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Speaker 1: going to be going through all these bad boys. And
Speaker 1: as you mentioned bold predictions, the interesting take we can
Speaker 1: have on bold predictions is it just doesn't have to
Speaker 1: be like this cumulative stat though that's usually what it's
Speaker 1: attached to. Since we're doing it pre ca you could
Speaker 1: also say this guy, you know breaks camp, or you
Speaker 1: know this guy is a halfway leader, or a certain move,
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna predict I'm actually gonna predict a convoluted
Speaker 1: move that's gonna go on. So that's what we've got
Speaker 1: going on today, all of our bold predictions. Justin's got five,
Speaker 1: I've got five. And I kind of view bold predictions
Speaker 1: sometimes like it's not quite an urban legend, but maybe
Speaker 1: like a wives tale, you know why, why is wives tale?
Speaker 1: Where it's like there's parts of truth that's involved in it,
Speaker 1: but there it's probably not gonna materialize. Justin, I don't
Speaker 1: know how you end up viewing bold predictions sometimes I
Speaker 1: actually struggle going on the complete bold side because it's like, okay,
Speaker 1: you know Dylan See's returns, it's number one starting picture,
Speaker 1: Like you know how bold? How bold do you tend
Speaker 1: to want to go when you're constructing bold predictions.
Speaker 2: When I first started doing bold predictions, I was always like, oh,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna make this the boldest thing possible, right, Like
Speaker 2: I'm I'm gonna give you the hottest of hot takes.
Speaker 2: And I would do things like this picture's gonna in
Speaker 2: the cy Young or this player is going to be
Speaker 2: the best player in fantasy. Those have such small margins
Speaker 2: for error, and we're already dealing with things that are
Speaker 2: unlikely to happen. So if we think of like a projection, so,
Speaker 2: like you know Blake Snell's projection for twenty twenty four.
Speaker 2: Usually that is a median projection, right, that is the
Speaker 2: like the average of like what could happen. You could
Speaker 2: obviously do better, you could obviously do worse, but this
Speaker 2: is kind of the baseline of the middle of what
Speaker 2: we think could happen. So for a bold prediction, I
Speaker 2: like to think of, okay, what is the eightieth percentile?
Speaker 2: Right if the if the projection is a fiftieth percentile,
Speaker 2: what is like pretty close to the top of the
Speaker 2: line of what could happen? And that's kind of what
Speaker 2: I shoot think.
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Speaker 1: All right, justin, are you ready to jump into some
Speaker 1: bold predictions for twenty twenty four, because if you are,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna put you on the hot seat for the
Speaker 1: first one. Your first bold prediction for twenty twenty four.
Speaker 2: All right, So I'm going bold here, and this is
Speaker 2: what I actually talked about in that article you just referenced,
Speaker 2: which is available at Premium. I also have another article
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Speaker 2: But this one is the guy he done six drafts
Speaker 2: I think this year, and the guy I've drafted in
Speaker 2: every single draft this season is Dalton var Show.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 2: And my bold prediction for him is that he goes
Speaker 2: thirty twenty this year. I know last year was quote
Speaker 2: unquote disappointing for var Show, but if you look under
Speaker 2: the hood, everything was actually better. He actually made improvements
Speaker 2: in zone contact. He had a very good eggs of
Speaker 2: max eggs of velocity. I think he got a little
Speaker 2: bit unlucky. I think he's still adjusting to Toronto now.
Speaker 2: I've always been a Dalton Varshow hater when he was
Speaker 2: with your Diamondbacks, but it was mostly because I didn't
Speaker 2: think he was a catcher, and the Diamonbacks organization didn't
Speaker 2: think he was a catcher too, because I had someone
Speaker 2: within the organization tell me once that the only person
Speaker 2: who thought he was a catcher was a general manager
Speaker 2: and that's why he kept trying to catch the minor leagues.
Speaker 2: He's not a catcher anymore. He's a full time outfielder.
Speaker 2: I think there's a ton of upside in this bat
Speaker 2: Dulton Varshow this year.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's an interesting one. Look into career. Low ground
Speaker 1: ball rate, which I think would absolutely be huge for him,
Speaker 1: looks like second to best career strikeout rate, his walks
Speaker 1: have dipped a little bit. I've just always struggled with him.
Speaker 1: He definitely has the ability. He always steals. He doesn't
Speaker 1: look like physically like the body type of a guy
Speaker 1: that's going to keep stealing twenty bases, but he can
Speaker 1: do it. But it's like the really inconsistent batting average.
Speaker 1: It's the inconsistent contact for me that struggles in getting
Speaker 1: to that number. But if you're right, here's what's var
Speaker 1: show's ADP.
Speaker 2: Is it like it Probably it's around one sixty or
Speaker 2: one seventy something.
Speaker 1: I was goot to say, like two hundred or something
Speaker 1: like that. If he goes what was the bold prediction
Speaker 1: you said? Was it twenty thirty or thirty thirty, twenty
Speaker 1: thirty twenty. If he goes thirty twenty, justin he's probably
Speaker 1: a second round player, right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, you know, as long as he can
Speaker 2: keep that average, Like, his average is never going to
Speaker 2: be super high. He's not a guy who runs with
Speaker 2: really high babbitbs. But he did get unlucky in the
Speaker 2: babby department last year. I think he's probably more like
Speaker 2: a two to seventy batted guy. Last year is two
Speaker 2: ffty six. If you could hit two forty thirty twenty, like, yeah,
Speaker 2: that's probably a second or third round pick that you're
Speaker 2: getting super super late.
Speaker 1: Something to watch too. Career high launch angle twenty point
Speaker 1: five Toronto's like a kind of median factor ballpark factor
Speaker 1: as far as hitters go. If he shows any improvements
Speaker 1: early on on barrel percentage, hard hit percentage and continues
Speaker 1: that launch angle, that's gonna be that like optimized stuff.
