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Speaker 1: you guys have probably hit on, like conceptually this interests me.
Speaker 1: Sleepers and undervalued and breakouts. They're all kind of terms
Speaker 1: that have like slight variations from each other. And I
Speaker 1: imagine you guys have had these conversations when you think about,
Speaker 1: like undervalued, how does that differ from sleepers or breakouts,
Speaker 1: even if it's just like a minute little you know instance.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's tough to it's tough to tell.
Speaker 3: Like what I what I think of undervalued is I'm
Speaker 3: looking at average draft position at ADP and just comparing
Speaker 3: guys to certain positions going you know, right around them,
Speaker 3: and you take a cluster of three or four players
Speaker 3: at the same position, say which one do you like
Speaker 3: kind of out of that group going roughly at the
Speaker 3: same time in the draft, and that would be my
Speaker 3: quote unquote undervalued player for there, So.
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Speaker 1: So let's get into this. Let's talk about undervalued player
Speaker 1: number one. You actually came up in our atc Ario
Speaker 1: Cohen Projections episode. How about Xander Bogarts. Xander Bogarts coming
Speaker 1: in with an overall ADYP, which is great about Fantasy pros.
Speaker 1: You can go and check out the ADP across all
Speaker 1: the sites. It creates a collective ADP pulling all the
Speaker 1: data in and the ECR he has got a rank
Speaker 1: of ninety five, and he's actually got an ADP of
Speaker 1: ninety six, so it's almost outside the top one hundred.
Speaker 1: This was almost a twenty twenty guy last year. Projections
Speaker 1: like him just about the same twenty twenty with high
Speaker 1: batting average usually isn't a lower end to top one
Speaker 1: hundred range. It's usually in the like seventy five plus.
Speaker 1: So talk to us about why Xana Bogart's if and
Speaker 1: is undervalued in your mind.
Speaker 3: I think he is just because, like what one of
Speaker 3: my crusades so far through through draft season has just
Speaker 3: been prioritizing batting average as much as I can in
Speaker 3: the kind of the early and early mid rounds, and
Speaker 3: Xander Bogart's like totally totally delivers that last five years
Speaker 3: batting average three or nine three hundred two ninety five,
Speaker 3: three h seven two eighty five across a boatload of
Speaker 3: played appearances. The power is not, you know, great, but
Speaker 3: like you said, could go twenty home runs at nineteen
Speaker 3: last year. I think the question is and whether Bogarts
Speaker 3: returns his returns of profit here is at stolen based
Speaker 3: total eight stolen bases in twenty twenty two nineteen last
Speaker 3: year in twenty twenty three for San Diego. Was that
Speaker 3: taking advantage of the new rules, a different organization philosophy.
Speaker 3: Not sure, but I think despite that kind of variance,
Speaker 3: and we don't know what the stolen base total will be,
Speaker 3: the batting average, the runs he can play every single
Speaker 3: day that he can. He's played hurt last year, He's
Speaker 3: played hurt almost throughout his entire career. Kind of a
Speaker 3: nagging risk thing, but he continues to deliver throughout. So
Speaker 3: really like Xander Bogart's I kind of comp him to
Speaker 3: Danceby Swanson going a little bit later at the same position.
Speaker 3: Both rock solid shortstop options for you if you need
Speaker 3: some stability up the middle.
Speaker 1: But the different stands be pretty you know, significant drop
Speaker 1: in batting.
Speaker 2: Average, different types of players. Yep.
Speaker 1: Why do you think you're honing in and targeting batting
Speaker 1: average so much? Because I don't want to go too
Speaker 1: far in this, But what I think is so interesting
Speaker 1: is there was a couple of years ago. If people
Speaker 1: are new to the fantasy baseball space and don't follow
Speaker 1: like the trends or listen to a lot of the podcast,
Speaker 1: there was this and I was kind of with this,
Speaker 1: I liked it, and our friend who was just on
Speaker 1: not too long ago, Justin Mason, kind of started this like, Hey,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna punt batting average and this is like three
Speaker 1: or four years ago, Like I'm going to like actively
Speaker 1: go and punt batting average, And a lot of people felt, hey,
Speaker 1: this is the POSI this is the spot that I
Speaker 1: think I could punt in a Roto league, I could
Speaker 1: actually start to punt batting average. Well, then in first
Speaker 1: Pitch this year, there was a presentation I believe it
Speaker 1: was Scott cho was talking about that batting average was
Speaker 1: the most difficult position to pick up off the waivers
Speaker 1: in season. So is it that versus the priority that
Speaker 1: people don't really put on bat Like is it because
Speaker 1: people don't prioritize batting average and you can take advantage,
Speaker 1: or it's so hard to make up in season?
Speaker 3: It's it's it's the most scarce, like stolen bases get
Speaker 3: talked about all the time. Is maybe pre rule change
Speaker 3: as the scarceest category batting average.
Speaker 2: Batting average with.
Speaker 3: The ability to do other things like bogarts can is
Speaker 3: the scarcest modity out there. And I listened to Scott
Speaker 3: Chow's presentation at First Pitch Arizona and kind of prove
Speaker 3: that out during the season. It is very difficult to
Speaker 3: uh to replace batting average. And I also think in
Speaker 3: these later rounds, having a batting average cushion, having a
Speaker 3: batting average floor on your team opens you up to
Speaker 3: a lot of different options later in the draft. And
Speaker 3: so I just like having that flexibility later in the
Speaker 3: draft to be able to take you know, adult and
Speaker 3: var Show or you know an Anthony Volpi or you
Speaker 3: know whatever, those types of players. There's there's it seems
Speaker 3: like there's a lot more of those, and you can
Speaker 3: do that with a good batting average.
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Speaker 1: on the undervalue players. We're going into the pitching market.
