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Exploring MLB Hot Starts: Judge, Tucker, and Tatis
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4/5/2025
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Yeah, I think we should. All right. So, let's get to the hot starts. All right. Let's all
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throw up here. Aaron Judge, six home runs, 17 runs driven in, whatever. He's good. 379. He's
00:12
off to a great start. We already did three minutes on him. If you're not from New York,
00:16
you're getting annoyed here on the show. I get it. So, let's move on. Okay. He's great. We know.
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All right. Now, Kyle Tucker. Let's get to him, George, because Kyle Tucker kind of had a quiet
00:25
spring. He's now with the Cubs. He was involved in that trade for Cam Smith, who's now with the
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Houston Astros. Tucker has four home runs, but here is the key. We played one week of the season,
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George. This is a great sign for him. He has three stolen bases thus far to go along with
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11 runs driven in and a 308 batting average. Remember how high he was picked in drafts two
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years ago? I got a sneaking suspicion Tucker's well aware of his contract status too. I think
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the big, big year is coming for him. He's a great player. He is an awesome player. All right,
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though. If you have Vladimir Guerrero, who wants, what, five, 600 million?
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Tucker is a much better player. How much is he going to get? Oh, Greg. I mean, I think he starts
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at six and goes from there. And every so he's going to pay him the 600 million plus days. This
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is an awesome player. You can only make it obvious he's just as good as Juan Soto. All right. So,
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I mean, yeah. Fantasy-wise, now I don't have too many shares of Tucker because I was worried about
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what you were sort of mentioning here, the new team. How would that affect him? Would it take
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him a little while? New league. I know going to a new league is not what it used to be because
01:28
we have interleague play. He's faced all these pitches before here, but I still, it's in the
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back of my mind that maybe I don't want to, that seventh, I think his ADP was around seventh,
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that I don't want to spend that seventh overall pick on somebody I'm not completely comfortable
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with because of the trade here. But great start. And it is a contract year. If he ends up going
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40-30, which wouldn't shock me, by the way, at all. I mean, he's going to be swimming in cash.
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Yeah. Having a great start to his season. So is Fernando Tatis Jr. He's already stolen five bases
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batting at the top of Padres lineup. Padres are playing fantastic too. He's hitting 433,
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one home run, five runs driven in. It's always been this with Tatis. Like you knew that there's
02:09
always that extra gear that can hit and maybe it's going to hit this year. I've, you know,
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I've seen some fantasy owners complaining actually, believe it or not about Tatis. It's like, yeah,
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I mean, he's going to end up stealing 40 and he's going to end up hitting 25-30, but the RBIs are
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going to be complaining about the RBIs are going to be down to like 60 or 70 with him batting at
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the top. And I mean, look, Luis Arias is batting behind him. He's going to have a high batting
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average. We don't know how many runs he's going to be driven in. So I guess, you know, people will
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find something to complain about regardless in fantasy and in the world too, but Tatis off to a
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great start too. Fantastic. One's going to probably a top second round pick there. He's playing like
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the player we know he can be. He's been a little disappointing really since he got suspended here
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because he hasn't quite been what we expect him to be, which is a superstar, right? He's been good,
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but not that superstar. Maybe this year he will be that superstar player here. Certainly I'm not,
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listen, I like to complain as much as anybody, but if I have Tatis on my team, I ain't complaining.
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I love the start here. I get the RBIs, all right, but I think they'll come. I'm not really all that
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worried about it. And by the way, if he steals 40 bases or more, that's probably more than I had
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him budgeted for. So he's actually exceeding that. If he hits 25, 30 home runs, that might be more
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than I budgeted him for. So yeah, I'll take 15 less RBI if he's going to give me 5, 10 more stolen
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bases, because I know I probably needed the bases more than I needed the rippies.
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