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Speaker 1: I am Greg Susman's having a happy Monday to you.
Speaker 1: Here to talk about the deepest position in fantasy baseball today,
Speaker 1: the third base position. Yes, we are here to talk
Speaker 1: about the third base position. But before we do, I
Speaker 1: just leave. But I slept very well. It was tough
Speaker 1: to get out of bed. I don't know. I didn't
Speaker 1: stay up too late. Nothing crazy last night. Just man
Speaker 1: alarm went off today. It was tough getting out of bed.
Speaker 1: How about you something well? I was I was up
Speaker 1: thinking about work pretty early and I was like very
Speaker 1: up before my alarm went off. Taking with the third
Speaker 1: base ranks early in the morning. Greg, No, not really,
Speaker 1: I was just thinking about the whole stuff I had
Speaker 1: to do before anyone was like, oh, man, I gotta
Speaker 1: do my third base ranks, right, So I you know,
Speaker 1: I just I was just often about very early. I
Speaker 1: was in College Park, Maryland over the weekend. It was
Speaker 1: cool being back. Nostalgic. Not so cool with the result,
Speaker 1: but cool being back. Oh does that mean Maryland actually played?
Speaker 1: Is that why you were there? You went to a game? Yes?
Speaker 1: What happened? Who they face? Oh? College game Day? Was there?
Speaker 1: What happened? They lost? They were very badly. The first
Speaker 1: time out, the under sixteen time out was the first
Speaker 1: time basketball. It would be down nine nothing. They wind
Speaker 1: up tying the game three Michigan State. They went on
Speaker 1: a seven point run. Michigan stay good. Yeah there it
Speaker 1: was good. Um, Maryland, Maryland good. I didn't think so
Speaker 1: that was wrong. Um. In the second half, they never
Speaker 1: got closer than nine any point, and you were there
Speaker 1: to watch it all in person. It was very bad.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. Greg. Well, outside of that, that was the
Speaker 1: rest of your weekend. It was awesome because after the game,
Speaker 1: we got like two beers and a mixed drink. It
Speaker 1: was like a fifteen dollars total, and I was like
Speaker 1: I love color. I haven't seen these prices since. How
Speaker 1: was it called? It was fantastic and you just you know.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you some off gap, but that's fine. Come on,
Speaker 1: we got a third base ranks. I want some updates,
Speaker 1: some pictures that were worried about Blake Snell for all that.
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Speaker 1: been your sports grid news update. Now back to the
Speaker 1: Fantasy b FF's all right back here. B f f's
Speaker 1: Frank Greg and job Alex uh Frankie Blake Snell over
Speaker 1: the weekend and a quarter zone shot in his elbow
Speaker 1: doesn't seem good. That seems terrible. He said. He was
Speaker 1: fine pitching even afterwards, get a little more soreness, so
Speaker 1: he wanted to be cautious and he's not sure if
Speaker 1: he'll be ready for opening day. He is not going
Speaker 1: to be ready for opening day. Greg, and this is
Speaker 1: one of your keepers. I take it ready, it is, Frank.
Speaker 1: So we did get an update earlier today. Noon Raise
Speaker 1: manager Kevin Cass said Monday that Blake Snell it's quote
Speaker 1: feeling good and remains on track to play catch on Tuesday.
Speaker 1: So obviously something to monitor here when it comes to
Speaker 1: Blake's now. And again just another picture that is going
Speaker 1: to fall down draft boards right now due to injury.
Speaker 1: Luis Savourno after the year, Chris Sale with the flu
Speaker 1: is obviously falling down draft boards, going to start the
Speaker 1: year on the I L Mike Clevinger. Uh, We've actually
Speaker 1: seen some positive reports from cleve I saw just last week.
Speaker 1: I mean he was ramping up his throwing activity. Guy
Speaker 1: looks like he's ready to pitch right now. Hopefully they
Speaker 1: don't push him too quickly. But some good news there
Speaker 1: out of Clevinger. And then obviously everything that's going on
Speaker 1: with Blake Snow Greig gets a Cornzon shot in his
Speaker 1: left elbow, his throwing arm, the same elbow where he
Speaker 1: had a clean up last year mid season. Man, this
Speaker 1: this is a scary situation. Look, I think if you're
Speaker 1: going into perhaps you're gonna get him a bit of
Speaker 1: a value. Same thing when it comes to auctions. I
Speaker 1: think he went for like eighteen dollars in labor yesterday
Speaker 1: in the mixed the twelve team mixed auction yesterday, um,
Speaker 1: which obviously is much lower than he would have gone
Speaker 1: for normally. But um, there's a there's risk, there's there's
Speaker 1: obviously a big reward, but I would say right now
Speaker 1: the uh, the risk outweighs the reward in my opinion
Speaker 1: when it comes to Blake Snow. Yeah, you know, I
Speaker 1: get very nervous where it comes to these picture injuries
Speaker 1: and they normally more often than not come back to
Speaker 1: bite you in the ass and other times like you're fine,
Speaker 1: but what reserving shot ready like this would be a
Speaker 1: fifteen d fifteen a d Elston he had he and
Speaker 1: you have to work his way back up. It's really
Speaker 1: really scary as the Blake Snell Uh, as a Blake
Speaker 1: Snell owner here, do you hear out what to do?
Speaker 1: I wouldn't pay eighteen dollars from I couldn't. Just to
Speaker 1: put that in perspective, Blake Snell went for eighteen dollars
Speaker 1: yesterday and then trying to see someone else who went
Speaker 1: for a simone price like Clevinger went for seventeen, Granky
Speaker 1: went for nineteen, so her Shaw twenty. So at an
Speaker 1: eighteen dollar price tag, that's someone who based on these
Speaker 1: other prices is like a fourth, fifth round starting pitcher.
Speaker 1: Still might be too much risk to take on there
Speaker 1: when it comes to Blake's Now, there was more going
Speaker 1: on of course last night. Is there more going around
Speaker 1: the last weekend in regards to fantasy baseball? Before we continue,
Speaker 1: let's talk a little fantasy basketball for this evening. For Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I know earlier today you met up with not
Speaker 1: met up with you, you did the tip drill with
Speaker 1: Drew dig Meyer of Deli Rodo dot com. And obviously
Speaker 1: Drew and those guys have been phenomenal all season long
Speaker 1: and especially recently when it comes to the NBA tip draw.
Speaker 1: I know you had a chance to speak to him
Speaker 1: about who he's targeting at the center position tonight. Let's
Speaker 1: take a look at that on tonight's NBA dfeste. Let's
Speaker 1: move over to the center here. And this one another
Speaker 1: obvious one for us as Incleuveland Tristan Thompson. He's not
Speaker 1: expected to play, which means increased playing time for Andre
Speaker 1: Drummond tonight. The top matchup though it gets ready to
Speaker 1: go there, Yeah, that's the big thing with Andrea Drummond. Now,
Speaker 1: you know the press texts dipped all the way down
Speaker 1: to seventy. And that's in large part because when you
Speaker 1: have Tristan Thompson playing behind you, they have to regulate
Speaker 1: Andre Drummond's minutes more than they did in Detroit. You know,
Speaker 1: he's playing kind of low thirties, uh sometimes, you know,
Speaker 1: struggling to get up at the thirty minutes because Tris
Speaker 1: and Thompson behind him was it needs to play eighteen
Speaker 1: to twenty five minutes on each and every night. So
Speaker 1: you remove Tristan Thompson from that equation, fins out that
Speaker 1: front court for the Calves a little bit and gives
Speaker 1: that minutes upside Andre Drummond to get back into the
Speaker 1: thirty thirty six range. He's always handled his own pretty
Speaker 1: well against Rudy Gobert. We think he'll be able to
Speaker 1: do so tonight. And the seventy price tag is miles
Speaker 1: away from the price tags you were paying for Andre
Speaker 1: Drummond in Detroit earlier in the season, so we think
Speaker 1: he's severely under priced here. Bff's there, Andre Jonman, the
Speaker 1: guy you don't want to get in your lab tonight.
