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Ep. 7 : 2024 Mock First Round Draft · Cards & Categories

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  Hello, and welcome to episode seven of Cards and Categories. Looking at that,
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  we're almost getting up to double digits. I'm Mike Coulard from Razball.
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  I'm joined as always by Jeremy Brewer from Razball as well. So Jeremy,
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  how are you doing this evening? Doing good? How about yourself having a
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  good evening? Yeah, it's a it's a different vibe today in Chicago now
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  that just a few hours ago Ricon and Kenny Williams were released from their duties
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  as President and GM of the Socks. So it's I don't think anything's actually
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  gonna change, as we've seen recently with Jerry being Jerry and threatening to move
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  the team for the tenth time after he was never able to make good on
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  the especially more infamous kind of time he tried to move to Tampa in the
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  nineties. But yeah, I'm enjoying myself from that perspective of seeing a new
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  day, new era in the White Sox. But I think it's going to
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  be a little bit more same old, same old, as Patrol Group Fall
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  seems to be coming back, and Jerry's going to put in another Tony LaRussa
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  like figurehead at president. I think I have two fun fun phosphy. First
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  of all, why do we say they were relieved of their duties? They
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  were fired. I'm trying to be nice about it. I mean that's what
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  they announced in the This was like, oh, they just relieved, Like,
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  man, it's been a lot of work, so we're just gonna give
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  him a break. Like, no, you weren't doing any anything, so
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  we need to we need to move on. I mean, honestly, based
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  on the team that they put together this year, I don't know what duties
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  they actually were performing, but that's that's don't How how long can you hold
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  on to your World series when from years ago? And how long can you
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  ride that out with the sunset? Apparently almost twenty years is the is?
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  The is the number? They yeah, almost got there eighteen. But the
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  that World Series still feels like such a flash in the pan, partly because
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  the team just kind of steamrolled the Astros in that World Series in two thousand
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  and five, that it was a sweep end. That White Sox team just
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  got that World Series over in such a tidy fashion. I mean, I'll
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  never forget it because I went to school at Valparaiso and there's plenty of socks
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  fans there and my freshman year dorm. That's when that happened. When the
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  White Sox won the World Series. Many several people on my floor got noise
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  violations that night because they were running through just like going bananas when the Sox
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  finally won the World Series. But yeah, it's gonna be I don't know,
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  Like it's with Jerry threatening to move the team, like it almost does
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  feel a little bit of like come on, bring it on, old man,
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  like he's eighty seven years old, like the least expires in six years.
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  I don't know if he's going to have quite the will to do this.
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  It feels like Jerry C's the A's being the A's and the Royals demanding
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  their new stadium and saying, hey, I want a piece of that public
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  financing money too, like let me in on the action, and trying to
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  just do something to really screw over the city of Chicago one last time before
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  he can really put us all to piece. Well, to me, it
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  feels like a total deflection. It's like there's nothing to do with the city
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  of Chicago and showing up to games when you're putting a good product on the
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  field, So letting, letting go, you know, you're top two guys
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  and saying okay, we're resetting and thinking about moving, like the total reflections
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  saying well, clearly it's not me. Uh clearly, I have nothing to
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  do with the leadership of this club and it's everything. But so to me
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  that that feels, like I said, total deflection, it feels like something
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  the Milwaukee Brewers would do, which I think they did with like two three
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  weeks ago when they were threatening to leave Milwaukee. Yeah. I think all
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  teams threatening to leave leave their cities when they're doing just fine and they're who
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  loved in the cities. I get the Oakland A's because there's nobody showing up
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  for that ballpark. That ballpark is special, there's a lot to be desired
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  at out of the coliseum. They're they're in Oakland, but I the White
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  Sox aren't going anywhere. That's grandstanding and nothing more than that. Yeah,
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  it does just feel like they're trying to leverage the city into giving them a
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  bunch of money to be able stick around or make improvements to the stadium.
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  But I do wonder a little bit if it is, because in baseball it
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  is a very monkey se monkey do sort of industry where whenever a team succeeds
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  another, every other GM tries to follow their path. In terms of if
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  you think about like Moneyball, the Kansas City Royals teams that like won those
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  games with defense and speed and relief pitching. Last year with the Guardians,
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  everyone's like, oh, the Guardians makes so much contact, maybe we should
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  all make contact the Dodgers. The Mets trying to copy the Dodgers. Now,
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  Then I kind of wonder if because Atlanta is just so successful what they
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  do, and I think a lot of it is also generated from the fact
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  that they did get that really nice package from Cobb County to move out of
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  downtown Atlanta and move that stadium up into the North side of Atlanta with all
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  those financial incentives that made it easy for the owners, and the owners got
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  all their real estate like paid off by you know, the taxpayers there.
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  That like, every team is kind of trying to monkey see monkey do that
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  in terms of saying, hey, like the Braves are successful because they were
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  able to leverage uh this, you know, tax incentives in all sorts of
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  other financing out of the people that like, maybe that's the route that these
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  teams are trying to go and I mean, at the end of the day,
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  like greedy billionaires are going to be greedy billionaires, you know, Yeah,
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  And I don't I don't know what the White Sox payrolls off the top
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  of my head right now, but you know, they're they have spent a
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  lot of money. It just doesn't feel like they've spent it wisely. And
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  so I can see maybe a little bit of the reeling that they're that they're
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  going through. But you have to think that with all the moves they made,
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  at least some of that's coming off the books. The question is how
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  much of that's coming back on for them is as they go into in the
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  next year. I would even argue they haven't spent that much. I mean,
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  Andrew been attendee is the large contract they've ever signed in franchise history,
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  and like that is really sad, especially considering they thought that they would be
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  in on that Mani Machado free agency and they talked about being in on it
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  and they just never followed through. And you can kind of tell with the
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  Benintendee contract that they had no intention of ever doing it. I guess maybe
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  it goes a little bit back to what we were saying. I guess it
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  was two weeks ago that things blew up, right, that the clubhouse culture
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  really came to forefront. And you do wonder if like that has a little
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  bit of a sway too, that free agency, how dysfunctional the socks are
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  and just stay away. Yeah, And I was actually surprised. So I
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  pulled up the payroll over on fang Graphs and their twenty three payroll was was
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  estimated at one hundred and seventy seven million, and a lot of that's coming
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  from guys like Yas Monti, Grandal, Liam Hendrix, Jean Macada, Eloy,
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  like the guys Tom Anderson. Somehow they're paying three million dollars to Elvis
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  Andrews, who actually has been probably worth the three yeahs at this point.
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  Yeah, at this point, and there's just like looking at the guys that
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  aren't even on the team, like Larie Garcia. So you know, but
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  going to twenty four, they've got under one hundred million, you know,
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  accounting four at this point. So it's it's gonna it's gonna open up with
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  a lot of what they've done. And they've got a lot of guys that
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  are pre arm to take advantage of two. Yeah, exactly, Well,
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  we'll get away from this kind of darkness that the Socks involved and get to
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  something a little fun for the weekend. I want to talk again about Julio
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  Rodriguez because I think he's the number one story of the past week. Over
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  the weekend, he set a record for most hits you know, four games,
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  which I mean it's a very well known record, you know, and
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  so uh it would a weird thing like when I saw that kind of being
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  scrolled across bottom lines and it will be network and everywhere. But he put
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  up seventeen hits and four games, which set a record, and he is
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  hotter than the Magma. Right now is the Mariners have stormed their way back
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  into the wild card race, and I'm here for it. That Like,
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  I love this Mariners team a lot like the Orioles team. They're young,
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  they're fun, They've got a superstar that really makes the TV light up in
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  Julio. So I'm all board this Mariners come back train. Yeah, and
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  to your point of breaking the infamous record held by milk Stock of the Brooklyn
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  Robbins from nineteen twenty five, So we're really digging deep here. It's like
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  it's all those statistics that you always hear on a scroll bar on ESPN or
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  it will be network of Hey, you know this, he broke the record
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  for games played in the Twilight in the seventh ending playing left field and hit
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  two singles, Like It's like who kept the stat who was actually tracking that?
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  So you can create a record for any thing. But I think what's
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  most interesting to me about this is, uh, you know, kind of
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  reading his comments and the talk about that four game stretch, is it coincided
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  with its change in his stance that he made. It wasn't just that he
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  got hot. It coincided with an actual change in his approach, which is,
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  you know, always what you want to see is you're, you know,
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  considering is this real? Is this luck? What it is? And
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  we know who the Rodriguez is incredibly talented, So there's I'm not questioning that,
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  but it's it's an interesting thing that he has. I'm gonna say struggled
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  to a degree this year. Has he lived up to full expectations? I
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  think his expectations were incredibly high, but for him to adjust the stance with
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  more kind of a wider base to start, I think is kind of what
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  it makes me think a little bit more of a Wan Soto approach, not
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  to the same degree, but having that more wide stance and give you a
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  little bit less motion in the swing control a little bit more. So the
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  question is that he just unlocks something and figure something out. And if he's
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  done what he has to this point not figuring things out, that's scary.
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  Yeah, And I mean, I think it was kind of marching on to
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  be maybe a disappointing season if you had drafted Julio Rodriguez in the first round
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  of your fantasy drafts this past spring. But now at this point he's hitting
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  two eight seventy eight three thirty six, four sixty two. That's good for
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  one twenty four w r C plus, which is it's all right, like
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  you're not gonna be mad about that, but the counting stats are right where
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  you want them to be. All along. He's at twenty one homers with
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  thirty three stolen bases, seventy six runs, seventy nine RBI. That is
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  a first round player, easy. So I think that like it's going to
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  be an interesting narrative for him going to the off season. And I was
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  obviously setting up the seg here because what we're going to do for the rest
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  of the show is do a twenty twenty four mock first round, and so
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  Jeremy before we kind of set that up. Do you have anything else that
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  you wanted to add on Julio or the Mariners here? No. I do
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  one thing I would comment on Julios is you look at his season line.
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  I think it's really interesting that last year he came I would say, didn't
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  come out of nowhere. He didn't come out of nowhere, but he would
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  he got hot, and he had an incredible season, and I think the
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  thought process was, if he can just do this across a full season,
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  what would that look like? And if you look at his line this year
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  compared to last year, he's played about ten less games this year compared to
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  last year. His stats were remarkably similar. He's got a few more steals
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  less year, a few less home runs less. This you know, this
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  year, but I mean his walk rates within point three points of where he
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  was, his strikeout rates within point seven you know, average was within six
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  points. Like he's the same guy, he's listen crow, I mean that,
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  Yeah, the hot street helps don't get me wrong to put him in
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  that spot, but yeah, you that's kind of what you hope going to
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  the season. And then if you kind of fell asleep early and when he
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  had a little bit of a learning curve and he made a league adjusted,
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  he adjusted. It looks like he's adjusting back. And you've got to be
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  happy at this point as a fantasy fantasy owner, probably especially a dynasty owner,
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  having having Julio Rodriguez because he looks, you know, still at twenty
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  two years old, he's still learning and he's only going to get better.
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  Yeah, And I mean it's combined one thirty five w RC plus over the
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  two years, So I mean, that's a fantastic hitter. If it's coming
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  with around you know, seventy to eighty homers and stolen bases combined, you
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  cannot ever discount that. So yeah, like I said, we're gonna go
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  through today and the rest of the show by setting up twenty twenty four and
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  kind of looking forward. It's been it. I think it's more kind of
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  like the dog days of August right now. And my Waverwire article this weekend
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  I called the loll because like there's a company nation of Baseball is a huge
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  volume game, and at this point there's been lots of it, but the
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  teams are starting to kind of settle, and like the wildcard races aren't like
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  totally getting quite as hot as they will in late September. Plus most fantasy
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  leagues, you're starting to really separate into halves and have nots, and you
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  know, it's really narrowing down to five or six teams that are trying to
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  win your leagues. So because of that, as well as like news just
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  being a little bit slower, we're gonna do a mock of the twenty twenty
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  four first round of fantasy drafts. We're going to do just back and forth,
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  twelve picks a twelve teamer, and we're also going to analyze some of
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  our favorite cards of those players. So stick around here. We're gonna take
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  a short break, and then we're gonna come back by deciding who gets to
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  pick first and go into the draft. Hi, Mike here. Obviously we
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  recorded these segments before news of Shohei Otani's torn ligament in his elbow broke on
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  late Wednesday night into Thursday morning, So we took him in a draft pretty
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  high and had some pretty glowing things to say about his cards. I think
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  the card value will still hold pretty well just because of who Otani is.
