Speaker 1: Welcome in everybody to Fantasy Pros. This is the Fantasy
Speaker 1: Baseball Podcast. It's me Joey p Joe Pi Zapia, and
Speaker 1: we've got another fun mock draft episode for you today.
Speaker 1: This time twelve teams head to head points. That's right.
Speaker 1: And to help us go through this draft, we have
Speaker 1: our friends from our discord Fantasypros dot com slash chat.
Speaker 1: I keep telling everybody it's free to join, and when
Speaker 1: you go and join it, you get opportunities to do
Speaker 1: fun things like this. So I put it out there.
Speaker 1: I said, hey, come hang out with us on the
Speaker 1: show today, and guess what people have. Eight lucky individuals
Speaker 1: have joined. Chris Welsh and another Chris. We keep having
Speaker 1: a lot of chris Is on the show. We got
Speaker 1: to keep everything straight here. Certainly a better Chris Chris Clegg.
Speaker 1: You can follow him on x at Rodo Clegg. He's
Speaker 1: over at Dynasty dugout right now. He is the founder
Speaker 1: of that too. Very important to be with a founder.
Speaker 1: I guess that makes some CEO Welsh. I'm not sure,
Speaker 1: and of course one of my favorite people who does
Speaker 1: fantastic interviews. I'm still sad that I didn't get a
Speaker 1: chance to keep my appointment with him earlier in the year,
Speaker 1: but life was hectic. Joe Arico, who you could follow
Speaker 1: over at Joe A Rico ninety nine. His stuff is
Speaker 1: over at Sports Sports Ethos, which I almost had Sports
Speaker 1: Ethos with. Would have been a very different thing for
Speaker 1: me to say, Uh, Joe, Chris, Chris, Joe, this won't
Speaker 1: be confusing at all, will it.
Speaker 2: Well?
Speaker 3: I didn't even realize we got two jokes.
Speaker 1: I just realized it myself.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, what do we do?
Speaker 1: All right?
Speaker 4: So we got to do the high school thing piece
Speaker 4: of Pia clegg E, Rico and Welsh. That's how we
Speaker 4: reference everybody. That's really the only way to do it.
Speaker 1: There you go, Joe Rico, You're gonna be drafting from
Speaker 1: the one spot, so I assume it's Ronald Acunya for you.
Speaker 1: You're not going any different, would that be correct?
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's gonna be no crazy stuff going on here,
Speaker 2: not yet. Anyway, We're gonna we're gonna keep it nice
Speaker 2: and easy with Acuoni at the one, for sure.
Speaker 1: Nice and easy at the one. Jaeger Bombs is at
Speaker 1: one oh two. Hughes is back again for more at
Speaker 1: one O three. That fool is at one oh four.
Speaker 1: Joe Newle who was also on one of our drafts,
Speaker 1: I think on the the last we we did on
Speaker 1: Fantasy Fest, Joe was on there. Did okay, I didn't do
Speaker 1: as well as I did because I want a draft
Speaker 1: finally here, My goodness is so good. Chris Cleig, you're
Speaker 1: in the middle. You got to pick your spot here, buddy,
Speaker 1: you were the second guy into this draft and you
Speaker 1: chose one oh six.
Speaker 5: Hy Well, I've done a lot of drafts and I
Speaker 5: haven't picked out a six spot yet. So I've had
Speaker 5: a lot of top like I've had surprisingly an FBC,
Speaker 5: I've had like one oh one like four times, which
Speaker 5: is kind of crazy, and I've had the back end
Speaker 5: of the turn.
Speaker 3: So I was like, hey, let's do the middle.
Speaker 6: Have fun.
Speaker 1: There we go, Joe Rico, you are officially on the clock.
Speaker 1: We've begun here, so go ahead and make your Ronald
Speaker 1: Acunya selection. After Cleg we've got Spring joining us. We've
Speaker 1: got oh, mctoon, do's here mcturda in a while. One
Speaker 1: of our favorites, the Welsh, is at one oh nine.
Speaker 1: Hammer Dan is at one ten. Chommer is at one eleven,
Speaker 1: and of course I took the turn this time because
Speaker 1: I won from the one spot. Now I want to
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Speaker 1: the board, Mookie Bets off the board, Bobby Wit, nothing
Speaker 1: crazy here, that one fool goes Wan Soto. Interesting there,
Speaker 1: haven't gotten that one yet. But a points league, Iobi,
Speaker 1: that's a good player, lots of walks. Julio goes to
Speaker 1: Joe Nowle at one O five, Cleg, you took Freddy
Speaker 1: Freeman at one six. That's earlier that I had seen
Speaker 1: Freeman go. But then again, we're talking about points, and
Speaker 1: we're talking about we do have corner spots here. We're
Speaker 1: doing three outfielders, two utils, so let's talk about it.
Speaker 5: I mean, he's like as safe as they come from
Speaker 5: a point standpoint, hiobip and I wouldn't take him this
Speaker 5: high in a Rhodo draft, but you know what you're
Speaker 5: getting from Freddy year over year and such a safe lock.
Speaker 5: He's he's gonna provide and gonna provide top notch points,
Speaker 5: I think. And he's been durable. You know, he's been
Speaker 5: on the field, been healthy. So yeah, I was debating,
Speaker 5: but I was like, you know what, Freeman is the
Speaker 5: points play?
Speaker 6: Here?
Speaker 1: There you go, So Freeman is the points play Welsh,
Speaker 1: you went pitcher with the first pick to tease Carol
Speaker 1: off the board, then Spencer Streider. It is a head
Speaker 1: to head points league, so the dominant pitcher is certainly
Speaker 1: a useful piece.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean I passed up Kyle Tucker who fell.
Speaker 4: Corman Carroll went right before me. I mean, judge, who
Speaker 4: you just took? I almost just slammed. But we know
Speaker 4: the pitching markets kind of changed with Garrett Cole out there.
Speaker 4: I just did a mock draft on it TL where
Speaker 4: Strider went to. It wasn't a points league, but you
Speaker 4: know people wanting those. But in points leagues, I'm going
Speaker 4: to value pitchers a little bit more than usual. So
Speaker 4: getting Strider, I think at nine is kind of a steal.
Speaker 4: But boy, I am so upset with the start. You
Speaker 4: just got to get to this points league. That's why
Speaker 4: twelve n of points is really really nice.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, so look I understand taking Strider. Honestly, this
Speaker 1: is the one format where I am okay with him
Speaker 1: as a first round pick. I'm good with it. I
Speaker 1: get it, you know in every other format. You know
Speaker 1: my strategy. I don't want to miss the offense. But
Speaker 1: you're going head to head points with a guy who's
Speaker 1: striking out, you know, two guys every inning. It's it's unbelievable. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so I understand going there. The other problem is if
Speaker 1: he goes down, so goes your season. Kyle Tucker next
Speaker 1: at one ten, show Tany at one eleven. Then I
Speaker 1: took Aaron, Judge and Matt Olsen. Everybody knows my love
Speaker 1: for matt Olsen. I think he could go hit another
Speaker 1: fifty home runs this year. Judge can stay on the field.
Speaker 1: Who knows what we'll get out of him. But because
Speaker 1: we are with the two utility spots, I'm still willing
Speaker 1: to go with Judge here and there in outfield is
Speaker 1: not great. So give me the outfielder, give me the
Speaker 1: first basement. I feel good about that. Uh Se. Schamer
Speaker 1: took Devors at two o two, Hammer Dan took Trey
Speaker 1: Turner at two three, and the Welsh you are up again,
Speaker 1: So what are you doing? You know?
Speaker 6: Uh So?
Speaker 4: I was at a spring training game yesterday and seconds
Speaker 4: I know I'm gonna make it.
Speaker 1: Let you let your tales of welshisms.
Speaker 3: I'm setting it over your pick.
Speaker 4: A guy comes down, uh, and I thought he was
Speaker 4: trying to like pass me. And he comes over and
Speaker 4: he starts talking for a second and he goes, I
Speaker 4: see the Welsh and I gotta come down and talk.
Speaker 4: And I went, oh, my god, you know who I am.
Speaker 4: This is randomly there and he's like, I watch you
Speaker 4: and Joe. You know what he said?
Speaker 3: Joe?
Speaker 5: What?
Speaker 3: You know what he said? He said, you gotta hate Joe. Oh,
Speaker 3: you're gonna hate him. I got it.
Speaker 4: You gotta tell that Joe guy to let you talk more.
Speaker 4: He was a full on Welsh guy. Yeah, he said,
Speaker 4: you gotta tell that guy to let to you for
Speaker 4: you to have more. And he will also referred to
Speaker 4: me by my god given name the Welsh. So shout
Speaker 4: out to him and out to our listeners for grabbing.
Speaker 3: Shout out to Jordan Lvarez, who I just took.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna talk twice as much. That's that's it. Now
Speaker 1: I can talk twice as much. But also on top
Speaker 1: of that, I'm gonna I'm gonna let you talk even
Speaker 1: half as much as you did before, and I'm sure
Speaker 1: that'll make him very happy.
Speaker 3: Will But I got Jordanalvarez in a points league, which
Speaker 3: is amazing.
Speaker 1: There's nothing worse than the person who's talking hosting a show.
Speaker 1: It's really it's really difficult.
Speaker 3: You know, Listen, I don't know what to tell you.
Speaker 4: So, like, if people love me, then they're just gonna
Speaker 4: love me, Joe, I don't know what.
Speaker 1: There's other YouTube channels people can watch. I'm just saying, folks.
Speaker 3: But I'm not on those. That's the problem. I'm not
Speaker 3: on those, so I don't know that.
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Speaker 1: here because we are live today. By the way, our
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Speaker 1: to the YouTube channel, because it's amazing. Hugh Morris, how
Speaker 1: did you get Julian Edelman to the draft, Jo Rico,
Speaker 1: I can only assume.
Speaker 6: I think it depends on me.
Speaker 1: It feels like but I feel like it's playoff. Is
Speaker 1: Joe Rico like Joe kind of like has that the
Speaker 1: longer hair like I think it was like a mode
Speaker 1: there for at one point. But Chris Clegg is like
Speaker 1: the cleaned up Julian Edelman that we got like in
Speaker 1: post retirement.
Speaker 3: I feel like, I guess I'll take it.
Speaker 4: I mean, un lackey Clegg, It's much better than what
Speaker 4: I get, So don't worry.
Speaker 1: Rico Bronia as you are in my phone. Rico Bronia
Speaker 1: as the Arizona Diamondbacks. That is the best pig ever.
Speaker 1: All right, speaking of picks, you took Alvarez there with
Speaker 1: your second and Jose Ramirez to mctunda at two A five,
Speaker 1: Bryce Harper next, Chris Clegg, Austin Riley, Freddie Freeman. That's
Speaker 1: a hell of a start. You got the corners. Uh,
Speaker 1: this feels pretty good for.
Speaker 5: You, I imagine, Yeah, you know, I considered a picture there,
Speaker 5: but you're looking at it. I figured I have a
Speaker 5: kind of a tear like after stride, especially with cole down.
Speaker 3: There's just a big tier of guys.
Speaker 5: So yeah, I debated taking Corbyn Burns, but I was like,
Speaker 5: you know what, I'll get a similar arm in the
Speaker 5: third round, and it's looking like that will happen, So yeah,
Speaker 5: Riley and Freeman feels like a really good start so far.
Speaker 1: So Chris Clegg is feeling good about his start. Of course,
Speaker 1: after you took Riley, two pitchers went off the board
Speaker 1: in a row, Corbyn Burns, Zach Wheeler, Hughes then took
Speaker 1: lad Guerrero, Marcus Simeon, Joe Rico. You had two picks
Speaker 1: here at the end of the second beginning of the third.
Speaker 1: I love the one you did in the third. What
Speaker 1: great value. Albi's there and Louis Castillo, so let's talk
Speaker 1: about this. You got your picture, he got a second basement.
Speaker 1: How do you feel?
Speaker 2: I feel really good with I almost debated going like
Speaker 2: two starting pitchers, and just because Acuna is almost two
Speaker 2: batters in and of himself there you can kind of
Speaker 2: take a couple of pictures afterwards.
Speaker 6: But I went with Castillo.
Speaker 2: Lockdown that first stud Like you guys mentioned, having that
Speaker 2: ace tier starter for points leagues is really key and
Speaker 2: then I got the little mini stacked, the season long
Speaker 2: mini stack here with Albi's and Acunya, and those guys
Speaker 2: are probably gonna be playing off each other quite a bit,
Speaker 2: a lot.
Speaker 1: Of chopping for you, a Rico, You're gonna be doing
Speaker 1: a lot of the chop. I can't believe that's still
Speaker 1: a thing. It's like forty years ago. I feel like
Speaker 1: the chop, but we're still doing it. I think it's over.
Speaker 1: Corey Seger goes next at three zho two, Gunner Henderson,
Speaker 1: then Pete Alonzo, Kevin Gossman at three zero five to
Speaker 1: Joe Newell, Chris, you got your pitcher, Pablo Lopez. Did
Speaker 1: you want gossmin Or? Was Lopez or Kirby the guy
Speaker 1: you were trying to debate between?
Speaker 5: No, I mean Lopez was the guy. I've got him
Speaker 5: over Gusman at this point. I think that he's just
Speaker 5: such a safe lock now for inning, strikeouts and solid ratios.
