Speaker 1: Welcome in everybody to Fantasy Pros. This is the Fantasy
Speaker 1: Baseball Podcast and it's made Joey p Joe pe Zapia,
Speaker 1: and today we're gonna take a look at what you
Speaker 1: really want to know, league winners and probably Welsh's hair.
Speaker 1: If you're watching on YouTube, you'll look at the hair.
Speaker 1: You look at the league winners. Nothing else matters at
Speaker 1: the end of the day. So we're gonna be taking
Speaker 1: a look here. Welsh has a list of ten. I
Speaker 1: have a list of ten, and we're gonna go through
Speaker 1: them here for you. Some of these players we've talked
Speaker 1: about before, some really not so much. And we've got
Speaker 1: a really interesting way of breaking this down. So all
Speaker 1: of my players are going to be post one fifty
Speaker 1: ADP and above. I'm talking about the guys that could
Speaker 1: win you a league that you really don't see coming.
Speaker 1: But Welsh is starting his somewhere around pick one hundred,
Speaker 1: but he's going even deeper than mine mine stopping about
Speaker 1: two seventy five. His are going well into the four hundreds.
Speaker 1: So between the two of us, these are gonna be
Speaker 1: twenty names that you should be targeting in your drafts.
Speaker 1: Varying ADPs but really post one hundred, this is where
Speaker 1: you could potentially win your league. In Welsh what we
Speaker 1: always say, right, it's easy to draft, like the first
Speaker 1: ten rounds, it's pretty simple. It's when we get to
Speaker 1: the back end of the draft, the last six seven rounds,
Speaker 1: where you could really make a difference if you're willing
Speaker 1: to be patient, willing to put in the work, or
Speaker 1: at the very least have us do the work for you. Yeah.
Speaker 2: And also the idea behind league winners was very specific
Speaker 2: to me and how I order these players because we've
Speaker 2: done lots of varying degrees of these episodes of breakouts sleepers.
Speaker 2: I would say league winners in my mind probably is
Speaker 2: the close cousin to sleepers, but I have to be
Speaker 2: very distinctive about it. I'll give you a prime example,
Speaker 2: a player that I almost put on this when I
Speaker 2: was doing it, was like Michael Waka. But Michael Waka
Speaker 2: is not a league winner. I do think he can
Speaker 2: be a sleeper based on his ADP. He's a player
Speaker 2: that I'm drafted. There's another episode, you know, the players
Speaker 2: that are on every player that's on our team. We're
Speaker 2: drafting a ton of shares up. That's different. Michael Waka
Speaker 2: is not a league winner, so you're going for really
Speaker 2: big upside. You're going for cost that can equate to
Speaker 2: this player absolutely going nuts, but it also could blow
Speaker 2: up in your face a little bit. The league winner
Speaker 2: is a do or die situation. And I will tell
Speaker 2: you you said I have varying degrees. I probably have
Speaker 2: a three hundred eightyp difference between the number one guy,
Speaker 2: which we sorted this by ADP and the furthest back player.
Speaker 2: But a lot of these guys are younger players, and
Speaker 2: it's probably no shock that league winning players are going
Speaker 2: to be players that are just buried down there that,
Speaker 2: given the opportunity, without a big track record, could absolutely explode.
Speaker 2: So lots of different names popped up on this list,
Speaker 2: but I tried to be very specific because this guy
Speaker 2: has to win me my league, So how do they
Speaker 2: win the league? Right, it's no expectation to absolute blow up.
Speaker 1: And it's the absolute potential for blow up, which is
Speaker 1: why they're on the list now. And that we're not
Speaker 1: saying all these guys are going to blow up, because
Speaker 1: we've been around way too long to know that that's
Speaker 1: not going to be the case. But it's about the
Speaker 1: potential for that, which is really exciting. And again I
Speaker 1: want to thank everybody's watched all of our coverage and
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Speaker 1: I think she's wrong, But then again, I do have
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Speaker 1: to the top ten league winners and Welsh. Let's start
Speaker 1: with ten through eight. The guys that made your list,
Speaker 1: the ADP and why they're on this list for you.
Speaker 2: All right, So here are the three players at ten. Again,
Speaker 2: this is a descending ADP. This is the only player
Speaker 2: outside the four hundreds. I've got Matt Manning. Now, Matt
Speaker 2: Manning has increased his fastball velocity. He's finally healthy. That's
Speaker 2: kind of the big key has had a phenomenal spring.
Speaker 2: That's really the other thing. He's had a really great spring.
Speaker 2: His fastball usually sitting around ninety three, it's been up
Speaker 2: to ninety four. I think I've even seen the reports.
Speaker 2: Maybe there's a splitter that's going on there. But we're
Speaker 2: we're hoping that we are going to get the return
Speaker 2: the thirty five percent fifth percentage slider player in twenty
Speaker 2: twenty two. Everything decreased last year, but the fastball is
Speaker 2: more effective. He looks more effective, and he is free.
Speaker 2: I think it's him or Casey Myz that are going
Speaker 2: to be the player that's going to break back out.
Speaker 2: And I'm getting Casey mis had a little bit of
Speaker 2: a rough spring. Ton of walks. That's not been Matt
Speaker 2: Manning over eleven k per nine. He came in at
Speaker 2: number ten, number eight. As a player I have talked
Speaker 2: about a decent amount. It's Michael Busch with the Chicago Cubs,
Speaker 2: and Michael Busch has had a decent spring. The average
Speaker 2: has not been there, the strikeouts have been a little
Speaker 2: bit up, but he's got two homers and two stolen bases.
Speaker 2: And here's been the big key that I've been talking about.
Speaker 2: Would he be able to keep his spot? Pete ko
Speaker 2: Armstrong was sent down to me. That is Cody Bellinger
Speaker 2: in centerfield. It's not gonna be Mike Talkman. They also
Speaker 2: don't have a bunch of lefties with Michael Busch. They
Speaker 2: have four lefties on the active hitting roster, so Michael
Speaker 2: Bush is even more valuable there between DH and first.
Speaker 2: He's going to continue to keep going. The homers are
Speaker 2: going to be there. I think you can get twenty
Speaker 2: five homers and is ADP eighty right now according to
Speaker 2: Fantasy Pros. And I will tell you this, we are
Speaker 2: doing descending order, but this player actually might be one
Speaker 2: of the top league winners in all of baseball. If
Speaker 2: the best case scenario works out. Victor Scott the second
Speaker 2: with the Saint Louis Cardinals. Victor Scott having a great
Speaker 2: spring as we're recording this, still vying for an opportunity
Speaker 2: to break with the camp three point sixty seven in
Speaker 2: spring an only twelve percent k rate. He's already stolen
Speaker 2: four bases. Victor Scott could even lead baseball in stolen
Speaker 2: bases if he starts from day one with that batting average.
