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Ep. 133 : Investment Targets For 2026 · Cards & Categories

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  Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome everybody to episode one thirty three of
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  Speaker 1: Cards and Categories. I am my Cool Art, and I
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  Speaker 1: am joined this week by my very good friend and
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  Speaker 1: usual host co host Jeremy Brewer. I mean, I guess
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  Speaker 1: you were only out for those two weeks, but you've
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  Speaker 1: been returned. And then we took a week off last
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  Speaker 1: week as we were just enjoying some opening day baseball,
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  Speaker 1: So we're back to cover what happened on Opening Day?
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  Speaker 1: How was it for you? Opening?
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  Speaker 2: It was fun, it was it was it was a
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  Speaker 2: lot going on. It's it's one of those you know
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  Speaker 2: you get in the first few days of the season.
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  Speaker 2: It's like everything that you weren't sure about now it's
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  Speaker 2: guaranteed to happen er and guaranteed not right. Like it's
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  Speaker 2: that you know, Mike Crout's the Hall of Famer once again,
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  Speaker 2: and you know there's like Aaron Judge struck out for
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  Speaker 2: a few times and all of a sudden he was terrible.
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  Speaker 2: Then he had a ton of home runs.
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  Speaker 1: So like it's it's those early, early things.
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  Speaker 2: But it was just fun to see real baseball, see
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  Speaker 2: pitchers going deeper into games. It just it just feels different.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm I'm I'm happy to be back. I'm so
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  Speaker 2: excited to be back. I was jumping between games on
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  Speaker 2: MLB TV like like crazy, just watching every little thing,
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  Speaker 2: you know, a little ADHD style MLB watching.
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  Speaker 1: So it was good. Yeah, it was a blast. It's
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  Speaker 1: been a fun opening week here in MLB where I mean,
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  Speaker 1: there's been a lot of interesting games and a lot
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  Speaker 1: of interesting performances. I think the biggest one, though, is
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  Speaker 1: the the rookies. The rookies have showed up here, and
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  Speaker 1: I mean we're going to actually talk about the debut
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  Speaker 1: of another one that's about to happen tomorrow, and so
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  Speaker 1: before we even get into that, let me also talk
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  Speaker 1: about today's topic is covering investments that we're making in
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  Speaker 1: both the Baseball Card and Dynasty League realms. So I
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  Speaker 1: think that also kind of tease up to what we've
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  Speaker 1: seen from some of these prospects that have really showed
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  Speaker 1: up during the opening week, because you're looking at guys
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  Speaker 1: who could have that impact either later this year or
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  Speaker 1: early next year. We did this exercise last year and
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  Speaker 1: I would say we did all right. We had we
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  Speaker 1: had investments in like Leo Dallas, Debrees and Haesus made
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  Speaker 1: and Maximo Costa, who jumped up a little bit. But
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  Speaker 1: if you want to go back to that, it is
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  Speaker 1: episode eighty three when we did this last year. So
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  Speaker 1: this year we're gonna split it a little bit. You
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  Speaker 1: did hitters because that's your focus over at Rasball. I
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  Speaker 1: did pictures because I've been doing starting pitching over at
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  Speaker 1: Baseball Prospectus. And these rookies that we've got for twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty six. Though it has been quite the standout, has
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  Speaker 1: it not. I mean it's got to be also tough
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  Speaker 1: for you in terms of your ranking for your top
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  Speaker 1: one hundred for Fantasy, because I mean, what have you
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  Speaker 1: been doing with some of these guys, Like we had
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  Speaker 1: chased a lotter hit a bunch of home runs. We
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  Speaker 1: have JJ Weatherhill well looks like he's been in the
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  Speaker 1: big leagues for four or five years some of the
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  Speaker 1: last day's taken. We've also got Carter Jensen who showed
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  Speaker 1: up and hit a homer already, Kevin McGonagall on the
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  Speaker 1: opening day with four hits and just like leading that
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  Speaker 1: Tigers team into the charge, Carson Bench hit a homer
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  Speaker 1: opening day. When a Taka Murakami hit home runs on
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  Speaker 1: the first three days. Okamoto for the Blue Jays has
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  Speaker 1: also looked great so far. Then you've even got some
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  Speaker 1: of the like I would say the next run down
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  Speaker 1: where Justin Crawford has been a singles machine and hit
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  Speaker 1: a walk off just the other day. Owen Casey also
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  Speaker 1: hit a walk off homer and has been a mainstay
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  Speaker 1: in that Marlins lineup. And then I mean another guy
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  Speaker 1: who's kind of come out of nowhere is t J.
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  Speaker 1: Rumfelt for the Colorado Rockies, who won the first place
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  Speaker 1: job and should be holding it down all year. So
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  Speaker 1: that's all the bats, and we haven't even gotten to
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  Speaker 1: some of the pictures. This has been a great youth
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  Speaker 1: movement so far, hasn't it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's been really fun to watch because I mean,
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  Speaker 2: and even see some of the second year guys like
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  Speaker 2: I'm just looking at the leaderboard by war here, like
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  Speaker 2: Drake Baldwin's been like just crushing the ball. You see
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  Speaker 2: some of these guys that are just doing things. Sal Stewart,
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  Speaker 2: you didn't even mention he's been eligible. Yeah, he's still
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  Speaker 2: working that you're eligible, So we got to count in
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  Speaker 2: that in that group. So it's it's been really fun
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  Speaker 2: to watch these guys to your point, A number of
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  Speaker 2: them just feel like completely at home, which tells you
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  Speaker 2: they probably should have been up last year to a degree.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, I'm kind of treating a number of these
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  Speaker 2: guys like there's is certainly the watch guys right the
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  Speaker 2: rum fields of the world, things like that, they're the watch,
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  Speaker 2: the a kamotoves and murrak comedies. I already have them
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  Speaker 2: in the top one hundreds. It's just kind of where
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  Speaker 2: and you know, you're I mean, they're gonna be shuffling
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  Speaker 2: around like crazy Murk Commy's gonna jump up just because
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  Speaker 2: the power truly plays. There's still holes in that swing.
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  Speaker 2: It still gonna be problematic, but the power is gonna
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  Speaker 2: be there, no no questions asked. And then you've got
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  Speaker 2: that I want to call it that like the Big
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  Speaker 2: three or four. I don't know, you know how far
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  Speaker 2: I want to go there, But like the weather Holes
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  Speaker 2: mcgona goals, you know, the guy we'll talk about here
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  Speaker 2: in a few minutes, and you know those those guys,
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  Speaker 2: uh Chase the latter it would be the other one.
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  Speaker 2: It's really hard for me to keep them out of
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  Speaker 2: the top one or one hundred already at this point
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  Speaker 2: because you know, going in, weather Holt was a guy
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  Speaker 2: who said he's probably twenty twenty. He's probably a twenty
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  Speaker 2: twenty guy if he just does his thing and he
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  Speaker 2: looks more comfortable, and so you could argue, you know
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  Speaker 2: that the power might be a little a little slower,
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  Speaker 2: but like it just feels like he's gonna hit two
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  Speaker 2: eighty and twenty five bombs and twenty five steals or
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  Speaker 2: something like that. But the Gota goal, Like he just
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  Speaker 2: looks so good at the plate. I think the guy's
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  Speaker 2: going to hit three hundred easily.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 2: The Lotter he's probably the one that's gonna be a
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  Speaker 2: little slower on just because the guys have never been
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  Speaker 2: healthy in his career and he's always hit like he
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  Speaker 2: might have a better hit tool than almost all these
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  Speaker 2: other guys from a pure power perspective and actually even
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  Speaker 2: just overall bat control. But he's probably gonna be hurt
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  Speaker 2: by May. So I think he's gonna be more on
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  Speaker 2: that watch list type of thing. But yeah, I to me,
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  Speaker 2: you got to be aggressive with these guys early. You
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  Speaker 2: got to be throw them up in the rankings because
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  Speaker 2: you know, if there was a buying time, it's probably
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  Speaker 2: already gone, and if you didn't invest in them early.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I'll tell you I had a draft right
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  Speaker 2: before the season started and I somebody jumped and got
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  Speaker 2: Connor Griffin and like the seventh or eighth round or
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  Speaker 2: something like that, they were being aggressive. And then it's
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  Speaker 2: a keeper league that keepers start in like the thirteenth
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  Speaker 2: round like that or more or less like that's the
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  Speaker 2: latest you can keep a guy. So you just kind
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  Speaker 2: of stack your thirteenth fourteenth round with like weird players
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  Speaker 2: like Garrett Cole it was injured, and think like, you
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  Speaker 2: know for next year, Well, I just I shot McGonagall
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  Speaker 2: immediately in that and that was like two days later.
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  Speaker 2: It was like, yep, all right, this is a no brainer.
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  Speaker 2: He's called up and going. So again, if the buying
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  Speaker 2: time is gone for these guys, but you have to
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  Speaker 2: like they're not baked into your lineup, and if you
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  Speaker 2: took the gamble on them, a lot of them look
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  Speaker 2: like they're paying off. And I don't see I'm not
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  Speaker 2: really seeing holes in there, Runfield. I'm not too too
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  Speaker 2: high on these. Don't look at the babe upon that one.
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  Speaker 2: But I do think that this is gonna be a special,
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  Speaker 2: special rookie crop.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and I mean it's gonna be quite the race
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  Speaker 1: for both of the Rookie of the Year awards, I think,
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  Speaker 1: and it's just gonna be, I think, a fun year
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  Speaker 1: because I think also for all those names, I mean
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  Speaker 1: it's really risky to go out and sell them because
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  Speaker 1: you don't know exactly how this is gonna go for
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  Speaker 1: an entire season. That they've been so good at the gate,
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  Speaker 1: and especially like I'm looking at like the latter when
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  Speaker 1: you see mem in the box too, he just is
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  Speaker 1: ready to go. It's just a huge frame. And you're
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  Speaker 1: looking that talent up and down the board from all
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  Speaker 1: these rookies that all of them you can see keeping
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  Speaker 1: it going. And you know not all of them will,
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  Speaker 1: but honestly, they've looked so sharp and like they've looked
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  Speaker 1: like they've belonged that I have faith in pretty much
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  Speaker 1: all of the ones that we've discussed here so far.
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  Speaker 1: That even with Rumfield, I mean, that's a first base
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  Speaker 1: job in Colorado. You can't beat such.
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  Speaker 2: I'll never talk to you out of Colorado, I know that.
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  Speaker 1: I mean the fact that you can use them in
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  Speaker 1: Colorado is still huge. And I mean, if you get
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  Speaker 1: a CI out of him for free. That's fantastic. But
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  Speaker 1: all these dudes, I think we're also talking about huge
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  Speaker 1: steep draft prices and all these guys across the board
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  Speaker 1: going into twenty twenty seven. So if you're in a
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  Speaker 1: dynasty keeper situation and you're sitting on any of these
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  Speaker 1: players and have been waiting for them to get to
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  Speaker 1: the majors, what a boon for you. And so hopefully,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, it's gonna be a fun season seeing
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  Speaker 1: where it all goes. And like you said, we've got
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  Speaker 1: more that are coming up. It's a great youth movement.
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  Speaker 1: I think this is going to be. This is also
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  Speaker 1: a reason why I don't think that there's going to
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  Speaker 1: be much loss of games, if any. I don't think
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  Speaker 1: we're missing any regular season games of twenty seven and
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  Speaker 1: barely any spring training if that even happens, because baseball
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  Speaker 1: is in a really good spot to jump off in
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  Speaker 1: terms of popularity, especially when you've got this young crop
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  Speaker 1: of players that honestly I think I've lamented like the
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  Speaker 1: loss of some of the minor league like teams that
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  Speaker 1: have happened, and some of what happened with the right sizing,
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  Speaker 1: But I think it's also created this situation where players
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  Speaker 1: come up faster because of that as well as like
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  Speaker 1: the lower level instructions is all happening in like the
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  Speaker 1: Arizona Fall League or in the Dominican leagues and stuff
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  Speaker 1: like that, and just like the backfield leagues that you're
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  Speaker 1: getting players that are getting better instruction early in their
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  Speaker 1: career without having to worry about what air mattress they're
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  Speaker 1: going to sleep on and riding these bumpy buses throughout
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  Speaker 1: the Midwest. That it's really paying off. And so it
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  Speaker 1: does suck that we lost a lot of those MIA
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  Speaker 1: League teams, but I think it's creating a lot of
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  Speaker 1: this youth movement and just improved skills across the board.
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  Speaker 1: That's the other thing is that all these players we discussed,
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  Speaker 1: you look at the underlying like metrics and the underlying
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  Speaker 1: savant pages, they're pretty good players. They're not flukes. So
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  Speaker 1: it's been really fun watching them all. The other big
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  Speaker 1: thing that's happened in Opening week is the ABS Challenge System.
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  Speaker 1: Sorry CB Buckner, so he was the biggest victim of
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  Speaker 1: this with the Cincinnati Rads getting shown up by au
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  Speaker 1: Heeneo Suarez a little bit when he tried to punch
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  Speaker 1: out Swarz a couple of times, and Suarez had that reviewed.
