Speaker 1: Welcome and everybody to Fantasy Pros. This is the Fantasy
Speaker 1: Baseball Podcast. It's meet Jill, we paid Joe Pisapia, and
Speaker 1: today we're gonna take a look at the outfielders. That's right,
Speaker 1: it's the ultimate outfield Guide. We're going to go through
Speaker 1: the outfield ones all the way to outfield five. There's
Speaker 1: gonna be some d h's in there as well, because
Speaker 1: that's how we roll. And of course helping me go
Speaker 1: all the way rolling down the hill is the Welsh,
Speaker 1: your favorite everybody. Let's hear three cheers for the Welsh.
Speaker 1: I love that there's no three cheers for anybody anything
Speaker 1: like a hip hip paraye. Yeah, like we don't get
Speaker 1: a good old three cheers for anyone. Let's bring that
Speaker 1: back this year. I'm leading off.
Speaker 2: How would we do that? We're gonna do paray, yeah,
Speaker 2: sound something or.
Speaker 1: Just cheer three times? I don't know, we'll figure that out.
Speaker 2: We've got hip hip paraye the same as three cheers.
Speaker 2: What is what would you do if you three cheered hooray, hooray, hooray.
Speaker 1: Yeah that let that does feel awkward. That wanted you
Speaker 1: to do it. I really wanted you to do it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was super awkward. How about just hip hit paray.
Speaker 1: What won't be awkward, of course is this show the
Speaker 1: rest of it? Well, actually no guarantees on that, but
Speaker 1: we are gonna go ahead and we're gonna talk about
Speaker 1: these outfielders, our favorite draft picks to make our tiers
Speaker 1: where we have the drop offs even within these groupings.
Speaker 1: Here of the outfielders, and again you can see all
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Speaker 1: a draft ever in the history of the universe. So
Speaker 1: Welsh the outfielders last year, this was a tricky group.
Speaker 1: Certainly some outfielders were very excited about, but then the
Speaker 1: bottom kind of fell off. I feel like when we're
Speaker 1: looking at this group this year, I feel a little
Speaker 1: bit better. I also feel like we're getting some youth
Speaker 1: influx here that's going to help things as the season
Speaker 1: goes on, especially some better health excuse me, from some
Speaker 1: guys like Riley Green and a few others could also
Speaker 1: be exactly what this position needs. Would you agree?
Speaker 2: Yeah, And there's there's other like little sneaky things we're
Speaker 2: not going to talk about here, but like Byron Buxton
Speaker 2: is going to be playing in the outfield this year
Speaker 2: if he plays, so he'll requalify. There's other sneaky things
Speaker 2: to look out for. It was announce over in Padres Camp.
Speaker 2: Padres have like one registered outfielder right now in Fernando
Speaker 2: Tatis Junior. That Jackson Merrill, top infield shortstop prospect is
Speaker 2: going to play in the outfield. So that's another guy
Speaker 2: that's going to play in the outfield. So it's coming
Speaker 2: back to say that like this position, it can get
Speaker 2: away from you, and that's my biggest problem with it.
Speaker 2: But there are sneaks. Stop with the Bucks and I
Speaker 2: know some.
Speaker 1: I'm not even laughing about Buckston. What I'm laughing about
Speaker 1: he said, it's only one registered outfielder. And all I
Speaker 1: can think about, does he have to go to all
Speaker 1: the other teams and tell everyone that he's a registered outfielder.
Speaker 2: Yea, they have to have a list and everything like that. Yeah, Joe,
Speaker 2: it's a great one. That's a really good one. I
Speaker 2: think he did. Then that's why they're bringing some others in.
Speaker 2: But yes, depth is the question here. Five outfielder versus
Speaker 2: three outfielder, those are the question. And will go through
Speaker 2: them because the tippy top looks great. There are some
Speaker 2: sneaky sneaks later there. But I promise you this position
Speaker 2: can get away from you in drafts because of what
Speaker 2: the entirety of this board looks like. When you attack pitchers,
Speaker 2: when you attack infield, stolen bases, you can go. You
Speaker 2: can be into like the seventh round and go, oh my,
Speaker 2: where are my outfielders? And then you're out field two
Speaker 2: and three way far behind. And you can be but
Speaker 2: you have to be behind somewhere in your positions. But
Speaker 2: it ain't great when you got five outfielders that you're
Speaker 2: dealing with.
Speaker 1: All right, let's start here before we get canceled on
Speaker 1: the show. Let's start with Ronald Acunya. I mean he
Speaker 1: is Okay, here's maybe a dumb question. Is Acunya a
Speaker 1: tier unto himself? How does forty seven question? I mean
Speaker 1: he is. Of course he is well because it was
Speaker 1: such an incredible year last year. And I mean, look
Speaker 1: when you when you make that jump, like he had
Speaker 1: forty one home runs back in twenty nineteen, right, but
Speaker 1: he has never hit thirty cents. And I know we
Speaker 1: had the COVID short year, but still, I mean, this
Speaker 1: is the guy who's batting average jumped to the highest
Speaker 1: that's ever been at three thirty eight. The stolen bases
Speaker 1: double almost anything he's ever done. Thirty seven was his
Speaker 1: previous career high. I mean that that is the one
Speaker 1: thing you ask yourself. It's like, is it repeatable and sustainable?
Speaker 1: Probably not? But if he gets ninety percent of it,
Speaker 1: He's probably still in the tier above himself right onto it.
Speaker 2: Remember, yeah, I remember that story I told where we were
Speaker 2: talking with some of the dev team about projections and
Speaker 2: it kind of became about Otani in this dynasty way
Speaker 2: and it was like, hey, you know, Otani, should he
Speaker 2: be worth this? And it's like, well, he is two players,
Speaker 2: and my argument was like, well, hey, here's what we
Speaker 2: have to do. We have to bring Otani to the
Speaker 2: same ish level as Akunya because Akunya performed like two
Speaker 2: offensive players. I mean, just we do this thing where
Speaker 2: we can cut it like I always love to do this,
Speaker 2: look at a player's performance from a year that was
Speaker 2: that was high and then say, okay, what does this
Speaker 2: guy look like if you cut off ten to fifteen
Speaker 2: percent of the production. Okay, this is the guy. Blah
Speaker 2: blah blah. You take a fifty percent of the production
Speaker 2: and it's still like thirty something stolen bases is.
Speaker 1: Something deals with twenty homers. It is fifty something RBI,
Speaker 1: but it's like c J Abrams, but it's seventy something
Speaker 1: run scored, so it's still like it is j Abrams.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's like Abrams it's like two abrams put together.
Speaker 2: So Acunya performs at a level of like two players.
