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Speaker 1: The infield breakdown. Let's talk to the pros. Welcome in

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Speaker 1: everybody to Fantasy Pros. This is the Fantasy Baseball Podcast.

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Speaker 1: It is Meet Joey p Joe Pi's Apia and today

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Speaker 1: it's our grand infield preview.

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Speaker 2: That's right.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna go through the busts, the sleepers, the must haves,

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Speaker 1: all of the names you need to know for the guys,

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Speaker 1: We're gonna catch her first base, second, third, and shortstop.

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Speaker 2: To be here.

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Speaker 1: And our good friend Frank Stamfle is back again. Rodo

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Speaker 2: Frankie boy, fresh off of the Super Bowl. It's time

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Speaker 2: to turn to page the baseball, ain't it? Yes? It is.

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Speaker 3: I love this time of year two.

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Speaker 4: You just start to feel things change. Spring training is

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Speaker 4: approaching pitchers and catchers. We get the WBC coming up

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Speaker 4: in a couple of weeks. It's a great time. Lots

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Speaker 4: of studying going on, position previews, all that fun stuff.

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Speaker 4: Happy to be here to my favorite people, Joey p

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Speaker 4: and the Well, so let's go, let's do it.

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Speaker 5: Did you wait, Joe?

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Speaker 6: Was this like a I'm just here so I don't

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Speaker 6: get fine type of thing, like.

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Speaker 1: Gonna ask you, have you declared yet Welsh your allegiance

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Speaker 1: for the WBC.

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Speaker 2: Are you playing this year?

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Speaker 6: Have you?

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Speaker 2: Are you just a rooting interest?

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Speaker 6: Well, I'm gonna go for Merca. It's always Merca, Okay,

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Speaker 6: always my rooting interest, and Merca it will be here

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Speaker 6: locally here in Phoenix. So they're going to try to

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Speaker 6: get out to a game or two. Even I've been

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Speaker 6: kind of would like to go see Goldie and Aeronado

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Speaker 5: But maybe it's not Goldie. Maybe it's people.

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Speaker 2: Always used to root for the Italian team.

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Speaker 1: You always feel like, you know, the hand gesture is

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Speaker 1: the third base coach are always the most intense. I

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Speaker 1: let's kick things off here. We'll start with the catcher position.

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Speaker 1: We'll start with the sleepers here. Let's start with you, Frank,

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Speaker 1: since you are our guest today, who is your sleeper

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Speaker 1: catcher twenty twenty three?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, so I'm going pretty far down the list here.

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Speaker 4: This is someone you might want to target in a

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Speaker 4: two catcher league, and it is Logan O.

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Speaker 3: Hoppy, a prospect with the Los Angeles Angels.

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Speaker 4: Monster season in the miners last year too, eighty three,

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Speaker 3: Has a phenomenal eye.

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Speaker 4: He's going to reach base at a high clip, hits

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Speaker 1: No to sell, Frank, stop playing two catcher leagues. No fun,

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Speaker 1: all right, Welsh, who is your catcher sleeper for this season?

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Speaker 6: By the way, in my startup a Tono draft, I

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Speaker 6: This is a guy that I think on the back end,

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Speaker 6: three nineteen in limited games last year was just a

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Speaker 6: Opportunity in Cincinnati. The ball flies a little bit better.

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Speaker 1: My catcher to not sleep on is William Contreres, who

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Speaker 1: is now with the Milwaukee Brewers. Ooh, I love this

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Speaker 1: Now he moves on also in two seventy eight and

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Speaker 1: not something too forget about. You're looking for some cheap

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Speaker 1: William Contreras could be that guy. He can give you

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Speaker 1: switching gears to the first base side. My sleeper is

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Speaker 1: Andrew Vaughan of the Chicago White Sox. Finally a clear path.

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Speaker 1: People forget Andrew Vaughn really didn't have any time in

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Speaker 1: and it has been. I'm expecting Vaughn to take that

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Speaker 1: I talk about him before, Welsh, You've done all the

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Speaker 1: infield previews for the Fantasy Baseball Black Book twenty twenty three.

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Speaker 1: This should be right in your wheelhouse, by the way,

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Speaker 1: shout out Welsh, It's all because of you. So who

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Speaker 1: is who is your first baseman?

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Speaker 2: That is a sleeper for you this year after all

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Speaker 2: that work you.

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Speaker 6: Did, masterful writing that a well known scholar and writer

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Speaker 2: You're the ernest Hemingway of baseball profiles.

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Speaker 6: There's one thing I'm known for, well, one thing I

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Speaker 6: my mouth. He could qualify multiple positions. Actually probably better

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Speaker 6: Miranda talked a lot about him this offseason. My favorite

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Speaker 5: So give me Jose Miranda. That's a sleeper for sure.

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Speaker 1: All right, Frank the guy you got sleeper our first base.

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Speaker 1: It's had a pretty big home run total last year,

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Speaker 4: Rowdy Roddy Telez, come on, man five home runs, one

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Speaker 4: And this offensive environment has changed. We've got the dead end,

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Speaker 4: Rowdy Teles underperformed the batting average by quite a bit too.

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Speaker 3: So I do buy the power. I think it's legit.

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Speaker 1: The guy on your list, Frank here at second base

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Speaker 4: like Jonathan India as well. He doesn't impact the ball

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Speaker 1: I like India, Frank Stafell so much more forgiving than you, Welsh,

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Speaker 6: And I like that one too, just because I've been

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Speaker 1: I love that approach. I think that's very wise, all right, shortstop.

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Speaker 1: the Washington Nationals. He's gonna be playing there. But can

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Speaker 1: we not forget in the minor leagues he had an

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Speaker 1: eight ninety six ops in his career.

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Speaker 2: Can we not forget that? I mean, this guy is

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Speaker 2: no joke.

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Speaker 1: So let's put aside the fact that the Nationals are

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Speaker 1: gonna be the dregs and lose one hundred games, and

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Speaker 1: let's instead just talk about the fantasy perspective.

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Speaker 2: Is he gonna play every day? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: Is he gonna be allowed to fail? Yes, that's a

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Speaker 1: good thing. Hopefully he doesn't fail, he succeeds. But the

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Speaker 1: somebody I like more in rotal leagues than in points leagues,

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Speaker 1: Let's talk about the bus at catcher, Frank, let's start

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Speaker 1: you off here. Who is your catcher bust of twenty three.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's gonna be a Travis Darnaut for me. Dog,

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Speaker 3: I'm not gonna.

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Speaker 4: Be drafted this year, and I think that he's dropped

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Speaker 4: an ADP since Theshan Murphy trade. I don't think that

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Speaker 4: he's dropped enough. I think he drafted as a high

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Speaker 4: end catcher too. I just don't see how he's going

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Speaker 4: to play enough. I know that they have the DH available.

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Speaker 4: They also have Marcelozuna and Eddie Rossario on that roster,

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Speaker 4: and it's not like Travis Darnaud's bat is so good

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Speaker 4: where you need to get him at bats as a

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Speaker 4: designated hitter. So he'll be a backup, and he's been

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Speaker 4: serviceable for fantasy in the past, kind of wish the

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Speaker 4: Braves would just trade him somewhere else and he gets

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Speaker 4: an opportunity to play, but as of now, that's not

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Speaker 4: going to happen.

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Speaker 3: So Travis Darnaut not for me.

