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Speaker 1: here in the Fantasy Sports Radio Network alongside Frankie stamfle
Speaker 1: i Am, Greg Susman. Gregg Thursday, February seven, decided to
Speaker 1: be back talking some fantasy baseball. Very excited to have
Speaker 1: dr A on of inside injuries for the first time
Speaker 1: in dr A will be talking fantasy baseball with us
Speaker 1: and some really important baseball injuries. Greg, how about that
Speaker 1: A lot of baseball injuries that you have forgotten about,
Speaker 1: because I certainly did for a long time. Yeah. Big names.
Speaker 1: Two guys that are going off the board very early
Speaker 1: in draft, specifically three Houston Astros who are going inside
Speaker 1: the top fifty picks, who are all kind of returning
Speaker 1: from injury. Yeah, you know, had offseason surgery. So we'll
Speaker 1: get into those guys. But before all else, Greg, i'd
Speaker 1: just sleep last night, just okay, he said, okay, nothing.
Speaker 1: You know, I wouldn't say it was it was great.
Speaker 1: I don't want to say I slept great. He said, okay,
Speaker 1: vide much better, much better. He walked into a pretty
Speaker 1: good mood tonight, so I thought things were good. I
Speaker 1: surprisingly drank a few beers last night. Didn't expecting to
Speaker 1: do that. See that coming now. Went out to play
Speaker 1: some basketball. King his brother right, and he's like, oh,
Speaker 1: you want to come over to drink a couple of beers?
Speaker 1: And you know, I drank like four or five beers,
Speaker 1: and then I went home and looked up some Zach
Speaker 1: Weiler stats, tweeted some stuff out Louise Casto. Yeah, had
Speaker 1: a feeling you're playing basketball last night because I texted
Speaker 1: you but the auto Porter trade and you hadn't seen
Speaker 1: it yet. You were surprised and you spilled like a
Speaker 1: half hour later or so. I was like, he must
Speaker 1: be playing basketball right now. That's exactly what it was. Ye,
Speaker 1: I figured that. I also showed King of my mess
Speaker 1: up yesterday on the air. That's why I slept so well.
Speaker 1: Screw you. I'm not cuddling you anymore. So it worked. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna shot this one. I hope you're not listening.
Speaker 1: She's not. Don't worry. Um uh so if you leave
Speaker 1: her our NBA thoughts, and I don't know how many
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Speaker 1: there from four thirty six pm giving all of our
Speaker 1: thoughts on the trade deadline. Right, Yeah, there's a lot.
Speaker 1: Last night you mentioned Otto Porter. There are a few
Speaker 1: smaller trades. Maybe we'll have some blockbusters before the deadline
Speaker 1: this afternoon. Some of the Grizzlies guys are up in
Speaker 1: the air right now, Conley Marcosol. What's gonna happen with those?
Speaker 1: Of course, still a chance Anthony Davis gets moved. Seeming
Speaker 1: more and more likely that he's not going to but yes,
Speaker 1: we will be on the NBA Twitch channel this afternoon
Speaker 1: to recap everything that went down and everything that's gone
Speaker 1: down to this point between last week's Maverick trade and
Speaker 1: Porzingis up until now. Yeah, I have almost like in
Speaker 1: there a lot of fantasy basketball tidbits to to take
Speaker 1: away totally. Basically, the entire rundown is kind of just
Speaker 1: breaking not breaking down the trade, just listening to so
Speaker 1: we don't forget anything. And I'm excited to kind of
Speaker 1: go one by one and break it down. And I'm
Speaker 1: happy you were at an hour and a half now
Speaker 1: for the program, so I think it'll be good. I agree.
Speaker 1: So that's coming a little bit later on today this afternoon.
Speaker 1: Make sure you check it out um on the NBA's
Speaker 1: Twitch stream. But today, as Frank mentioned, we're back into baseball.
Speaker 1: We'll talk to Dr Ray. I cut off about twenty
Speaker 1: past the hour to get into some of these baseball injuries.
Speaker 1: But as Frank was actually compiling the list yesterday of
Speaker 1: the players that we wanted to talk to Dr a about,
Speaker 1: it was kind of surprising. I guess that I was like, hey, astro, astro, astro,
Speaker 1: and we realized that's kind of a good place to start.
Speaker 1: We wanted to get into the astros today, not because
Speaker 1: there are that many new faces here there There are
Speaker 1: a couple, no doubt, but it's the returning faces and
Speaker 1: where they're going. As Frank mentioned, guys in the top
Speaker 1: fifty here that you want to know, well, when do
Speaker 1: I draft them? Should I be drafting them? Is it
Speaker 1: too early? Is the value not good enough? This is
Speaker 1: what we're gonna talk about. This we want where want
Speaker 1: to breakdown. Jose L tv has been a first round
Speaker 1: pick for several years now in fantasy baseball, and there's
Speaker 1: always a debate can you We're not there's million ways
Speaker 1: to win, but can you win by drafting Al two
Speaker 1: B a second overall or third overall? Where he was
Speaker 1: going and then he went down to more like six seven?
Speaker 1: But can you win by drafting jose L Tuvan in
Speaker 1: the first round? Because he wasn't a guy that was
Speaker 1: going to fifty home runs. He was a guy that
Speaker 1: was more gonna hit, you know, mostly horny, So you
Speaker 1: thought that you a ton of stolen basis have a
Speaker 1: high average. He wasn't a guy who's like Aaron Judge
Speaker 1: or Jean Carlo stant or something like that. But of
Speaker 1: course in Alt two bays m VP here he you know,
Speaker 1: stole fifty bases, and he hit more home runs than
Speaker 1: ever expected, and he scored on the runs in the
Speaker 1: RBIs and everything was there. So the question marks kind
Speaker 1: of went away for jose L last year. Of course,
Speaker 1: last year is the first year of his career. All
Speaker 1: of a sudden he got hurt and being jose L two,
Speaker 1: he still played in most of the games, but a
Speaker 1: hundred and thirty seven games last year, but because of
Speaker 1: those injuries, everything was down. Even when he came back,
Speaker 1: he simply was not healthy. He had less who runs,
Speaker 1: he had less runs scored, he had less rb I,
Speaker 1: he didn't even steal twenty bases. The o VP was
Speaker 1: still where you liked it at three six, but all
Speaker 1: the counting stats were lower because of that, because of
Speaker 1: the injuries, because of question marks that have now come
Speaker 1: back surrounding Josel to his a DP has dropped. Frank,
Speaker 1: where is Josel to be going right now? And what
Speaker 1: do you think of him as a player going forward?
Speaker 1: So from January one on until today February seven, on
Speaker 1: NFBC a DP, he's going to pick the fifteen point
Speaker 1: nine three, and he fits the mold of one of
Speaker 1: the players in years past that has been a first
Speaker 1: round pick was now slipping to the second round, and
Speaker 1: I think rightfully so based on the injury last year.
Speaker 1: He was dealing with a knee injury. The reason why
Speaker 1: I Tove was so good for fantasy purposes over the
Speaker 1: past couple of years is because he gave you three
Speaker 1: main categories, and he was very good in those three categories.
Speaker 1: Three of I would say the hardest catch. That's exactly
Speaker 1: what I was going to say. As so many fantasy
Speaker 1: players look for the power, the home runs. You're looking
Speaker 1: for the r B I like I. I get it,
Speaker 1: no doubt. You still need a base like you need
Speaker 1: the base of home runs and r b I s
Speaker 1: and you can get that in your you know, second, third,
Speaker 1: fourth round picks. But to have a guy who in
Speaker 1: the past couple of years was gonna steal you thirty bases,
Speaker 1: was going to hit three tree thirty, was going to
Speaker 1: score a hundred plus runs. Those are sets that are
Speaker 1: hard to come by. Um. But I do have question
Speaker 1: marks as to whether or not he can get back
Speaker 1: to those numbers. That's why I say, you know when
Speaker 1: he's going in the second round of dress rightfully so,
Speaker 1: because if he's not giving you thirty stolen bases anymore,
Speaker 1: if he's not hitting three thirty, I still think that
Speaker 1: the runs will be there. I still think that the
Speaker 1: Astro's lineup will be very potent. But coming off a
Speaker 1: knee injury, he had a and we're gonna talk to
Speaker 1: dr about this Hoteller evulsion fracture in his right knee UM,
Speaker 1: and he had surgery to repair that on October nineteenth.
