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Speaker 1: alongside for Frankie Stanfeld, I am Greg salesman. Franky, what's
Speaker 1: going on about Greggy? I had to do my best
Speaker 1: Gym Day impersonation coming in today, obviously, had the Metallica?
Speaker 1: Had the Metallica going to represent Marianna rivera first unanimous
Speaker 1: Hall of Famer obviously going to be a very polarizing
Speaker 1: topic on Twitter, some people debating um that he should
Speaker 1: not be the first unanimous Hall of Famer because he's
Speaker 1: a closer. Everyone has their thoughts that on and so forth.
Speaker 1: Doesn't matter. He's the best closer of all time. He's
Speaker 1: in the Hall of Fame and rightfully so, so I
Speaker 1: thought we would celebrate that with a little intro. Greggy,
Speaker 1: I love how it's what I'm talking about the Yankees yesterday.
Speaker 1: I started off the show like, oh, of course Greg
Speaker 1: talked about the Yankees, and there's Frank putting an intro
Speaker 1: in not only wearing folks a Yankees Bernie Williams jersey,
Speaker 1: but you can also take a look at his pinch
Speaker 1: stripe socks and then he's put on with the blue
Speaker 1: with the matching sneakers. Of course, that's right. There you go,
Speaker 1: There you go. I was draft in fantasy Baseball based
Speaker 1: on whether you're Yankee or not. Greg, I was about
Speaker 1: to get excited about Marianna Rivera, Megan the whole face
Speaker 1: I was pumped from. I was pumped um that it
Speaker 1: mattered to him so much to be the unanimous, which
Speaker 1: was really cool. Seeing Martino's video, which we probably should play,
Speaker 1: by the way, did you ever cut that for us? No?
Speaker 1: I thought you guys were gonna use it on the
Speaker 1: morning after. Yeah, we need you to cut it to
Speaker 1: make that happen, But he didn't remind me. I was
Speaker 1: here for two hours. Never brought it up, thought you
Speaker 1: did it. Nope, alright, it happens, man, it's a miscommunication
Speaker 1: on our part. Yeah, Martino was there. You've seen the
Speaker 1: video on Twitter. It's from Martino. It's like if you
Speaker 1: see my reaction to Mariano getting the call, that's from
Speaker 1: our guy Martino, video producer here at the Fantasy Sports Network.
Speaker 1: He helps out, helps out with the morning show a lot,
Speaker 1: obviously helps you out within the NBA in the morning. Um,
Speaker 1: and yeah, he was there to our film Marianna. He
Speaker 1: was our executi producer of College Football Today all season long.
Speaker 1: So yeah, Martino, Um, Alex, when are you in your
Speaker 1: doing Roger Clemens or something? Good? Back to you on that,
Speaker 1: All right, appreciate it. But Roger Clemens, who's not in
Speaker 1: the whole of fame greg and never will be because
Speaker 1: he was a certainly seems it certainly seems to be
Speaker 1: the case at least four now, uh, Jeff like slow
Speaker 1: like incrementally, So they didn't. That was the problem. So
Speaker 1: based on the based on how slowly they're building, right,
Speaker 1: I think, what do they have left? Like three years?
Speaker 1: They each they have three years left. But there was
Speaker 1: no jump from last year to this year, there wasn't
Speaker 1: like an increase, like it wasn't drastic enough. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: only moves two or three percent. Basically, everybody that like
Speaker 1: you read like all like the John Hayleans that can
Speaker 1: Rosenthals and so on and so forth. Um, they're on
Speaker 1: those ballots. It's all the private people like their boots
Speaker 1: private that do not vote for them. And Jefferson interviewed
Speaker 1: fifteen of them, um and basically they all said, we're
Speaker 1: not even will never change our mind. You cannot get us,
Speaker 1: and it's gonna be very, very tough, unfortunately. Never like
Speaker 1: the eighty year old guys who are like, well, I mean,
Speaker 1: Sarah don't get home steries are a little bit different
Speaker 1: like that. They weren't like to get off my long
Speaker 1: guys over there, I'm not going to vote for Marion
Speaker 1: Rivera's I'm not even Who are the people who are
Speaker 1: not voting for steroid abusers those times? Yes, it's the
Speaker 1: old guys, And it's just as certain people that don't
Speaker 1: believe steroid abusers should get in. I don't hate that
Speaker 1: logic as so much as I hate like the guy
Speaker 1: didn't want to vote for Mariana like that was just stupid.
Speaker 1: So then why is Bud See in the Hall Fame?
Speaker 1: I agree, you can't have one without the other, do
Speaker 1: you know, with you like he you know, oh, closed
Speaker 1: an eye to what was going on in baseball, but
Speaker 1: it also drove to like the best ratings television rates,
Speaker 1: Like look at where television ratings are now with baseball.
Speaker 1: Nobody wants to watch baseball, butbody also talk about baseball.
Speaker 1: But during that time, as as you can spend the
Speaker 1: next day talk about in the nineties, in the early
Speaker 1: two thousand's, that's when I mean you could argue baseball
Speaker 1: was at its peak, right dig long ball everybody like
Speaker 1: everybody likes all wrong except for except for the do
Speaker 1: was that have these Hall of Fame ballots? Apparently, Well,
Speaker 1: it wasn't about the home runs rank. It's about the
Speaker 1: way they achieved that. Okay, But Barry Bonds was still
Speaker 1: one of the best baseball players, even when like you
Speaker 1: can find like you can find the time in his
Speaker 1: long timeline of like NL career when he started using steroids,
Speaker 1: even up until that point, if you just kind of
Speaker 1: take what he was doing and extrapolate it, he's still
Speaker 1: a Hall of Famer. Absolutely and that's why he continues
Speaker 1: to get votes. All his head was like three times
Speaker 1: bigger than it wasn't that that's why he continues to
Speaker 1: get votes. To Roger Clemens contin used to get votes
Speaker 1: and Sammy Sosa does not. Sammy Sosa's numbers are ridiculous.
Speaker 1: But they think that if you took the stories away
Speaker 1: from Sammy Sosa, he would be terrible. What Sammy Sosa
Speaker 1: was like every trick in the book, right, didn you
Speaker 1: have like the cork bat and like everything else you
Speaker 1: could think of? Absolutely, Manny Ramirez felt multiple tests. I
Speaker 1: actually wrote an article about this, not an article, I
Speaker 1: wrote um an essay about this in College Greg which
Speaker 1: which really grinded my gears about like a logic with
Speaker 1: the Baseball Hall of Fame and kind of like how
Speaker 1: um P E. D s and steroids are like the
Speaker 1: worst thing that ever happened. What about the guys who
Speaker 1: were using like amphetamines in the sixth season in the
Speaker 1: seventies and like, you know, absolutely they're they're not to
Speaker 1: the same level performance and hnting drugs at the at
Speaker 1: the time, performance and dancing drugs. These guys put amphetamines
Speaker 1: in their coffee every morning, in the clubhouse in order
Speaker 1: to wake up, to get a joke for the day,
Speaker 1: to get to get hyped up for their baseball game.
Speaker 1: You're using performance and hancing drugs as well. It's just like,
Speaker 1: come on, dude's preaching the choir man like, I'm on
Speaker 1: your side here. I need to get it off. Okay.
Speaker 1: We never really talked about it. I understand, I understand,
Speaker 1: but it just pisses me off. Dot Holiday gets in
Speaker 1: as Della's, Edgar Martinez, and Mike Messina all of them
Speaker 1: get into the Hall of Fame this year. Very nice class.
