August 18, 2025 • 56 mins
Oh look, the service time deadline mysteriously passed… and suddenly, every top prospect is ready for the bigs! What a coincidence!
In this episode, we dive into the post-deadline flood of promotions across the league. Baltimore calls up top prospect Samuel Basallo and Dylan Beavers, who’s been cruising in Triple-A. The Cubs bring up Owen Caissie despite maybe having too many outfielders already, and Nolan McLean heads to the Mets with a legit arsenal.
We also break down Jacob Melton’s shot in center for Houston, Tyler Black’s return to Milwaukee’s bench, and Kyle Karros jumping into Colorado’s starting third base job. Everson Pereira and Bob Seymour join Tampa Bay's rotation of chaos, Nathan Church makes a strong debut in center for St. Louis, and Ronny Simon is off and running in Pittsburgh.
In this episode, we dive into the post-deadline flood of promotions across the league. Baltimore calls up top prospect Samuel Basallo and Dylan Beavers, who’s been cruising in Triple-A. The Cubs bring up Owen Caissie despite maybe having too many outfielders already, and Nolan McLean heads to the Mets with a legit arsenal.
We also break down Jacob Melton’s shot in center for Houston, Tyler Black’s return to Milwaukee’s bench, and Kyle Karros jumping into Colorado’s starting third base job. Everson Pereira and Bob Seymour join Tampa Bay's rotation of chaos, Nathan Church makes a strong debut in center for St. Louis, and Ronny Simon is off and running in Pittsburgh.
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Speaker 1 (01:09):
Hey, everybody, welcome back. It is the Raspball Fantasy Baseball Podcast.
I am beat on, joined by the one, the only,
the Fantasy Master, Lithario himself. Very all right, how's it
going over there? Great?
Speaker 2 (01:21):
I'm good man. I I went to uh I had
to go to urgent care today. I was sitting a
little under the weather and I wasn't sure if it
was a cold or allergies or what. So I go
in there and they're like, hey, it's good to see
you again. I'm like, wait, am I here too much?
I don't want to be I don't want to be
(01:42):
a guy who walks into urgent care. It's like, hey, man,
I haven't seen you in a couple of days.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
See you gotta mix it up. Great, you gotta go
to different urgent cares. Okay, that way it was not
the same then, like thinking you're a hypochondriac. They're actually
listening to you. What they say, what are you sick?
Are you toughing it out for us?
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Now? Man, I'm like, I'm cal Ripken, junior of Fantasy Baseball. Baby,
I'm tough with it out. I'll never forget though, Like seriously.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
I was.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
I think it was the trading deadline of twenty twenty one,
I want to say. And I had COVID so bad.
I was like knocked for a loop and it was
like the busiest day. There was like so many moves
and I was like I could barely see straight. But yeah, no,
I'm fine. I have the urgent care guy said, I
(02:38):
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Speaker 1 (02:47):
Accepting all sponsors. Quite honestly, I don't even have to
like your product, don't really care as long as you
want to sponsor us. Good good on that, you know, Gray.
I mean, I'm surprised that you didn't you didn't make
a move and finally call up my replacement, given that
we're outside of the forty five day window now, I
(03:10):
mean it was there's no service time build up, you
don't have to pay for that extra year. You would
have been all set. I mean it was it was
the perfect time. But here I am Gray, I'm still here,
the old grizzled veteran. I mean, it's kind of ridiculous that,
you know.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
It was Coogs and I we went to see Weapons
at the movies this weekend and there's a guy in there.
I was like, there is a principal. I think it
was the principal of the school. And I whispered to Coos.
I was like, hey, look it's beat On.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
I could.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
And she's like, no, it's not. Every Korean guy has
not bene Like, oh okay there. But if that guy
is happens to be a listener of the Ball podcast,
we love to have you on. Just maybe could potentially
take over someday.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
I don't know, if you're watching Weapons in La somewhere,
uh this weekend, Yeah, just just in your Korean hit
up him Grey, you know, he just wants to really
drive home that Korean demographic, so we can't sacrifice our spot.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
According to the analytics, we are a top five podcast
in South Korea.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
On fantasy baseball Korean Fantasy Baseball.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Not a top five podcast of anything that people actually
listen to podcasts about in Korea.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
And I know it's probably just you know, like like
three listens and you cast this like one every time
you talk about Korean So we're we're probably down to
one now. Great, our numbers are really slipping. I'm gonna
I have to start listening more. I don't know. I mean,
I'm not Korea, so I have to VPN over into
Korea and make that happen.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Actually, I actually have a cousin in South Korea right now.
He's uh, he's teaching over there anyway, you know, with
the the call up. So here here's my my yearly rant,
if you want to call it. Actually, by calling it
a rant, it feels like it demeans what I have
(05:29):
to say about it, because what I what I have
to say is truth reality. So it's like when I
say it's a rant, it's like, oh, oh, that means
it doesn't really, that's just you being thidly and mean
about something that other people shouldn't really get upset about.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
It's like, no, that's not true. This is a rant
that actually everyone should be mad about. So MLB allows
teams to suppress their myers in the minor leagues for
no reason, even if they're so much better than the
actual major leaguers on the team, and it's all in
(06:14):
service of keeping down their salaries, which is such absolute garbage.
I mean the Orioles, for instance, they sold their team
away from the Angelo's family finally, and then you get
a guy who's got five plus billion dollars to his name,
and he's over here not promoting his rookie call ups
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so they can have them for an extra year.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
And suppress their salary. Come on, man, like this is ridiculous,
Like everyone should be outraged over this, Yet I really
see very little mentioned about it, Like no one really
maybe actually maybe I am the only one man about this,
but you know what, I'll be I'll be the only
one mad about it, because like it really is such garbage,
(07:03):
Like there's no other sports, Like you don't have other
sports where it's like, eh, you know what, let's keep
him in the minor leagues for another year, so this
way we don't have to pay him, Like, no, you
chose him in the first round, you chose him in
the top ten overall, you don't send them to the
minor leagues for four years just so you can retain
(07:27):
his service time. It's like crazy, like these guys that
were called up that we're about to talk to the
guys on the Orioles, especially like they were a team
that was out of it, which is a lot of
people would say, well, they're out of it, so why
you know, why bring up a rookie and start his
service time. But it's like why not. You're not paying
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for like who cares? Let them pay for the guy,
Let him get Like you have a team that is
going nowhere all year. The guys that the Orioles brought up,
they could have been called up in May and had
actual advats in the major league level and got them
ready for next year. Now you're gonna have guys who
are gonna be you know, in the first month of
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the next year, are gonna have to learn about like
the major leagues because they weren't given that opportunity this year.
So you're gonna have guys who potentially could struggle next
year when they could have struggled this year, you could
have got the struggles out of the way. Instead, you're
gonna bring guys up at the last possible moment when
it's just like when it's a time that's most fitting
(08:33):
for the team and not best for the player, which
is just so it's just garbage, man, It's really just
it's obnoxious. I don't like it anyway.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
Yeah, I don't like it either. I will just I mean,
you said everything I needed to be said. I will
add on one thing, which is they already get six years. Great,
like with no manipulation, you get six years. Like why
do you need to manipulate service time when you're already
getting six years of this player unless they were a
(09:03):
very good prospect and moved fast through your organization, like
they're gonna be thirty by the time they hit free agency,
you don't want to sign them anyways, So like just
bring them up and let them help your team sell
more tickets. I mean, that's what that's what Baltimore is
doing now with with Beaver's and Massalo, and you know,
(09:24):
they know they deserve to be up already, and now
they finally are. But it's you know, it's too little,
too late. They could have helped earlier. It is what
it is. It's unfortunate, you know. I mean at least
they sold the team there in New York. I mean
it could be worse. You could be Minnesota. You think
you're getting new owners and they're like, nah, never mind,
(09:45):
we're good, we're not actually selling it's our team, and
then you're just screwed again, which is really fun this
week too for Minnesota fans.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
I'm sure, no, no, totally, yeah, no, you're you're you're
you're man, because it's like like look at you know, uh,
I think, uh Shane Bieber, like he just turned thirty
and he's gotten like and he just had Tommy John surgery.
He's actually coming back on Friday, so uh that's why
(10:17):
he was in my mind why I was thinking about him.
But like he's had what like one decent contract and
he's thirty years old. Like that's ridiculous, Like you guys
already guys already like out of their prime by the
time they get around actually getting a decent contract, Like
how many like you know, like Alex Bregman just like
(10:42):
signed with the Red Sox like a one year deal
or whatever, well two years, but he hasn't an option
or whatever, and it's like how old? How old is he?
Like these guys are these guys are not young, but
the time they actually get around to getting a decent
contract like the yeah, it's just like it's just ridiculous, man,
(11:03):
I mean it's really it's just it's just nonsense. Like
you have guys who are basically are the best they're
gonna be in their twenties for the most part. You know,
there's obviously outliers, but you know, most players are the
best they're gonna be in their twenties, but they don't
get paid until their thirties. Like what, it's ridiculous, man,
(11:24):
it's really dumb. Anyway.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
I mean, have on been your a DOLLASCAR see you
and you don't break out till you're twenty eight, I
mean you never, you don't get it, You're not gonna
get a new contract. You better hope you get good
arbitration hearings. Like yeah, that's that's what it comes down
to for guys like that. But let's move on to
more more happy news. Great, let's talk about the actual
call up. Since that's that's good good for them to
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at least get to have a couple of months of
major league times, see what's going on, live in much
better accommodations, and get paid much better for a couple
of months. The first of which we're gonna talk about
is Dylan b In, Samue, Osalo, and Baltimore. Let's start
with Basala, who is number eight on its his last
Prospect Rankings update in Triple A this year, seventy six games,
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twenty two one runs, forty nine run sixty seven RBIs.
He had two seventy three forty four five nine with
a twenty three point seven percent strikeout rate and a
thirteen point seven percent walk rate. He has been starting
at DH. He is a big power bat. What are
what are your thoughts here?
Speaker 2 (12:29):
I you know, I look at his numbers and I
kind of see Junior Camerino, the Raise guy, uh, the
Rays young hitter. You know, it's very similar numbers. He
looks to me like, uh, power average, not really much speed,
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but could potentially chuck in like, you know, a Josh
Naylor twenty five steals. Now Josh Naylor's Josh Naylor is
the allier. Yeah, I mean, maybe he could chuck in
like a handful of steals. But he definitely, I mean,
he has power. He's so young. That's why I brought
up junior raised guy, because they're both of you so
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young that I think the power is just gonna be probably,
I mean, the best case scenario and most you know,
I think the arc that you want to see, even
though this year has been a lost year for your
Don Alvarez. But that's kind of what I expect from
these guys, you know, Perennial forty homer two eighty hitter.
