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Speaker 1: thirty four. This is the Fantasy best Friends Forever p
Speaker 1: G I F boy, Have I never ever meant that more?
Speaker 1: And Today Friday Maybear's been along long week, gonna go
Speaker 1: up for two hours today we meaning myself, Frank Standfeld,
Speaker 1: and my good buddy Andy Singleton. You can follow him
Speaker 1: on Twitter over at People's Pen People's with a Z.
Speaker 1: Another day, Another start, which means I have to get
Speaker 1: something off my chest first and foremost before we get
Speaker 1: into the show. Look, we're gonna have a lot of
Speaker 1: fun today. We're going to continue talking about players that
Speaker 1: we love for the upcoming fantasy baseball season. For two
Speaker 1: thousand and nineteen. We're gonna have Tim McLeod of Prospect
Speaker 1: three sixty one dot com on later on in the
Speaker 1: show to talk about his labor mixed draft team that
Speaker 1: he had drafting out of the two spot. But as
Speaker 1: I mentioned, first and foremost, is gonna give a shout
Speaker 1: out to my good buddy Scott Angle. Everybody knows the news.
Speaker 1: You've heard it. Uh, you know, I wouldn't be in
Speaker 1: this business if it weren't for Scott. You know, he
Speaker 1: gave me my first opportunity. So you know, look, I'm
Speaker 1: forever grateful to Scott. They call him the King for
Speaker 1: a reason. I have no doubts that he's gonna land
Speaker 1: back on his feet. Just wanted to get that out there.
Speaker 1: First and foremost. I mentioned that we're going two hours today.
Speaker 1: What's up? Thanks for um. I mentioned that we're gonna
Speaker 1: go two hours today. That's gonna be, That's gonna be
Speaker 1: the norm moving forward as well. We're not here on Monday,
Speaker 1: there's no programming on Monday, but starting Tuesday and moving forward,
Speaker 1: myself Greg Sousman, we'll try and get some guests in studio.
Speaker 1: We'll have some Chris Venture on the show. We're gonna
Speaker 1: be going for two hours. By no means am I
Speaker 1: trying to replace Corey Parson, the Fantasy executive. He's you know,
Speaker 1: he's one of a kind. Corey is one of my
Speaker 1: friends as well. I've spoken to him. We're on good terms.
Speaker 1: You know. For anyone who's out there who might be saying,
Speaker 1: like Frank and Greg are behind this, by no means
Speaker 1: is that true? Um, you know, if you've watched the show,
Speaker 1: if you know my relationship with Corey, then you know
Speaker 1: the truth. You know that, you know it's all in
Speaker 1: good love. We're friends. So I just thought i'd throw
Speaker 1: that out there as well. Shout out to Corey Parson
Speaker 1: and Scott Angle. But that's it for the show. I
Speaker 1: don't want to talk about that for the for the
Speaker 1: rest of the show. Today again, I want to have fun. Andy,
Speaker 1: How did you sleep last night? How is your Valentine's Day?
Speaker 1: My Valative's Day was fine? Final Times day was great.
Speaker 1: It was a relief, uh from the case I apparently
Speaker 1: walked into yesterday. I was filling a lot of tweets
Speaker 1: um that I like, I was quote on the cross here.
Speaker 1: So um, I'm happy to be back for two hours
Speaker 1: today to try to have some fun talks some fantasy baseball.
Speaker 1: All the guys you mentioned, I spoke with them individually yesterday,
Speaker 1: so I'm wishing them as well as well Scott as
Speaker 1: you mentioned as landon now with fan tracks where I
Speaker 1: used to be. So congrats to you, Scott and everything
Speaker 1: else going on. But I'm I'm just here to have
Speaker 1: fun and talk some baseball and hopefully make some winners
Speaker 1: out of the people watching and listening to us. Today.
Speaker 1: I was getting good reviews. They liked the show we
Speaker 1: had yesterday, were my FDNY baseball had today. Uh to
Speaker 1: keep us in the mood and the spirit I mentioned
Speaker 1: to you yesterday and keep it right at the top here.
Speaker 1: I failed to mention because we had a short time.
Speaker 1: But I just want to give a quick Not a
Speaker 1: lot of people know that I'm a firefighter in my
Speaker 1: main world and main life, UH do this fantasy stuff
Speaker 1: on the side, But I just wanted to put the
Speaker 1: cap to uh Detective Mark Simmonson, who unfortunate from PT
Speaker 1: lost his life this week. UM, so just keep you
Speaker 1: know civil service workers and your thoughts and prayers on
Speaker 1: a daily basis. And UH, with that being said, let's
Speaker 1: let's let's get on to some more players we love
Speaker 1: for the twenty nineteen fantasy baseball season. That's exactly right,
Speaker 1: That's exactly what it's about today. Andy. You know, I
Speaker 1: want to have some fun. I want to talk some
Speaker 1: fantasy baseball. That's exactly what it's about. Let's jump right
Speaker 1: back in. You know, yesterday we was Valentine's Day. We
Speaker 1: want to talk about some players that we love. I mentioned,
Speaker 1: you know, I want to do a segment with the
Speaker 1: Sweetheart candies. I couldn't find the Sweetheart candies anywhere, so
Speaker 1: I kind of threw a rent and everything, but I
Speaker 1: looked up the original sayings of the Sweetheart candies, and
Speaker 1: once again, you know, I was trying to find players
Speaker 1: that would match up how I feel regarding those sayings
Speaker 1: on the candies. Yesterday we did be mine. We also
Speaker 1: do a little bit of cutie Pie. We have a
Speaker 1: lot more players to get to. I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: I build an extensive rundown. It's what I do, Andy,
Speaker 1: you know, so we have a lot of players so
Speaker 1: that we need to get to. I have no doubts
Speaker 1: that we'll be able to fill the time here. We'll
Speaker 1: get into those guys right now, cutie pie. Again, this
Speaker 1: was somebody who wasn't the hottest maybe last year, not
Speaker 1: the hotest this year. Maybe he went a little bit
Speaker 1: later on in drafts, but he has potential potential. You
Speaker 1: say Kuchi, you don't say Andy Singleton. You're buying in
Speaker 1: on Kuchi, the latest Japanese import for the Seattle Mariners
Speaker 1: this season, going around pick one eighties. So you know,
Speaker 1: I think he's, you know, barely inside the top forty
Speaker 1: starting pitchers. I would say that's kind of like around
Speaker 1: the range that he's being drafted right now. The Mariners
Speaker 1: have already come out and said for this season there
Speaker 1: you know, they're gonna put a cap on his endings.
Speaker 1: You know he's not gonna go much more than one
Speaker 1: sixty endings pitch. But I assume if you have him
Speaker 1: on the list, this list, you are thinking that he's
Speaker 1: gonna be pretty good in those endings that he does pitch.
Speaker 1: I do say, you say, and just real quick before
Speaker 1: we get into this, as as you mentioned with the candies,
Speaker 1: I got home yesterday, you're asking me how my Valentine's
Speaker 1: Day was? I said, had the show go? I said, great?
Speaker 1: But we couldn't find these candies to go with Tom.
Speaker 1: You had them at your house? No, she said, that's ridiculous.
Speaker 1: You can find them everywhere. So I walk to the
Speaker 1: two nearest drug stores. They were both right age. Did
Speaker 1: you get him? No, they're sold out everywhere. So this
Speaker 1: is completely you know, I'm not calling you a liar,
Speaker 1: Mrs Singleton, No, no, no, this is well. She was
Speaker 1: shocked as well, shocked and dismayed that the candies we
Speaker 1: grew up on. This is this would be like Easter
Speaker 1: without peeps. And I know Howard Benda would be lived
Speaker 1: if that were the case. But I mean this, this
Speaker 1: is this is a travesty. I think for Valentine's dates,
Speaker 1: you want to have these candies. But I thought I
Speaker 1: saw somewhere that they were going to be discontinued. Maybe
Speaker 1: that actually happened. It might happen. That actually would be
Speaker 1: a tragedy. Either that or you have to do the
Speaker 1: Valentine candies. You still gotta make them, even if they
Speaker 1: don't sell. I don't care if they sell it. You
Speaker 1: gotta make them Valentine. They might have made a limited
Speaker 1: quantity and they was sold out by the tenth who knows,
Speaker 1: But you know, we're shopping on the four team. We're
Speaker 1: the last minute shoppers yesterday. But um, what do you
Speaker 1: like about? You said? The Mariners just released a video
Speaker 1: of this guy two days ago, slow motion video. His ball. Uh,
Speaker 1: the way he hides the ball is second to none.
