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Speaker 1: You hear him whispering over there. It's Ian Con live
Speaker 1: in studio. It is a pleasure to be here with you.
Speaker 1: My man. I was, I was getting ready for the duke,
Speaker 1: your dues. I had to change it up. I can't
Speaker 1: sing without gregor rat like we are. We are a
Speaker 1: well formed duo when it comes to singing. But you
Speaker 1: take one guy away and it's like, and honestly, I
Speaker 1: was like, should I do that? Do I want to
Speaker 1: do that? Because the other times I don't want to listen.
Speaker 1: I was kind of coming in with the idea that
Speaker 1: I would do it for you because because I know
Speaker 1: you're gonna do your business. And I was like, oh
Speaker 1: my god, I'm not gonna leave Frank hanging. But I
Speaker 1: will tell you that. Um I met Mariano about six
Speaker 1: weeks ago in a Japanese habachi place in Westchester. I
Speaker 1: feel like, either you know you talked about this on
Speaker 1: the Sleeper in the Bus podcast, Yes, cause I listened
Speaker 1: to that episode, Like, yes, God, I listened to that
Speaker 1: episode and I remembered. I just remember that story when
Speaker 1: you brought up right, So how awesome was that it was?
Speaker 1: It was remarkable. And you know, I'm in the industry,
Speaker 1: of in the entertainment industry, so I'm pretty good at
Speaker 1: not being like star struck by people. But I'm walking out.
Speaker 1: Um after it was my younger son's birthday and we
Speaker 1: went to habachi and they're throwing stuff and you know,
Speaker 1: it's fun, and then um I walked out and there's
Speaker 1: Mariana and I just went, oh, man, look at that guy.
Speaker 1: I was like, I think I'm not a might allowed
Speaker 1: a curse on the show. Uh okay, I said, I said,
Speaker 1: oh spit, damn. And then I went over and I
Speaker 1: talked to him for a solid five minutes. Um. He
Speaker 1: was incredibly gracious, and you know, I was just talking
Speaker 1: about how I tried to buy him dinner because I
Speaker 1: was like, you know when they say that man is
Speaker 1: never gonna buy another meal in that town. Again, I
Speaker 1: was like, if you have the opportunity to buy, and
Speaker 1: he's like no, no, no, no, no no. But it
Speaker 1: was really great. So I'm thrilled to hear that, the
Speaker 1: very good. I actually made that exact intro for the
Speaker 1: day after Marianna was announced as the first ever unanimous
Speaker 1: Hall of Famer. I was like, come on, I gotta
Speaker 1: I gotta make something to commemory Marianna. So that was
Speaker 1: the intro that I made. And then I tell our
Speaker 1: guy downstairs Bivona on the ones and twos this week, No, Greg,
Speaker 1: I can't sing without him. I don't trust my voice.
Speaker 1: I can't do like us solo act. Just give me,
Speaker 1: give me some Metallica and it will be good. So listen, man,
Speaker 1: I really was do do dude. I was gonna do
Speaker 1: the whole thing for you. I wasn't gonna do this.
Speaker 1: I was gonna let you do it. I mean, if
Speaker 1: you want me to play a name, I really don't know.
Speaker 1: I really don't. I'm positive, really great. We're already in.
Speaker 1: We're past the nerve, you know when you're like, hey,
Speaker 1: will you come in? I was like, hey, I gotta
Speaker 1: sing that freaking song. But no, I'm kidding, no, I'm
Speaker 1: happy to be here with you again. That is ian Con.
Speaker 1: Oh you gotta sing, you brought it up. You gotta sing. No,
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna sing. I'm gonna I'm doing the backgrounds. Okay,
Speaker 1: that's good. I think I appreciate. I appreciate that was fun.
Speaker 1: Thank you again. That is ian Con. Might look a
Speaker 1: little familiar to you. You You might have seen him on
Speaker 1: your television somewhere again, played General George Washington on a
Speaker 1: MC's turn Washington spies. I know it's great show. I
Speaker 1: know you've you've starting some other things as well. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you've done your stuff. He was here last year, friend
Speaker 1: of the show, friend of the program. I'm very happy
Speaker 1: to have him back in the studio, even more so
Speaker 1: than you know his acting chops. We get him in
Speaker 1: here for his fantasy baseball chops. This guy is no joke.
Speaker 1: This guy is no joke. Last year fifteen Team Auction
Speaker 1: g d D the Gotham Diamond District Auction fifteen teams.
Speaker 1: No easy task taking down a league like that. He
Speaker 1: didn't just take it down, he controlled it. He dominated
Speaker 1: it all season long. And now find himself as a
Speaker 1: contributor to Rhoda Wire, contributing his top four hundred Dynasty,
Speaker 1: which you can go over and you can get right now.
Speaker 1: And that's specifically what we're gonna talk about today, not
Speaker 1: just your rankings, not just where you have some of
Speaker 1: the top prospects ranked, but I want to specifically get
Speaker 1: into some strategy talk with you when it comes to dynasty.
Speaker 1: I believe you are a part of the rhotal Wire
Speaker 1: Dynasty Invitational. Is that correct share a team with James Anderson,
Speaker 1: with the great James Anderson, who rates he really is
Speaker 1: and he's a really good friend. And we built a
Speaker 1: great team together and we uh and there's theory behind
Speaker 1: dynasty baseball. I mean, it's you know, it's so funny.
Speaker 1: I was talking different. It is a different beast. And
Speaker 1: there's another great there's a there's a great player by
Speaker 1: the name of Tom Trudeau. I don't know if you
Speaker 1: know Tom. He's Tom tru Trudeau is one of is
Speaker 1: one of the great best dynasty players in the country
Speaker 1: for sure. And we were talking yesterday on the phone.
Speaker 1: We were talking about a deal in another league, and
Speaker 1: we were catching up about stuff, and I said to him,
Speaker 1: I said, you know what's interesting is Fantasy Baseball Redraft
Speaker 1: is kind of like Texas hold him right, just like
Speaker 1: hold him and you're playing. It's a roto fifteen team.
Speaker 1: That's whereas Dynasty league is like playing Omaha. It's the
Speaker 1: same game, but with completely different rules and completely different
Speaker 1: ideas about how to do it. And if you know
Speaker 1: what you're doing with dynasty leagues, it can be super fun.
Speaker 1: And if you don't know what you can what you're doing,
Speaker 1: you're gonna find yourself in a big old hole. Um
Speaker 1: and yeah, so man, this is so mean. Speaking of
Speaker 1: being in holes in dynasty leagues, our friend Justin Mason says, hello,
Speaker 1: Oh is he is he down? There was going on
Speaker 1: in the rebuilding years of his dynasty. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: And so that was really mean, literally, I know. But
Speaker 1: I was just on the phone with him talking about it,
Speaker 1: talking about a possible trade. That's how I was gonna
Speaker 1: go on with you. He said, Oh, Frank's the best.
