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Speaker 1 (00:20):
Greene's Society Tations. Everyone a Rich wils I'm looking to
Fantasy Baseball Live. Today is January eighteenth, about three point
thirty in the afternoon. As always, I'm here with my
good buddy Tim McCleod, and Tim has gotten a new headset.
Tim and I just recorded a podcast where we talked
about that at length. But timmy sound good? Do you
say they're lightweight? Tim sent me picture of the box

(00:41):
and maybe I'll buy them myself.

Speaker 2 (00:43):
Tim, okay, Yeah. The ourist thing I'm having trouble getting
used to is the fact that they were so light.
It doesn't seem like they're on my head. The other
ones were like a tighter seal around the years, and
I knew they I knew they were there. This one here,
it's you can't even tell. You can't even tell you're

(01:05):
wearing them. They're like air, very.

Speaker 1 (01:07):
Very like voice link one hundreds. Anything that's got a
number next to Timmy's got to be.

Speaker 2 (01:13):
Good, right, Well, I would I would think so, yeah,
or else we wouldn't do our prospect in ranking list, right,
that's true.

Speaker 1 (01:22):
That's true. So Tim House, how's life and this week
doing well?

Speaker 2 (01:29):
Actually, I've had a cold most of the week. I
spent most of it in bed. I just just feeling
a little bit beat up. There's an influenza B virus
going around our neck of the woods, and being that
I move people around in a vehicle, if there's something
going on on out there, usually managed to stumble into it.
But you know, our hospital and our our nursing home

(01:51):
are both under strict masking protocol right now because they've
had breakouts at both. So hey, Rods, you're gonna gonna
catch it and caught it. But you'll love our weather
forecast for today, Rich it's a jam.

Speaker 1 (02:05):
Got what is it?

Speaker 2 (02:08):
We're not going to get much snow, but we don't
have to because they're calling for winds between forty and
fifty miles an hour.

Speaker 1 (02:14):
Oh gez, say no more. It doesn't matter how cold
it is. It's going to be cold.

Speaker 2 (02:17):
Wow, it's going to be cold. And even though we're
not getting snow, with that amount of wind, it just
blows around and drifts all over the place. So I
don't plan on leaving the host today. I might not
even plan on leaving the host until Wednesday. I'm going
to let this thing go through and fulfill its course.

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And then venture out into the real world after that.

Speaker 1 (02:41):
I think, well, we were supposed to go to a
wedding or wedding reception or something wedding related with a
seven year old woman who is getting married. Yeah, Laurie knows,
but unfortunate Laura got sick. I've had an off and
on cold just knows. But Laurie's been she's been down
last couple of days. Yeah, so she just didn't feel

(03:01):
good going there. So so yeah, so that was that,
and then then hopefully we'll be well tomorrow. We got
a We've had a big week in baseball, Timmy, and
so we're going to talk about that. We're also going
to talk about Tim's third base rankings, which is just
good stuff and Tim's I think if the third base

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rankings Tim went outside of where a lot of these
players are going, I think that's really important because you're
going to see some value, at least from Tim's perspective,
where you can get this. So stayed with us through
the whole show because I think that's going to be
a really good, really good stuff to talk about.

Speaker 2 (03:38):
Yeah, definitely, the word controversial might come into these rankings
today on one or two occasions, anyways.

Speaker 1 (03:46):
That is for sure, Timmy. Let's talk about, you know,
the elephant of the room, and that is the Dodgers
sign Kyle Tucker. And I had forgotten that when you
and I do are ill Fate at Sean. I don't
know why we can need to do it, but every
year we do an ill fitting show trying to figure
out where guys are going to sign. And I don't
know if you remember we we both had Kyle Tucker

(04:08):
going to the Dodgers, and which that was back two
months ago. I'd forgotten about that. And when he signed,
I kind of laughed out loud when the Dodgers signed him, thinking, yeah,
really the Dodgers, And then then you just see the

(04:29):
crazy aav that was. He was signed for fifty seven
million dollars a year. Obviously there's money deferred and all
because that's what the Dodgers do, but they paid him
a ton of money to play for a couple of
years and then he can opt out. And I just
wanted to know your thoughts when you heard the news,
your thoughts on the deal, your thoughts on the Dodgers,

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et cetera, et cetera.

Speaker 2 (04:52):
Et cetera. Yeah, it Dodgers have the money to throw
her around, and they are throwing it around. Yeah, Hey,
the J's have The J's have a ton of resources
available to them, and they've been making some moves this
off season. Uh, I wasn't surprised. Hey, Dodgers want want

(05:16):
to win. They got the money. They're spending it on
these players and improving their odds of doing exactly what
every team wants to do. And that's when the World Series.
You know, as far as the comments about ruining baseball, this, this, this,
and hey, they're playing with the rules, within the rules.
The problem isn't with the Dodgers. The problems with the

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rules in play. The Dodgers have a ton of financial
resources available to the courtesy of the the big TV deal,
and the J's are in the same boat. They own
sports Net. Okay, the Rogers family that the Garagers Corporation
is is stacked. There's lots of money in some organizations,

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not so much in others. That hey, they're playing within
the rules. What has to happen is the rules have
to change. And that's where we're going to see problems
around about next December first, because again, the owners are
going to want the players to bail them out of
a problem, and the owners have to find a way
to bail themselves out of that problem before they go

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after the players.

Speaker 1 (06:21):
Let's let's kind of talk about what Tim. Let's drill
down to what Tim is talking about. So the national
TV contract is split evenly amongst the teams, So that's right,
that's not inequality difference. The inequality comes in the local
TV contracts. Tim, do you want to maybe you know this,

(06:43):
what do the Dodgers get annually from local television rates?

Speaker 2 (06:49):
I haven't I haven't actually dugged it up, dug it up,
but the numbers that I'm seeing are somewhere in the
area of three hundred and thirty to three hundred and
fifty million dollars annually coming out of their local.

Speaker 1 (07:02):
I'm glad we didn't do against the player because you
nailed it. It's three hundred and thirty four million dollars
a year. To give you give you a counter argument,
the Orioles are, you know, kind of in the bottom
third of size. Their TV contract is fifty eight million dollars,

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so you're talking a six x difference between the two.
Further complicating the math is a lot of the local
TV contracts have gone away, and a lot of those
teams have been absorbed by Major League Baseball and they're
streaming through major League Baseball and they're getting very little
from a local TV contract. So the Dodgers and the Yankees,

(07:47):
to a certain extent, we find out what the Yankees
local TV contract is. That's the big difference is the
amount of money coming into the Dodgers is so much
more than what it's coming in from most teams. And
the Dodgers have made the decision right and good on
them to spend the money as opposed to pocket the money.

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But it has created a big problem for Major League Baseball.

Speaker 2 (08:13):
Yeah, it has. The Jays are owned by Rogers. Our
largest sports network is sports Net. They carry all the
Jays games. Guess who owns sports Net? Rogers. We don't
even we don't even know what the Chase are making
on local money because they own the network that does

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all their games. All that advertising money is going into
that massive pot called Rogers Communications. Yeah, teams like Pittsburgh,
your small market, they don't have those resources. You're talking
apples and oranges and big apples and small oranges.

Speaker 1 (08:51):
I don't know what the Yankees local TV contract is
AI is saying one hundred and forty three million dollars.
That was in twenty twenty two. But it might look
like the Yankees can't even compete with the Dodgers from
a financial maneuvering standpoint. And I think I think it
was Ken Rosenthal who wrote an article about this in

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the last couple of days that he was talking with
someone in baseball who had not heard about the deal yet,
and when Rosenthal told him about the deal, he goes, well,
that's going to be a big problem. There's going to
be a big lockout over it. You know. It's just
the teams have had enough of the Dodgers just kind
of doing this, and so now you not only have

(09:36):
the players fighting with the owners, but now you might
have owners fighting with other owners.

Speaker 2 (09:42):
So yeah, that's a that's a given that owners are
fighting with owners. But there's an easy way to resolve
that situation, I believe. Okay, right now, there is a
the luxury tax or whatever, and instead of thirty percent
in the first year, make it one hundred percent. Instead

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of fifty per second year violations, make it two hundred percent,
make it three hundred percent in the third year. Okay,
if teams are right now following the rules to the
game and they can afford to pay, i e. The Dodgers,
they can afford to pay the penalties, make the penalties
at the stage where teams can't afford them, and that

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would provide a great equalizer and one that keeps the
word salary cap out of the discussion because players don't
want ahead in that direction.

Speaker 1 (10:36):
Yeah, I think that's a that's a non starter. If
the counters start to pull a push for that, we
could have an extensive, extensive lockout and it probably will
never still be a salary cap.

Speaker 2 (10:50):
So yeah, it's not a I don't think it's a
top a resolvable topic looking at caps. So if you're
not going to look at caps and you're trying to
equalize the game, how else do you do it? Penalize
those to the point where they can't afford to pay
the penalties.

Speaker 1 (11:05):
Yeah. The other thought I had was maybe start to
make the local TV contracts part of the overall pool,
and particularly if teams don't have local TV contracts, And
I mean, you think that the league needs to look
at it as the league and not as the separate
franchises within the league. You know, the NFL does such

(11:28):
a great job, and the NFL just prints money, and
they look at the whole thing league wide as opposed
to we're all making money or we're all losing money.
There's not going to be rich teams and poor teams.
And consequently, I mean, the owners are filthy rich in
football and they're just making pandover fist and money.

