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Fantasy best Friends forever, our number two 0:00:49.960 --> 0:00:55.480 Fantasy best Friends Forever. Fantasy Sports Radio Network. Long long signed, 0:00:55.480 --> 0:00:58.120 Frank standfile two more guest instudio. Hi, Frank, going on 0:00:59.000 --> 0:01:01.240 a little close to you right now, just like a 0:01:01.240 --> 0:01:03.880 lot closer than We're weird. That's okay. We have two 0:01:03.880 --> 0:01:09.440 guests in studio, which makes it and it makes it. 0:01:09.440 --> 0:01:10.840 It makes it all the more, It makes it all 0:01:10.880 --> 0:01:12.720 the more easy. You can pound. They're not gonna see you, 0:01:12.720 --> 0:01:14.640 Pat because for the camera's on us. But that's cool. 0:01:15.000 --> 0:01:17.360 Matt Striker and Mike the rohto Cop are here to 0:01:17.480 --> 0:01:20.280 talk about what's going on in their fantasy baseball world 0:01:20.280 --> 0:01:22.720 and break down all the latest news with us. So, gentlemen, 0:01:22.720 --> 0:01:24.160 welcome to the show. Thanks for coming in, thanks for 0:01:24.160 --> 0:01:27.000 having us. Really appreciate it absolutely. But first and foremost, 0:01:27.080 --> 0:01:30.520 where can people listen to your podcast? Let him know's 0:01:30.600 --> 0:01:32.800 on pod. On Twitter, you could follow me at Mike 0:01:32.800 --> 0:01:36.479 the Rhoto Cop, follow Matt at Matt Underscore, Riker Underscore 0:01:36.600 --> 0:01:38.959 and Matt Underscore Striker Underscore, as well as on rasball 0:01:39.040 --> 0:01:41.360 dot com. There you go, and they can also follow 0:01:41.400 --> 0:01:43.800 you from sure a bunch of wrestling stuff as well. Yeah, 0:01:44.000 --> 0:01:47.160 but we're here to talk about fantasy baseball. Baseball is real. 0:01:47.440 --> 0:01:49.480 That is I look at that. Look at that, not 0:01:49.520 --> 0:01:52.160 implying anything, but there you go. Absolutely, So the biggest 0:01:52.160 --> 0:01:55.200 news in fantasy baseball came. There's a lot of news yesterday, 0:01:55.320 --> 0:01:57.880 right with the biggest stuff being that Josie Ramirez in 0:01:57.920 --> 0:02:00.600 the first inning leaves the game after taking a ball 0:02:00.640 --> 0:02:02.840 off the knee, and you're just like a crap, And 0:02:02.960 --> 0:02:05.320 we did the same thing, Frank, We drafted them fourth overall. 0:02:05.480 --> 0:02:08.560 I'm sure you guys have him somewhere. And it wasn't 0:02:08.560 --> 0:02:10.359 like he just limped off. It wasn't like he crawled off. 0:02:10.400 --> 0:02:11.799 It was he was taking on a golf cart and 0:02:11.800 --> 0:02:14.760 immediately taking him to the X ray machine and thankfully 0:02:14.760 --> 0:02:17.840 everything comes back negative. But Matt, you're you're an athlete. 0:02:18.240 --> 0:02:21.080 Is that is that enough to kind of kualda worries 0:02:21.120 --> 0:02:23.760 for you? Yeah? Absolutely. When you find out what the 0:02:23.760 --> 0:02:25.679 results were and you realize that it's just gonna be 0:02:25.760 --> 0:02:27.480 a bruise or things like that, you do hold your 0:02:27.520 --> 0:02:29.240 breath for a second, but then after a while you 0:02:29.240 --> 0:02:32.280 realize he's a quality athlete. He's going to be just fine. 0:02:32.360 --> 0:02:36.600 But as from a fantasy perspective, you go exactly and 0:02:36.840 --> 0:02:39.280 I know in an hour draft that we had last night, Frank, 0:02:39.600 --> 0:02:42.240 he didn't really drop right. He still went in the 0:02:42.240 --> 0:02:44.520 middle of that first round where he's been going. And 0:02:44.560 --> 0:02:46.239 I was looking on Twitter right after the injury and 0:02:46.240 --> 0:02:48.839 people were talking about taking him in the middle round, 0:02:48.960 --> 0:02:55.679 like this is like overreaction, like fantasy