2249 - Fantasy Questions of the NL Central - Fantasy Baseball from Prospect361.com

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Here we go, greedy society chases everyone at twitch Wells

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and walk in the Fantasy Baseball Live. Today is the
nineteenth of October, two weeks from Halloween, actually a little
twelve days from Halloween, and tim it is seventy five
degrees here in the Northeast. It can't be a more
beautiful day outside, just amazing. Has it no frost yet
at all?

Speaker 2 (00:44):
Wow? You're doing you're doing well. We had our nice
weather ended a couple days ago and we went from
ah low mid sixties to today. The high right now
is six celsius, which is about forty forty three cold. Yes. Uh,

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our our hot, warm, beautiful fall turned into uh pre
winter uh in a hurry. Yeah. It the old the
old furnace is running and it will be for the
next five six months.

Speaker 1 (01:21):
Wow. So we're heading back down to North Carolina where
I think it's in the eighties where we're going. So, uh,
We're we're leaving at the right time because I'm assuming
he's going to get cold here. So looking forward to
another probably another six weeks or so of fall before
winter sets in, So that'll be good. But we'll be
back up here in December, so only only going back

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to North Carolina for a couple of months.

Speaker 2 (01:45):
Yeah, you know, fall is always a dreary season, uh
in the north. You know it's once winter sets in.
It's sets in. You know, you got snow on the
ground and everything. You know, it's but it's uh re
winter I call it. Where you might get snow, you
might get slush, you might get rain, freezing rain. The

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temperature it's not cold enough to support you know, the snow,
et cetera. That's probably my least favorite of all seasons
up here because it's just dreary. It's just blah. Once
winter arrives, well, you accept it and you roll with it.
It is what it is. But it's that introduction to

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winter that yeah, it really sucks. It makes driving tough,
walking tie. It's just not a just not a good season,
at least not for me up here. The kids odds
are fifty to fifty that they're trudging through a foot
of slush on Halloween Eve, or they could be could
be dressed fairly for warm weather. You just don't know.

Speaker 1 (02:51):
So what is your Halloween like ours? Kids get trick
or treating or things like that, and you go around
the houses, knock on doors, you can candy and things
like that. Yeah, so same yeah, same here, Yeah, same here.

Speaker 2 (03:04):
Every once in a while you catch some adults. Every
once in a while, some adults go trick or treating,
which is always good for a hood.

Speaker 1 (03:10):
He go to Walmart and buy a twelve pack of
snickers and be done with it. Come on, guy.

Speaker 2 (03:16):
Yeah. When I worked for Freedo A at that time,
Walmart did what they called a scavenger hunt. They got
the suppliers and people in the community and they set
up various stations around the store and it was inside,
so it was really nice. People could go trick or
treating actually in Walmart. Yeah yeah, well, you know, it's warm,

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it's safe, you don't have to worry about slips and
falls that sort of thing. And it was well attended.
We're a relatively small community, and they would have between
four and five hundred people show up for their they
call it a scavenger hunt. It was a lot of fun.
I used to dress up. I dressed up as a monk.
Really yeah, and you know why.

Speaker 1 (04:02):
I got my I've got my hand over the rim shot,
so I'm expecting.

Speaker 2 (04:06):
Well, because I worked for Freedo Lay that made the Chipmunk.

Speaker 1 (04:13):
All right with that?

Speaker 2 (04:16):
Okay, so the people who do like who do like?

Speaker 1 (04:19):
Exactly? Who do like? The faller baseball fans. If you're
in Los Angeles, you're in Toronto, you're in Seattle. Not
so if you're in Milwaukee. Tim, the Milwaukee Brewers just
I mean, I mean they laid an egg and the Dodgers,
my word, they just destroyed them.

Speaker 2 (04:40):
Well, yeah, I the one problem they had coming coming in,
potential problem was a bullpen. It's as acci is all
that fine style, but they're pitching. Yeah, you have a
Moto through I think, the first complete game for the
Dodgers since two thousand four. Like, hey, hey, the Brewers

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had a great year, there's no doubt about it. But
when you run into pitching performances the likes of which
they saw between Yamamoto and Snell only allowed a couple
of hits or whatever struck o ten. You know, Glass,
what can you say about shoey Otani. We are living
in before blessed era.

Speaker 1 (05:25):
Before we spend twenty minutes talking about which I think
he deserves that. Blake's now eight innings, one hit, ten strikeouts,
no walks. That's ridiculous. Tim Yamamoto gave up that for
a leadoff home run to first pitch, Yeah, run the
church and then was dominant. I mean, it's it's just ridiculous.

Speaker 2 (05:48):
Yeah, there were ground balls too, you know, the only
people yeah, other than yamamotive. The middle infield was the
hardest worked because it was to shortstop the second base
over the first or a strike. Yeah, yeah, Mamoto was
he was dominant.

Speaker 1 (06:05):
Yeah, it's it's I I mean, I know your your
dream matchup was Milwaukee versus Toronto, and that obviously is
not going to happen. I think the only team, and
I said this last week, I think I said it
the week before. The only team I think that has
a chance and it's probably not a good chance to
derail the Dodgers is is the Mariners. Maybe they can

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win a couple of games, two to one, one to nothing.
I mean otherwise, I don't know how you stop this team.
To me, the pitching is better than anyone. I no
offense to the Mariners, and their bats are great. I
don't know what you do, Yeah.

Speaker 2 (06:46):
You enjoy it. Go Dodgers. That's all you can do.
You're and you know what, you know, it's fascinating is
there are are A report came out today and you're
gonna love this. Uh Dodgers expected to pursue Kyle Tucker.

Speaker 1 (07:01):
I was next on my list. Yes, I h.

Speaker 2 (07:07):
Kyle Tucker.

Speaker 1 (07:08):
Yeah, I laugh when I saw that. But then it's like, look,
major League Baseball teams, maybe they don't have as much
money as the Dodgers. They got plenty of money. The
Dodgers have chosen to spend their money. They're winning championships.
They're in the back to back World Series with a
really good chance to win a second World Series. It's
waiting less only to get into games. Merchandise is flying

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off the shelves. I mean, they're they're investing in their team,
they're winning and they're making money by doing it, and
other teams are just not.

Speaker 2 (07:39):
Yeah, there's a lot that just aren't. And uh, the
one thing that that is that will be happening down
the road is the next uh CBA is going to
be a tough, toughly fought one because you've got the
Dodgers ending all that money and yeah, with the team

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that they have right now, Hey, I know it's tough
to you look at potential dynasties the Dodgers could win
the World Series the next five years in a row.
It's it's unlikely, but it's possible because they're not they're
not afraid. We'll get the talent that they need. And
look at what they're they're number four starting starters showy Otani. Really, yeah,

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that's right.

Speaker 1 (08:31):
He's the number four starter because yeah, yeah, and it's
so it's it's it's I will say that. I mean,
who knows that they're gonna win the World Series? But
I bet you in the next five years their favorite
to win the World Series coming into the season, and
that's all you can ask for. I mean, to the
front office to set the team up. Okay, if we
stay healthy, we should win. They didn't stay healthy last

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year and they still won, so I mean it's just ridiculous.

Speaker 2 (08:57):
And they didn't. Yeah, and they didn't have the best
record in the ring. There's as either and this year
they were. Yeah, they're there right now. They have to
be the prohibited favorite. It doesn't matter who gets it.
With the way things are going right now. Now, Hey,
things can change. The pitching can go south. Yeah yeah, yeah,
but I have a lot of starting pitch and go

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south to even to even the table even against the Mariners.
You know what I mean, because that's asa Kirby hasn't
looked really strong and Wove's coming off an injury. Castille.
It's yeah, to even the table even against the Mariners,
really good rotation. They need a couple of guys to

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wet the bed. And that's that's asking a lot, isn't
it right now?

Speaker 1 (09:43):
And let's let's let's go down to the farm. Tommy.
So I finished, I got off of my You remember,
I had a writer's block, or I'd rather call it
a writer's laziness. I just didn't want to write, and
I finally got off the snide started writing again this
week and I did the National League West, and I've
started to do more formal Q and A sessions with

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my AI assistant. And one of the questions I asked
them after I did the Dodgers. And our Patreon members
know because I posted it today, how the Dodgers stack up?
My question to my AI assistant. I know I haven't
fed all the systems yet, but I think the Dodgers
make a total of twenty three I've sent you this
this season, is how would you rank their system compared

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to the Brewers, Orioles and Pirates. It says Dodgers absolutely
belong to the top ten, probably the top five overall.
The system is loaded outfielders. I your Hope Hosway to Paula.
It's Water, Quinterras, Serota, Polish College backs, James Timms, blah
blah blah blah blah. It just goes on and on,
and it says, basically, my AI engine, based on everything

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I've fed him, likes the Dodgers better than the Brewers,
the Pirates, and the Orioles. And it's just I mean,
that's so they're stacked, not only at the major league
level and can can they could get any player they
want because they've got so many minor league players that
you just say, Okay, yeah, somebody went down. We don't

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have enough pictures for the for the postseason. We'll just
go out and buy a couple of guys like they
did Jacks Flayer. That's what they can do.

Speaker 2 (11:15):
Yeah, and you know what has to happen, and it
won't because of the nature of the game. But when
the Dodgers come after you with a trade, don't make it.
Make them meet their minor leaguers.

