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Speaker 1: Matt Striker and Mike the rohto Cop are here to
Speaker 1: talk about what's going on in their fantasy baseball world
Speaker 1: and break down all the latest news with us. So, gentlemen,
Speaker 1: welcome to the show. Thanks for coming in, thanks for
Speaker 1: having us. Really appreciate it absolutely. But first and foremost,
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Speaker 1: but we're here to talk about fantasy baseball. Baseball is real.
Speaker 1: That is I look at that. Look at that, not
Speaker 1: implying anything, but there you go. Absolutely, So the biggest
Speaker 1: news in fantasy baseball came. There's a lot of news yesterday,
Speaker 1: right with the biggest stuff being that Josie Ramirez in
Speaker 1: the first inning leaves the game after taking a ball
Speaker 1: off the knee, and you're just like a crap, And
Speaker 1: we did the same thing, Frank, We drafted them fourth overall.
Speaker 1: I'm sure you guys have him somewhere. And it wasn't
Speaker 1: like he just limped off. It wasn't like he crawled off.
Speaker 1: It was he was taking on a golf cart and
Speaker 1: immediately taking him to the X ray machine and thankfully
Speaker 1: everything comes back negative. But Matt, you're you're an athlete.
Speaker 1: Is that is that enough to kind of kualda worries
Speaker 1: for you? Yeah? Absolutely. When you find out what the
Speaker 1: results were and you realize that it's just gonna be
Speaker 1: a bruise or things like that, you do hold your
Speaker 1: breath for a second, but then after a while you
Speaker 1: realize he's a quality athlete. He's going to be just fine.
Speaker 1: But as from a fantasy perspective, you go exactly and
Speaker 1: I know in an hour draft that we had last night, Frank,
Speaker 1: he didn't really drop right. He still went in the
Speaker 1: middle of that first round where he's been going. And
Speaker 1: I was looking on Twitter right after the injury and
Speaker 1: people were talking about taking him in the middle round,
Speaker 1: like this is like overreaction, like fantasy twitters that something
Speaker 1: is a thing. Well, you know what, I think it's
Speaker 1: it's a reaction to metals because we didn't know what
Speaker 1: was happening with Matt Olsen, and there were a lot
Speaker 1: of drafts going on, you know, Thursday, even Friday before
Speaker 1: we had information. I think, you know, people who might
Speaker 1: have drafted matt Olsen, it might have got burned, you know,
Speaker 1: by having like injury optimism there. So you see this
Speaker 1: happen to Josier mirrors yesterday and the fact that he
Speaker 1: was harded off and he was riding rolling around in pain.
Speaker 1: I think it worried a lot of people because you know,
Speaker 1: talking about potential shin breaks, something wrong with his knee there.
Speaker 1: So especially for a guy we expect to steal bases,
Speaker 1: I mean that that's what worries me the most. Is
Speaker 1: just gonna affect his ability to run, you know, his
Speaker 1: lower legs. You know, that's kind of why I've pivoted
Speaker 1: off of Francisco Lindor, which kind of scared me because
Speaker 1: you know, you want Landor to steal twenty five basses.
Speaker 1: Now he's dealing with a cash train. So I understand
Speaker 1: people might worry about Hosier mirrors, but I mean for
Speaker 1: the initial reaction to be let's drop him down into
Speaker 1: the middle rounds, I thought that was a little too much.
Speaker 1: Like you said, fantasy Twitter is just is something is
Speaker 1: completely something else. Now speak of Cleveland, Mike, we've been
Speaker 1: I was looking at their infield with Josierramires hurt and
Speaker 1: indure her, and it's like this team is terrible, Like
Speaker 1: you don't realize that the Cleveland team that has been
Speaker 1: so good for the last few years isn't It's not
Speaker 1: the same team anymore. The pitchings outstanding, but Lindore, Josie Ramirez,
Speaker 1: Carlos Santana's back, but the rest of it's not good.
Speaker 1: And yeah, you have Jake Bowers in the off field,
Speaker 1: but the infielders filling in, you have Brad Miller there
Speaker 1: and some other guys you haven't heard of. So Frank
Speaker 1: kind of led us to Hanley Ramirez and Hanley Ramirez
Speaker 1: being a part of this Indians team. He was somebody
Speaker 1: that Frank was interested in picking up in leagues, picked
Speaker 1: up in a league. What do you think, Mike about
Speaker 1: Hanley Ramirez? This is the best case scenario for Himley
Speaker 1: and all the options coming into the season where he
Speaker 1: could land. He actually found himself in the fifth spot
Speaker 1: on the roster. Resource to have him in the fifth
Speaker 1: spot in an Indians line up? Do you think a
Speaker 1: roster ressearch? By the way, what why do we have
Speaker 1: it here? Is there like an inside roster researchs a
Speaker 1: bit of an inside I think roster resarch. Honestly, I
Speaker 1: don't know the people for Rossal Resource, so I hate
Speaker 1: to just like destroy them. It's terrible. It's terrible, but
Speaker 1: it's not act. It's not accurate, educated, similar to what
Speaker 1: we do. Okay, so what do I need them for?
Speaker 1: What do you think Hanley Mirrors is gonna bat in
Speaker 1: the line up? Greg? I don't know if he's gonna
Speaker 1: play every day. You're the one that's community can play
Speaker 1: every day. Who's gonna take his spot? That's what? Is
Speaker 1: it gonna be Jordan's Lapwell, I don't make so. I
Speaker 1: don't know. He got him at d H here onst Source,
Speaker 1: but one guy they also have Eric Stammit's is playing shortstop,
Speaker 1: which I don't think it's gonna be the case. So
Speaker 1: there you go. It's like an extreme on each side.
Speaker 1: Don't sleep on you, Chang Chang, Who I change you guys?
Speaker 1: You're not really my guy. I don't want to go
Speaker 1: on air about Chang saying if he gets that baths
Speaker 1: and for Mirrors does hit the I l might find
Speaker 1: his way into some at bats in the infield. He
Speaker 1: had twenty four homers in the minors two seasons ago.
Speaker 1: I kind of slowed down a little bit, but he
Speaker 1: could provide extreme, extreme cheap pop someone's middle field position.
Speaker 1: I got him for two dollars yesterday's bab and uh
Speaker 1: T j FPI I probably could have gotten from one dollar.
Speaker 1: I didn't check to see if anyone else been on him.
Speaker 1: I highly doubt it. I don't sleep on you Chang.
Speaker 1: That's another option for for the Indians. And he's got
Speaker 1: a great name to say, yes, you don't you think
Speaker 1: this is actually perfect time to bring up Yeah, so
Speaker 1: what I do? So? I am very into the um
Speaker 1: cool name theory, and I think prospects are hyped up
Speaker 1: when they have cooler names. Actually looks back to Alexander
Speaker 1: Bogart's Trevor Bauer when with popular Corvin Burns right like
Speaker 1: Tyler Skaggs, like these guys have to ben to say right.
Speaker 1: So you Chang right in there. It's the cool name
Speaker 1: of theory. But I will say this, as far as
Speaker 1: Lindora and Ramirez, I've been off of them for a
Speaker 1: while now. Ramirez won me in ten leagues. Last year
Speaker 1: he won me seven out of my ten leagues. So
Speaker 1: this year I was saying to myself, I want to
Speaker 1: deviate and I want to go somewhere else. So I've
Speaker 1: been off of those guys, which has allowed me to
Speaker 1: look at guys that could replace them. Maybe sometimes I
Speaker 1: can build Ramirez orl Indoor out of two different guys.
Speaker 1: So when I see these things happen, I kind of say,
Speaker 1: not cool, but cool off the worry. I agree, these
Speaker 1: guys were kind. They're not on an avoid list by
Speaker 1: any means. I would never put it as on avoid list.
Speaker 1: The fact that they lost so much protection in the
Speaker 1: off season between Edwin Brantley, Donaldson injury, wind Or injury,
Speaker 1: So Jose Aramirez, where is his protection to the lineup
Speaker 1: going That's just something you think about drafting. Kind of
Speaker 1: not an avoid but just something to think about. It
Speaker 1: was a bad day for Second Basement all around over
Speaker 1: the weekend with Josie ramire Is going down, after Scooter
Speaker 1: Janette goes down, and Scooter Jeannette was a guy that
Speaker 1: I I've been part of. Like there's two sides of
Speaker 1: Fantasy Twitter when it comes to Scooter Jeannette, and that
Speaker 1: was the fact that those that don't understand it and
Speaker 1: those that just don't care that they don't understand it,
Speaker 1: but they buy into it. Because he's really good. He
Speaker 1: gets hurt, changes growing very significantly out eight to twelve weeks,
Speaker 1: and the obvious idea would be that, hey, r Nick Senzel,
Speaker 1: He's played second he's played up, played second base throughout
Speaker 1: his miner's career, and they're like, no, he's a center fielder. Now, Okay,
Speaker 1: maybe that's all b asked to hold him down until
Speaker 1: April fifteenth, which is the date that he can come up,
Speaker 1: and it probably is, but nevertheless, for our purposes, he's
Speaker 1: not coming up, which means Josie LaSIE is going to
Speaker 1: be the starting short stop from this team, and whose
Speaker 1: Pa slides over the second base, which could Frank open
Speaker 1: up more an opportunity or more position eligibility for whose Peraza,
Speaker 1: giving him second base and shortstop eligibility depending on how
Speaker 1: many games he plays there. Yeah, I think he'll gain
Speaker 1: the second base eligibility, and it's a position he's played
Speaker 1: in the past. Does jos actually someone that's been pretty
Speaker 1: hyped up here during during the uh the draft season
Speaker 1: because of stolen bases? Right, everyone's trying to find stolen bases,
Speaker 1: and I did it last night. I think they look,
Speaker 1: you know, they look back at what he did in
Speaker 1: the minors. I don't know that he has like this
Speaker 1: crazy stolen base upside like we're expecting, you know, maybe
Speaker 1: he steals twenty to thirty. I think he's that you
Speaker 1: know that range, tend a fifteen home runs something like that.
