to give the Angels some love
- 29:49Speaker 4: right now.
- 29:49Speaker 3: I don't know if if it's the cell phones that
- 29:51Speaker 3: they're still sticking to it, but right now they are
- 29:54Speaker 3: athletic Mike Trout is healthy. They have one of the
- 29:58Speaker 3: better catchers in the game that I think nobody knew
- 30:00Speaker 3: about because he was hurt last year, and Logan o'hoppy,
- 30:03Speaker 3: and they have the best backup catcher in baseball in d'arneau.
- 30:07Speaker 3: And then you look at the athletes around the field.
- 30:09Speaker 3: I like what they've done. And then you talk about
- 30:11Speaker 3: the rotation. They have a veteran rotation. They have some
- 30:14Speaker 3: veteran guys in the back. The law firm of Jensen
- 30:17Speaker 3: and Joyce is as nasty as they.
- 30:20Speaker 4: Get right now. So I've got the Angels right there.
- 30:22Speaker 3: The Giants they deserve to be right there, because they
- 30:25Speaker 3: started off as hot as they worried. It took hundred
- 30:27Speaker 3: Green to kind of slow them down. I like what
- 30:29Speaker 3: they've done as well.
- 30:30Speaker 4: My Tigers.
- 30:31Speaker 3: They do a little bit of everything well right they're
- 30:34Speaker 3: the complete team. And they also have maybe the smartest
- 30:36Speaker 3: guy at the helm calling the plays or putting on
- 30:40Speaker 3: the hitting runs or managing the bullpen of aj Hint.
- 30:43Speaker 3: So I love my Tigers right there. I'm with Cratzy.
- 30:46Speaker 3: The Mets have to stay right there because you know
- 30:49Speaker 3: the Mets fan base right now, they are rabbit they believe,
- 30:52Speaker 3: and again last night.
- 30:53Speaker 4: Was fun to watch.
- 30:54Speaker 3: They still have something a mystique about that lineup that
- 30:57Speaker 3: I like. The pitching is still somewhat of a question mark.
- 31:00Speaker 3: I have the Mets there, then the Cubs. The Cubs
- 31:03Speaker 3: started out slow, and I was sitting here, I was
- 31:05Speaker 3: one of those people questioning, what does their identity look like?
- 31:08Speaker 4: Well, I'll tell you what their identity is. It's Kyle Tucker.
- 31:11Speaker 3: When he goes the Cubs go, everything seems to be
- 31:14Speaker 3: falling into place when this guy is locked in. And
- 31:17Speaker 3: I think, looking at that Vladdie deal, he is locked
- 31:20Speaker 3: in right now. He is going show me the money.
- 31:23Speaker 3: So I've got the Cubs right there. The Padres, I
- 31:26Speaker 3: think the NLS might be the best best division in baseball,
- 31:30Speaker 3: or you can argue it.
- 31:31Speaker 4: The Padres. I think they still have a formidable rotation.
- 31:36Speaker 3: We've seen what the back end of their bullpen looks
- 31:38Speaker 3: like when you get when you give them a league.
- 31:40Speaker 3: Fernando Tatis is proven even with the past PD stuff,
- 31:44Speaker 3: he's still one of the best players in our game.
- 31:46Speaker 3: And then the Yankees. The Yankees, I love what they're
- 31:48Speaker 3: doing right now. I love the dynamic. I love the
- 31:51Speaker 3: veteran guys that they brought in a like gold Schmid Jazz.
- 31:54Speaker 3: They got the torpedo bats going, They've got the Internet
- 31:57Speaker 3: in the frenzy. We know the starting rotation is. It's
- 32:02Speaker 3: a coin flip right now, it's a coin flip. It's
- 32:04Speaker 3: a toss up. But I like the Yankees and then
- 32:06Speaker 3: the Phillies and the Dodgers. They speak for themselves. I
- 32:08Speaker 3: had the Phillies first, but when I look at it,
- 32:11Speaker 3: the Phillies kind of.
- 32:12Speaker 4: Always do this right.
- 32:13Speaker 3: They win their in the regular season, but when it matters,
- 32:16Speaker 3: the Dodgers are still the Bee's knees.
- 32:18Speaker 4: So that is what a power ranking should look like.
- 32:20Speaker 1: Boys, I love it. I love it. Cam. You're a
- 32:25Speaker 1: great person and you make a great power ranking. I
- 32:28Speaker 1: think your opinions are mattered and valid. Great job.
