Speaker 1: And listen to me. This is the Fantasy Football Best
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Speaker 1: Hey with that? What are you inside of Studio thirty four?
Speaker 1: This is the BFFs. I am Greg saus joy is
Speaker 1: Where's Frank? Frank? Where Frank? We're starting the show? Frank?
Speaker 1: Where where Frank? What are you doing? Frank? What are you?
Speaker 1: What are you doing? Oh? Oh, hello there? Greg? What's
Speaker 1: going on? Man? Are you? Are you? Are you taking
Speaker 1: notes on other shows content? What are you watching other
Speaker 1: shows during our show? Are you cheating? Greg? I'm just
Speaker 1: using the technological advancements that we have to try and
Speaker 1: gain an edge in the industry. There's a very competitive industry, Frank.
Speaker 1: That's against the rules. You can't watch other shows during
Speaker 1: our show try to create better content. You can't do that.
Speaker 1: That is cheap. Doesn't say it anywhere in the rule
Speaker 1: You canna say it anywhere in the rule book that
Speaker 1: I can't use technology to help gain an edge in
Speaker 1: the industry. Doesn't say it anywhere in the rule, but
Speaker 1: even trash can to let me go what all their
Speaker 1: shows are doing? Are you kidding me? This is against
Speaker 1: every law, the industry, every grace that we have. This
Speaker 1: is just wrong, man, Greg. I just want us to
Speaker 1: be the best that we possibly can. We were nominated
Speaker 1: for an f s w A Award a couple of
Speaker 1: years ago. I want to get back to where we
Speaker 1: were back in I want to be the best. We
Speaker 1: can't do this. This isn't right, all right, I gotta
Speaker 1: I gotta do something about this. So let's go to
Speaker 1: the update with Shaan Wassilakia and when we come back,
Speaker 1: I will handle this for all of us sports grade news.
Speaker 1: I'm Sean Glossomachia with your BFF sports grid News up.
Speaker 1: The Astros cheating scandal takes a new turn as the
Speaker 1: players met the media today. Astros Alex Regman and Jose
Speaker 1: Altuve are deeply sorry for the choices they made by
Speaker 1: their team and the organization as well. Regman went on
Speaker 1: to say, I've learned from this and I hope to
Speaker 1: regain the trust of baseball fans. Um It was not
Speaker 1: well received by the media, a couple of stumbles by
Speaker 1: the Houston Astros organization. Their owner Crane met the media
Speaker 1: as well and kind of contradicting himself a number of times.
Speaker 1: So not a good look for the Houston Astros or
Speaker 1: all the Chatman Yankees. Closer, he also met the media
Speaker 1: and he called Old Jose Al two action where after
Speaker 1: he hit the home run off of Chapman, his actions
Speaker 1: afterwards where they wouldn't rip off his jersey suspicious. So
Speaker 1: stay tuned as this cheating scandal continues to make headlines.
Speaker 1: All right, let's look at the NBA scoreboard today. Just
Speaker 1: two games later tonight eight pm Eastern Time, you have
Speaker 1: the Los Angeles Clippers at the Boston Celtics. Celtics two
Speaker 1: point favorites on the point spread to your total. And
Speaker 1: the nightcap, the last game before the NBA All Star Break,
Speaker 1: it's the Oklahoma City Thunder at the New Orleans Pelicans.
Speaker 1: Pelicans three and a half point favorites on the point
Speaker 1: spread two thirty four and a half is your total.
Speaker 1: And on the basketball college basketball Lanscope tonight, a couple
Speaker 1: of big games, you have Iowa at Indiana the Who's yours?
Speaker 1: Two point favorites in that one one and a half
Speaker 1: your total. Arizona State at Stanford later tonight, that's two
Speaker 1: and a half point favorites for the Ardinal one thirty
Speaker 1: eight and a half your total in that. When Washington
Speaker 1: State at u c l A. That rounds out the
Speaker 1: college basketball action eleven pm Eastern time, tip seven and
Speaker 1: a half point favorites for the Bruins one thirty seven
Speaker 1: your total. All right, let's head back now to the
Speaker 1: BFFs with Greg and Frank. That's your sports grid update.
Speaker 1: Back to you guys. Niculous, I mean, it's just simply ridiculous.
Speaker 1: I mean, you're using a monitor right to watch other
Speaker 1: shows during our show, completely unethical. So I had now
Speaker 1: taken this monitor. I smash it. Look at this, I
Speaker 1: smash it because he's unacceptable. It is unacceptable what you did,
Speaker 1: and I will not stand for it. I won't. I
Speaker 1: will do it. Remember when they know grants the fun
Speaker 1: well and right, Greg doesn't care about anything. I care
Speaker 1: about ethics and I care about doing this right Indias
Speaker 1: industry and that is not allowed. Well, Greg, how was
Speaker 1: I supposed to know that just because you're here smashing
Speaker 1: a TV that you wanted me to stop doing what
Speaker 1: I was doing. How was I supposed to perceive that
Speaker 1: because we should stop? It's not right? How was I
Speaker 1: supposed to know that? How about this right? Me smashing
Speaker 1: the TV? Not right? But you never told me to stop.
Speaker 1: You never actually told me to stop. All you did
Speaker 1: was smash a TV that I was using to gain
Speaker 1: an edge so that we can be the best. How
Speaker 1: is I supposed to know that? But you smashing this TV?
Speaker 1: You wanted me to stop doing that? Rank you mentioned
Speaker 1: that we are in f s W, a award nominated show.
Speaker 1: Do you think we needed this to steal it that? Look,
Speaker 1: I'm not saying that it would have helped us be better.
Speaker 1: I can't say that it would have not helped us
Speaker 1: be better. You know what that matters is that we
Speaker 1: were nominated. I have to ask, like, who is mombing this?
Speaker 1: How many all the people knew? Like does Florio? No?
Speaker 1: Does Florio know what happened here? Well? Speaking of Michael Florio,
Speaker 1: Mike Cardano, one of the leaders of the Sports scrit Network,
Speaker 1: he did suspend Michael Florio for a year at the time.
Speaker 1: At the time, he suspended him for a year, and
Speaker 1: because of that, we figured it was just best to
Speaker 1: let him go. So this is why Flourio now lives
Speaker 1: in California. He needed to leave the city because of
Speaker 1: what you guys did. Yeah, we look, we were disgraced
Speaker 1: by his actions and due to the suspension, we thought
Speaker 1: the best thing to do, the best course to take,
Speaker 1: was to just let him go. Greg, Alex, did you
Speaker 1: know about this? Do you know about this? Downstairs? With it?
