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Speaker 1: Fantasy Sports Bringing In Network alongside Frankie standfll. I am Greg. Hey,
Speaker 1: what's going on? Greggy? What's up? Tuesday? January? Like? Something
Speaker 1: that I like to do while you were gone was
Speaker 1: I would ask Jim how did he sleep the night before?
Speaker 1: So I'll not ask you how did you sleep last night? Greg?
Speaker 1: I slept well. I slept well. It was very comfortable,
Speaker 1: little spoon, Greg, I was not a little. I was
Speaker 1: very comfortable. But this morning I have a massive headache.
Speaker 1: To be honestly hungover, big Monday night for zero drinking.
Speaker 1: Just the headache developed this morning. Is it the is
Speaker 1: it the flu hangover? Maybe? Nope, I know the voice
Speaker 1: is still little raspy. While editing the NBA recap, it
Speaker 1: was better than it was better than yesterday. It was
Speaker 1: you're trending in the right direction, trending up. But I
Speaker 1: was really excited to come in the day. I was
Speaker 1: really excited for our topics today on the program. But
Speaker 1: it's been a rough morning. Man. It's there's a lot
Speaker 1: going on or anything I missed. I don't never get married.
Speaker 1: Thanks for the advice, Greg, You got it. Man. It's unbelievable.
Speaker 1: It's like the dumbest arguments are just there, and I'm
Speaker 1: happy to do. I was looking forward to this and
Speaker 1: we're talking about a lot of baseball stuff on the show,
Speaker 1: which I'm really excited about. Like literally midway through yesterday,
Speaker 1: frank'sly working downstairs, I'm reading random fan graph stats like that.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm in, I am in, So I'm not
Speaker 1: letting this one about. What are you arguing about? Marriage wise?
Speaker 1: Like what? Like, I'm there anything I need to know about.
Speaker 1: I certainly have not dove as deep as you have
Speaker 1: yet obviously you're getting married this year. No time to wait.
Speaker 1: Greg's years old. He's gotta get married this year for
Speaker 1: everything stops Worth shut up? Um, well, like what's in
Speaker 1: your mind? I actually had something to do with me,
Speaker 1: that's ridiculous. I had a dream last night that I
Speaker 1: was trying to we were trying to figure out our
Speaker 1: color scheme for the wedding. That was my dream. Of course,
Speaker 1: nothing came to me like I still don't have something
Speaker 1: that's not a me thing with me? You have like
Speaker 1: a color scheme yet is Yeah, she's doing like mostly
Speaker 1: like silver black white, like non colors like silver white,
Speaker 1: black gray shades. Sure. Right, So they're talking about like
Speaker 1: dresses now, like bridesmaid dress stuff like that. The thing
Speaker 1: why I am involved with? Why would you be involved
Speaker 1: in that? I'm gonna try my best not to be correct.
Speaker 1: I never thought I would be at all. So that's
Speaker 1: that's where we are, Frank, That's all I got for you.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Bud. Yeah, well, I'll try to cheer you up.
Speaker 1: Talk a little baseball today, and they'll be Hall of
Speaker 1: Fame induction ceremony today as well. We also have I
Speaker 1: believe the f s t a fantasy baseball draft tonight
Speaker 1: we do, so we'll have and something else to talk
Speaker 1: about as well starting tomorrow, you want to talk about
Speaker 1: that draft. I also saw Leonardo Dafino that Paul Charchi,
Speaker 1: in the head of the f c A, is changing
Speaker 1: the name of the fc A to the f s
Speaker 1: g A grad Fantasy Sports. I saw that as well,
Speaker 1: Fantasy towards Gaming Association, which makes sense with gambling and
Speaker 1: gaming becoming so popular. Training association never really made sense
Speaker 1: at all. Gaming. I like, I like what they're doing there.
Speaker 1: It's a good job, I pul charch Ch. I mean,
Speaker 1: everything is kind of being fused together anyway, because if
Speaker 1: you're into making projections for fantasy, it's very easily translatable
Speaker 1: to gaming and betting and player props and you know,
Speaker 1: picking a side in a game, so on and so forth.
Speaker 1: So there, you know, there's a lot of parallels. It
Speaker 1: makes sense. So on the program today, we decided that
Speaker 1: with all football still to come a k a. The
Speaker 1: Super Bowl, so we have a lot to come there,
Speaker 1: but we also have baseball right around the corner. And
Speaker 1: I was looking, as I said yesterday, looking at old tweets,
Speaker 1: old like my time hop old stuff that we were
Speaker 1: putting out and we were kind of because Florio is around,
Speaker 1: we don't need deep in this stuff. Last year we
Speaker 1: already had uh one of our drafts going on my
Speaker 1: our first draft of the year. I think Frank has
Speaker 1: several best balls done at this point and instead this
Speaker 1: year a little bit later on, maybe because we were
Speaker 1: so in a football which is fine, But this year
Speaker 1: Frank's first draft started. First best ball draft started yesterday.
Speaker 1: I literally pulled up fan graphs for the first time yesterday.
Speaker 1: So we're gonna start it now, and we're gonna start off.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's because the big shoes haven't fallen yet.
Speaker 1: Machado hasn't signed, Harper hasn't signed. But we wanted to
Speaker 1: do a show as we like to do always, to
Speaker 1: start off really any season, baseball, football, basketball, What have
Speaker 1: you in saying, Hey, this happened. Did you know that?
Speaker 1: Because a lot of thanks fall through the cracks when
Speaker 1: you're preparing for football season. You're looking into free agents
Speaker 1: in football every single week, you're trying to set your
Speaker 1: line up or answering start sit questions. You missed stuff
Speaker 1: and we can't talk about it because somebody cares. Now
Speaker 1: people care, and I think that's why we're gonna do
Speaker 1: that today. Here's a few things you missed from baseball season. Cool, Frank,
Speaker 1: Absolutely all right, So let's get right into that, and
Speaker 1: let's begin with someone near dear heart, Frank. Let's begin
Speaker 1: with new Yankee starting pitcher James Paxton. It wouldn't be
Speaker 1: the beginning of the fantasy baseball season without Greg wanting
Speaker 1: to talk about a Yankee. By the way, don't draft
Speaker 1: with your heart and fantasy baseball, So there might be
Speaker 1: things that, like you have to take a grain of
Speaker 1: salt with when it comes to Greg Susman, because yesterday
Speaker 1: he was legitimately upset at me for not drafting Aaron
Speaker 1: Judge in the second round of Baseball Fan, to which
Speaker 1: he says, what kind of Yankee fan are you? Yeah,
Speaker 1: like what I agree? It was. It was the second
Speaker 1: fantasy baseball player you it was the second round. It
Speaker 1: was great value. It's twelve team league, Greg, and it's
Speaker 1: best ball. You just don't think the best center in baseball.
Speaker 1: Let me do um. Anyway, So we'll start with James Paxton,
Speaker 1: who was traded to the Yankees. Ultimately, we'll just call
Speaker 1: it what it was. The Yankee top prospect and Justice Sheffield,
Speaker 1: who I do want to talk about a second um
Speaker 1: for James Paxton, the Big Maple is not as young
Speaker 1: as you were led to believe, the guy that is
Speaker 1: known for being really really good but also kind of
Speaker 1: really really hurt. He's a left hander that has a
Speaker 1: lot of success against right handed hitters. A couple of
Speaker 1: things I didn't like doing my little bit of a
Speaker 1: deep dive here last year. A lot of more flyballs
Speaker 1: than ever that that doesn't play well into Yankee Stadium.
