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Greetings and salutations, everyone. It's Chris Wells from Buckingham Fantasy
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Baseball Live. Today is Sunday, November 8th, and I'm here
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with the great Tim McLeod, who is in beautiful Phoenix, Arizona.
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I said beautiful, Tim. I'm assuming it's beautiful.
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It has been absolutely gorgeous all weekend. The highs in the,
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you know, 78 to 80 degrees, blue skies. It has
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just been absolutely wonderful. I could learn to live with
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these temperatures and this weather, Rich. I really could. The
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only problem with weather on this trip was we ran
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into a belt of incredibly bad weather going through Oklahoma.
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I saw that. I saw a Facebook post from you.
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tornadoes or something.
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Yeah it was not good no it was it was
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ugly the restaurants when we got into the place we
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were staying whether for oklahoma uh yeah smaller community population
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10 15 000 whatever yeah all the restaurants were shut
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down we just wanted to grab a quick burger so
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i think it was burger king we hopped into and
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They were mopping up the floor. The rain came down
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so hard it leaked through the roof and spots. They
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were in the process of shutting down for the night. Yeah,
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it was ugly. But other than that, no, it's been wonderful.
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That's great. That's great. Glad you had good weather. And
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we'll talk about some of the games that you've seen.
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Yeah.
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So I know you had an XFL draft. First of all,
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why don't you tell us about that? What is the
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XFL and what was your auction draft?
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The XFL is, it might be the only, but it
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is the longest running dynasty keeper type format in existence.
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It's been running for about 25 years and I've had
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the pleasure of being a part of it for about seven.
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And it's a great cast of players and it's an auction,
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I'm just trying to think. It's a salary cap auction
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with a, and every November at the first pitch forum,
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we fill out our 14 bats and our nine pitchers, less,
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of course, our keepers. And then we draft in a
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serpentine draft come March and finish our rosters to a
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40-man roster in the spring. So it's a constant evolving project.
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And I went in with my, we're allowed to keep 15,
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and I kept my 15, three of which were prospects.
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Which prospects?
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Filled out the balance.
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What were your three prospects that you kept?
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The three prospects that I kept, Jesus Madej. Oh. That's
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a rather nice one, I think.
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That's a nice one.
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Yes.
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And the other two, we haven't heard of 0.0 in
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a week. Hiroto Saiki and Hiromi Ito.
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Oh, gosh. You got two of them. I'm all out.
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Of course.
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One 0.0 that covers both of them.
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I thought I'd get three for that. Wow.
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So who are some of the guys that you picked
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up at this auction?
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Well, I... Because I've got Ito and he's coming over
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on a posting, it gives me sort of an extra
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pitcher to play around with. So I needed one catcher
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because I kept Cooper Engel. Okay. That AL MVP, I'm sorry, IL,
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International League MVP. That's still sticking with me. I've got
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him for $ 4 at $ 3 increases. So I didn't want
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to part with Engel. He's sort of like my fourth prospect.
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I'm sorry, what MVP did he win?
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International League.
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Oh, the International League. Oh, okay.
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Yeah, sorry. Yeah, he won the International League. I just
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like the head tool so much. So what I did
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was I kept Engel, and I added William Contreras for
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$ 26 at the auction. And my DH is Joe Mack,
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who I picked up for $ 8, who I can slide
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into Engel's spot. And when we draft in March, I'll
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find the DH. Does that make sense?
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Yeah, it does. But do you think, let's go back
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to Cooper Engel. I mean, he's a fine player, not
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a ton of power, can hit. But is he going
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to get playing time with Patrick Bailey still with two
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more seasons in Cleveland?
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I believe that based on the organization that he's in, Cleveland,
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and his advanced hit tool skills, I think they're going
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to find a place for him. And he's catcher eligible
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for now. DH, maybe an outfield spot for a space.
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I think they're going to find a way to get
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a bat of that caliber into their lineup. I'm gambling,
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but I don't think Being that I can have him
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this year at $ 4, next year at $ 7, the year
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after $ 10, I can see what happens this year. Take
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a chance, and if it doesn't work out, I move on, right?
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Yeah, I'm looking at Patrick Bailey, obviously, is going to
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be their guy with the defensive skills. At DH, they've
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got Joe Adele. He's still there for next season, right?
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I believe so, yes.
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He's got MLB service times only four years, so they
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got him for another two years. That's actually a nice
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pickup for them. I don't know, Tim. We'll have to
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see if that one works out for you. Who else
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did you pick up?
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Matt Olson is my new first baseman. Happy with that.
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I paid $ 40, 000 for him, but I needed some power
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and I needed both first base and corner infield. And
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my first base corner infield is now made up of
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Matt Olson and Vinny Pasquantina, who I paid $ 20 for.
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I still like Vinny Pasquantina. The date still looks good
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on that guy. I'm hoping it was just injuries last season.
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Yeah. Then I went cheap on my middle infield. And
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Very cheap. How cheap did you go? How cheap did
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I go? Mason Wynn for a buck. Okay. Okay. And
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Anthony Volpe for five bucks.
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I still believe in Anthony Volpe. I still do.
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Yeah, I figured you'd like that pick.
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Yeah, I like that pick a lot.
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I mean, I.
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Know the New York fans hate him because he didn't
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produce and Now they've gone off to the next guy
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and George Lombard. I mean, I get it all, but
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I still think he still hits the ball pretty hard.
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He's still athletic, good speed. I still like the guy.
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Yeah, I needed one outfielder, and I picked up a
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player that I'm liking early on. I mean, a lot
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of it has to do with opportunity. I picked up
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Matt Shaw for $ 5.
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I think we talked about him at some point.
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Yeah, the reason I like him is because Ian Happ
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and Seiya Suzuki are most likely not going to be back,
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giving Matt Shaw a full-time opportunity. The price was right,
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but that full-time role combined with what I saw last
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year towards the end of the season sort of gives
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me hope that Shaw will generate averages. to maybe a
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little above average numbers over the full season. So I'm
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sort of happy on that draw.
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So let's take a look at his data. Still fast,
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91 percentile in speed. He doesn't hit the ball that hard. 86.8
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miles an hour, but it's got a lot of leverage.
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So I think you're probably looking at 15 home runs
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with some stolen bases. Now the question is, is he
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going to hit? It's a 17 percentile. Strikeout rate, which
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is great. A 10.4% walk rate. Let's see how fastballs.
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He can hit a breaking pitch. 127 batting average against
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breaking pitches. So that was 2026, 2027. Excuse me, 25.
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It was 207. So it looks like he has trouble
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picking up spin. So there's definitely power there. Definitely some speed. Well,
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some power. Definitely speed. Good defender. I think it's a
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reasonable bet. You could probably get him late in drafts.
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I'm assuming you got him fairly late here.
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Yeah. Some of the players I capped, there's some flexibility situations,
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so I can move people around. If I can get
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15-15 out of Matt Shaw as my fifth outfielder, I'll
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be very happy at a $ 5 cost. Yeah, sure. Yeah.
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I mean, I think you should be able to get
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15 solo bases. You're going to get 15 home runs.
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I think so. If he gets full-time playing, you should
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be able to get that. So, yeah.
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Yeah. And I had three pitcher slots open. I got
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Casey Mize for $ 3. Reese Olsen for $ 3. And Garrett
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Whitlock for $ 1.
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Wow, okay. So what's your pitching staff in total look like?
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In total, it is looking like Yamamoto at $ 10, Logan
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Gilbert at $ 19, Cody Ponce at $ 6, Jake.
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Bennett at $ 4, Foster Griffin at $ 4, Hiromi Ito from
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Japan at $ 1, Casey Mize at three.
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Reese Olsen at three. Louis Verland at six. And Whitlock
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at $ 8. I'm looking at $ 46. I basically got $ 56
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invested in my pitching.
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I think you got $ 56 invested in Japanese players. You
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got three Japanese players on your team, McLeod.
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Three? I got more than that. Oh, that's right.
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You got Yamamoto. You got four.
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Yamamoto, Ponce, Foster, Griffin. Oh, okay.
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All right. So you've got some adopted Japanese players. All right.
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That's okay.
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I'm giving you extra reason for 0.0, my friend.
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Wow. I'm surprised you don't have Okamoto. I know that's
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one of your guys, too.
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I got sniped. I traded with him last year. I
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traded away my first round pick in the March Supplemental Draft,
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and Okamoto went in the first round. So I never
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even had a shot at him. This year, I have
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my third round, and my second, and my third, and
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my fourth. I didn't give up any of those picks
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this year. Which means I finished fifth. So, yeah, it worked.
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Is this the league that you used to have Paul
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Skeens in?
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Yes, it is. It's the league I traded Paul Skeens
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to get.
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I hope Hayes is my day.
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Yeah, Ewing Madej and Kyle Stowers, yeah.
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Yeah, wow. Well, you have the pitching to be able
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to trade, so hopefully that all works out. Good?
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Yeah, it was fun. It's hard to beat a live auction, Rich.
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It really is. It's a lot of work, but it's
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also a lot of fun. It really is.
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That's great. I'm glad you're able to participate in that live.
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So tell us about what's been happening in Arizona. Have
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you gone to some games? If so, tell me about
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some of the players you've seen.
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Some of the players I've seen. Well, it is the
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Ty Pete show. Okay.
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I thought you said, because I've been sick all week,
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but I'm pretty sure I saw something that said Ty Pete.
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Guess what Ty Peete just did? I'm assuming he hit
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a triple. Because he's got five in the season. Yeah, yeah.
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The first at bat. Okay, I see him. I just howled. Okay,
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because we just talked about the fact that you saw
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him hit, what, two in one game or something like that?
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I saw him hit two in one game, but they
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rolled the second one a double. I thought that was BS.
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Hat falling off. Coming up to second base, it was
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the same exact play.
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Yeah, he's got a real serious hat problem, okay? Second base.
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Him and his cap part, okay, at second base. It's
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been the Tai Pichu. It really, really has. I've seen
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him twice. The second game, he went one for four,
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which doesn't sound that great, but they ruled the same
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sort of thing. There was an error on a play
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or whatever, but he was one for four with, I think,
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a couple runs scored, a home run, five RBIs, and
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three stolen bases.
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He's got 20 on the season, I think, in 16 games.
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I mean, it's crazy.
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Well, and last night... Went to the home run derby
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just for giggles. And he made the final in the
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home run derby.
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Yeah.
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Like, he was hitting the ball solidly into right field. Like,
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we're not
talking 400-plus bombs. But he hits the ball hard.
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Hits the ball hard, yeah. He's got great bat.
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Very.
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Yeah, it's all sitting there. Does he hit enough? That's
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what we don't know. But, I mean.
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Yeah.
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As I told you, I goosed him up and I
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never do that after seeing him, after seeing him a
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few weeks ago. I'm like, wow. I mean, with this guy,
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not that he's come out of nowhere. Cause he was
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a supplemental first round pick and he's been hurt a
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little bit, but he's just, he's, he's, there's a lot
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of upside with that guy.
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Yeah. I was really, really impressed. And, uh, Yeah, he's
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moved up all of my draft lists in a big way.
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As I'm sure anybody who's following what's happening in the fall,
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he's definitely the dominant player. Vance Honeycutt, I liked what
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I saw. Yeah. Didn't do anything spectacular, but he's cut
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down the swing. Okay. Making solid hard contact. Okay. And...
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I think he stole one or two bases in one
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of the games that I saw him play. He looked
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very good. He did not look like a 40% straight-out guy.
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Yeah, apparently the Orioles got him to change his swing
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the second half of the season. I didn't believe it,
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and after I saw him play, he looked a lot
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better to me. I agree with you.
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Yeah, I wish I'm developing a little bit of lust
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for Ike Irish.
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He's good, right? He's a good player.
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He's a good player, yeah. What do you know about
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Aaron Parker?
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I wrote him. I think he's, let's see here.
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He's in the J system.
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Yeah, I know.
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Let me see.
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I have to call up my, well, I'm not going
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to look my notes up. Tell me what you think
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of him.
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Well, I was looking more or less for, for your thoughts.
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He won the home run derby last night. He hit one. Actually,
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he only needed to hit two or three in the
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final round the way it was set up, but 461 feet. Wow.
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I got my notes up. Big power, huge swing and miss.
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A highly levered swing. Doesn't hit the ball as hard
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as you might think. That's my notes. He did not
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make my top 20 for the Blue Jays. I think
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he's a little old. I'd have to go back and.
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Take a look at that. Yeah, he could be. All
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I know is the kid can hit a BP fastball
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a mile. A mile and a half, actually.
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Well, cool. And the home run derby was at Salt River?
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Yeah, it was at Talking Stick, yeah.
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So did you see my buddy Walvin Francesco?
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No.
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Yeah, because he's still leading the league in batting average,
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and apparently the three games that he didn't play well
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in were the three games I saw him in. Every
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other game, he's just been terrific. So I'm assuming you'll
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see him tonight. He should play the game tonight.