Speaker 1: That Frank and Mike we're doing this? Greg, usually pretty
Speaker 1: on top of things here, I'm pretty disappointed in you.
Speaker 1: You're You're usually the one to say first come first, Listen,
Speaker 1: listen what I joined this show. When I enjoined Mike
Speaker 1: and Frank back, I didn't know they were doing this,
Speaker 1: and all right, when I got here and I noticed,
Speaker 1: I should have done more than hit the TV. You're right,
Speaker 1: I should have done more. But I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: I did what I thought I could, I didn't do enough.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. I'm sorry to the audience. I thought Frank
Speaker 1: was better than this. I thought Mike was better than this.
Speaker 1: I thought the brand of BFFs, the team that we are,
Speaker 1: it was better than this. And you know what we're not.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. I'm sorry. One of the final things that
Speaker 1: I will say is that the producers had no say
Speaker 1: in this whatsoever. They were just doing what they were told.
Speaker 1: Did anyone course in doing this, so they should be
Speaker 1: absolved of any wrongdoings. You know, they gave Mike Cardano,
Speaker 1: you know, the report, and because of that they were
Speaker 1: given immunity and they testified against the BFS. Just know
Speaker 1: but that the produce sers were not in charge of this, Gregg.
Speaker 1: They are absolved of any wrongdoing. And you know, as
Speaker 1: one of the hosts of the show, the producers will
Speaker 1: not be suspended, they will not be fined. They're absolved
Speaker 1: of any wrongdoing in this matter. Grace, who does whose
Speaker 1: idea is this? It was Michael Florio's, Michael Florias. That's
Speaker 1: why we had to let him go. Do you or
Speaker 1: do you feel responsible for us? I am in no way,
Speaker 1: shape or form responsible for this. If I think you
Speaker 1: can refer to my Cardano's report on the matter as well.
Speaker 1: Quick question, does this seem ridiculous to you? This is
Speaker 1: what we've just proven all sound completely absurd to you,
Speaker 1: Because it sounds absurd to me that the person that
Speaker 1: was physically benefited from watching the monitor from taking his notes.
Speaker 1: Nothing happens. Franks still gonna host the show today. The
Speaker 1: Astors are still going to play baseball this year, including
Speaker 1: the guys that cheating. Right, there's a sound of certain
Speaker 1: to you. I played the fifth. This is a ridiculous.
Speaker 1: The actions don't monish me. J Hinch. He's only new
Speaker 1: interviews on MLB Network and my p MLB outlets. Jim Cray,
Speaker 1: the owner of the Astros, absolves himself completely. Said they
Speaker 1: were good enough without cheating, it didn't matter. And yet
Speaker 1: they were. They cheated. Nothing happens. They don't care. It
Speaker 1: doesn't matter. Greg. I do have one final thing to
Speaker 1: remind you that according to Mike Cardonald's report, Again, according
Speaker 1: to Mike Cardinal's report, the commissioner of Sports Grid, he
Speaker 1: absolved the players of any wrong he absolved the producers
Speaker 1: of any wrongdoing. Here, I will just I will just
Speaker 1: refer to Mike Cardinal's report. Was there a buzzer used? Frank?
Speaker 1: According to my Cardinald's report, a thorough report. They looked
Speaker 1: into this throughout the investigation and they did not find
Speaker 1: any buzzers. So there were no buzzers, just cheating. Do
Speaker 1: you feel that other shows were wronged by what you did. Look,
Speaker 1: I can't say that the other shows would or would
Speaker 1: not have been affected by us cheating back in Seen.
Speaker 1: All I can tell you is that we were good
Speaker 1: enough to be nominated for an f s w A
Speaker 1: Award back in seventeen. Greg, we were good enough and
Speaker 1: we won that award. We would have won that award
Speaker 1: and we didn't get caught cheating. When we come back, well,
Speaker 1: we're gonna be prepared. We're gonna do what we do best,
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Speaker 1: off the grid. The investigation may be over. You know
Speaker 1: on the VFF side smashed this TV as what Frank did.
Speaker 1: But it's not time for a new set music. Back
Speaker 1: to doing what we do best, Frank, and that's that's analyzed, right.
Speaker 1: We want to help people win baseball. We don't need
Speaker 1: the sheet to do that. We just won't. We analyze
Speaker 1: the data. We give a better advice than any other
Speaker 1: show in the industry. And to do that, let's nave
Speaker 1: you a new segment we like to call ad V
Speaker 1: money in the bat Are you're playing the music this show? Already?
Speaker 1: I was ready to go there is there a dollar dollar?
Speaker 1: This is Greg trying to do the shame McMahon shuffle.
Speaker 1: You were trying money in the bank right here? Maybe
Speaker 1: a BP money the bay. How is this going to
Speaker 1: work going forward? We are going to give you three
Speaker 1: players that are going in a similar spot in a
Speaker 1: DP in sorry, in NFPC drafts over the in the
Speaker 1: month of February, there'll be three players going in a
Speaker 1: similar spot. We will tell you which player is Mr.
Speaker 1: Money in the bank, the one that you want to
Speaker 1: draft here the season, Frank, who do we got today?
