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Speaker 1: This is the BFFs. Here is Frank Staffle. I am
Speaker 1: Greg Soman. What's happening, Franky, Greggy? What's going on? Buddy?
Speaker 1: There's a lot going on right now. Part taking in
Speaker 1: a Fantasy Baseball Experts mock draft and I'm currently on
Speaker 1: the clock. So it's very stressful right now. I thought
Speaker 1: about stressful. Look at those people. No, no, no, no, no no,
Speaker 1: stop some mock draft. Stop. This is a mock draft people.
Speaker 1: I don't hate, right, I won't I won't. I don't
Speaker 1: trust you at all. Away. You have my words, A
Speaker 1: man of my word, give me a paper. No, no no, no,
Speaker 1: I'm man of my word. Frank, I don't know. I
Speaker 1: don't believe you. Go sit down on the side of
Speaker 1: the table draft. Would you like me to reveal people?
Speaker 1: What if the people's going on? I have a listener
Speaker 1: wanted trying to prove a point. What's your pointing? Hell
Speaker 1: me tell me before, tell me before you I want
Speaker 1: to show how into a mock draft you are. But
Speaker 1: you're actually crossing names out. I'm serious, all right. I
Speaker 1: know that you're gonna not ripping it. You're gonna rip it.
Speaker 1: Do this. This is a mock draft on January twenty second, Frank,
Speaker 1: you don't make money for winning the mock draft. No,
Speaker 1: you don't play it out? And how serious Frank is
Speaker 1: taking this cross I already missed a bunch of players
Speaker 1: on this Fantasy pros sheet on January is when he's
Speaker 1: second for a mock You don't think Frank Stamford is
Speaker 1: dedicated to fantasy baseball. Look at this, people, Well, thank
Speaker 1: you getting my word. I'm so happy that you didn't
Speaker 1: you didn't rip it. Now that I've I've missed every
Speaker 1: draft pick. Well this is I'm not gonna be able
Speaker 1: to pay attention to this anymore. So we're flying off
Speaker 1: a cuff here, Greg, what's going on? Buddy? Unbelievable? Are
Speaker 1: you unbelievable? In a good way? In a bad way.
Speaker 1: I feel like you're mad at me. I feel like
Speaker 1: you want to make fun of me. Maddy, you I'm happy.
Speaker 1: You're happy. If you're happy, I'm happy. Are you happy?
Speaker 1: And just sleep last night not great? James are back?
Speaker 1: Maybe watching Zion Williamson's debut tonight to sleep a little
Speaker 1: better tonight, Let's go. We're there, man, the the debut
Speaker 1: of Zion Williamson tonight in the NBA from time on EESPN,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be great, and Frank, we're gonna talk about it.
Speaker 1: Not by ourselves tonight. We will not be by ourselves.
Speaker 1: We have Christian Clark of Noah dot Com The Times
Speaker 1: picking you enjoining us later in the show to talk
Speaker 1: about the debut of Zion Williamson. What we can expect tonight,
Speaker 1: what we can expect for the rest of the season.
Speaker 1: There's a bunch of people that have question marks about
Speaker 1: Zion Williamson, Greg, I am not one of those people
Speaker 1: that personally I think he's going to be awesome. You know.
Speaker 1: Maybe the only question I have is regarding his body
Speaker 1: type and the mass with which his body comes with obviously,
Speaker 1: and how that might hold up long term. So we
Speaker 1: try and get some answers out of Christian Clark later
Speaker 1: on in the show. I'm happy to do that, but
Speaker 1: until we get there, Greg, we're talking baseball. We spent
Speaker 1: a lot of time baseball one second, but we spent
Speaker 1: a lot of time on UM the Grizzlies, righty talking
Speaker 1: off air on air, SMA, other stuff we do about
Speaker 1: what Memphis does and how they're in the playoffs at
Speaker 1: the moment. Belicians, who were the worst team in the
Speaker 1: league of the first month of the season, like Nicks,
Speaker 1: like bad three and a half games out. Now you're
Speaker 1: eleven and five in their last sixteen games. Zion Williams
Speaker 1: is back, Drew Holiday's back, Brandon Ingram's back, Alonzo balls back.
Speaker 1: A Lonzo ball has been back, Greg, he's balling out
Speaker 1: in the month of January. No pun intended, but a
Speaker 1: Lonzo ball is playing really well. Drew Holiday just came
Speaker 1: back in his last game, scored thirty six points in
Speaker 1: that game. How you get Zion Ingram is playing at
Speaker 1: an All Star level? Brandon Ingram should be an All
Speaker 1: Star too, Yes he should. I know that. You you're
Speaker 1: probably one of those people who last at people who
Speaker 1: vote for the All Star Game, and I'm one of
Speaker 1: those people. But I voted for Brandon Ingram. I think
Speaker 1: he deserves to be an All Star. So I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't think I laugh. No, you definitely don't. I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't think it's wrong with that. I just voted
Speaker 1: for a bunch of people that a I like and
Speaker 1: I think are deserving. So I voted for Bamata Bio obviously,
Speaker 1: and like Jimmy. You imagine if the Pelicans see in
Speaker 1: the playoffs as that faced the Lakers, right, Alonzo, ball
Speaker 1: Ay Davis, the whole thing. How cool would that be?
Speaker 1: That would be very cool. It would be a lot
Speaker 1: of fun. Here, Greg, what's happening? Oh my god, I'm
Speaker 1: missing a bunch of draft picks here. Where's the focus here, Bud?
Speaker 1: The focus is on everything, Greg, That's where the focus
Speaker 1: is on. Come on, I know, but I want to
Speaker 1: see which players are going. I want to see where
Speaker 1: everyone's being drafted. I haven't really participated in too many
Speaker 1: drafts in general yet. Oh, Nelson Cruise. You know I
Speaker 1: love Nelson Cruise. Greg had him on your list. I
Speaker 1: didn't get him. Sorry, well, you distracted me. I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: We're on a live show at the moment we are.
Speaker 1: Would you like to? Would you like talk about who
Speaker 1: I'm drafting right now? Really? So you don't want to
Speaker 1: do this at all? Why are we been doing this stuff?
Speaker 1: I wanted stuff. I wanted to get to to be
Speaker 1: honest with you, because the biggest news in baseball yesterday,
Speaker 1: Well today it's Luis Rojasty, new manager of the New
Speaker 1: York Metropolitans, the son of Phelipe. Something crazy here, Greg,
Speaker 1: I keep going, all right, I'll take this guy for now.
Speaker 1: I just took Reese Hoskins in the eighth round. Greg,
Speaker 1: Let's do the great value, doesn't it. He's my starting
Speaker 1: first basement. Why wouldn't he be hoss like? Awesome? I
Speaker 1: gotta read you my team. I don't care if you
Speaker 1: don't want to know. I want your reaction, Luis. It
Speaker 1: doesn't matter. This is what matters right now, Greg. Through
Speaker 1: eight rounds, my team is Reese Hoskins, Mike Mustakis, Javier Bayas,
Speaker 1: Bryce Harper, Mookie Betts, Shane Bieber, Luis Severino, and you Darvish.
