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Speaker 1: is Frank stamfle I am grand sauceman. Frank's okay, We've
Speaker 1: actually got a lot to talk about here we do February. Greg, Yeah,
Speaker 1: how you doing? How you sleep? I slept very well,
Speaker 1: my friend, very very well last night. It's to hear
Speaker 1: because I don't hear that very often from you anymore,
Speaker 1: not anymore, not these days. But said, well, it's great.
Speaker 1: Does it make you feel better that I read up
Speaker 1: on some political news today? Greg? I woke up today
Speaker 1: and I got a message from Frank and he's like,
Speaker 1: I know what happened to the debate last night once,
Speaker 1: not only did you sleep well, you woke up to
Speaker 1: great news. Greg. Normally I got a text early the
Speaker 1: morning from Frank it's why didn't you do this? Or
Speaker 1: this sucks or this is wrong? But instead I woke
Speaker 1: up to a nice text. I texted with you. I
Speaker 1: texted with Florio Cardio. Don't text me like oh man.
Speaker 1: He texted me about the debate. It was great. It
Speaker 1: was awesome. And amidst all of that, I sent you
Speaker 1: a thread about Kevin Bigio to help brighten your morning
Speaker 1: having her Cavan. Pretty sure it's Kevin. I've been calling
Speaker 1: him Cavan for a while. Well, let's look that up. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we probably should. We'll go look that up for you, No,
Speaker 1: no doubt about it. On the show today on Too twenty,
Speaker 1: did you have a zero anything? Aren't we going? We
Speaker 1: are going to talking about all the players, all nine
Speaker 1: of them that went last season. We're gonna talking about
Speaker 1: the players that Steamer projects in this season. We'll give
Speaker 1: you some long shots as well, and we're gonna check
Speaker 1: in with Farrell live in Vegas for Fury Wild. There's
Speaker 1: a huge show. It all takes place over the next hour.
Speaker 1: Before we get to any of that He's Alex Passano
Speaker 1: with your sports trade news up, team sports grade news update.
Speaker 1: I am Alex Possano with your sports grid news update.
Speaker 1: Here on the fantasy b f f's in the NFL,
Speaker 1: we may be expecting a playoff structure change. As part
Speaker 1: of a proposed playoff format, only one team from each
Speaker 1: conference would have received a first round five. As now,
Speaker 1: the conferences will expand to seven teams each in the postseason,
Speaker 1: The regular season will be expanded to seven teen games
Speaker 1: per season, and the preseason shortened to three games per team.
Speaker 1: Once again. The proposed playoff format will feature one team
Speaker 1: getting you by for each conference and the league. Sources
Speaker 1: said NFL owners are pushing forward to happen next season.
Speaker 1: This will also include a revised postseason schedule that includes
Speaker 1: six games on wild Card weekend, three on Saturday, and
Speaker 1: three on Sunday. In Major League Baseball, Luis Severino was
Speaker 1: scratched from a scheduled bullpen session on Thursday due to
Speaker 1: right forearm soreness. Concerning news for a guy who pitched
Speaker 1: just twelve innings during the two thousand nineteen regular season.
Speaker 1: Yankees manager Aaron Boud noted that the forearm issue dates
Speaker 1: back to Severinos a LCS Game three start against none
Speaker 1: other than the Houston Astros. The twenty year old right
Speaker 1: hander has been shut down from throwing and will see
Speaker 1: a team physician on Friday and in the NBA, Minnesota
Speaker 1: Timber will Center Carl Anthony Towns will remain sidelined indefinitely
Speaker 1: as he continues to recover from a left wrist injury.
Speaker 1: Coach Ryan Saunders sold report as that team held Towns
Speaker 1: out of his first practice after the All Star break
Speaker 1: on Wednesday. Saunders said Towns will miss upcoming games, but
Speaker 1: did not specify how many. Big Cat is averaging a
Speaker 1: career best twenty six point five points and ten point
Speaker 1: eight rebounds per game this season. Minnesota returns to action
Speaker 1: on Friday home against the Boston Celtics. You got a
Speaker 1: full at NHL college troops and NBA games making their
Speaker 1: return from the All Star breaks, so you want to
Speaker 1: consider the Miami Heat visiting the Atlanta Hawks. Hawks are
Speaker 1: your six point home dogs in this one. The total
Speaker 1: is to nine. Also, the Houston Rockets visit the Golden
Speaker 1: State Warriors. Rockets here nine and a half point favorites.
Speaker 1: The total is two thirty three. I'm Alex Fasano, and
Speaker 1: this has been your sports grid news update. Now back
Speaker 1: to the fantasy BFFs. Alright, nice job today, Alex, better
Speaker 1: than yesterday, I'll being honest, a much better update today,
Speaker 1: doing a great job. We didn't get any NASCAR updates.
Speaker 1: It was a good update everything that we need a
Speaker 1: little basketball, a little base to get Louis Severino in
Speaker 1: there for you guys. You know you bring up Louise Severino,
Speaker 1: and I'm glad you did because that you lead it
Speaker 1: with the right stuff today. I I thought it was
Speaker 1: a great job, and I think we need to lead
Speaker 1: off with the right stuff as well, Frank, So we
Speaker 1: have to be here before we get into two. We
Speaker 1: gotta talk about Louise Severino, who unfortunately is hurt again.
Speaker 1: Remember the conversation we had dum dam dum dump but
Speaker 1: damp Hey, Alex, remember the thing Frank made with Luis
Speaker 1: Savorino on it. You want to just all right, we
Speaker 1: have a song, we have the the graphic with him.
Speaker 1: That's ah, here you go. We do one more time,
Speaker 1: We do one more time. Well, I want to feel better.
Speaker 1: It's a race. The last thirty seconds and day that
Speaker 1: was your fatost moment of the day, brought to you
Speaker 1: by your fantasy BFFs Luis Severino, Greg another one bites
Speaker 1: the dust just like that, he fades to black. Lui
Speaker 1: sa Vorino has forum shorts, as Alex told you about.
Speaker 1: And unfortunately, Yank, he's have no idea the severity of it.
Speaker 1: He's gonna take some anti inflammatory meds. No, uh, he's
Speaker 1: not gonna have any other tests, which he was stupid.
Speaker 1: He was gonna see the doctor and then he wasn't
Speaker 1: seeing the doctor. Now he's seeing the doctor again. You
Speaker 1: know what this has written all over it, Frank, Does
Speaker 1: it start with uh t and and and with an honor?
Speaker 1: It might, yes, But I was talking about the way
Speaker 1: that the Yankees are like diagnosing this. It rise with
Speaker 1: j E T S Jets, Jets, Jets. Come on, Craig,
Speaker 1: don't put the Yankees in the same conversation as the Jets.
Speaker 1: I'm not. I'm putting the same conversation as the Mets.
