WEBVTT - Top 10 Draft Day Bargains: Target These Sleepers to CRUSH Your Draft! (Ep. 630) 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:05.240 Attention, bargain shoppers, Let's talk to the pros. Welcome in 0:00:05.280 --> 0:00:08.240 everybody to Fantasy pros. This is the Fantasy Baseball Podcast. 0:00:08.240 --> 0:00:11.280 It is me Joey p Joepi's Apia, and today we're 0:00:11.320 --> 0:00:14.280 gonna talk about the bargains. That's right, because everybody likes 0:00:14.280 --> 0:00:16.639 free stuff. Don't pretend like you don't. Today we're gonna 0:00:16.680 --> 0:00:19.079 go through ten draft day bargains. These are guys going 0:00:19.160 --> 0:00:23.240 past the post two point fifty ADP in most leagues, 0:00:23.239 --> 0:00:25.119 and we're gonna talk about why you should be looking 0:00:25.160 --> 0:00:28.080 and adding them, not just necessarily your deeper leagues, but 0:00:28.160 --> 0:00:30.479 some of the more shallow ones as well. Before we 0:00:30.520 --> 0:00:33.199 get to those names, Welsh, it's great to see you 0:00:33.280 --> 0:00:35.479 here on this lovely Monday morning, and it's great to 0:00:35.479 --> 0:00:37.599 see that you made it through the weekend of all 0:00:37.640 --> 0:00:40.200 the WBC healthy. That's all I'm happy about. 0:00:40.640 --> 0:00:42.920 See point for you. You got the WBC joke in 0:00:43.040 --> 0:00:47.120 first I was sitting here contemplating where's the WBC joke? Yeah, 0:00:47.240 --> 0:00:50.120 no pitches to the wrist, no miss time or anything 0:00:50.200 --> 0:00:53.080 like that. Joey and I are always here, regardless of 0:00:53.680 --> 0:00:55.680 what you might see in the WBC and the players 0:00:55.720 --> 0:00:58.240 not being there for your fantasy. Also a slight little 0:00:58.320 --> 0:01:02.520 lean to why, if possible draft in the final weekend, 0:01:02.840 --> 0:01:04.800 because there's a lot of people that are hurting right now. 0:01:04.720 --> 0:01:09.000 Especially WBC years, especially those Oh you know, I like 0:01:09.080 --> 0:01:11.400 you said that because I haven't heard anybody really talk 0:01:11.520 --> 0:01:13.560 enough about that, and I'm so glad that you said it. 0:01:13.600 --> 0:01:15.400 But this is a good lesson the years where WBC 0:01:15.480 --> 0:01:18.200 is going on, you better take a little bit more 0:01:18.200 --> 0:01:20.480 care with your drafts. And I know it's fun. I 0:01:20.480 --> 0:01:23.399 know you're excited you want to draft, but sometimes these 0:01:23.400 --> 0:01:25.000 injuries happened. And we got to talk about jose L 0:01:25.040 --> 0:01:27.800 two Bay too. He's gonna miss eight to ten weeks 0:01:28.000 --> 0:01:31.479 with this broken thumb. It was a great game. Can 0:01:31.520 --> 0:01:33.520 I just start by saying it. It was an absolutely 0:01:34.160 --> 0:01:38.039 phenomenal baseball game. The energy in the building was electric. 0:01:38.880 --> 0:01:40.280 One of the more entertaining games we've seen in the 0:01:40.319 --> 0:01:42.520 last five years. I would say period World Series otherwise 0:01:42.560 --> 0:01:43.040 doesn't matter. 