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Speaker 2: I guess yeah, you said we have two guests. Wait,
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Speaker 3: Joe?
Speaker 1: You're I still treat you well? So you're a guest
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Speaker 2: Joe, Now, i'll give yourself that much credit.
Speaker 1: You treat me that great, well, I'll treat our guests
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Speaker 1: All right, So I'm gonna make this easy. We'll start
Speaker 1: the draft here and kick things off. Everybody knows where
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go here, And yes, the draft wizard is
Speaker 1: probably gonna yell at me. It's gonna tell me take
Speaker 1: Aaron Judge and I'm not going to. It's gonna tell
Speaker 1: me to take Ron Dakunya and I'm not going to.
Speaker 1: It might even tell me to take Trey Turner and
Speaker 1: I'm not going to because everybody knows I'm gonna take
Speaker 1: Julio because Julio, to me, is the best power speed combination.
Speaker 1: I think the batting average is gonna be there. I
Speaker 1: think everything is going to be there across the board,
Speaker 1: and I feel best about his potential for a thirty
Speaker 1: thirty season more than anybody else on the board. In
Speaker 1: the more shallow league, I would consider taking Trey Turner,
Speaker 1: but instead I'm gonna kick things off with Julio and
Speaker 1: pass things off to my good friend Johnny ro Beef,
Speaker 1: John Legaza. Johnny, Oh, are you taking at the two
Speaker 1: spot here? I'd given you the board.
Speaker 3: He actually threw me off a little bit because generally
Speaker 3: it's one of those two players when I'm all the
Speaker 3: we up top. For me, it's usually format dependent. Five
Speaker 3: by five is usually Acunya for the steals. Though the
Speaker 3: more I look into Judge, he led the universe in
Speaker 3: everything last year. But since are of the steals, I
Speaker 3: think I'm gonna go Acuna, because man, it's funny. If
Speaker 3: you love Julio.
Speaker 1: Against make your pick there you go.
Speaker 3: I think, yeah, I got I have a Kunya. I
Speaker 3: think he's the strongest pop for forty forty. As much
Speaker 3: as I like Julio, I just think I think Acuna
Speaker 3: is what we want Julio to be in twenty four
Speaker 3: months or twelve months, so I mean they're both great.
Speaker 3: You really can't lose.
Speaker 1: And shout out to all of our peanuts and Crackerjacks
Speaker 1: who are watching the live stream and who are participating
Speaker 1: in the draft today a reminder, we've got thirty second clock,
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Speaker 1: about it. Don't get past over because then who knows
Speaker 1: what grade you're gonna get. Aaron Judge goes to mister
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Speaker 1: come up on your pick now at one oh four,
Speaker 1: who'd you take? Well?
Speaker 2: I went with the Jose Ramirez and funny enough, if
Speaker 2: you check out NFBC March first on for Draft Champions,
Speaker 2: there are actually only three players that went number one overall,
Speaker 2: which I think is surprising. Aaron Judge, Ronald Decunya, and
Speaker 2: a guy that had passed on Trey Turner. Those are
Speaker 2: the only three players since March first, and all draft
Speaker 2: champions that have gone one overall. But in the shorter format,
Speaker 2: I kind of like the value of getting the best
Speaker 2: third basement off the board because I know I'm still
Speaker 2: going to be able to get a really good shortstop.
Speaker 2: I'm covering the stolen bases. I do have Trey Turner higher,
Speaker 2: but I don't know. At four here, this felt a
Speaker 2: little bit better just shoring up my third basement with
Speaker 2: similar stats. Getting a little bit more here and I'll
Speaker 2: get one of my short stops a little bit later.
Speaker 2: Our boy Willia Domis or something like that.
Speaker 1: Joe, I gotta tell you, if I was at one
Speaker 1: oh four, I'd be taking Jose Ramirez as well. I
Speaker 1: even thought about taking him at one oh one because
Speaker 1: I feel like I agree one hundred percent in the
Speaker 1: shorter format, you might have a little bit of ease
Speaker 1: here with the outfield. Now, we do have four outfielders
Speaker 1: and two utility spots in this draft too, so you
Speaker 1: are going a little deeper to offset the fact that
Speaker 1: it's ten teams. Trey Turner goes all the Way at
Speaker 1: one six to Johnny Quest and then Jay full Metal
Speaker 1: It Takes One Soda at one oh seven, Bookie Bets
Speaker 1: at one oh eight, Jordan Alvarez at one oh nine.
Speaker 1: John I want to ask you about Alvarez real quick here.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about it, because Alvarez with the hand issue,
Speaker 1: says he going to start swinging the bat. That all
Speaker 1: seems to be moving in the right direction. But do
Speaker 1: you have any concerns long term about this hand issue
Speaker 1: coming up for him maybe again during the season.
Speaker 3: Yeah, of course, of course I do one because we
Speaker 3: sort of greatly impact him in August. Right again, he's
Speaker 3: on the shortest list for best hitters in the universe,
Speaker 3: and it totally hampered him throughout August. My issue is
Speaker 3: that it's something that we're supposed to get better with rest,
Speaker 3: that didn't need surgery, and he just had three months
Speaker 3: of rest to four months of rest and he wasn't
Speaker 3: able to pick up a bat yet Now it's oh okay,
Speaker 3: he could swing. Now, what did that eight days really
Speaker 3: do in the grand scheme of things? So we also
Speaker 3: know when he came back he was excellent. So it's
Speaker 3: gonna be all about plainy appearances. And I think if
Speaker 3: he still can get him to five twenty five, he
Speaker 3: still has a chance to return value. But I'm certainly
Speaker 3: worried where I thought he was in the case for
Speaker 3: the top five picks. Really he's right behind Judge minus
Speaker 3: a few steels, so I'm worried. I'm not taking him
Speaker 3: at seven anymore, if that's what you mean like high
Speaker 3: stakes drafts. I'm not tak him at seven, but I'm
Speaker 3: not letting him pass me at thirteen.
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Speaker 1: we have after Alvarez at the turn Showy Otani at
Speaker 1: one to ten, and Corbyn Burns goes next after that,
Speaker 1: Manny Machada at two o two, Mike Trout at two
Speaker 1: oh three, Vlad Guerrero at two o four. Great value there,
Speaker 1: he seems to be going the right direction health wise.
Speaker 1: Freddy Freeman doing with an injury at two o five,
Speaker 1: Bobby Wit to our friend Kelly Kirby at two o six,
Speaker 1: and the Welsh is up again at two oh seven.
Speaker 1: Where you going, Welsh? Oh?
Speaker 2: Well, I really wanted Freddy Freeman, but I'm not do
Speaker 2: I want to do this. You know what, We're gonna
Speaker 2: do this in a shorter format. I'm gonna knock in
Speaker 2: Garrett Cole here. Boba Schett is who I was thinking about.
Speaker 2: Freddy Freeman I was dreaming about. I usually don't take
Speaker 2: two round starting pitchers, but again, we're in a ten team.
Speaker 2: I feel like I have a little bit more flexibility.
Speaker 2: I like some of the first basement on the board.
Speaker 2: Fernando Tatis is almost who I took here. But I
Speaker 2: just feel like I can mix around a little bit
Speaker 2: and getting top players at their position, top tier players,
Speaker 2: if you will, Garrett call not usual typical one, but
Speaker 2: ten team. They're still great hitters out there, and I'm
Speaker 2: just shoring up that rotation.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I would have taken tattoos. He went and
Speaker 1: then after mister Busser took him, the other guy, Mike,
Speaker 1: you went to John Pete Alonzo. Let's talk about him, John,
Speaker 1: Will I make my picks.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think the Pete Alonzo pick is as much
Speaker 3: about the acuon you pick. Had I gone with Judge
Speaker 3: and the pure power, I might have gone with someone
Speaker 3: with more speed, maybe like up a shut But given
Speaker 3: you know I had the balance right at least I hope,
Speaker 3: but a Coon you, I think I could go with
Speaker 3: more pure power in Alonzo. Now, man, you know there's
Speaker 3: so many different ways to go. I think I'm gonna
Speaker 3: go with Jacob de Gram light and I'm gonna go
Speaker 3: with Spencer Streider. Who I there, you go probably right
Speaker 3: behind the Grom as far as impact on a per
Speaker 3: inning basis, we saw. I think he finished inside the
Speaker 3: top twenty sp on one hundred and thirty one or
Speaker 3: thirty three innings if I'm not mistaken. So if we
Speaker 3: can get one hundred and sixty five or seventy Strider,
Speaker 3: I'm a little bit surprised we haven't heard about him
Speaker 3: finishing in the first round.
Speaker 1: But well, I'll tell you what will, I'll tell you
Speaker 1: what Spencer Strider. You know people asking me the question
Speaker 1: they've seen me on other mock drafts where I take
Speaker 1: him as my number one SP. I have no problem
Speaker 1: with Spencer Strider as a number one SP. I'd rather
Speaker 1: have him than de Gram at this point in their
Speaker 1: respective careers. And you make a great point, this is
Speaker 1: a player on a per inning basis that's giving you
Speaker 1: just incredible productivity. I think Alcondra also just doesn't get
Speaker 1: enough respect for his durability in the last couple of
Speaker 1: years too, and how good he's been. Back of the
Speaker 1: turn at two ten and two and three ZHO one,
Speaker 1: I took Austin Riley and Bob Baschett, taking care of
Speaker 1: some infield there. I think Bashett was a great win there.
Speaker 1: It was between Devers and Riley. I took Riley, better
Speaker 1: team again, better offensive ecosystem, if you will. Strider goes
Speaker 1: next to John than Raphaeld, Devers to mister Buster. Then
Speaker 1: the Welsh you went to the first base well at
Speaker 1: three h four, let's talk about it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's actually why Pete Alonzo was heavy on my
Speaker 2: short list in that second round, but I thought I
Speaker 2: could not get him to get Paul gold Schmid to
Speaker 2: come back, so That's why I pivoted. My short list
Speaker 2: was Alonzo Tatis, Bishett and Garrett Cole. But now I'm
Speaker 2: gonna walk out of the first three rounds with one
Speaker 2: of the top first basemen, one of the top third basemen,
Speaker 2: and one of the top SP's. I feel like in
Speaker 2: a ten team, this is the type of advantage of
Speaker 2: getting the elite players near the top and not freaking
Speaker 2: out too much, especially with taking a starting pitcher in
Speaker 2: the second round, because values are just gonna keep going here.
Speaker 2: So I'm ecstatic to get Paul Goldschmidt, and I probably
Speaker 2: would have pivoted to even taking Devers had he still
Speaker 2: been there. Even though I have a third basement and
Speaker 2: Jose Ramirez, I wouldn't be able to pass it up.
Speaker 2: But Goldie love it.
Speaker 1: There he goes. So Goldie goes to Welsh with three
Speaker 1: oh five. Then Kelly Kirby takes Francisco Lindor three to oh,
Speaker 1: excuse me, three or four. Welsh gets Goldschmid three oh five,
Speaker 1: Francisco Lindoor three zero six, Nolan Aronado goes to Johnny Quest,
Speaker 1: then Jay takes Sandy al Contra here to be talking
Speaker 1: about a Randyo Rose Arena great power speed combination outfielder
Speaker 1: at three to oho, eight to floor. Then Al Tuve
Speaker 1: goes to the mail man at three zero nine. At
Speaker 1: the turn at three ten Aaron Nola, Shane Bieber. Two pitchers.
Speaker 1: Lots of pitchers there at the bottom board there, so
Speaker 1: we'll see what the Schomer's got. Max Schurzer goes next
Speaker 1: to four oh two. As we continue to look at
Speaker 1: this pitching run here. Now it's starting to happen a
Speaker 1: little bit. So Welsh, are you targeting pitching on the
Speaker 1: way back here or are you gonna let it go
Speaker 1: and keep pounting on offense.
Speaker 2: I'm looking at and I'm looking at a certain player
Speaker 2: that might happen. Just letting everybody know my Randy Rose
Speaker 2: Arena was the guy that I really wanted though, and
Speaker 2: that kind of bummed me out that he went there.
Speaker 2: I thought I could maybe sneak him back because the
Speaker 2: one thing I've been pounding the table about is outfield
Speaker 2: and haven't taken one again ten team. But there's a
Speaker 2: couple really good value players and one is of a risk.
Speaker 2: We'll see if he makes it back to me. If
Speaker 2: I don't get the starting pitcher that I'm alluding to
Speaker 2: who just went Jacob de Grom. That was the player
Speaker 2: I would have taken.
Speaker 1: To make that decision.
Speaker 2: I think I'm gonna pivot. Yeah, I think I'm gonna
Speaker 2: pivot to a position player and I'll tell you when
Speaker 2: we get there who it is. And then I think
Speaker 2: fifth round, I might be looking at sp So that's
Speaker 2: my tentative plan right now, the strategy as.
Speaker 1: We lay it out. So yes, Marcus Simeon goes after
Speaker 1: sers Aer at four oh three, four oh four, Jacob
Speaker 1: de Grom, and then Kyle Schwarbert four oh five. Killy
Speaker 1: Kirby's on the clock at four oh six. So hopefully
Speaker 1: she'll stick it to you, because that's typically what Kelly does.
Speaker 1: She's very smart. Yeah, she's gonna probably take the person
Speaker 1: you want. She took Matt Olsen, so certainly somebody on
Speaker 1: my queue. First base is rough. Make sure you get
Speaker 1: your first basement. So Welsh, where do you go next?
