Speaker 1: Hello everybody, Welcome to the Fantasy Pros Baseball podcast. This
Speaker 1: is the cycle. I am Ryan Warmley, joined as I
Speaker 1: am every week by Mike Mahyor Mayor. We had two
Speaker 1: guests last week. This week it's just the two of
Speaker 1: us for the whole show, so hopefully people don't get too.
Speaker 2: Bored of us.
Speaker 1: How'd you feel about our first episode and, more importantly,
Speaker 1: the first week of the twenty twenty four Fantasy Baseball season.
Speaker 3: I felt good about both. I'm in a bunch of leagues,
Speaker 3: so it's hard to say how I'm doing overall, but
Speaker 3: I don't have any teams that have completely fallen on
Speaker 3: their face, so that's a win so far. It's a
Speaker 3: long season and we'll, you know, we'll see how it goes.
Speaker 3: But so far, feeling good about everything, except for the
Speaker 3: first news item we're going to talk about.
Speaker 1: Yes, I was gonna say, really, all you can hope
Speaker 1: for for your team in the first week is do
Speaker 1: not have any major injuries. We do have a major injury,
Speaker 1: which will be our first item here. Before we get
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Speaker 1: But for rounding the bases this week. Up first, it
Speaker 1: is Urie Perez. This news broke just a couple hours
Speaker 1: ago go as we see here recording on Thursday. Obviously,
Speaker 1: there was a lot of uncertainty with his arm, you know,
Speaker 1: injury stuff in the late offseason. He's the guy that
Speaker 1: people were very excited about, as you know, a breakout pitcher,
Speaker 1: very young, very very talented, one of the most exciting
Speaker 1: young pitching prospects in the sport. You know, had the
Speaker 1: tough news about you know, the elbow issues and whatnot,
Speaker 1: and then now we sit here and he will be
Speaker 1: getting Tommy John and not pitching for the entire twenty
Speaker 1: twenty four season. Mayor what was your initial takeaway besides
Speaker 1: just like sadness.
Speaker 3: My initial takeaway was obviously feeling very disappointed for him,
Speaker 3: so you know, want to be sensitive to that, but
Speaker 3: also very happy that I didn't actually draft him anywhere.
Speaker 3: I don't have him in dynasty leagues, which you know
Speaker 3: I wish I did, and I don't have him in
Speaker 3: any redraft leagues just because with all the arm uncertainty
Speaker 3: and the rumblings that came out over the over the summer,
Speaker 3: I just had him buried in my rankings. I actually
Speaker 3: considered removing him from my rankings because you know, we
Speaker 3: do the accuracy rankings contest of Fantasy Pros, and I,
Speaker 3: you know, I kind of wanted to be ahead of
Speaker 3: the curve, and I was. I just thought to myself,
Speaker 3: this guy really could miss the entire season. This is
Speaker 3: this does not sound good. And before the accuracy contest
Speaker 3: locks before the season, I sat there at my computer
Speaker 3: and debated just removing him from my rankings, but I
Speaker 3: didn't want to risk being that wrong, so I just
Speaker 3: kind of like buried him below consensus. And unfortunately I
Speaker 3: was correct and that he's not going to pitch this
Speaker 3: season and he might miss He's probably going to miss,
Speaker 3: you know, the beginning of next season two.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it would be hard for to imagine him being
Speaker 1: ready at the beginning of next year, which is just
Speaker 1: it's so so such a bummer.
Speaker 2: Really.
Speaker 1: I would like to also take a moment to call
Speaker 1: out Chris Welsh, our colleague and friend who I asked
Speaker 1: him for some advice on a keeper league decision. I
Speaker 1: had to make between Uri Perez and Bobby Miller. Both
Speaker 1: were extremely cheap in that salary cap format, and he
Speaker 1: led me to Uri Perez. This was before they stuff
Speaker 1: popped up. I had to make the decision early, but
Speaker 1: he definitely led me astray on that one. So thank
Speaker 1: you very much, I said sarcastically too, Welsh.
Speaker 3: I thought you were going to, like actually thank him
Speaker 3: at the beginning of that. I didn't realize the whole
Speaker 3: thing was sarcastic until the well done.
Speaker 2: I appreciate that.
Speaker 1: I do speaking of Welsh, just from the dynasty perspective
Speaker 1: on Uri, do you see this as like a Bilo opportunity?
Speaker 1: Are you nerv I mean, we've seen plenty of pictures
Speaker 1: come back from Tommy John at this point right in
Speaker 1: the history of that surgery.
Speaker 2: It's still scary.
Speaker 1: It's still a long time till he will be theoretically
Speaker 1: back to quote unquote normal, if he ever gets there again.
Speaker 2: But the arm was so exciting. He's so young.
Speaker 1: Is this a guy that you're maybe targeting a dynasty trades?
Speaker 1: Is this a guy that you're selling if you can
Speaker 1: get anything for him, If you're the guy who's rostering him,
Speaker 1: what are you doing with him long term?
Speaker 3: I'm definitely not selling him if I'm already rostering him. Ideally,
Speaker 3: if you're in a dynasty league, you have either the
Speaker 3: roster space or the IL slots to just stash him
Speaker 3: for a year and a half, which is what you're
Speaker 3: going to want to do. He still doesn't even turn
Speaker 3: twenty one years old for a couple of weeks. So
Speaker 3: this is a really young, like you already said, uber
Speaker 3: talented pitcher, you know, number one pitcher in baseball upside like,
Speaker 3: he's that good, he could be that good, and so
Speaker 3: you don't want to sell low on him, and you
Speaker 3: could want to buy low on him if you can.
Speaker 3: It depends on obviously roster space and what you want
Speaker 3: to do this season. I'm usually more aggressive than like
Speaker 3: trying to compete now in dynasty leagues, but that also
Speaker 3: includes like not being really heavy into like deeper prospects
Speaker 3: who are going to take a few years to develop.
Speaker 3: So I could I would even potentially, you know, if
Speaker 3: you have rookie drafts, like maybe take some of those
Speaker 3: really young prospects that you're going to you're gonna wait
Speaker 3: on anyway, and flip them for a uri Perez because
Speaker 3: obviously we've seen with prospects a lot of them can
Speaker 3: flame out, even the top prospects can flame out. Eurropres
Speaker 3: we've already seen how good he can be.
Speaker 1: And I would say too, like, keep it in mind
Speaker 1: for later in the season if you you know, want
Speaker 1: to try and win now, but it turns out like oh,
Speaker 1: you know, you get off to a slow start, a
Speaker 1: couple of your other guys get injured or whatever, then
Speaker 1: maybe go make a trade offer and say, listen, you're
Speaker 1: still not going to get this guy back for you know,
Speaker 1: until the beginning of you know, not not even at
Speaker 1: the beginning of next season, and you don't even know
Speaker 1: if he's gonna get all the way back. I'd like
Speaker 1: to take that risk and take a swing. So just
Speaker 1: keep it in mind for later in the year if
Speaker 1: you want to try and buy a low on him.
Speaker 1: You don't have to do it right this second. Let's
Speaker 1: go to the next item here, and I'm just going
Speaker 1: to kind of clear the paint and let you go
Speaker 1: to work on the Red Sox pitching staff.
Speaker 3: So the Red Sox pitching staff we've seen, we heard
Speaker 3: throughout the off season that you know, they overhauled everything
Speaker 3: new pitching coach and Andrew Bailey obviously a new technically
Speaker 3: general manager, it's not his official title, but Craig Breslo,
Speaker 3: the high and Bloom era was remarkably over after so
Speaker 3: many painful tenure years under him. I could not have
Speaker 3: been happier about that. And then they also brought in
Speaker 3: I think he sent His name is Body, Kyle Body.
Speaker 3: Hopefully I'm pronouncing that, no body. I think it's Kyle Body,
Speaker 3: who's like the founder of drive Line, and we heard
Speaker 3: all off season they just overhauled their not only their
Speaker 3: planned for pitching, but like pitching development, how they're going to,
Speaker 3: you know, talk to their pitchers, how they're going to
Speaker 3: present them with the information, how they're going to attack matchups.
Speaker 3: And from what we've seen through the first week of
Speaker 3: the season, through a turn and they half in the rotation,
Speaker 3: the results have been fantastic. And I don't want this
Speaker 3: to just be like a Red Sox homer take, because
Speaker 3: I am a Red Sox fan, and as you know,
Speaker 3: and as people who listen to this show and haven't
Speaker 3: heard me on leading off more who have listened to
Speaker 3: me on Leading Off, No, no one hates the Red
Speaker 3: Sox more than me or more than most Red Sox fans,
Speaker 3: and so I'm not going to give you homer takes.
Speaker 3: But what we are seeing is some pretty remarkable stuff
Speaker 3: from this Red Sox pitching staff. So, as of going
Speaker 3: yesterday's game, the Red Sox pitching ranks e RA first
Speaker 3: whip first FIP, uh yeah, whip first FIP first x FIP,
Speaker 3: first average against first, strikeout to walk ratio first, literally
Speaker 3: the first in baseball in a ton of a ton
Speaker 3: of different numbers. There. Their e RA is was a
Speaker 3: I think after yesterday's game is a one point zero three.
Speaker 3: As a staff, their starters in particular forty seven strikeouts
Speaker 3: against three walks, just incredible numbers. And it's all just
Speaker 3: the whole the whole new pitching program that they put in.