Speaker 1: He's really awesome. Why you Darvish? Though? He was the
Speaker 1: last picture in that tier and it was about to end,
Speaker 1: and I wanted a third starter, so I but Syndergard
Speaker 1: was already gone. Grank, he was already gone. Charlie Morton
Speaker 1: was already gone. I really wanted Morton. I just missed
Speaker 1: out on him to like that. Morton's your boy, Morton
Speaker 1: is Morton went at the end of the fourth round.
Speaker 1: He's climbing up, man. I saw him going to third
Speaker 1: round of a draft. Yesterday, Jesus saw Matt Olsen go
Speaker 1: in the third round of tweeting about that. Crazy. That's
Speaker 1: a little bit nuts. It's crazy. All right. Now you
Speaker 1: can talk about whatever you were talking about. The Mets
Speaker 1: new manager, that's Louis Rojas Feliu, brother of Moissy's alu Uh.
Speaker 1: They stayed inside the organization. They hired a guy that
Speaker 1: they saw us a fast riser, somebody that interviewed the
Speaker 1: first time, and that's who they went with. Luis Rojas.
Speaker 1: The new manager was the quality control coach last year
Speaker 1: and doesn't have some kind of minor league experience as well.
Speaker 1: He's he's been in the minor league system for the
Speaker 1: Mets doing stuff for a very long time. It's kind
Speaker 1: of surprising to me that Eduardo Perez made it to
Speaker 1: basically the finals between himself and Carlos Beltron, and he
Speaker 1: didn't end up getting this job. Well, maybe that's kind
Speaker 1: of weird. Maybe that's not true. We UIs Rojas was
Speaker 1: the other candidate. That's true, you know, give it Louis
Speaker 1: Rojas here doesn't be a tough over Frank. I can
Speaker 1: see it's good already to show, all right, when we
Speaker 1: take a break here, when we come back, I have
Speaker 1: to ask Frank some stuff about the Atlanta Braves, in
Speaker 1: particular Marcelo Student, their newest signing, pitching, some other guys
Speaker 1: on the Braves I have questions about. Hopefully Frank has
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Speaker 1: the unluckiest, but definitely one of the most unlucky players. Normally,
Speaker 1: when we look at prolific hitters in baseball, their numbers
Speaker 1: are the batting averages high, the home runs are high,
Speaker 1: the slugging percentage on base percentage is all high, and
Speaker 1: they're expected numbers are a little bit lower. That was
Speaker 1: not the case with Marcelo Zuna. I mean, he had
Speaker 1: to forty one last year. His expected batting average was
Speaker 1: tight eight that is insane. His slugging percentage was four
Speaker 1: seventy two solid slugging percentage, expected slug five forty eight,
Speaker 1: three thirty six woll but expected woll but three eighty two.
Speaker 1: He was extremely unlucky last year, and now he joins
Speaker 1: the lineup where Ronald acuna, Azzi, Albi's and Freddie Freeman
Speaker 1: are hitting ahead of him. And you're getting him outside.
Speaker 1: He's going around pick one ten right now in NFBC
Speaker 1: a DP. You know what he is. He's a four
Speaker 1: category contributor. Maybe he'll give you a handful of stolen basis,
Speaker 1: not much more than that. But he seems like a
Speaker 1: good value right now. It seems like someone that can
Speaker 1: Maybe he doesn't do exactly what Donaldson did last year
Speaker 1: at the Braves, but I don't see why he can't
Speaker 1: come close. Right, So the obvious question, who would you
Speaker 1: rather have Marcelo Zuna or Reese Hoskins. Well, considering how
Speaker 1: I took Reese Hoskins over Marcelo Zuna in this draft, um,
Speaker 1: I guess the answer. The answers Reese Hoskins. But I
Speaker 1: think Reece Hoskins actually goes way after him. An ADP, Right,
Speaker 1: that's not true. Really, they're close. One oh eight for
Speaker 1: Marcelo Zuna one eleven Freeze Hoskins. Okay, the biggest difference
Speaker 1: is Zoona is gonna give a better batting average. Obviously,
Speaker 1: in the n OFBC you play rotal leagues. Those are
Speaker 1: five outfielders. So if you look at position scarcity, um,
Speaker 1: and you're off that this year, right, after last year's
Speaker 1: I'm all over the place. The reason I just took
Speaker 1: Reese Hoskins because he's like the last first basement left
Speaker 1: that I liked. That was okay, it was like the
Speaker 1: drop off of it wasn't like you needed to take
Speaker 1: an outfielder in the first round because I have five.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, I'm gonna die. No, no, no, no no,
Speaker 1: no no. We did not last year that I did
Speaker 1: not do that, Greg Um. So look, I think you'll
Speaker 1: get a better batting average out of Marcelo Zuna. I
Speaker 1: think you'll get similar power numbers, maybe better home runs
Speaker 1: out of Reese Hoskins. Both really good line up. They're
Speaker 1: going to drive in r BIS and the run scored
Speaker 1: maybe slightly in favor of Marcelo Zuna. Like, who's line
Speaker 1: up do you think is better? The Phillies are the Braves?
Speaker 1: Both really good braves? Is the first? Is my first inkling? Sure?
Speaker 1: Stand by the Braves? Actually, yeah, okay, I would take
Speaker 1: Marcellos Doverese Hoskins. I like, I think they're close, and
Speaker 1: then they're close. Better lineup. Five outfielders could play when
Speaker 1: it's that close. Four no three category contributors. But Ozuna
Speaker 1: is going to be better in batting average. So in hindsight, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean I think it Una is probably the better
Speaker 1: player in a vacuum than Reese Hoskins. You also know
Speaker 1: nothing nothing. You got twelve stile mass last year to Marcellosina.
Speaker 1: Really yeah, it's got to be a career high. It
Speaker 1: is very much care okay, because I was the highest
Speaker 1: of his career previously was where he had five for
Speaker 1: the Marlins. Interesting, it's not nothing, Frankie, it is not nothing.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I'm on the clock paying attention. This is bad. Okay. Now,
Speaker 1: if this Max Freed is my fourth starting ficture, I'm
Speaker 1: glad Max. I'm gonna get into Max Freed. And that
Speaker 1: was part of the planning the show to talk about
Speaker 1: Max Free. We'll do that in a second. Not alright,
Speaker 1: I'm back again. I had to make a draft pick.
Speaker 1: I got Max Freed. Okay, So you had uh last
Speaker 1: year was about at two forty three with an average
Speaker 1: Haskin's bed at two twenty six. But as you said,
Speaker 1: extremely unlucky was Marcello Zuna last year that could go
Speaker 1: up o b P a little bit less than um
Speaker 1: then Reese Hoskins last season. If you look at the
Speaker 1: hard hit percentage. So I'll pull up now forty percent
Speaker 1: or hit percentage last year, four more selos percentage. He
Speaker 1: was really good last year. If he gets a little
Speaker 1: bit luckier, in a little bit better of a lineup
Speaker 1: or solos, you know, just steal where he's going at
Speaker 1: pick one O eight at the moment. Now, I want
Speaker 1: to get some Max freem. I don't want to do
Speaker 1: that yet because I want to talk about this line
Speaker 1: up for the Braves. Wish you love. I've run it
Speaker 1: up last week, but now that they're talking about the
Speaker 1: Braves and it's worth talking about again. Geraldakunia the number
Speaker 1: one overall pick. I said yes last week, and then
Speaker 1: I'm going to stand by that. And it's because of
Speaker 1: the stolen basis Mike Trout. You know, eleven solen bases
Speaker 1: last year. He's been a little banged up the past
Speaker 1: couple of seasons as well. Ronald Lacuna in his first
Speaker 1: full season with the Atlanta Braves, he goes thirty thirty.
