What is up, pitcherless family? Welcome to another episode of Hacks and Jacks. I'm your host,

Brett Ford. As always, I am joined by senior analyst Scott Chu. We're talking hitters on pitcherless.

Scott, we've got real baseball to talk about this week, and I couldn't be more excited.

Yeah, I mean, we don't have that much of it, but we have some of it, and that is better than none of it. It's better than spring training where all we can kind of do is say, like, oh, this doesn't matter. This matters. This matters. We don't know how much it matters yet, but it matters, definitely. Yeah, teams are actually trying to win ball games.

I know last week we talked about in spring train. We don't know how much it matters yet, but it matters, definitely. Yeah, teams are actually trying to win ball games.

I know last week we talked about in spring training, the objective isn't always to win.

But now it is as of March 27th or whenever opening day was.

I don't know, the days are all blur now.

But we've got about four to five games from each team, about 10 to 20 plate appearances

for each full-time player.

Sample size is obviously still too small to really mean anything.

But there's a lot of things that we can use as actionable observations.

Yeah, like first of all, you have to act before you know, right?

Like, that's, that's going to be a thing all the time all throughout the year, is you have

to act before you're certain, because someone else is going to act before you could

possibly be certain.

If all you did was wait until you knew for sure that this dude, what he was doing was legit, you'd never get any players, right? It's okay to jump a little early. Just know what you're looking for and know what kind of risk you're taking, right? Like don't cut a guy you took in the 10th round for a dude on waivers right now simply because he's hot right now, right now. Like,

we don't want to make that kind of jump. I was talking to someone the other day and they were like, oh, so how do I know what level of player? Like right now, the guys I took in the first 10 rounds, unless they are now out for many months, um, it's a big no, right? They are not, they are not leaving they're not leaving leaving the roster. Maybe they hit a bench, but that's about it. Um, but if you, you know, if you're talking about the last couple of guys you pick, those reserve guys, like, you know, maybe the last outfielder. You know, if you're in a points league, you probably don't have a lot of reserve outfielders, maybe that last outfield or two, they can go, right?

Because that's, you're roughly sitting around the replacement level.

That's okay, right?

If you took, if you took like a second, your starting second baseman, but with like your last

pick, yeah, that's fine.

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