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Speaker 2: One hundred percent agreement while she was your catcher bust.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I think that's it.

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Speaker 6: By the way, just the Braves have talked about like

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Speaker 6: openly giving him that DH gig, but it's right. There

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Speaker 6: are a couple guys in there and he's still being

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Speaker 6: drafted a little bit too high.

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Speaker 5: I struggle with this.

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Speaker 6: One, and I'm gonna come back to our bust episode

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Speaker 6: that piece of pa and I did because like I

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Speaker 6: primarily played one catcher leagues. I agree with Travis Darnaut.

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Speaker 6: Picking late closers I think is really difficult and like

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Speaker 6: saying are they bust? So I'm gonna just do this

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Speaker 6: again if you guys didn't hear, and I hate it

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Speaker 6: because now I'm really gonna like it's gonna be tied

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Speaker 6: to me and I've had more whole run ins with

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Speaker 6: this guy in pH.

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Speaker 5: Dalton var Show.

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Speaker 6: I'm going back with Dalton VARs show. I just don't

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Speaker 6: like the ADP. I don't like a top forty five

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Speaker 6: pick on any catcher. I don't like the left he

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Speaker 6: split issues.

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Speaker 5: That he might have.

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Speaker 6: I don't like the downtick as far as batting average goes. Overall,

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Speaker 6: he's built for some regression in a not as hitter

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Speaker 6: friendly ballpark environment where he also struggles against lefty. But

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Speaker 6: you know, hey, listen, there's a great team around him.

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Speaker 6: He might still be awesome. I just find it really

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Speaker 6: hard that he's going to be able to bring back

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Speaker 6: top fifty overall value, especially when you look at it

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Speaker 6: compared to the other catchers. I think there are some

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Speaker 6: good sleeper catcher options right in the middle. So that

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Speaker 6: heavy investment, to me is built around Hey, he's going

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Speaker 6: to get a little bit more playing time because he's

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Speaker 6: an outfielder, and he's going to steal more bases, But

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Speaker 6: you know what, more bases are being stolen by catchers

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Speaker 6: every single year over So Dalton VARs show, I'm sorry, Toronto,

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Speaker 6: I love you.

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Speaker 1: I hope he wins MVP, And the next year he's

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Speaker 1: gone on the cover of the video game and they

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Speaker 1: called MLB.

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Speaker 2: The var Show. All right, my catcher is MJ.

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Speaker 1: Melendez, who I think a lot of people gonna look

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Speaker 1: to and just run to the power. But as well

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Speaker 1: as kind of saying there Welsh mentioned before, I think

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Speaker 1: you can wait a little bit longer guys like Stevenson,

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Speaker 1: guys like William Contreras, and get that same power a

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Speaker 1: little bit later. I mean between pick number one fifteen

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Speaker 1: where Melendez is and then pick like one fifty nine

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Speaker 1: where Stevenson is. Uh, you know, even you know, guys

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Speaker 1: like Danny Jansen, I think are gonna be okay a catcher.

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Speaker 1: I think you've got some options there. So I just

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Speaker 1: don't want to reach for this player. So it's not

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Speaker 1: the batting average is a problem to the lack of

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Speaker 1: contact sometimes can be a problem. That's something that again

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Speaker 1: scares me. I think there's a little bit more downside

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Speaker 1: than people realize. As you know, I'm a little sad

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Speaker 1: now because my first base bust is actually proudy Telez

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Speaker 1: just because again he has to repeat it now and

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Speaker 1: he did.

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Speaker 2: So much of that great work.

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Speaker 1: It was such a good run for him, but then

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Speaker 1: there was some downtime too, when he's a little bit of.

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Speaker 2: A streaky player.

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Speaker 1: That's my only thing I like the guy. Of course,

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Speaker 1: I'm rooting for him because he's a bigger dude too.

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Speaker 1: I love that, but Rowdy to les to.

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Speaker 5: Me, this fat guy's extra boost.

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Speaker 1: Can't get enough of it. You know that Alec Minau

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Speaker 1: is my favorite guy, but I feel like this. You

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Speaker 1: have to understand I don't want to draft him. Think

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna get a repeat. If you get something close

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Speaker 1: to it, great, But if you're counting on the repeat season,

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Speaker 1: I think that's just slightly dangerous because I think it's

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Speaker 1: an outlier.

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Speaker 2: That's it. Welsh first base, who is your bust?

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Speaker 6: There is another one I struggled with, and I'm gonna

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Speaker 6: tell you, like I really like this player a lot

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Speaker 6: in general, maybe I don't. Maybe I'm disliking him. The

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Speaker 6: bat X projections changed, and we shouldn't build everything off

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Speaker 6: of projections or anything like that. But Vinnie pas Quentino

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Speaker 6: with the Kansas City Royals was a darling of drafts

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Speaker 6: early on, and very very early on because of some

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Speaker 6: crazy Steamer projections and the bat X came in. I

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Speaker 6: did an episode in this league with Derek Carty kind

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Speaker 6: of going through the bad EX projections and vine pas

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Speaker 6: Quentino was one of the most overrated hitters on their system,

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Speaker 6: sixteen homers with a two seventy batting average. Here's kind

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Speaker 6: of my logic, and it kind of comes back to

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Speaker 6: the Varshow then, can Vinnie still be good?

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Speaker 2: Yes?

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Speaker 5: Of course, will he live up.

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Speaker 6: To the expectations of where he's being drafted that I

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Speaker 6: don't necessarily know, And part of it is also maybe

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Speaker 6: the guys that are being built around where people are reaching.

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Speaker 6: Vine Pascontino is going off. It's the seventh first baseman

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Speaker 6: right now. And listen, I kind of like Teles, I

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Speaker 6: like Nate Low, Christian Walker is in there, and I

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Speaker 6: think Jose Brau is no doubt a better price. Yeah,

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Speaker 6: Vini pas Quantino is very fun and exciting because he's young,

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Speaker 6: is Italian name, Hey look at this, look at that,

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Speaker 6: But it's a bad team context. RBIs and runs are

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Speaker 6: going to be low. If the homers are high, that's great,

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Speaker 6: You're going to get two categories. But I think you

599
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Speaker 6: can get higher stats or the exact same outcome from

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Speaker 6: Nate Low later in drafts. So based on the capitol,

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Speaker 6: you got to spend on Vinnie pas Quentino. Unfortunately, the

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Speaker 6: Italian breakfast is not what we're having tonight.

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Speaker 1: Well Tonay, Lauren, Nate Low later in the show for me, CJ.

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Speaker 1: Cron Frank, that's your guy who's a bust Why in

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Speaker 1: twenty three.

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Speaker 4: Well, aside from the fact that you can't play this

607
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Speaker 4: guy when he's on the road because his home road

608
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Speaker 4: splits are ridiculous, ridiculously point because he's a Rockies player.

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Speaker 4: But overall, just some things that worry me. Getting a

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Speaker 4: little bit older, he's entering his age thirty three season.

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Speaker 4: Batting average went from two to eighty one in twenty

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Speaker 4: twenty one to two fifty seven last year. The strikeout

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Speaker 4: rate went from twenty one percent to twenty six percent,

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Speaker 4: the walk rate dropped a ton, from eleven percent to

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Speaker 4: around seven percent, and he completely fell off in the

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Speaker 4: second half. Hit one ninety seven with a six h

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Speaker 4: four ops, didn't hit the ball as hard during that time.