Speaker 1: This is ridiculous, silky smooth lefty delivery. His numbers weren't spectacular.
Speaker 1: They don't jump out at the page that you from,
Speaker 1: you know, from overseas, but they weren't bad. They were
Speaker 1: very good. We'll put it like that. Very good. Maybe
Speaker 1: a top thirty pitcher in America had he's done that
Speaker 1: in the major leagues. Now, he's got some injury concerns,
Speaker 1: everything like that. But he's a lefty. I love lefties.
Speaker 1: He's already the Mariner's ace. He's twenty seven. I was
Speaker 1: mentioning yesterday, I love that h window from twenty seven
Speaker 1: and thirty two. For athletes, in particular baseball players. There's
Speaker 1: just every a lot of things that scream out to
Speaker 1: me that I like. His His walk. His walk rate
Speaker 1: has always been below three per nine. His k rate
Speaker 1: is just about nine per nine, which I think will
Speaker 1: slightly tick up just a touch in the majors. Um
Speaker 1: which makes him. Uhh, that top thirty to fifty window
Speaker 1: I'm looking for for a picture, and we were talking
Speaker 1: about the cap on him. There really is no definition
Speaker 1: to this. They said he's gonna make his regular starts.
Speaker 1: I don't know what that means. So I'm looking at
Speaker 1: a hundred and fifty innings out of this guy. And
Speaker 1: if he can give me a hundred and fifty innings
Speaker 1: with a lower r A and the low referals, then
Speaker 1: I'm happy that he's gonna fall into that. Like I said,
Speaker 1: top thirty to fifty starting pitcher arrange and from where
Speaker 1: he's being drafted overall, that's right in my wheelhouse. Shout
Speaker 1: out to Perry in the chat informing me that the
Speaker 1: Sweetheart candies weren't available this year due to a changing
Speaker 1: company owner. That's the latest on the Sweet Sweetheart candy fiasco.
Speaker 1: Here on the Fantasy Best Friends Forever By. You know what,
Speaker 1: we still got the saings. We're still gonna talk about
Speaker 1: the players. Be like, look, you say, Caucci, I saw
Speaker 1: the video. I encourage everyone to go out there and
Speaker 1: check out the Seattle Seattle Mariners Twitter and watch this
Speaker 1: slow motion video. What Andy said about him being able
Speaker 1: to hide the ball is absolutely right. It was spectacular. Um.
Speaker 1: He also has little herky jerk uh delivery that we
Speaker 1: see from a lot of a lot of the Asian
Speaker 1: starting pitchers that come over. He's got like a little hesitation.
Speaker 1: He's a lefty. Um. You know it's really fun to
Speaker 1: watch too. You know I love watching uh you know
Speaker 1: those those weird deliveries, those hesitations too. So not only
Speaker 1: are we expecting some pretty good things of Cokuchi this year, Um,
Speaker 1: he's gonna be fun to watch. So I think I
Speaker 1: think he's a better picture for for Rhodo than he
Speaker 1: is for like head to head points and head to
Speaker 1: head points. I'm gonna hammer on these, uh these points
Speaker 1: A lot is that you want ennings, you want durability. Uh,
Speaker 1: you maybe don't worry about how great a picture is
Speaker 1: gonna be on a per start basis. Obviously you want
Speaker 1: them to be good, but you want quality starts when
Speaker 1: it comes to points leagues, you want durability. You want
Speaker 1: guys that are gonna go deep into games. Kakuchi strikes
Speaker 1: me more as a guy for Rhodo Andy because I think,
Speaker 1: you know, he might be around that eight kse per
Speaker 1: nine and he's gonna be a hundred and fifty two
Speaker 1: hundred and sixty ennings pitch. And you know, maybe he
Speaker 1: won't go super deep into games. Maybe he's you know,
Speaker 1: five six ennings pitch. But we've seen especially with other pictures,
Speaker 1: you know, in this I with guys, Uh what am
Speaker 1: I thinking of right here? From from the Dodgers, he
Speaker 1: doesn't go Yeah, he doesn't go deep into games. He
Speaker 1: only go five six nis pitched. But what he gives
Speaker 1: you in those five six endings are really really great
Speaker 1: for for Rodo. So for me personally, I think Kikuchi
Speaker 1: is a better fit for Rhodo than he is for
Speaker 1: head to head points leagues. But there's a lot to
Speaker 1: be excited about there. Look, he doesn't plow you away.
Speaker 1: He's not gonna throw per hour, but it doesn't need
Speaker 1: to though, you know, you know, he he can hide
Speaker 1: the ball. He could throw his three mixed in his
Speaker 1: secondary pitches as well. Uh, you know, over on fan graphs,
Speaker 1: the bat projections have him projected for you know, right
Speaker 1: around nine case per nine three point nine six e
Speaker 1: r A. Again, these can these projections tend to be
Speaker 1: a little bit more conservative, So if you're on the
Speaker 1: higher end of these projections. Maybe you think Kuchi could
Speaker 1: get to a three seven six e r A with
Speaker 1: you know, near a strikeout for ending. But that's what
Speaker 1: we have here on Kokuchi this year. That is one
Speaker 1: of Andy Singleton's cutie pots for this season. Yeah. He
Speaker 1: he knows what he's doing. I like, I like what
Speaker 1: he's working with and I'm not worried. And that seems
Speaker 1: to be with driving the draft prices, the worry of
Speaker 1: the cap that you mentioned. I'm just looking for a
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty from him, and I think that's attainable
Speaker 1: regardless if he makes restart, if if he's pulled after
Speaker 1: five or six in those starts. Um, I'm not worried
Speaker 1: about that. Give me a hundred fifty innings and I'll
Speaker 1: be happy with you, especially on for the return on
Speaker 1: investment at one eighty, you'll be happy with you. Say
Speaker 1: I will, I say I will look a hundred fifty,
Speaker 1: hundred sixty innings pitched. Let's just look at the nature
Speaker 1: of the starting position, uh starting pitcher position right now.
Speaker 1: How many endings are you realistically projecting for a guy
Speaker 1: like James Paxson. How many endings are you projecting for
Speaker 1: a guy like Noah cinder Guard. As much as much
Speaker 1: as we love this guy's and as talented as they are,
Speaker 1: you can't really project them for much more than a
Speaker 1: hundred and sixty innings pitch. I haven't done it the
Speaker 1: past couple of seasons. Yeah, I would hope for for
Speaker 1: those two guys in particular, I hope for one eight
Speaker 1: and And don't get me wrong, Look, they're much better
Speaker 1: than Cokuchi, like on a per star basis and their
Speaker 1: talent wise. I'm just trying to draw the comparison to
Speaker 1: starting pitching in general. There's not a lot of guys
Speaker 1: that are gonna go much more than a hundred and
Speaker 1: sixty innings pitch, right But we're talking about the difference,
Speaker 1: and that goes back to the draft price. So for sure,
Speaker 1: those guys you have to pay you know, third fourth
Speaker 1: round draft price, and rightfully so. But again, it's like
Speaker 1: there's not a lot of pictures that are gonna go
Speaker 1: that deep. Andy Mike Saroka is a guy that I've
Speaker 1: been all over in Bestball Draft to this point. He's
Speaker 1: going at pick right now and N A B C
Speaker 1: A DP You're getting him super late. I understand that
Speaker 1: there's risk if you don't know if he's gonna start
Speaker 1: in the Braves rotation. As of right now, it looks
Speaker 1: like two Key Tucson and Mike Saroka are gonna be
Speaker 1: battling for that fifth starting pitcher job in the rotation
Speaker 1: for the Atlanta Braves. But Mikesarroka was the guy that
Speaker 1: I was touting helly last year, and I look at
Speaker 1: those minor league numbers and you know, not huge sample size,
Speaker 1: doesn't miss a lot of bats, but he does induce
Speaker 1: a lot of groundballs. He has great numbers in the
Speaker 1: minors last year, five stars twenty seven, and he's pitched
Speaker 1: at triple A. Uh. He did have the capern over ten.