Speaker 1: Next year's class we be interesting. Derek Teter the only
Speaker 1: big name that is joining the ballot put machine in
Speaker 1: the Hall of Fame and not Roger Clemens. Do done, Brake,
Speaker 1: Sure you go? Sure we've seen is going in as
Speaker 1: an oriole Right? Is that was that announced? I'm not officially,
Speaker 1: I don't think. But when I saw them like tweet
Speaker 1: out the photos of like the players in their jerseys,
Speaker 1: it was Messina in Orioles alright, kind of assumed, so
Speaker 1: I would assume him too, And I'm okay, and I'm okay,
Speaker 1: and I'm okay with that. Otherwise, Yankee fan that's fine.
Speaker 1: Doesn't bother me. Come on, every not every guy has
Speaker 1: to go in a Yankee. Maroto Rivera actually the first
Speaker 1: Yankee that was either drafted by the team or signed
Speaker 1: signed as a free not a free agent signed as
Speaker 1: a amateur by the Yankees to going to the Hall
Speaker 1: of Fame. Um, sus, I need seventy four actually, so
Speaker 1: it's a little long, and it was voted in back
Speaker 1: to back years of that. You know that that's correct.
Speaker 1: Next year, it's been a long time coming, a long
Speaker 1: time coming. Wait for the for the Derrek Cheater haters
Speaker 1: to come out next year as well. If he was
Speaker 1: a Pittsburgh pirate, would he be a first ballot Hall
Speaker 1: of Famer? I mean some slack by the way, carry
Speaker 1: irving out again tonight, really Terry Rose here all the way,
Speaker 1: Terry Rose yere from DFS NBA DFS tonight. Also all
Speaker 1: we're kind of getting things off our chest. Man. I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna I'm not gonna think I think it's just me.
Speaker 1: I didn't wake up on the wrong side of the bed.
Speaker 1: I slept on the same side of bed that I
Speaker 1: do every single day. I'm not gonna start a fight
Speaker 1: with the frenzy guys again for what you know. You
Speaker 1: lead off the show yesterday, I'm talking about hard hit
Speaker 1: rates and putting me to sleeps. Someone on the network
Speaker 1: has to talk about fantasy baseball. We are the fantasy
Speaker 1: sports network and obviously transitioning into gambling and gaming as well.
Speaker 1: But somebody on the network has to talk about fantasy baseball.
Speaker 1: We're not just gonna sit here and act like it
Speaker 1: doesn't exist. You can't talk about fantasy baseball without talking
Speaker 1: about the saber metrics hats like it's just you can't
Speaker 1: do it. Nowadays, we can do We're talking about the
Speaker 1: back of a baseball card rate. We can every at
Speaker 1: home runs. But Greg, we take it a step further.
Speaker 1: We tell you why an average will go up or
Speaker 1: down based on bad but based on hard hit you knows. Well.
Speaker 1: What I'm saying is that we can do better. Frank
Speaker 1: is explaining what those things mean and why they important.
Speaker 1: That's what we can do better, all right, So let's
Speaker 1: get into it for today. I had a lot of
Speaker 1: fun on yesterday's show, so today we wanted to do
Speaker 1: more of the same. Some other players that have changed
Speaker 1: teams in the past couple of months that you maybe
Speaker 1: didn't know or maybe just forgot about. As I have
Speaker 1: one of them is a greggy guy, or seems to
Speaker 1: be a greggy guy early on here. Well, the one
Speaker 1: of these guys is a greggy guy for sure, because
Speaker 1: I haven't one of my team every year it would
Speaker 1: be a f guy and the other one, as I
Speaker 1: will now, I'm confused. Get my toe into the water.
Speaker 1: I have carloson down every year, dude, Carlos. As I
Speaker 1: did my toes into the water, You're like, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: draft Jean's a girl getting into that, dude. Sorry. As
Speaker 1: I've did my toes into the water here and started
Speaker 1: some fantasy baseball research, I'm like, you know what, I
Speaker 1: think I really like cigarette this year. And Frank turned
Speaker 1: to me and gives me this a very confident headshake. Yes,
Speaker 1: that's really think I was on the right track with
Speaker 1: some of the research I was doing, Like I said,
Speaker 1: really just kind of diving in slowly and finding some
Speaker 1: guys that I really liked, Jane Sagura being one of them,
Speaker 1: his teammate Reeves Hoskins this morning being another. Let me
Speaker 1: start with who was now a member of the Philadelphia Phillies.
Speaker 1: Here and he was traded over to Philadelphia for who, Frank,
Speaker 1: he was traded for. I mean, this was a pretty
Speaker 1: complicated trade at the time. But let's see, it was
Speaker 1: Jeane Sagurro, Wan Nicasio and James Pazzos to the Phillies,
Speaker 1: Carlos Santana and JP Crawford went to went to Seattle,
Speaker 1: and then it was Edwin and Carnacione who went to
Speaker 1: It was it was all over them. It was Incarnacion
Speaker 1: went from Cleveland to Seattle then, which sent Carlo Santana
Speaker 1: back to the Indians, and Yandy Diaz, who was on
Speaker 1: the Indians went to the Rays along with Cole Sulzer.
Speaker 1: So Sigura to the Phillies, Arl Santana and JP Crawford
Speaker 1: at the time to the Mariners. JP Crawford stays with
Speaker 1: the Mariners, Parl Santana now from the Indians, from the
Speaker 1: Mariners back to the Indians, Edwin and Karnassi onto the Mariners,
Speaker 1: Yandy Diaz to the Rays. It was this whole big,
Speaker 1: convoluted thing. But that's basically the takeaway there perfect the
Speaker 1: job all right broken down. Now let's talk about the
Speaker 1: important parts of that here, Frank, which Jean Sagura is
Speaker 1: now remember the Phillies, and this dude like for being
Speaker 1: as good as he is. He's played for a lot
Speaker 1: of teams, uh in his short career, um from the Brewers,
Speaker 1: the Reds, the Brewers, Diamondbacks, the Mariners, and now is
Speaker 1: a member of the Philadelphia Phillies. I said I was
Speaker 1: in on him and he should shook your head, Yeah
Speaker 1: you should be. What makes you like Jean Sagara going
Speaker 1: into this year, Well, he's kind of like the forgotten man.
Speaker 1: You know a lot of people for gotten son, Jean Siagura.
Speaker 1: You look at the a d P sixty sixty nine,
Speaker 1: he's around that range. He's one of these you know,
Speaker 1: you get him in the fifth, sixth round of fifteen
Speaker 1: team drafts um. But he's you know, he's one of
Speaker 1: these guys where you could get stolen basis from him
Speaker 1: in Rhodo and he doesn't kill you everywhere else, Like
Speaker 1: he gives you a little bit of everything. I looked
Speaker 1: at this at least a three d batting average, eight
Speaker 1: run scored and twenty stolen bases in each of the
Speaker 1: past three seasons. Is a three oh eight average during
Speaker 1: that time. That's eighth best in all baseball two and
Speaker 1: seventy three runs scored. That's twenty one in baseball. Seventy
Speaker 1: five stolen bases over the past three years, that's eleventh
Speaker 1: best in all of baseball. Now, I know these stolen
Speaker 1: bases have trended downwards three years in a row, back
Speaker 1: thirty three with the Diamondbacks, that went down to twenty
Speaker 1: two and went down to twenty last year. But he
Speaker 1: was dealing with lower leg injuries believing an anklely at
Speaker 1: a shin injury at one point. And that's another thing
Speaker 1: you can he's gonna miss sometime. He's averaged a hundred
Speaker 1: and forty two games per season over the past six years,
Speaker 1: so he misses on average twenty games per year. You
Speaker 1: gotta bake that in as well. But to me, Greg,
Speaker 1: he's safe for to ninety batting average, ten to fifteen
Speaker 1: home runs. He doesn't kill you in the RBI department.
