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Greetings, society. Take sense, everyone. It's Rich Wilson. Welcome to
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Fantasy Baseball Live. It is September 27th, about 3.15 in
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the afternoon. And, Tim, it is the end of the season,
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my friend. It is bittersweet, as they would say.
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Yes, tis the end of the world as we know it,
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and I don't feel fine.
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My wife asked me, what am I going to do tomorrow?
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And I'm like, I really don't know.
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Yeah. Yeah, I'm going to get in a car and
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drive to Winnipeg for something to do. Yeah. No box
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store scores to check. Might as well go to work, right?
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I am tooth and nail with two leagues, Timmy. As
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I start today, I'm in first place in both of
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those leagues, but they're going literally back and forth every day.
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So there's a good chance, even odd, I'm going to
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be in second place at the end of the day.
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I haven't looked to find out what I need, what
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I need. There's nothing I can do. So I'm not
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going to fret about it. I'm just going to look
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at the end of the day, see how I did.
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Yeah, I took the opposite approach. I got two leagues. One,
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I was in first a week and a half ago.
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I'm now fighting for third. Total collapse. Everything known to
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man has pretty well gone wrong in the past week
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and a half. And I think I need a miracle
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to hold on to third. The other one, playing for first,
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I need a home run or a stolen base. And
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that should lock up that one. But again... Uh, if
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the wrong person gets the home run in the stolen base,
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that changes the context and it could be, could, it
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could be nestled into second because the tiebreaker we lose. So, uh,
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I got a couple of leagues, same as you. I,
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I went through and looked at all the permutations and
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combinations and then said, eh, whatever happens, happens. The team
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got us to, it got us there. Okay. Now it's just, Hey,
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you get the breaks or you don't. Right.
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It's been the pitching for me that has just fallen
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over here in the last month. It's just the Foster
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Griffins of the world, the guys that just carried me
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the whole season, thanks to you. They've just struggled here
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down the stretch. Tanner Bybee is awful. I'll never have
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him on another team ever again. Bryce Miller's been terrible.
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So these guys have been good. I mean, it's just
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the last few starts. And then you find out these
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guys have been hurt. Gunnar Henderson said he's been hurt
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for half the season. Thank you. Why didn't you tell
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us this?
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That's something we could have needed to know like half
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a season ago.
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I know.
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I know. Yeah. They don't care, Rich. They just don't
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give a rat's patootie about us fantasy folks. They really don't.
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So All in all, I'm fairly happy with the way
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the year's gone. I got hammered right out of the
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gate in pitching, and I spent most of the year struggling,
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and in some leagues got it back, others I didn't.
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But the one thing I can't say is I can't
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say it wasn't a challenge this year because, like I said,
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I dealt with some serious injuries right out of the gate,
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and wherever I end up, I worked pretty darn hard
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to get there. I, my favorite league is the league
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I'm going to finish out just out of the money.
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And, and it's a team that I thought was, it
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was a dynasty league. I thought it was going to
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be good. And then my players that I was counting
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on to come up, the AJ Ewing's of the world
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and et cetera, they all like kind of came up
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and started to perform. And I crawled back. I think
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I have 105 points to end the season. They're just
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outside the money. I have no closers in that league.
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at all. I mean, just if I would have gotten,
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I think I have one or two points and saves
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or saves and holds. If I would have had at
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least a closer to, I could have maybe snuck into
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the money, but next season, next season's the year I, I,
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that season, that team stacked. So I'm, I'm feeling really
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good about it.
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Well, and you know what? It, it, it's not that
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tough to get closers. You can trade.
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It has been for me in that league. I, I,
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Because when I have so many leagues, when you'll, you'll
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put three guys out and I'll say, okay, and these three,
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I'll bid on player one. And these three, I bid
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on player two. And then the, you know, I do
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it like that. And it seemed like every closer in
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this league, I, I bid on, I would get, but
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they would not have the job. And then everybody else
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that I got the job. So there's teams like that.
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Six closers. I'm like, well, can I shift some of
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them over to the other league?
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Well, you know what I do in some cases like that?
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What I'll do is I'll take a look at the
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teams that are, you know, two, three, four weeks into
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the season. They're sitting 14th, 13th, 12th, near the bottom
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of the pile. I'll take a look and see what
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closers they have and then make them overload on a
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deal to get a good closer and just trade for it.
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What I have found in dynasty leagues, even saves and
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hold leagues, You've got to load up with three or
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four closers on your team. And that means that the
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first four or five guys in place have all the closers.
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And everybody else doesn't because they're kind of rebuilding. And
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they don't want to give them up because they're trying
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to score high points in those particular categories. So it's tough.
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Yeah, usually most of the leagues I'm in, you can
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always get closers. Just trade for them.
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I've tried. I have tried.
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Yeah, that's different.
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I can get Hogan Harris.
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Yeah, well, I said closers.
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I was going to finish close to 20 saves, but
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that guy I can get, but get an established closer,
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forget about it.
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Yeah. See, most, yeah, it's odd, but it's just very
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different than the ones of, you know, hey, somebody lucks
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into a closer in the rebuilding in the 13th, 14th.
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Most follow the rule, well, it's the last piece you
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need to complete your team. So they'll try and convert
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that closer into a handful of prospects with upside.
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Mm-hmm.
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Yeah. So like I said, in my case, it's a
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lot easier than yours. I, you know, if I'm sitting
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in 14th place and I'm rebuilding, I don't care if
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I got the best closer in the game, he's moving
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on because it's going to take me two to three years.
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And in two to three years, your ace closer could
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be pitching in Korea. They come even. Yeah. Unless you've
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got a Josh Hader or racial Iglesias or, you know,
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an elite level closer, they come and go.
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Totally agree. It's interesting because this, the league I was
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talking about where I just, everything started to come together.
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That was one of those leagues where I felt like
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I was still a year or two away and I
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didn't really have a closer than all of a sudden
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I'd look down at the beginning of June. I'm going,
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this seems pretty good. And if some of these, and
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then that's when I started to really focus on getting closers.
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And I got a couple of, you know, the Dylan
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Smiths and Grant Taylor's of the world. I have some
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of those guys, but I don't have the established dude.
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And that's, that's what hurt me there. And I will
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correct it over the off season, but I mean, the team,
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this team has got Braden Montgomery, Cooper Pratt, George Lombard,
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Anchored by Junior Caminera. So it's got all of these,
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Carter Jensen, all of these guys that.
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A.J. Ewing, I think. A.J.
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Ewing, yep. It's got all these, if I take a
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look at the average age, it's a very young squad.
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And I have Juan Soto as well. So I've got
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a couple of established dudes. And my pitching is, particularly
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my starting pitching is great. So it's really set up
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that if, because even if not all these guys break
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out next season, some of them are, and I've got
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them all on my team.
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Yeah, no, it sounds like the rebuilding sort of snuck
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up on you and you're a year ahead of schedule, which, hey,
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nothing wrong with that. It just moves up your plans
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in the offseason. You'll be good to go come spring.
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Yep, for sure. That's what's exciting. So, Timmy, this is
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always a weird day because every game starts at three, though.
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The Mets and the Yankees started at one. I'm not
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exactly sure why. the Yankees versus the Baltimore Orioles is
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delayed because I don't know if you've been following the
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weather reports.
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Up in Canada.
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We've had this nor'easter here, and we live far enough
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away from the coast that it's just been messy. It
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hasn't been bad weather, but it's been raining for three days.
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It's just been terrible.
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Yeah, man. Note to Major League Baseball, maybe that last
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weekend of the year, Try and schedule games for the
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West Coast and Dome Stadiums. Like, I know rain is rain.
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You can't forecast it. But if you can schedule your
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games for Dome Stadiums that last weekend, it might save
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you some grief. You know what I mean? You've got
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the Jays at home, but, you know, Tampa Bay's in Philadelphia.
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Does that make sense? Chicago and Boston, aren't they playing
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in Florida or something? Didn't they move the game right
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out of Boston or something?
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Boston's playing the Cubs. I'm not falling at all. Boston's
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playing in Boston, so I thought it was really coming
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down in Boston, but maybe not.
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Unless they moved it to Chicago. I thought they moved
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it to Florida.
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Oh, really?
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I could be wrong, yeah.
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Well, it's interesting because Boston is the home. They're playing
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at Tropicana Field. You're absolutely right. They're playing at Tropicana Field.
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Yeah, and you've got Tampa Bay playing in Philadelphia. Explain
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that to me. Can you explain that to me?
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Is it possible to explain? I don't know, but let's
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take a look at the standings because that's what's interesting
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as we're coming down. There's really only four games that matter,
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two teams. Are the Phillies getting in or are the
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Diamondbacks getting in?
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Yeah. That's the only thing that matters, I think.
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No, the Rangers and Astros.
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Oh, sorry, I forgot about it. Yeah, somebody's going to
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win the division and somebody's going home.
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That's right, which is great. That's actually kind of fun.
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And if we take a look, the Rangers are down
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1-0 against the Minnesota Twins. And I think the Astros,
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if they win, they're in. The Philadelphia Phillies have to lose.
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and the Arizona Diamondbacks have to win for them to
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get in. So that's the way that that looks.
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So currently– The Phillies up early, yeah. 4-0.
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They're up early. And it looks like the Diamondbacks are
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0-0 against the Padres. And they kept talking about just
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a collapse of the Phillies. They haven't been paying enough attention.
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But they've struggled down the stretch here. And then let's
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see the– They sure have. And then let's see. The
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Rangers are down 1-0. And what are the Astros doing?
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Where's the Astros? Houston, where are you?
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0-0 against the Athletics. Yeah. You've got to beat the Athletics,
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even though you're in Sacramento. You've got to beat them.
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Yes, most definitely. Some of the things I don't understand...
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Why is Cleveland starting Messick today? I don't know.
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Do you want them to start?
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Well, let's go with the bullpen, do whatever.
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I guess, yeah, because they'll be in the... They've clenched. Yeah,
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they're going to be in the best two out of
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three starting on Tuesday, right? Yeah.
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Does that take Messick out of the two or the three?
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Isn't he one of their better pitchers?
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I'm looking at Cleveland doesn't play until Wednesday.
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Maybe they can sneak him in at the end of
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the week if they only go two, three innings today.
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The Phillies had no choice. I get that. Starting Wheeler today.
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They started Aaron Nola on two days rest yesterday. I
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looked at that and said, say what?
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Wait a minute.
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It's Cleveland.
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Does Cleveland get a bye? Hold on for a second. No.
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Why don't I see them on the schedule?
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Cleveland? They're down 1-0 to the Royals right now.
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Yeah, I'm looking at, let's see. On Tuesday, it's Philly
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and Arizona at Atlanta. White Sox at Houston or Texas.
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Boston at New York. Chicago at San Diego. Then I
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go over to Wednesday. And it's, I still don't see
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the Cleveland Guardians. Why don't I see the, looking at
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the MLB schedule, I don't see the Cleveland Guardians anywhere. Huh.
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Well, they've got to be because don't.
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I think they got to buy. Huh. Yes, they got
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to buy. They don't play until Saturday. So that's why
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Messick is pitching.
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Okay. That makes a bit more sense now. Okay. Yeah,
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I didn't think they got a bye. Zach Wheeler's off
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to a great start. Allowed one hit through three innings.
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Nick Martinez has allowed a lot of hits through three.
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You know why they got the bye? Guardians got the
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bye because the Rays won the division, even though the
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Yankees had the second-best record in the American League. You
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can't have both teams out of the same division for
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the bye. So Cleveland gets it because they have a
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better record. So, yeah, that's why.
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Even though they have a better record than the team
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getting the bye. Now, that makes sense, doesn't it?
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Yeah, well, yeah. It's MLB math.
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Yes, MLB math. Yes, 101. Come on, Jonah Cox. I'm
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rooting for Jonah Cox in a big way today. Did
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I tell you I need stolen bases?
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Yeah, you need a stolen base for sure. So anyway,
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let's talk about these matchups coming. So first of all,
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Astros or Texas, who gets in?
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It's got to be the Astros. Yeah, I was going
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to say, yeah, if they can't beat the Athletics, they
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don't deserve to be in. Yeah.
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So now you have the White Sox versus the Astros,
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and it looks like the Houston, because they won the division,
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will be the home team. It's the best two out
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of three. They get two games. The White Sox have
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been struggling a little bit, Timmy, just to finish the season.
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We know the team well. They've got a lot of
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guys that can hit home runs. They have a lot
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of guys that can strike out. And their pitching has
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been suspect, but they have been the Cinderella team of baseball.
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Who wins that best two out of three?
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If the Astros walk Murakami, who's been hot lately, Houston
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will win it. There's just too much swing and miss,
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I think. To make it work. Now, hey, if they
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groove him to Murakami, he'll drive in enough runs that
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they'll beat him. I think if Houston plays it right,
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I think they've got to be the favorite. Their pitching
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is definitely better, I would think.
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I mean, yeah, they're going to be able to throw
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out Hunter Brown.
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Yep.
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But who's after Hunter Brown? I mean, Peter Lambert's pitching today.
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I mean, Hayden Brzezinski pitched yesterday. I mean, Ethan Petten,
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I mean, he's barely a major leaguer. I mean, he's
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not that good either. In fact, I just wrote him
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up yesterday because I'm working on the American League West.
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Yeah, maybe I'll reassess that. It's Hunter Brown pitching all
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three games. I'll hit the edge.
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So he should be pitching the first game on Tuesday.
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And again, they've had to play all their guys. And
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I'm pretty sure Wisniewski pitched yesterday. In fact, I know
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he did. Didn't pitch all the way. Peter Lambert's been,
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I think he's pitching on four days rest today.
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Yeah. Maybe they'll go with a bullpen game. Yeah.
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Well, I mean, Bluebell could give him two or three innings.
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So yeah. So I I'm with you though. I mean,
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I think the Astros with their lineup playing at home,
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I think you've got to give them the nod.
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Yeah. Yeah, I'm giving them the edge. Jeremy Pena had
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a big game against Alvarez. Yeah, but you know what?
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When I look at either one of those two teams,
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they're not going any further than the second round. They
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just don't have enough.
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Yeah, what do you do with Murakami next season?
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What do I do? It depends if it's an OBP league.
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It's a batting average league.
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I'm thinking Kyle Schwarber late.
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Kyle Schwarber, before he became Kyle Schwarber, was very unreliable.
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This is a guy that was hitting 170, 180. It
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took him a while to get up to the power
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and the on-base percentage that all of a sudden he became.
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Kyle Schwarber and dependable.
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Yeah, you're going to, with Murakami, you're going to get
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30 to 40 home runs. I think that's a lot.
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He's proven he can hit them. He's also proven that
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when he's not hitting them, there's going to be a
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low batting average. I'm not going to overpay in the
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hopes of the batting average rising. I just don't see
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that happening. So it's one of those, know what you're buying.
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It's expected batting average is 202. So, I mean, his
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batting average is pretty real. He's going to hit 200.
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Yeah, I totally agree. Hey, if you need cheap power,
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it's there.
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How cheap is it going to be, though?
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That's the problem. People are going to be speculating on 40,
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50 home runs and an improvement somewhat in the batting average.
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At least that would be, that's my early take. And
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I just don't see the batting average improving. So I
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can tell you right now, I probably won't have New
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York Ami on many of my teams next year.
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I think that's fair. I'll take 15 less homers and
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invest in Okamoto.
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Yep, that's probably fair. Let's shift over to what will
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be the primetime game, and that is the Red Sox
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versus the Yankees at Yankee Stadium, two out of three.
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I mean, that should be a great series.
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Well, I was going to say, first team to two,
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I don't think there's much of an edge anywhere. you know,
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if you look at Boston and yeah, hey, they got
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Sonny Gray and totally they can throw it there as
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a one-two. Okay, you got Suarez and Jake Bennett that
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you can work or be able to work out of
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that third game or, you know, pitching wise, yeah, the
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Yankees got an edge, but it's first to two. You know,
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that's not a big number. That's a small number. Anything
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can happen.
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And you're going up against Cam Schlittler as with the
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first game and then Take your pick, Garrett Cole or Rodon.
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I think you've got to give the edge to the Yankees,
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don't you? Even though they're not going to have Aaron Judge.
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I look at the offense. Roman Anthony is starting to
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play very, very well. You know, Rutschman, Wilson Contreras, Abreu,
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Trevor Story's back healthy, and he had a strong September.
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You know, Caleb Durbin in the eighth spot. I think
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you give the advantage marginally to the Yankees, but I
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wouldn't be at all shocked if Boston won it.
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I don't know. They haven't announced who the first, who
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the Tuesday night start. It'd be great if it was
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Peyton Tolley. I mean, that would be the ballsy move.
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Tolley go up against Cam Schlittler.
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Well, yeah. Try and sneak in and win that first
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game with your best arm. And if it doesn't work,
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then you go back with Sonny Gray, who's probably at
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least the equivalent of what the Yankees can offer as
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their second-best arm.
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Yeah, and then you come back with Suarez in the
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third game. And it's like, okay, hopefully we'll get three
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or four innings out of him. Because he can be
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dominant if he's on. Or he can get destroyed. So
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we'll have to take a look at the home road splits.
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with Suarez, he might pitch better at home and that
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might be why they want to, they want to keep
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him at home. But I would think totally is their
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best chance to go up against Schlittler.
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I would think so too. I think it'd be the
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ballsy move, but I think it's also, I think it's the,
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the right move. You look at the bullpens and Boston
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bullpen is fine. You know, when you get into Miller
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and Whitlock and Chapman and the ninth, if they can
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hold a lead after six innings, their bullpen can make
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the difference. I'm going to go with Boston. I'm going
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to go with the under, which is probably perceived as
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the underdog, but Boston's got a good team.
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If Boston can get by the Yankees, I mean, the
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Rays are a flawed team. They might make it all
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the way to the World Series, but I kind of
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like the winner of the Yankees and Red Sox. becoming
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the representative from the American League?
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Yeah, I do as well, but I'm not going to
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underestimate the Rays. Junior Caminero.
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Superstar.
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Yeah, exactly. Andy Diaz is solid. Aranda is solid. Victor
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Mesa Jr. Palacios. He's had a really good second half,
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Richie Palacios. Now, do they match up offensively with... No,
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they don't. But they can play good baseball. You look
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at their pitching and, you know, Rasmussen, Ian Seymour has
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had his moments and most of them have been good
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this year. Freddie Peralta's turned things around. Griffin Jacks. The
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Rays have got a solid team.
