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00:05 Let's go to a guy now that I think will revisit this conversation at the end of the season.
00:09 I think he's going to be a top seven second baseman. I really do.
00:13 You put me on to him last season, and now I think it's going to be a really good team, actually.
00:19 But I'll let you take it away from here. Let's go to Minnesota.
00:21 Yeah, Edward Julian, a player we were very much on last year, and did come up there,
00:27 struggled a little bit, but if you look at what he then came back and finished strong with the Minnesota Twins,
00:32 I think it flew under the radar the last couple months of the season.
00:35 All of a sudden, those numbers look pretty good if you look at what he did.
00:38 So let's go back and take a look at the 109 games that he had that sample size.
00:41 60 RBI for Edward Julian in Minnesota, 16 homers, just three steals, but he hit 260.
00:47 I think the batting average there for him could be much better, potentially.
00:51 He is a very solid player. Another player you go back and look at the minor league track record,
00:56 260-plus games, 285 batting average. Check out this OBP, 437, Matt.
01:02 Now, we had a 381 OBP last year for the Minnesota Twins.
01:06 This guy gets on base. If you are in formats and fantasy that play OBP instead of batting average,
01:13 Edward Julian is a guy that you have to circle because this dude is going to get on base.
01:17 He has his entire career in the minor leagues and even in the major leagues when he struggled.
01:21 He had a 459 slugging last year at the big league level, but 487 at the minor league level for his career,
01:27 so there's a little bit of room to grow there. I'm going to make a comp, and it's not exactly in terms of,
01:32 you know, this guy's left-handed as opposed to the other guy I'm going to talk about being right-handed.
01:36 But in terms of that steady second base statistical presence in fantasy,
01:42 Jose Vidro, once upon a time of the Montreal Expos, was a guy that, right, Jose Vidro,
01:49 you could lock that guy in for some decent power numbers, solid average OBP skills.
01:55 You just lock that guy in. You know, I don't think he's quite the power ceiling of an Edgardo Alfonso back in those days,
02:03 but Jose Vidro was another guy that I think people would love to always have on their teams,
02:07 very steady, almost slump-proof kind of guy. But Julian, I think, could be this generation's version of Jose Vidro
02:15 where every, you know, every year you slot him in, you know exactly what you're getting.
02:19 And I think when you look at the young players they have, not just Royce Lewis, but Julian as well,
02:25 and that rotation, the Minnesota Twins are going to be a lot too. The Twins, the Seattle Mariners,
02:30 everybody's talking about the Yankees, everybody's talking about, you know, some of these bigger market teams,
02:35 but I'd be very much paying attention to the two teams with the really good young players on it
02:40 and the really good deep rotations, and it's the Twins and it's the Mariners, man.
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