Speaker 1: He's expected to you ready for spring training, be ready
Speaker 1: for the season. His status is not in doubt. UM,
Speaker 1: with everything that happened last year, playing through the injury,
Speaker 1: obviously his power was sad because of that, couldn't really
Speaker 1: get his legs underneath him, he didn't run as much.
Speaker 1: The batting average was still three sixteen, which was fourth
Speaker 1: best in baseball. But this is what I'm saying, right
Speaker 1: I'm you said you thought that draft spot was kind
Speaker 1: of right for him. I'm actually in love going back
Speaker 1: into jose al Tube this year. Like I take everything
Speaker 1: we saw last year and know that this need bothered
Speaker 1: him and he tried to play the means that you
Speaker 1: boy with the stolen bases are going to be back.
Speaker 1: I do because listen, that injury, his eye didn't change.
Speaker 1: He studied great. I was by the like he's still
Speaker 1: young enough, like he's not old, but he's in the
Speaker 1: prime of his career. So his eye didn't change last
Speaker 1: year when he was hurt. So his on base percentage
Speaker 1: was still as good as it's, still as good as normally.
Speaker 1: The average was still as not not as good as
Speaker 1: it was as it always is. But as you said,
Speaker 1: what third best in baseball sixteen? It was fourth best
Speaker 1: in baseball? He hasn't fine average, but three in five
Speaker 1: street season he still didn't really strike you how he
Speaker 1: could have a higher actual cay percentage and he has
Speaker 1: his entire career at seven. We'll take that. Obviously, his
Speaker 1: walk percentage actually went up. So those other numbers where
Speaker 1: you have are related to his legs, specifically runs and
Speaker 1: stolen bases going back down. That's not a surprise. It
Speaker 1: has to do with his knee. So yeah, Frankie, I'm
Speaker 1: banking that the stolen bases go back up. Yes, Well,
Speaker 1: that's the only way that you could draft him in
Speaker 1: the second round. And the projection, here's what I have
Speaker 1: projected for jose L two and projections for the most part,
Speaker 1: they're conservative, like I'm not going to project him for
Speaker 1: a hundred runs? Can he score a hundred runs? He
Speaker 1: could easily score a hundred runs in the Astros line
Speaker 1: up right. I have him for a three fifteen average,
Speaker 1: eighteen home runs, ninety runs scored, a d r BI,
Speaker 1: twenty stolen basis to me, I'm not using my second
Speaker 1: round pick on that player. He's interesting. All the projections
Speaker 1: over on fan graphs are very similar to what you're saying. Now,
Speaker 1: that's what I try to do. I look at, you know,
Speaker 1: the past three years, I kind of look at all
Speaker 1: the different projection systems and a how to come up
Speaker 1: with like a cumulative projection of my own. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean that seems realistic. And what you're saying is very
Speaker 1: much on part with what all the other projections are
Speaker 1: on on fangraphs. Whether it's Steamer, whether it's a t
Speaker 1: C the bat, I don't know what this is, but
Speaker 1: their projection systems, I'm sure that is from Derek Carty. Oh,
Speaker 1: it's cool, like Derek Carter ESPN and a t C
Speaker 1: um you know, I know a t C is I
Speaker 1: saw you were on top of this. Right name is
Speaker 1: Ario uh A t C sings fa la la la la.
Speaker 1: He goes all around or like la la la la.
Speaker 1: That's um anyway. So all the projection systems have him
Speaker 1: at under towel almost all besides at C, under twenty
Speaker 1: stoma A t C and y on Twitter. He actually
Speaker 1: is a good follow, so go and check him out.
Speaker 1: He was up for Baseball Writer of the Year an
Speaker 1: Article of the Year Lost Flora. Check out my Florio.
Speaker 1: Check out the patreon for him under twenty stolen bases
Speaker 1: for out to under twenty home runs nine five unscored,
Speaker 1: give or take a d r B. I I think
Speaker 1: those are conservative, I really do. Maybe I'm banging on
Speaker 1: him just being healthy and last year being a misnomer.
Speaker 1: I know objection systems are always conservative, for sure, and
Speaker 1: I'm normally one of those guys that don't like layers
Speaker 1: are getting older. I want to buy in the young,
Speaker 1: sexy guy. I know that about myself, right, but old
Speaker 1: He'll be twenty nine in meg, so I don't feel
Speaker 1: like this guy all of a Sud'm just gonna drop off.
Speaker 1: I look at it like, hey, it was a bad year.
Speaker 1: I really like jos TV. I think he gets back
Speaker 1: to thirty. I think is realistic. I really do. Here's
Speaker 1: the problem Greg drafting Jose Tu in the second round.
Speaker 1: You have to have the right construction because, in my opinion,
Speaker 1: what I said yesterday, right if you draft a starting
Speaker 1: pitcher in the first round, you in the second round,
Speaker 1: you're chasing power for the rest of your roto draft.
Speaker 1: So really, to me, the only way that you're taking
Speaker 1: a guy like Alt in the second round right now,
Speaker 1: NBC AD is if you're a you're getting Nolan Arronado
Speaker 1: in the first or you're pairing him with Manny Machado,
Speaker 1: or you're pairing him with Bryce Harper. That's how you're
Speaker 1: taking Holdale, or you're pairing him with Aaron Judge. That
Speaker 1: probably makes the most sense because Aaron Judge is giving
Speaker 1: you to six ctis, two seventies, giving you forty plus
Speaker 1: home runs, giving you runs, giving you r BI, and
Speaker 1: then Mosal TV will kind of counteract him because he'll
Speaker 1: still give you the tough categories and runs, and they'll
Speaker 1: give you batting average and I'll also give you some
Speaker 1: stolen bases. You know, Judge will maybe give you eight
Speaker 1: to ten stolen basis, and me personally, I think all
Speaker 1: TV probably closer to So you have a nice little
Speaker 1: base there, but I don't know if I can start
Speaker 1: my draft bris sale Why why can't you do that?
Speaker 1: Go Chris sale l T and then like Reece Hoskins
Speaker 1: you can again They're like, there are ways to do it.
Speaker 1: It's just how much do you trust a guy like
Speaker 1: Reece Hoskins? Do you trust him enough to be your
Speaker 1: You need a few legitimate sluggers and then you know,
Speaker 1: in the third, fourth round you can get a guy
Speaker 1: like him. You get Chris Davis with a KA certainly
Speaker 1: absolutely so you know he's still powerful at him and
Speaker 1: he's a he's a good player to kind of pair
Speaker 1: with Josel too, because he doesn't give you a great
Speaker 1: batting average, but he's gonna give you home run, he's
Speaker 1: gonna give you RBIs and Alto gives you a little
Speaker 1: bit of everything else. Me, I'm just really worried about
Speaker 1: the stolen basis. If he's not giving you close to
Speaker 1: thirty or thirty plus, I think that is a lot
Speaker 1: of his value. Great, well, it means it's a lot
Speaker 1: of the value. Fine, but we both agree the runs
Speaker 1: probably go back up being on top of being toward
Speaker 1: the top of that lineup, you know the average, and
Speaker 1: we know he's going to be healthy. We're expecting to be.