twitters that something 0:02:55.760 --> 0:02:57.600 is a thing. Well, you know what, I think it's 0:02:57.680 --> 0:03:00.960 it's a reaction to metals because we didn't know what 0:03:01.040 --> 0:03:02.600 was happening with Matt Olsen, and there were a lot 0:03:02.639 --> 0:03:05.960 of drafts going on, you know, Thursday, even Friday before 0:03:06.000 --> 0:03:08.560 we had information. I think, you know, people who might 0:03:08.600 --> 0:03:11.600 have drafted matt Olsen, it might have got burned, you know, 0:03:11.639 --> 0:03:13.880 by having like injury optimism there. So you see this 0:03:13.919 --> 0:03:15.760 happen to Josier mirrors yesterday and the fact that he 0:03:15.800 --> 0:03:18.520 was harded off and he was riding rolling around in pain. 0:03:19.760 --> 0:03:21.520 I think it worried a lot of people because you know, 0:03:21.840 --> 0:03:25.480 talking about potential shin breaks, something wrong with his knee there. 0:03:25.520 --> 0:03:28.160 So especially for a guy we expect to steal bases, 0:03:28.200 --> 0:03:29.960 I mean that that's what worries me the most. Is 0:03:30.520 --> 0:03:32.520 just gonna affect his ability to run, you know, his 0:03:32.600 --> 0:03:35.720 lower legs. You know, that's kind of why I've pivoted 0:03:35.840 --> 0:03:38.360 off of Francisco Lindor, which kind of scared me because 0:03:38.520 --> 0:03:40.760 you know, you want Landor to steal twenty five basses. 0:03:41.040 --> 0:03:43.360 Now he's dealing with a cash train. So I understand 0:03:43.440 --> 0:03:46.680 people might worry about Hosier mirrors, but I mean for 0:03:46.720 --> 0:03:48.680 the initial reaction to be let's drop him down into 0:03:48.680 --> 0:03:51.320 the middle rounds, I thought that was a little too much. 0:03:52.520 --> 0:03:57.760 Like you said, fantasy Twitter is just is something is 0:03:57.800 --> 0:04:01.600 completely something else. Now speak of Cleveland, Mike, we've been 0:04:01.640 --> 0:04:03.600 I was looking at their infield with Josierramires hurt and 0:04:03.600 --> 0:04:05.840 indure her, and it's like this team is terrible, Like 0:04:06.360 --> 0:04:09.080 you don't realize that the Cleveland team that has been 0:04:09.120 --> 0:04:10.920 so good for the last few years isn't It's not 0:04:10.960 --> 0:04:15.240 the same team anymore. The pitchings outstanding, but Lindore, Josie Ramirez, 0:04:15.240 --> 0:04:18.640 Carlos Santana's back, but the rest of it's not good. 0:04:18.800 --> 0:04:20.440 And yeah, you have Jake Bowers in the off field, 0:04:20.480 --> 0:04:23.240 but the infielders filling in, you have Brad Miller there 0:04:23.320 --> 0:04:26.039 and some other guys you haven't heard of. So Frank 0:04:26.120 --> 0:04:28.919 kind of led us to Hanley Ramirez and Hanley Ramirez 0:04:29.040 --> 0:04:31.719 being a part of this Indians team. He was somebody 0:04:31.760 --> 0:04:33.840 that Frank was interested in picking up in leagues, picked 0:04:33.920 --> 0:04:37.080 up in a league. What do you think, Mike about 0:04:37.200 --> 0:04:40.599 Hanley Ramirez? This is the best case scenario for Himley 0:04:40.680 --> 0:04:42.960 and all the options coming into the season where he 0:04:42.960 --> 0:04:46.000 could land. He actually found himself in the fifth spot 0:04:46.000 --> 0:04:47.600 on the roster. Resource to have him in the fifth 0:04:47.640 --> 0:04:49.320 spot in an Indians line up? Do you think a 0:04:49.400 --> 0:04:50.960 roster ressearch? By the way, what why do we have 0:04:51.040 --> 0:04:53.360 it here? Is there like an inside roster researchs a 0:04:53.400 --> 0:05:00.040 bit of an inside I think roster resarch. Honestly, I 0:05:00.040 --> 0:05:01.640 don't know the people for Rossal Resource, so I hate 0:05:01.680 --> 0:05:04.440 to just like destroy them. It's terrible. It's terrible, but 