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Speaker 1: Welcome inside Studio thirty four. This is the Fantasy Best
Speaker 1: Friends Forever. I am Frank Stanfeld. We're live on the
Speaker 1: sport Screen TV Network. Thank you for watching on Zumo, Pluto,
Speaker 1: Stir and YouTube as well. I'm gonna get into a
Speaker 1: lot from today. We have some fantasy baseball news and
Speaker 1: notes to talk about. Greg Sauceman hopefully will be joining
Speaker 1: me at some point here on the show as well.
Speaker 1: Yesterday we played a little bit who is this Year's Blank?
Speaker 1: We did it from a positive perspective. We looked at
Speaker 1: some potential breakout players, maybe a closure that can surprise
Speaker 1: us late in drafts today. None of that not gonna
Speaker 1: We're not looking at the positive anymore. We've done the
Speaker 1: good stuff. Now we gotta get into the bad stuff.
Speaker 1: We gotta look at the other side. Who is this
Speaker 1: year's rank. Well, look at an early round hitter that
Speaker 1: might be able to let us down this upcoming season.
Speaker 1: We might look into, uh, We're not might. We are
Speaker 1: going to look into an early round starting pitcher that
Speaker 1: might let us down here in as well. And we'll
Speaker 1: also get into an early round closer who could potentially
Speaker 1: lose his job early on in the season. Again, this
Speaker 1: is the Fantasy BFS live on a hump day here
Speaker 1: on the Sports Grid Network. We're gonna get into some
Speaker 1: of the news and notes in the Fantasy Baseball world.
Speaker 1: Franklin Barretto, Josh James, some Lorda's Guriel notes as well.
Speaker 1: We'll do that all here on the Fantasy BFFs right
Speaker 1: after this news day update done by Sean Gstamon Sports
Speaker 1: Grade News Update, I'm John Blossomtia with your PFF news update. Alright,
Speaker 1: major League Baseball news. The Cubs are committed to batting
Speaker 1: Chris Bryant leadoff. The announced that Earlier this week, also
Speaker 1: some news that Red Sox have agreed to a minor
Speaker 1: league deal with catcher Jonathan lou Croix. Now some other
Speaker 1: baseball news making waves. That is Rob Manfred, the MLB Commissioner,
Speaker 1: on Sunday with called Ravage of ESPN a long interview,
Speaker 1: he made some mistakes, notably calling the World Series Trophy
Speaker 1: a piece of metal. Well, Rob Manfred corrected that mistake,
Speaker 1: and he spoke about it today. In an effort to
Speaker 1: make a rhetorical point, I referred to the World Series
Speaker 1: Trophy in a disrespectful way, and I want to apologize
Speaker 1: for that. There's no excuse for it. Um, I made
Speaker 1: a mistake. I was trying to make a point, but
Speaker 1: I should have made it in a more effective way.
Speaker 1: And again I want to apologize. Florida also making news,
Speaker 1: Lebron Jade's Los Angeles Lakers superstar called out Rob man
Speaker 1: Fred said listen to your players. He was upset about
Speaker 1: the cheating scandal. He went on say, listen. I know
Speaker 1: I don't play baseball, but I am in sports, and
Speaker 1: I know if someone cheated me out of winning the
Speaker 1: title and I found out about it, I would be effing.
Speaker 1: I rate and quote that's Lebron James so not making
Speaker 1: it easier on rob Man tread. That's for sure, all right,
Speaker 1: some NBA news. It's official. Jonathan b Line is out
Speaker 1: as Cleveland Cavs head coach. He went forty losses. He
Speaker 1: had fourteen wins in just a half season. He did
Speaker 1: sign a five year deal, but they negotiated out he
Speaker 1: will be paid just for the time served in a
Speaker 1: little bit more on the first year of that deal.
Speaker 1: So Jonathan b Line out as coach of the Cleveland Cavaliers. JB.
Speaker 1: Bickerstaff takes over. That will be as soon as tomorrow
Speaker 1: when the players get BA. So that is your BFFs
Speaker 1: news update out back. So Frank standfold in the studio,
Speaker 1: take it away, Frank, thanks launch on. Appreciate the news update.
Speaker 1: You might have saw a little flash across the screen.
Speaker 1: The screen there, you know that was somebody consider him
Speaker 1: a superhero. I consider him my co host. It is
Speaker 1: Greg Sussman now joining the party. Greggy. I did you
Speaker 1: sleep last night? But it's all right, man, I slept
Speaker 1: all right better than the night before, which is a plus.
Speaker 1: Feel good man, feeling good? How din to be here?
Speaker 1: A lot of fun to things to talk about today,
Speaker 1: and I'm decided to do so. Frank, Happy hump Day
Speaker 1: to you, but happy Wednesday. We got some Thursday, which
Speaker 1: is the frustrating part. I wish it were Thursday. I said,
Speaker 1: that's frustrating. Not Thursday yet. No, not there yet. But
Speaker 1: a lot going on today, Frank and I wanted to
Speaker 1: get into some of it before we got into, uh,
Speaker 1: the players that we are avoiding this year. Not all
Speaker 1: the players were avoiding the whole show on that, like
Speaker 1: the players that really can pin appointment, Like you know what,
Speaker 1: this is the guy I don't want, probably not gonna
Speaker 1: have this guy on my team right exactly before we
Speaker 1: do that. The guy that I asked you about previously
Speaker 1: was lorda Scariel. I know, Frank, can you tell me
Speaker 1: if I should like this player because he's in a
Speaker 1: line of that we like as Vladimir Gurero Junior has
Speaker 1: not Davi Chett Jr. And he's hit right in the
Speaker 1: middle of it, and he's gonna have multiple position eligibility.
Speaker 1: He's gonna hit third and now it comes out here
Speaker 1: maybe the first basement. Sometimes he's gonna play some second
Speaker 1: Mason outfield, Like dude, this guy could be good. People
Speaker 1: seem to like his brother Juley Gariel, So Frank, should
Speaker 1: I like Lorda Scuriel. I am interested in Lorda Scuriel.
Speaker 1: You look at the lineup as you mentioned, Greg, everyone's
Speaker 1: excited about Bobichette and Vladimir Guerrero Junior as well as
Speaker 1: well as Cavin Biggio. Right, so we have a bunch
Speaker 1: of second generation players here on this team. It's a
Speaker 1: good line of good ballpark to hit in, and there
Speaker 1: are other really good ballparks to hit in in the
Speaker 1: American League East as well. I'm I'm slightly interested in
Speaker 1: Lord A's Greilo. The problem is the a DP where
Speaker 1: he's going right now. There's a lot of players that
Speaker 1: I also like in that range. So in the month
Speaker 1: of February, he's going around pick one thirty five, so
Speaker 1: you're gonna have to take him. Oh that's you, Uli Gurio.
