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Ep. 87 : Stashable Minor Leaguers · Cards & Categories

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  Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome everybody to episode eighty seven of Cards
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  Speaker 1: and Categories. I'm Mike cool Art from Rasball, joined as
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  Speaker 1: always by my very good friend Jeremy Brewer, also from Rasball.
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  Speaker 1: How's it going, buddy.
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  Speaker 2: I am happy to be here, almost as happy as
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  Speaker 2: Laddi Guerrero to see Spinster Strider fastball on his return
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  Speaker 2: day hit in Homer's.
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  Speaker 1: It was it was a Submit Mixer slider, but I not,
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  Speaker 1: to correct the record touch.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't watch the highlight yet. I didn't see the
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  Speaker 2: highlights yet.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, so we are speaking on April sixteenth, and today
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  Speaker 1: was Spencer Strider day, he returned against the Blue Jays.
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  Speaker 1: And so you said you didn't see very much of it, or.
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  Speaker 2: Not very much as all. A few few things off
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  Speaker 2: the back.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. I was watching it in the background while I
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  Speaker 1: was working today, and I will say that, like, it
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  Speaker 1: was really great from Spencer Strider overall, considering I mean,
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  Speaker 1: he's less than twelve months out from that internal brace
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  Speaker 1: surgery on his elbow, so it's been such a quick recovery.
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  Speaker 1: But first inning looked really good, but you could tell
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  Speaker 1: the slider's not quite there. It's great, but there were
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  Speaker 1: a few that backed up on him, like the one
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  Speaker 1: that he piped right to Vladimir Guerrero that ended up
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  Speaker 1: into the left field bleachers. So I mean, but if
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  Speaker 1: that's your first start from Spencer Strider after just like
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  Speaker 1: shredding the minor leagues, I think I'm ready to put
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  Speaker 1: him back in like top three, right. I mean, I
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  Speaker 1: don't know about you. I've definitely got schemes still probably
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  Speaker 1: number one. I think I probably still have Wheeler over Strider,
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  Speaker 1: just because like there's that factor of I just said
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  Speaker 1: he's less than twelve months out from internal brace, but
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  Speaker 1: I might be moving Strader in that number three spot
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  Speaker 1: right behind them. He looks like Spencer Strider. What do
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  Speaker 1: you think?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I've probably done a few arguments here
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  Speaker 2: around a Hunter Green or Cole Reagan's or somebody like that,
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  Speaker 2: maybe Crochet, But like I mean, top five, you just
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  Speaker 2: want to throw that out there. He's you know, see
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  Speaker 2: him as one of the top guys coming back. I
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  Speaker 2: have no qualms about that. He He's gonna look a
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  Speaker 2: little rusty to start. The bites not can be quite there.
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  Speaker 2: You know, he's been facing minor league competition, so it's
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  Speaker 2: kind of hard to hone your craft with your that
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  Speaker 2: got strong good like your your stuff just plays unbelievably. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: everybody's striking out against you no matter what you throw.
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  Speaker 2: And yeah, if you're a little rusty and you give
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  Speaker 2: up two runs in five innings to strike up five
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  Speaker 2: guys on the way back with verst a pretty guys
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  Speaker 2: strong good blue Jay's lineup, I'm I'm I'm plugging him
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  Speaker 2: in all day. I pllect him in a few spots
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  Speaker 2: today like I did, no question, he's he's back, plug
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  Speaker 2: him in top of the rotation guy. If you had him, Uh,
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  Speaker 2: the weights was was worth it. Uh. I know we
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  Speaker 2: faded them a little in the off season just because
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  Speaker 2: we didn't know what that comeback is gonna look like.
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  Speaker 1: Things early was crazy, it was crazy high. Like I
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  Speaker 1: still don't even know, like given all this information, if
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  Speaker 1: I would have still, I don't know. It's tough because
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  Speaker 1: like there's so much risk in the profile. Like I
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  Speaker 1: just ranked him number three, but like I couldn't have
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  Speaker 1: drafted him there, you know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 2: That's I think.
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  Speaker 1: That's what it is. Is, Like, Uh, the draft cost
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  Speaker 1: was just so substantial.
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  Speaker 2: Still, Yeah, it's it's gonna be interesting to see how
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  Speaker 2: much leash they give him. I think they're gonna keep
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  Speaker 2: them a little tight to begin with, and that at
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  Speaker 2: some point they're gonna unleash the beast here and that
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  Speaker 2: that's where I'll give you top three. At that point
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  Speaker 2: I'm saying I'm sticking top five for now.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I mean, I also wonder if the it is
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  Speaker 1: not going great for the Braves overall. They're five and
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  Speaker 1: thirteen is we're speaking, there's six games back in the Inn.
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  Speaker 1: At least they're in the cellar. They're behind the Nats
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  Speaker 1: and the Marlins. Ronald Lukunya, I haven't heard much on
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  Speaker 1: him that, Like you do, wonder at some point do
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  Speaker 1: they start kind of looking forward to twenty twenty six.
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  Speaker 1: The the playoff odds for the Braves have taken a
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  Speaker 1: very substantial hit, and given how far back they've fallen
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  Speaker 1: back with the strength of the NL versus the ALE,
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  Speaker 1: if they were in the Ale, I don't think there'd
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  Speaker 1: be much question you'd keep going along. But at some
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  Speaker 1: point I wouldn't be surprised to see Atlanta pull the
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  Speaker 1: plug possibly and maybe kind of put Strider on ice,
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  Speaker 1: put Acuna on ice, trade out some of the arms
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  Speaker 1: or other kind of pieces that they need to retool
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  Speaker 1: at the deadline. But like, it's a weird thing to
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  Speaker 1: be saying on April sixteenth, but it's a pretty far
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  Speaker 1: back to climb for Atlanta right now.
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  Speaker 2: It's gonna be tough. I mean, there's a lot of
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  Speaker 2: talent in that team. That's there's a lot of talent there.
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  Speaker 2: It's just a matter of is it gonna start clicking.
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  Speaker 2: Austin Riley looks good, but other guys aren't quite doing
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  Speaker 2: the same thing.
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  Speaker 1: So, I mean, their outfit it is the disaster right
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  Speaker 1: now too. And the rotation's a little rough and the bullpen,
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  Speaker 1: so like that is a factor that there. The stars
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  Speaker 1: are there, but it got thin fast.
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  Speaker 2: Stars and scrubs strategy and works in fantasy sometimes.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's sure it does.
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  Speaker 2: Having Nick Allen's just starting shortstops not.
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  Speaker 1: Probably the way to go. Yeah, exactly, That's exactly what
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  Speaker 1: I'm talking about. Okay, Well, let's get into what our
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  Speaker 1: topic is going to be previewed a little bit. We're
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  Speaker 1: gonna be talking about stashable minor leaguers here in terms
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  Speaker 1: of I think we're looking at especially like of course
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  Speaker 1: in fifteen teamers a lot of these players will be owned,
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  Speaker 1: but these are guys who are even so valuable and
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  Speaker 1: could be coming up soon. You know that in a
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  Speaker 1: twelve teamer, maybe even a ten teamer, you might be
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  Speaker 1: considering wasting one of your bench botches on them. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it's not wasting. I guess it's more of investing considering
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  Speaker 1: what you might be able to get out. I mean
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  Speaker 1: it was around this time last year that Paul Skins
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  Speaker 1: came up and kind of really set the league on
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  Speaker 1: fire and really push things through. And you can see
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  Speaker 1: that maybe some for some of these players. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know if I'll go quite as far as saying any
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  Speaker 1: of them will be Paul Schemes, but I think we've
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  Speaker 1: got some guys who could really make a difference in
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  Speaker 1: fantasy leagues. But before we get to that discussion, let's
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  Speaker 1: get into some of the latest and greatest news, and
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  Speaker 1: right off the actually we have two guys who would
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  Speaker 1: have ended up on the list for that discussion later
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  Speaker 1: in the pod, but they were called up today. First
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  Speaker 1: one we're going to discuss here is right hander Logan
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  Speaker 1: Henderson for the Milwaukee Brewers being called up. And overall,
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  Speaker 1: Logan Henderson got good strikeout stuff, but lots of walks.
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  Speaker 1: The Milwaukee rotation is desperate. You know, Quinn Priester, who
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  Speaker 1: they brought over from Boston. Maybe we should have touched
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  Speaker 1: on that a little bit more because he looks retooled
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  Speaker 1: with the Brewers and it looks like they're going to
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  Speaker 1: maximize that profile. Do you think that they could do
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  Speaker 1: something here with Logan Henderson who was a little bit
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  Speaker 1: of a hot name late in spring, but then when
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  Speaker 1: the walks couldn't be controlled, it's when he lost out
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  Speaker 1: in a rotation spot. But now he's up pretty quick
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  Speaker 1: because things are thin to Milwaukee.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, he's never really been a guy that
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  Speaker 2: struggled with control that much in the minors, So I'm
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  Speaker 2: not terribly concerned long term with the control. But I
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  Speaker 2: think the Brewers are trying to bring up here bullpen
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  Speaker 2: roll maybe long relief like piggyback type role that you know,
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  Speaker 2: somebody gets pulled early, he can give you know, three
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  Speaker 2: or four innings. I think he's he's definitely intriguing, but
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  Speaker 2: because of the role, I don't think it's anything you
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  Speaker 2: can latch onto immediately. You know, maybe he's the kind
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  Speaker 2: of guy that stuff plays up in the bullpen and
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  Speaker 2: then he gets a chance to lave in the year
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  Speaker 2: late back in the bullpen. Like that's maybe the best
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  Speaker 2: case scenario right now. I just don't think they're gonna
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  Speaker 2: try to give him that run in the rotation. It's
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  Speaker 2: much more of that. You know, you've seen it with guys,
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  Speaker 2: you know, David Price back in the day, Adam Wayne Wright.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm aging myself, but some of those guys that
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  Speaker 2: you bring him up, let him throw gas in the bullpen,
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  Speaker 2: and then you know, as they get their their feet wet,
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  Speaker 2: move him back in the rotation. I feel like that's
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  Speaker 2: the path for Henderson, especially with some of the recent
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  Speaker 2: control problems, and also again he's got a really flyball
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  Speaker 2: centric profile, which scares me a little bit. They're in Milwaukee,
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  Speaker 2: but I think he's definitely a guy to keep an
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  Speaker 2: eye on the role right now. Is gonna probably keep
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  Speaker 2: him on the waiver wire for the most part.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that makes sense. You can also throw
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  Speaker 1: Jack Morrison that list of players like that if you
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  Speaker 1: want to go way back.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, just keep going back back.