Speaker 2: She left a couple people on the board. This is
Speaker 2: actually a pretty tough decision. Man, I don't know how
Speaker 2: there's someone I want. I'm curious at how long I
Speaker 2: can let slide if it's going to be possible. But
Speaker 2: we're gonna do this. I think this is a pretty
Speaker 2: decent slide. This is a roto, This isn't a points
Speaker 2: I'm gonna snap up Michael Harris here at thirty seven
Speaker 2: with the stolen bases. I think this is a crazy
Speaker 2: good value, even though there's a couple of people I
Speaker 2: wanted to draft here, and this is my first outfielder,
Speaker 2: so I'm pretty happy about that.
Speaker 1: And so obviously you have confidence that Michael Harris can
Speaker 1: repea an incredible rookie performance because it was incredible. I
Speaker 1: don't want to say it came out of nowhere, but
Speaker 1: certainly exceeded expectations.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm worried about the walk numbers. I think you
Speaker 2: should be, because I think that leaves him a little
Speaker 2: bit like less versatile if he struggles. But he put
Speaker 2: up big power speed numbers. He's gonna hit at the
Speaker 2: top of one of the best offensive lineups in baseball.
Speaker 2: So those things aren't in question. It's just when you
Speaker 2: don't walk a whole bunch, you're taking a little bit
Speaker 2: off the table for yourself if you go through big struggles,
Speaker 2: and he really didn't last year, So that is the
Speaker 2: worry about him. But you know, again, this is a
Speaker 2: twenty twenty potential that I'm getting in the fourth round here.
Speaker 1: Okay, after that mister buster took Verlander, who I was
Speaker 1: putting on taking. Did not happen, John, you took Jazz Chisholm.
Speaker 1: So let's talk about him at four h nine. Certainly
Speaker 1: a player with enormous upside, but maybe more downside than
Speaker 1: people realize. What do you envision for him in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty three in terms of ups and downs? Oh?
Speaker 3: Man, a roll across the ride, which is so exciting. Man,
Speaker 3: give me all the blue hair. It comes out to formats.
Speaker 3: You know, I play enough formats and do enough drafts
Speaker 3: that sometimes if you're a little too strict, like I am,
Speaker 3: high stakes a reno from time to time. Joey, you
Speaker 3: clipped me, Man.
Speaker 2: Just such a dirt such a d just to stop
Speaker 2: your analysis, John, jo cause.
Speaker 1: The drafts so you can hurt back me.
Speaker 2: Such a draft specifically, Shane McClanahan was everything I wanted
Speaker 2: on the planet.
Speaker 1: What a dirt bag? Well, I mean, this is the
Speaker 1: plus of doing a shorter, more shallow league is you know,
Speaker 1: when you're at the turn, you can double up. I'm
Speaker 1: going to resume things here. I want to make sure
Speaker 1: you got your shots in on me. But yes, after
Speaker 1: chishom went, I did take Woodroff and McClanahan, much to
Speaker 1: the chagrin of the boys. Edwin Diaz was also in
Speaker 1: my realm, but Welsh knows that's more of a Welsh pick,
Speaker 1: less of a Joey p pick. I kind of stay
Speaker 1: away from the closers. I take my time there, especially
Speaker 1: in a more shallow league, even with the mandatory RP spots,
Speaker 1: because look, woodrofro McLanahan two very good pictures, but certainly
Speaker 1: physical concerns as well. Woodroff has missed time in every
Speaker 1: season and last year McClanahan dealt with some injury issues too,
Speaker 1: So there's risk here. But I feel like I got
Speaker 1: two potential aces here to go along with Julio, Bobaschett
Speaker 1: and Austin Riley. Is a pretty good offense. So now
Speaker 1: that you've got Chisholm, you're back on here. You went
Speaker 1: catching here, so talk to me John about why a
Speaker 1: catcher in the shallow league with real muto first off
Speaker 1: the board, but it is fun a shallow league for you.
Speaker 3: In my younger years, I would have never made a
Speaker 3: pick like that, and I wish Sugar Shane fell, But
Speaker 3: I would say this, even in shallow leagues, getting six
Speaker 3: hundred and north of that six twenty five, six fifty
Speaker 3: quality plate appearances from a catcher is still a way
Speaker 3: to differentiate yourself and create separation from the field. It
Speaker 3: is true catcher does kind of become a glove, and
Speaker 3: I do think it's even deeper than it's been in
Speaker 3: past years. That said, I don't think the field has
Speaker 3: caught up to jtr will Smith. I'm not sure if
Speaker 3: you have varshow pencils in there. Some people think he
Speaker 3: could see the two hole in Toronto, and again for
Speaker 3: every spot in the battle order you move up, you
Speaker 3: get an extra thirty five pas forty five pas, which
Speaker 3: would tip the scale. I wanted to lock that up,
Speaker 3: though I really wanted either McLanahan or Woodriff, if I
Speaker 3: could just go real quick on both those guys. Because
Speaker 3: you've mentioned injuries, I'm not worried Woodriff. The tunnel syndrome
Speaker 3: is really not something that should worry him. He went
Speaker 3: to like a biomechanicist and they worked on his his
Speaker 3: mechanics to kind of ease where the stress was. And
Speaker 3: you saw him dominate afterwards like pure It was pure domination.
Speaker 3: So they're looking forward with the new kind of delivery
Speaker 3: system that that shouldn't be an issue. And then to McLanahan,
Speaker 3: I know people a little bit worried about that arm thing.
Speaker 3: At the end of the year. I went checked it out.
Speaker 3: He threw his quite literally his very best fastball after
Speaker 3: returning ninety nine with all the V move, all the
Speaker 3: H move that we were looking for. He's the man.
Speaker 3: I think people are kind of selling him short. If
Speaker 3: we hadn't seen him pitch, I would get it. We
Speaker 3: saw him pitch. He looked great. He looked great in
Speaker 3: the playoffs. Wheels up for sugar.
Speaker 1: Mclann you know, look great today. I was watching just
Speaker 1: before we came on the show with Justin Verlander. He
Speaker 1: was absolutely yeah healthy just now of if you guys
Speaker 1: caught that at all. I think he struck out six
Speaker 1: guys at one point out of the seven batters he faced.
Speaker 1: I mean, I know it's you know, not always facing
Speaker 1: the top tier guys, but best shape of your life.
Speaker 1: Justin Vernlander, I think actually is just watching him pitch
Speaker 1: right now, he looks fantastic. So I wanted him you
Speaker 1: got me, mister buster. Mister Busser turned back around the
Speaker 1: fifth round and took Edwin Diaz at five ozho three.
Speaker 1: Then Welsh you took Corey Seger at five oh four.
Speaker 1: We've been talking quite a bit about what Corey Seeger's
Speaker 1: potential is without that dramatic shift in place, and you're investing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and that was the guy I was thinking about
Speaker 2: even in the previous round, just because I wanted to
Speaker 2: shore up and get him. But gonna you know, one
Speaker 2: of the most shifted players really low Babbitt last year.
Speaker 2: All things gonna work in his favor. A team that
Speaker 2: definitely has some offensive support that is led by him.
Speaker 2: He is just one of those guys I'm trying to
Speaker 2: get on every single team. And one of the things
Speaker 2: I like about this build, though there's a little bit
Speaker 2: of volatility with Michael Harris. I've got really good batting average.
Speaker 2: I've got kind of stolen bases across the board that
Speaker 2: I can afford a guy like Seeger. And I've said
Speaker 2: it with shortstop, I just don't like the bottom end
Speaker 2: of what happens with short stop. Even though everyone's like, oh,
Speaker 2: it's deep, it's not. It's it's a completely different tier
Speaker 2: of players that you're risking. I don't feel any risk
Speaker 2: with Corey Seeger. So I've got everybody but my second
Speaker 2: base locked up as far as my middle infield goes
Speaker 2: all right.
Speaker 1: Speaking of guys to do everything, five oh five, Cedric
Speaker 1: Mullens goes to Kelly Kirby. Of course, you know, the
Speaker 1: smartest person in the room most days, especially any room
Speaker 1: that Mike Mayer's in. Ah See, Mayor's not even here,
Speaker 1: and I still got to dig in Mike Mahyer. I
Speaker 1: love you Mike. Guys. By the way, Mike just had
Speaker 1: another a child, a young daughter, So congratulations there, may
Speaker 1: and daddy of two now, which means he's gonna have
Speaker 1: a hard time keeping up with all the fantasy leagues
Speaker 1: he's in. Let's continue on here. Luis Robert goes to
Speaker 1: Johnny Quest at five oh six, Then Dylan Cees at
Speaker 1: five oh seven, Zach Wheeler five o eight, Emmanuel Calasse
Speaker 1: at five oh nine. Ah, this one makes me mad well.
Speaker 1: At the turn, Corbyn Carroll goes off the board. I
Speaker 1: don't get Corbyn Carroll.
Speaker 2: I know this is what I was gonna do. Coming
Speaker 2: back on hundred thousand percent. I was taking Corbyn Carroll
Speaker 2: coming back.
Speaker 1: So and then dance our show sixh one, so Chalmer
Speaker 1: making up for lost time here going with all the
Speaker 1: current and former Diamondbacks on that roster. Then Christian Haave
Speaker 1: are right out of my que and onto the Mailman's
Speaker 1: team at six zh two, Julio Urias at six 'zh three.
Speaker 1: Another guy from the Joey PQ Ozzie Albi's at six
Speaker 1: oh four. It is always tough to go against our
Speaker 1: p nuts and crackerjacks. This team is prepared at all times.
Speaker 1: It's a great crew over here, and we want you
Speaker 1: to join us and be part of it. At Dolas
Speaker 1: Garcia h six five to Johnny Quest. Kelly then comes
Speaker 1: around and takes Kevin Gossman at six six the Welsh
Speaker 1: You're on the clock at six oh seven.
Speaker 2: What do you got a lot of pieces of my
Speaker 2: queue here? Ozzy Albis was at the top, Julio Urius
Speaker 2: was the next. I also have Kevin Gousman, but I
Speaker 2: am gonna jump into this. You said I like to
Speaker 2: have more consistent closers and Josh haters still on the
Speaker 2: board in the sixth round. Is just a great deal.
Speaker 2: So I'm gonna get my first closer, even though I
Speaker 2: only have one sp I just see a lot of
Speaker 2: depth because remember it's ten teams, there's so much more depth.
Speaker 2: I prioritize kind of top tier across the board than
Speaker 2: trying to make sure I fill out this entire starting
Speaker 2: pitching core because we're just gonna have so many better player.
Speaker 2: Our s p twos and threes are going to just
Speaker 2: be exponentially better than most of the mock drafts we
Speaker 2: do because it's ten.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's true unless somebody you know goes and keeps
Speaker 1: taking two pictures at a clip at the turn.
Speaker 2: Yeah, some monster says so.
Speaker 1: George Springer goes at six o eight, Jiohnny boy takes
Speaker 1: Lowi's Castillo at six poh nine. John, Let's talk about
Speaker 1: this starting picture and your expectations for him in twenty three.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that big pitching kind of blob that everyone was
Speaker 3: so in love with because it was going so late
Speaker 3: is now like you know the Creep Show movie, it's
Speaker 3: creeping near the end of the wait there, you know
Speaker 3: what I mean, jump up and grabbles and where a
Speaker 3: guy like Javier might have fallen to me three weeks ago,
Speaker 3: or a month ago that's now gone. So Castillo to
Speaker 3: me really represents the last of the kind of aces.
Speaker 3: I know, he's not a one eight ah right, I'm
Speaker 3: not going to argue these Corbyn burns, but I do
Speaker 3: think he's everybody as good as the guy's going there.
Speaker 3: And I think something that we're showing the listeners out
Speaker 3: there is, you know, those cues go from kind of
Speaker 3: fat to kind of skinny really quick. And as much
Speaker 3: as we like to wait and shallow league this and
Speaker 3: shallow league that prioritize. And even though it's a mock,
Speaker 3: I'm already a little upset because I think I could
Speaker 3: have maybe passed on Jazz for McClanahan, who again, I
Speaker 3: put my money where my mouth is. He's my al
Speaker 3: Cy Young pick. I have money on him for the
Speaker 3: for the Award. I just think he's everything, like you know,
Speaker 3: everything that he was made in a limb.
Speaker 1: Make your next pick here, gonna give you time to
Speaker 1: think about it. And the great thing is when you
Speaker 1: have the Draft Wizard and you have the premium tools
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Speaker 1: the guy picking a half, he doesn't have a picture yet,
Speaker 1: so you might want to take one now, and you
Speaker 1: probably loop around and take Jazz Chisholm. Those kind of
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Speaker 1: tell you exactly what's going on and where those picks
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Speaker 1: and those kind of insights are super important. I went
Speaker 1: ahead and took Alec Manoa at six ten, and then
Speaker 1: Eloi Jimenez at one, my boy ELLOI and Alex Bregman
Speaker 1: then goes to John at seven oh two. I think
Speaker 1: that's a tremendous value. John and I both taking hitters.
Speaker 1: I think that are really due for good twenty twenty
Speaker 1: three seasons. What are your thoughts on bregnant one?
Speaker 3: I love, I actually absolutely love Alex Bragman. I wonder
Speaker 3: if it's a narrative thing with the whole cheating thing
Speaker 3: he's he's been great. He's been great and even gone
Speaker 3: through some injuries. And again, I think something you speak
Speaker 3: about a lot. We kind of bang guys for not
Speaker 3: being gamers, for missing games, and then if they play,
Speaker 3: we don't get one hundred percent. We're not happy with
Speaker 3: that either. So I think Bregman is infinitely talented. It's
Speaker 3: a fantastic context. Third base is a bit shallow. I
Speaker 3: went Alonso over Riley, so I really didn't want to
Speaker 3: fall back to where I'm punting, punting, pumping third because
Speaker 3: it can't get ugly late. I'm not saying it may
Speaker 3: not be as bad as some people painted as the
Speaker 3: pick I really liked, and he is task for Henandaz.