Speaker 1: But my biggest worry with Paza at this point was
Speaker 1: where is he going to batten the lineup? So this
Speaker 1: might actually help him now if he's able to move
Speaker 1: up in the line up a little bit, obviously helps
Speaker 1: him score more runs. So we'll see what happens with there.
Speaker 1: As of now, they say Jose Glaze is gonna fill
Speaker 1: in at shortstop. He's a fine defensive player, but I'm
Speaker 1: not really expecting much from him offensively or for for
Speaker 1: fantasy purposes. I'll say you, I don't really love the
Speaker 1: fact that the Reds sent down Scooter Genet because uh
Speaker 1: sent down Nick Senzel, because they've been talking about fielding
Speaker 1: their best team. Clearly they're not you know, abiding by
Speaker 1: that or listening to their you know, what they're telling people.
Speaker 1: But if they really do want to just play him
Speaker 1: at center and have him focus on center field, I
Speaker 1: don't have a problem with that, because they've been trying
Speaker 1: to transition him into that. It's like you don't want
Speaker 1: him to go back and forth between outfield and second base.
Speaker 1: He's right kind of mess with a young prospect. So
Speaker 1: at least like, if you're gonna make me a center
Speaker 1: fielder or an outfielder, just stick to that, all right.
Speaker 1: Let him get his reps in the minors. Hopefully he's
Speaker 1: up by mid April. Uh. You know a lot of
Speaker 1: people excited about him, and rightfully so I don't have
Speaker 1: a problem with them keeping him in the outfield. And
Speaker 1: Mike and I talk about this on our show on
Speaker 1: the strike Zone pot that I own shares of Senseil
Speaker 1: and now he has the n A next to him,
Speaker 1: so I have to But on the flip, I think
Speaker 1: the Reds are gonna be good and I like the
Speaker 1: options that it gives for that outfield. I'm a big,
Speaker 1: yassy guy uses a birdman bat, and I'm friends with
Speaker 1: a lot of guys over bird man bats. But I
Speaker 1: think guys like Jesse Winker and scotch But now become
Speaker 1: even more interesting. If you are looking for some kind
Speaker 1: of something in the middle or late rounds, a guy
Speaker 1: like Chad even a guy like Winker. There you you
Speaker 1: go right there. So if Senzel stays down, I don't
Speaker 1: like it because I own shares of him, But at
Speaker 1: the same time, it may give people out there an
Speaker 1: option in late rounds. For me, the reason I jumped
Speaker 1: like on Josie Perrazza was because not only is not
Speaker 1: that his playtime wasn't secure, it was he's gonna move
Speaker 1: on the order a little bit. And I know they're
Speaker 1: planning on leading off Jesse Winker and having Joey Vato
Speaker 1: that second, But ifs Parazza could run a little bit
Speaker 1: more and so now get towards the top about that lineup,
Speaker 1: the opportunity for him to score more runs are going
Speaker 1: to be there. Uh there? Certainly with twe and you,
Speaker 1: any of Suarez and kept behind him, I think the
Speaker 1: possibilities are endless. So that's why I was really excited
Speaker 1: last night to jump in on Josie Prazza, and that's
Speaker 1: what I did, Like, I need a little bit of
Speaker 1: speed and knowing this this lineup and there are a
Speaker 1: team that's trying to win. I was in on Perrazza.
Speaker 1: Who else in the lit up are you? And all?
Speaker 1: Make um pretty much in on everybody honestly, Jesse Winker.
Speaker 1: If he gets the bats that they're promising, he's gonna
Speaker 1: be a real good value in fantasy Joey Votto, everybody's
Speaker 1: on always. Suarez is gonna coming off the great year week,
Speaker 1: I guess is the name to talk about here, because
Speaker 1: like everyone else, I think Pa is gonna see as
Speaker 1: long as he stays on the field. There's it's a
Speaker 1: little worried about his injury history, But as long as
Speaker 1: he stays, I think I think Queek will be the
Speaker 1: guy to own in Cincinnati. Fair enough. Please your your
Speaker 1: guy too, Frank. We've had a discussion a lot of
Speaker 1: the ASTI Puig versus David dal versus George Springer versus
Speaker 1: Tommy fam and I have Queen ranked higher than all
Speaker 1: those guys. So so really aggressive here. But if there's
Speaker 1: anyone who's gonna show up, and I've continuously said this
Speaker 1: about Peek, if there's anyone that's gonna show up in
Speaker 1: a contract year who wants to get paid more than
Speaker 1: we all want to get paid, But nobody wants to
Speaker 1: get paid more than He's got a lot of money. Look,
Speaker 1: he's in a great ballpark from beginning to the end
Speaker 1: of the season. It's the best ballpark that he's played,
Speaker 1: and he's going to be right in the middle of everything.
Speaker 1: I mean, they're seriously thirty home run you know, fifteen
Speaker 1: to twenty based upside here. I just gotta keep his
Speaker 1: head on straight. And I like the point that you
Speaker 1: made about Scott Schebler too. While we lost Nick Senzel
Speaker 1: for the early portion of the season, you know, for
Speaker 1: the first month, Scotch Cobbler might see every day at bats,
Speaker 1: and if that happens, it's likely going to be in
Speaker 1: the middle of this lineup. So there's cheap production to
Speaker 1: be had there too, your fifth outfielder in a fifteen
Speaker 1: team league or and only for sure. Yeah, the only
Speaker 1: problem to concern for me is going to be the pitching.
Speaker 1: And I'm not on Sunny Gray. Alex would will be
Speaker 1: hurt maybe by the time we go off the air.
Speaker 1: So I'm really glad you said that because last night
Speaker 1: we're going to I'm in a league with Frank and
Speaker 1: our old co host Mike. I don't call my bff
Speaker 1: anymore after I'm just kidding anyway, So Florio, so we
Speaker 1: own Alex would and he was one of our last
Speaker 1: picks in the league. And I'm just like we were
Speaker 1: going over waivers for last night and I go, well,
Speaker 1: we can probably drop Alex would and Frank's like, honestly sure,
Speaker 1: but that's Mike's guy. You gotta talk to Mike. And
Speaker 1: Mike just sends me back some snarky quality greater sign quantity,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, I gotta be a dick about this, like,
Speaker 1: just tell just tell me really feel I mean, just
Speaker 1: tell me, like, yeah, you don't give me some cliche line.
Speaker 1: If you like him, it's fine, but quality of a
Speaker 1: quantity That's how I won all my leagues last year.
Speaker 1: I'm like, come on, dude, we're friends. Like, don't treat
Speaker 1: me like i'm your Patreons subscribe. Everybody can subscribe to
Speaker 1: Patriot right now, but like, tell me why. And his
Speaker 1: theory is just that, especially in rodal leagues, it doesn't
Speaker 1: matter how many innings you get out of these guys,
Speaker 1: as long as the innings that you do or quality not.
Speaker 1: You're kind of like because I mean, and first of all,
Speaker 1: I grew up in Queens. I think I know fifteen
Speaker 1: Mike Florio's and I played hockey with eight of themselves.
Speaker 1: He's probably the same guy, but I get that but
Speaker 1: if you're in these Rhoda leagues, and I understand what
Speaker 1: he's saying, but so I love the waiver wire. I
Speaker 1: worked the waiver wire like it's my job, and I
Speaker 1: love pitching. So I would much rather go out and
Speaker 1: and find this type of guy every other third or
Speaker 1: fourth day then have to sit and worry about about
Speaker 1: Alex Wood or I mean, I mean, there's there's other
Speaker 1: options there, tender row Ark. I think even Molly is
Speaker 1: going to make the rotation. There's this other options there. Well,
Speaker 1: what's also dealing with the lower back tightness, So he's
Speaker 1: already hurt, That's what I say, not even off the
Speaker 1: area that's the star with him. So like like Matt said,
Speaker 1: I think there's other options to be at every third
Speaker 1: or fourth day, a guy like Alex Wood, who knows
Speaker 1: how many can we just send Florio this? I don't
Speaker 1: have a problem with it. I will say this. At
Speaker 1: least he's staying on brand because he loves rich Hill too.