Speaker 2: So that's why I say you want to talk about
Speaker 2: league winners. Victor Scott, if from at least day one
Speaker 2: and hits around two fifty two to sixty, is going
Speaker 2: to steal probably no less than fifty stolen bases. There's
Speaker 2: even some home run potential in there. Victor Scott one
Speaker 2: of the best league winning potential players you could draft.
Speaker 2: And his ADP I actually screwed it up. He is
Speaker 2: the second highest ADP three eighty seven of all players.
Speaker 2: Get him. On the back end, we talk about the
Speaker 2: bench player. What's the perfect bench player to take it's
Speaker 2: Victor Scott especially. We all need some for stolen bases.
Speaker 1: And Steve Gardner on the Fantasy Fest. You can go
Speaker 1: back and listen or watch. We have all the segments
Speaker 1: segmented out see what I did. They're over on YouTube,
Speaker 1: from Steve Gardner to Pinowski to Ino Saras, and Steve
Speaker 1: was talking about Victor Scott too for the same thing too, Hey,
Speaker 1: look for cheap steals the end of the draft. You
Speaker 1: don't want to go with a Sturry Ruiz or somebody
Speaker 1: like that and waste draft capital. There's Victor Scott ten
Speaker 1: through eight. For me, I'm gonna start with number two,
Speaker 1: seventy four on the big board right now. He just
Speaker 1: got sent down, but I don't care. It's Paul Skeens,
Speaker 1: and I love the fact he just got sent down.
Speaker 1: I didn't think it was gonna make the team. But
Speaker 1: there's always that collective. Oh no, Paul Skeen's got sent down.
Speaker 1: The season is six months long, Folks went back to
Speaker 1: twenty ten because I think the only thing that we
Speaker 1: have in recent memory that reminds me of this Paul
Speaker 1: Skean situation is Steven Strasbourg. Now, I hope that Skeens
Speaker 1: has a better path in his future than Steven Strasburg
Speaker 1: gat However, well hope he makes as much money. I
Speaker 1: that you go. But at the same point, he made
Speaker 1: his debut in June that year, right, he threw sixty
Speaker 1: eight innings a two ninety one era. He struck out
Speaker 1: ninety two guys and walked seventeen. Now, if you're talking
Speaker 1: about Layton drafts, in those you know, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen
Speaker 1: rounds where people drafting Scherzer, people drafting Kershaw. Now just
Speaker 1: think about this. If Paul Skeenes comes up at the
Speaker 1: end of June and gives you these kind of numbers
Speaker 1: down the stretch here and then eventually gets shut down
Speaker 1: in September, So it might hurt you when you get
Speaker 1: to playoff situations. But Welsh, those are some incredible stats
Speaker 1: to give you in a sixty seventy inning span, which
Speaker 1: I think he can give you elite level numbers there,
Speaker 1: and much cheaper ADP than the other guys that I mentioned,
Speaker 1: those veterans that are already hurt. So Skeens is a
Speaker 1: guy I just took him in our last draft we
Speaker 1: did live with Michael Goovier. You can watch out on
Speaker 1: the channel as well. Mason Miller at two fifty nine
Speaker 1: is number nine for me. I don't see why he
Speaker 1: would not be the closer. It is the best way
Speaker 1: I've said this before, I'm going to say one last
Speaker 1: time for everybody to hear. This is what you want
Speaker 1: to do with Mason Miller. Give him a clean ninth
Speaker 1: inning budget his innings. Give him non stress. One, two, three,
Speaker 1: You sit back down. You're not getting up and down
Speaker 1: the bullpen a million times. You're not having this guy
Speaker 1: warm up. That's a recipe for disaster with Mason Miller.
Speaker 1: You figure the a's, you keep it simple, stupid, and
Speaker 1: all you do is you make him the closer. You
Speaker 1: let him pitch no more than two days in a row.
Speaker 1: If it has to be a save for three days
Speaker 1: in a row and the Oakland Days are winning three games,
Speaker 1: you should dance a jig and be very happy Oakland.
Speaker 1: But somebody else can shut it down that day. Mason
Speaker 1: Miller is a guy you can get some saves and
Speaker 1: strikeouts later. And the only way to really make sure
Speaker 1: you put him in plastic is to make him the closer.
Speaker 1: Number two eighteen, Number eight for me, another guy just
Speaker 1: drafted in the last draft. We just wrapped up Logan Ohapi,
Speaker 1: the catcher of the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. Love
Speaker 1: this guy. Last year. I know Frank Stamfle one of
Speaker 1: our guys again on fest talked about this guy. We
Speaker 1: talked about him last year, A love o Hoppy. I
Speaker 1: think he's got power. I think he's got the ability
Speaker 1: to hit somewhere in that two to fifty range. And
Speaker 1: for me, this is a player that I'm very excited
Speaker 1: to draft everywhere, and I think you should be too.
Speaker 1: I think this is an opportunity here with Ohapi to
Speaker 1: make up some ground here in two catcher leagues. I
Speaker 1: think's extremely valuable. And he's going right now on that
Speaker 1: fringe of catcher one, if you will, in those two
Speaker 1: catcher leagues, which I think is just absurd. So ten
Speaker 1: schemes nine Mason Miller and at two eighteen Logan Ohoppy.
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Speaker 1: now back to the action Welsh seven through five for
Speaker 1: you on the league winners, who do you have?
Speaker 2: I will tell you one thing. Had I gotten to
Speaker 2: this sheet first, you have about half of the players
Speaker 2: I would have put on.
Speaker 1: That's good because agreeing on these guys, because we sometimes
Speaker 1: disagree on players, the fact that we agree on as
Speaker 1: many as we do on this list, I think that's
Speaker 1: worthy of note for the people watching and listening today.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and Mason Miller was the one of that group
Speaker 2: that you just said that instantly was like, Oh, I
Speaker 2: got to put him on there because of where his
Speaker 2: draft value is. Also a sneaky starting pitcher that could
Speaker 2: have closers. So I like that, all right. So going
Speaker 2: to mind seven, six, and five, these are all young
Speaker 2: guys and they're upside to varying degrees, Sinai, Rafaela is
Speaker 2: number seven on the list at three point thirty two,
Speaker 2: and I say, like the varying degrees of upside people
Speaker 2: are getting at, they're so cheap that the impact that
Speaker 2: I believe they're gonna get to, whether you agree or not,
Speaker 2: is why these guys can be league winners. In Rafaela
Speaker 2: really could be a uniquely special guy. He's a guy
Speaker 2: that could go twenty twenty. He's had a solid spring
Speaker 2: three homers, two stolen bases, hitting two seventy nine. Strike
Speaker 2: up rate hasn't been a problem. He's actually walked more,
Speaker 2: which isn't crazy. But if he plays in the middle infield,
Speaker 2: there's some talk about him maybe playing some second, some
Speaker 2: short while also playing outfield.
