WEBVTT - Feb. 15th, Hour 1: Fantasy baseball players we love, #LABR, and more... 0:00:00.560 --> 0:00:03.640 Hey, thanks for downloading the podcast, and remember, if you 0:00:03.680 --> 0:00:07.160 want to listen live, download the I Heart Radio app, 0:00:07.240 --> 0:00:10.080 download the tune and app and just search for Fantasy 0:00:10.240 --> 0:00:14.760 Sports Radio Network and you could listen to this program live. Also, 0:00:14.880 --> 0:00:17.360 if you want to watch the video of this podcast, 0:00:17.600 --> 0:00:21.000 check us out on YouTube, on Twitch, or on Periscope 0:00:21.120 --> 0:00:25.079 and type in you guessed Fantasy Sports Network. You'll find 0:00:25.160 --> 0:00:30.520 us there. Enjoy the show and thanks for listening. You're 0:00:30.640 --> 0:00:36.920 listening to the Fantasy Sports Radio Network. Did we just 0:00:37.000 --> 0:00:46.720 become best friends? Fantasy best Friends Forever? Welcome inside Studio 0:00:46.840 --> 0:00:50.360 thirty four. This is the Fantasy best Friends Forever p 0:00:50.640 --> 0:00:54.920 G I F boy, Have I never ever meant that more? 0:00:55.440 --> 0:01:00.320 And Today Friday Maybear's been along long week, gonna go 0:01:00.360 --> 0:01:05.039 up for two hours today we meaning myself, Frank Standfeld, 0:01:05.400 --> 0:01:08.319 and my good buddy Andy Singleton. You can follow him 0:01:08.360 --> 0:01:12.080 on Twitter over at People's Pen People's with a Z. 0:01:13.360 --> 0:01:16.960 Another day, Another start, which means I have to get 0:01:17.000 --> 0:01:19.520 something off my chest first and foremost before we get 0:01:19.560 --> 0:01:20.720 into the show. Look, we're gonna have a lot of 0:01:20.720 --> 0:01:23.959 fun today. We're going to continue talking about players that 0:01:24.000 --> 0:01:26.800 we love for the upcoming fantasy baseball season. For two 0:01:26.840 --> 0:01:30.119 thousand and nineteen. We're gonna have Tim McLeod of Prospect 0:01:30.160 --> 0:01:32.920 three sixty one dot com on later on in the 0:01:32.920 --> 0:01:36.160 show to talk about his labor mixed draft team that 0:01:36.240 --> 0:01:39.479 he had drafting out of the two spot. But as 0:01:39.520 --> 0:01:41.600 I mentioned, first and foremost, is gonna give a shout 0:01:41.600 --> 0:01:45.000 out to my good buddy Scott Angle. Everybody knows the news. 0:01:45.040 --> 0:01:47.200 You've heard it. Uh, you know, I wouldn't be in 0:01:47.240 --> 0:01:50.120 this business if it weren't for Scott. You know, he 0:01:50.160 --> 0:01:52.520 gave me my first opportunity. So you know, look, I'm 0:01:52.520 --> 0:01:55.040 forever grateful to Scott. They call him the King for 0:01:55.080 --> 0:01:56.840 a reason. I have no doubts that he's gonna land 0:01:56.840 --> 0:01:58.520 back on his feet. Just wanted to get that out there. 0:01:58.520 --> 0:02:01.480 First and foremost. I mentioned that we're going two hours today. 0:02:01.880 --> 0:02:08.480 What's up? Thanks for um. I mentioned that we're gonna 0:02:08.480 --> 0:02:10.919 go two hours today. That's gonna be, That's gonna be 0:02:10.960 --> 0:02:13.440 the norm moving forward as well. We're not here on Monday, 0:02:13.440 --> 0:02:16.120 there's no programming on Monday, but starting Tuesday and moving forward, 0:02:16.160 --> 0:02:18.920 myself Greg Sousman, we'll try and get some guests in studio. 0:02:18.960 --> 0:02:21.240 We'll have some Chris Venture on the show. We're gonna 0:02:21.280 --> 0:02:24.080 be going for two hours. By no means am I 0:02:24.080 --> 0:02:26.840 trying to replace Corey Parson, the Fantasy executive. He's you know, 0:02:26.880 --> 0:02:28.320 he's one of a kind. Corey is one of my 0:02:28.320 --> 0:02:30.560 friends as well. I've spoken to him. We're on good terms. 