Speaker 3: So he was in that same tier with Burns and Wheeler.
Speaker 5: I probably like Castillo at the top of that tier,
Speaker 5: but you had to get Lopez after, you know, four
Speaker 5: or five pitchers went Yeah, pretty happy.
Speaker 1: Obviously a relative of mine. Angelo here in the chat says,
Speaker 1: I'm not passing on Strider if he's there in the
Speaker 1: end of round one. Yeah, it's hard in this format
Speaker 1: not to Welsh. You did not pass on him in
Speaker 1: round one, let alone at the very end of Alvarez
Speaker 1: Strider and Luis Robert with your pick after Michael Harris
Speaker 1: went off the board right before.
Speaker 3: You was that to me?
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, you're the man who took those players.
Speaker 3: I'm so sorry.
Speaker 1: I was real like, see, I got my wish. See,
Speaker 1: everybody wants you to talk more. I finally let to
Speaker 1: talk in you for once, have nothing to say.
Speaker 3: I was reading our chat.
Speaker 4: I'm trying to be very interactive with our lovely people,
Speaker 4: and they are.
Speaker 3: Just showering me with raise, and I got.
Speaker 4: Very distracted by the praise that was being showered across
Speaker 4: the board. I will tell you I absolutely just got
Speaker 4: just sniped across the board leading up to my pick.
Speaker 3: This is three outfielder.
Speaker 4: I probably didn't need to push too hard into getting
Speaker 4: a second outfielder. I wanted George Kirby, I would have
Speaker 4: taken Pablo Lopez. All of my guys went, so I
Speaker 4: went with Luish Robert for some big power to add
Speaker 4: in here we've said when in doubt, go with the outfield.
Speaker 4: Stolen bases don't quite mean as much. So I was
Speaker 4: thinking about the guy that just went two picks ago, Bobachette.
Speaker 4: I'm not a big Bobaschett guy, but in this format,
Speaker 4: I think he plays a little bit better, So now
Speaker 4: I won't be And lastly, I felt that once Kirby went,
Speaker 4: we kind of like what Claig was saying, we kind
Speaker 4: of changed tears of players that I liked and disliked.
Speaker 4: And I'm back up and I'm going to take another
Speaker 4: picture and I'm going to go with Zach Gallon. Zach
Speaker 4: Gallon paired with Strider and Jordan Alvarez and Luis Roberts.
Speaker 1: Well, I appreciate you gracing us again. Once you know
Speaker 1: all the flowers that Welsh has been getting, you can
Speaker 1: send more flowers to him on FTD or whatever they happen.
Speaker 4: I couldn't have set myself up worse than to tell
Speaker 4: this story about this guy that's like, well, just got to.
Speaker 3: Talk more, and then you go to me and I'm like,
Speaker 3: what was that to me?
Speaker 1: I think after this show he now understands why I
Speaker 1: do the talking, because You're a liability. That's what you are,
Speaker 1: all right. So after Francisco Lindor to Hammer Dan, you
Speaker 1: had Boba schet Go, I took Altuve again second base
Speaker 1: don't love it this year. That was also the recommended
Speaker 1: pick here from draft Wizard, and after doing a little
Speaker 1: clicking around, I agreed, and the pick predictor also agreed.
Speaker 1: I did want to go for a certain pick. And
Speaker 1: this was a tricky one here because I did not
Speaker 1: want to leave the fourth round of a of a
Speaker 1: head to head points without one. Scooba was out there,
Speaker 1: Yamamoto's out there. He just went off the board, actually,
Speaker 1: But Glass Now was the one that I end up taking.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna roll the dice here and hope that I
Speaker 1: get the big two hundred and forty strikeout glass now
Speaker 1: season that is in that tank somewhere. We haven't seen
Speaker 1: it yet because his career highs one hundred and twenty
Speaker 1: something innings and that was just last year. So if
Speaker 1: we get that, with all the wins, with all those things,
Speaker 1: I'm willing to risk that. With Judge Olsen al tuove
Speaker 1: in glass Now, I think I'm willing to go ahead
Speaker 1: and put that risk.
Speaker 4: Had you taken like Gallen. I was one hundred taken
Speaker 4: Glass now like that.
Speaker 1: And I can't take again. I struggle with Gallon now.
Speaker 1: Gallen was the top recommendation still, but because of those
Speaker 1: giant innings of two forty three last year, I still
Speaker 1: can't get around that. And schoolball. I love Schooball, but again,
Speaker 1: one hundred nine innings last year. I know you can
Speaker 1: say the same thing about Glass now, but one pitches
Speaker 1: for the Tigers, and this is a head to head points.
Speaker 1: I want those ws. I want those quality stars depending
Speaker 1: on what the scoring is.
Speaker 4: I mean that is Gallon by the way, like unless
Speaker 4: you think those innings are going to quit to keep
Speaker 4: point get injured, he's but he's gonna be two. He's
Speaker 4: gonna have probably fifteen wins. I mean this is he's
Speaker 4: a great He's a safe points format type of player.
Speaker 4: But it's like balance of safety versus like crazy strikeouts.
Speaker 1: Elie Dela Cruz goes next Zach Gallon to the Welsh
Speaker 1: who you'll have him for like a month or two
Speaker 1: before he goes on the aislel Logan Webb at four
Speaker 1: oh five to Mctunda Spring took Yamamoto, Randy Rosa Rena
Speaker 1: to Chris Clegg at four oh seven, let's talk about
Speaker 1: a Rosea Raine. You got your outfielder here, now, a
Speaker 1: rose A Raina a little bit lower in the batting average,
Speaker 1: but power speed from a points league perspective still really
Speaker 1: goodbye at the stage, Yes.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think so.
Speaker 5: I mean I was actually a little hurt because I
Speaker 5: was wanting one of those three starting pitchers that went
Speaker 5: right before me to go to give me my SP
Speaker 5: two in a pretty solid spot. But yeah, rose Arena
Speaker 5: is an alternative. I feel like he was the top
Speaker 5: bat there. You know, Machado was sitting around, but you know,
Speaker 5: having alsin rally already, felt like good to go ahead
Speaker 5: and get that outfielder out of the way. And yeah,
Speaker 5: I mean you mentioned the bag and average, but I
Speaker 5: still think in most points formats that Rose Raine is
Speaker 5: gonna play pretty well.
Speaker 1: Now you took him over Garcia and Trout who went
Speaker 1: after that? Are you fading, Mike Trout? We had a
Speaker 1: great discussion the other day with Scott Pianowski on the
Speaker 1: Fantasy Fest. If he missed it, go back. It's on
Speaker 1: a playlist on YouTube. You could see Pianowski's performance there,
Speaker 1: or you could just watch the whole thing straight through too.
Speaker 1: But he's been talking about fading Mike Trout, and you
Speaker 1: did as well. So can you talk about that for everybody?
Speaker 1: Why you took a Rose Arena over Garcia and Trout.
Speaker 1: What's the defining factor there for you?
Speaker 5: Well, the biggest downside with Trout is obviously the health
Speaker 5: that he has not stayed healthy the last several years,
Speaker 5: and we've seen the contact rates kind of deteriorate too.
Speaker 5: Obviously in a points league format more OBP type based,
Speaker 5: Trout's still gonna play, but it's been pretty tough to
Speaker 5: watch like him decline. And I didn't think we'd be
Speaker 5: saying that about Mike Trout, but here we are. The
Speaker 5: contact rates have deteriorated and hopefully those bounce back, and honestly,
Speaker 5: just don't think he can stay healthy.
Speaker 3: So he is a fade for me unless he falls
Speaker 3: very far.
Speaker 5: I think in one NFBC draft I did grab him,
Speaker 5: but he was like pick eighty and I was like
Speaker 5: baffled that he was there, and so I was like, Okay,
Speaker 5: like at this spot, I can probably justify it, but
Speaker 5: not in the top fifty.
Speaker 1: I can't wait to get back to you. Because you
Speaker 1: pulled the trigger so quickly on Welsh's favorite pitcher hashtag sarcasm.
Speaker 1: So we'll get back to you in a second. Garcia
Speaker 1: Trout Aaron Nola four ten, Royce lewis one of my
Speaker 1: favorites at four to eleven, and then you took Joe
Speaker 1: a Rico, Freddy Parolta, my dude, and then to start
Speaker 1: the fifth rond Max Freed. So you've got Castillo, Parolta,
Speaker 1: Max Freed. That is a formidable grouping. Here. Are you
Speaker 1: worried at all, Joe about the offense that you've gone
Speaker 1: three of five picks with the pitchers?
Speaker 2: No, Like I mentioned, Acunya is such a cushion. Now again,
Speaker 2: there is a little bit of worry because of some
Speaker 2: of the news over the last week or so, but
Speaker 2: I'm pretty confident he's still going to be alright, and
Speaker 2: he is still going to be at least like the
Speaker 2: equivalent of one and a half batters him and Alby's
Speaker 2: put together. I probably don't need any more starter starting
Speaker 2: pitching for the next couple of rounds.
Speaker 6: But I think I like the way I've constructed it
Speaker 6: so far, all.
Speaker 1: Right, So you're feeling good about that. In rotal formats.
Speaker 1: How does your approach change Joe potentially when you're looking
Speaker 1: at pitching and trying to figure that out.
Speaker 2: I don't know if i'd push him up quite so much.
Speaker 2: I tend to look for for later pitching for the bargain,
Speaker 2: the bargain bin kind of guys, But I don't know
Speaker 2: if I'd rely on that as much in a points league.
Speaker 6: I kind of do want those those anchors.
Speaker 2: So that's why, Like if if guys have seen my
Speaker 2: my drafts that I've done on stream this year, this
Speaker 2: is very uncharacteristic of me.
Speaker 6: But it's just the nature of the format much you.
Speaker 1: Can tell the truth. Welsh three you off? I mean,
Speaker 1: I blame you.
Speaker 6: I do that. He always throws me off.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I do that. Although your your Twitter or should
Speaker 1: I say x avatar is a picture of you in
Speaker 1: the Welsh? Can you describe that moment in top is that?
Speaker 6: Is that still us?
Speaker 1: I think it's either that or it was John Lackey
Speaker 1: or Rico Bronia. It's one of those three people.
Speaker 3: You should thought it was Gosman.
Speaker 2: I've always thought you had a bit of a gosmin
Speaker 2: esque type.
Speaker 4: That's so much better, like I am so not individualized anymore.
Speaker 3: Like everybody.
Speaker 4: I had someone be like, oh, doesn't Welsh look like
Speaker 4: Aaron Nola? Like I just look like all the pictures.
Speaker 4: It's crazy, Like, let's get to Gosman is fine, Nola
Speaker 4: is fine, Lackey is not Rico Bosco or whatever.
Speaker 1: That one picture I'm gonna show the guy. I wish
Speaker 1: I could. I wish I could send it to Maybe
Speaker 1: I can. Maybe I could send it to John and
Speaker 1: then have him upload it here to the stream. At
Speaker 1: some point you can add it over your face instead
Speaker 1: of yours. I don't know if that's I don't know
Speaker 1: if John.
Speaker 4: Spent a great time in Nashville together, because great friends
Speaker 4: do not do that.
Speaker 1: Do not do that. It's all right, It'll be back
Speaker 1: on leading off. I always have that, all right. So
Speaker 1: Machado goes at five oh two, Grayson Rodriguez terrific picture
Speaker 1: of five h three. We're all very excited about to
Speaker 1: hughes that one fool, Celex Framber, Valdez, Kyle Schwarber. And
Speaker 1: then you took Logan Gilbert, Chris Kleig. I know you're
Speaker 1: up for another pick, so I'm gonna come back to
Speaker 1: you in a second. Edwin Diaz, Josh Hater, Paul Goldschmid
Speaker 1: to the Welsh, than Cody Bellinger, Adley Rutchman. I took
Speaker 1: Bobby Miller and Alex Bregman back to back, so Glass
Speaker 1: now and Bregg and then Bobby Miller. I've got two
Speaker 1: fifths of the Dodger rotation, so again, good value on
Speaker 1: the board there. Snell was still on there. I passed
Speaker 1: on him. I don't care, I'm not doing it. Of course,
Speaker 1: I stayed on Brandon, took Alex Bregman. Our base was
Speaker 1: getting a little wonky there, so I decided to go
Speaker 1: that route. Onneo Cruz goes next year just before the
Speaker 1: Welsh at six o two, Nickel Nico Horner goes to
Speaker 1: Hammer Dan and then Cole Reagan's you got him so
Speaker 1: Welsh Strider, Gallon, Reagan's, Paul Goldschmidt, Luis Robert Alvarez. This
Speaker 1: is a pretty good start. I'm waiting for you to
Speaker 1: start hating your team, but I don't know if you
Speaker 1: can do that.
Speaker 3: This I'm not I mean in a points format.
Speaker 4: I know some people get really weird about like pitching,
Speaker 4: and I think I've always had a problem with points
Speaker 4: leagues is there isn't like a standard like everybody. There's
Speaker 4: like the CBS standard, and there's like the fan Track standard.