Speaker 1: Me personally, I'm not expecting that. But he had a
Speaker 1: seventy ground ball rate. He had a two e r A.
Speaker 1: He had a fIF an xfit both below two point
Speaker 1: to one. So even though he's might not be in
Speaker 1: the rotation to start, uh, you have questions about his
Speaker 1: innings this year as well. This is a prospect in
Speaker 1: Mikesaroka that I really do like. He at at seven
Speaker 1: point three case per nine last year, but the swinging
Speaker 1: strike rate was up over ten. It was around ten
Speaker 1: point seven, so me personally, I think he could be
Speaker 1: in eight strikeouts per nine kind of pictured her with
Speaker 1: a really good ground ball. Right. Do you like Sarocca
Speaker 1: as well or out here? No? I love the big
Speaker 1: Canadian and he is the bravest best picture. Now you
Speaker 1: mentioned the cape and nine. The power numbers are not
Speaker 1: exactly as sexy as some of the other players, but
Speaker 1: he's undoubtedly, let's just say undoubtedly, he's more than likely
Speaker 1: the braves best picture of of this crop of youngsters
Speaker 1: coming up. In terms of being a complete guy. He's
Speaker 1: been the one that drew the maddox you know comps
Speaker 1: when when you talked about the trio from what was
Speaker 1: it the nineties that the Braves had with Glavin and
Speaker 1: Smoltz and all these guys. So, um, Siroca is that guy.
Speaker 1: He could be the anchor for this rotation going forward.
Speaker 1: And he's only gonna be what is the twenty one
Speaker 1: in in August, so he's still a youngster. Uh. You
Speaker 1: don't like to see the shoulder injury that he had
Speaker 1: last year that shelved him and put him on the
Speaker 1: sixty D d L and everything like that, but all
Speaker 1: indications are he's recovered from that he's healthy. We had
Speaker 1: dr on yesterday talking about Lindor's calf and how you
Speaker 1: know youth serves to healing, so you take another five
Speaker 1: years off of Sarroka. I'm happy to say, yes, I
Speaker 1: trust that he If the doctors are saying he's fully healed,
Speaker 1: he's ready to come back, I'm trusting it. I'm believing
Speaker 1: it for now until you proved me wrong a couple
Speaker 1: of times. I'll take your word for it. Maybe I'm
Speaker 1: a little naive in that regard, but fine, I'll believe it.
Speaker 1: And where he's going, the what the return that he
Speaker 1: can give you for where he's going doesn't even come close.
Speaker 1: So it costs you nothing to grab him at three hundred,
Speaker 1: and he can legitimately turn in the top thirty season
Speaker 1: as a starting pitcher. So yeah, I'd be happy to
Speaker 1: take him everywhere I could. I'm looking at the hard
Speaker 1: hit rate from last year and twenty nine point four percent,
Speaker 1: so you know it's not like he was giving up
Speaker 1: hard contact. He got the groundball rate at you look
Speaker 1: at the arsenal here and you'll see on fan grabs,
Speaker 1: uh sixty eight point three percent fastball rate, And that
Speaker 1: might worry some people but if you look right below
Speaker 1: that the pitch Info pitch type, he throws his four
Speaker 1: seam or twenty nine point four percent of the time.
Speaker 1: He throws a sinker thirty nine percent of the time,
Speaker 1: so he throws two different iterations of the fastball, but
Speaker 1: he also mixes in a slider and a changeup. To me,
Speaker 1: there's lots of like about Mike Sarroka. I'm with you
Speaker 1: that you know he's going right around pick three right now.
Speaker 1: He's a guy that could return, you know, top forty,
Speaker 1: maybe even top thirty if everything works out correctly starting
Speaker 1: pitcher value this season. Uh, let's get to this guy
Speaker 1: a little bit before the break, well, real, real quick.
Speaker 1: Can we come back to Sarrocca when we have Tim on,
Speaker 1: because Tim, of course being Canadian, he might have some
Speaker 1: things he can share with us about Mike Sarocca. Hey,
Speaker 1: let's um, you know, we get Weet asked him about
Speaker 1: Sarroka for sure. Coming up later on in the show, Andy,
Speaker 1: the player that you have here as your cutie pie,
Speaker 1: your second cutie pie, was someone that Florio and myself
Speaker 1: got into screaming matches over last year because, as you know,
Speaker 1: as everybody knows, who's ever owned this player. He does
Speaker 1: have loads of potential, and I can't dispute that at all.
Speaker 1: But we now have a near five hundred ending sample
Speaker 1: size which includes eighty nine starts, where this picture has
Speaker 1: a four point six five e r A. I get it.
Speaker 1: He has a three point six eight five. He has
Speaker 1: a three point five four x FIT, he has a
Speaker 1: three point six eight Sierra. The skills are there. He
Speaker 1: gets strikeouts, he gets groundballs, command has gotten better. There's
Speaker 1: everything you want to like about a seven year old,
Speaker 1: potential breakout starting pitcher in John Gray. But unfortunately Andy
Speaker 1: and we'll just kind of like tease this up a
Speaker 1: little bit before the break, talk about when we get back.
Speaker 1: We don't play in x FIT leagues. We play in
Speaker 1: the r A leagues. That's fair, and that's fine to say.
Speaker 1: I'm looking at Gray's more of a points league guy.
Speaker 1: I prefer points leaks personally, had to that points leave great? Great?
Speaker 1: Is that standout points league pitcher for me. We'll get
Speaker 1: back into him though, we get back in a little
Speaker 1: you know, I got I got a lot of much.
Speaker 1: I was yelling at Florial last year. Great different m
Speaker 1: when you I think he's closer to me, this is
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Speaker 1: Sports Radio Network for the break, we spoke a little
Speaker 1: bit about John Gray, and look again, I'm just gonna say,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna echo a lot of the same things. I'll
Speaker 1: give you your piece and I understand you know you
Speaker 1: like him a little bit more for head to head
Speaker 1: points leagues, Um, he's thrown a hundred and sixty eight
Speaker 1: or more ennys pitched in two of the past three years.
Speaker 1: Seen he was limited to add and ten endings pitch
Speaker 1: again in head to head points leagues, I like to
Speaker 1: get pictures that are gonna give me endings go deeper
Speaker 1: into games. I do think there's a chance that John
Speaker 1: Gray can do that. But it's just about how effective
Speaker 1: is he going to be when he's on the mound,
Speaker 1: when he's in Coors Field, when he's in Colorado. Because look,
Speaker 1: five point one to e r A last year, and
Speaker 1: the underlying numbers look very good. I just worry that
Speaker 1: we've had enough of us sample starts here for John Gray.
Speaker 1: Maybe he needs a change of scenery. You know, with
Speaker 1: guys like her Man Marquez and Kyle Freeland, they've kind
Speaker 1: of learned how to pitch in Coors Field, and they've
Speaker 1: been they've been successful at doing so. It seems like
Speaker 1: John Gray hasn't really been able to figure it out
Speaker 1: any well. You mentioned, you know, giving you innings. A
Speaker 1: third of his starts where seven innings and more a
Speaker 1: bunch more where six innings, a couple of six and
Speaker 1: two thirds. So he's right there. So I feel it
Speaker 1: comfortable that he's gonna give me the innings. I mean,
Speaker 1: let's be honest, this is more a gut field than
Speaker 1: anything else we mentioned. He's just turned seven. I can't
Speaker 1: reiterate enough how much I like that age window. So
Speaker 1: he's right there for me in those regards. I don't
Speaker 1: think he's as bad as what he showed in twenty team.
Speaker 1: He did have that electric ro was a month and
Speaker 1: full of games. I don't think he's going to do
Speaker 1: that again and put it across the whole season. But
Speaker 1: as you mentioned, his control has gotten much better. He's
Speaker 1: under the three walks per nine. He does throw enough
Speaker 1: groundballs to to make you believe that that's a solid
Speaker 1: skill in his bag. The caves are up there. He's
Speaker 1: still a power pitcher, averaging you know, ten plus per
Speaker 1: nine and with the emergence of Marquez and Kyle Freeland,
Speaker 1: but the pressure is a little bit off of him.