Speaker 3: They're leaning away from fastballs especially. You know, their first
Speaker 3: matchup of the season was against the Mariners, a really
Speaker 3: good fastball hitting team, and so they just didn't throw
Speaker 3: them fastballs. And then as they saw in I think
Speaker 3: it was Garrett Whitlock's start, the Mariners adjusted, they started
Speaker 3: looking for sweepers and curve balls, and so he just
Speaker 3: started pounding them with sinkers and just had them off,
Speaker 3: you know, off balance the entire time, and so far
Speaker 3: they have the lowest fastball right in the league. Just
Speaker 3: listening to Andrew Bailey talk, that's something that's gonna stay.
Speaker 3: And they don't have like the biggest names. Obviously they
Speaker 3: traded Chris Sale, Lucas Giolito is out for the year,
Speaker 3: and there are still we're going to talk about him
Speaker 3: later in the show, but there are still some pitchers
Speaker 3: on the Red Sox staff who are available in leagues
Speaker 3: who like you have to take flyers on just based
Speaker 3: on these early results right.
Speaker 1: Now, if you had to, let's make this actionable, if
Speaker 1: you had to pick one player outside a guy we're
Speaker 1: going to talk later, you know, for whatever category he fits,
Speaker 1: if you had to pick one player in the staff
Speaker 1: that you think, this is like legit and we're going
Speaker 1: to see this continue on throughout the year. This is
Speaker 1: them elevating their game and one that you think maybe
Speaker 1: regresses a bit moving forward rest of season.
Speaker 2: Do you have a name for either of those?
Speaker 3: Oh, that's a good question. So looking at it as
Speaker 3: a staff, Brian Beao has the highest ceiling just because
Speaker 3: he's the highest, you know, kind of like prospect pedigree,
Speaker 3: I think you're going to see peaks and balies with
Speaker 3: him all year, but I think he has the highest ceiling.
Speaker 3: Nick Pavetta and Cutter Crawford, who kind of like slot
Speaker 3: in second and third in their rotation, they have better fastballs,
Speaker 3: so I think we're going to see more fastballs from
Speaker 3: them as opposed to some of the other starters who
Speaker 3: are going to lean more on off speed stuff. I
Speaker 3: think that's good and bad, but it'll be interesting to
Speaker 3: see because those two in particular have their fastballs to
Speaker 3: kind of like fall back on. I'm a huge Garrett
Speaker 3: Whitlock fan, always have been. And then Tanner Howck, we'll
Speaker 3: talk about him more a bit later. I think he's
Speaker 3: intriguing because he has some really good off speed stuff.
Speaker 3: He doesn't kind of have the same fastball some of
Speaker 3: the other guys have, so I think we could see
Speaker 3: some interesting fluctuations there. But I don't want to give
Speaker 3: away too much there because we're going to talk about
Speaker 3: him later. I feel like Cutter Crawford is probably the
Speaker 3: one that I still think you need to roster everywhere
Speaker 3: right now, but that we're going to you could see
Speaker 3: some bigger valleys throughout the season, just and I you know,
Speaker 3: there's also the possibility that the league just the US, like,
Speaker 3: they see what the red Socks are doing and they
Speaker 3: just adjust, and this is a short term thing. That's
Speaker 3: possible too. I just think in the short term, you
Speaker 3: have to roster everyone on the staff. Given the early results.
Speaker 1: Let's go to third base here and round in the bases.
Speaker 1: Ronel Blanco, obviously it's been a couple of days, but
Speaker 1: through a no hitter. First no hitter of the season,
Speaker 1: a very surprising one considering the source. It came from
Speaker 1: somebody who likely wouldn't have a spot in the Astros
Speaker 1: rotation if not for injuries elsewhere.
Speaker 2: Is older.
Speaker 1: You know, he's been We talked about it before the show.
Speaker 1: He's been in a journeyman. It's this is not some
Speaker 1: hot shot prospect that was just waiting for his opportunity,
Speaker 1: had a good spring training, obviously, just looked completely dominant.
Speaker 2: Uh was it Monday? Was it Monday that he didn't
Speaker 2: no hitter?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 2: Whatever day was, I was.
Speaker 3: I was sick all week, so they all all the
Speaker 3: days seems the.
Speaker 1: Days run together, which is something I actually love about
Speaker 1: the baseball season. But yeah, whatever day it was, he
Speaker 1: looked dominant, and you know there are leagues out there
Speaker 1: that are on weekly waivers that we want to to
Speaker 1: talk about him about four.
Speaker 2: Is he somebody that you are sprinting to pick up
Speaker 2: off the waiver wire.
Speaker 1: Is he somebody that you are walking to print pick
Speaker 1: up off the waiver wire. Is he somebody that you
Speaker 1: are ignoring on the waiver wire completely? Are you picking
Speaker 1: him up and trying to sell him high immediately? What's
Speaker 1: your approach for a guy who likely wasn't rostered in
Speaker 1: your league unless you were in a really deep league.
Speaker 3: A really deep league. I am sorry, I am limping
Speaker 3: to the waiver wire to pick him up, especially especially
Speaker 3: if you need an injury replacement. My initial I was
Speaker 3: really sick on Monday, so I didn't even watch it live.
Speaker 3: I just woke up and kind of rewatched the game
Speaker 3: from my deathbed and not my actual deathbed. Obviously, obviously
Speaker 3: I made it here. But I was surprised because I
Speaker 3: didn't really remember this guy's name, Like he's one of
Speaker 3: those names where I'm like, oh, I remember that guy.
Speaker 3: I didn't realize he's still in the league. And then
Speaker 3: I looked him up and I was like, I didn't
Speaker 3: realize he's been on the astros for eight years in
Speaker 3: they're broken, you know, in the organization for eight years,
Speaker 3: and you kind of look through the numbers, they're not great.
Speaker 3: Like he's kind of a really good story in the
Speaker 3: sense that good for him for he's thirty years old.
Speaker 3: He's gonna be thirty one in a few months. He's
Speaker 3: kind of bounced. He's been a believer for most of
Speaker 3: his career. He's had a few they've been trialing him
Speaker 3: more as a starter to last since last year. Really
Speaker 3: is there for the first time they tried it, And
Speaker 3: the numbers throughout the miners, like weren't great. Normally when
Speaker 3: you see a guy come up through the miners, you
Speaker 3: see him, you know, the natural progression is you move
Speaker 3: up a level, the numbers are okay, then you dominate,
Speaker 3: Then you move up a level, the numbers a level off,
Speaker 3: and you kind of see that progression. His numbers throughout
Speaker 3: not great at mostly any level. He just kind of
Speaker 3: refused to go away, and so credit to him for that.
Speaker 3: And so my initial thought was I have no interest
Speaker 3: in this person. And then the more you look at it,
Speaker 3: there is there are some intriguing things there. The main
Speaker 3: thing that could lead this to lead him to stick
Speaker 3: around at least a little bit. And we don't even know,
Speaker 3: by the way, if his roster, if his stott in
Speaker 3: the rotation is going to be guaranteed going forward, because
Speaker 3: they're going to be getting some pitchers back. But he
Speaker 3: used to be more of a two pitch pitcher. He
Speaker 3: was a fastball slider guy. Last year he threw his
Speaker 3: change up nine percent of the time. The other day,
Speaker 3: his change up was he threw it more than any
Speaker 3: other pitch. He threw it thirty four point three percent
Speaker 3: of the time, more than his slider, more than his fastball,
Speaker 3: and more than his curveball that he only threw a
Speaker 3: few times. And that was obviously huge for him, and
Speaker 3: the Blue Jays were not ready for it, and it
Speaker 3: could have just been a scouting report thing. Maybe the
Speaker 3: Blue Jays were completely not ready for him to have
Speaker 3: a change up that he not only used but featured
Speaker 3: throughout the game. And it also labeled him to get
Speaker 3: out left entitators. And so is that a tangible change
Speaker 3: that we can rely on going forward? Maybe? Is it
Speaker 3: just a short term thing? Probably? Should you pick him
Speaker 3: up also? Probably? And should you sell him high? Definitely?
Speaker 1: I think I tend to think that at Fantasy Baseball,
Speaker 1: managers are a little too hesitant to drop guys that
Speaker 1: they drafted or really liked the sleepers in the offseason early.
Speaker 1: If a guy throws a no hitter, I'm gonna I'm
Speaker 1: gonna pick him up. I'm I mean, unless my roster
Speaker 1: is absolutely loaded, Like I'm not gonna force it if
Speaker 1: I if I really don't have the room.
Speaker 2: But chances are you have the room and you just
Speaker 2: don't know it yet.
Speaker 1: And I'm gonna be willing to make those moves early
Speaker 1: and try and hit on the guy who's a breakout.
Speaker 1: And I'm not saying that Renel Blanco is like definitely
Speaker 1: a breakout superstar pitcher, Like I recognize what the scope
Speaker 1: of his career has looked like, and I recognize that
Speaker 1: this is a one off start and he's not even
Speaker 1: guaranteed a spot in the Astros rotation moving forward. But
Speaker 1: and so you know, if we're talking FAB, I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna spend fifty percent of my FAB and the guy
Speaker 1: just get they're a new hitter, right, But I'm gonna try.