Speaker 4: There's so many different So some don't go negative against strikeouts,
Speaker 4: some do and not mix talking about it in general,
Speaker 4: and sometimes they'll stabilize pitching. But my baseline has always
Speaker 4: been that pitching is way more valuable in points leagues,
Speaker 4: and I want those top end guys I took. I
Speaker 4: think two like very I mean, Strider's the best, Gallon's
Speaker 4: give me a ton of innings, and now I got
Speaker 4: a big strikeout guy in Reagan's.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna stack pitching. That's what I'm gonna do in
Speaker 3: this format.
Speaker 4: So I'm not a free to go heavy on them
Speaker 4: because stolen base guys don't mean as much. A lot
Speaker 4: of the boring guys that play better in Points are
Speaker 4: actually a little bit further down the list. I don't
Speaker 4: want to say all their names, but you know, I mean,
Speaker 4: I'm probably not gonna get them.
Speaker 3: But a guy Lexander.
Speaker 4: Bogarts is like a classic, better point, probably even better
Speaker 4: Points format player than normal categories. So I think you
Speaker 4: have a little bit more wiggle room with hitters in Points.
Speaker 4: So I want to make sure, I have top end pitching,
Speaker 4: all right, So.
Speaker 1: Let's continue on here recapping the draft. So after you
Speaker 1: took Reagan's, Zach Efln, Bryan Reynolds, Chris Yelich to excuse me,
Speaker 1: Chris Yelich to Chris Klegg, it's a lot going on there, Logan,
Speaker 1: Gilbert Christian Yelich. Let's talk about these last two picks
Speaker 1: you made. Chris Well.
Speaker 3: Gilbert such a lock for Innians.
Speaker 5: He's throwing one hundred and eighty five and one hundred
Speaker 5: and ninety over the last two years.
Speaker 3: He's working on a new pitch. He's been throwing a
Speaker 3: cutter some, which is good.
Speaker 5: Kind of give him that bridge pitch between the fastball
Speaker 5: the slider, and you know, the splitter obviously is a
Speaker 5: really good pitch when it's on. So I think that
Speaker 5: when you look at Gilbert, maybe he's not the flashiest
Speaker 5: type guy, but I think in a points format where
Speaker 5: he eats a lot of innings, he is a lot
Speaker 5: very valuable, and so I really like the value there
Speaker 5: on him, especially with a lot of the top guys
Speaker 5: going off the board. So Jelich feels like a great
Speaker 5: points league play too, where he's great in Rodo obviously
Speaker 5: gives you power, gives you speed, but in a points
Speaker 5: league too, I think he does play up pretty substantially
Speaker 5: just due to his own base skills.
Speaker 1: And you just took another Twins pitcher. Now you've got
Speaker 1: two fifths of a rotation Joe Ryan straight out of
Speaker 1: Mike c and onto your team. Another great selection. Ryan's
Speaker 1: another one too that I don't think we've seen the
Speaker 1: best of him over a full season yet, but if
Speaker 1: he gives you that in twenty twenty four, it feels
Speaker 1: like a steal at seven oh six.
Speaker 5: Yep, he was injured a lot of last year, pitched
Speaker 5: through it and you could see the sizeable difference in
Speaker 5: the two halves basically when he was hurt and when
Speaker 5: he was healthy, and you know, when he's healthy, I
Speaker 5: think that we're going to get peak Joe Ryan again
Speaker 5: and I think it'd be a really good value at
Speaker 5: a headhead points league.
Speaker 1: All right, let's continue on here. So after yell Wich Cja,
Speaker 1: Joe Muskrove, Nolan Jones, Jazz Chisholm, Nolan Aernato and Joe Alrico,
Speaker 1: that's your selection, along with Matt McClain. So let's talk
Speaker 1: about these last two picks that you have.
Speaker 6: I wanted Chisholm.
Speaker 2: I got sniped on Jazz and I got sniped on
Speaker 2: on a couple of players actually in that round. But
Speaker 2: Aeronauto and McClain just both feel kind of undervalued. Matt
Speaker 2: McClain in a lot of drafts, is I mean, he's
Speaker 2: kind of been falling a little bit over the course
Speaker 2: of draft season. He started out as like an early
Speaker 2: round pick, but in the seventies at this point, I mean,
Speaker 2: I think we've kind of forgotten what he did last year,
Speaker 2: and now I think everything is a little more clear
Speaker 2: in Cincinnati with Marte not going to be around, so
Speaker 2: not that he was going to be somebody who suffered
Speaker 2: so much, but just boosts him up. I think I
Speaker 2: touched in Aeronauto is just pretty pretty reliable every single
Speaker 2: season in the seventies to get Aeronauto.
Speaker 6: I love. I love both of these picks.
Speaker 2: I'm really liking my team, but I tended like all
Speaker 2: of my teams after seven rounds, So we'll see it.
Speaker 1: Goes all right, Welsh, let's get you here recapping some
Speaker 1: picks because I'm up in the draft and I need
Speaker 1: to research a little here.
Speaker 3: Yes, sir, so where did we leave off. We live
Speaker 3: off at Matt McClain. We had Christian Walker.
Speaker 4: We're starting off the seventh round where Rico got Matt
Speaker 4: McClain Walker class A Bogarts. As soon as I said it,
Speaker 4: bam gone. Of course that one fool. Johan Durant, Joe Ryan,
Speaker 4: Justin Steele. Of course, because I can never have my
Speaker 4: bestie Trista Costas, I took Labor Torres daval Urie prez
Speaker 4: Lozardo for Joe Clig.
Speaker 3: Did you talk about Joe Ryan yet.
Speaker 5: Yeah, just briefly. Yeah, So I think that obviously the
Speaker 5: splits with the injuries. Last year he pitched through injury
Speaker 5: for a good bit. So yeah, I think healthy Joe
Speaker 5: Ryan is a good Joe Ryan.
Speaker 3: Let me ask you about real.
Speaker 4: Quick to Justin Steel while Joe's finishing up here, What
Speaker 4: do you think about Justin Steele overall this season, especially
Speaker 4: in the eighties. Do you think that's a little bit
Speaker 4: too obviously, like pitchers are getting pushed up a little
Speaker 4: bit in this format. Do you think that's the right
Speaker 4: spot for Steel?
Speaker 3: It's tough.
Speaker 5: I mean, I like Steal in a general sense, but
Speaker 5: at some point it feels like it's gonna kind of
Speaker 5: come crashing down. I use a two pitch guy without
Speaker 5: you know, really two good pitch like Strider makes it works.
Speaker 3: He's got two elite pitches. But I don't know. I mean,
Speaker 3: it's tough.
Speaker 5: I think that obviously, with the pitchers that have gone
Speaker 5: off the board, it's a fair spot for him. He's
Speaker 5: got a high floor for the most part. And then
Speaker 5: you obviously look at like Lozardo and Uri that went
Speaker 5: after him. Those guys have more risk. But at the
Speaker 5: end of the day, like Steal's a tough one for me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm still a fan of Steel myself. I like him.
Speaker 1: I I don't think he has anything left to prove.
Speaker 1: I think last year was everything you wanted out of him.
Speaker 1: But after Steal, Tristan Cossas goes right before Welsh. That's
Speaker 1: got to burn Welsh just a little bit. Then you
Speaker 1: took Glaber Torres as a reaction, Camille Daval goes in
Speaker 1: Uri Perez. I doubled up on starting pitching because it
Speaker 1: is starting to fly off the board and the cliff
Speaker 1: is coming quickly here. So I took Lizardo and ten
Speaker 1: Or Bibby. So I've got glassnow. Miller, Lozardo, Biby. That's
Speaker 1: my four. Still got Bregman, al Tuove Olsen and Judge offensively,
Speaker 1: but I need to hit that offense. We come back
Speaker 1: when it came back around in round eight after Bibby,
Speaker 1: Dylan Cees at eight oh two, at eight oh three,
Speaker 1: and then you took Evan Carter, Carter over Langford Welsh.
Speaker 1: I'm surprised here point.
Speaker 4: I mean again this we're going back to points. Like,
Speaker 4: he's not going to strike out, He's gonna get tons,
Speaker 4: he makes tons of contact, he's gonna.
Speaker 3: Get high in the order.
Speaker 4: Even if he were to move to like a two,
Speaker 4: he's gonna score runs. I don't think he's gonna steal
Speaker 4: a bunch of bases. Langford probably even keel here. But
Speaker 4: like the thing I like about Carter's I know he's
Speaker 4: not going to strike out, and I know he's gonna
Speaker 4: have a ton of hits, so he plays up in
Speaker 4: this format. But I one thousand percent wanted Dylan Seas.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna be a Dylan Seats truther. As far as
Speaker 4: him moving up, going to San Diego, digging into his
Speaker 4: profile a whole bunch last year, I mean, there's the
Speaker 4: definite warning signs with the Velo going down. Also pretty
Speaker 4: distinctive difference between like release points like the slide the
Speaker 4: slider fastball. That's like the big fix has got to
Speaker 4: get into there, because there was pretty distinctive differences in
Speaker 4: release points and they both got hit so much harder.
Speaker 4: But I'm hopeful that the Padres are going to fix
Speaker 4: that with better ballpark factor, with better offensive support. So
Speaker 4: I freaking love that pick, and I definitely wanted him
Speaker 4: as mass before.
Speaker 1: Okay, so after Carter Riise, ol Iglesias Katel, Marte, Will
Speaker 1: Smith to Clegg, we'll get to your second pick in
Speaker 1: just a second. Blake's now finally off the board at
Speaker 1: eight O eight, Joe Rico, do you think that's about
Speaker 1: right for Blake Sneill now? As he continues to draft
Speaker 1: drop in drafts, I should say.
Speaker 2: I don't even I took him myself in the eighth
Speaker 2: round of a twelve team Roto league.
Speaker 6: The other day.
Speaker 2: I think it was like eighty sixth overall. I like it, Okay,
Speaker 2: I don't love it. It just felt kind of right at
Speaker 2: that point. But I'm worried that we're gonna see him
Speaker 2: miss all of April at this point, I don't know
Speaker 2: when when it's gonna stop.
Speaker 6: It's madness, it's been.
Speaker 2: He's the rate that we're not gonna have either of
Speaker 2: the ragning Cy young winners start on opening day. I
Speaker 2: saw some status the first time in a very long time.
Speaker 2: One of them is I even gonna be on a
Speaker 2: team it looks like on opening day. So it is
Speaker 2: a risk drafting him for sure, But I think this
Speaker 2: is probably about the range where you do dive in,
Speaker 2: especially in a points league.
Speaker 1: That was a very depressing statistic. Thanks for sharing to
Speaker 1: appreciate bringing that to this.
Speaker 6: What I'm here?
Speaker 1: What a bummer? Well, Treris next at eight on nine,
Speaker 1: then Yandi Diez, Jordan Romano, you took a closer. Here
Speaker 1: we are starting two, so here we go. Some closers
Speaker 1: have started to go off the board in the last
Speaker 1: couple of rounds, Munyos and say us Azuki. Sazuki feels
Speaker 1: like a good point lea player to me as well, Joe.
Speaker 1: So let's discuss this and the pivot point for you
Speaker 1: of when you take closers. Because you just took one.
Speaker 2: It's because there are relief pitcher designations on the roster.
Speaker 2: If it was just straight up pitcher. Then I probably
Speaker 2: would have waited longer. But they do start, they are
Speaker 2: starting to go, and I did want to lock in
Speaker 2: at least one guy that I really love, and Muno's
Speaker 2: I think is the top three or five talent pitcher
Speaker 2: in baseball. He's just he's not in bullpen sense, not
Speaker 2: in all of baseball, I should say, But I'm just
Speaker 2: in love with the guy. And like I said, I
Speaker 2: just wanted to lock in at least one of those
Speaker 2: of those lockdown closers.
Speaker 6: So I'm happy I got Munos there.
Speaker 4: Well, I would tell you cheat code time it didn't
Speaker 4: put it there. I wish I could adjust it, But
Speaker 4: you want to talk about cheat codes. We do have
Speaker 4: two our pace spots. Am I going to do with
Speaker 4: OURP spots in a points league? Give me starting pitchers
Speaker 4: that can qualify at RP And I took Michael King.
Speaker 4: It didn't throw him there, so I'm probably not going
Speaker 4: to get the extra juice for it. But that is
Speaker 4: what I would do in a points league is push
Speaker 4: up guys like Michael King. Look in your own league
Speaker 4: settings and see who else. Nick Pavetta, Ryan Peppio, those
Speaker 4: would be players I would be picking probably over quite.
Speaker 2: A bit of a few, quite a few closers. And
Speaker 2: you took Reagans too, right, you took Reagan's. Isn't he
Speaker 2: RP eligible?
Speaker 1: He is? He is?
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, you're right, he's so much more value.
Speaker 3: I can't move him.
Speaker 4: He's getting moved. They're getting moved there. But oh god,
Speaker 4: this is the best feelings.
Speaker 6: Just shut up. I should just shut up.
Speaker 3: First feeling on the planet right here.
Speaker 4: Using the draft wizard is I can go and click
Speaker 4: the little arrows and I can put them right to
Speaker 4: where I want them.
Speaker 3: Cole Reagan's, Michael King, my RP spots.
Speaker 1: You know, Chris Clegg, you've officially been the first person
Speaker 1: to somehow get Welsh to like his draft in the middle.