Speaker 1: Eight.
Speaker 2: The batex projections have event nine homers with fourteen stolen
Speaker 2: bases in a two fifty six average in ninety nine games.
Speaker 2: You span that out you could be looking at a
Speaker 2: fifteen twenty five guy, and if you wanted to play
Speaker 2: the Steamer numbers, by the way, fourteen homers, seventeen stolen
Speaker 2: bases in one hundred and twenty games. You're closing in
Speaker 2: on a twenty twenty bat that could have in and
Speaker 2: outfield eligibility, Saidani Rafaela at three thirty two. I love
Speaker 2: coming in at number six with an ADP of two
Speaker 2: ninety nine. Is the San Diego Padres new center fielder
Speaker 2: has to say short stop because.
Speaker 1: He does qualify in some leagues. There, so's Jackson Merril.
Speaker 2: I love Jackson Merrill. We talked about him on the
Speaker 2: fan Fest with Steve Gardner. I think he is a
Speaker 2: sneaky rookie of the year bet Now, his counting stats
Speaker 2: don't pop necessarily even projections. The bat X is eight
Speaker 2: and eight in ninety six games, so you're probably closing
Speaker 2: in on fifteen to fifteen. But at almost free with
Speaker 2: a high batting average, they've got him at two fifty seven.
Speaker 2: He legit might hit twot eighty for this team, score
Speaker 2: decent amount of runs. The power is starting to go,
Speaker 2: and I think he could steal a little bit more
Speaker 2: than he had in the minor leagues in twenty twenty three,
Speaker 2: he did steal fifteen bases in around one hundred and
Speaker 2: ten games. On a full season, he can steal twenty.
Speaker 2: He can hit between ten and fifteen. I think he
Speaker 2: can score a bunch of runs, and he's got middle
Speaker 2: infield eligibility. Jackson Merrill could be one of those league
Speaker 2: winning guys because of his flexibility in the numbers. And
Speaker 2: then coming in at number five is Colt Keith with
Speaker 2: the Detroit Tighs, who looks like he is locked into
Speaker 2: that middle endfield spot so much so that roster resource
Speaker 2: has moved him closer to the middle of the lineup
Speaker 2: where he can qualify at second and third base. He
Speaker 2: hit two eighty seven in triple A last year with
Speaker 2: thirteen homers in sixty seven games. Projections are pretty friendly.
Speaker 2: You've got steamer with fourteen homers with a two to
Speaker 2: sixty one batting average a one hundred and seventeen. His
Speaker 2: power is being under sold right now, as long as
Speaker 2: the strikeouts don't become an issue, which by the way,
Speaker 2: he's only got a eighteen percent strikeout rate in spring training.
Speaker 2: He can hit twenty five plus. He is a guy
Speaker 2: that can push top one hundred value. All three of
Speaker 2: these players with the stolen base and power potential, they
Speaker 2: can be top one hundred fantasy bets that are almost free,
Speaker 2: especially in like twelve man leagues. So I think Colt
Speaker 2: Keith has a chance, especially from the power department, to
Speaker 2: be a league winner.
Speaker 1: I think there's a lot of value late in the
Speaker 1: middle infield especially, I mean anywhere from Zach Gehloff all
Speaker 1: the way down to what was it three eighty right,
Speaker 1: we're three thirty two for Rafaela, right. I mean there's
Speaker 1: there's a lot of value here late. So if you
Speaker 1: have to make up ground, you know, I mean, Volpi's
Speaker 1: been a guy that we've talked about before, you know,
Speaker 1: some of the guys that I'm gonna talk about next. Like,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of these guys that were floating out
Speaker 1: there that have a lot of upsides. So if you're
Speaker 1: playing in those middle infield leagues, don't freak out if
Speaker 1: the board doesn't go your way. Early on, I.
Speaker 2: Almost put Volpy on this and I didn't even I
Speaker 2: didn't even actually get my connection until you just said
Speaker 2: that that all three of those players that I just
Speaker 2: gave you are middle infield options. Because Rafaela looks like
Speaker 2: he's gonna get that qualification. You've already got Jackson Merrill
Speaker 2: who's got it, and Colt Keith has got it, and
Speaker 2: you're gonna get extra qualifications with all those players. That
Speaker 2: is what is unique about those three players. But there's
Speaker 2: handfuls of middle infielders that you like to make bets on.
Speaker 2: These are the guys though, with sky high upside and
Speaker 2: I didn't even get that middle infield catch. All right,
Speaker 2: what do you got in your group?
Speaker 1: Well, I'm sticking with the theme here starting at number
Speaker 1: seven for me, Junior kemen Aro. I've talked about them
Speaker 1: all the time. I'm gonna keep talking about them. Qualifies
Speaker 1: at third and shortstop. I don't think it's gonna be
Speaker 1: very long. I think this guy's ready go. And even
Speaker 1: if it's not till let's say Memorial Day, that still
Speaker 1: gives you two thirds of the season of Camonaro. And
Speaker 1: if he is as advertised, which I believe he is,
Speaker 1: he could make a huge impact. I like the bat.
Speaker 1: I think the bat is a little bit more ready
Speaker 1: than Jackson Cherio, who's gonna start from day one. That's
Speaker 1: my opinion. Some people don't share that opinion, but I
Speaker 1: do from all the film I've been able to watch
Speaker 1: on camon Aro. He's somebody that I kept in my
Speaker 1: home league for a couple bucks. I can only keep
Speaker 1: eight guys, and I kept him because he was a buck.
Speaker 1: And you know what, I'm keeping that guy because the
Speaker 1: upside is just far too much. So even though I
Speaker 1: have to be patient, I'm gonna practice what I'm preaching
Speaker 1: here when it comes to Camonaro. So I'm telling everybody again,
Speaker 1: I just drafted him in the last draft we just
Speaker 1: did on Fantasy Bros. I drafted Jackson Merril too much
Speaker 1: to Welsh's chagrin. I drafted Skeins, I drafted a hoppy.
