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Speaker 1: been fun show for you. Today we have two hours
Speaker 1: naturally and an hour number one we will give you
Speaker 1: some old guys that you shouldn't forget, like not every
Speaker 1: old guy sucks. We want to remind you of that.
Speaker 1: An hour number two we'll go over with some of
Speaker 1: the young guys, some top prospects that you need to know,
Speaker 1: and James Anderson will join us for that. He's a prospect.
Speaker 1: Gurup plays a lot of dynasty leagues, and he will
Speaker 1: be somebody that will looks a lot more about some
Speaker 1: of these young guys than I do. And with that
Speaker 1: we will come in my body, my best friend forever.
Speaker 1: Mr Frank Stamp. What's up, Frankie? Happy Friday, Bud. I
Speaker 1: don't know where I kind of fit in on the
Speaker 1: old guy young guy spectrum here. I'm happy you're owning
Speaker 1: the young guy thing, because I was gonna blast you
Speaker 1: for it. We're downstairs trying to think of a title
Speaker 1: for today's show, and I'm like, well, what's more searchable,
Speaker 1: Greg prospects in the title of a YouTube video or
Speaker 1: young guys? How many people are at home googling? Hm, hmmm,
Speaker 1: I need to find Fantasy Baseball young guys. Probably not many, Greg.
Speaker 1: I realized it's Friday, but we still got we still
Speaker 1: got some work to do. Little little winded throw up
Speaker 1: the stairs. Clearly, I just sleep last night. It's better.
Speaker 1: I still wake up in the middle of the night, though,
Speaker 1: I think about work and I don't like it. What. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it sounds like something I would do. Nando. Nando tell
Speaker 1: me this would happen, and he was right. I wake
Speaker 1: up in the middle of night Nano da fina. But
Speaker 1: here's what I don't do, and Nando did right, Like
Speaker 1: he used to wake up in the middle of night
Speaker 1: and have these thoughts about things he need to do
Speaker 1: or get done, and he would put him in his
Speaker 1: phone and write it down or just set an email
Speaker 1: out right in the middle of the night to do it.
Speaker 1: I just go back to sleep, and then when I
Speaker 1: wake up in the morning, I forget about what I
Speaker 1: was thinking about. And that's about it. So that's because
Speaker 1: I'll tell you why. Love love with dedication, love the
Speaker 1: honesty from Gregg, that that's what I love. I'll tell
Speaker 1: you why though, because I know once I take out
Speaker 1: my phone or my computer, I'm up, and I don't
Speaker 1: want to do that. I don't want to be up.
Speaker 1: You really think that if you just lean over and
Speaker 1: like write it in your notes on your phone, that
Speaker 1: you can't just go back to sleep after that, because
Speaker 1: the most mornings, you know inside baseball for you, most mornings,
Speaker 1: I wait, my alarm goes off. Almost the second the
Speaker 1: alarm goes off, I get a text message from Cardonna,
Speaker 1: like almost the second I wake up, including today, and
Speaker 1: I look at it and what did I see it?
Speaker 1: I'm you think Cardona just knows what time your alarm goes.
Speaker 1: I think he does. I'm gonna wait for at least
Speaker 1: he's wait until you wake up, dude. It could not
Speaker 1: have been more simultaneous today. It was bizarre. You gotta
Speaker 1: you gotta give him credit for at least wait until
Speaker 1: you wake He doesn't always wait today, but I tried
Speaker 1: to give you some credit, Cardona. It was crazy, like
Speaker 1: but once I know, I know, I've seen that, I'm up.
Speaker 1: That's okay, and I know that hasn't gonna happen in
Speaker 1: the middle of night, just saying I'm just sleep, Frank,
Speaker 1: I slept pretty well. I went to sleep too late
Speaker 1: because I set up to watch the end of the Blazers. Okay,
Speaker 1: see game, pretty pretty cool ending there, use of Narks
Speaker 1: getting tied up a little bit with Paul Georgia. That
Speaker 1: that was fun to watch. So that game go goes
Speaker 1: into overtime. I watched the end of that, and before
Speaker 1: I know it, it's almost two am, and I have
Speaker 1: to go to sleep and I have to wake up
Speaker 1: at eight thirty. So little little tired this morning. I'm
Speaker 1: being honest, you know, I just drank a red Bull
Speaker 1: something something I don't normally do and I don't really
Speaker 1: advocate all that much, but I kind of needed that burst.
Speaker 1: I needed that Chris Ventra burst for Friday, Greg, so
Speaker 1: I could be doing better, and I think I'm slowly
Speaker 1: working up at the day meat today, no meat today
Speaker 1: either that it's correct, well, I mean it doesn't matter
Speaker 1: for you, for me yet for you. We almost planned
Speaker 1: a shake check date. We thought we we thought we did.
Speaker 1: I actually text you right afterwards to be fair. I
Speaker 1: actually I asked you earlier this week, which day do
Speaker 1: you want to do that you chose Friday. I offer
Speaker 1: whatever you do, anything you want. It's very hard to
Speaker 1: remember until like the day of. I got a few
Speaker 1: text messages this morning. That's kind of how I don't
Speaker 1: know if this works for like all Christian or Catholic people,
Speaker 1: but it's kind of like every Friday morning or ash Wednesday,
Speaker 1: they'll just be like a text chain like, hey, just
Speaker 1: remember you can't eat meat today. So I got a
Speaker 1: few of those this morning. I know the past better
Speaker 1: in the morning than you know once you've already sinned
Speaker 1: and forgot. I know the past. You haven't always followed
Speaker 1: this right, like sometimes you're just like I'm not doing this.
Speaker 1: I want meat and you just eat it. Right, That
Speaker 1: doesn't sound accurate. I mean it might have happened. It
Speaker 1: might have happened where accidentally eight meat meat and then afterwards,
Speaker 1: Oh that might have been it. That might have been Floria.
Speaker 1: Look back at you one day, like last year, when
Speaker 1: you're eating meat, like, dude, you know it's Friday, right,
Speaker 1: You're like, it's already too late at that point. So
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, I try try to follow the rual
Speaker 1: to you. You can do is try you. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: I'm gonna eat meat. Probably you're going to Brewery's. Man, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm late. You think you're gonna be there, because if
Speaker 1: you're out late, I mean there's a chance that I
Speaker 1: could meet up with you as like a night. You're
Speaker 1: right by the way hight the l You were correct
Speaker 1: that when you get that, man, you're not going Homely
Speaker 1: would have just taken the train together the entire time. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm trying to think. Have I ever really seen you? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I've seen you pretty wasted. Yeah, I'm just imagining Kenyan
Speaker 1: Drake Ron Ron Ron that's me. Last year we're here
Speaker 1: at the holiday party. We're going up against the King's
Speaker 1: Scott Angle and in the Fantasy playoffs, and it was
Speaker 1: we have our co managed team, myself, Greg and Michael
Speaker 1: Florio when he's still around now he's still alive, but
Speaker 1: we have Kenyan Drake and we're going up against Jarvis
Speaker 1: Landry and it's a real, real close matchup. And Greg
Speaker 1: just comes back from like ordering shots. I think I
Speaker 1: think I was coming from the bathroom, but that's fine.
Speaker 1: Was coming with the back turning because I was coming
Speaker 1: down this one. You can see Kenyan Drake run and
Speaker 1: you start running towards that. That was sick. It was funny.
Speaker 1: I was pretty waste because it made everyone take the
Speaker 1: healer shots because what I like to do. Yeah, you're
Speaker 1: part of the reason why tequila is probably my Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's great because tastes good. I went on like a
Speaker 1: five year hiatus of not tequila. Greg, he probably regretted that, no,
Speaker 1: because I had some I mean my teen years, like
Speaker 1: I mean my twenty one year old years, um, a
Speaker 1: lot of bad times with tequila. So I need the
Speaker 1: hiatus for sure. But now I'm back and it's cool.