Speaker 1: I want to say Jake Berger maybe had a similar
Speaker 1: line like those big launch angles Win paired with at
Speaker 1: least like really hard hit balls or solid barreling, it's
Speaker 1: gonna do big numbers. He just hasn't clicked into that.
Speaker 1: G had a slight uptick and hard hit percentage. So
Speaker 1: just an all in the Dalton var show train. All right,
Speaker 1: here's mine and mine is a convoluted little chain of
Speaker 1: events that is probably gonna get broken by the time
Speaker 1: this airs, So hopefully we get this up like immediately.
Speaker 1: But my bold prediction is that the Mariners sign Blake Snell,
Speaker 1: then they trade Brian Wo to the Rays for Esak
Speaker 1: Parades because they don't have a third baseman, which then
Speaker 1: in turn puts junior Cameronaro on the opening day roster
Speaker 1: for the Rays, but it does not win him Rookie
Speaker 1: of the Year. We'll talk about that in a little bit.
Speaker 1: So that's my bold prediction. There's been a lot of
Speaker 1: Blake Snell stuff out there. I think the two biggest
Speaker 1: The two biggest rumors have been the Angels, and apparently
Speaker 1: the Angels have had the interest, but they haven't been
Speaker 1: given the go to release the money for Blake Snell.
Speaker 1: But Blake Snell is from the Pacific Northwest. I think
Speaker 1: he wants to play there. The Mariners, they've got some
Speaker 1: toys to play with. If you're talking about that young pitching.
Speaker 1: They also can sign Blake Snell without trading Brian Wu.
Speaker 1: That's actually the most likely situation. Trading good young pitching
Speaker 1: probably not ideal. But the reason I picked on Brian
Speaker 1: Wu is because I think he's an analytics darling. He
Speaker 1: is the exact type of pitcher the Rays would covet
Speaker 1: and love to get. So I don't know if Esock
Speaker 1: Praidies works for it straight out. There might be some
Speaker 1: other pieces involved, but my idea is the Mariners have
Speaker 1: a huge hole in the corner endfield at third base
Speaker 1: unless they really feel comfortable with Rojas or luis Arius.
Speaker 1: There had been rumors of Esock praties. They've already made
Speaker 1: a trade. Wu goes into the starting rotation for the Rays,
Speaker 1: Esock Praties comes here, Cam and Arow. It is a
Speaker 1: chain of events justin. That's my bold prediction, and that
Speaker 1: is my pre camp bold prediction. It's the only one
Speaker 1: I'm going to do. So what do you think about
Speaker 1: that one?
Speaker 3: I mean, I like the way you're thinking.
Speaker 2: I had not thought about that kind of scenario, but
Speaker 2: it makes a lot of sense. Like you said, Blake
Speaker 2: Snell is from Shoreline, Washington, so like that is home
Speaker 2: for him. I'm sure he would love to go back
Speaker 2: and play. It's a great organization to pitch for. Imagine
Speaker 2: Blake Snell being your number four starting pitcher that that
Speaker 2: would be unreal.
Speaker 3: I think if the Mariners were going.
Speaker 2: To make a move, they should probably just sign Matt Chapman,
Speaker 2: you know, just to me, like, you know, he gives
Speaker 2: you elite defense on the corner right there, and that
Speaker 2: kind of solves that problem. But I'd love to see
Speaker 2: Blake Snell in uh in Seattle. I don't know that
Speaker 2: the rest of it would fall quite that way, but
Speaker 2: you know it's uh, it may it all makes sense. Now,
Speaker 2: let's I just want people to sign, just sign, just sign,
Speaker 2: just stop this like top four free agents still not signed.
Speaker 1: Well, there is a thing. I'm gonna be very loose
Speaker 1: about this to not age this podcast, so we'll move
Speaker 1: right past as quick. But there is a there's like
Speaker 1: a clerical thing that goes on with rosters where teams
Speaker 1: can start putting players on sixty man's within I think
Speaker 1: the next twenty four hours or as this episode is airing,
Speaker 1: and then what that's gonna do is that theoretically might
Speaker 1: open up some of the doorways for players to start signing.
Speaker 1: I don't really think that's something that's kept some of
Speaker 1: those guys away. But Jorge Hilaire just signed a three
Speaker 1: year deal with your San Francisco Giants for four forty
Speaker 1: two million dollars. I love that signing. I wanted him
Speaker 1: to go to the Diamondbacks, so we might see those pickups.
Speaker 1: And that's why this may fall apart. But that's also
Speaker 1: why this is a bold prediction. This isn't me going, Hey,
Speaker 1: Blake Snell's gonna sign with the Mariners. This is me
Speaker 1: tailing out this little story of he signs the Mariners
Speaker 1: then take from what they have of depth and they
Speaker 1: trade and then they get a bigger, probably better piece.
Speaker 1: They could sign Matt Chapman, but that doesn't make the
Speaker 1: bold prediction as much fun. And it opened up the
Speaker 1: junior Camonaro. So that is seven degrees of Blake Snell,
Speaker 1: where Blake Snell creates junior Cameron Aro having a starting role.
Speaker 1: So that's my first bold prediction. Just in bold prediction
Speaker 1: number two, you're up all right.
Speaker 2: So last year I made a bold prediction and actually
Speaker 2: bet on it and it fell just short. But it
Speaker 2: was kind of right, just for the wrong reason. That
Speaker 2: was the Arizona Diamondbacks. We're gonna win the NLS. They
Speaker 2: didn't win the NLS. They did make it all the
Speaker 2: way to the World Series. I just missed kind of
Speaker 2: exactly where I should put my money. So this year
Speaker 2: I'm gonna do the same thing on a team that
Speaker 2: I think people are kind of overlooking that I actually
Speaker 2: kind of really like. Uh, And that's Kansas City Royals
Speaker 2: winning the Division, winning the Al Central. I like a
Speaker 2: lot of the moves they've made that division is pretty weak.