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  Speaker 1: On top of like, it's been quite the week for
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  Speaker 1: CB Buckner miss to call in Milwaukee about a player
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  Speaker 1: stepping on for space, and then just yesterday, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: hopefully he's okay. We don't want to see him hurt,
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  Speaker 1: but he did take a foul tip like right to
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  Speaker 1: the face on his mask, and so hopefully he's okay.
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  Speaker 1: But it has been quite the ultuous week for CMB Buckner.
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  Speaker 1: And then the AB's challenge system has just been something
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  Speaker 1: we're all getting used to in terms of not only
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  Speaker 1: has it appeared in all the scoreboard graphics or most
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  Speaker 1: I would say, you got to kind of figure that
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  Speaker 1: out in the realm of all of baseball, but you're
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  Speaker 1: seeing in real time as these teams figure out the
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  Speaker 1: strategy behind how you use these challenges. And also like
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  Speaker 1: it's been funny to see some of the players where
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  Speaker 1: they're in the box and they're batting and you can
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  Speaker 1: just tell like the call was wrong, but they can't
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  Speaker 1: go and challenge because they know that they didn't see it,
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  Speaker 1: and so it just proves like how hard baseball is
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  Speaker 1: even when you're right there, two feet away from that
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  Speaker 1: pitch coming in. It's tough to figure it out. And
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  Speaker 1: if anything, actually the ABS system has like made me
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  Speaker 1: appreciate the umps more because there's a lot of pitches
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  Speaker 1: right on the boardom line when all you have to
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  Speaker 1: do is like nick the zone with just a sliver,
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  Speaker 1: as we've seen in the ball that the almost are
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  Speaker 1: still getting right. And it's been impressive. So what if
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  Speaker 1: you've been some of your thoughts is you've watched ABS
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  Speaker 1: in action.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, honestly, I really didn't think I was
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  Speaker 2: gonna like it, but it's been so efficient I think
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  Speaker 2: is the big thing like it They've got it down
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  Speaker 2: to kind of a science, like it is fast, easy,
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  Speaker 2: very transparent, So I love that. I think the biggest
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  Speaker 2: kick out I've had it so far has been really
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  Speaker 2: Derek Shelton's ejection on this one where he was arguing
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  Speaker 2: in the Twins Oriels game that Ryan Helsley didn't go
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  Speaker 2: to his hat quick enough to make the request and
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  Speaker 2: and got a strikeout in a key situation, And he
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  Speaker 2: watched the replay and Elsley clearly went to his hat
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  Speaker 2: like immediately and the umpires didn't see it. So he
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  Speaker 2: reinforced it just to make sure and Shelton just lost
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  Speaker 2: his you know, his mind on it and he was
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  Speaker 2: completely wrong. So that was you know again, it's just
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  Speaker 2: funny to see like, how could you how can you
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  Speaker 2: get objected get ejected arguing ball and strikes with an
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  Speaker 2: automated ball and strike system. Derek Shelton figured it out.
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  Speaker 1: Figured it out. So it's it's been good. I actually
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  Speaker 1: do like it.
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  Speaker 2: I liked a little bit of strategy nuance that it
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  Speaker 2: brings in and it does whole it does. It shows
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  Speaker 2: you the good umpires from the maybe not so so
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  Speaker 2: good ones. So it'll I think there's a little strategy
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  Speaker 2: even you know, who's your who's your best ball strike
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  Speaker 2: catching catcher? And you know when Angel Hernandez I get
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  Speaker 2: isn't necessarily umpire, but when Angel Hernanda's be on the plate,
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  Speaker 2: you better be ready, right, You got to have the
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  Speaker 2: guy that knows what he's doing back there.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Angel got out before this.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah Angel was still was still around this. This would
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  Speaker 2: have been the end of them exactly. Looks like a
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  Speaker 2: saint next Angel.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Well it's it's yeah. Cebe has been like he's
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  Speaker 1: been quite the interesting umpire over the years, and so
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  Speaker 1: it is. If anything, it's it's kind of nice that
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  Speaker 1: players have some recourse because you would see ump shows
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  Speaker 1: from c. B. Buckner every once in a while when
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  Speaker 1: he would just like create the zone that he wanted
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  Speaker 1: to be able to implicate players and throw them under
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  Speaker 1: the bus as he wanted. So now that he's reeled
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  Speaker 1: in by the ABS system, it's gonna be I think,
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  Speaker 1: a long season for CB unless he can start calling
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  Speaker 1: what the zone is. And that's the other funny thing
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  Speaker 1: is I think he knows what it is, but it's
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  Speaker 1: like overcoming that hurdle of like what he's been used
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  Speaker 1: to of being in the power seat.
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  Speaker 2: The other thing I thought was really fun and I
• 14:31
  Speaker 2: don't know how much the articles and reading you do,
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  Speaker 2: one this is how MLB players shrank all of a sudden. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: because there was requirements to actually get heights of players,
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  Speaker 2: because everybody's zone is actually customized to their height appropriately.
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  Speaker 2: And there's a number of guys that just lost two
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  Speaker 2: or even three inches on their hype profiles because it
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  Speaker 2: wasn't no longer could you like emboss. I think Gavin
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  Speaker 2: lux is like he was like, no, Gvin, You're not
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  Speaker 2: actually six to two, Like, dude, you're five to eleven
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  Speaker 2: the best. So it was kind of fun to see
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  Speaker 2: just some of the nuances of all the Hike corrections
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  Speaker 2: going once the league there can't can't over sell them anymore.
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  Speaker 1: No you cannot. Okay, Well, let's get into the rest
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  Speaker 1: of the news and notes, and so let's get into
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  Speaker 1: the biggest one right off the bat. We've hinted at it.
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  Speaker 1: Connor Griffin is set to be promoted for the Pittsburgh
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  Speaker 1: Pirates for their opening day in Pittsburgh at P and
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  Speaker 1: C Park on Friday. We're recording here on April second,
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  Speaker 1: So kind of keep that in mind as you're listening
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  Speaker 1: to everything, because the other component here is that the
• 15:35
  Speaker 1: Pirates and Griffin are in negotiation for some story of extension,
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  Speaker 1: so we'll have a couple of those I also talk about.
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  Speaker 1: But as we're speaking right now, the Griffin extension has
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  Speaker 1: not been completed. But I actually, yeah, I think it
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  Speaker 1: will be, and it was obviously a part of the
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: call up, but honestly, I think that they didn't want
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  Speaker 1: to call him up and have him debut on the
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  Speaker 1: road too, that the Pirates really wanted to make this
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  Speaker 1: a special thing for the fans, and they know that
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  Speaker 1: this is kind of the piece, along with Paul's Skeens
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  Speaker 1: that could push the Pirates into a contention window while
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  Speaker 1: Skens is still under the arbitration contracts. You know, there's
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  Speaker 1: no way that Skiens is signing a long term deal
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  Speaker 1: with the Pirates, but if maybe they could also convince
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  Speaker 1: them to stay a couple extra years that they can
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  Speaker 1: lock up Griffin and kind of show there is a
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  Speaker 1: good will effort to build around the two of them,
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  Speaker 1: Connor Griffin. I wrote about this for BP and their
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  Speaker 1: call up article, so they'll be linked in the show
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  Speaker 1: notes here. He tore up Triple A for five games
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  Speaker 1: that he was down. There is a four thirty eight, five, one, six,
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: twenty five slash line in twenty one played appearances, three doubles,
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: three stolen bases. I also wrote in the piece that
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: like the sky's kind of the limit here, Like you
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: do want to be smart and make sure that you're
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: kind of tapering your expectations here, but I mean it's
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: really hard to not wherever you've got Connor Griffin, just
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: slot them right into the lineup and let him go,
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: because like I think the Homers is probably going to
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: be somewhere between fifteen and twenty five steals, probably somewhere
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: between twenty five and forty two fifty to two seventy
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: batting average. But like we might be selling this dude short.
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: He tore through the miners last year. He has an
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: absolute like Greek god specimen with the neck of a
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: redwood tree. He is a special, special talent. So what
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: do you think about Connor Griffin? Is he going to
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: be in your top one hundred hitters the rest of
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: the year.
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah, He's gonna be in the top one hundred hitters
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: the rest of the year, no doubt about it. Because if
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: you think about the speed that he has the ability
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: to put up an average. Let's just say if Chandler
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: Simpson could hit twenty five homers a season, that's this
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: is what we're looking for in Connor Griffin. A guy
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: that can hit for power plus has all those entangels
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: for back control and speed. That's that's a special, special player.
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: So he's absolutely gonna be the top one hundred. I
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: have not slotted him yet, so don't be asking where
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: he's going to actually gonna be, but he will be
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: in there. I think the only thing that holds you back,
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: Like if you look at his profile, yeah, he's like, man,
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: I wish he could maybe walk a little.
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: Bit more or something like that.
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: Like I think the kids, you know, twenty years old
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: and there's really actually nineteen years old. He's almost twenty
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: years old a few weeks here, But the fact that
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: he's doing this at nineteen, that's the only thing you
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: can hold against him.
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: He and be like, man, there's no way he can
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: be that young and do that. But it's you know,
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: it can't. He absolutely can.
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: And so I'm with you. I think it's probably a
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: fifteen to twenty homer bat. I think we're probably talking.
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: Maybe fifty steals. He's not been the most efficient base
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: stealer in the miners, He's been pretty pretty efficient.
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: So but I also think that the Bucks are going
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: to be hold him back a little bit there because
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: they want to keep him healthy. So fifty or fifteen fifteen, okay, fifteen, it's.
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: Like just holding them back to fifty. Ye, he's he
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: stole sixty one, So.
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: I said fifty sole he said fifty. I said fifty.
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: That's what I thought. Okay, yeah, So I mean you're
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: even higher on the steels than I am.
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I I honestly think he's got that that capability.
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: I mean, if you look at his minor league track record,
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: you have two seasons or two stints there, and last
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: year single A and double A, like you know, he
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: he was on pace to basically steal like ninety bases.
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah at those, Yeah, it slowed down a little bit
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: when he gets to double A and he got caught
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: a few times triple A, but he's never an other
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: thing left to prove. They're not letting the guy run
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: because he doesn't want to. You don't want him to
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: get hurt. But still he was just taken off. So
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: I think that there's a chance that he gets to
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: fifty steals with her with a full season.
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: Okay, well then yeah, then I mean you're even higher
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: on that aspect. Maybe I'm sounds like I'm a tick
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: higher on the power Yeah, but yeah, I mean this
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: is a special, special dude. I think you're looking at
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: like Elie de la Cruz like player.
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: And without the thirty five percent strikeout risk.
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I guess it's there, but like, but
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: it's just not profile. Yeah, it's not. No, And if
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: that happens, the Pirates will send him back to Triple
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: A to figure it out, because that's not who kind
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: of Griffin is is he? I think he will settle
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: into like a mid twenties strikeout rate in the big leagues,
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: but like he's so young, it could lower. Like this
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: is a guy. I mean, you're looking at Mike Trout
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: at shortstop, is what it is, honestly, right? Yeah, yeah,
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: I think.
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: It's like more speed, little less little less uh power
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: than Mike Trout. But we're talking like it's it's definitely
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: within that that realm. You know, Am I ever going
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: to put a player and say this is Mike Trout
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: hitting the majors? No, But like the the skill profile,
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: the you know, body type, athleticism, all that feels like
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: that type of player. You just know you're not gonna
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: commit somebody like that. But you look across the other
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: guys that have been called up, like Griffin looks like
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: makes them look like little boys, right weather holds McGonagall,
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: Like Griffin just seems to tower above them from a
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: physical perspective and also from a complete player perspective, which
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: is saying something for the nineteen year olds.
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and I mean, good luck trying to acquire him
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: in any sort of fantasy league or acquire his cards.
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: I will say that this was one of our bigger
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: wins from when Bowman Draft came out in twenty twenty four,
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: that like, his prices were already pretty high, but I
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: you did too, But we both agreed, like I would
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: invest in Connor Griffin even at these prices because it
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: was such a special sort of player, and if you did,
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: I mean, it was still a huge return based on
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: what's gonna happen with these call up prices. So gonna
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: be a big fanfare in Pittsburgh for at this weekend.
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: The other major extension that we had signed this week
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: was by Colt Emerson from the Seattle Mariners. So he's
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: still in Triple A. There hasn't been any sort of
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: mentioning of him getting called up here pretty soon, but
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: I mean, Emerson's also right on the precipice a shortstop
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: for those Mariners, currently ranked number eleven on Fangraft's Top
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: one hundred prospects. And this is guy who last year
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: across three levels as well, blew through High A, Double A,
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: and Triple A, put up a two eighty five three
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: eighty three four fifty eight slash line, so one twenty
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: nine WC plus. Certainly he's a better defender than Griffin,
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: but it's a little bit more of like a traditional
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: like fifteen fifteen, twenty twenty type of bat here. I
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: think alv Emerson as well as like it might be
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: pushing this deals a little bit when you look at
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: the stats. He's never necessarily been a burner, but he's
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: more of like a smart, stolem based guy, and I
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: think he might be a little bit more muted in
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: that category in the majors, But you're still looking at
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: a guy who's a solid shortstop in my option when
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: he comes up, and honestly might be up soon, depending
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: on how the Mariners feel about JP Crawford coming back
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: off the injured list and where they're kind of sitting
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: in the standings as they're limping by with Leo Revis
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: Right now, Emerson is off to a solid start at
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: Triple A as a twenty year old a two seventy eight
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: three sixteen five hundred slash line through twenty plate appearances.
