Speaker 1: Attention, bargain shoppers, Let's talk to the pros. Welcome in
Speaker 1: everybody to Fantasy pros. This is the Fantasy Baseball Podcast.
Speaker 1: It is me Joey p Joepi's Apia, and today we're
Speaker 1: gonna talk about the bargains. That's right, because everybody likes
Speaker 1: free stuff. Don't pretend like you don't. Today we're gonna
Speaker 1: go through ten draft day bargains. These are guys going
Speaker 1: past the post two point fifty ADP in most leagues,
Speaker 1: and we're gonna talk about why you should be looking
Speaker 1: and adding them, not just necessarily your deeper leagues, but
Speaker 1: some of the more shallow ones as well. Before we
Speaker 1: get to those names, Welsh, it's great to see you
Speaker 1: here on this lovely Monday morning, and it's great to
Speaker 1: see that you made it through the weekend of all
Speaker 1: the WBC healthy. That's all I'm happy about.
Speaker 2: See point for you. You got the WBC joke in
Speaker 2: first I was sitting here contemplating where's the WBC joke? Yeah,
Speaker 2: no pitches to the wrist, no miss time or anything
Speaker 2: like that. Joey and I are always here, regardless of
Speaker 2: what you might see in the WBC and the players
Speaker 2: not being there for your fantasy. Also a slight little
Speaker 2: lean to why, if possible draft in the final weekend,
Speaker 2: because there's a lot of people that are hurting right now.
Speaker 1: Especially WBC years, especially those Oh you know, I like
Speaker 1: you said that because I haven't heard anybody really talk
Speaker 1: enough about that, and I'm so glad that you said it.
Speaker 1: But this is a good lesson the years where WBC
Speaker 1: is going on, you better take a little bit more
Speaker 1: care with your drafts. And I know it's fun. I
Speaker 1: know you're excited you want to draft, but sometimes these
Speaker 1: injuries happened. And we got to talk about jose L
Speaker 1: two Bay too. He's gonna miss eight to ten weeks
Speaker 1: with this broken thumb. It was a great game. Can
Speaker 1: I just start by saying it. It was an absolutely
Speaker 1: phenomenal baseball game. The energy in the building was electric.
Speaker 1: One of the more entertaining games we've seen in the
Speaker 1: last five years. I would say period World Series otherwise
Speaker 1: doesn't matter.
Speaker 2: Yeah, probably the game of the tournament. I mean, we'll
Speaker 2: see what happens in the championship game or what happens
Speaker 2: with Japan and Mexico. But like, yeah, the Grand Slam
Speaker 2: by Trey Turner to be able to come back.
Speaker 1: As a moment they got up and then Venezuela came
Speaker 1: back and they were all fired up, and then Turner
Speaker 1: hits the Grand Slam and all that's up happening, and
Speaker 1: I just want to you know, I recognize how great
Speaker 1: the WBC is for baseball, and it is. I love it,
Speaker 1: you love it. We're wagering on it. I mean, it's
Speaker 1: a good time.
Speaker 2: America's story we feat by the way, it's been very good.
Speaker 1: I think the point is that you know you want
Speaker 1: to have it. It is important. I saw an incredible
Speaker 1: statistic Welsh that a million plus people attended WBC in
Speaker 1: the pool play where all the different countries were hosting
Speaker 1: in this very short period spent a million plus people attendees.
Speaker 1: The Oakland Athletics last year for eighty one games drew
Speaker 1: seven hundred and eighty eight thousand. So it is great
Speaker 1: for baseball. It's great for the globalization of the game.
Speaker 1: And when they pushed the World Cup in Qatar because
Speaker 1: it was so hot into the fall, a lot of
Speaker 1: people are skeptical that it would work, and I think
Speaker 1: it flourished in the fall, and there's precedence for you know,
Speaker 1: I remember back in the day as a kid, Ken
Speaker 1: Grivey Junior and all these all stars would go off
Speaker 1: in November December and go play around the games in Japan, Like,
Speaker 1: why can't we do it in November just to play
Speaker 1: it a little safer, Like I think we can. I
Speaker 1: think that conversation has to happen Welsh because now al
Speaker 1: Tuove from a fantasy standpoint, you have to knock him
Speaker 1: down significantly your rankings and second base was already positioned.
Speaker 2: It was kind of hurting anyway, Well, knock it down
Speaker 2: any rankings is saying it lightly because in the season
Speaker 2: he's gonna miss six to eight weeks and obviously, you
Speaker 2: know what is the what is the actual like recovery
Speaker 2: return time going to look like? So you're at best
Speaker 2: case scenario saying maybe JUNI you're gonna get him, And
Speaker 2: like you said, it's a bad position. I actually kind
Speaker 2: of hate it too, because you know me, I'm a
Speaker 2: huge jazz Chisholm guy and al two Vea's this great
Speaker 2: bridge because people will always take him first, maybe Simeon
Speaker 2: and this is just one less and like you said,
Speaker 2: the position sucks so much. There's even some back end
Speaker 2: injury stuff here that it's like just like five great
Speaker 2: guys to take Korge Plonco is dealing with an injury
Speaker 2: that he might miss some early parts of the season.