Speaker 1: Rhymes with the Jets, That's what it makes sense, right, Well,
Speaker 1: the Jets kind of had an interesting year in terms
Speaker 1: of injuries. Remember when I think it was other Cinder,
Speaker 1: one of their star pitchers, and regard Wheeler de Graham
Speaker 1: was hurt and it was like this, we had some
Speaker 1: stories and he was seeing the doctor that he wasn't
Speaker 1: seeing the doctor, and he was playing. Then he wasn't playing,
Speaker 1: and we killed them. Floria was here and we sat
Speaker 1: here killing them, and rightfully so, because he was one
Speaker 1: of the most important pieces on the team, and we're like,
Speaker 1: what are you doing? Let see the damn doctor. And
Speaker 1: that's how I feel about this with Luis every Now.
Speaker 1: He heard himself form soreness after Game three of the ALCS.
Speaker 1: He was cleared and healthy enough that he was going
Speaker 1: to pitch in Game seven of the ALCS if it
Speaker 1: went that far. We are now November December January, four
Speaker 1: months past that, and he has the same soreness. He
Speaker 1: underwent an m r I November and then m r
Speaker 1: I earlier this month. No issues, but something is wrong
Speaker 1: in that forearm because you can't throw a damn change up.
Speaker 1: This is bad, Frank, really really bad, and it's bad
Speaker 1: for maybe everybody not named the Tampa Bay Rays. Let's
Speaker 1: go with that, because it's bad for the Yankees, it's
Speaker 1: bad for Yankee fans, it's bad for fantasy baseball. Let's
Speaker 1: be honest man, We've already seen other starting pitchers drop
Speaker 1: off the board due to injury. James Paxton another Yankee
Speaker 1: who apparently was dealing with a back injury late last
Speaker 1: season during the postseason, Did they just think that these
Speaker 1: guys were gonna, you know, sleep all off season and
Speaker 1: rest up and that they were just going to come
Speaker 1: back to healthy. Why wasn't this addressed in or at
Speaker 1: least in early You just thought that they were gonna
Speaker 1: show up pitchers and catchers and these guys were just
Speaker 1: gonna be perfectly fine. It doesn't work that way. So
Speaker 1: I don't know. Based on everything that happened last year
Speaker 1: with the Yankees, all the injuries that they suffered, they
Speaker 1: basically cleaned out the training staff and same old Yankees
Speaker 1: from last year. I mean, it's it's crazy right now
Speaker 1: with these injuries. But again from a fantasy perspective, that's
Speaker 1: just another top twenty starting pitcher that's gonna drop way
Speaker 1: down draft boards, and rightfully so, because you have no
Speaker 1: idea what's going on right now. Carlos Carrasco earlier today
Speaker 1: heard his leg. The guy is on crutches. He was
Speaker 1: a top thirties starting pitcher being drafted. We already lost
Speaker 1: Paxton as well. So look at this. We're a week
Speaker 1: into pictures and catchers, Greg and already we've lost, you know,
Speaker 1: potentially three starting pitchers. Yeah, it's crazy, it's insane. Jose
Speaker 1: here has also heard his foot today, you know your
Speaker 1: number one third basement as you now, by the way, yep,
Speaker 1: which is how we'll get into a nice transition that
Speaker 1: he did. Um. But Luis Severino, James Paxton, obviously, Domingo
Speaker 1: Harman is suspended. It's incredibly, incredibly frustrating, incredibly frustrating. There's
Speaker 1: not even March first, and these are the injuries, and
Speaker 1: Yankees are dealing with ready heavy favorites to at least
Speaker 1: heavy favorites to win the a L get to the
Speaker 1: World serious only behind the Dodgers to win it all.
Speaker 1: I'm happy you brought up the just the betting odds
Speaker 1: real quick, Greig, because the regular season win total for
Speaker 1: the Yankees is one oh one and a half. And
Speaker 1: I understand they won a hundred games last year with
Speaker 1: everybody banged up, and they added Garrett Cole to the mix.
Speaker 1: There's some heavy juice on the over right now minus
Speaker 1: one two. I am not going to bet against the
Speaker 1: Yankees personally, because it just wouldn't surprise me if they
Speaker 1: go over this number. But if you are worried about
Speaker 1: the injuries to Severino and James Paxton and the entire
Speaker 1: pitching staff, you're getting good money on the under right
Speaker 1: now at plus one oh five. If that's something you
Speaker 1: are interested in, I would say George Montgomery is virtually
Speaker 1: a lock for the rotation at this point. Craig assuming
Speaker 1: he's healthy because again he doesn't pitched much over the
Speaker 1: past couple of seasons. Um and we'll see how they
Speaker 1: round out that rotation. Jay Happ is going to be
Speaker 1: in there as well. They might go with an opener strategy.
Speaker 1: Maybe you no go with a Jonathan the Wise, It
Speaker 1: good to a Chad Green something like that. But yeah,
Speaker 1: there's a few other guys vying for that spot. Chad bettis,
Speaker 1: Nick Tropiano. We'll see what the Yankees do, but ultimately
Speaker 1: it sucks for them and it sucks for Fantasy baseball.
Speaker 1: Greg another twenty top twenty starting pitcher. Following off the board,
Speaker 1: we're gonna talk twenty here on to twenty. Before any
Speaker 1: of that, we're gonna check in with Farrell, who's live
Speaker 1: in Vegas. Most see what's up with him on his
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Speaker 1: York City, but Scott Farrell is live in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Speaker 1: He's there for Fury while they're the Saturday's doing shows there,
Speaker 1: Tonay and tomorrow. That comes your way live at four
Speaker 1: pm Eastern and he joins us for a couple of minutes.
Speaker 1: Right now. What's happening, Scott? What's shag boys? It's all
Speaker 1: good here in Sin City. A lot happening, the media
Speaker 1: centers rocking, and especially now that I'm here, I always
Speaker 1: take over this room. Here's what's gonna happen when I
Speaker 1: do the show live. We're gonna clear this place out.
Speaker 1: We're gonna get all the best guests. We're gonna get fighters.
Speaker 1: We're gonna cause trouble. It's electric here. There's a lot
Speaker 1: of energy. It's lit, it's packed. It's uh got the
Speaker 1: feel of a Mayweather McGregor. It's got the feel of
Speaker 1: a Mayweather packy out. It's got the feel of a
Speaker 1: you know, a heavyweight Championship of the World with Wilder
Speaker 1: and Fury. There's a great atmosphere. People are checking in.
Speaker 1: The MGM is packed, uh, and it is venom. It
Speaker 1: is no joke here. If you're not ready to dance,
Speaker 1: you will be stepped on like a bug. I've been
Speaker 1: to over a hundred title fights and here we go again.
Speaker 1: I know all these people. It's great that I have
Speaker 1: the juice here that I've had over the years. It's
Speaker 1: great to have sports Grid here, and uh, it's exciting
Speaker 1: to have the network here for our first fight on
Speaker 1: sports Grid and all of our partners and everyone included
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Speaker 1: I'm ready. Not only that, We're gonna do two great
Speaker 1: shows today Coast to Coast and in Game Live, and
Speaker 1: then we're going to the hockey game tonight and I'm
Speaker 1: hoping to get in a fist fight. Now. Will be awesome.
