2232 - The Young Players are taing over

Take 10 with Tim – August 22, 2025 @ 9:30 am – 60 minutes
Microsoft Teams:
1.Let’s review the standings
a.American League
b.National League

2.Wilyer Abreu hits the IL and the Red Sox are calling up Jhostynxon Garcia, 'the Password.' There’s some chase in his approach but big power ,potential. Are you interested?

3.The September callups continue – remember, after 8/15, they will, likely retain rookie eligibility. Here’s a list – Who are you bidding on? Rank these guys in who you want the rest of the season.
a.Bubba Chandler (RHP, Pit) – Reportedly coming in to pitch in relief (bummer)
b.Parker Messick (LHP, Cle) – Looked good in his debut on Wednesday
c.Carson Williams (SS, TB) – Scary strikeout rate (34%) but speed and power (23 HR, 22 SB)
d.Maximo Acosta (IF, Mia) – He’s 1 for 10, but the hit was a home run.

4.Rank these players that came up in the last couple of weeks of who you want to roster for the rest of the season
a.Owen Caissie (OF, CHC) – Already has a home run.
b.Samuel Basallo (C/1B, Bal) – He’s 3 for 10 in three games with some long outs
c.Dylan Beavers (OF, Bal) – Hasn’t done much in four games
d.Jakob Marsee (OF, Mia) – He ranks 3rd over the two weeks in outfield rankings. Just in front of the has-beens, Corbin Carroll and Juan Soto.

5.In researching the question above, I noticed that Brenton Doyle has been hot of late. In the last two weeks, he’s hit .372 with four home runs and two stolen bases.
a.Too little, too late? Or, will you take it?
b.What about next season? He’s a __________ outfielder for you.

6.Speaking of next season, which hitter or two are you hoping performs poorly over the last six weeks so they might be cheaper at the draft table?

7.What pitcher?

8.Shohei Ohtani has not looked good on the mound this season. Does he stay a two-way player?

9.What one hitter are you targeting for this weekend’s FAAB?

10.What one pitcher are you targeting for this weekend’s FAAB?

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:20):
Greetings and salutations everyone at Rich twelves A while into
Fantasy Baseball Live. Today is the twenty second of August,
about nine thirty in the morning at time. We did
do a volume check just so you know. So I
did that while you were while you were talking at
the beginning.

Speaker 2 (00:38):
Okay, well you guess what was first thing on my list?
Aren't we recording? Gosh?

Speaker 1 (00:44):
Yes we are, Yes, we are. As we've moved to
Microsoft Teams because Skype went away. It's, at least from
my standpoint, it's been very reliable. So kind of makes
you wonder if Microsoft had been ignoring Skype for many years.

Speaker 2 (01:01):
I would have a tendency to want to think so, yeah, yeah,
it was what it was, and things were going to
be changing, so why would you invest a lot of
time in it?

Speaker 1 (01:12):
Right, That's that's what you think. So Timmy, how you were?
You tease me? I said, how's your week to go? Well,
it's been very interesting. We've had an interesting baseball week.
And I told you all I do is right, So
I don't know what's been happening in baseball.

Speaker 2 (01:28):
Yeah, I'm having some fun over on the discord. So
it was a little snarky yesterday, you know, oh yeah, yeah, yeah,
we were talking about, you know, the playoffs. I mentioned
the Reds closing in on a playoffs spot possibly, but
my snark consisted of for all of MLB's efforts to

(01:52):
make the playoffs race, playoff race is entertaining. Dan L's
fairly blea gale is a bit better. But when they
expand to thirty two teams and go with sixteen sixteen
two team divisions, it will get better.

Speaker 1 (02:05):
Yeah, so yeah, that was that was a news that
kind of broke this week that they might expand the
two I think Nashville and Salt Lake City were mentioned,
but they would have to drop the number of games
to one hundred and fifty six to one hundred and
fifty four, which I thought would be interesting. But that's
all hypothetical. That was the article of the Athletic that

(02:28):
I read.

Speaker 2 (02:29):
Yeah, I don't know why they hate the expos, but
so be it. I would have to a tendency to
want to think that they'll be in the race for
a team as well.

Speaker 1 (02:38):
But so would you become an exposed fan again if
that happened.

Speaker 2 (02:44):
I never left being an exposed fan. I just don't Yeah, yeah, no,
I that that is my team, and I'm I'd be
rooting for them just as hard as I did back
in the day. Rich. The only thing that concerns me
is moving forward, it looks like the NL and the

(03:08):
AL are going to be passe. Is that the right
way of putting it is.

Speaker 1 (03:13):
That I didn't read that section of it. Is that
what they're thinking? Just just wanting.

Speaker 2 (03:20):
Yeah, I don't. I'm not entirely sure what they're thinking
and what's being speculated, but it does sort of seem
like the NL and the ALE are you know, first
it started with interleague games, and now it's a full
interleague schedule, and what's the next step in the process.

Speaker 1 (03:43):
Well, they do play most they still play the primary
number of games in division, right, so there's they play
six against everybody interleague and then they play what is
it thirteen in division games or something like that. So
it's definitely skewed that they play more in division than
they do out of division.

Speaker 2 (04:03):
Yeah, it just sort of seems like when they first,
you know, when the when the changes first occurred, it
was something that personally I was looking forward to, Okay,
you know, seeing the Jays play the Mets or you know,
just anything that it was just different, right, and you
had the DH and the non DH, and yeah, it

(04:25):
just seems like over time it's just another game. The
over a period of time, the thrill of seeing your
team play against a team that it normally wouldn't well
they normally do. Know, so that that has disappeared, that
anticipation or you know where.

Speaker 1 (04:48):
Yes, yeah, I mean it's it's like everything. I mean,
you know. So here's a stupid analogy. Lori makes the
best breakfast castle role ever. They're really simple recipes. There's
one sweet and one savory, and she makes it Christmas
morning for the last twenty five years, thirty years. I mean,

(05:09):
that's that's our one of our family traditions. They're not fancy.
I could even make them right. So she made one.
She made one like in July once and it wasn't
as good it was because there was Sometimes you have
too much of a good thing, and when it's special,
you really look forward to it, as opposed to if

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you can just happen anytime of the year, then like
it loses its luster. And I think that's what you're
saying as well.

Speaker 2 (05:38):
Yeah, it becomes just another meal. It's not something you
anticipate and look forward to. Gosh darn it, it's Christmas.
We're having grits or whatever we're having. Okay, we're having it.

Speaker 1 (05:50):
Then come on, we're not eating grits. My friend, they
had grits. Have you ever had grits before?

Speaker 2 (05:57):
Yes, it's corn meal. I served it in the hospital
food life for five years, or hung over on Saturday mornings,
slopping it into Oh dear lord. Yeah, no, it's not greats.

Speaker 3 (06:09):
If you if you talk to a good Southerner, because
grits at least is a Southern this year in the
United States, right, I've met many people.

Speaker 1 (06:19):
That I say, I can't stand grits. Oh, you haven't
made them the way I make them. And I'm like,
that's what everybody says. And then you have them, and
unless they've got three pounds of bacon in them, I mean,
oh yeah, it's.

