And, you know, are some of those guys going to be the ones who are kind of left without a team until, you know, spring training does start? And, you know, what kind of impact can that have? So, like, this is going to be a weird offseason where I penalize guys in a way that I don't typically penalize them.

Yeah, I fully agree with that.

Before we move on to relievers, I'll just add from the When Should You Draft Starting Pitchers research and article that I did.

There were 92 starters who were drafted between an ADP of 85 and 160 using the Fangraphs Player Rater ADPs.

And a lot of those... returned a decent amount of value.

There were actually, uh, 35% of the, there were 26 starters, um, within that 85 to one 60 group who had only a partial track record.

That's, uh, a hundred to 150 innings, um, the previous season.

One, Kyle Tucker, who was kind of perennial first-round pick after the last season, or this last season, has fallen all the way to the fourth, which surprised me considering he was actually pretty good in the playoffs, right? And then you have the pick that I was like, when I first saw it, I was absolutely flabbergasted, and I even took a screenshot of it, sent it to my little group chat, no one Paul was like what the hell is Carson Bench doing fourth round like this is insane and then I had to go and look at what Carson Bench right and I was like oh like the fact that the Mets sucked and I wasn't really paying attention to them yeah he was really good yeah are these appropriate draft spots for both of these guys

Are, are any of these players sort of your favorite either going forward or you're just-- they've, they've helped you, you know, so far this season? What, what leaps off of you from this sort of waiver wire all-star list?

Yeah.

Um, so I think obviously, you know, Jordan Walker i-is the perfect example of, like, that former top prospect who, um, had shown flashes.

It wasn't like he was a total mess for three years and all of a sudden now he's great.

It was just, you know, continuing to kinda chip away.

He's the one that you had mentioned that feels most, like, quote-unquote, "real" to me because I, I think we know the track record, we know the tools, we've seen the upside.

Now we're just seeing it click a little bit more.

[laughs]

Yeah.

I think that this is more just, look, it's been four really good starts.

There was a start against, uh, Toronto in here that was also fine.

But the four really good starts have been against the Rockies, the Angels, the White Sox without Murakami in the lineup, and they were struggling a little bit, and the Yankees without Judge and Grisham in the lineup, and that was when the Yankees, I mean, their- Maybe still struggling to hit a little bit, but when the Yankees were really struggling.

And that's not to take to say I don't think we're gonna see results quite like we're at right now.

The other guy that I had, also I just checked just to make sure, since May 13th, which is a Wednesday, which is why I picked May 13th, it's basically about, uh, two months, uh, in the last two months.

Brandon Young has a sub-20% strikeout rate.

Mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm.

Like, the fastball is stupid good.

It is so good, and then there's not much else.

The changeup is particularly good to lefties and was pretty good to lefties last year.

He doesn't throw it to righties, and the slider is not really performing well.

So that to me is, like, I think that may be why you see the walk rates going up, is there's a lot of nibbling with the secondary pitches and a lot of inconsistency with the secondary pitches.

And this isn't quite like when Jared Jones came up, and we were like, "Oh, Jared Jones has a limited arsenal," because Jared Jones's slider actually got swings and misses against right-handed hitters, and he could...

Mm-hmm.

(laughs).

Four catches for 90 yards, uh, and a touchdown for Terrell Shavers.

We should say that, like, Shavers had been increasing in snaps a little bit.

It wasn't just the big broken play for him.

He had a couple 20-yard catches besides that.

Shavers is, you know, deep league viable in case that this playing time situation continues.

I don't think Keon Coleman is coming back, and if he is active next week, he's not coming back into his pr- you know, previous snap share.

What did you see from the Tampa pass catchers?

So what di- what did you think about Jack Kaglione, uh, you know, day one?

I think it's not unfair to expect a similar transition to what we saw from Nick Kurtz.

And I know Nick Kurtz has a little bit more swing and miss in his game than Kaglione does.

But you've got these guys who are power first prospects with very limited minor league experience, but co- but a lot of college experience.

Kaglione, 12.3% swinging strike rate so far in the minor leagues.

You figure that probably jumps up above 13% in the big league level.

You know, there's gonna be a little bit of a book on him.

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