Speaker 2 (11:50):
Yeah, the problem in baseball would be you institute whatever
type of program you have, and there are going to
be teams that are going to spend money, the Dodgers,
the Yankees, and then there are going to be teams
where the owners are going to say, screw that, we're
putting everything in our pocket and we're not going to
spend the We're not going to spend ten cents. And

(12:11):
until you get everybody on the same page any sort
of revenue sharing on local money, that gets a little
bit tough. Like I don't think I don't think management
and the players have a problem resolving things. I think
it's management and management is where your problem lies. And
that's a big problem, a huge problem. As long as

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you've got the guys that are going to nickel and
dime everybody to death. Are they going to even in
a cap situation? Are they going to spend the cap?

Speaker 3 (12:43):
No?

Speaker 2 (12:44):
Yeah, they'll put the money in their pocket, and it
defeats the purpose of the whole exercise, right, But which
is equalization?

Speaker 1 (12:50):
I think within like football, there is a minimum and
there's there's a maximum, and it's a pretty small band,
so you've got to spend the money. And I think
those caps kind of would have to go hand in
hand with the sharing of local revenue. I totally agree
with you there, But again, the Caps are probably also
I don't know what the answer is. I mean, that's

(13:12):
what's scary about this and looking at the twenty twenty
seventh season, is how are they going to figure this out?

Speaker 2 (13:20):
I all I know is that Rob Manfrein's whirlwind tour
tour explaining all of the pros, caps, et cetera. It
is a waste of Rob Manfred's time.

Speaker 1 (13:34):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (13:35):
Yeah, if he wants to go on a promo tour,
pick a different topic because the one he's picked is
not going to strengthen or you know, the player's position
on the way through. Hey, baseball's come, baseball has there's
money goal or in baseball, it's just about who's making it.

(13:56):
And again, there's got to be something in place so
that owners simply don't take take all the freebies out
of life. Like the Dodgers will turn around and say, well, hey, Pittsburgh,
you made more money than us last year. Why should
we succumb to a system. You know that, in fact,

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you made more money on the bottom line than we
did last year. We just happened to you spending it
on players because we want to win. You just happened
to put it in your pocket because you want to
get richer. You know, there's lots of money in baseball.
But I don't know how they're going to sort it out.
I really don't.

Speaker 1 (14:32):
I don't know either, And it appears the Dodgers just
are saying, screw it, We're going to win as many
championships while we can, and so let's get sorted out
and look, at some point, the Dodgers will be old.
They're getting older already, and at some point they might say, Okay,
we've spent enough, we can no longer continue at this

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because they've got all these deferred deals. I think it'll
kind of go back, you know, equate back to the
norm the moment. I mean, the Dodgers are simply playing
a different game than everybody else.

Speaker 2 (15:04):
Yeah. And on top of the fact that they're playing
a different game, they also are a well run franchise.
Just look at their minor leagues. Yeah, absolutely, Hey, scouting
from top to bottom. They are a first class organization.
And how do you fault the Dodgers were playing within
the rules, playing within the system, and doing what they

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are doing to win titles. You can.

Speaker 1 (15:30):
They took arguably the Dodgers are arguably the best general
manager in the game of Alex Freeman and from the
Rays and said, you take all of your smart baseball
skills and we're going to let you spend as much
money as you want. And I think you've seen the
result of that. You've seen a minor league system that's

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a top three minor league system, and it's the best
major League baseball team by a long shot at the moment.
On paper, it's it's the best baseball team. Now doesn't
mean they're going to win, but it's the best one.

Speaker 2 (16:04):
Yeah. I would love to see the look on his
face when they said, yeah, you didn't Tampa Bay except
don't worry about money like he probably had a perma
smile on his face for a week and a half. Yeah,
it's yeah.

Speaker 1 (16:19):
I actually think, in a weird way, I think baseball
needs the Dodgers to be the Evil Dodgers. They Baseball
was better when the Yankees were the Evil Yankees. It's
always good empire the evil empire, right, It's always it's
always good to have that team that. Like, Look how
much how close the Blue Jays came to knocking off

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the Dodgers and Timmy, I mean they, I mean they
were Yamamoto a couple of innings away of Yamamoto not
pitching well to winning that series. And imagine how sweet
it's going to be when some team eventually knocks off
the Dodgers. I think that that David versus Goliath thing
really plays. And uh, because everybody's going to tune in

(17:05):
to watch Otani and the Dodgers, and then all of
a sudden, it's going to be this little pip squeak
team called the Blue Jays with Schneider and Clement, who
are they playing key Roles knocks them off, And I
think that's going to happen one day.

Speaker 2 (17:21):
Yeah, in any given five or seven game series anybody
can win the trick is getting there to have that opportunity.
So yeah, definitely, the Dodgers are the favorite, think of
the best best team on paper by a long shot.
But that doesn't mean that they're going to be they're
going to beat the Jay's or the Yankees or the
Red Sox or anybody else for that might matter. They Hey,

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they could lose to the diet to the Diamondbacks in
a five game series. You just don't know.

Speaker 1 (17:51):
Yeah, yeah, Well, so back to fantasy baseball. Obviously, Dodger
Stadium is good to right hand at power. That helps
Tucker a little bit. The data says that Tucker doesn't
have the wheels anymore. He continues to steal bases, but
the Dodgers are really really good. Why is he going
to need to steal bases? What do you do? You

(18:12):
have any up or down on Kyle Tucker or is
it a where he's gone? Is about the right spot?

Speaker 2 (18:19):
I think it's about the right spot. But I would
be incredibly shocked. Yeah, and we can say this about
a lot of players in la very very shocked. If
he performs to his maximum levels simply because he doesn't
have to. They can take him and play him part
time in September once they winched the division. Okay, last

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year he stole a twenty five bases something like that.

Speaker 1 (18:45):
Yep.

Speaker 2 (18:45):
Yeah, he's stolen thirty, twenty five and twenty five in
three of the past four years. Yeah, I think he's
going to stay steal fifteen to twenty bases. But I
don't see him see stealing twenty five to thirty Why
Why would they take it chance on injury in September
so Kyle Tucker can steal an extra ten bases. That
just doesn't make sense, does it.

Speaker 1 (19:06):
Yeah, what's he playing for a contract? Yeah, he's the
highest it's the highest paid player at the moment. He's
played more than Otani obviously, more than want Soto, significantly
more than wan So, and he's not even close to
the same count where those players are. But so he's
not going to play for more money because he's already
paid the most.

Speaker 2 (19:27):
Right. Yeah, So I think he's going to have a
good year. I think it's the first round talent. Just
don't expect him to steal thirty five bases or hey
he could, he could hit thirty one more runs. I
don't see any problems with that. But I think when

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it comes to the risk part of the game, which
is stolen bases are every time somebody takes off for
a second. All it takes is, you know, Spike to
catch anything at second base, and you could be looking
at a knee, looking at the army. I just don't
think he'll run as much.

Speaker 1 (20:06):
But you could argue he's probably gonna score more runs
and drive in more guys because he's on a better team.

Speaker 2 (20:11):
Yeah, he's gonna he's a good player. Okay, So yeah,
if you're playing in ahead to head league, then it
might be a little disappointing. If you're playing in the
title and he said three games out of the seven
in the week you're playing for the title.

Speaker 1 (20:28):
I'm gonna ask you a question and we're gonna pivot
over to what the Mets are doing, because I do
think the two are related. Because the Mets desperately wanted
to sign Kyle Tucker, uh and they didn't. Obviously, no
anybody lose playing time because of the Tucker signing. I
couldn't discern that. I think it does. As we talked
on the Prospect podcast before we did this, Housweed Depaullensire

(20:51):
hope and maybe some other guys might be delayed another
year at least with Tucker's arrival. Anything else that you
see as an implication for the Dodgers.

Speaker 2 (21:04):
Yeah, there is one rather big implication. I see, uh
looking at the middle infield, Okay. Before the Tucker signing, Okay,
the Dodgers were were looking at a situation where Tommy
Edmund was going to play in the outfield. Okay, Uh,

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and what and the Dodgers were looking at rolling out
heis on Kim as their second basement as an everyday player. Well,
with the Tucker signing, Edmund moves back to second Heisan.
Kim could be a bench type player. He could play
at Triple A until needed because of injury. So that's

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the one that is the one big change to the
everyday lineup and having Kim roster in one league. Timmy
does not approve of the Tucker signing in light of that,
but that's that's just it's all about me eating. But
Kim is not going to get the playing time that

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a week ago it was anticipated he was.

Speaker 1 (22:11):
That's fair, that's fair, that's fair. The I do think
the same kind of analysis needs to be done with
the Mets, because again, the Mets wanted the sign Tucker,
they didn't sign Talcker, so then they pivoted very quickly
to Bobashett. And sometimes Tim, you're at the right place
at the right time. And as crazy as a Kyle

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Tucker deal is, the Bobaschett deal is just nuts.

Speaker 2 (22:37):
I mean, this isn't Sid Night.

Speaker 1 (22:40):
This is a good player, but this isn't. He's getting
forty two million dollars a year. There's an opt out
after each year, and if he opts out, the Mets
have to pay him five million dollars from down It's
like you have another I mean, that's the craziest thing
I've ever seen.

Speaker 2 (23:00):
Well, not only not only is it hey good for Bolbashet,
he's cut himself a raft of money. I don't be
grudge Boulbashett, but it that's just flat out stupid. I'm
glad that Jays didn't get into that sort of a
bidding situation because I good on the Mets. I hope

(23:22):
it works out for him. Do I think it will
work for them? No, I really don't. I think the
Mets are gonna rue the five million dollars that they
don't have to pay because he won't be offting out
to that deal anytime soon. And I can't see it
at all.

