Speaker 1: Welcome in everybody to fantasy pros. This is the Major
Speaker 1: League Baseball podcast. That's right, I said Major League Baseball
Speaker 1: because we're about to kick off our fantasy Baseball draft madness.
Speaker 1: It starts today, folks. This is when you start building
Speaker 1: your teams. It's me Joey p That of course is
Speaker 1: the Welsh and we're gonna be using Draft Wizard, the
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Speaker 1: run a mock draft and five minutes for yourself. That's right,
Speaker 1: five minutes, or you could run how many an hour,
Speaker 1: five minutes, sixty minutes. I don't know. I can't do
Speaker 1: the math. Welsh, you can work on that. In the meantime.
Speaker 1: Today we're gonna be running through a headhead roto categories.
Speaker 1: Nine pitchers. We're gonna have all the infield spots one
Speaker 1: catcher because we don't hate our lives. We also have
Speaker 1: three outfielders, two utility spots, and nine open pitcher slots.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be five by five, the old school style.
Speaker 1: We'll do some obp mocks, we'll do a lot of
Speaker 1: other things as well. But we got some friends joining
Speaker 1: us too, The Wonky Penguin, Mister Buster, just name a
Speaker 1: few of the fun folks here and our listeners. I
Speaker 1: see Houston's in there, Icee Sasu, Icee Dale. I see
Speaker 1: a lot of folks there too, joining us here in
Speaker 1: the mid afternoon Welsh. It's a special time of year,
Speaker 1: our first mock, and I have specifically not mocked yet.
Speaker 1: I wanted to have my first mock of twenty twenty
Speaker 1: four with my good friend Welsh. So I hope that
Speaker 1: means something to you.
Speaker 2: It does, of course it does.
Speaker 3: I'm actually very excited too because I have been and
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Speaker 3: we always do is we connect our mock draft so
Speaker 3: after we can see who did Welsh lover hate, who
Speaker 3: did Joe hate? Who is the most hateful. I'm just
Speaker 3: hoping you do a good enough job.
Speaker 2: That you love your own draft. That's what I.
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Speaker 1: I'm in the one spot, Welsh, Where did you take
Speaker 1: your position? Should I say in the draft board today?
Speaker 3: Well, I took one of my favorite KDS spots. So
Speaker 3: the Kentucky Derby system if you guys play like that,
Speaker 3: if you do, you know the NFBC stuff has that
Speaker 3: where you when you get your pick, you don't actually
Speaker 3: make your pick. You get to pick where you are
Speaker 3: in the draft. And I picked five because I think
Speaker 3: five is a phenomenal spot because I'm getting the best
Speaker 3: of a first round talent that's left over, most likely
Speaker 3: going to be a Corbyn Carol or a Mookie bet
Speaker 3: So I love five. I jumped into it completely being
Speaker 3: a cheater here and I am ready to do this.
Speaker 1: Well. I mean, if anybody's cheating, it's me because I'm
Speaker 1: one and I'm taking Ronald Acunia. Last year, we did
Speaker 1: say a lot of debates. I would say, you know
Speaker 1: who you really want to take first? I was a
Speaker 1: big Julio guy. Julio did come on strong in the
Speaker 1: second half, but it's it's hard not to take Ronaldalkunya first.
Speaker 1: By a landslide. This year, so I'm going to do that.
Speaker 1: The power of the speed, everything is there for Ronald
Speaker 1: Acunia Junior, and I feel good about doing that this year.
Speaker 1: Now that being said, I am going to be putting
Speaker 1: money again just like I did last year for al
Speaker 1: MVP on Julio Rodriguez. But I'm drafting one, not two.
Speaker 1: So I'm going to take Ronald Cuneia last year, coming
Speaker 1: off a year with forty one homers, one hundred and six,
Speaker 1: one hundred and forty nine run score, seventy three stolen bases.
Speaker 1: I don't think he's going to repeat that, but if
Speaker 1: he gets even eighty five percent of it, well she's
Speaker 1: still the number one pick. Let's go through the rest
Speaker 1: of the board here. After I took Ronaldocunya, Julia Rodriguez,
Speaker 1: then Bobby Wood Junior, Corbin Carol, and then Welsh you took.
Speaker 2: Who Like I said, I took Milki Bets.
Speaker 3: I was taking one of Caroler Betts, whoever felt I
Speaker 3: have seen some instances where Bobby Witt does. I do
Speaker 3: love being able to get one of those big core
Speaker 3: four because you get the stolen bases. I'm not going
Speaker 3: crazy heavy chasing stolen bases this year like you need to.
Speaker 3: But the awesome thing is you get like great batting average,
Speaker 3: you get power and everything like that. But Mooki, I
Speaker 3: get the qualification at second and outfield.
Speaker 2: Big homers.
Speaker 3: He's gonna be leading off with Otani and Freddie Freeman
Speaker 3: hitting behind him. To me, the core five you can interchange, though,
Speaker 3: you know, like Ronald Kune is number one. I'm not
Speaker 3: gonna get cute and try to do anything funky with it.
Speaker 3: But after that, any mixture of those five is fantastic.
Speaker 3: And then I think just the tears kind of change
Speaker 3: a little bit so I can move them over to
Speaker 3: second or what is kind of a thin outfield. This year,
Speaker 3: I have had a couple mocks and drafts where I've
Speaker 3: put Mooki in the outfield when all is said and done,
Speaker 3: so we'll see what ends up happening.
Speaker 2: As this is a nice surprise.
Speaker 3: Kyle Tucker goes six, which is not but Spencer Streider
Speaker 3: going in at seven, and I've seen that pitching thing
Speaker 3: kind of creep in where sometimes you want them more
Speaker 3: at the wheel. People are not letting Spencer Strider fall
Speaker 3: too much. So he goes seven in our mock.
Speaker 1: Here, Okay, I love Stryder. I'm not taking pictures in
Speaker 1: the first two rounds of any draft, not over top
Speaker 1: to you, not over Tatis who went next to of course,
Speaker 1: our good friend Kelly, the Wonky Penguin, so that I'm
Speaker 1: sure she's very excited. I'm sure she's gonna slack message
Speaker 1: me during the draft here, houtside she is for that pick.
Speaker 1: I'm sure she's gonna win this too. By the way,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna call the shot already that wonky Penguin's probably
Speaker 1: going to win this mock draft because she always does.
Speaker 1: But as we continue on here, you make a great
Speaker 1: point about outfield being a little sparse. It's another reason
Speaker 1: why you being able to lock in a top spot
Speaker 1: this year with taking a Kuni or Julio makes a
Speaker 1: lot of sense as well. Said the flexibility of Mookie
Speaker 1: Betts is fantastic as well. Uh Tatista another guy that
Speaker 1: gives you that. But I'll tell you what man I
Speaker 1: think when you're looking at the board this year, what
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Speaker 3: The excitement around making this like an hour infomercial about
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Speaker 3: Damn this draft is not a leak, but like we
Speaker 3: actually just did another walk through just kind of getting
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Speaker 3: I love the predictor versus the Experts agreement which you
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Speaker 2: But let's pick it.
Speaker 3: Let's just got to pick up on these picks because
Speaker 3: crazy stuff is starting to happen.
Speaker 2: Something exciting might happen for me.
Speaker 1: Something is after Strider goes Wonkey took Tatis than Freddie
Speaker 1: Freeman Showiotani, Aaron Judge at the turn at one twelve,
Speaker 1: Juan Soto, follow by Garrett Cole, all the Yankees right there.
Speaker 1: That's kind of a fun start to a team that
Speaker 1: I understand you want to go with a picture at
Speaker 1: the turn. I get it because it's a long time
Speaker 1: before players get back to that. I'm cool with, not me,
Speaker 1: not at one, Matt Olsen, Jose Ramirez. Trey Turner goes
Speaker 1: next at two oh four. Pretty interesting value for Turner.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about him because last season was tricky when
Speaker 1: it came to Trey Turner two sixty six batting average. Now,
Speaker 1: he did steal thirty bases, he had twenty six on runs,
Speaker 1: but wels, we all know the first half of the
Speaker 1: year was just not what we expect for Turner. But
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, he did match his
Speaker 1: twenty twenty two run score. He did actually supersede his
Speaker 1: twenty one homers from the previous year. He fell short
Speaker 1: in RBI by twenty five or so in the stolen
Speaker 1: bases where they are the batting average dip. So any
Speaker 1: concerns with Trey Turner heading into twenty.
Speaker 3: Four, I mean concerns versus like investment, Like, yeah, I
Speaker 3: think the stolen bases.
Speaker 2: Are starting to tick down.
Speaker 3: So if you're starting to give comparisons, like he doesn't
Speaker 3: have that big advantage of stolen bases against let's say
Speaker 3: Matt Olson's power or Jose Ramirez, Jose Ramirez is about
Speaker 3: the same, probably a position you would rather fill those at.
Speaker 3: So I have less interest in him this year.
Speaker 2: And my concern is.
Speaker 3: Just I still think he's a solid player, but I
Speaker 3: don't think he is going to live in this elite
Speaker 3: territory and he's surrounded by players that do elite things.
Speaker 3: Or I would rather get those stolen bases at a
Speaker 3: third base with Ramirez and I would with Turner, or
Speaker 3: like I said, the Power with Olsen, or you can
Speaker 3: buy back in on the bat that Wonkee took Bryce Harper.
Speaker 3: Actually Wonky took Bryce Harper over Jordan Alvarez, which I
Speaker 3: think is a really kind of unique thing here. But
Speaker 3: if you're talking about overall offensive skills, I think Turner
Speaker 3: went from an elite standout to a solid contributor amongst
Speaker 3: a bunch of other really great players.
Speaker 1: He was in the conversation for one on one last year,
Speaker 1: and I think last year or too, was a certain
Speaker 1: amount of the first year of a big contract press.
Speaker 1: I mean we see it all the time, Solid Harper.
Speaker 1: You know his teammate who just went two five. So
Speaker 1: Alvarez goes to two o six. Welsh, you are now
Speaker 1: on the clock. Cory Seger, one of your favorite things
Speaker 1: just went. That's a real kick in the nuts for you.
Speaker 1: So what do you want to do here? How do
Speaker 1: you pivot?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Nut kicked to get a Rochambeaud there in the draft.
Speaker 3: I was like, oh my gosh, Alvarez Seger and they
Speaker 3: just went back to back.
Speaker 2: I loved Seeger's ability for.
Speaker 3: The batting average. God, that would have been really, really great.
Speaker 3: I'm just taking a peek here. Austin Riley is the predictor.
Speaker 3: Experts agree. I love Austin Riley for the big power
Speaker 3: with Mookie at third, I'm staring over here.
Speaker 1: Oh man, all right, tough times, Welsh, come on, we're
Speaker 1: gonna go Riley.
Speaker 2: I love Riley, I love Riley. I'm just not going
Speaker 2: to overthink it.
Speaker 1: Riley goes. Then Marcus Simeon goes. I know who I've
Speaker 1: got my ion, So Welsh, I can only imagine you
Speaker 1: know who that is? And I'm gonna be upset if
Speaker 1: he doesn't make it to a lot of thing. He's
Speaker 1: going to no no, Ozzy Albi's is the guy that
Speaker 1: I really want to pick up here. That's the guy
Speaker 1: that I would like. You know how I felt about
Speaker 1: Ozar Ozzi Albi's last year. I thought it was an
Speaker 1: incredibly ridiculous value you were getting on him. And guess
Speaker 1: what I was right, thirty three homers, he had one
Speaker 1: hundred and nine ribbies, ninety six run scored, thirteen steals.