Speaker 1: If you get a fist fight. I would have put
Speaker 1: that on in Gay Live rather than you know, seeing
Speaker 1: Gabe like that. Like I said, you're a fist fight
Speaker 1: while you're watching the veiggat nights like that would be
Speaker 1: an ideal situation for me. It's gonna be a great game.
Speaker 1: It's Tampa Bay. They won eleven in a row against
Speaker 1: the Knights, who are getting hot. They made some deals.
Speaker 1: They got Alec Martinez from the Kings. They're making a
Speaker 1: push for the playoffs. They've been a playoff team. They
Speaker 1: went to the Stanley Cup Finals, went back to the playoffs,
Speaker 1: got beat. Uh. They mean business here. They lost five
Speaker 1: in a row. They fired Galant. They are no joke.
Speaker 1: Foley's the owner. He's like patting the general. Uh. It's
Speaker 1: an electric atmosphere at that arena. Team Mobile for hockey
Speaker 1: unequaled in the league. I've been in the league for
Speaker 1: over thirty years. I've never seen anything like going to
Speaker 1: a night's game. It's gonna be exciting. But the fight
Speaker 1: at the Grand Garden Arena on Saturday night on pay
Speaker 1: per view on Fox, the Fox App, Fox pay per View,
Speaker 1: and ESPN Plus pay per View is gonna be fantastic.
Speaker 1: The first fight was incredible at Stables in Lipstick City.
Speaker 1: Maffi and I were there for that, and the twelfth round,
Speaker 1: I'll never forget it when Wilder knocked him down and
Speaker 1: not only knocked him out but hit him with a
Speaker 1: left hook that even even more damage. And then when
Speaker 1: Fury somehow got up, by the grace of God, we
Speaker 1: know what happened. Wilder kept beating his ass like no
Speaker 1: one's business, and it was absolutely phenomenal that the guy
Speaker 1: was able to withstand all of it and finished the
Speaker 1: fight and then get a draw because he had won
Speaker 1: about ten rounds in boxing points world, but in terms
Speaker 1: of knockouts, ninth and twelve couldn't take it away from Wilder.
Speaker 1: So here we go again. It's gonna be great Saturday night.
Speaker 1: That place will be absolutely shocked and I mean to
Speaker 1: tell you, it'll be rolling in that building, and it
Speaker 1: will be loud and crazy, and it'll be all kinds
Speaker 1: of smoke show hotties and celebrities and movie stars, and
Speaker 1: half of them are gonna want to sleep with me.
Speaker 1: It's awesome. And he won't be able to sleep with
Speaker 1: any of them, which is makes it that much worse.
Speaker 1: All Right, you mentioned wild there, of course Antison Fury
Speaker 1: Saturday night, and he's over the first fight. I had
Speaker 1: rided Scottie that in the second fight that the loser
Speaker 1: has thirty days to declare a rematch. Is that true?
Speaker 1: It is Drew greg and I think that that is bunk.
Speaker 1: We've heard a Fury in bed say he wants to
Speaker 1: retire when he beat It's Wilder. First of all, I
Speaker 1: don't think that's happening. It might, it might very well.
Speaker 1: He fought a great fight. I will say this much.
Speaker 1: Fury is not afraid of him. I don't want to
Speaker 1: see the third fight, frankly, unless this fight is so phenomenal,
Speaker 1: it's so incredible, because it's never as good the second
Speaker 1: time around. You thought she was hot, the second time around,
Speaker 1: it wasn't as good. Right, here's the deal. Every time
Speaker 1: I've seen fights. I saw Paty I'll fight Marquess five times.
Speaker 1: I talked about it on the Froll on the Bench
Speaker 1: podcast on Fantasy Sports Radio, and I said, you know,
Speaker 1: after a while three, four or five, I'm bored with it.
Speaker 1: I was sitting there at those fights, going they're good fights.
Speaker 1: But why am I doing this for a fourth and
Speaker 1: fifth time twice with this one. If it lives up
Speaker 1: to the hype, if it lives up to the great
Speaker 1: first fight, where it was ten rounds of Fury dominating
Speaker 1: in points, dominating and boxing, getting in his head, sticking
Speaker 1: out his tongue, wagging his tongue, laughing at him, mocking him,
Speaker 1: and then getting knocked down in the ninth and twelve
Speaker 1: with vicious right hands and a left cross. That was
Speaker 1: a great fight. Equal that fight. Live up to that
Speaker 1: fight again, be better than that fight, then I'll change
Speaker 1: my mind and say trilogy, bring it on. Until then,
Speaker 1: this will be enough for me. This will determine who
Speaker 1: is the heavyweight champion in the world. I think it's Wilder.
Speaker 1: In fact, I'm betting that he'll knock him out this time.
Speaker 1: Flush this time he'll knock him out, and he won't
Speaker 1: get up. They'll carry him out on a wheelbarrel. Well, Scott,
Speaker 1: that eliminates one of the questions I was about to
Speaker 1: ask you, is which way you're leaning with this fight?
Speaker 1: The Vandal Sports book has this basically even it's minus
Speaker 1: wan oh wait for Wilder, minus want to wait for
Speaker 1: Tyson Fury as well. I did want to ask you,
Speaker 1: did you think that the first fight should have been
Speaker 1: a tie? Because I agree with you it seemed like
Speaker 1: Fury was dominating the entire time, but the way that
Speaker 1: Whilder knocked him out late, I was okay with that
Speaker 1: decision personally. Were you okay with that decision? And is
Speaker 1: this the most anticipated fight? You mentioned McGregor Mayweather? Is
Speaker 1: this the most anticipated boxing match since then? Yeah? I
Speaker 1: think it is. But I think that fight was bigger
Speaker 1: without his doubt, and so is Mayweather packy out bigger,
Speaker 1: But it didn't live up to it. It was an
Speaker 1: absolute joke. That was the worst fight ever. Aw So
Speaker 1: I'll say this, um, Frank, I agree with you that,
Speaker 1: uh you know, And I said Fury dominated the fight
Speaker 1: in points in ten rounds. And we were there and
Speaker 1: I was sitting in five rows from the ring and
Speaker 1: I thought the whole night, I'm like, this guy's winning
Speaker 1: this fight. He's gonna win this fight. And then in
Speaker 1: the ninth round, uh, you know, he got knocked down,
Speaker 1: got up, no problem, kept going in the twelve when
Speaker 1: he got hit, when he got hammered with that right
Speaker 1: and the left coming down, he hit him with a
Speaker 1: right when he was tipping over like a tree. On
Speaker 1: the way down, he said, your mother wapp with a
Speaker 1: left cross across his face, and his face snapped off
Speaker 1: and he hit the ground, his eyes rolling back in
Speaker 1: his head. I thought it was lights out. The fat
Speaker 1: lady was singing good night Irene. All of a sudden,
Speaker 1: God peels him off. The campus guy gets up, but
Speaker 1: then he got even more abuse. He took so many
Speaker 1: shots for the next two and a half minutes I
Speaker 1: couldn't even believe he was stood it. And all I
Speaker 1: have to say is, when they do it again, I think,
Speaker 1: you know he's gonna do the same strategy. He's a
Speaker 1: better boxer, he's a better points fighter, he's a better jabber,
Speaker 1: he's a better move fighter. He does the little jabs
Speaker 1: and then hit you with a jab, a little drop
Speaker 1: step drop step jab, drop step jab and a a little
Speaker 1: fake like he's kind of hit you and then he
Speaker 1: hits you. And Wilder doesn't do that. Wilder doesn't box.