Speaker 1 (11:29):
I almost liking it too. You've got a perennial winner
in a dynasty league. Every year they win. Yep, why
don't you charge them double for a triple for whatever
they want? I mean, you know, if you want us
my starting pitcher, I want, I want five of your
best minor league. You don't you know if everybody did that,
then they would finally have to bony up. But somebody always.

Speaker 2 (11:51):
Caves, exactly. And yeah, you know, when you look at
the fantasy game, you got a name that comes to
mind is he and he is a great fantasy fantasy player,
and he can and he makes and he makes the
deals that need to be done. I I haven't made.
I'm in I'm in one league with the uh the

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the XFL, and I haven't made a trade with him,
and I won't because I'm a strong believer that if
you have a good team and a strong team, pay
a premium, and if you don't want to pay it,
go somewhere else. And there's always unfortunately somebody else there.
You know what I mean. It's hey, because let's face it,
you can you can basically starve your top teams in

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the fantasy league. Just don't make trades with them. Make
them make them, make them very very lopsided sort of deals.
And like you said, there's always somebody the caves. Hey,
and they good good, good good for those that have
built strong teams, but it doesn't do anything for either
the real game of baseball or the fantasy game.

Speaker 1 (12:56):
Yep. The only player that really played well for the
Brewers was Jackson Curio. Good to see that he was
at least getting hits, and uh.

Speaker 2 (13:04):
He was nicked up. He was nicked up to you,
so that's even more of Yeah.

Speaker 1 (13:08):
I mean the Browers didn't play bad. It just got beats.

Speaker 2 (13:11):
I mean they just well, you know, when you start quoting,
you know it's smell did well Yamamoto did? With Otani did?
Who pitched the glass? Yeah, when you've got pitching that
shuts everybody down, who do you point the finger out
and say underperformed? Well, they didn't underperform. They just big
a slapt you know what I mean. They they ran

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into a juggernaut of pitching. And I don't care how
good your offense is, there isn't an offense in the
league that was going to score runs against those starting pitchers.

Speaker 1 (13:43):
In the past four number ones.

Speaker 2 (13:45):
Yeah, yeah, exactly, Yeah, you know you you look at
right now, if you have to rank your top ten
top ten pitchers, three of those four are going to
be in your top ten. Yeah, I mean yeah, and
Snell you know well yeah, I.

Speaker 1 (14:02):
Mean obviously from a fantasy standpoint, Snell and glasnow provide problems,
right because you're playing for the regular season, so you
know those guys are going to pitch let's uh, well,
Glass is going to pitch one hundred and twenty and
Snell's gonna be one hundred thirty hundred and forty. So
that's expensive if you go there, Yamamoto, I think is fine.
But for a team like the Dodgers, who have enough

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depth to get through the regular season, and they just okay,
well we'll make sure everybody's healthy by the middle of
September and then we'll roll. And that's exactly what they're doing.

Speaker 2 (14:35):
Well, yeah, and you take a look at you know,
once you get pasted, yeah, once you get past you know,
the big four, well then you you know, you got
an image and kicking around rublesk He's okay, and yeah,
hey Clayton Curser, I did what he needed to do,

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and yeah, you look at who do they have in
the mind some pitching. They got a couple of arms
down there, don't they. It's yeah, they got River Ryan,
they got Gonsolin, they got Kevin Sick. You can't even
list them all. And they'll probably pick up a free
agent this year.

Speaker 1 (15:12):
Yeah. River Ryan is on the Emmit she and path.
He's coming back from Tommy John surgery and he should
be good to go. Gonsolin not sure what happened to him.
He had Tommy John surgery a couple of years ago
and was up and down this season hurt again. But
it's they've just they've got tons of players. And when
I'm with you, when I heard the Kyle Tucker news,

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I mean, that's just it's crazy. So can we for
just a moment, show Hey Otani, and everybody gets sick
of hearing about show Hey Otani. But I did a
little little Google searching, and I asked Google how many
players have hit three home runs in the postseason? And
there were twelve or maybe it was thirteen, remember, and

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Babe Ruth did it twice, which I thought was interesting.
So you can say, well, it's unusual, it's a feat
et cetera. But there's nobody in there Timmy that pitched
six shut out any as well with ten strikeouts. I
mean that's I mean, look, you can never say never.
I don't think we'll see it in our lifetime a

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postseason performance or even an end season performance like show
Hey a Tani did it was? It was historic?

Speaker 2 (16:26):
Well and that wasn't he cleared the roof with it
like it wasn't a wall scraper, it was a roof scraper. That's. Man.
When when he hits the ball, man, it's all air.
You know. The only person I can think of that
that consistently hit its as many long home runs as

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him would be Kyle Schwarber.

Speaker 1 (16:51):
Yeah, he will show you a Tony's got as much
raw power for not more raw power than anybody in
the league. I mean, it's it's I mean, it is
crazy blend of talent. You know, if he stays healthy,
I mean, he's going to be a top pitcher. They'll
probably you know, the Dodgers will probably having to start
ten to twelve games, and you know, just like they
did this year, they started them up mid season and

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ease them into it and then when he's ready for
the postseason, let's go.

Speaker 2 (17:18):
I think that's just smart well, yeah, you know, if
you're looking at the Dodgers, are you there are players
you want badly from a fantasy point of view, But
at the same point in time, you know a good
junk of them. If you're playing head to head, they
might get you there, but they're not going to put

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you over the top in September because odds are good
they're going to be sitting right yep, that's right.

Speaker 1 (17:45):
And that's the problem with with Dodger pitchers, probably outside
of Yamamoto, I mean, Snell and Glass are going to
get hurt. They're going to limit it. Tani, well, you're
gonna get Otani for the bat anyway, but I mean
he's gonna have limited time out there. It's going and
then you know, Emmett Shean's going to get ten starts
or Ryan's going to get twelve starts and Robustia get five.

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I mean, and they'll just piece it together. And those
guys are all pitched three fifty earra and they'll be
just fine.

Speaker 2 (18:13):
So and they'll trade for somebody at the trade dead
Lion that will help as a fifth starter. Right.

Speaker 1 (18:19):
Yeah, Well, let's go into the other contest. I got
the Mariners and the Blue Jays. The Mariners go up
three to two after I guess it's it's finally somebody
won at home. The Mariners finally won last night ten
was it not ten to three?

Speaker 2 (18:34):
Whatever?

Speaker 1 (18:34):
They they won six two six. So how do you
think that series has gone and how do you think
it's going to wind up?

Speaker 2 (18:43):
Well, the Jay's got themselves. They dug themselves a bit
of a hole. They were up two to one, and
I know, uh, Brandon Little, I believe it's Brandon Little
is He's taken a lot of heat. But the bottom
line is the Jay's had the bases loader with no
oats and didn't produce a run earlier in the game,
and I think that hurt them. I haven't been overly

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impressed with with the pitching management of Schneider in Toronto. Uh.
I think bringing Little in was a mistake. He hasn't
looked good in the playoffs. Uh, he wasn't look he
didn't look good in that last game. I thought that
was a mistake. The game before we tied it up

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at two games agee, they were they were fairly big,
and he brought in and used it both Domingus and
Oh their closer in a game where I thought they
could have probably saved those guys for the next night. Uh.

Speaker 1 (19:48):
Yeah they Yeah, they were up big and that was
the game that yeah got blown up. Yeah, they brought
in Floridy and Yerio Rodriguez.

Speaker 2 (19:59):
Yeah, and you know, Hoffman pitched in the Tamis for
we had to win the game. Well, you're up by
six runs. If you have to win the game, save
them in case you need them, but don't use them
sort of thing. Yeah, I'm just not. I'm not impressed
with a lot of the bullpen management I've seen in
the playoffs. Yeah, I'm just not. I I think there's

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there's been some questionable, questionable usage, and Schneiger took a
little bit of heat, and I think he deserved to
as far as tonight is concerned. Uh, the Jay's Jay's
got their hands hands filled. They're going with the kids.
You just have bitch and Logan Gilbert is pitching for Seattle.
Uh that's a tough that's a tough situation to be

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pointing a young pitcher with a handful of games into.

Speaker 1 (20:46):
But he looks like he looks like he's got ice
in his veins though. I mean, that guy is has
been money and money and important games in the playoffs
and at the end of the season. So yeah, you're right,
it's tough, tough situation. But guy's pretty good.

Speaker 2 (21:01):
Mmmm he is. I I think I said the Jays
and seven. If I'm not mistaken, and they have they're
they're gonna need They're gonna need a top scholf performance
from everybody tonight to pull it off. Now after Gilbert,
like I would say in a tie situation, Hey, Gosman

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said he's going to be ready for Game seven. I
think that in a game seven situation, if it gets there,
I think the advantage shifts to the Jays because there
Logan Gilbert is the guy they want and he's going tonight.
You know, Kirby and Castillo and you know, like you know,

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Bryce Miller has arguably been their second best starter.

Speaker 1 (21:50):
I'm so he can he can give you a couple
of so I agree with I think that. I think
it's switches to the Blue Jays and everything, you know,
the everything on paper says the Mariner should win this
game tonight. They're they're in the position to win the game.
We'll see how it all plays out. I think I
had the Mariners five or six. I think I said

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I had the Dodgers in four or five, so I
thought the Dodgers would end it quickly. So and I
just think Mariners are better team than than the Blue Jays.
But we'll see, we'll see what happens. That's got to play.

Speaker 2 (22:25):
The Yeah, what did you think of Max Scherzer's discussion
with his manager on the hill? Did you catch that act?
I did?

Speaker 1 (22:32):
I did not. What did he say?

