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Today is December 28th right now it’s December 19th we’re going to draft some former but current Yankees wow Merry Christmas recap weekly Awards St steon hot takes get your Yanke Hello and welcome to talking Yanks dead week of the year episode it’s currently for you guys listening the week between Christmas and New Year’s so we have pre-planned a banger of an episode going back to the drafts Jake you excited nothing like a holiday giraff Jim you know I know Davis happy

Holidays to everyone hope you’re enjoying it um hope y Moto’s already yane um that could be a hilarious comment and I have no idea right now you guys might have already seen that episode you know could be some time travel stuff uh so yeah it’s always good

Put our draft in pants on some friendly discussion and uh I don’t know I think uh might be a funny realization for the fans some other teams could probably play this game and be like damn really wish we had these five hitters Yankees don’t fully have that they don’t have that

Many uh Yankees do not fully have that out there I mean some of us are going to have to take some bad picks here oh yeah these list get sloppy the comments on the graphic social Kyle lot of lead in his pencil cuz it’s going to be ugly and

They get poisoned well here’s the situation the three of us will be drafting they are they have to have played with the Yankees and still uh be active in Major League Baseball so they played last season some may not be on teams right now but they’re trying to so

Some some might be as we’re recording this former yane and and maybe they’re back oo each of us will have eight picks tricky eight slots on our rosters to fill out two starting pitchers two relief pitchers two infielders and two outfielders so they give it any groups

Of two groups of two snake draft and do you want to go do you want to go first Jake I don’t know we normally draw numbers or something I just but do you want to me and Bes have uh we’re just trying to take stock in what you want yeah what

Happened when I got water we’ll allow you to go first if no we didn’t talk at all sound like you guys talk talked we didn’t talk talk we didn’t say a word never talked to him beb’s left the room too silence yeah was he in the room or was

He out of the room I don’t know I was pretty head down in my books yeah I’ll do random number generator soft gave you the first overall what this show is built on I gave you the first overall who says I want that well you’re pretty clearly don’t maybe I do

Maybe this is all a facade okay well do random number generator and if you win the random number generator then you’re get to choose where you draft what happened okay I did okay but I ended up on random.org which has a random number generator but it’s got a lot of other features too

Random random do you guys have your number written down so I can see it random.org is crazy no I just have mine in my head well you have to show number so I know you don’t make up the number we will have have to vocalize our numbers one way or another before the

Drawing one through 100 one through 100 or or or one through 99 one through 100 okay do you have a number Babb D yeah I I wrote a number what do you have I wrote 52 14 77 for Jackson I’m going to click it once Jimmy you can see it better than

Me 76 76 you get the first pick I don’t want the first pick oh get the first pick of picks um I want the uh I want the third pick who goes next I want the RP what’ you have I want two players I want two players in the top four picks nice

That’s what I want it’s cool yeah it is cool what pick do you want BBD I think I want the second pick you know what I’m going to take yeah first pick nice you know with what was left took the long way to get there imagine you just said yes a while ago

Cuz it’s a Long Way to the Top If you want to rock and roll everyone go watch a Jack Black movie over whether it’s the holiday or whether it’s School of Rock G’s travels do not watch G’s travel that movie makes me sad um not goiv travels

But that’s a great New Year’s Day activity that’s when me and Steph broke up for the last time um you dumped her um also you love Jumanji yes I love Jumanji yeah yeah this and obious saving Silverman’s one of my favorite movies are is this a Jack

Black movie Draft is this guy stallin or what doesn’t want to make the first pick I have the first pick in the draft how about a little habub people are waiting people are about to boo people are about to boo so loudly this is the longest stall a first overall has

Ever had you know what I think had weeks to think about and the draft which I don’t think we said out loud is like for how they would help a team in 202 how they contribute in the 2024 season yep um I’m GNA take a Yankee Legend the hitters are

Thin so I’m going hitter oh okay and I’m taking a guy who had a great year last year yeah 114 Ops plus can play every infield position this would actually be a good guy for the that Yankee threat rle I’ve been talking about Brandon Drury nice going to get a

Ton a run La next year in 125 games last year he had 26 homers you don’t need to justify it 803 Ops I’m just telling the people why he is the obvious number one pick in the draft so um Brandon jury congrats I get Brandon jury congrats an alltime Yankee he’s a jolly

Olive video uh well because the blindness right yes I agree with that hey Yankees we got our young future third baseman he can’t he can’t see yeah one one week into his SE first season comes out as blind the last two years he’s had an Ops in the

