Buy/Sell Guardians Trends with Quincy and Nicole

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Sung and lined the deep left field. It is going. Hit left, deep breath. Plitista's going to rank. Goodbye. Stop the fireworks show.Hello. Hello and welcome to Disgusting Baseball WORK_OF_ART podcast. It's Quincy Wheeler, and I'm here with Nicole PERSON. Nicole PERSON, how are you?

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I'm doing pretty good. How are you doing?

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Oh, doing well. We are not getting no hit by Eric Fetty.

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We have two hits at the moment, I believe, if I'm been counting correctly.

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So yeah, well, while the Guardians try not to mess up a four-game series in Chicago WORK_OF_ART, I thought Nicole and I could talk about buying and selling some early season trends. I don't know if you saw Nicole that Charlie Condon homered again today. Eight straight games of homers. This isn't on the buying and selling topic. This is just an aside.And I'm so looking forward to everybody explaining to me how the guardians are cheap or incompetent when they select Travis Pisano over Charlie Kahn PERSON. Now, I admit, I'm not opposed to either one of them. They both seem pretty great, and I'm fine with whoever they pick there, because I think there's probably three or four good options. But do you think of Charlie Condon PERSON homers in every game until the end of the season that he'll be the number one picture? I think you have to at that.

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I think so.

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I mean, that's going to be like 20-some straight game homer. I think that would probably seal the deal, I think. And then he could definitely demand the highest, you know, price tag for a number one pick. And you'd be like, well, I guess he deserves it. I'll move on to other topics. But if anybody sees the homerity hit tonight, that was one of those homers.I'm like, okay, that is elite bat speed. That is what elite bat speed looks like. All right. Well, let's talk about some buying and selling trends here as Bo Nailer PERSON gets on base and WillBrennan and Bo PERSON are on base. So hopefully that will be good news for us. Let's just, Guardians ORG, just keep going well while we're talking.

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If that's what it takes to talk all night. All right. So, Nicole PERSON,

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the guardians have the best bullpen in baseball. Buy or sell? I'm still buying.

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I'm still buying. I think what they've been able to do, even when they've had pickups or just off nights, every pitchers have an off night. What they're able to string together,what they're able to do, I think, is, yeah, you got to buy it on this one still. Just look at last night's game. You know, Gattis went two with no hits, or one hit, two, I'm like that two hits. Sandlin went one went two with no hits or one hit, something like that two hits. Sandlin went one point two with one hit.Sam Hinch's went two with one hit. Like it was just a lot of really good pitching last night.

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Yeah, it just seems like they've got arms for days right now. I think that I also choose by here primarily because Emmanuel Claucet PERSON, again, looks like the most dominant thing that I've ever seen. I mean, there are some dominant closers in baseball, Duran for Minnesota and Miller for Oakland ORG,but Claucet PERSON is up there with anybody right now. He's just dotting that cutter anywhere. He wants it to go 100 miles an hour soon.

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What is he at, like an 046 CRA, like an 068 whip. Yeah.

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Or 60.

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Yeah.

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He's something else right now. So, yeah, as long as he's bringing up the end of it. And the other thing, like, we seem to have discovered, Nick Sainland PERSON seems to have discovered how to consistently throw strikes, knock on wood. And whenever he throws strikes, he's very, very hard to square up.Like, everything just moves so much. It's like nobody can really square up. He's fun to watch. And I enjoy how they throw a lot of different kinds of arms at people from Sandlin. I think Claucet is like a unicorn, so he's different from everybody. But you got Sanlin PERSON, Barlow, Gattis, Smith PERSON. Like, those are such interesting looks to throw it, guys. And I wouldhate to have to be a batter going against those guys because it's like, okay, so I got to get used to this three-quarter sidearm action. Okay, Hunter Gattis PERSON is coming here. Just have to be a batter going against those guys because it's like, okay, so I got to get used to this three-quarter sidearm action. Okay, Hunter Gattis is coming here, just pumping 97 and a change up. Okay, I got through that. Oh, Scott Barlow's out here throwing 90 in it and a sweeper and a

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curb ball that nobody can touch. Oh, oh, and then we look at it. I wonder how much of it, too, comes into, this is kind of a silly observation,

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but the height of the pitchers.

