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Good morning, good afternoon, good evening. Wherever you are, I am losing my voice. Genji

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knows this, but what an intro. We're going to do today's a special episode, our Homer

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draft. So first, before we get into it, we're going to give kudos to the guys at Talkin

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Baseball because they do a modified version of the Homer draft every year. We've changed

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a couple of rules and so we're changing it up. So we draft every team essentially, but

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we're really excited to do it. It's purely based on how many Homers a player hits. So

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we have a roster, we're going to go run through it after I let Genji speak for a minute, go

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through the roster and exactly what the criteria are. But long story short, it's just Homers.

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Genji, how you doing? You excited? I'm doing great. This is a, I'm pretty excited to do

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this. I know because this is kind of spontaneous for us. We're definitely going to miss some

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guys or we're going to mess up big time, but that's the fun of it. You know, I think everything

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draft related or anything fun that we've done so far has been pretty spontaneous for us.

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And that's just, I think what we're about. We're just a spontaneous group of lads who

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just want to have a good time talking baseball. So let's get into this. A couple of spontaneous

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lads. That's right. So I'll run down the rosters really fast. So we have a catcher, first base,

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second base, shortstop, third base, middle infield, corner infield, four outfielders,

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one designated hitter, and then three bench spots. So the bench obviously doesn't matter

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as much as just kind of like after you fill out your starting roster, who do you want

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on the bench? But as I said earlier, the only criteria is hit Homers. That's all you got

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to do. If you can hit Homers, you're going to be, you're going to, you're going to win

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the draft. So it's not like we're counting war. We're not counting RBIs. We're not counting

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batting average. How many homers does your player take or does your player hit? And then

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that'll determine who wins. It's pretty straightforward. That's it. That's it. Okay. Well, I mean,

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Kenji's shorter. Kenji has less facial hair. And Kenji was not born in the United States.

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So Kenji is going to draft first. I'm going to give him the first pick in the draft and

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then we're just going to alternate back and forth. Okay. And, uh, all right. I'm just

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going to go, uh, I'm going to go Aaron Judge then. Yeah, that's a pretty good one. I think

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that's the, uh, I think that's a great pick for me. So I'm going to go Aaron Judge. You

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said how many DHS we get? Just one, one DH one and then four outfield, right? Yep. Okay.

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Then yeah, with my first pick, I will be selecting Aaron Judge, uh, New York Yankees. So the

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Yankees are off the board. Is that for both of us? Yep. For both of us. Yankees are off

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the board. So there's some strategy to this. There's a Yankees are, once you take a team,

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they're off the board. So you can't take them any longer. So we're going to end up taking

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28 teams. So two teams will be left out. I don't know who they'll be, but somebody's

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going to be left out. Somebody's going to have their feelings hurt. Uh, I love that

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Kenji came here from another country. Okay. Before anybody gets mad at me for being anti-immigration.

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Kenji is my best friend. He is the best man in my wedding. I love the guy to death. I'm

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allowed to say that. He's okay. Right. My next, my, my next pick, I guess my first pick,

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uh, I feel like it's kind of a no brainer. Uh, I'm going to take Shohei Otani of the

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Dodgers. Yeah. Uh, I mean, he went 50 50 last year. You just can't, I can't pass him up.

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Right. I think you're an idiot if you do. Yeah. I think I'd be stupid if I passed him

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up. So this is your DH then. That's he's just my DH. So I do fill up the DH spot really

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early, but you can't take anybody but Shohei there. Right. I don't think you really can.

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I know you would have snatched him up if I passed on him. Yeah, I was definitely going

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to take Shohei. Yeah. 100%. Um, man, this strategy thing is hard, but, uh, just to make

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sure that I don't screw myself in this position, I'm going to go, uh, cow Raleigh. Wow. I was,

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that's what I was going to take next, dude. Yeah. Dang. I'll be, uh, going to get me what

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around 35 this year. I'll give you 30 easy. Yeah. So I'm going to go cow. Dang it. That's

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a really good pick. Thank you. Thank you. Well, now I can wait on catcher. You definitely

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can. Yeah. I can wait on catcher. Um, I kind of want to be a douche bag. I'm afraid of

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what you're about to say. I'm going to take Bobby. What? Oh my gosh. Kansas city Royals.

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Oh, you're an a-hole man. So Kenji today was texting me. He's got tickets to opening day

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in Kansas city. He's very excited. So I had to snipe Bobby with junior from him right

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here. Uh, you snake bro. I don't, I just don't feel good with anybody else from Kansas city.