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Yeah, I haven't seen Miller. I haven't seen Walcott. Uh,
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actually I've seen, uh, two games at Peoria and one, uh, two,
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two at Peoria and one in Scottsdale. Uh, but again, uh, I,
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you know, Walcott was sitting the one game Miller. I
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think hope has gone home. I think he's, uh, I
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think he's, uh, for the folly. Uh, I absolutely, you know, uh,
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We were talking about driving in Phoenix. No, I.
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Not any better?
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Oh, dear Lord. An hour and a half to go
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from our hotel to Peoria.
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Yeah, it's terrible.
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Oh, it was just absolutely brutal. I think I spent.
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You're staying at the Mesa complex in You haven't mentioned
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going to a game at Mesa yet, so I'm assuming
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there's no games there.
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Yeah, timing is everything. There's no games here. There's a
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beautiful park sitting, Sloan is sitting right beside us. And
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it's sitting there, not being used this week. So, again,
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I guess the best laid plans of mice and men. But, yeah,
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it's a long drive at rush hour on that loop.
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go into games. Anybody who's looking at visiting Arizona for
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Fall League Baseball, I would highly recommend don't even... If
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you're looking at a night game, try and stay close
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to home. It can be very frustrating sitting in your
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car twiddling your thumbs going five miles an hour on
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an eight-lane freeway, right?
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One of the things that I didn't bring up when
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we last talked about... my visit to the Fall League
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was at our hotel, the same one you're staying at,
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the Waymo, the driverless cabs were plentiful. I don't know,
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have you seen any of the Waymo cabs running around
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where there's no driver? And if so, isn't that weird?
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It is. It is weird, you know. I think the
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first time I pulled up beside one, okay, at an intersection. Well,
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you're sitting there, okay, and you're looking at trying to
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race this thing. There's no driver. Nothing to shoot you
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in the finger. Nothing to wave at you. Nothing.
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Yeah, it's, you know.
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I'm all about, yeah, I don't have any problems about
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looking to the future and how technology will help, because
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I don't understand it, and I do utilize it properly,
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but I don't have any fundamental problems with it, excepting
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these driverless vehicles, okay? I just, I'd rather have somebody
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I can talk to in the front seat, okay? Give
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them a five-buck tip or whatever, and away we go.
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The idea of an empty vehicle pulling up on the
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curb to pick me up and drive me, no. I
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have visions of the doors locking and this guy driving
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into a lake somewhere. Sorry, not for me, Rich.
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I got to tell you, man, the technology has gotten
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to be so good. Let's just face it. The driverless
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cars are much more safer than driver-led cars. They've got
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all the technology around them that they can avoid stuff.
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It's going to be fascinating. We probably won't see it,
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but the next two or three generations, kids won't learn
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to drive. I mean, everything will be driverless.
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Yeah, the Jetsons is real.
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Yeah, it really is. Timmy, let's take a break and
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come back. I've got some more questions for you, including
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did you see anybody you didn't like?
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We'll be right back.
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While you were having fun in Arizona, I've been fighting
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a horrible cold. So I apologize to everybody if you
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hear me hacking and stuff like that. It's been tough, Tim.
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I don't know how. We took our granddaughter to like
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a play area museum thing last Sunday instead of doing that.
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So we did the podcast on Saturday, which free me
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up to go hang out with her. And then two
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or three days later, I got something from either her
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or one of the other cruddy kid that was at
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the place and it's just uh i mean it's just
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been brutal i mean i've never i i can't remember
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last time i had a cold that this one that
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was this bad i've just not been able to.
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Do anything well yeah i've known you a long time
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and i've never heard you laid up with a cold
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for you know an extended period i was thinking all
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the time i've known you and you know you can
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blame it on the kids you know the worst month
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for colds in our neck of the woods is september
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And I think the reason for it is all the
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kids are outside, they're playing, they're having a good time
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all summer, they're bonding. And then they go back to school, okay?
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They all get in tightly packed little rooms and they
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share their bugs and they bring them home to parents, right?
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And it's crazy. Kids get sick, right? And they love
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to share it with their parents and grandparents. That's just
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the way it is, I guess, right?
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So it was funny. We had– Laurie and I are
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members of a couple of social clubs around here. One
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of them is kind of a fun social club. The
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other is a bit of a– what's the right way
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to say it? A blue blood. I mean it's kind
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of stuffy one. And they were having a singer that
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we like a lot. They're performing a dinner kind of thing.
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So I said, oh, I'd love to go. And Laurie goes,
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you can't go in there coughing with all these old people.
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You're going to kill somebody. I'm like, oh. I'm like,
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you're going to get thrown out of the club. I'm like, yeah,
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you're probably right. So I didn't get the chance to
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go to that. And then I didn't get a chance
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to go to church this morning because she goes, there's
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a lot of old people at church. You're going to
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kill somebody there. I'm like, golly. So all I've been
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sitting home and coughing into my computer. So that's what
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I've been doing.
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Doesn't sound like a lot of fun to me, my friend.
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It is not. So did you see anybody that you went, oh,
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that's not good.
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Uh, I, I can't remember the names, but I did
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see some batters that were height challenged that I thought
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was interesting.
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Uh, yeah.
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Short, short batters. Yeah. There's only so much room for
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Jose Altuve's in the game, okay? I can't remember who
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the hitters were, but there were a couple, five, six guys.
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And as far as players that I didn't like, I
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saw countless players I didn't like, and they were all
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middle relievers, okay? Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Pitching in this league has always been questionable. You know,
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there have been over the years some very, very good pitchers.
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I think Max Scherzer pitched it. in the Arizona Fall League.
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Marcus Stroman was here. Garrett Cole was here. Danny Holson.
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There's been good pitchers, but for the most part.
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Danny Holson wasn't very good to him. He never made it.
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Well, no, he was good up until his pro debut.
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That's right.
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He was highly rated. Yeah, third overall pick, yeah.
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So did you see... I'm.
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Assuming you didn't see Roby or Harden on the scene.
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They'll probably pitch tonight.
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They are. Yeah, I would think they'll probably pitch tonight, yeah.
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But it's just middle reliever after middle reliever, and I
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get it. But it's like a big sort of merry-go-round.
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There was one kid in Cleveland that I can't find
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the lineup card or I wouldn't have mentioned, but he
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was interesting. He had a clean inning, and he was
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pitching in the mid-90s, and.
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It looked like he knew what was happening, but for
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the most part, there's just a slew of middle reliever,
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any of your types with 90 mile an hour fastballs.
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And yeah, it's just the way it is.
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So let's talk about some of the fun stuff. Um,
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I know you met up with some, I think you
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met up with some of our listeners. Tell us, tell
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us about that.
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Yeah, I ran into an old friend of yours, Jeff Thompson,
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a longtime listener to the show, an incredibly nice man.
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He mentioned something about a Jose Altuve bobblehead or something.
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But anyhow, he wanted to say hi. I have a.
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Jose Altuve bobblehead, several Jose Altuve trading cards, but I
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still have the bobbleheads. What are they called? Bobbleheads. Bobbleheads.
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I see only bobbleheads. I think I own another one
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other bobblehead and through all of our moves, it's made
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it all of our downsizing. The Jose Altuve bobblehead has
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stayed with us.
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That is awesome. But no, a very, very nice gentleman.
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Still a regular listener to the show after all these years,
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which is cool. Ran into probably 10, 12 different people.
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And I wasn't wearing a name tag. Okay. I never
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bothered with that. I'm, I, I, the first two sessions
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that I attended at the, at the fall forum where
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they were today. And it's been going on since Thursday.
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I'm more of a social butterfly, whatever. But so I
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wasn't wearing the ID, but people had come up to me.
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I'd be talking to somebody and I'd get a tap
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on the shoulder and, are you Tim McLeod? And that's
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sort of, that's sort of cool. Just voice recognition. But there's, there's,
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there's a lot of people out here that listen to
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the podcast on a, on a regular basis. And it
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was nice to run into these folk and shoot the
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breeze and, and have, you know, have some, have, have
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some fun. So I want to thank all of the
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old new listeners, uh, at least to me that, uh,
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I spent some time with, uh, this weekend, uh, You.
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Watched a game with Robbie Thayer, who's one of our
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Patreon guys. Nice guy.
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An incredibly nice human being. Yeah, he came across from
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San Diego and we've got two or three games. We
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went to breakfast. We're going for supper tonight. He's heading
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back tomorrow. Are you paying? Yes, sirree.
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Good for you. Gotta keep our listeners happy.
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Well, yeah, I'll expense it next week.
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I expect Burger King.
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What's that?
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I expect Burger King then.
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Burger King is fine. No, Rob, just a wonderful human being.
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We've had a lot of fun, and it's been a great,
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great time. It really has. And you know what? How
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can you not like a guy... that laughs at all
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your jokes. Okay.
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Like, yeah, it's, it's, he's being kind.
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00:29:05.500 --> 00:29:09.789
Yeah. I, I thought, you know, for a, for a second,
478
00:29:09.809 --> 00:29:12.119
there might've been a pity laugh in there. Okay.
479
00:29:12.210 --> 00:29:14.730
He's probably back, you know, when he's calling back home
480
00:29:14.769 --> 00:29:16.630
to talk to his wife, he's like, Oh my God,
481
00:29:16.670 --> 00:29:20.329
I got a laugh at Tim McCloud's jokes. Yeah.
482
00:29:20.930 --> 00:29:22.930
One more day and I'll be home on one more.
483
00:29:22.789 --> 00:29:28.460
Day of this, of this clown. Yep, there we go.
484
00:29:28.549 --> 00:29:29.609
What's the best meal you've had?
485
00:29:29.609 --> 00:29:36.349
Best meal that we've had is, I'm just trying to think.
486
00:29:36.349 --> 00:29:40.410
uh so far we're going to burial queen tonight which
487
00:29:40.490 --> 00:29:41.829
is one of my favorite spots.
488
00:29:41.829 --> 00:29:43.910
Oh you keep talking about that that's the time.
489
00:29:43.710 --> 00:29:48.420
Yeah yeah yeah everything's handmade but the best meal so
490
00:29:48.480 --> 00:29:51.740
far is we stopped for lunch uh at the big
491
00:29:51.960 --> 00:29:58.400
texan steakhouse in amarillo oh wow and it's It's been
492
00:29:58.440 --> 00:30:01.880
in a couple movies over the years, and it's renowned
493
00:30:01.960 --> 00:30:05.559
for its 72-ounce steak and all the trimmings. If you
494
00:30:05.599 --> 00:30:09.099
can eat it in an hour, it's free, okay?
495
00:30:09.319 --> 00:30:10.880
Oh, I've heard of places like that.
496
00:30:10.940 --> 00:30:11.259
Wow.
497
00:30:11.720 --> 00:30:15.900
Did you get the 72-ounce, or did you... No.
498
00:30:16.240 --> 00:30:20.460
They didn't have a deal on a 7.2-ounce, okay, which
499
00:30:20.500 --> 00:30:23.910
was more to my consumption level. No, but we had...
500
00:30:25.140 --> 00:30:27.680
it was just a quick stop on our way through
501
00:30:27.720 --> 00:30:34.089
for lunch and we prime rib sandwiches. And yeah, it's, it's,
502
00:30:34.200 --> 00:30:37.200
it's a wonderful place. We're going to stop there, uh,
503
00:30:37.269 --> 00:30:40.509
way back. But if you're into cow at all, this
504
00:30:40.569 --> 00:30:44.390
place has some of the finest cooked cattle I've ever
505
00:30:44.430 --> 00:30:46.509
had the pleasure of eating. So that, that would be our,
506
00:30:46.690 --> 00:30:49.309
that would be our best choice so far. And I
507
00:30:49.349 --> 00:30:52.230
got to give a shout out to Matt's big breakfast here. Uh,
508
00:30:52.819 --> 00:30:56.539
Love the place. They bring, bring it out on. Yeah.
509
00:30:56.640 --> 00:30:59.799
It looks like about the size of a hubcap. Okay.
510
00:30:59.839 --> 00:31:02.500
Your meal, lots of food. Very, very good quality.
511
00:31:04.880 --> 00:31:06.900
Would you get sweet or savory? I mean, what did
512
00:31:06.940 --> 00:31:11.869
you get for breakfast there? Uh, lots. Uh, both.
513
00:31:11.970 --> 00:31:12.250
Yes.
514
00:31:12.650 --> 00:31:13.150
Or yes.
515
00:31:13.829 --> 00:31:18.369
Yeah. Just, yeah, it was really good. Anyway, I went
516
00:31:18.390 --> 00:31:21.130
to this one restaurant and I was totally disappointed. Oh, okay.
517
00:31:21.779 --> 00:31:26.640
Because I went there specifically because I thought they had
518
00:31:26.680 --> 00:31:32.420
a one-legged waitress. Okay. And I got into the place
519
00:31:32.440 --> 00:31:34.779
and I was sort of disappointed. How can you name
520
00:31:34.859 --> 00:31:39.150
a business IHOP, okay, if you don't have a one-legged waitress?