Speaker 1: I'm showing you these are the guys that I'm targeting
Speaker 1: late that I think could make a huge impact. And
Speaker 1: if Cameron Aro ends up hitting somewhere around like six
Speaker 1: in that order, which I think is very possible, that
Speaker 1: could be a great spot for him, and he could
Speaker 1: be exactly what they're missing trying to solve the problem
Speaker 1: with Wander Franco not being there anymore, and that's a
Speaker 1: big problem for this offense, and Campanio is the solution
Speaker 1: at number six, Ezekiel Tovar at two to oh one.
Speaker 1: Tovar is a player Welsh and I have talked about,
Speaker 1: and I know Welsh is excited just the way I am.
Speaker 1: He's having a really good spring. Just to recap those
Speaker 1: numbers in the spring, he is slashing currently pretty well there,
Speaker 1: he's actually up to right now. I'm going to bring
Speaker 1: up those numbers in a second here, but in spring
Speaker 1: training he is a two ninety four, three twenty four,
Speaker 1: five eighty eight slugging. Again, spring doesn't mean everything, but
Speaker 1: Tovar looks a little stronger in the lower half. You
Speaker 1: could see he's put some work in there. He is
Speaker 1: a very young player still. I mean keep that in
Speaker 1: mind too. These guys are only twenty one twenty two
Speaker 1: years old. So Tovar is a player. Great environment, the
Speaker 1: OBP probably gonna lag behind a little bit, but I
Speaker 1: think there's a lot of room to improve in banning average.
Speaker 1: I think there's a lot of room for him to
Speaker 1: improve as well in the power departments. At two oh one,
Speaker 1: I think Tovar is now more ready for year two,
Speaker 1: whereas some guys tend to have that sophomore slump. I
Speaker 1: think Tovar came in uged a little bit as a rookie,
Speaker 1: and I think the second year for him is going
Speaker 1: to be much improved. At two hundred and one, he
Speaker 1: is a complete value. And then at one ninety four
Speaker 1: at number five, showed up Imanaga, pitcher for the Chicago Cubs.
Speaker 1: At one ninety four, Welsh, this is a guy that
Speaker 1: if he is right at that two spot for the
Speaker 1: Cubs behind Justin Steele, I think the Cubs can win
Speaker 1: this division. I really do. I think they are right there.
Speaker 1: They're ready to compete. Bellinger coming back is huge. But
Speaker 1: while everybody's chasing Yamamoto up top, I'm looking at this
Speaker 1: guy going around two hundred, I'm saying, give me Imanaga.
Speaker 1: He's just a better return on my draft capital. I'm
Speaker 1: not saying he's the same pitcher as Yamamoto. He's not necessarily,
Speaker 1: but he handled major league hitters in the WBC a
Speaker 1: couple of years ago. His stats are impeccable. He's thirty
Speaker 1: years old. I think he is ready for the major leagues,
Speaker 1: and I think, especially in the first half of the year,
Speaker 1: I think hitters are going to struggle to pick him
Speaker 1: up and figure out exactly what's going on there. Now,
Speaker 1: we'll see what the second half brings. But if he
Speaker 1: can give you great stats in the first half and
Speaker 1: then just kind of continue to build on that in
Speaker 1: the second, that is league win potential with the starting pitcher.
Speaker 1: Now you likeke Minauga as well? Is that a guy
Speaker 1: you've been targeting and gotten any shares of.
Speaker 2: One hundred thousand percent? I will tell you those three
Speaker 2: guys you just listed off to me are a murderer's
Speaker 2: row of players that can win your leagues. I've been
Speaker 2: a little bit less dern, but I have of Ezekiel
Speaker 2: tow Far. I'm sorry I have moved in a more
Speaker 2: positive direction. But Junia Camenero is at the tippy top
Speaker 2: of the list, and Chota Imanaga absolutely is that player.
Speaker 2: I mean the WBC stuff plus fastball was at the
Speaker 2: tippy top. His command has been on point this year.
Speaker 2: His release point is going to screw up a whole
Speaker 2: lot of hitters, as it has done in spring. This
Speaker 2: is a guy that has probably been criminally underrated. And
Speaker 2: it's funny I've had like him and Brandon Fought moving
Speaker 2: up and up, and just recently on my ranks, I
Speaker 2: moved Imanaga quite a bit up. He is a absolute
Speaker 2: target you've got to have simply for the upside. And
Speaker 2: this isn't me, but I know a lot of people
Speaker 2: like to do this. If what you're saying is is
Speaker 2: you'll see a lot of these guys that come over
Speaker 2: that will dominate for a month or two, and then
Speaker 2: when the league starts to catch up a little bit
Speaker 2: and teams have better game plans, maybe they can you know,
Speaker 2: get on with it.
Speaker 1: Singa Like Singa came over and it was kind of
Speaker 1: the opposite. He kind of struggled a little bit with
Speaker 1: the controller early on, and then something really clicked. I
Speaker 1: don't know it was a confidence, I don't know what
Speaker 1: it was, but man, towards a lot of part of
Speaker 1: the year, he really settled.
Speaker 2: In well the command, the command stuck in, and the
Speaker 2: k's came down.
Speaker 1: I think Single was a player on this list last
Speaker 1: year for us, if memory serves, and it's that same logic. Now,
Speaker 1: I'm not saying he's got the same strikeout upside of
Speaker 1: you know, Senga, but think about how many leagues code
Speaker 1: I Single won people last year of being a guy
Speaker 1: that you drafted a fourth or a fifth starter who
Speaker 1: performed like a one for most of the season in
Speaker 1: terms of strikeouts especially.
Speaker 2: And the thing I was gonna say is the thing
Speaker 2: I don't do that I think some people could look
Speaker 2: with him and IgA is if he dominates in that
Speaker 2: first month, you could move him until the league starts
Speaker 2: to catch up.
Speaker 1: I mean that can win you're your league two because
Speaker 1: when somebody overpays, that's an opportunity for you to take
Speaker 1: more talent, more players and win your league. So there's
Speaker 1: more reasons why guys are on this list. And that's
Speaker 1: a great point that you just made. If this guy
Speaker 1: is above your expectations and you're worried about regression, guess
Speaker 1: what turn him into something else or more than he's worth.
Speaker 1: And next thing you know, you might be in a
Speaker 1: really good spot there potentially spring training for him. So far,
Speaker 1: again a bit of a mixed bag. But the strikeout
Speaker 1: potential welsh for Imanaga. By the way, should we talk
Speaker 1: about that. Nineteen strikeouts to two walks so far. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's pretty good last time I checked in. Oh wait,
Speaker 1: how many innings up? Nine nine innings. It's a lot
Speaker 1: of us we get missed there for me and Naga.