0:05:04.560 --> 0:05:09.200 it's not act. It's not accurate, educated, similar to what 0:05:09.240 --> 0:05:11.960 we do. Okay, so what do I need them for? 0:05:13.120 --> 0:05:14.600 What do you think Hanley Mirrors is gonna bat in 0:05:14.640 --> 0:05:15.760 the line up? Greg? I don't know if he's gonna 0:05:15.760 --> 0:05:17.839 play every day. You're the one that's community can play 0:05:17.839 --> 0:05:20.320 every day. Who's gonna take his spot? That's what? Is 0:05:20.320 --> 0:05:23.160 it gonna be Jordan's Lapwell, I don't make so. I 0:05:23.200 --> 0:05:26.919 don't know. He got him at d H here onst Source, 0:05:27.000 --> 0:05:30.000 but one guy they also have Eric Stammit's is playing shortstop, 0:05:30.000 --> 0:05:31.359 which I don't think it's gonna be the case. So 0:05:31.440 --> 0:05:33.400 there you go. It's like an extreme on each side. 0:05:33.920 --> 0:05:37.920 Don't sleep on you, Chang Chang, Who I change you guys? 0:05:38.040 --> 0:05:39.440 You're not really my guy. I don't want to go 0:05:39.480 --> 0:05:44.279 on air about Chang saying if he gets that baths 0:05:44.320 --> 0:05:46.839 and for Mirrors does hit the I l might find 0:05:46.839 --> 0:05:49.440 his way into some at bats in the infield. He 0:05:49.480 --> 0:05:51.680 had twenty four homers in the minors two seasons ago. 0:05:52.080 --> 0:05:53.560 I kind of slowed down a little bit, but he 0:05:53.560 --> 0:05:57.400 could provide extreme, extreme cheap pop someone's middle field position. 0:05:57.440 --> 0:06:00.440 I got him for two dollars yesterday's bab and uh 0:06:00.520 --> 0:06:02.320 T j FPI I probably could have gotten from one dollar. 0:06:02.320 --> 0:06:03.800 I didn't check to see if anyone else been on him. 0:06:03.800 --> 0:06:05.719 I highly doubt it. I don't sleep on you Chang. 0:06:05.880 --> 0:06:08.320 That's another option for for the Indians. And he's got 0:06:08.320 --> 0:06:10.280 a great name to say, yes, you don't you think 0:06:10.600 --> 0:06:13.880 this is actually perfect time to bring up Yeah, so 0:06:13.880 --> 0:06:17.000 what I do? So? I am very into the um 0:06:17.480 --> 0:06:19.760 cool name theory, and I think prospects are hyped up 0:06:19.760 --> 0:06:21.640 when they have cooler names. Actually looks back to Alexander 0:06:21.680 --> 0:06:26.040 Bogart's Trevor Bauer when with popular Corvin Burns right like 0:06:26.240 --> 0:06:29.120 Tyler Skaggs, like these guys have to ben to say right. 0:06:29.120 --> 0:06:31.640 So you Chang right in there. It's the cool name 0:06:31.640 --> 0:06:33.960 of theory. But I will say this, as far as 0:06:34.160 --> 0:06:36.560 Lindora and Ramirez, I've been off of them for a 0:06:36.600 --> 0:06:39.719 while now. Ramirez won me in ten leagues. Last year 0:06:39.720 --> 0:06:41.760 he won me seven out of my ten leagues. So 0:06:41.839 --> 0:06:43.520 this year I was saying to myself, I want to 0:06:43.520 --> 0:06:45.160 deviate and I want to go somewhere else. So I've 0:06:45.160 --> 0:06:47.120 been off of those guys, which has allowed me to 0:06:47.200 --> 0:06:50.120 look at guys that could replace them. Maybe sometimes I 0:06:50.160 --> 0:06:52.920 can build Ramirez orl Indoor out of two different guys. 0:06:53.160 --> 0:06:56.000 So when I see these things happen, I kind of say, 0:06:56.360 --> 0:06:59.400 not cool, but cool off the worry. I agree, these 0:06:59.400 --> 0:07:01.280 guys were kind. They're not on an avoid list by 0:07:01.279 --> 0:07:03.400 any means. I would never put it as on avoid list. 0:07:03.720 --> 0:07:05.240 The fact that they lost so much protection in the 0:07:05.240 --> 0:07:09.359 off season between Edwin Brantley, Donaldson injury, wind Or injury, 0:07:09.400 --> 0:07:11.960 So Jose Aramirez, where is his protection to the lineup 0:07:12.000 --> 0:07:14.560 going