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They actually remind me of the Blue Jays from last
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season where equate Vlad to Junior Caminero and then a
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bunch of no-names kind of supporting him. And the same
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with the, a bit with the rotation. And they just
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seem to keep winning.
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Yeah, it's... I definitely think that the American League is
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the weaker of the two divisions this year. But writing them,
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I certainly wouldn't write them off as.
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Like an afterthought sort of, you know, I wouldn't take
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the race could make it off to the end. They
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won't be the favorite, but they could very easily, uh,
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make it to the world series this year.
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Philly still up four to nothing. So let's go to
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the national league. The Phillies, if they hold on, they're in. So,
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and again, the, the diamondbacks have to win and the
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Phillies have to lose. Um, I would, I would assume
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the Phillies get in. What say you?
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Well, where are they up now? 4-0?
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4-0 in the fourth with Zach Wheeler pitching.
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Yeah, it's going to be a tough hole for the
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Rays to come back and bump off the Phillies. Hey,
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anything's possible.
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Wheeler up to 63 pitches, by the way, in three
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and a third innings. So he's not going to pitch
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more than five innings, it looks like.
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Yeah, that would be about right based on that pitch count. Hey,
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anything can happen. A 4-0 lead in the fourth is
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not insurmountable, but it's going to be tough. Nick Martinez
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did not pitch well today. But the Rays are playing hard. Yeah,
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they put Seymour in. He followed up Nick Martinez. So
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the Rays aren't giving up the ghost against the Phillies,
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even though they're down 4-0. Good for Tampa Bay, playing
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them hard like that. I like that.
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Plus, you know, those guys aren't going to pitch for
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a week, so you might as well give them.
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Some throw time.
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So Phillies versus the Braves. Two out of three at Atlanta.
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Who do you got?
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Yeah, Atlanta.
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No question, huh?
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Well, the Phillies have got enough offense. They can do
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some damage. I think there's questions there. But do they
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have enough offense?
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Are we doing a Seattle Mariners with their good pitching?
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I mean, are they just getting long in the tooth here?
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Well, you know, Ozzie Alves– No, no, Phillies. Oh, Phillies, yeah.
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I mean, Bryce Harper is not the same guy anymore.
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He's not the same guy, but Kyle Schwarber is. He
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hit a home run today.
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Yeah, Trey Turner's still good.
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No, he actually didn't hit a home run. Sorry, I
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take that back.
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I thought Lewis Arise got hurt. I guess he's healthy
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enough to still be playing.
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He's not Is he playing today?
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He is not playing today, but he's not on the I.L.,
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I don't believe.
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No. Yeah, I'm not sure what his status is long-term. But, yeah,
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Marsh and Alec Baum, they're solid players. Again, I think
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Atlanta should be the favorite, but if Philly wins, I
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wouldn't be shocked. In a three-game series, it's tough. It
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really is.
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I like Atlanta too, I believe. It just feels like
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the Phillies might be the end, the window. I fear
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it's starting to close.
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I agree.
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Let's see.
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If Miami can ever find some offense, they might be
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at the stage where they can give the Phillies a
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go next year. Yeah, yeah.
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I write about prospects. They're not going to get them
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from their prospect ranks. I don't know what they do.
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I don't know what they do there. I think they've
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got to trade some of their pitching to legitimately get
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in some hitters.
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Makes sense.
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All right. The one that's already locked in are the
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Cubs versus the Padres, and it looks like they'll be
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playing two out of three in San Diego, which that
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doesn't make any sense because didn't the Cubs win their division?
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Hold on for a second.
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Milwaukee won it.
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Oh, okay. That's right. Right. So it is the airplane
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in San Diego.
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That one all depends on, at least to me, Fernando Tatis.
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He's been good, Tim.
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Few players have had a better second half than Fernando
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Tatis Jr.
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And Merrill. And you know what's interesting today? They're in
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the third inning right now with San Diego. I'm looking
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at it. The Padres lineup does not include Tatis. It
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does not include Merrill. It looks like San Diego is
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giving Arizona an edge today.
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Yeah. Yeah. Well, I mean, can you blame them? Nice
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two days off for their starters before they go into
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a tough series against the Cubs. I mean, that seems reasonable.
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Yeah, no, definitely. But I would have preferred to have
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seen Tatis play for at least a couple innings for
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the hometown fans.
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So as a longtime writer of Dustin Harris, I'm thrilled
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that he's got the left field job, it looks like,
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in San Diego. But is that a guy you want
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to go to war with?
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I'm looking at their lineup today. It's Harris, Machado, France,
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Gavin Sheets, Hayes, Cronenworth, Furman, Song Sung from.
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The Neil Diamond Classic and Bowen. Yeah, that one, yeah.
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And Bowen in center field. Yeah, they're doing an R
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& R day for the regular.
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No, I think Dustin Harris is the starting left fielder now.
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Left fielder or he's playing right fielder today.
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Okay, well, he's the starting left fielder. I mean, they
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got Austin Hayes, which I guess could play.
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Oh, yeah, Tatis is out in right field.
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Chase Bowen is the 26-year-old rookie that I wrote about
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it's got some power, but I think they've been going
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with Dustin Harris a lot.
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Yeah, they have recently. And they've got some odd tailors
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sitting there too who can come off the bench.
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I got to tell you, I do like Michael King,
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Robbie Ray, Nick Pavetta. I think that's sneakily strong. Sneakily
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is a word.
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Yeah, I do too. I got to go with the
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Padres to get through that first round. Cub fans will
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hate me, but I don't know. I've got to give
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San Diego a bit of an edge playing at home.
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The Cubs have got to have PCA. Tim, Tim, Tim, Tim, Tim.
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I'm about to jump off the ledge. Talk me off
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the ledge. I had Alex Bregman available in that one league.
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I need home runs, and he said two today.
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Oh, did you start him?
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No. I saw his face after catching that ball at
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the yap and said, there's no way they're going to
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play him this weekend. If he does play, it's not
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going to happen. I made the right call, I think,
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but it's not working out right.
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Timmy, you know I love you like a brother. You
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did not make the right call. You hit two home runs.
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I'm going to trade a bucket of bucket of spit.
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He used balls.
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Your logic was sound, but you made the wrong call.
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Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
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I know. I know.
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How do I, how do I hate the, let me
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count the ways talking about the game of fantasy baseball.
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It's tough, man. The last game of the season can,
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it can, like, I don't even want to look at
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00:33:15.750 --> 00:33:19.960
my standings. I don't want to know. Plus, these are
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all Patreon members, so I'm thrilled if they win, too.
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So I don't really care. But, I mean, it's painful
556
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when you get that close. And the guy that's on
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your bench hits two home runs. That's tough.
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Yes. I'm not impressed. We'll leave it at that.
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Let's take a quick break. Let Tim compose himself, get
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himself together, and we'll come back and take a look
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at how the Astros are doing. So I've been working
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on the, I spent most of the week writing, finishing
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up my top 20 as I am done. 28 out
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of the 30 teams complete top to bottom summary. Everything's done.
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And I'm about 80% done with the Rangers and Mariners.
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So I just have to finish those up this week
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and I'll be completely done. And I'll put them out there,
568
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but I will say the Astros, they got rid of
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Dana Brown. And all of a sudden they've made, They've
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had a really good draft, even though he was there
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for the draft. I talked to somebody in the organization
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that said he didn't really have a whole lot to
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do with the draft. Loved their draft. All of a sudden,
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that minor league system is starting to look a little better.
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And it's good because they are getting to the end
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of their window. And with just terrible drafting over the
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last five to six years, ever since Dana Brown was hired.
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And all of a sudden, I mean, they... There's nothing
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after their starters that, you know, the Jose Altuve's and
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Jordan Alvarez's. They just don't have enough there. So it
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could be a little couple of years as they're waiting
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for the next wave to come in. But there is
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finally help on the way.
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Well, that's a good thing because you look at that draft.
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their outfield situation is, it's not good. No, it is
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not good at all. And yeah, I don't know if
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Cam Smith will prove to be the answer, but I
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think they're hoping, they're hoping and rooting for him in
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a big way.
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Well, like 21 home runs, 12 stolen bases, if I'm
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not mistaken, but he just didn't hit. And he does
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walk a lot, but he needs to hit at least
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something so that, his on-base will play. I mean, his
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on-base is 280, so he needs to get on base
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a little bit more via the old-fashioned way.
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Yep. 280 will not cut the mustard. Definitely not.
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Bat speed is in the 99th percentile. He's going to
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get stronger. He's going to add leverage eventually. I think
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there's 25 to 30 home run pop there. He's still fast.
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He just needs to make better contact. That's 26%, which
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isn't terrible, but So I think there's still problems, not
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with the angles of his, his swing. I think once
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he gets that, the power will play. And I think
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his batting average will go up. So I'm bullish on
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cam Smith.
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Well, and let's face it. He was rushed.
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Yep.
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In a big way. Uh, maybe it'll just take him
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a little bit of time for his game to catch
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up to what was originally anticipated and what we're originally seeing. Yeah.
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He was, he was signed originally by, I think it
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was the Cubs. And then the Cubs moved them to,
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to the, um, to the Astros and they immediately came up.
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Yeah. It was right away. Yeah. Yep.
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Uh, let's, let's take a look here. We're going to
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go back over to the game. So, uh, The Astros
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have got to beat the Athletics. That would be pathetic
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if they do not. Still 0-0 tied there. Let's see.
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Phillies are still up 4-0. That's good. How are the
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Diamondbacks doing here? San Diego is 1-0.
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Yeah. And the Twins are now up 3-1. On the...
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Courtesy of a.
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On Texas.
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Over Texas, yeah. Courtesy of a Josh Bell three-run home run.
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00:37:43.239 --> 00:37:46.739
Ooh, I needed that. I needed that. Josh Bell's on
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one of those teams that I've got. Go, Josh Bell.
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00:37:48.789 --> 00:37:51.230
Yeah, yeah. I don't know if I need a home.
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Run, but I'll take a home run in three RBIs.
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That can't hurt me, Tim.
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So... Yeah, that will help me today, definitely.
631
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Timmy, let's do our end-of-year fantasy MVPs, shall we?
632
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Oh, yeah. I'm sure we'll have some just wonderfully interesting
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names coming up here. I know starting off at catcher,
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congratulations to you, Rich, for nailing a real good one.
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Won't qualify next year, but he sure did this.
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00:38:27.969 --> 00:38:30.929
Yeah, so for our Patreon members, and again, if you
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00:38:30.949 --> 00:38:35.239
want to support our podcast, please join us at the
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00:38:35.280 --> 00:38:41.280
Patreon site, patreon.com forward slash prospect 361. Yeah, we're going
639
00:38:41.300 --> 00:38:43.820
to be talking a lot of prospects over the offseason,
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00:38:43.840 --> 00:38:46.920
so if you like that, it starts on October 8th
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00:38:46.960 --> 00:38:49.699
when the first system drops. There'll be lots of podcasts.
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00:38:49.719 --> 00:38:52.110
Sam and I will be talking ad nauseum about it,
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00:38:52.110 --> 00:38:54.789
and it'll be fun. But next week or so is
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going to be a little light, just so everybody knows.
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But I do do a draft target every season. I've
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done it for the last three years. And one of
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the guys I told our Patreon members that you must
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00:39:05.130 --> 00:39:09.050
leave the draft with is Ben Rice. Everything was pointing up.
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That was back when he was going to the fifth
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or sixth round. He obviously started to go on the
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fourth or third round later in drafts. But if you
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drafted early, remember the Patreon site. I hope you got him, Timmy.
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41 home runs. 105 RBIs, 97 RBIs at your catching position.
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That's what you want it.
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Yeah, no, there's no doubting what Ben Rice did this year.
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Absolutely amazing and I've got a couple of shares and
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In the leagues where I didn't end up with a
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Drake Baldwin or a Rice or one of the top catchers,
659
00:39:49.929 --> 00:39:52.409
I did very poorly this year. It was hard to
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offset what the top catching picks did. If you went
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late on catcher, you better have got Dylan Dingler because
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if you didn't, you were going to have a hard time.
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You put yourself in a pretty solid hole because... Catching
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is not the catching of five years ago anymore. I
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don't think you can ignore the position with the amount
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of talent that's come in over the past few years.
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You've got to find some power at catch or else
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you're in trouble.
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Ron Chandler, I guess a big part of his name
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was made from the importance of drafting catching early. And
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00:40:34.210 --> 00:40:36.750
he was right years ago, and then he was wrong
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for probably a decade, and all of a sudden now
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that logic is back to being correct. But you've got
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to nail one of those catchers because you're right. You
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have Ben Rice as your starter and somebody else, and
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you've got JT Romolto and somebody else. You're in trouble.
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Yeah, big time. You just can't make up. It's hard
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to make up that power. Yeah.
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So go read Ron Chandler's logic on why you pick
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a catcher early. It does make a lot of sense.
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I'll leave it at that. Timmy, who was your guy?
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I had lots of choices to look at, but I
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went with Gabriel Marino of Arizona. He was 16th off
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the board last spring with an ADP of 173. Over
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the course of the year, we got 16 home runs,
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83 RBIs. He's fifth at catcher and run scored with 72,
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fourth in the RBIs with 83. And he posted an
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874 OPS, which includes a 311 batting average and a
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00:41:45.909 --> 00:41:49.650
388 OVP. So when you look at balance this year,
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Gabriel Marino provided a lot of bang for the buck.
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He really did.
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Not to pat myself on the back, but that was
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one of my other draft targets for catching. So I
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felt kind of nailed the catchers, Tim. I wish I
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would have done the same with everybody. Oh, well.
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Oh, well, yes.
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I agree. He had a great, great season. First base,
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I'll let Tim go first because my guys, I don't
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own them anywhere, and I completely whiffed on it. I
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did not see the breakout coming. But, Timmy, who's your
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first baseman? Well, I.
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I had to go with Sal Stewart in Cincinnati. 21st
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off the board, 185 ADP. He was on pace to
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be the RBI leader, but a September swoon sort of
705
00:42:39.019 --> 00:42:43.840
ruined that opportunity. But even with a down September, he's
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heading into today with 32 homers, 111 RBIs, and 15
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stolen bases. That's pretty impressive for the 21st baseman off
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the board.
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Do you think he just wore out? I, I do.
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Yeah. I, I don't know. I haven't checked that speeds
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or whatever, but man, he had such a great first
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five months. Uh, I'm not concerned. You know, it's his,
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it's his first full season in the game and to
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be doing what he did. I'm, I'm expecting, I'm expecting
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more of the same moving forward. 30 home runs, a
716
00:43:20.710 --> 00:43:25.690
hundred RBIs, 10 to 15 stolen bases. Yeah. That's, that's
717
00:43:25.769 --> 00:43:27.070
elite at the first base level.
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00:43:28.489 --> 00:43:31.969
Yeah, that was, I'm just checking my catchers. Yes, I
719
00:43:32.010 --> 00:43:35.809
had one, Ben Rice, two, Gabriel Marino. And I think
720
00:43:35.929 --> 00:43:40.849
I had prospects to watch. One was, no, I didn't
721
00:43:40.929 --> 00:43:44.449
have Sal Stewart. So I missed on that, which was
722
00:43:44.510 --> 00:43:47.050
a bit of a bummer. I had Matt Olson as
723
00:43:47.070 --> 00:43:49.469
affordable 30 home run pop. That was my guy.
724
00:43:50.679 --> 00:43:52.280
And he hit 40.
725
00:43:52.280 --> 00:43:55.219
Yeah. So I also have Michael Bush.
726
00:43:57.219 --> 00:44:01.519
Me too, yes.
727
00:44:01.599 --> 00:44:04.639
I'm sorry, Timmy. Who did you say for first base?
728
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I'm just typing it in.
729
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Sal Stewart.
730
00:44:08.300 --> 00:44:12.539
Sal Stewart. I had, and look, I want to hear
731
00:44:12.619 --> 00:44:19.179
Timmy's viewpoint here. Miguel Vargas, 36 first basemen off the board.
732
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He had 33 home runs, 21 stolen bases, 104 runs,
733
00:44:20.929 --> 00:44:28.639
93 RBIs. Miguel Vargas, tell me, no one saw this coming.
734
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I had two shares, two or three.
735
00:44:32.070 --> 00:44:33.050
Well, congratulations.
736
00:44:33.630 --> 00:44:34.949
Yeah, yeah, he was huge.
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Why did you see it, or was it just, I
738
00:44:37.130 --> 00:44:40.710
need a corner infielder, let me grab Miguel Vargas?
739
00:44:41.739 --> 00:44:52.139
Hello. Yeah, I'm not going to take credit for any brainstorming,
740
00:44:52.300 --> 00:44:55.469
any serious rationale. Where I went late, I ended up
741
00:44:55.510 --> 00:44:58.130
with him. I also ended up with Sal Stewart in
742
00:44:58.170 --> 00:45:04.570
several leagues. Oh, that's great. Going late on first base.
743
00:45:04.590 --> 00:45:07.760
They were just there. They fell to me. Yeah, okay.
744
00:45:07.800 --> 00:45:11.280
That looks about right. There's some potential with both players,
745
00:45:11.360 --> 00:45:13.659
but I did not see either one of them to
746
00:45:13.699 --> 00:45:19.519
be doing what they've done. No, definitely not. Vargas, that's
747
00:45:19.559 --> 00:45:22.619
a monster year. And he's not getting nearly as much
748
00:45:22.719 --> 00:45:24.099
love for it as I think he should.
749
00:45:26.269 --> 00:45:28.090
Let's go to second base, Timmy. Who do you got?
750
00:45:29.750 --> 00:45:32.599
Okay, I went a little different on second base. I
751
00:45:32.619 --> 00:45:35.159
went with a guy that was a 38th off the
752
00:45:35.219 --> 00:45:41.099
board with an ADP of 365.75 and Chase Medroth of
753
00:45:41.119 --> 00:45:42.320
the White Sox.
754
00:45:42.340 --> 00:45:44.519
You've been talking to him all season long.
755
00:45:45.460 --> 00:45:50.409
Yeah, 16 homers, 63 RBIs. But at second base, do
756
00:45:50.829 --> 00:45:52.809
you know he's third in runs scored with 90?
757
00:45:52.809 --> 00:45:55.710
At the position.
758
00:45:56.860 --> 00:46:00.539
Yeah. At the position. Yeah. But when you're looking to
759
00:46:00.559 --> 00:46:03.320
fill your middle infield slot, he's been, he's been a
760
00:46:03.380 --> 00:46:06.659
nice little asset. I, I like him now and I
761
00:46:06.679 --> 00:46:09.300
like him a little bit more moving forward. Him and, and,
762
00:46:09.619 --> 00:46:17.050
and that she, uh, no, not that one. No, no,
763
00:46:17.190 --> 00:46:20.889
definitely not. It's, it's right up there with my E
764
00:46:20.929 --> 00:46:24.030
five mispronunciation. Yeah.