Eights that’s like high level ball highle ball hlb man sorry for ruining your guys well no you guys just scratched out the first guy on your board so it works out beas is up it’s true it’s true jur is off the board oh and I’m not stalling with the second

Overall pick signature stall about to get invaded by Hitler you’re stallin so much whoa that was a World War II joke that a stalling J Stalin yeah you got my eyes on a guy with this with this same Ops Plus for the season hit her kind of shallow doesn’t

Exist very shall one point less Ops plus I think thought J was 113 1144 one one point less I mean just worse have your back just to have your back wor no so he is worse well that’s why he’s second not first yeah oh so you admit the first

Pick was right thank you no I I like that first pick well nobody said it just I never would have done it but I liked it I like Gary so I Gary back I rewatched at the time we’re recording I rewatched uh game three of the of the 17

ALDS the Tanaka game the Greg Bird game Gary was a dog in that game the fact Gary Sanchez is a dog oh [ __ ] all right changes what I was gonna do um and catchers count as infield there I think in what was his Ops he finished the year with 780 Ops a

1133 Ops Plus at the catcher position that’s not the 113 I would I was talking about oh there’s another 113 there number one number 113 out there okay um again just a step lower just a step lower than your first round pick yeah I’m I’m taking McCutchen with my first

Round pick ni uh he’s going to be a veteran presence on my team he’s going to clog the DH a little but I mean smile that can light up the whole city it’s a nice smile um and I mean if you guys don’t know Kutch was great last year a

378 on base percentage sure he led the entire league not a lot of Pop he didn’t they did not Tores at you are tracking at home he did not leave the what if he retires well we don’t know right now right we don’t know well it’s for the

24th season I’m just saying he tore his Achilles at the end of the year yeah that sounds bad so we’re doing it like real real like if Donaldson doesn’t get picked up like you guys are acting like we’re going to track these next year no we’re not tracking them next year4

Season it’s it’s on ability and I think I don’t hate Cut’s ability well I’m not taking him because you guys are acting like he actually has to play he’s out Tores Achilles I mean I was told it was about the4 season well it’s about a fake 2024 season because these guys aren’t

Actually going to play well my guy is GNA play and he’s going to play well that’s the whole thing that’s the whole thing I’m not as confident my guy will play well well to being honest yeah that’s not how I was thinking the draft but okay we’re doing

A serious draft off not sure why you wouldn’t I’m off I’m not taking him I’ll match let’s do a fake draft it is a fake draft this is a real draft all right I’m taking Sunny gray and Nathan naldi okay good picks good picks good pitchers some

Moxy they’re going to be there they’re going to be there should be solid they’re gon to be there and I like them too yeah oo faced with an interesting choice here I’m very grateful you took Sunny because I would have taken him here because he is really good but if my

Graphic has Gary Sanchez Sunny gray one two it’s a lot of wild pitches that’s that’s a lot of people telling me I shouldn’t be around anymore Gary and sunny both not to throw the slider you know what we should do for like we should get putting down the three scar I

Don’t know if we have time to do this but we should eat a gummy with Joe’s and we should watch the first Hae Garcia start of 2018 with Gary behind the plate that’s mean it’s got to be so funny to watch now without your heart in

Line T like knowing how that chicks out it’s probably a funny watch like Gary’s just like Jesus Christ dude Brian can you just get one to my GL was praying back there stop dirting me Jordan Montgomery oh surprise Jim didn’t take him this guy big contract coming um good stuff fellas

Um I mean wow I think I’m I think I’m going to get the two best hitters in such a thin hitter pool um I’m going to close off my infield and I’m going to take Tyro Strada thought you might grab him somewhere here the Young Prince um 23

Steals last year 14 homers hits like second for the Giants what’s that about well it’s a Giants it’s a giant situation the Giants are six six hole hitters yeah um but Tyro 28 kind of hitting his Prime sexually um and the first two rounds of the draft were brought to you by jackpot

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Mhm uh just cuz I think there’s a there’s a a bit of a significant drop off here wow um I’m gonna take Mike King The King himself going to San Diego starter orever uh he’s a starter he’s probably going to get sa young votes I

Have him fifth in the NL sa young next year oh wow um so uh Michael King going to a more pitcher friendly ballpark NL hitters haven’t seen him you kidding me Jim oh kidding me with this one still chucking to higgy H oh that is nice that

