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Speaker 1: best friends? Fantasy best Friends forever? What's up? And welcome
Speaker 1: inside studio thirty four, Thursday February four, team for Valentine's Day.
Speaker 1: Happy Valentine's Day to everybody out there. I am Frank
Speaker 1: Stanford will be joined live in studio with my good
Speaker 1: buddy Andy Singleton. Make sure you follow MOS, but are
Speaker 1: over over at People's Pen. People's with a Z also
Speaker 1: have dr a of inside injuries on the show later
Speaker 1: on today to talk about some some baseball players that
Speaker 1: that we have some concern over heading into the season.
Speaker 1: We'll get the latest updates on those players, what their
Speaker 1: timetables are, what we should expect heading into the season.
Speaker 1: We'll get into all of that today, I got I
Speaker 1: got got a fun show planned with little Valentine's Day theme.
Speaker 1: You those little sweetheart candies, the hearts to have all
Speaker 1: the sayings on them be mine, cutie pie, I love you. Basically,
Speaker 1: gonna match up players for Fantasy Baseball this season that
Speaker 1: match those sayings how we feel about those players this year.
Speaker 1: So we're gonna get into all that. Got a fun
Speaker 1: show planned for you today. A four four, four, three
Speaker 1: seven nine is a number to call in. But I
Speaker 1: would be remis if I didn't mention. Everybody sees what's
Speaker 1: going on with Corey Parson are good buddy, friend of
Speaker 1: the show. I love Corey as long as I've been
Speaker 1: in this industry writing, Um, you know, going back towards
Speaker 1: he said serious, I was an intern there. I've learned
Speaker 1: a lot from Corey. I love him. Can't really talk
Speaker 1: about anything behind the scenes that's going on, obviously, but
Speaker 1: you know you can check out everything that's going on
Speaker 1: with Corey over on his Twitter at the Fantasy Exact. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know you want to continue follow him so on
Speaker 1: and so forth. You know, look, nothing but love for Corey. Um.
Speaker 1: You know, Gabe spoke about a little bit during the
Speaker 1: morning show a lot like sports, right, Like you know,
Speaker 1: there are things that go on behind the scenes that
Speaker 1: unfortunately we can't talk about. But if you've been following
Speaker 1: the show, if you've been following the network, if you've
Speaker 1: been following me for years, you know that me and
Speaker 1: Corey we have nothing but love for each other. So
Speaker 1: I just wanted to address that first and foremost. At
Speaker 1: the top of the show, I mentioned Andy Singleton here
Speaker 1: live in studio. Andy, before I ask you, how's everything
Speaker 1: going in your life? You're a newly wet I thought
Speaker 1: it made a lot of sense to have you on
Speaker 1: the show, the Valentine's Day edition. I just sleep last night, buddy,
Speaker 1: I actually I slept all right. The last night was
Speaker 1: pretty good. I I feel like I'm here in a
Speaker 1: somber on a somber day, even though we're here. It
Speaker 1: was supposed to be spreading love Valentine's Day, as you mentioned,
Speaker 1: but Corey awesome. I love Corey. I was just dming
Speaker 1: with him back and forth. I just found out about
Speaker 1: this myself as I was walking up the stairs to
Speaker 1: come in here. I was excited to be back here.
Speaker 1: Uh So, Corey, wherever you are, miss you. Love you.
Speaker 1: I was hoping we've seen you today but understood. But um,
Speaker 1: I'm happy to be back, Frank, and um, you're at
Speaker 1: my wedding, so right, it's a great I don't remember
Speaker 1: much of it. I wish I could say on air
Speaker 1: that I don't either, but I probably get in trouble
Speaker 1: so I remember every single moment of it. But no,
Speaker 1: I'm exactly I'm happy to be here. We got a
Speaker 1: lot to talk about, a lot to discuss. I can
Speaker 1: relate actually from from the lead that you just started with, because, uh,
Speaker 1: some of you might know the baseball stuff I did
Speaker 1: with the Baseball Show. Uh, we just kind of had
Speaker 1: a little thing go on as well, and I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna get into details, but the Baseball Show, unfortunately will
Speaker 1: be no longer. So probably the first place I've said
Speaker 1: that officially, but uh, just you know, if anybody was curious,
Speaker 1: anybody tuning in wondering where the videos have been the
Speaker 1: last couple of weeks, now, you know. So yeah, new
Speaker 1: new year, new season. But I'm excited to get in
Speaker 1: things two things with you today, and this is my
Speaker 1: first time with Dr Ray. I'm curious, you know, we're
Speaker 1: so far apart and there's so many, so much room
Speaker 1: around you. So I give you a little uh Andy
Speaker 1: Singleton Island over there, a little bit of a little
Speaker 1: bit of Durell Reevus little Revus Island for you. That's
Speaker 1: the Singleton Island over there. I love this spot over here.
Speaker 1: I remember being here on draft in the NFL drafting night,
Speaker 1: and I was owning this. You really remember that night.
Speaker 1: I do remember, and I do remember, and I remember
Speaker 1: owning this and wanting to uh my real estate here,
Speaker 1: but no, I put the cologne off of you and everything,
Speaker 1: and he kicked me to the corner. So anyway, let's go.
Speaker 1: Let's get into this thing. Let's do it. Look, yeah,
Speaker 1: you've been following Andy for years. He's a friend of
Speaker 1: the show. He's come on. We talked baseball, we talked football,
Speaker 1: he mentioned the Baseball Show. Just because it's not around
Speaker 1: doesn't mean that all of his knowledge goes away. He
Speaker 1: still has knowledge. He's still, you know, still has it
Speaker 1: in there to talk about some fantasy baseball. So, as
Speaker 1: I mentioned, we're gonna get into that right now. Little
Speaker 1: heart candies, you know, I couldn't find any I was trying.
Speaker 1: I looked in a few Pharmacies. I'm trying to buy
Speaker 1: the little heart candies for Valentine's today. Figured I can,
Speaker 1: I can pull out some of the heart sayings and
Speaker 1: we could do it live on the spot. You know,
Speaker 1: what does this heart candy say? Let's find a player
Speaker 1: that that matches how we feel about said player. I
Speaker 1: couldn't find the heart candies. I'm sorry everybody. I tried.
Speaker 1: I couldn't find them. So instead, look the pictures. I
Speaker 1: got them right here. We're gonna start off with be Mine,
Speaker 1: So be mine. I was trying to figure out how
Speaker 1: to make these relate to Fantasy Baseball andy, and what
Speaker 1: I came up with for B mine is somebody who
Speaker 1: you haven't owned before in Fantasy baseball, who you want
Speaker 1: to own this year. So we'll start it off with you.
Speaker 1: I'll throw it your way. We'll do a hit her
Speaker 1: in a picture for each one of these B mine.
Speaker 1: Somebody you haven't owned before you want to own this year.
Speaker 1: Who's your hitter. I absolutely love the concept of what
Speaker 1: you're going with with this. Uh, everybody knows Valentine's Day candy,
Speaker 1: so I really love this. But the fact that we
Speaker 1: don't have them physically year, I think I might want
Speaker 1: to leave now, Um, but my hitter, I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: with Nick Castellanos, who I actually just traded for in
Speaker 1: my main Dynasty league and this past offseason. Uh just
Speaker 1: turns twenty seven on March four, so he's just about
Speaker 1: to enter his prime window. This guy is like an
Speaker 1: Aronado light maybe even Anthony Rizzo would be about a
Speaker 1: compious for the consistency he's starting to put together. It's
Speaker 1: a discounted version of those two players, of course, but uh,
Speaker 1: you're getting consistency across the board. No speed, but you're
Speaker 1: getting the average, you're getting the power. I think he's
Speaker 1: a lock for thirty home runs this year. I don't
Speaker 1: think he's the type of player that's affected by his
Speaker 1: supporting cast at all. And this is a guy I've
Speaker 1: never really been able to get ah my hands on
Speaker 1: in former draft. So, like I said, I just traded
Speaker 1: for him in Dynasty League and he's somebody I'm definitely targeting,
Speaker 1: and re draft League says, I think the price is
Speaker 1: right with the value that he provides. And I love
Speaker 1: Nick Castiano. He's someone that I was touting last year.