Speaker 2: That's another guy off the table. Like sometimes we make
Speaker 2: a little too much about a position, stinking not second base,
Speaker 2: not in twenty twenty three.
Speaker 1: It's a good it's a good point. And also, yo,
Speaker 1: I'm and Kata dealing with a rib injury or Nato
Speaker 1: dealing with a hand injury. Look, we all know the
Speaker 1: Edwin d has plied of last year. I love the WBC.
Speaker 1: I'm not talking ill about it. And I do think
Speaker 1: that you are gonna see as some of these more
Speaker 1: massive deals get handed out here. When Joey Otani makes
Speaker 1: half a billion dollars and he's going to make a
Speaker 1: half a billion dollars guaranteed money, I know they can't
Speaker 1: necessarily legally tell them not to do it because it's
Speaker 1: a Major League Baseball event. Well, and I wonder if
Speaker 1: there's gonna be some handshake agreements on the back end
Speaker 1: Welsh where they say the guys like Otani, like, look,
Speaker 1: we're paying you half a billion dollars, you've gotta you know,
Speaker 1: I know you love your country. I know this is
Speaker 1: a great event, but if it's gonna be in the spring,
Speaker 1: you might have to just pass on it. I could
Speaker 1: see that happening as time goes on.
Speaker 2: It'll be interesting to see if that's actually something that
Speaker 2: is going to be a problem, because, like there's a
Speaker 2: lot of communication with players and teams like leading up
Speaker 2: to this. If you remember, Clayton Kershaw was supposed to
Speaker 2: pitch with tm USA, who would be the best pitcher
Speaker 2: on Timo Sabert right now, but they couldn't get that
Speaker 2: insurance policy set and they just kind of moved on
Speaker 2: from it. If any teams are really worried, I just
Speaker 2: don't think a player is going to throw up a major,
Speaker 2: major stink. There are plenty of players that bowed out
Speaker 2: because they wanted to focus on being with their team
Speaker 2: and they wanted to focus on getting ready. Karais Senga
Speaker 2: the Cartasenko was actually interviewed about that, and he just
Speaker 2: said that he needed to be here to get set
Speaker 2: for the Mets. It tends to kind of be something
Speaker 2: where it's like these guys are in limbo. You know,
Speaker 2: you've been in the majors for a little while, you've
Speaker 2: kind of I mean, like Trout, you hate to say it,
Speaker 2: like you have been in the playoffs, hasn't really accomplished
Speaker 2: a whole lot outside of like individual statistics, and this
Speaker 2: like kind of means quite a bit more. And I
Speaker 2: say that in like Mookie Bets is like, you know,
Speaker 2: World Series and blah blah blah, and this was a
Speaker 2: huge deal to him. I just don't know if it'll
Speaker 2: become contractual, but the amount of injuries is definitely making
Speaker 2: it a lot louder that. Yeah, it might be.
Speaker 1: It might be. Look, man, I think the World Cup
Speaker 1: kind of proved that, you know, you could do something
Speaker 1: October November and have it be hot and people will watch.
Speaker 1: I know what. You don't want to conflict with the
Speaker 1: World Series. Obviously you would have to be after that.
Speaker 1: But I think it could work. I really do, and
Speaker 1: I think it's a good event. I think it's a
Speaker 1: great event. So I am pro WB's a question for
Speaker 1: you too. As we look now in the rankings drafting Altuve,
Speaker 1: I would take Andres Meez ahead of him, correct, you
Speaker 1: would too, sy? Okay, Tommy Edmund, you would take ahead
Speaker 1: of him? Correct?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, when we get to Hori Polanco, Glabor Tors.
Speaker 1: Would you take those guys ahead of Altuve right now?
Speaker 2: Not Polanco because Polanco's going in injured.
Speaker 1: He's the other guy. Glabor Torres, Brandon Law. Those are
Speaker 1: the names at second base right there.
Speaker 2: I think al Tuove moves at best to the like
Speaker 2: right in front of the top one hundred, you know,
Speaker 2: like Labor Torris and them aren't really inside the top
Speaker 2: four n Yeah, like Edmond and Edmund and Jemenez are
Speaker 2: like top eighty. I think he's somewhere between like eighty
Speaker 2: and one hundred. But there's just more work you have
Speaker 2: to do, I mean personally, Like that's why I think
Speaker 2: he has to rank because he will come back and
Speaker 2: he'll still be great, but he's just not going to
Speaker 2: be a really drafted target for me. I've kind of
Speaker 2: moved on as I played fantasy over years of like
Speaker 2: taking this guy that I can sit on for two
Speaker 2: months and try to get extra value out of him.
Speaker 2: Maybe you can do it, you know, maybe his replacement I.
Speaker 1: Would take like Luisa Rise or Katel Marte later, I
Speaker 1: would take a discount if I got a good one
Speaker 1: on Altuve, and I would I would because the position's bad.
Speaker 1: I'm more willing to take the risk on Altuve as
Speaker 1: long as it's not too much risk, like you said,
Speaker 1: if it's going outside the top one hundred, then I
Speaker 1: think you could back it up for two months and
Speaker 1: still be okay and I get it done.
