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Speaker 1: thirty four. This is the b f FS. He is
Speaker 1: Frank stamfle I am Greg Sauceman. What's happening, Frankie? Great?
Speaker 1: Happy Thursday, Happy Thursday, Thirsty Thursday to you, budd. I
Speaker 1: sleep about drinking a beer or oh yeah, me too? Nice?
Speaker 1: How about that? How about that? Let make it happen?
Speaker 1: What's going on? How's your Thursday? I just sleep last night?
Speaker 1: You know what. I trouble sleeping last night, but for
Speaker 1: good reasons, because you were struggling with your outfield ranking. Nope,
Speaker 1: all right, I could not fall asleep last night because
Speaker 1: I was on a high from your Maryland terravants, Frank
Speaker 1: Sea come up that sewn Shan Shan come up to
Speaker 1: do the first second? How about that ending? Let's talk
Speaker 1: some college pass. Was that not amazing? Yeah? Fantastic, fantastyan Yes,
Speaker 1: oh my god. Down sixty points at halftime, seventeen points
Speaker 1: with forty seconds left to go in the first half. Maryland,
Speaker 1: despite horrific referees, despite horrific play. Marilyn gerffans find a
Speaker 1: way to do it. Man, it was Oh my god.
Speaker 1: That was a getting it done in the best conference
Speaker 1: in America, best conference in America. I'm excited. Uh, Sean,
Speaker 1: we are what we're like a week away, two weeks
Speaker 1: away now from Maryland Michigan here. I know that's gonna
Speaker 1: be fun. It's gonna be a good one in college.
Speaker 1: That's that's what worries me. That's the issue for you
Speaker 1: at absolutely all right, Uh, no more Maryland talking. I'm
Speaker 1: just answering Frank's question because that's why couldn't I sleep
Speaker 1: because I was watching Maryland. They're champions, baby, more game
Speaker 1: away from me, the Big Ten champs. We'll see what happens.
Speaker 1: Will they rank when do we come back? The out
Speaker 1: feel the rankings begin. But first, here's your update from
Speaker 1: Alex Pasana. I am Alex Pasana with your sports grid
Speaker 1: news update here on the fantasy b f f's. In
Speaker 1: Major League Baseball, the Boston Red Sox left hander Chris
Speaker 1: Sale will start the season on the injured list. Manager
Speaker 1: Ron Rennicky said on Thursday, Sale, who reported to camp
Speaker 1: with pneumonia, is behind schedule. He will be placed on
Speaker 1: a fifteen day injured list and will remain in Fort
Speaker 1: Myers for extended spring training when the team breaks camp.
Speaker 1: This a quote from quote from Rennicky. With the sickness,
Speaker 1: it cost him two weeks time, and that two weeks
Speaker 1: is what we'd like to give him to make sure
Speaker 1: that he's right. He's worked hard on getting his arm right,
Speaker 1: and we didn't think four starts in spring training was
Speaker 1: fair to him. Sale also ended last season on the
Speaker 1: injured list. Some quick notes out of Major League Baseball,
Speaker 1: Outfielder Max Kepler for the Minnesota Twins is expected to
Speaker 1: make his spring debut Friday against the Red Sox. Also
Speaker 1: in Major League Baseball, Salvador Perez, the catcher for the
Speaker 1: Kansas City Royals, will bat third as the d H.
Speaker 1: He will not be catching in today's matchup. Also, Laurentzo
Speaker 1: Cane will be making his Cactus League debut. The outfielder
Speaker 1: for the Brewers will play center field and bat leadoff
Speaker 1: in today's matchup for the Brewers. Also for and in
Speaker 1: the NBA, Let's go to Joel and beat where he
Speaker 1: has injured. Well, that's his shoulder and beat The Sixers
Speaker 1: center exited the game last night against Cleveland Cavaliers in
Speaker 1: the first quarter and was ruled out with the shoulder
Speaker 1: spring and m r I revealed today that he has
Speaker 1: showed sprained his shoulder and no update yet as to
Speaker 1: the timetable. Here's a quote from Sixers coach Brett Brown saying,
Speaker 1: I feel like when you don't have Joel and you
Speaker 1: don't have Ben, it's an opportunity for others to put
Speaker 1: their hand up and declare this is who we are.
Speaker 1: It is who we are. He's obviously referring to the
Speaker 1: All Stars guard Ben Simmons, who missed his second straight
Speaker 1: game because of nerve impingement in his lower back. So
Speaker 1: now they are without Ben Simmons and Joe l em beat.
Speaker 1: You've got a full slate of games of NBA, NHL,
Speaker 1: and college hoops tonight, let's look at the National Hockey League,
Speaker 1: because why not? Uh? The New York Islanders visiting the St.
Speaker 1: Louis Blues. Blues your goal and a half point favorites.
Speaker 1: The total is five and a half. Also, the Dallas
Speaker 1: Stars visiting the Boston Bruins. Bruins your favorite. The total
Speaker 1: is five goals and really quick one not some NBA
Speaker 1: scut scores for tonight. The NIXT visiting the seventy six
Speaker 1: ers sixers or your seven point favorites. The total is
Speaker 1: two ten and a half. Also, the Los Angeles Lakers
Speaker 1: visiting the Golden State Warriors. Lakers, you're tending a half
Speaker 1: point favorites. The total is twenty two. I'm Alex Posano
Speaker 1: and this has been your sports Grid news update. Now
Speaker 1: back to Greg and Frank. I'm a Fantasy BFFs. Thanks
Speaker 1: as always, Alex Passano with the news update here on
Speaker 1: the BFFs we mentioned we're going to get into our
Speaker 1: outfield rankings Part one. This is our preview here. We're
Speaker 1: gonna go over to the top twenty outfielders in Fantasy
Speaker 1: baseball in the season. But before we do any of that,
Speaker 1: we are going to take a look at what drew.
Speaker 1: What Ricky Sanders, rather Ricky Sanders of Daily Rodo had
Speaker 1: to say with Greg Sussman earlier today on the NBA
Speaker 1: Tip Trill, the guys at Daily Rodo Gregg had been
Speaker 1: doing a phenomenal job of setting you up for success
Speaker 1: when it comes to NBA dfs. Here's what Ricky Sanders
Speaker 1: had to say earlier on today, wherever Joel Embiad is out,
Speaker 1: we tell you to start out. Orford not just a bead,
Speaker 1: It's Simmons to words, a must play as well. Orford
Speaker 1: is a definition of must play tonight. Not only does
Speaker 1: he have all the improvements that we've discussed and that
Speaker 1: his rates are gonna go up without Joel Embiid, he's
Speaker 1: priced under five thousand on vanduels. So I mean he
Speaker 1: is shown to be a guy that we're willing to play,
Speaker 1: you know, price tags into the mid sevens without Joel Embiid.
Speaker 1: So we're obviously gonna be playing this price tag for him.
Speaker 1: We're projecting him on Daily Rodo for over thirty four
Speaker 1: minutes tonight, he used a rate about a rebound rate
Speaker 1: over fourteen percent and assist right about without both Embid
Speaker 1: and Ben Simmons. So this is a strong races player
Speaker 1: across the board. This is the guy who's just way,
Speaker 1: way way too cheap. Might be a lock button candidate
Speaker 1: depending on how many lineups are playing tonight. I just
Speaker 1: don't see a scenario which I wouldn't play Al Horford.