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  Speaker 1: I think I'm a little more hopeful on Henderson's chances
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  Speaker 1: at the rotation between either piggybacking. Like you said, maybe
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  Speaker 1: with Tyler Alexander there, who would be a great one
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  Speaker 1: to two combo in terms of like Alexander opening throwing
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  Speaker 1: two or three innings, and then Henderson comes in and
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  Speaker 1: gets a bulk roll and an easier path to wins
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  Speaker 1: as well. That way, don't have to worry about him
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  Speaker 1: being a five and dive guy. But I have no
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  Speaker 1: faith in I don't even I have no idea who
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  Speaker 1: Chad Patrick is. It just I don't think that there's
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  Speaker 1: any chance that he can keep that rotation spot over Henderson.
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  Speaker 1: I think this is more of a get Henderson's feet
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  Speaker 1: wet for a couple of weeks, let him catch his
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  Speaker 1: breath so that he can control those walks maybe a
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  Speaker 1: little bit, And then I wouldn't be surprised if when
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  Speaker 1: we turn the calendar into June, and certainly by the
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  Speaker 1: All Star break, we're looking at Logan Henderson being a
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  Speaker 1: full piece of the rotation in Milwaukee.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, to your point, there's there's not much stand in
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  Speaker 2: the way four in this in this rotation behind Freddy Peralta,
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  Speaker 2: it is a missmash at best.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it cut, Yeah, it's ubsurd I mean you
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  Speaker 1: want to talk about somebody else who didn't have very
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  Speaker 1: much competition to be called up. He also would have
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  Speaker 1: been the conversation for Stashbulb minor leaguers. Is Edgar Carro
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  Speaker 1: from the White Sox, who was called up literally like
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  Speaker 1: an hour before we started recording here should be the
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  Speaker 1: full time catcher in Chicago immediately, because that is a
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  Speaker 1: role filled by Matt Thie who has just bounced around
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  Speaker 1: forever and is kind of like the classic backup catcher,
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  Speaker 1: especially given that he's left handed. Edgar Carrow was really
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  Speaker 1: hot when he went down to the minor leagues here
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  Speaker 1: to start the season. Like I said, he was on
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  Speaker 1: the list right before we started potting, and we moved
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  Speaker 1: him up into the news section because it was looking great.
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  Speaker 1: He outplayed Kyle Teal, hitting three thirty three four forty
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  Speaker 1: four four twelve. That is good for a one to
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  Speaker 1: forty six of USC plus only sixty three plate appearances.
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  Speaker 1: But he flashed the tools that we thought he could.
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  Speaker 1: In terms of Edgar Carroll compared to Teal, gonna be
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  Speaker 1: a little bit more batting average forward, teals a little
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  Speaker 1: more power. Are you what depth of league are you
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  Speaker 1: comfortable adding carrow In to be one of your starting catchers.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's probably you know, maybe fifteen teamers. I'm starting
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  Speaker 2: to think about it, depending on what I've got at
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  Speaker 2: the catcher position. Definitely to two catcher leagues. I'm intrigued
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  Speaker 2: in him by especially from that batting average perspective. It's
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  Speaker 2: gonna be respectable. Maybe two fifty two sixty for a
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  Speaker 2: catcher that's actually not too bad. I think I'm much
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  Speaker 2: more interested in an OBP league on base leagues because
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  Speaker 2: he does take a lot of walks. It's always been
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  Speaker 2: one of was calling cards in the minors than basically
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  Speaker 2: a ten percent walk guy or better almost every stop
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  Speaker 2: along the way, And so that's probably where I'm almost
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  Speaker 2: even more intrigued them long term. I don't think he's
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  Speaker 2: got a significant ceiling. He's just kind of a solid
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  Speaker 2: everyday guy. He might grow into little bit more. I'm
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  Speaker 2: still a little bit more excited about Teal and what
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  Speaker 2: he can bring. I do think this is an interesting
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  Speaker 2: discussion to see what this does for Teal. Is this
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  Speaker 2: going to keep him down in the minors for for
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  Speaker 2: a while longer, or Hey, they're just gonna bring up
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  Speaker 2: the best players and let him play, because let's be
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  Speaker 2: honest that the White Socks have got spots. It's not
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  Speaker 2: like they're going to keep anybody down. So I wouldn't
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  Speaker 2: be surprised if we see Teal up here in another
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  Speaker 2: month or two. They're split in time. They're just trying
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  Speaker 2: to figure out who the catcher the future is and
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  Speaker 2: then they got options. But again, fifteen team or two
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  Speaker 2: catcher leagues, I'm definitely intrigued. I'm not rushing to the
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  Speaker 2: wire by any means at this point because he is young.
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  Speaker 2: I think there's gonna be some growing pains, but there's
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  Speaker 2: there's guys out there that I would rather cut bait
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  Speaker 2: and pick up Kiro here.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think ironically, the guy who's going to be
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  Speaker 1: the loser in Chicago, amar Nevaias, is the player that
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  Speaker 1: Caro rewinds reminds me of. You know, Neva's at his
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  Speaker 1: peak was like a two seventy five hitter with fifteen
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  Speaker 1: ish homers as a starting catcher. I think that's what
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  Speaker 1: Caro's kind of peak looks like.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree, and so there's value there, but like
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  Speaker 2: it's that fringe starting catcher and so maybe maybe a
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  Speaker 2: backup as a good way to look at it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, Well let's move on to somebody on the
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  Speaker 1: other side of the coin who got sent down to
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  Speaker 1: the minor leagues as we are speaking here. I think
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  Speaker 1: it was just earlier today, and that is Matt Shaw, infielder,
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  Speaker 1: third baseman for the Chicago Cubs, option down to Triple
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  Speaker 1: A after just a brutal, brutal start for him. And
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  Speaker 1: I did read an antidote. I'm trying to remember where
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  Speaker 1: it was, if it was either Fangrafts or Baseball Prospectives today,
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  Speaker 1: but essentially saying that, like, I don't have you seen
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  Speaker 1: Matt Shaw bat very much with his crazy his like
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  Speaker 1: back is to the pitcher. It's a very strange stance.
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  Speaker 1: And when you have a strange states like that, I
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  Speaker 1: think it makes it easier to be sent down when
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  Speaker 1: you're struggling, because like they're just not going to give
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  Speaker 1: you a chance to let that goopy station look funny. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: exactly continue uh. And it was a rough start. He
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  Speaker 1: was hitting one seventy two, two ninety four, forty one.
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  Speaker 1: The two forty one slug is I think really what
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  Speaker 1: costed him here because the power just was not showing
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  Speaker 1: up in the big league's four, Matt Shaw strikeout rate
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  Speaker 1: was elevated compared to what we had seen down in
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  Speaker 1: the minor leagues. This is one where I think the
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  Speaker 1: projections might have actually kind of gotten it right. That
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  Speaker 1: they've been incorporating some of the hit data in terms
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  Speaker 1: of hard hit rates and barrels and stuff like that
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  Speaker 1: picked up that Matt Shaw really isn't a batting average
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  Speaker 1: asset the way that I think lots of people had
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  Speaker 1: valued him. So are you shading more towards what the
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  Speaker 1: the actual projections have right now, which are all like
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  Speaker 1: in a two forty ish range with maybe like tennis
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  Speaker 1: homers the rest of the season if he comes up,
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  Speaker 1: do you think that is who Matt Shaw is? Or
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  Speaker 1: do you think that he could come back and return
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  Speaker 1: to maybe more of like the starting third basement level
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  Speaker 1: that people were expecting of him in draft season.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think I have a little little higher hopes
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  Speaker 2: than maybe some of the projections there, maybe like a
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  Speaker 2: two sixty hitter with you know, kind of fifteen fifteen
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  Speaker 2: kind of results for over an overall season. So I
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  Speaker 2: still think there's value there. You know, he had some
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  Speaker 2: bad luck, he was he's young, he's twenty three, still adjusting,
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  Speaker 2: So I think that there's plenty left in the tank there.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not writing him off. If anything, this is the
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  Speaker 2: time to acquire in my mind. No, he's not going
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  Speaker 2: to be absolute, you know, locking in All Star by
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  Speaker 2: any means, but I definitely think that there's still value
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  Speaker 2: here long term. It's gonna take some time for him
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  Speaker 2: to build that backup in the in the miners, so
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  Speaker 2: I think that's gonna be what ultimately is kind of
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  Speaker 2: the drawback, because it's not like he lit it on
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  Speaker 2: fire in spring training either. He only hit two oh
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  Speaker 2: eight and you know when made nine games, and so
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  Speaker 2: they want to see more. But he's yep, he's only
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  Speaker 2: really had a handful of games above Double A. So
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  Speaker 2: like for him to get another fifty to sixty games
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  Speaker 2: at Triple A and then get called up you know,
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  Speaker 2: mid season, I think it's probably right. So if you're
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  Speaker 2: in redraft leagues, I'm I'm fine cutting bait. If you're
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  Speaker 2: in dynasty, hold hold for now, and I think he'll
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  Speaker 2: get back.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Well, we're gonna stay in Chicago. It's a
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: very windy city centric pod here. So far, we've got
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  Speaker 1: another bit of news that we kind of put further
• 15:32
  Speaker 1: down the list, but we'll get to that. As the
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: we look like Seue's there, he sooth sayers here as
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: Justin Steele slated for elbow surgery of some sort. It
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: hasn't been announced whether it's full Tommy John or if
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  Speaker 1: it will be an internal brace. It will be. If
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  Speaker 1: it is another Tommy John, it would be his second.
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  Speaker 1: So Steele had another Tommy John back in college. I
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  Speaker 1: believe we knew that just based on kind of the
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: fact pattern. It was kind of especially when that second
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  Speaker 1: opinion news came out last week, it was kind of
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: the writing was on the wall. But my question here
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: is any interest in somebody who might be filling his
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: spot there in Chicago. So Conray fills in admirably against
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: the Dodgers for Steel on Sunday Night has had a
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: good k rate and seems to have unlocked something with
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: the Cubs. We also have Javier Asad coming back, Jordan
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: Wix is hanging out in Triple A, and Kate Horton
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: is on the precipice of debuting as well, but is
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: also rocking like an eight point one walk per nine
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: right now in Chiple A. But any of those names
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: interest you to replace Steel.