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: So what do you think about Emerson for the rest
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: of twenty twenty six, Because he's coming up at some point.
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: It's just a matter of when not if.
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think let's not misinterpret the extension as him
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: getting called up, because if the way the prospect incentive
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: works in the majors these days is if you get
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: an extension before you're called up, you're not eligible for
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: to earn your team those draft picks. That's why Griffin's
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: extension that's probably already happened, hasn't been announced until the
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: debuts because once if you debut and then suddn extension,
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: you are still to uh net your team draft picks.
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: And so I think that is a signal from Seattle
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: that he's likely going to spend a month or two
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: in in Triple A trying to work things out.
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: Look, look who he is.
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: But when he gets called up, he's absolutely a plug
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: in am I for sure? If not h you know,
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: actually at you know, in your starting lineup. I treat
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: him as like a I'll call it an eighty five
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: percent JJ Weatherholt. A little more power, little less speed,
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: but similar type of profile. He's a little heavier on
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: the strikeouts to a degree, but you know not uh
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: you know, insurmountable. So he'll have a little bit of
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: a lower average than a weather Hoole type wood. But again,
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: this is gonna be a solid profile. And it seems
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: like the current current profile of all these middle and
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: field type guys getting called up is just you know,
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: power speed, decent average back control, and Emerson just fits
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: right in there.
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: You know.
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: He's probably just not quite at the precipice of some
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: of these other guys. He's maybe a step slightly step
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: down for me. But I mean again, uh, if we're
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: giving out grades and mcgonaga goal and whether he'll get
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: a minus Griffin gets an A plus, we're talking B
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: for Emerson. He's not that far off those guys.
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I totally agree. Uh. Then we have a
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: third shortstop that signed an extension here that this one's
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: probably a little bit lesser known. Name is Cooper Pratt
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: from the Milwaukee Brewers, signing an eight year, fifty one
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: ish million dollar contract, and he's currently in Triple A
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: as a twenty year old. He will turn or twenty
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: one year old. My bad. He turns twenty two in August.
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: And he was at Triple A or Double A all
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: last year. It was a bit of a muted line.
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: Two thirty eight three forty three three forty eight slash line,
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: so one oh seven WRC plus but eight homers and
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: thirty one stone bases in one hundred and twenty games.
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: This dude is built like Connor Griffin, I know, not
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: quite as much mass, but he is six four two
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: ten as his listed size on Fangrass Right now, certainly
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: it sounds like the Brewers are really high on the defense,
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: where some of the evaluators have been a little unsure
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: about whether or not Pratt can stick at short step,
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: which I think is driving some of maybe the discrepancy
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: here between what we see on the public side and
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: what you might have expected for the Brewers and why
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: they handed out this contract. Jared Steidler at BP today
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: actually had a great piece about this, and he actually
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: kind of dove into like the comp actually being Bryce Terrang.
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: That like, if Bryce Terrang had been given this contract
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: when he was in Triple A, I think everybody else
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: would have scoffed at that. But if you give Bryce
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: Terrang an extension right now, I think everybody'd be like, oh, yeah,
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: that makes sense. He's a slick glove. He's an all
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: star second baseman, and so you got to almost kind
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: of give some credit to the Brewers because they know
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: what they're doing and they've been doing this over and over.
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: The other component here too, just like Emerson, Pratt is
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: not getting promoted. But third base is an absolute mess
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: for the Milwaukee Brewers right now. They have David Hamilton
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: playing there right now, and given Pratt's ability to play
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: shortstop really well, it would be pretty easy to slide
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: them over and make him a plus third basement. So
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: I would I wouldn't have put Pratt on like my
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: board as a guy who had hit the matrix this year.
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: But now they signed this extension. I think there's a
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: decent chance he comes up in a couple months if
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: he can show that he can hold his own at
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: the plate at triple A. So what do you think
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: about Cooper Pratt here and the Milwaukee Brewers.
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it is I want to call it
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: a curious extension. It maybe a little eyebrowsing eyebrow right
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: rising extension here, But you know, it comes down to
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: the team being smart because at the end of the day,
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: eight year, fifty million dollars extension is really not that expensive.
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: You're you're locking in cost certainty for a guy that
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: if you do feel like he's going to be a
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: starter for you, you just don't have to worry about
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: that position for a long time. And you've then locked
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: in a few really reasonable team options on the back.
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: I think they're fifteen million each. That they've just got
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: a lot and if you miss, I mean, yeahbe guy
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: that plays on the bench something like that. Because again
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: this has happened before. We've seen like the John Singleton's
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: and Scott Kingery is the world that played this game
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: and it didn't work out, But those were not you know,
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: franchise crushing contracts, and for smart teams like the Brewers
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: that need to make their team their money go along ways,
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: this makes a lot of sense because he gets up
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: and he's doing, to your point, Bryce training type things,
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: you're not going to get this price. You're not gonna
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: get this price. But for me, he's kind of a
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: watch guy that the speeds what really intrigues me. He's
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: very efficient base stealer, and so I'm thinking, if you
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: can get double digit power and you know, twenty to
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: thirty steel juice out of this guy, definitely a good
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: m I type profile that we can all enjoy, so definitely,
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: if he gets the call, I think he's worth adding.
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: But I don't think he's a guy that I put
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: anywhere near the range of the Emerson's and the weather
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: Holds Mcgonagall's, the guys we've been talking about. If I'm going,
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: I'm saying on my grading scale here, it's Cooper Pratt's
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: probably like a C minus as far as relatives to
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: those guys. A lot more of a long term project
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: that will be valuable, but probably not this year for me.
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah. And I think a big portion of it too,
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: is Pratt does not impact the ball as hard as
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: Emerson and Griffin, but he has the levers to do
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: so and has the contact skills to be able to
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: maybe trade some of the contact for power. This is
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: why it's gonna be great to watch his prospects savant
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: page throughout the next couple months. If you see any
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: development of power out of Cooper Pratt, I would say,
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: look out, because it's it's a profile that could jump
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: pretty quickly to be able to He's not gonna, I
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: think reach the Condor Griffin, Coult Emerson level, but like
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: if he turns into a guy who's more of like
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: a fifteen homer, thirty stolen base bat's that's going to
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: play in the contact skills, like I said, are solid.
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: So honestly that's Bryce Rang Yeah. Okay, well it's not
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: all roses here in Baseball News. As you know, we
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: got through all the fun stuff there and let's get
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: into some of the injuries I've cropped up in the
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: first week. And we're saying right in Milwaukee because Jackson
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: Curio has hit the IL with a fractured left hand,
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: and this is something that came out just before opening Day,
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: like people had to really scramble probably to get him
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: on injured slots if you had him in your leagues.
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: Sounds like the injury actually dates back to an exhibition
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: game from before the WBC when Churio won the WBC
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: with Venezuela, and it was not a great showing for
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: him in Venezula. For playing for Venezuela in that WBC,
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: he only slashed two hundred two seventy eight two hundred
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: in his fifteen at bats. On top of it, he
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: was always hitting in the nine hole, and I thought
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: that was curious when I was watching Venezuela playing the WBC.
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: But I think with hindsight, maybe we now know why,
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: because especially with the left hand break, he was still
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: able to play center field and you know, be able
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: to throw the ball in and play defense appropriately. But
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: I think they there was known issues with that hand
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: in Venezuela was protecting him down in that nine hole
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: as well as like there was just probably no way
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: that Jackson Tario was gonna tell anybody about that hand injury,
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: like outright in the media before going to the WBC,
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: because he wanted to play. And I'm good to a
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: stim because it paid off with the victory there for Venezuela.
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: But now we got to turn our sights to Jackson
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: Tario in twenty twenty six for the fantasy game, what
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: do you do with him? Because I mean, this is
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: a guy who in lots of leagues was probably going
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: in the second ish round, probably more of like a
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: third round pick, but people were dreaming on the upside
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: for Cheerio as he is only twenty two and just
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: turned twenty two about a month ago, just a couple
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: weeks who actually three March eleventh. So a guy who
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: was a piece, a big piece. If you draft him
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: for your fantasy team, what do you do in Cherio
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: the rest of the season.
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it's is, this is, this is frustrating.
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: So the noise, the news wasn't out there, and you
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: probably drafted him and he was already hurt, and I
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: mean you can compare it to a lot of other
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: hand type injuries that we've we've talked about. We may
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: talk about here and again a second, but it worries
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: me for a guy like him in Serio, you were
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: drafting him with expectation of another step uh in in
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: the power department, and I don't think you're gonna get
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: it this year because that the hand, the impact of
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: a hand injury when you're making if you don't make
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: solid contact and you'll square it up with that, that's
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: gonna that's gonna be a challenge. And so I think
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: it does actually give me a little down aero on
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: Cheerio this year. So if somebody's willing to pay full price,
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: I'm I'm a little concerned, I said people, if they're
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: saying two four weeks, I'm on the far inside of
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: that because for team that should be in contention with
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: the Brewers, they can't risk him coming back too soon
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: and then having performance issues. They need him to be
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: fully healthy, so I'm probably on the further end of
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: that for to six weeks type of thing, and we're
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: talking may easily before Ture's back. There's just my uneducated
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: two cents.
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: On this one. I mean, it is going to help
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: that like happen fast, but the Brewers are already starting
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: to show the daylight between them and the Cubs. The
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: Cubs have kind of I mean, they're three and three now,
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: but they didn't look great in either of those series
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: against the Gnats or the Angels, so it's gonna be
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: That's the other factor here, too, is that if the
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: Brewers can put even more cushion between them and the
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: rest of the division, the longer that goes on, the
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: longer they can let Cherio heal up and get right
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: for the twenty twenty six season, because the Brewers again
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: have sights on October baseball as opposed to trying to
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: do stuff during the regular season. We're sticking to Milwaukee
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: for this next injury. You alluded it to it another
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: hand injury. This one is back to that handmaid's bone
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: that everybody has been breaking throughout the past couple months.
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: This one is afflicting first basement Andrew Vaughn, which rip
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: to my sleeper pick in our rasball picks. It's a
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: bummer to see it go down in an injury case.
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: And then also on top of it, we've discussed it
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: several times with the other handmaid injuries. This is something
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: that's going to linger for Vaughn the rest of the season,
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: even beyond the four to six weeks that he's going
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: to be on the shelf. That it's been shown time
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: and time and time again that these handmaid injuries take
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: more like a year to get fully back up to
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: speed in terms of the strength that you get in
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: your hand to hit for baseball power. So with that said, though,
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: I mean, we saw a lot of great changes from
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: Vaughn last year and the second half of the Brewers
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: still someone that you would be willing to stash away
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: for like a CI spot or is he just totally
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: done for you with this hamdmaid injury.
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's the staf away, but not at
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: the risk of anything else. So if I got an
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: empty iel spot, he's absolutely sitting there. Because the other
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: thing is we just don't know how real the adjustments
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: were last year. They looked real, but we all have
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: seen players make a short term adjustment, get hot, do
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: some things, and then revert back. His overall body of
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: work is not unpleasant. It was looking good last year,
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: and this injury, I think is you need that to stick,
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: plus him to get healthy fast, and I don't. The
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: odds of those things both working out ideally are not high,
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: and so I think you know your best case scenario
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: with volume here is second half healthy, takes some time,
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: get the rust off, and then we're talking like August
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: September time, is the Andrew Vaughan we saw last August
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: September still there, and then we're having the same conversation
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: next year that we had this spring.
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: That's where I see it. So, like I said, there's
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: an empty spot.
• 35:58
  Speaker 2: In your il, Sure stash him, but as soon as
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: you get that crunch, I'm not too worried about casting
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: him off, especially at you know, first base corner and
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: field type of situation.
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: Yep, I think you absolutely nailed it. So it's something
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: to look forward to. Is maybe another second half from Vaughn,
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: But until then I wouldn't worry about him. So somebody
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: who you can keep around if if you've got the spot,
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: but otherwise make sure that you're using it correctly to
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: maximize your roster positions. Now, because we're only getting started
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: on the injuries, there's still gonna be more coming. Because
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: this next one is also a big blow because he's
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: looked he had looked so good during the spring, and
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: he looked good during the start. I'm talking about Cody
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: Ponce from the Toronto Blue Jays, who this Toronto Blue
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: Jays staff is in trouble as well. I covered that
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: when I did the al starting pitching like watch list
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: for BP this past week, and they've got an entire
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: rotation now on the injured list between Bieber, Barrios, Pontes,
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: Ya Savage, and Francis Good. Thing is it sounds like
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: you Savage should be back here pretty soon. But Cody Pons,
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: in his first outing back returning to MLB, goes down
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: after two and a third innings, spraining his ACL while
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: trying to run over to first base to make a
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: defensive play. I'm bummed because I was getting into the
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: Cody Pones' experience and he, like I said, he looked
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: great in the spring. He was looking great in that outing,
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: and he also like he's huge. He's big guy. He
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: is Yeah, he is just an absolute force on the mound.