Speaker 2: You absolutely can always and you should ask can a
Speaker 2: guy repeat? But I do look at this and I go,
Speaker 2: this is who if this guy wants to be in
Speaker 2: these new rules, this is where he went, and how
Speaker 2: much production can you cut off until you find your
Speaker 2: reasoning why you wouldn't take him number one? And I
Speaker 2: think it's a big number. Acunya is the clear cut
Speaker 2: number one. I ain't trying to get cute here. He
Speaker 2: performs at two levels so much so. And I know
Speaker 2: I've said this once or twice, but he had brought
Speaker 2: up conversation where people wanted to create three third round
Speaker 2: reversals in leagues because it wasn't fair.
Speaker 1: Oh oh god.
Speaker 2: I would never do that, that's silly. But I saw
Speaker 2: that conversation popping up.
Speaker 1: I got your third round reversal right here, buddy, All right,
Speaker 1: let's go to the next grouping here. So Acunya an
Speaker 1: island after that. Julio Rodriguez, Corbyn Carroll, our Boy, Mookie Betts,
Speaker 1: Kyle Tucker, Fernando Tatis at seven. You've got Aaron Judge
Speaker 1: Jan Sota at eight Alvarez at nine and then Luis
Speaker 1: Robert at ten. To me, this is the top ten?
Speaker 1: Is that grouping two to ten? That is so if
Speaker 1: one is the superlative tier in Acunya, this is the
Speaker 1: A tier right after that? Would you agree?
Speaker 2: Yes? But as my teas work, could I see myself
Speaker 2: taking je Soto in any scenario over Julio Rodriguez. It's
Speaker 2: way closer than what we did in the Ultimate Infield Guide,
Speaker 2: which you guys can go check out on podcasts or
Speaker 2: YouTube right now. Go do that. It's way closer. But
Speaker 2: the answer is no. So in that these are this core,
Speaker 2: Julio Carrol and Bets are their own tier. In my mind,
Speaker 2: I don't deviate from those three. It is always those three.
Speaker 2: So it's Julio Carrol, Bets, and then it's Tucker Tatis,
Speaker 2: Judge Soto that's the next tier, and then it goes
Speaker 2: to the other guys you mentioned. But like these are
Speaker 2: the names, there isn't I'm not taking a guy off
Speaker 2: and I'm not gonna but that's how I break them apart.
Speaker 2: But these are the dudes.
Speaker 1: I already have bet Julio Drigez for ALMVP again just
Speaker 1: like I did last year, I anticipated Showeotana getting traded,
Speaker 1: and I still hold true. If Otani did get traded
Speaker 1: like you should have, I think Julio second half would
Speaker 1: have spoken volumes. It would have a very interesting conversation.
Speaker 1: But I don't think we've seen the best out of
Speaker 1: Julio Rodriguez yet, which is scary for the rest of
Speaker 1: the league. So obviously this group is great. These are
Speaker 1: all first round picks basically, So I mean, we can't
Speaker 1: split hairs over either of them because I don't have
Speaker 1: any hairs to split anymore literally, but you still you
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Speaker 1: now back to the action. Michael Harris comes in eleven,
Speaker 1: Randy Rose arena at twelve. So between those two guys,
Speaker 1: who are you taking Harris or a Rose Arena?
Speaker 2: Michael Harris, he is one of my draft day targets.
Speaker 2: I absolutely love him. The only thing that gets me
Speaker 2: off of him. Is if I like went in a
Speaker 2: different territory like pitching, pitching third round pitching in fifteen
Speaker 2: team leagues is ten tends to be where I want
Speaker 2: to go. But I do want Michael Harris. We talked
Speaker 2: about it with Ario Cohen on the ATC Projection Show
Speaker 2: here that he performs at essentially a first round value.
Speaker 2: We did that thing where I broke it down guys
Speaker 2: that hit two eighty go twenty twenty in the outfield.
Speaker 2: There were four that did it last year. The other
Speaker 2: three we already talked about in the outfield. Michael Harris
Speaker 2: is the fourth. I think he's going to bounce back
Speaker 2: even bigger this year. I love the team to run
Speaker 2: ballpark factor is great. Harris is going to hit a
Speaker 2: little bit higher in the lineup than some of the
Speaker 2: other guys, like the I talked about Jared Kellnick in
Speaker 2: an episode that I think he's going to bounce back
Speaker 2: up that. I love Michael Harris. I'd love to target him.
Speaker 2: I love to get a value on him. And the
Speaker 2: high batting average really gives him a floor that he
Speaker 2: just doesn't hurt you anywhere.
Speaker 1: Now forty point different than batting average between Harris and
Speaker 1: rose A Raina, I begrudgingly agree with you, but you
Speaker 1: know I love Randy Roseraina. He's just fun. Next one
Speaker 1: at at least is gonna see at thirteen, Nolan Jones
Speaker 1: at fourteen, Mike Trout at fifteen. Let's stop here, Mike Trout.
Speaker 1: Welch's it's come to this. I feel like this is
Speaker 1: where we are. So last year only played eighty two games.
Speaker 1: When he did play on the field, you know, eighteen homers,
Speaker 1: forty four ribbies, fifty four run score to sixty three
Speaker 1: batting average of the fast Bros. Projections right now on
Speaker 1: FP have him at eighty eight runs, thirty four homers,
Speaker 1: eighty seven RBI. We know the stone bases are gone
Speaker 1: hitting two sixty three. Where are you at with Trout?
Speaker 1: Is Trout somebody you think like this is a good
Speaker 1: value for him? Or is Trout somebody where you're just saying,
Speaker 1: you know what, I just can't take this roller coaster
Speaker 1: anymore with the injuries, and now he is like a
Speaker 1: Kunya on island, unto himself, but not in a good way,
Speaker 1: because the rest of this Angels team is not good. Welsh.
Speaker 2: I know a lot of people He's kind of become
Speaker 2: like the Degram of hitters in some degree where people
Speaker 2: are like, I just can't do it. When he's on
Speaker 2: and when he plays, he performs at a high level,
Speaker 2: and I hate doing this because like I tend to
Speaker 2: defend de Grom and then he gets hurt, and it's
Speaker 2: everything that everybody said, I'm right because he's the best
Speaker 2: player on the planet when he's playing, and then he
Speaker 2: gets hurt, like everybody said, So this just leads back
Speaker 2: to like, yeah, I'm of course I'm going to be
Speaker 2: back on Mike Trout. This is the cheapest you have
Speaker 2: ever gotten Mike Trout outside of like, you know, the
Speaker 2: rookie year when he was saying.
Speaker 1: I'm a tempted, Like that's how cheap I'm a tempted.
Speaker 2: But like as you should be, because he is a
Speaker 2: high thirty to forty home run hitter. Even with bad
Speaker 2: players around him, he can pull ninety ninety. He doesn't
Speaker 2: run anymore. That's gone, and I think the average can
Speaker 2: improve a little bit. I think he might be a
Speaker 2: little less swing heavy, but it's the playing time and
Speaker 2: that's what you're gonna have to come to terms with.