0:01:44.160 --> 0:01:45.920 Yeah, probably the game of the tournament. I mean, we'll 0:01:45.920 --> 0:01:48.360 see what happens in the championship game or what happens 0:01:48.360 --> 0:01:52.320 with Japan and Mexico. But like, yeah, the Grand Slam 0:01:52.360 --> 0:01:54.440 by Trey Turner to be able to come back. 0:01:55.080 --> 0:01:57.120 As a moment they got up and then Venezuela came 0:01:57.160 --> 0:01:58.600 back and they were all fired up, and then Turner 0:01:58.680 --> 0:02:01.440 hits the Grand Slam and all that's up happening, and 0:02:01.520 --> 0:02:04.080 I just want to you know, I recognize how great 0:02:04.080 --> 0:02:06.600 the WBC is for baseball, and it is. I love it, 0:02:06.640 --> 0:02:08.560 you love it. We're wagering on it. I mean, it's 0:02:08.560 --> 0:02:09.080 a good time. 0:02:09.360 --> 0:02:13.760 America's story we feat by the way, it's been very good. 0:02:14.320 --> 0:02:17.119 I think the point is that you know you want 0:02:17.160 --> 0:02:19.440 to have it. It is important. I saw an incredible 0:02:19.440 --> 0:02:25.480 statistic Welsh that a million plus people attended WBC in 0:02:25.520 --> 0:02:27.960 the pool play where all the different countries were hosting 0:02:28.320 --> 0:02:31.279 in this very short period spent a million plus people attendees. 0:02:31.720 --> 0:02:34.000 The Oakland Athletics last year for eighty one games drew 0:02:34.040 --> 0:02:37.080 seven hundred and eighty eight thousand. So it is great 0:02:37.080 --> 0:02:39.280 for baseball. It's great for the globalization of the game. 0:02:39.480 --> 0:02:42.120 And when they pushed the World Cup in Qatar because 0:02:42.120 --> 0:02:43.480 it was so hot into the fall, a lot of 0:02:43.520 --> 0:02:45.720 people are skeptical that it would work, and I think 0:02:45.720 --> 0:02:49.160 it flourished in the fall, and there's precedence for you know, 0:02:49.200 --> 0:02:50.480 I remember back in the day as a kid, Ken 0:02:50.520 --> 0:02:52.160 Grivey Junior and all these all stars would go off 0:02:52.160 --> 0:02:55.720 in November December and go play around the games in Japan, Like, 0:02:55.800 --> 0:02:58.160 why can't we do it in November just to play 0:02:58.160 --> 0:03:00.320 it a little safer, Like I think we can. I 0:03:00.320 --> 0:03:02.640 think that conversation has to happen Welsh because now al 0:03:02.680 --> 0:03:04.960 Tuove from a fantasy standpoint, you have to knock him 0:03:04.960 --> 0:03:08.040 down significantly your rankings and second base was already positioned. 0:03:08.040 --> 0:03:10.560 It was kind of hurting anyway, Well, knock it down 0:03:10.560 --> 0:03:13.200 any rankings is saying it lightly because in the season 0:03:13.240 --> 0:03:15.720 he's gonna miss six to eight weeks and obviously, you 0:03:15.760 --> 0:03:18.240 know what is the what is the actual like recovery 0:03:18.240 --> 0:03:21.560 return time going to look like? So you're at best 0:03:21.560 --> 0:03:23.920 case scenario saying maybe JUNI you're gonna get him, And 0:03:23.960 --> 0:03:26.359 like you said, it's a bad position. I actually kind 0:03:26.360 --> 0:03:28.640 of hate it too, because you know me, I'm a 0:03:28.760 --> 0:03:31.520 huge jazz Chisholm guy and al two Vea's this great 0:03:31.560 --> 0:03:34.680 bridge because people will always take him first, maybe Simeon 0:03:35.040 --> 0:03:37.160 and this is just one less and like you said, 0:03:37.200 --> 0:03:40.440 the position sucks so much. There's even some back end 0:03:40.480 --> 0:03:42.920 injury stuff here that it's like just like five great 0:03:42.960 --> 0:03:45.920 guys to take Korge Plonco is dealing with an injury 0:03:45.920 --> 0:03:48.320 that he might miss some early parts of the season. 