Speaker 1: I was talking him up a lot. Unfortunately I didn't
Speaker 1: end up with the guy. Look, he hits for great
Speaker 1: batting average to eighty five to seventy the past three seasons.
Speaker 1: I still feel like he has that breakout coming. And
Speaker 1: you know, whether he's with the Detroit Tigers or not,
Speaker 1: I actually think if he gets moved, will probably end
Speaker 1: up in a better offensive situation because as of right now,
Speaker 1: you know, it's not like the Tigers line up is
Speaker 1: murderers row or anything. My biggest problem right and you know,
Speaker 1: I'll call you out, you call me out, so on
Speaker 1: and so forth. We'll go back and forth. Here he
Speaker 1: said he's a lock for thirty home runs. It's something
Speaker 1: he's never done in his career. It's home runs last
Speaker 1: two years ago. It's twenty three home runs last year.
Speaker 1: It's the ball extremely hard. I love the bad ball
Speaker 1: profile for Nick Cassiano's My biggest issue. Doesn't hit enough
Speaker 1: fly balls. You know, thirty five percent last year, thirty
Speaker 1: eight point two percent the year before. Hits a lot
Speaker 1: of line drives. Reminds me, you know, his bat ball
Speaker 1: profile reminds me a lot of Freddy Freeman. It's a
Speaker 1: lot of line drives, hits a lot of doubles. He's
Speaker 1: gonna give you good batting average. I just I think
Speaker 1: if he does raise the launch angle, that we can
Speaker 1: get a thirty home run season out of him. The
Speaker 1: problem is, Andy, I haven't seen enough of it trend
Speaker 1: ending that way for me to project him for thirty
Speaker 1: home runs. If that makes sense. I get where you're
Speaker 1: going with that, and I'm not opposed to you feel
Speaker 1: in that way. I think if you look at him
Speaker 1: being a safe twenty five ish home run guy, he
Speaker 1: said twenty three was twenty six year before. But I
Speaker 1: go back to that turning twenty seven this year, and
Speaker 1: that's the prime. That's the one the window opens for
Speaker 1: your prime. That that nice five year gap from twenty
Speaker 1: seven to you know, thirties to thirty two where your
Speaker 1: your physical prime, your peak power performance. And I think
Speaker 1: that if you look historically, there is a significant jump
Speaker 1: for players that enter that twenty seven years. So if
Speaker 1: he's already at twenty five, I'm willing to bet. And
Speaker 1: you know this is this is just historical data. This
Speaker 1: isn't and and a gut feel if you will. This
Speaker 1: isn't necessarily saying something. I'm looking at a number and
Speaker 1: pointing and saying the launch angle or egg velocity of
Speaker 1: things of that nature. I'm just saying, for where he
Speaker 1: is and where he's been, I think you can safely
Speaker 1: assume that that five homer jump and put thirty as
Speaker 1: the as the floor for him this year and in
Speaker 1: the power department. Yeah, if I were projecting him myself again,
Speaker 1: I love the batting average. I think you know, whether
Speaker 1: he's with the Tigers or with another team, I think
Speaker 1: kill be in the middle of wherever he whatever lineup
Speaker 1: he's in. So look, I think you know a d
Speaker 1: plus runs, you know eight ninety r BI, you know,
Speaker 1: hitting two five, I think that's a safe floor. Only
Speaker 1: five home runs. I love Castanos. Um, well, you know
Speaker 1: we'll see where he ends up. Um see if I
Speaker 1: get some more shares of Castanos this year, I'm definitely in. Look,
Speaker 1: a guy I haven't owned before and I've already been
Speaker 1: talking him up a lot is Tommy Fam. I really
Speaker 1: like what I saw at a Tommy fam last year
Speaker 1: in the past couple of years as much as I
Speaker 1: love him, and I'm gonna talk about why I do
Speaker 1: with the Tampa Bay Rays last year, Look, he was phenomenal,
Speaker 1: three forty three. He didn't have to worry about whether
Speaker 1: he was gonna play every day. You saw the article
Speaker 1: last year in Sports Illustrated with Tommy fam He's a
Speaker 1: very animated dude. You know, he was using all kinds
Speaker 1: of different language talking about, you know, why is this
Speaker 1: bum playing ahead of me on the St. Louis Cardinals,
Speaker 1: And you know what, you can't really argue with the guy.
Speaker 1: He gets traded over to Tampa Bay. In thirty nine games,
Speaker 1: he had seven home runs, scores thirty five runs. He
Speaker 1: actually scored over a hundred runs last year combined between
Speaker 1: the Cardinals and the Rays. He hit three forty three
Speaker 1: one percent hard hit rate last year with the Tampa
Speaker 1: Bay Raid, lots of line drives. Um, I see the
Speaker 1: home run of fly ball ratio. It's high, it's over
Speaker 1: twenty percent, but it's twenty three nine percent for his career.
Speaker 1: So at this point, you know, you got about plate
Speaker 1: appearances in his back pocket here at the major league level.
Speaker 1: I trusted, I trust the home run to fly ball ratio.
Speaker 1: So to me, I think Tommy fam is one of
Speaker 1: these guys where you could get a season out of
Speaker 1: him with a very good batting average close to three hundred,
Speaker 1: maybe above that, he's gonna hit at the top of
Speaker 1: the raised line up. Not a great lineup, it's not
Speaker 1: a terrible lineup. It's fine. He's gonna hit in good
Speaker 1: hitting environments. In the A l East, I think he
Speaker 1: could come close or even exceed a hundred runs scored.
Speaker 1: Once again, here's my problem and the a DP when
Speaker 1: it comes to Tommy Fam. Right I'm looking at fifties
Speaker 1: six point eight five NFBC a d P, which in
Speaker 1: a fifteen team league puts him in the fourth round.
Speaker 1: So you're probably getting getting him sometimes as your outfield one.
Speaker 1: I think ideally you'd want him as your outfield too.
Speaker 1: I know in the Labor Draft the other night, Paul
Speaker 1: Sporer and Jason Collett teaming up, they took him at
Speaker 1: the three four turn in the fifteen team league. Let's pick.
Speaker 1: What do you think about Tommy Fam What do you
Speaker 1: think about the price you have to pay right now?
Speaker 1: I personally like Tommy Fam a lot. I thought last
Speaker 1: year was the year to really be all in on him.
Speaker 1: I liked the situation moving to Tampa Bay. But that
Speaker 1: is way, way, way too much of a premium, too
Speaker 1: rich for my blood. That's not a price I'm willing
Speaker 1: to pay. For fam. You look at what he did
Speaker 1: last year in more games he had less Homer's less steels. Uh.
Speaker 1: Of course he is outspoken. He hasn't he you know,
Speaker 1: hasn't even having a full season in Tampa Bay yet,
Speaker 1: and he's already blasting the fan base. I mean the
Speaker 1: off the field stuff alone worries me enough that he
Speaker 1: can get off to a bad start there and not
Speaker 1: have support. And you know, maybe in the dog house,
Speaker 1: you know, they have a lot of talent coming up
Speaker 1: in Tampa Bay. Maybe he's the guy that's on the
Speaker 1: trading block next year and and getting shipped out of
Speaker 1: Table Bay late, a late bloomer. I do like the
Speaker 1: combination of everything he brings, But I don't think this
Speaker 1: is a fourth round, fifth round guy. Uh, you're chasing
Speaker 1: I'm guessing you're chasing speed and steels at that point.
