 Hi, everyone. Joe for Jaspy's casebreaks.com, coming at you with 2023 tops, finest baseball, eight bucks. Pick your team number 11. All-Cards ship. Fresh case, big thanks to this group for making it happen here on Wednesday, the 12th, 2023. Pick your team 11. If you have cap 36 next year, that means you won that spot in the filler. We gave away the remaining teams. Dan, you got last ball motor with the raise. Thank you, everyone. Appreciate you getting in. We've got a fresh case right here. And we've got another case loaded up, no filler yet, no giveaway break yet. All the teams available straight up. Take this out of my inventory system. Always forget to do that before the break. If I don't do that before the break, I'll definitely forget. And then jam everybody up. I don't want to do that as, at least, a matter of time possible. All right, so let's put that there, there. New question with the team, giveaways, did you randomize a list of everyone? Yes, I randomized a list of everyone, and the top X amount of people would get teams. And only the people who bought into that particular thing, that capstone pack, basically. Box one of eight. Good luck. Chad Da was mentioning this earlier, but thank God for Jaspies. We only have, we have two days of no real sports happening before, before baseball starts up again, the sort of, the ceremonial second half of this season. We're already technically in the second half of the season, but post all star break part of the season. So there's really nothing happening. In baseball, I guess, Sean Casey apparently saying that his TV job prepped in for his Yankees hitting coach role, interesting. Philly's placing Harrison on the IL with injured wrists. Dodgers acquire a right-handed Miller from the Brewers just for cash, I guess. A cool bit of news here. Also, Matt Bush is back on a minorly deal with the Rangers. The Dodgers Padres to open the 2024 season in Seoul, South Korea. That's kind of cool. I wonder how much it would cost to go there. I haven't been since I was a wee lad. And there's Josh Young, nice start. Wrigley field in the running for an all-star game in 2020. That'd be pretty cool. What's, I mean, what do you think the home run, the friendly confines, there's gonna be a lot of home runs there, are there not for the home run derby if it ends up there? DL Hall with the O's, Daniel. Corbin Carroll for Chris and the Diamondbacks. Gunnar Henderson, John's gonna be flying there for, oh, your wife's Korean. Nice. There's Ryan Howard, 19 out of 25. Maybe we'll go together, John. I did just renew my passport. I should be getting that at the end of the year. Or whenever they decide to send it to me. Thankfully, I'm not actually planning on anything this year, so I'm not in a rush. But I've got a, well, yeah. I mean, you might be better than me. I'm trying. Miguel Vargas, going to the Dodgers for David. Yeah, the Rushman for the O's, Daniel. Yeah, a lot of my mom's side of the family is still there. A lot of my dad's side of the family's over here, but. But I've not been in a while, so. Thankfully, most of the aunts and uncles I do know often visit the United States and Vegas, so I'm always able to see them here. But I have not been over there since I was a wee lad, so I think we'll just need to go at some point. Hey, John's like a regular Leonardo DiCaprio, look at that. Well, Rex, if you're gonna go to the All-Star game, save up, because even when the All-Star game was here in LA, I looked at a lot of the prices. I looked at a lot of the prices, and they were quite expensive. The home run derby's the most expensive of all, for obvious reasons, I think it's the more popular thing to go to, and you know, the friendly confines is not very big, so I'm sure tickets will sell out and then be at a high price, so you would have to, although I feel like, yeah, Chad is in the Pacific Northwest, he just had an All-Star game. The standing room only was 304 fees, and that doesn't even take in the cost of getting there, right? Transportation, parking, ride chair service, although I think, I feel like the futures game would be worth going to, though, 50 out of 99, that might be the cheapest thing to go to. It was Garrett Cole, 50 out of 99, Yankees, Tristan. Wow, parking was 120 each day. There's Garrett Cole again to 150, and Bo Nailer for the Guardians. Daniel, Cleveland, this is for you. Really, Peter Lonzo signed every baseball in that bucket before the home run derby. It's a good idea, that's awesome. Everyone should do that. Futures games, tickets were nine bucks, but that's the, I