0:03:48.560 --> 0:03:52.480 That's another guy off the table. Like sometimes we make 0:03:52.520 --> 0:03:55.920 a little too much about a position, stinking not second base, 0:03:56.080 --> 0:03:57.280 not in twenty twenty three. 0:03:58.080 --> 0:03:59.800 It's a good it's a good point. And also, yo, 0:03:59.840 --> 0:04:01.800 I'm and Kata dealing with a rib injury or Nato 0:04:01.920 --> 0:04:04.800 dealing with a hand injury. Look, we all know the 0:04:04.920 --> 0:04:07.440 Edwin d has plied of last year. I love the WBC. 0:04:07.560 --> 0:04:10.640 I'm not talking ill about it. And I do think 0:04:10.680 --> 0:04:12.200 that you are gonna see as some of these more 0:04:12.280 --> 0:04:15.280 massive deals get handed out here. When Joey Otani makes 0:04:15.320 --> 0:04:17.000 half a billion dollars and he's going to make a 0:04:17.040 --> 0:04:20.320 half a billion dollars guaranteed money, I know they can't 0:04:20.440 --> 0:04:22.520 necessarily legally tell them not to do it because it's 0:04:22.520 --> 0:04:24.520 a Major League Baseball event. Well, and I wonder if 0:04:24.520 --> 0:04:26.440 there's gonna be some handshake agreements on the back end 0:04:26.480 --> 0:04:28.760 Welsh where they say the guys like Otani, like, look, 0:04:29.080 --> 0:04:32.400 we're paying you half a billion dollars, you've gotta you know, 0:04:32.760 --> 0:04:34.640 I know you love your country. I know this is 0:04:34.640 --> 0:04:37.080 a great event, but if it's gonna be in the spring, 0:04:37.680 --> 0:04:39.960 you might have to just pass on it. I could 0:04:39.960 --> 0:04:41.320 see that happening as time goes on. 0:04:41.839 --> 0:04:44.360 It'll be interesting to see if that's actually something that 0:04:44.440 --> 0:04:46.240 is going to be a problem, because, like there's a 0:04:46.240 --> 0:04:49.040 lot of communication with players and teams like leading up 0:04:49.040 --> 0:04:51.000 to this. If you remember, Clayton Kershaw was supposed to 0:04:51.040 --> 0:04:53.160 pitch with tm USA, who would be the best pitcher 0:04:53.200 --> 0:04:55.640 on Timo Sabert right now, but they couldn't get that 0:04:55.680 --> 0:04:58.120 insurance policy set and they just kind of moved on 0:04:58.160 --> 0:05:01.120 from it. If any teams are really worried, I just 0:05:01.160 --> 0:05:03.279 don't think a player is going to throw up a major, 0:05:03.320 --> 0:05:05.880 major stink. There are plenty of players that bowed out 0:05:05.880 --> 0:05:08.640 because they wanted to focus on being with their team 0:05:08.680 --> 0:05:11.640 and they wanted to focus on getting ready. Karais Senga 0:05:12.040 --> 0:05:14.359 the Cartasenko was actually interviewed about that, and he just 0:05:14.400 --> 0:05:16.520 said that he needed to be here to get set 0:05:16.520 --> 0:05:19.119 for the Mets. It tends to kind of be something 0:05:19.120 --> 0:05:21.039 where it's like these guys are in limbo. You know, 0:05:21.040 --> 0:05:23.320 you've been in the majors for a little while, you've 0:05:23.400 --> 0:05:25.200 kind of I mean, like Trout, you hate to say it, 0:05:25.200 --> 0:05:27.360 like you have been in the playoffs, hasn't really accomplished 0:05:27.600 --> 0:05:31.240 a whole lot outside of like individual statistics, and this 0:05:31.360 --> 0:05:33.440 like kind of means quite a bit more. And I 0:05:33.480 --> 0:05:35.000 say that in like Mookie Bets is like, you know, 0:05:35.080 --> 0:05:36.840 World Series and blah blah blah, and this was a 0:05:36.920 --> 0:05:38.480 huge deal to him. I just don't know if it'll 0:05:38.520 --> 0:05:41.600 become contractual, but the amount of injuries is definitely making 0:05:41.640 --> 0:05:43.520 it a lot louder that. Yeah, it might be. 0:05:43.600 --> 0:05:45.560 It might be. Look, man, I think the World Cup 0:05:45.640 --> 0:05:47.240 kind of proved that, you know, you could do something 0:05:47.240 --> 0:05:49.920 October November and have it be hot and people will watch. 