Speaker 2 (06:34):
Like my porridge is special. What do you put an
inch and brown sugar on the top of it? Okay, exactly,
it's porridge. Right, Even the Three Bears gave up on
it for sure, for sure, but so but we'll see.
I mean, I know that that's.

Speaker 1 (06:48):
One of your things, is inter League play and the
fact that it's lost of specialness. And I agree. I mean,
I remember living in Chicago when interleague games first started,
and it was like, you know, almost as a city
wide day off when the White Sox will playing the Cubs.
It was really a cool thing. And now it's a

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big deal. Yeah, and it happens just all the time.
You go, oh, the White Socks are playing the Cubs. Oh, okay,
you know that's the way it is now.

Speaker 2 (07:16):
Yeah, And I don't know. I think for some of
the gains that have been made, there are also some losses.
And I don't think the gains about weight to the losses.
I would love to see injur Ley go back to
you know, twice a year, okay, and and make those
games a little bit more special, But I don't think

(07:38):
major League Baseball feels that way.

Speaker 1 (07:42):
I think you're right. I think you're right. So one
of the things that we were going to do, and
we've been teasing that we're going to do this is
just a look at the standings, Tim, and we try
to do that once every four weeks or six weeks.
And I was looking at them last night as I
was preparing for it, and I have to tell you
they're not all that exciting. We're starting to really have

(08:05):
some separation now in terms of who's going to make
it and who's going to be in the wild card.

Speaker 2 (08:11):
Yeah. No, the goal was to get the trade deadline
more exciting, more teams involved in the race.

Speaker 4 (08:18):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (08:18):
Yeah, yeah, it generates excitement. But you take a look
at what's going on, especially in the National League, and
there's nothing there other than the fact that you've got
you know, you got the Reds and the Mets douking
it out for that last spot.

Speaker 1 (08:38):
Yeah, I mean Cardles and Diamondbacks really in it. I
mean there are four games out in five and a
half games O. I guess they could be, but they're
both five hundred or below five hundred, and it just
doesn't seem like that they're you know that there's enough
there for them to really make a run. So it's really,
you know, it's the the Dodgers are going to win.

(08:59):
The asked correct, Well, Padres are only one game back,
but the Phillies looks like they're in command of the
East and the Brewers are really in command of the
of the Central unless they hit a skid here.

Speaker 2 (09:15):
Yeah, and you know, when you mentioned you know the potential,
you know, the Cards and the Diamondbacks. Neither one of
those teams has done anything to improve themselves at the deadline.
It's like they've resigned themselves to their ultimate fate and
they didn't try and do anything to change that or
make it better. If by chance they get into the playoffs,

(09:39):
how long are they going to last? Well, as long
as they're pitching, you know. But again, they didn't really
at the deadline go out of their way to try
and improve their their lot in life.

Speaker 1 (09:48):
The rest of the team deadline deals haven't worked out
so well for a lot of teams. You know. It's like,
you know, you keep waiting for these teams that really
made a lot of moves, and I mean the Brewers
don't make many moves at all, and they just took
off at the deadline, but some of the additions really
haven't worked out for these teams.

Speaker 2 (10:10):
Well. No, the Brewers going into the deadline had a
good bullpen, so they didn't play around with that. Their
lineup is a solid lineup. If they're not making a
lot of mistakes or playing good strong fundamental baseball, starting
pitching is good, why would they go out and invest
in a whole pile of talent when they're doing just

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fine as they as they are, they didn't have any
real serious holes. I guess they could have done the
same thing as the Yankees and upgraded and added about
three relief pitchers. But Koenig and Uribe have been pitching fine,
as you know, and they've got a great closer. So yeah,
just a well constructed lineup, and they've been dealing with

(10:56):
injuries and they're getting by.

Speaker 1 (11:00):
Hoskins have started the rehab, so you figured they're going
to both be back next week. Now. That's when they
went on their run, quite frankly, when Churio went out,
which makes no sense, but uh no, none so. But
I think those guys come back and provide the necessary
pop here at the for the end and run. I
really like what the Brewers are doing. If ms Roski

(11:21):
can come back healthy, he could be a real interesting
guy and maybe in relief in the playoffs.

Speaker 4 (11:30):
M h.

Speaker 2 (11:30):
You know one player we haven't discussed all that much
who's really having an outstanding year is Freddy Peralta.

Speaker 1 (11:38):
Oh yeah, yeah, he's been very good. Yeah, he basically
shut down the Cubs line up A couple of games
ago and I watched that game. It was pretty he
was he was dominant.

Speaker 2 (11:49):
Yeah, and the trade for Andrew Vaughn is looking like
it's worth a million bucks. Uh Salfreelik has moved into
the leadoff spot for the most part, and he's getting
on base, stealing a few the He's proving to be
I think a very good player. William Contreras has dealt
with hand issues all year, but he's starting to show

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some power at the right time. You know, even look
at their their bench. You know, Danny Jensen's you know,
a good backup catcher who they add, who is one
of their ads. But you know when you look at
that rotation, Peralta and Woodruff and miss Rowski, Quinn Priesters
pitched well. Josey Cantana is their number five. It's it's

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a think I just have a good team.

Speaker 1 (12:35):
So let's let's talk about Andrew Vaughan. You brought to
bring up a really good point because I mentioned that
Reeves Hoskins think he hit home run in his first
rehab game back. He's coming back. How is that going
to play itself out? Because Christine Yelich is your d
H does Vaughan and Hoskins split the deal or do
they basically let Andrew Vaughan keep playing full time.

Speaker 2 (12:58):
Uh, it would be nice if one, if Christian Yelich
could go back into the oatfield.

Speaker 1 (13:05):
We got South Freelick out there. You're gonna have Jackson
Cheerio coming back, and Blake Perkins is out there and
Isaac Collins, Isaac Collins the Rule five guys who's had
a really nice season as well.

Speaker 2 (13:20):
Yeah, move one to moved Collins or Perkins into a
job share with Yelich, and if that's possible, and you know,
I'll get get Vaughn and Reee Hoskins into the mix.

Speaker 1 (13:36):
Yeah. Isaac Collins eight home runs, fourteen stolen bases, two
seventy seven average, but a three seventy six on base percentage.
I mean that's it's pretty darn good.

Speaker 2 (13:46):
Yeah, they're gonna have a problem of the good nature,
aren't they.

Speaker 1 (13:49):
Yeah, and I don't. I mean, I think Jackson Cherrio
is gonna play. But I do worry because I do
have several shares of Reee Hoskins. I'm really worried that that's, uh,
that's going to play itself out.

Speaker 2 (14:03):
Yeah, it's entirely possible that it that it does, because
let's face it, Andrew Andrew Vaughan has he's great. Yeah,
he's just been unreal. Yeah, he's done everything they wanted
of him and then.

Speaker 1 (14:17):
Some So do the Dodgers hold off the Padres?