Speaker 1: I have a much tequila in my house. What is
Speaker 1: your favorite tequila? I feel like we've talked about I'm easy,
Speaker 1: so basic. You this delicious tequila. I like daileone. I'm
Speaker 1: telling you you gotta get this. It's uh, it's get
Speaker 1: the silver one too. It's just a square bottle with,
Speaker 1: for lack of a better term, a big D on it.
Speaker 1: That's really what it is. You can let's let's bring
Speaker 1: it over here. No wrong, wrong way, here we go.
Speaker 1: That's basically it. It's just a square bottle. They're not
Speaker 1: paying me to do this. Um. Also, the cap is
Speaker 1: really cool too. It's like this big silver ball, great sequila. Right,
Speaker 1: should we talk us? Well, guys, probably, I'm ready, Greg,
Speaker 1: you're ready. So we were officially under a week away.
Speaker 1: Now that's kind of cool for our g d D
Speaker 1: draft still need to hang out and kind of plan
Speaker 1: this out, and we have to do an auction episode. Yea.
Speaker 1: Our man, our guy Constantine has a He've been asking
Speaker 1: me about auction as well. Think talk some auction strategy.
Speaker 1: I'm sure a lot of people do. I think we'll
Speaker 1: probably do the auction show on Monday. This Monday, didn't
Speaker 1: We want to try and get ian Con on the
Speaker 1: only day I can possibly be here before our Also
Speaker 1: said he don't want to reveal his auction strategy. Oh yeah, right,
Speaker 1: but what if he's not here, he is here, that
Speaker 1: we'll do that. We'll do it, will make him if
Speaker 1: he's not here, we can't make ian Con do anything.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's General George Washington. He's not gonna listen
Speaker 1: to us. In fact, he will just command us to
Speaker 1: do something else and then we will follow him. We
Speaker 1: have no choice. We'll do that before the auction or
Speaker 1: after our auction, before right auction draft strategy. It doesn't
Speaker 1: matter to me. And I think sooner rather than later,
Speaker 1: just because people might have auctions coming up. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean we have we have drafts, have a lot of
Speaker 1: drafts coming up, a lot going on, I mean a
Speaker 1: lot of people, do we know? Was like a lot
Speaker 1: of programming us to talk about too for LEAs. All right,
Speaker 1: So Thursday we have our our G D D auction
Speaker 1: which is live in person at Anne the House of
Speaker 1: Bruis next Thursday night. Come on hang out if you
Speaker 1: want to come by and hang out and cheer us
Speaker 1: on in content, bring a sign you can cheerly, bring
Speaker 1: some pompoms something. Ian Con telling me that not only
Speaker 1: is he looks forward to us bidding twenty seven dollars. Again,
Speaker 1: he looks forward to how was the draft? Because we
Speaker 1: didn't know him last year, truly met him, like we
Speaker 1: didn't know him. I was very I was. I wasn't
Speaker 1: donated in that room. Sure sounds like people who like,
Speaker 1: you know what, punch in the face. Okay, Greg, I
Speaker 1: can't imagine you punching anyone in the face. Yea, I
Speaker 1: just can't imagine. You're right, I can't do that, can
Speaker 1: we get? I want a serious this camera, Greg, stand up.
Speaker 1: I want you to give me like a combination. I
Speaker 1: want you to give you like that. I want you
Speaker 1: to give me, like, give me something that's like it
Speaker 1: was like a fighting Irish. I know you're ready for
Speaker 1: like march manness. Greg, it's like a little Notre dame guy.
Speaker 1: Let's go, let's go. Let's have you stand up here,
Speaker 1: give me, give me, give me a two jab and
Speaker 1: a never pushed anybody in my life, clearly you really
Speaker 1: you never have, right, Greg, No, it's not. I'm a lover,
Speaker 1: not a fighter. I like to consider myself a lover
Speaker 1: as well. There close to fight it. But what happens
Speaker 1: when you're drunk? I mean you know how, and I'm drunk.
Speaker 1: I break people up fighting. I've never ever had an
Speaker 1: urge to find anybody in my life. Ever. Sometimes I
Speaker 1: get beer muscles. I never did. That's for stupid, but
Speaker 1: only over the right things. I'm still like a logical,
Speaker 1: rational person. That's probably not true. I am. That's why
Speaker 1: people like me. I'm always a rational person. But I
Speaker 1: get very I get very defensive, like if someone's like
Speaker 1: picking on my friends or like obviously kno or something,
Speaker 1: I'll be very quick trigger kind of thing. Really, yeah,
Speaker 1: Florida always with a quick trigger. Definitely, definitely. He goes
Speaker 1: from zero a hundred, very old. Yeah you saw mild
Speaker 1: matter normally. Yeah, no, it comes out when he drinks,
Speaker 1: for sure. M sorry, I not that. What else are
Speaker 1: we talking about? What's what's our next? And then I
Speaker 1: have the main event on Saturday. Great, I'll be there.
Speaker 1: I'll be there supporting you. When I find out my
Speaker 1: draft pick, I don't know. Then we'll start mapping out
Speaker 1: my strategy a little bit. So programs that we're gonna
Speaker 1: both be at the NFBC next Friday. I don't know,
Speaker 1: like what that does our show, but we'll be there
Speaker 1: next Friday So NFBC on Friday will be at the
Speaker 1: Stewart Hotel and broadcasting covering they're doing auctions at that time, right,
Speaker 1: so you'll get be able to listen then as well
Speaker 1: find out what's going on in these high stakes auctions.
Speaker 1: We'll give you our thoughts on. Obviously the prices of
Speaker 1: players are construction of teams that are within the auction
Speaker 1: there that would be really fun. I'm looking forward to
Speaker 1: that great. Yes, I mean that'll be a great done.
Speaker 1: How long are these How long are these things? I
Speaker 1: mean as long as you'd imagine the auctions, especially cover
Speaker 1: the whole thing. Probably I would imagine we don't cover
Speaker 1: the whole thing because then that's like a four or
Speaker 1: five hour affair. Yeah, it seems long, but I should
Speaker 1: talk about mean especially early on. Yeah, which players are
Speaker 1: getting thrown? Yeah, you know, I'm very sad for that
Speaker 1: six hour auctions. That seems that seems long. Yeah, that
Speaker 1: seems too long. We'll have to get on that. And
Speaker 1: the main event obviously on Saturday, not on auction. That's
Speaker 1: a thanks draft, which is a little bit shorter. Um,
Speaker 1: nobody three snake drafts going on, right, I'm only get
Speaker 1: pay attention to yours. Thanks man, be honest with Thursday ESPN.
Speaker 1: ESPN will be in our studio. I don't know what
Speaker 1: our plan for the show is. We'll figure an next Thursday, Okay,
Speaker 1: I talked about that. And then we have I have
Speaker 1: a g S T draft Tuesday the nineteen, and my
Speaker 1: Holy draft TUSA ninety. Big night for you, Big night
Speaker 1: for me. So you're not really going to help us
Speaker 1: at all during the TST draft? Seems well, I can
Speaker 1: because I'm on the end the first picks, I should
Speaker 1: be able to be involved in him. We should probably
Speaker 1: send them money to NUS. The Flora was gonna do that.
Speaker 1: I talked to him. Oh actually, okay, I actually think
Speaker 1: I just kept telling him to do it. No, no,
Speaker 1: he says, I'll do it tomorrow at work. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: mind it right now. Okay, So I'll send him some money,
Speaker 1: and you send them money to Ronus. I will then,
Speaker 1: will you? Now I will as well? Frank here you go? Cool? Um, yes, alright, alright,
Speaker 1: go start? Who's your first one? Just right? Like this
Speaker 1: is a guy who is what thirty eight years old?
