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Speaker 1: Frankie Stample. I am Greg happy Monday. I hope you're
Speaker 1: not too hungover from St Patrick's day. I'm not. You
Speaker 1: went out partying hard, Dreg. I didn't, did not. I
Speaker 1: just sleep last night, buddy, dude, I lose his dream
Speaker 1: about work now it's bad. That's not necessarily a dream.
Speaker 1: Then that's of a nightmare. Correct. I dreamed that like
Speaker 1: we were taving FanDuel today, like everything went wrong. Why
Speaker 1: do you think such bad things? Greg? I don't know.
Speaker 1: I wake up and I wake up and was like,
Speaker 1: we had a great night. Come on play by play, dude,
Speaker 1: great story to start off today's show. Great story. Before
Speaker 1: we get into it, I want to welcome to our
Speaker 1: guest at this time. We hung out with them all
Speaker 1: weekend long. It was a blast. It's Maddie Moo, Maddie
Speaker 1: moodicka every Moodica Monday says, I'm at man, what's going on, guys?
Speaker 1: Great chilling this weekend. One weekend down, one weekend to
Speaker 1: love it, love it. The money was I you saw
Speaker 1: a whole a lot of things change, I'd say, and
Speaker 1: we'll talk about that with Matt over the next hour
Speaker 1: or so. Now, Frank, we gotta start off with the story,
Speaker 1: do we not? Yeah? I think it's fair. So Frank
Speaker 1: texted me, what's time you gonna texted me yet? Fright
Speaker 1: texted me, I feel like eight o'clock right, yeah, eight yep.
Speaker 1: Lost all three of my fantasy basketball semifinals, and I said,
Speaker 1: O m G. It's my response. Like then called Frank
Speaker 1: around eleven o'clock last night because we were playing Ronus
Speaker 1: and we were down all week, like we couldn't do
Speaker 1: anything right, everything went wrong, and I called Frank because
Speaker 1: I checked a lot of as I kind of get
Speaker 1: it ready for bed. It was about at eleven o'clock,
Speaker 1: like I said, and we were down one three pointer
Speaker 1: from Ronus, one three pointer we needed to to take
Speaker 1: the lead. I go to the bathroom. I come out
Speaker 1: to wash up, brush my teeth. I come out and
Speaker 1: we are winning. I called Frank right back up, Hey,
Speaker 1: what's up? And I'm like, we're winning? What what? So?
Speaker 1: I sat there with Frank because he was watching on
Speaker 1: his xbox. I was just watching on ESPN and then
Speaker 1: on YES, so I was like a good five to
Speaker 1: ten minutes ahead of him on the broadcast. So I
Speaker 1: was giving straight play by play of the Clippers Nets
Speaker 1: game in which we won and advanced to the finals. Frankie,
Speaker 1: it was wild. We had no business being in this
Speaker 1: at all. I mean, we were getting destroyed all week long.
Speaker 1: Greg calls me up. He's doing play by play. Gillis
Speaker 1: Alexander two. It's the three. It's now what I said?
Speaker 1: I said, s g A in the corner shoots the three.
Speaker 1: Got it, got it, got it. I was running around screaming,
Speaker 1: got it, and it was amazing. We had no business winning.
Speaker 1: He was great, and now we're in the finals. Were
Speaker 1: in the final. I've never been able to take home
Speaker 1: this league. Hopefully you were the good look time back
Speaker 1: to back finals appearances in my first two years in
Speaker 1: the league. That's how get it done. How you get
Speaker 1: it done? Alright, Maddy Mo, what's going on? It's Monday, baby,
Speaker 1: I'm up, which is surprising. I've been up to six
Speaker 1: am somehow, but uh excited to talk about the previous weekend?
Speaker 1: Six am? So you do you toss and turn in
Speaker 1: the morning, thinking about like your drafts and stuff, how
Speaker 1: you like crushed everybody, or you're thinking about something completely different.
Speaker 1: I think it's just getting over to wake up early
Speaker 1: all the time now, to wake up and get his coffee,
Speaker 1: which you know he's always taking pictures of what he's eating.
Speaker 1: Well it's coffee that he's drinking, so I mean you're
Speaker 1: doing it right now. So this is my first time
Speaker 1: seeing Maddie Mo in his element right like around all
Speaker 1: the other sharks in the room. Him and Andy Saxton
Speaker 1: giving each other craft all weekend long. It was awesome.
Speaker 1: They were going they were in drafts together, Jeff simultaneously.
Speaker 1: It was like such a ridiculous event. We covered it
Speaker 1: live for the Fantasy Sports radier Nowhere. We were there
Speaker 1: all day Friday, uh and then for most of the
Speaker 1: day on Saturday for the main event to see Frankie
Speaker 1: you participating in the maternet. We'll get near feelings on
Speaker 1: everything in a bit. But it was a wild, wild show.
Speaker 1: See how serious everybody is, how casual they are because
Speaker 1: they'll know each other, and it was like they were
Speaker 1: just there to do their job, do their business. It
Speaker 1: was just silent. It was intense. It was a really
Speaker 1: really interesting view in the high stakes fantasy baseball. It
Speaker 1: was a lot of fun. I love the experience, just
Speaker 1: to try and map this out and explain how it
Speaker 1: looks for everyone. We're basically inside a huge like hotel
Speaker 1: meeting lobby area with three fifteen team drafts going on
Speaker 1: side by side by side, projectors up on the screen
Speaker 1: with the draft results that are going on. You're here
Speaker 1: names getting called out left, You're here names getting called
Speaker 1: out right. Everyone's looking down across the names off their list,
Speaker 1: marking things off on their computer. Players who are getting drafted,
Speaker 1: trying to figure out what they're gonna do next. It
Speaker 1: is intense. It was a lot of fun. I loved
Speaker 1: the first time being here, love competing against Maddiemo. I
Speaker 1: think it's gonna be a lot of fun. Uh, Matt,
Speaker 1: I have no idea how you do it. I know
Speaker 1: people were calling you the machine at six ft now
Speaker 1: last night while the batteries are starting to run out.
Speaker 1: I don't know how you got through the weekend because
Speaker 1: it seems like you had a draft in an auction
Speaker 1: each day Friday, Saturday and Sunday. I have no idea
Speaker 1: how you did it. Yeah, it's it's tough, but you
Speaker 1: know you I look folk to this these two weekends,
Speaker 1: you know, every year, so you gotta have conserve as
Speaker 1: much energy once again, you're as much coffee, take as
Speaker 1: much a leave as possible, and you know, the competition
Speaker 1: is great, but the camaraderie is just as good. And
Speaker 1: I've made so many friends throughout the years in both
Speaker 1: baseball and football high stakes. It's, as I said, just
Speaker 1: a weekend full of guys that will know each other,
Speaker 1: guys that um and ladies that that have played together.
Speaker 1: And they're doing it for the money. They're doing it
Speaker 1: for the money. So Frank I go, I go over
Speaker 1: to you. This is your first n FBC made event
Speaker 1: you were teaming up Greg Biden. What is your feelings
Speaker 1: walking in that room? How do you feel the draft one?
Speaker 1: And where's that at. I feel great about the way
Speaker 1: that the team turned out. Obviously, um you know what
Speaker 1: I was looking for early on here, I wanted to
Speaker 1: get an outfield. I wanted to get a starting pitcher.
Speaker 1: Chris Sale ends up falling to pick nineteen, which honestly
Speaker 1: was probably my hardest decision of the draft because I
Speaker 1: told myself, if Garret Cole was there at nineteen, that's
Speaker 1: who I wanted. But I didn't expect Chris Sale to
Speaker 1: be there. So I'm looking at the board, I'm thinking
Speaker 1: about Sale versus Garrett Cole. Ultimately I take Chris Sale
Speaker 1: because my perspective, you're playing for an overall, you take
Speaker 1: the player who has the highest upside, and I think
Speaker 1: Garrit Cole had tremendous upside as well, and he might
Speaker 1: even be the safer pick than Chris Sale. At this point,
Speaker 1: we know the concerns would say, last year, the velocity
Speaker 1: came down. He's got the wiry frame. Like I've always
Speaker 1: kind of worried about these things. I've never really owned him,
Speaker 1: so I'm gonna get the first hand experience from Chris Sale,
Speaker 1: but some of those things to rest over the weekend
Speaker 1: when he made his debut, I know the velocity was
Speaker 1: like but had seven strikeouts in four innings. I just
Speaker 1: think the upside is higher with Chris Sale. So when
Speaker 1: you're playing with for an overall UH that that's ultimately
Speaker 1: the decision that I came to. But Matt, I'll throw
Speaker 1: this your way as well, because you know, I was
Speaker 1: sitting around that Friday night watching you guys draft UH
Speaker 1: in the in the Ultimate the Ultimate Draft, which was
Speaker 1: a five K entry high Stakes draft, and I saw
Speaker 1: some of the picks that were flying off the board.
