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Speaker 1: on the Fantasy Sports alongside Frankie stavill I am Greg's
Speaker 1: about what's going on, Gregy, Happy Tuesday. Got some fresh
Speaker 1: news off the press here fresh excited for tonight. You
Speaker 1: got your home league draft. We have the g S
Speaker 1: T Draft, which we all split amongst each other. I
Speaker 1: will be either face timing or skyping with Michael Florio.
Speaker 1: We'll figure that out. Yet we're texting me. I hope
Speaker 1: not really. Well, we'll hold down the draft for you. Great.
Speaker 1: You just focus on your home leage draft. Do you
Speaker 1: don't want me involve? No, it's not that. I mean, look,
Speaker 1: we want you to make sure that you have the
Speaker 1: best draft that you possibly can for your home league.
Speaker 1: I'm going to we need a tiebreaker. Can you at
Speaker 1: least tell me, like who we're picking that I could
Speaker 1: like in my opinion? Sure, we have the fourth pick
Speaker 1: out of fifteen teams tonight, Yeah, Team Road hisstory mixed
Speaker 1: Snake draft pick four of course, right after Adam Rhonus
Speaker 1: got to be back to back. Oh, it's non Rhonus.
Speaker 1: Are you okay? I'm fine, man, Like you keep doing that,
Speaker 1: You're right, Yeah, I'm good man. I mean kind Are
Speaker 1: you kind of infatuation with Adam Rutas that you need
Speaker 1: to get up your chest because you said, of course,
Speaker 1: is what happen? What happened Adam runs? Last time we
Speaker 1: played him frank fantasy basketball? Yeah, different sport. What happened.
Speaker 1: We took him out, We beat him, We beat him.
Speaker 1: Not scared of anybody that's scared of I'm not scared
Speaker 1: of anyone either. I'm just saying you're nervous. But it
Speaker 1: could have been anyone, like you could if it was
Speaker 1: if it was Matt Moodika. I would say, oh, well,
Speaker 1: we're drafting next to Matt Moodiga, real recognized, real recognized
Speaker 1: on the other side. Who's on the other side of us? Exactly?
Speaker 1: That's my point. Let you know right now, I don't
Speaker 1: want to know. I don't I don't care. I don't care.
Speaker 1: So you have first pick in your home league raft tonight, correct?
Speaker 1: I do? I do? We keeper league though, already made
Speaker 1: up your mind moving bets, not thinking about it. Is
Speaker 1: it crazy that in my home league points draft that
Speaker 1: I have Thursday night, I have the third pick. Mike
Speaker 1: Trout bets shots and the grammar all there, so I
Speaker 1: have third pick. My dad has four keepers, he's the
Speaker 1: first overall pick. They're all hitters, so he might take
Speaker 1: shots at first overall. Again, points league, Mike Trout's gonna
Speaker 1: go second. Obviously, it's crazy if I take the grom
Speaker 1: over bets in a points league, Yes, still might do it.
Speaker 1: I've been saying this all even saying this all draft season.
Speaker 1: Just in the points league it's different. I don't know. Look,
Speaker 1: everyone's points leagues the way that the points that are
Speaker 1: calculated is different, but in mine it's very pitching heavy,
Speaker 1: so same. So now it's points like it's categories. But
Speaker 1: Holdtown Hello has been telling me, he's like, you should
Speaker 1: take shuts Are at one. That's the guy you should take.
Speaker 1: And I'm just like not doing it. And you have Eronado,
Speaker 1: Wheeler Snell and Justin Turner. Well you already have a
Speaker 1: first round caliber hitter in Eronado. You always start three outfielders.
Speaker 1: So you said you just take a first round picture.
Speaker 1: Makes sense, right, I'd probably take sure. I'm not taking sure.
Speaker 1: That's fine. Yep, everyone's different. I'd like to get my pitching.
Speaker 1: I get it. I usually I usually do too, but
Speaker 1: I think Mookie Batts is one of those guys. It
Speaker 1: just changes everything for you, makes it a lot of
Speaker 1: things easier for you. The rest of the way I
Speaker 1: think about this, you find some pitching. If I don't
Speaker 1: take because I'm picked three twelve teams when it was sorry,
Speaker 1: when is this shot this weekend? This is Thursday night.
Speaker 1: If I don't take, that's at three. I mean, if
Speaker 1: I do take bets at three and I don't take
Speaker 1: a starting picture, I don't know who's gonna be there
Speaker 1: when by the time I come back to me, you know,
Speaker 1: and Flaherty as keepers already, so it's not bad. It's
Speaker 1: a fine start, but I really want that anchor. I
Speaker 1: was already kind of projecting this, and I was thinking,
Speaker 1: you know, the best starting picture that might come back
Speaker 1: to me in the second round, here's a guy like
Speaker 1: James Paxton. Because it's a twelve team league and wan
Speaker 1: you can keep up to four play here, so a
Speaker 1: lot of players off the board, so people go pitching heavy.
Speaker 1: So I think I'm gonna take to Grom. So it's
Speaker 1: funny you say that because I'm sitting at my spot
Speaker 1: and the best picture that might come back to me
Speaker 1: is James Paxton. That's exactly that's exactly the range. But
Speaker 1: you already have Snell, so I feel a little bit
Speaker 1: better about Snell as ace rather than like ty One
Speaker 1: or Flaherty. And it's not you know, if you have
Speaker 1: thy own, Flaherty and Paxton as your three starting pitchers
Speaker 1: in a points league, that's not bad, it's fine, But
Speaker 1: I would just feel a lot better if I had
Speaker 1: that Ace, that anchor Grom. Let's see what happens. So
Speaker 1: my dad will take trout. So for me, like, I'm
Speaker 1: thinking about a lot of the second round, and I
Speaker 1: kind of alluded to it yesterday on the show by
Speaker 1: asking you guys like rank out fielders, And that's kind
Speaker 1: of where I'm thinking to go with my second pick.
Speaker 1: I was doing a lot of research last night and
Speaker 1: into this morning, and we've said this a lot, and
Speaker 1: we wanted to talk today about like updating rankings and
Speaker 1: looking at the potential targets. Second basis deep. Second base
Speaker 1: is really deep, and in my league where I don't
Speaker 1: eat a middle infielder, I don't want to take it.
Speaker 1: Even I love Daniel Murphy, and I think it's very shallow. Right,
Speaker 1: there's no middle field, no corner three three our fields,
Speaker 1: there two utilities, so it's much more shallow. Talked about
Speaker 1: making it deeper. We have, we're gonna we have originally
Speaker 1: started and then we we expanded to middle corner and
Speaker 1: we added a fourth rather than a fifth. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: I am going to try to address that next year again. Um,
Speaker 1: it does is very shallow. It's twenty four rounds that
Speaker 1: rather than your standard thirty for instance. UM so it's
Speaker 1: six players shallower. And I'm thinking that anyway, for me,
Speaker 1: second base in my kind of league is very, very
Speaker 1: very deep. And as much as I love a guy
Speaker 1: like Daniel Murphy. We talked about some of the first
Speaker 1: basement I love in Carlos Santanna. I draft every year,
Speaker 1: It's like, man, I can wait and hope that what
Speaker 1: a Murphy scooter or can you get back to me
Speaker 1: at that or five turn, which is possible certainly, And
Speaker 1: I'm like, all right, like one of them, I'm very
Speaker 1: I'm thrilled. I'm thrilled about it. So I'm gonna wait.
Speaker 1: And I really think that the best player on the board,
Speaker 1: and I said this, yes staying on the show is
Speaker 1: one of whichever I'm gonna take a picture, and the
Speaker 1: outfield we're gonna take is one of fam Doll, Springer
Speaker 1: or Pweek And that's why I asked it on yesterday's show.