Speaker 2: That wasned I Budaly got pissed because I got sniped
Speaker 2: on him.
Speaker 1: Well, let's talk about it.
Speaker 3: Welsh outfielder demand would move. I'm curious what you guys think.
Speaker 3: I had Derek Hardy in my show, and I had
Speaker 3: him kind of doing the dip, duck and dodge a
Speaker 3: little bit. People now with the human door, well, people
Speaker 3: like Derek orders of magnitude smarter than I am. Clearly right.
Speaker 3: Obviously they're using three year average still for park factors
Speaker 3: and stuff now I'm not saying more data is worse
Speaker 3: than less data. However, we've changed the constant being the
Speaker 3: inception of the universe of humid or and then how
Speaker 3: that affects the equilibrium with the ball which it changed.
Speaker 3: They lower the core raised. It seems a lot of variables.
Speaker 3: So that was kind of my point when we knew
Speaker 3: that we had one constant changed. I've only been using
Speaker 3: one year of data Seattle. This is the reason I
Speaker 3: mentioned it. So if you look at three years worth
Speaker 3: of data, Seattle is neutral to right handed hitters. If
Speaker 3: you're to look at just last year alone, it's top
Speaker 3: five in home run to fly ball, home run to barrel,
Speaker 3: and home run to blast. This is home runs to
Speaker 3: right handed hitters. I like to split, you know, handedness
Speaker 3: for that stuff. Derek Cordy's bat system, which I absolutely love.
Speaker 3: If you look, gentlemen, he's the lowest of everybody as
Speaker 3: far as the majors go on Julio, He's the lowest
Speaker 3: as everybody goes, as far as task Fernandez. So I
Speaker 3: said about Derek, is this because am I misusing the data?
Speaker 3: My thought was right and Derek is wrong. Have stupid
Speaker 3: revany But was what am I doing wrong here, And
Speaker 3: to be honest, he said, I'm not saying that I'm
Speaker 3: right and anyone's right a wrong. We're not sure. So
Speaker 3: there's a potential for edge there where even the very
Speaker 3: smart people are a bit unsure because the data set
Speaker 3: has changed, and we all know there are people who
Speaker 3: absolutely subscribe to projections. So if somebody's so hooked on
Speaker 3: Julio's home run projection, but when I challenged it, I
Speaker 3: got I remember it's an error. Bar just be willing
Speaker 3: to push up against it. So I'm on the way
Speaker 3: you guys think about Seattle because it's just been in
Speaker 3: such a focal point of some of my work. I'm
Speaker 3: very high now on Julio and Taylor. Wow.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm as high as it gets on Julio.
Speaker 1: Welsh has always been a big Julio guy, and Ti
Speaker 1: Oscar somebody that Welsh does one. You could have taken
Speaker 1: a walk. I know, right, can't take any higher than
Speaker 1: I did.
Speaker 3: You.
Speaker 1: Darvish, Well, she ended up with with somebody on my queue,
Speaker 1: So let's talk about you, Darvish, and we'll recap the
Speaker 1: other picks here at seven oh four.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was an absolute snipe. I thought I was
Speaker 2: locked in to get tay Oscar. He was the best
Speaker 2: offensive player I had left on the board to get
Speaker 2: some more outfield. I did need pitching, and I need
Speaker 2: to focus more on pitching. So that ended up probably
Speaker 2: being a saving grace if we're really being honest about it.
Speaker 2: I love everything Taoscar is, but you, Darvish, we're looking
Speaker 2: at again. If I'm going to invest early on in
Speaker 2: like Eric Cole, I want to make sure that I'm
Speaker 2: also locking in the strikeouts. I got that with Darvish.
Speaker 2: Prioritizing pitchers on really good offensive supported teams. It was
Speaker 2: just kind of a no brainer for you, Darvish at
Speaker 2: that point. But it was a complete pivot because my
Speaker 2: heart was like, oh Oscar like it just it was
Speaker 2: a gut punch to me and I wasn't ready for it.
Speaker 1: Well, we're coming back to you in a second, so
Speaker 1: let's keep going with these picks. Seven oh five Max
Speaker 1: Free than Starling Marte, who was under my consideration, seven
Speaker 1: oh six, seven oh seven, Jordan Romano, then Devin Williams,
Speaker 1: Brian Reynolds, and Tim Anderson to end the seventh. To
Speaker 1: start the eighth round, Adleie Rutchman, Jose and Brow, Zach Gallon,
Speaker 1: Ryan Press, Tommy Edmund, Framber Valdez. It was a few
Speaker 1: picks before me unable to get him. So Welsh, where
Speaker 1: are you going next?
Speaker 2: Well, it was him, It was Framber Valdez. I mean,
Speaker 2: my god, just to you don't want Yeah, no, he
Speaker 2: was I was snap taking him. But that one, that
Speaker 2: one hurt. That one definitely hurt. So you know what
Speaker 2: we're gonna do seconds, Yeah, I'm gonna talk one of
Speaker 2: my utel spots with one of my favorite players to
Speaker 2: take a gamble on. I'm gonna take O'Neill Cruz. Even
Speaker 2: though I got a short stop, big power, big speed,
Speaker 2: I want to make sure I'm locking in those stolen bases.
Speaker 2: I can put him at middle infield or util here.
Speaker 2: And I have such good batting average on this team
Speaker 2: with Goldie and Seeger and Ramirez that I think it
Speaker 2: helps with the volatility of Cruse. So this is a
Speaker 2: good pivot. I wanted him. I was gonna try to
Speaker 2: get him in the next round, but let's just get
Speaker 2: our guy because nothing is working out for me right.
Speaker 1: Now, all right. So Cruz goes to Welsh. Mister buster
Speaker 1: on the clock just selects wander Franco, which pisses me
Speaker 1: right the hell off. So way to go, mister Buster.
Speaker 1: Good job as usual, you are right on time. Tyron
Speaker 1: Neil goes to John and then it's up to me again,
Speaker 1: Andre Samenez, I've been wanting, almost took him in the
Speaker 1: last round. I'm gonna go ahead and take him here,
Speaker 1: so second piece, make sure I get some more stolen bases,
Speaker 1: and then it's just a matter of again, you know,
Speaker 1: do I want to get any sort of closer now
Speaker 1: or do I want to push my luck and wait?
Speaker 1: And you know me, I like to push my luck
Speaker 1: and wait. The value on the board right now is
Speaker 1: actually Will Smith. And I am not somebody who takes catcher,
Speaker 1: especially in the shallow league. But you know what, I
Speaker 1: don't like the rest of the board very much. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go ahead and take him here at ketcher and pull.
Speaker 1: Uh maybe, like as John said, maybe in my younger days,
Speaker 1: not something I do, but now that I'm so old, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's what happens. All right, John, you will go ahead,
Speaker 1: and you just made your other pick too, So let's
Speaker 1: talk about your two guys. Let's talk about Tyler O'Neill
Speaker 1: and Robbie Ray. Robbie Ray, obviously you're gonna get the
Speaker 1: strikeouts with him, But talk about Tyler O'Neill here in
Speaker 1: Saint Louis. What are your thoughts?
Speaker 3: You know, again, it's always format dependent, keeping an eye
Speaker 3: on the outfield and the scarcity, sticking with players that
Speaker 3: I think can really move the needle. Right ten team
Speaker 3: formats is not the time to pick the vanilla ice
Speaker 3: cream right that you seem that in the deeper leaks,
Speaker 3: it's the truth you want. We want the players that
Speaker 3: can absolutely move the needle. We've seen hints of godlike
Speaker 3: power from O'Neil, really up there with the very top
Speaker 3: of the board, and he's shown some speed. We think
Speaker 3: I even gotten batting average at times. So if we
Speaker 3: just get health in the middle of that lineup, he's
Speaker 3: the kind of guy that could he could be a
Speaker 3: thirty twenty five kind of guy, or like a thirty
Speaker 3: five twenty guy ninety five ninety five, and even if
Speaker 3: he gets you two sixty five, that's a monster pick
Speaker 3: for where he's going. I think. I think people's worries
Speaker 3: are the same as my own. Right, we've seen some
Speaker 3: flaws in disciplinary basket with the swing and miss stuff.
Speaker 3: I don't know, man, maybe he just needs to lift
Speaker 3: more weights. I don't know.
Speaker 1: That's my answer. Just lift more weight obviously, that's what
Speaker 1: I do, even lift Joe Breton.
Speaker 3: Do you even fantasy baseball?
Speaker 1: Brett h Carlos Rodango's to mister buster there. So all
Speaker 1: the nice things I said about you, you're already in
Speaker 1: a definitely it's an interesting value there, Welsh. Do you
Speaker 1: think at nine oh three you take the flyer on
Speaker 1: Rodin here?
Speaker 2: Nope?
Speaker 1: Uh early just a tad.
Speaker 2: Yeah, No, I'm not touching that. I don't hate it
Speaker 2: or anything like that, but I'm not doing that. He's
Speaker 2: been like the top lift on here. But the injury
Speaker 2: puts some serious no you know, like I've I've had
Speaker 2: multiple conversations with people about this. Redon really put a
Speaker 2: wet blanket on Like the injury concerns. He's like, listen
Speaker 2: to this October or you know, playoff run or whatever.
Speaker 2: Like I'm playing, I'm pitching, but we want to be
Speaker 2: good the whole season. So that's something to feel good about.
Speaker 2: But trusting these guys is a little bit more of
Speaker 2: a question. I'm just personally just.
Speaker 1: Taking him specifically is a little bit more of a question.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's also coping of these issues, So no, thanks.
Speaker 1: All right. So after Rodan, you took Gunner Henderson Welsh
Speaker 1: at nine oh four. Great selection there. We're very high
Speaker 1: on this player. I've investments on him for Rookie of
Speaker 1: the Year in the American League. So, Welsh, what do
Speaker 1: you think about Gunner Henderson here at nine oh three?
Speaker 2: Yeah, listen, I hope people like fully understand too. When
Speaker 2: you're at ten, obviously, full on team construction is important,
Speaker 2: but you have so much more of an ability to
Speaker 2: just take the best available players. And especially in our
Speaker 2: roster construction, we got two U two, We had the corner,
Speaker 2: we got the middle.
Speaker 3: Yes.
Speaker 2: Have I had shortstop filled when I took Oneil Cruz yes?
Speaker 2: Did I have third base locked in with Ramirez?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 2: But why not take the best available players, take it
Speaker 2: off the board, shore up both of those as really
Speaker 2: good spots. Plus there's flexibility. It's a no brainer because
Speaker 2: I also see a very big tier of pitchers, believers
Speaker 2: and starters that are out there that I felt no
Speaker 2: need to reach on any of them. So again, I
Speaker 2: think I'm putting together a crazy offense. My pitching is
Speaker 2: going to be the big key on how the system
Speaker 2: ends up liking it all.
Speaker 1: Right, So we'll see if the system approves or not.
Speaker 1: Rice the Olglesias goes to Kelly Kirby at nine oh five,
Speaker 1: then Xander Gobar Sai, Johnny Bogarci, Johnny Quest nine oh six.
Speaker 1: Your Boy Byron Bucksner last year's boy anyway nine oh seven.
Speaker 1: I was even sorry to think about, Wow, he's slipping
Speaker 1: pretty much. I might even take a shot on it.
Speaker 1: Nate Low nine oh eight, Willia Domas another one of
Speaker 1: our favorites. At nine oh nine, Vinnie pas Quentino another
Speaker 1: guy out of my You and Anton Chalmers team at
Speaker 1: nine to ten, and they are on the turn, taking
Speaker 1: Chris Bryant next. Bryan's an interesting one, John, real quick,
Speaker 1: give me your thoughts on Chris Bryant because his draft
Speaker 1: stock is kind of all over the place. Are you
Speaker 1: somebody that's buying at the right price or just avoiding
Speaker 1: at most costs.
Speaker 3: I almost have no choice but to get some exposure
Speaker 3: because I was off of him. I draft so much
Speaker 3: throughout the entire year that I wasn't on him when
Speaker 3: he showed up the spring training and hit a home run.
Speaker 3: I have to be cognizant of the fact that a
Speaker 3: former MVP might be healthy in Coors, right, we just can't.
Speaker 3: You just can't hand wave that away. You just can't
Speaker 3: do that. And I've been very reticentive course hitters and
Speaker 3: what it does to them on the road. God like
Speaker 3: CJ Crawn almost like that. You felt like one hundred
Speaker 3: percent of that productive season all happened at home. He
Speaker 3: was a replacement level player or worse on the road
Speaker 3: last year. So I don't even think you could really
Speaker 3: hit your wagon, Like, I don't think you'll ever hear
Speaker 3: me saying wheels up for Brian. But I'm getting pieces
Speaker 3: and again, this is probably the format where it's okay
Speaker 3: if you hit on the max outcome for Chris, Brian
Speaker 3: and Cores, it's pretty delicious.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, let's continue on looking at the picks
Speaker 1: here that have gone through after Pascalentino and Chris Bryant,
Speaker 1: Dansby Swanson full very far here ten o two, South
Speaker 1: Pereza teno three, Correa at ten o four. That's the
Speaker 1: thing about the shallow league. You are going to get
Speaker 1: some incredible discounts. Guys just get pushed a little further
Speaker 1: depending on when the runs are that happened for which team.