Speaker 1: That's where like normally, if you want a draft guy
Speaker 1: who gives you stolen bases, they kill you in the
Speaker 1: r B i s and the home runs. He gives
Speaker 1: you a ten to fifteen home runs, he gives you
Speaker 1: sixty plus r BIS. You look at what he's done
Speaker 1: over the past three years, So I think a realistic
Speaker 1: projector for him. What I wrote down here was to
Speaker 1: thirteen home runs, eighty five runs scored, sixty five r BI,
Speaker 1: twenty stolen basis, he's gonna hit a top a pretty
Speaker 1: good Phillies line up, which could get even better if
Speaker 1: Bryce Harper or Many Machado were to join this lineup.
Speaker 1: But if you just look at the top right now,
Speaker 1: it's he's our Hernandez, Jean Sigura, Andrew McCutcheon, Reese Hoskins,
Speaker 1: they have a few other names there. Makes massive contact.
Speaker 1: He doesn't strike out a lot. He could be better
Speaker 1: for points leagues if he walked more, but he is
Speaker 1: a very aggressive swinger at the plate. But he also
Speaker 1: does make a lot of contact. Eighty eight percent of
Speaker 1: the time, Gregg he made contact last year That was
Speaker 1: fifth best in all of baseball. So for all those reasons,
Speaker 1: I think he's safe. I think he's, you know, one
Speaker 1: of these guys where he'll give you twenty five still
Speaker 1: on basis and doesn't kill you in any of the
Speaker 1: power stats. Well, you're telling me before, Frank, is you
Speaker 1: want in those first three rounds to get speed, to
Speaker 1: get basically five to players and you didn't have to
Speaker 1: take him in the third. Well, that was what I
Speaker 1: was getting to that he's probably not somebody that grabbing
Speaker 1: the third round. So if you grab a guy that
Speaker 1: is strictly powers very solidly in the middle of the
Speaker 1: fifth round of a fifteen team dress if you're strictly
Speaker 1: going on power in that third or fourth round and
Speaker 1: you want to pick up a little bit a little
Speaker 1: bit of speed later on, not that much later on,
Speaker 1: but like slightly later on. That's what a guy like
Speaker 1: Jeans Cigar is. I think what I made me like
Speaker 1: Sigur the most. You kind of know what you're getting, right,
Speaker 1: You're gonna get close to double digit home runs or
Speaker 1: ten to fifteen runs, we'll call it. You're gonna get
Speaker 1: stolen basis playing for Gabe Katler now on affiliate team
Speaker 1: that is going to be aggressive. We talked about yesterday
Speaker 1: Frank on the base paths right like, we think that
Speaker 1: is actually something that worries me because the Phillies only
Speaker 1: Phillies only attempted They attempted the twenty four most stone
Speaker 1: basis last year, so they were they were in the
Speaker 1: lower third of the league and Gabe Kapler you know,
Speaker 1: he's one of these guys where he's big on the
Speaker 1: analytics and wherever the analytics kind of like moved stolen basis.
Speaker 1: Over the past couple of years, they've kind of shied
Speaker 1: away from stolen basis. You know, let's not let's not
Speaker 1: run into out on the base paths when we have
Speaker 1: guys like McCutcheon or Reese Hoskins or you know, if
Speaker 1: they get Bryce Harper coming up, which could potentially turn
Speaker 1: a Reese Hoskins to run Homer, Whereas if you run
Speaker 1: into an out on the base pass, it turns into
Speaker 1: a solo Homer. Um, you know, just not giving up
Speaker 1: easy outs on the base pass. And it's not like
Speaker 1: he's had a great conversion ratio year twenty stolen basis
Speaker 1: and eleven called stealings, So I understand people might have
Speaker 1: some worry in that regard. But again, I do think
Speaker 1: the fact that he was dealing with a lower leg
Speaker 1: injury kind of contributed to some of that last year.
Speaker 1: I think personally he's still safe for stone base and
Speaker 1: I think that's what a good safe number. And I'm
Speaker 1: gonna asking for thirty to thirty five. What you're looking
Speaker 1: for for Sigura. UM the other things, particularly points leads
Speaker 1: and you pointed out Frank, which is how much contact
Speaker 1: he makes eight percent of the time, top five, you know,
Speaker 1: all baseball. It's unbelievable. The guy doesn't strike out. And
Speaker 1: I was looking today about walk rate and k rate
Speaker 1: in general, um and why he doesn't walk. That he
Speaker 1: also doesn't strike out was wild to me, and I
Speaker 1: was like, okay, how sustainable as that? And you go
Speaker 1: back in his career and it's always around lower like
Speaker 1: he does not strike out. And if you're just a
Speaker 1: guy that's gonna make contact with his speed, especially on
Speaker 1: the ground, like I'm okay with that. A guy that's
Speaker 1: going to make contact and get on bees, good things happen.
Speaker 1: And we talked yesterday about run scoring and particularly Charlie
Speaker 1: Blackman and why we may want to take him over
Speaker 1: some other guys. Jee Siagura basically averages eighty runs scored.
Speaker 1: It feels like on a given season and in that
Speaker 1: line of which should be pretty good with Philadelphia. Segura
Speaker 1: is gonna bat right above season Hernande's right below sees
Speaker 1: Hernande's there's between CCSR and there's a lot to like
Speaker 1: there With Jean sagura Um. The o b P also
Speaker 1: really good in ob P leagues, around a three hit
Speaker 1: over the last couple of years. I like he's just safe,
Speaker 1: and there's something to be said about a safe short stop.
Speaker 1: Let's take a break. When we come back, the other
Speaker 1: members of his trade will break it down as best
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Speaker 1: All right, Frankie, you gave the details over the trade.
Speaker 1: The other members going over to Philadelphia James Potto's uh
Speaker 1: and Pizzos and one to Coasto Bullpen pieces um for Philadelphia.
Speaker 1: Now going over to Seattle. The one was staying in
Speaker 1: Seattle was JP Crawford, former top prospect or Philadelphia longtime
Speaker 1: top prospect. But the more you dove into those numbers,
Speaker 1: especially in the high miners, wasn't exactly a fantasy friendly
Speaker 1: output for JP Crawford. Has anything change for him in
Speaker 1: Seattle fantasy perspective, well as of right now, he's not
Speaker 1: even projected to start at short stop because they signed
Speaker 1: Tim Beckham. So for now, I mean, we'll probably see
Speaker 1: JP Crawford at some point, Like there's clearly something they
Speaker 1: liked about him, And you're right, he was a top
Speaker 1: prospect for a while here, probably more so known for
Speaker 1: his defense than anything in Triple A. He did hit
Speaker 1: fifteen home runs, only bad at two forty three. But um,
Speaker 1: at the major league level, he just he hasn't shown
Speaker 1: much in UH. In just about two five plate appearances
Speaker 1: at the major league level, he has three home runs.
Speaker 1: He's bad at two fourteen. He strikes out a lot.
Speaker 1: He does walk a lot, which is something worth noting.
Speaker 1: But there's some guys who are like, it just doesn't
Speaker 1: work out. Maybe he needed a change his scenery. Maybe
Speaker 1: that'll help him out. Um, you know, maybe a team
Speaker 1: like the Mariners who are a little bit more aggressive
Speaker 1: on the base pass like maybe like exploit some of
Speaker 1: that athleticism for him. I just needed a new beginning.
Speaker 1: It wasn't working out with the Phillies. It took forever
Speaker 1: for him to make it to the major league level.
Speaker 1: They seemed um, they seemed hesitant to ever really give
Speaker 1: him a shot. I think it won't be long in
Speaker 1: Seattle before they do him a shot. But he hasn't
Speaker 1: really done much um at the major league level to
Speaker 1: give us confidence miners. He showed a little bit of pop,
Speaker 1: but really not great batting average or stolen bases either.