Speaker 1: Excuse me, Lord Gurria, Dan just command f the Guria
Speaker 1: can't do that one fifty three going right around Salvador Perez,
Speaker 1: who was a catcher target of mine, Greg, Not surprise,
Speaker 1: he's ancient. You know, I love my oldies. Orde Polanco,
Speaker 1: Scott Kingery, Byron Buxton, Like every other player, he was
Speaker 1: a fair range to be to be part of. Last year,
Speaker 1: he played just eighty four games and hit twenty whole runs. Frank,
Speaker 1: if he played hundred and sixty eight games, he would
Speaker 1: have home runs. That's what he was closed on pace
Speaker 1: four and he doesn't have to do that. He made
Speaker 1: essentially half a season at twenty home runs. If here's
Speaker 1: something we can get legitimately thirty five home runs at
Speaker 1: this spot middle linfield eligibility potentially, I'm interested. So you
Speaker 1: asked me the other day, why did he struggle in
Speaker 1: the second half? That's correct, and I'm trying to figure
Speaker 1: that out of myself and I'm looking at it right now.
Speaker 1: The hard hit rate dropped a little bit in the
Speaker 1: second half, not enough to really make a difference. I mean,
Speaker 1: he was still over hard contact rate in the second
Speaker 1: half of the season. His line drive rate went down
Speaker 1: about three percent. He started hitting more groundballs that seems
Speaker 1: like an issue. Went from thirty eight percent groundball rate
Speaker 1: in the first half to forty two percent in the
Speaker 1: second half, and his home run to fly ball ratio
Speaker 1: dropped massively in the first half ten point eight percent
Speaker 1: in the second half of the season, so it shouldn't
Speaker 1: have dropped off that much based on this hard contact rate.
Speaker 1: So there are there are, there are still questions when
Speaker 1: it comes to Lord as Guriel of this upcoming season, right,
Speaker 1: so that I don't know that possible. I don't know
Speaker 1: what that's like, an indifferent that TBD TB d on
Speaker 1: on Lord of Gouriel to be determined to be determined
Speaker 1: on Lord. Okay, next for us here fright today, Chris Bryant,
Speaker 1: A hey, cool hit and leadoff? Is that changing any
Speaker 1: for you? Uh? Doesn't really? I mean he's a good
Speaker 1: O b P uh contributors, so I guess that makes sense.
Speaker 1: He obviously has a really good eye at the plate.
Speaker 1: Look at his career nearly twelve percent walk great, that
Speaker 1: makes a lot of sense. Three five O b P
Speaker 1: in his career. The problem greg from a fantasy perspective,
Speaker 1: and I guess we kind of have to just accept
Speaker 1: it at this point is he's been batting second the
Speaker 1: past couple of years, so as RBI output has already
Speaker 1: been down recently last year seventy seven r b I.
Speaker 1: The year before that fifty two, of course, he was hurt,
Speaker 1: only played a hundred and two games in eighteen uh
Speaker 1: and then seventy three RBI back in seen. He has
Speaker 1: not had more than seventy seven ribbies in a single
Speaker 1: season since. Interesting. I think that if you told the
Speaker 1: average baseball fan that about Chris Bryant, wouldn't you get that? Yeah,
Speaker 1: like they would get surprised that. So, um, that's something
Speaker 1: that you just have to keep in consideration. I don't
Speaker 1: think I'm ever gonna own Chris Bryant. Just you know
Speaker 1: where he's going in that fifth round range altar, get
Speaker 1: a Manny Machado around there. I usually look at a
Speaker 1: first basement around there, someone like jose A Brew you know,
Speaker 1: I like jose A Brady a Ton and like he's
Speaker 1: a fine you know, three category contributor. Maybe gives your
Speaker 1: home runs, gives your runs, but to eight two Like
Speaker 1: it's a good batting average, it's not a great batting
Speaker 1: average doesn't help you in RB. I doesn't give you
Speaker 1: stolen basis. Chris Bryant is fine, probably a better points
Speaker 1: league player, probably a better O b P format. I
Speaker 1: know that you played in ob P format. So where
Speaker 1: where walks count? Someone something in the league like that,
Speaker 1: I think that's where you should be targeting Chris Bryant,
Speaker 1: but did you go before the break? One more piece
Speaker 1: of news before we get to that commercial, and that
Speaker 1: is Frankly Briano four top prospect for the Open Age.
Speaker 1: We heard about him for years as a short stop
Speaker 1: prospect and he's just twenty four years old, and maybe
Speaker 1: it's gonna fits the Rafie Devers category we're talking about yesterday.
Speaker 1: He's just twenty four years old and it's probably the
Speaker 1: favorites to be the starting second Nation. Jerrickson profile is
Speaker 1: now in San Diego. We talked off how we kind
Speaker 1: of like Jackson profile this year in San Diego. What
Speaker 1: about guy that's replacing only to potentially replace him in
Speaker 1: Franklin Rodo. It's like a base interesting power speed combination.
Speaker 1: Look at what he did last year, nineteen homers in
Speaker 1: fifteen steels with the batting average in Triple A. He
Speaker 1: has played about eighty games at the major league level
Speaker 1: and has a one eight nine batting average. I wish
Speaker 1: the A's would just give him the opportunity they are
Speaker 1: just let him play. I think they are on little
Speaker 1: more about, you know, looking over his shoulder. Given an opportunity,
Speaker 1: it will be interesting to see what they do with
Speaker 1: Jorge Matteo as well. He's out of options. All right,
Speaker 1: at good point there, all right, more on the way next,
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Speaker 1: I finally another plan that we lived together. This is good.
Speaker 1: We like a lot of players together. We don't normally.
Speaker 1: The problem is, don't steal basis. If nobody steals basis,
Speaker 1: I feel like we don't normally like these many players
Speaker 1: at the same time. Um, I'm trying to be open mind.
Speaker 1: Best of these old guys. The year they were finally
Speaker 1: on the same page. Like last place, guaranteed, I don't agree.
Speaker 1: Like last year. We thought we had a plan and
Speaker 1: we did very, very poorly. We didn't do poorly. We did.
Speaker 1: Actually looked back at the notes that I had for
Speaker 1: that auction going into that night. We wound up with
Speaker 1: a lot of those players, and we were prepared for sure.
Speaker 1: We had a plan. We extuecute. We had Ronald Dacunia
Speaker 1: pretty damn good. He was awesome. You know what. We
Speaker 1: also hadvor Bauer. We executed the plan. You can say
Speaker 1: a lot about us. We went in the auction of
Speaker 1: the plan and we executed it. Yes, I'm pretty sure
Speaker 1: our plan was to piss eybody else in the off
Speaker 1: in the auction, not a year before exactly what we did.
Speaker 1: I let me piece the people off last year. Year
Speaker 1: before we pisched people off. I would do that last year.
Speaker 1: I was too nice last year. It was part of
Speaker 1: my problem. So we have to go full Carlos Correa.
Speaker 1: We got to go into the auction. And I think
Speaker 1: it's told on he. I think I should just like
Speaker 1: walk in front of Collette and just like shut I mouth,
Speaker 1: like if he doesn't hear you, like just seven, that's
Speaker 1: not like that. Yes, let's walk right up to him.
Speaker 1: It's crazy right here. Later year in the industry, like
Speaker 1: you can't, I've said people like me. I don't care.
