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00:00And Joe, you alluded to before the break, a nice little shift taking advantage of a really good team off to a slow start. So let's start their market watch time here. A team to win their division was minus 115. Now after this pace of play, it is now nearly it is actually at three to one. Talk about this team. Talk about this opportunity.
00:19Yeah, the Braves are one in eight to start the year, and that's not good.
00:23Phillies are off to a six and two start. The Mets are five and three. The Marlins are five and three.
00:28And then there's Sam, our producer's Nationals at two and six. A little underwhelming. We're still
00:33fingers crossed for Dylan Cruz. More on him an hour or two. But the Braves have gotten off to a
00:37terrible start, but they're also missing their best pitcher and they're missing their best player.
00:40So at some point, they're going to get those guys back. And by mid-May, I think this Braves team is
00:46going to look a lot different. And I still pick the Phillies to win this division because I think
00:50that starting pitching one through five is really good and eventually gets Juarez back
00:54healthy. And I know our TD Jake, absolutely huge Philly fan, just loves that Lazardo start to the
01:00year who's been electric so far. So what an incredible return on investment he's been
01:04for the Phillies, but also in fantasy, we talked about him as a post 280 P pitcher.
01:09So he's been terrific. Wheeler's always going to be good. Noah's always going to be good.
01:13Sanchez is really good. So I think that Philly pitching over time is just markedly better than
01:18the Mets and then deeper than what the Braves are going to be able to offer you, especially with
01:22Lopez on the shelf, but the Braves are going to be back. And I think the Braves still could make
01:26a run at this division if they get healthy and if they stay healthy the rest of the year.
01:31So the key here for the Braves is no more setbacks. You lost profile. You lost Lopez.
01:37You kind of have to tread water here. Maybe you get back to 500 in the month of April when it
01:42closes. If you can get back to 500, you're in good shape. You got plenty of time. Let's not get
01:47crazy, but look, the favorite quote unquote for this division that was minus money. It's now three
01:53to one. So if you like the Braves, you bet them before this is the time to double down on the
01:56Braves. Cause you're not going to see a better number than this. Probably all year. This I
02:00imagine is the low watermark for the Atlanta Braves in this division, Matt, would you agree,
02:04especially with the Nats and the Marlins, you know, you know, those teams are going to,
02:08especially the Marlins are going to come back down to earth after this pretty good first week.