Speaker 1: All right? We got three pictures. We're going back to
Speaker 1: back to back in terms of NFBC a DP, right,
Speaker 1: now the night picture off the board, Steven Strassburg with
Speaker 1: an ADP of twenty nine point nine in the month
Speaker 1: of February, Blake Snell with an a DP of thirty
Speaker 1: four point two in the month of February, and just
Speaker 1: behind him all of these pictures within five picks of
Speaker 1: each other in the NFBC Chris Sale with an ADP
Speaker 1: of thirty four point nine five. Greg, there's a constant
Speaker 1: theme among these three starting pitchers is that they're either
Speaker 1: all currently dealing with an injury or have dealt with
Speaker 1: plenty of injuries in the past, right, So all these
Speaker 1: guys know the injuries last year or injured now, as
Speaker 1: you mentioned here, this is our money in the bank
Speaker 1: segment where you're calling you which player we believe in
Speaker 1: the draft? These money in the bank, right you said it,
Speaker 1: there are three players were going after day, Steven Strassberg,
Speaker 1: who you know basically won the Nationals in the World Series,
Speaker 1: I would say, Blake Snell and Chris Sale all going
Speaker 1: within five pigs of each other. As you mentioned, let's
Speaker 1: start with the one going the earliest, that is Steven
Speaker 1: Strawson right now in the NFBC in the month February,
Speaker 1: he's going at twenty eight. Overall, you've had your concerns
Speaker 1: about Strasby the only time has been able to really
Speaker 1: stay healthy in that contract year. Now he's gotten paid
Speaker 1: and he stay healthy A goat. Yeah, I think that's
Speaker 1: the biggest question when it comes to Steven Strassburg. It
Speaker 1: was his first time over two hundred ennings last year
Speaker 1: since two thousand and fourteen. There's no doubting when he
Speaker 1: is on the mount. He's one of the best starting
Speaker 1: pitchers in baseball. A three one seven e r A
Speaker 1: in his career, a two x fit in his career,
Speaker 1: consistently over ten case per nine, and under two point
Speaker 1: seven five walks per nine in his career. Last year,
Speaker 1: you bring up that season that he had three three
Speaker 1: two e r a one oh four whip nearly eleven
Speaker 1: strikeouts per nine, a fifty one percent groundball rate, the
Speaker 1: second highest of his career. You want to look at
Speaker 1: the underlying numbers here for Steven Strassburg, a thirty seven
Speaker 1: percent chase rate career high, sixty three point six percent
Speaker 1: first pitch strike percentage, and a thirteen point four percent
Speaker 1: swinging strike create That was a career high for him
Speaker 1: as well. He changes things up. I to use the
Speaker 1: sinker more last year than ever before. He raised his
Speaker 1: curveball usage. According to Fangraphs pitch values, his curveball was
Speaker 1: the second best in baseball last year, behind only Charlie Morton.
Speaker 1: The biggest issue for Strossburg Greg is whether or not
Speaker 1: he can stay healthy. There are reports last year that
Speaker 1: he changed he changed up his training regiment with the
Speaker 1: Washington Nationals and that helped him stay healthy for the
Speaker 1: entirety of the season. There's no doubting that when he's
Speaker 1: on the mound he's one of the ten best starting
Speaker 1: pitchers in baseball. There's no doubt about. Usually someone Frank
Speaker 1: that buys when a guy makes a change between out
Speaker 1: Reese Hoskins, changing his batting stances another reason to get
Speaker 1: back in on him. But I have to wonder, because
Speaker 1: we've talked off their on air. You haven't been really
Speaker 1: in on Strasburg. But you want to dive into that,
Speaker 1: Garrett Cole, Jacob Degrand's here. You don't really want in
Speaker 1: on Steven Stotsburne and those injuries and just doing it
Speaker 1: one time, ever, has you a little bit questioned? You know,
Speaker 1: how are you questioning when you want to get back,
Speaker 1: you know, Steven Strossburg, but he changed the regiment up,
Speaker 1: he stayed healthy. Isn't that enough. I just feel like
Speaker 1: he's a little bit overvalued based on where he's been
Speaker 1: in years past. And we brought this up last year, right,
Speaker 1: we said, look, you're getting him in the fourth, fifth round.
Speaker 1: He's gonna be someone that goes in the second round
Speaker 1: and then he's gonna be someone who lets him down
Speaker 1: again because it seems like that's what Strassburg always does.
Speaker 1: There's no doubting the talent here. And he made a
Speaker 1: change to his pitch mix. As I mentioned, he started
Speaker 1: using the curveball more. He used a sinker eighteen and
Speaker 1: a half percent of the time. That's the first time
Speaker 1: he's consistently used that pitch since. So he did make adjustments.
Speaker 1: I like Steven Strasburg. I don't know personally if he
Speaker 1: is going to be my money in the bank here
Speaker 1: when we're comparing him up against Blake's now and Chris Sale.
Speaker 1: I do like him, maybe not to win this money
Speaker 1: in the bank, though, Greg. I know Mike Floria before
Speaker 1: he got suspended and ultimately fired from our show. I
Speaker 1: know that Michael Florio was all in on Blake's Now,
Speaker 1: that was his guy, and he got it right. Now.
Speaker 1: He probably cheated in order to get it right, but
Speaker 1: he ultimately get it right. Last year he told Blake
Speaker 1: Snell will be good again. He wasn't. He struggled, he
Speaker 1: got hurt, came back, got hurt, and then never really
Speaker 1: pitched keep into a game again. The Razor always going
Speaker 1: to be cautious with their starting pitchers. Blake Snews my
Speaker 1: forward siding on award where he won manybe leaves just
Speaker 1: two years ago. For you, Frank Lake's not gonna be
Speaker 1: more like eighteen or twenty nineteen here. I think the
Speaker 1: answer is he's gonna be somewhere in the middle, but
Speaker 1: probably closer toen. Look, he's not gonna replicate what he
Speaker 1: did in that side young year. I mean, he was
Speaker 1: extremely lucky in terms of BADIP that season, but last
Speaker 1: year that luck went completely too far the other way
Speaker 1: in terms of BADIP. Again, his bad have been ten
Speaker 1: to forty one for an entire season. Last year it
Speaker 1: was three forty three, with his hard hit rate being
Speaker 1: less in ten than it was in eighteen. So again
Speaker 1: the luck just swung completely the other way for Blake
Speaker 1: Snell last year, and if you look at the first
Speaker 1: eleven starts Craig before he dropped the piece of furniture
Speaker 1: on his toe and broke his toe, his first eleven starts,
Speaker 1: a nine percent swinging strike ery that is absolutely insane,
Speaker 1: a thirty five percent strike out rate, twenty seven point
Speaker 1: seven percent K minus walk percentage, a three oh six
Speaker 1: e r A, a three oh eight fit, a two
Speaker 1: eight to xfit. His first eleven starts Greg, while he
Speaker 1: was healthy last year, he was absolutely insane, and I
Speaker 1: think if he's healthy again, that's a lot to ask.