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: That like, I was expecting big things for Pones. I
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: know our boy Marmo's dad, Matt Frank, was also in
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: on that. I think he was gonna be a great
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: value for where you picked him, and it sucks to
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: see him go down with an injury that resulted from
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: fielding a ball. Now. The other thing here, too is
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: I'm also worried about this knee injury. We're gonna like
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: get into a little bit of like just like far
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: a territory with Michael Kopak here, but it reminds me
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: of like what he went through when he had a
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: knee injury and like tried to work his way back
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: that like it's not something that goes super well for
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: a picture, and if you rush your way back, it
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: could turn arthritick really fast and kind of eat you up.
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: So I'm hoping that the Blue Jays can find a
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: way forward because they have a very competitive team and
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: Punts was a big part of that. But they're not
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: even sure how long he's gonna be out for at
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: this point. They're saying it's gonna be significant, like you're
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: looking at months, maybe even missing the entire season. So
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: what's your read here in the Cody Punks situation.
• 38:36
  Speaker 2: I mean, you pretty much hit it. It's it's really unfortunate.
• 38:40
  Speaker 2: He was gonna be intriguing to watch. It was a
• 38:42
  Speaker 2: great storyline and he will be out for a while
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: and we have literally no idea when he's gonna be back.
• 38:49
  Speaker 2: And you're talking about a knee injury. I don't care
• 38:54
  Speaker 2: if you're pitching left to righty or whatnot. You need
• 38:56
  Speaker 2: both of them and whether you're pushing off your land
• 38:59
  Speaker 2: and it's just ideal.
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: And so for him, it's it's.
• 39:03
  Speaker 2: Gonna, you know, take some time to to see. Can't
• 39:07
  Speaker 2: you know what's that right knee gonna need to do?
• 39:10
  Speaker 2: Because for him being ready, you're pushing off that that
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: that's your power and so that translates to velocity to
• 39:16
  Speaker 2: the torque that you're providing.
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: So you know again you know he he he looked good.
• 39:22
  Speaker 2: But I think that by the time that we get
• 39:26
  Speaker 2: there with the Blue Jays and he's we're talking the
• 39:28
  Speaker 2: second half, that he might be looking to return. It's
• 39:31
  Speaker 2: gonna be a question of it doesn't make sense. Do
• 39:35
  Speaker 2: you do you slow play him, does he go to
• 39:37
  Speaker 2: the bullpen for a while. I mean, we're going to
• 39:40
  Speaker 2: get a full run at Eric Lauer, who's looked great.
• 39:43
  Speaker 2: But that's probably the only silver lighting here. It's it's
• 39:46
  Speaker 2: really really unfortunate, uh, that they're gonna have to rely
• 39:49
  Speaker 2: on Max Scherzer as much as they will this season.
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean Church looks solid, so it might work out.
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: But yeah, they're they're entire straight because they also they
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: would have had cal Steven if they hadn't traded him
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: for Bieber last year, and Tietaman is way off and
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: so there's not much depth in that Toronto system. You
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: think that they're probably you would think they would have
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: to make some sort of trade or other move here
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: pretty soon, because it's gonna get pretty desperate pretty quickly,
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: especially if they run into any other little niggling injuries
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: or something like that here over the next couple of weeks. Okay, well,
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: next injury you have is actually I mean, we're not
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: focused on the injury. We're focused on the flip side
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: of what happened with the injury. We touched on Carson
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: Bene coming up a little bit when we were doing
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: the rookie intro, and that was only honestly possible because
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: Mike Talkman went down with a moniscus tear right at
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: the last minute, right before opening day, and otherwise I
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: think Bene probably would have opened up at Triple A
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: or found himself maybe like in a platoon roll or
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: something as Talkman. I think they wanted to be able
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: to ease Carson Benge into the twenty twenty sixth season
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: in New York, and Takomen was going to help him
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: do that. But now Benje has got a full starting
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: job and right field for the New York Mets. It's
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: been a little bit rough after that opening day homer,
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: so he's down to a one fifty eight two thirty
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: eight three sixteen slash line through his twenty one plate appearances.
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: But it's so small. I mean, the concerning thing here
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: is that it's been a thirty three percent k rate,
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: but he's got a good eye. It's been almost a
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: ten percent walk rate. So benj is twenty three. What
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: are you looking for in terms of his profile the
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: rest of the year, because he projects to be about
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: of a league average bat. But there's some special tools
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: here and lots of opportunity, especially Talkman's not going to
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: be back to probably almost Memorial Day, and if benj
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: can produce until then, Takman might be finding himself in
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: free agency. Yeah.
• 41:59
  Speaker 2: I mean, honestly, I think that's the path we're on here. Yeah,
• 42:02
  Speaker 2: Bene has not looked amazing by any means, but he's
• 42:05
  Speaker 2: he's got a relatively high floor based on his you know,
• 42:09
  Speaker 2: plate approach. You know, he he does have a little
• 42:11
  Speaker 2: this speed, a little bit of pop, and so I
• 42:14
  Speaker 2: think he's going to kind of find his way and
• 42:16
  Speaker 2: he's going to be valuable.
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: I'm yeah, is he like your number one outfielder? No,
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: but he is.
• 42:22
  Speaker 2: He is he of serviceable four or five. I think
• 42:25
  Speaker 2: he's going to be. There's gonna be some growing pains
• 42:28
  Speaker 2: with him, and I think that's to be to be seen.
• 42:31
  Speaker 2: To your point, the strikeout rate is not ideal at
• 42:33
  Speaker 2: this point, but we are talking small sample size. He's
• 42:36
  Speaker 2: gonna take a little time to adjust. This is actually
• 42:38
  Speaker 2: a little bit more what I feel like should be
• 42:40
  Speaker 2: happy with a lot of these other rookies. They're like,
• 42:43
  Speaker 2: this is just making bench look bad because he's actually
• 42:46
  Speaker 2: not like just off and running to the races here.
• 42:50
  Speaker 2: But hey, he's already stolen a few bases. You know,
• 42:53
  Speaker 2: he's he's popped a home or Yeah, I get that,
• 42:56
  Speaker 2: it's not like blazing, but I think that's what he's
• 42:58
  Speaker 2: gonna be able to do. Is he's gonna give you
• 43:00
  Speaker 2: bits and pieces here. He's gonna hit a decent amount
• 43:02
  Speaker 2: of homers. He's gonna steal these munt of bases like
• 43:04
  Speaker 2: he's gonna, you know, not the best lineup, he's a
• 43:08
  Speaker 2: good lineup, and so he's gonna score some runs.
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: Like I think it's.
• 43:11
  Speaker 2: Gonna be okay, But I think he's going to solidify
• 43:14
  Speaker 2: himself enough that we won't be talking Mike Talkman until
• 43:18
  Speaker 2: the next time we're talking Mike Tokman, which feels like
• 43:20
  Speaker 2: every year he finds a new spot. He's just good
• 43:22
  Speaker 2: enough to be a fourth outfielder, and then we do
• 43:25
  Speaker 2: it again, do it again. So best wishes to Mike Talkman.
• 43:28
  Speaker 2: We'll see you on the other side.
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah, just wait till he goes back to Colorado. I
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: will not shut up about him. I'm well aware of that. Okay.
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: Last bit of news we have is Carlos Estevez going
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: down with uh They called it a foot confusion, but
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: it might just be a bad pitching. They just need
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: an excuse to get Carlos this out of that role
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: as like it looks bad. I don't know if it's
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: a mechanical thing or if like his shoulders torn to shreds.
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: But all the v los down his locations nowhere, his
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: stuff is down across the board, and it was like
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: this all spring on Carlos lesteveez that we saw that
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: draft price too from the NFBC draft data, what we
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: did our Ale Central preview, Like you and I couldn't
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: sell Carlos Stews fast enough because not only that last
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: year was just a total like farce underneath the covers, yes,
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: of what he put up, it was a twenty five
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: percent ground ball rate. It was a crazy left on
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: base rate, and there was no way he was going
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: to come close to that two forty five RA and
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: forty five saves from twenty twenty five. Certainly not with
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: this stuff. Because I'm at this he's not even usable,
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: like he's not found for affiliated baseball at all until
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: he gets right. So what are you doing here with
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: this Kansas City closing situation? Because this is a competitive
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: Royals team, They're going to be in it and They're
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: also going to be in a lot of tech games
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: where I mean, Carlos Estivus put up forty two say
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: for them last year, there's probably forty to forty five
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: saves in this Royals bullpen. So who are you targeting?
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: And I mean, is there any redemption for Carlos Estevez
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: in your mind?
• 45:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah, So I'm gonna say I don't see redemption for
• 45:15
  Speaker 2: Estevez because either he's actually hurt or he is hurt
• 45:19
  Speaker 2: like I don't know how to say. It's like he
• 45:20
  Speaker 2: hurt his foot or he his arms falling off, like
• 45:23
  Speaker 2: he looks terrible, and he's got to somehow build that
• 45:26
  Speaker 2: back up. And to the point, even if he does
• 45:28
  Speaker 2: get where he was last year, he was walking on
• 45:30
  Speaker 2: thin ice all year. He lucked out like the wheels
• 45:34
  Speaker 2: were already gonna fall off, and now the velo fell
• 45:38
  Speaker 2: off like they just had no chance. So I'm Estevez,
• 45:41
  Speaker 2: I've written off.
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: I was written off going to the end of the season.
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: For me, this is pretty clear.
• 45:46
  Speaker 2: I think it's Lucas Herzig's role. I think he's the
• 45:49
  Speaker 2: best pitcher in that bullpen. I think he's going to
• 45:52
  Speaker 2: run with it. He's been pitching well already already saved
• 45:56
  Speaker 2: two games. There are some other good pictures there, like
• 45:58
  Speaker 2: Matt Strom, who you know, just from an overall baseball fan,
• 46:04
  Speaker 2: is just a fun guy, but he's also he's Matt Strong.
• 46:08
  Speaker 2: Has just thrived in the fireman type role, and I
• 46:11
  Speaker 2: think that's where they're going to keep him. So to
• 46:12
  Speaker 2: your point, there's a lot of saves here in Kansas City.
• 46:15
  Speaker 2: I think ersig Like is like a mid mid number
• 46:20
  Speaker 2: two closer at this point during the rest of the season.
• 46:23
  Speaker 2: And yeah, if you didn't see this one coming, foul
• 46:26
  Speaker 2: on you, because this was this was kind of bound
• 46:31
  Speaker 2: to happen. I was so surprised to happen this fast.
• 46:34
  Speaker 2: It was immediate, But yeah, we kind of kind of
• 46:37
  Speaker 2: saw this one coming.
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I if you want a good dark horse name,
• 46:41
  Speaker 1: I'd also look at Lunda Ravila, who has been fantastic
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: and was fantastic for Venezuela and the WBC doesn't hasn't
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: really ever quite put together the control to be able
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: to be a big league starter, even though he came
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: up that way and made thirteen appearances out of the
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: bullpen for Kansas City's You know, if you see the
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: Royals want to start using because Ersig is just like
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: a nails reliever, like he might start moving into a
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: little bit more of like a high leverage situation. Linder,
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: a Villa is just like a big time gas Venezuelan
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: guy that that might be a dark horse, or they
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: could use a Villa in some sort of longer range
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: kind of high leverage situation too. So saveholds leagues two
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: that I think that was becoming more and more popular
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: that I don't overlook a villa who I think is
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: actually getting called up to he's actually starting tomorrow against
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: the Brewer, So never mind. I mean I'm in on
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: that too. So somebody just to watch, because like that
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: is another case where yeah, a Villa shows tomorrow against
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: Milwaukee that he doesn't have the control to start, but
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: shows a big fastball that can be dangerous in small spurts.
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: So somebody to watch. But yeah, I'm with you. Ersig
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: and Strom are certainly the leaders in the clubhouse right now. Okay,
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: we don't have too much to update you on in
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: terms of the baseball card release calendar. We did get
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: we added Bowman twenty twenty six as a TVD. We
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: don't have a date yet, but it should be. It's
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: gonna be soon, it's gonna be fast, because it usually
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: comes out towards the end of April and into early May.
• 48:17
  Speaker 1: So I wouldn't be surprised when we're talking this time
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: next week that there actually is a date set for
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: Bowman and that will be a big enough release that
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: we'll do a bigger overview for it, because it's going
• 48:28
  Speaker 1: to have some pretty fun names in it as well
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: as some really great firsts on top of the rookie cards.
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: So yeah, with that, we're gonna wrap it up here
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: on the News and Notes section. We're gonna take a
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: small break. We'll be back on the other end to
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: talk about investments for twenty twenty six on both cards
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: and Dynasty Keeper leagues. All right, welcome back, everybody. We're
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: just going to get right on into it here talking
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: about our main subject of the day, and that is
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: investments that we're making for twenty twenty six on both
• 49:14
  Speaker 1: the card and the Dynasty Keeper leagues. So I think
• 49:17
  Speaker 1: this is the nice spot where our podcast especially kind
• 49:21
  Speaker 1: of crosses over because there's a lot of considerations and
• 49:24
  Speaker 1: strategies and player evaluations that go into these decisions, and
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: they pay off nicely. I think for both card investments
• 49:34
  Speaker 1: and dynasty keeper investments, these are all names that we're
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: looking to be rising across the board in terms of
• 49:40
  Speaker 1: I mean hard cash dollar value for these baseball cards,
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: and then on the dynasty keeper situations, obviously somebody that
• 49:49
  Speaker 1: you can either move later in the year for bigger names,
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: or just somebody that you might want to be holding
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: on to even going into next year because we're expecting
• 49:59
  Speaker 1: some pretty big breakouts from these guys. So the way
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: that we split this up is, I let you do
• 50:04
  Speaker 1: hitters because you're mister top one hundred hitters over at Rasball.