(13:36):
I would guess that, you know, I would assume that
he's gonna be dhing most days and maybe get some
catcher Hopefully he gets enough catcher games games behind the
plate in order to watch you McCall, in order to
keep catcher eligibility for next year. So but I would
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imagine with like Adelaide's not he's not going to just
get moved off of catcher. So I would assume this
guy gets moved off the catcher Basalow, I would say,
likely looking at for this year. I don't know, you know,
it's like it's so fluky what rookies can do when
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they get called up. It's anywhere from like nothing to
maybe seven to ten homers, possibly if he gets hot,
you know, but I would guess like somewhere in a
handful of homers and a two fifty average, you know,
probably replaceable in most leagues, but I think worth the
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worth the upside in order to like, you know, see
what happens, like why not, Like people were asking Ivan
Herrera or Basalo in in shallow leagues of course, and
I would say Basalo just for the upside, why not?
You know, it's not like Herrera is going to do
anything that amazing, So yeah, try Basalo. I would guess
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for next year, I don't know, maybe twenty two to
twenty five homer projections around to sixty to two seventy
kind of exactly kind of what Junior Camerino did, so
very similar. And then from there, you know, he's so
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young at this point, he doesn't turn twenty two until
next to August. He just turned twenty one, literally like
within the week he turned twenty one. So yeah, I
would guess, like, you know, in two years time, you're
looking at what Junior Camerino is doing now like you're
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just you're you're basically, you know, add ten more homers.
Add a little bit more on average kind of thing.
So I would say twenty two to twenty five homers
to sixty to seventy next year. Following year, maybe well
there's gonna be a strike supposedly, but if there's no strike,
you know, thirty five homers maybe to eighty plus average
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kind of thing. Hopefully he keeps his CATR eligibility throughout
like all these you know, early years when he's so
young and you know, excellent.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
So yeah, yeah, no, I think that's that's pretty much
within the realm of possibility. I think something something along
the lines of, like, I know it's gonna sound like
a big difference, but like Andy Payee or like James Wood,
like somewhere in that in that range of outcomes for
next year seems like the right area. You know. Obviously
(16:48):
those two are a little bit farther apart on the
player Raider, but I mean, kind of looking at the numbers,
it's really a runs RBIs thing, just because the Dodgers
are completely stacked. So yeah, I agree, I would pick
up Basalo everywhere, just I mean catch eligibility, and he
should be really much pretty much playing every day and
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he's really good, so yeah, absolutely, grab him up if
he's available. Let's talk about Dylan Beavers. You know, when
we were talking about Basalo, he was like a top
ten prospect. Beavers is more somewhere in the top one
hundred range triple A. This year, in ninety four games,
he had eighteen runs, twenty three stolen bases, seventy eight runs,
fifty one RBI. He had three or four four twenty
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five fifteen. He had an eighteen percent strikeout rate in
a sixteen percent walk rate. He's starting in one of
the corner out fields pretty much, you know, day by day.
What are your thoughts on Beavers? Also picking him up
pretty much everywhere?
Speaker 2 (17:44):
Yeah, no, definitely, Yeah. I picked up Beavers in my
in my RCL, the league I'm in with you, where
I think we're battling for eighth place.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
I picked him up there.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
But I would pick and that's a twelve team mix league,
so it's a pretty shallow league. I would pick him
up anywhere though, just for upside reasons alone. You know,
like usually you have probably in a five outfielder league,
you probably have at least a fifth outfielder who is
like a little bit iffy unless you're you know, unless
your team's really stacked, but you probably have a last
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hitter on your team who's a little bit iffy. So yeah,
why not take a fire on beavers. You know, I
think he's likely less than Basalo in the long term,
but short term wise, he can actually be better because
he has power and speed and you know, may not
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kill you an average. I think the average could be
a little bit iffy potentially. You know, he does. He didn't.
He hit three h four in the minors, as you mentioned,
but this year, but he's had some struggles with average
as he coming up through the minor league. So you know,
I kind of wonder if he's going to be twelve
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team mix league worthy, like big picture wise, I mean
maybe with the power and speed, but he looks a
little bit effie to me for shallower leagues. And this
is for big picture I'm talking for like his career
at least for like next year. I see him as
probably a fifth outfielder coming out of twelve team mix
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league drafts next year. Maybe maybe a little bit higher,
depending on how this cup of coffee goes, Like if
he's a solid, you know, six weeks, If we see
a solid six weeks from he can move up maybe
to a fourth outfielder in a twelve team mix league,
but probably next year you're looking at a last round
type flyer for a twelve team mix league. I just
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I don't see I don't see him in the same
light as I see Basalou. You know, like you mentioned,
Basolo is like one of the top bats in the
minor leagues. Beavers, I don't. I don't think anyone would
say Beavers is that. But Beavers could be decent, you know.
I the speed and power can go a long way.
(20:18):
So yeah, I would grab him in every league for
now to see if he can, you know, get a
couple homers and steal a couple of bags and you know,
keep his average, you know, above like two thirty to forty,
which would you know. If he can do that, he's
probably worthwhile in any league. But yeah, he's uh, he's
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got a little bit I think a little bit more
Iffinus to him than Basallo.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
Yeah, I would agree. I don't think the hit tools,
you know, in the same realm as Basalo. I do
think the power speed could play up, and you know,
he has struggled with with the average at different points,
but the on base has always been solid, so I
think even if the average isn't there, he can maintain
some value with the on base. But neither of the
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power or speed tools is extremely loud, Like they're both good,
but not not like standout. So yeah, I see where
you're coming from. Something like I don't know, Cedric Mullins,
Like this year, you know, kind of in the teens
of home runs Danstall and bases average kind of fluctuates
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with with you know, if they're hot or not, maybe
in that range. But I would still grab him up
for this season just he's been hitting well and you
can just kind of run with that power speed como
and see what's happening if you're you know, if you
got an outfield spot that's been been kind of streaming
all year or something, just just plug in one of
these rookies and see if it sticks.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
Yeah, I don't think the other guy in the Oriols
organization who's already up and had a decent year last year,
a Colton Cowser. It's probably not too far off from
like Dylan bea versus like ceiling maybe like what we
got from last year. Obviously Clton Cowger wasn't that great
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this year, had you know, some injuries blah blah blah.
Maybe Sedaine Rafaela uh when I was looking at too. Yeah,
so fantasy wise, yeah, like him maybe, but yeah, I mean,
you know, not bad necessarily, just you know, probably in
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shallower leagues, there's gonna be moments where you're like, do
I really want the Beavers?
Speaker 1 (22:44):
Yeah, I'd imagine there might be some some struggles there.
But like I said, he does. He has walked at
every level, so that helps versus some of those guys
that you named are not particularly guys who take a
walk there. They're more free swingers, so at least he
has those under control to some extent. I guess I
like Dylan Beevers a little bit more than you do.
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I think he's probably more than a late round or
like a last round flyer. I think he's probably in
the team somewhere. But we're just kind of maybe just
arguing over league depth at this point. Let's move on
to the next person who is called up by the Cubbies.
Owen Casey triple A. This year in ninety three games,
twenty two runs, three stolen bases, he at two eighty nine, three, eight, nine, five,
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sixty six. I saw him at the All Star Game. Gray.
He looked great, like he looked like he belonged on
the field. He just very professional. He had good at
bats every time he came up to the plate. Unfortunately, though,
it looks like he might be tabbed for a part
time role as the Cubs outfield is actually pretty loaded
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right now.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
Yeah, but fortunately for him or unfortunately for the Hubs,
Kyle Tucker retired at the end of June, so I
think there might be an opening. I think, Oh, and
Ian Hap retired in April, so.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
Pekarl Armstrong the last month or so as well. Yeah, well, field,
As I'm saying this, I'm realizing they've all just been terrible.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
So yeah, Saya Suzuki was on the uh he was.
He was on the cover of the a ARP in July.
So it's, uh, yeah, they're they're all kind of retired.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
You had really Castro on that list. By the way,
he's he's awful now too. He's never been great, but
he's he's really awful.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
He's awful. Yeah, they got h They got Justin Turner
in the clubhouse, who's like, guys, look at me, man,
Like just coast, just coast into the sunset. It's it's good. Yeah,
you know, I think there was like it's interesting how
like baseball works, where it's like the Cubs were so
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ridiculously fortunate in the first half and now they're so
ridiculously under Like there's somewhere in between, like they weren't
as good as they were in the first half, and
they're not this bad either. Anyway, that's more of a
Cubs thing, Owen Casey. Right, yeah, I heard, you know,
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right before we got on this podcast, Craig Counsel was saying,
this is jokes aside. He was saying, Kyle Tucker is
going to take a couple of days off to clear
his head. So so Owen Casey may have some short
term value there potentially. I imagine they're going to try
and work him in a little bit. But you're right,
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his playing time is not as assured as the oreos
we were talking about, so there is that I would
probably make that a you know, Owen Casey's probably becomes
a shallow league daily lineup guy if that's the case,
So you move him in now your lineup when he's
in the lineup. Yeah, So with that said, he looks
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like he I mean, I don't know, I don't. You
might know more about him than I do because of
the you know, it sounds like you went and stalked
him a little bit over the whole Star Game break.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
You know, if I if I could have stalked him, great,
if I had that technology, I might have. But no,
I mean it was he was great in the Futures Game.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
I was.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
I had actually pretty good seats for that.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
So yeah, all right, well it's it sounds like a
fun time.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
So yeah, I mean I think I think once that's
it's not great, but hey, it's more than more than
normally see prospects.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
Okay, well there you go.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
We had that.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
We sent out our scout be one. Okay, so it
looks like he's in a struggle for a batting average.
Like his K percentage was pretty high in the minor leagues,
twenty point two percent in triple A. That could translate
to over thirty two, which is gonna be in the majors,
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and that's gonna drag down his average. You would assume,
at least, you know, barring a high fluky babbit, I
would guess he's probably gonna hit for two twenty five
or lower potentially, but he does have power, looks like
he's got some speed. I you know, in general, I
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do like the Cubs lineup obviously right now. It sounds
a little ridiculous to say that, but I mean in general,
So if he does get playing time, if I were counsel,
I would put him in every day over ian Hap.
You know, jokes aside, at some point Tucker's gonna come
back and he's gonna be good again. I would, Yeah,
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I would bench ian Hap indefinitely, but that's not gonna happen.
So you gotta you gotta play around with matchups a
little bit with him. He's not going to play every day.
He's a lefty, so he's clearly not going to face lefties.
Hopefully he faces righties, and if he does, I would
put him in any any any fantasy team. Really like
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twelve team mixed and deeper ice. I feel like he
has a place there. Probably he's probably closer to a
fifteen team mix league and deeper guy. But I would
try him for the upside alone in a shallower league.