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  But take the comments on his draft value for twenty twenty four with a little
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  grain of salt. But I think the rest of the analysis still holds.
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  So hopefully you enjoy these segments. And here we go. Okay, welcome
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  back everybody. Like I said, we're going to do a draft of the
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  first round of twenty twenty four for Fantasy Baseball, going through and just doing
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  like a twelve teamer back and forth to decide who's going to go first.
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  I figured we'd have a little game a little more fun than a coin flip,
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  because I think one of our tropes that I'm starting to develop is how
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  fast is that is that guy on stat caste I can tell Luke releague and
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  aren't we well, I mean, you know his sprint speed by heart now,
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  so I'm not going to ask you. The sprint speed I have pulled
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  up is for Shay Langleiers, so I want you to percolate on that a
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  little bit, and I'll let other people look up his stat cast page because
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  it is one of the funnier stat cast pages it's he's got a one first
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  percentile on XBA, which is not something you've ever want to see. So
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  that's how much of a struggle it's been for Shay Langliers this year. I'm
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  gonna do just an over under. If you get it right, it's like
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  a true false, you get the first pick. If you get it wrong,
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  you do not get the first pick. So Jeremy over under eighty and
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  a half for the sprint speed percentile for Shay Lengle years eighty and a half.
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  Oh she's not. I feel like this is a trick question. So,
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  oh man, the percentile, I mean, it's is it? This
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  is within within position we're talking here. No, it's all of the league,
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  all league, We're all up. I mean I have to go under.
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  I have to go under. How can the world can JS be that
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  fast? He does not steal bases? I don't. I don't know how
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  many he has this year. But I feel like I feel like I'm being
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  baited into this one. So tell me I'm wrong. It's gonna be over,
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  But I'm sticking with under. It is over. It's eighty second percentile.
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  He's the highest ring to catch her. So I a feeling that,
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  like I had a feeling that you were baiting me into this one. To
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  that is you're making a sagas sharn. Obviously I had to pick the the
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  other the over because it was so ridiculous and I'm like, no, I'm
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  gonna feel like an idiot. I say, Leers one of the fastest guys
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  in the league. So new appreciation for shadling of leaders as well. So
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  you get the first pick, I'm really really on the edge of my seat
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  trying to figure out who you are taking. Yeah, it's gonna be a
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  tough one. I know it's gonna be a tough one. And actually,
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  I have a good sake for this because when I was scrolling through and debating
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  who to ask you about the sprint speed question, our boy Jake Burger has
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  a faster sprint speed than my number one pick. Actually on percentiles, my
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  number one pick is Ronald Acuna. I don't think that there's really any questions
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  across the board when you're looking at a guy who's on pace for I don't
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  even what's it pacing out to right now. You're you're probably more aware of
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  it because you have him in the CBS League we're in and CBS always puts
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  it up, but he said he was close to pacing the forties. Seventy
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  was roughly where he was at. So yeah, he's at fifty six stone
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  basis now. I think seventy seventy five is probably where he's gonna end up.
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  Forty homers might be a little bit of a push, but I mean
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  he's hitting three thirty two, four, seventeen, five, sixty seven.
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  I don't It doesn't get better five by five Rodo categories than Ronald Lacuna,
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  and the counting stats are gonna be absurd again next year because that Braves team
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  isn't going to go anywhere famously, they're all locked up and it's a great
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  team. So I'm going Ronald Dacunia with my first pick. Well that was
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  that was a tough one, and I'm gonna you're you're gonna laugh because Ronald
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  Lacuni was not first on my board. No wait, are you serious?
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  Ronald Lacuni is not first on my board. So we were both joking before
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  the pod. Uh, this is just you know, gimme, whoever gets
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  the first pick is just it's inevitable who we're picking. We were both talking
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  about different guys. That's funny with with the second pick of the this very
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  official draft, I'm going to show, hey, I was otaniky and you
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  know the reason being, why do I take Why would have? Would I
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  have taken him over Ronald Acuna is solely for the fact that I feel like
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  I'm getting a guy that could chant challenge a Kunia stats to a degree.
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  He's he's not in the same league. Well, he's in the same league
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  from a stats protective that he's I mean, the guy's already has forty three
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  homers and seventeen steals, hitting three oh six. I mean, he's still
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  incredible what he's doing with with the bat. But he's an ace pitcher.
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  It's like it's a it's a two for one, and so I think that's
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  really for me. While what's what's driving this one is, uh, it's
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  so hard to find good pitching and if you can pick, take one pick
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  and you can get a top five hitter, which I think there's no question
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  Akuna is a top five hitter. Uh, And you could argue he's a
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  top five or ten pitcher and the league. And so I'm going for the
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  two fur h that I get a starting pitcher and a solid bat off off
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  the off the page here, Sokuni is number one of my book going into
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  twenty four. At this point, I'm sorry, I say you did.
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  That's Freudian flub there. But Latani is number one in my book and I
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  have mover Kunya. Okay, Wow, I could have sworn you were talking
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  about it, Kunya. So that is I think their neck and neck.
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  I don't think that there's going to be many drafts next year where the first
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  pick isn't one of those two guys. I mean, barring like obviously injury
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  down the stretch here, or like Otani signing with the A's. Yeah,
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  except for there's something draft outs where there's all the guys from New York and
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  Aaron Judges number one of the board. Again, that could have all the
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  home all the home leagues. So all right, third, third overall pick?
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  Who do you have? Uh? Okay? So this is where I
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  think it's going to start getting interesting here. I mean, after these,
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  I think the first two is a big tier, but I think third,
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  I'm gonna go with Mookie Bets. I do like taking floor this high just
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  and that is a lot of what Mookie's gonna give you. Muki is just
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  a monster in terms of counting categories, just like a Kunya sitting at the
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  top of the order for another just absurd. Dodgers lineup for next year,
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  you know that they're going to be great, and who knows, honestly,
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  it might be Otani hitting right behind him next year. And the bigger distinguishing
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  factor here for Muki going forward is he's gonna have triple eligibility most likely.
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  I think there are gonna be some leagues he might be a little bit short
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  on shortstop because he's only at last time I checked, I think it was
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  sixteen games. Let me confirm it it is, but it's twelve games started.
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  There's lots of leagues that it might be a twenty game played or ten
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  games started threshold. So he should qualify at second, short and outfield,
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  which gives you just great ability to work through the rest of your draft in
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  terms of filling in where you need, where you need spots, and managing
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  your team throughout twenty twenty four. You can slide him around those three different
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  spots. It's really clutch. I mean, I think if you're taking Mooki,
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  I would be using him at second base and being able to just kind
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  of pick up more and more outfielders going forward. He's kind of a perennial
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  thirty five homer, fifteen stolen base guy with like a two eighty is sh
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  average, so just really really solid and you can't you're just gonna count on
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  it. He just plays and plays in place. I love the pick.
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  Bets was number three on my board. The only thing that you didn't mention
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  is that the lineup he's in, he's a lock for one hundred maybe one
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  hundred and twenty runs in that lineup, and that's that's with everything else that
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  he does. And I agree, I think the tiebreaker with him and the
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  next few guys, may that be that positional flexibility at that point in the
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  draft. I love what that what that can do for for a team.
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  Okay, who's your second pick? Well, I think this is this is
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  where it starts to get tight. For me, I was pretty confident number
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  three in Bets, and I think the next I'd say, next two guys
• 24:22
  to me, maybe next four. You could all make arguments for and in
• 24:26
  any order that you want to go. But but for me and probably not
• 24:30
  a guy that I was too terribly hot in going into twenty twenty three.
• 24:34
  But I am going with Bobby Witt Jr. In the fourth overall pick,
• 24:40
  and the reason being, uh, you know, with it could go to
• 24:44
  what you've mentioned is floor looking at floor with has has really been consistent with
• 24:51
  what he's done. He's shown growth this year and his handling the strike zone
• 24:55
  and what he can do. And you know, he's very very likely gonna
• 25:00
  have a thirty forty five season, maybe thirty fifty depending on wherehere he ends
• 25:07
  up here. And you know, he he's not had luck this year,
• 25:11
  Like if you look at his numbers, there's not it's like inflated all by
• 25:14
  any luck. It's it's really driven his holy pie, his performance. And
• 25:18
  he's had a, like I said, a pretty gosh starting consistent year from
• 25:23
  from everything that I would consider. You know, So, I think having
• 25:30
  a guy that can lay in the infield and not clog up here outfield picks
• 25:36
  early and I can deliver forty or fifty steels, thirty home runs and he's
• 25:41
  gonna, you know, gonna be delivering a decent amount of counting stats.
• 25:45
  I like him there. I was very surprised as I was putting my ordering
• 25:51
  together where he where he fell. But as as the more and more I
• 25:55
  looked at it, he's just been consistent all year long. He just are
• 26:00
  a little slow, but be beyond that he's been he's been money. So
• 26:03
  Bobby with Junior for me in that fourth pick, Yeah, and I don't
• 26:10
  think you're out of balance. Actually, beat On and Grave we're talking on
• 26:14
  their podcast earlier this week that they think that Wit is a lock for a
• 26:19
  top five pick. I'll disclose that I actually I had a ninth unlike my
• 26:23
  list of like what we're going through. But I do think that like four
• 26:27
  through nine or ten is it's a little bit more of kind of finding your
• 26:33
  preference. And for me, the nits on Bobby Wit are like the strikeout
• 26:41
  rate he has dropped, but I don't like that he's not walking enough still,
• 26:45
  Like it's still a little bit of a low walk rate for me,
• 26:48
  and I'm still concerned that like that strike rate could creep back. And then
• 26:53
  after that it's just playing in Kansas City, having that Royals lineup around him
• 26:57
  that I think most of these other guys that we're talking about will just be
• 27:02
  in more solid lineups. So I have no qualms with that, but I
• 27:06
  just had him rated a little bit lower. All right, who do you
• 27:10
  got? Who do you got? Number five? So for number five,
• 27:15
  I'm gonna take I'm doing Freddie Freeman. I think it is a little aggressive,
• 27:21
  but I think when it goes back a little bit to what we're saying
• 27:23
  in terms of floor and tune, with a three thirty batting average is right
• 27:30
  the floor pretty much, and I don't see that ever going down anytime soon
• 27:36
  with the shift rules going away. That you can see the jump in his
• 27:40
  babbit this year to three seventy one, and that's not a fluke like he's
• 27:45
  always run high babbips because he can just hit, hit, hit, And
• 27:48
  it's gonna say that how that high because he can find the gaps. Now,
• 27:55
  obviously the actual homers and art and stolen bases are a little bit lower
• 27:59
  than these other guys were talking about. But when you're talking somebody who's hitting
• 28:04
  for that high of a batting average, that gives you so big of an
• 28:10
  advantage in that category. It can be hard to pull yourself out of a
• 28:12
  batting average roll. And if you're getting work put in from Freddy Freeman at
• 28:19
  the three twenty plus clip, like it adds up because again, this is
• 28:23
  a guy that just plays. He's played pretty much every game since two seventeen.
• 28:32
  He's at one hundred and sixty two hundred and fifty eight sixty in the
• 28:34
  COVID season one fifty nine, one fifty nine on pace again for playing in
• 28:40
  just about every game this year. So it's just steady contributions. You can
• 28:45
  set him and forget him at first base and really be able to focus on
• 28:49
  taking higher risk kind of in the second, third, and fourth rounds.
