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Speaker 1: anything out in my home league right at first? Overall picks,
Speaker 1: I want to try to figure out who will be
Speaker 1: there for me in the second. Why do you want?
Speaker 1: How do you ever listen to the King? Greg? Come on,
Speaker 1: I just want to have an idea. I just wanna
Speaker 1: have an idea. Who's gonna be there? Not not like
Speaker 1: in the second to the point you have an idea
Speaker 1: of like five guys. Yeah, that's what that's all I want.
Speaker 1: So of course, so I asked you get a bump.
Speaker 1: I asked, hometown, Hella, who's the best guy left? Is?
Speaker 1: He think? Because I haven't done this at all yet,
Speaker 1: I have not looked at it really know. When people
Speaker 1: are keeping tell me that book arts the best guy? Like,
Speaker 1: are you kidding me? But it's a twelve team league.
Speaker 1: How many players are kept for It's like my league. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's off the board. I'll tell you who's better. Lay Ah,
Speaker 1: He's already kept in both of my leagues. Dude, this
Speaker 1: is a This is not good at all, and keep
Speaker 1: you have great keepers though, What are you worried about? Dude?
Speaker 1: We're not on the tenth round, the eighth Yeah, oh yeah,
Speaker 1: that's amazing. It's the last year. That the last year
Speaker 1: of that eighth round, Hooky Betts because the first overall pick,
Speaker 1: are you gonna take him? We're gonna take Sures Now
Speaker 1: I might have Now I might have to take what's
Speaker 1: the name of friends, Jeremy wolf Wolf. We have the
Speaker 1: first overall pick. So you don't have to pick keep
Speaker 1: somebody in the first round. That's fantastic. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: like that's what I did last year. I didn't keep
Speaker 1: a first round. Talks about this, right, like, so I
Speaker 1: have hopefully not Devers again. No, I'm not Ki RAFFI
Speaker 1: divers Blake Snell. I'm going to keep he's in the
Speaker 1: eleventh round. He's the he's in the he's the tenth throad.
Speaker 1: I think. Yeah, my eleventh round, I have in the
Speaker 1: eleventh round of keeping Patrick Corbyn. All right, you do
Speaker 1: like that. I don't like that. I'm out on that
Speaker 1: eleventh round. I actually pivoted. I'm not gonna keep him
Speaker 1: anymore in one of my home leagues and eleventh round.
Speaker 1: I know it sounds it sounds great. I told, I
Speaker 1: asked you, would you rather keep Zach Wheeler in the
Speaker 1: ninth two rounds difference? No, yeah, I'd rather keep Corpan.
Speaker 1: So I have Wheeler in the night, I can keep
Speaker 1: all three, or I keep Justin Turner. Inteh, I like
Speaker 1: that too. In the points leak, get out of here,
Speaker 1: Zach Wheeler. Baby, let's go really take the three pictures Eronado,
Speaker 1: take Mookie Bets and then one and then you're probably
Speaker 1: taking one hitter and one picture there on the turn picture,
Speaker 1: so you'll be pretty good. You don't like the Justin
Speaker 1: turn I like. I love Justin Turner. He's awesome. I
Speaker 1: like that best. I like that better than the pictures.
Speaker 1: Don't really want I don't like the pictures because they
Speaker 1: do so many different things for me to year. Those
Speaker 1: pictures not the top twenties. Zach whel was always hurt.
Speaker 1: Like there was one year I had Gossman, remember that
Speaker 1: Kevin Gossman had that unbelievable season. Yeah gas Man, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I had him, and I had Aaron Sanchez who also
Speaker 1: had Yeah, yeah, I had them like the eighth and
Speaker 1: seventeenth round. I ended up not keeping him because the
Speaker 1: next year they ended up being horrible. And yeah, so
Speaker 1: keeping pictures late it doesn't work out. Yeah, that's the
Speaker 1: skills though. I mean, I do like those guys, Blakes.