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Speaker 3: His barrel rate went down.

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Speaker 4: So the age, the splits, he's had injury concerns in

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Speaker 4: the past. It's just too much going on at a

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Speaker 4: position that's very deep. So I'd rather wait and take

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Speaker 4: Anthony Rizzo or Roddy Telez or even Christian Walker who's

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Speaker 4: going right around him.

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Speaker 3: So just not for me this year.

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Speaker 2: C J.

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Speaker 1: Crome. Yeah, I can tell you the older, I get

627
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Speaker 1: the hardest for me to do splits too.

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Speaker 2: Uh is a nine to.

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Speaker 1: Fifty five ops at home last year for Kron and

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Speaker 1: a six nineteen ops on the road.

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Speaker 2: Yikes. Just in case you were wondering at home.

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Speaker 5: With that split was let's go to hashtag zucky tag yuck.

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Speaker 1: All right, second base, Frank, who's your guy to stay

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Speaker 1: away from?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's gonna be Tyro Estrada, who last year I

636
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Speaker 4: was waiting and waiting and waiting for him to fall off,

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Speaker 4: and it does never happened. He had a really good

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Speaker 4: season with Giants. He hits you sixty with fourteen home

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Speaker 4: runs twenty one steals. I'm basically not trusting the power here.

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Speaker 4: He hit fourteen home runs on eighteen barrels. That's seventy

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Speaker 4: eight percent. Aaron Judge was fifty eight percent, kyleo s

642
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Speaker 4: Forber was sixty percent. We're talking about tyro Astrada, So

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Speaker 4: I think he's more of like an eight to ten

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Speaker 4: home run guy.

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Speaker 3: Maybe he'll run.

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Speaker 4: He does make a lot of contact, so that's good

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Speaker 4: for him. He also has these very big left right splits.

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Speaker 4: So last year against left eas he hit two eighty

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Speaker 4: three with an eight thirty four ops against Righty's he

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Speaker 4: hit two fifty with a six seventy four ops. And

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Speaker 4: the Giants are a team, you know, they're pretty analytically

652
00:26:46,400 --> 00:26:46,800
Speaker 4: driven and.

653
00:26:46,800 --> 00:26:48,480
Speaker 3: They like to, you know, go with platoons.

654
00:26:48,760 --> 00:26:51,080
Speaker 4: If tyro Astrada is not hitting well against Righty's for

655
00:26:51,160 --> 00:26:53,040
Speaker 4: the first couple of months, who's to say this guy

656
00:26:53,040 --> 00:26:54,880
Speaker 4: doesn't just fall into the short side of a platoon.

657
00:26:55,160 --> 00:26:56,760
Speaker 4: He's going pretty late in drafts, but I don't think

658
00:26:56,760 --> 00:26:58,719
Speaker 4: he's gonna come anywhere close to what he did last year.

659
00:26:58,760 --> 00:27:00,280
Speaker 3: So tyro Astrada, for.

660
00:27:00,280 --> 00:27:03,200
Speaker 1: Me, Welsh, I assume you're gonna stay on brands that

661
00:27:03,320 --> 00:27:04,280
Speaker 1: you attacked var show.

662
00:27:04,280 --> 00:27:06,280
Speaker 2: You got to attack India next, right.

663
00:27:06,400 --> 00:27:08,200
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean we already talked about it a little bit.

664
00:27:08,320 --> 00:27:11,000
Speaker 6: Just like incredibly low hit bottom five percent of the

665
00:27:11,040 --> 00:27:14,000
Speaker 6: league and hard hit the twenty eight point eight percent.

666
00:27:14,119 --> 00:27:16,840
Speaker 5: Last year, his average evs were super low.

667
00:27:16,840 --> 00:27:18,840
Speaker 6: You don't want to like read it's weird because he

668
00:27:18,880 --> 00:27:21,760
Speaker 6: actually had a higher max ev than the previous year.

669
00:27:21,800 --> 00:27:26,800
Speaker 6: But his overall average evs were eighty five, which is atrocious.

670
00:27:26,840 --> 00:27:29,440
Speaker 6: So again, it's not a perfect science because they're gonna

671
00:27:29,520 --> 00:27:31,600
Speaker 6: like put everything in their grounders and stuff and just

672
00:27:31,960 --> 00:27:36,359
Speaker 6: hitting the ball exceptionally less. He was worse against fastballs

673
00:27:36,359 --> 00:27:38,800
Speaker 6: than he had ever been. Off speed pitches were an

674
00:27:38,840 --> 00:27:41,080
Speaker 6: instant out. So as much as we look at some

675
00:27:41,119 --> 00:27:43,119
Speaker 6: of the injury stuff, maybe it's going to play in.

676
00:27:43,480 --> 00:27:46,080
Speaker 6: He also his timing and rhythm was completely off. He

677
00:27:46,080 --> 00:27:47,840
Speaker 6: could not hit off speed stuff, and he was worse

678
00:27:47,880 --> 00:27:50,560
Speaker 6: against fastballs. So I already talked about it, just kind

679
00:27:50,600 --> 00:27:53,560
Speaker 6: of worried, especially when he becomes the crutch of I'm

680
00:27:53,600 --> 00:27:55,480
Speaker 6: gonna take this guy because I missed out for the

681
00:27:55,520 --> 00:27:56,120
Speaker 6: bounce back.

682
00:27:56,440 --> 00:27:58,560
Speaker 5: But you know, he is cheap enough that it's a

683
00:27:58,600 --> 00:27:59,800
Speaker 5: little bit of a reach on a bus.

684
00:28:00,000 --> 00:28:02,720
Speaker 1: I suppose, all right, another guy that again, I like

685
00:28:02,840 --> 00:28:04,199
Speaker 1: him if you can get him with a discount, But

686
00:28:04,200 --> 00:28:05,520
Speaker 1: it doesn't look like you're getting too much of one

687
00:28:05,600 --> 00:28:07,520
Speaker 1: right now. In Jure Polanco of the Minnesota Twins at

688
00:28:07,520 --> 00:28:10,399
Speaker 1: second base, just not enough for me. The ECR and

689
00:28:10,480 --> 00:28:13,320
Speaker 1: him is one twenty seven at Fantasy pros ADP's at

690
00:28:13,320 --> 00:28:15,840
Speaker 1: one forty three. I mean, I just looking at this

691
00:28:15,880 --> 00:28:17,399
Speaker 1: position and some of the shots you could take a

692
00:28:17,440 --> 00:28:20,640
Speaker 1: little bit later, I think I just prefer those shots.

693
00:28:20,640 --> 00:28:21,240
Speaker 2: At the end of the day.

694
00:28:21,240 --> 00:28:24,120
Speaker 1: I'd rather take a flyer on Cotel Marte thirty picks

695
00:28:24,200 --> 00:28:25,359
Speaker 1: later and see what he gives me.

696
00:28:25,400 --> 00:28:27,760
Speaker 2: Because Polanco is a player. I know he was hurt

697
00:28:27,800 --> 00:28:28,200
Speaker 2: last year.

698
00:28:28,320 --> 00:28:30,000
Speaker 1: Give him the benefit of the doubt there, but I

699
00:28:30,000 --> 00:28:31,840
Speaker 1: think we're all going to be chasing that huge home

700
00:28:31,880 --> 00:28:33,639
Speaker 1: run season he had in twenty one, and I just

701
00:28:33,680 --> 00:28:35,120
Speaker 1: don't know if that's the smartest thing.