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean the first one that comes to mind
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: is Horton. Just from a pure capability perspective, you know,
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: I don't think there's anybody that you listed that has
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: more upside than Horton. I mean, you can't really rock
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: the nearly nine k walk per nine too long, but
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: that's really not been who he is. And we're only
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: talking about seven innings in triple A, but you know,
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: he's also struck out fifteen for nine, so like it
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: seems like the stuff is holding up there relatively well.
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: So I think Horton's the one I'm watching out for.
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: Wicks maybe has a little potential, But the rest of
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: the guys here, it looks like they've got some depth,
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: good pictures being not good fantasy pictures as you know,
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: kind of a the Jay Jamison tie on, the Colin Ray,
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: those kind of guys that will provide you some value,
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: more spot start kind of guys. If if Horton does
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: get the call, I think he's definitely the guy that
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: I'd be willing to maybe take a quick flyer on.
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: You know, the walks they're concerning, But seven innings, I
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: mean that's what one or two bad innings and you look,
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: your stats look kind of funny. So I'm willing to
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: give him the benf of the doubt, but he's the
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: one that I'm kind of hopeful that this gives them
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: the opportunity for probably not right now, but not not
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: too far down the line.
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah, And it's also fascinating, just kind of like with Milwaukee,
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: things thinned out quick in that Cub's rotation and they
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: really didn't have to, Like they have the money to
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: buy better players than this, and maybe they're expecting more
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: from Ben Brown, but it's been a rough go for
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: that rotation in the on the North side of Chicago
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: so far, all right, but we're gonna stick in the
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: NL Central for This story has kind of fascinating needed
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: me over the past couple days because I have no idea,
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: like what to make of it. I can't tell if
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: like I should freak out or if it's a total
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: nothing burger. But we're talking about Brewers closer Trevor McGill,
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: who on Saturday had an ugly blown loss or blown
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: save took the loss, and then has there's just been
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: news about him seeking a second opinion on his knee,
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: which there was no real announcement of like what the
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: knee injury specifically was. So we don't know if it's
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: like a ACL concern or a moniscus or a bone
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: bruise or no idea what's going on in terms unless
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: you can find something. I can see you searching, but
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: I haven't found anything. And on top of it all,
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: we then got a news report that supposedly mcguil was
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: available to pitch on Sunday against Arizona even though he's
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: going to get the second opinion on his knee. I
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: know in our leagues that we're playing in, like you
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: saw me snatch up abner Rebay in the Auto New League,
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: in all the RcLs and in the perts leagues, lots
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: of people are snatching up abner Rebay. And I had
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: Joel pie Ams for a little bit even too. Is
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: it gonna be abner a Rebay time in Milwaukee pretty soon?
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: Or is this something that doesn't concern you? Or And
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: on top of it, have you ever seen a story
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: that has unraveled so strangely like this, especially given today's
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: media environment.
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah, this one's really really odd. That's why I'm like,
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: I'm really having trouble because like nobody, even uh Euribay,
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: which has a lot of talent, doesn't like overly excite me.
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: But at the same time, like guy with a solid
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: job as something as you look at and he was
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: pretty guest turning good yes last year when he had that.
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: But again, McGill is exciting in his own right. But
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: it's not like his stuff has really played down his
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: velossities slightly down the season. But we're talking like four
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: or five innings, and it's not like it's down like
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: five miles an hours, down like a mile an hour,
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: but it's it's it's a concern to agree that he's
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: seeking the second opinion that he feels that something's off.
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: And if you're tentative at all with your knees from
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: a pitching perspective, you just you're losing the power. You're
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: losing there. So I'm really confused on this one. I
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: don't think it. I think the right move is to
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: handcuff with your eBay and hope nothing happens here. But
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: we could easily be talking about McGill having knee surgery
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: tomorrow or playing the rest of the season getting twenty
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: five saves. I don't know which one. It's gonna be
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: maybe you've got the crystal ball, but I've got nothing
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: on this.
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: I mean, I I think if you're a owner, you
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: have to handcuff with Reube, like you said that, Like
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: that is a big component here. But I don't know.
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: I don't feel great about how this is trending, especially
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: since McGill was apparently available on Sunday but still hasn't
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: pitched since as we're speaking here on Wednesday, and so
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: it doesn't look great when you're kind of putting all
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: the facts and circumstances together that it does seem like
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: it's going to be something pretty major here within the
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: next few kind of days of what is up with
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: Trevor McGill.
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, heck I was availables on it too,
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: but nobody called to me.
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: Okay, well, let's stick. This is kind of weirdly all
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: Central team news. It's all very nitty gritty and doom
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: and gloom because we're gonna go to Minnesota now where
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: the injury bug has stricken them again. This team is
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: absolutely awful. They are seven and twelve. They've barely pulled
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: ahead of the White Sox in the Al Central and
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: now they're dealing with injuries in minutes to the likes
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: of Matt Wallner left last night's game with a hamstring
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: poll of some sort. I have to imagine he's going
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: to be destined for the AL soon with the strain.
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: Carlos Korea left after like swinging and fouling a ball
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: off and like his wrist was sore, which to me
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: screams handmate bone. But I think they did an MRI
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: and they're awaiting the results there. But you can add
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: that on top of the plantar fascyitis that Carl's Korea
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: has always been battling and it's been a brutal start
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: to the season for him. Then we I don't know
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: if you saw this bit of news, Jose Miranda, he
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: got optioned down to Triple A, then strained his hand
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: shopping at Target down in Triple A. So that's a
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: new one for me. That isn't boting well in the
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: midst of all this chaos. Actually, I mean, we're gonna
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: have somebody to talk about in our minor league kind
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: of portion of who to stash. But brooks Lee has
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: come in and he actually entered the game last night
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: for Carlos Korea. Blasted a homer in his stead as
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: you know, actually he was coming off of his own
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: injury Brooksley. That is any faith in kind of what
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: brooks Lee can do in Minnesota, because I've always liked
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: the profile and the approach. I know it's not exactly
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: the hardest hit data, but like he puts the ball
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: in play and has gotten good results.
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's definitely a watch for me. I'm not I'm
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: not running out by any means, especially in that lineup,
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: but there's just not enough around him to really produce.
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: And he's he's one of those better real world players
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: than fantasy players. He's gonna he's a little bit of power,
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: the slightest bit of speed. He's gonna hit maybe two
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: forty two fifty. Like There's it's very much replacement level
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: is what I'm projecting with with Lee. And you know,
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: if they had more faith in them, they would have
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: invested more and not use not call him up just
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: because of injuries things like that. So I'm the tea
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: leaves for me of like, eh, I'm not too excited here,
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: but I'll keep keep an eye on it. Maybe I'm
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: a little too far down on him. It's just I
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: don't see a big carrying tool that I would waste
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: a spot on this point.
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: Okay, fair enough. I mean, let's see how he maybe
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: compares to this next guy we're gonna talk about, which
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: is infielder Chase my draft for the Chicago White Sox.
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: We just alluded to it a little bit ago. He
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: has received the call and has joined the team. Should
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: be the every day like I guess, shortstop, but I
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: mean he's gonna get plenty of time at second base too,
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: because they've been moving Brooks Baldwin around everywhere on that team,
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: and it's gonna be I think fascinating to see how
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: they kind of put the young infielder pieces together, because
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: that is actually where there's a little bit of fantasy
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: value on this White Sox team. That these young infielders
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: could easily put up like twelve to fifteen homers and
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: stolen bases a piece. And my draft started this season
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: absolutely scorching hot. Interriple A just like Caro two sixty
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: seven four fifty six hundred slash line over forty played
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: appearances with three bombs and two stolen bases. Do you
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: have more interest here in my draft than you did
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: in Lee, Yeah, I've got.
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: A little bit more on my draft here. I think
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: you call it right, like, he's the kind of guy
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: that could squeak out like a double double season, like
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: a ten, ten, fifteen, fifteen look up and he hit
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: two sixty two seventy and you're just like, well, that
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: was nice to have in my middle infield, or you know,
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: kind of to your point, if he has multiposition flexibility,
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: kind of pin them in in some good matchups and
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: hopefully get a few, you know, few counting stats. So
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: a little bit more interested here, a lot more solid
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: playing time that I think we can expect, and the
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: counting stats on both sides with the speed have a
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: little a little bit more intrigue for me. So I'm
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: not again, I'm not a guy I'm running out to
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: pick up unless I got a big gaping hole. But
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: I think I do think there's gonna be a pretty
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: big drag on the run production side of things. Not
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: his fault necessary necessarily, but I think that that's to
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: be a little bit of drag. But hey, if you're
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: looking for counting stats, I think this is a guy
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: that's got a little bit get a little bit to
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: given that category. And not gonna cost you much.
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that's totally fair and fun. Little tidbit
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: that Garrett Crochet had a no hitter going on Sunday
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: against the White Sox, and Chase Mydrath, who is traded
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: for Crochet, broke up that no hitter. So that's that's
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: that's a cool little thing karma. Yes, exactly. Okay, let's
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: get into a little bit of cart news because the
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: schedule settled a little bit compared to when we talked
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: last week, that some of those late April releases that
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: were question marks have been more solidified. I would say
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: written in pencil as opposed to set in stone or
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: written in pen But we are speaking on April sixteenth.
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: Tops Tribute released today, so I don't know if I've
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: got anything too great to say about it. It's Tops
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: Tribute looks the same that it's always has. It's got
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: good patches, same design with the with the big capital
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: T on there, same kind of faux would on the car,
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: as well as good autographs.
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: Good.
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: I do love the authenticated memorabilia pieces that come in
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: in Tribute. But the boxes were five hundred and fifty dollars,
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: which is steep for Tribute. This used to be like
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: a three hundred two fifty type of box where it
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: was more premium because you only get what like ten
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: cards maybe in a Tribute. That's how little I've kind
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: of looked up the stats of like what this is
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: because it's just so expensive for twenty twenty five. But
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: any thoughts on Tribute from your side.