Speaker 1: Maybe the stolen basis come back a little bit, but
Speaker 1: I think he's going to come close to that. Trout's
Speaker 1: gonna give you a better batting average, but the stolen
Speaker 1: bases are so so so hard to come by. It's close,
Speaker 1: you're splitting hairs. But give me Ronald D. CuNi over
Speaker 1: my Trout. It's crazy, It's absolutely crazy, And I get it, man,
Speaker 1: like he's got a better shot doing it's It seems
Speaker 1: to be Ronald Kunio is so much more comfortable in
Speaker 1: that leadoff spot than anywhere else. And I think that
Speaker 1: a Kunia, certainly in the conversation like Trout, is this
Speaker 1: the year he goes too? Not for me? I was
Speaker 1: thinking number one, probably Joe Madden reinfigorates him a little bit?
Speaker 1: Is that what's gonna happen here? Greg? Why not? Oh? Man?
Speaker 1: So all right, I mean you're not taking yellows over
Speaker 1: Trout either, right, Like that would just be what's the
Speaker 1: point of that? Yellow says the knee injury as well,
Speaker 1: So I would go Trout trying to Kunia clearly, Uh,
Speaker 1: your first too. Now. I wanted to stay with the
Speaker 1: Raves lineup because in name that, and again I haven't
Speaker 1: you all over my research yet here, but I think
Speaker 1: I really wanted to know about Frankie. It was Austin
Speaker 1: Riley when he got called up last year. He was
Speaker 1: a big deal, Like, oh my god, Austin Riley's coming out.
Speaker 1: We've been waiting, We've been waiting. We're winning. Got off
Speaker 1: to a fast start and then he went back down.
Speaker 1: He is he going to play every day? He's a
Speaker 1: starting third basement now with Josh Donaldson out, He's a
Speaker 1: d V currently in the NFBC. He's two seventy eight.
Speaker 1: That's costing me nothing. He's going around Brendan McKay, Garrett Richards,
Speaker 1: Phil Myers, and Dylan Bundy. So it's costing you nothing.
Speaker 1: Did you have Austin Riley? Does you have a job
Speaker 1: as of now? I know you love Ross Resource, I
Speaker 1: think use But they have Johan Camargo as he's starting
Speaker 1: third basement of the Atlanta Braves right now. Then Johan
Speaker 1: Camargo is gonna stand in the way of Austin Riley. No,
Speaker 1: I don't think so either, right, I think you know,
Speaker 1: if Austin Riley plays well in the spring, I mean
Speaker 1: he had major deficiencies last year when he came up
Speaker 1: to the Major league. Love I mean, he took the
Speaker 1: league by storm here the first month he was here.
Speaker 1: He was great, mashing home runs, Butcher and the outfield
Speaker 1: his natural position is third base, which you know, maybe
Speaker 1: that don't even help him at the dish. We've talked
Speaker 1: about that before, where you know, when guys have to
Speaker 1: change their position play the outfield. With Reese Hoskins as well,
Speaker 1: right when he had to play the outfield, Um, we
Speaker 1: saw the uh. We saw the production come down for
Speaker 1: Reese Hoskins. So just where two years old, there was
Speaker 1: a chance Austin Riley breaks camp as a starting third
Speaker 1: baseman for the Atlanta Braves. It wouldn't surprise me if
Speaker 1: he spends the first month or so down while he
Speaker 1: works on his defense. If he's playing well in the spring,
Speaker 1: then I think he will have a shot. It also
Speaker 1: wouldn't surprise me if he look you want to find
Speaker 1: lottery tickets late that have upside, especially power potential. This
Speaker 1: is someone that can hit over thirty home runs if
Speaker 1: he plays every single day in a really good Atlanta
Speaker 1: Braves lineup. Well, So he played eighty games last years you, um,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say he hit eighteen home runs last year?
Speaker 1: Have an I haven't done any Austin Riley research yet,
Speaker 1: So he had eat eating homewards last year in eighty games.
Speaker 1: Pretty good. The problem, of course, is at the plate
Speaker 1: with the discipline. He only walked five percent of the
Speaker 1: time in the Major League after walking ten percent of
Speaker 1: the time in Triple AT to start off the year.
Speaker 1: Over forty games, the strikeout percentage went way up from
Speaker 1: triple AT to the major strikeout rate in Triple A
Speaker 1: over thirty six percent in the majors, And that obviously
Speaker 1: affect that his average was just twenty six and his
Speaker 1: on base percentage was terrible given that he didn't walk
Speaker 1: at to seventy nine. Is there any way to tell
Speaker 1: Frank Ken Austin Riley improves those areas you look at
Speaker 1: the hard hit percentage was good, forty two and a
Speaker 1: half percent. That's good. Line drivers at that's good too.
Speaker 1: When he made contact the ball went far. He just
Speaker 1: didn't make contact enough. Is there a way? And I'm
Speaker 1: sure you're looking at swinging strike percentage and that kind
Speaker 1: of stuff to say, like, hey, if he's just a
Speaker 1: little bit more patient and he lets the ball has
Speaker 1: come to him and he isn't swinging everything because his
Speaker 1: chase rate was over forty one percent, for god's sake,
Speaker 1: why can't he be a lot better? Right? Like, no,
Speaker 1: the quality of contact is great, it's just how often
Speaker 1: does he make contact? That's what it comes down to.
Speaker 1: I think in a sophomore year. This is someone who,
Speaker 1: you know, last year at Triple A was striking out
Speaker 1: twenty percent of the time. You look at every other season, however,
Speaker 1: you know eighteen and the years before that. You know
Speaker 1: he did hover around twenty percent the years before that.
Speaker 1: So look, he cut down his strikeouts at Triple A
Speaker 1: last year, which helped him, you know, bring his batting
Speaker 1: average up. He's got to do that at the major
Speaker 1: league level. He's got to become better in terms of
Speaker 1: plate discipline. A lot of young players who come up
Speaker 1: have that issue. So you're right, when he makes contact.
Speaker 1: His quality of contact is no joke over hard hit rate.
Speaker 1: H he has the percent flyball that's maybe even a
Speaker 1: little bit too high as well. Maybe he's swinging for
Speaker 1: the fences too much. But if he can just cut
Speaker 1: down that strikeout right to his batting average goes up
Speaker 1: to fifty right there. First name of the sleeper list,
Speaker 1: you're in fair enough can knock you on that one.