Speaker 1 (23:40):
I have to agree with you there as well. I
mean it's it's I thought it was a crazy contract.
And again, if Bobaschett was the guy that we saw
four or five years ago, maybe it was injuries all
last season, but he was a good he was much
much better last season. But the power, the data says
the power is good, not great. The speed is gone.

(24:03):
You can't play shortstop anymore, so he's playing third base.
I think it was a panic move by the by the.

Speaker 2 (24:10):
Mets can't disagree. I'm crazy, That's all I can say. Crazy.
And not only that, it is Hey has created a
that one signing has created a rather serious shuffle in

(24:31):
the Mets line up. And when we get to the
third base rankings, we'll see how crazy it actually is.
Because I when I did my rankings, I did them
based on after the deal, not before the deal. So
there are some huge swings in player rankings as a
result of this deal. And hey, what do you what

(24:53):
do you do with Mark Bientto's what do you do
with Bret Beaty? Orgie Polanco is now your first basement
in New York. They got a Semion. Okay, they got
a Shedd at third, they got Lindora Short Uh, they
got to play polongco so, Riento's and Beady are ony
on the burger being ones on the outside looking in

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and the others slotted in a DH.

Speaker 1 (25:18):
Yeah, I kind of looked at it as if Tucker
would have sig Tucker would have signed to the Mets.
Then Alston Carson Binge's opportunity looks in questioned. All of
a sudden, now it sure looks like the Mets are
going to camp with him getting a really good chance
to break camp as the Mets corner outfielder, which I
think is great because I think he's going.

Speaker 2 (25:39):
To be a good player.

Speaker 1 (25:40):
But all of a sudden, now it creates a shuffle
in the infield with who's gonna is Battye and or
Vientzo's even get a shot at plane? And you're suggesting,
now you're going to see those guys drop, And what
about our buddy Jet Williams. I mean I think Jet Jet, Yeah,
I think Jet Willis. If you're Jet Williams, you're on
the call to your agent going get me in the

(26:03):
outfield because I could play better than Tyrone Taylor, and
that's that's gotta be your spot. And I have to
believe that's where the Mets are going to go. Is
they're going to start to see Jet Williams in the
center field a lot.

Speaker 2 (26:16):
Yeah. See, they could have if Tucker would have went
to the Mets, they could have still looked at Benji
and Tyrone Taylor could have been their fourth outfielder, okay,
rotating with Benji okay, and then you would have still
had a situation where Polanco's playing third base. Whatever. You
could have made it work, okay, a lot easier with

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Viano's and Baby because they they could have made a
move in the outfield that would have by signing Tucker,
it automatically improves the outfield. And right now they have
Benji and Tyrone Taylor slided into the outfield. One of
those two would be a fourth outfielder type or still
playing in the minors, and Viano's would have a job
right or Baby depending on who ends up with it.

Speaker 1 (27:03):
But let's face it, I mean I was worried about
both of those guys being able to hit at the
big league level, and it just what I don't even
want to say that the Mets agree with that. I
think they panicked and when they didn't get Tucker, it's like, oh,
we got to get this guy. I'm assuming they talked
through the logic of what happens to Viensus and Baby,

(27:25):
but it almost feels like they didn't do. Those guys
get moved because there's also a first basement that the
Mets have coming through the minor leagues. It's just about
ready as well. He's got big boy power.

Speaker 2 (27:38):
So they've also got Ronnie Mauricio and they've got Louis
Angel Okay, yeah, it's those guys.

Speaker 1 (27:50):
Those guys. If you think Ronnie Mauricio is on rosterble,
I believe so's Louisa. Unless somebody gets hurt. Those those guys,
they don't have a job.

Speaker 2 (28:03):
Yeah, there's gonna have to be There's gonna have to
be some sort of movement. I think I can't see
them sitting the Entos and or Beady and or Mauricio
and or and or and or and Or. Something's gonna
have to give at some point time. And I don't

(28:23):
think the implications I agree. I think it was a
little bit of a rush job on behalf of the
Mets to save face.

Speaker 1 (28:31):
Yeah. Yeah, And well, Donald on Bobachett's agent, I mean
he pushed that. It's just a perfect scenario that just
unfolded for him.

Speaker 2 (28:41):
And look, you got sime.

Speaker 1 (28:43):
In, you got Lindor, and now Bobaschett. Those are three
of the highest paid guys in baseball. They're gonna play
one hundred and forty games a year at the respecting position.

Speaker 2 (28:55):
Yeah, did you mention one sort of Oh yeah.

Speaker 1 (28:57):
Okay, yeah, I was just talking about the infield. So
anybody like Lois, I'll Goacuna and recently they're going to
be super subs and they're only going to carry one
of them, I would think, unless they just decide to
bail on Tyron Taylor, who was a really good defender.
So uh, I mean it's it's tough. And then Baddie
and Vianta's it's four guys for two spots. Good luck?

Speaker 2 (29:21):
Yeah, right, And Ryan Clifford is saying to his agent, Okay,
find me a team to play on, please quickly.

Speaker 1 (29:29):
I Ryan Clifford, that's the guy you really keep an
eye on. I think he's going to be a better
version of Viantas and Baddie and so we'll see. But
there's no room for him. So there's no point in
even thinking about drafting them in the draft and hold league.
It just doesn't make sense.

Speaker 2 (29:45):
No, there's yeah, he's got to climb over half a
dozen people to get himself in a position for playing time.
It ain't gonna happen.

Speaker 1 (29:54):
That's the second deal, Tim. The third deal, I thought
it was the most fascinating because it was a trade
on I always love trade trades, and it was a
three team deal. The Ray sent your guy Josh low
to the Angels, the Race sent excuse me, the Reds
sent Gavin Lucks to the Rays, and then the Reds.

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The Reds got brock Burke from Cincinnati, and Chris Clark
went from the Angels to Tampa Bay. Not famous guys,
not big name guys. But another thing that opens up
maybe a slot for Jacob Melton and Tampa Gavin Luks.

(30:39):
Can he develop into something. He's going to play second base,
maybe bat leadoff because of his high one base percentage
at Tampa. Josh Lowe's gonna play. Can't hit lefties. Help
me break this down. I mean, do you see anybody
going up? Do you see anybody going down? Where do
you see all this going?

Speaker 2 (30:58):
I really don't see it going anywhere.

Speaker 1 (31:00):
So you think it's a stuff moving moving deck chairs
around on the Titanic, that's.

Speaker 2 (31:08):
Yeah, I I I think the biggest hole.

Speaker 1 (31:12):
You like that one? God one?

Speaker 2 (31:14):
Yeah, I like that? Yeah. Yeah, musical chairs and they've
got the exact same number of chairs as people. That's it.
Wouldn't that be fair?

Speaker 1 (31:25):
But I like that Titanic one because as the Titanic
is going down, you're rearranging the chairs and it doesn't
matter because it's all going down.

Speaker 2 (31:35):
Yeah, exactly. Yeah, uh I I would like to think
that the possible biggest benefic fishery of this whole mess
is going to be Jacob Milton. How was that?

Speaker 1 (31:51):
I wrote a very long post to our to our
Patrons members, and Tim read this, and then I had
asked my AI engine to give me his thoughts, which
were Brillian, and he was all over. He was all
over Jacob Melton. I brought it up, but he was
all over it, like this is the guy you want.
He's going to get an opportunity. I reminded him he
couldn't hit lefties, but he didn't care. He was all in.

Speaker 2 (32:15):
Well, that's where I'm sorry. I think we've seen enough
of josh Lowell. Okay, we know who he is, we
know who he can. It's not moving him to the
Angels is not going to change anything at all. He's
a platoon player. He might play every day with the Angels.
But do you want is it bats against lefties? Probably not.

Speaker 1 (32:34):
A slug is to something, it's it's not good.

Speaker 2 (32:38):
Yeah, no, So from purposes of our game, we'd have
it rather have and be in a better spot. If
Joshua is a platoon player, if he plays every day
in Los Angeles, it's actually going to decrease his value.
I don't think Gavin Lux is the Gavin Lux man
he thought he might be. So again yeah, okay, yeah,

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maybe it's two more home runs or I just don't
see anything significant happening, except in the case of Jacob Milton.
If it creates an opportunity there, he might see he's
going to get a chance, I think now, and I
sort of like as a late pick, and Jacob Milton
has moved on to my radar now, So.

Speaker 1 (33:22):
If I could just give a plug for Gavin Lux, Yes,
I ranked him very high. I thought I think a
lot of people thought he was going to be a
much better player than he turned out to be. Having
said that, he does get on base a lot, he
is a good hitter. He does hit the It doesn't
hit the ball hard, but it's it's like a twenty

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five ranking an exit velocity eighty eight point six or eight.
I'm going for a memory here. He has no leverage
in his swing. It is conceivable. And again this is
all making shut up as we go through this, sister,
to try to paint the narrative. If he added he's
got enough, he's got enough context skills to add leverage

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to his swing, so he could go from five arm
runs to twelve ish fifteen ish type of fum run
with a swing change. And he's faster than he's He's
never stolen bases, but he's got a little bit of speed.
So there are some elements in there that you can
sit there and convince yourself there is some upside. How

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much of it's how much it's actually going to play out,
I don't know, Probably none, but I think there's more
upside with lucks than there is with Josh Lowe.

Speaker 2 (34:38):
Yeah, I think that's fair. If it was anybody other
than the Rays, I'd probably agree a little bit more.
But I can see the Rais taking a look and saying, Okay,
Gavin Lux is a left handed bat, We're going to
hit it at the top of the order. But no,
we got to get Ryan Vladi in there as a
right handed bat. Okay against when there's the same side
arm going up against Gavin Lucks a.