• 50:07
  Speaker 1: I'm doing the pitchers because I've been covering the starting
• 50:10
  Speaker 1: pitching beat over at Baseball Perspectus, and we're just gonna
• 50:14
  Speaker 1: kind of lob it back and forth from there. So
• 50:17
  Speaker 1: we didn't pick specific cards to invest in the way
• 50:20
  Speaker 1: that we do a lot for our PC list, but
• 50:23
  Speaker 1: we will rattle off, like where the Bowman first cards
• 50:27
  Speaker 1: are for these players, if they exist. I think we've
• 50:30
  Speaker 1: got a couple names where it's minor league cards only
• 50:33
  Speaker 1: that maybe we'll see them in Bowman twenty twenty six,
• 50:37
  Speaker 1: but somebody you know, but names that you might want
• 50:40
  Speaker 1: to keep in mind when that twenty twenty six Bowman
• 50:43
  Speaker 1: checklist comes out to look for as well. So Brew,
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna kick it over you see, Like also from
• 50:49
  Speaker 1: a profile situation, is there anything that you're really kind
• 50:53
  Speaker 1: of honed in on in terms of a strategy that
• 50:55
  Speaker 1: you're looking for specifically on either Cards or Dynasty.
• 51:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah, So I'm there's probably this relatively the same for
• 51:05
  Speaker 2: all of them, because if you're looking for deals, it's it,
• 51:08
  Speaker 2: you know, whether it's Cards, whether it's Fantasy. It's not
• 51:11
  Speaker 2: the big names. It's not the guys that were first
• 51:14
  Speaker 2: overall picks. It's not the guys that were already blazing
• 51:17
  Speaker 2: through the minors and things like that. It's not the
• 51:20
  Speaker 2: guys that are going to be called up tomorrow.
• 51:23
  Speaker 1: So you're looking.
• 51:24
  Speaker 2: So I kind of broke my list up into kind
• 51:26
  Speaker 2: of three different groups, and so I'll preview the groups
• 51:28
  Speaker 2: and then I'm just gonna cover one of them before
• 51:30
  Speaker 2: I lob it back your way. I kind of broke
• 51:32
  Speaker 2: it up into I'm gonna call it the Connor Griffin group,
• 51:34
  Speaker 2: which is a complete over sell for this group. But
• 51:39
  Speaker 2: I'm looking for the guys that have the skill sets
• 51:44
  Speaker 2: to break out this year and be the number one
• 51:47
  Speaker 2: guy next year. And it has to be a guy
• 51:50
  Speaker 2: far enough down that we're not talking like a you know,
• 51:54
  Speaker 2: a Max Clark or a Selessian Walcott or Eli Willitts
• 51:58
  Speaker 2: or somebody like that that's already kind of like at
• 52:00
  Speaker 2: that top ten type prospect.
• 52:03
  Speaker 1: I'm looking down the listle bit a little bit.
• 52:04
  Speaker 2: A guy that has to take a reasonable jump by
• 52:07
  Speaker 2: thirty forty, you know, fifty spot jump and all of
• 52:10
  Speaker 2: a sudden is in that McGonagall Griffin, you know mode
• 52:14
  Speaker 2: type conversation. So I'm gonna call it two guys if
• 52:19
  Speaker 2: I'm not, if I'm allowed.
• 52:20
  Speaker 1: To for my time. Yeah, there's no rules around I
• 52:24
  Speaker 1: was gonna do it anyway, but.
• 52:28
  Speaker 2: I'm going to call out Bryce Ranier for the Detroit Tigers, who,
• 52:33
  Speaker 2: twenty year old, was the number eleven draft pick by
• 52:37
  Speaker 2: the Tigers in twenty twenty four whole thirty five games
• 52:42
  Speaker 2: at single a hit, two eighty eight, five homers, nine steals,
• 52:47
  Speaker 2: nothing terribly exciting, but there is clearly a skill set
• 52:51
  Speaker 2: across the board. He has a shortstop, gonna be a
• 52:56
  Speaker 2: pretty reasonable athletic shortstop. Maybe not the best glove at
• 53:01
  Speaker 2: this point, We'll have to see how if he can
• 53:02
  Speaker 2: stick at short. But he also has a pretty mature
• 53:06
  Speaker 2: approach to the plate. Yeah, just thirty five games last year,
• 53:10
  Speaker 2: but only struck out twenty two percent of the sign walk
• 53:12
  Speaker 2: thirteen percent of the time. Definitely has the tools and
• 53:17
  Speaker 2: at that youth at a level, did not seem to
• 53:20
  Speaker 2: have any problems whatsoever. And so this is the kind
• 53:23
  Speaker 2: of guy that could do what we saw with Griffin
• 53:26
  Speaker 2: or a few other guys who I'm not I couldn't
• 53:29
  Speaker 2: even look to see where he's projected to start this year.
• 53:31
  Speaker 2: I assume it's back in a ball and he might
• 53:34
  Speaker 2: be able to go a double A, maybe even a
• 53:37
  Speaker 2: triple A this year if he really hones in on
• 53:40
  Speaker 2: those tools and the skill set appears to be there.
• 53:42
  Speaker 2: He just didn't get a lot of playing time and
• 53:46
  Speaker 2: it wasn't like off the charts, But there's a crazy
• 53:49
  Speaker 2: skill set here. So Rainier's is the first guy I'm
• 53:52
  Speaker 2: gonna call out, and then I'm gonna also go over
• 53:54
  Speaker 2: to the Dodgers and.
• 53:55
  Speaker 1: Also put in a couple of words on Renier if
• 53:57
  Speaker 1: that's okay. That like He also he only played limited
• 54:00
  Speaker 1: amount of games because he dislocated his shoulder after the
• 54:03
  Speaker 1: thirty five games diving for a ball and then had
• 54:06
  Speaker 1: to get surgery and miss the rest of the year.
• 54:09
  Speaker 1: So before he went down it was a one thirty
• 54:10
  Speaker 1: four WRC plus, Like we might have been talking about
• 54:13
  Speaker 1: him in the vein as Connor Griffin if he was
• 54:16
  Speaker 1: able to get up to double A. He was on
• 54:19
  Speaker 1: that trajectory last year. And his Bowmen first is in
• 54:24
  Speaker 1: twenty twenty four Bowmen draft with Connor Griffin that like, honestly,
• 54:28
  Speaker 1: his prices are probably they're in decent shape right now
• 54:31
  Speaker 1: because of that injury, and so now is the time
• 54:34
  Speaker 1: to invest in Renier before he gets back on the field.
• 54:37
  Speaker 1: Same thing with the dynasty aspect that I know on
• 54:40
  Speaker 1: that that end fantasy dynasty heads are in on Renear.
• 54:45
  Speaker 2: So yeah, but you're looking maybe the your keeper leagues.
• 54:48
  Speaker 2: You gotten new type of leagues things like that that
• 54:51
  Speaker 2: are only looking at a year or two because you've
• 54:53
  Speaker 2: got more limited keeper spots. And to your point on
• 54:56
  Speaker 2: the card pricing perspective, if you just take like a
• 55:01
  Speaker 2: McGonagle or a weather Hold and not even gonna go
• 55:04
  Speaker 2: Griffin pricing here, those those guys are two fifty three
• 55:07
  Speaker 2: hundred dollars for the first moment autos Renie right now
• 55:09
  Speaker 2: is low one hundreds. He's one ten, one fifteen for
• 55:13
  Speaker 2: that pricing, And so you can see the upside there
• 55:16
  Speaker 2: right that that's a two to three x on that
• 55:20
  Speaker 2: card value for this guy. So maybe you're not going
• 55:23
  Speaker 2: the first auto and you're jumping down to you know,
• 55:25
  Speaker 2: refractors or even just the base chrome. They're very readily
• 55:29
  Speaker 2: available and pretty pretty much are reasonable. So I said,
• 55:35
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna jump over to LA here and we're gonna
• 55:37
  Speaker 2: talk about another young and uh twenty year old EDWARDO Quintero.
• 55:44
  Speaker 2: And you know, this is a guy that made it
• 55:47
  Speaker 2: up to high a last year as as a nineteen
• 55:50
  Speaker 2: year old, you know, across his full swing last year,
• 55:55
  Speaker 2: uh in the in the miners, which is a and
• 55:58
  Speaker 2: high A ball hit two twenty three as a slash
• 56:01
  Speaker 2: line of two ninety three four fifteen fiveh eight, good
• 56:04
  Speaker 2: for one fifty two WRC plus nineteen homers forty seven steals.
• 56:09
  Speaker 2: He did get caught thirteen times, so maybe not the
• 56:12
  Speaker 2: most efficient, more athletic than a keen bass stealer, but
• 56:17
  Speaker 2: he also walked sixteen percent of the time and only
• 56:20
  Speaker 2: struck out about a little under twenty three percent of
• 56:22
  Speaker 2: the time, and he really kind of burst onto the scene.
• 56:26
  Speaker 2: The thing is for a outfield prospect for the Dodgers,
• 56:30
  Speaker 2: like Dodgers prospects just don't get the same billions that
• 56:35
  Speaker 2: a lot of other teams do because there's so much
• 56:37
  Speaker 2: noise at the major league level that these guys can
• 56:40
  Speaker 2: kind of just sneak through. But there is a ton
• 56:43
  Speaker 2: of ton of special talent here. You know, the power
• 56:46
  Speaker 2: is going to continue to grow his his his game
• 56:52
  Speaker 2: power is graded at potentially a fifty or sixty grade,
• 56:56
  Speaker 2: and so you're you're looking at a guy who could
• 56:59
  Speaker 2: absolutely kind of row into his body and hit twenty
• 57:01
  Speaker 2: five thirty homers, hit for a solid average, and steal
• 57:05
  Speaker 2: a ton of basis. And so another guy that could
• 57:07
  Speaker 2: really just jump up the ranks this year if he
• 57:09
  Speaker 2: kind of just repeats what he did last year. And
• 57:11
  Speaker 2: if he repeats what he did last year, he's you know,
• 57:14
  Speaker 2: he's knocking on the door by the by the end
• 57:16
  Speaker 2: of the season, and there's also probably nowhere to go.
• 57:20
  Speaker 2: But I've also seen the question of why isn't Andy
• 57:22
  Speaker 2: pat has signed some type of extension with the Dodgers.
• 57:25
  Speaker 2: I would like to point you to Eduardo Cantaro is
• 57:29
  Speaker 2: is one of the key reasons because they've got these
• 57:32
  Speaker 2: types of guys coming. You look at the pricing for
• 57:35
  Speaker 2: cards for something like this, we're talking like eighty bucks
• 57:37
  Speaker 2: for a first auto. For Cantaro, there is just not
• 57:41
  Speaker 2: the same hype around him as other guys. But again,
• 57:44
  Speaker 2: you look at what the numbers he put up, and
• 57:47
  Speaker 2: you know, they just kind of the the you know,
• 57:50
  Speaker 2: body type here. He is a six one five, so
• 57:53
  Speaker 2: he is kind of a more athletic body. He's not
• 57:56
  Speaker 2: the you know, the kind of griffin tree.
• 57:59
  Speaker 1: That he is, but yeah, it's easy.
• 58:02
  Speaker 2: To dream on him adding some bulk to this body
• 58:05
  Speaker 2: and really leaning into that power. So, like I said,
• 58:09
  Speaker 2: my first kind of category here was guys that they
• 58:13
  Speaker 2: have the up arrow and they could break out this
• 58:15
  Speaker 2: year and absolutely be in the top one to three
• 58:18
  Speaker 2: to five prospect discussion next year. And then because of that,
• 58:22
  Speaker 2: when you talk top one to three to five prospects
• 58:25
  Speaker 2: from a pricing perspective and from a card perspective, you're
• 58:28
  Speaker 2: talking first moment autos in the two fifty to four
• 58:31
  Speaker 2: to fifty type range, and these.
• 58:33
  Speaker 1: Guys are well well below that.
• 58:35
  Speaker 2: So there's a ton ton of potential to up up
• 58:38
  Speaker 2: that game. So those are the first two i'm gonna
• 58:40
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna call out. I think both from a fantasy
• 58:42
  Speaker 2: perspective and a card perspective, undervalued right now. See to
• 58:47
  Speaker 2: your point, in the deep dynasty leagues, they're absolutely known
• 58:50
  Speaker 2: owned things like that, and you know you can go
• 58:55
  Speaker 2: make a trade from this is probably the cheapest sart
• 58:56
  Speaker 2: going to be. But there's a ton of upside in
• 58:59
  Speaker 2: both of these bats.
• 59:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and Kintaro's Bowman first are in twenty twenty five.
• 59:05
  Speaker 1: Bowman just came out around this time last year, as
• 59:08
  Speaker 1: we were talking about also with like JJ Weatherholt was
• 59:11
  Speaker 1: in that set, and yeah, I think that's a great call.
