 Hi everyone, Joe for Jaspy's casebreaks.com, coming at you with a case of 2023 Bowman Baseball. Jumbo Edition, 8 box, pick your team, 26. A very big thanks to this group right here for making it happen. On a Monday, thanks to the people who got into that update box break where we gave away the remaining teams. And then I think it was Carlos with official last spot mojo picked up the Rangers before we pulled the remainder of the teams or the filler. So just in the interest of time, we are going to fly through this break as quickly as possible. We've got a little event tomorrow that we're going to get up early for. So we'll fly through these, basically parallels and autos are all really, really focusing on. Three autos a box per box on average in these jumbo boxes. We're looking for Drew Jones, Gunnar Henderson, among others, and away we go. MLBTradeRumors.com has released their annual top free agents list. Ah, let's go through this list here. We're not going to go through all 50. Maybe we'll go through the top 25 as we do these long break, this long break here. They also have a fun predictor contest. I think you can win a subscription to their site or something like that. They do a pretty good job. They claim that they're still an independent, I have no reason to not believe them, but they're still an independent body. You know, a lot of these sort of popular sites end up getting bought out by someone at some point. You know, but no, I think they're still independent actors. So they do a good job kind of aggregating a lot of different news and then putting their own spin on it. They do a good job at it. But that link to that predictor contest is on the site. Check it out. They got 50 on there. We'll go through the top 25. Ken Tamayeda at spot 25. They're predicting the MLB trade rumors predicting two years, 36 million dollars. Sounds about right. Got some upside. Maybe a little bit less than that. Maybe 36 million with the escalator, with some escalators based on starts and health. The trade rumor staff thinks that it's either going to be Mets, Twins or Orioles. I guess a lot of people can use the services of a kind of a solid middle of the rotation guy. And our first autograph, Gabriel Moreno to $4.99. That's going to be for the Blue Jays, Alexander. I'll do an autograph recap at the end of this break as well, Alexander with that one. Chat saying we're looking for Tamar Johnson or Jace Bowen is who we're looking for. All right, noted. Duly noted. This is just random paper, all-card chip of course. Not as Bowman first in case you were wondering until I'm kind of breezing by it. Corbin Carroll, nice rookie green paper to $3.99. That's for Kevin and the Diamondbacks, won the Diamondbacks in the filler. How about that? It's paper Corbin Carroll. Suppose you're presumptive NL rookie of the year. Number 24, Michael Lwaka on this list. There's Nelson Rada to $4.99. Breeze through this paper and our next autograph is Jacob Berry. And it'll be trade rumor staff thinking $3 or $36 million. Maybe Reds, maybe Braves. Joel with Miami. We've got Cole Young. Aqua, Shimmer to $125. And our sorting and shipping team will take care of all those numbered cards. And we got, there you go. Asking he shall receive, Chad, Jace Bowen. Pirates, Chad winning that in the update box. Not numbered, but there he is. And who's next? Yeah, a colorful one. Maybe the other guy, Tamar Johnson. And Elijah Green, Sky Blue to $4.99 for Greg. One of their big prospects. Fifth overall draft right there, of course. We got this cool looking Francisco Alvarez. That's for the Met. That'll be for James. When did this come out? All these, I feel like there's been so many Bowman releases that it all just kind of blur together now. These are not numbered. It's got that sort of lunar craters, landscapes back there. These rumors at $5.95, $3.04, $5. First box down. Box to go. Going up the MLB trade rumors. We got Mitch Garver, three years, $39 million. Is there a guest? Jack Flaherty, three years, $40 million. Jordan Hicks, four years, $40 million. Jordan Hicks, that's an interesting cat, right? I think he likes some injuries there. He's got such a velocity on his fastball. But can that be tamed? Can he be a starter? Is he just a reliever? We're about JD Martinez, 20th on the list. He says, has he played his way into a big contract? He was an All-Star this year. How well he was playing. But just a DH these days, I don't think you can really put him in the field anymore. But he can still give you a nice right-handed bat. Dude, the homers aren't... I guess he did hit 30 plus homers this year. I mean, I take that. They're predicting two years, $40 million. Short contract. High