Locked On Mariners - Daily Podcast On the Seattle Mariners - 2024 MLB Season Predictions: 2 Mariners Take Home Some Hardware, But Will They Win the AL West?!

Episode Date: March 27, 2024

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Baseball is back tomorrow, so we're going to make our predictions for the upcoming season. Colby, hit it. You are Locked-on Mariners, your daily Seattle Mariners podcast, part of the Locked-on Podcast Network, your team every day. Ahoy, sailors, it is Wednesday, March 27th, 2024. This is Tiding Azales and Colby Patnaud for the Locked-on Mariner's podcast, brought to you by GameTime. Download the GameTime app, create an account, and use the promo code Locked-on. That's L-O-C-K-D-O-N.

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please consider signing up for our Patreon. You can now get a free seven-day trial to check out the show. The link as well as our social accounts is in the description of this episode. And today, we're going to step away from. from just the Mariners and make our predictions for the 2024 MLB season as a whole. And we're going to start with our division winners across both the American and National leagues. And we're going to start in the American League West.

Colby, are the Mariners going to win the West? I will say this. I think it is a two-team race. No disrespect to the defending World Series champion, Texas Rangers. But that's a team with some questions that they did not answer. Their rotation is objectively worse than it was a year ago. They didn't bring back Jordan Montgomery. They didn't replace him.

And now they're not going to have, you know, Jacob de Grom, Max Scherzer, or Tyler Malley for most of this year. And so it's just a lot of question marks in that rotation. It's John Gray who's hit or miss. It's Nathan Avaldi who has his own injury issues, his own injury concerns. But he's also kind of hit or miss. It's Andrew Heaney hit or miss. That bullpen didn't get much better, if at all.

So you're kind of relying on this like offense that was historically good with runners in scoring position for most of last year to repeat that. I'm not saying it's not possible because it's a really good lineup. Don't get me wrong. It's a great lineup. But it's just not likely. So can they pitch enough to kind of hang with arguably the two best pitching staffs in the American League? I don't know. I'm not sure.

So to me, there's a clear divide between Texas and Seattle and Houston. Like I think there's a clear step down between the top two teams in Texas. That doesn't mean Texas can't compete for the division. It doesn't mean that they can't make the playoffs. It doesn't mean they can't do damage. It just means to me that when I look at the roster and how things sit, I'm not too sure Texas is in the same league as Seattle and Houston, at least what they could be.

So to me, I'm not considering Texas as a division winner. If they win it, would I be shocked a little bit just because the pitching is so hit or miss, you know, and we don't know what to expect from that. So it comes down to Seattle and Houston. Now, both of these teams have already had some issues to their pitching staff health-wise this spring. When you look at, you know, what the Mariners are doing, though, it looks like fingers crossed. They're going to have Wu, Brash, and Santos before, you know, May, give or take. So they're coming back, at least we think, we'll see. Whereas Houston right now, you know, Lance McCullors Jr. is going to miss most of this year.

Burlander's going to start. Yeah, Burlander is going to start the year on the IL. Urquitty is going to, you know, we still don't have an update on his elbow. So anytime an elbow injury takes this long for you to come up with some kind of, you know, it's a forearm issue. That's typically leads to Tommy John. So maybe he can avoid that. But yeah, so you're starting the year with Framber, Christian Javier and Hunter Brown. Luis Garcia's also hurt.

So it's, there's some questions there. Now they do have the good bullpen, but they lost a lot of depth out of that bullpen. And they kind of just tried to replace it with one guy. So, you know, Seattle, I think their lineup is balanced. I think it's deep. I think they're starting pitching is the best in the league. I think their bullpen, if healthy, is just as good as Houston's, if not better. So it's a really tough matchup to me.

