00:00We had a guy last year up for the MVP that finished second at 60 home runs.
00:03The big dumper, I'll say this.
00:05He actually does have now a base hit on the season, but opening there,
00:08the WBC 0 for 9.5 Ks right into the regular season.
00:11Is this a misprint?
00:130 for 7.7 Ks.
00:15Certainly not looking like a beach ball out there as a baseball for him, Craig.
00:18No?
00:19Jeez.
00:19Yeah, no worries whatsoever.
00:22Yeah, no worries whatsoever for me on any of these guys.
00:25And by the way, you can show that graphic again there, Sam.
00:28That feels like an agenda there.
00:30I don't know about you.
00:31A little weird for me to see that.
00:33That feels right.
00:34The other one did not.
00:36So anyway, what's my point here?
00:38I just think that you're going to have ebbs and flows over the course of the year.
00:42What we do is we point out the positive and the negative here on the show.
00:45For your fantasy baseball starts, of course, you're yelling and screaming.
00:48You're upset that these guys got off to bad starts.
00:51Seattle's going to be fine.
00:52I think that Cal Raleigh will be fine.
00:55But as we talked about a couple of weeks ago, I mean, look, there's regression here.
00:57Do you really think Cal Raleigh, who had an MVP season, was going to do this exactly again?
01:02Unless he's Aaron Judge, the reality of Raleigh is that he had probably the best season last
01:08year that he's ever going to have.
01:09So there's going to be some pullback here.
01:10There's a reason why players generally don't win the MVP.
01:14If they did, they would win it every single year.
01:17And so, yeah, just a slower week, I would say.
01:20But I'm not going to get too caught up in anything WBC related.
01:24The only I think the big story this week, honestly, Donnie, WBC related was the fact
01:29that Jackson Chorio of the Brewers apparently didn't say anything and played through like
01:33a fractured hand to get to that World Baseball Classic and win.
01:35And now he's going to miss some time.
01:37But that to me is the one maybe bigger question for the week as to, hey, are we checking
01:42medicals real well on that?
01:44Because I know the Brewers are probably extremely upset with that scenario.
01:48But other than that, I think everything's fine.
01:50No doubt about it.
01:51By the way, the WBC from a hitter's perspective is like, oh, they're just down there.
01:54Look, when you're in Major League Baseball, let's just say spring training, you're getting
01:57a ton of work in the cage and a ton of at-bats.
01:59And for Kyle Roller, that just wasn't the case in the WBC.
02:02Maybe a little bit of rust coming off that, which is something you probably didn't anticipate
02:06there.
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