Speaker 1: I really like Frank I said, yeah, like Frank too,
Speaker 1: I told him, you say I and now Justin don't
Speaker 1: watch that. I hope Justin doesn't see that. No, when
Speaker 1: I mentioned dynasty baseball is a different beast just versus
Speaker 1: dynasty football. Look, there's to be honest, there's just a
Speaker 1: lotless players to know when it comes to like other
Speaker 1: dynasty sports. Like let's be honest here, look thirty teams
Speaker 1: in baseball twenty five man active rosters. That seven fifty
Speaker 1: players right there. If you get into forty man rosters,
Speaker 1: now we're talking twelve hundred players. And then there are
Speaker 1: players who are prospects who aren't even on the forty
Speaker 1: man ros. So I mean you're talking upwards of over
Speaker 1: a thousand players that you kind of just need to
Speaker 1: have in your noggin somewhere, or you need to have
Speaker 1: you need to know the good places to go to
Speaker 1: get understandings about these players. Absolutely, I mean, and I'm
Speaker 1: just against on like a sales pitch, but if if
Speaker 1: you're not a Rotal Wire subscriber, Rotal Wire to me
Speaker 1: is the best place to go because not only are
Speaker 1: you getting the what it could be argued, is the
Speaker 1: best prospect analysis in the business in James Anderson, but
Speaker 1: you're also getting um Derek Van Riper, you're getting Jeff Ericson,
Speaker 1: you're getting Clay Link, who won I mean he won everything.
Speaker 1: He won the Gretty Fancy Baseball and he also even
Speaker 1: that this year. Yes, I am in this. I finished
Speaker 1: fourth overall last year, and you get a fist on
Speaker 1: that won my specific league, because like there's all different
Speaker 1: leagues and there's also an overall prize. So I won
Speaker 1: my specific league. I came in fourth overall, and now
Speaker 1: this year it seems like there's a champions and you're
Speaker 1: in the Champions League everyone who won their specific league
Speaker 1: last year. So I'm going to trust Nation is the
Speaker 1: He is the owner of the you know of the
Speaker 1: Sleeper in the Bus, congrats and the Sleeper in the
Speaker 1: Bus winning a Fantasy Baseball podcast of the Year, which
Speaker 1: you were just on recently. So yes, I'm I'm sort
Speaker 1: of their fifth outfielder. That's what I happened. But when
Speaker 1: it comes to get the Champions League, like I'm competing
Speaker 1: against James Andersons in their Adam Ronus is a lot
Speaker 1: of great players in our g d D. I'm a
Speaker 1: little bit over my head here you're not over right,
Speaker 1: if I'm being honest, you know you're not. You're ready
Speaker 1: to go. Hey, you were fourth overall out of how many?
Speaker 1: How many people were in that? I mean, I can't
Speaker 1: even tell you abound four hundred players. You know it's
Speaker 1: again it goes back to the poker analogy. D this
Speaker 1: is the world who is of poker? And you came
Speaker 1: in fourth? That's pretty darn good man. Let's get back
Speaker 1: to the dynasty, right, because that's why we're here. You
Speaker 1: have your top four hundred rankings over at Rhoda Wire.
Speaker 1: The first question we get a lot of the time
Speaker 1: when it comes to dynasty any sport. In a startup dynasty,
Speaker 1: how do I draft? Do you draft for the future?
Speaker 1: Do you draft for now? Is it a mix of both?
Speaker 1: Does depending on what kind of player you are, how
Speaker 1: patient you are. I think another question that you have
Speaker 1: to answer is realistically, how long do you expect this
Speaker 1: dynasty league to last? Because a lot of them don't.
Speaker 1: Unfortunately a lot of them don't. I've not played in
Speaker 1: one dynasty league that's folded. If you're getting involved in
Speaker 1: a dynasty league considered like getting involve done a long
Speaker 1: term relationship with a woman I played. I played in one,
Speaker 1: and I won the first year and the next year
Speaker 1: ye didn't happen because I mean there were a lot
Speaker 1: of moving parts, Like there were contracts for players, Like
Speaker 1: we had to to what signed like five year contracts
Speaker 1: to like four players, and we had six four four
Speaker 1: year contracts and it was just a lot of dynaster.
Speaker 1: That's that's a keeper league, which is a different is
Speaker 1: you keep pretty much every player, Yeah, but eventually you
Speaker 1: have to give those players back. In dynasty league means
Speaker 1: you own the team. You own the team, and you
Speaker 1: decide and you keep every one of your players. The
Speaker 1: closest thing to real baseball, it is, it is, It
Speaker 1: is absolutely like owning your own franchise. So, okay, getting
Speaker 1: to your to your question about the best way to
Speaker 1: draft for dynasty leagues, Okay, there's a lot of different
Speaker 1: ways to go about it. Here's how I go about it,
Speaker 1: and you need to be actually need to be a
Speaker 1: pretty savvy owner to pull this style off. But it
Speaker 1: works always. Always what I do and what James and
Speaker 1: I did, what I've done in the other two leagues
Speaker 1: is I draft young bats from the beginning. So in
Speaker 1: the first round, you don't have to necessarily draft a
Speaker 1: young prospect. You can draft a young bat that is playing.
Speaker 1: So we got Freddie Freeman in the first round. He
Speaker 1: was twenty years old at the time. In the second round,
Speaker 1: we kind of we went a little off there because
Speaker 1: we took Chris Sale because we weren't short which quite
Speaker 1: which way we were going. Within the third round, we
Speaker 1: picked up Azzi Albie's, who brings great value because he's
Speaker 1: a twenty year old hitter who has a great future
Speaker 1: ahead of him. And then starting in the fifth round,
Speaker 1: we just consistently went forward with young bat prospects, Bobachette,
Speaker 1: Royce Lewis um all the way down the line. And
Speaker 1: we went from the fifth round through the thirtieth round
Speaker 1: filling our team with young bats, which then in the
Speaker 1: first week of May, what we did was we then
Speaker 1: flipped those young bats. The teams that had gone for
Speaker 1: it this year. They were going forward because they wanted
Speaker 1: to win the prize. They wanted to get that flag
Speaker 1: in that very first year. So then I reach out
Speaker 1: and I say, hey, you know, I'm going to be
Speaker 1: selling these young bats. Whoever decides to sell me their
Speaker 1: players first is going to get these young bats. So
Speaker 1: in that two week period, we got Jean Carlos Anton,
Speaker 1: we got Paul Goldschmidt, we got wit maryfield Um, we
Speaker 1: got Carlos Carrasco. All for we got first, second, and
Speaker 1: third round picks in the original draft for guys we
Speaker 1: took in the eighth, ninth, fourteenth round. Because young bats
Speaker 1: is the currency you want. Young arms is not quite
Speaker 1: the same thing because you draft a j Puck, he
Speaker 1: gets a little boom, he's done and his value goes
Speaker 1: from you can draft him in the ninth round. Well,
Speaker 1: now he's really a thirtieth round player because he's gonna
Speaker 1: be coming off t J surgery. So it's about drafting
Speaker 1: young bats and then you know, spotting the opportunities and
Speaker 1: how did you do in that league? We started out
Speaker 1: on May one, we were It's Twente League and on
Speaker 1: May one we had no dynasty. Yeah, yeah, it's a
Speaker 1: good league team league. On May one we had out
Speaker 1: of two points, I think we had four eight points.