Speaker 1: He's not a points fighter. He is a mistake fighter.
Speaker 1: The minute you make a mistake, he throws a bomb
Speaker 1: that knocks your head off. And that's all there is
Speaker 1: to it. I've said this before. Tyson eliminated people in
Speaker 1: the first and second round because he wanted to go
Speaker 1: to dinner and get some leg and go to the
Speaker 1: strip club. When Wilder does it, he waits for your mistake.
Speaker 1: He doesn't care if it's in the seventh, tenth, twelve.
Speaker 1: He waits for the mistake and get you. Tyson wanted
Speaker 1: to go to dinner after the first round. He wanted
Speaker 1: to get out of the building and without gun shots.
Speaker 1: I've been there for that too. In the middle of
Speaker 1: the casino. He was a different kind of maller. This
Speaker 1: guy throws bomb. That's why they call him Bomb Squad.
Speaker 1: I think he'll knock him out. He did it twice.
Speaker 1: Now he's here to finish the deal and he means it.
Speaker 1: I'll just talk about Fury winning in two rounds is uh,
Speaker 1: that's a catastrophe. Waiting to happen. If he knocks him
Speaker 1: out in the second round, I'll walk out of the
Speaker 1: MG naked into the valet. Great for anyone who didn't
Speaker 1: see the Wilder Fury first fight. The only way that
Speaker 1: I could describe this and you'll be able to appreciate
Speaker 1: this is the Undertaker gift. Man. If you've seen the
Speaker 1: Undertaker Gift, you seen in a million times. He just
Speaker 1: stood up from the dead. That was Tyson Fury Man
Speaker 1: like this guy had no business getting up after the
Speaker 1: way he got knocked out. The only way to describe
Speaker 1: it is Undertaker seriously called great call by you, Frank.
Speaker 1: I had no doubt about it. I've heard that before.
Speaker 1: It was one of the great fights. I'll never forget
Speaker 1: leaving the Staples Center in Lipstick City and heading to
Speaker 1: the airport because we had a red eye, so we
Speaker 1: saw him get dropped. The fight ends, We hear the decision,
Speaker 1: and then we drove Maffi and I a hundred miles
Speaker 1: an hour in the uber. I tell the uber driver,
Speaker 1: the faster you go, the more money I'm gonna give you,
Speaker 1: and my boy was doing a buck on the l
Speaker 1: A Freeways. We got to the airport in time and
Speaker 1: flew home. In the entire flight home, we talked about
Speaker 1: how great it was, what an experience, because I, you know,
Speaker 1: I've been to so many fights over the years, a million,
Speaker 1: and they don't live up to They're never like fights
Speaker 1: that are so memorable and fantastic that you talk about
Speaker 1: them the whole way home or the next day, or
Speaker 1: you know, text the guy a week later and say,
Speaker 1: can you believe we were at that fighter? When they,
Speaker 1: you know, show the fight again a second time, can
Speaker 1: you believe we were there. That's only happened a few
Speaker 1: times in my career, but I've seen over ninety title fights,
Speaker 1: so that was one of them that Maffi and I
Speaker 1: were talking all the way to the airport and all
Speaker 1: the way home and a few days later about it too.
Speaker 1: But good call by you, one undertaker. I love wrestling.
Speaker 1: I used to uh watch Bruno Sammartino and eat doritos
Speaker 1: and smoke bong rips and stead on my couch all day.
Speaker 1: When I was a kid watching wrestling. My dad used
Speaker 1: to say, You're worthless, You're gonna be a loser and
Speaker 1: a just an absolute felon. You have nothing in life.
Speaker 1: I used to say, screw you. Dude, you have no idea.
Speaker 1: What you're talking about. Wrestling is awesome. I hate you.
Speaker 1: Get out of my face. I ended up winning because
Speaker 1: he became a fan of the show too. Beat his
Speaker 1: ass to so so it's boxing Coacht the Coast covers
Speaker 1: your way in about thirty five ad minutes from now.
Speaker 1: Any idea who have been guests are all today's program, Scotty,
Speaker 1: I have no idea, but I wanted to say one
Speaker 1: thing for the fans, to be honest. Because of Sports Grid.
Speaker 1: We we came out here, my boy Ryan and Carver High.
Speaker 1: We had a tremendous amount of stress. We had to
Speaker 1: carry five pounds of equipment. We had to set up
Speaker 1: for the first time ever to do TV. We had
Speaker 1: to do all this testing. We had to set up wires,
Speaker 1: set up plug set up this audio video, everything else,
Speaker 1: and they pulled it off. The only reason I'm on
Speaker 1: your show today is to prove that we could do
Speaker 1: it and set it up right and get on the air.
Speaker 1: We've done it. We've accomplished it. Now for the next
Speaker 1: two shows from four to six and seven and nine
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Speaker 1: lot to talk about. We'll probably spread it out of
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Speaker 1: a lot to get to. It's a fun day here
Speaker 1: on the program. Who went last year? We're gonna tell
Speaker 1: you there's nine guys that did it. We'll let you
Speaker 1: know all nine of them, and which of those nine
Speaker 1: we're back in on here in the year. We'll tell
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Speaker 1: it over to Scottie Farrell. All right, let's get into
Speaker 1: the players last year. Frank, there are nine of them.
Speaker 1: Can you name them all? I can, because of course
Speaker 1: I help you make the rundown in the and the graphics, Greg.
Speaker 1: But a few of these names I think would surprise
Speaker 1: people if they're just kind of jumping back into fantasy
Speaker 1: baseball now and reviewing the stats from last year. I
Speaker 1: think one name that definitely stands out who is interesting
Speaker 1: to talk about is Danny Santana. I think another name
Speaker 1: is Jose Ramirez, who's still being drafted in that first
Speaker 1: second round range. You're not really getting a discount on
Speaker 1: Jose Ramirez based on his early season struggles, and I
Speaker 1: agree with you. Actually like Jose a lot, assuming he's healthy,
Speaker 1: because the guy got hit by by a pitch on
Speaker 1: his foot. Today we're talking about Severino getting hurt and
Speaker 1: packs and getting hurt, and of course now Jose Ramirez
Speaker 1: limped off the field with a foot injury, so of
Speaker 1: course we're gonna need healthy legs. Healthy feet for Jose
Speaker 1: if he's going to run again this upcoming season. But
Speaker 1: I think a lot of the names on this list
Speaker 1: greg are not surprising, are almost a spected outside of
Speaker 1: maybe Danny Santana, And you know, I think Jose and
Speaker 1: Mirrors is definitely an interesting name. You're not getting You're
Speaker 1: not getting any discounter value from last year. I leave
Speaker 1: it that lead the list up because you can kind
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna talk about some of these guys, right
Speaker 1: like sure, I'm not talking about Ronald We talked a
Speaker 1: lot about the number one overall pick according to you, Frankie.