Speaker 1: My biggest takeaway even before I drafted this weekend was
Speaker 1: get your guys, don't worry about a DP, just draft
Speaker 1: whoever you want. Because I remember there was a team
Speaker 1: picked four teen on that Friday night high Stakes draft
Speaker 1: who started Aaron Nola. Aaron Nolan, I picked four teen
Speaker 1: and Javier Bias, And it was right then that I
Speaker 1: was like, just get your guys, Like if you trust
Speaker 1: a player is gonna break out, or you know you
Speaker 1: have projections higher for a place, like a specific player
Speaker 1: than anyone else in your league. It doesn't matter if
Speaker 1: you pull them up the board or not. If you
Speaker 1: trust that player, take that player. Yeah, no if especially
Speaker 1: you know, if you're doing the research for a couple
Speaker 1: of months and you're putting uh substantial amounts of money
Speaker 1: on the law, and you gotta believe in what you're doing.
Speaker 1: And it looks like like you said, sell to me.
Speaker 1: If uh Chris healthy and the second half of last
Speaker 1: season didn't happen, he's you know, I would possibly be
Speaker 1: my number one guy on the board, even when as
Speaker 1: as magical as Max shows has been the last five years.
Speaker 1: But it did happen. But it's tough. Like you said,
Speaker 1: you're in that spot and passing on sale at nineteen
Speaker 1: would have been would have been difficult for me to do.
Speaker 1: And you know, I was on cold last year and
Speaker 1: I love him just as much this year. But I
Speaker 1: think you how to pull the trigger there. I thought
Speaker 1: the biggest surprise in particular to your main event draft
Speaker 1: and and some of the other ones I saw also
Speaker 1: was J. D. Martinez, which is where I want to
Speaker 1: I want to dive into. So JD. Martinez drops almost
Speaker 1: all the way you at twelve ranight, he goes at
Speaker 1: number eleven in Draft one of the main event, he
Speaker 1: dropped all the way to nine. In Draft three, he
Speaker 1: also dropped all the way to nine. This is a guy, Frank,
Speaker 1: that we in our draft tomorrow. I was talking about
Speaker 1: four overall and this is the main event. There is
Speaker 1: the high stakes player he went. The highest he went
Speaker 1: is number nine. Matt what are we missing? If Jennie Martinez,
Speaker 1: what's going on? I'll say he's probably the third best
Speaker 1: sitter in baseball right now. The thing is in the
Speaker 1: first round all these because this is an overall competition.
Speaker 1: It's not just like a satellite or a standalone home league,
Speaker 1: So you're competing against five or sell other players all constantly.
Speaker 1: So a hundred, you know, it's not like you have
Speaker 1: enough saves, you have enough speed, so you want to
Speaker 1: keep getting it. Like if you're in a home league
Speaker 1: and you have a hundred and fifty selling basis and
Speaker 1: that guy has a hundred, you know that doesn't make
Speaker 1: that much sense. But in the overall, you gotta keep
Speaker 1: getting it. And everybody either wants that ace early or
Speaker 1: they want like a guy who can steal them twenty
Speaker 1: bases along with the power as well. And the reason
Speaker 1: Why j D and Erronado do fool is because of
Speaker 1: that they don't know if you any speed, and it's
Speaker 1: so hard to get it. You want to have a
Speaker 1: base of, say, you know, thirty twenty type kind of
Speaker 1: guys with average in that for un if you can
Speaker 1: get it. Why Aaron Judge over j D Martinez in
Speaker 1: every league? I saw Aaron Judge go and this is
Speaker 1: and I wanted to ask you about this as well,
Speaker 1: Matt is how much should spring training matter? Because people
Speaker 1: say spring training shouldn't matter, especially when you know we're
Speaker 1: talking about people who have been doing research for the
Speaker 1: past couple of months. Again, you got your guys, you
Speaker 1: want to get your guys, trust your gut, go with
Speaker 1: what the research says. But when I saw you yesterday
Speaker 1: in a main event, Aaron Judge goes fifth. Overall, this
Speaker 1: is not an O b P format. This is a
Speaker 1: batting average format. That tells me that spring training does matter.
Speaker 1: People are paying attention to spring training because they're seeing
Speaker 1: what Judge is doing and he's seting six home runs,
Speaker 1: and he's going out every day and he's smacking another
Speaker 1: home run and people are getting excited about what he
Speaker 1: can do if he stays healthy in the Yankees lineup.
Speaker 1: So I'll throw it to you, how much should spring
Speaker 1: training matter? Does it normally make this much of a difference?
Speaker 1: Because j D. Martinez to this point is someone who
Speaker 1: has struggled in the spring. He's hitting one thirty with
Speaker 1: zero home runs. That doesn't concerned me. I still think
Speaker 1: j D. Martinez should be a top five six player
Speaker 1: off the board. But if I'm seeing Judge go fifth overall,
Speaker 1: greg spring training is obviously driving there. Yeah. I mean,
Speaker 1: but like what Aaron Judge is doing in the spring
Speaker 1: isn't exactly a surprise. Like Aaron Judge is what you
Speaker 1: expect him to do during the season, so you know
Speaker 1: he's healthy. I haven't it allows to ignored with Aaron
Speaker 1: Judge is done in the spring. I canna tell you
Speaker 1: what j D. Martinez has done on the spring. I
Speaker 1: have no idea because I don't think it matters. And
Speaker 1: I'm very surprised, Matt if the high stakes players do
Speaker 1: think that matters. Now, I think it's more like say
Speaker 1: pictures and stuff, at least actual matters to me or
Speaker 1: younger players, you know, constantly being in that line up
Speaker 1: at a certain spot in it in in the batting
Speaker 1: order and stuff like that. But as far as uh, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean j D Martinez signed she you know, around
Speaker 1: the same time as Bryce Hopper signed, and he went
Speaker 1: on to be you know, I could have been an
Speaker 1: m v P, you know, mookie gap, but j D
Speaker 1: was right there with all those numbers and stuff. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna k j D over Judge. I really like Judge
Speaker 1: this year. I mean, I don't know how you don't
Speaker 1: like him. I was in the draft where he went five,
Speaker 1: what kind of for me? And then I had a
Speaker 1: good shot at Hopper being there. I didn't want to
Speaker 1: get a bat number was one. Uh it was horror
Speaker 1: Judge I expected to get. So it worked out well
Speaker 1: that way. But maybe it's just that one guy has
Speaker 1: him valued so much higher than others, and if he
Speaker 1: delivers on forty homers, Robbies and stuff, I just did
Speaker 1: a bad average. Between Judge and j D. There's gonna
Speaker 1: be a significant gap. It should be, and I expected
Speaker 1: to be. I would expect, you know, j D. Martinez
Speaker 1: at least hit three ten. I mean it could be
Speaker 1: as high as three twenty. We saw where it was
Speaker 1: at last year. Both him and Beds finished the top
Speaker 1: two in the a L Batting Crown last year. So
Speaker 1: in the biggest difference is the strikeouts. Right Judge strikes
Speaker 1: out of the time round percent. Now Judge only it
Speaker 1: lowered his strikeout rates to that he probably would hit
Speaker 1: over three d as well, because he hits the ball
Speaker 1: as hard as he does. I mean, that's why he's
Speaker 1: able to even maintain a two seventy batting average with
Speaker 1: striking out thirty percent of the time, because he hits
Speaker 1: the ball as hard as he does. So if he
Speaker 1: was able to lower that strikeout rate, then he would
Speaker 1: be able to be a three hundred hitter like J. D. Martinez,
Speaker 1: But we haven't seen any evidence of that happening for
Speaker 1: Aaron Judge. So as of now, I mean, if I'm
Speaker 1: draft him, which I did, I would expect a you know,
Speaker 1: to sixty five to seventy five batting average with forty
Speaker 1: home runs and you know, potentially in the Yankees lineup,
Speaker 1: which you know the counting stats are gonna be there too. Yeah, listen, absolutely,
Speaker 1: I get it. And it's it's amazing where you kind
Speaker 1: of gone on Aaron Judge from where you started. Sectly
Speaker 1: you were against him, but how much you've kind of fallen.
