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Speaker 1: Radio Network. Frank Staffle, Gregg sousmid here with you, Greg, Greg? Now,
Speaker 1: I just found something out of this terrible am I
Speaker 1: gonna be upset? Or is it one of those I
Speaker 1: don't care about? Not care? You can't watch Chris Archer
Speaker 1: can came some reason. Pirates do not have a till
Speaker 1: what Frank said, because he was whispering. You can't hear
Speaker 1: him the pirates. You don't have a television broadcast today,
Speaker 1: and I want to watch Chris Archer pitge. So this
Speaker 1: worked that? Well, No, we'll just have to listen to
Speaker 1: it on the radio. I don't know how that's gonna work.
Speaker 1: I'm just kidding, Greg. I'll follow. I'll follow like a dude.
Speaker 1: Why doesn't who like a Pirates? Wait? Wait wait wait wait?
Speaker 1: Who the Pirates playing Orioles? They have broadcast? No, neither
Speaker 1: team is on television. Hilarious. No, don't say that hilarious
Speaker 1: because nobody wants to watch an Orioles Pirates split squad
Speaker 1: screen training game. How do you know there's split squads? Right? No, no,
Speaker 1: you're not. Someone would argue that the Orioles roster is
Speaker 1: a split squad. You know who I kind of like.
Speaker 1: By the way, speaking of the Orioles, I think you
Speaker 1: might have drafted him. We may, We may have talked
Speaker 1: about him recently, and I kind of just discovered him
Speaker 1: separately from when we were already. What you're gonna say, Yeah,
Speaker 1: say it, say it. I'm shaking my head. Who is it?
Speaker 1: Greig said, are you gonna? Is he an outfielder? Yeah?
Speaker 1: He is. He's on my team. He's on my Great
Speaker 1: Fantasy Basic Limitational team. Greg, I like him very cheap.
Speaker 1: Fifteen Homer's fifteen stone basis cost nothing. Cedric man the second,
Speaker 1: I like him. I like Cedric Mollins. I like him
Speaker 1: more now that I know he has like the Roman
Speaker 1: numeral initial thing after Frank Stamfle to F S two
Speaker 1: that can can we make a lower So we're gonna
Speaker 1: do it. We're gonna make lower thirds that I'm gonna
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be F S two Frank Stamfeld the second
Speaker 1: or Fox Sports du mean you will be gregs in
Speaker 1: the fourth or not it'll be Ivy your father. Your
Speaker 1: father's name is Frank. It's called the Dons. I thought
Speaker 1: his name is Frank name Frank's Birthday's coming upday? Do
Speaker 1: you want to come in for his sixteenth birth Did
Speaker 1: you want to come on the air? Wen't one of
Speaker 1: birthday bash? Was that one of his drenames to be
Speaker 1: on the air with us? Yeah, we have mom for
Speaker 1: the season he had at his birthday. I don't know
Speaker 1: if he wants to do that though, I'll ask him
Speaker 1: figured outthay. He's not a prospect guy. But one thing
Speaker 1: that you're gonna learn about my dad on the air
Speaker 1: is you'll probably hear a lot. Is he likes power,
Speaker 1: Like we only play in points leads together, like my
Speaker 1: points lead, my points home league. He's a part of it.
Speaker 1: You just draft guys that like Mash Home Runs. That's
Speaker 1: his thing. We probably like madd Olsen this year. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: you own Chris Davis last year. You alost Christdames every year.
Speaker 1: You know what, before Chris Davis would kay he owned
Speaker 1: Chris Davis would have see every year. He doesn't like
Speaker 1: to a gallo, actually doesn't like to again, We're gonna
Speaker 1: have to ask him. I have a headache today. Sorry, Greg,
Speaker 1: I noticed by your NBA recap where I thought that
Speaker 1: was harsh. I didn't have I didn't have a headache.
Speaker 1: Retakes for his NBA recap that I had to edit
Speaker 1: out today. Great job, Gregg's imagine to know that right?
Speaker 1: No one knows anyway, you know, I think eight five
Speaker 1: people watching us at home. I think that maybe that
Speaker 1: maybe would have That's what gave me the heache. Constantly
Speaker 1: messing up, constantly messing my headache, constantly fixing. You know
Speaker 1: what's awesome. He's like, thankfully we don't keep the out
Speaker 1: taste where I'm just like dropping f bombs constantly. That's gonna.
Speaker 1: I can't imagine. I can't believe Frank doesn't love that.
Speaker 1: I will say, the one saving grace of you messing
Speaker 1: up constantly today during the NBA recap, was you getting
Speaker 1: mad at yourself? So I was laughing about that while
Speaker 1: I pissed myself bombs like not anybody else. When you
Speaker 1: do this one, Greg, you give yourself a pet myself.
Speaker 1: Let's go. Come on, That's what I'm constantly doing. You
Speaker 1: got a text message from a friend, his name Ryse
Speaker 1: with is it j Jay Fresh name Jeff No, the
Speaker 1: other guy Jared keep hell No, the dude that we
Speaker 1: had in studio, Jerry Jerry Wolf Jeffy j Wolf studio
Speaker 1: friend friend. Because he never gave me an email, He's
Speaker 1: supposed to contact me afterwards. I'm supposed to help him.
Speaker 1: His name reminds with Lake Bailey, and he says, you
Speaker 1: can watch the Orioles on the Mason site stream masson
Speaker 1: the Atlantic Sports Network site stream. Really, I feel like
Speaker 1: it would be on MLB TV. That's what That's what
Speaker 1: Lake Bailey says. Tell me again, where do I find it? Masson?
Speaker 1: It's gonna Masson's website dot com. A'monic guys, thank you
Speaker 1: Lake Bailey, whatever your name is, Lake Bailey is his name.
Speaker 1: Masson dot com is not a real website that's in sports.
Speaker 1: Dot com is a real website, Frank, people who have
Speaker 1: already who are listening to this hours later, already knows
Speaker 1: what happens. So we're expending more time on this. We
Speaker 1: wanted to get to Jake Arietta, which is where we
Speaker 1: left off before the break. Jake Arietta, for Ace, obviously
Speaker 1: underwhelmed last year in Philadelphia, says he was hurt, He
Speaker 1: was pushing himself. Yeah, da da dada everything you'd expect
Speaker 1: him to say. You watched him in spring training or
Speaker 1: you saw him three perfect innings, right, very very low
Speaker 1: for most people. But can he be in this range
Speaker 1: with Jay happ Can he be in this range with Kintana?
Speaker 1: Can he be in this range of Kyle Hendricks? Of
Speaker 1: a guy that, hey, you draft is a veteran and
Speaker 1: you can pair of a young player with does Jake
Speaker 1: areotta fit that mold? Yes and no. I mean there
Speaker 1: were a lot of warning signs last year that kind
Speaker 1: of told you he was done. And how much of
Speaker 1: that was attributed to him being hurt as you mentioned,
Speaker 1: just him getting older? I mean he's thirty two years
Speaker 1: old now, Um, he's you know what, he's turning thirty
Speaker 1: three tomorrow. Greg. I just realized March six is his birthday.
Speaker 1: So you know he pitched to with three nine six
Speaker 1: ear a. Last year, the indicators were right there in line.
Speaker 1: I mean, the strikeouts were waded down. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: it was seven point one nine strikeouts per nine. The
Speaker 1: swinging strikes were abysmal. This swinging strike was seven percent.