Speaker 1: And I think those four guys are the next are
Speaker 1: the best hitters that will probably be there for me
Speaker 1: at that two three turn at that two three turn.
Speaker 1: So I was trying to figure out in my league,
Speaker 1: who makes the most sense like the answer to that,
Speaker 1: I still don't know the answer. I don't like my
Speaker 1: So the whole time when I kind of got off
Speaker 1: the Murphy idea, I was leading Springer and then after
Speaker 1: Peak get a monster home run off a Cluver and
Speaker 1: then again a monster home run of Brad Had Like,
Speaker 1: I don't want but Greg, it's spring training. You can't
Speaker 1: buy in correct, You're absolutely right, But I am buying
Speaker 1: into Springer, like stealing three times in spring and that
Speaker 1: like kind of pushed me toward him. And then I'm like,
Speaker 1: if I want the best balance, isn't that Tommy Fam.
Speaker 1: And I'm like, I have to say, I'm probably least
Speaker 1: likely out of those four guys to draft David Doll.
Speaker 1: I would think the other three guys are more the
Speaker 1: other we are more likely For me, I'm honestly hoping
Speaker 1: like one of them go before HY draft to make
Speaker 1: my decision a little bit easier. I'm still it still
Speaker 1: feels like and I hate to do this. Rank don't go,
Speaker 1: don't get upset at me. It still still feels like
Speaker 1: between Springer and Twig more so than Fam, even though
Speaker 1: Fam is probably like alight. Finally, I played the field
Speaker 1: yesterday for the first time in spring. I'm probably between
Speaker 1: I'm probably between Springer and Twig. That's where I am.
Speaker 1: I think I might have those guys ranked the highest group.
Speaker 1: And I'll say and I'll say this, and I would
Speaker 1: have kept Corbet rather than trading him away, and not Turner.
Speaker 1: I probably would have just drafted both of them. So
Speaker 1: here's what I have, Greg, I have pre Get eighteen
Speaker 1: and then Springer nineteen fam twenty, and I have doll At.
Speaker 1: That's exactly that's the range, but inside the mind. But
Speaker 1: it's right there, it's right. I'm in the right spot.
Speaker 1: It's the right range. It's the right time. I get it. Oh, Man,
Speaker 1: don't stress too hard, have fun all right? Man went
Speaker 1: through some of these, uh, some of these spring training
Speaker 1: headlines updates news Jong Hogang yesterday, I believe it was.
Speaker 1: It might have been after we got off the year.
Speaker 1: Joe Hogang named the starting third baseman. Eric Zala's name
Speaker 1: is starting short stop. So for anyone who plays in
Speaker 1: and only leagues, it's obviously huge news. But even in
Speaker 1: fifteen team mixed Rohdo I do think Jung Ho Gang
Speaker 1: could have value? I mean, there's a guy who has
Speaker 1: five hits in the spring, Greg, all five of them
Speaker 1: are home runs, and now he's gonna play every single day.
Speaker 1: I think he's got some He's got some pop for sure.
Speaker 1: Remember back and this guy has bounced all around baseball.
Speaker 1: He's had the issues off the field with the d
Speaker 1: u I, but when he played, he had some pretty
Speaker 1: good pops. So I mean in a hundred hundred three
Speaker 1: games back in twenty one home runs sixty two RBIs.
Speaker 1: He had to fifty five The year before he hit
Speaker 1: two eight seven with fifteen home runs. So can you
Speaker 1: get a you know, to sixty two seventy batting average
Speaker 1: with twenty home runs out of Jung Ho Gang? I mean,
Speaker 1: that's gonna bession corner infielder in fifteen team? Absolutely? Will
Speaker 1: you have another d u I? That's also the discussion.
Speaker 1: I'm joking, but I'm like, he's free in drafts. Yes,
Speaker 1: maybe after the news people might bring him up the
Speaker 1: draft board a little bit. But Floria has been all
Speaker 1: over it. Yeah, he loves him. It has been all
Speaker 1: over him. So I think it was it should be
Speaker 1: an honorable mention because Floria is not here, so we
Speaker 1: gotta talk him up. Floria still alife, don't worry about it,
Speaker 1: but it definitely worth mentioning that Jung Hogang the starting
Speaker 1: third baseman man. What does that mean for Colin Moran? Right?
Speaker 1: He came over in the Garrett Cold deal just didn't
Speaker 1: really do much last year. I kind of had some
Speaker 1: expectations for him, but he hasn't been able to hit lefties.
Speaker 1: Maybe you see him a few days, give Jung Hogang
Speaker 1: a day off here and there, but Jungle Gang is
Speaker 1: actually he's conversatile, like the what what he can do
Speaker 1: with the Pirates. He could play a little bit of
Speaker 1: second base, definite least to play shortstops. So they said
Speaker 1: they're gonna him the backup first baseman, and I think
Speaker 1: he's gonna play mostly every day. I'm excited about him.
Speaker 1: I think so Moran, as I was saying, was going
Speaker 1: to get the backup reps at first, the backup reps
Speaker 1: at third, see what they can make him. But what's interesting, Frankie,
Speaker 1: is you know Junco Galley, as you said, he's going
Speaker 1: to get every opportunity to be mad again. And I
Speaker 1: think for free it's kind of lot like his adp
Speaker 1: over the weekend during the main events was three fifty three.
Speaker 1: Probably back in the middle of the order too, right,
Speaker 1: So put that in perspective. Some hitters that went just
Speaker 1: after him, Josh Harrison, Jason Kitness, Jed Lowry, uh Damer Candelario,
Speaker 1: Ryan O'Hearn, like ohern to, people do love people love
Speaker 1: her because he was he was a small sample size
Speaker 1: last year greggy, but he was a guy who hit
Speaker 1: the ball hard, and he hit the ball in the air.
Speaker 1: Wasn't last year's He should mostly play every single game.
Speaker 1: I know he struggled against Left East. Wasn't last year's
Speaker 1: Ryan O'Hearn. Everyone was super excited about Dozer Hunter Dozer, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean he was a waiver pickup in deeper leagues
Speaker 1: last year. I think we owned him in g D
Speaker 1: D did. But under Doser was like the guy, like
Speaker 1: the corner interfielder all the Royals. Everyone thought he thought
Speaker 1: he's had prospect pedigree for a while. Now he's never
Speaker 1: really come to come to fruition. And now the Royals
Speaker 1: have a bunch of these open spots, so they're letting
Speaker 1: everyone play, letting all these young guys play. So I
Speaker 1: think Doser should actually play every day as well, Ryan
Speaker 1: o hearn. Last year, again, it was only forty four games,
Speaker 1: but it's twelve home runs, thirty rb i's to sixty
Speaker 1: two batting averages, forty two percent hard hit ry six
Speaker 1: percent fly ball rates. So talk about that forty forty
Speaker 1: club and he was over in both of those categories
Speaker 1: fly ball percent and hard hit rates. So it's not
Speaker 1: a great ballpark playing in Kaufman, but it seems like
Speaker 1: he's gonna play every day. I watched a few Royals
Speaker 1: games throughout the spring, UM so far here and so
Speaker 1: get a few hits off lefties. I know that's where
Speaker 1: he struggled immensely in the minors. UM, but I think
Speaker 1: he has legitimate pop. He's always, you know, struck out
Speaker 1: a decent amount, but he walks a lot as well.