I think I'll probably take Houston just because they've won it repeatedly. And until somebody unseats them, I think you kind of have to. give them the benefit of the doubt. So I'll take Houston to win this division, but I think it's going to be really close. I think it's a game or two that separates Houston and Seattle. And I think Texas is probably still within, you know, four or five games of the division lead. And we'll just kind of see, like, there are very real scenarios in which any of the three

teams we talked about can win the American League West. Right. You mentioned Luis Garcia, but he had Tommy John last year as well. I'm sure, you know, it was back in May, so I'm sure he's going to be able to return at some point this year, but you never know. So right now, according to Fangraph's roster resource, it's Framber, it's Christian Javier, it's Hunter Brown, it's Renel Blanco, who's had a pretty good spring,

and then J.P. France. That's not really a rotation that strikes fear in me. No, but it is the Astros. It is the Astros, and they still have Bregman, they still have Altuvae, they still have Yord on, they still have Kyle Tucker. I'm picking the Astros to win the division because... I've learned not to doubt them, right, until they actually give me a reason to.

So I'm picking the Astros to win the division, but I have the Mariners finishing second because I agree with you on the Rangers. I think that offense still really, really good, but I think it's going to regress some. And then the injuries within that rotation and the bullpen didn't really get that much better this off season. They added David Robertson. That's it. Now, bullpins are finicky, you know, and that works both ways, right? not just in terms of the negative. Excess ring to prove it. Yeah. Right.

They were able to pitch pretty well over those final three weeks or four weeks in the postseason, right? So can they carry that momentum into this regular season? Sure. They absolutely could. And this bullpen could be more than fine. And that rotation could be more than fine. But that said, I don't receive that happening. I don't feel comfortable saying that that's going to happen.

Just looking at their roster on paper right now. And also offensively speaking, they're going to be missing Nathaniel Lowe to, you know, to start the year just, it looks like only for a couple of weeks with an oblique injury, but they're not going to be at full strength offensively either. So, yeah, I look at this division. I think it's wide open for the Marys to take.

I think the mirrors are right there on the cusp. But again, until the Astros give me a reason to think otherwise, I'm going to go with the Astros. Because the Astros, they've been there, they've done that. They get it done more often than not. So let's talk about the AL Central.

I find this division really interesting because the twins are still, in my mind, the best team in the division on paper, but they got worse this off season. You know, they traded Jorge Polanco. They lost Sunny Gray to the Cardinals. They've added, guys like Carlos Santana to the fold.

But do you think they were going to be able to repeat? Because, I mean, the rest of this division, not that great. Yeah, I think they're probably still the favorite. I mean, this is a team that even without,

Sunny Gray can still pitch. They also lost Kent to Maeda. Don't forget about him. But they can still pitch. You know, they have Joe Ryan. They have Bailey Ober, who I'm really high on this year. They have, you know, they still have Duran out of the bullpen. They still have Brock Stewart out of the bullp.

Like, team that can pitch and you look at, you know, their lineup, it's still solid. Although, again, without Polanco, not quite as good as last year. But I think they're still the favorite. I think the team that people are sleeping on is actually Cleveland, not. Detroit. I know Detroit has a lot of buzz rightfully so. They are a very interesting team and they can pitch as well. But Cleveland can pitch. They have a superstar hitter in Jose Ramirez. They have kind of an up-and-coming superstar hitter and Naylor, Josh Naylor, and then we'll see what they get from the rest of the boys. You know, Bo Naylor, maybe he takes a step forward to Stephen Kwan

return to his rookie year. Is he just kind of this, you know, league average hitter? What about Jimenez? I always get, we're sorry on Jimenez mixed up. Jimenez had a six-win season in 2022. And last year he was pretty, you know. So I do think that there's a shot here that Cleveland could make some noise. But I would take Minnesota. But I do feel like this is a three-team race between Minnesota, Minnesota, Detroit, and Cleveland.

And I think they're all going to be right around 84, 85 wins. I don't think there's a 91 team in this division. No, I think if you're going to win this division, it's probably it's only going to take you know 85 86 wins to do it um i'm actually going to go with the detroit tigers this team had a really good second half uh guys like riley green and spencer torkelson started to hit in that second half they can really pitch too and casey mys is having a good spring or had a good spring uh maybe he's finally figured it out if he does or if he has you know you combine him with the return of therique school who i know is a sy young favorite for

a lot of people. Kenta Maeda, who you mentioned earlier, he went to Detroit this off-season. They made a pretty sneaky addition. Yeah, they've made a pretty sneaky addition this off-season and getting Marcana, who you and I both like. That offense has the potential to be sneaky good. Sure. A lot of questions still.