Speaker 1: Without Tristan Thompson expected to play for Cleveland rank yeah,
Speaker 1: I think that makes a lot of sense obviously what
Speaker 1: Drew dick Meyer said about Tristan Thompson. Since German was
Speaker 1: traded over to the Cleveland Cavs obviously had to split
Speaker 1: some time there, which are just in Thompson still playing
Speaker 1: around twenty five minutes to night with him expected out tonight,
Speaker 1: we should expect Andre Drummond to get back into the
Speaker 1: thirties in minutes and obviously had a suppressed price tag.
Speaker 1: He's someone that you should be building your lineups around,
Speaker 1: especially at the center position. All right, So heading back
Speaker 1: to fantasy baseball, though, Frank, I was just so anxious
Speaker 1: and answy to talk to you about publicks. Now, what
Speaker 1: else did I miss over the weekend about players gonna
Speaker 1: hurt like Aaron Judge. Yeah, Aaron Judge on Friday apparently
Speaker 1: extend some discomfort again while swinging, and I know that
Speaker 1: he was going to undergo some test today. I haven't
Speaker 1: seen any results or anything mentioned about Aaron Judge so far.
Speaker 1: We can check that out during the break and see
Speaker 1: if anything. There's nothing on Aaron Judge. All right, so
Speaker 1: we'll have to pay attention and to see I know
Speaker 1: that he is someone who's going for cheaper prices right
Speaker 1: now at auctions and slipping non draft boards because again
Speaker 1: his dealt with injuries in the past, had the oblique
Speaker 1: last year, has the shoulder right now, had surgery on
Speaker 1: the other shoulder a couple of years ago. You don't
Speaker 1: know if he's going to be ready for opening day.
Speaker 1: They still they keep saying that there's a chance that
Speaker 1: he could be ready for opening Day, but obviously that's
Speaker 1: all up in the air right now. When it comes
Speaker 1: to Aaron Judge and another one, Greig, where if he's
Speaker 1: good to go by opening day, or even if he
Speaker 1: misses the first week or so, you're gonna get him
Speaker 1: at a massive discount when it comes to Fantasy baseball.
Speaker 1: So he was typically someone I wasn't targeting because he
Speaker 1: was still a second third round pick and I didn't
Speaker 1: really like that price. Say if he starts falling into
Speaker 1: the four fifth round and you know you're getting him
Speaker 1: at that value, then maybe there's a chance that I
Speaker 1: do jump in on him right at that cost. We
Speaker 1: talked to last week we're doing our outfielders. How you
Speaker 1: commented how high I have Aaron Judge, and I said,
Speaker 1: if your mains hurt, it all changes. It's scary right now,
Speaker 1: and I don't see how I can keep him where
Speaker 1: I have them, which was outfielder there number ten, you're
Speaker 1: not driving. Here's the top swelve outfielder right now, there's
Speaker 1: no there's no way. I'll have to figure out where
Speaker 1: I'm going to drop him. I don't know where that's
Speaker 1: going to be quite yet, but it's probably gonna be
Speaker 1: closer to He has ten play that much. So over
Speaker 1: the weekend his a DP was thirty two, So it
Speaker 1: really hasn't fallen that far. I thought it would have,
Speaker 1: you know, dropped a little bit further than that. But
Speaker 1: those are from drafts one from Friday through yesterday, and
Speaker 1: his a DP is at thirty two, so still you know,
Speaker 1: solid third round pick. When it comes to Fantasy Baseball,
Speaker 1: that seems like too big of a price action you
Speaker 1: would spend. H don't fifteen bucks? Can we get him
Speaker 1: in fifteen bucks? Probably? Not? Alright? Alright? Where I want
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Speaker 1: third base ranking s Frank, you have any more news
Speaker 1: and notes yet too before we reveal our ranking, Greg,
Speaker 1: the biggest news of all that you missed from the
Speaker 1: weekend was that Joe Musgrove is dealing with shoulders. I
Speaker 1: did see that. I'm so sorry and I felt terrible
Speaker 1: because I woke up yesterday in a little breakfast prep myself,
Speaker 1: got everything ready to watch Joe Musgrove against the Toronto
Speaker 1: Blue Perfect Sundown Pirates broadcast is talking about how Joe
Speaker 1: Musgrove is hitting nine miles per hour consistently on the gun.
Speaker 1: The fastball Vello was up late last year. That's when
Speaker 1: he started performing well. The breaking pitches look great. And then,
Speaker 1: of course, late last night on a Sunday evening, Greg,
Speaker 1: we got the news Joe Musgrove is dealing with shoulder discomfort.
Speaker 1: So do with that what you will. I mean, most
Speaker 1: people he's more nothing more than a back end rotation
Speaker 1: piece anyway, your SP five, R s P six, maybe
Speaker 1: even if you're playing a twelve team league, he's one
Speaker 1: of your bench starting pitchers. But somebody I was targeting
Speaker 1: once again is Joe Musgrove. Let's see what comes out
Speaker 1: of this, Greig. I'm sorry, Frankie, right, okay, all Rlet's
Speaker 1: move over our third DAS rankings. Frank And this is
Speaker 1: the first time this season we have a different player
Speaker 1: at number one. This is weird. This is years for
Speaker 1: me for a couple of reasons. Your number one overall
Speaker 1: third baseman, my number one here is Alex Bregman. Your
Speaker 1: number one third basement overall is Josie Ramirez. And this
Speaker 1: is weird for me because I am the Josie Ramirez guy.
Speaker 1: You know that about me. I've been on Josie Ramirez forever.
Speaker 1: And I'm also the guy that likes to ignore first
Speaker 1: half like they don't matter. He's just say, hey, the
Speaker 1: second half was great, Like who cares about the first half.
Speaker 1: I can't do that right now, because we saw how
Speaker 1: bad that Jose Ramirez can be. You yourself, as a
Speaker 1: Jose Ramirez owner, suffered through that first half. Where he
Speaker 1: batted under two hundred for most of the half. Still ran,
Speaker 1: but he couldn't fine, he couldn't hit a damn thing. Now,
Speaker 1: the second half was un freaking real, and he's one
Speaker 1: of the only players legitimately there's a chance to go
Speaker 1: if not forty forty, and you're getting him way later
Speaker 1: than you're getting Trout and yell at Nacunia, you know,
Speaker 1: and way later. But that slump was really disgusting, Frank
Speaker 1: and if he middles out somewhere, I'm going to rather
Speaker 1: have Alex Bregman. I feel safer drafting Alex Bregman that
Speaker 1: I do no one A Ronando because those start home
Speaker 1: road splits and Josier mirrors, because we know how bad
Speaker 1: that slump can be. Alex Bregman is not going to
Speaker 1: hit the depths that Jose Ramirez did. You're not getting
Speaker 1: stolen basis. I get that, and everything else you should
Speaker 1: better average. I like Alex Bregman more than I like
Speaker 1: the other two guys, which is, by the way, he
Speaker 1: is third in your poll right now through the top
Speaker 1: third basement. The first baseman you want to draft, it's
Speaker 1: Arnadano by far and away number one you have by far,
Speaker 1: then Jose Ramirez, then Alex Bregman. Alex Bregman is my
Speaker 1: number one overall third basement and I think some people
Speaker 1: might be scared off by the whole cheating scandal when
Speaker 1: it comes to you're not wrong, uh. Injury risk also
Speaker 1: going up with those hit by pitches, Greg. But I
Speaker 1: will preface this by saying, in a head to head
Speaker 1: points league, Alex Bregman should be the number one third
Speaker 1: baseman off the board. In fact, he should probably be
Speaker 1: a top ten pick overall, maybe even higher than that.