• 59:14
  Speaker 1: The other person is taoscar is only signed through twenty
• 59:18
  Speaker 1: twenty seven, as well as Kyle Tuckery's got that like
• 59:20
  Speaker 1: sixty million dollar player option for twenty twenty eight. So
• 59:24
  Speaker 1: I mean the Dodgers have the pipeline ready for the
• 59:27
  Speaker 1: outfield spots, and I think this year too. What I
• 59:31
  Speaker 1: like about like Kintaro along with Hope and Jose de
• 59:34
  Speaker 1: Paula Zayer Hope that is is they're almost like the
• 59:38
  Speaker 1: Dodgers are like, all right, which one you guys wants
• 59:40
  Speaker 1: this ta Oscar spot in twenty twenty eight and one
• 59:44
  Speaker 1: of them is going to claim it is what's going
• 59:46
  Speaker 1: to happen, and it's going to be a huge, huge performance.
• 59:48
  Speaker 1: So yeah, I even thought.
• 59:49
  Speaker 2: About putting Hope in this conversation because I feel like
• 59:52
  Speaker 2: they're they're the similar thought process. I think Hope's already
• 59:55
  Speaker 2: a thought of a little higher than Cantaro, So that's
• 59:57
  Speaker 2: why I went a little farther down from the value perspective.
• 59:59
  Speaker 1: But yeah, you're you're right.
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 2: It's kind of like they've they've built their outfield of
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 2: the future in the minors and just figure that you
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 2: guys figure this out for us.
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 1: Well, if you don't, we'll just buy somebody else. Yeah,
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 1: And I think to Paul is probably more of a
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 1: first basement anyway, it seems like from the reports on
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 1: his frame and just overall approach. So uh yeah, I
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 1: think those are good names to start with. So I'm
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 1: gonna should I do too as well, just I think
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 1: you should.
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 2: I think I'll set the standard now.
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 1: Plus, I mean, the two that I have at the
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 1: top of my list are pretty special arms, I think,
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 1: so the first one is this is the guy that
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 1: I've got pegged for twenty twenty six to be like
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 1: this year's Trey or Savage, And that's Cayden Scarborough from
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 1: the Texas Rangers. He actually doesn't have a bowman first yet,
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 1: so I expect, honestly this might be a guy who
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 1: is in twenty twenty six bowmen and he he was
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 1: lights out last year for the Texas Rangers, as he
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 1: was a twenty twenty three sixth round pick out of
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 1: high school, and last year across two levels A and
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 1: A High A, he put up eighty eight innings of
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 1: a eleven point seven K nine with a two point
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 1: two walk per nine. That's a twenty seven point one
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 1: percent K minus BB, A two forty five ERA, A
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 1: two ninety four FIP. He's also huge, six foot five.
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 1: It says one eighty five listed, but I think he's
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 1: bigger than one eighty five after he got like into
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 1: the minor league kind of strength and conditioning program, big
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 1: old fastball as you expect out of a right hander
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 1: like this for the Texas Rangers. Obviously is coming through
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 1: that system and gonna get to be able to pitch
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 1: in Globe Life Park, which is a boon for pitchers.
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 1: But he's got a big old fastball, he's got a
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 1: really nice slider. Just watch some of the video of
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 1: him and you're just like, Wow, that dude has ace
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 1: potential when you're just watching him on the mount. I
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 1: love everything about Scarborough that like, honestly, I've been kind
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 1: of squirreling them away in all the leagues that we're
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 1: in and not like nominating him and not anew and stuff,
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 1: because it's also like you got to it's tough with
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 1: a player like this because like everyone's saying twenty twenty
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 1: eight ETA and stuff. But like, he moved fast last
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 1: year and I think he's gonna move fast this year,
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 1: especially if the Rangers are on the precipice of a
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 1: wild card or something. This is their kind of ace
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 1: up the sleeve to be able to make a run
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 1: down the stretch. And I think, no matter what, you're
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 1: gonna see Scarborough really shooting up top one hundred lists.
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 1: He's seventy first to start the season for fangrafts, but
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 1: I think by the end of the season you're looking
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 1: at a top twenty to twenty five type of guy.
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 1: So invest now get in the brakes. For Texas Rangers
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 1: now when you see him in products coming for twenty
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 1: twenty six. Otherwise, you do have some Panini cards from
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 1: twenty twenty four you can invest in, and some minor
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 1: league cards. So there are Scarborough cards out on the market.
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 1: Scoop him up all you can.
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 2: I will have to say, like Scarborough, like for all
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 2: the things that you and I talk about, he has control,
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 2: he has power, He keeps the ball down, he'd like
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 2: said when you watch him pitch, he's always pounding down
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 2: on the zone, like you like the pitch ability that
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 2: you already see. There's definitely a maturing that will need
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 2: to happen here. But like you're right, if he does
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 2: what he did last year and just put some growth
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 2: into it and then maybe puts a few more pounds
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 2: on that frame, Yeah, this this could be This could
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 2: be really scary. And I like your call from a
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 2: Texas ballpark perspective, like yeah, like that's that's a nice,
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 2: nice place to pitch. So, yeah, who's the second guy
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 2: you want to call out?
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 1: So the second guy, I mean, this is another guy
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 1: you're looking at probable ace potential. Noah Schultz from the
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 1: Chicago White Sox. He was a first round dur in
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 1: twenty twenty two and was the sexty name for a
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 1: long time. But I think he probably fell off people's radars,
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 1: especially these past couple of years. He's really I mean
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 1: not actually a couple of years. Just last year was
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 1: a real struggle with his control. Put up a awful
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 1: thirteen point eight percent walk right across Double A and
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 1: Triple A as it looked like, you know, he was
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 1: kind of starting to trend towards Can he figure it out?
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 1: Can the White Sox actually turn this around? Or is
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 1: he just a lefty reliever with this lack of control.
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 1: I am here to report he turned it around. He
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 1: was great during spring. He's looked great in his first
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 1: nine innings at triple A. Ten k's to two walks
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 1: with a just giving up one run. He's throwing, he's
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 1: keeping it on the ground, and he's another one of
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 1: these guys where it's Cam Schlitzler is like the hallmark
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 1: of this now of the three fastball approach with the
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 1: with the four seam, the cutter, and the sinker. Schultz
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 1: has been working all of them as a six' ten
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 1: lefty out of a funky. Slot The White sox starting
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 1: rotation is god awful and BOTH i Expect schultz And tanner,
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 1: McDougall he was the other GUY i was thinking about
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 1: for this. Exercise he didn't quite make my final cut
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 1: of the. List but McDougall And SCHULTZ i think are.
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 1: Up BY i mean McDougall's on the forty. Man he
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 1: might be up like within the next couple of. Weeks
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 1: schultz is not the forty, man but it's pretty easy
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 1: to find a forty man spot when you've got a
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 1: talent like this and a tough rotation like THE.
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 2: I was gonna, say was it the talent like this
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 2: or is the forty man life?
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 1: Size? Yeah yeah When, yeah there's nobody in The chicago
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 1: rotation that is anything, special And Shane smith has not been,
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 1: hot although it's been very luck. Unbased but, yeah get
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 1: back in On schultz now while you, can BECAUSE i
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 1: think when he gets, up you're looking at like left Handed.
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 1: Jacobssierowski that's exactly what it, is and honestly it's the
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 1: exact same. Profile it's just out of that left. Side
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 1: so in terms of, cards you're looking at twenty Twenty
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 1: bowman draft for any. Firsts but he's had, product he's
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 1: been in products ever since then because he was a
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 1: first round pick and a big.
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 2: Name, YEAH i think it's a good, Call like this
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 2: is the kind of guy that just oos his talent
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 2: and does he figure it. Out he kind of fell
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 2: off last. Year it seems like it figured things out this,
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 2: year and there's no reason for The White sox not
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 2: to give him a. Shot LIKE i think they're gonna
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 2: keep him down for a little. Bit but like his
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 2: to your, point like his markets down in fantasy, cards
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 2: all those types of, THINGS i won't be surprised to see,
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 2: that you, know pop very very.
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 1: Quickly, yeah, WELL i mean The White sox need to
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 1: sell some tickets. Too so if you can show, that
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 1: like you've Got schultz, Up you've Got, Markami you've got
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 1: a pretty young lineup Around, markami they'll get butts back in.
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 1: Seats all, Right who is your next pick for the hitter?
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 1: Side all? Right do you want me to do like
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 1: seven this? Time or So i'm to keep thving them
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 1: up BECAUSE i want to do a few of the. Time.
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 2: Here my next Theme i'm gonna go with are guys
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 2: that are closer to the majors OR i would say
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 2: they're not necessarily, closer But i'm gonna say these are
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 2: high floor guys that are just kind of, undervalued under ranked,
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 2: overall but will surprise you when they get. There and
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 2: so first Guy i'm gonna call out, Here i'm gonna.
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 1: Go back To.
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 2: Detroit uh And i'm gonna mispronounce his. NAMES i didn't
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 2: look up for to say it as Josh U, brissino
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 2: uh for For Jose, bino see.
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 1: Whatever i'm close.
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 2: Enough but you, know he did uh tear attending his
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 2: wrist in spring, training and so that's kind, of you,
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 2: know sheltered a little bit of the prospect excitement on,
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 2: him and so he's gonna be out for some. Time
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 2: but this guy has an absolute hit. Tool he you,
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 2: know it's A i think there's a question of is
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 2: he going to be a, catcher is he going to
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 2: be a first? Baseman is he going to be a D.
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 2: H i don't THINK i really, care because the guy can.
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 2: Hit you, know last year he made it To DOUBLE,
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 2: a you, know at twenty years, old and you, know
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 2: across the full season where he played AT a high
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 2: And DOUBLE, a he.
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 1: Hit two sixty six twenty.
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 2: Homers seventy six RBIs walked fifty percent of the, time
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 2: struck out under twenty percent of the, time and, yeah
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 2: when he got to DOUBLE, a that did shift a little,
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 2: bit struck out a little bit, more walked a little bit.
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 2: Less but that was across one hundred, games and you
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 2: know that's a good for one fifty THREE wrc. Plus
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 2: he and when he got to DOUBLE a took a
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 2: little bit of adjusting and then he started to figure things.
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 2: Out but he just looks like a, very very solid.
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 2: Hitter and at the same, time he's just not getting
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 2: a lot of love.
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 1: Because it's It's.
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 2: Detroit you have other big names Like Max clark, There kevin, McGonagall,
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 2: like But pristino is like the third compadre there to
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 2: make up that. Trio SO i think there's a lot
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 2: to like in this. PROFILE i think that the price
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 2: of admission has decreased because of this, injury and people were,
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 2: like there WAS i think a question of, like is
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 2: he going to be exciting enough to try to like
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 2: force the hand and maybe get to start at TRIPLE
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 2: a and you, know come up right there behind. McGonagall,
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 2: yeah that's clearly not gonna happen because the. Injury but
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 2: you also look at like the card price at, perspective
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 2: And i'm doing this for, memory SO i haven't looked
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 2: this flicks it up, real But i'm pretty sure we're
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 2: talking like a forty fifty Dollars bowmen first auto type
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 2: of price, Here so very very reasonable for a guy
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 2: that has a pretty strong power tool has no, speed
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 2: to be very very. Clear, ironically his prospect report has
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 2: his speed of thirty on a twenty future. SCALE i
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 2: don't know the last TIME i saw somebody actually out
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 2: achieving their future projections on a prospect. Scale but he
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 2: has sixty raw, power sixty projecting game power when he
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 2: when he fully gets to. It AND i think there's
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 2: a lot to like in this profile because he's probably
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 2: gonna be a strong first BASEMAN d, eight probably hitting
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 2: two sixty five to seventy thirty thirty five homers without
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 2: missed the. BEAT i think this is a real strong
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 2: bad going. Forward, yeah, yeah second, guy go, Ahead, yeah
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 2: the second GUY i wanted to get into here.
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 1: On top of. It twenty twenty Five bowmen For, brisania.
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 2: Yep twenty twenty Five, bowmen thank you for keeping me honest.
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 2: Here i'm liking a lot of these guys that just
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 2: had their the recent. Moments so second GUY i want
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 2: to call out here is another kind OF i would,
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 2: say somewhat behind the scenes guys that hasn't got the
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 2: same kind of. Love and before you go there twenty
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 2: twenty four moments with his next guy is going to
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 2: be And i'm going to call Out Kaylene culpepper for
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 2: The Minnesota. Twins culpepper did start this season At TRIPLE,
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 2: a but let's go back last season. Four this is
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 2: a guy that was a first round pick twenty one
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 2: overall in twenty twenty. FOUR i wouldn't call him the
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 2: big physical sen. Specimen he's just a Big he's a stout,
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 2: dude five ten.
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 1: Eighty.
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 2: Five so when you look at what he did last,
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 2: year and this is kind of like Behind Luke keishall
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 2: getting a lot of. Attention was he hit two eighty,
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 2: nine three seventy, five four sixty nine for slash line
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 2: as one THIRTY awrc plus twenty, homers twenty five. Steals
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 2: he only got cop stealing four times across two levels
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 2: of the. Miners already this season five games At TRIPLE,
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 2: a he's hitting three or four he's already hit a.