Speaker 1: To say the least.
Speaker 2: I think that there's a really good chance, like the
Speaker 2: additions of Waka and Lugo to that rotation.
Speaker 3: I mean, there's a great part for them to pitch in.
Speaker 2: I really really like the Royals as a team that
Speaker 2: could kind of sneak up and all of a sudden, uh,
Speaker 2: look you looking at the top of that division very
Speaker 2: very quickly.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean I think if you're if you're attaching the
Speaker 1: boldness to the Royals, which is a very bold statement
Speaker 1: for them to you know, win out that division, there's
Speaker 1: gonna be some bounce some big bounce backs or breakouts
Speaker 1: on that team. If you had to pinpoint a player
Speaker 1: or two, who are the biggest beneficiars, I agree with Waka.
Speaker 1: I'm I actually tend to be for whatever reason in
Speaker 1: the rankings on Fantasy Pros, I tend to be a
Speaker 1: lot higher on like Waka on Seth Lugo because I
Speaker 1: think they'll eat innings. But if I were thrown at you,
Speaker 1: obviously you know Cole Reagan's can make a jump. You
Speaker 1: got mikel. Garcia, who is if he's gonna be given
Speaker 1: the go, might steal a lot of bases. If you
Speaker 1: had to pick two players to be attached to your
Speaker 1: bold prediction for the Royals that kind of break out,
Speaker 1: who would you pick?
Speaker 2: Give me vinnp Like I he is one of those
Speaker 2: guys that I think, had it not been for the
Speaker 2: injury last year, we'd be talking about him as like
Speaker 2: a top five round draft pick this year. I just
Speaker 2: think he has all the talent in the world of
Speaker 2: the ability to make contact power, and he's gonna get
Speaker 2: full time playing time in Kansas City.
Speaker 3: The other one's Michael Massey.
Speaker 2: Massy is one of those guys that I was really
Speaker 2: kind of in on last year, and it just he
Speaker 2: never seemed to really get going. But if you actually
Speaker 2: look at the underlying statistics for like the second half
Speaker 2: of the year, he was really really good under the hood.
Speaker 2: I think they're gonna give him a chance to play
Speaker 2: every day he manned up in a platoon if he
Speaker 2: can't handle lefties perfectly. But I think he is one
Speaker 2: of those guys that is gonna go undrafted in ten
Speaker 2: team leagues, twelve team leagues, that should be on your
Speaker 2: watch list, or the last guy on your bench on
Speaker 2: a fifteen team leagues. He's definitely a target for me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and he's a really good like DC type of target,
Speaker 1: And yeah, he's a solid He's definitely a solid bet there.
Speaker 1: So there you go. Royals are winning their division. Didn't
Speaker 1: think we'd say that anytime soon. Probably would also be
Speaker 1: very much due to Cole Reagan's. Let's just be honest too.
Speaker 1: If Cole Reagan's is successful, that's going to help that
Speaker 1: team as well. All Right, my second bold prediction, we're
Speaker 1: gonna kind of stay in that rookie realm. First part
Speaker 1: not as bold, but Jackson Holiday breaks camp with the
Speaker 1: Orioles and it's a starting day, second basement shortstop. They
Speaker 1: kind of laid it out if anybody missed the news
Speaker 1: that they said if he were to break camp with
Speaker 1: the team, he would be playing probably some combination of
Speaker 1: second base and shortstop, but more primarily second base. So
Speaker 1: that might be a bit of news for people. But
Speaker 1: the second piece of it is, not only does he
Speaker 1: break camp, he wins a Rookie of the Year. So
Speaker 1: the favorite is Evan. You've got Wyatt Langford that's in there,
Speaker 1: and you've got quite a few interesting names that are
Speaker 1: dancing around. Junior Camonaro that's another one. There's a lot
Speaker 1: of competition, but the Orioles are going to be great.
Speaker 1: It will be one reason due to Jackson Holiday and
Speaker 1: they will do it again. They're very motivated as well
Speaker 1: to give these guys the playing time. Trust them. What
Speaker 1: did they do with Gunner Henderson justin They let him
Speaker 1: get through it. They let him work through it and
Speaker 1: that ended up working out. He at one point was
Speaker 1: like third or fourth on the Rookie of the Year
Speaker 1: awards last year on how bad it got. Jackson Holiday
Speaker 1: is that guy. He hit three twenty three this past
Speaker 1: year over four forty OBP across. I believe it's the
Speaker 1: four levels in the miners. The power wasn't quite there,
Speaker 1: but over one hundred walks. He's a great contact hitter.
Speaker 1: Big Obp showed off his batting average and the power
Speaker 1: is going to come and Gunner won it. What you know,
Speaker 1: twenty is around twenty five to ten, twenty eight, eleven,
Speaker 1: whatever it was. If Gunner can go fifteen to eighteen
Speaker 1: with thirty stolen bases and he steals a little bit
Speaker 1: more while a high batting average and the Orioles win
Speaker 1: the division. Jackson Holliday not only breaks camp but ale
Speaker 1: Rookie of the year and underrated, by the way, I think,
Speaker 1: a kind of undervalued draft asset right now, there all
Speaker 1: the rookies I've been talking about a decent amount justin
Speaker 1: where it's like, you know, Langford is in like the
Speaker 1: one forties trios in the one thirties, Caminarow is back
Speaker 1: quite a bit, but Jackson Holliday is sitting in this
Speaker 1: like one eighty one to ninety range. I think he's
Speaker 1: the guy that you can push up a little bit more.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure you're on the same path. I don't
Speaker 1: try you don't try to target too many rookies, of
Speaker 1: course I don't.