Speaker 1: Then we made all of our trades over the course
Speaker 1: of the next couple of months, and then we rolled
Speaker 1: and we finished with a hundred and sixty five points,
Speaker 1: three points out of first place. And if Chris Sale
Speaker 1: had not gotten injured, we would have, I believe, won
Speaker 1: that league. But we climbed and if we didn't have
Speaker 1: three weeks four weeks of no stats, the team that
Speaker 1: we built would have you know, but we did, and
Speaker 1: that's how we built. But we're built for a year two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight,
Speaker 1: nine and ten. We're built for the future. We will
Speaker 1: either be in first, second, or third moving forward and
Speaker 1: nothing will stand in our way. And that's how it's
Speaker 1: so much like real baseball, like running a franchisees, you
Speaker 1: have to weigh do I sell off prospects to try
Speaker 1: and win now or set myself up for the next
Speaker 1: you know, three years. But you can do it fast,
Speaker 1: but you can do it fast. It doesn't have to
Speaker 1: be like professional baseball where you sit for three years,
Speaker 1: because it's all about psychology. Right. So even with us
Speaker 1: set up to dominate next year, we made a trade
Speaker 1: with our friend Matt Dica about a month ago, which
Speaker 1: may seem odd. We gave up Carlos Carrasco, Brad Hand,
Speaker 1: and Brett Gardner and received back. And this is a
Speaker 1: dynasty league show. Hey Otani the six pick in the draft,
Speaker 1: which we then traded down to get the third pick
Speaker 1: in the draft. We turned into Victor Victor Masa and
Speaker 1: Dustin Fowler, so we gave up hand in Carrasco. We're
Speaker 1: both in their thirties. For showy Otani, who is a
Speaker 1: top ten Dynasty piece. To me, I think I haven't.
Speaker 1: I think I have been twenty four. But he is
Speaker 1: a piece that he's twenty one years old and he's
Speaker 1: going to be He is a dominant piece that will
Speaker 1: last for a long time. So even when you get
Speaker 1: a team that looks like it's in dominant shape, you're
Speaker 1: always looking for the You're always looking for the value.
Speaker 1: You're always looking for that advantage. In that way, there's
Speaker 1: no sleep. Yeah, it doesn't end. It doesn't enny. When
Speaker 1: it comes to Dynasty. It's all an It's like, oh,
Speaker 1: you can make trades all year round. Yes, there's there's
Speaker 1: one week after well, no, the trade doesn't on is
Speaker 1: September one, and then from September one to the last two,
Speaker 1: a week after the last out of the World Series
Speaker 1: is a very quiet and boring time. But other than that,
Speaker 1: let's find the match, let's find the fit. I'm in
Speaker 1: negotiations in another Dynasty league which I was fortunate enough
Speaker 1: to win last year and win the year before um
Speaker 1: with some great industry people where I may be moving
Speaker 1: Nelson Cruise, and I may be moving Nelson Cruise today
Speaker 1: for an interesting package of young players, because I don't
Speaker 1: I want to get out before. I always want to.
Speaker 1: You always want to get out before. You want to
Speaker 1: get as much value as you can and then move
Speaker 1: him to get as much value as you can sell
Speaker 1: kind of not when they're at the peak, but before
Speaker 1: like the floor kind of just like falls out from
Speaker 1: beneath Nelson Cruise. And now you know he's moving over
Speaker 1: from Seattle where he was great the past couple of years.
Speaker 1: He's going over in Minnesota. You saw some of the
Speaker 1: batting average start to fall out last year, so you
Speaker 1: know there is a chance. You know, he's pushing forty
Speaker 1: years old. Like look, I'm gonna get he's gonna hit
Speaker 1: thirty six some runs. He's gonnabot to fifty five. He's
Speaker 1: got one more good year. I'm going get Luke Weaver,
Speaker 1: who is a Bilow. You know, Sarahceist wrote an interesting
Speaker 1: article about him. Today. A new scenery goes over to
Speaker 1: Arizona and he's losing her molina and losing out of
Speaker 1: your molina is actually a pretty damn big deal because
Speaker 1: he's the best catcher that there's ever been at handling
Speaker 1: pitchers and handling the strike zone. And you know who
Speaker 1: he does get to work with is the guy who
Speaker 1: was learning under Carson Kelly. Look at this guy, this guy.
Speaker 1: This one thing that I want to hit on before
Speaker 1: the break is you've touched on starting pitching a little bit.
Speaker 1: How you wanna when you're doing the draft, specifically start
Speaker 1: up draft? Um? You want to get young hitters, So
Speaker 1: I assume when you accentuate the word young hitters that
Speaker 1: means you're not necessarily going after young you're going after
Speaker 1: some of the older guys. I noticed your first starting
Speaker 1: pitcher is Jacob deGrom, who's ranked all the way down
Speaker 1: at nineteen. So how how does one attack starting pitching
Speaker 1: when it comes to dynasty. How much of the time
Speaker 1: we got before the bread we we got about a
Speaker 1: minute and a half. You can give us like a
Speaker 1: little tease and we'll come back with it. You know,
Speaker 1: pitching is you gotta get pitching, um, but you've got
Speaker 1: to be smart about where you get your pitching. So
Speaker 1: I just fly for pitching. I mean, we all know
Speaker 1: what it is baseball, so I'm always looking. I I
Speaker 1: this Dynasty League one which come in with John Halp
Speaker 1: and Joel Hanard, Rich Wilson, Tim McLeod, myself, Alex Cushing,
Speaker 1: great dynasty player. I just traded Max Scherzer last week
Speaker 1: and after the break, I'll tell you what I got good.
Speaker 1: That's why he is a professional. Here, Ian Cohn, make
Speaker 1: sure you could follow his Fantasy Baseball Twitter account at
Speaker 1: ian con four, where you know you can find out
Speaker 1: more about his his work that he does over at
Speaker 1: Rhoda Wire. Some more Dynasty contributions that I assume you're
Speaker 1: going to be putting out. Yeah, I'm gonna keep I'm
Speaker 1: gonna keep the rankings going sort of every six to
Speaker 1: eight weeks. Not bad, not bad, not bad for you
Speaker 1: if your first shot. Yeah, but we'll talk more about
Speaker 1: that when we come back eight four four four three
Speaker 1: six eight seven nine. If you have a dynasty or
Speaker 1: keeper Uesian all in a four four four three six
Speaker 1: eight seven nine. I do want to touch on a
Speaker 1: few of like the top prospects for this year versus
Speaker 1: like the long term Vladimir Guaro. Everyone's talking about Vladim Guarro.
Speaker 1: So we're paying the price in seasonal redraft leagues. Right now,
Speaker 1: we'll find out. We'll find out, we'll look into his
Speaker 1: ADPC where he's going right now again, that is Ian Con.
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Speaker 1: you learned about me is my musical taste. I I
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Speaker 1: I would, I would take I have Amazon Music as well.