Why not. Yeah, assuming you have a dead spot in
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your lineup where you can try him. But I do
think he's in a struggle for average.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
Yeah, we'll see what happens with Casey. I do like him,
as you said in a daily league. I think the
average should be fine after some struggles early on. I mean,
he's had a pretty solid hit tool, but these strikeouts
have been high, So we'll see, because that does not
usually translate well to average at the menjor league level unfortunately.
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Let's move on to Nolan MacLean, who was called up
by the Mets Triple A this year. At one hundred
and thirteen and two thirds innings, he has a two
four five ERA, a one one three whip, twenty seven
percent strike out rate in eighty ten point seven percent
walk rate, ninety six mile an hour fastball, sinker, slider, curve,
maybe an occasional cutter change up. He's he did throw
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one hundred and nine and two thirds last year, so
there's still at least a few innings left here. Gray again,
kind of in that top one hundred prospect area, Ohen
Casey was at least the top one hundred and maybe
up to a top fifty depending on who you're talking to.
Uh So, moving to the around top one hundred, but
for fantasy purposes, pitching prospects always get pushed down unless
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they are just you know, Paul Skins level type guys.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
Right, yeah, they're there's know such thing as a pitching
prospects as they say, uh yeah, ten staff.
Speaker 4 (30:07):
I uh yeah, I mean I think the you know,
I was looking at McLean, you know, McLean, McLean, McLean, McLean.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
I mean it just feels like McClean. I just like, yeah,
it's New York, and it just feels right. But hey,
I could be wrong.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
Yeah yeah, I mean neither of us are wearing a kilt,
so you know, don't kilt us. I yeah, I mean
he looks to me like a solid flyer for like
every league where you need pitching. I I like him.
I you know, I think there's always potential with rookie
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pitchers that it's like it could go sideways really easy,
Like Zebbie Matthews has looked good for like three years now.
I don't know when that's gonna happen.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
So, you know, it's hard to say what you're gonna get.
Uh It's a pitchers are a lot more risky than
you know. Vet's like, if you're like worried about like
blow ups, go with Michael waka. But I like McLean.
I mean, his his numbers look pretty solid. It looks
like he could struggle a little bit with command, which
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makes the iffiness, uh, the riskiness a little bit higher
with him than maybe some other pictures. So and he didn't,
I mean, he was not able to command his pitches
that well on Sunday.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
Was it Sunday?
Speaker 2 (31:32):
Yeah, I believe the Sunday his first start, So or
was it Saturday? Maybe a Saturday anyway, Yeah, it was Saturday. Yeah,
I you know, I think he's He's definitely someone who's
I mean, I'm interested for sure. I wouldn't, like, you know,
drop anyone that good, but at this point everyone must
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have at least a little bit of room to play
around with a h with the rookie start. I mean,
I know I have space on my on all my
teams where I could like try him. I you know,
I wouldn't fall in love. If he has a bad
outing next time out, I could see dropping him, but
I would definitely try him. I think, you know, the
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risk is a little bit high because of the command,
as I mentioned, and his stuff looks good for strikeouts,
so yeah, I mean it's like, you know, it's a
flyer at this point for next year. I if he
has a spot in the Mets rotation, I feel like
I might be higher on him than let's see Casey
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and Beavers. Maybe I don't know to be to be determined,
but in the general ballpark, so to speak.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
Yeah, kind of Apple's the orange is there with that.
But yeah, I mean in his first start, eight strikeouts,
four walks, no earned in five and a third. I mean,
that's that's kind of kind of like a line you're
going to see just high strikeouts, high walks, and does
he get hit. I don't know. It was. It was
kind of kind of Carlos mart and Moole esque, just
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really good stuff, but uh, no idea where it's going
at this point. So I think if you're chasing strikeouts,
if you're looking at potentially era, I'd be okay with
with starting him, but the whip may struggle, and you know,
being a young pitcher with potentially limited innings, you never
know if they're going to give him the full five
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or five plus if he's not efficient with that many walks.
Let's talk about Jacob Meltin, who was brought up by
the Astros triple A this year twenty four games, three
on the run, six to bases. He hit two seventy three,
three sixty nine, five to eleven. He had a twenty
three percent strikeout rate and a thirteen and a half
percent walk rate in double A, Triple A. Because this
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is very small samples. This year a trip in minor.
In the minors, he had one hundred and five games,
fifty home rounds, thirty stolen bases, and he had two
fifty three last year. Again, we're in the top one
hundred ish range for him. What do you think about
Jacob Melton.
Speaker 2 (34:14):
Any relation to Troy Melton?
Speaker 1 (34:18):
I actually don't know. Great, that's a good question, but
Troy Melton's been pretty solid.
Speaker 2 (34:24):
H Yeah, that's true. Okay, Yeah, so I you know,
I I think Jacob Melton for me is a little bit.
Speaker 1 (34:38):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (34:39):
It depends on how he's used, right because the astros,
I mean supposedly so, but no, supposed you're not Alvarez
isn't that far away? I know you're not Alvarez. He
he attempted to join the Circus back in April, and
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he went well for a couple months, but he's since
been kicked out of that and now he's trying a
baseball rehab stance, so at some point he's going to return,
you would think, so that's gonna cloud up, that's going
to cloud up his playing time. Jacob Meltons That is,
he looks like he's potentially the highest steals guy that
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maybe we've seen so far out of the call ups
that we've talked about, at least I think, you know,
not necessarily sixty grade speed, but close. I mean, he
had a year where he stole forty six bags in
the miners. In the miners a lot of times the
catcher won't even throw down a second, so you know,
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take it with a great assault. But he does seem
like he has speed. And he's already stolen three bags
in the major leagues in only seventeen games. So with
the Astros, so there's definitely speed here. I don't know
if there's a ton. Els like right now he's striking
out a forty strikeout rate. He seems kind of lost.
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I don't know how long the Astros stick with him really,
even in a strong side of a platoon like I
mentioned urd On, Supposedly he's going to return at some point,
so I see him more as like Melton, I see
more as like a steals guy at this point until
we maybe he becomes more, but I don't see a
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ton more. So if you're in a say a fifteen
team mix league or deeper, I could see trying him
for steals, but I don't think he's on a twelve
team mix league radar as of right now.
Speaker 1 (36:41):
Yeah, I would agree. It's uh, there's just not enough
hit tool there. And even when he's playing, he's he's
sitting eighth or ninth, so there's just not enough here.
Unless you're strictly chasing steals on like a short day.
That'd be the only scenario I can think of in
a shallow league where you would run him out there.
But he is very fast, so he could he could
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potentially just pinch hit and get you a stolen base,
and that would be probably the best way about going
about it. Moving on to the Brewers who called up
Tyler Black in Triple A this year, he had thirty
seven games where he had two runs, ten stolen bases.
He hit one oh seven or won eighty seven three eight,
three oh eight two eighty four. He had a twenty
nine point six percent strikeout and a fourteen and a
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half percent walk rate. As I mentioned, only thirty seven games.
He had a broken handmate bone in his hand this year.
Last year, though, he went eighteen home runs fifty five
stone bases with hitting two eighty four with a sub
twenty eight percent in a fifteen point eight percent walk rate,
So lot better numbers last year. What are your thoughts
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on Tyler Black.
Speaker 2 (37:48):
My thoughts on him, Well, first of all, I think
he's already been optioned back to the Miners from the
latest reports, so I think it's probably a moot point.
But I think I think he's illustrative of like guys
who come up with some hype and then just like
some just vanish into thin air or just never really
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get a strong opportunity. Maybe I don't know. It's weird
because he looked like he looked really interesting. What was
it like two years ago he looked really good. Yeah,
maybe twenty twenty four. I mean, he looked really good
at one point, and then it was just like, I
don't know. I guess the injury sort of sidelined him
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this year, So I don't know. Baseball's a tough sport man,
I don't know, but he seems like he's been optioned
back down, so I think he's irrelevant for our for
our purposes, all right.
Speaker 1 (38:45):
I do see in the news today that he was
optioned today, So apologies for bringing him up, but it
is an interesting guy, at least by the numbers. As
you mentioned in twenty twenty three, he had that very
big year of eighteen fifty five, eighteen and fifty five.
I've went fourteen twenty last year in TRIPAA and then
as I said, only played limited games this year. Again,
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I think he's kind of in the Molten conversation if
he gets called back up though, he's just a speed merchant.
That's what you're helping for. Moving on to Kyle Carros,
who was called up by the Rockies. In seventy five
games this year. He had six home runs and seven
stolen bases. He had three oh one, three ninety eight
and four seventy six. What are your thoughts on Kyle Carros.
(39:31):
I might have gotten the steals number wrong as I'm
looking at my numbers, but go ahead, nope, I did not.
Speaker 2 (39:37):
No, No, you were right. Uh yeah, I you know,
he kind of looks to me like a flyer for
deeper leagues, for when like when the Rockies are in
cores and you need a you know, a stream bat
or a potential for weekend bad or something if they're
(40:02):
if the Rockies are home. But yeah, I don't see
a ton here for like he kind of his numbers
read to me a little bit, you know, like for fantasy,
a little bit on the boring side, like a little
bit kind of like maybe best case scenario is twelve homers,
twelve steals, and three hundred average, kind of like a
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kind of like an Arise maybe or Kwan potentially, Like,
you know, it's not not the most exciting numbers for fantasy,
but you know, if at home, at home, maybe as
a streamer something there for any league, but for the
most part, he's a deeper league guy.
Speaker 1 (40:48):
Yeah, agreed on everything you said, So we'll just move on.
A familiar name. Ever since, Pereira was called up by
the Rays alongside Bob Seymour Praier this year and sim
games between Tampa Bay and New York hit twenty one
home runs, nine stone bases and hit two fifty six.
Seymour had one hundred and five games where he had
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thirty home runs, one stone base and hit two sixty three.
Seems like Pereira is splitting time in the outfield because
it's Tampa Bay and everybody splits time in the outfield.
And then Bob Seymour seems to be starting at first
base pretty regularly though.
Speaker 5 (41:24):
Yeah, well, you know, Bob Seymour's got the uh, he's
got the advantage of being a lefty, which is, you know,
it's not it's an advantage of disadvantage.
Speaker 2 (41:35):
But when you're with the Rays, at least, that means
you're gonna face righties. So there's that, and there's more righties,
that is what I read on Wikipedia. So the fact
that there's more riotys and he's a lefty that bodes
well for him. Unfortunately, ever since Perera is a righty,
(41:58):
So I mean, it's just ridiculous that this is what
it amounts to, but this really is what it amounts
to with with Kevin Cash and the Rays. So Perea
is a righty, so that means he's gonna sit verst righties.
So that's not good. So it's Bob Seymour or bust here.