Speaker 1: He dealt with some shoulder fatigue and elbow injury in
Speaker 1: late July as well. Um, but by all accounts he
Speaker 1: is healthy this offseason and coming into spring training. If
Speaker 1: we can get anything close to the picture we saw
Speaker 1: inmost first eleven starts Greg before he fractured his toe,
Speaker 1: then I think he probably has the highest upside of
Speaker 1: this group. Isn't it kind of interesting that you're begging
Speaker 1: on a guy that did Injurus tough, they did have
Speaker 1: the shoulder fatigue, didn't pitch a full game after July
Speaker 1: last year. You're doing that rather than banking on a
Speaker 1: guy that let his team to a World Series last year,
Speaker 1: stayed healthy the entire season. I know the ADP is
Speaker 1: a couple of spots different, but about four or five
Speaker 1: spots earlier he was better. He earned it. But don't
Speaker 1: you almost worry about him making that deep run into
Speaker 1: the postseason a little bit more because the endings are
Speaker 1: up and he's not used to pitching that deep into
Speaker 1: the season. He was phenomenal, There's no doubt about it.
Speaker 1: We earned that World Series MVP. But someone who finally
Speaker 1: stayed healthy for over two endings and then pitched that
Speaker 1: far into the postseason as well, I think that adds
Speaker 1: a little extra, you know, level of nervousness here for
Speaker 1: Steven Strotsburg. Anyway, there's one more player in this trip
Speaker 1: will threat money in the bank contest, and that is
Speaker 1: Chris Sale. He was him and Sherzer last year. Which
Speaker 1: one do you want to take first? Well, Chris Seal
Speaker 1: never seemed right. Velossity never got there. We questioned if
Speaker 1: he was injured, He swore he wasn't injured, and around
Speaker 1: around we go Chris Sell mostly underlying numbers look pretty
Speaker 1: good ear a not a lotch It's four four when
Speaker 1: it was all said and done, he's already come down
Speaker 1: with a bout of pneumonious So he's behind the other
Speaker 1: starters in Boston of Austin team that's not expected to
Speaker 1: be good. Chris Tale has the ability because he's done
Speaker 1: it before Frank de finishes the number one overall picture,
Speaker 1: and you're getting later than Blake's now later in Steven Stocksberg,
Speaker 1: I'll like, you know, five picks in one pick. But
Speaker 1: that's what we're talking about, Chris Sal, Are you buying
Speaker 1: that last year it was an abnormality and we'll get
Speaker 1: the picture back that may have been the best picture
Speaker 1: in baseball? Are you buying that? Something certainly still seems
Speaker 1: off of Chrysale. Chris Sale. To me, Greg is the
Speaker 1: biggest wild card in fantasy baseball this upcoming season because
Speaker 1: we know when he's on your right he can be
Speaker 1: the sp one overall. He's also someone in my opinion,
Speaker 1: that could be shut down by mid May, by the
Speaker 1: middle of April, maybe even before spring training. I mean,
Speaker 1: something was not right with him last year, and we
Speaker 1: saw that he dealt with left shoulder inflammation in late July,
Speaker 1: and then he got shut down in mid August because
Speaker 1: of an elbow injury. He wpens to go visit Dr James,
Speaker 1: and he's three words you never want to hear when
Speaker 1: it comes to a starting pitcher in fantasy baseball, in
Speaker 1: regular in baseball in general. If you're a Boston Red
Speaker 1: Sox fan. He'll turn thirty one this upcoming season. I
Speaker 1: think the fact that his he has like a wonky delivery,
Speaker 1: and his frame is very uh. He has a very
Speaker 1: skinny frame, a very frail frame. I guess you could
Speaker 1: call it as well when it comes to Chris Sale.
Speaker 1: Those are things that worry me as well. The underlying
Speaker 1: numbers were great. I can't dispute that fourteen percent swinging
Speaker 1: strike create a two point nine three xfit. He did
Speaker 1: post a four point four e r A. His fastball
Speaker 1: velocity was down two miles per hour then where it's
Speaker 1: normally been at in his career, down to ninety three
Speaker 1: point seven miles per hour, the lowest it's been since sixteen.
Speaker 1: His hard hit rate was up. His left on base
Speaker 1: percentage was terrible. I watched a lot of Chris Sale
Speaker 1: greg last year. I had him on my NFBC Main
Speaker 1: event team. He was not right and his location was
Speaker 1: all over the place. He couldn't put hitters away. His
Speaker 1: last city was down. He's the biggest wall card and
Speaker 1: Fantasy Baseball this year. If you are, you know, a
Speaker 1: risk taker in the early rounds in Fantasy baseball, I
Speaker 1: tend to be risk averse in those early rounds. I
Speaker 1: want to build a solid foundation. Then you know, if
Speaker 1: you want to take that risk on Chris Sale, He's
Speaker 1: someone that can absolutely win you a league. But I
Speaker 1: think that within his range of Acams Gregg, he is
Speaker 1: somebody that can also be shut down by the middle
Speaker 1: of May. There's just no knowing. You know, based on
Speaker 1: this shoulder and elbow injury that he dealt with last year.
Speaker 1: That's the big question mark when it goes to Sale
Speaker 1: that he maybe not the same guy for he was
Speaker 1: a year or two ago, but there may be some
Speaker 1: underlying injury. But he swears he's healthy, So we're all
Speaker 1: last year he was healthy and nothing just seemed right.
Speaker 1: I don't know. It's the same staff. Can they get
Speaker 1: the most out of him? I do. I simply do
Speaker 1: not know. It's it's weird because his upside is greater
Speaker 1: than both, Like you said, it is greater than Blake Snells.
Speaker 1: It is greater than Stephen Shost because he's done it,
Speaker 1: He's been the number one overall is your in fantasy baseball?
Speaker 1: But that you know what, I actually feel like Blake
Speaker 1: Snell has the highest floor out of these guys because
Speaker 1: Sale can have a debilitating injury. We've seen shotspurg have
Speaker 1: debilitating injury. Snells wasn't like debilitating last year like Drops
Speaker 1: with furniture and the shoulder fatigue. I don't know, man,
Speaker 1: All right, this is it we got thirty seconds ago,
Speaker 1: and then we're gonna go more about Blake Snell in
Speaker 1: a few moments as doing stats is gonna join us
Speaker 1: from the sample of day rays. But Frank, who is
Speaker 1: Mr Money in the bank for you? Miss their money
Speaker 1: in the bank with these three injury pro starting pitchers.
Speaker 1: In my opinion, great, You're right, it's Blake Snell. I
Speaker 1: think he is the highest floor and I would argue
Speaker 1: that his ceiling is up there with Chriss Sales as well.