Speaker 2 (22:34):
Uh? Well, he went out and basically he said, no,
go back to the bullpen more or less.

Speaker 3 (22:40):
Go back to the dugout to go back to the
dog the bullpen, go back to the dug over. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Max was Max was being Max and letting his feelings
be very clearly known.

Speaker 1 (22:53):
So as good as joey Otani has been, I mean,
we also got to give a little bit of love
out to Vlad Gerrera four for four last time they
played four sixty four in the playoffs. How many home
runs does he have four in the playoffs? I think, okay,
four or five? So I mean that's that's as good

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as that's as good as you can do. So good.

Speaker 2 (23:17):
But yeah, yeah, no, good, good, unblighty. And George Springer
has played very well. I can't believe. Yeah, the comeback
player of the Year Springer is not in that mix. Like,
come on, give me a break. Springer has had a
huge year. He should be up for some sort of award.

Speaker 1 (23:38):
Yeah yeah, Oh well, who cares about those awards? I mean,
I don't come.

Speaker 2 (23:43):
Back, I really don't. They They annoy me, is what
they do. For the most part. They reaffirmed, they reaffirmed
most of the right ones, and the ones they get
wrong just annoy me. So yeah, I agree, stay away
from them. Easier lipator consumption there.

Speaker 1 (24:00):
Uh So to me, let's take a quick break and
when we get back, we're gonna start a fantasy discussions
of each division till I am watching television show called Severance.

(24:22):
Have you heard about it?

Speaker 2 (24:24):
H No, But I hope it's not an indicator of
my paid situation.

Speaker 1 (24:30):
That's true about a company who's come up with a
chip that they put in your brain. That so when
you walk into the elevator of the office building, your
memory of what's on the outside world disappears and you're
severed from the outside world. So you have an AUDI

(24:52):
on the outside world, but when you're in this building,
you have an Inny in the Anie doesn't know what's
happening with the ality and the Audi doesn't what's happening
with the Inny. It is wild man and it's confusing.

Speaker 2 (25:04):
It sounds sounds bizarre. Yeah, maybe I'll have to give
that a check. Me own.

Speaker 1 (25:11):
It's it's it's one of those things that after I
mean McKidd said, you got to watch is that it's
the greatest thing ever. So Laurie and I sat down
to watch it in the fifth by it's there's two
seasons so far and we're on episode five. I'm like,
I have no idea. I mean, I have no idea
what's going on? None whatsoever? I mean zero, And like
there's like, just give it time, it'll start to make sense.

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And it's the whole thing is the mystery, and you're
trying to figure out what it's all about, and solely
but surely they're starting to reveal stuff to it. Timmy.
It's just we've got two more episodes of season two,
the last episode that's been made. We're gonna crank that
out tonight. So I'm not gonna watch the game. I'm
watching Severn, So get that done. I'll try to watch

(25:53):
a little bit of the game afterwards. But that's uh,
it's been fantastic.

Speaker 2 (25:58):
Yeah, what happens when the wife called as to bring
home a port of milk and a loaf of bread.

Speaker 1 (26:02):
Yeah, it not happened. It doesn't happen. Yeah, so.

Speaker 2 (26:09):
Yeah, who are you? Yeah, go get your own milk
and bread? Yeah yeah, yeah, bizarre.

Speaker 1 (26:16):
It's it's I mean, it is so good. So I
know I told people, I think when I did my
one of my prospect podcasts, I just started and wasn't
getting it. I want to make sure everybody, I mean,
you got to watch this thing. It is, it's great.
So it's absolutely great, Timmy, let's get on to our
questions of the National League Central. I've just finished up

(26:37):
my prospects of the National League Central, so a little
bit of overlap, but that's just the way it is.
We will we'll get out in front of the fantasy
questions by divisions because my prospects don't come out quite
as fast. But shall we do the cups?

Speaker 2 (26:51):
Yeah, some very very very tough questions. Uh, you didn't
pull in any punches at all, and that's good. You
made me earn my keep this week. Good Rich I
spent a lot of time digging and researching, so good stuff.

Speaker 1 (27:07):
This is what I do to make the questions up.
I bring up roster resource and look at the names
on the roster and I just think of stuff I
would want to know, like you know, you know. So
that's that's how I come up. And then the last
question is always to saying, give me a sleeper in
the organization minor major. That's easy. So when I do
the notes, I do the five teams in the division,

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and I put that one question in all the time,
and then I start coming up with questions. So this
is from my warped mind. So the first one is
Matt Shaw played okay, but did you live up to expectations?
Because there was huge expectations coming into the season two
twenty six batting average at the two ninety five to
one base percentage, but thirteen home runs in seventeen stolen bases.

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How do you feel about Matt Shaw's rookie season.

Speaker 2 (27:57):
I thought it was okay, but just okay. I did
some digging and it's fascinating when you take a bit
of a deeper look. But anything straight, okay, A fastball
or a sinker okay, anything that moved in a straight line. Basically,
he hit and he was solid. Anything off speed or

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with lateral movement he really struggled bad. His whifth rate
on breaking stuff was thirty point two percent off speed
stuff twenty six point seven. He's gonna see a lot
of crooked stuff until he proves he can hit it.
But again, he's also only twenty three and improvement, you know,

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can't be ruled out. Okay, but I just found it fascinating. Hey,
he's not gonna see he shouldn't see many fastballs. He
really shouldn't because he can hit him. Same with sinkers.
Like I said, the breaking and off speed stuff, man,
he should see a steady diet of it because he
really struggled with it this fast year.

Speaker 1 (29:00):
So I'm looking at a little a little different than
what you're what you're saying, but I mean, I I
respect the whiff rate, but he didn't hit anything. So
I mean expected average on his fastball two sixty three,
expected average on his breaking pitch of two nine. Believe
it or not, his austree pitches are two ninety six,
which is a little disconcerting. So maybe the baddest slow

(29:23):
if you take a look at his average exit of
velosity and if you took a look at this, Tim
average XI velosit is eighty four point eight miles an hour.
I mean that's two percent in the league. I mean
that's that's not a home run.

Speaker 2 (29:37):
No, Well, he's not making good contact, right, yeah.

Speaker 1 (29:39):
I mean, and you look at the spray chart in
all of his home runs, twelve out of the thirteen
of his home runs are within probably fifty feet of
the pole. I mean everything was straight down the line,
so he's yoke and everything. He doesn't hit the ball
that hard. Tim's right, doesn't handle breaking pitches very well.

(30:01):
A lot of young players stolen, I don't. I mean
it's hard to say it's a growth stock here.

Speaker 2 (30:08):
Well, and he's saying ninth in that lineup, and there's
a reason for it. Yeah, uh yeah. I I'm not
going to overpay for mat Shawn next year. Somebody will
on the Hope City figures that I see a I
see growth, but I see it being a very slow climb.
And he's got to prove that he can hit that

(30:30):
breaking off speed stuff, or yeah, you're going to be
paying for well next year. I have into two thirty
five batting average and a three to ten OBP. That
seventeen stall a basis seventeen and twenty four.

Speaker 1 (30:48):
Wow, that's not bad.

Speaker 2 (30:51):
I mean it's not it's not bad. But he's going
to be a drag on your batting average OBP, and
he's going to be hitting at the bottom of that lineup.
The runs score will be deflated. He will produce I
think he will produce home runs and stolen bases, but
it's going to come with a cost, and I don't
think that cost is going to be measured in is ADP.

Speaker 1 (31:15):
Let me give you some other bad news. Okay, splits
one hundred and ten plate appearances versus left handers. Again,
he didn't hit much two fifty four to ninety slug
in six home runs three times as many at bats
against right handed pitchers to ninety three to be exact,

(31:36):
seven home runs, So one more home run in a
slug of four to sixty two. There's one hundred and
thirty point difference in a slug lefty versus righty. I
mean he's not handling right handed pitching at all.

Speaker 2 (31:50):
Yeah, it's how is how does the phrase work? In progress?
But I think what's gonna Yeah, I think what's going
to happen with Shaw those I think people are going
to overpay for upside potential. But looking as we just
did a little deeper into the numbers, there's a lot
of risk involved in that process, and I don't think
that risk as it's it's not going to be. It's

(32:13):
not going to show up in his ADP. I think
he I think people are going to overinvest in match
next year. I think they're going to overpay, and I
won't be one. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (32:25):
I mean, if there's some ugly numbers when you do
the splits ough just taking a look at hitting one
four to expected batting average A one fourteen against breaking
pitch gets right in anyway, all right, so be careful
with Matt Shaw. Tem is absolutely right. Matt Michael Bush
was great in twenty twenty five, thirty four home runs,
a two sixty one batting average, a three forty three

(32:45):
one base percentage, so one base percentagely because he hit
lead off a lot. He was good. However, he hit
two oh seven versus left t in at pitchers and
only four of his thirty four home runs came against lefty.
So now we're looking at the exact opposite of Matt Shall.
Are you worried that he'll fall into a platoon role?
And I guess my second question if he does, does

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it really matter because he still hit thirty four home runs?

Speaker 2 (33:11):
Well, yeah, first base isn't o really deep. There was
only nine first baseman okay, they hit twenty five or
more home runs last year. Bush was third with thirty four. Okay.
Of those of those nine that qualify at third base,
only five had an OVP north of three forty. Bush
was one of those five. Am I concerned not one bit?

(33:32):
I think he is going to hit twenty five to
thirty home runs in a even in a total platoon role.
And right now he's their lead off bet you know.