Speaker 1: I want to trade. I want to excited about the skills. First.
Speaker 1: My goal goals to trade away a Corbyn or Wheeler
Speaker 1: and then keep Justin Turner. I can extra pick out
Speaker 1: of it. That's what I'd like to do. That. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's that's a good idea. That shouldn't be allowed though.
Speaker 1: That's actually something I don't do that. You shouldn't allowed
Speaker 1: to trade away a player. You're not going to keep
Speaker 1: a draft pick out of it. It's your team, it's
Speaker 1: your team. A little dynasty wrinkle there, that's yeah, we
Speaker 1: don't do that. I would you be allowed to do
Speaker 1: that because they're on my team. Who weren't going to
Speaker 1: keep that player anyway? In my opinion, if you trade
Speaker 1: away a player that you were going to keep, you
Speaker 1: only get to keep three players. No, no, no, you
Speaker 1: shouldn't be allowed. That's true. You listen, you shouldn't be
Speaker 1: able to trade away a player and gain a draft
Speaker 1: pick it and just keep another. I agree with that.
Speaker 1: Either you keep four players and you don't get any
Speaker 1: draft picks, or you trade away a player you get
Speaker 1: next to draft pick, but now you can only keep
Speaker 1: three because it's not really your roster. Like the thing is,
Speaker 1: you're only gonna get to keep four. Right, So once
Speaker 1: the keepers are in and locked in, then I understand
Speaker 1: that it's closed. What's this locked? It's locked? Man? Well,
Speaker 1: the traders are locked, the keepers are locked. Everybody's like,
Speaker 1: you're you're done. It's not your team anymore. Right, you
Speaker 1: just have the four guys, right, then you can trade
Speaker 1: those guys. I don't think you should trade guys that
Speaker 1: you're gonna drop anyway back into the pool people people
Speaker 1: are looking at for players. Why would I need to trade?
Speaker 1: You can trade away every player on your team there
Speaker 1: for draftis. Yeah, you just have a million draft picks
Speaker 1: and still have four keepers. Couldn't end up? I could
Speaker 1: do that. People are gonna have to give away draft
Speaker 1: picks for them. Yeah, I don't know. It doesn't it
Speaker 1: doesn't make sense. That is true too, okay. Value Every
Speaker 1: league has their own rights. I used to do draft
Speaker 1: pick trades. I was a complete disaster. We don't. We
Speaker 1: do it all the time, picks for picks. We nobody
Speaker 1: knows how to decide the value. I got crawls like you.
Speaker 1: You know what we do, more more so than anything,
Speaker 1: isn't graftic trade. It's more draffiic swaps. We all we
Speaker 1: saw we do a lot of round swapping. Jump all
Speaker 1: over the board like first, first and four for like
Speaker 1: your your your swaft, first and fourth and then swap
Speaker 1: like one, five, seven, something like that, right right right? Yeah?
Speaker 1: We use a Google We use the Google Dog traft. Look,
Speaker 1: if you guys are if it's easy for you to tract,
Speaker 1: and yeah, I mean all the power to you. I
Speaker 1: tried it for three years commissioner in a fancy basketball
Speaker 1: league where you can trade. It was a keeper league
Speaker 1: where you can trade draft picks. It's a disaster, right,
Speaker 1: I was a commissioner to myself. Never again. I stopped
Speaker 1: it because the kids were just complaining, like, oh, how
Speaker 1: did they know the value this kid? Traded that kid
Speaker 1: to this team and he's a powerful team. Now it
Speaker 1: kind of screws me and I get so many complaints.
Speaker 1: I was just done with it. I was just done
Speaker 1: with it. We gotta get in some more, some more second, okay,
Speaker 1: because he're gonna get to like ten for two hours.
