00:00Buy or sell, Cal Raleigh will repeat, George, as the best fantasy catcher.
00:06Buy or sell?
00:09Well, if you're trying to be contrarian, you're saying, okay, it's not going to be Cal.
00:16Who?
00:17I mean, really, who?
00:21Listen, I like a lot of catches here, but I'm talking about I like him as far as fantasy.
00:24I can draft him later here.
00:26Contreras, Milwaukee, okay.
00:28No one's going to put up Raleigh's numbers.
00:30All right, granted, his average is probably not going to help you.
00:32He's not going to steal any bases here.
00:33But most catches here on the level we've talked about aren't stealing any bases.
00:37That's true of every catcher.
00:38Average, okay.
00:39I can find a guy who's going to hit for higher average, but he might double everyone's home run total.
00:44Double.
00:46No, I can't even make a good argument here.
00:48Langlier is what I like them playing in that band box.
00:51He's not doing it.
00:52Will Smith doesn't play enough.
00:53Perez, Rush.
00:54No, no, no.
00:55This is a buy.
00:56I think he'll do this easily.
00:57He plays 120 games.
00:59I think he'll do it.
01:01Yeah, it's a buy, but you're definitely just dismissing Langlier's too quickly here.
01:07I mean, I wouldn't do that, George.
01:09I mean, how many home runs do you think Cal Raleigh hits this season?
01:13You think he hits 40?
01:1640, 40, okay.
01:18Yes.
01:18I might give you over under 38 and a half.
01:20Okay, well, Langlier's hit 31.
01:22If he has a career year, he's close.
01:24So, look, I agree with you.
01:26I think he's going to be the number one catcher, but if, and I don't know what Langlier's going to
01:30be, by the way, because I don't see this, right?
01:32Like, I mean, who saw that coming last year too?
01:34But 31 home runs and 72 runs driven and 133 hits for Shane Langlier's last year.
01:41So, maybe he is the guy that jumps into Cal Raleigh's category.
01:44But for the purposes of buy or sell, I am going to buy Cal Raleigh still as the number one
01:50catcher.
01:50All right, he's going to get into the Baseball Hall of Fame the second he decides to retire.
01:55But when is that going to be?
01:56I don't know.
01:56They say they can't tear the jersey off you.
01:58But, man, the injury gods have been trying to tear the jersey off Mike Trout for about six years.
02:04Trout is back yet again and toiling in Anaheim.
02:10Mike Trout will play 100-plus regular season games this year.
02:15I think, Sam, for the betting purposes, we could have gone 100.5.
02:18But we're a fantasy show.
02:20That's what Sam's going to yell at me.
02:2299.5, but whatever.
02:24100-plus games for Mike Trout this season.
02:27So, George, pull up your trusty stats here.
02:31You're going to tell me that he hasn't played in 100 games since.
02:35This last year.
02:37He's only done this twice in the past six years.
02:40How about that?
02:40Last year being one of them.
02:42Played 130 last year.
02:43Played 119 in 2022.
02:45Other than that, he really hasn't come close.
02:4753-36, 82-29.
02:51You know, I'm a fan.
02:52I want him to play more than –
02:54All right, listen, I think this would have been a better number at 110.
02:58That I might have been a little afraid here.
03:00I'm going to take the overall.
03:02So, I'll say bye that he plays more than 100.
03:04Would I put any money on this?
03:06No, I wouldn't.
03:07All right?
03:08Because, once again, history tells you properly.
03:09Recent history tells you no.
03:11No, but overall history tells you, yes, he won't do it.
03:14So, for 46 years, he hasn't come close.
03:16He does get hurt all the time here.
03:18But I think they will baby him a little bit more.
03:20Put him at DH there.
03:21You know, play right field.
03:23Don't play center as much.
03:24So, I'll buy this over 100.
03:26But I don't feel great about it.
03:27Yeah, I'm going to sell this.
03:29And I don't want to do it.
03:32But, you know, part of this for me too, George, and this is –
03:35again, I don't know the medical staff with the Angels.
03:37And it's certainly no indictment on them.
03:40But, I mean, is there something to be said for getting him in a new environment?
03:44Maybe some other staff can help him stay on the field better than they have with the Angels.
03:48I'm just saying.
03:49Like, I'm not saying it's their fault.
03:52But if he was in Philadelphia in his home plate, I mean, would he be able to play more games?
03:56Look, I don't know the answer to that.
03:57Maybe it is far-fetched.
03:59But I'm not banking on something that almost never happens.
04:02Actually, I didn't think that he got 100 last year, so I missed that.
04:06I thought he only got like 80-something.
04:08I'm going to sell this on Mike Trout.
04:11But I would say this.
04:12I would use my little caveat asterisk.
04:14If they trade him somewhere and get him into a better place,
04:17maybe a medical team can help him stay on the field a little bit better
04:21because the Angels have failed in that regard.
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