Speaker 1: So I kind of love alex Wood. You might as
Speaker 1: well love rich Hill and she how many other guys
Speaker 1: he could get back? He wanted us to draft Kershaw
Speaker 1: at that point, it was like the eighth round. So
Speaker 1: if you would have got him, I would have been
Speaker 1: it right with you know, I will mention Sonny Gray
Speaker 1: does have my attention. I know he was really bad
Speaker 1: with the Yankees, but the home road splits were drafting.
Speaker 1: He was much better on the road, and I think
Speaker 1: it was an organizational thing. I do kind of buy
Speaker 1: it with what Sonny Gray said about, you know, the
Speaker 1: Yankees wanting him to use his slider and throw it
Speaker 1: strikes and it's just something he wasn't able to do.
Speaker 1: So if he goes over to Cincinnati where they actually
Speaker 1: have the pitching coach that came over from the wakee uh,
Speaker 1: and you know he did great work with with the
Speaker 1: Brewers rotation. Obviously what he did with Josh Hayter. Sonny
Speaker 1: Gray has my attention. So you know, I want to
Speaker 1: see what he can do here early on in the season.
Speaker 1: You know, maybe in some shallower leagues. I put him,
Speaker 1: like on my scout team. I obvious see what he
Speaker 1: does early on in the year. I don't know if
Speaker 1: he's worth rostering in like twelve team leagues Greg, but
Speaker 1: anything deeper than that, I would say, Yeah, I'm intrigued
Speaker 1: here by Sonny Gray. I want to see what he
Speaker 1: can do. I just think the high fly bowl tendency,
Speaker 1: especially in that park. I think, Mike, you agree with that.
Speaker 1: And Uh, he's never really been a strikeout guy. And
Speaker 1: I like to see my guys create the whiffs that
Speaker 1: are generate the whiffs, and he's never really done that.
Speaker 1: So maybe Cincinnati's a turning point for him and he
Speaker 1: gets to pitch the way he wants to pitch, because
Speaker 1: like in New York, he wasn't pitching the way he wants.
Speaker 1: Before we hit the break, it was a weekend full
Speaker 1: of closers, right Hunter Strickland. We know, we saw what
Speaker 1: he did in Japan last week. He's the bodified closer.
Speaker 1: We talked about that last hour. We talked a lot
Speaker 1: about Greg Holland and how he's now very much on
Speaker 1: the fantasy radar because he was named the closer, and
Speaker 1: that was a big talk last hour. I want to
Speaker 1: get into Jordan Hicks as well, because on Friday, Brian
Speaker 1: Schilt was like, you know what, we don't have a closer,
Speaker 1: but it's gonna be Jordan Hicks that gets the majority
Speaker 1: of the sieves. And that's all us fantasy owners want
Speaker 1: to hear. If that is the case, Mike. I want
Speaker 1: to go in to you here and that's the case, Mike.
Speaker 1: How high on all these lists of relievers would you
Speaker 1: put Jordan Hicks. He's on his way to the top.
Speaker 1: This is uh, this is great for my Hicks share.
Speaker 1: I have a share of Jordan Hicks, and I'm very
Speaker 1: happy to hear this news. This is the guy who
Speaker 1: woluped the slider last year. So his Synker at a
Speaker 1: pitch value attend is Slider at a pitch value of five.
Speaker 1: And now he redeveloped his changeup, which I don't know
Speaker 1: if you've seen the gifts from either Picture List or
Speaker 1: Rob Friedman change up looks filthy too. So if he
Speaker 1: could have to change up to his repertoire, he's gonna
Speaker 1: be right up there with I don't want to go
Speaker 1: as far to say the Josala Clarks of the world.
Speaker 1: That's that's reasonable, though, I think I think right under
Speaker 1: right under him. If he could get those strikeouts his
Speaker 1: cape or nine to go up to either probably around
Speaker 1: the ten, he's gonna be in a league closer going
Speaker 1: into two thousand twenties and for the rest of the season, obviously,
Speaker 1: And I think that makes a lot of sense given
Speaker 1: given how good he is in those pitch and there's
Speaker 1: numbers that you said. The look issart I had was
Speaker 1: the other guys. They're right edge Miller. Is there Alex
Speaker 1: Rays in the bullpen? That's scary. Yeah, But on top
Speaker 1: of all of this, I'm a Cardinal fan. Hicks throws
Speaker 1: one five, So let me leave it at back. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think that will work. We're gonna take a break here.
Speaker 1: When we come back. I want to get into your
Speaker 1: guys teams. Who do you have the most shares of? Why?
Speaker 1: Who have you avoided? Why? We'll break that out, tuck
Speaker 1: your parents out what we've done when we come back.
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Speaker 1: Morised online Duck. So it's interesting. So Stryker closes his
Speaker 1: eyes when you can read and just run like this
Speaker 1: and you're like reading your computer like, I just gonna
Speaker 1: make sure you get the Twitter. It has so much
Speaker 1: going on. I gotta this is as far as if
Speaker 1: we're a tag team. I'm the Marty Janettie and he's
Speaker 1: the shot. Michaels. Absolutely, man, Mike is the man that
Speaker 1: is there. You go, I'm just gonna at this point
Speaker 1: just be the Paul Haman's in it to him as
Speaker 1: a nice Jewish point from Scars, exactly so perfect me.
Speaker 1: The fantasy season is about to start where the MV
Speaker 1: season has started. It's really gonna kick off Thursday. Everybody
Speaker 1: plays on Thursday. Your draft done. I have one tonight,
Speaker 1: one tomorrow. When one Wednesday from I'll do nine This year,
Speaker 1: I did tend see I'm insane. My girlfriend's ready to
Speaker 1: leave me, and I basically really just sit at home
Speaker 1: and I just have all these little pieces of paper everywhere.
Speaker 1: Going to the kitchen it's X fit, going to the bathroom,
Speaker 1: this it's just everywhere. I Mean, I'm nuts, but I
Speaker 1: love it, and I think you have to love it
Speaker 1: to be successful. At like how many of these are doing.
Speaker 1: On the contrary, I like my girlfriend, and I don't.
Speaker 1: I'm only in four, but my four is probably equal
Speaker 1: to somebody else's funny with the amount of with thee
Speaker 1: I pay attention to the four. You know what I mean.
Speaker 1: I want to get in my old I don't want
Speaker 1: to just set a lineup, not check guards. So I'm
Speaker 1: more like you. I think I'm in four or five,
Speaker 1: and that's a lot for me because I can't. I
Speaker 1: can't do. I've been at least of Frank where I
Speaker 1: have too many leagues. I just lose it and Frank
Speaker 1: gets piste off of in. It's fine, but our partnership's
Speaker 1: gotten better now before Fantasy Basketball champions today, so excited. Um.
Speaker 1: The point is, I can't. I can't do what you do,
Speaker 1: and I can't do what you do in the amount
Speaker 1: of leagues that you guys are in. And Frank will
Speaker 1: have his sticky pad on this computer by this time
Speaker 1: next week. I put the sticky pad up in the house.
Speaker 1: I don't want to. I just got this computer. I'm
Speaker 1: not ready to put the sticky notes on the computer.
Speaker 1: Like I couldn't pay attention to all nine of those leagues,
Speaker 1: knowing who's out there, knowing how much to bid, especially
Speaker 1: on Sunday nights. If if your fabs running overnight, I
Speaker 1: I couldn't do it. It's much more manageable to do
Speaker 1: the four leagues, in my opinion, so you could really
Speaker 1: dive in and really know what's going on in every
Speaker 1: single league and make the trade offers and so on
Speaker 1: and so forth in those four leagues. Who's been your
Speaker 1: guy this year or guys? I am very happy to
Speaker 1: say this, my guy has been Chris Paddock. With cread
Speaker 1: of four leagues, I have Chris Paddock. So the follow
Speaker 1: up question to that your first draft, your first draft
Speaker 1: was winning, your last draft was, well, that's where it
Speaker 1: gets interesting. My first draft was in February and I
Speaker 1: got Chris Paddock or towards the n February was actually
Speaker 1: the tj FBI. I got him at two seventy eight
Speaker 1: in round nineteen. And fast forward two weeks later, I
Speaker 1: did a main event qualifier on NFBC. I got him
Speaker 1: at two nineteens. So that's the difference of whatever it
Speaker 1: is fifty picks right there, I was around fifteen four rounds.
Speaker 1: Fast forward again too, more recently, I did a Yahoo
Speaker 1: Pro A thousand and I got him at two oh three.
Speaker 1: I got him at two or three was funny. I
Speaker 1: don't know the guys in the draft because it's yeahoo league.