Speaker 1: I'll be the guy we like Frank, we don't like Greg? Alright,
Speaker 1: cool that works? You like the good cop backgup? Sure so,
Speaker 1: Mark Canna. But people I think are probably gonna start
Speaker 1: to hate us just by associated. Hate me by association
Speaker 1: doesn't have a two years agoin anyway, Mark Canna, we're in, yes,
Speaker 1: fourth fifth outfielder in the Rodal League. Love. I'm mean
Speaker 1: Kell Martin, you're on him? Like Kell Martin, he's still basis.
Speaker 1: Mhmm about pen not many Greg? What about Adam burto Mondescy? Greg?
Speaker 1: You don't like him? Well? How about Time of the VR?
Speaker 1: I don't help this? Like Jonathan VR, I don't really
Speaker 1: liked really Okay, wonder what an I want to get
Speaker 1: to you before we figure out who this year's blank is?
Speaker 1: UH was Josh James. He was a hype guy for
Speaker 1: a litt while last spring, and then it was clear
Speaker 1: he wasn't really gonna be in the rotation on that
Speaker 1: I called Brad Peacock all Spring got that right, and
Speaker 1: unfortunately he couldn't survive as a star. He kept getting
Speaker 1: hurt and this year Dusty Baker is not even messing
Speaker 1: with him. So Josh Jams to be the rotation. The
Speaker 1: cool thing now that Josh James could stay in the
Speaker 1: rotation if he wins the job. You know Dusty Baker's
Speaker 1: gonna throw him at the for a hundred, right. There's
Speaker 1: no like Eat England or Pitch liand It when it
Speaker 1: comes to Josh James this year. You don't think James
Speaker 1: Quick is gonna have any input on not wearing out
Speaker 1: the arm and shoulder of Josh James. G No, No,
Speaker 1: I don't. Dusty Baker, old school manager. We definitely couldn't
Speaker 1: give an f man. Look. It'll be crazy to see
Speaker 1: if to actually do something that with someone like Lands
Speaker 1: of Colors, because the guy obviously has dealt with a
Speaker 1: lot of injuries. And I would be surprised if my
Speaker 1: Colors more than Josh James was great last year in
Speaker 1: a swing man role, more so in Release sixty one
Speaker 1: and pitched k per nine over fourteen last year. The
Speaker 1: underlying numbers three seven, seven x fit, sixteen percent swinging
Speaker 1: strike rate and back in eighteen. Greg The reason why
Speaker 1: people liked him going into last year's season in twenty
Speaker 1: nineteen was eighteen made seventeen starts at triple a three
Speaker 1: forty er, a one o nine whip twelve point nine
Speaker 1: case per nine does struggle a little bit with the walks,
Speaker 1: and Craig Mish actually revealed this to me earlier today.
Speaker 1: Apparently he had a problem with sleep apnea, which they
Speaker 1: just figured out a couple of years ago, which is
Speaker 1: why he can throw harder. Now he can potentially go
Speaker 1: deeper into games as well. So if you're looking for
Speaker 1: a deep sleeper, late round flyer, you're sleepers. He did
Speaker 1: there unintended of what I was going for. But if
Speaker 1: you're doing one of these drafted holds right now, I
Speaker 1: would look at Josh James as someone who does have
Speaker 1: massive strike out upside. And for reference, he went in
Speaker 1: the twenty first round of the NFBC Draft Champions Draft
Speaker 1: that I am doing right now. Greg, Okay, Josh James,
Speaker 1: I like it. I think he has a good spray.
Speaker 1: I see the adv rising for him. Yeah, he's already
Speaker 1: on the move. He was, you know, I think probably
Speaker 1: outside the top thirty rounds last week when I did
Speaker 1: a draft, and again he went in round twenty one.
Speaker 1: We'll see what happens with Forest Whitley, because I think
Speaker 1: there's a chance you know, he could be called up
Speaker 1: early this season if he performs. He wasn't good last year,
Speaker 1: was not good last year, and he was hurt last year.
Speaker 1: So he does have some obstacles to overcome to get
Speaker 1: into the Houston Astros rotation. But as of now, it
Speaker 1: looks like Josh James is the front runner for that
Speaker 1: five spot. Josh James somebody we are definitely looking at.
Speaker 1: I also just kind of stumble upon somebody named Harold Castro.
Speaker 1: You know who that is? Yes, the outfielder for the
Speaker 1: Miami Marlins. Greg That's incorrect. Harold Castro's one thing. He's
Speaker 1: an outfielder all the Detroit Tigers must be Harold. Who
Speaker 1: am I thinking of? Hold Ramirez? Harold Ramirez the answer,
Speaker 1: So confidently I'm gonna get Harold Ramirez A Harold Castro
Speaker 1: mixed up. Harold Castro last year played nineties seven games
Speaker 1: with the Tigers. Is o BP was missed that one?
Speaker 1: It was three oh five? Is is it would be
Speaker 1: in the second half, like his average is nine one.
Speaker 1: He had five home runs. His strikeout totenter point three percent.
Speaker 1: He's one percentage. It was two point four percent. Great
Speaker 1: open the second half. Harold Castro. There you go. Let's
Speaker 1: let's just do a whole show of Greg Suston finds
Speaker 1: things out on fangrafts that happened last year in the
Speaker 1: baseball season. It's a fun show. It's bunch of last
Speaker 1: I'm looking at the roster resource page for the Tigers
Speaker 1: right now. He is not in the lineup. He is
Speaker 1: not on the bench. They released Harold Castro. We're gonna
Speaker 1: have to do some Harold Castro recent Yes, crack about that.
Speaker 1: Tomorrow on the show, I will ask him about Harold Castro. Alright, fantastic.
Speaker 1: Let me move on. Two names I do know and
Speaker 1: that includes a four Marlin, Jean car a little Stanton.
Speaker 1: Last year, he was drafting as a second round pick
Speaker 1: in his second season in the Ronson. A lot of
Speaker 1: people expect the huge things. They were wrong. He played
Speaker 1: like twelve games for this team and earned the ire
Speaker 1: of Frank Staffel forever Frankie Don. Carlos Stanton claimed yesterday
Speaker 1: he's ready to rock. There are no limitations on him
Speaker 1: and says, yeah, well, the age of a bunch this year.
Speaker 1: Are you back in Jian Carlos Stanton, I am not
Speaker 1: in on Jihan Carlos Stanton. Again, I liked to target
Speaker 1: batting average and stolen bases early on in my drafts,
Speaker 1: and John Carlos Stanton is still going in that fourth
Speaker 1: fifth round range. And look, if everything breaks right for him,
Speaker 1: you know, his ninety fifth percentile outcome is he's probably
Speaker 1: hitting over fifty home runs with a ton of RBIs
Speaker 1: in one of the best lineups in baseball, one of
Speaker 1: the best hitting ballparks in baseball. But I personally have
Speaker 1: question marks and skepticism when it comes to the health.
Speaker 1: How healthy can he be for this upcoming season and
Speaker 1: for the rest of his career. You know, he played
Speaker 1: eighteen games last year. He has another season. He played
Speaker 1: a hundred and nineteen games the year before that, seventy
Speaker 1: four games from eighteen he missed a total of seven games.