• 28:55
  Yeah, I'm kind of like you with you the Freddie Freeman. It is
• 28:57
  almost perplexing to me. And in this as I look at the first round,
• 29:02
  you're going for high, high floor and you want speed. Uh that's
• 29:07
  kind of my opinion is what you want and you don't want somebody's gonna drain
• 29:10
  your batting average. And what I struggle with freemanut is I just as you
• 29:12
  look at him, I just like he doesn't have the speed, doesn't have
• 29:15
  the speed, like the guy's got seventeen stolen bases this year. Yeah,
• 29:18
  exactly, which I think is surprising. And so I definitely struggled with where
• 29:22
  to put him. To your point, the batting average. It's not like
• 29:26
  he's gotten lucky. You know, his his ex batting average over the last
• 29:30
  four years, the lowis he's had was three thirteen. Yeah, so you
• 29:34
  know the guy can just flat out hit so a guy I had a little
• 29:40
  bit lower, and but I haven't clearly in the first round. But I
• 29:44
  think it goes back to your point where you know, after the first few
• 29:45
  guys, there's probably the next seven or eight guys that you can make up
• 29:51
  any argument for and in any order that you want and be pretty gosh darn't
• 29:56
  happy with with what you got. So yeah, I like your Freeman pick.
• 30:00
  I think it gives a very solid floor and the flexibility you have later
• 30:03
  to take anybody that's gonna put a drain on the average is something you actually
• 30:08
  wouldstand, whereas a lot of others won't be able to. Yeah, so
• 30:11
  who are you taking it at number six? Then? Well, number six,
• 30:17
  I am going back to I'm gonna keep going on the youth train here
• 30:21
  and I'm going back to what we open the show with Julio Rodriguez. I'm
• 30:25
  going with Julio and I'm very thrilled to be partnering him with Mobby Witt,
• 30:32
  with that power speed upside. To your point, neither of them the the
• 30:38
  average. I don't think either of them is gonna ever be a two forty
• 30:41
  two fifty hitter. But you know, I think we comfortably. You know,
• 30:45
  it's a two eighty maybe a two ninety type of guy, So they're
• 30:49
  gonna be solid there. But both of those guys, you know, pairing
• 30:53
  them together a good good chance for eighty steals between the two of them,
• 31:00
  and those those counting stats are going to be to be there. So I
• 31:04
  like Julio. He The only only concern I have with Julio is durability.
• 31:11
  And it's not like he's missed time. It's just his playing style. He
• 31:17
  is all out player and it, you know, it kind of reminds me,
• 31:22
  and I say this a little tongue in cheek, but it reminds me
• 31:26
  of a Mike Trout when he first came up. That he was just all
• 31:29
  over the place, running in the wall in center field, making every play.
• 31:32
  And eventually it's caught up with Trout. Now, it took years for
• 31:37
  it to catch up, but it all it takes is when you play that
• 31:40
  way, for just one little thing to nag and to cause problems, so
• 31:44
  I don't think that's happening anytime soon. So I'm pretty confident with that floor
• 31:48
  that I have. So I said Julio Rodriguez, I am very very happy
• 31:53
  to have him at number six. Yeah. No, I think that's a
• 31:56
  great pick for all the things that you've listed overall. And I mean he's
• 32:01
  also like one of those guys that you can start dreaming on just more things
• 32:06
  being added to the repertoire just because he is only twenty two, and I
• 32:10
  mean the sky is really the limit because he's kind of entering those peak years.
• 32:15
  I'm a little jealous of the cars that you get to pick because it's
• 32:20
  gonna be some fun ones between Otani, Bobby Wit and Julio Rodriguez there.
• 32:24
  Yeah, I don't even think about that part of our draft because this is
• 32:28
  gonna be the fun part. There's gonna be some real quality there. I
• 32:30
  don't think Freddie Freeman unless you're going logo fractor on us or something as anything
• 32:36
  too too overly exciting. Oh yeah, I'll find something good. I'll take
• 32:39
  through it. Okay. So with the seventh pick, now, I'm gonna
• 32:45
  have to go with Fernando Tatiques Jr. I think he's right in the same
• 32:52
  kind of quality of Julio and Akunya in terms of and Bobby Witt in terms
• 32:58
  of the be power combo. And this year the power is down a little
• 33:05
  bit. Like he entered the year with a career I saw that was up
• 33:12
  above three hundred at three h three, but it's dropped at two oh three
• 33:15
  this year. And you can tell he's still kind of working himself back into
• 33:19
  shape after missing all twenty two from the injuries and the suspension. But I
• 33:25
  mean, in his hundred games so far, he has twenty homers and twenty
• 33:30
  three steals, and he's been playing a really supreme right field, so he
• 33:35
  looks really comfortable out there. I think he's gonna be ultimately, you know,
• 33:39
  a top five outfielder when it's all said and done by the end of
• 33:43
  twenty twenty four. And you just kind of have to hope that the shoulder
• 33:46
  and the risk keep healing more and more in the off season and he can
• 33:51
  become a really really elite version of himself like he was in twenty twenty one
• 33:55
  again, but even still like you're going to get it. At this point,
• 34:00
  he's pacing for about a thirty thirty season in one hundred and thirty one
• 34:05
  hundred and twenty five games. So you can't complain if you took him this
• 34:08
  year pretty high in your draft, because at at this point, yeah,
• 34:13
  if you're getting a thirty thirty season out of anybody in your first round pick,
• 34:16
  you're gonna be happy. Yeah, you know. The only the reason
• 34:21
  I had Tatties lower my list is what exactly what I said with Hulu reever
• 34:23
  you gets a few months ago, is the injury concerns. And he's actually
• 34:28
  shown a little bit here and there injury and off the field. Maybe uh
• 34:32
  concerns with Tattis, but on a per game basis, per bat basis,
• 34:37
  whatever you want to look at it, he is riding that verge of the
• 34:42
  top five five pick, and so I can't fault it. Probably not a
• 34:45
  guy that I'm going to own a whole lot Latin next year. Maybe it's
• 34:50
  the West Coast later start times. I don't know what it is. I
• 34:53
  mean, I just took Kulu, so I can't. I can't use that
• 34:55
  that excuse. But you know, I think for me, there's a little
• 35:00
  bit more risk and Tatis that I'm willing to take on at that point in
• 35:05
  the draft. But the numbers speak, the numbers speak for himself, so
• 35:08
  I definitely see why why you're leaning in there too. Fernando Tatiss Jr.
• 35:15
  Yeah, So who are you going to take with number eight? All right,
• 35:20
  well, number eight, I'm going to continue taking guys that I just
• 35:24
  absolutely love because I'm at this point, I'm just going to straight down my
• 35:28
  list. You are not interrupting my role at all as far as taking the
• 35:32
  guys that I want. I'm gonna go with Kyle Tucker. Okay, at
• 35:37
  number eight, Kyle Tucker. And it's part numbers of what he's done,
• 35:44
  but part of I think Kyle Tucker is better than what he showed. I
• 35:49
  think he is. You know, the Astros for a few years just messed
• 35:52
  around with him. They could not commit to him, wouldn't give him the
• 35:55
  chance that the guy who was going thirty thirty in the minors like it was
• 35:58
  nothing. And this year he's he's very very likely going to have a thirty
• 36:04
  thirty season. He's gonna hit just about three hundred and that lineup, the
• 36:08
  counting stats are right there. He already has ninety two ribbies for the season.
• 36:15
  He's only got sixty nine runs, which I think is more of a
• 36:19
  fluke than anything at this point in time. So you know, he is
• 36:22
  a guy that bats right in the middle the order of the majority of the
• 36:27
  time he's batting clean up or five. So the fact that he doesn't have
• 36:30
  more runs a little a little surprising with his speed, so I think that
• 36:34
  that does come back. So I think pairing him with the guys I've already
• 36:37
  taken off the board and getting a little bit more average help on there.
• 36:42
  Like I said, I think that Kyle Tucker has a forty forty season in
• 36:45
  him, and I wouldn't be surprised to see that, you know, happening
• 36:49
  next year. As you know, he goes into what would be his twenty
• 36:52
  seven year old season, and for folks that follow aging twenty seven is typically
• 36:58
  the peak of a player's career. So I think he's got incredible upside next
• 37:05
  year, and for whatever reason, just not being a flashy player, people
• 37:08
  sleep on him. So love and Kyle Tucker at number eight. No,
• 37:13
  Yeah, I think that's a great pick. I mean I had him right
• 37:16
  in my top ten item ten, but the average is great to see that
• 37:22
  bounce back this year after it dipped to two fifty seven last year. It's
• 37:25
  back up to tween ninety seven, two ninety four and twenty twenty one.
• 37:29
  So that is really huge because when you can just block that average and you
• 37:36
  can do a lot of cooler things later in the draft, you know,
• 37:39
  all right, So I will come up with number nine, and I feel
• 37:45
  like this is gonna He's gonna fall a lot, but this is gonna be
• 37:51
  I think it a little sneaky for people, is Aaron Drudge, Like I
• 37:57
  can't believe he's kind of fallen to this point because I mean, at this
• 38:00
  point in the year, I know that you've been knocking the injury stuff,
• 38:05
  and I would have agreed if Aaron Judge had been out with some sort of
• 38:08
  soft tissue hammy, calf, oblique, but the fluky right field in Dodger
• 38:16
  Stadium is what caused his season to be derailed with that toe injury. If
• 38:22
  you just at this point take his season line, he's got seventy games,
• 38:25
  three hundred plate appearances, you double it. You would be at forty eight
• 38:31
  bombs, one hundred and four runs, ninety six RBI, six stolen bases
• 38:37
  with a two seventy six average. And like that even feels light because he
• 38:43
  didn't get to hit in July and most of August for just getting that you
• 38:47
  know, bouncy ball up into the heated up air during the summer. So
• 38:52
  I think, like Aaron Judge could be a really good block for fifty plus
• 38:59
  homers next year, looking at something like a two eighty average chipping in.
• 39:02
  You know, I don't think he's ever going to do sixteen stolen bases again
• 39:06
  like he did in twenty twenty two because it's kind of a contract year and
• 39:08
  he's shown everything he could do. But I think he could get ten stolen
• 39:12
  bases. But then again, we haven't seen him run too much with the
• 39:15
  new rules this year, so he could even push that up. So it's
• 39:21
  mostly just the the upper side, Like the ceiling here for Aaron Judge is
• 39:28
  to the moon, and so at at what am I at nine? I'm
• 39:31
  at nine? Nine? Yeah, at nine, Like I will take that
• 39:37
  in trying to see if he can have a bounce back year. You have
• 39:38
  to think that the Yankees will spend this offseason and try to put something around
• 39:44
  him because it's clearly not worked the strategy the past couple of years that they're
• 39:49
  going to have to go out and try to make some bigger moves and that
• 39:52
  should allow him to just see more pitching. That. Yeah, the dude
• 39:57
  slug is slugging over six hundred this year. That he's got great numbers,
• 40:01
  He's all the stack cast data looks great. It's just that that right field
• 40:07
  wall and Dodger Stadium really messed up this season. Yeah, and I think
• 40:10
  this will be the first and probably the only one that I'm going to really
• 40:14
  disagree with you on. And then you set it up perfectly because you kind
• 40:16
  of knew I was going to I'm not touching Aaron Judge with a ten foot
• 40:21
  poll. You know, it's I had him right now in the middle of
• 40:24
  the second round. Is the earliest I would even consider it. You know,
• 40:29
  if I look back, so the last six seasons and you're probably have
• 40:32
  his pages up right now, so you probably know. But how many seasons
• 40:37
  is he had of more than one hundred and fifteen games the last six years?
• 40:40
  And I'm including the COVID year to help my point. Yeah, yeah,
• 40:45
  it is three. But like I said, this is why I qualified
• 40:47
  it with like it was a fluke injury, which it's really been the first
• 40:52
  one in his career. If anything, I think that might have helped because
• 40:55
  it kind of gave him the year to slow down and like actually probably work
• 41:00
  on strengthening some of those things and not have the grind of an entire season
• 41:06
  on his obliques and hammies and stuff. But if it had been a off
• 41:09
  injury, I would totally be with you in the second round. But I
• 41:13
  mean, I think he can come back strong from the toe and be able
• 41:17
  to just put up another monster season. Yeah, I think the upside here
• 41:23
  is incredible. And if but where I struggle, if it's if he's my
• 41:28
  first pick, you know, I'm sitting here going I'm okay. If I'm
• 41:32
  wrong and I don't take him, I am kicking myself all year long.