Speaker 1: We're actually staying in the average rank of the nineties
Speaker 1: according to Fantasy Pros, and we're looking at Joe Ryan. Actually,
Speaker 1: everybody's very excited about the other Minnesota pitcher, Im Pablo Lopez.
Speaker 1: There's another guy that we're gonna talk about later that
Speaker 1: I like, we're all like with baited breath, looking for
Speaker 1: data on Chris Paddock to see what it looks like.
Speaker 1: But Joe Ryan jumps out as an undervalue guy. Really
Speaker 1: low walk rate, career, low walk rate into the five's
Speaker 1: K percentage went way up. The strikeouts were there because
Speaker 1: he added the split finger. This is one of those
Speaker 1: pitchers that his return on value versus his rank ADP
Speaker 1: really doesn't quite mesh, because this is the type of
Speaker 1: player you would think would be twenty or thirty spots higher.
Speaker 1: So talk to us about Joe Ryan.
Speaker 2: I think Joe Ryan.
Speaker 3: So you mentioned the splitter that was fantastic and a
Speaker 3: nice compliment to one of the best fastballs in the game.
Speaker 3: I think Joe Ryan from an actual fifth percentage on
Speaker 3: the four steamer was like fourth best. He's definitely top
Speaker 3: five in baseball last year, so he now has that
Speaker 3: second kind of putaway pitch along with the fastball, and
Speaker 3: the skills just soared last year. I think Joe Ryan
Speaker 3: is being undervalued in the market because of the home
Speaker 3: run problem. And there's two things to a home run
Speaker 3: problem for a pitcher. There's the ground ball fly ball,
Speaker 3: which the pitcher can control, and Joe Ryan does give
Speaker 3: up a lot of fly balls fifty percent fly ball
Speaker 3: rate last year. But there's also the home runs per
Speaker 3: fly ball that is not as sticky year to year,
Speaker 3: and Joe Ryan just got hammered down the stretch in
Speaker 3: the second half. Had a twenty one percent homer to
Speaker 3: fly ball rate league average on that is like twelve percent,
Speaker 3: and so that's really what drove Joe Ryan's six 'oh
Speaker 3: nine eer in the second half. And I just don't
Speaker 3: think that home run variance is that sticky from year
Speaker 3: to year.
Speaker 2: I think if we get Joe Ryan with the league
Speaker 2: average homer to.
Speaker 3: Fly ball rate, the strikeout and walk skills are just fantastic.
Speaker 3: And you alluded to Minnesota Welsh. They know what they're
Speaker 3: doing as an organization, and I think they can they
Speaker 3: can get Joe Ryan to ascend to an even higher
Speaker 3: level than he's at right now.
Speaker 1: A real oddity is like the fastball got hit up
Speaker 1: more from a batting average standpoint one seventy four against
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty two two forty, But the expect bio
Speaker 1: would point out that's like a huge gap, but the
Speaker 1: expected batting average against was actually closer year over year.
Speaker 1: But he gave up nine homers against the forcing fastball
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty two, gave up nineteen this past year. So,
Speaker 1: you know, having a big adjusted pitch change, especially a
Speaker 1: split finger, which isn't necessarily Nick Polck talked about it
Speaker 1: on the Pitching Guide episode isn't viewed as like a breakaway,
Speaker 1: punch away pitch. It's kind of the setup pitched everything
Speaker 1: that that fastball fastball became a little bit more vulnerable.
Speaker 1: Be interesting to see if maybe the sweeper kind of
Speaker 1: takes a tick up or something like that. That's year,
Speaker 1: so the fastball doesn't get hit up so much. But
Speaker 1: the low walk rates make him pretty exciting. And I'm
Speaker 1: down with this one coming in at number three. This
Speaker 1: guy has a new team, and this team is quite exciting.
Speaker 1: He does not cost inside the top one point fifteen
Speaker 1: as far as ranks go. According to Fantasy Pros. Lookame
Speaker 1: across the board and his ADP is almost one thirty
Speaker 1: across all of the sites combined. New Dodgers Taoscar Hernandez
Speaker 1: is who we're going to be talking about as an
Speaker 1: undervalued player. Hit twenty six home runs last year in
Speaker 1: a not great pitching environment, goes to a much better spot.
Speaker 1: The bat x actually has him projected as the most
Speaker 1: homers with twenty eight at least versus ATC I could
Speaker 1: see him easily going over thirty in that really really
Speaker 1: strong lineup and good hitting environment. How undervalued is Taoscar
Speaker 1: When you think about the scope of where he is,
Speaker 1: the lineup protection, and really who he was lot. Even
Speaker 1: in that environment last year, dude still hit twenty six homers.
Speaker 2: I know, I know.
Speaker 3: It's just absolutely you know, it's a perfect landing spot
Speaker 3: for Taioscar because he's going to play every day in
Speaker 3: LA and he's probably hitting behind like a Freddie Freeman,
Speaker 3: Will Smith guys who it's perfect to hit behind those
Speaker 3: guys because they don't really hit a ton of home runs.
Speaker 3: They just get on base consistently, so there's always gonna
Speaker 3: be ducks on the pond for Taoscar. He's also going
Speaker 3: at a point in the draft, at least where I've
Speaker 3: found so far in kind of feeling out, some of
Speaker 3: my early drafts feel like around this time of the draft,
Speaker 3: power starts.
Speaker 2: To wane a little bit in the player pool.
Speaker 3: And Taoscar is one of one of the last few,
Speaker 3: Like Anthony Santander's another guy kind of going a little
Speaker 3: bit later that I like too, But I feel like
Speaker 3: Taoskcar is one of the last few guys who not
Speaker 3: only gives you that power but doesn't really have deficiencies elsewhere.