That's just something you think about drafting. Kind of 0:07:14.960 --> 0:07:16.880 not an avoid but just something to think about. It 0:07:16.920 --> 0:07:18.800 was a bad day for Second Basement all around over 0:07:18.800 --> 0:07:21.200 the weekend with Josie ramire Is going down, after Scooter 0:07:21.240 --> 0:07:23.200 Janette goes down, and Scooter Jeannette was a guy that 0:07:23.240 --> 0:07:25.360 I I've been part of. Like there's two sides of 0:07:25.360 --> 0:07:27.520 Fantasy Twitter when it comes to Scooter Jeannette, and that 0:07:27.600 --> 0:07:29.960 was the fact that those that don't understand it and 0:07:30.000 --> 0:07:31.760 those that just don't care that they don't understand it, 0:07:31.760 --> 0:07:35.080 but they buy into it. Because he's really good. He 0:07:35.120 --> 0:07:39.480 gets hurt, changes growing very significantly out eight to twelve weeks, 0:07:39.560 --> 0:07:43.520 and the obvious idea would be that, hey, r Nick Senzel, 0:07:43.560 --> 0:07:45.560 He's played second he's played up, played second base throughout 0:07:45.560 --> 0:07:48.720 his miner's career, and they're like, no, he's a center fielder. Now, Okay, 0:07:48.720 --> 0:07:51.000 maybe that's all b asked to hold him down until 0:07:51.040 --> 0:07:52.880 April fifteenth, which is the date that he can come up, 0:07:52.920 --> 0:07:57.400 and it probably is, but nevertheless, for our purposes, he's 0:07:57.440 --> 0:07:59.360 not coming up, which means Josie LaSIE is going to 0:07:59.400 --> 0:08:01.240 be the starting short stop from this team, and whose 0:08:01.360 --> 0:08:04.120 Pa slides over the second base, which could Frank open 0:08:04.240 --> 0:08:08.080 up more an opportunity or more position eligibility for whose Peraza, 0:08:08.160 --> 0:08:10.920 giving him second base and shortstop eligibility depending on how 0:08:10.920 --> 0:08:13.040 many games he plays there. Yeah, I think he'll gain 0:08:13.080 --> 0:08:15.360 the second base eligibility, and it's a position he's played 0:08:15.440 --> 0:08:18.400 in the past. Does jos actually someone that's been pretty 0:08:18.440 --> 0:08:21.280 hyped up here during during the uh the draft season 0:08:21.280 --> 0:08:23.880 because of stolen bases? Right, everyone's trying to find stolen bases, 0:08:23.920 --> 0:08:25.400 and I did it last night. I think they look, 0:08:25.480 --> 0:08:26.600 you know, they look back at what he did in 0:08:26.640 --> 0:08:28.240 the minors. I don't know that he has like this 0:08:28.400 --> 0:08:31.240 crazy stolen base upside like we're expecting, you know, maybe 0:08:31.240 --> 0:08:33.480 he steals twenty to thirty. I think he's that you 0:08:33.480 --> 0:08:36.040 know that range, tend a fifteen home runs something like that. 0:08:36.120 --> 0:08:39.679 But my biggest worry with Paza at this point was 0:08:39.720 --> 0:08:42.040 where is he going to batten the lineup? So this 0:08:42.120 --> 0:08:44.040 might actually help him now if he's able to move 0:08:44.080 --> 0:08:45.960 up in the line up a little bit, obviously helps 0:08:46.000 --> 0:08:48.280 him score more runs. So we'll see what happens with there. 0:08:48.320 --> 0:08:50.360 As of now, they say Jose Glaze is gonna fill 0:08:50.360 --> 0:08:52.839 in at shortstop. He's a fine defensive player, but I'm 0:08:52.840 --> 0:08:56.040 not really expecting much from him offensively or for for 0:08:56.080 --> 0:08:59.000 fantasy purposes. I'll say you, I don't really love the 0:08:59.040 --> 0:09:01.839 fact that the Reds sent down Scooter Genet because uh 0:09:02.000 --> 0:09:04.320 sent down Nick Senzel, because they've been talking about fielding 0:09:04.360 --> 0:09:07.280 their best team. Clearly they're not you know, abiding by 0:09:07.320 --> 0:09:09.520 that or listening to their you know, what they're telling people. 