- 32:34Speaker 4: You say, like my wife, thank you.
- 32:37Speaker 1: I know you have a.
- 32:41Speaker 2: Yeah angels in the nine spot right now, Cam, And.
- 32:46Speaker 3: I'm not I'm only going again. Like you said, everybody
- 32:49Speaker 3: looks at power rankings differently. I'm looking at these first
- 32:52Speaker 3: eleven games. I'm not looking at the projections preseason. I'm
- 32:58Speaker 3: looking at where we are right now. Listen, they've won
- 33:00Speaker 3: every series. I know it's the White Sox. They beat
- 33:03Speaker 3: the Guardians. We all believe in the Guardians, and they
- 33:05Speaker 3: beat Saint Louis so until they go backwards right now
- 33:09Speaker 3: and they continue to play for around Washington, that's where
- 33:12Speaker 3: they deserve to be in my power rankings as of today.
- 33:15Speaker 3: I don't know where they might be two east from now.
- 33:17Speaker 3: That could drastic me change, But as of today, that's
- 33:20Speaker 3: how I'm looking out power rankings, not the rosters, not
- 33:25Speaker 3: the personnel. I'm looking at who's performing right now.
- 33:29Speaker 2: It's not it's power rankings.
- 33:33Speaker 3: Right I get it, I get it right now, they're
- 33:36Speaker 3: they're in my power rankings.
- 33:37Speaker 4: There are they winning series?
- 33:39Speaker 3: They've won three series in the ROWNA.
- 33:45Speaker 1: He thinks Kyrion Parris is gonna win a batting title too,
- 33:47Speaker 1: So that's why he's and and I think Cam is
- 33:50Speaker 1: he's pining for a job on that staff. Say if
- 33:54Speaker 1: gonna I'm good a job or not?
- 33:58Speaker 4: East Coast guy, Excuse.
- 34:00Speaker 2: Me, I have a question. I just want to ask
- 34:02Speaker 2: again something about the Angels. It's less hate on the Angels,
- 34:06Speaker 2: just like do they deserve to be in the top
- 34:08Speaker 2: ten yet? You know? And yes, I go more off
- 34:11Speaker 2: projection still mixed in with what things are looking like
- 34:13Speaker 2: right now. I mean, fangrafts, including the current record, has
- 34:17Speaker 2: them projected to be a seventy seven win team. I'll
- 34:20Speaker 2: keep it real simple on my angel's question, why the
- 34:22Speaker 2: Angels and not the Rangers or eight and three? And
- 34:27Speaker 2: they don't see on this list?
- 34:30Speaker 3: And you know what that is where I dropped the ball.
- 34:32Speaker 3: Now that I look at my list, I probably and
- 34:34Speaker 3: I still.
- 34:35Speaker 4: Honestly and honestly, honestly.
- 34:38Speaker 3: What I would do is I'll probably still bump the
- 34:41Speaker 3: d Backs out and I will still leave the Angels
- 34:43Speaker 3: at ten, and I will still probably put the Rangers
- 34:47Speaker 3: in the top five. Right now, now that I look
- 34:50Speaker 3: at it, players mess up, But still I like what
- 34:53Speaker 3: the Angels are doing. Now I'm giving them credit for
- 34:55Speaker 3: what they're doing in these first eleven great catcher Mike Trell, Kinley, Janssen,
- 35:04Speaker 3: Joyce Netto. I mean, listen, I like the moves they made.
- 35:09Speaker 3: I like them now that I'm watching it kind of
- 35:12Speaker 3: come to fruition. We don't have long that those guys
- 35:14Speaker 3: will be out there on the field. Right Longevity has
- 35:16Speaker 3: been tough for the Angels, But right now, you know what, Hey,
- 35:21Speaker 3: who's better to know hockey.
- 35:22Speaker 4: Where is he on your top catchers in the game
- 35:24Speaker 4: right now?
- 35:25Speaker 1: Healthy?
- 35:26Speaker 2: I like him too, you know, Oh for Crats, I'm
- 35:32Speaker 2: sure what Kratz he's pushing top five these days.