Speaker 1: All right, let's get to three more guys on Welsh's
Speaker 1: list here, let's get to four to three and two
Speaker 1: and then we'll announce our number ones after this. So
Speaker 1: who's number four. It's a favorite of Welsh's, a favorite
Speaker 1: of mine. A guy at one p seventy six.
Speaker 2: His name is Jared Duran. As a matter of fact,
Speaker 2: you cannot be four to three or two on my
Speaker 2: list unless your first name starts with Jay. So this
Speaker 2: is triple J. Not any Jeff Jarrett stuff in here.
Speaker 2: It's Jared Duran coming in at four, who I love,
Speaker 2: and he is one of the big massive targets for me.
Speaker 2: Twenty four stolen bases, eight homers, and one hundred games
Speaker 2: last year, hitting two ninety five in spring, he's hitting
Speaker 2: three twenty. His strikeouts are under twenty percent in spring.
Speaker 2: You don't take that for whatever it is, but you
Speaker 2: love to I love to see strikeout numbers, specifically, more
Speaker 2: than I care about like counting stats, like I love
Speaker 2: Boneo Cruz, but everyone's like seven homers in spring. I
Speaker 2: don't really care about that. I care about some of
Speaker 2: the intangibles. Strikeouts are those big hard hit number. Last year,
Speaker 2: I'm hoping the barrel percentage is going to increase like
Speaker 2: his launch angle did. But this is a guy in
Speaker 2: a friendly ballpark who can be a fifteen to thirty
Speaker 2: twenty thirty five type of player with his EIGHTYP at
Speaker 2: one seventy six outside the top one fifty. If Duran
Speaker 2: becomes let's just say, on the high end, a twenty
Speaker 2: thirty player, he's gonna be like a top fifty player.
Speaker 2: And that is three hundred x you know on your value.
Speaker 2: That's huge on Jared Durant. So I think Jared Durant
Speaker 2: is one of the players you've got to target. He
Speaker 2: could be a league winner. He's cheap stolen bases, getting
Speaker 2: you know, twenty to thirty stolen or plus stolen bases
Speaker 2: outside the top one fifty. He is key. I love
Speaker 2: Jaron Durant. Next up these two Jackson Holiday So this
Speaker 2: is the second of the Jays. Looks like he is
Speaker 2: locked in to be the second base slash shortstop. However,
Speaker 2: this team ends up wanting to move him around, but
Speaker 2: all indications are he is going to break camp with
Speaker 2: this team. He's hit three hundred in spring, couple stolen bases, homers,
Speaker 2: We've also seen that warning track power start to commit.
Speaker 2: He just launched. I think it was a double against
Speaker 2: Spencer Strider the other day, so you could really see
Speaker 2: the contact skills. The strikeout numbers in spring don't matter.
Speaker 2: This is a guy walked one hundred times in the
Speaker 2: spring and his ADP is still far back one seventy two.
Speaker 2: You're not getting that with Jackson Cherio. You're not getting
Speaker 2: that with White Langford. You're not getting with any of
Speaker 2: those rookies that have a locked in spot. People keep
Speaker 2: talking about I don't know about Jackson Holidays potential for power.
Speaker 2: Well guess what. The guy might steal thirty to forty
Speaker 2: bases this year, play all season long, hit for a
Speaker 2: high average score runs and there is twenty home run
Speaker 2: potential in that back. Now, it might not materialize this year,
Speaker 2: but the guy might hit forty doubles. Jackson Holiday is
Speaker 2: the type of player that can be a league winner
Speaker 2: simply off of the eligibility and the return on value,
Speaker 2: and that leads to number two on the list. It
Speaker 2: should be a pretty obvious one. It's Jackson Churio. Now
Speaker 2: I mentioned you know the cost is different, but it's
Speaker 2: not astronomical. In some cases, we've seen Churio go inside
Speaker 2: the top one hundred, but the ADP across sites have
Speaker 2: them on average at one thirty four, and I think
Speaker 2: you can understand why. Jackson Churio is a league winner.
Speaker 2: Forty three stolen bases, twenty two homers last year in
Speaker 2: Double A. He's hit two eighty three this spring. His
Speaker 2: strikeout rate has actually stayed around twenty percent in spring,
Speaker 2: which is phenomenal. Projections fourteen homers, eighteen stolen bases by
Speaker 2: the Batex, fifteen homers, twenty one stolen bases by ATC
Speaker 2: with a two to fifty batting average. They don't project
Speaker 2: all the games as long as Pat Murphy doesn't do
Speaker 2: the old school thing like he mentioned, like he's still
Speaker 2: in the mix. We see Jackson Turio every day. Jackson
Speaker 2: Trio is a legit thirty thirty potential, probably more realistically
Speaker 2: in the twenties. He's gonna steal a bunch into the
Speaker 2: thirties or forties. I mean, I'm looking at Jaron Duran
Speaker 2: maybe putting up some of those numbers. Trio costs more,
Speaker 2: but this is a superstar in the making. It's outside
Speaker 2: the top one hundred, and usually we are paying sky
Speaker 2: high prices. Corbyn Carroll went up into the top fifty
Speaker 2: last year. There's more risk, but Jackson Holiday and Jackson
Speaker 2: Turio are two of the most obvious league winning names
Speaker 2: that don't come at the costs that we're used to
Speaker 2: for some of the most hyped up prospects.
Speaker 1: Thirty percent of the names in your listener named Jackson too,
Speaker 1: Jackson Merril as well, So pretty much just good guy Jackson's.
Speaker 1: You know you're in your draft too, and you look
Speaker 1: at search bar, you looking for somebody draft Danny Jackson.
Speaker 2: It's like, you know, like there's like baby names like
Speaker 2: Aiden was super popular like five years ago, just like
Speaker 2: this year there it's Al.
Speaker 1: Jackson's all Jackson's this year. I love Duran. I've tried
Speaker 1: to take as many shares as i can. Holiday is
Speaker 1: a player for me that I feel is going to
Speaker 1: be more valuable in head to head points and people
Speaker 1: realize too because of that doubles gap hitter that he
Speaker 1: is the contact you mentioned too, a guy that walked
Speaker 1: a lot in the minor leagues. I'm not concerned at
Speaker 1: all about the contact. I'm not concerned at all about
Speaker 1: the hit tool. The power I do think is going
Speaker 1: to drag. But in points league specifically, which is where
Speaker 1: I prefer to play. He's more of I think, an
Speaker 1: appealing player early on than he would be necessarily in
Speaker 1: some of those rotal formats where you're looking for the
Speaker 1: power speed combination, although the speed's there as well for him.
