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Speaker 1 (00:21):
Greene Societyations. Everyone at rich Weels'm walking to Fantasy Baseball Live.
Today is the last day of the Major League Baseball
regular season. It is a twenty eighth, about five o'clock
in the afternoon. We're running a little late here as
Tim had some electrical problems that maybe he'll share with
what the heck happened today? But Tim, the season, my friend,
is winding down. Can you believe it?

Speaker 2 (00:43):
Yeah, it's it's that time, last day of the year.
Everybody's looks like everybody's going off. I'm just looking at
the box scores for the for the first time today,
and yeah, it looks like it looks like everybody who's
in play.

Speaker 1 (01:02):
Well, the Mets are losing forda nothing. That's the game
that counts. Mets a down Ford to nothing. They've got
to win and the Reds have got to lose. The
Reds are losing currently to Milwaukee at the moment. But
I'm watching the game, the Mets game, and it's basis loaded.
Pete Alonzo hit a ball one hundred and sixty miles

(01:23):
an hour and it was called So it's just not how.

Speaker 2 (01:28):
Long how long the guy that caught it on the
il with.

Speaker 1 (01:34):
It was. I mean he crushed the ball. I mean
it was just a missile line drive and the guy
caught it. I have Sanjay caught it out in left field.
But it's it's just not the Mets year, Tim. I mean,
don't know what else to say.

Speaker 2 (01:49):
Yeah, I have a question for you. When did you
send the text? It said power with a question mark?

Speaker 1 (01:55):
Oh, just a few minutes ago. I didn't know if you,
uh temp temp didn't have power? How long did you
powerful all day?

Speaker 2 (02:01):
Or from seven am this.

Speaker 1 (02:03):
Morning till four o'clock this afternoon?

Speaker 2 (02:07):
Yeah, two minutes to four. Yeah, no, your text just
came through. It was just sort of I was just
sort of chuckling. Yeah, No, it's it's it's a wonderful experience.
If you've never made bagels on a barbecue or coffee
on a barbecue, you really don't know what you're missing.
You really don't. It's a special day for all of

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us living through the back end of the nineteen sixties
up here in Fort Francis.

Speaker 1 (02:33):
My friend. That's that's really And you do it once
a year or twice a.

Speaker 2 (02:36):
Year, twice a year, spring and fall.

Speaker 1 (02:39):
And it's always on a Sunday like it seems like
it is. Is it always interrupts our broadcast?

Speaker 2 (02:45):
You know, the town of Fort Francis is much like
Major League Baseball, Okay, and they don't care about us
little little folk, the baseball fans, No, they yeah, yeah,
you think they would do it on a Saturday night
when the least Canadians are playing hockey. Now, they would
never screwn with that one. Get baseball, ha ha, Yeah

(03:07):
we can. We can play that game.

Speaker 1 (03:09):
So I'm not sure. I guess we should probably appropriately
talk about what's happening today, because you know, the season
is winding down. All the games are on at three o'clock,
and as we were saying, the Mets are down four
to nothing and the Brewers are up four to two
on the Reds. But I think, well, so that's that's

(03:30):
a huge story. So if the Mets.

Speaker 2 (03:33):
Mis both lose, what's the scoop.

Speaker 1 (03:35):
The Reds get in? The Reds have the tiebreakers. They
no longer do you know one hundred and sixty three
game anymore? They always do them by tiebreakers. Now, since
everybody plays everybody because of the balance schedule, there's always
a team that has got the advantage. So that's why
they do it that way. So so but the Astros,

(03:57):
I guess, first big news they're they're out. I mean,
I don't know how many years they've made the playoffs
in the row, but they're out. They're winning today obviously,
but they're out.

Speaker 2 (04:07):
Yeah, twenty sixteen, I think a long long time, A
long time ago. And you know, hey, I think there's
I think we can narrow the Astro season down to
three players. Okay, and it's fairly Alvarez has won, Framberville

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is in the second half and Josh.

Speaker 1 (04:31):
Hater, Yeah, you know, may I throw another one in there? Yeah? Sure, Yeah,
Alex Bregman not resigning Alex Bregman I think was a mistake.

Speaker 2 (04:46):
It was a good chunk of the heart and soul
of that team during that run. And yeah, no they
I think though you know, they will replace him, but yeah,
that's that's a good junk of the soul of that
team that wasn't there this year. Yeah. So you take
those four players, yeah, the three of them in the

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second half, and yeah, it it makes sense that they
struggled down the scritch.

Speaker 1 (05:14):
It is interesting because because they get get back Christian
Havier for next season, so they're gonna be a little
bit stronger next year, and hopefully camp Smith will be better.
I mean, Jose al Tuova is really long in the two,
so you figures he's not going to be as good.
And Ordane Alvarez, I don't know what you can expect
out of or Dane Alvarez. I mean you hope you
call health Yeah, yeah, I mean I I don't know

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what to think. I know, Zach Cole has looked really good.
Now he's over three today with three strikeouts, but he's
actually looked pretty good on his call up.

Speaker 2 (05:46):
Yes, he most certainly has, and we're gonna talk about
him a little bit later. I think.

Speaker 1 (05:51):
Also it's a guy that you you're interested in for
next season.

Speaker 2 (05:55):
Yeah, definitely. I you know, you look at that, Okay.
And who are they wheeling out today in the oat field?
Melton Cool and Smith with Aesus Sanchez at DH.

Speaker 1 (06:10):
I'm not sure Matthew's at second base as well. So
they got all their kids in, but they're big guys
are sitting.

Speaker 2 (06:18):
Yeah they are, but they're gonna have to They're gonna
have to get some of these kids into the game,
aren't they.

Speaker 1 (06:24):
Yeah? But not I mean Smith, I was really disappointed
in what he did last I looked it was eight
home runs and eight stolen bases, and maybe he's improved
since then, but everything that he did last season in
the minor leagues, and how good he looked in spring training,
he just it just was kind of a yawn, I
thought for a season.

Speaker 2 (06:44):
Well, again, we have a pretty limited history there, don't we.

Speaker 1 (06:49):
Yeah, I mean basically a month or six weeks that
was in the minor leagues.

Speaker 2 (06:54):
Yeah. So if people are down on them, down on
Smith after this year, I don't think there's any reason
to be. You think they will he's young. Well, it's
a very fickle game we play, you know already. You
know you look at people are are rating off and

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going past very very young players. Okay, that's never a
good sign, is it.

Speaker 1 (07:23):
It usually doesn't work. Let's let's take a look at
camp Smith's data, shall we. Yeah, he's in the ninety
fifth percent tile in speed. So I know the Astros
are not a running team, but there's plenty of speed
there to suggest that there's more in the tank than
eight stolen bases. Yes, he's six ft three and two

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and twenty five pounds with bat speed and the eighty
third percentile in the league. Now, it doesn't hit the
ball all that hard, but he's twenty two years old
with absolutely no leverage in a swing. I would think
the nine home runs he hit is going to grow.
I would think that's I would think there's juice in

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the nine home runs in the eighth stolen bases.

Speaker 2 (08:08):
Well, he's a strapping young gentleman, so he's got the
you know, he's got the physicality to see those numbers
coming up, and you know, if you're hitting the ball flat, well, yeah,
that can be fixed very easily, can I would think.

Speaker 1 (08:22):
So Now he has strike he had to strike up
twenty eight percent of the time, so that's problematic. But
I think there's more juice in the power the power
in the stolen basis. So I'm kind of with you
if if he's there for a fourth outfielder, I might
take a gamble next season on.

Speaker 2 (08:38):
That, I agreeleheartedly. Yep.

Speaker 1 (08:42):
Mah, So all right, so we we that was a
good one. And that wasn't even on the notes. So
we found everybody in the first sleeper.

Speaker 2 (08:51):
So yes, yes we're off. We're off to a rolling start.
Oh I need to do is find four more and
we're in the rich.

Speaker 1 (09:01):
The Tigers backed in. I was kind of hoping they
would they wouldn't make it and then we'd find out
if A J. Hinch would have gotten fired. But they
backed into it. By uh, I guess they got in.
So they got in last night even though they lost.

Speaker 2 (09:18):
So yeah, and he might he still might get he
still might get derved. Yeah, there's no guarantees, is there.

Speaker 1 (09:31):
Yeah, but let's can we take is that team really good?
I mean it's they still got the big three down
in the minor leagues, and of course Trek scoobl it's
all about Errek Scubll on that team. Everybody knows that.
I just don't know if that offense is good enough yet.
And I think they're gonna have a much different team
this time next season because you figure Clark, mcdonaghill and

(09:55):
maybe Rossino are all gonna come up. And those are
three impact backs, particularly Clark and McGonagall.

Speaker 2 (10:04):
Well, and you know, Parker Metis medals never read out
of the gate this year for the most part, you know, yeah,
dealing with injuries and yeah, it's they're going to be
better next year. And you know Jackson, Jackson, Joe we're
going to see him. Yeah, when did he go?

Speaker 1 (10:26):
When did he have his uh surgery? He might miss
at least at the season.

Speaker 2 (10:31):
Yeah, I'm just trying to trying to find that out.

Speaker 1 (10:35):
Even as you're looking for that, it's now on the
bottom of the seventh inning. The Marlins are up for nothing,
still on the Mets, and they keep showing they're they're
playing in Miami. But there's a lot of Mets fans there,
but they do not look happy, tim.

Speaker 2 (10:48):
And they're not you know, they having don't have a
booth there where they're signing up like for next year's
season tickets. It's stotsfull. Is that what you're saying?

Speaker 1 (11:00):
Fans do not look happy at all.

Speaker 2 (11:02):
So wh.

Speaker 1 (11:05):
Oh Maniah started for the Mets. He lasted an inning
and two thirds and he basically walked two guys in
the second. They pulled him out. And Eddie Carbrerera started
for the Marlins. And I mean he pitched, Okay, he
pitched five innings, and you know, it is what it is.
But anyway, you were talking, when did Jackson job have

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a surgery? I know he pitched for six weeks or
so in the Major I'm just saying in June.

Speaker 3 (11:34):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (11:35):
Actually, yeah, we're only going to see him in the
second half next year if things were great.

Speaker 1 (11:40):
Yeah, so he's not going to be a major impact.
But Casey Miyes was very good, Flairty's going to be back,
hopefully he'll be better, and Schooble. I mean, I still
think that's a pretty good team and if they can
get just a bit more help. I know, Hovey or
Bias hit home run today, but that's just not the
answer at show stuff. I think McGonagall is the answer
at shortstop.

Speaker 2 (12:03):
I think you're right, and I think we're gonna see
him and Clark relatively early in the year. That should
make a difference. And you know, when you when you
look at that's pitching the bullpen. Will Vest had his moments,
but is that who you want anchoring you know, your
knife than eating guy.

Speaker 1 (12:24):
Creative for Finn again, I think he's going a one
year deal, so it'll be interesting to see see if
they uh I mean from a fan ofs my Dinaisi
in League teams, I'm sure hope will Vescus the job,
but if I'm the Tigers, I'm thinking I want somebody
a little bit more with a little bit more juice there,
you know, just a little bit more. He throws a

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little bit harder, more of a track record. If I
feel like I'm a championship level.

Speaker 2 (12:48):
Team, yeah you might see them. Jason right and Hellesley
could be yeah, or of course Saint Louis trying to
re up with him. But again I'm just nine one
hundred percent filled, and you know, with confidence in will Best.
You know, we saw good, bad and some ugly and yeah,

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hey Cole Keith will be back, and he had he
had a very interesting year. That'll definitely help the Tigers.