- 35:37Speaker 1: He's probably out of my top five. I was going
- 35:39Speaker 1: through it. He's probably out of my top five. He's
- 35:42Speaker 1: got a lot of potential, definitely potential. But to me,
- 35:45Speaker 1: you gotta accumulate some stuff behind the dish. Four homers
- 35:48Speaker 1: in four days. It's a good hot start. I think
- 35:52Speaker 1: his knowing him as a person helps me get him
- 35:55Speaker 1: closer to the top five. But I mean it's a
- 36:00Speaker 1: I'd have to to break it all down. He's right there.
- 36:03Speaker 1: I don't think I can put him in the top
- 36:05Speaker 1: five right now, but let me let me get back
- 36:07Speaker 1: to you on.
- 36:08Speaker 2: That's fine, we'll do those lists a different day. Let's
- 36:12Speaker 2: q up mine here. I was stewing this morning working
- 36:16Speaker 2: on it. So we're gonna start with the Dodgers, the Phillies,
- 36:19Speaker 2: the Padres. I was the high guy on the padres
- 36:22Speaker 2: entering the season, so I'm going to push them up
- 36:25Speaker 2: a few spots. I had them firmly in my top
- 36:28Speaker 2: ten to start the year. The hot start I'm buying
- 36:32Speaker 2: into the pitching, starting bullpen. Obviously, the stars look like stars.
- 36:38Speaker 2: Jackson Merrill looks like he's gonna be the guy from
- 36:40Speaker 2: last year, So I'll put them in the three spot here.
- 36:43Speaker 2: Some of you might look at this later on in comment, Well,
- 36:46Speaker 2: the Phillies just beat the Dodgers in a series. Okay again,
- 36:49Speaker 2: I'm not going off one series here. Relax, the Dodgers
- 36:52Speaker 2: won the World Series. We're two weeks into the season.
- 36:54Speaker 2: Mets looked pretty good. Could I sing? I had a
- 36:56Speaker 2: really nice adding yesterday. I get it. It was the Marlins.
- 36:59Speaker 2: Tyler McGill looks like he's bringing what he had last year.
- 37:02Speaker 2: They've got some starters out right now, but they're off
- 37:04Speaker 2: to a nice start. The Mets are seven and three.
- 37:07Speaker 2: I got to get a five and six team in
- 37:08Speaker 2: there because Kratz said so, I'm not going to go
- 37:10Speaker 2: with two five and six teams, but I will take
- 37:12Speaker 2: the Diamondbacks at the five spot. There's nothing I'm looking
- 37:16Speaker 2: at right now telling me that they're not going to
- 37:18Speaker 2: be a version of last year's team. Plus Corbyn burns.
- 37:20Speaker 2: I know Catel Marte is out for a little bit.
- 37:22Speaker 2: Corbyn Carrol's back offense looks really good. Detroit six and
- 37:27Speaker 2: four got swept to start the season by a hot
- 37:29Speaker 2: Dodgers team. I really like the Tigers. If Torkolsen's back
- 37:32Speaker 2: and Casey miz finally has his breakout season, sign me up.
- 37:36Speaker 2: Texas eight and three looking good. Injuries, I would say
- 37:40Speaker 2: scarier on their side than most other teams. De Gram obviously,
- 37:44Speaker 2: Young's already out, but I really like them. Yankees at
- 37:47Speaker 2: six and four offenses off to a really nice start.
- 37:49Speaker 2: They're the Torpedo Boys, Jazz bowlpy et cetera. Even Trent Grisham.
- 37:54Speaker 2: I have them right over Boston six and five. This
- 37:56Speaker 2: is my first time putting them in the top ten
- 37:58Speaker 2: here in twenty twenty five because the offense looks legit.
- 38:01Speaker 2: Willia or Brady looks insane. Devers is already back. I'm
- 38:03Speaker 2: worried about the back half of the bullpen. Yanks have
- 38:06Speaker 2: a better bullpen right now. Atlanta's still in there. For me.
- 38:08Speaker 2: I'm not just going to kick them completely out of
- 38:10Speaker 2: my top ten because they're off to a slow start
- 38:12Speaker 2: and Lopez is out. Streyder sounds like he could be
- 38:15Speaker 2: back in the next week or two. Acuna Junior is
- 38:17Speaker 2: going to be back in three to four weeks, and
- 38:21Speaker 2: I still think this team is going to level out.
- 38:23Speaker 2: So there's my top ten. Can make fun of it
- 38:26Speaker 2: since Kratz is too.
- 38:26Speaker 4: Nice, you know what. I The only one I kind of.
- 38:31Speaker 3: Question is the Braves move, but they do still have
- 38:35Speaker 3: so many weapons in that lineup.