Speaker 1: The guy went insane when I took him at in
Speaker 1: the seventeenth round. But now his main event a DP
Speaker 1: is one seventy from all the main eventurey hafts that
Speaker 1: have been going on. My deal with Paddock, I don't know.
Speaker 1: If you guys are familiar on Baseball Reference, you could, uh,
Speaker 1: there's a metrical the pointing quality, and you can really
Speaker 1: gauge gouges how um in spring training what kind of
Speaker 1: level of competition you're facing. So you know, everyone says
Speaker 1: spring training it doesn't matter. You could begade it from
Speaker 1: a one to ten and being major league level competition,
Speaker 1: one being rookie ball competition. So Chris Paddock has an
Speaker 1: eight point two, which is sitting there between probably like
Speaker 1: a low lower major league hitter, but it's still a
Speaker 1: high triple a lower major league hitterer. So what he's
Speaker 1: done in spring is pretty impressive to have a two
Speaker 1: point one three year right against that kind of a
Speaker 1: point in quality. You check some other guys there pointing
Speaker 1: qualities like four or five, and they're having good springs.
Speaker 1: That's something to keep an eye on with with Paddock spring.
Speaker 1: If anyone tells you it's just spring training, it's not
Speaker 1: just spring training. He's facing major league talent, be it
Speaker 1: lower league, major league talent, but it's still major league
Speaker 1: talent to do what he's doing. The twenty strikeouts in
Speaker 1: the twelve and two thirds kids insane. He's got a
Speaker 1: plus change up plus fastball average, curveball plus command, and
Speaker 1: he's lining up to start against San Francisco. I don't
Speaker 1: know any Giant fans out to be ready for it,
Speaker 1: because Chris Paddock's gonna dominate San Francisco that first start
Speaker 1: of the season. Right when we were an NBC, we
Speaker 1: consistently saw Chris paddickill in the thirteenth to the fifteenth round,
Speaker 1: depending on what draft you're watching or what auction you
Speaker 1: were in, and he went for him Lazaro before Lazardo
Speaker 1: got hurt, all in that same in that same range.
Speaker 1: And now it's been very consistent. And what I like
Speaker 1: about it, Frankie, is not that he's going so high,
Speaker 1: because I don't think it's so high. I still think
Speaker 1: it's a spot where the return on investment will be
Speaker 1: good enough. It's not like we we talked about this
Speaker 1: all the time. A guy like ever Shade Biber and
Speaker 1: my Clevinger, they have to come through for you now.
Speaker 1: Even where they're drafted, Chris Paddock doesn't still getting him
Speaker 1: where you're getting him in the fourteenth round. It's still
Speaker 1: a lottery ticket, which I like, I couldn't agree more. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Chris Paddock. Over the weekend there was a a ton
Speaker 1: more NPC made of Vegas in Vegas and his ADP
Speaker 1: from this weekend specifically one sixty six point five. So
Speaker 1: he's all the way up there. He's being drafted as
Speaker 1: a top forty starting pitcher now now, but again he
Speaker 1: has the top had to be a top thirty guy,
Speaker 1: top twenty five at season's end. And it's very obvious
Speaker 1: at least at this point, that the Padres are going
Speaker 1: to be aggressive with him. So maybe he'll you know,
Speaker 1: he'll he'll miss a few starts throughout the season. They'll
Speaker 1: try and limit the endings. But I still think, you know,
Speaker 1: he could get one fifty one sixty and if he
Speaker 1: gives you one sixty of a sub three six e
Speaker 1: r A and a good whip because he doesn't walk anyone,
Speaker 1: and he gets a ton of ground balls and he
Speaker 1: gives you, you know, let's say eight case per nine. Again,
Speaker 1: that's legitimately like a top thirty, top five starting pitchers.
Speaker 1: So I don't have any problems with him. You know,
Speaker 1: we share a lite together. We do the the g
Speaker 1: ST fifteen team Roto. We got him last week, and
Speaker 1: I believe like the fifteen or sixteenth round as our
Speaker 1: SP five or SP six. I love it, man, I
Speaker 1: have no problems with it. And you say that eight
Speaker 1: k and nine, I'd be disappointed if it's Kata nine.
Speaker 1: Is an eight be a little bit more conservative, but
Speaker 1: he has the stuff to get it to strikeout per ny.
Speaker 1: You know that's just me like conservatively protecting, but he
Speaker 1: could be even better than that. Does anyone have a
Speaker 1: concern though, that the Padres may shut him down at
Speaker 1: some point and then or you've already gotten you value
Speaker 1: out of him. That's the thing I don't think care.
Speaker 1: I think if we seriously you can miss a start
Speaker 1: like here there towards the end of the the season, a
Speaker 1: lot of it comes down to you, Okay, are the
Speaker 1: Padres playing for a wild card spot? Because I think
Speaker 1: at that point like they have to put out their
Speaker 1: best product. They got to try and win games, so
Speaker 1: that will pay a lot into it. If they're not,
Speaker 1: then yeah, I could see them maybe taking it easy
Speaker 1: on him. But for the most part, I would say,
Speaker 1: maybe he'll skip a start here there, they'll try and
Speaker 1: limit some of the innings. But I still think that
Speaker 1: he can get to that one six mark by the
Speaker 1: end of the season. One caveat with all this is
Speaker 1: we're talking about Rodo here. But if you're in the
Speaker 1: head to head league like Yahoo Pro and thousand, don't
Speaker 1: expect them to be there when you're in the playoffs.
Speaker 1: Those starts might not be there. Sure, But again but
Speaker 1: again again, where you are, where you're drafting, it doesn't matter. Yeah, exactly,
Speaker 1: and and I don't I don't really care personally. I
Speaker 1: draft the pad again our yeah who head to head
Speaker 1: last night does not bother me in the least. I'll
Speaker 1: drop them. Figure it out come August and September. Matt,
Speaker 1: who's a guy that you do in your nine leagues
Speaker 1: or somewhere seven that you've drafted the far drafted six
Speaker 1: so far, have three more left. And I was looking
Speaker 1: at it, and this wasn't by design but it just
Speaker 1: happened to be this way in every league. I owned
Speaker 1: Aaron Hanson, I owned V GJ, Vladimirgold, and I owned
Speaker 1: Joe Musgrove. And I'm fine with all of that, to
Speaker 1: be honest with you, And that's where I'm right now.
Speaker 1: As well as Jack Flaherty is another guy that I've
Speaker 1: been just all over because I'm a Cardinal fan and
Speaker 1: I really like the stuff that's your fandom, your Cardinal fan.
Speaker 1: I don't know what you're talking about. We all love
Speaker 1: Jack Flaherty too, and I want to getting to Garrett Hampson.
Speaker 1: Are you nervous about him not playing every day? I mean,
Speaker 1: Mike and I talked about this on the show. We
Speaker 1: do think that Ryan McMahon could be pushing back against him,
Speaker 1: But I just think with Hampson's defense and speed is
Speaker 1: such a commodity in fantasy baseball this year, So I
Speaker 1: just I am hopeful that when he does play, and
Speaker 1: he plays himself into the lineup, that they'll find another
Speaker 1: place for McMahon. You mentioned David Dods, China Doll. He's
Speaker 1: gonna break at some point. Ian Desmond, you can have him.
Speaker 1: I don't want him. There's gonna be somewhe where from
Speaker 1: McMahon and Hampson to both play, so it doesn't concern
Speaker 1: me that much. We got a lot of questions about
Speaker 1: these two, specifically over the weekend. Everyone wants exposure to
Speaker 1: cors Field and Colorado. Obviously, I do think that Ryan
Speaker 1: McMahon is gonna be on the strong side of the platoon,
Speaker 1: playing at second base most times against right handed pitching.
Speaker 1: But I still do think that Hampson could find playing
Speaker 1: time around because they could give someone a day off
Speaker 1: here and there. They've been using him in the outfield
Speaker 1: and spring training, so I mean he could play against lefties.
Speaker 1: If they want to sit Ryan McMahon, he could play
Speaker 1: in the outfield they want to give Desmon a day off,
Speaker 1: or they want to give Dollar a day off, or
Speaker 1: you know, he's one injury away. Remember there's Daniel Murphy
Speaker 1: on this team who is playing with like bone on
Speaker 1: bone on his knee. You mentioned David dal who has
Speaker 1: been injury prone. So we're not rooting for these injuries.
Speaker 1: But if something were to happen, Garrett Hampson is going
Speaker 1: to be the primary beneficiary because he's a super utility
Speaker 1: bat at this point for the Colorado Rockies, Garrett Hampson,
Speaker 1: Ryan McMahon, really anybody in Colorado or on our radar.
Speaker 1: And I was stuck drafting Garrett Hampson's by starting a shortstop.
Speaker 1: But you know, if he is in Colorado, I mean
Speaker 1: you and I could go to Colorado and probably hate you.