Speaker 1: And that's way too early and too much of a
Speaker 1: premium for me to put on a guy that I'm
Speaker 1: looking at maybe hopefully have fifteen steals from. I can
Speaker 1: get that later. You know, the steels is definitely a premium,
Speaker 1: and you can't find a lot of players that are
Speaker 1: going to give you a minimum fifteen steels. But I
Speaker 1: can still get those in the middle rounds later on
Speaker 1: that I don't want to invest in the fourth fifth,
Speaker 1: Even if he felt to the sixth round, I would
Speaker 1: still look at us a little too much. Uh, there
Speaker 1: are other guys I'd rather have. We mentioned Castellanos, the
Speaker 1: guy I'm going after. I'd much rather have the safety
Speaker 1: in that bat. And that's going on full three to
Speaker 1: four rounds after Tommy fam so um a lot of
Speaker 1: more questions and concerns than guarantees from me with fam
Speaker 1: And and that's what worries me. Yea, And I can't
Speaker 1: knock you for that either. Look, he's a real interesting case.
Speaker 1: You mentioned some off the field stuff. The way that
Speaker 1: he talks. He's very candid in his interviews. He's a
Speaker 1: thirty year old guy, uh, you know, who was kind
Speaker 1: of a late bloomer with the St. Louis Cardinals. You know,
Speaker 1: the cartoons are always able to find these random, kind
Speaker 1: of like journeyman guys that have been in their minor
Speaker 1: leagues and then they come up and they end up
Speaker 1: being awesome. I mean, Luke Voyd could have been another
Speaker 1: one of those guys, but then they traded him over
Speaker 1: to the Yankees. It just seems like they always find
Speaker 1: these guys. Matt Carpenter seems like he was kind of
Speaker 1: a late bloomer to Tommy Fam. Just another one of
Speaker 1: these players. I'm just I'm really looking at the battle
Speaker 1: ball profile here. He strikes out a lot, but he
Speaker 1: hits the ball extremely hard. I'm talking about an average
Speaker 1: eggs velocity around ninety three miles per hour. Man. The
Speaker 1: prices just it's really it's really getting up there. I
Speaker 1: think he's a player that runs steal twenty to twenty
Speaker 1: five bases with a great batting average. The problem is,
Speaker 1: I think everybody else is also seeing Tommy Fam the
Speaker 1: same exact way. I'm gonna have some shares of Tommy Fam.
Speaker 1: I don't hope I'm gonna be able to get him
Speaker 1: everywhere at that price, but I do really really like
Speaker 1: him season this season. I think there is a lot
Speaker 1: to like there and he Let's move over to the
Speaker 1: starting picture that you have here. I would expect nothing
Speaker 1: less from Andy Singleton here, very polar I zing picture
Speaker 1: this season. A picture for the Colorado Rockies. It's not
Speaker 1: Kyle Freeland, it's the other Colorado Rockies. Uh, you know.
Speaker 1: Memo Deca refers to these guys every year as the
Speaker 1: helium arms, you're the guys that are just shooting up
Speaker 1: draft boards. It's hard to dispute what her Man Mark
Speaker 1: has did in the second half last year. I mean
Speaker 1: he was otherworldly, you know, for the season as a whole,
Speaker 1: two and thirty strikeouts, but in that second half, I mean,
Speaker 1: his strikeout rate way up, his walk rate way down.
Speaker 1: People have concerns though, because he pitches in Colorado. I
Speaker 1: know that his slider is, you know, one of the
Speaker 1: filthiest pitches in baseball, started throwing it more last year.
Speaker 1: You're not scared off from from Coors Field, Huh, I'm
Speaker 1: not at all. And if that's the only concern, then
Speaker 1: I think we have to rethink how baseball has been
Speaker 1: going the last few years. You've seen a couple of
Speaker 1: Colorado Rockies pictures more significantly over the last few years,
Speaker 1: have better success. Um, you know the things they've done
Speaker 1: to try to quell you know, Chase Field and then
Speaker 1: of course course Field as well, things to affect how
Speaker 1: the balls are hit out there. Uh, that's not even
Speaker 1: it for me. That that's not why I'm buying into it.
Speaker 1: I'm buying into it because you mentioned how we finished
Speaker 1: from August on eight innings two to four e r
Speaker 1: A A zero point nine five whip twelve point three
Speaker 1: k per nine. Frank, do you realize that not since
Speaker 1: Hermann Marquez was eighteen and seventeen when he was his
Speaker 1: first two seasons in rookie ball did he have a
Speaker 1: walk per nine above three. Every year since that he's
Speaker 1: been above I mean, I'm sorry, below three walks per nine.
Speaker 1: That's remarkable control. He's up the k rate taking advantage
Speaker 1: of the free swinging hitters in the MLB. Now, how
Speaker 1: many pictures today are getting you two hundred innings on
Speaker 1: the seasons he was four shorter than that last year.
Speaker 1: He's got the frame in the in the body and
Speaker 1: as sized him to be a two hundred inning pitcher
Speaker 1: and you're only getting a dozen to twenty of those
Speaker 1: guys will say fifteen two hundred in in guys per
Speaker 1: season in baseball. Now he's one of them. So I
Speaker 1: am not scared off at all. I think could still
Speaker 1: a tremendous value for where the a DP is. I
Speaker 1: will take Herman Marquez in every draft that can get him,
Speaker 1: and and take advantage of other people having the doubt
Speaker 1: about him and worrying about him being in a rocky
Speaker 1: so Herman Marquez would an NFBC A DP in the
Speaker 1: month of February of eighty five point one five. You
Speaker 1: know he's going. I've seen him in that, you know,
Speaker 1: six seventh round range in fifteen team leagues. I'm looking
Speaker 1: at the second half and I see it. I understand
Speaker 1: the upside here. Reminds me a lot of Louise Castile
Speaker 1: from last year. He's kind of the guy that you
Speaker 1: know you're drafting as a top thirty pitcher that you
Speaker 1: see have a monster second half and you're holding hoping
Speaker 1: that he can continue to build off that. There's some
Speaker 1: of these numbers in the second half two point two five,
Speaker 1: two point three zero xfit twelve, case per nine, one
Speaker 1: point nine, four walks for nine. I get it. Man,
Speaker 1: course Fields just scares me a little bit. Get it.
Speaker 1: The upside is definitely there for Marquez when we get
Speaker 1: back well dr a of inside injuries. That's Andy Singleton.
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Speaker 1: love Albarado's arm. I picked him up last year, and
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Speaker 1: Frank Stanfeld joined live in studio by my good buddy
Speaker 1: Andy Singleton. The f F is correct. And what do
Speaker 1: you think about me? You? Are you all right with this?
Speaker 1: Because my musical taste, I constantly talked about this. I
Speaker 1: had Ian Conline live in studio yesterday talking about I'm
Speaker 1: all over the places. This is my error though this?
Speaker 1: Did you heard about this? Probably when your parents were
Speaker 1: playing this. I was exactly I was growing up when
Speaker 1: this was actually on the top charts here, exactly right.
Speaker 1: That's that's the problem of what the age disparage. Well,
Speaker 1: you're not as old as Greg. You know, Greg just
Speaker 1: turned fifty years old this week. We're gonna get into
Speaker 1: that anymore. I hear some sniffling back there, which means
Speaker 1: dr a of inside injuries is on the line. Uh, Doc,
Speaker 1: what do you think about the song be My Lover
Speaker 1: is Is? Is that? Is that your jam? Yeah? You know,
Speaker 1: I think that's more my speed of Uh. When I
Speaker 1: was growing up, you probably weren't even born when that
Speaker 1: song came out. I love it though, I love it.
Speaker 1: I'm all over it like eighties, nineties freestyle, techno, house dance.
Speaker 1: I'm all over the place. I'll listen to hip hop.