Speaker 1: Uh then Clayton Kershaw at ten o five. Kelly's up next.
Speaker 1: She selects Battista from the Baltimore Orioles Welsh ten oh seven.
Speaker 1: She got you again. I'm so sick of Kelly.
Speaker 2: I'm Kelly is pissing me off and we did so
Speaker 2: I'm going to burn the Tiara. I hope she knows
Speaker 2: that the Tirra is gone. You have ruined it. She
Speaker 2: is making me mad. I'm gonna go with the next
Speaker 2: best because I wanted Felix. I'm gonna go with Ryan Helsley.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna take him off the board, big flamethrowing pitcher.
Speaker 2: Looks like he's got the gig questions Diegoes, you know,
Speaker 2: playing in WBC looking pretty good as well. But it
Speaker 2: seems like Helsey's got the spotline. So I'm gonna get
Speaker 2: my second closer. I just don't want to mess around
Speaker 2: with it. I want to have my guys. I don't
Speaker 2: want to be digging from a gross pool, even though
Speaker 2: it's ten team. And again, I've got a couple players
Speaker 2: in different positions that I think are kind of clumped together.
Speaker 2: So I'm not feeling the like necessity to lock in
Speaker 2: you know, one specific guy as far as like hitters go,
Speaker 2: or even starting pitchers.
Speaker 1: All right, So after you took Hellesley, then we had
Speaker 1: Louis Evarino, one of my guys at ten oh eight.
Speaker 1: We'll talk about John's picking a second, because we're gonna
Speaker 1: go back to back. He took ken Lee Jansen, who
Speaker 1: was on my board. I'm gonna take Joe Muscrove, where
Speaker 1: I can't believe is still there. Ooh wee. I'm excited
Speaker 1: about that. Yeah, and then it's a matter of, oh
Speaker 1: my god, you just gave me a Joe Musgrove, Alec Manoa,
Speaker 1: Shane McClanahan, Brandon Woodriff pitching staff.
Speaker 2: Probably the best pitching staff as put together so far.
Speaker 1: Well, the problem is I need a little bit more power,
Speaker 1: a little bit more offense. So I'm gonna go ahead
Speaker 1: and take Anthony Santande because I think the powers for real.
Speaker 1: He's legit there. And that outfield, I don't care if
Speaker 1: it's a ten team league. At eight team league, outfield
Speaker 1: is rough. You gotta have a plan for it. Kenley
Speaker 1: Anson and Taylor Ward with the two picks that you
Speaker 1: made John, So let's talk about those before we get
Speaker 1: to Welsh's next.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I needed a closer as much as I love
Speaker 3: to churn and punt it back. Jansen, for whatever reason,
Speaker 3: if it's the pitchclock narrative that I don't think even matters,
Speaker 3: He's got to be one of the leaders. Probabilistically for
Speaker 3: forty saves. Boston has been known to use an exclusive closer,
Speaker 3: and he just gave him, you know, the bag to
Speaker 3: close games for them. So I think Jansen is a
Speaker 3: fantastic pick, and diagnostically he's still very strong. Vello is good,
Speaker 3: pitch shape was go to all that wonderful stuff. The
Speaker 3: other one, I'm kind of preparing the listeners for the
Speaker 3: Taylor Ward inflation. I just did a high stakes auction
Speaker 3: league with reigning champion Cramatola and other champion dph A, a
Speaker 3: couple of the really sharp dudes, and Taylor Ward broke
Speaker 3: his max bid by like forty percent. He went over
Speaker 3: to seven. He went seven or eight dollars over the
Speaker 3: previous max. So there's a couple of things at work here.
Speaker 3: One is the love for war and the potential leading
Speaker 3: off in the Angels offense with his disciplinary skills, contact
Speaker 3: and contact quality with some speed, there's a chance he's
Speaker 3: one hundred and fifteen run guy. I don't necessarily know
Speaker 3: if I think that, but I think more than anything
Speaker 3: is he's the last of that ilk. And when that's
Speaker 3: the case, something I hear you talking about all the time, Joe, Right,
Speaker 3: that pressure that happens with the very last player. The
Speaker 3: inflation is so real for tailor awards. I'm just getting
Speaker 3: people ready because if you're kind of looking at the rankings,
Speaker 3: he wasn't buy ADP wasn't his time, right, But I'm
Speaker 3: on the wheelbar less. I'm not waiting. So I really
Speaker 3: like Ward a healthy trout and Otani, man, that's a
Speaker 3: really dangerous one too, So yeah it is.
Speaker 1: Look the Angels are sinker swim Johnny for me, like, yeah,
Speaker 1: to be really good or they're gonna be selling off Otani.
Speaker 1: And you know early Johol.
Speaker 3: Overnight what like like over ninety or under seventy five
Speaker 3: wins right, like either.
Speaker 1: I thought you were gonna go with George Kirby because
Speaker 1: I almost took another pitcher too, but I needed more offense.
Speaker 3: Have to strike. I'm really worried about the strike.
Speaker 1: Fair it's fair. Well, you know there's another pitching run
Speaker 1: here because Kirby goes at eleven oh reda buster. Then
Speaker 1: you took Logan Web Welsh. You took him over Logan Gilbert,
Speaker 1: which again that's that's a choice that you you know,
Speaker 1: that's still where you have those close.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think they're h Logan Web just a tiny
Speaker 2: bit higher. Logan Gilbert, I love the edition.
Speaker 1: And Blake Snell, your boy just went at eleven o nine.
Speaker 1: Oh man, I want to play for Welsh so bad
Speaker 1: man happening, man dang man.
Speaker 2: My favorite all time was being in the backfields and
Speaker 2: someone was like, hey, Blake, Blake. He's like, man, I
Speaker 2: can't stop. I gotta get hydrated. It was like the
Speaker 2: most naturally funny thing I've ever heard in my life.
Speaker 2: He is one of the low key funniest people just
Speaker 2: in how he reacts to people.
Speaker 1: We got to get him on the show. We got
Speaker 1: to get Blake Snell on the show. He's not doing
Speaker 1: anything four days a week. He's not doing anything just
Speaker 1: once a week, all right, So Logan Web, let's talk
Speaker 1: about him for a second. Here, Steady presence one of
Speaker 1: these guys that I feel like gets under appreciate it
Speaker 1: every single year, but you can really count on, which
Speaker 1: I think is great.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: One thing I'm a little bit worried about we were
Speaker 2: talking about this over the last week, is you know
Speaker 2: a lot of people are banking on the Arizona Diamondbacks
Speaker 2: being a better team, and that would come at the
Speaker 2: expense of maybe the Dodgers and the Giants. So I'm
Speaker 2: a little bit worried about them getting hit up. But
Speaker 2: they just put together these boring teams with these great
Speaker 2: pitching staffs. Logan Webb is a floor pitcher for sure.
Speaker 2: Like I could have tried to go a little bit upside,
Speaker 2: Hunter Green went a little bit ago. That's one that
Speaker 2: you could take a look at, guys like George Kirby.
Speaker 2: But I just wanted a little bit of floor to
Speaker 2: go with Darvish and Garrett Cole, and I just didn't
Speaker 2: feel the necessity to jump. I also talking about with
Speaker 2: Tristan mackenzie, which I'm not really big on Tristan McKenzie
Speaker 2: this year, but I was just going for a guy
Speaker 2: that's gonna eat up, give me some eat up innings,
Speaker 2: get me some cheap wins in a division that you
Speaker 2: know it kind of seems like it's up, but more
Speaker 2: in the air than ever before.
Speaker 1: All right, let's continue to recap some of these picks here,
Speaker 1: because they're flying off the board. Nessa Cortes goes eleven
Speaker 1: o five and eleven oh six, Reese Hoskins, Tristan McKenzie,
Speaker 1: Christian Yelich, Blake Snail, oh Man eleven two, excuse me,
Speaker 1: eleven o nine. Then at eleven ten we have Pory
Speaker 1: Polanco and Hunter Green at the turn at twelve oh one,
Speaker 1: lance Lynn my guy at twelve oh two Man he
Speaker 1: looked good the other night for WBC two, Kyle Wright
Speaker 1: at twelve oh three, Logan Gilbert finally gone at twelve
Speaker 1: oh four, Giancarlos Stanton, who I had on my cue
Speaker 1: as well, he has gone and on the Johnny Quest team.
Speaker 1: At twelve oh five, Christian Walker also like you, he's gone.
Speaker 1: So now I'm met at Kelly two. Kelly's one of
Speaker 1: our favorite people at Fancy Bros. She does a phenomenal job.
Speaker 1: If there's an article out there you're reading on Fancy Bros.
Speaker 1: By the way, the chances are that Kelly had some
Speaker 1: sort of hand in it in some fashion. She's the best,
Speaker 1: uh so we tease her because we love her and
Speaker 1: she tolerates us. Next is Jake McCarthy looking for steeles. Well,
Speaker 1: she got him atwelve oh seven. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Well, I'm just looking for some outfield depth. I've done
Speaker 2: a very poor job of what I usually want to
Speaker 2: do in developing my outfield, and this is like the
Speaker 2: thing I tell people to make sure you don't do
Speaker 2: ten man, I get a little bit more flexibility. I
Speaker 2: think McCarthy's going to regress quite a bit, and I
Speaker 2: you know, I've said it for my said I think
Speaker 2: Corbyn Carroll is gonna outsteal them. But McCarthy does have
Speaker 2: the gig. He does have the job overall. I just
Speaker 2: think offensively, it's gonna be a little bit lower, but
Speaker 2: I needed some outfield depth and he was kind of falling.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's definitely a good pick there. Then Glaber Torres goes.
Speaker 1: You took one of my guys, JD. Martinez. We're gonna
Speaker 1: talk about that in the second. I just took Camillo d'val.
Speaker 1: I got to make my second pick here really quick
Speaker 1: as well, So might as well look for some fun
Speaker 1: and some upside, right, I mean, you know me, I'd
Speaker 1: rather make sure, I get my guys, So I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go ahead and get Andres Munios. I don't care if
Speaker 1: it's a reach alert. I really don't care. I just
Speaker 1: I don't trust anybody else in this room. JD. Martinez
Speaker 1: to you, John, you're up on the clock again, and
Speaker 1: you just took Ian happ So, JD, I love this
Speaker 1: election here that if you didn't take him, I was
Speaker 1: going to. So you crush that to me, another one
Speaker 1: of these great players being underappreciated, under rostered, underdrafted. So
Speaker 1: talked about him and talk about Hap real quick.
Speaker 3: Due, JD just underproduced. Man, you had a better than
Speaker 3: twelve percents. Phenomenal. This is the player we've always wanted.
Speaker 3: The problem. He again, he just ran. He didn't rant
Speaker 3: run hot on the battle on the barreled balls, forty
Speaker 3: nine barrels. He only had sixteen home runs thirty three
Speaker 3: percent barrel home run rate. Totally unsustainable. He's also going
Speaker 3: to the you know, I mean, it's not a very
Speaker 3: reclamation project. He's fine. The Dodgers are the best analytically
Speaker 3: driven team there is. He's gonna be great, and they
Speaker 3: were pretty outward about not pushing him to the outfield.
Speaker 3: So as much as I want the eligibility, I feel
Speaker 3: like this is a double ut league, so you don't
Speaker 3: have to really worry about it too much. Right, It
Speaker 3: doesn't really Hamstream as much as it would. He should
Speaker 3: be in the line of anchoring, cleaning up for the
Speaker 3: Dodgers every single day. This price, across all formats is
Speaker 3: horribly misprized. He's he's a huge miss price.
Speaker 1: I agree, and I think it's because it's the DH
Speaker 1: thing too. You know, this is the thing I never
Speaker 1: understood would always be aggressive with guys like you know,
Speaker 1: David Ortiz back in the day, Like, well, I don't
Speaker 1: like because he closes with the das Clods. It up Clodes,
Speaker 1: it up with what thirty five home runs.
Speaker 3: With his VP award, with his MVP award.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Like, it's just so stupid. I always hate it
Speaker 1: when people would say things like that, if you've got
Speaker 1: a great hitter there, it's Nelson Cruz, another guy always
Speaker 1: every year, and the older he got, the more people,
Speaker 1: you know, disregarded him. And it was just a stupid
Speaker 1: thing to happen. Mister Buster took Nick Cassianos, who I
Speaker 1: thought real long and hard about, but I decided to
Speaker 1: go and get both of my closers here, Max Munsey
Speaker 1: to Welsh, No surprise there. Well, you've talked quite a
Speaker 1: bit about Monsey in the last couple of weeks thirteen
Speaker 1: oh four.
Speaker 2: You happy, Yeah, I mean I needed a second basement,
Speaker 2: a little bit flexibility. His XBA, his bat average stunk.
Speaker 2: His XBA was better than that, but it was still
Speaker 2: relatively low on the year. But this is a guy
Speaker 2: that I'm going to play for the bounce back. I'm
Speaker 2: going to play the multi position eligibility. I also wanted Homers,
Speaker 2: you know, the more that I was looking at you know,
Speaker 2: you want to pay attention to your roster construction, taking
Speaker 2: a look at you know, having like a Jake McCarthy
Speaker 2: and what if Harris does regrets a little bit. I
Speaker 2: want to make sure that I'm still pounding power and
Speaker 2: stolen bases, because like, guys like Kwan were kind of intriguing,
Speaker 2: even though I think he's kind of busty this year,
Speaker 2: You're still get intrigued by all people again, intrigued by
Speaker 2: players like him. But then if you do, you've got
Speaker 2: to pay attention that you're stacking your power still. Otherwise
Speaker 2: you're gonna get behind. But yeah, I think Muncy for
Speaker 2: a second base here is a solid and he can
Speaker 2: you know, has, like I said, roster flexibility to move around.