Speaker 1: I don't I don't have high hopes for JP crow
Speaker 1: in all. Honestly, there's just not much here. As I
Speaker 1: said that makes you excited about JP Crawford. He has
Speaker 1: not put it together in the high level miners in
Speaker 1: the major leagues quite yet, and there's just enough enough
Speaker 1: other guys to make it work. Interested in Tim Beccam,
Speaker 1: I know we weren't talking about Timham today, not really. Um.
Speaker 1: He was injured for a lot of last year with
Speaker 1: the with the Baltimore Orios. The year before that kind
Speaker 1: of everything came together where I think that was the
Speaker 1: year he played for Tampa Bay and Baltimore runs that
Speaker 1: year to seventy eight, but strikes out a lot, doesn't
Speaker 1: walk all that much either. Um, it could be an
Speaker 1: interesting source of power from the middle infield position, but
Speaker 1: of a battle ball profile. Regrets last year didn't hit
Speaker 1: the ball all that hard. It just seems like that
Speaker 1: one year we have twenty two home runs with the
Speaker 1: raising Orioles combined in kind of the out wire in
Speaker 1: his career. I think this is one of those situations
Speaker 1: where the Mariners will give him an opportunity to play
Speaker 1: early on, and if he can produce anything, then they'll
Speaker 1: try and flip him at the deadline for whatever they
Speaker 1: can get. Um and if that doesn't work out, if
Speaker 1: he struggles early on, Ben will just give it up
Speaker 1: to JP Crawford. Makes sense to me, all right. So
Speaker 1: the other part of the trade was Carlos Santana and
Speaker 1: he was traded to Seattle and then immediately un immediately
Speaker 1: but close to it, from the Seattle over to Cleveland
Speaker 1: where Seattle picked up Edwin and Carnassium and Carlos Santana
Speaker 1: after one year hiatus returns to the Indians. Santana's line
Speaker 1: last year the same as it is every year where
Speaker 1: he had twenty four homers, had ad runs scored, he
Speaker 1: had over a d r v I. His walk rate
Speaker 1: was excellent. He didn't strike out all that much. Uh.
Speaker 1: The average lower than it has been in the last
Speaker 1: couple of years, but the ov P writing line where
Speaker 1: it always is around three fifty two three sixty. The
Speaker 1: drop in average can be explained as a low babbitt
Speaker 1: babbit over the bath over his careers about to six year,
Speaker 1: so UM last year was two thirty. That's why he
Speaker 1: dropped about twenty about yeah, about thirty points here um
Speaker 1: in average. Carlo Santana despite the age franc at thirty
Speaker 1: thirty three in early April. You know what you're getting.
Speaker 1: Have you seen? Do you see any signs of decline
Speaker 1: or any signs of change that Carlo Santana owners can
Speaker 1: be expecting when they draft him. No, I mean I
Speaker 1: think you kind of rightfully outlined Carlos Santana, especially for Rhodo,
Speaker 1: Like you know what you're gonna get to batting average
Speaker 1: points is where you want him, right Like, he's much
Speaker 1: more valuable in points leagues than he is in rhodo leagues.
Speaker 1: And when we say points leagues, those are leagues that
Speaker 1: you know, you get a point per single you get,
Speaker 1: you lose points for strikeouts. It's kind of comparable to
Speaker 1: And if you haven't played fantasy baseball before, if you're
Speaker 1: transitioning from fantasy football to fantasy baseball, that might be
Speaker 1: the league that you kind of want to get into
Speaker 1: because rodo a little bit more uh complicated. You know,
Speaker 1: you're trying to figure out more stats. You gotta figure
Speaker 1: out what you need in order to move up and
Speaker 1: move down in the standings. So um, if you're just
Speaker 1: transitioning from fantasy football to fantasy baseball, points leagues are
Speaker 1: are easier in my opinion and more comparable. But he's
Speaker 1: much better in points leagues just because of his plate discipline.
Speaker 1: He walks so much. Since two thousand and eleven when
Speaker 1: he became a full time player, greg a fifteen point
Speaker 1: two percent walk rate for Carlos Santanna's that's fourth most
Speaker 1: in baseball, behind Vado, Aaron Judge who's only played the
Speaker 1: past two years, and Jose Battisa. The problem is during
Speaker 1: that same span, his batting averages to forty six. So
Speaker 1: for Rhodo, if you're a two forty two, two fifty
Speaker 1: batting average guy and you give me twenty five homers. Yes,
Speaker 1: the runs and r B I s are they're helpful.
Speaker 1: You know that you're gonna get eight plus out of
Speaker 1: both of those categories from Carlo Santana as long as
Speaker 1: he's in the lineup and he is expected to hit
Speaker 1: in the middle of a pretty good Cleveland Indians lineup,
Speaker 1: or I mean, remember with the guy with Santanna and
Speaker 1: Cleveland he let off for a while and manager there,
Speaker 1: I don't expect him to eitherland doors are gonna lead off.
Speaker 1: I just wanted to note it at least it is
Speaker 1: worth mentioning. And he was pretty good in that role,
Speaker 1: just because the ob P gets on bass as much
Speaker 1: as he does. But Francisco Lindora had an awesome, awesome
Speaker 1: season last year, um and that was as a leadoff hitter,
Speaker 1: So I don't really see them going away from that
Speaker 1: roster resource right now for what it's worth. As Lindoor Kittness,
Speaker 1: Jose Ramirez, Carlos Santana and then Jake Bowers, who I'm
Speaker 1: sure we'll get into as well, but the ADP for
Speaker 1: I can very much see Carlos kind of betting two
Speaker 1: in that lineup. And not Jason Kitness that could make
Speaker 1: sense as well. Lindoor San Santana back to back switch hitters,
Speaker 1: and then you have actually would be back to back
Speaker 1: to back switch hittersor Santana and Jose Aramirez that could work,
Speaker 1: could drive up the run scoring opportunities for Carlos Santana
Speaker 1: as well. The rest of this lineup not so great.
Speaker 1: Give me the rest of the lineup they have as
Speaker 1: of right now, they have Tyler Naquin playing right field
Speaker 1: for this team as a platoon player with Jordan Luplo,
Speaker 1: and then they have Roberto Perez is the cashier, John
Speaker 1: Gomes is no longer, they're Leone's Martine as a center fielder,
Speaker 1: Greg Allen left field. So that's why you you hear
Speaker 1: names like Trevor Bauer and Corey Cluber floated around with
Speaker 1: with the Indians because Harbor they need outfield Hillnce Harbor
Speaker 1: they probably should, but for whatever reason, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: teams don't want to give out these big long contracts
Speaker 1: right now. And you know we're kind of seeing that
Speaker 1: as like a trigger trigger down effect. For all three years,
Speaker 1: it's like it's been a slow it's been a slow
Speaker 1: offseason for for for the MLB and for the hot stove,
Speaker 1: which is not very hot right now. But that's why
Speaker 1: it kind of makes sense for the Indians to float
Speaker 1: out a guy like Corey Kluber or Trevor Bauer to
Speaker 1: see what you could get in return, Like this has
Speaker 1: been an organization that just turns out pitching prospects and
Speaker 1: that you know, these guys have turned into pretty good pictures.
Speaker 1: Like remember they took Carlos Carrasco from the Philadelphia Philies
Speaker 1: as kind of like a reclamation project, and they made
Speaker 1: him awesome. Corey Kluber was a guy who was a
Speaker 1: late bloomer in his career with the Indians, came up
Speaker 1: when he was seven and ended up being awesome. Trevor
Speaker 1: Bauer they got from a Diamondbacks. They turned him into
Speaker 1: an awesome picture. Levinger is awesome as well. And and
Speaker 1: people are you know, getting excited about Shane Bieber, who
Speaker 1: is you know, the last guy in the sortation. So
Speaker 1: it would have surprised me one bit. I expect, I
Speaker 1: fully expect one of Uber or Bauer to be moved
Speaker 1: at some point because they need outfield help. You know
Speaker 1: something you've heard the padres as a potential landing spot
Speaker 1: for Corey Klueber. And that's because why the Padres have
Speaker 1: a glut of outfielders. They have Hunter Renfro, they have
Speaker 1: Frand Marais, they have Frankie Cordero, they have Will Myers.