Yeah, a lot of questions. But, you know, guys like Carrie Carpenter, I really like. And maybe they can get something out of Javier Baez. I doubt it. But maybe they can get something out of hobby bias. I think that ship has sailed. But, you know, he's going to be there for the next four years because nobody's trained for that salary. And Colt Keith, you know, one of their top prospects, they gave him a deal.

He's going to make the opening day roster. Maybe he's something for them. I'm really intrigued by the Tigers, but they can definitely pitch. It's just can they score enough runs? I think the answer is maybe because, again, I'm intrigued by quite a few of the headers on that team right now. So I'm going to go with them. Okay. So let's talk about the NL East now real quick before we move on.

NL or ALEs, sorry, before we move on to the NL. Baltimore, move on. Yeah, it's Baltimore. All right, so we're going to get into the National League in just a moment, but first, a reminder, this episode of the Lockdown, Marries podcast is brought to you by prize picks. Football season may be over, but the action on the floor is heating up. Whether it's tournament season or the fight for playoff home court,

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with the local experts of Locked On, plus our national shows covering every league. Find Locked On Sports Today now available on the free Fire TV channels app. We are making our predictions for the 2024 MLB season on today's episode. We just picked our division winners for the American League. Now let's move on to the National League and pick our division winners. Let's go on to the NL West. I assume this is a pretty easy.

Yeah, this is a pretty easy decision. It's the Dodgers. Spoiler, the East is just a. is easy. Right. Yeah. It's the brave, so we'll just answer that now. And let's just move on to the NL Central where the answer is a lot more

difficult because like the AL Central, it's a lot of mid. I think you could write a pretty compelling script that any of the five teams can win this division. You know, now obviously a lot more has to go right for, say,

Pittsburgh than it does for the Cubs. But I think you look at this division. There's a lot of young talent on teams like Pittsburgh and Cincinnati. Cincinnati kind of, you know, they were in it last year. And then, you know, their inexperienced kind of fell apart. But I worry about Cincinnati's pitching. I worry about the just the depth of quality major leaguers that Pittsburgh has.

You know, with the Cubs, I don't know if they have enough top end talent to kind of, you know, be a 90-win team. I think they have a lot of solid players. I don't know if they have a superstar. in that mix, Milwaukee, I don't know how long they're going to stay in this thing and be true to it. Like could they trade Willie Adomas and May? Yeah, they could. And, you know,

they obviously, they traded Corbyn Burns, but there's a lot of young talent there. So I kind of look around here at this division. And, you know, St. Louis was bad last year, but that's a veteran, you know,

veteran squad that has a lot of really good players. They added a bunch of pitching. Now, Sonny Gray is going to start the year on the IL. that obviously hurts quite a bit. So last year their problem was pitching, but they still have Aeronado. They still have Goldschmidt.

They still have Newpar. They still have, you know, Brennan Donovan. Like, they have a lot of really, yeah, Nolan Gorman. Like they have Contreras. Like they have really good pieces there. So I'm not sure.

This is probably going to come down to who pitches the best. And I think all these teams have pretty serious questions about their rotations. So, um, yeah, it's tough to say, I'm going to pick the, Cubs, I don't feel good about it at all.

Yeah. I really don't feel good about this. I'll pick the Cubs, but I think the Cardinals are probably a sleeper here. I think people are just ready to write them off. And it's like, yeah, the Cardinals have been good for like 15 years and they had one, one bad year. And people are just like, oh, well, they're toast now. There's a lot of talent on that team to just write them off entirely. Yeah, I agree with you.

