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Ep. 96 : Prospects We Love · Cards & Categories

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  Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome everybody to episode ninety six of Cards
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  Speaker 1: and Categories. I'm Mike Coolard from Masball, joined as always
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  Speaker 1: by my very good friend Jeremy Brewer, also from Masball.
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  Speaker 1: How you doing tonight, buddy, You survive in the heat wave?
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  Speaker 1: You still intact or have you melted into a pile
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  Speaker 1: of goo?
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  Speaker 2: Mostly melted into a pile of goo. It is a
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  Speaker 2: wonderful heat wave. We have officially hit Midsummer, which is
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  Speaker 2: great for baseball. But you know how I really feel
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  Speaker 2: is I feel like Pete crow Armstrong catching the fly
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  Speaker 2: ball at the wall, no cares in the world make
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  Speaker 2: it look easy, and letting somebodytack him from second all
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  Speaker 2: the way home. So I'm ready to go. Like I said,
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  Speaker 2: no cares in the world.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, we do have to give Mason went a
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  Speaker 1: little bit if credit for his speed that there's a
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  Speaker 1: good chance that he could have done that just about anyways.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, PCA did not help him out there. I
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  Speaker 1: don't think we can speak tonight as we're talking tonight
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  Speaker 1: on June twenty fifth, and the Cubs are just absolutely
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  Speaker 1: pounding the Cardinals. But it's good for two games of
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  Speaker 1: the series. The n All Central looks great. It should
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  Speaker 1: be shaping up for a fun and l race there.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I probably should have checked the score
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  Speaker 2: before I started talking, But it's okay. It's okay.
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  Speaker 1: So what we're gonna do on this episode for the
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  Speaker 1: main segment is talk about I just labeled it prospects
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  Speaker 1: We love, so guys that we've really been digging. I
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  Speaker 1: think we're in a little bit of a lull in
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  Speaker 1: between just some of the main prospects coming up, and
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  Speaker 1: then especially at this point, we're just a few weeks
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  Speaker 1: out from the All Star breaks, so they want to
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  Speaker 1: keep the teams that is, probably want to keep some
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  Speaker 1: of their best prospects down so they can play in
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  Speaker 1: the futures Game. And just like it's a natural breaking
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  Speaker 1: point and really no great reason less an injury to
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  Speaker 1: bring up a top prospect. So I think a few
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  Speaker 1: of these guys that we're going to talk about will
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  Speaker 1: be deeper stashes, you know, more of Dynasty League plays.
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  Speaker 1: But we've also got some that are probably going to
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  Speaker 1: be right on the cusp as we get past the
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  Speaker 1: All Star break. And I mean we've got some pictures
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  Speaker 1: in there too, So it only takes one or two
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  Speaker 1: injuries for some of these guys to really make their
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  Speaker 1: way to the major leagues from even double A or
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  Speaker 1: maybe even one guy we got at high A that
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  Speaker 1: might be making that jump, although we'll get to it
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  Speaker 1: we cross that bridge, because I don't know how much
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  Speaker 1: longer he'll be down there. Okay, but before we get
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  Speaker 1: into that, make sure to check out those show notes
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  Speaker 1: for all of the links that we're going to discuss here,
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  Speaker 1: and you will have the links to rasball dot com
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  Speaker 1: where you can sign up for a subscription get you
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  Speaker 1: through the rest of the season. I've been using it.
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  Speaker 1: It's been really great for the streamin ator rate recently.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, Rudy's got the algorithm set to where helps
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  Speaker 1: us navigate around some of the warm weather stuff. And
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  Speaker 1: I've noticed on the pitchers, especially, lots more negatives than
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  Speaker 1: positives there used to be, just because the wind's been
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  Speaker 1: howling all across the country and those temperatures are heating up.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe new bag of balls too, No, I know, there's
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  Speaker 1: a it's mostly the heat. So it's the fun part
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  Speaker 1: of the summer for baseball. Let's get into some of
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  Speaker 1: the news and notes that we're about to discuss, and
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  Speaker 1: we've got some big injuries. We've got some big call ups,
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  Speaker 1: nothing bigger than off the top outfielder Corbin Carroll from
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  Speaker 1: the Arizona Diamondbacks beamed in the wrist and then he
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  Speaker 1: played a game. There's kind of a will he won't
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  Speaker 1: he with the injured list as the initial kind of
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  Speaker 1: scans only showed inflammation on Carroll's risks. They went back
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  Speaker 1: to the full MRI and found a chip fracture in
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  Speaker 1: that left wrist. So at this point we don't necessarily
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  Speaker 1: have a great timetable. It could be a couple of weeks,
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  Speaker 1: it could be four weeks, six weeks, eight weeks. But
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  Speaker 1: we're talking rist injury for one of the hottest players
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  Speaker 1: in baseball. Before he went down, he was carrying those
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  Speaker 1: leagues with twenty homers, ten stone bases, a two fifty
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  Speaker 1: five three forty one, five seventy three slash line corporn
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  Speaker 1: Carroll was back and what do you think he will
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  Speaker 1: be now after this wrist injury?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Risk injuries are not good. I mean that's another
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  Speaker 2: that's I mean, you get you get a lot of
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  Speaker 2: injuries that you come back with and you can kind
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  Speaker 2: of get get back in rhythm pretty quickly. But you know,
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  Speaker 2: a risk injury is really one of those that it
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  Speaker 2: seems to be that like the general principles, like the
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  Speaker 2: rest of that season is almost like lost, Like they
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  Speaker 2: come back and it just takes time to like get
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  Speaker 2: back that quick twitch strength in the in the wrist.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm worried about Carol the rest of this year, right.
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  Speaker 2: I don't doubt the talent, I just doubt the recovery.
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  Speaker 2: And it's hard to tell because to your point, like
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  Speaker 2: looks like inflammation missed the actual fracture, Like how about
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  Speaker 2: is it really we don't know. Not a lot of
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  Speaker 2: reports out in that, but I think it's gonna be
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  Speaker 2: out a while. I'd peg it at maybe six to
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  Speaker 2: eight weeks, and I'm just I'm not confident he's gonna
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  Speaker 2: come back extremely strong, at least from a power perspective,
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  Speaker 2: and that's where he's he's actually carried this year is
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  Speaker 2: that power speed combo and more on the power side.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, I'm definitely down on this one. It's really unfortunate,
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  Speaker 2: but I'm I'm gonna take him down to market, and honestly,
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  Speaker 2: if he doesn't come back and really take things off,
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  Speaker 2: I gotta knock him down a few marks even next year,
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  Speaker 2: Like and these are the ones that just seem to
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  Speaker 2: for hitters can linger. They absolutely can't linger until you fully,
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  Speaker 2: fully let it heal. You would like to think that's
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  Speaker 2: not gonna happen next year, Like I said, I want
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  Speaker 2: to see him healthy at the end of this year
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  Speaker 2: for sure before I'm in invest in big draft capital
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  Speaker 2: next year.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and you do also have to wonder what it does,
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  Speaker 1: like you said, to that power level going forward, because
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  Speaker 1: he reached just another tier, like one Soto level tier
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  Speaker 1: of fifteen point five percent barrel rate, fifty percent hard rate,
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  Speaker 1: a max ev of one fifteen point eight this year
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  Speaker 1: out of Carrol, he looked like your middle of the
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  Speaker 1: order hitter with the possibility to steal fifty bases. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it really had put himself into probably top five, you know,
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  Speaker 1: you conversation if you would like drafted for twenty twenty
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  Speaker 1: six now, I think your top five before this injury
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  Speaker 1: would have easily been Otani with Judge Ellie Carrol, And
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  Speaker 1: so like, do are you still maybe worried about first
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  Speaker 1: round or is this also you're you love buying broken
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  Speaker 1: assets a lot. Is this a broken asset opportunity too
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  Speaker 1: for somebody else that's wired about this risk.
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  Speaker 2: I I don't think so, and you are absolutely right,
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  Speaker 2: I have a problem. I do live like buying those broken,
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  Speaker 2: broken players, but not the top three to five rounds.
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  Speaker 2: I draw a line there. I will actually go the
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  Speaker 2: other side. I want to make sure those guys that
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  Speaker 2: by early are gonna be healthy and I'm gonna be
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  Speaker 2: able to rely on it if I have injury concerns,
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  Speaker 2: I do not want to invest a first or second
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  Speaker 2: round pick for sure on those guys. So, like I said,
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  Speaker 2: if I'm not seeing the health, there's enough other guys
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  Speaker 2: that I'm willing to like. Yeah, it might not be
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  Speaker 2: the peak performance, but if I'm getting Ronald Dacunya instead
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  Speaker 2: of Corby and Carroll, like, i'd really have Carol fully healthy.
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  Speaker 2: But I'll take a guy that I know is healthy.
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  Speaker 2: And I guess Acuna is maybe a bad example. It's
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  Speaker 2: not necessarily the epitome of health here, but right now healthy.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, I think that's totally fair there on Carol.
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  Speaker 1: So I let's see kind of where it goes. But
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  Speaker 1: I do agree it is much a kind of wait
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  Speaker 1: and pause with Carol until we figure out maybe some
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  Speaker 1: of those next steps because we've seen the ceiling. It's tremendous.
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  Speaker 1: But this is guy who's also had the shoulder injuries,
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  Speaker 1: you know, had that slump at the beginning of last year.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's going to be a lot of up
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  Speaker 1: and down because risk injuries are tough, tough, tough. As
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  Speaker 1: you said, next injury, we have another guy who was
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  Speaker 1: playing really well and was I mean he'd put the
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  Speaker 1: braves kind of in sniffing distance of a playoff race.
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  Speaker 1: I'm talking about Chris Sale going down with a fractured
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  Speaker 1: rib cage after diving and making a play in the field.
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  Speaker 1: Still stayed in there and faced a couple hitters, including
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  Speaker 1: striking out Pete Alonzo with the injury. So I mean,
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  Speaker 1: this is the guy who is thirty six years old,
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  Speaker 1: was cruising again through eighty nine and a third innings
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  Speaker 1: with an eleven and a half K nine A two
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  Speaker 1: fifty two era A two sixty five fIF He looked
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  Speaker 1: like Cy Young, Chris Young, Chris Sale going forward. So
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  Speaker 1: what are you doing here? Because this is another kind
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  Speaker 1: of really scary injury considering the amount of torque that
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  Speaker 1: Chris Sale has always put on his joints when you're
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  Speaker 1: putting that on the rib too. I guess I didn't
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  Speaker 1: also mention this with Carol's like the d backs are
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  Speaker 1: kind of falling out of the race, you have to
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  Speaker 1: think the braves will start be falling out of the
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  Speaker 1: race with this sail injury. You start getting territory of
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  Speaker 1: does the team just kind of take it easy and
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  Speaker 1: slow play them the rest of the season, or do
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  Speaker 1: you think this is something where Chris sell is a
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  Speaker 1: bulldog after seeing him face those players after the injury
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  Speaker 1: and you think he can clau his way back quickly.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm really really mixed with them, because, like, if
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  Speaker 2: you actually watch the injury, it didn't look that bad.
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  Speaker 2: It didn't look like he really hurt himself. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: first of all, Chris saille diving is probably just not
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  Speaker 2: ideal with that lanky frame allbums. But like I just
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  Speaker 2: I looked at it, watched it. He didn't look to
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  Speaker 2: have that much pain, and so I'm like, how bad
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  Speaker 2: can it really be? And he is a bit of
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  Speaker 2: a bulldog kind of guy, and he's also thirty six,
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  Speaker 2: it's not like he's got a ton of years left.
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  Speaker 2: It's like, Okay, let's babe him through this and you know,
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  Speaker 2: try to get back next year, like we've seen with
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  Speaker 2: you know, some of these guys like Verlander and de
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  Speaker 2: Grum and you know litany of older pictures where it's
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  Speaker 2: just like you're trying to get the best of those
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  Speaker 2: late years. I get sales been fantastic. I don't have
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  Speaker 2: any reasonable leave next year. You're after he's gonna just
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  Speaker 2: fall off. But like you know, he's not a spring
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  Speaker 2: chicken here, and so like I I kind of feel
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  Speaker 2: like you have to hold on to him and see
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  Speaker 2: what the reports are because it didn't look that bad.
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  Speaker 2: But I'm to your you've got the point here on
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  Speaker 2: the lanky frame, like there's I mean, there's just not
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  Speaker 2: a lot of room for him to be baby in
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  Speaker 2: some some uh you know rib injury here, so uh
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  Speaker 2: very mixed. I'm probably sitting pat if I got Chris Sale.