Speaker 1 (34:59):
Lot still still kicking around? Are you kidding?

Speaker 2 (35:02):
No, he's He's your backup infielder in Tampa Bay and
possibly platooner with Gavin Lux. It's Tampa Bay. I can't
I've seen enough to Tampa I can't rule anything out there,
you know what I mean?

Speaker 1 (35:14):
That's fair?

Speaker 2 (35:15):
Yeah, the first time, the first time Lux goes in
three games over twelve against South buzz okay, are the
most teams wouldn't even consider. But the Rays will be
looking at it, saying, we got to give a Loti
in there, We got to make a change.

Speaker 1 (35:29):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (35:29):
Yeah, I hope I'm wrong, I really do, but I
have a hard time getting out of that mindset when
it comes to the race.

Speaker 1 (35:36):
Yep. I do think the big winner here is Jacob Meltain,
but again, it does have pretty severe splatoon splits that
rival that of Josh Lowe, and he could be a
Josh Low type of player who is reasonable tim. I mean,
that's a guy that you roster her.

Speaker 2 (35:53):
And then then he ends up he ends up platooning
with Johnny DeLuca or Justin, Henry molloy and Devia. I mean,
it's yeah and Jake Creley. Yeah, it just sort of
goes on and on and on and on.

Speaker 1 (36:07):
The one thing I do like about the trade is
it is a change of scenery for the principles, Josh
Love and Gavin LUs. I mean, Josh Low needs a
maybe maybe somebody else, I don't know if it's the Angels,
but somebody else can help him figure out how to
pick up left handed pictures coming out. Maybe it's swing
changes that another organization can have Gavin Lux go through.

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Now again, it's the thirteam for Gavin Lux. So there
could be some stubbornness involved that he just doesn't want
to change.

Speaker 2 (36:38):
But and it opens up an opportunity for Sal Stewart.

Speaker 1 (36:44):
Fair point. We didn't talk about Selseiae. Yeah, he's looks
like he's gonna be a line yep.

Speaker 2 (36:49):
Yeah, so there'll be you know, there's there's more opportunities
for Sal Stewart. Gavin Lux was not going to be
a full time player in Cincinnati. Yeah, it's creaty a
situation where as players. I think every one of the
players involved in this deal should be happy with the
deal for the multipart yep. And that's that's yeah, that's
that's not about thing.

Speaker 1 (37:09):
Yeah, we'll tend to go on forty minutes to sake
a quick break and come back talk about third base.

Speaker 2 (37:16):
I'm looking forward to it.

Speaker 4 (37:25):
And.

Speaker 1 (37:27):
You've been talking for a long time.

Speaker 2 (37:30):
It's been a while.

Speaker 1 (37:31):
Yes, all right, mister McLeod. I love your third base rankings,
particularly because you got some differences with the NFC or
the ADPs of where they're going. But before we do
third base, tell me your thoughts on how you were
approaching third base. I know when you did your first
couple of drafts you had an opinion. Has that opinion changed,

(37:53):
has it been refined? Tell us how you're how you're
approaching third base this season.

Speaker 2 (37:58):
Well, there's only so many holes you can fill with
early picks, okay, And when I look at third base,
am I going to pass on Jose Ramirez or Junior Caminero,
Michael Garca. Am I going to pass on those guys? No,
of course I'm not. I'm not going to move them
down my list. I'm going to take them as elite

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players because they are okay, But when in doubt, I'm
going to look at third base as one of the
positions that I'm going to move down my list as
a player in my team build. I think there are
players at third base that you can get later on

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in drafts that can provide good value and good opportunities,
and I'll try and take advantage of those opportunities and
focus on the first five to eight rounds at filling
the outfield, getting a first base type, a good relief pitcher.
So you got to push something down. So in my case,

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I'm going to be pushing down third base and looking
at that middle deal cheer and potential bargains.

Speaker 1 (39:11):
I don't think we've seen this in a while, that
there's two Jose Ramirez and Junior caman Era, two third
basements going in the first round.

Speaker 2 (39:22):
No, and they're both deserving. Yeah, hey Jose Ramirez. Yeah.
Five consecutive twenty twenty seasons, the last two have been
thirty thirty. Cavin Arrow is barely out of his teams.
He's with twenty two and he's hitting forty five home runs. Like, Yeah,
they're both great players and they deserve to be first
round talents.

Speaker 1 (39:42):
Mike Mike Caveatica with with Jose Ramirez, it's he's The
data says that he is aging. I don't know when
the when the downfalls at the right word, when the
things are going to start to fall off. We haven't
seen it much at all, but the data does not
look good underneath all of him. So I'll just throw
that out there if you if you ADP's five point

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twenty six, totally get it. I'm not going to take
him to me. I don't want to be holding the
bag when Poser Ramirez all of a sudden that four
hundred foot home run turns into three seventy and it's caught.

Speaker 2 (40:18):
Yeah, when we the natural oh what's the natural decline
will occur? Yep. He's getting older each and every year.
Am I predicting this year he's going to fall off
the fall off the table. No, I don't think he can.
But at the same point in time, I agree with you.
Being cognizant. Cognizant of the fact that he is getting

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he is getting older. I don't I highly dote he
will be on any of my teams this year because
I'll want to focus in other areas.

Speaker 1 (40:49):
If you haven't been a Dynasty League team, I would
be selling that's the guy.

Speaker 2 (40:55):
It's a right time. Yeah, much the same as the
approach we took in Deal five movie Mike Trow we did.
We probably moved a year a year early on Troe,
but a year early in a Dynasty League makes all
the difference in the world. That's compared to moving a
year late. Huge difference.

Speaker 1 (41:12):
Yep, yep. Jose Ramirez. Few guys hit as well as
he does. The powers is not what it used to be.
It's all leverage home run pop. So just I'm just
telling you that the data looks like he is five
foot eight and thirty three years old. So gonna go
to the Hall of Fame along with Jose Altuving going

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to be two of the smallest players to have kind
of put up numbers like they did. It's going to
be really impressive.

Speaker 2 (41:41):
They've both beaten the odds in a big way and.

Speaker 1 (41:44):
A big way. Totally agree. So one two is Hasiramia
Junior Camanera. I love Tim's comment on Junior Camerania. It's
forty five home runs. I mean, as a teenager, twenty
year old, that's he's gonna Would you be surprised if
he leads the league for the next five years and
home runs.

Speaker 2 (42:00):
Not at all? And you yeah, you say, okay, yeah,
But he's moving out of that little bandbox and George Brooks,
you know, Steinbrenner Stadium. He's moving from Steinbrenner to a
real park. And take a look to take a look
at the spray chart and take a look where that
balls are landing. I don't think it makes a whole
lot of difference.

Speaker 1 (42:20):
Jassm comes in at number three. Times filing scene the
light with Michel Garcia coming in at number four, Manny
Machado five, George Jordan Westbrook at six, Austin Riley drops
down to seven, Uhenio soars at eight, Alex Bredman at nine.
Let's do the first nine and then we'll take a break.

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Talk about number ten for an entire segment.

Speaker 2 (42:44):
But well well played, well played.

Speaker 1 (42:51):
I mean, I I don't know what to say here.
I mean, MIKEL Garcia is look, it was all sitting
there he's not as fast as we think he is,
but there's more there's more juice in the in the
bat too. I think this is a very good player,
and good on him for learning to be more patient
at the plate.

Speaker 3 (43:12):
Mm hmm.

Speaker 2 (43:13):
Yeah. The other thing I like about Garcia is I
looked at his spray turned okay, and you tell you
it's pretty well to all fields, but there is like
this little horseshoe halo, you know, the diamond at the
warning track the shows where all of these balls are landing. Okay. Well,
they're moving the fences in at Kauflin and I've seen

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some of the projections, you know, boost his home runs
by one or two. I think in the case of
Mike tell Garcia, I think it's going to boost his
home runs by more than one or two moving those
fences in, and I wouldn't I wouldn't be at all
shocked if we see five seven more home runs out

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of Garcia this year because of those fences coming in.
And that's why I've been considerably more aggressive than the
nfbcquol uh you know, they they've got him at six.
I think the fences will make a difference, and I
think just the natural evolution of his game. He's he's
young still, Okay, I'm expecting good things from Mike Bilgercia

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this year, really good things.

Speaker 1 (44:21):
So to add and just push back just to Smitch
ever so small it is. It is pool site power right.
His spray short shows everything going off to the left field.
I'm looking at it right now, and he hits the
ball harder than you think. Ninety one point three. Yeah,
and last year he's finally started to show, which I've

(44:41):
been harping on, a little bit more leverage in a swing.
It's only at nine point seven degree, Timmy. If he
just starts to add a little bit more leverage with
those fences moved in, the power could literally blow up.
And you could You people think I'm crazy. You could
see a thirty home run guy sitting there.

Speaker 2 (45:01):
I don't think you're crazy, No, not at all, or
at least not for that point. Sorry, Yeah, that's true.

Speaker 1 (45:09):
True if you give a shot of.

Speaker 2 (45:11):
That right well, yeah, exactly. Yeah. It's not time for
a group hug yet.

Speaker 1 (45:19):
Yeah, so that's like how Garcia. I think, Tim good
to see Tim see they're like Manny Machado. Oh but
still you know you got him dann one from where
the NFC is going. But still solid though.

Speaker 2 (45:31):
See yeah, yeah, it's a lot I you know, I
started looking at the numbers and yeah, the last season
where he didn't hit twenty five home runs, it's twenty fourteen.
That's like eleven, twelve years ago. Like mans, he's a
great talent. I have no problems at all. If you
decide to look at Manny, Machado is as your your

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choice between him and Garcia, and Machado is a fine player,
a consistently strong producer.