• 41:37
  If I take him, and I'm like, I had that inkling that his
• 41:40
  ceiling is high, but his floor is actually kind of low in the first
• 41:45
  round here, and to me, there's still a few guys on the board
• 41:49
  that I'm a little bit more comfortable with taking and I don't feel like I
• 41:52
  have the level of risk. But there's there's a number of guys that I
• 41:58
  have a head of our judge. But if you're right you look like a
• 42:01
  genius. If I'm right, I just don't own him, so I guess
• 42:06
  it doesn't really remember. So yeah, what what pick are you gonna take
• 42:10
  with that? With your tenth So we've got two picks left, or I've
• 42:15
  got one pick. You've got two picks. But here you go, here's
• 42:17
  your chance for some safety. Well we're going and I'm gonna take a spin.
• 42:22
  Even though this is not the order I originally had to. I just
• 42:25
  look at my list, but I'm building the well rounded team. It's really
• 42:29
  what I'm looking for at this point. Is this in a team? So
• 42:32
  like, you know what, we're not playing this out next year. Yeah,
• 42:38
  man, I was going for a clubhouse. Uh you know, jelling
• 42:42
  here, I am going to take a starting pitcher, okay, in the
• 42:47
  middle of the well, towards the back of the first round, and I
• 42:51
  you probably can guess who it is. There's really one starting pitcher that probably
• 42:53
  outside of Otani who I don't think you can fully count in that in that
• 42:58
  ballgame. Spencer Strider. H taking Spencer Strider at number ten. And I
• 43:05
  will caveat this that if this if your if your league doesn't have an Indians
• 43:08
  cap I'd probably knock him down a little bit there, but the strikeout rate
• 43:15
  is just unbeatable. He's actually had had some uh some unlucky uh plays this
• 43:22
  year. If if I uh and I'm not not looking at his page,
• 43:25
  his fancraft page and see what his baby or anything like that, just from
• 43:29
  watching him pitch, it seems like every time that he's uh about to,
• 43:34
  you know, reel off a crazy game of seven Indians thirteen k's and get
• 43:38
  the win, that there's like a blue pit, or he walks a guy,
• 43:44
  there's a blue pit. Somebody misplays something and a guy steals a base
• 43:46
  and scores, like it's some weird scenario that like only the perfect scenario.
• 43:52
  The guy's scores and that happens like twice, and all of a sudden,
• 43:54
  like man, he can gave up to two and he only went six because
• 43:57
  he had a few extra pitches and or there's a few errors and so then
• 44:00
  he didn't goes deep in the game, so they had to get a few
• 44:01
  extra outs, you know. So but like I said, I think Spencer
• 44:07
  Strutgers the one picture outside of Otani that I feel comfortable taking them the first
• 44:12
  round. And I think especially if you have an Indians cap where you're really
• 44:15
  trying to stack up those strikeouts to finish it higher than the rest of the
• 44:20
  league in that category, I think he's kind of a must have if that's
• 44:22
  part of your strategy. I totally agree. I think he's the only picture
• 44:29
  I had taken the first round and so other than Otani obviously, and I
• 44:34
  think part of it is because the floor on the strikeouts is so great.
• 44:37
  Even when he's not at his sharpest on the mound, I'll just throw out
• 44:42
  like that that Doud against the Pirates that happened the other week where he went
• 44:46
  two and two thirds with three k's and gave up six But even when he's
• 44:52
  like bad, So he had like a game against the Mets in June where
• 44:54
  he had four innings and gave up eight earned, but he's still had eight
• 44:59
  ks. There was an outing where he was bad against the White Sox of
• 45:05
  all teams in last month, where he went six innings, gave up five
• 45:08
  earned ten k's, an outing last month against Arizona four earned in six innings,
• 45:16
  thirteen ks. So like that is crazy that like he can still put
• 45:22
  up like these double digit cas for you even when he is having a little
• 45:25
  bit of an off day and the homer is really the home run has really
• 45:30
  been biting him this year. So I think like that is something he could
• 45:34
  work on in the off season, and if he does, then look out.
• 45:38
  Yeah. And I think he's part of the reason I think it's interesting
• 45:42
  is it go and I go back number of years ago from a positional perspective,
• 45:46
  is that I think at this point he's actually eleviyed him so far past
• 45:50
  the number two guy that this distinct advantage of owning I go back a number
• 45:53
  of years ago with a catcher when a JTL real Muto was like a cheat
• 45:58
  code at catcher because he was so far and above the next catcher and that
• 46:00
  didn't last for that long. But when you had him, it's it's just
• 46:05
  like you were getting so much production out of the position that nobody else did.
• 46:08
  They just gave you so many other options. So I think there's a
• 46:10
  degree of that with Spencer Strider next year, with Shane McClanahan going down with
• 46:15
  Tommy John, you know, there's not there's not really a second guy right
• 46:20
  there. With Surezer and Verlander kind of showing showing their age a little bit,
• 46:24
  that second guy is is a step below where Spencer Strider is, and
• 46:30
  I think, you know, I'm he might be only the picture I'm taking
• 46:31
  the first two rounds. Uh yeah, I mean I'm kind of looking at
• 46:37
  my We can actually discuss a little bit of like our remaining lists after this,
• 46:42
  just to like go through if you get guys. But I would agree.
• 46:45
  I have another picture that I would take in the second round, but
• 46:47
  it's not a starter, and so I'm gonna take my six pick right here.
• 46:54
  There's still one left in my top ten, so I'm taking him,
• 46:58
  and that is Corporn Carroll from the Diamondbacks. The stats have been incredible this
• 47:05
  year. It's going to be a pretty breezy Rookie of the Year campaign.
• 47:08
  I think that he's on pace to go about twenty five five hit two seventy
• 47:15
  and I mean the runs and the RBI could be you know, they leave
• 47:21
  a little bit to be desired, but he's still going to be about one
• 47:22
  hundred runs and somewhere around like eighty RBI when it's all kind of wrapped up
• 47:27
  by the end of the season, and that'll be his age twenty two season.
• 47:30
  That sky is really the limit from there, so I think, especially
• 47:35
  as he's getting more comfortable with his stroke, you know, he could start
• 47:38
  pushing maybe thirty homers, But I don't know if there's going to be too
• 47:42
  much more beyond that. I do think that, like there's a chance that
• 47:45
  he could push the stolen bases up next year, but even still, like,
• 47:47
  I'm not going to be too greedy when a guy is going, you
• 47:51
  know, twenty five forty five and is putting up seventy combined stolen bases and
• 47:57
  RBI or stone bases and home runs along with a pre solid batting average,
• 48:01
  especially at a spot like the outfield, it becomes hard to fill in all
• 48:05
  those outfield spots. So if you can fill it in in your first round
• 48:08
  and kind of have a decent floor with Corborn Carroll, That's where I'm going.
• 48:14
  I don't I will not argue with this one at all. He was
• 48:16
  actually the guy that I was debating with Spencer Strider at the last pick.
• 48:20
  He's the guy actually leap frogged in on my list just because I wanted to
• 48:24
  grab that that picture. And so yeah, I'm right there with you with
• 48:29
  with Carol, I agree, I don't know that he has a whole lot
• 48:31
  left in tank. Maybe there's a little bit more speed that can be had
• 48:34
  there. The only thing it would be interesting is if the Diamebacks continue to
• 48:37
  build around him. That's I think something that actually could could do something for
• 48:40
  him, because it feels it seems like the diame Backs now there they've got
• 48:44
  a taste of winning. Depends, you know, we'll see where they actually
• 48:47
  end up in the season, but it seems like they were becoming a little
• 48:50
  bit more aggressive with looking to make moves, bring in and build around a
• 48:52
  guy like Carol and so I could see those those counting staffs jumping up as
• 48:58
  as things progress. I too hope he settles in the middle of the order
• 49:04
  he's been earlier in the season. He was kind of that number three hitter.
• 49:07
  Seems like he's been bouncing around the number two, number one bet and
• 49:10
  better ninth the other day. I definitely look to see those pinch hit appearance
• 49:15
  or or what it was. But you know it, I think that if
• 49:22
  he ends up settling his number three or the number four hitter, those RBIs
• 49:25
  jump up as well, and then he's he's looking like a the true all
• 49:30
  Star. Okay, his his betting ninth was a pinch hit up here,
• 49:31
  and so I feel better now it was last night, and I mean I
• 49:35
  feel good about that. The Diamondbacks they still have, Christian Walker could tell
• 49:38
  Mark Tay's around for a long time. Jordan Lawler should be up next year,
• 49:43
  and so all they need to maybe do is to add another power bat.
• 49:46
  And yep, even then, like they Lorda Scurriel has been okay,
• 49:52
  but like that's if you're upgrading on Lorda Scoriell doesn't take too much exactly.
• 49:59
  So yep, I'm liking where you're at with with Corbyn Carroll there, So
• 50:02
  all right to to wrap it up, last official pick, last official pick,
• 50:07
  and I'm gonna I'm gonna grab a guy that I think has fallen from
• 50:10
  a little bit of graces this year. And I think, you know,
• 50:14
  he was a guy that was considered with the top overall pick going into this
• 50:17
  season, and he, rightfully Stow has not turned the right for that consideration
• 50:22
  next year. But I'm gonna go with Trey Turner. And in this position,
• 50:28
  I think you know, Trey Turner definitely has had a a rough season,
• 50:32
  if you if you want, if you want to call it that,
• 50:35
  maybe certain fans out there and Philadelphia might call it something else, but he's
• 50:43
  he's had a little bit of a stuff go. He's definitely picks it up
• 50:45
  as a late but you know, he's only hitting two fifty one. He's
• 50:51
  uh, you know, he's probably got a good shot at a twenty twenty
• 50:53
  season, you know, maybe twenty thirty if he picks it up really at
• 50:58
  the end of the season here. But you know, this is a guy
• 51:00
  that's coming off of you know, four seasons in a rowbotting two ninety eight
• 51:05
  or better. You know, Perennial thirty or forty stolen bases, was you
• 51:10
  know, probably mid to low twenties home runs. He has a great potential
• 51:16
  and that Phillies lineup can hit. Uh, So you know he's going to
• 51:21
  score runs and bunches. And I think that he did have a down year.
• 51:27
  Uh, he's looked a little bit lost at the plate to a degree,
• 51:30
  but like I said, he seems to have kind of picked things up
• 51:34
  as the season's gone along. And he's one of those guys that he's always
• 51:38
  been a professional hitter. So I think that there's enough floor here with enough
• 51:44
  ceiling that I feel comfortable the end of that first round, especially if you're
• 51:49
  you're staking a back to pick up somebody else that can that can hold him
• 51:52
  up. But I think that's worth the risks. So I like Trey Turner
• 51:55
  right at the end of that first round, and I don't think I'm gonna
• 52:00
  be disappointed, all right, well, I mean, actually I'm gonna have
• 52:05
  to come in and disagree in terms of like the way you did with Judge
• 52:08
  for me that like, I think Turner belongs a little bit more towards the
• 52:14
  back into the second round, maybe for next year, just because his stack
• 52:19
  cast page is not good, Like he's always struggled really making high quality of
• 52:25
  contact, and you can see that with his barrel rates and hard hit rates
• 52:30
  are very middling at seven point one percent and forty point eight percent. They're
• 52:37
  just when you're having a guy that's like getting on the other side of thirty.
• 52:43
  And his sprint speed is still amazing, it's still in the ninety nine
• 52:46
  percentile, but he's clearly already running less even though the rest of the league
• 52:51
  is running war. And so if he's not giving me all that extra value
• 52:55
  in the stolen basis, I don't think he's got the power in his bat
• 52:59
  to be to make up for it, and so the nice thing about him
• 53:04
  in the past has always been like he was a lock for forty stolen bases
• 53:07
  or somewhere in that range. And so if he's only going to give me
• 53:10
  thirty stolen bases and it's only going to come with twenty ish homers, I'm
• 53:15
  a little bit scared about kind of how that plays out. I think the
• 53:19
  k rate bumped up this year because he is just pushing and trying to live
• 53:24
  up to that contract he's signed to Philadelphia. But he's a great player.