Speaker 2 (14:23):
Uh? Yeah, I think they do. I think what will
make a rather substantial difference is uh Tanner Scott returning.
I think that helps their bullpen a lot. He's supposed
to be back today if I'm not mistaken.

Speaker 1 (14:39):
One of that one of my notes was that, I
mean he has not pitched well, Tommy, he's getting he's
getting torched.

Speaker 2 (14:49):
Yeah, hey he's coming off Tommy John Yeah. Yeah, it's
but but when everybody responds.

Speaker 1 (15:00):
But you're you're fighting for a playoff spot, you're fighting
to get a buye in the first round. If you're
the Dodgers, do you tell show, hey a Tani, let's
let's just pack it in and you focus on hitting.
We'll pick up pitching next season.

Speaker 2 (15:15):
At some point in time, it's gonna boil down to that.
We know that Shoi Otani is a forty five fifty
five home run that with twenty stolen. Yeah, he's all
World one of the best hitters in the game. Are
you going to sacrifice that those hitting skills to put

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him in a situation where it could be detrimental to
their overall rotation. Still, I still think Otani's gonna pitch
moving forward. But I'm sticking with I'm sticking with my
story from long ago and far away. I think he's
gonna end up in the bullpen as a closer.

Speaker 1 (15:54):
Yeah, I mean, it's it's interesting. We take a look.
He's got a four to sixty one ERA. Though he's
striking out eleven and a half per nine, he's not
walking to anybody at one point six per nine. He's
got a two point six expected array. So maybe I
take everything I just said back.

Speaker 2 (16:13):
Yeah, but again, at some at some point in time,
he's been through what one Tommy John in one brace. Yeah,
I believe it was. At some point in time, he's.

Speaker 1 (16:25):
At two elbow surgeries. That's the important part.

Speaker 2 (16:28):
Yeah, at some point in time that dream will will
fade and Sho Yotani is an amazing baseball player. The
fact that he can do what he is attempting to do,
or has done and is attempting to do again is admirable,
but Sho Yotani as the bat I think is more

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important to the Dodgers and show Yotani the starting pitcher.

Speaker 1 (16:57):
Yeah, but I'm looking at Shoyotani the baseball savant guy.
He's damned good.

Speaker 2 (17:02):
That's the picture.

Speaker 1 (17:03):
I think it's all going to be there. So you're
saying the Dodgers hold off the Padres, it looks like
the Phillies have a pretty sizeable lead on the Mets.
Do the Mets hold off the Reds or do the
red sneak in?

Speaker 2 (17:18):
I'm going to go with it underdog. Yeah, yeah, I
gotta be Remember you know what, when you look at
the Reds lineup, getting Hunter green back this week, that's
a big deal, and he pitched well and.

Speaker 1 (17:38):
Two starts he's pitched well on both of them. Yeah,
I just.

Speaker 2 (17:43):
Yeah, I look at all world Li de la Cruz
and you know, no, Noelvie Marte. I think is is
proving that he's going to be a fairly big part
of that franchise moving forward. The guy that's struggling badly
is is Matt McClain. Matter of fact, he's lost his job,
or at least he's in a job share. But you know,

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you look at that starting rotation, you get Hunter Green
and Nick Martinez is a fine three four type pitcher,
as is Zach Lettel. Andrew Abbott is probably their best
pitcher this year. I think if you looked at looked
at his he's probably a top ten starter this year.
Andrew Rabbitt yea and Brady Singer singers their number five.

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It's the the Reds have a good team. I think
they can surprise and.

Speaker 1 (18:32):
I be really we Chase Burns in there, hopefully doesn't
have to have tom of John surgery, but you could
be looking at a rotation of Hunter Green. I think
Hunter Green's the ace, but that's just me Hunter Green,
Andrew Rabbit, Chase Burns and then Singer and who else.
I mean, that's really good rotation.

Speaker 2 (18:51):
Yeah, and you know you can throw a guy like
Nicko Lodolo in there, you know what I mean.

Speaker 1 (18:56):
There's yeah, they got Red Louder still kicking around. The
pretty good picture in the minor league. So it's Julian
agui Are comes back soon. You had Tommy john Surgers,
They've got some bullets and you know you still got
some depth in the minor leagues with some young kids.
That's a really good team.

Speaker 2 (19:17):
Well yeah, and you know, every time I look at
Elie de la Cruz and I see the fact that
he's twenty three years old, I shake my head. Yep, yeah, crazy, crazy.

Speaker 1 (19:29):
I just think that I love what the Reds and
Brewers have done. I mean, they've grown it from within.
They're really good teams. They're small market teams and you
got to root for them. So let's take a quick break,
come back and do the American League tim today. The

(19:56):
Tigers would get the buye. I mean, they've got the
best record in the American League ten over. The Kansas
City Royals have all of a sudden popped up. Toronto
Blue Jays are five games in front of the Yankees
and the Red Sox, who are basically tied, and then
the Astros are only two games up on the Seattle Mariners.

(20:17):
So I'm gonna assume that the Detroit Tiger is gonna
win the Central, who wins the East, who wins the
West Ah Jays?

Speaker 2 (20:25):
And I'm I'm gonna go with the Mariners.

Speaker 1 (20:31):
Wow, I think not played well recently.

Speaker 2 (20:36):
No. Mariners are three and seven in the past ten
Houston is four and six. Both of them are sory
limping towards the finish line. And what did I just
see Craig Kimbrel.

Speaker 1 (20:47):
Yeah, he's the answer in Houston. Yeah, is it gonna
make your waiver wire? He's the thing for the day.

Speaker 2 (20:54):
Yeah, Brian and Bray, you must be impressed.

Speaker 1 (21:00):
True, Craig Kimberl's a pick up. There might be we
might be taking applications for a co host. So just
that why.

Speaker 2 (21:11):
That's putting a lot of pressure on me. He's on
the no.

Speaker 1 (21:17):
Kevin, Okay, it's just a joke.

Speaker 2 (21:21):
Everyone kim were both there, I'd be toast. I'd be
updating my resume, all right.

Speaker 1 (21:30):
But the exciting thing here is, all of a sudden,
the Royals are playing a lot better, which is about time.
You and I have been talking about it all season.
They've got good players, Like what's happening while they're all
finally starting to play together. Well, then he pass Meentina
hits a home run every day and he's been.

Speaker 2 (21:49):
Just tearing it up. And Michael Garcia is still playing well.
Bobby Wood Jr. Yeah, they moved Jonathan India down in
the lineup, which I don't think is a bad thing. Yeah,
when you look at you know, two, three, two through five. Okay,
you know with Junior Vinnie p like you said, he's
hitting home run every day, Garcia sal Prez and everybody

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else is just sort of fitting in around that group.
And yeah they Noah Cameron, we don't talk about about
no Cameron. But yeah, you just just going out game
after game after game and getting it done right. So yeah,
so do they make it in? So so? So? Who? So?

Speaker 1 (22:35):
You got Seattle? So that means that the Houston Astros,
if we're in today, the Yankees and Red Sox would
be the wild card? Is do those three make it
in or do the Royals or even the Guardians sneak in? Uh?