Speaker 1: We'll come back. We'll hit on the braves pitching, and
Speaker 1: he just took Max Freed. He likes Mike Folton Evitch
Speaker 1: as well. Let's talk about both those guys on the
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Speaker 1: all right, Frank you a few moments ago to Max
Speaker 1: Freed in this industry mock and he told me that
Speaker 1: he is climbing. He's a guy I like coming out
Speaker 1: spring training last year because I believe it was like
Speaker 1: Freddie Freeman was like, this guy is the best picture
Speaker 1: we have and well for a lot of the season,
Speaker 1: eventually like it. Max Freed going one forty right now
Speaker 1: over on the nfb CE. What do you like about
Speaker 1: Max Freed? Well, what I like about Max Freed was that, um,
Speaker 1: the strikeouts were great. The strikeout minus walk cread. I mean,
Speaker 1: this guy nine over nine case per nine, two point
Speaker 1: five walks for nine last year, four point zero two
Speaker 1: year A he was unlucky three point three two x
Speaker 1: fip greg in his first full season over a hundred
Speaker 1: and sixty five innings pitch last year. He's still just
Speaker 1: twenty six years old. There's a lot to like here.
Speaker 1: He's basically fastball, curveball. But his curveball is nasty. It's
Speaker 1: one of the best in the league already. I would
Speaker 1: say that pretty confidently, right, So he's got some he's
Speaker 1: got the swing and miss curveball, he's got a mid
Speaker 1: nineties fastball, and he had he got enough under his
Speaker 1: belt last year. You know, he had seventeen wins a
Speaker 1: hundred and sixty five point two endings pitch. So with
Speaker 1: that team's offense, should get some wins as well. The
Speaker 1: problem is he's moving up the draft board right now.
Speaker 1: You mentioned where's he going one forty, So he's climbing.
Speaker 1: You know, ideally you'd want free to as what your
Speaker 1: SP four, maybe SP five, and the one forty range
Speaker 1: might end up being your SP three, and maybe that's
Speaker 1: in deeper leagues like the fifteen teamers. But he's moving
Speaker 1: up right now. He's gonna end up being drafted as
Speaker 1: a top thirty starting pitcher. How much would you pay
Speaker 1: for him? And off the top of my head, let's
Speaker 1: say fifteen bucks. Yeah, a lot, it's a lot, that's
Speaker 1: you know, right, it's a top thirty starting pitcher. I
Speaker 1: love to pay like ten bucks for him. I hope
Speaker 1: we have money to play with, and we messed it
Speaker 1: up this year. Greg probably me raising my hand. Are
Speaker 1: you yelling at man? Now? We we were good? Lesson
Speaker 1: we did the most part. We were good. We were
Speaker 1: on the same we're on the same page, you're on
Speaker 1: the same page. And then get yelled at by Frank
Speaker 1: at all It was great. I'm just gonna listen. I'm
Speaker 1: just gonna want pitching. You're gonna want all these players
Speaker 1: I don't want. I'm gonna want pitching. Yeah. Well, we
Speaker 1: were already starting to discuss our our strategy. We're in
Speaker 1: a fifteen team, a very competitive I don't think I
Speaker 1: don't think we finished higher than twelfth. Ever, No that's
Speaker 1: not true. There's the first year, the first year we
Speaker 1: were inside the top ten at fifteen. Yeah, that counts
Speaker 1: right for something. Yeah, we have we haven't been in
Speaker 1: the It's a very competitively there's a lot of really
Speaker 1: good players in there. Ton is Net League, Anando and
Speaker 1: Dane shared team. They don't really care, they don't really well.
Speaker 1: Colton and the wolf manner in that league as well.
Speaker 1: So it's a really competitive league. And we've already started
Speaker 1: talking about some some strategy, some some ways we want
Speaker 1: to go. Yeah, we have an idea of what we
Speaker 1: spend up for this year. I kind of have an
Speaker 1: I kind of have an idea of what we want
Speaker 1: to spend you know, you and I will. You're in
Speaker 1: on Max Freed as well. Yeah, like what you saw
Speaker 1: of him last year, And yeah, I I liked him
Speaker 1: as a prospect. I liked him last year. I'm very
Speaker 1: very in on Max Freed. I you know, I retweeted
Speaker 1: something the other day from I believe it was sp
Speaker 1: streamer on Twitter which basically had a side by side
Speaker 1: breakdown of Freed versus so Rocca your boy, and Soroka
Speaker 1: is being drafted ahead of Freed. Soroka gives off a
Speaker 1: Kyle Hendricks kind of vibe, you know, where he gives
Speaker 1: you the good ear a, the good whip. He's not
Speaker 1: going to get a ton of strikeouts. I think that
Speaker 1: there's room for the strikeouts to improve for Soroka this year.
Speaker 1: Maybe he gets up around like eight case per nine,
Speaker 1: slightly over that. And I like Sroka. He's guy. He's
Speaker 1: he's being drafted very high this year. And I don't
Speaker 1: like what walks for nine two point one one from Stroka.
Speaker 1: It's very good What are you talking about? Is that good?
Speaker 1: Who walks for nine? It's great? Great, you've been out
Speaker 1: of the game for a while. It's good too. Who
Speaker 1: is great? Max reads max freees like two point five five.
Speaker 1: I would say anything that approaches three and over three
Speaker 1: is bad. Like Robbie Ray is like three and a
Speaker 1: half walks, He's the worst. Yes, Like Louis Castillo's over
Speaker 1: three walks for nine a very bad. He's very good.
Speaker 1: He's just walks. A lot of people stroke guys aren't
Speaker 1: great at seven way three eight. You know what, I'm
Speaker 1: actually mad at someone to Kyle Hendricks in this draft,
Speaker 1: you know, actually wanted Kyle. We're not doing that to that.
Speaker 1: We're not doing Kyle Hendricks. No, I don't want well
Speaker 1: for what you for what you need, if you need.
Speaker 1: That's what Kyle Hendricks is good. It's absolutely not happening already. Alright,
Speaker 1: the extrait last year by Yeah, so that's high. That's
Speaker 1: higher than max freeds. That's higher than max freeds. But
Speaker 1: that's why, Like if you put them side by side,
Speaker 1: what was Saroka's ear A two and change, people are
Speaker 1: going to see the sub three e r A and
Speaker 1: they're going to instantly react to Saroka there and Max
Speaker 1: Freed had an ear A over four, yet his peripheral
Speaker 1: numbers his ex fit was lower than Max Mike Sarroka's.
Speaker 1: He gets more strikeouts, a few more walks for Max Freed.
Speaker 1: I do worry about whether or not Freed can the
Speaker 1: gains that he made in command and control last year,
Speaker 1: Greg can he keep those this year? And he maintained
Speaker 1: that this year. So that's the only question mark I
Speaker 1: might have because uh, in every other level in the
Speaker 1: minors and throughout his time in the majors, brief time
Speaker 1: he walked a lot of people. Max Freed, he was
Speaker 1: very wild so improved tremendously in that regard last year.
Speaker 1: Can he maintain that this year? I think that's a
Speaker 1: fair question when it comes to Max Freed, Max freak like,
Speaker 1: I'm with you though like him. I just took him
Speaker 1: in this mock. That's fantastic. The rest of the Braves
Speaker 1: rotation does potentially include Mike folton Evitch, who how did
Speaker 1: I take Faulty? Right now? Gregor shouldn't take Sean Maniah.