Speaker 1 (33:44):
Well against right is that writing for sure? Not against lastna? Yes?

Speaker 2 (33:49):
Yeah? Is that going to Is that going to change
moving forward? It? It might if one of my other
predictions comes to the to the four, which we'll discuss
in a minute or two. But I feel comfort with Bush.
I think he is going to be a top ten
first base type and he's gonna Yeah. I think he
had four home runs in the playoffs. Yeah, okay, yeah, yeah,

(34:11):
I'm perfectly happy with Michael Bush.

Speaker 1 (34:14):
And by the way, the Dodgers discarded him because they
didn't need him him.

Speaker 2 (34:19):
They didn't need him, no.

Speaker 1 (34:21):
Let that's it in everybody. So they got zyr Hope
in exchange for him, and that guy could be a
monster in a couple of years. Kate Horton, Timmy, he's
probably one, maybe a bit of a surprise as he
came up mid season. I think it's a breakout right
at two sixty seven ear a. He's going to get
some votes for Rookie of the Year. Though from a

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fantasy standpoint, it was only striking out seven and a
half per nine. Can sometimes live with eight, eight and
a half for nine, but you start to get in
that seven it got for bid six all of a
sudden you start to go, oh, I don't know if
I'm interested in that. So my question to you is,
how should I think about him next season? He's an
a number blank pitcher.

Speaker 2 (35:03):
A number three with upside.

Speaker 1 (35:06):
Really, so you think that the strikeouts are going to
get better.

Speaker 2 (35:10):
Well, his k rate and the and all of his
time in the minors, okay, was significantly higher. Okay, And
I think they're as long as he can figure out
the fastball. Last year, his fastball usage was at fifty
point two percent, and he only had a fourteen point
seven wifth rate on that fastball. The breaking and off

(35:32):
speed stuff was much much better, and I think the
usage mix is going to change a little bit this year.
I think he's going to go more to his breaking
and off speed stuff, drop his fastball usage down into
say the forty percent range, and if he makes some
of those adjustments, okay, that's strike up rate, strikeout rate

(35:53):
is going to rise. So I feel comfortable we'll see
better numbers in the strikeout category. And let's face it,
at two sixty seven ERA, it was impressive. So I'm
I'm start of liking I'm sort of liking Kate Horton,
and I'm I'll take him as a number three next year.

Speaker 1 (36:11):
To sixty seven ARRA a three ninety three expected earray.
So I think I think time's right. If they can,
they might decide. Then it's tough to do because he's
coming in with his chest sticking out to sixty seven
e RA and he's going to go I was just fine,
and somebody's gonna have to say, no, we need to
change some things and really emphasize you're a sweeper a

(36:33):
little bit more. That might that might be an interesting discussion.
It might take some getting beat beaten up before he
changes anything.

Speaker 2 (36:43):
Yeah, you take a look at the whiff rates on
the other forty eight point eight percent of the pitches
he threw, and they are much much better than the
past ball numbers.

Speaker 1 (36:54):
But fastballs typically don't. Fastballs typically don't have high whiff rates.
I mean because most most if you can't hit a fastball,
you're not a major league hitter. You're just not right.
So nobody's coming up with a slider bat speed and
expecting to make it. So, I mean, I get the
fourteen point seven percent, it's still a pretty good pitch, though.
I batting average two sixty three. I expected batting average

(37:18):
to ninety seven. But Tim is right one seventy on
the sweeper a one ninety three batting average. Those are nasty.

Speaker 2 (37:25):
Pitches, so they are, and I think we'll see more
of them.

Speaker 1 (37:29):
So Tim's got a number three pitcher with upside good.
That's I like that, Okay, but sent uh, how do
you pronounce that guy's name?

Speaker 2 (37:37):
Pelaesina, the Collenia Palencia Valencia or Helsencia Helsensia.

Speaker 1 (37:45):
Yeah, I missed I screwed up his first name. I's
got Dany, so Daniel I think it is so twenty
two saves last season, do you consider him a top
ten closer?

Speaker 2 (37:59):
No, I don't. And the reason I don't as I
still have some concerns about the shoulder caused him to
miss some time. Believe it or not, I'm still a
little bit in on Porter Hodge. Like last year, injuries,
injuries killed himself sas all with an oblaquy miss several
at a time. Then he had a half impingement, then

(38:22):
he had a shoulder impingement. But if you take a
look at Hodge and Heelsensia, you take a look at
the two of them, and they almost looked like they
flip flopped their numbers twenty four to twenty five. And
in twenty twenty four Falsensia had like a six era

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Hodge was lights out. The rules were reversed. So I
it's just an odd, odd combination of things. But I
haven't ruled up Porter Hodge is getting some saves. I'm
just not convinced. Mean the shoulder and the bad year
that Hodge had, that hell Sentcia is going to be

(39:07):
as good as what we saw this year. I just
have some concerns there. Maybe I'm overreading it, but I
I'm not comfortable with him as a top ten.

Speaker 1 (39:19):
Okay, fair enough. I'm actually in the notes. I'm actually
typing in all your responses as well, so people can
see that as they are listening or listening to the
podcast that they want to go back and research that.
All right, Tommy, give me a sleeper or two if
you like, in the organization, major or minor. It can
be Michael Bush. And I don't think that's a you know,

(39:40):
but it could be somebody in the major league team.

Speaker 2 (39:42):
So yeah, I've got a couple for Yeah. One guy
that I am incredibly bullish on is Moyses Bellasteros.

Speaker 1 (39:53):
Now, maybe for a moment, hold on now, I'm not
letting get up. You were not bullish on them when
we talked about them or they over the winter. You
were not bullish on him when he got called up.
What why have you changed your mind?

Speaker 2 (40:06):
I'm in the process of proving you can teach old dogs. Okay, Okay, Yeah,
at some point in time we can like players and
moving forward, we can see things that change our minds.

Speaker 1 (40:22):
That is a very, very wise thing to say, Tommy,
I agree with you.

Speaker 2 (40:27):
Yeah, and you know, with what I have seen, I
think it's entirely possible the Bellosteros at some point in
time in twenty twenty six before the season. I can
see himhitting in the ladoff spot. He's got the hit
tool that absolutely I have no problems drafting him coming
into this year as a late number one, high number

(40:48):
two type catcher and read draft leaks, I am all
over Bellistero's.

Speaker 1 (40:57):
He can he can flat out hit, and there's twenty
home run Papa, and it's not thirty arm run pop.
He's just But if you can get a catcher that
can hit, it's like double dip it.

Speaker 2 (41:08):
Yeah, it's it's It's a good situation, it really is.
And again I think he's going to continue on with
the trend we're seeing with young catchers and great skill sets.
And we saw some this year Baldwin in Atlanta like
he did, he really really broke broke out, and I

(41:28):
think we're going to see more of it. Yeah, Alisteros
is one of my guys for this year.

Speaker 1 (41:32):
You said he got another way.

Speaker 2 (41:35):
Yeah, if you want to look a bit deeper in
in draft and hold fifty to fifty man draft and
holes as a late pick. I wouldn't shy away from
Jackson Wiggins. What say you?

Speaker 1 (41:50):
I like Jackson Wiggins. He was number number was he
for me on the Cup system? I had him? Oh
there is as Jackson with a X. Yeah, seventh, seventh,
So yeah, I like him a lot. Number one pitcher

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in their organization. So yeah, I think there's I think
that makes a lot of sense that we could see him.

Speaker 2 (42:21):
Yeah, and you know, hey, when you get from forty
five to fifty, he's not going to be on everybody's radars.
So I just think it's somebody named to file away
for those drafting whole leagues, and he at some point
in time, I think he'll probably end up sneaking into
one of my waiver wire articles. Rich.

Speaker 1 (42:40):
They always do, Tommy, let's take a break and when
we get back, let's do the Cincinnati Reds. Every time

(43:02):
I think of Jackson Wiggins, I think of missus Silwiggans,
you know, from the Kerl Burnett Show. Is that telling
my age here, Tim? Not at all?

Speaker 2 (43:13):
Rich. There's reruns, Okay, I'm sure, I'm sure you didn't
see the originals.

Speaker 1 (43:17):
This is why I said about Jackson Silwiggans, a first
round town who slipped due to Tommy John surgery. Jackson
Wiggins is now healthy, flashing the arsenal that made him
a high upside arm as fast Bodin's ninety ninety six
touches ninety eight pair with a hard cutting slider that
missus bats in an improved change up that helped neutralized
platoon splits. Fantasy managers should treat Wiggins as a strong

(43:39):
stash in a deeper format. The arsenal is explosive, and
with continued refinement, he could emerge as a high strikeout
started with impact potential. By mid twenty twenty six.

Speaker 2 (43:51):
Ooh that I could you just copied your notes instead
of instead of spending all my time looking at Rosky
researches and picking picking guys that I liked.

Speaker 1 (44:02):
That's good. That's good. That's good writing too. By the way,
that's all edited with my AI engine, So I mean
it's really good.

Speaker 2 (44:10):
Guy's a good writer. Oh don't worry, he'll be asking
for a raise.

Speaker 1 (44:17):
I was showing these conversations and I said, hey, can
you put post this into a blog post? He got sure.
He gave me like five to choose from I'll set
I'll take number two.

Speaker 4 (44:27):
It's crazy in the door, the curtain or the box, right,
it is ridiculous on don't you take the time to
actually give it the content.