0:09:09.800 --> 0:09:12.520 But if they really do want to just play him 0:09:12.520 --> 0:09:15.360 at center and have him focus on center field, I 0:09:15.440 --> 0:09:17.520 don't have a problem with that, because they've been trying 0:09:17.559 --> 0:09:19.760 to transition him into that. It's like you don't want 0:09:19.840 --> 0:09:22.520 him to go back and forth between outfield and second base. 0:09:22.559 --> 0:09:24.280 He's right kind of mess with a young prospect. So 0:09:24.640 --> 0:09:26.040 at least like, if you're gonna make me a center 0:09:26.080 --> 0:09:28.520 fielder or an outfielder, just stick to that, all right. 0:09:28.640 --> 0:09:30.959 Let him get his reps in the minors. Hopefully he's 0:09:31.000 --> 0:09:32.960 up by mid April. Uh. You know a lot of 0:09:32.960 --> 0:09:35.040 people excited about him, and rightfully so I don't have 0:09:35.080 --> 0:09:37.440 a problem with them keeping him in the outfield. And 0:09:37.480 --> 0:09:39.240 Mike and I talk about this on our show on 0:09:39.240 --> 0:09:41.720 the strike Zone pot that I own shares of Senseil 0:09:41.840 --> 0:09:43.720 and now he has the n A next to him, 0:09:43.840 --> 0:09:45.559 so I have to But on the flip, I think 0:09:45.559 --> 0:09:46.760 the Reds are gonna be good and I like the 0:09:46.800 --> 0:09:48.920 options that it gives for that outfield. I'm a big, 0:09:49.000 --> 0:09:51.400 yassy guy uses a birdman bat, and I'm friends with 0:09:51.440 --> 0:09:53.040 a lot of guys over bird man bats. But I 0:09:53.040 --> 0:09:55.640 think guys like Jesse Winker and scotch But now become 0:09:55.720 --> 0:09:59.280 even more interesting. If you are looking for some kind 0:09:59.320 --> 0:10:02.079 of something in the middle or late rounds, a guy 0:10:02.120 --> 0:10:04.360 like Chad even a guy like Winker. There you you 0:10:04.440 --> 0:10:06.960 go right there. So if Senzel stays down, I don't 0:10:06.960 --> 0:10:08.240 like it because I own shares of him, But at 0:10:08.280 --> 0:10:11.040 the same time, it may give people out there an 0:10:11.080 --> 0:10:14.480 option in late rounds. For me, the reason I jumped 0:10:14.480 --> 0:10:17.520 like on Josie Perrazza was because not only is not 0:10:17.640 --> 0:10:20.120 that his playtime wasn't secure, it was he's gonna move 0:10:20.120 --> 0:10:21.600 on the order a little bit. And I know they're 0:10:21.600 --> 0:10:24.320 planning on leading off Jesse Winker and having Joey Vato 0:10:24.520 --> 0:10:27.240 that second, But ifs Parazza could run a little bit 0:10:27.240 --> 0:10:29.000 more and so now get towards the top about that lineup, 0:10:29.160 --> 0:10:30.920 the opportunity for him to score more runs are going 0:10:30.920 --> 0:10:33.680 to be there. Uh there? Certainly with twe and you, 0:10:33.720 --> 0:10:36.319 any of Suarez and kept behind him, I think the 0:10:36.360 --> 0:10:38.280 possibilities are endless. So that's why I was really excited 0:10:38.400 --> 0:10:40.800 last night to jump in on Josie Prazza, and that's 0:10:40.800 --> 0:10:42.199 what I did, Like, I need a little bit of 0:10:42.240 --> 0:10:44.600 speed and knowing this this lineup and there are a 0:10:44.600 --> 0:10:47.520 team that's trying to win. I was in on Perrazza. 0:10:47.640 --> 0:10:49.200 Who else in the lit up are you? And all? 0:10:49.280 --> 0:10:52.320 Make um pretty much in on everybody honestly, Jesse Winker. 