Speaker 2 (22:53):
I'm I'm gonna go with the three teams from the
ale at the east, Detroit, Houston, and Seattle.

Speaker 1 (23:07):
I think Kansas City is on the outside looking at
so it is as it as it's listed today. The Yankees,
Socks and Mariners, Astros, Blue Jays and Tigers.

Speaker 2 (23:20):
Yeah, you know Houston is going to get back. You're
Dan Alvarez, are they.

Speaker 4 (23:29):
Well, I mean, I mean, at some point a question. Yeah,
that was pretty open ended on my end. Yes, nine, Now,
I mean.

Speaker 1 (23:41):
I haven't it's not like, I'm I'm you know, I'm
I've got your Dan Alvarez dot com and I'm the
fan site administrator. But I haven't heard anything that he's
on a he's on a rehab or anything. Nothing.

Speaker 2 (23:54):
Oh what did I hear? I just heard something about
about Alvarez supposed to be heading out. Let me just
see if I can verify that one.

Speaker 4 (24:05):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (24:06):
In a second, he'sad a second rehab.

Speaker 2 (24:10):
Yeah, okay, rehab? Okay, yeah, what did it say? Could
return early next week?

Speaker 1 (24:20):
They're saying, yep, all right, so good. So he's on
his rehab, which is good. So Tim is right, so
they're going to get him back. They're going to get
him back soon.

Speaker 2 (24:29):
Yeah. Man, you know when you when you look at
you know, Panyan Carl's career and now too. He and
Christian Walker's playing a lot better. Jesus Sanchez was a
nice ad to go along with Yan your Diez hitting
five six, uh, Cam Smith, Jacob Melton. It's offensively. I

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think they'll be fine. It's it's the bullpen that's a problem.

Speaker 1 (24:55):
Yeah, it was.

Speaker 2 (24:56):
It was a very strong and lock lock them up,
shut them down, bullpen. Well, losing Josh had hurt big time.
The rotation has Hunter Brown and fran velda Is up
top and fram Raveltas has sort of been a little
hit and miss lately. But the starting pitching is good enough.

(25:17):
The bullpen, they got to get Josh hayterback. You know,
when they're bringing in Craig Kimberl, it says that they
recognize that there is there is a problem, you know,
And I don't know, maybe maybe Luis Garcia ends up
in the pen. Uh hard to save it. I just

(25:40):
don't like the bullpen right now. I think they need
I think they need another arm.

Speaker 1 (25:46):
I don't know how they're gonna do it, because the
trade deadline's over. Maybe they move on to the starters
and there maybe it's it's Lance the Colors pitching, or
is the on the e l Maybe you throw a
guy like that and there, I mean, fran ra Veldez
is up and very good over the last few starts
as well.

Speaker 2 (26:02):
So Christian heavier Spencer again, Maybe they move one of
those two guys. Yeah, yeah for the playoffs?

Speaker 1 (26:12):
All right, So Tim, give me your World Series matchup?

Speaker 2 (26:16):
Uh, Toronto Blue Jays and Milwaukee Brewers.

Speaker 1 (26:21):
That's me. That's just.

Speaker 2 (26:26):
I've heard Rachel. You you you see an ulterior mold.

Speaker 1 (26:31):
There is there. Go with the the one non US
city and go with the smallest market in baseball. That's
that's brilliant.

Speaker 4 (26:43):
I like it.

Speaker 2 (26:46):
Hey, I'm not getting a Christmas card from I've never
gotten one from Rob Manford. This seals the deal for me, right.

Speaker 1 (26:53):
You know, there's a lot of bad matchups. It could
be like the Tigers and the Brewers. I don't think
Major League Baseball would be very very happy with that.

Speaker 2 (27:02):
Well yeah, and if you look at look at the
n L okay it who's to say the aren't in
the World Series? Would they be a popular choice?

Speaker 3 (27:14):
The Red the Red so I think the popular choice
is obviously the Phillies, the Dodgers, the Mets, and the Cups.

Speaker 1 (27:23):
That's the Major League Baseball once and from the American League,
it's obviously the Yankees. The Red Sox would be great
and the Astro is a little bit. Yeah, that's it's
it's a little diceing in the American League because the
Tigers would not be a big draw, and the Mariners
wouldn't be a big draw, and the Royals wouldn't be
a big draw.

Speaker 2 (27:43):
So yeah, it's yeah, I would love to see Jayson Brewers.
I really were Tigers and Brewers or yeah, Tigers and
Padre's something something that didn't didn't include the Dodgers, the
Yankees and the Phillies. How was that in the Mets.

Speaker 1 (28:06):
Yeah, to me, I would love to see the Tigers
and the Brewers because that would be rewarding teams that
built their organizations through the draft and through good trades,
and I think that would be really really nice smaller
market teams. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (28:22):
Yeah, and the Jays fit into that homegrown thing as well.
And you know, hey, you say what you want about Boston,
but those kids are making a difference. They really are.
You see Anthony welcome to himself to New York last night,
didn't they.

Speaker 1 (28:38):
That's a fair point. I mean, I love what the
Red Sox have done and uh yeah, totally agree with
you there. And they've just brought up another guy to
take a quick break, and let's talk about some of
these kids them, because it is crazy the number of
guys that are coming up. We did the September fall

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off math for everyone, and this is the time that
we predict that people would be coming up, and by God,
to me, they are coming up, so we've got to
buy and droves. I mean, it's it's pretty impressive. What's happening, Well,
the first one is an injury replacement William or Brave
who hits the I L and the the for you Tenson,

(29:29):
You Tenson, You your Tenson? Okay, Garcia. The password that's
what he'll go he'll be going by, which is if
you read my write up, I I give the phonetic
pronunciation of your Tenson. And I talked about it wasn't
he didn't give himself the password as the I think
it was some blog that did. And uh, And it's

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all because those if you put a utension the way
he spells it as your password, that would be a
great password, because no one could be. But I guess
I still can't spell it right. I have to look
at it and go back and forth to write it in.
It's it's a tough one.

Speaker 2 (30:07):
Yeah. They just called him up to torment people who
are writing we were wearing for this weekend. Yeah. I
checked three times before I am convinced. I sort of.
I call him j host why Nixon without.

Speaker 1 (30:24):
Jaos, But it's Joe Tenson. Why say I've got the
phonetic phonetic spelling in my notes. I don't want to
get it out anyway. There's some chase that has approached him,
but it's big power, a little bit of speed. What
do you think.

Speaker 2 (30:39):
I think you have to be interested in any player
that has mashed twenty homers in three or eighty were
the best, most of which were at triple A. Okay,
realizing fully that when William or bra was ready to
come back, he's got the job. Okay. I don't think
he's going to get Wally pipped into a situation where
he isn't playing. Uh if hey, if Garcia tears it

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up to find room for him in the line up too, Okay,
but it's hard to How would you not be interested
in playing in Boston? Who's gonna hit probably what five, six,
seven somewhere in there that's hit that many home runs
in the miners. I think you have to be interested
in him.