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  Speaker 2: But you just have to help he gets back sooner
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  Speaker 2: sooner than later. And it wasn't really a major major issue.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think I totally agree that not much you
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  Speaker 1: can do. I think I might be a little bit
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  Speaker 1: more uh up on what Chrisale might be doing the
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  Speaker 1: rest of his career because I think he sees how
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  Speaker 1: close the Hall of Fame is. You see kind of
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  Speaker 1: how long Grandy Johnson lasted in his career. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know if Chrisale kind of wants to push him to
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  Speaker 1: itself to that level too, of especially chasing a ring
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  Speaker 1: and trying to find a spot to just kind of
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  Speaker 1: enter a different eschelon I think of starting pitcher than
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  Speaker 1: some of his peers. So let's move on to the
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  Speaker 1: next injury. We have catcher Adley Retchman of the Baltimore Orioles,
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  Speaker 1: who just as he was starting to find a groove
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  Speaker 1: in June, he was hitting three oh nine, three eighty one,
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  Speaker 1: five oh nine, that's a one fifty three WRC plus
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  Speaker 1: over sixty three played appearances, had popped three homers after
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  Speaker 1: you know, taking all the way through the end of
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  Speaker 1: May to hit five before that. So he was starting
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  Speaker 1: to find a groove. Goes down with the strained oblique.
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  Speaker 1: It's the left one, and so you've got a really
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  Speaker 1: mix of factors here between. He's a catcher, he's a
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  Speaker 1: switch hitter. He's got this oblique injury. The Orioles are
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  Speaker 1: falling further and further out of the race every day.
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  Speaker 1: So this is another one where you're starting to push, Hey,
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  Speaker 1: does this cape Adley down for a long time or
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  Speaker 1: are you maybe looking to actually kind of pick him up,
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  Speaker 1: kind of poke the wheels on ADLEI because you liked
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  Speaker 1: some of the changes he started to make around June first.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think this is one that it definitely reads
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  Speaker 2: of the not so bad injury. You know, his first
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  Speaker 2: described as abdominal tightness, and then a few days later
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  Speaker 2: is on the IL saying Hey won't be back before
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  Speaker 2: the All Star break, which isn't that terribly far away.
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  Speaker 2: So like, I think we're missing Adlie for a few
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  Speaker 2: weeks here, they're going to make sure that getting the
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  Speaker 2: extra you know, rest the Ulstra break and he's back.
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  Speaker 2: I've always liked Adley's swing. I've always thought he was
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  Speaker 2: one of the best pure hitters from a catching perspective
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  Speaker 2: out in the game. So I I still I'm I'm
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  Speaker 2: still liking what I'm seeing from Adlie. There's a lot
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  Speaker 2: of other options out there. The catcher position has really
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  Speaker 2: consolidated the overall talent, So don't get me wrong, Like
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  Speaker 2: I had Ady in a late league and I somehow
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  Speaker 2: was able to pick up Drake Baldwin so somebody's asleep
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  Speaker 2: at the wheel in that league. But I think there's
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  Speaker 2: options out there that you're not hurt too bad. But
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  Speaker 2: I'm not I'm not cutting addly Here's he's definitely an
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  Speaker 2: ale can that I'm looking to cut somebody else and
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  Speaker 2: get him back because I do think that he's got
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  Speaker 2: a lot more in the tank.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I think that's fair. Let's move on to
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  Speaker 1: another backstop injury, because I mean, I think I jinxed
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  Speaker 1: this entire pool when I was writing about the catchers
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  Speaker 1: this past Saturday on my Way for Wire column, because
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  Speaker 1: I mentioned how deep catcher has been this year and
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  Speaker 1: how there's really no need to pick any up, and
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  Speaker 1: now we've got two that have fallen in the same week.
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  Speaker 1: Ivon Herrero also got injured for the Saint Louis Cardinals.
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  Speaker 1: He has a strained hamstring, and he went to with
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  Speaker 1: a knee injury earlier in the year, so it's a
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  Speaker 1: second stint on the il. He's been fantastic when he's
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  Speaker 1: been playing. Honestly, he's been playing more DH than he
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  Speaker 1: has been catcher, just because the bat has been so
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  Speaker 1: superlutive for the Cardinals. It's been a three to twenty
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  Speaker 1: three ninety two five thirty three slash line with a
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  Speaker 1: one fifty nine WRC plus is what that clocks in
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  Speaker 1: at a k rate below twenty percent, like a nine percent,
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  Speaker 1: nine and a half percent walk rate, a great hard
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  Speaker 1: hit rate, a barrel rate in the double digits. I
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  Speaker 1: mean that is a DH. So, but we've got the
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  Speaker 1: second injury now for Herrera. He's also kind of been
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  Speaker 1: banged up here and there as he's kind of you know,
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  Speaker 1: gone through his career. Are you worried about this second
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  Speaker 1: injury on the season for Herrera or do you like
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  Speaker 1: what you see in terms of a catcher that's a
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  Speaker 1: DH and how valuable that can be for fantasy?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? I like him overall. Yeah. Injuries or maybe a
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  Speaker 2: little concerning, but they're not. They don't appear this point
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  Speaker 2: to be like a nagging scenario, you know, or something
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  Speaker 2: that's uh, consistently the ham string or consistently the back,
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  Speaker 2: like a Christian Yelle situation where it's like how far
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  Speaker 2: is gonna get for hurts his back type of thing
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  Speaker 2: that they do generally seem to be you know, unrelated injuries.
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  Speaker 2: So I'll get in the benefit of the doubt for now.
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  Speaker 2: He does absolutely look to be coming into his own
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  Speaker 2: Like I you know, even as a Cardinals fan, I
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  Speaker 2: did not see this coming this this well, and under
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  Speaker 2: the hood it looks pretty gosh darting good. And so
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  Speaker 2: he's getting he's getting at bats, he's he's taken advantage,
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  Speaker 2: he's showing the power. Like we're talking about a guy
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  Speaker 2: that's showing twenty homer power, uh from the catcher position.
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  Speaker 2: That it's hard to say he's a three hundred hitter,
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  Speaker 2: but like a two eighty hitter, Like he just looks
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  Speaker 2: like he's spraying the ball very very well, and he
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  Speaker 2: used takes takes advantage when a pitcher leaves something up there.
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  Speaker 2: So I like Carrera long term, Like I don't think
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  Speaker 2: he has a massive ceiling, but like if we're talking
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  Speaker 2: like catcher six through nine, yeah, I'm very very happy
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  Speaker 2: with that. So long term happy, short term sad, but
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  Speaker 2: you know he'll be back.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I've been really loving Herrera. I think he was
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  Speaker 1: one of my favorite pickups to start this season. Let's
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  Speaker 1: just like, after you saw how hot he was in spring,
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  Speaker 1: you could just there was something cooking there the entire
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  Speaker 1: time that I think he's a superlative bat, like I said,
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  Speaker 1: and so I'm I would stick with him as much
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  Speaker 1: as you can. Next injury we've got is Jake Berger
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  Speaker 1: going down with an oblique strain, who since his recall
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  Speaker 1: from Triple A on May twelfth, has been exactly Jake
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  Speaker 1: Berger in two forty three average, so a tick below
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  Speaker 1: his typical two fifty. But he had hit seven homers
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  Speaker 1: in thirty five games, that's just around like a twenty
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  Speaker 1: eight homer ish pace, and had put up fourteen runs
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  Speaker 1: seventeen rbi, that's around eighty ish. So like, that's exactly
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  Speaker 1: Jake Berger, somebody that you're stashing away because you like
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  Speaker 1: the bat and what he's shown since his recall.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't think he's irreplaceable by any means, like
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  Speaker 2: Cornfielder like, and that's always who Jake Berger's been. Like,
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  Speaker 2: he's he's got power, doesn't hit for an average empty
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  Speaker 2: in the speed column, even though he's faster than you
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: would think. And I have a little like miffed to
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: the fact that he definitely looked hurt on the swing
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: immediately out of the game. But yes, they're saying minimal
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: Iel stay, I'm not buying that, to be frank, And
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: so I think he's gonna be out for a little
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: bit longer. I say more All Star break than anything.
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: But yeah, I think he's definitely a guy that you
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: hold on to and as long as you know you're
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: get into there's probably ten homers in a two fifty
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: average the rest of the way with some decent RBIs
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: that's who Jake Burger is once you get him back
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: after the All Star Break.
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: Yep, I think that's a very fair assessment. Okay, let's
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: move on to some call up. So we've got Chase
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: Burns making his debut in Cincinnati with the Reds just yesterday.
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: I don't know how much did the start you were
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: able to catch, but looked fantastic on the mound, ninety
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: six mile an hour fastball with just a wicked, wicked slider.
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: Struck out eight in his debut over five innings, including
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: striking out his first six batters that he faced. It
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: was a tough draw against the Yankees at home, so
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: you know, the era looks a little boded here, but
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: the FIP is two forty eight and he looks like
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: a superlative pitcher. That's my word of the night, I
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: think is superlative. It's like the fourth time I've already
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: used it. Burns is nasty, dude, Like this is some
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: fantastic stuff. I think it's hard to not overstate how
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: quickly you've got to move him up the board. It's
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: the same thing with Missy Raski at this point, where
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: like it's so nasty, it's so overwhelming, You've got to
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: like move these guys pretty far up your rankings. And
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: so I don't think you can entertain the Burns like
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: owner and your dynasty right now, given just how quickly
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: he came through the system and how nasty he was.
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: But if you had to, like what would you shell out?
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: Especially because we're starting to get into to sell trade season,
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: So I think it is important to start considering. Is
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: Chase Burns like one of those guys where like you
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: would feel comfortable making him your number one going into
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: twenty twenty six? Yeah?
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: Am I comform link in my number one? Probably not?
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: I don't want to, But there's there's worse bets out there.
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: Like he does all the things you like. He has
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: a three pitch mix, and I think the change up
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: looked better than people thought it was going to be.
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: And I think that's that's a big reason I'm willing
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: to entertain it. The control has always been there, always
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: been a good job of keeping on the round and
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: just looks to be overpowering and that slighter is nasty
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: and so like he's got all the ingredients. And I
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: personally think that I maybe underestimated Burns solely because of Cincinnati,
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: not because of Burns himself, and like I just I
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: have a tendency to stay away from Cincinnati pictures, Like
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: it just has never seemed to really work out for
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: anybody coming through that system. But I think you have to, like,
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: if you're looking long term, you have to be paying
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: up like he's a top fifteen to twenty pitcher. If
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: you're like in a Dynasty league, that's the level I
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: think you have to be paying. And if you're gonna
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: try to get him now, you're probably paying top ten prices.
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: Like that's I think what you have to pay because
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: of the longevity, the link, the age, and he's one
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: of those guys that if you're gonna tell me in
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: the next few years he's a top five pitcher, I'm
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: not gonna argue, Like all the ingredients are there, it's
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: just does he put it all together consistently once the
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: league is a chance to see him, Like do they adapt?
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: Is there something about his sequencing or the way he uh,
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: you know, he doesn't play the change up, doesn't really
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: truly develop the way it looks like it has. Like
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: there's a lot of questions, but I'm not gonna argue
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: against anybody that says he could be a top five
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: pitcher in this league. And I think the same thing
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: with Miserowski, Like both of those guys right now, Like
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: Miserowski was again brilliant tonight, Like you can't argue that
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: there's a ton of value. And that's what's so interesting
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: with pitching right now is these guys can come up
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: and just be electric and they're just they're running up
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: the board because pitching has been a landmine this year
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: with injuries like the reliable that's falling apart, Like I mean,
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: how many Baily overshares that I've got that have you know,
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: shot me in the in the in the foot, Like
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: it's been a challenge and so you gotta you gotta
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: look that, let that youth go and see what can happen.
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: So by Burns if you haven't, if he's not available.
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: He should not be available anywhere at this point. But
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: if he is, somehow stop listening, go pick them up,
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: then come back please and finish.
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: Off the pop. Yeah, I think you're totally right on
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: Burns that the more and more I see him and
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: you just kind of look at how fast pictures come
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: and go and flame out, like you've got to get
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: in on it quick. And I do think that this
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: new breed of pictures coming through has a little bit
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: better understanding of how to stay healthy. Knock on wood.
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: Just it's totally anecdotal, but you look at schemes and
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: you just look at like the warm up routine that
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: he had and kind of what they ran him through
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: in college that I do wonder if some of these
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: college players that are coming through systems so quickly just
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: have a really good understanding of that these college programs
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: have become so advanced just analytically and have like the
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: wherewithal to just really dive into some of these injury
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: issues too, that like you can see the pedigree of
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: the players coming through from college has really, I feel like,
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: ratchet up a few notches. And I don't know if
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: it's just because like the past few draft classes have
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: been pretty solid or what. But it does feel like
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: the NIL money that's flowing through in Cuba and going
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: into college baseball is attracting more guys to go that route.