(42:19):
Bob Bob such a fun name. Why don't why don't
you change your name? The Bob Bob God that's such
a great name.
Speaker 1 (42:29):
I should have just been Bob. That would have been
a better name than Honestly. I mean, if I was Bob,
I would have been so much more popular.
Speaker 2 (42:37):
Oh my god, you would be like, you would actually
be too popular for this podcast, So.
Speaker 1 (42:44):
You're welcome. You'd actually have to, you know, like to
pay me or something.
Speaker 2 (42:49):
And if I found someone else and they were like,
what's the pay I'd be like, well, let me find
someone else again. Okay, So Bob Seymour that is not
bobbed On. Bob Seymour looks like a power only guy
who potentially could hit two ten or lower. I mean,
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he looks like he might struggle for hitting for a
decent average, and he's got no real speed to speak of.
But he does have big power, and the Rays are
in a decent park, so I don't know, maybe if
the matchups are right and he's facing you know, a
bunch of righty's in a row and it's like a
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fifteen team mix league or deeper, I could see give him.
I can see the flyer for sure. I just don't
have like huge hopes, you know, long term for him.
I mean, he's twenty six, about to turn twenty seven.
He doesn't really make good contact. So yeah, it's like
it's a flyer for power if anything.
Speaker 1 (43:55):
Yeah, it feels like the Rays are just like you know,
if we just at the bottom of the lineup, he'll
either strike out, which leaves us Tandler Simpson without him
in front of him, or he's gonna hit home run,
which is, you know, a good thing. So uh, yeah,
sitting at the bottom of the Rays lineup does not
really give a lot of faith when you're behind some
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guy named Hunter Fiducia. Not a great place to be, really,
Gray as far.
Speaker 2 (44:24):
As actually it says, I don't know what it means,
but it says on my bank checks.
Speaker 1 (44:30):
F oh it's it's Timpa Bay Rays. You're you're getting
paid by the race.
Speaker 2 (44:37):
I actually have the Raised lineup at the bottom of
the Raised lineup on my chat at my check I
don't know why. It's weird.
Speaker 1 (44:47):
Yeah, so we we we've already passed even with these
uh these last couple the land of top one hundred,
where we're down into the two, three, even four hundred numbers. Gray,
So uh, these last two I'm just gonna run past
you and see what you have Nathan Church was called
up by Saint Louis thirteen home runs, sixteen zone bases,
(45:07):
he hit three twenty nine. The numbers are interesting, so
I thought he deserved at least a podcast announcement. And
then Ronnie Simon was called up by the Pirates. He
had sixty seven games, we had eight home runs, twenty
eighth stone bases and hit three h three. As I mentioned,
both of them have pretty interesting numbers in the miners
this year. But what are your thoughts here on these guys?
Who are you know, a little bit of outliers in
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that they really aren't prospects that are ranked at least
for our purposes, but we're seeing them get called up
in their service time manipulated nonetheless great.
Speaker 2 (45:40):
Yeah, so Victor Scott the second he hurt his ankle
went onto the al So Nathan Church could potentially have
some NL only type fantasy value. He looks like a
little bit of power, love speed, a little bit of average.
(46:01):
Makes makes good contact at least uh and by and
by that I mean he doesn't miss the ball. It's
not exactly the best contact. He makes a lot of contact,
So he seems like an NL only fier. Ronnie Simon.
Actually I saw our our period. Simon was playing for
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the Pirates and they were in Milwaukee, and all I
could think of was Randall Simon hitting the mascot over
the head with the I was like, I had a
flashback to Randall Simon clocking the Bratwurst over the head.
Man so good, it's so good.
Speaker 1 (46:48):
Man.
Speaker 2 (46:49):
Anyway, Ronnie Simon looks like he has speed and he
was actually uh Craig Mish, the the Marlins beat writer,
uh DM me when Ronnie Simon first came up with
the Marlins, miss DM me, and he was like, you
should pick up Ronnie Simon. He's got he's got a
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good tools, good power, good speed, can hit for a
decent average. And I was like, oh yeah, yeah, let's
do it. And so I picked them up in tout Wars,
which is a twelve team NL only league, and then
the the next week after that, I dropped them. So,
you know, good on Mish for alerting me that Ronnie
(47:34):
Simon was getting called up. But yeah, I don't. I
don't think there's much there outside of like you're struggling
with NL only and you were looking for some speed,
like you know, honestly, I think Ronnie Simon's probably more
interesting than than Nathan Church. So I would say Simon
if you're really interested in in like for NL only
(47:57):
where Church knows blessed, blessed, blessed.
Speaker 1 (48:03):
I mean, I think I think Rodney Simon's probably more
interesting than everybody we talked to going talked about going
back to like, I don't know, maybe him versus Jacob
Meltain is close, but like the rest of them, I mean,
at least Simon's got speed. He takes a walk strong
side of the platoon, and he's leading off when he
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is playing. So there's there's there's things that are positive
here on Rodney Simon, whereas it's a it's a it
was a little stretch for some of the others.
Speaker 2 (48:32):
I'm made honest, Gray, Yeah, yeah, it's true.
Speaker 1 (48:36):
Let's saging off it up, Gray, Let's talk some closers
over in Houston. Hater done for the season. Who are
you grabbing as his replacement? Do you think it's one
person or we're looking at a committee situation.
Speaker 2 (48:48):
I kind of hope, Josh, Well, I think it's Brian Abrew.
I would grab Brian and bre you in any league.
I kind of hope for my own selfish purposes. I
kind of hope Josh Hater doesn't return for the playoffs
and he's discounted next year. Now, you know his shoulders
(49:08):
are if he it's not, it's not the best thing
in the world that he has a sprained shoulder. But yeah,
it would be nice to get Josh Hater at a
discount next year anyway, Brian Obray, I guess if it's
a good team, and there could be a bunch of
saves there, so it's, you know, the best, it wouldn't
(49:28):
be the worst thing to grab Bennett's sousa as a
vulture too.
Speaker 1 (49:34):
Yeah. I like both of them. They've both been been
really good. Yeah, I mean, we'll have to wait and
hear what's going on with Hater. But I don't I
don't like shoulders. Gray, that's you. You might be alone
in g.
Speaker 2 (49:49):
I said, at a discount. So it depends on the discount. Now,
if Josh had is still going in the top seventy,
then no, that's not that's not a good enough discount.
I'm talking after a top one hundred.
Speaker 1 (50:02):
Okay, Okay, I might still be out there, but we'll
have to see over in Dodger Land Gray, is anybody
a closer?
Speaker 2 (50:12):
Yet? Not to keep going on, not to keep going
back to this Josh Hater thing. You know what, he
probably will be at his best for a discount will
be early drafts and like the fall before the spring,
because when we get to the spring and he's throwing
ninety eight in spring training, he's not going to be
(50:34):
at discount anymore. But I wouldn't be surprised if you
get Josh Hater for a decent discount in super early
drafts in like November December. Anyway, did you say Dodgers.
Speaker 1 (50:47):
I did say Dodgers. Gray. Is there anybody need a
tab as a closer? Yet?
Speaker 2 (50:52):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (50:53):
It doesn't even matter because by fifty year lose.
Speaker 2 (50:57):
No, there's no close there. The Dodgers don't have a
close they do have. Alex Vessie has been solid though,
Well you gotta give him that. He's he's looked decent.
Unfortunately he's a lefty and Dave Roberts can't really wrap
his head around a lefty being the called upon closer
every single time out. So Trianon is gonna get a
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chance here and there, Caspareus is gonna get a chance
here and there. I'm gonna be shocked if Banda gets
a chance. We're only like two weeks away from Alexis
Diaz getting a chance. I mean, they're gonna give everyone
in that bullpen a chance. But Alex Vessie has actually
been decent. So if you're struggling for saves, I don't
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hate having Alex Vessia on my team because he's been
good no matter what. So maybe you get a vulture
win here and there, maybe you get a save here
and there, but he's not He's not gonna be the
quote unquote close.
Speaker 1 (52:01):
Yeah, I think it's the it's between the two lefties.
I think it's Dryer and it's it's Vessia because the
two guys that I think they want to randomly have it,
which is Alexis Diaz and Blake trying and they're both terrible.
So I think it's it's between Dryer, Vessia and Banda.
But who knows, it could be anybody any given day.
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That's usually what we say about Colorado. But as Victor
Vodnik the Closer after a huge saves the week, Gray
didn't help nobody.
Speaker 2 (52:35):
Big d got uh he got four saves this week?
Speaker 1 (52:39):
Right, Yeah, four saves this week. Yeah, I saw nobody.
There's no way anybody started him.
Speaker 2 (52:45):
No, no, he was actually he was picked up in
my twelve team N only league this Sunday and he
was barely even like, no one even been on him.
It was like four s games like that. People could
have used those four says in my league, for sure.
(53:05):
I could have used those four says. But yeah, I couldn't.
I wouldn't pick them up, man, I honestly I can't.
I can't do it. I I just can't. He's got
a near five walk per nine, not enough k's in
order to offset that. Uh, it looks like like he
(53:26):
looks like potential disaster waiting to happen, and the Rockies
just don't win enough games. So yeah, I wouldn't. I
wouldn't messed with Victor Vodnik. But you know, but go
with go with him, man, if you if you're really despert,
I guess yeah.
Speaker 1 (53:42):
And until any kind of forward movement happens on the
gross teams that we talked about last week, Ray, I'm
just not gonna put them in the notes because I
don't think we need to know who's saving for them,
because it's not worth anybody's time, really, So let's just
move on to the way wire and give people some bats.
Speaker 2 (54:00):
Oh okay, so there is Uh. Jacob Marcy has been
like the best bat over the last I want to say,
thirty days, but it looks like on the seven day
Player Raider at rosball dot com he is not at
one hundred percent yet, so I'm talking about him here.
He is Jacob Marcy. Another guy who's been hot who
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looks like he's available in one hundred percent of the
leagues is Colby Thomas. Another guy is Paul DeJong, Colonel
Mustard sal Frelich, ben Rice Miles Straw, Miguel Andrew Harr,
Dylan Carlson. Wow, there's a name. Uh, Lords Gorriel Junior.
(54:43):
I do actually I do like him, Dalton VARs, Show,
Jerrickson Profar, gian Carlos Stan. I think he's already injured
himself after three games in the outfield. But there's there's
gian Carlos Stan, Tyler Freeman, Alejandro Kirk, and Jake McCarthy.
(55:05):
So there's some names for you to pick up off
the waivers.
Speaker 1 (55:09):
Yeah, it only took me finally giving up on Lord
of Scariel after holding him for four months for him
to finally be solid again. Gray, it's really well timed.
I know. Uh, streamers, Gray, Let's let's talk about some streamers.
Michael Walker is a two stepper versus Texas at Detroit.