Speaker 1: I can't say I can, but you probably Daniel Murphy
Speaker 1: bone On Mury. He can conceivably hit like way over
Speaker 1: his head in Yeah, I was afraid to say it,
Speaker 1: but I'm glad you did. Frankie Monty could three fifty
Speaker 1: and then you're the big winner if you drafted him. Absolutely. Now,
Speaker 1: Ronald Acunia Frankie is a name that we drafted. We
Speaker 1: we draft him in our g D D league. He
Speaker 1: was our first pick. And I know you and I
Speaker 1: had a debate of a Kunia versus Yello, and we
Speaker 1: ultimately decided on yelled. He went for too much. We
Speaker 1: stuck with a Kuna. Cuna is betting clean up against
Speaker 1: right handers. He's probably clean up against left handers. He's
Speaker 1: going to stay at the cleaning spot. How much does
Speaker 1: that hurt his value? Similar to what Matt said about this,
Speaker 1: I think obviously you lose some stolen bases, and that's
Speaker 1: I think that's what people were most excited about for
Speaker 1: a Kunia. He could hit thirty plus home runs with
Speaker 1: you know, maybe potentially thirty steels. Right, he has the
Speaker 1: upside to be a thirty thirty hitter here. Uh, the
Speaker 1: speed is legit absolutely, but you know, batting clean up,
Speaker 1: I think that might slow him down a little bit.
Speaker 1: Here maybe we're closer to like fifteen eighteen stolen basis.
Speaker 1: But you know, as a result, if he were hitting leadoff,
Speaker 1: his RBIs might be capped maybe eighty. Now, hitting clean
Speaker 1: up with Freddie Freeman ahead of you, and Josh Donaldson
Speaker 1: ahead of you, and you know entran c RTE and
Speaker 1: uh and Ozzie, I'll be splitting the leadoff duties here.
Speaker 1: We're talking. You can drive a D ten seriously in
Speaker 1: this lineup. So you lose some stolen bases, but obviously
Speaker 1: you gain you gain some more county stats when it
Speaker 1: comes to the r BIS. I think the runs are
Speaker 1: gonna be good regardless because I expect a lot from
Speaker 1: this Braves lineup, So it's it depends what you needed.
Speaker 1: I think people would have wanted the stolen bases more,
Speaker 1: but you gain r BIS. You lose something, you gain
Speaker 1: something else. It's tough to put a put a specific
Speaker 1: number on it. Um he missed a month last year,
Speaker 1: which a lot of people don't really talk about too much,
Speaker 1: but fourteen of the stolen basis came from leadoff and
Speaker 1: then when he hit second the line up, which is
Speaker 1: really the only thing we have to compare it to,
Speaker 1: he only ran three times. He was one for three,
Speaker 1: So that's something just to keep an eye on with him.
Speaker 1: But if you're drafting around with the Kuna, you're gonna
Speaker 1: get everything no matter where he has on lineup. And
Speaker 1: now what you lacking stolen bases? What's he gonna steal
Speaker 1: ten less bases? If that's gonna make up in RBS
Speaker 1: and home runs and runs and everything else. So the
Speaker 1: opportunities will be there for him in a in a
Speaker 1: really good Atlanta lineup, I gotta say I am off,
Speaker 1: and I'm also off yell at two. I mean, call
Speaker 1: me crazy crazy, but I am. I'm just off of
Speaker 1: these guys because I just I see a regression coming.
Speaker 1: I will be amazed if they can match or surpass
Speaker 1: what they each did respectively this season. Before I'll say
Speaker 1: one thing, A Kuna did have a three fifty something BABIT,
Speaker 1: which so expect a little bit of aggression in his
Speaker 1: in his average and his overall average this year, but
Speaker 1: he's still an absolutely. I think he's easily no question
Speaker 1: the first round there. I actually disagree with you. Oh
Speaker 1: my gosh, you could still you could still hit two eighty.
Speaker 1: Even if the batting average comes down from town was high.
Speaker 1: He still strikes out around a quarter of the time.
Speaker 1: And what I've said about Yellows, I don't disagree that
Speaker 1: he's going to regress, but I think even if he regresses,
Speaker 1: he could still be a top ten player for fantasy,
Speaker 1: because you know, if he hits three ten with home
Speaker 1: runs instead of thirty six and a hundred runs and
Speaker 1: a hundred RBIs and still steals twenty bases, I mean
Speaker 1: that's the top ten player for fantasy. So I do
Speaker 1: agree like regression is gonna come, but I still do
Speaker 1: think that he could pay off value regardless. So just
Speaker 1: looking at some numbers, and Mike and I are big
Speaker 1: numbers guys, So Yellows his home run fly ball rate
Speaker 1: was thirty that's a full fifteen points higher than his
Speaker 1: career average. So let's just assume a rate this year,
Speaker 1: and that's being generous. He loses a third of his
Speaker 1: home runs right away. He had a three seventy three
Speaker 1: babbit his career is three fifty nine, So let's assume
Speaker 1: a drop an average as well. If he hits ten
Speaker 1: less home runs and loses twenty to twenty five points
Speaker 1: off his average, yes he's still valuable, but he might
Speaker 1: even be dipping into like a second round kind of guy.
Speaker 1: The reason I say I'm off him is that in
Speaker 1: the first round I want to throw my draft into
Speaker 1: a frenzy when everyone thinks I'm supposed to take Christian Yellos,
Speaker 1: and I swoop in and take I don't know, Mike
Speaker 1: the roodocop, so who so who are you taking over
Speaker 1: Yellow and un or who have you been taking if
Speaker 1: you have one of these like top six or seven picks,
Speaker 1: it depends. I'm a big pitching guy, and a lot
Speaker 1: of my league's guys don't touch pitching in all the
Speaker 1: six or seventh round. So I'm jumping in and I'm
Speaker 1: grabbing Jacob de Grand before anybody, and I'm grabbing Aaron
Speaker 1: Nola before anybody. Mike, and I love Trevor Bauer and
Speaker 1: what it does is it sets everyone off of their
Speaker 1: game plan. And I love that because I'm just I'm
Speaker 1: a villain and I love to watch people go crazy.
Speaker 1: I think I'll take Trade turnover both those guys over yellow.
Speaker 1: In the NFC, we saw Trade Turner going, let's get
Speaker 1: three and because I know there's an overall in violve
Speaker 1: and you need to speed, but Trade Turner, I was surprised,
Speaker 1: right how just how high he was going, And Mike,
Speaker 1: you're right on it. A hundred sixty two games last year,
Speaker 1: he does that again, He's gonna have another great season.
Speaker 1: He he has a better year than last year. It's
Speaker 1: gonna be an unbelievable season. So I expect a lot
Speaker 1: from Trade Turner this year. People people saw the report
Speaker 1: about eight stolen basic attempts, and look if they actually
Speaker 1: legitimately let him do that. I personally would love him
Speaker 1: to hit leadoff, because if you look at his career,
Speaker 1: hitting leadoff versus is like hitting second or anywhere else
Speaker 1: in the lineup. He's much more aggressive stealing basis hitting leadoff.
Speaker 1: So I know, as of now it's like Adam Eating
Speaker 1: is supposed to lead off, and and Trede Turner bad second.
Speaker 1: But they've already come out and said that they want
Speaker 1: trade Turner to attempt this many stolen bases. Does it happen?
Speaker 1: I don't know. I still think that you get hit
Speaker 1: towny home runs and steal fifty basses. If that's the case,
Speaker 1: you know he'll perform like a top five hitter for
Speaker 1: fantasy purpose. They still stole seventeen basses last year from
Speaker 1: hitting seconds, so I'm not worried about worried about his
Speaker 1: storm basis at all. Like the question that I had
Speaker 1: in my draft last night was myself on my second
Speaker 1: starting pitcher, and that was between Patrick Corban and Stephen Strassburg.
Speaker 1: Would you have taken You've said neither, neither. Um you
Speaker 1: mean Patrick Corbyn. I mean Patrick Orban, the new Patrick Orban,
Speaker 1: not the old Patrick Orban. The new Patrick Corbyn, and
Speaker 1: I'll take him over Strasburg's injury history between the two,
Speaker 1: like you said, I would go neither. So I'm actually
Speaker 1: working on an article right now for as Ball, and
Speaker 1: I think that Patrick Corbin is destined for an i
Speaker 1: L stint because of the increased use of the slider,
Speaker 1: and I should look at what that slider does to
Speaker 1: a lot of game. Just look at Michael Panada, right,
Speaker 1: and he's actually coming back this year and it's gonna
Speaker 1: be intriguing to see. But if you take Patrick Corban
Speaker 1: as your SP two and in May his arm falls off,
Speaker 1: he becomes Dave Dravecky, what are you gonna do? That's
Speaker 1: why so neither for me as well, But if I
Speaker 1: had to, it would be Corbin awesome. You know how
Speaker 1: all draft season I've been saying I'm off Corbin. I
Speaker 1: don't really have a reason why. I was just waiting
Speaker 1: till any reason. I was just like because last year
Speaker 1: I was all over for Corbin and I love like
Speaker 1: the profit that he returned at his value. And now
Speaker 1: I don't know if this is fair that we when
Speaker 1: we do this to players, because in years past, like
Speaker 1: when you get a player and then they severely outperformed
Speaker 1: where they were drafted, then the next year, you know
Speaker 1: they're going as like a fourth round pick, and now
Speaker 1: you're just off that player because I've had them last year.