Speaker 1: He was the number one hitter in head to head
Speaker 1: points leagues last year. That was Alex Bregman. And I
Speaker 1: really do like no Erronado as well. I think you
Speaker 1: can make the argument for any of these three third
Speaker 1: baseman to be the number one third baseman this year,
Speaker 1: Greg Nolan. Erronado's average offensive line over the past five
Speaker 1: seasons three d batting average, forty home runs, one and
Speaker 1: four runs scored, one and twenty four ribbies and three
Speaker 1: stolen bases. He is as elite of a four category
Speaker 1: contributor as you can find. Of course, there is risk
Speaker 1: that he could be traded away from Colorado, which would
Speaker 1: affect his overall production because his home road splits, as
Speaker 1: Greg mentioned, are very stark. He's much better in coors Field,
Speaker 1: like most hitters who played for the Rockies, So how
Speaker 1: you have to keep that in mind. As of now,
Speaker 1: it looks like Nolan Arronado is going to stay put
Speaker 1: with the Colorado Rockies and Alex Bregman, the guy just
Speaker 1: continues to get better and better. Say what you want
Speaker 1: about him, whether it's cheating related or not. I guess
Speaker 1: we're gonna find out this upcoming season. But look in
Speaker 1: two thousand, eighteen eighties sixty homers up over a hundred, runs,
Speaker 1: over a hundred Ribbies, ten Stone bass p s. Last year,
Speaker 1: Greg ops over a thousand and twenty two runs, hundred
Speaker 1: and twelve r b I's five steals and stole basis
Speaker 1: are coming down. I don't know if you're gonna get
Speaker 1: many steals out of Bregman anymore. UM and Craig Miss
Speaker 1: actually spoke with him on Fantasy Supports today. We had
Speaker 1: an interview with Alex Bregman and said he's focused on
Speaker 1: getting off to a quicker start because the past couple
Speaker 1: of seasons he really gets off to a slow start.
Speaker 1: Had absolutely ridiculous second half last year with an OPS
Speaker 1: over eleven hundred. If he gets off to a faster start,
Speaker 1: and of course there is an opportunity for Alex Bregman
Speaker 1: to have a even better season. Maybe it's three fifteen,
Speaker 1: three twenty with forty home runs and and the rest
Speaker 1: of those county sets. Greg from me, I do have
Speaker 1: Jose Aramirez first, because uh, these are for Roto rankings
Speaker 1: five by five, and I just think the ability to
Speaker 1: get thirty stolen bases what we saw out of him.
Speaker 1: You know, from July one on last year and only
Speaker 1: forty nine games, he finally figured out stop trying to
Speaker 1: lift the ball so much. Zira miror Is, You're a
Speaker 1: great hitter the way that you are. You don't need
Speaker 1: to change a single thing. In the first half, Greg,
Speaker 1: his flyball percentage was nearly fifty percent from July one
Speaker 1: on the fly ball percentage was he lowered it nine
Speaker 1: percentage points, started hitting more line drives, started pulling the
Speaker 1: ball more. That is what made Jose Aramire is a
Speaker 1: great player. A couple of seasons ago. You brought up
Speaker 1: that upside, Greg, someone that can flirt at type season.
Speaker 1: I don't know that we'll see the batting average well
Speaker 1: over three anymore. I think he can approach two eighty average,
Speaker 1: twenty five home runs, five stolen bases, really good county
Speaker 1: stacks in the middle of the Cleveland Indians lineup. This
Speaker 1: just comes down to preference. What categories do you want?
Speaker 1: If you trust that you can find stolen bases later
Speaker 1: on in the draft, then go ahead by all means,
Speaker 1: take a Bregman, take a Eranado. I don't have a
Speaker 1: problem with either of those guys. Greg I like building
Speaker 1: out my foundation early on with everything and holds your
Speaker 1: mirrors to me, is one of those players that will
Speaker 1: give you everything. I think he started to figure it
Speaker 1: out there in the second half, and it's frankly, it's
Speaker 1: something that I do trust going into this show. So
Speaker 1: I agree you figured it out in the second half.
Speaker 1: He was amazing. He talked about how he became the
Speaker 1: line drive hit her again. But it's really hard to
Speaker 1: get that first half out of my mind. Like it happened,
Speaker 1: and it wasn't like it happened five years ago. It
Speaker 1: just happened. That's really scary, Like to invest what you're
Speaker 1: gonna have to invest in here as your number one
Speaker 1: overall third basement. You want a little more safety than
Speaker 1: you're a safe player normally. Do you want that? I
Speaker 1: want the safe stolen basis? Greg, That's when it comes
Speaker 1: down to and you know, look, Greg, last year I
Speaker 1: was all over a position scarcity didn't really work out
Speaker 1: for me. I was pulling outfielders up the board. You know,
Speaker 1: maybe this year I'm going a little bit too far
Speaker 1: when it comes to the category scarcity, batting average, stolen basis.
Speaker 1: But I do trust what I saw from Josei miire
Speaker 1: is in that second half. And look, if you don't understand,
Speaker 1: you want someone a little bit more safe. Aeronado is
Speaker 1: the safet of the three. If you want safety, you
Speaker 1: think he's gonna remain in Colorado, then take non Arnado.
Speaker 1: There's no doubt about that. But there is a chance
Speaker 1: that Bregman continues to get even better. And if he
Speaker 1: does get better than what we saw last year, then
Speaker 1: that means he's going to be better than non Arronado.
Speaker 1: And if Josier Miirez is the player he was over
Speaker 1: those final forty nine games for an entire season again,
Speaker 1: then he's more than likely the number one third base
Speaker 1: and he's probably you know, thirty thirty player with a
Speaker 1: good batting average as well. Greg, those final forty nine
Speaker 1: games he had three one awesome. He was awesome, man,
Speaker 1: you know, I love him. I think it's more of
Speaker 1: a type of league format do you play in more
Speaker 1: than anything. I think if you play in Rhodo again,
Speaker 1: for me, it's Jose and if you play in head
Speaker 1: to head points it's Alex Bregman. And if you're a
Speaker 1: safe player, then just take Eronado right up next. Let's
Speaker 1: get you are fourth and fifth, top third basion because
Speaker 1: I think there's a clear drop off after that. For me,
Speaker 1: I think it's the same for you. Um for me,
Speaker 1: I haven't at the Rendon raffievers you have it, Rafi
Speaker 1: devers Anthony Rendon. How come I just expect a little
Speaker 1: bit more power out of Anthony Rendon and he is
Speaker 1: switching leagues. It's kind of like the Mookie Bets argument
Speaker 1: that I made. Greg. I think Anthony Rendon is a
Speaker 1: phenomenal player and I still have in my top five.