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 2: Bomb he just looks very very. Comfortable strikeout rate generally
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 2: under twenty, percent walks right under around that ten percent,
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 2: clip and so he definitely looks like he's gonna be
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 2: a guy that. Sticks right now he is playing. Shortstop
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 2: does he long term stick? THERE i think there's a
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 2: little question. THERE i think he's a decent, fielder but
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 2: maybe not like the you, know a perfect prototypical shortstop
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 2: that you're going to lean. Into BUT i Think culpeper
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 2: is definitely a guy that is going to climb up
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 2: ranks quickly because he just looks, very very comfortable to,
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 2: play AND i think he has a sneaky power tool
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 2: that could get him into that kind of twenty to
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 2: twenty five power twenty to twenty five steel range with
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 2: a respectable. Average and then you go to the value
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 2: side where the market's at with, him And i'd say
• 1:12:33
  Speaker 2: it's the same for fantasy as it would be for
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 2: like the card. Market card. Market you can give his
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 2: First bowman auto for like forty to fifty. Bucks from
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 2: a rankings, perspective like mlbism lies like the fiftieth. Prospect,
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 2: overall he's right behind your Guy Noah schultz by a
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 2: few spots. HERE i, again if he can develop into
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 2: a twenty to twenty twenty or twenty five twenty five
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 2: guy with a decent, average that's like the guys we
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 2: were talking, about is like top, ten top, fifteen AND
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 2: i don't see a reason he can't do. It the
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 2: big downfall is he's In. Minnesota like maybe there's a
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 2: spirit to What i'm talking about besides The, Dodgers you're
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 2: talking About Minnesota detroit type of guys that just don't
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 2: get the same you, know fanfare at the end of the.
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 1: Day so, WELL i mean the next thing With, minnesota, though,
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 1: too is there's lots of opportunity at that big league
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 1: club this. Year SO i, mean he's only got to
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 1: overcome Brooks lee at shortstop AND i, mean or just
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 1: wait For Royce lewis. Injury so it's not going to take,
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 1: MUCH i, think For culpeper to open up a spot In.
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 1: Minnesota SO i think this is a great call and
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 1: also a pretty immediate payoff hopefully for you With culpepper
• 1:13:45
  Speaker 1: that he should be up this. Summer, yeah he really.
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 1: Should and that's kind of what you. Know AS i
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 1: looked at the kind of. This next.
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 2: Tiers guys that like get have the high floor should
• 1:13:55
  Speaker 2: have a little bit sooner. Payoff you're not talking more
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 2: than six twelve months with with these types of. Guys
• 1:14:00
  Speaker 2: and all, Right i'm gonna get a three pack in
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 2: before we go back to, you because you, Know i'm
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 2: abusing any rules that we had. Predetermined And i'm going
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 2: to go To Mike sirota The. Dodgers just a warning
• 1:14:13
  Speaker 2: if you try to go To fangrafts and type him
• 1:14:14
  Speaker 2: in and you do WHAT i. Did you Get Mike
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 2: soroka the actual picture for The White sox for a
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 2: number of years.
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 1: AGO i hold different Profile soroka cards. Too from it's
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 1: a really different fantasy.
• 1:14:26
  Speaker 2: Profile But serota was the third round pick of The
• 1:14:31
  Speaker 2: reds back in twenty, four and so he should be
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 2: IN i believe draft for twenty. FOUR i didn't actually
• 1:14:38
  Speaker 2: look to see you probably already got there for.
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 1: Me.
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 2: Yep here was a draft for twenty, four, correct. Yep
• 1:14:44
  Speaker 2: and So i'm just gonna bare lead. Now the pricing
• 1:14:47
  Speaker 2: basically all three of the guys we just talked. About
• 1:14:49
  Speaker 2: from like a card, perspective it's that forty to fifty
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 2: dollars bo when first auto and, that and these are
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 2: guys that when they get called up it could double
• 1:14:56
  Speaker 2: triple maybe even caught quadruple that that type of price.
• 1:14:59
  Speaker 2: Point but So seroda came over to The dodgers in
• 1:15:02
  Speaker 2: That Gavin lux, trade and you, know we were joking
• 1:15:07
  Speaker 2: about all the outfielders that The dodgers have and trying
• 1:15:09
  Speaker 2: to figure out who's going to stake a. CLAIM i
• 1:15:11
  Speaker 2: Think soroda is kind of a dark horse in that
• 1:15:14
  Speaker 2: discussion last year for The dodgers between SINGLE a and DOUBLE.
• 1:15:19
  Speaker 2: A and this is a college bat coming, through you,
• 1:15:23
  Speaker 2: know as a, reminder so he's actually twenty two years.
• 1:15:27
  Speaker 2: Old he hit three thirty, three, four fifty, two, six
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 2: sixteen on his slash, line so it's fifty nine games
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 2: with thirteen. Homers i'm going to say he stole fud
• 1:15:39
  Speaker 2: basically also got caught five. Times so like we're not
• 1:15:41
  Speaker 2: this isn't a speed. Play uh it Was sirota. Here
• 1:15:44
  Speaker 2: but he did hit three thirty. Three he walked eighteen
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 2: percent of the, time he has a very very keen,
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 2: eye only struck out twenty two percent of the. Time
• 1:15:53
  Speaker 2: this is a very mature hitter because he is that
• 1:15:57
  Speaker 2: college BAT i expect him to run through the levels pretty.
• 1:15:59
  Speaker 2: Quickly the biggest issue With serota, is again he's got.
• 1:16:03
  Speaker 2: It there's a lot of competition The dodgers and those outfield,
• 1:16:06
  Speaker 2: spaces but this feels like a very very safe bat
• 1:16:09
  Speaker 2: as a guy THAT i think it could be even
• 1:16:11
  Speaker 2: later this. Year he's making some noise because he again
• 1:16:15
  Speaker 2: he has a very strong power bat that really feels
• 1:16:19
  Speaker 2: like it could play well in the minors for The.
• 1:16:23
  Speaker 2: Dodgers SO i think he's gonna make a lot of.
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 2: NOISE i think people are gonna be surprised by. Him
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 2: he was a really strong college bat as. Well so
• 1:16:32
  Speaker 2: Again i'm going to three guys that all kind of
• 1:16:34
  Speaker 2: have high floors should be in the, conversation if not
• 1:16:38
  Speaker 2: late this, year early next, year That i'm really.
• 1:16:42
  Speaker 1: Excited about investing. THEM i don't really see much of a. Downside,
• 1:16:46
  Speaker 1: yeah and we've talked About serota. Before he's been a
• 1:16:49
  Speaker 1: popular name on, here AND i think What i've also
• 1:16:52
  Speaker 1: liked about him is that The dodgers originally drafted, him
• 1:16:55
  Speaker 1: and then he went to, college and then The reds drafted,
• 1:16:58
  Speaker 1: him and then The dodgers made sure to go and
• 1:17:00
  Speaker 1: Pursue Mike. Serota SO i, mean The dodgers are easily
• 1:17:04
  Speaker 1: the smartest team in the entire. League even though they're
• 1:17:08
  Speaker 1: like perpetually winning These World, Series they're still have like
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 1: the best system in the entire, league or one of
• 1:17:15
  Speaker 1: the best. Systems and this is, why because they they find.
• 1:17:18
  Speaker 1: Guys if you are A Cincinnati reds, fan you might
• 1:17:22
  Speaker 1: want to just like tune out because you, Know serota
• 1:17:25
  Speaker 1: came over in The gavin lux. Deal this next guy
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 1: also was traded from The reds to The, dodgers but
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 1: he was a thrown in that weird Like ben Rhurtvet
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 1: Hunter fiduccia trade that happened at the deadline last. Year
• 1:17:39
  Speaker 1: AND i think The dodgers got away with highway robbery.
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 1: Here i'm Talking Adam, sirwanowski who is a twenty one
• 1:17:48
  Speaker 1: year old six foot five left hander who JUST i
• 1:17:53
  Speaker 1: don't even know like how The reds would have let
• 1:17:57
  Speaker 1: a guy like this go because every stop he was
• 1:18:00
  Speaker 1: striking out eleven per nine or. More the walks are
• 1:18:05
  Speaker 1: a little bit of an, issue but you seeing a
• 1:18:08
  Speaker 1: lot of like almost like The Noah schultze like hallmarks,
• 1:18:11
  Speaker 1: here where once you get him into an organization that
• 1:18:15
  Speaker 1: knows what they're. Doing it feels like he's going to take.
• 1:18:17
  Speaker 1: Off and that did happen last year where he made
• 1:18:20
  Speaker 1: DOUBLE a for The, dodgers And serronowski's going to open
• 1:18:23
  Speaker 1: at DOUBLE a this. Year you know how The dodgers
• 1:18:27
  Speaker 1: kind of cycle those dudes in and out of the
• 1:18:29
  Speaker 1: rotation in terms of. INJURIES i Think surahenowski's got a
• 1:18:32
  Speaker 1: really great shot of making it to the majors this,
• 1:18:34
  Speaker 1: year and if, not really making some Hay as being
• 1:18:37
  Speaker 1: like their next kind of like big guy to be
• 1:18:40
  Speaker 1: coming through that. System and he's not on the top
• 1:18:43
  Speaker 1: one hundreds, yet BUT i think once he starts getting
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 1: into action here for twenty twenty, six he's gonna rise pretty.
• 1:18:50
  Speaker 1: Fast BECAUSE i, mean he's a big old left handed
• 1:18:53
  Speaker 1: arm and we've gone through this many times in the
• 1:18:55
  Speaker 1: spot that like there's nothing we like more than a
• 1:18:57
  Speaker 1: big old left handed, arm and he's thrown in the
• 1:18:59
  Speaker 1: mid ninety with a nasty. Slider this is this is
• 1:19:04
  Speaker 1: an electric guy on top of. It he is in
• 1:19:07
  Speaker 1: twenty twenty Four Bowman. Chrome he was in The prospect
• 1:19:10
  Speaker 1: set From chrome that. Year you can get just his
• 1:19:14
  Speaker 1: base Like Chrome auto for like twenty. Bucks you can
• 1:19:18
  Speaker 1: start getting numbered and color cards AND psa tens for
• 1:19:22
  Speaker 1: like forty to. Fifty and you're talking about The. Dodgers
• 1:19:25
  Speaker 1: this is a guy who is going to have a
• 1:19:28
  Speaker 1: huge market when he starts rising because of the number
• 1:19:30
  Speaker 1: Of dodgers. Collectors and on top of, it it's going
• 1:19:32
  Speaker 1: to be the same THING i think with dynasty and keeper,
• 1:19:35
  Speaker 1: leagues where he's gonna start rising pretty quickly because the
• 1:19:39
  Speaker 1: possibility of him pitching in front of a Great dodgers
• 1:19:41
  Speaker 1: defense and getting those ws for Your rotisseriy league are
• 1:19:45
  Speaker 1: really really. High so this is going to BE i
• 1:19:49
  Speaker 1: think one of the bigger risers that happens this. Year
• 1:19:52
  Speaker 1: and he's starting a DOUBLE, a so he's starting off
• 1:19:55
  Speaker 1: right on the right foot For.
• 1:19:55
  Speaker 2: Sarnowski, yeah and don't underestimate That dodgers collecting Mar THAT'S
• 1:20:00
  Speaker 2: i think the one thing that we could. Say and
• 1:20:02
  Speaker 2: again that's the Third dodger we talked about. Today there's
• 1:20:06
  Speaker 2: an aspect of this of there's a, big Big dodgers fan,
• 1:20:10
  Speaker 2: base especially in the card.
• 1:20:12
  Speaker 1: Market, okay Well i'm gonna do another one, then because
• 1:20:15
  Speaker 1: you did, it you did three packs all, day you
• 1:20:18
  Speaker 1: can do. It and So i've Got Jack winneger from
• 1:20:24
  Speaker 1: The New York, mets also from the u OF i
• 1:20:27
  Speaker 1: so went to college just down the road from you
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 1: and from where we grew up in twenty twenty. Three
• 1:20:33
  Speaker 1: Bowman draft is where you'll find his. Cards but this
• 1:20:36
  Speaker 1: is the next big ARM i think that's coming through
• 1:20:39
  Speaker 1: for The. Mets AS i, mean this is another machine
• 1:20:44
  Speaker 1: that's being created By David stearns over In New york
• 1:20:47
  Speaker 1: where he's just copying and pasting what he did In.
• 1:20:50
  Speaker 1: Milwaukee And winneger is one of the ones that's really
• 1:20:52
  Speaker 1: kind of benefited from that great. Control only walked people
• 1:20:58
  Speaker 1: at like A evanish seven and a half percent clip
• 1:21:01
  Speaker 1: throughout his past few stops in the mior, leagues and
• 1:21:06
  Speaker 1: the strikeout rate has been, fantastic covering around twenty five.
• 1:21:09
  Speaker 1: Percent more of your traditional kind of six foot, four
• 1:21:12
  Speaker 1: right handed, guy not as quite as much, velo, nasty
• 1:21:16
  Speaker 1: nasty change up though he's a change up. Artist that's
• 1:21:19
  Speaker 1: his signature. Pitch it falls off a, cliff AND i
• 1:21:23
  Speaker 1: mean everyone is focused here on like The Jonah thongs
• 1:21:26
  Speaker 1: and The nolan McLain's from The New York, mets But
• 1:21:30
  Speaker 1: WINNAKERS i think right on that level with, them he
• 1:21:33
  Speaker 1: should be opening the season At TRIPLE. A and, yeah
• 1:21:37
  Speaker 1: he actually made an appearance already four and two thirds
• 1:21:40
  Speaker 1: innings with five k's and a, walk so he's right.