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: And also because there's so much money in it, like
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: these colleges aren't such a highly competitive environment that like
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: I would guarantee that Wake Force's baseball, like OPS department,
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: quote unquote, is like sharper than what the White Sox
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: are working with half the time, You know what I mean?
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's I was I'm going to take a divergence
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: here and I won't name drop anybody, but I was
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: sitting in a discussion with a Division I athletic director
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: just a few days ago. Don't ask questions why that happened,
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: long story, but we were talking about the NIL and
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: the actual perception of how the world's changed and the
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: are now truly assets. They're like actual assets to the
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: universities because of what they can bring in and they
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: have to protect that in so many ways, and so
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: they are just being walked through. They are being given
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: every tool available to be successful. So I think you
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: have a point there that like they are getting that treatment.
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: And then I also think when they get to you know,
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: the professional ranks. Teams recognize that, and they recognize the
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: fragility of pitching. And so if you are showing those
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: results in the minors and you're showing you can do it,
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: I'm going to capitalize now. I'm going to capitalize now.
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: I'm not going to try to get you to perfection
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: and then stretch out your career because it's it's unpredictable.
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: The arms don't hold up necessarily the way they always have.
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: And so if I know you're healthy and I know
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: you're striking guys out and getting outs, I need to
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: use that. And so teams have been a lot more
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: aggressive in promoting promoting pitchers.
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: Look at that segue, let's talk about Didier Fuentes. Who
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: I mean this guy. Until you had talked about him
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: in our L Least preview pod back when we were
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: doing all of our preseason work, he wasn't necessarily on
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: my radar, But once you started getting into him, I
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: had fallen in love. And he turned twenty years old
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: three days later. He made his debut and it was okay,
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: like it was a pretty solid debut. Really got lit
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: up tonight at the Mets. But I don't know if
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: I would have been using twenty year old Didier Fuentes
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: against the New York Mets tonight. I think he lines
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: up for a two start next week. This stuff is nasty.
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: This is another nasty fastball, another great slider. The curveball
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: is got great shape. It's gonna take, I think a
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: little bit of work to harness it, because especially in
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: that first start when it was at Miami, he was
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: cruising until he hung one of the curves to Augustin Ramirez,
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: who then parked it right into left field. So that's
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: gonna be probably like the biggest hurdle that I think
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: Flints has got to get over. On top of just
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: being so young. As you know, he's got a really
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: great chance to stick in this Atlanta rotation with Chris
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: sail Down, I had him as a pickup for enna
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: only and fifteen teamers this weekend. I think I'm still there.
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: Even with this performance at the Mets, I wouldn't have
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: started him there. I would actually add him in twelve
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: teamers two for this to start, just because you can
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: see it. The stuff plus is a one to seventeen
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: on the fastball, one oh seven on the slider, a
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: wanton on the curveball, and that was in his debut.
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: This is a great pitching organization, and I think he's
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: got at least until the All Star break to figure
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: out if he can stick in the rotation. What do
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: you think fwintest can do for the rest of twenty
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: twenty five.
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think you're on pace with with your assessment there.
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: The comp I'm gonna use, and not necessarily from a
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: pure pitch ability perspective, but just from a nastiness and
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: trying to figure things out perspective. As Kumar Rocker as
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: he came up last year, like his stuff was nasty,
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: I don't know that he always knew where it was going.
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: Like he wasn't necessarily pitching, he was more throwing. I
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: think that's kind of where we were with Fintos at
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: this point, is that he is nasty. He's gotten by
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: by that nasty stuff, and so now when he's hitting
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: the majors, like he's hit mature hitters that like they
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: can lay off of that and wait for their pitch,
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: and so he's gonna have to adjust to that, and
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: I think there's gonna be a longer adjustment period. But
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: to your point, this is an organization that knows what
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: they're doing, and like I I look at this a
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: little bit what they had done with a shaver waldrope
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: like a few guys where they gave him like a
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: cup of tea, So they kind of figured out, can
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: I stick send him back down. He's gonna work on
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: those things, the pitch ability, and then come back even better. Like,
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: I think there's a very bright future for for wind As.
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: I'm not necessarily jumping over to grab him in all
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: my leagues right now, but if i'm if I'm tight
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: on pitching, I think there's a lot worse choices than
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: for Windas. So I long term really really like him.
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: Short term, I think you kind of a spot streamer
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: at this point.
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I think that's that's all fair, and especially,
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: I mean, Dynasty, keep your situations, big big ad.
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: So yes, absolutely, you know that's you have to love
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: anybody come up with the Atlanta rotation with nasty stuff
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: being this young and having this kind of control, like yeah, Dynasty,
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: please please go pick him up.
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah exactly. Okay, Well let's move to some demotions that
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: we had, because it's also starting to get to a
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: point where, like you know, some of these players you're
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: getting into the heat of the summer. They just need
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: time to reset and rethink and just not try to
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: drag themselves through the weariness of like where we're at
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: halfway through the season. So first one we have is
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: Christian Campbell and Boston being sent down to Triple A wooster.
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: It was tough for Campbell overall. Where I mean, I
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: remember back to when he was first promoted. We were
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: a little surprised, just because it was a difficult spring
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: for him. And when it was all said and done,
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: is at a two twenty three three nineteen three forty
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: five slash line. That's an eighty six WRC plus for
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: his major league work so far. The biggest issue though,
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: he is a butcher with the glove. I don't know
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: if I necessarily gave credit to how poor he was,
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: just because when he was coming through you hear about
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: somebody being a utility man like Christian Campbell, and you
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: think that he can stick somewhere, especially second base. But
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: he was negative eight OAA on Baseball Savant, which is
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: pretty rough, and so they are sending him back to
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: Triple A to work at first base a little bit
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: hasn't played any first base down there yet, but I
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: think he's getting drills so that Campbell can be prepared
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: to possibly come up and take over the cold corner
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: in Tristan Cosas's instead. What are you doing in situations
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: where you've got Campbell? Are you stashing him on your
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: bench in the shallowest of leagues or is there a
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: league level where you feel comfortable cutting bait on Campbell
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: and kind of chalking this year up to rookie growing pains.
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah, this was a very interesting one to me because
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: going into the season I was kind of low on
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: Campbell when he was getting the well the contract, like
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: getting the start, getting the contract, all that stuff and
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: like and then he like was off this brilliant start, Like, oh,
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: must have been wrong. I must not have read this one.
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: And I'm like, I just thought he was too young,
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: too mature. I didn't see that he really had put
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: things all together kind of at that minor league level
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: to like fully just take off. And it was mainly
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: in kind of that power area. He just he seemed
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: a little overmatched and hadn't had that enough of bats
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: really at the at the trip to like, yeah, let's
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: do this and he has been so bad, like you
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: was saying, he's bad with the glove. If you look
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: at him since May first, he's he's got twenty hits
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: and one hundred and forty played appearances. That's a one
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: fifty nine average. It's a twenty nine WRC plus Like
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: that's that's impressive. Like to be able to play that
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: much games and not be sent down is something. And
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: I think he's got a lot of work to do
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: before they bring him back up. And so I think
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: he's still got enough hype because his season line is
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: not as bad because he was so hot for a
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: few weeks, but he's just looked absolutely lost, striking out
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: almost thirty percent of the time since May first, Like
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: he's he's got some struggles to work through. I think
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: long term, definitely a good player, definitely valuable. I think
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: he comes into his own. I think there's definitely the
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: potential there. But I think this minor league stay for
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: him is longer than people expect. And I'm looking if
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: I am in a single season league and I'm looking
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: to sell, I'm looking to sell him even though the
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: value is down.
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, No, I think that's fair because I think
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: I'm there too, where you just look at the savant page.
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: It's not yelling at you. And this is a guy
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: who flew through the minor leagues, so you wouldn't be
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: surprised if he just needs a tick more seasoning. And
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: the Red Sox haven't locked up to that long term contract,
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: they have a lot of reason to make sure that
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: he reaches that peak. Okay, let's move on to the
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: next emotion. It is in New York in Queens. As
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: the Mets have demoted Francisco Alvarez sent him down to
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: Triple A. And it's been a mixed bag here for Alvarez.
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: If you recall at the beginning of the season, he
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: missed a chunk of time because he went down with
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: a handmaid injury during spring training. I remember when that happened,
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: You and I were both like out And this is
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: exactly kind of why, because it just takes time for
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: handmate injuries to round back into form. Also another reason
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: to maybe be worried about Corby and Carroll at least
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: for the rest of twenty twenty five. And you can
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: see it just in the discrepancy between his like power output,
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: but then like the underlying stats still being pretty solid,
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: Like he's got a solid fifty percent hard hit rate,
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: He's hit the hardest ball that he has all year.
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: He's got a solid barrel rate that lines up with
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: his career career figures, and the strikeouts haven't been out
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: of bounds for Alvarez this year. The walk rates right
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: whar it has always been. But it just screams out
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: that you've got the ISO that's below one hundred. And
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: I think it's because he just doesn't have the strength
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: to kate to like keep the bat moving through contact
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: with the ball because of the la back of just
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: that wrist strength. So that's very prescriptive just from some
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: armchair quarterbacking. What do you think, is that like a
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: good reason why you stick away from these risk risk
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: injury guys or is there something else in Alvareze's profile
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: that might be concerning to you.
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: No, I think you're right. It just takes that time.
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: I mean, frankly, I was. I was very surprised to
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: see him sit down. Like since June first, he's hitting
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: two thirty eight, had two homers, I mean WRC plus
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: one o two, Like he's just average right now, and
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: so it just seemed odd, and I knew that Louis
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: Torrens was actually played can maybe above his capability, and
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: they're like, yeah, let's let's give that a shot. But
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: I was I was very surprised to see him sent down,
• 34:44
  Speaker 2: Like I didn't feel like he was struggling that that
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: mightily at the plate. I mean, he just he homeward
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: the day before I sent him down, like he was
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: doing decent even though he wasn't maybe doing Francisco Alvarez
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: a high, high level expectation. So yeah, I think it
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: is that kind of warning of those injuries. It's not
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: every time, but I'd say it feels like the majority
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: of the time injuries to the hand, the wrist, they
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: you come back, but you're not at the same level
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: as if you tweak a hamstring. You get healed there
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: when you come back, the kinetic chain, the hands, all
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: those things are still strong, they're still there, but there's
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: something about holding onto that wooden bat with a weak
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: hand or risk where you have to have a quick,
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: strong risk going through the zone that apparently is harder
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: to hit. When those things hurt, I guess it's it's
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: not a shock. Who'd have thunk that? So I'm perplexed here.
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: I'm not out on Alvarez completely is a long term asset,
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: but it's it's hard to and invest for the rest
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: of the year unless you're like a two catcher league
• 35:58
  Speaker 2: and you've lost a number of guys, like you've lost
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: Adlie and Francisco alf As. The last week here, Pereira,
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: we were just talking about how deep the pool is,
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: and now we've just lost three arguably two catcher league starters,
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: so we'll see.
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it ended up pretty quick. So that's the way
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: catchers go. So it should be an interesting weekend for
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: the waiver wires as I peruse what's available back there
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: on the catcher pool, because it might actually not be
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: much because people are pretty good about like really making
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: sure that they're owned at the proper levels because people
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: get desperate pretty quick for for backstops.
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah, trust me, I lost Alva ros in the league
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: and somebody snatched up Gary Sancho, like, oh geez, that
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: was like the only option. I'm like, I'm like, I
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: don't need to pay for this because nobody wants gear.
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: Somebody else took on my own. Geez, Well, now what
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: am I gonna do?
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean let me see, let's we'll do this.
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: We'll do this live where I'm gonna look and see
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: what we've got for possibilities, especially coming up into this
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: weekends waiver wires, Let's see we should I don't like
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: Carlson Vice, I mean, Ryan Jeffers is probably still out
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: there in a lot of places, so that's a good
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: one to consider. For some reason. There's still shares of
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: like Alejandro Kirk floating around, but maybe not anymore us
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: up to like past eighty percent. Yeah, it's thin. There
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: might just be Ryan Jeffers or die because at that
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: point you're starting to look at like Jonah Hihan, Gary
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: Sanchez and the likes. So good luck out there if
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: you've lost one of these catchers, because all the good
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: ones have been hoovered up. Okay, next emotion we have
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: is Ben Brown starting pitcher question mark for the Chicago
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: Cubs being sent down to Iowa as the e or
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: A just kind of got untenable. The underlying numbers have
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: been great, so ERA is at six thirteen right now
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: through seventy nine and a third, but the underlying numbers
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: had been fantastic, solid K nine of ten point three.