Speaker 1: I'm I'm gonna say, if I have room, which I
Speaker 1: think most people probably do. I'm gonna at least take
Speaker 1: a shot and see what his next start looks like,
Speaker 1: and and maybe you drop him again soon. But you
Speaker 1: know what, it's not the worst thing in the world
Speaker 1: that have guys at the end of your bench that
Speaker 1: are droppable. If you drop somebody and pick up Blanco
Speaker 1: and he stinks the next two starts, guess what, there's
Speaker 1: gonna be somebody else that you want to pick up,
Speaker 1: and now you have an obvious guy to drop two.
Speaker 1: So I'm just always gonna be more aggressive early in
Speaker 1: the season, at least in terms of making attempts to
Speaker 1: get players, even if I'm not gonna blow my whole
Speaker 1: budget on it or you know, anything anything like that.
Speaker 1: Let's get to the last topic here and rounding the bases.
Speaker 1: The Pittsburgh Pirates. Are they a feared lineup? I wrote
Speaker 1: down some notes here because I was looking through I
Speaker 1: was I just got I mean, I know they'd been
Speaker 1: hitting well, but I pulled up all the kind of
Speaker 1: team hitting rankings just because I was kind of curious,
Speaker 1: you know, just what the top looked like, and you know,
Speaker 1: kind of putting all the data together. Top five in
Speaker 1: runs per game in Baseball so far. The Orioles are five,
Speaker 1: no surprise. The Dodgers are four, no surprise. The Diamondbacks
Speaker 1: are three. Good line up.
Speaker 2: The Braves are two, obviously no surprise.
Speaker 1: Number one, one of only two teams averaging over seven
Speaker 1: runs a game are your Pittsburgh Pirates. They are the
Speaker 1: only lineup in baseball whose team on base percentage is
Speaker 1: above four hundred. It's at exactly four hundred at least
Speaker 1: as it was as last night. Even with the second
Speaker 1: most runners left on base in baseball, those are scoring
Speaker 1: opportunities and also tied for the third fewest home runs
Speaker 1: only four on the season. They lead major League Baseball
Speaker 1: and scoring kind of similar to the Red Sox pitching staff.
Speaker 1: It really just wanted to highlight, like this really surprising
Speaker 1: development and just that they've been scoring a lot. Do
Speaker 1: you think there's a degree of sustainability here? Is there
Speaker 1: a player on the Pirates that you're most like, this
Speaker 1: is a breakout that's driving this train is or you
Speaker 1: just kind of say, you know, it was a fun
Speaker 1: first week. These kinds of things happen, and it's just
Speaker 1: a fun nugget.
Speaker 3: It's a fun first week, and these kinds of things happen,
Speaker 3: and it's a fun nugget. That one. We'll go with
Speaker 3: that one. Can you tell me the two teams the
Speaker 3: Pirates have played so far out looking I feel like Marlins.
Speaker 1: No, the Marlin, I had the schedule up already. The
Speaker 1: Marlins obviously is like kind of the big you know,
Speaker 1: red Flag one and then the NAT's also not good beautiful.
Speaker 3: The interesting thing with the Pirates and no, I don't
Speaker 3: think it's sustainable. They do have a few players are
Speaker 3: like I don't think they have staying power. They are
Speaker 3: as an overall team, someone I was interested in this offseason,
Speaker 3: just you know, if a lot of things go well,
Speaker 3: I could see them competing and like sticking around, like
Speaker 3: if Mitch Keller, you know, pitches like he can do
Speaker 3: his ceiling. Jared Jones is obviously very exciting. I'm a
Speaker 3: huge O'Neal Cruise fan. I was actually lamenting the beginning
Speaker 3: of the season because I don't know if you remembered,
Speaker 3: but the Pirates opened up the season against four consecutive
Speaker 3: left handed starters, and I was thinking, is this guy
Speaker 3: ever gonna face a right handed batter or a pitcher?
Speaker 3: And and he was like batting lower in the lineup too,
Speaker 3: and finally he faced a couple of righties and he
Speaker 3: was batting leadoff. I was like, okay, got but you
Speaker 3: would think with those numbers that you know, someone like
Speaker 3: o'neel Cruz went off and that was kind of leading
Speaker 3: the charge. Not the case. His numbers have been fine,
Speaker 3: but like nothing, he hasn't been like carrying him. So
Speaker 3: that part of it is interesting. But I don't think
Speaker 3: it's sustainable overall. But it is fun and I do,
Speaker 3: you know, think and hope that they can kind of
Speaker 3: put it all together as a as a team that's
Speaker 3: like better in real life than they will be accumably
Speaker 3: for fantasy. But we'll see.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I I fully agreed, to be clear. I just
Speaker 1: thought it was kind of a fun you know, one
Speaker 1: of those first week like standouts that I wanted to mention.
Speaker 1: It's it's you know, I like Brian Reynolds, like, you know,
Speaker 1: he's a guy that would I would say, I believe
Speaker 1: in there are players in this team that you know
Speaker 1: O'Neal Cruz, but you look at a lot of the
Speaker 1: guys who are you know, kind of above average hitters
Speaker 1: right now in terms of ops plus, and it's you know,
Speaker 1: Connor Joe, how you know sustainable? Is that one sixty
Speaker 1: one ops plus? Probably not very you know, rowdy Telez.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure how much of a believer I am
Speaker 1: in him at this point. That's really me trying to
Speaker 1: but it's Michael A. Taylor, So uh yeah, I just
Speaker 1: would have meant you to point out that the stats
Speaker 1: have been quite impressive during their hot start to the season.
Speaker 1: The other guy who we didn't end up talking about,
Speaker 1: but I sort of wrote tongue in cheek in the outline,
Speaker 1: was is Mookie Bets better than Ronald o'cunya now, and
Speaker 1: you know, talk about a hot start?
Speaker 2: So just we didn't. We didn't.
Speaker 1: We're not gonna like dive deep in him or anything,
Speaker 1: but I want to ask you, if you were redrafted today,
Speaker 1: would you consider drafting Mooki Bets ahead of Ronald a'kunya.
Speaker 3: I'm really just happy that people are not going to
Speaker 3: doubt Mooki Bets anymore.
Speaker 2: Yeah, per per the athletic or the.
Speaker 3: Athletic, all the doubters out there, he's just proven them
Speaker 3: all wrong every day. No, I would not, but I'm
Speaker 3: a huge Mookie Bets fan, and I you know, there are.
Speaker 3: I don't think you can just because of what Acunya
Speaker 3: did and what Acunya's ceiling is. But key bats is
Speaker 3: obviously phenomenal, and the fact that he's going to be
Speaker 3: second shortstop outfield eligible.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's not without value. It's pretty insane. All right,
Speaker 1: let's move to the next section here. Normally this will
Speaker 1: be we're kind of kind of pick our favorite Bilos
Speaker 1: and sell highs. It's still early enough in the season
Speaker 1: that we thought it didn't quite warrant that conversation yet,
Speaker 1: so we're going to do instead Fluke or for Real.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna throw out a couple of players. We're gonna
Speaker 1: decide if they're hot starts, and we specifically picked players
Speaker 1: who are off to hot starts. We didn't, you know,
Speaker 1: talk about any of the guys who are off to
Speaker 1: you know, slumps like Lindor is not on here or
Speaker 1: anything that he's been brutal. Yeah, Fluke or for Real.
Speaker 1: For these six players, we'll start with a guy that
Speaker 1: you really wanted to talk about, and that's Garrett Crochet.
Speaker 2: Fluke or for Real.
Speaker 3: So Garrett Cruchet. Crochet is someone that I felt was
Speaker 3: hard to fit into this category. I initially had him
Speaker 3: as a sell high because I think he's a cell high.
Speaker 3: So I think he's kind of a fluke end of
Speaker 3: for real, which is cheating, but I think the talent
Speaker 3: is real. What I wonder is how long we're going
Speaker 3: to get this for? And also I mean that's that's
Speaker 3: the main thing. So like, let's go through his profile.
Speaker 3: He's a former first round pick, twenty twenty, first round pick.
Speaker 3: He they want to make him starter. He's been a reliever,
Speaker 3: he had Tommy John surgery in twenty twenty two. He's
Speaker 3: barely pitched since being drafted. So last season twenty twenty three,
Speaker 3: twenty five innings pitched, twenty twenty two, zero innings pitched
Speaker 3: because he had Tommy John surgery. Twenty twenty one, fifty
Speaker 3: four in the third innings pitch, and then twenty twenty
Speaker 3: six innings pitched. So over the last four full seasons
Speaker 3: or you know, yeah, four full years coming into this year,
Speaker 3: it is not four seasons because he missed an entire one,
Speaker 3: but four years coming into this year, eighty five total
Speaker 3: innings pitched. So even if we are right about garat
Speaker 3: Crochet and he's breaking out in a big way, how
Speaker 3: many are you getting out of him this year as
Speaker 3: a guy who's still word you know, less than a
Speaker 3: year or so removed from Tommy John Surgery who threw
Speaker 3: twenty five innings last year, Like, are you even going
Speaker 3: to get And there were even some rumblings in the
Speaker 3: past that like they were going to send him the
Speaker 3: Michael Kopak route where he was going to do some
Speaker 3: bulk relief for a while, to kind of like move
Speaker 3: him back into a starting to transition in from the
Speaker 3: bullpen back into like a starting role. That the plan
Speaker 3: was going to be maybe some bulk relief. Obviously they
Speaker 3: wanted to get him into the starting rotation, but there's
Speaker 3: there's zero chance that he is in this starting rotation
Speaker 3: the entire season and throws more than one hundred and
Speaker 3: fifty innings. There's a very low chance he throws more
Speaker 3: than one hundred innings. I think we're probably going to
Speaker 3: see him as a starter close to the All Star break,
Speaker 3: and then he's going to be in the bullpen. And
Speaker 3: that's not to say if we're right about this breakout,
Speaker 3: that's not to say that's not valuable, because one half
Speaker 3: of a really good pitcher is really valuable. Less valuable
Speaker 3: in head to head because it would really hurt to
Speaker 3: not have him for the playoff. But if you can
Speaker 3: get that first half in a roto league and build
Speaker 3: up those numbers, that's really valuable. Then there is the
Speaker 3: question like is this legit. It looks legit, the fastball
Speaker 3: is legit, the numbers look legit. Very small sample size,
Speaker 3: but we'll see. So I think the talent is for real,
Speaker 3: that the pedigree is there. I don't know that we're
Speaker 3: going to see a sixteen to wayne to one strikeout
Speaker 3: to walk ratio going forward given what we've you know,
Speaker 3: not that we've seen a ton of him in the past,
Speaker 3: but you know, this is a guy last year that
Speaker 3: walked in you know, again, very small sample size, twelve
Speaker 3: to two thirds innings, walked thirteen guys and strike out twelve.