Speaker 1: Now we'll see if I get him. Still two more
Speaker 1: picks to get there. Mister Buster's on the clock right now,
Speaker 1: I think that, And there it is Rafael Devers, Vladdie Junior,
Speaker 1: I get my Azzi Alby's. I'm so excited. Well, good
Speaker 1: good times. Now I could go picture here, take Corbin Burns,
Speaker 1: Pete Alonso on the board as well. But as a
Speaker 1: loser met fan that you know hates life, that's a
Speaker 1: tough thing for me. You know, you gotta separate your
Speaker 1: fan of. But at the same time, it's you know,
Speaker 1: it's a difficult time here. Cody Bellinger Goldschmid also first
Speaker 1: Basement available. Jose al Tuve Nico Horner on the second
Speaker 1: base side, but I already have that filled shortstops Lindor,
Speaker 1: so I could add more Stone bases, but I think
Speaker 1: I'm pretty good there. Third base is kind of tough
Speaker 1: as well, because you're gonna have, you know, after the
Speaker 1: Gunner Henderson group, Welsh, you took Austin Riley, you saw
Speaker 1: Devers go. As much as I love Dela Cruz, Machado's hurt,
Speaker 1: you know you're gonna buy into Royce. Lewis Henderson is
Speaker 1: intriguing here as well. I'm gonna stick to my guns
Speaker 1: here go a little bit later on the pitching instead,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take another outfielder. I'm gonna go ahead with
Speaker 1: Louis Robert instead and go that route. So it was
Speaker 1: tough there between Alonso, who doesn't give you any steals,
Speaker 1: but it gives you a leap power. But I feel like
Speaker 1: I'm off to a pretty good start with the guys
Speaker 1: that I have. They give me a little bit of everything,
Speaker 1: and I like best available here. That's where I'm going.
Speaker 1: So we'll see if Draft Wizard likes me or not.
Speaker 1: Zach Wheeler goes next at three zero two, so he
Speaker 1: goes ahead of Corbyn Burns. Is that surprising to you?
Speaker 2: Who? And the what?
Speaker 3: And then you threw me off. You threw me off
Speaker 3: with Luis Robert. Did who go ahead of who?
Speaker 1: And the way Zach Wheeler went ahead of Corbin Burns.
Speaker 1: I was just curious.
Speaker 3: No, if that's surprising necessarily as it as, it's like
Speaker 3: not something I would do, like I would go with Burns.
Speaker 2: But Wheeler is up there.
Speaker 3: I mean, Wheeler hits every face that he is one
Speaker 3: of the top tier pitchers, top I guess five corps,
Speaker 3: So I'm not really surprised about it. I would have
Speaker 3: kind of liked Corbyn Burns fall back to me, I
Speaker 3: did to tell you, Luis Robert, you threw me off
Speaker 3: because there's a couple of things I'm battling here. There's
Speaker 3: a guy that I think is an immense value, and
Speaker 3: we're also in the mid third round in Ellie is
Speaker 3: still out there, and I mean I have taken l
Speaker 3: Ellie is a big steam shot and he's falling in ours.
Speaker 1: Well, you're on the clock, baby, get time to do it,
Speaker 1: because I don't think if I'm looking at the pick
Speaker 1: predictor he's gonna make it back to you. I think
Speaker 1: it's a seventy five percent chance he does not.
Speaker 3: But we said this on the Ario Cohen episode. I
Speaker 3: think a core piece to drafts is Michael Harris style.
Speaker 3: I went in the ninety percentile. He wasn't the percentage
Speaker 3: of agreement, but I wanted one of Robert or Michael Harris.
Speaker 3: So when you took Robert, you gave me anxiety because
Speaker 3: I was like, I don't know if I can give
Speaker 3: you either one of them.
Speaker 1: I like that. I like that I gave you anxiety
Speaker 1: for a change in the balk That's a good thing
Speaker 1: to me. So after Wheeler goes at three zero.
Speaker 2: Two, Wait, how do I give you anxiety?
Speaker 1: Oh? Because you always take guys that I want. Oh, okay,
Speaker 1: this is what we do. I never take Welsh guys.
Speaker 1: I feel like, but now I'm glad that I did.
Speaker 1: I was around, I was like, you know what, It
Speaker 1: kept sticking in my brain. Even though it's only three
Speaker 1: outfielders in this one, we have the two utility spots.
Speaker 1: I want to get outfield locked down. I hate outfield
Speaker 1: this year. It's gross.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: Pete Alonzo at three oho three, Corbyn Burns at three
Speaker 1: oh four, Michael Harris to the Welsh at three oh five,
Speaker 1: So Welsh's we continue to look through here, Francisco Lindor
Speaker 1: on the board, Bobachette on the board, Elie de la
Speaker 1: Cruz on the board, and Gunner Henderson. Those are the
Speaker 1: top recommendations over here at shortstop Kevin Gossman. Luis Castillo
Speaker 1: also in the mix here for you, have you found
Speaker 1: that you are building most of these teams now where
Speaker 1: you're going hitting early and then starting to Pivotso pitching,
Speaker 1: where do you have any early pitching team so far?
Speaker 3: So I have one team I've done where I went
Speaker 3: third fourth round, but that was the fifteen team Draft Champions.
Speaker 3: I went third fourth round pitching, so I double tapped there.
Speaker 3: For the most part, I'm three rounds of hitting, especially
Speaker 3: in a twelve team. I'm you're gonna have to give
Speaker 3: me a big value to go into pitching. There are
Speaker 3: pitchers I like, and this next comeback around unless there
Speaker 3: is some talent that falls, I'll be honest with you, Like,
Speaker 3: if Ellie falls back to me, I'm gonna just take
Speaker 3: that risk in the fourth rown. Gunner is someone that's
Speaker 3: falling in this draft. But then we're in a lot
Speaker 3: of pictures we got a lot of pictures that are
Speaker 3: going a lot higher that I would consider. There's three particularly,
Speaker 3: so we'll see. We just did have Gunner go Luis Castillo,
Speaker 3: went to Wonkee, Gunner Henderson, and Al Tuvey, and then
Speaker 3: the pictures started going Joe.
Speaker 1: Why they did Lindor, then Gosmin, then Castillo, then Gunner
Speaker 1: Henderson at three zho nine, josel Twove at three to ten,
Speaker 1: Pablo Lopez at three eleven, then at the bottom here
Speaker 1: of the draft at the turn at three twelve, George
Speaker 1: Kirby goes off, and then four oh one we have
Speaker 1: Randy Rose, Arena, Bobaschett, Ellie Dela Cruz at four oh three.
Speaker 1: Did not quite make it to you, Welsh. I don't
Speaker 1: think it would have gone past wonkye Penguin either. Garcia
Speaker 1: from Texas goes next at four oh four. Wonkey's on
Speaker 1: the clock right now. So Welsh, what are you sizing
Speaker 1: up for yourself as you look at the board here?
Speaker 1: Where would you like to go? Is it to a
Speaker 1: gallon or a glass now hopefully? Or you pivoting to
Speaker 1: perhaps I know you love early Relievers, I don't know
Speaker 1: if you love him as much this year.
Speaker 3: No, I don't love him as much, and I'm not
Speaker 3: going to go in the fourth round. Glass now was one.
Speaker 3: He just went CJ. Abrams, and I'm gonna guess Dale
Speaker 3: is gonna go Gallon. So that's gonna really slap me here.
Speaker 3: So I'm probably going to pivot to a Schooba or
Speaker 3: Yamamoto because I don't think Gallen is gonna fall to
Speaker 3: me here.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I can't believe it's we're talking about CJ.
Speaker 1: Abrams in the fourth round. After last year a player
Speaker 1: was going in the you know, outside of the top
Speaker 1: two hundred that we keep telling everybody draft this guy.
Speaker 1: Throw some draft capital, be patient, even if the first
Speaker 1: half sucks and all those things happened. If he stuck
Speaker 1: with it, My god, was he good last year in
Speaker 1: terms of giving you a return on investment eighteen homers,
Speaker 1: forty seven, steals forty seven. I only hit two forty five. Now,
Speaker 1: fourth round to me, I still think it's a little
Speaker 1: early for my personal taste. That's just me. There's some
Speaker 1: other players I like more on that board, like I
Speaker 1: would let Royce Lewis go or Alex Bregman go because
Speaker 1: I know what I'm getting out of those guys. But
Speaker 1: I get it. I understand the sentra abrams, love get it.
Speaker 1: It's just not something I'm ready to do quite yet.
Speaker 1: But Zach Gallon does go off the board. So four
Speaker 1: oh eight, wells you are on the clock.
Speaker 3: So my battle is just which of the where do
Speaker 3: I want to go? Schooble's numbers last year insane of
Speaker 3: eighty innings or more pitched, Trix Scuble had one of
Speaker 3: the higher K per nines K percentage.
Speaker 2: Lowest expected era.
Speaker 3: Of any pitcher with eighty innings or more. But then
Speaker 3: you've also got Yamamoto, who's gonna be a wins monster.
Speaker 3: I think he's gonna stack up strikeouts here, you know.
Speaker 2: With my build, this is my all Dodger Braves build.
Speaker 3: I think I'm gonna go Yama Moto here, and it's
Speaker 3: a twenty two experts agree and percentage it's on Trick's Scouble.
Speaker 3: But we're gonna go Yama Moto to lock up my
Speaker 3: first picture.
Speaker 1: That's what I was gonna do.
Speaker 2: I feel like more innings.
Speaker 3: I feel like more innings were play for me, and
Speaker 3: Trick Scouble was the immediate pick right after me.
Speaker 1: Probably more wins as well. All right, So Schooble goes
Speaker 1: immediately after. I'm mad now Welsh and I or even
Speaker 1: we both up said each other. And it's only the
Speaker 1: fourth round, so who knows others will go? Yamamoto goes
Speaker 1: a four away, turg School a four h nine, another
Speaker 1: guy too. I can't believe we're talking about Trig Scouble
Speaker 1: in the fourth round already, but he earned it last year.
Speaker 1: It's just a matter of can he sustain. And even
Speaker 1: if you go back to twenty twenty two, for one
Speaker 1: hundred and seventeen innings he pitched Welsh, he had one
Speaker 1: hundred and seventeen strikeouts, he had a three three seven ERA,
Speaker 1: I mean it was pretty spectacular, all right. I am
Speaker 1: now on the clock. So after schoobl Aaron Nola, Nolan Jones,
Speaker 1: two guys straight out of my queue. So I'm not
Speaker 1: too happy about that. So this is the point where
Speaker 1: I have to ask myself, do I want to take
Speaker 1: a chance on a trout? Do I want to go
Speaker 1: back to the Cody Bellinger? Well? What do I want
Speaker 1: to do here? And I could take Royce Lewis also
Speaker 1: the suggested picks for me, Devin Williams, Freddy Peralta, Franber
Speaker 1: Valdez and Logan Webb. So I'm pretty good with all
Speaker 1: that because I do feel like this is a good
Speaker 1: time where I like these pitchers. I'm getting high strikeouts,
Speaker 1: I'm getting win potential. So the question is which two
Speaker 1: out of the three it will not be a closer
Speaker 1: for Joey p I can tell you that we all
Speaker 1: know that's not my bag, baby, So I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: ahead and take Freddy Peralta first here, and I am
Speaker 1: going to probably double down here again and go with
Speaker 1: Max Freed. I'm gonna listen to the draft wizardre gonna
Speaker 1: take the Atlanta Braves. I am all in on the
Speaker 1: Braves yet again here with Albe's with Freed, and of
Speaker 1: course with Ronaldo Kunia. That's not bad though. Cordy Bellinger
Speaker 1: goes next at five h two. Mister buster on the
Speaker 1: clock at five oh three, Welsh, would you have taken
Speaker 1: Freedom Peralta? Were you taken Frambur and the Rogan Webb?
Speaker 1: What would you have done? If you were me?
Speaker 3: I probably would have gone Web in Peralta because I
Speaker 3: think they balance each other out.
Speaker 2: I'm looking at Web right now. That might be where
Speaker 2: to go. But Royce is falling.
Speaker 1: I know I took me everything not to take him,
Speaker 1: but I know if I don't take some pictures here,
Speaker 1: it's gonna get ugly real fast. That's what I do know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and my only problem is I've got third base
Speaker 3: locked up, so I might go look at a web.
Speaker 3: The closing market hasn't started to tick yet either, but
Speaker 3: I'm not a Max Freed guy this year, but I'm
Speaker 3: definitely a Peralta with the strikeout chase, so we'll see
Speaker 3: what comes back to me. But we're looking. Even though
Speaker 3: ecr ISA experts are starting to push the closers here,
Speaker 3: which is not a bad idea. We are in a
Speaker 3: twelve man where oh man, well Jazz just went and
Speaker 3: that kind of ruined maybe a future plan. But you
Speaker 3: can punt if you need to punt. You can do
Speaker 3: that in this category, maybe more than ever. But Jazz
Speaker 3: and Goldie just went. They were kind of top of
Speaker 3: the list, and that that bothered me.