Speaker 1: But there's a good question for Dr. Right, who will
Speaker 1: talk to you in about five minutes or so. It's
Speaker 1: an injury, like how severe? Is this the injury for
Speaker 1: a baseball player to come back and doesn't literally come
Speaker 1: back from being able to run and steal bases? Does he?
Speaker 1: Linger isn't something that could recur? Those are the questions
Speaker 1: that we ultimately are gonna have to ask Right. Like me, personally,
Speaker 1: Alex Bregman is going three spots higher than him. I'd
Speaker 1: rather have Brea. Let's get into Bregman here. Now. Bregman
Speaker 1: was a guy I remember last year. We talked a
Speaker 1: lot about Alex Bregman going into the year, and it's
Speaker 1: funny we talked about reatedly I was out well, so
Speaker 1: it's funny we talked about roster construction and buying him
Speaker 1: at a ceiling because I wanted nothing to do with it.
Speaker 1: I never liked how my roster ended up when I
Speaker 1: was drafting Alex Bregman. I never wanted to draft Alex Bregman.
Speaker 1: Where he was going, So I didn't. I wanted that
Speaker 1: with Bregman absolutely nowhere, and I was wrong. He was
Speaker 1: absolutely incredible last year. Over hundred runs scored, over hundred RBIs,
Speaker 1: over thirty home runs, ten stolen basis, he barely strikes out.
Speaker 1: He walks an the o v P around four hundred.
Speaker 1: I mean, there's no other way to describe it. Alex Bregman.
Speaker 1: Bregman was absolutely marvelous last year. And it's crazy because
Speaker 1: he got off such a slow start. Remember he hit
Speaker 1: five home runs through April and May, his average was
Speaker 1: around to sixty and we were wondering if Alex Bregman
Speaker 1: was this bust, Like we felt really good about ourselves
Speaker 1: for not drafting Alex Bregman. Of course, through the summer months,
Speaker 1: as the weather heated up, he got scorching hot, particularly
Speaker 1: in June where he had eleven of his thirty one
Speaker 1: home runs. He was absolutely ridiculous and it all ended
Speaker 1: up for the stats that I gave before. Frankie, I
Speaker 1: have to ask you, is Alex Bregman somebody that you
Speaker 1: feel comfortable with as a first round pick? Yes? Delay there,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Wait before I get into this. We're talking
Speaker 1: about today with Dr A. But I have to ask
Speaker 1: give me one word to describe your feelings on jose
Speaker 1: L two by out and I'm gonna use a debt.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna use mine. I'll say bounce back. I know
Speaker 1: it's a dash. That's the kind of on word we'll go.
Speaker 1: We'll go with bounce back, Mike, it's my rule, so
Speaker 1: it's bounce back. It changed the rules. And Alex Bregman,
Speaker 1: Alex Bregman. Look, you mentioned he doesn't strike out. He
Speaker 1: was one of four players who walked more than he
Speaker 1: struck out last year, four swinging strikes, unbelievable, second best
Speaker 1: in baseball behind who Michael Brantley also signed. And you
Speaker 1: know it pisces me off how smart the Houston Astros
Speaker 1: are and how forward thinking they are. As a Yankees fan, Um,
Speaker 1: you know, just selfishly. But everyone's trying to hit home runs.
Speaker 1: Everyone is, you know, they're trying to hit home runs,
Speaker 1: but at the cost of striking out a lot. And
Speaker 1: Houston Astros go out and they signed Michael Brantley, which
Speaker 1: at the time everyone's like, all right, well, you know,
Speaker 1: doesn't really move the needle. But they have a bunch
Speaker 1: of guys on their team that don't strike out, and
Speaker 1: Michael Brantley, they have Alex Bregman, they have mose L
Speaker 1: two A, they have you know, Carl's career will get
Speaker 1: into him as well, but Bregman. Look, there's a lot
Speaker 1: to like. Back to back seasons at least two eighty
Speaker 1: four batting average. It seems like everything he did last
Speaker 1: year was in the progression of you know, of a hitter.
Speaker 1: You know, he's only twenty four years old, Like he's
Speaker 1: only maturing and getting better, and it's like everything you've seen,
Speaker 1: he's gotten better each and every year. And he's a
Speaker 1: slow starter. Admittedly, when he first came into when he
Speaker 1: first was called up, I remember there was a huge
Speaker 1: slump he was in. It was like, you know, one
Speaker 1: for his first thirty one or whatever it was, and
Speaker 1: and he, you know, he took off the rest of
Speaker 1: the year. He was a slow starter last year. He
Speaker 1: had only one home run in both March and April.
Speaker 1: He had thirty home runs the rest of the way
Speaker 1: over the final five months of the season, ended up
Speaker 1: with thirty one home runs. Five to a player. He's
Speaker 1: not gonna give you a ton of stone basis, No.
Speaker 1: Ten to fifteen stone basis, but it doesn't hurt your
Speaker 1: batting average tweet five thirty home runs one d r
Speaker 1: b I s and that was with Carl's Korea sucking
Speaker 1: last year and jose l to hurt he could be
Speaker 1: even better just twenty four years old. Is that power
Speaker 1: for real? Someone we'll talk about in a little bit.
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Speaker 1: I'm green excited, and I think you can hear in
Speaker 1: our voices that we're excited to get back into baseball
Speaker 1: and really dive deep and find out what we like
Speaker 1: would just like Frank, We've had a really I guess
Speaker 1: our first disagreement so far stronger disagreement is on a player.
Speaker 1: You said you're one word for Josel to bay out,
Speaker 1: and I'm very much in on jose So our first
Speaker 1: true disagreement this season was just kind of exciting, cause
Speaker 1: we've been pretty much locking step uh thus far. With
Speaker 1: that speak of jose L. Let's bring our guy dr
Speaker 1: A from Inside Injuries. Who's gonna give us the latest
Speaker 1: on all these astros and a whole lot more. What's
Speaker 1: going on? Doc? Uh? Good guys, how are you guys
Speaker 1: doing today? We're doing really really well? Uh, feeling good?
Speaker 1: How did you? I did just sleep last night? I
Speaker 1: slept really good. Actually slept at seven thirty. When's the
Speaker 1: last time you guys went to bed at Never in
Speaker 1: my life? I don't know, probably under five years old.
Speaker 1: Remember well, I woke up at four am. So there
Speaker 1: you go. Okay, that makes sense. Okay, So Doc, we
Speaker 1: We started the program off talking about jose Al tob
Speaker 1: and in this weird knee injury that he had and
Speaker 1: the surgery. Uh, what's the latest on him? Is this
Speaker 1: an injury that could linger kenna? Is it easy to recur?
Speaker 1: Will it affect him running this upcoming season? What's going
Speaker 1: on with jose L two bay? Yeah, So the injury
Speaker 1: actually was a pateller tendon evulsion fracture. You know, the
Speaker 1: pateller tendon attaches on the sort of the top part
Speaker 1: of your tibia and then extends into the patela and
Speaker 1: then attaches to the patela. It's responsibility is to stabilize
Speaker 1: when you when you bend and extend your knee. The
Speaker 1: problem is is that he just didn't have a patellar
Speaker 1: tendon tear. He also had he had a patellar tendon
Speaker 1: of vulsion fracture. What that means is that when it
Speaker 1: got when it got you know, stretched, it pulled a
Speaker 1: piece of bone off of the patella as well. This
Speaker 1: is a notoriously difficult thing to come back from, even
Speaker 1: as a normal person that does not play um, you know,
Speaker 1: professional baseball, and so Al two days, you know, small
Speaker 1: guy relies a lot on speed, a lot of being
Speaker 1: involved in the play, etcetera, a lot of lateral movement, etcetera.
