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Talkin' Yanks (Yankees Podcast)

566 | Gio Urshela | Profile & Projection

Talkin' Yanks (Yankees Podcast)

Jimmy O'Brien

Talkin' Jake, Jomboy, Sports, Baseball, Yankees, New York Yankees

4.82.8K Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2021

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Gio Urshela is a good as it gets defensively in the hot corner and the metrics say that his offense is legit. How much will we have to think about him this year? Jomboy & Jake preview his 2021 campaign! Presented by DraftKings Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey! Hello and welcome to Talking Yanks brought to you by Draft Kings. We're talking

0:22.8

about Geo The God, Urshella. Is that Geo play? Geo Geo is the youth of my nation.

0:34.2

You said Geo play? Yeah, sure. Remember that play man. Geo Shela welcome back to another

0:39.0

player profile on projection here on Talking Yanks. My name is Jimmy. His name is Jake BbD

0:42.9

in the corner. We're talking about Geo The God, Urshella. What's his season going to be

0:48.3

like you started in spring? So I think the injury stuff is gone. Someone asked me a non-Yanky

0:53.5

fan that follow me on Twitter, Jake. That asked me, who do I have? Isn't there name Elon

0:58.5

Musk? Yeah. Asked you okay. Asked me, who do I have more hope for? Clint Fraser, Geo

1:05.2

Shela. Is it Indian? What's X, Indian? Do you have the more hope for Geo Shela or Clint

1:10.9

Fraser? And my response was the word hope isn't attached to Geo anymore for me. It's just

1:18.8

excitement and I'm ready because his last two years have both been incredible, like incredible.

1:29.3

Can we get the stats up for last year? You read him to me yesterday. I'm a stats factory

1:35.1

over here. Stactory. Jim Geo Shela has played how many games with the Yankees? 147.

1:47.6

175. Okay, more than I said. More than you've said, more than Clint Fraser has played.

1:53.2

If we're going to keep the Indians comparison going. Geo Shela and 175 games has a 310 batting

2:02.0

average. We've seen Geo Shela be well over 300 hitter since joining the Yankees. A 358

2:11.1

on base and an 881 OPS. That's a 133 OPS plus wild Jim. We fended off fools. The analytics

2:24.4

defense guys. Oh my God, I forgot that people were saying he wasn't good because it didn't

2:31.1

look like he graded out well defensively. They literally changed some of his defensive

2:37.5

stats after the season to make him look better because the nerds knew they screwed up.

2:43.1

And then he came out last year and he was a stud defensively as well. He put up a 2.1

2:48.8

war last year in 50 games, like 43 games, which again, war, blah, blah, blah. Yeah, I always

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