765
00:46:24.050 --> 00:46:27.800
That's, that's funny. Um, When I wrote about second base
766
00:46:27.880 --> 00:46:32.530
back on December 11th, I said second is extremely thin.
767
00:46:33.130 --> 00:46:37.849
Savvy fan and manager shouldn't wait too long to act.
768
00:46:37.889 --> 00:46:41.550
That was my feeling. But I also said I love
769
00:46:41.570 --> 00:46:43.630
Jackson Holiday. It didn't work out.
770
00:46:44.349 --> 00:46:45.489
Nope. I agree.
771
00:46:45.789 --> 00:46:48.110
The other guys are okay. This is what I would do.
772
00:46:48.889 --> 00:46:52.079
Second base may look uninspiring now, but help. could be
773
00:46:52.119 --> 00:46:54.000
on the way from the minors. Some of these players
774
00:46:54.039 --> 00:46:57.239
are currently shortstop eligible. There's a strong chance they shift
775
00:46:57.260 --> 00:47:01.179
to second base. A bridge strategy using a placeholder until
776
00:47:01.280 --> 00:47:04.159
one of these prospect arrives makes sense. The first guy
777
00:47:04.179 --> 00:47:08.110
on the list was J.J. Weatherholt, and he is my
778
00:47:08.269 --> 00:47:11.590
pick as second base. 26 shortstop off the board, 17
779
00:47:11.590 --> 00:47:15.469
home runs, 14 stolen bases, 89 runs scored, and he
780
00:47:15.550 --> 00:47:18.010
hit at the leadoff spot for most of the second half.
781
00:47:18.070 --> 00:47:19.710
I thought J.J. Weatherholt was great.
782
00:47:20.829 --> 00:47:23.429
Yeah, he was. And when you look at bang for
783
00:47:23.449 --> 00:47:27.340
the buck, 26 off the board, yeah, you get some
784
00:47:27.360 --> 00:47:30.960
serious return on investment for a leader pick. Well done.
785
00:47:32.510 --> 00:47:34.449
Good stuff, Timmy. Let's take a break, come back, and
786
00:47:34.809 --> 00:47:36.489
I'm going to take the next one because I have
787
00:47:36.530 --> 00:47:54.599
to apologize to our listener base here. Tim, I prepare
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00:47:54.659 --> 00:47:57.679
notes for us every week. I try to do my job,
789
00:47:57.699 --> 00:48:00.340
and we do a Friday show. I'm looking for guys
790
00:48:00.420 --> 00:48:03.000
that are playing well or not playing well. We do
791
00:48:03.059 --> 00:48:05.940
all that kind of stuff. So when I sat down
792
00:48:06.000 --> 00:48:10.000
yesterday to put my list of fantasy MVPs together, I
793
00:48:10.619 --> 00:48:14.679
actually checked three references to make sure this number was correct.
794
00:48:15.880 --> 00:48:19.760
I don't know how it happened, but Nolan Aranata hit
795
00:48:19.760 --> 00:48:25.460
30 home runs. I was dumbfounded. Nolan Aranata had not
796
00:48:25.539 --> 00:48:29.699
been a guy thinking about for months. In fact, if
797
00:48:29.719 --> 00:48:31.989
we go back to the archives, we probably talked about
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00:48:32.070 --> 00:48:36.170
he's done. And he had 30 home runs, Tim. How
799
00:48:36.289 --> 00:48:37.349
is that possible?
800
00:48:38.909 --> 00:48:41.449
A broken clock is right twice a day, Rich.
801
00:48:42.829 --> 00:48:46.460
I apologize so highly for not bringing him up. I
802
00:48:46.500 --> 00:48:47.179
just missed it.
803
00:48:48.079 --> 00:48:51.530
Yeah, well, I think a lot of people did. I did.
804
00:48:51.630 --> 00:48:57.969
I wasn't focusing on Nolan Arenado. But, you know, our podcast,
805
00:48:58.179 --> 00:49:03.760
our Listener League Draft and Hold, we've got a repeat
806
00:49:03.820 --> 00:49:07.340
winner this year. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, David won it again.
807
00:49:07.420 --> 00:49:09.639
And you know who he has on his team?
808
00:49:10.400 --> 00:49:15.369
I know he's got PCA and Bobby Witt Jr. That's
809
00:49:15.630 --> 00:49:17.809
enough already. I'm assuming you're going to tell me it's
810
00:49:17.849 --> 00:49:18.670
Nolan Arenado.
811
00:49:19.269 --> 00:49:21.519
We have a bingo. Rich. We have a bingo, yep.
812
00:49:22.340 --> 00:49:23.900
I mean, well done. We've got to get him on
813
00:49:23.920 --> 00:49:27.139
the podcast. I mean, back-to-back players is crazy.
814
00:49:28.739 --> 00:49:35.250
Well, yeah, because it's a good group, sharp players, and yeah,
815
00:49:35.329 --> 00:49:43.980
back-to-back's amazing. Congratulations. Great job, but... Hey, Nolan Aranato. Yeah. If,
816
00:49:44.559 --> 00:49:48.300
if you happen to have been in a situation where
817
00:49:48.340 --> 00:49:53.059
there's nobody else left, yeah, he's been golden for you.
818
00:49:53.239 --> 00:49:53.960
He really has.
819
00:49:55.000 --> 00:49:58.949
It's absolutely crazy. It feels like George Springer, George Springer
820
00:49:58.989 --> 00:50:02.829
all over again. I would not even, he's 35 years old.
821
00:50:02.869 --> 00:50:05.710
I mean, I, I, there's no way I'm drafting them
822
00:50:05.730 --> 00:50:06.269
next season.
823
00:50:07.690 --> 00:50:11.840
No, no, I'm no, I, I, No, that's a pass
824
00:50:11.889 --> 00:50:12.530
for me as well.
825
00:50:13.929 --> 00:50:14.710
Tim, who's your pick?
826
00:50:16.130 --> 00:50:17.449
Well, you know who my pick is.
827
00:50:18.250 --> 00:50:18.469
Okamoto.
828
00:50:18.489 --> 00:50:21.050
You got to know him. Yeah, of course. And thanks
829
00:50:21.070 --> 00:50:23.809
for leaving him for me. He was 20th off the
830
00:50:23.849 --> 00:50:27.039
board with an ADP of 225, which, by the way,
831
00:50:27.079 --> 00:50:30.179
was four slots lower than Murakami. Not that I've mentioned
832
00:50:30.800 --> 00:50:33.559
the rivalry there. But, hey, tied for second in home
833
00:50:33.599 --> 00:50:38.130
runs with 33. 92 RBIs was good for fourth. yeah,
834
00:50:38.239 --> 00:50:41.880
I don't think anybody, including me was expecting 30 home
835
00:50:41.920 --> 00:50:45.500
runs there, but, uh, go Kaz, go great year.
836
00:50:46.480 --> 00:50:49.679
I totally whiffed on third base with my draft targets. Uh,
837
00:50:49.880 --> 00:50:52.300
though I did have Sal Stewart. Cause I think Sal
838
00:50:52.320 --> 00:50:55.710
Stewart came up as a third baseman. So hopefully I
839
00:50:55.730 --> 00:50:57.429
was able to get him in there, but no, the
840
00:50:57.489 --> 00:51:01.449
other ones were terrible. I got, uh, McHale Garcia. He
841
00:51:01.489 --> 00:51:03.469
was hurt. Most of the season Chapman hurt most of
842
00:51:03.530 --> 00:51:08.409
the season. Jordan Westbrook never even played. Uh, Austin Riley,
843
00:51:08.449 --> 00:51:11.809
I said power bounce back coming. I think that was okay,
844
00:51:11.889 --> 00:51:15.010
but not in Ryan McMahon, late round power flyer. That
845
00:51:15.030 --> 00:51:17.610
was a disaster. So I just completely whiffed there.
846
00:51:18.710 --> 00:51:25.239
Yeah, I wish I had more shares of Junior Caminero.
847
00:51:25.300 --> 00:51:29.179
How's that? Yeah, for sure.
848
00:51:29.739 --> 00:51:33.989
Speaking of Junior Caminero made me think of Vlad Jr., So,
849
00:51:34.010 --> 00:51:37.389
I mean, you're up in that market. So he made
850
00:51:37.510 --> 00:51:42.280
big news, apparently, on a podcast. It's very much, oh,
851
00:51:42.340 --> 00:51:47.519
who was the slugger that said, that's who I am? Yeah. Oh,
852
00:51:47.860 --> 00:51:48.280
count me down.
853
00:51:48.300 --> 00:51:49.579
Anthony Rendon.
854
00:51:50.059 --> 00:51:53.579
No, no, not Anthony Rendon. We talk about him all
855
00:51:53.619 --> 00:51:56.159
the time. Swing and miss, struck out 250 times, could
856
00:51:56.179 --> 00:52:03.239
hit 30 home runs, and decided that, This is who
857
00:52:03.340 --> 00:52:05.389
I am. I'm going to be that. I'm not going
858
00:52:05.409 --> 00:52:06.989
to try to change. Who was that again?
859
00:52:07.010 --> 00:52:09.690
Oh, I played in tech. Joey Gallo.
860
00:52:09.809 --> 00:52:13.070
Joey Gallo. Yes, thank you. Joey Gallo. When he said that,
861
00:52:13.289 --> 00:52:15.550
that's what it reminded me of. So if you didn't
862
00:52:15.650 --> 00:52:19.050
hear it, everybody, Vlad Jr. was interviewed. And he said, look,
863
00:52:19.090 --> 00:52:24.099
they paid me all this money for past production. They
864
00:52:24.139 --> 00:52:26.539
didn't pay me for future production. And I'm going to
865
00:52:26.579 --> 00:52:28.579
play the way I want to play. It's pretty much
866
00:52:29.159 --> 00:52:32.849
paraphrasing there. And people went apeshit to me. I mean,
867
00:52:32.889 --> 00:52:35.769
I heard that. In fact, the great John Dean sent
868
00:52:35.829 --> 00:52:40.230
me the article or the podcast. I couldn't believe what
869
00:52:40.269 --> 00:52:43.780
I was hearing. I'm like, what planet are you on?
870
00:52:43.840 --> 00:52:47.119
They did not pay you for past production. They paid
871
00:52:47.159 --> 00:52:51.380
you $ 400 million to hit home runs and be in
872
00:52:51.420 --> 00:52:53.440
the middle of the power bat and not hit eight
873
00:52:53.480 --> 00:52:55.909
home runs or whatever it was. And now he's come
874
00:52:55.949 --> 00:52:59.110
back and backpedaled saying he misspoke. So I do give
875
00:52:59.170 --> 00:53:00.090
him credit for that.
876
00:53:01.000 --> 00:53:06.420
Yes. He misspoke. He should have had a translator. It
877
00:53:06.460 --> 00:53:12.010
was a combination of errors that probably shouldn't happen at
878
00:53:12.070 --> 00:53:17.050
that level. Okay. Do I believe that Blighty believes that
879
00:53:17.150 --> 00:53:22.449
he doesn't have to produce because he signed a long-term contract? No. Okay.
880
00:53:22.829 --> 00:53:26.670
I think at the end of the day, we won't see.
881
00:53:26.690 --> 00:53:33.269
It will go away. He will pay a price for...
882
00:53:32.730 --> 00:53:36.800
I don't know if he misspoke or... Call it what
883
00:53:36.820 --> 00:53:41.199
you want. It shouldn't happen. And I don't believe that
884
00:53:41.440 --> 00:53:45.039
the Vlad Guerrero we saw this year... I don't think
885
00:53:45.079 --> 00:53:49.179
he believes that either. I just think... I hope you're right.
886
00:53:49.219 --> 00:53:50.519
I think it was just a series of fallacies.
887
00:53:50.539 --> 00:53:51.860
He did say what he said.
888
00:53:53.079 --> 00:53:53.619
Mm-hmm.
889
00:53:54.219 --> 00:53:57.130
So, I mean, I get that English is your second
890
00:53:57.170 --> 00:54:00.599
language and so forth, but... Mm-hmm. When you're making that
891
00:54:00.639 --> 00:54:02.840
kind of money and have that kind of support system,
892
00:54:02.960 --> 00:54:07.280
you can't make those mistakes in a public forum like that.
893
00:54:07.989 --> 00:54:11.590
No, you cannot. I totally agree. And he will pay
894
00:54:11.650 --> 00:54:17.030
a price for it. And I am not going to
895
00:54:17.289 --> 00:54:25.710
diminish my anticipated production from Vladdy because of this podcast
896
00:54:25.750 --> 00:54:27.829
or this series of interviews. Okay.
897
00:54:27.969 --> 00:54:30.300
Let me ask you a question. Over under 30 home
898
00:54:30.320 --> 00:54:31.059
runs next season.
899
00:54:32.699 --> 00:54:34.099
Under. Okay.
900
00:54:34.559 --> 00:54:36.599
Over under 25 next season.
901
00:54:38.289 --> 00:54:39.730
I think that'll be in the right area.
902
00:54:40.250 --> 00:54:42.449
Really? So he's going to have to more than double
903
00:54:42.489 --> 00:54:43.510
his home run production.
904
00:54:45.719 --> 00:54:48.380
Yeah, and I don't see a problem with that. He's
905
00:54:48.420 --> 00:54:50.659
going to work his ass off in the offseason. Now,
906
00:54:50.760 --> 00:54:54.780
if I see shots of him clubbing it all winter, yeah,
907
00:54:55.500 --> 00:54:58.639
that will change my thought process rather quickly. I don't
908
00:54:58.679 --> 00:55:01.699
think that's going to happen. I think he's going to
909
00:55:01.739 --> 00:55:03.840
work his ass off, and he's going to figure out
910
00:55:03.900 --> 00:55:04.619
what was wrong.
911
00:55:04.639 --> 00:55:07.440
I can tell you what was wrong, Timmy.
912
00:55:07.460 --> 00:55:09.219
Yeah, he's at one triangle with zero.
913
00:55:09.239 --> 00:55:10.059
Yeah, 8.3 degrees of launch, dude.
914
00:55:14.250 --> 00:55:14.469
Yes.
915
00:55:14.590 --> 00:55:17.309
Start to hit the ball on the angle and start
916
00:55:17.329 --> 00:55:20.199
hitting some home runs. I mean, he strikes out 13%
917
00:55:20.199 --> 00:55:24.099
of the time. The batting average can handle more leverage.
918
00:55:24.139 --> 00:55:27.239
Start listening to the coaches. I mean, and the analytics guys,
919
00:55:27.280 --> 00:55:29.880
I'm sure they're telling them this. Yeah.
920
00:55:29.960 --> 00:55:32.760
Even Andy Diaz found a way to hit more home runs.
921
00:55:33.019 --> 00:55:33.739
You know what I mean?
922
00:55:33.880 --> 00:55:34.840
Yeah.
923
00:55:35.059 --> 00:55:39.739
After spending years pounding the ball into the ground, right? Yeah. Yeah. No, I'm, I'm,
924
00:55:40.489 --> 00:55:42.369
like I said, I'm going to be following him very
925
00:55:42.670 --> 00:55:48.849
closely this off season. Okay, and I am hoping he
926
00:55:48.929 --> 00:55:52.070
takes what has happened this year very seriously and makes
927
00:55:52.130 --> 00:55:57.750
the adjustments that he should be making to resume his
928
00:55:57.929 --> 00:56:01.659
top three to five first base type player. Because if
929
00:56:01.699 --> 00:56:03.980
he doesn't, we're going to see more of the same.
930
00:56:04.420 --> 00:56:07.860
And it's hard buying into first base when you're buying
931
00:56:07.920 --> 00:56:10.380
into 10 to 15 home runs. I don't care what
932
00:56:10.400 --> 00:56:13.219
your batting average is. You've got to have more power
933
00:56:13.239 --> 00:56:14.059
than that at first base.
934
00:56:14.550 --> 00:56:18.800
His batting average is only 260 with a 332-1 base percentage.
935
00:56:18.840 --> 00:56:21.860
I mean, 356 slug.
936
00:56:22.179 --> 00:56:25.239
Yeah, it should be 370 with a 500 slug, right?
937
00:56:25.360 --> 00:56:29.780
Yeah, I mean, he hits the ball plenty hard. I mean,
938
00:56:29.840 --> 00:56:34.000
his exit velocity is down, but I mean, it's 27
939
00:56:34.000 --> 00:56:37.260
years old. Yeah, he needs to lose some weight. So
940
00:56:37.400 --> 00:56:39.940
if you tell me in spring training, he's come in,
941
00:56:40.420 --> 00:56:43.329
he's lost 10 or 15 pounds. and that all of
942
00:56:43.349 --> 00:56:46.289
a sudden he's looking to yoke balls in spring training.
943
00:56:46.429 --> 00:56:49.030
I'm going to start to get excited. But he's going
944
00:56:49.050 --> 00:56:50.719
to go too early for me. As much as I
945
00:56:50.780 --> 00:56:52.579
like the player I have in the Dynasty League, I
946
00:56:52.780 --> 00:56:56.119
traded for him in the Dynasty League last season. It's
947
00:56:56.139 --> 00:57:00.539
been a disaster. But I'm going to stay away. I
948
00:57:00.539 --> 00:57:01.760
just think he'll be too expensive.
949
00:57:03.460 --> 00:57:06.030
Yeah, I can't argue with you right now. All I
950
00:57:06.070 --> 00:57:07.929
know is he's going to get a lot of my
951
00:57:07.969 --> 00:57:11.550
scrutiny this offseason. I want, I want, I want to,
952
00:57:11.659 --> 00:57:13.909
I want to see what the off season brings for
953
00:57:13.989 --> 00:57:17.289
Vlad Jr. And it better bring lots of work with,
954
00:57:17.429 --> 00:57:18.070
with coaches.
955
00:57:19.230 --> 00:57:20.070
Yeah. Yeah.
956
00:57:20.110 --> 00:57:22.550
I mean, not just done. Yeah. He's got, it's all
957
00:57:22.570 --> 00:57:23.150
sitting there.
