Yordan Álvarez

moron I am so we call that a brain fart brain fart there definitely should get some love AL MVP you and Kevin had Bobby Witt I got Aaron Judge I definitely will be wrong And it's probably going to be...

Well, I guess it's between Jordan Alvarez and Junior Caminero.

It's probably still going to be Jordan.

We all picked Shohei as our NL MVP.

Yeah, 7.1 on baseball reference.

I'll have to check fan graphs and see.

Yeah, Cam Schlittler was second, and then Jordan Alvarez.

Schlittler had 7.0, Alvarez 6.8, Bobby Witt 6.7. Wow.

But it is interesting.

Dingler, for a while, looked like he could be the runner-up to Jordan Alvarez and obviously fell off.

I think it's...

One of those things when we talk about Dingler, did we see the best three-ish month span of his entire career? Is he ever going to do that again? And that's not to knock him.

It's just like I may be a little more cautious of those injury risks next year than I have been previously.

yeah i think for me it it's really the kind of yearly conversation i have about jordan alvarez right which is like you know when he's on the field he's going to be an elite player it just it's not a risk of like oh how many games he's gonna miss it's when he misses games he misses a crap ton of games right like it's you know you either get 600 plate appearances or you get 275 plate appearances Um, and so like, I think for me, it really becomes a discussion of where are you willing to take that risk? And, you know, we talked about at the top, like this may be the year to take those kinds of risks, right? Because if we have a hundred game season,

maybe,

you know, that is potentially the time to take those risks or in a shallow league, like a 10 team league, I'd be willing to kind of take those risks because you know, there'll be, you know, waiver wire fodder that can really impact your team.

So Gunnar Henderson in the third round, okay, fine, but I'm not taking him over Jordan Walker.

So you get to this point where it's like, if I'm not taking a pitcher, I could see rolling the dice, right?

Yeah, I think for me, and I make this argument a lot of times early on in drafts when we have discussions about these types of players, and I'm going to beg that you don't look at my draft board and see the fact that I took Jordan Alvarez with the 11th overall pick in the first round while I make this argument, but anytime you are drafting in the first two to three rounds you are taking an elite player right all these players are you know yes some have greater upsides and in safer floors but like they're all elite so like i want the guy who i feel is i'm most confident will return the value as opposed to i think picks like this are often like well he could be a first round guy that i'm getting in the middle of the second round I care less about that.

I want guys that I feel really, really confident are going to return the value that I'm getting at that point.

dude yeah he did it like it was nothing too the guy's just a fucking man he's a leadoff hitter yeah because he's not like he's built like a man but he's not really that hitter like he's He's got it in him, but he doesn't hit like that.

He's built like he should be playing like Jordan Alvarez

baseball.

And he's not.

Jose Altuve is involved.

Jordan Alvarez.

You're trying to split DH left field with Altuve, Alvarez, all these other dudes.

I mean, you got to clear out one of these guys.

Yes.

So we're applying the same thing to, like, Cy Young trying to strike out Jordan Alvarez to doctors.

Yes, we

are.

or not charging it, but you're getting a health discount and treats the missed time as a reason to cut price.

So last year we saw Jordan Alvarez was getting that treatment, and we know how that worked out.

This year, the best example that I could come up with personally was Wyatt Lankford.

He was about $25 last year.