Speaker 1: That salary is super low when it comes to Al
Speaker 1: Horford forty dollars tonight over on FanDuel Greg. The Philadelphia
Speaker 1: seventy sixers are completely banged up. No Joel Embiid, no
Speaker 1: Ben Simmons. Al Horford should get more run. Tobias Harris
Speaker 1: should see more work as well. I know that we
Speaker 1: were trying to figure out who to pick up in
Speaker 1: our fantasy basketball season long league, looking at guys like
Speaker 1: fur Can Cork, maz uh and Milton. What's his first name?
Speaker 1: I am it's fine, Shake Milton, Shake Milton. Yeah. So
Speaker 1: the seventy sixers are banged up right now, and because
Speaker 1: of that, you could take advantage with Al Horford in
Speaker 1: your sex message. I think it's shake Milton. Isn't it
Speaker 1: sounds right right? It's gotta be a thing. Yeah. No,
Speaker 1: but that that price tag on alp Horford is way
Speaker 1: too cheap yeah, it shall. Yeah, shake Milton, let's go
Speaker 1: shake Milon. We can get him, Frank, So why are
Speaker 1: we reading for him? It's fine, I'm using them in
Speaker 1: dffest today. It's probably be super cheap. He certainly is.
Speaker 1: Certainly all the Philly guys on the tables like an
Speaker 1: have a back to back for them. We'll begin to
Speaker 1: get to the outfields in a few moments, but we
Speaker 1: wanted to start with Chris Sale, who has already been
Speaker 1: announced gonna start on the I l h to start
Speaker 1: the year fifteen days. As you heard from Alex a
Speaker 1: few moments ago, he is going to begin in extended
Speaker 1: spring training. Frank, what month is it? It is February.
Speaker 1: It is the twenty seventh of February. So baseball officially
Speaker 1: starts in four weeks from today, less than a twenty
Speaker 1: eight days away. And they already now that Chris Sale,
Speaker 1: dude in pneumonia. Pneumonia can't get ready in twenty eight days. Yeah,
Speaker 1: this isn't gonna be days, right, Like you could just
Speaker 1: Harry mull roster, let him start game two or three
Speaker 1: or four. No no, no, no, no, no no, he's
Speaker 1: gotta be the openy days starter. Greg the screen days
Speaker 1: on the I L Chris sal Yeah. Or pneumonia or pneumonia? Yes?
Speaker 1: Have you ever had pneumonia in your elbow? Greg? I have?
Speaker 1: It seems like you're just smelling your arm bits. All right. Well,
Speaker 1: I I don't know that you can smell a pneumonia, Greg,
Speaker 1: but I hope you don't have one in your elbow.
Speaker 1: Chris Tale might have one in his elbow. Look, you
Speaker 1: can buy the pneumonia, the flu. Whatever they're saying about
Speaker 1: Chris Sale right now, I am not. I'm allowed to
Speaker 1: be skeptical of this, and that's exactly what I'm going
Speaker 1: to do. Greg. He met with Dr James Andrews in
Speaker 1: August due to uh something going on with his elbow,
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden he's not going to be
Speaker 1: ready for the start of the season because he's sick.
Speaker 1: And especially when you look into what Ron Rennicky had
Speaker 1: to say now the manager of the Boston Red Sox,
Speaker 1: it was unfair to give him just four starts this spring, Greg,
Speaker 1: in order to be ready. Well, Matthew J. Of rotal
Speaker 1: world dot Com at this a sales number of starts
Speaker 1: the last four springs Greig three five four two So
Speaker 1: in three of the last four years, four spring starts
Speaker 1: or less has been ample enough time for Chris Sale.
Speaker 1: Granted he didn't get off to a great start last year.
Speaker 1: All the other years you got he got off to
Speaker 1: a fine start issue. So three of the last four
Speaker 1: years having four starts or less in spring training was
Speaker 1: enough for Chris Sale. But all of a sudden, when
Speaker 1: Chris Sale has pneumonia, ron Rennicky says that four starts
Speaker 1: is not ample time for Chris Sale. I am buying it.
Speaker 1: I think it's a leobo. I there's something sound, something wrong.
Speaker 1: Yesterday or two days ago, we revealed or starting pitching rankings.
Speaker 1: Ranky and I had Chris Sale rank number fifteen. Overall.
Speaker 1: You had him believed ten, exactly where I have dropped
Speaker 1: him to one. So we mentioned that our top twenty
Speaker 1: one pictures are basically we want two of those guys,
Speaker 1: and that's really the cut off the top twenty one.
Speaker 1: Those are your your your your pictures that you would
Speaker 1: feel right with as your SP one in your SP two.
Speaker 1: You want two of those top twenty one guys for
Speaker 1: sale unless he falls to the fifth round, the sixth
Speaker 1: round at Zach Ranky Range. I'm not getting involved, Greg,
Speaker 1: because again, there are so many injuries that are gonna
Speaker 1: take place throughout the course of the season. Why would
Speaker 1: you want to start off behind the eight ball already?
Speaker 1: Maybe if you get a Jacob Degraham or Gerrick Cole
Speaker 1: and you just see feel really confident and you want
Speaker 1: to take that shot on a Chris Sale at fifth
Speaker 1: round range. Sure, anything before then, I can't see taking
Speaker 1: him over some of these guys who are gonna start
Speaker 1: the season healthy, like Synderguard, like Darvish, like Paddock. I'm
Speaker 1: not getting involved all right out Feelers coming up next,
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Speaker 1: He's frank Um Greg. These are your outfield rankings for
Speaker 1: twenty Fantasy Baseball with a end Frank that there are
Speaker 1: three outfielders that are going the first three picks. Their
Speaker 1: names are Ronald Cunia, Mike Shrout, and Christian Yellows. That's
Speaker 1: the order for me, that's the order for you. That's
Speaker 1: the order you should have as well. Yeah, they're pretty
Speaker 1: damn good, and I think you can rearrange these three
Speaker 1: however you want to. I think you can make the argument.
Speaker 1: Christian Yellis says that he is healthy. Of course, he
Speaker 1: fouled the ball off of his knee last year and
Speaker 1: fractured his knee. Cap, who was a freak injury, missed
Speaker 1: the final month of the season and was still ridiculous.
Speaker 1: He had thirty three home runs and thirty stolen bases
Speaker 1: and a hunt in thirty games. Something we've always said
Speaker 1: about Christian Yellois greg is that if he just started
Speaker 1: to lift the ball a little bit, like we say
Speaker 1: about a lot of players who just typically hit too
Speaker 1: many ground balls, if they just lift the ball a
Speaker 1: little bit more. He always made great contact, always hit
Speaker 1: for a good batting average, that those doubles would turn
Speaker 1: into home runs. And that was the case for Christian Yellich,
Speaker 1: not only last year, but the year before that in
Speaker 1: eighteen when he won the m v P. So if
Speaker 1: you had any doubt on Christian Yelloich, I don't think
Speaker 1: that you should. And if you think that he is healthy,
Speaker 1: I think that you you you can argue that he
Speaker 1: should be the number one on this list right. But
Speaker 1: for me, I have Ronald Ducuna as my number one
Speaker 1: just because of the difference in stolen bases. Last year
Speaker 1: forty one home runs, thirty seven steals. I mean, that's ridiculous.
Speaker 1: He told Ozzi Albi's he wants to go, let's do
Speaker 1: nothing wrong with trying, and he legitimately Mike seven last year,
Speaker 1: on years old, was to say that he can't get better.
Speaker 1: He does strike out, the batting average isn't gonna be
Speaker 1: as high as like a Mike Trout or a Christian Yelloich.