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Don't love the matchups, but Walker has been really solid.
Back Schurzer at Pittsburgh, Brady Singer at the angels erin
Tavalle at Atlanta, Sandy Alcantara versus Saint Louis tannor Bebe
at Arizona, Jose Cantata versus San Francisco, Jason Alexander at Baltimore,
and Jack Lder at Kansas City. There are some streaming
(55:53):
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May yours lineups be perfect and may you win all
your matchups as we enter this crucial time of the season. Gray,
I will talk to you
Speaker 2 (56:23):
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going over there? Great?
Speaker 2 (01:21):
I'm good man. I I went to uh I had
to go to urgent care today. I was sitting a
little under the weather and I wasn't sure if it
was a cold or allergies or what. So I go
in there and they're like, hey, it's good to see
you again. I'm like, wait, am I here too much?
I don't want to be I don't want to be
(01:42):
a guy who walks into urgent care. It's like, hey, man,
I haven't seen you in a couple of days.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
See you gotta mix it up. Great, you gotta go
to different urgent cares. Okay, that way it was not
the same then, like thinking you're a hypochondriac. They're actually
listening to you. What they say, what are you sick?
Are you toughing it out for us?
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Now? Man, I'm like, I'm cal Ripken, junior of Fantasy Baseball. Baby,
I'm tough with it out. I'll never forget though, Like seriously.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
I was.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
I think it was the trading deadline of twenty twenty one,
I want to say. And I had COVID so bad.
I was like knocked for a loop and it was
like the busiest day. There was like so many moves
and I was like I could barely see straight. But yeah, no,
I'm fine. I have the urgent care guy said, I
(02:38):
have allergies and prescribed flow naze. Hey little not sponsored,
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Speaker 1 (02:47):
Accepting all sponsors. Quite honestly, I don't even have to
like your product, don't really care as long as you
want to sponsor us. Good good on that, you know, Gray.
I mean, I'm surprised that you didn't you didn't make
a move and finally call up my replacement, given that
we're outside of the forty five day window now, I
(03:10):
mean it was there's no service time build up, you
don't have to pay for that extra year. You would
have been all set. I mean it was it was
the perfect time. But here I am Gray, I'm still here,
the old grizzled veteran. I mean, it's kind of ridiculous that,
you know.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
It was Coogs and I we went to see Weapons
at the movies this weekend and there's a guy in there.
I was like, there is a principal. I think it
was the principal of the school. And I whispered to Coos.
I was like, hey, look it's beat On.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
I could.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
And she's like, no, it's not. Every Korean guy has
not bene Like, oh okay there. But if that guy
is happens to be a listener of the Ball podcast,
we love to have you on. Just maybe could potentially
take over someday.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
I don't know, if you're watching Weapons in La somewhere,
uh this weekend, Yeah, just just in your Korean hit
up him Grey, you know, he just wants to really
drive home that Korean demographic, so we can't sacrifice our spot.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
According to the analytics, we are a top five podcast
in South Korea.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
On fantasy baseball Korean Fantasy Baseball.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Not a top five podcast of anything that people actually
listen to podcasts about in Korea.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
And I know it's probably just you know, like like
three listens and you cast this like one every time
you talk about Korean So we're we're probably down to
one now. Great, our numbers are really slipping. I'm gonna
I have to start listening more. I don't know. I mean,
I'm not Korea, so I have to VPN over into
Korea and make that happen.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Actually, I actually have a cousin in South Korea right now.
He's uh, he's teaching over there anyway, you know, with
the the call up. So here here's my my yearly rant,
if you want to call it. Actually, by calling it
a rant, it feels like it demeans what I have
(05:29):
to say about it, because what I what I have
to say is truth reality. So it's like when I
say it's a rant, it's like, oh, oh, that means
it doesn't really, that's just you being thidly and mean
about something that other people shouldn't really get upset about.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
It's like, no, that's not true. This is a rant
that actually everyone should be mad about. So MLB allows
teams to suppress their myers in the minor leagues for
no reason, even if they're so much better than the
actual major leaguers on the team, and it's all in
(06:14):
service of keeping down their salaries, which is such absolute garbage.
I mean the Orioles, for instance, they sold their team
away from the Angelo's family finally, and then you get
a guy who's got five plus billion dollars to his name,
and he's over here not promoting his rookie call ups
(06:38):
so they can have them for an extra year.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
And suppress their salary. Come on, man, like this is ridiculous,
Like everyone should be outraged over this, Yet I really
see very little mentioned about it, Like no one really
maybe actually maybe I am the only one man about this,
but you know what, I'll be I'll be the only
one mad about it, because like it really is such garbage,
(07:03):
Like there's no other sports, Like you don't have other
sports where it's like, eh, you know what, let's keep
him in the minor leagues for another year, so this
way we don't have to pay him, Like, no, you
chose him in the first round, you chose him in
the top ten overall, you don't send them to the
minor leagues for four years just so you can retain
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his service time. It's like crazy, like these guys that
were called up that we're about to talk to the
guys on the Orioles, especially like they were a team
that was out of it, which is a lot of
people would say, well, they're out of it, so why
you know, why bring up a rookie and start his
service time. But it's like why not. You're not paying
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for like who cares? Let them pay for the guy,
Let him get Like you have a team that is
going nowhere all year. The guys that the Orioles brought up,
they could have been called up in May and had
actual advats in the major league level and got them
ready for next year. Now you're gonna have guys who
are gonna be you know, in the first month of
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the next year, are gonna have to learn about like
the major leagues because they weren't given that opportunity this year.
So you're gonna have guys who potentially could struggle next
year when they could have struggled this year, you could
have got the struggles out of the way. Instead, you're
gonna bring guys up at the last possible moment when
it's just like when it's a time that's most fitting
(08:33):
for the team and not best for the player, which
is just so it's just garbage, man, It's really just
it's obnoxious. I don't like it anyway.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
Yeah, I don't like it either. I will just I mean,
you said everything I needed to be said. I will
add on one thing, which is they already get six years. Great,
like with no manipulation, you get six years. Like why
do you need to manipulate service time when you're already
getting six years of this player unless they were a
(09:03):
very good prospect and moved fast through your organization, like
they're gonna be thirty by the time they hit free agency,
you don't want to sign them anyways, So like just
bring them up and let them help your team sell
more tickets. I mean, that's what that's what Baltimore is
doing now with with Beaver's and Massalo, and you know,
(09:24):
they know they deserve to be up already, and now
they finally are. But it's you know, it's too little,
too late. They could have helped earlier. It is what
it is. It's unfortunate, you know. I mean at least
they sold the team there in New York. I mean
it could be worse. You could be Minnesota. You think
you're getting new owners and they're like, nah, never mind,
(09:45):
we're good, we're not actually selling it's our team, and
then you're just screwed again, which is really fun this
week too for Minnesota fans.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
I'm sure, no, no, totally, yeah, no, you're you're you're
you're man, because it's like like look at you know, uh,
I think, uh Shane Bieber, like he just turned thirty
and he's gotten like and he just had Tommy John surgery.
He's actually coming back on Friday, so uh that's why
(10:17):
he was in my mind why I was thinking about him.
But like he's had what like one decent contract and
he's thirty years old. Like that's ridiculous, Like you guys
already guys already like out of their prime by the
time they get around actually getting a decent contract, Like
how many like you know, like Alex Bregman just like
(10:42):
signed with the Red Sox like a one year deal
or whatever, well two years, but he hasn't an option
or whatever, and it's like how old? How old is he?
Like these guys are these guys are not young, but
the time they actually get around to getting a decent
contract like the yeah, it's just like it's just ridiculous, man,
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I mean it's really it's just it's just nonsense. Like
you have guys who are basically are the best they're
gonna be in their twenties for the most part. You know,
there's obviously outliers, but you know, most players are the
best they're gonna be in their twenties, but they don't
get paid until their thirties. Like what, it's ridiculous, man,
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it's really dumb. Anyway.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
I mean, have on been your a DOLLASCAR see you
and you don't break out till you're twenty eight, I
mean you never, you don't get it, You're not gonna
get a new contract. You better hope you get good
arbitration hearings. Like yeah, that's that's what it comes down
to for guys like that. But let's move on to
more more happy news. Great, let's talk about the actual
call up. Since that's that's good good for them to
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at least get to have a couple of months of
major league times, see what's going on, live in much
better accommodations, and get paid much better for a couple
of months. The first of which we're gonna talk about
is Dylan b In, Samue, Osalo, and Baltimore. Let's start
with Basala, who is number eight on its his last
Prospect Rankings update in Triple A this year, seventy six games,
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twenty two one runs, forty nine run sixty seven RBIs.
He had two seventy three forty four five nine with
a twenty three point seven percent strikeout rate and a
thirteen point seven percent walk rate. He has been starting
at DH. He is a big power bat. What are
what are your thoughts here?
Speaker 2 (12:29):
I you know, I look at his numbers and I
kind of see Junior Camerino, the Raise guy, uh, the
Rays young hitter. You know, it's very similar numbers. He
looks to me like, uh, power average, not really much speed,
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but could potentially chuck in like, you know, a Josh
Naylor twenty five steals. Now Josh Naylor's Josh Naylor is
the allier. Yeah, I mean, maybe he could chuck in
like a handful of steals. But he definitely, I mean,
he has power. He's so young. That's why I brought
up junior raised guy, because they're both of you so
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young that I think the power is just gonna be probably,
I mean, the best case scenario and most you know,
I think the arc that you want to see, even
though this year has been a lost year for your
Don Alvarez. But that's kind of what I expect from
these guys, you know, Perennial forty homer two eighty hitter.
(13:36):
I would guess that, you know, I would assume that
he's gonna be dhing most days and maybe get some
catcher Hopefully he gets enough catcher games games behind the
plate in order to watch you McCall, in order to
keep catcher eligibility for next year. So but I would
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imagine with like Adelaide's not he's not going to just
get moved off of catcher. So I would assume this
guy gets moved off the catcher Basalow, I would say,
likely looking at for this year. I don't know, you know,
it's like it's so fluky what rookies can do when
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they get called up. It's anywhere from like nothing to
maybe seven to ten homers, possibly if he gets hot,
you know, but I would guess like somewhere in a
handful of homers and a two fifty average, you know,
probably replaceable in most leagues, but I think worth the
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worth the upside in order to like, you know, see
what happens, like why not, Like people were asking Ivan
Herrera or Basalo in in shallow leagues of course, and
I would say Basalo just for the upside, why not?
You know, it's not like Herrera is going to do
anything that amazing, So yeah, try Basalo. I would guess
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for next year, I don't know, maybe twenty two to
twenty five homer projections around to sixty to two seventy
kind of exactly kind of what Junior Camerino did, so
very similar. And then from there, you know, he's so
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young at this point, he doesn't turn twenty two until
next to August. He just turned twenty one, literally like
within the week he turned twenty one. So yeah, I
would guess, like, you know, in two years time, you're
looking at what Junior Camerino is doing now like you're
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just you're you're basically, you know, add ten more homers.