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: The walks were under control, hovering around three per nine.
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: The FIP is just around four. I can tell you
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: this is one of those where, like people, sometimes you
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: can get really in love with those underlying numbers, but
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: sometimes you gotta watch. I've watched enough Cubs games and
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: enough Ben Brown starts to know that this is the
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: type of profile. I think that doesn't have command because
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: when he misses with that fastball, it is a cookie
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: and people just have been teeing off on it. You
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: can see it right in the home run rate. It's
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: a fourteen percent home run rate, one and a half
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: per nine. That it There's something in his fastball. It
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: just does not fool major league hitters. And when he
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: leaves that in the zone, even if it's hurled in
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: there at the extreme velocities that he's working with, you know, he's, uh,
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: what was he clocking in at this year? Just around
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: ninety six ninety five point eight. It just doesn't work
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: if it doesn't have the right shape. Is there something
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: else maybe in Ben Brown that you like? Or am
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: I am I onto something here? No?
• 39:17
  Speaker 2: I think I think you are like his I think
• 39:20
  Speaker 2: one of the problems is, you know, in the in
• 39:21
  Speaker 2: this revolution of like spin rates and movement of like
• 39:28
  Speaker 2: he doesn't have a significant amount of movement on his pitches.
• 39:33
  Speaker 2: And so it's we talk about these guys like the
• 39:36
  Speaker 2: Chase burns your wint as we talked about Kumo Rocker,
• 39:38
  Speaker 2: like guys with crazy, crazy good stuff that when you
• 39:42
  Speaker 2: miss with that crazy slider, the guy's not still not
• 39:46
  Speaker 2: hitting or squaring it up. Brown when he misses, like
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: that thing's not moving that like that's a beach ball
• 39:53
  Speaker 2: up there. And I think that's kind of what where
• 39:55
  Speaker 2: he struggled is like, yeah, controls not so bad. He
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: does when he's he's he's got when he's putting it
• 40:01
  Speaker 2: where he wants to, he's getting some of those strikeouts,
• 40:03
  Speaker 2: but when he misses, it's toast, like it's it's way
• 40:07
  Speaker 2: too easy. And I think that's really what's holding him
• 40:10
  Speaker 2: back here, which is the thing to your point, why
• 40:13
  Speaker 2: he might end up being more of a bullpen arm,
• 40:15
  Speaker 2: because then you just rely on your absolute best and
• 40:18
  Speaker 2: you can maybe dial things up a mile or two harder.
• 40:22
  Speaker 2: And that's really I think where he's struggled at this point. So, yeah,
• 40:29
  Speaker 2: it's unfortunate for Ben Brown. A lot of hope there,
• 40:32
  Speaker 2: but it's just not it hasn't come together.
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, And I mean even as a reliever, I
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: don't know. It's such a it's a wonky wonky fastball,
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: and once you see it live, it reminds me a
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: little bit of like watching MLB the show too. There's
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: just some dudes where you just tee him up. And
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: I'm not the only one. This is a guy who's
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: got a career eleven and a half percent barrel rate
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: against him with a fifty percent hard hit rate. It
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: stands out.
• 40:57
  Speaker 2: Just for fun, you should go out to his stat
• 40:59
  Speaker 2: cast and look at his heat map of his four
• 41:03
  Speaker 2: seamer just to see where he throws it, because it
• 41:06
  Speaker 2: is middle middle. That is exactly like he's not on
• 41:10
  Speaker 2: the edges. He is literally just pounding the middle of
• 41:12
  Speaker 2: the zone. So there's different types of control and this
• 41:16
  Speaker 2: is not the kind that you really want to use.
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly, because like the walk rate looks great, but
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: if you if the alternative is giving up a tater
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: he wanted to eat the walk.
• 41:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's that's really generally not advisable.
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: Okay, well, we're going to stick in the NL Central
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: for our last bit of news. We've got Heimer Candelario,
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: who was just outright cut in Cincinnati, was struggling on
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: his rehab assignment working his way back, and then when
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: he worked his way back from that higabus assignment, the
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: red said, well, sorry, we don't really actually need you
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: cutting him after assigning him to that three year, forty
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: five million dollar deal last offseason that everyone found perplexing.
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: Who do you think the biggest beneficiary in Cincinnati is
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: for this? Because this is gonna be a fascinating team
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: as the weather heats up and Great American Ballpark just
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: plays like a bandbox, there's gonna be a lot of
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: offense coming out of the Cincinnati Reds team. So who
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: are you targeting that might get a little extra share
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: of playing time without Candelarrio around?
• 42:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think, uh, I think that there's guys like Spencer,
• 42:29
  Speaker 2: Spencer's deer TJ. Friedel, Like, I think those are the
• 42:32
  Speaker 2: kind of guys that play a little bit all over
• 42:34
  Speaker 2: the place that are gonna get the biggest benefit. They're
• 42:38
  Speaker 2: gonna stay in the lineup more. They were always the
• 42:40
  Speaker 2: kind of guys that like lost out to the guy
• 42:42
  Speaker 2: that had like a defined, defined position. If if you
• 42:46
  Speaker 2: want to be simple about it, Christian Karnassis. Strand is
• 42:49
  Speaker 2: probably the easiest one to call out, but he seems
• 42:53
  Speaker 2: like he was he was kind of making a spot
• 42:55
  Speaker 2: for himself, And so I think it's between those three
• 43:00
  Speaker 2: that really really get the biggest, biggest benefit because they're
• 43:03
  Speaker 2: not gonna lose at bats for those quote unquote rest
• 43:06
  Speaker 2: days when it's just like, well, I'm trying to rotate
• 43:07
  Speaker 2: four guys through like three positions. So you know, I
• 43:11
  Speaker 2: don't think it's a big loss at the end of
• 43:14
  Speaker 2: the day. I think it was probably the right move.
• 43:16
  Speaker 2: To your point, we never really understood this this move
• 43:19
  Speaker 2: in the first place, for bringing Hondo Lario in to
• 43:22
  Speaker 2: what is arguably a very very strong lineup. So yeah,
• 43:26
  Speaker 2: I said, like I said, freedl strands deer. I think
• 43:28
  Speaker 2: that just gives him a few more bats the rest
• 43:30
  Speaker 2: of the season and we can we can move on.
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I do want to throw retigins Is back and
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: he I mean post type resigns. He whiffs a ton,
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: but when he lands the bat on the ball, it
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: goes a long way. His prospects savant page shows that
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: it's kind of a all or nothing profile and where
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: he put that striker out rate, you know it's down
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: to something a little more reasonable at the twenty six
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: point nine percent at Triple as posted thirty seven point
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: nine before he came up last year in twenty twenty four,
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: or I guess that was total in Triple A there.
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: So it's got me interested. I will say that I'm
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: gonna be at least watchlessen Hinz and kind of seeing
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: how much he works his way into that Cincinnati lanout. Okay,
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: one bit of baseball card news before we take a
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: little bit of a break and then come back. But
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: that prospect talk. We've got tops Comb pre orders out there,
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: so this is twenty twenty five, not a twenty twenty
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: four product, although there's still one coming out actually on
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: this Friday as we speak. Tops Dynasty twenty twenty four
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: is coming out, so that will be hitting shelves finally,
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: but Tops Chrome is scheduled for July twenty third. We've
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: got Roki Sasaki on the twenty twenty five product. There's
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: still pre orders available on tops dot com. This thing
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: dropped two days ago on the twenty third, and not
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: exactly a ringing endorsement. If there's still hobby boxes in
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: value Box is available on Tops dot com. So the
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: jumbos are gone, Drew, Were you one of the ones
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: that hoovered up one of those jumpos or is this
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: a set that you're a little bit wary of.
• 45:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I did not grab one of those jumbos. Price
• 45:16
  Speaker 2: actually wasn't as bad as I expected it to be.
• 45:19
  Speaker 2: But I Chrome has become a very very difficult set
• 45:25
  Speaker 2: because of the print run and the I'm gonna call
• 45:29
  Speaker 2: it the auto run. You have so many autos in
• 45:33
  Speaker 2: there that like it is like finding the diamond in
• 45:35
  Speaker 2: the rough. Like I'm like, I'm you're guaranteed three with
• 45:37
  Speaker 2: the jumbo, but they might be three middle relievers you've
• 45:40
  Speaker 2: never heard of. Like that's that's the challenge that you're
• 45:43
  Speaker 2: running into. So I didn't grab any I hope to
• 45:46
  Speaker 2: maybe grab a value box when I see it in person,
• 45:48
  Speaker 2: maybe at more of a hurry up and buy type
• 45:52
  Speaker 2: of situation when I passed one in the store, But
• 45:55
  Speaker 2: avoiding for now until we see a little bit more
• 45:59
  Speaker 2: on the wild probably focusing on some singles and card
• 46:02
  Speaker 2: shows at this point.
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I think that's probably the way to go
• 46:06
  Speaker 1: with this set. It is going to be very highly printed,
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: and I mean we will have the MVP buybacks again,
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: so it might actually be a little more intriguing this
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: year on the AL side between cal Raley and Aaron Judge,
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: and on the NL side it's probably still Otani leader
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: in the clubhouse. But I guess we'll see how that
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: shapes up over the next month or two. We will
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: get into a bigger overviewer that closer to the release
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: date of July twenty third. But if you are looking
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: to pre order, I've got the link in the show notes.
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: Check it out there. So with that, we're going to
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: take a short break. We will be back to talk
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: about prospects. All right, Welcome back everybody. So I don't
• 47:03
  Speaker 1: know if I've got a fancy schmancy topic name for
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: what we're about to discuss in terms of I'm just
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: calling it prospects. We love man that like we did
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: this around this time last year, where we just swept
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: through the league and each picked one prospect per division
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: that has really caught our eye and either we're starting
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: to move them from the watch list to our dynasty
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: keeper teams or really just keeping an eye on them.
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: Especially hello, all autnew league listeners of ours that are
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: in here, because a lot of these guys we've been
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: auctioning in our autonew League back and forth. If you're
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: not familiar with what Autnew is, it is through fangrafts
• 47:48
  Speaker 1: dot com. It's a forty man roster dynasty league with
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: Caps Fantastic. You should check it out. That what we're
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: doing with these players is a little bit of a mix,
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: I think too, because you selected some that I think
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: are closer to the majors. I've selected some that might
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: be more of like twenty twenty six plays. But you know,
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: an arm can catch fire, as we've seen with Didier
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: Fuentes just this past week. So with that intro, let's
• 48:15
  Speaker 1: just start diving into it and talking prospects. Here. We're
• 48:17
  Speaker 1: gonna start with the Al East because that's just the
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: way that it will be. Lists always work is somehow
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: the Ale East is number one. Who is your prospect
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: picked in the Al East? Yeah?
• 48:28
  Speaker 2: In the Ale East, I am going with good old
• 48:32
  Speaker 2: Dylan Beavers from the Baltimore Orioles. Dylan is a very,
• 48:38
  Speaker 2: very exciting prospect in my mind. I don't love prospects
• 48:42
  Speaker 2: necessarily from the Orioles because they're like the Rockies of
• 48:46
  Speaker 2: the al in a way. With how they treat their
• 48:48
  Speaker 2: prospects so that like yeah, like and I feel bad
• 48:51
  Speaker 2: saying that like that, that's like diet Rockies, Like it's
• 48:54
  Speaker 2: it's not that bad. But he's almost twenty four now,
• 48:58
  Speaker 2: and he's really been doing a great job in his
• 49:01
  Speaker 2: second go of Triple A. He only got a few
• 49:04
  Speaker 2: games there to finish out last year. So far this
• 49:07
  Speaker 2: season fifty seven games, he said seven homers, stole in
• 49:09
  Speaker 2: seventeen bases, hitting three twelve And what I what I
• 49:14
  Speaker 2: really am excited about is he has continued to make
• 49:17
  Speaker 2: improvements of his approach at the plate. This is a
• 49:20
  Speaker 2: guy that he was kind of a mid to twenties
• 49:25
  Speaker 2: strikeout kind of guy and then has been lower and
• 49:28
  Speaker 2: lower and lower, and now he's his rackout rates under nineteen,
• 49:31
  Speaker 2: his walk rates thirteen to five. Like he's he's really
• 49:35
  Speaker 2: become a more complete hitter. Game on base, you know,
• 49:38
  Speaker 2: four or three clip So he just looks really, really solid.