Speaker 1: He has big splits. He has big splits issues. But
Speaker 1: again for Rhodo for the season long, that doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: So what are you giving me at the end of
Speaker 1: the season. I would say, you know, for head to
Speaker 1: head leagues, that might matter a little bit more of
Speaker 1: the consistency or lack thereof, because if you look at
Speaker 1: his his home road splits in his career, and you
Speaker 1: kind of understand because it's Yankee Stadium, I mean, he's
Speaker 1: it's like drastically different. You know, he's like over a
Speaker 1: thousand ops at home, like over three batting average, and
Speaker 1: then at on the road he's like a two thirty
Speaker 1: hitter with like a sub eight ps. So that that
Speaker 1: kind of lack of consistency might hurt you in a
Speaker 1: head to head league where you need weekly consistency. But Rhodo,
Speaker 1: end of season, hey, as long as you give me
Speaker 1: my you know, home runs, a hundred runs, a hundred
Speaker 1: RBIs that's all I'm asking absolutely Now, looking at these
Speaker 1: drafts as we we'll talk about them. We'll talk about
Speaker 1: our auction, because we've been on the air since our
Speaker 1: auction on Thursday night as well. We have another draft.
Speaker 1: We have a lot going on today. We're gonna go
Speaker 1: over this adventure and his draft will get into his
Speaker 1: draft come up when he joins us next hour. So
Speaker 1: a lot of draft recap, seeing where players have gone
Speaker 1: now that you're actually pulling the trigger now the money's
Speaker 1: actually on the line, seeing where some of these players
Speaker 1: are going, and I think that makes a huge, huge difference.
Speaker 1: I got, like Francisco Lindor, we questioned him, there's a
Speaker 1: rumor he could be ready for we're opening day. In
Speaker 1: the second round, Lindor went to Andy Saxon and Matt Modica,
Speaker 1: team number two. We're gonna ask Matt about that. On
Speaker 1: the other side, where how happy or what they thought
Speaker 1: of getting Lindor there In Draft one. Francisco Lindor went
Speaker 1: in your spot in the very first round. Oh, the
Speaker 1: NFBC made event. In the second one, he went in
Speaker 1: your spotting team two in round two. So Francisco Lindor,
Speaker 1: Frank kind of back up to where he was, except
Speaker 1: for Matt, which again we'll get you after the break. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And it's all about roster construction, the way that people
Speaker 1: like to build their teams, and Matt's right, a lot
Speaker 1: of people want to get that base of home runs.
Speaker 1: Can you give me stolen bases as well? With a
Speaker 1: good batting average, Lindor can definitely do that. It's just
Speaker 1: a matter of how healthy he's going to bed. I
Speaker 1: couldn't do that great because you know, I wanted to
Speaker 1: get an ACE early on. I don't like the start
Speaker 1: starting pitchers that are there at the end of the third,
Speaker 1: early fourth round. I don't want want two of those guys,
Speaker 1: So to me, I knew I was taking a starting
Speaker 1: pitcher with one of my first All right, fair enough.
Speaker 1: When we come back, we'll hear more about Matt Modica's
Speaker 1: pick for Francisco Lindor, and then we'll name check a
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Speaker 1: the break and we mentioned that Maddie mo and Andy
Speaker 1: Saxon where you would have grab Francisco Lindor in the
Speaker 1: second round. I said it to you at the hotel
Speaker 1: on Saturday, Matt, I'll say it to you. Now, you
Speaker 1: had to be thrilled that Lindore was there for you
Speaker 1: in the second and then Noah synder Guard was there
Speaker 1: for you in the third. Yeah, that worked down quite nice. Look,
Speaker 1: I was drafting Lindor in the three spot earlier on
Speaker 1: when the draft season started, I was taking a cooner
Speaker 1: all Indor in that area, and Friday night I got
Speaker 1: him with the second to last pick in the second round.
Speaker 1: So I'm pretty heavily uh invested in Francisco Lindor. You're
Speaker 1: gonna have to probably, you know, I don't know if
Speaker 1: opening day is gonna be realistic, but even if it's
Speaker 1: a week or two, it happened early enough. Hopefully it's
Speaker 1: fully healed. And you know, this isn't like a thirty
Speaker 1: three year old Josh Donaldson that's dealing with. It's a
Speaker 1: younger guy, different build as well, So I'm hoping, you know,
Speaker 1: it's not a long wait at all signs you go,
Speaker 1: all signs of Oregon over Francisco. Linda Or. That's a
Speaker 1: name is gonna rise back up draftwoards because, as we said,
Speaker 1: not even ruled out for opening day yet. I think
Speaker 1: he won't be their opening day, but he'll be back
Speaker 1: pretty soon after that, So good stuff for Lindor Frankie,
Speaker 1: And I think this is a good spot to get
Speaker 1: him in two, right after Stanton goes, right after Bregman goes.
Speaker 1: I think it makes sense as that hitter off the board, Um,
Speaker 1: you know, Paul Goldschmid Freeman all off the board as well.
Speaker 1: I worry a little bit about the stolen bases. You know,
Speaker 1: obviously he was dealing with a cash train, and you
Speaker 1: know he's still gonna get twenty five to thirty stolen basis.
Speaker 1: Maybe he's you know, closer to twenty low twenties, maybe
Speaker 1: high team, So I worry a little bit about that.
Speaker 1: But again, it all comes down to is he all
Speaker 1: systems go? Is he good to go? I mean, I
Speaker 1: think you would agree with this match. Just let the
Speaker 1: guy rest, Like, don't try and rush him back just
Speaker 1: for the sake of having me for opening Day. And
Speaker 1: I don't think the Indians will do that because they
Speaker 1: realize how pivotal he is to that team, both offensively
Speaker 1: and defensively. Just let the guy rest. Make sure he's
Speaker 1: completely healthy, Like even if it takes two weeks into
Speaker 1: the season, Like, just make sure he's completely healthy. Don't
Speaker 1: try and rush this guy back. And I trust the unions.
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't think there an organization that would
Speaker 1: rush him back. Loves the Indians. I don't know how
Speaker 1: I became an Indians fan, but I'm all in there.
Speaker 1: You're you're a massive, massive, massive Indians fans. Okay, Look
Speaker 1: taking a look. And one of the constant questions which
Speaker 1: we talked about over the weekend, and what I wanted
Speaker 1: to dress now is where does a guy like Vladimir
Speaker 1: Guerrero go? Right? Like? Where does he go across the landscape?
Speaker 1: And in your draft, guys, he went in the middle
Speaker 1: of the sixth round to Team eight. At that point, Matt,
Speaker 1: was he on your radar? I know you picked two
Speaker 1: picks later. Was vladimc Guarrera on your radar that spot?
Speaker 1: I was actually hoping he was gonna be there. I was.
Speaker 1: I didn't think he was gonna make it back Friday night.
Speaker 1: I took him with the second pick in the fifth
Speaker 1: round and he wanted to wait another round. He wasn't
Speaker 1: really into it there. So when you got a partner,
Speaker 1: you gotta deal with a little look. That was my
Speaker 1: first share I got vlad Jr. On Friday night. But
Speaker 1: it was in the fifth round, and you know he
Speaker 1: was going third round, mid third round pretty much all
Speaker 1: draft season. Yeah. Yeah, he has been obviously the oblique
Speaker 1: affecting him. Frank you let him go in that round.