Speaker 1: They you know, they have so many outfielders. So something
Speaker 1: between those two clubs could make sense. But just getting
Speaker 1: back to karl Santana just much better in points leads
Speaker 1: because he doesn't strike out much, he walks a lot.
Speaker 1: But for Rhodo, you see the NFBC A DP one
Speaker 1: point nine seven, you're getting him for basically nothing. The
Speaker 1: problem is, if you're a fantasy baseball player who likes
Speaker 1: to take a shot on like upside plays late in
Speaker 1: your draft, Carlos Santana doesn't really fit that bill. But
Speaker 1: well it stir construction if you do have other guys
Speaker 1: on your team that are a little risky year, like
Speaker 1: if you took a lot of upside shots earlier on
Speaker 1: in the draft and you want a guy who you
Speaker 1: can pencil in for Tooty too fifty and eighty, that's
Speaker 1: carl Santana. It's crazy cart going and pick two eight
Speaker 1: right now, which is so late, and it's crazy to
Speaker 1: because he does what he does every year. My draft
Speaker 1: last year just boring, like it feels if you could
Speaker 1: find those guys like even later than that. I don't
Speaker 1: even know if that's true. Like let's look at who's
Speaker 1: going around here. Yeah, I'm doing just that, Like he's
Speaker 1: going to Martinez doesn't have a job as of right
Speaker 1: now with the Cardinals. Joey Wendel surprised some people last year.
Speaker 1: This is a name to watch, Greig who is going
Speaker 1: to be a hype guy. Jarrett Hampson with the Colorado
Speaker 1: Rockies was a hot name prospect for the Rockies last year.
Speaker 1: Stole a ton of basis in the minor leagues, and
Speaker 1: I do believe as right now he's he does have
Speaker 1: a starting role with the Colorado Rockies, but with everybody
Speaker 1: trying to find stolen bases, where they starting Garret Empson
Speaker 1: second base because who wasn't there anymore? There was gonna
Speaker 1: play first base? Okay, Yeah, as of right now, they
Speaker 1: have Daniel Murphy at first, they have Garrett Hampson at
Speaker 1: second base, They have Trevors Story at short and they
Speaker 1: have Ian Desmond in the outfield and Ryan McMahon and
Speaker 1: Ry melt happier are kind of the odd names out
Speaker 1: with David dal starting in right field. So Garrett Hampson,
Speaker 1: who was going after Carl Santana right now, that is
Speaker 1: a name to watch out for. It's funny. What are
Speaker 1: you looking? Where are you looking at? Ust root um
Speaker 1: an FBC from so I'm looking you just right NFBC,
Speaker 1: A DP and Google. Have I have it? All? I
Speaker 1: go from January one and we're looking at the same thing,
Speaker 1: and I have Garrett Hampson actually going twenty spots higher
Speaker 1: January one, nineteen to one nineteen, Gregor do you have that?
Speaker 1: Not the problem? You found the problem? What was what
Speaker 1: was your end date in the adp uh correct, it
Speaker 1: was the beginning date which was one oh one two.
Speaker 1: That was not helpful. I all, um nahen eighty nine
Speaker 1: not to you know, who's comparable to Carl Santano goes
Speaker 1: right around him, Corey Dickerson. Yeah, like Corey Dickerson is
Speaker 1: still going to have a role with the with the
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh Pirates. You can argue has a better batting average
Speaker 1: upside there what kind of similar players? So how you
Speaker 1: wrought him off? Because that given an opportunity to bring
Speaker 1: out doesn't hole excited Lonnie Baseball were very excited now
Speaker 1: in Pittsburgh Corey Dickerson every day is he going to Yeah? Man,
Speaker 1: you know he crushes right E's I don't do this.
Speaker 1: You know who loved does it all that? Nanda loved
Speaker 1: Lonnie Baseball when love is his nickname. When I texted
Speaker 1: when there's always like a two week stretch every year
Speaker 1: where lions isn't all takes over and he sucks for
Speaker 1: the rest of you when he um when Lonnie is
Speaker 1: an old simon Pittsburgh, I texted, no, no, and he
Speaker 1: was so excited. Nanda loves the reclamation projects too, right, Like,
Speaker 1: what was the dude Eric Cooper who was on the
Speaker 1: Yankees a couple of years ago, now with the Miami
Speaker 1: Marlins chest to play Gods lineup? Man, have you looked
Speaker 1: at the Pirates line up yet? Greg? Oh my goodness,
Speaker 1: gone back in basement? You know what? You know what
Speaker 1: I do like on the Pirates and we just kind
Speaker 1: of jumping all around. But why not, umdzis to catch
Speaker 1: us who you know? In a small sample size, he
Speaker 1: played like the final two or three months of the
Speaker 1: season where he was an everyday player, Francisco Savelli was
Speaker 1: dealing with injuries, good batting average, he get like ten
Speaker 1: or twelve home runs, like battball profile looked good for
Speaker 1: him as well. I'm really really hoping that Francisco Savelli
Speaker 1: gets shipped out here because his name has been floated
Speaker 1: out there in trade rumors. One problem was one of
Speaker 1: those rumors was the Dodgers, and they traded for Russell Martin,
Speaker 1: But the Dodgers have also still been in on Real Muto.
Speaker 1: I just really hope that Servelli gets shipped out. Not
Speaker 1: that Survelli is bad, because you know he is what
Speaker 1: he is like he was. Savelli was one of these
Speaker 1: launch ango guys last year who was actively trying to
Speaker 1: lift the ball more and it worked out for him.
Speaker 1: But why SDS was a guy who was a little
Speaker 1: bit excited about last year based on what he did
Speaker 1: in a small say, do they have any prospects? They
Speaker 1: are like ready, No, what's going on with the Pirates organization?
Speaker 1: I don't know. They're interesting organization because last year you
Speaker 1: would have thought they would be sellers and they end
Speaker 1: up buying chrisus Archer. They thought there was they thought
Speaker 1: there was value there. I like Chris Archer too, who's
Speaker 1: that this morning? Actually ended up taking took him in
Speaker 1: my in my best ball. I took him at the
Speaker 1: end of the seventh round. Is my third starting pitcher
Speaker 1: off the board? Good? Um, all right, Glen's going back
Speaker 1: to the Indians here and actually back to the Rais
Speaker 1: as well. Where you said, Carlos Santana right now projecting
Speaker 1: you hit right in front of Jake Bowers person on
Speaker 1: the scene last year for Tampa and we thought this
Speaker 1: was potentially a long term solution at first base for
Speaker 1: the Raise. Ultimately not to be. Bowers goes to Cleveland,
Speaker 1: effectively replacing Edwin or Carnacion in the lineup. What do
Speaker 1: you think about Jake Bowers. So, Jake Bowers, I was
Speaker 1: a little it was a little thrown off frankly that
Speaker 1: the that the Tampa Bay Rays gave up on him
Speaker 1: a little bit too quickly. But the Rays are one
Speaker 1: of these forward thinking organizations. So if there's something that
Speaker 1: they saw in Jake Bowers last year that kind of
Speaker 1: put him off him, I kind of trust Tampa Bay
Speaker 1: just based on what they've done over the pasteons with
Speaker 1: like going to the opener and ziggies with everyone else's
Speaker 1: Zagging's almost like Tampa Bay can't afford to get that
Speaker 1: one wrong. They have to get right. Like he was.
Speaker 1: He was one of their top hitting prospects for a while.