702
00:28:35,040 --> 00:28:35,520
Speaker 2: To be doing.

703
00:28:36,160 --> 00:28:38,000
Speaker 1: U And he has been a player that's been really

704
00:28:38,000 --> 00:28:41,240
Speaker 1: hard to gauge all over the map, different times, different injuries.

705
00:28:41,560 --> 00:28:44,440
Speaker 1: They'd have the PD suspension too, so just a lot

706
00:28:44,480 --> 00:28:46,720
Speaker 1: of question marks they were Polonco. So to me, that's

707
00:28:46,720 --> 00:28:48,800
Speaker 1: just a player I don't like the price on yet.

708
00:28:48,840 --> 00:28:51,240
Speaker 1: If he falls and drafts, I will take a shot

709
00:28:51,240 --> 00:28:53,720
Speaker 1: on him. Max Munsey at third base is my bus too,

710
00:28:54,040 --> 00:28:56,080
Speaker 1: and this is a player I think is maxed out.

711
00:28:56,400 --> 00:28:58,440
Speaker 1: I feel like we saw the best of Max Munci.

712
00:28:58,840 --> 00:29:01,160
Speaker 1: It was a fun time and now it's time not

713
00:29:01,240 --> 00:29:02,920
Speaker 1: to live in the past and I want to just

714
00:29:03,000 --> 00:29:03,440
Speaker 1: kind of.

715
00:29:03,680 --> 00:29:04,560
Speaker 2: Move along here.

716
00:29:04,600 --> 00:29:06,560
Speaker 1: And there's a part of me this is a little

717
00:29:06,560 --> 00:29:09,560
Speaker 1: word here at the Dodgers as they continue to, you know,

718
00:29:09,680 --> 00:29:12,560
Speaker 1: kind of reshape who they are in these years ahead.

719
00:29:12,720 --> 00:29:15,080
Speaker 1: Max Monzy, we all know if your draftsmen. For power,

720
00:29:15,080 --> 00:29:17,160
Speaker 1: it's fine, but you can't let the batting average be

721
00:29:17,240 --> 00:29:19,960
Speaker 1: where it was. It's such a giant albatross. So for me,

722
00:29:20,040 --> 00:29:21,840
Speaker 1: Max Months is a player that I think there's just

723
00:29:21,880 --> 00:29:25,000
Speaker 1: too much positivity on not enough negativity, where everybody just

724
00:29:25,000 --> 00:29:26,840
Speaker 1: wants to say, oh, he'll bounce back, it'll be fine.

725
00:29:27,240 --> 00:29:28,680
Speaker 1: I'm not there yet, and I'm not there with the

726
00:29:28,720 --> 00:29:31,520
Speaker 1: ADP Welsh who's your third base bust?

727
00:29:31,800 --> 00:29:33,720
Speaker 6: So I got to say I don't love this. I

728
00:29:33,760 --> 00:29:35,760
Speaker 6: found this to be the hardest one because I don't

729
00:29:35,760 --> 00:29:38,040
Speaker 6: think the position is that great. So I kind of

730
00:29:38,200 --> 00:29:40,000
Speaker 6: end up staring at these guys and I'm just like,

731
00:29:40,040 --> 00:29:41,840
Speaker 6: is there really a bust in there? The one that

732
00:29:41,880 --> 00:29:43,680
Speaker 6: came out and it doesn't really work in My favorite

733
00:29:43,680 --> 00:29:44,800
Speaker 6: whole lot is Matt Chapman.

734
00:29:44,840 --> 00:29:45,520
Speaker 5: I just don't.

735
00:29:45,840 --> 00:29:47,920
Speaker 6: I have zero shares of Matt Chapman and anything I've

736
00:29:47,920 --> 00:29:51,040
Speaker 6: done this entire offseason, though to his credit, I will

737
00:29:51,080 --> 00:29:55,280
Speaker 6: give you big hard hit numbers ev average ev is up.

738
00:29:55,480 --> 00:29:57,680
Speaker 6: Hard hit was top three percent of the league. It

739
00:29:57,760 --> 00:30:00,000
Speaker 6: was very pole heavy last year, but you know baseball,

740
00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:02,280
Speaker 6: a savant page red as can be ninety seven percent

741
00:30:02,320 --> 00:30:05,400
Speaker 6: a hard hit. Max av eighty seven XBA or x

742
00:30:05,400 --> 00:30:08,920
Speaker 6: wOBA seventy eight percent, but you've still seen max.

743
00:30:08,720 --> 00:30:11,520
Speaker 5: EV decreases for three straight years.

744
00:30:11,600 --> 00:30:13,880
Speaker 6: That's gone down, And this was the first year in

745
00:30:13,920 --> 00:30:18,880
Speaker 6: quite a few years that you had the XBA and

746
00:30:19,240 --> 00:30:22,960
Speaker 6: batting average not lining up into big like XBA numbers

747
00:30:23,560 --> 00:30:25,360
Speaker 6: boosting up from the batting average, like you know, hitting

748
00:30:25,360 --> 00:30:27,200
Speaker 6: two hundred and have an XBA of like two thirty.

749
00:30:27,640 --> 00:30:30,640
Speaker 6: I don't trust Matt Chapman in where I have to

750
00:30:30,680 --> 00:30:33,320
Speaker 6: pay for him as a number one third baseman, and

751
00:30:33,360 --> 00:30:36,400
Speaker 6: I actually just think there are cheaper options He's going inside,

752
00:30:36,440 --> 00:30:37,880
Speaker 6: like the top one fifty if you look.

753
00:30:37,800 --> 00:30:39,280
Speaker 5: At Fantasy pros ADP right now.

754
00:30:39,560 --> 00:30:41,680
Speaker 6: And I would at that point when I'm stuck with

755
00:30:41,720 --> 00:30:43,920
Speaker 6: a player like that I've already talked about like Jose Miranda,

756
00:30:43,960 --> 00:30:46,080
Speaker 6: I really love that. I'd rather wait and take a

757
00:30:46,200 --> 00:30:49,479
Speaker 6: Justin Turner like Frank said, or Josh Young like you said, Joe.

758
00:30:49,600 --> 00:30:50,240
Speaker 5: I just don't.

759
00:30:50,240 --> 00:30:53,360
Speaker 6: I think there's tier drops that happen, and this is

760
00:30:53,440 --> 00:30:54,920
Speaker 6: not one that I want to play. And if I've

761
00:30:54,960 --> 00:30:57,440
Speaker 6: missed my opportunity, I'm moving past Matt Chapman.

762
00:30:57,800 --> 00:31:00,000
Speaker 1: I feel like we're in the same wavelength here. Because

763
00:31:00,600 --> 00:31:02,800
Speaker 1: months he's the number nine third basement off the board,

764
00:31:02,840 --> 00:31:05,400
Speaker 1: Chapman's number ten. I'd rather wait for ty Franz. I'd

765
00:31:05,480 --> 00:31:07,280
Speaker 1: rather take a shot on Jose Miranda. I'd rather take

766
00:31:07,320 --> 00:31:10,320
Speaker 1: a shot on young or you know, talking about Walker too,

767
00:31:10,320 --> 00:31:12,239
Speaker 1: if he qualifies a third base in your league. Like this,

768
00:31:12,560 --> 00:31:14,360
Speaker 1: there's just a better approach. I think Frank laid out

769
00:31:14,360 --> 00:31:15,040
Speaker 1: the perfect approach.