Speaker 1: I know you've kind of decided to say, Hey, I
Speaker 1: don't want to do this thing. I'm gonna let other
Speaker 1: people get involved mostly, and that's that's been your mantro
Speaker 1: th rout draft season. Instead, in that sixth round, you
Speaker 1: wound up taking Roberto your first closer. Closer I'll always
Speaker 1: deal with that, yea. So in the fifth round, Daniel
Speaker 1: Murphy made it to me, which I didn't expect a
Speaker 1: lot of drafts. I've been seeing him go in the
Speaker 1: fourth round. And it's interesting you mentioned the spring before
Speaker 1: Murphy's had a terrible spring. Do you think that contributes
Speaker 1: to him dropping a little bit um Maybe potentially. I
Speaker 1: don't think that it should obviously. I mean, unless there's
Speaker 1: been something about like his knees again that have come
Speaker 1: out that I haven't seen. But again, I haven't seen it.
Speaker 1: And I know Rudy Gamble is someone who was in
Speaker 1: on Daniel Murphy. He was drafting in one of the
Speaker 1: main events right next to me. He ended up taking
Speaker 1: Daniel Murphy in the middle of the fourth round. So
Speaker 1: when I get him at five twelve, I'm feeling pretty
Speaker 1: good about that. We already have the base of power
Speaker 1: with Aaron Judge and Cody Bellens on the team, so
Speaker 1: we wanted to add to the batting average there and look,
Speaker 1: playing in court field, and I not the biggest Daniel
Speaker 1: Murphy fan, but the upside is undeniable. I mean in
Speaker 1: Coors Field, he can easily hit you know, three plus. Um.
Speaker 1: He just needs to stay healthy. And then Roberto as
Speaker 1: soon we take him from the sixth round. The reason
Speaker 1: why we passed on Vladimcbreo Junr is there were a
Speaker 1: third basement that we liked that go later on. We
Speaker 1: ended up with one of those third basement in the
Speaker 1: eighth round, and I figured Greg that I want at
Speaker 1: least one of my top twelve closers, and really the
Speaker 1: cut off for me is Kirby Yates Shawn Doolittle that range,
Speaker 1: and I figured Herby Yates was not gonna make it
Speaker 1: back to me at the end of the seventh round,
Speaker 1: and I ended up being right about that. He didn't
Speaker 1: make it back to me, so ultimately, I wanted to
Speaker 1: lock up one of these guys who I know one's
Speaker 1: gonna have the job for their respective team. So that's
Speaker 1: why we go with Roberto Soona. I have no regrets,
Speaker 1: no regrets at all. Frank walked out of this draft,
Speaker 1: by the way, absolutely loving loving that team. Um that emo,
Speaker 1: I want to get your thoughts on that too. Like,
Speaker 1: I feel like, if if you like your team a
Speaker 1: lot coming out of a fifteen team draft with this
Speaker 1: many good players, something probably went wrong, right, Should I
Speaker 1: really like my team this much? I mean there's some
Speaker 1: people that will say, oh, I hate my team and
Speaker 1: they always do good, and there's other people that I
Speaker 1: love it. It's look, I think it's a good thing
Speaker 1: to walk out saying how much you like your team.
Speaker 1: It means you executed your plan pretty much. So I
Speaker 1: think that's a positive And I'd rather walk out being
Speaker 1: positive than having a negativeness spin on it. It makes
Speaker 1: me feel a little better. There you go. I mean,
Speaker 1: does you want to feel more positive than negative? Of course? Um,
Speaker 1: I just don't want to like feel too cocky or anything, right, Like,
Speaker 1: this is my first time, but what's really Saturday was
Speaker 1: the fun and now once this season starts, that's gonna
Speaker 1: be the grind, you know, the fan process. It's it's
Speaker 1: really grueling and it's really tough and having to get
Speaker 1: those right prices and deciding how much you're willing to invest. Uh,
Speaker 1: Sunday Nights will have a whole new form of healthy.
Speaker 1: I mean it already has been, right Greg. Yes, I'm
Speaker 1: used to working with partners like we we do gs
Speaker 1: T bids together. You and Florio might need to handle
Speaker 1: that a little bit more this year because I'm gonna
Speaker 1: be doing my main event bids. I was just I
Speaker 1: have g d D bids, So yeah, man, like I realized,
Speaker 1: you know what I was getting myself into. And I
Speaker 1: know how like long and rooling the bidding process is
Speaker 1: because you know, we did it all last year when
Speaker 1: I was teaming up with these guys. So it's just
Speaker 1: it's another league. They have to do it too. Obviously
Speaker 1: there's a little bit more on the line here, but yeah,
Speaker 1: definitely I hear you, man Like, the especially for you,
Speaker 1: I don't know, like you must spend your entire Sunday.
Speaker 1: It must take you ten hours set all your fab bids. Man,
Speaker 1: I don't know, I mean what I try to do
Speaker 1: is prior to Sunday, have everything kind of set up,
Speaker 1: and then you start tweaking those last couple of hours.
Speaker 1: At one point, I try and cut myself off if
Speaker 1: there's no news because I just keep increasing my bed.
Speaker 1: So I try. And yeah, that's something that I do too,
Speaker 1: you know, throughout the week while things are going on,
Speaker 1: I might just throw a bid in just so I
Speaker 1: don't forget about it and remind myself of it on
Speaker 1: Sunday and then off outside then I still want this
Speaker 1: and then I'll up the bid to the exact price
Speaker 1: that I wanted to. But that's something I'll actually do,
Speaker 1: and I think that's a good thing to talk about,
Speaker 1: for like in season management, when you see something that's
Speaker 1: going on throughout a week and you have only waivers,
Speaker 1: go once on Sundays to set a bid. Make sure
Speaker 1: you remember to go check it out again towards the
Speaker 1: end of the week, obviously, but just like set the
Speaker 1: bid and then you can remind yourself later on why
Speaker 1: did I like this guy? And then you kind of
Speaker 1: go through your thought processes there. So for me, so
Speaker 1: I'm so used to playing in daily leaves and daily
Speaker 1: transactions where you can go make a move every night,
Speaker 1: whether the waivers are going through overnight or not. That
Speaker 1: the weekly thing just starts me for a loop. By
Speaker 1: Sunday night, the last thing I want to do is
Speaker 1: go back with you and Floria all these bids Like
Speaker 1: it's just like I remember, it's a lot of you know,
Speaker 1: me up at eleven o'clock doing these bids by myself,
Speaker 1: and I just was not interested. So to me, it's grueling.
Speaker 1: It's a grueling. It's grueling. It's grueling because it's all
Speaker 1: guys that suck number one, and you're so for me,
Speaker 1: I think the way you have to do it is
Speaker 1: every day, like every warning we come to work, like
Speaker 1: go over guys that we possibly want. Kind of we
Speaker 1: did in basketball. It was kind of easier because it
Speaker 1: was it was twice a week, um, and to me
Speaker 1: to do every day put a bit in if you
Speaker 1: want to change it on Sunday night, I can at
Speaker 1: least already in there. At least it's already there, otherwise
Speaker 1: I'm gonna lose my mind. That's and and you're in
Speaker 1: seventeen leagues, Frank, I'm gonna be in like three or four.
Speaker 1: Do you have like an official account what it's gonna
Speaker 1: end up looking like Matt probably like fan, it's probably
Speaker 1: gonna come close to about nine I think tend the
Speaker 1: most and like did you have champions? Those are manageable
Speaker 1: because you just have to set lineups and you can
Speaker 1: take care of that. As far as the fan goes.
Speaker 1: I keep telling myself, I want to get down to
Speaker 1: like five six the most, but it's just tough. But
Speaker 1: luckily I have you know, I have Andy partner with
Speaker 1: me on on I think with his three teams, I
Speaker 1: have him. I have Christophericaro doing two teams with me.