And that's why I'm picking the Cardinals. I think that team has enough offense to make up for some of the. questions in their pitching staff. I think that bullpen has a potential to be pretty solid. And the rotation, if they can get sunny back in there, I think they'll be fine and they can make an, you know, an addition or two near the deadline. I think it's the best foundation to build off of,

though I really like the foundation that the Cubs have as well. But I look at all these teams and they're all pretty incomplete to me. So I'm really intrigued to see how that kind of works out over the course of the year and which of these teams. start to get aggressive, you know, on the trade market. Right. I wanted to pick Cincinnati, but obviously they lose no LVie for half the year. And now McLean is going to be out months, free tolls out as well.

So like McLean, they won't even put a timeline on. And they're just saying they hope he returns this year. Now, the Reds have a lot of young offensive talent in their system. But having to replace three projected starters at the last minute, just with the questions they already have about their pitch. I don't know. I'm a big Hunter Green fan. I think this might be the area breaks out, but, you know, Nick Ladolo is pretty good too. But I want to pick them, but with just the injuries and what they've been hit with this spring, I just, I don't think they have it this year. I hope I'm wrong, though, because that is a fun team to watch. Agreed. Agreed. Yeah, they are a lot of fun. NFL he figures it out. He's actually able to produce that an above average rate offensively. Because again, you know, he was a big highlight guy last year, but he was an 84 WRC plus this past year. Like, that's actually able to produce that. He's actually able to produce out of an above average rate offence way. He was. He was actually. He was. He was, he was Let's pump the breaks on the Ellie hype. But obviously a lot of talent there.

He's an incredibly fun dude to watch. Dude to watch the highlight reel on, that's for sure. Yep, yep. All right, so let's get into the wild cards. American League wild cards. Who do you want to do them in order? Or are you just going to throw three teams out there? If you're expecting me to tell you who's going to play each other in the wild card

round and the ALDS, based on seating, I'm not doing that. So you will get a CS prediction and a World Series prediction and that's it. Okay. The Mariners are going to take a wild card spot. I think the ALS is going to get three teams into the playoffs. So I think Texas wins the other one. I think the Central is only going to get one. You never know how this is going to play out.

And I think that's obviously going to be the division winner. So I have Seattle, Texas. And then the East is tricky. Like a lot of people are really hyped on the Yankees. I see so many landmines on that roster. And they're already going to be without coal for a little while. if they get them back at all. I'm not doing it.

I don't trust the Yankees. There's just too many. Is Juan Soto and Aaron Judge the best one two punch in baseball? I mean, if it's not them, it's what, Akuna and Olson, Freeman and Betts? Like, it's up there. But what else is there on that team? I got to rely on a DJ LaMahue bounce back. I got to rely on, you know, Alex Verdugo bounce back.

I got to rely on Nestor Cortez Jr. like Clark Schmidt. I just not doing it. So to me, that leaves Tampa and Toronto for one spot. Tampa's pitching is a mess right now. I don't know how they're going to fix that in season. This kind of feels like a year where maybe Tampa takes like a half step back

to kind of reload themselves and come back strong in 2025. So I'm going to take Toronto to win that last wild card spot. I don't feel great about it, but it's still Gossman. You know, it's still Bichette. it's still, you know, it's still George Springer and Dalton Varsho. There are questions about that roster, no doubt. But I think they just have enough star power. And I think they have significantly more pitching than Tampa does right now.

You know, Tampa pulls pitching out of there behind, like, kind of like the Mariners do. But I just, I'm looking at that. I'm going like, where is it coming from this year? I don't know. With Rasmussen and McLanahan and now Tosh, Bradley and like it gets real ugly after you know I mean after what pepio like who's who's the opening day started for Tampa this year do you know efflin okay afflin savale and then probably yeah and letel and then yeah and peppio pepio is he even healthy I don't even know who

you might have gotten her last time since the last time we checked like the raise pitching is is a mess right now so I'm going to take Toronto to be the last wild car team. I don't feel great about it. It could be Tampa. I wouldn't be super shocked if it was the Yankees. It's just they have such a wide,

like degree of, of possibilities that I just don't want to, I don't want to take them. Like to, I don't trust them to hit the, the good range that they could hit. Yeah, there's like,

there are four teams that I feel pretty good about in the American League. That's the Orioles, that's the Astros, that's the Mariners. Yeah. And then we have to pick a central winner, even though that division is incredibly mid. And after that, yeah, I just, I don't know. Like, I'm right.