Speaker 2: If I took Ellie de la Cruz and I had
Speaker 2: Jazz Chisholm. I don't think I'm gonna take Mike Trout.
Speaker 2: But if I had a lot of safe options, if
Speaker 2: I took the Freddy free like I took Freddy Freeman
Speaker 2: in the first and I took you know whatever, Bryce
Speaker 2: Harper in the second, or I guess I wouldn't take
Speaker 2: two first basemen Raphael Devers in the second. I'm the
Speaker 2: little depleted of stolen bases. Hopefully i'd make it up earlier,
Speaker 2: but like I could, I think it's calculated risks with players.
Speaker 2: To me, Mike Trout is worth a calculated risk. It's
Speaker 2: just is that at the expense of other worthwhile risks.
Speaker 2: You'll already I think you'll already know the bats that
Speaker 2: are risky by the time you get to Trout, to
Speaker 2: know if you can do it, then it may becomes trump.
Speaker 1: That makes a difference. I would say this too, and
Speaker 1: I can't believe I'm going to say these words, and
Speaker 1: I'm might live to regret them. In roto leagues. I
Speaker 1: can't justify taking Trout over Chisholm. I just can't do it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: too much, I think those are right the batting average
Speaker 1: is not going to be that far apart. They both
Speaker 1: are huge injury risks. One is much younger. I just
Speaker 1: I can't. I can't justify it, and I know that might.
Speaker 2: Be for the stolen bases. I get it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I get Like I said, because roto leagues, I
Speaker 1: can't head to head or season along. I can't justify
Speaker 1: Trout over Chisholm. I can justify Trout Sam Bellinger that
Speaker 1: I can do a little bit easier. Who's next on
Speaker 1: this list at seventeen? Christian Yelich at eighteen, coming off
Speaker 1: a year where he was nineteen homers twenty eight stolen bases,
Speaker 1: hit two seventy eight, so a bounce back year for him,
Speaker 1: no doubt, and it's been a while, like this is
Speaker 1: his best season since twenty nineteen. Are you buying Yelich's
Speaker 1: bounce back?
Speaker 2: I guess I wouldn't say buying because if I were buying,
Speaker 2: I think I would be like hyper aggressive on Yelich,
Speaker 2: and I don't feel hyper aggressive. I mean, seventeen stolen
Speaker 2: bases are seventeen homers twenty three stolen bases is the
Speaker 2: projection on the bat X, which of single aggregate pretty
Speaker 2: inctions was the highest ranked according to Fantasy pros last year,
Speaker 2: so those aren't extreme numbers. I think the batting average
Speaker 2: could dip. I actually think the stolen bases might dip
Speaker 2: a little bit. I think Yelich is coming to the
Speaker 2: point where he does need to pick a side. He
Speaker 2: needs to pick a side. Is he gonna is the
Speaker 2: power gonna go and he's gonna work it through the
Speaker 2: legs and be a higher batting average guy, or are
Speaker 2: the legs gonna go and he's gonna work on this
Speaker 2: side of being a bigger power hitter and maybe selling
Speaker 2: out a little bit more. And I think that deficiency
Speaker 2: with the injury stuff might be a problem. I'm fine.
Speaker 2: I really am indifferent about Yelich. Like if I come
Speaker 2: into a spot and he's fallen a little bit, I
Speaker 2: kind of want a value on him, and he makes
Speaker 2: sense for the roster construction, I'll do it. He's definitely
Speaker 2: not a drafted target for me, though.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what. I like him at this ADP
Speaker 1: And in some ways I actually feel better about him
Speaker 1: than I do about chishm or Trout because he did
Speaker 1: play one hundred and forty four games last year, undred
Speaker 1: and fifty four last the year before, and you know
Speaker 1: in both of them, you know did show stolen base
Speaker 1: potential nineteen seals in twenty twenty two twenty eight last year,
Speaker 1: the batting average did make some progress there. So I
Speaker 1: think Yelich is just fine. In fact, this is another
Speaker 1: guy too that I feel like in those salary cap
Speaker 1: leagues that he's kind of going to be undervalued, and
Speaker 1: I think he'll come at a really nice return on investment.
Speaker 1: Like you're looking for a solid I think you can
Speaker 1: pay for number three outfielder price and get Yellich as
Speaker 1: your second outfielder, if that makes sense. I think that's
Speaker 1: what I'm getting at.
Speaker 2: If you could get a burger today and pay for
Speaker 2: it tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Yes again, Josh Lowe at nineteen. Kyle Schwarber, who defies
Speaker 1: gravity too. I mean, how this guy hits a buck
Speaker 1: ninety and still can put up you know, one hundred
Speaker 1: hundred and forty bi.
Speaker 2: I don't know it wasn't he the first player to
Speaker 2: like hit forty under two, under hit undertwo something like.
Speaker 1: That, one ninety seven? But how how he scored one
Speaker 1: hundred and eight runs? I mean, I know you have
Speaker 1: forty seven homers while there you go, there's fifty percent
Speaker 1: of them right now, but that's it, Like he is
Speaker 1: those true outcomes. So he is one of those dangers
Speaker 1: of roster construction. You just have to account for it.
Speaker 1: After Schwarber continuing on our list here, Brian Reynolds, Nick Casiano,
Speaker 1: Saya Suzuki, and George Springer close out outfield too. So
Speaker 1: of this grouping from Garcia to Springer, who's your favorite
Speaker 1: guy in this tier?
Speaker 2: Probably? Oh, you added Adalise.
Speaker 1: Well at least was at thirteen. So if you want
Speaker 1: to like I say, no, I want the premium guy.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna wait. Like you basically have two ways
Speaker 1: to go about this. You can go ahead with the
Speaker 1: premium guy in Garcia. You can go in the mid
Speaker 1: range with Yelich and just kind of get by, which
Speaker 1: is understandable. Or you go to that next grouping here
Speaker 1: towards the end and say, okay, Casianos, excuse me, Brian
Speaker 1: Reynolds and those guys are serviceable outfield twos.
Speaker 2: So there's two guys that I like, and I probably
Speaker 2: pair them together and they're probably the targets. It's my trout,
Speaker 2: like I mentioned risky in my words. And then the
Speaker 2: opposite of that, Brian Reynolds. I have Brian Reynolds. I
Speaker 2: think on every roster construction I've done so far, as
Speaker 2: far as NFBC, like DC's and fifties go, Brian Reynolds
Speaker 2: has been like a major target of mine because that
Speaker 2: is a floor out fielder who does a little bit
Speaker 2: of everything, a little bit of runs, a little bit
Speaker 2: of RBI, good batting average, twenty plus homers, ten plus
Speaker 2: stolen bases, not as sexy as some of these other guys,
Speaker 2: but it mitigates some of the risk. Most likely, if
Speaker 2: you've been listening, you can tell at some point, I'm
Speaker 2: gonna take a shot. I'm gonna take a risk somewhere.