Speaker 1: I don't want to talk about Ristian Yelle, number three
Speaker 1: overall pick according to you, Frankie. We talked about that
Speaker 1: a lot as well. Francisco Lindoor, we talked a lot
Speaker 1: about him on this show as a first rounder, seeming
Speaker 1: to go with Trevor story. We've broken him down, oh munch.
Speaker 1: So let's hear rid of all those guys. I want
Speaker 1: to start at the very top here with Jonathan vr
Speaker 1: who led these um crew in steels. He had what
Speaker 1: forty steels, all right, forty stone bases over twenty home runs,
Speaker 1: and I've brought him up to you on yesterday or
Speaker 1: yesterday show, or I think it was one of those
Speaker 1: guys right randomly throughout you. I wasn't supposed to talk
Speaker 1: about him. I think it was during the break. Actually fine,
Speaker 1: so I brought U Johnny VR. I'm like, dude, do
Speaker 1: you eat on Johnny VR? And you signed? And you're
Speaker 1: like no. And because we've already seen what the down
Speaker 1: side is of him, well, last year you go up
Speaker 1: forty steal mass the lead Major League Baseball or lead
Speaker 1: players in Smithlin, Major League Baseball, but forty steels and
Speaker 1: twenty four homers year before thirty five steals to go
Speaker 1: with fourteen homers. Year before that, when everybody's drafting him
Speaker 1: in the second round, well, he had just twenty three
Speaker 1: steels and eleven home runs. We have seen the downside
Speaker 1: of Jonathan VR. Last year was the upside we got
Speaker 1: up there right now. You see right below me the
Speaker 1: Steamer projections from him for this year, where he has
Speaker 1: his projective for thirty three steals to go along with
Speaker 1: seventeen home runs. If he can hit his Steamer of
Speaker 1: projection and hit about two fifty seven, where should he
Speaker 1: be taken in draft rank? I think that he should
Speaker 1: be a third fourth round pick. I don't really have
Speaker 1: a problem with his price, Greig. The problem for me
Speaker 1: lies in the players that are going around him. I
Speaker 1: just like those players more. I like Haavi or Bias more.
Speaker 1: I like could Tell Marte Moore. A lot of people
Speaker 1: are gonna question, what could Tell Marte did from last
Speaker 1: year is a juice ball related If you look at
Speaker 1: can tell Te, he's actually filled out, He's gotten stronger,
Speaker 1: he raised the launch angle, raised the average eggs of velocity.
Speaker 1: He started hitting the ball harder last year as well.
Speaker 1: I like Kessing Hero more than Jonathan VR as well,
Speaker 1: and I think that one's a complete toss up. If
Speaker 1: you liked VR more than Kess and here, I couldn't
Speaker 1: kill you for that. Um. The problem with VR for me,
Speaker 1: and the main reason why I like those players more
Speaker 1: than him, is because I think Jonathan VR has more
Speaker 1: bottom out potential. I think that the floor is lower
Speaker 1: for Jonathan VR than some of these other players, just
Speaker 1: because we've seen it before. We've seen him bottom out
Speaker 1: after being in early round pick where he basically got
Speaker 1: reduced to a bench role. When he was with the
Speaker 1: Milwaukee Brewers, he had a phenomenal season last year. There's
Speaker 1: no doubt about it. The move from Camden Yards to
Speaker 1: Marlin's Park is definitely going to affect his home run output.
Speaker 1: I think the Steamer projection is fair. He's probably gonna
Speaker 1: give you a fifteen and seventeen home runs and probably
Speaker 1: going to give you a thirty to thirty five stone basis.
Speaker 1: Doesn't help you, doesn't hurt you in batting average. He's fine.
Speaker 1: But he's also playing a new position this year as well, Gregg.
Speaker 1: He's playing center field and on FST Craig Miss spoke
Speaker 1: to Jonathan VR. We had an interview a couple of
Speaker 1: weeks ago, and he didn't really seem excited about the
Speaker 1: idea of playing center field. So I almost wonder if
Speaker 1: that's going to affect him at the plate. We've seen
Speaker 1: that happen before with other players. I think that there's
Speaker 1: just a lot of moving parts that there's a very
Speaker 1: low floor for Jonathan VR as well, and because of that,
Speaker 1: I will just target other players that are going in
Speaker 1: his range. But if you want steals, I can't knock
Speaker 1: you for wanting to take him. I think his value
Speaker 1: is fine where it is right now. Would you rather
Speaker 1: have Jonathan Vr? Or with Maryfield. I would rather have
Speaker 1: VR because the power potential is obviously stronger. The stolen
Speaker 1: bases are going to be higher for they are the
Speaker 1: average and lower though they are definitely fair, So there
Speaker 1: are trade offs there. You're probably gonna get more runs
Speaker 1: and more batting average out of WIT Maryfield getting categories
Speaker 1: you need, yes, but stolen bases are also very scarce.
Speaker 1: I think what mary Fields probably gonna give you a
Speaker 1: round twenty and VR could give you as much as forty. Again,
Speaker 1: he's but a fair projection is more closer to thirty five.
Speaker 1: I'll give the trade off of batting average for more
Speaker 1: stolen basis. I'll take VR, right, Johnathan v R going
Speaker 1: in that third, fourth round, somebody you're obviously going to
Speaker 1: going to want to consider at that spot depending on
Speaker 1: how your team shakes out. Let me move on to
Speaker 1: a guy that you and I both like, and I
Speaker 1: think people are off of this guy because it's been
Speaker 1: around for a long time, and that's starling Marte and
Speaker 1: starring Marte for years. Was the guy that we thought
Speaker 1: would catapult in the first round and be this potentially
Speaker 1: thirty five thirty five guy, right like that was the
Speaker 1: idea we're starring Marte, and it never really happened. He
Speaker 1: never really stolen enough bases, he never really hit enough
Speaker 1: home runs. And I think people are a little bit
Speaker 1: board for lack of better term of Starling Marte. He's
Speaker 1: out thirty one years old. He's past that thirty threshold,
Speaker 1: which is just a number. Last year there's twenty five
Speaker 1: stolen bases, the most of these hats in ten where
Speaker 1: he hit and nine on runs. Twenty three home runs
Speaker 1: last year with the juice ball was the most of
Speaker 1: his career. Twenty five steals, It wasn't the most. Sorry
Speaker 1: I read that wrong. I had had three steals and
Speaker 1: twenty He had thirty three steals down five last season.
Speaker 1: He ran way more in team and had more power
Speaker 1: than ever. Last year it's twenty nineteen. That very much
Speaker 1: could be juice ball related. The average, well, it was
Speaker 1: all the way up to two ninety five. Last season.
Speaker 1: That was the highest since twenty sixteen. Starling Marte was
Speaker 1: very good. Now he goes over to Arizona. What should
Speaker 1: be a better lineup. I know people are a bit
Speaker 1: fatigue of Starling Marte, but the steam of rejections has
Speaker 1: him as somebody that you're gonna want to take because
Speaker 1: steaming rejections at twenty four home runs and twenty six steals,
Speaker 1: that almost twenty five with a strong batting average of
Speaker 1: two eighty four. I get it. People are bored Starling Marte.