Speaker 1 (31:20):
Let's see Red Sox with calf injury, so that's why
he's out, so hopefully it won't be long. I've had
calf injuries before. They could be tricky to uh to heal.
I mean it's uh yeah, that's because you use your
calf muscle for everything. So it's it's tough. It's it's

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tough to rest it mm hmm.

Speaker 2 (31:43):
Yeah, the best the best thing is, as you just said, rested.
So we'll see where happens. But I'm anticipating he's going
to get himself at least a couple of weeks and
if he does hit, he'll stick around, right he will.

Speaker 1 (31:58):
So let's let's put him into the mix of some
of these other guys that just got called up, and
I'm going to ask you to order these guys in
terms of who would you want to pick up for
the rest of the season. Bubba Chandler gets his long
anticipated call and it's reportedly that the Pittsburgh Pirates are
going to put him into the bullpen, and just everybody knows,

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the first five or six games this season, he was
as good as advertise. I mean, he was striking out
a ton of guys, no one was scoring runs. And
we sit here today and he's got nearly a five
earra and he's walking almost five per nine. So it's
been a tough last three months of the season for
young mister Bubba Chandler.

Speaker 2 (32:44):
Yeah, it has. And yeah, a lot of people are saying, oh, man,
they're bringing him in to be pitch long relief. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
But you know what, I think that's probably the best
situation for him right now, and I think as far
as our game is concerned, I think it's also the
best potential situation because I can see him coming in

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after an opener and pitching two to three innings. Does
he have a better chance to earn a win coming
following an opener for two to three innings or starting
a game and going five to six. With what we've
seen in the minors this year, I would think he
has a better chance of earning wins and pitching better
in two to three and shorter bursts, Okay, as compared

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to you know, the five to six inning outings. And
let's face at, Pittsburgh has scored the fewest runs of
any team in the game this year. Okay, offensively, they're
not going to help him. I think his odds are
better of being successful relative to our game are doing,

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is doing what the Pirates are doing with him.

Speaker 1 (33:53):
I one thousand percent agree with Tim. I think this
is I mean, for a fantasy standpoint, he actually is
probably a better situation, Tim is right than starting him
at the end of the season. I think long term
for dynasty league owners, this is the best situation. Let
him get his exposure to the big leagues. There's nothing
wrong with the stuff. I don't know where the walks

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came from. I don't know what happened. I mean, he
pitched two and a half three years and looked great,
and all of a sudden gets to triple A in
the sixth game and starts walking everybody. Somebody will figure
that out with Pittsburgh I.

Speaker 2 (34:28):
Would hope so, yes. And if they don't, they will
figure it out on another team. Okay, yeah, tell that
is such that somebody is going to figure it out.

Speaker 1 (34:39):
So Bubba Chandler is one guy you could pick up.
Next guy you could pick up his Parker Messick came
in left handed pitcher with the Cleveland Guardians. I've never
been the biggest fan of Parker Messick, but man, he's
always pitched well, doesn't have big stuff. He came up
and shoved it for the Guardians. They should have won
the game, but the bullpen blew it. Parker Messick you think.

Speaker 2 (35:02):
I think he's a good ad. He's definitely definitely in
the in the waiver war. Maybe the Guardians are going
to pitch him every fifth day. I like the situation there.

Speaker 1 (35:15):
Yeah, I mean he's been really good. Again. I don't
love the delivery, don't love the stuff, but it doesn't matter.
He's been pitching really well. Here's an interesting one. The
race finally bring up Carson Williams. He's got twenty three
home runs and twenty two stolen bases but striking out
thirty four percent of the time. They bring up Carson Williams. Timmy,

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what do you think of that?

Speaker 4 (35:37):
Ad?

Speaker 2 (35:39):
Well, again, it's the Rays, so you always you always
sort of you know, hass On Kim. You know he's
dealing with a back issue. Now, okay, Taylor Wolves or
their other shorts. He's got a string growing. Okay, it
looks like things are set up for for this kid

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to have a good opportunity to play on a regular basis.
He's they got him hitting in the eighth spot in
the lineup, which makes a lot of sense. You know,
if you're counting, if you're looking at trying to count
on anything from a batting average perspective, I would say
you're not chasing the right guy. But at the same
point in time, the power and speed is such that

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for purposes of our game, he's a must grab. I
think power and speed potential, and let's let's face it,
the Raids are gonna run. They got Chandler Simpson. Okay, yeah,
they got they got Simpson before that, they had caval Arrow.
That's it. They're gonna They're gonna let him run. So

(36:47):
I sort of like Carson Williams. I think he's gonna
have a good two to three weeks. Uh, there's no
rush to get has On kimback whatsoever.

Speaker 1 (36:56):
He's a great defender. He's every bit as good as walls.
He's better than I'm Kim. Uh. And this is this
is a this is a very good baseball player, as
I tried, and Tim has teased me about this, But
know your parameters with these guys. I mean, don't go
in thinking that everybody's going to be Shoheo Tani offensively

(37:16):
or you know, Fernando Tatis. He's got he's got an
issue and he makes terrible context. So it's gonna be
speed and power. He's got to walk a lot, so
the own base percentage is going to be okay. But
he had easily hit two thirty easily hit two.

Speaker 2 (37:31):
Yeah, easily. But we're looking at five weeks and the
key in that five weeks is you get the playing
time and have that opportunity.

Speaker 1 (37:39):
And his defense is going to keep him in there
because he's a great defender. He's been a great defen
He could have come up last season after they lost
Wander Fronco and could have fit right and he wouldn't
have hit, but he could have. He could have defensively.
He's that good.

Speaker 2 (37:53):
Yeah, So yeah, you gotta like it. And hey, if
you got any fab love, you've got to be spending
it right.

Speaker 1 (38:00):
Final guy, Maximo Acosta, one of the best first names
in all of baseball infielder. He plays all over the
place of the Miami Marlins. He's only one for ten,
but he did get a home run. So there's also
Maximo Acosta. What do you think of him?

Speaker 2 (38:15):
Again, but we're looking at a guy who should play
basically every day down the stretch. Okay, who's gonna take
the job at third base away from him? Have your scenoia?
Yeah yeah, I think they're gonna give this kid a
good look. And again, there's power potential there. He's gonna

(38:40):
hit at the bottom of that lineup behind some Actually,
you start looking at that Marlins offense and I like
a lot of what I'm seeing. You know, Xavier Edwards
is a perfect lead off guy. He's got the speed
to steal bases, high on base percentage type guy. Jacob

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Marseille is looking like all world August August tenor mirrors.

Speaker 1 (39:06):
Okay, but he's still still hitting tons of home runs.

Speaker 2 (39:11):
Yeah, he's he's he's a good young player. Oto Lopez
is proving to be much better than anticipated. Roberto Hernandez.
I like, I like what's happening with Miami's offense, and
let's face it, the pitching with Perez. Yeah good, sorry bull? Yeah.