Speaker 1: He could be he's good point slated to be the
Speaker 1: third pitcher in this rotape. Now there's not as much
Speaker 1: expected of him. You know, I talked about Marquez yesterday.
Speaker 1: He's looking looked at as the ace. Now maybe that's
Speaker 1: to his you know, eventual downfall. I'm open not but
Speaker 1: John Gray doesn't have that same weight on his shoulders.
Speaker 1: And again he had that month he was lights out
Speaker 1: in July. Do I think at one point six sixth
Speaker 1: year he went two and oh he limited opposing batter
Speaker 1: so one thirty seven batting average, seventeen strikeouts, it's two thirds, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was. And and you saw though with those with
Speaker 1: those great E r A numbers that his strikeouts were
Speaker 1: down a little. He wasn't even at nine per nine
Speaker 1: in that frame. So maybe maybe he'll take something from that.
Speaker 1: Maybe you'll see the caves come down a little, but
Speaker 1: the overall results will be better. So I either way,
Speaker 1: either John Gray, you get I think you're still gonna
Speaker 1: get production out of him. And again this is more
Speaker 1: so from a points league. If you're playing in a
Speaker 1: road a league, I'd be a little bit more hesitant,
Speaker 1: especially you know his his draft price isn't tremendous, but
Speaker 1: it's enough that maybe you'd prefer somebody else in that range.
Speaker 1: And I couldn't fault you for that. But John Gred
Speaker 1: is just the guy that I'm in. I'll be happy
Speaker 1: to have you on my roster and in my rotation.
Speaker 1: And if I'm looking at you as one of the
Speaker 1: bottom guys, then hey, I don't have to uh, I
Speaker 1: don't have to rely on you too much in and
Speaker 1: I'd be able to cut bait with you if you know,
Speaker 1: we got off to a bad start, So I'm taking John.
Speaker 1: There are two sides to every coin, and there are
Speaker 1: two sides every story, as as we're obviously learning here.
Speaker 1: July one point six six e r A. As Andy
Speaker 1: likes reference, I'll give you his ear a by month
Speaker 1: and every other month March six point seven, five April
Speaker 1: five point six, five May five point five seven, June
Speaker 1: six point zero zero, August four point zero one, September
Speaker 1: seven point zero and I'm not just trying to reign
Speaker 1: on your parade. I actually hope that Michael Florio is
Speaker 1: either watching or listening to this or listen to this
Speaker 1: at some point. Mike, please just don't draft John Gray.
Speaker 1: From bottom my heart, I need to tell you that
Speaker 1: Valentine's Day just passed. Do not have John Gray. I'm
Speaker 1: with you, and Mike's a point guy too, So maybe
Speaker 1: that's why we both see the goodness in John Gray,
Speaker 1: because Mike and I share that affinity for at the
Speaker 1: head points leagues. This is our claim to fame. So
Speaker 1: there you go. Maybe that's why, uh, we're in the
Speaker 1: Gray wagon. Yeah, and what it's called the gray area
Speaker 1: there for John Gray. We got the next sweetheart candy
Speaker 1: up saying that we have is is forever. You've seen
Speaker 1: the sweetheart candies, You've probably seen the forever saying on
Speaker 1: one of these, it's somebody you always draft and will
Speaker 1: never quit. That's what I want to focus on. How
Speaker 1: here you're touching on this guy a little bit yesterday, Andy,
Speaker 1: and that's Yuli Gurriel. Whether you play in points leagues
Speaker 1: or rhoto leagues, I think that he can provide value
Speaker 1: because in head to head points leagues. He doesn't strike out,
Speaker 1: he makes a lot of contact, he's a little aggressive.
Speaker 1: Maybe he doesn't walk all that much, but you don't
Speaker 1: lose points for the strikeouts, and he hits a lot
Speaker 1: of doubles to all those things factor into being a
Speaker 1: pretty good head to head points league player. What I
Speaker 1: want him as my starting first basement and probably not.
Speaker 1: I probably rather have him as my corner infielder or utility.
Speaker 1: But even for Rhoto categories I pick one eight, there
Speaker 1: are not a lot of hitters that are going to
Speaker 1: help you in the batting average category at that point.
Speaker 1: Julie Guriel is one of those guys that is going
Speaker 1: to help you in the batting average category. And he
Speaker 1: plays in a really good lineup, and he's gonna play
Speaker 1: every single day, so there are going to be counting
Speaker 1: sets there as well. I think that there's value to
Speaker 1: be had here regardless of format. Andy Well, you look
Speaker 1: at the Astro's lineup and you think it's going to
Speaker 1: be better than what is what it was last year.
Speaker 1: It go back two years ago to their nobody was
Speaker 1: hurt last year exactly, so you get hopefully you get
Speaker 1: your studs back and get Karay back, who is right now.
Speaker 1: My pick for m v P Hot Take Bowl prediction,
Speaker 1: I don't I don't know what you'd call it, but
Speaker 1: I have Carlos Kay packed as my a l m
Speaker 1: v P going into the season. Uh So, if the
Speaker 1: we can do the show, if the uh, if the
Speaker 1: lineup comes back to fruition, then then he's like you said,
Speaker 1: the counting sets is gonna be. There's not gonna get
Speaker 1: you much power. Fifteen home runs would be you know
Speaker 1: you'd take it. No steals, no speed. But he's a
Speaker 1: two nine d hitter with five RBI last year. I mean,
Speaker 1: he's gonna get you seven any hundred thirty six games, right,
Speaker 1: so even let's niney plus RBI upside and he has
Speaker 1: he's a career hitter, right, he's major league level. He's
Speaker 1: most likely gonna miss when when when you added up
Speaker 1: a season a month over the course of the season
Speaker 1: and gave you that, you know, a hundred thirty hundred
Speaker 1: forty games. But he's going to help your averages significantly.
Speaker 1: Be your first base. Again, it's not deep this year,
Speaker 1: so you're gonna get a guy who's gonna give you
Speaker 1: to nine guaranteed and seventy five plus and runs an RBI,
Speaker 1: so you're you're going to get some of those counting
Speaker 1: stats as well. He's a true three category contributor and
Speaker 1: at a at a position that's not deep. Whether you
Speaker 1: want to take him as your starting first basement later
Speaker 1: on or grab him as a backup or your your
Speaker 1: corner out fielder, I'm not corner off the corner infield
Speaker 1: and you see I. However, you want to get him
Speaker 1: into your line up. Getting him into your lineup is
Speaker 1: going to help you, not hurt you. And it's not sexy,
Speaker 1: but people pass on it for that reason. I won't. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and it's a roster construction thing. That's what a lot
Speaker 1: of you know, we'll say that about a lot of
Speaker 1: players this year, especially for Rhodo. At that point in
Speaker 1: the draft, and you know you're drafting for upside, but
Speaker 1: you're also drafting the phil categories. You need to just
Speaker 1: keep track of your stats throughout your rotistory draft and
Speaker 1: you need to figure out, Okay, I need batting average,
Speaker 1: I need runs, I need URBI all right, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: I'm gonna look for Julie Guriel here. As Andy mentioned,
Speaker 1: he's a three category contributor. I can't disagree with anything
Speaker 1: that you said, Carlos Correa. Maybe if you want to
Speaker 1: disagree later on in the show, we could do a
Speaker 1: whole Carlos Correa segment, but we'll see where he went
Speaker 1: in the labor draft and we'll kind of get into
Speaker 1: it there. But a guy that I just can't quit.