Speaker 1: I know I like mana atas talking about that right
Speaker 1: because my falton evit two years ago, really seconds to
Speaker 1: pick Jesus Christ. So we would spend time editing shows
Speaker 1: and watching my FOLTONEVITG pitch. Everyone was kind of waiting
Speaker 1: from the fall off and he didn't. He was awesome
Speaker 1: two years ago. I like Luke Weaver too fat right now,
Speaker 1: all right, so you had to pick right now, Greg,
Speaker 1: I'll let you make my pick live on the air.
Speaker 1: He's so angry Bolton vits or Snai seconds. Right, it's done,
Speaker 1: great folding now, yes, you can talk about faulty. So
Speaker 1: two years ago he was awesome, right, Like, the strikeouts
Speaker 1: were great, the control was it was under under control.
Speaker 1: He wasn't going deep into games. But you know, he
Speaker 1: was good last year, taking much earlier than he should
Speaker 1: have been, and he was a complete disaster. He was
Speaker 1: hurt early, probably never got healthy, but maybe that's part
Speaker 1: of the reason he wasn't great until the second half
Speaker 1: of the year. Right, He wasn't fully healthy. Is that possible? Yeah,
Speaker 1: for sure. I mean his first half was basically a wash.
Speaker 1: You know, he was dealing with the he was like
Speaker 1: a flexor mass's forearm, which normally is a prelude to
Speaker 1: Tommy John surgery. So you were worried about the forearm
Speaker 1: and the elbow for Mike Fulton Eviage someone who throws
Speaker 1: extremely hard and relies on his slider a lot as well,
Speaker 1: So you have all those concerns over Fulty. But then
Speaker 1: in the second half, and I pointed this out to
Speaker 1: you the other day, we started scrolling through falties game
Speaker 1: log right and basically from August on, he starts going
Speaker 1: deeper into games. He's getting more comfortable, the strikeouts are
Speaker 1: starting to come, the command is starting to come back
Speaker 1: for Fultonevitch. I'm not saying that he's gonna be the
Speaker 1: player that he was in eighteen, right, because the peripheral
Speaker 1: numbers say that he got lucky that season. But is
Speaker 1: he someone that can pitch to a I don't know,
Speaker 1: three seven e r A with a strikeout per ending
Speaker 1: at one point to five whip something like that. You're
Speaker 1: getting this guy pretty late in draft right now. Is
Speaker 1: your SP five SP six? At times, I think that
Speaker 1: there's some upside there with Fulty, and I think he
Speaker 1: flashed that in the second half, So I'm with you.
Speaker 1: I think he's one of the guys that I'm going
Speaker 1: to be target targeting later on in drafts along with
Speaker 1: the Maniahs and the luke Weavers. Those, those are a
Speaker 1: lot of pictures that I'm here you need to know about.
Speaker 1: Foldonevitch six point three seven e r A. In the
Speaker 1: first half last year it was a wash. I told
Speaker 1: you two point six five e r A. In the
Speaker 1: second half, that's how good he was. Man Strikecots fifty
Speaker 1: the first half fifty five second half of the strike
Speaker 1: Cats were still there on on both sides of things.
Speaker 1: I thought he was, as you just drive, so much
Speaker 1: better in the second half. Specifically, um, in the month
Speaker 1: of August and September. He didn't pitch the Mother of
Speaker 1: July other reason. The minors are he was hurt three
Speaker 1: ninety in August one r A down the stretch for
Speaker 1: the Braves in September and into October, Mike foltonevitch really
Speaker 1: really good. Uh the second half over the season last
Speaker 1: year for the ELATBA, Brad's been a little bit unlucky too.
Speaker 1: Like old much very much on the radar once again
Speaker 1: for us. Yeah, I'm I'm in agreement with you here. UM.
Speaker 1: I don't really think there's much more to say about
Speaker 1: Faulty now until I deep dive and see what I
Speaker 1: find when it comes to Mike ful Tanvich. Absolutely, Mike
Speaker 1: fultonavit in very much on the radar for your BFFs
Speaker 1: here this season. Let's continue on, Frankie boy, about these
Speaker 1: Atlanta Braves. What we're going to continue to do when drafting.
Speaker 1: And we've gone through the rotation, we've gone into Austin Riley.
Speaker 1: What about your boy Freddie Freeman? Right, Freddie Freman, your guy,
Speaker 1: he's been your guy at first base? Do you go back? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I mean, why would you go away from Freddie Freeman?
Speaker 1: Everything is legit when it comes to him. The batting
Speaker 1: average is stellar. Uh, doesn't hurt you at stolen bases either.
Speaker 1: You know, he'll give you a six to five to ten,
Speaker 1: nothing crazy, but a legit four category contributor that doesn't
Speaker 1: hurt you in stolen bases. Great lineup that we've been
Speaker 1: talking about all day long now has Marcello Juna charting
Speaker 1: behind him the career year last year thirty eight homers,
Speaker 1: runs over a hundred and twenty r b i s
Speaker 1: as well the batting average to ninety for his career.
Speaker 1: You're I don't, I don't see any reason to go
Speaker 1: away from Freddy Freeman. So yeah, I think where he's going,
Speaker 1: you know, at the end of the first round, beginning
Speaker 1: of the second round. It's a great the obvious question
Speaker 1: foundation you know what's coming. No On Aeronado or Freddie Freeman.
Speaker 1: Let's go knowing what we know now, if Eronado is
Speaker 1: in Colorado in course field, I will take Eronado over Freeman.
Speaker 1: Freddie Freeman versus Anthony Rizzi. Freeman versus Anthony Rizzo was
Speaker 1: the thing. Oh gosh, God coming up here on the grid.
Speaker 1: We're talking Zion Williamson. Zion Williamson. He's back tonight for
Speaker 1: the New Orleans Pelicans, and we're gonna break it down
Speaker 1: how many minutes he's expected to play, what role he's
Speaker 1: going to provide both fantasy owners, betters, wagers, and of
Speaker 1: course New Orleans Pelicans. The Felicans are favored tonight by
Speaker 1: three and a half points at home over the Spurs.
Speaker 1: Telicans were the hottest teams gets the spread in the NBA.
Speaker 1: Nine of ten games, they've covered four for you. Better's
Speaker 1: got to get on this, Frank, it was I almost liason.
Speaker 1: You feel the misty, you feel the aura, you want
Speaker 1: to bet on them, but is that the right move?