average annual value. Poppin' that bat. The MLB trade rumors writers. One of them thinks Metz. Another one thinks Mariners. Another one thinks Angels. I think those are pretty good fits. Next on the list, Seth Lugo. Marcus Strowman. This group is thinking two years, $44 million. Coming off a good season overall. But Cy Young leveled the first few months, but then struggled. Injury really for the final few months, I think derailed his potential Cy Young run, I guess. But I think he opted out. He had a player option. He opted out. There's Nurwin Sidenio for the Padres. That's going to be for Jeremy and the Friars. That's the first box. Here's the second box. There's that Tamar Johnson that Chad is looking for. Let's find some ink for this guy. I feel like a lot of the pictures of Jackson Holiday looks like he's like 10 years old. He's got a baby face. We've got How You Leave, $269 out of $499. The Taiwanese middle infield are going to Joel and the Phillies. And we've got Max Muncie. A's edition of Max Muncie to $199. Purple Lunar for Stephen Carney in the athletics. He has the same birthday, I think, as other Max Muncie. That's kind of a weird coincidence. And I think they're born far apart enough where Dodger's Max Muncie would not have been the inspiration for his name. Max Insurio, he's supposed to be pretty good. In fact, last spring training, then Brewer's manager even suggested he might make the opening day roster. That's how good he could possibly be. There's James Altman, purple paper to $199. Ooh, here's a nice one coming up for the Phillies. Joel, Justin Crawford, $50 out of $250. Purple Chrome, Bowman-first autograph. I'm fairly certain he's Carl Crawford's kid. If you remember, Carl Crawford carved out a very nice career. So that's one of the big chases in this set. And for the Phillies, there's Zach Geloff to $250. Purple Ray Wave for the As, Stephen. So those are our three autographs unless we have bonuses. Maybe we'll see some more parallels before this box is out. Yes, Christian Serda to $299. Paper for Kevin and the Diamondbacks. Scrolling up the list here. Gio Lido on the free agent list. Jorge Soler, Jung Huli from South Korea. Hitter. We've got Lourdes Gourriel at $14. Candelaro, Jaimer Candelaro, $13. Teas Garhan is $12. Eduardo Rodriguez, $11. And then we've got, I think, another Japanese pitcher, Shota. Amaraga. So it looks like he's posting. So we'll see where he ends up. I feel like the free agent class seems to be a little soft this year. Softer this year. I mean, it's headlined by Otani. That's one big name. But then after that, I'm not sure as deep as that has been in some other years. So there might be some guys that could get some nice deals this off season. Especially maybe some of these international players. They're suggesting that this Shota guy gets five years, $85 million. That's pretty solid. If he's projected as a middle of the rotation guy, three, four middle of the rotation kind of guy, flying through the paper. And we got another autograph. First of three in this box. Tim Tawa, $116 out of $250. Kevin with the Diamondbacks. We've got Andrew Taylor. It's showing us. We'd keep track of the autographs right there. Three per box. Andrew Taylor for the Astros. That'll be for John. Not numbered. And Christian Hernandez to $250. Purple Chrome. That'll be for Frank in the Cubs. The Morrell. Or Hernandez, that is. We've got Angel Janelle, $36 out of $199. Purple Lunar Paper for Cleveland. And it'll be for Joel. We've got Yafri Solano to $199. He looks hilarious. I thought that might have been numbered. And then we've got Juan Brito for the Rocks. That'll be for Matt Arnold with the Rockies. Picked up the Rocks straight up. It's Jackson's brother, Jason Shurio. And I flip these around. They've got our three autos right here. So this should just be a pair of possible parallel hunting. No. Three autos. Next box. Number nine on the MLBtraderumors.com free agent list is Sonny Gray. What am I sonny gray on a Dodgers roster? I feel like the Dodgers are going to be linked to all of these. Players one way or the other. But I think that Domino won't drop until... All these other Domino's won't drop until we figure out where Sonny's going to go. Number eight on this list is Josh Hader. That's right, he's a free agent. Creative Closer Matt Chatman. Number seven, Jordan Montgomery. Darinola, Blake Snell. The Japanese pitcher Yoshinobu Yamamoto. Cody Belanger. And then Otani's up top. These guys are thinking 12 years, $528 million. It's crazy. Obviously the Dodgers are probably going to be in big on Shohei Otani. Previous years I feel like if they didn't really want to chase a big name free agent, they would