• 53:29
  I like him, but I think I like him a little bit more towards
• 53:31
  the back of the second round, because honestly, he's not even in the
• 53:35
  list of I've made like eighteen to kind of go through this draft, and
• 53:39
  he didn't make that top eighteen. Well, I have to then commisserate with
• 53:44
  you because I told told you I had nineteen. Guess who number nineteen on
• 53:47
  my list is Aaron Judge. Yes, so I think we can align that
• 53:53
  we're we differ on some of the values. The one thing about Turner that
• 53:59
  the floor and the speed And if you're probably you've probably already seen it,
• 54:01
  but how many times he's been caught stealing this year twenty two steals? How
• 54:08
  many how many attempts has he made out for twenty two steals? Guessing he's
• 54:13
  maybe being only been caught twice. He has not been caught. He hasn't
• 54:16
  He has not been caught this season, And I think, to me,
• 54:22
  there's it's part of it's flowing over from his uh discomfort of the plate he's
• 54:25
  pressing, you know, and so I think that there's something to that where
• 54:30
  he can run more and he should be running more, but that confidence hasn't
• 54:34
  been there. Like I said, I think he has picked it up a
• 54:37
  little bit as of late, and he's had a little a few a few
• 54:39
  games here and there. It looks like the trade turner that they that they
• 54:43
  paid for. But I have to agree that there is uh is a little
• 54:47
  bit higher risk with that pick. But I'm only comfortable doing it at the
• 54:52
  end of the first round because I know I got thirteen coming back on the
• 54:54
  on the other side most likely, And so I'm I'm I'm I'm grabbing if
• 54:59
  I grabbed trade there, uh the guy I'm taking on the other side,
• 55:04
  Juan Soto, I'm taking another guy that can really I feel confident, high
• 55:08
  high ceiling, but very much a good floor. So anyway, was there
• 55:14
  anybody in your top twelve that didn't get drafted? Yes, since having judged
• 55:21
  there at number nineteen for member twelve, okay, yeah, yeah, my
• 55:24
  number twelve guy was Jose Ramirez. Okay, And so Jose Ramirez is definitely
• 55:31
  one that's he's not a little bit of an off year, but still the
• 55:35
  numbers are pretty gush darn strong. And so when you talk about a guy
• 55:38
  with a strong floors, it's gonna feel pretty much the whole stat sheet not
• 55:42
  really hurt you anywhere. I really liked him that value late in the first
• 55:46
  round. And he's also the kind of guy that you know, I think
• 55:51
  gets any protection, which I don't know that he's going to in in Cleveland,
• 55:54
  but if he has any protection, you know, he can put up
• 55:58
  some some crazy numbers if he just gets a little lucky or just has you
• 56:00
  know, a really good seasons. He's that kind of guy that can really
• 56:05
  go off and you wouldn't really be surprised about it. So yeah, how
• 56:07
  about how about you clearly you have a one or two that we we didn't
• 56:12
  hit on him. Well, yeah, I'll on Jose Ramirez. He was
• 56:14
  fifteenth for me, so right in the same range. And I think another
• 56:16
  thing with him is third base is gonna be a black hole again that it
• 56:22
  might not be a bad idea that if you've got especially on a on a
• 56:25
  one two turn, to take him there so that you have third base sorted
• 56:30
  out, you don't have to worry about it. The twelfth person I had
• 56:34
  on my board was Matt Olsen. Actually, he's been really incredible the past
• 56:37
  couple of years, and we espoused all of his virtues last week when we're
• 56:42
  talking about tops chrome m vps. Yeah for play hitting in that lineup and
• 56:49
  you want to talk about floor for power. That dude plays day in day
• 56:53
  out, and he's almost kind of like if you're worried about Judge and his
• 56:59
  ability to stay on the field and like hit for that power, you don't
• 57:01
  have that with Olson. And it's going to be probably a pretty easy mid
• 57:05
  forty tomers with one hundred and twenty rbi one hundred, one hundred runs.
• 57:09
  The batting average will fluctuate, but he's turned into such a better hitter that
• 57:15
  I'm I'm really not worried about him bodying out bottoming out my bidding average the
• 57:20
  way that I think I used to with Mandelson. He's really matured into a
• 57:22
  really great hitter. Yeah, and I'm not going to disagree with you.
• 57:27
  He was my fifteenth hitter. Olson was, so he was he was right
• 57:30
  there in the mix, and you know, the only the guys that he
• 57:34
  was sitting behind. I had Bryce Harper rebound there because I think that he
• 57:38
  has a potential to rebound, you know, getting back full, healthy,
• 57:43
  off season everything for him. And then Juan Soto, I just can't.
• 57:46
  I can't push him much further down. Yeah, just the unbelievable hitter that
• 57:52
  he is now he you know, and really at that at some point and
• 57:57
  that's really I think where where my my rankings start to to drop off is
• 58:00
  the power just disappears, and then you start to get what I consider the
• 58:04
  professional hitters, and that's where you're hitting the Soto, Olson, You're don
• 58:07
  you know, those kind of guys that are just unbelievable. And so yeah,
• 58:13
  I have nothing nothing against the Matt Olsen pick. I can't see him
• 58:16
  squeezing the first round for me, just because I think in that first round
• 58:21
  I want speed unless I'm taking Spencer Strider, But even then, I think
• 58:25
  it's gonna be he's gonna be later in that in that first round, just
• 58:28
  like where where he was taken. So anybody else on your list that that
• 58:30
  you want to shout out on, Yeah, And so I mean I think
• 58:34
  a couple of these guys will help with that speed if you do take somebody
• 58:37
  like a Matt Olson or a Freeman and you're kind of getting into second round.
• 58:43
  So other guys I kind of had into consideration for the back end of
• 58:45
  the first round. Ozzie Albis, He's he's a little bit of like Trade
• 58:52
  Turner in terms of like the bad profile stuff is not great, but like
• 58:57
  again, just produces in that Atlanta lineup. Finds a way to run,
• 59:00
  finds a way to hit for power, really takes advantage of his opportunities,
• 59:06
  comes out a premium position at second plate, a second base. So that's
• 59:08
  great Police Robert, if you want to talk, if you want to talk
• 59:15
  risk louse, Robert Is. It doesn't get bigger than that. You can
• 59:19
  see what he can do with the healthy season this year and if he can
• 59:22
  stay healthy again next year. I don't care how terrible the White Sox lineup
• 59:28
  is LuSE. Robert is so supreme at the way that he hits the ball
• 59:31
  with power we saw in the derby, and he's going to run that like
• 59:36
  he could produce first round value again the way he is this year. And
• 59:40
  then you mentioned a couple of the other guys You're don Juan Soto kind of
• 59:45
  hanging around there, but without the stolen bases, I don't I can't push
• 59:47
  him into the first round, and they don't hit for as much power as
• 59:51
  Olson. The one guy that I think could sneak in from a pitching standpoint
• 59:58
  is Felix spot Tista. Obviously, we talked about it the other week when
• 1:00:04
  I brought him up for AlSi young, but like I mean, he's starting
• 1:00:08
  to get to even with Josh Haider's crazy season of having a sub one Earra
• 1:00:13
  and sub one whip, like Felix Bautista is pushing himself into new echelons as
• 1:00:17
  a reliever. That the volume that he's giving you two at those rates is
• 1:00:22
  crazy. It's a little bit how like Andrew Miller used to be really valuable
• 1:00:28
  even without the saves because the ratio work from Earra, whip and K nine
• 1:00:32
  were just so elite that Felix Bautista is starting to push that as well.
• 1:00:37
  I would like if I had a pick, you know, in a twelve
• 1:00:40
  teamer and I was able to do like a something like let's say Kyle Tucker
• 1:00:46
  dropped to like that twelfth pick, and you could do like a Kyle Tucker
• 1:00:50
  Felix Bautista one two. That's really tempting. Yeah, I think the and
• 1:00:55
  I'm never gonna be one. I don't think. The earliest I've ever taking
• 1:00:59
  reliever is like the seventh round. It's a personal vendetta about against relievers.
• 1:01:05
  And you've seen some of the trades I've met made the past week. Will
• 1:01:07
  Smith is clearly in my crosshairs of trading for in a league that I'm going
• 1:01:14
  for the championship, and he has done a great job at torpedoing everything I'm
• 1:01:20
  trying to do. But the only one other one that uh I really I
• 1:01:24
  really struggle with and he made my list, but I think it's just out
• 1:01:28
  of He's got to be on the list somewhere and I don't know what to
• 1:01:30
  do with him. Next year is Mike Trout, And you know I had
• 1:01:35
  him on my list round seventeen. I feel like that actually might still be
• 1:01:38
  too high for Trout. You know, he came back, he's back in
• 1:01:44
  the lineup, uh, just today, and so it'll be interesting to see
• 1:01:49
  how he finishes up the season. Is he healthy, is he running?
• 1:01:52
  I mean, his numbers, you know, they have dropped off for Mike
• 1:01:57
  Trout, but he still has the best exible he's had in the last three
• 1:02:00
  years. You know, he's still got a you know, hard hit rate
• 1:02:07
  of fifty two percent. The stack cast looks amazing, Like the guy can
• 1:02:12
  still hit, you know, he's just not running. And so I kind
• 1:02:15
  of put him that professional hitter category with you know, the Ordans of the
• 1:02:19
  world. I think that he's the concern is up being the injuries. Has
• 1:02:24
  it all kind of caught up to him? And so what's the what's the
• 1:02:28
  discount rate that you get for a guy like Trout? So I'm be very
• 1:02:32
  interested that I would not be surprised if he slipped into the third round in
• 1:02:36
  drafts next year, and that just feels wrong. No, I wouldn't be
• 1:02:40
  surprised either, because what's that lineup in Anaheim gonna look like around him?
• 1:02:45
  And it's gonna be really really bad, I think. And so I mean
• 1:02:49
  Taylor Warre can protect you. Yeah, and Noah Shanowell and Zach Meadow and
• 1:02:54
  whoever else they're twenty twenty four first round pick is Yeah, I feel for
• 1:03:00
  the guy at this point. Yeah. I did want to bring up there
• 1:03:05
  is one one dude in the raz Ball Player Raider to date that's top ten
• 1:03:09
  that we haven't talked about it at all, and that's a Dullas Garcia.
• 1:03:14
  Where where would a Dallas Garcia be in this talk for you? Because by
• 1:03:19
  the Player Raider, I think he's gonna be in conversations next year around the
• 1:03:24
  one two turn possibly that it's gonna be really hard to seeing him making it
• 1:03:30
  out of the second round. I think in a lot of drafts. Yeah,
• 1:03:34
  I think Adallas is one of those guys that really he kind of I
• 1:03:38
  don't think it's a bad name. It's not going to be the right term,
• 1:03:42
  but because of his strikeout profile, the way he kind of burst onto
• 1:03:45
  the scene and then he did kind of trail off a little bit, he
• 1:03:49
  did have some folks definitely looking at him like I don't know if it's real,
• 1:03:52
  but just looking at the top one hundred rankings were just the rest of
• 1:03:58
  the season, I have a Dallas Carcia a sixteen for all hitters, and
• 1:04:01
  so he was a guy that I thought about putting there. He probably would
• 1:04:05
  have been right in the middle of that second round. I don't see him
• 1:04:10
  getting out of the second round because he is one of those guys at that
• 1:04:13
  point that can still give you a little bit of speed. He's gonna be
• 1:04:16
  a drain on the average, maybe a drain, but he's he's not going
• 1:04:20
  to boost you up by any means on that that average. He's been better
• 1:04:26
  uh less you know this year. But I do like a Dallas Garcia,
• 1:04:31
  other guys that I think people will talk about. It's gonna be like Corey
• 1:04:35
  Seeger, Vladimir Gario Junior. I think those guys are gonna get some some
• 1:04:41
  looks. I think Pete Alonzo is gonna get talked about up there. I
• 1:04:44
  would I don't buy it. I'm not a Pete Alonzo guy by by any
• 1:04:47
  means. But and then honestly, Christian Yellich, I think Mike get some
• 1:04:54
  second round consideration. He definitely has had a resurgence that people just aren't talking
• 1:04:59
  about out So, uh, there's there's a lot of value and I think
• 1:05:03
  that We're gonna see a lot of a lot of variety in uh at the
• 1:05:09
  end of the first round through maybe like the middle of the or early third,
• 1:05:13
  where it's just gonna be kind of wild west of who goes where.
