00:00in the american league the player of the month conversation i i think it's kind of signed sealed
00:04and delivered at this point i love what munitaka murakami has been able to do with 12 homers in
00:09his first month of major league baseball but what yordan alvarez has done is like hard to deny and
00:14i think impossible to deny alvarez as we sit here on april 28th is hitting 358 for the houston
00:21astros with 11 homers and 26 runs driven in he paces all the major league baseball at a 12 20
00:28ops the other option is probably ben rice but you would think this is yordan's and and it's
00:34already on his way to houston i assume i mean this is one of the best just hitting months i've
00:40think we've we've seen and i always reference like the stack ass era because how can we i don't know
00:46you'd never really be able to compare i think in terms of the contact ability and the power ability
00:51from from yordan this month i mean he's walking nearly twice as much as he struck out and he hit
00:5611 homers i i don't think we've ever quite seen anything like that um to be making you know
01:01luisa raya's adjacent type of zone contact and then uh also still be pillaging the ball at you
01:09know elite power clips like aaron judge type clips like this is this is legitimately video game type
01:17of stuff right here and we'll see if he can extrapolate it over the course of the whole season
01:20i i'm more skeptical that he stays healthy than that the fact that yordan alvarez is able to continue
01:25you know doing something close to this i think the biggest the only thing that stops ordon alvarez
01:30i think from having one of the best seasons we've seen in a while is is just his body i
01:35don't think
01:35it's his ability it may not be a 223 but i think this guy is a legitimate legitimate legitimate chance
01:40to to keep the wrc plus north of 200. wow wow i last guy to do that we did judge
01:47do that in one of
01:48those mvp years i would think judge did okay which would be so darn cool um i do want to
01:53give some love
01:54to ben rice here because ben rice is pacing all major leaguers with the 1232 ops in the month of
01:59april 24 games hitting 316 with 10 homers this month he's also walked 18 times to give himself a 443
02:06on base i'm so glad that we are done with the uh platoon experiment for him this guy has already
02:13hit himself into playing 162 games a year and it seems like he's hitting himself towards a massive
02:19massive payday sometime very soon yeah and i just can't get get over his stories i gotta like
02:24barely played college baseball because the ivy league you know forfeited two seasons there during
02:29covid like what a scouting success by the yankees what a development success by rice and the yankees and
02:35i mean what a leap to make this year he was great last year and he's i he's elite this
02:40year it's been
02:41not that far off from yordan which is the craziest part and i think the interesting thing with him is
02:47the extension conversation is unique because he debuted at 25 years old and he's still in pre-arbit
02:5327 years old so you don't necessarily need to but i think you could end up buying out a couple
02:58years
02:58here uh for a guy that would probably love to to just you know get get a lump sum up
03:02front it's not
03:02like he signed for his 125 000 signing bonus out of college too um again i think the yankees could
03:08end up leveraging that and locking him up for a good amount of time here and it looks like
03:12you know this guy's going to be a a powerful slugger for a long time
03:15you
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