0:05:49.960 --> 0:05:51.040 I know what. You don't want to conflict with the 0:05:51.080 --> 0:05:53.120 World Series. Obviously you would have to be after that. 0:05:53.680 --> 0:05:56.560 But I think it could work. I really do, and 0:05:56.600 --> 0:05:57.919 I think it's a good event. I think it's a 0:05:57.920 --> 0:06:01.440 great event. So I am pro WB's a question for 0:06:01.480 --> 0:06:04.240 you too. As we look now in the rankings drafting Altuve, 0:06:04.800 --> 0:06:06.840 I would take Andres Meez ahead of him, correct, you 0:06:06.880 --> 0:06:09.920 would too, sy? Okay, Tommy Edmund, you would take ahead 0:06:09.960 --> 0:06:10.560 of him? Correct? 0:06:10.600 --> 0:06:10.920 Yeah? 0:06:11.120 --> 0:06:13.360 Yeah, all right, when we get to Hori Polanco, Glabor Tors. 0:06:13.360 --> 0:06:15.320 Would you take those guys ahead of Altuve right now? 0:06:15.680 --> 0:06:18.080 Not Polanco because Polanco's going in injured. 0:06:18.520 --> 0:06:22.680 He's the other guy. Glabor Torres, Brandon Law. Those are 0:06:22.720 --> 0:06:24.160 the names at second base right there. 0:06:25.240 --> 0:06:29.599 I think al Tuove moves at best to the like 0:06:30.080 --> 0:06:32.000 right in front of the top one hundred, you know, 0:06:32.040 --> 0:06:34.200 like Labor Torris and them aren't really inside the top 0:06:34.240 --> 0:06:38.640 four n Yeah, like Edmond and Edmund and Jemenez are 0:06:38.640 --> 0:06:41.240 like top eighty. I think he's somewhere between like eighty 0:06:41.279 --> 0:06:43.080 and one hundred. But there's just more work you have 0:06:43.160 --> 0:06:44.720 to do, I mean personally, Like that's why I think 0:06:44.760 --> 0:06:46.880 he has to rank because he will come back and 0:06:46.880 --> 0:06:49.200 he'll still be great, but he's just not going to 0:06:49.240 --> 0:06:52.120 be a really drafted target for me. I've kind of 0:06:52.120 --> 0:06:54.520 moved on as I played fantasy over years of like 0:06:54.640 --> 0:06:56.560 taking this guy that I can sit on for two 0:06:56.600 --> 0:06:59.160 months and try to get extra value out of him. 0:06:59.200 --> 0:07:01.839 Maybe you can do it, you know, maybe his replacement I. 0:07:01.800 --> 0:07:05.720 Would take like Luisa Rise or Katel Marte later, I 0:07:05.760 --> 0:07:07.400 would take a discount if I got a good one 0:07:07.480 --> 0:07:11.400 on Altuve, and I would I would because the position's bad. 0:07:11.800 --> 0:07:13.680 I'm more willing to take the risk on Altuve as 0:07:13.720 --> 0:07:15.200 long as it's not too much risk, like you said, 0:07:15.200 --> 0:07:17.400 if it's going outside the top one hundred, then I 0:07:17.400 --> 0:07:19.040 think you could back it up for two months and 0:07:19.080 --> 0:07:20.920 still be okay and I get it done. 0:07:21.120 --> 0:07:23.840 I really like the kateel Marte thing. I like taking 0:07:23.880 --> 0:07:26.080 Altuve if you can get him like, you know, ninety 0:07:26.120 --> 0:07:29.480 to one ten, something like that, and then take kateel Marte, 0:07:29.760 --> 0:07:31.680 you know, four or five rounds later. I think that's 0:07:31.680 --> 0:07:33.800 like a really good pairing to go with him. And 0:07:33.840 --> 0:07:36.120 if katel Marte does kind of break out when al 0:07:36.200 --> 0:07:38.280 Tuov comes back, you're perfect. 