958
00:57:23.690 --> 00:57:26.179
Be in better shape. Add it, add some angles to
959
00:57:26.219 --> 00:57:28.739
your swing. And I think he could return to the
960
00:57:29.000 --> 00:57:33.219
Vlad Jr. Of 2024. That's the guy I want. The
961
00:57:33.219 --> 00:57:35.739
30 home run guy. I don't want the 23 home
962
00:57:35.760 --> 00:57:38.960
run guy from yet. I want the 34 home run guy.
963
00:57:39.969 --> 00:57:41.239
Yep. I agree.
964
00:57:41.880 --> 00:57:42.800
Shortstop, who you got?
965
00:57:44.480 --> 00:57:49.139
Oh, great. Went 27th off the board with an ADP
966
00:57:49.800 --> 00:57:55.429
of 260.68. He led all shortstops with an OVP of 375.
967
00:57:55.429 --> 00:58:00.070
17 homers, 71 RBIs, 12 stolen bases. Fourth overall run
968
00:58:00.110 --> 00:58:04.409
scored with a grand total of 96. Kevin McGonigal of
969
00:58:04.449 --> 00:58:07.269
the Detroit Tigers gets my nod at shortstop.
970
00:58:08.579 --> 00:58:10.980
Yeah, I think he's just warming up to me. I
971
00:58:11.019 --> 00:58:14.090
think there's going to be 2,500 power there. I don't
972
00:58:14.110 --> 00:58:16.280
think he's going to see a lot of bases, but
973
00:58:16.300 --> 00:58:18.030
he's going to hit. He's going to hit. He's going
974
00:58:18.050 --> 00:58:21.050
to get a base. He's going to be a good player.
975
00:58:21.829 --> 00:58:27.190
Yeah, in OVP leagues, I think it's entirely possible to
976
00:58:27.230 --> 00:58:30.610
see an OVP of 400 at some point in time
977
00:58:30.630 --> 00:58:33.489
in the next year or two out of McGonigal. Combine
978
00:58:33.510 --> 00:58:37.449
that with the 20, 25 home runs. Yeah, he's going
979
00:58:37.469 --> 00:58:38.349
to be a great player.
980
00:58:40.019 --> 00:58:46.199
I never understood why the Twins signed Carlos Correa. I
981
00:58:46.239 --> 00:58:48.960
thought that they had Brooks Lee sitting in the minor leagues.
982
00:58:49.039 --> 00:58:51.719
It was their number one overall pick. They've obviously moved
983
00:58:51.760 --> 00:58:57.130
Correa back down to the Astros. And now Brooks Lee
984
00:58:57.230 --> 00:58:59.909
is getting the playing time. And a lot of people
985
00:58:59.929 --> 00:59:01.510
don't know this. He had 24 home runs.
986
00:59:02.469 --> 00:59:05.730
Um, yeah, I, I, I thought I would escape me
987
00:59:05.789 --> 00:59:08.190
i i saw brooks lee and i said what where
988
00:59:08.269 --> 00:59:11.269
am i missing here and then all of a sudden
989
00:59:11.269 --> 00:59:15.070
24 home runs that's when i checked okay.
990
00:59:14.170 --> 00:59:17.639
30 yeah 33 shorts up off the board so he
991
00:59:17.659 --> 00:59:20.469
was not drafted in most leagues and my guess is
992
00:59:21.019 --> 00:59:22.800
he's on a lot of teams that were in the
993
00:59:22.860 --> 00:59:26.780
money because your middle infielder with 24 home runs is
994
00:59:26.840 --> 00:59:27.699
not bad.
995
00:59:28.679 --> 00:59:31.179
No, it's not bad at all. And, you know, if
996
00:59:31.199 --> 00:59:37.579
you're playing in an AL only, that's a windfall. You
997
00:59:37.599 --> 00:59:39.019
hit a jackpot with Brooks Lee.
998
00:59:40.159 --> 00:59:42.739
Yeah, the 88 miles an hour exit velocity of 16
999
00:59:42.739 --> 00:59:44.980
degrees of launch is a guy that you could probably
1000
00:59:45.019 --> 00:59:48.099
count on 15 to 20 home runs, maybe a bit more. And,
1001
00:59:48.380 --> 00:59:51.380
you know, I mean, I think that's who the guy is.
1002
00:59:51.500 --> 00:59:55.480
And he'll probably have more value going into drafts next season.
1003
00:59:55.719 --> 00:59:58.539
I probably won't be drafting him because of that. We'll
1004
00:59:58.579 --> 01:00:01.739
try to find the next Brooks Lee that goes undrafted
1005
01:00:01.860 --> 01:00:05.340
and can provide 20, 25 home runs. So that's what
1006
01:00:05.360 --> 01:00:07.099
we'll try to do. Timmy, let's go to the outfield.
1007
01:00:07.619 --> 01:00:09.380
I've got three. How many do you have?
1008
01:00:11.929 --> 01:00:13.800
I got four. Okay.
1009
01:00:13.820 --> 01:00:15.769
You go first then. You give me one.
1010
01:00:15.829 --> 01:00:18.869
I'll do one. Here's a guy we didn't talk about
1011
01:00:19.230 --> 01:00:22.510
much this year at all. Okay. And I realized he
1012
01:00:23.110 --> 01:00:26.110
didn't play. I don't think he played a game in
1013
01:00:26.130 --> 01:00:29.349
the outfield this year. But he's worthy of a mention
1014
01:00:29.550 --> 01:00:32.900
because he went off the board, 43rd off the board,
1015
01:00:33.360 --> 01:00:37.739
with an ADP of 170. He's only first base eligible
1016
01:00:37.780 --> 01:00:39.980
heading into next year. But I think it's worthy of
1017
01:00:40.059 --> 01:00:43.969
mentioning that Alex Burleson is leading all of baseball with
1018
01:00:43.969 --> 01:00:47.309
116 RBIs. We didn't talk much about him at all
1019
01:00:47.369 --> 01:00:48.070
this year, did we?
1020
01:00:49.090 --> 01:00:58.730
No. 116 RBIs, wow. 116 RBIs and 20-some-odd home runs.
1021
01:01:01.289 --> 01:01:04.570
Just typing it in, Tim's picks. I think that's great.
1022
01:01:04.610 --> 01:01:06.170
That's a great call. I think I got him in
1023
01:01:06.250 --> 01:01:07.409
one league, so I'm happy with that.
1024
01:01:08.329 --> 01:01:11.170
Yeah, it was somebody that I just sort of looked
1025
01:01:11.289 --> 01:01:14.800
at and said, meh, meh, meh. You know, I was
1026
01:01:14.840 --> 01:01:19.119
going a little bit later, and it just didn't appeal
1027
01:01:19.159 --> 01:01:20.039
to me, and it should have.
1028
01:01:20.760 --> 01:01:23.429
Yep. I'm going to take the chip shot here.
1029
01:01:24.329 --> 01:01:24.750
Okay.
1030
01:01:25.309 --> 01:01:30.170
I mean, PCA, look, ninth outfielder off the board, 45
1031
01:01:30.170 --> 01:01:33.150
home runs, 41 solo. I don't know what he's done today.
1032
01:01:33.170 --> 01:01:36.179
It could be five more home runs. Who knows? 119
1033
01:01:36.179 --> 01:01:39.780
runs scored, 107 RBIs. He's the best player in fantasy baseball,
1034
01:01:39.800 --> 01:01:43.739
and I'm not even close. If you have him on
1035
01:01:43.760 --> 01:01:46.440
your team and didn't get in the money, you did
1036
01:01:46.480 --> 01:01:50.389
something really wrong somewhere else because he was three players
1037
01:01:50.449 --> 01:01:50.730
for you.
1038
01:01:51.769 --> 01:01:56.739
Yeah, I actually had him in a short lineup, heavy
1039
01:01:56.820 --> 01:02:03.059
pitching type league. And I finished 11th. I was rebuilding.
1040
01:02:03.739 --> 01:02:05.420
So I just didn't have the pitch. I didn't have
1041
01:02:05.460 --> 01:02:09.340
the pitching. And it didn't make a difference with PCA.
1042
01:02:09.360 --> 01:02:12.349
But I can remember talking about him in April. And
1043
01:02:12.389 --> 01:02:15.570
I'm positive. I said, what we're seeing now is what
1044
01:02:15.590 --> 01:02:18.969
we saw in the second half. He got off to
1045
01:02:19.010 --> 01:02:22.409
a horrible start in April. And it looked like the
1046
01:02:22.510 --> 01:02:27.329
second half of last year was going to be what
1047
01:02:27.389 --> 01:02:31.480
we were getting. And before... Towards the end of April,
1048
01:02:31.519 --> 01:02:33.659
he just turned it on and never turned it off.
1049
01:02:34.639 --> 01:02:37.840
Just an amazing season. I was wrong. I was wrong
1050
01:02:37.920 --> 01:02:41.960
on DCA. I thought the second half, especially once we
1051
01:02:41.980 --> 01:02:44.860
got into the first two, three weeks of the season
1052
01:02:44.909 --> 01:02:47.550
and he was still struggling, I thought the second half
1053
01:02:47.610 --> 01:02:51.860
was going to be it. 30 stolen bases, low batting average, 10,
1054
01:02:51.860 --> 01:02:57.550
15 home runs maybe. Yeah, okay player, but yeah, he's
1055
01:02:57.869 --> 01:02:58.650
far from okay.
1056
01:02:59.630 --> 01:03:02.610
Tim, I'm sorry. I gave you the 0.0 for having
1057
01:03:02.650 --> 01:03:04.929
PCA on your team and finishing 11th. I think that
1058
01:03:04.969 --> 01:03:07.699
was unacceptable. So I hope you don't mind.
1059
01:03:08.460 --> 01:03:11.480
No, I'll get it over, especially considering how I didn't
1060
01:03:11.500 --> 01:03:18.670
hear it. I did it about.
1061
01:03:18.449 --> 01:03:24.019
15 seconds late because I'm going, that's reserved for Asian players.
1062
01:03:24.079 --> 01:03:26.260
I'm going, no, that deserves a 0.0.
1063
01:03:26.260 --> 01:03:31.280
I was an underachiever, yes, definitely.
1064
01:03:31.599 --> 01:03:34.820
What did you mean by a short lineup and a
1065
01:03:34.909 --> 01:03:37.750
long pitching staff? What did you mean by that?
1066
01:03:38.710 --> 01:03:43.309
Only used three outfielders. No middle infielder, no corner infielder,
1067
01:03:43.429 --> 01:03:49.449
one catcher. And eight pitching slots, four starting pitchers, four
1068
01:03:49.510 --> 01:03:55.030
relief pitchers, and a 12-man bench. Daily pickups whenever you want,
1069
01:03:55.170 --> 01:03:55.670
no fab.
1070
01:03:56.349 --> 01:03:58.130
So you must have done quite well. You had to
1071
01:03:58.170 --> 01:04:02.289
do quite well in offense because with a short lineup
1072
01:04:02.369 --> 01:04:05.429
like that, if I'm using the words correctly, the PCA
1073
01:04:05.469 --> 01:04:07.880
is a huge benefit in that format.
1074
01:04:07.889 --> 01:04:11.559
Yeah. Yeah, the offense wasn't a problem. The problem was
1075
01:04:12.039 --> 01:04:16.440
I've got Seth Hernandez. I've got a Japanese kid coming.
1076
01:04:16.460 --> 01:04:17.559
I just don't have the pitching.
1077
01:04:18.300 --> 01:04:21.409
It's just so everybody knows he's in high eight. That's
1078
01:04:21.750 --> 01:04:23.110
not going to help you.
1079
01:04:23.130 --> 01:04:27.949
Yeah, no, exactly. My pitching was such that I knew
1080
01:04:28.030 --> 01:04:30.650
I couldn't compete. It didn't matter what I did. I
1081
01:04:30.940 --> 01:04:33.639
could have won all of the offensive categories. I still
1082
01:04:33.679 --> 01:04:36.159
wouldn't have been able to compete until you get the
1083
01:04:36.199 --> 01:04:37.139
pitching in this league.
1084
01:04:37.739 --> 01:04:39.360
You got PCA next year, though. It must be a
1085
01:04:39.380 --> 01:04:40.739
keeper league or a dynasty league.
1086
01:04:41.139 --> 01:04:42.719
Yeah. I got Jordan Walker, too.
1087
01:04:43.480 --> 01:04:44.440
Oh, good for you. Wow.
1088
01:04:45.699 --> 01:04:48.920
Oh, yeah. My team's good to go for next year.
1089
01:04:49.340 --> 01:04:52.360
My pitching, I've straightened a good chunk of it around,
1090
01:04:52.460 --> 01:04:53.039
I believe.
1091
01:04:53.619 --> 01:04:56.500
Who do you got going to Warwick next season?
1092
01:04:57.579 --> 01:05:01.860
Well, if you just give me two seconds here, I'll
1093
01:05:01.920 --> 01:05:02.550
call it up.
1094
01:05:03.849 --> 01:05:08.389
You almost deserve a double zero zero, having both Jordan
1095
01:05:08.849 --> 01:05:12.050
and PCA and finishing 11th place. That's hard to do,
1096
01:05:12.090 --> 01:05:12.650
my friend.
1097
01:05:13.389 --> 01:05:17.030
Yeah. Well, you wait, wait, wait till you hear the
1098
01:05:17.070 --> 01:05:19.949
rest of this team. Okay. I'm going to be, I'm
1099
01:05:19.969 --> 01:05:22.469
going to be condemned to a place worse, worse than
1100
01:05:23.170 --> 01:05:30.030
worse than purgatory. My offense. I got Basalo a catcher. Okay. Okay.
1101
01:05:32.440 --> 01:05:34.019
Miguel Vargas.
1102
01:05:34.639 --> 01:05:35.360
Oh, my gosh.
1103
01:05:36.460 --> 01:05:37.179
Cooper Pratt.
1104
01:05:37.920 --> 01:05:38.260
Okay.
1105
01:05:39.280 --> 01:05:44.860
Henry Bolte. Jordan Walker. Max Clark. Basello. I think I
1106
01:05:44.900 --> 01:05:47.449
mentioned him. Yeah, my offense is fine.
1107
01:05:47.550 --> 01:05:51.690
That office is fine and young. That's really good.
1108
01:05:52.389 --> 01:05:54.809
Yeah, no, the offense is loaded.
1109
01:05:54.849 --> 01:05:56.750
Who did you roll out from your pitching staff?
1110
01:05:57.949 --> 01:06:00.969
Okay, pitching staff. Uh.
1111
01:06:04.320 --> 01:06:04.929
Peyton Tolley.
1112
01:06:05.670 --> 01:06:06.010
Okay.
1113
01:06:07.389 --> 01:06:07.989
Michael King.
1114
01:06:09.429 --> 01:06:09.909
Okay.
1115
01:06:13.670 --> 01:06:14.289
Chase Burns.
1116
01:06:16.130 --> 01:06:18.590
I'm not understanding. Those are three pretty good pitchers.
1117
01:06:19.829 --> 01:06:22.929
Yes, they are. Next year, I'll have Jake Bennett in
1118
01:06:22.969 --> 01:06:24.219
there with Corbin Burns.
1119
01:06:24.960 --> 01:06:25.260
Okay.
1120
01:06:26.440 --> 01:06:27.880
Anthony Iason.
1121
01:06:29.300 --> 01:06:29.840
Wow.
1122
01:06:29.940 --> 01:06:37.170
Okay. Rocky Seiki, Thomas White, and Cody Ponce. But I
1123
01:06:37.210 --> 01:06:39.969
didn't have all of these guys for all of this year.
1124
01:06:40.010 --> 01:06:41.409
So who were you throwing out there?
1125
01:06:42.489 --> 01:06:44.949
All those guys on a regular basis. And it was
1126
01:06:45.030 --> 01:06:53.320
enough for me to garner in pitching a grand total of... No...
1127
01:06:58.559 --> 01:07:01.880
Where am I here in pitching? It got me a
1128
01:07:01.980 --> 01:07:04.980
grand total of 15 points. Wow.
1129
01:07:06.139 --> 01:07:06.820
Five by five.
1130
01:07:08.340 --> 01:07:12.489
Yeah. First, you need to have, you need to have
1131
01:07:12.929 --> 01:07:17.949
six to eight good starting pitchers and three solid closers.
1132
01:07:18.090 --> 01:07:22.610
And I didn't have them. So they're just simply. Yeah. Yeah.
1133
01:07:22.650 --> 01:07:22.889
Yeah.
1134
01:07:22.969 --> 01:07:29.329
Until you get the pitching. Yeah. It's. But I've got
1135
01:07:29.369 --> 01:07:32.130
the players in place going into next year. So, you know,
1136
01:07:32.150 --> 01:07:34.969
it was a rebuilding year. And I wish I could
1137
01:07:34.989 --> 01:07:39.730
have had the year from Walker and PCA and the
1138
01:07:39.789 --> 01:07:42.570
rest of my off. Next year. Next year was the year.
1139
01:07:42.690 --> 01:07:44.590
Not this year, Rich.
1140
01:07:44.639 --> 01:07:47.340
You're picking 1-1 next season. You going with PCA?
1141
01:07:47.360 --> 01:08:01.570
No. Really? I got him in the two leagues I
1142
01:08:01.610 --> 01:08:02.150
want him in.
1143
01:08:03.210 --> 01:08:05.530
No, I mean, seriously. I mean, why not?
1144
01:08:08.989 --> 01:08:14.610
I haven't ruled it out. But is Bobby Witt a
1145
01:08:14.650 --> 01:08:15.269
safer pick?
1146
01:08:15.289 --> 01:08:22.140
I mean, maybe. Maybe, but I mean.
1147
01:08:22.159 --> 01:08:30.739
Yeah, I'm just not... I'm not locking myself. I want
1148
01:08:30.770 --> 01:08:33.010
to take a good look and see what the options are.
1149
01:08:33.029 --> 01:08:38.729
Yeah. I mean, imagine David Boyd in our team. He
1150
01:08:38.770 --> 01:08:39.470
got both of them.
1151
01:08:39.850 --> 01:08:40.109
Wow.
1152
01:08:42.029 --> 01:08:43.729
That guy might have had the number one and number
1153
01:08:43.789 --> 01:08:46.789
two fantasy player on his team. That's crazy.
1154
01:08:47.470 --> 01:08:48.810
Insane.
1155
01:08:49.829 --> 01:08:53.369
I mean, Bobby Witt's power was down this season. The
1156
01:08:53.590 --> 01:08:58.300
stolen bases were there. PCA plays on a better team.
1157
01:09:01.020 --> 01:09:04.859
I think Bobby Witt's the better hitter. For sure.