Speaker 3: A lot of projections have ta Oscar hitting right around
Speaker 3: two sixty. And again the runs and RBI, those kind
Speaker 3: of hidden counting stats that are so hoorton and fantasy.
Speaker 3: Are you know the floor for that in la Is?
Speaker 3: I think just just massive, so perfect landing spot, especially
Speaker 3: compared to Seattle last year.
Speaker 1: I mean, and it's still like an above thirteen percent
Speaker 1: barrel rate. It was top ten percent tele in a league,
Speaker 1: hard hit percentage, love all of those things. He's still
Speaker 1: getting the ball in the air. The batting average you
Speaker 1: expected batting average. If you're somewhere between two fifty and
Speaker 1: two seventy for Taoscar, you're really in a great spot.
Speaker 1: And you know you said something that's really important. I
Speaker 1: was asked this question just the other day about like, hey,
Speaker 1: what's your early round prioritization if you were looking for categories,
Speaker 1: and I said, you know what, my surprise people, it's power,
Speaker 1: because speed usually is that answer. That's why you say
Speaker 1: that batting average might be one of those. It's kind
Speaker 1: of a pseudo one, but like power, I want power
Speaker 1: throughout the draft because I feel like we have a
Speaker 1: bigger gap between supreme power versus like stolen base Obviously,
Speaker 1: like if you had Ellie and a story Ruiz that
Speaker 1: might change the whole game on speed, But you can
Speaker 1: catch up speed every where you're mentioning we get to
Speaker 1: the top one hundred or outside the top one hundred,
Speaker 1: there's only so many more real power bats that can
Speaker 1: maintain some average, you said, Anthony Santander. I would say,
Speaker 1: like ta Oscar and Jorge Solaire are like two of
Speaker 1: my big options. There's a couple corner infielders. We're actually
Speaker 1: going to talk about one in a second. But chasing
Speaker 1: power a little bit later is still something you have
Speaker 1: to pay attention to and do. And outfield gets it
Speaker 1: wanes out a little bit, like are you in the
Speaker 1: camp that outfield absolutely gets away from you? Or do
Speaker 1: you think that narrative is kind of getting overplayed?
Speaker 3: So I just drafted the Labor Mixed League Tuesday night,
Speaker 3: and it's a fifteen team mixed league, and did I
Speaker 3: had one outfielder in the first twelve rounds.
Speaker 2: And man, I was nervous.
Speaker 3: I was very nervous when outfielder, outfielder, outfielder rounds thirteen,
Speaker 3: fourteen to fifteen, because I could kind of see the
Speaker 3: writing on the wall that this was starting to fade quickly.
Speaker 2: So I feel like I got out just in time.
Speaker 3: But I think you do need to kind of keep
Speaker 3: track of where your outfielders are at, because once you
Speaker 3: start to get into that, like those late teens rounds,
Speaker 3: it's it starts to get pretty tough. It's a lot
Speaker 3: of just like older platoon bats, and you kind of
Speaker 3: don't want that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's some guys I like, like, I'm into Jared
Speaker 1: Kellnick this year. I'm into Jared Durant and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: But again, if you're focusing in on power too, there's
Speaker 1: only so many. Who was the one outfielder you did
Speaker 1: get in the beginning.
Speaker 2: It was Brian Reynolds's core piece.
Speaker 1: I love that. Yeah, my tout I actually started with
Speaker 1: Corbyn Carroll. But that's my only outfielder so far. But
Speaker 1: draft and hold, we're like six rounds in or something
Speaker 1: like that, So shocker that I got Corbyn Carroll. Let's
Speaker 1: go into the fourth undervalued player and we're serving up burgers.
Speaker 1: He is Jake Berger. Definitely heard this name a whole lot.
Speaker 1: We know the hard hit numbers through the roof. He's
Speaker 1: outside the top one fifty ECR ranks over on Fantasy Pros.
Speaker 1: His ADP is even lower. Let's talk about Jake Berger
Speaker 1: and those obscene hard hit numbers and why he is
Speaker 1: so undervalued.
Speaker 3: That's the main part. Art we all know Jake Berger
Speaker 3: has power. I think it's I think it's elite power.
Speaker 3: I think it's elite power, and what we saw from
Speaker 3: Jake Berger and I try not to go too much,
Speaker 3: especially for hitters, into like first half second half stats
Speaker 3: that much, but in Jake Berger's case, with the context
Speaker 3: of kind of honestly just getting kind of jerked around
Speaker 3: in the first half of the season with the White Sox,
Speaker 3: inconsistent playing time, playing different positions, that sort of thing.
Speaker 3: Berger finally, once he went to Miami, settled into a
Speaker 3: role and not only kept the thump, kept the power,
Speaker 3: but severely cut down on his strikeout right to the
Speaker 3: point where, like I do think, maybe not as high
Speaker 3: as like a Taoscar batting average, but I think Jake
Speaker 3: Berger can hit two fifty. I don't think this is
Speaker 3: just a power bat who's going to hurt you in
Speaker 3: batting average. And so for all those reasons, Berger is
Speaker 3: a very much target for me. And third base too,
Speaker 3: just looking at kind of a macro level at that position,
Speaker 3: you're a couple guys after Jake Berger, you're starting to
Speaker 3: get in trouble at the hot corner. So Jake Berger
Speaker 3: is just at the time of the draft and the
Speaker 3: power batting average foundation that he provides, I think it's
Speaker 3: a great fit for pretty much any team.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I want to second this. Ariol Cohen beat the
Speaker 1: Shift podcast. They just had me on and we did
Speaker 1: a draft using Fantasy Pro's Draft Wizard. I had a
Speaker 1: good team, but I tanked third base. When I say
Speaker 1: I tanked it, I just at every level I was like, oh, okay,
Speaker 1: I just missed him. We'll just wait for this guy. Oh,
Speaker 1: we'll wait, and then all of a sudden we were
Speaker 1: no longer waiting. I completely tanked it. Jake Berger was
Speaker 1: one of those targets and I completely messed it up.