0:10:52.360 --> 0:10:54.480 If he gets the bats that they're promising, he's gonna 0:10:54.520 --> 0:10:57.760 be a real good value in fantasy Joey Votto, everybody's 0:10:57.800 --> 0:11:00.760 on always. Suarez is gonna coming off the great year week, 0:11:00.840 --> 0:11:03.280 I guess is the name to talk about here, because 0:11:03.480 --> 0:11:06.360 like everyone else, I think Pa is gonna see as 0:11:06.360 --> 0:11:08.240 long as he stays on the field. There's it's a 0:11:08.280 --> 0:11:10.360 little worried about his injury history, But as long as 0:11:10.360 --> 0:11:14.160 he stays, I think I think Queek will be the 0:11:14.160 --> 0:11:16.839 guy to own in Cincinnati. Fair enough. Please your your 0:11:16.880 --> 0:11:19.120 guy too, Frank. We've had a discussion a lot of 0:11:19.160 --> 0:11:23.040 the ASTI Puig versus David dal versus George Springer versus 0:11:23.040 --> 0:11:26.880 Tommy fam and I have Queen ranked higher than all 0:11:26.920 --> 0:11:29.520 those guys. So so really aggressive here. But if there's 0:11:29.520 --> 0:11:31.520 anyone who's gonna show up, and I've continuously said this 0:11:31.520 --> 0:11:33.199 about Peek, if there's anyone that's gonna show up in 0:11:33.240 --> 0:11:35.679 a contract year who wants to get paid more than 0:11:36.679 --> 0:11:38.240 we all want to get paid, But nobody wants to 0:11:38.240 --> 0:11:41.480 get paid more than He's got a lot of money. Look, 0:11:41.480 --> 0:11:43.760 he's in a great ballpark from beginning to the end 0:11:43.760 --> 0:11:45.679 of the season. It's the best ballpark that he's played, 0:11:45.679 --> 0:11:47.560 and he's going to be right in the middle of everything. 0:11:47.760 --> 0:11:49.960 I mean, they're seriously thirty home run you know, fifteen 0:11:50.000 --> 0:11:53.280 to twenty based upside here. I just gotta keep his 0:11:53.320 --> 0:11:54.960 head on straight. And I like the point that you 0:11:55.000 --> 0:11:58.120 made about Scott Schebler too. While we lost Nick Senzel 0:11:58.360 --> 0:12:00.640 for the early portion of the season, you know, for 0:12:00.679 --> 0:12:03.040 the first month, Scotch Cobbler might see every day at bats, 0:12:03.160 --> 0:12:05.000 and if that happens, it's likely going to be in 0:12:05.040 --> 0:12:08.040 the middle of this lineup. So there's cheap production to 0:12:08.080 --> 0:12:10.720 be had there too, your fifth outfielder in a fifteen 0:12:10.720 --> 0:12:13.600 team league or and only for sure. Yeah, the only 0:12:13.600 --> 0:12:15.440 problem to concern for me is going to be the pitching. 0:12:15.840 --> 0:12:20.880 And I'm not on Sunny Gray. Alex would will be 0:12:21.000 --> 0:12:23.040 hurt maybe by the time we go off the air. 0:12:23.400 --> 0:12:27.839 So I'm really glad you said that because last night 0:12:27.880 --> 0:12:29.640 we're going to I'm in a league with Frank and 0:12:29.679 --> 0:12:32.679 our old co host Mike. I don't call my bff 0:12:32.679 --> 0:12:36.120 anymore after I'm just kidding anyway, So Florio, so we 0:12:36.160 --> 0:12:37.719 own Alex would and he was one of our last 0:12:37.760 --> 0:12:39.560 picks in the league. And I'm just like we were 0:12:39.640 --> 0:12:41.719 going over waivers for last night and I go, well, 0:12:41.720 --> 0:12:44.880 we can probably drop Alex would and Frank's like, honestly sure, 0:12:46.000 --> 0:12:48.200 but that's Mike's guy. You gotta talk to Mike. And 0:12:48.240 --> 0:12:52.360 Mike just sends me back some snarky quality greater sign quantity, 0:12:52.559 --> 0:12:54.120 and I'm like, I gotta be a dick about this, like, 0:12:54.520 --> 0:12:56.840 just tell just tell me really feel I mean, just 0:12:56.880 --> 0:12:59.360 tell me, like, yeah, you don't give me some cliche line. 0:12:59.400 --> 0:13:01.520 If you like him, it's fine, but quality of a 0:13:01.600 --> 0:13:03.600 quantity That's how I won all my leagues last year. 0:13:03.640 --> 0:13:06.040 I'm like, come on, dude, we're friends. Like, don't treat 0:13:06.080 --> 0:13:08.800 me like i'm your Patreons subscribe. Everybody can subscribe to 0:13:09.400 --> 0:13:12.840 Patriot right now, but like, tell me why. And his 0:13:13.000 --> 0:13:15.960 theory is just that, especially in rodal leagues, it doesn't 0:13:16.000 --> 0:13:18.480 matter how many innings you get out of these guys, 0:13:18.600 --> 0:13:20.880 as long as the innings that you do or quality not. 0:13:21.040 --> 0:13:23.320 You're kind of like because I mean, and first of all, 0:13:23.320 --> 0:13:24.880 I grew up in Queens. I think I know fifteen 0:13:24.880 --> 0:13:27.040 Mike Florio's and I played hockey with eight of themselves. 