Speaker 1: But if I'm splitting hairs, I mean last year was
Speaker 1: a career year for Anthony Rendon, and of course he
Speaker 1: came in a contract year, so I'm not gonna be
Speaker 1: completely skeptical of what I saw from Anthony Rendon, because
Speaker 1: I do trust that he is a great player. The
Speaker 1: bad of ball data was great last year. The stack
Speaker 1: cast data was awesome when it came to Anthony Rendon.
Speaker 1: He doesn't strike out under fourteen percent strike out right
Speaker 1: now three years in a row. Really great plate discipline.
Speaker 1: Except instead of getting the thirty four home runs in
Speaker 1: the juice ball, a hundred and twenty six r B
Speaker 1: I s, I think we're probably closer to right around
Speaker 1: thirty home runs close to a three batting average. Good
Speaker 1: counting stats for me, Greg Raphael Devers can get even better.
Speaker 1: I mean, he did what he did last year and
Speaker 1: and his what age twenty to twenty three season um
Speaker 1: look three eleven batting average, a hundred and twenty nine
Speaker 1: runs scored. He'll even chip in five to ten soul
Speaker 1: and basses. That is Raphael Devers. And he really really
Speaker 1: cut down on his strikeouts from C to SE. That's
Speaker 1: the biggest difference when it comes to Raphael Devers. The
Speaker 1: strides that he's made is that he's just making more contact.
Speaker 1: Extremely aggressive swinger reminds me a lot of Javier Baias
Speaker 1: go to swing it pitches outside the strike zone. But Greg,
Speaker 1: I look at Rafael Devers and I see a player
Speaker 1: that is a sending. Not that Rendon is necessarily descending,
Speaker 1: but I think that if Devers continues to get better,
Speaker 1: that better will be better right now. But it comes
Speaker 1: down to splitting hairs. I do like both of those guys.
Speaker 1: I like both of them to Endeavor's year last year
Speaker 1: was just remarkable. Was the year that we hoped he
Speaker 1: had UH the year prior batting three eleven compared the
Speaker 1: two forty UH the year the year before that. Um,
Speaker 1: I think there is he was a much much better hitter.
Speaker 1: But again I go with safety and quite frankly, I
Speaker 1: just trust and Rendown a little bit more to give
Speaker 1: you what he did last year more than ever. Maybe
Speaker 1: that's where my head's at. What I think, Rendown, you
Speaker 1: know what you're getting. I think Devers could still be ascending,
Speaker 1: or maybe last year is a career here, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I'm not altor Raffie Denvers by any means that we're
Speaker 1: splitting hairs. I just trust more what every Rendown did.
Speaker 1: I think that don't worry about him changing leaks. Probably
Speaker 1: not professional hitter, professional hitter. I like that the babbit
Speaker 1: was the same exact number in back to back years
Speaker 1: at I love points the lead type of stuff. He
Speaker 1: walks almost as much as he caves, Like that's the stuff.
Speaker 1: I absolutely love all these numbers across that we were
Speaker 1: all very similar over the past few years. And the
Speaker 1: only thing one up with the all runs and everyone's
Speaker 1: home runs went up because the US Ball clue Raffie nevers.
Speaker 1: So for me, I'm taking every rendown very very confidently.
Speaker 1: It's again just like he's safer pick. It reminds me
Speaker 1: of my bregmant, Like it's just why I take a
Speaker 1: chance we can get safety here with a any rendom,
Speaker 1: And I think that's maybe play an area that I'm
Speaker 1: growing as a fantasy ping Greg, is that you know,
Speaker 1: I'm starting to take more risks early on in drafting
Speaker 1: me more like you, I think. So we're we're swapping.
Speaker 1: We're swapping draft philosophies here. Normally I do like the
Speaker 1: safer player, but it's hard to argue with what Raffi
Speaker 1: Devons did last year, and on the off chance that
Speaker 1: he is again ascending um and potentially even getting better
Speaker 1: than what we saw last year and I think that
Speaker 1: season will outproduce what Anthony Rendon will do in year
Speaker 1: one with the Angels. At number six, we got the
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Speaker 1: to learn more. All right, here we go. Let's keep
Speaker 1: it rocking, Frank, keep it going. Let's go. This is
Speaker 1: a deep position, man. We gotta get as many in
Speaker 1: as we possibly can. So my six and seven here
Speaker 1: for me, or many Machado and you on Mocado. Those
Speaker 1: are your six and seven. Yeah, let's go. I've talked
Speaker 1: to you a lot, so that's kind of why we're
Speaker 1: on the same page year at six and seven. These
Speaker 1: are two players that very in on I'm interested in
Speaker 1: drafting because I believe that they very easily wind up
Speaker 1: in the top tier. You're getting them at a not
Speaker 1: top tier price. Yeah, these are players that you're getting
Speaker 1: in the fourth fifth round range right now. And Manny Machado,
Speaker 1: we've seen him have a down year before and then
Speaker 1: bounce back um the following year. We've seen in two
Speaker 1: thousand and seventeen he hit two fifty nine and then
Speaker 1: bounced back the next year. We batting average, thirty seven
Speaker 1: home runs, a hundred and seven Ribbies. That was the
Speaker 1: year that he spent half the year with the Dodgers,
Speaker 1: half the year with the Baltimore Orioles. And he was
Speaker 1: someone who was a borderline first round pick last year,
Speaker 1: first year, mega contract, new location in San Diego. I'm
Speaker 1: kind of giving him a pass for what we saw
Speaker 1: last year out of Manny Machado. Uh. And he struggled
Speaker 1: against right handed pitching in two thousand nineteen, which is
Speaker 1: not like him to thirty nine batting average seven OPS
Speaker 1: in his career to seventy five batting average in eight
Speaker 1: oh eight OPS. And that's with a huge sample size
Speaker 1: of data. So I expect him to bounce back against
Speaker 1: right handed pitching. Greg. If you are a conspiracy theorists,
Speaker 1: I have this for your Jeff Zimmerman of Rhodograss tweeted
Speaker 1: this out a couple of weeks ago that Manny Machado
Speaker 1: was hit by a pitch on August eighth last season.
Speaker 1: Before that hit bi pitch, he was batting two seventy
Speaker 1: two three triple slash after the Hippi pitch to thirteen three,
Speaker 1: three seventy five. So if you continued to play through
Speaker 1: some kind of in jury after the hit by pitch,
Speaker 1: then I think that that's that's what can explain the
Speaker 1: final two months slump there. But we like Fernando Tatis,
Speaker 1: Greg still likes Tommy fam It's a solid line up there.
Speaker 1: I think that there's gonna be, you know, opportunities for
Speaker 1: county stats and maybe you know seven eight stolen bases,
Speaker 1: thirty to thirty five home runs to eighty. He's just
Speaker 1: solid Greg across the board. He's not going to hurt
Speaker 1: you anywhere. It's a clear life rank. He's all right
Speaker 1: finding those solid guys aren't going to hurt you. That's
Speaker 1: why I think I found hope. Yeah, I hope so
Speaker 1: as well. And look Joan Moncata last year really reminded
Speaker 1: me a lot of what we saw from Raphael. He
Speaker 1: was actually more aggressive last year. He was someone in
Speaker 1: the past who was a little bit more passive, and
Speaker 1: he was. He has a really good eye at the plate,
Speaker 1: but last year started chasing pitches outside of the zone
Speaker 1: nine percent more than in eighteen. Yet his contact rate
Speaker 1: on pitches both inside and outside of the zone went up.