kind of hit them with the... We'll give you a short term but high average annual value kind of salary. Not lock ourselves in for more than five years or whatever. But I don't know. I think they gave a big deal to Freddie Freeman to move to Vets. And I think Otani's going to be a guy that they really want. That they really want to have going forward. Chilling here now. So we'll see what happens. But I kind of... At the best case scenario is that Otani goes somewhere, signs somewhere as quickly as possible. There's Diane Frias, 51 out of 150. Diane Frias going to Joel and the Guardians that way. The other free agents. You know, I mean after that, I feel like the Domino's will fall for the rest of the free agents. The bigger names that are on the market. And I feel like we'll start to see some floodgates open. I would imagine everybody's in on Otani. Even the A's. You got to put in a phone call if you're the A's GM, right? Otani will never go there to the A's. But you got to try. What would you say if you're the A's GM? What would you pitch? You would pitch a small, but for the A's a record-breaking contract. And that's... You'd have to be like, hey, record-breaking contract. You're going to play in a new stadium. You're going to have, you know, in a city where that attracts a lot of people from all over the world. And there's Alex Ramirez to $4.99. A very, very, you know, it's a diverse amount of tourists there every year who would love to go pop over and see Otani in a brand new baseball stadium. You'd have to make at least that pitch. The house that Otani built, or the house that Otani filled with A's fans. That would be a shock, right? A's? What are some other shock teams? Like the Tigers. And the Tigers got Otani. I mean, good for the Tigers. I feel like that would be awesome. But is Rafael Devers to $1.75? I mean, Tigers have spent money before. They've given big contracts to Verlander and Miguel Cabrera. So I feel like they're not afraid to spend a little money. Here's Juana Lanzo to $3.99. We've got Logan Wagner for the Dodgers to $1.25. That'll be for Barry. I feel like there may have been some more Drew Jones, Bowman First paper, Kevin, but obviously all card ships. So you'll get all of those. Really chrome and parallels these days are what we're really looking for. But we'll start trying to catch some of those. Drew Jones, chrome. Should be one more autograph in here somewhere. There it is. Wilmer Flores, Bowman First autograph for the Tigers. That'll be for Kirk. And the Tigris, one that's spot in the update box. And on the board. Oh, and a Jackson Churio. Nice refractor of $4.99. Not a Bowman First. That's still nice. Brewers, Michael. Halfway through this eight box break. Money ends up. That's going to be the question on everyone's lips this off season. And if someone signs him to a full, you know, 10 plus year deal, I think it's going to be for full value as if you're paying for the pitching as well, even though he won't be doing that next year. I feel like you have to build in some kind of protection in the sense that how long can he be doing both? I think he's like in his early 30s. I guess Aaron Judd got a big contract in his early 30s as well. But I mean, he takes, I feel like five years into the deal or something like that, you have to have something in there that looks like, well, I guess, I guess the, I guess the team can just, and the player can just agree. But hopefully there's some, some open dialogue before, you know, contract pen to paper on the contract where it's like, listen, give it, you know, in five years, if this two-way thing isn't working, you know, we've got to talk about it, right? And like, let's just keep an open mind about, you know, being open to maybe doing one thing, just one thing, not the other. Or maybe turning Otani into a closer, maybe in the, he could probably still put up Sayang numbers as a starter, right? Maybe even win a Sayang. And then imagine if he changes to a closer and just start setting records and saves. I always think closer, why not closer? And I know he's effective at his starter. Here's Yadi El Sanchez, 144 out of 150. I mean, never get a chance to play with Otani. It goes to Joel and the Angels. I mean, there are situations where Otani could potentially, I guess this would be in road games, I guess, where he could hit a go-ahead, hit the go-ahead run in the top of the ninth, and then close out the home team in the bottom of the ninth, and then get the save too. You know, pretty cool. Another Angel. We got Jorge Ruiz. That's for Joel and the Halos. Two for three in this box. Well, two for two. Two for two autos. Third one coming up. Zack Nido. Nido. Kennedy Corona, 