521
00:31:39.269 --> 00:31:41.950
Oh, jeez. I'm not even giving you a rim shot.
522
00:31:42.650 --> 00:31:45.710
There's something politically incorrect about that. I'm not exactly sure
523
00:31:45.750 --> 00:31:46.309
what it is.
524
00:31:48.170 --> 00:31:50.490
Okay. Now that I've offended half.
525
00:31:50.250 --> 00:31:54.569
Of our audience. Listen, that's okay. What is it?
526
00:31:54.599 --> 00:31:58.230
They'll forgive me, I hope.
527
00:31:58.269 --> 00:32:00.130
What do you call a guy with no arms and
528
00:32:00.150 --> 00:32:04.069
no legs that's on your stoop? Bobby Bob and Matt
529
00:32:04.089 --> 00:32:05.230
and all that kind of stuff.
530
00:32:05.789 --> 00:32:07.470
Yeah, exactly.
531
00:32:08.109 --> 00:32:11.140
We taught all those jokes in high school or junior high, probably.
532
00:32:11.500 --> 00:32:12.279
All right, Timmy.
533
00:32:12.299 --> 00:32:13.859
Maybe I should have graduated.
534
00:32:14.200 --> 00:32:16.539
There you go. Did you win any money at the casinos?
535
00:32:18.220 --> 00:32:22.460
Oh, yes. Yeah, we won a little bit. I'm assuming
536
00:32:22.720 --> 00:32:24.059
the IRS is not listening.
537
00:32:24.339 --> 00:32:25.779
So, but you, you want the what?
538
00:32:25.819 --> 00:32:26.039
Good.
539
00:32:27.039 --> 00:32:32.039
Yeah, no. And Jody is thoroughly disgusted with me because
540
00:32:32.059 --> 00:32:34.039
we would sit down at a couple of machines and
541
00:32:34.079 --> 00:32:37.369
she would play it and she'd put 20 bucks and
542
00:32:37.420 --> 00:32:40.450
she put 30 bucks in and absolutely nothing. And I'd
543
00:32:40.470 --> 00:32:43.170
sit down beside her and have fun and take a
544
00:32:43.190 --> 00:32:47.869
hundred bucks out of it and move on. Hey, so, uh, yeah, she,
545
00:32:47.930 --> 00:32:51.230
she's not all that happy with me. Apparently, She doesn't
546
00:32:51.269 --> 00:32:56.009
like the fact that she's my good luck charm, whatever.
547
00:32:56.130 --> 00:33:00.490
So it's nice that she can donate so that I
548
00:33:00.549 --> 00:33:03.690
can better our situation.
549
00:33:03.779 --> 00:33:07.619
So you're up and she's down. So you're balancing each
550
00:33:08.140 --> 00:33:11.980
other out. So the car is a little up. Is
551
00:33:12.000 --> 00:33:14.279
the car a little up together or a little down?
552
00:33:17.539 --> 00:33:20.359
I think we're up about $ 300, $ 400, something like that.
553
00:33:20.380 --> 00:33:20.920
There you go.
554
00:33:21.279 --> 00:33:23.559
Yeah, exactly.
555
00:33:23.579 --> 00:33:27.769
No wonder you can pay for Robbie's meal tonight. That's good.
556
00:33:28.150 --> 00:33:31.869
So has Jody gone to any of the games? Does
557
00:33:31.890 --> 00:33:32.849
she like baseball?
558
00:33:36.450 --> 00:33:41.710
Likes, yes. Learning more about the game on a regular basis. Yeah,
559
00:33:41.910 --> 00:33:45.680
you've been to what, two games? Yeah. Yeah, two games. Yeah,
560
00:33:45.960 --> 00:33:49.079
Jody just came in. She's got her shopping done. She's smiling.
561
00:33:49.160 --> 00:33:51.480
She's happy. I'm assuming the car is in one piece
562
00:33:51.539 --> 00:33:54.819
and it's full of gas. Right, hon? Hell no, she says.
563
00:33:54.940 --> 00:33:55.759
We'll talk later.
564
00:33:56.640 --> 00:33:59.430
Is gas more expensive in Phoenix or cheaper?
565
00:34:01.789 --> 00:34:05.069
It's expensive. It's $ 4.
566
00:34:03.549 --> 00:34:04.309
50.
567
00:34:04.309 --> 00:34:06.349
That's more expensive.
568
00:34:07.849 --> 00:34:08.389
Than you pay up in Canada?
569
00:34:08.409 --> 00:34:17.679
It's... it's gotta be close. Uh, the price of gas
570
00:34:17.719 --> 00:34:20.659
from Minnesota all the way through the only spots that
571
00:34:20.699 --> 00:34:24.800
we saw it pretty well under $ 4, uh, you know,
572
00:34:24.869 --> 00:34:27.289
three 89, three nine. It was the Oklahoma area.
573
00:34:27.309 --> 00:34:28.969
Yeah. Yeah.
574
00:34:29.630 --> 00:34:32.369
And the three 50 range, but for the most part,
575
00:34:32.469 --> 00:34:36.550
it's $ 4, four to four 50 a gallon for the,
576
00:34:36.829 --> 00:34:40.130
for the bulk of the trip. So it's expensive.
577
00:34:40.610 --> 00:34:44.110
When I, when, when people ask me if Lori likes baseball, uh,
578
00:34:44.460 --> 00:34:47.820
The answer is yes, until she asks me a question.
579
00:34:47.880 --> 00:34:51.659
She'll go, is this player any good? And eight minutes later,
580
00:34:51.739 --> 00:34:54.750
after I've given her a gazillion stat lines and stuff,
581
00:34:54.769 --> 00:34:57.110
where she'll look at me and go, can I ask
582
00:34:57.150 --> 00:35:02.989
a question again? Is this player any good? It's like, okay, yeah,
583
00:35:03.050 --> 00:35:04.610
short answer, yes or no.
584
00:35:06.289 --> 00:35:11.730
I can relate. We did have an interesting experience Tuesday night.
585
00:35:13.610 --> 00:35:20.429
Last Tuesday, we stayed just outside of Albuquerque, New Mexico, okay?
586
00:35:22.409 --> 00:35:26.090
And we go to check in, and the lobby is
587
00:35:26.320 --> 00:35:31.260
swarming with people. Not only is it swarming with people,
588
00:35:31.300 --> 00:35:40.969
like I'm talking not 20, 30, I'm talking hundreds of people, okay? Apparently,
589
00:35:41.030 --> 00:35:45.960
the hotel... that I picked to stay in that night,
590
00:35:46.579 --> 00:35:51.280
was also the home to the reception for the new
591
00:35:51.539 --> 00:35:53.489
governor for New Mexico.
592
00:35:54.210 --> 00:35:54.650
Oh, okay.
593
00:35:55.750 --> 00:36:01.230
Okay, so the place was just packed with people. I
594
00:36:01.309 --> 00:36:09.599
saw more cops, okay. in about a 300-square-foot area than
595
00:36:09.639 --> 00:36:12.840
I've ever seen in my life. Lots of security, lots
596
00:36:12.909 --> 00:36:16.190
of people, but it was the whole site for the
597
00:36:16.329 --> 00:36:19.030
new governor of New Mexico who was giving her speech
598
00:36:19.170 --> 00:36:23.150
and
all the congratulatory goodies that go along with it.
599
00:36:23.269 --> 00:36:24.690
So that was sort of different.
600
00:36:25.250 --> 00:36:25.789
Oh, that's cool.
601
00:36:25.829 --> 00:36:28.309
Yeah, I stayed at a hotel.
602
00:36:27.869 --> 00:36:30.650
Two years ago when I was there. It was right
603
00:36:30.670 --> 00:36:33.510
around election time as well, and there was some local
604
00:36:33.570 --> 00:36:35.760
yokel It might have been not a local yoke. It
605
00:36:35.780 --> 00:36:38.480
might have been a guy who was running for– I
606
00:36:38.519 --> 00:36:40.440
think he lost, though. He was staying at the hotel
607
00:36:40.519 --> 00:36:43.280
I stayed at. And there was a lot of activity
608
00:36:43.320 --> 00:36:45.880
about 5 o'clock in the afternoon. But when I came
609
00:36:45.920 --> 00:36:48.460
back after the game, there was very few people there.
610
00:36:48.500 --> 00:36:49.550
So I'm assuming he lost.
611
00:36:50.820 --> 00:36:53.849
Yeah, he bought everybody supper and then went home, right?
612
00:36:53.889 --> 00:36:57.849
Went home. So the loser speech. Timmy, let's take another
613
00:36:57.889 --> 00:37:00.230
break and come back. And let's finish up our little
614
00:37:00.269 --> 00:37:01.619
draft that we've had going on.
615
00:37:03.619 --> 00:37:05.159
Yeah, round five sounds good.
616
00:37:09.239 --> 00:37:20.050
Yep. So last week we took a break and we
617
00:37:20.289 --> 00:37:22.730
talked about all of the free agents and we haven't
618
00:37:22.750 --> 00:37:24.929
had any free agents signing. So I think I saw
619
00:37:25.340 --> 00:37:29.440
Jose Tinha got picked up by the Guardians, I believe.
620
00:37:29.519 --> 00:37:32.800
So he was... Okay. A little small trade or a
621
00:37:32.820 --> 00:37:35.219
pickup there, which I thought was interesting. I still kind
622
00:37:35.260 --> 00:37:38.440
of like that player. But I'm still expecting here in
623
00:37:38.480 --> 00:37:41.139
the next three weeks that we're going to have guys signed.
624
00:37:42.619 --> 00:37:45.280
Yeah, I'm starting to hear some grumblings that the teams
625
00:37:45.840 --> 00:37:52.119
might be in a... taking the position that we're not
626
00:37:52.159 --> 00:37:55.719
going to do very much heading into December. But.
627
00:38:00.510 --> 00:38:02.190
It's still very, very early.
628
00:38:02.309 --> 00:38:05.170
Oh, so they don't want to give the advantage to
629
00:38:05.190 --> 00:38:07.949
the players that are signing. They want to make it
630
00:38:08.010 --> 00:38:10.889
more difficult for those free agent, maybe to put some
631
00:38:10.969 --> 00:38:14.000
pressure on getting back to business. Interesting.
632
00:38:14.159 --> 00:38:18.099
Yeah. The games we play, right?
633
00:38:18.900 --> 00:38:21.659
Yeah. Well, I mean, that does make some level of sense. I,
634
00:38:22.039 --> 00:38:24.500
I get it from the owner standpoint. I thought the,
635
00:38:24.559 --> 00:38:29.820
the owner's offering,
offering to push off, um, The talk
636
00:38:29.860 --> 00:38:36.289
about a salary cap until 2028, that wasn't going to
637
00:38:36.309 --> 00:38:38.610
go anywhere. I don't think it has.
638
00:38:38.989 --> 00:38:41.349
No, I don't think a cap is going to go
639
00:38:41.429 --> 00:38:46.929
anywhere at all, period. I think it could potentially be very,
640
00:38:47.170 --> 00:38:52.789
very long haul, Rich. I hope I'm wrong, but I
641
00:38:52.849 --> 00:38:57.269
think this could get exceptionally and extremely ugly before it's done.
642
00:38:57.860 --> 00:39:00.659
Well, if it does, Timmy, we're going to be talking
643
00:39:00.699 --> 00:39:04.269
a lot about where Tim had dinner. What did he
644
00:39:04.289 --> 00:39:08.150
have on his burger? That's going to be our podcast.
645
00:39:10.510 --> 00:39:13.170
Rich, I'll hold a spot for you in my KBO
646
00:39:13.210 --> 00:39:14.369
Fantasy League. How's that?
647
00:39:14.630 --> 00:39:17.389
Oh, there you go. The minor leagues will be playing,
648
00:39:17.409 --> 00:39:20.360
so maybe we can start up a minor league. We
649
00:39:20.400 --> 00:39:21.639
could probably do something like that.
650
00:39:23.420 --> 00:39:25.199
Yeah, we could have some fun. It's got to be
651
00:39:25.219 --> 00:39:27.039
something to talk about in the world of baseball.
652
00:39:27.780 --> 00:39:31.659
All right. So let's, we, been doing a draft over
653
00:39:31.699 --> 00:39:33.949
the last three out of four. We took last week off,
654
00:39:33.989 --> 00:39:36.659
as I mentioned, and I'm just going to review very quickly.
655
00:39:36.699 --> 00:39:39.920
First round, one, one went Pete Crow Armstrong, then Ellie
656
00:39:39.940 --> 00:39:45.800
Dela Cruz, Bobby Wood, Jr. Mizorowski, Otani, Jr. Caminario, Jackson, Cherry,
657
00:39:45.840 --> 00:39:50.750
Juan Soto, James Wood, Tarek Scooble, Fernando Tatis Jr., Jordan Alvarez,
658
00:39:50.829 --> 00:39:55.469
Corbin Carroll, Julio Rodriguez, and Cam Schlittler. Pretty good first round.