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I just, you're not going to take gunner Henderson at shortstop. I like Bobby Whitman. I'm taking

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Bobby with that's ridiculous. That's ridiculous. You know what? Then I'm going to make it.

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I'm going to take gunner Henderson. You want to make sure that you can't get a middle infield

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spot and get gunner and Bobby. So give me gunner Henderson at shortstop. You need gunner

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Henderson right now. My starting shortstop. You're going to make a bunch of errors, but

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doesn't matter. Cause we're all about homers. We're all about homers. All about homers.

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That's a good pick. I mean, I would have taken gunner next, but yeah, I had to go with Whitman.

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I feel like the O's have other guys that could hit with pop. Uh, maybe not to a gunner's

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level, but nobody on the Royals can hit with way. At least I feel like no disrespect. South

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Pop Perez had a great year. Vinny Pascuentino isn't as much of a pop guy. I like Whit to

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take a step forward and keep hitting bombs. I agree. Uh, this is kind of a bold one. Uh,

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for scarcity's reason, um, I'm going to take LA de la Cruz, Cincinnati Reds. I like him.

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He's going to fill up my middle infield and I don't feel good about anybody else on the

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Reds. So that's my guy. Interesting. Okay. I can't say that I'm opposed to that. I think,

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uh, man, thinking about the teams is hard because you kind of want to, I have to somehow

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screw you at the same time. Yes. Well, without screwing myself, tough decision, but uh, it'll

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get trickier later for sure. It does, but I'm going to go, uh, I'm going to go Jose

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Ramirez at third base. Ooh, it's a good pick. Cleveland really has nobody else on the roster

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that can hit. So, uh, gimme, uh, gimme him. I like that a lot. Good choice. There's a

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lot of good choices left. There still is. There still is. I don't, I don't need to touch

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catcher's so I'm going to, I'm going to hold off. I'm going to go Fernando Tatis Jr. Wow.

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Not Machado, huh? Nah, Tatis. Can you have more homers? I'm taking Tatis, man. I need,

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I got four outfield spots to fill. I'll take it. Okay. I feel pretty good so far, man.

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Bobby Witt, Ellie Tatis, and Otani. I feel pretty good. It is a pretty good list. It

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is a pretty good list. I, uh, I'm going to go with one of my outfield spots. I'm going

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to go Anthony Santander. Ooh, the Toronto Blue Jays. Yeah. He's definitely going to

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hit more homers than Vlad will. Takes out an infielder at first baseman for us. So,

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uh, I'm going to go Santander. Okay. Okay. I'm looking at the list of teams and I'm

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trying to think of who I like at each one. It is difficult. It is. Yeah, it's not easy.

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I'm going to take, oh boy. This is tough. This is tough. I'm going to go Jordán Álvarez

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for the Astros. Okay. Okay. Okay. That's just the easy one. I wasn't sure. I was, I

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was undecided between a couple teams. Got to go Jordán. All right. I got mine. Mine's

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going to be Cattel Marte from the Diamondbacks. Good pick. Good pick. He's a good one. Great

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value at second base, honestly. All right. Who you got? You're making, you're making

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these choices too fast, man. You keep turning them around to me. I know. I'm just popping

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them off as fast as I can. I'm stuck between two teams, two second basemen. Yeah. Actually,

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what am I doing? I don't need it. You, you just took a second baseman. I'm okay. I'm

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going to take Austin Riley of the Braves. Dang bro. You're going to take a Braves guy

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on me? Yep. That really sucks. That really sucks. I got to be honest. I really was looking

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for some Braves guys right there. Yeah. I know you were probably looking at a few of

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them. Okay. So can we take guys who are going to play a different position upcoming year?

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What does that mean? Like Alex Bregman's projected to play second base. So can I take him as

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a middle infielder? Does that count? Sure. Why not? Sure. I don't know. How many, what's

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his projected homers is here? Probably get him out with that big green monster. 22. Dang,

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that kind of sucks. That is not the number I was looking for. Oh shucks, man. This is

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when it's going to start getting fun. Very good. Yeah. Let's go. Let's go. Corey Seeger.