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Speaker 1: the middle of us. After I saved our show by
Speaker 1: ending the cheating that Frank did for years, for years, Frank,
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Speaker 1: What's up, Twain? Hey guys, how are you doing? We're
Speaker 1: doing fantastic, man, how are you? We're very well? Thank you,
Speaker 1: thank you. Some pitchers and cashers have afforded. Baseball season
Speaker 1: is upon us, and we were just talking about Blake's
Speaker 1: now who had those unfortunate injuries last year. Is he healthy?
Speaker 1: And ready to go and give us two or dreatings
Speaker 1: this year. Yeah, I think, uh, you know, he's coming
Speaker 1: to spring training. His big emphasis over the winter was
Speaker 1: eating better and better nutrition and all that. So I
Speaker 1: think for him to be focused on that. He's happy
Speaker 1: with the other recoveries from the problems he had. I
Speaker 1: think he's ready to go out and you know, show
Speaker 1: command of the fastball. And you know, he's been back
Speaker 1: and forth between his curveball and his slider over the
Speaker 1: last couple of years, and it really did seem than
Speaker 1: when he went with that breaking ball, the curveball more,
Speaker 1: you know, he was more effective. And I think I
Speaker 1: look back at him when he first came up with
Speaker 1: the variety of pitchers he had normally think the guy's
Speaker 1: going to command the fastball better than his secondary pitches,
Speaker 1: and he was actually just the opposite of that, and
Speaker 1: the idea that that he can command that curveball as
Speaker 1: well as a slider. But he really likes the curveball
Speaker 1: now and the change and the command of the fastball
Speaker 1: has been a you know, has been the biggest challenge
Speaker 1: for him when he struggles and he thinks, uh, all
Speaker 1: of those things are in line and he has something
Speaker 1: to prove coming off you know, the great year two
Speaker 1: years ago and then some inconsistency and some health injuries,
Speaker 1: health issues last year. So he's, uh, he wants to
Speaker 1: reassert himself at the at the top of that rotation. Hey,
Speaker 1: Joanne Frank standfel here, thank you so much for taking
Speaker 1: the time to join us today. We saw the Rays
Speaker 1: make a trade last week. They trade away Amilio Pagan,
Speaker 1: who was the team's closer last year, to acquire many
Speaker 1: more go Uh, the name of the show, here's the
Speaker 1: Fantasy BFF. So we're trying to give people antasy baseball information.
Speaker 1: We're trying to figure out who's gonna close for the
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay Raised this upcoming season. Because saves are very,
Speaker 1: very valuable in fantasy baseball that you might not have
Speaker 1: just one answer. It might be a combination of a
Speaker 1: bunch of different guys. But who do you think leads
Speaker 1: the Tampa Bay Raise in saves this upcoming season? Well
Speaker 1: right now they're saying it's a closer by committee, and
Speaker 1: I have to take them at their word. Pagan did
Speaker 1: emerge as the guy at twenty saves. As the season
Speaker 1: went on, he got opportunities once he got back to
Speaker 1: the big leagues, and I really think, um, I think
Speaker 1: you have a couple of front runners in Diego Castido
Speaker 1: and Nick Anderson, with Jose Alvarado short of the uh,
Speaker 1: the third guy in that mix. All three have as
Speaker 1: you know, I have great arms and and could close.
Speaker 1: Anderson when he came over from Miami was unbelievable, So
Speaker 1: I can he be as good as he was when
Speaker 1: he came over? Essentially, I think he had something somewhere
Speaker 1: in the mid thirties and strikeouts before he ever walked
Speaker 1: anybody after he came over here. And and the Castillo
Speaker 1: entry will determine will be determined. I think how much
Speaker 1: they use or do not use the opener they've been
Speaker 1: talking here now not only using you know, three starters
Speaker 1: like Morton and Snelldon and Glass now, but thinking of
Speaker 1: Torinos and Yarboro as starters. And if they do that,
Speaker 1: then that obviously would affect what happens in the bullpen,
Speaker 1: because they used Castillo a lot as an opener last year.
Speaker 1: So if he's consigned to the bullpen, he's got to
Speaker 1: be one of the front runners. It's gotta be Castio
Speaker 1: or Anderson and Alvarado two years ago and early last
Speaker 1: year had great stuff. He had some personal issues involving
Speaker 1: family and back and forth between Venezuela and and here.
Speaker 1: So they're hoping that they all get some consistency and
Speaker 1: he's settled in. But right now he's kind of the
Speaker 1: the wild horse pick out of those three. But if
Speaker 1: I had to pick somebody who's gonna lead this team
Speaker 1: and closures now, it would be it would be Castillo
Speaker 1: if they don't use the opener, and Anderson if they
Speaker 1: do use Cato as an opener. It was a great
Speaker 1: closive breakdown there from doing stats. You know, for me,
Speaker 1: I think what you mentioned with Josie Jose Alvarado is
Speaker 1: the obvious one because he was so good two years ago,
Speaker 1: he struggled last year. And we always say, Frank on
Speaker 1: the show, figure out some of these players personal lives
Speaker 1: and see what's going on. Read a little bit deeper
Speaker 1: than with the stats of the peach say, and knowing
Speaker 1: what now that he did have some family struggles in
Speaker 1: Venezuela and here in the States, and that certainly contributes
Speaker 1: the men a part of the game, which is a
Speaker 1: huge aspect of baseball. Yeah, absolutely, we always have to
Speaker 1: try and consider the human element. You know, what we
Speaker 1: do is trying to give out fantasy baseball information. A
Speaker 1: lot of that's going to be analytical driven, but you
Speaker 1: also have to look at what's happening off the field
Speaker 1: for some of these guys. And I think that's part
Speaker 1: of the issue with Jose Alvarado last year. The struggles
Speaker 1: that he was going with were obviously tied to things
Speaker 1: that were going on off the field. All Right, you
Speaker 1: mentioning Amelia Pagondred and asked, who is the closer? Well,
Speaker 1: I'll be trying to figure out the other side of
Speaker 1: things in the outfield where this offseason, the Rays have
Speaker 1: acquired Manny Margot, They've acquired Hunter Renfro, they acquire Josie Martinez.
Speaker 1: All of these guys play similar positions in the outfield
Speaker 1: corner infield, they had a lot of names. They're, uh, here, Dwayne,
Speaker 1: who's gonna start for this race team? Well, they're trying
Speaker 1: to figure out positions right now. I actually think, you know,
Speaker 1: Kermeyer is going to be in center, Meadows is out there.