Speaker 1 (46:00):
Really he is going though in the third round, and
given his age, it does feel a little high.

Speaker 2 (46:08):
Yeah, and again everybody looks and says, well, yeah, but
he's hit twenty five home runs every every year for
the past ten years. Okay, he's only what thirty two.
I think he's still fairly young for that because he
got started when he was like seventeen or what he was.
You know, he was very very young when he came
into the game.

Speaker 1 (46:24):
He was an when he first played, coming out at
third base for the Ools, move to shortstop for a
while and then back to third base.

Speaker 2 (46:32):
Yeah, back to third base. Yeah, he's a good player,
and there's no doubt about it.

Speaker 1 (46:37):
I like your aggressiveness on Jordan Westburg. He was one
of my targets the last couple of years. It's another
target for me this season. I think he can stay
healthy again, hits the ball hard. I like the upside
of Jordan Westburg.

Speaker 2 (46:50):
As do I. You know he's going to stay healthy. Okay,
he didn't last year, but you know, a little bit
more than what half a season we saw some hit
seventeen home runs. Okay. I just believe right now a
little bit more in Westburgh than I do Riley, Suarez
and Bregman, and I've moved Westburg up to reflect that.

(47:14):
Right now, we're looking at Westburg as a ninth round investment. Yeah.
I like that in the ninth round. I like it
a lot Richard, Austin Riley.

Speaker 1 (47:25):
A little down on Austin Riley and from Thames right up,
it seems more you're worried about him staying healthy. He's
still hit the ball really hard.

Speaker 2 (47:34):
Yeah, and you know what he could He could be
a top three player at third base if he can
return to the six hundred bad days of twenty twenty
one to twenty twenty three, where he's hitting thirty thirty
five to forty home runs every year and driving in
one hundred plus. Yeah, that could happen right now. I
just after the past two years in the miss time,

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I'm a little bit concerned. And hey, you'd be right
in saying I could be concerned about Westbrook two all
of these players, there are areas where we can be concerned.
But it doesn't mean they don't have potential. I'm just
believing a little bit more in one as compared to
the other.

Speaker 1 (48:16):
YEP, agreed, And that Alex Bregman at number nine. Is
it fair to say boring old Alex Bregman.

Speaker 2 (48:24):
Yeah, I think it is. You look at the numbers
and yeah, I low twenties home run power, the hit
tool is great. The only thing that I would recommend
is don't overpay for the move to Chicago. And he
is getting up there a little bit. He's what thirty two.

Speaker 1 (48:45):
I think, Yeah, why would you even think consider overpaying
for the move to Chicago.

Speaker 2 (48:52):
Because I'm a fan of the Cubs and he's going
to hit thirty runs, driving one hundred and ten, he's
going to steal fifteen, you know what I mean. Alex Baggan,
I think is defined as who he is the move
to Chicago doesn't really help him. Yeah, it doesn't. Yeah,
so he's an OK pick, but he's no number ten

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type pick.

Speaker 1 (49:14):
Yeah, I agreed, Timmy, take a break, come back and
let's talk, shall we.

Speaker 2 (49:21):
Yes, I'm ready to hear that zero zero into the background.

Speaker 1 (49:26):
A ready, so irying to take a little break, little
potty break. So we're good to go. So, Timmy, we're

(49:47):
going through your top ten. We did top nine and
sitting at number ten Kasimu Okamoto. He is ranked twenty
six ADP, third BA off the board. You have him
at ten, ADP is three point thirty four point four
five round twenty three, and you're telling people to essentially

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take him and round ten eleven.

Speaker 2 (50:14):
I'm saying that he is going to earn the number
ten spot in production this year. But am I telling
you to take him in round ten? No? I. What
I'm I'm telling you is that I think he is
going to be a very good player and his levels
of production are going to warrant a pick as high
as that. Right. Well, the NFBC rank is twenty six.

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If you go to the past couple of weeks, it's
now moved to eighteen. Okay, his ADP at three thirty four,
I believes in the two forty range. So we've already
seen a correction which we knew was going to happen.
So even though I am considerably higher than the NFBC,
I'm not as hot as current. Look at the NFBC.

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This starting to be a little up there. If you
can get him, if you can get him, You're not
gonna get him at three thirty four. Okay, you're gonna
You're gonna have to look right now at probably somewhere
in the fifteenth to eighteenth round. I'm saying he's going
to earn ten. He's going to be the tenth best

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producer at third base this year.

Speaker 1 (51:27):
Oh right, over under twenty twenty two home runs over
over under twenty six home runs over. Wow, Tim's allen, guys.

Speaker 2 (51:44):
Yeah, this is probably the boldest I think I have
ever been, and I've been bowled on some Asian players before,
but I think he's going to be a twenty seven
to ninety with a high OVP, solid batting average type player.
I think he's going to be at the end of
the year. I could see him moving up as high
as possibly sixty seven on this list. He's a he's

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a good player that a lot of people are ignoring
because of a player called MURKAMMI, and I don't I
think I think they're going to be proven wrong. I'm
all in, well all in.

Speaker 1 (52:20):
I don't know if I'm all in. But I took
him on my NFC team, and I took him exclusively.
The sole reason I took him was because of this.
So uh, I'm not only I'm not only a partner
with him. I am a fan, so I'm also rounding.

Speaker 2 (52:40):
Yes, you are? What round did you? What round did
you pick him? In? Rich?

Speaker 1 (52:46):
Good question. Let me go to the draft board here,
Okamoto Oko? Something you saying? Okamoto?

Speaker 2 (52:54):
Yeah? Okay?

Speaker 1 (52:55):
Seven seventeen.

Speaker 2 (52:58):
Steele steal yep.

Speaker 1 (53:03):
I got very shortly after after he signed with the
Blue Jays, so yeah, I also yeah, no, I also
drafted Haystan Kim too, So that didn't work out for me.

Speaker 2 (53:16):
No, No, damn Dodgers in their spending ways. Eh.

Speaker 1 (53:21):
I got him a but twenty six round, so it
was but just a reserve pick. But I was hoping
to see more. But that didn't. That didn't work out. Okay,
Let's let's do eleven through twenty here we got novel Marte,
Matt Chapman, Addison Barger, Jose Cavalerio, Alec Baum, Max Munsey,
Miguel Vargas, Royce Lewis, Caleb Durban and Marcel oh Mayor

(53:48):
because of your love for Okamoto, Marte, Chapman and Barger
go down. Do you think we're finally gonna see a
a step up with Marte?

Speaker 2 (54:01):
I think it's all I think. I think it's all
set up where yes, we are, but there are still
questions about there's still playing time questions there. And although
he did have a great basically half a season, fourteen
home runs, ten stolen bases, I'm not one hundred percent

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sold on Marte, even though everything is set up for success.
Does that make sense? Yes, yeah, it's yeah. I And
again when because of that, I moved him, I've moved
him down basically a slot. Matt Chapman. I think Matt

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Chapin's a fine pick. You know, he said twenty seven homers,
three of the past five. I think he's relatively a
safe pick. Marte, there's risk, and Barger there's risk, but
there's also considerable upsize. I believe in the power game
of Madison bargers. So those three, yeah, I I like them,

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but I don't know if I like them enough to
to invest that they're going rate.

Speaker 1 (55:14):
My guy here, if you wait, my guy is Matt Chapman.
I think he's boring, but the data's great on this guy.
He hits the ball hard, he's faster than you think.
I think it's just look, it's a boring twenty five
arm runs and you know, some stolen bases and a
guy that's never going to light it up from a

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hitting standpoint, but enough that I don't think he's going
to hurt you. And again, if you decide not to
partake in one of the big guys, I just think
he's a nice, little safe guy that you can then
come back and maybe get somebody with some upside later
on in case you want to upgrade potentially down with Chapman's.
That's how I like to play third base.

Speaker 2 (55:56):
Yeah, yeah, and that's perfect with buying. There's nothing wrong
with that at all. Jose Cavallero, the Pennsylan fifty stolen bases, Okay, yeah,
if hey, if you're looking at a situation where you
need the speed, there's nothing wrong with that. Pick in
the mid teen rounds.

Speaker 1 (56:15):
Yeah, one of the one of the big impediments for
Jose Cavallero got off the board. I was really worried
until Boba Schett signed it. It does appear like the
Yankees are just not playing in this year's free agency.
I'm not sure why not. I'm not a huge Yankee fans.
I've been followed that closely. But it does appear they're
going to go with Jose Cavallero until my Anthony Volpi

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is ready. That's the way it looks to me.

Speaker 2 (56:43):
And if I strongly believe that if Cavallero plays well,
Anthony Volpi might not come back to a full time job,
I'm not convinced that that be the case. Yeah. So again, Hey,
if you're looking for speed, I think the floor is
reasonably safe with Cavallero.

Speaker 1 (57:04):
Even if bolt Be comes back June first, that's two
months of Cavallero, and that's fifteen stolen bases, maybe twenty
stolen base Yeah, this first thing, it's just just money.

Speaker 2 (57:18):
Yeah, it is just money in the bank, those stolen bases. Ye, agreed,
Alec Baum.

Speaker 1 (57:24):
You like Alec Baum a lot. He's going as a
twenty second guy off the board, he's you've got him
at number fifteen. I do worry about Bam. The data
actually looks reasonably good on this guy. He was not
one of my targets, but he came close. I do
like Aiden Miller as potentially getting the call and maybe

(57:45):
taking of a little third base there. So that's my
thought on why I would not get too excited about
alcoholm But the data does look solid on this guy.