Speaker 2: But you know what's funny is like I kind of
Speaker 2: see him similar to Bobby Witt in his rookie year,
Speaker 2: and production wise, Bobby Wit like twenty homers, thirty stolen
Speaker 2: bases and he was going inside the top seventy five.
Speaker 2: I think Holiday is like a fifteen thirty stolen based
Speaker 2: guy with a bunch of runs. So it's like a
Speaker 2: tiny bit different but not much yet. It's like sixty
Speaker 2: to seventy spots lower in eightyp So that's how I'm
Speaker 2: approaching Jackson Holiday because I think his hit floor is
Speaker 2: maybe as low as any of the players. I know
Speaker 2: we're going to talk about one of the most exciting
Speaker 2: rookies here shortly, but I mean from a pure batted
Speaker 2: ball skills and their approach at the play, Jackson Holliday
Speaker 2: might be the best beat of all of them, which
Speaker 2: I think gives him a floor of stolen bases and
Speaker 2: the power will be in question if he if he
Speaker 2: hits eight homers and steals thirty five bases, he's Nico
Speaker 2: Horner in the out and at short stops. I was
Speaker 2: essentially the same player. But guess what sixteen to seventy
Speaker 2: spots lower than Nico Horner.
Speaker 1: A lot different. Adp all right, number four through two
Speaker 1: on my list, starting at one eighty two at Twartal Rodriguez.
Speaker 1: Not every guy is, you know, youthful here on this list,
Speaker 1: But EDWARDO. Rodriguez is a player that last year's first
Speaker 1: twelve starts were incredible. Just a recap in case you
Speaker 1: forgot two sixty four ERA over seventy one innings, seventy
Speaker 1: four strikeouts, sixteen walks for the Tigers. He had a
Speaker 1: one point zero one whip over that span. Now I
Speaker 1: understand second half wasn't as good. Things actualize a little
Speaker 1: bit to that three eighty nine mark, But Edward Rodriguez
Speaker 1: is as a track record of always being a solid
Speaker 1: strikeout picture when he was with Boston Red Sox and
Speaker 1: now he finds himself in Arizona, I think that he
Speaker 1: is going to be a guy that's going to give
Speaker 1: you a sub four er again. I don't anticipate it
Speaker 1: being as good as it was though the first twelve
Speaker 1: starts last year. But he's a guy that's going to
Speaker 1: win I think thirteen to fifteen games for you. He's
Speaker 1: going to be competitive. He's going to give you somewhere
Speaker 1: on a strikeout per nine at least. And to get
Speaker 1: a player like that at an ADP somewhere around one
Speaker 1: eighty is nuts to me. Welsh Like, I just think
Speaker 1: that's an incredible value that people are just overlooking. So
Speaker 1: this is a player that's been around a while. He's
Speaker 1: also been very durable, which I think is something outside
Speaker 1: of last year where he did miss some time up
Speaker 1: until then. You know, he did have an issue back
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty where he ended up not playing, and
Speaker 1: that was all fair. He had some issues there post COVID.
Speaker 1: But outside of that, he has given you innings before
Speaker 1: in the past, in fact that he had thrown two
Speaker 1: hundred innings in twenty nineteen, just one hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: two last year unfortunately. But you know, there is a
Speaker 1: track record of this guy going out there and giving
Speaker 1: you mornings than you realize. Also, I'd like to see
Speaker 1: him get back to that this year. I think he
Speaker 1: Can with the Arizona Diamondbacks, and I think he's a
Speaker 1: great value, a great roll of the dice two where again,
Speaker 1: he's basically a free pitcher who I think would be
Speaker 1: more like a middle rotation starter, but he's being drafted.
Speaker 1: It's like a back end guy. Eloya men Is at
Speaker 1: number three at one seventy eight. This takes a lot
Speaker 1: of courage for me, Welsh, but there's money on the line.
Speaker 1: Whenever there's money on the line with a player, I'm listening,
Speaker 1: I'm paying attention. It's not that Eloya Menez isn't a
Speaker 1: good player one hundred and twenty games last year, eighteen homers,
Speaker 1: sixty four RBI, two seventy. The problem is it's constant
Speaker 1: injury issues incomplete seasons. Only eighty four games in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty two, one hundred and twenty last year before that
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty one, fifty five games, so lots of
Speaker 1: issues there. However, projections for him are still relatively mild.
Speaker 1: I mean, twenty five homers eighty RBI right now on
Speaker 1: Fantasy pros to the two seventy five batting average. If he
Speaker 1: gives you just that at an ADP again of one
Speaker 1: seventy eight, Welsh, that's a steal in when we're looking
Speaker 1: for outfielder, especially late in drafts, and if he ends
Speaker 1: up playing more like one hundred and fifty five games,
Speaker 1: he's gonna crush those numbers.
Speaker 2: He's gonna almost put him on this list. By the way,
Speaker 2: I started typing him, and then I was like, ah,
Speaker 2: Joe has them so well.
Speaker 1: Again, I'm glad we see eye to eye. And at
Speaker 1: one seventy five another guy too that I think I'm
Speaker 1: gonna give another shot to. I was very high on
Speaker 1: Hunter Brown last year, and Hunter Brown did not live
Speaker 1: up to my expectations and or any of our expectations
Speaker 1: for that matter, and that happens sometimes with young pitchers.
Speaker 1: But I think there's reasons to be excited about him
Speaker 1: because Brown is another player too having a good spring.
Speaker 1: That goes a long way, because the player like him
Speaker 1: needs to have a good spring. The projections for him
Speaker 1: right now in Fantasy Pros one hundred and fifty three strikeouts,
Speaker 1: A three nine four, ERA one two seven, whip eleven wins.
Speaker 1: Pitch is on a great team. So just that alone. Welsh, again,
Speaker 1: if that's the baseline and he doesn't make any real
Speaker 1: giant leaps forward past that, it's still a good value. However,
Speaker 1: it's hard not to get really excited right now for
Speaker 1: what the upside isn't a player who's pitching for the
Speaker 1: Houston Astros so far, in the seven innings so far
Speaker 1: in spring training, seven strikeouts, just one walk. It's nice
Speaker 1: to see him getting efficient again. That's important. The five
Speaker 1: ra is gonna scare people away. That's why he's buried
Speaker 1: in ADP. But Hunter Brown pitches for a great team.
