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00:03 The baseball has changed.
00:04 All right, it's changed.
00:05 Everything's about launch angle now, right?
00:08 Hit home runs.
00:09 The analytics report said you can't hit three singles
00:11 in a row to drive in a run.
00:12 No one does it anymore.
00:12 You gotta hit home runs.
00:13 So it's easier to find here.
00:15 The question is, can you find it
00:17 not to the detriment of average, right?
00:19 That's always the issue here.
00:20 Back in the day, what?
00:23 You need to have about 278 average to win that, right?
00:25 Maybe leave it a little higher.
00:26 Now it's gone down to 260s, even to high 250s.
00:29 There's no one's worried about average anymore.
00:31 It's a dead stat.
00:32 All right, generally on base is more important than average,
00:35 which I would agree with, by the way,
00:36 and as far as the game of baseball is concerned.
00:39 Walks are just as good as a single, right?
00:41 Except the fact you go to first and third, whatever.
00:43 Stanton.
00:44 Now he got svelter.
00:47 Not that he wasn't, of course he wasn't out of shape.
00:49 He was probably too in shape, right?
00:51 That was always, he was, you know, Atlas.
00:53 You know, I mean, he was carved out of marble there.
00:57 They were thinking that was bad for him.
00:58 Or that's good and bad for any baseball player
01:00 to be too cut up.
01:01 You need to be flexible.
01:02 So they're thinking that's going to help him this year,
01:04 help him stay healthy.
01:06 He's still a statue at the plate, right?
01:07 You throw that sweeper, he's gonna swing out,
01:09 he's gonna miss it.
01:10 You know, that sort of thing.
01:11 But he does look better.
01:12 The problem with Stanton is going to be this.
01:14 When's the injury happening, Davis?
01:16 Today?
01:17 Next week?
01:18 Next month?
01:19 We know it's coming.
01:20 If he stays, if you were to tell me,
01:22 all right, Davis comes down,
01:23 I am a fantasy baseball god,
01:25 I bequeath that Giancarlo Stanton will play 135 games.
01:28 He will hit 40 plus home runs.
01:30 There's little doubt about that.
01:31 Little doubt.
01:32 The question is going to be injury.
01:33 How, when's it coming?
01:35 How many times is it coming?
01:36 Once?
01:37 Twice?
01:38 Is it coming for a week?
01:39 Two weeks?
01:40 A month?
01:40 We don't know.
01:41 That's always the issue with Stanton.
01:42 So that's the gamble.
01:43 If you think he's going to stay healthy
01:44 or even relatively healthy, yes,
01:46 he'll hit you 35, 40 bombs.
01:48 Easy, easy.
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01:52 (bells chiming)