• 1:05:15
  But I'm gonna I'm grabbing as much speed and guys that won't d drain my
• 1:05:23
  average in that in that range. Clearly, I'm not going guys that are
• 1:05:28
  only speed, but I'm not drafting the hitter that doesn't steal some basses.
• 1:05:32
  And then first few rounds next year, Yeah, I think that makes sense,
• 1:05:35
  especially given how hard it has been to fill out stolen bases this year,
• 1:05:41
  that with the just the guide increase, there's so many guys that,
• 1:05:45
  especially on back ends of rosters. Your estuary rubises, you're really castro's.
• 1:05:51
  You're all speed dudes who can really make a difference for some teams, and
• 1:05:56
  so trying to balance that out, I would I'm I'm with you that,
• 1:06:00
  Like, there are a couple of first basemen that we talked about here that
• 1:06:03
  I really liked because just they give you the batting average boost that you need
• 1:06:08
  or the huge power just block of home runs that you want. But you've
• 1:06:14
  got to be hitting stolen bases pretty hard within you know, the first third
• 1:06:18
  of your draft. Yeah, I agree. I think the the only other
• 1:06:25
  guy that I think, you know, I might be able to make a
• 1:06:27
  case for, and he's had I'm would say he's slightly more down down the
• 1:06:31
  season, and he's probably a third round next year. Marcus Simeon. I
• 1:06:35
  think he's just doesn't get the respect he deserves. And you know, he's
• 1:06:41
  I have to look to see where he's at in his every other seasons and
• 1:06:44
  all Star season type of guy. So I'm not sure. I think he's
• 1:06:46
  slowly even that out over the years. But there's definitely a lot of other
• 1:06:51
  guys that we could go on and on about all night. But hey,
• 1:06:56
  I think that we had a very successful draft. We only had really two
• 1:07:00
  disagreements within that draft. So I think that that ship goes to show the
• 1:07:04
  first round. I was not gonna say pretty locked in, but you know,
• 1:07:09
  there's a little shuffling to do, but at least at this point that's
• 1:07:13
  gonna we're gonna see some consistency on who those guys are. The top ten
• 1:07:16
  or so, are are pretty pretty pretty locked in? Yeah, I agree,
• 1:07:21
  So we're gonna take another break, and then we'll be back with some
• 1:07:25
  of our favorite cards of some of these players. So we'll go into guys
• 1:07:29
  that we drafted and seeing you know, what cards might hold some value going
• 1:07:32
  into the future, and especially if you're trying to stash away some for this
• 1:07:36
  offseason to be able to bust back out for when the markets kind of jumped
• 1:07:42
  back up in the spring. We'll have a few suggestions for you as well
• 1:07:45
  as I think just some favorites, Like I know, for some of my
• 1:07:47
  guys, I'm gonna end up picking some that I just really enjoy the card.
• 1:07:51
  So we'll be back with that stick around, all right, Welcome back,
• 1:08:15
  everybody. We're gonna go now through the list of cards that we really
• 1:08:19
  like from our first round picks, and just to mix it up, we're
• 1:08:23
  gonna go in reverse order. So if you recall, our twelfth draft pick
• 1:08:29
  of the draft just a few minutes ago was trade Turner, and so Jeremy,
• 1:08:33
  I'll let you take over for Trade Turner saying which card you like and
• 1:08:40
  which one kind of stands out for you. And here in the cards section
• 1:08:44
  where categories and cards stay, all right, So jumping into tray Turner,
• 1:08:48
  when I look at trade. Turner doesn't have any really exciting like rookie cards
• 1:08:51
  or booming cars on something like that. But the card that sticks out to
• 1:08:56
  me for Tray Turner is coming off the World Baseball Classic here earlier this year,
• 1:09:00
  when he had just a fantastic Baseball Classic, which meant he was going
• 1:09:04
  to be fantastic for the twenty twenty three season, which has not transpired.
• 1:09:10
  They created one of those tops Now cards for him and it was the tops
• 1:09:14
  Now base relic. So it's the they actually make a relic out of the
• 1:09:17
  base from the tops Now games, and those were as hot as could be
• 1:09:23
  when they came out. I think they were like two hundred dollars or something
• 1:09:27
  like that. The problem with them is they took forever to ship. Yeah,
• 1:09:31
  so by the time they ship, like you bought him because you know,
• 1:09:33
  that's the car is gonna be so valuable because he's you know, all
• 1:09:36
  this pop pomp is a circumstance with the World Baseball Classic. And now I
• 1:09:42
  look at the prices of these things and people are like listening them on eBay
• 1:09:45
  for the price that it costs to get to buy the first place off tops
• 1:09:48
  Now. So basically you can get around two hundred dollars, probably cheaper with
• 1:09:53
  a best offer or something like that. But it's a really cool card and
• 1:09:57
  I think, you know, has some meaning just because it's coming from that
• 1:09:59
  crea is you World Baseball Classic some showdowns that he ran, And it's not
• 1:10:04
  a Phillies jersey, it's not a Dodger jersey, it's not a Nationals jersey.
• 1:10:08
  It's not even Tho his Pods jersey from the earlier his early days.
• 1:10:12
  It's a USA jersey. And so it's one of those that can transcend the
• 1:10:17
  team that he was on, and any collector can go after herself. Trey
• 1:10:21
  Turner for my first card of the reverse draft here, World Baseball Classic twenty
• 1:10:26
  twenty three tops now Bass Relic awesome, and I will I should have explained.
• 1:10:30
  I will leave links to this in the show notes for everybody, because
• 1:10:34
  obviously this is a good visual medium of looking at the cards, and we're
• 1:10:40
  famously an audio medium here in the podcast, so you will be able to
• 1:10:44
  pull up those if you go into the show description on wherever you're listening to
• 1:10:47
  this podcast. Also, fantastic pick. I was actually yeah, I mean
• 1:10:51
  that's because Trey Turner has bounced around so much, like he doesn't really have
• 1:10:58
  a team card that he sticks with, you know. So, man,
• 1:11:00
  that's a I'm excited for this draft because that's a great pick. I'm gonna
• 1:11:04
  go. So the eleventh pick in our fantasy draft was Corbyn Carroll, the
• 1:11:10
  Rookie of the Year candidate. So you can pick up his rookie card now
• 1:11:13
  if you find tops chrome on shelves and stuff. But I'm gonna go pretty
• 1:11:17
  basic with the first Bowman that he has from Bowman Draft Sapphire the Chrome edition,
• 1:11:26
  and so that card is from twenty nineteen. It's just a it's a
• 1:11:30
  really pretty card that like it's a it's Carol running in full sprint from second
• 1:11:34
  to third with the photoshopped on diamond backs jersey the way that Bowman likes to
• 1:11:40
  do. But the sparkle of a sapphire just looks fantastic, and it's a
• 1:11:45
  it's a relatively affordable card because the twenty nineteen set was pretty well printed,
• 1:11:49
  with Adlee Ruchman also being in that set. So you can get the raw
• 1:11:54
  version of this Carol card for somewhere between seventy five and eighty bucks and even
• 1:11:58
  a ten only goes somewhere in the one eighty range, so a pretty affordable
• 1:12:02
  first bowman sapphire. So I can't complain about that for somebody who's in the
• 1:12:09
  Rookie of the Year and if it wasn't for Kunia and MVP running. Yeah,
• 1:12:14
  I personally love Sapphire Cards one of my favorite sets. I've only been
• 1:12:18
  able to I think rip that once myself. It's not the cheapest rip to
• 1:12:23
  go through, but I love the Sapphire Cards. Definitely a first if you
• 1:12:28
  can get first sapphire, especially some of the slightly older sets like where Carol
• 1:12:32
  is so love that pick for Corbyn Carol there at eleven. Yeah, and
• 1:12:36
  I like it because the sapphire that year is more of like a rainbow shimmer
• 1:12:40
  sapphire. It's not like a straight blue sapphire that you see nowadays usually,
• 1:12:44
  so that just kind of adds to the magic, I think, as opposed
• 1:12:47
  to worrying about the blue looking a little weird with the Diamondbacks jersey. But
• 1:12:51
  Jeremy, I'll bounce it back to you for the third card. Now.
• 1:12:55
  It's the kind of count upwards and downwards. The tenth pick of our Fantasy
• 1:13:01
  Draft tenth pick was a Spencer Strider, and for since Spencer Strider, I
• 1:13:08
  am going with the Tops Rookie card. We're going with the twenty twenty two
• 1:13:12
  Top Series two Spencer Strider sp that's the one of of him batting. And
• 1:13:17
  as I was looking at Strider cards, it was a tough call because it
• 1:13:21
  either you had to find something that really displayed the mustache or something which really
• 1:13:28
  harkens back to Spencer Strider batting. Last opportunity for somebody batting and actually a
• 1:13:34
  picture of him actually doing that. So, you know, a unique card
• 1:13:39
  for what I would call a unique player. And just because pictures don't hit
• 1:13:43
  anymore, it's kind of a kind of one of the last few that you
• 1:13:45
  will see like that. Uh, pretty affordable cards something you can get for
• 1:13:49
  that sp for a for a raw card, we're talking probably seventy to ninety
• 1:13:56
  dollars, uh low one hundreds for you know a P say ten, So
• 1:14:00
  it's a pretty reachable card. But it is just kind of fun to see
• 1:14:04
  the picture batting in his unnatural element and you can still get a nice glimpse
• 1:14:10
  the facial hair. Yeah, that's great pick. I was gonna say it
• 1:14:13
  would have been tough to pick a good Spencer Strider card, and he does
• 1:14:15
  just look good in all of its pictures. I will say, yeah,
• 1:14:18
  it's it's just naturally comes. It's it's natural skill, natural good looks,
• 1:14:23
  ver s once or Strider. Yeah. So how about you. I think
• 1:14:26
  we're to reverse number nine? Will that be Aaron Judge? Yep, it
• 1:14:30
  is and not so not so easy counting down and up at the same time.
• 1:14:34
  I can't count on a regular day. Yeah, And so Aaron Judge,
• 1:14:39
  I'm gonna go with a version of his twenty seventeen Taps Chrome Ricky card.
• 1:14:44
  I really love the card. It's just it's turning into a bit of
• 1:14:46
  an iconic look with him jumping up against the wall and catching the ball that
• 1:14:53
  I think it's just going to be a really famous card because Yankees are really
• 1:14:57
  big in the collecting world, and you just see this card lot as pretty
• 1:15:00
  big cornerstones of people's pieces of PCs overall. So the variation I'm going with
• 1:15:08
  though, is the negative refractor. You know, I've got a little bit
• 1:15:11
  of a soft spot for the negative refractor, especially for white Sox cards,
• 1:15:15
  because the negative refractor, if you've never seen them, they're almost like a
• 1:15:19
  photo negative is what they're trying to emulate, and so what I love about
• 1:15:25
  it for white Sox cards is that the black and the white get reversed and
• 1:15:29
  it looks really funky. It happens a little bit with this Yankees card where
• 1:15:32
  the black and the white kind of subvert what you expect this card to look
• 1:15:38
  like. And I it's also got the rainbow shimmer from the refractor, so
• 1:15:44
  I really like it. I think it's a really sharp looking card. It's
• 1:15:46
  a really really rare card because these negative refractors are short print case hits,
• 1:15:53
  so if you're opening in a whole case of tops chrome, there was only
• 1:15:58
  one negative refractor the entire case, and who knows who it was from your
• 1:16:02
  set, So I don't know what the print run on them probably was because
• 1:16:06
  they weren't numbered. But the last sale of one happened in a weird sale
• 1:16:11
  in July, went for a round one hundred and twenty dollars and it was
• 1:16:15
  an eight and a half from BGS. I think the card is probably more
• 1:16:20
  like a two to three hundred dollar card, and I think it probably moved
• 1:16:25
  during the lull of Aaron Judge being on the injured list, so I mean,
• 1:16:29
  if you find it below two hundred, I would snatch it up because
• 1:16:32
  it's a pretty rare card and I think it'll be a pretty big piece of
• 1:16:36
  kind of any Aaron Judge PC or any Aaron Judge collector's desire list, because
• 1:16:43
  they aren't very many of them out there. Yeah, I think Aaron Judge
• 1:16:45
  is also one of the easier players to make a profit off of it if
• 1:16:48
  you want to. There's always a huge market in New York and he is
• 1:16:51
  one of the i'd consider the streakiest players from a card perspective, because he's
• 1:16:57
  hurt here and there, then he plays, and he's amazing here and there.