0:02:31.040 --> 0:02:32.720 You know. For anyone who's out there who might be saying, 0:02:32.760 --> 0:02:35.799 like Frank and Greg are behind this, by no means 0:02:35.960 --> 0:02:38.880 is that true? Um, you know, if you've watched the show, 0:02:38.960 --> 0:02:40.600 if you know my relationship with Corey, then you know 0:02:40.639 --> 0:02:42.200 the truth. You know that, you know it's all in 0:02:42.240 --> 0:02:45.880 good love. We're friends. So I just thought i'd throw 0:02:45.919 --> 0:02:48.480 that out there as well. Shout out to Corey Parson 0:02:48.600 --> 0:02:50.799 and Scott Angle. But that's it for the show. I 0:02:50.840 --> 0:02:52.160 don't want to talk about that for the for the 0:02:52.160 --> 0:02:55.240 rest of the show. Today again, I want to have fun. Andy, 0:02:55.360 --> 0:02:58.160 How did you sleep last night? How is your Valentine's Day? 0:02:58.840 --> 0:03:01.000 My Valative's Day was fine? Final Times day was great. 0:03:01.160 --> 0:03:05.600 It was a relief, uh from the case I apparently 0:03:05.639 --> 0:03:08.440 walked into yesterday. I was filling a lot of tweets 0:03:08.639 --> 0:03:11.520 um that I like, I was quote on the cross here. 0:03:11.600 --> 0:03:13.720 So um, I'm happy to be back for two hours 0:03:13.720 --> 0:03:15.840 today to try to have some fun talks some fantasy baseball. 0:03:16.280 --> 0:03:18.520 All the guys you mentioned, I spoke with them individually yesterday, 0:03:18.560 --> 0:03:20.720 so I'm wishing them as well as well Scott as 0:03:20.720 --> 0:03:22.840 you mentioned as landon now with fan tracks where I 0:03:22.919 --> 0:03:25.520 used to be. So congrats to you, Scott and everything 0:03:25.520 --> 0:03:27.680 else going on. But I'm I'm just here to have 0:03:27.680 --> 0:03:30.160 fun and talk some baseball and hopefully make some winners 0:03:30.200 --> 0:03:32.280 out of the people watching and listening to us. Today. 0:03:32.560 --> 0:03:34.720 I was getting good reviews. They liked the show we 0:03:34.760 --> 0:03:37.720 had yesterday, were my FDNY baseball had today. Uh to 0:03:37.880 --> 0:03:40.040 keep us in the mood and the spirit I mentioned 0:03:40.040 --> 0:03:42.800 to you yesterday and keep it right at the top here. 0:03:43.200 --> 0:03:45.040 I failed to mention because we had a short time. 0:03:45.080 --> 0:03:46.840 But I just want to give a quick Not a 0:03:46.880 --> 0:03:48.480 lot of people know that I'm a firefighter in my 0:03:48.520 --> 0:03:51.760 main world and main life, UH do this fantasy stuff 0:03:51.760 --> 0:03:53.480 on the side, But I just wanted to put the 0:03:53.520 --> 0:03:57.320 cap to uh Detective Mark Simmonson, who unfortunate from PT 0:03:57.480 --> 0:03:59.760 lost his life this week. UM, so just keep you 0:03:59.800 --> 0:04:02.480 know civil service workers and your thoughts and prayers on 0:04:02.520 --> 0:04:05.560 a daily basis. And UH, with that being said, let's 0:04:05.640 --> 0:04:07.960 let's let's get on to some more players we love 0:04:08.160 --> 0:04:11.680 for the twenty nineteen fantasy baseball season. That's exactly right, 0:04:11.720 --> 0:04:14.280 That's exactly what it's about today. Andy. You know, I 0:04:14.320 --> 0:04:15.600 want to have some fun. I want to talk some 0:04:15.600 --> 0:04:18.600 fantasy baseball. That's exactly what it's about. Let's jump right 0:04:18.640 --> 0:04:20.600 back in. You know, yesterday we was Valentine's Day. We 0:04:20.640 --> 0:04:22.920 want to talk about some players that we love. I mentioned, 0:04:22.960 --> 0:04:24.200 you know, I want to do a segment with the 0:04:24.240 --> 0:04:27.280 Sweetheart candies. I couldn't find the Sweetheart candies anywhere, so 0:04:27.640 --> 0:04:29.120 I kind of threw a rent and everything, but I 0:04:29.160 --> 