Speaker 2: You know what's funny here.
Speaker 3: Is experts are fifty percent Devin Williams, but the predictor
Speaker 3: is Logan Web, and it's it's like it knows me
Speaker 3: because that's what I'm staring at.
Speaker 1: I got no problem with that. I love Logan Web
Speaker 1: is probably one of the most underrated pieces there you
Speaker 1: could possibly get. So if you want to go that route,
Speaker 1: I am at at you.
Speaker 2: All right, we're gonna go logan Web. That's what we're
Speaker 2: gonna do.
Speaker 1: Okay, So logan Web goes here after So let me
Speaker 1: recap here the fifth round to start with me at
Speaker 1: max free, then Cody Bellinger Jazz Chismoth five oh three,
Speaker 1: Paul Goshman five oh four. Welsh went ahead at five
Speaker 1: oh five and selected logan Web, and then Manny Machado
Speaker 1: Edwin d y As five seven. Coming off that injury, Well,
Speaker 1: you think that Diaz just bounces back to the same
Speaker 1: old dominant Diaz or do you think there's a little
Speaker 1: bit of rust factor?
Speaker 3: Now, I don't think there's any rest I'm not worried
Speaker 3: about that rust. I think there's kind of just a
Speaker 3: set of guys that I'm comfortable with. Edwin Josh Hater
Speaker 3: would be someone I would just pounce on.
Speaker 2: Uh yeah, he gotta.
Speaker 1: Tell you he got paid by the Houston Astros. And look,
Speaker 1: I think rightfully, so, I think you know, Houston knows
Speaker 1: that this is their window and they're trying their best.
Speaker 1: Now Royce Lewis does finally go to of course the
Speaker 1: wonky Penguin, the slide stops for Royce Lewis. That's a
Speaker 1: pretty good value there, don't you think though. Five oh
Speaker 1: eight for Royce Lewis.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I almost did it and just didn't care that
Speaker 3: I would have just gone corner in field.
Speaker 2: It didn't matter to me. He was a great value.
Speaker 3: There's a part of me that when you look at
Speaker 3: the pitching that's out there right now, I probably would
Speaker 3: have been better taking Royce Lewis, knowing that you might
Speaker 3: have a Singa, you might have a Snell. There's a
Speaker 3: little bit of eer a worry, but there's big strikeouts.
Speaker 3: So the young pitcher's YERI Bobby Miller is still out there.
Speaker 3: That's why that would have been a comfortable spot. Those
Speaker 3: guys as number two's comparatively to like Royce Lewis in
Speaker 3: your lineup, I mean, you're comparing like Royce Lewis to
Speaker 3: Josh Lowe or Schoreber or something like that, and we're
Speaker 3: in a different value change type of territory. So I'm
Speaker 3: kicking myself or not doing and freaking hater and class
Speaker 3: A just win as well and with Wonkey on the clock.
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Speaker 2: Where would you an I go? Where would we go?
Speaker 1: Ah? Well, see Arizona's fun I'm on the clock there.
Speaker 1: You tell me where you would go?
Speaker 2: And then I felt like I would have meant like
Speaker 2: us and us situation? Where would you go?
Speaker 3: Like as a because we get this in the whole group.
Speaker 3: So it was you and me and we got to
Speaker 3: go somewhere. I feel like that we're all not so
Speaker 3: we're not gonna go to New York. We're not gonna
Speaker 3: go to Arizona.
Speaker 1: No, I don't want to go to Arizona. It's fun.
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, it be fun to go out
Speaker 1: Arizona because I get to see you, I get to
Speaker 1: see people. That's that's nice. But I don't know. That's
Speaker 1: a good question, Welsh. I think that's one I have
Speaker 1: to think about. I'd want to go to like one
Speaker 1: of the ballparks like Fenway's great when they're a long time.
Speaker 1: I think that's a fun experience. I've been to regular
Speaker 1: I've been to Fenway. PNC is still my favorite.
Speaker 2: Change Wrigley Chicago. We're going to Chicago.
Speaker 1: You want to go to Chicago? Yep, sweet home Chicago.
Speaker 1: Looking around right now at the first base side. So, Welsh,
Speaker 1: why don't you talk about the picks, recap yours and
Speaker 1: then come to me because I've got thirty seconds left online.
Speaker 2: So are a couple of pictures I really liked.
Speaker 3: But a player I have to have in every single
Speaker 3: draft this year, I'm drafting him everywhere. If you draft him,
Speaker 3: most likely, I will bet you the system will say
Speaker 3: that I like it is O'Neal Kruz. He is Elie
Speaker 3: de la Cruz, light, I suppose in some respects. But
Speaker 3: the thing I've liked about is I don't think he'll
Speaker 3: steal as many bases. I think the power projection could
Speaker 3: even be higher with him. But we also saw him
Speaker 3: make adjustments off the strikeouts. So he's a player that
Speaker 3: while everyone is paying up, I want to get that
Speaker 3: value off.
Speaker 2: I want him in every single draft.
Speaker 3: Then the pitchers I was looking at, Kodei Singa and
Speaker 3: Blake Snow both went I sacrifice the strikeouts for onneal Cruz,
Speaker 3: followed by Grayson Rodriguez. So sixth, seventh round probably gonna
Speaker 3: be a big pitcher run. And you did snag a
Speaker 3: pitcher with your Alex Bregman pick. As we jump into
Speaker 3: the seventh.
Speaker 1: Round, yeah, Gregman at six to twelve and then Logan
Speaker 1: Gilbert at seven eleven. You know, I just like the
Speaker 1: consistency of what Alex Bregman gives me. At this point,
Speaker 1: you know, we just kind of lock him in last
Speaker 1: two years. You know what you're getting. Are we gonna
Speaker 1: get another thirty home run season again from Bregman. We'll see.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's in his prime year, so I don't
Speaker 1: think it's impossible. But it's still a great offense. He's
Speaker 1: gonna approach one hundred runs at one hundred RBI, He's
Speaker 1: gonna hit me twenty five dingers. He's going to two sixteenth.
Speaker 1: That's fine. Maybe there's an upside for more. We've seen
Speaker 1: it in the past. He hit two eighty multiple years
Speaker 1: or two eighty plus three years in a row, so
Speaker 1: perhaps we get another version of Bregman like that again.
Speaker 1: And then Logan Gilbert. For me, this is another easy one.
Speaker 1: I love the Mariners this year. I love them last year.
Speaker 1: We talked about them so much on the show. Look
Speaker 1: the last two years, thirty two starts in both of those.
Speaker 1: You give me Logan Gilbert as a three in a
Speaker 1: twelve team league like we've got here Welsh. I'm ecstatic
Speaker 1: about that because I feel like I'm getting a guy
Speaker 1: that's gonna go out there and make thirty plus starts
Speaker 1: every year. And how many guys can you say that about.
Speaker 1: To me, that's the perfect guy to lock him because
Speaker 1: he also brings you some upside potential this year where
Speaker 1: maybe he does go from the thirteen wins where he's
Speaker 1: locked in the last two years to a sixteen or
Speaker 1: even seventeen as this Mariner team continues to improve. The
Speaker 1: whip was at one oh eight last year. I love
Speaker 1: getting Logan Gilbert as my three along with Pralton Freed,
Speaker 1: And because I have Freed, I wanted to lock in
Speaker 1: somebody else. I felt good about. What do you think
Speaker 1: about Gilbert? And then let's recap the rest of the
Speaker 1: picks up to you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the other thing I was gonna say is actually
Speaker 2: the thing I.
Speaker 3: Like about Gilbert. He might be like the poor man's
Speaker 3: logan Web.
Speaker 2: I think he's consistent.
Speaker 1: It's exactly in the Black Book on Amazon right now
Speaker 1: that I wrote he is exactly that guy. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: exactly it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because you know he's not like a strike a
Speaker 3: major major strikeout guy. But he doesn't walk, he eats innings.
Speaker 3: He's consistent. I've said this a million times over out
Speaker 3: here in Arizona. I go to tons of camps. I've
Speaker 3: never seen a pitcher work harder. He's the hardest worker
Speaker 3: I've ever seen. He's first guy in, last guy out
Speaker 3: every time I've ever been to Mariner's camp, so I
Speaker 3: love the guy and he's always tinkering and working through
Speaker 3: his pitches, so I think that's a great pick. And
Speaker 3: he's he's a sneaky one that you got as we
Speaker 3: had a bunch of sneaky stuff just happened in these
Speaker 3: drafts as well.
Speaker 1: He did. Let's recap the sneaky snakes we had at
Speaker 1: the very top there, Gilbert at seven oh one and
Speaker 1: College FORB seven oh two, Yelich at seven oh three,
Speaker 1: Lozardo at seven oh four, and then you took Camillo
Speaker 1: Davall at seven oh five, so you got a reliever.
Speaker 1: How do you feel about this?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I feel great.
Speaker 3: I think he's in that core of the top tier.
Speaker 3: I spent the least capital of any single person to
Speaker 3: get I mean, at one point I didn't remember if
Speaker 3: he led the league in saves.
Speaker 2: He was near the tippy top.
Speaker 3: But to get high end saves like that, I'm going
Speaker 3: to take that every single time.
Speaker 2: So that's a gift. Everybody gave me a gift.
Speaker 1: That's right. Welsh does love presence. He does accept donations
Speaker 1: as well. You can always donate to him at is
Speaker 1: it the Welsh over on X Christian Walker, who I
Speaker 1: was contemplating at seven oh six, but I decided to
Speaker 1: go Gilbert instead. Zach Efflin at seven oh seven, come
Speaker 1: up a great year with Tampa. We'll see if he
Speaker 1: can repeat it. Tristan Casses goes to Wonky Penguin at
Speaker 1: seven oh eight. I know our friend Eric Cross is
Speaker 1: very big on him. Uh jt Real Muto at seven
Speaker 1: oh nine and Will Smith a little bit of catcher
Speaker 1: run there, litt catcher love. Back to back there After that,
Speaker 1: we have Brian Reynolds at seven to eleven glacias to
Speaker 1: close out the seventh round. Into the eighth round, we
Speaker 1: have Willem Contreras going at eight oh one, so again
Speaker 1: the catcher run is strong here, Uri Perez at eight
Speaker 1: oh two Bobby Miller, so back to back, big time
Speaker 1: young arms, Welsh and you took a guy that I like.
Speaker 1: So let's talk about those two arms. Do you think
Speaker 1: those two guys are going to live up to the
Speaker 1: hype in twenty twenty four, because I certainly do. I
Speaker 1: was so high on both of them after diving deep
Speaker 1: into the stats on them running their profiles this year.
Speaker 1: What do you think about those two gems.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I wanted Bobby Miller coming back. They everybody kind
Speaker 3: of slapped me here. I ended up taking torqual Sin,
Speaker 3: maybe a little bit higher than I wanted, but I'm
Speaker 3: still chasing big power.
Speaker 2: But I was locked in the pictures.
Speaker 3: Wonky got one of the good deals in Joe Ryan,
Speaker 3: but Bobby Miller and Urie Perez are the big upside plays.
Speaker 3: And I said, this a whole bunch kind of annoying.
Speaker 3: But it's just like, you know, the one hundred and
Speaker 3: fifty innings is the new one seventy, and it's just like,
Speaker 3: I want the quality of innings more than I need
Speaker 3: guys to go two hundred, because guys just don't go
Speaker 3: two hundred plus anymore. So I don't think innings management
Speaker 3: worries me much. I'm a Bobby Miller guy this year.
Speaker 3: But give me both of those guys on any rotation.
Speaker 3: I wanted them both, and they just went bam bam.
Speaker 3: In this draft.
Speaker 2: Nobody gave me the love.
Speaker 1: That I wanted. I'll give you the love. What do
Speaker 1: you want, I'll give you some love. I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: ahead and recap here after we had those two young pictures,
Speaker 1: go Bobby Miller and you're a Perez Back to back
Speaker 1: then Glaber Torres, Joe Ryan to the Wonky Penguin. One
Speaker 1: of my favorite guys there, Hussy Young Kim fell all
Speaker 1: the way to eight oh six. He was my top
Speaker 1: recommended guy when I was picking around the turn, so
Speaker 1: he lasted way longer than I thought. Noan Aeronado next,
Speaker 1: and then you took a guy right out of my queue.