Speaker 1: You know, I've been to hip hop shows Rest in Peace,
Speaker 1: mac Miller, I've seen him live, Metallica, I've seen them
Speaker 1: Aton too as well. So musically I'm all over the place.
Speaker 1: I'd like to have fun, but let's get into let's
Speaker 1: get into the injury. You know some stuff that might
Speaker 1: not be as fun for others, specifically Francisco Lindoor. You
Speaker 1: know this was a guy that I made headlines last week,
Speaker 1: came out I believe Friday over the weekend last week
Speaker 1: Francisco Lindoor. Uh, seems like a pretty severe cash strain
Speaker 1: here Doc expected to miss seven to nine weeks. Specifically,
Speaker 1: why this worries meet is he might be ready for
Speaker 1: the start of the season. You know, he might miss
Speaker 1: the first week or two. But this is a guy
Speaker 1: that we draft relying on speed to you know, we
Speaker 1: want stolen bases. When should we expect lind Door back?
Speaker 1: How worried are we about re injury with Francisco Lindoor
Speaker 1: And can we count on him to have the same
Speaker 1: speed on the base paths this season? Yeah? So this
Speaker 1: is a Grade three calf strain and for a shortstop,
Speaker 1: this is something that is more worrisome than for any
Speaker 1: other position on the field because of the you know,
Speaker 1: the movement that a short shortstop has to make not
Speaker 1: only defensively, but like you said, uh, to steal bases
Speaker 1: and on the base base paths. And so this is
Speaker 1: a really this is sort of a worrisome type of injury.
Speaker 1: We have him slated at eight weeks recovery time, which
Speaker 1: is right in line with what the team is saying.
Speaker 1: But you know, he could heal from this if his
Speaker 1: recovery goes fine. The issue is is that, you know,
Speaker 1: to initiate the speed that you need from the you know,
Speaker 1: sort of forward facing position when trying to steal a base.
Speaker 1: That initial move is done with hamstrings and with calves,
Speaker 1: and you know, I could just see him if he's
Speaker 1: not stretched completely or you know, in terms of he's
Speaker 1: not prepared one game that he's playing and he could
Speaker 1: re injure that calf and then you'll you're looking at
Speaker 1: a ten eleven, twelve week significant time miss type of things.
Speaker 1: So I would be very careful with lind Or in
Speaker 1: the draft. Andy, Yeah, dr, I can. I'm concerned. I
Speaker 1: just want to touch on Lindo or a little bit
Speaker 1: more here. Uh. I've seen expert drafts already where he's
Speaker 1: gone pick eight and nine. He's not escaping the first round.
Speaker 1: I can't dispute the talent of Francisco Lindoor. Yeah, but um,
Speaker 1: you know, can you still and can you still use
Speaker 1: your first round pick on Well? That's kind of what
Speaker 1: I wanted to ask him because we have Donaldson on
Speaker 1: this list coming up in a moment, and we saw
Speaker 1: him completely derailed by a calf injury. I've had calf
Speaker 1: strains as i've and it's it's horrible because you walk
Speaker 1: around and rely on you cast for everything and the
Speaker 1: only thing that really helps that is rust. Right, you
Speaker 1: can't take a pill for this, and there's no surgery
Speaker 1: that you have and to to make it better and
Speaker 1: go away. So my question for you, dr raised how
Speaker 1: much of Linda's age factors in for you with his
Speaker 1: recovery time and being able to that eight week window
Speaker 1: when he comes back, say hey, this is in the
Speaker 1: rear view mirror, go forward and have a normally healthy season.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's still just twenty five, so there is
Speaker 1: a difference of when he had this in comparison to
Speaker 1: Josh Donaldson. Yeah, and see, I think also because there's
Speaker 1: from a shortstop standpoint, Josh Donaldson's a third baseman and
Speaker 1: he got significantly impacted also because of his age. Now, yeah,
Speaker 1: I agree, the younger you are, the better you heal.
Speaker 1: The only thing that I worry about this is that
Speaker 1: it's the number three is after this grade not too
Speaker 1: three means that there is a tear within the muscle,
Speaker 1: and that's what we're predicting based on everything that we've heard,
Speaker 1: that there is a tear within the muscle and that
Speaker 1: takes not only is it from a recovery standpoint longer,
Speaker 1: but also it is a higher likelihood that does recur.
Speaker 1: And he has all of these risk factors, especially the
Speaker 1: fact that he's a shortstop. So if he's expected to
Speaker 1: steal bases and he's expected to have a lot of
Speaker 1: range and coverage in that position, then you know this
Speaker 1: is an injury that has a really good chance of recurring.
Speaker 1: And so that's why right now our i r C
Speaker 1: with Lindor is thirty six percent. Is going to improve
Speaker 1: because you know, obviously after the eight weeks are over,
Speaker 1: it will improve, but if you could just it won't
Speaker 1: improve to the point of five percent, It will probably
Speaker 1: go down and get better to a moderate to maybe
Speaker 1: fifteen percent. So if you calculate that he's likely to
Speaker 1: miss fifteen percent of the games of the season due
Speaker 1: to this injury, that's what it's saying. Speaking with Dr
Speaker 1: A of Inside Injuries and Doc and he brought up
Speaker 1: Josh Donaldson who dealt with a calf and a shoulder injury,
Speaker 1: You're gonna notice a lot of there's a theme today.
Speaker 1: I mean, we have the calf with Josh Donaldson and Lindore,
Speaker 1: and then there's a lot of shoulder injuries to the
Speaker 1: just wanted to get updates on some of these guys.
Speaker 1: So Josh Donaldson, Um, you know, he basically the best
Speaker 1: of both worlds or or the worst of both worlds.
Speaker 1: I guess he has the calf and the shoulder from
Speaker 1: last year. How how much can we rely on Josh
Speaker 1: Donaldson this year? Is he gonna be healthy? You know
Speaker 1: what's gonna be his risk for re injury as well
Speaker 1: as of right now you're getting Josh Donaldson has a
Speaker 1: discount in draft, But me personally, I feel like it's
Speaker 1: not worth the risk where you're getting, Like there are
Speaker 1: still guys where he's going that are completely healthy and
Speaker 1: at his age. I'm really worried about the health of
Speaker 1: Josh Donaldson. Yeah, and he should be. Uh, I mean
Speaker 1: he he has been recovering this offseason and um and
Speaker 1: you know it's the biggest thing with him, his age
Speaker 1: and the multiple injuries on top of multiple injuries and
Speaker 1: multiple cap strange in seventeen and eighteen and um, and
Speaker 1: you know he's not a shortstop, but his age is
Speaker 1: catching up to him. His I r C right now
Speaker 1: is forty nine percent. I mean, it's basically flip of
Speaker 1: a coin if he's gonna get injured or not every
Speaker 1: game he goes out. This is I got all the
Speaker 1: red red flags over at his his with all the
Speaker 1: rest and everything like that, he still has an HPF
Speaker 1: below average and so uh with a forty nine I
Speaker 1: r C and a below average HPF at six, this
Speaker 1: is the best he's gonna get in our books, which
Speaker 1: is basically telling you to look elsewhere. Can I bring
Speaker 1: it back to the Lindor for a moment, because well,
Speaker 1: and I mean it. I think it matters for Bold
Speaker 1: Lindor and for Donaldson with the same injury with the
Speaker 1: calf at least. But we're talking about a top five
Speaker 1: overall pick in Lindoor who at just twenty five has
Speaker 1: already hit thirty plus homers and back to back seasons.
Speaker 1: And I was talking about Castellanos before entering his prime
Speaker 1: physical prime at seven. Lindor's not even there yet and
Speaker 1: he already hit thirty eight homers last year. Steals a side.