Speaker 2: But I'm actually one lockstep with you. The I understand
Speaker 2: like how good Langford was in the minor leagues last year,
Speaker 2: But Jackson Jackson Holliday is still the number one prospect
Speaker 2: of baseball, and he's got the clearest path to playing time.
Speaker 2: Like I love why at Langford, but like, where does
Speaker 2: Langford actually play to start the year with Evan Carter
Speaker 2: and Adulas Garcia in that outfield? You know, I think
Speaker 2: Trio is really really interesting prospect, But where does he
Speaker 2: play in that outfield with Christian Yelledge and Sal freylk like,
Speaker 2: and I don't think people have talked enough about Tarrio's, like,
Speaker 2: you know, issues with swing and miss at times in
Speaker 2: the minor leagues. So I think Jackson Holiday has the
Speaker 2: clearest path to playing time. There's no one on that
Speaker 2: team that is stopping him if he's ready. And the
Speaker 2: Orioles have shown, unlike a team like the Brewers, that
Speaker 2: they'll bring up a guy to play day one. They
Speaker 2: want those draft picks that are associated with finishing high
Speaker 2: end work of the year. I think this is actually
Speaker 2: a perfect bold prediction, and I think that this is
Speaker 2: probably the bold prediction that has the best chance of
Speaker 2: actually hitting.
Speaker 1: Now, if you're like welsh, are we gonna get bolder,
Speaker 1: We're gonna get bolder. We're gonna I'm gonna I'm gonna
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Speaker 1: go to our bold prediction number. Trace what you got justin.
Speaker 2: All right, John Means is the top forty starting pitcher
Speaker 2: this year. I don't know why people are fading John
Speaker 2: Means the way they.
Speaker 3: Are in draft early drafts so far.
Speaker 2: Yes, I know he is, you know, coming off of
Speaker 2: injury from Tommy john Search, but he pitched last year.
Speaker 2: Like what I want to see from a guy is
Speaker 2: that they finish the year on the mound. And he
Speaker 2: pitched really really well in twenty three and two thirds
Speaker 2: innings a two C sixty six year. Right, the strikeouts
Speaker 2: weren't there, but I'm not super worried about that. For me,
Speaker 2: it's really about him getting back on the mound with
Speaker 2: a velocity. That park is an absolute palace for left
Speaker 2: handed pitchers. You just cannot hit the ball out as
Speaker 2: a righty. So I think John Means is going to
Speaker 2: have a fantastic year. I think the strikeouts are going
Speaker 2: to come back, and I think he is going to
Speaker 2: be a top forty starting pitcher this year.
Speaker 1: Do you think that John Means can canon will be
Speaker 1: the number two fantasy pitcher for the Orioles.
Speaker 2: I think he can. I don't know if he will
Speaker 2: because I mean I love Grayson Rodriguez.
Speaker 3: And Kyle Bradish.
Speaker 2: Kyle Bradish, Yeah, yeah so, but I definitely, honestly, I
Speaker 2: really love the entire Orioles rotation, especially the addition of Burns,
Speaker 2: Like this is like, this is a really really fun
Speaker 2: rotation for them. It means probably is the fourth guy,
Speaker 2: but from a fantasy value, like yeah, I mean, could
Speaker 2: he surpass guys like Chris and Rodriguez and Bradish?
Speaker 3: Sure? Will he?
Speaker 2: I don't know, man, I think I think Grayson Rigez
Speaker 2: could be a top fifteen starter this year.
Speaker 1: I was about to say, I mean if you're putting
Speaker 1: John Means as a top forty sp That means you're
Speaker 1: gonna have four Orioles pitchers inside the top forties.
Speaker 2: I think we're going to do. I mean this, This
Speaker 2: Orioles team is going to be a juggernaut in years
Speaker 2: years to come.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, and it works well to my like
Speaker 1: Jackson Holiday teams winning. You know, he's succeeding as long
Speaker 1: as he obviously is. So I love that bold prediction.
Speaker 1: All right, number three, Now I'm going bolder if you
Speaker 1: don't like how bold I've been going. Jared Kelnick with
Speaker 1: the Atlanta Braves goes twenty twenty five a twenty twenty
Speaker 1: five season, by the way, third round, third round value,
Speaker 1: justin Would you say that's about.
Speaker 3: Right depending on the batting average?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, you know, like that's kind of what
Speaker 2: we're looking at from Randi Rosarno is going around pick
Speaker 2: forty eight I think right now. So yeah, that's third,
Speaker 2: fourth round value depending on his batting average.
Speaker 1: So kel Nick last year he hit lefties as well
Speaker 1: as hitting righties, or I should probably say he hit
Speaker 1: righties as well as hitting lefties. Solid the second half
Speaker 1: included right before he got hurt and then like when
Speaker 1: he returned, he hit two eighty eight and that was
Speaker 1: better than that first part. He also had been stealing
Speaker 1: through the first eighty games, stole eleven bases. When he
Speaker 1: ended up returning, didn't really end up stealing anymore. It
Speaker 1: finished with thirteen, but he was aggressive in the forefront
Speaker 1: of it. Well, here's a couple positives and why Atlanta
Speaker 1: can boost all this up. Atlanta fourteenth best ballpark factor
Speaker 1: for lefties versus Seattle, which is the worst of all,
Speaker 1: and Atlanta was in top ten for stolen bases. I
Speaker 1: think at the end of the lineup where Kelna currently
Speaker 1: is according to the roster resource and probably stays, he's
Speaker 1: going to be running, and I think they're going to
Speaker 1: want him to do so to get into scoring position,
Speaker 1: as Akuna is going to be getting in. He showed
Speaker 1: off his power again after hitting eleven homers in one
Speaker 1: hundred and five games. This lineup creates better offensive potential,
Speaker 1: and we saw that offensive potential growth last year with Kelnick.