Speaker 3: I'll get the worst grade today.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't see how, because I do agree that
Speaker 1: is one of those things that you should always show
Speaker 1: be pushing the envelope, trying to figure out like what
Speaker 1: are the rules, where the situations, what are the qualifications
Speaker 1: and all your leagues and how can you push the
Speaker 1: envelope to maximize your productivity? And that's just an easy
Speaker 1: one in points leagues. So if you're new to Points, leagues,
Speaker 1: and you know, I know some people are like, this
Speaker 1: is something we all know. Well, some people are playing
Speaker 1: fans in baseball for the first time, still watching this today,
Speaker 1: And if you are playing in that style league, you
Speaker 1: have to circle those guys because they are huge advantages
Speaker 1: in those two start weeks, especially when you have top
Speaker 1: tier guys like King and Reagan's Welsh. You just didn't
Speaker 1: get two guys who qualified RP. You got the best
Speaker 1: two guys in my game.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and that's the advantage because like I don't like
Speaker 4: to play I know some people like to play saves
Speaker 4: because you you know, from a weekly standpoint, you could
Speaker 4: have one week where it all stacks together, but from
Speaker 4: an overall perspective, they're going to score so much less.
Speaker 4: And these are the cheat code type of things that
Speaker 4: you should do. So I got the best guys. I
Speaker 4: got to continue on with it. I'm sacrificing a little
Speaker 4: bit of a hitting on that side. But yeah, Reagans
Speaker 4: and Michael King as rps, those should be they should
Speaker 4: bump up inherently like I took call Reagans around sixty six.
Speaker 4: They should inherently be bumping up in no matter what.
Speaker 4: Both probably top one easily. Cole Reagan's maybe a top
Speaker 4: fifty pick. Michael King should be a top one hundred
Speaker 4: pick in these formats when you can move them there.
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Speaker 1: So after Suzuki at nine oh one, Chris Sale at
Speaker 1: nine oh two, Josh Low Garret Cole finally off the
Speaker 1: board at nine oh one, I don't know that's enough
Speaker 1: of a discount for me. I'm still taking Michael King. Sorry,
Speaker 1: I'm just doing that first. Joe Newell then took Josh Naylor,
Speaker 1: one of my favorites, a little early there. But this
Speaker 1: is what happens when you start talking guys up in
Speaker 1: the YouTube channel too much. Alexis Diaz to Clegg, you
Speaker 1: got your closer there, Spencer Steer, Spencer, Torklsen, all the
Speaker 1: Spencers in a row. Nice Spencer run. We don't get
Speaker 1: that all the time, Michael King to the Welsh, As
Speaker 1: he said, then Hassi Young, Kim Wyatt, Langford, and I
Speaker 1: doubled up an outfielders Jordan Walker and Nick Castis because
Speaker 1: I feel like that cliff is coming soon too. When
Speaker 1: you're at the turn, you got to anticipate the cliffs,
Speaker 1: and I feel like so far I've done a pretty
Speaker 1: good job of that. After Castiano, Jorgeesz, Hilaire Bednar, and
Speaker 1: then you took a steady pitcher Welsh In, Chris Bassett,
Speaker 1: Bryson Stott, Dansby Swanson, Shane Bieber to Clegg. Are you
Speaker 1: a Bieber believer, Clegg, because right now you've got him
Speaker 1: as your fourth starting pitcher. That could be a huge
Speaker 1: win for you in this format.
Speaker 5: I'm not sure I'm fully a believer or believer yet,
Speaker 5: but a believer. He has shown at least a couple
Speaker 5: of things this spring that have encouraged me. The Vilo
Speaker 5: has been back up a little bit with health. You know,
Speaker 5: he's always thrown innings, which I think is big in
Speaker 5: this kind of format. And there's obviously the potential, Like
Speaker 5: we've seen him be like an elite guy before, so
Speaker 5: you know, there's no reason to think that he can't
Speaker 5: get back to that. He spent the off season at
Speaker 5: drive Line, so the results look good. I hope that
Speaker 5: it'll carry into the season obviously, and that he will
Speaker 5: throw a lot of innings. But we shall see what
Speaker 5: happens there. Just looking at the board, it was like,
Speaker 5: oh man, there's a couple debated him or another starting pitcher.
Speaker 3: It's still on the board.
Speaker 5: But you know, I was like, okay, we will We'll
Speaker 5: settle on Bieber and hope the upsides there.
Speaker 4: We got to do a video, Joe, a nice little
Speaker 4: verity video. Yeah, you're gonna do it where it goes, Honey,
Speaker 4: he went to drive Line.
Speaker 1: We need to do an off season video where you
Speaker 1: and I go to drive Line and just video us
Speaker 1: doing stuff.
Speaker 3: I think that's a great idea, like and.
Speaker 1: Like maybe some drills and stuff like that, but I
Speaker 1: think there's actually one you know here like drinking energy
Speaker 1: drinks or something like that. There's one by you. Oh
Speaker 1: that's it.
Speaker 3: We're going I mean, yeah, there is one. I mean,
Speaker 3: come on down, you should come on down.
Speaker 1: Let's go, come on down. All right, let's go, We're
Speaker 1: doing it. There you go off season fun with Joe
Speaker 1: in the Welsh so bieber Seawald, Evan Phillips here is
Speaker 1: more closer. So this is gonna hurt me later. I
Speaker 1: can tell you that Sonny Gray, Carlos Rodon, Vinnie pas
Speaker 1: Quentino to Joe Rico at the end of the tenth round,
Speaker 1: Hunter Green at the eleventh so Passquentino coming back from injury,
Speaker 1: Joe Hunter Green. Certainly the velosies there, but we've got
Speaker 1: to stop giving up home runs. What do you think
Speaker 1: about Pascorentino at Hunter Green in twenty twenty four hundred.
Speaker 2: Green's risky, but as my fourth starting pitcher, I'll take
Speaker 2: a chance, especially in the format like this for strikeouts
Speaker 2: play up. It is risky, don't get me wrong, But
Speaker 2: I do love me some Hunter Green. And then with Benny,
Speaker 2: I haven't really understood this drastic discount we've been getting
Speaker 2: on him kind of regardless of format. In a lot
Speaker 2: of drafts, he's been going in the one sixties, one
Speaker 2: seventies of a lot of drafts, and last year he
Speaker 2: was eighty ninety picks more expensive. He got hurt, he
Speaker 2: had surgery, he's healthy now. I think it's, you know,
Speaker 2: wheels up, he's ready to take off. I don't see
Speaker 2: why he shouldn't be even the top one hundred pick
Speaker 2: in a lot of cases. So I'm pretty happy to
Speaker 2: get him.
Speaker 1: Here, all right, So let's continue on there after one
Speaker 1: l excuse me, eleven oh one, pardon me, Tioskcaarrnandez goes
Speaker 1: next eleven oh two, then George Springer, so Yegerbaumbs continues
Speaker 1: to add offense there than Josh Young at eleven oh four,
Speaker 1: Merril Kelly at eleven oh five, Jackson Holiday to Clegg. Okay,
Speaker 1: here we go prospect time. So Carter's gone, Langford's gone,
Speaker 1: Jackson Holiday the third guy. Do you think that's right, Cleig?
Speaker 1: Should that be the order?
Speaker 3: I think so?
Speaker 5: I mean, we know there are we know at least
Speaker 5: Carter's breaking camp, and I'm about ninety nine percent confident
Speaker 5: in Langford and Holiday breaking camp, and I do think
Speaker 5: that's the right order for redraft purposes. Holiday is a
Speaker 5: really good points play, though, like his own base skills
Speaker 5: are incredible, so that's really going to allow him to
Speaker 5: play up a lot in the points league format. In
Speaker 5: my opinion, he'll be on base a lot, have opportunity
Speaker 5: to steal. And I think he's got some underrated power too.
Speaker 5: People kind of look at the home run output last year,
Speaker 5: but he had a ninety one mile an hour average TV,
Speaker 5: which is really really good for a nineteen year old
Speaker 5: that is his size. So I think Holiday certainly taps
Speaker 5: into more and he's going to be the Orioles starting
Speaker 5: second basement for the entire season.
Speaker 3: Like I love that pick. I'm big on Holiday.
Speaker 4: Do you think because I think this, do you think
Speaker 4: that Holiday can outscore Churio in a points league format?
Speaker 4: Because I really think your Holiday is built for this format. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: one hundred percent.
Speaker 5: Churio, I kind of thing's going to struggle with some
Speaker 5: bagging average downside in his first first year. I mean
Speaker 5: there's some swinging miss stuff against breaking balls, which you know,
Speaker 5: I think could hurt him. So, ye know, ultimately I
Speaker 5: think that this is the right play for the points
Speaker 5: for masts.
Speaker 3: Take Holiday over Cheerio.
Speaker 1: You know, Pete Fairbanks goes next, then Bareley over to
Speaker 1: eleven oh eight to mctunda Louise Arise. Well you've done
Speaker 1: it a couple of times now, so this whole like
Speaker 1: I hate Arise thing.
Speaker 3: But this is the format though. No, no, no, no, you know.
Speaker 1: It's still weak sauce. It's still weak sauce.
Speaker 4: Well, okay, I'm sorry. I'm not keeping to my hate
Speaker 4: I'm not following my hate lane.
Speaker 3: This is where Louise Rise.
Speaker 1: Is for it point, Well, I want to I want
Speaker 1: to double up on your picks of the second lane.
Speaker 1: Thomas at eleven to ten, then Riley Green, so you pace.
Speaker 1: You passed on Thomas and Green, which I think is
Speaker 1: surprising for Louis Arise. Then I took a closer Ryan
Speaker 1: Helsley and Christian and Carnossio Strand is my corner. Guy
Speaker 1: Hoskins goes next. Uh so I'm glad I locked in
Speaker 1: Ceees there, Jimenez. Then Verlanders. So you got another picture
Speaker 1: here in Verlander because you have these open spots now
Speaker 1: at sp because you have that, you are so starting
Speaker 1: picture is now your playground, but a rise over guys
Speaker 1: like Thomas and Riley Green. I guess my question is this,
Speaker 1: you know what his limitations are. Yes, he's gonna get
Speaker 1: a lot of hits. Yes he will get on base,
Speaker 1: and yes he's gonna be a good Points League player,
Speaker 1: but he also doesn't have the kind of ability to
Speaker 1: win you a week where I feel like a big
Speaker 1: week from a guy like Thomas or Green, they might
Speaker 1: be able to do that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I see what you're saying. My outfield was full.
Speaker 4: That was also one of the reasons why I don't
Speaker 4: I don't feel pressed to take any of these outfielders.
Speaker 4: I kind of disagree that a Rise can't win you
Speaker 4: a week. I know what you're getting at, Like, a
Speaker 4: Rise isn't gonna have a three four homer week, you know,
Speaker 4: with five stolen bases and blah blah blah. But he
Speaker 4: also could have like eight more hits than any other
Speaker 4: player in a given week, So like, I kind of
Speaker 4: think he can in that respect. He's a little boring,
Speaker 4: but he's a top one hundred player in Points Like
Speaker 4: that's just that I don't think there's any argument about that.
Speaker 4: Or maybe it's very minimal because he doesn't strike out
Speaker 4: a whole bunch and he gets tons and tons of hits.
Speaker 4: So that was really what this was based around, is
Speaker 4: like a core core Point League.
Speaker 1: Player okay, very good, continuing it was a good explanation.
Speaker 1: I still disagree, but I love you anyway. Anthony Vopi
Speaker 1: goes next at twelve oh five and Anthony Santandre at
Speaker 1: twelve oh six. Clegg, you took Ian happen. I know
Speaker 1: you've got another pick coming up here, so we'll jump
Speaker 1: to yan here Diaz at twelve oh eight, Max Munsey,
Speaker 1: Marcelo Zuna, Zach Gelloff. I'm so mad A Jaeger bombs
Speaker 1: took Gelloff. I thought he would last all the way
Speaker 1: back to me. He did not. Estrada to Joe Arico
Speaker 1: at twelve twelve and then to start thirteen Masataka Yoshida.
Speaker 4: So Helen was almost like, I almost took by the way.
Speaker 4: Just want that I almost took Gelloff over a rise.
Speaker 1: Well now I feel better that he wouldn't have made
Speaker 1: it back to me anyway. So Joe Yoshida a good
Speaker 1: guy in this format Astrada. What do you make of
Speaker 1: Estrada in the San Francisco Giants offense?
Speaker 2: I think with the new manager in town, we're gonna
Speaker 2: see him stealing a lot more. This is something I've
Speaker 2: heard about, talked a lot goes back all the way
Speaker 2: to Arizona.
Speaker 6: We were at first with Arizona. It was one of
Speaker 6: the panels and they.
Speaker 2: Forgot I think it was Jason Collett who was the
Speaker 2: one who was the one who was leading the panel,
Speaker 2: and he rarely talked me into Estrada. And I've been
Speaker 2: talking into him a lot throughout the offseason, just digging
Speaker 2: into him. I think he can be like a twenty
Speaker 2: thirty guy who hits two seventy for you as a
Speaker 2: middle infield spot here it's I mean, I don't know.
Speaker 2: I didn't need him necessarily. I think I've maybe gone
Speaker 2: a little bit too heavy on the offensive side going back.
Speaker 2: I might have taken one or two more pitchers in
Speaker 2: the mix. But I can't complain Estrada is one of
Speaker 2: my favorite players this year.