Speaker 1: I like the Pelicans tonight. They're playing good ball eleven
Speaker 1: and five in their last sixteen games straight up, thirteen
Speaker 1: and three against US spread in their last sixteen games,
Speaker 1: like the overnight game, so I know it's been climbing
Speaker 1: currabing all day. It's a big number thirty seven, but
Speaker 1: they've been playing to the over as well, so have
Speaker 1: the San Antonio's. Give me the pells to cover tonight,
Speaker 1: and I like the over in that game and over
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Speaker 1: can make the case that's night is the most anticipated
Speaker 1: night in the NBA thus far. Right, You've got Christmas Day,
Speaker 1: you have Opening Night, and we'll get in the playoffs
Speaker 1: and I'll start weekending that stuff. But tonight is the
Speaker 1: return of the debut of the number one overall pick
Speaker 1: in the draft, one of the most hyped number one
Speaker 1: overall picks we have seen in sometime, and that is
Speaker 1: the debut of Zion Williamson. And to talk about it
Speaker 1: with us, it's Pelicans beat refighter from Note Pete, Pelicans
Speaker 1: beat writer from NOLA dot com. It's Christian Clark. What's
Speaker 1: going on? Christian? Hey? Hey, how you guys doing today?
Speaker 1: We're doing fanstashtake. Of course, you cover the Pelicans for
Speaker 1: NOLA dot com, the Times Picking un as well as
Speaker 1: host the bird Watch podcast. We'll get bird Watch. Let's
Speaker 1: just call it the Zion Watch because it's here tonight.
Speaker 1: And the number one question I know that I've had
Speaker 1: in regards to what I want to do with my
Speaker 1: money on the Pelicans is well, how much should we
Speaker 1: expect out of Zion tonight? How long is he going
Speaker 1: to play? For what do you think. Yeah, so I'm
Speaker 1: expecting Zion to to be in the starting lineup tonight.
Speaker 1: I think they're just gonna go ahead and throw them
Speaker 1: with the starters and see how it looks. They they've
Speaker 1: said that they're not going to place a hard minute
Speaker 1: restriction on him. Um. What they've said instead is that
Speaker 1: they're gonna just monitor the bursts that he plays. Um.
Speaker 1: I this is just for me, But I wouldn't anticipate him,
Speaker 1: you know, playing it in more than three, you know,
Speaker 1: separate stretches, and I would probably even you know, bet onto. Um.
Speaker 1: I mean, look, he's missed the first four or four
Speaker 1: games of the season, so well, they say they're not
Speaker 1: gonna put a minute restriction on him. Um, I wouldn't
Speaker 1: expect it to be a lot. I mean I would.
Speaker 1: I would probably guess somewhere in uh, I don't know,
Speaker 1: twenty minutes range, right. He also the Also, the thing
Speaker 1: is the Pelicans are playing really well, so it's not
Speaker 1: like you have to push Zion tonight in his debut,
Speaker 1: right like you don't. You don't have to force it
Speaker 1: anymore when they were one of the worst teams in basketball.
Speaker 1: You have to force it. You want to rush Ion.
Speaker 1: They didn't. Now they're in a position where the kind
Speaker 1: of use the playing without, no, they don't. They're playing
Speaker 1: extremely well. Eleven and five straight up, thirteen and three
Speaker 1: against the spread in their last sixteen games are the
Speaker 1: New Orleans Pelicans, so you're right there playing well. Uh.
Speaker 1: The original timetable for this injury was six to eight weeks.
Speaker 1: Greggy has surgery on that tormaniscus. He misses three months.
Speaker 1: It's nearly three months of the day that he has
Speaker 1: had surgery. He had it back on October one. Christian,
Speaker 1: I know you spoke about, you know, what you expect tonight.
Speaker 1: I've read a few things about maybe fifteen to twenty
Speaker 1: minutes you mentioned, you know, maybe he plays uh in
Speaker 1: in three stints tonight. What's the outlook moving forward as well,
Speaker 1: though not just for tonight. Are they how cautious are
Speaker 1: they going to be? Obviously this is their prize possession
Speaker 1: first overall pick the most high player coming out of
Speaker 1: college in a long long time. What's the plan for
Speaker 1: Zion for the future right now? This season? In the
Speaker 1: short term, is there gonna be I mean it's restriction
Speaker 1: for the rest of the season. Is he gonna play
Speaker 1: back to backs. I mean, what have you heard regarding
Speaker 1: Zion Williamson for the rest of the season, not just tonight. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So I would say fairly cautious. Um, Look, they're they're trying,
Speaker 1: they're gonna try really hard to make the playoffs. Um,
Speaker 1: and they've they've already been overly cautious bringing Zion back.
Speaker 1: So you know it's gonna depend how it works in
Speaker 1: the next couple of games. But I think you know,
Speaker 1: a handful of games with our restriction, and then you know,
Speaker 1: if he looks good next three or four games, then
Speaker 1: kind of let him do a sting and and maybe
Speaker 1: approach thirty minutes. Uh. They have set that they're playing
Speaker 1: to hold them more than likely playing to hold them
Speaker 1: out of back to back the second night of back
Speaker 1: to back, so that chops four games off right there.
Speaker 1: I believe they've four sets to back to backs. So
Speaker 1: fairly cautious is what I would say. All right, great,
Speaker 1: So from a fantasy perspective, you know, if you own Zion,
Speaker 1: maybe a handful of games where he's under this minute
Speaker 1: minutes restriction, but you know, once he gets back in
Speaker 1: the flow of things, uh, maybe not no minutes cap there,
Speaker 1: but you should expect him to sit out the second
Speaker 1: night of back to backs moving forward, So, as Christian
Speaker 1: alluded to though, right, a lot of it's going to
Speaker 1: be based on feel and how he looks and how
Speaker 1: he feels the good. The good part about Zian Williamson
Speaker 1: isn't like it's Kevin Duran has been. The league has
Speaker 1: a lot of miles on those knees. Zian Williamson just
Speaker 1: the freshman at Duke when he came out. He's young,
Speaker 1: he's ready to rock, and they have been overly cautious.
Speaker 1: You mentioned he's been out for three months for an
Speaker 1: injury that should have taken six to eight weeks. He's
Speaker 1: gonna be ready to go tonight, and I think how
Speaker 1: comfortable he is tonight and going forward will probably dictate
Speaker 1: his playing time here. But my question for you, christianer
Speaker 1: again we're talking to Christian Clark NOLA dot Com hosts
Speaker 1: The Board, watch podcast times Picker Unit as well, and
Speaker 1: how does Zion Williamson being back affect everybody else on
Speaker 1: the Pelicans. I drafted Drew Holiday as the guy who's
Speaker 1: gonna really step up and be this leader both on
Speaker 1: and off the court for New Orleans. I drafted Brandon Ingram,
Speaker 1: figuring he would have to step up without Zia Williamson. There,
Speaker 1: how do all of these guys interact and alongside Zion
Speaker 1: Williams and now, well, you know, I think that's really interesting.
Speaker 1: I mean, Brandon Ingham as the biggest story here through
Speaker 1: the first half of the season. I mean, he developed
Speaker 1: into a bona fide star, you know, leading scorer on
Speaker 1: the team, one of the most sufficient high volume scorers
Speaker 1: in the NBA. I'm I'm curious, you know, how Ingram
Speaker 1: and Williamson meshed with the forward spots. Um. I don't expect,
Speaker 1: you know, becau Zion to take a lot from from
Speaker 1: what Ingram has been able to do, mostly because I
Speaker 1: kind of view Zion as a plug and play player.
Speaker 1: Like on that Duke team, he was the number two option.
Speaker 1: Arch Barrett attempted five pour shots the game again, and
Speaker 1: Zion was still, you know, able to get his numbers.