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I've always liked Tribute as kind of that mid
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: level product. It wasn't like it had the high end
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: look field to a degree, but you wasn't the full
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: of high end price. But now it's kind of migrated
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: a little bit more to that high end price, and
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: so it's a little bit less. I love Tribute for
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: like the like a year or two aftermarket, because it
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: does it's one of those sets that does not terribly
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: hold its value, maybe kind of all uh triple threads
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: something like that that's, you know, great, great thing to
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: collector really fun, but for whatever reason, doesn't hold the
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: value of Flagship or a chrome or a Bowman or
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: something like that. But there's some really really cool cards,
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: and so that's something I do like about it. So
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: I usually try to pick up some cards of my
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: favorite players a year or two later, when the when
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: the shine of the five hundred dollars box has worn
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: off and you're not trying to recoup your investment fifty
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: dollars a card. So I definitely got, you know, having
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: me some Palty Young Tribute autos from back in the day.
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I was gonna say, I have a lot of
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: authenticated like White Sox relics from like Tim Anderson and
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: Jose Bray you and Yes Moni Grand doll that I
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: got on the cheat from Tribute. Oh yeah, okay. The
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: other things that kind of got settled in the schedule.
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: You can check this all out in the show notes
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: if you're looking for it as long, along with everything
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: else that we've discussed, So you can find the news
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: and notes and everything in those show notes. But on
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: April thirtieth, we have Tops Heritage twenty twenty five coming out,
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: Tops Chrome Black twenty twenty five, twenty twenty five, Pannin Eats,
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: Stars and Stripes set for May seventh, twenty twenty four,
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: Panini Flawless kicked down the road again to May fourteenth,
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: and we've got Donner's Baseball on the twenty first of May.
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: June twenty twenty five, top Series two coming out should
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: be Roki Sasaki loaded to the brim, so it'll be
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: a fun little kind of run up until June. But
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: with that, we are going to take a short break
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: and we'll be coming back to talk about those stashable
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: minor league prospect backs. Stick around, all right, Welcome back, everybody.
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: We are going to discuss stashable minor league prospect bats, well,
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: actually not bats, players in general. So what we're going
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: to do is go through I think a handful of
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: players that are likely owned already in like twelve teamers,
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: certainly in fifteen teamers. These guys are certainly rostered as
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: people are stashing them away, and then kind of a
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: list of who maybe the next wave might be. Once,
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: especially that first wave of players who look to be
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: on the precipice of making the major leagues do get
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: that call, we're gonna want to reload those benches, use
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: a spot on somebody to try to find that next
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: best thing and not have to worry about putting in
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: major waiver wire bids for them or be the fastest
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: finger to pick them up on the free agent pool
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: when the call up happens. So a lot of like
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: what we're trying to discuss here. I think is certainly
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: an art. Like I know we play in leagues between
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: Autnew or our CBS League together that we've got designated
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: spots for minor leaguers, especially in the CBS League, Like
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: there's actually roster spots for it on the Auto New League.
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: Like you've got to have some prospects coming through because
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: it's a dynasty system. But what do you do in
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: leagues where you don't have a designated spot for these
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: type of minor league players And kind of what is
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: your give and take and where's your line about like
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: how good the player could be, how much you want
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: to waste that roster spot on them, and like just
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: kind of overall considerations for size of leagues.
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean to your point, any league where you
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: have minor spots or the depth to use it, I
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: think you absolutely have to use it. Yeah, I got
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: to carry maybe four or five, like a forty man roster,
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: four or five guys. And for me, strategically, I'm almost
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: always aiming towards the upper miners, so you can turn
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: those over because there's always new guys coming out, and
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: so if you're always trying to play in the low
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: miners and you gotta wait two three years for the
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: guys develop your missing, missing opportunities. But for a remember
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: over redraft standard league, you know, maybe a twelve teamer,
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: Like I'm looking out at, like, who's that guy in
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: the minors that looks like he can absolutely make an impact,
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: Like if called up, I want to plug him in
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: day one and I think he can be a true
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: starter for me. And if I think he's gonna be
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: called up in the next like month, like that's kind
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: of the guy I'm looking for. And I know there's
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: a few guys on our list today that will we'll talk,
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: but that fall right into that. Those are the kind
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: of guys and like you kind of look at him
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: like at this point in the season, I would have
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: drafted them as a if called up, as a you know,
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: corner infielder or a you know, mid mid level starter
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: or something like that. Those are the guys that I'm
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: looking for. Because you're you're looking you don't want to
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: the guy that might get called up and play at
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: the end of the rotation or you know the edge
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: of the of your bench, and now you're wasting a
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: roster spot trying to figure out if there's gonna be
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: something you miss somebody else. So definitely looking for those
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: guys that are coming up in the really near future,
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: and it's they've got to be hot, and they've got
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: to be look like they're gonna make a big, big impact.
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: Don't give me the guy that's just kind of scuffing along.
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: If I'm wrong on that one, I'm fine with it.
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: Move on, pick somebody else.
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, And I think another factor I'm looking for
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: it I agree with of all those points are like
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: players who could play their way onto a roster as
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: opposed to needing an injury or other circumstance to be
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: able to enter the actual roster. That like you are
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: looking at. You want somebody who has that special level
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: of talent, So generally you are looking at stars here.
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: But it is it's a big burden sometimes to be
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: able to carry a player like this on your bench
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: in a league where you don't have a designate spot
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: for it, because you're just burning that reserve spot. So
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: it's also like you've got to have the right team
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: construction to be able to do it. You've got to
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: make sure you've got enough depth covered elsewhere to make
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: sure that you actually have the space to be able
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: to hold these players. You don't want to end up
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: in a situation where you've run out of players and
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: you've got injuries kind of ravaging your reserves and you've
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: got to drop one of these players that needs to
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: be owned and release them back into the pool for
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: your league, or try to shop them because you're not
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: going to get full value back and people will short
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: change you when they see that. And like there is
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: a consideration of, like, sometimes I do trade these guys
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: when they get called up, because that is sometimes when
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: their value peaks. But you're also kind of anticipating that
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: if you want to burn that roster spot on them,
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: you believe in them too. So it's a hard kind
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: of push and pull in terms of do I want
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: to cash this chip in or do I want to
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: keep riding this train because I think the train's going
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: to be really good.
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you're absolute right. I'm in a league right now
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: where we have one minor spot and I'm actually caring
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: two guys because I look at that and like, these
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: are two guys that I think in the next two
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: to three weeks are they're both on our list, They're
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: gonna be called up, They're gonna make an impact, and
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: like I will be happy to have them. Now, I
• 34:44
  Speaker 2: also think I cut Cam Smith on that team. So like,
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: you can't be wrong. That's a very welcome room. But
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: you have to be willing to be wrong because the
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: payoff is also quite handsome if you're right.
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and you got to do You do have to
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: know when you can cut bait two. The same thing
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: with kind of like Matt Shaw being optioned, where like
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: if the player isn't showing it in the big leagues,
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: because especially these types of players like it clicks when
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: it clicks, you know what I mean, and so like
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: it doesn't, they don't get a ton of time to
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: kind of figure it out. Usually, and especially when it
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: is a situation where the spot hasn't been opened up
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: by an injury or other circumstance where if they played
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: their way onto the roster, they get their few weeks
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: and teams, especially in the middle of pennant races, will
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: send them back down to triple A without too much hesitation.
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: Like I said, Shaw is a great example of that.
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: Yep.
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: Absolutely, Okay, Well let's get into the discussion of the
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: specific players. So we're going to first start off with
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: a handful of guys who are likely already owned. But
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: I mean, certainly, I think, especially these first two we're
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: going to talk about, I think they're ten team pickups
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: right now too, even in reserves, considering how fantastic they've been,
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: and honestly they haven't even been. I can't even suggest
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: them for like consideration in my waiver Wire column because
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: their season roster percentage on CBS has already warranted that
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: they're probably not available in any twelve teamers, and honestly
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: in lots of ten teamers. But I figure it did
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: still be fun to talk about outfielder Roman Anthony from
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: the Boston Red Sox and first baseman Nick Kurtz from
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: the Sacramento Athletics. So both of them also hot out
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: the gate. They had great springs, and Roman Anthony right
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: now slashing two eighty three four five hundred at Triple
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: A that over fifty nine plate appearances is a one
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: sixty three WRC plus has been absolutely stellar at the plate,
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: twenty five percent strikeout rate, twenty two percent walk rate. Really,
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: he's pretty much like a number one prospect in most locations,
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: and so he's playing like it has not shown any
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: flaws there. Nick Kurtz, who was just drafted at the
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: number four pick last year, slashing three forty four, three
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: eighty six, seven sixty six in seventy one played appearances
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: at triple a twenty three percent strikeout rate, which that's
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: crazy coming off, but just like straight to college with
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: a roughly seven percent walk rate. I brought them and
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: paired them together because I'm just gonna ask your point blank,
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: put your feet to the fire. You had one roster spot.
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: Could roster either Roman Anthony or Nick Kurtz. Who is
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: it right now?
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: I told you had a league. I've got one guy
• 37:26
  Speaker 2: that I'm using him a bench spot on and it's
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: Nick Kurtz. I think, you know, we talked about a
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: little bit with Tyler Soderstrom and kind of feels like
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: the Athletics have kind of figured this thing out with
• 37:38
  Speaker 2: like these power bats that have a little bit of
• 37:41
  Speaker 2: like a big swing, potential swing and this kind of thing,
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: and like he just looks like he is tailor made
• 37:47
  Speaker 2: for the way that their player development approach works, and
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: he just looks mature beyond his ears, like he'd like
• 37:53
  Speaker 2: even watch him, he doesn't look like he's trying to
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: swing that hard or anything, and it's just like the
• 37:57
  Speaker 2: ball is just flying off the bat. So he he
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: seems ready. He is hot, and like when to your point,
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: when he gets called up, he is playing like we've
• 38:07
  Speaker 2: seen Brent Rooker now in the outfield in a few
• 38:09
  Speaker 2: games recently instead of playing d H. There's a little
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: scuttle about Tyler Schilders from playing third base. Like wow,
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: first of all, that sounds scary for his breakout, but like,
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: clearly they are preparing for Kurtz to be up, and
• 38:22
  Speaker 2: I mean the week. I could be wrong, but it
• 38:25
  Speaker 2: feels like it is imminent. And I think the he
• 38:29
  Speaker 2: is gonna of those two. I think he hits the
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: ground running faster than remote Anthony. I think Anthony's got
• 38:36
  Speaker 2: a ton of potential and he's probably got a wider
• 38:38
  Speaker 2: array of skill set that can impact the team. But
• 38:42
  Speaker 2: I don't think that he I think he's gonna have
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: a longer development period. He is a little bit younger,
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: He wasn't as high of a draft pick like I
• 38:51
  Speaker 2: think that. You know, he didn't perform as amazingly in spring.