Speaker 1: So you know, it does help out when your partners
Speaker 1: that Matt had multiple checklist of all of his leagues
Speaker 1: to make sure he remembers that because you have to man,
Speaker 1: you actually have expensive it does get expensive. All right, Um,
Speaker 1: let me get back into the draft for because that's
Speaker 1: ultimately what people care about. Um, Frank, I'm gonna go,
Speaker 1: do you here what surprised you in the draft? Give
Speaker 1: me a name that people want to know where they
Speaker 1: went draft, and you're like, here he went here, and
Speaker 1: this is kind of a surprise. It's not necessarily a surprise,
Speaker 1: but I think it's something that we should talk about
Speaker 1: because we haven't talked about it. We haven't been on
Speaker 1: the air since this news came out, and it's regarding
Speaker 1: Walker Bueller. And I'm very interested to get Matt's thoughts
Speaker 1: on this as well, because he was very much so
Speaker 1: in on Walker Bueller. Came out Wednesday Thursday last week
Speaker 1: kind of went under the radar that his arm just
Speaker 1: quote doesn't feel right. It's not necessarily an injury, but
Speaker 1: he just says he doesn't feel right. Whether it's a
Speaker 1: dead arm phase that he's going through. Remember the d
Speaker 1: he's jumped from last year. He went from nine and
Speaker 1: twenty seventeen to up around you know one seventy six
Speaker 1: last year with the host season included, so a pretty
Speaker 1: big something there. He's getting a late later start than
Speaker 1: everyone else here in Dodgers camp. He hasn't actually made
Speaker 1: a spring training start yet. I believe that's coming in
Speaker 1: the next few days. He goes at pick three eleven,
Speaker 1: one pick before me. He was a name that we
Speaker 1: might have considered if he were still there on the board.
Speaker 1: And I wrote about this on my Patreon, was that
Speaker 1: in the month of February he went His ADP was
Speaker 1: around pick thirty six over the weekend we where we've
Speaker 1: had all these main event drafts going on. We have
Speaker 1: a ton of NFBC data. Since the news has come
Speaker 1: out regarding Walker Bueller, his ADP is still right around
Speaker 1: thirty five. So that tells you the high stakes players
Speaker 1: are not really worried about this update. When it comes
Speaker 1: to Walker Bueller, Matt, where are you at on him
Speaker 1: and where have you seen him go in drafts? And
Speaker 1: is he someone that you're kind of avoiding now with
Speaker 1: this news that came out. No excuse me, I'm not
Speaker 1: avoiding him. When the news first came out, I was
Speaker 1: taken aback a bit when I started up, I got
Speaker 1: my god. But if anything would have been wrong at all,
Speaker 1: say early on when you had this dead arm, as
Speaker 1: they were saying, if there would have been anything that
Speaker 1: would have gave them the slightest bit of caution, he
Speaker 1: would have been shut down. This is there, this is
Speaker 1: their future, this is there hopefully like next Kershort type
Speaker 1: of a picture. And the fact that he was never
Speaker 1: shut down, he was just slow walked and all that. Oh,
Speaker 1: I think he is actually good because then once he
Speaker 1: coets it in they can pretty much let him go
Speaker 1: and maybe you know, manage them differently or around the
Speaker 1: All Star break and maybe in September we'll see about that.
Speaker 1: But no, I think Ryan got a got a great
Speaker 1: deal with Bularett eleven. I would have taken him with
Speaker 1: no hesitation then, all right, So so there you go.
Speaker 1: So players like Matt who has the money in they're
Speaker 1: not all that concerned by the report. So that's why
Speaker 1: nothing's changed. Yeah, and here's the official ADP was. In
Speaker 1: the month of February, his ADP was thirty nine point
Speaker 1: three five in the NFBC. Over this weekend, his ADP
Speaker 1: was thirty eight point five, So actually moves up slide
Speaker 1: a big flight a little bit there. Thirty one men
Speaker 1: pick forty three max pit with an average auction value
Speaker 1: of twenty eight dollars, So he's right in that mix,
Speaker 1: as you know, one of those top twelve to fifteen
Speaker 1: pictures in terms of where he's going and how much
Speaker 1: people are paying for him an auction st Matt, you
Speaker 1: tweeted before about your boy and I know I'm diving
Speaker 1: deep now. You tweeted before about Martine Perez, how you
Speaker 1: drive to be four out of six leagues and Martine
Speaker 1: Perez to do that. You're getting for nothing. I mean
Speaker 1: it's costing absolutely nothing. Seven round. You drafted him in
Speaker 1: uh in the league with Frank in the main event.
Speaker 1: He's a guy was on Texas forever. He was a
Speaker 1: guy that you would stream in in weekly or daily leagues.
Speaker 1: You wouldn't really expect all that much to start pitcher,
Speaker 1: but you're buying in him clearly a little bit more.
Speaker 1: Drafted in on four of your six teams you drafted
Speaker 1: this weekend. What makes you buy into Martine Perez? Yeah,
Speaker 1: who's been player. I never liked player. I think I
Speaker 1: barely ever owned if I did. You know, if he's
Speaker 1: like desperation where I just needed it. But when you
Speaker 1: see the increased veloss and you see his uh just
Speaker 1: everything like the wind up at all that did the
Speaker 1: side by by side with like him and Johan Santana
Speaker 1: and they delivered it was it was pretty sick. Uh.
Speaker 1: He's been, you know, getting tutored by him a little
Speaker 1: life seen in the bullpen where he's trying to show
Speaker 1: him to change up and work on a couple of things. Look,
Speaker 1: you have to have a couple of guys where you're
Speaker 1: willing to take a shot on and and place a
Speaker 1: lottery take it on. He should be one of them
Speaker 1: for the people that will be drafted this weekend. Uh,
Speaker 1: Kyle Wright and Atlanta's looked fantastic. I think only got
Speaker 1: one or maybe two of him this week, but I
Speaker 1: would love to a gamble on him. And the other
Speaker 1: guy is is a Marlin. Uh. And you're not gonna
Speaker 1: get wins, but don't worry about that. It just works out,
Speaker 1: you know. Sometimes you know your big guy doesn't get
Speaker 1: it and you get wins where from other places where
Speaker 1: you never thought you would. But Pablo Lopez, there is
Speaker 1: a guy that everybody's raving about. I was actually piste
Speaker 1: off in the the fact of the auction I had yesterday.
Speaker 1: I was a pick away from me. I was actually
Speaker 1: writing his name down on my change like the fourth
Speaker 1: round of reserves or the third round of reserves, and
Speaker 1: the guys took Pablo Lopez, and I was like, are
Speaker 1: you kidding me? So, you know, it's funny how these
Speaker 1: guys l you have to have some lottery tickets. There's
Speaker 1: your there's your name etching in your kitchen table. Greg
Speaker 1: Sussman has a few legends, would say, Pablo Lopez makes
Speaker 1: me feel pretty good because I got him in the
Speaker 1: twenty ninth round. Yeah, I was picked. I was gonna
Speaker 1: get him, uh in that round. But you know, I
Speaker 1: think there's a few moralins pitchers that are actually flying
Speaker 1: unto the radar right now because they pitched for the Marlins.
Speaker 1: I know Trevor Richards is one that has been climbing
Speaker 1: up draft boards and rightfully so, I mean, this is
Speaker 1: a guy that maybe you should pay attention to what
Speaker 1: he's doing in the spring because you know he's a
Speaker 1: younger starting he's actually I don't know if he's young
Speaker 1: that is it hasn't he had like a weird um
Speaker 1: like paths to the major Trevor Richards. I think he
Speaker 1: was like out of baseball and then he came back.