Add a little bit more on average kind of thing.
So I would say twenty two to twenty five homers
to sixty to seventy next year. Following year, maybe well
there's gonna be a strike supposedly, but if there's no strike,
you know, thirty five homers maybe to eighty plus average
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kind of thing. Hopefully he keeps his CATR eligibility throughout
like all these you know, early years when he's so
young and you know, excellent.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
So yeah, yeah, no, I think that's that's pretty much
within the realm of possibility. I think something something along
the lines of, like, I know it's gonna sound like
a big difference, but like Andy Payee or like James Wood,
like somewhere in that in that range of outcomes for
next year seems like the right area. You know. Obviously
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those two are a little bit farther apart on the
player Raider, but I mean, kind of looking at the numbers,
it's really a runs RBIs thing, just because the Dodgers
are completely stacked. So yeah, I agree, I would pick
up Basalo everywhere, just I mean catch eligibility, and he
should be really much pretty much playing every day and
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he's really good, so yeah, absolutely, grab him up if
he's available. Let's talk about Dylan Beavers. You know, when
we were talking about Basalo, he was like a top
ten prospect. Beavers is more somewhere in the top one
hundred range triple A. This year, in ninety four games,
he had eighteen runs, twenty three stolen bases, seventy eight runs,
fifty one RBI. He had three or four four twenty
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five fifteen. He had an eighteen percent strikeout rate in
a sixteen percent walk rate. He's starting in one of
the corner out fields pretty much, you know, day by day.
What are your thoughts on Beavers? Also picking him up
pretty much everywhere?
Speaker 2 (17:44):
Yeah, no, definitely, Yeah. I picked up Beavers in my
in my RCL, the league I'm in with you, where
I think we're battling for eighth place.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
I picked him up there.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
But I would pick and that's a twelve team mix league,
so it's a pretty shallow league. I would pick him
up anywhere though, just for upside reasons alone. You know,
like usually you have probably in a five outfielder league,
you probably have at least a fifth outfielder who is
like a little bit iffy unless you're you know, unless
your team's really stacked, but you probably have a last
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hitter on your team who's a little bit iffy. So yeah,
why not take a fire on beavers. You know, I
think he's likely less than Basalo in the long term,
but short term wise, he can actually be better because
he has power and speed and you know, may not
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kill you an average. I think the average could be
a little bit iffy potentially. You know, he does. He didn't.
He hit three h four in the minors, as you mentioned,
but this year, but he's had some struggles with average
as he coming up through the minor league. So you know,
I kind of wonder if he's going to be twelve
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team mix league worthy, like big picture wise, I mean
maybe with the power and speed, but he looks a
little bit effie to me for shallower leagues. And this
is for big picture I'm talking for like his career
at least for like next year. I see him as
probably a fifth outfielder coming out of twelve team mix
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league drafts next year. Maybe maybe a little bit higher,
depending on how this cup of coffee goes, Like if
he's a solid, you know, six weeks, If we see
a solid six weeks from he can move up maybe
to a fourth outfielder in a twelve team mix league,
but probably next year you're looking at a last round
type flyer for a twelve team mix league. I just
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I don't see I don't see him in the same
light as I see Basalou. You know, like you mentioned,
Basolo is like one of the top bats in the
minor leagues. Beavers, I don't. I don't think anyone would
say Beavers is that. But Beavers could be decent, you know.
I the speed and power can go a long way.
(20:18):
So yeah, I would grab him in every league for
now to see if he can, you know, get a
couple homers and steal a couple of bags and you know,
keep his average, you know, above like two thirty to forty,
which would you know. If he can do that, he's
probably worthwhile in any league. But yeah, he's uh, he's
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got a little bit I think a little bit more
Iffinus to him than Basallo.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
Yeah, I would agree. I don't think the hit tools,
you know, in the same realm as Basalo. I do
think the power speed could play up, and you know,
he has struggled with with the average at different points,
but the on base has always been solid, so I
think even if the average isn't there, he can maintain
some value with the on base. But neither of the
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power or speed tools is extremely loud, Like they're both good,
but not not like standout. So yeah, I see where
you're coming from. Something like I don't know, Cedric Mullins,
Like this year, you know, kind of in the teens
of home runs Danstall and bases average kind of fluctuates
(21:29):
with with you know, if they're hot or not, maybe
in that range. But I would still grab him up
for this season just he's been hitting well and you
can just kind of run with that power speed como
and see what's happening if you're you know, if you
got an outfield spot that's been been kind of streaming
all year or something, just just plug in one of
these rookies and see if it sticks.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
Yeah, I don't think the other guy in the Oriols
organization who's already up and had a decent year last year,
a Colton Cowser. It's probably not too far off from
like Dylan bea versus like ceiling maybe like what we
got from last year. Obviously Clton Cowger wasn't that great
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this year, had you know, some injuries blah blah blah.
Maybe Sedaine Rafaela uh when I was looking at too. Yeah,
so fantasy wise, yeah, like him maybe, but yeah, I mean,
you know, not bad necessarily, just you know, probably in
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shallower leagues, there's gonna be moments where you're like, do
I really want the Beavers?
Speaker 1 (22:44):
Yeah, I'd imagine there might be some some struggles there.
But like I said, he does. He has walked at
every level, so that helps versus some of those guys
that you named are not particularly guys who take a
walk there. They're more free swingers, so at least he
has those under control to some extent. I guess I
like Dylan Beevers a little bit more than you do.
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I think he's probably more than a late round or
like a last round flyer. I think he's probably in
the team somewhere. But we're just kind of maybe just
arguing over league depth at this point. Let's move on
to the next person who is called up by the Cubbies.
Owen Casey triple A. This year in ninety three games,
twenty two runs, three stolen bases, he at two eighty nine, three, eight, nine, five,
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sixty six. I saw him at the All Star Game. Gray.
He looked great, like he looked like he belonged on
the field. He just very professional. He had good at
bats every time he came up to the plate. Unfortunately, though,
it looks like he might be tabbed for a part
time role as the Cubs outfield is actually pretty loaded
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right now.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
Yeah, but fortunately for him or unfortunately for the Hubs,
Kyle Tucker retired at the end of June, so I
think there might be an opening. I think, Oh, and
Ian Hap retired in April, so.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
Pekarl Armstrong the last month or so as well. Yeah, well, field,
As I'm saying this, I'm realizing they've all just been terrible.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
So yeah, Saya Suzuki was on the uh he was.
He was on the cover of the a ARP in July.
So it's, uh, yeah, they're they're all kind of retired.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
You had really Castro on that list. By the way,
he's he's awful now too. He's never been great, but
he's he's really awful.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
He's awful. Yeah, they got h They got Justin Turner
in the clubhouse, who's like, guys, look at me, man,
Like just coast, just coast into the sunset. It's it's good. Yeah,
you know, I think there was like it's interesting how
like baseball works, where it's like the Cubs were so
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ridiculously fortunate in the first half and now they're so
ridiculously under Like there's somewhere in between, like they weren't
as good as they were in the first half, and
they're not this bad either. Anyway, that's more of a
Cubs thing, Owen Casey. Right, yeah, I heard, you know,
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right before we got on this podcast, Craig Counsel was saying,
this is jokes aside. He was saying, Kyle Tucker is
going to take a couple of days off to clear
his head. So so Owen Casey may have some short
term value there potentially. I imagine they're going to try
and work him in a little bit. But you're right,
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his playing time is not as assured as the oreos
we were talking about, so there is that I would
probably make that a you know, Owen Casey's probably becomes
a shallow league daily lineup guy if that's the case,
So you move him in now your lineup when he's
in the lineup. Yeah, So with that said, he looks
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like he I mean, I don't know, I don't. You
might know more about him than I do because of
the you know, it sounds like you went and stalked
him a little bit over the whole Star Game break.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
You know, if I if I could have stalked him, great,
if I had that technology, I might have. But no,
I mean it was he was great in the Futures Game.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
I was.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
I had actually pretty good seats for that.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
So yeah, all right, well it's it sounds like a
fun time.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
So yeah, I mean I think I think once that's
it's not great, but hey, it's more than more than
normally see prospects.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
Okay, well there you go.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
We had that.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
We sent out our scout be one. Okay, so it
looks like he's in a struggle for a batting average.
Like his K percentage was pretty high in the minor leagues,
twenty point two percent in triple A. That could translate
to over thirty two, which is gonna be in the majors,
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and that's gonna drag down his average. You would assume,
at least, you know, barring a high fluky babbit, I
would guess he's probably gonna hit for two twenty five
or lower potentially, but he does have power, looks like
he's got some speed. I you know, in general, I
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do like the Cubs lineup obviously right now. It sounds
a little ridiculous to say that, but I mean in general,
So if he does get playing time, if I were counsel,
I would put him in every day over ian Hap.
You know, jokes aside, at some point Tucker's gonna come
back and he's gonna be good again. I would, Yeah,
(27:53):
I would bench ian Hap indefinitely, but that's not gonna happen.
So you gotta you gotta play around with matchups a
little bit with him. He's not going to play every day.
He's a lefty, so he's clearly not going to face lefties.
Hopefully he faces righties, and if he does, I would
put him in any any any fantasy team. Really like
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twelve team mixed and deeper ice. I feel like he
has a place there. Probably he's probably closer to a
fifteen team mix league and deeper guy. But I would
try him for the upside alone in a shallower league.
Why not. Yeah, assuming you have a dead spot in
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your lineup where you can try him. But I do
think he's in a struggle for average.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
Yeah, we'll see what happens with Casey. I do like him,
as you said in a daily league. I think the
average should be fine after some struggles early on. I mean,
he's had a pretty solid hit tool, but these strikeouts
have been high, So we'll see, because that does not
usually translate well to average at the menjor league level unfortunately.
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Let's move on to Nolan MacLean, who was called up
by the Mets Triple A this year. At one hundred
and thirteen and two thirds innings, he has a two
four five ERA, a one one three whip, twenty seven
percent strike out rate in eighty ten point seven percent
walk rate, ninety six mile an hour fastball, sinker, slider, curve,
maybe an occasional cutter change up. He's he did throw
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one hundred and nine and two thirds last year, so
there's still at least a few innings left here. Gray again,
kind of in that top one hundred prospect area, Ohen
Casey was at least the top one hundred and maybe
up to a top fifty depending on who you're talking to.
Uh So, moving to the around top one hundred, but
for fantasy purposes, pitching prospects always get pushed down unless
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they are just you know, Paul Skins level type guys.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
Right, yeah, they're there's know such thing as a pitching
prospects as they say, uh yeah, ten staff.