770
00:31:15,080 --> 00:31:15,800
Speaker 2: Take one of the young.

771
00:31:15,680 --> 00:31:18,000
Speaker 1: Guys with upside, take one of the old far guys

772
00:31:18,000 --> 00:31:20,360
Speaker 1: like Justin Turner who's just free, and then go run

773
00:31:20,440 --> 00:31:21,400
Speaker 1: all right, third base?

774
00:31:21,560 --> 00:31:22,320
Speaker 2: Who is your bust?

775
00:31:22,360 --> 00:31:23,800
Speaker 1: And this is a guy that I talked about as

776
00:31:23,800 --> 00:31:25,480
Speaker 1: a bus too, so I like that somebody else is

777
00:31:25,480 --> 00:31:25,960
Speaker 1: mentioning it.

778
00:31:26,000 --> 00:31:28,320
Speaker 4: Also, I agree with the welsh Man it's tough to

779
00:31:28,320 --> 00:31:29,360
Speaker 4: find a bus at third base.

780
00:31:29,400 --> 00:31:31,840
Speaker 3: Can we just call the entire position a bus this year?

781
00:31:31,880 --> 00:31:32,400
Speaker 5: Third base?

782
00:31:33,040 --> 00:31:35,880
Speaker 3: Don't even try let's forget about that position anyway. I

783
00:31:35,880 --> 00:31:36,280
Speaker 3: think there's that.

784
00:31:36,640 --> 00:31:39,680
Speaker 2: I think it's good for like eight guys, and then after.

785
00:31:39,440 --> 00:31:41,200
Speaker 5: That Shiler Riley and move.

786
00:31:41,000 --> 00:31:44,000
Speaker 4: On, yes early, yeah, I get one in the second,

787
00:31:44,000 --> 00:31:46,120
Speaker 4: first or second round if you can. Cabrian Hayes is

788
00:31:46,120 --> 00:31:48,000
Speaker 4: the bust here. I know that he gives you speed

789
00:31:48,080 --> 00:31:50,400
Speaker 4: out of position steals. He gives you twenty steals, one

790
00:31:50,400 --> 00:31:52,680
Speaker 4: of four to third base eligible players to do that.

791
00:31:52,760 --> 00:31:55,040
Speaker 4: Last year, what else does he do? He hit two

792
00:31:55,040 --> 00:31:57,920
Speaker 4: forty four with seven home runs. He was awesome back

793
00:31:57,960 --> 00:32:01,520
Speaker 4: in twenty four games in the shorten twenty twenty. Since then,

794
00:32:01,880 --> 00:32:04,800
Speaker 4: he is betting two forty nine with a three fifty

795
00:32:04,920 --> 00:32:08,320
Speaker 4: six slugging percentage that is tied for sixth lowest in

796
00:32:08,360 --> 00:32:11,480
Speaker 4: baseball since the start of twenty twenty one. Caabrian Hayes

797
00:32:11,560 --> 00:32:13,800
Speaker 4: hits the ball extremely hard. He also hits it on

798
00:32:13,840 --> 00:32:16,120
Speaker 4: the ground a lot fifty two percent ground ball rate.

799
00:32:16,400 --> 00:32:19,880
Speaker 4: He's got a four point eight career percent career barrel rate.

800
00:32:20,040 --> 00:32:22,120
Speaker 4: He just eight does not pull the ball, he does

801
00:32:22,160 --> 00:32:23,520
Speaker 4: not put in the air, and as a result, he

802
00:32:23,640 --> 00:32:26,280
Speaker 4: just cannot tap into any of that power. He's still

803
00:32:26,280 --> 00:32:28,120
Speaker 4: young enough where he can figure it out, but we

804
00:32:28,200 --> 00:32:30,320
Speaker 4: have no signs of that happening yet, and I'm not

805
00:32:30,360 --> 00:32:31,720
Speaker 4: going to bank on it happening this season.

806
00:32:31,760 --> 00:32:35,960
Speaker 2: Either. All right, Frank, your shortstop bust who is it for?

807
00:32:36,000 --> 00:32:36,520
Speaker 2: Twenty three?

808
00:32:37,080 --> 00:32:39,040
Speaker 3: Shortstop is the complete opposite of third base.

809
00:32:39,080 --> 00:32:39,640
Speaker 5: It's awesome.

810
00:32:39,680 --> 00:32:42,160
Speaker 4: It's loaded with a bunch of fun players, especially in

811
00:32:42,200 --> 00:32:43,720
Speaker 4: the middle rounds. One of them that I don't think

812
00:32:43,720 --> 00:32:45,720
Speaker 4: that I'm going to be targeting is Danzy Swanson for

813
00:32:45,760 --> 00:32:47,960
Speaker 4: a couple of reasons. He's coming off a career year

814
00:32:48,240 --> 00:32:50,320
Speaker 4: with the Atlanta Braves. Now he goes over to the

815
00:32:50,440 --> 00:32:53,840
Speaker 4: Chicago Cubs. Big downgrade in terms of the lineup. Last year,

816
00:32:53,880 --> 00:32:56,160
Speaker 4: the Braves were third in run scored. The Cubs were

817
00:32:56,200 --> 00:32:58,760
Speaker 4: twenty second last year. They should improve. They made some

818
00:32:58,800 --> 00:33:01,720
Speaker 4: moves this offseason. I think they're going to be that good.

819
00:33:02,280 --> 00:33:04,920
Speaker 4: And there's some things like the babit spike to three

820
00:33:05,120 --> 00:33:07,520
Speaker 4: forty eight last year, so I think the batting average

821
00:33:07,520 --> 00:33:09,280
Speaker 4: is probably going to come back down to earth. And

822
00:33:09,320 --> 00:33:11,640
Speaker 4: speaking of coming back down to earth, that's exactly what

823
00:33:11,680 --> 00:33:13,960
Speaker 4: happened in the second half for danceby Swanson. He hit

824
00:33:14,000 --> 00:33:16,760
Speaker 4: two fifty four with a seven to two OPS in

825
00:33:16,800 --> 00:33:18,880
Speaker 4: the second half last year. I think he's a better

826
00:33:18,880 --> 00:33:20,880
Speaker 4: player than that, but I don't think he's as good

827
00:33:20,880 --> 00:33:22,480
Speaker 4: as the player he showed over the course of the

828
00:33:22,680 --> 00:33:25,240
Speaker 4: entire season. So I'm expecting a little bit of regression

829
00:33:25,280 --> 00:33:26,320
Speaker 4: on danceby Swants this year.