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I don't see much else. I'm going to go with that with my middle infielder spot. Yeah,

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that's a good pick. The Rangers. He's definitely going to be the one that probably hits the

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most. Maybe Garcia, maybe, maybe Jake Berger. That's a pretty good pick right there. All

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right. What you got? I'm going to take Bryce Harper. Bryce Harper. Dude, that sucks. Got

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to take the Phillies off the board, man. Bryce Harper. Okay. Then in that case, I'm going

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to go, uh, please, please, please. Give me Pete Alonso. Oh, okay. Damn. Give me Pete

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Alonso. I think you'll get more homers in Soto. Dang it, dude. Were you eyeing him?

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Yeah, I was going to go for Soto. Shoulda, coulda, woulda, huh? I know. I was going to

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go for Soto. Man. Give me Kyle Tucker. Kyle Tucker of the Chicago Cubs. Okay. I'm fine

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with that. I feel so good about my outfield. All righty. Um, let's see. Let's go with,

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let's go to Brent Rooker. Okay. DH. I'm afraid that you were maybe going to take Butler to

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get him in the outfield just to screw me. I was thinking about it. Let's just, uh, let's,

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let's keep that away. Let's get 40 homers on my team. And we'll go from there. I like

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it. I like it. So we're going to, I'm going to pause for a second. So I'm on the clock.

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Uh, we'll, we'll read off the rosters because we were blasting through this. Um, and, uh,

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yeah, kind of have a little halftime show. So Kenji, uh, do you want to walk us through

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your team? Do you have your team written down? Yeah. Yeah. I got it written down. So right

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now I've got Cal Raleigh at catcher, Pete Alonso at first base, Katel Marte at second

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base, Gunnar Henderson at short, Jose Ramirez at third, uh, as a middle infield spot, I

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got Corey Seeger. And as my two outfielders, I got Aaron Judge and Anthony Santander with

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my DH spot being Brent Rooker. So, uh, solid. Kind of, kind of amazing if you ask me. Solid

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team. Uh, I'm going to, so I have not taken a catcher yet. I have Bryce Harper playing

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first base. I don't have a second baseman. I have Bobby Witt at short, Austin Riley at

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third, LA de la Cruz as my middle infielder. I don't have a corner infielder yet. Uh, I

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have Fernando Tatis Jr, Jordán Alvarez and Kyle Tucker as three of my four outfield spots

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and Shohei Otani as my DH. So I feel pretty good at this point. I have, I could get totally

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screwed over though if I, uh, don't make these next few choices right. So I gotta make them,

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I gotta make it happen. What you got? Corner infield, second base catcher. I think there's

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one catcher that's left that kind of stands above the rest. And I think you would try

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to screw me if I passed here. So I have to go William Contreras. Okay. That's probably

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a good pick. I have to be 25 homers. Yeah. Just a solid number. I mean, he's not going

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to get where Raleigh is, but he's going to give you a good amount. I feel good about

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that. The only other, I mean, for those, uh, that are listening, which I guess is everybody,

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uh, the only teams left are the Rays, Red Sox, Twins, Tigers, Nationals, Cardinals,

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Giants, Angels, Rockies, Pirates, White Sox and Marlins. So I'm going to go Tristan Casas.

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Yeah, there it is. Yeah. Kenji's a fan boy of Tristan Casas, man. Love that guy. He is

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looking beefy. You seen him, dude? He looks huge. If he's fat or if he's muscled up, but

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one of them, he looks bigger. That's all I'm saying. Kenji loves a beefy dude. What you

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got? I have to go middle infield. I have to go second base and corner infield. Basically

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that's what I'm down to. Second base and a corner infield. Um, this is tough now. This

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is really tough. Second base. Yeah. You got what? Christopher Morel right now is what

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he's doing. Um, Connor Norby, Brandon Lau, or Dyer. That might not be a bad pick. That's

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Is he the best though? Uh, or Nolan Gorman just hoping that he remembers how to learn

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to do. It's rough out here, man. It is very rough what you got going on. It's rough at

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second base. I mean, I think Morel could give me 20 bombs. I'm not going to take him. Yeah.

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You have two outfield. Can I screw you at all? Cause you need two outfield. Not really.

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Cause there's not really, cause the two guys I'm ironing are. Yeah. I screwed myself cause

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I took too many outfielders. Yeah. Oh boy. I think taking a chance on Nolan Gorman's

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probably your best shot, right? Cause it sounds so bad. That sounds so bad. I mean, 29 projected

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29 homers with a two, 222 average, he's going to strike out like crazy, but when he makes

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contact the ball flies and they're terrible this year. So he's probably going to get every

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opportunity to play. Man, it's either Gleyber Torres or Christopher Morel. I'm sorry. I

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can't do Nolan Gorman. Is Detroit hitters park? No, it's the total opposite. It's a

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chasm. Gleyber did hit what? 30 something home runs a couple of years ago, right? Yeah.