Speaker 1: He has a rotation spot, and to me, that is
Speaker 1: a huge win where you're looking for some starter pitching
Speaker 1: when you're getting past that group of Michael Kings and
Speaker 1: Bailey OBErs that we like so much. Brown's in that
Speaker 1: next grouping and I think he might be the best
Speaker 1: one of that lot. What do you think about Hunter Brown?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm down with that one. He had a tremendous
Speaker 2: start to the year last year and then really fell off,
Speaker 2: kind of as you would expect with rookie pitchers, you know.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's gonna fall apart a little bit. It's
Speaker 2: outside the norm for these guys that can continuously maintain it.
Speaker 2: But so far the spring has been good. Strikeouts have
Speaker 2: been down, but he hasn't been walking at one point
Speaker 2: one to seven walk per nine, which is one, he's
Speaker 2: only walked one in seven and two thirds. He's also
Speaker 2: strikeouts are back there. Era has been maintained. He's only
Speaker 2: given up two earned runs no homer so far this spring,
Speaker 2: and he's been out there three different times. I think
Speaker 2: Hunter Brown is a great bet, especially if he can
Speaker 2: find more consistency, because really it was just about I
Speaker 2: think everything catching up to him at the back end
Speaker 2: of last season and just throwing the out there too.
Speaker 2: If the Astros do make a bid, if they were
Speaker 2: really truthfully after a guy like Blake Snell, and as
Speaker 2: we're recording this, god knows what can happen, but they
Speaker 2: beef up that rotation. Hunter Brown moving you know, to less,
Speaker 2: higher leverage situations is not the worst thing in the
Speaker 2: world because he might be the best pitcher going up
Speaker 2: against other fives out there. So I'm down with this one.
Speaker 2: Projections over nine k per nine. If he keeps those
Speaker 2: walks under two, watch out he'll make a huge jump
Speaker 2: this year.
Speaker 1: All right, So all that's left is the number one
Speaker 1: for each one of us Welsh Let's start with you
Speaker 1: your number one potential league winner of twenty twenty four.
Speaker 2: All Right, these are buzzy guys that we're both gonna
Speaker 2: mention to you, and I want to preface this that
Speaker 2: the varying degrees of where they are drafted could affect this,
Speaker 2: and because I don't want anyone to roll their eyes
Speaker 2: at these type of things. These guys we're both going
Speaker 2: to talk about have higher ADPs, but based on where
Speaker 2: some of the ADP is and where I continuously get
Speaker 2: this player, Cole Reagan's maybe the league winner. Now if
Speaker 2: you listen to our friends of our pitcher, list of
Speaker 2: the people that love Cole Reagans, Cole Reagan's is getting
Speaker 2: pushed up. Our boy, Vlad saidther was talking about the
Speaker 2: NFBC main event and said, hey, don't be surprised when
Speaker 2: you see Cole Reagans go at three because buzz generates
Speaker 2: a whole lot of the crazy stuff third round, by
Speaker 2: the way, you see the buzz kind of generate a
Speaker 2: whole lot of the upside play that people want to do.
Speaker 2: But in a lot of your guys' drafts out there,
Speaker 2: Cole Reagans is still going outside the top twenty sps.
Speaker 2: He's still going in the eighties or nineties, people aren't
Speaker 2: watching it. This spring, he has an almost eleven k
Speaker 2: per nine. He's gotten hit up a little bit, but really,
Speaker 2: who cares about the actual runs when his walks are
Speaker 2: at about two per nine right now, he's not giving
Speaker 2: up homers and he's gotten over an eleven k per nine.
Speaker 2: We've seen the fastball increase. Cole Reagan's has the stuff
Speaker 2: to be one of the top pitchers in baseball. We
Speaker 2: saw Spencer Strider take the jump of jump. His situation
Speaker 2: is a little bit different because some people are worried
Speaker 2: about him being relieved. We're not worried about that with Reagans.
Speaker 2: But what we've seen is him carry over where he
Speaker 2: was one of the most elite pitchers in the second
Speaker 2: half of last year. He's carried that over into this
Speaker 2: spring where we're seeing the stuff continue to go. Royals
Speaker 2: might be kind of a sneaky team run support and
Speaker 2: wins might be a kind of big key about how
Speaker 2: valuable he can be. But I don't think it's out
Speaker 2: of the realm with possibility to see that Cole Reagan's
Speaker 2: could be a top eight starting pitcher this year. So yes,
Speaker 2: this isn't a two hundred eight or three hundred overall player.
Speaker 2: This is a player as an ADP of ninety six
Speaker 2: according to Fantasy Pros consensus ADP across all the sites.
Speaker 2: That doesn't dictate the one person that listens to a
Speaker 2: certain podcast or whatever. And Jen snags Cole Reagan's up.
Speaker 2: But Reagans could go from SP twenty five to five
Speaker 2: and getting him as your SP three or four could
Speaker 2: make him an absolute league winner this year. So he
Speaker 2: was my definitive number one league winner.
Speaker 1: I love it and I love being aggressive on him,
Speaker 1: and I also agree with you about the Royals too.
Speaker 1: I just talked about them the Sunday TV show on
Speaker 1: Sports Greed. I said, you know, don't be surprised that
Speaker 1: the Royals are kind of like the Pirates of last year.
Speaker 1: They get out of the gate pretty quick and everyone's like,
Speaker 1: where are the Royals coming from? Top half of the
Speaker 1: lineup is good. Bottom half is still a little suspect
Speaker 1: for me once you get past Renfro. But if the
Speaker 1: bottom half that lineup performs and you get Waka and
Speaker 1: Lugo looking like they did anything close to last year.
Speaker 1: On top of Brady Singer, who's made improvements, and Reagan's
Speaker 1: at the top of this rotation that's four starters deep.
Speaker 1: There's not a lot of teams right now they can
Speaker 1: go four starters deep in the American League and they can.
Speaker 1: I mean there's a few at the top of that board.
Speaker 1: But with every day, another pitching injury gets us closer
Speaker 1: and closer to you know, that not being the case.
Speaker 1: So Reagan's is a guy you probably have to be
Speaker 1: a little bit more aggressive on. So if he's going
Speaker 1: as an average ADP of ninety six, i'd move that
Speaker 1: up in your brains. If you want him this year, Welsh,
Speaker 1: I feel like that's you know, if you're drafting this
Speaker 1: last weekend, you have to.
Speaker 2: You have to reach, you know, get your guys Like
Speaker 2: I'm not I don't care about like what the ADP says.
Speaker 2: I'm placing him in that general space where I want
Speaker 2: those big strike up pictures, Like when I get to
Speaker 2: Bobby Miller world, I'm looking at Reagan's and Bobby Miller
Speaker 2: and that tends to get into the city, the your
Speaker 2: seventies overall and the great thing. Now obviously this.