Speaker 1: So obi pe leagues, he has my attention. I mean
Speaker 1: real deep Jung Ho gongg Ryan O'Hearn. You're playing a
Speaker 1: fifteen team mixed rohdo or you know a L only
Speaker 1: or and only. I mean these guys, they're they're on
Speaker 1: my radar. Enough up there's a bench bat for upside
Speaker 1: or if you miss out on a corner and fielder,
Speaker 1: those are kind of those are some of the fallback
Speaker 1: options there, Gong and Ryan O'Hearn fallback options. Indeed, check
Speaker 1: him out, Ryan O'Hearn and Jungle Gang. I'm not going
Speaker 1: to be drafting either of those guys tonight. Yeah, because
Speaker 1: you know, you're you're eight team home league. It's not
Speaker 1: very nice, right, come on, Gret, you gotta bust you
Speaker 1: up a little bits. That's not nice, right. Do you
Speaker 1: have any expectations for Eric in Zaalaz because I'm I'm
Speaker 1: looking into his numbers now and never really done. I
Speaker 1: don't know. I don't know any when he's sixteen and
Speaker 1: triple four games, he had eleven home runs in twelve
Speaker 1: stone bases and he hit two ninety six. So al right,
Speaker 1: there's that. I mean, double digit home runs, double digit
Speaker 1: steal with batting average and it's good. Hey, I just
Speaker 1: thought it was worth mentioning his name is starting shortstop.
Speaker 1: I can't tell if you're mocking me here. No, the
Speaker 1: minor league pedigree is actually good, is what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: Like we're not gonna do anything about it, but like, no,
Speaker 1: not really. You just told me he's good. He's a starter.
Speaker 1: He's gonna play every day for the Yeah, that's good.
Speaker 1: See what happens. Let's say it's not good. That's what happens.
Speaker 1: So today on the show, outside of some of these
Speaker 1: breaking news, really be like on the other side, let's
Speaker 1: getting Walker Bueller because I don't want to I don't
Speaker 1: want to rush that conversation. I'm time matchup tonight, Walker
Speaker 1: Bueller against Shane Bieber. It's on television ten pm. Oh boy,
Speaker 1: you gotta watch it. I mean, I know we're gonna
Speaker 1: be drafting, but I'm going to have that on the
Speaker 1: background for sure. Sure roster Resource has Jongo, Gong bat
Speaker 1: and clean up. For what it's worth. That's interesting. It's
Speaker 1: been Corey Dickerson and Josh Bell. It's about to be
Speaker 1: in you know who's also kind of flying under the
Speaker 1: radar that we haven't spoke about. Adam Fraser's gonna lead
Speaker 1: off for this team. So I saw not sneeky like
Speaker 1: fifteen I saw Nando tweeting about Nando and Scott Fianowski.
Speaker 1: We're tweeting about Adam Fraser and Scooters Scooter Jeannette saying
Speaker 1: these are just like the reason that people aren't on
Speaker 1: these guys because they're not four top prospects, they're just
Speaker 1: guys that more so Genette of course in the past
Speaker 1: someone that's just has become pretty good, and Payanowski was
Speaker 1: saying that like nobody can be can claiming all I
Speaker 1: knew Genet was gonna be good and that's why there's
Speaker 1: no hype around him because nobody knew it. It's just
Speaker 1: becoming a really good player. And it's not like it
Speaker 1: was a one hit wonder. He's done it now again
Speaker 1: and again. So that's the Guette part. Frasier. They believe
Speaker 1: can become a Scooter Geanette. It's like he's not a
Speaker 1: sexy he's not a sexy name, but a guy that
Speaker 1: just happened to be a good player finally going to
Speaker 1: get a chance to play every day, hitting on top
Speaker 1: of the Pirates lineup. I really like Adam Fraser as
Speaker 1: a fifth outfielder. I think it's great. I think he's
Speaker 1: more of a middle infielder, like fall all back middle in.
Speaker 1: I think he has more value there than the fifth
Speaker 1: alf fielders. But I don't disagree with not just similar. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and you know he has a few minor league seasons
Speaker 1: with double digits throw on basis he had ten home
Speaker 1: runs last year and only thirteen games, So I think
Speaker 1: he's gonna play mostly all the time. He's gonna lead off.
Speaker 1: So I think that we were talking about like a
Speaker 1: lot of contact fifteen percent strike out right. We talked
Speaker 1: about Ramon Loriato, a lot. I thought that Adam Frasier
Speaker 1: could be like that, maybe give you fifteen and fifteen
Speaker 1: seventy seven batting average, like he's not gonna hurt you
Speaker 1: in the batting at fifteen fifteen guys, that's how unrealistic.
Speaker 1: Um no, no, I think you know twelve twelves of
Speaker 1: fifteen home runs steels and look, there's a lot of
Speaker 1: players like that in the middle infielder. But he's going
Speaker 1: later than all of them. Adam after going, after all,
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Speaker 1: When you look at Chancisco good final league numbers, having
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Speaker 1: by the Life and do you like have you the
Speaker 1: first twenty minutes, not mentioning Mike trap very the lead.
Speaker 1: She's like the very ust thing to do, wasn't really
Speaker 1: affect fantasy pace. That definitely working story. We also didn't
Speaker 1: mention Gio Gazala. Of all the time in the world
Speaker 1: to talk about Geo Gonzoz Right now, Greg, I'm talking
Speaker 1: with my chaps. Mike Trout twelve years, four thirty, stay
Speaker 1: with the Angels the rest of his career, no opt outs.
Speaker 1: It's like a hundred million dollars more from the Bryce
Speaker 1: dif from the Phillies and one less year like Jack Kid. Yeah,
Speaker 1: twenty seven years old, will turn twenty eight in August,
Speaker 1: but shows no signs of slowing down. Um. Yeah, Bryce
Speaker 1: was the highest paid athlete in UH in all of
Speaker 1: sports for you know, a good two weeks here, and
Speaker 1: Mike Trout jumps him and rightfully so look, he's worth
Speaker 1: every single penny. No one's gonna argue with this. It's
Speaker 1: good for baseball. I love, love, love when superstar players
Speaker 1: stay with one team for their entire career. So barring
Speaker 1: you know, I don't know anything regarding like the no
Speaker 1: trade opts whatever no trade causes that are included in
Speaker 1: the Yeah, but it's not gonna happen, but um yeah,
Speaker 1: good for Mike Trout, it's good for baseball. Should be
Speaker 1: the number one overall pick and fantasy. Don't get too cute,
Speaker 1: don't take movie bets over him. Um yeah. I hope
Speaker 1: that the Angels can at some starting pitching because that's
Speaker 1: really been the biggest The biggest issue for all Mike
Speaker 1: Trout led Angels teams is he's never had pitching. He
Speaker 1: hasn't you know, made it. Has he made it to
Speaker 1: the playoffs? I think once. I think it was. He
Speaker 1: doesn't have a playoff win in his career. I know that.
Speaker 1: Um yeah, it's just the pitching has never been great.
Speaker 1: We know the offense has been solid, has been up
Speaker 1: and down. But yeah, you gotta surround him with more talent.
Speaker 1: So let's go Angels, GM, let's go. Ok. You came
Speaker 1: over from the Yankees for that. Um let speak of
Speaker 1: the Yankees' goodn't see Yankee news and notes. Louis sa
Speaker 1: Farino is expected to throw tomorrow for the first time
Speaker 1: since being shut down. If all goes well, he will
Speaker 1: continue to throw and hopefully be back sometime in early May,
Speaker 1: but knowing that he won't be back to early May,
Speaker 1: the Yankees signed Geo Gonzalez to a minor league contract.
Speaker 1: He'll earn three million on the DAL if he brings
Speaker 1: up to the big leagues, with the potential to earn
Speaker 1: to twelve million dollars, which is kind of interesting. Now
Speaker 1: Geo doesn't opt out by April. I think this is
Speaker 1: kind of an insurance policy for the Yankees. If Um,
Speaker 1: Jonathan Lowizaga and Louis Sessa and Domingo Hermon absolutely suck,
Speaker 1: they call it Geo and they'll place him on the roster.