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I'm going to go Christopher Morel. I'm going to go Morel. Wow. Okay. Tiny park in Tampa.

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They're playing a big league spring training facility. I don't feel good about it, but

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I had, I mean, Tampa, I had to get somebody and I can move Morel around a little bit.

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Okay. I reserve the right to draft somebody later and swap him in his spot. I'm going

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to go a Lubop from the Chicago white Sox. Okay. As my third outfielder feeling pretty

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good about that. I'm thinking 30 homers from him too. So, uh, gimme, gimme Lubop who you

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got. I gotta go corner now, corner infield or outfield. This is, I like Royce Lewis.

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Hmm. And the twins. I like Royce Lewis. Problem is, problem is Chapman is very good, but you

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might laugh. I'm going to take Ryan McMahon of the Colorado Rockies. Wow. The Coors effect.

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Give me 30 bombs from Ryan McMahon. I'm giving me 30 bombs from Ryan McMahon. My last outfield

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pick. I think, uh, I don't, I think this is pretty obvious who I've go. Who do you think

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I would go with here? Your last outfield? Yeah. You think it's obvious? I think it's

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pretty obvious. I mean, he's probably going to be, yeah, Mike trout going Mike trout here.

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Okay. I mean, that's a good one. It's, it's kind of sad. This is as late as he goes, but

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you just can't trust that he'll be on the field. That's the problem. It's a shame. I'm

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curious. Do you really think him going to right field will make that big of a difference

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in his health? Yeah. I don't know. I mean, he just doesn't have to run as much, but it's

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like a marginal amount of less running. It's not crazy. Like if they, it's great that they

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brought Jorge Saler because he's probably going to hit like 25 homers, but yeah. Yeah.

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So, ideally, I think you would want trout to play DH like a couple of times a week,

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you know? Yeah. But having Jorge Saler that Jorge, Jorge Saler. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow.

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It kind of, kind of makes it difficult. I know he played outfield for the Braves last

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year, right? When they brought him, yeah. Cause he brought him in, they traded him it's

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season, I think, or at the all-star break. And he played outfield for them for the playoffs

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in the second half of the season. But, I don't know. I just feel like if Mike Trav got an

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opportunity to DH a couple of times a week, you could probably guarantee him to play most

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of the season. But I don't know, man. But anyway, who, who you got as your, so the last,

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the last of my starting lineup, it's down to the team's left, Twins, Tigers, Nats, Cardinals,

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Giants, Pirates, Marlins. I got to take an outfielder. This is kind of a fun pick for

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me. Riley Green, Kerry Carpenter. I'm going to take James Wood. James Wood, really? How

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many pops? James Wood, baby. 25. He's got a lot of pop. Yeah, he's got a lot of pop.

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Give me, give me, give me Woody. Give me a Woody. Okay. Okay. Let's calm down. Let's

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calm down now. All right. Let's calm down. Okay. You want to read off your starting lineup

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and then we'll do the bench? Yeah. Yeah. That sounds great to me. Okay. So I've got Cal

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Rowley at catcher. Pete Alonso at first base. Cattel Marte at second base. Gunnar Henderson

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at short. Jose Ramirez at third base. My corner infield spy. I got Tristan Casas, middle infield,

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and Robert Seeger. My four outfielders are Aaron Judge, Anthony Santander, Luis Robert

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Jr., Mike Trout, and at DH I got Brent Rooker. You feel pretty good about that. I can tell

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by your reaction. You feel pretty good. My team is insane, dude. My team is unreal right

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here. William Contreras, Bryce Harper, Christopher Morrell, Bobby Wett Jr., Austin Riley, LA

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Cruz, Ryan McMahon, Fernando Tatis Jr., Jordan Alvarez, Kyle Tucker, James Wood, Shohei Otani.

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Both of them are fantastic. Both teams are great. We'll have to revisit this at the end

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of the year. Do like a check-in at the All-Star break because both these teams are fantastic.

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I think we got to do a projection of how many homers we expect these guys to hit in combined.

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Oh boy. That's a lot. So go through it right now. Just like real quick, real quick. Just

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kind of try and figure out how many homers you think these guys are going to hit. Sure.

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While you make your next pick, I'll do it. Are we doing one bench? We have three bench.