0:07:38.720 --> 0:07:41.640 There you go, speaking of perfect, you know, it's perfect 0:07:41.760 --> 0:07:46.200 fantasy baseball and friendship. And on this coming Wednesday, one 0:07:46.200 --> 0:07:49.240 pm Eastern, right here on Fantasy Pros YouTube channel, YouTube 0:07:49.240 --> 0:07:53.000 dot com slash Fantasy Pros from one to five pm Eastern, 0:07:53.040 --> 0:07:56.640 we're going to have the Fantasy Fest for MLB. 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Actually just talking about 0:08:53.200 --> 0:08:56.240 them and all the injuries they're dealing with. I continuously 0:08:56.280 --> 0:08:59.360 look at Elvis Andris and I see a late deal. 0:09:00.120 --> 0:09:03.360 Just talked about second base gonna qualify at second base, 0:09:03.400 --> 0:09:05.560 that is where they're planning to play him. So as 0:09:05.559 --> 0:09:08.880 long as Tim Anderson doesn't have his annual injury happened 0:09:08.880 --> 0:09:11.280 really early on and he moves over to shortstop, Elvis 0:09:11.280 --> 0:09:13.720 Andrews is also going to get that second base qualification. 0:09:13.760 --> 0:09:15.640 By the way, we're talking about all this like bad 0:09:15.679 --> 0:09:18.559 second base stup. There are those sneaky guys Miguel Vargas 0:09:18.559 --> 0:09:20.680 and Elvis Andrews, two players that are going to acquire 0:09:20.679 --> 0:09:24.320 in season second base eligibility. But Andrews came on with 0:09:24.360 --> 0:09:28.320 this team last year seventeen homers, eighteen stolen bases in 0:09:28.360 --> 0:09:30.320 around one hundred and fifty games. But he did the 0:09:30.440 --> 0:09:32.360 brunt of it once he was traded. He didn't do 0:09:32.400 --> 0:09:35.440 it with Oakland. Bat x projections have him at ten 0:09:35.600 --> 0:09:37.800 fourteen and only one hundred and twenty games while hitting 0:09:37.840 --> 0:09:40.520 two fifty two, And if he moves up in this lineup, 0:09:40.640 --> 0:09:43.880 those run totals should definitely be higher than what are 0:09:43.920 --> 0:09:46.520 on projection. So if you want to play a little 0:09:46.520 --> 0:09:49.280 bit higher and you can get to fifteen twenty outside 0:09:49.320 --> 0:09:54.360 the top three hundred He's a smashing, smashing draft day bargain, 0:09:54.559 --> 0:09:57.600 and it's a three twenty eighty p I'm looking at 0:09:57.640 --> 0:10:00.679 Elvis Andres not just in like my deep de formats, 0:10:00.840 --> 0:10:02.720 but anytime I have a little bit of weakness in 0:10:02.720 --> 0:10:05.200 the middle infield, he's a target of mine, especially for 0:10:05.240 --> 0:10:08.160 stolen bases. We know he can hit some homers, and 0:10:08.360 --> 0:10:10.200 overall this is a team where he could move up 0:10:10.240 --> 0:10:13.400 the lineup. Good success last year. Elvis Andris, He's a 0:10:13.440 --> 0:10:14.480 draft Dave bargain for me. 0:10:14.960 --> 0:10:17.840 Yeah, three twenty again, free stuff. Let's get to the 0:10:17.840 --> 0:10:21.800 first guy on my list, Trey Mancini. Look, Trey Mancini 0:10:22.240 --> 0:10:25.680 has had a tough couple years, all right, first dealing 0:10:25.720 --> 0:10:28.440 with the cancer situation, to say the least. Then he 0:10:28.480 --> 