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Tuesday nights games, man. That was a podcast.

There's dreams so much stuff going on. We had a call up. That's pretty big.

We've got the famous watch. We got a Felix Hernandez injury, but Scott White, Chris Towers,

tell me in your opinion, the single most important fantasy baseball thing that happened yesterday was what?

Oh, it was a bellinger. It was a bellinger. That's one of the bigger things we've seen this season.

You know, compared to last year by this point, we had already seen a lot of high profile prospect call ups

and we'd been lacking them to this point. And then the Dodgers, surprisingly call up Cody Bellinger,

who, you know, I have my concerns. It's too early. He's 21 years old.

He had great numbers of AAA, but was striking out one every three at bats in spring training. He had about 200.

So there's reason to wonder if it's too early, but at the same time among minor league hitters,

you know, short of like Yon Munkata, I'm not sure we're going to see a more exciting call up this there than Bellinger.

Scott, I did want to ask you about balance.

M-O-B dot com's pipeline did not have him ranked prior to the 2016 season in their top 100.

Baseball prospectus did not have him in their top 200, 100.

Baseball America had him 54. This year, Baseball America jumped him all the way to number seven

and he's top 25 in each of the other two.

What changed? Well, he had a really good year, but his numbers in 2016 are nearly identical to his numbers in 2015.

I think part of it's just as players get closer.

You know, there's so many talented teenagers in the minors that it's hard to distinguish between them.

Bellinger, as he moved up the ladder, he's gotten better.

You know, it's actually interesting because I pointed out the strikeout rate. It's too high.

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