Speaker 2: I really like the kateel Marte thing. I like taking
Speaker 2: Altuve if you can get him like, you know, ninety
Speaker 2: to one ten, something like that, and then take kateel Marte,
Speaker 2: you know, four or five rounds later. I think that's
Speaker 2: like a really good pairing to go with him. And
Speaker 2: if katel Marte does kind of break out when al
Speaker 2: Tuov comes back, you're perfect.
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Speaker 1: names here, and let's start here with some of the
Speaker 1: players outside of the top two fifty. These are the
Speaker 1: bargain basement guys that we think can have a big
Speaker 1: impact in twenty twenty three. Who's the first guy on
Speaker 1: your list?
Speaker 2: So this guy signed a little bit late, and he
Speaker 2: signed over with the White Sox. Actually just talking about
Speaker 2: them and all the injuries they're dealing with. I continuously
Speaker 2: look at Elvis Andris and I see a late deal.
Speaker 2: Just talked about second base gonna qualify at second base,
Speaker 2: that is where they're planning to play him. So as
Speaker 2: long as Tim Anderson doesn't have his annual injury happened
Speaker 2: really early on and he moves over to shortstop, Elvis
Speaker 2: Andrews is also going to get that second base qualification.
Speaker 2: By the way, we're talking about all this like bad
Speaker 2: second base stup. There are those sneaky guys Miguel Vargas
Speaker 2: and Elvis Andrews, two players that are going to acquire
Speaker 2: in season second base eligibility. But Andrews came on with
Speaker 2: this team last year seventeen homers, eighteen stolen bases in
Speaker 2: around one hundred and fifty games. But he did the
Speaker 2: brunt of it once he was traded. He didn't do
Speaker 2: it with Oakland. Bat x projections have him at ten
Speaker 2: fourteen and only one hundred and twenty games while hitting
Speaker 2: two fifty two, And if he moves up in this lineup,
Speaker 2: those run totals should definitely be higher than what are
Speaker 2: on projection. So if you want to play a little
Speaker 2: bit higher and you can get to fifteen twenty outside
Speaker 2: the top three hundred He's a smashing, smashing draft day bargain,
Speaker 2: and it's a three twenty eighty p I'm looking at
Speaker 2: Elvis Andres not just in like my deep de formats,
Speaker 2: but anytime I have a little bit of weakness in
Speaker 2: the middle infield, he's a target of mine, especially for
Speaker 2: stolen bases. We know he can hit some homers, and
Speaker 2: overall this is a team where he could move up
Speaker 2: the lineup. Good success last year. Elvis Andris, He's a
Speaker 2: draft Dave bargain for me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, three twenty again, free stuff. Let's get to the
Speaker 1: first guy on my list, Trey Mancini. Look, Trey Mancini
Speaker 1: has had a tough couple years, all right, first dealing
Speaker 1: with the cancer situation, to say the least. Then he
Speaker 1: finally comes back, has a decent year in twenty twenty one,
Speaker 1: and what happens in twenty twenty two They move the
Speaker 1: fences on him right and all of a sudden, left
Speaker 1: field goes way way out there, almost into the water
Speaker 1: in Baltimore, and it affected him. He then got traded
Speaker 1: to Houston, so you know, having to move around all
Speaker 1: those things, he is settling into the Chicago Cubs situation here,
Speaker 1: which is a much better ballpark factor for Trey Mancini,
Speaker 1: and Trey Mancini is a player that, at his peak
Speaker 1: gave you a season in twenty nineteen of thirty five
Speaker 1: home runs, ninety seven RBI, one hundred and six runs scored,
Speaker 1: hit ninety one. He's hit two ninety more than once
Speaker 1: in his career. So I'm not saying he's gonna go
Speaker 1: up to two ninety. I'm saying he's probably gonna be
Speaker 1: somewhere in that two fifty two to sixty range. But
Speaker 1: I think the power could certainly come back. He's years
Speaker 1: now removed from all the treatments he's had, and I'm
Speaker 1: sure physically it's taken a toll lot him, not to
Speaker 1: mention the mental side, not to mention having to get
Speaker 1: traded and move and all those things. So now he
Speaker 1: settled into a situation in Chicago where Welsh. I don't
Speaker 1: know if there's a lot of guys at two sixty
Speaker 1: eight overall they have the potential for a thirty home
Speaker 1: run season, but Trey Mancini has that. Not to mention,
Speaker 1: he qualifies at two spots outfield and first base, both
Speaker 1: of which are lame as hell this year. We've talked
Speaker 1: about it add nauseum on the show. So he's got
Speaker 1: dual eligibility power. Upside, he's super cheap. I'm taking a
Speaker 1: chance on Trey Mancini Welsh. I'm just gonna do it.
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Speaker 1: next on your list here of guys who are draft
Speaker 1: day bargains.