Speaker 1: But I know he has this wipe out changeup that's
Speaker 1: just like ridiculous. Is what he needed to improve? Like
Speaker 1: a third pitch um fall. But what do you have
Speaker 1: on Trevor Richards, Because I know he's someone that people
Speaker 1: have been excited about two for the Marlins. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: think it's a lot to do with the fastball, because
Speaker 1: they said, I think he's got like a batting like
Speaker 1: a batting practice fastball that was just getting torched. He
Speaker 1: was working on a couple of things. So yeah, something
Speaker 1: that I don't think most of us thought at this point,
Speaker 1: you know, a couple of months back being involved with
Speaker 1: Marlins pitches. But you mentioned Richards. Caleb Smith was a
Speaker 1: guy that was actually good when healthy last year, but
Speaker 1: unfortunately couldn't stay healthy. So you know he's somebody's uh
Speaker 1: let's and I'll throw another name, like I got Derek
Speaker 1: Holland yesterday for a buck. You know, Dutch Oven. He's
Speaker 1: he's got that ballpark to protect him. And you know
Speaker 1: at the end game, you're gonna have to get, you know,
Speaker 1: some backup arms. You don't want, you know, you don't
Speaker 1: want to put guys in there you're gonna blow you up,
Speaker 1: but you know you want to have guys you can
Speaker 1: maybe wait and see on it as well. Trevor Richards
Speaker 1: last year was someone that I was looking at because
Speaker 1: he had a high groundball rate in the minors. He
Speaker 1: had to strikeouts, so farthens bring us twenty strikeouts in
Speaker 1: nineteen and a third. Like, he's a name that I'm
Speaker 1: paying attention to have some younger starting pictures in the Marlins. Look,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be. It's a huge park to pitch in two,
Speaker 1: so it's a good environment for pictures to be out
Speaker 1: there in Marlins Park. Sandy Alcantara another one I just
Speaker 1: want to pay attention to, just because we had the
Speaker 1: prospect pedigree. He came over in that trade with the St.
Speaker 1: Louis Cardinals. Four Marcelo Zuna. So again, just a few
Speaker 1: names to pay attention to. Be honest, I need to
Speaker 1: learn more about Pablo Littletez. But I'm I'm with Matt saying,
Speaker 1: like I know, a lot of people have been talking
Speaker 1: him up, so he's He's a guy that you just
Speaker 1: take a lottery ticket at the end of one of
Speaker 1: these drafts. You're playing like an NL only or a
Speaker 1: fifteen team mixed. You just take tight in your drafts.
Speaker 1: See if he turns out Another lottery tip you want
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Speaker 1: the names we talked about over the weekend, frank and
Speaker 1: I have talked about a lot, and you actually wound
Speaker 1: up drafting him once and he lets you was Mike Mustakis, who's,
Speaker 1: as Frankie predicted, ADP is rising now that he's on
Speaker 1: a team, Now that we know what position he's playing,
Speaker 1: the ADP has now risen to be much higher. Number
Speaker 1: you like, Michael is a lot. Do you think that
Speaker 1: number even gets higher next weekend? For you in Vegas,
Speaker 1: um may mean maybe a little higher. I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: go I'm not gonna jump of another couple of rounds.
Speaker 1: But if if I like the fact that he's most
Speaker 1: likely gonna have due eligibility, if he's going to be there,
Speaker 1: you know, second baseman. So now you have a middle
Speaker 1: and a corner position and a guy with what are
Speaker 1: you home run potential who's not gonna have say Joey
Speaker 1: Gallows batting average, but could hit your forty home runs.
Speaker 1: And I look that bull pup left handed power plays.
Speaker 1: He's gonna have a full season there, and I think
Speaker 1: you have to be excited about that has been your guy.
Speaker 1: This is kind of where you expected him to go,
Speaker 1: right Yeah, I didn't know why for most of the
Speaker 1: off season. I realized he signed a little bit later on.
Speaker 1: But once he signed, I mean he already should have
Speaker 1: started started to climb up draft boards. Then I felt
Speaker 1: like he was undervalued for a lot of the draft season.
Speaker 1: Now we're starting to see him go in the ninth
Speaker 1: round of fifteen team drafts, and I think that makes
Speaker 1: a lot of sense. I wouldn't be surprised if he
Speaker 1: jumps up another round here up until the eighth round again.
Speaker 1: The things that I've said about Mustaki is he hits
Speaker 1: the ball in the air. He actually surprisingly makes a
Speaker 1: lot of contact. He only strikes out like fifteen sixties
Speaker 1: percent of the time. He's gonna be in a great lineup.
Speaker 1: I want as much exposure to the Brewers lineup as
Speaker 1: I could possibly get. He's gonna play every day. He's
Speaker 1: gonna have dual eligibility. I don't really know what's not
Speaker 1: to like with Mustakis. It's not like he has a
Speaker 1: problem with splits either where you know, if you're looking
Speaker 1: at him versus Travis Shaw side by side, Shaw has
Speaker 1: actually had issues against left hand pitching. Stocks has been
Speaker 1: able to hold his own a little bit better. So
Speaker 1: he's gonna play every single day. I don't know what's
Speaker 1: not to like. I mean, I think the floor. I
Speaker 1: mean the floor is eight ish home runs. Remember a
Speaker 1: couple of years ago, get thirty five runs in Kaufman Stadium.
Speaker 1: The upside could be forty bombs in that lineup, which
Speaker 1: if he hits forty home runs, you know the RBIs
Speaker 1: are gonna be there too. So I love Mustakis. I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't know why the market has been slow so
Speaker 1: slow to catch up. I absolutely love Mike Mustakas as well.
Speaker 1: I thought it was no brainer and Matt like. I
Speaker 1: actually like Mike Mustakas a lot more than Josh Donaldson
Speaker 1: who took around earlier. And I know it was an
Speaker 1: Andy Saxton pick, but Frank and I together are completely
Speaker 1: off of Donaldson, a guy that has not been healthy.
Speaker 1: We know what he can give you the upside, and
Speaker 1: I know you're playing for an overall, but the Donaldson's
Speaker 1: pick surprised me a bit at that spot. Well, I look,
Speaker 1: if he's healthy, and he could be a you know,
Speaker 1: he could be a first round changing around potential. He
Speaker 1: could basically an all or nothing is what you're gonna
Speaker 1: get from Josh Donaldson is either gonna be back or
Speaker 1: he's gonna be done. So at that point I was
Speaker 1: looking to possibly take Luis Castillo there, uh, both of
Speaker 1: the starting rotation, or get a closure. But you know,
Speaker 1: I really wanted to stocks there and then coming around,
Speaker 1: but he was. He made it back to us, so
Speaker 1: I was very happy about that. But look, Donaldson doesn't
Speaker 1: have the potential. The one thing I said about mustokers,
Speaker 1: and sure Travis Shure should never bet against the left hander.
Speaker 1: It's it's insane when you when you do the splits
Speaker 1: there and you know how good he is Rich's right handing.
Speaker 1: He just should never see a left handing. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: based on what he did last year, I mean, I
Speaker 1: will throw this out. I know two years ago he
Speaker 1: was actually better against left handed pitching, travish All that is.
Speaker 1: So that's why I was buying into him last season,
Speaker 1: greg As, I thought he was taking the necessary steps
Speaker 1: to actually be competent against left handed pitching, and then
Speaker 1: at All snowballed last year and he was just absolutely
Speaker 1: brutal against lefties. You know, if you look at the ops,
Speaker 1: the waiter runs created plush. I mean, it's just he's
Speaker 1: an elite hitter against right hees. I mean, he's just
Speaker 1: absolutely barbage against lefty. So I agree when it comes
Speaker 1: to Travis Shaw that I know, you're a you're a
Speaker 1: Shane Bieber guy, and he's a he's a hype player
Speaker 1: this uh this draft season, especially based on what he's
Speaker 1: doing in the spring training. If you want to look
Speaker 1: at spring training, I mean he's another guy here. I
Speaker 1: talked about the Indians a lot because they know how
Speaker 1: to develop starting pitchers, and it looks like he's just
Speaker 1: another one of these starting pitchers who's ready to take
Speaker 1: that step. He goes pick one three here, he goes
Speaker 1: in between when you take Donaldson and then when you
Speaker 1: took Mustokis was he in consideration when you were in
Speaker 1: that eighth round? And and would he have made that
Speaker 1: stocks picked harder on you guys? Uh? In the ninth round?
Speaker 1: Like would you have actually considered Shane Bieber there? It
Speaker 1: would have made it a lot harder. Uh. And he's
Speaker 1: not a Biber believer. We had that conversation yesterday when
Speaker 1: he wouldn't let me take Biber, and that's when I
Speaker 1: jumped christ Paddock. So we uh, we definitely have discussed Biber,
Speaker 1: but we had two different opinions on him. So when
Speaker 1: you have a partner and I'm in enough leagues where
Speaker 1: I can get him, I was trying to persuade him.