Speaker 1: It's usual. Well, you talked about a bunch of ready,
Speaker 1: you've talked three you guys here we be you. What
Speaker 1: are your thoughts? Not even even alright? Your bias are
Speaker 1: all to We'll just ask you that I'm there to
Speaker 1: and this is both the end. Okay. So this crew
Speaker 1: Ozzie Albi's Glabor Torres and Daniel Murphy. Why is that
Speaker 1: a crew because there because they're a DP right now.
Speaker 1: According the NFBC is all around the same round ish
Speaker 1: you ever take. I think this is a crue. I
Speaker 1: don't know how you have a too, because I haven't.
Speaker 1: I haven't over the view rankings, which you can check out,
Speaker 1: by the way, in Frank's Patrion on the free for now,
Speaker 1: they won't be free for good. Um, Albi's, Torres and
Speaker 1: Murphy are all going around the same round round or two.
Speaker 1: How would ranking those three? I have Albi's actually ranked
Speaker 1: third ahead of Wit. I have ahead of Wit. Okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: I have him third, I have bias al two of
Speaker 1: a Alby's I have went fourth. Then Glabor five, actually
Speaker 1: have Mancada six and Murphy seven. We're talking about a
Speaker 1: second because I disagree with you. Obviously we talking about
Speaker 1: this downstairs about Markada. Um, Frank, how do you have
Speaker 1: these guys ranks? Have an Autie Albi's four, Glabor towards five. Right,
Speaker 1: you're at the same as the ADP the thing with
Speaker 1: as abstink. Obviously, the scorching hot start in the first
Speaker 1: half he was he was unbelievable, um, and really slowed
Speaker 1: down momentously. UM in the second half. The real Ozzy Albis.
Speaker 1: Please state at which is the real Azzi Albis? Is
Speaker 1: it a combination of both of them? Probably? Probably? So
Speaker 1: what makes you ill go to you eventual? Because you
Speaker 1: have the third overall? Why do you believe that he's
Speaker 1: the third best second baseman? Do you think we're gonna
Speaker 1: see that first half all season? Like? What do you
Speaker 1: expect the Assi Abbies this year? I expect a lot obviously, right, Um,
Speaker 1: And you know, I think you're getting him at a
Speaker 1: at a pretty decent value considering that he's behind behind
Speaker 1: third right now according to those a dps. Uh. And
Speaker 1: this guy has been a top reprospect for years, right.
Speaker 1: He was known as a Camp Miss prospect coming up.
Speaker 1: And he proved a lot in his first year in
Speaker 1: the pretty much his first full season in the MLB here, Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, a hundred and five runs scored for basically
Speaker 1: a rookie, you know what I mean? Um, forty doubles,
Speaker 1: twenty four homes, He had fourteen bags, two sixty one
Speaker 1: across the board in the Points League. I think that
Speaker 1: this is a guy that's gonna grow. Yeah, he's gonna
Speaker 1: have growing pains still, I think in his second full season,
Speaker 1: but I think that the upside is way better than
Speaker 1: a Murphy or uh, well, Glabor I think still needs
Speaker 1: more time. I think Glabor needs a little more time,
Speaker 1: and you gotta worry a little bit about injuries with Labor.
Speaker 1: With Ozzie, I think, you know, he's almost there and
Speaker 1: he's only twenty two years old, so I mean, the
Speaker 1: sky is the limit. I love that fact, and I
Speaker 1: will take the chance on him over a guy like
Speaker 1: a Daniel Murphy, who I'm a lot more worried about,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. And it is worth mentioning
Speaker 1: again that Venturo specializes more so in Points League. Definitely.
Speaker 1: My rankies are more so for Rhodo and which for
Speaker 1: the record, I use my head is obviously the head
Speaker 1: categories which I played by kind of got a little
Speaker 1: wrinkle of it, but I told I normally try to
Speaker 1: lean toward what Venture is doing with the Points League.