Speaker 1: I mean league averages like right around ten percent. I
Speaker 1: mean the past two years about this, from like his
Speaker 1: heyday back in the Cubs, he's gone from eleven point
Speaker 1: one percent to ten and a half percent to eight
Speaker 1: point seven percent in twenty seventeen. Last year, his first
Speaker 1: year with the Phillies seven point eight percent. He did
Speaker 1: get better in terms of command. He started throwing more
Speaker 1: first pitch strikes. He also started getting more groundballs again,
Speaker 1: I mean the groundball rate was all the way up
Speaker 1: to a fifty one point six percent. I owned him
Speaker 1: in the Points League. He wasn't so bad last year.
Speaker 1: Uh you know, he would go deep into games. He
Speaker 1: was a little bit of ratic. He he was inconsistent.
Speaker 1: But the other day in a spring training start, he
Speaker 1: went three perfect endings and had four strikeouts. This is
Speaker 1: what we talked about like watching spring training and it's
Speaker 1: not just like you overreact. All, well, you know what,
Speaker 1: we all got a draft area to now, Like, no,
Speaker 1: let's watch a few more Jake Areata starts here and
Speaker 1: see if this becomes a trend. Like let's see if
Speaker 1: the swinging strikes are starting to come back and the
Speaker 1: deception is coming back. And maybe maybe he was hurt
Speaker 1: last year. Maybe it's because he was signed so late,
Speaker 1: and you know, he didn't have a normal spring training
Speaker 1: last year. Maybe these are all things that he can
Speaker 1: have a bounce back season. Cole Hamil's right, we're talking
Speaker 1: about the renaissance last year with Cole Hamil's maybe Jake
Speaker 1: Aritta could have something like that this season. He's a
Speaker 1: name that I want to pay attention to throughout spring training.
Speaker 1: I don't want to react too much. I haven't just
Speaker 1: outside my top fifty yet starting pitcher. Can he be
Speaker 1: one of these guys that was your question. I think
Speaker 1: he can. I would say it's less than fifty percent
Speaker 1: likely as of now, but that percentage chance could creep
Speaker 1: up with every start that I see brought spring training,
Speaker 1: where he starts getting more swinging strikes and starts getting
Speaker 1: more strikeouts again, because that's something that has been lacking
Speaker 1: from his game the past couple of years, Greg, and
Speaker 1: I want to see if this is something that could
Speaker 1: become a trend and something that he builds off of
Speaker 1: going into the regular season. All right, so we're are
Speaker 1: you watching throughout spring training scene with Jake Ariation? You
Speaker 1: know what Els has my attention to? No one's talking
Speaker 1: about well, I mean for different reasons. Mattison Bumgarden has
Speaker 1: has my attention. His teammates some margin, Greg, that's some margin.
Speaker 1: I know, Yeah, that's exactly right, Greg. But you know what,
Speaker 1: you know what Ariota His a DP is two four
Speaker 1: team right, Yeah, let's let's get guess Jeff some March's
Speaker 1: ADP right now, right, because everyone is exactly like you
Speaker 1: head in the hands. It's over for jeffin margin. He sucks.
Speaker 1: Are you trying to do this last year? Guess his
Speaker 1: a DPE Nope, Nope, fight eight, Greg. This guy is free.
Speaker 1: He's nothing. You get him for nothing. I mean, he's
Speaker 1: an end of your bench, like even if especially if
Speaker 1: you're playing a deep league, if you're playing it, and
Speaker 1: only especially, he's a hundred and fiftieth pitcher off the board.
Speaker 1: The velocity has bounced back during the spring. He looked
Speaker 1: great yesterday. I pick. I mean, he's another name that
Speaker 1: I'm paying at attention to during the spring. Greg, Why
Speaker 1: can't Jeff some margin be like these guys that we're
Speaker 1: talking about, to give you a hundred eighty innings pitton
Speaker 1: of a four e r A. These are all the
Speaker 1: guys that we're talking about, right, Why can't you give
Speaker 1: you a hundred and eighty innings pitched in Oracle Park
Speaker 1: no longer a t and a hundred eighty plus innings
Speaker 1: four e r A with under strikeouts, with a decent whip.
Speaker 1: If you need an innings eater, why can't you have
Speaker 1: some RT do that? And he's going to pick four
Speaker 1: one hundred and fiftie Pitcher off the board. He has
Speaker 1: my attention. I'll leave it there. Did you give his
Speaker 1: year last year for the Giants? He was hurt last year?
Speaker 1: You like barely pit He sucked six innings all right?
Speaker 1: The year before he only had a four point four
Speaker 1: two years? How are you giving the year before that?
Speaker 1: The indicators should much better. It's true he was three
Speaker 1: point six zero x fIF isn't that wouldn't that be
Speaker 1: something that we're talking about this year? There's more just steaks, dude.
Speaker 1: How about his sixteen when he was three eight one
Speaker 1: ear A Greg great three eight one e r A
Speaker 1: in the nationally West Great seventeen that year where he
Speaker 1: had a four point four to e r A, he
Speaker 1: had a one point one four whip, Greg, A one
Speaker 1: point one four whip is more in line with it.
Speaker 1: An e r A like his EARA indicated. If you
Speaker 1: have a one point one four whip you and you
Speaker 1: have a four point four ear A, you got on
Speaker 1: watching you flat out got on, so so be That's fine.
Speaker 1: I'm not saying that you have to draft him in
Speaker 1: the same range as are yet. It's not even close.
Speaker 1: I just pointed out to Ariet is going pick to fourteen, Jeff,
Speaker 1: the march is going pick eight. If you want to
Speaker 1: talk about using spring training to see if a guy
Speaker 1: can bounce back this year and give you anything, Jeff,
Speaker 1: some Markin is the guy to watch during spring training. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm good. He's going pick for eight. Greg, he's free.
Speaker 1: Even that year where he had a four point four
Speaker 1: EARRA in seventeen, his hard hit rate was thirty percent. Greg.
Speaker 1: You know what I man, I don't tell you to
Speaker 1: strike create thirty three percent. Chase right kind of sounds
Speaker 1: like all these other pictures that were talking about who
Speaker 1: are inside the top forties, so be the I can't,
Speaker 1: I don't, I am. I'm gonna draft him on the
Speaker 1: end of all my rosters this year, not one of
Speaker 1: them and two of them. And if he sucks and
Speaker 1: I'll drop him, it's fine. He was my last round
Speaker 1: pick coming keep de Bryant for like nine weeks, and
Speaker 1: he would have been great with He would have been
Speaker 1: great with New Orleans. Greg. You know it, it's just
Speaker 1: like Brandon Mark. Why do you hate him so much?
Speaker 1: He's not good? It's like there's like a Baby Sharks
Speaker 1: song now too, so we can actually like he has
Speaker 1: like a names um. Why do you hate Jeff? Some
Speaker 1: Marco to let me go to how do you have
Speaker 1: him rank? I gotta move them up there. I don't
Speaker 1: think I do have to put it in your eye.
Speaker 1: I haven't ranked have him seventy four again, I don't
Speaker 1: believe it him there seventy five starting Jeff. I don't
Speaker 1: think I haven't. I don't have a rand draft him,
Speaker 1: drafting him everywhere. I don't think Floria and I right,
Speaker 1: don't be like Grege like me, he ranks him. He's
Speaker 1: right behind lance Lynn. Remember last year at this time
Speaker 1: he was everyone's darling before he got hurt. And now
Speaker 1: you're getting to pick free. Um. I want to go
Speaker 1: to the Colorado guys, not her mom Marquez, but specifically Johnny,
Speaker 1: Johnny Gray, and Kyle Freeland. I think you have to
Speaker 1: talk about him. I think they're going around this spot.