Speaker 1: Spencer Torklesen, a guy last year we were telling everybody
Speaker 1: to buy low on because it was time to buy
Speaker 1: low on Torkosin. And if you did, you got a
Speaker 1: Monstra second half. Can he build on that Welsh in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty four?
Speaker 2: I do think you can.
Speaker 3: The ballpark factor is probably something that halts a lot
Speaker 3: of people, and I completely understand that.
Speaker 2: But if you guys, go and check it out. I
Speaker 2: just did a social short. We have these short videos
Speaker 2: we put out of.
Speaker 3: It's hard to say by the way social social and
Speaker 3: I was looking it's about who the experts are taking
Speaker 3: Torkosen's rank versus ADP. There's a forty spot difference between
Speaker 3: people are ranking him and where he's actually going. He's
Speaker 3: being ranked high than those so he is a absolute target,
Speaker 3: huge thirty plus power, and I think he's gonna build
Speaker 3: off for last year and if the batting average improves,
Speaker 3: then we're golden. And I'd like the lineup. I think
Speaker 3: it's sneaky Cole KEI three signing or signing a contract,
Speaker 3: so he's up is a good thing, all right, So
Speaker 3: I'm up here. We're in the hundreds. Kyle Bradish is
Speaker 3: an absolute no brainer, even though I need outfield and
Speaker 3: I'm a little bit avoiding it. White Langford went right
Speaker 3: in front of me, so people are trying to be
Speaker 3: mean and not let me have nice things. We also
Speaker 3: had Churio, so by the way, ninth round, Churio and
Speaker 3: Langford went right in front of me, so that would
Speaker 3: have been something I would have looked at. But Kyle
Speaker 3: Bradish was way too good of a deal. And I
Speaker 3: still need some sps. That's my third spiece, so Yamamoto,
Speaker 3: Web and Bradish.
Speaker 2: I love the floor and I love the ceiling of
Speaker 2: these guys.
Speaker 1: All right, Let's keep on recapping here because after you
Speaker 1: had torcos Can go to you. We'll finish out the
Speaker 1: eighth round here. Jordan Romonto, Nick Cassiano's Cole Ragins then
Speaker 1: I took David Bednark because I didn't have a closer yet,
Speaker 1: so I'll lock in him. We'll see if he gets
Speaker 1: traded this year now that they signed Chatmant and who knows,
Speaker 1: maybe I'll trade all of them. Xander Bogartz I locked
Speaker 1: in at shorts up. I thought he was a pretty
Speaker 1: good value there in the ninth round. I could have
Speaker 1: started to go with, you know, the Cheerio who went next,
Speaker 1: or one of those kind of picks. But if you're
Speaker 1: gonna give me somebody that can lock in, like Xander Bogarts,
Speaker 1: I know Sodo's gone and I'm a child's gonna start
Speaker 1: the year a little hurt, but I still think there's
Speaker 1: enough there to help Xander Bogartz continue to be a
Speaker 1: decent fantasy player. And I'm getting again, a player that's
Speaker 1: gonna give me power, is gonna give me speeds coming
Speaker 1: off a nineteen nineteen season with eighty five batting average.
Speaker 1: I'll take that. So Cheerio goes at and yeah, I
Speaker 1: just thought ninth round, like, come on, he shouldn't be
Speaker 1: on the board. I always say this Welsh price and force.
Speaker 1: You know, it's it's fun to take, you know, the
Speaker 1: sexy prospects and all those guys. But you know, when
Speaker 1: you have a twenty twenty player in the ninth round
Speaker 1: who hits two eighty, you take that guy like you
Speaker 1: just do that. You don't look back. Cheerio at nine
Speaker 1: oh two, Joe Musgrove at nine oh three, Langford, As
Speaker 1: you saidt nine oh four, you took Bradish, which is
Speaker 1: a no brainer. He was the next guy in my queue,
Speaker 1: so I'm not surprised you went there. Young at nine
Speaker 1: oh six, Alexis Diaz at nine oh seven, can Tell
Speaker 1: Marte at nine oh eight, Spencer Stear at nine oh nine,
Speaker 1: Paul Seawaald at nine ten, Yondi Diaz at nine to eleven.
Speaker 1: Ten or Biby out of my queue, man. I was
Speaker 1: hoping he would make it back to me. He did not.
Speaker 1: Very big fan of Biby. We'll see how he does
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty four. He goes to end the ninth
Speaker 1: round to start the tenth. George Springer old reliable. I'm
Speaker 1: sure he'll miss somewhere between twenty and thirty games as always.
Speaker 1: Then ten oh two is Steerry Ruiz, So there's your
Speaker 1: stone base guy. I know in a head to head league,
Speaker 1: we have things differently, So is this a good value
Speaker 1: for Ruiz in a head to head category league where
Speaker 1: you know you pretty much know what you're drafting him for.
Speaker 2: I'm fine with it.
Speaker 1: I think it's a little early.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't.
Speaker 3: I feel like I don't want to sit here and
Speaker 3: be like it was a great pick because I'm not
Speaker 3: gonna do it.
Speaker 2: But I have felt pretty steadfast.
Speaker 3: If you have a draft and we haven't looked at
Speaker 3: that team, if they were like lots of power, you know,
Speaker 3: maybe it's good batting average.
Speaker 2: Lots of power.
Speaker 3: You get the Seegers, you get the Freeman's later, you
Speaker 3: get the Adulieses, and you get all these players and
Speaker 3: you're like, wow, I'm kind of devoid a store on bases.
Speaker 3: I don't mind taking up one of those outfield spots
Speaker 3: for history. A unique thing about this draft, though, is
Speaker 3: we are three outfielder, not five.
Speaker 2: So the outfield pool feels a little bit.
Speaker 3: Less desperate and filling up one of those spots of
Speaker 3: this story Ruiz with three outfielders feels a little grosser
Speaker 3: because you only have so many guys that you're going
Speaker 3: to put out on that outfield spot.
Speaker 2: So I'm with it.
Speaker 3: For chasing the stolen bases, but I'm not with it
Speaker 3: for just kind of the overall player pool. And speaking
Speaker 3: of I just took Jordan Walker at ten to eight,
Speaker 3: filling out my second outfield spot to go with Michael Harris.
Speaker 3: I love the bounce back second year pop up potential
Speaker 3: for Jordan Walker, third year for Walker, and I'm pretty
Speaker 3: pretty excited about that. But the young guys are going
Speaker 3: and you're on the clock here, Joe.
Speaker 1: I am. I've got a plan though, So why don't
Speaker 1: you recap all the picks before and after and I'll
Speaker 1: continue with my plan because all right, I got one here.
Speaker 3: Well, so after a story, we had Salve, we had
Speaker 3: sales Azuki who was my target, Andres Munos went to Wonkee.
Speaker 3: We had Bryson Stott, another one my targets, Justin Steele.
Speaker 3: I took Walker, Evan Carter Andresjmenez Ryan Helsley for the
Speaker 3: closing pool and Joe Piezapia. You just took back to
Speaker 3: back hitters, two.
Speaker 2: Very sneaky sneakies.
Speaker 1: Yes, Lane Thomas, another one of our favorite late gems
Speaker 1: from last year, had a pretty good season. Welsh one
Speaker 1: hundred could imagine one hundred and one run scored on
Speaker 1: the Washington Nationals. God bless Lane Thomas. We should put
Speaker 1: up a monument to that guy. Twenty eight homers, eighty
Speaker 1: six RBI, had twenty seals two sixty eight. You could
Speaker 1: argue he was the best fraternal investment of twenty twenty three, right,
Speaker 1: I mean, that's a pretty good argument value the ADP
Speaker 1: of last year.
Speaker 2: It would be yeah, one of the top, one of
Speaker 2: the top.
Speaker 1: Like shortly one of the top ones for sure. So
Speaker 1: I took him. And then I went with one of
Speaker 1: our guys that we were high on last year and
Speaker 1: that Ariel Cohen told us about last year and reiterated
Speaker 1: this year too, he's still being undervalued. So I took
Speaker 1: him in the eleventh rounds Josh neil Or. I needed
Speaker 1: a first basement before the corners started to fly off
Speaker 1: the board. Last year, seventeen homers and one hundred and
Speaker 1: twenty one games, ninety seven RBI. He had ten steals,
Speaker 1: two hit three. Wait, So I really like the construction
Speaker 1: of this team Welsh because I feel like I've got
Speaker 1: a lot of guys who are gonna give you a
Speaker 1: stone bases. I got some decent batting average nobody's really
Speaker 1: dragging the batting average down too far here and plenty
Speaker 1: of power. I also got three pretty good frontline starting pitchers,
Speaker 1: so so far, very happy with this build. I need
Speaker 1: the corner guys, utility guys. Of course, I'm always gonna
Speaker 1: wait and catch her because I'm Joe Pizapia. That's what
Speaker 1: Joe Pizipia does. And then I talk about myself in
Speaker 1: the third person. Janner Diaz goes at eleven oh two,
Speaker 1: then Fairbanks at eleven oh three, Yoshida at eleven oh four,
Speaker 1: so despite some trade winds blowing, he is still there. Well, shit,
Speaker 1: took an old fart at eleven oh five. I don't
Speaker 1: like taking guys who are at forty on my fantasy team.
Speaker 1: That's kind of a note. Well, you know, it depends
Speaker 1: very much. So I'm a dad. I mean, dad's got
Speaker 1: it like farts. But look, Verlander, I get it here,
Speaker 1: I understand why did you take Verlander? I want you
Speaker 1: to tell the people.
Speaker 2: What, Yeah, I mean eading more innings up. I have
Speaker 2: four guys.
Speaker 3: Arguably you can maybe look at Yamamoto and wonder, but
Speaker 3: guys that are going to eat up innings.
Speaker 1: Where no wonders are concerns with him. Maybe I'm being ridiculous,
Speaker 1: but I don't. I'm good.
Speaker 2: I'm fine.
Speaker 3: Verlander's my SP four So that's what I mainly care
Speaker 3: about is I'm locking up an SP four battle with Verlander,
Speaker 3: who's got SP one upside.
Speaker 2: He is forty, so that is an ultimate chase.
Speaker 3: I did sacrifice it thinking ta Oscar her names could
Speaker 3: come back to me, And what a silly goose I
Speaker 3: am knowing that Wonky's in the draft because she's swooped
Speaker 3: up ta Oscar just three picks after I took justin Verlander.
Speaker 1: Sounds about right. This is why you don't invite Wonky
Speaker 1: Penguin over to drafts, because she constantly just kind of
Speaker 1: sticks it to you. So after we go ahead here Verlander, Swanson,
Speaker 1: Presley then to Oscar at eleven oh eight two, Wonky
Speaker 1: Penguin to Oscar over with the Dodgers. That is a
Speaker 1: loaded team. Speaking of Dodgers, eleven oh nine, Walker Bueller
Speaker 1: goes next. Are you buying it on the Walker Buller
Speaker 1: bounce back at eleven oh nine.
Speaker 3: No, I'm not super invested in Walker Bueller. I mean,
Speaker 3: what was the overall was it like in the one thirties, she's.
Speaker 1: Called Wonky Buehler.
Speaker 3: By the way, you're on the clock, Yeah, yeah, did
Speaker 3: I say Wonky Buler?
Speaker 1: I don't know. You almost did. Let me keep Reef
Speaker 1: capping so you can make your next pick that you
Speaker 1: could talk about Bueller in that one cease at eleven ten,
Speaker 1: Zach gell Off at eleven eleven. Jordan Montgomery, who still
Speaker 1: has yet to sign. I can't believe he's still out there.
Speaker 1: He's such a tremendous starting pitcher. He'd be such an asset.
Speaker 1: I don't know what teams are waiting for. Eleven twelve.