Speaker 1: That's my favorite way to play. But continue, Yeah, but
Speaker 1: I don't really think there's much difference between the points
Speaker 1: format and the rohdo for Ozzy Albi's you kind of
Speaker 1: want him to do a little bit of everything for
Speaker 1: Rhoto and then in the points that you mentioned, Look,
Speaker 1: he hit a lot of doubles last year. He doesn't
Speaker 1: strike out all that much, Like he's always been a
Speaker 1: good contact hitter going back to his days in the
Speaker 1: minors and only has to seven teen percent strike out
Speaker 1: right last year, doesn't walk all that much. I thought
Speaker 1: he would be a little bit better in the department
Speaker 1: and and maybe he maybe you see a little bit
Speaker 1: of uptick this year because two years ago in seventeen,
Speaker 1: when he made his debut and only fifty seven games,
Speaker 1: he walked eight point six percent in a time. Last
Speaker 1: year that dropped down to five point three. So he
Speaker 1: was a little bit more aggressive last season, Greg, you
Speaker 1: mentioned it. I mean, it was the tale of two
Speaker 1: halves for Ozzy Albie. So it's trying to figure out,
Speaker 1: you know, which which is the real guy. Last year
Speaker 1: he had twenty four home runs, whereas you know, his
Speaker 1: his highest total in the season was seventeen when he
Speaker 1: hit fifteen. That was between Triple A and Major. Twenty
Speaker 1: four kind of seems like a little bit of an outlier.
Speaker 1: He's not really a big dude like you, like, can
Speaker 1: you really expect that much power from him? First half
Speaker 1: first half two eighty one batting average O p s.
Speaker 1: Greig Second half two why six six ops twenty home
Speaker 1: runs in the first half, four in the second half,
Speaker 1: nine stolen bases in the first half, five in the
Speaker 1: second half. Now he played ninety three games in the
Speaker 1: first half, sixty four in the second half. All right, fine,
Speaker 1: but talk about two halves, man, Like, this is a
Speaker 1: guy that was he was bad, and he was just
Speaker 1: straight up bad in the second half of the season.
Speaker 1: He was bad. Look, the hard hit rate dropped by
Speaker 1: eleven percent in the second half, so that obviously led
Speaker 1: to it. The home run of five ball ratio went
Speaker 1: from fourteen point seven percent to five point six percent.
Speaker 1: But I will say this, I don't necessarily hate his
Speaker 1: draft price this year because he showed He showed me
Speaker 1: a lot in that first half, Like, you know, as
Speaker 1: bad as he was in the second half, and every
Speaker 1: you know, a lot of people try to look at
Speaker 1: second half. It's like count uh, you know, coming over
Speaker 1: into the next year. It's kind of like I was
Speaker 1: doing I was doing it this morning. And you can't
Speaker 1: just completely discount of first half and like just gloss
Speaker 1: over it and not even like take it into consideration.
Speaker 1: I still think that he could be, you know, a
Speaker 1: twenty guy with a batting average. It's that's not gonna
Speaker 1: kill you, hitter, dude, He's doable. Here's the thing, Like,
Speaker 1: he's a young player. Have you how often do you
Speaker 1: see a young guy coming to the majors and not
Speaker 1: struggle at some point? It's very rare. Albert pool Hoole
Speaker 1: so was like the only player I've seen in twenty
Speaker 1: years that came into the league ripping and didn't stop.
Speaker 1: Bryce Harvard basically, Ye, Vladimir jor that going to do that?
Speaker 1: Are you a different kind of prospects as just twenty
Speaker 1: two years old? Yeah, he's so young. Legitimately twenty two
Speaker 1: years old projected to bat fifth, so we're gonna have
Speaker 1: more RBI opportunities. He's not gonna be at the top
Speaker 1: of that lineup, that's the difference. He was more so
Speaker 1: at the top last year. So maybe the runs come
Speaker 1: down a little bit. He had a hundred and five
Speaker 1: runs scored last year. If I'm just projecting it, I'm
Speaker 1: probably looking more at eight five to ninety. But I
Speaker 1: do think the RBIs could come up with batting fifth,
Speaker 1: He's gonna be right behind Freddie Freeman and Nick Mark Cakes. Ye,
Speaker 1: he's gonna have some BI opportunity to steal Donald does
Speaker 1: he stopped running, but I don't think think he continues running.