Speaker 3: Walked more than he struck out. So it's hard to
Speaker 3: kind of like not get excited when you see this
Speaker 3: hot start. But also he's just so high.
Speaker 1: For me, I think I think it's worth reading the
Speaker 1: stat lines and I'll frame it like this. You go
Speaker 1: six innings, five hits, one run, no walks, eight straight out,
Speaker 1: eight strikeouts against the Tigers.
Speaker 2: You have my curiosity.
Speaker 1: You go seven innings, three hits, one run, one walk,
Speaker 1: eight strikeouts against the Braves, You have my attention, and I.
Speaker 3: Now do it against the Pirates and really really impressive.
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly. Imagine how good he'd be if he was
Speaker 1: in the Red Sox rotation.
Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1: He By the way, it's funny, I love how baseball
Speaker 1: reference when you're looking at like day's rest for the
Speaker 1: first game of the season, that just is ninety nine
Speaker 1: because that's what they do for anything at the start.
Speaker 1: Just makes me laugh, like, oh, he's been really well
Speaker 1: rested before this one. Yeah, I would say I think
Speaker 1: I think your assessment is quite fair. We've talked about before,
Speaker 1: you and me behind the scenes, about how there's a
Speaker 1: difference between a sell and to sell high. You know,
Speaker 1: you're not saying get rid of this guy at any cost,
Speaker 1: but you're saying, if you can sell him for a
Speaker 1: proven asset that will last you the whole year that
Speaker 1: you are a stronger believer in because of his hot start,
Speaker 1: then that might be prudent. So I'm with you there.
Speaker 1: I think he's I think he's talented guy. Obviously, I'm
Speaker 1: not going on a limb saying that and again, like see,
Speaker 1: I had you know, people reaching out to me. It
Speaker 1: is actually the second week in Arrow I've referenced to this.
Speaker 1: One listener of the show, you know, reached out to
Speaker 1: be Are you in the league where he picked up
Speaker 1: Garrett Kroscher?
Speaker 2: Are you starting him against the Braves?
Speaker 1: You know, it's it's that kind of like opponent where
Speaker 1: you have to actually question even if it's a guy
Speaker 1: that you really believe in, and when he when he
Speaker 1: has an adding like he did against them, I'm going
Speaker 1: to call that for real, even if we're going to
Speaker 1: say it's maybe not the most sustainable, if we can
Speaker 1: make that distinction. The other guy you really wanted to
Speaker 1: include in this segment is Bryce Terrang.
Speaker 3: Bryce Terrang, Yes, and he's someone that I was tweeting
Speaker 3: about the other day and got to pushback about. So
Speaker 3: I definitely wanted to include him and talk about him
Speaker 3: more on the show. But I do think you're absolutely right.
Speaker 3: There's a there's a and And I got into this
Speaker 3: a little bit when I tweeted about Bryce Terrang because
Speaker 3: he had two more stolen bases the other day, giving
Speaker 3: him six on the season. And there's a big difference
Speaker 3: between like saying you need to sell this guy, and
Speaker 3: you should sell high. Because when you're saying sell hi,
Speaker 3: I'm not saying the guy stinks. We're just saying the
Speaker 3: personived value out there is higher than what I or
Speaker 3: we or what you should think is the actual value.
Speaker 3: And so that's why, like Garrett Crochet is a must
Speaker 3: add right now. Like I'm not saying, like this guy stinks,
Speaker 3: you need to sell him. Like if you you know,
Speaker 3: you probably didn't draft him, or if you did, you
Speaker 3: drafted a very late as a flyer, and kudos to
Speaker 3: you you are being proven correct. Or you picked him
Speaker 3: up at the first start, and kudos to you. You have
Speaker 3: him on your roster and you have the decision, do
Speaker 3: I want to ride him for as long as he's
Speaker 3: going to you know, dominate or you know, hope the
Speaker 3: wheels don't fall off, or can I now sell him
Speaker 3: to someone who really is desperate for pitching and is
Speaker 3: seeing the same performances that I'm seeing for more than
Speaker 3: what he's worth. And that's why I would sell. And
Speaker 3: the same thing for Bryce Terrang. Bryce terrang two more
Speaker 3: stone bases the other day, giving him six on the season.
Speaker 3: Another former first round pick he's got no power. You're
Speaker 3: not going to get any power out of Bryce terrang
Speaker 3: and he's another guy who he's a mustage just because
Speaker 3: And someone like responded to me on Twitter saying that
Speaker 3: he has like fifty stolen base upside. I think that
Speaker 3: was a little out there, you know, based on just reality.
Speaker 3: But he is a guy who can run. It seems
Speaker 3: like they're going to let him run, but he struggles
Speaker 3: to hit lefties. He is probably going to platoon and
Speaker 3: could lose his job. Like, there's no guarantee he's even
Speaker 3: in the lineup in three weeks from now. And so
Speaker 3: do you want to gamble on thirty to forty stolen
Speaker 3: base upside on a guy who hit two eighteen last
Speaker 3: year and might sit against lefties, or do you want
Speaker 3: to see if you can sell him. I don't know
Speaker 3: if you're gonna be able to sell him very high,
Speaker 3: because unless someone's really desperate for stolen bases, which look,
Speaker 3: I see a lot of different leagues out there and
Speaker 3: a lot of different fantasy managers doing really strange things.
Speaker 3: There's someone in many leagues looking to trade for someone
Speaker 3: like Bryce to rank.
Speaker 1: I guarantee there is a manager out there who drafted
Speaker 1: a sterior we saying he will solve my stolen bases
Speaker 1: for the season, and now is panic and would be
Speaker 1: happy to add to I guarantee it absolutely.
Speaker 3: I also watched that game the other day with those
Speaker 3: two stolen bases, and they were not that he's not
Speaker 3: going to run. And I believe he's a stolen base threat.
Speaker 3: You know, he has shown in the past. He's stole
Speaker 3: twenty six bases last year twenty twenty two, triple A
Speaker 3: still thirty four. He can run and he will run.
Speaker 3: That being said the other day, people were going nuts
Speaker 3: because they were like, oh, Bryce Rangs told two more paces.
Speaker 3: Today has six stolen bases in five games. The first
Speaker 3: stolen base was a pass ball, like he was running,
Speaker 3: but it was a passball. And the second stolen base
Speaker 3: he stole, he stole third on a pitch that the
Speaker 3: Christian Vasquez tried to frame the third strike and it
Speaker 3: was essentially catcher's indifference. So he stole two bases without
Speaker 3: a throw. And I was like, all right, he's going
Speaker 3: to get credit for those stolen bases, but they're not
Speaker 3: the most impressive stolen bases. Now they still coun't I
Speaker 3: can't take it away from him. But yeah, there are
Speaker 3: some things to be concerned about Bryce Trang And look,
Speaker 3: if you need stelling bases, stream him for a while,
Speaker 3: keep them on your roster. If someone wants to offer
Speaker 3: me a decent starting pitcher for price Rang and I
Speaker 3: need to starting pitching or even a reliever, I'll you know,
Speaker 3: I'll gladly trade.
Speaker 2: He's he's an intriguing ad.
Speaker 1: But at the core of the question, fluck Er for real,
Speaker 1: I think likely Fluke. I don't think he's gonna have
Speaker 1: an opis over one thousand this season. Yeah, particularly given
Speaker 1: the lack of power. I obviously you know the batting
Speaker 1: average is gonna come way down, we would think. And
Speaker 1: again the soil bases I think will be there to
Speaker 1: a degree.
Speaker 2: I don't.
Speaker 1: I'm with you. I don't think he's gonna get fifty.
Speaker 1: It would be awesome if he did. You have credit
Speaker 1: to him. But I think if you're asking.
Speaker 2: Me Fluker for real, I'm gonna go with Fluke. We'll
Speaker 2: go a little quicker on the next few Oswaldo Cabrera.
Speaker 3: I would lean, do you want to just do Fluke
Speaker 3: or for real on these rapid fire or you want
Speaker 3: to you want to keep diving into into why I
Speaker 3: would lean fluke for Osmabo Cabrera.
Speaker 1: Let's go rapid fire, I will go fluke. Michael CONFORDO,
Speaker 1: I will go fluke. I will also go fluke.