1158
01:09:07.859 --> 01:09:12.350
For me right now, it's one of those two. I
1159
01:09:12.369 --> 01:09:13.770
just haven't made a decision yet.
1160
01:09:16.359 --> 01:09:19.020
All right, so PCA and Alec Burleson, I think you're up, Timmy.
1161
01:09:19.039 --> 01:09:20.720
Who's your second outfielder?
1162
01:09:21.699 --> 01:09:23.960
Well, how about Jordan Walker?
1163
01:09:23.979 --> 01:09:27.050
Okay. Yeah, I mean, look.
1164
01:09:27.439 --> 01:09:30.039
Yeah, 90th outfielder off the board with an ADP of. 359.
1165
01:09:30.029 --> 01:09:34.609
He's got 29 homers, 101 RBIs, 96 runs scored, and
1166
01:09:34.609 --> 01:09:38.409
22 stolen bases. Other than PCA, were there any bigger
1167
01:09:38.449 --> 01:09:40.409
surprises than Jordan Walker this year?
1168
01:09:41.930 --> 01:09:45.010
Oh, I think Jordan Walker was a much bigger surprise
1169
01:09:45.069 --> 01:09:49.579
than PCA. I didn't think PCA would do 40-40. I
1170
01:09:49.619 --> 01:09:53.060
thought he'd be a pretty good baseball player. But Jordan Walker,
1171
01:09:53.420 --> 01:09:57.979
he looked like he was in the camp of Nolan Arenado.
1172
01:09:58.039 --> 01:10:01.010
I mean, it was done. And that guy was great.
1173
01:10:02.050 --> 01:10:05.590
Yeah. No, he's got to be a top five outfielder
1174
01:10:05.630 --> 01:10:07.810
heading into next year, I would think. Yeah.
1175
01:10:08.630 --> 01:10:11.409
My guy, my second guy, who is also my personal MVP,
1176
01:10:11.710 --> 01:10:12.210
is A.J.
1177
01:10:12.329 --> 01:10:12.569
Ewing.
1178
01:10:12.590 --> 01:10:17.079
He went on Draft It. 11 home runs, 25 stolen bases,
1179
01:10:17.079 --> 01:10:20.470
55 runs scored in 119 games. You project that out
1180
01:10:20.479 --> 01:10:24.930
for a full season. I thought, as I've been writing
1181
01:10:24.949 --> 01:10:27.529
about it, I thought it was Jaron Duran. And that's
1182
01:10:27.550 --> 01:10:30.569
who we're looking at, a guy that's 15 home runs,
1183
01:10:30.569 --> 01:10:34.890
30 to 40 stolen bases. And I think eventually he's
1184
01:10:34.930 --> 01:10:37.140
going to hit towards the top of the lineup as
1185
01:10:37.220 --> 01:10:40.039
opposed to the bottom of the lineup. Might be tough
1186
01:10:40.359 --> 01:10:43.359
and a in a stack Mets lineup, but I think
1187
01:10:43.399 --> 01:10:45.600
he's got the speed and the on base skills to
1188
01:10:45.619 --> 01:10:48.039
be able to do that. I guess it's a very,
1189
01:10:48.100 --> 01:10:51.840
very good player. And, uh, look, you got him for free.
1190
01:10:51.920 --> 01:10:54.619
It was a waiver wire pickup. And hopefully you listened
1191
01:10:54.649 --> 01:10:56.550
to us, everyone. And you were able to get AJ
1192
01:10:56.710 --> 01:10:58.170
Ewing because he helped him.
1193
01:10:59.329 --> 01:11:02.210
Oh, he, he most certainly did. He was, he was
1194
01:11:02.270 --> 01:11:06.029
a key factor in me training Paul schemes this season
1195
01:11:06.529 --> 01:11:11.850
in season. Yeah, I got Ewing back, and he's used
1196
01:11:11.890 --> 01:11:16.289
me a day. So you know where I stand on Ewing.
1197
01:11:16.369 --> 01:11:18.250
I think he's going to be a great player moving forward.
1198
01:11:19.340 --> 01:11:20.850
Yep. All right, who's your third guy?
1199
01:11:21.760 --> 01:11:23.520
Well, you're going to like this one because we're going
1200
01:11:23.560 --> 01:11:29.159
back-to-back Mets. Carson Benji, 86 outfielder off the board, ADP
1201
01:11:29.180 --> 01:11:35.369
of 339. Heading into today, 20 homers, 22 RBIs. as
1202
01:11:35.430 --> 01:11:38.729
a rookie with a two 80 batting average, three 44 OVP,
1203
01:11:39.750 --> 01:11:46.989
those two players viewing and measure are, I think I binge. Okay.
1204
01:11:48.649 --> 01:11:52.170
They're going to be great players moving forward. And I,
1205
01:11:53.609 --> 01:11:59.470
I know Lindor and Soto. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But I
1206
01:11:59.529 --> 01:12:03.750
think those two will make, a huge difference filling out
1207
01:12:03.770 --> 01:12:05.569
that lineup card every day for the Mets.
1208
01:12:07.689 --> 01:12:11.840
I like Benj much better than A.J. Ewing going forward.
1209
01:12:11.920 --> 01:12:16.420
I mean, I think Benj is... I think A.J. Ewing
1210
01:12:16.439 --> 01:12:17.920
is going to be an impact player. I think Benj
1211
01:12:17.939 --> 01:12:19.000
has a chance to be a star.
1212
01:12:20.100 --> 01:12:21.239
Yeah, I agree.
1213
01:12:22.590 --> 01:12:28.380
By the way, I got... My young, I'm looking at
1214
01:12:28.439 --> 01:12:32.899
my outfield sleepers and that, excuse me, uh, targets PCA
1215
01:12:33.270 --> 01:12:34.109
was one of my targets.
1216
01:12:35.149 --> 01:12:36.909
Ah, well done.
1217
01:12:37.210 --> 01:12:40.590
Yeah. Like a Jackson cheerio, James would PCA. They were
1218
01:12:40.609 --> 01:12:43.779
the young and right. Risky tier. That's I saw all
1219
01:12:43.800 --> 01:12:46.739
three of those guys had a, um, the guys that
1220
01:12:46.760 --> 01:12:50.220
was worried about Kyle Tucker. which I got right. So
1221
01:12:50.279 --> 01:12:51.760
I was telling people to avoid, but I also told
1222
01:12:51.779 --> 01:12:55.430
people to avoid your Dan Alvarez. So that was not good.
1223
01:12:56.989 --> 01:13:02.689
Well, yeah, we got, we got 30 teams with, I
1224
01:13:02.710 --> 01:13:05.930
don't know how many total players. Yeah. You're not going
1225
01:13:05.949 --> 01:13:07.710
to win them all. You win them all. I'll call
1226
01:13:07.729 --> 01:13:09.939
you a liar. It just doesn't work that way.
1227
01:13:10.479 --> 01:13:12.819
Prospects to consider at the top of the list was
1228
01:13:12.859 --> 01:13:18.399
Carson binge. And I had Ryan Schmidt, Justin Crawford, Walker Jenkins,
1229
01:13:18.460 --> 01:13:22.319
Max Clark, Blaze Jordan and Spencer Jones. Believe it or not,
1230
01:13:22.319 --> 01:13:25.210
I had a Spencer Jones on my list, even though
1231
01:13:25.829 --> 01:13:27.489
I held my nose and did it, but I still
1232
01:13:27.529 --> 01:13:27.819
did it.
1233
01:13:28.510 --> 01:13:29.569
He still did.
1234
01:13:29.609 --> 01:13:31.449
My third guy is I didn't have on any list,
1235
01:13:32.369 --> 01:13:37.569
and I'm actually really happy because he produced kind of
1236
01:13:37.600 --> 01:13:40.079
the same level as A.J. Ewing. He doesn't get the
1237
01:13:40.119 --> 01:13:43.000
kind of love that A.J. Ewing gets. That's Henry Bolt.
1238
01:13:43.420 --> 01:13:47.619
Levinholm runs 21 stolen bases in 117 games. If you
1239
01:13:47.640 --> 01:13:49.760
remember what I just said about A.J. Ewing, he pretty
1240
01:13:49.779 --> 01:13:51.260
much the same production.
1241
01:13:52.779 --> 01:13:55.340
Yeah, no, he had a really, really good second half.
1242
01:13:55.859 --> 01:14:02.760
And I like this kid a lot. Hey, I don't
1243
01:14:02.800 --> 01:14:06.460
see big home run potential, but there's nothing wrong with
1244
01:14:06.460 --> 01:14:11.520
15 home runs and 35 stolen bases supported by a
1245
01:14:11.539 --> 01:14:13.640
decent batting average. And I think he can bring that
1246
01:14:14.039 --> 01:14:17.359
potential into 2027.
1247
01:14:17.359 --> 01:14:19.939
Jaron Duran, for the last two years, going into the season,
1248
01:14:19.960 --> 01:14:21.159
it's not going to happen this year, was a second
1249
01:14:21.189 --> 01:14:23.689
or third round pick with 15 home runs and 30
1250
01:14:23.689 --> 01:14:26.149
stolen bases. That's what you get. Yeah.
1251
01:14:26.770 --> 01:14:28.069
Nothing wrong with that. No?
1252
01:14:28.770 --> 01:14:31.430
That gets you a second or third round pick. Totally agree.
1253
01:14:31.470 --> 01:14:36.699
My last guy... Wait a minute. I'm confused. No, I
1254
01:14:36.739 --> 01:14:38.220
just said Henry Bolt. Who's your last guy?
1255
01:14:38.979 --> 01:14:41.340
Yeah, I got the extra guy here. And I wanted
1256
01:14:41.520 --> 01:14:47.039
to mention this player because I... I don't think anybody
1257
01:14:47.079 --> 01:14:49.909
drafted him. He was 109th off the board last spring,
1258
01:14:49.930 --> 01:14:54.270
an ADP of 416.23. In NL only, he was probably
1259
01:14:54.350 --> 01:14:58.869
picked up. But heading into today, Jake McCarthy has 15
1260
01:14:58.869 --> 01:15:04.510
home runs, 83 RBIs, 32 stolen bases, and 80 runs scored.
1261
01:15:04.810 --> 01:15:08.649
A 292 batting average, 336 OVP. One of the few
1262
01:15:08.689 --> 01:15:12.859
bright spots in that Rockies is him and Goodman this year.
1263
01:15:13.279 --> 01:15:16.979
And We haven't given Jake McCarthy a whole lot of love,
1264
01:15:17.100 --> 01:15:19.819
but if you happen to pick him up early in
1265
01:15:19.859 --> 01:15:23.680
the season or drafted him as a reserve pick, hey,
1266
01:15:23.819 --> 01:15:26.250
kudos to you. You've done incredibly well.
1267
01:15:26.850 --> 01:15:31.850
Yeah, he has been sneaky good. I saw, I was
1268
01:15:32.310 --> 01:15:37.680
watching the, no, no, it was McKinstry. I was watching the,
1269
01:15:38.819 --> 01:15:41.319
Justin Verlander's last start was very good, by the way.
1270
01:15:41.979 --> 01:15:45.720
McKinstry just, a rocket from right field throw out a
1271
01:15:45.739 --> 01:15:49.159
guy going to third base. It was unbelievable throw. So
1272
01:15:49.199 --> 01:15:52.060
that I got the, not McCarthy, but McKinstry was on that.
1273
01:15:52.119 --> 01:15:54.500
So anyway, I do have McCarthy and a couple teams.
1274
01:15:54.579 --> 01:15:56.880
I picked them up on the waiver wire, listened to
1275
01:15:56.920 --> 01:16:00.760
great Tim McLeod and yeah, you're right. More power than
1276
01:16:00.779 --> 01:16:03.699
he typically had in Arizona, but that's what you get
1277
01:16:03.739 --> 01:16:04.420
with Colorado.
1278
01:16:05.479 --> 01:16:08.260
Yeah, no. So I just wanted to give Jake McCarthy
1279
01:16:08.319 --> 01:16:09.460
a shout out. Great year.
1280
01:16:10.600 --> 01:16:14.180
Who's the only team that, To finish with 100 losses.
1281
01:16:16.460 --> 01:16:17.420
The only team.
1282
01:16:17.439 --> 01:16:23.029
That will finish with, yes. They will finish with 102
1283
01:16:23.029 --> 01:16:23.390
or 103 losses.
1284
01:16:23.409 --> 01:16:23.489
Okay.
1285
01:16:23.510 --> 01:16:31.109
It's unacceptable, Timmy. It's been year after year after year.
1286
01:16:32.390 --> 01:16:36.380
And if I had to predict next year, today, I
1287
01:16:36.420 --> 01:16:39.020
would say they'll keep their string intact. How's that?
1288
01:16:39.420 --> 01:16:43.100
No, I don't. I see nothing different.
1289
01:16:43.159 --> 01:16:44.939
Is there any reason for optimism, Rich?
1290
01:16:46.380 --> 01:16:48.680
I mean, they do have some new front office personnel.
1291
01:16:48.699 --> 01:16:50.460
They're going to get a new guy who's in charge
1292
01:16:50.560 --> 01:16:56.859
of analytics, which will not be me. So they've got
1293
01:16:57.739 --> 01:17:01.619
to change over. The ownership doesn't want to see 100
1294
01:17:01.619 --> 01:17:04.380
loss after 100 loss. He's got to make some decisions
1295
01:17:05.039 --> 01:17:07.199
and start to bring in better people or at least
1296
01:17:07.279 --> 01:17:10.600
different people. to run that place. So that gives me
1297
01:17:10.619 --> 01:17:13.979
a little optimism because I mean, look, I have contacts
1298
01:17:14.039 --> 01:17:16.960
in a lot of organizations and I know some people
1299
01:17:16.979 --> 01:17:20.539
in the Rockies organization and they don't talk very highly
1300
01:17:20.579 --> 01:17:24.319
of what's going on internally there. And they understand the
1301
01:17:24.359 --> 01:17:28.090
chaotic nature of what they're doing. At least the people
1302
01:17:28.130 --> 01:17:31.289
in the trenches do. So yeah, you just, you can't
1303
01:17:31.329 --> 01:17:32.130
survive that way.
1304
01:17:33.250 --> 01:17:36.460
No, it's gone on and on and on. Like, You
1305
01:17:36.479 --> 01:17:42.239
remember the days with Larry Walker and Dante Bichette? They
1306
01:17:42.300 --> 01:17:46.810
had some really, really good baseball teams. Pitching was always
1307
01:17:46.869 --> 01:17:50.909
a problem, but they could develop offense. And they had
1308
01:17:51.029 --> 01:17:55.979
some teams that could score at will. And it's such
1309
01:17:56.020 --> 01:18:01.659
a far cry today as compared to those great years. And...
1310
01:18:02.279 --> 01:18:04.359
you know, Hey, somehow they got to get that fixed.
1311
01:18:04.399 --> 01:18:06.640
They really do. It can't go on forever and ever
1312
01:18:06.680 --> 01:18:06.979
and ever.
1313
01:18:07.520 --> 01:18:09.920
At least the Rockies used to be fun to watch.
1314
01:18:11.159 --> 01:18:14.409
It's just bad. It's just, it's, you know, the offense
1315
01:18:14.470 --> 01:18:17.909
is terrible. The pitching is awful, but even if you're right,
1316
01:18:18.090 --> 01:18:21.470
even if the pitching just gets to be mediocre and
1317
01:18:21.489 --> 01:18:23.569
they have a great offense, at least they're going to
1318
01:18:23.609 --> 01:18:26.109
be entertaining to watch. You're going to want to roster
1319
01:18:26.130 --> 01:18:28.430
some of their guys on their, on your fantasy team.
1320
01:18:28.449 --> 01:18:32.170
But now, I mean, Cole Carrick's interesting. You might get
1321
01:18:32.229 --> 01:18:35.289
drafted last season. I mean, Jake McCarthy's the guy that'll
1322
01:18:35.310 --> 01:18:40.380
probably get drafted. Maybe Charlie Condon comes up, but it's
1323
01:18:40.819 --> 01:18:42.779
when these guys come up to me, it's that's when
1324
01:18:42.800 --> 01:18:45.949
you realize they're not that good. Hunter Goodman will be up.
1325
01:18:46.319 --> 01:18:49.569
It is 41st time run. So he'll be a guy that, goes.
1326
01:18:50.800 --> 01:18:54.880
Yeah, I know. Somehow, they've got to find a way
1327
01:18:54.920 --> 01:18:59.399
to be better than what they are. Maintaining the status
1328
01:18:59.479 --> 01:19:01.960
quo in Colorado is nothing you want to be bragging about.
1329
01:19:02.880 --> 01:19:04.399
For sure. Timmy, let's take a break and come back
1330
01:19:04.439 --> 01:19:07.380
and take a look at some more games. Then we'll
1331
01:19:07.420 --> 01:19:20.229
finish this exercise up. Nick Martinez pitched two and two-thirds.
1332
01:19:20.550 --> 01:19:23.569
Ian Seymour pitched a third of an inning. So now
1333
01:19:23.609 --> 01:19:26.710
they're in the Phillies. So they didn't try all that hard.
1334
01:19:27.210 --> 01:19:31.489
So the Phillies are up 7-2 in the seventh inning.
1335
01:19:31.510 --> 01:19:35.399
So that looks like if they win, they're in. And
1336
01:19:35.560 --> 01:19:39.159
Arizona is down 3-1 in the sixth inning. So that's
1337
01:19:39.199 --> 01:19:41.779
looking more and more like the Phillies are in. And
1338
01:19:41.819 --> 01:19:45.180
let's check the Astros. The Astros.
1339
01:19:46.720 --> 01:19:47.550
I saw they were up 4-0.
1340
01:19:49.069 --> 01:19:55.470
Yeah, they're up 4-0, and Minnesota's up 5-1. And they
1341
01:19:55.550 --> 01:19:59.199
have bases loaded, one out in the bottom of the fifth.
1342
01:19:59.960 --> 01:20:02.539
So it is not looking good if you're a Texas
1343
01:20:02.600 --> 01:20:03.340
Rangers fan.
1344
01:20:04.560 --> 01:20:07.979
No, and Max Scherzer just got through five innings with
1345
01:20:08.000 --> 01:20:09.380
the Jays up 4-1.
1346
01:20:10.510 --> 01:20:11.470
Good for him.
1347
01:20:11.890 --> 01:20:19.439
And he got his final strikeout on an appeal. That
1348
01:20:19.539 --> 01:20:21.779
he won. Is he going.
1349
01:20:21.699 --> 01:20:22.520
To pitch next year?