Speaker 1: If you get that out of stating, then he is
Speaker 1: going to pay off his value. But I just have
Speaker 1: question marks about the health Greg. I mean, can him
Speaker 1: and judge guys that are built the way that they are,
Speaker 1: can they withstand the course of an entire season that
Speaker 1: with a shoulder injury last year and knee injury last year,
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna have any Jihn Carlos Statin. If you're
Speaker 1: swinging for the fences and you want to go for
Speaker 1: upside in your middle rounds, go ahead, But personally I
Speaker 1: prefer someone who is just safer than John Carlos. It's
Speaker 1: funny because he's a guy that really fits the mold
Speaker 1: of what you learned last year, right, a guy that
Speaker 1: can finish as a first round pick that everyone's down
Speaker 1: on for one reason or not. I got it. You
Speaker 1: didn't like him two years again, you didn't like him
Speaker 1: last year. Um at the draft and there's so many injuries,
Speaker 1: Like he is that type of guy. He is that
Speaker 1: type of player like Clayton Kershaw last season. I understand
Speaker 1: why you're so down on him. Yet at Modica has
Speaker 1: pointing this out on Twitter too. How many seasons you
Speaker 1: you're probably looking at the stand grafts page right now.
Speaker 1: How many seasons? And again, if the names Greg would
Speaker 1: just want to strangle me. But of course when he
Speaker 1: does it fun How many seasons do you think John
Speaker 1: Carlos Stanton has over forty home runs? Greg three outside
Speaker 1: one it was the year he hit fifty nine. That's
Speaker 1: like really interesting, stant So he hit thirty eight in
Speaker 1: his first season with the Yankees. He has another season
Speaker 1: with He has two other seasons with thirty seven. If
Speaker 1: you just haven't gotten enough consistency out of gian Carlos
Speaker 1: stan If you're somebody who likes to take risks early
Speaker 1: on in your draft and you're looking for someone who
Speaker 1: can you know, outperform their ADP, I'm not going to
Speaker 1: doubt that from Stanton. He has huge upside. I also
Speaker 1: think that he is incredible downside as well. UM, I
Speaker 1: won't be targeting him. But if you want that upside
Speaker 1: in the fourth fifth round range and Stanton is your guy,
Speaker 1: But who is this year's gian Carlos Stanton? Who's going
Speaker 1: to let us down like Stanton did? We're gonna answer
Speaker 1: that question in a game. We like to call who
Speaker 1: is this year's Giancarlos Stanton? Familiar faces? One out place
Speaker 1: and there you got one out face its pay Who's
Speaker 1: this year's gian Carlos Stanton? Frank, Yesterday we talked a
Speaker 1: lot about Aaron Judge and his injuries and how you're
Speaker 1: a little bit nervous about him. Is he's someone that
Speaker 1: could be this year's gian Carlos Stanton. I think that
Speaker 1: Aaron Judge can be in this category of someone that's
Speaker 1: going in the early rounds and the second third round
Speaker 1: range that can let you down this upcoming season. Not
Speaker 1: really a target of mind. But I'm gonna go in
Speaker 1: a different direction, Craig. I'm gonna go with jose Altuban.
Speaker 1: It has nothing to do with the buzzers, with the
Speaker 1: cheating scandal, with tattoo Gate. Uh. Is it in script?
Speaker 1: Is it in print? I don't care about any of
Speaker 1: that stuff. I'm looking purely at the production from jose
Speaker 1: Al Tube last year, and there are things looking into
Speaker 1: his profile last night, Greg that stood out to me,
Speaker 1: and in a negative way. His fifteen percent strikeout rate
Speaker 1: last year was a career high for jose Al tub
Speaker 1: His seven and a half percent walk great was his
Speaker 1: lowest since two thousand and fifteen. He did hit two
Speaker 1: ninety eight last year. His expected batting average was to
Speaker 1: a D two. That was the lowest it has been
Speaker 1: in any of the past four seasons. Uh. He's dealt
Speaker 1: with a ton of leg injuries the past couple of years.
Speaker 1: He had a knee injury, he had some surgery on
Speaker 1: that two years ago, had a hamstring injury last year.
Speaker 1: He missed sixty three games over the past two seasons,
Speaker 1: and I could see the knee, the hamstring one of
Speaker 1: those injuries flaring up again this year. He doesn't run anymore,
Speaker 1: so it doesn't really contribute anything in stolen bases. I
Speaker 1: think he'll still be a fine player. I don't think
Speaker 1: he's gonna come back, you know, coming aywhere close to
Speaker 1: the power he put up last year, or anywhere close
Speaker 1: to the stolen basis that he used to give. You.
Speaker 1: So likely hit to ninety something like that. Twenty five
Speaker 1: home runs. He hits in a good lineup, so the
Speaker 1: runs and RBI should be solid, but maybe five to
Speaker 1: ten stolen basis. I'm just really not depending on anything there.
Speaker 1: And I think that there's actually a pretty good chance
Speaker 1: that he misses time, which fits that mold of you know,
Speaker 1: an early round pick who lets you down because of
Speaker 1: production and missing time. I think Hosale two is one
Speaker 1: of those players you were'tay last year, as you said,
Speaker 1: because you didn't think he was going to run me
Speaker 1: because of that hipping jury that he was badly. He
Speaker 1: thought the power go down really like he had to
Speaker 1: get a good year. He had a crazy second half,
Speaker 1: twenty two home runs with p s. Greg that was
Speaker 1: thanks to a twenty five percent home run the five
Speaker 1: ball ratio. We're talking about the juice ball. Zal Tova
Speaker 1: is someone who strikes me as a beneficiary of the
Speaker 1: juice ball. His previous season high was fourteen point six
Speaker 1: percent in terms of home run the fly ball ratio.
Speaker 1: That's second half to me from last year. It just
Speaker 1: looks a little bit flukey. Greg. I get it, man,
Speaker 1: I get it. So for me, I know I thought
Speaker 1: you seconds before the break, but for me, I just
Speaker 1: want to point out for Nanotis, like I got, it's
Speaker 1: twenty years old. Save it for after the break. Creg
Speaker 1: will do it. Coming back, I'll tell you exactly why
Speaker 1: you're wrong on Fernando Tatis. This the break. Then oh oh,
Speaker 1: coming back after the break, we're gonna I'm gonna tell
Speaker 1: you why Fordano Taxis is not this year's don Carlo Stanton.
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Speaker 1: so during the break, for those wondering the names that
Speaker 1: I brought up to Frank for randomly in baseball, we're
Speaker 1: uh Yoska, Hernandez, Ryan McMahon, von Bigio. Is there another there? Yes,
Speaker 1: Tim Anderson, Mr Anderson. Visa's interesting. I like, come on, Visa.
Speaker 1: He almost hits too many flyballs, Greg. He kind of
Speaker 1: has the Reese Hoskins syndrome. So here's two many flyballs,
Speaker 1: don't hit the hard and his hard in percentage um
Speaker 1: in the second half of like thirty three and a
Speaker 1: half percent. But the reason why you like him, which
Speaker 1: you have to remind everyone, because everyone's league is different, Greg,
Speaker 1: you play in the league where walks matter, where OBIP matters,
Speaker 1: and in a league like that, Cavon video is much
Speaker 1: better because he's probably going to hit two thirty five.