659
00:39:56.369 --> 00:39:59.670
I got a note from somebody today, where's Aaron Judge?
660
00:39:59.929 --> 00:40:01.969
Because they were just, I guess they were a little behind,
661
00:40:02.010 --> 00:40:04.070
so we're just listening to the show where we picked
662
00:40:04.090 --> 00:40:07.750
the first round. And Aaron Judge and Acuna, those cats
663
00:40:07.849 --> 00:40:11.690
go in the second round, which started off as Acuna, Abrams,
664
00:40:12.070 --> 00:40:17.750
Aaron Judge, Nick Kurtz, Connor Griffin, Ben Rice, Jackson Merrill,
665
00:40:17.889 --> 00:40:22.989
Matt Olsen, Yamamoto, Dylan Cease, Jordan Walker, Christopher Sanchez, Pete Alonso,
666
00:40:23.449 --> 00:40:28.380
Miguel Vargas, and Gavin Williams. Then coming back for the
667
00:40:28.420 --> 00:40:32.239
third round was Kyle Schwarber, Mason Miller, Paul Skeens, Gunner,
668
00:40:32.380 --> 00:40:38.280
Kate Smith, Jose Ramirez, Sal Stewart, Johan Duran, Josh Hader,
669
00:40:38.380 --> 00:40:43.559
Francisco Lindor, Louis Varlin, Chase Burns, Wyatt Lankford, Logan Gilbert,
670
00:40:43.719 --> 00:40:47.539
and Randy Orozarena. So just to give you a sense here,
671
00:40:47.559 --> 00:40:49.440
I color-coded stuff. I don't know if you saw that
672
00:40:49.460 --> 00:40:51.539
in my last update. So 1, 2, 3, 4, 5,
673
00:40:51.530 --> 00:40:56.889
6 pitchers in the first three rounds. Lots of outfielders. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14.
674
00:40:56.889 --> 00:40:59.650
14 outfielders in the first 45 picks. I thought that
675
00:40:59.670 --> 00:41:00.429
was fascinating.
676
00:41:15.820 --> 00:41:20.000
Outfield's going to go fast and furious. And then there
677
00:41:20.019 --> 00:41:23.920
will be a lag, I believe, and a catch-up phase.
678
00:41:23.980 --> 00:41:27.630
But there's a lot of high-end outfielders, and they deserve
679
00:41:27.670 --> 00:41:31.050
to go that high. And when you need a grand
680
00:41:31.090 --> 00:41:34.550
total in a 15-team league, when you need 75 of
681
00:41:34.590 --> 00:41:40.670
them to field an active roster for all involved, I'm
682
00:41:40.710 --> 00:41:43.960
not surprised that outfield is going as quick as it is.
683
00:41:45.139 --> 00:41:50.510
The fourth round was very heavy pitching. Zach Wheeler, Hunter Brown,
684
00:41:50.570 --> 00:41:57.650
Michael King, Bryce Terang, the first second baseman off the board, Rasmussen,
685
00:41:58.309 --> 00:42:01.360
Drake Baldwin, the first catcher off the board, Michael Harris,
686
00:42:01.400 --> 00:42:07.019
Zach Nito, Peyton Tolley, Chris Sale, O'Neal Cruz, Hunter Goodman,
687
00:42:07.079 --> 00:42:11.760
Bryce Harper, Uri Perez, and Garrett Colt. So that last
688
00:42:11.960 --> 00:42:15.380
fourth round, we had three, four, five, six, seven, eight
689
00:42:15.480 --> 00:42:16.159
pitchers go.
690
00:42:17.639 --> 00:42:22.150
Well, hey, and again, it's a situation where you're looking
691
00:42:22.210 --> 00:42:28.030
at probably six starters times 15. You're looking at 90
692
00:42:28.030 --> 00:42:31.230
starters that are going to be required. You can push
693
00:42:31.250 --> 00:42:33.789
them down a bit, but eventually they have to go,
694
00:42:34.090 --> 00:42:38.829
and go they did, if When I get back at
695
00:42:38.889 --> 00:42:45.000
the end of this week, beginning of next week, I'm
696
00:42:45.019 --> 00:42:48.010
going to... I'm going to give the NFBC ADPs. I
697
00:42:48.050 --> 00:42:50.429
think they've got them out now for their active, for
698
00:42:50.809 --> 00:42:53.829
their early leagues. So I'll give it a spy. I'll
699
00:42:53.849 --> 00:42:57.900
be curious to see how we stack up with the NFBC, assuming,
700
00:42:57.940 --> 00:43:01.059
of course, that we'll be probably a little bit late
701
00:43:01.179 --> 00:43:04.460
on the pitching, which is always predominant in the NFBC.
702
00:43:04.480 --> 00:43:07.840
Yeah, they're out there. Pete Crowe, Armstrong is one.
Shelly Otani, two.
703
00:43:08.530 --> 00:43:13.199
Bobby Green, three. Ellie DeLaCruz, four. Aaron Judge is up
704
00:43:13.280 --> 00:43:16.329
at number nine, so that's different than what we had.
705
00:43:16.349 --> 00:43:22.289
Schlittler was at 15. C.J. Abrams at 14. There's an
706
00:43:22.329 --> 00:43:25.190
interesting one. Jose Ramirez at 16. We had him a
707
00:43:25.210 --> 00:43:30.599
little later. McCune, Corbin, Carroll, Connor Griffin. They're going to
708
00:43:30.659 --> 00:43:36.500
pick closers earlier. We're seeing Mason Miller coming in at 20.
709
00:43:36.500 --> 00:43:40.670
Kate Smith at 27. Paul Skeen's at 31, so that
710
00:43:40.710 --> 00:43:43.329
was pretty much where we were as well. I don't
711
00:43:43.510 --> 00:43:48.710
see any huge surprises in there. Kevin McGonigal at 45.
712
00:43:48.710 --> 00:43:50.670
That's surprising to me.
713
00:43:51.989 --> 00:43:59.670
Kevin McGonigal at 45? Yeah. Where did we have him?
714
00:43:59.710 --> 00:44:02.309
He hasn't been drafted yet. Okay.
715
00:44:02.329 --> 00:44:05.929
Yeah, okay. That's bold.
716
00:44:06.559 --> 00:44:10.840
Dylan Cease, 52. Zach Wheeler, 56. Peyton Tolley. So we
717
00:44:10.880 --> 00:44:15.889
had them a little earlier. Bryce Harper down at 61.
718
00:44:15.889 --> 00:44:21.349
Francisco Lindor at 65. What are we missing as Francisco Lindor?
719
00:44:24.110 --> 00:44:27.280
Well, he had a bad year. You know, it wasn't
720
00:44:27.320 --> 00:44:28.320
a good year for Lindor.
721
00:44:28.340 --> 00:44:30.900
No, I mean, once he got going, he was pretty good.
722
00:44:30.920 --> 00:44:34.960
Yeah. Yeah, but he didn't get going until, what, mid-September?
723
00:44:34.980 --> 00:44:40.869
I'm just kidding. No, it wasn't a great year, but
724
00:44:41.769 --> 00:44:47.590
I'm not downshifting that much on Lindor. It will be
725
00:44:47.650 --> 00:44:54.760
interesting to see how much the NFBC folk have moved
726
00:44:54.840 --> 00:44:57.190
down on Vlad Jr.
727
00:45:02.070 --> 00:45:05.429
I'm just checking with Francisco Lindor. Francisco Lindor did hit
728
00:45:05.429 --> 00:45:08.110
21 home runs in 100 games. So he was on
729
00:45:08.150 --> 00:45:12.070
pace for, you know, for 35 home runs. What he
730
00:45:12.110 --> 00:45:13.110
did do was run.
731
00:45:13.489 --> 00:45:16.639
He only stole about three bases, I think.
732
00:45:16.679 --> 00:45:21.199
Yeah, sprint speeds at 42 percentile. Let's see if that's...
733
00:45:21.820 --> 00:45:25.199
And last season it was 48 percentile. So the speed
734
00:45:25.260 --> 00:45:29.500
is going away with Francisco Lindor. But I still think
735
00:45:29.539 --> 00:45:30.750
he hits. I.
736
00:45:31.139 --> 00:45:34.840
Yeah, he had a run of two or three 30
737
00:45:34.840 --> 00:45:39.320
stolen base seasons, didn't he, prior to last year?
738
00:45:39.320 --> 00:45:44.000
25, he hit 30. He stole 31. 24, he stole 29, though,
739
00:45:44.219 --> 00:45:47.539
at a below average sprint speed rate, though. So he
740
00:45:47.559 --> 00:45:50.940
was stealing them based on skill as opposed to raw speed.
741
00:45:51.559 --> 00:45:51.860
I don't know.
742
00:45:51.880 --> 00:45:52.820
But he is 33 now.
743
00:45:52.929 --> 00:45:53.639
Interestingly.
744
00:45:58.500 --> 00:46:00.340
So that's probably why he dropped. Okay, Timmy, let's go
745
00:46:00.400 --> 00:46:04.210
to the fifth round. I don't know who's on the clock.
746
00:46:04.230 --> 00:46:06.469
Let's see if I can figure that. I might be
747
00:46:06.510 --> 00:46:07.050
on the clock.
748
00:46:08.409 --> 00:46:11.030
I think you might be, yes. I think I took
749
00:46:11.050 --> 00:46:11.610
Garrett Cole.
750
00:46:12.849 --> 00:46:19.480
You took Garrett Cole? All right. So I'm back up.
751
00:46:21.519 --> 00:46:23.940
So we're back at the number one slot. So Pete Crowe,
752
00:46:23.960 --> 00:46:28.440
I'm sorry, Gavin Williams, Kyle Schwarber, Garrett Cole, And then
753
00:46:28.480 --> 00:46:31.000
coming in number five, so I've got Speed and Power
754
00:46:31.639 --> 00:46:34.980
with Pete Craw. I've got two starters. I've got a
755
00:46:35.059 --> 00:46:38.559
big power bat. That's a pretty good team with two
756
00:46:38.699 --> 00:46:43.409
pretty interesting pitchers there. So I can go a lot
757
00:46:43.449 --> 00:46:44.309
of directions here.
758
00:46:45.090 --> 00:46:47.710
You can pretty well head in any direction you choose.
759
00:46:47.750 --> 00:46:49.889
You could look at a closer. You could look at
760
00:46:51.090 --> 00:46:55.860
a power bat, speed. You could even look at if
761
00:46:55.900 --> 00:46:59.349
you wanted to– If you wanted to try and really
762
00:46:59.409 --> 00:47:02.289
lock up your pitching, I wouldn't recommend it, but you
763
00:47:02.309 --> 00:47:06.849
could look at a starter. Yeah. If you were somebody
764
00:47:06.869 --> 00:47:07.489
you really liked.
765
00:47:08.170 --> 00:47:14.110
We mentioned Kevin McGonigal. He might fit nicely in here
766
00:47:14.199 --> 00:47:20.559
because there could be some batting average stuff here with
767
00:47:20.579 --> 00:47:23.139
this particular team, with Pekar Armstrong.
768
00:47:23.159 --> 00:47:23.400
Mm-hmm.
769
00:47:24.070 --> 00:47:27.619
And particularly Kyle Schwarber. So you can make an argument
770
00:47:27.760 --> 00:47:29.800
of Kevin McGonigal is going to give you some batting
771
00:47:29.880 --> 00:47:33.380
average here. And a little bit of power, a little
772
00:47:33.400 --> 00:47:35.079
bit of speed. So I think I'm going to go there.
773
00:47:35.099 --> 00:47:39.739
I'm going to take Kevin McGonigal as a good fit
774
00:47:39.800 --> 00:47:44.460
for this team with some batting average wobbleness there.
775
00:47:45.599 --> 00:47:49.420
Yeah, no. Makes a lot of sense to me. I
776
00:47:49.440 --> 00:47:51.889
don't have any problems at all with that pick.
777
00:47:52.320 --> 00:47:54.340
So you're on the clock with Elie De La Cruz
778
00:47:54.400
--> 00:47:58.340
on your team, Miguel Vargas, Mason Miller, Yuri Perez. So
779
00:47:58.539 --> 00:48:03.119
one starter, closer, first baseman. You have no outfielders. One
780
00:48:03.139 --> 00:48:05.019
of the few teams that does not have an outfielder.
781
00:48:06.099 --> 00:48:12.360
Yeah. And we're probably still going to have the outfield
782
00:48:12.559 --> 00:48:20.039
situation being what it is. I'm looking at one of
783
00:48:20.119 --> 00:48:27.820
two players and I can't pass on Contreras. I got
784
00:48:27.840 --> 00:48:28.820
to head in that direction.
785
00:48:30.199 --> 00:48:31.059
William Contreras?
786
00:48:31.719 --> 00:48:33.079
William Contreras, yes.
787
00:48:35.320 --> 00:48:40.150
Contreras. Contreras. There we go. William Contreras.
788
00:48:40.170 --> 00:48:41.170
All right.