Speaker 1: I gotta figure out my whole Amazon Spotify. Like Apple Music,
Speaker 1: I think I'm paying for like too much. I think
Speaker 1: I've got Amazon Music. I've got well, I'm not paying
Speaker 1: for Apple, but I've got Amazon Music at home because
Speaker 1: of the Sire not Siri freaking Alexa. So I say, Alexa,
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Speaker 1: it a way? For fair question? It was a two
Speaker 1: part trade, So I had one trade that was in
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Speaker 1: because they had been there for a day and a
Speaker 1: half and I had reached out to the guy like, look,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to move one of these pieces or
Speaker 1: move another player from my team, because otherwise I have
Speaker 1: too much of a blood at this spot. So the
Speaker 1: the original trade and this this brings in draft picks
Speaker 1: in first year player drafts, which is I should explain briefly,
Speaker 1: the draft in first year player drafts is the players
Speaker 1: who graduate from college, the players who were drafted in
Speaker 1: the MLB UH draft who then come out, which is
Speaker 1: kind of fun because you get to know them from
Speaker 1: age eighteen age path throughout the miners. How they absolutely,
Speaker 1: you get them better, you get them right out of school,
Speaker 1: and they become part of your squad. They're valuable pieces
Speaker 1: in dynasty, quite valuable, especially that the first round picks
Speaker 1: in those So you know what, I'm just going to
Speaker 1: tell you the final what I got, What I got. Finally,
Speaker 1: I got Jamison tie On, I got six though Sanchez
Speaker 1: m just moved over to Miami. Ye Will Smith, who's
Speaker 1: the with Kybert Ruise in Los Angeles. He's the top
Speaker 1: five catching prospect, two first round picks and two second
Speaker 1: round picks. For sure. It's a it's a pretty big
Speaker 1: hole that is a pretty wild haul when it's and
Speaker 1: Tayant four. So I'm buying seven more years of Tayan
Speaker 1: then I would get from is the best without a doubt,
Speaker 1: best picter in baseball, best read. You know he in
Speaker 1: a re draft, he's gonna be taken five, He's gonna
Speaker 1: be taken six, seven. Um, Tayan is gonna be taken
Speaker 1: in the third round, fourth round. But in Shus is
Speaker 1: going to be taken in the eighth round, and Tayan
Speaker 1: is gonna be taken in the second round, is how
Speaker 1: I'm saying. And I've got Sanchez six cents and I've
Speaker 1: got Smith and I've got four draft picks, so it's
Speaker 1: a Hershel Walker trade. Yeah, And you know, six Dough
Speaker 1: Sanchez the main piece basically that went over from Philadelphia
Speaker 1: to Miami in the JT. Real Muto trade. You know
Speaker 1: a lot of people are excited about six Though Sanchez,
Speaker 1: and for a long time the Phillies were rumored to
Speaker 1: be part of big trades, but they didn't want to
Speaker 1: get rid of six Though Sanchez because you know, they
Speaker 1: see the long term upside um for you know, seasonal
Speaker 1: this year. I mean, he's not going to be a
Speaker 1: contributor The earliest we see him is the only pitched
Speaker 1: I believe it was forty six and a third tending's
Speaker 1: pitched at at high A ball last year. But his
Speaker 1: he's got a way to go. But he's got a
Speaker 1: lot of upset he's got. He's one of the top
Speaker 1: prospects in baseball period. I just want to say one
Speaker 1: thing because I imagine Greg Sussman is going to what's up? Greg?
Speaker 1: I hope you're having fun in your birthday this week?
Speaker 1: He left me right when to go celebrate his birthday
Speaker 1: s Florida. Can we can we get a Can we
Speaker 1: get a live look at at what Greg Sussman is
Speaker 1: up to today? I believe we have. So there you go.
Speaker 1: It's Greg swimming in a pool with a noodle around
Speaker 1: him at a boy. We've been getting Greg Sussman updates
Speaker 1: throughout the week. Look at that. That That was him the
Speaker 1: other day sunbathing. Hey that's Tash. Here you go, he's
Speaker 1: taking a picture pool side. You can see his legs.
Speaker 1: There you go, that's my man. And there you go.
Speaker 1: That was Greg sam on his fiftieth birthday, thanking a
Speaker 1: fruit smooth. He's so old, he's so old. What is
Speaker 1: he he's like, he is so old, he's on a
Speaker 1: pool noodle. Want Greg happy happy? I want Greg to
Speaker 1: know that as excited as I am about my Max
Speaker 1: Sure's or deal, I'm also super excited that he is
Speaker 1: down there in Florida enjoying himself after working his tail off,
Speaker 1: you know, doing all that he does. And so a
Speaker 1: little tip of the cap to you, my friend, Greg.
Speaker 1: I wish you were here, but actually if you were here,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't be here. I don't worry. We're gonna have
Speaker 1: you back. It's not about we're gonna have like. We're
Speaker 1: going to have a few more ian Con shows, I
Speaker 1: hope before the season starts. Because to pick we need
Speaker 1: to pick your brain about your auction strategy. I mean
Speaker 1: everyone everyone wants to know. I mean, you can only
Speaker 1: give away so much. I don't know. I actually I
Speaker 1: can listen as a road wire. You want fifteen team auction.
Speaker 1: That is not easy against some really good inning. Believe
Speaker 1: from day one day won two ye whatever that something
Speaker 1: that it's probably one seven from yep I did. It
Speaker 1: was a good year. It was a good year, eminated.
Speaker 1: So we're gonna have you in again. Definitely pick your
Speaker 1: rain about Auxtin s Traty. But you know we can
Speaker 1: find out who we're ian CON's guys. We're ian CON's
Speaker 1: guys this year. Luke voit. Luke Void has nothing to
Speaker 1: do with the Yankee had on top of your head.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you it does because it gave me the
Speaker 1: opportunity to watch him. And you know, people are looking
Speaker 1: at my rankings and they're like, those are some awesome rankings,
Speaker 1: except why the hell do you have Luke Void at
Speaker 1: one five? I had. I had a buddy of mine
Speaker 1: who who I showed the rankings too before I sent, like,
Speaker 1: it's really good. Why is what at wont I was like,
Speaker 1: because I think he's that good, and he goes, you know,
Speaker 1: you can make that same point, putting him at like
Speaker 1: two oh five, and I said, all right, you know
Speaker 1: I don't really need to, Okay, So I went and
Speaker 1: I looked and I put him. I was like, let
Speaker 1: me drop on twenty points and see how I'm books.
Speaker 1: And then every time I was like, no, I'd rather
Speaker 1: have him than that guy, that guy, that guy, that guy. Hey,
Speaker 1: you can go duck yourself. There's no cursing. Go duck yourself.
Speaker 1: He's one and the reason is because he's number one
Speaker 1: and hard hit rate in the in in the in
Speaker 1: all of the game, and embarrowl rate. He's also playing
Speaker 1: in the right ballpark. He also plays the game the
Speaker 1: right way. Though. Do you know how many home runs
Speaker 1: he hit that went three hundred and fourteen feet to
Speaker 1: right field? I don't know. Do you know a lot?
Speaker 1: A lot? Because he could just because he does thoes
Speaker 1: one on he has like that opposite field stroke. You
Speaker 1: watch him play and you know a little preview here.
Speaker 1: We're gonna get into our position previews once Greg comes back.
Speaker 1: But first base, I have two guys that are really
Speaker 1: like as sleeper you know, late round candidates. Luke Void
Speaker 1: is one of them, is it. I think he gets
Speaker 1: pumped up a little bit because of the because of
Speaker 1: the Yankee bias. I think he gets pumped up a
Speaker 1: little bit in draft. But there's lots like you mentioned,
Speaker 1: look how hard he hits the ball to eight eight
Speaker 1: career hitter in the minors. Is a guy that you know,
Speaker 1: I was touting a little bit last year. Actually drafted
Speaker 1: him uh in my NBC Draft champions hees are fifty
Speaker 1: round drafts. I drafted him in like the forties in
Speaker 1: the rounds just based on his bat and ball data alone.
Speaker 1: I was like, if he gets an opportunity and then
Speaker 1: he data against the major league pitchers and this was
Speaker 1: seen is battball data with the Cardinals. It was a
Speaker 1: small sample, but he absolutely matches. He hits the ball
Speaker 1: extremely hard. Again, uh you know, in point two miles
Speaker 1: per average velocity that was eleventh best in all of
Speaker 1: baseball last year year ninety two point two miles per
Speaker 1: average eggs of velocity. If he qualified, that's top twenty.