Speaker 1: This is still somebody that people rely on for the
Speaker 1: power in the batting average and everything like that. How
Speaker 1: much of the calf injury would you say affects the
Speaker 1: power and the ability to drive the ball. So a
Speaker 1: lot of the power comes from core um. So yes,
Speaker 1: although calf has something to do with it, calf is
Speaker 1: more related to speed and coverage and side to side
Speaker 1: loud removement and an initiation of speed like hamstring at
Speaker 1: her powers really generated from core and hip flex ers
Speaker 1: um and lots and you know than an upper bot
Speaker 1: strength et cetera. So um from a power standpoint, the
Speaker 1: calf is a much less of effect than in terms
Speaker 1: of UH the ability to steal bases and coverage. Awesome,
Speaker 1: doc I mentioned, you know, shoulder injuries that we want
Speaker 1: to get into. We spoke about Donaldson. Chris Bryant another
Speaker 1: one here that was dealing with the shoulder off and
Speaker 1: on all the season last year. Grade one rotator cuff
Speaker 1: is what I have it as here and you know
Speaker 1: there was there was data to support that. You know,
Speaker 1: after he suffered as the injury, his batted ball data,
Speaker 1: his performance, every single thing went down basically in a
Speaker 1: direct correlation with this shoulder injury. But it seemed like
Speaker 1: his injury, more so than eyone else, just lasted all
Speaker 1: season long. What can you tell us about Chris Bryant?
Speaker 1: You know you're getting him at a discount. Again, he's
Speaker 1: going more so in the third round this year. In
Speaker 1: years past he was the first maybe second round pick.
Speaker 1: You're getting a bit of a discount. But this was
Speaker 1: a very severe shoulder injury last year with Chris Bryant. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And I mean the good thing is he's not a
Speaker 1: picture so he's in a completely different category. Uh, third baseman,
Speaker 1: this is a this is a I believe it's throwing shoulder.
Speaker 1: So he still got to make that throw from third
Speaker 1: base in a very powerful fashion. And so this is
Speaker 1: originally this injury was a great to rotator cough. That
Speaker 1: means it's not a mile but a moderate sprain of
Speaker 1: the rotator cough. And you know he's had, you know,
Speaker 1: a significant amount of time to heal. He's already back
Speaker 1: up to above average, likely will sneak close to peak health.
Speaker 1: Um and you know the injury risk right now is
Speaker 1: but it's gonna drop to probably fifteen or sixteen percent
Speaker 1: so by the time opening day comes around. So you know,
Speaker 1: I think third round is a very very solid uh
Speaker 1: area for him to be in based on his previous
Speaker 1: ongoing shoulder problems, on his age. But I do think
Speaker 1: that from this particular injury. Once the season starts and
Speaker 1: he doesn't have any setbacks, you know, he should be
Speaker 1: very close to peak health. So third round looks right,
Speaker 1: It looks pretty good for me. I mean, I have
Speaker 1: a lot of questions about Chris bryant Um. I think
Speaker 1: the ultimate plan for the coast even if if his
Speaker 1: if his shoulder goes back to what if he has
Speaker 1: this recur moving the first basic move rizzo the second
Speaker 1: right rizzles played there before. So I mean, I feel
Speaker 1: like you lose the d h in in in the NL,
Speaker 1: but maybe we're gonna have that now universally, right, that's
Speaker 1: the next topic, So that would help Chris bryant Um.
Speaker 1: I don't know how much longer we have for Dr Ray,
Speaker 1: so if it's all right, I wanted to skip ahead
Speaker 1: to another guy we have on this list here because, uh,
Speaker 1: of of all the other guys that we have here,
Speaker 1: Matt Chapman, Arnado, Ozuna, Darvish, Brandon Marrow, Kenney Jensen, Dnyelson,
Speaker 1: Lamy to me is the most polarizing and intriguing because,
Speaker 1: as you've noted here, Frank yet Tommy John surgery last April,
Speaker 1: but he's still not ready to come back. Yet and
Speaker 1: it's not even for a while yet. Still, so what's
Speaker 1: the delay with his recovery from this in Is it
Speaker 1: something that people should be concerned about? Is it something
Speaker 1: you think he can come back from and and has
Speaker 1: success this season or should we just completely avoid him,
Speaker 1: because even if he does come back, he's probably gonna
Speaker 1: have a lot of kinks to work out. Yeah, So,
Speaker 1: I mean ten years ago, the Tommy Johns surgery was
Speaker 1: really eight months nine months recovery. Uh. And you know,
Speaker 1: if if somebody gets torn a c L in the
Speaker 1: beginning of one season, then by the beginning of next season,
Speaker 1: you're thinking, Okay, he's gonna be ready to go. Well,
Speaker 1: data and statistics show that an extended period of rest
Speaker 1: post surgery and an extended period of rehab really makes
Speaker 1: the longevity and the stability of the repaired on their
Speaker 1: collateral ligament a lot better. And so right now, the
Speaker 1: optimum recovery time for a Tommy john type surgery completely
Speaker 1: torn all the collateral ligament is a minimum of sixty
Speaker 1: weeks from surgery. Okay, so you know that's over a year.
Speaker 1: It's it's about fourteen months, and it could be more.
Speaker 1: And so you know, it's not surprising to me that
Speaker 1: he's not going to be ready. It's typical fourteen to
Speaker 1: sixteen months for a fully healed Tommy John type surgery. Now,
Speaker 1: if he if he's, if he's out more than that,
Speaker 1: then you can almost guarantee the team has not been
Speaker 1: telling you about a setback that he had. But right
Speaker 1: now he's on schedule. Sometime mid June is when we're
Speaker 1: thinking that he'll get back, um, because that really is
Speaker 1: right around the fourteen month standpoint. Now back meaning fully capable,
Speaker 1: ready to go out in games if he's if he's
Speaker 1: able to, you know, have command and control of his
Speaker 1: pitches and a wething like that. Yeah, mid June to
Speaker 1: early July. Okay, alright, so there's a prognosis update for
Speaker 1: the Nelson Lament. Uh. You know, I think I think
Speaker 1: we've been exposed so much too that I'm just talking
Speaker 1: for myself here. I feel like I've been exposed to
Speaker 1: torn a c L s so much that I'm kind
Speaker 1: of like combining torn a c L and torn U
Speaker 1: c L at this point, and I'm thinking that, oh, well,
Speaker 1: everyone's returning from you know, torn a c L and
Speaker 1: football and you know whatever. Six eight months. Nowadays, I
Speaker 1: think we're kind of just like lumping that in together
Speaker 1: with Tommy John. And at least that's my thinking. I
Speaker 1: don't know. I felt like Tommy John John was like
Speaker 1: quicker to come back from. But I think I'm just
Speaker 1: kind of like emerging Tommy John and torn a c
Speaker 1: L together. Yeah. Yeah, for sure one's in elbow, one's
Speaker 1: ones a knee. But yeah, I mean, both very popular
Speaker 1: and their respective sports. Obviously with torn a c L
Speaker 1: with football, uh, and then with Tommy John in baseball.
Speaker 1: Doc I didn't wanna get to Matt Chapman here again,
Speaker 1: another guy dealing with a shoulder injury. Here he had
Speaker 1: off season surgeries on both his shoulder and his thumb.
Speaker 1: And we've actually had updates with Matt Chapman saying that
Speaker 1: he is going to be a little bit behind everybody
Speaker 1: else in Oakland A's camp in terms of spring training
Speaker 1: and getting in there and getting at bats and getting
Speaker 1: back up to game shape, and you know, in in
Speaker 1: mid season for me, it's gonna take a little bit
Speaker 1: longer for Matt Chapman. How worried should we be about him? Okay,
Speaker 1: so you know, the thumb, the right thumb, surgery is
Speaker 1: the owner sided sesamoid boint bone excision. And so you
Speaker 1: know if you take your right if you take your
Speaker 1: right thumb, there's sesamoid bones on your thumb basically right here.