Speaker 1: Renfro is gonna get a lot of playing time. Marco.
Speaker 1: I think we'll get his playing time against uh selected lefties.
Speaker 1: You know, his numbers are very good against lefties. Kiermeyer
Speaker 1: and Margot give them top flight defense in center field,
Speaker 1: so it gives them an opportunity I think too, not
Speaker 1: have Kermeyer in the lineup against some lefties with the
Speaker 1: confidence that they're gonna get the same kind of defensive
Speaker 1: performance in center field, and probably against those lefties, better
Speaker 1: offense out of Marco than they get out of kier Meyer.
Speaker 1: And I think they're looking at Meadows to be the
Speaker 1: same guy he was a year ago. They're very high
Speaker 1: on him, and he's the one guy I think you
Speaker 1: can pencil in he's gonna be somewhere in that lineup
Speaker 1: every day in the outfield and some DH and Renfro.
Speaker 1: I think they they'd love to see him play and
Speaker 1: get as many advanced as he can becaumes of his power.
Speaker 1: The interesting thing about Meadows, you know he spent some
Speaker 1: time ding, but suddenly you know they have number of
Speaker 1: guys on this team that they're gonna have to consider
Speaker 1: as almost strict d H s and and that's led
Speaker 1: by Jose Martinez, who can swing the bat as power.
Speaker 1: They're concerned about his glove work, so I don't I
Speaker 1: don't know how many DH opportunities Meadows will get, which
Speaker 1: means he's going to be in that outfield more than
Speaker 1: he was maybe a year ago, because he's going to
Speaker 1: be in the lineup every day. So I would look
Speaker 1: at at that mix in their lineup and I think
Speaker 1: they're expecting, they're expecting good things out of Mark Go
Speaker 1: but in a role where he will give them great
Speaker 1: center field defense and great offense against lefties. And that's
Speaker 1: a flexibility there. But the rest of it, I think
Speaker 1: is what we've talked about already with the Martinez getting
Speaker 1: a lot of the d H at bats. Dweyne, you
Speaker 1: brought up Tyler Glass now earlier in terms of the
Speaker 1: pitching staff here for the table Bay raising. It looked
Speaker 1: like he was finally starting to put it all together
Speaker 1: last year, but then he got derailed with a forearm
Speaker 1: injury which limited him to just sixty and two thirds
Speaker 1: innings pitched last season. You know, what are you projecting
Speaker 1: for Tyler Glass now this upcoming season? For can he
Speaker 1: maintain those gains that he that we saw him kind
Speaker 1: of improve in terms of the control and the command
Speaker 1: last year. We really saw the walks Uh improved from
Speaker 1: Tyler Glass now last year, can he stay healthy in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty? What are your expectations for Tyler Glass now
Speaker 1: this upcoming season? Twain, Well, he's gonna have every opportunity.
Speaker 1: You know, he had the forearm issue, the strain last year. UH,
Speaker 1: he had he had a little procedure done to relieve
Speaker 1: a nerve issue in the in the rest area. They
Speaker 1: say he is fine. He threw yesterday. They were very
Speaker 1: pleased with what they saw. Their interesting thing about him,
Speaker 1: aside from that great velocity and you know nine seven
Speaker 1: somewhere a tick or two on either side of last year,
Speaker 1: that curveball was so great for him. I think uh
Speaker 1: the on base percentage of opposing hitters was under one
Speaker 1: seventy with his curveball. He wants to add and has
Speaker 1: worked on split this uh this offseason. So I'm anxious
Speaker 1: to see him in the offseason or see him in
Speaker 1: spring training to see how he incorporates that pitch in
Speaker 1: because from what we saw last year, his primary deal
Speaker 1: is to stay healthy, and I think he found that
Speaker 1: niche where that inconsistency that he had in UH in
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh that prevented him from the Pirates being competent enough
Speaker 1: to rely on him. It all came together here, and
Speaker 1: I think just being in an environment with the other
Speaker 1: pictures having Charlie More on this stamp certainly helped him
Speaker 1: and Kyle Snyder his influence on any of these pictures.
Speaker 1: I'm I'm a very big fan of Kyle Snyder, so
Speaker 1: I would look for good things there. I think they're
Speaker 1: again their rotation. If if they go with whether they
Speaker 1: go with those three guys that we talked about, our
Speaker 1: at RINOs and Yarbro to round it out to essentially
Speaker 1: a five man traditional rotation, they're gonna get a bundle
Speaker 1: of innings and quality innings out of all those guys.
Speaker 1: Right there, you go, Dwayne Stats from the Tampa Bay
Speaker 1: Raised broadcasting team. We appreciate your time, sir. I have
Speaker 1: a great spring and come back soon. We'll look forward
Speaker 1: to it. Good to be with you guys. Have some fun,
Speaker 1: We absolutely will. We're excited, man, baseball is back. We're
Speaker 1: excited to talk about it obviously all spring long. We
Speaker 1: come back, we're gonna take a look at some more
Speaker 1: a DPS. But we're doing yesterday regards to the juice
Speaker 1: ball era, who really gotta in fact, what are these
Speaker 1: power hitters were all basically because of the juice Ball
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Speaker 1: in Frankie Boy to the uh juice Ball Era guys.
Speaker 1: When Canna get you yesterday and I want to start
Speaker 1: that was miss IoT. The team that I think is
Speaker 1: super juice Ball Era, but like the Minnesota Twins, were
Speaker 1: bombs away last year from target field for the Baracobell
Speaker 1: Delly in his first year, and one of the breakout
Speaker 1: guys was Max cap starting center fielder for or sorry
Speaker 1: out fieldside for this Minnesota Twins team. What Keeviller did
Speaker 1: last year was awesome. You do it again, Michael and Frank.
Speaker 1: That's a fair question, Greg, And that's what we're gonna
Speaker 1: try and figure out right now. Thirty six home runs
Speaker 1: last year, he had two fifty two comes with a
Speaker 1: lot of prospect pedigree. It seems like he finally put
Speaker 1: it all together again. He is twenty seven years old,
Speaker 1: just turned only seven, much like Greg who just turned
Speaker 1: fifty three years old. But it was a breakout year
Speaker 1: for Max Kepler. You know what's crazy, his homeworn the
Speaker 1: flyball ratio eighteen percent, Greg does not seem completely unsustainable.
Speaker 1: It was the highest of his career. We saw back
Speaker 1: in had a fifteen percent home run to flyball ratio.