Speaker 1: This will even when he comes back completely healthy and
Speaker 1: completely ready to go and it's healed surgery side, it's fine,
Speaker 1: you know, this will impact his ability to actually obtain
Speaker 1: the amount of lateral and you know, acceleration movement that
Speaker 1: he requires, you know, being who he is, especially at
Speaker 1: the shortstops issue. And so it increases his chance for
Speaker 1: a risk. And so even though he'll be back and
Speaker 1: clear by May, we're we're predicting a right around the
Speaker 1: beginning of May. Right now we have May nine to
Speaker 1: where he could be fully operational. The problem is is
Speaker 1: that his injury risk will remain quite high and and
Speaker 1: he'll always have that now because of this uh pateller
Speaker 1: evulsion fracture injury and about Frank one zero absolutely so
Speaker 1: inside injuries. Has his you know healthy to return, return
Speaker 1: and perform date in May, and he's going to give
Speaker 1: it a go in spring training, like you know, he's
Speaker 1: gonna be there on opening day. So he's even returning
Speaker 1: before you know what the timeline says it should be. So,
Speaker 1: I mean, look, there's a there's a lot there to
Speaker 1: worry about what holds out to especially a guy that
Speaker 1: you want to bank on giving you thirty stolen basis
Speaker 1: if you're taking him in the second round, and it
Speaker 1: just sounds to me like he's not gonna approach that number.
Speaker 1: Last year, he stole seventeen and it clearly hampered his game,
Speaker 1: and I think it's gonna do so once again heading
Speaker 1: into this year. I I can't use a second round
Speaker 1: pick on Dale. I think where he's being drafted and
Speaker 1: following in draft is uh is rightly justified. I want
Speaker 1: to ask you about Alex Bregman, another Houston astro, who
Speaker 1: underwent surgery last month to quote, remove loose bodies from
Speaker 1: his elbow. This is this sounds a lot scarier when
Speaker 1: it involves a starting pitcher. How about when it's a
Speaker 1: third baseman. Yeah, so third baseman obviously you know, requires
Speaker 1: that throw on right. He's a right handed guy. Um,
Speaker 1: And so the thing is he's not utilizing that arm
Speaker 1: as much as a picture is. So yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: we're we're concerned about the third basement from a power standpoint,
Speaker 1: but nowhere near the sensitivity of um, you know, a picture.
Speaker 1: But having said that, removing loose bone chips. It's actually
Speaker 1: a pro active procedure. Um, it's not response to something
Speaker 1: that is completely torn or fractured, etcetera. So you know, Uh,
Speaker 1: this is a great three elbow injury on a third baseman.
Speaker 1: And you know, although he'll be we agree that you know,
Speaker 1: they should take its sensitively and limit him in the
Speaker 1: start of spring training. UM. You know he should be
Speaker 1: able to go probably by opening day. Uh from that standpoint,
Speaker 1: because um, even though they have to take him sensitively,
Speaker 1: his HPF should get back up to above average to
Speaker 1: peak helds so not as sensitive as a picture. It's
Speaker 1: important though, and it's important that they are limiting him
Speaker 1: in spring training and then taking its step by step
Speaker 1: on the way back, so nothing's torn there. It's a
Speaker 1: clean up procedure, Uh, to prevent anything further happening this season. Doc,
Speaker 1: you use the word power to describing Alex Bregman, and
Speaker 1: last year what we loved about him so much was
Speaker 1: that he hit thirty one home runs. Is this something
Speaker 1: that could affect his power this season? Uh? It could
Speaker 1: improve it. Actually, you know, this is something that will
Speaker 1: make it better. I mean, he probably was playing through
Speaker 1: these loose bone chips. The last season. So this should
Speaker 1: not this type of procedure, if everything goes okay, should
Speaker 1: actually make his power better and should be he should
Speaker 1: be ready to go. This is a proactive type of procedure,
Speaker 1: which is a very good call for him. Greg, I
Speaker 1: have my word for Alex Bregman. Okay, that's a good word, Frank,
Speaker 1: that's a good one. Very excited, very excited, very excited,
Speaker 1: clearly about Alex Bregman. We're talking to Dr a of
Speaker 1: inside injuries. We're doing a whole astro show here, particularly
Speaker 1: on four guys that are coming back from injuries. We
Speaker 1: mentioned Bregman, we mentioned out to you, but he wanted
Speaker 1: to get to Carlos Correa as well, who battled injuries
Speaker 1: also most of the last year. He has deemed himself
Speaker 1: completely healthy and ready to go. Uh. Frank and I
Speaker 1: are gonna get into him after we talk to you, Doc.
Speaker 1: What's the latest in Carlos Corea so back in oblique injuries.
Speaker 1: This has been his nemesis, you know for a while now.
Speaker 1: He missed fifty games last year because of it. Uh,
Speaker 1: And I'm sure he's had multiple m r s. And
Speaker 1: it looks like because of the fact that he's had
Speaker 1: trouble sleeping and you know taking deep breaths that he
Speaker 1: does have. You know, he probably had a partial terror
Speaker 1: of his obliques and he also probably has a multiple
Speaker 1: bulges or even a discarnation, et cetera. However, you know,
Speaker 1: he tends to often play through these injuries, so these
Speaker 1: are more like grade one and grade two back and
Speaker 1: oblique injuries. However, I think the you know, sort of
Speaker 1: the time is catching up with him right now. You know,
Speaker 1: even though he's at above average at sixty percent in
Speaker 1: the off season, um it will go back up to
Speaker 1: pe health, but his injury risk will remain at about
Speaker 1: thirty percent because he will miss a third of the
Speaker 1: season that you can almost guarantee. These core injuries are scary, Greg.
Speaker 1: I mean, look, as much as you want to hope
Speaker 1: because he's so young and that youth is on his
Speaker 1: side and that he'll be able to bounce back from
Speaker 1: an injury like this, and I don't want to completely
Speaker 1: compared to Kershaw because it's different. It's definitely certainly when
Speaker 1: you're a picture and you know the stress that you
Speaker 1: put on your back, but I mean, look when you're
Speaker 1: a hitter and you swing with as much torque as
Speaker 1: you do, and you have, you know, issues with your
Speaker 1: oblique and your back and your core, and it just
Speaker 1: really worries me. I know that. You know, you want
Speaker 1: to get excited about where Carlos Correa is going this
Speaker 1: year because you're getting him at such a discount, but man,
Speaker 1: it has me worried. You know, Look, another shortstop that
Speaker 1: has me worried. I think it's a natural transition here.
Speaker 1: Doc is moving into Corey Seeger. Look, Seeger and Carlos
Speaker 1: Correa were taking the league by storm, as you know,
Speaker 1: two young shortstops who were going very early in fantasy
Speaker 1: drafts last year at this time. And look, he's recovering
Speaker 1: from not only Tommy John surgery, but he had arthroscopic
Speaker 1: hip surgery in August. So I guess they figured, you know, hey,
Speaker 1: while you're out rehabbing from Tommy John, you might as
Speaker 1: well get this done too. You know, you mentioned a
Speaker 1: proactive move with Alex Bregman earlier on in the show.
Speaker 1: I think this is probably one of those moves that
Speaker 1: the Dodgers looked to make with Corey Seeger. Um, how
Speaker 1: much do we trust him heading into this season? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I mean the Tommys John surgery happened quite a while ago,
Speaker 1: and uh, you know this the very the good news
Speaker 1: is that he didn't have like an acute hip injury.
Speaker 1: Um you know that caused him to have surgery. I
Speaker 1: bet you this was a very very proactive type of surgery.