Speaker 1: I never do the Colorado thing. I think it's just
Speaker 1: you call. You're asking for a disaster. I know how
Speaker 1: good her mom Marquez was. I understand how good Kyle
Speaker 1: Freeland was. And I owned John Gray for parts last
Speaker 1: year in the second half of Florio. It said you
Speaker 1: should do it, and he's like, I think you should
Speaker 1: do it. So I did it and it worked out
Speaker 1: for a while. But I think Freeland, what's Kyla Kyle
Speaker 1: Freeland going. I think he's going around here. Man, he's
Speaker 1: going to pick one sixty three surround. Let's figure this
Speaker 1: out right now, Like, let's do some math. You're going
Speaker 1: pick four six, He's going to pick one sixty three.
Speaker 1: The average under eight case per nine last year, over
Speaker 1: three walks per nine last get a two point eight
Speaker 1: five r A his X fit was four point two two.
Speaker 1: He's going to pick one sixty three and it itches
Speaker 1: in Colorado. I don't want lean. How about you look
Speaker 1: in the same division and you get someone who's going
Speaker 1: three hundred plus picks later, who pitches in a way
Speaker 1: better ballpark, who's basically the same picture, even he has
Speaker 1: way better control too. So this was Freeland was a
Speaker 1: roundball specialist whose groundball rate went down last year. He
Speaker 1: got lucky with his left on base percentage, which was
Speaker 1: hit two eight five bad pitching in Coors Field, and
Speaker 1: his EARRA indicators were much higher than his two point
Speaker 1: eight five ARRA. And there's a picture going three hundred
Speaker 1: picks later. Who pitches in a pictures ballpark? Who's going
Speaker 1: to give you more strikeouts less walks? I don't get it.
Speaker 1: Should you have him right behind Jeff so Marja? I
Speaker 1: mean I have them closer than other people do. Kyle
Speaker 1: Freeland for me is sixty four. I mean I don't
Speaker 1: want anything to do with him. Some Margins having four,
Speaker 1: they're in the same tier for me. Myris ten spots Man,
Speaker 1: he had a two a five year alist. What about
Speaker 1: his team Johnny Gray? John Gray, I recognized the upside
Speaker 1: a little bit more, and he's sucks John Greg Kyle
Speaker 1: moving down to fift. No, now you're in on John
Speaker 1: Gray last year and you had my back and we're
Speaker 1: yelling at about at Floria about how bad John Gray is.
Speaker 1: I don't think how you like John Gray? John Gray?
Speaker 1: Do you what do you like John Gray? I don't know. Man,
Speaker 1: Just list all the reasons why everyone else likes John
Speaker 1: Greg close playing an x FIP league. He has a
Speaker 1: career three point five for x FIT although he has
Speaker 1: a career four point six five year Ray. That's why
Speaker 1: I like him. That's why everyone likes him. How about
Speaker 1: you read out his career sixty eight point nine percent
Speaker 1: left on base percentage, Greg, He's never been able to
Speaker 1: pitch with guys on basse. Ever, yess what when you
Speaker 1: have guys on base, you know where you're gonna give up?
Speaker 1: More hits, horse Field, anything else, anything else? No, no, no,
Speaker 1: he's gonna start singing. What does he have anything to
Speaker 1: do with John Gray at all? But unless he's dating
Speaker 1: even as a Carlton, which I don't think he is,
Speaker 1: probably not. He used to have some long, luscious blonde hair. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean seriously though, Like I understand why everyone likes
Speaker 1: John Gray over a strikeout for anying for his career,
Speaker 1: under three walks for night for his career, like eight
Speaker 1: percent round ball right, like the tarn is there seen
Speaker 1: strike create last year? I mean, that's ridiculous. That's higher
Speaker 1: than Nick Pavetta. That's where it's always at too. He
Speaker 1: was getting a head more in the count last year.
Speaker 1: He was throwing more first pitched right. I understand, Like, seriously,
Speaker 1: I know I bashed John Gray a lot. I understand
Speaker 1: why people like him, But I've done the John Gray thing.
Speaker 1: He always leaves you wanting more. Oh waits, Maybe this
Speaker 1: is the year he puts it together and pitches to
Speaker 1: those peripherals. I don't know if it's gonna be on
Speaker 1: my team. He's going late like he's a seventy first
Speaker 1: pitcher off the board according to the NFBC. That's including
Speaker 1: relief pitchers. So pick two oh one. You know what's
Speaker 1: going after him, Joe Musco. I have much worse news
Speaker 1: for you than not finding the Rocky the Pirates game.
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Speaker 1: The news I had which is breaking live with the radio,
Speaker 1: and of course you obviously heard you from this on
Speaker 1: the podcast. Luis Evarina was scratched with right shoulder discomfort.
Speaker 1: He will go and undergo further testing this afternoon. You're
Speaker 1: following along my tweets today and it's maning a lot today. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you're already in a really bad mood. I have a headache.
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Speaker 1: rather pay Eli Manning twenty three million Dolarge and Alex
Speaker 1: Ogeltree more money is they're older. I guess that first
Speaker 1: gave me the headache. And then Louis Severino, the eighth
Speaker 1: of the New York Yankees, has right shoulder discomfort. These
Speaker 1: are going great, Frank, Yeah, we obviously don't have much
Speaker 1: news about it right now outside of what you've mentioned.
Speaker 1: He's going to go undergo evaluation and undergo some tests
Speaker 1: and they're gonna find out what's going on there. But look,
Speaker 1: we're already worried about guys like Kershaw because he was
Speaker 1: hurt throughout the Spring night and Fulton Evite because he
Speaker 1: was hurting. Andrew Heiney. I told you I lowered these
Speaker 1: guys down the rankings. I'm not going to react to
Speaker 1: prematurely here, but you I mean, if you already drafted him,
Speaker 1: you have to be at least somewhat worried about this shoulder,
Speaker 1: especially you know his right so ler it's a throwing shoulder.
Speaker 1: You have to worry about this when it comes to
Speaker 1: Luis Savorrino, so obviously super worried here for fantasy purposes
Speaker 1: for the Yankees, real life purposes here, but you know,
Speaker 1: if he is going to miss any time maybe you know,
Speaker 1: starts a season on a DL or anything. A lot
Speaker 1: of people who have been banging the drum. Uh for
Speaker 1: Domingo Hermon as a as you know as Yankee rotation depth,
Speaker 1: he has a lot of swinging miss stuff. He's looked
Speaker 1: good during the spring. Uh he was you know, he
Speaker 1: was a guy last year who had the peripherals too.
Speaker 1: Uh So, look, I think we have a little bit
Speaker 1: more focused on a guy like him now. If you
Speaker 1: draft Saberino, maybe you draft Domingo Hormon as well, or
Speaker 1: even Jonathan Loazaga who has pitched well in the spring.
Speaker 1: And uh, you know, the Yankees farm system a little
Speaker 1: bit more depleted now than it has been in years past.
Speaker 1: But he's their top rank pitching prospects. So there's a
Speaker 1: few names to pay attention to if you did draft Savorino,
Speaker 1: if you plan to draft Savorino, it's rough man. We've
Speaker 1: already you know, we've already had picture injuries and now
Speaker 1: we're we're just getting another one. So we'll see what
Speaker 1: the tessa. But it's definitely concerning, definitely holding my breath. Now,
Speaker 1: we had we had thirteen starting pitchers who were like
Speaker 1: that top tier and if anything happens to in then
Speaker 1: we might be down to unless right there. Okay, um,
Speaker 1: we're kind of going by a team that by team,
Speaker 1: but like I'm trying to pair it off, and it
Speaker 1: brings me to this will your last days talking starting pitchers?