Speaker 1: If not, she will be gone before before the end
Speaker 1: of April. Um. Jim Zala is a Yankee. Frank, Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's pretty gross at this point in his career. It's
Speaker 1: really good in Milwaukee, by the way, putting it lightly,
Speaker 1: but look thirty three years old. The strikeouts have gone down.
Speaker 1: I mean he's down to seven point seven nine case
Speaker 1: per nine. Last year. The walks were up. Walks have
Speaker 1: always been a huge issue for him. His first pitch
Speaker 1: strike percentage has been decreasing four years now, not getting
Speaker 1: springing strikes like he used to. A four point to
Speaker 1: one e r A last year. And you mentioned what
Speaker 1: he did with the Brewers two point one three r A. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's great, Craig, But at four point four three xfits
Speaker 1: basically in line with what he was doing with the Nationals,
Speaker 1: I know, two years ago in two point nine six
Speaker 1: e r A. But all the peripherals say that he
Speaker 1: was getting very, very lucky. So I don't think it
Speaker 1: means much for fantasy purposes. Obviously, Ale only anyone who
Speaker 1: has a pulse is you know, worthy of picking up
Speaker 1: an ale only if they have a job. So you
Speaker 1: might be able to win games with the Yankees, but
Speaker 1: you know, mixed leagues or twelve teamers. I had a
Speaker 1: few people asking about Geo last night. Greig. It's just
Speaker 1: don't even waste your time. I don't want anything to
Speaker 1: do with him. I think Domingo Harmon with the Yankees
Speaker 1: has substantially more upside. That's definitely a direct nu I
Speaker 1: would rather go in. I would have been own Jonathan
Speaker 1: Lowizaga over giorgan Zalis, but I really doming A Mahaman.
Speaker 1: As you said, a lot more upside there stoking out.
Speaker 1: A lot of guys are testing out the opening period
Speaker 1: today today and tomorrow. Chad Green starting for the Yankees today.
Speaker 1: Jonathan Holders starting for the Yankees tomorrow, so there at
Speaker 1: least and it against the race today as well, recess
Speaker 1: it will come in and relief the multi ending whatever.
Speaker 1: They let him go five innings. Yeah, absolutely. Now you
Speaker 1: were saying before that Walker Bueller has been ruled out
Speaker 1: throwing days that correct? Now is the opening day start? Mean,
Speaker 1: but that's very different than being ruled out. It's just
Speaker 1: not the opening they started. That could just be the
Speaker 1: pitches the second game, right, Uh, yeah, what's the what
Speaker 1: is the report? Did you? I got on my phone.
Speaker 1: I didn't like read it exactly, but I just saw
Speaker 1: like the headline was he's ruled out for opening day.
Speaker 1: So that's what we have. He's gonna make his spring
Speaker 1: training debut tonight. I encourage all people to to check
Speaker 1: it out. Obviously it's gonna be a great match between
Speaker 1: him and Bieber. We know what Bieber has done in
Speaker 1: the spring. He's been rocketing updraft boards and rightfully so.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I have a you shares of Walker Bueller.
Speaker 1: He still ranked inside my top twelve. Originally I dropped
Speaker 1: him down a little bit, but then kind of seeing
Speaker 1: how everyone reacted to him, this weekend and and getting
Speaker 1: the vote of confidence from Matt Modige yesterday. I moved
Speaker 1: him back up inside that top twelve, but he actually
Speaker 1: is behind Syndergard now, Greg, I know that that was
Speaker 1: a dilemma that we were having earlier on when we
Speaker 1: did the starting pitcher preview. We did Sinderguard versus Bueller,
Speaker 1: and it was very very close for me. Now I
Speaker 1: have Synderguard ahead of Bueller, but you are still in
Speaker 1: that top twelve. I agree, I think that makes sense.
Speaker 1: I have Synderguard over Bueller as well. Um may maybe
Speaker 1: he's not ready opening day. It looks like he'll be
Speaker 1: back soon enough. But again, this Dodger's rotation, we know
Speaker 1: rich Hill's gonna be in it as long as he's healthy.
Speaker 1: Knows your Reely will be in Theresa will be in
Speaker 1: there the last two spots. I assume Walker Bully's Bueller
Speaker 1: is gonna be healthy enough to make a rotation turn.
Speaker 1: It's not the first turn the second term before they
Speaker 1: keep him like they might put him as the fifth
Speaker 1: starter in the rotation and then clean Kershaw certainly seems
Speaker 1: to be working his way back as well. I know
Speaker 1: he's to rule out for opening day, but he isn't
Speaker 1: staying back in Arizona when they break camp, but he's
Speaker 1: going to l A with them. I think it's more
Speaker 1: likely he opens up on the I l Okay. The
Speaker 1: point that I was trying to bring up, though, doesn't
Speaker 1: make sense for fantasy drafts that are drafting like us tonight,
Speaker 1: for instance, the draft Ross Stripling or definitely not Hulio.
Speaker 1: Your eyes um, I would say your eyes is behind
Speaker 1: Strippling because as of right now, this is just me speculating,
Speaker 1: and if I were projecting what the rotation looks like
Speaker 1: the opening day, the first five men, I think Kershaw
Speaker 1: is on the I l I think Strippling is in
Speaker 1: the rotation. I don't think Curious will be in the rotation.
Speaker 1: Maybe he starts in the bullpen. A long guy. They
Speaker 1: can use him as a swing man. See any reliever.
Speaker 1: I don't think you'll be long before you know. I
Speaker 1: think at some point we'll see your eyes in the rotation.
Speaker 1: Someone else will have to get a phantom. I l
Speaker 1: stant rich Hill kent to myata, or they'll they'll bounce
Speaker 1: these guys between the bullpen and into the rotation. I
Speaker 1: still think your eyes can pitch anywhere from a hundred,
Speaker 1: two hundred twenty, maybe a hundred and thirty because if
Speaker 1: we're really optimistic this season, but he's a looked great
Speaker 1: in the spring. Um, so I'm intrigued by the upside
Speaker 1: of your riots. But definitely Rass Stripling should be on
Speaker 1: your radar if you're drafting, either at the end of
Speaker 1: your rotation or you know, as a bench starter, because
Speaker 1: when he does pitch in the rotation, I expect him
Speaker 1: to be really good. And he was really good again
Speaker 1: last night. Speaking of a young pitchers, Dakota Hudson was
Speaker 1: very good last night, five scorels in with eight strikeouts
Speaker 1: for the St. Louis Cardinals. He looks at in a
Speaker 1: rotation spot and it certainly seems like he will. We
Speaker 1: know Jack Flawery's number two starter on this team. I'm
Speaker 1: like a Walka, Adam Wainwright or there as well. Um
Speaker 1: Dcoda Hudson's going to start for this team. It looks
Speaker 1: like are you interested in him? He does have my attention,
Speaker 1: more so in deeper formats fifteen team roto in your
Speaker 1: twelve team standard league, not yet. I'll probably put him
Speaker 1: on my watch list. Greg. I know you love the
Speaker 1: watch list, but it's someone that I'll pay attention to
Speaker 1: in twelve team leagues. Anything deeper than that, I might
Speaker 1: have a bench spot available for Dakota Hudson. Look at
Speaker 1: what he did last year year, Uh, every year throughout
Speaker 1: the minor leagues. Legitimate roundball pitcher. I mean, he's been
Speaker 1: at least fifty seven percent each level in the minors.