Speaker 1: He punched a cooler. He was dumb about it, but
Speaker 1: we saw big stolen bases. We saw the resurgence of him,
Speaker 1: and he now goes to an Atlanta lineup that has
Speaker 1: better ballpark factors, that is a higher stealing team. And
Speaker 1: here's the other thing. Remember when they acquired him, and
Speaker 1: all the notes out there were, hey, he's gonna platoon
Speaker 1: with von Grissom. No he's not. This is his job
Speaker 1: right now. And they could bring somebody else in and
Speaker 1: screw this up, but this is his job right now
Speaker 1: to succeed. Jared Kelnick goes twenty twenty five, and that
Speaker 1: would make him a third to fourth round fantasy option.
Speaker 1: I think that's bold in the Jared Kelnick world right justin.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I love it.
Speaker 2: I mean, if you followed my content at all, whether
Speaker 2: written or verbal content, Like I have been a Jared
Speaker 2: Kelnick believer for quite a while, nothing has changed, Like
Speaker 2: I know that there is a little bit of a
Speaker 2: hole in a swing, but he made improvements in the
Speaker 2: second half.
Speaker 3: Like you mentioned, I think Kelnick could definitely do this.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and hitting lefties I think is like really important
Speaker 1: for him because there's not like there, at least this
Speaker 1: past year, there wasn't massive platoon deficiencies, so for him
Speaker 1: to be able to hit lefties as solid. He has
Speaker 1: hit for good average before and he hit too eighty
Speaker 1: eight in that short stint of games, like before he
Speaker 1: got hurt and when he returns. I think that's a
Speaker 1: good positive. And you know he is aggressive runner. When
Speaker 1: I interviewed him back in there was in a fall
Speaker 1: league and like whatever it was twenty nineteen, he told
Speaker 1: me I was asking about goals and he was like, oh,
Speaker 1: I have goals. Twenty twenty. He's like me and my team.
Speaker 1: We discussed the goals every single year. Probably some of
Speaker 1: that has changed, but he was aggressive in wanting to
Speaker 1: hit those twenty twenty markers. This is the year that
Speaker 1: he hits the twenty twenty marker. So big on Jared
Speaker 1: Kelnick in a good draft day value. All right, bold
Speaker 1: prediction number four. I kind of led this up to,
Speaker 1: and I think you and I looking at our list,
Speaker 1: probably led these up to the two biggest ones that
Speaker 1: we've got on the list. So number four, which might
Speaker 1: in tune be number two. Here justin what's your bold prediction?
Speaker 2: I think vlad Greer Junior is a top ten fantasy
Speaker 2: player this year. I know a lot of people are
Speaker 2: like really down on him after kind of what we
Speaker 2: consider a disappointing year where he only hit twenty six
Speaker 2: home runs. But Vladgerer Junior does exactly what I want
Speaker 2: a fantasy hitter to do when I draft him early
Speaker 2: in a draft, and that is be a plate appearance hog.
Speaker 2: Get all the plate appearances. He's had three straight seasons
Speaker 2: of at least six hundred and eighty two plate appearances.
Speaker 2: I think he got unlucky in the babbitt I think
Speaker 2: he got unlucky the home run to fly ball rate.
Speaker 2: I think just natural regression will get him to being
Speaker 2: back to a first round pick. And if he has
Speaker 2: any babbit pelp, if he has any home run to
Speaker 2: fly ball help, Like, I think we're talking about a
Speaker 2: guy that could hit three hundred with forty home runs.
Speaker 2: And I love Lad Grier Junior. Like, if he's available
Speaker 2: in the third round in my drafts, he's going to
Speaker 2: be on all of my teams.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: And he's one of those guys that has popped.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 1: It's interesting because I feel like he's the guy that
Speaker 1: projection people look at and they're like, what, Like, I
Speaker 1: don't understand, because let's see trying to find him here
Speaker 1: on the bat X. The bat X has him for
Speaker 1: thirty five homers one hundred and three RBI while hitting
Speaker 1: two ninety one. That is an exponential increase, but it's
Speaker 1: because he still has all the intangibles, but he does
Speaker 1: fall into these bad rhythms. I just did a social
Speaker 1: short video talking about players that are going to bring
Speaker 1: the power this year, that are gonna well overperform their
Speaker 1: power output from the previous year, and Vlad was number one.
Speaker 1: He is one of those guys because he is a
Speaker 1: great hitter. But I do think like that there's so
Speaker 1: much criticism around Vlad because he is kind of he
Speaker 1: is an analytics and projections darling, yet the production is wavering.
Speaker 1: Does that sound about right?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that's fair. But I also I think
Speaker 3: part of it.
Speaker 2: Is like he had just had this prospect type that
Speaker 2: was unreal, right, Like his rookie year, he was projected
Speaker 2: to win the batting title of the American League, Like
Speaker 2: come on, like like he just he was one of
Speaker 2: the greatest prospects we had seen in a really, really
Speaker 2: long time. And I think some people are just like, well,
Speaker 2: he's a bus. What are you talking about. He's a bus.
Speaker 2: Like he's been amazing these last three years. Yes, last
Speaker 2: year was a little bit down, but like he's done
Speaker 2: everything you want from a young player. He plays the
Speaker 2: game in a really really fun way too. He's great
Speaker 2: to root for. Like they're like, I I think people
Speaker 2: are just overrating a quote unquote down season in.