Speaker 1: Obviously home run. The flyball ratio slightly up again for
Speaker 1: James Paxton, again not something great for Yankee Stadium, and
Speaker 1: number you think will probably go up because you're gonna
Speaker 1: play half your games in Yankee Stadium. What Altar surprised
Speaker 1: me is that the pitches the Paxson throws or fastballs,
Speaker 1: and the Yankees have what many believe is a anti
Speaker 1: fastball philosophy that they are going to focus on pictures
Speaker 1: that don't really throw fastballs all that often. Now it
Speaker 1: doesn't always hold true. They they Jay hap is another
Speaker 1: one of these guys that throws a lot of fast
Speaker 1: bold when you do really and Lance Lynn through a
Speaker 1: lot of fastballs, so maybe it's gone a wave enough
Speaker 1: philosophy in the last year or so, but James Paxson
Speaker 1: doesn't really fit this philosophy that they've been working through
Speaker 1: with their signings and their free and their minor league
Speaker 1: starters as well. Paxton goes away from that. So those
Speaker 1: are the things that I really noticed on first glass
Speaker 1: rank you mentioned the the injury pro nature I think
Speaker 1: is is where to start With James Packson. He's pitched
Speaker 1: four hundred and seventeen and one third endings over the
Speaker 1: past three years. It's been trending up the past couple
Speaker 1: of seasons, but it's still last year career high on
Speaker 1: sixty point one endings pitched six and the one you mentioned.
Speaker 1: Some of the things that just kind of jump off
Speaker 1: the page right away with the battle ball profile when
Speaker 1: it comes to James Packson, the fact that normally forty
Speaker 1: six point seven percent groundball rate for his career GREG
Speaker 1: that was down um quite a bit last year the
Speaker 1: groundball rate at thirty nine point six percent, So at
Speaker 1: first glance, it is something that's going to play into
Speaker 1: your mind in Yankee Stadium. The fact that he gives
Speaker 1: up more fly balls and typically in his career has
Speaker 1: been better against right handed batters um than lefties. So
Speaker 1: what I really liked about James Paxson going into last
Speaker 1: year was that in seventeen he had corrected that. Like
Speaker 1: he was awesome against lefties, he was basically him and
Speaker 1: Chris Sale who were just the best pitchers starting pitchers
Speaker 1: against left handed batters in baseball UM in batting average
Speaker 1: against or sixty three ops pitching against left handed batters right,
Speaker 1: those numbers in three thirty batting average eights against left
Speaker 1: handed battersen. So again it was a small sample size.
Speaker 1: I think it's something like a hundred or a hundred
Speaker 1: fifty plate appearances. So obviously not a lot of teams
Speaker 1: play their lefties against him. But for whatever reason, he
Speaker 1: was getting hit harder by lefties last year than we're
Speaker 1: used to seeing. Alex if you have that um that
Speaker 1: that full screen that you could throw up now for
Speaker 1: people watching at home. I looked into this a little bit.
Speaker 1: These these are via fan graphs, right, so we have
Speaker 1: heat maps here. This is from the pitching perspective greg Um.
Speaker 1: You can see on the left is where he kind
Speaker 1: of pitched to the lower third the outside quadrant where
Speaker 1: he was kind of painting that outside corner away from
Speaker 1: left hand batters, whereas in a lot of his pictures,
Speaker 1: pitches to lefties were, you know, in the middle. They
Speaker 1: were on the outer third of the plate, but he
Speaker 1: was still in the middle much more than he was
Speaker 1: in So I think that's something that has to be
Speaker 1: corrected this year, and I have faith that the Yankees
Speaker 1: will will be able to do that. The problem here,
Speaker 1: Greg is if you want James Paxson, you you still
Speaker 1: have to draft him as your SP two. I don't
Speaker 1: know how comfortable I feel with that. It's just that's me.
Speaker 1: And currently his a DP is like in the in
Speaker 1: the fourth, fourth round of there you go. It's fifty six,
Speaker 1: so fourth round of a fifteen team league. He's in
Speaker 1: the fifth round of twelve team league. Typically he's going
Speaker 1: to be your SP two. I think I would feel
Speaker 1: much more confident, obviously with him as my SP three,
Speaker 1: but it's not gonna happen. Obviously. We haven't done right
Speaker 1: starting pitcher off the board. Right now, we're in an
Speaker 1: NFBC a DP being drafted as an SP two, solid
Speaker 1: SP two, but he hasn't gone more than a hundred
Speaker 1: and sixty and he's pitched ever in his career. He
Speaker 1: did have that career high last year. Um, but yeah,
Speaker 1: there are some morning signs. Fly ball rate you mentioned
Speaker 1: one point to nine home runs per nine also a
Speaker 1: career wors thirty percent hard hit rates, so allowed more
Speaker 1: hard contact last year. That was a career worst. On
Speaker 1: the home runs specifically, great, I mentioned what they were
Speaker 1: per nine. He allowed nine home runs in seen that
Speaker 1: number one up to twenty three. So just at first glance,
Speaker 1: it doesn't seem like what he's doing is going to
Speaker 1: play well into Yankee Stadium. And I think the fact
Speaker 1: that his ADP is basically the same world was last
Speaker 1: year Greg, even with the move to Yankee Stadium, tells
Speaker 1: me that other people don't really know what to do
Speaker 1: with James Paxson either. I agree with that. I think
Speaker 1: what was interesting, smilar some other things that I looked
Speaker 1: up that we're kind of similar in the past. Right,
Speaker 1: So his caper nine went up pretty significant, Lady from
Speaker 1: tem eleven point six, eight walks for nine went down
Speaker 1: just a little bit. His babbit basically the same. Let
Speaker 1: the base percentage basically the same K minus walk rate
Speaker 1: is always great, always great. I was reading an article
Speaker 1: via Paul Sporer on fan graphs and it was basically,
Speaker 1: over the past three years his home his K minus
Speaker 1: walk percentage is sixth best on starting pictures. And he's
Speaker 1: very consistent with that, very consistent, and you could buy that,
Speaker 1: um the big number. And Frank and I really keep
Speaker 1: harping on it. He's the home runs and the flyball
Speaker 1: and and the flyballs in general, which you just see
Speaker 1: a lot more of. And I think we're just scared
Speaker 1: of when it comes to Yankee Stadium, like that home
Speaker 1: run of fly ball ration. I'm gonna say it again
Speaker 1: seven you could basically double it last year. Bad luck, sure,
Speaker 1: but going in a Yankee stadium, that bad luck is
Speaker 1: going to get worse. And I think that's what a
Speaker 1: real reason to be very very nervous. Now. I Frank
Speaker 1: gave you the chart about left handers. I think most teams,
Speaker 1: in all honesty are too dumb to realize that. And
Speaker 1: I know they use analytics, but like, you're never going
Speaker 1: to see lineups that are stacked with lefties against James Paxton,
Speaker 1: even though he's better in the reverse flitt You're never
Speaker 1: gonna see that. These managers are too old school when
Speaker 1: it comes to that, even though so many hused analytics,
Speaker 1: you're never gonna see it. So that doesn't scare me
Speaker 1: as much as what we're seeing about the launch angle,
Speaker 1: the flyballs and going the Yankee Stadium. That's what scares
Speaker 1: me the most. You said, he's around the sevente pitcher
Speaker 1: off the board. Do you have some of the guys
Speaker 1: that are going around him? And this is via NFBC ADP.