Speaker 1: Last year in twenty seven endings in the Major's sixty
Speaker 1: eight percent groundball rate. But the walks have been an
Speaker 1: issue for him, and he hasn't really missed a lot
Speaker 1: of bats. Uh, you know, only a six point to
Speaker 1: six k per nine last year in the majors, but
Speaker 1: eight strikeouts yesterday in five shutout endings. Maybe he's doing
Speaker 1: something a little bit differently that he's able to generate
Speaker 1: more swings and misses and get those strikeouts. So, especially
Speaker 1: for the Cardinals, it's not to the same level of
Speaker 1: the Astros Greg, but the Cardinals are just an organization
Speaker 1: I trust, right like they're gonna give someone an opportunity
Speaker 1: in the rotation. I trust the Cardinals, and I get
Speaker 1: it last year with Jack Flaherty, and it seems like
Speaker 1: they're just one of these these teams, one of these
Speaker 1: franchises that anything that they do seems to be right,
Speaker 1: maybe outside of signing Dexter Fowler, but but like the
Speaker 1: trades that they make, the guys that they call up,
Speaker 1: it's like they they they're very smart organizations. So I'm intrigued.
Speaker 1: I'm definitely intrigued by Dakoda Hudson. He's a name to
Speaker 1: pay attention to. I want to bring a name up
Speaker 1: that I don't think we ever talked about other reasonally
Speaker 1: had I forgot about it, and that is Brandon Woodruff
Speaker 1: for Milwaukee, who I was seeing him go a the
Speaker 1: NFBC and I saw him go and you were chuckling
Speaker 1: at it. I was chucking at it. But then I
Speaker 1: was like, looking at what he was doing the spring,
Speaker 1: that the spring matters, but I was really, what he's
Speaker 1: doing the springs it matters more for guys like this
Speaker 1: than other people. And he was like pitching pretty well
Speaker 1: in the spring. And then I looked at the numbers
Speaker 1: last year, like, I know, we only pitched forty two innings,
Speaker 1: were like, this wasn't bad last year. So I kind
Speaker 1: of intrigued by Brandon Woodruff. My question to you, Frank,
Speaker 1: is should I be you definitely should be. And I
Speaker 1: look at what he did last year. He only made
Speaker 1: four starts, but he's mostly been a starter in the
Speaker 1: minor leagues because you know, he made seventeen starts seventeen
Speaker 1: interpal A he made sixteen starts, and so he's mostly
Speaker 1: been in a starting pitcher And you know, between his
Speaker 1: four starts and his he've teen other relief appearances last
Speaker 1: year nearly a ten k per nine A three point
Speaker 1: six one e r A. The eerie indicators were right
Speaker 1: in that range, over fifty three percent ground ball rate.
Speaker 1: He's pitched well in spring training so far, uh here
Speaker 1: this season, and he's battling out for the fifth starter
Speaker 1: job in Milwaukee. It's between him Corbin Burns, who's another,
Speaker 1: and Freddy Peralta is also in that mix. And you know,
Speaker 1: remember how many strikeouts he got last year but was
Speaker 1: mostly fastball reliant, so Random Woodruff so far Guy Endings pitched,
Speaker 1: has twelve strikeouts, he's yet to allow, and earned run
Speaker 1: four walks. So Random would another one of these guys
Speaker 1: similar to Dakota Hudson, battling it out for a fifth
Speaker 1: starting pitcher job in any rotation, but has upside based
Speaker 1: on what we've seen him. Do I think he might
Speaker 1: even have more upside than a guy like Dakota Hudson
Speaker 1: because the strikeouts have been a little bit better here
Speaker 1: um and he's making some noise here in Springs. So
Speaker 1: you talk about Hudson, I think it's it's a smart
Speaker 1: move for you to bring up Brandon. Would I think
Speaker 1: he might have even a little bit more upside than
Speaker 1: a guy like Hudson. And what I'm doing right now,
Speaker 1: Frank and I obviously have our draft tonight. I have
Speaker 1: my home draft tonight as well. So all these names,
Speaker 1: I'm just kind of moving up, just moving up the
Speaker 1: draft board anywhere they need to go. Here, would you
Speaker 1: rather have Brandon Woodrife? Would you rather have Zach Eflyn?
Speaker 1: I'll still take Efflyn. There is like the right tier though, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think he's in that area. I think Eflyn has
Speaker 1: a more stable job with the with the Phillies. And
Speaker 1: again what I said about ff Lynn, I believe it
Speaker 1: was last week or two weeks ago, is they have
Speaker 1: this new metric. It's from Aaron Sauce ata CBS Sports Line.
Speaker 1: And I believe that you know Sarah's has worked with
Speaker 1: him as well. Some conjunction together there they made this
Speaker 1: metrocope called aces where it tries to measure how good
Speaker 1: a picture stuff is and regarding um contraprol velocity movement
Speaker 1: on all their pitches. And Zachlan ranked in like the
Speaker 1: ninety five percentile and he had a valic velocity spike
Speaker 1: last year as well. So dak Ethlyn has my attention.
Speaker 1: I think he's a little bit higher than some of
Speaker 1: these other guys that we're talking about. For example, I
Speaker 1: have Efflyn Ranks is my eighty fifth starting picture, and
Speaker 1: I have Woodroffe at one oh one. Greg, okay, contact
Speaker 1: all right? Can you see I had a contact issue?
Speaker 1: How many figures are my holding up? Two? Three? Alright?
Speaker 1: You probably see Bruce Pearl do that? Who Bruce Pearl
Speaker 1: did that like when one of his players out hurt.
Speaker 1: He's a basketball coach for Auburn. It was actually very
Speaker 1: cool when he did that. Um no, I yeah whatever,
Speaker 1: you yeah. Listen to Greg when it comes to March
Speaker 1: Madness and anything college basketball related. Certainly we'll see what
Speaker 1: we'll see how it goes. Um all right, So other
Speaker 1: players that are kind of in this range, I'm just
Speaker 1: gonna keep asking you about it. That's cool. Like, what
Speaker 1: about the Houston guys? And We've had a lot of
Speaker 1: conversations about this. You've drafted come MQ pretty consistently. I've
Speaker 1: been on Brad Peacock and Wade Miley. The latest about
Speaker 1: Brad Peacock looks like he's going to make this rotation
Speaker 1: as a fifth starter. As we presumed. Problem with Brad
Speaker 1: Peacock was long term. He's not gonna not much gonna
Speaker 1: be there. Josh James is going to come out. Um,
Speaker 1: you'll see Peacock in the in the bullpen. You expected
Speaker 1: his ratios to remain good, but getting you know, a
Speaker 1: hundred fifty innings round probably is unlikely. What do you
Speaker 1: think of the three, four and five ASTROS starters right now?
Speaker 1: I'm interested in all of them. Again, everything the Astros
Speaker 1: was touched turns to gold. And I know Colin MQ
Speaker 1: has been destroyed in the spring. He has an ear
Speaker 1: over fifteen. It's been very bad, to say the least. Greg.
Speaker 1: I still drafted him as my fifth starting pitcher this
Speaker 1: past weekend in an NFBC main event, just because he
Speaker 1: has a track record, especially in this ASTROS rotation, but
Speaker 1: being very good last year, he was awesome as well.
Speaker 1: That was not in the rotation. That was more so
Speaker 1: as a reliever. He made fifty eight appearances last year,
Speaker 1: not a single start, but at one point nine nine
Speaker 1: e r A. He was lights out. He saw what
Speaker 1: he did a couple of years ago when he came
Speaker 1: over to the Houston Astros. Specifically more than a couple
Speaker 1: of years ago. It's kind of a long time ago,
Speaker 1: but a two point seven three e r A the
Speaker 1: next year, a three point eight nine e r A.
Speaker 1: He actually went two hundred endings pitch, So he has
Speaker 1: that capability. I trust mceugh a little bit more than
Speaker 1: Brad Peacock, just because I think he has a higher
Speaker 1: upside to go deeper into games and to make more
Speaker 1: starts this season and have a higher endings pitched count.