Speaker 1: I realized that. But with this your city and stolen bases,
Speaker 1: I am taking Ronald Kuna in a Roto league with
Speaker 1: my first overall pick. If you're playing the Categories league, however,
Speaker 1: I can see taking Mike Trout no head to head points.
Speaker 1: I could see taking a Mike Trout or a Christian
Speaker 1: Yellot ahead of him. Obviously. When I did the numb
Speaker 1: one pick, I would take Gary Cole over all of them.
Speaker 1: And if you want a hitter, I would go with
Speaker 1: Trout or Yellow. In a head to head paints, I
Speaker 1: know it's at the head points. I know it's had
Speaker 1: to add categories that changes it from Rhodo. Ronald Cone
Speaker 1: is my number one pick even a head to head points. Yeah.
Speaker 1: He strikes out more than those guys. Doesn't walk as
Speaker 1: much either. He walks a lot, just doesn't walk as
Speaker 1: much as Trout and Yellow. He's amazing. He's amazing. Matters
Speaker 1: more in Rhodo than anything. All right, let's move out
Speaker 1: of the top of three after this is really not
Speaker 1: much else that do we have to spend more time
Speaker 1: on them? I don't know we should spend time a
Speaker 1: number four because we disagree who goes at four? Who
Speaker 1: goes at five? I have a four, my number four
Speaker 1: player overall, as Mookie bets, you have Cody Bellinger. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and it's just a matter of mistakes. No, it's not
Speaker 1: a mistake. Greg. You know what a mistake is having
Speaker 1: Trevor Bauer ranked. It's your twints. I can starting pitchers.
Speaker 1: Now that's a huge um. Look, it's Mookie Betts is
Speaker 1: changing leagues and he's gonna see new pitches. He's gonna dominate. Look, Greg,
Speaker 1: we just have to split hairs here, and Kobe Bellinger
Speaker 1: isn't changing teams. He's been with the Dodgers for obviously
Speaker 1: ever in the first three seasons of his career, he
Speaker 1: has been great, and he's one of the true five
Speaker 1: category players being drafted in the first round. There's a
Speaker 1: reason why he's inside. You know, this group of five
Speaker 1: outfielders here. Thirty forty seven home runs last year, runs
Speaker 1: hundred and fifteen ribbies. He was great against left handed
Speaker 1: pitching last year, much like he was in his rookie season.
Speaker 1: And if you want to make the argument for Mookie Betts, Greg,
Speaker 1: I'm really not going to argue with it. The only
Speaker 1: difference is we do have to rank these players, and
Speaker 1: I'm splitting hairs. Mookie Betts is changing leagues and he
Speaker 1: did see that's what we're doing, the changing league thing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's gonna see new pictures that he hasn't seen before.
Speaker 1: Should he likely should? Well? Well, i mean, Greg, what's
Speaker 1: your reason for Mookie Betts over Cody Bellinger. I can
Speaker 1: pull up fan grash my damn computtery in freezer. Someone
Speaker 1: went the fan graphs, Frank, I have both TAM's open
Speaker 1: for Mookie Beets and Cody Bellinger and doesn't know, and
Speaker 1: it's like not loading. It's like enraging to me. But
Speaker 1: I think Mookie had a down year last year, right
Speaker 1: down at nine five three six MBP year uh the
Speaker 1: year before that ope, and a down year four thirty
Speaker 1: eight the year before. Home runs were right where they
Speaker 1: would be. I think he steals more bases this year
Speaker 1: for Dave Roberts and the Los Angeles Dodgers across on
Speaker 1: top of that, When you set the over underrun stolen
Speaker 1: basis for Mookie Betts and it's good number twenty a half,
Speaker 1: sure you will have more. And you say he goes over,
Speaker 1: you'll have more steals and Cody Bellinger, that's fair. Cody
Speaker 1: Bellinger will have last year probably fifteen to twenty more
Speaker 1: home runs. Okay there. I think their averages will be close.
Speaker 1: I think the O b P will be close. I
Speaker 1: think more RBIs for Bellinger, more runs for Mookie. It's close.
Speaker 1: What do you want? Basically, here's the trade off. Do
Speaker 1: you No, No, you're right, I didn't know you watch
Speaker 1: a basis, Frank. You always argue about solid basis. Frank,
Speaker 1: do you realize that? Last year in All Hours Drive?
Speaker 1: But here's what I'm saying, all I heard was you
Speaker 1: need power. You need power right now, I'm sorry. Don't
Speaker 1: we always have power? You need steals, give me steals
Speaker 1: and run scored when he steals run scored, Greg, you
Speaker 1: can't just bring you have power and we've shot here.
Speaker 1: All the guys you like, they don't steal basis? But
Speaker 1: is not a zero in stolen basis? No, Mookie's better.
Speaker 1: What is he gonna give you five more stone basis?
Speaker 1: Maybe ten? Maybe ten? Yeah, I will take the five
Speaker 1: less stolen basis. I will take the five less stolen
Speaker 1: basis and the fifteen to twenty more home runs and
Speaker 1: the ten less runs. Is he gonna have tenless from Yes?
Speaker 1: How many runs with Cody balance you have? Let that's
Speaker 1: pretty damn good. And you asked me how many runs
Speaker 1: that you best that last year? That's fourteen more. That
Speaker 1: was in the same league, on the same team that
Speaker 1: he's always played for. Greg. It always comes down comes
Speaker 1: back to him changing. Why don't you buy what if
Speaker 1: he struggles a little bit though, No, seriously, like having
Speaker 1: over to a new team, new league, he might somewhat
Speaker 1: get off to a slow start. I'm not doubting him.
Speaker 1: I'm just if we're doing Bellinger versus Bets, I will
Speaker 1: take Blones are over Bets, Well, let me throw this
Speaker 1: at you. Are you're gonna changing leave things? What have?
Speaker 1: Last year was the anomaly for Cody Bellinger. Here's a
Speaker 1: two year prior to that he bet at two sixty
Speaker 1: there's sixty seven to sixty power four home runs or
Speaker 1: run one year, twenty five year after that, in a
Speaker 1: hundred and sixty two games, what have last year? Everything
Speaker 1: kind of went right for him? And then listen, Cody
Speaker 1: Bellingers awesome. And again you could you could certainly say
Speaker 1: he's twenty four years only got better. I agree with that,
Speaker 1: and it was plenty of hairs at four verses five.
Speaker 1: But I'm just saying, if you're gonna get average, potentially
Speaker 1: from Mookie Bets, who has proven in a longer way
Speaker 1: than Cody Bellinger has, you're gonna get runs and steals
Speaker 1: that's three compared to home run in r V. I
Speaker 1: give mean Mookie Bets at four. What if I told
Speaker 1: you Greg that Cody Bellinger hit three or five last
Speaker 1: year and his expected batting average was three three amazing
Speaker 1: last year. Here's unbelievable best in baseball. He was incredible.