Speaker 1: And he was a guy that we talked about before
Speaker 1: the season last year who from the first base position
Speaker 1: offers some stolen base upside could have been like a
Speaker 1: fifteen fifteen guy possibly got there, saw some stolen basis
Speaker 1: at the minor league level. Um I really liked his
Speaker 1: eye at the plate at the minor league level consistently
Speaker 1: over ten percent walk right career three sixty one o
Speaker 1: b P and the miners the problem. Here's here's the problem. Greag.
Speaker 1: Last year he hit two oh one at the major
Speaker 1: league level, twenty seven percent strikeout right. Now, you look
Speaker 1: at and and this is where we'll kind of explain
Speaker 1: some of these numbers. Bad it bat is batting average
Speaker 1: on balls in play. It's kind of predictive for actual
Speaker 1: batting average. So he hit two oh one last year,
Speaker 1: were they to fifty two badd And the reason why
Speaker 1: the batting average was much lower than the bat it
Speaker 1: was because he stuck out twenty seven percent of the time.
Speaker 1: But based on his forty heart hit rate. So he's
Speaker 1: hitting the ball hard, but the balls that he's hitting,
Speaker 1: we're not leading to hits based on his two bad
Speaker 1: Why was that? So you look into that and why
Speaker 1: was that happening? He pulled the ball ball fifty one
Speaker 1: of the time. He's a lefty who doesn't hit lefties well,
Speaker 1: who hit won seventy six against lefties, who was getting
Speaker 1: just hitting the ball hard but into the shift all
Speaker 1: the time. This is where baseball is going. And I
Speaker 1: think that's kind of like why you see the Yankees
Speaker 1: not signing a lot of left handed bats is that
Speaker 1: they want an already lineup. It's because it's a little
Speaker 1: bit harder to shift against righties nowadays, and and right
Speaker 1: eass can hit both right e's and left like that's
Speaker 1: the hitters that they're trying like. They bring a guy
Speaker 1: like d J. L. Mayhew, a guy who can hit
Speaker 1: both rights and lefties. And I think that's where baseball
Speaker 1: is going right now, where if you're a lefty, great,
Speaker 1: you hit the ball hard. Look at Jake Bowers, it's
Speaker 1: his first year in the majors and he hit the
Speaker 1: ball hard over the time. It's a very good mark.
Speaker 1: But his bed was to fifty two because he's hitting
Speaker 1: it into the shift every single time, which led to
Speaker 1: a two one batting average, and he struck out a lot.
Speaker 1: So I think that kind of put that opened up
Speaker 1: the eyes of the rais and they're like, this isn't
Speaker 1: gonna work, Like this isn't where baseball is going right now,
Speaker 1: So they try and take a reclamation project of their
Speaker 1: own in the Andandy Diaz, who if they can help
Speaker 1: him learn how to lift the ball a little bit,
Speaker 1: because right now he crushes the ball. He hits the
Speaker 1: ball extremely hard. The problem is it's into the ground
Speaker 1: every single time. He hits a ton of ground balls.
Speaker 1: So if you teach this guy how to hit line drives,
Speaker 1: even line drives, that's all you need for him, and
Speaker 1: then he could potentially be a three hitter and he'll
Speaker 1: he'll hit a ton of doubles, kind of like a
Speaker 1: U leaguerril, Like you get that out of him. And
Speaker 1: if you've seen pictures of Dandy Diaz after the trade,
Speaker 1: this guy is yoked up greg like he he has
Speaker 1: power there, you just kind of need to get it
Speaker 1: out of him. I think that's the way that baseball
Speaker 1: is trending right now. And That's why you see a
Speaker 1: team like the Raids give up on Jake Bauer so earlier.
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Speaker 1: people killing me the chat that's happening to have a
Speaker 1: bright smile on your right. No one said anything, Greg
Speaker 1: making sure so. Last September, after missing almost the entire
Speaker 1: season with an injury, Josh Donaldson was traded over to
Speaker 1: Cleveland became their starting third basement uh into the playoffs. Ultimately,
Speaker 1: he turned it into a twenty three million dollar one
Speaker 1: year contract with the Atlanta Braves, where he is slated
Speaker 1: to that second I believe in that Braves line up
Speaker 1: directly behind Ronald Kuna. Donaldson one year at age thirty
Speaker 1: three is of starting third basement in Atlanta. Are you
Speaker 1: buying for example, No, okay, I'm not buying Josh Donaldson
Speaker 1: based on his current a DP at ninety nine right
Speaker 1: around pick one. Look, if Josh Donaldson does bounce back
Speaker 1: this year, it's gonna be on somebody else's team. It's
Speaker 1: not gonna be on mine. I don't know that there's
Speaker 1: a player going inside the top one D picks. Maybe
Speaker 1: like Adalbert home Mondessey is one of those guys too,
Speaker 1: who has a wider range of outcomes and possibilities than
Speaker 1: Josh Donaldson. It's just it's hard to look at anything
Speaker 1: he's done last year the past couple of years, and
Speaker 1: kind of build that into your projection for this year,
Speaker 1: because it's all relative to whether or not he's over
Speaker 1: the shoulder injury, because it's obvious that that hampered his
Speaker 1: play last year could easily hamper his play this year
Speaker 1: if that shoulder was still a thing. If you remember
Speaker 1: watching him last year, you couldn't even throw the ball
Speaker 1: across the diamond. He's a third basement. He was three
Speaker 1: hopping the ball to first base. So, um, it's gonna
Speaker 1: be completely health related for Josh Johnson. Is it possible
Speaker 1: that he bounces back and it's to seventy with thirty
Speaker 1: home runs and nine d r B. I, yeah, it's
Speaker 1: certainly possible. What I would would I say it's probable.
Speaker 1: Probably not, I don't. I don't think it's very likely.
Speaker 1: You know, it's just around that range. Um, I'll take
Speaker 1: some of these other guys. You know, we'll get into
Speaker 1: Incarnacion as well, who's on Seattle for now, and he'll
Speaker 1: probably end up somewhere else, but he's going something like
Speaker 1: thirty picks later. I'd rather do that, Like I'd rather
Speaker 1: take the savings the discount on Incarnacione thirty picks later. Um,
Speaker 1: just because I'm pretty sure I know what I'm gonna
Speaker 1: get from Incarnacion at that point, whereas Josh Donaldson, you're
Speaker 1: kind of hoping Josh Donaldson just does what Edwin Incarnacion
Speaker 1: does right, just like with a better batting average. So
Speaker 1: there's just too much risk built into donald Donaldson for me. Greg,
Speaker 1: He's missed hifty nine games over the past few seasons. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was so good about Josh Donaldson for his m
Speaker 1: VP season and and then a couple of years before
Speaker 1: and after that was he played a hundred fifty five
Speaker 1: games in all four of those seasons one ft eight,
Speaker 1: one ft eight and a hundred fifty five and he
Speaker 1: was uber consistent, hitting about thirty home runs or more
Speaker 1: in all of those seasons. His first two years of
Speaker 1: the Blue Jayson and he was just ridiculous, right with
Speaker 1: all over hundred run scored, over hundred r v i
Speaker 1: s and the average that was very good. Um ov
Speaker 1: P that was even better, and he was fantastic. But
Speaker 1: at thirty three years old now, the injuries have certainly
Speaker 1: seemed to hatch up. I think Frank hit the nail
Speaker 1: on the head and said, hey, when you can get
Speaker 1: Edwin and Carnassion two and three rounds later, and those
Speaker 1: numbers are pretty much what you're hoping. Josh Donaldson gives you,
Speaker 1: why wouldn't you rather have an Edwin and Cornassio. I
Speaker 1: agree with you. I like Eddie, and we've seen that
Speaker 1: if you have legitimate power, as a guy like Edwin
Speaker 1: and Cornasion does, and he does stay in Seattle, it's
Speaker 1: not like a black whole, right Like Nelson Cruise was
Speaker 1: always fine in Seattle. So I think that comparable players too, exactly,
Speaker 1: So I think there is something to say about and
Speaker 1: winning Carnascio, not just completely falling off a cliff himself.
