Hello and welcome to episode one thousand eight. Yes, one thousand six was on Sunday. One thousand seven was already recorded. It was the fire side chat. It'll be coming out soon. I think later this week.

So this is one thousand eight February first. I'm your host, Paul Spore. Join this morning by Justin Mason, Justin. Good morning, sir. Good morning. How you doing?

I'm doing pretty well. Hopefully people listen before they get in the comments saying, why did you go from one thousand six to one thousand eight?

I didn't know exactly when we would get the fireside. So I pushed it ahead. I just didn't push it far enough ahead. Not a big deal. One thousand eight.

We're picking up where we left off last time, which is the opposite bat X potential gems is what we talked about last time today. We're looking at some of the fades.

Some of the guys that the bat X is kind of off on based on the dollar value that they spit out for the player versus their ADP.

So let's just start because we are working on a nice narrow time frame here. So let's dive right in with Alejandro Kirk at catcher.

A very popular up and coming catcher. Now you and I have talked about this situation a few different times at length already with regards to the Toronto catching situation that right now as is they've got three guys who can catch.

Danny Johnson, Reese McGuire, both of whom are our quality back stops more than they are anything at the dish. And then Alejandro Kirk, who isn't as great behind the dish, but is wonderful at the dish.

He's a wonderful hitter. And then that says nothing of Gabriel Moreno, who's on deck to he was in the fall league, which, you know, once you're in the fall, you're on the cusp.

They don't always come up the very next year. And he only had three games at AAA this year. So he can he can go down to AAA for a while, but he's going to be knocking on the door soon too.

So they got to make a move somewhere. And I wonder if that's what's at the heart of the bat X is concerned with him, although I'm looking at it now in relation to steam or they only have four fewer played appearances.

So it isn't it, it isn't a playing time situation. It's a couple of homers. And then again, something similar to what we saw last time, a big edge in average for steamer. They they have Kirk in 281 bad X has them at 269 with 13 homers 43 ribbies versus 15 and 48.

And even steamer has two chip and steals for some reason. That is probably adding to the value as well. So the bad X a bit lighter on Kirk got him down it catcher 14 in the market. I want to say he's 10. Oh, no, he's 13. Okay. So it's actually a bit more in line with the January market here, but it's still the ADP that we had had Kirk all the way up at like the 9th catcher the last time I looked at it.

It actually isn't as far off as I thought I'm curious of your thoughts on Kirk. I think you said you're kind of fading him a bit.

I originally was fading, but I've kind of come around on him. I think large part due to our last conversation and in this battle, the podcast draft, I just finished. He was my first catcher.

I waited till round, I think 16 until I grabbed my first catcher, grabbed Kirk 15 or 12 team lead 15 team lead. Okay. So waited quite a while. Catchers went off insanely early. And I just was like, you know what, I'm not going to get one. I really, really love that I'm going to wait till later.

And so I kind of, you know, kind of punish catcher and went with some high ups and guys and Kirk and Belinda is in part.

So, but I think he's going to play him, right? Like I don't think he's going back down to AAA. I think somebody's getting traded and maybe even to somebody's are getting traded if they want to bring up Moreno.

Yeah, I think they can wait on that trade Janssen or McGuire to a team that wants a defensive oriented catcher. Then you have one defensive guy in like Janssen or McGuire. Again, they're pretty equal to me.

And then Kirk, the guy and he's not dreadful. He's not Louise torrents behind the dish who like has no business catching don't rush or no business catching Kirk is okay.

He's just, okay, but he's not Janssen. So it is, it is less back there behind the dish. But I mean, the DH spot, I feel like he needs to be in that spot regularly.

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