Speaker 1 (13:14):
And obviously green Is had a good season. I think
Parker Meto is just clearly more than a two to
sixteen batting average there. But look, they got to solve
shortstop with I'm sorry Tray Sweeney and Hobvey or biased.
I got to do something about that. That's just not
going to work. So that's where I think I would
not be surprised. And McGonagall breaks camp with the team

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or is there by the middle of April that he's
probably more ready than Clark. I think Clark's got the
better fantasy tools, but McGonagall can flat out Pitt, so
I think he he would be a guy in like
early drafting holds, he'd be a guy that targeting relatively.

Speaker 2 (13:53):
Early sage advice. My friend, I agree, that's the Tigers.

Speaker 1 (14:01):
The Red Sox look good coming to the end of
the season. You think they go far?

Speaker 2 (14:09):
Uh no?

Speaker 1 (14:11):
Really?

Speaker 2 (14:11):
Uh no? I I gotta I got a root for
the Jays. Okay, it's yeah, it's it's a Canadian. It's
a Canadian thing. I'm hoping the Jays can can can
go farther up eight to four today Baltimore and the
Yankees are tied to the Jays when it's all done,
and they.

Speaker 1 (14:32):
Jays have the head to head advantage, so all they
have to do is win. They get the buye. So
let's let's talk about the playoffs. So the Brewers a Phillies.

Speaker 2 (14:39):
Played the Yeah, they played for the bye, which is cool.

Speaker 1 (14:43):
Yeah, So the Phillies and the Brewers get the buye
and it's the Mariners believing or I get a buy
and the Blue Jays. So tell me who makes it
to the Alcs and the NLCS and then who wins
out of that? Uh it makes it to the World Series.
Who do you got?

Speaker 2 (15:01):
Okay? Well, I again, I gotta go with the I
gotta go with the Jays in the a L. The
team I would be terrified of is Seattle Settle.

Speaker 1 (15:14):
So you got Jason Seattle playing for the A L
c S. Is that how you would?

Speaker 2 (15:21):
Yes, yeah, yep, if that's if that's entirely possible. And
looking at the standings today, Uh, the Yankees will have
a better record.

Speaker 1 (15:34):
The Yankees play the Red Sox. That's gonna be great.

Speaker 2 (15:39):
So yeah, that that will be fun. I I agree,
And the.

Speaker 1 (15:44):
Tigers Tigers play the Guards, that's fun too.

Speaker 2 (15:48):
So you get, yeah, some regional regional ties happening there. Yeah,
that is cool. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (15:56):
Now, history has not been kind to teams that get.

Speaker 2 (15:59):
Buys, No, it hasn't. Uh the Jays today's they wanted
to buy badly. They started Ghostman knowing that if they
didn't win today, and he didn't pitch that well, but
if they didn't win today, it was gonna be a problem. Okay,
taking possibly their best starter out of the out of

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a short series. Right, but it looks like, yeah, it
looks like for now things are working out well for them.
So yeah, in the NLA, so.

Speaker 1 (16:36):
You got Seattle, do you have Seattle versus the Jays
who makes it to the World Series.

Speaker 2 (16:42):
I'm gonna go Jays all the way. It's been a
while since ninety the early nineties. Uh hey, A lot
will depends on their bullpen. I think once you get
into the play, the trick is getting in and securing
a half decent spot. And I think that even though
the bias, I think it's rather important after a long season,

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So I'm passing to get through that first round.

Speaker 1 (17:08):
So I I I think the Yankees and Red Sox
are peaking at the right time, and I think that's
gonna be a fascinating series. I like the winner of
that beating the Blue Jays. I'm sorry, Tim, because that
looks like I'm looking. I'm looking at the postseason picture
here on MLB dot com, and apparently the winner of

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the Red Sox and Yankees play the Blue Jays. I like.
I like the Yankees or Red Sox. I'm gonna go
with the Yankees coming out of that, and then they're
gonna be Seattle. I think will beat either Tech, either
the Guards or Tigers. Ye right, boy, I'm I'm rooting

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for this. I'm rooting for the Mariners that come out
of the American League, and I think if they come
out of the American League, they're gonna be tough. That's
that's really really good team.

Speaker 2 (18:00):
Yeah, it is best best starting pitching in the league
right now, I would say, arguably. Okay, uh yeah, they
arguing in a seventy seven day game series. Yeah they can.
They can set it up so however they want, basically,
and yeah, the Mariners Mariners are going to be tough.

(18:25):
I'm I much like you. I'm root for underdogs. I yeah,
the Yankees in Boston, Yeah, they're fine teams, but I
would I have I have much more fun rooting for
the J's and the Mariners. You know, what was the
last time the Mariners are in the playoffs? Did they
even have playoffs back then? Yeah? I don't.

Speaker 1 (18:48):
I don't know, but I will say I I mean,
I think the Yankees and Red Sox will both look
really good. And if you're setting it up for the future,
yeah bet you gotta bet the Red Sox. I mean
that that looks like a team that's gonna be tough
over the next five or so years. I mean that
with that young core and the finances to basically go

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out and get starting pitching, that could be a very
difficult team to get through in the future.

Speaker 2 (19:15):
Well, yeah, and we saw Ale pick it up a
little bit this year, you know what I mean?

Speaker 1 (19:19):
Well, actually, yeah, I agree.

Speaker 2 (19:20):
Yeah, yeah, so that bodes well for their future.

Speaker 1 (19:24):
Gart is a top five pitcher. I mean, that's just that.
Dude's good.

Speaker 2 (19:29):
Well yeah, how many pictures? How many good pictures do
you have to add? You need? You need one ace
in there, you know, or strong number two. And it's
just a shame that Roman Anthony. Okay, I don't know
if he's going to I don't think he's gonna make
that first wild card round, but it's it's hard, hard

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to say. He's working out apparently, uh in Florida during
the upcoming week. No, he's not even for the first round.

Speaker 1 (19:58):
Yeah, it's not going to be there.

Speaker 2 (20:01):
He's going to be a great player, he really is.

Speaker 1 (20:03):
He is. I mean, that's gonna be the you know,
the heart and soul that is their Rafael Devers, you know,
that's that's the new guy that they're gonna build that
team around. And you stick at Alec Bregman and so
Sadan Rafaela is a great defender and chance to be
a really good baseball player. And then the pitch you
don't forget. I mean Peyton totally. It's got a bright future.

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Early looks really good. I mean these are these are
young kids that you look out two or three years
and that could be in Garrett Crochhane, a bunch of
twos and threes. It's gonna be tough to get through,
led by a guy who's gonna hit forty home runs
in Roman Anthony.

Speaker 2 (20:39):
So and yeah, and you know you start looking at
you know, players like William Bray, Yeah, okay, a very
very good player, Trevor Story if he can stay healthy,
proved what he can still do it. Okay, a healthy
year from from Story and Bregman. Yeah, the Red Sox
have really good team. And you know, we haven't really

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mentioned a whole lot about the bullpen, but you know,
soon to be thirty eight year old the world as
Chapman very very quietly had a great year. He did,
got it done.

Speaker 1 (21:11):
He was on a number of my teams, thank you
very much. Just sometimes it's better to be lucky than good.
It just kind of fall into it.

Speaker 2 (21:19):
Well, yeah, you know, you toss some darts and every
once in a while one of them sticks. And for
those who went with the Chapman Darts. Remember we were
talking about Hendrix at the beginning of the year, and
yeah that that didn't work out, but the older of
the two in Chapman most certainly did.

Speaker 1 (21:39):
Let me ask you a question, So Christen Campbell, No
one's talking about Christian Campbell at all. He is signed
to a very team friendly deal. I think it's I'm
going by memories like six sixty million over six seven years,
so it's not a big contract, and it will seem
like that he would become a very interesting trade piece

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for the Red Sox that you get a team controlled
guy that's got a huge upside. Yeah, he didn't play
well this season, I get it, but I'm wondering if
if he might be a guy that you could trade
with another team to try to bring in somewhere pitching.

Speaker 2 (22:19):
I think it's a possibility, But when you look at
the internal options, at least for now, if you're boss
and you want to like, Rome Gonzalez is a fine
utility type player. I don't think he's an everyday player.
And David Hamilton, as much as you know what I
mean the same, I think they're counting on I think

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they're counting on him, even with the d fitting in
somewhere into that office, into that office. And second basic.

Speaker 1 (22:50):
They the other they have the other guy. Oh, she's
the guy that's been hurt for he came up played well,
then he got hurt. Oh who is his short star
Castes is there? But the other guy?

Speaker 2 (23:01):
Yeah, short stop short stop? Uh oh one grism No,
let me look at my notes.

Speaker 1 (23:10):
Marcela Mayor. Yeah, he's a good player.

Speaker 2 (23:14):
So I mean they got they got some talent.

Speaker 1 (23:17):
Yeah, it's anough. All right, let's go to the National League.
The Bys are not the Los Angeles Dodgers. They're they're
gonna play the winner of the Cubs, excuse me, the
the Reds and Mets. It looks like it's the Reds
and it's the guys who get the Buys or the
Phillies and the Brewers. Map it out for me. Who
makes it to that nlcs.

Speaker 2 (23:39):
Uh, I'm gonna go Dodgers and Brewers, and I'm gonna
go Brewers right to the end.

Speaker 1 (23:49):
What what pushes it over for the Brewers? Is it
that pitching?

Speaker 2 (23:53):
Well, every once in a while you just you look
at the team. Definitely the pitchings there, but the offense
is fine as well. Okay, they're just a solid team.
And yeah, you get that feeling like a feel good
story that the Brewers. The Brewers fit that fit that bill.

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You know, you got Yellich and Cheerio up top. Terang
had a great year, William Contres didn't have a good
first half, but the hand explains that one. Okay, and
Contrera's has had just enjoyed a grete second half. Then
you have to throw sell Freelik in there. Okay, now
that the bottom end of you know, Durwin, Joey Orchiez,
It's okay. But Reys Hoskins off the bench, Isaac Collins

(24:37):
has played well, Blake Perkins' is It's just a solid team.
And I just it for me anyways, that that feel
good thing. Yeah, it started kicking in you. The bullpen
is strong, the starting pitching well, hey, Freddy pearlt has
had a great year. And then you got Quinn Priester
and mister Roski. It's an interesting team. I mean, it's

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just to me, it would be the perfect feel good
sort of story. I'd love to see the Brewers go
deep into the playoffs. Attends to be.

Speaker 1 (25:08):
You got the Brewers and the and the Jas in
the World series. All right, what's that would be?

Speaker 2 (25:13):
Correct?

Speaker 1 (25:15):
So I think it's very difficult, given what the Phillies
have done over the last three or four years, to
count them out at all.

Speaker 2 (25:23):
Yeah, I would love, I can't.

Speaker 1 (25:26):
I would think the Dodgers can handle the Reds. So, yeah,
Phillies Dodgers series is going to be great, and I
I mean the Dodgers. It's it's so hard to bet
against the Dodgers. Hard to bet against something that's going
to be that's going to be an epic series, the
Phillies and the Dodgers, and that's the best of five, right.

Speaker 2 (25:46):
M I believe? So yes, and Walker Buehler wins the
Okay in the Yeah, in the third fourth game, Walker
Bueller pitches a gym and shoves it. You look at
the Phillies, you know, deals with the Red Sox, right,

(26:06):
is he with the Red Sox?

Speaker 1 (26:07):
Now?

Speaker 2 (26:08):
Yeah, he's with Philly for the Phillies. What, Yeah, I
believe he is. Let me just according according to my
trusted source at Fangrass, walker Bueller's in Philadelphia.

Speaker 1 (26:26):
All Right, my bad, I'm sorry everyone.

Speaker 2 (26:29):
Yeah, but again, yeah, who knows what would have at
the end of the season that that would be rather
ironic if Walker Bueller pitched it, pitched a game that
decided the outcome of the Phillies Dodgers series. I think
I think that'd be rather unique. But the only the
Phillies are The Phillies are a strong team. I personally
think when I look at the Phillies, I think they have.

