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00:00All right. Now, how about a young prospect that you want to keep for the next five, ten years?
00:03That's easy. In Washington, it is James Wood.
00:06I believe he homered again yesterday.
00:083-0-4, four home runs, ten runs driven in, two stolen bases.
00:14You know, I think, George, I don't know.
00:16I think Washington's going to hang around this year, man.
00:19Like, they got a lot of nice young players here.
00:22I think that they're probably going to finish around 500,
00:24and then I would hope they would take a big step next year
00:27because it does feel like they are, right now, aimed to win.
00:31And if I'm not mistaken, doesn't Washington have the number one overall pick in the draft, too?
00:35I mean, that is bananas. That's crazy.
00:38Yeah. James Wood's been – I've said him several times.
00:43Love James Wood. All right.
00:44His home run prop was 17-and-a-half this year.
00:48I smoked that hard.
00:49We talked about it all in March here about how he would do that by mistake.
00:54The man hits home runs by mistake.
00:57He said he's sort of a left-handed Aaron Judge as far as how strong this man is.
01:01So, yeah, he's going to be a star.
01:03I don't have any doubt he's going to be a star there.
01:04And he can run, too, by the way.
01:06He's got a little bit of speed.
01:07So, they have someone to build around here.
01:09And you've got Dylan Cruz.
01:10You've got C.J. Abrams.
01:11They do have the makings of a really good offense here.
01:13But you're right.
01:14You've got to supplement that.
01:15All right?
01:16Mackenzie Gore.
01:17Okay, you've got a nice starting pitch there.
01:18We've got to keep adding to it.
01:20And I think Washington could be there.
01:21They're 27-and-30 now.
01:23I guess are they going to hang around?
01:26Okay.
01:27But I do think it's the second half of the season rolls along here.
01:29They probably play a little worse.
01:31And they fall out of it here.
01:32But that's fine.
01:33It doesn't matter.
01:34They weren't supposed to make the playoffs.
01:35And maybe you shouldn't make the playoffs.
01:36You get the lower draft pick again.
01:38And you keep going at it here.
01:39I like the direction they're heading.
01:40I think their future is certainly brighter than some other teams.
01:44Yeah.
01:44I think they're going to be in it.
01:45I think they're going to be a few games under and right there in the second half.
01:49We see a lot of this in the past.
01:50And surprise teams who are about 500 or better come on at the end.
01:54Would not surprise me at all to see Washington in that mix of the wild card.
01:58All right.
01:59Let's go to down.
02:00We hit on Mookie Betts a little bit earlier in the show.
02:03And George made a really good point.
02:04I mean, I don't know how you can have him act with a fractured toe.
02:07It looks like he could either be in the lineup playing hurt or miss some time.
02:11But, I mean, what are the Dodgers thinking?
02:12Just let the guy sit for a month for a matter.
02:15The dreaded vote of confidence, George, for Willie Adamas and the Giants from Buster Posey this week, their president.
02:24I mean, the Giants threw a lot of money at this guy, George.
02:28143 this past week.
02:29He's having a tough year.
02:32You know, it's funny.
02:33When you said that, the vote of confidence in Buster Posey, I'm like, what?
02:37Oh, yeah, that's right.
02:38He's not playing anymore.
02:40He's in the front office.
02:42It's just a weird statement.
02:43Buster Posey gives a play.
02:44You know, it's just a weird statement.
02:44He's the president.
02:46Yeah.
02:47It's the right statement.
02:49It took me a while.
02:50It took my brain to, oh, yeah, Buster Posey, no longer the all-star catcher.
02:54He's now in the front office.
02:55Doesn't seem like he's been gone that long to have that kind of job.
02:58It's really where I'm going with that.
02:59So it's just weird to me.
03:01Listen, I'm not surprised by this.
03:03I'm not going to take a little adjustment there.
03:05San Fran's not the home or haven that Milwaukee was here.
03:09I think he'll figure it out.
03:10But I don't know if he's ever going to be that guy.
03:12You know, he was a really good fantasy player for us in Milwaukee.
03:15I don't know if he's ever going to be that in San Fran.
03:18And I would not have paid him that much money.
03:19But, hey, they needed somebody.
03:21It was almost like he was the runner-up.
03:22San Fran was always trying to get that big-name player, Aaron Judge.
03:26Right?
03:26They tried for Soto as well.
03:28Correa.
03:28Ohtani.
03:29And they were always coming up.
03:30Correa.
03:30Well, might have gotten lucky there.
03:32And they were always coming up second place, third place.
03:34So I think Adamus was sort of that, okay, we got somebody.
03:38Here we go.
03:38Here we go.