Speaker 1: You were take that? That's seems too old. That's not right. Now,
Speaker 1: he's not that old. He's not. That's yeah, he's probably
Speaker 1: thirty five, thirty six, just thirty six having a birthday.
Speaker 1: Um So Justin burn Lander was a guy and the
Speaker 1: narrative goes, and rightfully so, the narrative goes that you
Speaker 1: want to be a year earlier than a year late.
Speaker 1: We have said that repeatedly on this show and pointed
Speaker 1: out guys like a Corey Klueber for instance, that you
Speaker 1: want to make sure you're there. But as we said
Speaker 1: in our Starting Pitching preview, you look for signs of decline.
Speaker 1: You look for something being different, something going wrong. When
Speaker 1: you look at Justin Verlander and you see last year
Speaker 1: that he struck out two d and ninety batters, more
Speaker 1: than he has in any season of his career ever,
Speaker 1: you're like, Okay, well, maybe this isn't the guy that
Speaker 1: I'm just giving up on. Maybe this isn't the guy
Speaker 1: that I need to be a year early on, because
Speaker 1: I know that he You thought you saw signs of
Speaker 1: decline in his last few years in Texas. You can
Speaker 1: make a case that last season was the best season
Speaker 1: of Justin Verlander's career. He's the guy who's want to
Speaker 1: stay young. Now his two thousand eleven was better because
Speaker 1: he was twenty four and five a two forty year
Speaker 1: eight that was probably better strikeouts, But like that year
Speaker 1: and the last year pretty damn similar and close. That's
Speaker 1: how good he was. And are you really gonna throw
Speaker 1: all of that away because of his age. I don't
Speaker 1: think that's fair. I was agist admittedly coming in the
Speaker 1: draft prep season, Chris Ventra, Frank Stafell. They brought me back.
Speaker 1: I mean, ne Verlander. If I think everyone should Greg
Speaker 1: if I told you there was only one other starting
Speaker 1: pitcher outside of Max Scherzer, that would be a lot
Speaker 1: to give you two pitched. That's a great point. Also,
Speaker 1: it's justin Verlin. It's justin Verlinder, and he's doing it
Speaker 1: at you know, twelve case per nine sou per nine
Speaker 1: innings pitch so and he has better, better command than
Speaker 1: ever before. I've in saying this about the Astros. I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna go into whether or not, Okay, they have substances.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna do the Trevor Battle thing. But everything
Speaker 1: that Houston Astro touch turns to gold. This guy legitimately
Speaker 1: just had a career year. I mean, the twelve point
Speaker 1: two case per nine. For Justin Verland, who has been
Speaker 1: a great picture in the past, has one a cy
Speaker 1: Young was the highest of his career in his age
Speaker 1: thirty five season is one point five six walks per nine,
Speaker 1: the best of his career. Even if you want to
Speaker 1: point to the peripherals, right, he was a two point
Speaker 1: five to ear a, a three point zero three exit.
Speaker 1: Even if he pitches to a three e r A
Speaker 1: and goes two any pitch at nearly twelve case per nine,
Speaker 1: he's gonna give you two thirty plus strikeouts this year.
Speaker 1: I mean he had a career high swinging strike rate,
Speaker 1: he had a career high first pitch strike grade. It's
Speaker 1: like he's getting better with age. Greg Justin Verlander a
Speaker 1: fine wine. One might say. Look, if if we saw
Speaker 1: a velocity declining or swinging strike grade coming down, or
Speaker 1: you know, him losing command or no control within the
Speaker 1: strike zone and giving up home runs more than ever before,
Speaker 1: I would be worried. Do you have none of those things?
Speaker 1: He actually got better last year. I'm not worried about
Speaker 1: Land all right. When we come back some the other
Speaker 1: old guys may not be as obvious as the Justin Verlander.
Speaker 1: We'll bring it down when we come back. Fantasy best
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Speaker 1: That is Frank Stafle. I am Greg Susman. It is Friday,
Speaker 1: feeling good, a lot of fun, absolutely great. I almost
Speaker 1: missed the whale, to be honest, put my headphones on
Speaker 1: a little bit late. There'd so was like two seconds
Speaker 1: before we came in. Do not Oh, don't say that
Speaker 1: DFS today. I don't think you really liked her singing
Speaker 1: or dancing. It's Friday. I gotta singing dance. Greg Florio
Speaker 1: is next to me. Nice, awesome. I yeah, I definitely
Speaker 1: did it last year. Yeah, I feel like Florio never
Speaker 1: did it, so I said, he said paid next year.
Speaker 1: I'm not it. It's like, oh, yeah, I guess that
Speaker 1: was on me. Yeah, a little a little cycle here, Greg,
Speaker 1: that's okay, I'm okay with that. I actually this during
Speaker 1: the break. I want to get your thoughts in the
Speaker 1: chat as well. People watching home listening. You could buy
Speaker 1: any sports jersey right now, Greg, who would you buy?
Speaker 1: It's probably I can't buy. I guess say Kwan Barkley
Speaker 1: makes sense for me, like Barkley comes to mind boring answer,
Speaker 1: But I know, you know what does Atlantic Collins at
Speaker 1: one point, so that that working out poorly. I got
Speaker 1: the land in Collins, Jersey for his birthday last year.
Speaker 1: It sucks. That sucks. I told him I'd get a
Speaker 1: land in Collins Cowboys Jersey for him. I could choose one.
Speaker 1: Jersey's gonna skip over that completely ignoring that. Um, I
Speaker 1: guess I would go Barkley. My answers are so bad.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. I apologize. But Barkley or Judge man Ventro
Speaker 1: was downstairs and he said, you know what you need
Speaker 1: because I told him I ordered the Bryce Harper jersey,
Speaker 1: the blue one, the blue Phillies jersey and the only
Speaker 1: one in my teams. Like I didn't even think outside
Speaker 1: of the teams. No, I mean, that's kind of who
Speaker 1: you are. Greg. It's fine, you're home or at your heart.
Speaker 1: It's cool, but it's jersey. W don't wear a jersey
Speaker 1: or other than team. It's like, I don't really want
Speaker 1: a Yankees jersey, Like I have a Yankee jersey ready,
Speaker 1: I'm good. I don't know. I just like to buy
Speaker 1: like random, obscure like players, my favorite players kind of jerseys.
Speaker 1: I have a Justin Upton jersey at home from when
Speaker 1: he was on the Diamondbacks too. It's kind of cool. Yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, do you want me to know which random
Speaker 1: jersey I would want? Yeah? I told venture downstairs, I
Speaker 1: order a Bryce Harper jersey. He goes, you know what
Speaker 1: you need? I live. He's the godfather traditionally. Yeah, um,
Speaker 1: he goes, you need an all black Pittsburgh by Josh
Speaker 1: Bell jersey. What that is very obscure. That is obscure.
Speaker 1: That is really obscure. Alright, Like okay, so it's like me,
Speaker 1: I think it'd be cool. She can get Oh man,
Speaker 1: this is annoying because like I would love at Ronado jersey.
Speaker 1: But that's not cool anymore because like Ronado is like,
Speaker 1: all right, we got it already. Also very boring, very boring.
Speaker 1: Someone give me someone who doesn't go in the first
Speaker 1: round of any fantasy sports draft. Okay, fair enough. He's like,
Speaker 1: oh man, I gotta go back to my rankings for
Speaker 1: this right ready. How about a haze Us Aguilar jersey.