Speaker 1: The past two years, he's hit consistent flyballs around forty
Speaker 1: six percent of the time. He also hit the ball
Speaker 1: harder last year than ever before, a forty two percent
Speaker 1: hard contact rate. And something I really liked that we
Speaker 1: saw from Kepler. Last year, Greg as a left handed batter,
Speaker 1: finally started to hit well against left handed pitching. And
Speaker 1: we saw a little bit of that in the second
Speaker 1: half of the seen season, and it carried over to
Speaker 1: last year against lefties to batting average and eight eighty OPS. Now,
Speaker 1: what we need to do, Kepler, is we got to
Speaker 1: go back to hitting rightyth a little bit better as well,
Speaker 1: because he hit two thirty six against right handed pitching
Speaker 1: h and also had an eight forty five OPS. Seven
Speaker 1: of his thirty six home runs came against right handed pitching.
Speaker 1: And you know, he dealt with a lot of nagging
Speaker 1: injuries Greg in late last season. I'm looking at his
Speaker 1: injury uh, his injury page, and this is the entire
Speaker 1: season right knee, elbow, knee, knee, leg, chest, chest, shoulder,
Speaker 1: and he was day to day for all of those
Speaker 1: injuries at some point throughout the course of last season
Speaker 1: and still managed to have a career year. Last year
Speaker 1: strikes me as a hitter who was finally maturing again,
Speaker 1: Like I don't think the home run of fly ball
Speaker 1: ratio is out of this world, Like maybe he takes
Speaker 1: a little bit of a step back, maybe comes back
Speaker 1: to it, comes back to thirty home runs, it's two
Speaker 1: fifty to sixty. But you're not even paying anywhere close
Speaker 1: to the price um for the production that you got
Speaker 1: last year from Max Kepler in the month of February,
Speaker 1: I believe one thirty five. So it's not egregious, you know, egregious,
Speaker 1: close to egregious. I really like Max. We're looking at
Speaker 1: where this ADP is and looking at those stats from
Speaker 1: last year, you know mean like I like guys that
Speaker 1: get on base a lot, and the three six VP
Speaker 1: isn't outstanding by any means. You go strike out to
Speaker 1: walk ratio, right, Like his strikeout percentage sixteen point six percent.
Speaker 1: That's low comack to most hitters and baseball these days.
Speaker 1: His walking average strikeout rates so I see under twenty
Speaker 1: that's pretty good, right. The walk percent back to back
Speaker 1: year is over ten percent. He walks a lot. He
Speaker 1: doesn't really hit many groundballs, just around thirty six percent
Speaker 1: groundball percentage. Now the babbitt never good for Max chaff
Speaker 1: to four last or two thirty six, because I think
Speaker 1: he's hitting those five balls and he's heading get harder
Speaker 1: than ever. He's been thirty six home runs in a
Speaker 1: hundred and thirty four games last year. Fine, maybe it
Speaker 1: comes back down to thirty, but you're still a ton
Speaker 1: of runs hit at the top of the Twins lineup.
Speaker 1: You're st looking at a ton of rb I hitting
Speaker 1: at the top of the Twins lineup. He doesn't run
Speaker 1: it at all, which is like a little bit frustrating,
Speaker 1: but that was never really a part of his game,
Speaker 1: respected to be part of the whole run. Whole run.
Speaker 1: The ball percentage comes back down to where it was
Speaker 1: back in his debut season, a fifteen percent rather than
Speaker 1: the eighteen percent, which is like nothing, crazies. But if
Speaker 1: that comes down and he plays more games and stays healthy,
Speaker 1: it'll be around the same number anyway. Yeah, he's gonna
Speaker 1: be thirty five home runs anymore. The big difference in
Speaker 1: Kepler is that the hard hit percentage, and you described
Speaker 1: it went up to from thirty three percent just two
Speaker 1: or three years ago. That is a change. It's not
Speaker 1: juice ball necessarily related. One thing I've noticed is that
Speaker 1: just across the board on fangrafs last year, everyone's hard
Speaker 1: hit rate was up. Every launch angle you have that
Speaker 1: his launch angle was eighteen point two degrees on average,
Speaker 1: which was the highest of his career and is bordering
Speaker 1: almost being too high. Okay, you want an average launch angle,
Speaker 1: this is it's not crazy. Eighteen degrees is not crazy,
Speaker 1: but typically an average launch angle what was it previously?
Speaker 1: What was lung angle sixteen the year before, twelve point
Speaker 1: seven the year before the year before that, consistently higher
Speaker 1: launch Yeah, he's consistently going, but you know, I don't
Speaker 1: want him to go much higher than where he's at
Speaker 1: right now. And the batting average you saw last year
Speaker 1: was two fifty two. Is expected batting average to sixty two,
Speaker 1: So maybe even some positive regression on the batting average
Speaker 1: air And again, Greg, what I'll bring up about Kepler
Speaker 1: and his value this upcoming season is why take Kepler
Speaker 1: when you get fran Milray's fifteen twenty picks later? That's
Speaker 1: the ultimately the question that you have to answer, because
Speaker 1: are they going to be that dissimilar? I don't know
Speaker 1: that is here're a good question. If Kepler's here's the difference, right,
Speaker 1: If Kepler's leading off for the Twins team, He's gonna
Speaker 1: score like ten runs, similar power, similar RBI, but his
Speaker 1: his RBI will be down though similar where it was
Speaker 1: last year. That lead up most of the year last year,
Speaker 1: so he had he did have nine d r BI
Speaker 1: last year. Yeah, last year, and he had the splits
Speaker 1: right here. Yeah, for thirty seven at bats leading off
Speaker 1: the first of all year last year. Nine they were
Speaker 1: they looked they were one of the best alls. And
Speaker 1: they're gonna be really good again, like they have Josh Donaldson,
Speaker 1: to have miguelso Nelson Cruz, They're gonna be really like
Speaker 1: Kepler man, I like Kepler. I think he's under value here.
Speaker 1: I would agree with you. I A point we were
Speaker 1: trying to get at with yesterday's exercise was were these
Speaker 1: players affected by the juice ball? And I think you
Speaker 1: even make a case that he was, to be honest
Speaker 1: with you, but I also think you see a player
Speaker 1: that has made strides to get better. He's twenty seven
Speaker 1: years old and he was regarded as a top prospect.