Speaker 2: Coming in at number four for me, I really didn't
Speaker 2: actually intend to have some trend of the post jose
Speaker 2: Al tuove world or anything like that, but I do
Speaker 2: have another second basement on this list because I like
Speaker 2: getting one of the if you can tell like I
Speaker 2: like getting Jazz Chishom, but later on I want to
Speaker 2: pair with another guy. And there's some really good cheat
Speaker 2: mental infield players and some players of qualified second base,
Speaker 2: one of those players being Colton Wong. Colton Wog last
Speaker 2: year fifteen homers, seventeen stolen bases, hitting two fifty one.
Speaker 2: This year, bat x projections have him at almost twenty
Speaker 2: stolen bases. As a matter of fact, the normal bat
Speaker 2: has him at twenty stolen bases with thirteen homers in
Speaker 2: just one hundred and twenty six games. Kind of just
Speaker 2: like we talked about with the White Sox situation with Andrews.
Speaker 2: If he's going to be hitting a high point in
Speaker 2: this lineup, it's going to work out really well for him.
Speaker 2: Every single year he sneaks into these numbers. I think
Speaker 2: he can push seventy sixty seventy fifty five RBIs are
Speaker 2: going to be kind of like a wash for him.
Speaker 2: But he might be a really solid four category player
Speaker 2: or at least three and a half, and you're getting
Speaker 2: him Actually two fifty one. I almost cheated on this one.
Speaker 2: It was right at two fifty one, but He is
Speaker 2: a slide fine draft day target, not just a bargain,
Speaker 2: but he's a draft day bargain target for me in
Speaker 2: every format that I can get, because like the hopefulness
Speaker 2: we have with Elvis Andres, maybe he can get to
Speaker 2: fifteen twenty, Colton Wong is almost already there projected, like
Speaker 2: I said, eleven and nineteen on the bat X in
Speaker 2: one hundred and twenty six game. A full season should
Speaker 2: get you good runs, good stolen bases, and pretty solid
Speaker 2: batting average and run totals from a player that is
Speaker 2: post two point fifty at a not great position. And
Speaker 2: Colton Wong is a must and he's a great draft
Speaker 2: day bargain.
Speaker 1: I love that he's at the top of that lineup,
Speaker 1: and I think this is one of those players is
Speaker 1: going to benefit from the new rules. The bigger bases,
Speaker 1: the time you can only throw over twice without throwing
Speaker 1: a ball. I think all of those little factors here
Speaker 1: and these rules changes I think effect more so these
Speaker 1: guys in the middling stolen base world than I was
Speaker 1: just about to say that Joe.
Speaker 2: I was just about to say, like there's a lot
Speaker 2: of speculation overall, like who is the biggest beneficiaries. I
Speaker 2: tend to think and kind of see it is a
Speaker 2: little bit more of the top end. But Colton Wong
Speaker 2: straddles that line between like the upper tier of middle
Speaker 2: guys to the lower tier of high stolen base guys.
Speaker 2: And you know, the projections as far as like where
Speaker 2: his stolen bases are. Which I find really fascinating is
Speaker 2: the baddox projections are the third would be the third
Speaker 2: most of his entire career. So think about how projections.
Speaker 1: Just work in general. Right to me, though he has not.
Speaker 2: Stolen over nineteen bases since twenty nineteen, yet the projections
Speaker 2: have him in one hundred and twenty games going higher,
Speaker 2: so you can see and effect projections are already starting
Speaker 2: to build in these new rules that should affect him
Speaker 2: in a really good positive way.
Speaker 1: It's guys like that that have good speed but not
Speaker 1: always necessarily the best base stealing ability. Where now you
Speaker 1: got to realize you throw over twice that third time,
Speaker 1: Now you can have that extra step. The base you're
Speaker 1: going to is three inches closer. Not to mention, it's
Speaker 1: harder to get picked off because the base you're going
Speaker 1: back to is a little bit bigger. It's a little
Speaker 1: bit more room to get back there. So there's a
Speaker 1: lot of factors in there, and I think it's it's
Speaker 1: more of these middle of the road guys that I
Speaker 1: think people aren't paying enough attention to that might really
Speaker 1: spike and stolen bases. So I love this pick. Let's
Speaker 1: get to my number four here at two eighty five,
Speaker 1: Garrett Whitlock. That's right, I think we had. I remember
Speaker 1: which of the pigeon gurus we had. Now they're all
Speaker 1: blending together. Which, by the way, speaking of pitching gurus,
Speaker 1: tomorrow's show, Alex Vast Nick Pollock, the Great Pitching Debate
Speaker 1: twenty twenty three is back again by poppy or demand.
Speaker 1: Every year we have the two of them on to argue.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be glory. I can't wait for it. But
Speaker 1: Garrett Widlock last year in seventy eight innings between the
Speaker 1: bullpen and starting pitching, eighty two strikeouts, fifteen walks. The
Speaker 1: guy is excellent control. He's a three four five ERA
Speaker 1: with a one point zero two whip. He qualifies like
Speaker 1: Mancini in more than one spot, qualifies at starting pitcher
Speaker 1: and reliever. When you have mandatory RP spots in your lineup.
Speaker 1: It's really important that you have some guys like this,
Speaker 1: especially if youre in daily transaction leagues. Well, you've got
Speaker 1: the the Marinders closer and they take a day off there.
Speaker 1: Then you have Garrett Widlock who's starting. You could throw
Speaker 1: him into that lineup. He gives you so much flexibility.