Speaker 1: Sonny Gray at twelve oh one. I imagine when Montgomery signs,
Speaker 1: he's gonna take up a little bit in ADP. But
Speaker 1: that is a great value there. Sonny Gray kicks off
Speaker 1: the twelfth round. TJ. Friedel at twelve oh two. Kemonaro
Speaker 1: at twelve oh three, one of my favorite guys. There
Speaker 1: is a great value there twelve oh three, Vinnie Beskwentino
Speaker 1: My People at twelve oh four, followed by h Ozuna
Speaker 1: at twelve o five to the Wonky Penguin, Kimberl and
Speaker 1: then Evan Phillips so closers going off the board, and
Speaker 1: you take Anthony Volpi right out of my queue. Yea
Speaker 1: s ob So talk about Volpi and then give me
Speaker 1: your Walker Buehler spiel as well well, or your wonky
Speaker 1: Buehler whatever. You know.
Speaker 3: All his stats don't matter because I took Vulpi off
Speaker 3: of your cue.
Speaker 2: So that's the most important thing.
Speaker 3: It's not about what he'll do for my team or
Speaker 3: the overall construction of the value. It's that I ruined
Speaker 3: your day and he's now mine. But I did need
Speaker 3: stolen bases. I needed a little bit more. I have
Speaker 3: a couple guys obviously Oneo Cruz and Michael Harris are
Speaker 3: going to be my core. But getting you know, twenty
Speaker 3: stolen bases with twenty home run power, He's a little
Speaker 3: bit of a suckabust as far as like batting average
Speaker 3: goes as his torqual sin. But I've got other players
Speaker 3: that are going to kind of raise that up. So
Speaker 3: I'm going to pay attention to batting average as we
Speaker 3: go though, because I feel a little bit susceptible that
Speaker 3: I could let it go. But again, this is head
Speaker 3: to head, So the being held down on a batting
Speaker 3: average on a week weekly basis is much different than
Speaker 3: holding down your entire point system for the roto at
Speaker 3: the end of the year. So I think I can
Speaker 3: manage with it, and I really love the construction of
Speaker 3: this roster. But I want to want to keep going
Speaker 3: with the pitching though, because we're getting we're getting some
Speaker 3: of the good values going as eure Ue. By the way,
Speaker 3: Luisa Rise went right after me speaking of batting average,
Speaker 3: Chris Bassett, Mitch Keller, and then Joey.
Speaker 2: You just came up for two. Boy, you just snagged
Speaker 2: a good one on your I hope.
Speaker 1: So fingers crossed Christian and karnassion Strand at twelve twelve.
Speaker 1: That's where I went, he is going to be locked in?
Speaker 1: Is my corner guy here in this lineup? U And
Speaker 1: look this guy with phenomenal power playing in a great ballpark.
Speaker 1: What's not to like a good young team. I think
Speaker 1: this is a great value at twelve twelve. One of
Speaker 1: the guys that we could not wait to get up
Speaker 1: to the major league level last year. I mean, we
Speaker 1: were just talking about this guy ad nauseum. Eventually he did.
Speaker 1: He played sixty three games, hit two seventy thirteen bombs.
Speaker 1: Welsh I don't know why he was still on the board.
Speaker 1: When it came around to me last turn, I had
Speaker 1: him in my queue and I thought, well, there's no
Speaker 1: way this guy's getting back to me. I better pivot
Speaker 1: to kaminarow Caminaro went instead. He was still out there,
Speaker 1: so c is still out there. I took him, and
Speaker 1: then I took Michael King. Who is That's the one
Speaker 1: I liked t starter.
Speaker 2: That was the one where I said, I'm like, that's
Speaker 2: the one.
Speaker 1: You loved Christian and Carnassian Strand last year we couldn't
Speaker 1: do a show without talking about him or Elie de
Speaker 1: la Cruz.
Speaker 3: Last year, No, I wanted him to be up. I
Speaker 3: thought he needed to be up. I do like and
Speaker 3: I do think you've got a good value. People are scared,
Speaker 3: but Michael King, I think is like a sneaky, sneaky
Speaker 3: pick at around the one fifty range. I think you
Speaker 3: had a good value on him. I think he can
Speaker 3: push the innings. I think that there's big strikeout potential.
Speaker 2: He could be an ax.
Speaker 3: He could be the best pitcher on this Andres team.
Speaker 1: The Padres have done Welsh too, like because you you
Speaker 1: look at what they did with Musgrove, right, look at
Speaker 1: what they did with Waka, look at what they with Lugo.
Speaker 1: You know, they've taken these guys in the last you know,
Speaker 1: four years or so and gotten so much out of them.
Speaker 1: And Michael King is a guy who's just entering his thirties,
Speaker 1: a guy that last year threw one hundred and four innings.
Speaker 1: But you know a lot of them in the bullpen,
Speaker 1: but you saw the flashes as a starting pitcher and
Speaker 1: this was a high, highly regarded prospect in the Yankee
Speaker 1: system for a long time. Sometimes those guys can be overrated.
Speaker 1: But last year, one hundred and twenty seven strikeouts at
Speaker 1: one hundred and one hundred and four innings. I should
Speaker 1: say to seventy five vra a one point one to
Speaker 1: five whip, I love getting King here as my fourth starter.
Speaker 1: To me, you were you nailed it when you said
Speaker 1: pitching is gonna get a little bit spotty here. And
Speaker 1: that's why I want to make sure I took King
Speaker 1: because to me, I agree he has the upside to
Speaker 1: be the ace of this rotation potentially. I don't think
Speaker 1: that's a hot take. Thirteen o two Ian Happ, Shane Bieber,
Speaker 1: then Anthony Santandrek clay Holmes goes to you, Wels, let's
Speaker 1: talk about your selection at thirteen oh five.
Speaker 3: I just took two closers. I want two decent ones.
Speaker 3: I probably could have waited a little bit in the
Speaker 3: twelve man, but I felt that there was a tear difference,
Speaker 3: tear change between clay Holmes and the next crew. The
Speaker 3: next screw was like the Tanner Scott's and the jose
Speaker 3: Le Clerks and all these guys that don't feel guaranteed.
Speaker 2: Clay Holmes did feel guaranteed.
Speaker 3: But I absolutely screwed myself with both outfielders so Laire
Speaker 3: and Riley Green that I was staring at hoping they
Speaker 3: might fall. They went immediately after. And I still have
Speaker 3: one outfield spot and the pool is getting pretty shallow,
Speaker 3: pretty shallow.
Speaker 1: Very shallow pool right now. Still a lot of good
Speaker 1: players though available. Well we'll find them because as you said,
Speaker 1: so Lariered thirteen oh six, Riley Green thirteen oh seven,
Speaker 1: that's a tremendous value there. If you are gonna wait
Speaker 1: on outfield, Welsh, I think taking shots on guys like
Speaker 1: Riley Green around this range is exactly what you want
Speaker 1: to do. And I'll feel this tough, So you need
Speaker 1: a plan this year. You know, we kind of talked
Speaker 1: about last year. I think it's worse this year. I
Speaker 1: don't know if that's possible, but it just feels worse
Speaker 1: right now. From the early ranks, which again you could
Speaker 1: check out at fancypros dot com. Go click on the
Speaker 1: MLB tab or you know, obviously just scroll through there.
Speaker 1: You can see the expert consensus rankings. There you can
Speaker 1: look at my rankings, Welsh's rankings. We'll titting them again
Speaker 1: next week too.
Speaker 3: Mine, I was just about to say, minor being updated.
Speaker 3: Probably by the time this episode posts within twenty four hours,
Speaker 3: you'll get mine.
Speaker 1: Well, are you an overachiever? Isn't that great? Alec Bohm
Speaker 1: at thirteen oh eight, somebody's gonna be employee of the month.
Speaker 1: You know who's gonna be employee of the month? Ericson?
Speaker 1: Have you seen that kid lately? Ericson's employee of the
Speaker 1: month is yea, because he's organizing get together.
Speaker 2: You know, one extra work if behind the scenes he is.
Speaker 3: But he shouldn't get it because he said, Lions, we're
Speaker 3: gonna outright be the forty nine ers.
Speaker 1: He did, he did.
Speaker 3: That's why he shouldn't, but you are right. He's actually
Speaker 3: kind of a stud behind the scenes too.
Speaker 1: In case you didn't know, Welsh is a big forty
Speaker 1: nine er fan. He's very exciting for him. The next
Speaker 1: two weeks Alec bowmat thirteen oh eight, Estrau at thirteen
Speaker 1: oh nine, Gavin Williams goes at thirteen ten, and cal
Speaker 1: Rawley Sean Murphy more Catcher is going off the board here,
Speaker 1: ken Lee Janson at fourteen oh one, Merle Kelly, who
Speaker 1: is on my queue now no longer? He has gone
Speaker 1: at fourteen oh two, Max Monthsey at fourteen oh three
Speaker 1: hundred Green goes to Sassu At fourteen oh four. Tanner
Speaker 1: Scott goes off the board to Wonkee Penguin, also out
Speaker 1: of my que fourteen oh six Azila also out of
Speaker 1: my queue. So there you go. The secondary closer run
Speaker 1: is happening. We're living in a folks Contreras at fourteen
Speaker 1: oh seven. The other contrellers from Saint Louis. Just in
Speaker 1: case you're keeping score at home, Welsh fourteen oh eight.
Speaker 1: Who'd you take?
Speaker 3: Took Chas McCormick. I'm ecstatic outside of the top one
Speaker 3: fifty for McCormick to still be there. It is when
Speaker 3: we're talking twenty homer twenty stolen based potential.
Speaker 2: I love these type of He's like.
Speaker 3: Elaine Thomas and he's gonna be able to hit high
Speaker 3: in the Astro lineup. They've kind of given him the
Speaker 3: go last year. At the beginning of the year, a
Speaker 3: big thing that had changed for him was the team
Speaker 3: gave him a green light to start running whenever he wanted.
Speaker 2: And then he did so.
Speaker 3: Getting these type of guys outside the top one fifty
Speaker 3: key and as we're only doing three outfielder, I have
Speaker 3: so much power, very very confident in him being a
Speaker 3: part of that lineup. So I'm pretty ecstatic that he
Speaker 3: was about the last outfielder that I really wanted. Chris Sale,
Speaker 3: Francisco Alvarez, Jonathan India after me, and then Joe Piezapia
Speaker 3: on the clock taking your first gross closer.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, Alvarado, I'm just trying to get some saves
Speaker 1: in here. Alvrado, why don't you kill man close out games?
Speaker 1: You only pitch one frame because that's what closes do. Ooh,
Speaker 1: you're a hard one. I better make it. I know that.
Speaker 2: That's my song that's my long a.
Speaker 1: Trevor's story still on the board here, so is Willi Adamas.
Speaker 1: The two guys very interesting, kind of similar profile here.
Speaker 1: You got some power but some lower batting average. You
Speaker 1: have a preference between those two guys, give me him again,
Speaker 1: it was Trevor's story and Willi Adams.
Speaker 2: I would probably go.
Speaker 3: Adamis I think the bounce back for him and the
Speaker 3: power potential. But Story is a better twenty twenty chase.
Speaker 3: So that's the tough thing.
Speaker 1: Well it's too late. I let Story go, so I
Speaker 1: probably should have done that.
Speaker 2: No, I think Adamas is a good pick here.
Speaker 1: But I went a middle infield guy. Julian was on
Speaker 1: my board too, as was Ezekiel Tovar, who I really
Speaker 1: like as well. But you know, again, I think they're
Speaker 1: all kind of similar profile, the kind of players here
Speaker 1: generally speaking. But that's the thing, you know, this is
Speaker 1: something I will I will regret because if Tovar makes
Speaker 1: it all the way back to me, I could have
Speaker 1: gone somewhere else. So this is the part where I
Speaker 1: start to have regret. This is the classic thing that
Speaker 1: we do in drafts, you and I where we're like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna hate myself later for that pick.
Speaker 3: Definitely hate myself never I can so that. Yes, that's
Speaker 3: definite things they do.
Speaker 1: Tommy Tommy Edmon went right after that was also a
Speaker 1: guy who was on the board. But I felt like
Speaker 1: I have an a stolen basis. I was looking for
Speaker 1: some more power. Uh, so hopefully I got that. Nolan Gorman.
Speaker 1: That's a guy that's got power. He goes to mister buster.
Speaker 1: Nolan Gorman twenty seven bombs last year, but again two
Speaker 1: thirty seven batting average. Uh. Edward Rodriguez, that's the pick
Speaker 1: I should have made. I should have gone back into
Speaker 1: my queue. I panicked a little bit. I should have
Speaker 1: stopped singing, and I should have made a pick. But again,
Speaker 1: we're having fun here today, that's what we're doing. Uh.