Speaker 1 (26:51):
I'm sorry to just serve with just think I'm crazy.
Bueller was released by the Red Sox right on August
thirty first, and was signed by the Phillies that day.
So yes, I apologize. I've been writing about prospects over
the last pile and yes that one. So yes, that
would be fascinating to see a key off of the

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Dodgers and the Red Sox do it for the Phillies.

Speaker 2 (27:17):
Yeah, I I could. I could rather enjoy that. I
look at the Phillies team and comparing it to the Dodgers,
I think the Phillies have the agent in the bullpen.
I think the Phillies have the agent starting pitching. Okay,
it's a little more volatile, but the Dodgers isn't exactly stable.

(27:38):
You know. The Phillies have a good rotation with Sanchez
Lozardo Aaron Noless still might have something left in the tank.
Rangers for is you look at the offense and Trey Turner, Schwarber, Harper,
Alec Bombs now back, uh, you know, Bader doesn't incite
maybe the fear of a beaters, a good bag, Brace

(28:02):
and Stock. It's a good it's a good team. It
really is. Would I be shocked if the Phillies ended
up playing in the World Series? No, I wouldn't. You know,
the team that's that's where I'm gonna go.

Speaker 1 (28:14):
I'm gonna see the Phillies beat the Dodgers and they
faced the Brewers and the NLCS and the Phillies. The
Phillies go through. Boy, I would feel a lot better
about that if Zach Wheeler was still pitching. But uh,
they lost their best pitcher. But that's still a really
good team. Now you're hoping, you're hoping for the Brewers
and the and the Jays, because then you would get

(28:34):
the only non US team and the smallest market in baseball.
S attems always got the angles of how can MLB
get screwed over?

Speaker 2 (28:43):
Yeah? There we go, there we go? That was that
was I couldn't have put a better, rich, brilliant, brilliant, Yes,
all right.

Speaker 1 (28:52):
To me, let's take a break, get back, and uh,
we've got some other stuff including we're gonna draw the
first round, everybody, as we're coming to the last game.
As we entered today's game, I was actually winning three

(29:13):
Dynasty leagues. Two were locked in the third one is
I was in fourth place at the beginning of last week,
and now I jumped up the first and unfortunately I
lost two points today because I was hoping Trek Scooble
would go but he didn't. Yeah, because and I got

(29:34):
so anyway, now I'm tied for first. I haven't looked
lately where I am in that, but I might finish
tied for first in that league, hopefully, and then a
couple of third place finishes. So I've had a good
season half my half my Dynasty League teams. I'm gonna
put be in the money for that. Pretty happy about.

Speaker 2 (29:53):
Yeah, and you should be. That's a great season, right,
What about yourself? I'm looking at a first in Rotal Masters,
a dynasty format that Andrew Kristen runs. Sorry, good friend, Andrew. Uh,
I'm looking at any for where from second to fourth
in the uh the league. The Kendo runs okay with

(30:19):
prospect runs in conduct Baseball three sixty five. Yes, bring cramp.
I'm just calling it up right now because there were
three teams within a half a point per second through fourth,
and right now I am sitting in third, so I'm
looking at probably a third there, third in the XFL.

(30:41):
Rebuilding in a couple other dynasties. Uh, solid finishes in
a couple of my redraft leagues. Uh a fourth and
the sixth, I think, and my two My two biggest
disappointments would be total labor. It just didn't happen this year.
Injuries destroyed it. But overall, I'm hey, I'm happy, you

(31:02):
know what I mean? It was it was a good year.

Speaker 1 (31:05):
In the team that I'm now tied for first and
the second place team got four points today, which is
pretty tough to do the last day of the A
the season so well done, and he tied me up,
so I don't know when he might win. If he does,
I tip my cap to him. So that's just the
way it goes. Yeah, I thought I thought we would

(31:27):
draft the first round. We've done it a couple of times.
This year. We did it about six weeks ago, and
it's fun now that the season is over, but before
we do that, all of our Patreon members. Now, I've
been working on this for probably two years that I
when I started the site, one of the things I
wanted to do was to really add a lot more
technology and looking at data. That's just one of my

(31:50):
areas of interest in something that you know, I did
at work for years. I made a living doing it.
So I decided to adopt a AI assistant. So I
spent the first year of the Patreon site looking for
an artificial intelligence assistant. I went to a bunch of
the ones that were commercially available, and they were just dombed, Timmy,

(32:11):
They just you know, they they didn't give you good information.
You couldn't train them properly.

Speaker 2 (32:17):
Uh So it's hard with the employees, Richie, Yeah, it
really is.

Speaker 1 (32:22):
It really is. So So I talked to some of
my old colleagues out at Microsoft and I said, hey,
I mean I got Copilot, I get that with the
Microsoft suite of products. How do I go about programming?
So they gave me some hints about how to do that.
So I dug into all that. So probably for the
last four months, all through the summertime, I have been
programming and setting up my AI assistant to learn. I

(32:45):
fed him five about five hundred thousand words of prospects
of all the stuff that I've written up. So it's
a it's a private assistant. So he can't go out
to I've said, you can't. Whatever you do, you can't
go out to other prospect sites and get him in.
All you can do is the stuff that I've taught
you to do, which is all of my stuff. I
taught him how to scout him. I gave him so

(33:07):
when I went to MLB scout school, they give you
a manual that's maybe twenty five thirty pages. I scanned
it all in. I said, learn these scouting terms, learn
how to use it. I write about it when we
write together, I want you to incorporate these scouting terms
in there. I taught him how to look up Baseball
savant data and baseball reference data. So I've taught this

(33:29):
guy how to do stuff. I don't know if it's
a guy or girl. And Timmy I have the most
bizarre conversations. It's like talking to you. With this assistant.
He's become my research assistant and my editor and I
simply say, look, look, i'm writing about prospect that's maybe

(33:51):
a seventeen year old kid. And the Dominican I said,
it feels like I can't remember who this guy reminds
me of. And he'll give me seven different people that
this guy looks like of people that I've written about before.
I said, what about some major league guys. He'll go
out and say, well, looking at Baseball Savant, if his
exit velocities can match what he's doing in the lower levels,

(34:14):
he could potentially grow it. It is unbelievable.

Speaker 2 (34:18):
Well, I saw the one I saw. I saw the
one that you sent, uh you sent out via email
to myself, and I think Buck King Hi And I
looked at it and I read it and I shook
my head and I said.

Speaker 1 (34:31):
OK, yeah, it's amazing. It's it's ridiculously amazing. So, so
I was working on the Marlins system and Devins and
Dela Santo's. I said, so I put all you know,
put all the new stuff. Then all twenty of the
guys that were twenty five or whatever it's in the Marlins,
I said. I said, I'd ranked them. I'm not going
to tell you how I ranked them. You rank them,

(34:52):
and he put Devinson Dela Santa's at the bottom, and
I went, huh, I said, he's not at my bottom.
Why you put it my all? He's that is it's
not going to happen. Rich that's only said it's not
going to happen. Look this guy, I mean, look at
the data, look at the eggs of velocities. This is
a guy that's just not hitting the ball hard. And

(35:13):
he says, as you've written multiple times, he just he
throws about like you've said that the batspeed is is suspect.
And I don't know how you can sit there and
think that this guy is gonna make it. He's basically
having this converse and I'm like, it's hard to argue, like, yeah.

Speaker 2 (35:34):
You're losing an argument to yourself, right exactly.

Speaker 1 (35:37):
Yeah. And so it's it's so I've incorporated so much
of the information that the AI engine and I have
been talking about. So for my write ups, a lot
of it they've increased to me. So instead of being
about three thousand works, they're five thousand words. So there's
a lot of tearing that we've worked on together to
put guys into tears. There might ranking it's only my rankings.

(36:01):
I haven't incorporated any of the AI Assistance Engine in there,
but I've done on each of the write ups, there's
a fantasy spin on it, like how should a fantasy
manager think about each of the player and what he
might become? So it's really really focus on fantasy almost
exclusively the write up. So I'm really really excited about

(36:24):
what's coming out on Friday with the Cubs and then
starting every two, you know, twice a week with the
other ones. I think people are going to I think
they're going to plots when they see it. It's really
really good stuff and the writing is so much better
because the AI engine's my editor now. I mean he's
basically retuning all my things, so it makes me sound

(36:45):
like I know what I'm talking about. It's unbelievable.

Speaker 2 (36:48):
Yeah, I was going to say, when we get into
the actual interviews where I question okay, where I fight
ret questions am I going to be doing it with
AI or you?

Speaker 1 (36:58):
So we'll do with me, but ask the AI engine
what he thinks because he's has all of the stuff
in there, and we're fascinating. It's like I'll say, well
what about this, and it goes would you like me
to compare. Would you like a side by side comparison
so you can say, so he'll present stuff that you
can sit there and go uh okay, now I see

(37:18):
where where you're getting your information because literally, ho, go back.
You sent me this in twenty twenty three when this
player was in high A. He's now in TRIPLEA. And
you can see the progression he's made. And it's just
because so I don't have to remember stuff that I've written.
He's like pushing all this stuff up to me. It's
it's tremendous to him, it's tremendous.

Speaker 2 (37:39):
Yeah, I saw that one. But like I said, then, yeah,
it's the game. The game is. The game is changing.
And will you be using any actual capsules that AI
writes up? And if you are, will you indicate it
is AI? Or are you how are you looking at that?

Speaker 1 (37:58):
So nothing is written. Everything is my words and then
edited by the AI engine. I have not said to
the AI engine right up what you think of you know,
Jacob Marcy, I haven't done that, like you know, just
I haven't done that yet because that's a bit cheating.
Uh Now, one section in each of each of each

(38:20):
of the profiles will be Ai tiering, so and that
is his tearing. And I put it in there with
a nice little write up that I did that says, hey,
this is what and it's fascinating because he likes players
more than I do. Right, So you.

Speaker 2 (38:38):
Might say from you though, he's.

Speaker 1 (38:41):
Taking this information from me, so it's like, which is weird, right,
But he's also using data. But he's smarter than I am, right,
because he's he's got better brain power to basically can
pull all this stuff together.

Speaker 2 (38:55):
So Cam calling, there's no emotions, no emotions. There's no emotions.

Speaker 1 (38:59):
Exactly, So Camp call you because he had a he
had a difficult season this year because he was hurt
a lot. I'm Nightdinger for this. And that's one of
the bias that I've noticed with the AA assistant. He
thinks that everybody's going to be it's going to get better.
So if you've had Tommy Johnson, it doesn't matter, you're
gonna you're gonna be good. So that's what he's on
ongoing bias, which I have to teach him a little

(39:21):
bit on that, right, because it's like that doesn't always happen.
So I can I can tell some of the conclusions
he's coming up with is that the injuries are all
going to work out.

Speaker 2 (39:30):
Uh and and they so you can build that in though,
you can build that in sure.

Speaker 1 (39:36):
So my like a camp caller, I have him ranked
fifth in the the REDS organization. He had him ranked
second or first. He's like, I'm like, why do you
have him so high? And he goes, what's not the
like you it's like and I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, yeah,
I mean, I get it. But he he was injured
and he had struck out more in triple A, and
it's like, you know, it's like, well it's short, small

(39:58):
sample size, don't get too and it's it's it's it's
it's tremendous time. It's it's tremendous.

Speaker 2 (40:05):
It sounds to me like all you got to do
is teach a thing, is say done like dinner, and
you're off to the races. So it is very impressive.
It really is.