Speaker 2: This is I.
Speaker 1: He's the one I'm most potentially interested in saying for
Speaker 1: real of this rapid fire segment, JJ Bleda, I will
Speaker 1: say he is a fluke.
Speaker 3: For me, I will say he's a fluke as well.
Speaker 1: Former high draft pick pedigree, but the bad of ball
Speaker 1: data is not actually that encouraging despite the decent status
Speaker 1: start the year. Andre Simenez, I actually, you know what,
Speaker 1: this is the one I would say I would be
Speaker 1: most inclined to say is for real.
Speaker 3: I would say that as well. I have a lot
Speaker 3: of concerns about Andre Simenez, and I kind of always have.
Speaker 3: I've I've always been a fan. But as you just mentioned,
Speaker 3: I think it was for Bladet. The batted ball data
Speaker 3: not great, kind of never has been great for Andre Semenez,
Speaker 3: but he just kind of outperforms it anyway, until you know,
Speaker 3: last year fifty home runs thirty stone basis two fifty.
Speaker 3: If you can get that again, I sign up for that,
Speaker 3: no problem. It's gonna be hard to get that consistent
Speaker 3: power based on his bad at ball numbers. But he
Speaker 3: also hit seventy num runs the year before, so maybe
Speaker 3: a shame on me for doubting his contact numbers. Maybe
Speaker 3: he just figured out how to beat the data.
Speaker 1: And I'm always a fan of a guy who brings
Speaker 1: a lot of like defensive value and base running value
Speaker 1: because I know it's going to keep them in the
Speaker 1: line up through the ups and downs of a season
Speaker 1: that every non superstar.
Speaker 2: Is going to have. I'm a fan.
Speaker 1: He's only twenty five, Like, I think that he could
Speaker 1: absolutely be, you know, just kind of leveling up his
Speaker 1: game to degree, and he's not gonna be like a
Speaker 1: super duper megastar. But I do like Anderson that is,
Speaker 1: and he's the guy I would mostly in towards for real.
Speaker 1: In that segment, let's head to Waivers Central. We'll start
Speaker 1: with the hitters. And you actually picked a hitter that
Speaker 1: I originally had in Fluke or for Real, So I
Speaker 1: guess to a degree you must think he's for real.
Speaker 3: Yes, and no, I stole Taylor Ward from Plucker for
Speaker 3: Reil because I needed a Waiver wire hitter, and I
Speaker 3: really couldn't decide on anyone, and I was looking at
Speaker 3: the Fantasy to Pro stats page, filtering it by VBR
Speaker 3: and consensus roster percent is trying to find someone who
Speaker 3: fit the bill of someone I would want to add
Speaker 3: in one of my many leagues. And I got to say,
Speaker 3: it's gross out there. I really hate the hitters on
Speaker 3: the open market, and I kept coming back to Taylor
Speaker 3: Ward and his three home runs, and I feel like
Speaker 3: I can take a flyer on Taylor Ward. Obviously, there
Speaker 3: are some concerns there, I think, especially if you're in
Speaker 3: a you know, in a deeper league or a five
Speaker 3: outfielder league where you need, you know, several outfielders. Definitely
Speaker 3: someone you can pick up. In twenty twenty two one
Speaker 3: hundred thirty five games to twenty three home runs in
Speaker 3: twenty twenty three, ninety seven games, fourteen home runs. Seeing
Speaker 3: a bit of a pattern here that he doesn't play
Speaker 3: full seasons. If he could stay healthy, he already has
Speaker 3: three home runs and six games. He's batting clean up
Speaker 3: behind Mike Trout, who also looks fantastic right now, you know,
Speaker 3: while he's on the field. Hopefully he stays on the field.
Speaker 3: It seems he's not going to steal a ton of bases,
Speaker 3: but it does seem like Ron Washington with the Angels,
Speaker 3: he's gonna let them run a little bit more so.
Speaker 3: He's never stolen more than five bases in a season,
Speaker 3: but he maybe you can get twenty five home runs,
Speaker 3: a decent batting average, you know, decent two above average,
Speaker 3: not three hundred, but like to sixty to seventy batting average,
Speaker 3: and like maybe he'll give you eight stolen bases on
Speaker 3: top of that. And in a lot of leagues, that's valuable.
Speaker 3: And he's available a lot in a lot of leagues.
Speaker 3: So he's someone I'm I'm interested in, definitely more interested
Speaker 3: in than the name you're going to say.
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, if you want a guy who's
Speaker 1: available in a lot of leagues, boy, do I have
Speaker 1: a name for you. I literally wrote in the outline
Speaker 1: Charlie Blackman parentheses. I know, listen, you kind of explained
Speaker 1: to this decision already in that it's ugly out there.
Speaker 1: They're like, there's not a lot of available hitters that
Speaker 1: I'm particularly excited about, but I think it's worth noting
Speaker 1: that Blackman, I think can be a boring veteran type
Speaker 1: that if you are, particularly in a league that you
Speaker 1: need to start four or five outfielders. I know, he's
Speaker 1: thirty seven, I know the lineup stinks, but he's been
Speaker 1: hitting really well to.
Speaker 2: Start the year. It's I don't know.
Speaker 1: I mean, we don't care that much about bad of
Speaker 1: ball data this early, necessarily, but it has looked really
Speaker 1: good compared to recent years.
Speaker 2: He's also done this all on the road.
Speaker 1: The Rockies don't have their home opener until tomorrow, so
Speaker 1: it's not like it's just a pure Cores effect. He's
Speaker 1: still bad in lead off, so he's gonna get you know,
Speaker 1: whatever runs they do score, he'll have the opportunity to
Speaker 1: score them. And yeah, I think you can get good
Speaker 1: batting average from him.
Speaker 2: Again, this is.
Speaker 1: Not somebody that's gonna like win you your league, and
Speaker 1: it's it's more of like a hey, like if you
Speaker 1: went heavy on infield in your draft and kind of
Speaker 1: you know, let outfield fall by the wayside.
Speaker 2: He's a guy that I think can give you some.
Speaker 1: Very cheap, very cheap Nobody is going to be trying
Speaker 1: to beat you to the waiver wire for him stats.
Speaker 1: You know, in really any format, especially when they started
Speaker 1: playing at course Field again, so I keep like kind
Speaker 1: of couching it because it feels so gross to say.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm recommending Charlie Blackman as my waiver ad
Speaker 1: but like I said, to your point, not the most appealing.
Speaker 2: Group of hitters on the waiver wire.
Speaker 1: And I think he's somebody that is probably being overlooked
Speaker 1: for what the actual stat line will be by the
Speaker 1: end of the season, just because he's old and people
Speaker 1: are kind of done with him.
Speaker 3: Did I make the case, No, But I will say
Speaker 3: I drafted him last year in TGFBI, which is a
Speaker 3: fifteen team, five outfitter league, so deep league. You need
Speaker 3: a lot of outfielders. And what you just said is
Speaker 3: why I drafted him. I was thinking, he's going to
Speaker 3: give me solid average. I'll get home runs in the teens.
Speaker 3: I'll get him super late, and he'll help me with
Speaker 3: batting average. He's not going to kill me anywhere else.
Speaker 3: I should get a ton of runs scored because he's
Speaker 3: gonna hit the top of that lineup. And man, was
Speaker 3: it a grossier he just I mean, he was fine.
Speaker 3: He got hurt though, so it kind of killed me.
Speaker 3: He didn't even play one hundred games. I think I
Speaker 3: got like six or seven home runs out of him
Speaker 3: eight looking at it now, eight home runs, two seventy
Speaker 3: nine batting average. I'll still hit him for that average.
Speaker 3: So yeah, I you know, he's just so old. He's
Speaker 3: just so old.
Speaker 1: I will admit I recognize that his bapup is four
Speaker 1: seventeen right now.
Speaker 2: He has one walk on the season.
Speaker 1: But you know what he also has is the most
Speaker 1: at bats in baseball without a strikeout so far this year.
Speaker 1: So that's something maybe even depending on your league, maybe
Speaker 1: that's really valuable. Of strikeouts really particularly hurt you. I listen,
Speaker 1: I get it. I'm not going to waste any more
Speaker 1: time trying to make the case.
Speaker 2: It was.
Speaker 1: I wanted to pick somebody that was really cheap that
Speaker 1: I was sure would be available everywhere, and boy did I.
Speaker 2: Let's go to your favorite pitcher.
Speaker 3: So my favorite pitcher some we talked about a little
Speaker 3: bit earlier, and it's Tanner Hawk, and I could have
Speaker 3: you know, I don't want to make this whole episode
Speaker 3: of me talking about the Red Sox pitching, but too late,
Speaker 3: here we are. But I could have kind of gone
Speaker 3: with Garrett Whitlock because he's similarly rostered. I think he's
Speaker 3: slightly more rostered than Tanner Hawk because people have kind
Speaker 3: of seen that Garrett wit lock upside before. So I
Speaker 3: went with Hawck because he's available in seventy percent of
Speaker 3: Yahoo leagues and more than eighty percent of ESPN leagues,
Speaker 3: and we kind of already talked about it. The Red
Speaker 3: Sox have overhauled their entire pitching staff. The early returns
Speaker 3: have been phenomenal. Tanner Howck in his first start, six innings,
Speaker 3: ten strikeouts, no walks. I've never seen this before. His
Speaker 3: era is zero, his FIP is negative. It's zero, it's
Speaker 3: negative zero point zero two. I don't know that I've
Speaker 3: ever seen a negative fit before. Maybe I have, but
Speaker 3: I don't remember it. Obviously, again, really small sample size
Speaker 3: because we're just talking about one start, six innings, but
Speaker 3: we're already seeing a bunch of pitchers injured. The early
Speaker 3: returns in this Red Sox rotation and Red Sox pitching
Speaker 3: staff overall, which could be beneficial if you know the
Speaker 3: bullpen is pitching well too. You know, if you're in
Speaker 3: a league that counts wins, that can matter, or even
Speaker 3: you know a bullpen that can come and get you
Speaker 3: out of jams that can matter for your overall numbers
Speaker 3: going forward. And so yeah, I just think he's free.