mean, that's kind of the fun game to go to, right? To see the future All-Stars? You know, you can do a little scouting, you can see like, hey, why am I investing in this kid? Better go see him play, is he gonna be worth it? It's kind of why I thought going to a summer league was a little fun, you can kind of pretend you're a scout. Here's out of 175, Aaron Judge, Aqua Shimmer, for the Yankees, Tristan. And we've got some gold, gold rookies. Michael Harris, brave, Stephen Carney. Garrett Cole to 250, also Duncan. If you want to, because that, but you bought into Finest thinking it was tribute, that's tomorrow, that's Finest 12 though, right? Which wouldn't happen until tomorrow. So you can click the support button on the website and let them know that you made a mistake. And they'll refund you at some point tomorrow. And then you can buy into, and then buy your tribute team now because someone else might take it, so we'll do that. Odds on Otani coming to Seattle after that tribute, was there an Otani tribute during the game? Excuse me. A lot of Otani, I'm all pitching to Otani, huh? Who is it? I saw a funny video of a, I think Jason shared it in our Slack or something like that, of like some Seattle talk radio show host. And was like, and asked Otani, hey, what do you think about playing in Seattle? Or something like that. And then Otani was a little coy about it, kind of shrugged his shoulders. And Otani essentially was like, huh? And then the guy was like, well, he didn't say no. Grizzlebees thinks Otani will be a dodger. Maybe. I wouldn't rule out Otani just re-signing with the angels. But he claims he wants to win though. Wow, imagine if he shocked the world and went to Colorado. Chris, that'd be wild. Got Josh Young for the Texas Rangers. Here's Purple Wander Franco to 250. For the Rays, Dano, Adley Rushman having a really nice season. All-star season going to Daniel in the O's. And Jordan Groeschans for Miami. That'll be for Daniel Smith. He says he spent off seasons in Seattle. Would you go visit in Seattle? I think he was visiting Drive-Line in Seattle, right? I think it wasn't for pleasure. Things for business? Is there some Drive-Line up there? There's JT Realmuto for the Phillies to 250. And a Corbin Carroll. Rex on Otani, quote, that said, he loves the O's, spent two off season there. And the fan says, oh yeah, Chad just said that too. Angels will keep him, says John. And he'll sign with the Dodgers in the off season. Yeah, what does this guy want? I feel like, I feel like, I feel like Ryan Gosling in the notebook asking Rachel McAdams, what do you want? Otani, all the baseball teams are Ryan Gosling. And Otani is Rachel McAdams. Here's Bubba Thompson, 60 out of 150. Logan Webb, Lava, and Chris Formel, Morrell Rookies. I mean, Japan's not exactly a tropical location. I feel like the Longitude, the Latitude? Longitude is on a similar line. I don't remember where Otani's from. I think he's even from Northern Japan, which might even be cooler and rainier. So maybe it's not, maybe there's no difference to Otani. But I wanna say, someone needs to do some research on this, but I wanna say that that drive line, the main drive line studio, or campus or center or whatever is in Seattle. And that's where a lot of ball players have been spending some off seasons. Mookie Betz was there for a little bit. So for business reasons, I think, maybe Chad, not necessary for purpose, for personal, for vacation reasons. No Mookie Betz was there for like a few weeks last year. I think Chris Taylor goes every year. He's been one of the more earlier sort of advocates for a drive line as a hitter. Kershaw didn't go there for a long time until recently, but he's been going there for the last couple of seasons in the off season. And I know, I'm pretty sure Otani went there a few seasons ago, maybe more recently too. Maybe it's a regular thing now, but that place kind of helped after like a couple seasons of injuries, that place helped sort of reconstruct through different workouts, just reconstruct his lower body. Apparently his leg strength is a lot more, it's a lot more flexible and a lot more powerful now, which has given him more power in the lower body to last the entire season hitting and pitching. And reduce injuries. Zion should go there. There's Michael Toglia, green speckled at 125. That's for Colorado, that's for Tristan. And Alec Burleson, for the Cardinals, that's gonna go to Ian. There's the 300 Spencer Stier, JT Rilmuto to 250. And Caleb Killian, 009 out of 150. This is, what was this Rex? Rex, one of your