0:04:32.040 looked up the original sayings of the Sweetheart candies, and 0:04:32.080 --> 0:04:34.560 once again, you know, I was trying to find players 0:04:34.640 --> 0:04:38.080 that would match up how I feel regarding those sayings 0:04:38.200 --> 0:04:41.280 on the candies. Yesterday we did be mine. We also 0:04:41.360 --> 0:04:43.000 do a little bit of cutie Pie. We have a 0:04:43.040 --> 0:04:44.640 lot more players to get to. I mean, you know, 0:04:45.080 --> 0:04:47.159 I build an extensive rundown. It's what I do, Andy, 0:04:47.440 --> 0:04:48.640 you know, so we have a lot of players so 0:04:48.720 --> 0:04:50.320 that we need to get to. I have no doubts 0:04:50.320 --> 0:04:52.040 that we'll be able to fill the time here. We'll 0:04:52.040 --> 0:04:56.400 get into those guys right now, cutie pie. Again, this 0:04:56.440 --> 0:04:59.680 was somebody who wasn't the hottest maybe last year, not 0:04:59.760 --> 0:05:01.680 the hotest this year. Maybe he went a little bit 0:05:01.760 --> 0:05:07.800 later on in drafts, but he has potential potential. You 0:05:07.960 --> 0:05:12.720 say Kuchi, you don't say Andy Singleton. You're buying in 0:05:12.800 --> 0:05:17.720 on Kuchi, the latest Japanese import for the Seattle Mariners 0:05:17.760 --> 0:05:20.760 this season, going around pick one eighties. So you know, 0:05:20.800 --> 0:05:22.840 I think he's, you know, barely inside the top forty 0:05:22.880 --> 0:05:24.640 starting pitchers. I would say that's kind of like around 0:05:24.640 --> 0:05:27.560 the range that he's being drafted right now. The Mariners 0:05:27.560 --> 0:05:30.240 have already come out and said for this season there 0:05:30.279 --> 0:05:32.320 you know, they're gonna put a cap on his endings. 0:05:32.360 --> 0:05:33.599 You know he's not gonna go much more than one 0:05:34.680 --> 0:05:36.840 sixty endings pitch. But I assume if you have him 0:05:36.839 --> 0:05:39.440 on the list, this list, you are thinking that he's 0:05:39.480 --> 0:05:41.560 gonna be pretty good in those endings that he does pitch. 0:05:42.240 --> 0:05:44.960 I do say, you say, and just real quick before 0:05:45.000 --> 0:05:46.960 we get into this, as as you mentioned with the candies, 0:05:46.960 --> 0:05:49.000 I got home yesterday, you're asking me how my Valentine's 0:05:49.040 --> 0:05:50.960 Day was? I said, had the show go? I said, great? 0:05:50.960 --> 0:05:53.160 But we couldn't find these candies to go with Tom. 0:05:53.360 --> 0:05:55.560 You had them at your house? No, she said, that's ridiculous. 0:05:55.600 --> 0:05:58.040 You can find them everywhere. So I walk to the 0:05:58.040 --> 0:06:01.080 two nearest drug stores. They were both right age. Did 0:06:01.080 --> 0:06:03.760 you get him? No, they're sold out everywhere. So this 0:06:03.880 --> 0:06:06.560 is completely you know, I'm not calling you a liar, 0:06:06.720 --> 0:06:09.000 Mrs Singleton, No, no, no, this is well. She was 0:06:09.040 --> 0:06:11.800 shocked as well, shocked and dismayed that the candies we 0:06:11.920 --> 0:06:13.559 grew up on. This is this would be like Easter 0:06:13.640 --> 0:06:16.080 without peeps. And I know Howard Benda would be lived 0:06:16.120 --> 0:06:18.160 if that were the case. But I mean this, this 0:06:18.240 --> 0:06:20.320 is this is a travesty. I think for Valentine's dates, 0:06:20.279 --> 0:06:22.200 you want to have these candies. But I thought I 0:06:22.279 --> 0:06:26.000 saw somewhere that they were going to be discontinued. Maybe 0:06:26.000 --> 0:06:28.920 that actually happened. It might happen. That actually would be 0:06:28.960 --> 0:06:30.640 a tragedy. Either that or you have to do the 0:06:30.720 --> 0:06:33.599 Valentine candies. You still gotta make them, even if they 0:06:33.600 --> 