830
00:33:26,360 --> 00:33:28,440
Speaker 6: And that's my guy too, Joe, Like I was going

831
00:33:28,480 --> 00:33:32,240
Speaker 6: through the position it's so deep. It is unlike third base,

832
00:33:32,280 --> 00:33:34,920
Speaker 6: where you go and you look, and I think Xander

833
00:33:34,920 --> 00:33:37,520
Speaker 6: Bogarts was another one that I kind of wanted to

834
00:33:37,560 --> 00:33:40,880
Speaker 6: throw out. I would have thrown out though. In the

835
00:33:40,880 --> 00:33:43,040
Speaker 6: Black Book, I wrote about some very interesting stuff where

836
00:33:43,080 --> 00:33:44,720
Speaker 6: some of you know, x lug numbers are still high

837
00:33:44,760 --> 00:33:46,360
Speaker 6: up there, and you go into the context of where

838
00:33:46,360 --> 00:33:48,480
Speaker 6: he's going to be with this Padres team, maybe a

839
00:33:48,520 --> 00:33:53,000
Speaker 6: little bit more offense overall. RBI run numbers might push

840
00:33:53,280 --> 00:33:55,440
Speaker 6: the power to kind of be irrelevant to us if

841
00:33:55,440 --> 00:33:57,840
Speaker 6: they can go up. But you look at this position

842
00:33:57,880 --> 00:34:00,760
Speaker 6: and you're just like, where is there not value? The

843
00:34:00,800 --> 00:34:03,560
Speaker 6: top end is so much more lockdown that Dansby Swanson

844
00:34:03,600 --> 00:34:06,840
Speaker 6: was mine as well. Dansby and Zander Bogart's both as

845
00:34:06,960 --> 00:34:11,640
Speaker 6: top ten shortstops. When the guys behind him are guys

846
00:34:11,640 --> 00:34:14,799
Speaker 6: like Tim Anderson, O'Neil Cruz, Wander Franco. I think it's

847
00:34:14,800 --> 00:34:17,440
Speaker 6: really hard to stomach, like a high end cost and

848
00:34:17,480 --> 00:34:20,040
Speaker 6: some of this is coming about cost Bass here, but

849
00:34:20,200 --> 00:34:22,319
Speaker 6: Dansby was mine and Frank said it really well.

850
00:34:22,440 --> 00:34:24,319
Speaker 1: Yeah, and like new spot with the Cubs there, I mean,

851
00:34:24,320 --> 00:34:26,480
Speaker 1: it's just a like everyone's looking at the Cubs like, Oh,

852
00:34:26,520 --> 00:34:27,440
Speaker 1: they spent some money.

853
00:34:27,600 --> 00:34:29,600
Speaker 2: I understand, but it's ugly money.

854
00:34:29,719 --> 00:34:31,239
Speaker 1: Don't think that it's going to be a good team

855
00:34:31,239 --> 00:34:33,480
Speaker 1: because it's not my guys, the same guy from last year.

856
00:34:33,480 --> 00:34:35,080
Speaker 1: It was Hobby or Bias. Nobody wanted to listen to

857
00:34:35,120 --> 00:34:36,680
Speaker 1: me last year. So I'm just gonna remind everybody. Just

858
00:34:36,680 --> 00:34:39,359
Speaker 1: because they're changing the ballpark around, I don't care. This

859
00:34:39,440 --> 00:34:41,239
Speaker 1: is not going to save Hovey Baia's there's not enough

860
00:34:41,280 --> 00:34:43,680
Speaker 1: line of protection, there's not enough around him. It doesn't matter,

861
00:34:44,120 --> 00:34:47,000
Speaker 1: So don't go getting fooled again. Now we're going to

862
00:34:47,120 --> 00:34:49,800
Speaker 1: run through our infield must have guys. I'm going to

863
00:34:49,880 --> 00:34:51,959
Speaker 1: run through my guys first. Some of them we've talked

864
00:34:51,960 --> 00:34:54,440
Speaker 1: about already, so I'm not going to belabor the points.

865
00:34:54,440 --> 00:34:57,200
Speaker 1: And a few other ones we'll mention here as well.

866
00:34:57,360 --> 00:35:00,479
Speaker 1: My catcher it must have is Dalton var Show because

867
00:35:00,480 --> 00:35:02,239
Speaker 1: I just like to spike the Welsh. I mean, really,

868
00:35:02,280 --> 00:35:04,080
Speaker 1: that's just as as simple as that.

869
00:35:05,320 --> 00:35:07,680
Speaker 5: I keep bringing. Find me another catcher that I can

870
00:35:07,719 --> 00:35:09,000
Speaker 5: hate on. I don't want to.

871
00:35:09,239 --> 00:35:10,440
Speaker 3: I like him.

872
00:35:10,480 --> 00:35:13,239
Speaker 1: I know I like him in this line. By the way,

873
00:35:13,320 --> 00:35:15,799
Speaker 1: it's not a ballpark factor thing. It's a lineup thing.

874
00:35:15,800 --> 00:35:18,000
Speaker 1: He's moving to a much better lineup. I think that's

875
00:35:18,040 --> 00:35:21,880
Speaker 1: gonna benefit him. Nathaniel Lowe is my first base must have.

876
00:35:22,040 --> 00:35:24,480
Speaker 1: I love this guy. Was there a quieter good season

877
00:35:24,520 --> 00:35:27,120
Speaker 1: guys than Nate low had? I mean, I feel like

878
00:35:27,160 --> 00:35:29,560
Speaker 1: nobody cares, nobody wants to talk about it. This dude

879
00:35:29,600 --> 00:35:32,040
Speaker 1: was solid, twenty seven bombs, drove in runs.

880
00:35:32,360 --> 00:35:32,600
Speaker 2: Again.

881
00:35:32,640 --> 00:35:34,800
Speaker 1: You get Josh Young back in that lineup along with Seeger,

882
00:35:34,880 --> 00:35:38,160
Speaker 1: along with Marcus Simeon. I think the Texas Rangers win

883
00:35:38,239 --> 00:35:39,960
Speaker 1: total is gonna be fascinating. I can't wait about the

884
00:35:39,960 --> 00:35:42,640
Speaker 1: over on it. I'm telling you right now. Andrasimenez is

885
00:35:42,680 --> 00:35:45,240
Speaker 1: my second basement of choice. Love the power speeding combination,

886
00:35:45,480 --> 00:35:47,440
Speaker 1: and he gives some batting average another player that I

887
00:35:47,480 --> 00:35:51,440
Speaker 1: think just isn't getting enough buzz. Welsh, I give you

888
00:35:51,440 --> 00:35:53,120
Speaker 1: a lot of credit. You are a big supporter of

889
00:35:53,160 --> 00:35:56,880
Speaker 1: his last year, and I was behind you on the bandwagon.

890
00:35:56,920 --> 00:35:59,520
Speaker 1: You pulled me onto it. I'm full force with you

891
00:35:59,600 --> 00:36:01,759
Speaker 1: there him men as in my second basement. I love

892
00:36:02,200 --> 00:36:05,160
Speaker 1: where you're getting him this year. He is the sixth guy,

893
00:36:05,200 --> 00:36:06,960
Speaker 1: but I think that that's pretty much a steal where

894
00:36:07,000 --> 00:36:09,080
Speaker 1: you're getting him, because what he offers, and there's room

895
00:36:09,120 --> 00:36:12,160
Speaker 1: for growth. Gunnar Henderson is my third base must have.

896
00:36:13,320 --> 00:36:15,080
Speaker 1: Love the talent, love what I see there. I think

897
00:36:15,120 --> 00:36:16,920
Speaker 1: the Orioles are starting to turn things around. I think

898
00:36:16,960 --> 00:36:18,719
Speaker 1: guys like Henderson are could be a big part of it.

899
00:36:18,880 --> 00:36:21,160
Speaker 1: We mentioned third base being a problem. Give me Gunner

900
00:36:21,200 --> 00:36:23,359
Speaker 1: Henderson over Munseie and Chapman any day of the week.