Speaker 1: And so he's he's been off you know, has been
Speaker 1: off the field for quite a bit of time. Um,
Speaker 1: and so when he does get back on the field, um,
Speaker 1: you know, he should be ready to go. The problem
Speaker 1: is is that we're projecting that he's not going to
Speaker 1: be ready for opening day and it's more like a
Speaker 1: late April early May type of start for us. And
Speaker 1: so if he has any chance of coming back during
Speaker 1: opening day, I would really look at that as been
Speaker 1: be very cautionary on that because he he shouldn't be
Speaker 1: ready until early May. Coming back from Tommy John surgery
Speaker 1: is at least a year. Uh. And then left hip
Speaker 1: surgery on top of that, even though it's our for
Speaker 1: scopic and may have been proactive, the combination of these
Speaker 1: two injuries and getting getting back on the field March
Speaker 1: end of March, mid March is just not I we
Speaker 1: think a realistic possibility. We think it's more at the
Speaker 1: end of April. If Carlos Correa end or see both
Speaker 1: play on opening day this year late March early April,
Speaker 1: who is more likely to reinjure themselves? Is it Correa? Um? Yeah,
Speaker 1: Correa mainly because if you're talking about any injury, the
Speaker 1: very fact of a back and oblique, you know, getting
Speaker 1: reaggravated is much higher than retearing, uh, you know, an
Speaker 1: elbow or having some significant hip surgery. Again, speaking of elbows,
Speaker 1: I wanted to bring up perhaps the most famous elbow
Speaker 1: right now in MLBING. That's Shoeotani. It's Tommy John surgery.
Speaker 1: A few months back, and the rumor was that he
Speaker 1: was going to be a hitter this year started at
Speaker 1: d H and because the hitter rehab obviously takes a
Speaker 1: much shorter than the picture rehab does, he's not asked
Speaker 1: to play the field. He's literally just asked to hit. Now,
Speaker 1: news came out out about a week or so ago
Speaker 1: that hey, he may not be ready for opening day.
Speaker 1: We were just talking about Corey Corey seeger and he's
Speaker 1: Tommy John surgery. What's up with Shoyotani and his I mean,
Speaker 1: just because he's not pitching that does not mean that
Speaker 1: it does not put due forces on the elbow when
Speaker 1: you hit. I mean you use every single aspect and
Speaker 1: the torque that's created on swing is not as great
Speaker 1: as a pitch, but it is still putting pressure on
Speaker 1: that elbow. So it has to get the Simmy John
Speaker 1: surgery has to get back to a certain point, and
Speaker 1: hell to a certain point before they're going to even
Speaker 1: allow him to swing. And so the Lner Colado ligament
Speaker 1: has to heal, the reconstruction, it has to heal because
Speaker 1: God forbid, he takes a swing and tears the u
Speaker 1: c L. And then you know we're talking two years
Speaker 1: two one, right, and so I mean I can't even
Speaker 1: think further than two months from now, but think about
Speaker 1: two years from now, right, And so I think this
Speaker 1: is a bad move to have him d H. If
Speaker 1: he's going to get one injury, he's got to get
Speaker 1: the other man, meaning he's got to he's got to
Speaker 1: basically be out the whole time. Um, numbers wise, Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's a great hitter, but um, you know that he's
Speaker 1: taking a big risk of damaging that U c L
Speaker 1: surgery further if he's going to d H. So no
Speaker 1: way by um opening day. I think it's at least
Speaker 1: made to June that he'll be back. If he's back,
Speaker 1: I'm telling you, this is one of those things where
Speaker 1: they make a decision and they decide, you know what,
Speaker 1: our investment is protected if we let him heal completely first. Yes,
Speaker 1: this is one of those things. I'm not interested in
Speaker 1: Otani this year because of that exact reason, because plans
Speaker 1: can change the the arm is so valuable even in
Speaker 1: a daily Transactionally, you don't even want him there. I'm
Speaker 1: just really nervous about it. Man. And this goes back
Speaker 1: to a lot of what we talked about last year
Speaker 1: with Otani. How you know it's gonna be tough for
Speaker 1: the team to manage, you know, him being a hitter
Speaker 1: versus being a picture and you know this is why
Speaker 1: we don't see a player like this all this often. Yes,
Speaker 1: he was the American League Rookie of the Year. He
Speaker 1: took the league by storm. He was awesome to watch,
Speaker 1: he was a great hitter. He was fun to watch
Speaker 1: as a picture as well. But it really really need
Speaker 1: needs to be smart about the way that they manage
Speaker 1: Otani heading into this season. Doc, we asked you about
Speaker 1: Corey Seeger and his hip surgery. Earlier on in the show,
Speaker 1: I want to ask you about Buster Posey now thirty
Speaker 1: one years old. He's gonna be thirty two come late March.
Speaker 1: Last season, in August, he one underwent season ending surgery
Speaker 1: to repair a micro fracture and laboring pair in his
Speaker 1: right hip. Um it sounds really bad for a catcher, Yes,
Speaker 1: big time, and you know because of his age and
Speaker 1: all the other injuries that he's had, I mean the
Speaker 1: wear and tear you guys know, for catcher, it's just
Speaker 1: just you know, it's like a running back in the NFL, right,
Speaker 1: and so they're their lifespan in the in the league
Speaker 1: is just it just gets uh, you know, for short
Speaker 1: shortened considerably by just being in that position alone. But um,
Speaker 1: you know, great four hip surgery, micro fractor surgery, and
Speaker 1: laboral pathology that they have to essentially repair. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: it is not something that he should be ready for
Speaker 1: opening day. His injury date, I believe um was in August,
Speaker 1: but his surgery was in October. So we're looking at
Speaker 1: at least you know, May to June when we feel
Speaker 1: that he'd be back to an HPF that is respectable
Speaker 1: at peak. So right now he's at you know, I
Speaker 1: don't you know, I know, I think the rumor has
Speaker 1: it that he's expected to be ready for opening Day.
Speaker 1: I don't see how um and if he is playing,
Speaker 1: then that the risk of injury. Right now, the risk
Speaker 1: is great because he's still recovering. But man, that I
Speaker 1: R C is probably going to be on opening day
Speaker 1: must prosy not expected to play catcher every day that
Speaker 1: he has been in draft him, Okay, don't draft him.
Speaker 1: That's it great, There's there's nothing else to say about
Speaker 1: bus proposing. Don't draft him. I know it's a terrible position.
Speaker 1: He is kind of like the last catcher. I mean,
Speaker 1: there's a huge gap in terms of ADP right now.
Speaker 1: He there's a top eight he's going pick on the
Speaker 1: ninth catcher is Danny Jenson going to pick? So that's
Speaker 1: that's a huge gap. And look, I know he's like
Speaker 1: the drop off of a tier, but I'm not drafting
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't see how he's gonna, you know,
Speaker 1: come close to playing as much as he has in
Speaker 1: the past. He was already starting to lose power. He
Speaker 1: turning into Joe Mauer from you know, a from a
Speaker 1: skill uh perspective, out two out buster pose out? Are
Speaker 1: you also out on Alex Reyes, who last year was
Speaker 1: coming back from his own Tommy John surgery comes back
Speaker 1: midway through the year. Uh, kind of excites everybody and
Speaker 1: then gets hurt again. There's a lot of hype around
Speaker 1: the forward top prospect use battle personal issues and obviously
Speaker 1: he battle the injuries now as well. We don't know
Speaker 1: if he's a reliever, we don't know if he's a starter.
Speaker 1: We just want to know if he's healthy. What you
Speaker 1: got for us, Doc, Yeah, I mean this is uh,
Speaker 1: you know, a clear cut example of a lot of
Speaker 1: time to heal. He even remember had Tommy John surgery
Speaker 1: in February of two thousand seventeen, and so recovered from
Speaker 1: that and then recovered. This is a torn lap tendon
Speaker 1: which looks like he know, you know, his injury date
Speaker 1: was in June, so he will have completely recovered from
Speaker 1: that injury already and he should be ready to go.
Speaker 1: I mean, we're projecting him already at peak HPF. He's
Speaker 1: a little bit injury risk elevated right now at four.
Speaker 1: But by the time opening day comes around, and if
Speaker 1: he doesn't have any setbacks. From a medical standpoint, you
Speaker 1: should be healed from these injuries, and his numbers look
Speaker 1: pretty good. Okay, that's actually very positive as a breakout candidate. Definitely.