Speaker 1 (40:16):
One of the things I wrote to our Patreon members
just a post is I started thinking more globally about this,
and everybody thinks that AI is going to take over
the world, But when you actually use somebody that you've trained,
uh and you see what is capable it is. I
mean you begin to wonder about pair of legals and

(40:38):
young lawyers are they needed anymore? Or computer programmers going
to be needed or accountants going to be Because anything
that's repetitive, it can absolutely you just give it and
it can reason stuff. So you can give it. You
can give it like a case trial of boxes of
case information that an attorney might be working on. Now

(41:00):
you'll have hundreds, if not thousands of hours that attorneys
will go through collating that. You just give it all
to the AI engine and instantaneously it's going to tell
you that. So this is going to be, like I think,
a game changer for the for the world in which
we live in. I mean, can it kind of makes
you wonder what the heck are people going to do
that want to do office jobs in the future. It's

(41:23):
really what busing.

Speaker 2 (41:25):
Yeah, But then you enter into the one part of
the equation that you know you haven't discussed, and that's
billable hours.

Speaker 1 (41:33):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (41:33):
Do do legal do legal companies, you know, accounting firms,
et cetera. Do they want to reduce their hours and
reduce their overall income? You know, how do the partners
feel about that, you know what I mean, because that's
part of their cut, right.

Speaker 1 (41:48):
Yeah, but they don't they won't have the expenses though,
so they still might make the same amount of money. Right.
So if all of a sudden, you have a law
firm that's got one hundred people and now you can
reduce it to fifteen because everything's being run by engines,
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (42:04):
Yeah, if it's more profitable, obviously, yeah, it's a positive.
But if you cut your billable hours by too much
and have them ruling the world, that also becomes a problem,
doesn't it. Yeah, we're not making any money. AI is
destroying our business per se, or could potentially, right, it could.

Speaker 1 (42:25):
But the other thing is, let's let's go to an accountancy, right,
So you start off, you graduate, and then you do
scut work, and then you get better, and you get
better work, you learn and so forth. So you still
got to have decision makers in any organization. But how
do you how do you take the young person that's
going to be an account when there's no jobs available

(42:47):
for the young accountant, how do they ever grow into
being a senior accountant who actually runs an accounting Yeah,
so you know what I mean? So you never have
somebody that goes to the trenches just because you don't
need those anymore.

Speaker 2 (42:59):
No, what you do is you have all of those
accountants going to trade school to become electricians and mechanics
and brick layers. Okay, so we can actually the jobs
that won't require AI the physical there'll be all. It
sounds to me like the future will include a lot
more physicality.

Speaker 1 (43:20):
I agree, And I think service industry is going to
be is going to be even more important. So I
think that those job I think it's going to change
the world. And I'm just telling people I've done it
for the last four to five months, and you know,
I've heard all the news stories and I've seen it,
but I've experienced it just with my own little my
little peace of the world, which is very, very small.

(43:40):
And I'm telling you, in a couple of years, this
thing's going to be smart enough that I'll just say,
write up, you know, I'll give them a list of
names and he'll write it up, and I want to
do anything. It'll be crazy.

Speaker 2 (43:52):
So well, yeah, which again, when you start looking at
our game, where I think it says to me is
with all of these advanced tools, and how does that
impact the actual drafting of teams, etc. What I see
now is going back to a clock. Okay, if everybody

(44:14):
is using the same data basically and plugging it and
using AI to draft teams, right yep, Well, then the
easiest way to countermn that is make everything a thirty
second or a forty five second clock. So you don't
have you know what I mean.

Speaker 1 (44:29):
Do you a draft or does the computers draft? Yeah,
against each other? Your AI drafts against my AI engine.
Who's got the better train? You know?

Speaker 2 (44:40):
But you can see where it could where. Yeah, I
was gonna say that sounds like a heck of a
way to spend a Saturday afternoon in March. Yeah, but
it's Yeah, if you teach them to drink and eat
too much food, it'd be perfect. Right.

Speaker 1 (44:53):
So the thing that's fascinating is to get into our draft.
I'll give you an example of where it doesn't work.
Like I I have not spent any time at all,
zero time at all, training my AI assistant on like
how to draft major League baseball players and what to
look for and things like that. He knows nothing. So
I've been writing all day long, and I knew we

(45:16):
had this draft and I said, I'll just have the
I'll have my AI assistant, just Tommy, give me the
top twenty I said, give me the top twenty five
guys for this draft, so I have a list that
I can choose from as I'm drafting with Tim, and
I mean, he gave me guys that you would know,
like Aaron Judge and stuff like that, but he put
it Zach Galen in there is the eighteenth best, eighteenth

(45:37):
best player. I'm like, like, I said, what planet are
you on, Zach Galen? I said, this feels like you're
looking at stuff that's two years old. And he's like, oh, yeah, yeah, good,
thanks for the catch. I'm like, what do me? Thanks
for the catchers to be giving me good stuff. So
he knows nothing about what to look for in drafting.
So people are going to have to companies out there,

(46:00):
and fantasy companies are going to have to train their
own engine to be able to figure out who to draft,
because that's that's currently not being done at least I
haven't done it yet.

Speaker 2 (46:11):
Yeah, well, you can be guaranteed somebody's working on it.
If there's a buck to be made, somebody will try
and find your way to make it right, you.

Speaker 1 (46:19):
Would think so you think gamblers would be doing doing
that now, like you know, like who to put into
a starting lineup on Fantasy Football day, and you know,
using AI to figure that out, because you would hope
that they're they're doing that.

Speaker 2 (46:34):
So that's crazy though, it really is.

Speaker 1 (46:37):
It's it is. I'm telling you everybody. Look, you might
think I'm crazy, but this is going to change the world.
And I think it's it's here, it's we're we're at
We're at the beginning of this artificial intelligence revolution, and
it's it's going to change the world in which we live,
and it's it's I think a lot's going to be
for the better and a lot's going to be for

(46:58):
the worse. I think, you know, as AI figures out
like how to do better treatments for cancer and how
to do operations, all that stuff is going to be goodness.
But then you're going to just have people losing their jobs,
flat out losing their jobs. You know, you don't need it.
And how do I tell my you know, how do
I advise my three year old grandson what what to

(47:20):
go into? Like, I don't think the jobs that are
occurring now are going to be the jobs in the future.
I just don't know.

Speaker 2 (47:27):
And there will never be enough healthcare workers okay, there
will never there will never be enough trades people, okay.
And hey, at the end of the day, somebody has
to build the buildings we live in, we work in,
and we play in. Somebody has to take care of

(47:51):
the seniors, the aging population. And uh, I would think
jobs directed and that they will be. They will save.
Now much of an influx do you have and you
flood the market? You know what I mean? That all
comes into play, But there will be things in the
future that will be needed, and I think the focus
if I was advising your grandson, I would say, hey, Bud,

(48:12):
you know what, Hey be an electrician by the by
the time you get your apprentice, and I'm gonna need
my place in North Carolina rewired. Okay, no a, no,
AI is going to get that done for?

Speaker 1 (48:24):
Is that before or after the hurricane knocks my house down?
So yeah, so it's it's it's fascinat Timmy, let's do
our draft. We talked longer than I thought we'd do
about that, but I just wanted to share that because
I I just wind it's really fascinating. So and again,
if you're interested in this kind of stuff, you're interested.
And I think a much improved material, and I'm be

(48:46):
coming out with my prospects. Tune in on on on
Friday when the Cubs comes out. I think you're really
gonna really gonna see some cool stuff. Timmy, let's go
to this draft. I have done a lot of research.
I haven't done a ton of research.

Speaker 2 (49:01):
But uh none, this is this is off the cuff.
This is off the cuff. We did looked at it
a couple of weeks ago. I think, so all.

Speaker 1 (49:09):
Right, well let's let's still do it if you don't mind.
I've somebody somebody directed me to a fantasy tab on
fan graphs which they put dollar limits on everybody, which
so I've got that up as a possible and I've
got my uh ai is bad. Uh. So we'll do

(49:29):
a toss. Uh, We'll let you go first. How's that sound?

Speaker 2 (49:34):
Ah? Well, it makes it. That makes it nice and
nice and easy. Tani.

Speaker 1 (49:40):
So show you Tani over Aaron Aaron judge.

Speaker 2 (49:44):
Yeah, because next year I'm going to count on Otani
getting in one hundred two and twenty five innings on
top of his fifty homers and god knows how many
stolen bases. Yeah, it's yeah, Otani is the best player
in the game and until he retires and slows or
slows down as his career progresses. Yeah, how you argue

(50:07):
with the tawny is the best player in the game? Right?
You know, I don't see it.

Speaker 1 (50:13):
Is he the best player in that? Well? Is he
the best offensive player in the game? Because I'm looking
at Aaron Judge and he's a three thirty one average
versus a two seventy nine, one hundred and fourteen RBIs
versus one hundred and one, one hundred and thirty six
runs versus one hundred and forty four. Now there's twenty
stolen basis from a tany versus twelve and pretty much
the same number five runs fifty three to fifty four.

(50:34):
That's pretty close. And there's a pretty big difference in
batting average there.

Speaker 2 (50:40):
Yeah, there is, hou's he obb difference.

Speaker 1 (50:43):
The thing I'm looking at doesn't show me that I
must assuming they got Judge has got to have a
better one base percentage, right because he walks it.

Speaker 2 (50:53):
Yeah you would, you would, you would think so, Yeah, just.

Speaker 1 (51:00):
Judges on base percentage just four fifty eight. The only
team I have him on is a batting average league,
of course, but shoey Atani, there's no way you can
have a four fifty eight. It's three ninety.

Speaker 2 (51:11):
So yeah, yeah, it's that's no shame in that number either.
But you know, then you toss the pissing pitching it
right or the pis Yeah that too, Yeah, but no,

(51:31):
I get you. Yeah, it's yeah, it's I think it's
just gotta be Oani.

Speaker 1 (51:38):
Yeah, well I'm gonna I'm you know, look, I I
love Bobby Witt, but I mean I I mean, twenty
thirty eight stolen bases, twenty three home runs. I'm worried
that Aaron Judge is eventually just one day just the
body's going to give up. But until it does, I
gotta go with Aaron Judge. I mean, it's how can

(51:58):
he not?

Speaker 2 (52:00):
Yeah, I yeah, I have no problems that's at all
with that pig.

Speaker 1 (52:06):
Then, I mean I could go one Soto one hundred
and five RBIs one hundred and twenty runs, thirty eight
solar bases, forty three, but at two sixty five batting average.
I mean, that's the one thing I mean, you could
go make an argument to go Sodo number two, but
I'm going judge, Okay, you're on the clock town.

Speaker 2 (52:24):
Not nice and easy. Uh, he's not gonna do what
he did this year. But it doesn't matter because it's
going to be going good enough and safe enough, and
I think that's the key thing, safe enough. Gotta go
with one.

Speaker 1 (52:35):
Soo at three, what would you pencil in for next season?
Looks like the lights are going off and on in Miami.
So I'm assuming the Mets have been eliminated. Wow. Yeah,
game is over, Mets are going home.

Speaker 2 (52:53):
Wow. Somebody is not going to be happy at the
top of the food chain. Correct.

Speaker 1 (53:00):
I would think heads would.

Speaker 2 (53:01):
Roll, Yeah, I would think.

Speaker 1 (53:04):
So it wasn't the Detroit Tigers collapse, but they went
first place what six weeks ago?

Speaker 2 (53:11):
So I mean it was a real Yeah, it wasn't
a good It wasn't a good second half now yeah, yeah, all.

Speaker 1 (53:20):
Right, So what penciland Juan Soto stolen bases next season?
That's the thing that's I mean, the thirty eight stolen bases,
I mean, where the heck?

Speaker 2 (53:28):
Yeah, I think I you know, thirty five one hundred okay,
one hundred runs scored. Sure, maybe a little more one
hundred and fifteen or twenty runs scored. I'm gonna go
with about twenty twenty low twenties and stolen bases and
the usual four hundred OBP.

Speaker 1 (53:48):
Yeah, I would definitely not count on thirty eight stolen bases.
But when Kyle Schwarber's got ten stolen bases, this shows
you what's going on here. I mean, it's just the
stolen bases are just way up.