901
00:36:23,400 --> 00:36:25,200
Speaker 2: It's not close for me. I'll take the upside.

902
00:36:25,360 --> 00:36:26,920
Speaker 1: And the last one for me, it's shortstop is a

903
00:36:26,920 --> 00:36:30,439
Speaker 1: bigger name. It's Francisco Lindor because once again I feel

904
00:36:30,440 --> 00:36:32,720
Speaker 1: like Lindora is just not getting enough respect in the market.

905
00:36:32,719 --> 00:36:35,000
Speaker 1: Because shortstop has that You know, it's deep. You know

906
00:36:35,040 --> 00:36:37,160
Speaker 1: why we go into years like this, We go, oh,

907
00:36:37,200 --> 00:36:38,640
Speaker 1: this is a deep position, and then at the end

908
00:36:38,640 --> 00:36:40,440
Speaker 1: we go, boy, it really wasn't as deep as we

909
00:36:40,440 --> 00:36:42,839
Speaker 1: thought it was. Lindor is a solid player who gives

910
00:36:42,840 --> 00:36:44,640
Speaker 1: you everything and a really good team and a really

911
00:36:44,680 --> 00:36:47,600
Speaker 1: good spot. He is much closer to one overall in

912
00:36:47,600 --> 00:36:49,840
Speaker 1: that position than he is to ten, and you're getting

913
00:36:49,880 --> 00:36:52,520
Speaker 1: him somewhere in the middle. I think that's something to remember.

914
00:36:52,680 --> 00:36:56,799
Speaker 2: Welsh run through your must have infielders for twenty twenty three.

915
00:36:57,040 --> 00:36:57,359
Speaker 2: All right.

916
00:36:57,400 --> 00:37:00,880
Speaker 6: Now, Wilson and Treis is my catcher of the destination

917
00:37:01,120 --> 00:37:04,879
Speaker 6: change crazy EV numbers last year one sixteen max EV.

918
00:37:05,080 --> 00:37:07,640
Speaker 6: He was top six percent in ex wOBA. Last year

919
00:37:07,680 --> 00:37:11,160
Speaker 6: hard hit was up there. He is just consistent and

920
00:37:11,200 --> 00:37:15,160
Speaker 6: he's cheaper. He's still not expensive at catcher, So why

921
00:37:15,239 --> 00:37:18,040
Speaker 6: we pay the prices for Dalton var Show. I'd even

922
00:37:18,080 --> 00:37:21,960
Speaker 6: say ADLEI Rutchman, MJ. Melndez is going ahead of him.

923
00:37:22,000 --> 00:37:24,359
Speaker 6: I want Wilson Catrez on all of my teams, thank

924
00:37:24,400 --> 00:37:24,879
Speaker 6: you very much.

925
00:37:24,880 --> 00:37:27,080
Speaker 5: He's a must have. I will say the next two.

926
00:37:27,320 --> 00:37:29,880
Speaker 6: Frank kind of gets them because he put them before

927
00:37:29,880 --> 00:37:31,960
Speaker 6: me on here, but I completely agree. These are the

928
00:37:31,960 --> 00:37:34,720
Speaker 6: guys that jumped out. My first basement is Jose Brau.

929
00:37:34,960 --> 00:37:37,520
Speaker 6: I absolutely love the team context change of going to

930
00:37:37,560 --> 00:37:40,239
Speaker 6: the Astros hitting where he's going to. I'm hopeful that

931
00:37:40,280 --> 00:37:42,680
Speaker 6: we're going to find a few more homers there. I

932
00:37:42,719 --> 00:37:45,440
Speaker 6: think one hundred hundred is in the works based on

933
00:37:45,560 --> 00:37:48,080
Speaker 6: hitting around Jordan Alvarez and Jose al two bay that

934
00:37:48,760 --> 00:37:51,000
Speaker 6: he was a steal early in draft season when he

935
00:37:51,000 --> 00:37:53,520
Speaker 6: was going around one twenty. Now he's going way way higher.

936
00:37:53,640 --> 00:37:56,560
Speaker 5: Love him. Justism is my number one second Baseman this year.

937
00:37:56,600 --> 00:37:58,200
Speaker 6: I'm kind of an island on that, and I think

938
00:37:58,200 --> 00:38:00,520
Speaker 6: he's a must have also because he comes a cheaper

939
00:38:00,520 --> 00:38:03,640
Speaker 6: cost than the other three guys, cheaper than Nazi albis

940
00:38:03,640 --> 00:38:05,680
Speaker 6: So I want Jazz Chisholm for sure. I didn't even

941
00:38:05,719 --> 00:38:08,560
Speaker 6: notice you had it. Gunner Henderson. I completely agree.

942
00:38:08,320 --> 00:38:09,040
Speaker 5: He's a must have.

943
00:38:09,120 --> 00:38:11,399
Speaker 6: He's one of these rookies that you can get at

944
00:38:11,560 --> 00:38:14,160
Speaker 6: not the crazy cost. He comes about twenty picks lower

945
00:38:14,160 --> 00:38:16,319
Speaker 6: than Corbyn Carroll right now, gonna hit in the middle

946
00:38:16,320 --> 00:38:19,520
Speaker 6: of that Orioles lineup a little bit worried about what

947
00:38:19,560 --> 00:38:22,680
Speaker 6: we already saw in the suppressed power numbers. With the Orioles,

948
00:38:22,760 --> 00:38:25,800
Speaker 6: three of the top ten guys were on the list

949
00:38:25,880 --> 00:38:30,200
Speaker 6: of the most suppressed and expected home runs Santander, Mancini

950
00:38:30,280 --> 00:38:32,759
Speaker 6: and ry Mountcastle. Hopefully that's not going to be a

951
00:38:32,800 --> 00:38:35,239
Speaker 6: big case and takeaway from Gunner Henderson or anything like that.

952
00:38:35,480 --> 00:38:37,840
Speaker 5: And then finally O'Neill Cruz is going to be my shortstop.

953
00:38:37,920 --> 00:38:41,120
Speaker 6: Hilariously on this show for me last year, but he

954
00:38:41,239 --> 00:38:44,120
Speaker 6: is the tenth shortstop on Fantasy pros ADP right now.

955
00:38:44,360 --> 00:38:48,279
Speaker 6: He comes at a great cost with first round potential.

956
00:38:48,640 --> 00:38:51,480
Speaker 6: If you care about projections. Of course, projections should be

957
00:38:51,520 --> 00:38:53,680
Speaker 6: in some potential world of yours when you're looking at

958
00:38:54,360 --> 00:38:58,160
Speaker 6: overall building your drafts, and Oneil Cruz's stats are reminiscent

959
00:38:58,200 --> 00:39:00,640
Speaker 6: of guys like Kyle Tucker if he were to get

960
00:39:00,680 --> 00:39:03,480
Speaker 6: to that expectation and projections are built around kind of

961
00:39:03,480 --> 00:39:05,719
Speaker 6: a median line here. I think the power stole and

962
00:39:05,760 --> 00:39:08,959
Speaker 6: base numbers are ridiculously stupid. I would be comfortable getting

963
00:39:08,960 --> 00:39:11,280
Speaker 6: Cruise as my middle infielder fired he got a shortstop

964
00:39:11,280 --> 00:39:13,360
Speaker 6: because I think the upside is that big.