Speaker 1: He struck out less last year as well. His four
Speaker 1: h six babit was incredibly high for you on Moncada,
Speaker 1: but look at the quality of contact that he makes
Speaker 1: point eight mile per hour average eggit velocity nine seven
Speaker 1: percentile in baseball career best twelve percent barrel rate, and
Speaker 1: he maintained high babbos across every level in the minor
Speaker 1: leagues as well. So I think he's another one like
Speaker 1: Devor's who could take that next examply and he's someone
Speaker 1: that we're drafting as like a borderline first round pick
Speaker 1: next year, Greg, you on Moncada wouldn't surprise me if
Speaker 1: it's to eighty to ninety. I don't think he's gonna
Speaker 1: hit over three hundred like he did last year, but
Speaker 1: approach thirty home runs really take that next step. Counting
Speaker 1: stats are gonna be there, really good line up, ten
Speaker 1: to fifteen stolen bases, another one doesn't hurt you anywhere,
Speaker 1: and he's probably going to give you more speed than
Speaker 1: Manny Machado as well. Totally. And if you've made the
Speaker 1: case for put Moncada ahead of Machado, I think I
Speaker 1: would actually be okay with it. But I think there's
Speaker 1: a clear top seven, and Moncada has that ability over
Speaker 1: thirty home runs proce just power in a good line
Speaker 1: up in a good ballpark. It all ends up to
Speaker 1: be really nice year from me on Moncada. Then we
Speaker 1: get to my eight nine, which I feel very passionately
Speaker 1: about as well, specifically Vladim errig Guerrero Jr. I think
Speaker 1: also could I kind of ascend like we thought he
Speaker 1: was gonna happen last year. It didn't. Maybe there's a
Speaker 1: little project fatigue on him and people may have written
Speaker 1: him off way too quickly. So I like Vladimir Guerrero.
Speaker 1: And then in there I also Chris Bryan. I know
Speaker 1: you have Chris Bryant way late later than I do,
Speaker 1: and I think I get that you don't like Chris Bryant.
Speaker 1: I understand that, but I think the heat has just
Speaker 1: gone too far. He's not nearly as bad as you
Speaker 1: think he is. Great. I think you should pull up
Speaker 1: his Baseball Savant stat cast page. I have a fan
Speaker 1: graphs page, and you'll see a lot of You see
Speaker 1: a lot of blue on that page. Blue. It's a
Speaker 1: lot of white and green on his fan graphs. Ice
Speaker 1: cold for Chris Bryant. The stat cast data the bad
Speaker 1: and ball data for Chris Bryant, and it really doesn't
Speaker 1: do much outside of hit home runs. Fine, they'll give
Speaker 1: you a run thirty home runs, and he's gonna score
Speaker 1: runs runs scored a scatters category as well. Seventy seven
Speaker 1: RBIs last year, fifty two r BIS the year before,
Speaker 1: seventy three r bis and two thousand seventeen expected to
Speaker 1: lead off. The guy's not going to be a contributor
Speaker 1: in rb I's not going to steal many bases that
Speaker 1: it's been seven to four each of the past three seasons.
Speaker 1: Average is fine, not gonna hurt you, they're not going
Speaker 1: to help you. So but average runs and home runs
Speaker 1: that's pretty good. I would say he's more of a
Speaker 1: two and a half category player. No, I mean I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't think he's gonna hit two eighty. I think
Speaker 1: it's I think that's who gazy. I think he's probably
Speaker 1: more of like a town he's never been. But his
Speaker 1: stat cast data, Gregg says that he got incredibly lucky
Speaker 1: least like he was hurt last year too. Well, he's
Speaker 1: hurt every year. Look at the year before that in
Speaker 1: two thousand and eighteen, he played a hundred and two games.
Speaker 1: He's dealt with shoulders. Something's not hurt every year. He
Speaker 1: was hurting eighteen. All right, he played a hundred forty
Speaker 1: seven games last year. But he has dealt with like
Speaker 1: nagging stuff, you know what I'm saying, Greg, Like he's
Speaker 1: played through it before and and that might be why
Speaker 1: it's hurt his performance in the past. All Right, Maybe
Speaker 1: maybe he's a three category contribute. That's fine, Agree to disagree.
Speaker 1: You think he's gonna hit two eighty. I think he's
Speaker 1: probably closer to like at two sixty. That's fine. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm out on Chris Bryan. I'm not gonna have him anywhere.
Speaker 1: I just think that's why I have him ranked the
Speaker 1: way that I do. I have him down at fresh
Speaker 1: brankings back up like, I think you've just you've gone
Speaker 1: too far here, you really have, So I don't think
Speaker 1: there's much upside there is my opinion. Why can't Chris
Speaker 1: Bryant be better better than Josh Donaldson. You guys have
Speaker 1: gonna hurt. You have Ben hurt. Last year you wouldn't
Speaker 1: draft Shosh and I was roll. Now he's back inside
Speaker 1: your top eight. He's in the best lineup in baseball,
Speaker 1: Greg Chris Bryant is leading off a regular field. What
Speaker 1: is it? So what he's not gonna give you RBIs
Speaker 1: Josh Donaldson is going to give you home runs. He's
Speaker 1: going to give you r bis, gonna give you run scores,
Speaker 1: gonna give you run more run scored at a better average.
Speaker 1: And is he gonna batting average? Yes, slightly better, slightly
Speaker 1: better batting average, more home runs out of Josh Town.
Speaker 1: It's definitely way more RBIs. We're talking like thirty more
Speaker 1: rbs and they're both talk gonna give you stolen basis.
Speaker 1: So pick and choose. What do you want? You want
Speaker 1: a little more average time he's speaking choosing you have
Speaker 1: him everybody by five spots. It's not like they're all
Speaker 1: in the same tear for me, they're all in the
Speaker 1: same time. My tears from six through sixteen, I wouldn't
Speaker 1: mind getting again. This is a deep position pick and
Speaker 1: choose who you want. Josh Donaldson isn't the best line
Speaker 1: up in baseball with the Minnesota Twins get hurt again.
Speaker 1: I don't have any shares of him yet because no,
Speaker 1: I've been drafting Manny Machado everywhere. Like, to me, he's
Speaker 1: the best value on the board. Like so, I haven't
Speaker 1: wound up with Josh Jonalson. But if if you're just
Speaker 1: asking me, let's say we're in the sixth round, my
Speaker 1: first what is that? Eight third basement are are already gone,
Speaker 1: and I'm deciding between Josh Donaldson, Matt Chapman, and Chris Bryant.
Speaker 1: I'm not taking Chris Bryant. I'm taking either Josh Jonalson
Speaker 1: or Matt Chapman. Mat Chapman to me, is young Josh Donaldson.
Speaker 1: He does a lot of the same things. Good played, disciplined,
Speaker 1: walks a lot, hits the ball extremely hard, hits the
Speaker 1: ball in the air, and his batting average was incredibly unlucky.