Speaker 1: You I actually, you know you're respecting more speed out
Speaker 1: of him last year than you were the power totally
Speaker 1: and it didn't come like but in seventeen between Triple
Speaker 1: A and the majors, twenty nine steals. So in eight
Speaker 1: stolen bases in fifty seven games at the major league
Speaker 1: level in seventeen sot out closer to twenty I'll take.
Speaker 1: I think he could get to like eighteen eighteen twenty.
Speaker 1: I think in that ring um steep percentage last year
Speaker 1: that he had fourteen three not bad, but but my
Speaker 1: point was seventeen you should you would assume he'd attempt
Speaker 1: more and the miners the guy was a prolific stolen basis.
Speaker 1: And I'm trying you. You mentioned, you mentioned on stack
Speaker 1: cast he's in the percent successful you imagined. This is
Speaker 1: a great imagine. It's a great lineup. Is that calls
Speaker 1: him to run less? Doesn't want to run it out?
Speaker 1: Don't you don't want to run into out? Well, look
Speaker 1: at who's behind him, right, yeah? Duran c RT Like
Speaker 1: to me, that's a player who Yeah, you can run
Speaker 1: with that guy on base I mean you got on
Speaker 1: with that guy at the plate, Yes, the guy like
Speaker 1: Enduran c RT, because you know, what, are you hoping
Speaker 1: he does hit a single Albis on second base if
Speaker 1: you want, if you want him to score from there,
Speaker 1: Well you should expect is temporary your expectations with sold bass, right,
Speaker 1: but I think you should still expect power. Here's the thing.
Speaker 1: When in the miners, you're not playing as many games
Speaker 1: as you are in the major so you're never gonna
Speaker 1: see crazy power numbers, even from power guys, because they're
Speaker 1: just not getting enough at bats to produce that many homers.
Speaker 1: In the majors, you'll see them. Also, they're getting older,
Speaker 1: they're getting stronger, they're getting better. Uh they're not a
Speaker 1: young kid, almost a teenage journey more. This kid's twenty two.
Speaker 1: The power is gonna come. I think this guy is
Speaker 1: just a pure hitter. He's hit like two nine plus
Speaker 1: in every year in the minors, so I mean he's
Speaker 1: just a pure hitter. It's really interesting because you mentioned
Speaker 1: this laugh is so great. Top halfs really great, like
Speaker 1: those first four hitters and then you could drive. It's
Speaker 1: really good. Then after that in CRT, Brian McCann Dan's
Speaker 1: by Swanson. That actually makes me more interested in albis
Speaker 1: because you can run right like you can run on that. Yes,
Speaker 1: so that makes me a little bit more resource. Actually
Speaker 1: changes up to have a Kunia now hitting leadoff again,
Speaker 1: which is what which is what Bryan Snedeker said. Yeah,
Speaker 1: been going back and forth though, because there was a
Speaker 1: report that he came out and said, especially when he
Speaker 1: was going to hit clean up happening without enter and
Speaker 1: CRD was gonna bad lead off? Right, Oh, Ronald Kunia
Speaker 1: wants to hit lead off and adds good for his soul.
Speaker 1: So basically A Kunia said he wants about leadoff, Donaldson
Speaker 1: says he wants a bad second, Freeman wants about third.
Speaker 1: This is the line that fits right, Really, it's imperfectly. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's interesting. I think Adof and Ozzi should leadoff. I'm
Speaker 1: sure you do think that. I mean, that makes the
Speaker 1: most sense. And why is NCRT batting get off. He's
Speaker 1: not one of the best, He's not even a top
Speaker 1: five hitter. Who is? Okay, So if a Kunia hits
Speaker 1: lead off, you got Donaldson Freeman and who bats fourth.