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Speaker 1: friend Justin Steel who has a Draft Wizard on his
Speaker 1: phone and he likes the draft a guy, Yeah he does.
Speaker 1: We we we were just hanging out. As I told
Speaker 1: the story, people are so sick of me and I apologize.
Speaker 1: But he found out I worked at Fantasy Pros and
Speaker 1: he was like, are you serious. He's like, I love
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Speaker 1: some extra credit at my job. And he pulled up
Speaker 1: the Draft Wizard. He had the Draft Wizard on his
Speaker 1: phone and we had a great time. So he might
Speaker 1: have some swag come in his way, but be like Steel.
Speaker 2: Moving him up the rings. Now.
Speaker 3: I have used I have used the the mock Draft
Speaker 3: tool and it is awesome, but the experimentation you get
Speaker 3: to knock out a mock draft very quickly and just
Speaker 3: play with different different types of bills and that sort
Speaker 3: of thing. But yeah, to go back to third base.
Speaker 3: In labor, I was in the same predicament as you
Speaker 3: well did not take Jake Berger. I was actually a
Speaker 3: snipe by Mike pod Ors or not that I'm keeping
Speaker 3: track of how that work. Waited all the way to
Speaker 3: get Matt Chapman, who does not have a home. I
Speaker 3: think will I think I'll get signed. But that was
Speaker 3: that was like the eighteenth nineteenth round. It's a bad
Speaker 3: place to be if you wait on third base that long.
Speaker 1: That mock I did. I would have killed for Matt Chapman.
Speaker 1: That's how bad I did. So just you can't go
Speaker 1: and check it out. I do a really bad job,
Speaker 1: all right. Number five, Let's go to the next undervalue.
Speaker 1: This is one of my favorites. I've talked about him
Speaker 1: a decent amount. Nick Pavetta. Can you believe we're talking
Speaker 1: about him here, Nick Povett. No, actually particular crazy order
Speaker 1: outside of kind of the love and some of the
Speaker 1: big value. When we're going through these thirteen names, there's
Speaker 1: a little bit of like think of these as tiers,
Speaker 1: not like insane numbers. But and the reason I say
Speaker 1: that is Nick Pavett is ranked outside the top two
Speaker 1: hundred right now on Consensus ECR. His ADP, though, is
Speaker 1: higher than the rankers. That's a really interesting fact. And
Speaker 1: I've mentioned a little bit on the last few pods.
Speaker 1: One of the reasons I really love Nick Pavetta is
Speaker 1: from July first on last year, he led baseball in
Speaker 1: K percentage. And he also had and I'll say the
Speaker 1: stat one last time, he had the highest wiff addition
Speaker 1: from a starting pitcher year over year, if I could
Speaker 1: even properly say that. So he had the highest whiff
Speaker 1: addition like five or six percent to overall whiffs from
Speaker 1: any sp because it's usually filled with RP. So either way,
Speaker 1: like a big strikeout guy. They got body over there.
Speaker 1: Why do you like Nick Pavetta?
Speaker 3: It is that second half like dominance, but it's it's
Speaker 3: not just again cherry picking that second half. It was
Speaker 3: it was back by a pitch mix change, kind of
Speaker 3: joined the sweeper revolution had that had that change. And yeah,
Speaker 3: like I mean, my favorite, my favorite stat to look
Speaker 3: at his strikeout minus walk great from first to second
Speaker 3: half last year. The second highest jump in strikeout minus
Speaker 3: walk greate behind Freddie Peralta was Nick Pavetta at twenty
Speaker 3: nine percent, which is just which is just crazy.
Speaker 1: It's an absurd number.
Speaker 3: The the haters will say, yeah, but it was mostly
Speaker 3: out of a relief role. But he's Pavetta still threw
Speaker 3: over eighty innings in the second half, finished the season
Speaker 3: in the rotation through five starts actually to end the season,
Speaker 3: and in those five starts had I've got it right
Speaker 3: here a two thirty seven ERA, four percent walk grade
Speaker 3: and a sixteen percent swinging strike so just excellent stuff.
Speaker 3: We've all been burned by Nick Pavetta at some point
Speaker 3: in our fantasy lives.
Speaker 2: Yet here we are in the year twenty twenty four.
Speaker 3: Still hyping this guy. But I do think the changes
Speaker 3: that we saw from him, and you mentioned like Potty
Speaker 3: and some of the organization changes, I think he can
Speaker 3: reinvent himself and pitch very well over a full season
Speaker 3: in twenty four.
Speaker 1: You haven't played Fantasy baseball list. Nick Pavetta is her
Speaker 1: new season, so you have not, no, So it's all
Speaker 1: your turn this year because we're hyping them up. We're
Speaker 1: getting excited about it. We're going to stay on pitchers
Speaker 1: for a little bit. I alluded to this guy earlier.
Speaker 1: There are things to like about the twins, and outside
Speaker 1: of Pablo Lopez, they're actually all kind of undervalued. Like
Speaker 1: Bailey Ober and probably should have let Bailey Over out
Speaker 1: of here because he's come into a lot of conversations,
Speaker 1: but he has continued. He continuously fits the mold of
Speaker 1: the pitchers that I like. You talk about K minus
Speaker 1: walk percentage. His strikeouts aren't insane, but the walk percentage
Speaker 1: is really low, and he keeps it over a twenty
Speaker 1: K minus walk percentage, which you really really love. Bailey
Speaker 1: Over doesn't have a big power fastball, but has a
Speaker 1: kind of absurd wifth percentage. You don't see like twenty
Speaker 1: five plus wifth percentages on fastballs a whole bunch when
Speaker 1: you go and take a look, and it was twenty
Speaker 1: seven point seven. And all of his main three big
Speaker 1: pitches that are over ten percent had a twenty seven
Speaker 1: or higher percent wifth percentage. So it's a pretty eaven distribution.