Speaker 1: Then one is on the owner side, which is on
Speaker 1: this side, and one is on the radial side. So
Speaker 1: they took this one out. This this thumb is a
Speaker 1: significant uh anchor point in terms of swinging the bat.
Speaker 1: So if he has any pain post surgery, uh, and
Speaker 1: when he's theoretically fully healed on that, it'll significantly affect
Speaker 1: his power. And uh, the sesamoid bone injuries are very
Speaker 1: highly recurrent. So I would watch that with Matt Chapman
Speaker 1: because once I saw that he had a sesamoid bone decision, Um,
Speaker 1: you know, the algorithm as well as myself, we were
Speaker 1: very clear and the fact that this is something that
Speaker 1: will affect it's such a finesse and a specific point.
Speaker 1: But that thumb represents an anchor point, okay, and so uh,
Speaker 1: if he experiences any pain there, it will be very
Speaker 1: hard to treat and it will affect his power. So
Speaker 1: that's number one. Left shoulder had surgery in mid December.
Speaker 1: Looks like it was a Greade three. So he actually
Speaker 1: had a partial tear, uh and not just a rotator
Speaker 1: cough inflammation or um you know, or a spray. This
Speaker 1: one is a partial tear. And so with a combination
Speaker 1: of these two injuries, UM, I know it's he's gonna
Speaker 1: be delayed. But you know, we are very very negative
Speaker 1: on Matt Chapman for this year based on these two
Speaker 1: injuries alone, especially this right thumb injury, because power is
Speaker 1: what you need from him. But um, you know, with
Speaker 1: this right thumb injury, it may be very difficult for
Speaker 1: him to sustain that all season long. Speaking with Dr
Speaker 1: a of inside injuries, you know, Matt Chapman, I was
Speaker 1: looking at the second half bad ball data last year
Speaker 1: and there was a lot to be excited about. But basically, Andy,
Speaker 1: what I just heard from doctor, he was don't draft
Speaker 1: match happen, which is unfortunate, very unfortunate, very unfortunate because
Speaker 1: he's a guy I would love to have on every team,
Speaker 1: him and him and his twin if you will, Matt
Speaker 1: Olsen's I love the mats uh you have down here,
Speaker 1: Kenny Jansen, and I would imagine would be pretty quick.
Speaker 1: But heart surgery is that something that worries you or
Speaker 1: is this something that don't you know? Fix him up?
Speaker 1: So him up in the past and Kenny Jensen can
Speaker 1: go back to being a stud closer. No, everybody has,
Speaker 1: not everyone, but there's quite common to have some sort
Speaker 1: of hard rhythmia. He had atrial fibrillation. A lot of
Speaker 1: that has to do with diet and um body mass
Speaker 1: index and and quality of life, etcetera. I know he
Speaker 1: lost twenty five pounds and he's cutting out carbs and sugar,
Speaker 1: so he's on the right track. Um. The surgery is
Speaker 1: really just a it's a non invasive, minimally invasive surgery
Speaker 1: to to basically make sure that his heart rhythm is
Speaker 1: back in line. UM, and he had the procedure, it's
Speaker 1: good to go. It really does not affect anything from
Speaker 1: a orthopedic sports medicine standpoint. This is outside the realm
Speaker 1: of that. So he's in peak health. He's got his
Speaker 1: a rhythmi under control. He lost twenty five pounds. From
Speaker 1: that standpoint, he looks pretty good to go. That is
Speaker 1: dr a of inside injuries. Make sure you follow inside
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Speaker 1: Inside Injuries. Again, that was Dr A Doc. We appreciate
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Speaker 1: of my elements. Maybe next week next week. Thanks again,
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Speaker 1: Valentine's Day for everyone out there watching and listening. The
Speaker 1: picture that I have here going a little bit later,
Speaker 1: and this is somebody who you haven't owned before, who
Speaker 1: you want to own this year? Kind of pains me
Speaker 1: to say former Yankee, not not a former Yankee great,
Speaker 1: had the potential to be great. It seems like the
Speaker 1: Boston Red Sox kind of unlocked some of that potential
Speaker 1: last year. And I'm talking about Nathan of Valdi going
Speaker 1: to at you know, pick one sixties six right now
Speaker 1: in NFBC a D. P. Valdi. Look, if I can
Speaker 1: always point to something that a picture is doing differently,
Speaker 1: is doing new if they're throwing a new pitch and
Speaker 1: they're having success because of that, and I'm gonna be
Speaker 1: pretty excited about that heading into the next season. Of all,
Speaker 1: he was always known as a guy more of a
Speaker 1: thrower than a pitcher. He can throw extremely hard, we know,
Speaker 1: you know, he touches a hundred miles per hour on
Speaker 1: the gun regularly when it comes to to his starts.
Speaker 1: But last year he added a new wrinkle to his game.
Speaker 1: Uh started throwing a cutter last year thirty two percent
Speaker 1: of the time. And he started doing this a little
Speaker 1: bit a couple of years ago with the Yankees, and
Speaker 1: I thought we were starting to see some success with
Speaker 1: him that year back in through this cutter, you know,
Speaker 1: seven percent of the time, um, and it looked like
Speaker 1: he was starting to turn a corner a little bit
Speaker 1: there for the Yankees, and then he had to go
Speaker 1: and have Tommy John surgery derailed his career a little
Speaker 1: bit there. But last year, through this pitch thirty two
Speaker 1: percent of the time, and I know it was painful
Speaker 1: to watch, But in the playoffs down the stretch. You know, uh,
Speaker 1: painful for Yankee fans to watch. It was great for
Speaker 1: Red Sox fans to watch. But he pitched very well.
Speaker 1: And you know three point eight e r a um,
Speaker 1: you know, the era indicators are lower than that. I
Speaker 1: don't know a lot of people that are gonna be
Speaker 1: on all the andy. I'm pretty excited here, man. I always,
Speaker 1: for whatever reason, blindly assimilate evolved the to the car
Speaker 1: Pavano just kind of like what he produced with Yankee's
Speaker 1: fair And it's not it's not at all. It's not
Speaker 1: at all. But I just kind of feel like, you know,
Speaker 1: they remind me of each other in that realm. But uh,
Speaker 1: you look at evolved these numbers, and we think of
Speaker 1: him as like this power arm. I was really intrigued
Speaker 1: when there was speculation that you might go to Houston
Speaker 1: and become an astro and and you know what they're
Speaker 1: putting in the water for their pictures down there, and
Speaker 1: how they're evolving and changing, and I would I would
Speaker 1: have loved to have seen that experiment. But the crazy
Speaker 1: part about the Evaldi is like you look at his numbers,
Speaker 1: He's never been above a nine for cape or nine.
Speaker 1: This is not anywhere near a strikeout picture, but yet
Speaker 1: we have this thought of him being that. Uh, maybe
Speaker 1: it's because he can't touch a hundred whatever, but he
Speaker 1: does still hasn't really figured out how to harness that,
Speaker 1: and even last year it was just at eight point
Speaker 1: one nine k or nine. So he's maintained the walks,
Speaker 1: he's kept those down. But maybe it's his strike outs
Speaker 1: are coming in big moments and that's why we think
Speaker 1: of him in that way. But as as a guy
Speaker 1: over the course of the season, not really much. I'm
Speaker 1: excited about it. I will put some stock into the
Speaker 1: fact that he's on defending World Series champion Red Sox,
Speaker 1: he's in that rotation, he does have a great offense
Speaker 1: behind him. He should get a ton of run support,
Speaker 1: so he should be in line for wins. But as
Speaker 1: far as the counting stats going everything like that, I mean,
Speaker 1: you look at the e r A. The r A
Speaker 1: has never been something you know, significant or substantial. The
Speaker 1: whip nothing, nothing about him screams out like I have
Speaker 1: to have this guy dominant pitcher. Uh. He got hot
Speaker 1: at the right moment on the right team and the
Speaker 1: on the on the right stage, and I think that's
Speaker 1: propelled the perception of him a little too too much
Speaker 1: for me, and I can't argue with that. Look, six
Speaker 1: point seven eight case per nine on average throughout his career,
Speaker 1: so it hasn't been great. I'm just gonna kind of
Speaker 1: hang my hat on last year the swinging strikeker going up,
Speaker 1: it was a career high ten point seven. The case
Speaker 1: per nine were a career high up to eight point
Speaker 1: one nine case per nine last year. So, look, he's
Speaker 1: doing something differently. He's getting he's missing more bats, getting
Speaker 1: a few more strikeouts. He's kind of progressing the way
Speaker 1: that we kind of hoped he would before he got hurt.