965
00:39:13,560 --> 00:39:16,719
Speaker 5: He's a must have for me. Those are my must haves, all.

966
00:39:16,680 --> 00:39:18,880
Speaker 1: Right, very good list there, Frank closed us out who

967
00:39:18,920 --> 00:39:21,120
Speaker 1: you must have infielders for twenty twenty three.

968
00:39:21,920 --> 00:39:24,080
Speaker 4: I'll start things off with my catcher, and that is

969
00:39:24,120 --> 00:39:26,560
Speaker 4: Sean Murphy, who made big improvements in terms of the

970
00:39:26,600 --> 00:39:29,440
Speaker 4: plate discipline last year, got the strikeout rate down to

971
00:39:29,560 --> 00:39:31,880
Speaker 4: a career best twenty percent. And you look at the

972
00:39:31,880 --> 00:39:34,200
Speaker 4: lineup change, the A's were twenty ninth and run scored

973
00:39:34,239 --> 00:39:34,800
Speaker 4: last year.

974
00:39:34,680 --> 00:39:36,040
Speaker 3: The Braves were third.

975
00:39:36,360 --> 00:39:40,000
Speaker 4: Also his career splits in Oakland Coliseum, he hit two

976
00:39:40,080 --> 00:39:43,480
Speaker 4: thirteen with a three sixty eight slug everywhere else in

977
00:39:43,520 --> 00:39:46,760
Speaker 4: Sean Murphy's career two fifty six patting average, four eighty

978
00:39:46,760 --> 00:39:49,960
Speaker 4: four slug So I'm expecting a big breakout season from

979
00:39:50,000 --> 00:39:52,680
Speaker 4: Sean Murphy. Wells talked about it, Jose Bray, you going

980
00:39:52,719 --> 00:39:55,560
Speaker 4: over to the Houston Astros. It's just no better place

981
00:39:55,600 --> 00:39:57,759
Speaker 4: to land than the Houston Astros. The power was down

982
00:39:57,840 --> 00:40:01,279
Speaker 4: last year, only fifteen home runs. Still crushed the ball

983
00:40:01,360 --> 00:40:03,719
Speaker 4: last year, Jose Breu did. And if you look at

984
00:40:03,719 --> 00:40:06,520
Speaker 4: the stat Cast numbers, if he played every game in

985
00:40:07,560 --> 00:40:10,400
Speaker 4: the Midt main field last year, he would have hit

986
00:40:10,440 --> 00:40:13,080
Speaker 4: twenty two home runs with that short Porsche in left field.

987
00:40:13,160 --> 00:40:16,759
Speaker 4: So it's just a perfect marriage for Jose Bray second base.

988
00:40:16,840 --> 00:40:19,080
Speaker 4: I also agree with the Wells. I've got Jashism here.

989
00:40:19,920 --> 00:40:22,360
Speaker 4: Last year he hit fourteen home runs and twelve seals

990
00:40:22,520 --> 00:40:25,640
Speaker 4: in only sixty games. That is a thirty five homer

991
00:40:25,920 --> 00:40:29,760
Speaker 4: thirty steel pace, improved the plate discipline last year, crushes

992
00:40:29,800 --> 00:40:32,080
Speaker 4: the ball. Other second basement like these guys do not

993
00:40:32,160 --> 00:40:33,960
Speaker 4: hit the ball as hard as Jashism. He's like one

994
00:40:34,000 --> 00:40:36,120
Speaker 4: of the best when it comes to average EXI velocity

995
00:40:36,400 --> 00:40:38,719
Speaker 4: and barrel ray. He's got power, he's got speed, He's

996
00:40:38,760 --> 00:40:40,360
Speaker 4: got to stay on the field. That's the biggest issue

997
00:40:40,360 --> 00:40:44,080
Speaker 4: for jazzism third base. Welsh mentioned it. You're noticing a

998
00:40:44,120 --> 00:40:47,000
Speaker 4: theme here, right, Wells is pretty smart, dude. Jordan Walker

999
00:40:47,320 --> 00:40:49,400
Speaker 4: is someone you mentioned earlier. We saw him out at

1000
00:40:49,400 --> 00:40:52,560
Speaker 4: first pitch Arizona. The first thing I noticed this kid

1001
00:40:52,680 --> 00:40:55,880
Speaker 4: is fast. He's six foot five, he is huge, and

1002
00:40:55,960 --> 00:40:59,040
Speaker 4: he runs like a gazelle. Twenty two steals in the

1003
00:40:59,040 --> 00:41:01,120
Speaker 4: miners last year. I think that's an underrated part of

1004
00:41:01,120 --> 00:41:03,640
Speaker 4: his game that people might not even realize. I think

1005
00:41:03,680 --> 00:41:05,680
Speaker 4: he can be a five category contributor as soon as

1006
00:41:05,680 --> 00:41:08,000
Speaker 4: this season if he's up on opening Day and the

1007
00:41:08,040 --> 00:41:10,240
Speaker 4: best for a last Corey Seeger. He is the player

1008
00:41:10,280 --> 00:41:13,560
Speaker 4: that I want most in fantasy baseball this season. Career

1009
00:41:13,640 --> 00:41:16,000
Speaker 4: high thirty three home runs last season, only hit two

1010
00:41:16,080 --> 00:41:16,680
Speaker 4: forty five.

1011
00:41:17,000 --> 00:41:20,000
Speaker 3: He lost twenty to five hits to the shift. Last year.

1012
00:41:20,160 --> 00:41:23,879
Speaker 4: His expected adding average according to stackcas was two eighty three.

1013
00:41:24,160 --> 00:41:26,000
Speaker 4: So you're telling me we're gonna get someone that can

1014
00:41:26,080 --> 00:41:28,480
Speaker 4: hit two to eighty plus with thirty plus home runs

1015
00:41:28,680 --> 00:41:31,440
Speaker 4: good counting stats in the fifth or sixth round of

1016
00:41:31,520 --> 00:41:34,160
Speaker 4: drafts this year. Yeah, I'll take that every day of

1017
00:41:34,200 --> 00:41:36,080
Speaker 4: the week. I know shortstop is loaded. I don't care

1018
00:41:36,120 --> 00:41:38,279
Speaker 4: that he doesn't steal bases. Give me that Elite four

1019
00:41:38,360 --> 00:41:42,200
Speaker 4: category production from Corey Seger this upcoming season.

1020
00:41:42,280 --> 00:41:44,200
Speaker 3: He's my favorite. He's the one I want most.

1021
00:41:44,400 --> 00:41:46,440
Speaker 2: Yeah, I love it making me feel good about keeping

1022
00:41:46,520 --> 00:41:48,200
Speaker 2: him this year. My keeper league too. I love what

1023
00:41:48,239 --> 00:41:49,560
Speaker 2: you're saying there. I agree with you.

1024
00:41:49,680 --> 00:41:51,799
Speaker 1: That shift is going to change so many things this year.

1025
00:41:52,040 --> 00:41:54,000
Speaker 1: It's gonna make baseball a little bit more fun again.

1026
00:41:54,000 --> 00:41:55,040
Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to that.

1027
00:41:55,120 --> 00:41:56,920
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1032
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Speaker 1: Who are your must have infielders. I want to see

1033
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Speaker 1: all your lists out there, So show me your lists.

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