Speaker 1: Why is it inconceivable that in his age twenty six
Speaker 1: season he finally put her all together. It's not, of course,
Speaker 1: it's not. I also used to think Kepler was a Jew.
Speaker 1: He's not. No, He's from Germany. Greg Maximilian Kevloski is
Speaker 1: his name. I like that name, Maximilian. I don't need
Speaker 1: to ask you this question, but I will anyway. It's
Speaker 1: just as brother Max, I'm going to everyone's birthday. Man,
Speaker 1: it's crazy. I'm gonna assume that you did not you
Speaker 1: did not watch you did not watch UGO growing up. No,
Speaker 1: that's the enem mated series. You're still asking the trading
Speaker 1: card game, right, I got it? No? No, because there
Speaker 1: was a very popular character and they're called Maximilian Pegasus.
Speaker 1: Nice sick name, name your kids. There was a prospect
Speaker 1: named Maximilian Pegasus. Name Maximilian Pegasus stamfill nice. Right, it's
Speaker 1: not bad. I kind of like Maximilian as a name.
Speaker 1: It's gonna get sorted to Max Max stamfle that's sounds cool. No, No, no, no,
Speaker 1: we're out on Max Stamfel. Whish all right. Another guy
Speaker 1: last dude had a really good year was trad Man
Speaker 1: City Boom moom Um get back last year after a
Speaker 1: down year. Ever leave the year before. People really liked
Speaker 1: him back in Rather, I think he struggled last year.
Speaker 1: He was fantastic for the Orioles for most of this season.
Speaker 1: It was his twenty six seven year old season. He
Speaker 1: had thirty five homers over a hundred runs scored almost
Speaker 1: a hundred r v I at a two nine you
Speaker 1: want with an OVP over three sixty. He was awesome
Speaker 1: last year. Highest heart hit percentage of his at seven percent.
Speaker 1: Not really egregious on run five ball ratio though highest
Speaker 1: of his career over twenty three percent was at home
Speaker 1: in the ball ratio got a little bit lucky last year, Frank,
Speaker 1: what do you think about trade Man sin Yeah, there
Speaker 1: seems to be some people that are split on trade
Speaker 1: Man Seni this upcoming season, trying to figure out, you know,
Speaker 1: how did he finally put it all together and break
Speaker 1: out last year. You mentioned the home run to flyball
Speaker 1: ratio a little bit high for him at twenty three
Speaker 1: point six percent last year. It was at twenty point
Speaker 1: nine percent the year before percent for his career, so
Speaker 1: it really wasn't that much higher than his career. Mark
Speaker 1: did put together a career season thirty five home runs,
Speaker 1: a hundred six rbid, six runs scored ninety seven r BI,
Speaker 1: and he did that in the Baltimore Orioles line up.
Speaker 1: That was not very good, but it is a very
Speaker 1: good ballpark to hit in. Just in general for Camden Yards,
Speaker 1: he improved the walk percentage last year. He decreased the
Speaker 1: strikeout percentage last year. I mean he did everything you
Speaker 1: want someone to do in terms of plate discipline. He
Speaker 1: still hits too many ground balls probably here greg similar
Speaker 1: to friend milrays, but he lowered that margin. He lowered
Speaker 1: that about nine per cent from He raised the fly
Speaker 1: ball rate over five percent from he raised his line
Speaker 1: drive rate three percent. I mean, he did everything you
Speaker 1: are asking somebody who normally hits too many ground balls
Speaker 1: to do. He raised his launch angle and it seemed
Speaker 1: like it really clicked for him last year. Improved in
Speaker 1: terms of plate discipline. You look at the splits of
Speaker 1: Trey Mancini, you have no worries whatsoever to batting average
Speaker 1: with a eightee o p s against right handed pitching
Speaker 1: to seventy seven with a p s against left handed pitching.
Speaker 1: His home road splits nothing There p s at home
Speaker 1: nine oh six ops on the road, hits in a
Speaker 1: division with other great ballparks that hit in Yankee Stadium
Speaker 1: Fenway can end in Rogers Center. I don't mind Trey Mancini.
Speaker 1: I look the way that I'll say it is he's
Speaker 1: not a target of mine. But if I were to
Speaker 1: get him as a fallback option at first base or
Speaker 1: as a corner infielder. I would not be mad with that. Man.
Speaker 1: I don't think you're getting as a quarter infielder. He's
Speaker 1: going in the top one in the NFBC. He's probably not.
Speaker 1: He's not gonna you're likely going to get him as
Speaker 1: your first base correct So would you rather have Trey
Speaker 1: Mancini at ninety nine or forty picks later you go
Speaker 1: get Max Chepler. I would rather have Trey Mancini because
Speaker 1: I'm confident that the batting average is going to be
Speaker 1: better for for Mancini. Becaus projecting myself, I think he's
Speaker 1: probably gonna hit two seventy five to two eighties. I
Speaker 1: think that range. But I think the run score over
Speaker 1: a hundred last year at TC that's not replicable. It
Speaker 1: probably not, but has the orient I guess they've gotten
Speaker 1: worse with with no Jonathan Ran. Here's here's what concerns
Speaker 1: right in team where he had that down year. Run
Speaker 1: still okay, he wasn't playing every single eight though hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty six games played more than he played the
Speaker 1: layer last fifty six games played, he had twenty less
Speaker 1: at bats fine sixty runs scored fifty eight revies. That's brutal.
Speaker 1: The Babbitt was to eight five and it was much
Speaker 1: less than three six last year. I had a little
Speaker 1: bit of lucky struck out more two years ago they
Speaker 1: did last year. Hard a percentage went up last year.
Speaker 1: But that's like i'd say the floor, and he did
Speaker 1: in seventeen eighteen. He had back to back years of
Speaker 1: essentially the same year outside of the average. If we
Speaker 1: think Max Kepler has gotten better, and this is what
Speaker 1: man Seni is like, I'd rather that man forty picks
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Keppler forty picks later pretty minute SEENI and
Speaker 1: Max Kepler at the same age, Greg, So why can't
Speaker 1: we just trust that man Sini just got better as well? Right,
Speaker 1: it might continue to get better. He could also nickname
Speaker 1: Boom Boom. Absolutely, it's not really his name. Nickname that's
Speaker 1: okay to me, but it's the laws. Absolutely. Also awesome,
Speaker 1: Scott Ferrel. He's up next with Coast to Coast and
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