Speaker 2 (54:00):
Well, yeah, if you look at the since they changed
the base size and then the rules, okay, uh, you
look at the line going up on stolen bases, and yeah,
ten stolen bases is the new two stolen two to
three stolen bases up up the bar by ten pretty
well across the board, you know what I mean. The

(54:22):
guys that were stealing two three or stealing ten, the
guys that were stealing eight to ten, you're stealing fifteen
to twenty and just go from there, and anybody who
chooses to run can And that's what happened this year.
Is Sodo with Sodo okay, yeah, yeah, you could probably
steal with the new baby, probably steal forty five or
fifty if they let him run continuously. But I just

(54:42):
don't think that's going to happen, you know what I mean,
it's yeah, it's not a sensical maneuver. Yeah, for the
Mess to have him running constantly.

Speaker 1 (54:52):
Yeah, I mean, I guess some sanity is PEDALNS only
stole one base of at least that still makes sense
to me, right, so, uh.

Speaker 2 (55:01):
Well, and he tried and he probably only tried to
steal on base.

Speaker 3 (55:08):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (55:09):
So I so look, I think next season, at least,
my gut says, drafting at the top of the queue
is where you want to be, because if you can
get Bobby Wood Junior with a fourth pick or Jose
Ramirez with the fourth pick, I mean, I'm going with
Bobby Wit. I mean, I know it was quote unquote
a down season twenty three thirty eight. I don't know

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what he did today, ninety nine runs scored, probably good
chance he's at one hundred eighty six RB guys. I
mean it was a down season, but I'm sorry, that's uh.
I was looking at got the nine eighty six or
two nineties, still a really good baseball player. So I'm
going with Bobby Wood Junior.

Speaker 2 (55:48):
Yeah, I don't think it can go wrong. With Bobby
whit Junior. No, not at all, And I'm I'm gonna
go safe, safe in mooring and take the take the
guy you just mentioned, Jose Ramirez. You know, home runs
RBI is not not not so much, but the home
runs stolen base combination, yeah it is. It's a lead. Okay,

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how do you pass on Jose Ramirez?

Speaker 1 (56:15):
I don't think you can. I mean when I did
my draft targets the last two seasons, I was pretty
bullish on Jose Ramirez being the class of third base.
I think now with Junior Caminaro there's there's now finally
some competition there. But I mean, I don't. I still
think there's a pretty big golf between Jose Ramirez and

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Junior Caminaro. But here's Amera still great. I mean, one
day he's not going to be He's not going to
be a forty thirty player. He's not going to be that.
But until he does, I think you keep drafting him.

Speaker 2 (56:50):
I agree, and I don't.

Speaker 1 (56:54):
Maybe you're better at this, and I mean how do
you Because you can outguess yourself, right, you can sit
there and say, well, the decline is going to happen,
and then you sell on them too early and then
you lose out on months, if not years, of great production.
I mean, what do you do about that? Do you
just hang on to him until he starts to starts

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the downward trend? Or do you try to get out
early on them?

Speaker 2 (57:20):
With the numbers that he's posting? What you know, what
are two seasons with Jose Ramirez potentially worth you? And
where are you in the Where are you as far
as your league is concerned? Right? Those all come come

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into play. And when you look at the numbers that
Ramirez is posting, I think he's one of those players
that you know, like this year thirty home runs, forty
three stolen bases, you know, seventy three between the two.
If he's a player you have to keep too long,

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the payoff for keeping him too long is worth it,
If that makes sense. Yeah, It's like JG. Real Muto
at Catcher. Okay, the ideal time to move him would
have been a year ago, maybe a couple of years ago,
but now his value is diminished. But for that extra
couple of years that you had him with Catcher being
weak at that time, JT. Real Muto provided great value

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to a team that was in contention, So is it
is it worth it to take the hit and he
get nothing for him at the end of his career.
I think I think I think it is if you
can squeeze a couple extra years.

Speaker 1 (58:39):
Yeah, one of my hobbies is trading stock trading. I
think Tim knows this, and Yeah, there's a turn that
we call front running, where you you look at all
the technicals and you see a turn is about to happen,
whether you know, you're looking at volume, there's all kinds
of things that you can look at and you see
the turn, and when you're young in trading, you try

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to front run that. You say, Okay, I'm I'm gonna
take a position, either a cell position or a by
position because I see the turn, and more times than not,
that turn doesn't quite happen when you think it's going
to happen, and you can lose your you can literally
lose your ass or lose an opportunity because you tried
to front run it. So it's better to kind of

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watch the setup and actually be early it, kind of
let the setup play itself out and then jump on it,
as opposed to trying to jump on it way before
it actually happens, because that's how you get burned. And
I think the same thing is true with fantasy baseball,
like trying to say, well, you know, eventually show Heyo
Tani's not going to be the guy as well, just

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wait till he's not that guy or starts the decline
and you start to see the decline is when you get.

Speaker 2 (59:48):
Out on him. Well yeah, and again, how much does
he provide during that period of decline? You know, hey,
I think with some players you look at hey, when
the decline starts, it's going to be swift and sudden.
I don't see Sho Yotani as that type of a

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player because of his all around skills. Yeah you know, hey,
same one, Soda is only twenty six years old. That's
isn't that amazing? But you know what Showyotani can give
you for the next two three years versus what you
can get back from a tree. Yeah, you could, you
can move them, but if you're a contending team, you're
giving away a huge chunk of contributing stats for me,

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you know, the next two to three years.

Speaker 1 (01:00:37):
Anyways, Yeah, if I were to take a look at
the guys, the top three guys, we did I mean
probably Aaron Judge is the closest to things starting to
go on the downward slope. I mean want Sota can't
be close to it, and I wouldn't think show he
Otani is all that close to yet, but Aaron Judge is,
with his size and his age. Now, any point now

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you could start to see that go down. But I'm
not gonna It's not gonna stop me. Maybe if I
had to choose between Wan Soda and Aaron Judge, I
might say, Okay, I'm going to take Soda because they're similar.
But even here I still took Judge, right, I still
went with the more secure thing that was there.

Speaker 2 (01:01:16):
So well, and if you hey, if you want to
go young and you want a solid floor, Bobby Woods,
Bobby Wits Fine Joys. Yeah, he's he's proven himself consistently
since he's coming to the league. So yeah, you want
to take Bobby Wit. I'm I'm certainly not gonna I'm
not going to criticize you and say it's a bad pick.

(01:01:38):
I don't think there are bad picks with the first
five players we've looked at all.

Speaker 1 (01:01:44):
I think there I don't think there is in the
next three or four either because I'm looking at tech Scooble,
I'm looking at Kyle Schwarber, Uh, Francisco Lindor Julia rod
Rieves and are great. And Kyle Tucker, I mean signed
with another team, he's been hurt, et cetera, et cetera.
But I think in all of these, look, it's hard

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to disagree with this. Thirty two home runs, thirty stolen bases,
one hundred and six runs and a ninety five RBIs
with what Julio Rodriguez has done. Yes, So I'm going
with Jay Rod with my pick at numbers, we had.

Speaker 2 (01:02:21):
Six yes, six, Yes, we're at six yeah? Yeah? And
how old is Hulio Rodriguez? Is he twenty five? Even?
I don't think he is.

Speaker 1 (01:02:30):
Let me click on his name. He is up. He
is twenty four years old. He doesn't turn twenty five
until December twenty ninth. Let that sink in everybody.

Speaker 2 (01:02:41):
Yeah, it's yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:02:43):
And he went thirty two thirty, so he's back to
what he was in his rookie year. Yeah, yeah, a
software or whatever it was. All right, Timmy, you're on
the clock.

Speaker 2 (01:02:55):
Okay, Well, it's time to break the path. The pas
of safe and the upside here is propelling me into
a decision that I don't know if I really like
it as much as maybe I should, But I gotta
I gotta go Elie de la Cruz.

Speaker 1 (01:03:17):
Look, he was definitely on my list to pick as well,
and I know that the second half wasn't good. I
think we'll find out he was hurt.

Speaker 2 (01:03:26):
But that's where that's what I'm thinking as well. There
was something that was a miss. Okay, it's but again,
anybody out there who's got the potential to go thirty sixty,
I think he's got to be near the top of
the list, right, Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:03:43):
I mean a place where good team plays in a
good ballpark. It's still quote unquote a down season. It
was twenty one to thirty seven, one hundred and won
in eighty five. I mean that that was a guy
who had a tough second half.

Speaker 2 (01:03:55):
So yeah, yeah, he is how old, uh he would
be twenty three? I would guess he.

Speaker 1 (01:04:03):
Doesn't turn twenty four. Everyone until January eleventh. Let that
sink in.

Speaker 2 (01:04:09):
Yeah. Yeah, did we ever mention that the game is
getting younger? Rich?

Speaker 1 (01:04:13):
It's it's just amazing. Yeah, So I'm going to go
a little safe here. It maybe is a little early,
but I don't care. Francisco Lindor back to back seasons
of thirty thirty. I mean it's a great player. Francisco Lindor.

Speaker 2 (01:04:29):
Yeah, no, I agree, You're not going to You're not
going to get much safer than Francisco Lindor. Uh. Great pick.

Speaker 1 (01:04:39):
And look at this these top eight and we'll take
a break here show you Tommy Judge Soda with Junior Ramirez,
Jay Rodd Li de la Cruz, Francisco Lindor. I think
you want to be at the top of the queue, Tim,
I just really do. If I can, I can have
these studs as my first pick, and I don't have
because it's going to get a little disier at the

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back of the first round. I much be I'd much
rather be picking in the top of the first round.

Speaker 2 (01:05:06):
Totally agree. I I think if you're picking at the
at the top, your risk factor compared to the risk
factor from ten to fififteen, it's apples and oranges, and hey,
let's face it, you look at the top eight. Hey,
there's a good chance that one of these guys isn't

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going to deliver next year. But on paper, right now,
they all have the potential where they should and how
do you pass that up for Kyle Schwarber or cal Rally.

Speaker 1 (01:05:41):
And they're still on the board. Yeah, let's take it.
Let's take a break it back and let's see who
Ten's on the clock. Let's see He's give us some
time to think. So I got fixated on the Mets missing,

(01:06:02):
But congratulations to the Reds. I mean it's a building team,
and I mean a team with two superstars and led
La Cruz and Hunter Green. So that's it's a good team.

Speaker 2 (01:06:13):
Too, very much, very much.

Speaker 1 (01:06:16):
So, Timmy, you're on the clock.

Speaker 2 (01:06:20):
Yeah, and this is this is where I'm I mean,
I'm gonna again. I'm there's some risk here. But Corbyn
Carroll had himself a really good year. Not as many
people were talking about Corbyn Carroll as I think probably
should be. You're looking at a hundred run score this year.
But he's a thirty thirty player, yep, Okay, he's a

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very very good player. And the batting average ticked up,
the OBP ticked up numbers that we we like very
much so and I would I be shocked if at
some point in time Corbyn Carroll as a forty forty season.
Uh No, I don't think I would.

Speaker 1 (01:07:05):
Yeah, I mean he's another kid to just turned twenty five.
He's pretty much gonna play most of next season as
a twenty five year old. This is crazy, Tim, how many?

Speaker 2 (01:07:14):
Yeah, it's yeah, it is totally crazy.

Speaker 1 (01:07:19):
Well, I'm going to go off script here, and I
think we did this the last time we did the draft,
and I'm going with a picture. I'm going Trek Scooble.
I mean I could go Paul Skans. I think the
winds are gonna be more plentiful with Trek scouble. So
that's the direction I'm going.

Speaker 2 (01:07:36):
Yeah, Hey, great pick.