Speaker 1: With good control, ERA is going to be there. There's
Speaker 1: good run support. Bailey Ober undervalued to what.
Speaker 3: Degree, to a pretty good degree. Like honestly, I Baileyover.
Speaker 3: He's a flyball pitcher, kind of like Joe Ryan. But
Speaker 3: what that does for Bailey Ob is it kind of
Speaker 3: locks in, especially with such a small walk rate, it
Speaker 3: locks in a really good whip, and I don't think,
Speaker 3: at least in you know, in road leagues, we don't
Speaker 3: talk about whip enough, and Bailey Ober has all the
Speaker 3: tools to be able to do that. The biggest thing
Speaker 3: for me with Bailey Ober is the number one hundred
Speaker 3: and sixty nine, one hundred and sixty nine innings from
Speaker 3: Ober last year, Like he would never very nice. He
Speaker 3: had never had a professional season with over one hundred
Speaker 3: and ten innings in a single season before. So to
Speaker 3: see Bailey ob jump from you know, one hundred eight
Speaker 3: innings in twenty twenty one fifty six and twenty two
Speaker 3: to one sixty nine last year across the miners and majors,
Speaker 3: like that's kind of the last box I was waiting
Speaker 3: for him to check, was that durability. So I think
Speaker 3: he can think he can stick all year man.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and you know the projections got I've only got
Speaker 1: him around like one forty something, So I think we
Speaker 1: can press. I think we can press our innings this year.
Speaker 3: And I think yeah, And I think he's locked into
Speaker 3: Minnesota's rotation.
Speaker 2: I don't see I mean.
Speaker 3: Unless there's another like bad fit with with the with
Speaker 3: with gopher ititis, with home run ball. I can't see
Speaker 3: Ober being out of that rotation. He's kind of gone
Speaker 3: in and out a little bit the last few years.
Speaker 3: But I think that role is pretty safe.
Speaker 1: All right, coming in at number seven, we are going
Speaker 1: to my Arizona Diamondbacks, I know, not World Series champs,
Speaker 1: just to.
Speaker 2: The World Series. Just the cameras cropped perfectly. It just
Speaker 2: says World Series. Can we can forget what has to pretend? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Boy can we? We can sure forget, But we won't
Speaker 1: forget in our drafts Merrill Kelly. Because Meryl that ADP
Speaker 1: every year. I mean, maybe it's a little bit higher
Speaker 1: and maybe it gives people it's a little bit more
Speaker 1: squeamish to people because he is boring. But ECR has
Speaker 1: got him at around one forty eight. His ADP is
Speaker 1: actually higher, so he's going higher in drafts, but that
Speaker 1: variance doesn't push him inside the top one hundred. But
Speaker 1: when you think about his ability to absolutely eat innings
Speaker 1: in a landscape where pitchers do not eat innings with
Speaker 1: a great defense and a great offense behind him, Marril
Speaker 1: Kelly has been and as solid as all. He's just boring.
Speaker 1: He's just a boring picture for a lot of people.
Speaker 1: But what I do think that does is it makes
Speaker 1: him undervalue to not only what he gives you, but
Speaker 1: what he provides your whole team context when you take
Speaker 1: some risk. I'm gonna take Cole Reagan's early on. But
Speaker 1: you know what I love. I love some of these
Speaker 1: boring pictures that can help just give me a baseline
Speaker 1: a little bit later when I'm taking some of those risks.
Speaker 3: And you need you need a Merrill Kelly or too
Speaker 3: in your in your in your fantasy rotation.
Speaker 2: Anyone who play has played the last couple of years.
Speaker 3: If you look at the waiver wire for starting pitchers,
Speaker 3: it is it is so barren. Yes, you can go
Speaker 3: with some of the guys where you know, we just
Speaker 3: talked about ober Cole Reagan's where like they you know
Speaker 3: that they're not quite the horse that that Merril Kelly is,
Speaker 3: But you're ope. If you get too much of those guys,
Speaker 3: you're opening up some risks that you need to at
Speaker 3: some point replace someone in your rotation. And that replacement value,
Speaker 3: replacement level value is is really bad for starting pictures,
Speaker 3: and it just gets worse in the deeper leagues that
Speaker 3: you play. So I actually think too, Like, yes, Meryl
Speaker 3: Kelly does get the boring label. We saw a nice
Speaker 3: uptick in the k rate and swinging strike rate. When
Speaker 3: I see both of those go up at the same
Speaker 3: time in the same season, I get excited. Yes, Meryl
Speaker 3: Kelly's thirty five years old, so like, is there truly
Speaker 3: another level? I don't know, but I think you've got
Speaker 3: a pretty good foundation with perhaps the ability to even
Speaker 3: get a few more strikeouts and maybe ascended that two
Speaker 3: hundred strikeout plateau he had one eighty seven last year.
Speaker 2: He almost got there.
Speaker 1: You know what I found out too, I didn't know
Speaker 1: until this year. He went to my high school and
Speaker 1: now now the high school. Yeah. Of course the famous
Speaker 1: people at our high school, Mark Andrews, Merril Kelly, and.
Speaker 3: Of course the Welsh. So those are your three that
Speaker 3: are out knew. I knew the Mark Andrews, I did
Speaker 3: not know, did not know Meryl. Yeah, And sadly I'm
Speaker 3: older than all of them, so was he? Yuh was
Speaker 3: hey you guys cross paths or old man is old
Speaker 3: man Kelly younger than you?