0:10:31.240 finally comes back, has a decent year in twenty twenty one, 0:10:31.280 --> 0:10:33.120 and what happens in twenty twenty two They move the 0:10:33.160 --> 0:10:36.040 fences on him right and all of a sudden, left 0:10:36.040 --> 0:10:39.000 field goes way way out there, almost into the water 0:10:39.280 --> 0:10:43.000 in Baltimore, and it affected him. He then got traded 0:10:43.000 --> 0:10:45.080 to Houston, so you know, having to move around all 0:10:45.160 --> 0:10:48.680 those things, he is settling into the Chicago Cubs situation here, 0:10:49.040 --> 0:10:51.480 which is a much better ballpark factor for Trey Mancini, 0:10:51.679 --> 0:10:54.280 and Trey Mancini is a player that, at his peak 0:10:54.679 --> 0:10:56.680 gave you a season in twenty nineteen of thirty five 0:10:56.679 --> 0:10:59.560 home runs, ninety seven RBI, one hundred and six runs scored, 0:10:59.640 --> 0:11:02.680 hit ninety one. He's hit two ninety more than once 0:11:02.720 --> 0:11:05.240 in his career. So I'm not saying he's gonna go 0:11:05.280 --> 0:11:07.680 up to two ninety. I'm saying he's probably gonna be 0:11:07.760 --> 0:11:09.520 somewhere in that two fifty two to sixty range. But 0:11:09.559 --> 0:11:12.240 I think the power could certainly come back. He's years 0:11:12.280 --> 0:11:14.439 now removed from all the treatments he's had, and I'm 0:11:14.440 --> 0:11:16.800 sure physically it's taken a toll lot him, not to 0:11:16.840 --> 0:11:19.160 mention the mental side, not to mention having to get 0:11:19.200 --> 0:11:21.360 traded and move and all those things. So now he 0:11:21.400 --> 0:11:23.600 settled into a situation in Chicago where Welsh. I don't 0:11:23.600 --> 0:11:25.640 know if there's a lot of guys at two sixty 0:11:25.679 --> 0:11:28.000 eight overall they have the potential for a thirty home 0:11:28.080 --> 0:11:30.720 run season, but Trey Mancini has that. Not to mention, 0:11:30.800 --> 0:11:34.240 he qualifies at two spots outfield and first base, both 0:11:34.280 --> 0:11:36.440 of which are lame as hell this year. We've talked 0:11:36.480 --> 0:11:39.040 about it add nauseum on the show. So he's got 0:11:39.120 --> 0:11:42.599 dual eligibility power. Upside, he's super cheap. 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Who's 0:13:20.360 --> 0:13:22.800 next on your list here of guys who are draft 0:13:22.840 --> 0:13:24.240 day bargains. 0:13:23.960 --> 0:13:25.960 Coming in at number four for me, I really didn't 0:13:26.000 --> 0:13:29.360 actually intend to have some trend of the post jose 0:13:29.400 --> 0:13:31.400 Al tuove world or anything like that, but I do 0:13:31.480 --> 0:13:34.680 have another second basement on this list because I like 0:13:34.760 --> 0:13:36.560 getting one of the if you can tell like I 0:13:36.600 --> 0:13:39.520 like getting Jazz Chishom, but later on I want to 0:13:39.559 --> 0:13:41.840 pair with another guy. And there's some really good cheat 0:13:41.880 --> 0:13:44.560 mental infield players and some players of qualified second base, 0:13:44.600 --> 0:13:47.720 one of those players being Colton Wong. Colton Wog last 0:13:47.800 --> 0:13:51.280 year fifteen homers, seventeen stolen bases, hitting two fifty one. 0:13:51.720 --> 0:13:55.160 This year, bat x projections have him at almost twenty 0:13:55.160 --> 0:13:57.240 stolen bases. As a matter of fact, the normal bat 0:13:57.320 --> 0:14:00.240 has him at twenty stolen bases with thirteen homers in 0:14:00.320 --> 0:14:03.120 just one hundred and twenty six games. Kind of just 0:14:03.160 --> 0:14:05.559 like we talked about with the White Sox situation with Andrews. 