00:00My opinion is, is in order, Corey Seeger is your best hitter.
00:20I don't think anybody will argue with that.
00:22Now it's like, who is going to be my best, my second best hitter in 2025 if I say it's
00:28going to be Wyatt Lankford, I want my two guys getting the most at-bats possible.
00:33And that's what I think.
00:34And I like Lankford as a leadoff better than I like Seeger, even though he's your best
00:39hitter.
00:40I don't think Seeger wants to lead off.
00:41I'm sure not.
00:42Now, I know, we know that Simeon wants to lead off, is now, if I'm looking at-
00:46It's time to tell him what he's going to do instead.
00:49I'm not going to disagree with that, but if I'm looking at OPS Plus, there's a lot of
00:54extra stats.
00:55It's very tough.
00:56I don't know how many people come up to us at Buffalo Wild Wings or wherever we're at,
00:59whether it's at-
01:00Bedford this week.
01:01Bedford.
01:02Bedford this week.
01:03We were at Palmer's Hot Chicken last week in North Dallas.
01:08People say, Mike, I don't really like baseball, or I didn't really like baseball, but I really
01:13like it now.
01:14I listen to Nuggets, and you get me into it, and I'm like, I love those comments because
01:18I get it.
01:19And then there's stats that are not easy to explain, and it would take me maybe a whole
01:23Nuggets to explain.
01:24But OPS Plus, you want to be at 100 is kind of an average, and you want to be over that
01:31number.
01:32If you're over that number, good.
01:33OPS Plus last year for Adoles Garcia was 94.
01:37For Jake Berger, it was 103, and for Nathaniel Lowe, it was 120.
01:42There's all kinds of different numbers because if you look at power-wise, you'd say Lowe
01:46by far is the worst.
01:48People sleep on Nathaniel Lowe, don't they?
01:49But if you look at OPS Plus, it's a lot higher because he does get some extra base hits that
01:54Berger's not going to get.
01:55He is going to have more home runs.
01:57So then I start going, all right, if, and I'm not disagreeing with Corey, is Evan Carter
02:02being one, and then you don't want to back Carter and Sieger back-to-back, so that's
02:06why I think Lankford, you had it, too, which makes sense.
02:09I'm breaking up the lefties with the righty, but I also have a lineup where I have Lankford-Sieger-Young
02:14is my top three.
02:15Oh, yeah.
02:16I kind of forgot about Josh Young a little bit.
02:19And Simeon.
02:20I have Simeon Fifth, and then I have Evan Carter Sixth.
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