Speaker 2: It could be a picture, it could be Trout, it
Speaker 2: could be an led La Cruz. I'm gonna take it somewhere.
Speaker 2: So you've got to have your back up in my mind,
Speaker 2: you have to have your backup plan of who are
Speaker 2: the safe options that help that. There are some pictures
Speaker 2: that we'll talk about in the next episode, and there's hitters,
Speaker 2: and Brian Reynolds, to me is one of those hitters.
Speaker 2: That's a good like all right, I can take a breath.
Speaker 2: This guy's gonna help fix some of the problems if
Speaker 2: things don't work out with what identify I took Kyle
Speaker 2: Schwarber and all that. By the way, if Kyle shr
Speaker 2: if you didn't look at his batting average, Kyle Schwarber
Speaker 2: was an elite three category player. Elite elie I mean
Speaker 2: we talked about.
Speaker 1: Last was such a deficit, you know when he doesn't
Speaker 1: steal bases really so you know.
Speaker 2: You know what he is. He's the power hitting version
Speaker 2: of kind of like Nico Horner where I was. I
Speaker 2: admit in the last episode, Nico Horner is not quite
Speaker 2: elite in three categories, but he's high up. He's like
Speaker 2: elite stolen bases, really good batting average and maybe elite runs.
Speaker 2: And that's three categories. The other stink, Well that's Kyle Schwarber,
Speaker 2: and he stinks stolen bases and stinks in batting average.
Speaker 2: But if I were to take one of those type
Speaker 2: of guys, specifically Shorber, Brian Reynolds is a great backbone
Speaker 2: for that because he just evens it out.
Speaker 1: If I was in a deep three outfielder league, three
Speaker 1: active outfielders, I think Yelich, Brian Reynolds and then taking
Speaker 1: a shot at Riley Green later on the draft was
Speaker 1: exactly the kind of boys I'd like to go, like
Speaker 1: if I missed out early on the big album.
Speaker 2: Ya, I was about to say, if you go late,
Speaker 2: because the strategy is a little bit different. Five to
Speaker 2: three outfielders.
Speaker 1: It is, it is, But I'm just saying if it's
Speaker 1: If that's the format, I think that makes some sense
Speaker 1: in terms of getting the best bang for your buck.
Speaker 1: I'm with you one hundred percent. I've always been a
Speaker 1: Brian Reynolds guy. Everybody who's watching the show for years
Speaker 1: knows that steady floor things you can count on, and
Speaker 1: Reynolds has been that dude. All right. The outfield threes
Speaker 1: this is where we start to get a little wacky. Here.
Speaker 1: You gotta see some guys here with some positives and
Speaker 1: some negatives attached to them, and also some guys that
Speaker 1: you're not exactly sure where they're gonna play. Spencer Steeer
Speaker 1: at twenty five, Evan Carter twenty six. I've already voiced
Speaker 1: my concerns about him, Jordan Walker at twenty seven, Lane
Speaker 1: Thomas at twenty eight, Tiascar Hernandez at twenty nine, Anthony
Speaker 1: Santan dere at thirty let's stop here. I want to
Speaker 1: compare the Baltimore guys because Mullins is at thirty one.
Speaker 1: I want to talk about this first grouping here. You
Speaker 1: were a big Jordan Walker guy. Last year. It was
Speaker 1: a you know, getting sent up and down kind of year,
Speaker 1: filling out, you know, the first year of his MLB
Speaker 1: service time. Do you think Jordan Walker is ready to
Speaker 1: hit the ground running in twenty four.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean he was sent down because of the defense,
Speaker 2: Like he was hitting two seventy eight. I think at
Speaker 2: the time he was sent down and we were like, whoa.
Speaker 2: You see a lot of young players struggle with getting
Speaker 2: the ball up in the air. Sometimes you're gonna see
Speaker 2: them struggle with barreling, and that's just something that time takes.
Speaker 2: That's one of the arguments for Eli Da La Cruise.
Speaker 2: Eli Day La Cruz had like sky high ground ball rate,
Speaker 2: three degree launch angle, low bit. Those are things that
Speaker 2: improve over time as long as you are a competent hitter,
Speaker 2: and Jordan Walker is like an incredibly competent hitter, been
Speaker 2: working all off season getting bigger. I think Mason Wynn
Speaker 2: had put out the report shortstop for the Cardinals that
Speaker 2: he was. I think he put on like fifteen to
Speaker 2: twenty pounds of muscle this offseason. He's got incredibly, incredibly
Speaker 2: great bat speed with a contact approach that's going to
Speaker 2: hit for power, salt in person in the AFL, I
Speaker 2: love Jordan. I think Jordan Walker's a twenty twenty guy
Speaker 2: this year. I'm in on him big time. And I
Speaker 2: will say my other favorite, just to throw it out.
Speaker 2: I love Taoscar Hernandez. I really really do. Taoscar Hernandez
Speaker 2: goes into a I think it's a better for right
Speaker 2: handed hitters, or at least comp Oh no, no, because
Speaker 2: it's a Seattle exponentially better ballpark factor. I was thinking
Speaker 2: Toronto exponentially better ballpark factor. Going from Seattle, which is
Speaker 2: the worst, and going to the Dodgers, which is a
Speaker 2: mid pack team, good hard hit numbers, he's essentially on
Speaker 2: part with where he's been when he was in Toronto,
Speaker 2: you know, the year before he hit thirty five homers.
Speaker 2: Similar factors in LA. And you go into that lineup
Speaker 2: that may want to not attack some of the top
Speaker 2: end of the of the staffs and also may want
Speaker 2: to attack harder the back end of the lineup, so
Speaker 2: they're not giving extra opportunities to get Otani and get
Speaker 2: bets up. All I'm saying is like, I think to
Speaker 2: Oscar Hernandez is gonna hit thirty plus this year. I
Speaker 2: think he's gonna come back in it. And it was
Speaker 2: a great signing by the Dodger. So I really love
Speaker 2: his new destination.
Speaker 1: You know, I remember when the Otani signing happened. I
Speaker 1: think I said to you, I was like, you know,
Speaker 1: I still feel like that lineups a little top heavy.
Speaker 1: When we start making signs like this, it starts to
Speaker 1: length in that lineup, like it just it just really
Speaker 1: does makes a big difference there. So we're in agreement there.