789
00:48:41.230 --> 00:48:44.769
So McGonagall's a shortstop. Why do I have color-coded a shortstop?
790
00:48:45.650 --> 00:48:50.250
So that'd be blue. Try to get too fancy here.
791
00:48:51.309 --> 00:48:57.130
And Um, William Contreras is a, is a, uh, catcher
792
00:48:57.230 --> 00:48:59.840
and I got catchers as dark blue. So he's the
793
00:48:59.880 --> 00:49:01.139
third catcher off the board.
794
00:49:01.760 --> 00:49:01.929
All right.
795
00:49:01.949 --> 00:49:04.139
That's a good pitch. I have a good pick. So
796
00:49:04.739 --> 00:49:06.260
adds a lot of power there and you get a
797
00:49:06.320 --> 00:49:08.659
really good catcher. And again, Tim and I have both
798
00:49:08.699 --> 00:49:10.360
been on record. We're going to try to get decent
799
00:49:10.400 --> 00:49:11.860
catchers into this season.
800
00:49:13.320 --> 00:49:16.579
Yep. It is definitely going to be a goal. I,
801
00:49:17.300 --> 00:49:20.940
don't want to be caught short and end up with
802
00:49:21.000 --> 00:49:27.389
two very mediocre catchers. No. You've got to have some
803
00:49:27.429 --> 00:49:31.269
power out of that position with some RBI numbers.
804
00:49:31.289 --> 00:49:34.170
So my next team is Bobby Witt Jr., Pete Alonzo,
805
00:49:34.230 --> 00:49:36.250
Paul Skeens, Bryce Harper.
806
00:49:36.389 --> 00:49:36.510
Mm-hmm.
807
00:49:36.929 --> 00:49:39.809
I'm a little leery of Paul Skeens just because of
808
00:49:39.849 --> 00:49:41.840
the tough season last year, so I think I might
809
00:49:41.880 --> 00:49:44.900
want to shorten that up. I've got huge power with
810
00:49:44.980 --> 00:49:49.119
Alonzo and Harper. Bobby Witt's good for 20. I've got
811
00:49:49.260 --> 00:49:52.559
incredible speed with Witt Jr., a little bit of speed
812
00:49:52.579 --> 00:49:55.579
with Harper, but I think I need another pitcher. Now,
813
00:49:55.619 --> 00:49:58.800
I could go with a closer, but I think I'm
814
00:49:58.840 --> 00:50:01.380
going to go pitcher there. On the top of my queue,
815
00:50:01.920 --> 00:50:10.650
Carlos Rodon, Jacob deGrom, Brian Wu, Logan Henderson, Max Freed. Boy,
816
00:50:10.909 --> 00:50:12.309
Max Freed looks pretty good there.
817
00:50:14.130 --> 00:50:19.030
Yeah, I think that would be my option. Either Freed
818
00:50:19.110 --> 00:50:22.349
or Lozardo. Yeah.
819
00:50:23.210 --> 00:50:26.190
Let's see the NFBC. They went, Lozardo was at 38
820
00:50:26.190 --> 00:50:27.670
and Freed is at 86.
821
00:50:27.670 --> 00:50:28.110
Woo. Yeah.
822
00:50:35.760 --> 00:50:42.239
I'm going to get Lizardo with the strikeouts. Yeah, I
823
00:50:42.260 --> 00:50:45.559
have Lizardo higher on my– I have Lizardo– I had
824
00:50:45.659 --> 00:50:48.010
him at 30. He was ranked 30, so that's the
825
00:50:48.050 --> 00:50:49.750
direction I'm going to go. So I'm going to say
826
00:50:50.269 --> 00:50:52.309
Rich is taking Jesus Lizardo.
827
00:50:55.849 --> 00:51:00.110
Yeah, he's slid a little bit, but I really don't
828
00:51:00.150 --> 00:51:05.380
know why. just the way it's panned out, I guess.
829
00:51:05.599 --> 00:51:07.030
That's all I can think of.
830
00:51:07.780 --> 00:51:11.400
I had William Contreras at number 45, so yes, I
831
00:51:11.420 --> 00:51:13.920
had him pretty high. I've got to get my numbers
832
00:51:13.960 --> 00:51:19.260
here right. Contreras is 62, and Jesus Lizardo is 63.
833
00:51:19.260 --> 00:51:22.570
Is that what you got?
834
00:51:24.889 --> 00:51:34.050
I've got McGonagall would be 15 for 61. For McGonigal, 62. Contreras, 63. Lizardo.
835
00:51:34.730 --> 00:51:35.809
All right, Timmy, you're on the clock.
836
00:51:35.829 --> 00:51:43.340
Okay, we're looking at... This is a team that's got
837
00:51:43.360 --> 00:51:52.389
some pitching. Mizorowski, Sanchez, Gunnar Henderson, Goodman. I think this
838
00:51:52.469 --> 00:51:59.940
team needs some speed. Definitely a bet. Maybe a closer.
839
00:52:00.019 --> 00:52:03.880
Let's just take a look and see what's available here.
840
00:52:10.949 --> 00:52:15.349
I know this is probably early, but when I look at.
841
00:52:15.389 --> 00:52:22.920
The power speed options available, I think I'm going to
842
00:52:22.980 --> 00:52:27.059
look at a New York Metropolitan that I really, really
843
00:52:27.159 --> 00:52:30.079
like a lot and move him up.
844
00:52:30.099 --> 00:52:30.840
A little bit.
845
00:52:31.679 --> 00:52:33.679
Yeah, that's where we're going.
846
00:52:33.699 --> 00:52:37.519
Tim thinks Carson. What do you think?
847
00:52:38.440 --> 00:52:38.860
Too early?
848
00:52:38.880 --> 00:52:42.699
I think too early. Okay. But let's take a look
849
00:52:42.719 --> 00:52:47.570
at the other outfields. I have Carson Benjamin be the
850
00:52:47.610 --> 00:52:51.849
top-ranked outfielder for me at this juncture. I've also got
851
00:52:51.889 --> 00:52:59.530
Roman Anthony there, Riley Green. Yeah. Yeah, you're right. Outfielder
852
00:52:59.570 --> 00:53:00.800
really thins out in a hurry.
853
00:53:02.239 --> 00:53:07.820
Yeah, and that's, you know, looking at how much you
854
00:53:07.860 --> 00:53:10.719
want to push him up, or I guess the other
855
00:53:10.760 --> 00:53:15.320
situation is how long you want to wait. Yeah. I
856
00:53:15.360 --> 00:53:19.219
just don't think he's going to be hanging around all night.
857
00:53:19.239 --> 00:53:21.420
I think he's going to be a huge spec upside pick.
858
00:53:22.679 --> 00:53:24.940
And I like the kid a lot. I think he's
859
00:53:24.980 --> 00:53:26.119
got a bright future ahead.
860
00:53:26.139 --> 00:53:32.530
Yeah, he went 63 in the NFUC, which isn't horrible.
861
00:53:33.650 --> 00:53:36.909
Okay. It's in the same roundabout area.
862
00:53:36.929 --> 00:53:42.170
Of course, and Binge. All right. So the next team
863
00:53:42.210 --> 00:53:46.070
has got Otani, Jordan Walker, Kate Smith, O'Neal Cruz. So
864
00:53:46.110 --> 00:53:48.449
there is no starting pitcher. So I got to get
865
00:53:48.489 --> 00:53:50.349
a starting pitcher for this. And this is where it
866
00:53:50.389 --> 00:53:55.699
gets a little dicey because I'm looking at, uh, Max Freed, Carson,
867
00:53:55.820 --> 00:54:01.940
excuse me, Jacob to Grom, Carlos Rodan are your top bright,
868
00:54:02.000 --> 00:54:10.530
Brian Wu, Logan Henderson. Um, Yeah, I mean, I'm fishing
869
00:54:10.570 --> 00:54:14.230
in that world, Tim. I guess Garrett Crochet. Has Garrett
870
00:54:14.250 --> 00:54:15.309
Crochet been taken yet?
871
00:54:18.690 --> 00:54:19.650
Good question.
872
00:54:20.230 --> 00:54:21.070
No, he has not.
873
00:54:21.949 --> 00:54:24.289
He has not been taken. Nope.
874
00:54:25.449 --> 00:54:27.369
So what do you do with a Garrett Crochet?
875
00:54:31.510 --> 00:54:38.440
Pray. Well, you know... After a lost season last year,
876
00:54:38.460 --> 00:54:43.239
would I personally be comfortable with him as my ace?
877
00:54:43.320 --> 00:54:50.530
Probably not. As a number two, three, there's a definite
878
00:54:51.110 --> 00:54:53.210
huge risk there. But at some point in time, he
879
00:54:53.250 --> 00:54:55.409
has to go off the board, right? Somebody's going to...
880
00:54:56.159 --> 00:54:59.159
Somebody is going to look at the risk reward, like,
881
00:54:59.179 --> 00:55:00.980
you know, looking at the teams here, would I take
882
00:55:01.019 --> 00:55:03.860
crochet as a number? Hey, if he, if he made
883
00:55:03.900 --> 00:55:06.980
it back, would I take him as a number three starter? Yeah,
884
00:55:07.000 --> 00:55:07.610
I think I would.
885
00:55:08.719 --> 00:55:11.190
But he's the number one starter for me, which is
886
00:55:11.230 --> 00:55:13.989
where I think I might take the risk here because
887
00:55:14.190 --> 00:55:17.110
I mean, I could do a max freed or Brian,
888
00:55:17.130 --> 00:55:21.269
Brian Wu's got injury concerns. So, I mean, I, without
889
00:55:21.469 --> 00:55:26.079
a starter, I think I'm, I'm leaning towards, um, Garrett Crochet.
890
00:55:27.659 --> 00:55:33.599
Yeah, or pass and then, you know, make a run
891
00:55:33.699 --> 00:55:35.800
on Parker Mezek and some of those, you know what
892
00:55:35.840 --> 00:55:38.840
I mean? Some of the number two, three and fill it.
893
00:55:38.800 --> 00:55:41.780
Up that way. I don't like Parker Mezek.
894
00:55:42.050 --> 00:55:44.250
Yeah. I've got no, I think it's the right spot.
895
00:55:45.070 --> 00:55:47.670
All right. Timmy, let's take a break and come back
896
00:55:47.769 --> 00:55:50.869
and we'll review where we are. And Tim is on
897
00:55:50.909 --> 00:55:53.500
the clock. Give him some extra time. Maybe he's going
898
00:55:53.519 --> 00:55:57.289
to pick a Japanese player. I'm assuming he will. He
899
00:55:57.329 --> 00:56:07.750
has more time to think about it. All right. So
900
00:56:08.170 --> 00:56:14.559
Kevin McGonigal, William Contreras, Jesus Lizardo, Carson Bench, Garrett Crochet.
901
00:56:14.579 --> 00:56:16.900
It doesn't have two T's. I think it's got one
902
00:56:16.940 --> 00:56:18.519
T in it. Garrett Crochet.
903
00:56:19.400 --> 00:56:19.519
Yes.
904
00:56:20.570 --> 00:56:21.550
I believe that's correct.
905
00:56:21.570 --> 00:56:25.289
Tim, you're on the clock. Junior Caminero, Dylan Cease, Jose Ramirez,
906
00:56:25.889 --> 00:56:28.889
Chris Sale. So you're wide open in terms of the
907
00:56:28.909 --> 00:56:29.809
direction you could go.
908
00:56:31.309 --> 00:56:41.159
Yeah, and you know what? I'm sort of torn here.
909
00:56:43.539 --> 00:56:47.920
Do we have Raphael Devers off the board yet? We
910
00:56:47.980 --> 00:56:50.610
do not. I don't think we do. Yeah, I think
911
00:56:50.710 --> 00:56:56.730
it's time to chase 30, 35 home runs and 100 RBIs.
912
00:56:56.789 --> 00:57:00.070
So we'll go with Raphael Devers.
913
00:57:00.110 --> 00:57:03.269
He was definitely on my short list. Was he a
914
00:57:03.329 --> 00:57:04.789
DH or first base?
915
00:57:05.929 --> 00:57:06.489
First base.
916
00:57:10.300 --> 00:57:13.000
He was definitely on my list. I think he's being
917
00:57:13.199 --> 00:57:16.219
forgotten about, and I think it's a floor of 30
918
00:57:16.219 --> 00:57:17.019
home runs.
919
00:57:18.409 --> 00:57:27.260
Yeah, I agree. When you combine him and team number one, two, three, four, five,
920
00:57:28.159 --> 00:57:34.750
team five, with Caminero and Ramirez, add Devers to that mix,
921
00:57:34.769 --> 00:57:37.190
that's a solid base for an offense, I think.
922
00:57:39.269 --> 00:57:45.079
Well, I've got a team that's pretty balanced. Jackson Chirio, Yamamoto,
923
00:57:45.119 --> 00:57:46.619
Sal Stewart, Peyton Tolley.