Speaker 3: He's out there and a lot of waiver wires. I
Speaker 3: would I'm picking Tanner Hawk, but I really you should
Speaker 3: be taking the fire and anyone on the Red Sox staff,
Speaker 3: because who knows if any or all of them are
Speaker 3: going to have like staying power. But it's hard to
Speaker 3: argue with the early results. And I just you know,
Speaker 3: I think you have to keep taking a fire on
Speaker 3: those guys.
Speaker 2: I think that's fair.
Speaker 1: We already talked about the Red Sox staff, So I'll
Speaker 1: move to my favorite pitcher on waivers, another guy who's
Speaker 1: available everywhere, Alec Marsh. He looked really good against the
Speaker 1: Orioles and that, as we talked about, they're a top
Speaker 1: five run.
Speaker 2: Scoring team so far the season.
Speaker 1: They're expected to be one of those elite offenses this season,
Speaker 1: and he like pretty much dominated them. Seven innings, two hits,
Speaker 1: one run, one walk, five strikeouts. He did it by like.
Speaker 1: I was really impressed with how he mixed up his pitches.
Speaker 1: Obviously as an Oriols fan, I watched that game very closely.
Speaker 1: He threw per stat Cast five different pitches in that game,
Speaker 1: forcing fastball, change up, sweeper, slider, sinker. None of those
Speaker 1: pitches he threw fewer than ten times, and none of
Speaker 1: those pitches he threw more than nineteen times. He mixed
Speaker 1: them all up incredibly well. He had the Orioles hitters,
Speaker 1: who are very good at being patient and finding hard contact,
Speaker 1: just really off balance the entire game. I know Marsh
Speaker 1: was like not good last year. He's only twenty five. Again,
Speaker 1: it's one start, right, so who's to say what's going
Speaker 1: to happen going forward? And I you know, another type
Speaker 1: of guy that if he's bad in the next two
Speaker 1: starts like okay, sure drop him.
Speaker 2: And it was a nice fun fluke in the pan.
Speaker 1: But it's the type of guy that early on, if
Speaker 1: I'm looking for somebody who maybe can take a step
Speaker 1: forward out of nowhere as a pitcher, because it does
Speaker 1: happen every year, I'm willing to again totally free. Nobody
Speaker 1: is going to try and you know, fight with you
Speaker 1: over getting Alec Marsh off the waiver wire. And this
Speaker 1: start was a couple of days ago, so you know,
Speaker 1: if he's still there, he's not, it's like he's gonna
Speaker 1: be picked up tonight or anything. But if you have
Speaker 1: the room and need pitching, he's also a relief picture eligible,
Speaker 1: which for some leagues that is actually super valuable. So
Speaker 1: he is somebody that I would at least be willing
Speaker 1: to say, like it is the most lottery of lottery tickets.
Speaker 1: But if I'm looking at a guy that's available everywhere
Speaker 1: again who unlike Blackman, there's some built in upside here.
Speaker 2: I think theoretically.
Speaker 1: I was really impressed with what I saw, Uh you
Speaker 1: know in that in that first outing, what do you
Speaker 1: think about Marsh?
Speaker 3: So the funny thing here, and I intentionally didn't tell
Speaker 3: you this before the show. I wanted to tell you
Speaker 3: on the air. But we were talking about the show
Speaker 3: last night and we're building out the show sheet, talking
Speaker 3: about the segments and stuff, and the one thing I
Speaker 3: said was, you know, I don't really like to be surprised.
Speaker 3: I'd like to have like a bunch of the names
Speaker 3: in the in the sheet so I can prep and
Speaker 3: be prepared, and you know, I like to look at
Speaker 3: the numbers and stuff. When I said that to you,
Speaker 3: the player I was picturing in my mind was Alec Marsh,
Speaker 3: and it was just like I don't know why that's
Speaker 3: who I was picturing. I just like, I just you know,
Speaker 3: seen like you know, the recap of his starts and stuff,
Speaker 3: and I was like, wow, I know nothing about this guy.
Speaker 3: And so when I was telling you, I was like, well,
Speaker 3: I don't really like to be surprised. I wanted to
Speaker 3: see the names beforehand. And then boom Alec Marsh. I
Speaker 3: was like, Wow, I'm so glad that name was in
Speaker 3: there beforehand so I could look it up.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I I You're welcome for putting that in early.
Speaker 3: Yeah, thank you, because you know, I pull up the
Speaker 3: stats anyway, but I would have had to like been
Speaker 3: really reading while you were talking. Yeah, so last year
Speaker 3: numbers were not great. Did strike out more than a
Speaker 3: batter branding, which is, you know, something that always catches
Speaker 3: my eye. Didn't do it in his first start against
Speaker 3: the Orioles. But again we're talking about a really small
Speaker 3: sample size. Results matter a little bit more than the numbers. There.
Speaker 3: Swinging strike numbers not not huge, but also not terrible,
Speaker 3: and you know, have been better at different levels in
Speaker 3: the past. He's another guy where like at different levels
Speaker 3: of the minor leagues and numbers are kind of like
Speaker 3: all over the place. You kind of want to see
Speaker 3: better numbers in that is Triple I numbers and twenty
Speaker 3: twenty three before getting called up were good only you know,
Speaker 3: only fifteen innings, so again really small sample size, but
Speaker 3: fifteen innings, two point four ERA nineteen strikeouts. You like
Speaker 3: to see that did walk seven in fifteen innings. It
Speaker 3: does seem like there's some control stuff there. I don't
Speaker 3: know that he's going to be a league winner, but
Speaker 3: you know, we're talking about people to pick off up
Speaker 3: the waiver wire. See what the matchups are. It's not
Speaker 3: like he took down the Marlins. You know, the the
Speaker 3: Orioles are, you know, maybe one of the best lineups
Speaker 3: in the league, maybe the best lineup in league, even
Speaker 3: without you know, all of the the mashers they have
Speaker 3: at Triple A putting up there.
Speaker 2: We'll get to that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, not overly excited about him, really small sampltizing.
Speaker 1: Well, again, my attention was not to pick a guy
Speaker 1: that everybody's already all gung ho about, right. I wanted
Speaker 1: to pick somebody that you can get and that there
Speaker 1: I think there is some upside. You know, he he
Speaker 1: didn't throw his curveball in this start per stat cast,
Speaker 1: which he had thrown a decent amount last year fifteen
Speaker 1: percent of the time last year.
Speaker 2: But he's so not like a ton.
Speaker 1: But he threw his four seamer way less in the
Speaker 1: start compared to what he did last year.
Speaker 2: Maybe it was a scouting thing.
Speaker 1: Maybe it was just they you know, something that they
Speaker 1: had kind of determined against the Oriols and it worked
Speaker 1: really well. I want to see what else he does.
Speaker 1: But his next start comes against the White Sox, so
Speaker 1: I think there's a chance that he looks really good
Speaker 1: against them. If he could be looking at against the Oriels,
Speaker 1: I think he can look good against the White Sox,
Speaker 1: and then maybe there does start to get some more
Speaker 1: attention on him and there's some more interest, and maybe
Speaker 1: he's all of a sudden rostered in more than like
Speaker 1: zero point five percent of leagues.
Speaker 2: I don't know what the actual number is, but it's
Speaker 2: very low. It becomes so hot. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1: So again early in the season, I want to find
Speaker 1: somebody that I think like could be a surprise breakout.
Speaker 1: Chances are good he is not that, but I think
Speaker 1: it's it's worth taking a risk on. If you're looking
Speaker 1: for a picture on Waivers. So I know Charlie Blackman
Speaker 1: and Alec Marsh. I don't know how many people are
Speaker 1: going to be listening to me this week League When
Speaker 1: I want to take my shot here, let's go to
Speaker 1: prospect corner.
Speaker 2: This will often be with Welsh.
Speaker 1: We do not have him on today, so we each
Speaker 1: kind of have one prospect related thing we wanted to
Speaker 1: hit on and mayor yours is the call up of
Speaker 1: a top hitting prospect.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And speaking of Welsh and speaking of calling out Welsh,
Speaker 3: are we gonna call out Welsh and Joe for having
Speaker 3: a prospect segment on today's leading off? When we talked
Speaker 3: about that being a weekly segment on the cycle, and
Speaker 3: they went.
Speaker 1: Thought it was such a good idea that they were like,
Speaker 1: we just need to be mimicking Worman Mayer. They're the
Speaker 1: established brain trust of this this organization.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, there's some good ideas. And so Welsh, I
Speaker 3: know you're you're producing this. What the heck man, we're
Speaker 3: supposed to be on our show doing that? Yeah? Justin
Speaker 3: Bosk you first off, he got called up a couple
Speaker 3: of days ago, has yet to play. Would love to
Speaker 3: see him play.