0:06:34.840 don't sell. I don't care if they sell it. You 0:06:34.880 --> 0:06:36.839 gotta make them Valentine. They might have made a limited 0:06:36.880 --> 0:06:38.760 quantity and they was sold out by the tenth who knows, 0:06:39.000 --> 0:06:40.920 But you know, we're shopping on the four team. We're 0:06:40.920 --> 0:06:43.160 the last minute shoppers yesterday. But um, what do you 0:06:43.200 --> 0:06:47.080 like about? You said? The Mariners just released a video 0:06:47.120 --> 0:06:51.800 of this guy two days ago, slow motion video. His ball. Uh, 0:06:52.080 --> 0:06:54.560 the way he hides the ball is second to none. 0:06:54.560 --> 0:06:59.600 This is ridiculous, silky smooth lefty delivery. His numbers weren't spectacular. 0:06:59.640 --> 0:07:02.000 They don't jump out at the page that you from, 0:07:02.040 --> 0:07:04.360 you know, from overseas, but they weren't bad. They were 0:07:05.040 --> 0:07:06.960 very good. We'll put it like that. Very good. Maybe 0:07:06.960 --> 0:07:11.120 a top thirty pitcher in America had he's done that 0:07:11.160 --> 0:07:13.680 in the major leagues. Now, he's got some injury concerns, 0:07:13.680 --> 0:07:15.640 everything like that. But he's a lefty. I love lefties. 0:07:15.840 --> 0:07:18.080 He's already the Mariner's ace. He's twenty seven. I was 0:07:18.120 --> 0:07:21.200 mentioning yesterday, I love that h window from twenty seven 0:07:21.200 --> 0:07:25.120 and thirty two. For athletes, in particular baseball players. There's 0:07:25.160 --> 0:07:27.360 just every a lot of things that scream out to 0:07:27.400 --> 0:07:29.880 me that I like. His His walk. His walk rate 0:07:29.960 --> 0:07:33.200 has always been below three per nine. His k rate 0:07:33.440 --> 0:07:35.720 is just about nine per nine, which I think will 0:07:35.800 --> 0:07:38.680 slightly tick up just a touch in the majors. Um 0:07:38.800 --> 0:07:43.280 which makes him. Uhh, that top thirty to fifty window 0:07:43.440 --> 0:07:46.120 I'm looking for for a picture, and we were talking 0:07:46.160 --> 0:07:49.680 about the cap on him. There really is no definition 0:07:49.680 --> 0:07:51.840 to this. They said he's gonna make his regular starts. 0:07:52.720 --> 0:07:54.960 I don't know what that means. So I'm looking at 0:07:55.000 --> 0:07:56.600 a hundred and fifty innings out of this guy. And 0:07:56.600 --> 0:07:58.080 if he can give me a hundred and fifty innings 0:07:58.080 --> 0:08:00.560 with a lower r A and the low referals, then 0:08:00.600 --> 0:08:02.800 I'm happy that he's gonna fall into that. Like I said, 0:08:02.840 --> 0:08:05.200 top thirty to fifty starting pitcher arrange and from where 0:08:05.200 --> 0:08:09.760 he's being drafted overall, that's right in my wheelhouse. Shout 0:08:09.760 --> 0:08:13.080 out to Perry in the chat informing me that the 0:08:13.160 --> 0:08:16.720 Sweetheart candies weren't available this year due to a changing 0:08:16.880 --> 0:08:21.600 company owner. That's the latest on the Sweet Sweetheart candy fiasco. 0:08:22.080 --> 0:08:24.720 Here on the Fantasy Best Friends Forever By. You know what, 0:08:24.760 --> 0:08:26.440 we still got the saings. We're still gonna talk about 0:08:26.440 --> 0:08:28.760 the players. Be like, look, you say, Caucci, I saw 0:08:28.800 --> 0:08:31.000 the video. I encourage everyone to go out there and 0:08:31.320 --> 0:08:34.000 check out the Seattle Seattle Mariners Twitter and watch this 0:08:34.440 --> 0:08:37.199 slow motion video. What Andy said about him being able 0:08:37.240 --> 0:08:41.280 to hide the ball is absolutely right. It was spectacular. Um. 0:08:41.360 --> 0:08:44.640 He also has little herky jerk uh delivery that we 0:08:44.679 --> 0:08:47.000 see from a lot of a lot of the Asian 0:08:47.040 --> 0:08:49.360 starting pitchers that come over. He's got like a little hesitation. 