Speaker 1: But Edwater Rodriguez signs with your Arizona Diamondbacks. I know
Speaker 1: you're on the clock. So after you make that pick,
Speaker 1: I love this move for the Diamondbacks. You bring in
Speaker 1: a left handed starter, something they needed to a team
Speaker 1: that made it all the way to the World Series
Speaker 1: fell a little short. But Rodriguez, to me, was one
Speaker 1: of the you know, most underdiscussed, underappreciated assets last year.
Speaker 1: I know he missed some time, but the twenty six
Speaker 1: starts that he made that three thirty era, that one
Speaker 1: point one five whip. The strikeout rate, you know, has
Speaker 1: come down a little bit, but he's becoming a better
Speaker 1: overall pitcher, and I think we'll take that as long
Speaker 1: as it doesn't fall too much further so.
Speaker 3: And he gets to be a number three on that team.
Speaker 3: He gets to be behind Gallon and Merrill Kelly. You've
Speaker 3: got a tremendous defense that's behind him, multiple gold glovers.
Speaker 3: You've got a fast, high run, scoring offense. It's a
Speaker 3: great spot. I mean, maybe a little bit more hitter
Speaker 3: friendly than place like Detroit, but I think in the
Speaker 3: division you're gonna be going up against like, you know,
Speaker 3: the Dodgers and the Padres. But I love I love
Speaker 3: it order I think it's a It was a great
Speaker 3: signing and that was a great pick.
Speaker 1: All right, continuing on here, James Outman was the pick
Speaker 1: for you at fifteen oh five. You feel pretty good
Speaker 1: about Outman here. I know you're, you know, not feeling
Speaker 1: great about Outfield. But a guy who came out of
Speaker 1: like a house on fire, you know, last year. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and then it kind of petered out a little bit.
Speaker 3: Another twenty twenty guy, he's locked into an outfield spot.
Speaker 3: I get to put him at util here, so maybe
Speaker 3: having a little bit of a questionable if you consider
Speaker 3: McCormick a questionable outfielder. Three, he kind of covers that.
Speaker 3: Outman kind of ends up covering that. So I'm pretty
Speaker 3: happy with that.
Speaker 1: All right, Let's see if you're happy with the rest
Speaker 1: of this after outman. Carlos Rodango's interesting bounce back. We'll
Speaker 1: see could be a great value. But again, he's got
Speaker 1: to get on the mound. Last year that was a
Speaker 1: problem for him. Christian Javier also has huge potential, some
Speaker 1: things to work on. Nate Lowe goes to Wonkee Penguin.
Speaker 1: Jake Berger one of the great stories last year that
Speaker 1: I don't think anybody saw coming. Thirty four homers for Berger.
Speaker 1: We'll see if he could repeat that for the Marvels
Speaker 1: this year. Gabriel Marino at fifteen ten, Shane Boz at
Speaker 1: fifteen to eleven. Other piece Tampa's excited about Tovar goes
Speaker 1: at fifteen twelve. Now I can sleep tonight sixteen oh one.
Speaker 1: Chris Morel then at sixteen oh two, Brandon Neimo underrated piece,
Speaker 1: Elojamenez at sixteen oh three. So we'll see if Jimenez
Speaker 1: can finally have a injury free season. Don't bet on it, folks.
Speaker 1: Jose Burrio sixteen oh four. Hunter Brown goes to the
Speaker 1: Waukee Penguin sixteen oh five. That's a good one. Your
Speaker 1: old friend Lars newtbar at sixteen oh six. Partis at
Speaker 1: sixteen oh seven. Welch, you're on the clock. What'd you do?
Speaker 3: Jackson Holiday? Everybody, thank you very much, Thank you very much.
Speaker 3: Though the system says eighty three percent chance he would
Speaker 3: have come back. Went to remind everybody that Schurio and
Speaker 3: White Langford went like three hours ago, and Jackson Holiday
Speaker 3: has as much of a shot to make the roster
Speaker 3: as a lot of these other guys. He got up
Speaker 3: to triple A. They also did not just hand over.
Speaker 3: They're not handing over Jordan Westburg that second base gig.
Speaker 3: There's an open opportunity roster resource has him there. There's
Speaker 3: pick benefits. They're coming off of the pick benefit from
Speaker 3: Gunner Henderson. I think there's a high likelihood that the
Speaker 3: Jackson Holiday, if not up, is within the first month.
Speaker 3: So at this point in the draft on a util spot,
Speaker 3: killer killer time to take a shot on him, especially
Speaker 3: with what the rest of the playerpool looks like.
Speaker 2: So the projections may not end up liking me.
Speaker 3: I might get smacked a little bit or something like that,
Speaker 3: but I'm very excited to get Holiday where I got him.
Speaker 1: Well, Welsh, I'm pretty excited too, because I just think
Speaker 1: I nailed these two util spots. I went back to
Speaker 1: back for the two util spots, and I came away
Speaker 1: with not one, but two guys. I came away with
Speaker 1: Trevor Story, who I was just talking about, and Reese Hoskins,
Speaker 1: who just signed with the Milwaukee Brewers, which I love.
Speaker 1: I think that's a great move by the Brewers. I
Speaker 1: think it's a really good setup for him. Story another
Speaker 1: guy too. I know last year there's some you know,
Speaker 1: issues with injury. We all know that with Trevor Story,
Speaker 1: but can he get back to that twenty twenty range.
Speaker 1: I think it's well within his grasp. But I see
Speaker 1: the projections look at him like that. I love this offense.
Speaker 1: I like the pitching. I think I'm a little thin,
Speaker 1: but I think every roster I look at, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: feel like I'm thin of pitching. So I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: let that worry me too much because I do believe
Speaker 1: there's going to be, you know, as always, guys on
Speaker 1: the waiver wire. So after you took Holiday, Brian Hayes,
Speaker 1: you Darvish, Max Scherzer, then I took Hoskins to and
Speaker 1: the sixteenth round, seventeenth round was Trevor Story Crawford at
Speaker 1: seventeen oh two Bailey Ober, who I almost took but
Speaker 1: I just went offense, and then Nick pavetted seventeen oh four. Welsh,
Speaker 1: you're on the clock for seventeen oh five.
Speaker 3: Well, we're almost at two hundred. And this seems like
Speaker 3: I mean, also the system and the sixty one percent
Speaker 3: of experts agree, it's a seventy percent on the predictor,
Speaker 3: which it kind of knew top lift.
Speaker 2: I need a.
Speaker 3: Corner infielder upside on Welvy Marte. I'll take the Welby Marte.
Speaker 3: If you're going to be playing third stolen and again
Speaker 3: stolen based power. I am opening myself up a little
Speaker 3: bit on the batting average side, but I can do
Speaker 3: this in head to head more so there's just another
Speaker 3: value dropping right into my lap almost at pick two hundred.
Speaker 1: Look at Welsh Cruz Marte Volpe, what Jordan Walker. It's
Speaker 1: a nice little dinas.
Speaker 2: It's kind of a younger too. Yeah, it is a
Speaker 2: little dynasty.
Speaker 1: You guys gonna be able to go out and have
Speaker 1: drinks after the games?
Speaker 2: No, nope, none of them will be able to rent
Speaker 2: a car. I can tell you that.
Speaker 1: There's Welsh Co signing leases for all of them in
Speaker 1: the UH Spring Trading.
Speaker 3: And they're like, you can have your kid having a
Speaker 3: Chase credit card, like no pandemic card.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Brian Whoo goes at seventeen oh six, then Jaron
Speaker 1: Duran at seven ten oh seven. But anything's jumping on me.
Speaker 1: It's going so fast right now. Carl's Korea to the
Speaker 1: Wonky Penguin. That's an interesting value there, of course is
Speaker 1: Carls Carey after all though. Bryce Miller at seventeen oh nine,
Speaker 1: one of the guys again house on fire and then
Speaker 1: came back down to earth. Braxton Garrett's seventeen ten. I
Speaker 1: think it's a pretty good value there. Jeremy Penya at
Speaker 1: seventeen eleven, Navy Evaldi is seventeen twelve. Now we start
Speaker 1: the eighteenth round. Jose Le Clerk at eighteen oh one.
Speaker 1: Do you think the Texas Rangers go out there and
Speaker 1: make a move for a closer this year?
Speaker 2: I think Hater was the guy. I don't think so.
Speaker 2: I mean I wouldn't.
Speaker 3: I wouldn't say that they wouldn't call like the Guardians
Speaker 3: if Emmanuel Classe is available and kind of poke around
Speaker 3: and see if they could get class. I think that's
Speaker 3: a possibility, but I think that might just go with
Speaker 3: Luc Clerk at this point.
Speaker 2: And man, I got just snipe right in front of
Speaker 2: me too.
Speaker 1: Paulonko, By the way, we just got dealt just what
Speaker 1: twenty four hours ago to Seattle Hore. Polonko goes over there,
Speaker 1: so he also goes in this round as well, trying
Speaker 1: to everything's jumping again, Welsh, because I'm so excited about
Speaker 1: the picks. Stevenson goes next, then Alex Lang, Brandon Drury,
Speaker 1: Eduard Julian goes at eighteen oh so he does not
Speaker 1: make it to me. Brandon Fought doesn't make it to
Speaker 1: me either. Man, you Welsh took.
Speaker 2: Who I took?
Speaker 3: I took some stupid person who did I ended up taking?
Speaker 3: I took Nick Lodolo. I wanted Brandon fought more than anything,
Speaker 3: and I passed on him in the last time. Lodolo
Speaker 3: coming back from injury. He's probably still the best Reds pitcher,
Speaker 3: but he had tons of injuries last year. I talked
Speaker 3: about him a lot, as like, hey, I want to
Speaker 3: buy back, and then the injury just took him out
Speaker 3: for the year.
Speaker 2: But I still love Lodolo, don't love the ballpark.
Speaker 3: I maybe should have taken Savale for more of wins,
Speaker 3: but I've taken so many safe pictures. I decided to
Speaker 3: kind of pivot from that. But Lodolo, even though I
Speaker 3: wanted Brandon, fought more than anything.
Speaker 1: All Right, I took Brian Beyo And thank you everyone
Speaker 1: who corrected me online the other day because I was tired.
Speaker 2: Oh did you drop some bellos?
Speaker 1: Bellows? I dropped a bello or two because I was tired,
Speaker 1: And you know, it's it's whatever. It's people. You know,
Speaker 1: this is what happens interesting he too. You know. I'm
Speaker 1: not one to take catchers very early, but there is
Speaker 1: a catcher I love, and it's the hoppy. I can't
Speaker 1: get enough of the Ohapi, so I'm gonna take it. Oh,
Speaker 1: I got a value pick. I got a thumbs up.
Speaker 1: So far I got one reach alert and that's okay,
Speaker 1: it's fine, but the I got the value pick there,
Speaker 1: so bayo, ohappy, very good, uh selections there for me,
Speaker 1: I think I made up for the last four picks.
Speaker 1: I feel better about.
Speaker 3: I love how you said that to you. You're like,
Speaker 3: very good, very good selections for me, They're great. I
Speaker 3: was awesome there.
Speaker 1: You just awesome there. I feel good about. I love
Speaker 1: me some Candelario at nineteen oh two, mister Buster up next.
Speaker 1: So looking at your roster right now, I know for me,
Speaker 1: I'm pretty full up here. I've got two pitcher spots
Speaker 1: left and then the bench spots. What do you have left?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I've got catcher and then I've got two pitching
Speaker 3: spots available, and we've kind of got a player pool
Speaker 3: looks about the same. And I'm I'm battling where I
Speaker 3: want to go here, and this is kind of the
Speaker 3: trick of what can I make work?
Speaker 1: All right?
Speaker 2: So this is what we're gonna do.
Speaker 3: We are gonna go with I think this is a
Speaker 3: good even though ranks aren't up to it. Good shot
Speaker 3: for Shotteo Imanaga, So I mean he's he's been He's
Speaker 3: a love of a lot of the analytics guys because
Speaker 3: stuff plus numbers on the fastball absolutely pop.
Speaker 2: He's a lower nineties pitcher.
