National League Rookie of the Year Race Heating Up

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00:00Let's talk about the National League Rookie of the Year, because you're just, you're always

00:08so on point with this, and now with the Yamamoto injury, there's some movement.

00:12Let's talk, Joe.

00:13Yeah, there's a lot of movement.

00:15Well, first of all, the cup runs over for Shota Imanaga, who has been spectacular.

00:20I mean, let's be honest, like the guy has been as advertised.

00:23We bought in at plus 1400 and we're very happy we did.

00:28Now that number is plus 160, 120 this morning, because again, there's been even more line

00:33movement potentially in some houses.

00:36Paul Skeens has been great.

00:37Now, Skeens has been a little bit of a phenomenon here, but will it last?

00:42That is the question.

00:43Imanaga making meaningful starts in August and September, can we say the same for Paul

00:47Skeens?

00:48I don't know.

00:49I don't know that answer.

00:50It looks like an easy 100.

00:51Skeens is fascinating to me.

00:53I also like that he warms up with the football like Nolan Ryan has to, which I don't remember

00:58a lot of guys doing that, but I remember Nolan Ryan did, and you remember it too,

01:02because he had that upper deck baseball card that he was there with the football.

01:05And that was one of the weirdest, coolest baseball cards I can see it in my head right

01:08now.

01:09You know exactly what I'm talking about.

01:10It's a weird, awkward one where his arm was up in the air with the football.

01:13You can barely see his face.

01:15That's the pick for Nolan Ryan we're using, but I digress.

01:18Let me ask you a question on Paul Skeens.

01:20Sure.

01:21Yeah.

01:22The guy throws, he can give you a hundred and then he can just buckle you at 88.

01:26Now, I don't want to be the one to portend or forebode, but I'm with you.

01:30How much longer, given all the injuries we see, can this young man be throwing a hundred

01:35mile per hour pitches before we hear Paul Skeens has left his start?

01:38What does that do to the number?

01:39I mean, he would be the first guy to not have it because that's, that's my only response.

01:46Give me the situation where the guy outside of Nolan Ryan, which again, maybe, maybe he's

01:51just built different.

01:52Maybe, you know, maybe he's got a different routine.

01:54Maybe there's something about the throwing the football and the way he warms up and the

01:57different things that he does that allows him to do what he does consistently.

02:02But I mean, I haven't seen a lot of these guys throw in that velocity for an extended

02:05period of time that eventually don't break.

02:09But it's, it's tricky.

02:10And, and the Yamamoto thing too.

02:11I mean, you look at what he was, he was at plus three 40, but now after yesterday's news,

02:17he's at plus 700.

02:18That one jumped big time.

02:20Look, Jackson Merrill, Joey Ortiz has been a good story.

02:23Mason Wynn's been fun.

02:25It's a two horse race right now.

02:27Period.

02:28End of story.

02:29And there's still some positive money on show to Imanaga.

02:31And I still think long-term he's the bet to make.

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