Speaker 1: He was number one and expected banting average he was
Speaker 1: incredible last year. I mean number five. Flare overall? Right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: we're spending too much time on this. If you agree
Speaker 1: with Greg, take Mookie Bets. If you agree with me,
Speaker 1: take Cody Baloncer. Also, you get positioned versatility with Cody
Speaker 1: Balancer first base. Alright, at number six, Let's put Frank's
Speaker 1: rankings up here on the on the screens, because I
Speaker 1: have mine in front of me. All right, says we
Speaker 1: both have Won Soto seven, we both have JD. Eight,
Speaker 1: we both have Fresce Harper. Oh there you go, right nine,
Speaker 1: we both have Starling Marte. It's kind of boring when
Speaker 1: we agree on stuff. Which out of this group do
Speaker 1: you want to talk about most? Like a lot about
Speaker 1: j D Martinez. I don't want to do that. J
Speaker 1: D should not be going in the secondround. I feel
Speaker 1: like we kind of agree on a lot too. Let's
Speaker 1: get to Bryce Harper and Starling Marte. Here because Bryce Harper,
Speaker 1: we both feel going a little bit later than he should. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and look with Bryce Harper, I think he got off
Speaker 1: to a really slow start. You look at the first half,
Speaker 1: the batting average was down, the strikeouts were up. That
Speaker 1: that's the biggest key for change league. He's just changed teams.
Speaker 1: He just changed teams. But it was the first year
Speaker 1: of a mega contract. Both he and Manny Machado did
Speaker 1: not live up to expectations respectfully, and I think contract
Speaker 1: here for movie bets. There you go, Greg, this keeps
Speaker 1: finding a random arguments. We're gonna keep going back to
Speaker 1: movie bets all so long. Bryce Harper, though, in the
Speaker 1: second half, he did cut down on the strikeouts and
Speaker 1: he saw the batting average spike up a little bit.
Speaker 1: It wouldn't surprise me if he gets back into the
Speaker 1: two seventy to eighty batting average range this upcoming season.
Speaker 1: And the stolen bases actually bounced back last year. For
Speaker 1: Bryce Harper, I think if you're projecting him to seventy
Speaker 1: to seventy five, forty plus home runs, really good counting
Speaker 1: stats over a dreies. So if you're playing a points league,
Speaker 1: he's gonna walk a lot. If you're playing in o
Speaker 1: b P League. He's a borderline first round picking in
Speaker 1: ob P league because he's gonna have an ob P
Speaker 1: over four hundred. That's who Bryce Harper is. I think
Speaker 1: it was the first half struggles. The strikeouts were up, Greg.
Speaker 1: And if he can bring those strikeouts down, if he
Speaker 1: can legit get the strikeouts back to where they were
Speaker 1: three four years ago, you can see him hit three
Speaker 1: hundred just because of his quality of contact when he
Speaker 1: puts the ball in play. His quality of contact is
Speaker 1: among you know, the top five ten percentile in all
Speaker 1: of baseball. And I think we're gonna see that out
Speaker 1: of Bryce Harper again this upcoming season. So I have
Speaker 1: no problem where he's going in the second round. Uh.
Speaker 1: And this goes back to what I've said all along, Greg,
Speaker 1: you can take an ace in the first round because
Speaker 1: you can get eight Martinez in the second, Bryce Harper
Speaker 1: in the second. Those guys should not be second round picks.
Speaker 1: They should not be around, and I understand why they
Speaker 1: are because, like there's other players that do things that
Speaker 1: are more scarce, right like Tevor Story and Francisco Lindor.
Speaker 1: They're gonna steal twenty to thirty bass and Jose Ramirez
Speaker 1: is gonna do the same thing. And you know, Bregman
Speaker 1: is someone who just continues to get better and better.
Speaker 1: There's just a lot of really good hitters and because
Speaker 1: of that, that's why you should take a picture in
Speaker 1: the first in the first round. I totally get that logic.
Speaker 1: Another player that we like both at number nine inside
Speaker 1: our top Tyler will higher on him than some others.
Speaker 1: It's Starling Marte. We've talked about starring Marte here in
Speaker 1: the show, but you can see the projections right below
Speaker 1: you right now. Starring Marte in a new environment, on
Speaker 1: a better team and better hitting ballpark should be in
Speaker 1: line for a really good year as long as these
Speaker 1: stays healthy, as long as the stage off I mean
Speaker 1: that's the steroids, that's the biggest question mark, is stay healthy. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So yeah, he's already had the suspension. That's worth mentioning
Speaker 1: because he had hit with another p D suspension, Greg,
Speaker 1: I believe it's one sixty two or is it eight?
Speaker 1: Didn't he miss eight games? He missed eight, right, So
Speaker 1: I think the second offense sixty two probably won't happen,
Speaker 1: Probably not gonna happen. But I'm just throw it out there.
Speaker 1: He has been suspended before. Uh, And look, you have
Speaker 1: to imagine he's gonna miss at least fifteen to twenty
Speaker 1: games throughout the course of the season. Last year one
Speaker 1: thirty two. The year before that, seventeen only played seventy
Speaker 1: seven because of the suspension. Seen he played one nine.
Speaker 1: So you have to bake in he's gonna miss fifteen
Speaker 1: to twenty games at least one Aisleston throughout the course
Speaker 1: of the season. But Greg, all the other five true
Speaker 1: five category players that we spoke about Trout, that's Cody,
Speaker 1: Bellinger and Yellow. Those guys are all top five picks.
Speaker 1: Staling Marte you get at the end of the second round,
Speaker 1: the beginning of the third round, So the injury risk
Speaker 1: is already baked into his price. He's gonna hit to
Speaker 1: nine plus. He's a two eighties seven career hitter. The
Speaker 1: home runs have been up the past couple of years,
Speaker 1: twenty and twenty three. If I'm projecting him, I think
Speaker 1: twenty is safe. I think twenty home runs is safe,
Speaker 1: especially in a better hitting ballpark. Now I understand the
Speaker 1: human door is out there in Arizona. It has helped
Speaker 1: it become more of a neutral park even maybe even
Speaker 1: uh favor starting pitching a little bit. But it's a
Speaker 1: better hitter's park still than Pittsburgh is. He is in
Speaker 1: a better lineup now. He gave you ninety seven runs
Speaker 1: last year, eighty two Ribbies, twenty five stolen bases. Of
Speaker 1: course he's not gonna give you the same counting stats
Speaker 1: as you know, those top five players, those five category players.
Speaker 1: But he hurts you nowhere except for availability. He's gonna
Speaker 1: miss about twenty games about the course of the season,
Speaker 1: but that's baked into his price correct I have acstutely
Speaker 1: no problem where selling Marte is going this year. Somebody
Speaker 1: that I'm in on juice ball ever helped him last year?
Speaker 1: I think help him again? Is this the game next?
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Speaker 1: Outfield or addition, as we go through our rankings here, right,
Speaker 1: we've got gotten through the top nine. Nine at nine,
Speaker 1: that's bad. We're about halfway through the show, and we're
Speaker 1: about halfway down on the day's program. There you go.
Speaker 1: We're moving at a fantastic pace. That's why you are
Speaker 1: the one and only Greg Sussman. So if you're a wrestler,
Speaker 1: that's it. No, this is I think him in Creuse
Speaker 1: Jericho when he debuted like and he goes like this, Yeah,
Speaker 1: he used to come out with the it's like his
Speaker 1: back like that. Yeah, breakdown the walls, break the walls down,
Speaker 1: break the walls down. Any who, Let's just let's get back.
Speaker 1: Let's keep moving. Let's let's keep a movement, which is
Speaker 1: where we difference. Number ten, I have Aaron Judge already.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, very nice. Why would you do this? Number ten?
Speaker 1: I have Aaron Judge, followed by Charlie Blackman, George Springer
Speaker 1: in my Man Kettle Marte two Morte's inside my Top
Speaker 1: thirteen love Kettle mort this year he is fantastic. Let's
Speaker 1: pull up Frank's Top twenty here I feel out how
Speaker 1: he differs the next few players and number ten you
Speaker 1: have Austin Meadows. By number fourteen, then you have Charlie
Speaker 1: Blackman and George Springer just like I do, uh, followed
Speaker 1: by Aaron Judge. Marte is fourteen for you. So the
Speaker 1: difference between you and I basically is Judge and Meadows here.