1350
01:20:25.680 --> 01:20:26.560
Yeah, I think he will.
1351
01:20:26.579 --> 01:20:31.119
Because Verlander's done. Verlander says he's done.
1352
01:20:31.939 --> 01:20:36.630
Yeah, that's what we're done with. I think Scherzer's got
1353
01:20:36.689 --> 01:20:42.640
another year of careful pitching ahead. I don't think he's
1354
01:20:42.699 --> 01:20:46.899
in every fifth day. I think maybe 15, 15, 18 starts.
1355
01:20:46.939 --> 01:20:51.659
I think there's still enough there that somebody, somebody will
1356
01:20:51.699 --> 01:20:56.760
offer him a contract. Maybe even the Jays. And then
1357
01:20:56.779 --> 01:20:58.979
he should get into, then he should get into coaching
1358
01:21:00.239 --> 01:21:01.310
in some capacity.
1359
01:21:02.520 --> 01:21:05.770
Mizorowski's pitch five and a third innings, two hits, five
1360
01:21:05.789 --> 01:21:10.189
strikeouts and two walks. He is your, he's your Cy Young.
1361
01:21:10.409 --> 01:21:16.470
It's not even close. And he is my first on
1362
01:21:16.670 --> 01:21:22.039
my fantasy MVPs. Jacob Mizorowski was the 43rd pitcher off
1363
01:21:22.079 --> 01:21:24.840
the board. Imagine that to me. Now, granted, there were
1364
01:21:24.859 --> 01:21:29.180
some closers ahead of him, and this is just NFBC stuff.
1365
01:21:29.279 --> 01:21:31.189
But 15 wins. Looks like it's going to be 16
1366
01:21:31.189 --> 01:21:32.729
with 252 strikeouts with.
1367
01:21:32.630 --> 01:21:32.810
A 1.8 ERA.
1368
01:21:32.829 --> 01:21:42.520
That's Jacob Mizorowski. He's the PCA of pitching.
1369
01:21:43.539 --> 01:21:48.119
Yeah, and my guy is the number two guy. He
1370
01:21:48.140 --> 01:21:56.029
went two picks after Mizorowski, and that's Cam Schindler. Totally remarkable. 132,
1371
01:21:56.029 --> 01:21:59.189
tied for third in Ks with 239, second to Mizorowski
1372
01:21:59.210 --> 01:22:01.430
with a 195 here. Yeah, whip 0.92. Yeah, if you
1373
01:22:01.449 --> 01:22:10.029
manage to... say when you went Yamamoto or Sanchez with
1374
01:22:10.069 --> 01:22:13.010
your first pitching pick and then came back with Mizorowski
1375
01:22:13.050 --> 01:22:17.449
or Schlittler, you should win some leagues like all of them.
1376
01:22:17.670 --> 01:22:18.590
Oh yeah.
1377
01:22:19.170 --> 01:22:19.569
Yeah.
1378
01:22:19.670 --> 01:22:22.979
It was pretty remarkable there. So Mizorowski is going to
1379
01:22:23.020 --> 01:22:23.899
go one, one, right?
1380
01:22:25.319 --> 01:22:27.300
I would think he's the first pitcher off the board
1381
01:22:27.340 --> 01:22:29.479
and Schlittler is probably the second.
1382
01:22:29.880 --> 01:22:31.939
So that was my question for you. So you think
1383
01:22:32.000 --> 01:22:34.090
Schlittler will truly go number, number two?
1384
01:22:35.189 --> 01:22:40.470
Yeah, I, I think he's proven, as has Mizorowski, that
1385
01:22:41.050 --> 01:22:43.930
they have the skills to be the two best pitchers
1386
01:22:43.970 --> 01:22:47.220
in the game. They are this year, right? I can't
1387
01:22:47.640 --> 01:22:51.279
argue with that. Who are you going to take before them? Scouble, maybe?
1388
01:22:53.439 --> 01:23:00.920
I'll go with the youth, I think. I think.
1389
01:23:02.979 --> 01:23:06.000
It's so hard because Mizorowski is, you just worry every
1390
01:23:06.020 --> 01:23:08.119
time he goes out that, that the arm's not going
1391
01:23:08.140 --> 01:23:08.720
to recover.
1392
01:23:09.939 --> 01:23:10.119
Yep.
1393
01:23:11.020 --> 01:23:13.399
And I mean, Schlattler has been really good. It's just
1394
01:23:13.520 --> 01:23:16.939
hard to believe everything he's done so quickly. I mean,
1395
01:23:17.060 --> 01:23:20.439
I had never seen him pitch before until 2024 and
1396
01:23:22.270 --> 01:23:24.329
a double A post season. I go to a lot
1397
01:23:24.369 --> 01:23:28.170
of Yankees games and I didn't know who this guy was.
1398
01:23:28.449 --> 01:23:30.909
And I'm seeing him pumping 99 miles an hour. I'm
1399
01:23:31.010 --> 01:23:33.970
literally going, I, I love it when you look at
1400
01:23:34.010 --> 01:23:35.770
your gun. It's like you.
1401
01:23:35.689 --> 01:23:36.090
Point it up.
1402
01:23:36.250 --> 01:23:37.810
It's like, is this thing real?
1403
01:23:37.829 --> 01:23:40.859
You start tapping it on the side.
1404
01:23:40.880 --> 01:23:43.899
It's like, is there something wrong? It's not something that's
1405
01:23:43.920 --> 01:23:47.680
not right. I'm like, what is this? And then I'd
1406
01:23:47.800 --> 01:23:50.560
never heard of them. I'd never written about them. And
1407
01:23:50.600 --> 01:23:53.590
I remember going back. I'd already done the Yankees system
1408
01:23:53.619 --> 01:23:55.550
at that point because it was probably about this time
1409
01:23:55.609 --> 01:23:57.689
last year. And I put them in there. I forgot
1410
01:23:57.729 --> 01:24:01.989
where I ranked them going into the 2025 season. And
1411
01:24:02.010 --> 01:24:04.710
then he just, it's just the rest, as they say,
1412
01:24:04.789 --> 01:24:07.630
is history. I mean, he just almost came out of
1413
01:24:07.689 --> 01:24:11.069
nowhere and has just been that dominant. It's hard to
1414
01:24:11.199 --> 01:24:12.699
believe it to a certain extent.
1415
01:24:14.199 --> 01:24:19.399
Yeah, I agree, but proof's in the pudding, right? Yep.
1416
01:24:21.460 --> 01:24:24.670
My second guy is, I took him, Timmy, because I
1417
01:24:24.689 --> 01:24:26.050
do have him on a couple of leagues because I
1418
01:24:26.109 --> 01:24:29.189
do listen, and that is Foster Griffin. Yeah, he's not
1419
01:24:29.210 --> 01:24:34.489
been as sharp with the Guardians. But 15 wins, 158 strikeouts,
1420
01:24:34.689 --> 01:24:38.189
a 360 ERA for a guy that was the 563rd
1421
01:24:38.750 --> 01:24:41.180
pitcher off the board. Let's just call it nobody drafted
1422
01:24:41.220 --> 01:24:42.500
him except for Tim McCloud.
1423
01:24:43.199 --> 01:24:44.279
That would be correct, yes.
1424
01:24:44.680 --> 01:24:49.199
That is just remarkable. Another guy was first-round draft pick
1425
01:24:49.220 --> 01:24:52.649
by the Royals back 10 years ago. We know the story.
1426
01:24:52.689 --> 01:24:55.880
He goes to Asia. They figure something out with him,
1427
01:24:55.979 --> 01:24:59.800
comes back, and is a different guy. And kudos to him.
1428
01:25:00.359 --> 01:25:03.739
Kudos to the Nationals for grabbing him and then flipping
1429
01:25:03.800 --> 01:25:06.310
him for something. They got him on a one-year deal.
1430
01:25:06.319 --> 01:25:07.470
He's going to be getting a lot of money in
1431
01:25:07.510 --> 01:25:08.149
the offseason.
1432
01:25:09.050 --> 01:25:12.329
I would think so, yeah. Yeah, my big question with
1433
01:25:12.369 --> 01:25:15.850
Griffin was looking at his workload in Japan. It was
1434
01:25:15.949 --> 01:25:20.050
relatively low. Okay. And I just didn't know if he
1435
01:25:20.090 --> 01:25:24.779
would be able to handle– you know, the 162 games
1436
01:25:24.859 --> 01:25:28.189
of a major league baseball season. And he did wear
1437
01:25:28.250 --> 01:25:30.720
down in the second half. There's no doubt about it.
1438
01:25:31.670 --> 01:25:34.670
But now that he's got that first full season in
1439
01:25:34.710 --> 01:25:38.210
major league baseball under his belt, I don't see any
1440
01:25:38.250 --> 01:25:40.890
reason why he can't repeat and possibly be even a
1441
01:25:40.930 --> 01:25:43.430
little stronger and better next year.
1442
01:25:47.020 --> 01:25:49.909
Yeah, you would think, Tammy. You think we'll have to
1443
01:25:49.949 --> 01:25:52.989
analyze them over the weekend, but you nailed it again.
1444
01:25:53.600 --> 01:25:57.880
Once again, I mean, I'm not sold on the Japanese guys,
1445
01:25:57.920 --> 01:26:00.399
the big guys coming over, as we've talked about at Nauseam.
1446
01:26:00.439 --> 01:26:04.819
But these guys coming over that are reclamation projects from
1447
01:26:04.880 --> 01:26:10.300
the states, I mean, you are absolutely nailing them left
1448
01:26:10.359 --> 01:26:13.659
and right. It's really impressive. I'm afraid other people are
1449
01:26:13.680 --> 01:26:16.600
going to start to buy into your theory and take
1450
01:26:16.659 --> 01:26:20.210
it as their own. But it's definitely something I'm going
1451
01:26:20.250 --> 01:26:22.050
to be paying a lot more attention to.
1452
01:26:23.210 --> 01:26:26.630
Yeah, over the years, I've got a lot of mileage
1453
01:26:26.689 --> 01:26:29.850
out of returning players. Most of it is short-term, like
1454
01:26:29.930 --> 01:26:30.750
even Eric Fetty.
1455
01:26:31.470 --> 01:26:31.770
Yes.
1456
01:26:32.569 --> 01:26:36.949
Yeah, he's pitched good this year. He's been fine. But
1457
01:26:36.989 --> 01:26:40.310
that first year he came back, he was lights out.
1458
01:26:41.569 --> 01:26:43.609
Then he came back to earth the second year.
1459
01:26:43.640 --> 01:26:48.789
Mm-hmm. But I mean, short-term... you don't pay anything for
1460
01:26:48.829 --> 01:26:52.350
these guys for the most part, unless again, somebody starts
1461
01:26:52.409 --> 01:26:57.310
in the mainstream media, taking the approach that I've taken
1462
01:26:57.569 --> 01:27:00.069
for the past 10 years, since Lewis came over with
1463
01:27:00.090 --> 01:27:04.529
the Rangers, you know, Hey, at some point in time,
1464
01:27:04.779 --> 01:27:06.779
obviously people are going to pick up on the trend
1465
01:27:06.819 --> 01:27:11.199
of success, but it's something that's worked very well for me.
1466
01:27:11.220 --> 01:27:13.880
And I'm going to continue looking at players that could
1467
01:27:13.899 --> 01:27:17.859
potentially return and Hey, when you get into your 28th
1468
01:27:18.079 --> 01:27:22.000
pitch out of 30, okay, no harm, no fault. It
1469
01:27:22.020 --> 01:27:25.159
doesn't matter what happens, right? If it doesn't work out,
1470
01:27:25.199 --> 01:27:27.119
you move on. I would think Cody.
1471
01:27:26.979 --> 01:27:29.779
Potts would be at the top of yours on my
1472
01:27:29.819 --> 01:27:33.890
list for late round grabs, right? Because a guy who pitched, what,
1473
01:27:34.029 --> 01:27:36.050
five pitches or whatever it was where he got hurt.
1474
01:27:36.750 --> 01:27:41.210
It's the exact same scenario just a year later. Exactly.
1475
01:27:41.510 --> 01:27:46.979
Exactly. I'm protecting him in one of my leagues at $ 6. Yeah.
1476
01:27:47.899 --> 01:27:52.840
Because I think he'll return more than $ 6 next year. Yeah. So, yeah.
1477
01:27:52.920 --> 01:27:54.680
I don't think anybody's going to be on that guy
1478
01:27:55.300 --> 01:27:56.720
unless they're listening to this podcast.
1479
01:27:58.279 --> 01:27:58.819
Yeah.
1480
01:27:58.880 --> 01:28:01.399
Maybe I'll delete this portion. I'll delete this portion of
1481
01:28:01.420 --> 01:28:02.189
the podcast.
1482
01:28:03.069 --> 01:28:04.970
Yeah, it'll be me and you fighting over him next
1483
01:28:05.010 --> 01:28:06.770
year in all the leagues we're in.
1484
01:28:07.130 --> 01:28:11.569
No, you'll get him. Okay. All right. I got Foster Griffin.
1485
01:28:11.630 --> 01:28:12.470
Who's your second guy, Tim?
1486
01:28:13.359 --> 01:28:17.159
My second guy is a guy that was 166 pitcher
1487
01:28:17.619 --> 01:28:23.199
off the board with an adp of 410 95 148
1488
01:28:23.199 --> 01:28:29.050
and two-thirds innings pitched with 171 strikeouts a 303 era
1489
01:28:29.050 --> 01:28:34.010
110 whip and if he qualified for the era title
1490
01:28:34.029 --> 01:28:36.170
would have been the 14th best in the league this
1491
01:28:36.229 --> 01:28:39.689
guy also gives the best bear hugs in the league
1492
01:28:39.729 --> 01:28:41.180
and that would be one Peyton Tolley.
1493
01:28:42.720 --> 01:28:46.010
Didn't know about the bear hugs, but Peyton Tolley is
1494
01:28:46.060 --> 01:28:46.770
the guy. Yep.
1495
01:28:48.189 --> 01:28:52.250
Yeah, no, he, he, I can't remember who it was
1496
01:28:52.289 --> 01:28:55.409
running down to first base. Okay. Rather than tag them,
1497
01:28:55.529 --> 01:28:59.210
they looked at each other. He gave a big bear hug. Okay. They, Yeah,
1498
01:28:59.250 --> 01:29:02.210
the ball came back to the pitcher, even Tully, and
1499
01:29:02.250 --> 01:29:06.189
he was just sort of standing there. It was interesting
1500
01:29:06.270 --> 01:29:11.289
seeing him. Oh, who was the second baseman for the
1501
01:29:11.329 --> 01:29:13.699
Red Sox for years and years? The little guy. But
1502
01:29:13.720 --> 01:29:18.970
he was standing behind, beside Tully. Yeah, Dustin Pedroia, yeah. Yeah,
1503
01:29:19.050 --> 01:29:24.649
he was standing beside Toley. Wow. Toley's a big, big man.
1504
01:29:24.689 --> 01:29:28.319
He really is. He's a big guy. Yeah. But, you know,
1505
01:29:28.319 --> 01:29:33.180
166 off the board, ADP of 410.95. Yeah, if you
1506
01:29:33.220 --> 01:29:37.000
went with Toley late this year, yeah, you reached huge rewards.
1507
01:29:37.500 --> 01:29:38.199
You really did.
1508
01:29:38.420 --> 01:29:40.960
I was a big Peyton Toley fan. I liked him
1509
01:29:41.000 --> 01:29:43.340
better than Conley Early, but I got to tell you,
1510
01:29:43.460 --> 01:29:47.149
I like where Conley Early wound up in Washington. Um,
1511
01:29:47.329 --> 01:29:51.260
and he did pitch yesterday, pitch three years and look good.
1512
01:29:51.399 --> 01:29:54.939
Look good. Yeah, he did. Yeah. So again, if you're
1513
01:29:54.979 --> 01:29:59.800
starting to look at early sleeper candidates and redraft leagues, uh,
1514
01:29:59.880 --> 01:30:03.460
I think I'd be adding him to the list. Yep.
1515
01:30:04.300 --> 01:30:06.600
Uh, yep. Cause people are going to forget about them. Uh,
1516
01:30:06.640 --> 01:30:10.920
my third guy is, uh, we do some, we do
1517
01:30:10.979 --> 01:30:13.840
so many hours of podcasting. I'm assuming we talked about
1518
01:30:13.899 --> 01:30:19.670
this guy. But Brian Baker was the 647th pitcher. That's
1519
01:30:19.689 --> 01:30:23.729
6-4-7 off the board. He has 41 saves, Tim, with
1520
01:30:23.770 --> 01:30:29.640
the Tampa Bay Rays, a 144 ERA. I don't know
1521
01:30:29.699 --> 01:30:32.699
how he got the job. He just snuck by, and
1522
01:30:32.739 --> 01:30:34.520
he looked up, and he's got 41 saves.
1523
01:30:35.479 --> 01:30:40.789
Yes, and he's won you the saves category in redraft leagues. Congratulations.
1524
01:30:41.569 --> 01:30:44.970
The only thing that concerns me with Baker is, Tampa
1525
01:30:44.989 --> 01:30:51.489
Bay has a tendency to go through closers. Longevity is
1526
01:30:51.529 --> 01:30:54.050
a closer in Tampa Bay. It usually means half a season,
1527
01:30:55.109 --> 01:30:57.550
maybe a little more. I don't know what I'm doing
1528
01:30:57.590 --> 01:31:02.189
with Baker next year, but based on what he's done
1529
01:31:02.220 --> 01:31:05.859
this year, you have to be looking at a top five.
1530
01:31:05.880 --> 01:31:08.159
Do I want to pay top five price for Brian Baker?
1531
01:31:08.300 --> 01:31:15.050
I don't know. I'm not sold on I'm sold, but
1532
01:31:15.109 --> 01:31:17.289
I'm not, if that makes sense, based on the history
1533
01:31:17.350 --> 01:31:22.449
in Tampa Bay and their willingness to go with whoever
1534
01:31:22.489 --> 01:31:23.329
they go with.
1535
01:31:24.270 --> 01:31:26.489
Yeah, I mean, I think that's fair. Looking up what
1536
01:31:26.550 --> 01:31:32.050
his contract status is, I know he's arbitration eligible. So
1537
01:31:32.210 --> 01:31:35.210
he only made $ 1. 2 million this year, so he's got
1538
01:31:35.229 --> 01:31:38.859
to do a raise now. But it's the second year
1539
01:31:38.880 --> 01:31:41.739
of arbitration next year, and it's 2020, his third year.