Speaker 1: Tomorrow we're getting relief pitchers. So I wanted to get
Speaker 1: the Astros guys because you talk a lot about the
Speaker 1: Astros and Berlindr and Cole the other day, but what
Speaker 1: about everybody else? Right now? Dallas Kigo is still a
Speaker 1: free agent, and while there is still a chance the
Speaker 1: Astros do resign him, there's well three more fifths to
Speaker 1: this rotation. In those three fifths as of now, include
Speaker 1: Colin mqugh, they include Wade Miley, and they may include
Speaker 1: a guy like Brad Peacock given Josh James's injury. Now
Speaker 1: there's a couple other guys that are fighting for a
Speaker 1: spot that being one of them. But we always want
Speaker 1: the Astros guys because they're well, they're really good at
Speaker 1: starting pitching. Yeah, no one's talking about Colin mq or
Speaker 1: Wade Miley or Brad Peacock or Valdez and seemingly anyway,
Speaker 1: Frank I asked you, where are these guys going and
Speaker 1: are you interested in any of them? Alan McHugh for sure,
Speaker 1: because we've we've actually seen him be a starting pitcher
Speaker 1: before with the Astros and actually be really good. I mean,
Speaker 1: if you remember, we gotta go back a little bit,
Speaker 1: but two point seven three e r A and a
Speaker 1: hundred fifty four ending starts with the Astros, he was
Speaker 1: kind of the start of like when they were figuring
Speaker 1: out how to like develop every starting pitcher that came
Speaker 1: their way. He regressed a little bit, but still at
Speaker 1: three point eight nine ear A and then you know,
Speaker 1: last year he was only in the bullpen. They kind
Speaker 1: of used him as like a multi ending weapon. We
Speaker 1: call it that mean cap or nine up over eleven
Speaker 1: one A. The xfit was three point two six. But
Speaker 1: definitely has my attention. Collin McHugh, Uh, definitely a guy
Speaker 1: that has my attention here. Um he you know, he
Speaker 1: throws the fast but he throws the fourth seamer, He
Speaker 1: throw the cutter a little bit. He threw a slider
Speaker 1: twenty four percent of the time. That's really the pitch
Speaker 1: that he's developed. And I've heard people talking about this
Speaker 1: is that he's actually worked with Brad Peacock, Uh with
Speaker 1: the within the organization developed a slider over the past
Speaker 1: two years, yards seventeen percent of the time last year
Speaker 1: percent of the time, and that was as mainly as
Speaker 1: a reliever. So now he has a new weapon that
Speaker 1: he's bringing back to the starting rotation, which I think
Speaker 1: can ultimately help him out. The swinging strikes were way
Speaker 1: up last year as well, So definitely Colin mqugh has
Speaker 1: my attention. I have him ranked in this tier with
Speaker 1: you know, with John Gray and a lot of these
Speaker 1: other guys that were talking about Tyler Skaggs and Arietta.
Speaker 1: I have Colin m q at fifty five. Um, definitely
Speaker 1: has my attention. Definitely a guy that I'm paying attention
Speaker 1: to the other guys like, I think mqugh is firmly
Speaker 1: entrenched in the rotation as of right now. UM, I
Speaker 1: think they kind of might mix and match a little bit.
Speaker 1: For the rest of these names, here, Greg with with
Speaker 1: branber Valdez, who had an elite groundball percentage last year
Speaker 1: seventy percent at the major league level, but he's consistently
Speaker 1: been over fifty percent in the minors. He be like
Speaker 1: a strike out for any kind of guy. That's what
Speaker 1: he has been struggles with command, but definitely gets a
Speaker 1: lot of groundballs. And then Wade Miley is in the
Speaker 1: mix here. Um, he's he's pitched well in the spring.
Speaker 1: Small sample size, another name to pay attention to during
Speaker 1: the spring. Let's see how way Miley kind of progresses
Speaker 1: here with the Astros. But everything the Astros have touched
Speaker 1: has turned to gold greg So Wade Miley, Um, you know,
Speaker 1: he pitched well last year. The peripherals say that he
Speaker 1: was very lucky with them with the Milwaukee Brewers, but
Speaker 1: he's had success in the past. These are kind of
Speaker 1: the guys that the Astros have taken and turned into something.
Speaker 1: So Wade Miley going super late. I mean he's not
Speaker 1: going to Jeff some marginally. Actually he's going one spot
Speaker 1: ahead of Jff margin here you go sixty six, He's
Speaker 1: going very late. That's kind of value the guys like
Speaker 1: end of your draft. Take a stab here. Uh, you know,
Speaker 1: Wade Miley co MQ, you definitely have my attention. And
Speaker 1: I think they're gonna kind of mix and match the
Speaker 1: fifth between Valdez and Pacock and Josh James hopefully once
Speaker 1: he gets healthy. I mean a lot of people were
Speaker 1: excited about Josh James, and rightfully so, I mean, he's
Speaker 1: got some filthy, filthy stuff, but now he's dealing with
Speaker 1: the injury and they really don't have many reasons to
Speaker 1: rush him. And then we haven't even mentioned, you know,
Speaker 1: their top pitching prospect, Forest Whitley, greg who had the
Speaker 1: suspension last year, who everyone's talking about. Everyone's trying to
Speaker 1: find who is this year's Walker Bueller. Who's the prospect
Speaker 1: that can come up and pitch, you know, and maybe
Speaker 1: a hundred hundred twenty innings and really be dominant at
Speaker 1: the major league level. A lot of people have thrown
Speaker 1: Forest Whitley's name out there. So if he performs in
Speaker 1: the minors and they don't have anyone who's necessarily cemented
Speaker 1: that fifth rotation spot, arce Whitley could be a name
Speaker 1: that comes up. So if you have, if you have
Speaker 1: a minor league spot on your team, which in my
Speaker 1: home league we have two minor league spots, so I'll
Speaker 1: use you know, one of my later draft picks on
Speaker 1: minor league players Forrest Whitley definitely definitely a name to
Speaker 1: pay attention to because if he's pitching well, absolutely he's
Speaker 1: gonna be up in the road tape. Absolutely. The the
Speaker 1: Ashers are his team. You always to follow the astros
Speaker 1: of the team that continues to produce starting pitchers. Don't
Speaker 1: think ultimately leading your draft. It's where you want to
Speaker 1: potentially take a stab. Continuing on jumping around here, just
Speaker 1: some pictures that interest me. I want to get to
Speaker 1: Marco Gonzalez and I want to get to Luke Weaver,
Speaker 1: two guys that are both former Cardinals prospects, both had
Speaker 1: high pedigrees. Both no longer pitched for the Cardinals. Luke
Speaker 1: Weaver was well kind of with James Paxton last year,
Speaker 1: kind of like Mike Clevinger, a shamed Weaver like these
Speaker 1: were guys, a guy that everybody was in on, drafted
Speaker 1: as a top thirties starting pitcher. He was. I didn't
Speaker 1: draft him anywhere. I worried that he was only a
Speaker 1: two pitch pitcher, and he was. That's why he got bombed,
Speaker 1: bombed away. He says, he's added a pitch. How's his springbank,
Speaker 1: how's his spring been? He pitched? Yes, take he allowed
Speaker 1: one and run. I believe he had. He had three
Speaker 1: strikeouts in three endings. Pitch only one and run allowed.