Speaker 1 (01:07:39):
Yeah, and if again in the back half, I think
I might go with a picture because it starts to
get a little bit less secure.

Speaker 2 (01:07:49):
Yeah, I'm I'm flipping a coin here as far as
what I'm going to do, because my my heart and
my head are getting mixed up a little bit here.
So I'm gonna go with what I consider to be
a safe pick. And he's twenty six years old, And

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I'm gonna go with Fernando to tease Junior.

Speaker 1 (01:08:13):
Yep, Fernando tatist Junior. I mean it's uh, let me
see what Junior put tim next to it. It's when
I send out the notes, everyone will see who our
picks were. Ah, that's.

Speaker 2 (01:08:29):
Hunder plus run score. Oh yeah, thirty two basis, twenty
five home runs, Yeah, three sixty seven OVP. Yeah, it's
all there, and I don't see any problems why that
wouldn't be repeated. You if you take a look at
this twenty twenty three season, they are eerily, eerily close,

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and the OBP is actually improved over twenty three this year.
So hey, I again, I think I think we're gonna
see a lot more years of that type of production
from Jaitz Junior.

Speaker 1 (01:09:11):
This guy hits fifty home runs every season in an
only base percentage league. I mean, he's definitely a first
round pick for me bad in average league. Maybe you
can make the argument it's it's not there, but Kyle
Schwarber one hundred thirty two RBIs, one hundred and eleven runs,
fifty six home runs and just just click double clicking
into him last season, thirty eight ops went away last season,

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only thirty eight home runs, but one hundred and ten
hundred and four twenty three, forty seven home runs, one
hundred and eight hundred and four and twenty two, forty
six home runs, one hundred and ninety four. I don't
know what this guy has to do sometimes, Yeah, the
batting average is not going to be there, but an
only base percentage league, this is for sure a first
round pick.

Speaker 2 (01:09:57):
Totally agree. Yeah, I think if you want a hundre
RBIs yeah, College Schober is that in the back half. Yeah,
it's you.

Speaker 1 (01:10:06):
Know, do I need to come back to the guy
who's gonna batting average next? Yes? Do I need to
get Yes? Do I need to make sure I get
Jacob Wilson on my team? Maybe so?

Speaker 2 (01:10:16):
But yeah, and you know, hey, the fact that he
doesn't run, it's probably not the only thing is Yeah,
you can find stolen bases. Yeah, that's not a problem
finding stolen bases.

Speaker 1 (01:10:31):
Right, Timmy, you're on the clock, okay.

Speaker 2 (01:10:37):
Oh yeah, Yeah, he's right up there with Scott Baker
right now. I gotta count on that. I got to
counter on the bounce back. And I think he's fullen
too far. And that's Gunner Anderson.

Speaker 1 (01:10:50):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:10:52):
You know, last year he was consensus was six seven,
somewhere in that range. He didn't he didn't enjoy what
we were expecting from Henderson. But if I'm not mistaken,
I'm just calling him up right now. He did steal
steer the other side of thirty basis oh thirty right
on the nose. That problem was the power sixteen homers,

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sixty seven RBIs I got to count and closer to
thirty home runs and one hundred RBIs of Henderson projecting
him forward, So I think it's in the right area.

Speaker 1 (01:11:30):
Let me see what last year he was nine point
three was his.

Speaker 2 (01:11:35):
Adp Okay, So yeah, I knew. Yeah, I'm not ready
to accept Kyle Schwarber as being a sixteen home run
sixty seven RBI type of guy.

Speaker 1 (01:11:52):
Hits the ball too hard, that's just not going to happen.
I would be shocked at that because if we take
a look at his baseball savant I looked at recently,
because I have been a bunch of dynasty leagues, dynasty
leagues I can get quite well in, by the way,
which makes me feel really good about what's coming up
for next season, because with Gunner as any level of
a bounce back, that's going to bode well. But yeah,

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I mean his average egg of velocity is ninety two
point one miles an hour. It's in the upper ten
percent of the league, right, eleven percent.

Speaker 2 (01:12:21):
Of the leak.

Speaker 1 (01:12:21):
Yeah, that's yeah, it's about really hard. He controls the
strike zone. Well, he's a great player. I'm not sure
what happens.

Speaker 2 (01:12:31):
No, I think it was a combination of things. I
think the team sort of went off the rails, you know,
the pitching problems, you know, losing their elite closer. Hey,
Matt Wiers didn't have a good year. Oh sorry, no,
Edley Ruschmond, Sorry, I didn't have a good year. Is
a combination of things, I think in Baltimore this year.
But I'm betting on the bounce back.

Speaker 1 (01:12:54):
Cared to gander at how old Gunnar Henderson.

Speaker 2 (01:12:57):
Is, I'm going to say he's twenty three.

Speaker 1 (01:13:00):
He turned twenty four in June.

Speaker 2 (01:13:03):
Okay, yeah yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:13:06):
Kyle Kyle Tucker, Tim two got hurt, two sixty eight
batting average, going to sign a massive deal Kyle Tucker.
What's wrong with Kyle Tucker?

Speaker 2 (01:13:19):
Nothing? Yeah, that absolutely nothing is wrong with Kyle Tucker. No,
I no, no problems are all with that pickt done whatsoever?

Speaker 1 (01:13:29):
All right, Timmy, that's fourteen. Let's see who Tim's got.
We're on He's on the clock. There's a lot of guys.
Junior Junior Caminario is still there. Well, Count Riley is
still there. He's ranked second according to this thing I'm
looking at. Uh, you could go power Pete Alonzo, George
Springer had a bigure adult Tim goes there. You could

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go with another picture. Who are you going with, Tim.

Speaker 2 (01:13:55):
Well, I'm going to give you. I'm going to give
you the two at the two at the wheel just
so it sort of makes sense, but it wouldn't it
wouldn't change anyways. I'm going with Paul Skins at fifteen. Yeah,
he he broke the he broke the two era mark. Yeah,

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he's He's a great young pitcher, there is no doubt
about it. And warranting of being the number two I
believe off the board. And I'm gonna pair him up
with junior Cameron Arrow and forty home runs. Yeah, and
then sit back and wait for my next two picks
and try and secure speed.

Speaker 1 (01:14:32):
And batting average, because I mean, he's not going to
have Junior caman Ara is not gonna have a ton
of batting average there so actually had decent batting average
and only base percentage league. He just doesn't walk very much.

Speaker 2 (01:14:43):
So no, yeah, you're looking at what three twenty three
thirty probably for OBP, which will suffice, but it's not
going to win you a title. But the forty the
home runs, Yeah, I can't pass on that.

Speaker 1 (01:14:55):
Good stuff everyone. That is our first round pick. Let's
take another. They're break to me, and when we come back,
talk about some maybe early sleepers for next season.

Speaker 3 (01:15:06):
I like it. I like them.

Speaker 1 (01:15:17):
Artificial intelligence has not been able to solve the fact
that my laptop runs out of power after an hour
and a half. So so I'm plugging in. I'm on
the floor, plugging in my power strip. I'm down here
in our condos club room and plugging in now. So
which I have, you know, the big TV on. So

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it's very nice, very comfortable down here. Tim, I like it.

Speaker 2 (01:15:44):
Yeah, and it has power, something that poor France didn't
have for sixteen hours today, damn it. Yeah, all Canada,
all Canada is watching the Blue Jays and Tim is
twiddling his thumbs in the dark. Okay, yeah, not good. Rich.

Speaker 1 (01:16:01):
So sim didn't have a chance to prepare for this,
but I said, let's let's just talk about a couple
of early sleepers. Uh, just you know, I have done
my formal research yet. So I did a little bit
this morning and came up with some name. So do
you want Do you have anybody? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:16:20):
Well actually I did my list while we were talking
Rich Okay, yeah, Hey, a artificial intelligence can't multitask with
with Tim McCloud.

Speaker 1 (01:16:33):
All right, give me one and then I'll give you one.

Speaker 2 (01:16:37):
Okay. Well yeah, well we basically had the same player, okay,
at one, So I will leave the honors to you there.
But I sort of like Hassan Kim a fair bit.

Speaker 1 (01:16:52):
Why is that? Okay, Hassan Kim, the the Dodger or
the other one. Yeah, Hassan with Atlanta with Atlanta?

Speaker 2 (01:17:02):
Okay, yeah, with Atlanta. I think Atlanta's gonna be a
lot better team. They're gonna be healthy, and he's had
a really good run with Atlanta. And I think if
you look back to a couple of years ago, you know,
seventeen home runs, thirty eight stolen bases. Last year he
was down one hundred and forty plate appearances and was

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still eleven twenty two. We'll we p three thirty this year.
He's been hurt, but he's looked really good in Atlanta,
and I think if you're looking at a middle infielder
fairly late. We know what the and we know what
the glove will do. I'm starting liking Hassan Hassan kim
Is as a sleeper, an early early sleeper pick.

Speaker 1 (01:17:46):
Rich, that's interesting. You know one guy that did not
make our listens Ronaldcune. You did not go in the
first round.

Speaker 2 (01:17:55):
No, he didn't second round for sure.

Speaker 1 (01:18:00):
Yeah, so I'm sending the list to AI. Let's see
what let's let's see what he says. Yeah, see it
just hit to enter here. Uh. That's draft is spicy,
aggressive upside, some bold fades, and a few picks that
could swing leagues. Here's a quick breakdown of what stands out.

(01:18:21):
Aaron Judge two rock solid, elite power, Bobby Witt and
Jay right back to back gives you two thirty thirty
threats with youth and ceiling. That's a fantasy Corps. Francisco
Lindor is a savvy grab durable balance is still running.
Tarrek Scooble at ten is a statement you're betting on
him being at SP one in twenty twenty six, and
it's totally defensible. Schwarber and Kyle Tuck around out a

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power heavy bill. Schwarber's average drag is real, but in
rodo the hr RBI volume plays. TAM's pick show Hey A.
Tani at one is chalky and safe even without pitching.
So he's learned what chalky means. So that's that's uh.
You know when you do chalk, you know one, you know,

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do it the way it's supposed to happen. So you're
supposed to take show hey at one. Once someone hos
Erramiers or high floor anchors obp monsters with category depth.
Li de la Cruz at seven is volatile at the
strikeout rates stabilized, it's a league winner. If not, it's
a reach. Oh, we didn't like that one. Paul Skins
fifteen is gutsy if he's one hundred and eighty inning

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ace next year, ten looks brilliant if he's managed us carefully,
it's early junior. Caminaria at sixteen is a breakout bet,
could be a top ten bet bat if he gets
full time at bats. In the power holds overall thoughts,
you lean into power, speed and breakout pitching. Team leaning
ten lead into on base percentage, youth and upside volatility.

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It's draftfield's balance, but your scooball pick might be the
most impactful if he holds SB one status ten's Llie's skiings,
Caminarra trios, high risk, high reward. If even two hit,
he golden. If not, you've got the safer floor, more
bankable production. Want to want to build out round two,
blah blah blah. So that's what it's like to have
an assistant.

Speaker 2 (01:20:07):
To Well, yeah, you're not going to get that level
of product activity at speed. It's pretty Yeah, it's cool.

Speaker 1 (01:20:23):
Okay, So you got Hassan Kim. Uh, that's my Is
it my turn? So my first guy was Emmitt Sheehan
with your Dodgers era of two eighty two expected era
of three oh one, got three plus pissag pissed pitches
on a fastball with a huge whift rate. Signature pitch
is a slider forty three rif wiff rate and a

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good enough change up above average control. I know, Timmy,
it's uh, he's already had Tommy johnsurge. So at least
we're off the books at least for the next few years.
Worry about that. Hopefully, I I guys and Dodgers, they
get hurt and I she and is gonna have a
chance to pitch. I think he gets twenty five starts.