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Our shortest pitcher is Eli Morgan at 510. I think the second shortest is 511, and then everyone else is 6 foot, 6-1, 6-2. Like, you have these behemoths on the mound. Like, it's got to be, like, terrifying as a batter to see someone like Hunter Gaddis PERSON up there. Yeah. Yeah. You're right

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about the different heights. That helps with different, uh, different release points to you. So, yeah, okay, so we're buying on the bullpen. That's good. All right. Let's see. I know I have some negative trends here, too, that I, the bullpen is a positive trend. Best bullpen. That's good. All right. Let's see. I know I have some negative trends here too that I, the bullpen is a positive trend. Best bullpen in baseball. Another positive trends by sell, David Frye PERSON being a super sub. So this one I think is interesting because part of what I'm saying here is that David Fry PERSON should continue to be a bench bat, but that he's going to be an excellentone. So that's kind of an interesting dynamic to buy into. What are your thoughts?

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I might get on this one too. I think it was, LaMole ORG had a thread on Twitter about David Fry and someone used the word overexposed and that you don't want Frye PERSON to get over exposed. And I agree with that. Lamole PERSON, I think agreed with that too um but there's been a lot of offensive switches that they've been able to do to tailor to a pitcher and like have a matchup against a pitcher that's been subbed in and it's because ofdavid fry like you do not have Boehler pinch hitting for Austin Hedges PERSON no way actually Tyler Freeman PERSON's now pitch hitting for Boat Naylor if David Fry's not Like, you do not have Boehler pinch hitting for Austin Hedges. No way actually Tyler Freeman's now pitch hitting for Boat Naylor if David Fry PERSON's not already out in left field or already at first or in right, any of the position he's plays.So I think David Frye, even if like he doesn't maintain this crazy hitting that he's been doing, he defensively allows the team to work offensively because he can just sub in theserandom spots and there's always an answer because David Fry PERSON exists. That's a good way to put it.

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And I do also, I do also think that I think when it comes down to it, I think I may have said this before on here that David Fry PERSON is probably like a 120, maybe even like a 130 WRC plus against left handers. And he may be only a 90 to 100 against right handers. So I know people have said, hey, look, he's one of the best hitters on the team. Is you get more at bats against right handers? At his age, you can probably say he's not really going to be a guy who's going to really hit right-handers that well. So I don't have a problem seeing him leverage to hit against left-handers mostlybecause he can handle left-handers, no problem. You feel probably.

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I don't want to lose the magic, too, putting up against right handers to fail almost.

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Like, sure, if I'm in there if he needs to be. But, yeah.

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Yeah, that's a good point.

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Yeah, honestly, there's that. I'm sure the team feels like there's some kind of magic of Fry PERSON coming in to bat against the lefty or coming in late in the game. So, yeah, yeah. All right, so we buy in on how they're using him and that he'll continue to be successful. Okay, I didn't say this one to you earlier,but it kind of is reminding of this game. Buy or sell Tyler Freeman PERSON as our starting center fielder. I still buy on it.

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I wish he could get more looks at the corner infields. Now that he's gotten a feel for the outfield, I understand why they went center first because he's a middle infielder. I don't think he'd have an issue right or left. I think I'd kind of like to see him at left a little bit. Yeah, he's fine.He's not going to win a gold glove out there but he's not bad i think he could have a little stronger arm at sometimes i think there's times where he doesn't hustle as much as you know a natural center fielder might in that situation but nothing it's nothing egregious it's nothing that makes me say send him down he doesn't but long there like he's doing pretty good, all things considering, and holding his own.

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Yeah. Yeah, I think I feel similarly. My issue is wondering about the bat. I think the question with Tyler Freeman was always, is he going to be able tohit enough? Like, he'll make contact, but the contact might be weak or he might not have a launch angle. And that's currently where we are, that he's not making enough quality contact. He has hit the ball hard quite a few times, but not often enough and doesn't really lift the ball like he needs to. And yeah, that's where it's tough right now to figure that out.Man, it's so tough to hit in the big leagues and it's so tough for these guys to figure it out when they're young and trying to make their way.

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It's funny you say that I was listening to watching the Rockies game today at work since I was some background noise. And our old pal cow was starting, the way for anyone wondering run support cow quantrills still exist um but they mentioned that like the league

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batting average right now is still like 233 and that just you know 30 years ago was sitting at like a

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280 something yeah yeah right yeah that's that's a good way to put it, to conceptualize it because everybody's been struggling. So yeah, it is possible too that as you get to June, maybe you'll start to see everybody sort of figure some things out. You got to kind of survive May. You got to find a way to win three or four against the White Sox one way. But those are the kind of things you need to try to do and just focus on day-by-day basis.

