Cal Raleigh's Breakout Season: Potential MVP Contender?

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00:00Buy or sell Cal Raleigh, we got the number here from Sam, 47 or more home runs this season.

00:06Buy or sell.

00:09Love Cal Raleigh.

00:10By the way, it could be a league winner, right, with the numbers he's putting up there.

00:14That's another catcher, by the way.

00:15Another catcher.

00:16Yeah.

00:17But what was the draft there, Will Smith, Rushman, Contreras, Raleigh was an afterthought here,

00:23and the numbers he's putting up are just utterly fan-freaking-tastic here.

00:27My only worry with catchers is that, boy, you get the hell beat out of you, right?

00:32I mean, you're getting hit with foul tips.

00:34You've got to crouch a million times in the heat during the summer here.

00:36You're getting hit with bats, balls, runners sometimes.

00:39It's just brutal.

00:40I do expect him to slow down.

00:42Career high was 34 last year, 30 the year before.

00:48I mean, I think he can, but I think he'll slow down.

00:51I think he'll just miss this.

00:53I think he's a low 40s here.

00:54So I'm going to sell this, but he's going to have a fantastic year.

00:57And by the way, in the non-Aaron Judge division, he could be certainly an MVP candidate.

01:03Yeah, I would agree.

01:05I'm going to buy.

01:06I'm going to buy on this guy.

01:07Yeah, I do.

01:09George makes a great point.

01:12I think you can DH him a little bit.

01:15I think Seattle's going to be in this to the end.

01:17And, you know, we're 60 games in.

01:21You're telling me that by the time he gets to 81 games, he's not going to have 26 home runs?

01:27Three home runs in the next three weeks.

01:29I'm going to buy.

01:30I do.

01:31I think he ends up being close to the home run leader this season.

01:34Breakout year for the big dumper, as they say.

01:37All right.

01:37Jack Caglione.

01:38He got the call.

01:39He's now up, presumably for the rest of the season, for the Kansas City Royals.

01:45Jacob Wilson has already been up.

01:47He's been the best rookie in Major League Baseball.

01:50Buy or sell, George.

01:52Jack Caglione will receive first place AL Rookie of the Year votes over Jacob Wilson.

02:00Buy or sell.

02:01All right.

02:03So a couple of things here.

02:05One, you have to assume he's going to play well from here on out.

02:08Pretty damn well.

02:09All right.

02:10Now, two is that he gets more than one, right?

02:14Doesn't say votes.

02:15He has to get more.

02:15He has to get at least two.

02:17I don't believe he'll win the award.

02:18Unless Jackie Wilson gets hurt, and I'm not going to bank on that.

02:21I think this is Wilson's award, certainly to lose here.

02:24All you're asking me is that I don't think he's going to – listen.

02:26I don't think Wilson will get a – he's going to get them all.

02:28What is it, 30 votes?

02:29Two per city?

02:30So it's 30 votes here.

02:31I don't think he's going to get a every first place vote.

02:33Sure.

02:34I'll buy this one.

02:35Maybe the Kansas City writers are going to vote for him.

02:37All right.

02:38You know, the hometown guy.

02:39I do think he'll hit.

02:40I think he'll hit 20 home runs.

02:41You know, put up some numbers here where you can make maybe a small argument that he could.

02:45But you either need Wilson to get hurt or fall off the planet here to not get record of the year.

02:49And I don't think really either one happens here.

02:51I think Wilson does win the award.

02:53But I don't think he'll sweep it.

02:53That's so hard to do here.

02:55And Cagliotone, once again, is that guy.

02:58And we said it earlier.

02:58Maybe Wilson gets a little couple of demerits here from people because of the ballpark in Sacramento.

03:05Maybe that hurts.

03:05I'll buy this.

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