🚨Luis Castillo Traded to the Mariners - Emergency Podcast (7/30 Fantasy Baseball Podcast)
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🗓️ 30 July 2022
⏱️ 14 minutes
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The first trade deadline domino fell Friday night as Luis Castillo was traded to the Mariners in exchange for three prospects and a reliever (1:00)! Does Castillo's value go up? ... Will George Kirby get the boot from the rotation (7:15)? ... The Reds received a huge prospect haul, headlined by shortstop Noelvi Marte (9:05).
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| 0:00.0 | Now here's Frank Scott and Chris. |
| 0:05.6 | We have our first big trade of the weekend as Luis Castillo was traded to the Seattle Mariners. |
| 0:11.6 | Welcome into a slightly delayed emergency edition of Fantasy baseball today on Saturday, July |
| 0:17.4 | 30th. |
| 0:18.4 | Frank Samful joined by Chris Towers and this was a big one Chris. |
| 0:22.7 | Let's get into it. |
| 0:23.7 | Luis Castillo traded to Seattle for a huge haul. |
| 0:26.8 | That included three of the Mariners top five prospects. |
| 0:30.4 | Noelvi Marte, Edwin Aroyo and Levi Stout. |
| 0:34.5 | The Reds also received a minor league reliever and Jumor in the deal. |
| 0:39.8 | Castillo we've talked about it a lot recently. |
| 0:41.6 | Throwing this four-seam fastball more Chris, he's really, really come on and he's having |
| 0:45.6 | a really good season in general. |
| 0:47.2 | 286 ERA, 107 Whip, up over a strikeout per inning, 11.7% swinging strike rate is good, a |
| 0:54.7 | little bit lower than where you see him from him, but it has been creeping up recently. |
| 1:00.0 | What do you think about Castillo's value now that he is in Seattle? |
| 1:04.2 | Yeah, I mean, he's a borderline ace as is for fantasy and for the most part he has been |
| 1:11.6 | for the last five years. |
| 1:13.8 | There's always been this assumption that Luis Castillo would take a step forward and |
| 1:18.1 | it never really happened. |
| 1:21.6 | But it might now, because this is arguably the biggest park shift that a player could |
| 1:28.5 | have at this point in Major League Baseball. |
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