• 38:56
  Speaker 2: You know, he did have a little bit struggles grand
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: and we said that about Christian Campbell, so could be
• 39:01
  Speaker 2: wrong there, but I have Anthony just to tick low
• 39:05
  Speaker 2: Kurtz at this point in time for this season.
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think I'm on board with you here, where
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: Like if you had just asked me, I think even
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: before the season just started, even all things considering, probably
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: would have been Roman Anthony. But now that we see
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: the way that that park plays in Sacramento and the
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: right field porch is so easy to get to for
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: Nick Kurtz, that like the ceiling is absolutely absurd. I
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: don't know if I've actually got any great knocks to
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: bring up the way that I'm surprised you even found
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: some for Roman Anthony that like everything looks like all
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: systems go. Great ballpark for him as well, too, left
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: handed bat that can just like rip it down the
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: line in Fenway. It's just that I think Nick Kurtz,
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: like when you put him in that ballpark, you're looking
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: at like Mark McGuire levels of production, where Roman Anthony
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: is if he had a little more speed, Like that's
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: the kind of the factor is that, like the power
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: the home run potential for Kurtz is just so otherworldly
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: as opposed to Roman Anthony, is kind of like Kyle
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: Tucker without the speed and.
• 40:15
  Speaker 2: It was like a Mookie Bats something like that. And yeah,
• 40:18
  Speaker 2: but Anthony, like he's not been the most efficient bass
• 40:21
  Speaker 2: stealer either. He's fast, but he's not a very bastealer.
• 40:24
  Speaker 2: Last year he was caught seven times when he sold
• 40:27
  Speaker 2: twenty one bases, and that's kind of been his kind
• 40:29
  Speaker 2: of metric throughout, you know, It's kind of he's been
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: like a three to one kind of guy, which is
• 40:33
  Speaker 2: it's just decent, but like he's not terribly effective there.
• 40:37
  Speaker 2: So he's one of the guys that's not gonna have
• 40:39
  Speaker 2: like a green light. He's gonna have like an opportunistic light.
• 40:43
  Speaker 2: So yeah, there's just I don't want to call him
• 40:44
  Speaker 2: red flags to your point, like they're they're nitpicking things,
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: but it's it's too much of a good thing, and I'll.
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: Take too much of Bet Kurts. Yeah, yeah, with Kurts,
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: you could see forty to fifty homers pretty easily in
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: that ballpark, and Sacramento on a full season basis, Anthony
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: is like a twenty to twenty five home run hitter
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: better average, but like it's just it's, yeah, something really
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: really special. I think in Kurts, So let's move on
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: to another dude who's likely owned and probably I helped
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: beat that drum a little bit this weekend with my
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: waiver wire piece. I fell for the football from Bob
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: Nightingale Junior. Bobby Nightingale Junior, who kept saying that Zebbie
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: Matthews was first in a debut on Friday for Pablo Lopez,
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: who hit the il with a hamstring, then said that
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: the Twins might go to a six man rotation and
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: that Zebbi would be called up on Monday. Neither happened.
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: Aaron Gleeman over wrote him, I should have never chested
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: a Nightingale. But either way, like, because the Twins are
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: on dire straits, they need to get Zebby up pretty soon.
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: I think because he has been absolutely like lights out
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: in Triple A. He does not belong down there anymore.
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: He belongs in the major leagues and he's on the
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: forty man roster. It's not a really hard move to make.
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: They just kind of need to just put him in
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: the rotation and I think let him ride. It's just
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: incredible that they are letting themselves sink further and further
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: down the al Central while they're wasting Zebie Matthews' bullets
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: down at Triple A. Do you think that ZEBI still
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: like comes up pretty soon. I know you've liked his
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: profile for a long time, but really what stands out
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: to maybe that has kicked him to the next level
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: here in twenty twenty five.
• 42:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think he gets called a pretty gust turn soon.
• 42:30
  Speaker 2: He doesn't have anything less left to prove in the miners.
• 42:34
  Speaker 2: If anything, I think he's one of those guys that
• 42:37
  Speaker 2: he's he's gonna have to learn and grow at the
• 42:40
  Speaker 2: major league level. He has amazing control, he keeps the
• 42:43
  Speaker 2: ball on the ground. I mean his walk rate throughout
• 42:48
  Speaker 2: the miners has been basically one per nine, Like it's
• 42:51
  Speaker 2: just unbelievable. We'll still strikeing out ten or eleven guys
• 42:54
  Speaker 2: per nine, Like that's that's just you know, Shane Bieber
• 42:57
  Speaker 2: level kind of production at his his peak, and yeah,
• 43:00
  Speaker 2: absolutely love it. He has a five pitch mix, and
• 43:03
  Speaker 2: I think that's maybe part of his downfall right now
• 43:06
  Speaker 2: is when he gets in the majors, he's still trying
• 43:07
  Speaker 2: to figure out what to do because I think that
• 43:10
  Speaker 2: control and the power he has, I mean, he's he's
• 43:13
  Speaker 2: throwing them mid nineties. He's a big guy. He's he's
• 43:15
  Speaker 2: like Bailey Over. It's a perfect, you know, kind of
• 43:18
  Speaker 2: match there on the Twins. Like as far as a
• 43:19
  Speaker 2: big throwing guy, he's six five two twenty five. He's
• 43:22
  Speaker 2: a big thrower. And I think he's got behind the
• 43:25
  Speaker 2: miners with that control, with being able to play on
• 43:28
  Speaker 2: the fringes, and then he gets with the majors. Guys
• 43:30
  Speaker 2: are more patient, They're able to kind of spin on
• 43:32
  Speaker 2: those pitches and pick something else out. So I think
• 43:35
  Speaker 2: he's gonna he's gonna have a I don't a bumpy ride,
• 43:37
  Speaker 2: but he's gonna have to adjust a little bit more
• 43:40
  Speaker 2: than some other guys that have just nasty, nasty stuff.
• 43:42
  Speaker 2: He has good stuff, but the great control, and so
• 43:46
  Speaker 2: I'm excited for him. I think he's still gonna be great.
• 43:49
  Speaker 2: I think he needs to be in the majors to
• 43:51
  Speaker 2: learn a few things here and there, and uh, there's
• 43:54
  Speaker 2: no reason he shouldn't be in the rotation of the.
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: Rest of the year. Yeah, Honestly, I think the comp
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: that I like sexually better than Over, it's Garrett Cole.
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: Like it's it looks like Garrett Cole when you kind
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: of put all the pieces together in terms of pitch mix,
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: especially now that he's got those couple extra ticks in
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: his fastball. Cole when he was you know, young, had
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: that control the way Zebbie Matthews does that like you
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: see a lot of it, and so it's and then
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: you can see like another kind of prime for Zebbie
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: Matthews too, you know when Cole did find that next gear. Yeah,
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: maybe stuff, that's why he was.
• 44:26
  Speaker 2: Zebbie is like he's gonna get up and he's gonna
• 44:28
  Speaker 2: be useful and then he's gonna figure out how to
• 44:31
  Speaker 2: pitch in the major league. Uble he's be really, really useful.
• 44:34
  Speaker 2: I think there'll be like a two stepper for him.
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: Yes, so yeah, certainly I would be stashing him. Probably
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: not ten teamers, I think twelve teamers certainly. Okay, let's
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: stick on the pitching rubber with the next guy, Bubba
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: Chandler from the Pittsburgh Pirates, who has also been lights
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: out to start the season, coming off of a great
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: spring as well, and maybe not great swing. I take
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: that back. I thought it was better than that. Maybe
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: just like one of the starts.
• 45:00
  Speaker 2: He had, he had a really good spring in minor camp,
• 45:03
  Speaker 2: he only had two innings at the major league level.
• 45:07
  Speaker 2: He he dominated in the minor camp.
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: Okay, that makes a little that makes me feel a
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: little bit better. But it's looked great in tripa A
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: for Bubba Chandler as he's put up a one sixty
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: nine ear RA over his first three starts of ten
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: and two thirds. Great, great strikeout rate over fifteen k
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: per nine. I feel like this dude's coming up immediately
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: after the Super Ted two deadline, right, yeah, I.
• 45:31
  Speaker 2: Know, no question. When I was just talking about, you know,
• 45:33
  Speaker 2: a guy like Zebbi, you might need a two step
• 45:35
  Speaker 2: because his stuff isn't like nasty. It's it's good, but
• 45:38
  Speaker 2: it's not nasty. Bubba stuff's nasty like. He's the kind
• 45:41
  Speaker 2: of guy I think can come up there and pull
• 45:43
  Speaker 2: a kind of Paul Skiens type of type of thing
• 45:45
  Speaker 2: where he he doesn't miss a beat. He just goes
• 45:47
  Speaker 2: up there because he's just got the pitch ability. And
• 45:50
  Speaker 2: I think Bubba's of those two guys I think is
• 45:52
  Speaker 2: the one that excites me more the second he gets
• 45:54
  Speaker 2: called up. I'm not too scared of plugging him in anywhere.
• 45:57
  Speaker 2: Maybe not Colorado, but yeah, yeah, so I think again,
• 46:03
  Speaker 2: twelve teamer, would you put win those reserve spots for
• 46:05
  Speaker 2: Bubba Chandler? Yeah, I told you earlier. The two guys,
• 46:08
  Speaker 2: Bubby Chandler's other one I have with Kurtz and Chandler,
• 46:10
  Speaker 2: I have kind of in the wings on a team
• 46:12
  Speaker 2: right now where I've got a little flexibility that I
• 46:14
  Speaker 2: can play with because I think those two guys could
• 46:17
  Speaker 2: absolutely plug and play the rest of the season when
• 46:20
  Speaker 2: they get the call. So and I don't think I
• 46:23
  Speaker 2: would be shucked if we come back here in three
• 46:25
  Speaker 2: weeks and we're talking about both those guys still being
• 46:27
  Speaker 2: in the minors.
• 46:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah. And I think in a ten teamer, the closer
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: and closer that we get to that Super two deadline,
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: which is where like you get the extra year for arbitration,
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: it should be like late May, early June, should be
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: like that first week of June. Just kind of like
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: keep your eye on the news. But as it approaches.