• 49:43
  Speaker 2: He's also a really really good defender, Like he can
• 49:46
  Speaker 2: play pretty much all the outfield positions, and if you
• 49:50
  Speaker 2: look at kind of his prospect stat cast kind of metrics,
• 49:56
  Speaker 2: like he is right across the board. He barrels things up,
• 50:00
  Speaker 2: his exit velocities kind of the ninety ninety one his
• 50:05
  Speaker 2: you know expected batan everage two seventy five. Like, he
• 50:08
  Speaker 2: is just a very solid all around player, and I
• 50:11
  Speaker 2: think he's the kind of guy that would thrive at
• 50:14
  Speaker 2: the top of the lineup for the Orioles because he'd
• 50:17
  Speaker 2: get on base, He's gonna be able to, you know,
• 50:19
  Speaker 2: steal a few few bags, and I think wuld be
• 50:22
  Speaker 2: kind of lightning the model for the Orioles and fantasy teams.
• 50:25
  Speaker 2: And so I think he's really developed into a very
• 50:28
  Speaker 2: very strong prospect and I have very little concern about
• 50:31
  Speaker 2: him once he gets to the majors, Like there's been
• 50:34
  Speaker 2: concerns of can he handle the high heat of the majors,
• 50:36
  Speaker 2: But like, I think he's now proven himself, so he
• 50:40
  Speaker 2: doesn't get talked about nearly as much as the Kobe
• 50:42
  Speaker 2: Mayo's of the world, and you know, all the big
• 50:45
  Speaker 2: prospects that have made it up. And I think he's
• 50:48
  Speaker 2: just as good, if not better than some of those guys.
• 50:51
  Speaker 2: So give me the shares of Dylan Beavers. I'm excited.
• 50:54
  Speaker 2: Whether it's from a fantasy perspective a card perspective, I
• 50:56
  Speaker 2: don't care which we're talking about in this segment, I
• 50:58
  Speaker 2: am buying Dylan Beaver's.
• 51:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I think that's actually a good point too, is
• 51:02
  Speaker 1: that a lot of these names you could double them
• 51:05
  Speaker 1: as card buying because Beavers, I think, is going to
• 51:10
  Speaker 1: debut here around the trade deadline. That they've got both
• 51:13
  Speaker 1: Cedric Mullins and Dylan Carlson on the big league roster
• 51:16
  Speaker 1: right now in Baltimore, given where they're going for the
• 51:20
  Speaker 1: rest of the season, they're gonna be sellers at the
• 51:24
  Speaker 1: deadline here in about a month, and so I think
• 51:26
  Speaker 1: the Orioles will ship both those guys out of town
• 51:28
  Speaker 1: because they're great fourth outfielders, and Mullens could, I mean
• 51:32
  Speaker 1: obviously be a starter, but Dylan Carlson's a fantastic I
• 51:36
  Speaker 1: think fourth outfielder, switch hitter, great defender. That's exactly what
• 51:41
  Speaker 1: playoff teams need. And that opens the avenue for Dylan
• 51:44
  Speaker 1: Beavers to debut. He's also Rule five eligible in December,
• 51:48
  Speaker 1: so the Orioles have to stick him on the forty
• 51:51
  Speaker 1: man at some point anyway this offseason. Why not give
• 51:54
  Speaker 1: him some shine at the big leagues before you really
• 51:58
  Speaker 1: decide what you're going to do in the long run.
• 52:00
  Speaker 1: So you're also preaching the choir. This was my Ale
• 52:04
  Speaker 1: East pick when we did the Oils at the beginning
• 52:07
  Speaker 1: of the season. I've long been on on Beavers. It's
• 52:09
  Speaker 1: just a well rounded profile.
• 52:11
  Speaker 2: I love all right, Well, I went Triple A. I
• 52:14
  Speaker 2: went close to the majors. Did you stay close to
• 52:16
  Speaker 2: the majors or you go far away?
• 52:18
  Speaker 1: This one's actually going to be my closest one, but
• 52:21
  Speaker 1: it's kind of he's flying up out nowhere. It's Cam
• 52:24
  Speaker 1: Schlittler from the New York Yankees in Triple A. Wilkspari
• 52:28
  Speaker 1: right now. Also just really fun to say Schlitler as
• 52:31
  Speaker 1: much as you can. And this guy has flown through
• 52:35
  Speaker 1: the system this year. It's been a K nine that
• 52:39
  Speaker 1: has been above eleven and a half for the full season,
• 52:44
  Speaker 1: but it was ten point nine at Double A for
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: fifty three innings before getting into Triple A. This past
• 52:52
  Speaker 1: three starts he's been at fourteen K nine there with
• 52:55
  Speaker 1: a two thirty five RA. The walks look a little
• 53:00
  Speaker 1: bit heavy they're in TRILEA, but his last start one walk,
• 53:06
  Speaker 1: nine strikeouts against the Louisville Bats in Louisville, which I
• 53:09
  Speaker 1: think is a pretty hot park. It kind of plays
• 53:11
  Speaker 1: similar to the Reds. This dude's right on the precipice
• 53:15
  Speaker 1: of making the rotation in New York, and I think
• 53:18
  Speaker 1: he would have been up for that spot that got
• 53:21
  Speaker 1: freed up when Ryan Yarborough hit the aisle. But he's
• 53:24
  Speaker 1: not on the forty man yet. He doesn't need to
• 53:26
  Speaker 1: go on the forty man until again December. Him and
• 53:31
  Speaker 1: Beaver's came through in the same draft in twenty twenty two,
• 53:34
  Speaker 1: but Schlitler was taken in the seventh round out of Northeastern.
• 53:37
  Speaker 1: Is just kind of a testament to what the Yankees
• 53:41
  Speaker 1: do with their pitching development that it's a fantastic profile.
• 53:46
  Speaker 1: He's a six to six, two twenty five frame. I'm
• 53:51
  Speaker 1: just surprised that he's not getting kind of hoovered up
• 53:54
  Speaker 1: and hyped up more because you just look at everything
• 53:57
  Speaker 1: under the hood, you look at the prospects of Vanna Page.
• 54:01
  Speaker 1: It's just a really talented arm man. I think he's
• 54:04
  Speaker 1: about to be up in the Bronx here, probably right
• 54:07
  Speaker 1: after the All Star break, honestly, that like they're going
• 54:10
  Speaker 1: to kick it into high gear, I think, and really
• 54:12
  Speaker 1: just kind of put the paddles to the metal to
• 54:14
  Speaker 1: try to put the Rays behind them in the Al East.
• 54:16
  Speaker 1: Schlitzler can do that for the Yankees.
• 54:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think he's he's a really interesting prospect. He's
• 54:21
  Speaker 2: a he's a big, big boy. He throws downhill and
• 54:25
  Speaker 2: he relies on a strong, strong fastball and you know
• 54:31
  Speaker 2: that in a in a slider. He's he's kind of
• 54:33
  Speaker 2: a mid to upper nineties guy. All his pitches are
• 54:37
  Speaker 2: playing playing up. The only only little thing I have
• 54:40
  Speaker 2: against him is, you know he his X A lot
• 54:44
  Speaker 2: of he gets barreled up at times.
• 54:48
  Speaker 1: Is this Ben Brown?
• 54:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah, And so I'm looking at that a little bit.
• 54:53
  Speaker 2: It's like, like can he with all like does he
• 54:56
  Speaker 2: have the control enough to keep out of trouble with
• 55:01
  Speaker 2: the strikeouts, with missing the bats and things like that,
• 55:04
  Speaker 2: keeping the ball on the ground, which is all those
• 55:05
  Speaker 2: things that can kind of compensate for allowing card contact.
• 55:08
  Speaker 2: When you have the hard contact is on the ground,
• 55:10
  Speaker 2: it's actually double place. Like it's not too bad at
• 55:13
  Speaker 2: a thing. So probably to me long term, maybe back
• 55:16
  Speaker 2: into the rotation, like you know, maybe a risk of
• 55:19
  Speaker 2: a bullpen. But like, I think you're right, Like he's
• 55:21
  Speaker 2: he's very interesting, and I think he gets a shot
• 55:24
  Speaker 2: very soon and it's just a matter of does this
• 55:27
  Speaker 2: stuff play enough? Does he is the control real That's
• 55:32
  Speaker 2: that's the big thing here. But there's there's a lot
• 55:35
  Speaker 2: to like of Cam Schlitter here, And to your point,
• 55:38
  Speaker 2: I think might be the best name on the list.
• 55:40
  Speaker 1: Yes, Yeah, it's a it's a great a name. Okay,
• 55:43
  Speaker 1: let's move on to the AL Central. So who is
• 55:45
  Speaker 1: your first pick here for the al Central? Yeah?
• 55:50
  Speaker 2: So you can now use everything I just said against
• 55:53
  Speaker 2: Cam Schlitter about the guy I'm gonna call out here
• 55:56
  Speaker 2: because I'm gonna go with another guy. Uh just called
• 55:59
  Speaker 2: up to trip A for the Chicago White Socks. No, Schultz.
• 56:04
  Speaker 2: Schultz is probably in my mind one of the if
• 56:06
  Speaker 2: not the most electric arms in in the miners. Big lefty.
• 56:12
  Speaker 2: When we say we talked about Schlider being a big guy,
• 56:14
  Speaker 2: this is six' ten guy coming down, downhill really bringing,
• 56:19
  Speaker 2: it you, know mid mid, nineties mid to upper nineties
• 56:23
  Speaker 2: is what he can actually. Bring he struggled actually a
• 56:28
  Speaker 2: little bit to start the season In DOUBLE a from
• 56:30
  Speaker 2: a control, perspective AND i think that's actually maybe opened
• 56:34
  Speaker 2: up a little bit of like a buying question opportunity
• 56:37
  Speaker 2: On schultz because he's never had control, Issues Like i'm
• 56:41
  Speaker 2: more worried about the guy that had control issues and
• 56:43
  Speaker 2: all of a sudden like figured out the Control like
• 56:45
  Speaker 2: that generally doesn't stick and it goes. BACK i think
• 56:48
  Speaker 2: the opposite is true as. Well a guy that's always
• 56:49
  Speaker 2: had control goes through a rough patch and then kind
• 56:53
  Speaker 2: of figures things back. Out and SO i think he,
• 56:56
  Speaker 2: has LIKE i, said some of the nastiest stuff of the.
• 56:57
  Speaker 2: MINERS i think it's it's not too long before we See.
• 57:01
  Speaker 2: SCHULTZ i think probably An august call, up Is August
• 57:05
  Speaker 2: september call ups to get his feet wet is what you.
• 57:08
  Speaker 2: See The White socks aren't don't need him right now
• 57:10
  Speaker 2: because they're not going, anywhere but absolutely does a fantastic,
• 57:16
  Speaker 2: job you, know, pounding pounding the, zone and, UH i
• 57:21
  Speaker 2: think is going to be a top of the rotation
• 57:24
  Speaker 2: guy for for years to. Come so buy an. Opportunity
• 57:27
  Speaker 2: if if folks have gone down On, schultz absolutely should
• 57:30
  Speaker 2: should pick him.
• 57:30
  Speaker 1: Up, YEAH i, mean, ACTUALLY i think there's a really
• 57:34
  Speaker 1: good chance That schultz they just bring him up and
• 57:37
  Speaker 1: let him develop at the big league level here down
• 57:40
  Speaker 1: the stretch that this is another team in The White
• 57:43
  Speaker 1: sox where you, know they're probably gonna Move, savali probably
• 57:46
  Speaker 1: gonna Move houser free up a few forty man, spots
• 57:49
  Speaker 1: and they might just Bring schultz right up and kind
• 57:53
  Speaker 1: of try to electrify the fan base a little, bit
• 57:56
  Speaker 1: and on top of, it like why not just kind
• 57:59
  Speaker 1: of let him try to work through it at the
• 58:00
  Speaker 1: big leagues when this team's not going anywhere right? Now
• 58:04
  Speaker 1: you know they've done this before in terms of LIKE i,
• 58:07
  Speaker 1: mean right, now you're looking At Grant taylor is up
• 58:10
  Speaker 1: and closing for. Them you look at how they Push Ga,
• 58:13
  Speaker 1: crochet how they Push Chris. Sale The White socks just
• 58:17
  Speaker 1: kind of love moving these guys up quickly on top
• 58:19
  Speaker 1: of it. Too expect to hear FOR. Noa, schultz he's
• 58:23
  Speaker 1: from The West, suburbs he's From, Oswego so that's gonna
• 58:27
  Speaker 1: just be another thing in his favor as The White
• 58:29
  Speaker 1: sox love local guys to try to get their families
• 58:32
  Speaker 1: come in and sell some tickets because it's getting to
• 58:36
  Speaker 1: be desperate times on The South. Side getting those tickets
• 58:38
  Speaker 1: and getting those, players those people in the.
• 58:40
  Speaker 2: Door, hey there's baseball's business, Too so they give a fair.