Speaker 1: Camply I would still say Miller over him. I'm more
Speaker 1: confident in the six months when I'm gonna get out
Speaker 1: of Bobby Miller better team, you know, all that stuff.
Speaker 1: But I get it. That's the range now.
Speaker 2: And some of these things can blow up. But the
Speaker 2: thing about you know, putting league winners in here is
Speaker 2: I think the floor all the players we've talked about
Speaker 2: the floor versus the cost is different than us talking
Speaker 2: about breakouts. You know, the next breakout player blah blah blah.
Speaker 2: Now this is like Cole Reagans. Some things could fall apart,
Speaker 2: and guess what he could return back to his normal value.
Speaker 2: I think it's going to be hard, based on what
Speaker 2: we're seeing from his stuff in his strikeout numbers for
Speaker 2: him to have a negative return. But the odds are
Speaker 2: so big for a positive return, and there's pretty solid odds,
Speaker 2: especially if you're looking from overall players near the top
Speaker 2: one hundred, for him to have a massive, massive return
Speaker 2: based on his stuff. So you know, it might be
Speaker 2: kind of eye rolly because oh, Cole Reagan's is buzzy, but.
Speaker 1: He's a league winner, right, Sometimes it's right. Just because
Speaker 1: it's buzzy, he doesn't mean it's wrong. In this year.
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Speaker 1: My number one league winner potentially in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 1: Another buzzy guy, but I don't care. It's wyat Langford,
Speaker 1: who's leading the planet in everything so far this spring,
Speaker 1: one sixty one overall ADP the outfielder for the Texas Rangers.
Speaker 1: Who I mean, this guy has so much upside Welsh
Speaker 1: forty four minor league games, elite level, slash three sixty
Speaker 1: four eighty OBP six seventy seven slugging percentage. It's eleven
Speaker 1: fifty seven ops in case you can do with the
Speaker 1: math at home so far this spring. I'm looking at
Speaker 1: my notes. He is number one in the league in ops,
Speaker 1: RBI slugging percentage. He is number two, tied for number
Speaker 1: two in home runs as of us recording this today.
Speaker 1: He is third in batting average, third and hits. Wyatt
Speaker 1: Langford is destroying baseballs everywhere. He's destroyed baseballs in college,
Speaker 1: he's destroyed baseballs in the minor leagues, and he's going
Speaker 1: to destroy baseball's at the major league level. I'm not
Speaker 1: saying he's a perfect player, but when you're getting a
Speaker 1: player of this magnitude at this stage, at one sixty
Speaker 1: or you know, in this range again, if you have
Speaker 1: to be more aggressive, and you know, I know in
Speaker 1: some spots he's already moved up to the one fifty range.
Speaker 1: I think it's going to be even more than that.
Speaker 1: The Fantasy pros projections seventy one runs, twenty homers, seventy
Speaker 1: three RBI, fourteen stone bases, and a two to sixty
Speaker 1: batting average. Welsh. If that's the floor, I want to
Speaker 1: be walking on it because I think the upside is
Speaker 1: even more. But just that alone, a player of that
Speaker 1: kind of magnitude, of that kind of return on investment,
Speaker 1: You're gonna give me a twenty fourteen player with a
Speaker 1: two to sixty batting average at one point fifty even,
Speaker 1: I'll take that to the bank. White Langford is special.
Speaker 1: He is my preference over Evan Carter. I said it
Speaker 1: way back in February, and I'm gonna say it again.
Speaker 1: White Langford is a guy I want. White Langford, I
Speaker 1: think is the impact player and I think White Langford
Speaker 1: can win people leagues. What do you think about Langford?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I bet him months ago for Rookie of the
Speaker 2: Year over Evan Carter when he was six to one.
Speaker 2: I think it's moved up to like around three and
Speaker 2: a half or three to one or somewhere in there.
Speaker 2: I'm a little I mean, he's hit a lot of
Speaker 2: ground balls in spring, so it's gonna be something to watch.
Speaker 2: But when you were reading off those projections, I legit
Speaker 2: think he can beat at least four of those. I'm
Speaker 2: a little dicey on where the stolen bases are gonna
Speaker 2: go and how the Rangers approach massive stolen bases with him.
Speaker 2: But here's the big positive. He's been hitting like three
Speaker 2: or four in that lineup all season long.
Speaker 1: Of course is not there, so like when Seger comes in,
Speaker 1: I know it's gonna change the dynamic, but if he
Speaker 1: keeps hitting it might not.
Speaker 2: But it changes the dynamic in Carter versus him because
Speaker 2: Seger is their number two and Simeon is their lead
Speaker 2: off guy. That's how they like to roll. So would
Speaker 2: they want to go, you know, maybe versus rightys they
Speaker 2: go Carter Adoles and then Langford, and then versus lefties.
Speaker 2: Carter hits three adulas, maybe the Doles hits three. I mean,
Speaker 2: he's got an opportunity to hit in the top five
Speaker 2: of the order all year long, worst case at six,
Speaker 2: but you're hitting behind guys like Garcia and Seeger. I
Speaker 2: love the floor. He walks a ton, He's got a
Speaker 2: great presence at the plate. You do have to watch
Speaker 2: and make sure that he's got really good quality of
Speaker 2: contact at the major league level, and that's gonna be
Speaker 2: the thing. But I've been at Rangers camp a ton
Speaker 2: and he is always working with the starters at every point.
Speaker 2: He's locked in with Evan Carter and Garcia. He's gonna
Speaker 2: break camp. He's gonna be the guy, and he legit
Speaker 2: could be a league winner. And I think it's a
Speaker 2: good bet. And guess what, like if you want to
Speaker 2: like an him to last year's guy in Corbyn Carroll
Speaker 2: in the cost, it's half as much. I mean, Carol
Speaker 2: was a top forty player. Langford is still going off
Speaker 2: around seventy or eighty in.
Speaker 1: A lot of suns. I don't think it's got a
Speaker 1: lot less impactful as Carol. Carol was everything and more
Speaker 1: and we were aggressive and it still wasn't aggressive enough
Speaker 1: considering if you even more aggressive, you still got more
Speaker 1: than you asked for. So to recap here, Welsh's ten,
Speaker 1: Matt Manning, Michael Bush, Victor Scott, Rafaela Jackson, Merrill, Colt, Keith,
Speaker 1: Jaron Duran, Jackson, Holiday Jackson, Curio and Cole Riggans. My
Speaker 1: top ten Paul Skeins, Mason Miller, Logan, o'happy Junior, Kemnarozekiel Tovar,
Speaker 1: Shota Imanaga, Eduardo Rodriguezeloja Menez, Hunter Brown, and Wyatt Langford.
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