Exploring MLB Hot Starts: Judge, Tucker, and Tatis

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00:00Yeah, I think we should. All right. So, let's get to the hot starts. All right. Let's all

00:05throw up here. Aaron Judge, six home runs, 17 runs driven in, whatever. He's good. 379. He's

00:12off to a great start. We already did three minutes on him. If you're not from New York,

00:16you're getting annoyed here on the show. I get it. So, let's move on. Okay. He's great. We know.

00:20All right. Now, Kyle Tucker. Let's get to him, George, because Kyle Tucker kind of had a quiet

00:25spring. He's now with the Cubs. He was involved in that trade for Cam Smith, who's now with the

00:30Houston Astros. Tucker has four home runs, but here is the key. We played one week of the season,

00:35George. This is a great sign for him. He has three stolen bases thus far to go along with

00:4011 runs driven in and a 308 batting average. Remember how high he was picked in drafts two

00:45years ago? I got a sneaking suspicion Tucker's well aware of his contract status too. I think

00:50the big, big year is coming for him. He's a great player. He is an awesome player. All right,

00:55though. If you have Vladimir Guerrero, who wants, what, five, 600 million?

00:59Tucker is a much better player. How much is he going to get? Oh, Greg. I mean, I think he starts

01:05at six and goes from there. And every so he's going to pay him the 600 million plus days. This

01:10is an awesome player. You can only make it obvious he's just as good as Juan Soto. All right. So,

01:15I mean, yeah. Fantasy-wise, now I don't have too many shares of Tucker because I was worried about

01:20what you were sort of mentioning here, the new team. How would that affect him? Would it take

01:24him a little while? New league. I know going to a new league is not what it used to be because

01:28we have interleague play. He's faced all these pitches before here, but I still, it's in the

01:32back of my mind that maybe I don't want to, that seventh, I think his ADP was around seventh,

01:36that I don't want to spend that seventh overall pick on somebody I'm not completely comfortable

01:41with because of the trade here. But great start. And it is a contract year. If he ends up going

01:4740-30, which wouldn't shock me, by the way, at all. I mean, he's going to be swimming in cash.

01:53Yeah. Having a great start to his season. So is Fernando Tatis Jr. He's already stolen five bases

01:59batting at the top of Padres lineup. Padres are playing fantastic too. He's hitting 433,

02:04one home run, five runs driven in. It's always been this with Tatis. Like you knew that there's

02:09always that extra gear that can hit and maybe it's going to hit this year. I've, you know,

02:14I've seen some fantasy owners complaining actually, believe it or not about Tatis. It's like, yeah,

02:19I mean, he's going to end up stealing 40 and he's going to end up hitting 25-30, but the RBIs are

02:23going to be complaining about the RBIs are going to be down to like 60 or 70 with him batting at

02:28the top. And I mean, look, Luis Arias is batting behind him. He's going to have a high batting

02:33average. We don't know how many runs he's going to be driven in. So I guess, you know, people will

02:36find something to complain about regardless in fantasy and in the world too, but Tatis off to a

02:40great start too. Fantastic. One's going to probably a top second round pick there. He's playing like

02:46the player we know he can be. He's been a little disappointing really since he got suspended here

02:51because he hasn't quite been what we expect him to be, which is a superstar, right? He's been good,

02:55but not that superstar. Maybe this year he will be that superstar player here. Certainly I'm not,

03:00listen, I like to complain as much as anybody, but if I have Tatis on my team, I ain't complaining.

03:04I love the start here. I get the RBIs, all right, but I think they'll come. I'm not really all that

03:09worried about it. And by the way, if he steals 40 bases or more, that's probably more than I had

03:15him budgeted for. So he's actually exceeding that. If he hits 25, 30 home runs, that might be more

03:20than I budgeted him for. So yeah, I'll take 15 less RBI if he's going to give me 5, 10 more stolen

03:26bases, because I know I probably needed the bases more than I needed the rippies.