Central, watch Yale Central have three 91 teams this year. Right, right. Maybe, maybe. Baseball's weird, man. I'm going to go with the Yankees. I just, I don't feel great about it, but I'm going to go with the Yankees. I don't know. I don't feel great about it.

Again, I think there's like four good teams in the American League and then a lot of question marks. I'd say four really good rosters and then like three or four like squint and you can see it. And then like two like, you know, maybe. Like I feel like that's the American League this year. It's National League Wild Cards. Philly. Okay.

Yep. I'm with you there. Arizona. Wait, did I say all of my American League wildcard teams? I'm going Seattle, New York, Texas if it wasn't clear. Oh, okay. Yeah. So I'll go Philly.

I'll go Arizona. Okay. And then I think I'll go St. Louis. I think each division gets one wild card. So you and I are on the same page. It's just you have the Cubs win in the Central. I have the Cardinals went in the Central.

I have the Cubs as my wild card team. Sure. I would watch the Nationals. They didn't do a ton, but there's a lot of good young talent on that team. I would watch the Padres. I don't think they're great, but do I think they're good enough to, you know,

sneak in the back door of a wild card spot? What about the Giants? I think the Giants are just mid. I think they try, they're trying so hard to put a bunch of band-aids on, you know, parts of their club that need surgery. So to me, the Giants look like a classic 83,

you know, 83 and 79 club. That always just teases you with the possibility. And maybe they, they stay in it long enough in July that, Their front office makes a questionable go for a trade. But this is a band-aid on a team that needs surgery. They need to rebuild that ball club, that franchise,

and they're just refusing to do it. So I don't buy them. I would like, I'm not saying that they're going to have a better record, but like if you told me I had to bet money on the Giants or the Padres to make the playoffs, I would probably bet money on the Padres just because they have a higher floor or higher ceiling than the Giants do. I just, the Giants to me.

Probably get better odds on that too. Yeah. Yeah. I just think they're a better bet. So, um, yeah, I,

I think any of the teams in the AL or in the NL central could be, that last wild card. I'm going to give it to the Cardinals because I still believe in the star power of Goldschmidt and Aeronado and enough of them they're pitching and the rest of their, uh, pretty good offense that, that they're going to sneak in there. Yeah.

So I'm going to go Phillies, Diamondbacks cups for mine. Yep. all right so we're going to get into our awards predictions so national league and american league mvps say youngs and rookies of the year coming up in just a moment but first a reminder of this episode of the lockdown airs podcast is brought to you by game time buying tickets to your favorite events shouldn't be stressful game time is a fast and easy way to buy tickets for all the sports music comedy and theater near you and with killer deals on last minute tickets and their best price

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Before we get into our awards, we got to pick our ALCS, NLCS, and World Series winners. So Colby, you go first. I'll start in the National League. I will take, in a shocking upset, I will take the Atlanta Braves over the Dodgers in seven games in the NLCS. again, just watch Philly. Philly's kind of my dark horse,

even though they were literally in the World Series two years ago, so it doesn't really qualify. But in the American League, I'm going to take Baltimore. And I'm going to take the Seattle Mariners to get to the ALCS. Yes. So now, can Seattle's pitching handle Baltimore's high-powered offense? I mean, if any rotation could do it. do it. It should be the Mariners in theory.

I'm tempted to say yes, but I think the Mariners are still one year away. So I'm going to take Baltimore to beat Seattle Mariners in six in the ALCS. And I will take the Atlanta Braves to win the World Series in six games against the Baltimore Orioles. So we have the same exact World Series pick. So I'm taking the Braves of the Orioles. Yeah. Okay. I have the Braves of the Dodgers. How this is so lame. Yeah. Yeah, no, we're so in line with one another.