Speaker 1 (39:32):
So yeah, I got Thomas White coming up probably next season,
and he's going to be in that same areas Andrew
Paynter and Bubba Chandler. He's that level. He's he's the
top of the rotation guy. So they keep reloading down
in Miami and they've traded for everybody and all these
kids are giving them a shot. It's great.

Speaker 2 (39:54):
Yeah. No, if I was looking at bidding this weekend,
Darson Williams would get it.

Speaker 1 (40:00):
Uh would get my okay order order order these guys Carson,
Bubba Chandler, Parker Messi, Carson Williams, maximum Costa. Let's also
throw in, just for fun, the passwords. You got five guys,
order them one through five is to where you would
put the most amount of fab.

Speaker 2 (40:19):
The most amount of fab for me goes to Carson Williams. Okay,
And what I would do is I would split this
into two bids, obviously hitting and pitching, and I would
bid Williams backed up by Acosta, backed up by Garcia
in that order.

Speaker 1 (40:34):
Okay, right, I probably want Carson password Acosta, but I
know where you're going to Costa because of the play,
because of the playing time. But I get it.

Speaker 2 (40:43):
Yeah, yeah, it's Carson Williams. For me is the number
one guy looking at these looking at these three bets
and pitching wise, Hey, Bubba Chandler has walked to gazillion
this year, Perker as a left hand pitcher, I gotta
go Messic over Chandler.

Speaker 1 (41:01):
I know I do too, And Chandler is going to
be in the bullpen. So I I might have mis
calculated on Parker Messick. He looked awfully good in his debut.

Speaker 2 (41:10):
So and Cleveland does have a history of a little bit,
a little bit. Yeah, looking forward tonight to seeing mister
Bieber make his debut.

Speaker 1 (41:20):
Oh yeah, that's right. We didn't even I didn't bring
that up. I should have brought that up. Let's let's
take another quick break, come back, and I've got another
swath of young players to talk about. So you prop

(41:43):
back town out there. Rich has been talking to the
third person like Bo Jackson used to do.

Speaker 2 (41:50):
So I said to myself, I said to myself, I.

Speaker 1 (41:57):
Had been writing like a madman. Tim I had pretty much.
I've got almost five hundred and seventy five profiles done.
I've guaranteed six hundred. It's probably going to be more
like six fifty this year. So the National League East
is pretty much done ill, you know, right up the

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last month of the season or so, and the American
League Central, National League Central is done. On this afternoon,
I'll finish up the American League Central and that will
be the first half of the swaft done, and then
it's on to the American League East. So and there'll
probably be about one hundred first year player guys coming out,

(42:39):
so all of those I'm going really deep on that.
So people in the first year player drafts going to
have a lot of guys to talk about. It's pretty
interesting because the league, the minor leagues have gotten so
young with all these promotions, I've really been aggressive with
ranking really young players above guys that are twenty four

(43:02):
years old in TRIPLEA that I think are just going
to be marginal players. So I've started to tweak my
analysis and just going for the younger, more higher upside guys,
putting them higher in the rankings on the teams and overall.
So it's fun.

Speaker 2 (43:16):
Well, and you know, not only is it fun for
you at the same point in time, it is also
directly relative to the way Major League Baseball is treating
these younger players and putting them through the system quicker
and quicker all the time. You know, at one point
in time, would you see a player drafted in twenty

(43:39):
four playing in twenty four. Would you see them playing
early in twenty five. No, it wasn't common. It's becoming
more and more common. So the way that you're approaching
it aggressively is exactly the same way that Major League
Baseball is playing the game with these kids, right, So
it makes sense at least just to me.

Speaker 1 (43:57):
Yeah, I mean, I mean there's still some value in
the guy that have, you know, really high floors, but
some of these young kids that are just being drafted,
and particularly in this draft, it's pretty interesting that not
a lot of guys are going to be deployed out
to the affiliates this season because they're so young. A
lot of high school shortstops just are not going to

(44:18):
go out there. So first year player drafts can be
a little tricky because you're not going to have any
data at all. You're just going to have my write
ups and everybody else's right ups to kind of go on.
I think that's going to be really interesting in dynasty
leagues this season.

Speaker 2 (44:33):
Well yeah, and then you're going to have the twenty
four year old okay, who was a hot commodity two
years ago, Jacob Brci who all of a sudden comes
out of nowhere okay basically and is tearing it up.
And I think we're going to see as we move
forward into next year. In the year after, I think
we're going to see because the pushes on the younger

(44:55):
player and getting them through the system quickly, I think
there's going to be opportunity. Okay, not not every day,
but we're gonna have opportunities for the twenty four and
twenty five year old who finally gets called up because
of an injury or whatever. Okay, hitting the ground running
and providing incredible value. So as much as we were

(45:18):
focusing on the younger player, I think there's still an
opportunity for the twenty four to twenty five year old.
Should they get the opportunity to be of huge value
to us playing the game. Yeah it's tough.

Speaker 1 (45:31):
Yeah it does. But I mean, I mean you got
to somewhat line the bed that you make right because
you know, if you're going to promote all the young
kids then the Jacob Marshes of the world get naturally
get pushed down. R And I was you know, your
partner dl FI, Bob king High was always a huge
Jacob Marcy fan. I used to tease them relentlessly, particularly

(45:51):
when he stuck up the joint over the last two years.
But when I saw the kind of the halo of
Jacob Marcy fall off this season and I took a
look at the underlying day and to saw the speed
and the ability to hit, I don't think there's gonna
be a ton of power all of a sudden I
became bullish on Jacob Marcy. I'm going, he's a guy

(46:12):
for me this season. So I had him in a
bunch of Dynasty leagues because he was on the waiver wire,
and I added to my nbcly and I'm reaping the rewards.
So a lot of it just depends on, you know,
the value of these guys related relative to how everybody
else perceives him. Sometimes you can be too early on
the guy and then you over promote him, evaluate him,

(46:37):
and then he's too much right, and then all of
a sudden, then he falls off. Because we see this
in fantasy baseball all the time. You usually go like
ten to nine to eight to seven to six, you know,
as you're going up the chain, as soon as you
get to three, and if you stink, you're down at
one hundred, so you fall very very quickly. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (46:58):
I know with Marseille, I was big on him when
he was at the padre Is because there was an opportunity.
There was nobody in the outfield. He was coming off
a big year down in the farm. I was all
over him a couple of years ago. I was just
a few years to a few years on the early side.
But again, you have to make assessments of these players
as to where they fit in, and opportunity, of course,
is for me, one of the driving factors. And then

(47:21):
all of a sudden the opportunity disappeared in San Diego.
He's traded to the Marlins, and guess what opportunity Yeah,
gets a shot and the way he goes.

Speaker 1 (47:32):
I still not convinced he's a full time regular, but
it doesn't matter. He's been you know. It's it's interesting
because I when I was in the next second, We're
going to get to the same thing before. The guys
have been up a little bit, maybe for an extra week.
I mean, Jacob Marcy is ranked third overall when you
when you take a look at outfielders, He's ranked third

(47:53):
in the outfield tim over the last two weeks, just
in front of Corbyn Carroll and Juan Soto. So that's
the kind of two weeks he's had. It's very impressive.