Speaker 1: He's worked on a curveball, and I know you've read
Speaker 1: the article. There's an article on the Athletic Again, this
Speaker 1: is something he's are There's a tangible change out that
Speaker 1: Luke Weaver is making where you know, he's got one
Speaker 1: of these machines. It's like a Trevor bare or kind
Speaker 1: of machine where like he throws curveballs and they tell him,
Speaker 1: you know, how good the curveball is, how much spin
Speaker 1: rate it has on him, like what he needs to
Speaker 1: do better to make that curveball better. So he's making
Speaker 1: a conscious effort here to develop a third pitch. We
Speaker 1: already know the fastball can be solid hour to change
Speaker 1: up is really his money pitch, but he needed to
Speaker 1: develop a third pitch. So if Luke Weaver can develop
Speaker 1: that curveball. Um and he was being drafted as a
Speaker 1: top thirty starting pitcher last year, Greg, I'm with you.
Speaker 1: I'm kind of buying the hype. Yeah, definitely definitely some
Speaker 1: post hype sleeper appeal here. I have Luke Weaver ranked
Speaker 1: as as my sixty one starting pitcher again in this tier.
Speaker 1: I mean a lot of these names, I don't know
Speaker 1: if we gets all of them. Just because there's so
Speaker 1: many like to mention. But a Zeus Luzardo with the Oakland,
Speaker 1: A's a lot of people. Think again, if you're looking
Speaker 1: for this year's Walker Bueller, it might be him. Julio
Speaker 1: your Ryots, I think he's in this range as well.
Speaker 1: Joey Luke Casey, who has pitched very well throughout the spring,
Speaker 1: showed us some flashes last year with the Padres as well.
Speaker 1: Alex Reyes with the Cardinals. I don't know any anything
Speaker 1: he's gonna go hundred ten. They could be really really
Speaker 1: good endings. Do you mean, Nelson? I mean, and I
Speaker 1: just I want to load up on as many of
Speaker 1: these pictures on my bench as I possibly can. I
Speaker 1: don't know if I want these guys to be like
Speaker 1: my in my starting rotation. That's a reserved for some
Speaker 1: of these other guys that we've talked about a fantasy rotation.
Speaker 1: But these guys, I don't know if I want them
Speaker 1: in them like rounding out. But I trying to take
Speaker 1: as many stabs on these guys on your bench as
Speaker 1: you possibly can. One day that you really have loved
Speaker 1: that is above these guys, is Marco Gonzalez, Well, I
Speaker 1: don't mind being in my rotation. Who can be like
Speaker 1: that six starting picture. I think he's a I think
Speaker 1: he's he He's a stabilizer in terms of ratios. I
Speaker 1: tweeted this out last night, Greg Drink. The difference between
Speaker 1: Marco Gonzalez and Miles michaelis really not that different at all. Besides,
Speaker 1: you know, the e r a is are drastically different,
Speaker 1: but the underlying numbers not so different. Marco GONZAOAZ had
Speaker 1: a four point zero zero e r A, but he
Speaker 1: had a three point five nine x FIT, a twenty
Speaker 1: one percent strikeout rate, a four point seven percent walk rate,
Speaker 1: nine point three percent swinging strike rate, sixty six percent
Speaker 1: first pitch strike percentage, and he got people to chase
Speaker 1: thirty six percent of the time. Is an ADP of
Speaker 1: two eighty two. Now Miles michaelis remember remember what I said,
Speaker 1: He had a two point eight three ear A, So
Speaker 1: I mean he was far superiors to two point eight
Speaker 1: three versus four point zero zero. The xfit was three
Speaker 1: point six seven. It was worse than Marco gonzazz Is
Speaker 1: eighteen percent strikeout. Miles michaelis worse than Marco Gnzoz three
Speaker 1: percent worse, three point six percent walk rate. That was
Speaker 1: a little bit better than Marco nine point six percent.
Speaker 1: Swinging strike rate marginal difference, it's basically the same. The
Speaker 1: first pitch strike percentage better for Miles Michaelis he passed
Speaker 1: on strike zone for sure. Swinging strike rate thirty six
Speaker 1: point six percent. I mean, it's zero point seven percent
Speaker 1: better than Marco Gonzalez. They're the same starting pitcher. A
Speaker 1: do not miss a lot of bats. They are E
Speaker 1: R A and whip stabilizers. They are not gonna walk guys.
Speaker 1: They are control artists. Uh, they're not gonna blow you away.
Speaker 1: I do think that Miles Michaels can take a step
Speaker 1: up this year in terms of strikeout right, kind of
Speaker 1: like what we see here from Marko Gonzalez with the
Speaker 1: three percent strikeout rate better and I kind of made
Speaker 1: Marco Gonzalez a seven point eight right around eight strikeout
Speaker 1: per nine kind of guy. I think Miles Michaels can
Speaker 1: make that jump. But they should not be going nearly
Speaker 1: two picks apart. They're basically the same guy. I mean,
Speaker 1: I think it's a little Seattle Mariners bias here. Everyone
Speaker 1: thinks understanding if you think about it, he pitches in
Speaker 1: safe Coo. I mean, I don't even know if they're
Speaker 1: called Safeco anymore. I feel like they might have a
Speaker 1: new name. But it's a it's a good part to Picchion.
Speaker 1: The underlying numbers are basically the same. They're going to
Speaker 1: picks apart. I'm a big Mark marka Gonzalez fan. He's
Speaker 1: inside my topt. I believe I have him as my
Speaker 1: fifty four I know I have him as my fifty
Speaker 1: three starting pitcher. If I can ass my my their
Speaker 1: sixth starting pitture on my team, rounding out my fantasy rotation,
Speaker 1: I love it. Um. Do you want to Jeff Felix
Speaker 1: Nandez as well? No, all right, let's go to the
Speaker 1: draft him Umber, Let's go to the four four eight
Speaker 1: four three six seven nine eight four four three six
Speaker 1: seven nine. Lets of our buddy Stephen in Massachusetts. What's up, Steve? Hey, Greggy, Frankie,
Speaker 1: what's upthing? Like? Guy? How I'm doing all right? I
Speaker 1: know that you guys are talking about breakout and sleep
Speaker 1: A pictures. So what about Costolo? I know everybody was
Speaker 1: big on him because of his uh he throws the
Speaker 1: heat and Ariathon and he kind of he kind of
Speaker 1: struggled himself, like his record kind of steak and he
Speaker 1: was eating and he was just getting alive in the majors,
Speaker 1: and I think, what was it twice Like the end,
Speaker 1: he kind of did something at least respectable. Should we
Speaker 1: go after him next year? Are should you just wait
Speaker 1: and see what he does and then again buy him. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So for Luis ca see, we spoke about him a
Speaker 1: lot yesterday with Matt Modik as well. I mean, people
Speaker 1: are still kind of buying into the hype. He's definitely
Speaker 1: considered a breakout starting pitcher. I don't disagree with you.
Speaker 1: So he definitely he fits this mold. But people are
Speaker 1: still in on Luise Castile, like you're not getting him
Speaker 1: as much of a discount as some of these other
Speaker 1: names that we're talking about. He's still being drafted as
Speaker 1: a top twenty five starting pitcher this year, so you know,
Speaker 1: people are still buying into what they saw in that
Speaker 1: second half when he started using the secondary pitches more
Speaker 1: with the slider and the changeup, and you know, you
Speaker 1: referenced that. I believe it was like his final thirteen
Speaker 1: starts or whatever, he had like a two point six
Speaker 1: three e r A, like he was very dominant down
Speaker 1: the stretch last year. I just I don't know if
Speaker 1: I trusted enough to take it. I think that's basically
Speaker 1: the easiest way to put it. Greg Like, I don't.