75. Yellow paper for Houston. That will be for John. Looking for one more auto. One more auto. James Harden in the Clippers didn't quite mad at the square hard. I've heard this report. Too many offensive rebounds given up. Support center has repeated. And we've got, got Roman Anthony. Speckle Otto. 49 out of 299. Boston. Stephen Carney with the Boston Red Sox. Third auto. Three for three on red teams. I'm worried. Never did I have an increasing game, or an opportunity to participate in the full training camp, and then he was just out here just. Well, whose fault is that, James? I tried to go out by basketball last season, and I've been doing it for the last, you know, a few years or what not. I'm trying to make the game. All right, we'll let you. Tyler said he scripted how he was going to use this forward and then his forwards and rotations a thousand times. Markos Cabrera to 299. How does this hard and James Harden clipper era work out? What's up, Jimmy? Jimmy, you hope that the Mariners pay him $40 million just to DH? Surely the Mariners will be in on it. All right, sorry. Got to change the channel here. I can't watch these highlights for a second time. Maybe NFL game day final. I haven't seen some highlights around the league. Yeah, it's true. The Mariners, I mean, you could argue that Otani is a great fit for any team, really. But, right, ironically, the Dodgers need a little bit more pitching rather than hitting, although it was the hitting that kind of went quiet in the playoffs. They need both, I guess. It's Kennedy Cronin, 250. The Mariners are kind of the perfect place for him, Jimmy, saying, you won't have to rush back to pitch, and they have the rotation already. It's the offense that's lacking. We've got Francisco Lindore, yellow paper to 75. It was Anthony Gutierrez to 125 for the Rangers. And that will be for Carlos. And we've got a little color match here, a blue-chrome parallel for the Cubbies. Moises Baesteros, 127 out of 150. Baesteros for Frank and the Cubs. Jimmy can hardly remember who D-H'd for the Mariners. It's in, Chad Daugh remembers all too well. He's saying it's Sam Haggerty. Dylan Moore. Dylan Moore has the D-H. And Jose Caballero. Ohtani would fit nicely in that lineup. Ohtani fits nicely in every lineup. Now when Ohtani was posted, it was going to come to the United States, I think he did, there were some, I don't think he ever explicitly said it, but there were some rumblings that he wanted to stay on the West Coast. Now that he's familiar with the size and scope and travel of the United States and the games and the grind and all that stuff, I wonder if his thought process has changed on that. And we've got another Cub, two for two, Dourneesh Valdez, Frank with the Cubbies. More gold, Anthony Puguerro, 25 out of 50 for the fish. That is for Joel. And we've got a pirate, Braylon Bishop. Yeah, I don't know if it's one thing. I want to get the ball on my head. That is for Chad and the pirates. Marist had the most international money spent on him, rumoring he didn't want to be compared to Ichiro. Interesting. I wonder if that has also changed, and I wonder if his approach has changed there as well, or is it his opinion? Maybe not that he's established himself as Otani, you know, and he has his own clear identity. Would he be willing to join a team that also had a Hall of Fame Japanese player? Again, him and Ichiro have a good relationship now as well. Officially announcing all this to be in a baseball, all the, what's the award schedule? Well, I guess they finally released the finalists for all of the awards, and then Rookie of the Year is next Monday, Manager of the Year next Tuesday, Asaiya on the 15th, the most valuable player on the 16th. So, I don't know why they do it like that. We've talked about this before, we'll talk about it again. Maybe the players don't want it, but just one big event, just give us all the, give us all the winners. There's Jorge Burgos. Well, I get the idea for each award having its own day and its own news cycle. This is for Cleveland, this is for you, Joel. But why not, why not, uh, why not one like Gala, one, one night or something like that, you know? Sayang favorites, or the finalists for the NL Sayang is Zack Gallin, Blake Snell, and Logan Webb, and for the AL, it's Garrett Cole, Kevin Gosman, and Sonny Gray. I think by the end of the season, I think Zack Gallin and Garrett Cole were, or at least for Vegas, the odds-on favorite. But I think there was less separation between Gallin and some of the other players than Garrett Cole and the like the second highest odds player, if you know what I'm trying to say. And we've got Dylan O'Rea, 41 out of 75, yellow parallel