Speaker 2 (48:02):
Yeah, and Vinnie pas Contino was the best first baseman
in the game, that's true.

Speaker 1 (48:07):
So small, simple sizers. So I got these four guys.
Owen Cassie just came up. He's already had a home run, Sambasaiyah.
Everybody knows who he has three for ten and three
games some really long outs because I watch a bunch
of as bats. Dylan Beavers hasn't done much in his
four games, and then Jacob Marcy has been all world rant.
Those four guys in terms of who you would want

(48:28):
a roster for the rest of the season.

Speaker 2 (48:31):
For the rest of the season, well, and then I
might go for.

Speaker 1 (48:36):
The next five years. But it's been the rest of
the season.

Speaker 2 (48:40):
Okay, I'm going to go in reverse order of how
you have them listed. Really, say Beavers, Basalo Casey.

Speaker 1 (48:49):
Why so Beaver's in front of Besaiah just because so
we'll we'll say Sam Besaiah is named like the Latin
people Samuel Osaio, so it will probably get bastardized as
a English English name would be Sam Basio. So but anyway,
you've got Beavers in front of Asiah because of the
speed I'm assuming the.

Speaker 2 (49:11):
Speed, and the fact that he did hit his first
home run last night. Oh, he's just playing it, Okay,
he hit in his fifth game. He finally hit a
home run. But in five games he also has five walks.
He's walked more than struck out I believe. I like that.
I like what I'm seeing. He's sort of buried down
seven eight, you know, and then the lower third of

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that lineup. I don't think there's any pressure on him.
He's going to play every day and power speed. But
I like the fact that he's taking walks. Okay, even
though he didn't hit his first home run until Game
five last night, the fact that he was taking walks
right from right from game one. So this is still
this is Beavers. Yeah, this is Beavers. Yeah, that impressed me.

Speaker 1 (49:55):
Rich Okay, but just just know Timmy can't hit left handed?
Can I a left handed pitcher? Never been able to.

Speaker 2 (50:02):
So yeah, I'll take the power speed. Well again, I'll
take the power speed because I if you decided you
I got no problems with with Sam Besiah being number
one on this is to be honest with you, even
think at some point in time Merseid is going to
cool off. Uh. The one that definitely there is a

(50:25):
big gap.

Speaker 1 (50:25):
For me is Owen Casey except because of playing time.

Speaker 2 (50:29):
Correct.

Speaker 1 (50:30):
Yes, I thought that was a strange promotion. I get why.
I understand he was playing extremely well right and quote
unquote deserved it. But I mean, you got the The
Cubs are a good team and they're fighting for their
playoff lives, and are they going to give Ollen Casey
enough playing time for it to matter. It's it's a

(50:50):
that's a tough math problem for me.

Speaker 2 (50:53):
Well yeah, and you know what, Kyle Tucker has struggled.
Apparently he had a broken hand. Nobody knew about her finger.

Speaker 1 (51:00):
Didn't hear that? Oh my god?

Speaker 2 (51:02):
Yeah, yeah, he's been dealing with a hand issue apparently.
But again, Pete grow Armstrong, you're not taking him on
the center field even if he struggles with the bat. Okay,
Kyle Tucker, he sat down this week and that had
a few days off.

Speaker 1 (51:17):
So like Kyle Tucker is doing a William Contreras. He's
been playing with a broken hand.

Speaker 2 (51:23):
Mmm, well I believe it was broken hand. I'll just
let me just wow hand her finger.

Speaker 1 (51:30):
Yeah it is again I think it was a finger
for for Contreras.

Speaker 2 (51:34):
Yeah, yeah, he continues to scuffle.

Speaker 4 (51:38):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (51:39):
I was recently disclosed that the oatfielders hastained a hairline
fracture in his right hand first, which likely impacted his swing. No, duh, hey, geez, oh.

Speaker 1 (51:52):
Here's my fears information.

Speaker 2 (51:54):
We need to know that ship.

Speaker 1 (51:56):
Yeah. I think I guess that this happens all the time,
and we these guys are go into you know, two
months slump and you can't figure out it was. It
was Corbyn Carroll last season. Corbyn Carroll remember his shoulder.

Speaker 2 (52:07):
His shoulder was buggered up. I don't care what anybody.

Speaker 1 (52:10):
Yeah, yeah, and they just don't tell you and then
all of a sudden it heals up. And same thing
with Kyle Tucker. That that really blows man. You're right,
they need to tell people.

Speaker 2 (52:21):
M yeah, you know, from football, okay, and now it's
just every Friday Friday, okay, the medical status of everybody
on the team, okay, right to the general manager. Okay.
In baseball, figure out it's important enough to release somebody's
got a busted uh hand.

Speaker 1 (52:40):
No, I know, it's exactly my guess. If baseball was
more of a betting sport, you would probably be forced to.
In football, there's so much money exchanging hands at the
betting circles that I mean, you've got to know if
a guy is injured.

Speaker 2 (52:58):
So but uh, they just like to make sorry.

Speaker 1 (53:07):
Yeah, okay, so you got Marcy Beavers, Messiah Cassi, Casey,
Owen Casey order those guys for the next five years
in a dynasty league. I'm going to see if this changes.

Speaker 2 (53:20):
Uh, Sam Bosio, Uh, Jacob Marcy. Oh.

Speaker 1 (53:29):
Tim is all in on Jacob, Marcy.

Speaker 2 (53:31):
Jaylan Beaver's and Owen Casey.

Speaker 1 (53:34):
I think you're a little light on Owen Casey. But
that's just me. I'm going to gode Owen Casey. Okay,
Beaver's Marcy Marcy Beavers, I'm not sure. I do worry
about Dylan Beavers and his platoon splits and Marcy's not
I mean, I don't know. It's it's easy to get
all excited about Marcy. It's a great story. He's what

(53:56):
twenty six years old, and he's all world at the moment.
But I mean, power is just not real. I mean so,
but he's fast and can hit and guys like that, and.

Speaker 2 (54:06):
Enough, he's twenty He's only twenty four.

Speaker 1 (54:08):
Rich I soon to be twenty five, isn't he?

Speaker 2 (54:13):
When is his date of birth? No? January February March
April May. He just turned at the end of June
twenty four.

Speaker 1 (54:20):
Okay, well I got that wrong too. He's just twenty
four years, one month, twenty five days. That is correct.
He's slugging seven thirty four after slugging four thirty eight
in Triple A and slugging in twenty twenty three slu
four to twenty eight. So he's more of a more

(54:42):
of a ten to twelve home run guy as opposed
to look. But that's enough to be a full time regular.

Speaker 2 (54:48):
So yeah, I guess a lot for me on case
He depends on what happens with Kyle Tucker. Okay, I
think there's been a fair push.

Speaker 1 (54:58):
For the cut talking next next five years.