• 1:17:00
  The he's a hero. So the card market fluctuates quite a bit for
• 1:17:03
  Aaron Judge. And not to say that Yankees fans are a fair weather I
• 1:17:10
  did not say that, but there's always a market, we'll put it that
• 1:17:13
  way for for Aaron Judge, and it gets hot at times. So all
• 1:17:17
  right, Yeah, so probably probably the hardest one of all these to look
• 1:17:25
  for for me. Uh. Number eight overall was Kyle Tucker. I hate
• 1:17:31
  to say, but Kyle Tucker has like no exciting cards there. It was
• 1:17:36
  for me, it was between I think it had a twenty seventeen bowman,
• 1:17:40
  not even his first where he looked like he was pitching. Clearly I have
• 1:17:44
  something for players playing out of position, but I'm gonna go with his twenty
• 1:17:48
  nineteen tops Stadium Chrome rookie. Just a beautiful card. Uh, nothing else
• 1:17:55
  exciting about it. We're talking. This is like a five dollars card.
• 1:17:58
  You can probably pick it up for us, probably find a dollar been somewhere,
• 1:18:01
  but it's a beautiful card of him. What it looks to be diving
• 1:18:05
  into first space was a slide, so it's like he's been backpicked. So
• 1:18:10
  it's even kind of an unnatural like you know, you got the guy shooting
• 1:18:14
  from the dugout with his big big lens capturing this one. But it is
• 1:18:17
  a beautiful card, great colors, and I'm always a sucker Stadium Club chrome,
• 1:18:21
  So going with a five dollars Stadium Club Chrome Kyle Tucker rookie from twenty
• 1:18:27
  nineteen. And that's even I mean that's technically a short print as well,
• 1:18:31
  so that's a parallel short print like the chrome version. So that's crazy that
• 1:18:36
  that's only five dollars. That's a hard card to hit, but I do
• 1:18:40
  Agreek. Kyle Tucker does have boring cards and they're relatively cheap because he gets
• 1:18:45
  wrapped into that trash can scandal that happened down in Houston. But I think
• 1:18:50
  when it's all said and done, he's gonna be kind of in the Hall
• 1:18:54
  of very good and if he can really play until like he's forty something,
• 1:18:58
  he might push some pretty crazy number. So I've been trying to stash away
• 1:19:00
  some Kyle Tuckers because they're pretty affordable and there's only one place to go,
• 1:19:04
  and that's up. Yeah. I completely agree. He just there's not a
• 1:19:09
  you know, Ryan the Trout argument. At times, there's not He's not
• 1:19:11
  a big boisicious personality. He just doesn't showboat on the field. He just
• 1:19:15
  goes and does his job, which I personally appreciate and love that attitude.
• 1:19:19
  That's that I've been there before, I've done this before attitude. I love
• 1:19:24
  that and a players it kind of kind of shows you up in the opposite
• 1:19:27
  way of showboat. He's just like, I hit another homer off you what
• 1:19:30
  a big deal? I do this all the time, circle of bases and
• 1:19:33
  let's let's get on with life. I kind of love that that kind of
• 1:19:36
  nasty attitude. Whether I think that's whether Tucker is trying to do that or
• 1:19:41
  not. I kind of appreciate that. So, yeah, I'm with you,
• 1:19:43
  Kyle, Tucker is cheap. It's a nice fun collecting to your point,
• 1:19:46
  what's gonna go wrong with a fifty cent rookie card here and there?
• 1:19:49
  Yeah, and really terrible sake because on the opposite end is my number seven
• 1:19:56
  pick from the draft, the like show Booty, a show boatman of all
• 1:20:01
  baseball history, Fernando Tatis Junior, And you know I had to go with
• 1:20:05
  a weird one here. He does have a pretty big plethora of great rookie
• 1:20:10
  cards, I won't deny that, and lots of great short prints that have
• 1:20:14
  been buried in all the base sets. He just is a very photogenic guy.
• 1:20:19
  But my personal favorite Fernio Tatis Junior card is from his original Bowman set,
• 1:20:26
  so his Bowman first is in twenty sixteen Bowman. But I actually like
• 1:20:31
  the family tree card of him and his father. It's a dual Fernio Tatis
• 1:20:38
  Junior. Fernando Tatis card Junior is on the socks because it's before he got
• 1:20:45
  traded for James Shields. Tatis is on the Cardinals, so it's combining my
• 1:20:47
  two favorite teams. Beautiful card. I love it like no notes less than
• 1:20:53
  five dollars. It's a perfect card, perfect card. I'm not shocked you
• 1:20:58
  for Tatis in the white Sox uniform. I didn't, I was. I
• 1:21:00
  was guessing you're going for the first first auto, but hey, I see
• 1:21:03
  where you're going. You got the Fernando tattoos, Senior. We're talking to
• 1:21:08
  grand slams, and I mean the one thing he'll be remembered for, and
• 1:21:12
  then his son will be remembered for lots of weird things. It feels like
• 1:21:15
  so okay, all right, Europe with another really fun one. So you've
• 1:21:20
  got Julio Rodriguez next, tell us your favorite Julio card. Yep so at
• 1:21:26
  number six, Julio Rodriguez. I'm going with a rookie card again, not
• 1:21:30
  a surprise twenty twenty two tops update, uh super short print. It is
• 1:21:35
  the Julio Rodriguez Ichiro super super short print. And there's a ton of crazy
• 1:21:43
  cool Julio cards out there, autos, all kinds of things. There's nothing
• 1:21:47
  really special about this one. It's basic. It's basic stock card and it's
• 1:21:54
  just a matter of it's just Julio being patted on the back by each row
• 1:21:58
  kind of looks like they're, you know, coming in from the field together.
• 1:22:01
  So I think it's a it's a really cool card, and I you
• 1:22:06
  know, I think it's unique because of the relationship they have. The thing
• 1:22:12
  with this one is a little bit price here. What's the price of this
• 1:22:15
  spine? Yeah, when we're talking uh more of a base sorry, a
• 1:22:21
  raw, we're talking on the eight hundred dollar range. If you're talking something
• 1:22:26
  graded uh ten, you're probably talking fifteen hundred on something like this. So
• 1:22:30
  it is a nice card. It is not easy to find. And I
• 1:22:34
  think it's one of those because each of being a Hall of Famer and he
• 1:22:38
  is, it's gonna be one of those that you kind of look back on.
• 1:22:43
  Uh. And I'm not gonna steal any thunder later from you with hun
• 1:22:45
  you hopefully the bat down as sp s sp uh, that's you're gonna kind
• 1:22:49
  of think about as Oh man, that's one of those wish I had him
• 1:22:53
  rookie cards. So yeah, absolutely, And I think you went through all
• 1:22:57
  the reasons. It's hard. It's really hard to get There are lots of
• 1:23:00
  people who just collect Japanese players between like their MLB cards, and they're NPB
• 1:23:09
  cards, So that's another reason too. It just is a really the Venn
• 1:23:13
  diagram of people who want that card is very large, so that makes it
• 1:23:16
  very hard to get your hands on. It worked ven Diagram into a podcast
• 1:23:20
  and you're welcome. We can get that in. Yeah, all right,
• 1:23:26
  So I've got the next pick, which is the third pick in our draft,
• 1:23:30
  the oldest guy in our draft, so I had to throw it way
• 1:23:32
  back because he's got the oldest card. I think, well, Otani might
• 1:23:36
  technically from Japan, but Freddy Freeman is in the two thousand and seven Bowman
• 1:23:45
  Draft Picks and Prospects set from when he was a first round pick and was
• 1:23:49
  fresh out of high school, like seventeen, eighteen years old. I went
• 1:23:54
  with the gold version though, because I really liked the gold version of the
• 1:23:58
  Bowman cards. Like Bowman kind of, I'll be honest, sucked from like
• 1:24:02
  two thousand to twenty twelve, and I'm still not a huge Bowman guy,
• 1:24:06
  but like the design was like boring as all get out, But the one
• 1:24:12
  fun thing was that they all had gold parallels back in the day. The
• 1:24:15
  way that kind of tops Gold runs. But these weren't numbered back in the
• 1:24:19
  day, and so I do miss that. It's kind of I think with
• 1:24:23
  the sky blues are now for Bowman, but Gold was just way better looking.
• 1:24:28
  And you can't go wrong with teenage Freddie Freeman on this card. They
• 1:24:32
  were running about twenty bucks nowadays, so affordable card, fun card, and
• 1:24:36
  I think he's a future Hall of Famer, so it could be a pretty
• 1:24:40
  good investment. Yeah. I think Freeman kind of just a level of the
• 1:24:44
  Kyle Tucker category for not that exciting of cards, but I think that is
• 1:24:47
  a good pick. I love the Gold borders. Those are also so hard
• 1:24:51
  to find clean. I don't know if I've seen a Bowman from that year
• 1:24:58
  in Gold it doesn't have some dinged corners or some whiting on it. Yeah,
• 1:25:01
  especially some of those used to be thicker back in the day too.
• 1:25:04
  I will have to look to see if this one was thicker or not,
• 1:25:08
  but it's that would lead to more dinging as well, so I'll pass it
• 1:25:15
  back to you another fun guy. Yep. All right, we're getting into
• 1:25:17
  the top here, so that into the my my second pick, but top
• 1:25:23
  four, fourth pick overall. Bobby Witt Jr. You know, I had
• 1:25:28
  to go with the two twenty twenty bow and chrome blue refractor first auto of
• 1:25:35
  Bobby Witt. A few reasons for it. It's the color match for the
• 1:25:39
  Royals, that wonderful blue on blue just looks fantastic. And then the other
• 1:25:45
  piece was this was one of those cards for those of us that got back
• 1:25:48
  into the hobby in twenty twenty. It was like one of the big cards
• 1:25:53
  early on of the guys that you were chasing, and so everybody was buying
• 1:25:58
  and left and right. It was just where to overproduce them maybe a little
• 1:26:00
  bit, but being numbered still can hold his value. So that's a number
• 1:26:05
  out of one fifty. You know, those are hard to come by.
• 1:26:11
  So you're talking something that's a psa ten, probably about twenty five hundred dollars
• 1:26:15
  on that, something that's maybe a bgs nine and a half psa nine,
• 1:26:20
  probably talking about fifteen hundred on that. So even though Bobby Witz first have
• 1:26:26
  kind of come down in price because the like said, the overproduction to a
• 1:26:29
  degree, that is a beautiful refractor and it's gonna hold his value over time.
• 1:26:34
  Yeah, I'm actually surprised it's that low that. I mean, I
• 1:26:38
  think if he's getting some MVP down ballot MVP votes this year, we could
• 1:26:43
  see a bump there. Yeah, I think so, I think that he
• 1:26:46
  could get get a bump, and I think he deserves it. So all
• 1:26:50
  right, who do you got. We've got three guys left. I believe
• 1:26:55
  you have Mookie Betts. I do so he was the third overall pick.