- 38:38Speaker 4: The only thing that worries me. I think that the
- 38:40Speaker 4: expactor for me is Olson.
- 38:42Speaker 3: I think you know, we've seen a Matt Olson in
- 38:45Speaker 3: Oakland where it was Feaster Family, Like we've seen the
- 38:47Speaker 3: ups and downs and you know, so I think he's
- 38:51Speaker 3: the ex factor for me and their pitching staff. I
- 38:54Speaker 3: just I don't see it like if team that has
- 38:57Speaker 3: the Braves on that you know, on this schedule, I'm
- 39:01Speaker 3: I'm running to the back rack like like, nobody scares
- 39:04Speaker 3: me right now in that rotation stop except for really
- 39:10Speaker 3: scares me.
- 39:10Speaker 2: Swellenbach. That's an easy a B.
- 39:14Speaker 4: Listen. I'm just telling you, like you might not see him.
- 39:17Speaker 4: I'm just I just you just.
- 39:20Speaker 2: Said sales It, okay, sell is this cy young winner.
- 39:25Speaker 2: Swelling By looks like another set.
- 39:27Speaker 3: The bullpen doesn't scare me either, Like I just I
- 39:30Speaker 3: don't know, I don't know. I don't see it. I don't,
- 39:34Speaker 3: I don't know. I like Washington over the Braves right now.
- 39:36Speaker 2: I think a J. Smith Shauper is going to break
- 39:39Speaker 2: out too. Yes, who you calling?
- 39:43Speaker 4: Oh?
- 39:43Speaker 1: No, Buster called me? If Buster Posey called me and
- 39:45Speaker 1: said I put together a baseball team. I thought Scott
- 39:48Speaker 1: was a big baseball fan I put together. Would you say, oh,
- 39:52Speaker 1: I put together a good baseball team, not an analytic darling.
- 39:56Speaker 1: And you don't want to put me in your top ten?
- 39:59Speaker 1: All right, Scott? Well, uh oh, but you said he's
- 40:02Speaker 1: got a nice byep. Okay, I'll tell him Buster, thank you.
- 40:05Speaker 2: Yeah, wait, hold on, just text him say it's it's
- 40:07Speaker 2: called it's a website. It's new. It's called too Soon
- 40:10Speaker 2: dot Com eight and two. Relax buster too soon dot com.
- 40:15Speaker 2: If you're still in this spot.
- 40:17Speaker 1: I thought you I thought you're old school, Scott. I
- 40:20Speaker 1: thought you were old school. But you're not.
- 40:22Speaker 2: It's mid school.
- 40:24Speaker 1: I know, I know what it, I know what it
- 40:26Speaker 1: takes to win, but orry about it.
- 40:29Speaker 2: The Braves are projected to win eighty eight games despite
- 40:32Speaker 2: the slow start. Clearly, I'm already the high guy on
- 40:35Speaker 2: the Braves. I don't think this is a bad team.
- 40:37Speaker 2: Tell me where I missed. So you think that I
- 40:39Speaker 2: should have the Braves out in the Giants, and you
- 40:41Speaker 2: think the Giants are a better team this year than
- 40:43Speaker 2: the Braves, because.
- 40:44Speaker 1: I don't, I don't. I don't.
- 40:45Speaker 4: I don't know if you missed, but I don't know
- 40:47Speaker 4: if you actually missed. I just think I don't know
- 40:51Speaker 4: if the Mets are for for me. I think that
- 40:54Speaker 4: I like the line of the Mets. The Mets line
- 40:56Speaker 4: up looks. I don't know.
- 40:59Speaker 3: The de Bet like the deep Backs at five is
- 41:01Speaker 3: a little tough for me. I think the Tiger. I
- 41:03Speaker 3: like the Tiger. I like the Rangers. I miss I
- 41:05Speaker 3: missed the Rangers in my in my rankings, but you're right.
- 41:08Speaker 4: You sell me on the Rangers. I just think it's
- 41:10Speaker 4: the order.
- 41:11Speaker 3: I think these teams are in everybody but the Braves
- 41:14Speaker 3: is okay.
- 41:15Speaker 4: I don't think the Braves should be in the top
- 41:16Speaker 4: I don't think.
- 41:17Speaker 3: They deserve today again today to be in the top ten.
- 41:23Speaker 4: So just that's it.
- 41:24Speaker 1: But I don't.