0:08:50.120 --> 0:08:52.079 He's a lefty. Um. You know it's really fun to 0:08:52.120 --> 0:08:54.360 watch too. You know I love watching uh you know 0:08:54.520 --> 0:08:58.400 those those weird deliveries, those hesitations too. So not only 0:08:58.480 --> 0:09:01.839 are we expecting some pretty good things of Cokuchi this year, Um, 0:09:01.920 --> 0:09:05.760 he's gonna be fun to watch. So I think I 0:09:05.760 --> 0:09:08.160 think he's a better picture for for Rhodo than he 0:09:08.280 --> 0:09:09.800 is for like head to head points and head to 0:09:09.800 --> 0:09:12.839 head points. I'm gonna hammer on these, uh these points 0:09:12.840 --> 0:09:16.319 A lot is that you want ennings, you want durability. Uh, 0:09:16.360 --> 0:09:19.240 you maybe don't worry about how great a picture is 0:09:19.240 --> 0:09:21.319 gonna be on a per start basis. Obviously you want 0:09:21.360 --> 0:09:23.480 them to be good, but you want quality starts when 0:09:23.520 --> 0:09:25.719 it comes to points leagues, you want durability. You want 0:09:25.720 --> 0:09:28.720 guys that are gonna go deep into games. Kakuchi strikes 0:09:28.760 --> 0:09:31.960 me more as a guy for Rhodo Andy because I think, 0:09:32.000 --> 0:09:34.520 you know, he might be around that eight kse per 0:09:34.640 --> 0:09:36.480 nine and he's gonna be a hundred and fifty two 0:09:36.600 --> 0:09:38.360 hundred and sixty ennings pitch. And you know, maybe he 0:09:38.400 --> 0:09:40.400 won't go super deep into games. Maybe he's you know, 0:09:40.480 --> 0:09:44.640 five six ennings pitch. But we've seen especially with other pictures, 0:09:44.679 --> 0:09:48.640 you know, in this I with guys, Uh what am 0:09:48.640 --> 0:09:52.439 I thinking of right here? From from the Dodgers, he 0:09:52.480 --> 0:09:54.800 doesn't go Yeah, he doesn't go deep into games. He 0:09:54.840 --> 0:09:57.160 only go five six nis pitched. But what he gives 0:09:57.160 --> 0:09:59.080 you in those five six endings are really really great 0:09:59.120 --> 0:10:02.040 for for Rodo. So for me personally, I think Kikuchi 0:10:02.160 --> 0:10:04.079 is a better fit for Rhodo than he is for 0:10:05.040 --> 0:10:07.160 head to head points leagues. But there's a lot to 0:10:07.160 --> 0:10:08.880 be excited about there. Look, he doesn't plow you away. 0:10:08.880 --> 0:10:11.840 He's not gonna throw per hour, but it doesn't need 0:10:11.880 --> 0:10:13.719 to though, you know, you know, he he can hide 0:10:13.760 --> 0:10:16.960 the ball. He could throw his three mixed in his 0:10:17.000 --> 0:10:20.440 secondary pitches as well. Uh, you know, over on fan graphs, 0:10:20.520 --> 0:10:23.320 the bat projections have him projected for you know, right 0:10:23.360 --> 0:10:26.040 around nine case per nine three point nine six e 0:10:26.240 --> 0:10:28.760 r A. Again, these can these projections tend to be 0:10:28.760 --> 0:10:31.120 a little bit more conservative, So if you're on the 0:10:31.160 --> 0:10:33.840 higher end of these projections. Maybe you think Kuchi could 0:10:33.840 --> 0:10:36.480 get to a three seven six e r A with 0:10:36.640 --> 0:10:39.320 you know, near a strikeout for ending. But that's what 0:10:39.360 --> 0:10:42.760 we have here on Kokuchi this year. That is one 0:10:42.800 --> 0:10:45.559 of Andy Singleton's cutie pots for this season. Yeah. He 0:10:45.720 --> 0:10:48.080 he knows what he's doing. I like, I like what 0:10:48.120 --> 0:10:51.520 he's working with and I'm not worried. And that seems 0:10:51.520 --> 0:10:53.920 to be with driving the draft prices, the worry of 0:10:54.000 --> 0:10:55.800 the cap that you mentioned. I'm just looking for a 0:10:55.840 --> 