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00:00But Yoshinobu Yamamoto is the favorite, but he's only plus 270, which tells us that there are some other possibilities here.
00:06Jesus Lizardo, fantastic start in his new team in Philadelphia.
00:10Nick Pavetta also off to a great start with the Padres, and so is Michael King.
00:14He got two Padres there, back-to-back, one at 25-1, one at 18-1.
00:20Look, it's a great start for Yamamoto, and he's playing on the right team as well.
00:24But, I mean, it still is only early May, right?
00:27Yeah, it's early May, and we all know with really any award in sports, but I think this is especially true in baseball, given how long the season is, that it's really more about how you finish than how you start.
00:40So, you know, what happens now matters.
00:42I mean, you're banking stats, you know, for pitchers.
00:45Wins don't matter as much anymore, but you're still banking some, you know, you're banking more for the advanced stat people who want to look at that at the end.
00:52And so it does matter, but, I mean, how they finish is probably going to matter more.
00:57But you put some guys up there that I think are all very interesting, who've all had really good starts and are pitching very well, and have put themselves in position that, if they keep doing pretty well, are going to be there in the end.
01:09And I really like Michael King out of that group.
01:11I just think, you know, the stats are all there.
01:13The advanced stats are there.
01:15He's kind of doing everything right.
01:17We know he's in a pretty good pitcher's park, you know, maybe not the easiest division as we start getting into more division games.
01:25But nonetheless, I just think he's solid all around, maybe lacks a little bit of flash that some other guys have.
01:31But I do think he'll be there in the end, and he obviously has a tough test coming up here, you know, against his former team.
01:38And that'll probably tell us a little bit more about him.
01:41But, yeah, I really like him, especially at those odds.