Speaker 2 (01:21:05):
Yeah, when you when you look at shean, Okay, if
we were looking at this around the middle of August, Okay,
let's say the August nineteenth. Okay, he came off two starts, okay,
where he allowed four and five runs against Colorado and
the Angels. But after that, okay, in five starts plus

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the one and he pitched on September twenty sixth, So
five starts, he allowed four and runs. He had two
games where he struck out ten, one where he struck
out nine. I don't know where I'm going to place
him this year, but I am going to be probably
one of the high guys, one of the high guys

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in the industry. On image, I'm going to be very bullish,
very bullish. I like where I'm I like where I'm seeing.

Speaker 1 (01:21:56):
Remember, he was good before he got hurt too, So
this wasn't This isn't a guy that just kind of
came out of nowhere. But uh yeah, I think I
think you can jump on him. Did you have any
you go through some more guys or you have some
other guys.

Speaker 2 (01:22:07):
Yes, I've got all sorts of guys here, rich Okay,
I'm it's sort of I I like this guy a lot,
and maybe maybe I should maybe I shouldn't, But I
have a feeling that Dale and Lyle is going to
end up on a fair number of my teams next year.

Speaker 1 (01:22:28):
Yeah, that's a good call. That's something I should be
able to get very late.

Speaker 2 (01:22:34):
Yeah, and you know, you look at what he did
this year. Okay, you know you look at his minor
league numbers, and you see under the home run call,
you see a lot of twos and threes and twos.
Well in half a season this year, we got nine
home runs a stolen basis. Okay, the batting average started
to pick up this year, but it was basically fairly

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Middland up until but he had three oh two with
a three fifty obp. Okay, he can he can take
take a walk and it's only going to get buries.
Twenty two years old, scored fifty one runs. I like
daleen Lyle a lot, and I'm probably going to be
moving him up draft boards.

Speaker 1 (01:23:16):
Richard ninety third percentile and speed rarely strikes out. He's
pretty aggressive at the place. That's something he probably needs
to get better at and the exit velocities aren't great,
but they're not terrible. And it's probably just a kid
that's twenty two years old and is going to come
into power. I've always liked them, so so I agree

(01:23:37):
with you. I think he's a very very interesting guy.

Speaker 2 (01:23:41):
Okay, who you got ed?

Speaker 1 (01:23:43):
Well, I got a guy that i've I've loved for
the last three years and Tim makes fun of me
every time. But this is for Tim Rangers Juarez. I
think he will continue to go later in drafts because
everybody still thinks he's not a strikeout pitcher, which he
really isn't. But it's a four expected earra on a
three twenty ear as a ground ball machine, plays for

(01:24:04):
a great team. Yeah, the wins are going to be there.
I mean he'll pitch one hundred and sixty innings and
strike out one hundred and fifty guys. I'll take that
as my number three starter. I just don't think their
love for Ranger Suarez is there and I'm gonna take them.

Speaker 2 (01:24:18):
Yeah, I agree with you. I think be a free agent.

Speaker 1 (01:24:22):
He might be a free agent, so we'll see.

Speaker 2 (01:24:24):
Yeah. Yeah, No, I again, I think uh, he will
go later than he probably should. I agree with you there, Richard, definitely.

Speaker 1 (01:24:36):
Who's your next guy?

Speaker 2 (01:24:38):
Oh, my next guy is a guy that everybody's going
to avoid because the risk is off the charts. But look,
he's only twenty five years old, Okay. In this year,
met to sixty three batting average, twenty two homers, seventy
five RBIs finished top five. Well, we're all at second base.

(01:24:59):
I'm gonna like and so, probably more than I should.
But at second base concept comes into play. I think
the White Sox will live with some of the challenges
that he presents. And yeah, he doesn't walk, Okay, the
strikeout rates are probably a little on the high side.

(01:25:21):
You want to avoid him in an OBP league, but
in a batting average league. I think the power is real.
I think we saw it at the end of last year,
which would he had twenty twenty four. I guess I
should say now that we're at the end of twenty
twenty five, at the end, we saw it in September
last year, and he's just carried through this year. So
I just have a hunch I want to see a
little bit more Lenissa than maybe I should.

Speaker 1 (01:25:45):
Uri Perez, I was hoping would pitch just okay, and
he posted a four ear, which I think is going
to hurt him. And because it was, you know, ninety
five innings pitch, a four to twenty five year race up.
Some people say that's a large enough sample size, but
if you take a look at the data, this is

(01:26:07):
a guy that averaged ninety eight miles an hour in
his fastball with a twenty six eighty five spin slider,
forty percent with rate change, up sixty percent with rate.
This guy has nasty stuff. He's six foot eight, he's athletic.
I'm uri Perez. I'm going to be bold and I

(01:26:27):
would wait on provided the early drafts come out and
push him down. I'm gonna be He's gonna be an
early number two pitcher for me if I can grab
him there. So that's I just think Gary Perez's poise
for to continue the career that we had before we
had Tommy John surgery.

Speaker 2 (01:26:47):
Yeah, and I'm going to be taking the approach where
I'm going to be pushing him up like crazy, how
much to your chagrin, Rich I, I am probably going
to have Ury Perez as a top twenty starter.

Speaker 1 (01:27:00):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:27:01):
I think it's all there. Yeah, there you know, yeah,
you know. He had a bad start against Washington where
he allowed seven and runs, a bad starting against yeah, yeah,
against the Mets. This is at the end of August,
beginning of September. Fivened run of seven and runs and
riches sitting back saying, yes, yes, we need one more
bad start and he's going to be a number four starter.

Speaker 1 (01:27:23):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:27:23):
Well, yeah, that didn't quite work out when you struck
out eleven in his final outing, and then the two
outings before that didn't know when he earned runs and
struck out six and nine. Yeah. I think Eurie Prez
is going to be not a good but a great picture.
And I think people will pay for him. And like
I said, there's as much to your year, Sugarete, I'm

(01:27:44):
gonna be pushing hard on I'm gonna be pushing hard
on Euriere.

Speaker 1 (01:27:48):
Okay, well good, I think you should. The data says
that it's all there.

Speaker 2 (01:27:53):
Give me the next guy, Okay, I'm I'm gonna go.
I don't know if you can call him a sleeper,
but I don't think he can a Quinn Priester had
a pretty amazing scene. I'm hoping to have a lot
of shares of Quinn Priester next year.

Speaker 1 (01:28:12):
What say you, our Patreon members will know is when
he was traded. I did the write up because I
write up all trades, and I said, call me crazy,
I think this guy's got sneaky value. And look, I
write about prospects and I write about organizations. I talk
to these people. I'm telling you them. Milwaukee Brewers know
what they're doing with pitchers, and I figured they would

(01:28:34):
change his this pitch mix around. They did. He added
a cutter voila. He turned into at least the number
three starter. It was the perfect setup.

Speaker 2 (01:28:46):
Yes, and I think yeah, And I think the walks
will come down marginally. I think the strikeouts will come up,
and the overall mix could be as high as a
number two starter this year.

Speaker 1 (01:28:59):
I think he's a three floor with a two upside.
I totally agree with you that all come it all
come downwards. You have to grab him. But I think
I think he's better than what people thought last season.
Now people might push him up to be a number
two starter to draft, and if that's the case, I'll
probably just say that's too rich for me. But if
he drops to a number three starter, I'm all over it.

Speaker 2 (01:29:22):
Okay, works works for me. Who you got at number four, Rich.

Speaker 1 (01:29:26):
I'm gonna do Ford and my guy who I thought
was going to be my sleeper, I'm gonna put them
together because every you know, I liked what Kobe Mayo
was doing at the end of the season. He had
I think it was five arm runs in the month
of September. I watched I watched a lot of Oriole
games and they were just moonshots, and I looked at

(01:29:46):
a strikeout raid and it was reasonable, like twenty two percent.
I think I didn't really do the research. I'm thinking
this time might be one of my sleepers. And then
I had him on my list to talk about. And
then I saw an MLB to Day because he had
home run yesterday. On the front page of MLB dot Com,
it was Kobe Mayo is going to be a sleeper

(01:30:07):
for next year. I'm like, oh no, So I just
happened to do my research. And then that's when I
realized that it's danger Will Robinson with Kobe Mayo, because yeah,
his his expected batting average is to twenty eight, which
is okay, but and that was in the last month.
But he doesn't hit the ball as hard as you
think he will, and it's all leverage. It's a twenty

(01:30:30):
three degree leverage loft on his swing and that's where
all the home runs, so they are moonshots. But he's
not hitting the ball as hard as I think he is,
and I'm worried about the leverage and the strikeouts. I
think it's yep. I think it's a trap because I
think he's going to get now if I can get
him as corner infield or I'm interested. But if he
starts to push up because of the end of the

(01:30:53):
season he had, I'm going to walk away and instead
I'm going after Jack taggling on On and his one
fifty eight batting average because he's hitting the ball hard
at eighty nine miles an hour, you know there's more
in the tank there. His expected batting average is two
forty nine. I just said his batting averages one fifty eight.
His expected batting average is almost one hundred points. On

(01:31:13):
top of that, he's only striking out twenty two percent
of the time. This guy's got massive power. Gimme, gimme, gimmes.

Speaker 2 (01:31:20):
Ten would say, yeah, I was gonna say, is Kyle
Schwarber down the road a reasonable call.

Speaker 1 (01:31:27):
I have to check his walk rates. I'll walk rate
is seven point five. So no, I don't think Kyle Schworber.
But if you tell me it's Junior Camonaro, Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:31:36):
Yeah, okay, yeah, yeah, I think I think he hits h.

Speaker 1 (01:31:41):
I think he hits thirty five to forty home runs
next season. What's your next question. I mean it's like
that's I just think that guy's gonna have massive power. Yeah,
he's not gonna hit three hundred. But if you tell
me he hits thirty five home runs, two fifty batting
average and one hundred RBIs and you can get him
as your corner infielder.

Speaker 2 (01:32:00):
Yes, yeah, okay, that works. I got three players left,
and I don't know which ones to so you more, Okay,
I'm gonna I'm going to go with a player there

(01:32:20):
that right now, I think I am going to be
targeting as a number two catcher. But I think he
can provide. No, but you know what, Yeah, you're in
You're in the You're in the right direction though, Harry Ford.
Really there's there's a deep, deep sleeper for Tim for

(01:32:43):
next year. I like the hit. I'd like to hit too.
I like he could run and Garber isn't going to
be back. Ford will be the number two catcher there
and potentially a full time d H. And they can
rotate like I think Rally caught one hundred and thirty
five games this year, Okay, that's got to come down

(01:33:04):
a little bit, okay, and they can put Rally into
the d H slot and utilize the younger knees of
Harry Ford. I just think Harry Ford is gonna go eight.

Speaker 1 (01:33:16):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (01:33:16):
They're gonna say, well, people are gonna say, well, cal
Riley is a catcher. He's you know, you're crazy with
Harry Ford. But I think what he can provide between
the DH hit bats and as a number two catcher,
you utilizing me in your catcher slot. I like what
I'm seeing. I'm gonna have a fair number of Harry
Ford shares next year. At least that's gonna be the He.

Speaker 1 (01:33:38):
Got a little call up, right, He got eight plate appearances,
so he got a chance to experience a little of
the major leagues. So hopefully he won't be totally flummoxed. Look,
I love I love Harry Ford too. I think he
does a talk for our show. I think he moves to
the outfield man. Okay, I think there's upside there, so
but it would be great if I mean, what you

(01:34:00):
want is somebody who does outfield catching and still like
Ben Rice is the perfect kind of guy that he
gets twenty twenty played appearances at twenty games at at catcher,
and then you could throw him in your catcher spot
and he's he's playing one hundred and forty games. That's
what you.

Speaker 2 (01:34:16):
Want, ye Again, I just think there's more there than
what will be paid for.