Speaker 1: It's Ational Fantasy Baseball Championship. If you if you listen
Speaker 1: to h if you listen to Mattmodica, our friend Mettmodica
Speaker 1: at all last year, you have heard of the NFBC.
Speaker 1: I'm sure Matt Moodica has probably done twenty of these drafts.
Speaker 1: And this is via This is from the beginning of January,
Speaker 1: so January one through January one. Um, let's see acton
Speaker 1: seventeen pitcher off the board. It's picture overall, So Edwin
Speaker 1: Diaz is actually going ahead of him, So he's sixteenth
Speaker 1: starting pitcher. Just ahead of him are Patrick Corbin, Noah
Speaker 1: synder Guard and Clayton Kershaw and Walker Bueller's just ahead
Speaker 1: of him. Those are four ahead of him behind him,
Speaker 1: and he's going to be a hype guy this year.
Speaker 1: Jameson Tye On, Steven Strasburg, Clevinger, another hype guy, Zach Granky,
Speaker 1: Jack Flaherty, I mean Flaherty, Clevinger, Tyne or met to
Speaker 1: me are guys that kind of stand out like in
Speaker 1: a similar tier, like their young starting pitchers and everyone's
Speaker 1: expecting to like take another step for sure. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: you know, honestly, it is also behind him, you all honesty,
Speaker 1: it's probably right. Guy's probably where he should go. Like
Speaker 1: maybe you don't want to take that plunge. Maybe you
Speaker 1: want to get the guy earlier than that. That's fine,
Speaker 1: but that's probably where he should go. If you play
Speaker 1: in the twelve team league, you could get him in
Speaker 1: the fifth round as your SP three. I believe that's
Speaker 1: if you start the Great Fantasy base you start with
Speaker 1: if you start with three, I got Paxton if you
Speaker 1: have if you have three starting pitchers in the first
Speaker 1: five rounds. The Great Fantasy Baseball Invitation with which I
Speaker 1: was in last year, I won my individual league. I
Speaker 1: got Paxson as my SP three in that and it
Speaker 1: was a Rhodo draft. I believe my first two pitchers
Speaker 1: were Aaron Nolah and you Darvish Harvish was obviously terrible,
Speaker 1: and then I got Paxson as my SP three in
Speaker 1: the fifth round. I agree with you, it's kind of
Speaker 1: seems like where he should go in terms of like
Speaker 1: the other names that he's around, and just kind of
Speaker 1: looking at it right now, and it's worth mentioning. Just
Speaker 1: like on the surface, he's been much better in his
Speaker 1: career at safe Co and he has been on the
Speaker 1: road at safe Co in his career um three point
Speaker 1: three five e r A, and I think it's just
Speaker 1: last year. This might be just but three point three
Speaker 1: five year A last year in his career at home
Speaker 1: at safe Co, it is two point nine eight in
Speaker 1: fifty starts two ninety six and a third endings pitched
Speaker 1: two r A at home three point eight seven e
Speaker 1: r A on the road. So there are things that
Speaker 1: he needs to fix from last year in terms of,
Speaker 1: you know, pitching lower in the zone, trying to induce
Speaker 1: more groundballs. It seemed like he might have been selling
Speaker 1: out a little bit to try and get more strikeouts
Speaker 1: last year that you see like in the Cape or nine,
Speaker 1: he had some monster performance, has had the no hitter.
Speaker 1: I think he had like a seventeen strikeout game, like
Speaker 1: something massive like that. We know what his upside can be,
Speaker 1: and to be fair, his fit and x fit were
Speaker 1: both much lower than his three point seven six e
Speaker 1: r A. Steamer soundly alarmed for Steamer as him for
Speaker 1: a three point four six e r A this season
Speaker 1: a hundred and seventy two innings pitched. Both of those
Speaker 1: numbers seem a little ambitious to he was traded away
Speaker 1: for Justice Sheffield as I mentioned any interest in draft
Speaker 1: in Sheffield this year in one of these like fifty
Speaker 1: team drafting holes, Definitely, I think he uh. He has
Speaker 1: obviously a much better opportunity to correct the starting rotation
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Speaker 1: Today is terrible day because this is Dave Mann Steve
Speaker 1: Matthews Ben tour announcement that Greig, don't tell me you're
Speaker 1: going on another one of these. So you were disappointed
Speaker 1: last time. It was very disappoted. Last disappointed because, as
Speaker 1: you know, I'm doing my bachelor party in Florida, and
Speaker 1: I was going to this. I was going to do
Speaker 1: it around you mean July. It's baseball game. Originally was
Speaker 1: gonna do in Tampa and potentially see the Yankees in Tampa.
Speaker 1: The Yankees whenever you want, Greg, that's the other thing Kees,
Speaker 1: whatever I want. Um. I'm not sure you and your
Speaker 1: Baskett party are dying to go to Tropic Canada exactly.
Speaker 1: I don't really think we're gonna the Yanks me the
Speaker 1: Marlins is here like the Sting Rays, right or something.
Speaker 1: Probably not one of the things we were gonna do.
Speaker 1: We should see Dave Matthews band in West Palm Beach,
Speaker 1: just different location. Like it's kind of cool, but like
Speaker 1: the dates isn't exactly they were what I thought they were,
Speaker 1: which is not the dates I wanted. Um, So I
Speaker 1: don't know I'm gonna be able to make it this year.
Speaker 1: Oh gosh, what are we ever gonna do? I'm probably
Speaker 1: just going somewhere else. I'm gonna be able to see
Speaker 1: Dave just not just not during my bachelor party week. Really,
Speaker 1: you could do anything except see Dave Matthews, Ben, How
Speaker 1: long are you gonna be there? Um? Think Thursday through Sunday,
Speaker 1: all the older almost almost the round. I would never
Speaker 1: do the rap around to you, Frank, can't do the
Speaker 1: old rap around. What are you? What's going on with you?
Speaker 1: What are you? What are you taking off? I feel like,
Speaker 1: I know, I feel like it's brewing. Probably I feel
Speaker 1: like he's brewing. Are you gonna drop it at some
Speaker 1: point soon? I had I wanted to go visit our
Speaker 1: guy Florida. He's in the chat right now, he's listening
Speaker 1: and he's watching. I wanted to go visit Florio in
Speaker 1: Los Angeles in the month of February. It's kind of
Speaker 1: like a dry month super Bowl, and that's when you're
Speaker 1: going away. I'm going for that exact reason, like in
Speaker 1: between it's like the NBA All Star Break. It's like
Speaker 1: kind of like that, like that's what I'm doing, That's
Speaker 1: why I'm doing it. I wanted to do that, right
Speaker 1: he told me you were going. Doesn't seem like it's
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Speaker 1: the thing is, it's like it's in the middle of August,
Speaker 1: which is prime fantasy football. So I don't know, I
Speaker 1: don't know what I'm gonna go on vacation. Hey, you
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Speaker 1: It's better to clear your mind, you know, honestly, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: What effect that everyone in the chat is crapping all
Speaker 1: over d NB right now? So why are they gonna
Speaker 1: do that to me? I don't think says bachelor party
Speaker 1: like a bunch of dudes going to a Dave Matthews
Speaker 1: band cuts agree, and that's what a bachelor party is. Probably.