Speaker 1: That's pretty cool. That's pretty cool. You know I should
Speaker 1: wear this one day next week. I have a Jonathan
Speaker 1: VR Brewers players shirt. That's gross, man, huge, that's pretty obscure. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I have a Jonathan VR player shirt. I have a
Speaker 1: I have a Brights Harper Nationals player shirt. I had
Speaker 1: to get the Philly shirt. I think old must Grove
Speaker 1: jersey from Stephen Core. Mean, let's go. You know we're
Speaker 1: getting the big big Joey Muss. You can't tell it.
Speaker 1: Do you realize how many times over the last couple
Speaker 1: of days. You know we're getting this guy. You know
Speaker 1: we're drafting this guy. You know we're gonna we have
Speaker 1: to have him. Well, if you've said you don't want
Speaker 1: to plan a mandate to figure out the office like
Speaker 1: doing that, that's not that's not my style. What I
Speaker 1: don't plan on getting certain guys I don't do that. Yes,
Speaker 1: we're gonna plan a range of players, like two or
Speaker 1: three guys at each position want to give us similar
Speaker 1: there's priced too high, little pipot, okay, but we need
Speaker 1: backup plans. So the way that we're going to plan
Speaker 1: our action I'm telling you this right now, is we're
Speaker 1: gonna go by position and we're gonna say what statistics
Speaker 1: in a rotissory auction do we want to get from
Speaker 1: said position, Like, oh, our second baseman do we want
Speaker 1: Let's say we want a to seventy batting average with
Speaker 1: twelve homers and fifteen solong basis will map out like
Speaker 1: three different guys that we want that could give us
Speaker 1: that we have backup plans. That's what we're gonna do.
Speaker 1: What are wenna do this before Thursday? Let me know
Speaker 1: what you don't want to meet the afrom Beer later.
Speaker 1: It's really a good difference. It's on your way home
Speaker 1: if I come up, If I'm meet up with you
Speaker 1: at nine pm tonight, you are going to be wasted
Speaker 1: if we are not going to get anything done right,
Speaker 1: and then you're gonna still problem is you're gonna then
Speaker 1: catch up. Oh I, I'm already gonna be caught up.
Speaker 1: Don't you know that? You know I don't know how
Speaker 1: to hate myself? Is this tough? Monday? Monday? Monday after jury, Dudy,
Speaker 1: he could work on good Monday. Are you busy Monday?
Speaker 1: And it's a Monday, Suesday. I can't do Wednesday. I
Speaker 1: can do Wednesday, the night before the draft. Can definitely
Speaker 1: do that. Monday or Wednesday. We'll figure it out. Okay,
Speaker 1: we'll definitely do it one day Wednesday. Either one totally
Speaker 1: works for me. Back to old guys, they'll do Wednesday.
Speaker 1: It's your term, man, I can get just the Verlander. Well,
Speaker 1: someone in the chat was asking us about Joey Votto,
Speaker 1: So let's let's Votto. I think he's gotta be like
Speaker 1: thirty five now, right, he's up there, he's he's mid
Speaker 1: thirties as well. I will say this about Joey Votto
Speaker 1: in your standard Rodal league, he is he is thirty
Speaker 1: five years old. Actually, in any league he's still thirty
Speaker 1: five years my understanding, and if your standard Rodal league
Speaker 1: has not been a target of mine. And I really,
Speaker 1: I really liked the Reds lineup. I just worry about
Speaker 1: welve home runs last year in a hundred and forty
Speaker 1: five games. He stayed healthy. You see the play decline
Speaker 1: a little bit. It was just a really, really weird
Speaker 1: season from Joey Vado. I'll say, look in ov P
Speaker 1: and head to head points leagues, I'm still perfectly fine
Speaker 1: taking Votto. But what's your realistic projection for Vado this
Speaker 1: year in his age thirty five season? And you know,
Speaker 1: Votto's kind of a head case. He's is that the
Speaker 1: right word for it? Head case? I mean there's been
Speaker 1: times when people ask him like, hey, why are you
Speaker 1: going through a slump and he says, I'm just trying
Speaker 1: some stuff out. Now. Maybe he's more motivated now because
Speaker 1: the Reds are gonna be a little bit more competitive.
Speaker 1: I mean, headcase, weird dude, they're different head case or
Speaker 1: weird dude. Weird dude. He's kind of a head case too.
Speaker 1: He really, yeah, he's out there. Okay, look, Joey Votto.
Speaker 1: I understand how talented he has been. I just where
Speaker 1: is he going to excel? I mean, he might still
Speaker 1: be able to provide a three batting average, but is
Speaker 1: he gonna be twenty two home runs? If he's batting
Speaker 1: second in the red line up, he's still gonna score
Speaker 1: a ton of runs. What are the RBI is gonna
Speaker 1: look like? I like the Reds lineup. He's just kind
Speaker 1: of a weird dude to figure out. Last year he
Speaker 1: struggled against lefties two, which was weird for him. I mean,
Speaker 1: to to sixty with a seven fifty p s against lefties.
Speaker 1: Against right ees, he was two eighty ops. Um yeah again,
Speaker 1: only twelve home runs. It was just it was a
Speaker 1: weird season. His home in the fly ball ratio was
Speaker 1: the outlier. I mean, it was nine point five per cent,
Speaker 1: which was his lowest since when it was ten point
Speaker 1: seven percent, And that was just an injury marred season.
Speaker 1: In each of the past three years it was over
Speaker 1: ninth ten percent. He doesn't really hit a lot of flyballs,
Speaker 1: but when he does, it seems like one out of
Speaker 1: every five. Right around that range, flies out of the park.
Speaker 1: He has a lot of line drives. We always know
Speaker 1: that about Vado. He's one of the best pure hitters
Speaker 1: I've probably seen in this generation of baseball. But he's
Speaker 1: just not really an active target of mine. I don't
Speaker 1: know if it's if it's a combination of gonna worried
Speaker 1: about the age, the price. I thought maybe we've got
Speaker 1: more of a discount from Vado. I've seen him going
Speaker 1: in like the fifth round raide sometimes fourth round. There's
Speaker 1: just other players I like at the first based position
Speaker 1: that I could even at Jose Brave a little bit
Speaker 1: later on God bless you greg Or, I can get
Speaker 1: thank you Matt Olsen to three rounds later. Who I
Speaker 1: think is gonna break out this year? Who can hit,
Speaker 1: you know, thirty thirty five home runs. How do you
Speaker 1: feel about Votto just not really an active target of mine? Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: I get that. Um. I think in ob P leagues,
Speaker 1: I think Joey Botter is still fine. Obviously the O
Speaker 1: b P has consistently been over four d which is ridiculous.
Speaker 1: It was still four seventeen last so last four years.
Speaker 1: He's still seeing the ball. Well, I know he's struck
Speaker 1: out actually less than the year before. So Kato, he
Speaker 1: still walks more than these strikes out, and I think it.
Speaker 1: WO p leagues, You're fine. I know you want normally
Speaker 1: power at the first base position. I don't hate Joey Vado.
Speaker 1: I think the power does come back to an extent.
Speaker 1: I mean, the home run five all ratio under ten
Speaker 1: percent last year, Like that's going to change. I don't.
Speaker 1: I think the days of getting close to thirty home
Speaker 1: runs are probably done for Joey Vado. I don't think
Speaker 1: close to twenties very unrealistic. So I'm fine with Joey Botto.
Speaker 1: If Joey Vaddo is there for me and he's the
Speaker 1: top guy on the board, I'm not gonna shy away
Speaker 1: from it. The past week NFBC a DP has Joey
Speaker 1: Vado at pick sixty five, and the next first baseman
Speaker 1: off the board after that, twelve picks later is Hayes's Greg.