Speaker 3: Which he didn't actually kill you.
Speaker 2: Yes, it wasn't what you were looking for as a
Speaker 2: first round pick last year, but like he was fine,
Speaker 2: Like you know, and I think he's gonna bounce back
Speaker 2: huge this year. And I mean obviously with Varshow being
Speaker 2: on this list and like Greginia being on this list,
Speaker 2: pretty high in the Blue Jays as well.
Speaker 1: Yeah, apparently you are. I remember we were all at
Speaker 1: the Arizona Fall League that year when vlad was a
Speaker 1: rookie and I was sitting in the stands. I don't
Speaker 1: think you were there yet, but it was. I was
Speaker 1: sitting with Vlad Sedler who was just on the show,
Speaker 1: Rob Silver, and a couple other people. Oh, and Jason
Speaker 1: Collette opens up his phone and goes the Steamer projections
Speaker 1: are out and it was Vladimir Guerrero batting title as
Speaker 1: a rookie two ninety one batting average projected and everyone
Speaker 1: was just in awe of the batting average projection. So
Speaker 1: it's been it's been pretty hardcore with vladd for a
Speaker 1: long time, and that was a fun thing. That was
Speaker 1: a fun thing, all right. Bold prediction number four for me,
Speaker 1: This is one of my big ones. I've kind of
Speaker 1: talked a lot about this. Maybe this isn't even that bold,
Speaker 1: but I'm going to anoint a cy young winner and
Speaker 1: his name is George Kirby. George Kirby is my bet.
Speaker 1: I have actually already placed a futures bet on George
Speaker 1: Kirby winning this. I love and always have loved the
Speaker 1: super low walk rates two point five two point five
Speaker 1: percent this year, top percent tile in the league. The
Speaker 1: one thing that has always kept him off of it
Speaker 1: because everything else is like relatively elite. I suppose he's
Speaker 1: he gave up a little bit more hard hit but
Speaker 1: low three's era this past year. But the thing that
Speaker 1: gets everybody focused are the strikeouts. Where are the strikeouts?
Speaker 1: Twenty two point seven percent, which by the way, still
Speaker 1: lands him in the like twenty plus k minus walk
Speaker 1: percentage range because of the low walks. But what is
Speaker 1: the thing that's going to change. Well, one thing I
Speaker 1: think that can change. I definitely think the strikeouts can
Speaker 1: uptick George Kirby's always been kind of a maniac about
Speaker 1: not walking. And what would be ironic, by the way,
Speaker 1: about Blake Snell being there is Blake Snell's approach is
Speaker 1: aggressive strikeout approach and using walks as part of his game.
Speaker 1: He doesn't care like he's just gonna pitch you in
Speaker 1: a certain way, and if he walks you, he walks you.
Speaker 1: George Kirby, it destroys him if he ends up walking,
Speaker 1: he doesn't want that. But I think Kirby can make
Speaker 1: those improvements. And one of the things is that there's
Speaker 1: been this uptick in like split finger splitter usage on
Speaker 1: that team. I believe Logan Gilbert ended up adding that,
Speaker 1: and we saw more of an uptick in George Kirby
Speaker 1: doing that year over year twenty twenty two didn't even
Speaker 1: throw it one percent jumped up to six percent life
Speaker 1: last year. I would not be shocked if he uses
Speaker 1: it more because why would he thirty five plus percent
Speaker 1: whiff rate on that pitch last year it was the
Speaker 1: highest whiff rate of any single pitch. So if he
Speaker 1: upticks that a little bit, gets a little bit more
Speaker 1: swing and strike, He's not going to walk anybody. You
Speaker 1: have a great ballpark that's with you. You can stack
Speaker 1: on some wins. I think the Mariners are going to
Speaker 1: do really well this year. I think George Kirby is
Speaker 1: gonna liign himself with a low era, immensively low walks.
Speaker 1: He's going to eat innings, he's going to pick up
Speaker 1: the wins, and he's gonna put himself in line to
Speaker 1: win a Cy Young this year. And that was actually
Speaker 1: something that popped up during the first pitch Arizona. We
Speaker 1: had this random question when I was on Rates and Barrels,
Speaker 1: the podcast with Eno and DVR, was like, who is
Speaker 1: the pitcher that could be number one in all the
Speaker 1: land and it can't be Garrett Cole or Strider. And
Speaker 1: I was sitting there and I went George Kirby and
Speaker 1: collect me and Collett went on this big thing because
Speaker 1: that was Collette's guy. So I'm not sure what you
Speaker 1: think about George Kirby as al Cy Young. It's a
Speaker 1: tough task to do against Garrett Cole. And obviously, if
Speaker 1: like Blake Snow went to his own team SIAM Award.
Speaker 2: Winner, I mean, I think he's gonna have even more
Speaker 2: competition than just Blake Snell. If Blake's not all were
Speaker 2: to sign, they're on his own team. Luis Castillo has
Speaker 2: been amazing since coming to Seattle, too, and I'd honestly
Speaker 2: I put money on him winning the cy Young this
Speaker 2: year as well. So, but Kirby is one of those
Speaker 2: guys that I love as a well. I don't necessarily
Speaker 2: think he's gonna win the cy Young like I love
Speaker 2: as a draft pick because the floor is so safe.
Speaker 2: That walk rate makes him so freaking safe, and I
Speaker 2: think that's gonna be a very good team that's going
Speaker 2: to a lot of games.
Speaker 3: So who do he do it? Absolutely? Will he?
Speaker 2: I think I would probably pivot to his teammate Lose Gestio.
Speaker 2: If I was gonna make a bet on a Maritner.
Speaker 1: Give me Jr. Everybody knows I'm obsessed with George Kirby.