Speaker 1: So he hits two thirty four last year and his
Speaker 1: o b P was three sixty four exactly. That is
Speaker 1: I was telling you this during the break. He's great
Speaker 1: about COmON, Frank, he had sixteen homers, fourteen stolen masis
Speaker 1: fourteen for fourteen. That's correct. I like, come on, Visia's
Speaker 1: gonna having He's gonna be He's just made the list.
Speaker 1: He has made the list. And again he is great
Speaker 1: for ob p leagues. Uh, he's a right in points
Speaker 1: leads because he's still going to strike out a decent amount.
Speaker 1: But if you play in a standard five by five
Speaker 1: rod or a categories league that counts batting average, he's
Speaker 1: going to hurt your batting average. And I was telling
Speaker 1: Greg this during the break. I mean, his approach is
Speaker 1: he's almost too passive. Greg. He has a really good
Speaker 1: eye at the play. He likes to take a lot
Speaker 1: of pitches. He likes to draw a lot of walks.
Speaker 1: But at times he almost takes too many pitches, like
Speaker 1: he lets the good pitch go by in order of
Speaker 1: you know, working the count and getting the opposing pictures
Speaker 1: pitch count up. And because of that, you know, often
Speaker 1: times it leads to him striking out. And you know,
Speaker 1: he he doesn't have to hit less five ball as
Speaker 1: why I like to see him decreased that long a
Speaker 1: little bit. You gotta decrease oftentimes for begging guys to
Speaker 1: increase our launch angle. If you're out there watching what
Speaker 1: you decrease the launch angle just a little bit. I
Speaker 1: do like the power speed combination though, Greg it we
Speaker 1: should draft him if we get solid batting average, you know,
Speaker 1: and sure I have no problem with that. I can.
Speaker 1: That can be our fifteen and twenty steals there, Greg.
Speaker 1: That's what That's what we're just talking about. That's what
Speaker 1: we're trying to find, all right, Vambizia, let's go potentially
Speaker 1: on the BFF list, but definitely on Greg se Definitely
Speaker 1: on my list, all right, someone that I'm a little
Speaker 1: bit cautious about having on my list. I know it's
Speaker 1: not fun for Nanotatis twenty one years old. UH is
Speaker 1: what he will play at for UH. The season turn
Speaker 1: twenty one at the beginning of January, and now he's
Speaker 1: burst onto the scene. Last year he was absolutely incredible
Speaker 1: with twenty two home runs and sixteen steals, struck out
Speaker 1: about thirty percent at the time, walked about eight percent
Speaker 1: at the time, but only playing eighty four games as
Speaker 1: he did battle injury everyone's very very high on in
Speaker 1: the hardy percentage, about forty two percent last year. I'm
Speaker 1: simply worried about his ability to stay healthy, Frank, because
Speaker 1: we have not seen we have not seen that yet
Speaker 1: at the major league level. I'm worried about the juice
Speaker 1: ball a little bit with him if he comes back
Speaker 1: down to earth here. I know in the minors obviously
Speaker 1: he's had a ton of power. I don't know. I
Speaker 1: just think when you're drafting him in the first round,
Speaker 1: he needs to give you. This is what you need
Speaker 1: of him as I first round pick. Do you get that? Know?
Speaker 1: I mean, the average was he was amazing last Steamer
Speaker 1: likes that things so Greg Steamer has Fernando Tatis projected
Speaker 1: for thirty home runs and stolen basis that his first
Speaker 1: round with a two sixty five batting average. You'd like
Speaker 1: to see a better batting average, Greg. I'll just say
Speaker 1: two words when it comes to Fernando Tatis, Javier Bias.
Speaker 1: He reminds me so much of Javier Bias, because I
Speaker 1: know what you don't like about him. It's the plate discipline.
Speaker 1: You look at the swinging strike rate, it's not good.
Speaker 1: He chases so many pitches out of the zone. You
Speaker 1: don't like the plate discipline when it comes to Fernando Tatis,
Speaker 1: but I'm telling you I have been burned by players
Speaker 1: like this before, doubting somebody like a Javier Bayaz, and
Speaker 1: Fernando Tatis just fits that mold where this is the
Speaker 1: player who he is. He's going to swing and miss
Speaker 1: a lot, he's going to chase pitches out of the zone,
Speaker 1: but he's also going to make spectacular things happen just
Speaker 1: because he is an uber athlete and he is an
Speaker 1: extremely talented baseball player as well, So you can't It's
Speaker 1: it's tough, Greg, because you know, you kind of gotta
Speaker 1: pick and choose when you want to use the data
Speaker 1: and when you kind of have to just look at
Speaker 1: the talent of a player in the prospect pedigree. And
Speaker 1: I understand, you know, there's no exact science to this
Speaker 1: on on when you can do that and when you can't.
Speaker 1: But given as much talent as he has, the hype,
Speaker 1: the prospect pedigree, what we saw last year, you know,
Speaker 1: I almost kind of throw his plate discipline out the window, Greg,
Speaker 1: and I think he's gonna be good for a two
Speaker 1: seventy five to two eighty batting average this year, thirty
Speaker 1: home runs, close to twenty five steals and and again
Speaker 1: if he does that, you know he's going to pay
Speaker 1: off that first round price tag. All right. Last year,
Speaker 1: in the first round around the first tier of pictures,
Speaker 1: did you have the Trevor Bower. We drafted Trevor Bawer.
Speaker 1: He was our ace, Frank. He didn't go well. He
Speaker 1: was traded mid season Cincinnati. It didn't get better. And
Speaker 1: now you could not be more off on Trevor Bower
Speaker 1: this year. I tried to talking you into him a
Speaker 1: bit because I told you you can't let your pass
Speaker 1: biases affect your team this year, and you're doing that.
Speaker 1: Let Trevor Bauer. Well, I'm also doing it with Trevor
Speaker 1: Bauer because he has one season where he hasn't had
Speaker 1: an e r A over four. So you tell me
Speaker 1: what's the aberration when it comes to Trevor Bauer in
Speaker 1: he had a two to one e r A with
Speaker 1: a one o nine whip. Every other season in his
Speaker 1: career he has had at least a four point one
Speaker 1: eight e r A and at least a one point
Speaker 1: to five whip. So you tell me what's the aberration.
Speaker 1: What's the outlier when it comes to Trevor Bauer in
Speaker 1: his career, it's undoubtedly. I think that he is very talented,
Speaker 1: But I also think that he tinkers too much. He
Speaker 1: thinks too much when he's on the mountain. He's a hothead.
Speaker 1: We saw last year he took the ball and launched
Speaker 1: it into center field over the batter's eye in Kansas City.
Speaker 1: The guys is absolutely out of his mind. He cares
Speaker 1: more about what Rob Manford is doing and what people
Speaker 1: are saying and the Houston astros cheating scandal than just
Speaker 1: honing his craft and becoming the best picture that he
Speaker 1: possibly can. I understand the upside is tantalizing, and you
Speaker 1: look at the swinging miss off and his strikeout upside.
Speaker 1: I get all of that, but until you have owned
Speaker 1: Trevor Bauer, you do not understand what it means who
Speaker 1: actually lived through the experience that is Trevor Bauer. So
Speaker 1: I will say, Greg, the people who I believe are
Speaker 1: in on Trevor Bauer this year outside of you are
Speaker 1: people who haven't owned him in the past. Yeah, I don't.
