00:00Who is it in the National League, Todd, that we should keep an eye on that, you know, will jump
00:04what they were a year ago?
00:06Like you had mentioned, I mean, a 10-win difference between a year ago and this year could be huge.
00:11I know a lot of people think San Francisco is all of a sudden now going to be the second
00:17-best team in the National League West here.
00:19Who is that team that's going to make a big jump from a year ago?
00:24So I do like the Giants. I like them going over their win total of 81.5.
00:28I think they've had a large improvement in talent, but going from non-playoff team to all of a sudden
00:34some amazing team, I think that's a step much.
00:36I think they'll be better than last year, but they're not taking this massively.
00:39To me, the answer, based on the odds, I still think it's going to be the Braves.
00:43And the Braves, I would say, had a really bad run at things last year when it comes to injuries.
00:47Strider starts off the year hurt. He comes back. He's having catch in the outfield when they're visiting Toronto Blue
00:53Jays.
00:53He gets hurt again. He's out again. Acuna, we know this.
00:56We know that they're not going to be starting off the year with Schwallenbach.
00:58He missed parts of last year. Smith-Schauver missed parts of last year.
01:01Riley Green, not the Tigers. Austin Riley, their third baseman, had a down year.
01:07They just didn't have all their pieces together at the same time.
01:10But when you look at the talent that they have, that so much of it's locked up long-term,
01:15they are still one of the best talent-based teams when it comes to the NL.
01:19Putting the pieces together and actually being healthy is a different story,
01:22but I'm always going to like the Braves.
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