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I think I'll sell only because I just don't, yeah, I don't know, I don't know.

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I'm not sure what the solution is in Centerfield, but I don't know that it's Freeman PERSON.

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I was hoping it was.

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But, yeah, yeah, things are still trying to figure out what's going on in the outfield one of these days we'll

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figure it all out every Kalamanzardo PERSON and in the center field might be the answer I don't know

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don't let Steve PERSON about hear you I hope everyone knows that was a joke see both that was a joke

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all right let me adapt let me adapt this next one too. Let's do buy or sell Brian Rokio PERSON as our starting shortstop.

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I am buying and I, you know, mentioned it a little bit in my news and notes that was posted this morning. Plug. Self, that's shameless.

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No, no, please do.

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It really feels like Rokio PERSON is getting a lot more patient. You know, we saw a lot of really solid walks against Houston where if he hadn't walked,we would not have won that game. Him walking, Kwan PERSON, getting the run home. Like, that little handoff happened a lot against Houston ORG. We saw it a bit in this last series.But I really think Rokio PERSON is getting more patient at the plate, which getting on base is the most important thing. Sure, batting average means a lot, slugging means a lot, but you can't score if you're not on base. So if he can get on base by walking while he's working out his swing and getting actually production from his hitting,then I'm okay with that. I'm okay with you struggling if you can still walk. I also think Rokio can handle not getting consistent at bats a little bit better than Arias PERSON, where Arias PERSON, if he is not getting consistent as bad at bats day and day out, he will struggle at the plate for a while. And he's admitted that last year.He said that when the Ahmed PERSON wars were still going on. So I'm still buying, I think you're seeing a little bit defensively. He's also getting better. He's had a couple of good gems. He had a nice little grab earlier in this game.He had a good grab yesterday. So you're seeing his name pop up on defensive side too. So I'm buying on him, which kind of pains me because I do like Arias PERSON. I just think Arias PERSON is one of those players where he fitsin on another team, but I just don't see him quite fitting in on this team right now.

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Yeah, I think a lot of people are feeling that way. And understandably, it's just so hard for everybody to be consistently good playing part-time. That's why players like David Fryer PERSON special guys that can keep themselves, you know, ready to just hop in and hit at any point. Those are rare guys to find and want to hang on to them when you do. And it feels like Tyler Freeman PERSON should be able to do that as well,but it just hasn't quite panned out yet. And, but yeah, yeah, it'd be interesting to see if Rokio PERSON would be better in that role. But I just think almost everybody does better ultimately if they just get regular bats, almost everybody. Yeah, I think I'm going to have to buy on this for now. I don't know that I'm buying on Rokio PERSON as the source stop of the future, but the starting shortstop for 2024, it does seem like that's who it's always made sense for it to be, and that's who it is currently making sense to be.So better lean into it.

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All right.

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This is a popular one right now with everybody. Do you buy or sell that Ramon Luriano PERSON is just simply washed? He's just, you know, he's too old. He's not really that old as a player.

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I can't say he's too old because I think he's still younger than me.

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He's way younger than me too.

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And it brings me pain.

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Yeah, I know. Let's just say like he did steroids a little while back. So, you know, maybe the aging cliff baseball players has hit him and he's just not really going to rebound. What are your thoughts?

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I do think he is no longer the player he once was. I made the mistake of looking at his last seven game, and it was like 0.93 batting average. It's like, oh, Luriano PERSON. And I don't know. You know, I feel like the writing's kind of on the wall.He's only being pinched hit or coming into pinch hit. He hasn't been in the outfield, he started in the outfield in how many games.

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It's been a while, yeah.

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We're going on like most of the Houston series, all of the Detroit ORG series, and now, you know, he's not starting the outfield yet in Chicago WORK_OF_ART. So I think the writing is kind of fun, I once I hope that means the writing's on the wall because if the outfield competition is currently between floral and Brennan PERSON and Luriano PERSON's like locked in I'm going to be very upset yeah that's another one it pains me because he seems like a good guythat's why I don't like talking bad about these players. They all seem so nice.