0:10:58.079 hundred and fifty from him, and I think that's attainable 0:10:58.760 --> 0:11:01.480 regardless if he makes restart, if if he's pulled after 0:11:01.920 --> 0:11:04.600 five or six in those starts. Um, I'm not worried 0:11:04.640 --> 0:11:06.280 about that. Give me a hundred fifty innings and I'll 0:11:06.280 --> 0:11:08.600 be happy with you, especially on for the return on 0:11:08.679 --> 0:11:11.880 investment at one eighty, you'll be happy with you. Say 0:11:11.920 --> 0:11:14.680 I will, I say I will look a hundred fifty, 0:11:14.760 --> 0:11:16.960 hundred sixty innings pitched. Let's just look at the nature 0:11:17.000 --> 0:11:19.680 of the starting position, uh starting pitcher position right now. 0:11:20.000 --> 0:11:22.680 How many endings are you realistically projecting for a guy 0:11:22.720 --> 0:11:25.439 like James Paxson. How many endings are you projecting for 0:11:25.440 --> 0:11:27.720 a guy like Noah cinder Guard. As much as much 0:11:27.760 --> 0:11:29.760 as we love this guy's and as talented as they are, 0:11:30.080 --> 0:11:31.880 you can't really project them for much more than a 0:11:31.960 --> 0:11:33.920 hundred and sixty innings pitch. I haven't done it the 0:11:33.920 --> 0:11:35.880 past couple of seasons. Yeah, I would hope for for 0:11:35.920 --> 0:11:37.640 those two guys in particular, I hope for one eight 0:11:38.120 --> 0:11:40.000 and And don't get me wrong, Look, they're much better 0:11:40.040 --> 0:11:42.160 than Cokuchi, like on a per star basis and their 0:11:42.200 --> 0:11:44.719 talent wise. I'm just trying to draw the comparison to 0:11:44.800 --> 0:11:47.640 starting pitching in general. There's not a lot of guys 0:11:47.640 --> 0:11:49.199 that are gonna go much more than a hundred and 0:11:49.200 --> 0:11:51.720 sixty innings pitch, right But we're talking about the difference, 0:11:51.960 --> 0:11:54.520 and that goes back to the draft price. So for sure, 0:11:54.840 --> 0:11:56.400 those guys you have to pay you know, third fourth 0:11:56.480 --> 0:11:58.920 round draft price, and rightfully so. But again, it's like 0:11:58.960 --> 0:12:00.319 there's not a lot of pictures that are gonna go 0:12:00.360 --> 0:12:03.280 that deep. Andy Mike Saroka is a guy that I've 0:12:03.280 --> 0:12:05.319 been all over in Bestball Draft to this point. He's 0:12:05.360 --> 0:12:07.520 going at pick right now and N A B C 0:12:07.640 --> 0:12:09.920 A DP You're getting him super late. I understand that 0:12:09.960 --> 0:12:12.120 there's risk if you don't know if he's gonna start 0:12:12.160 --> 0:12:15.080 in the Braves rotation. As of right now, it looks 0:12:15.080 --> 0:12:17.480 like two Key Tucson and Mike Saroka are gonna be 0:12:17.520 --> 0:12:20.800 battling for that fifth starting pitcher job in the rotation 0:12:20.880 --> 0:12:23.800 for the Atlanta Braves. But Mikesarroka was the guy that 0:12:23.840 --> 0:12:26.400 I was touting helly last year, and I look at 0:12:26.440 --> 0:12:29.439 those minor league numbers and you know, not huge sample size, 0:12:29.440 --> 0:12:32.640 doesn't miss a lot of bats, but he does induce 0:12:32.720 --> 0:12:34.840 a lot of groundballs. He has great numbers in the 0:12:34.880 --> 0:12:38.199 minors last year, five stars twenty seven, and he's pitched 0:12:38.200 --> 0:12:40.800 at triple A. Uh. He did have the capern over ten. 0:12:41.000 --> 0:12:43.240 Me personally, I'm not expecting that. But he had a 0:12:43.320 --> 0:12:46.440 seventy ground ball rate. He had a two e r A. 0:12:46.720 --> 0:12:49.079 He had a fIF an xfit both below two point 0:12:49.120 --> 0:12:51.920 to one. So even though he's might not be in 0:12:51.960 --> 0:12:55.120 the rotation to start, uh, you have questions about his 0:12:55.160 --> 