Speaker 1: I might be just super obsessed with like those low
Speaker 1: variance pitchers. I know he's not gonna walk a bunch.
Speaker 1: He does need to uptick the strikeouts a little bit more,
Speaker 1: But we're one or two things going his direction where
Speaker 1: he becomes one of the best pitchers in baseball. And
Speaker 1: I hope that it gets there because I'm betting than
Speaker 1: he is. Cy Young. We got our final Bold prediction
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Speaker 1: our final final bold prediction. I think I don't know
Speaker 1: which one is going to be bigger, because you've decided
Speaker 1: to go negative and I'm gonna go positive. So justin
Speaker 1: kick it off with a little bit of negative and
Speaker 1: all finishes out on the positive side.
Speaker 2: You know, this may be my least bold prediction. I
Speaker 2: probably should have started off the show. I think some
Speaker 2: people are gonna be yelling at me on their podcast
Speaker 2: player because they don't believe it. But if I told
Speaker 2: you Tyler Glass now has never been a top thirty
Speaker 2: starting pitcher in baseball and then that will continue to
Speaker 2: happen even being on the Dodgers, would you believe me?
Speaker 1: You know, Like immediately I realize, like, well, I'm like,
Speaker 1: I know, he didn't do the innings, but even though
Speaker 1: he didn't do the innings, I'm actually I am surprised.
Speaker 1: He's never been a top Is that real? He's never
Speaker 1: been an SP thirty.
Speaker 3: Last year was.
Speaker 2: The most amount of innings he threw in the major
Speaker 2: leagues in once he'son one hundred and twenty. He was
Speaker 2: the forty first starting pitcher. You can't be a top
Speaker 2: tier starting pitcher in fantasy if you don't get innings,
Speaker 2: and Tyler Glass Now has never never gotten above one
Speaker 2: hundred and twenty innings at the major league level. They're
Speaker 2: gonna run a six me on rotation they're gonna really
Speaker 2: protect him now he's on a long term deal and
Speaker 2: he gets hurt. He just gets hurt all the time.
Speaker 2: I love him on a paranning basis. I totally understand
Speaker 2: Shalli Lee players in eight and ten teen leagues getting
Speaker 2: him because you can backfill off the I you know,
Speaker 2: or off the waiver while I've put him on the iel.
Speaker 2: But he is not an elite starting pitcher because it
Speaker 2: can't stay healthy. Maybe this is just a Dodger hate,
Speaker 2: but no, I've hated Tyler Glassnow for a long time,
Speaker 2: way before he was with the with the Dodgers, and
Speaker 2: I'm gonna continue to kind of say this over and
Speaker 2: over and over again until he proves that he can
Speaker 2: go one hundred and fifty innings. Tyler glassa is not
Speaker 2: a top thirty pitcher in fantasy.
Speaker 1: You absolutely know. Like in the comments people are like,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, Giants fan. Second, I'll actually just yeah.
Speaker 2: Go ahead, if you know, if you've listened to me before,
Speaker 2: I have been saying this for years, Like I understand
Speaker 2: why people get so hyped on him because on a
Speaker 2: paranning basis, he is fantastic, but like you have to
Speaker 2: be able to throw innings. I know it's not as
Speaker 2: important as it used to be because we don't have
Speaker 2: a million guys throwing two hundred innings anymore.
Speaker 3: But like, you have to be able to get tow.
Speaker 2: One hundred and forty hundred beginnings to have real impact
Speaker 2: and fantasy. Otherwise, like you're just selling yourself short. And
Speaker 2: he's going way, way too high.
Speaker 1: I was just at camp too, By the way, he
Speaker 1: just really does look like Killian Murphy. I always thought
Speaker 1: it was Sillian Murphy, by the way, but apparently it's Killian.
Speaker 3: Why.
Speaker 1: I don't know why. I only learned that for Oppenheimer
Speaker 1: and didn't learn that in his best movie twenty eight
Speaker 1: days later, but I learned it was Killian.
Speaker 3: He really does it Binders.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Peak Blinds is incredible, by the way, But I
Speaker 1: felt tempted to say that to the glass now. But
Speaker 1: let's not be that person. I tend to love glass now,
Speaker 1: but I love the potential. But you're right, he is scary.
Speaker 1: He's risky real quick. Do you have him ranked outside
Speaker 1: of the top twenty.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, he's outside my top twenty five, probably thirty.
Speaker 2: I like, I honestly like, I said, this isn't that bold.
Speaker 2: He does not deserve to be that high, like you
Speaker 2: the Oppenheimer, Like I get like, I get that people,
Speaker 2: And I mean i've seen him inside of people's top
Speaker 2: ten starting pictures, right Like, people, they're gonna be a lot,
Speaker 2: and they're gonna be some people who have him as
Speaker 2: a top five guy for something. But when you one
Speaker 2: of the things I started doing last year was like
Speaker 2: full projections. I do my own full projections and then
Speaker 2: I run it through draft software, right, And what you
Speaker 2: find when you do that that is that innings are
Speaker 2: so important because innings allow your good ratios to count.
Speaker 2: More innings allow you to get more strikeouts. Right, Like,
Speaker 2: you know, I don't care what your strikeout or k
Speaker 2: per nine is if you're throwing one hundred and twenty innings,
Speaker 2: and I got another guy who's throwing.
Speaker 3: One hundred and ninety, one hundred and ninety's.
Speaker 2: Gonna win unless the guy is just devoid of striking
Speaker 2: people out.
Speaker 3: So uh, it just the volume matters in fantasy.