Speaker 1: Old Man Welsh was out of that high school when
Speaker 1: Merrill was popping in. So that's the that's the sadness.
Speaker 1: Let's go to number eight. This was a bloomer hand
Speaker 1: picked thyroi Strada. Gotta love stolen bases that you can
Speaker 1: get later in drafts and multiple qualifications. So talk to
Speaker 1: us about how and why thyro Strata is undervalued.
Speaker 3: Kind of have been in love with Thyrostrata ever since
Speaker 3: I wrote I wrote his player box in.
Speaker 2: The Baseball Forecaster. What Baseball HQ puts.
Speaker 3: Out every fall and we pump it out and get
Speaker 3: it out and by Thanksgiving.
Speaker 2: But I wrote Estrada's box back in October, and I
Speaker 2: just there it is there.
Speaker 1: It is a little little plug.
Speaker 3: There you go, my boys, I gotta take my gnome down,
Speaker 3: but beneath my gnome is senior Acunye.
Speaker 1: Yeah, sorry, completely completely broke the podcast, but I wanted
Speaker 1: to give you guys a plug. You guys sent me one, so.
Speaker 2: Put it out there. Excellent.
Speaker 3: So, yes, I I had mister Estrada's box in that book,
Speaker 3: and I'm just I think the batting I would hit
Speaker 3: two seventy one last year.
Speaker 2: I think he can totally repeat that.
Speaker 3: I think the stolen bases and talking with Bubba, who's
Speaker 3: very much plugged into San Francisco. Bubba's confident that Estrada
Speaker 3: is going to get that green light. Had a, you know,
Speaker 3: almost an eighty percent success rate on the bases last year,
Speaker 3: and that helps. So I think there's thirty stolen base
Speaker 3: potential with the strata. And I'm more bullish on the
Speaker 3: power most of all than I think everyone else. I
Speaker 3: think a lot of the projections have a strata like
Speaker 3: in the low teens for home runs. I think he
Speaker 3: can get into the high teens maybe best case pop
Speaker 3: twenty home runs. And if that's the case, I'm not
Speaker 3: calling for that. I think it's probably more fifteen sixteen.
Speaker 3: But I think this is a five category guy eligible
Speaker 3: at two positions that's gonna play every day in San Francisco.
Speaker 3: The big thing too, with the strata, like we kind
Speaker 3: of had a little bit of a fade in the
Speaker 3: second half, but he broke his hand in June or
Speaker 3: in July, and I think that I think that affected
Speaker 3: things for Estrata in the second half. So I'm much
Speaker 3: more willing to believe the early breakout path that we
Speaker 3: saw from Estrata in the first half last year.
Speaker 1: ADP One, p. Fifty two. For Estrata, you don't usually
Speaker 1: see guys get higher projections stolen bases when they've played
Speaker 1: over one hundred games. Now it's simple because they're projecting
Speaker 1: more games, so his stolen base numbers are higher. But
Speaker 1: even still you don't see that. Sometimes you'll see a
Speaker 1: guy that plays one hundred games, their projections will then
Speaker 1: put him at one hundred and forty and then the
Speaker 1: stolen bases are about the same. These are actually higher.
Speaker 1: If he were to go twenty twenty, you are easily
Speaker 1: breaking inside the top one hundred, and this would be
Speaker 1: one of the bigger, bigger, most undervalued players with all
Speaker 1: the other position eligibility. So that is a very fun
Speaker 1: one coming in at number nine. I'm excited to hear
Speaker 1: your take on this one. Cedric Mullins stolen bases again,
Speaker 1: Cedric Mullins was underwhelming, hitting two thirty three last year.
Speaker 1: Fifteen homers was a three year low, the nineteen stolen
Speaker 1: bases were a three pretty much three year lows across
Speaker 1: the board with strikeouts coming up, but projections they throw
Speaker 1: it all out the window because you do have a
Speaker 1: three year a three year window that it's working off of,
Speaker 1: so they really see last year as more of the outlier,
Speaker 1: his cost is cheap, and is it that outlier season
Speaker 1: that makes him such a good value right now?
Speaker 3: That's what I'm banking on, I think Cedric Mullens. So
Speaker 3: we do have that two year track record of over
Speaker 3: thirteen hundred played appearances from twenty twenty one and twenty
Speaker 3: twenty two where Cedric Mullins was just an absolute monster
Speaker 3: for fantasy this time.
Speaker 2: Last year, Mullins I believe was like a third round pick.
Speaker 2: I think, yes.
Speaker 3: One of my kind of things is we and I'm
Speaker 3: guilty of it all the time focus on just last
Speaker 3: season so much we tend to forget what this track
Speaker 3: record was for a player who is still not even thirty.
Speaker 3: This is Cedric Mullins is age twenty nine season, so
Speaker 3: I think he's young enough to turn things around. I
Speaker 3: wonder there was a similar to like the broken hand
Speaker 3: with the strata that I just mentioned. Love to go
Speaker 3: in and look at injuries and kind of see the
Speaker 3: before and after. Cedric Mullins had a pretty bad groin
Speaker 3: strain in the middle of this season, and again those
Speaker 3: second half numbers just absolutely tank. So this is a
Speaker 3: guy who, quite honestly, in five of the last six
Speaker 3: half seasons, if that makes sense, has been really good.
Speaker 3: It's just his last half season was awful.
Speaker 2: And there is some platoon risk.
Speaker 3: I'll give you that, like he didn't play against lefties
Speaker 3: down the stretch last year for Baltimore. But I think
Speaker 3: he'll stay even if he hits lower in the order
Speaker 3: against South Pause. I think Cedric Mullins is young enough
Speaker 3: to turn this around and get back to the player
Speaker 3: he was. Maybe not in twenty twenty one when he
Speaker 3: went thirty thirty. I'm not going to sit here and
Speaker 3: say that, but a lot closer to the twenty twenty
Speaker 3: two version that hit sixteen homers, thirty four steals and
Speaker 3: hit two fifty eight.