Speaker 1: I just I understand the reasons you don't like Trevor Bauer.
Speaker 1: I I do. It's very it's very, very frustrating last year.
Speaker 1: But I do think he's smart. I do think he
Speaker 1: carries all these people that are praising he's almost too smart,
Speaker 1: All these people that are praising Garrett Cole for like
Speaker 1: the work he's putting in a Yankee camp and all
Speaker 1: these cameras, all these changes are making like you gotta
Speaker 1: appreciate what Bauer does too. If it works, it works
Speaker 1: for Gerrit Cole, it doesn't work for Trevor Bauer. He
Speaker 1: can tinker as much as he wants. It doesn't work.
Speaker 1: It worked one season in his career. And Greg, let
Speaker 1: me remind you that when you stay over to Cincinnati,
Speaker 1: his ear ray with six point three nine in the
Speaker 1: Great American Small Park is where he's pitching this year, Greg, Cincinnati,
Speaker 1: But that was Trevor Bauer. And question that we need
Speaker 1: to ask for this year is who is this year's
Speaker 1: very valor? Only a milliar faces? Look at that face,
Speaker 1: happ one face, I'm gonna get started here light It
Speaker 1: seems like he wants to all right, I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: with you, Darvish and Michael Florio is not gonna be
Speaker 1: happy to hear that because drafted him on his Tout
Speaker 1: Wars team. He tweeted out, He's gonna be higher on you,
Speaker 1: Darvish than anybody else. And I understand. You know what
Speaker 1: he did in the second half. And it's not just
Speaker 1: the second half, Greg, it was really the first eight
Speaker 1: starts where he was god awful. I remember terrific downstairs
Speaker 1: in the pit us watching the start against the Miami
Speaker 1: Marlins where he had like five shutout endings. It's great
Speaker 1: he allowed to earned run, not shut out for one
Speaker 1: hit endings allowed and earned run because he had six.
Speaker 1: Remember I remember that vivids six the baseball seasons when
Speaker 1: Frank doesn't talk to anybody in the pit. He just
Speaker 1: sit there, like, Frank, we needed to work. He's like
Speaker 1: watching watching you Darvish suck. That's exactly it. Uh. The
Speaker 1: walks were out of control his first eight starts. His
Speaker 1: walks per nine was eight point one walks for nine.
Speaker 1: I mean that makes uh, that makes that makes Robbie
Speaker 1: Ray look like massa harro Tanaka basically in terms of
Speaker 1: command eight walks per nine and his first eight starts, Greg,
Speaker 1: and basically after that start against the Miami Marlins, That's
Speaker 1: where it all turned around. His final twenty three starts
Speaker 1: Greg two three six one e r A one point
Speaker 1: four six walks per nine, nearly twelve strikeouts per nine,
Speaker 1: groundball rate, nearly a fourteen percent swinging strike rate. I mean,
Speaker 1: his finals twenty three starts last year, he was phenomenal.
Speaker 1: The question is, Frank, why don't you like you Darvish?
Speaker 1: Why is he this year's Trevor Bauer? Well? Is he
Speaker 1: gonna be able to keep up what he did over
Speaker 1: those twenty three starts? Greig? Is he gonna be able
Speaker 1: to stay healthy? That's a huge part of the equation.
Speaker 1: It comes to you, Darvish. Last year it came out
Speaker 1: that he was, you know, pitching through another injury. It
Speaker 1: was like a forearm injury laid on in the season.
Speaker 1: He also had all the success because of a cutter
Speaker 1: that he you know, used over at the time. Greg.
Speaker 1: He never used it more than seventeen percent of the
Speaker 1: time ever in a single season in his career. So
Speaker 1: is he going to maintain his gains in command and control?
Speaker 1: Is he going to use his cutter as much this
Speaker 1: upcoming season? Is he going to be able to stay healthy?
Speaker 1: He also changed his mechanics up. He like had a
Speaker 1: different arm angle that he was throwing from last year
Speaker 1: and that really helped his success. Is that going to
Speaker 1: carry over? There's just there's so many moving parts. It's
Speaker 1: almost like everything came together for Darvish over those final
Speaker 1: twenty three games that he pitched Greg and I just
Speaker 1: don't know if all of those things, every one of
Speaker 1: those aspects is going to come together once again. And
Speaker 1: because of that, I'm likely not going to have any
Speaker 1: of you darbish just here. I haven't in like one
Speaker 1: keeper league just because he's a late round keeper. But
Speaker 1: outside of that, in that fourth round range, I'll likely
Speaker 1: take a Chris Paddock or Louis Severina over him someone
Speaker 1: like that. I don't think I'm gonna own much two diversits.
Speaker 1: I agree to taking Seberino, I know, you know, like
Speaker 1: no Sergard. I take snider Guard over him as well.
Speaker 1: Another name that kind of fits his Bill Frank. He
Speaker 1: is Clayton Kershaw and Kershaw had this bounce back year
Speaker 1: in many aspects. Last year did your hundred seventy innings
Speaker 1: and going sixteen and five. He started off the year
Speaker 1: slightly late. Everyone's very nervous, um saying that Kershaw was
Speaker 1: playing on Biden time, borrow time rather right, that back
Speaker 1: injury is gonna come back to bite him. He didn't walk?
Speaker 1: Were these what any batters? Ever? Last year? Two point
Speaker 1: oh seven was the walks for nine? Last year the
Speaker 1: Kaper nine at a down right not or hyper senage
Speaker 1: rather Kiper nine. Yeah, nine point five four last season,
Speaker 1: I thought the if you look at the Babbage here
Speaker 1: sixty two, it's really low to Clayton Kershaw. The extrap
Speaker 1: had him at three point five. It's obviously very good.
Speaker 1: But for all the reasons that people didn't like Clinton
Speaker 1: Kershaw going into last year, and you can take the
Speaker 1: same case that that doesn't change. He's still on that
Speaker 1: bar of the time with his back still, He's still
Speaker 1: with the Dodgers where they have all these other options
Speaker 1: that they will rest him. I think you could like
Speaker 1: Clayton k Shaw. That's fine, but you shouldn't think just
Speaker 1: jump back in both throttle and thinks the eastern he
Speaker 1: was from years ago. Kershaw and the closers. Next, I
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Speaker 1: back here, vffs, we're gonna talking about anybody random. During
Speaker 1: that break, it was more Clayton Kershel lot Castle here
Speaker 1: I talked towards the end, which is good. Johnthan v
Speaker 1: Are also got brought up, but it was mostly sticking
Speaker 1: to Clayton Kershaw and Frank as I had a dove
Speaker 1: in a little deeper here. His fastball velocity was the
Speaker 1: worst of his career last year at ninety point four
Speaker 1: miles per hour on average. Slider also went down from
Speaker 1: the year prior eight six point nine. Eighty six point
Speaker 1: nine was the average lassity, although he did get more
Speaker 1: swinging stripes on it. As you told me. You know,
Speaker 1: I think for Clayton Kershaw he has to reinvent himself,
Speaker 1: and I know he said that he did last year.