Speaker 1: What are you like Austin Meadows were than Aaron Judge.
Speaker 1: It just comes down to availability. And I understand Austin
Speaker 1: Meadows has dealt with injuries in the past as well,
Speaker 1: but yeah, I mean Aaron Judge is currently hurt Greg.
Speaker 1: To quote Eric Young, He's currently not a baseball player.
Speaker 1: He's throwing the ball right right right right right right
Speaker 1: right right right right right right right right right right
Speaker 1: right right right right right as he played a spring
Speaker 1: training game. Greg. Now, Austin Meadows, Actually I don't know,
Speaker 1: I know he has played a game. No, no, he did.
Speaker 1: He has played a game. And Austin Meadows comes with
Speaker 1: about the same, if not more prospected pedigree than an
Speaker 1: Aaron Judge. He finally had the opportunity to play every
Speaker 1: single day last year. He's gonna give you a better
Speaker 1: batting average and Aaron Judge, he'll give you less home runs,
Speaker 1: but he's also gonna chip in, you know, twelve to
Speaker 1: fifteen stolen bases. And again we're talking about a true
Speaker 1: five category player. Greg. Austin Meadows is not going to
Speaker 1: hurt you anywhere. Aaron Judge probably hit two sixty five
Speaker 1: to seventy, probably gonna miss some time throughout the course
Speaker 1: of the season. He's dealt with oblique injuries. Now he
Speaker 1: has the shoulder thing. He previously had surgery on his
Speaker 1: other shoulders. So I'm just a little bit more worried
Speaker 1: about when I am building the foundation of my team
Speaker 1: early in drafts. I want guys that are healthy now.
Speaker 1: I want guys that are going to be reliable, guys
Speaker 1: that could potentially get better. And that's exactly what I
Speaker 1: see in an Austin Meadows. And maybe Aaron Judge could
Speaker 1: even get better than where he's been the past couple
Speaker 1: of seasons, but I would need to see him on
Speaker 1: the field first and foremost and healthy spring training before
Speaker 1: moving him back up my rankings. I think it's clothes Greig,
Speaker 1: but better batting average, a few more steels out of
Speaker 1: Austin Meadows, and I think he's a player that's just
Speaker 1: coming into his prime right now. He is coming into
Speaker 1: this prime and aust Meadows is good. That's what I
Speaker 1: haven't number fourteen for me. But while the average is
Speaker 1: gonna be better, you are going to lose quite a
Speaker 1: few home runs ideally, ideally, you're gonna lose quite a
Speaker 1: few rb I you are the hard hit percentages for
Speaker 1: Aaron Judge last year it was probably around fifty, maybe
Speaker 1: even over fifty. Nobody hits the ball harder than Aaron Judge.
Speaker 1: If that's a category in your rod to league, then
Speaker 1: you should take Aaron Judge in the first round. Are
Speaker 1: you doing that? You're going there, We're the target's good
Speaker 1: at hitting the ball hard. He's gonna hitting the ball period.
Speaker 1: He's really strikes out a lot to Greg. I mean,
Speaker 1: he could work on the strikeout right, You know, Greg,
Speaker 1: you gotta call you out if you're not gonna like
Speaker 1: Frand mill Rans because he strikes out too much. You know,
Speaker 1: why do you like Aaron Judge so many groundballs? Fan Mills?
Speaker 1: That's what kills me Aran Judge ground ball, Yes, he does.
Speaker 1: He hits a lot of line drives as well. One
Speaker 1: thing that it will say about Judge and and he
Speaker 1: is true to his word. He is not a home
Speaker 1: run hitter. He is just a hitter who hits home
Speaker 1: runs because he's massive and he's incredibly strong. So it's
Speaker 1: seven more of a line drive hitter than anything. A
Speaker 1: hundred games last year runs yeah years, If he plays
Speaker 1: a hundred fifty plus, Aaron Judge is probably gonna hit
Speaker 1: forty five to FIFA the first round. Back. I understand
Speaker 1: why he goes where he goes. But again I'm putting
Speaker 1: an emphasis on batting average in soul and basis. But
Speaker 1: now when it comes to mookie bats, Austin Meadows is
Speaker 1: going to have the edge there, Greg, this is crazy.
Speaker 1: Cody Bellinger had a better batting average and mookie bats
Speaker 1: last year. How is that anomalous? Two years prior to that,
Speaker 1: He's keeps sixty. He's getting better, he's younger. Who's to
Speaker 1: say that Cody Bellinger can't get better. Maybe Movie Beat
Speaker 1: just passed his prime. Greg, what you're saying he passed
Speaker 1: is that the well you want to go down? Do
Speaker 1: you play in any hard hit percentage of leagues of Gregg?
Speaker 1: I don't play in any hard hit percentage leaues rank.
Speaker 1: We use it all the time to judge Jogi's outfielders players.
Speaker 1: How many times can you say judge in a one
Speaker 1: minute spand Greg judge as well. Um, we've all had
Speaker 1: a Charlie Blackman next we're talking off the are yesterday,
Speaker 1: I was like, I was like, I kind of like
Speaker 1: Charlie Blackman. You're like, yeah, I get it, he's good.
Speaker 1: He's undervalued, but I took him in the Great Fantasy
Speaker 1: based plantation, so I do kind of like him as well.
Speaker 1: So you were telling me, like, it's not I get
Speaker 1: why you like him because he's under value because he
Speaker 1: doesn't run anymore, so people don't like him, but he
Speaker 1: doesn't really good average. So let's Tonnel runs and plays
Speaker 1: half his games of course field. The problem is, if
Speaker 1: the Rockies do wind up rebuilding this year and they
Speaker 1: start slumping out of the gate, they could trade Charlie
Speaker 1: Blackman get out of that contract. I don't know who
Speaker 1: would want it, but I mean, yeah, that's the next
Speaker 1: piece if they If they do get out of the contract,
Speaker 1: he no longer plays half his games of course field.
Speaker 1: And if you look at his home in Rose splits um,
Speaker 1: you can ignore our Nolan Arnado's because Charlie Blackman's they're
Speaker 1: quite stark. Yeah, looking up the splits right now here
Speaker 1: we go greg for Charlie Blackman in his career on
Speaker 1: the road, he is a seven forty three ops player.
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, I mean that's not really going to get
Speaker 1: it done with a two sixty one batting average. So
Speaker 1: there's still that possibility that they trade away a Charlie Blackman.
Speaker 1: But he's on Colorado right now, and he is my
Speaker 1: eleventh ranked outfielder. You look at what he's done the
Speaker 1: past couple of seasons. He has has not hit lower
Speaker 1: than to eighty three in any season of his career.
Speaker 1: I mean dating back to his when he was a rookie,
Speaker 1: when he only played twenty seven games, but the past
Speaker 1: couple of years three, fourteen, three, thirty one, three four.
Speaker 1: You want someone that's going to help you in batting
Speaker 1: average and not really hurt you anywhere else. Not gonna
Speaker 1: give you stolen bases anymore. Maybe he'll give you a
Speaker 1: handful of steels, but not really expecting that out of
Speaker 1: Charlie Blackman, who he went two for seven on the
Speaker 1: base pass last year. Still hit thirty three home runs,
Speaker 1: Still give you a hundred and twelve runs scored, eighties,
Speaker 1: six rb. I Charlie Blackman, to me, Greg, as long
Speaker 1: as he's in Colorado, is one of the safest outfielders.