Speaker 1: Pretty electric lineup that could potentially be as well, and
Speaker 1: that the veteran hitting near the tippy top of it free.
Speaker 1: Cedric Mullens is also one of those players. Why when
Speaker 1: I look and I'm like, hey, I can get stolen
Speaker 1: bases a little bit later Tyrostrada Cedric Mullins won thirties
Speaker 1: ADP four in rank for Mullins, one fifties for Estrata.
Speaker 1: You can find those stolen bases a little bit later.
Speaker 1: You don't find all of those those big power numbers.
Speaker 1: All right, we're coming into the last couple. We've actually
Speaker 1: got two, and then we're gonna do a final undervalued
Speaker 1: battle between these guys. But I want to remind you
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Speaker 2: I like that.
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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yea, yeah yeah, put in the
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Speaker 1: some fun with it. All right. Here are the last
Speaker 1: couple ones. Here. The last one is gonna be a
Speaker 1: battle of versus. But let's stop over to actually the
Speaker 1: camp that I was just over at the Brewers with
Speaker 1: Willia Damas. Now, Willia Damas was one of those kind
Speaker 1: of premier power shortstops, one of the guys that everybody
Speaker 1: wanted to target. He was why you could skip out
Speaker 1: on shortstop early on in draft. If I could get
Speaker 1: myself a Willia Damas well, the battang average just started
Speaker 1: to sink two seventeen after a two thirty eight year.
Speaker 1: Except here is the addit. He is projected for a
Speaker 1: higher batting average of this year on every single projection
Speaker 1: system than he has hit over the last two seasons.
Speaker 1: So XBA is higher, expected slug is higher, every expected
Speaker 1: number is higher for Willia Damas. So talk to me,
Speaker 1: mister Ran Bloomfield, about Willia Damas and can he be
Speaker 1: a massively undervalued draft target this year?
Speaker 3: Yeah? I mean taking the longer view with the Damas.
Speaker 3: He was a consistent two fifty two to sixty hitter
Speaker 3: with Tampa earlier, earlier in his career, And so I
Speaker 3: actually buy the at HQ and the forecaster we have
Speaker 3: a damis projected for two forty five, which is higher
Speaker 3: than two thirty eight and two seventeen his last two seasons.
Speaker 3: As well, the babbitt was insanely low last season. This
Speaker 3: is not a two seventeen hitter. A. Damas also had
Speaker 3: a concussion in May, I believe, and I it seemed
Speaker 3: like that linger June was by far Willia Damas's first
Speaker 3: month started to turn things around after that hit two
Speaker 3: thirty who kind of started to come back up in
Speaker 3: the second half. The biggest thing for me, it's just
Speaker 3: the power. If you need a power hitting shortstop. At
Speaker 3: this point in the draft, I think Adamis is fine.
Speaker 3: He's gonna play every day in a decent lineup. So
Speaker 3: so I mean I like Estrata more, but where Adamas
Speaker 3: is going it makes sense. And then again different types
Speaker 3: of players if you need batting averager speed.
Speaker 1: Actually also maybe two compliments with the strata's ability for
Speaker 1: multiposition eligibility, you can throw a Damis in a middle infield.
Speaker 1: He is ranking one seventy one. I also want to
Speaker 1: point out in all those projections he is just at
Speaker 1: the thirty home run marker. It's somewhere between twenty six
Speaker 1: and twenty eight home runs. You get one little bit
Speaker 1: of a pop and a bus back, you might have
Speaker 1: thirty plus home runs with that two to fifty batting
Speaker 1: average for a Damas, and he might be a trade
Speaker 1: candidate to go to an amazingly incredible destination that makes
Speaker 1: his fantasy output even more exciting. Let's not say that
Speaker 1: that's not a possibility. As I saw self Frielick actually
Speaker 1: working at shortstop in the outfield here the other day,
Speaker 1: So I would not throw that under the bus quite
Speaker 1: yet for him. All right, this is the last one
Speaker 1: before our battle, and we're going to talk about Jamer Candelario,
Speaker 1: who goes to the Reds. This is going to be
Speaker 1: pseudo number eleven because twelve and thirteen are going to
Speaker 1: be a battle. Hit twenty two home runs last year
Speaker 1: with a two fifty one batting average, now goes to
Speaker 1: the world's greatest ballpark factor you could possibly have, and
Speaker 1: is going to play all day. Yet his value really
Speaker 1: has not. Let me look at it here. One ninety
Speaker 1: seven is his average, his expert consensus rank with an
Speaker 1: EIGHTYP on all the major sites take away our ranks
Speaker 1: outside the top two hundred. So is Candelario one of
Speaker 1: the better corner infield targets you could have. And we
Speaker 1: talked about missing out on third base. That might work
Speaker 1: out for you. So talk to me about Jamer Candelario.
Speaker 3: Exactly one of those few kind of semi shining stars
Speaker 3: at third base in an otherwise vast array of blackness.
Speaker 3: So Candelario is I like him. Hark factor is fantastic.
Speaker 3: The question is the playing time That we know there
Speaker 3: are approximately thirty five infielders in Cincinnati buying for playing time,
Speaker 3: but I think it's pretty safe.
Speaker 2: I think it's pretty safe for Candelarios.
Speaker 1: So I said it was they told that.
Speaker 4: They said, like, he's playing every day, like you can't,
Speaker 4: and like I believe that more than oh, we don't
Speaker 4: know he's going to play every day because maybe you're
Speaker 4: just trying to incite some competition.
Speaker 3: It is.
Speaker 2: I trust a team when they I trust a team
Speaker 2: a little bit more.