• 58:46
  Speaker 1: Point, okay, well my Al central pick another big left
• 58:52
  Speaker 1: handed pitcher, here AND i like this name especially for
• 58:56
  Speaker 1: the other REASON i think this is a good time
• 58:57
  Speaker 1: to have this discussion is that we're we're about to
• 59:00
  Speaker 1: get a new round of top one hundred prospects, lists
• 59:03
  Speaker 1: most likely kind of around The All star, break just
• 59:06
  Speaker 1: to kind of fill in that gap of content that
• 59:09
  Speaker 1: sites will have on top of like a lot of
• 59:12
  Speaker 1: the top prospects between you, Know Chase, Spurns Jack caglione
• 59:16
  Speaker 1: are up and promoted off of those. Lists there's lots
• 59:19
  Speaker 1: of open, spots lots of new performances to update people on.
• 59:22
  Speaker 1: Too this is a guy WHO i think is gonna
• 59:25
  Speaker 1: just shoot up a bunch of. Prospectlets that Is Dissan
• 59:28
  Speaker 1: hill from The Minnesota. Twins down an a ball right
• 59:31
  Speaker 1: now and as a nineteen year, old was drafted last
• 59:34
  Speaker 1: year with the in THE coump round as a sixty ninth,
• 59:38
  Speaker 1: pick nice two million dollars signing, bonus so he was
• 59:43
  Speaker 1: a prep arm that they just made sure that they
• 59:46
  Speaker 1: overpaid overslot For hill to bring him home because The
• 59:50
  Speaker 1: twins loved this. Arm it's just another, big nasty lefty
• 59:55
  Speaker 1: with a two ten e rara right now through thirty,
• 59:58
  Speaker 1: innings in in just regular a. Ball but all the
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 1: prospect reports really reflect that this dude's going to probably
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 1: be pretty a quick mover through the. SYSTEM i don't
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 1: think you're you've got the chance of seeing him this,
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 1: year especially these last two outings that he's. Had he's
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 1: had a little bit more of a bugaboo with, walks
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 1: which is probably you, know you just look at What
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 1: schultz has kind of gone through at the beginning of the.
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 1: Season when you've got, big lanky arms and lots of
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 1: things to control where you're, pitching you'll go through those
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 1: growing pains in the. Miners BUT i think this is
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 1: somebody In hill who you're looking at being probably like
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 1: he might crack some top fifties in terms of, prospects
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 1: just the way that he's moving, quickly AND i think
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 1: it's the type of arm where you can see him
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 1: right being ready to go in twenty twenty. Six if
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 1: he can show those kind of last levels of growth
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 1: here through twenty twenty. Five, yeah it's.
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 2: Interesting he's, got you, know a i'll call a four pitch,
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 2: mix and he barely throws a, fastball which is not
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 2: the most most common at least what we're seeing and
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 2: down in the, minors but you know he has a good,
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 2: sinker good change and to your, point like very very.
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 2: Projectable like he's a guy that keeps getting, better getting,
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 2: better missing more. Bats it's it's one of those interesting
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 2: things that the guy's getting drafted out of high school
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 2: is their development periods tend to be, longer and but
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 2: you tend to see some of these guys with like
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 2: these really protectable arms make up for the. Major SO i,
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 2: think long, term really interesting. PROSPECT i wonder if he's
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 2: going to be one of those guys that rises, quickly
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 2: takes a year or two to kind of like figure things.
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 2: Out he's pull up throwing. Gas this guy's kind of,
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 2: nasty but he's still trying to figure the pitchability and
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 2: all of a, sudden like it, turns it turns a,
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 2: switch and he's figured it all out and really really.
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 2: Ramped SO i think there's a there's a long, term
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 2: Especially Dynasty league. PERSPECTIVE i think there's a lot to
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 2: like here with Dayson.
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 1: Hill, Yeah, okay let's move on to the Al west,
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 1: Then so who is your pick out of The?
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 2: West H my pickout of The west is a GUY
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 2: i absolutely Love Colby thomas from The Sacramento. ATHLETICS i
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 2: almost Said oakland because the fanografts page still lists everything As.
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 2: Oakland but you, know another guy that is twenty four years,
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 2: old really no reason to be left down in the
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 2: minors this. Point seventy two, games he, said seventeen, homers
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 2: his steals are down a little. Bit he's only sold
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 2: six bases this year when he's been up to the
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 2: fifteen twenty five in the. Past he's sitting in two ninety.
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 2: Nine a guy that really seems to be on the
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 2: path for maybe a twenty five to fifteen two seventy
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 2: five profile in the, majors LIKE i, think really really a,
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 2: strong strong. Bat i'm, surprised frankly he hasn't been called
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 2: up at this. Point He's he's a bat THAT i
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 2: think The athletics are maybe trying to let develop just
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 2: a little bit more BECAUSE i think he's a bigger
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 2: part of their long term. PLANS i was actually very, surprised,
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 2: uh When Denzel clark got called up that it wasn't
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 2: Uh Colby, thomas and So i'm just waiting for that
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 2: that OPPORTUNITY uh to come for In. Sacramento, uh you,
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 2: know unfor, unfortunately there's only so many spots in what's
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 2: actually become a pretty couch turn a, good good line up.
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 2: There SO, i LIKE i, SAID I i think he's
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 2: gonna be up before too. LONG i really don't think
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 2: there's that much longer they can last With Denzel, clark you,
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 2: know pulling pulling a nice old forty SIX wrc plus
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 2: in the majors the two of seven, Average so, uh
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 2: All star break is kind of my prediction for, uh
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 2: for Toolby, thomas and he he's, Ready LIKE i don't
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 2: see any question that he's going to hit the ground
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 2: running and he's going to be a, really really valuable
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 2: bat in. Fantasy, YEAH i don't.
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 1: Know it is tough because like it's a great. PROFILE
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 1: i love. It it's JUST i don't know where he
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 1: plays BECAUSE i do think they actually will continue With
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 1: clark here that the defense is SO.
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 2: I, know he made one amazing, play let's get over.
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 2: It like he has.
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 1: Eight point seven defensive run saved over twenty eight. Games
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 1: like it's it's, Otherworldly like it's the defense that he
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 1: plays in the, ground that he covers in center field is.
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 1: Absurd BUT i don't, know do you think is there
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 1: a pathway through trades, too because like that's the other,
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 1: Problem like all these dudes in front of him are
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 1: also young in In, Sacramento like what what did The a's?
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 1: Do did they try to consolidate talent or that's the.
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 1: PROBLEM i think With thomas if if there's anywhere, ELSE
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 1: i think he'd be.
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 2: Playing, YEAH i think you're right like that that is
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 2: the challenge, Here like there's really not a guy that
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 2: you could argue trading unless there is a good opportunity for,
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 2: pitching because they're pitching is just dreadful and so like
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 2: it would take probably a big move of somebody like
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 2: A Lawrence butler OR i don't see how you Move,
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 2: soulderstrom but like it's gotta. Be it's gonna have to
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 2: be a big move to try to go after some
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 2: some pitching. Here unfortunately for, them like the few weak
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 2: spots you, know, catcher second, base Like solderstrom should be a,
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 2: catcher but like he's. Not they they've kind of doubled
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 2: up on all these, outfield first, BASE dh positions and
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 2: that's what's making it really. Tough BUT i think trade
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 2: is a spot that they want to see It you're,
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 2: Right clark has amazing. DEFENSE i still think that's where
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 2: the most likely opportunity. Comes but they've they've Got they've
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 2: got to see what they've got because they're gonna have
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 2: a really really good lineup going into next year and
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 2: they just have to add some pitching and this team
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 2: is gonna gonna be pretty.
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 1: Impressive, yeah, YEAH i totally. Agree, okay my, PICK i
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 1: am gonna go with another. Pitcher i've been kind of
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 1: on a pitching kick on the al side. Here i'm
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 1: gonna go With Ryan sloan from The Seattle. Manners so
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 1: he is a right, hander AND i probably should have
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 1: done a better job of pulling up his profile page
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 1: BEFORE i started talking about. Him but he's hanging out
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 1: right now in a ball With Dessan hill just a
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 1: tick under ten k per. Nine the era looks ugly
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 1: at four fifty, four but the fifth is two eighty
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 1: five so far through forty one and two. Thirds this
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 1: is a guy who another high school arm out of
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 1: last year's, draft taking in the second, round but given
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 1: a three million dollars signing bonus to make sure that
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 1: he didn't go to. College so the The mariners had
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 1: a lot of faith in this. ARM i think this
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 1: is another guy who's going to be just absolutely flying
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 1: up boards because we're looking at oh look six five two.
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 1: TWENTY i wonder IF i have a type that another
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 1: big guy also from The west, suburbs From, elmhurst So
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 1: White sox, THIS i, mean they're probably just like kicking
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 1: themselves every day That Ryan sloan isn't in The White
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 1: sox system big, fastball big, slider big. Splitter so the
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 1: biggest kind of thing that he's working through is just
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 1: making sure that the control rounds into. Form BUT i
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 1: think because of you especially look at you want to,
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 1: say like a franchise that was pitching rich before we
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 1: came into the, Season seattle probably would have been on that,
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 1: list but a lot of those arms have fallen. Apart
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 1: they've shown in the past that they don't have an
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 1: issue moving arms quickly through the system and the other
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 1: thing compared to some of these other. GUYS i brought
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 1: up a forty seven percent ground ball rate For sloan right,
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 1: now probably because of that. Splitter so that's why you
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 1: can stomach the lower k rate a little, bit because
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 1: like if he can round into a little bit more
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 1: of a ground ball. Pitcher you put him In, seattle
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 1: great place to. PITCH i think there's a lot lot
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 1: of spots Where Ryan sloan makes sense to add now
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 1: before he kind of really starts taking off rising up prospect,
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 1: lists before you, know he becomes a hot commodity going
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 1: into twenty twenty.
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 2: Six, YEAH i think he's definitely got an intriguing. Profile
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 2: seattle does a good job developing their pictures and so
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 2: lots of good, stuff AND i think it he's gonna
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 2: need a little bit of time to develop, again a
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 2: young guy coming out of high. SCHOOL i think it's
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 2: gonna take a few. Years but another organization that's willing to,
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 2: push willing to bring those guys, through so lots and
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 2: lots of talent their second round. PICK i think he's
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 2: gonna really really be something as he develops through the,
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 2: system especially if he can maintain the kind of control
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 2: that he's showed him so, far that's gonna take them
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 2: a long long. Way so maybe a little under the,
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 2: radar BUT i think it's a good.
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 1: Call all, Right, well let's move over to THE nl,
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 1: now and we are going to go start in THE Nl.
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 1: East and with, THAT i know what your pick is
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 1: going to. BE i tried to allude to him earlier
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 1: BECAUSE i think he's about to get promoted here pretty
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 1: soon and might just make his way all the way
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 1: to the majors by the end of the. Season who is.
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 2: It, Yeah i'm gonna go on a limb here and
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 2: SAY i think this is the best pitching prospect in the.
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 2: Miners he's not being recognized as it, yet BUT i
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 2: think he has the.
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 1: Best it helped you, Out.
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 2: It did help my. ARGUMENT i probably still would have
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 2: made the statement Over Chase. Burns i'm that bullish On
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 2: Travis sikora for The Washington. Nationals he is a twenty
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 2: one year old just barely turned twenty one. Recently to your,
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 2: point we got a type six six two thirty, two,
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 2: big big arm, here and he absolutely brings. It he.
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 2: Missed he kind of got a late start to this
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 2: year and he's gone through uh ten. Starts but let's
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 2: just was focus on the six four For HIGH a
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 2: because he started at a ball which just wasn't really.
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 2: Fair but they were just trying to get him ramped
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 2: up after any does some complex work because he just
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 2: missing time over the, offseason and they're kind of slow
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 2: playing him to make sure he's fully. Healthy but six
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 2: starts at HIGH a here got thirty. Innings he's got
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 2: a one twenty ONE era supported by a one twenty
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 2: SEVEN fip forty four percent k, rate which is a
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 2: pretty shirt good and a seven and a half percent walk,
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 2: rate so that translates to a fifteen to five k
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 2: for nine low two's walk per. Nine and nobody can touch,
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 2: Him absolutely nobody can touch. Him he looks just. Nasty.
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 2: Uh his splitter is. Unbelievable there's there's not much else
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 2: you can. Say he is playing head and shoulders above
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 2: what you see there in in a ball he probably should.