Speaker 1: I don't I don't know what people forget about him.
Speaker 1: Excited to talk about him in the future. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: I think the innings pitch will always kind of be
Speaker 1: a concern, especially this year. I don't know that you
Speaker 1: could project him for more than thirty I think that
Speaker 1: would be aggressive. But you know, when he's on the field,
Speaker 1: he could be very, very good. Stop speaking of pictures
Speaker 1: that are returning from injuries. Two years ago, the last
Speaker 1: time we saw Jimmy Nelson, he was very good whenever
Speaker 1: he was on the field, and a lot of people
Speaker 1: took late stabs on him last year in drafts and
Speaker 1: he ultimately ended up not pitching. What what was the injury?
Speaker 1: To be exact with Jimmy Nelson's expect him to be
Speaker 1: back to this year since he's had so much time
Speaker 1: to rest and rehab. Yeah, I mean, this is the thing.
Speaker 1: From injury recovery standpoint, his numbers look great. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: the injury date was September of two thousand, seventeen. He
Speaker 1: had a he had a significant rotator cuff strain, which
Speaker 1: means probably a partial tear at least, and then a
Speaker 1: starting pitcher and the throwing shoulder that's literally treated like
Speaker 1: a Grade four type injury. And then he also had
Speaker 1: a partial uh anterior labor tear, which is you know,
Speaker 1: again uh, something that if it's not repaired, especially for
Speaker 1: the repetition that a picture has, uh you know, then
Speaker 1: it caused lots of problems in the future. So he
Speaker 1: got shut down, he got repaired, and it's been a
Speaker 1: long time. So his HPF is at nineties seven percent,
Speaker 1: his injury risk is at four and a half percent,
Speaker 1: which is very low. And so numbers and metrics everything
Speaker 1: looks good. Here's the issue and this is not I'm
Speaker 1: saying this outside of the data metrics, which is he
Speaker 1: hasn't been in Major League baseball speed for over a year,
Speaker 1: and so it's going to be very very interesting to
Speaker 1: see when he first comes back, how he handles that
Speaker 1: and if his power and his the law a city
Speaker 1: and all of that stuff is still the same. And
Speaker 1: there you go. That's that's the latest one comes the
Speaker 1: Jimmy Nelson has been a long time since we've seen
Speaker 1: on Emil E. MoU and hopefully you know was back
Speaker 1: in the Jimmy Nelson that we fell book well years ago.
Speaker 1: We'll say dr a inside injuries. We appreciate the time
Speaker 1: as always and we look forward to talking to you
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Speaker 1: when it came to Alex Bregman the Bowl on that no,
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure my word to describe how I feel
Speaker 1: about Alex Bregman was was the final boat? The last
Speaker 1: thing you need to hear involving him heard from Doc,
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, part of his maturity as a hitter.
Speaker 1: And look again, a hundred runs hundred RBIs last year
Speaker 1: with everything that happened in the Astro's line up, with
Speaker 1: Carl's corea constantly in and out of the lineup, with
Speaker 1: Josel two a missing time and not being himself, and
Speaker 1: now they add a guy like Michael Brantley as well.
Speaker 1: I mean, there's a lot of reasons to be excited
Speaker 1: about this lineup, but in particular Alex Bregman, who's only
Speaker 1: getting better every single season. I'm definitely on him. What
Speaker 1: Dr A said that the power, it's real and can
Speaker 1: actually improve that those bone chips are gone. I don't
Speaker 1: want to go that far, but how would you feel
Speaker 1: about a start of Bregman de Graham team Team USA?
Speaker 1: How I feel with you? That's what it feels like. Um,
Speaker 1: how I feel you even pull that off? I don't
Speaker 1: know it would get a DP and see if that's
Speaker 1: even possible. I think I have it up. I was like,
Speaker 1: ext by accident, you could do it in a twelve
Speaker 1: team league because the GRAM is pick eleven point seven
Speaker 1: and three. So in a fifteen team or you're not
Speaker 1: getting that, Yeah, fifteen team or it's more likely you
Speaker 1: get Bregman and in a twelve team league it could
Speaker 1: happen at the turn for you. I actually have the
Speaker 1: updated NFBC where I took you even much smaller sample
Speaker 1: sided Frank February exactly. Yeah, they're going back to back
Speaker 1: eleven twelve Yeah alright, so unless it's a twelve team league.
Speaker 1: You're not gonna be able to pull that off. Would
Speaker 1: How would you feel about your team if it was
Speaker 1: bregman Verlanders start first two picks? I'm not great, Okay,
Speaker 1: I feel okay. It's so interesting because, like I'm looking at,
Speaker 1: I know, if you're getting the first round and you
Speaker 1: want a starting pitcher, then you're likely going to take
Speaker 1: the gram Sore for sale. And then in the second
Speaker 1: round you're gonna get a hitter, but you're not gonna
Speaker 1: get Bregmant So I know even really second round you'll
Speaker 1: get a guy like Aaron Judge. You don't want to
Speaker 1: learning more than anything, I think, Frank, this first round
Speaker 1: it's very different than first rounds we've seen over the
Speaker 1: past couple of years. Like normally they're relatively similar, but
Speaker 1: after your like top seven or so according to the NFBC,
Speaker 1: it's very very different. Like all right, Erronado's in there
Speaker 1: and Trout and bets. Yeah, that's what I've noticed about this.
Speaker 1: There's a top five or six consensus. Yeah, we're gonna
Speaker 1: talk with Modico about this. Really, the first round a
Speaker 1: lot on Monday, and then it's kind of like take
Speaker 1: your pick whoever you prefer. A lot of these guys
Speaker 1: were just not the guys that we have seen in
Speaker 1: the first round. Christian Yellis, Ronald Kunia, de gram Bregman,
Speaker 1: Chris Sale, Hobby Bayas. Then you get into the more
Speaker 1: traditional way you can think the first rounders, right like
Speaker 1: your power hitters of Freeman, Judge, Machado, Harper, gold Schmidt.
Speaker 1: All these guys are in the second round, which is
Speaker 1: crazy to me because they're they're your theoretical first rounders,
Speaker 1: and you know, it's it's crazy that they're all going
Speaker 1: right in that middle, that pack in the second round.
Speaker 1: Like I love being in that spot where you get Harper,
Speaker 1: Judge Harper, Judge Machado, Freeman, gold Schmidt standing like I
Speaker 1: love that. Like now that's that, That's that's a great
Speaker 1: spot to be it. I think here's the problem, Greg,
Speaker 1: if you wait until the end of the third round
Speaker 1: in a fifteen team draft for a picture. Here, here
Speaker 1: are your options. Here, here's what you're gonna get your
Speaker 1: sp one Walker Bueller, No A Sinder, Guard, Patrick Corbyn,
Speaker 1: James Paxson. What about Kershaw? Kirshaw was like right on
Speaker 1: the cut off, He's right around there, he's going to
Speaker 1: pick forty nine. Walker Bueler is going forty one point four.
Speaker 1: So what if you start if you started out with
Speaker 1: you know, I understand that, but like the upside, we
Speaker 1: know what it is and Modique is not on Kershaw.
Speaker 1: This year, you started your draft bra Bregman, Bregman, Judgeman
Speaker 1: Judge and then go with Kershaw and another picture in
Speaker 1: the fourth You know, I'm just asking, uh, And that's
Speaker 1: what it comes down to. That's what I said yesterday.
Speaker 1: I don't want Kershaw to be my sp one. I mean,
Speaker 1: how can you trust them for more? I don't. I don't.
Speaker 1: I won't be here. But let's ask dr about Kershaw tomorrow.
Speaker 1: I remember we had him on the show last year.
Speaker 1: You said he wouldn't be surprised if in a couple
Speaker 1: of years Kershaw becomes a relief pitch, which is crazy
Speaker 1: to imagine, but trust dr Ay, he's back like back injury.