924
00:57:47.579 --> 00:57:47.780
Yeah.
925
00:57:48.320 --> 00:57:49.659
Nice game. I like that game.
926
00:57:50.280 --> 00:57:52.760
I might go a closer here just because, I mean,
927
00:57:52.800 --> 00:57:56.340
we're not really mimicking the NFVC, which the NFVC goes
928
00:57:56.559 --> 00:58:00.760
early with closers. So let's just go over to their
929
00:58:00.820 --> 00:58:06.199
ADPs and take a look there. Mason Miller's off the
930
00:58:06.219 --> 00:58:13.159
board at five. Duran at 10.
Louis Varlin, 13. Josh Hader, 14.
931
00:58:13.159 --> 00:58:17.960
Mason Montgomery at 15. He's still on our board. Yeah.
932
00:58:19.130 --> 00:58:24.389
David Bednar, Brian Baker. Do you trust Brian Baker? Andrew Mews.
933
00:58:24.409 --> 00:58:26.309
I mean, it's starting to get a little dicey there.
934
00:58:26.449 --> 00:58:27.289
Roll this Chapman.
935
00:58:27.369 --> 00:58:30.829
Yeah, you got Brian Baker. You got Jacob Watts.
936
00:58:32.320 --> 00:58:33.380
Like Jacob Watts.
937
00:58:34.840 --> 00:58:41.159
Chapman. Yeah, there are plenty of options, but it is thinning.
938
00:58:41.579 --> 00:58:43.920
So, they all have question marks. I mean, Mason Miller
939
00:58:43.940 --> 00:58:46.400
didn't get the job until mid-season. It was very good,
940
00:58:46.460 --> 00:58:50.010
but Does he keep the job? I don't know. I mean,
941
00:58:50.030 --> 00:58:53.389
there's the whole thing with David Bednar. Does he return
942
00:58:53.429 --> 00:58:55.630
to New York? He can be really good. He can
943
00:58:55.650 --> 00:58:59.650
be really bad. Brian Baker, can you trust the Rays
944
00:59:00.409 --> 00:59:03.920
to continue to keep him in the starter, excuse me,
945
00:59:03.940 --> 00:59:06.980
the closer role? I mean, Munoz, I guess, has been
946
00:59:07.000 --> 00:59:08.760
pretty solid. The role is Chapman's 85 years old.
947
00:59:11.690 --> 00:59:15.849
Yeah, you got to pair him with Garrett Whitlock for sure.
948
00:59:20.610 --> 00:59:22.010
I guess I go Mason Montgomery.
949
00:59:22.460 --> 00:59:22.820
I mean, so.
950
00:59:24.420 --> 00:59:27.719
I'm going to go with a closer Mason Montgomery. Do
951
00:59:27.739 --> 00:59:30.809
I feel good about it? I really don't. But I
952
00:59:31.909 --> 00:59:33.880
think the elite guys are already off the board at
953
00:59:33.920 --> 00:59:37.340
this juncture. Next group.
954
00:59:38.400 --> 00:59:44.300
Yeah, if you look at what Mason Montgomery did from
955
00:59:44.389 --> 00:59:47.829
about July on after the All-Star break, the second half,
956
00:59:47.849 --> 00:59:51.590
I think he went like six weeks without allowing an
957
00:59:51.650 --> 00:59:57.469
earned run. Yeah, I don't know because I haven't looked,
958
00:59:57.489 --> 01:00:01.300
but I would have to think that Montgomery... Posted the
959
01:00:01.400 --> 01:00:06.429
lowest ERA from a closer in the second half of
960
01:00:06.530 --> 01:00:11.030
last year. JBB was lights out. He was.
961
01:00:11.489 --> 01:00:13.429
Let's just take a look at his stat cast page,
962
01:00:13.929 --> 01:00:15.849
just in case I have to... Ooh, it's very red.
963
01:00:16.630 --> 01:00:20.710
Very good. Let's see.
964
01:00:21.989 --> 01:00:26.070
Fastball's at 98.5. I didn't realize he threw that hard. Wow.
965
01:00:26.570 --> 01:00:30.369
Yeah, yeah. If you look at his game log, like
966
01:00:30.469 --> 01:00:34.010
I said, I think he allowed runs in maybe two
967
01:00:34.130 --> 01:00:40.019
games in the second half last year. Yeah.
968
01:00:40.900 --> 01:00:42.780
Yeah, I feel a little bit better about that.
969
01:00:43.579 --> 01:00:49.480
Yeah, I would as well. I think I'd be happier
970
01:00:49.519 --> 01:00:53.570
with Mason Montgomery as compared to Brian Baker and Jacob
971
01:00:53.610 --> 01:00:55.550
Latz and Trevor McGill.
972
01:00:56.130 --> 01:00:58.320
Mason Montgomery was a failed starter, as we know, in
973
01:00:58.340 --> 01:00:59.000
Tampa Bay.
974
01:01:01.000 --> 01:01:02.119
Yeah.
975
01:01:02.179 --> 01:01:03.360
You said you want to take a look at the
976
01:01:03.400 --> 01:01:07.420
game log. Let's see here. So from the second half,
977
01:01:07.440 --> 01:01:09.719
so I'll do it from 719 or 718. 718, 142
978
01:01:09.719 --> 01:01:14.349
ERA and set with 17 saves, 31 innings. Yeah, he
979
01:01:14.369 --> 01:01:26.969
was pretty good. Yeah, big time. Yeah, if it wasn't
980
01:01:26.989 --> 01:01:30.489
for that blow up on the 26th of September, you
981
01:01:30.510 --> 01:01:34.239
eliminate that. That was late. If you eliminate that, which
982
01:01:34.280 --> 01:01:36.590
I know we can't, but just for kicks and giggles,
983
01:01:37.889 --> 01:01:46.159
that would be a, you're a 0-60. Yeah.
984
01:01:48.360 --> 01:01:51.420
Yeah, a very, very impressive second half.
985
01:01:52.469 --> 01:01:55.210
Timmy, you're on the board with Juan Soto, Matt Olson,
986
01:01:55.349 --> 01:01:59.409
Juan Duran, and Zach Nito. You need a starter, my friend.
987
01:02:00.369 --> 01:02:03.210
I need a starter in the worst of ways, and
988
01:02:03.670 --> 01:02:05.849
I think we're going to go with a southpaw.
989
01:02:07.289 --> 01:02:07.710
Max Freed.
990
01:02:07.809 --> 01:02:10.750
Oh, where are you? Max Freed, where are you hiding?
991
01:02:10.769 --> 01:02:11.500
There we go.
992
01:02:11.530 --> 01:02:13.829
He's at the very end of the list.
993
01:02:14.969 --> 01:02:20.699
Max Freed. Yeah. Yeah, you simply have to take a
994
01:02:20.719 --> 01:02:23.840
starter at this stage. If you don't have a starter,
995
01:02:24.159 --> 01:02:25.039
you've got to find one.
996
01:02:27.300 --> 01:02:33.099
Garrett Crochet with 65. Raphael Deaver's 66, and Tim takes
997
01:02:33.760 --> 01:02:36.019
with 60. Yeah, I mean, it's a solid pick. There's
998
01:02:36.260 --> 01:02:39.739
no question. Not the most exciting pick, but it's a
999
01:02:39.780 --> 01:02:40.460
solid pick.
1000
01:02:41.320 --> 01:02:43.340
Well, you're into the fifth round, and you don't have
1001
01:02:43.380 --> 01:02:47.030
a starter. Yeah, you You got to do what you
1002
01:02:47.489 --> 01:02:51.409
got to do if he's the best option. Take him
1003
01:02:51.429 --> 01:02:51.730
and run.
1004
01:02:52.929 --> 01:02:55.750
Here's the problem. The next team that I'm up with
1005
01:02:56.170 --> 01:03:00.800
is also in the same exact position. James Wood, Jackson Merrill,
1006
01:03:00.980 --> 01:03:08.840
Michael Harrison, Josh Hader. Three outfielders and a closer.
No starter,
1007
01:03:08.880 --> 01:03:09.579
no infielders.
1008
01:03:11.699 --> 01:03:17.789
Other than that, it's packed. Well, yeah, you got to
1009
01:03:17.809 --> 01:03:21.710
be looking at the starter and who you're going to be. Yeah,
1010
01:03:22.050 --> 01:03:25.889
it's starting to get a little bit. Yeah, I have
1011
01:03:27.210 --> 01:03:32.690
Sonny Gray, Freddie Peralta, Shane McClanahan, Rodon.
1012
01:03:32.710 --> 01:03:36.239
Oh, Rodon. I mean, that is tough. Did you go
1013
01:03:36.260 --> 01:03:36.739
Jacob DeGrom?
1014
01:03:36.780 --> 01:03:45.300
Yeah. That's another option, but how much can you count
1015
01:03:45.530 --> 01:03:50.820
on as far as workload is concerned for DeGrom? I
1016
01:03:51.159 --> 01:03:56.440
haven't really looked at it extensively, but I'm starting to.
1017
01:03:56.480 --> 01:03:58.619
Are we starting to look at Parker Messick?
1018
01:04:02.679 --> 01:04:05.300
I think he's got to be in the discussion, yeah.
1019
01:04:07.139 --> 01:04:10.210
So who would you rather have, Parker Messick Logan Henderson,
1020
01:04:10.409 --> 01:04:13.690
Brian Wu, Jacob deGrom. Rank those four.
1021
01:04:18.389 --> 01:04:20.730
I like Messick a lot. I like the organization he
1022
01:04:21.809 --> 01:04:31.119
pitches for. I'd probably go Messick first after that. They're
1023
01:04:31.139 --> 01:04:34.039
all so much the same. You know what I mean?
1024
01:04:34.079 --> 01:04:35.239
Yeah, yeah. Totally get it.
1025
01:04:35.280 --> 01:04:40.309
Yeah. Yeah, DeGrom could post the best numbers, but it
1026
01:04:40.349 --> 01:04:44.610
might only be 120 innings. Do you want the higher
1027
01:04:44.710 --> 01:04:50.230
ERA out of an additional 40, 50 innings? I'd probably go,
1028
01:04:50.769 --> 01:04:51.389
I'll go Messick.
1029
01:04:52.150 --> 01:04:54.309
Yeah, that's where I'm leaning. He was the highest ranked
1030
01:04:54.329 --> 01:04:58.159
guy on my list. I mean, I think what we've
1031
01:04:58.219 --> 01:05:01.280
learned here, you get into the fifth round and you're
1032
01:05:01.389 --> 01:05:07.730
taking your first starting pitcher, you're looking at Twos, low-end twos, maybe.
1033
01:05:09.050 --> 01:05:19.710
Mm-hmm. Yeah, and you look further down the board, there
1034
01:05:19.750 --> 01:05:24.469
are teams that need some starting pitching before it gets
1035
01:05:24.530 --> 01:05:27.489
back to you. You can't play around. By the fifth round,
1036
01:05:27.530 --> 01:05:30.050
if you don't have a starter, you're in trouble, I
1037
01:05:30.090 --> 01:05:30.469
would say.
1038
01:05:31.170 --> 01:05:36.909
AERA was 256. Expected ERA 315. Totally reasonable. Doesn't throw
1039
01:05:37.090 --> 01:05:40.059
incredibly hard. 94.3, but he's a lefty. You don't care
1040
01:05:40.079 --> 01:05:44.119
about that. Has a great changeup. That's his money pitch.
1041
01:05:44.179 --> 01:05:48.059
A 33% whiff rate on that. All right. I got trepidation,
1042
01:05:48.119 --> 01:05:50.820
but I'm going. I wish I had a better number
1043
01:05:50.909 --> 01:05:53.090
one starter, but I don't. I'm going Parker Mezek.
1044
01:05:55.590 --> 01:05:56.130
Fair enough.
1045
01:05:57.889 --> 01:05:59.010
Tim, you're on the clock.
1046
01:06:01.469 --> 01:06:04.250
I'm on the clock, and if I'm not mistaken.
1047
01:06:04.269 --> 01:06:09.909
Scooble, Ben Rice, Francisco Lindor, Drake Baldwin.
1048
01:06:11.480 --> 01:06:18.000
Yeah, we... We need a starter to complement Scooble, or
1049
01:06:18.039 --> 01:06:24.070
we need a relief pitcher. But speed could be a problem, too, and...
1050
01:06:25.469 --> 01:06:27.449
This team could be in for a long year.
1051
01:06:27.469 --> 01:06:31.289
This is not a Tim McCloud team.
1052
01:06:31.369 --> 01:06:35.260
Is it? No, no, definitely not.
1053
01:06:36.280 --> 01:06:39.480
But then again, you've been selecting power guys because you
1054
01:06:39.500 --> 01:06:42.519
got burned in a couple leagues with lack of power.
1055
01:06:43.559 --> 01:06:48.670
Yeah. I think I'm going to wait another round with
1056
01:06:48.730 --> 01:06:51.940
this team. and then go heavy pitching for a couple
1057
01:06:52.000 --> 01:06:57.739
rounds back-to-back and count on Scubo for big numbers. The speed.