ex's brothers, cousins, cousin or something like that? For the Cubs, that's gonna go to shape, the spot that he won in the filler to 150. How 9,000, isn't it? How is terrifying. What are you doing, Dave? I wouldn't do that if I were you, Dave. Let's play a little game that I like to call, will he or won't he? Never play this game for will he or won't he? Will he or won't he? Luis Arias, 400, batting 400 for the season. For the first time since what, Ted Williams? Hit 4-0 something, 4-0-5, 4-0-2 or something like that. Back in the day. Everyone saying no? No, well not, everyone says no. How close does he get? He's at 383 now. If he's at 380, he'd have to hit 420 the rest of the way. John thinks he ends up at 368. Chad thinking 363 would be your guess. Which makes what Ted Williams did just all the more impressive, right? That's one of the classic, if the mid 90s strike never happened story, right? I think Tony Gwynn was on his way. Oh, we'll never know, but you know. He looked like he'd be flirting with that and with his, I guess, friendship with Ted Williams. Or their mutual respect for each other as hitters. Who's from San Diego, obviously. I think would have been a nice little bookend or something like that. There's JJ Blede to 199 and Jermaine Palacios. 79 out of 99, green wave, autograph for the Mets. Tigers, that is, not Mets. Stephen Carney with the Tigers. How has Ted Williams not talked about as a top five baseball player of all time? Jan's blaming the Korean War? Ted was different. He was a home run there, it would change his dynamics back to the back. Yeah. I feel like he should be talked about more. Nolan Aronato 250 and Ken Waldichick. I think it was World War II, though. Or was it the Korean War in the fifties? I know he was a pilot, though. Both, actually. So you think maybe some of the years he lost in the war, lost, you know, hurt some of his chance at some of the counting stats that would make him one of the greatest? He would maybe would have had a 521 home run still. That might be it. A service to the country, which may have kind of gone in the way of some of the counting stats he potentially could have racked up. There's Raphael Devers to 75. Only seen a picture I've seen of him. The only picture you've seen of him as a pilot was the Korean War, so that means World War II never happened. So there's no picture or it didn't happen. Grizz will be sat in the red seat in right field in Fenway. That was a long way from home play. That's kind of amazing. So he could have finished with what? If he was averaging 35 a year, he could have easily had like a 40 home. I mean, he could have, he has that 521 now. If you had 100 home runs, 621, maybe round that up to 650. If you start creeping into those top home run numbers, that's where, you know, that's where, you know, I feel like people start talking about, you know, greatest players, like just seeing those counting stats, right? He had 2,600 hits, so yeah, 264, I'm looking at the stats right now, 2,654, easily would have been 3,000 hits. Maybe more, I mean, maybe that's what it is, Chad. Maybe like not seeing the counting stats, you know, and not seeing him like towards the top of the leaderboard, you know, just naturally keeps like, you know, talking heads or talk radio shows like it's off the radar. Especially the kids these days. All right, next box. Wynton Bernard to 99, that'll be for the Rocks, that's gonna go to Tristan. Will he or won't he? Ronald Acuna Jr., 40-40 season. He already has 41 solo bases. He's at 21 home runs now. Will he or won't he? Max Scherzer to 199. Wow, Chris saying will? Grizzleby says 40-50. Yeah, he's gonna have 50. He will. Okay, well, since everyone's easily saying he will, will he or won't he? Will Ronald Acuna, will he or won't he go 50-50? Which no one has ever done. People have gotten close, I wanna say. There's Kyle Stowers for Baltimore. I think Alfonso Soriano got close. It's Daniel Smith and the Orioles. No on the 50 home runs, all right. Will he get close? There's Lenion Sosa, Green Speckle. Will it be over 45 home runs? Is he gonna end up tantalizingly close? Like it's 47 home runs and 55 solo bases or something like that? I feel like it'll be that. I like the bullishness though. If he stays healthy, anything is possible, right? Knock on wood. Yeah, the injury factor's a little scary. No, you're still if John Still is thinking under 45 home runs. Will he or won't he? That's depressing, Jan. Let's talk about what S2A Ruiz can do. I don't wanna talk about how many ball players died in the war. S2A Ruiz has 43 