• 1:27:00
  And I'm also going to go color match here. So Muki's rookie card is
• 1:27:03
  from twenty fourteen TOPS update. It's just a great shot of Mookie standing in
• 1:27:10
  the box getting ready to take a pitch that's coming in. And so I'm
• 1:27:15
  going with the color match the red foil variation. So the twenty fourteen TOPS
• 1:27:19
  sets had red foil parallels that function like the rainbow foil parallels due nowadays where
• 1:27:28
  they were an unnumbered short print, and so I'm not totally sure how many
• 1:27:31
  are out there. And this one is a little bit pricey because it does
• 1:27:35
  look great, like the foil on the front of the card is like a
• 1:27:41
  mini diamond pattern, so it's got a little bit of texture to it,
• 1:27:44
  just adds a little extra flare. So this card will run you three to
• 1:27:47
  four hundred bucks raw, so it fluctuates, and I think it'll just only
• 1:27:51
  keep going up because again, this is another dude on a Hall of Fame
• 1:27:56
  track, and it's just a really sharp card. A hard card to also
• 1:28:00
  find in really great condition, because the foil cards just sometimes don't get cut
• 1:28:05
  right and they'll flake and stuff. So if you find a really sharp one,
• 1:28:10
  I think I'd hold on to it because it's going to be really valuable
• 1:28:13
  in the future if you're looking for something a little cheaper. Though that's a
• 1:28:15
  color match of Mookie Bets. There's the Red Tops parallel from back in twenty
• 1:28:20
  fourteen as well, and so that one will go a little cheaper and you
• 1:28:25
  can kind of find prices all over the place, because again those will be
• 1:28:29
  in different conditions because when you have a red border, doesn't take much to
• 1:28:33
  for that border to get nicked and show the whiting underneath. Yeah, to
• 1:28:38
  me, I love the red border of that series, and being a Cardinals
• 1:28:42
  fan, that's a fun sets collecting the red as well. But I think
• 1:28:45
  with the Mookie Bets, if I'm if I'm picking that one, I'm I'm
• 1:28:47
  looking for like a low grade, so hopefully centered and hopefully the damage is
• 1:28:51
  on the back to be to be able to pick that one up, So
• 1:28:56
  yeah, I do. The red foils are very like a low key great
• 1:29:00
  card if you're looking for color matches on. One of my favorite cards was
• 1:29:03
  from that set. It's an AJ Pierzynski Cardinals red foil that I have and
• 1:29:08
  it's just really funny because it's like from the half season that Aj Persinski was
• 1:29:11
  on the Cardinals. Yeah, I think it's like, now I look like
• 1:29:14
  John Lester Cards one of the Cardinals. He just doesn't feel right. Aj
• 1:29:15
  Persinski on the Cardinals cardin doesn't feel right. So no, not at all.
• 1:29:20
  So okay, I'm going to bounce it back to you for who was
• 1:29:24
  your number one overall pick, but it was number two overall in our draft
• 1:29:28
  to show Heyotani. Yeah, so show Heyotani. Probably the most fun card
• 1:29:31
  of all the ones that I picked out here, and probably not a surprise
• 1:29:35
  because he is super collectible. I'm going with a rare one twenty eighteen Bowman
• 1:29:41
  Chrome Rookie Autographs blue refractor with the Kanji signature. There's only known to be
• 1:29:47
  one of these cards that exist, so for those that don't know the kind
• 1:29:53
  of the backstory of this one. Otani doesn't have a first bowman, you
• 1:29:58
  know, kind of he has a first uh. First addition, I camera
• 1:30:01
  what was called over in the BBM in the Japanese League, so he kind
• 1:30:05
  of has his first over the Japanese, but he didn't have a first bowman,
• 1:30:09
  so his his only bowman is in the rookie is this first one over
• 1:30:15
  in the United States? And UH in a break back in twenty eighteen,
• 1:30:18
  somebody pulled this one out in the Blue Refractor and he signed it in kanji
• 1:30:24
  versus you know, in script, and it is the only one known that's
• 1:30:31
  ever been pulled of that he has signed other cards in kanji. And I
• 1:30:36
  think I was looking and there was one of those his Rookie Exquisite autographs,
• 1:30:42
  which is a little bit more popular basketball cards that he UH signed and sold
• 1:30:46
  earlier this year for fifty one thousand dollars. And so I don't know if
• 1:30:53
  this one's ever sold. I've not been able to find something, but I
• 1:30:56
  have to think, being you know, his Rookie of one of the most
• 1:31:00
  popular cards that he has out there number to one fifty, this thing's got
• 1:31:05
  to be easy six figures right now. If beyond, way beyond there.
• 1:31:11
  So it is a beautiful card and just that very unique signature, and I
• 1:31:15
  don't you know, Tops has never comment on it, you know, was
• 1:31:19
  it his choice just to sign one of those? We don't know. Is
• 1:31:23
  there more out there? It's just makes an incredibly rare, cool card that
• 1:31:29
  some lucky collector got and hopefully they held on to it. Probably not,
• 1:31:33
  because I mean we all everybody's selling everything. But I love that card is
• 1:31:40
  a crazy one with a crazy story. Yeah, I agree, great pick.
• 1:31:44
  I do think that that is gonna be above the million dollar mark easy
• 1:31:47
  if it where ever to move, just because I mean, even just like
• 1:31:51
  the orange versions of that card are pushing north of fifty k now and really
• 1:31:58
  skyrocketing towards one hundred k. That everything Otani is through the roof that,
• 1:32:03
  I mean, it's pretty evident why he's probably the greatest baseball player that ever
• 1:32:09
  has lived, just being able to do both things that like he might not
• 1:32:14
  put up like the longevity in numbers of Baby Bruth, but you can't deny
• 1:32:16
  that, like in a single season, he's the greatest player that ever lived.
• 1:32:20
  So it's gonna be a huge piece of everybody's collection is having Otani rookies,
• 1:32:27
  and there's lots of them, but they all constantly just kind of are
• 1:32:31
  always in demand. Yeah, and due to your point, just the the
• 1:32:36
  regular signature otani that they're selling for almost thirty thousand dollars, just the regular
• 1:32:43
  signature and the Kanji signature kind of makes it a one of one, yeah
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  to a degree. And I would argue maybe more sought after than than the
• 1:32:53
  one of one. So to your point, I can't imagine if that if
• 1:32:57
  that thing goes up, well, what it could fetch. It's it would
• 1:33:00
  be life changing for anybody. Yeah, And he doesn't sign in kanji.
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  And he even like he switched his signature just a couple of years ago from
• 1:33:10
  when he's signing cards, so cards that are dated before like twenty twenty one
• 1:33:14
  are also more valuable of his signature, just because he switched his signature just
• 1:33:19
  to be able to sign things faster, I think. And you'll see I
• 1:33:24
  see sometimes like on Reddit and stuff, like some of his kanji cards come
• 1:33:28
  up because people get like in personados and like you'll just see like tops gallery
• 1:33:33
  rookie cards with kanji's on them, and like move man, they're just gorgeous.
• 1:33:39
  Yeah, I think the most common Kanji was with his up project Goodwin
• 1:33:45
  the Gutas Has which those I mean, they're just terribly ugly cards and they
• 1:33:51
  sell for like twenty grand. So yeah, it's so anyway, all right,
• 1:33:57
  let's get to number one overall. Pick Ronald Lacuna Junior, and you
• 1:34:01
  have a plus or to pick from from here. So I'm curious where you're
• 1:34:04
  gonna go with this one. Yeah, it took me a long time to
• 1:34:08
  like find the picture of this one that I wanted on TCDB, which is
• 1:34:12
  Trading card database, because there's so many rookie cards of his. But I'm
• 1:34:16
  gonna go with the twenty eighteen Top Series two short print. It's classic,
• 1:34:23
  the Ronald Lacuna back down. I think it's the Ken Griffey junior upper deck
• 1:34:28
  card of this generation, if not rare, because it is a short print.
• 1:34:32
  And actually, I thought you might pick this card for Bobby Wit.
• 1:34:35
  Bobby Witt had a card like this in twenty twenty two Top Series two and
• 1:34:41
  Soda Tulio where they put in short print parallels of just really hot rookies,
• 1:34:46
  And so Ronald Kunia is base rookie card is actually in twenty eighteen Tops Update,
• 1:34:53
  but this short print comes out of the twenty eighteen Top Series two,
• 1:34:57
  so that makes it error. And it's just funny because his normal base rookie
• 1:35:03
  card from Update is a photo from the same swing. It's just the bats
• 1:35:09
  in a different position. So the bat down version where the bat head is
• 1:35:14
  kind of like down by his butt, is the one that's worth more money.
• 1:35:17
  It's running around three hundred to three fifty raw right now, and I
• 1:35:21
  think a lot like these other cards that we've been talking about, if he
• 1:35:27
  pulls off this MVP, that thing's only going to go further through the roof.
• 1:35:30
  So I think it's height. Honestly, it was trading out more.
• 1:35:34
  It's probably more than the four hundred to five hundred range, and I think
• 1:35:38
  you'll probably go back there kind of at the end of the season if he
• 1:35:41
  does win that MVP. Yeah, and I love that pick. And I'm
• 1:35:45
  gonna say I didn't notice since I was I was just looking at that,
• 1:35:47
  but you said, you know, it's basically the same picture on both cards,
• 1:35:51
  just a different point in the swing. Did you realize it's the exact
• 1:35:54
  same swing, Like yeah, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, the same
• 1:35:59
  guys in the stands the same like it is literally the same swing that they
• 1:36:03
  took two pictures in and one's the base, one's the sp and I think
• 1:36:06
  that's just the coolest thing. So yeah, I think that's a great pick
• 1:36:10
  for for a Kunia there. And you're right. It's when you can say
• 1:36:14
  kun you a bat down and everybody knows which cards you're talking about. That's
• 1:36:17
  exactly means is iconic to a degree. So and great, great pick if
• 1:36:21
  you're looking for a cheaper version of this the holiday version from twenty eighteen,
• 1:36:26
  the twenty eighteen Tops Holiday uses the back down photo, but it has the
• 1:36:30
  holiday snowflakes on it, and so that one will run you, I don't
• 1:36:33
  know somewhere between five to fifteen. You can haggle for that one at card
• 1:36:38
  shows or try to win a cheap eBay eBay auction. And so if you
• 1:36:43
  want the flavor of the back down card but you don't want to pay the
• 1:36:45
  full freight, the holiday version is the way to go. It's it's got
• 1:36:49
  the goopy snowflakes, but it still has the bat down photo. Don't you
• 1:36:54
  love Tops? So they can just take such a cool card and they're like
• 1:36:56
  and we're gonna put snowflakes on it? Would I would? It would be
• 1:37:00
  great if we could interview the person who designed some of the holiday set stuff,
• 1:37:03
  because like they've got to be just the goopiest dude or woman, I
• 1:37:09
  mean, the goopiest person. So we're just gonna we're gonna take the best
• 1:37:12
  bet and we're gonna wrap it in the at least like a barber shop style,
• 1:37:16
  rapping them with the red and the white, or we're gonna put a
• 1:37:19
  Santa hat on Pete Alonzo. Right, It's just like that guy's gonna have
• 1:37:25
  the most fun jobs, Like how can we look make uh uh, you
• 1:37:28
  know Won Soto look funny with Santa's belt, Like it's like it's not even
• 1:37:32
  good photoshop. It's like more photo shops. It's the purpose though. It's
• 1:37:38
  so funny. And uh yeah, speaking of I just saw that I'm watching
• 1:37:42
  a MLB network right now. My boy Aaron Judge three home runs tonight,
• 1:37:45
  so blasting his way into the first round. I never thought i'd be an
• 1:37:48
  Aaron Judge. Stan, you're trying to prove me wrong still yea, but
• 1:37:55
  yeah, and so that is our rundown of our favorite cards. From who
• 1:37:59
  we draft in the first round of our mock for the twenty twenty four Fantasy
• 1:38:02
  Draft. I'll like I said, I'll link to this in the page notes
• 1:38:06
  so you can see all the cards. You can scope them out and see
• 1:38:10
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• 1:38:13
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• 1:38:17
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• 1:38:23
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• 1:38:33
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• 1:38:58
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• 1:39:46
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• 1:39:49
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