They go together it’s nice I like that a level of comfort there and they’re nice guys I talked about that a couple UPS ago good pick good pick who are you schlubs taking well your infield is done and infield and beibs took Gary in his infield so he’s got one more spot left

Have an infield spot to think about but I think I was thinking a lot about Mike King would have been on the next around because Jimmy’s taken his starters I was going to draft Michael King and put him in the bullpen that was gonna be my next that would that would have been

Devastating for me yeah and I will be going to the bullpen and I will grab David Robertson oh wow hot is the numbers on last year pretty good in a good place they always are he’s always good he’s good everyone thinks he’s done all the time he’s always good he he’s

Good you got two over there Jim yeah I’m gonna take Chapman he’s gonna be my eighth inning guy okay and then I’m G to take kirby8 wow and they’re going to fight each other Texas Ranger yep 61 appearances for both of those guys it’s nice last

Year he really pitch last year Kirby yep 328 ER for Kirby 309 ER for Chapman I believe he was good when he was in the eighth coming in the eighth inning last year and then he was he was chappie that’s nice yeah it’s a good combo really good stuff double Bullpen round huh

Double pitching round double bulling round going to do double Outfield next round then double infield yeah I’m going double it up that’s why I got the wrap around your family’s Irish right not that Irish but I have an Irish last name for sure because every time I see you my

Your wiener doubles doubling splits in half lizard head I’ve seen it it’s like stranger things BBD wow final season for stranger things it’s crazy I haven’t watched it watch I haven’t I watched since they went to Russia and I was like I don’t care about that but goog I’m out

It’s a lot of time between Seasons these days some something’s not their fault there I think I I think the pick that would excite me most would close off my Bullpen do a quick scan of what’s of of what we’ve got here and I think yeah I think I am going

To do it this guy got healthy last year made it back If he if he if he has 100 fans I am one if he has 10 fans I am one if he has three fans I am there no fans I’m dead Chad Green Oh Goose thought the goose

Would go there wow good for Chad thought the goose would go there um he’s a weapon always has Chad green and Dr that’s a it’s a heart throbby Bullpen back that is a heart throbby Bull Pen heart throbby wow uh you guys both close off your bullpen

You can wait you can wait on your yeah you can wait on yours I mean there’s still a lot of Bullpen available you got gyos uh which means sh a lot of good relievers have come through dport D come back probably going to do mantiply comes back maybe doesn’t fit my

Definition of Jake has drafted man toly offici yeah but you will eventually I think I’ve got Greg Weiser on the socks next year are you kidding me B I didn’t write down who you took oxy fastball you took uh I’ve taken Gary mon D Rob and Chad Chad D Rob and Chad

Um okay I need to take things to the Outfield or I could get do you guys have both your starters I have a starter a starter I I I need one more starter he needs another starter okay he’s probably going to take one more starter is what I need I mean who are

You going to take the he dog tyone there’s options there um clubber illegal always illegal uh let’s get in the Outfield because it gets pretty ugly pretty quick there for outfielder um my goodness don’t be gross here I think there I see three guys that are going to play next

Year um three yeah oh all of them are going to play no besides cutch um I think yeah I’m gonna take two lead off guys okay from The Windy City I’m taking Andrew Ben and tendy and Mike talkman Mikey T um wow I didn’t even put him in

My I didn’t transfer him from one list to the other to look at the stats for talkman you’re an on base guy 363 on base last year um in8 games so hopefully he gets a little more Run next year Hometown kid um and Ben and tendy got off to a slow

Start last year his numbers ended up um still not great but Outfield gets pretty thin pretty quick so I’m hoping he gets traded at some point next year to a good team and helps I believe he does it just it’s got to get better than than what that year

Was uh but he how many years he signed a four-year deal he signed five he was five four left so he’s not going to play good next year uh they eat some money he’ll turn it on and couple years yeah let’s see did he have a good be 29 next

Year still still in his physical prime I was probably going to begrudgingly draft him at some point he had a nice June last year way to go homers everything else was not good not good not good okay wow I’m going real I’ve gotten a couple fan favorites so I’m I’m so

You’re gonna take kicks I’m gonna take kicks yeah W damn I I can I can afford that here wow Hicks is gone good he was good with the Orioles he’s gone he’s gone he’s gone how do you like that Aaron Hicks going in the for where he gonna end up

Rockies I was just take him back Rays be fun Turf Jay’s Turf the Yankees are the only people that are scared of the turf in all the world yeah every 29 other team say oh I guess we’re playing on turf it’s nuts back to the twins little full