Speaker 2 (57:56):
Yeah, yeah, you mean you got Trey Turner and Shoreburn
Harber hitting ahead of you. You know, I'm not suggesting
that Alex Bowman is a twenty five home run bat
He's not. I think he's fifteen home run twelve to fifteen.
But the batting average should be solid and the RBI opportunities.
I pencil in a floor of eighty eighty to eighty five,

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so the RBI should be there.

Speaker 1 (58:23):
Thegul vargas a little bit higher on him than most
at the White Sox. Kind of strange to see a
White Sox guy surging in a poll.

Speaker 2 (58:33):
Yeah you know, you look at what he did last year, okay,
and sixteen homers sixty are sixty RBIs okay, he scored
eighty runs. He's not in danger of losing playing dying
to anybody. And he's young enough, I think we could
see a little bit better. I feel reasonably comfortable in

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Miguel Berg. It's moving him up if he goes twenty
home runs and up to the RBIs to seventy five
to eighty to go along with the run scored. This
pretty good player and a player that, even though he's
being drafted further down the list, one that I feel
relatively comfortable with as compared to say Royce Lewis, who

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can't stay on the field. Yeah, he actually didn't have He.

Speaker 1 (59:25):
Actually didn't have a very good season last year either.
Last I looked from what he did in terms of
what he has done in such a limited number of
at bats in previous seasons. It was not a good
showing by Royce Lewis last year.

Speaker 2 (59:40):
No, and he broke the three hundred of batmark, but
not by a whole heck of a lot. I just
I don't feel confident some one of these years Royce
Lewis is going to get in five hundred and fifty
at bats and his forty home runs, possibly if he's
not too beat up at the stage of his career.
The potential is still there, but he's not a player

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that I'm endeared to, not in any stretching imagination, because
I think for every one good year he has, he
could have three four bad. I'm I'll weigh out the
odds and say I'll look elsewhere.

Speaker 1 (01:00:11):
Rich sprint speed's at thirty four percent ex of velocities
at eighty nine point eight, so solid power, below average speed,
below average contact skills. Be careful, yep, I agree, risk
Evan Marcela Mayor. You've got him fourteen higher than when
he's going in the NFBC. You have you have any reasons.

Speaker 2 (01:00:33):
Why substance abuse.

Speaker 1 (01:00:39):
I didn't think you were that high on him, but
I guess you just liked them a little bit better
than Murakami and Esac. Parade is an Ernie Clement, Josh Smith, etc.

Speaker 2 (01:00:49):
Yeah. Basically, when you look at Mayor, his ADP's five
twenty one, I would rather have Mayor than a commie
Paradis Clement, Josh Smith, the whole group after him, Connor Norby.
There's upside there, Okay, when you get down into you know,
twenty moving moving down the ladder, do you want to

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you want a head for the for the upside potential
or do you want to take Ernie Clement or Connor
Norby or Ryan McMahon. Now I would rather, I would rather.

Speaker 1 (01:01:25):
Ryan McMahon is the guy you want. What's your next question?

Speaker 2 (01:01:28):
I would rather gamble. There was so little blue okay
on his whiff whiff and strakeout rates. I had to
pull a magnifying glass oh to see it. But no,
I I want I'll take my chances on the upside.
I don't think he's gonna be looking over his shoulder,
and I think that I think he'll learn that uh

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that twenty ranking come yere in.

Speaker 1 (01:01:54):
Wow, we'll see. I mean he just said he just
may or just just did not play well, So I'll
be right. I do hm in a couple of dynastas legues,
maybe one. I think I traded them. So after that
bit of a hot set. Now Mirror Comedy's at twenty one. Look,
you've been on records saying you like the player, you're
worried about how much he's going to strike out, and

(01:02:16):
then I think over time. I don't know if it's
because it's now the White Sox just we haven't talked
about this, but my sense is you're getting more negative
on him every week.

Speaker 2 (01:02:29):
I don't think it. I don't think it's more negative.
I'm just being more vocal about by negativity. Yeah, it's
I think what you're looking at is a Kyle Schwarber's
skill set, Okay, And I gotta admit when I read this,
I thought, damn, that's got to be about the harshest
I think I've ever been on a former player coming

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out of Japan. But if you want the Kyle Schwarber
skill set, just pay for Kyle Schwarber. Remove the dotus
to the outcome. I think he's going to have problems
with high heat. I think he's going to be very streaky,
as he has been in Japan. Yeah, he could hit
forty home runs, but it could be a companied with
a one nine ninety five batting average and a three

(01:03:15):
forty OVP. I just be careful that he's not going
to be in my plans this year. I think Okamoto
is a far I think he's a far better and
more polished all round player, and that has my attention
at a bargain basement prices compared to America. Now, when

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I look at the past fifteen days or so, Mura
Kakami is still ahead of Okamoto, but it's only by
two rounds, so there's been a huge correction in both
those players.

Speaker 1 (01:03:51):
I am in the process of doing our first year
player first year player rankings, and I have ranked my
international guys, including the Japanese players for dynasty leagues. Tim
where would you would you take first? Murakami likee younger
than Okamoto or still Okamoto in a dynasty.

Speaker 2 (01:04:13):
League, still Okamoto Okamoa's twenty nine if you.

Speaker 1 (01:04:21):
A wide margin or shallow margin.

Speaker 2 (01:04:25):
Fairly wide personally, because I don't want the risk, Hey,
he's going to strike out a tone. I don't want
to assume he could be he could be Joey Gallo.
I don't want to take that risk. Okamoto will not
be Joey Gallo. And most dynasty leagues if you get

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if you get five years out of a dynasty league,
you're doing well. I think Okamoto can play until mid
thirties and be a solid producer, so the age doesn't
really come into play for me. Now. If Americami was
twenty two, that would be you know, that would affect
things a little differently. But I think you can get

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four to five years out of Okomotive, So I'm the
dynasty factor I'm treating I would be treating him much
the same as I wouldn't read draft like, how many
players do you look at for more than three to
five years in the Dynasty League. It's not that many, really,
I think if you look at the rosters at.

Speaker 1 (01:05:26):
The end of the day, right, I have Okamoto ranked
at one sixty three and I have Murakami ranked at
two oh three. Well done to narrow, to narrow or
just about right.

Speaker 2 (01:05:42):
I think that's just about right.

Speaker 1 (01:05:45):
Yeah, I've got that.

Speaker 2 (01:05:46):
In first year, the first year player drafts, I could
I could go as high as top three on America
on Okomotive, remaining on your team and build and needs. Yeah,
in DL five, if we had a top three pick,
he'd probably be number three.

Speaker 1 (01:06:04):
Wow, I've got I got Amaya number three.

Speaker 2 (01:06:08):
Okay, I would probably have a Maya at one, Anderson
at two, and Okamoto with three.

Speaker 1 (01:06:14):
I got Ethan Holliday at one, Kate Anderson and two,
am I at three, and then I've got a bunch
of younger players. I got okamotives down probably second round
for me just because of the age. But I haven't
yet I'm still working on it, so I might move
him up a little bit, but I'm struggling with the

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age twenty nine years old. Where do you put him
in and uh from a dynasty league. There's a lot
of these guys that might have higher upsite better careers,
and that's what I'm trying to figure out.

Speaker 2 (01:06:49):
So, yeah, it's a tough one, Rich because you know
what Okamoto can help you for the next three years, Okay,
a lot of the players that you're going to be
ranking ahead of them might not make the majors for
three years, right, So it just depends on Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:07:02):
But some of these guys might not ever make the
majors as well, so I mean at all. Yeah, Yeah,
So I mean that's that's the risk. So I'm looking
at this and looking at the players in front of them,
and I'm struggling to think how Gavin Fine is going
to have a better major league career than Akamoto given
the risk.

Speaker 2 (01:07:22):
So yeah, and again, if Okamoto slides down to the
back of the first round, early second round, that means
that somebody who finished in the top three, okay in
your leagues last year, is going to get a shot
at a player that's going to help him right now,

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that's looking awful good for a top three team, isn't
it immediate help out of a first year player draft.

Speaker 1 (01:07:50):
Yeah, but you're not using the first year player draft.
The poor teams are picking first, then they're not going
to want Lokomotive.

Speaker 2 (01:07:58):
Right, So it's it's shifts to and that. Yeah, it
really benefits the teams that did well last year having
a player like him come over because it gives him
an opportunity and immediate help. And that's what those last three,
you know, for the most part, that's what your teams
have finished for second, third, fourth, they want right right
to get better. Yeah. Yeah, it's a interesting, tough call.

Speaker 1 (01:08:21):
Tough call. Let's see, let's take a break and come
back and let's start to pop around a little bit.
See some guys that's.

Speaker 4 (01:08:29):
Likes we are covering their based on the top twenty
twenty one or so, actually twenty top twenty five.

Speaker 1 (01:08:45):
You also like Jonathan India higher and rank McMahon well done,
and then Matt Charlotte minus sixteen.

Speaker 2 (01:08:54):
Yeah, he's going I'd love to say I didn't look
at Matt Shaw and let me just take a quick
look here at the ADPs for the past two weeks
to see where matt Shaw is going.

Speaker 1 (01:09:06):
Well, that is all due to the Alex Bregman signing.

Speaker 2 (01:09:10):
Well yeah that yeah, he's down to fifteen now in
the NFBC. Uh yeah, I've factored the Alex Bregman signing
in there. And let's face it, right now, with Moyeses
Bellisteros looking at the DH slot, Matt Shaw does not

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have a place to call home right now. They're looking
as Adam as a super subtype option possibly in twenty
twenty six. I just put proceed with caution. How you
rank a player fairly high who doesn't have a position
to play.