Speaker 1: There are people who love Louise Castile. They're gonna Louise
Speaker 1: Castio truthers and he's gonna end up on their teams.
Speaker 1: But I really want him as my SP three. I
Speaker 1: don't know if I could pull the trader. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: don't think still either. Yeah. I mean, you did it
Speaker 1: last year and it sucked. And if you won't go
Speaker 1: back and watch it or listen to yesterday's episode, I
Speaker 1: mean Motica gave you a bunch of reasons why people
Speaker 1: should buy back in on Luise Castio. And I respect
Speaker 1: Modica a lot. A lot of people do, and there
Speaker 1: are a lot of people who feel the same way
Speaker 1: as him. I think Luis Kisti is one of those
Speaker 1: most polarizing players. It's you know, you either trust it,
Speaker 1: you buy the stuff, or you don't. And yes, just
Speaker 1: hearing myself talk about him, I might come out closer
Speaker 1: to the side that doesn't. Yeah, I think ultimately, ultimately
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a preference, right, Like people have gotten
Speaker 1: burned by him in the past, like me, are just
Speaker 1: gonna be less app to take him someone that wants
Speaker 1: to buy last year's trash. I get it right, Like
Speaker 1: that's something that you Modica wants to do that maybe
Speaker 1: did not get burned by him as much as I did.
Speaker 1: So I mean, maybe look in your home league if
Speaker 1: people are forgetting about him a little bit more and you'
Speaker 1: get him at your SP four SP five, at that point,
Speaker 1: I'll take the plunge. Like you know, if I if
Speaker 1: I have three legit starting pitchers and you get them
Speaker 1: a little bit later, and like your home league or
Speaker 1: or something like that, something you play out with your friends. Definitely,
Speaker 1: like if I get him as my SP four SP five,
Speaker 1: I can do that. I just I don't know if
Speaker 1: I feel comfortable with one of with him as one
Speaker 1: of my top three starting pitchers. I agree with you.
Speaker 1: Can I ask you guys about another guy? Yeah? Stuff?
Speaker 1: Uh what about Marta Stroman if you get if he
Speaker 1: ends up getting traded to like a good team, because
Speaker 1: I know he's like a groundball pitcher, like like he
Speaker 1: did he didn't have that that strikeout upside. I think
Speaker 1: as a costolo, but I think he's like one one
Speaker 1: more on one of those groundball guys. He kind of
Speaker 1: stucked last year too. Uh, just stay away from him
Speaker 1: as well. He definitely sucks. He didn't kind of suck.
Speaker 1: I mean he definitely sucked. He had a five point
Speaker 1: five four e r A. But the underlying numbers greg here.
Speaker 1: I mean the fifth and the x fit were both
Speaker 1: below four. Marcus Stroman is a better pitcher than what
Speaker 1: we saw last year. Would rather that Marcus Stroman or
Speaker 1: Aaron Sanchez to the rankings. I do like both guys.
Speaker 1: I have Stroman at three, I've stay at seventy seven.
Speaker 1: I like both guys. I think I like Stromman a
Speaker 1: little bit more. He's he's shown me a little bit
Speaker 1: more in the past. He Look, he was flat out
Speaker 1: brutal last year, but you know, sixty two percent groundball,
Speaker 1: right that is, Look, he was hurt. He only pitched
Speaker 1: on a hundred and two any like, that's not Marcus Stroman.
Speaker 1: You know, when Stroman's on, I'm gonna pitch to a
Speaker 1: sub four e r A. You're gonna get a lot
Speaker 1: of groundballs. Yeah, this problem has always been he doesn't
Speaker 1: miss enough pass he doesn't get enough strikeouts. To mitigate
Speaker 1: his walks. I understand that he's much better in points
Speaker 1: because he gives you the volume as it s P six,
Speaker 1: you know, in that range, take its town. He's in
Speaker 1: this range with a lot of these guys, right all right,
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Speaker 1: There's a million names on here and if you want
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Speaker 1: give me likewi dollars. That's what he's asking for twenty
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Speaker 1: want to know. But if I pay you, I'm paying customer.
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Speaker 1: Um if you want to pay less. You just want
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Speaker 1: So that's like, it's obviously the cheapest draft passage. Well,
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Speaker 1: and you don't. You don't get old rankings ever. On
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Speaker 1: You don'ta pay a little bit less, you get a
Speaker 1: little bit less. I wouldn't recommend paying less than ten
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Speaker 1: It's a ten dollar range is probably the most bang
Speaker 1: for your buck unless you really need Frank's help during
Speaker 1: the draft, and you should pay this twenty five dollars
Speaker 1: for the best bang for your box, probably ten dollar range.
Speaker 1: And being honest, yeah, I've I've offered. Look if I'm
Speaker 1: home doing nothing while you're drafting, or if I have
Speaker 1: any space or second, like, I'll face time you. I'll
Speaker 1: FaceTime you during your draft. I'll answer your question like
Speaker 1: live what if you have a draft going on at
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Speaker 1: paying customers. Greg, alright, figure it out. I'm just saying. Look,
Speaker 1: I mean during our craft, we have we have three
Speaker 1: people that are available to drive to meet you and
Speaker 1: Floria sharing a team. I have my other draft, I
Speaker 1: have my other draft happen, right, So at least Florio's around,
Speaker 1: it's fine. And if it's during the auction, then you're around. Yeah,
Speaker 1: definitely definitely around. Bff's got my back. Are you're not?
Speaker 1: You're not dangerously worried though during what could happen if
Speaker 1: you just let me go? I am extremely They're gonna
Speaker 1: come back to like Wilmur, Flores and whatever other scrub
Speaker 1: you can find, Cedric Mullins and no Jeff s Martin,
Speaker 1: Greg We're getting Jef some mart He's a dollar he's
Speaker 1: a buck bash Hunt, he's a buck bash. Who's your
Speaker 1: buck Bash? We'll get Luke Weaver. We we gotta get
Speaker 1: Jeff s Martin. Gotta out a piece over Flowers Is
Speaker 1: that's the man. There's there's a lot of names here
Speaker 1: to get to. I think we should like we should
Speaker 1: both highlight like five names that we haven't been mentioned
Speaker 1: to get on the show and just kind of like
Speaker 1: get as many of these players on your bench as
Speaker 1: you possibly can because they have upside kind of guys.
Speaker 1: I want to start with Alex Rays with the St.
Speaker 1: Louis Cardnos, who's the name we haven't gotten to yet.
Speaker 1: Obviously he missed it was all of last year and
Speaker 1: miss year before Tommy John. He's a four top prospect
Speaker 1: and it was probably only way winning work of the
Speaker 1: year a couple of years ago before we got hurt.
Speaker 1: He is electric. As long as in the starting rotation,
Speaker 1: which he looks to be, he's worth drafting man. And
Speaker 1: that's Alex Rays is awesome. I want Alex Rays. We
Speaker 1: should talk more about Alex Rays. Yeah, I do have
Speaker 1: some concerns over the endings. I don't know how many.
Speaker 1: You know, Look, he's coming off major injury last year.