Speaker 1: Last year. He went from like two eighty to nine.
Speaker 1: Nobody's always been like a tithe of the hitter. But
Speaker 1: his quality of contact Regy, it's all so hard that
Speaker 1: his batting average based on actually improved his play discipline
Speaker 1: a ton from when he was in the minors to
Speaker 1: the Major He doesn't strike out as much as he
Speaker 1: used to. Any projections system's batting fifty Matt Chapman. I
Speaker 1: think he could be better than that. Literally, I think
Speaker 1: he'd be like he's done at once. Yeah, but I
Speaker 1: mean he's only been up in then the majors for
Speaker 1: what two and a half years, So he's one of
Speaker 1: those guys. Were you still young enough where he can
Speaker 1: take that next step as well? Greg, he is a
Speaker 1: year younger than Chris Bryan. It makes him younger like
Speaker 1: Josh Donaldton and match happened to me are just their
Speaker 1: clones to sixty good home runs, power numbers runs RB.
Speaker 1: I that's fine, really, I think you can make the argument. Look,
Speaker 1: if you think he's safer, you're not worried about as
Speaker 1: many injuries. Fine, yeah, I mean you can. Honestly, Greg,
Speaker 1: you can talk me into moving Match Chapman ahead of
Speaker 1: Josh Jhnson. Now. The only reason why I didn't is
Speaker 1: because you're almost paying for Matt Chapman to do what
Speaker 1: Josh Donaldson does every single year until he's or cowls
Speaker 1: Josh Donaldson and Greg. If you're worried about the injuries,
Speaker 1: that's fine, then you should be fading before. To be fair,
Speaker 1: I'm not taking I'm not I'm not taking Josh Donaldson
Speaker 1: the same exact things last year. But again, look best
Speaker 1: linem in baseball, just put get it. Where does easily
Speaker 1: Mayhew following all this because he's a different player than
Speaker 1: these other guys, right Like, we're talking about Matt Chapman,
Speaker 1: we're talking about Chris Bryant, We're talking about Josh Donaldson.
Speaker 1: These are all guys that are gonna get your thirty
Speaker 1: home runs score close to a hundred runs ideally have
Speaker 1: close to hundred RB eis Obviously Chris Bryan hasn't gotten
Speaker 1: near that recently. Lea Mayhew for me is number ten
Speaker 1: for you, he's right around the same number. He's rund
Speaker 1: the same number here. Where does where does he kind
Speaker 1: of fall in this mix? I think he gets drafted
Speaker 1: in a similar range as Donaldson, as Matt Chapman, and
Speaker 1: I don't have a problem with that. I think it
Speaker 1: comes down to draft philosophy what you need on your
Speaker 1: team in that moment. If you want to put an
Speaker 1: emphasis on power, then I think you lean with a
Speaker 1: Josh Donaldson or a Matt Chapman. But if you want
Speaker 1: to solidify your batting average and your run scored, then
Speaker 1: then you can leave with D. L. Mayhew. And again,
Speaker 1: taking someone like le Mayhew allows you to take risks
Speaker 1: on power hitters later on in your draft that are
Speaker 1: going to hurt your batting average. So LEA. Mayhew last year,
Speaker 1: while it was a career season, he had three seven.
Speaker 1: We have seen him hit for that hive of a
Speaker 1: batting average in the past. When he has now led,
Speaker 1: he has won a batting title in both the National
Speaker 1: League and the American League. His expected batting average was
Speaker 1: three twenty two last year. That was the third best
Speaker 1: in baseball. His quality of contact GJ. Mayhew was ridiculous.
Speaker 1: His swing is built for Yankee Stadium. He's a line
Speaker 1: drive hitter. He hits the ball to right field. I
Speaker 1: think you expect some natural regression, but it wouldn't surprise
Speaker 1: me at all. If he hits three fifteen, if he
Speaker 1: hits three twenty, if he even approaches that number, that
Speaker 1: we saw last year. But he's going to give you
Speaker 1: a batting average probably closer to twenty home runs than
Speaker 1: the what do you have twenty seven last year? That's
Speaker 1: not realistic. I think eighteen to twenty home runs really
Speaker 1: good run scored could lead the American League, and run
Speaker 1: scored to be honest, uh, seventy to a d r
Speaker 1: BIS and a handful of stolen basis. Greg. It just
Speaker 1: comes down to what you want at that point in
Speaker 1: the AFT. If you want to continue to build out
Speaker 1: your runs and your batting average, you know that you
Speaker 1: can find home run, home runs and RBIs later on
Speaker 1: in your in your drafts, then I think Mayhew was
Speaker 1: the answer for you. Um I think that he is
Speaker 1: right in the same range, fifth sixth round. I don't
Speaker 1: have a problem where he's going, you know, le maayhew A.
Speaker 1: This this interesting because I don't want him. I'd rather
Speaker 1: have Chapman, Bryant, Pinstripe, Prime, Donaldson. If it's my sense,
Speaker 1: I don't want my third basement basement because you want
Speaker 1: power run. Second base sucks and we'll talk about that
Speaker 1: later in the week. Say they sucks. And I was
Speaker 1: doing my second base rankings earlier today and I was like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, you're right. You're right about that. This
Speaker 1: is horrible and I feel Mayhew has versatility everywhere first, second,
Speaker 1: third base. But if you use him anywhere other than
Speaker 1: second base, you are making a mistake. It's like using
Speaker 1: a catcher at first base. Don't do it. I think
Speaker 1: you're making a big mistake. Dj Le Mayhew as your
Speaker 1: second nation, makes a whole lot more, says your third basement.
Speaker 1: I'd rather have the power guys and then maybe think
Speaker 1: he was my second basement. That's cool that averaging runs,
Speaker 1: but that fits well with remember whole stadium. You have
Speaker 1: power guys in dead All right, we've gone through basically
Speaker 1: the first half. We got a touch on flat. We
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Speaker 1: a lot to do. Frank, Let's let's roll right through
Speaker 1: power through power hour. Right now, it's talk more about
Speaker 1: a lad Yeah. I think Vladimir Guerrero Jr. Can have
Speaker 1: an Anthony Rendell in type season. Greg, it wouldn't surprise
Speaker 1: me one bit. Talk about him being in better shape
Speaker 1: this upcoming season in his second season, and I tweeted
Speaker 1: out a video of a home run that he hit
Speaker 1: yesterday against the Pittsburgh Pirates. Just ridiculous. It was like
Speaker 1: a frozen rope that went like four hundred feet. It
Speaker 1: was like, this guy's hands are incredibly quick. I think
Speaker 1: that last year obviously got a taste in the majors,
Speaker 1: got worn down a little bit, We saw some fatigue
Speaker 1: later on, comes back to shape, comes back this year
Speaker 1: to camp in better shape. Um, and what he did
Speaker 1: in the minor leagues, Greg and two thousand, eight three
Speaker 1: one batting average, thousands, seventy three o p s. He's
Speaker 1: gotta raise the launchego. He hit too many groundballs, but
Speaker 1: I think if he does that, we're looking at someone
Speaker 1: who can approach the three D batting average twenty five
Speaker 1: to thirty home runs, good counting stats because they have
Speaker 1: a solid line up out there in Toronto, good ballpark
Speaker 1: to hit in other good ballparks that hidden in his
Speaker 1: division in the American League East. After Machado and Yoan
Speaker 1: Maka to go off the board, Greg Vladim mcguarreo Jr.