0:12:57.520 innings this year as well. This is a prospect in 0:12:57.559 --> 0:13:00.400 Mikesaroka that I really do like. He at at seven 0:13:00.440 --> 0:13:03.640 point three case per nine last year, but the swinging 0:13:03.679 --> 0:13:05.559 strike rate was up over ten. It was around ten 0:13:05.559 --> 0:13:07.480 point seven, so me personally, I think he could be 0:13:07.679 --> 0:13:10.520 in eight strikeouts per nine kind of pictured her with 0:13:10.559 --> 0:13:12.440 a really good ground ball. Right. Do you like Sarocca 0:13:12.480 --> 0:13:15.240 as well or out here? No? I love the big 0:13:15.240 --> 0:13:19.080 Canadian and he is the bravest best picture. Now you 0:13:19.080 --> 0:13:21.040 mentioned the cape and nine. The power numbers are not 0:13:21.160 --> 0:13:23.560 exactly as sexy as some of the other players, but 0:13:23.600 --> 0:13:28.720 he's undoubtedly, let's just say undoubtedly, he's more than likely 0:13:28.800 --> 0:13:31.520 the braves best picture of of this crop of youngsters 0:13:31.559 --> 0:13:33.880 coming up. In terms of being a complete guy. He's 0:13:33.920 --> 0:13:36.240 been the one that drew the maddox you know comps 0:13:36.280 --> 0:13:38.439 when when you talked about the trio from what was 0:13:38.480 --> 0:13:40.640 it the nineties that the Braves had with Glavin and 0:13:40.679 --> 0:13:43.280 Smoltz and all these guys. So, um, Siroca is that guy. 0:13:43.320 --> 0:13:46.160 He could be the anchor for this rotation going forward. 0:13:46.240 --> 0:13:48.640 And he's only gonna be what is the twenty one 0:13:48.760 --> 0:13:51.720 in in August, so he's still a youngster. Uh. You 0:13:51.760 --> 0:13:53.640 don't like to see the shoulder injury that he had 0:13:53.679 --> 0:13:55.240 last year that shelved him and put him on the 0:13:55.240 --> 0:13:56.920 sixty D d L and everything like that, but all 0:13:56.960 --> 0:13:59.560 indications are he's recovered from that he's healthy. We had 0:13:59.640 --> 0:14:02.560 dr on yesterday talking about Lindor's calf and how you 0:14:02.600 --> 0:14:06.439 know youth serves to healing, so you take another five 0:14:06.520 --> 0:14:10.439 years off of Sarroka. I'm happy to say, yes, I 0:14:10.800 --> 0:14:13.400 trust that he If the doctors are saying he's fully healed, 0:14:13.440 --> 0:14:16.320 he's ready to come back, I'm trusting it. I'm believing 0:14:16.320 --> 0:14:18.200 it for now until you proved me wrong a couple 0:14:18.200 --> 0:14:20.280 of times. I'll take your word for it. Maybe I'm 0:14:20.320 --> 0:14:22.720 a little naive in that regard, but fine, I'll believe it. 0:14:22.760 --> 0:14:26.240 And where he's going, the what the return that he 0:14:26.280 --> 0:14:29.200 can give you for where he's going doesn't even come close. 0:14:29.400 --> 0:14:32.760 So it costs you nothing to grab him at three hundred, 0:14:33.000 --> 0:14:35.600 and he can legitimately turn in the top thirty season 0:14:35.800 --> 0:14:37.920 as a starting pitcher. So yeah, I'd be happy to 0:14:37.920 --> 0:14:40.240 take him everywhere I could. I'm looking at the hard 0:14:40.320 --> 0:14:43.000 hit rate from last year and twenty nine point four percent, 0:14:43.440 --> 0:14:44.880 so you know it's not like he was giving up 0:14:44.920 --> 0:14:47.840 hard contact. He got the groundball rate at you look 0:14:47.840 --> 0:14:50.320 at the arsenal here and you'll see on fan grabs, 0:14:50.840 --> 0:14:54.000 uh sixty eight point three percent fastball rate, And that 0:14:54.120 --> 0:14:56.680 might worry some people but if you look right below 0:14:56.720 --> 0:14:59.600 that the pitch Info pitch type, he throws his four 0:14:59.640 --> 0:15:01.360 seam or twenty nine point four percent of the time. 0:15:01.360 --> 0:15:02.960 He