Speaker 4 (30:07):
I uh yeah, I mean I think the you know,
I was looking at McLean, you know, McLean, McLean, McLean, McLean.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
I mean it just feels like McClean. I just like, yeah,
it's New York, and it just feels right. But hey,
I could be wrong.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
Yeah yeah, I mean neither of us are wearing a kilt,
so you know, don't kilt us. I yeah, I mean
he looks to me like a solid flyer for like
every league where you need pitching. I I like him.
I you know, I think there's always potential with rookie
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pitchers that it's like it could go sideways really easy,
Like Zebbie Matthews has looked good for like three years now.
I don't know when that's gonna happen.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
So, you know, it's hard to say what you're gonna get.
Uh It's a pitchers are a lot more risky than
you know. Vet's like, if you're like worried about like
blow ups, go with Michael waka. But I like McLean.
I mean, his his numbers look pretty solid. It looks
like he could struggle a little bit with command, which
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makes the iffiness, uh, the riskiness a little bit higher
with him than maybe some other pictures. So and he didn't,
I mean, he was not able to command his pitches
that well on Sunday.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
Was it Sunday?
Speaker 2 (31:32):
Yeah, I believe the Sunday his first start, So or
was it Saturday? Maybe a Saturday anyway, Yeah, it was Saturday. Yeah,
I you know, I think he's He's definitely someone who's
I mean, I'm interested for sure. I wouldn't, like, you know,
drop anyone that good, but at this point everyone must
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have at least a little bit of room to play
around with a h with the rookie start. I mean,
I know I have space on my on all my
teams where I could like try him. I you know,
I wouldn't fall in love. If he has a bad
outing next time out, I could see dropping him, but
I would definitely try him. I think, you know, the
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risk is a little bit high because of the command,
as I mentioned, and his stuff looks good for strikeouts,
so yeah, I mean it's like, you know, it's a
flyer at this point for next year. I if he
has a spot in the Mets rotation, I feel like
I might be higher on him than let's see Casey
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and Beavers. Maybe I don't know to be to be determined,
but in the general ballpark, so to speak.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
Yeah, kind of Apple's the orange is there with that.
But yeah, I mean in his first start, eight strikeouts,
four walks, no earned in five and a third. I mean,
that's that's kind of kind of like a line you're
going to see just high strikeouts, high walks, and does
he get hit. I don't know. It was. It was
kind of kind of Carlos mart and Moole esque, just
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really good stuff, but uh, no idea where it's going
at this point. So I think if you're chasing strikeouts,
if you're looking at potentially era, I'd be okay with
with starting him, but the whip may struggle, and you know,
being a young pitcher with potentially limited innings, you never
know if they're going to give him the full five
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or five plus if he's not efficient with that many walks.
Let's talk about Jacob Meltin, who was brought up by
the Astros triple A this year twenty four games, three
on the run, six to bases. He hit two seventy three,
three sixty nine, five to eleven. He had a twenty
three percent strikeout rate and a thirteen and a half
percent walk rate in double A, Triple A. Because this
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is very small samples. This year a trip in minor.
In the minors, he had one hundred and five games,
fifty home rounds, thirty stolen bases, and he had two
fifty three last year. Again, we're in the top one
hundred ish range for him. What do you think about
Jacob Melton.
Speaker 2 (34:14):
Any relation to Troy Melton?
Speaker 1 (34:18):
I actually don't know. Great, that's a good question, but
Troy Melton's been pretty solid.
Speaker 2 (34:24):
H Yeah, that's true. Okay, Yeah, so I you know,
I I think Jacob Melton for me is a little bit.
Speaker 1 (34:38):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (34:39):
It depends on how he's used, right because the astros,
I mean supposedly so, but no, supposed you're not Alvarez
isn't that far away? I know you're not Alvarez. He
he attempted to join the Circus back in April, and
(35:00):
he went well for a couple months, but he's since
been kicked out of that and now he's trying a
baseball rehab stance, so at some point he's going to return,
you would think, so that's gonna cloud up, that's going
to cloud up his playing time. Jacob Meltons That is,
he looks like he's potentially the highest steals guy that
(35:21):
maybe we've seen so far out of the call ups
that we've talked about, at least I think, you know,
not necessarily sixty grade speed, but close. I mean, he
had a year where he stole forty six bags in
the miners. In the miners a lot of times the
catcher won't even throw down a second, so you know,
(35:42):
take it with a great assault. But he does seem
like he has speed. And he's already stolen three bags
in the major leagues in only seventeen games. So with
the Astros, so there's definitely speed here. I don't know
if there's a ton. Els like right now he's striking
out a forty strikeout rate. He seems kind of lost.
(36:05):
I don't know how long the Astros stick with him really,
even in a strong side of a platoon like I
mentioned urd On, Supposedly he's going to return at some point,
so I see him more as like Melton, I see
more as like a steals guy at this point until
we maybe he becomes more, but I don't see a
(36:26):
ton more. So if you're in a say a fifteen
team mix league or deeper, I could see trying him
for steals, but I don't think he's on a twelve
team mix league radar as of right now.
Speaker 1 (36:41):
Yeah, I would agree. It's uh, there's just not enough
hit tool there. And even when he's playing, he's he's
sitting eighth or ninth, so there's just not enough here.
Unless you're strictly chasing steals on like a short day.
That'd be the only scenario I can think of in
a shallow league where you would run him out there.
But he is very fast, so he could he could
(37:02):
potentially just pinch hit and get you a stolen base,
and that would be probably the best way about going
about it. Moving on to the Brewers who called up
Tyler Black in Triple A this year, he had thirty
seven games where he had two runs, ten stolen bases.
He hit one oh seven or won eighty seven three eight,
three oh eight two eighty four. He had a twenty
nine point six percent strikeout and a fourteen and a
(37:23):
half percent walk rate. As I mentioned, only thirty seven games.
He had a broken handmate bone in his hand this year.
Last year, though, he went eighteen home runs fifty five
stone bases with hitting two eighty four with a sub
twenty eight percent in a fifteen point eight percent walk rate,
So lot better numbers last year. What are your thoughts
(37:45):
on Tyler Black.
Speaker 2 (37:48):
My thoughts on him, Well, first of all, I think
he's already been optioned back to the Miners from the
latest reports, so I think it's probably a moot point.
But I think I think he's illustrative of like guys
who come up with some hype and then just like
some just vanish into thin air or just never really
(38:10):
get a strong opportunity. Maybe I don't know. It's weird
because he looked like he looked really interesting. What was
it like two years ago he looked really good. Yeah,
maybe twenty twenty four. I mean, he looked really good
at one point, and then it was just like, I
don't know. I guess the injury sort of sidelined him
(38:32):
this year, So I don't know. Baseball's a tough sport man,
I don't know, but he seems like he's been optioned
back down, so I think he's irrelevant for our for
our purposes, all right.
Speaker 1 (38:45):
I do see in the news today that he was
optioned today, So apologies for bringing him up, but it
is an interesting guy, at least by the numbers. As
you mentioned in twenty twenty three, he had that very
big year of eighteen fifty five, eighteen and fifty five.
I've went fourteen twenty last year in TRIPAA and then
as I said, only played limited games this year. Again,
(39:08):
I think he's kind of in the Molten conversation if
he gets called back up though, he's just a speed merchant.
That's what you're helping for. Moving on to Kyle Carros,
who was called up by the Rockies. In seventy five
games this year. He had six home runs and seven
stolen bases. He had three oh one, three ninety eight
and four seventy six. What are your thoughts on Kyle Carros.
(39:31):
I might have gotten the steals number wrong as I'm
looking at my numbers, but go ahead, nope, I did not.
Speaker 2 (39:37):
No, No, you were right. Uh yeah, I you know,
he kind of looks to me like a flyer for
deeper leagues, for when like when the Rockies are in
cores and you need a you know, a stream bat
or a potential for weekend bad or something if they're
(40:02):
if the Rockies are home. But yeah, I don't see
a ton here for like he kind of his numbers
read to me a little bit, you know, like for fantasy,
a little bit on the boring side, like a little
bit kind of like maybe best case scenario is twelve homers,
twelve steals, and three hundred average, kind of like a
(40:26):
kind of like an Arise maybe or Kwan potentially, Like,
you know, it's not not the most exciting numbers for fantasy,
but you know, if at home, at home, maybe as
a streamer something there for any league, but for the
most part, he's a deeper league guy.
Speaker 1 (40:48):
Yeah, agreed on everything you said, So we'll just move on.
A familiar name. Ever since, Pereira was called up by
the Rays alongside Bob Seymour Praier this year and sim
games between Tampa Bay and New York hit twenty one
home runs, nine stone bases and hit two fifty six.
Seymour had one hundred and five games where he had
(41:09):
thirty home runs, one stone base and hit two sixty three.
Seems like Pereira is splitting time in the outfield because
it's Tampa Bay and everybody splits time in the outfield.
And then Bob Seymour seems to be starting at first
base pretty regularly though.
Speaker 5 (41:24):
Yeah, well, you know, Bob Seymour's got the uh, he's
got the advantage of being a lefty, which is, you know,
it's not it's an advantage of disadvantage.
Speaker 2 (41:35):
But when you're with the Rays, at least, that means
you're gonna face righties. So there's that, and there's more righties,
that is what I read on Wikipedia. So the fact
that there's more riotys and he's a lefty that bodes
well for him. Unfortunately, ever since Perera is a righty,
(41:58):
So I mean, it's just ridiculous that this is what
it amounts to, but this really is what it amounts
to with with Kevin Cash and the Rays. So Perea
is a righty, so that means he's gonna sit verst righties.
So that's not good. So it's Bob Seymour or bust here.
(42:19):
Bob Bob such a fun name. Why don't why don't
you change your name? The Bob Bob God that's such
a great name.
Speaker 1 (42:29):
I should have just been Bob. That would have been
a better name than Honestly. I mean, if I was Bob,
I would have been so much more popular.
Speaker 2 (42:37):
Oh my god, you would be like, you would actually
be too popular for this podcast, So.
Speaker 1 (42:44):
You're welcome. You'd actually have to, you know, like to
pay me or something.
Speaker 2 (42:49):
And if I found someone else and they were like,
what's the pay I'd be like, well, let me find
someone else again. Okay, So Bob Seymour that is not
bobbed On. Bob Seymour looks like a power only guy
who potentially could hit two ten or lower. I mean,
(43:10):
he looks like he might struggle for hitting for a
decent average, and he's got no real speed to speak of.
But he does have big power, and the Rays are
in a decent park, so I don't know, maybe if
the matchups are right and he's facing you know, a
bunch of righty's in a row and it's like a
(43:33):
fifteen team mix league or deeper, I could see give him.