Speaker 1: He has to invent himself because he's not the same
Speaker 1: picture that he was in the prime of his career.
Speaker 1: He's trending the wrong direction and if he does, he's
Speaker 1: going to be effective. But is he a Tier one starter?
Speaker 1: He's Is he the eleventh starting pitcher off the board?
Speaker 1: Is he should he be your ace? I don't think
Speaker 1: so anymore. I agree I would not want him as
Speaker 1: my SP one, But where he's going right now in
Speaker 1: the fourth round, third, fourth round, around that range, if
Speaker 1: you get him as your SP two, I'm fine with
Speaker 1: that because I think he's still gonna give you. You
Speaker 1: have to Trevor Bauer as you're one. Last year, yes,
Speaker 1: and that was a mistake. And know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: he's the same thing will happen with Kershaw. It will
Speaker 1: be a miss stake, not necessarily because again he reinvented
Speaker 1: himself last year. As you mentioned the fastball velocity, he's
Speaker 1: you know, you look at the that that fastball velocity.
Speaker 1: It really dipped back down in eighteen and went down
Speaker 1: to nine point nine, which was the lowest of his career,
Speaker 1: and that was almost like a shock to him. He's like,
Speaker 1: how do I learn how to pitch right that? With
Speaker 1: a fastball velocity this low, and I think he figured
Speaker 1: out how to do that in nineteen. You look at
Speaker 1: the other skills as well. The chase rate back up
Speaker 1: to thirty five percent, that was his highest mark since
Speaker 1: two thousand and fourteen. His swinging strike rate twelve point
Speaker 1: nine percent. That was an almost two percent increase from eighteen.
Speaker 1: Not where he was in his prime years, but it's
Speaker 1: still very good. Thirteen percent is a very good mark
Speaker 1: for a starting pitcher as well. The red flags that
Speaker 1: I have noticed, you still have to worry about the health.
Speaker 1: You're right, like, that's not going away. But I wouldn't
Speaker 1: depend on him for two innings. If I'm projecting Kershaw
Speaker 1: likely a hundred and seventy two hundred and eighty innings
Speaker 1: pitched of a you know, three five r A, which
Speaker 1: is a very good picture. And again it's I think
Speaker 1: it's a really really good sp two. I just probably
Speaker 1: wouldn't want him as my sp one. The other red
Speaker 1: flag that I noticed, Greg was that the slugging percentage
Speaker 1: against both his curveball and his slider last year was
Speaker 1: a career high. So with the fastball velocity going down
Speaker 1: last year for Kershaw and the slugging percentage going up
Speaker 1: on his breaking pitches. He's basically a three pitch pitcher,
Speaker 1: basketball slider curve. If people are starting to hit those
Speaker 1: harder and slug those a little bit more, and his
Speaker 1: fastball already is decreasing in velocity, and there is a
Speaker 1: chance that the performance could just take a step back.
Speaker 1: So I understand what you're saying. There are red flags there.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't mind him as my sp two. I wouldn't
Speaker 1: want him to anchor my staff. I do think he's
Speaker 1: gonna give you a hundred and seventy very equality endings.
Speaker 1: But you have to keep in the back of your
Speaker 1: mind that there was a chance that he gets hurt again,
Speaker 1: or the production just takes a step back due to
Speaker 1: age and and the fact that people are starting to
Speaker 1: hit his breaking stuff a little bit better. As you said,
Speaker 1: Frankie Um, you don't on him as you were Ace,
Speaker 1: And you also mentioned in the past that you don't
Speaker 1: really like that tier or starting pictures. You'd rather wait
Speaker 1: a round her too, and go into the Louis Seberino,
Speaker 1: Chris Paddock, no synder Guard, crop of guys, Aaronola, you darbish,
Speaker 1: Zach Grinky, That crew which goes a couple of rounds
Speaker 1: later than Kershaw, so you'd probably just not take a
Speaker 1: picture there, right, Yeah, in the third round, third fourth
Speaker 1: round range where you often have to take Kershaw. I
Speaker 1: like a lot of the hitters there. Um, how your
Speaker 1: bios someone that I'm targeting a lot, someone like a
Speaker 1: Kettle Marte, even a Kessen Hero we were talking about
Speaker 1: during the break. I'll target a lot of those hitters
Speaker 1: and then you know, I wind up picking up like
Speaker 1: a Chris Paddock and Noah synder Guard, uh, Louis Seberino,
Speaker 1: someone like that. All right, so let me move on
Speaker 1: now to the closer that we're trying to figure out.
Speaker 1: And this last year, at this time, one of the
Speaker 1: top closers off the board, if not the top closer
Speaker 1: off the board. Well, that was Blake China. Lake Tchina
Speaker 1: came over from Washington to Oakland the Shawn Doolittle Um
Speaker 1: Ryan Matson trade and late China was ever think we
Speaker 1: wanted it to be. For years with Washington, he was spectacular.
Speaker 1: For the Oakland A's down the stretch, he was immaculate,
Speaker 1: and then last year he got hurt and never refounded,
Speaker 1: never regained it. And Liam Hendricks took over and was
Speaker 1: awesome in his place, but they train and was so
Speaker 1: bad that he got cut by the A's. They didn't
Speaker 1: want to pay him what it was going to cost
Speaker 1: to bring him back, so they caught him. He goes
Speaker 1: on the Dodgers to be the set up man for
Speaker 1: Kenley Jansen, and Janson goes down, all right, well, we
Speaker 1: know the handcuffs. It's clearly Blake China. But Frank, what
Speaker 1: happened they China? And last year? Where did it go wrong? Um? Look,
Speaker 1: when it comes to Blake triinan last year, this is
Speaker 1: someone who we've seen kind of have that upside before
Speaker 1: pitching with the Washington Nationals, was never really able to
Speaker 1: put it all together, and then he did exactly that
Speaker 1: in eighteen. I mentioned earlier in the show that for
Speaker 1: you Darvish, in that second half, everything just came together
Speaker 1: and worked out so perfectly. It was a perfect storm
Speaker 1: for him, and I think for Blake Trying, that's exactly
Speaker 1: what happened in eighteen, and that's why we really liked
Speaker 1: him in nineteen. But then these strikeouts went down massively
Speaker 1: last year, Greg the swinging strike create went from eighteen
Speaker 1: percent to twelve and a half percent you could not find.
Speaker 1: The strikes on the walks went from two point four
Speaker 1: per nine eighteen two over five per nine. So a
Speaker 1: couple of those things together, you're walking more batters, you're
Speaker 1: not getting at swings as many swings and misses as
Speaker 1: many strikeouts. That means people are putting the ball in play.
Speaker 1: And when they're putting the ball in play with runners
Speaker 1: on base via the walk, Greg, that's obviously going to
Speaker 1: lead to disastrous things. And that's exactly what happened with
Speaker 1: with Blake Trindon last year. Al Right, fair enough, but
Speaker 1: the question isn't it what happened Blake trying and last year? Frank?
Speaker 1: It's who shouna be late training? This year? In a
Speaker 1: game we like to call, who is this year's Blake tried?