throws a sinker thirty nine percent of the time, 0:15:03.000 --> 0:15:05.440 so he throws two different iterations of the fastball, but 0:15:05.480 --> 0:15:07.840 he also mixes in a slider and a changeup. To me, 0:15:07.920 --> 0:15:10.280 there's lots of like about Mike Sarroka. I'm with you 0:15:10.600 --> 0:15:12.920 that you know he's going right around pick three right now. 0:15:12.920 --> 0:15:15.440 He's a guy that could return, you know, top forty, 0:15:15.640 --> 0:15:18.560 maybe even top thirty if everything works out correctly starting 0:15:18.600 --> 0:15:22.480 pitcher value this season. Uh, let's get to this guy 0:15:22.520 --> 0:15:24.960 a little bit before the break, well, real, real quick. 0:15:25.000 --> 0:15:27.120 Can we come back to Sarrocca when we have Tim on, 0:15:27.120 --> 0:15:29.240 because Tim, of course being Canadian, he might have some 0:15:29.280 --> 0:15:33.080 things he can share with us about Mike Sarocca. Hey, 0:15:33.160 --> 0:15:35.160 let's um, you know, we get Weet asked him about 0:15:35.160 --> 0:15:40.480 Sarroka for sure. Coming up later on in the show, Andy, 0:15:41.600 --> 0:15:43.600 the player that you have here as your cutie pie, 0:15:43.640 --> 0:15:46.680 your second cutie pie, was someone that Florio and myself 0:15:46.720 --> 0:15:50.840 got into screaming matches over last year because, as you know, 0:15:51.440 --> 0:15:55.400 as everybody knows, who's ever owned this player. He does 0:15:55.440 --> 0:15:58.600 have loads of potential, and I can't dispute that at all. 0:15:59.680 --> 0:16:04.840 But we now have a near five hundred ending sample 0:16:04.920 --> 0:16:09.920 size which includes eighty nine starts, where this picture has 0:16:09.920 --> 0:16:13.240 a four point six five e r A. I get it. 0:16:13.240 --> 0:16:14.760 He has a three point six eight five. He has 0:16:14.760 --> 0:16:17.080 a three point five four x FIT, he has a 0:16:17.160 --> 0:16:19.880 three point six eight Sierra. The skills are there. He 0:16:19.880 --> 0:16:24.520 gets strikeouts, he gets groundballs, command has gotten better. There's 0:16:24.680 --> 0:16:28.760 everything you want to like about a seven year old, 0:16:28.760 --> 0:16:33.520 potential breakout starting pitcher in John Gray. But unfortunately Andy 0:16:33.760 --> 0:16:35.240 and we'll just kind of like tease this up a 0:16:35.240 --> 0:16:37.680 little bit before the break, talk about when we get back. 0:16:38.120 --> 0:16:40.920 We don't play in x FIT leagues. We play in 0:16:41.000 --> 0:16:43.560 the r A leagues. That's fair, and that's fine to say. 0:16:43.600 --> 0:16:45.360 I'm looking at Gray's more of a points league guy. 0:16:45.400 --> 0:16:48.280 I prefer points leaks personally, had to that points leave great? Great? 0:16:48.720 --> 0:16:52.200 Is that standout points league pitcher for me. We'll get 0:16:52.200 --> 0:16:54.320 back into him though, we get back in a little 0:16:54.640 --> 0:16:55.840 you know, I got I got a lot of much. 0:16:56.640 --> 0:17:00.160 I was yelling at Florial last year. Great different m 0:17:00.200 --> 0:17:04.639 when you I think he's closer to me, this is 0:17:04.640 --> 0:17:07.240 a Fantasy best Friends Forever. We'll be here for two hours. 0:17:07.240 --> 0:17:10.560 Say take you up until two pm. That's Andy Singleton. 0:17:10.640 --> 0:17:13.119 Follow him on Twitter at People's Fan I'm Frank Sample 0:17:13.320 --> 0:17:19.800 Fantasy best Friends Forever. Fantasy sports radiom knows Daily rodo 0:17:20.000 --> 0:17:23.960 dot Com. Learn from the game's best DFS players. We 0:17:24.000 --> 0:17:28.680 don't just give you advice. We play every day, all 0:17:28.720 --> 0:17:33.080 major sports, all year round. 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