Speaker 3: I never fully trust a team, but I trust him
Speaker 3: a little bit more when they say they come out
Speaker 3: and say he's going to play every day. I think
Speaker 3: you do need to take that at face value. So
Speaker 3: for all those reasons, Candelario like it doesn't have the
Speaker 3: highest ceiling in the world, But if you can get
Speaker 3: a third basement that hits two fifty twenty twenty five
Speaker 3: home runs in that park in a really good lineup, again,
Speaker 3: I think it works very well.
Speaker 1: Qualifying it first and third is going to be a
Speaker 1: big key to for where you can move him around
Speaker 1: for any deficiencies. Maybe you take on a little bit
Speaker 1: a risk at third or first base, a little bit
Speaker 1: of injury risk out there. Having that guy with a
Speaker 1: ballpark factor that can go twenty five plus. In all
Speaker 1: of this other thing aside. Think of how exciting and
Speaker 1: kind of amazing that lineup could be if all the
Speaker 1: things work out with Spencer Steer and Elie da Lacruz
Speaker 1: and if everybody's going that could be like this year's
Speaker 1: Diamondbacks as far as how they're running and how you know,
Speaker 1: aggressive they are offensively, and he could be at the
Speaker 1: forefront of it. He really could be kind of like
Speaker 1: the Lords Guriel breakout Lord has kind of broke back
Speaker 1: out post post post post h sleeper type of guy
Speaker 1: from last year. Jamer could be one of those as well.
Speaker 1: All Right, so this last one, this is a pitcher
Speaker 1: duel for undervaluedness, and they're very different because I think
Speaker 1: perception is different. One was kind of a reliever going
Speaker 1: into starter and one we really don't know anything about,
Speaker 1: so how can they be undervalued? We are pitting Shota
Speaker 1: Amonica versus Christopher Sanchez.
Speaker 2: Up.
Speaker 1: What a weird collection of names. I know you're saying that,
Speaker 1: but Christopher Sanchez is a very popular sleeper in a
Speaker 1: lot of lands, so much so mister Ryan Bloomfield gave
Speaker 1: me him as one of the names he wanted to
Speaker 1: talk about. I threw on show to Amonica because everybody
Speaker 1: can't stop talking about if Justin Steele couldn't stop talking,
Speaker 1: Nick Pollock had him in the thirty fives. A Monica
Speaker 1: might be a monster. But people don't know what they're
Speaker 1: in for. So here's the question, what you know versus
Speaker 1: what you don't know? And what we do know is
Speaker 1: both of these guys are outside the top two hundred.
Speaker 1: So who is more undervalued, Christopher Sanchez or Choto Amonica.
Speaker 3: Yes, I pleaded incessantly that we add Christopher Sanchez on
Speaker 3: the on the rundown here. He is my pitcher that
Speaker 3: I'm trying to get in every single draft outside the
Speaker 3: top two hundred. I will admit that the track record,
Speaker 3: the minor league numbers with Christopher Sanchez were not that great.
Speaker 2: The schedule down the stretch was pretty soft.
Speaker 3: But this change up that he refined and threw more
Speaker 3: as throughout the season went on, Christopher Sanchez. It was
Speaker 3: one of the best pitches in baseball in terms of
Speaker 3: ground balls and whiffs, and that's what you want a
Speaker 3: change up to do. You want to get that on
Speaker 3: the ground and you want it to miss bats. The
Speaker 3: walk rate was fantastic. I use ball percentage to kind
Speaker 3: of validate a walk rate and Christopher Sanchez through strikes consistently.
Speaker 3: Anytime you have someone with like a four to five
Speaker 3: percent walk rate with the ground ball rate that's in
Speaker 3: the upper fifties, it's just it just does so much
Speaker 3: for you in terms of run prevention. And yes, like
Speaker 3: the strikeout upside may not quite be there, but if
Speaker 3: that change up continues to kind of do what we
Speaker 3: saw in the second half, I think Christopher Sanchez is
Speaker 3: an absolute breakout this year. Like I said, having him
Speaker 3: on every single one of his one of my teams.
Speaker 3: No shade to Amonaga, but I'm going Sanchez.
Speaker 1: Man, okay, so clearly over so Chris Sanchez wins that battle.
Speaker 1: But show too, Monica is still a potential big underva
Speaker 1: because he has not jumped in value. He is too.
Speaker 1: Let me like I just had it up here. He
Speaker 1: was two oh eight on the consensus rank and or no,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry that was his ADP was two o eight.
Speaker 1: He was around two twenty. Chris Sanchez has an ECR
Speaker 1: of two sixty, but is two eighty three, So that
Speaker 1: is a difference. There's almost eighty spot difference in eighty
Speaker 1: P versus these two guys, it's just will Sanchez's innings
Speaker 1: and strikeouts go to a level if Amnaica works out
Speaker 1: where I think in some people's minds the Monica might
Speaker 1: be way closer than Yoshinobu Yamamoto than anybody actually really
Speaker 1: expects and could be one of the front runners in
Speaker 1: that cub's rotation. But Christopher Sanchez is a free square.
Speaker 3: That's kind of the big one, right, Yeah, and then
Speaker 3: the thing all out about Amanica too. Yeah, Go go
Speaker 3: compare Yamamoto and Amonica's numbers last year and then compare
Speaker 3: their ADP this year. I think I think you'll be surprised.
Speaker 3: I think that's yeah. I think that's the big thing with.
Speaker 1: So Minic got and you got a great splitter to
Speaker 1: go with the you know, the number one stuff. Plus
Speaker 1: in the WBC. You can say all of that, God can't.
Speaker 1: If you can say it, you're hired. I cannot. Those
Speaker 1: are the thirteen undervalued players that you guys need to target,
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