Speaker 1: I don't want to pay that price because I already
Speaker 1: like got my profit on that player, and I can't
Speaker 1: really see them being much better than they were last year.
Speaker 1: I know, like he's that fair everybody's last year like
Speaker 1: he was the greatest thing in the world he produced.
Speaker 1: Now everyone's off because he's going so high. That's a
Speaker 1: similar situation, Greg, Was there a third person that you
Speaker 1: could have picked outside of Corn? So it's funny because
Speaker 1: I would say both pictures that I ended up within
Speaker 1: the fourth and fifth round. Greg over both, So I did.
Speaker 1: I took in the fifth round. That was that. That
Speaker 1: was the thing. So I I waited and played a
Speaker 1: little picture chicken because there weren't guys that I loved there,
Speaker 1: And of course they all went in between my two pigs.
Speaker 1: Of course in between the fourth and the fifth like
Speaker 1: where um I want up taking Tommy fam when tie
Speaker 1: on Clevinger packed in? Um Wheeler, were all Wheeler Grinky
Speaker 1: or all in the boards? All right, I get any
Speaker 1: of these guys from back? I got none of them.
Speaker 1: So at my spot it was Corbyn or Shosberg and
Speaker 1: that was the end of the tier and I need
Speaker 1: to reach five though it's pretty good value team league
Speaker 1: in round five. Yeah, so I don't have a problem
Speaker 1: with it. At that point you're deciding between the end
Speaker 1: of this year. Correct off the board? Probably not? I
Speaker 1: but I hate you even in the eighth round. I'm
Speaker 1: so awful and her mom him or hate him? Hate him?
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, I love him, alright, I love him. I
Speaker 1: hated him, now I love him. Maybe tomorrow I hate
Speaker 1: him again. But let's see what happens. He's got an
Speaker 1: easy schedule the first month, so to me, it's just
Speaker 1: like I don't want I don't need to buy the Colorado.
Speaker 1: There's plenty of other places to go. I don't need
Speaker 1: to buy in the Colorado for fishing. Even as good
Speaker 1: as her Moan and Marquez Freeling, who were last year.
Speaker 1: All right, we heard who Matt and Mike really liked
Speaker 1: and drafting all our teams. I'm excited to find out
Speaker 1: who they don't. Other than Patrick Corman, who just keep
Speaker 1: that to the side and shut that up. We'll find
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Speaker 1: you like you okay, I like what just happened? And
Speaker 1: Mac's like you didn't taf. I was just like what
Speaker 1: they actually choked me out? Now I make sure to
Speaker 1: get to get back for you, don't you worry? I afree,
Speaker 1: I appreciate it. But yeah, so there you go. M JF.
Speaker 1: You can check them out a whole bunch of places,
Speaker 1: as well as Matt Striker and Microroto cop on their podcast,
Speaker 1: which you could listen to where Mike strikes on some
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Speaker 1: Long Old Podcast Network, and a couple other places. Right absolutely,
Speaker 1: wherever wherever you using the podcast, I'm sure you can
Speaker 1: listen to under podcast. It's well worth it. Excited you
Speaker 1: sent me the first episode, which I have not gotten
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Speaker 1: need to do that. I don't need to do that
Speaker 1: because you guys are here and I'm doing it live
Speaker 1: in person and it's awesome. I think what's cool about
Speaker 1: this is like there's a clear chemistry and it makes
Speaker 1: it really easy to listen to and really fun. And
Speaker 1: the numbers like the Baseball reference, spring Train, anything that
Speaker 1: you referenced no idea, and I am very I wish
Speaker 1: I told that that two weeks ago. Drafts like that's awesome,
Speaker 1: Just an interesting way to see who players are competing against,
Speaker 1: what their competition levels like, because some of these guys
Speaker 1: pusted up these insane spring training stats and they're really
Speaker 1: not facing major league level talent. So it's definitely an interesting,
Speaker 1: interesting metric that baseball offense has. So have you used
Speaker 1: that to not draft certain players? I want to know.
Speaker 1: You're about four leagues, who have you actively stayed away from?
Speaker 1: Obviously a you certain guys that just don't fall into
Speaker 1: your range, and that's okay, But who have you actively
Speaker 1: stayed away from? I feel a little bad discussing this guy.
Speaker 1: Um everyone card and everyone's staying away from. Now it's
Speaker 1: not gonna everybody's staying away from. But Clayton Kershaw, first
Speaker 1: the back, now the shoulder. So when this when the
Speaker 1: draft season started, he was the first round pickers, one
Speaker 1: of the first pitchers going off the board, and now
Speaker 1: he's kind of fell down to like a fifth round
Speaker 1: pick or whatever it is. The last year's case per
Speaker 1: nine were the worst that's ever been at the eight
Speaker 1: point six five his swinging strike right was the worst
Speaker 1: it's ever been at an eleven, So there were signs
Speaker 1: before the shoulder injury. His his fastball VELO dropped from
Speaker 1: ninety three to nine point one to ninety one point four.
Speaker 1: His pitch value on his fastball in two thousand six
Speaker 1: team was twenty two. Now we're approaching negative. I think
Speaker 1: it was a zero point two. It's almost a negative pitch,
Speaker 1: one of his best pitches his whole career is almost
Speaker 1: a negative pitch now. So I think the narrative would
Speaker 1: be different if his name wasn't Clayton Kershal. I think
Speaker 1: that's what's keeping him at that fifth round or like
Speaker 1: you said, the eighth round you brought up before that
Speaker 1: Floria wanted to draft him. I think that's what's keeping
Speaker 1: him in that range. And honestly, I'm staying as far
Speaker 1: away from Clayton Kershaw as I can. First to back, Now,
Speaker 1: the shoulder, who knows when the back's gonna flare up again,
Speaker 1: Who knows what's gonna go on with the shoulder. I
Speaker 1: just really don't don't trust him at all, Frank So,
Speaker 1: I think that's the important thing that too many people
Speaker 1: are forgetting and You're totally right, Mike, play Kershal is injured.
Speaker 1: He's got this back injury that's kept him out year
Speaker 1: after year after year. Now it's a shoulder, and it's
Speaker 1: probably all related in some way because you're overcompensating. And
Speaker 1: we talked to a guy that has herniated disk. He's like, Hey,
Speaker 1: somebodys I feel greatat which Kersha I feels great, but
Speaker 1: other times I can't feel my fingers, I can't I
Speaker 1: can't feel my r I can't feel my shoulder, and
Speaker 1: it's kind of all related there. So you have that
Speaker 1: and you can take that and put that on one side.
Speaker 1: But as you just pointed out, Hershel has been declining
Speaker 1: for a couple of years now, and his best pitch
Speaker 1: is no longer his best pitch. It's not even above
Speaker 1: average pitch. And I think, Frank, we've forgotten that to
Speaker 1: extend that it's not just Clayton Kershaw is hurt because
Speaker 1: he's declining in other ways, which is a little scary. Yeah,
Speaker 1: for sure. I mean this has been someone that I've
Speaker 1: been avoiding as well. It's like strip the name off
Speaker 1: the back of the jersey here. If this is another
Speaker 1: player whose skills declined this far from I mean he
Speaker 1: he would be goings even later than Clayton Kershaw is.
Speaker 1: So I think the fact that his name is Clayton
Speaker 1: Kershaw kind of keeps him in this fifth sixth round
Speaker 1: relevant range. But I can't disagree with anything that you
Speaker 1: mentioned about Kersha. Look, the velocity on his fastball was
Speaker 1: the lowest of his career, not just dating back to
Speaker 1: the rookie year, it was the lowest of his career.
Speaker 1: The skills are declining, He's not getting as many swinging strikes,
Speaker 1: he's walking more guys, he's not getting as many strikeouts.