0:13:27.440 --> 0:13:31.400 He's probably the same guy, but I get that but 0:13:31.520 --> 0:13:33.360 if you're in these Rhoda leagues, and I understand what 0:13:33.400 --> 0:13:35.760 he's saying, but so I love the waiver wire. I 0:13:35.800 --> 0:13:37.920 worked the waiver wire like it's my job, and I 0:13:38.000 --> 0:13:40.600 love pitching. So I would much rather go out and 0:13:40.600 --> 0:13:43.960 and find this type of guy every other third or 0:13:43.960 --> 0:13:47.120 fourth day then have to sit and worry about about 0:13:47.120 --> 0:13:49.440 Alex Wood or I mean, I mean, there's there's other 0:13:49.480 --> 0:13:51.439 options there, tender row Ark. I think even Molly is 0:13:51.440 --> 0:13:53.840 going to make the rotation. There's this other options there. Well, 0:13:53.880 --> 0:13:56.160 what's also dealing with the lower back tightness, So he's 0:13:56.160 --> 0:13:58.440 already hurt, That's what I say, not even off the 0:13:58.480 --> 0:14:01.680 area that's the star with him. So like like Matt said, 0:14:01.720 --> 0:14:03.360 I think there's other options to be at every third 0:14:03.400 --> 0:14:06.120 or fourth day, a guy like Alex Wood, who knows 0:14:06.120 --> 0:14:10.959 how many can we just send Florio this? I don't 0:14:11.000 --> 0:14:12.720 have a problem with it. I will say this. At 0:14:12.800 --> 0:14:15.120 least he's staying on brand because he loves rich Hill too. 0:14:15.200 --> 0:14:17.679 So I kind of love alex Wood. You might as 0:14:17.679 --> 0:14:21.400 well love rich Hill and she how many other guys 0:14:22.080 --> 0:14:25.160 he could get back? He wanted us to draft Kershaw 0:14:25.520 --> 0:14:27.040 at that point, it was like the eighth round. So 0:14:27.040 --> 0:14:28.320 if you would have got him, I would have been 0:14:28.320 --> 0:14:31.680 it right with you know, I will mention Sonny Gray 0:14:31.720 --> 0:14:33.640 does have my attention. I know he was really bad 0:14:33.680 --> 0:14:36.160 with the Yankees, but the home road splits were drafting. 0:14:36.200 --> 0:14:37.960 He was much better on the road, and I think 0:14:37.960 --> 0:14:40.000 it was an organizational thing. I do kind of buy 0:14:40.000 --> 0:14:41.840 it with what Sonny Gray said about, you know, the 0:14:41.920 --> 0:14:44.080 Yankees wanting him to use his slider and throw it 0:14:44.280 --> 0:14:46.240 strikes and it's just something he wasn't able to do. 0:14:46.360 --> 0:14:48.720 So if he goes over to Cincinnati where they actually 0:14:48.760 --> 0:14:51.920 have the pitching coach that came over from the wakee uh, 0:14:51.960 --> 0:14:53.840 and you know he did great work with with the 0:14:53.840 --> 0:14:57.040 Brewers rotation. Obviously what he did with Josh Hayter. Sonny 0:14:57.040 --> 0:14:59.320 Gray has my attention. So you know, I want to 0:14:59.360 --> 0:15:01.400 see what he can do here early on in the season. 