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00:00I'll jump over to the Baltimore Orioles, a team that certainly
00:03is absolutely loaded in this lineup from start to finish and
00:06even added to it in the offseason by getting Tyler
00:08O'Neal, who's now actually well-traveled. You would say
00:11George, what three teams and in three years for O'Neal is going
00:14to bat in the middle of that lineup. My gosh, I mean, if
00:17healthy is always the thing with him, but my gosh, if healthy,
00:20it's a hundred runs driven in George on this team. Gunner
00:23Henderson, MVP candidate, first round pick in fantasy baseball
00:25leads it off. Adley Rutschman, Ryan O'Hearn. I mean, you
00:30really can't go wrong. Mountcastle's a big home run
00:32threat. Westbrook, really good at the bottom of the lineup.
00:34And by the way, Jackson Holloway, he's going to ease
00:36holiday. He's going to start batting ninth, but who knows?
00:39Like, I mean, he could be batting first by the end of the
00:41season. And by the way, they also have Sam Basayo, who if
00:45they decide to play at some point, he's like the top-ranked
00:47catcher from a prospect perspective in fantasy too. So
00:50the hits just keep on coming for Baltimore. I know their
00:52fans are upset. They're like, why don't we, you know, go all
00:55in on this stuff, but this is just not going to be the Orioles
00:58way. This is how they're going to do business. They want to
01:00compete every year. They just don't like giving up the
01:02prospects and simply put, as we'll see from the pitching,
01:06they're going to have to piece it together once again.
01:09This is the Mets all over again. It's the Mets. I mean,
01:12we know you can hit, you're not going to hit as well as the
01:14Mets here. Henderson's an MVP candidate, did trail off the
01:17second half of last year, at least the last third of last
01:20year wasn't the same player. Roachman didn't have the year
01:22last year. We thought he was going to have, I think he will
01:24be better this year. Roachman will have no problem drafting
01:27him as a top-three catcher. I think he rebounds here. Let's
01:30not forget, they brought the fences up again, in, and left
01:33the OVM. All right, not massively, but they brought it
01:36in now. Back and up. I mean, whatever. It's kind of ridiculous
01:39there, but should be a little bit better hitting for this
01:41team. They'll hit. You know, I've got too many youngsters
01:44here between O'Hearn, Kauser, Westbrook. I mean, they're not
01:48all going to hit. Some are going to struggle here. I think the
01:50Oil screwed up massively here. You have too many young players
01:53here. We did, you mentioned one prospect, they have others
01:55here. You need to trade another guy or two here. You can't let
01:58Burns, you need another pitcher in addition to Burns. All right,
02:01and you let him go and you didn't have anybody. I mean,
02:04you've taken another step behind the Yankees. Hell, I think
02:07Boston may have bashed you. All right. So I just, I'm just
02:10disappointed, Craig, because I think they, I think they made
02:13a huge mistake. They had a chance to really go for it,
02:15really. Yeah. I mean, come on. You've been bad for so long
02:19now. You could have been that team in the American League.
02:21You have to really threat the Yankees year after year after
02:23year and you blew it. In my mind, you blew it here. You
02:26can't, you're not, once again, you're not going to win games
02:288-6, 8-6, 9-7 over and over again here. Love the lineup.
02:31They're going to hit, you know, I don't mind having a couple
02:34of these guys, but too many young players. It's going to
02:36be a headache at times.
02:37Yeah, and they did upgrade the pitching. I mean, let's not
02:41get it twisted here. They doubt their pitching staff going
02:43into this year may not be better than last year because
02:45of Burns, but they did from their upgrade by putting Zach
02:49Eflin in this rotation, who is good for 150 innings and like
02:5350 strikeouts, but Zach Eflin is there. Grayson Rodriguez
02:57is this year. He takes like that step. We're waiting for
03:01Charlie Morton, Dean Kramer, and then Sugano, who they added
03:04to, who'll be in the back end of the rotation. They also
03:06have some other options there too. Trevor Rogers, who's
03:09the player who they traded for last year. I know they'd
03:11like to see him make the next step, but George, isn't it
03:13funny with Charlie Morton? We're playing the is he retirement
03:16game on? Are we on your six of this or five of this? Like
03:19how many seasons did we did we hear? Oh, he wants to be home
03:23and with his family and this is it and now he wants to just
03:26play, you know, with Houston or don't know. He wants to stay
03:30with Tampa Bay and and here he is. He's back again. And this
03:33time with the Orioles. I mean, no, if I like Charlie Morton,
03:36he's a friend of mine, but I can't trust anything. This guy
03:39says anymore. I don't think he's ever going to retire
03:42because what you said is because Charlie Morton was when
03:44you said it, right? He's going to said he was going to and
03:46now we get five years ago. I don't blame him. I said as long
03:50as people are going to pay me on the pitch. It's really that
03:52simple for me. I don't know a bitch. I'm going to play the
03:54game here. But what they have a whole lot of guy. We definitely
03:57needs to be perfect or he's going to get racked. Charlie
04:00Morton is a five and fly guy. You're praying for a quality
04:03start, you know, six innings three runs. You'll take that
04:05run, but a lot of time. He's gonna be five, you know, five
04:07plus and he's three four runs here. You know, you got you
04:11mentioned Trevor Rogers. They couldn't wait to get out to
04:13dump back in the Miners last year because he was terrible
04:15for them. Dean Kramer's nothing special here. I do like
04:18Grayson Rodriguez. I think he can take that next step, but
04:21they better hope he does because if he doesn't like I said,
04:24this is a whole lot of prayers here. This is a we're praying
04:27that Henderson's going to have 45 home runs, right? That
04:29Royce was going to have that rebound year 35 and all these
04:31other youngsters are going to hit because we're going to need
04:33to out hit teams with the bullpen is okay, but it's not
04:37truly special where it's going to be locked down. It's going
04:39to it's going to be tasked because most of these starters
04:41are not going deep into games here. What's that? What's good?
04:45We can say that for every team by the way, just that's where
04:46the 2025 baseball is. All right, so it's really a five and
04:50fly game and have the next related to a thousand miles an
04:52hour. I don't like it, but that's the way it is. Yeah, it
04:55is. But Charlie Morton, by the way, his debut was the year
04:59that the iPhone came out. It's true. And the closer by the
05:04way, I mean, this is a, you know, somebody that I definitely
05:07would target is Felix Bautista. I know that there's going to
05:10be some that shy away from him because he's been out for a
05:12season, but he is full go. He could have came back. I think
05:14at the end of the last season, I'm getting your canoe. I
05:17think it's fine, right? Like he was their eighth inning guy.
05:19I mean, I know eight and nine was they were fantastic last
05:22year. I mean their their canoe was so I do think that that
05:26is a target for me. Bautista was one of the best closures
05:29in baseball. Generally, this injury doesn't cause issues
05:31to that position. So I feel strongly about him.