Speaker 1: This is a guy that I look at like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I definitely want this player. I agree, I want Starling
Speaker 1: Marte as well. I think the biggest hindrance of Starling
Speaker 1: Marte drafting him this year is his price. I mean,
Speaker 1: his ADP over at the NBC in the month of
Speaker 1: February is thirty one. So that's a mid third round
Speaker 1: pick in a twelve team league. That's a borderline second
Speaker 1: third round pick. I've seen him go in the second
Speaker 1: round in in a ton of these fifteen team leagues
Speaker 1: as well. And look, it's a big price to pay,
Speaker 1: but it's someone who's going to give you all five categories, Greg,
Speaker 1: and you're if you want to talk about five category players.
Speaker 1: A lot of those guys go in the first round. Again,
Speaker 1: a Kuna, Christian Yellis, Mike Trout, Francisdor Story. All these
Speaker 1: guys go in the first round. The reason why Charlie
Speaker 1: Marte doesn't is because he is an injury risk. He
Speaker 1: played a hundred and thirty two games last year, the
Speaker 1: year before that seventy seven and twenty seventeen and one
Speaker 1: and twenty sixteen, so you almost have to bake in
Speaker 1: he's gonna miss twenty to thirty games throughout the course
Speaker 1: of the season. But he did that last year. Greg
Speaker 1: still hit twenty three home runs, still sold twenty five
Speaker 1: bases to batting average, He's a career to eighties seven hitter.
Speaker 1: He's a five category player. These guys normally go in
Speaker 1: the first round. Und you're getting him at the at
Speaker 1: the end of the second to early third round. There's
Speaker 1: definitely some injury risk involved, but I have no problem
Speaker 1: taking him where he's going right now. I'm I will
Speaker 1: say this, he's better for Roto than he is for
Speaker 1: points because he doesn't walk very much. He has a
Speaker 1: career four point nine percent walk great, so it doesn't
Speaker 1: have great O b P doesn't have a great I
Speaker 1: at the plate in terms of walking, so it doesn't
Speaker 1: help you as much in a points league. But for Roto,
Speaker 1: where you can get stolen bases without this guy hurting
Speaker 1: your batting average or power, it's a no brainer for me.
Speaker 1: When it comes to Marte. Surprising game on this list fright,
Speaker 1: without question is Danny Santana all of the Texas Rangers.
Speaker 1: He came out and I remember coming up and was like, hey, dude,
Speaker 1: he said that it's pretty hot. Should I pick him up?
Speaker 1: And You're like, no, why would you do that? So
Speaker 1: I didn't, and Danny Santana never well stop being hot.
Speaker 1: He was fantastic all season long. And now Danny Santana
Speaker 1: in the mix to play every single day for the
Speaker 1: Texas Rangers, but no journeyman. So I think questions are fair,
Speaker 1: But Ny Santana went last year? Can he do it again? Man?
Speaker 1: Danny Santana is probably the biggest wild card in fantasy
Speaker 1: baseball stuff coming season. Gregg really came out of nowhere.
Speaker 1: You hit it on the head wind up hitting two
Speaker 1: eighty three with eight home runs and twenty one steals.
Speaker 1: Sounds a lot like the line that's starling Marte is
Speaker 1: projected to give you this upcoming season, and you got
Speaker 1: that from a waiver wire pick up last year in
Speaker 1: Danny Santana. I mean the question you have to ask yourself, Greg,
Speaker 1: and we're gonna try to answer, is can he repeated?
Speaker 1: Can he can he come close to doing that again?
Speaker 1: Similar to Starling Marte doesn't walk all that much four
Speaker 1: point nine percent walk great, but he strikes out a
Speaker 1: lot more than someone like Starling Marte twenty nine and
Speaker 1: a half percent strikeout rate. He has showed a power
Speaker 1: speed combination at times throughout his minor league career back
Speaker 1: in eighteen with the Braves sixteen home runs, twelve stolen bases.
Speaker 1: Earlier in his minor league career he stole a bunch
Speaker 1: of basses as well. I don't know that he's gonna
Speaker 1: go twenty again, Greg, I think he's someone that could
Speaker 1: give you a little bit of power, a little bit
Speaker 1: of speed. I myself would not be projecting him to
Speaker 1: go Maybe a fair projection is, you know, fifteen fifteen
Speaker 1: and Steamers a little bit more optimistic than I am.
Speaker 1: Nineteen home runs, seventeen stolen bases. The second question you
Speaker 1: have to ask is where is he gonna play? Is
Speaker 1: he gonna get in the lineup every single day for
Speaker 1: the Texas Rangers. There was a report that came out
Speaker 1: just the other day that said Nick Slack has an
Speaker 1: opportunity to play in center field for the Texas Rangers.
Speaker 1: He's you know, a top prospect for them, performed well
Speaker 1: last year for the Rangers, And so that's actually hysterical
Speaker 1: because I like Nick Solack. You already still like came
Speaker 1: from No, I don't you know anything Lack? No, so
Speaker 1: Nick Slack. I saw an old tweet of mine from
Speaker 1: three or four years ago. But Nick Slack the Yankees,
Speaker 1: I hope Nick Slack become Brandon Jury. Is that's who
Speaker 1: they traded for? Brandon Jury? Really Nick Slack? Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm kind of excited about Nick Solack with the Texas Rangers. Um,
Speaker 1: I don't mind Any's Antana. I think he's probably more
Speaker 1: of a fifteen fifteen guy with a bad batting average.
Speaker 1: And do a couple more notes on days Antana and
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Speaker 1: off the grade. So interesting little not about day Santana,
Speaker 1: which I forgot about. Uh in the early he remember
Speaker 1: this Minnesota Twins team that kind of came out with
Speaker 1: Eddie Rozario and Horri Polanco like days Antana was a member. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he was in that group for sure, and I think
Speaker 1: he had some prospects satisfack in the day, So it
Speaker 1: was interesting to me he was back in. He stole
Speaker 1: twenty basses and he batted three nineteen speed for with
Speaker 1: the Twins in twenty three games as I'm sorry, at
Speaker 1: age twenty three in over a hundred games. And year
Speaker 1: later you're like, all right, this guy, this guy could
Speaker 1: be pretty good next year, And then he wasn't because
Speaker 1: he's added a hundred points lower with his average his
Speaker 1: babbitt over four over four hundred to nineties, he stole
Speaker 1: just eight basses and he never really regained his story
Speaker 1: and job bounced around after that. So Speed we have
Speaker 1: seen him steal twenty bases before. That's why last year's
Speaker 1: twenty one steals doesn't really seem like a fluke. Um.