Speaker 1: For Kershaw, It's it's chronic. It's always going to be there. Now,
Speaker 1: you can get lucky if a guy like Carrasco or
Speaker 1: Severino falls to you in the third round. I think
Speaker 1: I can live with that. I think I can live
Speaker 1: with one of those guys is my sp one team league.
Speaker 1: But Carl's Krass was going to pick thirty six, that's
Speaker 1: the middle of the third round. So with Severino, they're
Speaker 1: going to pick seven, that's the middle of the third
Speaker 1: round of a fifteen team draft. In a twelve team league,
Speaker 1: you're getting those guys at the end of the third
Speaker 1: round that you can pull off. That I feel better
Speaker 1: about in a twelve team league if you could start
Speaker 1: Regman Judge. Because if I play in a rod A league,
Speaker 1: I'm taking an outfielder with one of my first three
Speaker 1: round picks. I have no choice. Start five outfielders. You
Speaker 1: gotta get one of them in the first three rounds.
Speaker 1: I would start, you know, Regman Judge, and then I
Speaker 1: get like a Carrasco or sevenre you not at the
Speaker 1: end of the third round in twelve league. That yeah,
Speaker 1: I like that too. I like that a lot. Let's
Speaker 1: get back to the astros, though, and let's particularly dive
Speaker 1: a little bit deeper here on Carlos Korea. Not exactly
Speaker 1: a glowing report um on Korea when it came from
Speaker 1: dr A, but another one of these astros. It's just
Speaker 1: really battled injuries throughout last year. Obviously the form number
Speaker 1: one overall pick for the Houston Astros. Another one of
Speaker 1: these guys. It's just twenty four years old. Last year,
Speaker 1: the second consecutive year, really only played in a hundred
Speaker 1: and ten games, fifteen homers, which was down, I mean
Speaker 1: down across the board right home runs, runs, rv i s.
Speaker 1: He doesn't run at all anymore. He strikes out more
Speaker 1: than Bragman and and LTDA walks as good over ten percent.
Speaker 1: The average was horrific, absolutely horrific last year. How much
Speaker 1: does that do the injury? That's where we had to
Speaker 1: figure out he's had his back injury. As we said
Speaker 1: that just leaders he says he feels a million percent healthy.
Speaker 1: We know that backs could kind of just uh, as
Speaker 1: Frank mentioned with Kershaw, kind of crop up at any moment. Frank,
Speaker 1: what is your opinion here on Carlos Cray. I'm scared man.
Speaker 1: You mentioned it. Back to back seasons a hundred and
Speaker 1: ten games. Last year in a hundred nine games, the
Speaker 1: production didn't fall off in when he missed time. He
Speaker 1: still hit twenty four home runs. He was on a
Speaker 1: great pace. You know, if he if he played hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty plus games, he was hitting thirty plus home runs.
Speaker 1: He was giving you a hundred RBIs, a hundred runs scored.
Speaker 1: He's batting over three hundred. He was phenomenal two years ago,
Speaker 1: but it is two years now in a row where
Speaker 1: he's played right around a hundred and ten games. Last
Speaker 1: year really started to affect his production. You heard Dr
Speaker 1: A talk about these core injuries, your back, your oblique.
Speaker 1: You watched Carlo's career. He swings with a lot of ferocity. Um, Look,
Speaker 1: he had seven p s last year. It just clearly
Speaker 1: affected his production. Twenty nine percent hard hit rate, whereas
Speaker 1: you know the two previous years he was thirty seven
Speaker 1: percent and thirty nine percent. He was trending up in
Speaker 1: the right direction. He was getting better. This is one
Speaker 1: of these are one of those risky picks in the
Speaker 1: fourth or fifth round that can win you a draft.
Speaker 1: He can return first round value. He can be a
Speaker 1: three hundred plus hitter, hit thirty bombs hit, you know,
Speaker 1: a hundred runs, a hundred RBIs. If he can stay healthy.
Speaker 1: In the actual's line up, it's a great lineup, and
Speaker 1: it looked like he was destined first stardom. But it's
Speaker 1: also you know, at that point it's the ultimate risk
Speaker 1: reward pick because if he plays a hundred games again,
Speaker 1: he plays a hundred ten games, and he's not even
Speaker 1: what he was two years ago, where at least that
Speaker 1: year when he was playing, he was still Carlos Correa.
Speaker 1: Last year when he was playing, he was seven p
Speaker 1: s guy. That's a replacement level player that's lessan Lee average.
Speaker 1: So it's risky, it's risky. It's the ultimate risk reward
Speaker 1: pick right now that I see in that fourth fifth
Speaker 1: round range, and you know who's going right around him,
Speaker 1: Greg the guy that we love, Tommy Fan. Are you
Speaker 1: gonna take Carlos Currey over guy like Tommy Fan? Where
Speaker 1: all right, he has some injury risk himself the past
Speaker 1: couple of years, but finally has a place where he's
Speaker 1: gonna play every single day, and in roto leagues you
Speaker 1: need those outfielders. Are you handing up Suarez? Another guy
Speaker 1: going right around Carlos Correa, another guy who's only getting
Speaker 1: better every single year, and a stack line up with
Speaker 1: the Cincinnati Reds. Carlos Carea is the ultimate wild card
Speaker 1: this year, ultimate risk reward pick. There are just other
Speaker 1: players that I like in that range. Did you have
Speaker 1: Carlos care Jean Siagura A good question. They both play shortstop,
Speaker 1: and uh, it's the it's the stability of Jean Siagura.
Speaker 1: You know what you're gonna get from him depends what
Speaker 1: kind of player you are. Me. I mean, my first
Speaker 1: thought is Jean Siagura, because you know, I like knowing
Speaker 1: what I'm gonna get. But if you're a riskier player,
Speaker 1: you want to shoot for the upside, you want to
Speaker 1: shoot for the moon. Alo Carea is your pick there,
Speaker 1: Jean Siagura. Look, I think he's gonna give me to
Speaker 1: a D plus batting average. He's gonna give me runs.
Speaker 1: He's in a good line up with the Phillies. He's
Speaker 1: gonna still steal me at least basses doesn't kill your power.
Speaker 1: Twelve to fifty home runs. Carlos Korea, no doubt, has
Speaker 1: more upside, he also has more downside. The order to
Speaker 1: describe Carlos Correa scared, I would stay nervous. I would
Speaker 1: say nervous. Would you take Correa or Cigara? It's really
Speaker 1: hard because the upside of Correa is the first round pick, right,
Speaker 1: like we talked about it, like if you're playing, if
Speaker 1: you're playing the NFBC and you're playing for an overall,
Speaker 1: so you go to that. I almost relate this to
Speaker 1: the question we talked a lot about in fantasy. I
Speaker 1: will play for first or do you want to play
Speaker 1: for third or four? We stood by this avantage football season, right,
Speaker 1: we do it all the time, where like which guy
Speaker 1: do you take later? Like risks later on? Though you
Speaker 1: know risking you know the nine tenth round plus on.
Speaker 1: I know we talk a lot, dude about who could
Speaker 1: be a first rounder, who could return first round value
Speaker 1: in these middle rounds. Carlos Gray is one of those guys.
Speaker 1: He has that ability and that's what probably and you're right,
Speaker 1: it depends what how a player you are makes me
Speaker 1: take Correa over Cigara, I think, and I think you
Speaker 1: mentioned Tommy Famine, like you want that third outfielder. I
Speaker 1: get it, but second outfielder. Most people use the second outfielder,
Speaker 1: you know, Tommy fam in the fifth round about roster
Speaker 1: can You're not gonna get Tommy fam is your third
Speaker 1: outfielder unless you by the fifth round you need to
Speaker 1: have two outfielders already, which means ultimately your infield is
Speaker 1: going to be suffering from that or even you're starting
Speaker 1: pitching league, So Tommy fam is gonna end up being
Speaker 1: a lot of people's second outfielder this year, which I
Speaker 1: don't hate. I probably want him as my outfield three
Speaker 1: as well. But again, you gotta dig deep, you gotta
Speaker 1: find those and you can probably pull it off, because
Speaker 1: as of right now, you know there are first base
Speaker 1: and then I like that are going later on in draft.