Speaker 1: Santander A another big power season. Cedric Mullins a down
Speaker 1: year for him, with Hestin kirs Dad, with some of
Speaker 1: the other talent that you have. You know in this mix,
Speaker 1: is Mullins in danger of maybe getting dell tire or
Speaker 1: losing out some playing time coming off a year we
Speaker 1: hit just two thirty three, the stolen bases were down.
Speaker 1: I know he had some injuries, he only played one
Speaker 1: hundred and sixteen games, but still, do you think Mullins
Speaker 1: is a guy that isn't long for Baltimore or do
Speaker 1: you think they say, no, Mullins is our guy, bad
Speaker 1: year right off, and he might actually suppress the value
Speaker 1: of some of the youth in Baltimore.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a good question. I kind of find it
Speaker 2: hard to believe that, like the team would trade like
Speaker 2: another veteran, Like you're just gonna have a bunch of
Speaker 2: like twenty two year olds like running around like it's
Speaker 2: like a college team. Maybe they do. I think Mullins
Speaker 2: is still like a top end of the lineup type
Speaker 2: of hitter. He still steals bases. I think they believe
Speaker 2: in him. Defensively works. I think he would more suppress
Speaker 2: the Colton Kowsers of the world than them want to
Speaker 2: move them, especially because they're Pennant running this year like
Speaker 2: they're going for it now. If Baltimore just completely falls apart, yeah,
Speaker 2: I think Mullins is gone. I think he's absolutely gone.
Speaker 2: And I don't think that's gonna happen with Baltimore. I
Speaker 2: think they have a legit shot to win this division,
Speaker 2: but if it did, that would be the spot. He's
Speaker 2: another one of those guys. Mullens is kind of like
Speaker 2: he's in that not super exciting major target. But we
Speaker 2: maybe should pay attention because these are like twenty plus
Speaker 2: stolen bases outside of the top one hundred, and we
Speaker 2: really should pay attention to those type of players. So
Speaker 2: there might be some potential, but I just don't know
Speaker 2: if the struggles are gonna keep him at the top
Speaker 2: of a lineup. I think that's where you're gonna fall apart.
Speaker 2: Like I think Jackson Holiday is making the opening day roster.
Speaker 2: You've got Gunner Hender you know, you got a lot
Speaker 2: of like interesting bats there.
Speaker 1: Take me through the Orioles opening day, like, Okay, Jackson
Speaker 1: Holliday makes the roster. We know where Gunner Henders is
Speaker 1: gonna play, like, you know, like we know some of
Speaker 1: the things already, like who gets squeezed. Somebody's got to
Speaker 1: get sqeezed somewhere here.
Speaker 2: Okay, So we'll go over to roster resource. Right now.
Speaker 2: They current And by the way, we found out that
Speaker 2: Holiday isn't play second base for the team, not shortstop.
Speaker 2: So here's how the lineup works and roster resource. They've
Speaker 2: got Gunner leading off, They've got Adlee hitting two. I
Speaker 2: think that's locked. You've got Santander at three, and then
Speaker 2: it goes, Oh, Hernon Hayes that ain't locked. Mullins is
Speaker 2: hitting six, mount Castle at seven, Jackson Holiday at eight,
Speaker 2: and Jordan Wag at nine, So there is room.
Speaker 1: For you're kind of locking him Mountcastle at DH because
Speaker 1: that's kind of where you want him.
Speaker 2: I feel like, yeah, well, because I got a Herne
Speaker 2: at first, but that could be Heston Kerstadt. I do
Speaker 2: think there's a possibility that what you could do is
Speaker 2: you could have Mullens laid off Adlee at two and
Speaker 2: Gunner at three, So there is I think there's room
Speaker 2: for that improvement to happen with Cedric Mullins, and there's
Speaker 2: still kind of some lineup. If you look at that lineup,
Speaker 2: you go, he's not necessarily holding anybody back, like they
Speaker 2: might get right rid of Austin Hayes before they get
Speaker 2: rid of Cedric Mullins.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Heston Kirstadt is the guy that I keep coming
Speaker 1: back to. I told you I like that player a
Speaker 1: lot and very excited to see him this year. All right,
Speaker 1: So let's continue on with this grouping here, because after
Speaker 1: the Baltimore guy's at thirty two, you have Ian Happ
Speaker 1: Suri Ruiz thirty three, overall all TJ. Friedel at thirty four,
Speaker 1: Riley Greed at thirty five, So Leira thirty six, who
Speaker 1: just signed with San Francisco as of us recording this.
Speaker 1: So again, this is where the drop off is, Ruiz.
Speaker 1: You know a guy one dimensional like he's there for
Speaker 1: stone bases, but for a guy who steels as many bases,
Speaker 1: you know, he's not scoring enough runs. At the same time,
Speaker 1: Green is the guy that I circle on this list.
Speaker 1: I think we started to see the potential that I
Speaker 1: don't think this ADP is going to hold or this
Speaker 1: ranking is going to hold as we get deeper into March.
Speaker 1: Would you agree with that statement that Green is one
Speaker 1: of these guys that you know is going to be
Speaker 1: you know, people start to see him. That's gonna start
Speaker 1: to get talked about more in the fantasy baseball community.
Speaker 1: That ADP the ranking, everything's going to rise. So now
Speaker 1: is you're kind of your best value early on?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm not sure he'll be a massive, massive riser,
Speaker 2: but he will. And I agree with you, this is
Speaker 2: the guy. This is the guy that I would target
Speaker 2: the two guys of all the guys you said in
Speaker 2: this grouping, I like Riley Green, and I actually really
Speaker 2: like Jorge Solaire. He's just a guy kind of continuously
Speaker 2: trying to get late power from He's got a team
Speaker 2: he's locked in, gonna hit in a prominent spot in
Speaker 2: the lineup for the Giants. I mean, I think the
Speaker 2: best hitting environment. But that's fine. I'm totally into him.
Speaker 2: But Riley Green is a player that I want. He's
Speaker 2: ranked higher than what he is his ADP is going for,
Speaker 2: which is a really odd one. He's one of the
Speaker 2: biggest risers on that and a big hard hit numbers.
Speaker 2: Barreling health was a problem. I think he's going to
Speaker 2: get over that twenty mark. I personally think he's going
Speaker 2: to hit over twenty five this year. I just don't
Speaker 2: know if they'll be like hype around a Tigers outfielder
Speaker 2: that's gonna make him go crazy. But I won't disagree
Speaker 2: with you saying this is the best time because like
Speaker 2: his ADP's around. I think it's one thirty four on
Speaker 2: Fantasy Pro's ADP, the consensus ADP.
Speaker 1: And thirty fifth player overall one hundred and seventy in
Speaker 1: ADP consensus right now.
Speaker 2: I don't love it if he gets inside the top
Speaker 2: one hundred or something like that. So yeah, take him
Speaker 2: now and you.