Speaker 1: Well you're allowed to complain. This is a safe place.
Speaker 1: By the way, don't ever let Jason Kleett recommend scooters
Speaker 1: to you. He can recommend.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, no he can't. Hey, Joe, I have a surprise.
Speaker 6: I have a real quick surprise.
Speaker 3: I was not planned.
Speaker 4: So you know how you're talking about. You got to
Speaker 4: come out here for drive line. I like you to
Speaker 4: close your eyes real quick.
Speaker 1: I was posting a show, and I'm just real quick.
Speaker 1: I can't I'm not even looking because I'm picking.
Speaker 4: Okay, so I got your next draft pick right here.
Speaker 4: Look who just showed up at the.
Speaker 1: Oh no, get in the shot. Here we go. Cousin
Speaker 1: Donnie from leading off, My real cousin Donnie from the show,
Speaker 1: right here on the program live. I gotta pause the
Speaker 1: draft because this is a beautiful thing. Look at him,
Speaker 1: he's he's working on his swing. Clearly. Cousin Donnie was
Speaker 1: a drive line. He's also the host of Shooting Straight
Speaker 1: with Donnie c. Because everyone in my family has a podcast.
Speaker 1: That's just what we do. Now. Uh so I didn't
Speaker 1: plan this.
Speaker 3: Donnie Literar just walked in.
Speaker 1: I want to know, how did cousin Donnie get in
Speaker 1: your house? Did you leave the barking?
Speaker 3: I thought my family was home. You just you just
Speaker 3: get in?
Speaker 1: Well, your your family is so you.
Speaker 3: Guys going live. I was two three minutes away. I
Speaker 3: was like, what he hello.
Speaker 1: We gotta cut this. We have to cut this for
Speaker 1: social media.
Speaker 4: We got to be Joe's family is in my house
Speaker 4: right now.
Speaker 3: That's all that I want to say.
Speaker 1: It's a beautiful thing. You gotta duck down those you
Speaker 1: can get in the shot there, that's the thing. Now,
Speaker 1: Cousin Donnie, uh, here's a question for you. You live
Speaker 1: in Arizona, you live next to the Welsh. You live
Speaker 1: in Arizona. You live next to the Welsh now five
Speaker 1: minutes away. Here's the big question for you. Has Welsh
Speaker 1: taken you to a spring training game yet?
Speaker 3: Not yet?
Speaker 1: We talked about it.
Speaker 3: We did talk about it, and it's a it was
Speaker 3: a it was a plan.
Speaker 1: Yankees are coming out though. Well, well, here's the question.
Speaker 1: The spring training is almost over. So what happens is
Speaker 1: a little too close to my lips when he turns?
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, it was a little weird.
Speaker 1: I don't know if that's a problem or not. It depends. Well,
Speaker 1: she's a very passionate fellow. But here's the question. Spring
Speaker 1: training is almost over. Well, you got to you gotta
Speaker 1: lock in this plan here for cousin Donnie.
Speaker 4: I know we'll do it. I gotta have a day off.
Speaker 4: I've been doing quite a few shows. By the way,
Speaker 4: if you guys haven't seen it, all.
Speaker 1: Right, I want him to take it. He's got to
Speaker 1: take it out to the backfields. Get you some pictures
Speaker 1: with some players, and the best part is cousin Donnie
Speaker 1: has no idea who any of them are, so it
Speaker 1: could be show Tani has no idea who they are.
Speaker 1: It's so beautiful. So there you go, everybody, Cousin Donnie
Speaker 1: making up everybody on the show you like next to
Speaker 1: where Jimmy Kimmel character. I like it. All right, let's
Speaker 1: continue on here now that I'll call you later. I'll
Speaker 1: call you after the show. All right, let's get into
Speaker 1: the rest of the things. Can't make this up, folks.
Speaker 1: That's why live is the best. Jaeger bombs Clay Holmes
Speaker 1: at thirteen oh two ten or Scott Jackson cheerioh Joe
Speaker 1: Newle selects so William Domson thirteen oh FIVEA paraitis to
Speaker 1: cleg so cleg hap paraitis two bats. You're starting to
Speaker 1: build that offense a little bit here. Do you like
Speaker 1: the way it's taking shape here? Because it feels like
Speaker 1: a lot of guys that are you know, even even
Speaker 1: Freddy Freeman, like these are guys that maybe the power
Speaker 1: ceiling is around that thirty range for a guy like
Speaker 1: Austin Riley too, maybe into the forties. If things really
Speaker 1: break right. He was thirty seven last year, But in
Speaker 1: your opinion, do you have enough power here in that
Speaker 1: week to week format? Two really make some differences.
Speaker 3: I guess we'll see.
Speaker 5: Perettaz is probably a regression candidate, but the fact that
Speaker 5: he had second base eligibility kind of did it for
Speaker 5: me because second base dries up quick. I just moved
Speaker 5: Jackson Holiday over to short and I was like, Okay, Perettis,
Speaker 5: my opinion, was the best second baseman left surprisingly second
Speaker 5: based eligible there, but having three three first, second, and
Speaker 5: third was big. I think that you know, the power
Speaker 5: will be enough to sustain, and he's a better points
Speaker 5: league play in my opinion than he is for a
Speaker 5: roto type league, as well as happ Ian Hat plays
Speaker 5: really well in this format too, So I like hap
Speaker 5: a good bit and I think he's still a little
Speaker 5: bit underrated, So.
Speaker 3: I like both those picks. We'll see.
Speaker 5: Yeah, power may not fully be there, but I do
Speaker 5: think some of these guys do play up depending on
Speaker 5: how the scoring settings are.
Speaker 1: All Right, I just took the top lift here, and
Speaker 1: another starting pitcher will get to my picks in the second. First,
Speaker 1: I want to get to Welsh's picks here after partis
Speaker 1: you Darvish grade value there at thirteen oh seven, Brendanimo
Speaker 1: at thirteen oh eight the Welsh you took, Jose Burrios,
Speaker 1: then Cedric Mullens, Craig Kimbrel, Nathaniel Lowe to me Hunter Brown,
Speaker 1: who's having a really good spring. Man if he can
Speaker 1: bounce back, my pitching staff feels a little dynasty ish
Speaker 1: right now. I don't know how I feel about that,
Speaker 1: but we'll see how it goes. Wilson Contreras goes next
Speaker 1: at fourteen oh two a story Ruiz to Hammer Dan
Speaker 1: and then the Burger to Welsh, ol Burios and Burger Welsh,
Speaker 1: let's talk about him.
Speaker 4: I have absolutely, by the way, credit to me for
Speaker 4: not being as distracted as I possibly could be for
Speaker 4: this draft. Having your family come into my house, into
Speaker 4: my studio, I thought, my wife, now that you.
Speaker 1: Know my family can come into your house at any moment.
Speaker 4: Well, cousin Donnie has become a cousin like he is
Speaker 4: cousin Donnie in my household.
Speaker 3: My kids love him everything like that. But the door
Speaker 3: started opening and I was I don't I was like,
Speaker 3: get out of here, I'm doing the show. And it
Speaker 3: was Donnie, and I was like, who is out of
Speaker 3: my house?
Speaker 1: Oh, credit, You're okay? Kids are not okay? Cousin Donnie's okay, okay.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Brios. I filled out my final pitching spot. No
Speaker 4: relief pitchers, all starters, and we're talking like every single
Speaker 4: starting pitcher is like top forty. So that is exactly
Speaker 4: what I'm looking for in a points format that's locked in.
Speaker 4: I gotta focus on hitting. I don't know why Jake
Speaker 4: Berger is still available. It's a big power bat in
Speaker 4: a points league format, tons of contact. I love that
Speaker 4: pick as well. And I needed third base. I still
Speaker 4: need to fill out shortstop. I'm pretty happy. I'm filling
Speaker 4: out this team pretty well. It'll probably hate me because
Speaker 4: I'm so happy. You're not gonna go You're not going
Speaker 4: to be so happy and then also get first place.
Speaker 1: Well, look, yeah finished last last time, Bogman was twelve.
Speaker 1: You or eleven, so you didn't finish last. But here's
Speaker 1: where's the thing. I think you're gonna do very well
Speaker 1: in this. And the second thing is as we continue
Speaker 1: to you know, look through these teams here, if you
Speaker 1: actually win this, maybe you don't draft anymore. Like maybe
Speaker 1: you leave on a high note the rest of this season.
Speaker 4: Did you think I could take off a day Donnie
Speaker 4: to a game. I'll go to Gon Donnie with a
Speaker 4: game maybe. I think still reeling from that draft, if
Speaker 4: you guys want to go and see it. It is
Speaker 4: the final of the Fantasy Fast He he kicked Kelly
Speaker 4: out of her position, wouldn't give it back.
Speaker 3: Then he's like, I'm gonna do this, and then he
Speaker 3: stunk and he carried it over to it l it
Speaker 3: is it is.
Speaker 1: But he did take George Kirby and Meryl Kelly, so
Speaker 1: he did. He'd actually get Kelly and Kirby on there,
Speaker 1: which was pretty amazing.
Speaker 3: Greatest thing all the time.
Speaker 1: That was that was worth everything, all right. Uh So,
Speaker 1: continuing on Jake Berger than Mitch Keller, Imanaga, Christian Xavier Clegg.
Speaker 1: He was in my queue. I chose Brown over Xavier.
Speaker 1: Would you have that same ranking?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think I would prefer Brown. Just you know,
Speaker 5: we're hoping that Javier bounces back. I was honestly hoping
Speaker 5: for show to Amanaga, but he went picked before me.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but that was brutal.
Speaker 5: So I settled for Javier, who I do think bounces back.
Speaker 5: But maybe you know, to what extent, I'm not totally sure,
Speaker 5: but I had to get some starters, so I need
Speaker 5: another starting pitcher, so as my SP five.
Speaker 3: It's good with that there.
Speaker 1: And what are you doing here with your next pick
Speaker 1: to fifteen oh six?
Speaker 5: I need some power you mentioned it, so I took
Speaker 5: Eloy Jimenez, who has been healthy this spring. I think
Speaker 5: Hilt's going to be the big factor. I think there's
Speaker 5: thirty home run pop there pretty easily. You know, he's
Speaker 5: just got to stay healthy.
Speaker 3: That's right. I mean that is on thousand percent where
Speaker 3: I was going with this next.
Speaker 1: Pick, So you know, it's amazing. Well, this feature that
Speaker 1: exists on Draft Wizard that I really don't use very often,
Speaker 1: which is kicking the player to like two more rounds away.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I do like that.
Speaker 1: I've never used that more in the last two weeks
Speaker 1: than I have since call Snell, Montgomery Williams, like everybody
Speaker 1: like I don't want to see them. And that's so
Speaker 1: great because even though like the software is recommending guys
Speaker 1: to you, you just like I don't want to see
Speaker 1: this guy number one for two rounds or or ever again,
Speaker 1: kind of like Kevin McAllister and home alone, was like,
Speaker 1: I never want to see any of you jerks again.
Speaker 1: Like you can literally do that to players, which I
Speaker 1: love in the middle because it frees up the board
Speaker 1: for me where it's like, stop showing me this player.
Speaker 1: I know you're meanwll draft Wizard, but right now I
Speaker 1: I have bigger fish to fry and I don't want
Speaker 1: to take Gara Cole.
Speaker 3: Now. I completely agree with that feature.
Speaker 4: It is really nice, especially if it's guys like You're
Speaker 4: just like, I'm not into that guy, Like, that's not
Speaker 4: gonna I'm not gonna do I'm just not into it exactly.
Speaker 1: All Right, let's see who Joe Rico's into. So Clegg
Speaker 1: took Javier than Chas McCormick, Nolan Gorman, Jordan Montgomery, Nadyavaldi.
Speaker 1: You went double off pitchers Joe Pavetta and Brian Wu.
Speaker 1: So how do you feel about these two selections?
Speaker 6: I like it.
Speaker 2: So Pavetta is one of those guys that you can
Speaker 2: slot into the RP spot, which I really like just
Speaker 2: watching him in the second half of the season. I've
Speaker 2: made the joke before that if his name was anything
Speaker 2: other than Nick Pavetta, he'd be like a top fifty
Speaker 2: pick this year, but because we've been hurt so many times,
Speaker 2: we're not as interested, but still still pretty damn interested.
Speaker 6: And then Brian Wu.
Speaker 2: I mean, all the smart people I know are pushing
Speaker 2: Brian Wo up into like the top forty. I don't
Speaker 2: know if I'm quite that high on him, but at
Speaker 2: this point where I'm just filling out my staff, I
Speaker 2: really like him.
Speaker 6: There is my last starting piece.
Speaker 1: All right, well I'm up, so take over the draft
Speaker 1: board from the second pick in.
Speaker 3: This round, all right, letting me get it back over
Speaker 3: to it.
Speaker 4: So we had Brian Wu, Edward of Rodriguez, Brandon fot
Speaker 4: couple back to back Arizona Diamondbacks, which I love, I
Speaker 4: really like. Fought here too, Tristan McKenzie, Sean Murphy, Cleig
Speaker 4: you really you destroyed me with the Eloy Jimenez pick,
Speaker 4: Jared Duran, we had Bryce Miller.
Speaker 3: I took Edward Julian again.