Speaker 1: And now you're getting him fourth, maybe even in the
Speaker 1: fifth round of a twelve teamer. I got him in
Speaker 1: the fourth round of the Great Fantasy Baseball Invitational, that's
Speaker 1: a fifteen team league. I got Charlie Blackman in the
Speaker 1: fourth round. He should not be going in the fourth round.
Speaker 1: He should not be. He absolutely should not be. Like
Speaker 1: I said, people are done with Charlie black He took
Speaker 1: It's they are there isn't still basic anymore. I was like, Oh,
Speaker 1: he's old and sucks, but he doesn't. He's really good
Speaker 1: at what he's good at, which is average of power.
Speaker 1: He's a four category player. I mean three four thirty
Speaker 1: two homers, a hundred and twelve runs, eighty six RBI.
Speaker 1: Eighty six RBI is not great, but that's about what
Speaker 1: Starring Marte is gonna give you. And he's going at
Speaker 1: the two three turn, so it's really just stolen basis.
Speaker 1: And I get that people want stolen basis. That's fine,
Speaker 1: but Aaron Judge isn't gonna give you steals. George Springer
Speaker 1: is going in this range. He's not gonna give you
Speaker 1: any more steals. I mean maybe he'll give you seven
Speaker 1: or eight steals, not much more than probably Blackman is here,
Speaker 1: so you know he's proven he kind of is what
Speaker 1: he is. The only reason why you would fade him
Speaker 1: is if you think he's going to be traded, which
Speaker 1: if that's the case, I means you're probably fading No.
Speaker 1: One Arnado as well. I don't think they're not gonna
Speaker 1: be traded, that's the thing. They also don't think they
Speaker 1: could get out of blackness. Contracts. I don't think he's traded.
Speaker 1: I don't. That's why point, and that's why black Man
Speaker 1: is where he still has what three or four years left,
Speaker 1: He's an amount of money. Yeah, black Men on number
Speaker 1: eleven in both of our rankings. I believe next is
Speaker 1: George Finger. Guy I was are on than you were
Speaker 1: last year. That worked out a right even out on
Speaker 1: most astros guys. Specifically we got our infield rankings, but
Speaker 1: Bragman it out to you, but you're not super high
Speaker 1: on those guys. George Springer inside of your top twelve. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't mind George Springer and I would take him
Speaker 1: over Aaron Judge right now. I think they do a
Speaker 1: lot of similar things. And last year George Springer to
Speaker 1: two batting average, and he's entering a contract year this
Speaker 1: year as well. So look, I understand there's gonna be
Speaker 1: people that say, well, I've done a study about contract
Speaker 1: year players, and there's no such thing. I think when
Speaker 1: it comes to these big name players who know that
Speaker 1: they can earn huge, huge contracts, I think George Springer
Speaker 1: is one of those people that is going to show
Speaker 1: up this year in a contract year. I'm not worried
Speaker 1: about the cheating scandal. I mean, this guy has been
Speaker 1: um great for years now. Basically the past four seasons.
Speaker 1: He's been, you know, a top fifty hitter in Fantasy
Speaker 1: Baseball for each of those seasons. Thirty nine home runs,
Speaker 1: nine runs fbies last year and only add twenty two games, Greg,
Speaker 1: So not really gonna give you many storm basis. Maybe
Speaker 1: I'll give you a six seven eight steals, but two
Speaker 1: eighty batting average I think is attainable. Thirty five ish
Speaker 1: home runs good counting stats as well, And if you
Speaker 1: play in a points league, the guy had a twelve
Speaker 1: percent walk great, He's gotten eleven percent walk great in
Speaker 1: his career, A three six one O b P and
Speaker 1: his career, I think, no matter what format you play
Speaker 1: in points, roto O B peelee, whatever it might be,
Speaker 1: George Springer is a fine pick where he's going. Much
Speaker 1: like Blackman, it seems like he's undervalued. I agree, and
Speaker 1: maybe it's the ask yourself that's going on. So it
Speaker 1: was really good when he was healthy last year, and
Speaker 1: he the injuries are frustrating. We kind pays right back
Speaker 1: up where he left off after the injury. I like Springer.
Speaker 1: I think this is a great spot to take him.
Speaker 1: I would take Aaron Judge higher because I think the
Speaker 1: upside is higher, pending that I want to just state
Speaker 1: this pending that Judges is healthy right like he is
Speaker 1: batting that shoulder injury right now. If we see him
Speaker 1: play a bunch of spring training games and the shoulder
Speaker 1: doesn't seem to be an issue, like, I think you'll
Speaker 1: move him back up. Also, if he doesn't and it lingers,
Speaker 1: obviously I drop him down, right, I'm not If he
Speaker 1: doesn't play much as him training or plays a week,
Speaker 1: I am going to drop him down. But I still
Speaker 1: think there's plenty of time Aaron Judge to be ready.
Speaker 1: And that's why I haven't where he is. If George
Speaker 1: Springers stays healthy for let's say a hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: games and has a contract, it's a lot of games
Speaker 1: for him, dty games under forty games contract year. He
Speaker 1: winds up having a career year. What does that look like?
Speaker 1: Career year? Yeah, we're talking runs, George Springer, you're talking
Speaker 1: l stolen bases. I'll get there. Um, I think you're
Speaker 1: talking vs and run score probably right, that's a career year. Yeah. Well,
Speaker 1: I think if everything works out, he can hit three
Speaker 1: last year. Yeah, sure, in a career year at three times.
Speaker 1: I don't think we're going to see that, though it
Speaker 1: might be better than Aaron Judges, which we might have
Speaker 1: seen his career year ready. I don't see that kind
Speaker 1: of a year for Springer. I like a lot. He's saying,
Speaker 1: like we have happened the same if you're projecting there
Speaker 1: like ninety percentile outcomes, right, George Springers might be better
Speaker 1: than Aaron Judges could be. It could be I still
Speaker 1: rather and Jogjah, but both are healthy. But anyways, we're
Speaker 1: healthy right now. By the way, almost swung out of
Speaker 1: his shoes yesterday. Did you see that? Bring your number twelve?
Speaker 1: For both Frank and myself. When do we come back,
Speaker 1: We're gonna get into Kettle Marte. We're both in on
Speaker 1: Kettle Marte this year. Who's awesome? Last year you finally
Speaker 1: figured it out. Both in on him. And then we'll
Speaker 1: get to the bottom half all of our top twenty there.
Speaker 1: It is a whole lot to talk about there. I
Speaker 1: want to get into Eddie Rosario. I'd like to talk
Speaker 1: about Tommy Fan briefly, and Elo Jimenez as well. We'll
Speaker 1: get into those four players. At least we'll come back
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Speaker 1: on today's program. We want to keep going, so I
Speaker 1: don't want to waste any time with uh anything. Actually,
Speaker 1: just die right back in into kettle more Tay. We're
Speaker 1: both you know here, he's my number thire ten believes
Speaker 1: number FURTEENA fielders. We're both right there. We both really
Speaker 1: like him. Canny repeat what he did last year. I
Speaker 1: think he can, and I know that and maybe not
Speaker 1: completely right, Like if I'm projecting him, he's not going
Speaker 1: over thirty home runs again, I wouldn't project something like that.