Circle ruin free Aon and Joe Hicks always and Joe Hicks always yes uh I’m looking into some stats here in my next pick he’s looking and he’s liking I oh [ __ ] I was gonna okay you know what my team might only face lefties okay in next year year that’s smart if

The real Yankees only did that right Yankees would have been great last year yeah pretty good yeah I’m gonna take Harrison Bader nice and Rob ref Snider nice and they’re gonna absolutely destroy nice some righties actually oh no no ref Snider for some lefties some lefties yeah yeah yeah ref Snider 308

Batting average 428 on base uh versus lefties and Bader was way even better 936 Ops you’re messing up lefties next year messing up lefties we’re tanking righties I mean you’re kind of getting getting my starter yeah crushing Monty wow that’s not nice can’t believe you want to do

That it’s crazy and that’s my turn I’m done I got outfielders you’re done you handled your Outfield infield on the next wrap around I yes babes is going to get all the votes cuz he has all the heart Hearts well I mix well Gary and Hicks are in there Gary’s

Polarizing some people still loveing I still love Yeah you got you got a pretty big heart throb there uh King is a like talking Yanks heart throb Deep dive like not a general fan of the stadium I have zero people who we know are seeing I

Have zero hate on my team though like Tyro has no haters Drury has no haters talkman Benny don’t have haters neither does King they weren’t around long enough to have haters thank you live long enough to see yourself become the villain yeah Dark Knight most of them I think I think if I

Don’t take this guy now it becomes a pretty big dice roll at this spot uh so I think I think I I have to go out and get a guy that we love has been on this show uh and I would like Jameson taone nice team a J jamus in Ty now my pitching’s Done is it me it’s you you’re that two pick okay how’s Jam J’s second half look does it feel wor to be don’t worry about it bebs took him 82 Innings 37 okay good for you J tough first half uh the overall number ended up you know not not great nothing you brag

About but it was in a bad spot and he he dug out of it a bit um okay okay so I have two picks I need two relievers and a starter um I just died in your arm Tonight I I don’t I think I think you guys have done all your pitching mhm both ways yes so I mean order of preference yeah I’ll just I’ll I’ll play this a guy who had a really good season last year kind of sneaky I’ll take Adam adino in my

Bullpen um was kind of shocked to see how good his year was 66 games 321 pretty impressive 12 saves and I’ll take uh Giovanni gagos as well ER wasn’t as pretty but he also had double digit saves that was a bad time bad time on the Cardinals last year yeah everyone

Was bad so 24 no one was having fun 24 is going to be a breath of fresh air you know now with beibs getting a pick here right you just take two guys yes you took Jake took both his guys and I have a pick here and I can tell you right now

It’ll be an infield well I have two infielders that I want to pick so you can really really mess me up here holy cow yeah there’s a I have a feeling the one that I think I’ve decided I’m taking isn’t the one you were going to take I don’t know

We’ll find out this guy just kind of kind of hits at least a little bit everywhere he goes no way fits your team’s profile actually I don’t know should I leave him for you oh I’m thinking of someone else um I don’t know what you’re thinking of now definitely

Had the better numbers of the two guys I’m picking between last year 134 games for the twins give me Donnie barrels Donan salano he was in contention but he wasn’t going to be my first pick okay 110 Ops plus plays a little bit everywhere it’s nice we’ve talked about

Him joining the squad he might be back we just did a impromptu episode last week they signed him no I’m G to take a guy um there’s a heart throb there for you which I where’ my where’ all my stats go where’ all my stats

Go uh I’m gonna take a guy yes who got called up halfway through the year last year and had himself a time um hit 475 slug 798 Ops 122 Ops Plus in the 83 games one of the more Vi viral moments in talking Yanks history Mike Ford will be playing first

Base yeah Mariners Legend and he hit rounding out my infield just to get some of the crush and the and the hearts going around I I will slot Gio orell in it’s a good pick thank you Jake it’s a good pick Jake thank you I like

Giio I like and that’s my squad I’m done no pop last year from Gio what’s that about was hip oh he’s got a bad HP dang dang BBS round out my draft got to go to the Outfield oh and you know what I heard rumors about this guy potentially going in the

First round wow I want Andrew McCutchen on this team look at that yeah coming off a torn T you out of he’s gonna he’s gonna be back at some point retired he’s tired he’s expected according to bleach report to resign with the Pirates on a one-year deal what do they have him