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But I think he's,

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I don't think, because he's not producing against right-handed pitchers like he's supposed to. You know, that was the whole thing is he was going to put him with Brennan to begin, or against left-handed pitchers.And he was going to be the right-eater against left-handed pitchers. And it's like I'd rather have Brendan PERSON up there struggling against left-hand pitcher right now. It does seem that way because Brendan will probably make contact

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and Loriana PERSON has trouble making contact at all. Yeah, it's frustrating. I was definitely a fan of Loreano being there in that role and using him in that role and it just hasn't worked. And, you know, I do think he'll at least get through the rest of the month of May and probably a little bit into June before they maybe take a look at Jonathan Rodriguez PERSON. And I think that's fine. I think that makes sense to try to make sure if he can figure something out.

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Yeah. And the thing is, like, I've noticed looking back at his splits that he oftentimes has really good beginnings of the season. So having such a difficult beginning of the season is pretty alarming. He also really struggles hitting fastballs. And that is like the biggest red flag because he's always been pretty good at hitting fastballs.But when you lose it, you can't hit fastballs anymore. And he's been that way for a little bit now. So that's definitely something to watch. So yeah, I think you and I are in agreement on this. All right. So this is, we're going to get into the price that will pain you and me, I think, here in just a second.Because both of us have people. What about buying or selling Jose Ramirez PERSON entering the decline portion of his career? I am buying into that he is declining, but I don't think it is as drastic or as sky is falling right now as it kind of seems. or as sky is falling right now, as it kind of seems. You know, he's still doing his patented seven pitch plus that bat home run combo. He's really starting to show patience again.He's not getting ahead of himself in the box when he's up to bat. You know, he's walking more. He does still have some really bad luck. So I don't know, like, what good luck fairy abandoned him this season, but he's been having some really bad luck lately. Still, I think a lot of it is just, you know, hitting it to, you know, the outfielder, you know, materializing and snagging a ball or robbing him of a home run.But he's got, it seems like he's gotten his head back where he is at least being patient. Like I said, about Rokio PERSON, if you can walk while you're working out getting the actual production side of your bat, I don't care. At least you're getting on base. Yeah.

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I think that I would say I will buy that he's in the decline portion of his career, but I do expect that when the season's over, we'll see him in that 120 to 130 WRC plus range, still playing a good third base. So ultimately, that's probably a four-win player, maybe somewhere close sort of five if he gets in a hot streak. And that's not quite the Jose Ramirez PERSON that we really,you know, that is going to put himself in MVP WORK_OF_ART conversations. He's got to be in the six to eight range to put himself in MVP WORK_OF_ART conversations. I think the odds are that probably is where we are. I'm with you that I don't see, I don't think that we're quite at the point where we're, you know, have to be raising alarms about whether he's like going to be just an average player, which will be the next stage of the decline.But do you think that first stage of the decline is probably here. I'm trying to see it as clear-eyed as I can. I love Jose PERSON with all my heart, and I hope that he has a really hot stretch and puts up another almost heavy P-tight season. You're right that he hasn't got.I mean, the luck has been rough. He had bad luck. He asked last year, too, Nicole PERSON. He led the league in the most home runs that should have been home runs in most parks that he didn't get last year. So it's been, this bad luck fairy has been around for a while for him, unfortunately. So someone's gotchanged. You hear he got a haircut the other day because he said he wanted to change what was

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going on. He had that one real bad game and he got his haircut to try to change things up. So Jose PERSON is aware of it. I'm sure he'll figure out. One of these days, as Zach Misesal PERSON always says, Jose PERSON will pop into the clubhouse. He'll, like, beat a bunch of people and pop a shot and Mario Kart PRODUCT.And then all of a sudden he'll have like a four-for-five game with two homers and everything will turn around, I'm sure.

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All right. Now, Nicole. four for five game with two homers and everything will everything will turn around i'm sure all right now Nicole you are the leader of the will brendan GPE fan club so he's a silly squad the silly squad um you know that i that most of the time you get a pretty

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good sense of who a guy is after 600 played appearances.

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And we've got to 600 play appearances with Will PERSON. And he's 26.

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Sounds right.

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Yeah. And he's got an 89 WRC plus. So buy or sell Will Brennan PERSON as the platoon right fielder that we are hoping that he is.

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Well, it's okay to buy and tell me why.

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It's fun.