Speaker 1 (44:40):
It's just amazing what those things can do. Absolutely amazing.
All right to me, let's go to the sins that
he reads. We've talked about Eli de la Cruz a bit,
so I did a little bit more digging and I
really want to hear your opinion here. First round led
like first half. Excuse me, Eli de la Cruz eighteen
o runs, twenty five stolen bases, he hit two eighty
four second half. Obviously, second half's a little shorter than

(45:02):
the first half, so I have to take that. But
he only had four home runs, twelve stolen bases. He
had two thirty six. No, there was no I think
discussion about the second half was not good. My question,
are you worried about him coming in the drafts this
upcoming season? Uh?

Speaker 2 (45:22):
Not overly, because I think we're going to get very
close to twenty home runs and I think he can
steal as many bases as he wants. My question about
this year is was he heard was there some sort
of nagging injury we didn't know about, or did the
Reds have the red laid on? You know, but you

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look at Ellie's second half numbers were down. Spencer Steer,
we're gonna talk about him in saying his numbers were
way down. I think Ellie Delacruze can steal as many
bases as he wants to steal, assuming he's healthy. So
I am chalking the second half off to one of
something that we don't know about that occurred. Does that

(46:04):
make sense? Uh?

Speaker 1 (46:06):
Yes, I said it before. I don't have any inside information.
I would have a tendency to believe he hits the
ball really hard, that this is a guy that had
some kind of injury. I mean to go, showed very
little power and you know, in a meaningful size sample
size and just not showing he just doesn't make sense.
He went, was it six weeks or so without hitting

(46:27):
a home run? That makes no sense.

Speaker 2 (46:30):
No, You've I think you've got to look a little
a little deeper into that situation. I think something occurred
that we don't know about that affected his performance in
the second half. I think he can steal. He can
steal as many bases as he wants to if he
if he one year just you know, had a green light,
I think he can steal a hundred bases. The only

(46:50):
thing stopping and basically is himself, right or the desires
of the team and limiting his opportunities. He's got the wheels.

Speaker 1 (46:59):
This is a twenty three year old that's already hitting
the ball average ex velocity of ninety one miles an hour,
max ex velocity of one seventeen point four. It doesn't
have any law, it doesn't have any leverage in a
swing at all. It's just just flat at seven point
six degrees. I mean, add a little bit of leverage
a la Michael Mike cal Garcia, and all of a sudden,

(47:21):
I mean that's that's an easy thirty home run pop there.
So again, twenty three years old, I still think this
is a growth stock.

Speaker 2 (47:29):
So yeah, you know, and you're gonna you're gonna draft
him in the first round, probably towards the middle of
the first round somewhere in there. But I how can
you not say twenty thirty And at twenty thirty it
would be a disappointment, I think, but you would still
be generating numbers that would warrant a pick at that spot.

(47:51):
As a floor, so I'm not concerned.

Speaker 1 (47:55):
Damn, right into the notes, there could be twenty thirty upside.
So there you go. Here's a here's an interesting one.
Remember Gavin Lucks again, he was another Dodgers cast off.
Was a top prospect for me, and I'm assuming the
top prospect for most people. Looks like he can hit
a little bit. But tim five home runs, he stole
one base. That's one. That's the number between zero win

(48:18):
two and he I mean he hit two sixty nine,
which I think he was hitting a lot higher, so
he probably tailed off at the end of the season.
Was still a three fifty on base percentage. My question
to you, is he a fantasy dud? Right? Yes, yeah,
there's no reason to draft.

Speaker 2 (48:34):
This guy, not unless you've got a fairly large reserve
roster and you're utilizing him for injury replacement.

Speaker 1 (48:47):
So like a draft and whole league in the thirties
where you just you need some depth at in the
middle and field second base. There you go, yep, I agree,
And so then I was assuming you would say that
he was a dud. But then all of a sudden,
if we take a look in roster resource, they've got
Cabrian Hayes. Now, so you got Cabrian Hayes with his
five home runs. Luck's with his five home run Timmy,

(49:11):
that's tough to get over from a team standpoint.

Speaker 2 (49:14):
No, well yeah, and on top of that, it also
plugs a living Jesus out of that lineup, you know
what I mean. It's not like as you but it's
not a good feeling, you know. Hayes is locked up
for twenty six and twenty seven at seven million year.
Twenty seven and twenty eight is eight million a year

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before a club option for twelve million and twenty thirty.
It's not a bad deal if he can return to
his twenty twenty three form okay, which is fifteen homers,
ten stolen bases, a two seventy one batting average in
four hundred and ninety four bets. But if he's producing
at the level he did last year moving forward, that's
a horrible deal. I Hey, maybe the Reds figure they

(49:59):
can fix him and they get him to return to form,
But I sure wouldn't have made that commitment, not with
the system that they have in place, because they they
do have they do have some some young kids that
they could be utilizing in that role. Like how far
away is edwind Arroyo.

Speaker 1 (50:19):
He's heard a lot, he was hurt a lot this
past season, so and camp calliers not far behind, So they've.

Speaker 2 (50:27):
Got something exactly. Yeah, they're not. They're blocked by Cobrian Hayes.

Speaker 1 (50:33):
He's an elite defender, so, I mean, nobody has the
kind of range he has at third base, so it's
a yeah. So he's always gonna have baseball value there.

Speaker 2 (50:44):
Yeah, but how many games are they gonna win against
the Dodgers.

Speaker 1 (50:48):
I wouldn't think very done.

Speaker 2 (50:51):
Yeah, you know, they they they need, they need some offense,
so he's not going to give him that.

Speaker 1 (50:58):
I've always been pretty big on keep Brian Hayes because
I'm a data guy and I always looked at the data,
and I saw the following. In twenty twenty three, his
average exivelocity was ninety two miles an hour. That's big
boy potential power, and he didn't have much of a
launch angle. So I'm thinking, if he just adds a
little bit of launch, he could be starting to hit
home runs and he never has. And now he's getting

(51:21):
to be an older player, and I guess what his
average egg velocity is going down. I don't know how
he has like a I don't think a rebirth of
what I thought Cabrian Hayes when a lot of people
thought Cabrian Hayes could be I think that ship has sailed.

Speaker 2 (51:38):
Yeah, And if that's the case, then the Reds have
got themselves. Well yeah, Cam Collier is going to be
playing extra time in the minors because of that.

Speaker 1 (51:52):
Yeah, which is which is a real shame.

Speaker 2 (51:54):
Yeah, I agree. I don't get that. I don't get
that deal at all. But I think the pirates are.

Speaker 1 (52:01):
Happy, Yeah, for sure. Well we'll get to the pirates
a little bit. Where did the stolen's? Third questions? Where
did the stolen basis go? For Spencer Steers? He had
thirty five in twenty twenty four in seven last season,
Baseball savonchos at sprint speed at sixty six percentiled down
from seventy three. So that's not bad, but twenty five

(52:22):
to seven seems extreme.

Speaker 2 (52:24):
Yeah, he gave them all to Josh Naylor.

Speaker 1 (52:28):
That's true. So I mean, is this speed going to
return in twenty twenty six? And maybe that's an impossible
to answer question. What do you think?

Speaker 2 (52:34):
Yeah, yeah, I have no idea, but I would, but
I wouldn't bet on it returning. I think I think
this was a I think this was a team decision.
That's why I'm looking at you know when I mentioned
Dela Cruz right, his stolen bases were down in the
second half, you know, was he hurt? Did the Reds

(52:56):
have a red light on? Did they have a red
light on for Spencer Steer? What would be cause for
him for Spencer Steer to not steal as many bases
in the prior year because his sprint speed hasn't dropped
that much. Seventy three to sixty six six, it's not
that is not huge. Twenty five to seven is huge.

(53:17):
I have a feeling that it was a team decisions.
The Reds put the red light on.

Speaker 1 (53:23):
Interesting, So what what what do I put down for
your response? Will the speed return in twenty twenty six?
How many stolen bases?

Speaker 2 (53:32):
Eleven? It's a kind of he'll yeah, kind of yeah,
he'll steal a few, but it's not retreating to twenty five.
I don't think not unless the Reds say run every
time you get the first base, and I don't think
they will.

Speaker 1 (53:47):
I have a quick one for you, Tim Chase Burns wins,
ear RA and strakeouts.

Speaker 2 (53:52):
Give it to me, baby, Okay. The important number there
is the innings pitched, and I have them pegged at
ninety max. Oh why that the right flexer strain that
he suffered. I think it should be a concern, and
I don't think the Reds are gonna over I've got
him with six wins, the three three ninety ARRA, one

(54:15):
hundred and ten k's. But I don't think Chase Burns
is going to be pitching as many innings as maybe
some think he will. I think the Reds are going
to be very cautious. I don't think they want the
dreaded three letters surfacing, and I think they'll I don't
think they're going to overwork them. I think they're gonna
be very very cautious in their usage for Chase Burns

(54:36):
this year.

Speaker 1 (54:37):
What's what's the EARRA in strikeouts again?

Speaker 2 (54:40):
Three ninety one ten.

Speaker 1 (54:43):
Well, that's just no good timmy, that's no fun at all.

Speaker 2 (54:46):
I know. I'm sorry.

Speaker 1 (54:49):
I mean, look, guys, in the one hundred miles an
hour they have Tommy John surgery.

Speaker 2 (54:53):
But just this is the latest. So yeah, and he
already missed time last year. He already miss time last year.