0:15:01.600 --> 0:15:03.800 You know, maybe in some shallower leagues. I put him, 0:15:03.880 --> 0:15:05.600 like on my scout team. I obvious see what he 0:15:05.640 --> 0:15:07.240 does early on in the year. I don't know if 0:15:07.240 --> 0:15:09.600 he's worth rostering in like twelve team leagues Greg, but 0:15:09.720 --> 0:15:13.120 anything deeper than that, I would say, Yeah, I'm intrigued 0:15:13.160 --> 0:15:14.320 here by Sonny Gray. I want to see what he 0:15:14.360 --> 0:15:17.040 can do. I just think the high fly bowl tendency, 0:15:17.160 --> 0:15:19.920 especially in that park. I think, Mike, you agree with that. 0:15:20.120 --> 0:15:22.280 And Uh, he's never really been a strikeout guy. And 0:15:22.280 --> 0:15:24.320 I like to see my guys create the whiffs that 0:15:24.360 --> 0:15:26.320 are generate the whiffs, and he's never really done that. 0:15:26.400 --> 0:15:28.560 So maybe Cincinnati's a turning point for him and he 0:15:28.600 --> 0:15:30.200 gets to pitch the way he wants to pitch, because 0:15:30.440 --> 0:15:32.240 like in New York, he wasn't pitching the way he wants. 0:15:32.440 --> 0:15:34.120 Before we hit the break, it was a weekend full 0:15:34.160 --> 0:15:36.600 of closers, right Hunter Strickland. We know, we saw what 0:15:36.640 --> 0:15:39.160 he did in Japan last week. He's the bodified closer. 0:15:39.200 --> 0:15:40.760 We talked about that last hour. We talked a lot 0:15:40.760 --> 0:15:43.160 about Greg Holland and how he's now very much on 0:15:43.160 --> 0:15:45.960 the fantasy radar because he was named the closer, and 0:15:46.200 --> 0:15:48.400 that was a big talk last hour. I want to 0:15:48.400 --> 0:15:52.400 get into Jordan Hicks as well, because on Friday, Brian 0:15:52.440 --> 0:15:54.760 Schilt was like, you know what, we don't have a closer, 0:15:55.200 --> 0:15:57.400 but it's gonna be Jordan Hicks that gets the majority 0:15:57.400 --> 0:15:59.200 of the sieves. And that's all us fantasy owners want 0:15:59.200 --> 0:16:00.960 to hear. If that is the case, Mike. I want 0:16:00.960 --> 0:16:02.760 to go in to you here and that's the case, Mike. 0:16:03.160 --> 0:16:06.080 How high on all these lists of relievers would you 0:16:06.120 --> 0:16:09.720 put Jordan Hicks. He's on his way to the top. 0:16:09.840 --> 0:16:12.240 This is uh, this is great for my Hicks share. 0:16:12.320 --> 0:16:14.080 I have a share of Jordan Hicks, and I'm very 0:16:14.080 --> 0:16:16.000 happy to hear this news. This is the guy who 0:16:16.360 --> 0:16:18.520 woluped the slider last year. So his Synker at a 0:16:18.520 --> 0:16:20.720 pitch value attend is Slider at a pitch value of five. 0:16:20.800 --> 0:16:23.080 And now he redeveloped his changeup, which I don't know 0:16:23.120 --> 0:16:25.240 if you've seen the gifts from either Picture List or 0:16:25.280 --> 0:16:27.600 Rob Friedman change up looks filthy too. So if he 0:16:27.640 --> 0:16:29.720 could have to change up to his repertoire, he's gonna 0:16:29.720 --> 0:16:31.120 be right up there with I don't want to go 0:16:31.160 --> 0:16:33.280 as far to say the Josala Clarks of the world. 0:16:33.960 --> 0:16:36.520 That's that's reasonable, though, I think I think right under 0:16:36.760 --> 0:16:38.800 right under him. If he could get those strikeouts his 0:16:38.880 --> 0:16:41.320 cape or nine to go up to either probably around 0:16:41.320 --> 0:16:43.040 the ten, he's gonna be in a league closer going 0:16:43.040 --> 0:16:45.600 into two thousand twenties and for the rest of the season, obviously, 0:16:45.680 --> 0:16:47.320 And I think that makes a lot of sense given 0:16:47.760 --> 0:16:49.960 given how good he is in those pitch and there's 0:16:50.000 --> 0:16:52.000 numbers that you said. The look issart I had was 0:16:52.000 --> 0:16:54.760 the other guys. They're right edge Miller. Is there Alex 0:16:54.840 --> 0:16:57.520 Rays in the bullpen? That's scary. Yeah, But on top 0:16:57.560 --> 0:16:59.720 of all of this, I'm a Cardinal fan. Hicks throws 0:16:59.760 --> 0:17:02.120 one five, So let me leave it at back. Yeah, 0:17:02.440 --> 0:17:04.320 I think that will work. We're gonna take a break here. 0:17:04.960 --> 0:17:06.760 When we come back. 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