Speaker 1: You mentioned his twelve point four barrels per plate appearance
Speaker 1: number one, who know in all of baseball? If he qualified,
Speaker 1: eight point two percent soft hit rate was the lowest
Speaker 1: over the past two seasons. Again, it's a small sample size. Mashes,
Speaker 1: he hits the ball, and look, he also plays the
Speaker 1: game the right way. He's a nut. He does the
Speaker 1: little Sammy Sosa jump you ever noticed, because a little thing,
Speaker 1: and then he does the finger up and then everybody
Speaker 1: sort of laughs at him, and so now he's like
Speaker 1: he wants to do the finger and he's like, I
Speaker 1: really like this kid. There's no fluke. That was what
Speaker 1: I was saying all last fright I have this his
Speaker 1: projection for this season. You let me know how this sounds.
Speaker 1: And you know, most of the time, projections are conservative
Speaker 1: to seventy runs, seventy five runs, seventy five r B
Speaker 1: I and you're getting him where you're getting him right
Speaker 1: now and NBC Drafts I can pull it up for
Speaker 1: You're getting him around two. At that point, you're getting
Speaker 1: a guy who's gonna hit two seventy runs. And again,
Speaker 1: these are conservative. If he plays every single day, every day,
Speaker 1: he's gonna hit it could be exactly I'm setting kind
Speaker 1: of the floor here. If he plays every single day,
Speaker 1: those are extremely conservative numbers for me. Going to pick
Speaker 1: three right now, seventeen first basement off the board. Well,
Speaker 1: and who's above him? Josh Bell is probably right above him. Um,
Speaker 1: you know who's above him? See Miguel Cabrera. Well, I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm the nut job that hasn't met one fifty
Speaker 1: five in a dynasty league. I don't want anything to
Speaker 1: do with either one of them. I don't want anything
Speaker 1: to do with Miguel cab Or. I'm gonna say one
Speaker 1: thing about our Cosmar, and I want to say this
Speaker 1: about our Cosma is a really bad contract. Yes, I agree,
Speaker 1: it's a really bad contract, but it gets cheaper as
Speaker 1: it goes along. If the San Diego Padres are ever
Speaker 1: going to win a World Series or Cosmo is going
Speaker 1: to be in the center of that, Mash, I understand
Speaker 1: why they did it, and to me, there's value in
Speaker 1: that now. I also don't like Will Mears that much.
Speaker 1: From a fantasy perspective, He's an interesting player, but from
Speaker 1: like a baseball perspective, he's a bit of a punk.
Speaker 1: He's not number one punk. Yeah, he's not number one punk.
Speaker 1: Ian Cott is big on, you know, calling people out
Speaker 1: for being punked too. By the way, sorry, not a
Speaker 1: big HOAVI or bias guy. I remember that. No no, no, no,
Speaker 1: no no no, I like bias. Okay, it wasn't. Then
Speaker 1: there was someone that you really called out that you
Speaker 1: did not like. Um I remember Michael Kopeck was one,
Speaker 1: and that you didn't like girlfriend's correct. I saw an interview.
Speaker 1: I never forget this because I enjoyed some of your analysis.
Speaker 1: Is you know, you would look into like people's personal
Speaker 1: lives and because well, because here's what happened. I owned
Speaker 1: It's the whole thing I was. I owned Michael Kopeck
Speaker 1: in a Dynasty League and I saw an interview I'm
Speaker 1: gonna talk right to camera. I saw an interview with
Speaker 1: Michael Kopeck and his fiance. After I saw that interview
Speaker 1: with his fiance, because it really ended up being with
Speaker 1: his fiance, I traded Michael Kopeck the next day because
Speaker 1: I said, Okay, this is a really hard job and
Speaker 1: she's really tough too. That's tough. This is not going
Speaker 1: to work. There's gonna be upheaval in this young man's life.
Speaker 1: I am not interested in going along for the ride.
Speaker 1: So I traded him and Gregory Polanco and a third
Speaker 1: round pick for Trevor Bauer. That was in May of
Speaker 1: last year, and I got some phone calls going, are
Speaker 1: you nuts? How can you do that? Trevor Bauer? Really,
Speaker 1: you're taking Bauer, You're giving up Polanco and Copeck and
Speaker 1: a third round pick, And I'm like, yeah, why because
Speaker 1: I just saw an interview with copex fiance and then
Speaker 1: about two weeks later he as t J surgery. He
Speaker 1: was he was healthy when I traded him. I'm not
Speaker 1: blaming that genius now, but it was. It was a
Speaker 1: good trade and it helped win the league. Um, and
Speaker 1: it will help me moving into this year. And and
Speaker 1: made it so that I could trade because I have
Speaker 1: still have sale and uh, Trevor Bauer and Jameson Tayan
Speaker 1: and Carlos Martinez. You darvish Jose Cantana in a fifteen
Speaker 1: team league. Not so bad, not so bad at all.
Speaker 1: So Luke voit, we found someone. We found common ground
Speaker 1: on one player so far, I like, he hits the
Speaker 1: ball extremely hard. Another player who hits the ball extremely hard,
Speaker 1: and I mentioned that I was gonna bring him up.
Speaker 1: It's Vladimir Guerrero Jr. Who right now is the first
Speaker 1: prospect being drafted. I mean, he really did, really don't one.
Speaker 1: I wants to make you sing and dance. I've tried
Speaker 1: to trade for him all off season with one of
Speaker 1: my oldest and best friend and he's like, I'm not
Speaker 1: trading him. He's just too much fun to have on
Speaker 1: my team. And I'm like, yeah, no, I want to
Speaker 1: have him on my team too. He's like, no, I'm
Speaker 1: not going to give him to And he sends me
Speaker 1: pictures of le Jr. When he was like four years
Speaker 1: old with his father, and he's like, look at that face.
Speaker 1: I can't trade that face so cute. He's really good. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's that's quite the understatement there. When it comes to
Speaker 1: Vladimir Garreo Junior. I did notice this. You have him
Speaker 1: ranked eighth in your dynasty ranking. Should he be number one?
Speaker 1: Why isn't he number one? No? No, I shouldn't be
Speaker 1: number one? And and no no, no no no. Just
Speaker 1: for some people who are coming in, I understand why
Speaker 1: you don't. Seven players you have ahead of him, all
Speaker 1: super young and there or in their prime, and he
Speaker 1: still have a bunch of years left ahead. Kuna Wan
Speaker 1: Soto Francis School Indoor, Jose Ramierra Is Christian Yelloch. I
Speaker 1: get it. Some people at home are gonna see Vladimir
Speaker 1: Garol Junior and get hyped in the dynasty and say, look,
Speaker 1: he should be the who's right after Vladimir Guaro Harbor punk? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I con not big on punks. No, man, Come on,
Speaker 1: Bryce Harper. You know that Jonathan Papa Bond business that
Speaker 1: happened all those years ago. If I was on Bryce
Speaker 1: Harper's team, you know what I would have been on
Speaker 1: that team. I would have been Jonathan Papa band going.
Speaker 1: You don't win championships by not running out to first
Speaker 1: base champ. That's it. Sorry. If I meet Bryce Harper,
Speaker 1: I'll say, nice to meet you. You. You're a great athlete,
Speaker 1: great talent. Do I want him on my Yankee team?