Speaker 1: He does have the ability to play all over the field,
Speaker 1: all over the infield and all over the outfield. So
Speaker 1: I think that the Rangers really want to get him
Speaker 1: in the lineup. We'll find a way. There's definitely a
Speaker 1: an outcome, a range of outcomes where he makes me
Speaker 1: look completely foolish, Greg. He goes off for like twenty
Speaker 1: maybe even the speed is there. The batting average isn't
Speaker 1: gonna be good. He strikes out a lot, twenty nine
Speaker 1: and a half percent strike out right, He's got a
Speaker 1: little pop. It'll be interesting to see how the new
Speaker 1: ballpark plays out there in Texas, Greg. But they have
Speaker 1: a roof now, so a lot of people think that
Speaker 1: is going to suppress some of the power a little bit.
Speaker 1: It's gonna come back a little bit, not the same
Speaker 1: way that the ball used to travel when it was
Speaker 1: just open and it was really hot out there in Texas.
Speaker 1: So something to pay attention to. But again, probably more
Speaker 1: of a fifteen fifteen projection for me at a Danny Santanna,
Speaker 1: when are you kind of okay with that? Right? Like
Speaker 1: if you get it wrong with days, that's miss Like, fine,
Speaker 1: I got it wrong. That's how I feel, like Dana
Speaker 1: down Like I'm not gonna wind up taking this guy
Speaker 1: and if somebody else takes them and grass, Yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: I'm okay being wrong with him in terms of my analysis,
Speaker 1: but you can't afford to be wrong with him if
Speaker 1: you draft him, because he's going He's going to pick
Speaker 1: one thirty. I totally agree with you what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: I'm not drafting him. So if I agree with you,
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna have him either, and I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: be upset. But that's why he's the X factor because
Speaker 1: if there's people that are very bullish on him and
Speaker 1: he does come to fruition, like, yeah, he's gonna be
Speaker 1: like he's gonna be like that GPP played for DFS.
Speaker 1: Nobody else is going to have Danny Santana and he's
Speaker 1: going to propel you ahead. So all the other guys
Speaker 1: that went last year kind of makes sense, right. I
Speaker 1: name some of the bigger players that went are going
Speaker 1: in the first round. The other players who I didn't name,
Speaker 1: or the Actus. The only player I didn't name was
Speaker 1: Tommy Fan. We started them on very in on Tommy Fam.
Speaker 1: He gave some information today, Frank that maybe not as interesting. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So Tommy Fam is just starting to throw from ninety
Speaker 1: feet now. He was dealing with especial doctors. Yeah, seriously, right,
Speaker 1: he dealt with a u c L injury late last
Speaker 1: season and he's just starting to throw from ninety feet now.
Speaker 1: So reading something like that on February is not really
Speaker 1: what you want to see out of Tommy Fam, especially
Speaker 1: when you have to pay a fifth or sixth round
Speaker 1: price tag on Tommy Fam last year. I won't doubt
Speaker 1: the skill. He was someone that I loved last season
Speaker 1: as well. Greg, you know, I was all over Tommy Fam.
Speaker 1: But I'm a little bit worried about this injury. And
Speaker 1: he's dealt with a lot of stuff the past couple
Speaker 1: of years. I know he's had surgery on his eyes
Speaker 1: to help prepare you know, his vision, and now he's
Speaker 1: dealing with this u c L. Is something you might
Speaker 1: have to think about basically all season long, and even
Speaker 1: before this season starts. Based on that price tag, I
Speaker 1: think Tommy Fan might be a pass for me. We
Speaker 1: like Tommy Fan literally, hey, like we were we were
Speaker 1: in on this guy because of this potential in San Diego.
Speaker 1: Top of the line that we liked it, I'm not
Speaker 1: thinking a risk with the guy has has has had
Speaker 1: a strain you see, out for four months, and he
Speaker 1: has typically missed a lot of time in the past
Speaker 1: recular injuries. So, um, I like Tommy fan It would
Speaker 1: be frustrating if he goes off because because I did
Speaker 1: like him. Um, but I'm not gonna take that. That
Speaker 1: put Ramon Loriano ahead of him for you, Greg, because
Speaker 1: I kind of marry those two together. I think they're
Speaker 1: similar players. I think they are. Loriano projected the bad
Speaker 1: second for the A's. This is a great spot to
Speaker 1: be in that lineup, hitting right behind Simon, right ahead
Speaker 1: of someone like Matt Olsen or Chapman, whoever they put there.
Speaker 1: He's gonna see some good pitches to him. Man. I
Speaker 1: think it's possible. Man, I think it's possible. Lead Simon
Speaker 1: leads off the team. Okay, it's good. You're not sold
Speaker 1: on Loriano, huh. I remember that stretch last year. It
Speaker 1: was like a month or two stretch where he was
Speaker 1: basically like performing like Mike Trout amazing. He was awesome.
Speaker 1: He was amazing. Okay. So, other than the players that
Speaker 1: went last year, Steamer projects a few other players this year.
Speaker 1: That's some of the ones that went last year. Or
Speaker 1: projected to do it again this year, but for the
Speaker 1: most part a lot of them are. But there were
Speaker 1: five players that Steamer projected to go this year that
Speaker 1: did not last year. And it begins with the guy
Speaker 1: that you said, I don't remember. It was the air
Speaker 1: on the air you go, man, I really want to
Speaker 1: at least one share of this guy, and that is
Speaker 1: Albert though Mundency, of course of the Kansas City Royals.
Speaker 1: We know the speeds there, how it should be as well,
Speaker 1: where is he going and what's it cost? So Adelbertomondency
Speaker 1: right now is going in a similar spot to where
Speaker 1: Jonathan VR is going. Jonathan VR we mentioned earlier, going
Speaker 1: around pick forty five, Adelbert Thomondency going five spots higher
Speaker 1: with an ADP of thirty nine point nine. So right
Speaker 1: around you know that forty range for Mondency in the
Speaker 1: early fourth round of a twelve teamer in the third
Speaker 1: round of a fifteen teaming league. And I want one
Speaker 1: share of Mondescy Greg just by the chance, the off
Speaker 1: chance that this guy just goes ballistic, because look what
Speaker 1: he did last year. Forty three stolen bases in a
Speaker 1: hundred and two games. Didn't kill you with the power
Speaker 1: nine Homer's sixty two Ribbies, and if I've watched a
Speaker 1: few Royals games where the broadcasters talk about like how
Speaker 1: the team feels about him, they think that he has
Speaker 1: m v P type upside. He is that talented. It's
Speaker 1: just a matter of him stay healthy. He had a
Speaker 1: surgery in the off season to repair a torn laboram
Speaker 1: so we need him to be healthy. Obviously, that's, you know,
Speaker 1: first and foremost the most important thing for h adalbertomondency.
Speaker 1: But if he's healthy, Greg, if he's healthy, this is
Speaker 1: someone who can hit fifteen and twenty home runs with
Speaker 1: legitimately sixty stolen bases. So he's not a main target
Speaker 1: of mine. I'm not going to have multiple shares, but
Speaker 1: he is someone I would like to have at least
Speaker 1: one share in case he is that player that pops off.
Speaker 1: This cost you a whole lot, right, cost you a
Speaker 1: whole lot? Would you rather have Adelbert Mondesty and Jonathan
Speaker 1: v Are I have before that, I would take VR
Speaker 1: because he is safer. He is Oh gosh, yeah, I'll
Speaker 1: stick with that. No, you won't. Realistically, my answer is
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna like I'm targeting someone else in that range.
