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00:00Great.
00:01We already have two games in the books.
00:02The Tokyo series is over here.
00:04How are you feeling about it?
00:06Are you worried about Moki Betts and the illness?
00:07Are you worried about Freddie Freeman and the intercostal injury there?
00:12How do you feel about Sasaki, who really couldn't, from what I saw, couldn't find the strike zone
00:16with the secondary pitchers there, Yamamoto, how has anything changed for you after watching
00:22the two games in Tokyo?
00:26Getting into the draft season back in January, February, I was really out on Freddie Freeman.
00:33I'm concerned.
00:35The intercostal you mentioned, he had the ankle surgery.
00:39He's already, I believe he's 37 or about to turn 37.
00:44I'm really nowhere near Freddie Freeman when it comes to, for fantasy, I feel like if you
00:51can get a different first baseman for around maybe a third of his price, I feel like you're
00:58probably going to do yourself better.
01:00Say a Jake Berger or a Christian Walker, someone who's going to give you power, you find the
01:06average somewhere else, you find the runs, because really at this point, Freddie Freeman
01:11is just really about the runs and the average.
01:15I'm nowhere near him.
01:16With the ankle surgery, I don't think he's going to run at all.
01:20As for Mookie Batts, I'm not really concerned.
01:22I feel like it was a fluky thing.
01:24I don't know.
01:25He had an illness.
01:26He went over there.
01:27He flew right back.
01:29I'm not really concerned about Mookie Batts.
01:32I think Roki and Yoshinobu, the two Japanese starters for the Dodgers, I'm a little bit
01:42concerned about Roki.
01:44I'm a little bit, I'm less concerned about Yamamoto.
01:47I think the Dodgers have assembled a team that is like, it's so smart because they really
01:54have Blake Snell, Glasnow, Sasaki, Yamamoto.
02:02They have all starters who can go about roughly four to six innings.
02:09Then they have a great bullpen.
02:11For real baseball, it makes so much sense.
02:14They're not going to push any of their starters.
02:17Probably all of them are looking at about maybe 120 innings total.
02:21It's not going to be like, they're not going to go out and throw eight to nine innings
02:27each.
02:28It's not going to happen.
02:29They're going to pull them at four or five innings, which is fine for real baseball.
02:34For fantasy, you're probably going to be missing out on some Ks because the innings aren't
02:40going to be there.
02:41You might be missing out on some wins because guys just won't be going that deep into games.
02:47Even though the Dodgers, I expect to win a ton of games.
02:50I don't know if their pitchers necessarily.
02:53It's something to be concerned about that he only went, what did he go, three innings,
02:58I believe.
02:59Yeah.
03:00Yeah.
03:01I don't know.
03:02I do like them though for per inning type thing with the K per nine is probably going
03:08to be high for both of the Japanese guys, both the Japanese stars, and also Blake Snell
03:14and Glasnow.
03:15They're all very similar.
03:17The K per nine will probably be high.
03:19The walks could potentially be a little bit of a mess for Rokey, maybe less so for Yamamoto.
03:27Yeah.
03:28I like them though.
03:30Yes.
03:31Snell may be the only one in that rotation that hit 150.
03:34If that, I don't see any of the rest.
03:36That's the thing, Gray, is that it's kind of like that in your favorite NBA team that
03:40doesn't play their players in the regular season, just focused on winning in the end.
03:45And we could even see Kershaw on August and September this year too.
03:48So I mean, that's definitely a part of it as well.