Speaker 1: I did. We talked about adding him to the show
Speaker 1: sheet a couple of days ago and he was caught up.
Speaker 1: And then last night I was like, did I miss
Speaker 1: any stats from him? Turns out no, I didn't.
Speaker 3: Know, and you figured the first day was like, okay, fine,
Speaker 3: he got called up that day. A lot of teams
Speaker 3: don't want you to like rush to the ballpark and
Speaker 3: you know, go right in the lineup. They want you
Speaker 3: to kind of, you know, experience it, get your feet
Speaker 3: under you. And then day two, still not in the lineup.
Speaker 3: Would love to see him in the lineup. I assume
Speaker 3: he's going to be, because why are you calling him
Speaker 3: up if he's not going to be in the lineup.
Speaker 3: And it's not like, you know, like they're a really
Speaker 3: good team. They want to win, and it seems like
Speaker 3: they're just going to have a rotating and maybe they
Speaker 3: wanted to give him two days to get settled. Maybe
Speaker 3: he got there late the first day. But yeah, first
Speaker 3: and foremost want to see him in the lineup. But
Speaker 3: he's a power speed, combo guy. He's not going to
Speaker 3: steal a ton of bases. But last year in Triple A,
Speaker 3: eighteen home runs and fourteen stealing bases, one hundred twenty
Speaker 3: two games. The consensus projections for him are not great,
Speaker 3: but that's mostly based on playing time. Most of them
Speaker 3: have him projected for between one hundred and one hundred
Speaker 3: and eighty played appearances. Obviously, if he hits the ground running,
Speaker 3: he's going to earn more played appearances, so you can
Speaker 3: kind of extrapolate those those projections. It's hard hard to
Speaker 3: really look at what he was doing in Triple A
Speaker 3: because we're talking about three games, So you can't really
Speaker 3: worry about the fact that he was batting two thirty
Speaker 3: one because who carries his three games. You can't look
Speaker 3: at batting average. Last year a bat a two sixty
Speaker 3: six in Triple A. The year before in double A
Speaker 3: bat at two eighty eight, fifteen home runs, three style bases,
Speaker 3: so didn't run as much, but it was good to
Speaker 3: see him run, you know, significantly more last season. And
Speaker 3: so he's not going to be Wyatt Langford. But this
Speaker 3: is a you know, the theme of the show. Former
Speaker 3: first round pick, twenty twenty first round pick. Another guy
Speaker 3: you know has a lot of pedigree, really good bat.
Speaker 3: He's someone I don't want to say he's must roster
Speaker 3: in all leagues, especially since he's yet to play. But
Speaker 3: I think in most twelve team or more leagues, you know,
Speaker 3: either twelve team leagues or leagues with larger rosters, he's
Speaker 3: definitely worth someone adding just to see what it is,
Speaker 3: because you know, you never know when one of these
Speaker 3: prospects is gonna come up, get hot and just keep
Speaker 3: the job all year.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I top prospects are a currency I'm very willing
Speaker 1: to trade in, right, I'm very happy to I'm probably
Speaker 1: gotta blow my budget on a guy like Foscue, but
Speaker 1: I'm very happy to take that chance and get him
Speaker 1: at bench spot and see if he adjusts really quickly.
Speaker 1: And especially for top prospect we've seen, you know recently,
Speaker 1: guys kind of take a little, you know, a month
Speaker 1: or so or maybe more to adjust, you know, Gonna
Speaker 1: Henderson to the start of last year, another Oriel Athley
Speaker 1: Rushman his first month was not very good and then
Speaker 1: once they once that, you know, flip has switched. It's
Speaker 1: just you know, they could be lights out the rest
Speaker 1: of the way. So, uh, you know, he's he's the
Speaker 1: type of guy that, again, I need to have the
Speaker 1: bench spot. I think a lot of people probably do.
Speaker 1: I'm willing to take that swing.
Speaker 3: And worth noting there before we move on that the
Speaker 3: reason he's called up is the Josh Young injury, and
Speaker 3: they just went in to do his surgery and found
Speaker 3: some stuff that didn't like it. And it's not that
Speaker 3: he's gonna be out for even longer. So he's going
Speaker 3: to be out for at least two months. Two months now,
Speaker 3: so there's gonna be a long runway for someone to
Speaker 3: earn playing time in this in this lineup.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a good good to mention.
Speaker 1: Mine is shockingly Orioles related, because and all I wrote
Speaker 1: was Holy Norfolk Tides. I know you hadn't seen this
Speaker 1: until I sent it your way last night on Wednesday
Speaker 1: night of this week. Let me read you some stats
Speaker 1: from the Norfolk Tides scorer. First of all, they score
Speaker 1: twenty six runs on twenty nine hits. They also had
Speaker 1: seven walks, only struck out eleven times. Jackson Holiday four
Speaker 1: for six, five runs, two rbi, also two walks. He
Speaker 1: got on base six times. Connor Norby two for five,
Speaker 1: three runs, three RBI, another two walks for him, he
Speaker 1: got on base four times. Pestin Kearstad had a grand
Speaker 1: slam and a three run homer five for seven four runs,
Speaker 1: ten RBI. Goby Mayo five for seven as well, two runs,
Speaker 1: just one RBI for him, What a bad game. And
Speaker 1: then Kyle Stowers four for seven, three runs, seven RBI himself.
Speaker 1: If you look at their box score, the batting average
Speaker 1: for those top five guys, who are the real prospects
Speaker 1: in this line, if there are other guys playing with
Speaker 1: Peyton Burdick is playing really well, not quite as much
Speaker 1: as a prospect as those five batting averages four hundred
Speaker 1: four to thirty five, five eighty three, three eighty five,
Speaker 1: four hundred that's on the season ops on the season
Speaker 1: for these guys twelve forty eight, thirteen ninety four, seventeen
Speaker 1: eighty five nine fifteen o three. It is ludicrous what
Speaker 1: they are doing to that league's pitching right now. They
Speaker 1: have the top four players in the league in RBI
Speaker 1: on the leader board are all on the tides. It's
Speaker 1: testin krestat at the eighteen. Kyle Stowers is fourteen, Norby
Speaker 1: with nine, and Jackson Holiday with eight. Obviously, we know
Speaker 1: some of those guys are elite prospects. We know Jackson
Speaker 1: Holding is the best prospect in baseball. We know that
Speaker 1: Kobe Meo is not that far behind him. We know
Speaker 1: Hessein Kuresat has insane power upside if they can just
Speaker 1: find a spot for them on the roster, right, I
Speaker 1: think Connor Norby there's no reason for him to be
Speaker 1: in the miners. I talk about this with my Oros
Speaker 1: fan friends all the time, Like, he is the type
Speaker 1: of guy that gets so overlooked in this organization because
Speaker 1: there's so much talent elsewhere. But he absolutely should be
Speaker 1: a starting major league baseball player at this point. And
Speaker 1: I think he's a really good hitter. He was a good,
Speaker 1: good hitter when he was drafted out of college. And
Speaker 1: I just he's never done anything but hit in the miners.
Speaker 2: I wish he was in the big league.
Speaker 1: Rostertours now has the most home runs for any Orioles
Speaker 1: minor leaguer ever. Like, I mean, this team is this,
Speaker 1: this Norfolk Tides team, Like I have to find it
Speaker 1: ridiculous when people say this sort of thing. This is
Speaker 1: the rare opportunity because of the organizational talent the Orioles
Speaker 1: have right now, and because of how much the Athletics
Speaker 1: hate their fans, this Tides team would beat the Athletics
Speaker 1: in a seven game series, Like I'm fairly certain of that,
Speaker 1: at least like hitting wise, they would be the more
Speaker 1: impressive lineup. Like this team is absolutely absurd. The actionable
Speaker 1: takeaways from this is stash as many of these guys
Speaker 1: as you can if you can, because they're hitting so well,
Speaker 1: and outside of Mayo, who I could see them kind
Speaker 1: of holding on to for next year's prospect promotion incentive,
Speaker 1: like trying to make sure he maintains his rookielgability, for
Speaker 1: ex because he is young, he does strike out a lot.
Speaker 1: He's kind of the one guy where I do think
Speaker 1: he'd be capable at the major league level, but I
Speaker 1: most understand why he's not there. The rest, like are
Speaker 1: either old and ready or young and ready in the
Speaker 1: case of Jackson Holiday. So I'd be stashing as many
Speaker 1: Orioles hitters as you can because if you get an
Speaker 1: injury or two, or if like Austin Hayes has been awful,
Speaker 1: Ramona Reus doesn't have a hit yet this season. He's
Speaker 1: like over thirteen, I mean, and this is facing a
Speaker 1: lot of lefties too, So if the ool starts saying,
Speaker 1: let's get these prospects up, they are hitting so well,
Speaker 1: they're so much better than triple A pitching right now,
Speaker 1: it's absurd, and that box score was so insane I
Speaker 1: had to like just wax poetic about it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I knew the Orioles were deep at the
Speaker 3: farm season. I didn't in the farm system. I didn't
Speaker 3: realize just how deep. But I was thinking about it,
Speaker 3: like during draft season, when like thinking about especially in
Speaker 3: deeper leagues, like drafting Orioles, like current Orioles players like
Speaker 3: I had no interest in drafting Austin Hayes regardless, but
Speaker 3: even thinking about drafting like Cedric Mullins.