for the Brew Crew, and that will be for Michael. That's numbered, there's Angel Martínez, 15 out of 125, Bowman's Scouts top 100, number 100. Some of those can be autographed as well. Here's Blue Paper Braille and Bishop to 150. For Chad and the Pirates, the Angel Martinez will go to the Guardians that will be for Joel. I think here are NL MVP finalists, Acuna Junior, Betts and Freeman, but I think it's going to be pretty obvious who it's going to be there. A, all things pretty obvious, right? Otani, Seager and Simeon. You know, looks like they're going to, Otani is probably going to win the MVP. It would be pretty shocking if he doesn't. Are all the other awards kind of chalk, except for Sayang? Sayang might be a little bit closer. MVP races sound like they're chalk. Rookie of the Year in the NL's chalk, right? It's either Corbin, Carol, James Allen, or Kodaisenga. I guess it's close in the AL. Who's got it for the AL? Tanner Beebe for the Guardians, Tristan Casas and Gunnar Henderson are your finalists there for the AL Rookie of the Year. Probably Gunnar, maybe Gunnar Henderson. There's Colin Palouse. No, we are booked up tonight, Mosaic. 64, that is. I just dropped the schedule for you, so you can check it out. And I think that still has six spots left. Anyway, it's not even full. Speed up, speed up. This is as fast as I can go on this. Yeah, it's still going to be an hour. I can't get this under an hour. I think it's all hardship. I can't go any faster than that. And it's still like an hour. I think Jason gets it under 60 minutes. Not sure how he does that. Maybe if I didn't sleeve all those numbered cards, here's Nick Moribito. I got to watch the film, see where I'm slowing down. Maybe that. I can't even put this in a top loader. That's why. Matt's refractor autograph going to James. And we've got a blue Mikey Romero to 150. I mean, I can't, I don't know how Jason does it. I don't think so. I think this is my limit. Well, Jason doesn't even like show the whole card. He like literally like for the paper ones, he just like, all right, all right. Maybe that's where he gets. I mean, if he's saving like 30 seconds, a pack. Also, when he like, those are, that's, when he has the stack of cards in his hand, he sleeves it while still having the stack of cards in his hand. What? Like, let's say he doesn't put this rest of the stack down. No, if he has it, he literally will have it like this, fold the card out and like sleeve it up. Wow. So you think he saves, saves like 100% because I mean, if you say two minutes a box, right, that's 16 minutes, even a minute a box, like 10 minutes. And that's under, that's under 60 minutes right there. I try to do it. I think it's also because the sleeves are always on that side of his left hand. So you think if I move the sleeves to the right side. Yeah, no, Jason's always worth faster than me. You can, you can check the tape. That, that, I'm saying that guy, I don't know how to get to, get to his speed levels. I don't think, I don't think that's going to change any time soon, Chad. The data is there. You know, you're like, you're not going to turn Cal Raleigh into a base dealer. It's just not going to happen. We got Oscar Colas to 125. So Jason, what are you saying? He, I don't know. I don't know if I can even do that. All right. Nice 64. Yeah, well, that'll probably be one of our first breaks of the day tomorrow. Max Wagner or Wagner going to Chris and the Orioles. And we've got a Yadiel Sanchez for the Angels. That will be for somebody, for Joel. Final two boxes coming up. Or two autographs. Matt and Mervis is the second to last autograph. Cubs, Frank. I don't know, I don't know. Jason, does he, I feel like sometimes I get sidetracked during these breaks. Like I'm going to look up like, Hey, what's, what's baseball award season? I don't think, I think Jason's a lot more focused than I am. I guess I could try to shave that. No one's watching replays of this anyway, right? They're just skipping straight to the end where I do the recap. There's Drew Waters in the last autograph is N'Kow Puka Grego, 124 out of 150 for the Phillies. That's going to be for Joel. That's a blue lunar autograph. And another lunar that's Jorge Burgos to 199. The Drew Waters purple paper goes to Joel. The Joel also gets the Guardians, right? Yeah, has the Guardians. All right, and that's that. 54 minutes and 25 seconds. Got him. Recap. Good luck, everybody, or good luck, everybody, them. Gassed today. Thanks, everybody, is what I meant to say. There's your recap. Thanks for watching. Thanks for breaking with us. Appreciate it. I'm Joe for JazzPeaceCaseBreaks.com, and I'll see you next time for the next break. Bye-bye.