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: In a ten teamer, I think you can do the
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: same thing that Chandler is so significant of an arm,
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: Like you're talking even in a ten teamer, that's going
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: to be a very valuable pitcher. Okay, well, let's get
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: into a hitter to round out the likely owned group,
• 47:03
  Speaker 1: because I think it's started to pick up a little
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: more momentum, especially given that the Kansas City Royals have
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: no outfield offense what to speak of. M J. Melendez
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: looks Toast, Hunter Renfro looks toast. Kyle isbel is just
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: kind of hanging out and it looks like they need
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: Jack Tani there in Kansas City. Jack kagleon their first
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: round pick from last year out of Florida. He's been
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: pretty solid down at double A so far with a
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: two sixty eight three forty seven, five thirty seven slash line.
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: The caves have been good, which is what I like
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: to see. Twenty two percent, twelve percent walk rate, three homers.
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: This is all over forty nine play appearances. I think
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: this is one where Kansas City pulls the trigger soon,
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: just out of desperation, because they are battling right in
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: the middle of that al Central. It's right there for them,
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: and all they need is an outfielder or two to
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: be able to like provide a little boosted offense. Do
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: you think Jack Toni comes up soon in Kansas City.
• 48:03
  Speaker 2: I'm really torn on this one because I think from
• 48:05
  Speaker 2: a talent perspective, maturity, perspective. You know, he's shown us
• 48:09
  Speaker 2: a lot more than we we thought he would. He
• 48:12
  Speaker 2: did not have like we thought strikes were gonna be
• 48:15
  Speaker 2: a big problem for him. It seemed to be that way.
• 48:18
  Speaker 2: We thought he's gonna be this, like I gotta be
• 48:19
  Speaker 2: a two way player, and he's just like no, I'm
• 48:21
  Speaker 2: just I'm leaning it like he's done everything we want
• 48:24
  Speaker 2: to say. The only holdback I have with Cacion is
• 48:29
  Speaker 2: I don't think you want to see him in the outfield,
• 48:32
  Speaker 2: and not because I don't think he's athletic enough, but
• 48:33
  Speaker 2: I feel like the Royals have done this you mentioned
• 48:36
  Speaker 2: Melendas before, like they're trying to put get these guys
• 48:39
  Speaker 2: up and put him out of a position. Then it
• 48:40
  Speaker 2: kind of stunts their growth. And so I would be
• 48:43
  Speaker 2: much more intrigued by him filling the DH roll where
• 48:47
  Speaker 2: we kind of got India playing some of that right now,
• 48:50
  Speaker 2: and I think that's probably his best path. But because
• 48:53
  Speaker 2: of that, I think that it's gonna be a little
• 48:56
  Speaker 2: bit longer slog for him, So I think that's super
• 48:59
  Speaker 2: too deadline or maybe a little after so you're talking
• 49:01
  Speaker 2: late June or something like that. He's just one step away.
• 49:04
  Speaker 2: But I think the talent's there, the clamoring's going to
• 49:07
  Speaker 2: be there, But I think that they're gonna slow play
• 49:09
  Speaker 2: it just a little bit because they don't want to
• 49:11
  Speaker 2: put him out of a position so young, so early,
• 49:13
  Speaker 2: with so much potential. So really like him, really interesting
• 49:17
  Speaker 2: in him. But I think he's the guy that you
• 49:20
  Speaker 2: might be hearing about for like two months and then
• 49:23
  Speaker 2: he finally gets called up because there's an injury or
• 49:26
  Speaker 2: something like that where they are able to put him.
• 49:30
  Speaker 2: You know, then Pascuentino love the guy, not the model
• 49:33
  Speaker 2: of health. So you know, it wouldn't surprise me that,
• 49:37
  Speaker 2: you know, we're talking late late June, early July, that
• 49:40
  Speaker 2: Jock's getting getting a chance.
• 49:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I think that's all fair. I think what
• 49:45
  Speaker 1: I'm hearing from you then is fifteen teams. Definitely, he's
• 49:48
  Speaker 1: got to be in reserves. Twelves maybe, yeah, twelves.
• 49:51
  Speaker 2: I think it's like the next round. Like I think,
• 49:54
  Speaker 2: after this this round of the Kurts and Bubba's and
• 49:57
  Speaker 2: Zebbi's get called up, then I think Jack's right in. Yeah. Again,
• 50:02
  Speaker 2: there's's we've talked about five guys. Yeah, there's not that
• 50:05
  Speaker 2: many to go around. So I think he's worth having
• 50:08
  Speaker 2: on that horizon. But don't kill yourself trying to trying
• 50:12
  Speaker 2: a ROSTERIM don't put yourself in a bind at this point.
• 50:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah, And I also kind of like him, where like
• 50:17
  Speaker 1: sometimes this happens to me in leagues where you just
• 50:19
  Speaker 1: kind of like have a reserve spot and there's not
• 50:22
  Speaker 1: really any great use for it. And that's when it's
• 50:25
  Speaker 1: not a bad idea to like dedicate that to somebody
• 50:27
  Speaker 1: like kagle On because then you can kind of be
• 50:30
  Speaker 1: in there early. But certainly, Yeah, I'm watching him a
• 50:33
  Speaker 1: little bit more, maybe in the next in the next
• 50:36
  Speaker 1: couple of weeks, Like you said, after the first guys
• 50:40
  Speaker 1: come up and Anthony and Kurtz and the Royals finally
• 50:43
  Speaker 1: realize that they can win this division if they just
• 50:46
  Speaker 1: weren't getting total zeros out of like three lineup spots,
• 50:49
  Speaker 1: it's absurd. Okay, Well, let's stay man, we are just
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: pounding the al Central today, because let's get into a
• 50:58
  Speaker 1: couple right off the bat. Who will be in I
• 51:01
  Speaker 1: think the next big things in terms of like you know,
• 51:05
  Speaker 1: these are players who I think probably will debut at
• 51:08
  Speaker 1: some point this year, but are more of like a
• 51:12
  Speaker 1: Alstar break and after or like just kind of need
• 51:15
  Speaker 1: to show it a little bit more. In the minor leagues,
• 51:17
  Speaker 1: there's kind of a little bit I think on each
• 51:19
  Speaker 1: player where after you get that first wave of those
• 51:22
  Speaker 1: five players we just talked about, these would be kind
• 51:24
  Speaker 1: of the next guys that I'm looking at rostering to
• 51:27
  Speaker 1: be able to dedicate a bench spot to and and
• 51:30
  Speaker 1: kind of shuffle them away for the next wave of promotion.
• 51:34
  Speaker 1: So more of watchless guys now. But I think in
• 51:37
  Speaker 1: a few weeks time, we're talking right what we're doing
• 51:41
  Speaker 1: right now with Anthony and Kurtz, because like they could
• 51:43
  Speaker 1: come up and make some pretty significant differences. So I
• 51:46
  Speaker 1: just alluded to it with the Al Central we're gonna
• 51:49
  Speaker 1: stick there. First guy we have is Detroit Tiger's third baseman,
• 51:52
  Speaker 1: Jace Young, who you know struggled last year when he
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: did make that MLB debut. Honestly, it wasn't even that
• 51:59
  Speaker 1: much of a struggle. One O two WRC plus over
• 52:01
  Speaker 1: ninety four plate appearances but no homers, So it's stung
• 52:04
  Speaker 1: a little bit. From a fantasy side, has looked fantastic
• 52:08
  Speaker 1: to begin the year in triple A, slashing two fifty
• 52:11
  Speaker 1: four eighteen five nineteen, hit three bombs. That's a one
• 52:14
  Speaker 1: fifty nine WRC plus. What I like here for Young too,
• 52:18
  Speaker 1: is there's a pretty decent pathway to playing time in
• 52:21
  Speaker 1: Detroit right now that he can't take Tourtusen spot, unfortunately,
• 52:26
  Speaker 1: because he looks like the all star right now on
• 52:28
  Speaker 1: the Tigers. But slowly but surely, if you kind of
• 52:33
  Speaker 1: have been paying any attention to the Tigers, Hobby Bias
• 52:36
  Speaker 1: is kind of going through a dead cat bounce. And like,
• 52:39
  Speaker 1: if Hobby Bias can put up an eighty five to
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: ninety WRC plus with his glove, he's gonna play every
• 52:45
  Speaker 1: day at shortstop, and they're gonna move on from Tray Sweeney,
• 52:48
  Speaker 1: send Sweeney back down to the miners and try to
• 52:50
  Speaker 1: ride Young's bat. I think, so, what do you think
• 52:53
  Speaker 1: that twenty twenty five could hold for Jayce Young?
• 52:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah? I think you know, he's already and so there's
• 53:01
  Speaker 2: nothing left to do in the miners. He's in a
• 53:04
  Speaker 2: second season down there. You know, last year he hit
• 53:06
  Speaker 2: twofty seven, hit fourteen bombs in ninety one games. You know,
• 53:10
  Speaker 2: he has been struggling with strikeouts a little bit this
• 53:14
  Speaker 2: this year, but he's also being a little bit more
• 53:16
  Speaker 2: patient to plate and he's got a four eighteen opp
• 53:19
  Speaker 2: so I think he's definitely got sneaky appeal for kind
• 53:24
  Speaker 2: of a guy at the end of your roster. You know,
• 53:27
  Speaker 2: he might have multi position eligibility, just to kind of
• 53:30
  Speaker 2: depending where he gets up. Is he gonna be third base?
• 53:32
  Speaker 2: Is he gonna end up getting more rung His second
• 53:35
  Speaker 2: Colt Keith hasn't been all too exciting this year either,
• 53:38
  Speaker 2: so I think there's definitely potential. But I've got him
• 53:41
  Speaker 2: kind of on the watch list if he gets called
• 53:46
  Speaker 2: up today, Am I jumping? Probably not, But I'm watching
• 53:50
  Speaker 2: very very closely because I think, you know, he's got
• 53:52
  Speaker 2: a good blood line and he's done some pretty good
• 53:55
  Speaker 2: things in the miners. It's just is it gonna stick
• 53:58
  Speaker 2: out enough? Because he's not gonna be a hig average guy.