Listed as height-wise have we done this before we have to done it before oh we’ve done this before I think he’s listed 5’11 cuz I eye to eye when we met close when we met him I mean I have the numbers were at my eyebrows Max maybe middle of my forehead or his

Eyes how come we just lie about height why not I guess why not you seen shoes I’ve seen so many yeah he’s listed 510 190 maybe 510 in CES yeah they were spikes yeah I got out um great stuff rooting for cutch almost a first round pick yeah 113 Ops

Plus his past year like a tick worse than Jake’s first round pick and I get him in the last round bran the broken um with the last pick in the draft I need a starting pitcher between two guys heard that before who are you g to

Take uh Jim we’re the New York Yan Yankees yeah we’re supposed to play for rings I can get you a World Series winner I can get you the guy that led the World Series winning team in strikeouts he did Andrew Heeney and he I hate it only because

He’s got to face your guys I mean he runs into Bader and ref I mean I’m just that’s a tough day at the office draft the Lefty is when you’re facing my guys people aren’t even going to realize that when they vote for the teams and uh my

Outfiters light you guys up Heeney was like nasty with the Dodgers because they do that and then last year with Texas 147 Innings of 415 ra he’s going to go out there and twirl it only time he was really bad was with the Yankees yeah and I I really feel bad for

Him actually at this point because the Yankees were trying to teach him the sweeper on the fly when there was seven games left in the season literally he went to the Dodgers next year and he says they you know he got time to actually work on it and it became the

Pitch that made him great so the Yankees kind of had the right idea but to think they could pull it off and they didn’t abandon early enough at all can I throw one thing out there yeah yeah if I told you for the 2024 Yankees same contract let’s say it’s one

Year 8 million with a bunch of in incentives James Paxton or Frankie Monas who would you rather have Monas Montas okay okay yeah I mean I like Paxton a lot as like a guy and when he was a Yanke injury history is really tough he

He had 19 starts last year he did really 19 starts for James Paxton last year when through the end of the season uh let’s see like healthy off season game logs James Saxton because he was the other guy was between uh W May through September and what were the numbers uh

Ra landed at 45 96 Innings 101 strikeouts 45 is good for a 101 ra plus pitching at Fenway for some of those you know I don’t know I like packs I guess I guess that changes it a little bit I guess right I guess I wasn’t if I numbers how many innings

96 yeah I think got change my mind then right it’s it’s more interesting than I thought I’m that’s my that’s exactly what I’d say I think my answer would still be Montas because the overall injury history isn’t as scary but both have bad histories and Jak you open the show

Saying like a lot of people might be like oh so many Yankees got away and then you look at this offensively no pitching yeah yeah a little bit I mean like a a lot of these hitters aren’t even guys yeah I mean the pitchers you got

Guys for like you know Mike King is a little bit of an outlier right now because they traded him for wotto but I’m not even I wasn’t even thinking of him right but you can make a really nice rotation Sunny gray Monty Mike King tyone and then you’re rounding off with

Heeney or avaldi did I say avaldi gray Monty yeah king that’s that’s an MLB starting five yeah a team could throw that out there next year and that wouldn’t stick out yeah all right I got I got show you this video it’s uh Hae Garcia pitching I

Saw it happening over there Gary Sanchez August 4th let’s see it should we end the video with it well I don’t have the we have to show the camera somehow uh they’ll just hear it yeah I think hearing it’s what’s important an audible okay because it’s a bunch of different

Videos but it’s what I remember it’s how made just spiking balls like 55 ft over and over and Gary being like God damn it yeah didn’t start with this guy he didn’t even get a B like a session with him like he just flew over I remember watching this and being like

Holy smokes no he blocks a decent amount the highe trade came together like so quickly that was a good one that was clean yeah yeah six wild pitches I think one’s in the air which is hilarious but uh it is like okay no Runners on for that one that one was

Just torturing him yeah it is just torture it is Gary just being like dude come on that one’s bad which uh then he finally went High over Gary’s head and Gary’s like no no one was on base so on that one’s not even one of the run around second that is so spiked

That’s spiked nice block Michael brand and the Guardians formerly the Indians at Gary doing his damnest this Gary was awesome too he’s good that year 17 nice G yeah just cracking me up I good job by Gary yeah well he had six wild pitches though and a couple pass

Balls but like overall if you watch the full game which I remember saying at the time was like he every ball was in the [ __ ] dirt Merry Christmas post Happy New Year’s current wow go Yanks Tom grams go Yankees Goan Goan Goan cookies in the kitchen