Speaker 1: Josh Donaldson and he's telling me he was going to
Speaker 1: play a hundred and fifty five games. I would buy it.
Speaker 1: I would be, you know, Josh Donaldson. But I think
Speaker 1: the Braves signed him not even expecting that either, because
Speaker 1: they have third base options behind him, like a guy
Speaker 1: like Johan Camargo played very well lest years. So I
Speaker 1: think Josh Donaldson is going to be kind of one
Speaker 1: of these maintenance guys for the Braves, you know, kind
Speaker 1: of close. So like what's going on with Kawhi Leonard
Speaker 1: with the Toronto Raptors right now, maybe not to that
Speaker 1: same extent, but would it surprised me if Josh donald
Speaker 1: is sitting out a game or two per week to
Speaker 1: try and keep him healthy to maximize his value, call
Speaker 1: him Quai why Donaldson? Yeah, they like it. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean that's that's my realistic expectation. He's not gonna be
Speaker 1: on my team. He goes off, He's gonna be on
Speaker 1: someone else's team. Why Donaldton is no back to backs?
Speaker 1: No back to backs? Well, it's pretty hard in baseball
Speaker 1: not to play back. That would be an issue for sure.
Speaker 1: Why Leonard by the way, No, and I either drafted
Speaker 1: him in one of my home leagues, greg in a
Speaker 1: weekly league, and it kills you in a weekly league
Speaker 1: because you can't even fill someone else in this spot.
Speaker 1: You have to play him. Like, what's going on with
Speaker 1: Kawai Leonard? He hasn't played to to three games in
Speaker 1: a row now four, I think four in a row.
Speaker 1: They're saying he's expected to return on Friday. But what's
Speaker 1: crazy is the games one of the Raptors don't play him,
Speaker 1: they win, so like it's kind of justified. It, it's
Speaker 1: kind of justified they keep winning games without him, And
Speaker 1: I think that kind of speaks volumes to uh was
Speaker 1: it Nick Nurse there? I think it speaks volumes to
Speaker 1: the job that Nick Nurse has done with this team
Speaker 1: this year in terms of the development with guys like Ascalciackum,
Speaker 1: Sergeibaka has had a bounce back here. I don't know
Speaker 1: how we got into like Kawhi Leonard, but it just
Speaker 1: kind of frustrates me. Why Donald Um anything else. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I have a lot on edwinas and actually twenty six
Speaker 1: a DP right now. Just Baran has first based eligibility.
Speaker 1: Played twenty three games there last year. Since two thousand twelve,
Speaker 1: two hundred sixty three home runs, that's the most in baseball,
Speaker 1: extremely consistent, only hit thirty two last year, but he
Speaker 1: played a hundred and thirty seven games, So if he
Speaker 1: played a hundred and fifty, he's probably still in that
Speaker 1: thirty five thirty six home run range. He is thirty
Speaker 1: six years old, so I understand people who might have
Speaker 1: a bit of a worry, but you're getting a pretty
Speaker 1: big discount on on Anchor Nazi on this year at
Speaker 1: pick you know, a hundred and twenty five, hundred and
Speaker 1: thirty whereas in years passed. Remember last year he took
Speaker 1: him on the four or five swing in fifteen team league,
Speaker 1: so they're you know, you're spending sixty pick sixty five,
Speaker 1: he's going double that, and you know he's a guy
Speaker 1: who has power that it doesn't matter where he goes.
Speaker 1: His power is going to travel. I understand people might
Speaker 1: have uh concerns about him because the average and the
Speaker 1: strikeouts have been going the wrong way three years in
Speaker 1: a row now, and I do think that there's a
Speaker 1: chance at some point that like he could just fall
Speaker 1: off a cliff. I don't think that he's there yet.
Speaker 1: He's one of only four team players last year were
Speaker 1: part of the forty forty club. You remember the forty
Speaker 1: club from last year, Greg hard hit rate, fly ball rate,
Speaker 1: so that means pretty consistently you can expect a favorite
Speaker 1: um a fair amount of home runs from said players.
Speaker 1: So he was one of only fourteen players who have
Speaker 1: a bat atball profile who looked like that. I still
Speaker 1: believe in the power. I think a fair projection for
Speaker 1: him to forty thirty five on runs Andy plus r
Speaker 1: B I S and you're getting that thirty picks later
Speaker 1: and Josh Donaldson, Okay, there you go. Josh Donaldson going earlier,
Speaker 1: stay in Seattle for now, and then Jerry would have
Speaker 1: traded him already. Yeah, he's not gonna get traded before
Speaker 1: spring training or before the season. He could be a
Speaker 1: guy that's moved at like the deadline, or I'm just
Speaker 1: trying to feel not last season Seattle. I'm trying to
Speaker 1: figure out if I'm worried enough about the Mariners line
Speaker 1: up to the point where it affects Hanniger. Because I
Speaker 1: was the fair question. I was debating taking Haneger last
Speaker 1: night in its Best Ball Draft as my outfield too.
Speaker 1: I ended up going with Tommy Fam instead. You like
Speaker 1: Tommy Fam. Pretty excited about Tommy Fam this year. He's
Speaker 1: a guy who just crosses the ball, hits it extremely hard,
Speaker 1: and he does walk a lot as well, also strikes
Speaker 1: out a decent bit. But Man, based on what he
Speaker 1: did with Tampa Bay last year, doesn't have to worry
Speaker 1: about being on the Cardinals this year, worrying about when
Speaker 1: he's gonna play. He's gonna play every single day with
Speaker 1: the Tampa Bay Ray. So I took Fam over Haneger,
Speaker 1: but I was debating those two guys. Ennagar did a
Speaker 1: lot of great things last year. But should we worry
Speaker 1: about the Mariners lineup? Greg on paper, I don't think
Speaker 1: it's as bad. It's kind of crazy. Just looking at
Speaker 1: Tommy Fam for just the second now, I was like
Speaker 1: he was looking at hard hit right, and obviously he
Speaker 1: was very high up there. Um, but I remember people
Speaker 1: being disappointed with Tommy Fam. Maybe he's just the Cardinals
Speaker 1: being disappointed. He literally had the same exact year the
Speaker 1: year before, like you had ten less stolen basis, but
Speaker 1: everything else is literally the same. It's crazy. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: he steals bases. You want to talk about trying to
Speaker 1: find stolen bases. It's fans of a guy who's gonna
Speaker 1: be what where's he hitting? Um yeah, I'll probably hit
Speaker 1: at the top, you know, first or second in the lineup,
Speaker 1: just based on much he walks. I think that's fair.
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't know if he'll be in the
Speaker 1: middle of that lineup. I do think a guy like
Speaker 1: g Man joys in the middle of the Raised lineup.
Speaker 1: As of now, they have Kevin Kiermyer, Tommy Fam, Joey Wendell,
Speaker 1: Absale Garcia who was just I love, and then towards
Speaker 1: the bottom of the line up, you do have some
Speaker 1: upside place here. William Domas batting six, Austin Meadows batting seventh.
Speaker 1: So some interesting names here for the Tampa Bay race, definitely,
Speaker 1: and they trained for Mike's Nino speaking man. They're one
Speaker 1: of these teams that, like, when everyone is doing one thing,
Speaker 1: you just go the other way. It's crazy. Speaking of
Speaker 1: interesting names, the other Braves before we move off of them,
Speaker 1: they let a Braves resigned one on our own yesterday,
Speaker 1: resetting Nick Markekes for one years, six million dollars and
Speaker 1: taking themselves out of the running for Bryce Harpor. Markekres
Speaker 1: made the first All Star team of his career last year,
Speaker 1: but there were resurgence in Atlanta. Good clubhouse guy, more
Speaker 1: importantly as a good fantasy guy last year. For years
Speaker 1: people have slept the Markakas. I know Floria was publing
Speaker 1: him out last year. Say hey and points league, this
Speaker 1: guy's good. He doesn't strike out, he makes a lot
Speaker 1: of content, and he was great early on in the season.