Speaker 1: That's a terrible clean up hitter. That's the worst clean
Speaker 1: up hitter I've ever heard in my wife he doesn't hit.
Speaker 1: How about you look at the the raise man. Oh yeah, no,
Speaker 1: I know, listen, but you have better. I like the guy.
Speaker 1: He's a he's a great baseball player. Like he's been
Speaker 1: a solid basic players called. He's not a fantasy guy.
Speaker 1: He was, he was. He's a points lea guy he
Speaker 1: came out of He's been bad for ten years. Every
Speaker 1: year he's he's pretty solid. He's undervalued. EVERYMIO loved him
Speaker 1: going to last year in points leagues love. That's very
Speaker 1: interesting because he hasn't done anything to prove that in years.
Speaker 1: Here's what I have for Ozzy Albie's projection. You guys,
Speaker 1: tell me anyone where I might be off. Two seventy
Speaker 1: eighteen homers, eight runs scored a d r B I
Speaker 1: eighteen stone basis eighteen eighteen guy, how many homers? I
Speaker 1: like that, except I'm gonna say a little more homers.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna throwing triples in there. I'm gonna throwing like
Speaker 1: a triple. Listen, well, what are you looking for in
Speaker 1: a second, baseman? I think that's the ultimate question. You
Speaker 1: get Azzi Albi's and he's going around pick sixty or so,
Speaker 1: and I think it's right. Like I think he is
Speaker 1: a fourth ranked second basement. Like I agree, I agree
Speaker 1: with you, Um I'm not like I agree he's the
Speaker 1: fourth rank second baseman. But they of it comes to
Speaker 1: what are you looking for when we come back. I
Speaker 1: want to get in Well, we'll hit on labor tourists,
Speaker 1: but like I want to get into like Rustakis, I
Speaker 1: want to get into Travis Shaw. Guys are gonna hit
Speaker 1: a lot of home runs that you're getting a little
Speaker 1: bit later than Azzi Hobbies. Is it worth it to
Speaker 1: wit our guy Runette Odor? Should we winning on him?
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Speaker 1: second basement. I want to get into how these guys,
Speaker 1: how Azzi Albis compared to the power guys like Maca
Speaker 1: Gustaki is like a Travis Shaw. In a moment before
Speaker 1: we do, I think we have to hit on glabor Toures.
Speaker 1: You have as your next ranked second baseman, as do
Speaker 1: you have him a fifth? I believe Chris glabor tour
Speaker 1: is another one of these guys. It was the tails
Speaker 1: you have is but I think this was a little
Speaker 1: bit more explainable. Got hurt, came back? Did he rushed
Speaker 1: back wasn't the same guy. You're gonna get second base
Speaker 1: and shortstop eligibility out of Glabor Toures. Obviously, you guys
Speaker 1: are both Yankee fans. Frank, I'll start with you. What
Speaker 1: do you expect from Glabor this year? Yeah, so you
Speaker 1: mentioned pre injury verse post injury. He was completely different player.
Speaker 1: I mean to nine four with a nine oh five
Speaker 1: o PS his first season in the league, you know,
Speaker 1: taking the league by storm. Quite frankly, he had fifteen
Speaker 1: home runs and only sixty three games before the injury,
Speaker 1: had a forty two percent hard hit rate, and he
Speaker 1: had a forty four percent flyball rate home run the
Speaker 1: flyball ratio and Yankee Stadium in the A L East.