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 2: Be and, well he's gonna to your, point he's gonna
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 2: be in DOUBLE, a if not TRIPLE a Soon and
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 2: wouldn't be a shock to see him get a cup
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 2: of coffee at the end of the season to see
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 2: if this all could absolutely, stick because he has done
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 2: absolutely nothing but be impressive the entire time he's been
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 2: in the. Minors, so, uh you heard it. Now, First Travis,
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 2: acora a number one pitching prospect of the. MINERS i
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 2: absolutely love this.
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 1: Guy, yeah AND i mean if he doesn't falter at DOUBLE,
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 1: a over the next couple of. Weeks there's this outside.
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 1: Shot he's up at the, Deadline Mike Michael. Sarroka there
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 1: is a free agent after this, season and so you're
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 1: looking at somebody that's a dependable backhand arm to get
• 1:11:42
  Speaker 1: playoff teams through the stretch and you can put him
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 1: in the. BULLPEN i think he's a pretty easy move
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 1: for The Washington. Nationals not a huge, salary and they
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 1: can even eat some of it to Get sacora. Up,
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 1: so uh, yeah there's you've got to bounce On sacora
• 1:11:57
  Speaker 1: now if, HONESTLY i think in fifteen, teamers he makes
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 1: sense to stash over even Like Bubba chandler at this
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 1: point just because, like even though he's further, away the
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 1: meteoric rise has become just too much For secora to
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 1: for The nationals to kind of like hold him back
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 1: at this.
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 2: Point absolutely so pick it, up pick him, up even
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 2: if if this is the kind of, guy like especially
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 2: if you're playing Like dynasty keeper leagues that if you
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 2: have minor spots and things like, that you're taking the
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 2: shot because if he's able to make it up and
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 2: he does what he's, doing we're Talking Chase burns Type
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 2: miserowski type, reactions and he's going to be in that
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 2: like breakout discussion next, year and you want to be
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 2: into the ground.
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 1: Floor, yeah, Absolutely, okay my pick is coming from The
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 1: New York. Mets he is down in DOUBLE a and
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 1: it is not a giant pitcher the way that we
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 1: keep we keep picking because the other side of the
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 1: coin of IF i have a, type it's a scrappy
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 1: infielder that's way undersized and just kind of doesn't have
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 1: a great. Position i'm Talking Jet. WILLIAMS i think this
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 1: dude Is Dustin pedroita two point, zero but maybe like
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 1: a center fielder with just crazy blazing speed lives up
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 1: to That jet first. Name there some good nominative. DETERMINISM
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 1: i was always kind of being On jet because of the.
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 1: Speed but then WHEN i went to first Pitch arizona last,
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 1: Fall Eric longenhegen From, fangrafts just could not stop raving
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 1: About Jet williams and comparing him To Dustin. Patroya and
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 1: when you watch it in, person it is one of
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 1: those situations when you're like watching minor league, ball some
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 1: guys just pop right, away And williams is one of those.
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 1: Players he's just a superb bat in terms of the bat.
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 1: Controlled you, know great k rate twenty percent down in
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 1: DOUBLE a right, now fourteen and a half percent walk
• 1:13:54
  Speaker 1: rate with six, homers twenty one steals across sixty two.
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 1: Games he is only five foot, seven but he hits
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 1: the ball pretty. Hard you, know he hasn't maybe produced
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 1: the BEST maxiv down, there but the hard hit percentage
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 1: will play. Enough and you also look at That mets
• 1:14:10
  Speaker 1: team going into next. Year they've just been limp and
• 1:14:13
  Speaker 1: by at center, field Where williams hasn't been playing as
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 1: much in twenty twenty, five but he is capable of
• 1:14:19
  Speaker 1: handling with his speed and just. Reads he's been playing
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 1: a lot more, shortstop obviously The mets have that booked
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 1: up for a, while but you could See williams play
• 1:14:27
  Speaker 1: second base somewhere up the. Middle maybe the one factor
• 1:14:31
  Speaker 1: that could Hold jet back is what they're doing For Uisan.
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 1: Helicunya BUT i think there's a reason why they haven't
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 1: moved on From Jet williams when they've had the opportunity
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 1: to trade him since they drafted him back in twenty twenty,
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 1: two and that's because they know he's he's got this
• 1:14:47
  Speaker 1: special level to him only twenty one because he came
• 1:14:49
  Speaker 1: out of high. School SO i think we're. ROUNDING i
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 1: don't Think williams comes up this, year but there's a
• 1:14:56
  Speaker 1: really good chance when we're talking this time next year
• 1:14:58
  Speaker 1: That Jet williams is a starting role in The New York.
• 1:15:00
  Speaker 2: Mets, yeah you're. Right he's a little little kind of spitfire.
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 2: Like he's a free swinging. Guy he's gonna slap the ball,
• 1:15:07
  Speaker 2: Around he's he's gonna do, things he's gonna, base he's
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 2: gonna be an exciting. PLAYER i think he absolutely. IS
• 1:15:14
  Speaker 2: i think there's a kind of a question of to
• 1:15:15
  Speaker 2: your point of win BECAUSE i don't see a really
• 1:15:18
  Speaker 2: clear path yet for, him AND i don't think they
• 1:15:21
  Speaker 2: need to force him because they've got a pretty gus
• 1:15:23
  Speaker 2: urned good team. There uh BUT i think he's a
• 1:15:25
  Speaker 2: very very exciting. Prospect and, uh it's kind of odd
• 1:15:28
  Speaker 2: if you watch he's he's they've really bounced him around the,
• 1:15:31
  Speaker 2: Liners they've they've not held back on trying to challenge,
• 1:15:33
  Speaker 2: him move him, around and he's responded pretty gush Durned,
• 1:15:36
  Speaker 2: Well So i'll take your word from. IT i haven't
• 1:15:38
  Speaker 2: seen him in, person but, uh it sounds sounds. Exciting.
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 1: Thanks, okay let's move on to THE Nl. Central let's
• 1:15:46
  Speaker 1: get into Those midwest teams where this is our bread and.
• 1:15:50
  Speaker 1: Butter so who you hit us?
• 1:15:52
  Speaker 2: With, Yeah i'm Going homer pick on this, one and
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 2: that's that's. Okay we're going with WHAT i would say
• 1:15:59
  Speaker 2: is one of The cardinals' best. Prospects i'm not sure
• 1:16:02
  Speaker 2: right now where they've Where they've got him in the
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 2: in the top ten for The, cardinals but we're going
• 1:16:07
  Speaker 2: WITH Jj weatherhold seventh overall pick last year out Of West.
• 1:16:10
  Speaker 2: VIRGINIA a few things for. Him you, know he's already
• 1:16:15
  Speaker 2: moved up to DOUBLE. A he got a little season
• 1:16:17
  Speaker 2: at SINGLE a last Year DOUBLE. A he has had
• 1:16:20
  Speaker 2: absolutely no problem in DOUBLE. A he's hitting three, fourteen
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 2: four thirty, five four fifty. Seven he is walking more
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 2: than he is striking. Out. Uh the quality of contact
• 1:16:31
  Speaker 2: is is, strong line drive hitter twenty eight percent line.
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 2: Drives he is just absolutely mashing the. Ball and if
• 1:16:40
  Speaker 2: you go look at his Prospect savant, page like Blood,
• 1:16:45
  Speaker 2: red it is read across the board expecting batting average
• 1:16:49
  Speaker 2: two eighty. Six average ex velocity is you, know in
• 1:16:54
  Speaker 2: the upper mid mid, nineties his percent. BALL i see
• 1:16:58
  Speaker 2: his ninety six to one hard hit, rates fifty five,
• 1:17:01
  Speaker 2: percent barreling almost nine percent of the time he's not,
• 1:17:05
  Speaker 2: facing he's he's free. Swinging he swings a, lot but
• 1:17:08
  Speaker 2: he's swinging at good. Pitches he just looks very. SOLID.
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 2: Uh does not have any, holes and he was he
• 1:17:15
  Speaker 2: was lauded is one of the best true hitters in
• 1:17:18
  Speaker 2: that class last, year and he kind of fell in
• 1:17:22
  Speaker 2: the in the, draft, frankly and he's done nothing but.
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 2: Hit he is absolutely a, beautiful beautiful. Hitter it's it's
• 1:17:30
  Speaker 2: interesting that they have him playing second base MORE uh this,
• 1:17:34
  Speaker 2: year and you can see them just prepping him With
• 1:17:38
  Speaker 2: mason win there at shortstop in the. Majors and let's
• 1:17:40
  Speaker 2: be frank there's not a whole lot filling that whole
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 2: second base for The cardinals that the you, know revolving
• 1:17:46
  Speaker 2: door Of Nolan, Gorman Brendan. Donovan don't get me, wrong
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 2: some talent, there but no nobody's made that their. Home
• 1:17:53
  Speaker 2: SO i don't think with with the way that team
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 2: has been, PLAYING i don't think it's out of the
• 1:17:58
  Speaker 2: question to see J j with here in the second.
• 1:18:00
  Speaker 1: Half, YEAH i, MEAN i think it's very. Possible you
• 1:18:04
  Speaker 1: look at some of those other guys that have come
• 1:18:05
  Speaker 1: up from last year's draft in terms Of kurtz And
• 1:18:08
  Speaker 1: Cagliown and we talked about it when Weather holt fell
• 1:18:12
  Speaker 1: to The cardinals that we just were astounded that it
• 1:18:15
  Speaker 1: happened because this isn't the type of organization in terms
• 1:18:19
  Speaker 1: of where The cardinals usually, draft, like this isn't the
• 1:18:21
  Speaker 1: type of player they are usually able to. Get usually
• 1:18:24
  Speaker 1: it is A Brendan. DONOVAN i, mean they don't have
• 1:18:27
  Speaker 1: anywhere to Play Thomas segaci right, Now BUT i don't
• 1:18:31
  Speaker 1: think That Nolan gorman's holding BACK Jj. Wetherholt gorman is
• 1:18:36
  Speaker 1: what he is right. Now he's a, power strong side platoon,
• 1:18:39
  Speaker 1: bat corner ish second faxit at second.
• 1:18:43
  Speaker 2: Base maybe that doesn't really have a.
• 1:18:45
  Speaker 1: Position, yes, yeah that's not a guy you don't mind
• 1:18:48
  Speaker 1: moving to the bench already because you know What gorman
• 1:18:50
  Speaker 1: is as opposed to Weather holt could be something really
• 1:18:55
  Speaker 1: really special in terms of just a well well rounded.
• 1:18:58
  Speaker 1: Profile reminds me maybe of Like Ian kinsler from the
• 1:19:03
  Speaker 1: left side or. Something you could also see a really
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 1: like right end tail of like A Gunner henderson where
• 1:19:12
  Speaker 1: like the power really, develops BUT i don't know if
• 1:19:14
  Speaker 1: he's gonna quite grow into that given his five to ten.
• 1:19:17
  Speaker 1: FRAME i, think, YEAH i THINK i. AGREE i don't
• 1:19:21
  Speaker 1: know If i'm ready to stash him, yet but he
• 1:19:22
  Speaker 1: is in fifteen team ors someone you got to be
• 1:19:25
  Speaker 1: watching pretty closely because if they if he especially makes
• 1:19:28
  Speaker 1: the move to TRIPLE a Weather, HOLD i think you've
• 1:19:31
  Speaker 1: got to start sashing him at that.
• 1:19:32
  Speaker 2: Point, YEAH i think, so so it'll be fun to.
• 1:19:35
  Speaker 2: WATCH i do think he's one of the guys that
• 1:19:37
  Speaker 2: the power's gonna maybe. TRAIL i think he's gonna be
• 1:19:39
  Speaker 2: much more of a spray line drive doubles kind of.
• 1:19:42
  Speaker 2: Guy but, hey long, term this is a guy that
• 1:19:44
  Speaker 2: can he can, move he can hit the ball like
• 1:19:47
  Speaker 2: it's not hard to dream up a pretty full stat.
• 1:19:51
  Speaker 1: Page, yeah, okay Well i'm sticking with The homer pick here.
• 1:19:54
  Speaker 1: Too i'm sticking with. Uh i'm gonna go with joshuabayas
• 1:19:58
  Speaker 1: Weather holds teammate at DOUBLE, a a twenty one year.
• 1:20:01
  Speaker 1: Old there a little bit bigger guy six foot three
• 1:20:04
  Speaker 1: play in the corner. Outfield and this is a guy
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 1: where when The cardinals took him out of high school
• 1:20:09
  Speaker 1: in twenty twenty, one and in the second, round tons
• 1:20:14
  Speaker 1: and tons of questions about his ability to be able
• 1:20:16
  Speaker 1: to put the bat to the ball because he had
• 1:20:19
  Speaker 1: a really groove. Swing The cardinals have tweaked that and
• 1:20:22
  Speaker 1: you can see it directly in the k. RATE i
• 1:20:25
  Speaker 1: think this is Why Saint louis pulled the trigger on
• 1:20:27
  Speaker 1: drafting him so high that they knew they could make these.