Speaker 1 (01:09:44):
In totally grey. We brought that up when signing. But
Ballistaiir's better hit or Matt Shaw will get those a
lot more of those at bats.

Speaker 2 (01:09:55):
At D Totally agree, totally agree. But as of right
now and today, what do you today? What do you
do with Sean Bellistaro's I think the Cubs want Balistarios
to succeed. They might move one of their catchers at
some point in time to create a you know, further opportunities,
but not as of today. It's a tough call. I'd

(01:10:19):
be very very cautious with that whole cub situation right now,
and Matt Shaw would not be on my list of players. Yeah,
the Beisterios falls enough. Yeah, I some intered Matt Shaw,
and I'm just concerned right now.

Speaker 1 (01:10:33):
I'm Ballistaris is a very interesting guy, because that guy
can flat out hit. And if you can hit, you
stick in the major leagues. It's if you can't hit,
you don't. I mean, it's just not even more common.

Speaker 2 (01:10:47):
Yeah, I was gonna say, they'll find a place for
you to play if you can hit, right, they'll work
around something and create something, do whatever they have to
do to get the bat in the lineup.

Speaker 1 (01:10:55):
You're you're going to get a shot. And that's why
I keep going back to Gavin Lux is not a
great player, not a great, terrible fantasy player, but he
can hit. Yeah, And guys like that you usually get
a chance until they get expensive and then it's no Moss.
But and the fact that, yeah, so I just think
you have to keep that in consideration. And you've also

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obviously really down on Mark Fiento's and Brett Battie. In fact,
you're just like, I'm not dealing with these guys anymore.

Speaker 2 (01:11:25):
Well, I'm no, I'm hey, if they're sitting there in
the reserve rounds, yeah, I'll toss a dark, but I
Am not going to commit a regular roster spot either
one of those guys because or have the Mets committed
anything to them? Yeah? Maybe you know right now they
got baby and his DH, but it could be Biento's,

(01:11:45):
it could be whomever. It's just a mess that I'm
going to totally avoid rich.

Speaker 1 (01:11:51):
Another big off season. The off season moves have really
put down Jordan Lawler is now go back to the
list tier. Oh yeah, he's down. Uh, where's Jordan Lawler?

Speaker 2 (01:12:06):
I missed forty seven forty seven?

Speaker 1 (01:12:09):
Yeah, so let me just type in low. Yeah, he's
down sixteen slots. Yeah, and that and that's because of
the Aeronauta trade.

Speaker 2 (01:12:19):
Yeah, and I'm not high on Aeronato. I've gone him
in thirty. So it's it's not a result of any
any big skill set maneuversus the fact that he's got
he's gotta find a home and the outfield looks like
you get and he doesn't have much on his resume
for oatfields. So yeah, they've.

Speaker 1 (01:12:39):
Already they've already locked in the Nolan Aernado bobblehead day.
They're all they're already uh digitally printed to me. They're
ready to go.

Speaker 2 (01:12:50):
Yeah, exactly, and yeah, as much the same as Carlos Korea.
I am fairly down on Korea. But I don't know,
is there any reason to be up on Carlos's career.

Speaker 1 (01:13:03):
I think he's got power, and I think he can hit. Yeah,
it's just a boring guy that he hasn't He hasn't
shown much power of the last couple of years, and
he gets hurt all the time.

Speaker 2 (01:13:15):
Well, you know, last year, in five hundred and thirty
seven at bats, he hit thirteen home runs, drove in
fifty two. He hasn't stolen a base since twenty nineteen,
and that total in twenty nineteen was one. Okay, yeah,
he can still hit, but what do you want for power?
The power numbers, he doesn't run. It's just it's not

(01:13:38):
a player that if I'm looking at Carlos career on
one of my teams, it must be because I have
multiple shares on that same team of Matt Shaw and
Brett Batty.

Speaker 1 (01:13:49):
I have forgotten why what's your love again? For Jose Tina,
who I was all on a couple of years ago.
But it feels like the Nationals just hate Jose Tana.
Why is why do you still hold out hope that
he's going to get a job at.

Speaker 2 (01:14:02):
Some point Brady House?

Speaker 1 (01:14:06):
You don't, You don't believe in Brady House at all.

Speaker 2 (01:14:09):
Yeah, I I've got hosts ranked higher. But who's backing
up Brady House. It's got to be Tinia. So I
think there's I believe there's more of an opportunity for
Hose eighteen to end up with regular at bats than
there is at Mendosuser or have your bias or Christian

(01:14:29):
And there's there's a lot in there not to like,
but there is still something I think too like with
Hose eighteen.

Speaker 1 (01:14:38):
Ronnie Marisa has dropped, how your bias has dropped? All
that makes total sense? And you're up a little higher
on Graham Paulie, we're trying to convince me to grab
him in our last uh last look into my draft.
By the way, the password got taken a couple of
slots after I took Ben Joyce, So my dream of
the password is is shattered.

Speaker 2 (01:14:59):
Tim, Yes, you'll get an extra two years on your
spell check, so yes, all right, let's go.

Speaker 1 (01:15:07):
Let's go to the heart, let's go to the hard questions.
And it's me okomotive because you are in the top ten.
Because we've talked enough about that. Give me a player
that drops out of the top ten and a player
that falls that rises into the top ten.

Speaker 2 (01:15:25):
Okay, Eugenio Suarez drops out of the top ten.

Speaker 1 (01:15:30):
Why is that?

Speaker 2 (01:15:32):
Well, he still has a signed he's thirty five years old.
He can he can hit forty home runs. But you know,
if Westberg and Riley are healthy, I don't see any
problems in the top five. So you're looking at a
choice between Suarez, Bregman, Gregman. Sure, uh, those are the

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two that I would think could fall are those two
players for is in Bragman and replacing them? Oh Murakami, Yeah,
heybe it's forty home runs. Yeah, if he's forty home runs,
I'll go I'm gonna go to me.

Speaker 1 (01:16:17):
I'm just gonna go on the limbit. It might be
time to tap out. Say it's been a good run
because you have trash.

Speaker 2 (01:16:24):
Murakami, Yeah, I have. I'm not If he's not gonna
be on my Christmas card list, that's not gonna happen.
I'm gonna go with a couple of the younger I'm
gonna go with calib Durban possibly moving up.

Speaker 1 (01:16:39):
Oh my lord, do you got to explain yourself on
that one. Oh?

Speaker 2 (01:16:45):
I think the hit tool combined with the speed and
ten to twelve home runs decent runs scored. Yeah, I
you know McGill Vargus could move up into the into
the top ten if he it's twenty five home runs.
I got to look at upside players if I'm looking

(01:17:07):
at moving into that top ten, And yeah, guys like
Durwan Marcella may Or what happens if he gets out
of the gate strong and plays to his potential? Could
he be a top ten player? Yeah. The guys that
i'd stay away fromm would be Cavallero, Alex Bohm, Max Muncy.
I think they'll be okay players, but I don't see

(01:17:27):
them taking that next step per se. I don't think Matt.
I think Matt Chapman is who he is. Noelvi Marte
and as in Barger, they could both move into the
top ten if they hit me on ba Barger it's
twenty five to thirty home runs, which I don't think
can be ruled out. The problem with Barger is the
pressure on the batting average.

Speaker 1 (01:17:49):
Yep.

Speaker 2 (01:17:50):
He likes. He likes a lot just about everything thrown
at him. So again there's there's risk risk in the
batting average category with Bargers.

Speaker 1 (01:17:58):
So I as, yeah, the guy that's going to come
into the top ten or come into the fifteen twenty.
The person who's going to that's going to make noises
not on your list yet. I think it's either I
think it's a JJ Weatherholt. I think it's a potential

(01:18:19):
Aiden Miller maybe yeah, maybe the Sebastian Walcott. I think
it's something maybe Jet Williams. Mass probably gonna move to
the outfield. I think it's one of those guys that
are going to come in at a different position, take
over third base and blow up.

Speaker 2 (01:18:41):
No problems with that at all, none whatsoever, because there
are going to be there are going to be shorts
top eligible players who are going to find their way
to the third base list next year. Definitely, yep.

Speaker 1 (01:18:55):
And I'm just taking a look at your I mean
your top ten. I mean it's hard to say any
of those guys are going to drop outside of you,
Ino Swarz and Alex Pregnant, But the top of the list.
I mean, Ramirez would have to have such an awful
season to drop out ten, and Junior Kim just not
going to happen. Maybe Mguel Garcia falls back to earth

(01:19:18):
a little bit, but he's still probably is a top
ten guy. Yeah, I just yeah, I mean I think
those guys are are pretty much locked in there.

Speaker 2 (01:19:28):
Same with Manny Mitrago. He has a bad year and
he hits twenty five home runs and drives in eighty five,
He's still going to be a top ten player at
third base next year. The year after that might change,
but not next year.

Speaker 1 (01:19:43):
If Austin Riley has a repeat of twenty twenty five,
yeah he'll drop out of the top ten. But the
data says, as long as he's healthy, he's going to
be fine.

Speaker 2 (01:19:54):
Yeah. No, data says the same thing with Westburg, right, yes, exactly, Yeah,
so yeah it it would take another season of three
hundred at bats from both of those guys. Yeah, and
I agree they could fall into the top ten.

Speaker 1 (01:20:07):
Yep, yep, totally agree. All right, Timmy, give me a sleeper.

Speaker 2 (01:20:11):
Two US sleeper too. Well, we've already discussed number ten
at nauseum uh kamoo.