Speaker 1: But you look at his transformation over the years. I
Speaker 1: mean when he came into camp last year and throughout
Speaker 1: the course of the season, he looked jacked up. I mean,
Speaker 1: Kettle Marte looked like someone where you know, his body
Speaker 1: was just getting bigger. He was like progressing as a
Speaker 1: baseball player and someone who always made a ton of contact.
Speaker 1: Greg I mean fourteen percent k rate or less in
Speaker 1: each of the past two seasons, and last year again
Speaker 1: career year, wound up hitting three thirty thirty two home runs,
Speaker 1: over ninety runs, over nine d R B I S,
Speaker 1: ten stolen basis, could do a little bit of everything,
Speaker 1: and his stack cast numbers were all career high. They
Speaker 1: all kind of back up what he did last year.
Speaker 1: Greg career high nine point three percent barrel rate, right
Speaker 1: around ninety miles per hour, average exit velaci, eleven point
Speaker 1: five degree launch angle, hard contact. Those were all career
Speaker 1: highs last year for Kettle Marte. And if you were
Speaker 1: worried about it being a fluke and well, okay, it's
Speaker 1: a juice ball, he must have fallen off in the
Speaker 1: second half. No ops, in the first half, Greg a
Speaker 1: one thousand, eighty one o p s in the second
Speaker 1: half for Kettle Marte. You want someone going in the
Speaker 1: third fourth round range, was gonna hit for a good
Speaker 1: average three, probably gonna hit twenty five home runs, give
Speaker 1: you good counting stats either adding second or third in
Speaker 1: that diamondback line up ten to twelve stolen basis. He
Speaker 1: does a little bit of everything, and he doesn't hurt
Speaker 1: you anywhere. The only reason why you wouldn't take him
Speaker 1: is if you're skeptical of anything he did last year. Uh,
Speaker 1: And me personally, I think you have to protect for
Speaker 1: a little bit lower in almost every category that he
Speaker 1: had last year, maybe outside of stolen basis, but even
Speaker 1: if he's nine percent of the player that he was
Speaker 1: last year, he's going to return value where he's going
Speaker 1: some play levels out of here here for a moment,
Speaker 1: you talk about things coming down a little bit in
Speaker 1: every category across the board. Last year at thirty two
Speaker 1: home runs, the most prior in his career was fourteen
Speaker 1: year before three games. It wasn't like he didn't play
Speaker 1: a full season anything like that. He's from fourteen to
Speaker 1: thirty two in a single year, in less games played
Speaker 1: all across the board, he ninety scored ninety two Rivis,
Speaker 1: you're prior to that in more games, let's runs, let's rbs,
Speaker 1: stolen mass fine, his average jumped seventy points from nineteen. Yes,
Speaker 1: he's an improving player. Absolutely. I understand that the hard
Speaker 1: hit percentage yet way better last season. Totally under sstand
Speaker 1: that as well run a fly ball ratio, he was
Speaker 1: lucky last year compared to where he has been previously
Speaker 1: in his career. What eleven percent all of up to
Speaker 1: nineteen last year. I think there's a lot to look
Speaker 1: at here of Hall Martin regressing back the mean a
Speaker 1: little bit. And this is this is what comes with
Speaker 1: projecting a player who did something last season that he's
Speaker 1: never done before. And this is the difficulty of projecting
Speaker 1: that is how much of last year was a fluke,
Speaker 1: how much of it was juice ball related, and you
Speaker 1: know how much of it was him actually progressing and
Speaker 1: getting better. And I leaned towards that because the battle
Speaker 1: ball numbers were the best numbers of his career. The
Speaker 1: stack cast numbers back up what he did. He started
Speaker 1: lifting the ball more last year. His fly ball rate
Speaker 1: went from eighteen to thirty four point eight, so he
Speaker 1: was consciously trying to lift the ball. Two line drive
Speaker 1: rate was the highest career that's gonna lend itself to
Speaker 1: a higher babbit lend itself to a higher batting average.
Speaker 1: In general, his expected batting average, which again is lower
Speaker 1: than his three I realized that, but in lower it
Speaker 1: then projected for three hundred. Even if you get a
Speaker 1: three hundred hitter. I think so. I think that he
Speaker 1: just progressed as a player, and he was someone who
Speaker 1: did have some prospect pedigree, and they gave up a
Speaker 1: decent amount to get him in return at the time,
Speaker 1: to give up Jean Sigura, who was coming off I
Speaker 1: believe a career year that as all right, Yeah they
Speaker 1: got I think they traded away Jean Sigura, and I
Speaker 1: think it was Taiwan Walker at the time. They traded
Speaker 1: four tail traded it traded away if I remember correctly,
Speaker 1: Jean and Mitch Hanagher for in Taiwan Walker, which I
Speaker 1: guess was like a fair trade for both teams at
Speaker 1: the time. But look, he was a highly regarded player
Speaker 1: and he makes a lot of contact, and I understand
Speaker 1: if people are going to be skeptical, but plays at
Speaker 1: a thin position second base and outfield. Has that dual
Speaker 1: position eligibility if you don't buy what he did last
Speaker 1: year as him just progressing as a player, then I
Speaker 1: understand why you would be off him. I tend to
Speaker 1: lean more towards that way, and I'm not even protecting
Speaker 1: him for anything close to what he did last year again,
Speaker 1: which is why he's going to where he's going. Three average,
Speaker 1: twenty five home runs, good counting stacks, and ten to
Speaker 1: twelve steals. I think that's all attainable. A little bit
Speaker 1: more nervous than Kindle Martin than I was last week. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you were all over him. I was over last week.
Speaker 1: It was all over him. I understand it's tough when
Speaker 1: a player does something they've never done before. It's how
Speaker 1: much of it is, you know, fact versus fiction? How
Speaker 1: much of it is real? I don't know. Let me
Speaker 1: jump around a little bit more inside our top twent
Speaker 1: because I want to try to get as many act
Speaker 1: feelers as I can. We spoke about Chris Bryant last week.
Speaker 1: He's been number sixteen outfielder. We spoke up with Maryfield
Speaker 1: and the same in the same vein. We'll talk about him,
Speaker 1: um a little bit more at the second baseman, right,
Speaker 1: he's like he's eligible Marcella Zuna. I do want to
Speaker 1: mention though, Marcella Juna. Now remember the bree is I
Speaker 1: asked you if you're in on him? You sure he's
Speaker 1: not an active target of mine. It's a it's a
Speaker 1: favorite frank phrase. You say that three times, that's favorite
Speaker 1: Frank phrase. Jesus, that's hard. Marzilla Juna not an active
Speaker 1: target of yours? Play that lineup with those players around him,
Speaker 1: Freddie Freeman, Ronald you have your Ossuna's and your Ozuna's
Speaker 1: and your Accunias, and you got all the tongue twisters
Speaker 1: sitting around Acuna Alb's Freeman, where's all this? You know?
Speaker 1: Kind of just slots into that Josh Donaldson roll. We
Speaker 1: know what Donaldson did last year? Why can't do something
Speaker 1: similar to that? The reason why I guess he's not
Speaker 1: an active target. And I'll try to break this down
Speaker 1: as best as I can. I have him as my
Speaker 1: twenty one outfield right now. I don't have is how
Speaker 1: does he separate himself from someone like Eddie Rosario and
Speaker 1: Nick cass I think all those guys are kind of similar.
Speaker 1: Where they're gonna hit around two seventy eight. Yes, they're
Speaker 1: gonna give you good power numbers Castanos again, you might
Speaker 1: be projecting him to do something he's never done before.