Speaker 1: I do not my Yankee team owner Ian con It's fair,
Speaker 1: but I go when he like, he calls me out
Speaker 1: for saying we when I talk about the Yankees or
Speaker 1: or the Knicks or the Jets, right because those are
Speaker 1: my teams. Right, he calls me out. I'm like, come on,
Speaker 1: everyone does it. I live in the Bronx, the Boogie
Speaker 1: Down Bronx. I live fifteen minutes from the stadium. My
Speaker 1: son and I go to. I go to. I go
Speaker 1: to more games than than most, and I follow the team.
Speaker 1: I watch every game. That's kind of crazy, but I'm
Speaker 1: a pretty big Yankee fan. Vladimir Graver Junior last year,
Speaker 1: I mean, it was unprecedented what he did moving through
Speaker 1: levels and look his first taste of double A four
Speaker 1: oh two elevens, Yeah, no big deal. Hits fourteen home
Speaker 1: runs in sixty one games, took the league by storm,
Speaker 1: moves up to triple A, still hits three six s.
Speaker 1: Al Right, it's not you know, it's not. Still pretty
Speaker 1: damn good. Six home runs in thirty games. I remember
Speaker 1: he got shut down at some point because he was
Speaker 1: suffering from an injury. I'm with you. I don't think
Speaker 1: that he should be the number one player taken in Dynasty,
Speaker 1: but for seasonal he's gonna be a hot topic this year, yes,
Speaker 1: about where he should be drafted. I know last night
Speaker 1: the Labor Draft, that's a mixed fifteen team draft. He
Speaker 1: went too and Jason Colletten again, first pick of the
Speaker 1: fourth round. That's right, that's right in your opinion, that's right,
Speaker 1: that's right, that's about right. A little later maybe, but not.
Speaker 1: He'll be up on May nine. Maybe he's gonna be special.
Speaker 1: He's gonna be special. He's but you know who's gonna
Speaker 1: be most special? How much time we got? You know
Speaker 1: he's gonna be the most special redraft player? That comes?
Speaker 1: All right, here we go, Here comes the show, Hey
Speaker 1: Otani show, Hey Otani man is Babe ruth as a
Speaker 1: tall Japanese handsome man even this year. Yeah, he's not
Speaker 1: gonna pitch, but he's he's he's the best. There's nobody better.
Speaker 1: His hitting profile was let's do we'll find that during
Speaker 1: the break. If here's my upside. Now he's not coming
Speaker 1: back till May. Fine, so I'm gonna take out thirty games.
Speaker 1: Twenty games. So this is what I would have had
Speaker 1: for him if he if he played a whole season,
Speaker 1: it would have been forty home runs two eight five average,
Speaker 1: hundred and ten r b i s hundred and ten
Speaker 1: runs with thirty five stalling basis. Do you know what
Speaker 1: I just said? Forty home runs to eight five average
Speaker 1: with thirty stall bases clambering at home right now? You're crazy? Yeah? Okay, Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's awesome. Look what he did last year. Let's pull
Speaker 1: it up during the break. Yeah, and and and it
Speaker 1: was a smaller sample size. Well, I will say this
Speaker 1: for Vladimir Guroel. I tweeted out a link the other day.
Speaker 1: It was a pretty cool story from UH sports Net
Speaker 1: up in Canada. Basically, the earliest day that Vladimir Gurow Jr.
Speaker 1: Can be on the roster is Friday, April twelve. So
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna say mark your calendars, but I tried
Speaker 1: to do that last year Ronald Dauna. He wasn't up
Speaker 1: exactly that day, it was up shortly after that. Mark
Speaker 1: your calendars. I'd expect him in April when we come back.
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Speaker 1: can I can I? Can? I what you got? Can
Speaker 1: I which about something? See what we're doingout something? So
Speaker 1: I just got a car, right, at least a car
Speaker 1: for the three years ago, A really cool car. Really
Speaker 1: like the car. It's a Subaru out Back. It's a
Speaker 1: six cylinder engine. I've never had a six cylinder engine.
Speaker 1: It's kind of a little got a look giddy up
Speaker 1: and and the I dealt with them before and they
Speaker 1: were a fan of the TV show, so they gave
Speaker 1: me a really nice deal on it. Made it all
Speaker 1: very pretty. I just got a freaking email from super
Speaker 1: U say stay warm with the remote engine starter right, saying, hey,
Speaker 1: if you have this remote engine, why don't they give
Speaker 1: me that when I got the freaking car. Now I
Speaker 1: got to pay another six hundred dollars or whatever, so
Speaker 1: I could that should have come with the car. I
Speaker 1: don't disagree with you, but this is the way everything works. No, man,
Speaker 1: I've been like, I mean, I get it. It's just
Speaker 1: a it's all about money. It's a scam. If we
Speaker 1: had six hours, that would have been an awesome thing
Speaker 1: to talk about, but since we really only have one,
Speaker 1: that was probably unnecessary. I mean fine, you know, I'm
Speaker 1: perfectly fine hearing about your outside fantasy baseball life, your
Speaker 1: super I've never owned a car, actually, but I and
Speaker 1: I don't own this car because I do lease this car.
Speaker 1: I've never do you have a driver's lessons? Do I
Speaker 1: drive around like my parents cars? It's goods. There are
Speaker 1: people don't want to get involved, like the whole insurance.
Speaker 1: I'm paying for gas at the stuff, so I just
Speaker 1: steal their cars sometimes. I have a bicycle. I have
Speaker 1: a metro card let you get around in New York.
Speaker 1: I live in Riverdale, New York, so I live I
Speaker 1: we we have a little house and we have, you know,
Speaker 1: room for two cars. We have two car sections. You know.
Speaker 1: I want to ask you about out specifically, something that
Speaker 1: happens a lot in my play in keeper leagues. I
Speaker 1: don't I don't. I don't do the whole dyning. I
Speaker 1: don't go all the way into the dynasty thing. But
Speaker 1: I play in keeper leagues where you can keep up
Speaker 1: to four players and every single year, and we're trying
Speaker 1: to figure out how to fix this problem. And I
Speaker 1: don't know, maybe people home listening or watching can relate
Speaker 1: to this issue. We have these fire sales trades everything
Speaker 1: this year. I know where you're going where it's like
Speaker 1: six players for one because you're giving up. Oh, I
Speaker 1: have Vladimir Guero Jr. I drafted him in the seventeenth round.
Speaker 1: In our league. It moves up one round every single year.
Speaker 1: But you have a three year max. How long you
Speaker 1: can keep a player. I've played in this before. I'll
Speaker 1: give you Vladim Guerrero. You give me your six best players.
Speaker 1: That is correct, and you know what that know? How
Speaker 1: do you make it better? But just remedy that you
Speaker 1: don't play in these leagues? How about that? I mean
Speaker 1: they're my longest. These are my home leagues, my longest,
Speaker 1: but these this is what you this is the problem
Speaker 1: with these leagues. I'd rather just try and figure out
Speaker 1: this issue. Like I don't know, honestly. I I played
Speaker 1: in these leagues, and I got I on the last day.
Speaker 1: And this was in two thousand and eleven. I had
Speaker 1: Manny Machado and Jonathan Luke Roy okay, and I was
Speaker 1: going for the title. Was me and one other guy.
