AL Rookie of the Year Bets as the MLB Trade Deadline Draws Near

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Jeremy, Ken, and Jake discuss Rookie of the Year. What changes to the market do they foresee ahead of the Trade Deadline?

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00:00Just like, you know, water gun to your head, like, who do you, like, who do you think's

00:04gonna win?

00:05Like, I, I, I mean, I have to answer that same question, so I'll go first in the interest

00:10of just, like, not having you go out on a limb first.

00:14I think Wells is gonna win.

00:16Like, I, I just think he's the safest bet.

00:19Like, both, both war accumulations value him a lot.

00:24Couser has the problem where one values him a ton, and the other does not, Beware does

00:28not like him very much.

00:29Some voters will use both, some will use one, some will use the other, tends to be kind

00:32of an aggregate of both.

00:34Wells is safer in both of those.

00:37You're right about the hitting.

00:38I also like that Wells was, like, a big prospect at the start of the season who people thought

00:43could win this award, so he's, like, he's kind of like Langford, right, he's, like,

00:45in everyone's brains.

00:46It doesn't take a lot.

00:47He's not out of nowhere, it's just, oh, here he is again.

00:50The guy that we knew already seems, he bats clean up for the Yankees, so in tie situations,

00:58you know, now, granted, he could be a tie against his own teammate and we could have

01:00Harris versus Strider part two with a pitcher and the hitter for the Yankees, which the

01:04hitter won.

01:05I, I think I would pick, I don't say that confidently that would be Wells over Couser

01:10and heel.

01:11I think all three can win.

01:12I'll say Wells just today before any game tonight, before anything, what would you say?

01:17I would say Couser, honestly, because the thing with Wells too, that scares me is he

01:21might get bumped down an order.

01:24Giancarlo Stanton comes back tonight and just traded for jazz Chisholm.

01:28I think he could be moved up in that lineup.

01:29I think that the Yankees change, like he can still hit really well, but it's just, I'm

01:32a little less interested if he's hitting seventh or eighth, as opposed to fourth.

01:36Cause I don't think he's going to hit fourth forever in that lineup.

01:39And I think cows are like, if he's going to play every day and people love the Orioles

01:43and they love the Yankees too, obviously.

01:45But I mean, all this guy does is hit home runs.

01:47The batting average sucks, but he just hits mammoth home runs and big moments.

01:52Now you're going to tell me he's playing every day.

01:54That makes me think that that's a guy that that's going to win egg because Wells is better

01:59all around.

02:00You're right.

02:01He's safer.

02:02But for me, it's Couser.

02:03Sure.

02:04And I would have cows are second to be fair.

02:05Like, I think it's, it's a really interesting argument between those two players.

02:08Whereas like Wells has some obvious drawbacks, like Trevino, what happens standing back tonight?

02:14Like you mentioned where, what, what two weeks from now, where as well as hitting in the

02:17lineup, is he like a big part of the offense in September?

02:20Like these are really interesting questions.

02:22It's just like, if he can dodge those landmines, then he wins more often than Couser does probably,

02:28but he has to dodge them.

02:29And Couser doesn't have those things that he has to dodge any more.

02:32It seems like he doesn't have those anymore.

02:34He had his own things a month ago where he wasn't playing all the time.

02:37And now those things have kind of moved in the, in the right direction.

02:39So, but I think that's the debate though.

02:41And he'll can pitch tonight and be the third person.

02:44And then it's fun with the three of those guys, or he can be bad and maybe it's not

02:47the three of those guys.

02:48But I think that's it.

02:49I mean, Jake said cold Keith, 1%.

02:52Did I not mention any other name that's interesting here in like 30 seconds?

02:56Not really.

02:57Like, I think RIP the Brooks Lee tickets, that was fun for about three days.

03:01But yeah, I mean, it's like, I think, I think Keith is the only guy that could make this

03:06interesting.

03:07Otherwise it's one of those three.

03:08I think also like something with Wells, this is unlikely, but as I'm talking about and

03:11thinking about it, like, what if the Tigers say, Hey, you can have scuba, but we want

03:15Wells.

03:16Like, what if that happens and the Yankees trade him?

03:18Like I, not that I'm expecting that, or even that I've seen even a tweet about it, but

03:22it's something that's in the back of my brain as we're talking about it.

03:25Well, and why not wait a day anyway?

03:28Why not?

03:29Why not?

03:30Then you really want to wait till after tonight's start.

03:31Cause then the trade deadline, like then, then you get the trade deadline out of it

03:33too.

03:34Like see what happens the next 36 hours, but kind of know he's positioned really well along

03:37with cows or anything.

03:38That's really smart.

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