Speaker 1: Is the next third baseman that I would be looking
Speaker 1: for the problem is I that point? More often than not,
Speaker 1: he's already gone. Yeah, because there's someone that likes lad
Speaker 1: more than I do. There's obviously hype surrounding um Latimer,
Speaker 1: as there should be, but you can't make that jump,
Speaker 1: which is kind of exciting. Let's move on to the
Speaker 1: next crew over third base man, hear a frank and
Speaker 1: it's my it's really the start. Oh my next tier
Speaker 1: and it's Max Munsey's in there, Mike mus Stocks is
Speaker 1: in there like I. Justin Turner is in there as well.
Speaker 1: I bumped Justin turn up because it Justin Turner and
Speaker 1: I feel he's underappreciated. Munsey stock Is are similar to
Speaker 1: Donaldson and to Chapman, as these guys are just monstrous
Speaker 1: power hitters, and he's just get a little bit later
Speaker 1: and the value is still really good. Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: that makes a lot of sense. Um, Max Munsey someone
Speaker 1: who if you thought it was a fluke, it's clearly
Speaker 1: not a fluke when it comes to Max Munsey improved
Speaker 1: against left handed pitching last year. Gonna bat uh, you know,
Speaker 1: towards the top of that Dodger's lineup, probably gonna score
Speaker 1: over a hundred runs as long as he stays healthy,
Speaker 1: remains in that lineup. Um, not gonna help you in
Speaker 1: batting average, obviously, he's actually gonna hurt. He's probably more
Speaker 1: like a two fifty two STICKSI hitter, but going to
Speaker 1: hit a thirty five home runs maybe even approach forty
Speaker 1: RBIs might be a little bit low because he's again
Speaker 1: probably gonna bat second in the lineup. But I think
Speaker 1: that Maxi Monty is very similar to those players that
Speaker 1: you mentioned Greg. Same thing with Mike mustak is, same
Speaker 1: thing with a Uhniyo Suarez, who I all have in
Speaker 1: the same area. It's you know, I have months He
Speaker 1: at twelve, Chris Bryan at thirteen, I have Mustakis at fourteen,
Speaker 1: Jeff McNeil at fifteen, uh and then a U Henio
Speaker 1: Suarez at sixteen, Jeff McNeil, similar to DJ Lemayhew, you
Speaker 1: gotta use that guy at second base or even in
Speaker 1: your outfield. You're not using him at third base in
Speaker 1: my opinion, Greg, But that rounds out my top sixteen.
Speaker 1: Suarez I have a little bit lower, just because I
Speaker 1: think him and Micha Umsakis are gonna give you similar numbers. Great,
Speaker 1: but I worry about the shoulder injury. I agree, isn't
Speaker 1: playing it. Is he gonna be ready for opening Day?
Speaker 1: I don't know, you know, so my question with Anyo
Speaker 1: Suarez was where how far drawings remember sixteen third basement
Speaker 1: right exactly where I have him too, And I'm wondering
Speaker 1: I did with Miguel Sha know, ahead of him, I
Speaker 1: don't think so. I think that's because at least with Suarez,
Speaker 1: he's not gonna bat h He's not gonna have as such,
Speaker 1: uh such of a low batting average as mcguils soon know.
Speaker 1: He's gonna hit like two sixty probably similar power. Maybe
Speaker 1: Snow has more power upside, but hasn't shown the ability
Speaker 1: to stay healthy as well, So you know, if you're
Speaker 1: talking about risk, I think Snow does have a little
Speaker 1: bit more than a u Heno Sauarez, okay um, I
Speaker 1: want to open about Justin Turner. We drest him. I
Speaker 1: don't mind Justin Turner as like a corner infielder. No,
Speaker 1: it's fine if we could get him for I don't
Speaker 1: have the auction values. You have forty five tabs open,
Speaker 1: and that's not one of them. I I changed it
Speaker 1: back to a DP, right, he legitimately has thirty tabs open. Computer.
Speaker 1: You never know what you're gonna need. You just say
Speaker 1: Turner nine dollars nine dollar corner infielder. Expensive, maybe too expensive.
Speaker 1: We'll talk more about it, but he is what he is.
Speaker 1: It's fine. He's gonna give you a good batting average.
Speaker 1: You know, he's gonna miss probably thirty games throughout the
Speaker 1: course of the season, good county stats, lift the ball
Speaker 1: with the Dodgers, gonna hit twenty five home runs, he's firing.
Speaker 1: He gives a good batting average at a good point
Speaker 1: in the draft as well. Nine dollars his average auction
Speaker 1: value over at the NFBC and his a DP from
Speaker 1: over the weekend Greg is one. So he's the twenty
Speaker 1: second third baseman off the board. It's just it's so weird.
Speaker 1: That's how deep the position is that you're talking about
Speaker 1: Justin Turner as the twenty second third baseman off the board. Greg,
Speaker 1: It's crazy, It's ridiculous. Where do you have him again?
Speaker 1: I haven't met, Sorry Greig. My reasoning Miguel Sinnell. I
Speaker 1: love Miguel Sinell, and I think he has the upside
Speaker 1: to hit fifty home runs. Juli Gurriel, I think is
Speaker 1: probably gonna give you similar numbers to Justin Turner and
Speaker 1: probably going to stay healthy as an been as injury
Speaker 1: prone as a Justin Turner in the past. A really
Speaker 1: good line up with the Houston Ashtari is my number
Speaker 1: twenty third baseman. And it's interesting cause they never been
Speaker 1: the Julie Gurriel guy and I always neither. I'm always
Speaker 1: surprised about how old he is. He started five. That
Speaker 1: just turns younger. He came over a little bit later
Speaker 1: than then some of the other Cubans came to the league.
Speaker 1: Juli gary Hell was amazing last year. There's thirty home
Speaker 1: runs essentially all those RV eyes. He was awsome, doesn't
Speaker 1: really strike out, which I like a lot, makes a
Speaker 1: lot of contact, always hits for good batting average. The
Speaker 1: difference for him last year was he raised the launch
Speaker 1: angle and the juice ball. So I'd be a little
Speaker 1: skeptical that he comes close to the thirty home runs
Speaker 1: he hit last year, but you know, mid twenties, I
Speaker 1: think he can approach that good county seat. Is gonna
Speaker 1: play every day for the Houston Astros, really good lineup.
Speaker 1: The only other name I have ahead of Turner as
Speaker 1: well greg is Scott Kingary because I think he could
Speaker 1: be player this year, very very n and the and
Speaker 1: the position versatility third base in outfield. It helps, especially
Speaker 1: in deeper leagues where is war. I have ed wardo
Speaker 1: Escarty one. I'm I don't know. I'm just not buying it.
Speaker 1: Look if I'm wrong. If edwardo Escuar comes out and
Speaker 1: has another fantastic season, that's fine. He really really struggled
Speaker 1: in the second half. Is that something that's gonna carry
Speaker 1: over this year? I do worry about it with him.
Speaker 1: He's gonna hit in the middle of the Arizona diamond
Speaker 1: Backs lineup, so the RBI opportunities should continue to be there.