Speaker 1: And to your point, you know, I've made this case
Speaker 1: and and I do stand to it that like one
Speaker 1: is the new one forty and one thirty five is
Speaker 1: the new one sixty and So what do I mean
Speaker 1: by that. I'm just saying like we've always wait, we
Speaker 1: wait the innings, and one twenties always sound centa bad,
Speaker 1: but like nobody pitches two hundred anymore, and there's just
Speaker 1: so fewer, so you can move the bar up of
Speaker 1: what if you get one hundred and fifty out of
Speaker 1: a pitcher that's equivalent to like one eighty, and that's
Speaker 1: actually pretty good in fantasy. But here's the problem, and
Speaker 1: this is what go back, goes back to your side.
Speaker 1: A guy that gets one ninety is in almost the
Speaker 1: elite category of innings right now. So if you can
Speaker 1: get comparable like strikeouts in a similar range, and you know,
Speaker 1: comparable production but over one hundred and ninety innings versus
Speaker 1: what you're seeing in Glass now, it's not close. Like
Speaker 1: if someone's drinking glass now top five, I would take
Speaker 1: Tyler Glass now, or I would take Zach Gallon today,
Speaker 1: tomorrow and for the next three years before. I would
Speaker 1: take Glass now, because you know, you get the innings.
Speaker 1: Strikeouts are still gonna be around nine k per nine.
Speaker 1: You're gonna get wins and stuff like that. Like the
Speaker 1: chasing of strikeouts is a little over barren but there
Speaker 1: you go. Not top three pitcher. I'm sticking with SPS
Speaker 1: and I'm dying to hear what you have to say
Speaker 1: about this one. Justin because my final bold prediction is
Speaker 1: one of my favorite players. I got a couple players
Speaker 1: that I'm drafting in all the leagues. This one I
Speaker 1: am the highest on Fantasy Pros consensus ranks. Nobody has
Speaker 1: him higher than me, at least not yet. Someone might
Speaker 1: fix it. It is Michael King, because Michael King will be
Speaker 1: this year's Pablo Lopez. Michael King in twenty twenty three
Speaker 1: had a twenty nine plus percent K percentage to go
Speaker 1: along with a seven percent walk rate. That's great. Two
Speaker 1: point seventy five ERA also great. Expected rare three point
Speaker 1: four was pretty solid, but in seven starts because he
Speaker 1: was a reliever and a starter, he had only one
Speaker 1: outing that he gave up more than a single run.
Speaker 1: As a starter, his ERA was better than a reliever.
Speaker 1: It was two point two to three. He also walked
Speaker 1: less as a starter. His K minus walk percentage is
Speaker 1: a reliever was nineteen point eight percent, so that is
Speaker 1: the walks taking away from his strikeouts. So the lower
Speaker 1: than number of the word blah blah blah as a starter.
Speaker 1: So remember nineteen point eight as a reliever. As a starter,
Speaker 1: twenty five point eight, that is elite when you get
Speaker 1: into that number. A lot of these. I mean, I
Speaker 1: told you George Kirbys is around twenty. So the reason
Speaker 1: I use the Lopez is there's actually a lot of
Speaker 1: usage similarities. Both utilized fastball, sweeper change up as kind
Speaker 1: of the top predominant ones pitches that they use. King
Speaker 1: ends up using a little bit like the sinker fastball
Speaker 1: kind of flows in and out. Pablo four seam but
Speaker 1: also uses the sinker fastball runs similarly as far as
Speaker 1: Vlo goes. Pablo gets a little bit more whiffs, but
Speaker 1: Kings slower sweeper induces more whiffs as does his change up.
Speaker 1: I think the Padres are going to push. Those innings
Speaker 1: that we talked about are so valuable ATC if you
Speaker 1: want to use projections has him as a three four
Speaker 1: to eight ERA and a one hundred and thirty four innings
Speaker 1: and almost a twenty eight percent K percentage player. I
Speaker 1: think he can push over one fifty. He gets his wins,
Speaker 1: that sweeper keeps utilizing, and it's no shock that play.
Speaker 1: Your similarities using Baseball Savant Pablo Lopez is the number
Speaker 1: one comp for right handed pitchers to Michael King. I'm
Speaker 1: all in on Michael King. There's a lot to be
Speaker 1: desired as far as what he's done as a starter,
Speaker 1: but we've seen it fly. People are making bets on
Speaker 1: Triik's scouble in short usage, Cole Reagan's in short usage,
Speaker 1: yet almost around two hundred on eighty p's and NFBC
Speaker 1: for Michael King. To me, he is this year's Pablo
Speaker 1: Lopez justin and he killing me on that one.
Speaker 2: I think the only knock on Michael King is what
Speaker 2: is his innings total going to be? We just talked
Speaker 2: about glass down not being a top thirty started because
Speaker 2: I don't trust the innings.
Speaker 3: Michael King only threw.
Speaker 2: He threw a less one hundred and ten last year,
Speaker 2: and part of that, like you said, was because he
Speaker 2: was in relief. Now, I don't think they need to
Speaker 2: baby Michael King quite as much as maybe another guy
Speaker 2: who would have a big jump in innings. But I
Speaker 2: just can't see him like getting up to one sixty.
Speaker 2: I think that one thirty five one forty area is
Speaker 2: probably top of the line, which I think limits his
Speaker 2: upside that being said, everything else you said is spot on,
Speaker 2: and I think he could do a lot of damage.
Speaker 2: And unlike Tyler Glassnaw, who we might project for one
Speaker 2: hundred and thirty innings, Michael King's going super low. You
Speaker 2: just said like pick two hundred. I'll take that all
Speaker 2: day long. The one thing I've really learned in this
Speaker 2: podcast is I don't want to play any leagues with
Speaker 2: the Welsh because we're gonna be targeting a lot of guys.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be a nightmare, So we don't want to
Speaker 1: do any like NFPCS together. Justin Mason FWFB on the twitters,
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