Speaker 1: And it seems like I have at least one share
Speaker 1: of this guy every single year, and I realized he's
Speaker 1: a roller coaster. So you know, for for head to
Speaker 1: head leagues, whether it's points or category, head to head leagues,
Speaker 1: his weekly output is going to be frustrating. There are
Speaker 1: weeks where he might help you win, there are weeks
Speaker 1: where he might help you lose. The player I'm talking
Speaker 1: about is Justin Upton. You look at his month by month,
Speaker 1: like ops by season by by month. Within each season,
Speaker 1: it'll be, you know, one month he'll hit two hundred,
Speaker 1: I'll give you a six fifty p s. The next
Speaker 1: month he'll hit three fifty of you ns. That's the
Speaker 1: nature of Justin Upton. But he's a perfect rotissary player
Speaker 1: in my opinion, Andy, because you can just kind of
Speaker 1: set your watch with Justin Upton. But he's not gonna
Speaker 1: give you a great batting average. He's gonna hit, you know,
Speaker 1: to fifty to sixty. Who hitt in that range. He's
Speaker 1: always had problems with strikeouts, but he hits the ball
Speaker 1: extremely hard. The past three years, you can count on
Speaker 1: Justin Upton for thirty plus home runs, a d plus
Speaker 1: runs eighty five plus r bis and you're getting him
Speaker 1: at pick what do we have here with Justin up
Speaker 1: to nineties. It seems like a pretty good value, man, Like,
Speaker 1: you're getting this guy's your outfield, Bree, maybe your outfield too, Rodo.
Speaker 1: You're just setting You're you're setting your watch. You're getting
Speaker 1: thirty eight eighty and a two fifty to two sixty
Speaker 1: batting average in an okay lineup out there with the
Speaker 1: Los Angeles Angels. Yeah, you don't seem as as E
Speaker 1: said about Justin Upton as I do well only because
Speaker 1: he's a top hunter guy. Now, and I've mentioned in
Speaker 1: how first base is not the deepest position. Outfield is
Speaker 1: right there as well. Outfield is not deep at all,
Speaker 1: especially when you consider are in bare minimum you gotta
Speaker 1: have three outfielders in majority leagues summer five most leagues
Speaker 1: are five, right, So it's done. I mean, you have
Speaker 1: to be conscious of this position at least three, most
Speaker 1: likely five. And it's already shallow to begin with. So
Speaker 1: when you talk about a guy like Upton, sure the problem.
Speaker 1: I see what Upton and and he's like a he's
Speaker 1: like a lesser version of Chris Davis at this point
Speaker 1: with the average the power you're getting power Chris crush Chris, yes,
Speaker 1: because probably just say yeah, that's a that's a good
Speaker 1: way to refer to him in Baltimore. Doesn't even exist
Speaker 1: anymore so and I'm just wipe him from our minds.
Speaker 1: I can't even find uh. I can't even find Davis
Speaker 1: is ADP right now on NFPC, so if you can,
Speaker 1: if you can, but it's definitely top fifty. It was
Speaker 1: one of Lord's favorite guys and rest in peace to
Speaker 1: La Michael's baseball legend. So he's going at the end
Speaker 1: of round three and fifteam leagues, right, So it's double
Speaker 1: what Justin Upton will cost to you. So if you
Speaker 1: miss out on guy like Chris Davis, then grab yourself
Speaker 1: and up then later on fine, But if you're one
Speaker 1: of these guys that's taken Davison, you don't want to
Speaker 1: double down on that same type of production with the
Speaker 1: Justin Upton because it's just gonna sink your average. Now
Speaker 1: you have two guys to worry about. But again, you know, again,
Speaker 1: a lot of a lot in rohto is roster construction.
Speaker 1: So you need to be able to look at your
Speaker 1: team and say, all right, well, maybe I drafted a
Speaker 1: Joey Vado, or I drafted a Paul Goldsmith early on,
Speaker 1: or I drafted him now two bays, so I know
Speaker 1: I'm getting batting average from those guys. Maybe I can
Speaker 1: afford to take the hit with two sluggers like Chris
Speaker 1: Davis and Justin Upton. It all comes down to roster construction.
Speaker 1: You have to you have to know what you're pumping
Speaker 1: into your team, and you have to have realistic expectations.
Speaker 1: In my opinion, you know, Justin Upton is not gonna
Speaker 1: hit higher than two seventy five, and that's like, and
Speaker 1: that's being he did it two years ago, he did
Speaker 1: in seventy three. But if I'm just projecting him, I'm
Speaker 1: probably projecting for a two fifty five batting average. But
Speaker 1: I really just love the power production that you could
Speaker 1: just set yourself to and you know again, this was
Speaker 1: the forever sweetheart. Dustin Upton has always been my guy
Speaker 1: since he you know, me and him basically came into
Speaker 1: baseball together. And I say baseball and me fantasy and
Speaker 1: Justin Upton real baseball. You know, I started playing fantasy
Speaker 1: baseball when I was in high school. I graduated high
Speaker 1: school in two thousand nine, so I think I started
Speaker 1: playing like my junior year two thousand and eight, two
Speaker 1: thousand nine, that's when Justin Upton really came into the
Speaker 1: league and started bursting onto the scene. So I associate
Speaker 1: me starting playing fantasy baseball with Justin Upton. Did you
Speaker 1: have BJ two? I did have a few shares of
Speaker 1: b J Upton early on in his career. Uh. And
Speaker 1: Andrew mccutcheons another one of those guys who I've always
Speaker 1: you know, when I started playing fantasy. Um, I I
Speaker 1: broke in with you know, when those were the top prospects,
Speaker 1: and these guys were, you know, making a name for
Speaker 1: themselves and they took the league by storm. Now I'm
Speaker 1: not just gonna draft them because they were my guys,
Speaker 1: like there are still there's statistical evidence that shows you
Speaker 1: why I want to draft him and I just kind
Speaker 1: of like with Justin Upton, can provide that Godly, that
Speaker 1: Godly is your guy, is your pitching forever. Going at
Speaker 1: pick two forty seven, you're getting him at a mouth
Speaker 1: later price this year. Then you were at this time
Speaker 1: a year ago, he was going around the Louise Castiles
Speaker 1: of the world. He was being drafted as the top
Speaker 1: thirty starting pitcher, and I was all over Godly. But
Speaker 1: it was a train wreck last year. Andy, what do
Speaker 1: you like about his bounce back potential in twenty nineteen.
Speaker 1: It's not necessarily bounce back potential. I don't know that
Speaker 1: it was such a train wreck that people want to
Speaker 1: say it was. When you look at the overall numbers,
Speaker 1: they they weren't tragic, And I wouldn't say train wreck either,
Speaker 1: But just in the perspective of where he was drafted
Speaker 1: and what you were expecting at well, that's the problem.
Speaker 1: The expectations were too high for him. This Luise Castele
Speaker 1: didn't live up to expectations either. But he's younger exactly,
Speaker 1: like I mean, we're talking a couple of years. We're
Speaker 1: talking two years difference between Castillo, but the the electricity
Speaker 1: of the fastball with Castillo and what you think of
Speaker 1: him as being the power on But Jack Eiley is
Speaker 1: over nine per nine. Hey, guy, he gets you the strikeouts.
Speaker 1: His control really lacked in teen and the walks were
Speaker 1: above four to the e r A being just below five.
Speaker 1: You don't like the fact that he's in Arizona, human
Speaker 1: door or not, but I mean the numbers that he's
Speaker 1: still an elite groundball pitcher, which he fits my pitching profile.
Speaker 1: I want an elite groundball pitcher that's capable of getting
Speaker 1: me a strikeout perinning and and keeping the walks at
Speaker 1: a minimum. And that's what he does and he got
Speaker 1: fifteen wins as a result of it. How many pictures
Speaker 1: a getting you fifteen wins last year and he was
Speaker 1: at a hundred and seventy eight and a third inning.
Speaker 1: So that's a hundred eighty mark we were talking about
Speaker 1: before I mentioned yesterday. There's only about a dozen guys
Speaker 1: getting you two hundred innings this, You know, in any
Speaker 1: given season these days, a hundred eighty is still a
Speaker 1: pretty behind number for starting pitching. So he's that innings
Speaker 1: either modern day innings eater. He's an elite groundball pitcher.
Speaker 1: He's gonna get you wins, you'd hope. I mean at
Speaker 1: the offense did a little in Arizona, but you're still
Speaker 1: you still think they're gonna put up an offense there. Uh,
Speaker 1: and he's gonna get you the case. He's not gonna
Speaker 1: he's not gonna hurt you in anyone category. So if
Speaker 1: you if you're looking for him to be you're starting
Speaker 1: picture two or three, that, yeah, you're gonna be disappointed.