Speaker 1: Wade Miley. I also like he's pitched well on the spring.
Speaker 1: Greg He's gonna be given an opportunity. You know, at
Speaker 1: some point if one of these guys get hurt, then
Speaker 1: maybe we'll see Josh James get back into the rotation
Speaker 1: or a Forest Whitley. But Whitley has been sent down,
Speaker 1: gonna start the year in the minors. Parts Whitley is
Speaker 1: absolutely he has like four or five legitimate pitches like
Speaker 1: shore fire, strike out, like make people look foolish pitches.
Speaker 1: He's going to be a beast. But I don't think
Speaker 1: anybody knows how many endings Forest Whitley is gonna get
Speaker 1: this here. So I like Colin mckugh the most of
Speaker 1: these these guys. Then I rank Brad Peacock, he's right
Speaker 1: around that seventies starting pitcher range, and then I have
Speaker 1: Wade Miley a little bit further behind him. But the
Speaker 1: projection systems or for Colin mcqugh this here, Greg, they
Speaker 1: have him between a hundred and forty and a hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty innings over a strikeout per ending between a
Speaker 1: three point five e r A and a four point
Speaker 1: zero to ear a. So again, if he could give
Speaker 1: me a three point seven e r A in that,
Speaker 1: you know, with that kind of offense behind him, you're
Speaker 1: gonna be able to win games and he's gonna give
Speaker 1: you over a strikeoup. So I talked to m the
Speaker 1: most out of these guys, not really worried about the
Speaker 1: spring that he's having because I actually looked into it.
Speaker 1: He's always had bad springs. He hasn't left a spring
Speaker 1: training without an ear a lower than seven. So it
Speaker 1: seems like, uh, you know, he he needs this more
Speaker 1: so than other guys were, Like, he really uses this
Speaker 1: to get his legs underneath him, and maybe he grooves
Speaker 1: a couple of pitches in there during the spring. But
Speaker 1: I think once things get going, I think Colin mcqugh
Speaker 1: is gonna be gonna be just fine. I rank him
Speaker 1: the highest of the three you're still feeling good about.
Speaker 1: But I like Wad Miley. I moved away Miley up
Speaker 1: again last night. You want to talk about rankings movers,
Speaker 1: I'm moved them inside my top feeling. I moved them
Speaker 1: inside my top eighty. He's at seventy seven. I have
Speaker 1: Wade Miley ahead of Zack Godley, Gausman, Stephen Matt's, Matthew Boyd,
Speaker 1: Kyle Gibson, Zach Flyn. So I moved away Miley up
Speaker 1: um considerably, Did I get you? Theres a lot of
Speaker 1: it is what he's doing so far, Like these are
Speaker 1: the guys, the fringe guys that I want to watch
Speaker 1: during the springs to see what they're doing. If they're
Speaker 1: working on new pitches with the velocity is that and
Speaker 1: just the fact that he pitches for Houston, and again
Speaker 1: it's I can't stress that fact enough. Dustin Verlander was
Speaker 1: always great. He won a cy young, he was great.
Speaker 1: He's now pitching better than in his prime. And most
Speaker 1: of that is because the Houston Astros. They have the
Speaker 1: secret sauce. They know what it takes to make these
Speaker 1: guys good when it when it comes to spin rate,
Speaker 1: using more breaking pitches, you know, having these guys really
Speaker 1: go max effort on a lot of their fastballs that
Speaker 1: they throw. So they have the secret sauce. It's working out,
Speaker 1: and uh, I trust that it's gonna at least mildly
Speaker 1: somewhat work out for a guy like Wade Miley as well.
Speaker 1: So I've moved them up. He's inside my top eighties
Speaker 1: starting pictures. Take that, man, I'll take that. I'd peacock
Speaker 1: inside in my top seventy. Let me ask about a
Speaker 1: couple more young two guys, Trevor Williams and Trevor Richards.
Speaker 1: Who would you rather have a much rather have Trevor
Speaker 1: Richards Trevor Williams I don't really want anything to do with.
Speaker 1: I think last year was a big fluke. It doesn't
Speaker 1: get a lot of strikeouts, he pitches to contact. What's
Speaker 1: really really lucky last year, Trevor Richards. If you want
Speaker 1: to talk about amazing spring, he is doing that. The
Speaker 1: changeup is phenomenally. The strikeouts could be there so much
Speaker 1: much Rather have much, rather have Richards than I do.
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Speaker 1: so far? Just hit the garden? Yeah? During this run? Oh,
Speaker 1: during this run? Um five times? Really? Yeah, I'm going
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Speaker 1: the Bronx? Can you hear me? We hear you now? Phil?
Speaker 1: What's up? Man? What's happening? Um? I had a question
Speaker 1: I wanted to ask you guys as far as the
Speaker 1: analytics is concerned, Um, what what? Because I heard you
Speaker 1: talk about Frank, I heard you talking about barrel and
Speaker 1: you know, launching and all that. If I wanted to
Speaker 1: break down like matchup wise, you know, team first team
Speaker 1: kind of for the gambling purposes, what kind of stats
Speaker 1: would I What kind of stats would I need to know?
Speaker 1: You know, not the r ray and batting average, but
Speaker 1: the other things that I don't know about vote after research.
Speaker 1: I think it's kind of similar to DFS Gregg and
Speaker 1: some of the things that we would look into would be,
Speaker 1: you know, more starting pictures going up against a certain team,
Speaker 1: or likewise, if if a team is batting against let's
Speaker 1: say Chris Sale, let's clock up the Yankees wOBA. wOBA
Speaker 1: is weighted on base average. That's a that's the saber
Speaker 1: Metric stat which you can find over on fan Graphs.
Speaker 1: Fan Graphs is a place where you can find all
Speaker 1: these where if you just sort by team batting stats,
Speaker 1: you can kind of see what the Yankees have done
Speaker 1: against left handed pitching wOBA wise for the season or
Speaker 1: even ops. I mean you can use some of the
Speaker 1: more traditional stats as well. I mean those are things
Speaker 1: that I would use on a daily basis, So you
Speaker 1: see how the Yankees lineup has fared against lefties on
Speaker 1: the season. Um, and then you can kind of do
Speaker 1: the reverse for pictures, right, see what a pictures track
Speaker 1: record is against certain players. I know there's a website
Speaker 1: it's called Daily Baseball Data, I believe, where you can
Speaker 1: kind of see how specific hitters have done against pictures. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's Daily Baseball Data dot com, where you can see
Speaker 1: how Aaron Judge has done in his career against Chris Sales,
Speaker 1: so on and so forth. So I kind of use
Speaker 1: all those things. I think you could just you look
Speaker 1: at what a picture has done against that team in
Speaker 1: the past. You look at how a team overall has
Speaker 1: fared against right handed pitching against left handed pitching. I
Speaker 1: I look at splits a lot. I think you know
Speaker 1: DFS and gambling go hand in hand a lot, Greg,
Speaker 1: But I think specifically when I'm looking at I think
Speaker 1: pitching matchups. That makes a lot of sense in that.