I can see the flyer for sure. I just don't
have like huge hopes, you know, long term for him.
I mean, he's twenty six, about to turn twenty seven.
He doesn't really make good contact. So yeah, it's like
it's a flyer for power if anything.
Speaker 1 (43:55):
Yeah, it feels like the Rays are just like you know,
if we just at the bottom of the lineup, he'll
either strike out, which leaves us Tandler Simpson without him
in front of him, or he's gonna hit home run,
which is, you know, a good thing. So uh, yeah,
sitting at the bottom of the Rays lineup does not
really give a lot of faith when you're behind some
(44:17):
guy named Hunter Fiducia. Not a great place to be, really,
Gray as far.
Speaker 2 (44:24):
As actually it says, I don't know what it means,
but it says on my bank checks.
Speaker 1 (44:30):
F oh it's it's Timpa Bay Rays. You're you're getting
paid by the race.
Speaker 2 (44:37):
I actually have the Raised lineup at the bottom of
the Raised lineup on my chat at my check I
don't know why. It's weird.
Speaker 1 (44:47):
Yeah, so we we we've already passed even with these
uh these last couple the land of top one hundred,
where we're down into the two, three, even four hundred numbers. Gray,
So uh, these last two I'm just gonna run past
you and see what you have Nathan Church was called
up by Saint Louis thirteen home runs, sixteen zone bases,
(45:07):
he hit three twenty nine. The numbers are interesting, so
I thought he deserved at least a podcast announcement. And
then Ronnie Simon was called up by the Pirates. He
had sixty seven games, we had eight home runs, twenty
eighth stone bases and hit three h three. As I mentioned,
both of them have pretty interesting numbers in the miners
this year. But what are your thoughts here on these guys?
Who are you know, a little bit of outliers in
(45:29):
that they really aren't prospects that are ranked at least
for our purposes, but we're seeing them get called up
in their service time manipulated nonetheless great.
Speaker 2 (45:40):
Yeah, so Victor Scott the second he hurt his ankle
went onto the al So Nathan Church could potentially have
some NL only type fantasy value. He looks like a
little bit of power, love speed, a little bit of average.
(46:01):
Makes makes good contact at least uh and by and
by that I mean he doesn't miss the ball. It's
not exactly the best contact. He makes a lot of contact,
So he seems like an NL only fier. Ronnie Simon.
Actually I saw our our period. Simon was playing for
(46:27):
the Pirates and they were in Milwaukee, and all I
could think of was Randall Simon hitting the mascot over
the head with the I was like, I had a
flashback to Randall Simon clocking the Bratwurst over the head.
Man so good, it's so good.
Speaker 1 (46:48):
Man.
Speaker 2 (46:49):
Anyway, Ronnie Simon looks like he has speed and he
was actually uh Craig Mish, the the Marlins beat writer,
uh DM me when Ronnie Simon first came up with
the Marlins, miss DM me, and he was like, you
should pick up Ronnie Simon. He's got he's got a
(47:10):
good tools, good power, good speed, can hit for a
decent average. And I was like, oh yeah, yeah, let's
do it. And so I picked them up in tout Wars,
which is a twelve team NL only league, and then
the the next week after that, I dropped them. So,
you know, good on Mish for alerting me that Ronnie
(47:34):
Simon was getting called up. But yeah, I don't. I
don't think there's much there outside of like you're struggling
with NL only and you were looking for some speed,
like you know, honestly, I think Ronnie Simon's probably more
interesting than than Nathan Church. So I would say Simon
if you're really interested in in like for NL only
(47:57):
where Church knows blessed, blessed, blessed.
Speaker 1 (48:03):
I mean, I think I think Rodney Simon's probably more
interesting than everybody we talked to going talked about going
back to like, I don't know, maybe him versus Jacob
Meltain is close, but like the rest of them, I mean,
at least Simon's got speed. He takes a walk strong
side of the platoon, and he's leading off when he
(48:24):
is playing. So there's there's there's things that are positive
here on Rodney Simon, whereas it's a it's a it
was a little stretch for some of the others.
Speaker 2 (48:32):
I'm made honest, Gray, Yeah, yeah, it's true.
Speaker 1 (48:36):
Let's saging off it up, Gray, Let's talk some closers
over in Houston. Hater done for the season. Who are
you grabbing as his replacement? Do you think it's one
person or we're looking at a committee situation.
Speaker 2 (48:48):
I kind of hope, Josh, Well, I think it's Brian Abrew.
I would grab Brian and bre you in any league.
I kind of hope for my own selfish purposes. I
kind of hope Josh Hater doesn't return for the playoffs
and he's discounted next year. Now, you know his shoulders
(49:08):
are if he it's not, it's not the best thing
in the world that he has a sprained shoulder. But yeah,
it would be nice to get Josh Hater at a
discount next year anyway, Brian Obray, I guess if it's
a good team, and there could be a bunch of
saves there, so it's, you know, the best, it wouldn't
(49:28):
be the worst thing to grab Bennett's sousa as a
vulture too.
Speaker 1 (49:34):
Yeah. I like both of them. They've both been been
really good. Yeah, I mean, we'll have to wait and
hear what's going on with Hater. But I don't I
don't like shoulders. Gray, that's you. You might be alone
in g.
Speaker 2 (49:49):
I said, at a discount. So it depends on the discount. Now,
if Josh had is still going in the top seventy,
then no, that's not that's not a good enough discount.
I'm talking after a top one hundred.
Speaker 1 (50:02):
Okay, Okay, I might still be out there, but we'll
have to see over in Dodger Land Gray, is anybody
a closer?
Speaker 2 (50:12):
Yet? Not to keep going on, not to keep going
back to this Josh Hater thing. You know what, he
probably will be at his best for a discount will
be early drafts and like the fall before the spring,
because when we get to the spring and he's throwing
ninety eight in spring training, he's not going to be
(50:34):
at discount anymore. But I wouldn't be surprised if you
get Josh Hater for a decent discount in super early
drafts in like November December. Anyway, did you say Dodgers.
Speaker 1 (50:47):
I did say Dodgers. Gray. Is there anybody need a
tab as a closer? Yet?
Speaker 2 (50:52):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (50:53):
It doesn't even matter because by fifty year lose.
Speaker 2 (50:57):
No, there's no close there. The Dodgers don't have a
close they do have. Alex Vessie has been solid though,
Well you gotta give him that. He's he's looked decent.
Unfortunately he's a lefty and Dave Roberts can't really wrap
his head around a lefty being the called upon closer
every single time out. So Trianon is gonna get a
(51:21):
chance here and there, Caspareus is gonna get a chance
here and there. I'm gonna be shocked if Banda gets
a chance. We're only like two weeks away from Alexis
Diaz getting a chance. I mean, they're gonna give everyone
in that bullpen a chance. But Alex Vessie has actually
been decent. So if you're struggling for saves, I don't
(51:44):
hate having Alex Vessia on my team because he's been
good no matter what. So maybe you get a vulture
win here and there, maybe you get a save here
and there, but he's not He's not gonna be the
quote unquote close.
Speaker 1 (52:01):
Yeah, I think it's the it's between the two lefties.
I think it's Dryer and it's it's Vessia because the
two guys that I think they want to randomly have it,
which is Alexis Diaz and Blake trying and they're both terrible.
So I think it's it's between Dryer, Vessia and Banda.
But who knows, it could be anybody any given day.
(52:24):
That's usually what we say about Colorado. But as Victor
Vodnik the Closer after a huge saves the week, Gray
didn't help nobody.
Speaker 2 (52:35):
Big d got uh he got four saves this week?
Speaker 1 (52:39):
Right, Yeah, four saves this week. Yeah, I saw nobody.
There's no way anybody started him.
Speaker 2 (52:45):
No, no, he was actually he was picked up in
my twelve team N only league this Sunday and he
was barely even like, no one even been on him.
It was like four s games like that. People could
have used those four says in my league, for sure.
(53:05):
I could have used those four says. But yeah, I couldn't.
I wouldn't pick them up, man, I honestly I can't.
I can't do it. I I just can't. He's got
a near five walk per nine, not enough k's in
order to offset that. Uh, it looks like like he
(53:26):
looks like potential disaster waiting to happen, and the Rockies
just don't win enough games. So yeah, I wouldn't. I
wouldn't messed with Victor Vodnik. But you know, but go
with go with him, man, if you if you're really despert,
I guess yeah.
Speaker 1 (53:42):
And until any kind of forward movement happens on the
gross teams that we talked about last week, Ray, I'm
just not gonna put them in the notes because I
don't think we need to know who's saving for them,
because it's not worth anybody's time, really, So let's just
move on to the way wire and give people some bats.
Speaker 2 (54:00):
Oh okay, so there is Uh. Jacob Marcy has been
like the best bat over the last I want to say,
thirty days, but it looks like on the seven day
Player Raider at rosball dot com he is not at
one hundred percent yet, so I'm talking about him here.
He is Jacob Marcy. Another guy who's been hot who
(54:22):
looks like he's available in one hundred percent of the
leagues is Colby Thomas. Another guy is Paul DeJong, Colonel
Mustard sal Frelich, ben Rice Miles Straw, Miguel Andrew Harr,
Dylan Carlson. Wow, there's a name. Uh, Lords Gorriel Junior.
(54:43):
I do actually I do like him, Dalton VARs, Show,
Jerrickson Profar, gian Carlos Stan. I think he's already injured
himself after three games in the outfield. But there's there's
gian Carlos Stan, Tyler Freeman, Alejandro Kirk, and Jake McCarthy.
(55:05):
So there's some names for you to pick up off
the waivers.
Speaker 1 (55:09):
Yeah, it only took me finally giving up on Lord
of Scariel after holding him for four months for him
to finally be solid again. Gray, it's really well timed.
I know. Uh, streamers, Gray, Let's let's talk about some streamers.
Michael Walker is a two stepper versus Texas at Detroit.
(55:30):
Don't love the matchups, but Walker has been really solid.
Back Schurzer at Pittsburgh, Brady Singer at the angels erin
Tavalle at Atlanta, Sandy Alcantara versus Saint Louis tannor Bebe
at Arizona, Jose Cantata versus San Francisco, Jason Alexander at Baltimore,
and Jack Lder at Kansas City. There are some streaming
(55:53):
pictures for you. If you have any specific questions for us,
you can come find us on Twitter at rasb on
You can find Gray at the at rasball account. You
can find us on YouTube dot com slash Rasballfantasy if
you want to watch us our pretty faces out there
or leave comments there, and you can always find us
on the comment section of rasball dot com as well.
(56:16):
May yours lineups be perfect and may you win all
your matchups as we enter this crucial time of the season. Gray,
I will talk to you
Speaker 2 (56:23):
Later, all right later, Bob don
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