I think part of the Braves. of this is a byproduct though of how little teams got better this offseason you know it was only like a select few teams that actually did a bulk of the work in free agency this year right it's like it's the giants it's the diamondbacks it's the dodgers it's you know the merrins made a lot of trades trade market yeah yeah like but a lot of teams just stood pat they're basically the same exact team that they were five six months ago Right, and they're banking on, you know, the players they have getting better, which we can't predict. Like we as people watching from a distance, we can't predict. So, yeah, it doesn't make sense that we're gravitating towards teams that were already good last year and the teams that were pretty good last year and did improve. Yeah, I think that makes a lot of sense. Yeah. So Braves over Orioles for me.

The CS, I'm going to go Orioles over Astros. I do think the Mariners do win their wild card series. They do make it to the ALDS again. but yeah we'll see we'll see I know I'm not a male of the people unlike a certain someone here and then NLCS yeah Braves over Dodgers

I like you know you can easily see the Dodgers winning the World Series right sure easily with that roster but I don't know I kind of feel like this is like you know year one of like LeBron D Wade Chris Bosch together you build this hype train

and then it just you know doesn't work out I think that core is definitely going to win a championship or two together. I just don't know if it'll be this year. Yeah, Atlanta's really good. They're really good. They're really good. And they probably have the second best rotation behind the mirrors right now.

Probably. Yeah. It's up there. So awards. MVP's. Actually, let's do rookie of the year first. Who's your rookie of the year in the AL and NL? Cade Marl in the AL.

Of course, naturally. I'll take Jackson Holiday over Wyatt Lankford in the AL. Okay. Burn Baltimore for not putting him on the opening day roster, so they don't get that extra pick. But he still gets a full year of service time. Ha ha ha ha. That's what you get Baltimore.

And then in the NL, it's Yamamoto. Yep. I'm going to go Yamamoto as well. I am going to go Langford over holiday, just because I don't know when holiday is going to get called up. I would assume that it's going to be a May. I'm going to assume around April 15th. Yeah, yeah.

Just a random couple weeks into the season. That's when the defense will be ready. Right. Yeah, yeah. So mid-April or like early May by the earliest. The silly thing about that is, is that if he finish his top three, he gets the full year of service time. Yep.

So why not just have him start the year on the open day roster so you can actually get the pick? Yeah, I know. It's silly. That's stupid. but yeah i think langford is going to have a lot of protection on that lineup that dude can really hit which is annoying because it's like

here come the rangers yet again with another really good hitter yeah i think Kevin Carter yeah i think he qualifies too I mean then he's going to be right there as well yeah so yeah there's there's quite a few good rookies

coming out in both leagues this year but yeah i'll go i'll go lengthford i know that's the safest pick and obviously yamamoto was the safest pick as well, even though that his first start did not go particularly well, but I think he'll get it together. I keep an eye

on Jackson Terrio, though. I actually really like Jackson Terrio. I like him long term. I don't know if he's going to thrive this year. All right. Syungs. Logan Gilbert. Huh?

Logan Gilbert? Perhaps. I know you're taking George Kirby. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. National League Last year I took Zach Gallen And I like to have kind of like a surprise I almost did I almost did this time around

Yeah So I know you're going Kirby I have a different pick for the AL But that's only because you pick Kirby And I think we should differ on some things Right So the National League I'm going to double down

I'm going Zach Gallen Okay I like it I'll take Zach Gallen and in the American League, I'm going to take Tariq Scoobel. Okay. Yeah, I like it. The AL is wide open. Yeah, it is wide open.

With Cole out. So Gossman is in play here. Castillo, Kirby, Gilbert. They're all in play here. Yep, Burns certainly in play there. But I'm going to take scubel. Okay. So I like scuba and gallon.

All right. Yeah. You know, Pablo Lopez would be a great pick there as well. Dark, dark horse. Bailey over. Yeah, elite extension guy. What was it? 99th percentile.

Yeah, something like that. Side note. Logan Gilbert also 99th percentile. It's tied note. Yesterday I was like, oh, Phil Bickford got released. I think the mayor should probably look at that guy. And when I looked at a sat cast page, guess what?