Speaker 1: It gives you coverage. And I think Whitlock is just
Speaker 1: destined to be in the starting rotation this year, like
Speaker 1: they just have no choice. That's what it's going to be,
Speaker 1: and I think he is ready for that change. The
Speaker 1: Boston Reslucks are not a great team. That's why you're
Speaker 1: getting the two eighty one discount. But at the end
Speaker 1: of the day, once again, I'm looking at a pitcher,
Speaker 1: who can he give me one hundred and thirty innings
Speaker 1: this year? Can he give me one hundred and forty strikeouts?
Speaker 1: I think the answer is yes. And can that be
Speaker 1: under four and that three seven range maybe? I think
Speaker 1: all the answers are yes. I think that's a tremendous
Speaker 1: value at two to eighty one, especially with the dual
Speaker 1: eligibility factor. Let's get to your number three guy on
Speaker 1: the bargain basement list, and this is the guy you've
Speaker 1: mentioned before, but I think he bears mentioning again because
Speaker 1: he's had a good spring.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's exactly right. We haven't talked about him in
Speaker 2: a little bit, but Hayden wiz Nisky was nesky with
Speaker 2: a two ninety eight EIGHTYP with the Cubs. Funny enough
Speaker 2: about I don't know two weeks ago or so. Even
Speaker 2: when we were and I brought him up one time before,
Speaker 2: he didn't have any lock set rotation spot as far
Speaker 2: according to roster resource, that has now changed with Nisky
Speaker 2: has had a pretty good spring. Four games in he
Speaker 2: struck out seventeen over twelve ERA at three whip is
Speaker 2: right around one, which is definitely what you like to see.
Speaker 2: Nine k per nine last year with a two to
Speaker 2: one eight ERA, and he's also just had a really
Speaker 2: solid spring overall, even when the results haven't quite been there,
Speaker 2: he's been smacking the zones a whole bunch. And this
Speaker 2: is something that I really want to see with him
Speaker 2: because I think the K numbers can go up the
Speaker 2: more that he's got to be able to pitch inside
Speaker 2: the strike zone and pitch at batters. Last year he
Speaker 2: had an under two walk per nine, So watch out
Speaker 2: if he increases at all, if we see an increase
Speaker 2: in his K per nine with those low walk numbers
Speaker 2: as well, he's really going to be able to teeter
Speaker 2: some very very valuable SP numbers. I mean, I think
Speaker 2: SP fifty is going to be an easy way to
Speaker 2: look at him. And he's almost got a three hundred EIGHTP.
Speaker 1: So it's not the.
Speaker 2: Best team in the world, but they're going to want
Speaker 2: to give him the full go coming off of a really,
Speaker 2: really fantastic spring, and I'm really excited to see what
Speaker 2: the what the results are going to end up being, because,
Speaker 2: like I said, this spring, every time he pitches across
Speaker 2: his zone a little bit of sweeper action. I'm very
Speaker 2: excited about Wesnewsky, especially with a two ninety eight ADP.
Speaker 1: All right, next guy on my list here, number three,
Speaker 1: three hundred and ten ADP ken to my Eta, and
Speaker 1: this is a little bit of a reach. I know
Speaker 1: he's coming back from Tommy John. I get that the
Speaker 1: Twins need him, though they don't need a fifth starter
Speaker 1: for quite some time. That's the whole thing. You always
Speaker 1: be paid with guys who are fifth starters. Because ken
Speaker 1: To Mayada wasn't gonna go out there and throw two
Speaker 1: hundred in things this year. Okay, that's not ken To
Speaker 1: Mayta anyway, But can you get ken To Mayada's velocity going?
Speaker 1: Can you get him up and running here? I know
Speaker 1: the other day he gave up a couple of home runs,
Speaker 1: but it was in a game against the Braves. Guys
Speaker 1: like Azzi Albi's and Marcelo Zuna hitting home runs off via. Okay,
Speaker 1: but more to the point, he did strike out five guys,
Speaker 1: walk two and that, and that's more to me what
Speaker 1: I want to see. It's not the home runs, it's
Speaker 1: getting the feelback for pitching. I think this Twins team
Speaker 1: is very good. They're gonna be competitive in that American
Speaker 1: League Central, and ken To Mayada as the fifth starter
Speaker 1: on a good team can be very valuable for you,
Speaker 1: especially in a deeper league. If for some reason they
Speaker 1: end up moving him to the bullpen, if some reason
Speaker 1: things happen, you can always cut him. All these guys
Speaker 1: were talking about, our guys are taking shots on if
Speaker 1: they don't perform well. The great thing about the dollar store,
Speaker 1: Welsh is this, you can get something from the dollar
Speaker 1: store and you could say this is great, and you
Speaker 1: use it every day. And it's awesome. You say, what
Speaker 1: an incredible value, or you could get something to the
Speaker 1: it breaks later that afternoon, you have kids, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm talking about, and you go, well, it was
Speaker 1: only from the dollar store and you throw away. That's
Speaker 1: the beauty of the guys we're talking about. But ken
Speaker 1: Tamaida has upside. Ken To Mayda has had runs of
Speaker 1: being a very good starting pitcher in this league. And
Speaker 1: I think this situation here bears witness. Continue to watch
Speaker 1: them in the next star here coming up, because ken
Speaker 1: Toamayda has the upside to be a pretty good, I
Speaker 1: would say, matchup play starting pitcher in baseball and in
Speaker 1: the deeper these leagues are we know the pitching could
Speaker 1: be a problem. I don't know how much you're gonna
Speaker 1: get out of him in April, but can you get
Speaker 1: four or five months out of him? And I think
Speaker 1: the answer might be yes. So again, dollar store shopping,
Speaker 1: the Dollar General KNTA Mayda just might get the job
Speaker 1: done before we get to the top two guys. That's right, chotchkes.