Speaker 1: I like to have your back on matters like this,
Speaker 1: you love you specifically, never have my back on on
Speaker 1: matters like well, someone's got to defend you, Greg. You know,
Speaker 1: normally I'm there. Normally I'm there to defend you. I'm like, uh,
Speaker 1: for those people, we're gonna get back to baseball. But
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Speaker 1: a coach that's just there to physically move Sean McVeigh
Speaker 1: because it gets too animated and they don't want him
Speaker 1: to run into rest and get a penalty. It's great.
Speaker 1: So that's why I'm here, Greg, I'm here to guide
Speaker 1: making sure that yeah, you're not getting you're not gonna
Speaker 1: crush out there by I'm I'm always crushed. I would
Speaker 1: rather go to David Busters than a d NBC loved
Speaker 1: Busters er. Hey man, I love the Busters to see
Speaker 1: after dB concert. Uh, I can't read the rest of it.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna read those huh. All right? Well, nevertheless, so
Speaker 1: the other what are the other big trades we wanted
Speaker 1: to get to today? We do a little basketball a
Speaker 1: little later on as well, But what are the other
Speaker 1: trades that we wanted to talk about? Was Paul gold
Speaker 1: Schmiant headed over to St. Louis. You might have missed
Speaker 1: that as well, Like who is even traded for Frank? Yeah,
Speaker 1: he was traded for Carson Kelly, Shelby Miller and another
Speaker 1: lower name pop value in a couple of years. Shelly Miller.
Speaker 1: That's not right, I missed that up. That's not That's
Speaker 1: not Miller. It was the other gentleman that was on
Speaker 1: the Cardinals last year that everyone was hyping up. It
Speaker 1: was Luke Weaver. Weaver, the guy who only throws a
Speaker 1: change up. Yes, I didn't draft him an So the
Speaker 1: new Shell basically all right, see if he could get
Speaker 1: it right with a human door in Chase Field. So
Speaker 1: we'll tell you about all those guys in a moment,
Speaker 1: But I need to get to Paul gold Ris and
Speaker 1: Kelly someone starting catcher for the Dimebads, Weavers and Dreams, Pible.
Speaker 1: I don't dread by Luke weaver Man. Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I thought the Cardinals were gonna get more than this.
Speaker 1: I thought they were going to get one of these,
Speaker 1: one of these outfield prospect guys like the Dia did
Speaker 1: more than this. I thought the Dimebacks were gonna get
Speaker 1: more than this, like a Harrison Bader or a Tyler O'Neill.
Speaker 1: Like what they got. Listen they got, they got to
Speaker 1: post type Sleepers's wrong with that? Carson Kelly was the
Speaker 1: catcher of the future. Luke, Yeah, I thought this. I
Speaker 1: thought there's a good goodbye Carson Kelly. It's like, just
Speaker 1: based on his minor league profile, there's nothing that stands out.
Speaker 1: He was an alright hitter. We've seen guys get better
Speaker 1: at the major league level. It's not impossible to happen.
Speaker 1: But I don't know. This doesn't excite me all that much.
Speaker 1: I int be the starting catcher. So in that sense,
Speaker 1: if you're playing the two catcher league, he's already on
Speaker 1: your radar, absolutely, very very much. So now Paul Goldschman
Speaker 1: and I want to talk about Luke Weaver also in
Speaker 1: a moment. But like Paul Goldschman, here's the numbers. Home
Speaker 1: runs down three, not significantly, but they're down a bit,
Speaker 1: the runs down, r v I s down, We get it.
Speaker 1: He was a bad team. Here's a big number for you.
Speaker 1: That always made Paul gold Schwartz still um stand out
Speaker 1: where than a lot of other players that were taking
Speaker 1: in that top five stolen basis, which we always thought
Speaker 1: was flukey, right, eighteen even if getting eighteen steals that's crazy,
Speaker 1: do that anymore. Last year seven seven stolen bases, the
Speaker 1: average down to to nine ov P slightly down to
Speaker 1: three nine again still really really good, and his bad
Speaker 1: was actually up from the previous season, not really off,
Speaker 1: not really too far away um from his career mark. Remember,
Speaker 1: gold Smrit was in that miserable slump early on, so
Speaker 1: that second half of the year really much better as
Speaker 1: he got back to those standard numbers. Strike Outs were
Speaker 1: along the same line, the sorry walk percentage along the
Speaker 1: same lines, strikeout percentage slightly higher than it has been
Speaker 1: in the past. What I'm worried about, um Paul gold
Speaker 1: Schmidt here is certainly the the new environment UM with
Speaker 1: the Cardinals, No, you were dor obviously is better. But
Speaker 1: what I'm worried about when it comes um to Paul
Speaker 1: gold Schmidt, was that at home in a fly ball
Speaker 1: ratio slightly awful, little bit hard hit percentage was actually, uh,
Speaker 1: the more I look at this, Frank More, I'm just
Speaker 1: like not all that excited about gold Schmidt. I can't
Speaker 1: really explain why I had it before, and I don't
Speaker 1: remember why. But I'm not overly in love of gold
Speaker 1: Smight like I used to be. Yea Goldschman now going
Speaker 1: in the second round. Not used to that normally a
Speaker 1: guy that is consensus, you know, top five, pick top ten.
Speaker 1: You're looking at his ADP right there, NFBC ADP right
Speaker 1: around pick nineteen twenty. He is the first first basement
Speaker 1: off the board as of right now, him and Freddie
Speaker 1: Freeman seemingly going back to back. The one worry for me, Greg,
Speaker 1: I have a couple of worries here, but I'll start
Speaker 1: off with the strikeouts. That's something that was hurting him
Speaker 1: early on in the season. He was striping out more
Speaker 1: than ever before. And Paul gold Schmidt is not a
Speaker 1: spring chicken by any means. He's thirty one years old.
Speaker 1: He'll turn thirty two in September. So this is age,
Speaker 1: you know, thirty one season for for most of the
Speaker 1: year um and the striking out more He's getting up
Speaker 1: there a little bit. Age was chasing pitches more than usual,
Speaker 1: which I think helped um that that slump that he
Speaker 1: was in early on in the season. I think the
Speaker 1: strikeouts were really a big part of that. And you
Speaker 1: mentioned what he did in the second half. You don't
Speaker 1: even have to look to the second half. Greg from
Speaker 1: June one on three thirty batting average four twenty O
Speaker 1: b P six O two o ps, thirteen percent, walk
Speaker 1: crate percent, strikeout rate, forty eight percent, hard hit rate
Speaker 1: six percent, line drives twenty four point five percent home
Speaker 1: run to fly ball ratio. But normally typically a guy
Speaker 1: who has played much better at home in his career,
Speaker 1: I think the human or affected him last year to
Speaker 1: start the season, the human or the strikeouts, chasing pitches
Speaker 1: UH to thirty eight, batting average seven eight two o
Speaker 1: p s at home last year. It's not like Paul Goldschmidt,
Speaker 1: He's normally much much better at Chase Field. But this
Speaker 1: is a negative park shift factor. Even with the human door.