Speaker 1: Who would you rather have Votto at pick sixty five?
Speaker 1: Or what kind of league? This is NBC set so
Speaker 1: standard five by five we're talking about in general, or
Speaker 1: like at that spot or around later after after Aguilar,
Speaker 1: around late I don't even like Auler, but about to
Speaker 1: have a round later. How about this Joey Vado at
Speaker 1: pick sixty five or Jose at eight six later? I VA,
Speaker 1: you're not You're not doing the Jose break. It's fine,
Speaker 1: you know. I just think Joe Vaddo has gotta better
Speaker 1: at everything. Yeah, but is he twenty one picks better? Yes?
Speaker 1: I don't think the batting average is gonna be that
Speaker 1: far off. Wet was probably gonna hit two ninety. I
Speaker 1: think Jose Brad is probably gonna be two eight five.
Speaker 1: I know it dipped last year, but he was, you know,
Speaker 1: he was dealing with injuries particular. That's gonna gonna mess
Speaker 1: you up a little bit right there. He's gonna mess
Speaker 1: you up. He's gonna hit close to thirty home runs.
Speaker 1: I think you know when I wrote up my first
Speaker 1: base piece, my first base targets on my Patreon, would
Speaker 1: you get now? I said, I made the comparison of
Speaker 1: Jose A Brew is basically Anthony Rizzo, and Anthony Rizzo
Speaker 1: goes in the third round and you're getting host a
Speaker 1: break you in the like six seventh and you hate
Speaker 1: Anthony z yeah, because he's a third round player and
Speaker 1: he's boring you don't hate. You don't hate the player.
Speaker 1: You hate the game. Sorry, I don't. I don't hate
Speaker 1: the player. I hate the cost. That's when it comes
Speaker 1: down to Greg's king around and the fact that you
Speaker 1: made me spend thirty seven dollars on him last I
Speaker 1: mean you could easily look it up. I'm not going to.
Speaker 1: I don't want to know. I don't know. It's just
Speaker 1: Jose are you at eighty six seems like a great fact?
Speaker 1: Sixty five? I just feel like we should be getting
Speaker 1: more of a discount on Joey Votto based on how
Speaker 1: bad last year was. It was bad. I own him
Speaker 1: even the Points League. It was a huge disappointment. He
Speaker 1: was a huge disappointment for me last year. But as
Speaker 1: a fourth round head to head point, you're not spending
Speaker 1: a first or second round pick anymore. He saw a
Speaker 1: fourth is this discount? I just I thought we would
Speaker 1: get more of a discount. I mean, twelve of them
Speaker 1: runs great in a hundred games, Dude, I get a ration.
Speaker 1: You know you gotta project forward. It's not to you.
Speaker 1: Look at all the projections on fan graphs. Everybody hasn't projected.
Speaker 1: Everybody is that? Really? Does that get the job done
Speaker 1: for you, Greg with a four over. Yes, they have
Speaker 1: in between two seventy eight and two nine. That's a
Speaker 1: pretty wide range. Eight home runs is not paying off
Speaker 1: disaster disaster disaster. Maybe in a lot of with get
Speaker 1: changes right, it definitely could, definitely could. I think if
Speaker 1: I couldn't end up being wrong about Botto in your
Speaker 1: standard Roado leagues, and if I am, I mean it
Speaker 1: is what it is, He'll be on someone else's team.
Speaker 1: Quick question, how old is someone have to be the
Speaker 1: qualify as a little guy for this program. I would
Speaker 1: say mid thirties. What is that it's like thirty three
Speaker 1: min or is that young stough? That's depends who it is,
Speaker 1: because it could be an old thirty three. Still in
Speaker 1: Daniel Murphy, a lot of people are thirty four in April,
Speaker 1: like he's an old guy. That means even that I'm
Speaker 1: a little bit more skeptical about Daniel Murphy. Just know
Speaker 1: the knees being healthy. I worry about the knees, man,
Speaker 1: I do worry about the knees. Uh. When it comes
Speaker 1: to Daniel Murphy. It's hard to hold last year against
Speaker 1: him because for most of the year he wasn't really
Speaker 1: fully healthy. Until really the end of the season, but
Speaker 1: he struggled against left handed pitching. I mean his uh,
Speaker 1: his average eggs velocity was was significantly down. His average
Speaker 1: ex velocity and hard hit rate were significantly down last year.
Speaker 1: So look, is that completely a product of him, you know,
Speaker 1: playing through injury. It easily could be. I realized in
Speaker 1: coors Field he might have. He has the upside of hit.
Speaker 1: Like what, people are getting very very excited about him.
Speaker 1: I don't dislike him. I think I'm just everyone sees
Speaker 1: Daniel Murphy with rose colored glasses right now, Greg, And
Speaker 1: I think I just see Daniel Murphy with regular glasses on,
Speaker 1: with regular sun glass you know, but I like him.
Speaker 1: It's really crazy. I'm not going out of my way
Speaker 1: to get here. You're not really somebody that loves to
Speaker 1: talk about the lineup around. You love talking about the ballpark.
Speaker 1: He said, Hey, I always want more guys in Coloradi.
Speaker 1: You still like Charlie Blackman a lot? We went over that,
Speaker 1: of course, no one right now, there's Nolan. You love
Speaker 1: Trevor's story. What happened when Indie doesn't moved to Colorado? Greg,
Speaker 1: we loved him, and we h they're not the same
Speaker 1: same player. I realized that it's not just like black
Speaker 1: and white knee and Desmon struggled when he went to Coursfield. Therefore,
Speaker 1: Daniel Murphy is Daniel Murphy is a little bit older now.
Speaker 1: He has had this knee injury, and you know, some
Speaker 1: things that I've read and seen about him have said,
Speaker 1: you know, people, we're worried about him because it was
Speaker 1: like bone on bone with his knee. It kind of
Speaker 1: worries me for actually, for like an older dude like this.
Speaker 1: I realized what his upside can be. And again, I'm
Speaker 1: not out on him. I'm just choosing to see both
Speaker 1: sides here. A lot of people are just yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: seeing some of the cons too with Daniel Murphy. That's
Speaker 1: and I think that's fair. I don't think it's a
Speaker 1: bad price though. The price is fair, man. I think
Speaker 1: the price is fair. I think he's gonna have I
Speaker 1: don't know, even coming off the year with the Nationals
Speaker 1: where he was like an m VP finalist, he was
Speaker 1: going in what the fourth fifth round. He still kind
Speaker 1: of going in that range now and he's in Colorado.
Speaker 1: So I don't think it's a bad price. He's going
Speaker 1: to pick sixty one a little bit ahead of Joey Varro.
Speaker 1: I will say this, if I'm on the clock and
Speaker 1: I'm deciding between Daniel Murphy and Joey Vardo, I'm taking
Speaker 1: Daniel Murphy. Plus he has he's gonna have dual position eligibility,
Speaker 1: have second base and first base. Using that middle enfield
Speaker 1: corner infield it helps a lot too. I'm choosing between
Speaker 1: those two. I'm taking Murphy. Fair enough, you got a
Speaker 1: little guy for me. Let's scroll down the list, see
Speaker 1: we can find here, and I have another one I
Speaker 1: want to talk about that. If you don't, let's do this,
Speaker 1: I'll bring up one that you you mentioned to me yesterday,
Speaker 1: Greg that we haven't really spoke about at all. Miguel Cabrera. Okay,
Speaker 1: Cabrera guy, No one's talking about Miguel Cabrera. Nobody should
Speaker 1: we be? Well, I think it's worth mentioning Pie seven
Speaker 1: right now and NFBC a EP, just another guy. I
Speaker 1: thought you'd get more of a discount if I'm being honest.