Speaker 1: But you know, and I know, you can go and
Speaker 1: get some really quality stuff at some of those dollar
Speaker 1: stores sometimes and it lasts forever, and sometimes it doesn't last.
Speaker 2: On the way home, yeah, or a day now, yeah.
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Speaker 1: Who is number two? For you? Welsh on these posts
Speaker 1: two fifty?
Speaker 2: Well, this guy has the Fantasy Pros to ADP of
Speaker 2: over four hundred. But the helium is rising, my friends,
Speaker 2: and if you're going to get him, you're going to
Speaker 2: have to get him a lot higher. But he's still
Speaker 2: a bargain regardless. It's Clark Schmidt with the New York Yankees.
Speaker 2: Now there's always some back end rotation conversations about who's
Speaker 2: going to be able to maintain what, but Clark Schmid
Speaker 2: is one of those guys that might be the answer
Speaker 2: to all of those questions. Clark Schmidt this offseason has
Speaker 2: added a cutter to his arsenal. And really, what he did,
Speaker 2: and I think we see this with like a lot
Speaker 2: of pictures nowadays, is we've he's taken that slider that
Speaker 2: he threw and I think he's broken it apart, and
Speaker 2: he's turned the slider into what I believe is more
Speaker 2: of a sweeper, which is kind of like a League
Speaker 2: White thing. And then he's added a cutter, and the
Speaker 2: cutter has had ridiculous results over twenty six hundred rpm.
Speaker 2: He as far as spring training as go, as he's
Speaker 2: been learning this pitch, the era has been inflated, but
Speaker 2: check this out era in four to six three, his
Speaker 2: whip point six point nine, those both don't add up.
Speaker 2: He's also had seventeen strikeouts in just under twelve innings
Speaker 2: pitch so far this spring. The new repertoire is a
Speaker 2: really really interesting addition to a guy that already has
Speaker 2: just a full arsenal of pitches, and that cutter really
Speaker 2: has the potential to be devastating, and the roverall adjustment
Speaker 2: of the slider as well. So Clerksmid is one of
Speaker 2: those players to keep an eye on. He has a
Speaker 2: four to zero four Fantasy pros ADP, but like I said,
Speaker 2: he is moving up. Take a Yankees pitcher, Take a
Speaker 2: guy who's going to get you some free wins as well,
Speaker 2: and if he stays in that rotation all season, this
Speaker 2: might be a league winner at this point if not
Speaker 2: take the opportunity while guys like Carlos Rodonna whatnot are
Speaker 2: going to miss time and take that opportunity to get
Speaker 2: those starts out of him, and maybe you're gonna piece
Speaker 2: together a pretty solid season. He is definitely a bargain
Speaker 2: for this draft season.
Speaker 1: He is. He's a bargain. He's been a guy that
Speaker 1: we've been looking to for the last couple of years.
Speaker 1: He's come up through the organization. And it's not like
Speaker 1: Rodn's gonna be the only guy to get hurt for
Speaker 1: the Yankees. I mean, everybody gets worked nowadays. So having
Speaker 1: a guy like that on a good team, it's similar
Speaker 1: to another guy I'm going to talk about in a second. There.
Speaker 1: You want these guys that are on the peripheral of
Speaker 1: rotations who could get fifteen to twenty starts, because that's
Speaker 1: gonna add up at the end of the day for you.
Speaker 1: In Fantasy nine, number two guy is Jared Walsh at
Speaker 1: three point thirty one, the first basement four the Los
Speaker 1: Angeles Angels of Anaheim. Let's let's go back in the
Speaker 1: way back machine, Chelley Welsh. Let's take a little trip,
Speaker 1: a little trip down memory Lane. The twenty twenty shortened
Speaker 1: pandemic season nine home runs hit two ninety three over
Speaker 1: thirty two games, very short sample size, but it got
Speaker 1: Everybody was very encouraged. And if you were encouraged by
Speaker 1: Jared Walsh, then you had a really good time in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty one because he had twenty nine bombs he
Speaker 1: drove in ninety eight runs. He had two to seventy seven.