Speaker 1: Jose Brave, I like him a lot already. Matt Olsen,
Speaker 1: I like him a lot, their second baseman going on later,
Speaker 1: Rugnado Door that I like. You can find guys later
Speaker 1: on in the infield. You know you can pull off
Speaker 1: Tommy fam is your third outfielder. You definitely could with that.
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Speaker 1: into our final player. We're gonna really break down today.
Speaker 1: And that's a fourth the fourth astro, and that's Michael
Speaker 1: Brantley and I think that Michael Brantley has never been
Speaker 1: his talent. That's absolutely never been an issue. It's his
Speaker 1: ability to stay healthy. Last year he did and he
Speaker 1: turned into a nice contract year from the Houston Astros.
Speaker 1: We've been winning for that Astro prospect. Uh, Kyle Tucker
Speaker 1: mainly to come up and really be a star, I
Speaker 1: mean another one of these young superstars, the ash Strows,
Speaker 1: and it just has not happened. Kyle Tucker, Derek Fisher
Speaker 1: both come to mind here. So the Astus kind of
Speaker 1: took it into their own hands, like, you know what
Speaker 1: about surprise you it although like if Kyle Tucker overtakes
Speaker 1: Josh Reddick's job, it wouldn't surprise me. I love Josh
Speaker 1: redd Stop. It's like you and Nando. I remember, So
Speaker 1: it wasn't any that was a that was a want Reddick.
Speaker 1: Nando hated Josh Good. He was good in that league. Sure,
Speaker 1: thank you to find good Good. Nevertheless, Michael Brantley in
Speaker 1: slots in that Outfiel as a starter and the talent,
Speaker 1: the talent's there, it's can you stay healthy? Pretty much
Speaker 1: the entire Astro's team, it's the same, it's the same conundrum.
Speaker 1: They're awesome. Can they stay healthy? Are you buying Michael
Speaker 1: Brantley being back to full health to a certain extent. Look,
Speaker 1: I love him for points leagues. I love him in
Speaker 1: O B P leagues. Um, you know, specifically because he
Speaker 1: doesn't strike out a lot, he walks a lot. He
Speaker 1: makes a lot of contact. You know, I mentioned earlier
Speaker 1: in the show that Alex bregman swinging strike rate last
Speaker 1: year was four point two percent. The guy does not
Speaker 1: swing and miss. He makes a lot of contact. There
Speaker 1: was one player in baseball better than him. That was
Speaker 1: Michael Brandley four percent swinging strike rate. He walks a
Speaker 1: decent amount. He doesn't strike out. So if you play
Speaker 1: in points leagues, he's gonna hit a ton of doubles.
Speaker 1: He's gonna be in a great lineup. Roster Resource has
Speaker 1: Michael Brandley batting fifth in the Astroll's lineup right now.
Speaker 1: But for Rodo he's just a little boring. I guess
Speaker 1: you could say, Look, he had three oh nine last year.
Speaker 1: He's gonna give you batting average, he's gonna give you runs.
Speaker 1: He's gonna he's not gonna hit for a ton of power.
Speaker 1: He only had seventeen home runs, but it's again it's
Speaker 1: a it's a good park to hit in, not a
Speaker 1: great park anymore. It's a good park to hit in.
Speaker 1: But he's surrounded by a lot of good players, So
Speaker 1: I do think that they're is a great opportunity here
Speaker 1: for runs and r B. I s for Michael Brantley
Speaker 1: this year. Um, he's just kind of like, why you know,
Speaker 1: he doesn't like do anything that stands out the batting average,
Speaker 1: which you know where you're getting him hast pick one hundred,
Speaker 1: Michael Brantley, Gon pick one twenty. So I mean, it's
Speaker 1: not the easiest thing to find great batting average there.
Speaker 1: These guys gonnaive you three batting average. To me, he's
Speaker 1: a guy that stands out more so in points leagues
Speaker 1: and ob p leagues. Yeah, I completely agree with you.
Speaker 1: I think, like what we said, it's when he's healthy,
Speaker 1: he's the same guy. He's the same guy every years
Speaker 1: he's fine. And that if he played a hundred and
Speaker 1: forty three games last year, the year before that, ninety
Speaker 1: year before that, eleven. So yeah, there's been it was
Speaker 1: a long time before Michael Brantley was healthy. It was
Speaker 1: great to see him healthy. And what's so good about
Speaker 1: him and points Leaves and Frank describe it really well.
Speaker 1: It doesn't strike out, he doesn't really walk. The ob
Speaker 1: p is awesome. He'll be all across the board and
Speaker 1: a really good at it. With Houston, it only should
Speaker 1: be good where you're getting around pick On, there's nothing.
Speaker 1: There's who's only around him? Right, I'm happy you asked,
Speaker 1: you're on You're on the clock, right, Okay. Michael Brantley,
Speaker 1: David Peralta or Andrew McCutchen. Those are the three outfielers
Speaker 1: that are going between picks one and one thirty four.
Speaker 1: I would feel very comfortable taking Michael Brantley. I had
Speaker 1: of both those guys easily, really yeah, easily, yeah. I
Speaker 1: mean McCutcheon far Rodo doesn't really stand out anymore either.
Speaker 1: David Peralta though he's a hype guy. He's a hype guy.
Speaker 1: He's absolutely hype guy. This ye mean, you know he
Speaker 1: hit a lot more home runs last year. I know
Speaker 1: he hit the ball harder. Um So look, I haven't
Speaker 1: done my outfield rankings yet. Um I think as of
Speaker 1: nowglab right what all the struggles miserably agains lefties. I
Speaker 1: think he usually does. I don't know how he did
Speaker 1: last year. I think it was miserable as usual. I
Speaker 1: look and it splits a lot. Greg, I don't know
Speaker 1: about I want. I want guys that are gonna play
Speaker 1: every day, and you know, in this day and age
Speaker 1: in baseball, it's hard to find. I mean, so many
Speaker 1: teams are moving into analytics where they platoon guys who's
Speaker 1: thirty seven batting average last years? You know what, I'm
Speaker 1: probably just not taking a outfielder there. If I'm just
Speaker 1: being on, I mean, I'm probably going to take that direction.
Speaker 1: Any of those guys really excite me all that much.
Speaker 1: Taking Michael Bradley, he out the off fielders. Who else
Speaker 1: is there? Uh? There is Kyle Hendricks, starting pitcher, Carlos Martinez,
Speaker 1: and I'd probably take that shot. Interesting probably take that shot.
Speaker 1: You got some closes in here. You have Kirby Yates
Speaker 1: old boy, referred to by Chris Venter old boy, Kirby Yates,
Speaker 1: Bry's my favorite guy, these guys, Wade Davis, you get
Speaker 1: the Rockies closer, Wilson Rambo's. That's probably where I'm going.
Speaker 1: That's where I'm taking my first catcher. Greg ninth eighth,
Speaker 1: ninth tenth round in Roto League. Probably take my first
Speaker 1: catcher there. I'll take a guy like Wilson Rommos. I
Speaker 1: love Wilson Rommos can't quitter. You can't take them with
Speaker 1: you to get to your drafts. Let's call Meds Gimman
Speaker 1: were by Michael Brantley. Uh boring, I'll say, fine, points,
Speaker 1: Corey and the Frenzies up next. You don't hear anything
Speaker 1: about Michael Brantley for fresh stample all Greg Sauceber lottery tomorrow,
Speaker 1: we hope