Speaker 3: I don't exactly know ballpark factors are going to affect Imanaga,
Speaker 3: but he's gonna get a shot to be one of
Speaker 3: the top pitchers on this get a bunch of innings,
Speaker 3: so I'm pretty happy with I'm pretty happy with that spot, though.
Speaker 3: I think the system said he might have lasted a
Speaker 3: little bit longer, but he was starting to poke up,
Speaker 3: So I feel like.
Speaker 2: Wonky might have been might have been looming.
Speaker 1: Okay, well she does that, so it's very possible she looms.
Speaker 1: She's a loomer. So Imanaga has gone. Morton's gone. Bow
Speaker 1: Nailor is gone at nineteen oh seven, then Pepio at
Speaker 1: nineteen oh eight, trist mackenzie at nineteen oh nine, continuing
Speaker 1: on jad Martinez at nineteen ten, then Jonaheim Jonaheim are
Speaker 1: good friend, and then Mountcastle. That's Mike Maher's favorite person
Speaker 1: in the planet in nineteen twelve. He's at senior ball
Speaker 1: right now, So I shout out to Mike Maher hanging
Speaker 1: out now, as that's if there's a person I can't
Speaker 1: think of in a place. It's Mike Mayer in Alabama.
Speaker 3: Can you imagine it's it's Mike Mayor, Derek Brown and
Speaker 3: Thorne Einstrom in Alabama.
Speaker 1: Together right now, Derek and Thor. Yes, I don't know
Speaker 1: if Mike Mayor is gonna.
Speaker 2: Make but Mayor is with those guys. He's with them.
Speaker 1: Well, now that's why he why not make it back?
Speaker 1: That's why Because goodness knows, I've hung out with Debro
Speaker 1: and Thor quite a bit. Uh and those are fun times.
Speaker 1: And we will be doing that in a few weeks,
Speaker 1: which I'm very excited about. So in round twenty here
Speaker 1: and after this round goes through, we'll start recapping our
Speaker 1: teams and then we'll talk about the grades. We'll predict
Speaker 1: what our grades might be, and we'll take a look
Speaker 1: at the tools at the end. Again, sink your leagues.
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Speaker 1: we go, Well, Alex Kirilov, Lord of Scuriel, then you
Speaker 1: have Swinsky at twenty three, Giolito and Todz Bradley straight
Speaker 1: out of Mike c Thanks, Wonky hang Win. That pissed
Speaker 1: me off. That one pissed me off. Beenguin. We're gonna
Speaker 1: have words after this. Vaughn A twelve twenty oh six.
Speaker 1: Then Mason Miller wells, you're on the clock for twelve
Speaker 1: oh eight, and then it's coming back to me for
Speaker 1: some more.
Speaker 3: Man, I feel like the Dale person in front of
Speaker 3: me just took my list, and like every single time
Speaker 3: they're whoop, just snapping up the players that I want.
Speaker 3: It is killing me here, killingy killing me. All Right,
Speaker 3: we are gonna go. You know what, I actually agree
Speaker 3: with this experts pick here. Justin Turner just signed a
Speaker 3: one year deal with the Blue Jays. It's a great lineup.
Speaker 3: It's a batting average guy. I've taken a couple of
Speaker 3: risky shots here, a lot of RBI opportunities, so this
Speaker 3: is a good, really good.
Speaker 2: Bench bat to put on there.
Speaker 3: Especially, I would also point out it's the perfect player.
Speaker 3: When I go and take a guy like Jackson Holiday
Speaker 3: who's locked into my utail spot, take him out and
Speaker 3: put Justin Turner in, those are the type of players
Speaker 3: why you can take those shots after one fifty on
Speaker 3: guys like Jackson Holiday who might not be up right now.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna ask you a question I want should be honest.
Speaker 1: Is Byron Buxton in your cue.
Speaker 3: It's one hundred without question. He's in my queue. He
Speaker 3: will be drafted by me unless someone else is rude.
Speaker 2: He's gonna go back in the outfield. Healthy quotes Healthy.
Speaker 3: I'm hey, listen, sometime you can't control who you love.
Speaker 2: You can't control who you love. Love finds you.
Speaker 1: And there's also abusive love where you can't help your
Speaker 1: friends get out of those relationships. You don't want those
Speaker 1: people to be in those relationships. That's the thing. I'm
Speaker 1: not ready, That's the thing, Welsh.
Speaker 3: The heart wants what the heart wants, and the heart
Speaker 3: wants Buckston all right.
Speaker 1: The heart wants me to take more pitching. So that's
Speaker 1: what I'm doing here, and they'll recap my team. So
Speaker 1: I like to pick a turner. Then Stephen Kwan goes next.
Speaker 1: Ryan McMahon keent to my Aida goes right before me.
Speaker 1: That's Ken to my Aida.
Speaker 3: By the way, Welsh, Kwana, I took two Marcus Stroman
Speaker 3: and Andrew Abbott back to back.
Speaker 1: Here. Abbot had a good showing last year for Cincinnati
Speaker 1: and Stroman. Look, man, a guy was electric in the
Speaker 1: first half of the year. I still think it's gonna
Speaker 1: be a hot mess for him with the Yankees, but
Speaker 1: I can't. It's between him and Reed Debtmers, And as
Speaker 1: much as I like what Detmers can offer, I'm looking
Speaker 1: at the win potential of Stroman. I'm looking at the Angels,
Speaker 1: and I think the Angels are gonna just be a
Speaker 1: huge deficit this year there, So gimme Strolman will take
Speaker 1: the flyer. Michael Waka goes next. Let's take a look
Speaker 1: at our rosters. Here is mine is full. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: run it down. Welsh. You can give me your opinion
Speaker 1: after you make your pick. Logan o'hapi a catcher, Josh
Speaker 1: Nayler at first base, at second base, Ozzie Albi's shortstop,
Speaker 1: Xander Boguards, Alex Bregman, Christian n Carnassio strand William Thomas.
Speaker 1: Then the outfield we have Ronald Acunia, Luis Robert Ling, Thomas,
Speaker 1: my utilities, Rhys Hoskins, Trevor Story. The pitching staff is
Speaker 1: Freddie Peralta, Max Fried, Logan, Gilbert then Bednar, Michael King,
Speaker 1: Brian Bayo, Jose Alvarado, Andrew Abbott and Marcus Stroman. Do
Speaker 1: you think this dog will hunt? What do you think?
Speaker 1: This is? A B plus? Feels like a B plus.
Speaker 3: That sounds like a like a B B plus. Again,
Speaker 3: the only thing I think that matters is do you
Speaker 3: like your team?
Speaker 2: You love?
Speaker 1: I do love this?
Speaker 2: No, but will you will robot?
Speaker 1: Will I will? Robot me? Well?
Speaker 2: Ai Jones agree.
Speaker 1: You know what, if there's something that I'm excited about
Speaker 1: getting back into, it's getting back into creepy Ai generated
Speaker 1: Uh pictures for leading off in a few months.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm that so excited about that.
Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to that.
Speaker 3: Quite still, I still think about the cheese, melting pizza, Francisco.
Speaker 1: Lasagna things, nightmare fuel. Uh, you don't have a catcher yet.
Speaker 1: Spencer Torkelsen at first base, then Mookie Bets, O'Neil Cruz,
Speaker 1: Austin Riley, nove Marte, Anthony Volpi really good infield there,
Speaker 1: then the outfield, Michael Harris, Jordan Walker, Chas McCormick, u Till,
Speaker 1: James Autman, Jackson Holiday again this Dynasty team of here
Speaker 1: is really exciting. Can't wait for these kids to get
Speaker 1: out there in the sun Yamamoto, Logan, Webb, Deval Bradish, Verlander,
Speaker 1: Home Lodolo, Imanaga read Debt Meers. I passed you took
Speaker 1: him so Welsh. I like this team. I think it's
Speaker 1: got a lot of youth. Now that could be a
Speaker 1: good thing because the young players are driving the game.
Speaker 1: But do you worry about the floor of this roster
Speaker 1: at all? Yeah, that's a way of me saying passive aggressively.
Speaker 1: I worry about the floor of this roster.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think there's a part of it that I do.
Speaker 3: But Mookie, Bets, Riley and Harris, they are the stabilizers
Speaker 3: to the floor.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 3: So I feel good about that we have less outfield spots.
Speaker 3: So I guess there's really only like one less roster
Speaker 3: spot with two utails here.
Speaker 2: It's actually a little too volatile.
Speaker 3: It's probably a little too volatile for my taste that
Speaker 3: I should have done.
Speaker 2: So I'll completely agree with you. From Torkosen to.
Speaker 3: Oneel to Noel VI to Outman, that's a little dicey,
Speaker 3: But you know it's something that I'll just I'll have
Speaker 3: to end up coming to terms with in the total
Speaker 3: roster construction. Now Wonkee just went Louise Capusano, who was
Speaker 3: one of two closer catchers. I would do that that
Speaker 3: I was taking a look at. I don't like the rest,
Speaker 3: though I probably should wait, I don't want to risk it.
Speaker 3: Mitch Garver, not only being a catcher, but a DH
Speaker 3: with Seattle is such an exciting thing. Twenty plus Homer
Speaker 3: easy potential. So I'm gonna just swoop in and make
Speaker 3: sure I get Mitch Garver and non't get screwed.
Speaker 2: Here's my I think I'm the last person to take
Speaker 2: a catcher.
Speaker 1: Every time I hear Mitch Carver, I just think of
Speaker 1: Cartman on South Park saying Mitch Kunner, I don't know
Speaker 1: every time. I just always let me recap the last
Speaker 1: few rounds for US. So Stroman went at twenty one
Speaker 1: oh one, then walk up Brash Lawler read debt meurse
Speaker 1: to Welsh, Emmitt Sheehan, Matt Chapman, MJ. Melendez, Chris Christopher Sanchez,
Speaker 1: excuse me, Carlos Stevez, Kerry Carpenter, Michael Bush, and then
Speaker 1: returning on the turn in twenty two, Matt suiy Kellnick
Speaker 1: Taylor Ward, Tyler O'Neil, Sam Luis Campisano, Brendon Lau and
Speaker 1: then we had Starling, Marte, Mitch Garver, Suarez. Then back
Speaker 1: to me. Buxton did go so Welsh roll the dice
Speaker 1: didn't get him. Teetam in after Buxton, which means it's
Speaker 1: back to me. Top lift right now is Max Kepler,
Speaker 1: which I think I could do worse. Get some extra
Speaker 1: outfield help. I don't have a problem with that. I
Speaker 1: will listen to you, Draft Wizard. You control me. I'm
Speaker 1: letting the robots control me here a little bit. Looking
Speaker 1: around too, we else is left in my queue. I
Speaker 1: think it's a little too early for what's left in
Speaker 1: my cue, so we'll keep going through here. Pitching is
Speaker 1: dried up, that's for sure. Make sure you get your
Speaker 1: pictures while you can. Garcia is out there, McNeil's out there.
Speaker 1: Maybe some extra stone bases to a little bit of
Speaker 1: infield help with Garcia, so Michael Garcia will go that
Speaker 1: route too. Again. I will listen to Draft Wizard. Perhaps
Speaker 1: it'll be kind to me when it comes back around
Speaker 1: for grading time. Welsh at this point in the draft too,
Speaker 1: when you're gonna last couple of picks. What are you
Speaker 1: trying to do with your bench? Just take best available
Speaker 1: or there are specific things where you're looking at and saying, hey,
Speaker 1: I got a young team, let me get some veteran players.
Speaker 1: Maybe they get a bounce back.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, So for my roster specifically, doing that right there,
Speaker 3: like you know, justin to balance out of Jackson Holiday
Speaker 3: like having some balances good. But at the end of
Speaker 3: the day, I think the best approach is taking your
Speaker 3: your long shots, you know, to take those big shots
Speaker 3: because most of these bench players are probably going to
Speaker 3: be easily dropable, You're gonna be streamable options. So I'm
Speaker 3: not afraid to take, you know, some shots, especially in
Speaker 3: a twelve man league where I know there's going to
Speaker 3: be an easier probability of me being able to get
Speaker 3: this guy over here, get this guy over here, so
Speaker 3: I will just easily drop some of these players. So
Speaker 3: I'm gonna take some high upside. So here's a prime example.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna take Robert Swarez. Robert Swarez is in line
Speaker 3: to be the Padres closer, though I think John Hayman
Speaker 3: has said all three different guys, Yuki Matsui and Usago
Speaker 3: could be. All these different guys could be it, but Suarez,
Speaker 3: they gave the most money to.