Speaker 1: Let me say that again, twenty nine home runs, ninety
Speaker 1: eight oribis to seventy seven batting average. Okay, he's going
Speaker 1: at ADP three sixteen. Oh hell yeah. And I feel
Speaker 1: like stone cold Steve Austin just hit me with a
Speaker 1: stunner because I can't imagine the player with this kind
Speaker 1: of potential being where he is right now. And I
Speaker 1: understand why last year was a dreadful season, one hundred
Speaker 1: and eighteen dreadful games. He had just fifteen bombs to
Speaker 1: thirteen batting average, But he had that thoracic outlets syndrome,
Speaker 1: which has killed tons of careers, but more specifically pitchers.
Speaker 1: We haven't seen a lot of hitters struggle with this
Speaker 1: in terms of long term, but we have seen it.
Speaker 1: We did that show. I think last year we went
Speaker 1: down the list of all the pitchers with thoracic outlets syndrome,
Speaker 1: and none of them ever returned to what they were.
Speaker 1: It's a horrible thing. Hitting is a little different. So
Speaker 1: I'm curious to see and I'm a buyer once again
Speaker 1: at first base, just like Mancini, it's dreadful. You're looking
Speaker 1: for help at the corners. Why not take a shot
Speaker 1: on Jared Walsh in a deeper league. He is absolutely
Speaker 1: free and this very few guys outside of the top
Speaker 1: three hundred, just like I said Mancini, outside of two fifty,
Speaker 1: about outside of top three to twenty, because thirty one
Speaker 1: right now that have an upside of thirty home run
Speaker 1: season powers are to fined. Go take a look. Keep
Speaker 1: an eye on Jared Walsh, because I think that's a
Speaker 1: guy that will be added very quickly to a lot
Speaker 1: of rosters in the early going. If he gets off
Speaker 1: to a good April, you'll be seeing him as one
Speaker 1: of the most added guys in baseball. But instead of
Speaker 1: adding him, just draft him instead. Welsh, what do you
Speaker 1: think about Walsh? I'm curious because that thrustic outlets syndrome
Speaker 1: has crushed a lot of major league careers in the
Speaker 1: last few years. I think.
Speaker 2: Him being in this version of this show is the
Speaker 2: best way to do it, because I don't know what
Speaker 2: to think of him. I don't know how to really
Speaker 2: approach him. But if you do want to start looking
Speaker 2: at players that have ADPs outside of the top three hundred,
Speaker 2: Jared Walsh has to be top three or four of
Speaker 2: the biggest seasons behind them as well, with really kind
Speaker 2: of unknown questions in front. I'm not a crazy I
Speaker 2: don't think I've drafted Jared Walsh in a whole lot
Speaker 2: of spots, but I will tell you if I am
Speaker 2: trying to reach a little bit for some of that
Speaker 2: big power boost to come back, he would one of
Speaker 2: those guys. Because also, I don't think this is like
Speaker 2: a outfield situation where they're immediately I just don't know
Speaker 2: if the replacements are already right there for them. I
Speaker 2: think they're stuck with Jared Walsh for the foreseeable future here.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I can I definitely buying into it. I
Speaker 2: like the logic of this because if you can get
Speaker 2: that COVID season come back right around there, Jared Walsh
Speaker 2: is going to be huge, huge.
Speaker 1: Huo huge. All right, let's get to your number one
Speaker 1: guy here, Welsh. This is the guy that just found
Speaker 1: a new home. And I think this is a great
Speaker 1: one because a lot of people probably just missed that
Speaker 1: signing over the weekend.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and this might be this might like jolt a
Speaker 2: lot of people. But if you're talking about draft day bargains,
Speaker 2: how about the leadoff hitter for the Colorado Rockies. Yes,
Speaker 2: Jerrikson Profar, who was just playing with the Netherlands I
Speaker 2: believe it was, has signed an eight million dollar deal
Speaker 2: with the Colorado Rockies. The Rockies always do this, They
Speaker 2: sign like goofy guys when they have young players. They
Speaker 2: signed Mike Ustakis. You could question if both of them
Speaker 2: are going to make the roster. But Profar gets a
Speaker 2: big also incentive based deal where there's a lot of
Speaker 2: like playing time and stats that are attached to this.
Speaker 2: And they've already announced that he's going to play left
Speaker 2: field and he's going to lead off for this team.
Speaker 2: And that is what makes me jump out. Where Profar
Speaker 2: has a four to twenty seven ADP. Guess what of
Speaker 2: all the players that we're talking about here, Mine and Joe's,
Speaker 2: this guy's the lowest ADP because people forgot he exists.
Speaker 2: It will change, of course, but Colorado just does wonders
Speaker 2: for guys like this. He had fifteen homers with five
Speaker 2: stolen bases last year with the Padres. His batting average
Speaker 2: projection wise, is still in the two forties. Projections don't
Speaker 2: really know what to do with him as far as stats.
Speaker 2: They've got him under a hundred games, eight homer, six
Speaker 2: stolen bases, but a full season on that if you
Speaker 2: wanted to kind of you know, project a little bit.
Speaker 2: Fifteen to fifteen really seems like it is like really
Speaker 2: right there for us, and it's Colorado. That's the other
Speaker 2: thing that I keep focusing on this is Colorado leadoff
Speaker 2: hitter Jerks and profar. The Colorado leadoff hitter outside the
Speaker 2: top four hundred is stupid. He might be one the
Speaker 2: best draft day bargains, but it's probably not going to
Speaker 2: last too much longer.