Speaker 1: Might get him at a better one seventy average ADP. Like,
Speaker 1: I think he's going to outperform that, Like I just do.
Speaker 1: I think he's he's a better player than that. I
Speaker 1: think he's a guy that has twenty twenty potential. You
Speaker 1: saw the batting average come up last year. I think
Speaker 1: Riley Green's finally starting to figure it out. And look,
Speaker 1: that's great because you know Torkolsen figured out in the
Speaker 1: second half last year. I want the Tigers to be
Speaker 1: respectable again. You know, I grew up in the eighties
Speaker 1: and the Tigers had some respectable teams, Like this is
Speaker 1: a good you know, the pitchers have not panned out,
Speaker 1: you know they really.
Speaker 2: Well, they got scooball the Colt Keith is going.
Speaker 1: To be in the line. No, but I'm talking about
Speaker 1: like that Manning group, like all those guys that were
Speaker 1: coming through, Like oh yeah, Casey, none of those guys
Speaker 1: have worked out the way that you know we thought
Speaker 1: once upon a time. All right, outfield four, here we go.
Speaker 1: This grouping starts with number thirty seven, Masatake Yoshida than
Speaker 1: James Outman at thirty nine, Chas McCormick at thirty nine
Speaker 1: and Jackson Churio at forty. Let's stop there. Uh look,
Speaker 1: I know he's just a boy, but Churio is a
Speaker 1: special player. I think this is too low Welsh. What
Speaker 1: do you think I think he's Yeah, I understand that. Okay, okay,
Speaker 1: let's rank him at forty. I get it. But to me,
Speaker 1: he's much closer to twenty than he is to forty
Speaker 1: in terms of rank.
Speaker 2: So my caveat always is totally I'm a prospect person,
Speaker 2: but I don't typically hone in on prospects in redraft
Speaker 2: leagues except when their values. And you know, Corbyn Carroll
Speaker 2: ended up not being well, he ended up being in
Speaker 2: value because he just completely destroyed all expectations. But like
Speaker 2: he jumped in to the top fifty, and when these guys,
Speaker 2: you know, further further up, that makes it tough. Here's
Speaker 2: the deal, though, none of these guys are why at
Speaker 2: Langford's Jackson Curio, Jackson Holiday, They're not jumping up because
Speaker 2: people are a little bit timid because they're not getting
Speaker 2: what they want to hear, guaranteed roster spot. But Churio's
Speaker 2: got the contract. Murphy, well, but he's got a hard
Speaker 2: ass in Pat Murphy being his coach, So like that's
Speaker 2: a little like if there's a guy that would you know,
Speaker 2: didn't run out a ball that would probably bench him,
Speaker 2: it would be Pat Murphy. But my point is is,
Speaker 2: like these guys aren't being given the extra benefit because
Speaker 2: if Jackson Chiroo had a guaranteed spot, I don't see
Speaker 2: how anyone would let him slip out the top one hundred.
Speaker 2: Same thing with Jackson Holiday, same thing with Langford, and
Speaker 2: same thing with Junior Camenaro. They're all late. So because
Speaker 2: of that, I'm targeting them. I won't take them all
Speaker 2: because that is way too much risk. But Jackson Curio
Speaker 2: is a great power speed combination. He has some strikeout
Speaker 2: issues that I think could still be prevalent, but he
Speaker 2: has the best fantasy combination of tools I think than
Speaker 2: any of these guys. So absolutely I'm in on, sure
Speaker 2: you go if I can get him. The only problem
Speaker 2: is he's the number one of the rookies, not counting
Speaker 2: Evan Carter, but the other four. He's the number one
Speaker 2: of those guys that is going right now because of
Speaker 2: the extended contract.
Speaker 1: As you should. Brandon Nimmo a forty one, really solid player.
Speaker 1: That's sort of the like he should be in the
Speaker 1: top forty I think, because I mean, do you feel
Speaker 1: better about Outman or Nimo? I feel better about Nimo.
Speaker 2: Well, Nemo safer if I want batting average and runs,
Speaker 2: Nemo safer. But I think Outman has louder counting stat potential.
Speaker 2: But he's in hit at the again. Hitting at the
Speaker 2: bottom of a Dodgers lineup, though, just doesn't mean anything.
Speaker 2: It's like the Braves too, It's like that I'd rather
Speaker 2: that than hitting four for the Pirates.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I don't know, I understand that thought process,
Speaker 1: but I just feel I'll take the safer Nimo over Outman,
Speaker 1: Who's a couple of spots ahead of Nimo right now
Speaker 1: in points leagues especially too. Neimo's a very safe player.
Speaker 1: Forty two Barcelo Zoner than Tommy Edmund, Jared Duran, Lars Newt,
Speaker 1: bar Stephen Kwan, Wyatt Langford, and Chris Morrell at forty eight.
Speaker 1: You're a big new bar guy last year. What do
Speaker 1: you think about him at forty five this year?
Speaker 2: I'm still down with the Newt. I really want him
Speaker 2: to be able to you know, I really want him
Speaker 2: to do. I heard this rumor when he was in
Speaker 2: the AFL a couple years ago that he had trademarked
Speaker 2: Duke Bar as a protein bar and it never came
Speaker 2: to fruition. I want him to make that bar, and
Speaker 2: I want the Newt bar, but I want new Bar
Speaker 2: to start implementing a lot of that drive line stuff
Speaker 2: that he's been doing while taking batted balls, hard hitted
Speaker 2: batted balls and putting them in the air, and the
Speaker 2: Homers to start going.
Speaker 1: It feels like a bounce back for the Cardinals this year,
Speaker 1: doesn't it Like it made some of those like I
Speaker 1: know they were aggressive on the pitching market with all
Speaker 1: the veterans they signed, right the Grays and the Lynns
Speaker 1: and all these guys they brought in there, Like I
Speaker 1: think they were like, look, you know, especially once Corbyn
Speaker 1: Burns is now out of that Division two. I don't know,
Speaker 1: but it feels like Saint louis so back in.
Speaker 2: This might be like super annoying to hear for anybody,
Speaker 2: but just as if you want anecdotal stuff like there's
Speaker 2: no WBC this year, you know, new Bar was gone
Speaker 2: and Goldie was playing for teams like I'm not saying
Speaker 2: that that has to be a distraction, but there's maybe
Speaker 2: that was a small setback to the focus, the concentration
Speaker 2: and where Nutbar needed to be. That's just kind of
Speaker 2: like narrating what I want to happen. But guess what,
Speaker 2: he's outside the top forty. I think he's a great
Speaker 2: outfield option to target, as do I Jared Duran. Jaron
Speaker 2: Duran is a huge target for me as well. That
Speaker 2: by the way, rumors that the Padres were talking to
Speaker 2: them about Jared Duran really which would be really interesting
Speaker 2: with the Red Sox. But Duran is almost guaranteed full
Speaker 2: time playing time, big stolen based numbers, had huge hard
Speaker 2: hit numbers last year. I think he's ready to take
Speaker 2: a big fantasy jump. It'll be interesting though if he
Speaker 2: were to be traded. I don't know how I would
Speaker 2: feel about that that a Red Sox team. Again, it's
Speaker 2: just rumors. It may not happen, but Red Sox team
Speaker 2: giving up on him like that, But I'd be a
Speaker 2: pretty powerful offense either way. Neotbar and Duran, I'll take
Speaker 2: both of them.