• 54:00
  Speaker 2: He's probably gonna be a two thirty two forty guy,
• 54:03
  Speaker 2: and so is the questions is he gonna have a
• 54:04
  Speaker 2: pot enough pop to make that worth it? Is he
• 54:06
  Speaker 2: going to be able to get to twenty five thirty homers?
• 54:09
  Speaker 2: It might be a stretch. I think he's probably more
• 54:10
  Speaker 2: of a twenty twenty five guy hitting two thirty two
• 54:13
  Speaker 2: forty and so useful. But U is, how quickly is
• 54:18
  Speaker 2: that going to come?
• 54:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and it feels a lot like Cold Keith too.
• 54:22
  Speaker 1: It's like I do also like part of it with
• 54:25
  Speaker 1: Colt Keith. What he's going through right now is just
• 54:29
  Speaker 1: a little bit of early season Detroit weather. So that's
• 54:32
  Speaker 1: something to keep in mind as the Tigers season progresses.
• 54:35
  Speaker 1: That like, if Keith is still available in some of
• 54:39
  Speaker 1: your leagues, he might be worth picking up as you know,
• 54:42
  Speaker 1: things start heating up north of the Mason Dixon line.
• 54:45
  Speaker 1: But same thing I think with Young where once we
• 54:48
  Speaker 1: get into the summer months, that's when he becomes more
• 54:50
  Speaker 1: and more fascinating. That especially if you're looking for an
• 54:53
  Speaker 1: extra option at corner and field, third base, that's where
• 54:56
  Speaker 1: you're starting to target Young. Okay, staying in ales, like
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: I said, because we're just like hammering the over on
• 55:04
  Speaker 1: that right now. Is Luke Keishel infielder actually kind of
• 55:08
  Speaker 1: like utility man. He'll play some outfield too, but I
• 55:10
  Speaker 1: think his main calling will be second base for the
• 55:12
  Speaker 1: Minnesota Twins. We just highlighted in the first half of
• 55:15
  Speaker 1: the show things are unraveling quickly in Minnesota. Kishel I'm
• 55:20
  Speaker 1: a little surprised he didn't get a call up last
• 55:22
  Speaker 1: year because twenty twenty four was fantastic for him across
• 55:26
  Speaker 1: Double A and and hi a three oh three four
• 55:29
  Speaker 1: to twenty forty three slash line that's a one to
• 55:32
  Speaker 1: fifty eight WRC plus. But in the one hundred and
• 55:35
  Speaker 1: two games he played fifteen homers twenty three Stonlee bases,
• 55:39
  Speaker 1: so he's got a little bit of a mix of
• 55:41
  Speaker 1: both and did that also with a torn UCL. I
• 55:45
  Speaker 1: think because he had Tommy John in the offseason that
• 55:48
  Speaker 1: held him back a little bit in spring training. Has
• 55:51
  Speaker 1: come out the gates doing well in Triple A, holding
• 55:54
  Speaker 1: his own at Saint Paul two eighty six, four oh seven,
• 55:57
  Speaker 1: three eighty one four stone one home run. I like Keisho,
• 56:02
  Speaker 1: especially in leagues where if you just need a little
• 56:04
  Speaker 1: stone base help. After we've talked about you're looking at
• 56:08
  Speaker 1: the first wave of call ups. Keisho, I think is
• 56:10
  Speaker 1: a great person to stash away. What do you think?
• 56:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I really do, And like I maybe a bold
• 56:16
  Speaker 2: statement here, I think he could outperform Ramon Anthony this
• 56:18
  Speaker 2: year if called out.
• 56:21
  Speaker 1: Like I think fancy value, like yeah, from a.
• 56:23
  Speaker 2: Fantasy valuepective perspective, I think Anthony has a long term
• 56:27
  Speaker 2: higher upside overall potential, but Kishel's got that very very
• 56:31
  Speaker 2: steady profile and he does everything just above average. And
• 56:35
  Speaker 2: like we've talked about that in this podcast before, just
• 56:37
  Speaker 2: being just above average and a lot of things means
• 56:39
  Speaker 2: you're really really good and you're really valuable in the
• 56:41
  Speaker 2: fantasy game. And so you know, I wouldn't be surprised
• 56:44
  Speaker 2: to see him have the pace of a twenty twenty
• 56:46
  Speaker 2: season for a guy that hits two seventy and that's
• 56:50
  Speaker 2: really really valuable. And he's I think more mature. I
• 56:54
  Speaker 2: think he's you know, a little bit better, like even
• 56:56
  Speaker 2: on the base path that I don't think he's not
• 56:57
  Speaker 2: a blazer, but he is a lot more than what
• 57:01
  Speaker 2: we've seen with Anthony, So I think he picks his
• 57:03
  Speaker 2: spots better. So I think there's a lot of things
• 57:06
  Speaker 2: going for Keishel, and he's just he's not the sexy
• 57:09
  Speaker 2: prospect name. He kind of slides with the radar. He's
• 57:11
  Speaker 2: in Minnesota, Like, I think he's gonna surprise folks and
• 57:15
  Speaker 2: he's gonna get the call up. People are gonna pick
• 57:17
  Speaker 2: him up right away, and then you're come back like
• 57:19
  Speaker 2: two three weeks later and be like why did I
• 57:21
  Speaker 2: pick this guy up? Because he's just like pounding, like
• 57:23
  Speaker 2: and it's not gonna be like big games either. It's
• 57:25
  Speaker 2: gonna be like a homework today, a steal tomorrow, two
• 57:28
  Speaker 2: RBI game, like he's just gonna like do it. And
• 57:31
  Speaker 2: then you're gonna look at the two weeks and be like,
• 57:32
  Speaker 2: my goodness, this guy.
• 57:33
  Speaker 1: Guy's really good.
• 57:34
  Speaker 2: Got an't good. So I really like Keishel. I think
• 57:37
  Speaker 2: there's more to be had there. I don't think the
• 57:40
  Speaker 2: hype's gonna get too far because I don't think the
• 57:42
  Speaker 2: upside is entirely significant. But there's more of a floor,
• 57:45
  Speaker 2: a higher floor for Keshel than some other guys.
• 57:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think so it. Briand's me actually a lot
• 57:50
  Speaker 1: of like Tyler Fitzgerald. Maybe not like that crazy like
• 57:54
  Speaker 1: power run that Tyler Fitzgerald went on for a little bit,
• 57:56
  Speaker 1: but same sort of like double double in terms of
• 58:01
  Speaker 1: home run in stolem based totals.
• 58:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Absolutely.
• 58:05
  Speaker 1: Okay, Well, let's get sticking again in the al Central
• 58:08
  Speaker 1: here because we're going back to Kansas City. I feel
• 58:12
  Speaker 1: like I'm giving away a little bit of a secret here.
• 58:13
  Speaker 1: Because I found this guy recently over the past just
• 58:17
  Speaker 1: a couple of weeks, as I was watching a lot
• 58:19
  Speaker 1: of the new minor league numbers coming in, and I
• 58:22
  Speaker 1: think he's a pretty deep cut, and I feel like
• 58:24
  Speaker 1: you're about to just steal him from underneath me in
• 58:27
  Speaker 1: a lot of our leagues. I'm talking about Luender Avila
• 58:30
  Speaker 1: from the Kansas City Royals. He is a twenty three
• 58:33
  Speaker 1: year old right hander who is currently down in Triple A,
• 58:36
  Speaker 1: but came off of a pretty solid spring training too,
• 58:39
  Speaker 1: where he put up a one to fifty ERA over
• 58:42
  Speaker 1: six innings fifteen innings at Triple A so far this
• 58:45
  Speaker 1: year with a twelve K nine. It's a four to
• 58:47
  Speaker 1: twenty ERA, but it's a two ninety five FIP has
• 58:50
  Speaker 1: always had a great ground ball profile around fifty percent,
• 58:53
  Speaker 1: and you look at his Fangrafs prospect report, it's a
• 58:58
  Speaker 1: forty plus future value but fifty to fifty five fastball,
• 59:02
  Speaker 1: forty five fifty slider, fifty sixty curveball, forty to fifty
• 59:06
  Speaker 1: change up. And the first number I'm saying there is
• 59:09
  Speaker 1: the current actual like grade, and then the second is
• 59:13
  Speaker 1: the future. I guess I just said that in a
• 59:15
  Speaker 1: split or two. The command has always been kind of
• 59:18
  Speaker 1: his rough point where it was a thirty command grade.
• 59:22
  Speaker 1: But in spring training he quelled the walks and the
• 59:25
  Speaker 1: well the walks have been held down in triple A
• 59:28
  Speaker 1: so far too that they're if he can stay where
• 59:31
  Speaker 1: he's at, you know, in the in the threes with
• 59:33
  Speaker 1: his walk rate, you're looking at a guy with a
• 59:36
  Speaker 1: five pitch mix. Great home park in Kansas City. That
• 59:40
  Speaker 1: rotation is made up of Cole Reagan's who's had two
• 59:43
  Speaker 1: Tommy John's, Chris Bubach, who I believe it's had two
• 59:46
  Speaker 1: Tommy Johns as well, but it's coming back from one,
• 59:49
  Speaker 1: and a bunch of geriatrics between Michael Lorenzen, Seth Lugo
• 59:54
  Speaker 1: and Michael waka Vila's. I'm the forty man roster. I
• 59:58
  Speaker 1: think he gets up immediately when they need another starter.
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 1: What do you think?
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I haven't dug into him incredibly much. I think
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 2: he I look at it. I wouldn't be surprised with
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 2: Logan Henderson's path here because I don't know that there's
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 2: a ton left to do in the miners besides build
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 2: up the innings. But he's actually pitched a lot more
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 2: than some guys in the miners, like he's eclipsed one
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 2: hundred innings multiple times, and so there's not like you're
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 2: trying to really build that up. He's he's got that
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 2: standina already, so I wouldn't be surprised that the first
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 2: like chinking anywhere in the armor on that rotation or
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 2: in that bullpen, that he gets a gets a call.
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 2: Just the history of walks do concern me a little bit,
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 2: but again they're not gonn hurt him so much because
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 2: he keeps the ball on the ground he does. It
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 2: looks like his stuff's been playing up a little bit,
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 2: so he's intriguing. I'm not sure how much I'm jumping yet,
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 2: but I like the call to your point of like
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 2: the next thing to watch next, you know, is it's
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 2: a profile a guy that could surprise some people if
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 2: he gets called up, called up. So I'm not raising
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 2: the way rewire yet he get first dibbs, but don't
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 2: wait too long.
