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00:00McKenzie Gore of the Washington Nationals.
00:03You know, I saw Gore pitch at a spring training game in person
00:05and thought, wow, he looks really good this year.
00:08Didn't think it would be this good.
00:10Six innings pitch, 13 strikeouts.
00:12George, I mean, not that long ago,
00:15he was considered a top three prospect in all of baseball.
00:19And sometimes we forget about that stuff,
00:21and then he was traded from the Padres to the Nationals.
00:24It's like, all right, he's going to be good,
00:26but would the Padres, you know, really
00:28trade all of those players from Juan Soto?
00:31The answer was yes.
00:32I mean, I got to say here, it's one start.
00:36I'm not going to overreact.
00:38I'm going to be watching his Cy Young market, man.
00:40Like, this is, I mean, when you put that number one
00:42on your jersey, you do it for a reason.
00:45You got to have a lot of confidence in yourself.
00:47I really liked what I saw here.
00:49Hard not to like what we saw.
00:51He looked really good against a stacked Phillies lineup here.
00:54I mean, it's amazing.
00:56He left the game, all of a sudden,
00:57Philadelphia could hit, right?
00:58And they beat up on the bullpen there.
00:59So yeah, I think Gore is legit.
01:01I think looking at him for Cy Young,
01:03do I think he's going to win it?
01:05No, probably not.
01:06But I might say that about everybody outside of Skeens,
01:08but that's going to be the problem, right?
01:10Skeens is going to have all the publicity here.
01:11He looked good on his well-opening day,
01:13and you got Zach Wheeler,
01:14who also looked good in this game.
01:15So they just have more of the pub than Gore does.
01:18So when you look at that market, that's my worry here.
01:20Gore's got to build that up,
01:21which means he can't be even with these guys.
01:23He has to outpitch them to win the award
01:25at the end of the year.
01:26So I don't mind taking a shot.
01:27You're getting a good price.
01:28And as a sort of hinting here,
01:29that price is going to come down.
01:31All right?
01:31I don't think he's going to fall with the plan.
01:33This is not, oh, he had one good start.
01:34Who cares?
01:35He's terrible.
01:36No, this is a legit, really good starting pitcher.
01:38I might not put him in the same level as Wheeler and Skeens,
01:41but he's not that far behind either.