Speaker 1: But last year strikes me as a career year in
Speaker 1: terms of the power. I think he's probably gonna give
Speaker 1: you similar power numbers. So like a Gurio twenty three,
Speaker 1: maybe home runs not nearly as good of a batting
Speaker 1: average man. I'm out, man, he's better on a point,
Speaker 1: so he hits a lot of doubles. We got about
Speaker 1: six minutes left. She's some sleepers were like, yeah, let's
Speaker 1: go all right. So I asked you about a month
Speaker 1: ago because I looked at the list list. I looked
Speaker 1: at the list, and there was one name on the
Speaker 1: list is the first name he's talking about that long ago,
Speaker 1: and it was Brave Story Basement Austin Riley. And you
Speaker 1: had obviously not gotten there yet. You haven't looked into
Speaker 1: it um and you weren't super in and I kind
Speaker 1: of tried to sell. He was like, hey, he's a
Speaker 1: really good lineup. He's obviously a top prospect. Like I
Speaker 1: feel like people kind of overlooking him now that he
Speaker 1: just had some time to research. Now you've been about
Speaker 1: Austin Riley. I like Austin Riley. I have him as
Speaker 1: my seven third baseman right now, and I have just
Speaker 1: ahead of him the Yankee guys and to R and
Speaker 1: g or Schella, who I think are great values right
Speaker 1: now as well. Austin Riley. The risk with Austin Riley
Speaker 1: is that he still is in a position battle with
Speaker 1: Johann Camargo. So obviously Riley has more prospect pedigree and
Speaker 1: has higher upside. And what I really like so far
Speaker 1: is I think he has like thirteen spring training at bats.
Speaker 1: I tweeted this out yesterday, drink Greg, he only has
Speaker 1: one strikeout in thirteen at bats so far in the spring.
Speaker 1: What he really struggled with in the Major's last season
Speaker 1: was a thirty six percent strikeout rate. That's something that
Speaker 1: we need to see him cut down, obviously, uh and
Speaker 1: at every level in the minors he struck out less
Speaker 1: than the thirty six percent. So if he does that,
Speaker 1: I think it could be like a two sixty ish
Speaker 1: hitter with obviously very big power upside in a really
Speaker 1: good lineup. But he still needs to win that third
Speaker 1: base job against Johan Camargo first, So there still is
Speaker 1: a little bit of a downside here, Greg. But I
Speaker 1: also do really like the Yankees guys with Andrew Harror
Speaker 1: and he Sella. Considering the injuries to stand and Judge,
Speaker 1: I think at least for the early part of the
Speaker 1: season they have pretty regular playing time. We will be
Speaker 1: in the ladder, but we'll both be able to hit. Obviously,
Speaker 1: Charla has his career year last year out of nowhere,
Speaker 1: and he changes the launch angle, and he bought the
Speaker 1: stack cast evolution obviously, and do har went through all
Speaker 1: of his shoulder injuries last year, but he's been practicing
Speaker 1: uh full bore in spring training and beforehand. But you
Speaker 1: do wonder how the position switch could affect his swing
Speaker 1: and mentally, I think there's question marks running both Yankee
Speaker 1: third basement eligible players. That's fine. I'm just looking for
Speaker 1: exposure to a really good lineup going late in draft.
Speaker 1: It was kind of the reason why you know, people
Speaker 1: were drafting DJ le Mayhew last year. If you did
Speaker 1: look out and get a d J. L. Mayhew, you're like,
Speaker 1: all right, he's a super utility guy for the New
Speaker 1: York Yankees. Really good line up. Let me's just take
Speaker 1: a shot here and see what works out. And then
Speaker 1: look what happened with DJ le Mayhew, Uh, Andrew Hard
Speaker 1: We've seen the upside in the past. Someone who can
Speaker 1: hit near three hundred. The hit tool is obviously there,
Speaker 1: and then we started to see the power developed. Will
Speaker 1: that carry over? He did have shoulder surgery so something
Speaker 1: to consider. Maybe the power takes a little bit of
Speaker 1: a step back for Andy Harr, but I do think
Speaker 1: especially early on Greg, he's going to see every day
Speaker 1: playing time, whether it's in left field, d H, first base,
Speaker 1: H third base. I think if they play six or
Speaker 1: seven times a week, he's probably be playing in five
Speaker 1: or six of those games. Is Mgel and har And
Speaker 1: I would say the same thing for g Orhella. In
Speaker 1: that one game, maybe he doesn't play a third they'll
Speaker 1: put Andy harder there. I'd like to see for Shella,
Speaker 1: I could do what he did last year again because
Speaker 1: he really came out of nowhere as a corner infielder.
Speaker 1: Though I don't mind it, Okay, who was your other
Speaker 1: sleeping was a list? Um? That would be yeah, look,
Speaker 1: not gonna give you a good batting average, obviously gonna
Speaker 1: hurt you there, but hitting in the middle of a
Speaker 1: solid lineup Toronto, and he completely bottomed out last year.
Speaker 1: I realized that, Greg. But you know, his average season
Speaker 1: in the two seasons before last year up over thirty
Speaker 1: home runs, close to a two sixty batting average, solid
Speaker 1: counting stats. He gets on base via the walk, um,
Speaker 1: the strikeouts are gonna hurt you. I'm buying that last
Speaker 1: year was not the real Travis Shaw. I think this
Speaker 1: everything went wrong for last year. He dealt with a
Speaker 1: risk injury. I said he was trying to tweak his
Speaker 1: his swing all season long, which ended up not working.
Speaker 1: But a really really cheap corner infielder in deeper league
Speaker 1: fifteen team mixed roto, maybe even a twelve team roto
Speaker 1: UM and obviously in ale only. I think someone that
Speaker 1: you could look at as well who can hit home
Speaker 1: runs with a to forty fifty batting average. I think
Speaker 1: that's fair. Where he's going. He's free, He's he's like
Speaker 1: a one dollar player. I agree. I like Travis Shaw
Speaker 1: as a utility or as a corner I have no
Speaker 1: issue with that. All right, Uh, quickly, Frank, explain them
Speaker 1: met guys to me, j D. Davis and Jeff MacNeil.
Speaker 1: So Jeff McNeil is probably going to play the outfield
Speaker 1: more than anything. The same thing when it comes to UM.
Speaker 1: When it comes to J. D. Davis and j D
Speaker 1: Davis has a great stack cast numbers. Greg, I mean
Speaker 1: you look at the stack cast page. He hits the
Speaker 1: ball extremely hard, just didn't get the opportunity to play
Speaker 1: every day. He's dealing with the injury in camp right now,
Speaker 1: so we'll see how that plays out. But expected to
Speaker 1: play left field quite regularly for the Mets is J
Speaker 1: D Davis. Uh. And then when it comes to when
Speaker 1: it comes to Jeff McNeil, he's basically DJ Lemahew, like,
Speaker 1: really good contact hitter, hit for batting average in every
Speaker 1: level of the miners, actually showed a little bit of
Speaker 1: power in the miners as well, So maybe you know
Speaker 1: he can actually maintain those twenty home runs that he
Speaker 1: hit last year. You can actually chip in a handful
Speaker 1: of stolen basis. He is dtail La Mayhew like Greig.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna hit near the top of the Mets lineup.
Speaker 1: You're gonna give you a good batting average, probably to
Speaker 1: not the same batting average as La Mayhew, but that's
Speaker 1: why you get him like twenty to thirty picks later.
Speaker 1: All Right, there you have it. That's our third base
Speaker 1: preview tomorrow. We'll move onto the short stops for l
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