Speaker 2: That great example, I was the same way.
Speaker 3: In the back of my mind, I thought to myself,
Speaker 3: if he's us, he could be traded, or even if
Speaker 3: he doesn't struggle, he's just kind of like middle of
Speaker 3: the road, they could they could move him for pitching
Speaker 3: to or he could just lose his job to you know,
Speaker 3: clear up a spot for one of these young hitters.
Speaker 3: Because they have so many people who are ready to
Speaker 3: contribute that the leash for everyone on their roster is
Speaker 3: you know, not long outside of Ryan Mantcastle, who is
Speaker 3: an endlessly.
Speaker 1: Uh well, I was actually gonna I was gonna bring
Speaker 1: him up. There are five hitters in the Orioles that
Speaker 1: are like they're locked in, they're not going anywhere. It's
Speaker 1: Gunnar Henderson, and it's Adley Rutchman, It's Anthony Santandre, It's
Speaker 1: Ryan mant Castle, and it's Jordan Westburg. Everybody else, like
Speaker 1: Austin Hayes, who has had really hot streaks before, although
Speaker 1: not since like the first half of last year. Cedric Mullins,
Speaker 1: who has started to deal with injuries more and more,
Speaker 1: you know, obviously like the Jorge Matteo's and Ramon areuses
Speaker 1: of the world, Like like there's just not a spot
Speaker 1: for these guys long term. It feels like I would
Speaker 1: love like Mullins is the one where it's like if
Speaker 1: he could still be really good, and I would like
Speaker 1: to see that be the case. But like you have
Speaker 1: Colden Kowser, who he was already at the big league
Speaker 1: level and hitting well but not in enough at bats,
Speaker 1: let alone a secure stats twenty five and is a
Speaker 1: top thirty prospect in baseball in a lot of places,
Speaker 1: has proven he can smash triple A. Pitching, Like at
Speaker 1: a certain point, I get you don't want too many
Speaker 1: lefties in the roster, but like there's just no reason
Speaker 1: for Austin Hayes to be getting at bats over him.
Speaker 1: There's no reason for Ramona Reus to beginning at bats
Speaker 1: over like Connor Norby, let alone Jackson Holiday. So it's
Speaker 1: it's just at a certain point you think like the
Speaker 1: damn is gonna break and these guys are gonna all
Speaker 1: come up, and the Oils are gonna get even better,
Speaker 1: you know, in terms of the in the lineup at least,
Speaker 1: But again, that box score was too ludicrous to not
Speaker 1: to not bring up. I will stop the Homer Orioles
Speaker 1: talk there and jump into the weekend excitement, although I'll
Speaker 1: quickly I'll do mine first and give a little more
Speaker 1: Oriols Homer talk Oriols Pirates looks like it actually could
Speaker 1: be a really fun series this weekend. And we get
Speaker 1: Grayson Rodriguez versus Jared Jones on Friday. I believe is
Speaker 1: that one at his Friday That is a really fun
Speaker 1: matchup of young pictures.
Speaker 2: I'm excited to see that one for sure.
Speaker 1: Also, just Grayson going up against the vaunted Pirates lineup.
Speaker 1: Renel Blanco following up is no hitter against He's facing
Speaker 1: the Rangers, obviously an excellent lineup the World Series defending champs,
Speaker 1: you know young not young picture, I guess, but you
Speaker 1: know Journey, the pitcher who just threw a no hitter.
Speaker 1: I'm really curious to see how that pans out. So
Speaker 1: I'm excited about that, And then mostly I want to
Speaker 1: seek schoolball, like can he can he throw a perfect
Speaker 1: game against the A's please? Like he's gonna absolutely be
Speaker 1: so school ball against against soon to be not Oakland,
Speaker 1: the just the Athletics not even having a city name.
Speaker 1: Next year when they play in Sacramento, I think we
Speaker 1: could see like in all time outing, so I hope
Speaker 1: we do.
Speaker 3: Did you see that customer service piece of paper that
Speaker 3: was going around on social media? But the ad, yes, brutal.
Speaker 3: That is a tough look, like don't mention Oakland, like
Speaker 3: if you see any Oakland jerseys, like, get rid of them.
Speaker 2: Yikes.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well did you see Fisher just was talking about
Speaker 1: the smaller, intimate ballpark that they're going to be playing
Speaker 1: in for the next few years and was like, I
Speaker 1: can't wait to see the Athletics and and Aaron Judge
Speaker 1: hitting home runs here and everybody. You can't wait to
Speaker 1: see an opposing player hit home runs against your team, Like, guy, come.
Speaker 3: On, I did not see that quote. No, that's great.
Speaker 1: It's he's getting ruthlessly made fun of for it.
Speaker 3: So normally you would think a ten thousand seat ballpark
Speaker 3: would be too small. It might still be too big
Speaker 3: for them.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think probably it will be. What are you
Speaker 1: most excited for this weekend?
Speaker 3: So we can skip over wanting to see Garrett at
Speaker 3: lock In Tan or Hawk again, but I do want
Speaker 3: to see them second time through, see, you know, see
Speaker 3: if it's legit. You know, I think the three we
Speaker 3: mentioned in the rest of exportation before BeO Pavetta and
Speaker 3: the other guy's name. I'm forgetting Cutter Cutter Crawford. I
Speaker 3: think they're more like locked in, you know, with Garrett
Speaker 3: with locked Tin how health is always going to be
Speaker 3: a concerned because they've kind of like bounced on and
Speaker 3: off the injured list, in and out of their rotation.
Speaker 3: So I just want to see the continued development. Are
Speaker 3: we going to see more of that? And then also
Speaker 3: I noticed when we were going through this, we all
Speaker 3: we picked all pitching matchups. There's nothing else we're looking
Speaker 3: forward to this weekend and pitching. Yeah, apparently, so I
Speaker 3: picked Gavin Stone and showed at Imanaga his second start,
Speaker 3: because he looked really good in his first. Yeah, I
Speaker 3: was very excited to see that six innings and nine
Speaker 3: strikeouts for him and nowhere in runs, so interested to
Speaker 3: see both of You know, I picked four pitchers I'm
Speaker 3: interested in seeing second time through.
Speaker 1: I think it's I think by nature of this, well,
Speaker 1: it'll probably often be like pitching matchups.
Speaker 2: I would guess, we'll see how the season plays out.
Speaker 1: There might be some other stuff that we get really
Speaker 1: excited to watch each weekend. To wrappings up our season
Speaker 1: long competition, we have decided will be a two start
Speaker 1: pitcher competition. So every week we are going to pick
Speaker 1: two start pitchers and this can be anybody, so it's
Speaker 1: not just guys that are available in certain amount leagues.
Speaker 1: It's not necessarily wavered vice. In fact, you know, I've
Speaker 1: certainly picked a pitcher that is rostered everywhere, one of
Speaker 1: the best purchases in baseball for this week. But there
Speaker 1: are no repeats. Once you use a guy, he's up,
Speaker 1: So you want to kind of play the matchups as
Speaker 1: best you can. Who's hot, who's cold. However you want
Speaker 1: to approach it, and we'll see who wins each week,
Speaker 1: picking the better two start pitcher based on their ROTO
Speaker 1: rank with you know, standard categories at the.
Speaker 2: End of the week. So I will go first.
Speaker 1: I picked Zach Wheeler again, not you know, not available
Speaker 1: in any league certainly, but one of the aces in
Speaker 1: Fantasy Baseball has been very good to start the year.
Speaker 1: Does not have a win yet because he's just had
Speaker 1: really unfortunate luck, but he's been really good to start
Speaker 1: the year. He is at Saint Louis and home against
Speaker 1: I'm taking a risk here the Pittsburgh Pirates. We'll see
Speaker 1: how Wheeler performs in his two starts. That is my
Speaker 1: first pick for our season long competition.
Speaker 2: What about you?
Speaker 3: So I did not pick a pitcher going up against
Speaker 3: the best offense in baseball. For my pick, I picked
Speaker 3: the A to list Charlie Morton going up against the
Speaker 3: Mets and up against the winless Miami Marlins. And you
Speaker 3: know you want to use Charlie Morton. You know you
Speaker 3: said you can't use pictures, you know, more than once
Speaker 3: throughout the season. Charlie Morton's forty years old. They don't
Speaker 3: know how much longer he's going to be around, and
Speaker 3: so I want to use him in April while I
Speaker 3: still can. I do like him. This season, he was
Speaker 3: like free in drafts despite a really good season. Again
Speaker 3: last season he had you know, almost not almost, but
Speaker 3: like one hundred and eighty something strikeouts in a mid
Speaker 3: three cra and you know, everyone just writes him off
Speaker 3: because he's really old, and so I just got him
Speaker 3: for free everywhere. I'm just gonna ride him while I can.
Speaker 3: So yeah, I'm gonna use I'm gonna use my first
Speaker 3: pick on Charlie Charlie Morton and hope for the best
Speaker 3: against the Mets and the winless watched with my luck.
Speaker 3: Their first win will be.
Speaker 1: Next Saturday, will be against they let out all their eggers.
Speaker 1: By the way, I'm just now noticing I should have
Speaker 1: picked and what I was looking forward to for this
Speaker 1: weekend excitement. We get a Garrett Crochet versus Alec Marsh
Speaker 1: matchup on some so that will be a very important.
Speaker 2: Matchup for how this episode will age. We'll get out
Speaker 2: of there on that.
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