Speaker 1: I was unsuccessful. He tried, and I'm sitting here at
Speaker 1: the end of because I considered Biber in the eighth round, Greig,
Speaker 1: but I took Justin Turner because and again I don't
Speaker 1: regret taking Turner because then Donaldson goes, then who Stockus goes,
Speaker 1: And my thinking at the time was, if I don't
Speaker 1: take Justin Turner here in the eighth round, then I
Speaker 1: don't know if I'm gonna end up loving who I
Speaker 1: end up with my third basement, because I thought that
Speaker 1: there was a chance who stock Us would go. And
Speaker 1: you know, I'm not a big Josh Donaldson guy. I
Speaker 1: hear what Matt saying, you're playing for an overall. I mean,
Speaker 1: he does have upside, but I think I see the
Speaker 1: downside a little bit more when it comes to Donaldson.
Speaker 1: So I take Turner in the eighth. But Bieber was
Speaker 1: a guy that I was actually heavily considering there and
Speaker 1: then in the ninth they end up getting to knock
Speaker 1: as my third starting pitcher, but really really really thought
Speaker 1: about taking Bieber in the eighth. It's so interesting because
Speaker 1: for me, one of the things I've tried to learn
Speaker 1: this weekend is where these guys go, Like where are
Speaker 1: these hype type of players go? And I asked everybody
Speaker 1: about pad Ache, and I asked everybody about uh Lizardo
Speaker 1: and Shane Baber is another one where you know, went
Speaker 1: in the ninth round. As you said, in the first draft,
Speaker 1: he goes in the ninth round of your draft. He
Speaker 1: goes um in the third draft, he goes where probably
Speaker 1: the ninth round, in the end of the eighth round, right,
Speaker 1: So that spot clearly to Shane ever went around pick.
Speaker 1: So that's helping me and should help you as somebody
Speaker 1: that if you want Shane Bieber and you're in the
Speaker 1: fifteen team league, you gotta take in the eighth, ninth round.
Speaker 1: That's it. That's where he goes. If you're in a
Speaker 1: standard twelve team league, or you can go tenth to
Speaker 1: eleven probably, But I tried to learn this weekend more
Speaker 1: than anything, where guys were going where the experts felt
Speaker 1: it was important to go. Now, it doesn't always work
Speaker 1: like that. Right In Draft three, for instance, A J.
Speaker 1: Pollock went in the middle of the eighth round. You
Speaker 1: guys took a mat in the middle of the sixth round.
Speaker 1: What are you high on A J. Pollock or you
Speaker 1: just thought it was good value there? What was the
Speaker 1: deal with A J. Pollock? I've always been an A. J.
Speaker 1: Pollock guy. I love the skill set. Health has always
Speaker 1: been the issue. I I do like him at Dodger Stadium.
Speaker 1: I think, you know, SIUs put a great piece together
Speaker 1: about you know, driving us and stuff out there, and
Speaker 1: he's a guy that has what what I'm looking for.
Speaker 1: I really wanted Twig in the fifth, but initially Jane
Speaker 1: Child was gonna take him. Man, he's trying to tell
Speaker 1: me he's not. He's got two outfields already. I said,
Speaker 1: there's no way Child's passing it up a Puig. We
Speaker 1: got Doll and I wanted another player like that, So
Speaker 1: I got Dollan Pollock to add on to a Cooner
Speaker 1: and Lindor. And that's the skill set that I'm looking
Speaker 1: for now. Frank he rings the theme here with with
Speaker 1: Matt's team. To Greg, I mean, there's injury risk, but
Speaker 1: there's a big upside because that's what you've heard about.
Speaker 1: Doll is all right. Well, his downside he's he hasn't
Speaker 1: been able to stay healthy. But if he's hitting clean
Speaker 1: up every single day for Colorado, he has the ability
Speaker 1: to hit dirty home runs and steal you know, ten
Speaker 1: of fifteen cases. So it's very clear here, Matt, is
Speaker 1: that something that you knew coming in or you are
Speaker 1: you a little bit more risk averse you're willing to
Speaker 1: take these risks because you take Lindoor in the second,
Speaker 1: we know what his upside is. Synderguard again, you know
Speaker 1: what the upside is Paxton. It seems like there's a
Speaker 1: real theme here where if these guys hit, you have
Speaker 1: a chance for some big money, but you also don't
Speaker 1: know they're like you're getting them at a discount because
Speaker 1: they do have that those injury risk backgrounds. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: I mean Lindoor was just something I just couldn't pass
Speaker 1: on Syndegard. What's to say Syndegard can't have a season
Speaker 1: like Trevor Bower had later nobody used the talent and
Speaker 1: uh that he has. And you know guys like Paxson.
Speaker 1: I think Paxson is gonna be phenomenal this year. I
Speaker 1: think the move to look you'd rather him being whatever
Speaker 1: safe gold Field is called now. But he's on the Yankee.
Speaker 1: He's left handed in the Yankee stated, so that should
Speaker 1: help him. He's a beast, he's a competitor. I don't
Speaker 1: think he's gonna wealth under the New York pressure. I
Speaker 1: think he's actually gonna thrive in it. So hopefully he
Speaker 1: can stay healthy. But I'm not gonna pass on good
Speaker 1: players that you know mayor may or may not. If
Speaker 1: he's a guy right next to him that's equally and
Speaker 1: has a better you know, health track record, that I'll
Speaker 1: make the exception. But the game is also changing these
Speaker 1: younger players. Why I'm willing to go in a lot
Speaker 1: more more younger guy. Look at the last five years,
Speaker 1: Look at how these guys come up. Look at what
Speaker 1: Ron Soto did it nineteen and he played a games.
Speaker 1: You're telling me, Blad Guerrero can't do that. You know,
Speaker 1: one of the best backs where we've heard about a
Speaker 1: long time. So if he plays in a hundred and
Speaker 1: a hundred thirty games, he can't do that. So I
Speaker 1: think the game's changing. You've got to be more aggressive
Speaker 1: on these guys, and if you know they're gonna have
Speaker 1: a spot. So maybe it's not for the first month,
Speaker 1: in the first couple of weeks, but from then on
Speaker 1: you gotta get invested in. Yeah, I get it, I
Speaker 1: completely get it. I'm staring at the draft board and
Speaker 1: you mentioned Yek and Frank. You've been all over pweek
Speaker 1: a lot to spring, and I've kind of backed off
Speaker 1: a bit, and you want to pay attention to spring training,
Speaker 1: y'asel if he's gotten it done, particularly this weekend, and
Speaker 1: think m yesterday, did he hit a grand slam of
Speaker 1: to run home on off brad hand? He's the same game, correct.
Speaker 1: I mean you're talking about value one of the one
Speaker 1: of the top ten starting pitch in baseball and then
Speaker 1: one of the top ten relievers, and pwea does it
Speaker 1: against both those guys. Again, like you don't want to
Speaker 1: buy in the spring training that much. We know what
Speaker 1: the talent level is for Puig. He just needs to
Speaker 1: keep his head on straight and he needs to stay healthy.
Speaker 1: And I think in a contract year, look, I know
Speaker 1: that there's been a lot of studies done when it
Speaker 1: comes to contract years. You can't look at ya c
Speaker 1: l pe everything that he's ever done, everything he's ever
Speaker 1: been about, and tell me that you can't buy into
Speaker 1: the fact that this guy wants to get paid Greg,
Speaker 1: like you kid so and we know that the talent
Speaker 1: levels there. And now he moves over to the best
Speaker 1: ballpark he's ever played in, in a really good lineup,
Speaker 1: and he's gonna be in the middle of the lineup.