Speaker 1 (55:01):
So so your advice, I think you have to be
He's not going to he's not going to be in
any of your teams because he's going to go before.
You're willing to make that.

Speaker 2 (55:09):
Investment much earlier than before I'm willing to make the
investment correct.

Speaker 1 (55:15):
So he would have to be a number blanks starter
for you to be somebody would be interested.

Speaker 2 (55:22):
Four or five. Okay, Well, and he is going to
go as a no, I ain't gonna happen. He's going
to go as a three. I'm getting concerned and about
that right flexer strain he suffered in the miss time
last year. He's young. I don't I just don't see.
I just don't see the Reds giving him one hundred
and thirty hundred and forty innings. I I just don't.

(55:45):
That's just not I don't see that in the cards
at all. Rich So Hey, it is what it is,
what it is. I have other pictures I think I'll
look at before him that I think can produce numbers,
maybe not the strikeout numbers, but the year A wins
that will produce a workload that's more in line with

(56:07):
what I'm looking for, which is one hundred and thirty
five and forty plus.

Speaker 1 (56:12):
I've written about Tony Sentellian for years, for years, a
great arm. Never thought he'd start all of a sudden
he's started to get saves for the Reds. Is he
really a closer and are you trusting him?

Speaker 2 (56:30):
Well? When I look at the Reds, okay, they did
pretty good internally with Alexis Diaz for a couple of
years until it until it didn't go good. Amelia Pegan's
a free agent CA He's coming off a two year
deal at eight million eight million a year. Are they
going to re up say on an Amelia Pigan at

(56:53):
eight million plus a season when they have somebody internally
and it's worked in the past for them, I don't
think so. I don't think they're going to go outside
the organization. And I think Tony Santoon is a Soliday
in house option, so I would have to say yes
right now, he is a closer, and I think he

(57:13):
will be breaking camp at the end of March.

Speaker 1 (57:18):
I think bringing back Amelia pug On is that's can't
he really do it two years in a row? There's
no way I'm drafting that guy at all, no matter
where he winds up. I mean, guys, we talked about
Amelia Pagan for the last fifteen years. Ever long he's been.
We've done the show for fifteen years and it's made.
He's made Tim's waiver war multiple times, and we used

(57:39):
to laugh about it, right, I mean, there there comes
Amelia Pagan. He would be good for.

Speaker 2 (57:43):
Two weeks and that's.

Speaker 1 (57:44):
Awful for six in that time of the year.

Speaker 2 (57:49):
It's a Timmy rule. You gotta have him in a
waiver war at some point in time. Yeah, but no,
I can't. Are they're going to pay for that? No,
I don't.

Speaker 1 (57:56):
I don't think anybody else is either. I mean it's
going to be a four or five billion dollar guy
type thing. I don't think it. Basically, give a long
term rate, they'd be crazy too.

Speaker 2 (58:06):
I agree, but they were. They also have Cabrier Cabrian
Hayes on their team for the next two for at
least four years.

Speaker 1 (58:15):
Yeah, all right, Timmy, give me a sleeper.

Speaker 2 (58:16):
Too, sleeper too. It's really plugged up in that organization,
you know, with some of the moves they've made. Ah,
you know, Edwin Arroyo cs. Are they even going to
get chances this year. I really don't know the one
guy I would like to mention, Actually there's two. Noelvi Marte. Okay,

(58:39):
he's got both third base and oatfield eligibi ability and
then half a season fourteen overs, ten stolen bases. He
needs to control strikes better, but he's young and has
missed significant time in his development due to that suspension
and the self i'll call it self imposed purgatory. Noelvi
Marte I like hanging into this year. The other player

(59:02):
I wanted to mention is Andrew Abbott. I don't think
he's going to get the level of respect that those
first three seasons and Cincinnati deserves. So I think Abbott
will probably fall a little bit and could make for
an interesting buy if you can underpay for him, and

(59:25):
I think there's a good chance that will happen.

Speaker 1 (59:29):
Okay, let me ask you a question. Back in the day,
we didn't think of the Great American Small Park as
bad as Cores, but it wasn't that far behind. With
Hunter Green and Andrew Abbot. Some of the now Chase
Burns guys really good arms. Yeah, we're not as hesitant

(59:53):
to roster those guys anymore. Is it just they're better
pitchers or has something physically changed with the ballpark to
make it a little bit more neutral? What you're thinking there.

Speaker 2 (01:00:08):
I'm gonna go with better arms? Yeah, yeah, that would Yeah,
I have the Rockies ever had one hundred Green?

Speaker 1 (01:00:20):
I know, I well, I mean John Gray threw really
hard when he was early in his career. So but
I mean, I don't we could take a look at
how Hunter Green pitches and cores. My guess is not good.

Speaker 2 (01:00:35):
Yeah, probably probably not. I think there's and again I'm
just this is off the top of my head, but
the difference between the Great American ball Bark and Corus Field,
there is a difference there. Yeah, that's probably a significant
significant difference. I think it's. Hey, Corus is in a
world all of its own.

Speaker 1 (01:00:55):
They are indeed to me. Let's take another break. I
think we're going to do one more system here in
the Brewers, and then you've already got two of them
lined up for next week. So that's what I think
we're going to do. So let's take a quick break,
come back, and let's do the Milwaukee Brewers.

Speaker 2 (01:01:10):
This sounds good.

Speaker 1 (01:01:21):
I hope the Milwaukee Brewers fans aren't too disappointed. It
was a great season.

Speaker 2 (01:01:27):
Yeah, it was a great season. And I don't think
even the Dodgers could hit against the Dodgers pitching. Okay,
that we've seen, you know, so you can't. How do
you lay blame? It's just one of those things that happened.
They ran into a team playing at one hundred, and hey,

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nobody's going to hit against that. And hey, Brewers fans
have a lot to be happy and probab about and
they've got to and their team is not going to
be any worse for the wear moving forward. If anything,
they'll be better moving forward.

Speaker 1 (01:02:01):
For people that are not Patreon members. So I'm going
to go back to Tim's comment on the Rockies, and
Tim has always said he feels like either they should
go with like a bullpen approach, just lots of pictures
for the Colorado Rockies and miss mix a match, right,
that's what you've said, ye, or get or potentially even

(01:02:21):
get soft tossers in there, just you know, something different.
So as my AI conversation I had on October eighteenth
that I published out to Patreon members for a Rockies
I asked the question, is there any answers for the
Rockies and developing pictures. Will anybody click is? Is there

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a certain type of picture that can be successful in course?
Or it's just too hard? And again, I fed my
AI guy a lot of information. I was really curious
of his answer. Of course, he says it's a brutal question,
but a fair one. I thought it was a brutal question.
He ends with, Ultimately, the best path to pitching success
might be through volume and match up management. Sounds a

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lot like what Tim was saying, developing a stable of
command first arms who can survive five innings and lean
on change ups and ground balls. But until the Rockies
overhaul their development infrastructure embrace creative pitching models, it's hard
to see a true answer emerging. I thought that was
really well done.

Speaker 2 (01:03:24):
Yeah, that is exceptionally strong. Yeah, and I agree they
have to. Hey, they're you know, the definition of insania's
doing the same thing over and over expecting different results.
They've been doing the same thing over and over forever
and nothing's changed and nothing will change. They have it's

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it's going to be a huge leap. But if they
want to get better as an organization, they're going to
have to make some decisions. At some point in time
and what they're doing right now hasn't and won't work.
It's as simple as average I have.

Speaker 1 (01:03:59):
I've spent a lot all summer long and part of
the spring working on this AI Engine'm very proud of,
as you can tell. So I sent it to a
couple of my buddies and analytics departments around Major League
Baseball and I got some like wows back. So people
were very encouraged and wanted to have further discussions about,

(01:04:20):
you know, doing something which I thought was actually really
really cool because if you if you could give, if
you can get advice like that, I mean, it might
not work, but that's pretty damn good.

Speaker 2 (01:04:35):
Well, yeah, it's kind of it's kind of removed the need,
the need for the sixty three year old overweight guy
trumping on a cigar with the radar gun sitting behind
home plate right yep.

Speaker 1 (01:04:46):
And so what what what my AI engine did? I
taught him how to look up baseball savants. So he
goes out and looks at park factors and instantaneously can
take a look at all of that stuff. Then see
the pictures that I've given him about over the last
four or five years. Then look at how they've done.
This is all happening in real time everyone, and then
come up with a with a pretty thoughtful response that

(01:05:07):
there's no way I have the brain power to even
think about that. That would be a six months project
for me to try to think through that. He did
it instantaneously. It's amazing.

Speaker 2 (01:05:17):
Yeah. No, yeah, because it just measures where it's tole
to measure and that's right where you go right, and
it's done. Click. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:05:25):
All right, let's get onto the Milwaukee Brewers. Five questions.
You know there's shorter questions, but very poignant questions. Jackson
curio stat line for twenty twenty six home runs, stolen bases,
and batting average.

Speaker 2 (01:05:41):
Twenty seven home runs, twenty one stolen bases, and a
two seventy average. I've good looked at his first two
years line by line and compared them. It's almost Yeah,
it is scary. Rich. They are about as close as

(01:06:03):
I've ever seen to being identical out of a twenty
twenty one year old. It's crazy.

Speaker 1 (01:06:11):
Well, so you could sit there and go, well, that's
great consistency, or how come there's no growth?

Speaker 2 (01:06:17):
Well, he was nicked up a little bit this year.
I think, and that plays into it, and the fact
that he's only twenty two next year and entering his
third full season. Yeah, he's young, Okay. I think he's
going to I think he's going to improve, all right.