Speaker 4: Edward Julian is kind of interesting in this format, just because, yes,
Speaker 4: hisk percentage was really high, but his actual like swing
Speaker 4: percentage is low, so he's not chasing stuff. Problem and
Speaker 4: I've said this a whole bunch. His problem is he
Speaker 4: gets really two patient early counts selective and then he
Speaker 4: gets aggressive later counts and he's going to kind of
Speaker 4: alter that a bit. But I like him if he
Speaker 4: can hit. At the top of the lineup Walker Bueler,
Speaker 4: Carlos Korea and then Joey Catcher and relief Pitcher.
Speaker 1: Who are you, Ross, I don't know. This is what
Speaker 1: happens when you get to the top of the mountain.
Speaker 1: There's nowhere to go but down, So obviously, you know,
Speaker 1: just look at the board and the value. That's where
Speaker 1: I see things. I still like rawling in the middle
Speaker 1: of that lineup, and you have to start the two
Speaker 1: relievers here. So when you have to start the two relievers,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna make sure that I get two guys that
Speaker 1: have the job you took Julian for me, that's who
Speaker 1: I wanted, and Meenez and Duran were also I wanted.
Speaker 1: So Mike Cue got obliterated there, so I feel like Welsh,
Speaker 1: Now I'm in the middle rounds and I'm unhappy. So
Speaker 1: this is what happens. The worm has turned here and
Speaker 1: this is the worst part. It's my format, like this
Speaker 1: is my favorite format. So gross, just just gross, all right, Welsh,
Speaker 1: Let's get to your pick you went catcher too, So
Speaker 1: after Azule alec Baum, Gavin Williams in sixteen oh three
Speaker 1: and then Welsh you took a catcher to sal Perez
Speaker 1: and then Francisco Alvarez goes off though, so there you
Speaker 1: go once again at the turn. I'm anticipating the runs,
Speaker 1: and so far I haven't been wrong yet, but.
Speaker 4: I mean one eighty something sal Prez, Now what Salad
Speaker 4: doesn't help me here? I almost thought I might wait
Speaker 4: a little bit and go Gabby Moreno, because I think
Speaker 4: Moreno is going to be kind of like the Luis
Speaker 4: a Rise type of thing, doesn't strike out a bunch,
Speaker 4: gets a bunch of hits.
Speaker 3: I sacrificed the strikeouts.
Speaker 4: From for the big power numbers because he can, you know,
Speaker 4: go between first and DH and catching and it's going
Speaker 4: to be RBI's hopefully some runs big power, So this
Speaker 4: is just a big power points play. I don't care
Speaker 4: about high end catchers, but again, one i'd consider Romuto
Speaker 4: when he falls to one thirty one to forty. I'll
Speaker 4: consider Salve when he falls to like one eighty for
Speaker 4: the big power all right.
Speaker 1: By the way, we still don't have JD. Martinez signed
Speaker 1: to either this is crazy, Like I don't. I mean,
Speaker 1: this is We're in the middle of March. We're in
Speaker 1: the middle of March. We still don't have these signis
Speaker 1: Brian Hayes at sixteen oh six Ryan Peppio to Chris Clegg.
Speaker 1: Any fear here with this Pepio selection of him not
Speaker 1: making it through the entire season in this rotation depending
Speaker 1: on either performance or also some of the other pieces
Speaker 1: that might come back at some point in time and
Speaker 1: push him out.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, the Rays are gonna do race things.
Speaker 5: So you are never really confident in any of these
Speaker 5: guys and their rotation because you never know what could happen.
Speaker 5: But yeah, I do think that obviously he was a
Speaker 5: big piece of the and one of the reasons they
Speaker 5: traded Glass now, so you think that obviously they'd be
Speaker 5: confident in that. So we'll see, you know, McClanahan, Rasmussen
Speaker 5: and Springs all probably later in the season if they
Speaker 5: do come back. But the RP eligibility was nice as well.
Speaker 6: Shit done.
Speaker 5: That's the key, the SPRP and the closers. There was
Speaker 5: really no closers left. Need to fill that ARP spot,
Speaker 5: So you know, I'll take the chance to get one
Speaker 5: hundred and thirty hundred forty innings out of Pepi, out
Speaker 5: of that arpeace spot and my two picks there.
Speaker 1: It took the catcher and the last closer. I felt
Speaker 1: decent about, so Peppio Morell, then Trevor Story, Gabriel Marino,
Speaker 1: jonah Heim, Logan, o'happies, all the closes, all the catcher's gone,
Speaker 1: all the closer's gone, basically Ohappy And Matt Chapman to you,
Speaker 1: Joe Rico, another San Francisco giant for you, loving that
Speaker 1: Giants offense. But o'happy is a guy that you have
Speaker 1: big expectations for in the power. What do you think
Speaker 1: the ceiling is for him?
Speaker 2: In twenty four Well, I recorded my Catcher preview this
Speaker 2: morning with Bubba and he was talking up ohap. You
Speaker 2: know how much Bubba loves catchers, and he was going
Speaker 2: on and on about Ohapi, and he was.
Speaker 4: Making he's number five overall for him or not five
Speaker 4: five overall catchers.
Speaker 1: It might be by overall on though, let's stick with that,
Speaker 1: just five overall.
Speaker 6: Complain Yeah, yeah, you might be right there though.
Speaker 2: He was saying he's his absolute favorite catcher to draft.
Speaker 2: I think we're looking at twenty five probably twenty five homers.
Speaker 2: You might chip in a Steeler two batting average actually
Speaker 2: might be better than people are expecting as well, and
Speaker 2: to get him close to pick two hundred, you know,
Speaker 2: one catcher formats. I kind of tend to wait until
Speaker 2: like the last round, but that value is just staring
Speaker 2: me at the face there with him and then with
Speaker 2: Matt Chapman. I feel pretty comfortable now that he has signed.
Speaker 2: It was kind of we knew he was going to sign,
Speaker 2: but now that he's actually signed, you just have that
Speaker 2: comfortability that we don't have with some guys that we've
Speaker 2: mentioned already on the show. But going into San Francisco,
Speaker 2: I think we're going to see a pounce back from him.
Speaker 2: Twenty five ish home runs, eighty runs, eighty RBIs. I
Speaker 2: think that he's still kind of been undervalued. Not that
Speaker 2: I'm a big Chapman guy, but I just think he's
Speaker 2: kind of still undervalued even where I got him.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm still mad about the Julian pick by you, Welsh,
Speaker 1: I just want to tell you, and still very frustrating,
Speaker 1: very frustrated about that.
Speaker 4: Well, I just got just back to backs and Cleig
Speaker 4: took Candelario, who was my backup, and I wanted Ezekiel
Speaker 4: Tovar worse than anything on the planet, and he went.
Speaker 1: You're a Tovar guy. Now you've come over to the
Speaker 1: team with me. Yeah.
Speaker 4: No, I'm backing off a little bit on like not
Speaker 4: being into him. The great Spring should be considered, but
Speaker 4: he doesn't. Is not gonna be a big strikeout guy.
Speaker 4: You consider Colorado, he made all the sins of the world.
Speaker 3: And I don't have a shortstop. And now I still
Speaker 3: don't have a shortstop. I went with Jung Huli.
Speaker 4: This is another uh Luisa Rise type of pick a
Speaker 4: guy that is going to lead off for this team
Speaker 4: a bunch of hits.
Speaker 3: I don't really care too much about the counting stats.
Speaker 4: Obviously I had like big power, but I'm hoping like
Speaker 4: one hundred runs with everybody hitting behind him and all
Speaker 4: the hits in the world. So that was that from
Speaker 4: my util spot, and I have got to get back
Speaker 4: to the drawing board on shortstop because I messed up.
Speaker 3: I messed up.
Speaker 1: After well, let me tell you, Tovar was the guy.
Speaker 1: I didn't have a shortstop either, so I was hoping
Speaker 1: and waiting for Tovar to get to me.
Speaker 6: He did not.
Speaker 1: Polanco didn't get to me either. So just a recap.
Speaker 1: After Chapman went, Buxton went seventeen oh two, then James
Speaker 1: out and Kyle Harrison, TJ Friedel Clegg took Candelario, then
Speaker 1: Tovar Polonko, Junghuli, Aaron Savali goes next, and then Chalmer
Speaker 1: took JD. Martinez. I took Brandon Lau and Michael Garcia,
Speaker 1: guy that we've hyped up quite a bit here who
Speaker 1: looks like he's moving up to the top of this
Speaker 1: order for Kansas City. That's a good thing. So I
Speaker 1: was able to get my shortstop finally, But Lee was
Speaker 1: the guy I wanted for my util So this whole
Speaker 1: round once again, that's the bad thing. Sometimes when you're
Speaker 1: on the turn. I think this is what happened to
Speaker 1: Bogma at twelve two, is it? Sometimes you know you
Speaker 1: got that cue and things look good, and then it's
Speaker 1: like four or five picks, and then three of the
Speaker 1: guys you want go and all of a sudden you're
Speaker 1: back to the drawing board and you're on the clock.
Speaker 1: It's rough. Alex Lang goes next, and Code I Sanga
Speaker 1: finally goes Brian Beao to you, well, so you went
Speaker 1: back to the pitching well, which makes sense here taking
Speaker 1: the best players available. I got no problem with that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's all that I did here. Like I said,
Speaker 4: I don't like the only I have a util spot
Speaker 4: to fill out. But I think we're kind of in
Speaker 4: like a general range of a bunch of different players.
Speaker 3: I need the shortstop. They all suck, so I.
Speaker 4: Didn't feel like I needed to go grab one, so
Speaker 4: I'll just I'm obviously gonna just be bottom of the
Speaker 4: barrel at shortstop, so why not just take the best players?
Speaker 4: And Brandon but Beeo is a guy that you know
Speaker 4: have on the bench as a starter in a points format.
Speaker 3: I want starters.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 4: We did the Building the Perfect Bench on Fantasy Fest
Speaker 4: with Chris Towers, and he had talked about on the
Speaker 4: sixth bench having probably a four to two pitcher to
Speaker 4: hit a ratio maybe three to three. I think this
Speaker 4: is four to two or five to six that I'm
Speaker 4: gonna do because I'm most likely going to want to
Speaker 4: churn out overall starts. Hopefully I don't have injured guys.
Speaker 4: We have two util position flexibility. I want most of
Speaker 4: my bench to be starters. So I'm gonna start taking
Speaker 4: the best available guys there.
Speaker 1: What are your favorite guys from a recent show? Is
Speaker 1: still out there at shortstop? Welsh from the Los Angeles
Speaker 1: Angels of Anaheim.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but that's what I'm saying, Like we have those guys.
Speaker 4: Those guys are kind of all out there.
Speaker 3: I'm not like Tovar was so clearly the best shortstop.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, you're sitting there now. It's just like a
Speaker 3: whole bunch of guys. I do like Neto. I also
Speaker 3: kind of like ring Gifo, but you know, Tommy Edmond
Speaker 3: like just.
Speaker 1: Took him from it. Springy stole them right from under you.
Speaker 1: So after let's say you to Beyo. Then Kwan went
Speaker 1: to Kybert Ruiz. Taylor Ward, one of my least favorite things.
Speaker 1: Welsh always knows that I'm never a big Taylor Ward guy.
Speaker 1: So Clegg sell me on Taylor Ward Candelario we all like,
Speaker 1: but Ward, uh, sell me on him? And this Angel's
Speaker 1: lineup here.
Speaker 5: Well, I can't sell you on the Angels lineup, but
Speaker 5: I can at least try to sell you on Ward,
Speaker 5: who I think does play up in this format. You know,
Speaker 5: he's more of an obp type guy. He gets on base,
Speaker 5: he's gonna give you a couple steals, and he's got
Speaker 5: power as well, So you know, the unfortunate thing is
Speaker 5: the counting stats may not be there from a running
Speaker 5: RBI standpoint, because the lineup is it's it's not great.
Speaker 5: But I actually do like Ward a bit as a target,
Speaker 5: as a bounce back if he's fully healthy. I don't
Speaker 5: see a reason why he can't be a twenty twenty
Speaker 5: five home run guy who gets on base at a
Speaker 5: pretty reasonable clip here. So even the util spot, like
Speaker 5: I needed a little boost, and I just feel like
Speaker 5: of all the bats left, he was probably the at
Speaker 5: least what I thought was best available. So you know,
Speaker 5: I like him in this spot in a points league,
Speaker 5: I think it is plays a little better than a
Speaker 5: roto league.
Speaker 1: Let's go to a question from the chat here from
Speaker 1: Future Got a keeper Lee question taking over a league
Speaker 1: and must pick five pictures to keep no cost categories league.
Speaker 1: Pick two of these guys left, Steel, Hunter Brown, Hellsley,
Speaker 1: and Holmes A Rico. I'm keeping Steel and Hunter Brown.
Speaker 1: Who are you keeping?
Speaker 6: Yeah? Steel on Hunter Brown, I lean for the starters
Speaker 6: in that format.
Speaker 1: Well, you're nodding your head. You agree, peasy?
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, clean, sweep, Yeah, let's let's go sweep see future.
Speaker 1: We're drafting, we're helping, we're answering questions, we're doing it all.