1058
01:06:57.760 --> 01:07:08.019
He's not a personal favorite. I can't pass on Jazz
1059
01:07:08.039 --> 01:07:08.619
Chisholm here.
1060
01:07:08.639 --> 01:07:10.900
I hate Jazz Chisholm, though.
1061
01:07:11.409 --> 01:07:14.630
Yeah. Like I said, not a big fan, but at
1062
01:07:14.730 --> 01:07:19.050
the same point in time, this team needs some speed.
1063
01:07:20.019 --> 01:07:27.000
And he should deliver on that. Combined with Rice, Baldwin, Lindor. Yeah.
1064
01:07:27.989 --> 01:07:32.449
I think it's the best of a not very good situation.
1065
01:07:32.469 --> 01:07:34.630
Does that seem reasonable?
1066
01:07:35.710 --> 01:07:39.510
Yeah. Well, I mean, he's only the second second baseman
1067
01:07:39.550 --> 01:07:42.190
off the board, too. So it kind of shows you, again,
1068
01:07:42.210 --> 01:07:45.010
an early indication that second base is going to be
1069
01:07:45.789 --> 01:07:46.750
shallow again.
1070
01:07:46.769 --> 01:07:49.960
Yep. A challenge.
1071
01:07:51.360 --> 01:07:53.460
Timmy, let's take a break. Come back and finish this
1072
01:07:53.579 --> 01:07:54.300
puppy up.
1073
01:07:55.639 --> 01:07:56.260
Sounds good.
1074
01:08:01.019 --> 01:08:09.699
Commercial break in a time to cough.
1075
01:08:09.760 --> 01:08:13.840
Hit find that mute button.
1076
01:08:14.679 --> 01:08:17.420
I just, I lift the arm of my, uh, my
1077
01:08:17.460 --> 01:08:19.010
headphone up, and that does it.
1078
01:08:19.140 --> 01:08:19.520
Okay.
1079
01:08:20.510 --> 01:08:23.489
I'm on the clock with Fernando Tatis Jr., Connor Griffin,
1080
01:08:24.050 --> 01:08:30.329
Luis Varlin, and Drew Rasmussen. It's an interesting team here, right?
1081
01:08:31.729 --> 01:08:33.489
I can go in a lot of
different directions here.
1082
01:08:33.899 --> 01:08:37.420
Got an outfielder, got an infielder. Could probably use a
1083
01:08:37.460 --> 01:08:38.859
little bit more pop.
1084
01:08:39.960 --> 01:08:42.539
Yeah, pick up a power bat. You could look at
1085
01:08:42.579 --> 01:08:47.149
another starting pitcher. That wouldn't... man, hey, you could look
1086
01:08:47.170 --> 01:08:54.300
at their clothes or shore up your bullpen. Yeah, it's
1087
01:08:54.399 --> 01:09:01.319
entirely wide open in that you've only got, what, seven,
1088
01:09:01.359 --> 01:09:06.000
eight picks until it's back to you, so it gives
1089
01:09:06.020 --> 01:09:08.420
you a little bit more flexibility on the direction you
1090
01:09:08.439 --> 01:09:11.310
take now as far as backfilling in the next round, right?
1091
01:09:11.649 --> 01:09:15.550
Yeah, and everybody's got a pitcher already, and there's two
1092
01:09:15.590 --> 01:09:19.609
teams that have two pitchers coming up, so that would
1093
01:09:19.930 --> 01:09:25.050
give me some... I feel pretty good about one of
1094
01:09:25.069 --> 01:09:27.149
the three or four pitchers I'd be looking at coming
1095
01:09:27.250 --> 01:09:29.710
back to me. So I might go with a positional
1096
01:09:29.750 --> 01:09:30.329
guy here.
1097
01:09:30.350 --> 01:09:32.270
That makes sense, yeah.
1098
01:09:32.890 --> 01:09:36.380
Going that, hey, it's all about catching for me this season.
1099
01:09:37.539 --> 01:09:39.220
Who would you like catching?
1100
01:09:41.220 --> 01:09:42.880
Who would I like catching?
1101
01:09:42.899 --> 01:09:44.960
I got Ivan Herrera up next.
1102
01:09:47.420 --> 01:09:49.350
Okay, if I was looking at a catcher.
1103
01:09:49.359 --> 01:09:56.789
Shea Langlears? Gabriel Marino?
1104
01:09:56.989 --> 01:09:59.479
I'm going for a kid. I'm going for Carter Jensen.
1105
01:10:02.640 --> 01:10:03.960
Gabriel Marino's a kid, too.
1106
01:10:05.279 --> 01:10:13.520
Yeah. Yeah, Marino's solid. Yep. Jensen surprised me. He had
1107
01:10:13.539 --> 01:10:15.800
a really good second half, if I'm not mistaken. What
1108
01:10:15.859 --> 01:10:19.970
did he end up with for total home runs? Did
1109
01:10:20.010 --> 01:10:20.479
he get to 30?
1110
01:10:20.479 --> 01:10:25.569
I don't think so. Let me check here. Carter Jensen.
1111
01:10:27.430 --> 01:10:28.149
Carter Jensen.
1112
01:10:28.149 --> 01:10:28.210
27.
1113
01:10:28.189 --> 01:10:42.319
I'd probably roll a dice on the U-3 Jensen. Or
1114
01:10:42.340 --> 01:10:45.119
he could wait another round and get Sam Basaya. I'd
1115
01:10:45.159 --> 01:10:46.319
still like Sam Basaya.
1116
01:10:46.399 --> 01:10:49.579
Yeah, there's a lot to like there. Yeah.
1117
01:10:50.800 --> 01:10:52.100
Yeah, but I don't think I have to get, I
1118
01:10:52.100 --> 01:10:55.159
don't think he's, I can wait on Sam Basaya now, right?
1119
01:10:55.199 --> 01:10:57.579
Because he didn't have the greatest of seasons, so it's
1120
01:10:57.659 --> 01:11:01.760
a
ball really hard. 18 home runs, 222 batting average,
1121
01:11:01.819 --> 01:11:04.399
and nobody's going to be jumping early on Sam Basaya.
1122
01:11:05.840 --> 01:11:09.470
No, and hey, you got Vinny P and If you
1123
01:11:09.510 --> 01:11:10.250
want to, if you know.
1124
01:11:10.289 --> 01:11:11.949
I mean, what do you think about Jack?
1125
01:11:11.989 --> 01:11:14.140
What do you think about Jack?
1126
01:11:14.229 --> 01:11:15.880
I know.
1127
01:11:16.600 --> 01:11:22.020
Massive power potential, but I'm not convinced. I'm not convinced
1128
01:11:22.779 --> 01:11:25.159
that he'll be, he won't be a burden to your
1129
01:11:25.199 --> 01:11:25.819
batting average.
1130
01:11:29.899 --> 01:11:35.449
So still left on my board, Vlad Guerrero. No mention
1131
01:11:35.489 --> 01:11:36.369
of Vlad Guerrero.
1132
01:11:38.189 --> 01:11:45.970
Mm-hmm. That would be a nice potential power bat batting average. Yeah,
1133
01:11:46.829 --> 01:11:50.510
that could put that team into a really good situation.
1134
01:11:51.829 --> 01:11:55.810
He's going 10th in the NFBC. Sal Stewart, Pete Alonzo,
1135
01:11:55.850 --> 01:11:59.310
Nick Kurtz, Miguel Vargas, Ben Rice, Matt Olsen, Bryce Harper.
1136
01:11:59.729 --> 01:12:02.810
Jack Caglinone is in front of him. Raphael Devers and
1137
01:12:02.829 --> 01:12:07.829
then Vlad Jr. Caglinone worries me about his batting average.
1138
01:12:09.300 --> 01:12:14.720
And looking after that, we've got Alec Burleson, Bryce Eldridge, Amirakami.
1139
01:12:15.800 --> 01:12:18.180
And he gets a little thin. Then he pees down
1140
01:12:18.220 --> 01:12:21.420
there at 19. I'm going to go with Vlad Guerrero.
1141
01:12:22.220 --> 01:12:25.390
I'm going to suggest that he find some religion here
1142
01:12:26.369 --> 01:12:29.270
over the offseason, Tim.
1143
01:12:29.289 --> 01:12:31.729
I don't think that's a bad plan. He already had
1144
01:12:31.850 --> 01:12:34.149
eye surgery, didn't he? Yes.
1145
01:12:34.550 --> 01:12:35.630
Didn't he? I think he did.
1146
01:12:35.909 --> 01:12:36.149
Yeah.
1147
01:12:36.449 --> 01:12:36.710
Yep.
1148
01:12:36.949 --> 01:12:37.649
I believe so.
1149
01:12:37.670 --> 01:12:37.890
Yeah.
1150
01:12:39.899 --> 01:12:44.810
Vlad Guerrero it is. Timmy, you're on the board.
1151
01:12:46.289 --> 01:12:58.010
Okay. I'm just taking Vlad Jr. off the board.
1152
01:12:58.130 --> 01:13:02.329
Got Jordan Alvarez, Nick Kurtz, Chase Burns, Bryce Terang.
1153
01:13:05.810 --> 01:13:08.890
Oh, do I see any bats that make me want
1154
01:13:08.909 --> 01:13:12.970
to push pitching to the next round? Because a pitcher
1155
01:13:14.050 --> 01:13:20.310
will have to come off the board. Is there a
1156
01:13:20.489 --> 01:13:23.899
closer here? No, we got lots of power. We got speed.
1157
01:13:25.380 --> 01:13:36.729
I'm going with Jacob Lutz. Yep, Jacob Lutz. And then
1158
01:13:36.810 --> 01:13:42.510
probably come back with another pitcher. Because with Jordan and
1159
01:13:42.630 --> 01:13:47.170
Kurtz and Terang, you can probably go another pitcher and
1160
01:13:47.210 --> 01:13:51.939
then start filling in the stolen base holes. You got
1161
01:13:52.779 --> 01:14:01.899
lots of power. You there, Rich?
1162
01:14:03.840 --> 01:14:06.279
I'm here. I'm sorry, Timmy. I had my cell phone mute.
1163
01:14:07.079 --> 01:14:08.600
Oh, okay. Sorry.
1164
01:14:08.659 --> 01:14:12.939
This next team is very interesting. Corbin Carroll, Aaron Judge,
1165
01:14:13.100 --> 01:14:15.920
Wyatt Langford, and Michael King. A lot of direction to
1166
01:14:15.960 --> 01:14:17.619
go in. I have no infielders, though.
1167
01:14:19.399 --> 01:14:25.229
No infielders and basically one starter, no bullpen. So I
1168
01:14:25.270 --> 01:14:28.239
would think with the combination of Carroll, Judge, and Langford,
1169
01:14:28.270 --> 01:14:30.729
you've got to be looking at a pitcher, either starter
1170
01:14:30.750 --> 01:14:33.329
or reliever. That would be my guess. Yep.
1171
01:14:36.750 --> 01:14:40.289
I do like J.J. Weatherholt, though. Mm-hmm.
1172
01:14:42.090 --> 01:14:43.250
And for good cause.
1173
01:14:44.949 --> 01:14:46.609
Yeah, but I got to get a closer. I mean,
1174
01:14:46.640 --> 01:14:48.220
I got to get a closer on this pick or
1175
01:14:48.239 --> 01:14:50.460
the next pick. Otherwise.
1176
01:14:50.479 --> 01:14:55.779
Yeah, it's got to be happening soon, yeah. Yep. All right.
1177
01:14:56.340 --> 01:15:01.199
Aroldis Chapman. I know you don't like him.
1178
01:15:01.220 --> 01:15:02.039
Aroldis Chapman?
1179
01:15:02.880 --> 01:15:03.810
Nah. I....
1180
01:15:06.500 --> 01:15:07.800
He's been elite, Tim.
1181
01:15:08.880 --> 01:15:10.180
But you've got to.
1182
01:15:12.460 --> 01:15:14.439
He won't pitch three days in a row. Not that
1183
01:15:14.479 --> 01:15:19.840
that many closers pitch three days in a row anyways. Yeah,
1184
01:15:19.880 --> 01:15:27.000
the limitation being is... Garrett Whitlock is going to get
1185
01:15:27.039 --> 01:15:31.439
some saves. Simply because of the age factor. And you
1186
01:15:31.460 --> 01:15:35.819
know what? If Chapman gets 25 saves, yeah, you're doing well.
1187
01:15:36.609 --> 01:15:38.250
He's a free agent, isn't he?
1188
01:15:38.670 --> 01:15:41.770
I don't think he's... No, he's... I think he signed.
1189
01:15:42.109 --> 01:15:47.430
Is he? Yeah. Yeah, I'm pretty sure he's with Boston
1190
01:15:47.449 --> 01:15:47.789
this year.
1191
01:15:49.529 --> 01:15:57.750
Is Roldis Chapman signed for 2027? Yes, you're correct. $ 13 million.