0:14:05.600 --> 0:14:07.200 If he's going to be hitting a high point in 0:14:07.200 --> 0:14:09.280 this lineup, it's going to work out really well for him. 0:14:09.280 --> 0:14:12.559 Every single year he sneaks into these numbers. I think 0:14:12.600 --> 0:14:16.679 he can push seventy sixty seventy fifty five RBIs are 0:14:16.679 --> 0:14:18.000 going to be kind of like a wash for him. 0:14:18.160 --> 0:14:22.080 But he might be a really solid four category player 0:14:22.320 --> 0:14:24.040 or at least three and a half, and you're getting 0:14:24.080 --> 0:14:26.160 him Actually two fifty one. I almost cheated on this one. 0:14:26.200 --> 0:14:28.280 It was right at two fifty one, but He is 0:14:28.320 --> 0:14:31.720 a slide fine draft day target, not just a bargain, 0:14:31.760 --> 0:14:34.440 but he's a draft day bargain target for me in 0:14:34.480 --> 0:14:38.400 every format that I can get, because like the hopefulness 0:14:38.400 --> 0:14:40.520 we have with Elvis Andres, maybe he can get to 0:14:40.560 --> 0:14:44.360 fifteen twenty, Colton Wong is almost already there projected, like 0:14:44.400 --> 0:14:47.600 I said, eleven and nineteen on the bat X in 0:14:47.640 --> 0:14:50.920 one hundred and twenty six game. A full season should 0:14:50.960 --> 0:14:54.600 get you good runs, good stolen bases, and pretty solid 0:14:54.800 --> 0:14:57.440 batting average and run totals from a player that is 0:14:57.520 --> 0:15:00.120 post two point fifty at a not great position. And 0:15:00.200 --> 0:15:02.240 Colton Wong is a must and he's a great draft 0:15:02.320 --> 0:15:02.800 day bargain. 0:15:03.240 --> 0:15:05.040 I love that he's at the top of that lineup, 0:15:05.120 --> 0:15:06.480 and I think this is one of those players is 0:15:06.480 --> 0:15:08.640 going to benefit from the new rules. The bigger bases, 0:15:08.720 --> 0:15:11.520 the time you can only throw over twice without throwing 0:15:11.760 --> 0:15:15.200 a ball. I think all of those little factors here 0:15:15.200 --> 0:15:19.480 and these rules changes I think effect more so these 0:15:19.520 --> 0:15:21.880 guys in the middling stolen base world than I was 0:15:21.960 --> 0:15:22.920 just about to say that Joe. 0:15:22.960 --> 0:15:24.560 I was just about to say, like there's a lot 0:15:24.600 --> 0:15:28.000 of speculation overall, like who is the biggest beneficiaries. I 0:15:28.120 --> 0:15:30.160 tend to think and kind of see it is a 0:15:30.160 --> 0:15:32.520 little bit more of the top end. But Colton Wong 0:15:32.600 --> 0:15:35.560 straddles that line between like the upper tier of middle 0:15:35.600 --> 0:15:38.360 guys to the lower tier of high stolen base guys. 0:15:38.440 --> 0:15:40.640 And you know, the projections as far as like where 0:15:40.680 --> 0:15:44.080 his stolen bases are. Which I find really fascinating is 0:15:44.480 --> 0:15:48.560 the baddox projections are the third would be the third 0:15:48.600 --> 0:15:52.080 most of his entire career. So think about how projections. 