Of course. Like 89th percent dial in extension. I was like, that, well. Okay, it's not that extreme, but still. But still, I mean, like, this is getting weird. but it's whatever I don't know what it is I'm just guessing and it's just like subconsciously

like you see these guys pitch and it's just they're all high extension guys yeah like Gilbert's extension is like 7 foot 6 and Bickford's is like 6.8 or something and I'm still like oh yeah that's you could tell the difference between right right Bickford's extension and and you know

Luis Castillo's extension which you can't but for some reason my brain just clicks there so yeah i'm taking george kirby do i even need to explain i'm doubling down you know after last year i'm just you know not wrong just a year too early yeah i was a year too early uh we both were uh you know and i like to i like to get weird with it with my si young picks and kind of think outside the box i'm gonna go hey zeus lezardo i like it i almost won wasardo too yeah yeah um i feel like we have really good track records with picking like the

dark horse guys who go in i pick we both picked al contra a couple years Yeah, when he was like kind of outside the box that year. Yeah, at the time, yeah. And then you, uh, you had Mclanahan and he was up like a front runner for a while. Uh, I can't remember who I picked, uh, I had Gallin last year and he was a front runner for quite a while. So yeah, we're pretty good at the at the Siong picks. Everything else. Say young picks, you know, pretty decent track record.

So. So MVP is really interesting, especially in the NL because like, yeah. Can Otani do it just as a DH? I don't think so. He just did. Well, I mean, I guess he did any pitched. He pitched for a while. I'm going to say no, just because the field is so deep in the National League.

Right, because he's competing with some of his teammates like Mookie and Freddie Freeman. There's all those guys on the Braves, you know, including the defending MVP. Yeah. You're going to go with Jared Kelmick, aren't you? No. Can I give you a dark horse here too, though? Okay. Yeah, I go for it.

Michael Harris Jr. Ooh, I like it. He was really good in the second half. Yep. I'll go Mookie Betts this year. I think he wins it this year. Cunia won it last year. I'll go Mookiee bets, especially since, again, he selfishly moved off a second base to play shortstop.

And he's going to be good at shortstop, even though he's never played there before. Now he's like 34 years old because Mookie Bets is a freak. Yep. He is the inverse of what is supposed to have. The only thing he's not good at is the home run derby. Yeah. Didn't he still have 39 home runs last year? So he's good at hitting home runs.

Yeah, just not the derby. In a derby setting. Mookiee bats might be the most underrated player in baseball history because he's, his entire career has been overshadowed by Mike Trout. Certainly underrated by the Red Sox. Yeah. Oh. Mm-hmm.

Yeah. So I'll go Mookiee bets. Uh, and then I'm taking Julio. Why wouldn't I? okay I like it um I'm gonna go I'm gonna go Juan Soto I'm gonna be basic with it I'm gonna go want Soto and the American way he's gonna walk a lot he's like arguably the best peer hitter in all the baseball similar Yordon I think yeah he's gonna hit a ton of bombs

he's gonna walk a ton we know what the deal is with Soto and he and now he's gonna be under the you know the biggest spotlight in the game of baseball right so um even if he has like a slightly worse year than Julio. I'm sure he would win it. Again, it goes back to the conversation we've had about Julio that Julio is probably going to have to do something really special that like the

national media just cannot ignore, no matter how hard they try. Yeah, 40-40. Yeah, win the division and all that. And obviously have a couple of Heisman moments as well. Like we've talked about some big, you know, some big walkoffs or some big robberies or what have you.

National League, I'm going to go with the local kid. I'm going to go with Corbyn Carroll. Like it. Yeah. It's going to steal a bunch of bags, going to hit a lot of home runs, going to make a lot of things happen. Like Corbyn Carol's a really fun player. I think he actually does it this year.

Wins MVP. You're kind of a name brand team now too. Yeah. Yeah. All right. That is going to do it for our show. But before we get out of here, once again, a reminder that Lockdown has launched the first ever national sports 24-7 streaming channel on YouTube. And now it's also available on

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