Speaker 2: He is in line.
Speaker 3: I think he gets first opportunity, so to get a
Speaker 3: third closer on the bench who could potentially keep the
Speaker 3: job for the Padres the rest of the season.
Speaker 2: I'll take that shot. If I'm wrong, I dump him
Speaker 2: and I pick up another relief pitcher.
Speaker 1: Is there any chance that Wonky Penguin doesn't win this draft?
Speaker 1: I feel like that's just like coming.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I mean, I feel like John Means was on my list,
Speaker 3: Like I don't. I haven't seen Wonky take the young shots,
Speaker 3: and some of the system isn't gonna like be super
Speaker 3: beneficial to taking crazy shots on players, so I wouldn't
Speaker 3: be surprised.
Speaker 2: If Wonky is one.
Speaker 1: For sure we would not.
Speaker 2: So Walk'll probably hate my draft too.
Speaker 3: It'll be all the hates are gonna be like Mike
Speaker 3: Mayer Wonky somehow Ericson will hate the draft. He'll just
Speaker 3: show up even though he doesn't do baseball or know
Speaker 3: what it is.
Speaker 1: That's my favorite. Whenever you get one of those guys
Speaker 1: who doesn't even cover you, Like you don't even cover baseball,
Speaker 1: how do you have a thing in here. Some big
Speaker 1: names still on the board too, just kind of looking
Speaker 1: at I wonder if they'll get drafted out. Jim Carlos,
Speaker 1: Stanton and Verdugo for the Yankees. Still out there, Louis Severino,
Speaker 1: who is now a New York met much to my chagrin.
Speaker 1: If I have a chagrin, it's probably named Louis Severino.
Speaker 1: You have any guys out there on this board still
Speaker 1: when you look at the pick predictor that you think, yeah,
Speaker 1: I take a shot on a Clark Schmid. I want
Speaker 1: to take a shot on this guy. Like some guys
Speaker 1: out there's still worth taking some dart throws on.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's interesting the pick predictor is struggling with a
Speaker 3: few of the players that I would really hone in on.
Speaker 3: You've mentioned Severarina. I'm really trying to balance, Like, who
Speaker 3: am I going to be able to slide through some
Speaker 3: stuff here? So let's do this. So I think I
Speaker 3: got a guy that I think can slide like in
Speaker 3: Fight Club slide, I'm.
Speaker 1: Gonna go buy in particular for me that's still on
Speaker 1: the board that I'm Zach Netto.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go with Netto on the bench.
Speaker 3: Stolen based potential be hitting at the top of that
Speaker 3: stupid Angels lineup, But I got another guy. So who's
Speaker 3: at the top of your thing that you're gonna ruin
Speaker 3: my day?
Speaker 1: Well, I'll run. I don't think I'm gonna ruin your day.
Speaker 1: After I took Garcia. Recapping round twenty three, Tyler Stevenson,
Speaker 1: you say Kakuchi, Clayton Kershaw is still wait no word
Speaker 1: from him, Robert Suarez, Gavin Lux, Ryan Jeffers, John Means,
Speaker 1: Kyle Harrison, Rhyese Olsen, Brian Abreu, and then Anthony Rendone,
Speaker 1: David Robertson then starts around twenty four or Cutter Crawford,
Speaker 1: Jose Breu, Lancelin, We'll see what he could do back
Speaker 1: with the Saint Louis Cardinals, Ring Gifo, Josh Bell, Kirk Netto,
Speaker 1: and then you have Tim Anderson for me, Jung Ho
Speaker 1: Lee from the San Francisco Giants. I think is intriguing
Speaker 1: for batting average, especially in a head to head cats
Speaker 1: at this point, like you take the guy, you know,
Speaker 1: I don't know how much power he's gonna hit for.
Speaker 1: It's it's one of those things it's harder to predict,
Speaker 1: but you know, whenever a guy is a big international signing,
Speaker 1: I think you have to pay attention to it. Manzarto
Speaker 1: is interesting at first base two, but you know, I'm
Speaker 1: a big cures dad guy, so I'm gonna go ahead
Speaker 1: and take him because I want to lock him in.
Speaker 1: I was gonna take on my last pick, but I
Speaker 1: don't think he's gonna make it there. So after that
Speaker 1: a world as Chapman goes. That's also a pretty good
Speaker 1: selection there because if ben Nard gets traded, then Chapman's
Speaker 1: a closer, or Chatman gets cooled somewhere else, and you know,
Speaker 1: trade somewhere else, it ends up closing as well. I
Speaker 1: don't I get dinged a lot with the draft Whizzard
Speaker 1: Welsh because I typically tend not to go close or heavy,
Speaker 1: and because of that, you know, my say categories are lower,
Speaker 1: and that's fine because it's always the one thing I
Speaker 1: can find on the waiver wires. So you can set
Speaker 1: draft Wizard to certain preferences, which I think is great,
Speaker 1: and I think that's why the tools here at Fantasy
Speaker 1: Pros are a little bit more advanced than some others.
Speaker 1: Not only can you do a mock draft by yourself
Speaker 1: in five minutes. You can do them with friends and
Speaker 1: family or colleagues or draft mates or whatever, but you
Speaker 1: can also go ahead. And there's so many bells and
Speaker 1: whistles in terms of the settings, in terms of using
Speaker 1: the Chee Chee creed, in terms of the pick predictor like,
Speaker 1: there's so many things that are available here. So by
Speaker 1: the time you get to your own draft, especially if
Speaker 1: you have premium, you attach everything. It makes so much
Speaker 1: sense to do that. But I feel like it's like
Speaker 1: working out before the you know, before the match. It's
Speaker 1: like you know, running before the marathon. Like I just
Speaker 1: feel like it's so useful. By the time you get there,
Speaker 1: you feel so prepared for all of your leagues. And
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Speaker 3: Yeah, you know what an amazing thing too, just behind
Speaker 3: the scenes thing. We were in a meeting, an eye
Speaker 3: brought up a couple things and they were like, these
Speaker 3: are great ideas, We're gonna try to work on them
Speaker 3: right now. Like that's how great it was, Like something
Speaker 3: came to my mind and they're like, we love that
Speaker 3: and we're gonna.
Speaker 1: Work on it.
Speaker 3: So they are continuously tinkering and working, and I learn
Speaker 3: new stuff every day, and I also learn how excited
Speaker 3: I am that you love Kurstak because you passed on Manzardo,
Speaker 3: And that is exactly who I wanted and exactly who
Speaker 3: I took.
Speaker 1: I figured, I figured it was between those two guys,
Speaker 1: But I like Kirsted. I like the guy with a
Speaker 1: little bit of edge. So von Grisom goes after Chapman Jansen.
Speaker 1: You took Manzardo, Eure up for another pick. But Edward Cabrera, Paxton,
Speaker 1: Adam Severino, Lopez, Griffin Canning, Brandon Woodruff, then Barlow, Mackenzie,
Speaker 1: Gore Bryant in this last round, Freeley, Jeffrey Springs Cano Lugo.
Speaker 1: That's a good pick in round twenty six. By the way,
Speaker 1: I just want to point that out there. Welsh, make
Speaker 1: your last pick. I'm gonna make my last pick, and
Speaker 1: then we'll get our grades and get out of here.
Speaker 1: What do you got?
Speaker 3: All right, last pick here? Let's mess around, all right? No, no,
Speaker 3: we won't mess around. I was been thinking about Jordan Hicks.
Speaker 3: We're Gonake, Grett Whitlocke, like I think you took Bayo earlier.
Speaker 3: Cayle Body going and working, you know, the former Drive
Speaker 3: the guy that created Drive Line going and working with
Speaker 3: the Boston Pitchers. I think is going to have a
Speaker 3: really good bounce back. It's the system may not love
Speaker 3: it at the end of the day, but I like
Speaker 3: itting Garrett Whitlock at the end of the draft.
Speaker 1: All right, I'm gonna probably take another outfielder. Hear between
Speaker 1: Austin Hayes and Verdugo here. You know, Verdugo's a bad
Speaker 1: clubhouse guy, and I don't have enough Orioles. So I'm
Speaker 1: gonna probably take Austin Hayes when it comes back, if
Speaker 1: he makes it back to me after Whitlock. John Grego
Speaker 1: is another good selection there. Uh you know the pictures too. Again,
Speaker 1: I'm just looking at the guys that are left. It's tough.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's Clark Schmid, It's tie On, It's Ranger Suarez,
Speaker 1: Alec Manoa. That reclamation project that's good? Do you think? Please?
Speaker 1: Do you have that? Please? How about Paul Skeens? Should
Speaker 1: I have some fun there?
Speaker 2: I just don't think.
Speaker 3: I mean you you absolutely can, and the system probably
Speaker 3: won't hate it. I just don't think Skeens is up early.
Speaker 1: Austin Hayes goes Oh, but it doesn't matter. The picks
Speaker 1: are in, the standings are in. So let's recap. I
Speaker 1: got an A minus, not a B plus. Thank you
Speaker 1: Draft Wizard. Finally somebody likes me. So my first draft
Speaker 1: was an A minus. Nowhere to go but down? Welsh,
Speaker 1: what was your grade for a draft? Wizard?
Speaker 2: Hated my draft so bad? A C I got agree
Speaker 2: see on that.
Speaker 1: Wow, you're ten of twelve. I am three of twelve.
Speaker 1: Wonky Penguin of course beat me. She's number two, and
Speaker 1: mister Buster, a good friend of Buster, fan of the
Speaker 1: show and friend of the show, is at number one,
Speaker 1: So good on them. If they said if I took
Speaker 1: Pete a Lonzo, I would have done better. But again,
Speaker 1: I'm very happy with the route I went there. I
Speaker 1: got Reese Hoskins as a Steele Kepler and Fordugo iss Steals.
Speaker 1: I reached for King, which I disagree with, and BeO,
Speaker 1: I think neither of those guys are reaches. I feel
Speaker 1: good about that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 1: And in terms of looking at the expert opinions, Chris
Speaker 1: Towers thumbs up. Ariel Cohen, the number one ranker on
Speaker 1: Fantasy Pros every year with the projections there thumbs up,
Speaker 1: and Mike Mayer liked my draft. I probably should never
Speaker 1: draft again. Ironically, Killy Kirby, the Blonky Penguin and Scott
Speaker 1: Pianowski hated my draft. So there you go.
Speaker 2: Oh that's funny. Okay.
Speaker 3: So some of the insights on my really bad draft
Speaker 3: it let's say it said, what if I had taken
Speaker 3: Linn Dore at three five and drafted outfield later, I
Speaker 3: would have scored significantly.
Speaker 2: Higher my reaches no shocker.
Speaker 3: Jackson Holliday two rounds, said, Nicolodolo by two rounds and
Speaker 3: Chotto Imanaga by two rounds. It said it was only
Speaker 3: top four and wins. That's my biggest problem. And Pierre
Speaker 3: Camu was the number one person that.
Speaker 2: Loved my draft. Also, Scott Painowski liked it.
Speaker 3: Frank Amerant, Chris welsh I liked it for Oneil Cruz,
Speaker 3: Camilla Devall, and Kyle Bradish and Tim Kannak from Fantasy
Speaker 3: Acepall who was also writing here at Fantasy Pros. Keith
Speaker 3: Lott hated me the most ariel the second month he
Speaker 3: wanted to punch me, Andy Barrons, Brandon Myers, and Mick Cuik.
Speaker 1: Don't know Phil, it's Chiella. I believe Ella says it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so that was my soak liked my draft too
Speaker 3: bad draft that it did?
Speaker 2: Really hated my draft.
Speaker 1: I mean talking about, well, you wait to draft, you
Speaker 1: wait to the show to do your first draft of
Speaker 1: the year. I specifically I was last week it came out.
Speaker 1: I wanted to do some mock drafts. I said, no,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna wait. I'm gonna do it fresh, first experience here,
Speaker 1: and I got an a minus. So I want you
Speaker 1: to look at the draft. Tell me who you think
Speaker 1: won the draft. Which team do you like? Give well
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