Speaker 1: If you're looking at him as more like you're four
Speaker 1: or you're five, you're gonna be excited because he's going
Speaker 1: to back up the back of your rotation with solid consistency.
Speaker 1: That's how I feel, at least, Zack Gotty some pictures
Speaker 1: that are going around, Zack Godley right now, just grow
Speaker 1: some names at you. A Zeus Luzardo. Look, he's a
Speaker 1: pitching he's the pitching prospect out in Oakland everyone's excited
Speaker 1: about right now. Um Uli Rinaldo, Little Pez, Jimmy Nelson.
Speaker 1: I mean there are some there are some guys here
Speaker 1: that that have some upside, like Ronaldo Lopez throws extremely
Speaker 1: hard but doesn't miss a lot of bats. Jimmy Nelson,
Speaker 1: we told we he did a couple of years ago.
Speaker 1: He didn't pitch at all last year. There's definitely some
Speaker 1: concern there. This is this is a pretty good area
Speaker 1: for starting pitching. Andy like for you to just take
Speaker 1: shots on like upside guys here here, Godly, Hey, Zeus Lozardo,
Speaker 1: Ronaldo Lopez, Jimmy Nelson. That's a pretty good spot. That's
Speaker 1: a pretty good spot in the draft. You're getting these
Speaker 1: guys really late to after too forty. I absolutely love Lazardo,
Speaker 1: and I'm right there with you. If it were between
Speaker 1: Godly and Lozardo, I'd still probably take Godly, just because
Speaker 1: I don't know exactly one Lozardo gets the call, whether
Speaker 1: you know he starts the season in pros, which likely not.
Speaker 1: They didn't call him up last year. He was having
Speaker 1: this great run throughout the minor leagues, got the Triple
Speaker 1: A where he kind of stalled a little, but was
Speaker 1: the PCO where you know, you get inflated offenses there,
Speaker 1: so I need pitching. They pitching bad, like Mike fires
Speaker 1: in there. Still they traded for Marco Estrada, but you
Speaker 1: also have, you know, you you also have the the
Speaker 1: service time game. They can play with him now, especially
Speaker 1: since they haven't you know, tapped that seal yet, so
Speaker 1: I don't know that he's upright away first, and that's
Speaker 1: fair number, but I'm already missing out on range of
Speaker 1: innings at that point that I'm getting from Godly. So
Speaker 1: I would take the known with Godly. It depends on
Speaker 1: the league. It depends if it's a keeper league, I'm
Speaker 1: taking Lozardo, if it's a if it's a redraft league
Speaker 1: or a money league. Not I shouldn't say money league,
Speaker 1: but like draft and hold something like that fastball. I
Speaker 1: probably take Lozarto because I'm not so worried about individual
Speaker 1: week to week. I want the best week, and mid
Speaker 1: season on Lozardo could provide that better week. Um the
Speaker 1: typical redraft league, I'd be taking the known quantity and Godly.
Speaker 1: We'll say this about Godly. I owned a lot of
Speaker 1: shares of Godly. Last year. He burned me. He got
Speaker 1: the strikeouts. I hear what you're saying. He gets groundballs
Speaker 1: fifty six percent groundball rate for his career, so I
Speaker 1: absolutely love that. The past two seasons he's been up
Speaker 1: over a strikeout for ending. Last year the walks per
Speaker 1: nine were up over four, so he struggles with command.
Speaker 1: I watched a lot of his games last year. This
Speaker 1: guy throws this curball of the time. Yeah, that's that's
Speaker 1: what like other pictures like he pitches off his curveball
Speaker 1: like he'll throw first pitch curveball. He doesn't care, but
Speaker 1: it's hard for him to control that curveball a lot
Speaker 1: of the time. So that golly man burned me last year.
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Speaker 1: McLoud of Prospect One had the second pick in the
Speaker 1: Labor Draft. That happened just the other night. Tim what's
Speaker 1: going on, man, how's everything? Everything's great? Frank, thanks so
Speaker 1: much for having me on and looking forward to him
Speaker 1: some labor love again. You can you can go check
Speaker 1: out some of Tim's work at Prospect three six one
Speaker 1: one dot com. I tweeted out the link of the
Speaker 1: draft if you want to follow along and kind of
Speaker 1: see what we're talking about here. Tim had the second
Speaker 1: overall pick. Look, there's not much discussion there. I mean,
Speaker 1: if you want to get cute and take someone other
Speaker 1: than Trout or Bets or from fall to you, I
Speaker 1: mean you can do so. I mean Tim didn't do it,
Speaker 1: and I wouldn't recommend you doing so either. But he
Speaker 1: came back in the second round. Here again, this is
Speaker 1: fifteen team mix. There's a rotisserie draft and you take
Speaker 1: wit Meryfield And he's a bit polarizing this year as
Speaker 1: a second round pick because a lot of people say,
Speaker 1: you know, I don't want to pay up for the speed.
Speaker 1: You know, he give me forty plus stolen bases, but
Speaker 1: I really want to get that base of power. Uh.
Speaker 1: He doesn't completely kill you in the power department. You
Speaker 1: know it'll give you a twelve if teen home runs.
Speaker 1: He also helps you out with the batting average. He's
Speaker 1: gonna give you runs as he expect. It's a hit
Speaker 1: in the middle of the lineup this year too, so
Speaker 1: maybe we see an upstick in the r B. I s,
Speaker 1: how do you project a guy like with Maryfield this year?
Speaker 1: And did you plan before the draft to take him
Speaker 1: in the second round if you were if he were there, yeah,
Speaker 1: he was definitely in the plan. Where are my goals
Speaker 1: coming out of the first two rounds? Was to show
Speaker 1: up the speed category. When you're drafting in the two spot,
Speaker 1: it's a long way until things get back to you.
Speaker 1: So I was looking at the combination of Bets Maryfield.
Speaker 1: I figure that gives me safely sixty to seventy stolen
Speaker 1: bases and basically takes takes that problem right off the table.
Speaker 1: You know. The other options I was, you know, looking at,
Speaker 1: were Starling Marte, Andrew Benn Attendee, Hey, you you want
Speaker 1: to go on, you want to go on a serious gamble,
Speaker 1: you know, you can start looking at Aldeberto Mondes STUDI.
Speaker 1: But my goal was to come out of the first
Speaker 1: two rounds solid and stolen base is them with Bets
Speaker 1: and Merrifield. I the power isn't bad. Yeah, the power
Speaker 1: is not bad. Look, Bets is gonna give you, give
Speaker 1: you thirty plus home runs. You know, he's gonna come
Speaker 1: close to thirty stolen bases as well with mary Field. Look,
Speaker 1: everyone's going to attack the stolen the stolen base category
Speaker 1: a little bit differently this year. So you heard it
Speaker 1: from Tim what he wanted to do in these first
Speaker 1: two rounds was really, you know, shore up some of
Speaker 1: those stolen bases. And there's really not much not many
Speaker 1: better options than to do so with Bets and with
Speaker 1: mary Field in the first two rounds, because again, at
Speaker 1: least those guys are not completely sinking your power. Again,
Speaker 1: we're speaking with Tim McCleod of Prospect three six one
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Speaker 1: find some great work from Tim McCloud. Over there. We're
Speaker 1: reviewing the Labor draft, the Labor minixed draft from a
Speaker 1: couple of nights ago, and kind of similar to speed, Tim,
Speaker 1: I wanted to ask you about, uh, starting pitching in
Speaker 1: general this year. It's a hot topic. Everyone everyone's gonna reference,
Speaker 1: you know, the workhorses kind of fading here. You know,
Speaker 1: we're not getting as many guys going to any picks,
Speaker 1: not even really going a hundred eighty innings pitched that
Speaker 1: much anymore. So just in general, you know, you you
Speaker 1: drafted Walker Bueller in the third round, you come back
Speaker 1: and take Mike Mike Clevinger in the fourth round as
Speaker 1: your SP one in your SP two. In general, what's
Speaker 1: your plan for attacking starting pitching? And had to change
Speaker 1: this year more so than things that you would do
Speaker 1: in the past. Yeah, I think my my goal this
Speaker 1: year is to come out of the first five rounds
Speaker 1: with four strikeodes, two solid pitchers, an ACE and a
Speaker 1: near ace. I think if you look at the way
Speaker 1: labor broke down, by the time you got to your
Speaker 1: fifth round, most teams had two starting pitchers. All the
Speaker 1: high strikeout guys are gone, and you're into the middle
Speaker 1: tier where where you're starting to look at. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm German Marquez, Miles Michaelis, Louis Castillo. The options thinned
Speaker 1: very quickly. So I'm I'm big this year on getting
Speaker 1: some starting pitching early because I just stole think there's
Speaker 1: enough of it there. And did you move later on
Speaker 1: into the draft? Frank, Timmy, what's going on in Tandy?