Speaker 1: In familiar faces? Also realized for this board are s
Speaker 1: for who's this year's right? This year's in it? You're
Speaker 1: the grammar guy, so who's his years? Yeah? Noted for Sandra, understandable. Alright,
Speaker 1: So who is this year's plays Trina? For me? I
Speaker 1: kind of already alluded to it. It's Liam Hendricks, the
Speaker 1: guy that actually replays Blake Trina last season as the
Speaker 1: closer for the Oakland A's. Listen, being a reliever, it's volatile.
Speaker 1: We know that. Being a dominant closer, it just doesn't
Speaker 1: have an offer often. Leam dricks is thirty one years old.
Speaker 1: He spent time with the Twins, he spent time with
Speaker 1: the Blue Jays, the Royals, and last year he was
Speaker 1: dominant with the Oakland Athletics. A cap for nine or
Speaker 1: kid third over thirteen point one three. That was freaking awesome.
Speaker 1: Last year the walks will still over to not great
Speaker 1: for a closer. The r A was one point eight.
Speaker 1: What was the X fift you asked, three point to one.
Speaker 1: It was a career season for Liam Andrews, one where
Speaker 1: he finally stayed healthy for the most part and pitched
Speaker 1: over eighty innings as a closer for the A's. And
Speaker 1: my confident he could do this again, Well, he's really good.
Speaker 1: Ineventeen every other year he was kind of fine. So no, Frank,
Speaker 1: I'm not confident that he do this again. I'm not
Speaker 1: confident to take him where he's being drafted as one
Speaker 1: of the top tier closer as your first closer off
Speaker 1: the board. I'd rather go in a more short thing.
Speaker 1: I'd rather go to a different direction and trust and
Speaker 1: Manderson did it. I don't even think that I have
Speaker 1: to give you one, Greg, because I feel like this
Speaker 1: is the perfect dance. I mean, coming from Blake trying?
Speaker 1: Who is this year? Is Blake trying? And well, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's the guy who replaced him in Liam Hendricks. I
Speaker 1: love this call as well. I will say, you know,
Speaker 1: how did he get as many strikeouts as he did
Speaker 1: last year? How did that swinging strike rate go to
Speaker 1: a career high seventeen per cent? Well, he didn't prove
Speaker 1: the fastball velocity by two miles per hour, right, So
Speaker 1: he was throwing ninety four miles per hour back in
Speaker 1: eighteen up that to nineties six and a half miles
Speaker 1: per hour in twenty nineteen. So he didn't make improvements
Speaker 1: in the velocity. Uh, started getting more chases, started getting
Speaker 1: more swings and misses. But you're right, Greg, A one
Speaker 1: point eight zero e r A the year before that,
Speaker 1: ar A over four the year before of that, the
Speaker 1: area over four, twenty six, three seven six e r A.
Speaker 1: I have my doubts when it comes to Liam Hendricks
Speaker 1: for all the reasons that you mentioned. Can he maintain
Speaker 1: that velocity is he gonna get as many swings and
Speaker 1: misses this year. I don't know that they have great
Speaker 1: options in the in the bullpen to replace him. I
Speaker 1: think it's like, use Merrow Petite, who's like the setup
Speaker 1: man in Oakland right now, pulling that up for you.
Speaker 1: Yet use Merrow Petite. They have Joaquin Storia who is
Speaker 1: a former closer. Remember the name lu Travino because this
Speaker 1: is someone who was a couple of years ago and
Speaker 1: he's still in that bullpen. So maybe you know he's
Speaker 1: someone who gets an opportunity here, Greg, are you sure
Speaker 1: you want me to give you one? Because I feel
Speaker 1: like Liam Hendricks is just you know, if you don't
Speaker 1: want I can't even don't have to more Liam Hendris
Speaker 1: for a moment um. His nickname is Slider because he's Australian.
Speaker 1: He is Australian, that is true. So he got slide up.
Speaker 1: His fastball went up. He was he mentioned this, but
Speaker 1: it was the high velocity of his career last year.
Speaker 1: Has a hard He threw his fastball lastie over ninety
Speaker 1: six miles per hour. He had never been over ninety
Speaker 1: four and a half four in his career. The most
Speaker 1: part or any four point nine, he got you, but
Speaker 1: ninety six and a half way harder than ever than
Speaker 1: the fastball before. So he did make some changes obviously
Speaker 1: to somehow get more velocity there. And he maintained that
Speaker 1: that's the question. It's the only year that he's ever
Speaker 1: averaged more than ninety four point nine, more than ninety
Speaker 1: four miles per hour on his fastball, so can He
Speaker 1: maintained that, all right, Greig, I'll give you have to
Speaker 1: and it's all gonna come full certain don't have to
Speaker 1: in a second. Give you a random player if you
Speaker 1: want to tell me what you think about Teoscar who
Speaker 1: names this year? Leam Hendricks is being drafted as a
Speaker 1: top five closer, but by Team BFF, right, someone was
Speaker 1: being drafted as a top ten closer, and someone who
Speaker 1: I've heard he drafted unfortunately um names Paxton is Kenley
Speaker 1: Jansen Emley Jansen of the Los Angeles Dodgers, and I
Speaker 1: kind of missed that first closer round. I'd like to
Speaker 1: get Ken Giles as my first closerre in a lot
Speaker 1: of drafts, maybe a Roberto Osuna, but those guys were
Speaker 1: already gone, and so I looked at the fallback option
Speaker 1: when it comes to Kenley Jansen. What I'm worried about
Speaker 1: is if the strike house are down, Greg. They went
Speaker 1: from over fourteen case for nine seventeen down to ten
Speaker 1: in two thousand eighteen, and it bounced back up a
Speaker 1: little bit to eleven in two thousand nineteen. But he's
Speaker 1: not the player that he once was. One three two
Speaker 1: e r A back in two thousand seventeen. It's gone
Speaker 1: up to three oh one last year three seven one
Speaker 1: e r A four Kenley Jansen. He also had a
Speaker 1: bad second half the r A in the second half
Speaker 1: over four one to five whip his line drive ry
Speaker 1: went up ten percent. And to bring it all full circle, Greg,
Speaker 1: you know who's going to take the job from Kenley
Speaker 1: Jansen's exactly right, man. So look, if you are jaking
Speaker 1: Kenley Jansen right now and you want to handcuff them,
Speaker 1: just make sure you get lake training, because this year's
Speaker 1: lake training is Kenley Jansen. Did you did you get
Speaker 1: I didn't. I wanted to. He went a couple of
Speaker 1: picks before us, and then we end up getting Daniel Hudson, who,
Speaker 1: all right, there there might get some saves there out
Speaker 1: there in Washington. Get saves in Washington a lot of
Speaker 1: people think Shawn Doodle is also the closes are all
Speaker 1: of a sudden again yea Husson Hudson husband will still
Speaker 1: out the World Series. Yeah, it seems like pretty good.
Speaker 1: Yeah he was good. By the way, you're the second
Speaker 1: highest left on base percentage in baseball last year? Do
Speaker 1: not you maintain it? Rafty veteran Greg, Come on, he
Speaker 1: can wiggle out of those damns. I don't think so.
Speaker 1: It's Farrell, it's coast to coast. I want to think
Speaker 1: Seawan and Alex Down's their Sandra as well, Frank Staff, Greg, Susan.
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