- 41:25Speaker 4: I don't mind the teams that you have in it
- 41:27Speaker 4: though I don't. I don't at all.
- 41:29Speaker 1: And Andres pitching starting rotation, are they better than the Braves?
- 41:33Speaker 1: Starting rotation.
- 41:38Speaker 4: I think I think so.
- 41:41Speaker 1: And so there's seven spots better because their bullpen is
- 41:46Speaker 1: light years ahead of a lot of teams in the
- 41:48Speaker 1: big leagues.
- 41:49Speaker 2: Yes, their bullpen is better than the Braves. And right
- 41:52Speaker 2: now their lineup is better than the Braves lineup.
- 41:55Speaker 1: Yes, but is it better you're talking, You're talking about
- 41:59Speaker 1: the projection of the Braves. You're still you're still high
- 42:01Speaker 1: on them. Is their lineup better than the Braves lineup?
- 42:05Speaker 1: It's a Padres lineup better than the Brave lineup.
- 42:09Speaker 2: Right now.
- 42:09Speaker 1: Yes, Well, you didn't say right now. You said you're
- 42:13Speaker 1: projecting the Braves to still be good.
- 42:15Speaker 2: That's why I said, I take the first couple of
- 42:19Speaker 2: weeks into effect. I take projections into effect. I take
- 42:22Speaker 2: track record of players into effect. When we're two weeks
- 42:24Speaker 2: into the season.
- 42:26Speaker 1: So who do you think, who do you think them
- 42:28Speaker 1: end up better? Braves or the Padres this year?
- 42:33Speaker 2: Padres? I mean we went into the year thinking Phillies,
- 42:40Speaker 2: Mets and Braves. In the East. Something in the Central Cubs, Brewers,
- 42:48Speaker 2: some said reds, Okay, nothing's changed there.
- 42:50Speaker 4: For me.
- 42:51Speaker 2: I got one team there and then out West, Dodgers, Diamondbacks,
- 42:55Speaker 2: Padres Giants, at least for this first couple of weeks,
- 42:58Speaker 2: are making some noise. I don't feel like a lot
- 43:01Speaker 2: that I've looked at yet has convinced me of anything. Right, Like,
- 43:04Speaker 2: even the Braves slow start for the offense, terrible with
- 43:06Speaker 2: runners in scoring position. Do we really think that's going
- 43:09Speaker 2: to last the entire year? That's like the easiest stat
- 43:12Speaker 2: usually to look at and see that it's going to
- 43:13Speaker 2: level out when there are players with good track records,
- 43:16Speaker 2: isn't it?
- 43:18Speaker 1: I agree?
- 43:19Speaker 2: Do you know which team is crushed it in that category?
- 43:22Speaker 2: The Giants.
- 43:25Speaker 1: Out a little?
- 43:25Speaker 3: Okay, let me let me ask you this. Who do
- 43:27Speaker 3: you think it has a better rotation? The Giants for
- 43:30Speaker 3: the brains Braves? You think that You think the Braves
- 43:35Speaker 3: have a better rotation and logan with than Jordan Hicks,
- 43:38Speaker 3: than Robbie Ray even with Berlander, you think that's a
- 43:42Speaker 3: better starting rotation.
- 43:46Speaker 1: For sure?
- 43:46Speaker 2: The top three, right sale Schwellenbach. Also Strider's coming back
- 43:52Speaker 2: very soon. Yeah, that three definitely much better than San Francisco. No,
- 43:58Speaker 2: he didn't have tej had internal brain surgery?
- 44:01Speaker 4: Was yes he did?
- 44:02Speaker 1: Excuse me?
- 44:03Speaker 3: Internal braiks, yes, No, this is no it matters it matters,
- 44:06Speaker 3: It matters, it matters.
- 44:08Speaker 4: They come back faster. So internal brak, excuse.
- 44:11Speaker 2: Me, better rotation than the Brave.
- 44:14Speaker 3: I do, I do, I do. I watched Jordan Hicks
- 44:17Speaker 3: other night. Bro that I'm trying not to curse. That
- 44:20Speaker 3: stuff he's throwing up there is gross dog. I mean
- 44:23Speaker 3: it is nasty, like he has no hitter type stuff. Logan, well,
- 44:27Speaker 3: we saw what he continues to do. Robbie Ray is
- 44:30Speaker 3: now you're removed after injury? He should I like, I
- 44:33Speaker 3: still like Robbie Ray. I'm still begging on Bertlander. If
- 44:36Speaker 3: Kyle hereon Verlander is a good four or five, I'm
- 44:40Speaker 3: just saying like that, if Berlander's going against the Braves
- 44:43Speaker 3: four or five, I like the Giants on top of
- 44:46Speaker 3: those other three guys I.