Speaker 1: Uh you know, if you if you think he can
Speaker 1: hit thirty thirty five home runs playing in the Great
Speaker 1: American small park, it's the best part that he's ever
Speaker 1: played in. Again with Castanos, My question, Greg is how
Speaker 1: does he separate himself away from Castanos or Rosario, because
Speaker 1: I think they're all very similar, And if you ask me,
Speaker 1: I would just take the one that's going last out
Speaker 1: of the three. I think that they're all kind of
Speaker 1: similar skill sets. I think right now that's probably Castiano
Speaker 1: is going last, right, yes, okay um. I think they
Speaker 1: him and o Zuna are basically like neconnect the doing around.
Speaker 1: I think it depends a kind of league you playing.
Speaker 1: I guess like and it result it wasn't walk right,
Speaker 1: he walks like three percent of the time. Marcello Zuno
Speaker 1: walks eleven percent at the time. That's pretty good. The
Speaker 1: OVP should be higher. That's a good point for Marcello Zuna.
Speaker 1: So I like him a little bit more. I say,
Speaker 1: an doesn't walk all that month, he's like seven percent,
Speaker 1: but hits a lot of doubles. He does and in Castianos,
Speaker 1: I worry about um. I'm trying to remember what like
Speaker 1: about Cascianos in the past, and I always felt he
Speaker 1: was underappreciated and undervalued. Maybe it's because so many doubles,
Speaker 1: like didn't turn it own runs, But now he's plays
Speaker 1: and STANDI it should theoretically. He saw in the National
Speaker 1: League last year with the show of Chicago Cubs, where
Speaker 1: he was fantastic seven runs a career high last season,
Speaker 1: plays every day. His ops with the Cubs is over
Speaker 1: a thousand. He was amazing, he was ridiculous, and it
Speaker 1: seemed like he was finally motivated too. And something that
Speaker 1: he's spoken about was when hitting in America that the
Speaker 1: ball basically just died in the outfield there. So you know,
Speaker 1: obviously that's gonna sap anyone's power playing in America. I
Speaker 1: think hitting in Cincinnati for a full season, we could
Speaker 1: see thirty to thirty five home runs out of Casiano's career.
Speaker 1: Hard hit percentage is high Marcella's, do you know. I
Speaker 1: think what I've learned here is that Marcella's, you know,
Speaker 1: Ni Castianos are very similar players like probably like your's
Speaker 1: hard at the least, I think Eddie Rosario is probably
Speaker 1: the safest. Why because you, I mean, you play in
Speaker 1: obi Pe League, so he's not gonna walk there. I
Speaker 1: understand that. But if you're just play in a batting
Speaker 1: average like Rosario is so safe for to eight thirty
Speaker 1: five home runs a hundred ribbies, that's not nothing. That's
Speaker 1: a great season. I think that again, I think it
Speaker 1: goes back to what I said, and comparing all three
Speaker 1: of these players is they're they're almost going too late,
Speaker 1: because I think everyone kind of thinks the same thing.
Speaker 1: They're like, oh well, these guys are all kind of
Speaker 1: the same, Like how do I differentiate them? And I
Speaker 1: I could just wait and take whoever falls out of
Speaker 1: all three of them. And Ozuno might have the highest
Speaker 1: upside because last year he was incredibly unlucky. We've gone
Speaker 1: over we went over this when he signed with the Braves.
Speaker 1: His babbit last year was to fifty seven. He's a
Speaker 1: career three fourteen babbit. And his expected batting average was
Speaker 1: much higher than his two forty one actual batting average
Speaker 1: last year. And we've seen it before. I mean back
Speaker 1: Ineen with the Marlins, of all teams, he had thirty
Speaker 1: seven home runs with a hundred and twenty four Ribbys
Speaker 1: and last year he started running out of nowhere. Greg
Speaker 1: get twelve stolen basis. So I mean Zuna is someone
Speaker 1: that can legitimately hit two eighty thirty thirty five bombs,
Speaker 1: good County stats in the middle of the Braves lineup
Speaker 1: and eight to ten stolen basis and if he does that,
Speaker 1: he's probably a top five round player next year. Where
Speaker 1: does elm in that grouping? So I have elohimenez at
Speaker 1: I have I haven't met fifteen. I have him higher
Speaker 1: than all of them. It comes with more prospect. Pedigrees
Speaker 1: had a monster second half Greg, and he's someone who
Speaker 1: in that lineup in that ballpark with the White Sox,
Speaker 1: I think the White Sox legit have top five line
Speaker 1: up in all of baseball right now. He's one of
Speaker 1: these guys where you could see him take that second
Speaker 1: year leap almost something like an Aaron Judge did, not
Speaker 1: to the same extent, but like forty five plus home runs.
Speaker 1: And I don't know that the other guys that we're
Speaker 1: talking about have that type of upside. But remember two
Speaker 1: years ago when we were talking about him and we
Speaker 1: were kind of projecting, Oh, what is the player that
Speaker 1: he can become, I said Nelson Cruz, I think he
Speaker 1: could be a two eighty hitter, forty plus home runs
Speaker 1: and one Ribbies, and like one of those elite four
Speaker 1: category players, he's not going to steal any basis at all.
Speaker 1: The other guys all do that. Well, I haven't done
Speaker 1: it before. Zuna hasn't done it before. Rosario, I don't
Speaker 1: believe he's had forty home runs so and again, obviously
Speaker 1: Elo hasn't done it yet either, but he's only only
Speaker 1: going into the second year old. I mean that line
Speaker 1: up again, Tim Anderson, Joan Moncada, jose A Braave Edwin
Speaker 1: and Carnacio, Luis Robert and Elohiman is going to be
Speaker 1: right in the middle of that. It wouldn't really surprise
Speaker 1: anyone if he goes out and has a hundred and
Speaker 1: thirty RBI's this here, I don't think it would. I
Speaker 1: think it's upside is the highest of all of these
Speaker 1: four category players. Maybe a Juna can tip in eight
Speaker 1: to ten steals. Last year was kind of the outwied
Speaker 1: for him, the only year that we ever saw him run.
Speaker 1: But if you're just looking at four category players, you
Speaker 1: look Menez has the highest upside of all those players
Speaker 1: we're talking about right now, all right tomorrow on the show.
Speaker 1: I want to get to a similar batchel of players
Speaker 1: that do similar things, but not similar to these guys.
Speaker 1: What I mean is, you're looking at guys to give
Speaker 1: you the best chance twenty show last week, but you're
Speaker 1: Tommy Fams, your Victor Robles, your Moon Loriano. I think
Speaker 1: all those guys are all in a group together, and
Speaker 1: I think that's how we need to start off tomorrow's
Speaker 1: show discussing that group. Um, I have Tommy found the highest.
Speaker 1: I know he's not healthy right now either. If he
Speaker 1: isn't healthy by the time the season starts, I'll drop
Speaker 1: him down with the other guys up right now, Fam
Speaker 1: is my highest, follow My Loriano and Rolls. They're back
Speaker 1: to back for me. We have a whole lot more
Speaker 1: to talk about, a lot more outfitlers to get too,
Speaker 1: or we're gonna do it all tomorrow on the final
Speaker 1: day of the week. Coming out next it's for out
Speaker 1: Coast to coast. I will join him in our number
Speaker 1: two to look forward to that. I want to think
Speaker 1: Sean and Alex downstairs, Frank Staff, I am Greg Sousman,
Speaker 1: We'll do it all again tomorrow. We hope. I want
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