Speaker 1 (01:06:36):
If you take a look at his spray chart, it's
powered all fields. He's got great bat speed. His average
exiblocity is just slightly blow average, but that's probably more
of a factor of his age and his physicality. This
is going to come in one year, timmy. I don't
know if it's twenty twenty six or twenty seven. It's

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going to be soon, and he's going to be a
different physical kid, and it's just going to be massive power.
And he's a ninety three percent sprint speed. I wish
he walked, but he just doesn't.

Speaker 2 (01:07:11):
Yeah, you know, I'm looking at his home runs in
his first two years, twenty twenty one each season. His
RBAI is seventy nine and seventy eight. His stolen bases
twenty two and twenty one. He got caught stealing seven
times in both years. It struck out one hundred and
twenty one times in both years, walk thirty nine and

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thirty times. I've never seen I don't think I've seen
too many seasons, you know, two seventy five to seventy three,
twenty seven, three o eight if Yeah, they're almost identical.
And I agree. I think he's going to come in
and I'm predicting more home runs this year, but I
wouldn't at some point in time, I wouldn't be shocked
if he has a thirty five, thirty five, twenty five season.

(01:07:55):
Sitting up, I agree again, he's only turned in twenty
two this year. There upside sitting there.

Speaker 1 (01:08:01):
Yeah, in a dynasty league, this is a guy that
you just can't trade. I mean this you got, I
mean you get a twenty two year old and you
gotta you gotta see how this all ends. This is
this is too good.

Speaker 2 (01:08:12):
Yeah, and you gotta you got. You got a twenty
twenty floor that ain't too chevy. He's gonna be a
little good grounder early second route, I mean gain.

Speaker 1 (01:08:21):
His approach is pretty aggressive. He never walks, and that's
gonna hurt him from where he's gonna be in a lineup.
It's probably more of a fourth fifth type of guy
to reduce the number of the bats. But I think
the power is going to be massive. So this season
upcoming season twenty twenty six. He's a blank round.

Speaker 2 (01:08:40):
Pick, late first, early second. You're betting on a twenty
twenty floor, hoping to get closer to thirty and thirty
and twenty. Yeah, it's yeah. I don't have any problems
drafting him. If I'm sitting fourteen, if I'm sitting at
fourteen fifteen, he could be my he could be a

(01:09:00):
pick of mine. That At that point, let's talk.

Speaker 1 (01:09:04):
Andrew Vaughan showed flashes in twenty twenty five. He hit
fourteen home runs in one hundred and twelve games. He
had left these better than rightings three thirteen versus two thirty,
but he has power against both. I know he was
really good after the trade. But how should I think
about Vaughn at the draft table? Sometimes, you know, sometimes

(01:09:25):
those guys that come over to a new team, you know,
they get a new lease on life. He was in
the minor league and he comes back and he But
sometimes it's a sucker pitch pick right or sometimes they
could be a sleeper. I mean, how should you if
you're a fantasy manager at the draft team, But how
should you view Andrew Vaughan?

Speaker 2 (01:09:43):
Well, I think ultimately It'll depend on how the Milwaukee
Brewers view Andrew Vaughan. They have a mutual option for
twenty six with Reese Hoskins at eighteen mil oh He's gone, yes.

Speaker 1 (01:09:55):
Mutual, but they have to have there's some kind of buyout, right,
There's got to.

Speaker 2 (01:09:59):
Be yeah, yeah, there'll be a biode in there. Andrew
Vaughn's a free agent in twenty seven. Okay, last year
he signed a one year, seven point five MILI deal.
I think they can get vond cheaper than Hoskins on
a one year deal, and my guess is they go
to arbitration or signed Von too a contract less than
the Hoskins option and roll with him in twenty six.
So I'm looking at him as a bit of a

(01:10:21):
sleeper at corner infield again, assuming everything breaks away I
think it will and they sign him to a one
year deal.

Speaker 1 (01:10:31):
I have Reee Hoskins and a bunch of dynasty leagues
because is always a source of cheap power, and I've
enjoyed it. I'm really worried that this guy's going to
find a job. It's feeling a little bit like Josh Bell,
who and When the Merry Go, When the musical chairs
when he was the last guy to finally get a slot.
I'm afraid that Reee Hoskins won't get resigned until almost

(01:10:53):
time baseball season, or at least spring training starting. I'm
a little worried about ree Haskins going into the season.

Speaker 2 (01:11:01):
Yeah, I could see him being in a mid April
signing to replace somebody who's hit the IL. Yeah, I
could see that as an option. I agree with you, Rich,
he won't be on He might be on my waiver
wire at some point in time, but I'm going to

(01:11:21):
have a hard time looking at Reese Hoskin says anything
more than a Waverer wire type ad heading into twenty
twenty six.

Speaker 1 (01:11:31):
So you're you're pretty bullish on Vaughan though.

Speaker 2 (01:11:35):
Yeah. I think I think he can. I think he
can hit twenty home runs and drive and drive in
seventy with a mediocre sort of batting average. But when
I look at Milwaukee, I think he's the type of
player that they'd like to sign for a year.

Speaker 1 (01:11:51):
Yeah. It's funny when I obviously write about prospects and
Vaughn and Adli Rutchman came up at the same time,
and I was all little madly Rutchman, and up until
this year, I look like I was, you know, I
was in the catbird seat. Not so much anymore. I'm
a little worried about Adley Rutchman and Andrew Vaughan. You know,

(01:12:12):
I don't know if he's turned things around that we
have to take a look deeper, dive to really see.
Tim thinks he has. But I don't know Andrew Vaughn
or Adley Rutchman over the next three years, who would
you rather roster?

Speaker 2 (01:12:27):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (01:12:29):
But it's close, right, Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:12:31):
I had to do some thinking there. Yeah. See the
other thing is too by looking at Andrew Vaughn on
a one year deal, it makes sense for the Brewers
because not too many people are talking about Luke Adams. Yeah,
and if you give vaugh this year Luke Adams, you know,

(01:12:54):
that sort of fits the timeframe of a promotion for
Adams and they can slide into for you know, three
four years of relatively inexpensive first base type right, which
fits the WAYE Milwaukee you know, runs their organization. So
I think the Vaughn signing makes a lot of sense.
And like I said, I like Luke Adams for twenty seven,

(01:13:16):
maybe later in twenty six, depending on how Vaughan does again,
assuming that they sign him.

Speaker 1 (01:13:22):
Right, Yeah, I put his fantasy Sea Ali his corner
infielder with upside. So he's got enough speed, got a
little bit of speed. I was stealing some bases, big power,
twenty percent, strikeout rate of sixteen point five percent walk right.
I mean that is the kind of kid that the
Brewers love. They love their own base percentage guy. So
I'm with Tim. I mean, I think Luke Adams, maybe

(01:13:45):
even for a draft and hold your fiftieth round pick.
It might be an interesting an interesting pool there. So uh,
Tyler Black, forget about it. Everybody, It's done, Bye buddy,
bye bye.

Speaker 2 (01:13:56):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:13:56):
Yeah, that's that. That's that's the end of that. Here's
a point, Timmy William Contrera's over under twenty five home.

Speaker 2 (01:14:03):
Runs h William b. Treras under but not by a lot.
Low twenties. His career highs twenty three in twenty twenty four.
But I will say he will be in my top
five catchers, possibly number as high as number two. I

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like William Contreras a lot. He was hurt this year,
there was a hand issue, and he's still produced a
great season, and I think It's going to be a
very very good year for William Contreras owners in twenty
twenty six, very much.

Speaker 1 (01:14:40):
He hits the ball really, really hard. Let's take a look,
shall we. William Contrera's huge bat speed. It's the combination
when I've done this search before where you look at
bat speed and exit velocities, and it's William Contrera's and
Aaron Judge and showyot. He's in that group like crazy power.

(01:15:02):
So average XLoss seventy fifth percentile bat speed way up there.
So his average exit velocity came down this season, So
that shows that he was just just wasn't hitting the
ball hard enough.

Speaker 2 (01:15:14):
So I think that was attributed to the to the
hand injury.

Speaker 1 (01:15:18):
I totally agree.

Speaker 2 (01:15:19):
Yeah. And you know what, he also hits in a
spot in the order as a catcher where he should
generate eighty five ninety runs scored fairly easily. You don't
see that level of run scored coming into the catcher
position as a rule, which is why he's going to
be in my top five, like I said, possibly his
highest number two like him a lot.

Speaker 1 (01:15:40):
Jacob Mazarowski stat line for twenty twenty six games started,
wins era and strikeouts.

Speaker 2 (01:15:48):
Okay, I'm gonna go with twelve wins in the e
RA three sixty five, one hundred and twenty innings, one
hundred and forty five strike oats.

Speaker 1 (01:15:59):
Okay, he kind of went out of order there. I
got to put thee hundred and twenty. Yes, ending's at
the beginning here, we got twelve. That's that's a pretty
good stat line.

Speaker 2 (01:16:10):
It is. He's a pretty good pitcher.

Speaker 1 (01:16:12):
Yeah, he is. He's really He really surprised me. I
was worried that he'd be moved to the bullpen. But
in twenty twenty five, at the beginning of the season,
he was throwing throwing more strikes and that just improved
as he went along, and when he got to the
big leagues he looked great.

Speaker 2 (01:16:29):
So yeah, well done. ER's got a good one there.