Speaker 1: On the last hour before um the trade deadline, I
Speaker 1: traded a Manny Machado who was still in the minor leagues,
Speaker 1: and Jonathan Lucroy who was still in the minor leagues,
Speaker 1: for Miguel Cabrera who was Miguel Cabrera at the time,
Speaker 1: and Mark to Share who was Mark to Share still
Speaker 1: at the time, and a picture. And the league broke
Speaker 1: because it was like you just gave way to the
Speaker 1: guys going for the title, the two to your two
Speaker 1: best players for two and I. And the way I
Speaker 1: sold it to him on the phone was, look, if
Speaker 1: you in an hour, there will be no You can't
Speaker 1: keep these guys and Ann how're they're gone? Why not
Speaker 1: take Manny Machado and Jonathan Lucroy who you'll be able
Speaker 1: to keep for three years. And you know, it turns
Speaker 1: out that had they done that, and you know, but
Speaker 1: that's the problem with those leagues is you run into
Speaker 1: those problems. So I I can't help you with that
Speaker 1: because I just played dynasty leagues because of that. Sorry, man,
Speaker 1: all right, somebody else knows somebody else, somebody else. For me,
Speaker 1: I just I was one of the guys who broke
Speaker 1: the league. I mean, and you know, your trade compared
Speaker 1: to all the things that happened in my league's are like,
Speaker 1: it's no comparison. I mean, you actually gave up to
Speaker 1: legitimate prospects, Like it's not to be awesome, and you've
Speaker 1: got three players back. There was trade in my league
Speaker 1: last year. Severino was traded for seven players. Who was
Speaker 1: seven players Anthony rindn it Win, Chris Archer, Josh Johnson
Speaker 1: and Jacob and Jacob Cherry on top. That's not the Cherry,
Speaker 1: that's the Sunday bad. I've asked Greg about this, and
Speaker 1: he has he plays in keybor leagues as well. He
Speaker 1: says you should limit the amount of players you can
Speaker 1: get back into trade, like you can only get two
Speaker 1: players back in a fire sales trade. Yeah, but then
Speaker 1: ian CON's like getting flustered. He's it's just what else
Speaker 1: we got? Can we talk about it? Who are some
Speaker 1: who are some top prospects that you're looking at? This?
Speaker 1: To you, like, that's outside of Ladi mcgerreo Jr. You know,
Speaker 1: I put up a poll before before the show started
Speaker 1: over at Fantasy BFFs Twitter account, and I asked, who
Speaker 1: are like out of these four prospects? And I mean
Speaker 1: you could list anybody that you want. Who are you
Speaker 1: most excited about this year? Eloymenez. I mean he's a
Speaker 1: very popular candidate. He's really good. Victor Robles Orris Whitley's
Speaker 1: who Luzardo who's also gaining some steam out there in Oakland,
Speaker 1: Oh Lzardo is wonderful, and Whitley is a beast. He's
Speaker 1: got five pitches that are excellent. Whitley is so good,
Speaker 1: Um okay. In order of value to their teams this season,
Speaker 1: I would say it goes rob Less, Rozardo, him and
Speaker 1: Az Whitley. And that has everything to do with the
Speaker 1: clock because to me, Robless, I don't think that Bryce Heart,
Speaker 1: Bryce punk Harper, I can't stop myself, damn Bryce Harper
Speaker 1: is going back to Washington. I do not believe that
Speaker 1: he's going to So I think Robless is you're starting
Speaker 1: centerfield and're moving forward. And then second we have UM.
Speaker 1: I do think Lizardo was up. I think Lozardo is
Speaker 1: up in April. I think that the White Sox Zarto
Speaker 1: is freaking good man. Any left handers throwing nineties seven
Speaker 1: with control and command is my kind of left hander.
Speaker 1: Like I I love those kinds of pictures. I really
Speaker 1: like Lozardo a lot. He's still a young picture, so
Speaker 1: you can't, you know, go all in on him and
Speaker 1: trade away all your young hitters for him. But if
Speaker 1: there's a way to sneak Jesu's Lazardo into your team,
Speaker 1: I like it long term, long term from a dynasty perspective,
Speaker 1: elo him and I don't think he comes up till June.
Speaker 1: I also think he gets hurt a lot, so he
Speaker 1: could get hurt. And I also don't think first Whitley
Speaker 1: is gonna get a hundred and fifty innings. I just don't.
Speaker 1: So in terms, I think all four of them are
Speaker 1: great baseball players. They would all provide they would all
Speaker 1: provide a showing this amount of value. Let's do it
Speaker 1: this way. If all four we're gonna play all season, right,
Speaker 1: and they're all coming up on the same day, that's
Speaker 1: a different question. And they're all gonna play, they're all
Speaker 1: gonna be regulars. Um I would say Whitley would be
Speaker 1: number one. I would say Rod Bless would be number no.
Speaker 1: I would say Elloy him and has Maybe I'm gonna
Speaker 1: say Rod Bless will be number two, Eloy number three,
Speaker 1: and Julia would be number four. I think Eloy tops
Speaker 1: that list for me, and it's you know, it's nothing
Speaker 1: against Whitley. Look, all four of these guys are great,
Speaker 1: and I hear what you're saying. But Eloy Jimenez, you know,
Speaker 1: I look at the profile and he reminds me a
Speaker 1: lot of Nelson Cruz. Reminds me a lot of Nelson Cruz.
Speaker 1: Like if I had to make a compt for him,
Speaker 1: like maybe once he gets to his prime at the
Speaker 1: at the major league level, a guy who you know,
Speaker 1: the past couple of years, look at Nelson Cruz, he's
Speaker 1: you know, he said two eight plus not last year
Speaker 1: adding average came back a little bit, but throughout his
Speaker 1: career with the Marriners, he's been two eight plus hitter,
Speaker 1: thirty five plus home runs. That's where I could see
Speaker 1: and that's where I could see. Eloy Himan is especially
Speaker 1: you know, playing inscomyn learn from a guy like Jose
Speaker 1: Bring too. Yeah, helps, and I think Eloy him, him
Speaker 1: and As could have a higher average. I mean, he
Speaker 1: could hit three hundred. How about this for Victor Roeblis.
Speaker 1: You seemed very excited about him, And I don't disagree
Speaker 1: with the fact that I don't expect Bryce Harper back
Speaker 1: in Washington good. I don't know where he's gonna go
Speaker 1: to be honest, like San Diego, San Francisco, somewhere's gonna
Speaker 1: be in the Yankees on it is going to be.
Speaker 1: I do not you don't want either one of these guys.
Speaker 1: I do not want either of these guys. One. Oh,
Speaker 1: I don't want to be in the spot. Oh it's
Speaker 1: not on the spot. That's punk number one and punk
Speaker 1: number two. In fact, I got Manny Michado was punk
Speaker 1: number one. So I'll take Bryce Harper if I had
Speaker 1: to put it like that, because I do not like
Speaker 1: Manny Machado. I do not want Manny Machado as the
Speaker 1: starting third baseman. Somebody tells me you didn't like Alex
Speaker 1: Rodriguez either. No, I like to Actually I like to
Speaker 1: a Rod more than man Ni Michado. I did, I did.
Speaker 1: I actually had parallels there, don't know. Yeah, but at
Speaker 1: least a Rod. A Rod was kind of a jerk,
Speaker 1: but he kind of tried to not be a jerk,
Speaker 1: like he kind of tried to be sweet about it. Um. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: but even earlier, I always had a soft spot for
Speaker 1: a Rod, And I was always slightly annoyed Jeter because
Speaker 1: always felt like Jeter did not. That's a whole another hour.