Speaker 1: I don't feel like the Red Sox have much of
Speaker 1: a plan anymore. Isn't just me like that front offense.
Speaker 1: Ever since the Moviie trade, I still trying to figure
Speaker 1: out what the hell they're doing. I think you can.
Speaker 2: I think the fans are doing the same thing.
Speaker 1: I think you could circle the Mookie Bets trade, and
Speaker 1: ever since you're watching the Red Sox just slowly kind
Speaker 1: of just throw their hands up, like we don't really
Speaker 1: have a plan.
Speaker 2: Here, you know. Management they brought in Kyle Body, who
Speaker 2: was a creator of drive Line, and he can probably
Speaker 2: do some wonders with that pitching staff. So that's a
Speaker 2: first start. Craig Breslow is going to be there. That's
Speaker 2: a really good start. I do think what they probably
Speaker 2: look at they look at an offense that doesn't fit
Speaker 2: what they're looking for long term. It's like we have Devers,
Speaker 2: we have Cassas, and then we just have stuff. They
Speaker 2: have minor leaguers on the way, but I don't know.
Speaker 2: I don't know where Duran fits. I don't know where
Speaker 2: some of these guys fit for them. So I agree
Speaker 2: with you. I don't know if offensively they've built quite
Speaker 2: enough of a plan where I think they feel okay
Speaker 2: where they are pitching.
Speaker 1: Whyat Langford to forty seven, that's a player we're both
Speaker 1: high on. Let's talk about why at Langford your expectations here. Again,
Speaker 1: you might have to be patient, but at forty seven
Speaker 1: overall on the outfield list, you think that's good enough
Speaker 1: for patience to pay off.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think so. I pushed him up really high
Speaker 2: at one point early in the year, I talked myself
Speaker 2: down a little bit as they've poured some cold water
Speaker 2: on potentially him starting out. Also, this might seem stupid,
Speaker 2: but like Seger, maybe having you to start at DH
Speaker 2: might give one less opportunity for Langford and they may
Speaker 2: want some you know, they may want an extra, an
Speaker 2: extra infielder to cover for shortstop with Sieger not being
Speaker 2: able to play it. So maybe that is the reason
Speaker 2: that they push Langford out to start the year. But
Speaker 2: I do think he is up within the first month
Speaker 2: unless he struggles, and I think he has a better
Speaker 2: opportunity to win an Ale Rookie the Year than I
Speaker 2: do Evan Carter. And maybe I'm just being too negative, Nancy,
Speaker 2: but I placed a future on Rookie of the Year
Speaker 2: future on Why at Langford a little bit earlier in
Speaker 2: the year. So I'm big, big obp skills, big power,
Speaker 2: trouty type of body to me, and he's running. Yeah,
Speaker 2: he looks like the real deal. But we need a
Speaker 2: bigger sample size, and I think it might start in
Speaker 2: the minors before the majors. But I'll still take it
Speaker 2: in the late forties because we're now in a space
Speaker 2: where like you can replace, you could take him, and
Speaker 2: you can replace for a short period of time.
Speaker 1: Closing out outfield five here now forty eight. We just
Speaker 1: did morel So after that, Kerry Carpenter at forty nine.
Speaker 1: Then Eloia Menez who's gonna be dhing at fifty var
Speaker 1: show at fifty one again, check your leagues for local
Speaker 1: listings of eligibility lords Guriel, then Tyler o'near, Jared Kellnick,
Speaker 1: who's now with the Atlanta Braves. What do you make
Speaker 1: of that trade in the off season, That's what we
Speaker 1: really haven't talked about much. Many you know, start off
Speaker 1: real hot. Everyone thought, Okay, we're all good. He's finally
Speaker 1: figured it out, and then you know, kind of right
Speaker 1: back to square one. It feels like a lot. Then
Speaker 1: when an organization like the Braves comes around and picks
Speaker 1: you up, I'm always very intrigued. It's like when the
Speaker 1: rays sign a pitcher. You know, it was a conversation
Speaker 1: we had last year about Efflyn. I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: I'm really excited about effeled with Tampa. Uh just well,
Speaker 1: certain organizations just kind of have a way of magic
Speaker 1: wand that they wave and all of a sudden, these
Speaker 1: guys we should come useful again.
Speaker 2: I would say, I don't want to like bury it
Speaker 2: or repeat, so like, go listen to the Bold Prediction Show.
Speaker 2: I have kell Nick segment in there, but suffice it
Speaker 2: to say I like it. I definitely like to move.
Speaker 2: And you know, one of the negatives to the trade
Speaker 2: very early on was oh he might platoon with von Grissom.
Speaker 2: Grism's gone. He traded on to Boston.
Speaker 1: So that to Boston to Boston, how he feels a
Speaker 1: good trade?
Speaker 2: That was a good trade.
Speaker 1: I guess von Grisson to me, I'm not you know,
Speaker 1: I'm not a von Grissom guy. I just haven't been.
Speaker 1: We'll see, we'll see if I'm right or wrong. Guriel
Speaker 1: O'Neil Kelnick then Sewinsky at fifty five, Taylor Ward of
Speaker 1: fifty six, Starling Marte fifty seven, Jad Martinez still without
Speaker 1: a home. We'll see what happens is a thirty home
Speaker 1: run season for him. Again, these are DHS slash outfielders here.
Speaker 1: Utility guys were talking about as well. In the outfield,
Speaker 1: Max Kepler, Tavares, that's the top sixty here. Outside of sixty,
Speaker 1: their names like Brent Rooker, you know who had a
Speaker 1: really good power season, Giagarlos Stanton, who was still a
Speaker 1: big name, although in terms of playing games, like he
Speaker 1: had one hundred games last year, hit twenty four runs.
Speaker 1: Like he's kind of like a is what he is,
Speaker 1: almost like.
Speaker 2: A fun little scratcher, like a little it's like a
Speaker 2: two dollars scratcher, got you bet on.
Speaker 1: For a home run prop. He's not a guy I
Speaker 1: want on my fantasy team anymore. I feel like that's it.