Speaker 1: I understand, but gun to my head, I had to
Speaker 1: choose one of these players, I'm gonna take you. I
Speaker 1: gotta go. I just hate going back on what I said.
Speaker 1: You know, he's gotta He's gotta stay healthy and I'd
Speaker 1: like to see him get on baseball that more steals.
Speaker 1: If he gets on baseball styear and still stole forty
Speaker 1: three bases, that's why he could be up to sixty.
Speaker 1: Even get on base a little bit more, it's crazy.
Speaker 1: Or just stay healthy that's works. Two hundred two games
Speaker 1: last year, twenty three years old, twenty four this upcoming
Speaker 1: season for at Alberto Mondesi another young player that kind
Speaker 1: of fits this mold. Frank Is in Toronto. Where Bo
Speaker 1: Bichette fits this mold. Uh. Last year it was all
Speaker 1: about Vladimir Guerrero and then bobashett having Vigo, Btis Gariel,
Speaker 1: all these guys kind of coming up together. A lot
Speaker 1: of the hype surrounds of Laddie. Why isn't Bobachette he
Speaker 1: talked about more. I think there is a substantial amount
Speaker 1: of hype around bobichet I think there's a lot of
Speaker 1: people that like him. Awesome hair. By the way, as well,
Speaker 1: when it comes to Bobichette, I worry a little bit
Speaker 1: about the speed, Greg, because he had four solen bases
Speaker 1: last year, four caught stealing. He's likely going to have
Speaker 1: the green light to start the year. But if he has,
Speaker 1: if he continues to steal bases at a fifty percent
Speaker 1: conversion rate, then at some point they might hold up
Speaker 1: to stop sign on Bobichette and tell him to stop running.
Speaker 1: But I think that the tools are all there. He
Speaker 1: has speed, he has the hit tool, he has power.
Speaker 1: The guy hit eleven home runs in just forties six teams.
Speaker 1: He has the pedigree as well, obviously the son of
Speaker 1: Dante Bishette as well. And it's awesome that Blue Jay's
Speaker 1: lineup is just you know, all second generation players with
Speaker 1: Bobachette and Kevin Biggio and Vlag Guerrero Jr. And Laura
Speaker 1: es Gil Jr. As well, And it's a lot of fun.
Speaker 1: But I don't think I'm gonna own any Bobichette this year, Greg,
Speaker 1: And you know, maybe I miss out on, you know,
Speaker 1: the breakout season this upcoming year. But similar to a
Speaker 1: few of the other players we've talked about, there are
Speaker 1: just a lot of players in that range that I
Speaker 1: like more. I'm gonna take you on Moncada over Bobichette.
Speaker 1: Has more major league experience and I think has similar,
Speaker 1: if not better upside than bobashett Manny Machado is going
Speaker 1: in that range. You know him, a big Machado guy
Speaker 1: as well. Look, if Bobachette goes off this year, it
Speaker 1: wouldn't surprise me. It's probably going to be on somebody
Speaker 1: else's team unless the value comes down a little bit,
Speaker 1: and I can't see that happening just based on the
Speaker 1: name in the prospect pedigree. I like Bo Bichette. Man.
Speaker 1: This is one of those where if he goes off,
Speaker 1: like you just want to share him and want to
Speaker 1: share because we could rather have him in a vacuum.
Speaker 1: Would you rather have him over Machado or Yan, I
Speaker 1: won't want I don't want him over Machado. I gotta
Speaker 1: send you my Moncada notes. Man, there's a lot to
Speaker 1: be excited to talk about him briefly. So, Mancada basically
Speaker 1: completely changed his approach from last year, where he became
Speaker 1: more aggressive. In the past, he was almost too passive
Speaker 1: in twenty teen. His chase rate on pitches outside the
Speaker 1: strike zone was like last year it went up to
Speaker 1: thirty one, So he started chasing pitches outside the strike
Speaker 1: zone more. But the best part is Greg his contact
Speaker 1: rate went up, so he chased those pitches, but he
Speaker 1: made contact with those pitches. You would be pushed pushed
Speaker 1: away from Encada if he chased pitches and swung and
Speaker 1: missed at those pitches more. He didn't. He was making
Speaker 1: more contact inside and outside the zone last year and
Speaker 1: he finally put it all together. Greg twenty five home runs,
Speaker 1: three fifteen batting average. I know you're going to look
Speaker 1: at the four oh nine babbit and say, look it's
Speaker 1: it's four h six and say that's not sustainable, and
Speaker 1: I would agree with you, But look at his minor
Speaker 1: league babtists as well. Yeah, So I looked at that
Speaker 1: consistently over three sixty, over three seventy. I think there
Speaker 1: was like a three ninety babbit season in there. There
Speaker 1: was a three seventy nine in their three seventy. He
Speaker 1: was more aggressive last year. He cut down the strikeouts
Speaker 1: from like thirty three to twenty seven percent and makes
Speaker 1: elite batted ball like. When he makes contact, it is
Speaker 1: awesome contact like, look at a stack numbers, and his
Speaker 1: hard hit rate numbers about thirty nine point nine percent
Speaker 1: hard hit. Yeah, the stack cast the average exit veloscis
Speaker 1: like ninety six percentile. So look, I just think the
Speaker 1: sky's the limit. It wouldn't surprise me if Moncada goes
Speaker 1: to eighty thirty home runs fifteen stolen bases, just has
Speaker 1: one of those monster breakout seasons someone who's like drafted
Speaker 1: where Devers is going this year or something like that.
Speaker 1: The thing is, you're not far off from that already,
Speaker 1: right because last years a hundred and thirty games. Fine,
Speaker 1: the batting average is gonna come back a little bit
Speaker 1: for sure. What I'm saying is, yeah, you get twenty
Speaker 1: five homers and tenantilmaz his last year, If you just
Speaker 1: give him five more homers because he plays thirty more games,
Speaker 1: why can't you get better? Twenty four years old? Twenty
Speaker 1: he'll be twenty five in May. Mcada another guy that
Speaker 1: you have a little bit of prospect fatigue on already
Speaker 1: because you've been hearing about him for so long because
Speaker 1: he was trading in the Chrysale deal. Macad I like it, Frank,
Speaker 1: but wouldn't you rather have someone who has been in
Speaker 1: the majors for a few years already, where you almost
Speaker 1: worry a little bit about that second year and pictures
Speaker 1: making adjustments on someone like Bobaschett. Again, he might go
Speaker 1: off just completely make me look stupid, but I think
Speaker 1: Mancada is someone who we've already seen take those necessary
Speaker 1: steps changed the approach batotball data is amazing Assaultman. The
Speaker 1: other players on this list protected to Trade Turner of
Speaker 1: the Nationals. That makes sense we talked about yesterday. And
Speaker 1: Louise Robert, you are Moncada's teammate in his rookie year.
Speaker 1: Would rather have Bobacht or Louise Robert right there? You go.
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