Speaker 1 (01:34:25):
Well, I'm gonna do the last one here, then we'll
take our final break and and and Haven helped me
on this one, Timmy, because I was wrong about Dylan
Cruz in twenty twenty five, and I'm going I'm going
there again. Bat speeds in the ninetieh percentile. Average X
velocity eighty nine point seven. Bat speed ranks in the
upper third of the league. Expected batting averages two forty

(01:34:46):
eight is his batting average is two ten, strikeout raids
a little high, walk rates a little low. But I
just think I think this guy's got a ton of talent.
I think he got off on the on, he got
off poorly, then he got hurt, and I think it
was a bit of a lost season, and still he
showed speed and a little bit of pop, and I

(01:35:06):
think there's more in the tank. I'm going Dylan Cruz.

Speaker 2 (01:35:08):
Again and in for a penny, in for a pound,
I like to pick. I I think anybody right now
who's rostering Dylan Cruise and considering moving him no Dynasty.

Speaker 1 (01:35:23):
Lakes I I and I think he's gonna he's gonna
be really depressed at the draft because people are gonna
look at what was it a two fifth? I said
two two ten batting average, and it just wasn't there.
He's going to be a number four outfielder and it's
gonna be I'm gonna have he and Jack Kagali and
Owen on my team and I'm gonna be loving it.

Speaker 2 (01:35:45):
And the Kada in Oakland for your batting average.

Speaker 1 (01:35:47):
Right, Jacob Wilson, Yeah, so yeah, I just I think
I think Dylan Cruse is gonna hit. I just do
I mean, I I think he's gonna hit. I don't
think he's gonna be three hundred hitter, but he's not
a two ten hitter.

Speaker 2 (01:36:01):
So yeah, did I ask your thoughts on a twenty
five year old player? In Houston because he was the
other player. I was considering jose L two and.

Speaker 1 (01:36:13):
Yeah, no, no, no, is that coal?

Speaker 2 (01:36:18):
Yeah right, yeah, what are your thoughts.

Speaker 1 (01:36:21):
Let's take a break and come back. I'll answer that
question for Tim, and then we'll sign off because I
get laid here.

Speaker 2 (01:36:29):
Yeah, so almost RECONSI.

Speaker 1 (01:36:38):
Follow off pensial appointment. Tomorrow, Tim, I have get a
new crown put on, so they have to man make
the core. So when I went two weeks ago, the
person who was creating the little temporary crown that they
put on, she made a mistake. I knew it wasn't
gonna cracked and she thought she fixed it. But I

(01:36:58):
so I went and the next day it fell out
and it just crumbled, right, So I'm like yeah, So
I called the dentist office and I said, hey, do
you want me to come back in to get a
new temporary crown? And they go, well, we'll ask the
dentist and we'll get right back to you, and they
never They never called back. So I said, well, screw it,
I'm not going to run them down. So if if

(01:37:18):
the crown doesn't work, then then they got to make
a new one. So we're going to see what happens tomorrow.

Speaker 2 (01:37:26):
Hopefully, Okay, with that new crown, you will I will
definitely reinforce that you are the great Rituilson, and hopefully
it comes with minimal pain. My friend, Oh, there's no
pain now.

Speaker 1 (01:37:40):
They don't even numb me up. They just literally put
glue on it and stick it on there. So that
should that should not be any problem at all. But
I'm pretty sure I get yelled at by the dentist.
Is a friend that used to be my neighbor, and
we looked up up in the other town and he said,
if it falls out, you got to call me. So
I'll put it back. We'll get you a new one,
and I man and I they sing it back to me.

(01:38:02):
So I'm like, well, that's one of you a pal. Okay, Yeah,
is that cool? I like Zach Cole having a couple
of Dynasty leagues.

Speaker 2 (01:38:11):
So I'm I'm.

Speaker 1 (01:38:13):
Putting my money where my mouth is. He hits the
ball pretty hard. There's there's some concern about how much
swinging message is going to be in this game. He's faster,
there's power and speed there. So I think it's a
really interesting guy going into next year. Obviously, the four
home runs in the three stolen bases are really interesting.
So I gets a good call by you and somebody.

(01:38:36):
You never know about these guys that get the September
call ups and really blow up. Does that said goose
them too much? Because I like them? But if he's
going as a late number three outfielder that I am
zero interest in Zach Cole. But if he's a four
or five, I start to get interested.

Speaker 2 (01:38:53):
Yeah, well, it all becomes relevant to his draft slot, okay,
and what you're paying for him, because there, let's face it, yeah,
there's risk, a ton of risk, okay, And again it's
just a name that intrigues me a lot. Richard really does.

Speaker 1 (01:39:08):
Well nineteen home runs, eighteen stolen bases this year in
Triple A, but it was a thirty five percent strikeout, right,
So and yeah, he played so well because he had
a four eighteen babbit, so you do worry about that.
So I would take the speed and power risk if
I can get him as a number five or maybe
even a reserve round. But if he's gonna be a
number three outfielder, because people say, oh, in fourteen games,

(01:39:31):
he hit four home runs and stole three bases I'm out.

Speaker 2 (01:39:35):
Well, yeah, and if you look at his yeah, you
look at his numbers at Triple A with sugar Land, Okay, yeah,
I mean sixty one plate appearances, three point fifty three
batting average, four fifty nine OVP. Can you say small
sample size? Yeah, twelve oh four ups? Yeah, there are
There is reason to be excited, but there's also reason
with those same set of numbers to be cautious.

Speaker 1 (01:39:58):
Twenty twenty four and Double A, primarily Double A, he
hit two eighteen with a thirty seven percent strikeout rate.
In twenty twenty three it was a thirty two percent striker, right,
So there's definitely swing and miss in his game. So
he could be, you know, a guy that never makes
it because he just strikes out too much. But the

(01:40:20):
speed and power is interesting. Again, if I get him
as a number five starter, excuse me, a fifth outfielder
or a reserve round, I'd become very interested in him.
If he goes too early on no, I'll pass.

Speaker 2 (01:40:31):
Yeah, yeah, you'll be proud of me. Rich. This is
getting a bit off topic, but I had a Tim
McCleod moment this week. I had some documents to sign
at work, Okay, and the you know you had to actually,
you know, sign that you read this document or whatever. Okay.
And one of the columns, okay, there's a series of
about eight columns. One was a sign off. The column

(01:40:55):
right beside your signature said print legibly. Okay, so I
put legendly hit did you really?

Speaker 1 (01:41:03):
Did you really?

Speaker 3 (01:41:03):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:41:04):
I did?

Speaker 1 (01:41:04):
I did.

Speaker 2 (01:41:05):
Yeah, my boss loves me.

Speaker 1 (01:41:09):
Wow, that's very funny.

Speaker 2 (01:41:13):
Well, you gotta do sometimes what you gotta do. Rich,
I'm not expecting a long career. Okay, let's leave it
at that.

Speaker 1 (01:41:21):
Wow, it's funny. So Timmy, let's wrap up the season.
My friend, I thought, I thought it was another great
podcast season. I had fun playing my fantasy leagues and
it was a great season. I loved it. What about you?

Speaker 2 (01:41:36):
Yeah, it was, it was. It was a good season.
I'm happy with the results. Hey, you always like to
strive to do better, but when you're playing, when you're
playing at the top level, Yeah, the competition is fierce,
to say the least. That overall you I'm happy. I'm
I'm a little bit tired. I probably bit off a

(01:41:56):
bit more than I could chew as far as work
is concerned. And I'm gonna be wor looking towards adjusting
that over the next couple of months.

Speaker 1 (01:42:03):
Work fantasy work.

Speaker 2 (01:42:06):
This is no the real life work. Okay, when this
becomes work, that's that's when I walk aerage. This is
not work at all. This is you know, this is
a passion. Okay, there's there's a big difference, and I
think the combination of working a little bit more than
I probably should have had had a bearing on the results.

(01:42:28):
And I'm not going to be able to use that excuse.
Next year. I'm going to be trimming down my you know,
my actual work and spending more time trying to enjoy
the game. And again, I'll be sixty eight in March.
It's time to slow down on a few things and
focus on the important priorities, like what to have for
supper and running my fantasy teams?

Speaker 1 (01:42:51):
What is for supper?

Speaker 2 (01:42:53):
What is for supper? Something that doesn't work? Jodie's holding
both of her hands up with her palms down. Uh,
something probably doesn't require electricity. I have no idea. We're
probably going to break into the fridge and there's uh,
there's some leftover sitting there, leftover homemade pizza and leftover
shish kabobs that were just awesome.

Speaker 1 (01:43:13):
Wow, that sounds great.

Speaker 2 (01:43:14):
Yeah, yeah, so we're probably gonna get a break into
the fridge and do that. What about you were you
were you looking at for supper?

Speaker 1 (01:43:20):
We had carry out on Friday some place in town
called Marjon Persian Grill, which is Persian food. Uh and
it's so it's a chicken kebab with like a little spice.
It's not hot, but it's wonderful. So so we saved
that for dinner tonight. So very excited because we went
out with friends last night and uh so yeah, we

(01:43:43):
we we go out a lot, so particularly now that
baseball is winding down. It's it's like, now we're going
to get back together with all of our friends and say,
you know, what's what's been happening.

Speaker 2 (01:43:54):
Yeah, and pretty soon, pretty soon you'll be heading You'll
be heading south again.

Speaker 1 (01:44:01):
Right heading south on the twentieth of October. So we're
this will be our last this will be our last year.
We will be official North Carolina residents. We are moving
back officially to New Jersey because it just it's it's
becoming increasingly more difficult to to get the one hundred
and eighty three days, six six months and a day

(01:44:22):
down in the other state to be permanent residents. It's
it's just too hard, so because we want to spend
more time up here because of the grandkids and just
other stuff, and it's so.

Speaker 2 (01:44:33):
Right, and that's where that's where home really is.

Speaker 1 (01:44:36):
That's where home is, right, Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:44:39):
Yeah, that's that's where you spend most of most of
your working life. So yeah, that makes a lot of sense, man,
being close to the grandkids as a yeah, as a
start to get to the age where they're scouting baseball
players and hey, those are important things, right.

Speaker 1 (01:44:55):
Yeah, yeah, that's that's that's yeah, that's cool. So so
we'll be So we're going to get our six months
in a day this year, but next year there's no
way we can get it because we're coming back up
here for Christmas and then staying through the middle of February.
So I was looking at the calendar, going, there's no
way we're going to get six months in a day. So,

(01:45:15):
you know, my wife and I had the discussion. I go, well,
let's let's just it's time to it's time to make
the move and then we don't have to worry about it.
So that's that's that's the plan, Tim, So we've got
to get new licenses and car registrations and all that
kind of nonsense.

Speaker 2 (01:45:29):
So well, and you know what, do you still have
Duluth in the winter as an option? Rich?

Speaker 1 (01:45:34):
That is true, that is true. So to me it
is it is wrapped. Another great season. Everybody will be
back next Sunday talking playoffs and I'm sure we'll do
some other stuff, probably talk about postseason awards and yeah,
we'll keep we'll keep it going, Tim.

Speaker 2 (01:45:51):
Yeah. Well, and I got to thank our listeners for
hanging in over the course of the past six ones. Again,
your support is greatly appreciate it. And hey, have you
got any stories about how we helped or maybe didn't
toss them over on the discord site. I'd love to
hear some stories over there. And I'm really enjoying myself

(01:46:11):
with that particular facet of the of the organization and
me I'm share some stories with us. I think it
would be great. And to you Rich again, I thank
you for a wonderful year, Be safe, be well, and
as always, looking forward to seeing you next week on
time and with electricity.

Speaker 1 (01:46:32):
For sure, and everybody the again. The Chicago cups drop
this coming Friday with a podcast to follow, so enjoy
that as well. Timmy talk to you on Sunday, See
you Sunday.

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