1540
01:31:42.020 --> 01:31:44.329
I think he gets the job because he'll probably make
1541
01:31:44.329 --> 01:31:46.909
$ 4 or $ 5 million a year. And I think the
1542
01:31:47.069 --> 01:31:51.270
Rays will do that. But I think he gets traded
1543
01:31:51.810 --> 01:31:52.250
after that.
1544
01:31:52.590 --> 01:31:56.970
I was going to say, yeah, there's a good possibility
1545
01:31:57.069 --> 01:32:00.550
there's a trade involved. And hey, Max Scherzer came back
1546
01:32:00.670 --> 01:32:03.920
over the sixth, and he's now up to 7Ks with
1547
01:32:03.979 --> 01:32:04.239
a 4-1 lead.
1548
01:32:05.489 --> 01:32:05.960
Good for him.
1549
01:32:06.050 --> 01:32:08.180
And getting a standing ovation.
1550
01:32:08.189 --> 01:32:10.060
All right. Who's your last guy, Tim?
1551
01:32:11.020 --> 01:32:13.460
My last guy, you know who my last guy is.
1552
01:32:14.850 --> 01:32:17.609
He's also my personal MVP because I think I have
1553
01:32:17.670 --> 01:32:22.899
him in absolutely every league. uh and ad nauseum we
1554
01:32:22.939 --> 01:32:26.699
will discuss one last time number 606 off the board
1555
01:32:26.739 --> 01:32:30.819
with an adp of 487 he's currently tied for fifth
1556
01:32:30.880 --> 01:32:35.729
and saves with 35 a 127 era second only to
1557
01:32:35.770 --> 01:32:39.210
josh haters 101 with relievers who had 20 more or
1558
01:32:39.270 --> 01:32:42.189
more saves and that would be louis verland of the
1559
01:32:42.229 --> 01:32:42.989
toronto blue.
1560
01:32:42.810 --> 01:32:46.470
Jays congratulations on that timmy you absolutely nailed that.
1561
01:32:46.350 --> 01:32:54.640
Pick Yeah, I've had him in, I think, virtually every league. Yeah,
1562
01:32:54.800 --> 01:32:57.659
just something I saw in the offseason, something I believed in.
1563
01:32:58.399 --> 01:33:03.119
And unlike some of my other picks, this one came
1564
01:33:03.180 --> 01:33:06.220
through to fruition. So, Louis Garland was huge for me
1565
01:33:06.439 --> 01:33:06.779
this year.
1566
01:33:06.850 --> 01:33:08.750
Yeah, I mean, look, I give you all the credit
1567
01:33:08.770 --> 01:33:11.989
because I followed your closure report. I've had him in
1568
01:33:12.250 --> 01:33:14.470
two or three leagues, and thank you.
1569
01:33:14.810 --> 01:33:16.529
I mean, it was great. It was great.
1570
01:33:18.539 --> 01:33:21.229
That's your personal MVP. Mine was AJ Ewing. I have,
1571
01:33:21.399 --> 01:33:23.350
I had him in all 10 of my dynasty leagues.
1572
01:33:23.409 --> 01:33:26.130
I think I traded him last year, but I have
1573
01:33:26.210 --> 01:33:27.069
a nine.
1574
01:33:27.149 --> 01:33:29.930
So good for you, Rich. That's awesome.
1575
01:33:30.109 --> 01:33:30.729
Yes.
1576
01:33:31.029 --> 01:33:33.989
You got to be happy about moving forward, boy. Yeah.
1577
01:33:34.050 --> 01:33:36.970
I'm also happy about Max Clark too. I mean, he's
1578
01:33:37.029 --> 01:33:40.720
a guy that people were just discounting and thinking, well,
1579
01:33:40.739 --> 01:33:41.920
he's not going to be that guy. I just think
1580
01:33:41.939 --> 01:33:43.859
that guy is going to be great. I mean, He's
1581
01:33:44.079 --> 01:33:46.880
not been lost when he's been up for his short
1582
01:33:46.920 --> 01:33:49.520
period of time. He has lost prospect eligibility. Will not
1583
01:33:49.560 --> 01:33:51.859
be Rookie of the Year next year. I think that
1584
01:33:51.880 --> 01:33:52.699
guy's going to be good.
1585
01:33:54.680 --> 01:33:56.899
I do as well. I have him in a couple leagues,
1586
01:33:57.039 --> 01:34:01.600
and I'm looking forward to seeing what 2027 brings for
1587
01:34:01.619 --> 01:34:02.180
Max Clark.
1588
01:34:04.479 --> 01:34:06.779
Let's go take a look at how River Ryan is doing.
1589
01:34:09.739 --> 01:34:13.979
He is pitching. He pitched really well. In his first outing,
1590
01:34:15.279 --> 01:34:16.880
that's another guy that I think is going to be
1591
01:34:16.920 --> 01:34:17.619
sneaky good.
1592
01:34:17.739 --> 01:34:21.300
Let's see. The only thing with River Ryan, and it's
1593
01:34:21.340 --> 01:34:23.359
just like some of the other prospects we've talked about,
1594
01:34:23.390 --> 01:34:26.829
is he's going to be on every single individual member
1595
01:34:26.949 --> 01:34:31.189
of your league's sleeper list. Okay. River Ryan, I think,
1596
01:34:31.270 --> 01:34:35.489
will be, like I said, the only thing that concerns
1597
01:34:35.529 --> 01:34:39.649
me is because so many people believe in River Ryan
1598
01:34:39.689 --> 01:34:44.010
moving forward. everybody's going to be fighting for them at
1599
01:34:44.050 --> 01:34:45.609
the same spot in the draft, aren't they?
1600
01:34:45.869 --> 01:34:48.529
Well, you'll be happy about his outing today. One and
1601
01:34:48.550 --> 01:34:51.409
a third innings, three hits, two earned runs, three strikeouts
1602
01:34:51.449 --> 01:34:53.449
and a home run. So he did not pitch as
1603
01:34:53.510 --> 01:34:56.819
well and had a quick exit. So maybe that'll help
1604
01:34:57.300 --> 01:34:59.300
his draft status for us.
1605
01:35:00.180 --> 01:35:03.779
Yeah, because, you know, when we talk about the, you know,
1606
01:35:03.819 --> 01:35:07.420
prospects and sleepers and, you know, Jonah Tong is another one.
1607
01:35:07.460 --> 01:35:13.050
He's looked incredibly good. In September. Okay. But in three
1608
01:35:13.069 --> 01:35:16.109
of those four starts in September, he only allowed, we
1609
01:35:16.130 --> 01:35:18.810
only walked one in each of the three of the
1610
01:35:18.869 --> 01:35:24.409
four starts. And AAA walked 50, 59, 107 innings pitched.
1611
01:35:25.689 --> 01:35:28.569
You know, Jonah Tong has got huge potential as well,
1612
01:35:28.689 --> 01:35:33.039
I think. But can he control the free passes?
1613
01:35:34.119 --> 01:35:37.180
Never has. And he doesn't have, and he doesn't have
1614
01:35:37.220 --> 01:35:39.609
a very good breaking pitch. I, I, I think that
1615
01:35:39.630 --> 01:35:41.970
guy's going to go to the bullpen. I think two
1616
01:35:42.270 --> 01:35:45.529
years he's going to be on Tim's closer report.
1617
01:35:46.510 --> 01:35:48.270
Yeah, I think that's fair.
1618
01:35:49.260 --> 01:35:51.760
Look, a lot of these guys are pitching in September,
1619
01:35:51.859 --> 01:35:55.500
including River Ryan. Connelly earlier mentioned all of these guys,
1620
01:35:55.619 --> 01:35:58.840
and they're playing against a team that's checking their reservation
1621
01:35:58.899 --> 01:36:02.069
for their golf team. They're golfing coming up, let's be real.
1622
01:36:02.090 --> 01:36:07.149
A lot of times they're playing against AAA lineups because
1623
01:36:07.250 --> 01:36:09.970
guys are putting in younger players to give them a shot,
1624
01:36:10.489 --> 01:36:12.989
and you get a warped impression of what these guys
1625
01:36:13.029 --> 01:36:13.750
can really do.
1626
01:36:15.100 --> 01:36:18.560
Yeah, I'm already starting to formulate, looking for the next
1627
01:36:18.659 --> 01:36:23.279
Louis Varlin. You want one of my early sleeper picks
1628
01:36:23.380 --> 01:36:24.720
at closer for next year?
1629
01:36:24.739 --> 01:36:25.579
Sure, yeah.
1630
01:36:26.550 --> 01:36:29.010
I'm going to be targeting this guy in early drafts
1631
01:36:29.229 --> 01:36:32.029
all over the place, and that's Justin Martinez of the
1632
01:36:32.050 --> 01:36:33.109
Arizona Diamondbacks.
1633
01:36:33.649 --> 01:36:35.310
Yeah, you were high on him before he got hurt.
1634
01:36:35.369 --> 01:36:37.720
I have him on a couple leagues. Thank you very much.
1635
01:36:37.729 --> 01:36:38.579
I appreciate that.
1636
01:36:38.640 --> 01:36:41.319
Yeah, I'm very bullish.
1637
01:36:41.779 --> 01:36:46.859
Is Amaya going to be a closer one day? Who? Amaya.
1638
01:36:47.699 --> 01:36:52.159
Who? I have no idea.
1639
01:36:52.239 --> 01:36:54.470
Is that guy even going to make the postseason roster,
1640
01:36:54.479 --> 01:36:54.850
I wonder?
1641
01:36:55.619 --> 01:36:58.640
Yeah, I have no idea what the future holds there.
1642
01:36:58.779 --> 01:37:03.090
None whatsoever. How can you after what we saw this year?
1643
01:37:03.670 --> 01:37:06.369
I haven't been following them. I got them on one team,
1644
01:37:06.989 --> 01:37:11.020
took them before Kate Anderson, and it's just sickening. It's just.
1645
01:37:12.430 --> 01:37:14.100
Again, I just threw up in my mouth again.
1646
01:37:15.100 --> 01:37:19.039
I'm just so sick about the whole thing. Well, we've
1647
01:37:19.300 --> 01:37:22.600
got to end up the show with a low light,
1648
01:37:22.659 --> 01:37:26.319
and that is definitely one. I was concerned with the
1649
01:37:26.380 --> 01:37:30.329
walk rates after what I saw last year and the improved.
1650
01:37:31.010 --> 01:37:36.010
And no, he wasn't throwing strikes this year. So I
1651
01:37:36.550 --> 01:37:38.670
am concerned moving forward, very concerned.
1652
01:37:40.359 --> 01:37:43.220
Maybe he can figure it out. That's what I'm hoping.
1653
01:37:44.640 --> 01:37:49.819
I mean, I guess the Astros could have been wrong
1654
01:37:49.939 --> 01:37:52.920
and everybody else that won it. I guess that's possible.
1655
01:37:52.939 --> 01:37:54.420
Well, sure it is.
1656
01:37:55.060 --> 01:37:57.960
But man, it just wasn't bad. It was horrendous.
1657
01:37:58.920 --> 01:38:06.380
Yeah, it was bad. Biblical proportions. How's that? As I
1658
01:38:06.420 --> 01:38:07.199
stammer through it.
1659
01:38:08.369 --> 01:38:14.880
Let's see. Heavy slider thing is fastball. See, this is
1660
01:38:14.920 --> 01:38:17.699
what bothers me, Timmy. So I look at a slider,
1661
01:38:18.020 --> 01:38:22.199
expected batting average of 181. It's four seamer, expected batting
1662
01:38:22.239 --> 01:38:26.869
average of 281. Not horrible. Slug was at 380. You know,
1663
01:38:26.890 --> 01:38:29.949
you look at it, and his stuff looks pretty good.
1664
01:38:30.420 --> 01:38:32.579
He just walked too many guys.
1665
01:38:33.479 --> 01:38:36.720
Yep, he got himself into a hole and couldn't get out.
1666
01:38:39.079 --> 01:38:41.619
And that's a problem.
1667
01:38:42.720 --> 01:38:44.760
See, I look at guys like that, and I go, well,
1668
01:38:44.819 --> 01:38:47.539
somebody will be able to help him figure out how
1669
01:38:47.560 --> 01:38:50.100
to throw more strikes, because the stuff looks pretty good.
1670
01:38:52.460 --> 01:38:57.390
Yeah, I think coaching and good coaching will be imperative
1671
01:38:57.479 --> 01:39:02.609
in improving his chances of success. He's got to, he's
1672
01:39:02.649 --> 01:39:05.750
got to, hey, you know, if you can't throw strikes, okay,
1673
01:39:06.390 --> 01:39:09.409
batters will stroll into the batter's box, they'll rest the batter,
1674
01:39:09.670 --> 01:39:12.890
and they'll say, hey, throw me strikes. And until he can,
1675
01:39:12.909 --> 01:39:15.670
they'll take first base.
1676
01:39:17.000 --> 01:39:18.899
Yeah, I do see his stuff looks good. And then
1677
01:39:18.939 --> 01:39:20.869
I take a look at the location of everything, and
1678
01:39:20.909 --> 01:39:23.949
it's all in the upper right quadrant. He doesn't really
1679
01:39:23.989 --> 01:39:26.710
have anything in the lower half of the strike zone
1680
01:39:26.750 --> 01:39:30.710
or even in the glove side of the strike zone.
1681
01:39:30.789 --> 01:39:34.869
Everything is up and into right-handed batters. It's kind of interesting.
1682
01:39:34.909 --> 01:39:38.560
You don't typically see that. So it's an interesting arsenal,
1683
01:39:39.119 --> 01:39:42.819
not a typical one. But he's got three more strikes.
1684
01:39:42.859 --> 01:39:43.699
That's the bottom line.
1685
01:39:43.739 --> 01:39:46.039
Yeah, exactly. Yeah.
1686
01:39:47.149 --> 01:39:49.750
Timmy, let's take our final break, come back, and wrap
1687
01:39:49.770 --> 01:39:50.489
the season up.
1688
01:39:51.989 --> 01:39:56.909
Sounds good. And as soon as we're done that, we
1689
01:39:56.949 --> 01:40:00.229
can celebrate the fact that 2027 is right around the corner.
1690
01:40:06.460 --> 01:40:08.880
Congratulations. You just talked through our commercial break, Tim, but
1691
01:40:08.920 --> 01:40:09.600
that's okay.
1692
01:40:10.680 --> 01:40:13.960
Thank you. I had to get one in for the road, right?
1693
01:40:15.260 --> 01:40:18.930
I'll try to slice the commercial break perfectly in there.
1694
01:40:18.939 --> 01:40:21.470
I don't think I'll be able to get it, but oh, wow.
1695
01:40:21.489 --> 01:40:24.449
That's the way it goes.
1696
01:40:25.350 --> 01:40:28.210
Any consolation? Not the first time, brother. Won't be the last.
1697
01:40:28.750 --> 01:40:28.970
All right.
1698
01:40:29.010 --> 01:40:32.590
Let's see here. It looks like Phillies are going to
1699
01:40:32.630 --> 01:40:35.680
make it. They're 7-3 in the top of the eighth.
1700
01:40:36.399 --> 01:40:39.340
So got to get six outs. You would think with
1701
01:40:39.460 --> 01:40:41.220
Duran in there, they're going to be okay.
1702
01:40:42.310 --> 01:40:42.979
I would think so.
1703
01:40:43.909 --> 01:40:50.420
And it looks like the Astros are 6-0 over the Athletics.
1704
01:40:50.460 --> 01:40:52.939
You've got to beat the Athletics. I think that's done
1705
01:40:53.000 --> 01:40:53.579
as well.
1706
01:40:54.579 --> 01:40:58.760
Yeah, and the Padres are up 4-3 on the Diamondbacks. Oh,
1707
01:40:59.779 --> 01:41:06.609
where are we here? In the top of the 7th, yeah. So, yeah,
1708
01:41:06.649 --> 01:41:10.829
the Diamondbacks, yeah. The odds of that bullpen giving up
1709
01:41:10.890 --> 01:41:12.369
four runs are pretty slim.
1710
01:41:12.409 --> 01:41:15.510
They really are. Well, Tim, I'm going to be watching
1711
01:41:15.529 --> 01:41:19.010
a lot of postseason baseball. Part of the reason I'm
1712
01:41:19.029 --> 01:41:20.430
going to do that is because I am scared to
1713
01:41:20.470 --> 01:41:23.029
death that we're going to be without baseball for a
1714
01:41:23.050 --> 01:41:26.630
long time. But I don't want to talk about that
1715
01:41:26.729 --> 01:41:29.409
too much over the next couple of months. Let's have
1716
01:41:29.529 --> 01:41:34.289
fun just talking about the postseason and looking forward to it.
1717
01:41:35.079 --> 01:41:38.590
December 2nd or December 1st, whatever the first day will
1718
01:41:38.619 --> 01:41:41.689
be of a lockout or a strike. Not sure exactly
1719
01:41:41.729 --> 01:41:44.909
which one it'll be. And just keep our fingers crossed
1720
01:41:44.970 --> 01:41:48.909
and hope for the best. But it does look like
1721
01:41:48.970 --> 01:41:50.270
it could be a long winter.
1722
01:41:50.289 --> 01:41:56.939
Yes, it doesn't look really good at this particular time.
1723
01:41:57.119 --> 01:42:04.550
I totally agree. And let's hope somehow that They find
1724
01:42:04.590 --> 01:42:06.899
a way to work through their differences, and we can
1725
01:42:06.949 --> 01:42:11.199
have a full season of baseball in 2027. You know,
1726
01:42:11.220 --> 01:42:13.060
the other thing we've got to do one of these days,
1727
01:42:13.079 --> 01:42:15.239
we've got to talk about the Arizona Fall League, don't we?
1728
01:42:15.819 --> 01:42:17.439
Because you're heading there in a couple weeks.
1729
01:42:17.460 --> 01:42:18.819
We did that. We did that.
1730
01:42:20.319 --> 01:42:24.090
Oh, I thought you were going to go through, you know, okay. Okay,
1731
01:42:24.119 --> 01:42:27.930
I thought. Didn't we do that last week? Yeah, we
1732
01:42:27.949 --> 01:42:32.329
talked briefly, but we didn't go into it. a huge
1733
01:42:32.489 --> 01:42:33.710
amount of detail, I thought.
1734
01:42:34.369 --> 01:42:37.470
Well, we can do some more talk.
1735
01:42:39.250 --> 01:42:42.270
Talk about it when you get back from it. We
1736
01:42:43.069 --> 01:42:44.810
can go through some of your assessments.
