Cleveland vs. Kansas City: Exciting AL Central Opener

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00:00All right, Cleveland and Kansas City,

00:01American League Central matchup to open up the season.

00:03Tanner Bibby starts against Cole Reagans,

00:05who was fantastic for the Royals.

00:08Both teams with high expectations.

00:10Royals a little bit higher, naturally.

00:13Seems to be Bobby Wood Jr. is in full focus here.

00:16Jose Ramirez, two MVP candidates.

00:18Underrated matchup probably to open up the season

00:21as I really do like the direction

00:24that Kansas City is headed.

00:26They are gonna have to fight with Cleveland.

00:28I do believe they're gonna have to fight

00:29with Detroit as well.

00:32Yeah, you probably wanna throw Minnesota in there.

00:33A nice competitive division outside of the White Sox

00:36who are gonna lose, I don't know, 110 plus games.

00:38Sort of the anti-Dodgers.

00:40But yeah, I think it's gonna be a nice opening series here.

00:42Bibby versus, you know, once again, Cole Reagans.

00:44We think he's going to be a solid young candidate there.

00:47Hard not to like the Royals, all right?

00:49I'm a big Pasquotino guy.

00:50I think he's had a better year than last year.

00:53If you do wait on first base,

00:54I think he is a guy you can take later on here

00:56and be your starting first baseman there.

00:58As a third off, first base is thin.

01:00Jonathan India traded over.

01:01Wanna see what he can do for the team here.

01:03We all love Bobby Witt, right?

01:04We know he's gonna be fantastic.

01:06The rotation, Seth Lugo.

01:08You don't wanna sleep on him either.

01:10He's a really good pitcher.

01:11Not a number one, but a low-end number two

01:13is where I have him ranked.

01:15I think he's a guy you don't wanna forget about here.

01:17Walker, Lorenzen, Bubik.

01:19Those are more rotation fillers there.

01:21But I do like the Kansas City.

01:22I like the Kansas City Royals.

01:23I think they're gonna win that division.

01:26The Mets and Astros.

01:27Somehow the Mets landed on Klay Holmes

01:29after everything they did in the off season.

01:30He's their opening day starter.

01:32No offense to Klay Holmes,

01:33but didn't see that one coming.

01:36Frambois Valdez is back for the Houston Astros.

01:39It will be the debut of Juan Soto in New York.

01:42I gotta tell you, there's a story percolating

01:44with the Astros, George,

01:46a player that essentially was not being drafted at all

01:49in 12 team leagues.

01:51This kid, I mean, have the Astros done it again

01:53with this kid, Cam Smith, who they just drafted?

01:57And all of a sudden now,

01:57it looks like he could potentially be a star,

01:59maybe makes the team too out of spring training.

02:01They haven't announced this officially.

02:04One of these years,

02:05we're expecting the Astros to not have some prospect

02:07that comes up and replaces somebody else,

02:09but they may be doing it again this year.

02:12He looks good.

02:14He's battling with Soto McCormick there

02:15for the right field job, right?

02:17So we'll see what direction they go in there.

02:20The first thing that comes to mind

02:20is why aren't they playing Sunday?

02:23Both days Sunday, weird.

02:25I know there's a couple of teams that have off on Sunday.

02:27It's only 13 games on Sunday, instead of 15.

02:29So a couple of games not being played for whatever reason.

02:32Weird.

02:33It's another interesting pitching matchup.

02:36Clay Holmes, by the way, he's had a fantastic spring.

02:39All right, they can't hit him right now.

02:41He looks great.

02:42Probably that's going to be,

02:43how many innings can he give you?

02:44He was relieved the last year.

02:45So can he give you 100, 120 before he falls apart there?

02:49So good luck to that.

02:50Valdez, a solid number two there, fantasy-wise.

02:53Good opening series there.

02:55This may not be the game

02:56where you're going to get 19 runs here,

02:58but the Mets are going to play a lot of overs this year.

03:01Braves and Padres, Chris Sale, Michael King,

03:04another underrated matchup going into opening day.

03:06We know all the predictions between these two teams.

03:10Yeah, one of Sale could stay healthy and do it again there.

03:12Michael King, free agent at the end of the year.

03:13Could be the top free agent pitcher on the market

03:17this year, Greg.

03:18Not too many, it's a weak free agent class

03:20as far as pitching next season.

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