Speaker 1: Stay tuned for the Yankees. Yankees. It's like Days of
Speaker 1: Our Lives would be Yankees of our dance. That's a
Speaker 1: quite right, Yankees of our lives. I mean all my Yankees.
Speaker 1: That would be all my Yankees, all my Yankees. Were
Speaker 1: you a big soap opera guy? My mother in law
Speaker 1: was the casting director for all my children. Really, yes,
Speaker 1: for so, does that mean by default you had to
Speaker 1: be a big soap opera guy. No, because by the
Speaker 1: time I met the woman who is now my wife,
Speaker 1: I was not a soap opera age. However, when I
Speaker 1: was a kid, I used to watch Days of our
Speaker 1: last when I was between the ages of like eleven
Speaker 1: and fifteen, I did as well, but um involuntarily would
Speaker 1: just always be on my house like any soap opera
Speaker 1: was always on my house. And a lot of people
Speaker 1: like to make these, uh, these major league player comps
Speaker 1: for prospects. Sometimes it's a little bit unfair. I realized that,
Speaker 1: you know, I, you know, I mentioned Nelson Cruz as
Speaker 1: a possibility for Elo him and is I heard someone
Speaker 1: bring up still Only Marte as Victor Robots. It might
Speaker 1: have been you. I think it might have been you
Speaker 1: on the podcast, but I heard it. I was like,
Speaker 1: that makes because when you said that, I was like,
Speaker 1: Starling Marte. Yeah, because Starling Marte look makes a lot
Speaker 1: of contact, doesn't walk all that much, but there are
Speaker 1: a lot of parallels. Look robless, you're expecting stolen basis
Speaker 1: from him. He's never gonna be a huge power hitter.
Speaker 1: I don't think personally neither Starling Marte can he give
Speaker 1: you in his prime, you know, fifteen, fifteen to twenty
Speaker 1: maybe and forty stolen basis? Yeah, that's something I could average.
Speaker 1: What's a realistic projection for Victor Roblosts this year? Not that. No,
Speaker 1: it's not. Um I would I'm gonna say to seventy
Speaker 1: two eight to ten Homers, Yeah, that's gonna go. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: thirty stolen basis. Yeah, I think that's realistic. I think
Speaker 1: it's realistic, and that's why he's going where he's going
Speaker 1: this year. Like you know, some of the middle rounds
Speaker 1: are getting as like your outfield three, outfield four. That's
Speaker 1: fine in a fifte team league where you start five
Speaker 1: out four, outfield four, Victor Roblo. I mean it's a
Speaker 1: little risky too. But look, Luke Void is a little
Speaker 1: risky because Luke Void could have a really bad spring
Speaker 1: and you know, I could see a video with his
Speaker 1: don't want Gregg Bird to go away for whatever reason.
Speaker 1: Well that's Greg Bird is there. That's the point is,
Speaker 1: that's why Luke foid Is is a little risky because
Speaker 1: Greg Bird is there and if Void struggles, then Bird
Speaker 1: does have the opportunity to step back in and hit
Speaker 1: one again. That was me with that. I do want
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Speaker 1: On top of that, I did want to bring up
Speaker 1: show hey Otani, Oh yeah, because we didn't get to
Speaker 1: it before. I like him what he was able to
Speaker 1: do last ye, please tell me. I know he struggled
Speaker 1: against let's run through this in three sixty seven plate appearances.
Speaker 1: So if we extrapolate that, is that what they call
Speaker 1: it extrapolating it? Yeah? What it is if you extrapolate
Speaker 1: how many at bats? Though? Do you think at bats? Which? Yeah,
Speaker 1: if you do that, he's sitting thirty plus at least
Speaker 1: ten stile and based in four card ceilings. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: let's be clear, he didn't start stealing bases until he
Speaker 1: wasn't pitching anymore, because while he was pitching, he didn't
Speaker 1: want to run. But once he wasn't pitching anymore. He
Speaker 1: started to run. So if you look at that, he
Speaker 1: stole like seven in the last month two months to
Speaker 1: five batting average, and that's as a one year old rookie.
Speaker 1: One year old rookies are see him hit the ball
Speaker 1: to left center field. I believe might have been his
Speaker 1: first home run which came off Like Corey Kluber was
Speaker 1: watching that. It was one of his first ones. I
Speaker 1: don't know if it was his first, but I was
Speaker 1: watching that in a bar last year, got out of work,
Speaker 1: met up at a bar with some with one of
Speaker 1: my buddies, and I'm watching show Heyo TONI take Corey
Speaker 1: Kluber deep as one of his twenty two home runs
Speaker 1: last year in three d and sixty seven plate appearances.
Speaker 1: Talk about the bad ball day, hard hit ray last
Speaker 1: year could lea average was seven percent home run to
Speaker 1: five ball and he's maybe the third fastest player in baseball.
Speaker 1: You're very excited. Is there a way to do we
Speaker 1: have that list of how fast people are and who's
Speaker 1: the fastest of all the fast fast guys. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: can pull it up. I know. It's one of the
Speaker 1: one of the stat cast leaderboards that they offer. Now,
Speaker 1: I don't know if he's gonna qualify who's the fastest
Speaker 1: fast because if you ever saw Ohayo Tani leg out
Speaker 1: a triple the fastest on a it's interesting sprint speed.
Speaker 1: This is a feet per second Byron Buckston at thirty
Speaker 1: point five per second, but really fast. But he's but
Speaker 1: I have them pretty high on my dinosaur rankings just
Speaker 1: in case he learns out a hit. Do you see
Speaker 1: any of those off season videos of Byron Buckston? Like,
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't think that he qualifies you. Okay,
Speaker 1: that's fine. I'll tell you. He's really fast and he's
Speaker 1: really fun to watch, and he's super chill. This dude
Speaker 1: is like he's just he's gonna be eight point four
Speaker 1: ft per second, which all cont buying it, but he's right.
Speaker 1: He's right around you know other names, Francisco Lindor j Polanco.
Speaker 1: He's faster than that, Nimo, He's faster than that. He's fast,
Speaker 1: he can. I mean, he's he's like a gazelle. He's
Speaker 1: a huge dude. He's what six ft and he just
Speaker 1: gonna be hitting this year. So if he is, if
Speaker 1: he's falling in draft, does he how does he work
Speaker 1: into the what what the Angels want to do? Though?
Speaker 1: Is he because he's gonna, he's gonna, he's gonna be
Speaker 1: just what do they do withols is going to sit
Speaker 1: on the bench with bongs. And I still say that
Speaker 1: Otani is faster than that in my own part in
Speaker 1: head He's really fast. He's really super fast. Um, but
Speaker 1: I think you know it's not a Dark van riper
Speaker 1: about this that in Dark made an awesome point. He
Speaker 1: said he's gonna have to throw too to rehab. So
Speaker 1: the throw days are gonna be on days where where
Speaker 1: he would be facing a really tough lefty. So if
Speaker 1: Chris Sale is going up against the Angels, Otani's gonna
Speaker 1: get the day off. But otherwise, Otani is Otani is
Speaker 1: a special special talent. He is like he's like Christoff's Porzingis.
Speaker 1: I mean he's he's like Porzingis. He's a unicorn and Uni. Yeah,
Speaker 1: in terms of being able to pitch, throw the way
Speaker 1: that he does, hit the way that he does the
Speaker 1: bad and ball data. I've said this for a while.
Speaker 1: The Angels have needed a tended power hitter for since
Speaker 1: the beginning of time. They finally have that. Tony I
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