Speaker 1: Single thing? Buddy? Happy to have you here today. You
Speaker 1: was one of my friend. Um, I'm looking at your
Speaker 1: draft here and I'm a little curious because I was
Speaker 1: trying to see who was your your late round guy
Speaker 1: last year. You're on our show and you're touting Matt Camp,
Speaker 1: who of course had the resurgence in the first year,
Speaker 1: and a lot of people are big on him now
Speaker 1: moving to Cincinnati with his his former Dodger team at
Speaker 1: y'all see up a weig and what they can do
Speaker 1: in that ballpark. But I noticed Trevor Rosenthal was the
Speaker 1: guy that you were taking. I was gonna ask you,
Speaker 1: is he the guy you're backing on becoming the closer,
Speaker 1: uh and taking over the duties from Doolittle in Washington?
Speaker 1: But then I saw you took Rosenthal exactly one pick
Speaker 1: ahead of Matt Camp. And the reason this was interesting
Speaker 1: to me is because you only drafted five outfielders, so
Speaker 1: you passed on a guy that you've been big on
Speaker 1: in the past. Way you could have had him right there.
Speaker 1: So what was your what was you thinking behind that move? Well,
Speaker 1: you look at Sean Doolittle and I don't think he's
Speaker 1: ever made it through a season healthy. Uh. There's a
Speaker 1: reason that Washington went out and grabbed TV Trevor Rosenthal,
Speaker 1: And I'm counting on ten saves minimum out of Rosenthal
Speaker 1: this year. As far as my outfield, one of my
Speaker 1: one of the other reasons that I liked with Maryfield
Speaker 1: is he qualifies in the outfield, Andy, So I do
Speaker 1: have a six outfielder. It's just sort of half hidden.
Speaker 1: I get it now. And when you put it like that,
Speaker 1: then yes, that's uh, that's not horrible at all. And
Speaker 1: and Garett Garrett Hampson will be your second basement on
Speaker 1: guessing who's who's Who's who's leap frog frend the Rodgers
Speaker 1: in that organization. So what while while we're going with outlooks,
Speaker 1: what is what's your out with for Garrett Hampson. I'm
Speaker 1: expecting big things. But it was definitely a turning point
Speaker 1: and probably the biggest risk that I took in this
Speaker 1: draft Andy. By taking Hampson, what it did was it
Speaker 1: reduced the odds of me getting a solid SP three
Speaker 1: and I was looking at guys like Pavetta Andrew Heaney.
Speaker 1: I got a couci E rod and I was really
Speaker 1: hoping Shane Bieber would fall to me. They all went,
Speaker 1: so I had to go and plan b on my pitching.
Speaker 1: And it's gonna be the one area that I've got
Speaker 1: the most work to do in season, but I just
Speaker 1: liked the idea. I think, I think you can count
Speaker 1: on Hampson for thirty plus stolen bases, and he showed
Speaker 1: up my middle endfield in a big way, so I
Speaker 1: was prepared to take the risk of the pitching didn't
Speaker 1: come back. It didn't, So now I got some work
Speaker 1: to do. We're speaking with Tim Cloud of prospect one
Speaker 1: dot Com going over his labor Mixed League draft. He
Speaker 1: was drafting out of the two hole him. I wanted
Speaker 1: to piggyback off that Garrett Hanson a little bit because
Speaker 1: he's going very late in draft. I'm trying to figure
Speaker 1: out why, because it's it's a great environment in Colorado obviously.
Speaker 1: I mean, even if he bats lower in the order,
Speaker 1: the stolen base upside is huge. I mean, this guy
Speaker 1: has posted some big stolen base seasons down in the minors,
Speaker 1: and I think he has a pretty good bat and
Speaker 1: play discipline too. You know, he walked a lot last year, um,
Speaker 1: but I do think that the bat works there. The
Speaker 1: only thing that I could think of of why Garrett
Speaker 1: Hampson goes where he doesn't draft is because you know,
Speaker 1: Andy reference Brendan Rodgers being in the organization. Ryan McMahon
Speaker 1: can also play some second base if Garrett Hampson were
Speaker 1: to struggle. What are some of the other downsides that
Speaker 1: you see with Garrett Hampson outside of you know this,
Speaker 1: those other prospects that are in the organization, Because I
Speaker 1: think if he hits and if he runs well, he's
Speaker 1: going to play. Yeah, I think he's gonna play as well.
Speaker 1: You know, Colorado had the opportunity last year to get
Speaker 1: Ryan McMann at bats and they get So I'm not
Speaker 1: anticipating Ryan mcmannon being a factor, and I think Rogers
Speaker 1: still needs a little bit of work at Triple A.
Speaker 1: So I think that the Rockies will give Garrett Ampsen
Speaker 1: a real solid addition, and I think he's ready. I
Speaker 1: think he can do the job. And I'm really excited
Speaker 1: to see what this kid brings to the table this year. Guys.
Speaker 1: So I'm I'm looking at your catcher and I love
Speaker 1: that you backed up. You love for Danny Jansen with
Speaker 1: him being your your your battery mate for your pitching staff.
Speaker 1: But we were talking before about Mike Saroka, and this
Speaker 1: kind of felt like the perfect person to talk to
Speaker 1: you about being that Taroka is Canadian, he's still young
Speaker 1: in that prospect range blending into the majors. You're a
Speaker 1: prospect guy and a major league guy, and of course
Speaker 1: you're Canadians. So what what's your outlook for Saroka? Are
Speaker 1: you worried about the shoulder injury? Are you thinking he's
Speaker 1: a full good to go this season? Are you are
Speaker 1: you buying into Saroka being that top thirty ish picture again.
Speaker 1: I think he'll be a top thirty pitcher. I don't
Speaker 1: know if it's gonna be in twenty nineteen. I think
Speaker 1: the Braves are gonna take it fairly easy with Sarrok.
Speaker 1: I don't think they're gonna work him overly hard. And
Speaker 1: there there's a lot of pitching in Atlanta. Uh, there's
Speaker 1: no doubt in my mind that he's got to be
Speaker 1: near the forefront of their program. But there's a lot
Speaker 1: of options right now, and I certainly like his future.
Speaker 1: But if you're counting on big innings this year, I
Speaker 1: don't think he's going to be there for them. Uh.
Speaker 1: If he gets much more than a hundred and ten,
Speaker 1: hundred and twenty, I'd be surprised. Guys, speaking with Tim
Speaker 1: McCloud of Prospect three one dot com going over his
Speaker 1: labor draft drafting out of the two hole. Uh, Tim,
Speaker 1: I wanted to follow up from before when we spoke
Speaker 1: about your SP one and your SP two that you
Speaker 1: ended up with their with Walker Bueller in the early
Speaker 1: third round and then Mike Clevinger in the late fourth round.