stolen bases. That's about all he does. If he gets on base, he's stealing a base. Will he or won't he steal 100 bases? Oh, Grizzlebees wants to host will he won't he? Okay, I see Grizzlebees. No, says John. Will he won't he? Will he won't he? Will S2A Ruiz steal 90 bases? Which is something we haven't seen in a long time. Maybe not. It'd be cool to see nine in front of a stolen base number. So I'm a stolen base number. Go to Grizzlebees' question, will he or won't he? Yeah, he's gonna hit enough for him to get five or six advance against you. He was on pace for that, but then he was kinda stuck in the 30s, high 30s for a while. Grizzlebees' question, will he or won't he? Will Shohei Otani win both? MVP and Sayang. That hasn't happened since. Kershaw, maybe? Maybe Kershaw won the MVP, but not the Sayang. Has anyone won both? MVP and Sayang? In like the last 30 years? There's Tatees Jr. to 250. And Simeon Woods Richardson for the twins. That's for Shea. Grizzlebees thinks both. MVP, so it was Chris. MVP and Sayang. Has that happened? Kershaw and Verlender did it? There's Tatees Jr. to 250. All right, so it's possible. We got Kyle Stover's 31 out of 50 for Daniel and the Baltimore Orioles. Anthony Volpe to 100. Are you starting to heat back up a little bit before the All-Star break? No, Jan saying Verlender didn't do MVP and Sayang. Hunter Brown, experienced basketball, so last party's tomorrow. Where did you hear that? I don't think so. I mean, it could, but it'd be quite a feat if we did. Brow in the Twitch stream saying Verlender did do Sayang and MVP in 2011. Jan says, I'm wrong. Yeah, sometimes we got a fact check, Jan. Sometimes AI Jan pretends to get things wrong just to make sure we're off the scent of Jan being. Yeah, all of these boxes come with a box and a box. This is what we call a master box, Duncan. And inside the master box will be a mini box. It's a common format with Finest and Bowman's Best, et cetera, et cetera. Jan saying MVP more of an overall award. Sayang is defensive or, but it does happen both MLB and FL, but it's rare. That doesn't happen too often. Who will get the triple crown in Major League Baseball? Is anyone even in the hunt for a triple crown? Otani leads, oh, can we go by American League here? He does lead the league in, lead the AL at home runs. Is third in RBIs. But I don't think he's gonna get there average wise. And I think nobody in the NL because I'm pretty sure that Luis Arias is gonna mess it up for everybody. No one's catching him on average. Otani, I suppose has a chance. Yandi Diaz is hitting 323, but Otani's only hitting 302. So yeah, I don't know if that's gonna happen. Wow, will he, won't he? Chad's got to, in his career, will Otani ever win a double triple crown? Now, are you saying in the same year or in separate years? If it's the same year, I would probably say no. I mean, both of those feats are hard. There's Nick Prado. I say if it's the same year, people should just stop playing baseball. We should just cancel the season next year, just for a hard restart. Whatever year Otani does triple crown in both pitching and hitting. We're just like, we have to, we have to just not play next year. That'll be for Daniel Smith and the Royals. Real Muto to 99 for the Phillies. That'll be for Daniel, Corbin Carroll for Chris and the Diamondbacks. Jordan Walker to 250. There he is. Otani, and there's Clay Holmes for Tristan and the Rockies. Yeah, if Grizz will be saying if it's the same year, they just give him this whole wing in the Hall of Fame. Give him the World Series, is Chad. Right, John, that's a very good point. John saying the fact that we're even having this speculative conversation just shows how good it could be. Like we're actually thinking about it. We're not outright saying, get out of here, Chad. That's ridiculous, you know? It's conformed to one. Like we're actually kind of being like, what, it might happen. Yeah, Holmes, we went out. I mean, everything would have to come to, he'd A, have to have a completely healthy and dominant season, and then you've got to have to have some of the best hitters start to like have down seasons for whatever reason, you know? Like you can't have Aaron Judge effing around and hitting 59 home runs or something like that. You know, messing up with Otani's triple crown chances. All right, that was the finest case. Thanks everybody for getting in. Some good convos, some hits here. We got more in the store, jaspyscasebreaks.com. Thanks for watching. Thanks for breaking with us. We'll see you next time for the next one. Bye-bye.