Speaker 1: The human door, Chase Field produced more runs last year
Speaker 1: on a per game basis, more home runs last year,
Speaker 1: UM than St. Louis. So I think it's a negative
Speaker 1: park change here. The stolen bases have declined, and stolen
Speaker 1: bases really comes down to organizational philosophy, right, And you
Speaker 1: look at last year the Cardinals had sixty three stolen
Speaker 1: bases as a team. They were twenty six in Old Baseball,
Speaker 1: and the Diamondbacks had seventy nine they were fourteenth. So
Speaker 1: it's you know, is it organizational? Is it? Is it
Speaker 1: personnel that you have? It's like what came first a
Speaker 1: chicken or the egg. Um, I don't know that he's
Speaker 1: gonna get back to like twenty stolen basis, He's probably
Speaker 1: like in this ten range, will say, I think the
Speaker 1: batting average is pretty safe at least two eighty six
Speaker 1: batting average in six straight years, greg Um. But I
Speaker 1: do I do worry about the change. Like it's not
Speaker 1: always you know, a guy in a new place automatically.
Speaker 1: You know, we've like sating. Look look at Marcello Zuna
Speaker 1: for example, you know, like and he it's not like
Speaker 1: he he was going to typically what we would expect
Speaker 1: a better hears Ballpark from Miami to to to Bush
Speaker 1: Stadium in St. Louis, and he performed a lot worse.
Speaker 1: So you know it's it's a guy of his career
Speaker 1: in Arizona for sure. Now it's not like Zuna had
Speaker 1: the level of consistency that we've seen from Paul Goldman
Speaker 1: year had broken out the year before, definitely, but I
Speaker 1: understand that. But like, was that huge landown without question,
Speaker 1: I like to Marcello Zuna last year, but it was
Speaker 1: one almost a one year breakout. We didn't see him
Speaker 1: do it again. Paul Golden, we've seen do it again
Speaker 1: and again and again and again and again. I don't
Speaker 1: know that you're gonna get the bottom falling out of
Speaker 1: Paul Goldschmandt here like he's going in the second he's
Speaker 1: going in the second round, which you said we're not
Speaker 1: used to seeing from him, and it's true, and he's
Speaker 1: not a spring chicken and that true, But at that
Speaker 1: second round a DP would you take him. That's where
Speaker 1: I struggle because I mean, as of right now, like
Speaker 1: I don't I don't love it. I just think I
Speaker 1: feel like in Rhodo, i'd want to go in a
Speaker 1: different direction, like I got like Stanton for example, right
Speaker 1: if you play in Rhodo, you need five outfit you
Speaker 1: gotta fill five outfield spots. I think first base typically
Speaker 1: is a deeper position. It is this year as well.
Speaker 1: I feel like I would just go in like an
Speaker 1: outfield direction or a starting picture like Ultman's going just
Speaker 1: ahead of guys like Standing, he's going ahead of Kluber, Verlander,
Speaker 1: Charlie Blackman. I feel like I would take one of
Speaker 1: those starting pictures or outfielders. I think it's a fair value.
Speaker 1: Like if would it surprise me one bit if he
Speaker 1: ends up hitting you know, to five five home runs
Speaker 1: and steals ten bases again and you know he's close
Speaker 1: to a hunder robbe Eyes and a hunter runs. No,
Speaker 1: wouldn't surprise me at all. And if he does that
Speaker 1: and he returns first round value in the second round,
Speaker 1: he's also a guy that wouldn't surprise me. But if
Speaker 1: you're I think I would just take an outfielder or
Speaker 1: starting picture just based on like positional depth round, if
Speaker 1: you're buying into that contract, your narrative, he isn't a
Speaker 1: contract year and this is the one they are. But
Speaker 1: it's it's tough, right and the Cardinals have had some
Speaker 1: success doing that obviously with guys like Utt Holiday come
Speaker 1: to mind. But he's in the last yeervice contract and
Speaker 1: this is the last big contract that he's going to get.
Speaker 1: So if you're buying into the narrative, he's there, right,
Speaker 1: Like that's potentially a thing. Just saying now, out of
Speaker 1: the names you mentioned, just to give my quick opinion
Speaker 1: here the starting pitchers, I get it right, like I'm
Speaker 1: someone's gonna want to grab a hitter in the first
Speaker 1: round of the storting pitcher in the second round, So
Speaker 1: for that, I'm with you. But Paul gold Schmidt and
Speaker 1: Charlie Blackman the exact same age, right there were. Blackman's
Speaker 1: thirty there by two years old. Black was actually slightly older.
Speaker 1: I'd rather have gold Schmitt than Blackman. I think gold
Speaker 1: Schmidt will have the higher O b P. I think
Speaker 1: the averages will be similar. Strike out rate is a
Speaker 1: little bit better for black Men than is gold Schmidt.
Speaker 1: Walk rates a little bit better for gold than it
Speaker 1: is black men. I think the stolen based numbers at
Speaker 1: this point in their careers pretty similar. Runs score will
Speaker 1: definitely be higher for black men. I think RB I
Speaker 1: is theoretically should be higher for gold Schmidt. I think
Speaker 1: the home runs are kind of close. I'm gonna I'd
Speaker 1: rather have Golds for than black men. I haven't dove
Speaker 1: deep into black men yet like I have for gold
Speaker 1: Schmidt UM, but just on the surface, it's because of
Speaker 1: positional depth. That's like the only reason why I'm saying, like,
Speaker 1: that's what you know, if you're you're trying to find
Speaker 1: uh five Outfielers versus you know, you're trying to you're
Speaker 1: trying to find the like you know, slight differences between
Speaker 1: these guys at this point already early on UM And
Speaker 1: it's just like a hundred and at least a hundred
Speaker 1: eleven runs scored for years in a row for Charlie
Speaker 1: bit like run scored that's so hard to come by, definitely,
Speaker 1: and it gives you a fair batting average every single year.
Speaker 1: The course field factor, great line up year and a
Speaker 1: year out does a guy changing teams it were? It
Speaker 1: worries me a little bit who would rather drop between
Speaker 1: him and Freddie Freeman. I still think Freddie Freeman has
Speaker 1: untapped Tex. The Freddy Freeman guy. If he put together
Speaker 1: his seventeen and eighteen what he was doing in teen, uh,
Speaker 1: the year that he got hurt, if he put that
Speaker 1: kind of power production together with what he did in
Speaker 1: I just feel like he has this three hundred batting average,
Speaker 1: forty homer like twenty rb I season and I feel
Speaker 1: like he has that. I feel like he has that
Speaker 1: potential home runs in a hundred and seventeen games last year. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but then sixty two games last year and that was
Speaker 1: what was his whole run of flyball ratio last day?
Speaker 1: Like this up the thing? The thing with Freddy free
Speaker 1: ratio is down five percent. It was it was very low.
Speaker 1: It was fourteen point nine percent, which is kind of
Speaker 1: by his career. Dude, It's so it's he's not an
Speaker 1: extreme flyball. He reverted back to being a line drive
Speaker 1: hitter last year, which at his core is what he is. Like,
Speaker 1: he's a natural spray to all fields, line drive hitter,
Speaker 1: doubles guy. Actually more lines drives last year and he
Speaker 1: hit every before US, but the two years before seventeen.
Speaker 1: He was buying into the launch angle like he was.
Speaker 1: He was actively trying to hit more flyballs and hit
Speaker 1: more home runs, and it was coming to fruition. Like, seriously,
Speaker 1: that's home runs in a hundred and seventeen games overall,
Speaker 1: a you know, a hundred and fifty game pace. That's
Speaker 1: like I would rather have still feel like he has untapped.