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Three bench spots? Oh, I forgot we have three bench. Yep. Oh shoot. Come on, man. Okay,

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then I'll go Riley Green. This is a good pick. Give me Riley Green. How many did Gunner hit?

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35 last year? 35, 36. Okay. So it's the Tigers off the board. I'm going to take, boy, this

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is Royce Lewis or Willie Adamus? Willie because Willie's healthy. Okay. It's my first bench

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pick. Wait. Oh, he's for this. He's on the Giants now. Yep. This this one might be a

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surprise. Let me make sure I have his name correct. Here we go. There's Trevor Ploove

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talks really highly of him. I'm going to take I'm going to take Matt Wallner. Wow. From

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the twins. They're saying he's got potential to hit 30 homers. He's got serious power.

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So I'm going to trust in him that he knows what he's talking about. Okay. I'm going to

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take a chance on him. Okay. Yeah. That's a good pick because if he didn't take him, I

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was going to take Royce Lewis. Right. So I kind of expected. We're going to take all

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30 teams. Yeah, we're going to take all 30. I thought we were going to miss two Cardinals,

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Pirates and Marlins are left. Cardinals, Pirates and Marlins. I'll take O'Neill Cruz. That's

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a good pick. Not sure what to what I expect out of him. Maybe 20 but I'll take 20 out

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of him. He should be giving you so much more realistically. He's got all the potential

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to be a 30 30 player. We'll see if he stays healthy but I'm going to like pencil them

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in for 20. That's what I'll get. Okay. So we got St. Louis and Miami now. Yep. Those

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are the last two. All right. Then I think it's pretty the only guy that really has a

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chance to do anything for either team is a guy who just can't seem to figure it out.

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But we've heard great things about him and it's going to be Jordan Walker. Okay. Apparently

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fix his swing and he's got a chance to do something great. So let's buy into that one

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more time. Let's say 25 homers. Heck yeah. Take from the Miami Marlins buddy with the

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last pick in the draft. Mr. Irrelevant. Boy, they didn't they didn't do anything in the

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offseason today. I mean, who's their projected Connor Norby or Kyle's towers is your two

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options. That's what that's what you read. That's what I see right now projected is there's

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not Jesus Sanchez. I feel like Sanchez is probably the next best guy. You think so?

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Yeah. I'll go. Hey, Jesus Sanchez. Okay. Okay. Hey, Jesus Sanchez. How many did he hit last

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year? I don't even know. I can check for you real quick. Please. He had 18 last year. Oh,

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Connor Norby's projected 21. Actually, yeah. And Stowers is 19 and then Hey, Sue Sanchez

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is 18. I'll go back and I'll change to Norby. Okay. So I gave I gave him really rough estimates

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and I just had it spit out a sum for me. Yeah. I have 413 homers from my team. 113 homers.

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Okay. Let me see. I wrote down numbers next to all of my guys. Kenji's got to do manual

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math. Here we go. Yeah, put it in the calculator. Insert the Jeopardy audio right here. Can

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you get any more jankier than this? This is jank. This is bad. Let us know in the comments,

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man. Rate and review. Kenji's team versus my team. He's got Cal Raleigh, Pete Alonso,

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Ketel Marte, Gunnar Henderson, Jose Ramirez, Corey Seeger, Tristan Costas, Aaron Judge,

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Anthony Santander, Luis Robert Jr., Mike Trout, and Brent Rooker with his bench being Riley

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Green, Matt Wallner, and Walker. Okay. All right. All right. So how many say you're projected?

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413. 413. Well, I have you beating you by over 100 homeruns. I have myself getting 516

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homers from my team. What are you talking about? You want to hear what I got? What am

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I... Yeah. How many did you pencil in for everybody? I'll tell you right now. For Cal

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Raleigh, I got 35. Pete Alonso, I got 37. Wow. Ketel Marte, I got 28. I think he'll drop

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off a little bit from the last year's 30. Gunnar Henderson, 37. Jose, 38. Tristan Costas,

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31. Seeger, 34. Aaron Judge, 60. Santander, 38. Luis Robert, 30. Mike Trout, 30. Brent

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Rooker, 40. Riley Green, 24. Matt Wallner, 29. And Jordan Walker, 25. Comes out to 516

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homeruns for the 25th... What are you... Oh my goodness, dude. I feel like I have to go

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revise all my numbers. You got guys like Christopher Morale, Ellie De La Cruz, James Wood, who

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aren't going to hit more than 25 homers. Okay. You got too many just mid-tier hitters. I've

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got some serious... Mid-tier hitters. Dude, half your team you predicted... You just said