Speaker 1: Really alright, So, I think I think some of his
Speaker 1: name value still kind of lusters in this value here.
Speaker 1: So in a he's always hurt. So one year older
Speaker 1: in a twelve team league, that's the thirteenth round. Right,
Speaker 1: In a fifteen team league, it is the tenth round.
Speaker 1: We're right, she love sorry, eleventh round and eleven in
Speaker 1: the fourteenth excuse me, the eleven in the fourteenth round.
Speaker 1: That's pretty late, man. Now, I get it. He has
Speaker 1: not been healthy in the last two years at all,
Speaker 1: and three of the last four years he's missed a
Speaker 1: ton of time. I understand that, I do, but I
Speaker 1: still think, like, I don't know, maybe I should be
Speaker 1: add on him. That is why we're talking about it,
Speaker 1: because look, a right games, this is interesting. Great thing
Speaker 1: about this, Sorry, Bud. The fan graphs projections have his
Speaker 1: batting average between two seventy nine and two four and
Speaker 1: three oh five and between seventeen home runs and twenty
Speaker 1: four home runs. Doesn't that sound a lot like Joey
Speaker 1: we were just talking about who's going in the fourth
Speaker 1: round round of drafts. Is it that far off? No,
Speaker 1: If you had to set the over under for games
Speaker 1: played this year from Miguel Cabret, what would you say
Speaker 1: it set it at one? It sounds it sounds like
Speaker 1: you're about to say more. So I was about to
Speaker 1: say one thirty five and I dropped it at the less.
Speaker 1: So the number that I was thinking in my head
Speaker 1: was one twenty nine and a half. Okay, so we're
Speaker 1: right there, We're right in the same ring. So we
Speaker 1: played one. So this is what would you expect. So
Speaker 1: I'm gonna answer that question. Where at sixteen home runs
Speaker 1: he batted to fifty. That's my expectation. And that's why
Speaker 1: I think I'm out on the Gael Cabret. Now he
Speaker 1: still hits the ball extream every year he's sitting the ball,
Speaker 1: but last year was healing again with multiple injuries. Do
Speaker 1: he like tours, tricep or whatever the final injury was,
Speaker 1: and you think the thing upside? Probably not. They're like,
Speaker 1: you're right with the guy like Daniel Murphy. There is
Speaker 1: upside in Colorado and a course field with the Yogo
Speaker 1: baro joevato. It may not be there. I gotta talk
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Speaker 1: you close your eyes like that, I just something something
Speaker 1: weird just happens to my body. Yet Oh gosh, Greig
Speaker 1: never never changed. It's interesting. This is somewhat baseball related, Frank, So,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say it to you. Um So, Sinclair Broadcasting,
Speaker 1: who owns a Ring of Honor, has purchased for three
Speaker 1: point five billion dollars the Yes Network. I just got
Speaker 1: an update but before we came on that the Yankees
Speaker 1: bought back Yes Network or something partner with Sinclair whos
Speaker 1: I'm sure doing the heavy lifting with the money. Okay, So,
Speaker 1: does that lead you to believe that Ring of Honor
Speaker 1: is gonna air on the Yes Network? Now? I think
Speaker 1: it's possibly. Yeah, good for him, very interesting. More televised
Speaker 1: wrestling is what's best for business, Greg, Do you read
Speaker 1: the eight as a turner? That's a big rumor? Mm hmm.
Speaker 1: I don't know. Actually, do do then brothers have any
Speaker 1: ties to network? I don't think so. I don't think so.
Speaker 1: I to be honest, I just don't know a w
Speaker 1: that's all Elite Wrestling, which was purchased by Tony Con,
Speaker 1: which is Shad CON's brother, the owner, his son, his son,
Speaker 1: his son. Yeah, it's it's either his son or his
Speaker 1: brother so the same owner of the Jaguars, somewhere in
Speaker 1: the family there has bought All Elite Wrestling, which is
Speaker 1: a new wrestling company that is J M JF F
Speaker 1: A w probably get him on the show at some
Speaker 1: point if we wanted to wrestling, we should probably get
Speaker 1: him on before double or nothing. Maybe like that Friday,
Speaker 1: I will I will text him and we'll try to
Speaker 1: get him on. He'll be in character. Would be great, right.
Speaker 1: Just going back to Miguel Cabrera, Um, I told you
Speaker 1: this during the break, but here's what. Here's the injuries
Speaker 1: that we had from Miguel Cabrera in alone, hip, back, handstring,
Speaker 1: and then the torn biceps tendon which finally rap up
Speaker 1: his season. I did read this quote from Miguel Cabrera.
Speaker 1: I mean, take what from you? What what? What? What
Speaker 1: you will? But I want to be dangerous. You have
Speaker 1: to be confident. I'm gonna play not like you have
Speaker 1: to be cocky something like that, but you have to
Speaker 1: be confident and you have to feel like you can
Speaker 1: still do it. I'm going to play my best. What
Speaker 1: else is he gonna say? Right? Honestly, at this age
Speaker 1: so um, he was still hitting the ball extremely hard,
Speaker 1: last year he sacrificed some of the power career high
Speaker 1: fifty four point six percent groundball rate. So when I
Speaker 1: see something like that, it starts to set Tell me,
Speaker 1: is at the beginning of the decline hitting the ball
Speaker 1: on the ground as much as you are? Was he
Speaker 1: playing through injury? That's probably more likely the case for
Speaker 1: for Miguel Cabrera. I had my projection for him at
Speaker 1: two eight home runs, seventy runs scored and seventy five
Speaker 1: r b i s and in parents season one d
Speaker 1: and thirty games. Ah, but yeah, I will say this
Speaker 1: like going over and drafted him anywhere you like going
Speaker 1: over Migge. You are talking me adergery about him. You're good.
Speaker 1: I'm happy, happy to do so great. You are not
Speaker 1: able to talk about Daniel Murphy though hard when we
Speaker 1: move on some of the old guys, A meaning that
Speaker 1: has come up. And I we talked about him briefly
Speaker 1: when you're a great Fantasy Baseball Invitational team was going.
Speaker 1: It was drafting, I should say. And that's Ryan Braun.
Speaker 1: So Ryan Braun, in his mid thirties now, is still
Speaker 1: a major part over this Brewer's lineup. And they traded
Speaker 1: away to Mango Santani started the year in the minors
Speaker 1: as because it just didn't have a spot for him.
Speaker 1: Now Hazy's Aguilar and Eric Thames pretty well set at
Speaker 1: first base. Ryan Brown is going back to being exclusively
Speaker 1: an outfielder. With Lorenzo Caine and Christian Yellow. He's expected
Speaker 1: to play every day. Obviously, Kean Brox and Lewis Princeton
Speaker 1: no longer there either. I don't think he's every day.
Speaker 1: You don't think he plays every day. Last year he
Speaker 1: played a hundred and twenty five games. That's probably realistic, Okay,
Speaker 1: the same thing as Yeah, I think they could play
Speaker 1: Eric Fames in the outfield, though I probably don't want
Speaker 1: to do that. They have I could look at how
Speaker 1: many games you played, Yeah, I thought it was Eric
Speaker 1: Fames is the fourth outfield Like I know Fames could
Speaker 1: fill in at first base as well. Into their depth chart,
Speaker 1: it looks like Ben Gamble along with Eric Thames. So
Speaker 1: it's like, yeah, so Ryan Brown is expected to play
Speaker 1: every day. I just don't mean he's capable of and
Speaker 1: I don't think that's the expectation either. Even last year
Speaker 1: only played a hundred and twenty five games, and based
Speaker 1: on where he's going in a DPS going outside the
Speaker 1: top two d and NNBC ADP right outside. You know,
Speaker 1: if I get normally you know from my outfield four
Speaker 1: and outfield five, if you play in Rhado, i'd i'd
Speaker 1: like to take better upside shots. But I do think
Speaker 1: that he is an old guy. That's that's being overlooked here, Greg.