Speaker 1: So there's just there's too much in play here. And
Speaker 1: the fact that now he's dealing with the shoulder and
Speaker 1: he has the back injury. It's like, what more do
Speaker 1: you need to see from some from from a situation
Speaker 1: to tell you do not draft me. I mean, everything
Speaker 1: is there when it comes to Clayton Kershaw. Would you
Speaker 1: rather have Clayton Kersha? This is a question we ask everybody,
Speaker 1: Clayton Kershaw or Louis Sabrina. I'll take Saborrina at this
Speaker 1: point a day, even even though one is seemingly healthier
Speaker 1: than the other. I wouldn't say he's he's he's seemingly
Speaker 1: healthy literally not literally healthier. I'll go Severino his upside
Speaker 1: and where you could get him now, because you could
Speaker 1: still get him a couple of rounds after you could
Speaker 1: you would have to pay for Krishaw. So I think
Speaker 1: Severina would be uh would be the more value play
Speaker 1: out of it too. You know draft last night, Frank Surprise,
Speaker 1: he went in the six rounds and not all that
Speaker 1: much value. Kershaw. I actually considered taking Kersha last night. Also,
Speaker 1: Saverno actually goes a lot higher than Kershawe. I have
Speaker 1: these guys rank back to back and twenty nine to
Speaker 1: my starting pitcher ranks, so I mean I'm still pretty
Speaker 1: low on all of them. I have guys like Tanaka, Archer,
Speaker 1: Mikolas Sto Granky all ranked ahead of these players, and
Speaker 1: I should probably drop them even lower because realistically, when
Speaker 1: I'm in drafts, I just skip over their names, and
Speaker 1: it's it's just I can find someone later on I
Speaker 1: would rather have added more of a value. Edwardo Rodriguez
Speaker 1: goes later. I'll grab him. Joe Muskro if you mentioned,
Speaker 1: I grab him, you know, three four rounds later. Nick Pavetta,
Speaker 1: take someone like that Paddock goes. You know, I have
Speaker 1: six rounds later, So to me, I just skip over
Speaker 1: these guys and I'll wait, you know, a couple of
Speaker 1: rounds and find a picture I like even more. Matt
Speaker 1: who's the guy that you've actively avoided during draft season?
Speaker 1: So staying with the pitching, I have avoided John Lester,
Speaker 1: and uh so Mike is a big numbers guy, as am.
Speaker 1: I I like to back it up, not just because
Speaker 1: I don't like him or whatever. So I'm gonna back
Speaker 1: it up. So let's star at a nineteen point six
Speaker 1: percent k rate last year, and that was forty three
Speaker 1: out of fifty seven qualifying pictures. Just to put it
Speaker 1: in perspective, that's worse than guys like Matthew Boyd or
Speaker 1: Jake Odorees. Also, his swinging strike rate was eight point
Speaker 1: five percent. That was forty nine, behind guys like Jose
Speaker 1: Uren and Mike Fires. Now, this is great if you
Speaker 1: have great control. Lester does not. He has a walk
Speaker 1: rate of eight point five percent. That's the sixteenth highest
Speaker 1: in the league. These are all the reasons why you
Speaker 1: can keep you some John Lester. John Lester, I somehow
Speaker 1: drafted him, so I see I'm just talking to myself
Speaker 1: out of out of the studio. So here's the thing.
Speaker 1: So I draft. I drafted him, and I literally I said,
Speaker 1: you're aft in my whispers, I'll take John. I was like,
Speaker 1: I tried to trade him, like before my next pick
Speaker 1: was up. I was like, I'll just keep you John,
Speaker 1: lust for anybody. And then I came in the next day.
Speaker 1: I was like, embarrassed to face Frank, I'm like, I
Speaker 1: don't I can't left. He did, Should we all just
Speaker 1: point and laugh at you on? I would laugh myself
Speaker 1: like I don't get it, Like I don't even know
Speaker 1: why I did it. And it was one of those
Speaker 1: things times running down was like, oh right, pretty much
Speaker 1: I have I can't defend myself. I can defend myself
Speaker 1: a Corbyn because the round was right. He's the last
Speaker 1: guy that's year, Like, I get it, and the numbers
Speaker 1: were good. You're absolutely right that slider's gonna cause me
Speaker 1: get injured at some point. Again, I can't do it
Speaker 1: last and I don't know why. You just can't deal
Speaker 1: with I tried to trade him for anybody. I asked
Speaker 1: the guy three times this week training for Paul de Young.
Speaker 1: He said no, what ever, he said no every time offer.
Speaker 1: But I'm going I'm going to keep asking. Maybe he'll
Speaker 1: change his mind. That actually, Paul Paul Young is a
Speaker 1: guy like that. I will throw out my buddies, the
Speaker 1: Young Bucks and Cody Rhodes. Paul Young is a guy
Speaker 1: that I'm all in on. I would not trade. We
Speaker 1: put double or nothing on him as well. Look at
Speaker 1: us an American nightmare. Are we done? I know you
Speaker 1: guys want to Cody, I'll play you in Hangman before
Speaker 1: we've done. Okay, I appreciate it. Back to Uh, Back
Speaker 1: to Lester. Here's a question. Would you rather take Frank
Speaker 1: Matt Greg would you rather take or beIN Burns to
Speaker 1: mingle Herman or would you rather take John Lester? So,
Speaker 1: I think there's no question you rather Burns than her
Speaker 1: mom because the upside she's higher and that and that's
Speaker 1: where it is, and that's with all, that's with all
Speaker 1: the guys that Frank was just mentioning when Severino and
Speaker 1: in Kershaw especially go for the upside. There's the worst
Speaker 1: that the literal worst that could happen with the guy
Speaker 1: that Corbyn Burns is that he sucks. And if he sucks,
Speaker 1: you drop him and it didn't cost you anything. And
Speaker 1: the same really goes for Lester. If that first week,
Speaker 1: when Lester makes his opening day start and a lot
Speaker 1: of six cern runs or a weekly if sathing happens,
Speaker 1: I'm not going to play by the name and the
Speaker 1: guy on the back of the jersey. I'm gonna drop
Speaker 1: him and I'm gonna treat him like Corbyn Burns. And
Speaker 1: if that's the case, it's fine. It's a lottery ticket.
Speaker 1: And that's the thing. See, that's a great thing that
Speaker 1: you say, and I tell it to anyone that will listen.
Speaker 1: You have to approach this type of fantasy like that.
Speaker 1: You can't get hung up on the name on the
Speaker 1: back of the jersey. You have to close your eyes
Speaker 1: and look what you can't do. Just look at the
Speaker 1: numbers and be okay to drop a guy. And it's
Speaker 1: really hard to do that. As easy as it is
Speaker 1: for us to say this on March, it's really hard
Speaker 1: to pull that trigger. And Frank knows that I have
Speaker 1: a very issuy trigger finger when it comes to fantasy
Speaker 1: sports Baseball, basketball, football. It doesn't matter who wasn't last
Speaker 1: year that had a bad first day first day. I
Speaker 1: was right for the record, I was right, it was,
Speaker 1: and I was right, was right, but it's but I
Speaker 1: was like, I don't want to do this anymore. And
Speaker 1: come on, you drafted him for a reason, and I go,
Speaker 1: you're right, but e've been over four or four kgs.
Speaker 1: What are we doing here? Yeah, it's much easier to
Speaker 1: do with players you get late. I'm assuming you got
Speaker 1: John Lesser super late in your draft. So if you
Speaker 1: and perform early on, you could just cut bait. I
Speaker 1: will say, I agree with what you said to a
Speaker 1: certain extent. Right, Like, if if a player I drafted
Speaker 1: early on, like a foundation on my team isn't performing,
Speaker 1: obviously you have to have more patience. So I think
Speaker 1: it's worth reiterating that. But you know, some of these
Speaker 1: guys that you get later on your drafts, if if
Speaker 1: they're not performing two three weeks in, and there's obviously
Speaker 1: someone who has upside on the waiver wire. Do Mingo
Speaker 1: Hormon probably wasn't drafted in a lot of leagues. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know it was the Brewers guy deep, but the
Speaker 1: entire Brewers staff, well, all these Brewers guys have a
Speaker 1: ton of upside. Brandon Woodard of Corbin Burns, Freddy Peralta.
Speaker 1: We spoke about the Marlins in the first hour, Pablo
Speaker 1: Lopez getting a lot of high Trevor Richards getting so, look,
Speaker 1: if John Lesser's performing, some of those guys are playing
Speaker 1: well early on, you know, don't don't don't worry about
Speaker 1: the name John Lesser is. I think we're I think
Speaker 1: we're past that point when it comes to Lesser. I
Speaker 1: completely agree with you. It actually doesn't matter. Another guy
Speaker 1: I did, Gregory Planca, who you actually did? It was
Speaker 1: a weird role reversal there, Oh, Gregory PoCA last year? Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I dropped into early man and then he and then
Speaker 1: he turned it around and say he did have a
Speaker 1: good second half. What do you expect for Polanco this year?
Speaker 1: So let's say, I guess a really fair question, and
Speaker 1: for me, I guess that's why you've asked it. But
Speaker 1: um so I'm staying away from Polanco. The shoulder injuries
Speaker 1: scare me. Shoulders and wrists injuries from hitters really really
Speaker 1: scare me. And as Frank knows, I'd rather take a
Speaker 1: shot on the guy Glaniy chisen Hall. Who's gonna start
Speaker 1: for Polanco? Chisenhle whenever you we're both laughing at that.