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I just, he's another one that needs consistent fats. You know, I think I brought up in conversation with you a couple times where he gets a day off or he got benched for Luriano and then it took him one game he was swinging everything. One game he was making loudouts. One game he was like actually getting a hit and then like next thing you know he was off the race is like you can't you can't take four games to get back in like back on if you have to sit a day and or if there's anoff day I think now that we're going into the warmer months it's not going to be as bad um you know he didn't get his first home run last year till the end of April and he's already sitting at four um but I do think I think on this team right now and he's already sitting at four. But I do think, I think on this team right now, and I'm trying not to be like super biased, I do think he has made good arguments for him to, one, stay up.I know that always gets brought up. It's like, well, he's the one outfielder with option. He still has three options left. So, like, he could just be the sacrificial man because he has the options. But I think, you know, he had, I can't remember the exact number, but, like, all through, up until yesterday's game, he was on a hit streak. Like, every game he played, he had at least one hit, still continued on base streak goinginto tonight because he walked yesterday. And, you know, I test, I haven't done enough research in it. It looks like he is taking more when the outside the zone, because that's his weak spot. He loves swinging outside the zone. So I think he is like fine-tuning his bat. He is made pitchers pay for pitching around Josh Naylor PERSON.You know, he had two hits that, or RBI hits in Detroit Tigers ORG in that series. So if he can keep it up, I think he earned his spot as a starter right now. I don't thinkhe can be a platoon bat and that I think is a weakness on its own, on its own on his own but

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yeah poetic about why he deserves no i think you've done a good job i'll add some of the things to it

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i between um floriel and brennan i would take brennan right now. I like Floral. I like seeing some things for him,

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but I do believe, well, Brennan PERSON has a better chance of being an an above average major league player used in that platoon role. I do think that vote and the team are wiseto limit his appearances against lefties, primarily because in the minors, Brennan had like a 610 OPS against lefties and you really got to be close to 700

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against that opposite side to be somebody that you want to see face them.

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Guys can change your mind on that, but likelihood is he's probably not somebody you want to hit lefties all the time. A good thing like we said with him is that he can't make contact. So if you do that, you give yourself a shot if he's forced to bat against the lefty. But I do think they're right to try to prioritize right-handed, but that's 80% of major league pitching. So that's good. Now here's the argument that I would use, Nicole PERSON, if I was in your shoes.here's the argument that I would use, Nicole PERSON, if I was in your shoes. The Guardians currently, there are only seven players who have an expected Wobah over 300. And the fourth best, number four on that list is Will Brennan PERSON. So Josh Nehler, Stephen Kwan, David Fry, and Will Brennan PERSON. Jose PERSON is slightly below that right now, which will probably change. He's never quite as high in ex-Wob as his numbers indicate anyway. But so Will Brennan is at 312.You'd prefer to see him in 320, 330 range. But of course, 312 is not that far off there. He's been somewhat unlucky batting average in balls and play only 244. Tyler Freeman, 213, wildly unlucky. So those are some things that you'd look at and say, yeah, it's probably been a little unlucky and things can help turn around for him.

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And from the defense side too, you know, back to like Floril, Brennan PERSON, I choose

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Brandon PERSON.

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I think Floral's still a little clunky. He looks clunky out there sometimes.

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He's been looking better in left field.

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But, you know, Brandon's had like four catches tonight. The White Sox have been giving him his workout. But I always, you you know talk about in conversation how accurate and uh strong brinan PERSON's arm is you know he and i don't know how much of him being a former pitcher plays into his accuracy but you know he uh if you knowio's like, oh, I want to hear, the ball's there. Like, he's pretty accurate from his throws in from right.And I think that he's a pretty strong arm too. So, I don't know. No.

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I think he's a good outfielder.

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I think, uh, he's, he's, he's, I was just going to say with two other hitting things I want to mention real quickly. He's running his highest launch angle of his career at 11.7. He's running his highest hard hit rate of his career at 46.5. All those things are very good. And, yeah, like you said, with plate discipline, his plate discipline numbers look pretty good.His out of zone swing rate is really the only one that is still a problem. He's still got that a little bit too high, but it's less than it was last year. He's about 6% down from last year, which is progress. If he could get it just a little bit further down, and I think he'd be in a good shape. I shouldn't say it's a problem.It's just the one area if he could get that more down to that 25% out of zone swing rate, I think that he'd really take off. And I think he can do that. So, yeah, I think I'm right. It's a tactical weakness. You know, pitchers are going to know to throw it there.But he's been filing out there too, which I think has given... It's a tactical weakness. You know, pitchers are going to know to throw it there. But he's been filing out there, too, which I think has given him a lot of good chances, too. Yeah.