Speaker 1: Because it's twenty home runs in eleven stolen bases last
Speaker 1: year for Roado. That's definitely valuable. He only hit two
Speaker 1: fifty four, but the county stats when he does play
Speaker 1: are still gonna be pretty good. I want as much
Speaker 1: exposure to this Brewer's lineup as I could possibly get.
Speaker 1: That's honestly what it comes down to. Can you say
Speaker 1: this anything with the Brewer the Rockies, which is why
Speaker 1: you should like Daniel Murphy just saying yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: I want to get as many shares of great lineups
Speaker 1: as I could possibly get. I mean, there are other
Speaker 1: concerns when it comes to Daniel Murphy that I mentioned.
Speaker 1: I worry a little bit about the knee and the
Speaker 1: injury history. And you know he's going a hundred and
Speaker 1: forty spots higher than Ryan bron so that's a huge difference.
Speaker 1: As well. But yeah, I mean the Brewers is really
Speaker 1: a lineup that I've in targeting this year that I
Speaker 1: want as many shares as I possibly can get. Ryan
Speaker 1: bron still gonna hit in the middle of that lineup
Speaker 1: when he is in the lineup. At least eleven stolen
Speaker 1: bases in each of the past five seasons. I feel
Speaker 1: like that's kind of an underrated part of his game.
Speaker 1: He hits a lot of groundballs now he actually always
Speaker 1: has right right So if you look back at even
Speaker 1: like his MVP seasons, like he's always hit a lot
Speaker 1: of groundballs, the home run the flyball ratio is high,
Speaker 1: but he still hits the ball extremely hard. I mean,
Speaker 1: he's in his mid thirties now hard hit rates. So
Speaker 1: I kind of like Ryan Brown if you can get
Speaker 1: him as your outfield four or outfield five, or maybe
Speaker 1: even your utility player, I kind of like it. It
Speaker 1: gives you cheap exposure to the Brewers lineup. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: think as a in a rotal league in a deep format,
Speaker 1: of course, as your fourth, fourth, or fifth or utility player,
Speaker 1: I'm okay with it because, like you said, you're getting
Speaker 1: cheap steals, you're getting cheap power and you're getting access
Speaker 1: to a great lineup as long as you don't expect
Speaker 1: a hundred and fifty games anymore. From Ryan Brown Winch,
Speaker 1: I don't think you can do. You're just getting cheap everything,
Speaker 1: I believe. How about this, Greg, I've never seen a
Speaker 1: discrepancy this big has when your actual batting average and
Speaker 1: you're expected batting average. Ryan Brown was two fifty four
Speaker 1: last year. Is expected batting average, according to stat Cast
Speaker 1: was to you hit the ball extremely hard one nine
Speaker 1: average eggs and velocity was eighteen best in baseball last
Speaker 1: year Top twenty from Ryan Brown. Maybe he's back in
Speaker 1: the juice. Give an active target for it. I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna go out of my way to get him, but
Speaker 1: where he's falling, if I get him out as my
Speaker 1: outfield four, I think I'm okay with that. I think
Speaker 1: I'm okay with that. My Great Fantasy Baseball Invitational. How
Speaker 1: about this? He went in around fourteen yea to James Anderson.
Speaker 1: We will have on later in the program. I think
Speaker 1: that's about right. I think it's about right. The dealers
Speaker 1: that went just after him, Adam Eaton, Randall, Grit Chuck Mingo, Santana.
Speaker 1: I think Santana over him. I think what we were
Speaker 1: doing this straft. So now you know the helium is
Speaker 1: is rising for Domingo Santana. But if I do agree
Speaker 1: with you in a vacuum, I'd rather have Santana, but
Speaker 1: some of those other names would rather have here, Greg,
Speaker 1: this might be a tough one for you, and I
Speaker 1: actually took Cedric Mollins. Would you rather have Braun or Moulins?
Speaker 1: Try that, Ryan Bron? Really yeah, okay, Ryan, run the upside.
Speaker 1: Probably hire Cedric Mullins. But like, actually that really good
Speaker 1: line up, Like you know that he's not gonna lose
Speaker 1: his job, Ryan Bron, Frank, I, I know ages a
Speaker 1: big big thing, and ages and exists. What I told
Speaker 1: you that you can get a player that's hit over
Speaker 1: thirty five home runs the last five years in a row,
Speaker 1: would you be interested? Yes, he's going before pick one
Speaker 1: and he's thirty eight years old, is it? He's not?
Speaker 1: It's Nelson Cruz. Nelson Cruz, thirty eight years old. He said,
Speaker 1: at least thirty five home runs every year since last
Speaker 1: year the average fell to its lowest that it's been
Speaker 1: since since he was a full time player. To be
Speaker 1: honest with you all the way down to two fifty six.
Speaker 1: He's OVP dropped to the lowest it's been since rather
Speaker 1: to three forty two. His hard hit percentage, well, it
Speaker 1: was the best of his career. Last year at fort
Speaker 1: he goes over to Minnesota. He was in Seattle, which
Speaker 1: is not a good hitters ballpark. Goes over to Minnesota,
Speaker 1: also not a good hitters ballpark, but not really any worse.
Speaker 1: I don't think you could let me know. Um. Then Seattle,
Speaker 1: Minnesota has filled the line up with a lot of
Speaker 1: these bombed kind of guys. Try to improve that lineup,
Speaker 1: and Nellie Cruise is gonna play d right in the
Speaker 1: middle of it. Its interested in Nelson Cruz. I have
Speaker 1: ended up with Nelson Cruise on a few teams so
Speaker 1: far because and and their fan track's best ball, because
Speaker 1: he still has outfield eligibility there. I think why some
Speaker 1: people might skip over Nelson Cruizes in most leagues he
Speaker 1: only has utility only, and they don't really want to
Speaker 1: lock up that spot. It kind of limits your versatility
Speaker 1: within the draft. But I do think there is a
Speaker 1: little ages um here, Greg, because if you last year
Speaker 1: you mentioned the forty two point three percent hard hit ring,
Speaker 1: which was a career high for Nelson Cruz. His baggage
Speaker 1: was two sixty four. That was his lowest since two
Speaker 1: thousand and six, when he only played forty one games,
Speaker 1: when he wasn't really a full time player at all.
Speaker 1: I mean, so two sixty four, it stands out and
Speaker 1: it's some some people might worry about it and say, oh, well,
Speaker 1: this is you. The batting average, the babit. This is
Speaker 1: a sign of you know, Cruise getting older. This is
Speaker 1: a sign of his play starting to decline. Not that's
Speaker 1: not the case, because you look at the hard hit
Speaker 1: the bat and ball data, it's still right in line.
Speaker 1: His expected batting average was two eighty three, So another
Speaker 1: guy here where the expected batting average much higher. I
Speaker 1: think people are a little bit worried about the two
Speaker 1: fifty six, but still hit thirty seven home runs and
Speaker 1: drove in nineties seven last year. And I'm bullish on
Speaker 1: the Twins lineup, man. I like this Twins lineup, Rosario,
Speaker 1: they bring in Marwin Gonzalez. A lot of people like
Speaker 1: Max Kepler this year is going way too late. In
Speaker 1: Josh Mother last he's like too and you know, the
Speaker 1: first month of the season he's gonna be in everything.
Speaker 1: And even when mcguilson no comes back, they're gonna get creative.