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 1: Changes took a couple of years to finally work out for,
• 1:20:33
  Speaker 1: bias but this is a guy who was very regularly
• 1:20:37
  Speaker 1: striking out in the upper thirty percents down even at
• 1:20:42
  Speaker 1: a ball in the complex. League has cut it to
• 1:20:45
  Speaker 1: twenty three point seven percent across two. Leagues he's at
• 1:20:49
  Speaker 1: twenty eight point two percent In DOUBLE. A if he
• 1:20:53
  Speaker 1: can keep it in the high. Twenties the power plays
• 1:20:56
  Speaker 1: here for, bias where you're looking at somebody who was
• 1:21:00
  Speaker 1: a total afterthought from prospect to somebody who could be
• 1:21:03
  Speaker 1: talking about like a back end top one hundred sort of.
• 1:21:06
  Speaker 1: Guy so that's really What i'm looking for here is
• 1:21:09
  Speaker 1: in terms of dynasty keeper. LEAGUES i think you probably
• 1:21:12
  Speaker 1: still got a couple of years of seasoning here on,
• 1:21:14
  Speaker 1: bias but it could be a really huge. Payoff considering
• 1:21:18
  Speaker 1: this is a guy, who coming into twenty twenty, five
• 1:21:21
  Speaker 1: bias in his giant k rates was just off of everybody's.
• 1:21:25
  Speaker 1: Boards now that he's able to cut that down and
• 1:21:28
  Speaker 1: actually lean into some of that, power look out because
• 1:21:32
  Speaker 1: this is a guy who can easily. It actually it
• 1:21:34
  Speaker 1: reminds me of like A Ryan. Ludwick like maybe that
• 1:21:37
  Speaker 1: is too much of like A Saint louis Of Saint
• 1:21:39
  Speaker 1: louis kind of, comparison but like there's a thirty five
• 1:21:42
  Speaker 1: homer season in this bat if the development continues for, Bias.
• 1:21:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah i'll get you in a more recent comp like
• 1:21:49
  Speaker 2: a Like Alec, burlison like a guy that like you're
• 1:21:52
  Speaker 2: just looking at, me like is he gonna really do?
• 1:21:55
  Speaker 2: Something that just keeps doing like AND i think you're,
• 1:21:57
  Speaker 2: Right like he he's got, massive massive hour and it
• 1:22:01
  Speaker 2: was just man like this guy strikes out thirty five percent,
• 1:22:03
  Speaker 2: time forty percent of the, Time like that's never gonna,
• 1:22:06
  Speaker 2: Play and all of a sudden he seems to have
• 1:22:08
  Speaker 2: rained that in and it's not like a trade off against.
• 1:22:11
  Speaker 2: Walks it's not like he's all of a sudden he
• 1:22:12
  Speaker 2: can really aggressive and just swinging at everything and put
• 1:22:15
  Speaker 2: it in play like he seems like he's truly maturing
• 1:22:18
  Speaker 2: as a. Hitter you're, right it's gonna gonna take a little.
• 1:22:21
  Speaker 2: TIME i don't see him coming up anytime. Soon they
• 1:22:25
  Speaker 2: really need to make sure that what the changes have. Stuck,
• 1:22:28
  Speaker 2: so you, know half half a, year not even half
• 1:22:31
  Speaker 2: half a year at DOUBLE. A you, know twenty games
• 1:22:33
  Speaker 2: at DOUBLE a doesn't make a you, know a big.
• 1:22:36
  Speaker 2: Leap BUT i think there's been a lot of.
• 1:22:37
  Speaker 1: Improvement, yeah, YEAH i am.
• 1:22:41
  Speaker 2: So.
• 1:22:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah if you're In, dynasty keep your situations watch, lists
• 1:22:45
  Speaker 1: or add to the back end of the. ROSTER i
• 1:22:46
  Speaker 1: think you could find a gem in the rough. There
• 1:22:48
  Speaker 1: let's move on to the in All, west our last,
• 1:22:50
  Speaker 1: division SO i will pass it over to. You who
• 1:22:52
  Speaker 1: is your?
• 1:22:53
  Speaker 2: Pick, Yeah i'm fully owning That i'm cheating on this
• 1:22:56
  Speaker 2: one because he's just he's in. Them but he hasn't Been,
• 1:23:03
  Speaker 2: uh he's actually been in the majors in both of
• 1:23:07
  Speaker 2: the last two, seasons but That's Jordan. Lawler uh For.
• 1:23:10
  Speaker 2: Arizona he when he's been up to the, majors he's been.
• 1:23:14
  Speaker 2: DREADFUL i think is fair to be. SAID i think
• 1:23:18
  Speaker 2: he pulled a nice over nineteen across eight games in
• 1:23:22
  Speaker 2: the little cup of coffee he had this this. Season
• 1:23:24
  Speaker 2: but another guy that has really kind of come into
• 1:23:28
  Speaker 2: his own at the minor league. Level fifty two, games
• 1:23:31
  Speaker 2: he's hit ten, homers stole an eighteen, bases hitting three twenty.
• 1:23:35
  Speaker 2: One that's good for one thirty EIGHT wrc plus gets on, base,
• 1:23:40
  Speaker 2: uh you, know four to. Eleven obp really really has
• 1:23:45
  Speaker 2: kind of matured as a hitter and as even as
• 1:23:48
  Speaker 2: a base. STEALER i think he's gonna you, know he's
• 1:23:51
  Speaker 2: he stole eighteen bases in uh two attempts at our
• 1:23:55
  Speaker 2: eighteen bases and twenty, attempts caught twice in TRIPLE. A
• 1:23:59
  Speaker 2: like he's he's a dynamic, player and you, know maybe
• 1:24:05
  Speaker 2: the biggest knock is he puts the ball in the
• 1:24:07
  Speaker 2: ground a little too. Much but like he's he's a
• 1:24:08
  Speaker 2: line drive spray, hitter you, know puts a good bat on.
• 1:24:12
  Speaker 2: It we'll get out of the fence AND i think
• 1:24:13
  Speaker 2: they'll play there In. Arizona so if, anything there's kind
• 1:24:17
  Speaker 2: of like A biden opportunity here because he's now had
• 1:24:18
  Speaker 2: two cups of coffee and we're saying like small. Cups
• 1:24:22
  Speaker 2: he's had a whole total of twenty two major league,
• 1:24:25
  Speaker 2: games and he's he's Not he's not hit really in either.
• 1:24:29
  Speaker 2: Scenario he's got a total of four hits in those
• 1:24:33
  Speaker 2: twenty two. Games BUT i think that some of the
• 1:24:36
  Speaker 2: hype has died. DOWN i don't think the skills have gone.
• 1:24:39
  Speaker 2: ANYWHERE i think he's absolutely still a guy that is
• 1:24:43
  Speaker 2: just a very very well rounded athlete that's gonna play,
• 1:24:47
  Speaker 2: very very well at the next. Level so give me
• 1:24:49
  Speaker 2: Your Jordan lawler shares if you're if you're shying away from.
• 1:24:52
  Speaker 2: IT i think there's still a lot left in the
• 1:24:54
  Speaker 2: tank there For lawler when he, really you, know stakes
• 1:24:58
  Speaker 2: his claim at the major league. Level.
• 1:25:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Yeah AND i think it could be pretty, soon
• 1:25:03
  Speaker 1: considering this is a, team as we talked, about With
• 1:25:07
  Speaker 1: carol getting, injured probably on the precipice of, selling and you,
• 1:25:10
  Speaker 1: know if they fall a couple more games, out they
• 1:25:12
  Speaker 1: need to really make that move quickly to be able
• 1:25:15
  Speaker 1: to try to recoup what they can because Especially gallon
• 1:25:20
  Speaker 1: And kelly are are free agents unless they're playing on
• 1:25:24
  Speaker 1: bringing them. Back good good thing to be holding at
• 1:25:28
  Speaker 1: the deadline is two front line starters like. That, well,
• 1:25:31
  Speaker 1: absolutely maybe Not Zach, gallon.
• 1:25:33
  Speaker 2: But former frontline, Starters, yes.
• 1:25:38
  Speaker 1: Exactly all, Right i'm going to go all the way
• 1:25:42
  Speaker 1: down to The Complex league for my last pick, Here
• 1:25:45
  Speaker 1: Los Angeles, dodgers And i'm going to butcher, this BUT
• 1:25:48
  Speaker 1: i think it's Ching shinko Chingsen. Co he is a
• 1:25:52
  Speaker 1: left handed, outfielder eighteen year, old six foot three two,
• 1:25:55
  Speaker 1: fifteen probably has more filling out to do considering how.
• 1:25:59
  Speaker 2: Young he.
• 1:26:00
  Speaker 1: Is just absolutely annihilating The Complex league right. Now after
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  Speaker 1: crushing THE dsl last, Year he's slashing three seventy, three forty,
• 1:26:09
  Speaker 1: four five seventy one down The Complex. League that's a
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  Speaker 1: one to seventy FIVE wrc. Plus everything has been really
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  Speaker 1: glowing about the reports in terms of how Smooth co's swing,
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  Speaker 1: is AND i mean the only thing that's kind of
• 1:26:24
  Speaker 1: holding him back here is how much space The dodgers
• 1:26:27
  Speaker 1: have to be able to move him. Up there's actually
• 1:26:30
  Speaker 1: a lot of guys who are going to be in
• 1:26:31
  Speaker 1: this situation for The. Dodgers Between, Huswey depaula And Mike,
• 1:26:36
  Speaker 1: sirota there's a lot of outfielders that they have come
• 1:26:40
  Speaker 1: through the. System Zier hope totally forgot About zaarah whop
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  Speaker 1: who might Be like in discussion for number one fancy,
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  Speaker 1: prospect you, know as we kind of clear out the list,
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  Speaker 1: HERE i still Love co because this is a really special.
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  Speaker 1: Profile and when you start getting the scouting report that
• 1:27:00
  Speaker 1: go along with that and kind of back up what
• 1:27:03
  Speaker 1: you're seeing in those complex, NUMBERS i think you're looking
• 1:27:07
  Speaker 1: at a guy who could be a really, significant major impact.
• 1:27:10
  Speaker 1: Player it's just it's a total like wild card gamble
• 1:27:16
  Speaker 1: at this point because he is an eighteen year. Old
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  Speaker 1: but if you're in a dynasty keeper situation and you're
• 1:27:21
  Speaker 1: looking for somebody who could be a really quick riser
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  Speaker 1: and really kind of bring back major trade capital in
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  Speaker 1: a couple, months are going into twenty twenty six for
• 1:27:30
  Speaker 1: being a free ad right? Now this is the type
• 1:27:35
  Speaker 1: of bat you got Chasing.
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  Speaker 2: Co, yeah it's what you called. Out is like at this,
• 1:27:41
  Speaker 2: point for an eighteen year, old you're just looking, for,
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  Speaker 2: like are there like these impressive, tools and then you
• 1:27:48
  Speaker 2: gamble that they, Developed like that's what you're looking, for
• 1:27:50
  Speaker 2: and he has some impressive, tools and so you. Buy
• 1:27:54
  Speaker 2: you hope they, developed and if they, don't you. Didn't
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  Speaker 2: really you're not really out. Anything it's it is like
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  Speaker 2: one of the hardest organizations to be in with that
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  Speaker 2: kind of, profile a good organization to develop good, talent
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  Speaker 2: but it is chock full of a lot a lot of,
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  Speaker 2: talent so it'll be fun to watch how he develops
• 1:28:11
  Speaker 2: and how much of that truly translates into game. POWER
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  Speaker 2: i just love that what appears to be a very
• 1:28:18
  Speaker 2: mature approach from for an international signee already this early
• 1:28:22
  Speaker 2: in his, career you, know at the age of. Eighteen
• 1:28:24
  Speaker 2: SO i it's it's a deep, dig BUT i like
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  Speaker 2: it all.
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  Speaker 1: Right that wraps it up for the prospects that we've.
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  Speaker 1: Got LIKE i, said check out those show, notes especially
• 1:28:35
  Speaker 1: because AFTER i Butcher co's name, there you're gonna want
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  Speaker 1: to see the actual spelling so you can punch it
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  Speaker 1: in and figure it. Out and like we, said not
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  Speaker 1: only great fancy, INVESTMENTS i think all these dudes are
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  Speaker 1: great baseball card investments, Too so this is a great
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  Speaker 1: kind Of that's WHY i think we like talking about
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  Speaker 1: these types of. Players fits That venn diagram perfectly of this.
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