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 1: Yeah, And I mean, I think the nice thing here
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 1: is like a lot of the projections are pretty ho
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 1: hum on a villa because of just the history of
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 1: walks you were talking about. But he has looked different
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 1: this year. The bat has picked it up. It's a
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 1: three eighty projected era from the bat to go with
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 1: about eight and a half K nine and a three
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 1: point eight walk per nine. I mean, that's gonna play.
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 1: And that's like a number three or four fantasy kind
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 1: of like picture. It's you can see the upside of
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 1: a villa. Okay, Like I said, how do we do
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 1: this all in l Central? So far? On the next
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 1: big things? The next one we have is somebody who
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 1: I was really excited for coming to the spring but
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 1: kind of fell flat on his face and then pop
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 1: back late in spring training after he had already lost
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 1: the job. I'm talking about second basement. Juan Brito of
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 1: the Cleveland Guardian. What's gonna make this tough is that
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 1: gabriol Aris has looked great in Cleveland. So far. Arius
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 1: is off to a very solid start with a two
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 1: eighty six three forty five four to ninety slash line
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 1: one forty two WRC plus with three bombs and fifty
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 1: five plate appearances. But one Brito has been holding his
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 1: own down in triple A, a three twenty three ninety
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 1: five forty slash line one fifty WRC plus with two
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 1: homers four stolen bases and sixty plate appearances. Like I said,
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 1: he lost the job pretty early in spring training because
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 1: I think he started like one for twenty or something
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 1: real bad Brito did, but he turned it around by
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 1: the end, put up an eighty six wrclus plus popped
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 1: four homers. I think I've always loved this profile in
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 1: terms of the speed and power combo from Brito along
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 1: with just like I don't know what it is about Cleveland,
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 1: but whenever they get a hold of like a middle
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 1: infielder like this, I feel like they always get the
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 1: best out of them, and I'm willing to bet on that.
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I feel a little bit of that Luke Keishael
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 2: profile like it. It's again a guy that does a
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 2: lot of good things, right. What I think is really
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 2: interesting about him is he can play every single position
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 2: in the infield, and so when you talk about path
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 2: the playing time, it's it's the entire infield that is
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 2: his opportunity. Now, there's a few guys there that aren't
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 2: probably gonna go up there their opportunity at this Jose
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 2: Ramiroz guy that here's pretty good. But you know, Carlston
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 2: Tanna's thirty nine years old like him, you breather area
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 2: ares like you said, like still young unknown. Uh, it's
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 2: there's opportunities there for him to get playing time, and
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 2: I think he can be sneaky sneaky good and he's
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 2: looked very, very solid so far in Triple A. I
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 2: think they're gonna give him a little bit more time.
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 2: But he's played, he's he's hit Triple A in each
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 2: of the last two years. He had one hundred and
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 2: forty four games there last year and was one thirteen
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 2: WRC plus, very very solid profile. So again, another guy
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 2: that gets called up. I think get multiposition eligibility, you
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 2: can plug and play. He's like one of the best
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 2: bench pieces you can have, right He's kind of like
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 2: a fun Willie Castro type type thing that you could
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 2: see developing down down the line with maybe a little
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 2: bit more power.
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I think the other pathway, too, is
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 1: the outfield with I mean, Nolan Jones is cooked. I
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 1: think I don't know if that's ever coming back, and
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 1: it's been a really brutal start for him in Cleveland. Again,
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 1: Juan Brito got nineteen games in right field at Triple
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 1: A last year. I've been to that stadium in Columbus.
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 1: It's a really short PORTU in right field. Maybe that's
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 1: a factor because he hasn't played any in twenty twenty five,
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 1: but you could see them maybe mix it up to
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 1: get Brito up that especially if Cleveland needs an extra
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 1: bad and they've also kind of given up the ghost
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 1: on Nolan Jones. I would be stashing Brito in fifteen
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 1: teamers honestly at this point, just to like see what happens,
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 1: you know, on a week to week basis, twelve teams
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 1: more of a watch list. All right, I'm with you. Now,
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 1: let's get into the steel Let's leave the al Central, yes,
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  Speaker 1: and have a little bit of This type of player
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  Speaker 1: is just always fascinating because we saw it a little
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  Speaker 1: bit last year in Victor Scott and this profile is similar,
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  Speaker 1: maybe a little less power, but like better contact ability.
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  Speaker 1: So we are of course talking about outfielder Chandler Simpson
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  Speaker 1: of the Tampa Bay Rays, who I mean, this dude
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  Speaker 1: stole one hundred and four minor league bases last year
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  Speaker 1: that like it was across Double A and Hi A.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I think maybe the one concern here is
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  Speaker 1: that he hasn't looked great in Triple A. Is first
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  Speaker 1: go around so far in twenty twenty five, it's a
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  Speaker 1: two ninety seven, three thirteen three twenty eight slash line
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  Speaker 1: that's only a seventy six WRC plus. But he doesn't
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  Speaker 1: strike out because he just slaps the ball and puts
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  Speaker 1: it in play and then runs. Has eight stolen bases
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  Speaker 1: already in fifteen games. This is a guy who I
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  Speaker 1: think it'll work in the majors because like the slapping
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  Speaker 1: of just the slap hitting and the ground ball ability
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  Speaker 1: will allow him to run it out. But I don't
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  Speaker 1: think you're gonna get maybe more than one or two
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  Speaker 1: homers a season, but you could be looking at eighty
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  Speaker 1: plus storm bases. You using a bench piece on Chandler
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  Speaker 1: Simpson to either make a late run at storm bases
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  Speaker 1: or uses a trade chip maybe in your leagues out there.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely rotal leagues. I think he is a very
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  Speaker 2: intriguing piece because you're right, it's trade chip or late run.
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  Speaker 2: Like he's a great insurance policy. He's like he's like
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  Speaker 2: one Pier but more more recent, like no power, lots
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  Speaker 2: of speed, hours should be decent, And I think he's
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  Speaker 2: the kind of guy that you're sitting there like he
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  Speaker 2: gets called up, and you know, I actually love from
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  Speaker 2: a fancy perspective looking like catcher capabilities and matchups and seeing, hey,
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  Speaker 2: this guy's going up against the catcher that barely throws
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  Speaker 2: any gutta gut or a pitcher that can't hold him
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  Speaker 2: body on, because like that's a guy like changer or
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  Speaker 2: simpthing can like rack up like three or four steals
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  Speaker 2: in a game and like make a big deal. And
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 2: to your point, one hundred and four steals last year
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  Speaker 2: in the minors, and he was caught seventeen times. Like
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  Speaker 2: the guy is blazing fast, and he probably had a
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  Speaker 2: down year from an efficiency perspective compared to what he's
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  Speaker 2: done in the past. So I think, you know, he's
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  Speaker 2: really intriguing. He's a one trick pony type of guy,
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  Speaker 2: but he's that one trick that you know, he could
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  Speaker 2: absolutely win a category for you. And I think that
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  Speaker 2: if you don't need that category, somebody needs it. Somebody
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  Speaker 2: will trade you something very valuable for it. If he
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  Speaker 2: gets called up and you know, and he makes that
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  Speaker 2: impact now there, I think his playing time is going
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  Speaker 2: to be a challenge. I think that's the The Rays
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  Speaker 2: have always been a team that kind of don't you know,
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  Speaker 2: they kind of coll around a rocky thing is not
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  Speaker 2: quite as bad where they don't just give a guy
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  Speaker 2: a chance to to run, and we've got camera. Meisner's
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  Speaker 2: been looking really good. Morel's been pretty uch turned decent.
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  Speaker 2: But you do have Jake mg Me and him out
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  Speaker 2: there that, let's be honest, not really holding holding folks back.
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  Speaker 2: But you're also gonna have hassion. Kim is gonna be
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  Speaker 2: coming back before too long and taking up a spot
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  Speaker 2: on the in the in field that might push somebody
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  Speaker 2: out to the outfield. So what we'll see when he
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  Speaker 2: gets called up, But they're not gonna hold him down
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  Speaker 2: much longer. And even if they call him up in
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  Speaker 2: a part time role, daily leagues are gonna get some value.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I think the one intriguing pathway for
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  Speaker 1: Simpson here is how Johnny and De Luca's shoulder recovers,
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  Speaker 1: because they are running Meisner out in center field right now,
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  Speaker 1: and it's not great. Meisner is not a center fielder,
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  Speaker 1: I don't think, and like the Rays are just kind
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  Speaker 1: of limping by with that so far. I mean, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: Meisner in just fifteen games is sorry, negative one point
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  Speaker 1: four run value on Fangrass because it's he's not a
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  Speaker 1: center fielder. He's a little bit too big, a little
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  Speaker 1: too clunky, and if de Luca is out for a
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  Speaker 1: longer term period with that shoulder, I think that's where
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  Speaker 1: they might turn to Simpson because not only does Simpson
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  Speaker 1: run really well, he plays really great defense too, and
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  Speaker 1: has a really good arm. Honestly, it is Victor Scott
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  Speaker 1: with just less power, I think, but better contact ability.
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  Speaker 1: So it's it's just going to be a fascinating profile
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  Speaker 1: in ret leagues because, especially if you're a little bit
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  Speaker 1: light on swom bases, it's great to tuck away somebody
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  Speaker 1: like this on your reserve roster because immediately when he
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  Speaker 1: comes up, then you can start plugging him in, trying
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  Speaker 1: to pop a few stolen bases every week and then
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  Speaker 1: clawing your way back.
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  Speaker 2: Quick pop Gouz for you. How many errors has he
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  Speaker 2: made in the minors?
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  Speaker 1: How many? Give me how many games he's played in
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  Speaker 1: the miners.
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  Speaker 2: If I haven't done the math, we're probably talking two
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  Speaker 2: hundred ish games that he's had in the field over
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  Speaker 2: I mean there's not much in twenty two, so two
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  Speaker 2: hundred and twenty five, two hundred and thirty games somewhere
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  Speaker 2: in there.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I can't tell if it's going to be
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  Speaker 1: low or it also could be high because like, because
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 1: he can get that, others can't, yes exactly and drop it.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna give him a dozen a dozen airs.
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  Speaker 2: Three, he's gonna be three errors. This guy can fly
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  Speaker 2: and he knows what he's doing with the glove.
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