Speaker 1: They're gonna find way from the plant. Other guys will
Speaker 1: get hurt or struggled by that. Yeah, and look, everyone
Speaker 1: likes Byron Buxton right now too. I like this Twins
Speaker 1: line up a lot. I realized it's not a great
Speaker 1: ballpark there in target Field, but I like this line
Speaker 1: up a lot. I think people are overlooking Nelson Cruise.
Speaker 1: The obvious question has to do, if you only have
Speaker 1: him as utility only, who would you rather have Chris
Speaker 1: Davis a pick or Nelson Cruise pick. There's a fifty
Speaker 1: pick difference. Fabulous question. Actually, it's it shouldn't even be.
Speaker 1: It shouldn't even be a question, to be honest, if
Speaker 1: you're getting a better batting average of Nelson crews, and maybe,
Speaker 1: let's say, best case scenario, Chris Davis hits forty five
Speaker 1: home runs. Again, let's just say he has a ten
Speaker 1: home run advantage. Are the county sets really gonna be
Speaker 1: that far off? I'm saying it. Wins lineup is at
Speaker 1: least on par with Oakland, it's even better. Neither places great.
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter because I think both guys have power
Speaker 1: that exceeds it, no question. Let's look for Chris Davins.
Speaker 1: They say, all right, well, you know he's what five
Speaker 1: six years younger than Nelson Crewise. Yeah, I mean it's
Speaker 1: there's no question. Why would you not take Nelson Crews
Speaker 1: huge value here would and Crews as as it is
Speaker 1: every year? Yeah, people normally get people as fourth fifth round.
Speaker 1: Now we're getting him even later than that. Nothing's really
Speaker 1: changed other than that than the batting average last year.
Speaker 1: Everything else is the same. Yeah, but I just mapped
Speaker 1: it out for you, knowing average last year. Okay, expected
Speaker 1: batting average over the past four years starting in to
Speaker 1: eighty three and seventeen to eighty three is bad. Ball
Speaker 1: data did not change. You just got un lucky. Those
Speaker 1: thing things happened in baseball where the batting average and
Speaker 1: the bad bit fluctuates based on luck. There's nothing in
Speaker 1: the bad of ball data. I mean, ninety three point
Speaker 1: nine mile pur average exit of velocity for Nelson Cruise
Speaker 1: last year, it didn't change. The expected batting average was
Speaker 1: still two eighty three. You're getting him at a huge discount.
Speaker 1: I agree with you. That's stage is ms. What that
Speaker 1: is now I'm just trying to figure out why I
Speaker 1: haven't ended up with more shares of Nelson crews were interesting?
Speaker 1: How about this? In the Great Fantasy Base for Imitational,
Speaker 1: he went with the first pick of the fifth round,
Speaker 1: so there was no this was a sharp group like
Speaker 1: these guys were. There were sucking the value out of everyone.
Speaker 1: I mean, ya went with the second pick of the
Speaker 1: fourth round, so he really was not much value to
Speaker 1: be had. Leave an old guy that I know you
Speaker 1: don't like. Josh Donaldson's going one pick after Nelson CRUs right, now,
Speaker 1: you have nothing to do with Josh Donaldson, right? Nothing
Speaker 1: is it fair that say you much rather have Justin
Speaker 1: Turner joined ten picks later? Definitely another old guy for you.
Speaker 1: I mean, just looking at my rankings, Josh Donaldson, I
Speaker 1: have as my nineteen ranked third baseman, I have Justin Turner.
Speaker 1: I actually thought you'd have Turner higher. Should He's awesome?
Speaker 1: What did you like to hear the players I have
Speaker 1: just ahead of him? Why not I have Andrew Harror,
Speaker 1: Matt Carpenter and Michael Stocks. I think it's warranted. It's
Speaker 1: not this one I think he might want debated with.
Speaker 1: Then the other two are Fair. Who are you in between?
Speaker 1: You in between Turner and Um Donaldson, I have Max Munsey,
Speaker 1: Travis Shaw, Will Meyers, Raffie Devers, and Matt Chapman. Chapman again, guy,
Speaker 1: you gotta pay attention to here during the spring because
Speaker 1: I want to really, really like Matt Chapman. This guy
Speaker 1: made huge, huge strides last year. I want to like him.
Speaker 1: I just want to know that he's healthy because he
Speaker 1: was dealing with a shoulder. He had off season thumb
Speaker 1: surgery as well. So a thumb and a shoulder for
Speaker 1: Matt Chapman couldn't make things very difficult to hit. So
Speaker 1: he's really a name that I gotta pay attended to.
Speaker 1: Really gonna hone in and watch him over the next
Speaker 1: you know, five days or so next week and really
Speaker 1: see because as the drafts are coming closer, Matt Chapman's healthy,
Speaker 1: he's he's going to be a guy that I want.
Speaker 1: And he's not as old as some of the guys
Speaker 1: that we're talking about. We didn't really even talk about
Speaker 1: Josh Donald. It's not gonna say we don't want him.
Speaker 1: He's thinking. He's missed a hundred and fifty nine games
Speaker 1: over the past I think That's what it comes down to.
Speaker 1: Why hasn't Josh Johnson made his debut yet in the spring?
Speaker 1: Guys is he's old. He's old, and he's always hurt.
Speaker 1: The guy couldn't throw a baseball last year. He plays
Speaker 1: third base. I like Josh Humperton, He's awesome. The brainer
Speaker 1: of rain. I like the Braves lineup to I want
Speaker 1: to I want to exposure to this lineup as well.
Speaker 1: He's gonna hit second, but between potentially Ronald Dacunia and
Speaker 1: free first freeman in theory, it should be a great spot.
Speaker 1: This is another guy with where I thought you'd get
Speaker 1: more of a discount on him based on the injuries
Speaker 1: that he's had. He's going to pick and b c
Speaker 1: a DP not really getting a discount, which is what
Speaker 1: surprises me. Yeah, another old guy at third base. He's
Speaker 1: not as old as some of the players that were mentioning,
Speaker 1: but Kyle Seeger is seen as an old guy senior.
Speaker 1: Last year saw the power go down runs only six,
Speaker 1: two run scores seventy eight r v I and the
Speaker 1: batting average run all way down to to one. As
Speaker 1: Babbitt wasn't as far off as you wanted to be.
Speaker 1: I like this call. Greg, I like bringing up Kyle Segar.
Speaker 1: We didn't really talk about him. I think for where
Speaker 1: you're getting him as your if you get him as
Speaker 1: your corner infielder, as your utility player, I like it. Man, Again,
Speaker 1: it's the Mariners bias here. I realized not a lot
Speaker 1: of people are gonna like their lineup. You're listening or
Speaker 1: watching at home, you're probably saying, Kyle Seeger, that's gross.
Speaker 1: Another guy here who was extremely unlucky. How about this,
Speaker 1: gregtcent hard hit rate against right handed pitching last year?
Speaker 1: Yet he had a two oh eight batting average and
Speaker 1: a six fifty eight OPS with a two twenty five
Speaker 1: babbitt for Kyle Seeger. Yet at hard hit rate he
Speaker 1: was unlucky last year. I mean, he's better than what
Speaker 1: that batting average was. What was it in the two
Speaker 1: twenty range. He's a better hit than that. He the hitter,
Speaker 1: he could hit close to home runs a d r
Speaker 1: BIS and you're getting him where you are great discount. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'd like I like to think so as well. I'd
Speaker 1: like to think so as well. All right, so you
Speaker 1: talk about the Mariners lineup, you talk about how you're
Speaker 1: not super into that or there's bias against I don't
Speaker 1: say you're worried about I've been getting shares of Mitch
Speaker 1: Haniger