Speaker 1: Okay, so Wilson Contreras goes at thirteen oh five and CJ.
Speaker 1: Crohn at thirteen oh six. Stephen Kwan who we talked
Speaker 1: about for at thirteen oh seven at a certain point, again
Speaker 1: you'll you'll take him for the steals in the batting
Speaker 1: average and hope that he gives you anything close to
Speaker 1: the home run total. Again, I'm at Rosario, I think
Speaker 1: a huge value at thirteen oh eight, Welsh, wouldn't you
Speaker 1: agree here? Like that's a player that might have be
Speaker 1: getting the between the eligibility flexibility that he gives you,
Speaker 1: between the stolen bases that he gives you. Rozario I
Speaker 1: think is an underrated ROTO player. Don't you agree?
Speaker 2: Yes? I agree with that. I don't know if I
Speaker 2: would like claim at one point thirty in a ten
Speaker 2: man league that he's like a value an interesting thing
Speaker 2: that happened here, But I think he's a great piece.
Speaker 2: I think he's a great piece to your road team.
Speaker 2: An interesting thing that did happen here that I feel
Speaker 2: like I'm seeing a little bit more so he went
Speaker 2: above Jeremy Paigne. Jeremy Penia is still on the board.
Speaker 2: Who kind of he kind of sits in that shortstop. Ever,
Speaker 2: everyone it'll be okay with him, it's not and he
Speaker 2: went ahead of him.
Speaker 1: But that's what everybody. They just see it so deep
Speaker 1: and so deep. But then at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: all of a sudden it's off the board. He go oops,
Speaker 1: I missed it. A little run here too, so sale goes.
Speaker 1: Then Nico Sander goes two of my fishs speaking of whoops,
Speaker 1: I missed it. There goes my first basement. The two
Speaker 1: options I had it was Ryan Moultcastle and Andrew Vaughn.
Speaker 1: While they went back to back. So obviously somebody was
Speaker 1: watching my must have videos for twenty twenty three on
Speaker 1: our YouTube channel. Clay Holmes at fourteen oh three, then
Speaker 1: Jeremy Penny had fourteen oh four. Tyler glassnow fourteen oh five,
Speaker 1: Kelly's up next to fourteen oh six. Then you the Welsh,
Speaker 1: so Welsh. She has five seconds to make her pick.
Speaker 1: What are you looking for here?
Speaker 2: I know exactly who I want and she didn't do it. Okay,
Speaker 2: So the last round, I almost took him. I'm surprised
Speaker 2: that Nicolodolo's still out here, especially like having Kirby go.
Speaker 2: I think inside the top one hundred, Hunter Green went
Speaker 2: right outside of it and thirty picks later. I know
Speaker 2: it's a rookie, but I trust Lodolo stuff more than
Speaker 2: a trust Hunter Green. Forty six percent and with percentage
Speaker 2: on the curve ball is absurd and ridiculous. This is
Speaker 2: a guy that is going to put up big fantasy
Speaker 2: stats on a bad team. I just might not get wins,
Speaker 2: but guess what I got you, Darvish, I got Garrett Cole.
Speaker 2: I'm stacking wins in some other places, so hopefully he
Speaker 2: can help me with the ratio. So I'm ecstatic that
Speaker 2: he fell back to me.
Speaker 1: All right, So very static. Duran, by the way, another
Speaker 1: pitcher too. I am very between Doran and Munios. Those
Speaker 1: are two guys. I'm just gonna be aggressive, like I
Speaker 1: just I'd rather be aggressive. Mister Buster is gonna make
Speaker 1: me real aggressive because he took the guy that I wanted.
Speaker 1: He just took Lucas de Alido right from under me.
Speaker 1: We're gonna fight, mister. Oh look at this and Johnny
Speaker 1: boy takes Jordan Walker. All right, talk about Jordan Walker.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go ahead and make my picks now because
Speaker 1: now I've got a regroup because I'm on tilt.
Speaker 3: Man. It's real. He's the perfect player for the shrunken format.
Speaker 3: We're really going for it. All if a player like
Speaker 3: Jordan Walker was named the starting whatever, left field or
Speaker 3: I don't think it could be third base with Ornado,
Speaker 3: but let's you say starting player. Even if they're gould
Speaker 3: work him into dhro times he's going like six rounds
Speaker 3: sooner than he would. You know, sometimes you gotta be careful.
Speaker 3: People tell you to be careful, to be weary of helium.
Speaker 3: You have to a point. I mean, Chris Paddock in
Speaker 3: his rookie year that was good helium. Corbyn Burns in
Speaker 3: his second year that was also good helium. Right, guys
Speaker 3: that were up one hundred and fifty picks and you
Speaker 3: still made a wild profit on them. So I think
Speaker 3: Walker kind of is that guy. He's really looked fantastic,
Speaker 3: And sometimes that's what you gotta do is kind of
Speaker 3: make a just say, reach a little bit, you know,
Speaker 3: like you said before, Joe, sometimes you do have to ignore.
Speaker 1: The region eyes because you're going to.
Speaker 3: Get it, particularly on their particularly at the turn, you know.
Speaker 1: All right, So while you make your next pick, I'll
Speaker 1: talk about mine. For me, I almost doubled up at
Speaker 1: starting pitching again took Joe Ryan too, but instead I
Speaker 1: decided to take Jeffrey Springs, giving me a little bit
Speaker 1: RP sp eligibility there. I like that gives me a
Speaker 1: little flexibility if Munjo's isn't necessarily closing to start in April,
Speaker 1: which again I think it's a matter of time. You
Speaker 1: took Estrata, who is interesting because we just spoke about
Speaker 1: him with Steve Gardner on the show last week. If
Speaker 1: he missed that, go check it out over on the
Speaker 1: podcast over on the YouTube channel, and he was very
Speaker 1: high on Estrata too. Is a guy that really didn't
Speaker 1: get enough credit for what he did and how long
Speaker 1: he did it for in twenty twenty two. What are
Speaker 1: your thoughts on Astrata in this season?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think he's a victim of a couple narratives.
Speaker 3: One that San Francisco doesn't play people every day. That
Speaker 3: may be true if you only play a single position,
Speaker 3: which he doesn't, and you get you get three position
Speaker 3: eligibility here, but generally at least two. The other knock
Speaker 3: I've heard is on the power, and this is something
Speaker 3: I've really focused on this offseason, and it's pull power
Speaker 3: and lifting the ball in the air. So I know
Speaker 3: you don't look at estrata and think hulking power, and
Speaker 3: nor should you, but this is fact. Last year he
Speaker 3: pulled sixty six flag ball line drive. That's a lot
Speaker 3: that puts you in like the top third of the league.
Speaker 3: That was good for thirteen home runs and seven doubles.
Speaker 3: The point being it's part of his of his profile
Speaker 3: that he pulls line drives and those Joe with the
Speaker 3: new bushball and the race scenes or one of the
Speaker 3: things that kind of supersede, you know, the suppressed offense
Speaker 3: if you're not gonna hit towering fly balls, which are
Speaker 3: no longer as effective as they used to be. Right,
Speaker 3: we've seen the production of ballo rates come down. This
Speaker 3: is objective fact. The balls that are going out are
Speaker 3: the low line drives tyro Stroud of one of those
Speaker 3: guys him, Andre Simenez, Tommy Edmund. I'm not saying they're
Speaker 3: none of it. I'm gonna hit thirty, but don't put
Speaker 3: them into single digits. Don't do that because they're gonna
Speaker 3: get you twelve.
Speaker 1: All right, let's go to the next one here. We've
Speaker 1: also got some questions here in the chat we'll try
Speaker 1: to get to in a second. We recap these picks. First.
Speaker 1: After I took Jeffrey Springs, I don't know if that
Speaker 1: made Welsh happy, you're saying.
Speaker 2: I was about to say, like, hey, Joe's what's four
Speaker 2: minus five?
Speaker 3: Five?
Speaker 2: What's four minus five?
Speaker 3: John?
Speaker 2: Count down the fingers.
Speaker 1: One negative one, Anthony Rizzo those player I was actually
Speaker 1: contemplating because first base, man, it doesn't at ten team
Speaker 1: league first base is still bad. Newt Bar goes to Welsh.
Speaker 1: No surprise there. So let's talk about your selection there. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Well, I mean, I'm just not getting stuff to come
Speaker 2: back to me, and you can't rely on AVPs. You
Speaker 2: got to get your guys and stuff. I really thought
Speaker 2: I would have a shot with Springs as well. If
Speaker 2: I go into any draft, everyone should know at this
Speaker 2: point what are two players that I want. I want
Speaker 2: Jeffrey Springs and I want Large new Bar on my team.
Speaker 2: I only had two outfielders this entire time. I was
Speaker 2: planning around Lars Newbar who I believe. I was actually
Speaker 2: talking with Paul Sporr about this yesterday. He thinks he
Speaker 2: could push to thirty homers. I think it's twenty five plus.
Speaker 2: I think he's gonna get stolen bases, he's gonna lead off,
Speaker 2: there's gonna be a bunch of runs on a fantastic
Speaker 2: Cardinals team. He is the pick of pick and it's
Speaker 2: incredible where I can still get him where other guys
Speaker 2: are rising. He's not large. New bar is a must
Speaker 2: of all players. I just didn't want to mess around,
Speaker 2: even though the system did tell me it was an
Speaker 2: eighty three percent reach.
Speaker 1: Oh I got to reach on movie things. It ain't
Speaker 1: who cares. We've got some questions here too. This is
Speaker 1: from Mason who asked us how big of an advantge
Speaker 1: basically is Mookie Bets at second base eligibility on ESPN.
Speaker 1: I think it's a huge one. You know me, Welsh,
Speaker 1: I'm not a big Mookie Bets guy where he's going
Speaker 1: right now, but at second base eligibility it changes the dynamic.
Speaker 1: I don't think we're looking for thirty something that steals
Speaker 1: from him anymore, but I just think at this point
Speaker 1: it's different then Charles Allen has a question, fourteenth round
Speaker 1: Jazz Chisholm or fifteenth round Christian Javier? Johnny boy, you
Speaker 1: want to take that one. Wait, who was the first
Speaker 1: one who jazz Chisholm in the fourteenth or Christian Haavier
Speaker 1: in the fifteenth?
Speaker 3: Just I don't Javier everywhere?
Speaker 1: He's Xavier everywhere. I agree, we hit that.
Speaker 3: Almost right, almost right.
Speaker 2: Really, I'm actually surprised you said that Javier over a
Speaker 2: fourteenth They're essentially the same round.
Speaker 3: Uh, you know, I'm not a big jazz guy. I know.
Speaker 3: I took him here for you take closives. He's got
Speaker 3: the explosives. Javier I think has the goods to win
Speaker 3: the SI, you know.
Speaker 1: And always I don't like jazz as a music particularly.
Speaker 1: I lived with his jazz musician in college. He was
Speaker 1: very talented, but I just he went from being interested
Speaker 1: in jazz music and like, oh this is really good
Speaker 1: to hating life and wanting to jump off.
Speaker 2: And he tells you'd be like Joe, don't drink coffee,
Speaker 2: you should drink green tea.
Speaker 1: Actually know that's all he drank was coffee all day long. Okay, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's ironically all I drink is green tea in the morning.
Speaker 1: So I'm the soft one who did it. There you go,
Speaker 1: all right, so somebody screwed Johnny boy, let's get back
Speaker 1: to the picks. Yeah, that we could take some of
Speaker 1: your questions after new bar Chapman, Charlie Morton, Hunter un
Speaker 1: for a rowdy t lez Ty France. Nice value there
Speaker 1: fifteen oh nine. He's just a good player, Josh Bell.
Speaker 1: So now I've got no one to play first base.
Speaker 1: I gotta have to Keith Hernandez back and get him
Speaker 1: a glove. Chris Bassett at sixteen oh one. M J.
Speaker 1: Melendez at sixteen oh two, Brendan Lau at sixteen oh three,
Speaker 1: You Swarez at sixteen oh four. Then we have Dustin
Speaker 1: May at sixteen oh five, Joe Ryan. Great value there
Speaker 1: for Kelly Kirby at sixteen oh six. No surprise there, boy,
Speaker 1: she is killing this. If she doesn't win this draft,
Speaker 1: then something's wrong with Kellys Welsh. You are up at
Speaker 1: sixteen oh seven. You got eight seconds.
Speaker 2: You know I'm gonna do this. I know the oblique
Speaker 2: is an issue, but it's a I can have bench depth.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna take sae as Zuki, who comes in as
Speaker 2: a fourth outfielder. He was lining up to be an
Speaker 2: outfielder three easy for me, top one, inside the top
Speaker 2: one hundred before the oblique, which I'm worried about causing problems,
Speaker 2: but it happened early spring, so you got an entire
Speaker 2: month to kind of recover. I'm acknowledging how I'm taking
Speaker 2: him as a fourth outfielder, though I will have to
Speaker 2: find replacement, but I think he was a tier step
Speaker 2: above a lot of the guys that are left, and
Speaker 2: I'm very comfortable with taking one of these next guys
Speaker 2: because I would have been stuck with him anyways. So
Speaker 2: this is a situation where I eat a couple of
Speaker 2: weeks and I get sales Zuki back at outfielder.
Speaker 1: Four, all right, And Andre Kirk goes to mister Buster.
Speaker 1: So that's good, so I'm not mad at him anymore.