Speaker 1 (01:20:20):
I hope you're right. Again. I'm all in, Timmy, I
have them. I'm excited, thank you very much.

Speaker 2 (01:20:27):
Yeah, here's you're welcome. Here's five players I like Okamoto
and I put them in my opening narrative, Addison Barger,
Miguel Vargas, Calub Durban and Marcella Mayor. Hopefully I end
up with one, possibly two of those players, one from
my corner infield slot come draft day. Those are the

(01:20:49):
guys I had. Those are the guys said I'm liking
because of the upside potential.

Speaker 1 (01:20:57):
Boy, the one I keep going back to Marcela Mayor,
I mean, he was so bad. I mean I've been
to Moors a Mayor defender for a while, man, but
he was so bad last season. I hope you're right.
I hope you're right.

Speaker 2 (01:21:11):
Well, when you look at do I want to take
a chance Ad Meyer over he's that greatest, Ernie Clement,
Josh Smith, Connor Norby. Yeah, I do want to take
that chance. I think the rewards could be such that
they're worthwhile.

Speaker 1 (01:21:29):
Time will tell the thing about Mayor, and again he's
only twenty three. So the thing that Bob I thought
he'd hit more and he just there was a lot
of chase and a lot of swing and missing his game.
He walked six percent of the time. I just I
was disappointed in that. I mean, he hit the ball
reasonably hard, average sprint speed, but I thought he'd be

(01:21:50):
able to control the strike someone better than he did.
So I'm hoping again. It was only one hundred and
thirty six plaint appearances, and hopefully it'll be better. And
he he's penciled in to be the starting third basement.

Speaker 2 (01:22:03):
He's got the job to start the season. It's in
his hands as far as as the future, and I
hope and believe he's going to take and prove to
be at least an OK type player, one representative of
the twenty to twenty five group at his position.

Speaker 1 (01:22:25):
Excellent stuff, mister mcclell. Let's take a let's take our
final break it back, and let's Tim wrap up third
base and find out what he's on for dinner.

Speaker 3 (01:22:33):
Yeah, it's a gem.

Speaker 1 (01:22:43):
I have so many favorite podcasts that we do, one
of which is not our handle draft, but I know
people like that love our positional drafts. Probably my favorite
position is outfield. We haven't done that yet, and that'll
be in a couple of weeks. I love doing the outfield,
but these are my favorite segments. I always love the

(01:23:05):
fantasy questions of the blank division. I always like those,
but I just I love our breakdown going into the season.
He does such a good job, and it's it's always
thought provoking. Your your the rankings are thoughtful. I can
never trip you up on you not have done the research,
you know, and I think that's really that says a lot.

(01:23:27):
You're not always right, and I've said that a book
better better be right.

Speaker 2 (01:23:31):
But but I mean, there's rationale behind the decision making exactly, and.

Speaker 1 (01:23:40):
That's what that's all people can ask for, is that
you've got sound reasoning behind your positions on each of
the different players, and how it turns out is how
it turns out. And then if you're wrong, then Tim
will rethink his logic and uh do that. But it's
it's very thoughtful stuff. And I think that's why I
like these shows so much, because I like to like

(01:24:01):
to see how you're thinking and uh and help our
listeners figure that out too.

Speaker 2 (01:24:06):
Yeah, and hey, there's nothing wrong with stimulating a good discussion,
is there? For sure? Absolutely nothing.

Speaker 1 (01:24:12):
What's what's your find?

Speaker 2 (01:24:13):
So I I thank you for the I thank you
for the kind words appreciation.

Speaker 1 (01:24:15):
Oh sure, what's your final commonal third base?

Speaker 2 (01:24:19):
Ah? Well, hey, am I going to pass on Junior
Kaminara or Jose Ramire or Jose Ramirez? I might because
he's going out early Kamanara. No, I really think that MIKEL.
Garcy is going to move it to another another year
this year, I really do. My position on third base
is I'm not there's enough players I like later on

(01:24:44):
and there's enough players I like more or more players
that will help me. I believe in my overall team build.
At other positions, I'm pushing third base down. You got
to push something down. You can't have it all. That
just doesn't work. And I I think there's more value
in a high, high round outfielder than there is in

(01:25:06):
the at the third base position. So third base is
a position that I'm gonna look for, definitely middle ground,
and I think there's some good options there.

Speaker 1 (01:25:15):
Okay, let's say that one of our listeners, you're playing
in the league with one of our listeners and he
sees O Komotive and takes them early, and you find
yourself if you've got my spreadsheet, up. You find yourself
in the tenth round, Timmy, without a third basement. So
looking in the round column, which player do you go with?

Speaker 2 (01:25:37):
H What do I go with? Looking at the round column? Oh,
Miguel Vargas. I'll wait another three four rounds and then
I'll make a move on Miguel Barb Vargas Orchie calub Durban.
They're all in the lateeen rounds right now. I can
live with Alex Bowman the eighteenth round. I think it's

(01:25:58):
eighty ninety RBIs there a decent bad average? You's not
going to hurt me. There's plenty of options in that
range of round fifteen through to twenty two twenty three. Yeah,
I'm not concerned. I'm going to get somebody that's going
to provide value. Maybe not o Komodo value, but value.

Speaker 1 (01:26:19):
All right, Timmy, what's what's for dinner? My friend?

Speaker 2 (01:26:22):
What's for dinner? Well? I opened up the fridge and
the old jaw hit the ground because something I've been
asking for for a long time was sitting in there,
deep roasting. Jody one our legion. Once a month they
have what they call a meat draw. It's a raffle, okay,
and it's basically a fifty to fifty thing. It's a

(01:26:44):
fundraiser for them, and the winner gets a box full
of meat and it's usually good meat. Then the legion
gets fifty percent of it. And Joey won at last fall,
and included in that is about a seven pound prime river.

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

Speaker 2 (01:27:01):
Absolutely monstrous. And I saw this thing sitting in the
in the fridge this morning and I started foaming at
the mouth and drooling. Okay, Jody, of course I thought
it was because you know, she's in the same host
as me, you know, But anyhow, it was the primera Jody.
It was that her head. Yeah, I look at look

(01:27:26):
and I say, uh, but we're having we're having prime
so and lots.

Speaker 1 (01:27:32):
Of it's a medium rare, I'm.

Speaker 2 (01:27:34):
Assuming, right, medium rare. That's it.

Speaker 1 (01:27:38):
Cooking it in the oven.

Speaker 2 (01:27:40):
Ah, yes, okay.

Speaker 1 (01:27:42):
Awesome, sounds great. I'm jealousy, Yeah, I'm jealous. I haven't
a while.

Speaker 2 (01:27:48):
Yeah, it's been a long time for me. I haven't
had anything that looks like steak in a long time.
Every time I go through the grocery store, I decide
whether or not I can sell a kid to get
a steak.

Speaker 1 (01:27:57):
And crazy how expensive it is insane.

Speaker 2 (01:28:01):
Yeah, yeah it is. So what are you doing for
supper tonight?

Speaker 1 (01:28:05):
So Laurie's been ill all week, so I've been cooking,
so it's it's it's not been good.

Speaker 2 (01:28:13):
So chickens chicken soup.

Speaker 1 (01:28:15):
Uh. I think she's she's gotta went out got her
chicken soup yesterday, so she might have that. I've got leftovers.
We have a chicken stuffed chicken breast, so we might
have that, which is good. Yeah, And I think I
got a couple of pieces of pizza. We had pizza yesterday,
so I might I might do that. So it's just
it's Sundays are always leftovers for us. So right, so

(01:28:38):
that's that's what it is for me.

Speaker 2 (01:28:40):
So well, I just told is feeling better soon?

Speaker 1 (01:28:44):
Yeah? Me too, me too. I need to we need
to eat better.

Speaker 2 (01:28:52):
Well, well played, Well.

Speaker 1 (01:28:55):
I got we have a there's a chain grocery store
around and the States called Wegmans, and it's not too
many different places. It's very very high end food, uh,
particularly the prepared prepared section. So it's not it's it's
literally it's they will make a salmon and have it

(01:29:17):
already and all you have to do is put it
in the oven for thirty minutes to give you exact
cooking instruction. So it's it's like those uh in fact,
those factor meals. So we we've advertised those on our
show before, and it's it's it's like you get those
that are really nice quality and you literally either microwaven
or turn the oven on. And so I usually go

(01:29:39):
there and fill phil when I when I have responsible
and fill it up. Unfortunately, we've eaten them all, so.

Speaker 2 (01:29:46):
Well, how can you go wrong? You pay in extra
ten bucks, you get guaranteed success, and you don't have
four feet of dishes to weed through in the kitchen.
It sounds perfect to me.

Speaker 1 (01:29:56):
I mean it's it's yeah, you do premium, but I
mean i mean like like they have this vegetable tray
of food. It's it's like it's an individual maybe two
can eat it and it's delicious. I mean it costs
six bucks. I mean I'm like, I'm gonna everything's like
shredded and cut up, and I'm not going to do that.

Speaker 2 (01:30:14):
Yeah, well, yeah, you're taking a chance on losing a
finger for six.

Speaker 1 (01:30:18):
Bucks, So I go get it six bucks. Butt in
the oven.

Speaker 2 (01:30:24):
Done exactly. Good choice, good choice, yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:30:28):
All right, my friend. We will talk to you next
week where we're I guess we're back to finishing up
our fantasy questions of Ashle League West or American League
West or something starting to get The draft should be
coming up for people soon, So it's it's getting to
be that time.

Speaker 2 (01:30:45):
It most certainly, it most certainly is, and looking forward
to it. Be safe, be well, and we'll catch you
next week. Rich

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