Speaker 1: He tried to come back, he got hurt as well. Um,
Speaker 1: I don't know any anyings. They're gonna let him go
Speaker 1: just flat out, like it might be a hundred, it
Speaker 1: might be a hundred and twenty. Like I personally, I
Speaker 1: wouldn't expect more than a hundred twenty. I think that's
Speaker 1: like the aggressive side of things too. But they could
Speaker 1: be twenty really good endings. I mean, this is a
Speaker 1: guy again, electric fastball. He has you know, breaking stuff
Speaker 1: which is you know, high into the upper eighties. Um,
Speaker 1: the strikeouts are gonna be there. Like, there's a lot
Speaker 1: to like about Alex Rays. I just don't know how
Speaker 1: many innings he's going to give you, So for me
Speaker 1: much more of a Rhodo play. They maybe like a
Speaker 1: head to head categories kind of guy because for head
Speaker 1: to head points leagues. We haven't really talked about this
Speaker 1: much this year, but we hammered it a lot in
Speaker 1: the past. Is you want guys that are for points leads,
Speaker 1: that are gonna give you volume, Like Rick Porcello is
Speaker 1: a guy that finishes, you know, inside the top twenty
Speaker 1: or twenty five every year in points leagues because he
Speaker 1: gives you two hundred innings and you know, he doesn't
Speaker 1: give up a lot of hits and I mean he
Speaker 1: doesn't walk a lot of guys, So um like volume
Speaker 1: is more so key than like per ending her start
Speaker 1: kind of stuff like the rich Hills of the world,
Speaker 1: the Alex Reyes like Julio your ryas, Like these guys
Speaker 1: might not give you a lot of innings, but they're
Speaker 1: better for Rhodo because when they do pitch, they're gonna
Speaker 1: be really really good. Totally agree with you, totally agree
Speaker 1: within you want to a stab or at least one
Speaker 1: of them, at least one of your look very good.
Speaker 1: Just Alex ray asked, like, take a shot on one
Speaker 1: of these guys, the dividend is can be just massive
Speaker 1: in my opinion. All right, who do you got, Frank?
Speaker 1: I think Jimmy Nelson there's a name worth bringing up.
Speaker 1: And I know I feel like we were going to
Speaker 1: ask dr Ay. Maybe we didn't get to him. I
Speaker 1: think we got to the list and we gotta get
Speaker 1: Jimmy Nelson. M hm, yesterday. So it was a starting
Speaker 1: pitcher probably, mm hmmm. Gardner doesn't sound right, Bolton Vitch, Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: well I was he asking with him. Savorno now too.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be a nice little picture episode with Dr
Speaker 1: Ray on Thursday. But Jimmy Nelson. The last time we
Speaker 1: saw Jimmy Nelson, and you know, again, I don't know
Speaker 1: how many innings he's gonna go. But the last time
Speaker 1: we saw Jimmy Nelson healthy, pretty pretty damn good. And
Speaker 1: you know that was in seventy five and a third
Speaker 1: and he's pitched that he had been coming off three
Speaker 1: years in a row. He had gone at least a
Speaker 1: hundred and seventy five ennings. Again, I don't I don't
Speaker 1: know what endings are gonna look like for Jimmy Nelson.
Speaker 1: It might be dty, might be undred forty. But I
Speaker 1: mean that year in seventeen, he finally became the picture
Speaker 1: we always wanted him to be. Three point four nine
Speaker 1: e er a the case for nine over ten, the
Speaker 1: walks per nine, two point four six groundball rate. I mean,
Speaker 1: he's just hammering all everything that I want to see
Speaker 1: from a starting picture, getting strikeouts, limiting the walks, getting
Speaker 1: a lot of groundballs. The ear right indicators were right
Speaker 1: in line. The hard hit rate was thirty one percent,
Speaker 1: the swinging try create was a career high that year,
Speaker 1: the chase rate was up. I mean, Jimmy Nelson finally
Speaker 1: came into his own and I really hoped that he
Speaker 1: can bring back some of that magic that we saw
Speaker 1: in seventeen, because if he can again, you're talking about
Speaker 1: these guys paying off major dividends here. I think. I
Speaker 1: think Jimmy Nelson is another one of those names that
Speaker 1: fits right in the UK need a picture that they
Speaker 1: can rely on. You saw the playoffs. The didn't have
Speaker 1: any right so worth out I mean once a game
Speaker 1: seventy yeah, so worth out totally fine, but they could
Speaker 1: certainly use an ace and Jimmy Nelson was suppos to
Speaker 1: be that guy for a long time for this team,
Speaker 1: got hurt, never made it back last year. But Jimmy Nelson,
Speaker 1: if you can stay healthy and find that rhythm that
Speaker 1: he had just a couple of years ago, I think
Speaker 1: he's a good late round pick for you. I'm up
Speaker 1: next year, Frank, and I want to bring up guy
Speaker 1: what we're talking about before, and that's Vinnie Velaskaz who
Speaker 1: always has been able to strike people out, always walks
Speaker 1: into other people, but every time you want to cut him,
Speaker 1: he just gives you that good start. I like Vinnie
Speaker 1: vlaska Is. I like him a lot as well. I
Speaker 1: mentioned I heard this shout out to the Fantasy Baseball
Speaker 1: Today's podcast from CBS Sports. They mentioned that Vince vlaska
Speaker 1: Is is working with a mental health coach to try
Speaker 1: and help him calm down a little bit because he
Speaker 1: gets so amped up when when pitchers are on base.
Speaker 1: So that's something that he is working on consciously here.
Speaker 1: So we'll see, like if that can make the difference.
Speaker 1: Like he's always he's always struggled with. You know, once
Speaker 1: guy's get on base, he just walks more guys. He
Speaker 1: gives up hits and stuff. But he has elite you know,
Speaker 1: we've seen games where he gets like fifteen strikeouts, you know,
Speaker 1: mid nineties fastball, A legitimate slider there. With Vince Vlaska's,
Speaker 1: he's a had the stuff. I mean, you have to
Speaker 1: worry about with the with the command, but there's a
Speaker 1: lot of moving parts with Vince of Alaska's. But I
Speaker 1: do think the talent is there. I just gotta find
Speaker 1: a way to put it all together. I'm gonna throw
Speaker 1: another name here out there, and it's a name that
Speaker 1: we saw last year kind of burst out and we
Speaker 1: didn't really know anything about him. It's Joey Luke Casey,
Speaker 1: who kind of throws this weird I don't even know
Speaker 1: what to call it. It's like a changeup, but it's
Speaker 1: kind of has like earth break too, Like it's a
Speaker 1: really really weird pitch, really unique pitch, and worries me
Speaker 1: a little bit because he really only has two pitches.
Speaker 1: But I mean, this pitch that he throws is like
Speaker 1: nothing that we've really seen before. I'm telling you, it's
Speaker 1: like a really really unique changeup that he throws here.
Speaker 1: He's basically this fastball changeup. But he's looked good in
Speaker 1: the spring as well. He pitched well yesterday he was
Speaker 1: up over ten strikeouts per nine last year, this to
Speaker 1: a four zero eight e er A not great, but
Speaker 1: the three point four or five experts says that he
Speaker 1: was a little bit unlucky. I mean he had a
Speaker 1: twenty point four per said home run, the flyball ratio
Speaker 1: pitching in Pecco, in in San Diego, so a little
Speaker 1: bit unlucky there. Joey Locsey is is a guy that
Speaker 1: I don't want people to forget about this even Yeah,
Speaker 1: I actually moved Joey lu Casey up my rankings before
Speaker 1: we started the show because Florida, I'm like super super low,
Speaker 1: and I thought it was a mistake. I think he
Speaker 1: proved last year. I haven't met sixty, and I think
Speaker 1: that's that's the right spot form. I think he's a
Speaker 1: suitable starting pitcher, and I think um that he's certainly
Speaker 1: worth mentioning a guy like Joey Luczy. I want to
Speaker 1: bring another guy that we've talked about briefly. You're gonna
Speaker 1: laugh at no, and he's much worse than that than Jeffer.