Speaker 1: After Taylor Ward, Mountcastle, Cutter Crawford, Vaughan Grissom, Charlie Morton,
Speaker 1: and then Joe Rico, you went back to back pictures
Speaker 1: Mason Miller, who could be the closer in Oakland we're
Speaker 1: hoping at some point sooner than later, and Christopher Sanchez.
Speaker 1: So do you think Miller will be the closer? Because
Speaker 1: I do. I think that's just the natural path here,
Speaker 1: and I do think it's gonna be sooner than later.
Speaker 1: Do you agree?
Speaker 6: Yeah, I kind of banking on him being the closer.
Speaker 2: I don't think it'll be necessarily right away, but he'll
Speaker 2: get there, and he'll probably be a fifteen to twenty
Speaker 2: save type of guy. We know those strikeouts are massive
Speaker 2: just from a talent standpoint, just through the roof, so
Speaker 2: they have nothing to lose, they think they'll they'll probably
Speaker 2: let him be the closer. The question that I have
Speaker 2: is is he's just now a bullpen armor. Are they
Speaker 2: gonna eventually put him back in the rotation? Down the
Speaker 2: line that I'm not sure of, but I think he
Speaker 2: will be the closer this year.
Speaker 1: Okay, after you took Mason Miller, the draft continues on
Speaker 1: with Jim Carlo, Stanton Kenley, Jansen, Anthony Rizzo, Marcus Strowman,
Speaker 1: and then Cleig you took JP Crawford at nineteen oh six.
Speaker 1: How do you feel about this election? Here of another
Speaker 1: short stop off the board.
Speaker 5: Yet it was just as well, said a bunch of
Speaker 5: guys left for the middle endfield spot. And Crawford actually
Speaker 5: did have a really good year last year. He put
Speaker 5: up nineteen homers. He got on base at a three
Speaker 5: eighty clip, which you know in a points to the
Speaker 5: guy like guys to get on base at a higher clip.
Speaker 3: He scored ninety four runs.
Speaker 5: And so you look, at least at this point you're
Speaker 5: gonna get a little bit of power, some on base skills,
Speaker 5: and he's gonna score runs. So you know, while I
Speaker 5: don't love Crawford in like a twelfth team, like is
Speaker 5: my starting middle infielder with what's left? I was like, okay,
Speaker 5: I debated Camonaro. It's like, I mean, how much does
Speaker 5: he play? I do think Kim Naro's up.
Speaker 1: A lot because I just took him one hundred and
Speaker 1: eighteen games. That's what I think.
Speaker 3: I really think that they're they're foolest to not starting
Speaker 3: the majors.
Speaker 5: But you know, at the end of the day, like
Speaker 5: I went back and forth between him and I'm like, okay,
Speaker 5: I'll take the the guaranteed every day at bats with.
Speaker 1: Well, I'll take that decision off your hands for this
Speaker 1: next round.
Speaker 3: Also is like, I want to make sure Welsh has
Speaker 3: no shortstop.
Speaker 1: So that's well, I mean, you did take a short stop,
Speaker 1: so we'll get to it a second Nester Cortes Andrew Vaughn.
Speaker 1: Then you took Tommy Edmund. You're up on the clock
Speaker 1: right now, read debt Meers, Jonathan India. And then to
Speaker 1: end the nineteenth round, I took Justin Turner and Junior Caminaro,
Speaker 1: who I do think April will be a distant memory
Speaker 1: by the time we're a Memorial Day and I'll be
Speaker 1: very happy I made this pick. Guess what, he solved
Speaker 1: some of my qualification issues at your stop. There you go,
Speaker 1: So I feel very good about that. This is where
Speaker 1: you start taking those shots thinking about a six month season.
Speaker 1: Everybody keeps drafting for April. It's six months, folks. You
Speaker 1: got to keep that big picture. Now, that also has
Speaker 1: to mean some of these pictures you have to think
Speaker 1: about too, like Blake's now if you're getting a discount
Speaker 1: or Montgomery. But you know the problem with the pictures
Speaker 1: is when they get off their routine, it's very different.
Speaker 1: It's a different set of circumstances. A player who is
Speaker 1: healthy and starting the league year in the minor leagues,
Speaker 1: that's a different set of circumstances.
Speaker 4: My only caveat in a points format to to what
Speaker 4: you're kind of talking about with the April stuff is
Speaker 4: I'm a lot less willing to wait in points leagues
Speaker 4: because I need to accumulate the points. Like I'm always
Speaker 4: in an accumulation standpoint, and I don't like holding dead
Speaker 4: weight too long. So like I was just looking at Bradish,
Speaker 4: like Bratish should be like a really fun pick, and
Speaker 4: in a category league, I'd like to hold him back.
Speaker 4: But i feel like I'm using my bench more in
Speaker 4: these type of formats because I'm circulating starting pitchers in
Speaker 4: and out, and it's just like I said, it's points accumulation.
Speaker 4: So I'm a little less likely to take some of
Speaker 4: those shots here in points.
Speaker 3: I don't know. If I'm alone, i'd like or a Rico.
Speaker 3: I don't know, Joe, do you agree or do you
Speaker 3: think you know? You want it to?
Speaker 4: Because I've been I've been preaching the upside on the bench,
Speaker 4: but this format is like a little bit different to me.
Speaker 5: The shallower bench is tough. I mean, four bench spots
Speaker 5: does make it harder to take too many shots. I
Speaker 5: think you should take a couple, especially like in a
Speaker 5: canonary Ok case. I have one hundred percent agree. I
Speaker 5: think you're getting under twenty games, so I think it's
Speaker 5: totally worth it. But some of the deeper shots on
Speaker 5: let's just say like a Kobe Mayo for instance, or
Speaker 5: like a cal Bradish, like a prospect that you know
Speaker 5: could give you half a year, it's hard to waste
Speaker 5: that bench spot. Or Bratish where we really don't know
Speaker 5: when he'll be back and how severe the injury is.
Speaker 5: It makes it tough, but at the end of the day,
Speaker 5: you have Bratish, it comes out, he's out for you.
Speaker 5: You just drop him and sure in the spot. So
Speaker 5: I can see both our arguments for it, but it's tough.
Speaker 1: All right, Let's move on here with the draft picks,
Speaker 1: because we only got a few rounds left. After I
Speaker 1: took kemon arow Kenamaida went at twenty oho two. Then
Speaker 1: Luis Severino, you took Gurriel, Jack Sewinsky, Braxton Garrett, I
Speaker 1: should say the Welsh took Guriel. For those of you
Speaker 1: aren't watching on YouTube, but why aren't you? Fantacy Bros MLB,
Speaker 1: you should subscribe and watch on YouTube because it's fun
Speaker 1: and you could see the whole draft board yourself. Braxton
Speaker 1: Garrett goes. Then Nick Lodolo goes to Chris Kleig. Now
Speaker 1: calculated risk here, Chris, because Lodolo certainly a picture that
Speaker 1: has showed you a couple of years ago. Man, he
Speaker 1: has definitely got the stuff to be a really good
Speaker 1: starting pitcher. Last year did not materialize. What do you
Speaker 1: think of his prospects in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 3: I think it's a lot just health, and I think
Speaker 3: that you know, he should be back healthy.
Speaker 5: I know he's still building up innings, but we've seen
Speaker 5: him at least make one spring start and he looked
Speaker 5: pretty good. I know I'm not going to put any
Speaker 5: stock into two innings of work, but at the end
Speaker 5: of the day.
Speaker 3: Lodolo is a bench spot.
Speaker 5: He I think he's built up by you know, the
Speaker 5: second week of April, so he may miss a start
Speaker 5: or two, and at the cost, I just think it's
Speaker 5: worth taking a shot on because you know, the upside's there.
Speaker 3: Obviously the ballpark not so great, but at.
Speaker 5: The end of the day, I think Lodolo has the
Speaker 5: stuff that or he could step in and be, you know,
Speaker 5: one of my starting five.
Speaker 3: I was gonna take him too.
Speaker 1: That was a good pick and Cleg you just took
Speaker 1: Jackson Merrill player that Welsh is also talked about quite
Speaker 1: a bit. So your thoughts on Meryl in twenty twenty
Speaker 1: four this season breaking camp with the Padres.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's that's the upside shot I'll take, you know,
Speaker 5: not getting Camon Arrow, I'll take the shot on Merrill
Speaker 5: having multi position eligibility. He'll be outfield and shortstop, so
Speaker 5: out a middle endfield as well. Merril's just such a
Speaker 5: high floor to hit. He has sneaky power. I think
Speaker 5: everybody kind of thinks there's no power there, but the
Speaker 5: exit velocities are really really good with him. He just
Speaker 5: has to lift the ball a little more. You're gonna
Speaker 5: give you a little bit of speed, so he's kind
Speaker 5: of well rounded. I know he's only twenty years old,
Speaker 5: but this kid has such a high floor. The padres
Speaker 5: are confident in him, and I think he's worth a show,
Speaker 5: you know, kind of late in draft like here, I
Speaker 5: think a points for Matty plays well.
Speaker 1: To recap what just happened between Cleg's two picks, we
Speaker 1: had Yueno Suarez, Chris Bryant, Rangifo Drury great value there
Speaker 1: at twenty, Kakuchi at twenty twelve to Jo Rico, and
Speaker 1: Tyler O'Neil was still on the board. O'Neil lasted a
Speaker 1: long time, Joe, were you surprised.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know that there's that much love for
Speaker 2: Tyler O'Neill when he's only a couple of years removed
Speaker 2: from I forget what the exact numbers were, thirty four
Speaker 2: and twenty or something like that. He's in a new
Speaker 2: situation where he's free from that chaos and Saint Louis,
Speaker 2: So I'll happily take a chance on him here as
Speaker 2: a utility guy.
Speaker 1: Okay, and then after you went ahead and solidified your
Speaker 1: utility guy there. Max Schurzer, Jared Kelnick Williams McMahon, Merrill,
Speaker 1: Melendez toaj Bradley and Abbott Welsh. You took Abbot, would
Speaker 1: you have taken Bradley if he was still available?
Speaker 4: I think Bradley was available when I picked, wasn't he?
Speaker 4: Or did he go anyone right before you?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah he did.
Speaker 4: If Bradley was healthy, like really healthy, I'd have taken
Speaker 4: him a long time ago. But the health stuff little
Speaker 4: bit of a concern for me. Like I said, I
Speaker 4: am attempting at best possible to have every player starting
Speaker 4: on day one because I need week to week point accumulation.
Speaker 4: I don't have time to hang around. So Bradley was
Speaker 4: moving down my list a little bit.
Speaker 1: Okay, So after you took Abbott, Neto went, then Brent Rooker,
Speaker 1: I took Alvarado and Lars Newbar. Josh Bell went at
Speaker 1: twenty two to oh two. So while she got two
Speaker 1: picks left here, what are you looking at your roster?
Speaker 1: What do you want to do? Just kind of build
Speaker 1: for upside, try to deep in the pitching staff. What
Speaker 1: are you looking for here in the last few picks?
Speaker 4: Well, if I'm being really really smart about it, I
Speaker 4: should probably be looking at like a shortstop because I've
Speaker 4: got kind of a dicey one.
Speaker 3: I took Tommy Edmund, who it really isn't like a.
Speaker 1: Well, Jeremy Pania Jordan Lawler still on the board, Mason Wynn.
Speaker 1: You heard a lot of positive things on Fantasy Fests
Speaker 1: from Steve Gardner in our first segment about him.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and I and Jeremy is where I'm going to
Speaker 4: go with it. So I've got to get at least
Speaker 4: one hitter on there my last pick. I probably will
Speaker 4: go another pitcher and go three pitcher one hitter for
Speaker 4: my bench that we're going to fill out, because that
Speaker 4: is probably much closer to what I would have done.
Speaker 4: I will say Kerry Carpenter is still sitting out there
Speaker 4: and he's a great value. But both of my utail
Speaker 4: spots were filled from outfielders, so I should be looking
Speaker 4: at more. If I'm going to put a bench hitter on,
Speaker 4: it should be something on the infield, And specifically that's
Speaker 4: why I went shortstop.
Speaker 1: Clig. It's such a spectacular rookie class. Do you find
Speaker 1: yourself building rosters that look a little bit more like
Speaker 1: Dynasty League rosters in the sense that look, I mean,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of prospects this year who are in
Speaker 1: a position to make a huge impact in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 1: How do you balance the veterans of the prospects and
Speaker 1: some of your bills this year.
Speaker 3: It's really tough.
Speaker 5: I think the prospects I'm more confident drafting are the
Speaker 5: ones that, like you know, are going to be on
Speaker 5: the opening a roster. So you get a Carter, you
Speaker 5: get a Lankford, You look at those guys to Merrill,
Speaker 5: you know, obviously he's a little deep cut, even Camonaro,
Speaker 5: who while he may not be up on opening day,
Speaker 5: so you're gonna provide a lot of value. But you're right,
Speaker 5: I think that mixing these, you know, I think there's
Speaker 5: upside in vets too, but getting the young upside players
Speaker 5: paired with secure vets can really pay off. Depending on
Speaker 5: the format, especially but in a shallower league, I think
Speaker 5: the you know, less appt I am to take prospects
Speaker 5: because if they struggle, you know, it's it's hard to
Speaker 5: keep them on your bench, even though you want to
Speaker 5: for the upside.
Speaker 3: But in a four man bench, it's really tough.