1192
01:15:58.850 --> 01:16:01.630
I feel better about Roldis Chapman now. I think he
1193
01:16:01.670 --> 01:16:08.689
gets 30 saves. I mean, yeah. Wentlock's going to get it, yes.
1194
01:16:09.770 --> 01:16:13.590
Yeah, he'll get five to eight, say. Yeah, but so what? Yeah,
1195
01:16:13.630 --> 01:16:14.470
he's still a mean man.
1196
01:16:14.510 --> 01:16:19.020
There you go. Happy about that. Timmy, you're on the clock.
1197
01:16:20.600 --> 01:16:23.100
I'm on the clock, and I'm looking at a team
1198
01:16:23.239 --> 01:16:28.760
that has a really nice one-two punch in Jay Rod,
1199
01:16:28.800 --> 01:16:33.220
CJ Abrams, Logan Gilbert, Hunter Brown. We can't be looking
1200
01:16:33.279 --> 01:16:38.640
at a starter. Well, I would say it's about time
1201
01:16:38.699 --> 01:16:40.960
that Brian Baker found himself a home.
1202
01:16:43.520 --> 01:16:45.439
Now we're starting to pick up some closers here. Yeah.
1203
01:16:47.079 --> 01:16:54.920
Yeah, we're into round five. It's interesting because with this team,
1204
01:16:54.939 --> 01:16:58.579
with J-Rod and C.J. Abrams, he's gone three pitching. He's
1205
01:16:58.619 --> 01:17:08.060
going to come back pretty... pretty active chasing some offense now. Yep.
1206
01:17:08.760 --> 01:17:11.960
I read the last pick, Tim. This team has got
1207
01:17:12.000 --> 01:17:17.640
Cam Schlittler, Zach Wheeler, Ronald Acuna, and Randy Rosarino. I
1208
01:17:17.640 --> 01:17:19.380
was going to be wanting to go with a closer
1209
01:17:19.399 --> 01:17:21.210
because I get two picks in a row here. So
1210
01:17:21.250 --> 01:17:22.409
I'm going to go somewhere else. I'm going to go
1211
01:17:22.430 --> 01:17:24.609
for my end. Let's go for an infielder. Let's take
1212
01:17:24.649 --> 01:17:26.050
a look at who we got on the board here.
1213
01:17:26.729 --> 01:17:32.699
We got J.J. Weatherill. It's El Marte. It's El Marte. Yeah, Mr. Personality,
1214
01:17:33.579 --> 01:17:34.399
Gattal Marte.
1215
01:17:34.640 --> 01:17:35.140
There we go.
1216
01:17:35.880 --> 01:17:39.149
Let's see what the NFC's got going on here.
1217
01:17:41.050 --> 01:17:44.029
Marte's probably long off the board, I would think, but
1218
01:17:44.270 --> 01:17:44.789
maybe not.
1219
01:17:46.630 --> 01:17:50.890
Let's see. Looking quickly at the guy that we haven't
1220
01:17:50.930 --> 01:17:54.949
drafted yet. Nothing is obvious, no.
1221
01:17:54.970 --> 01:17:58.229
No. Hmm.
1222
01:18:00.840 --> 01:18:03.020
Not a lot of infielders going off early.
1223
01:18:04.420 --> 01:18:13.319
No. No, definitely, definitely not. But you can go in
1224
01:18:13.579 --> 01:18:18.859
any one of a number of different directions here. Well, J.J.
1225
01:18:18.899 --> 01:18:21.420
Weather holds a second base.
1226
01:18:20.600 --> 01:18:23.520
90 seconds, so that seems a little early for him.
1227
01:18:24.399 --> 01:18:29.590
First base is already, I mean, we Jack Cagley-Nones is
1228
01:18:29.609 --> 01:18:39.859
still out there. He's gone pretty early. Shortstop is... Otto
1229
01:18:39.899 --> 01:18:43.449
Lopez is the next guy. Yeah, so there's all.
1230
01:18:46.350 --> 01:18:46.609
The.
1231
01:18:47.189 --> 01:18:49.050
Third base, Manny Machado.
1232
01:18:49.340 --> 01:18:56.899
No. When you look at it, 75-92, you know you're
1233
01:18:56.920 --> 01:19:00.159
not going to get J.J. Weatherholt coming back. If you
1234
01:19:00.239 --> 01:19:02.729
like him, I would probably take him there. And the
1235
01:19:02.789 --> 01:19:11.930
combination of Acuna, Rosarina, and Weatherholt gives you three potential
1236
01:19:11.930 --> 01:19:17.109
2020 players. Some being a little bit more considerably more
1237
01:19:17.149 --> 01:19:21.539
than 2020. That's not a bad way to build a team. Yeah.
1238
01:19:21.680 --> 01:19:25.659
Well, I'm picking JJ Weatherholt. So that's, that was my
1239
01:19:26.960 --> 01:19:29.180
initial instincts and that's where I am going.
1240
01:19:31.239 --> 01:19:34.359
I like it. I like that team a lot. Yeah.
1241
01:19:34.409 --> 01:19:37.270
There is our first five rounds of, They will be
1242
01:19:37.409 --> 01:19:39.460
in the notes, the show notes every once. So you'll
1243
01:19:39.479 --> 01:19:43.060
be able to see who all the guys that we selected.
1244
01:19:43.439 --> 01:19:46.079
And I guess maybe next week we'll start to take
1245
01:19:46.100 --> 01:19:49.560
a look at the NFPC and see how guys are
1246
01:19:49.579 --> 01:19:52.600
going there and look at it a slightly different way.
1247
01:19:52.939 --> 01:19:54.640
So let's take a break and come back and wrap
1248
01:19:54.680 --> 01:19:55.050
this up.
1249
01:19:56.380 --> 01:19:56.920
Sounds good.
1250
01:20:09.470 --> 01:20:13.409
My throat's starting to give out, so I've had enough, too.
1251
01:20:14.310 --> 01:20:20.609
Yeah, I was going to say, yeah, you're starting to
1252
01:20:20.630 --> 01:20:23.090
lose your voice a little bit, and it's time that
1253
01:20:23.149 --> 01:20:26.760
we said, no, that's enough, and you can put your
1254
01:20:26.779 --> 01:20:29.619
feet up and relax a little bit. I'm supposed to
1255
01:20:29.640 --> 01:20:30.350
go out tonight, too.
1256
01:20:32.829 --> 01:20:36.010
The, uh, we have a little jazz club, the next
1257
01:20:36.050 --> 01:20:39.369
town over Shanghai jazz club. And, uh, one of our
1258
01:20:39.409 --> 01:20:42.420
friends is a jazz quartet is playing. And so we
1259
01:20:42.439 --> 01:20:44.460
want to go see him. So I've been stuck in
1260
01:20:44.500 --> 01:20:46.260
this house for five days.
1261
01:20:46.359 --> 01:20:46.760
I'm done.
1262
01:20:46.779 --> 01:20:49.359
So I'm going to try to go out. Come hell
1263
01:20:49.420 --> 01:20:50.119
or high water.
1264
01:20:50.140 --> 01:20:52.319
You're going to take your steps out into the world.
1265
01:20:52.539 --> 01:20:55.159
And I hope you have a, a really good time
1266
01:20:55.199 --> 01:20:59.189
and get over this cold soon. My friend at the,
1267
01:20:59.710 --> 01:21:03.239
at the best of times, but, uh, So let's hope
1268
01:21:03.270 --> 01:21:08.430
you're feeling better. Uh, tomorrow morning we're going, we're going
1269
01:21:08.449 --> 01:21:11.029
to spend the night in Albuquerque and then a night
1270
01:21:11.229 --> 01:21:15.409
in Elk city, Oklahoma, a night in Kansas city, a
1271
01:21:15.449 --> 01:21:19.310
night in Northern Minnesota. And then
we'll be home Friday.
1272
01:21:21.640 --> 01:21:26.039
You know, Albuquerque is the, I don't know if you're
1273
01:21:26.060 --> 01:21:28.619
a TV buff, but one of the best shows ever
1274
01:21:28.659 --> 01:21:32.010
made is better is, um, Breaking Bad, and that's where
1275
01:21:32.029 --> 01:21:34.630
that show was shot. So I don't know if you've
1276
01:21:35.310 --> 01:21:37.550
seen that, Timmy. It's outstanding.
1277
01:21:39.109 --> 01:21:42.369
Yeah, Breaking Bad is an incredible show. I didn't know
1278
01:21:42.390 --> 01:21:43.609
it was filmed in Albuquerque.
1279
01:21:44.010 --> 01:21:47.149
Oh, it is, yeah. That's a big part of it.
1280
01:21:47.470 --> 01:21:52.720
Better Call Saul, which was a Saul was his attorney,
1281
01:21:52.729 --> 01:21:56.760
the creepy attorney. So they did a little spinoff on that. Shows,
1282
01:21:56.939 --> 01:21:59.500
not It's almost as good. I mean, nothing's as good
1283
01:21:59.539 --> 01:22:02.800
as Breaking Bad. Maybe Game of Thrones and Sopranos up there.
1284
01:22:03.260 --> 01:22:06.779
But Better Call Saul is fantastic. Also shot in Albuquerque.
1285
01:22:06.800 --> 01:22:11.680
And Pluribus, which is a new show that's out, which
1286
01:22:11.779 --> 01:22:19.770
stars the woman who was Saul's partner in Better Call Saul,
1287
01:22:20.119 --> 01:22:25.220
is also filmed in Albuquerque. Apparently... The guy who made
1288
01:22:25.279 --> 01:22:29.140
all of those shows either lives in Albuquerque or loves Albuquerque.
1289
01:22:29.359 --> 01:22:29.800
There you go.
1290
01:22:29.840 --> 01:22:34.119
Yeah, I was going to say, what is this, Hollywood?
1291
01:22:34.739 --> 01:22:35.840
Southwest, I don't know.
1292
01:22:36.159 --> 01:22:37.000
Southwest, yeah.
1293
01:22:37.420 --> 01:22:40.199
It looks like an ugly place. Sorry for all of
1294
01:22:40.319 --> 01:22:43.699
our Albuquerque listeners. It does not look like the most
1295
01:22:43.739 --> 01:22:44.539
attractive place.
1296
01:22:46.189 --> 01:22:48.729
Green is not a color you associate with Albuquerque.
1297
01:22:48.750 --> 01:22:51.229
Green is not a color. Green is not a lot
1298
01:22:51.270 --> 01:22:51.630
of color.
1299
01:22:51.949 --> 01:22:58.260
Yep. Yeah, I know. It's very high plains, deserty and yeah.
1300
01:22:59.779 --> 01:23:01.699
Well, I'm anxious for you to see the, the, also
1301
01:23:01.760 --> 01:23:04.619
the fall star games this evening. Uh, let me know
1302
01:23:04.640 --> 01:23:07.560
what you think of Weldon Francesca. See if he's chasing
1303
01:23:07.600 --> 01:23:11.369
those low fall fastballs and trying to hit everything 500 feet.
1304
01:23:11.409 --> 01:23:14.470
That's what I saw, but everything else, maybe I just
1305
01:23:14.489 --> 01:23:17.390
saw him on three bad games, but, uh, but I'm
1306
01:23:17.430 --> 01:23:18.890
anxious for you to see that. It makes you see
1307
01:23:18.909 --> 01:23:23.920
what you think of Roby and, uh, Cecina, how he's doing.
1308
01:23:24.539 --> 01:23:26.180
Let me know what you think of Zion Rose. I'm
1309
01:23:26.239 --> 01:23:27.619
assuming he'll be playing as well.
1310
01:23:28.500 --> 01:23:33.319
Yeah, I'll give you a full report next week. Back
1311
01:23:33.359 --> 01:23:36.279
home in good old Fort Francis, Ontario, Canada.
1312
01:23:37.199 --> 01:23:38.960
Tim, I hate to tell you, man, we're behind in
1313
01:23:38.979 --> 01:23:40.579
doing our prospect podcast.
1314
01:23:41.600 --> 01:23:43.539
I know. We've got some work to do, don't we?
1315
01:23:43.739 --> 01:23:47.130
Tuesday, we'll be done the American League Central. So we've
1316
01:23:47.170 --> 01:23:49.470
got 10 of them out already. So we've got two
1317
01:23:49.529 --> 01:23:50.189
divisions out.
1318
01:23:53.149 --> 01:23:54.960
I have some work to do when I get home
1319
01:23:55.020 --> 01:23:55.960
is what you're saying, right?
1320
01:23:55.979 --> 01:23:57.319
You've been gallivanting, man.
1321
01:23:58.260 --> 01:24:01.100
I know. Slacker. Slacker.
1322
01:24:03.050 --> 01:24:06.329
All right. Safe travels. Enjoy the game tonight. We'll talk
1323
01:24:06.350 --> 01:24:07.090
to you on Sunday.
1324
01:24:08.010 --> 01:24:11.319
Be safe, be well, and we'll catch you all next week.