Speaker 1: So Hazel's Lozardo goes to John, which is again a
Speaker 1: player in my cue. We'll talk about him in a second.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go ahead and take one of our you know, first,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take what the draft wizard tells me to.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm gonna listen to the draft wizard. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna take Brandon Nimo here as the top lift again
Speaker 1: gives me a little bit of everything like that, and
Speaker 1: I got a thumbs up value pick there. And then
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go ahead and take Jose Miranda, a player
Speaker 1: that we've talked quite a bit about Welsh that I
Speaker 1: think is just a really solid value there. I desperately
Speaker 1: needed somebody at first base. My corner and middle spots
Speaker 1: are still wide open. We need some help there. I
Speaker 1: got two utility spots. But I'm very happy with my
Speaker 1: pitching staff. Jonathan India goes next to you here, John
Speaker 1: so Lozardo in India. Lozardo has teased at moments India
Speaker 1: coming off a dreadful season, but two years ago looked
Speaker 1: like a real stud. So do you think both of
Speaker 1: these guys are gonna bounce back this season?
Speaker 3: Yeah? And it looks uh Lozarro looks phenomenal right now.
Speaker 3: I don't know how many in's we're gonna get. And
Speaker 3: if you held the gun to my head, I probably.
Speaker 1: I would have taken it. If you didn't take him there, John,
Speaker 1: I had him.
Speaker 3: I'm probably not going over one thirty. Yeah, Joe, you
Speaker 3: and I are so aligned. That's how I think that's
Speaker 3: how you win these leagues, right, I think I say,
Speaker 3: win him, go for the explosives. Miles Mikolas will be
Speaker 3: there if you need him. Boring five in guys without strikeouts,
Speaker 3: I just don't feel that's how you move the needle
Speaker 3: in ten teen leagues. And Jonathan India, I think he's
Speaker 3: gonna be okay, but he gets my favorite boost in
Speaker 3: old baseball. Great American Bullpark people, I just I don't
Speaker 3: think are are selling it where it belongs. Like it's
Speaker 3: not even Core's two point Oho Cores. Maybe Great American
Speaker 3: Bullpark two point zero. If you saw this so Great
Speaker 3: American Ballpark was number one in every home run metric
Speaker 3: by a country mile Joe right to be expected, but
Speaker 3: also total runs Hormont, the fly ball, home runt, the
Speaker 3: barrel by mile, and the Reds only had a single
Speaker 3: player to hit twenty one. It was twenty on the nose.
Speaker 3: Not another player went over fifteen. Think about that, what
Speaker 3: if they were good?
Speaker 1: What I was gonna It has nothing to do with
Speaker 1: anything except the fact that the roster was terrible last year.
Speaker 3: But the ball, but the total, the total runs were
Speaker 3: still there. So it's like, oh, the rate was there,
Speaker 3: and if they just get the players, Great America Bullpark
Speaker 3: was responsible for the most home runs regardless of having
Speaker 3: a bottom barrel offense carrying half of that number. Everybody's
Speaker 3: just so good in Great America Bullpark. I think that's Colorado.
Speaker 3: You know, if you're streaming, look for games in Cincinnati.
Speaker 1: All right, as we continue to go through here, after
Speaker 1: Jonathan India, mister Buster selects Pablo Lopez. Well, she took
Speaker 1: Jordan Montgomery. Let's talk about what you think he can
Speaker 1: contribute to the Cardinal rotation this year, because you look
Speaker 1: pretty good when he came over from the Yanks.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the change was huge, and it's probably no prize
Speaker 2: with the Cardinals way and the success that they find.
Speaker 2: Both the Hilsey Kaintana kind of have the same thing.
Speaker 2: But this is I think a great win situation, and
Speaker 2: that is something outside of Nickolodolo. My rotation has been
Speaker 2: built around teams that put their pitchers in best positions
Speaker 2: to win. Guys that go de Logan Web. Maybe it's
Speaker 2: a little bit an inferior team with the Giants, but
Speaker 2: he goes deep into games. Garrett Cole Darvish, that's an
Speaker 2: easy win situation. Jordan Montgomery the same thing. I think
Speaker 2: there's a kind of a clump of guys here, but
Speaker 2: I was pretty comfortable with it. And then of course
Speaker 2: I was lining this up to take Bryce Harper in
Speaker 2: the next round, but he went a couple picks later
Speaker 2: because I just felt we're in the territory where he
Speaker 2: is worth the risk, especially with the roster construction that
Speaker 2: we have here, where like I'm down to util and Catcher,
Speaker 2: this would have been the prime position to take him,
Speaker 2: and those are really good pick but I think it
Speaker 2: was was it Mailman Molman?
Speaker 1: Hans Moleman took it. I believe from the Simpsons we
Speaker 1: have going after Montgomery, Jeff McNeil, then Sean Murphy, Cronenworth Singer.
Speaker 1: There it is Bryce Harper seventeen or nine. Finally the
Speaker 1: ADP started the fall. Remember the early drafts where the
Speaker 1: ADP for Harper was still like, I don't know, like
Speaker 1: a fourth round.
Speaker 3: I was like, what are people do.
Speaker 1: They not realize what's going honey, or what's happening? After that,
Speaker 1: that's fine, seventeen oh nine. You want to take a
Speaker 1: shot on Bryce Harper in a ten team league. I
Speaker 1: got no issue with that, especially I'm more apt to
Speaker 1: take a shot on Harper in the more shallow leagues
Speaker 1: because it's easier to replace. For those first three months,
Speaker 1: you can find some money off the waiver wire. We
Speaker 1: gets hot for a month or two. Fairbanks goes at
Speaker 1: seventeen to ten, then Riley Green, David Bednar at eighteen
Speaker 1: oh two, eighteen oh three, Cabrian Hayes. I'm not touching
Speaker 1: that guy with ten football. I'm over it. Eighteen oh
Speaker 1: four Hanniger, then eighteen oh five, Alex Cobb, Josh Naylor
Speaker 1: another one of the favorite guys. Ary Cohene was on
Speaker 1: two weeks ago talking about him. Then William Contreras to
Speaker 1: you the Welsh nice pick up here a catcher.
Speaker 2: Well done, buddy, Well this was my last one. I
Speaker 2: love William Contreres because he's also one of these guys
Speaker 2: this team can implement as a DH. This is what
Speaker 2: a lot of what he did with the Braves last year,
Speaker 2: just big, big power that he can put up. He
Speaker 2: had that crazy stretch of home runs. This is a
Speaker 2: twenty plus home run catcher and he was the last
Speaker 2: of this tier. There's still one more catch I like,
Speaker 2: and Tyler Stevenson and then it changes, and I just
Speaker 2: think the value. I would be comfortable waiting because we're
Speaker 2: in a ten team, but I also don't want to
Speaker 2: fall crazy behind and let everybody else have these really
Speaker 2: solid tier catchers and me have the cal Rallies or
Speaker 2: something like that. Like I want to be in the
Speaker 2: upper tier. I just got it at the very cheapest cost,
Speaker 2: at the expense of a couple of other players I
Speaker 2: didn't want to take. But I'm pretty happy to get
Speaker 2: him because I was targeting Sean Murphy and Alejandro kirk
Speaker 2: Fell as well pretty.
Speaker 1: Deep all Seawalled goes next at eighteen oh eight, then
Speaker 1: Alexis Diaz goes after that to John. I took Katel
Speaker 1: Martyn and Alec Baum, So I took care of my
Speaker 1: middle and corner spots there with back to back picks,
Speaker 1: and honestly, I'm pretty happy with that. Like those are
Speaker 1: two guys that I feel like I kind of know
Speaker 1: what I'm getting and there's a small hint of possibility
Speaker 1: that they actually perform much better than projections and expectations.
Speaker 1: They Sean site me, I do like that, and then
Speaker 1: read Debt Meer is a fantastic selection at nineteen oh two.
Speaker 1: So Debt Meers and Daz Johnny talk about it.
Speaker 3: These are both guys. Actually, you gotta be careful with ADP.
Speaker 3: ADP A lot of times is generalized. These are players
Speaker 3: on the move. So if you're looking at the Macro ADP,
Speaker 3: you're not gonna end up with these players. Daz. I
Speaker 3: don't know. I guess people just don't think the Reds
Speaker 3: will win a lot of games, which I don't know
Speaker 3: if I necessarily disagree, but I would also think that
Speaker 3: a lot of those wins are gonna be very close,
Speaker 3: and he seems like the exclusive closer. I don't people
Speaker 3: keep saying the Reds. The Reds haven't used a single culture.
Speaker 3: They haven't had anybody. They've tried. They can't stay on
Speaker 3: the field. Between Garrett and Sims and Antone, it's literally
Speaker 3: been a carousel. I think if they had somebody with
Speaker 3: the skills of Daz, who I think is legitimately filthy
Speaker 3: on the mound. So I think he's a great pop
Speaker 3: perceives and if you don't get it or he looks bad,
Speaker 3: he easily replace him. And then redettors who I mean
Speaker 3: in front of our eyes last year blossomed after that devotion,
Speaker 3: adding vlo fixing the slider or fixing the shape with
Speaker 3: the fix ball. Then he took off, and I don't
Speaker 3: know why people are not necessarily buying it. It feels
Speaker 3: like an Angels thing, I think one of the first
Speaker 3: things we see at Angel. I don't know, six man rotation,
Speaker 3: I guess I mean, as long as he's getting the
Speaker 3: rock once a week for the cost, I feel like
Speaker 3: all that stuff is baked in. Debtros also looks like
Speaker 3: he tacked on some extra velo this spring, So yeah,
Speaker 3: we could be wheels up for debtvers. He could be
Speaker 3: a real sneaky like finishes an SP two kind of
Speaker 3: guy out of nowhere.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm one hundred percent with you on read debt mes.
Speaker 1: I think it's a great value there. Daniel Bard at
Speaker 1: nineteen oh three. Drew Rasmussen goes to you Welsh at
Speaker 1: nineteen oh four.
Speaker 2: Your thoughts, yep, getting you didn't let me have Jeffrey Springs.
Speaker 2: This is another one of those guys that you know,
Speaker 2: moved out of any type of like shortened inning situation.
Speaker 2: The Ray's moving solely away from that really great stuff.
Speaker 2: I know a lot of the industry, many in the
Speaker 2: industry actually like Drew Resmusen more than him. I'm actually
Speaker 2: shocked that he fell so far, because as far as
Speaker 2: adp goes, Rassmussen and Springs are almost like a one
Speaker 2: to two punch there within two or three sp spots
Speaker 2: of each other. But there was about a fifty pick difference.
Speaker 2: So Rasmussen just absolutely fell. And you know, I am
Speaker 2: monitoring a cool thing if people will check out. What
Speaker 2: you can do when you're drafting on Fantasy Pro system
Speaker 2: is there's a bunch of tabs at the top and
Speaker 2: you can go and take a look at the cheat
Speaker 2: sheet what it's telling you to do, but you can
Speaker 2: also look at categories and you can build your categories
Speaker 2: as you go. And I can see that my hitting
Speaker 2: is falling far behind, which I hope to catch up soon,
Speaker 2: but a guy like Drew Resmussen is filling all the categories.
Speaker 2: We're gonna get my pitching back up because I think
Speaker 2: I need to maintain my pitching and I'm gonna come
Speaker 2: back in later rounds with hitting. So another cool reason
Speaker 2: to monitor these tools here. But res Musen was kind
Speaker 2: of a no brainer. He was a ridiculous deal, and
Speaker 2: I think the system gave me the big old thumbs
Speaker 2: up when I did it around thirty.
Speaker 1: Picks massa props there for our boy Johnny Quest punting
Speaker 1: saves zero so far in the saves there for Johnny Quest.
Speaker 1: Good job there. Don't take no crap off nobody. You know,
Speaker 1: you don't need saves. You'll find saves eventually. It's fine.
Speaker 1: After Rasmussen goes, then Kelly ended up taking Ryan McMahon
Speaker 1: Andrew Heaney Welsh. It's a guy that you've been talking
Speaker 1: of quite a bit on the show. So I don't
Speaker 1: know if you have any remorse about that one.
Speaker 2: Yeah, goodwill Jacob mcgramas I call him Goodwill Nick Dracob,
Speaker 2: So not your faultupset about that.
Speaker 1: Brandon Drury, Grayson, Rodriguez Hoave or Bye is at nineteen
Speaker 1: oh nine than Joey Manessa's at nineteen ten. To start
Speaker 1: the twentieth round here, then you have Ben attendee Verdugo
Speaker 1: looking through here. You know, still a fair amount of
Speaker 1: talent on the board at this point in time. Tovar
Speaker 1: goes out of my cue. I almost took him last round.
Speaker 1: He was my next selection. Tovar somebody that I'm very
Speaker 1: high on. Welsh, So that be somebody that people are
Speaker 1: more aggressive on too, and drafts even shallower ones.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think so. I mean the stolen based power potential. Obviously,
Speaker 2: hitting in cores in general is going to help out.
Speaker 2: But he's a higher contact player that really found his
Speaker 2: his power, you know, his power spot, and I think
Speaker 2: you can look at like a low key fifteen to
Speaker 2: fifteen season. There's a little bit of concerns before when
Speaker 2: it was like Brenda Rodgers and Ray mcmahbon. That's gone
Speaker 2: with the injury. Ezekiel Tovar has got this spot locked in.
Speaker 2: I'm a little bit worried he's going to hit lower
Speaker 2: in the order to start because the Rockies are weird
Speaker 2: and hit Mike Moustakis above him most likely. But if
Speaker 2: Tilvar gets a hit in the top of the lineup,
Speaker 2: the run should come up plentiful.