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J-Ram 38 homers. Yeah. What did he hit last year? Like 35? I thought he was like 30. I

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thought he was at 30. Was it? I thought he hit higher. Man. Am I tripping? No, he hit

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39 homers last year. Wow. Yeah, because he almost had that 40-40-40... Yeah, that's a

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lot, dude. 50 season. Yeah, 40-40, yeah. Okay. Well, if everybody's healthy, I'm making adjustments

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to my numbers. Okay. I was trying to bake in. Let me see what I think I can put up for

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you. I still don't think... I think you probably have me in projected. I have 450 with updated

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base numbers. I think my team beats yours on a given night, but... You're crazy, dude.

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You're crazy. Your delusion of my team is so much better than yours. Our fans are going

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to tell you again that Kenji's right. Again? Yeah. Yeah, what was it? My prediction? I'm

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going to keep track of this now just because you're talking crap about this. Dude, I'm telling

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you, man. How many... You penciled Matt Walner in for 30 and Jordan Walker in for 25? Yeah.

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It got potential, dude. That's so crazy, dude. We'll see. We'll see. I could be so wrong

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waiting in the air, or I could be so right. We'll just see. Only time will tell. So what's

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the winner-loser about this? What are we betting? Yeah. Is there a bet on this? Is there something

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on the line for this? I don't know if there's anything on the line for this. What do you

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want to bet? Like a hat? No, that's too much for you? We could do a hat of the guy that...

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Of the guy? Of a team? Of a team player that we picked that what we were most right about

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that outdid their expectations. I can't wait for Christopher Morrell to hit 30 bombs and

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make you eat your words. I projected for him like 15 homers this year. Yeah, that was where

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my draft started to take a turn. When we were looking at second base, it was either Nolan

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Gorman, Christopher Morrell. He had 26 two years ago in Chicago. He did. He did. But

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hey, the Rays can fix a lot of players. Maybe they can fix Morrell because he's flashed

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a lot in his career. You just can't ever seem to put it together for a full time and he

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just sucks at defense. Yeah. Now let me ask you real quick before we go. Is there anybody

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like with the teams that I chose that you would have chosen differently? Like a different

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guy from the team? Yeah. Like a Matt Olsen instead of Austin Riley, that kind of thing?

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I definitely would have gone with Matt Olsen. I would have used the Rays for Junior Caminero

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because I think his projected home runs are way lower. I think I would have picked Michael

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Tolya over McMahon. I think he's just, I think McMahon's a more rounded out hitter, but it

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seems like Tolya is just a bigger pop guy. I think I've heard that he has the most pop

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in Colorado. Okay. With your outfield, I can't complain. The Cubs, it's Tucker. There's no

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doubt about it. Yeah. And the Nationals, I mean, yeah, it's James Wood. I mean, no one

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else is going yard over 20. Yeah. And so no, maybe the Giants, I would have picked someone

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else. Like Matt Chapman? Matt Chapman. I think Elliott Ramos has got some serious pop. I

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don't know how Willie will do in the Giants field, but besides that, I mean, there really

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isn't much. Yeah. Cal Raleigh early was really good for you. Yeah. I can't believe you're

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penciling Lubav in for as many as you are. I am. I'm projecting him to get traded this

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year, which is why I think he's going to. I hope. 30-30 season he had a couple of years

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ago. I hope to everything, Trout stays healthy just for the sake of baseball. I don't think

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J Ram goes 39 115 again. I don't think I think he realistically, I think he hits like 34

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home runs, but I'm just riding the high. Okay. All right. I don't hate it. You got a good

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team. We'll see how the season plays out. I'm going to keep track of this. I promise you.

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We'll see. But that's our episode. That's the draft. That's the Homer draft. Thanks

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talking baseball for the idea. We changed up the rules just a little bit, but that's

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the format. And yeah, let us know whose team is better rate and review us wherever you

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watch or listen to your podcasts. And that's a, that's it for the episode. Anything else

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you want to leave them with? Can't you? You want me to ask you something random? Sure.

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Does baseball have a comeback player of the year? I think they do. They really? Yeah.

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Okay. Jacob de Grom, Shane McClanahan. Which one? Hmm. I think there's going to be two

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of them, huh? Shane McClane and cause he'll play, they'll pitch more probably. Okay. Shane

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McClane and A.L. Rook, A.L. Comeback player of the year. I love it. Perfect. All right.

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Thank you guys for listening and we will catch you all on Thursday.