Speaker 1: He's doing so now. So I'm pretty excited about Nathan
Speaker 1: of Valdi getting him as your you know, your SP
Speaker 1: five in that range SP five, s P six. I
Speaker 1: do think that there's a little bit of upside there
Speaker 1: and in that in that realm absolutely fine. I mean
Speaker 1: they're getting him, you know one d P. So if
Speaker 1: he's going pretty late in draft, if he's at the
Speaker 1: back end of your rotation, I wouldn't want him higher
Speaker 1: than SP five. No, I don't want him as one
Speaker 1: of my top four pictures. I just think the name
Speaker 1: became a little inflated as as as far as we
Speaker 1: think of him, and and that's all I'm saying. I
Speaker 1: want to see him do it for another full year,
Speaker 1: and it's if this becomes a premier pitcher this year,
Speaker 1: then yeah, drafts, I'm all of them again. It's Valentine's
Speaker 1: Day twenty nineteen. I had to bring in the newly
Speaker 1: wed Andy Singleton because I made the most sense. And
Speaker 1: not only that, I kind of like it's you had
Speaker 1: it down that road, you know what I am. You're
Speaker 1: absolutely right the next sweetheart candy that we have up here.
Speaker 1: The saying on the sweetheart candy is cutey Pie, somebody
Speaker 1: who's not the hottest but has potentially. Not I was
Speaker 1: I was actually trying to think of how to relate
Speaker 1: cutie pie to fantasy. Uh. And my fiance was actually
Speaker 1: the one who came up with this. He said, you
Speaker 1: know somebody who's not the hottest but has potential. Well,
Speaker 1: you know what I would I would hope she would
Speaker 1: think that I am the hottest Andy. But all right,
Speaker 1: whatever potential you have here, Luke void one a DP
Speaker 1: right now? You know, I almost forgot what everything that's
Speaker 1: going on. Greg Susson's out this week. I've launched a
Speaker 1: Patreon page and I haven't even promoted it all week long.
Speaker 1: Like you know, my head is all over the place.
Speaker 1: I got everything going on. Oh, head on over to
Speaker 1: my Twitter. You know Greg's enjoying his pooling the rules
Speaker 1: out there in Florida right now. If you head on
Speaker 1: over to my Twitter right now, you know my pin tweet,
Speaker 1: you will lead you to my Patreon page. And I'm
Speaker 1: slowly revealing my my Fantasy Baseball rankings. As of right now,
Speaker 1: I'm releasing everything for free so everyone can kind of
Speaker 1: get a taste of what I'm gonna be doing throughout
Speaker 1: the season. I wrote about a first based sleeper Andy
Speaker 1: that was Luke Void that is your cutie Pie. Why Well,
Speaker 1: first of all was I you should be everything on
Speaker 1: this list to your your darling, your cute, her, cutie pie,
Speaker 1: her v mind, her everything, all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 1: So I didn't mean. I didn't mean to make it
Speaker 1: slight in anyway. But um, the picture on page, I've
Speaker 1: checked it out. It is fantastic, phenomenal. It's a lot
Speaker 1: of good stuff that Frank's putting up there. So I
Speaker 1: would highly recommend going to check it out as well.
Speaker 1: And and that's you know, my my live read for Heartfelt.
Speaker 1: That's I'm not getting anything for that. That is a
Speaker 1: true statement. Go check out Frank's page. Um. As far
Speaker 1: as Luke Void, yeah, he's I mean, you can't like
Speaker 1: Adalbertelmantasy or Max Mons. You can't like these guys and
Speaker 1: then not consider Void to be in that same kind
Speaker 1: of range. I mean, you look at the numbers he
Speaker 1: put up in a short period of time with the Yankees.
Speaker 1: It's astronomical. He was always considered Quad a kind of guy.
Speaker 1: So he didn't exactly come out of nowhere because the
Speaker 1: minor league numbers back it up. But he just never
Speaker 1: really had a long enough opportunity at the major league
Speaker 1: level to see if it could work. Um, the stints
Speaker 1: were short and it didn't work. So he's labeled that
Speaker 1: Quad a guy. But the biggest thing, and I like
Speaker 1: the psychology of sports a lot. I mentioned that a
Speaker 1: lot in my analysis and reviews and things I've heard.
Speaker 1: You've heard me mentioned this before with other players we've
Speaker 1: talked about today. He fits in tremendously with his teammates
Speaker 1: and and the Yankee clubhouse like he was an instant fixture,
Speaker 1: UH fan favorite. Um, he became somebody that you know.
Speaker 1: You see him in all the Instagram video, all the pictures.
Speaker 1: He's always with his teammates, like he blends into that
Speaker 1: clubhouse perfectly. Well, not to say anything about Greg Bird,
Speaker 1: but I don't have the same feeling of Greg Bird
Speaker 1: having those intimate moments with the teammates the same way
Speaker 1: I see Luke Voit in that in that way. Um,
Speaker 1: he was up to third or fifth in the lineup
Speaker 1: by the end of the season and into the playoffs.
Speaker 1: So this is a guy that wasn't just you know,
Speaker 1: doing it at the back end of the of of
Speaker 1: the lineup. He moved himself into a considerable position. So
Speaker 1: the opportunity is there. The Yankees have come out and said,
Speaker 1: this is our first basement until he proves he can't
Speaker 1: be our everyday guy. I don't see how there's not
Speaker 1: more buzz first base is week this year. This is
Speaker 1: a guy you can get later on that can be
Speaker 1: a top ten, maybe even top five first basement four
Speaker 1: You so um for a guy that it's not necessarily
Speaker 1: how I'm viewing him. The Q fight being how others
Speaker 1: are viewing him doesn't seem like people are putting a
Speaker 1: lot of stock into him. What what what I say
Speaker 1: is uh eight is is NFBC a DP that's extreme related.
Speaker 1: Getting this guy is your is your corner infielder, right
Speaker 1: even you're starting first basement, but it's a weak position
Speaker 1: as well. First basis week this year so very top heavy.
Speaker 1: You know, we got the two elite guys at the
Speaker 1: top there. To me, there's a clear you know, top
Speaker 1: ten maybe guys that you trust, the Jose bre Use,
Speaker 1: Matt Olsen, who I like a left this year as well.