Speaker 1: Whatever I would do when I'm looking at splits for
Speaker 1: pictures or hitters, um, I would do that for gambling
Speaker 1: purposes as well. Another DFS stat that I would look
Speaker 1: at when it comes to the gambling the park factors too, right,
Speaker 1: because you want to know, because you want to know
Speaker 1: high scoring, low scoring, you've been any over under in
Speaker 1: a game where the where the line is right, and
Speaker 1: what the park factors play at, how the fact park
Speaker 1: factors play into that. So that's something that came into
Speaker 1: my mind immediately when he Askedville. Yeah, thank you. I
Speaker 1: appreciate that because typically in the history, I would bet
Speaker 1: you know, pictures like a hot picture, you know, if
Speaker 1: they there ten and one, you know, I'm gonna just
Speaker 1: following that picture. And now with the new stats of
Speaker 1: you know, launch angle and exit delo and then you
Speaker 1: have a groundball picture versus a flyball picture. Obviously a
Speaker 1: flatball picture going against the Yanks who have the team
Speaker 1: average of you know, launch angle, and you know what
Speaker 1: I mean, it just makes sense. Yeah, I mean in
Speaker 1: terms of team specific launch angle. I know, look, if
Speaker 1: you use uh, if you go to baseball savant dot com,
Speaker 1: I'm throwing a bunch of websites your way. But fan Graphs,
Speaker 1: Baseball Savant, and Daily Baseball Data. I think those could
Speaker 1: be three very helpful tools for betting. And I know
Speaker 1: that Baseball Savant just introduced a new daily matchups feature
Speaker 1: where or it's like it's they do these game previews
Speaker 1: where they show a specific players average eggit velocity, what
Speaker 1: their launch angle is, um, and it's it's marked out
Speaker 1: by like these heat maps too. UM. So like if
Speaker 1: if they have a high if they have a high
Speaker 1: barrel percentage or a high average eggs of velocity, like
Speaker 1: you'll see it in big red up on the screen.
Speaker 1: So check out baseball Baseball savant dot com. They're gonna
Speaker 1: have these reviews for each game every day where you
Speaker 1: can see what a picture has done, UM, what the
Speaker 1: batter specific average egg of velocity is, um, what they've
Speaker 1: done recently. They got all these heat maps. So I
Speaker 1: think it's kind of like a culmination of things I
Speaker 1: know that you were specifically asking about, like launch angle
Speaker 1: and things of those ilk you know, hard hit rate
Speaker 1: or um when it comes to two to betting on guys.
Speaker 1: But you think kind of all encompas in Greg, like
Speaker 1: you have to try and look at as many different
Speaker 1: factors as you possisly can. But the park factors for
Speaker 1: Shure too, I mean they come into you know, why
Speaker 1: is the game uh, why is the game over under
Speaker 1: a ten and a half? Well, it's in course field
Speaker 1: or it's in regally and the wind is blowing out
Speaker 1: the pictures like in regularly you're gonna see a high
Speaker 1: total that would have harmon Marquez's pitching. Like maybe that's
Speaker 1: a can spot the goal to go under, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean? Yeah, all right, we appreciate the call. Phil.
Speaker 1: Let's get back to some of these players of these
Speaker 1: notes as well, uh as we prep for our fantasy drafts. Right,
Speaker 1: I'm very excited about this. We have the fourth overall
Speaker 1: pick tonight. We're gonna here and mirrors if he's there,
Speaker 1: which I think he will be. We don't think Rod
Speaker 1: is gonna take him, right, I mean, you never know.
Speaker 1: But when I asked him last week he said he
Speaker 1: was leaning towards not doing that. So we'll see what happens.
Speaker 1: All right, So I'll take who's here in mirrors and
Speaker 1: he was there, Who's what's the plan all the way back?
Speaker 1: We actually get at least one starting pitcher in your
Speaker 1: first three rounds. But I've also thrown out the possibility
Speaker 1: if Francisco Indoor is there. I know over the weekend
Speaker 1: Matt Modika got him in the middle of the second round.
Speaker 1: There was another draft for Modika got him at pick
Speaker 1: twenty nine. He was picked two, He took movie bets.
Speaker 1: He got Francisco Inndoor all the way I picked twenty nine.
Speaker 1: So I we want to get at least one ace
Speaker 1: on our team. I understand that. But I think if
Speaker 1: Lindor falls all the way back to us at what where,
Speaker 1: that's gonna be twenties seven. Yeah, I would be seven.
Speaker 1: It would it would be hard for me not to take.
Speaker 1: I don't think he goes there though, I really I
Speaker 1: think he goes earlier. I hope he's gone, because honestly,
Speaker 1: I'd rather get starting pitching, grabbing outfield and then yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know if we would take Clevinger
Speaker 1: in the third round, Crascoso potentially the Indians. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: what it is. Yeah, but I would like to get
Speaker 1: if Lindoor is gone, probably look at a starting pitcher.
Speaker 1: See if you know Garret Cole falls down. I mean
Speaker 1: I've spoken a lot about Garret Cole up on my Patreon.
Speaker 1: I had my decision making of why it was so
Speaker 1: hard for me to decide between Garrett Cole verts. Chris said,
Speaker 1: I mean, that's how high I am on Garrit Cole.
Speaker 1: I I pretty much have you know, Chris Sale, there
Speaker 1: is like a one A and then Garrit Coles like
Speaker 1: one B. It's it's super close for me, very high
Speaker 1: on Garicle if there's any possibility we could get him.
Speaker 1: But you know, once the Astros starting pitchers go, I
Speaker 1: think it's very close between Bauer and Nolah. I know
Speaker 1: Florio loves Bauer. Which way would you leave between those
Speaker 1: two guys Eileen Bauer as well Nick um Ni Polo.
Speaker 1: Thank you Nick Pollock talking me out of that one.
Speaker 1: So that's why Eileen Bauer over Nola Uh. For me,
Speaker 1: I think that is that is very close. That there's
Speaker 1: a lot of guys that are in that tier. With
Speaker 1: Bueller and Cindergarten. We've kind of gone over that pretty
Speaker 1: much a nausea at this point, I think, and you know,
Speaker 1: I want one of these guys. Hopefully we can get
Speaker 1: one of these guys at our spot in the second
Speaker 1: round and then build a team. Team, right, I'm excited. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So you build the foundation. You've got the hitting with
Speaker 1: Jose Ramirez where a lot of people are scared off,
Speaker 1: but uh, you know, still has the ability to at
Speaker 1: least I would say twenty five home runs, twenty five
Speaker 1: stolen basis, with the upside to be even better. I mean,
Speaker 1: he almost went thirty thirty in the first half last year.
Speaker 1: If thirty nine home runs over thirty stolen basis, so
Speaker 1: you know what the upside is there. He gives you
Speaker 1: a safe balance of everything. I'm not gonna hurt your
Speaker 1: batting average. You could be you know, to to eighty hitter,
Speaker 1: but gives you that solid base. And then if you
Speaker 1: get an ace in the second round, you have your
Speaker 1: base of pitching stats and you have your base of
Speaker 1: hitting stats, and then kind of you can let the
Speaker 1: draft fall to you after that. I mean, in round three,
Speaker 1: if the best player available is a starting pitcher, if
Speaker 1: it's a synder Guard or Carrasco and we wanna, you know,
Speaker 1: double down on pitching, we have the ability to do that.