Speaker 1: Rocky's have been weird for many years now, weird ever
Speaker 1: since the Daniel Murphy signing. It was like, Hey, we've
Speaker 1: got a bunch of guys coming up who plays second
Speaker 1: and first base, Let's go sign Daniel Murphy to.
Speaker 2: Aw Garrett Hampson is gonna be our future, but we
Speaker 2: need Daniel Murphy, right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we need Danyl Murphy. God ever since then, I
Speaker 1: just I don't know what they think they're doing. Luis
Speaker 1: Garcia goes, then Hendricks goes, Cabrera goes, then twenty seven
Speaker 1: the well shure up next.
Speaker 2: Oh, I don't love all the players. I'm gonna do
Speaker 2: something a little bit different. I don't think the system
Speaker 2: is gonna love it. But I was just talking about
Speaker 2: this justin Mason yesterday. We're almost in the two hundreds.
Speaker 2: We're gonna do a buyback on Cody Bellinger. I mean
Speaker 2: at the cost return here is so ridiculously cheap at
Speaker 2: this point, I also have an injury with Suzuki right
Speaker 2: now to fill projections aren't the worst outside of batting
Speaker 2: average if there is any rebound. This is one of
Speaker 2: those few players I mean post one fifty, how many
Speaker 2: of those have had first first overall round statistics. There's
Speaker 2: not a big number of them. It's like Cody Bellinger
Speaker 2: and that's it. You know, maybe donas the closest to
Speaker 2: that in previous years with the batting average, but a
Speaker 2: little bit of risk with Cody Bellinger with what does
Speaker 2: I think a pretty safe team so far, I.
Speaker 1: Want you to have all the Cody Bellinger, all of it.
Speaker 1: It's all yours Welsh Luis Arise at twenty eight. But
Speaker 1: it was a good speech. I really enjoyed it. John
Speaker 1: makes a great pick here with Hunter Brown at twenty
Speaker 1: oh nine. I love this pick here. I am up
Speaker 1: next for my two picks, So I'm gonna gohe and
Speaker 1: take another closer because I need some help there. And
Speaker 1: then I'm gonna take some more steals here with wit
Speaker 1: Meryfield and Welsh can make fun of my speech about I.
Speaker 2: Don't hate him as much as I was earlier in
Speaker 2: the year. He seems a lot more comfortable, but I
Speaker 2: still am not. Like that's what I don't stop my
Speaker 2: game plan to be.
Speaker 1: I don't need him have two hundred hits. All I
Speaker 1: need him to do is steal me twenty something bags
Speaker 1: and hit two sixty. You do that at this value,
Speaker 1: I'm a very happy man. So I took jose Leclerk too,
Speaker 1: because he's got a job. I need more saves Yoshidah
Speaker 1: at twenty one oh two. So John, you took Brown
Speaker 1: and Yoshida. Let's talk about the guys, especially Brown, because
Speaker 1: that's a player that I think is going to get
Speaker 1: a lot more run this year. It's kind of similar
Speaker 1: last year with Rishan Zavier. Same setup. You know, this
Speaker 1: is the guy who's really good, young talent coming up.
Speaker 1: There's gonna be opportunities for him. And it just feels
Speaker 1: like with Lance mccullor's elbow and god knows what else happens,
Speaker 1: Hanna Brown's gonna get some moments in the rotation.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I would even speak to both of these picks.
Speaker 3: The next one I made was Yoshida. Both of them
Speaker 3: talent plus opportunity plus strong contextual environment plus a good
Speaker 3: draft price, so they're easy for me. People have reached
Speaker 3: for Brown. That helium seems to have settled a bit.
Speaker 3: I don't know, it's weird. Not much seems to have changed.
Speaker 3: I've heard short people like Wells talking about maybe some
Speaker 3: control issues, but his price has wildly swung so when
Speaker 3: it's at the lower end of the side wave. Houston's
Speaker 3: just been so good with developing youngsters and then also
Speaker 3: letting them go right. We don't tend to do that.
Speaker 3: Ah he used to may hold them to one hundred innings.
Speaker 3: It just feels like they have such a good plan
Speaker 3: for everybody. They did it with Javier last year. They
Speaker 3: managed to baby him without babying him. It didn't feel
Speaker 3: like he missed the store because he wasn't injured, but
Speaker 3: he only made twenty six starts because they the Ash's
Speaker 3: also very good at working the schedule, so I think
Speaker 3: they'll do the same thing with Brown. Although we've heard
Speaker 3: like Grayson Rodriguez may get pulled after four and I
Speaker 3: have nothing to go on this PI other than some
Speaker 3: anecdotal stuff. I don't see Houston doing that. I really
Speaker 3: I don't think they can afford to do that and
Speaker 3: pull Brown. I think they'd rather have Brown go every
Speaker 3: six days, miss have twenty six a post to thirty
Speaker 3: one starts, and make up the innings that way. Deeper
Speaker 3: individual games I don't know, but at the price, I
Speaker 3: think Brown is fantastic. Plus, of course he's in line
Speaker 3: for wins every five days.
Speaker 1: John Gray Go's next, followed by CODEI Senga to Welsh
Speaker 1: so Wels. This ADP for Senga continues to be way
Speaker 1: too low, and again I couldn't even pull him up
Speaker 1: on the sheet there and even have them up there
Speaker 1: because still the consensus is still way too low. I
Speaker 1: gotta start using my chi sheet every time I got
Speaker 1: so many things going on here. I'm clicking stuff, I'm
Speaker 1: moving back and forth and taking questions. Sometimes it hurts
Speaker 1: my draft. And you just scumped me there, Good.
Speaker 2: Shows you do, I gotta say, like, I was just
Speaker 2: kind of sitting in staring at it, and I have
Speaker 2: had him for the last three rounds and.
Speaker 1: It's just you should go three rounds ago.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he should have gone a long time ago. So
Speaker 2: that's why I just pulled the triggers. And he's a
Speaker 2: bench starting pitcher right now. Again like a little bit
Speaker 2: of weirdness with guys like maybe Nicko Lodolo, even though
Speaker 2: I got a deal on him. Sanka's an incredible bench
Speaker 2: starting pitcher to have on potential alone, and I'm not
Speaker 2: basing my entire rotation off of him, So I'm happy.
Speaker 1: All right. I'm going to throw through the rest of
Speaker 1: these here. We should everyone get your cues ready. We're
Speaker 1: gonna go ahead and wrap this up here. After Senga,
Speaker 1: then Scott Barlow, Dominguez Cassis goes nice election there by
Speaker 1: j full Metal. Then we have Oscar Gonzalez, Tony Gonsolin,
Speaker 1: cal Rawley, the aforementioned, and Justin Turner. Lord is Guriel
Speaker 1: at twenty two h two whilsh that's a guy you've
Speaker 1: been talking about latent drafts you take a shot on,
Speaker 1: but not on your team.
Speaker 2: That's what I have, That's what I ought about, gonna
Speaker 2: take it well. John broke my heart earlier because I
Speaker 2: took the Bellinger pick with the intention of backing him
Speaker 2: up with Yoshida, like having complete opposites of having the
Speaker 2: batting average a kind of cure that a little bit,
Speaker 2: plus the run totals. And then when I didn't get him,
Speaker 2: I was like, Okay, I'm gonna go with Lordis. Didn't
Speaker 2: happen again because I Lordis. My big key on him
Speaker 2: is Lordis is hitting three for the Diamondbacks and it's
Speaker 2: happened all spring long, and I think that's a game
Speaker 2: changer to his RBI numbers. This is a like we
Speaker 2: talked about the Jordan Walker pick a little bit earlier,
Speaker 2: in the value that he is. This is another one
Speaker 2: that people haven't caught up to. I shouldn't be able
Speaker 2: to get Miguel Vargas at two seventeen, but I just did.
Speaker 2: And there's no way he's gonna start at second base
Speaker 2: for the Dodgers offense. In general works in his play,
Speaker 2: the guy was walking when he wasn't swinging the bat.
Speaker 2: He's just a great, great option across the board, stolen bases, homers.
Speaker 2: He gets on base by walking, obp would even be
Speaker 2: better to seventeen. I shouldn't be able to get him,
Speaker 2: but I did.
Speaker 1: But you did. I'm gonna go ahead take Trey Mancini.
Speaker 1: Give me a little bit of depth there at the
Speaker 1: corner spot. And you know it's a matter of do
Speaker 1: I want to take some more steals here or do
Speaker 1: I want to take some more power. I think we
Speaker 1: can go ahead. I'm really low on power still, so
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take Joah Peterson here. Him and Confordoh, they're
Speaker 1: both still on there. But I got the value picking
Speaker 1: the thumbs up. So that's a good thing. So let's
Speaker 1: continue to recap the pick. Stevenson, Patrick Sandoval, von Grissom,
Speaker 1: who is in Mike Cue he has gone at twenty
Speaker 1: two o five. Then ramon Loriano Vargas to Welsh Harrison
Speaker 1: Bader to mister Buster, Jared Kllnick to you John. Then
Speaker 1: I took Mancini and Peterson. You also took Rogers in Miami.
Speaker 1: So let's talk about reclamation projects, because that's what you're
Speaker 1: doing here.
Speaker 3: Drafting everybody that's broken my heart in the past. Let's
Speaker 3: goal dialing up all the ex girlfriends.
Speaker 1: Man, it's three relationship is John, I think I think
Speaker 1: it might be se might have to go ya, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that is.
Speaker 3: I'm I'm digging through the Facebook dms right now looking
Speaker 3: for ex girlfriends who listen. Jared Kelnick, I think we
Speaker 3: all have seen it. I think we all know. And
Speaker 3: it's funny because it's so polarizing. You have the people
Speaker 3: who are certain the breakout is coming. You have people
Speaker 3: who are certain he's gonna fall flat in his face.
Speaker 3: I don't know, but I do know if we get
Speaker 3: a that explosion is gonna be awesome. Right. We've seen
Speaker 3: just such dynamic ability for him, power and speed. He
Speaker 3: goes so incredibly you've been nailed before. You take your
Speaker 3: wrists on the bench, like, I don't even have to
Speaker 3: start him. You just kind of wait and see, and
Speaker 3: if he comes out of the box really hot, you
Speaker 3: might have a league winning pick on your hands. Again,
Speaker 3: I'm not saying the probability of it is very high, right,
Speaker 3: you got to be careful we do that, But I
Speaker 3: think Helmic is that same for Trevor Rogers. The skill
Speaker 3: was always there, the villa was always there, the man
Speaker 3: was good, and I think he could bounce back. He also,
Speaker 3: I think he hasn't walked a batter this spring yet.
Speaker 1: You know, I was very high on him last year,
Speaker 1: and I was of all the l's that I took
Speaker 1: last year, that one did hurt me a lot because
Speaker 1: I saw this guy just being the dude and it
Speaker 1: just and it did not materials last year. I know,
Speaker 1: sometimes lefties get off their mechanics and things happened. So
Speaker 1: maybe he bounces back. Mondasey goes to mister Busters. Speaking
Speaker 1: of bounce backs, then you took Lang here, Alex Lang
Speaker 1: in Detroit, Welsh. Let's talk about him before we get
Speaker 1: to the rest of these picks here as we close
Speaker 1: out the draft.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, you're at a spot where I already
Speaker 2: had two closers, and I've actually been projected to be,
Speaker 2: I think, at the top of the overall closing market.
Speaker 2: But I looked at the rest of the closers and
Speaker 2: I don't see a lot of gigs that make any sense.
Speaker 2: And there's only two really that I can look at
Speaker 2: and say like, oh yeah, that guy has a job
Speaker 2: except Alex Lang, who's looked really good this spring and
Speaker 2: is going to be the closer for Detroit. How many
Speaker 2: opportunities that's a big in question. But I now have
Speaker 2: three no doubt closers going into this and I feel
Speaker 2: pretty good about it. And he's very popular. Buzzy even
Speaker 2: though it said it was a reach, he wasn't going
Speaker 2: to last much longer.
Speaker 1: Okay, continuing on with the rest of the picks here,
Speaker 1: after Welsh makes a selection of Langlan, Seth Brown, Rendn, Micholas,
Speaker 1: Josh you on. Nice selection there, Then we have Merle Kelly.
Speaker 1: Then C. J. Abrams was also on my list. He
Speaker 1: is off now twenty four oh one, Horoy Lopez Evan
Speaker 1: Phillips are the Dodgers at twenty four to oh two,
Speaker 1: john Is Phillips the closer. Is it just said and
Speaker 1: done for you?
Speaker 3: I don't know, but I had him queued up right
Speaker 3: after a Lexis Dias because I'm just going to stay
Speaker 3: on brand, and that is the ceiling pick. If if
Speaker 3: you get the the definitive Dodgers closer, that is a
Speaker 3: windfall profit. I think even where he's going, I think
Speaker 3: it's a neutral pick. He's highly skilled, so you're not
Speaker 3: risking ratios. I believe at the very least he's in
Speaker 3: line for, you know, a share of the sieves. How
Speaker 3: it's gonna pan out, I don't know, But at that again,
Speaker 3: I just beaten a dead horse. At that point, you
Speaker 3: play for top side. There is no greater top side
Speaker 3: than tacking forty sieves onto potential Evan Phillips statline.
Speaker 1: Okay, then kimberl dj Lemayhew, Boy, how the mighty have fallen?
Speaker 1: Dj La Mayhew in the twenty fourth round. Remember a
Speaker 1: couple years ago when people want him in the third
Speaker 1: Danny Jansen at twenty four or five. Jesse Winker another
Speaker 1: good pick there at twenty four oh six. Well you're
Speaker 1: up at twenty four oh seven. What you got?