• 1:21:44
  Speaker 1: There great ground ball rate because of that change, Up
• 1:21:47
  Speaker 1: SO i think he's not Gonna he doesn't have quite
• 1:21:50
  Speaker 1: the ceiling as some of these other Guys i've talked,
• 1:21:51
  Speaker 1: about but this is like the solid number three rotation
• 1:21:56
  Speaker 1: arm that you need to be able to survive an entire.
• 1:22:00
  Speaker 1: Season AND i, mean oh, boohoo it's only a nine
• 1:22:02
  Speaker 1: and a HALF k, nine so gonna. Be he is
• 1:22:06
  Speaker 1: in top one hundred listed in like the back. End
• 1:22:08
  Speaker 1: BUT i think he's overlooked because of all the other
• 1:22:11
  Speaker 1: young arms In New york that there's still plenty of
• 1:22:14
  Speaker 1: arbitrage in terms of his price from both cards and
• 1:22:18
  Speaker 1: both dynasty fantasy leagues out. There so get on winninger,
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 1: now because again another guy who has a twenty twenty SEVEN.
• 1:22:26
  Speaker 1: Eta everything's pointing to he's gonna be pitching In queens
• 1:22:30
  Speaker 1: at some point this.
• 1:22:31
  Speaker 2: SEASON i think the other thing to call out is
• 1:22:34
  Speaker 2: he's got two seasons back to back now over one
• 1:22:37
  Speaker 2: hundred innings one hundred and fifteen to twenty twenty, four
• 1:22:39
  Speaker 2: one hundred and thirty, five and twenty twenty. Five and
• 1:22:41
  Speaker 2: so this is a guy that's got built up already
• 1:22:45
  Speaker 2: in the minor. Leagues and so to your, point later
• 1:22:47
  Speaker 2: in the, year he making a name for himself is
• 1:22:50
  Speaker 2: not a big. Question it's not like they're gonna have
• 1:22:52
  Speaker 2: to temper, it and that That mets rotation is not
• 1:22:56
  Speaker 2: really that exciting right. Now SO i think there's gonna
• 1:23:00
  Speaker 2: be gonna be. Opportunities so, YEAH i think this is
• 1:23:03
  Speaker 2: a good. Call seems like he's got some some big,
• 1:23:05
  Speaker 2: stuff and, YEAH i think he's gonna be a quick
• 1:23:09
  Speaker 2: riser as.
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  Speaker 1: Well SO i like this. Call do you want to
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  Speaker 1: do one more or are you coming? Back i'll just
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  Speaker 1: kind of, empty BUT i have left real. Quick so
• 1:23:18
  Speaker 1: my last kind of three people to highlight are Dider
• 1:23:21
  Speaker 1: pointes from The Atlanta. Braves was electric in. Spring everybody
• 1:23:26
  Speaker 1: was all over, him opened the season in the, bullpen
• 1:23:28
  Speaker 1: then went. DOWN i think he's going to be back
• 1:23:31
  Speaker 1: up here pretty, soon that The braves need. Him another
• 1:23:35
  Speaker 1: electric arm kind of in the vein Of Luindo, avila
• 1:23:38
  Speaker 1: WHO i was talking about, earlier but more control, That,
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  Speaker 1: LIKE i think the sky is almost limit For, pointes
• 1:23:45
  Speaker 1: but has also been a really popular name because that
• 1:23:47
  Speaker 1: spring training. Performance i'm just SAYING i believe. It so
• 1:23:51
  Speaker 1: whatever people are charging for Did Dyer, Pointes i'm buying
• 1:23:54
  Speaker 1: it BECAUSE i think there's still more. Upside the next
• 1:23:56
  Speaker 1: One's Mick abel from The Minnesota. Twins did not look
• 1:24:00
  Speaker 1: great in that relief appearance during the first, week but
• 1:24:04
  Speaker 1: should move back into a rotation spot and again looks
• 1:24:07
  Speaker 1: great in spring and The twins made wholesale changes to his.
• 1:24:11
  Speaker 1: Approach he really curbed his control or, controlled curbed the walk,
• 1:24:17
  Speaker 1: rate increased the. Control you don't want to be curbing the,
• 1:24:20
  Speaker 1: control big old. ARM i think a little bit more
• 1:24:24
  Speaker 1: variance there because of what you've seen traditionally From, able
• 1:24:27
  Speaker 1: BUT i think he's going to have all the opportunity
• 1:24:29
  Speaker 1: in the world to figure it out From. Minnesota so
• 1:24:31
  Speaker 1: a big kind of strikeout name That i'm tracking For
• 1:24:35
  Speaker 1: fantasy and same thing for cards that like it's going
• 1:24:38
  Speaker 1: to be a little bit different because he's not going
• 1:24:40
  Speaker 1: to be in That twins, uniform but you're going to
• 1:24:42
  Speaker 1: see a little bit of a bump and people will
• 1:24:44
  Speaker 1: probably trying to offload His philly stuff From phillies. Collectors
• 1:24:48
  Speaker 1: last Name Bishop letson from The Milwaukee, brewers maybe a year,
• 1:24:54
  Speaker 1: early but this is another, big old right handed arm
• 1:24:58
  Speaker 1: that The brewers are developed being very, quickly AND i
• 1:25:01
  Speaker 1: think they've got enough dudes in front of him that
• 1:25:03
  Speaker 1: he's not going to be seeing action this. Year but
• 1:25:06
  Speaker 1: if everything falls, right you could be Seeing let'son up
• 1:25:09
  Speaker 1: later this. Year but even if he, ISN'T i think
• 1:25:12
  Speaker 1: it's now is the time to be getting in on
• 1:25:14
  Speaker 1: both the cards and from a dynasty, perspective before he
• 1:25:17
  Speaker 1: really starts getting on a raised. RADAR i know you've
• 1:25:21
  Speaker 1: been into all The japanese stuff, recently So i'm gonna
• 1:25:24
  Speaker 1: bounce back to you BECAUSE i know you've probably got
• 1:25:26
  Speaker 1: a couple socketed here for in terms Of japanese, investments
• 1:25:30
  Speaker 1: you're making over twenty twenty, six.
• 1:25:31
  Speaker 2: Right, Yep absolutely so all in there BECAUSE i think
• 1:25:35
  Speaker 2: there's really two main guys from a hitting perspective That
• 1:25:38
  Speaker 2: i'm looking, at And i'm gonna say ones for really
• 1:25:41
  Speaker 2: investing in over twenty six for next. Offseason the other
• 1:25:44
  Speaker 2: is probably investing over twenty six twenty seven for the
• 1:25:47
  Speaker 2: following off, season so you get a year and.
• 1:25:48
  Speaker 1: Two both were on THE wbc.
• 1:25:51
  Speaker 2: Team both also on the Hand Chen tigers, team and
• 1:25:56
  Speaker 2: so we're talking About Taouki saito And Shoto marshita for The.
• 1:26:03
  Speaker 2: Tigers There, sato If i'm going to give you a
• 1:26:06
  Speaker 2: comp it's hobby. Bias he's got some spunk to. Him
• 1:26:08
  Speaker 2: he was THE mvp last, year hit over forty home.
• 1:26:11
  Speaker 2: Runs this guy is an absolute all.
• 1:26:13
  Speaker 1: Star he's a.
• 1:26:14
  Speaker 2: PERSONALITY i think he's got, big big, things and he's
• 1:26:19
  Speaker 2: the kind of guy that gets. Posted AND i think
• 1:26:21
  Speaker 2: he's the kind of the in between of what we saw.
• 1:26:24
  Speaker 1: With akamotive And.
• 1:26:25
  Speaker 2: Murakami murakami had these strikeout issues and. Concerns we don't really.
• 1:26:28
  Speaker 1: Have that With.
• 1:26:29
  Speaker 2: Saito akimoto's got more of a floor and we've got
• 1:26:33
  Speaker 2: more than that Was. SAITO i actually like him better
• 1:26:36
  Speaker 2: than both of those guys coming, Over SO i think
• 1:26:39
  Speaker 2: there this is a, big big opportunity for this kind of.
• 1:26:42
  Speaker 2: Guy so if you're in one of those open universe,
• 1:26:45
  Speaker 2: Leagues sato is a guy to go. After if you're
• 1:26:48
  Speaker 2: in the card. Market his market is actually been picking
• 1:26:51
  Speaker 2: it up SINCE, wbc which is the kind of the downfall.
• 1:26:54
  Speaker 2: Here it's going to drop back off because we have
• 1:26:57
  Speaker 2: recency bias and so hold on that will drop drop back.
• 1:27:01
  Speaker 2: Off morashita a little bit further, off LIKE i, said
• 1:27:05
  Speaker 2: but an absolute athletic. Body, uh this is a guy
• 1:27:08
  Speaker 2: that really really shows his. Stuff he is a you,
• 1:27:14
  Speaker 2: know absolute star in the. Outfield he plays right field
• 1:27:18
  Speaker 2: most of the, time but can play center. Left you,
• 1:27:22
  Speaker 2: know last year he was a guy that managed twenty three,
• 1:27:26
  Speaker 2: homers hitting two seventy five as a twenty four year.
• 1:27:28
  Speaker 2: Old this, year let's just say he's already off to
• 1:27:31
  Speaker 2: a hot. Start five, games two, homers hitting four twenty
• 1:27:35
  Speaker 2: one with a slash line four twenty five seven thirty seven.
• 1:27:39
  Speaker 2: Slugging that's a two fifty THREE wrc plus because five
• 1:27:42
  Speaker 2: games is a. Sample so these are guys that are
• 1:27:46
  Speaker 2: absolutely carry that team and they're gonna be big names
• 1:27:49
  Speaker 2: over the next few. Years The tigers probably will not
• 1:27:51
  Speaker 2: post both of them at one point in. Time they're
• 1:27:53
  Speaker 2: gonna spread him out because, hey you get to think
• 1:27:55
  Speaker 2: they have to sell tickets over there as. Well but
• 1:27:58
  Speaker 2: both of them have made it known that they want
• 1:28:00
  Speaker 2: to come over to THE Mlb sato, Especially so both
• 1:28:03
  Speaker 2: of these guys are absolute. Pickups you, know, if LIKE i,
• 1:28:06
  Speaker 2: said if you have an Open Universe. League from a fantasy,
• 1:28:08
  Speaker 2: PERSPECTIVE i would own both of, them and from a
• 1:28:12
  Speaker 2: card collecting, perspective both of. Them sato's in twenty twenty one,
• 1:28:18
  Speaker 2: Products morshida is in twenty twenty three. Products the just
• 1:28:24
  Speaker 2: for all You japanese collectors out, there twenty twenty one
• 1:28:26
  Speaker 2: was the first year OF Npb Tops, chrome and so
• 1:28:31
  Speaker 2: that's like the set that's you, know Even murakami is
• 1:28:34
  Speaker 2: not a. Rookie he's considered a rookie in. There is
• 1:28:36
  Speaker 2: not a rookies considered in there because that's the First
• 1:28:39
  Speaker 2: Tops chrome cards that they, had and so but that
• 1:28:43
  Speaker 2: is the rookie For, sato and that's gonna drive quite
• 1:28:47
  Speaker 2: the pretty pinning when he's coming.
• 1:28:49
  Speaker 1: Over with those.
• 1:28:50
  Speaker 2: Cards so if you get a chance to pick up
• 1:28:52
  Speaker 2: maybe some hobby box or something like that a few hundred,
• 1:28:55
  Speaker 2: bucks they're actually quite. Even picking up probably the most
• 1:28:58
  Speaker 2: popular product over the last few years over there is
• 1:29:01
  Speaker 2: a lot different than picking up A bowman product over.
• 1:29:04
  Speaker 1: Here, yeah, WELL i mean you'll find you'll still find
• 1:29:08
  Speaker 1: Those Tops CHROME mpb And TOPS npb twenty twenty three
• 1:29:13
  Speaker 1: and The blister packs At. Walgreens they show up all the.
• 1:29:16
  Speaker 1: TIME i don't know where they come, from but they
• 1:29:19
  Speaker 1: appear every once in a while at Every walgreens THAT i.
• 1:29:21
  Speaker 1: See so if you are a Degenerate walgreens baseball card
• 1:29:25
  Speaker 1: purchaser like, us look at those blister packs that have
• 1:29:28
  Speaker 1: THE mpp cards because they will have those and a
• 1:29:32
  Speaker 1: lot of the other guys that have come over that you,
• 1:29:34
  Speaker 1: know The, yamamotos The Roki, sasaki's The murakami's in there
• 1:29:38
  Speaker 1: can go for a decent amount if you hit a parallel,
• 1:29:42
  Speaker 1: especially so something to keep an eye out in terms
• 1:29:45
  Speaker 1: of retail environments. Too, okay, WELL i think we gave
• 1:29:47
  Speaker 1: everybody a great list of. Names i'm sure that you
• 1:29:51
  Speaker 1: AND i just showed all the cards to each other
• 1:29:54
  Speaker 1: in terms of our fantasy leagues and what our watch
• 1:29:57
  Speaker 1: lists look. Like so a fun exercise in that aspect.
• 1:30:01
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