Speaker 1: And it's a guy who loved last year he was terrible,
Speaker 1: and you're gonna yell at me the second I say
Speaker 1: his name and that's Zach Godly because the the fifth
Speaker 1: and the extra and the underlying stats are all very good.
Speaker 1: But Zach Godly has no control at all. And we
Speaker 1: saw it in spring training retty he was in mid
Speaker 1: season four. But if he can get things under control,
Speaker 1: probably be pretty good for you. Okay, it's not gonna happen.
Speaker 1: That looks Zach Godly burned me big time last year.
Speaker 1: I watched a lot of Zach Godley. Starts. This guy
Speaker 1: throws his curveball. Here, I'll pull it up for you.
Speaker 1: He throws his curb ball forty point three percent of
Speaker 1: the times. He gives his curball like fastball, Like he
Speaker 1: establishes the strike zone when his curb ball, probably with
Speaker 1: a curb ball kind of heart spot. You don't really
Speaker 1: know where it's going half the time, Like yeah, you
Speaker 1: don't want to be a strike, but you know, he
Speaker 1: throws it so much, and he like falls way off
Speaker 1: the mound, like towards first base, Like there's a lot
Speaker 1: going on with his delivery. I watched a lot of
Speaker 1: Zach Godley, Like all of his pitches are basically breaking pitches,
Speaker 1: Like he doesn't have a legitimate like he throws a sinker,
Speaker 1: but he really throws like a cutter a lot of
Speaker 1: the time as well. All of his pitches have cut
Speaker 1: to them and have moved bent, and it's hard for
Speaker 1: him to throw them for strikes. Hey what you're saying, Greg, Like,
Speaker 1: if you could get the walks per get back closer
Speaker 1: to like the low threes, than maybe he can pull
Speaker 1: this off. But the walks per nine were over four
Speaker 1: last year, and I think that was a product of
Speaker 1: people saw him in and they realized, Hey, this guy
Speaker 1: only throws breaking stuff, and hey, the time, he doesn't
Speaker 1: know where it's going, so I'm just gonna lay off it.
Speaker 1: And that that happened a lot last year with Godly
Speaker 1: he fell behind accounts and then he had to throw
Speaker 1: what you would you know what he calls a fastball
Speaker 1: right into the middle of his own and then he
Speaker 1: gets hammered. So there's just there's too much going on
Speaker 1: for me. Like I understand, the strikeouts are there. If
Speaker 1: you just want a strikeout picture late in your draft shirt,
Speaker 1: I mean, you can get him for that. But I
Speaker 1: think he's gonna hurt your ear and whip quite a bit.
Speaker 1: Another guy, I know you're terrem You want another guy
Speaker 1: who's very similar, but it doesn't strike out as many
Speaker 1: players that but walks an Eton. Who's that Sean Ncombe.
Speaker 1: Nobody wants Shawn Nucomb. Nope, he went super late in
Speaker 1: my great Fantasy beat like nobody wants. He was awesome
Speaker 1: in the first half last year. He went around twenty two.
Speaker 1: He went like one pick ahead of Freddy Peralta. He
Speaker 1: you know, he was going very late. And this was
Speaker 1: a guy who was awesome in the first half last
Speaker 1: year in Shawn Knucombe. But just the walks are so
Speaker 1: worried him and he just doesn't strike out enough guys
Speaker 1: to mitigate those walks either, like eight point seven eight
Speaker 1: walks per night, like three point nine zero ear A
Speaker 1: the Fit and x Fit both over four. It's like
Speaker 1: there's just not There wasn't a lot to like about
Speaker 1: Shawan Nucam once teams like started figuring him out. His
Speaker 1: first pitch strike percentage. We've been talking a lot today
Speaker 1: about you want people to establish that strikes on up
Speaker 1: over sixty percent first pitch strike percentage. This is one
Speaker 1: of the worst I've seen. Fifty three point nine percent
Speaker 1: for Shaan Nucam. I know you brought him up. Yep,
Speaker 1: he's not a guy that I'm talking. I don't know
Speaker 1: I'm talking either. I just think it was an interesting name.
Speaker 1: He isn't interesting, that's all, just someone that catches my
Speaker 1: eye when you look down the rankings. I'll throw another
Speaker 1: one your away. That's Michael Pieta, former Yankee Great Michael Panieta. Uh.
Speaker 1: And now people were a little bit excited about his
Speaker 1: start that he made the other day where the velocity
Speaker 1: was up, and rightfully so you should be. He's always
Speaker 1: been a guy that has pretty good stuff, and like
Speaker 1: he was always talked about in the same conversation as
Speaker 1: Robbie Ray where the peripherals were so much better all
Speaker 1: the time. He would get a lot of strikeouts, but
Speaker 1: he would always have like an over four ear a
Speaker 1: because he pitched Yankee Stadium and he gave up so
Speaker 1: many home runs. Well, target field pitching in the Al Central.
Speaker 1: He's not gonna face the same type of competition that
Speaker 1: he was before, and he pitches in a little bit
Speaker 1: of a bigger ballparking here coming off Tommy John, I
Speaker 1: don't know how many anyings he's gonna give you, but
Speaker 1: he's now like a year and a half for like
Speaker 1: two years removed from Tommy John. So I have a
Speaker 1: little more faith. Maybe he'll give you like a hundred
Speaker 1: thirty forty innings pitched. He's always the talent, has always
Speaker 1: been there. I don't think that's a problem for Michael Panida.
Speaker 1: So I'm watching him, and you know what, I'll also
Speaker 1: throw his teammate in there and shout out to Florida.
Speaker 1: I know he just wrote something on his patref on
Speaker 1: about him. You know, sign up for my Patreon, sign
Speaker 1: up for Florio's Patreon as well. Uh and and you're
Speaker 1: gonna think that You're gonna think it's gross, Greg. Remember
Speaker 1: the name Martine Perez. The texts sucks, right gross? Apparently
Speaker 1: the other day in spring he was throwing ninety ninety
Speaker 1: seven miles per hour, whereas in his career. He's like, so,
Speaker 1: could we have another Charlie Morton on her hands here
Speaker 1: with Martine Perez name to watch, name to watch during
Speaker 1: the spring. If he continues throwing plus here throughout the
Speaker 1: spring and he's kind of he's figured out a new level.
Speaker 1: You know, he's reaching back and he's throwing throwing a
Speaker 1: little bit harder here, maybe we have another Charlie Morton
Speaker 1: on our hands. One more. One more team I want
Speaker 1: to mention before we wrap this up, and that's the Dodgers.
Speaker 1: We talked about rios like the Rich Hill. Obviously, Clinton
Speaker 1: Kersh loves these guys, though, the problem is you're not
Speaker 1: getting the Medica good price. In my opinion. Besides those guys,
Speaker 1: myda strippling engine riyou they all go at like they
Speaker 1: all go decently high. Actually like higher than anyone that
Speaker 1: we've talked about to this point, not everyone, but higher
Speaker 1: than like this tier that we've talked about this segment.
Speaker 1: They consistently go higher than though. I mean they're gonna
Speaker 1: they're all gonna pitch because they can just have so
Speaker 1: much debt. Justice Sheffield another name, Justice Sheffield will throw
Speaker 1: him out there. Aaron Sanchez for sure has my attention.
Speaker 1: Pay attention to him during spring Michael Former I I
Speaker 1: tweeted an article last night about Michael Fulmer. Trevor Williams
Speaker 1: is awesome last year holbout all right, We're Leavers are
Speaker 1: up tomorrow, Frank Staffel, I'm Greg Suspen. We will see
Speaker 1: you then, we hope