Speaker 1: He can. He's that guy who likes has to have
Speaker 1: the ball in his hands to really impact the game.
Speaker 1: You know, you can kind of bast on like putbacks
Speaker 1: and cuts and and lobs. So I would say it's
Speaker 1: a it's a fairly seams fit um. You know, obviously
Speaker 1: the big factors of the health. You know, we see
Speaker 1: Alvin Gentry with his big man get a lot of
Speaker 1: productivity out of them. Julius Randowly got a marcial contract
Speaker 1: of the New York Knicks ekst Alvin Gentry. Even this
Speaker 1: year we've seen people step in jalil O big games.
Speaker 1: Dust Favorites has played well over the past month or so.
Speaker 1: Come on, don't disrepect Derrick Favorits. Anthony Nave is obviously
Speaker 1: to be the example to Marcus Cousins who they traded for.
Speaker 1: We've got a lot of success with these bigger guys
Speaker 1: in this system. Levin Gentry and you know his Zion
Speaker 1: Lives is just the next guy. Yeah, and they played
Speaker 1: an extremely high pace too. I think that fits into
Speaker 1: Zion's skill set, getting up and down the court where
Speaker 1: he can catch lobs and he can be a rim
Speaker 1: runner as well. Christian, we know that he is a
Speaker 1: freak athlete. Two d and eighty five pounds that is
Speaker 1: a lot of weight. What has the training staff been
Speaker 1: doing with him to ensure his health moving forward? You know,
Speaker 1: is he trying to lose weight? Because I've heard a
Speaker 1: lot of people say that, you know, him at that
Speaker 1: playing weight of two hundred and eighty five pounds, that
Speaker 1: much mass on his body, constantly jumping and as high
Speaker 1: as he jumps, that that's going to affect his you know,
Speaker 1: long term health in the end. Be a. So, has
Speaker 1: the training staff been doing anything differently with Zion since
Speaker 1: he's you know, come to the NBA and joined the
Speaker 1: New Orleans Pelicans. Is there a plan for him to
Speaker 1: cut some of that weight or is this just the
Speaker 1: weight that he's comfortable playing at and they'll kind of
Speaker 1: manage it from their own Yeah. I mean, like you said,
Speaker 1: part of what makes him so interesting that he's just
Speaker 1: an unprecedented player. There's never been a guy who's two
Speaker 1: hundred eighty five pounds and can jump forty five inks
Speaker 1: in the air. It's it's just ridiculous that he's able
Speaker 1: to do these things. You know, look at how it looks.
Speaker 1: I don't think that the Pelicans really, you know, plan
Speaker 1: on cut in a bunch of weight. Um. What they've
Speaker 1: focused on the biggest thing during this rehabilitation process is
Speaker 1: improving his flexibility. UM. I mean just the word they
Speaker 1: throw around a lot is torque. I mean he generates
Speaker 1: so much torque, and I think they think that it'd
Speaker 1: be it'd be difficult to take a lot of weight
Speaker 1: off his frame. They gaven for new improve his flexibility
Speaker 1: so his frame can can endure all the forest that
Speaker 1: he creates. Another thing too, they focused on, is altering
Speaker 1: the way he lands. Um. They don't want like his
Speaker 1: his need to kind of jut inwards, which it has
Speaker 1: at times before when he lands. So a lot of
Speaker 1: the things that can do there the rehab process are
Speaker 1: to prevent future injuries. We'll see if they can prevent
Speaker 1: those seuzure injuries and and keeps eyeing in the lineup.
Speaker 1: Certainly the biggest concern going forward for Zilids. Talking at
Speaker 1: Christian Clark here and Christian the team one of the
Speaker 1: teams that are above the New Orleans Pelicans in the standings.
Speaker 1: Memphis Grizzlies lead of course by rookie John morand the
Speaker 1: number two overall pick. What will Pelicans have to do?
Speaker 1: I mean obviously playing really really well right now, but
Speaker 1: in order to cash Memphis and cash John Moran, what
Speaker 1: do what? What needs to happen here over you know
Speaker 1: the next two months or so. Yeah, I was actually
Speaker 1: in Memphis for the Pelicans Grizzlies game on Martin Luther
Speaker 1: King Day, must fun game to holiday bawled out. Um,
Speaker 1: you know. I mean if Pelicans are eleven of five
Speaker 1: in the last sixty games, they just had to keep
Speaker 1: doing what they're doing and stay healthy. I mean, injuries,
Speaker 1: we're such a big story in the first top I
Speaker 1: believe they already these eighteen different starting lineups, and mean
Speaker 1: there's a lot of guys at beside the Guyana too, um.
Speaker 1: And I think they can also sea stune what a
Speaker 1: lot of different websites consider the easiest schedule in the
Speaker 1: n b A. I mean, they were dealing about those,
Speaker 1: all those injuries all they had a brutal schedule, and
Speaker 1: I think Basketball Reference has them with the easiest schedules
Speaker 1: going forward. I think tank a time BASM is the
Speaker 1: second easiest. So I mean, I think as long as
Speaker 1: they stay healthy, they can sease and make it really interesting,
Speaker 1: you know, and you can call them that out Frank
Speaker 1: for a while now, it's like they can stay healthy,
Speaker 1: like seems talented. Yeah, And I've been trying to find
Speaker 1: that on sports books right where to find the odds
Speaker 1: for what the Pelicans are to make the playoffs because
Speaker 1: I think that they can make a jump the way
Speaker 1: that they've played. Look, they got off to a really
Speaker 1: slow start. They had a thirteen game losing shriek. That
Speaker 1: is not who this team is. You look at their
Speaker 1: talent on paper, they are a really talented team. Brandon
Speaker 1: Ingram should be an all start of this year. Holiday
Speaker 1: has been has played an all star level throughout his career.