Speaker 1: For you, whenever it choosen, Hall take has an opportunity
Speaker 1: to an opportunity to Cleveland. He flourished and he can't
Speaker 1: hit a lefty. That's fine, you may you mainly face right,
Speaker 1: He's I We never had an opportunity. Like I said,
Speaker 1: he did really really well. And I think in that
Speaker 1: small chance he has without Gregory Planco in there, I
Speaker 1: think he's going to do fine. When Polanco comes back,
Speaker 1: it's not going to be And I think we all
Speaker 1: forget this. It's not all but a lot of people
Speaker 1: forget when you start. It's not like you're just you're
Speaker 1: back and you're the Gregory Polanco of old. You. You
Speaker 1: need time to get back to feel healthy, to feel
Speaker 1: what it is to play every day, to get hit
Speaker 1: with a baseball again, to run in the stool wall again.
Speaker 1: Especially in the National League where there is no d
Speaker 1: H It's not like he's already taking batting practice. There's
Speaker 1: a lot mentally as well that has to come back
Speaker 1: in order for him to be good again. So for me,
Speaker 1: I'm not drafted Gregory Planco. I'm not drafting you and
Speaker 1: a Cesspicius. The one guy that I am drafting at
Speaker 1: the end of drafts is the Greglorious because I think
Speaker 1: um in the middle of field, it makes sense. And
Speaker 1: I also think that we've seen Glabor Torres, for instance,
Speaker 1: on the Yankees come back and be totally fine coming
Speaker 1: back from Tommy John surgery. Where are you, Mike on
Speaker 1: on the injured guys like cesspicous planco Indeed, I have
Speaker 1: a confession. I did drop the Gregorious in my tj
Speaker 1: FBI league yesterday for purposes. I got um Quota Hudson
Speaker 1: for eleven dollars. Like there's no d in the in
Speaker 1: the t g FBI either. Yeah, So I drafted him
Speaker 1: thinking maybe I could get something out of this eventually,
Speaker 1: but I decided to go the other way with it.
Speaker 1: You mentioned Polanco. He did show better play discipline in
Speaker 1: the second half of last year. Good. He had the
Speaker 1: moment I think the highest walk percentage of his career
Speaker 1: last year, which is like an eleven, which isn't isn't uh,
Speaker 1: it's actually far off from his usual six percent or
Speaker 1: whatever it is. So I do like Polanco a little bit,
Speaker 1: just because Steels will always play. If he comes back
Speaker 1: and runs, that's always gonna play. Chisen Hall, I don't
Speaker 1: think it's a bad hitter, though I don't think that's
Speaker 1: a bad uh bad suggestion if you're looking somewhere else
Speaker 1: beside Polanco, certainly, and only leads as well. But if
Speaker 1: we're talking Pittsburgh, we're talking besides Polanco. The one ning
Speaker 1: we have to bring up is Adam Fraser. And Adam
Speaker 1: Fraser is somebody that he's got a bit overlooked. And
Speaker 1: we've all fallen in love with Ramon Loriano and we've
Speaker 1: fallen in love with Cedric Mullins. Adam Fraser is a
Speaker 1: guy that is like these players that potentially can give
Speaker 1: you fifteen and fifteen, But nobody's talking about Matt how come?
Speaker 1: So I love that. It's because so it's what I say.
Speaker 1: It's not sexy, right, he didn't put on his lipstick
Speaker 1: and do his hair, and I don't notice him walking
Speaker 1: in the bar, and if my girlfriend's listening, I don't
Speaker 1: notice any girls are walk in the bar. Only have
Speaker 1: eyes for you. But the point is that he's he's
Speaker 1: not sexy. Raman Loriano, I'm all over him. I love him.
Speaker 1: His name is fun to say. No, So I think
Speaker 1: it's one of those things. And if you're you're level
Speaker 1: headed and wise like you obviously are. Then you're gonna
Speaker 1: be able to see don't tell your girlfriend, you're telling
Speaker 1: him beyond the name, and you're just gonna be able
Speaker 1: to look at the numbers. And to me, that's what
Speaker 1: this is all about, looking at numbers. So that's why
Speaker 1: guys like that go go overlooked. In my opinion, it's sexy,
Speaker 1: and I think Fraser and specifically players like him and
Speaker 1: Cedric Mullins are all right. It's not a great lineup.
Speaker 1: It's Pittsburgh, it's Baltimore, but they're projected to lead off rejected,
Speaker 1: we'll see what happens, but there's not like where else
Speaker 1: are the Pittsburgh Pirates gonna go in terms of leadoff better?
Speaker 1: So I think there's value to be had there. They're
Speaker 1: gonna score runs. I don't not gonna light the world
Speaker 1: on fire in terms of stealing basis, but can you
Speaker 1: give me ten to fifteen ten to fifteen home runs
Speaker 1: as well? He's gonna score runs because he's gonna get
Speaker 1: on base in Pittsburgh, and same thing goes for a
Speaker 1: player like Cedric Mullins. The Orioles lineup is not good.
Speaker 1: We all understand that he's still gonna lead off, he
Speaker 1: still might steal fifteen and twenty bases, and because of that,
Speaker 1: you know, maybe he'll score seventy five runs. I mean,
Speaker 1: there's value to be had with that. I agree. You know,
Speaker 1: we got Adam Fraser as our middle infielder in one league.
Speaker 1: I think I ended up with him in the main
Speaker 1: event or something else too. So I'm not opposed to
Speaker 1: you know, eight in your drafts, you get a measurr
Speaker 1: middle endfielder and and he has dual eligibility to Adam
Speaker 1: Fraser second base and outfield. There there's there's a lot
Speaker 1: of value there. The only thing with Fraser is he
Speaker 1: didn't run last year. He only attempted to four stall
Speaker 1: on bases. The year before that he attempted fourteen. So
Speaker 1: I don't know what the what the reason was for
Speaker 1: the difference. So that's the only thing to keep an
Speaker 1: eye on if you if you're expecting tenstall on basis.
Speaker 1: Speaking of stolen bases, the guy that we liked early
Speaker 1: on the draft season was Jean Sigarura in Philadelphia. New
Speaker 1: line up like he's gonna run, but gave Kafler, I
Speaker 1: was concerned new Age New analytics. He would literally run
Speaker 1: We looked this up and he ran lee average last year.
Speaker 1: It wasn't that, it wasn't anything to scare us away.
Speaker 1: So Philly playing Tampa Bay, and Jim Salisbury, who was
Speaker 1: one of the beat reporters, said, here's the starting lineup
Speaker 1: a k a. Their opening day line up, and I
Speaker 1: wanted to read it to you guys because Philly is
Speaker 1: a place that we were looking at. Right, McCutcheon is
Speaker 1: leading off, then Jean Sigura, Harper, Hoskins back in the
Speaker 1: line up. There's an injury concerned there, Reese Houses back
Speaker 1: in the line at that and clean up real MutS
Speaker 1: so five, and then that was what the question was, right,
Speaker 1: who would be next? It's o'double at six, sayzar Hernand
Speaker 1: is at seven, and mikel Franco at eight, which is
Speaker 1: a big of a disaster for us. Frank that's ad Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, look, I worried Franco was gonna hit. I
Speaker 1: knew it was going to be in the lower third.
Speaker 1: I could see o'dooble being six, just so you break
Speaker 1: up some of the right e's there because they have
Speaker 1: Hoskins in real Muto obviously four and five, so I
Speaker 1: could have I could have seen o'doble being seven, six,
Speaker 1: and then we get Franco at seven. But man, I
Speaker 1: mean eighths. It's not great for Franco. He's not gonna
Speaker 1: get a lot of pitches to hit there, obviously with
Speaker 1: the with the picture coming up next to so that's
Speaker 1: not great. He was a corner and fielder that I
Speaker 1: like just because it's great lineup and you know, I
Speaker 1: can hit twenty five runs. It's sneaky, but and in
Speaker 1: the lineup, the accounting stats are not going to be good.
Speaker 1: Whither you guys, you know, sneaky mcil Franco play. I
Speaker 1: actually have them monthly. Again, I'm so sure that he's
Speaker 1: gonna be hit an eighth for too long. I think
Speaker 1: the way Kapler runs that show it's gonna be a
Speaker 1: different line up out there until he gets the right one.
Speaker 1: And I think that's like you said, with Franco, I
Speaker 1: could I'd like to see him seven and hit says
Speaker 1: here Hernanda's eight. I think that's more more realistic. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I agree to. And there was some talk early in
Speaker 1: the spring about he says her under is leading off,
Speaker 1: and then I just wondered where would cauch go. But
Speaker 1: to me, I'd rather see says her end is at
Speaker 1: the bottom of that order, cause then the lineup turns
Speaker 1: back over and that gives her nanda Is some opportunity
Speaker 1: for counting stats. So I wouldn't be that concern with Franco.
Speaker 1: If that lineup turns over and does what it's supposed
Speaker 1: to do, he may get some numbers. Guys, one last time,
Speaker 1: where coul everyone find your podcast and listen to you, guys.
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