1737
01:42:45.289 --> 01:42:49.310
There you go. I'm going in three weeks. I don't
1738
01:42:49.329 --> 01:42:51.489
know when I'm going. I just got my notice from
1739
01:42:51.550 --> 01:42:54.630
United that it's three weeks. That's when I'm going. I'll
1740
01:42:54.649 --> 01:42:56.640
be off in three weeks looking forward to be a
1741
01:42:56.680 --> 01:43:01.319
whole week there. There's a couple of high school stuff
1742
01:43:01.420 --> 01:43:03.760
and uh, things that are going to be going on
1743
01:43:03.880 --> 01:43:05.979
the weekend before that. So I'll hopefully be able to
1744
01:43:06.020 --> 01:43:09.210
catch some of that. So, uh, yeah, yeah. I'm going
1745
01:43:09.229 --> 01:43:11.829
to be meeting with some of my agent buddies and
1746
01:43:11.890 --> 01:43:14.449
get the chance to catch up with them. And so, yeah,
1747
01:43:14.470 --> 01:43:16.710
it should be, should be fun. I'm looking forward to that.
1748
01:43:17.289 --> 01:43:19.949
And again, putting the final touches on all the prospect work,
1749
01:43:19.989 --> 01:43:22.409
get that out of the way. And I've got some
1750
01:43:22.449 --> 01:43:25.640
articles to write next week for a patron members, including the, uh,
1751
01:43:26.109 --> 01:43:29.199
the player of the year, which is not obvious who
1752
01:43:29.220 --> 01:43:31.260
the player of the year is in the minor leagues, Tim.
1753
01:43:33.090 --> 01:43:36.090
Well, we saw some people hit a lot of home runs,
1754
01:43:36.109 --> 01:43:38.149
didn't we? Yeah.
1755
01:43:38.270 --> 01:43:42.899
I mean, what's crazy is, as I've been writing, there
1756
01:43:43.100 --> 01:43:47.159
are players that went 30-30 last year that I can
1757
01:43:47.300 --> 01:43:52.100
guarantee you you've never heard of. It's just like, what?
1758
01:43:52.420 --> 01:43:55.819
Who is this guy? And is this somebody I shouldn't
1759
01:43:55.840 --> 01:43:58.579
be rostering? I mean, it is crazy the kind of
1760
01:43:58.600 --> 01:44:01.560
production that was there. And it warps everything.
1761
01:44:02.829 --> 01:44:05.010
Yeah, like what do you do with the Brewers kid
1762
01:44:05.029 --> 01:44:08.939
that hit, what, 600 home runs this year? Led the Miners.
1763
01:44:08.979 --> 01:44:12.500
Fisher? Yeah, I mean, Fisher, he's going to strike out.
1764
01:44:12.720 --> 01:44:15.279
He's striking out a third of the time. Is he
1765
01:44:15.300 --> 01:44:19.720
going to be Murakami? He could be. That could be
1766
01:44:19.760 --> 01:44:23.479
the guy who has value. I mean, there's value. As
1767
01:44:23.520 --> 01:44:27.020
I've been writing thousands and thousands of words, you kind
1768
01:44:27.079 --> 01:44:30.779
of come back to certain themes and And my theme
1769
01:44:30.840 --> 01:44:35.319
has been a lot is all of these players, well,
1770
01:44:35.340 --> 01:44:37.600
not all of them. So there's definitely filler out there.
1771
01:44:37.619 --> 01:44:40.859
So I write about 630 or so prospects. There's a
1772
01:44:40.920 --> 01:44:42.899
lot of filler. Guys that are never going to make it,
1773
01:44:43.020 --> 01:44:45.560
they try to do 20 per system and you wind
1774
01:44:45.619 --> 01:44:48.590
up having some filler in there. But let's call it
1775
01:44:48.619 --> 01:44:51.010
the top three to 400 players in the minor leagues.
1776
01:44:51.029 --> 01:44:54.090
They all have some level of value in a fantasy league.
1777
01:44:55.130 --> 01:44:55.609
Yes, they do.
1778
01:44:55.630 --> 01:44:59.800
The problem is there's maybe 25 that are going to
1779
01:44:59.859 --> 01:45:07.250
be great players that can cover a multitude of categories
1780
01:45:07.329 --> 01:45:11.109
and be complete players. Everybody else has got problems and
1781
01:45:11.149 --> 01:45:14.319
it's how you handle those problems and how you construct
1782
01:45:14.380 --> 01:45:18.800
your team is the critical thing. And particularly in dynasty leagues,
1783
01:45:18.859 --> 01:45:21.960
if you've got, there's a guy just wrote about with
1784
01:45:21.979 --> 01:45:24.159
the angels. You've never heard of this guy, Tim. I
1785
01:45:24.270 --> 01:45:25.770
guarantee you never heard of this guy.
1786
01:45:26.710 --> 01:45:26.930
Okay.
1787
01:45:27.680 --> 01:45:31.420
He's in the DSL. He's 17 years old. He played
1788
01:45:31.600 --> 01:45:34.869
in 51 games. He stole 68 bases.
1789
01:45:37.430 --> 01:45:38.569
Can you say that slower?
1790
01:45:39.590 --> 01:45:43.130
He sold 68 bases, and he didn't hit a home run.
1791
01:45:43.310 --> 01:45:47.140
He has no power. It's like Chandler Simpson all over again.
1792
01:45:47.180 --> 01:45:48.659
He probably weighs 140 pounds.
1793
01:45:48.680 --> 01:45:48.930
He's 5'10.
1794
01:45:52.989 --> 01:45:56.460
Yeah, 5'2. I don't know. But that's just it. You
1795
01:45:56.500 --> 01:45:58.460
see these guys go, that's really interesting. I've got to
1796
01:45:58.479 --> 01:46:02.560
write him up because it's a freaky thing, right? Is
1797
01:46:02.600 --> 01:46:05.850
this guy going to be Chandler Simpson 2.0? Could be.
1798
01:46:06.050 --> 01:46:09.750
But guess what? Chandler Simpson is a viable Major League
1799
01:46:09.770 --> 01:46:12.770
Baseball player and a viable fantasy player. But you've got
1800
01:46:12.789 --> 01:46:15.600
to be careful when you roster him because you've got
1801
01:46:15.609 --> 01:46:18.640
to cover the things he's not good with. And that's
1802
01:46:18.819 --> 01:46:21.859
kind of my mindset in writing through all this stuff
1803
01:46:22.000 --> 01:46:25.399
is when you roster these guys, just make sure you've
1804
01:46:25.439 --> 01:46:28.279
got a complete team because you're going to have– if
1805
01:46:28.300 --> 01:46:30.779
you've got Andrew Fisher and let's say that Juan Cepedis,
1806
01:46:30.810 --> 01:46:33.869
this guy who sold 68 bases in three years, is
1807
01:46:33.909 --> 01:46:37.229
Chandler Simpson, maybe those two guys give you a player
1808
01:46:37.250 --> 01:46:39.270
and a half or two players, but that's how you
1809
01:46:39.289 --> 01:46:41.510
have to construct your team. You can't have all power guys.
1810
01:46:41.550 --> 01:46:44.109
You can't have all speed guys, et cetera, et cetera.
1811
01:46:45.869 --> 01:46:48.170
No, you have to have that balance. And every time
1812
01:46:48.250 --> 01:46:53.520
that you overload, potentially overload in a category, you got
1813
01:46:53.619 --> 01:46:57.500
to offset it by a counter move to balance that. And,
1814
01:46:57.520 --> 01:47:02.010
you know, if Simpson steals at some point in time,
1815
01:47:02.010 --> 01:47:06.800
90 bases, yeah, that works. But if he steals 40,
1816
01:47:06.800 --> 01:47:09.529
45 to go along with his two inside the park
1817
01:47:09.630 --> 01:47:10.130
home runs.
1818
01:47:11.170 --> 01:47:12.840
Yeah, it's, It's a problem.
1819
01:47:12.899 --> 01:47:16.560
It doesn't, it's a problem. Yeah. It doesn't resolve. When
1820
01:47:16.579 --> 01:47:20.170
you get into team construction, it can cause more problems
1821
01:47:20.210 --> 01:47:21.510
than it actually resolves.
1822
01:47:22.850 --> 01:47:24.770
And the same is true with Murakami. If he hits
1823
01:47:24.810 --> 01:47:28.010
you 35 home runs, 40, that's great. If it's 200
1824
01:47:28.010 --> 01:47:30.430
to one 90 and you're in a batting average league,
1825
01:47:30.850 --> 01:47:31.609
that's a problem.
1826
01:47:32.800 --> 01:47:35.840
Yeah. If he hits 55, you don't care. Okay.
1827
01:47:35.920 --> 01:47:36.100
Right.
1828
01:47:36.119 --> 01:47:39.399
You can have Louisa rise. You can have a high
1829
01:47:39.460 --> 01:47:45.770
batting average. low-power type player to offset it. But at 35,
1830
01:47:45.770 --> 01:47:48.090
is that enough to go along with that batting average?
1831
01:47:48.569 --> 01:47:52.189
I don't think it is. Hence the problem when you're
1832
01:47:52.210 --> 01:47:56.829
building your team. That's where so many people get themselves
1833
01:47:57.010 --> 01:48:02.640
into trouble by looking at the best player in your
1834
01:48:02.680 --> 01:48:06.199
middle rounds, in your team rounds. Sometimes that best player
1835
01:48:06.760 --> 01:48:11.340
doesn't afford... the build that you've constructed, the best opportunities.
1836
01:48:11.920 --> 01:48:15.939
And then you end up trading off and scrambling all
1837
01:48:16.010 --> 01:48:20.579
year trying to get that balance. And... one has to
1838
01:48:20.619 --> 01:48:22.600
be very, very careful, Rich. Very careful.
1839
01:48:23.119 --> 01:48:25.960
This is where I think dynasty leagues and keeper leagues
1840
01:48:26.220 --> 01:48:29.880
are different than one-year leagues. If I had Murakami in
1841
01:48:29.920 --> 01:48:34.140
a dynasty league, I've got time to figure out how
1842
01:48:34.159 --> 01:48:37.930
to construct a team around him. In a one-year league,
1843
01:48:37.979 --> 01:48:40.869
in a redraft, I don't. I'm at the draft table.
1844
01:48:40.909 --> 01:48:44.560
When I elect to put Murakami on my team, I've
1845
01:48:44.600 --> 01:48:49.000
got 35 to 40 minutes to figure out how I'm
1846
01:48:49.039 --> 01:48:50.720
going to surround. And that's hard.
1847
01:48:51.479 --> 01:48:57.960
That's really hard. It's definitely a challenge. And it's a
1848
01:48:58.000 --> 01:49:02.789
challenge that throws you off, in some cases, an easier
1849
01:49:02.869 --> 01:49:08.260
path to success. you know, you end up compensating in
1850
01:49:08.380 --> 01:49:12.539
one or two spots. And before you know it, you've
1851
01:49:12.560 --> 01:49:17.039
got a team that isn't going anywhere. Yep. Make it,
1852
01:49:17.100 --> 01:49:18.140
make it simple if you can.
1853
01:49:19.180 --> 01:49:21.300
Totally agree. And that's where I think that the two
1854
01:49:21.340 --> 01:49:24.420
different formats are much, much different. You got to be
1855
01:49:24.800 --> 01:49:28.119
really careful when you get to these one category, two
1856
01:49:28.159 --> 01:49:31.789
category kind of players in a redraft league. And you're
1857
01:49:31.850 --> 01:49:35.939
trying to, you know, to work, you know, fourth dimensional
1858
01:49:36.000 --> 01:49:40.880
calculus inside of an hour. It's, it's pretty hard work
1859
01:49:41.380 --> 01:49:44.659
again versus the league. I pick up Murakami and a
1860
01:49:44.760 --> 01:49:47.159
redraft and I, or excuse me to, you know, the
1861
01:49:47.199 --> 01:49:49.270
first year player draft, I have them, I see what
1862
01:49:49.279 --> 01:49:53.189
he's doing, but I've got several years to kind of
1863
01:49:53.329 --> 01:49:56.750
sort through it all and make trades and et cetera,
1864
01:49:56.770 --> 01:49:59.090
et cetera. But one year league, I could be done
1865
01:49:59.109 --> 01:50:01.989
by May, you know, the season's gone.
1866
01:50:02.020 --> 01:50:06.329
Yeah. Well, yeah, and it brings me back to that
1867
01:50:06.369 --> 01:50:09.760
strategy you employed a couple years ago, I think now,
1868
01:50:09.859 --> 01:50:12.659
where you went with all kids and you're in FBC
1869
01:50:12.739 --> 01:50:15.220
and all the upside and everything else. And you had
1870
01:50:15.260 --> 01:50:20.520
a riot at the draft table. Okay, yeah, everything was fun.
1871
01:50:20.560 --> 01:50:24.210
It was cool. But then as the season progressed, it
1872
01:50:24.250 --> 01:50:28.310
just didn't happen, right? Yep. All the fun was on
1873
01:50:28.350 --> 01:50:28.930
draft day.
1874
01:50:29.430 --> 01:50:31.869
That was three years ago. That team would be winning
1875
01:50:31.909 --> 01:50:36.250
every league now. All those guys have grown up. I mean,
1876
01:50:36.289 --> 01:50:38.850
Bobby Witts all the way up. They're all great. It
1877
01:50:38.890 --> 01:50:41.510
wasn't so good. Go take a look at Bobby Witts'
1878
01:50:41.550 --> 01:50:44.229
first year. He was good. It was tough. I mean,
1879
01:50:44.250 --> 01:50:47.770
there was some lean years. So even the greatest minor
1880
01:50:47.810 --> 01:50:52.439
league players coming up usually struggle. I mean, J.J. Weatherholt
1881
01:50:52.520 --> 01:50:55.319
struggled when he first came out. Carson Binge, look at
1882
01:50:55.359 --> 01:50:58.199
his second half versus his first half. Much better in
1883
01:50:58.239 --> 01:50:58.880
the second half.
1884
01:50:59.619 --> 01:51:02.779
Look at Mike Trout. Hall of Famer, future Hall of Famer.
1885
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His first taste of the big leagues was not overwhelming
1886
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at all.
1887
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For sure. Timmy, it has been a blast. We will
1888
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be back next Sunday, everybody, talking playoffs. I think this
1889
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is going to be a great playoff run. I'm really
1890
01:51:20.550 --> 01:51:24.090
curious if the Dodgers can three-peat. I'm rooting against them.
1891
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Just because I'm rooting against them, I just want somebody
1892
01:51:27.409 --> 01:51:28.010
else to win.
1893
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Yeah, I'm the same way. I'd Hey, I'm rooting for Yamamoto,
1894
01:51:32.579 --> 01:51:35.119
but I'm not rooting for the Dodgers. Does that make sense?
1895
01:51:35.699 --> 01:51:38.000
Yeah, but if the Dodgers win, I mean, it'll be great.
1896
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I mean, because, I mean, they will deserve it because
1897
01:51:39.920 --> 01:51:44.779
they've made just such great moves. It was disappointing, but
1898
01:51:44.880 --> 01:51:50.270
not unexpected to see Haswey DePaula demoted after Shohei Otani
1899
01:51:50.310 --> 01:51:56.029
came back. Question for you. Does Haswey DePaula make the
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01:51:56.090 --> 01:51:57.229
postseason roster?
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Yes.
1902
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I think so too. I think he, he's proven this
1903
01:52:05.220 --> 01:52:09.060
year and proven in what? 10, 15 games. This guy
1904
01:52:09.140 --> 01:52:10.359
can flat out hit.
1905
01:52:11.600 --> 01:52:18.310
Yeah. He, if he doesn't have a spot heading into 2027, uh,
1906
01:52:20.890 --> 01:52:22.710
I will be drafting him in redraft weeks.
1907
01:52:23.590 --> 01:52:27.189
The, the only fly in the ointment, um, the Dodgers,
1908
01:52:27.670 --> 01:52:31.399
I have this on pretty strong authority, uh, We're afraid
1909
01:52:31.439 --> 01:52:32.380
to put him in the field.
1910
01:52:33.840 --> 01:52:38.760
Well, there are defensive challenges there. He's not good in
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01:52:38.779 --> 01:52:42.510
the field. It's simple as that. But how do you
1912
01:52:42.729 --> 01:52:43.310
keep that bad?
1913
01:52:43.369 --> 01:52:45.829
I know. I know. That's what left field is for,
1914
01:52:45.869 --> 01:52:52.470
but that's where Kyle Tucker plays. I guess I can
1915
01:52:52.510 --> 01:52:57.770
move on. I think Cosway DePaulo's long-term play will be
1916
01:52:57.810 --> 01:53:01.390
first base, but Freddie Freeman's got one more year. And
1917
01:53:01.489 --> 01:53:03.720
he's not, he's not showing a ton. He's going to
1918
01:53:03.760 --> 01:53:07.079
be your DH. So that's just a non, it's a non-issue.
1919
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So yeah, the Paul is going to have to play somewhere.
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They'll, they'll find a way to get that bat in
1921
01:53:14.409 --> 01:53:14.869
the lineup.
1922
01:53:15.949 --> 01:53:18.529
It is, it is the Dodgers. They are smarter than
1923
01:53:18.590 --> 01:53:21.010
everybody else. So you would think they would figure it out.
1924
01:53:22.130 --> 01:53:24.390
I would take it for me. I would just put
1925
01:53:24.409 --> 01:53:27.020
them in left field and say, you know, he's going
1926
01:53:27.039 --> 01:53:29.220
to cost me a couple of runs. I'm just going
1927
01:53:29.239 --> 01:53:32.159
to deal with it because I think the counterbalance is
1928
01:53:32.189 --> 01:53:35.149
going to be so strong that I want that bat
1929
01:53:35.170 --> 01:53:35.789
in my lineup.
1930
01:53:36.810 --> 01:53:39.369
Yeah, just trade Kyle Tucker to the Rockies.
1931
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There you go. There you go. Timmy, it's been a
1932
01:53:42.869 --> 01:53:46.050
fun season, my friend. Thanks for going the extra time
1933
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here today. It's almost two hours. Wow.
1934
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Yeah. Time flies fast when you're having fun, and I
1935
01:53:52.970 --> 01:53:55.770
am definitely having fun, Rich. I want to thank you
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for everything this year. It's been another fun, fun year.
1937
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And congratulations to all of our listeners that found their
1938
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way into the money this year. Hope we helped. And
1939
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be safe, be well, and thanks again to everyone. It's
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been a great year.