Speaker 1: Lonzo Ball is playing well, and now you add Zion
Speaker 1: Williamson to the mix. I think that if you can
Speaker 1: find that right now, I haven't been able to find
Speaker 1: it on the books that I'm looking at, But if
Speaker 1: you can find the New Orleans Pelicans their odds to
Speaker 1: make the playoffs, I think that there's a chance that
Speaker 1: they can make that jump again. There three and a
Speaker 1: half games behind the Memphis Grizzlies for the eighth seed. Christian,
Speaker 1: I've got to ask you again about tonight. I'm looking
Speaker 1: at player props for Zion Williamson. Greg His prop has
Speaker 1: moved up. It was thirteen and a half points. It
Speaker 1: has since moved up to fourteen and a half. People
Speaker 1: are getting excited. They're getting Zion fever. His prop for
Speaker 1: rebounds tonight is five and a half rebounds as well. Christian,
Speaker 1: if you had to just give us a projected stat
Speaker 1: line for Zion Williamson tonight, in let's say twenty minutes
Speaker 1: of action, what would you project for Zion tonight? Oh? Man,
Speaker 1: I don't know, a little bit high to me just
Speaker 1: because in a minute. So I would probably take younger
Speaker 1: on that one. What was the run run rebounds? Five
Speaker 1: and a half? Okay, I try to take the under
Speaker 1: a under a point and over un rebounds, all right,
Speaker 1: And that's where the juice is right now, it's this
Speaker 1: one thirty on the rebounds. Put our money where his
Speaker 1: mouth is perfect, all right. And then next time you're
Speaker 1: in New York, if there's a Pelicans next game, you know,
Speaker 1: if you can the beer that you cost them, yeah,
Speaker 1: there you go, no problem there. Yeah. So you know,
Speaker 1: Christian was, well, we'll get you out of here, um
Speaker 1: in just one moment. Of course, it's the New Orleans
Speaker 1: Pelicans take it on the Spurs tonight. Spurs are three
Speaker 1: and a half point underdogs, the totals at the two
Speaker 1: six and a half. You wanna make a prediction for
Speaker 1: the game, Oh um, I'll say the Pelicans win. I
Speaker 1: mean this building is gonna be on fire. They've been
Speaker 1: playing really well, so yeah, I'll take uh, I'll say
Speaker 1: that Pelicans win. I don't know one to team cover
Speaker 1: the spread barely you need, man, it doesn't go that
Speaker 1: doesn't go over the number either, just barely barely stays
Speaker 1: it barely stays on. Sneaky, very very sneaky. You are
Speaker 1: Christian Clark. He's a smart guy. Christian Clark. He watch
Speaker 1: dot Com, The Times picking. You know, he's the host
Speaker 1: of the bird Watch podcast. Christian. We appreciate your time. Man,
Speaker 1: come back soon. Alright, guess thanks for having me right
Speaker 1: there you go. He's Christian Clark. Follow him at see
Speaker 1: Clark three thousand on Twitter. A lot of great insight there. Mean,
Speaker 1: if it's gonna be a fun night, man, you can
Speaker 1: tell that when the Beat reporters are excited because they're
Speaker 1: just like, this is my job I gotta do. This
Speaker 1: is gonna write game store out here. You hear the excitement.
Speaker 1: He's excited. Yeah, it's cool. You know, I thought, Greg,
Speaker 1: what was the most anticipated debut like this? And so
Speaker 1: I saw what you wrote there and I think it
Speaker 1: makes sense right. It was Vladimir Guro Junior last year,
Speaker 1: you had all these hype videos coming out Cooni of
Speaker 1: the year before because somebody had to sit on his
Speaker 1: damn phone watch you know, there wasn't as much hype though, dude,
Speaker 1: you sat on your phone Yankee Stadium. Me personally, I
Speaker 1: was hyped about Ronald the Kun. I don't know that
Speaker 1: the nation was. Everybody sat down to watch Vladimir Garrow
Speaker 1: Juniors first said bat last year. Probably the most hype,
Speaker 1: the most pressed that the Blue Jays got all season
Speaker 1: now was that day now and rightfully so. So you
Speaker 1: want to watch the Pelicans will be on ESPN tonight
Speaker 1: ter time, going up against San Antonio Spurs. I don't
Speaker 1: want to take anything away from the Spurs. They played
Speaker 1: good ball recently in l and they're battling for a
Speaker 1: playoff spot. You know, I think if there's anyone that
Speaker 1: can kind of embrace the energy that's going to be
Speaker 1: in that building tonight, it's Gregg Popovich. It's the Spurs.
Speaker 1: They've been there before. He's been in the playoffs what
Speaker 1: each of the past twenty years, basically past two decades.
Speaker 1: Greg very badly Game seven last year, though it's the
Speaker 1: Nuggets where he didn't foul it very stupid. All right, Well,
Speaker 1: you know what, he's had a long he's had a
Speaker 1: long he's old. You know, he's had a long run
Speaker 1: at it. You know, he's kind of tired of it now.
Speaker 1: You know he's tired of winning. You can say that
Speaker 1: about about the Knicks hosting the coach started livesteen this year. Awesome,
Speaker 1: this summer nice, alright, pop with the Olympics. We'll come back.
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Speaker 1: Pelicans coming up. Thanks the Christian Clark for joining the
Speaker 1: program today, Frankie, Yeah, great information there. Everyone's excited about
Speaker 1: the debut of Zion Williamson and I'm sure, I'm sure, Greg,
Speaker 1: that will be the most bet on game of the night,
Speaker 1: both from a side perspective and from a perspective Pelicans
Speaker 1: and the spurt. Alright, first question today, frank how is
Speaker 1: the team looking all right? So I gotta kind of
Speaker 1: figure this out myself. Um, as of now, my only
Speaker 1: catcher is Tom Murphy now the starter of the Seattle Mariners.
Speaker 1: A lot of power there, Greg, don't sleep on Tom Murphy,
Speaker 1: Reese Hoskins, Mike Mustakis, Matt Chapman, Javier Bayez, Elvis Andrews.
Speaker 1: Is the middle infielder? Interesting, Bryce Harper, Adam Eaton, Mookie Betts,
Speaker 1: Kyle Tucker, and Willie Calhoun. Of course, staying on brand
Speaker 1: with the outfielders. And then with the pictures here we
Speaker 1: have Shane Bieber, Luis Severino, Max Freed, You, Darvish, Seanmaniah,
Speaker 1: Mike Foltanevitch, Liam Hendricks and Ian Kennedy as my two closes. Yeah,
Speaker 1: what do you think about that? Right? And I just
Speaker 1: drafted this is crazy to me, Greg, it's around twenty.
Speaker 1: I just took Massa hero Tanaka in a round. That's crazy.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's never actually gonna happen, but I think
Speaker 1: people are looking at the sexy names and forgetting about
Speaker 1: our boy, Mata. You're really the final question. Have we
Speaker 1: got a minute left? Alright? What's your question? Do you
Speaker 1: know who what starting pitcher the worst left on base percentage?
Speaker 1: You know all in baseball last year, qualified starting pitcher,
Speaker 1: qualified starting pitcher, and do you And here's the backup
Speaker 1: question to that is, there's a lot of pictures. How
Speaker 1: much does left on base percentage matter to you? Left
Speaker 1: on base percentage matters quite a bit because if the
Speaker 1: e r A is super low U and they pitched
Speaker 1: to a very high left on base percentage, that's likely
Speaker 1: going to regress the next season, no doubt. So this
Speaker 1: person's e r A was four forty four, left on
Speaker 1: base percentage was sixty three. Can I get I mean,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of pictures out there. Can I get
Speaker 1: a passional league, national league? It's a starter. John Lester
Speaker 1: is not John Lester. He pitched on the cups. He
Speaker 1: does not pitch on the cubs. At who's in Katana
Speaker 1: is third. I was gonna say Kantana that was one.
Speaker 1: I will say, uh must grove. This is why he's
Speaker 1: the best people. Let's go. This is why he's His
Speaker 1: exit was four thirty one. Not good. I'm trying to
Speaker 1: find reasons to draft him, and I'm trying to prove
Speaker 1: why you shouldn't. He's got to get better with play
Speaker 1: with runners on base, right, Greg, no, Frank, no draft
Speaker 1: something next, non BFF tomorrow over Frank Snapple. I'm Greg Sauceman.
Speaker 1: Will do it all again on Friday. We hope