Speaker 1: We don't have to reach on a starting pitcher because
Speaker 1: we already have one of each. Or you know, if
Speaker 1: we want to grab our first outfielder, if a guy
Speaker 1: like like Won Soto or Starle Martey, we're there, then
Speaker 1: we can go to that direction. So you know, when
Speaker 1: you start one hitter, one starting pitcher, you give yourself
Speaker 1: your that that safe foundation, that base or all statistical
Speaker 1: categories except saves, which you get later on. But um,
Speaker 1: and then it allows you to go in different directions
Speaker 1: later on round three, round four because you don't have
Speaker 1: to take a picture because you already have one. You
Speaker 1: don't have to take a hitter. You gotta just let
Speaker 1: the draft fall to you whatever is best available. You know,
Speaker 1: it's funny because as I've learned it, as I've gotten smarter,
Speaker 1: better threat this draft season, I look at the our
Speaker 1: our potential team. If we go with who's the Ramirez
Speaker 1: as our first pick, I really want to go pitt
Speaker 1: your outfielder, second third, either or I don't care. Like
Speaker 1: I'm very much sold on that, and I thank you
Speaker 1: for that. Frank, You're welcome. Greg. It's like, it's what
Speaker 1: we have to do. I know, the lindoor thing is
Speaker 1: very tempting, and we're gonna wind up doing Thatrez, It's gone. Yeah,
Speaker 1: who's your next hitter up? It's j D. Martinez. I'm
Speaker 1: still on that the best. He's the best hitor. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't have a problem with it, But
Speaker 1: I will say this, I think you can make a
Speaker 1: legitimate argument for five different hitters there once Ramirez is
Speaker 1: off the board. J D. Free Turner two for sure, Erna,
Speaker 1: he's pretty damn good. He's very good. I would Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean you can make the argument for him, obviously,
Speaker 1: but I think you can make a better argument for
Speaker 1: any of the outfielders, just based on having to start
Speaker 1: five of them. And then with trade Turner the obvious.
Speaker 1: I mean, fifty sixty stolen mace outside whatever it might
Speaker 1: be this year, that's your argument for him right there
Speaker 1: as well. Um, And I don't I don't have any
Speaker 1: hate for Aeronaudo. I like Aeronauto a lot, but I
Speaker 1: just think third base is a little bit deeper and
Speaker 1: you don't have to start one of them you're not
Speaker 1: just you know, you know, to start start five third basement, Greg,
Speaker 1: do you have to start five outfields? J D Martinez?
Speaker 1: Over the weekend see the A d P still at
Speaker 1: seven point three eight there were three there were two
Speaker 1: hitters going consistently ahead of him, Christian Yellows trade Turner, Greg,
Speaker 1: But you still prefer j D. He's an elite four
Speaker 1: categories average. Forty home runs should give you a hundred
Speaker 1: and a hundred. Do you think that we are down
Speaker 1: playing the fact that he's been injury prone every year
Speaker 1: but now we're just kind of sweeping that under the rug.
Speaker 1: I know he's gonna play DH most of the time,
Speaker 1: so that helps his ability to stay healthy. But do
Speaker 1: you think we're too quick to dismiss the fact that
Speaker 1: everyone last year was saying j D. Martinez was injury prone,
Speaker 1: that's why he was going in the second round. Versus
Speaker 1: this year, you don't really hear anyone talk about that. Well,
Speaker 1: I mean, it's because mostly just plays d H where
Speaker 1: he doesn't really have to do very much, and he's
Speaker 1: the best hitter, and he has the green wall very
Speaker 1: very close to him and it works up very very nicely.
Speaker 1: So no, I don't. I don't care about that answer
Speaker 1: that questions. Yeah, that's that's That's where I'm going. Um,
Speaker 1: your draft is Thursday. You you were giving us you're
Speaker 1: taking to Graham in the first round. What was the
Speaker 1: plan of the second Well at that point, my my
Speaker 1: keepers right now where I have two starting pitchers, I
Speaker 1: have tay On and Flaherty. I have two hitters. I
Speaker 1: have Trevor Story and Whit mary Field, which allows me
Speaker 1: some versatility because Trevor Story shortstop eligible and then Maryfield
Speaker 1: is second base in outfield, so in this league we
Speaker 1: start four outfielders. So again, I could just kind of
Speaker 1: like left the draft play out to me. After that,
Speaker 1: it's you know, if if there's a second baseman I
Speaker 1: like later on, I'll take him. I'll leave Whit Maryfield
Speaker 1: in the outfield. If there's outfielders I like, then I'll
Speaker 1: just leave Whit Maryfield in second base. And that gets
Speaker 1: me that versatility. So uh it my take to Graham
Speaker 1: in the first round. I will undoubtedly be looking for
Speaker 1: a hitter in the second round, most likely in outfielder
Speaker 1: because I would only have mary Field at that point
Speaker 1: is as my only outfield and in the league with
Speaker 1: twelve teams where everyone could keep four players just kind
Speaker 1: of you did not keep Patrick Corban? What actually did keep?
Speaker 1: Did keep Corbyan in the league? I opted against it
Speaker 1: because the savings were just even if I was trying
Speaker 1: to Corbyn. I kept Corbyn from nine dollars over forty.
Speaker 1: Even though so now I have those are two different
Speaker 1: home leagues. They're both head tad points leagues have Verland
Speaker 1: for thirty dollars, I have tie Own for seven dollars,
Speaker 1: and I have Corban for nine dollars. Those are my
Speaker 1: three keepers to start, and I will definitely be in
Speaker 1: on the bidding for Erzer and de Gram as well
Speaker 1: all the pitching babies. It is online, but I'm gonna
Speaker 1: be like in a room with a bunch of other
Speaker 1: people who are in the same auction. But we don't
Speaker 1: have like an auctioneer. We're staring at computer just dinging
Speaker 1: dang dang. Yeah. We I mean we do that all
Speaker 1: the time too, live auctions, live auction. I told Steve,
Speaker 1: Steve Consolino, who sets up the the g DD auction
Speaker 1: to which we now we're sure now a part of
Speaker 1: by the way, yes, uh, I told him entry fee
Speaker 1: for the league I mean the live auction is worth
Speaker 1: the price of admission alone. It's the best part so
Speaker 1: much anything else. I like being there in that room auction.
Speaker 1: It's much fun. What's the I had? I had a
Speaker 1: few people asking us, is there like a story behind
Speaker 1: twenty seven? Not really our number Yankee fans. Maybe it's
Speaker 1: like a subconscious thing, Greg, the numbers one seven just
Speaker 1: clicks with us. Yes, Thanky Championships. It's funny because last
Speaker 1: year it was just we just having to keep bidding seven.
Speaker 1: That was it. Yeah, we're having ever been And then
Speaker 1: this year everyone night it was just a thing. I
Speaker 1: don't even think we drafted anybody. I don't think so either.
Speaker 1: Erry pulled the draft results Max. I'm finally part of
Speaker 1: the league. Grege, what did you do that? I sent
Speaker 1: it to you two? Are you in? Alberto Monessey went
Speaker 1: for twenty seven? Like when when did you do that? Though? Well,
Speaker 1: in the middle of the night to make sure you
Speaker 1: you were the manager. I was a co manager. I
Speaker 1: did it late last night or this Morney one, And
Speaker 1: you know it wasn't really last night. You believe that
Speaker 1: the only player that went for twenty seven in this
Speaker 1: auction was Alberto Mondessey, only we didn't. That's a good
Speaker 1: omen for Ian con about Mondesty tonight. If Mondessey is
Speaker 1: there in early third round, do we pair him with
Speaker 1: Jose Ramira as Greggy and we have a short stop
Speaker 1: in a third base and no outfielders through three rounds,
Speaker 1: so pairing him in like j D. Martinez makes a
Speaker 1: lot of sense. It does, It actually does a lot.
Speaker 1: That's exactly what I said when remember when we were
Speaker 1: talking about Adelbert Tomonday, As I said, airing him with
Speaker 1: either j D or Erronado makes the most sense because
Speaker 1: those guys are gonna give you every other category. I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna give you stolen basis. You can absorb the
Speaker 1: hit that Rondessy will give you with the lack of
Speaker 1: batting average because you have j D or Eronado. So
Speaker 1: if you do take one of those two guys in
Speaker 1: the first round, maybe it makes sense roster construction wise
Speaker 1: for you to get Modesty in the third, maybe fourth
Speaker 1: round in your home. With that we're in Chris ven
Speaker 1: I love about his league. I can tell you ask
Speaker 1: you my questions about from my draft and want to
Speaker 1: keep going position by position. If we could talk about
Speaker 1: our our targets. Let's do it when we come back.