Speaker 1: He's gonna be buried on every site ADP. So he's
Speaker 1: one of these guys like when you start your draft,
Speaker 1: I didn't know Welsh does this, but I do this
Speaker 1: where before I even start a draft, I just go
Speaker 1: through my list of my quote unquote and I just
Speaker 1: find them all and stick him in the queue so
Speaker 1: I can have a well crafted strategy later on of
Speaker 1: when I'm gonna take those guys, because people just flat
Speaker 1: out won't even see him sometimes, and these guys are
Speaker 1: the poster children for that. My number one is in
Speaker 1: the four hundred, is not quite four to twenty seven,
Speaker 1: but he's four h six. It's David Peterson again, Dual
Speaker 1: eligibility sprp in a lot of leagues, the New York Mets.
Speaker 1: The Mets are talking about even going to a six
Speaker 1: man rotation because McGill and Peterson have been pretty much
Speaker 1: neck and neck here. Peterson was decent on his weekend
Speaker 1: start here. To me, Peterson always has the edge over
Speaker 1: McGill because you want that left in the rotation. That
Speaker 1: to me is the bigger advantage. You want to change
Speaker 1: it up. You don't want all right handed starting pitching
Speaker 1: in there, so I think having that left is a
Speaker 1: good thing. I think they play eight games to open
Speaker 1: the season in a row or something crazy like that,
Speaker 1: so having a six man rotation might not be crazy.
Speaker 1: So depending on how mcgil or Peterson fair in those
Speaker 1: first starts or so, that could change the calculus. I
Speaker 1: like Peterson more anyway, No, no knock on ty Loll
Speaker 1: the Terrible as we like to call him here on
Speaker 1: the show. McGill is probably going to get some moments
Speaker 1: as well. But there's a lot of age in this
Speaker 1: Mets rotation, and it didn't take very long for Josekintana
Speaker 1: or somebody else to get hurt. And here we are
Speaker 1: entering the season and Peterson, if you go back and
Speaker 1: look at last year stats, one hundred and twenty six
Speaker 1: strikeouts and one hundred and five innings. Now that's between
Speaker 1: the ballpen and starting pitching, but still a three a
Speaker 1: three era at times the walks. He could struggle a
Speaker 1: little bit with the control, but he's a young lefty.
Speaker 1: They typically tend to do that anyway. David Peterson's a
Speaker 1: guy that I think is continuing on the upside. If
Speaker 1: I was another team looking for trades, I would be
Speaker 1: looking at David Peterson and taking him away from the
Speaker 1: New York Mets and putting him in my rotation long term,
Speaker 1: because I think this kid has a lot of potential.
Speaker 1: So Peterson to me is one of these guys has
Speaker 1: a potential to me, fifteen to twenty starts this year,
Speaker 1: without necessarily just Quintana's injury because the age of Verlind
Speaker 1: or the age of Scherzer. We'd be foolish not that
Speaker 1: think there's gonna be some miss time in there, not
Speaker 1: to mention weird if one guy who's already out, and
Speaker 1: Carlos Carrasco hasn't been the picture of health either unfortunately
Speaker 1: in the last five years. So to me, Peterson is
Speaker 1: one of those musk grab guys. But been talking about
Speaker 1: him since since what February, and you know, it didn't
Speaker 1: take long for him to be relevant. But ADP hasn't
Speaker 1: caught up somehow, it has yet to catch up. But
Speaker 1: you better catch up to all these guys. Here are
Speaker 1: the top five from Welsh Elvis Andrews at three twenty,
Speaker 1: Colton Wonga two fifty one. Hayden was Newski at two
Speaker 1: ninety eight. It was Newskiters was Nesky. I keep hearing
Speaker 1: different people say different things. I'm gonna say it was
Speaker 1: Nesky because that's the way it sounds. It's just somebody
Speaker 1: same here too. In the comments will correct me. They're
Speaker 1: very good at that. Clark Schmidt at four oh four,
Speaker 1: Jerrickson Profar at four twenty seven that his is number
Speaker 1: one my top five, Trey Man Senior at two sixty nine,
Speaker 1: Garrett Witlock at two eighty five, Ken Tamaiita at three ten,
Speaker 1: Jared Walsher three thirty one, and David Peterson of the
Speaker 1: New York Mets at four six. Who are your favorite
Speaker 1: draft day bargains? I want to know. Drop your names
Speaker 1: right there below in the comments on the YouTube and
Speaker 1: let us know who some of your guys that you're
Speaker 1: grabbing at late rounds that you feel really good about
Speaker 1: that could really have an impact in your twenty twenty
Speaker 1: three fantasy leagues. Or if you just want to complain
Speaker 1: about the fact that you drafted jose Al Tuba on
Speaker 1: Saturday morning and then he got hurt Saturday night, you
Speaker 1: can complain about that too. This is a safe space
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Speaker 1: got enough of it to share. Oh yeah, oh yeah, well,
Speaker 1: leading off is like my rage place. It's like I
Speaker 1: just on a weekly basis, there's something that just you know,
Speaker 1: pushes me over the edge. That Christ too, the leading
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