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Yeah, the guardians have two runners on. Josh Naylor, do not try to steal third. Do not try to steal third.

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You learn from this track.

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I repeat, do not make the first out of there.

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Oh, I have a buy sell for you then. Buy sell. J.T. McGuire as first out of there. Oh, I have a buy sell for you. Then

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buy sell JT. McGuire PERSON as our base running coach. Oh my goodness. Arby. I sell right now.

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What is up with them? I feel like it's just they need to just put the brakes on the guys sometimes.

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I don't know what it is, but yeah. Oh, my goodness, bases are loaded. Geez, hopefully they can turn things around. All right, all right. Here's one more buy and sell before we wrap up here. Let me throw this at you. Buy or sell.Tristan McKenzie PERSON is our best starter.

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So no one expected Ben lively to be become our. Oh, crap. I lost the name who's the the backup quarterback we got Joe Flacco PERSON oh Joe Flacco yeah

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like everyone's like we need a Joe Flacco PERSON this year

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and then here comes Ben lively yeah

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I was just going to mention I love it I'm watching a game day I love it when they show you all the different like dots moving around. Have you seen that this year?

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They're all they're all on third base right now because they're all over there talking at third base. That's funny.

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Anyway, I brought this up mainly because I'm buying. I think you heard it here first, folks, from the same person that brought you, David Frye is going to be somebody everybody's talking about at the end of May, patting myself on the back. I'm telling you, I think Tristan McKenzie PERSON is back. I think he's back.

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I think you're going to start to see him start to put up some interesting performances. Unfortunately, I don't think we're getting 95 mile an hour

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and Tristan McKenzie PERSON back. That's the guy that when he was throwing, you were like, oh, are we going to see a no-hitter today? Yeah. That's strikeout 15 today? Because his stuff is so amazing if he has that.I don't think we will, but I do think we are back to the point where we have 92-mile-hour fastball with a guy who's got, you know, slender man arms just extending to who knows where to get the ball to the plate. And a slider he can throw for strikes and a devastating curve ball. And I think that's your staff ace. That's my opinion.

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I'm okay with it. I love sticks.

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I've always loved him. I've always been impressed with the way he carries himself and just the way he handles his own, like, in-game mental. Like, I still played sports.

Speaker 11910.74s - 1911.46s

I'd look up to him.

Speaker 01912.16s - 1934.92s

I know. Every time that I look at the bench, he's always like, I don't know, he just always seems like such a fun guy on the bench. Like, he's always cheering for people. He's always excited about what people are doing. But then he always looks so cool. Like the other day, after the game, he was just walking around with like some kindof pullover and sunglasses on. And I was like, he's just so cool.

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I believe the kids call that aura now.

Speaker 01937.46s - 1964.42s

Yeah. Yeah. That's it. And, and you know, I'm not, I'm not making this comparison because Trisipikis, he's a black pitcher. But one thing that struck me in the day looking at him is, and you know, I'm not making this comparison because Triss McKinsey PERSON is a black pitcher. But one thing that struck me in the day looking at him is if you go back and you watch video of Satchel Page PERSON and like him throwing, the way that he would throw sometimes is like he would just use his body as like a whip to just like just snap it in there.

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And it's a similar kind of motion that McKenzie uses when he is on. And I just think that's so cool because both of them played for the Cleveland baseball franchise. And like it's just, I don't know. I just love Justin McKenzie PERSON. And I hope that he has a great rest of the year.I hope that elbow holds up forever because, ah, man.

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Well, and part of that, you know, I was thinking about that with Class A, too, because

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Clai PERSON's the same way. He just, you could tell how much he uses his legs to get him his momentum. And like, that's got to be the reason why his elbow, you know, his elbow, Tristan PERSON's elbow can stay as healthy as they can is because they're using their body more than just their arms.

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And yet he does that with his legs. He sure does, but his legs are so skinny. They're just so skinny when you watch it sometimes. It's so funny. And like I realize the man is an incredible athlete and he works really hard. Everything is just how his body is.They're just so, they're just so like like, thin legs, and they work so well. Oh, man, I can go on and on about how fun of this to watch him. So hope we can for the rest of the season. All right. Well, I think we bought mostly on good things, but we were realistic about things. We try to say positive as we normally do.So thanks for listening. And hopefully everybody enjoys the rest of the series of Chicago and The Guardians WORK_OF_ART make us happy. So thanks, Nicole PERSON. Yep.