- 44:47Speaker 4: Name, even with even with the rating side young Award winner, right,
- 44:51Speaker 4: I think three.
- 44:55Speaker 3: I like those top three right there, and Berlanders is
- 44:58Speaker 3: your four. I like that better than the Braves.
- 45:00Speaker 2: For I'll take Schreider, Schwellenbach, Sale and Smith schauber Kratz.
- 45:07Speaker 4: Today or you mean like projecting right, We're projected.
- 45:11Speaker 2: Even if I call Spencer Schreider right now and say
- 45:14Speaker 2: we need you to pitch today. I think I'm still
- 45:17Speaker 2: taking him over over everyone else on this list. Right now.
- 45:21Speaker 2: I think he is going to be back and normal
- 45:24Speaker 2: pretty much right away with kid gloves. They're gonna have
- 45:27Speaker 2: to watch him right Hey, the Braves have a problem
- 45:29Speaker 2: right now. Their fit starter Bryce Elder has never been
- 45:32Speaker 2: the same since he had that big first half a
- 45:34Speaker 2: couple of years ago. But this is where you're going
- 45:36Speaker 2: to replace that. For me, Grant Holmes A five cool,
- 45:38Speaker 2: I'm good with that. Sale, Schwellenbach, Schreider, Schmith, Schwaber. It's
- 45:44Speaker 2: a good list. I'm just the high guy on the
- 45:45Speaker 2: Braids for me. Losing Lopez, losing Profar for half the year,
- 45:50Speaker 2: plus he's not going to be eligible for the playoffs
- 45:52Speaker 2: because did Royd's or did PDS whatever that hurts them.
- 45:56Speaker 2: I put them below the Mets and the Phillies and
- 45:58Speaker 2: now it's going to be easier. They're gonna have to
- 45:59Speaker 2: play catch up the whole year. But they still have stars.
- 46:02Speaker 2: The kun is coming back, Strider's coming back.
- 46:08Speaker 3: It took a clear almost two years to come back
- 46:11Speaker 3: to like, so I'm just so I get it, But
- 46:13Speaker 3: I'm also like, is he gonna be the coonan that
- 46:15Speaker 3: slow seventy or is he gonna be the cleaner the
- 46:18Speaker 3: probably the year before.
- 46:19Speaker 4: Who's still kind of filling it out.
- 46:21Speaker 3: He's not gonna be running as much, probably not gonna
- 46:23Speaker 3: score as many runs.
- 46:24Speaker 4: I'm just saying I get it.
- 46:26Speaker 3: But we're talking about two guys coming off andrey, so
- 46:29Speaker 3: I just I gotta see it first before I say
- 46:31Speaker 3: they're better than the guys that are healthy.
- 46:33Speaker 2: Right now, Okay, do you guys think that both will
- 46:37Speaker 2: be good this year, recover and be starser and cuna
- 46:41Speaker 2: I do.
- 46:43Speaker 3: From everything I'm hearing from Streider, it sounds like he
- 46:46Speaker 3: is definitely on pace. I'm not sure about the updates.
- 46:49Speaker 3: I don't I haven't really heard to the updates on
- 46:51Speaker 3: where Ronald is.
- 46:52Speaker 1: I don't.
- 46:52Speaker 3: I don't really know where he is, has he has
- 46:55Speaker 3: he looking? But Spencer sounds like he is right on
- 46:58Speaker 3: right on track.
- 47:01Speaker 2: Quick here and then we're gonna break in talk Cubs
- 47:03Speaker 2: and Kyle Tucker and all of that. Kratz, I actually
- 47:07Speaker 2: think that Akunya would be back quicker.
- 47:09Speaker 4: You know.
- 47:10Speaker 2: It sounds like he's ready to hit now in the
- 47:12Speaker 2: big leagues. He's not going to just DH. They want
- 47:15Speaker 2: him to be back full strength outfield right if they
- 47:19Speaker 2: didn't have Marcela Zuna clogging up the DH spot. And
- 47:22Speaker 2: he's been great, he's been off to a nice start
- 47:24Speaker 2: for them. Do you think that in this scenario they
- 47:27Speaker 2: would have brought Ronald back a little bit sooner to
- 47:29Speaker 2: start swinging the bat for them.