Speaker 1: It looked like he was kind of buying into like
Speaker 1: hitting more flyballs and trying to hit for more power
Speaker 1: and hit home runs. But it kind of it tailed off.
Speaker 1: It tailed off in a big way. In the second half.
Speaker 1: Like second half, Nick Markekeus was classic market because great
Speaker 1: batting average. Again, makes a lot of contact, but just
Speaker 1: not enough power or anything else really to sustain value
Speaker 1: in a rotissary league. In the points league gets different
Speaker 1: because he doesn't strike out, so you don't lose points
Speaker 1: for that. He has good plate discipline, he still walks,
Speaker 1: he hits a lot of doubles. So for all those reasons,
Speaker 1: and you know he HiT's in a good lineup with
Speaker 1: the Atlanta Braves, so for all those reasons, he's still
Speaker 1: fine for points leagues. I think the biggest takeaway and
Speaker 1: what kind of influences fantasy most here with the with
Speaker 1: the resigning of Nick Markekus is yesterday it was announced
Speaker 1: via David O'Brien, beat writer for the Atlanta Braves, that
Speaker 1: uh Snitker, the manager of the Braves, is leaning towards
Speaker 1: a lineup with ender Incrte, Josh Donaldson, Freddie Freeman, Akuna
Speaker 1: Akuna and then markeks fifth And why is that so
Speaker 1: influential in Fantasy baseball? Last year, Ronald Qunia did most
Speaker 1: of his damage as a leadoff hitter for the Atlanta Braves.
Speaker 1: He had a one thousand, forty three ops as the
Speaker 1: leadoff hitter of the Braves. Fourteen of his sixteen stolen
Speaker 1: bases came in that leadoff spot, whereas in all the
Speaker 1: other um spots in the line, if he only had
Speaker 1: two stolen bases, and his OPS was much better as
Speaker 1: a leadoff hitter than everywhere else. So as of right now,
Speaker 1: it looks like a Conia is gonna bat clean up
Speaker 1: for the Braves, which might limit his stolen base ups.
Speaker 1: All right, good, good little tibet there from Frankie Stanford.
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Speaker 1: I know we want to talk about Daniel Murphy, but
Speaker 1: is there anything else with the because Phillies are, the Braves,
Speaker 1: are the Mariners, the Indians and the else you wanted
Speaker 1: to hit on those kind of four teams where we
Speaker 1: circled around the uh No. Just again, touching on the
Speaker 1: Mariner's lineup, I'm currently weighing whether I think it's good enough.
Speaker 1: I personally, I do think it's I think it's okay.
Speaker 1: Like they have Malex Smith, they still have d Gordon,
Speaker 1: they have Mitch Haniger, they have Kyle Seger, they have
Speaker 1: any Carnacione for now. I don't think the Mariners line
Speaker 1: up is as bad as like at first glance, Like
Speaker 1: if you assume that they're going to trade Incarnacion away,
Speaker 1: I get it, But I do think the Mariners lineup
Speaker 1: could be okay. That was one of the main takeaways here.
Speaker 1: Spoke about the Tampa Bay Ray's lineup a little bit
Speaker 1: with Yandy Diaz. Yandy Diaz as of right now, I
Speaker 1: think they have him starting in the minor leagues, but
Speaker 1: they do not have him on the major league So
Speaker 1: they have right now on Rosster Reachars. I'd be surprised.
Speaker 1: I think I'd be surprised if he's not starting somewhere
Speaker 1: for the Raises here, whether it's third base or first
Speaker 1: base or designated hit it we'll not designated here because
Speaker 1: they signed Garcia for reasons, but I'd be surprised if
Speaker 1: they don't. If Yondi Diaz is not up there, they're
Speaker 1: probably maybe they'll take some time in the minors to
Speaker 1: kind of work out these kinks and kind of do
Speaker 1: whatever they want to do to his swing in order
Speaker 1: for him to like get a little bit more lift
Speaker 1: in that swing. So me, you know, we see him
Speaker 1: a little bit later on, but I mean, he's going
Speaker 1: like the four right now in a DP Andy dazn't
Speaker 1: He's an opportunity to talk about you guy, Charlie Morton,
Speaker 1: Robie Moon. I haven't really looked into Charlie Morton. Frank
Speaker 1: has asked me for like four days in a row,
Speaker 1: can we talking about Charlie Morton? And and because you
Speaker 1: keep shooting me down, I haven't been able to like
Speaker 1: really done a deep dive on Charlie Morton yet. The
Speaker 1: biggest thing with Charlie Morton he goes over to the
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay Rays, who obviously got the most out of
Speaker 1: blakes now he was a sy Young Award winner last year.
Speaker 1: They got the most out of their openers. You might
Speaker 1: says they're openers. They're they're openers. I mean, it's not
Speaker 1: like a opener is not a legit term. They made it.
Speaker 1: They made it a thing. That's why it's not the thing.
Speaker 1: Closer wasn't the thing until it was a thing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we'll see if opener is more of a thing this year.
Speaker 1: They don't go out and sign to Charlie Morton because
Speaker 1: they want more openers. No, no, Charlie Morton will be
Speaker 1: opener ne Bake Snell. But right now the question will
Speaker 1: be with Tyler glassnow being Tyler glassnow get an opener? Oh,
Speaker 1: Ryan Yarbro and Ryan Yarrow and had openers all season long. Um,
Speaker 1: it'll be interesting to see what happens when guys like um,
Speaker 1: Brent honey wellcome back, when guys like Brity back last year. Right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: he was cheating year. He is terrible. Had he traded
Speaker 1: for you, I don't think he was. He's not on
Speaker 1: the team anymore. He's still on the rate him in
Speaker 1: the minor leagues. So they getting Brent Honeywell back, they're
Speaker 1: getting Hojsie da Leone back, and they got Anthony Banda back,
Speaker 1: three guys they wanted to be starting pictures for them.
Speaker 1: So it happens ultimately, Yeah, I don't think the opener
Speaker 1: was like a long term thing. I think they were
Speaker 1: just I don't know, find ways last year. It's very interesting,
Speaker 1: It's very was very successus. I need to figure out
Speaker 1: what Charlie Morton is. What the the adjustments that the
Speaker 1: Houston Astros made to him as a starting pitcher, will
Speaker 1: they translate to another team. I don't think he's just
Speaker 1: gonna forget everything that he learned while he was with Houston,
Speaker 1: because Houston's very They're always hard as you can fastball velocity,
Speaker 1: the spin rate on the curveball, so on and so forth.
Speaker 1: But you know, is he gonna is he gonna have
Speaker 1: the right stuff greg to get that spin right back,
Speaker 1: because you know, guys like Trevor Bauer speculate that the
Speaker 1: Astros have kind of hidden substance that they use to
Speaker 1: get that spin rate. I think it'll be interesting, man,
Speaker 1: So I gotta look into that a little bit more.
Speaker 1: Jalen Beaks another name to pay attention to. They traded
Speaker 1: for Jalen Beaks last year that Eovaldi trade from Boston,
Speaker 1: who performed very well in the minors as a starting
Speaker 1: pitcher and now comes in here. He was kind of
Speaker 1: used as that like they would have an opener and
Speaker 1: then he would pitch like three or four innings, so
Speaker 1: they were using him in that way. I think he's
Speaker 1: another name to pay attention to as well. With that,
Speaker 1: we say goodbye for now the Fantasy people. Both Frenzies
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