Speaker 1: I'd even say it's five yeah that I trust that
Speaker 1: I feel comfortable. Yeah, okay, yeah, Look everyone's fri um
Speaker 1: and you know there was just h I think there
Speaker 1: are a few more guys, you know, Matt Carpenters in
Speaker 1: that mix kind of you know, people who have gone
Speaker 1: back and forth on Matt Carpenter this year. But for void, Look,
Speaker 1: he hits the ball extremely hard. That's what you need
Speaker 1: to know about him. He absolutely mashes. Last year two
Speaker 1: miles per hour average eggs of velocity that was top
Speaker 1: twenty in all of baseball. The year before it was
Speaker 1: with ninety one miles per hour in a small sample
Speaker 1: size with the Cardinals. He was a career to eighty
Speaker 1: eight hitter in the minors. The guy can hit. People
Speaker 1: are asking, you know, why is he going I pick one? Then, well,
Speaker 1: there is a downside. He swings and misses a little
Speaker 1: bit too much more than you would like to see
Speaker 1: four swinging uh swinging strike rate for his MLB career
Speaker 1: k rate. Well, and and you know Greg Bird is
Speaker 1: still there for whatever reason. It seems like, you know,
Speaker 1: the Yankees are never gonna just like get rid of
Speaker 1: Greg Bird. But there's a lot of upside. Look in
Speaker 1: at my Patreon page, you can read about Luke Void
Speaker 1: the comparison I made. I thought he could be this
Speaker 1: year's Hayesew's Hagler, someone who's kind of flying under the radar,
Speaker 1: who can hit to six seventy with thirty plus home
Speaker 1: runs Andy And it's a guy that's right at that
Speaker 1: five mark that I was talking about, top five for
Speaker 1: the position in first base. I have add are right,
Speaker 1: they're like right at the at the at the line
Speaker 1: where I want to feel comfortable based on what we've
Speaker 1: seeing him, you know, coming up with Cleveland that never
Speaker 1: really materialized. Then he gets us the role in Milwaukee
Speaker 1: blends in well with that clubhouse kind of same thing
Speaker 1: I was saying about Void. Uh. I love that comp
Speaker 1: actually because it is a similar type of player, a
Speaker 1: late Ris or late Bloomer. Um. But going back to
Speaker 1: Void real quick, just go look at some of the
Speaker 1: pictures that have been posted this guy is workouts. Go
Speaker 1: to YouTube the guy convince person undred and thirty five
Speaker 1: pounds with with a full bar belt and forty pound
Speaker 1: weights on each side with one arm. Yeah. The the
Speaker 1: one concern I might have to Void is he might
Speaker 1: be getting too big. Yeah, he might be getting too strong.
Speaker 1: That wrong about is what it's coming down to. It's
Speaker 1: trouble using the bathroom and wipe himself. Save that tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Save the speaking of saving that for tomorrow, any Singlestom
Speaker 1: will be here again tomorrow. We have a lot more
Speaker 1: players that we didn't even get to today, more players
Speaker 1: that we like for the upcoming season. So we'll kind
Speaker 1: of carry that Valentine's Day theme over from today into
Speaker 1: tomorrow as well. Um. But with that being said, I
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Speaker 1: Andy the player that I had here as the cutie pie,
Speaker 1: someone who's not the hottest but has potential this year
Speaker 1: for fantasy baseball. He's going even later than Luke Voit.
Speaker 1: I actually have these guys back to back in my
Speaker 1: first base rankings. I'm very excited about both of them.
Speaker 1: The other one is Tyler White. He's going at pick two,
Speaker 1: sixties six point five right now in NFBC a DP
Speaker 1: in the month of February. And there is a downside
Speaker 1: because the Houston Astros have a lot of talented players,
Speaker 1: and Kyle Tucker is coming at some point, and I
Speaker 1: understand all of these things, but I look at the
Speaker 1: potential of Tyler White and what he's done at the
Speaker 1: minor league level and then what he did last year
Speaker 1: at the major league level, and it intrigues me. Last
Speaker 1: year at the minor league level at Triple A, seventy games,
Speaker 1: three and thirteen played appearances, fourteen home runs, fifty three rbi.
Speaker 1: He added three thirty three. He played a hundred and
Speaker 1: eleven games at Triple A, home runs, a three hundred
Speaker 1: batting average. I think at his core, Tyler White is
Speaker 1: a professional hitter who is trying to learn how to
Speaker 1: become a power hitter. And the hard hit rate wasn't
Speaker 1: necessarily there last year, and people could point to that,
Speaker 1: and I understand I've been pimping out hard hit rate
Speaker 1: and average exit velocity. It's not necessarily there for Tyler White,
Speaker 1: but he's making a concerted effort to hit the ball
Speaker 1: more in the air over ball rate. Last year, the
Speaker 1: home run to fly ball ratio was up sevent He
Speaker 1: played in sixty six games, two and thy seven plate appearances.
Speaker 1: He had to seventy six with twelve home runs. So
Speaker 1: if he's the every day, full time d H, if
Speaker 1: you know he split some time at first base, as
Speaker 1: long as he's in the lineup every day in a
Speaker 1: good line up in Houston. I think he's a guy
Speaker 1: that can hit to seventy five twenty five home runs.
Speaker 1: And you're getting him where you're getting him right now
Speaker 1: in draft. I think it's a pretty good discount. Man.
Speaker 1: Here's the problem. I have a White and for where
Speaker 1: you're getting him, fine, it's it's it's cost you nothing
Speaker 1: to to take Tyler White. But he's he is depited
Speaker 1: me of a late bloomer. I mean he's twenty eight
Speaker 1: entering this season. He turned twenty eight last October, so
Speaker 1: for the entire season, which is is kind of late
Speaker 1: to to be getting your first opportunity. Now. I know
Speaker 1: what we're saying the same things about Voit and to
Speaker 1: a lesser degree are, but still I feel like it's
Speaker 1: uh too too late of a bloomer for me. And
Speaker 1: the biggest problem I have is the other guy I
Speaker 1: have on my list is as somebody I'm always drafting,
Speaker 1: is the guy who's still at first base for the
Speaker 1: Astros and yue Gurio, who's not going anywhere, and he's
Speaker 1: way better than people want to give him credit for.
Speaker 1: He's a three. He's a guy who's gonna get you,
Speaker 1: you know five not so much power and not so
Speaker 1: much speed. But Tyler White is gonna be relegated to
Speaker 1: the DH roll. I don't think he's gonna win in
Speaker 1: any other spot in that I agree with that. I
Speaker 1: agree with that, so it would be the full time
Speaker 1: DH I think he's gonna be struggling to get every
Speaker 1: day at bats. And for that reason again, wait, wait,
Speaker 1: like you said, where he's going to cost you nothing,
Speaker 1: so he might as well. He's worthy of a gamble.
Speaker 1: But I'm not excited about it, and I can't knock
Speaker 1: you for that. I'd be lying if I said I
Speaker 1: didn't have concerns about Tyler White and playing time. As
Speaker 1: of right now, roster resource has him as a starting
Speaker 1: designated hitter. But again, you know, Kyle Tucker is coming
Speaker 1: at some point, so you know, if they want to
Speaker 1: put Kyle Tucker in the outfield and then maybe you know,
Speaker 1: Josh Reddick starts to steal some designated hitter at bats,
Speaker 1: or you know, if they want to get Jake Marisnick
Speaker 1: in the lineup for his defense. I understand there's definitely
Speaker 1: concerns with playing time, but if I'm trusting the talent
Speaker 1: of Tyler White and what I've seen at the minor
Speaker 1: league level and then even last year to an extent
Speaker 1: at the major league level. I'm us seeing that the
Speaker 1: talent is gonna win out here and that he's gonna
Speaker 1: be in the lineup every single day. I think for
Speaker 1: a long time they've wanted Tyler White to kind of
Speaker 1: like become this player, and I think it's finally happening.
Speaker 1: And I'm buying into the Astrols lineup. Obviously a great lineup,
Speaker 1: so I get what you're saying, but I'm more so
Speaker 1: just trusting the talent and hoping that that wins out
Speaker 1: here in twenty nineteen for Tyler White. Andy, Uh, how
Speaker 1: would you say? You're your Thursday, your your first Fantasy
Speaker 1: best friends forever of win. So far, so good. I'm
Speaker 1: excited get to come back tomorrow. So hopefully that was
Speaker 1: an indication. We've doubling the show tomorrow as well, so
Speaker 1: maybe maybe that means it was a good thing. So
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