Speaker 1: And then you have weird situations like Alex Vradugo with
Speaker 1: the Yankees. Now I can't believe Alex Vrdugo and Marcus
Speaker 1: Stroman or Yankees if there are two human beings that
Speaker 1: I feel like, in terms of their effervescence and personality
Speaker 1: don't really fit the historic I wish George Steinbrenner was
Speaker 1: still alive, Like I love to see that meeting between
Speaker 1: these guys that's gonna be really fascinting to see how
Speaker 1: to place out it really is, because they are very
Speaker 1: outspoken guys. Uh. Some people really like him in the clubhouse,
Speaker 1: some do not. And the Yankee culture, I don't know.
Speaker 1: You think there's like a change here going on the
Speaker 1: Yankee culture where I don't want to say they're getting desperate,
Speaker 1: but they're certainly opening themselves up to things maybe they
Speaker 1: weren't previously looking for in terms of player personalities that
Speaker 1: are now personnel decisions they have to make because there's
Speaker 1: deficits on this team they have to fill.
Speaker 2: You know, what's interesting about what you said is I
Speaker 2: don't think there's a real well reason.
Speaker 1: How many organizations now Dodgers red so right, Like he's
Speaker 1: bound a couple of times here.
Speaker 2: But but you know he was actually I remember here
Speaker 2: a little thing in the AFL when he was here
Speaker 2: years and years and years ago. He had one of
Speaker 2: the worst performances here. What I was gonna say is like, oh,
Speaker 2: you know what, the Yankees lack of leadership, Like Judge
Speaker 2: is not really like a leader, Garrett Cole not really
Speaker 2: a leader. Rizzozo percent can be, but that's not his
Speaker 2: deal right now.
Speaker 1: He's looking for to get paid.
Speaker 2: I didn't see any Yeah, I mean I saw I
Speaker 2: saw him a lot with the padres in and camp
Speaker 2: and stuff like that. And I mean you walk into
Speaker 2: a situation where Manny Machado is kind of like the
Speaker 2: leader and Tatis, but he never exemplified that. But like
Speaker 2: Rizzo might be the guy. My whole point was, like,
Speaker 2: it is interesting, that's a kind of leader list team,
Speaker 2: but Rizzo might be the guy that you worry about,
Speaker 2: those big personalities, kind of running a muck. But I
Speaker 2: hadn't really thought about like that, Rizzo. There's probably a
Speaker 2: lot of platoony that's going on Strowman and uh later outfield. Eh,
Speaker 2: That's why I want to try to get in on this.
Speaker 2: If I'm in a three outfielder league, I don't feel
Speaker 2: the pressure and the weight as much. But my strategy
Speaker 2: would be get one of the upper tier Ish guys.
Speaker 2: Then you could even play in the middle for like
Speaker 2: a Brian Reynolds, and then you could play a little
Speaker 2: bit deeper the Riley Greens that are falling. Give me
Speaker 2: Luis Robert, Brian Reynolds and Riley Green. Bam, we're good
Speaker 2: five outfielders. Where the pressure happens, the position can get
Speaker 2: behind you. You could take one good dude, Hey, I
Speaker 2: went out and I got Corbyn Carroll and now all
Speaker 2: of a sudden you let it go. You miss out
Speaker 2: on Brian Reynolds. And now your outfielder two is Riley Green,
Speaker 2: But then your outfielder three is you know, I mean,
Speaker 2: I guess I should look at this list here. Your
Speaker 2: outfielder three is Ian happ and then your outfielder four
Speaker 2: is further down here Tyler O'Neill, and your outfielder five
Speaker 2: is I really looking at John Carlos Stanton? Am I
Speaker 2: really looking at it?
Speaker 1: Like?
Speaker 2: So? I just don't want to let the position get
Speaker 2: too far ahead of me. So be more cognizant. If
Speaker 2: you're in a five outfielder, if you prioritize some of
Speaker 2: those guys a little bit early, you could have an advantage.
Speaker 2: But don't go nuts in three outfielder because there is
Speaker 2: some decent depth through the first thirty five or so.
Speaker 2: But where you know, Scott White I did an episode
Speaker 2: with he had said, you know, win in doubt, take
Speaker 2: outfield I think we've moved beyond that a little bit
Speaker 2: where we have a better understanding. But keep an eye like.
Speaker 1: Better than last round. Last year was terrifying. I think
Speaker 1: we all like.
Speaker 2: Neighborhood watch, feel like a neighborhood watch sign. But it's
Speaker 2: just like outfielder, like, just make sure we're all watching
Speaker 2: outfield better than last year.
Speaker 1: Again, some of the youth that's coming through here, I
Speaker 1: think it's a lot to be excited about. Some of
Speaker 1: the guys you know, getting healthy too, better than last year.
Speaker 1: Still a drop off, still clear, Still some land mines
Speaker 1: to you to avoid. But who are some of your
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Speaker 1: because we've got Fantasy Fest coming up on the fifteenth
Speaker 1: of March. We've got Leading Off coming up right after that.
Speaker 1: Every single day the Welsh and I talk a baseball
Speaker 1: amazing times here over what's happening?
Speaker 2: How did that? How did we get to that spot?
Speaker 1: I don't know, we're here already. Uh, never sleep, that's
Speaker 1: for sure. From football to NFL draft coverage, now to
Speaker 1: baseball coverage here so my head is spinning here. But
Speaker 1: by all means, keep giving me crap about me mispronouncing
Speaker 1: one name over and over again on the name.
Speaker 2: You Reagan's Reagans. There we go.
Speaker 1: Me the YouTube comments because I got a thick skin
Speaker 1: and the time they're fun. And you know what, now,
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna call him dragons over and over again.
Speaker 2: I actually told Joe that when he was and I
Speaker 2: was just comment didn't.
Speaker 1: That's what I'm gonna do. Just keep you keep all
Speaker 1: the comments, you know, making fun of you. That's fine.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna keep doing it.
Speaker 2: And I told you you should. You should just you
Speaker 2: should just lean into it now like I did.
Speaker 1: I did lean into it the other day. But I'll mean,
Speaker 1: look again, it's literally you're doing three shows in a day,
Speaker 1: and three different sports. I did an NBA show as well.
Speaker 1: Sometimes things kind of slip your mind a little bit.
Speaker 1: But that it's okay. We're here for all of your
Speaker 1: full service baseball, and uh, you know what, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go draft some shares of him right now on the
Speaker 1: draft Wizard, just so I have some shares that I
Speaker 1: could start to do some simulations and some regans, some
Speaker 1: ragons let's call the whole thing off, Let's call the
Speaker 1: show off. Everybody that'll do it for us, But the
Speaker 1: story of the game goes on for the Welsh. I'm
Speaker 1: Joey P. We'll see you next time, kids, Ray guns blazing.