Speaker 5: You know, Meryl struggles out of the gate, like I'm
Speaker 5: probably gonna have to drop him even though I don't
Speaker 5: want to, you know. So the deeper the league, the
Speaker 5: more kind of app DI am to take a shot
Speaker 5: or more shots on prospects.
Speaker 1: For sure. Josh Bell goes after new Bar at twenty
Speaker 1: two to two, than La Clerk, Jeremy Paine into the
Speaker 1: Welsh as he said, Emmi Sheehan, Dean Kramer, and then
Speaker 1: you had Shane Base to Chris Cleig Griffin, Canning Carry Carpenter,
Speaker 1: Kyle Bradish finally into twenty second round lance Lynn Uh
Speaker 1: Joe Rico Europe for two picks. Well, share, you're buying
Speaker 1: the lance Lynn spring because he's been a little bit
Speaker 1: better in that last start.
Speaker 4: I am not, absolutely not. I'm not gonna do anything
Speaker 4: with lance Lynn. There's a picture on the board that
Speaker 4: I'm still shocked that's still there. He's one of my
Speaker 4: big There's a couple of pitchers actually that are much
Speaker 4: better plays. I no chance I would take lance Lynn
Speaker 4: over taking a shot on Paul Skins coming up early,
Speaker 4: like I would rather take that, And Skeens is still
Speaker 4: out there, so no, you know, lance Lynn.
Speaker 1: For me, we all know Skens is still out there,
Speaker 1: and we all know he's not gonna make it to me.
Speaker 1: We all understand this, Joe Rico, your picks are in
Speaker 1: Dalton Varshow. I think that's Justin Mason's favorite player and
Speaker 1: Mackenzie Gore with your last pick. So how do you
Speaker 1: feel about getting Varshow in the twenty second I like
Speaker 1: it a lot.
Speaker 2: You're probably looking at like twenty five and ten. Again,
Speaker 2: it's like the last pick if I have to drop him.
Speaker 2: That's why I love about shallow leagues. There's just so
Speaker 2: much depth even at the end of these drafts that
Speaker 2: you can get a twenty five and ten guys your
Speaker 2: last pick.
Speaker 6: So I really like it.
Speaker 2: I don't love what the Blue Jays have done around
Speaker 2: him necessarily, but I'm taking that every single time I pick.
Speaker 6: What is it two fifty or something. I mean, come on,
Speaker 6: you can't go wrong.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Joe, do you sometimes like at this point, you know,
Speaker 1: with the way specializations hit major League Baseball, do you
Speaker 1: feel like it's it behooves people to be doing these
Speaker 1: fifteen team leagues and these deeper formats as opposed to
Speaker 1: maybe playing twelve teams and is going a little deeper
Speaker 1: in the active roster.
Speaker 6: It's really dependent on the person and if you want.
Speaker 1: Well, I'm asking you how do you feel about it?
Speaker 1: Like what do you prefer?
Speaker 4: And I'm not sure Behooves is the right I know
Speaker 4: what you're getting at, but Behooves kind of says like
Speaker 4: is it a benefit? Like people just play with how
Speaker 4: many people they have? You know what I'm saying, Yes.
Speaker 1: But you have options and you have you know ways
Speaker 1: you could choose to play. Is the best set up,
Speaker 1: Joe in your opinion, the fifteen team league where you're
Speaker 1: pushing the depths of everything, or a little bit more
Speaker 1: forgiving twelve teamer at this point with the way you
Speaker 1: know the platoons work and the way the specializations happen,
Speaker 1: the way the bullpens are and just pushing the active
Speaker 1: players a little bit more.
Speaker 2: I think a twelve team standard roto is my favorite
Speaker 2: type of setup to play middle infield, corner infield. I
Speaker 2: don't like it when it becomes a chore and you're
Speaker 2: looking at two catchers and because that's a chore, right,
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, Bob up, you're listening.
Speaker 1: No, it's a chore. Argue. You came to the right
Speaker 1: place for that argument, Like.
Speaker 2: You know, I personally put a lot of time into
Speaker 2: fantasy baseball. But even I think we can all agree
Speaker 2: there's only so much time I want to put into it.
Speaker 2: When you're going beyond the second catchers for a team
Speaker 2: and you're looking at third catchers.
Speaker 6: And that's just one example. You want to start good players.
Speaker 2: You want to have your team comprised of talented, good
Speaker 2: players all maybe not all star level players, but you
Speaker 2: don't want to be picking at guys who are going
Speaker 2: to be single digit homer single digit stolen bases to
Speaker 2: kind of fill it in to each their own. But
Speaker 2: for me, I'd rather have a roster of great players
Speaker 2: than you know, platoon guys.
Speaker 1: All right, we'll see how great those rosters are. Because
Speaker 1: after you took gore Than Thorpe, Lugo, Paxon, Anderson, Olsen,
Speaker 1: Dela Cruz, Lawler, Michael Waka, Paul Skeins, So you didn't
Speaker 1: take Welsh, you didn't take Skins, you took Waka Clark Schmidt,
Speaker 1: and then Starling Marte. I got a B plus Welsh.
Speaker 1: What grade did you get from draft wizard?
Speaker 4: I told you, I don't I don't think it equated
Speaker 4: the points quite enough. I gotta B minus and I
Speaker 4: don't know if it's quite pushing this in.
Speaker 1: The point as Welsh's gonna write a strongly leaded letter,
Speaker 1: a strongly worded letter, I can't even talk. It's Friday,
Speaker 1: A strongly worded Leather is going to come out there
Speaker 1: to I just said, Leather, I can't even do you.
Speaker 1: I'm throwing in the towel. Welsh, you have many leather
Speaker 1: bound books and everything like that that you met, is right,
Speaker 1: I should never talk again on the show.
Speaker 4: No, but but I I would question, like, how much
Speaker 4: is this equating the points factor on it?
Speaker 3: Because not not to be like I had to be
Speaker 3: number one or anything.
Speaker 1: Like that, but be careful. I got too much. You
Speaker 1: might not be here on Monday.
Speaker 4: I got Cold Reagan's, I got Michael King, absolute monsters
Speaker 4: at RP for points. I got Louis A Rayas Jung HULEI,
Speaker 4: who are absolutely more valuable than that.
Speaker 3: But yeah, I did it, did ding me? So I
Speaker 3: am the biggest loser here, so big.
Speaker 1: Well, you're the biggest loser of us. But you did
Speaker 1: finish tenth, which is better than you did last time.
Speaker 1: So you went from eleven to ten. Great, good on you.
Speaker 1: My favorite hot take here from mine is that Joe
Speaker 1: Piece of Pia Fantasy pros likes my draft more than
Speaker 1: ano the other experts.
Speaker 3: You don't even have alexix now do you like it
Speaker 3: so much?
Speaker 1: I do have Alex Bregman. That's why. That's why.
Speaker 3: Never mind, Sorry, that's whine so.
Speaker 1: But congratulations to Jick Spring because you won the draft
Speaker 1: with a ninety six, Joe Elrico with a ninety four.
Speaker 1: Look at you. You almost did it, Joe. You felt
Speaker 1: just a little short. I came in at fourth. Chris
Speaker 1: Clegg beat the Welsh, that's all that matters at nine,
Speaker 1: and Welsh finished tenth, which is the great way to
Speaker 1: end this. Looking at this here, Ario Cone finally liked
Speaker 1: the draft of mine. It took me five thousand drafts.
Speaker 1: I finally liked it. But Towers hated me and Soda
Speaker 1: Kelly Kirby. But that's just a standard here.
Speaker 3: But you loved you the most, right because that's what.
Speaker 1: I love me to me. That's that's the way it
Speaker 1: goes a team real quick, sal Perez, gold Schmidt, Glaber, Torres,
Speaker 1: Edmund Berger, Arise, Julian Alvarez, Robert Carter, Guriel Paynia. Then
Speaker 1: the rotations, Tenser Stryder, Gallon, Bassett, Verlander, Burrios. But you
Speaker 1: also had Reagan's and Michael King. Then the bench is good, Bayo, Abbott,
Speaker 1: Waka and Lee. Pretty good team here. Well, I think
Speaker 1: it's a B minus. I just think the bar was
Speaker 1: very high because all of our listeners are so smart.
Speaker 3: I think that it's an A plus. It's an A plus.
Speaker 3: I don't care what this says. It is maybe the
Speaker 3: best points league.
Speaker 1: Are you not accepting the results?
Speaker 3: Is that not accepting it?
Speaker 4: I think exactly, I'm calling for a recount. It's gonna
Speaker 4: take a month.
Speaker 1: Well, you do live in Arizona, so that's yeah, we're.
Speaker 4: Gonna get exactly everything was wrong. But Ario Cohen loved
Speaker 4: my draft the most, so that is a big win
Speaker 4: for me. Dalton Dell, Don, Frank Amerant, Scott Bogman loved it.
Speaker 4: Our boy Chris Meeney, who you just did the show with,
Speaker 4: did not. Scott White did not. Andy Barons did not.
Speaker 4: But I'll take Ario Cohen love in my draft.
Speaker 1: Great. All right, let's get to Clegg's before we get
Speaker 1: to the big winner here, which is really Joe Rico.
Speaker 1: So Clegg, you came away with Will Smith Freeman Perettis, Holiday, Austin, Riley, Candelario, Crawford, Rose, Raina, Yelich, Hap, Jimenez,
Speaker 1: Ward then Lopez, Gilbert, Ryan Bieber, Christian Javier Diaz Pepio.
Speaker 1: The bench is Lodolo bos Reese Olsen and Jackson Merrill. So, Cleig,
Speaker 1: when you're looking back at this roster, how do you
Speaker 1: feel about it? And do you like the builder where
Speaker 1: you've done something different.
Speaker 5: I think it's actually a decent Points League build as well. Shit,
Speaker 5: I think we got penalized for overthinking the Points League thing.
Speaker 5: But at the end of the day, you know, it
Speaker 5: is what it is, and you know, I think it's fine.
Speaker 5: I think really probably taking starters earlier, getting a better
Speaker 5: rotation probably would have been good. Not having to take Bieber.
Speaker 5: It's like the SP four type you had. It felt
Speaker 5: a little bit better about that. But at the end
Speaker 5: of the day, you know, I think it's a It's
Speaker 5: a fine team that could have been probably a little better.
Speaker 1: Okay, See that's the way you take it Welsh you know.
Speaker 1: See that's that's class. Chris Clegg is all class class.
Speaker 1: It's CCC when it comes to Chris.
Speaker 3: As can be. But this is an a plus team,
Speaker 3: and I will not drop this you. We're gonna take that.
Speaker 1: Maybe you need some extra simular this weekend. Maybe you
Speaker 1: run a couple more on Draft Wizard, which you all
Speaker 1: should be doing. Download the Apple, go to fantasypros dot
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Speaker 1: next time. All right, Arica, let's get to you here,
Speaker 1: because you are the best of us. And I mean
Speaker 1: that obviously in many ways. So looking at the draft board,
Speaker 1: looking at your selections here, Logan o Happy is the catcher, Pascuentino,
Speaker 1: Albi's McClain, Aronado, Chapman, Estrada, Acunya, Suzuki, Yoshida, O'Neil varshow
Speaker 1: and then the staff is Castillo, Peralta, Max Fried, Hunter
Speaker 1: Green and Brian Wu. The relievers Munos and Paveda. Then
Speaker 1: you had Sanchez, Mason, Miller, Kakuci and Mackenzie Gore. So, Clegg,
Speaker 1: how do you feel about this? Because Draft Wizard certainly
Speaker 1: liked it.
Speaker 6: I mean, it's hard to not like an Acuna team.
Speaker 2: Right when you get an Acuna team, you're gonna like
Speaker 2: every single Acuna team pretty much. If there's anything that
Speaker 2: I don't like, it's that maybe Hunter Green is probably
Speaker 2: not suited as an SP four. I mean, it's probably fine.
Speaker 2: But if I had him as my SP five and
Speaker 2: had a bit of a cushion there ahead of him,
Speaker 2: be had instead of taking maybe instead of Matt McClain,
Speaker 2: or instead of say a Azuki in round seven, round nine,
Speaker 2: if I got my SP four there, I might have
Speaker 2: liked it a little more. But I'm overall, I'm pretty
Speaker 2: happy with what I'm seeing here. You like my draft,
Speaker 2: Joe Joepie's a p one of the.
Speaker 5: I do that.
Speaker 1: I do like your draft the Albis, Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: that's certainly a good start there. For me, it was
Speaker 1: cal Rawley, Matt Olsen, Altuve, Garcia, Bregman, and Carnacion, Strand, Turner,
Speaker 1: Aaron Juddes, Cassilianos, Jordan Walker, Lowe, Lars Nowbar and then
Speaker 1: we had Glass Now Bobby Miller, Lozardo Bybee, Hunter Brown,
Speaker 1: hells Lee and Azala as the closers. Then I had
Speaker 1: Alvarado my bench with Marte, Brandon Lowe and excuse Brandon
Speaker 1: law I got Allow and a low so I got
Speaker 1: everybody together. If I could have gotten Josh, I could
Speaker 1: have had the triangle. I just missed it. And Junior
Speaker 1: Camanaro on my bench as well. That's probably why I
Speaker 1: like the draft so much because yeah, but again shout
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