Brandon Valenzuela

162 is a very long season.

I mean, the ability to DH Kazuma Okamoto, Vladimir Guerrero Jr., Addison Barger, I mean, Alejandro Kirk, maybe if Brandon Valenzuela is playing good, just gives you options.

So that is a massive thing for the DH role.

And Anthony Santander is that you want him to be flexible.

so that's kind of what i'm looking at from these projections his fan graphs is usually pretty good at obviously not getting the stats exactly right but at least alluding to what they think is going to happen for a player in this in their next season so seeing that vladi is having some sort of a bounce back season seeing that they have a hundred kirk as being a productive baseball player for the Toronto Blue Jays, once again, playing 100 games.

Also, I wanted to, just for context, they have Brandon Valenzuela down here.

Where is his games played at? 53 games played.

So, like, we're not even getting to 162 with our two catchers there.

I guess that's up to you guys to depend on.

how you are viewing that.

But they have Brandon Valenzuela playing 53 games.

So once again, they're going to play more games.

The two ringleaders were the obvious ones.

Occasionally it was Brandon Valenzuela.

Occasionally it was Jesus Sanchez.

You know who it never was? Max Scherzer.

Yeah, they like him.

Brandon Valenzuela, 53 games they have at a 89 way to run creative plus, but 1.2 wins.

Barger, 66 games.

I mean, I guess he's just a massive question mark.

I think it was before that, but he hit the big home run.

So let's get to 10 trades for this year.

Brandon Valenzuela is going to be in a ton of these trades.

Just for the fangirls and the fanguys of Brandon Valenzuela, this is nothing personal.

No interest there in any league format.

Brandon Valenzuela.

Look, some interest there.

239 to bats, 29 runs, nine doubles, nine homers, 23 RBIs, 29 walks to 69 strikeouts, and a .222 average.

It's not going to stand up as, like, the best game of the year, but that was pretty good against a team that dominated... and wound up being the best team in baseball.

There was a game in Minnesota where the Blue Jays were down 4-3, going to the eighth, and then they had the first eight batters of the inning all reach base and score, capped by a three-run homer by Brandon Valenzuela.

That was a game that made a winner out of

Dylan Cease.

And I think that if I look at the second base position, I think Ernie Clement is one of those positions that could use one.

I then want to move on to the catching position because we talked so much about Alejandro Kirk, about Brandon Valenzuela.

Some people really liking Brandon Valenzuela and wanted to see him get more opportunity behind the dish even when Alejandro Kirk did come back.

To me, Alejandro Kirk is one of the best catchers in baseball.

His defensive ability, his ability to drive in runners, his clutch ability, batting as well I think there's a lot to like with Alejandro Kirk and to me this is a no questions about this guy he's the guy I want behind the dish and the the question will be posed of then do you make a trade involving Brandon Valenzuela and try to flip him to a team because I think we've seen that he can have success at the major league level but we haven't seen consistency because we haven't seen him get enough playing time to have that consistency so I I don't know what he would get you in a trade.

To be honest, I feel like it wouldn't be a lot and it almost wouldn't be worth it.

I think that you are more than happy having Brandon Valenzuela as your backup catcher.

You are thrilled about having Brandon Valenzuela as your backup catcher.