- 47:32Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know, because I know their
- 47:35Speaker 1: biggest hurdle that they wanted to get to get over
- 47:38Speaker 1: was the running the sprints on back to back days.
- 47:42Speaker 1: And once you bring a guy up, he's on your roster.
- 47:45Speaker 1: You're not sitting Ronald Acunya. Yes, it's gonna extend it
- 47:50Speaker 1: a few, you know, two to three weeks, maybe because
- 47:53Speaker 1: they have to have him in the outfield. But I
- 47:56Speaker 1: don't think they I don't know. I don't know if
- 47:59Speaker 1: they would have brought him up ready. I don't think organizations,
- 48:02Speaker 1: as much as fans might want them to make gross
- 48:06Speaker 1: adjustments just because the team started one in you know,
- 48:10Speaker 1: oh and six oh and seven. Oh. You know, they
- 48:12Speaker 1: start out poorly, you're gonna make a You're gonna make
- 48:15Speaker 1: a rash move and bring an injured player up because
- 48:19Speaker 1: it's not the World Series, like when they brought Kyle
- 48:21Speaker 1: Schwarber back for the Cubs. You don't have those like
- 48:24Speaker 1: worked in days off. To me, when you bring a
- 48:28Speaker 1: guy back like like Ronald Acune Junior, he's ready to
- 48:31Speaker 1: play five out of six days. And I think that's
- 48:35Speaker 1: where they'll still take the time even if they didn't
- 48:39Speaker 1: have Marcel like I still think you're going to take
- 48:43Speaker 1: that time to make sure he's fully one h ready.
- 48:49Speaker 2: Yep, all right. I'll conclude with this because I'm looking
- 48:52Speaker 2: back at some people in the chat, agree to disagree.
- 48:55Speaker 2: If you want standings, we can literally just show the standings.
- 48:58Speaker 2: Power rankings are not the same standings. Ye do we
- 49:02Speaker 2: all agree on that?
- 49:04Speaker 1: Agree totally?
- 49:05Speaker 2: Okay? Just making sure because I was told that I
- 49:08Speaker 2: can't really use projections really, so I can't look at
- 49:10Speaker 2: track record of players, which is what projections do, and
- 49:13Speaker 2: say this team's going to be okay. And I still
- 49:15Speaker 2: like what I see on paper and even what I
- 49:17Speaker 2: see on the field. Pretty sure I can do that.
- 49:21Speaker 2: It's not standing.
- 49:22Speaker 4: You can do whatever, you can do, whatever you want, Scottie.
- 49:24Speaker 2: Thank you, thank you. I still like my gutter rankings
- 49:27Speaker 2: idea where we look at the bottom five or the
- 49:29Speaker 2: bottom ten, So we'll do that maybe at some point
- 49:32Speaker 2: we'll give it a little bit of time. Kratz doesn't
- 49:34Speaker 2: like that. He's too positive. Nice your slap hands.
- 49:57Speaker 1: Well done, well done behind the scenes, Pa, This.
- 50:02Speaker 2: Isn't me saying that you made a bad call, Krats.
- 50:04Speaker 2: I just asked him for Kratz hats.
- 50:07Speaker 1: Oh, Dodgers d. It's not the Dragons. It's not the Dragons.
- 50:14Speaker 1: It's not Tom Selik and the Dragons. It's the Dodge
- 50:17Speaker 1: d from spring training. The blue though it is, so,
- 50:21Speaker 1: I'm glad the camera. I'm glad Jared got the great
- 50:24Speaker 1: great like just locked in the camera because this blue
- 50:28Speaker 1: is a ridiculously deep dark blue. I love it.
- 50:33Speaker 2: I haven't seen that one. Is this the first time
- 50:35Speaker 2: you're shown him?
- 50:36Speaker 3: Is that one?
- 50:37Speaker 1: It is? It is? I warn't the day that we
- 50:39Speaker 1: went to Dodgers camp, but I left early so we
- 50:42Speaker 1: didn't get into it.
- 50:44Speaker 2: I was gonna say it was it one of those
- 50:45Speaker 2: days where I forgot to tee up Kratz hats because
- 50:47Speaker 2: it's not.
- 50:48Speaker 1: Upened some time. No, no, no, it wasn't your fault.
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