0:15:51.600 --> 0:15:53.960 Just work in general. Right to me, though he has not. 0:15:54.120 --> 0:15:59.080 Stolen over nineteen bases since twenty nineteen, yet the projections 0:15:59.120 --> 0:16:01.400 have him in one hundred and twenty games going higher, 0:16:01.480 --> 0:16:03.760 so you can see and effect projections are already starting 0:16:03.800 --> 0:16:06.440 to build in these new rules that should affect him 0:16:06.440 --> 0:16:07.560 in a really good positive way. 0:16:07.960 --> 0:16:09.960 It's guys like that that have good speed but not 0:16:10.000 --> 0:16:13.600 always necessarily the best base stealing ability. Where now you 0:16:13.680 --> 0:16:16.280 got to realize you throw over twice that third time, 0:16:16.360 --> 0:16:19.880 Now you can have that extra step. The base you're 0:16:19.920 --> 0:16:22.600 going to is three inches closer. Not to mention, it's 0:16:22.600 --> 0:16:24.520 harder to get picked off because the base you're going 0:16:24.560 --> 0:16:27.120 back to is a little bit bigger. It's a little 0:16:27.120 --> 0:16:29.160 bit more room to get back there. So there's a 0:16:29.200 --> 0:16:31.480 lot of factors in there, and I think it's it's 0:16:31.520 --> 0:16:34.200 more of these middle of the road guys that I 0:16:34.200 --> 0:16:36.280 think people aren't paying enough attention to that might really 0:16:36.320 --> 0:16:39.520 spike and stolen bases. So I love this pick. Let's 0:16:39.520 --> 0:16:41.800 get to my number four here at two eighty five, 0:16:42.400 --> 0:16:46.160 Garrett Whitlock. That's right, I think we had. I remember 0:16:46.160 --> 0:16:48.160 which of the pigeon gurus we had. Now they're all 0:16:48.480 --> 0:16:50.840 blending together. Which, by the way, speaking of pitching gurus, 0:16:50.840 --> 0:16:55.120 tomorrow's show, Alex Vast Nick Pollock, the Great Pitching Debate 0:16:55.240 --> 0:16:57.440 twenty twenty three is back again by poppy or demand. 0:16:57.480 --> 0:16:59.120 Every year we have the two of them on to argue. 0:16:59.200 --> 0:17:01.480 It's gonna be glory. I can't wait for it. But 0:17:01.480 --> 0:17:04.560 Garrett Widlock last year in seventy eight innings between the 0:17:04.600 --> 0:17:09.480 bullpen and starting pitching, eighty two strikeouts, fifteen walks. The 0:17:09.560 --> 0:17:12.240 guy is excellent control. He's a three four five ERA 0:17:12.400 --> 0:17:15.479 with a one point zero two whip. He qualifies like 0:17:15.520 --> 0:17:18.479 Mancini in more than one spot, qualifies at starting pitcher 0:17:18.720 --> 0:17:22.439 and reliever. When you have mandatory RP spots in your lineup. 0:17:22.440 --> 0:17:24.879 It's really important that you have some guys like this, 0:17:24.960 --> 0:17:27.480 especially if youre in daily transaction leagues. Well, you've got 0:17:27.480 --> 0:17:30.200 the the Marinders closer and they take a day off there. 0:17:30.760 --> 0:17:33.200 Then you have Garrett Widlock who's starting. You could throw 0:17:33.240 --> 0:17:36.280 him into that lineup. He gives you so much flexibility. 0:17:36.359 --> 0:17:38.720 It gives you coverage. And I think Whitlock is just 0:17:38.760 --> 0:17:40.600 destined to be in the starting rotation this year, like 0:17:40.640 --> 0:17:42.439 they just have no choice. That's what it's going to be, 0:17:42.760 --> 0:17:45.359 and I think he is ready for that change. The 0:17:45.359 --> 0:17:47.120 Boston Reslucks are not a great team. That's why you're 0:17:47.119 --> 0:17:48.760 getting the two eighty one discount. But at the end 0:17:48.760 --> 0:17:51.159 of the day, once again, I'm looking at a pitcher, 0:17:51.160 --> 0:17:52.960 who can he give me one hundred and thirty innings 0:17:53.000 --> 0:17:55.320