Speaker 2: I was actually gonna take Winker there. Surprise surprise, Kelly Snipe.
Speaker 2: No big surprise by anybody that Kelly did that. I
Speaker 2: am gonna go with one of my favorite pictures to
Speaker 2: get He just threw a side session the other day.
Speaker 2: Jacob to Ground got all the room. But Nate Eovaldi
Speaker 2: Nadiovaldi has been pumping the v low. They have a sneaky,
Speaker 2: sneaky rotation with a lot of run support me and
Speaker 2: you know have been Eno sars have been talking about him.
Speaker 2: He's actually one of his favorite kind of middle round
Speaker 2: starting pitchers to target. And the injury tag is actually
Speaker 2: gonna give you a little bit more of a value
Speaker 2: on him as I got around the two thirties. Though again,
Speaker 2: he pitched just the other day and he should be
Speaker 2: good for.
Speaker 1: Opening day, Okay, continuing on after he evolding mister buster
Speaker 1: on the clock selects Jose Burrios, John, you're up next
Speaker 1: to twenty four oh nine.
Speaker 3: Okay, Well, but I think, yeah, I got my cue
Speaker 3: all side. I was looking at former met How about
Speaker 3: Michael Confordo? Who again, right, we've had it almost sounds
Speaker 3: like Chris Bryan a bit. The talent and the plate
Speaker 3: approach has never really been in question. It's just if
Speaker 3: we get him healthy. When we get him healthy. He
Speaker 3: also started dropping nukes in spring training. Not to overreact
Speaker 3: to spring training stuff. I've mentioned a couple of times.
Speaker 3: It's just a matter of health, right, I think of
Speaker 3: a player hits home runs, they're healthy.
Speaker 1: I took Tyler Molly and Garrett Whitlock there to my
Speaker 1: pitchers there. Yeah. Well, in Conforido you know, I was
Speaker 1: struggling him or you know Jock Peterson the same thing.
Speaker 1: We always say, well you take Jock Peterson or a
Speaker 1: confordo or a round later. My thing is just about,
Speaker 1: you know, when it comes to Conforido, how much of
Speaker 1: that layoff affect him? You know, how much is not
Speaker 1: playing for a whole year. Does it take him a
Speaker 1: month this day of two months to get back into
Speaker 1: the swing of things. Literally. Kyle Bradish another one of
Speaker 1: the Yeah in Mind thirty names at twenty five to
Speaker 1: ZHO two, So talk about him. What are your expectations
Speaker 1: for him this season?
Speaker 3: I actually think we're gonna get like an sp three finished,
Speaker 3: so I think he might be like a top forty
Speaker 3: to fifty starter, which you kinda is not like, oh
Speaker 3: my god, I'm gonna go to Spencer Stride at twenty
Speaker 3: twenty three. Not the case. But when you're SP nine
Speaker 3: or twelve for this man, you know, somebody on the
Speaker 3: bench has the ability to finish inside the top fifty.
Speaker 3: That's like the most boring way to win a fantasy league,
Speaker 3: to get a guy that gets the ball every five days.
Speaker 3: I think he's a Canda for six innings. The strike
Speaker 3: Cats have been there again Baltimore. You know, shake that narrative, right,
Speaker 3: the inability to develop pitching is no more. They've actually
Speaker 3: done quite well with with pitchers now, so we kind
Speaker 3: of have to get these out of our mind. If
Speaker 3: he's every so often as the cycles washed right as
Speaker 3: the cycle ends. So I think we're seeing some good
Speaker 3: things from Baltimore. I think Bradish looks really good, tapped
Speaker 3: on Velo in pitches and then a ficient mix changes,
Speaker 3: so yeah, I think he's gonna be really.
Speaker 1: Good for them.
Speaker 3: And then the wall the bullpark is positive.
Speaker 1: Ye yeah, ballpark and positive.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 1: Jo Jack Flaherty goes at twenty five oh three, then
Speaker 1: rojast At Welsh at twenty five toh four, so no
Speaker 1: surprise there. As we wrap up these final rounds here
Speaker 1: of the draft, TJ. Friedo at twenty five oh five.
Speaker 1: Finn again, Shagura, let's talk about Rojas here. Welsh is
Speaker 1: an easy one here, I think, right, just a good
Speaker 1: everyday player.
Speaker 2: Yep, he's gonna be. He's been essentially the every day
Speaker 2: third baseman for this team. There's a little bit of
Speaker 2: adjustment with Longoria and they're trying to figure out their
Speaker 2: outfield because Alec Thomas has also looked really good. But
Speaker 2: Rojas was a twenty plus stolen based guy. There's some
Speaker 2: pop in his bat and he has the potential to
Speaker 2: hit closer in the top of the lineup, especially righty
Speaker 2: versus lefty type of stuff. So two thirties, I think
Speaker 2: this is a great deal. He also qualifies at second,
Speaker 2: which makes him even a little.
Speaker 1: Bit okay, continuing on here, I after Rojas, I said
Speaker 1: Friedel Finnegan, Segura, jameson tie on Oscar Colas twenty five
Speaker 1: oh nine, a guy we just talked about the other day,
Speaker 1: and the prospects on the way up. Jorge Matteo at
Speaker 1: twenty five ten, then Louis Urius at twenty six oh one.
Speaker 1: So we were in the final rounds year and we'll
Speaker 1: see who won the draft. I can assure you right
Speaker 1: now I did not win the draft. I'm telling you
Speaker 1: right now. It never happens. I never win the draft.
Speaker 1: But I like this Rocks designed. I didn't design it.
Speaker 1: Need to do with that. People are way smarter than me.
Speaker 1: But just kind of looking at the rosters here because
Speaker 1: I know we're running a little long here.
Speaker 3: For me, it's will that's Okay.
Speaker 1: Look, get your guys. Yeah, last year they told me
Speaker 1: I was justin Jefferson every time I took him first overall,
Speaker 1: and that worked out pretty well. Will Smith a catcher
Speaker 1: for me, Jose Miranda and Andre Semenez at second Bobash
Speaker 1: had its short. I have Austin Riley, Alec Bohm, Katel, Marte,
Speaker 1: Julio Rodriguez, Eloya, Menez, Santander, Nimo Whitt, Mauryfield, Peterson, the
Speaker 1: pitching staff, McClanahan, Woodrift. Then I have Springs, Manoa, Muskrove, Peralta,
Speaker 1: Munios and Doval. So some good arms there, Laclerk, Molly,
Speaker 1: Mansini and Whitlock Welsh. What do you think about that
Speaker 1: squad here? You think that doggle hunt.
Speaker 2: I think that doggle hunt. I don't think it's gonna
Speaker 2: hunt in projections, but I think it'll have That's the thing.
Speaker 1: I know. It's not gonna hunt projections. I can tell
Speaker 1: you that right now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's not gonna All right, I'm gonna this is
Speaker 2: a boring I need again.
Speaker 1: Projections are good. It's a good way to gauge. But
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, if projections were always perfect,
Speaker 1: then there would we wouldn't be playing this game, would we.
Speaker 2: Yeah. And by the way, I have no idea how
Speaker 2: mine's going to finish out because my pitching I am
Speaker 2: pretty high in pitching. I have one category and hitting
Speaker 2: on the best and the rest are at the bottom.
Speaker 2: So this is gonna be one of those Ricky Bobby,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna predict right now, like I'm gonna finish like fourth,
Speaker 2: fifth or fourth in this well.
Speaker 1: I took Colton Wong and Cruise here to finish up. Welsh.
Speaker 1: Let's look at your team here and get a sense
Speaker 1: of what's going on with your roster. Uh, you have
Speaker 1: Let's see again, Kelly Kirby doesn't win. Who knows you have? Contreras,
Speaker 1: a catcher, William that is gold Schmidt, Munsey, Cory Sieger,
Speaker 1: getting all the all the old Dodgers back together, Jose Ramirez, Gunner, Henderson,
Speaker 1: O'Neil Cruz, then Michael Harris, McCarthy, say, as Uzuka and
Speaker 1: Newbar you're right, it is, you know, a little tough
Speaker 1: in the outfield. There're telling you, don't don't sleep on
Speaker 1: these outfielders off season.
Speaker 2: It's hard to follow my own but even.
Speaker 1: In ten teams, Oh, it's there. No, it's not, uh,
Speaker 1: Cody Bellinger, Rojas. Then you have Garrett Cole U Darvish.
Speaker 1: I mean that's a pretty good start with Hayter, Hellsley,
Speaker 1: Logan Webb, Nick Lodolo, Jordan Montgomery and Drumrasmisen. The bench
Speaker 1: is Eovaldi, Hayes, Senga Vargas, Dela Cruz and Lang. Look,
Speaker 1: I think this is a pretty good roster here. I
Speaker 1: certainly like the way you attack the infield very well.
Speaker 1: But how do you feel about it?
Speaker 2: Yeah, No, I'm pretty happy with this. I mean, there's
Speaker 2: a lot of my targets before say I got hurt.
Speaker 2: I really wanted to say, as Azuki, I got a
Speaker 2: little bit of risk. You know, Bellinger and O'Neil Cruz
Speaker 2: are a lot of risk. I have so much good
Speaker 2: offensive support. I'm projected number one in stolen bases here,
Speaker 2: which I think gives me a really good bottom line.
Speaker 2: I think the pitching staff I got closers. I really
Speaker 2: dig There's just that there's a few holes in a
Speaker 2: ten team that maybe you don't have. But I think
Speaker 2: it's gonna I think it's gonna do all right. I
Speaker 2: think the projections are being a little harsh on me
Speaker 2: on like runs and homers and stuff like that. I
Speaker 2: actually think I'm pretty stacked on the home run totals.
Speaker 1: All right, let's get to Johnny boys team as we
Speaker 1: close things out here for the last couple of picks.
Speaker 1: So John your Rosser, Real Muto, Alonzo chisholm Estrada, Alex
Speaker 1: Bregman third, then Jordan Walker, the Leap of Faith, India, Acunya, O'Neill, Ward,
Speaker 1: hap Martinez, Confordo, Spencer, Strider, Castillo, Kenlly Jans and Alexis Diaz,
Speaker 1: Robbie Ray Lozardo, Redebt, Meurs, Hunter Brown. This definitely has
Speaker 1: a first or last kind of feel to it. John,
Speaker 1: with Yoshida Rogers, Manaya Kellnick and Brendan Donovan and Bradish
Speaker 1: on the bench, what do you think of this roster
Speaker 1: and what grade did they give you? John?
Speaker 3: I'm seeing seventy five out of one hundred, so I
Speaker 3: guess I barely passed. Hopefully I'll be a laughable out.
Speaker 3: Hopefully my wife will let me go out this weekend
Speaker 3: and play well.
Speaker 1: Not if you keep checking those d ms before the.
Speaker 3: Yeah, definitely stay away from the Facebook deams. You know
Speaker 3: what this is? This is how we would want to
Speaker 3: feel coming out of it. Again, we don't know what's
Speaker 3: gonna happen. This team has all the strikeout potential you
Speaker 3: could possibly ask for, with batting average, with pop, with speed,
Speaker 3: with balance and home runs. This you know this team
Speaker 3: is as strong as I can feel about one coming
Speaker 3: out of a draft. I'm usually not the type to
Speaker 3: say I nail the draft. I'm normally already thinking about
Speaker 3: week zero and how I'd add to it. But yeah,
Speaker 3: I really like it. I especially like the pitching staff.
Speaker 3: You know, strikeout, strikeout, strikeouts.
Speaker 1: Well, I finished right above you. I got a B
Speaker 1: That was an eighty three for me, and I'm fine.
Speaker 1: I usually get a B B plus on this because
Speaker 1: I am too aggressive on my certain players. But the
Speaker 1: winners of this draft here number three J Full Medal,
Speaker 1: K Schomer C. S Chomer seven six seven to ninety four,
Speaker 1: and the mailman brought it home and delivered the number
Speaker 1: one spot. Congratulations to the mailman. Hey, Welsh, Kelly beat you,
Speaker 1: but not by much eighty seven to eighty five.
Speaker 2: I know I finished above you, guys, but Kelly's finished
Speaker 2: right above here.
Speaker 1: This is a Proba Matters Welsh hot take here right
Speaker 1: from the draft software itself. Joe Pi's a p at
Speaker 1: Fantasy pros, liked my draft more than any other expert.
Speaker 2: Hey, you know who liked my draft more?
Speaker 1: Mike Mayor and Scott Pianowski liked my draft and they
Speaker 1: never liked my drafts ariel Cohne hated it, by the way.
Speaker 1: But I'm just glad that finally I got the respect
Speaker 1: of Mike Mayor after all these years.
Speaker 2: Mine was Todd d Clark, Andy Barrons really liked mine.
Speaker 2: I got Scott White. But you know who's the third
Speaker 2: most like Kelly Kirby. Kelly never likes Kelly loves my draft.
Speaker 2: So I'll take.
Speaker 1: The win, all right, John, who liked your draft more
Speaker 1: than anybody else on that experts tab on the expert
Speaker 1: opinions and you get any anybody who was positive with
Speaker 1: you or negative that you want.
Speaker 3: To I don't. I don't know. There's much going on
Speaker 3: that's like many of it.
Speaker 1: It's not judging me opinions right at the.
Speaker 2: Time, I just clicked on it. I can get I
Speaker 2: can give it for him. Yeah, fred Zinki loved.
Speaker 1: Everything.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's very well. He's also very risky, right.
Speaker 2: Also, Dalton Delle Don Jeff Bogas Nick hated yours the most, though,
Speaker 2: so watch.
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