Speaker 1: I'd rather have gold Goldman has done for longer. He's
Speaker 1: also also changing places. I understand that's not enough for me. Okay,
Speaker 1: the other side of the trade before we move on,
Speaker 1: I know UH was the NBA next. We also wanted
Speaker 1: to get into the UH trade. But before we do,
Speaker 1: I think we have to talk about Luke Weaver, which
Speaker 1: is the other side of the trade. Luke Weaver, as
Speaker 1: you said, basically only through change ups. Last year, he
Speaker 1: was going very similarly only but he's just like a
Speaker 1: two pitch picture like fastball change He was going in
Speaker 1: the very similar bought James Paxton and honestly, right like
Speaker 1: that was kind of the the not even behind James
Speaker 1: past on the top twenty starting pitcher. Luke Weaver was
Speaker 1: going that same range as Louise Castio. He was like
Speaker 1: a next one. He was like SP to thirty because
Speaker 1: like that, it was like an SP three that you
Speaker 1: thought was going to take the next step. Okay. Paxton
Speaker 1: was a little bit higher than excuse me, Um, he
Speaker 1: was more. Paxton was more in the Aaron Nola ranges.
Speaker 1: That is that faris say yes, okay. So then these guys,
Speaker 1: these guys were a little bit later on the Louise
Speaker 1: Castillo's um and the Luke Weavers. But they expected major
Speaker 1: breakouts from guys like this, and it didn't happen with
Speaker 1: Luke Weaver. I think people waited and they waited and
Speaker 1: they waited, and it ultimately never came. How come, well,
Speaker 1: partially what I said with he's kind of predictably. He
Speaker 1: threw his curveball. He tried to throw his curveball more.
Speaker 1: Last year, this is Luke Weaver, but predominantly fastball change up.
Speaker 1: Wasn't getting nearly the same amount of strikeouts that he
Speaker 1: was uh the year before. But if you remember last
Speaker 1: year when we were talking about this in he had
Speaker 1: a ten point seven four case per nine, it's because
Speaker 1: it wasn't going deep into games. Luke Weaver was getting
Speaker 1: a lot of strikeouts. But if you look at the
Speaker 1: swinging strike rate. It was nine point. Swinging strike er
Speaker 1: didn't change all that much last year, but the strikeouts
Speaker 1: dropped tremendously, So he's gotta incorporate that herball more. He
Speaker 1: needs a third pitch. The fastball change up is is
Speaker 1: a little bit too predictable. I think people had too
Speaker 1: high expectations for Luke Weaver last Looke. We were also
Speaker 1: walked over three and a half pree game last year.
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Speaker 1: else on Luke, we were Frankie now you mentioned it
Speaker 1: as we were going to break, just touching on the
Speaker 1: lack of control that was last year, you know, over
Speaker 1: three and a half walks Bryant. Look, this is a
Speaker 1: this is a reclamation project for the Arizona Diamondbacks. If
Speaker 1: they could find a way to turn them around, get
Speaker 1: him closer to where he was last year, uh the
Speaker 1: year before, work on that curveball a little bit. I
Speaker 1: just think he was. He was a little bit over
Speaker 1: hyped last year, you know, being drafted inside the top
Speaker 1: thirty starting pitchers around that range with like Luis Castio,
Speaker 1: um Zach Godley as well. So what we'll see what
Speaker 1: they can do. I will say this, I believe his
Speaker 1: a DP is like not exa e stint right now
Speaker 1: in NFBC. It is so I don't know, you're the math,
Speaker 1: but he's going around guys like Drew Steck and rider
Speaker 1: like Minor Nico like he's going super late. So if
Speaker 1: you play in these you know, draft and hold leagues
Speaker 1: or fourty round fifty round drafts. He's going super late.
Speaker 1: If you have faith that the Diamondbacks can figure him out,
Speaker 1: then you get him out of great value right now,
Speaker 1: probably the rest of draft. See, I don't I can't
Speaker 1: imagine people um anything with Carson Kelly before we want
Speaker 1: the Reds. Look, it's just we play in two catcher leagues.
Speaker 1: I know there's been some debate in like Fantasy Baseball
Speaker 1: Twitter one catcher versus two catcher leagues, Like all right, well,
Speaker 1: it's kind of like the old guard just saying, like,
Speaker 1: you know, it's been two catchers forever, why are we
Speaker 1: going to change it to one now just because catcher suck.
Speaker 1: It's the same debate about tight ends, right like should
Speaker 1: we just take away the tight end position and fantasy
Speaker 1: football because there's only three really good ones? No, you
Speaker 1: need to learn how to be better and you you
Speaker 1: gotta find those middle round tight ends that break The
Speaker 1: same thing goes for catchers. I mean, yes, it's harder
Speaker 1: to find the late round catchers that break out. Is
Speaker 1: it impossible to find a guy that you know gives
Speaker 1: you positive value? I don't think it's impossible, but it's
Speaker 1: worth mentioning a guy like Carson Kelly in two catcher leagues.
Speaker 1: He was one of the top catching prospects for a
Speaker 1: few years now. The Cardinals expected him to be the uh,
Speaker 1: the successor to YadA yr Molina. It seems like Yadia
Speaker 1: Maline is never gonna go away, and you have to
Speaker 1: give something up to get something. So you want to
Speaker 1: get Paul golchmant, you have to trade bad Carson Kelly.
Speaker 1: To me, he's just kind of like a two sixty
Speaker 1: two seventy home runs. I guess maybe he grows into
Speaker 1: it a little bit more like experience wise, um, but
Speaker 1: that's where he's at right now. I see Carson Kelly, Frankie,
Speaker 1: one of those guys that like you pick up when
Speaker 1: he gets hot and you plug him in and then
Speaker 1: you drop him. And I mean, in one catcher league
Speaker 1: you might do that, but like in catual league, he's
Speaker 1: probably second catcher exactly, and there's nothing wrong with that. Okay,
Speaker 1: let's move on to the last day we're gonna talk
Speaker 1: about on today's program, and that is Yaw and Alex
Speaker 1: would headed over to Cincinnati. What was that trade, frank
Speaker 1: It was ya Cel Pweague, Matt Kemp and Alex would too,
Speaker 1: since four basically a salary dump. They did get prospects
Speaker 1: Jeter Downs and Josiah Gray and Homer Bailey, who was
Speaker 1: also released. Um So, I'm not sure if Homer Bailey
Speaker 1: is gonna land somewhere else. Former favorite of Adam Rownas.
Speaker 1: Remember when you guys used to do the show every
Speaker 1: single year, Adam Rynas was all over Homer Bailey. Probably
Speaker 1: not on him as much anymore admittedly, but Yassi l Peag,
Speaker 1: Matt Kemp and Alex would too since Cincinnatti sneakily having
Speaker 1: a lot of these like SP two SP three guys
Speaker 1: in their rotation now, guys like Tanner, row Ark, Alex Wood,
Speaker 1: they trade for Sonny Gray, they still have Louise Castile. Like,
Speaker 1: there's some upside with these guys. It's interesting what they're doing, Like,
Speaker 1: they haven't had pitching for years, so it's good to
Speaker 1: see them trying to address it. Their outfield is also,
Speaker 1: I mean, they have a bunch of guys. They have Pweague,
Speaker 1: they have Kemp, they have Scott Schebler, they have Jesse Winker,
Speaker 1: they have a lot of guys. Really Wilton now Gondo,
Speaker 1: he's with the Kansas City Royals. Are celer names. Scott
Speaker 1: Chadler can play centerfields, Okay, alright, it's a lot of yeah,
Speaker 1: well a lot. Matt Kemp, we know he's not a
Speaker 1: good fielder. An ideal fit for him would have been
Speaker 1: the American League, so he could be a designated hitter.