Speaker 1 (01:16:33):
Yes, definitely, last question, same question. I always asked him.
Give me a sleep or two in the organization minor
or majors.

Speaker 2 (01:16:44):
Okay, my first abner, you reb it will be a
top fifteen closer.

Speaker 1 (01:16:53):
Wow, I still work at least excuse me, at least
uh Rosster resource has I'm listed above Tyler Taylor, one
of the Tylers, one of the McGill's So that was
interesting that they had.

Speaker 2 (01:17:08):
That well throughout throughout the playoffs. He was pitching, he
was pitching the late innings. You look at the combination
of save potential, he's gonna definitely be pitching the eighth
inning and the fact that McGill has yet to finish
a full season healthy. And I love you Rebe. I

(01:17:30):
think you're looking at close to one hundred strikeouts there.
He's the real deal. And I'm very, very bullish on
Abner you Rebay coming into this year. I'm trying to
amass shares even as we speak.

Speaker 1 (01:17:44):
Good for you. Uh you think people are going to
go into the season thinking McGill is still the closer.

Speaker 2 (01:17:52):
Ah, he might still be the closer, but I think
in a worst case scenario, you're going to see your
Rebay for seven to fifteen saves, a mess of holds
and high strike out numbers to combine with an ERA
and Whip an e RA hovering in the low two's
and a whip under one. So I want your I

(01:18:16):
want your Rebay. That's the guy that represents I said,
McGill has never made it through a full season, and
he did in this year. I think your Rebay ended
up with seven saves, but he's hey. Combined with the
strikeout rates, at some point in time mcgil will brother

(01:18:36):
be on the iolic he is, or your Rebay just
takes the job and runs with it. Because the skills
are such I think he can do. You have a
second one, Actually, I've got I've got two more. Logan
Henderson looked really, really good until the right flex are strained.
If I'm looking at a fifty man draft and hold

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Ley after pick forty, I'd give Logan Henderson a LEOXI.

Speaker 1 (01:19:04):
You think he'll last that long?

Speaker 3 (01:19:07):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (01:19:08):
Well, he didn't pitch much in the second half, if
at all, So I don't know how far he's gonna fall.
Uh And again there's there's huge risk there with that,
with that injury. But I really liked what I saw,
So if he if he's sitting there after forty, yeah,
I'm not going to go early on him. Now. The

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other guy that I really like, and we haven't talked
much about him other than the fact that he was
a former Yankee, is Caleb Durban.

Speaker 1 (01:19:36):
Oh. Yeah, that what we talked about at the beginning
of the action when the trade was made. So yeah,
if in fact, then he said the Fall League that
he stole all the bases. If I'm right, was it
then he'd steal a lot basis on the Fall League
last year.

Speaker 2 (01:19:49):
Yeah, I believe. So I'm not one hundred percent on
that one. All I know is as a middle infielder,
I'm going to try and procure his services in as
many leaks as I can. It's first full scene in
eleven homers, eighteen stolen bases at three thirty four OVP.
Nobody's talking about him. Okay, he's out there, but it's

(01:20:10):
I I think the numbers that you produced last year
are only going to get better in his in his
second full season, and I think he's a strong candidate
to outperform what I believe is going to be his
draft slots. So I'm I'm bullish on Caleb Durban as
a middle infielder next year.

Speaker 1 (01:20:28):
Rich still looking for how to go to other Fall
league stats on Baseball Reference. Got to go to the
hard core stuff, man, got to go to Baseball Reference.
Everything is in there. Okay, Salt River there, call him
to the exactly he played in the Salt River where

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he stole twenty one No. Twenty nine bases. Yeah, that's
when it gots caught once. That was that was when
he blew up and everybody went nuts about him. So good. Yeah,
I just wanted to make sure I had had the
name right with the guy we were talking about. So
let me ask your final question. Okay, heyesus my day.

(01:21:16):
Any chance we see him in the second half.

Speaker 2 (01:21:22):
You can never say never, so I won't. I think
there's always a chance. But lo hey, yeah, when how
how old was Jackson Curio when he got the call?
And when did he get the call?

Speaker 1 (01:21:37):
He was nineteen. I think if you follow the same logic,
he'll sign an offseason deal going into season twenty twenty
seven and be your starting second basement or third basement
or corner outfield or going into the twenty twenty season.
Remember Jackson Cheerio. They kept him in double A most
of that season, that that long season before he got

(01:21:59):
called up. And I think that's what that's what the
the Brewers could do. But that that guy's the guy's
gonna be really good, temmy, really exciting.

Speaker 2 (01:22:09):
Yeah, and you look at the Brewers historically, they don't
have any problems with bringing young kids up. Assume assuming
that you know there's there's something on the table, you
know what I mean that that makes it work. And yeah,
you're right, if you have him in a dynasty league,
ignore all trade offers unless it guarantees you and locks
up a title for the current year. Yeah, he's a

(01:22:33):
guy you want to hold on to at all costs.

Speaker 1 (01:22:35):
That's I totally agree with with. Tell you take a
final break it back and let's find out what Tim's
sum for dinner and figure out what we're going to
do next.

Speaker 2 (01:22:56):
Loveing wife just gotten off from her, So good timing.

Speaker 1 (01:23:00):
Perfect timing as we're just wrapping this thing up. Great show, Timmy,
really really good show.

Speaker 2 (01:23:06):
So yeah, it was a lot of fun, It really was.
I it's so early. There's so many provisos you can
throw out there because we're trying to, you know, trying
to anticipate what major league teams are going to do
in the off season, how they're you know, and hey,
a lot of it's good feeling, a lot of it
is backed up by statistical analysis. But I love starting

(01:23:29):
to do these deep dives, and hey, it's it's a
beginning for me of my twenty twenty six draft prep.
And I always enjoy these sessions. I really do.

Speaker 1 (01:23:42):
I did too, and it's it because you know, you
have you know, three or four weeks off and you
get back into it and it's like, really, Tony Scentillion
is the closer, really, I guess. So I'm preparing the notes.
I'm just going, when did that happen? Like, you know,
what's going on here?

Speaker 2 (01:24:00):
So yeah, exactly and by spring draining? Who knows? But
right now, yeah, he's he's the he's the guy in Cincy.

Speaker 1 (01:24:12):
Yeah, it's it's good to talk you know, Chase Burns
and how should we think of Andon Vaughn And it's yeah,
they're still the players, whether they have the job or not,
it's still good to kind of talk about the player.
So it's good stuff. So Timmy, let's wrap this up.
What is for dinner?

Speaker 2 (01:24:29):
What is for dinner? I think we're breaking into the
fridge and it's a leftover stort of the night and
I know, I know we got some we got some
sandwiches left over from yesterday, and I think there's some
soup in there, maybe some chili. We're just gonna we're
just gonna raise the fridge for leftovers.

Speaker 1 (01:24:47):
And made right the I'm assuming cold cuts our meats
in there, and then you're gonna get bread from the
fresh bread.

Speaker 2 (01:24:57):
No, no, they're they're already made up.

Speaker 1 (01:25:01):
They're made.

Speaker 2 (01:25:06):
No, they should be, okay, they should be. Okay. Yeah,
we our next door neighbor brought them over. She's on
the executive a wonderful, wonderful lady, wonderful couple, our neighbors.
And they uh their funeral sandwiches rich. Okay, there was
a funeral yesterday. They do the legion. Legion doesn't came out.

(01:25:30):
They had and they had a whole raft of sandwiches
left over.

Speaker 1 (01:25:35):
Sam has no shame, no shame.

Speaker 3 (01:25:37):
So she dropped them off at the house and asked
if we if we wanted them, and they sandwiches and
sandwiches of sandwich rich.

Speaker 1 (01:25:46):
Eating the funeral funeral sandwiches great.

Speaker 2 (01:25:49):
Yeah, the ones with the ones with the crust cut off.

Speaker 1 (01:25:52):
Oh my gosh, like tea sandwiches.

Speaker 2 (01:25:54):
Okay, yeah, exactly, there you go, there you go.

Speaker 1 (01:25:57):
I knew there was something weird about you don't usually
premier sandwich. It's like, what's going on here? Wow?

Speaker 2 (01:26:04):
Yeah, it's well, hey, you know what. Wonderfully it was
very nice of her too, Yeah, rather than throwing the moat, Yeah,
passing them our way.

Speaker 1 (01:26:13):
So yeah, yeah, we're going out to dinners.

Speaker 2 (01:26:19):
We call them up that's what we call them up here. Ridge.

Speaker 1 (01:26:23):
Okay, we're going out to dinner tonight, and not exactly sure.
The refrigerator is flinged out and uh yeah, so we're
heading back, so uh so no food here, So we're
we're heading heading downstairs. I probably won't go very far
to a bunch of restaurants in our building, so uh
hopefully they're some were close and it's a beautiful evening,

(01:26:43):
so why not hang out outside for a bit, so
good show, Timmy. We'll be back on Sunday. Tim and
I got to do the prospects for the for the
National League Central because we are now all of those
are deployed. So maybe later next week or this coming week, Timmy,
we can do it or early the following weeks of
Tim and I will talk touch base on that.

Speaker 2 (01:27:05):
Yeah, we'll find a time that works for uce and
go from there. And again, it's just nice to be
back into that early prep. Had a lot of fun
with it today and hopefully our listeners enjoyed the discussion.
Rich have yourself a great week. The safe, be well,
and safe travels back to your southern home.

Speaker 1 (01:27:27):
Thanks them.

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