Speaker 2 (55:02):
Yeah, I think there's been a pretty good push for
the Cubs to look at inking Kyle Tucker to a
pretty big contract. Now, if he stays with the Cubs,
then you've got right field, You've got PCA covering center,
and Ian Halp. I don't know what Happ's contract situation is,
but I'm gonna look it up right now. It would

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create problems potentially for Casey.

Speaker 1 (55:27):
That's yeah, that's true. And Saya Suzuki is DH and
I hope you get some outfield time because I haven't
been a couple three leagues. I want to have outfield
eligibility next season.

Speaker 2 (55:38):
So yeah, I'm just looking at Hap now, he just
he signed, he he's tied up through twenty six, so.

Speaker 1 (55:47):
He's got one more year. Yes, that makes O and
Casey pretty tough for next year. It's all going to
come down to Kyle Tucker. You're right, and yeah, I
had cubs. I much rather have Kyle Tucker over the
next couple three years. But Tucker's gonna require twenty nine
years old, so he's twenty eight point six, so I'll
be twenty nine when he signs that deal. So it's

(56:08):
gonna be at least seven or eight years. That's gonna
be and we we've already talked about that's gonna be
a big ass contract.

Speaker 2 (56:15):
Four to five hundred million.

Speaker 1 (56:17):
Yeah, yeah, agreed. Uh, Timmy, we were already at the
uh at the hour marks. Let's take a final break
and then we're gonna wrap this puppy up. I got

(56:39):
a couple more questions, but uh, we're talking about show. Hey, Tony,
I'm gonna leaves question six for another day. I think
we can do that. But when I was doing the
research for who was doing well, looking at Jacob Marcy
in terms of how he was doing from an outfield,
all of a sudden I saw Britain Doyle's name pop
up and he's been really proud of late.

Speaker 2 (57:00):
Yes, I think a lot of what ailed Brenton Doyle.
I'm supported by your analysis. Rich. Okay, Brenton. I think
Brenton Doyle is the same player. He just just had
a tough time this year with personal items, with nagging injuries.
I don't think I'm down on Brenton Doyle moving forward

(57:22):
at all. I think he's going to provide solid numbers
and he's moving up in the Colorado lineup again it's Colorado.
But I'm happy to see he's turn the things around.
And I think he's still because of what happened this year.
I think he'll be downgraded heading into next year, and

(57:44):
based on your analysis and what we're starting to see,
I'm going to be looking at Brenton Doyle with a
lot more love next year. Then maybe maybe he deserves
based on what happened this year. I don't know.

Speaker 1 (57:58):
So he's a blank out for you, it's a top
blank for you. Next season.

Speaker 2 (58:04):
I think I can get him as a number three,
and I'll be very happy as a number three.

Speaker 1 (58:08):
You think he's gonna fall that much?

Speaker 2 (58:11):
Yes, I do. Wow, Because we all were always looking
and we're always looking at all these young guys coming
into the game, right, and he's coming into it. He's yeah, well,
what do you do with players like Doyle and Ezekiel
Otober they're both fine players? Okay, how far down? How
far down do you push them? You know, before they

(58:33):
start becoming a very very big value on draft day?
And I think if you can, hey, if you can
get Doyle as a number three outfielder, I'd be fine
with that.

Speaker 1 (58:43):
Next year, well, if we use Nolan Jones as a proxy.
Nolan Jones has been terrible this season, but going back
to twenty twenty three where he looked great and went
off the board as a low end number one outfielder
and I told everybody, do not partake, and Nolan Jones
everybody did, and then he stuncked this The next year

(59:04):
with injuries and just Colorado and poor performance, he became
a number four outfielder. So it was a very similar
kind of kind of you know, rationale there. So you
could see Brenton Doyle drop to the third round. I
don't think that's unreasonable.

Speaker 2 (59:20):
No, And if I recall and I'm I'm gonna do
this off the top of my head. Didn't Randy at
a Rose arena. Didn't you get pushed down until somewhere
in the fifth round this season? Yeah, I'll go look, yeah,
I pulled it up, and I can't remember what that

(59:43):
tricky control thing is. You're supposed to use control.

Speaker 1 (59:47):
It's a rose arena, a Rose arena with one twenty
five Yeah, okay, the eighth round.

Speaker 2 (59:57):
Yeah, and he's been a consider twenty twenty player now
for what five years?

Speaker 1 (01:00:03):
It was this batting average. I think that killed him.

Speaker 2 (01:00:08):
Yeah, and again his batting average is not overwhelming this year.
But if I can get Doyle in the seventh eighth round,
I like that. Yep, if I can get I don't
think I'm gonna get a rose a Rose arena, you know,

(01:00:28):
in the eighth round this coming spring. But again, yeah,
he's now got five consecutive years of twenty twenty. Now. Granted,
the batting average is two forty one, the OBP is
three forty one. But guys like that in the seventh
age round to me, I like a lot proven history,

(01:00:51):
especially with the Rose arena.

Speaker 1 (01:00:55):
Agreed, my computer just froze up, Timmy. I don't know
what this means. It's not good I went to the
nf NFBC site and my computer is just spinning. I'm
still talking to you, and I now my console just
got back up, so I'm not gonna mess around here. Okay,

(01:01:17):
tell me you're picking up what's your picture and catcher
picture and hitter that you're you're picking up?

Speaker 2 (01:01:22):
Uh, hitter. It's got to be Carson Williams. Okay, Okay,
he he's he would be my hitting target. And I'm
going a little bit. I'm I'm at a fab I
got no cash, Okay, so I got to look. I
got to look for a picture that I don't think
I'm gonna have to pay for this weekend that I

(01:01:45):
still hold hope we will see this year. And I'm
gonna target mick Abel on a one dollar bid. Now.
I know the Twins have said they want to keep
the miners yet yet, Yeah, but the last outing one
six innings, low two hits, struck out eleven. Look at
the Twins rotation as it sits right now, and it

(01:02:06):
isn't real pretty. So I'm gonna I'm gonna toss a
buck down on Mickabel, hoping you get three or four
starts over the balance of the year. In Minnesota.

Speaker 1 (01:02:18):
I kind of like it. Tim.

Speaker 2 (01:02:21):
Well, you look at the Twins rotation. You get Joe
Ryan up top is he is on his.

Speaker 1 (01:02:27):
Rehab By the way, did Pitchwalls on his first outing?

Speaker 2 (01:02:30):
But yes, yeah, but you got Bailey over Okay, then
you then you got Zebbie Matthew, you get Jose Urina
and Thomas Hatch. Okay, there's got to be room for
mick Abel somewhere in that collection of arms.

Speaker 1 (01:02:46):
I hope, yeah, I think that's a good call to me.
That is a wrap, my friend. Hopefully I didn't screw
this up, man, because I'm still trying to we're still recording,
and uh but my machine is running very, very slow.
So I'm going to say goodbye to you. If you
could leave the Microsoft teams, that would be great because

(01:03:08):
I cannot get to it.

Speaker 2 (01:03:10):
And uh yeah, I'll bail out of I'll bail out
of here, and I'll let you spin your magic, my friend.

Speaker 1 (01:03:19):
All right, friend, take care hm

Speaker 2 (01:03:54):
M