Speaker 1: But it's not gonna be the case here. And since
Speaker 1: he and obviously you can't play him at first base
Speaker 1: because Joey Vado is there. Um, it just kind of
Speaker 1: sucks for Jesse Winker because Jesse Winker, to me, is
Speaker 1: like this guy who's like on the precipice, like he's there.
Speaker 1: He's like mini Joey Vado, like great plate discipline, doesn't
Speaker 1: strike out, walks a lot. It kind of saw him,
Speaker 1: like a couple of years ago, taking that step into power,
Speaker 1: like the final month of the season, the second half,
Speaker 1: and I don't know, I like maybe him and Kemp
Speaker 1: were gonna like tune. It's just frustrate so for me,
Speaker 1: the to Kemp, I don't know. For me, there's a
Speaker 1: lot of names. There's a lot of names there and
Speaker 1: get the headliner and everyone's gonna be so excited about
Speaker 1: pre this year, and I think rightfully, so, really, how
Speaker 1: come because it's finally going to be in position to
Speaker 1: have regular bats. Greg and look at what he's done
Speaker 1: the past couple of years with in l A with them,
Speaker 1: you know, kind of jerking him around, to be honest,
Speaker 1: and he kind of brought some of it makes sense, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it does make sense. But the talent, if you can
Speaker 1: get his head on right and maximize his talent, like
Speaker 1: it's definitely there. The talent is there. For hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty two games, twenty eight home runs, fifteen stolen bases.
Speaker 1: Not a lot of players do that nowadays, Like you're
Speaker 1: trying to find stolen bases as much as you can
Speaker 1: while not completely depleting your home run output. YAsO Page
Speaker 1: is one of those guys. And the last year home
Speaker 1: runs and fifteen stolen bases only five games. The Dodgers
Speaker 1: has had too many mouths to feed, you know, from there,
Speaker 1: trying to find ways to get maximums in the lineup.
Speaker 1: And Cody Bellinger and they have all these outfielders and
Speaker 1: he's not playing every day, and he misses some time
Speaker 1: with injury and then there you go, he only plays
Speaker 1: five games. It's not gonna be the case in Cincinnati.
Speaker 1: He's gonna go to Cincinnati. He's gonna play. He's gonna
Speaker 1: play every single day, and it's a great hitters ballpark.
Speaker 1: Are you are we sure he's going to play every
Speaker 1: single day? Are you sure? In my opinion, I'm sure
Speaker 1: he's gonna play. Why wouldn't he. Scott Cheveler better than him?
Speaker 1: Is Matt Kemp better than him? It is Jesse Winker
Speaker 1: better than him? To me? Is going to play every
Speaker 1: single day. And if you look at the bat the
Speaker 1: batter ball profile last year from week it was one
Speaker 1: of his best thirty eight percent hard hit rate, so
Speaker 1: he was hitting the ball more. I also looked into
Speaker 1: his launch angle, which was a little bit higher than
Speaker 1: it has been in years past, so lifting the ball
Speaker 1: a little bit more. You see that with the line
Speaker 1: drive rate was by far a career high. UM. The
Speaker 1: home run fly ball ratio was as highest since that
Speaker 1: breakout season when he first burst onto the scene in
Speaker 1: UM And I just think, you know, he's he's in
Speaker 1: a great hits ballpark now, you know, you look at
Speaker 1: park shift factors here moving from Los Angeles to to
Speaker 1: the great American small park here. Not to mention in
Speaker 1: a preedom good lineup, Greg with Joey Vado and all
Speaker 1: those outfielders that I mentioned, and Scow, Jeannette who played
Speaker 1: very well last year, and Ajo Henio Suarez. This is
Speaker 1: a good line up, Greg we He's in position here
Speaker 1: and you see it in the a DP already he's
Speaker 1: going pick in that range in a fifteen team league.
Speaker 1: He's going on like that round six seven turn. I
Speaker 1: think it's warranted. I think could be an outfield I
Speaker 1: think he's being drafted as like an outfield three right now.
Speaker 1: But he has outfield to upside. He could legitimately be
Speaker 1: top twenty. And I think I'm bullish, and I think
Speaker 1: a lot of people are going to be great. I
Speaker 1: think he has he has top fifteen outfielder upside. It's interesting.
Speaker 1: I he wented out what he did in that five games,
Speaker 1: and you're right and and to be rightfully excited about
Speaker 1: what he could do over eighty one games in Cincinnati,
Speaker 1: I get it, Docinetti. Not a team that's not a
Speaker 1: team that's afraid to run either. They'll let him run,
Speaker 1: yes they will, But he's never run more than he
Speaker 1: did last year. Sure, but that was a career high
Speaker 1: fifteen ever surpassed that number. I means he to me,
Speaker 1: he's safe for at least twelve to fifteen. Here's what
Speaker 1: you know of. This is an analysis. This is just
Speaker 1: how I'm feeling. Ye preas a dude that has the
Speaker 1: ability to piss a lot of people off, right, Like
Speaker 1: he's the way he plays the game as a people
Speaker 1: as a the ability to piss a lot of people off,
Speaker 1: and much of him being benched over the last few years.
Speaker 1: He said, the Dodgers jerking him around like the Dodgers,
Speaker 1: like the Reds of jerked around Scottie Cheveler. It's he's
Speaker 1: on doing in a way. And Peek being a year
Speaker 1: away from free agency, I could see Pui being a
Speaker 1: me guy. And that's just that's another reason to write.
Speaker 1: Ye Peak strike you as the guy who's like to
Speaker 1: take a gonna take a crapload of stairs. I didn't
Speaker 1: say that, but I did, like, he strikes me as
Speaker 1: a guy I want to get paid, right, Like he's
Speaker 1: gonna go out there and he was in a bib.
Speaker 1: The narrative. He's a guy that narrative couldn't speak for.
Speaker 1: And you know he's had a safe you know, for
Speaker 1: what it's worth. The batting average in his career to
Speaker 1: seventy nine. He's been a safe too sixty three, two sixties,
Speaker 1: seven to three years. He's just playing every single day
Speaker 1: and knowing that you're showing up to the stadium and
Speaker 1: you're gonna be in the lineup, and you don't have
Speaker 1: to worry about when you're playing, and and all these
Speaker 1: other factors that come into play with the Dodgers trying
Speaker 1: to trying to limit him or whatever it is. He's
Speaker 1: gonna play every day, and it's in a contract year.
Speaker 1: I think he has to seventy thirty home run, fifteen
Speaker 1: to twenty stolen base upside this year. Yes, Also, you
Speaker 1: gotta remember it's the only twenty eight years old, Like
Speaker 1: he's been around for a very long time at this point. Um,
Speaker 1: but he's still just twenty eight years old, and everyone's
Speaker 1: gonna be on. And I'm telling you, Greg, that guy
Speaker 1: who the outfiels, he's going around Frankie Hold for you, Pui,
Speaker 1: as I mentioned, going pick ninety eight eight right now,
Speaker 1: he's going just behind Eddie Rosario, Mitch Hanneger, Nicholas Castellanos,
Speaker 1: going just ahead of Nelson Cruiz. But that's because he's utility.
Speaker 1: Only the outfield guys are Justin Upton, Hellick Smith. Interesting,
Speaker 1: that's just stolen basis right there. Um, and that's a
Speaker 1: great interesting group of Eddie Rosario, Mitch Haniger, Upton in
Speaker 1: fourd ooh. I think that. I think that's a good group.