Speaker 1: Walker Bueller specifically, he had elite numbers, especially in that
Speaker 1: second half, but we also saw a huge jump in
Speaker 1: his innings pitch from We saw this potentially affect a
Speaker 1: guy like Louis Severino last year. We don't know if
Speaker 1: it was the entire reason, and you know Severino, there
Speaker 1: were reports about him tipping pitches, but he did see
Speaker 1: that huge jump and then he ended up struggling in
Speaker 1: the second half last year. There's something like that. Were
Speaker 1: you at all with Walker Bueller or you're just looking
Speaker 1: at you know, that second half and the strike out
Speaker 1: rate and in the great command and the fact that
Speaker 1: he gets groundballs, and you're just like, all right, I'll
Speaker 1: take the risk. I don't really care about I don't
Speaker 1: really care about the inning Sjoe, Well, I think when
Speaker 1: you look at Bueller, Uh, he got a hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty three innings in in the regular season last year,
Speaker 1: and then we set all his playoff performance. I'm not
Speaker 1: concerned about the innings on Culer. I think we're gonna
Speaker 1: see a hundred hundred and seventy five to a hundred
Speaker 1: and eighty innings under the kid uh stellar peripherals close
Speaker 1: to two hundred strikeouts. Um, if you asked me who
Speaker 1: the aces in Los Angeles right now, I'm not saying
Speaker 1: Clayton Kershaw, and I can't disagree with you either. I
Speaker 1: can't disagree with that. Look, we've seen uh Kershaw dealing
Speaker 1: with the back injury for a few years now. The
Speaker 1: skills have also, you know, dissipated there with Kershaw of
Speaker 1: velocity is down. So again, we had Matt Modica on
Speaker 1: on Monday CTN Baseball now with the Athletic and he's
Speaker 1: a huge fan of Walker Bueller this year and and
Speaker 1: ether you know, there's not there's not really much that
Speaker 1: I can go against Walker Bueller with outside of the
Speaker 1: fact that he had that huge ennings jump last year. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I just worry about what the Dodgers do with their pictures,
Speaker 1: and I think that you might see a phantom, you know,
Speaker 1: d Lston. But even if he pitches a hundred and
Speaker 1: sixty to a hundred endings pitched next year, those are
Speaker 1: gonna be elite innings. Well, that's that's just the thing
Speaker 1: with Walker Bueller. It's it's quality over quantity, and you
Speaker 1: hope to get some of the quantity because of how
Speaker 1: good the quality is. I wanted to ask you about
Speaker 1: one more player you've taken here to him while we
Speaker 1: have you, and that is Jerks and Profile, who was
Speaker 1: the number one prospect and all of baseball gone back
Speaker 1: a few years, seemed to have washed out and then
Speaker 1: had this major resurgence. It's moved to Oakland. People think
Speaker 1: that's not a great ballpark for him. He showed some
Speaker 1: power last year. While it might limit the power, he
Speaker 1: did a lot more than just become a power guy
Speaker 1: last year. Now he gives them added flexibility. He extends
Speaker 1: your fantasy line us with all the positions he can play.
Speaker 1: What's your hope for Profile moving to Oakland? Um, I
Speaker 1: don't think we've seen the best out of Jerks in Profile.
Speaker 1: He had a good year last year. I think better
Speaker 1: things are ahead. I'm not too concerned about the ballpark
Speaker 1: at all. When I look at the way I constructed
Speaker 1: my team. Getting Profile in the eighth round for me
Speaker 1: is absolutely huge because he qualifies at first, shortstop, third base,
Speaker 1: and soon second base. Having a guy like pro Far
Speaker 1: that I believe will produce twenty plus home runs and
Speaker 1: the fifteen stolen bases in Oakland with upside qualifying as
Speaker 1: all those positions is absolutely huge because we know we're
Speaker 1: going to deal with injuries during the year and any
Speaker 1: way you can find a way to build some flexibility
Speaker 1: into your lineup. Hey, it's a good thing, a very
Speaker 1: good thing. Tim McLeod, he's from Prospect three one. I
Speaker 1: would be remiss if I didn't ask him about the
Speaker 1: prospects that he drafted. You mentioned Jerks and Profile, one
Speaker 1: of the former top prospects in baseball, But Tim, I
Speaker 1: noticed you drafted Danny Jansen, who's expected to be the
Speaker 1: starting catcher for the Toronto Blue Jays this season, one
Speaker 1: of the top catching prospects in all of baseball. And
Speaker 1: then also Fernando Tatis Jr. Who has gained a lot
Speaker 1: of hype over the past couple of years. And rightfully,
Speaker 1: so we know what kind of you know, five tool
Speaker 1: upside he has. So what can you tell us about
Speaker 1: those two specifically that ended up on your team, and
Speaker 1: when do you expect a guy like Fernando Tatis Jr.
Speaker 1: To be up this season? Well, you know, David Martin's
Speaker 1: gone out of Toronto, Danny Jansen has got the job,
Speaker 1: and I'm expecting ten to twelve home runs, UH, maybe
Speaker 1: six d r v Eyes Uh, a very solid batting average.
Speaker 1: He's demonstrated over the past couple of years that he
Speaker 1: understands the strike zone very very well. As far as
Speaker 1: Tatis Jr. I'm expecting to see him in the second half.
Speaker 1: But one of the rules in labor is that, uh,
Speaker 1: once the draft is over, you can't pick up any
Speaker 1: prospects until they have time and in the major leagues
Speaker 1: one at bat or a third of an innings pitched.
Speaker 1: So when I looked at two tease, I just decided,
Speaker 1: I think he's going to demonstrate what I want and
Speaker 1: a great, great skill set overall, and I want him
Speaker 1: for the second half, and I don't want to be
Speaker 1: bidding against fourteen other guys to get him. So with
Speaker 1: shortstop being so deep, I picked him up a bit
Speaker 1: early so I can stash. I'm much the same as
Speaker 1: I did with Mitch Keller and another young player that
Speaker 1: I like a lot. I'm looking forward to seeing as
Speaker 1: Merril Kelly in Arizona coming back from Korea. It was
Speaker 1: a very successful layer, so he's started in my wild card. Guys. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm glad you mentioned him because I was just about
Speaker 1: to ask you about Merril Kelly. You were big on
Speaker 1: Miles Miklos. I hope I'm saying right. Always good names wrong.
Speaker 1: But you're you're big on him coming back to the
Speaker 1: States last year and now he's doing the same thing.
Speaker 1: What is your what's your outlook for Kelly and how
Speaker 1: can he be this year's you know, flashing the pen
Speaker 1: revelation like Nicholas was last year for the Cardinals. Well,
Speaker 1: the thing I like about Kelly is, you know when
Speaker 1: he left the head over to Korea, he was pitching
Speaker 1: in the Raised organization and then he at that point
Speaker 1: in time, he was running a fastball eight and ninety two.
Speaker 1: Principal pitches were a splitter and a changeup. But even
Speaker 1: with yes those two pitches triple A. His e r
Speaker 1: A was under three his last year in the Tampa organization.
Speaker 1: Now he goes to Korea all of a sudden on
Speaker 1: a good day, he can hit ninety seven with the fastball.
Speaker 1: He's consistently working at in the range limited the walks
Speaker 1: and the other two pitches are outstanding. So I think
Speaker 1: he's falling a little bit under the radar right now,
Speaker 1: a bit of a wild card. But if you're looking
Speaker 1: at a late round pick, I think there's some potential
Speaker 1: er and he is going to break camp in that
Speaker 1: Diamondbacks rotations, so the opportunity is at hand. Guys. That
Speaker 1: is Tim McCleod of Prospect three sixty one, participated in
Speaker 1: the Labor Draft just a few nights ago. He had
Speaker 1: the second pick. Tim, want to thank you so much
Speaker 1: for coming on. Man. Thanks so much, Frank and any
Speaker 1: you have yourself just an outstandy twenty nineteen season. Thanks
Speaker 1: again for having me guys, Timmy you as well. We'll
Speaker 1: be in touch. That was Tim McCloud. Appreciate that you
Speaker 1: coming on. I got a little insight there into some
Speaker 1: of the prospects really wanted to get. Asked him about
Speaker 1: Danny Jansen and uh In, Fernando Tatis, because look, when
Speaker 1: tribute for a website like Prospect one, I gotta get
Speaker 1: some of the prospects talking there right. Timmy is one
Speaker 1: of the best in the business. He knows his stuff
Speaker 1: and he always brings it. I always enjoyed talking but Timmy.
Speaker 1: I got to meet him my person last year at
Speaker 1: the tout Wars draft, so that was that was a
Speaker 1: unique honor. Coming up next will be our two of
Speaker 1: the fantasy best friends forever. That's Andy Singleton. Follow on
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Speaker 1: We'll be right back. M