Speaker 1: I mean, the upside is immense. And I told you
Speaker 1: this heading into the draft, Greg, I know what pulls
Speaker 1: Zach Wheeler up the board, I take him in the
Speaker 1: fourth round. I was considering taking Pleak there, and I
Speaker 1: know it's pulling guys up the board, but you gotta
Speaker 1: get your guys. And I think that Pug has that
Speaker 1: legitimate upside where you know, it wouldn't surprise me one
Speaker 1: bit if he it's two eighty with thirty home runs
Speaker 1: and fifteen stolen bases is yere. And if he's in
Speaker 1: the middle of the red lineup, you know the counting
Speaker 1: sets are gonna be there too, So I'm gonna be
Speaker 1: continued to be very aggressive with Peek. He was someone
Speaker 1: that I considered. It just so happened that I wanted
Speaker 1: starting pitching at that point in the fourth round, so
Speaker 1: I go with Zach Wheeler. But he was in consideration there.
Speaker 1: It was really it was Wheeler. It was we were
Speaker 1: looking at Paxton and Tweak. Those were the three picks
Speaker 1: that we were looking at in the at the beginning
Speaker 1: of the fourth It's interesting because yeah, yeah, go ahead,
Speaker 1: real quick, a jump in. Like when he said about
Speaker 1: taking Preak there, I look, if Patrion wasn't there, I
Speaker 1: was taking Peak. That's the only reason why I didn't
Speaker 1: take Peak. I figured to send the guard Paxson Combo.
Speaker 1: I was rolling on that, but I was praying would
Speaker 1: make it back. It's interesting because I was looking at
Speaker 1: my rankings, watching the draft unfold, listening to you Frank,
Speaker 1: listening to you Matt, and one guy I actually had
Speaker 1: higher than TWEE was George Springer, and I obviously you
Speaker 1: let the Singer go. You took David Doll instead. I've
Speaker 1: been on Springer a lot to Spring and now and
Speaker 1: I've been all squee and I'm thinking should I reverse
Speaker 1: that now? And I don't know. Well, it comes down too,
Speaker 1: what are you expecting from Springer? Because like this, this
Speaker 1: crew of guys that would write in this fifth round
Speaker 1: is really interesting to me. Eddie Rosario, y'all peg, Tommy fam,
Speaker 1: David Dald, George Springer, like those five guys are obviously
Speaker 1: very similar. That's why they went back to back. And
Speaker 1: I have no idea how to rank them, no idea.
Speaker 1: I think Springer gets pushed down the draft board a
Speaker 1: little bit now because it's just a lack of stolen
Speaker 1: basis that he's given. Now in the Spring, he's stolen
Speaker 1: three bases. We know that he lost weight in the
Speaker 1: off season, and the Houston Astros are saying they want
Speaker 1: to be more aggressive on the basis this year. So
Speaker 1: I think Springer is fast enough. I think he's a
Speaker 1: good enough athlete. Stolen basis for the for the most part,
Speaker 1: here are not a matter of skill and speed. It's
Speaker 1: a matter of team philosophy and willingness to do so
Speaker 1: and aggressiveness. It's you know, there are a lot of
Speaker 1: guys that can steal twenty to thirty basses, but with
Speaker 1: the way baseball has been trending, they don't want players
Speaker 1: running into outs when you have big boppers at the plate,
Speaker 1: because then you know, all of a sudden, you know what,
Speaker 1: what could have been a two run home run turned
Speaker 1: into us solo home run, And so they don't want
Speaker 1: these guys running into outs. It comes down to aggressiveness.
Speaker 1: If the if the Astros are going to be more aggressive,
Speaker 1: then I think Springer has the talent. I think he
Speaker 1: has the athleticism to steal fifteen to twenty bases, but
Speaker 1: we haven't seen him do that, so you're kind of
Speaker 1: you know, what do you really expect from Springer? The
Speaker 1: batting average, it will be fine. I mean, he's gonna
Speaker 1: be to sixty five, maybe to seventy. He'll score a
Speaker 1: lot of runs. Hard hit rate was down last year.
Speaker 1: He's gonna give you runs. I think he's just kind
Speaker 1: of a boring player. I think he gets a little
Speaker 1: bit overhyped because he's he heard his name for so
Speaker 1: long and he plays for the Houston Astros. But I
Speaker 1: think he's all right going to spot. I don't really
Speaker 1: have a problem with taking some of these other names
Speaker 1: ahead of him. Yeah. I think with Springer, it's more
Speaker 1: about if you want the floor, you take Springer. If
Speaker 1: you want a ceiling, you take doll And. Yeah, like
Speaker 1: Frank said, he's stole three bases this year in the
Speaker 1: best shape of his life. Maybe that will change things.
Speaker 1: But in the past he's been horrendous at his stolen
Speaker 1: base success rate, and it's not even like it's been
Speaker 1: all right, it's been dead. So you know, maybe that
Speaker 1: changed here. You know, maybe he's been working on that.
Speaker 1: And I just don't buy the actuals are gonna become
Speaker 1: of this running gyarden team. Yeah, I get it. You
Speaker 1: don't want to run into Alex when you're on Houston,
Speaker 1: when you have all those guys behind you. I get it.
Speaker 1: This is the name, this is the name, theory Greg.
Speaker 1: It's like, are you buying are you? Are you buying
Speaker 1: the stats here? You're buying the name. George Springer. T
Speaker 1: is more of a name than what he's giving you.
Speaker 1: And look, he's still gonna give you if he stays
Speaker 1: healthy's gonna give you a hundred plus runs. That's It's
Speaker 1: not to say that he's not a bad player. He's
Speaker 1: a good player. But again, some of these other guys
Speaker 1: like we has tremendous upside. You know how I felt
Speaker 1: about Tommy fam rout spring training. I know he's gonna
Speaker 1: play the field today, So all right, crossing the hope
Speaker 1: he comes through that. All right? Because Tommy Fam I
Speaker 1: think he has a ment to upside, but he's always
Speaker 1: been injury prone. If he stays healthy, I think Tommy
Speaker 1: fam has upside. I I you know, I think that
Speaker 1: he's one of these guys that can legitimately break out,
Speaker 1: but he's always been hurt. So again, what said is
Speaker 1: do you want safety? You want floor? All right, Springer,
Speaker 1: But I just I don't think he has much upside. Okay,
Speaker 1: another guy's going right around him. I think have more
Speaker 1: enough might go back and forth. And Eddie Rosario is
Speaker 1: another interesting one. I mean, I've been pumping up the
Speaker 1: Twins lineup. He's gonna be right in the middle of
Speaker 1: it too. He bats lefty. I don't have to worry
Speaker 1: about the splits with him either. He holds his own
Speaker 1: against lefties. I know the second half he came back
Speaker 1: last year, but let's think of let's let's be reminded
Speaker 1: of what he did in that first half last season.
Speaker 1: And you know, he's not gonna steal a ton of bases.
Speaker 1: Maybe he gives you a tend to fifteen, but he
Speaker 1: could hit thirty plus home runs. And again in that lineup,
Speaker 1: if he's batting you know, second or third or wherever
Speaker 1: he is, the counting stats are gonna be plentiful. I'm
Speaker 1: really really bullish on the Twins lineup. I end up
Speaker 1: with Bucksting in this draft, but you know, Nelson Crew
Speaker 1: seems like he's been a little bit undervalued. I also
Speaker 1: end up with Horry Polanco here. I think he's gonna
Speaker 1: lead off. I think he's, you know, a guy that
Speaker 1: can if he stays healthy, he could score eight ninety runs.
Speaker 1: So I'm I'm very much so in on the Twins
Speaker 1: line up. I get why people like Eddie Rosario. I
Speaker 1: get it too, Man, I get it too. He was awesome.
Speaker 1: He was awesome last year, he was awesome the year before.
Speaker 1: I get a name value, Frank, it's not there for
Speaker 1: Eddie Rosario. The numbers are and the numbers will lie.
Speaker 1: At this point, mattmo deca, Man, this has been a blast.
Speaker 1: This hour has gone quicker than ever today, legitimately quicker
Speaker 1: than ever. How a great time in Vegas. Best of
Speaker 1: luck to you was gonna be really interesting thing for Matt.
Speaker 1: What changes from your from this week to next week
Speaker 1: in the NFPC. I think that's really interesting. That's what
Speaker 1: we'll touch on next Monday. Matt, Pleasure. We'll talk to
Speaker 1: you next Monday. Good luck this weekend when we come
Speaker 1: back the Closer. Chris Venture joins us for our number two.
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