Speaker 1: There's still like some untapped potential with some of those guys,
Speaker 1: like can fourd oh could still get there. Definitely, it's
Speaker 1: still and we kind of saw in the second half
Speaker 1: lest year Upton pretty safe to fifty home runs I hate,
Speaker 1: but he's great for Rhodoy be a week production is
Speaker 1: very inconsistent, but he's he's he's great for Rhodo. Eddie
Speaker 1: Rosario a guy who's also you know, coming around as well,
Speaker 1: stepping into his own you know, home runs, solid, batting average,
Speaker 1: not gonna sink you. Mitch Haniger kind of broke out
Speaker 1: last year. Does he have another level he could get to?
Speaker 1: You gotta worry about protection in the lineup now. The
Speaker 1: Mariners shipped out a lot of pieces. They still do
Speaker 1: have Edwin and Karnacion, but I'd be surprised if he's
Speaker 1: part of the team. Um, you know, Spring Karna, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna be there, really, you know, yeah, ship him out
Speaker 1: for something I don't I don't think. So with that,
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Speaker 1: I want to start off kind of finishing up this trade.
Speaker 1: There are a lot of pieces here, Um in particular,
Speaker 1: Unless you want to do that now and not do
Speaker 1: the NBA stuff's up to you. Alex Wooden, Mattcamp mm hm,
Speaker 1: we can do that now. Sorry, let's just keep it
Speaker 1: all baseball. Fine, maybe we'll work in some basketball tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Trying to listen to you the people I know, there
Speaker 1: was a few people last week that asked us to
Speaker 1: talk a little bit more about basketball, so we can
Speaker 1: touch on season long things, you know, guys who are
Speaker 1: over performing in DFS, so on and so okay. So
Speaker 1: then wrapping up this trade, Alex would and Matt Kemp
Speaker 1: also go over to Cincinnati. But when it comes I'm
Speaker 1: wanna start with Kemp and then get to wood We'll
Speaker 1: Kemp see enough playing time to warrant drafting your guests
Speaker 1: is as good as mine right now your favorite website
Speaker 1: roster resource already using the roster resource as Matt Kemp
Speaker 1: hitting fifth in the lineup as of right now, playing
Speaker 1: left field, being the starting left fielder for this so
Speaker 1: Jesse Winker the outfielder on the bench. That was my question,
Speaker 1: who can kind of mix in give a day off
Speaker 1: here to to Schvler, give a day off here to Kemp.
Speaker 1: You know, I said, uh, Plea's gonna play every day
Speaker 1: for the most part. I do think he'll play every day,
Speaker 1: but they'll probably give him, you know, a day here
Speaker 1: and there. That's how Jesse Winker is gonna get hit
Speaker 1: at pass And you know it's not like Matt Kemp
Speaker 1: is like the model of health. Yeah, so you know,
Speaker 1: and you get enough at bats in this ballpark. I mean,
Speaker 1: does he does he need to does he need to
Speaker 1: play every day? And it's kind of baked into his ADP,
Speaker 1: Like people don't have high expectations for Matt Kemp already,
Speaker 1: and he's going over under three twelve an ADP for
Speaker 1: Matt Kemp right now over I guess then would over
Speaker 1: be like him over You're going pick three three with
Speaker 1: Matt camp That's fantastic value. You get him for nothing,
Speaker 1: you kind of plug him in. Don't really interesting, like
Speaker 1: I know, like he's a dude. That's not a great dude.
Speaker 1: He's had some personality issues really everywhere he's game. When
Speaker 1: he played last year, though, I'm pretty damn good. Last
Speaker 1: year August he was an m VP, he carried the
Speaker 1: Dodgers man made the All Star Team. UM Homer's last
Speaker 1: year eighty five rubies batted two nineties. There's a guy
Speaker 1: you could draft in your reserve rounds in these deeper leagues.
Speaker 1: You don't even have to draft him as your fifth
Speaker 1: outfielder because frankly, you get them later than that to
Speaker 1: ninety last year, twenty one home runs, and you're putting
Speaker 1: this guy in Cincinnati. But your original question is the
Speaker 1: one that matters most. How much is he gonna play?
Speaker 1: But for nothing? I don't care. So yeah, at that point,
Speaker 1: you're buying all upside. There's no risk back into a
Speaker 1: three forty three a DP because you know if if
Speaker 1: you draft him and it turns out you drafted the
Speaker 1: first two weeks, like the only place he could go
Speaker 1: is up correct. So if you draft him an he
Speaker 1: plays one time in the first two weeks. You'll drops, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I love that as a DP Frank big fan of that.
Speaker 1: All right, last piece of this was Alex Would going
Speaker 1: over now. Alex Would also not the picture, uh, the
Speaker 1: model of consistency when it comes to health. He was
Speaker 1: a guy that was fantastic two years ago. A lot
Speaker 1: of people were on him. Last year didn't work nearly
Speaker 1: as well. He said he should be had him on
Speaker 1: his team together. We certainly did. He said he's going
Speaker 1: to go back to so the things that he does
Speaker 1: well this year, what does that mean? Well, you said
Speaker 1: he's not the model of health in terms of consistency,
Speaker 1: and you're right, but he has consistently pitched a hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty when endings two years in a row. So
Speaker 1: that's basically where he's like, he'll take that. I think
Speaker 1: he's a guy that he'll take that. Depending on him
Speaker 1: for a hundred and fifty and he's pitched. The problem
Speaker 1: that I have with Alex Wood is every single year
Speaker 1: he starts off well in terms of like fastball velocity
Speaker 1: and then just tanks like as a sea. That's why
Speaker 1: you can argue is he better as a bullpen arm?
Speaker 1: Because you know a guy that whenever he tries to
Speaker 1: stretch out throughout a season, remember, and got off to
Speaker 1: that phenomenal start. He was great. First half of the
Speaker 1: year was like a sub two e r A. He
Speaker 1: was awesome the first month of the season. He's throwing.
Speaker 1: By his last start of the season, his average fastball felocy.
Speaker 1: And that's just that's a yearly occurrence with Alex Wood
Speaker 1: about last year, it wasn't even there to start the year.
Speaker 1: His first start average fastball velocity nine point three, next
Speaker 1: start eighty nine point six. By the end of the season,
Speaker 1: at the end of the season, he was actually throwing harder.
Speaker 1: And you know what, these were games where he was
Speaker 1: actually in the bullpen eighty eight point nine miles per
Speaker 1: hour in his last start of the year. Um, that
Speaker 1: came on September. So and then they kind of transitioned.
Speaker 1: So you know, you can argue that Alex would based
Speaker 1: on his herkey jerky delivery on he loses fastball velocity,
Speaker 1: can you still have some value, Yes, I think so.
Speaker 1: You know, he's a guy who's also going super late
Speaker 1: right now in drafts, Alex would going to a D
Speaker 1: so you know, one of your end of the end
Speaker 1: of your fantasy rotation arms here, but he still pitches
Speaker 1: to a below four ear a like proto. He's fine,
Speaker 1: and fifty innings of a sub three seven five e
Speaker 1: R a decent whip one point two. It's all right.
Speaker 1: It's just he's never gonna get Frenzy's up next, Corey,
Speaker 1: Jim and Chris or Frank Stantheon and Greg Sausenday. So
Speaker 1: much for watching the Fantasy best Friends Forever. We'll do
Speaker 1: it all again tomorrow. We