Speaker 1: If you hit the ball that hard and hit the
Speaker 1: ball in the air that often good things are gonna happen. So,
Speaker 1: you know, I could see why he's going in the fifth,
Speaker 1: sixth round right now of drafts because based on what
Speaker 1: we saw out of that sample size, I'm not just
Speaker 1: gonna pro rate the numbers because fifteen homers in sixty
Speaker 1: three games, I mean you're looking at like thirty five
Speaker 1: plus home runs there. I don't think that's realistic, but
Speaker 1: he did a lot last year to to kind of
Speaker 1: prove himself during that time once he came back from injury,
Speaker 1: not nearly as good to forty nine with a seven
Speaker 1: thirty three ops or the final sixt games of the season,
Speaker 1: only hit nine home runs during that that span. He's
Speaker 1: an aggressive swinger. He's gonna swing and miss a little bit.
Speaker 1: The strikeouts are gonna be an issue. You know, I
Speaker 1: want to see him kind of take a step forward
Speaker 1: in that department. He chases some pitches outside the strike zone,
Speaker 1: but again, like Javier Baias, I think has kind of
Speaker 1: set the mold for you can be a guy who
Speaker 1: swings and misses and chases pitches, but you know, when
Speaker 1: you make contact, if it's good contact, good things are
Speaker 1: gonna happene a career out of it. So he's you know,
Speaker 1: we've kind of seen the template here with a guy
Speaker 1: like Javier Bayez. And the thing is, Labor isn't he
Speaker 1: even as aggressive as a guy like Javier bayaz Is.
Speaker 1: So you know, I have my projection for him to
Speaker 1: Sevmer's eight runs a d RBI, ten stolen bases, eight
Speaker 1: to ten stolen bases. Don't expect a lot of slightly
Speaker 1: chip in a little bit. But if you're just comparing
Speaker 1: him versus Albis, slightly similar batting average, I think similar
Speaker 1: similar runs in RBIs. Maybe the RBI upside a little
Speaker 1: bit more with Albi's in the middle of that lineup,
Speaker 1: but more power, more powerless less speed, so they were
Speaker 1: kind of even out and again runs conservative projection. If
Speaker 1: he could hit those to what he did in the
Speaker 1: first half last year before he got hurt. I mean,
Speaker 1: we're talking about a league winner here. We're talking about
Speaker 1: a you know, a two ninety hitter with thirty to
Speaker 1: thirty five home runs and like ninety RBIs in the
Speaker 1: middle rounds. Also, that's his upside. The ceiling is crazy.
Speaker 1: I also would like to think that Aaron Brune won't
Speaker 1: hit him ninth all year. He'll go up in the
Speaker 1: line up, which is a better spot. Which is a
Speaker 1: better spot for him we've talked about. Honestly, the only
Speaker 1: thing that affects the fact that he backs ninth is
Speaker 1: how many a bat that he's gonna get. It's been
Speaker 1: even batting ninth in the Yankees lineup. He's gonna have
Speaker 1: a ton of RBI opportunities. He's currently in ahead of
Speaker 1: him and do Hard d J. Mayhew. According guys are
Speaker 1: gonna be on base. According to our friends at Roster
Speaker 1: Resource m as a pause for a joke, he's projective
Speaker 1: abat six this year's pretty n a d R BIS.
Speaker 1: That's probably conservative to Miguel and Hard. I think had
Speaker 1: ninety four bis last year, batting six most of the time.
Speaker 1: No matter where he plays, I wouldn't worry too much
Speaker 1: about the accounting sets. Is the Yankees lineup, I think
Speaker 1: he could produce if he hits well, which we're expecting, right,
Speaker 1: He's gonna produce, I think in this lineup, and he'll
Speaker 1: eventually move up in this lineup because somebody's gonna fall out,
Speaker 1: somebody's gonna get hurt, or somebody's not gonna produce at
Speaker 1: the level they're supposed to produce that and he's gonna
Speaker 1: jump into the top four or five of that lineup.
Speaker 1: I don't know where exactly, but he'll be in there.
Speaker 1: He I'm telling you, he's just he. The thing difference
Speaker 1: between him and Albi's is that Albi's has played more
Speaker 1: and shown more already. He's a little safer because at
Speaker 1: least if he doesn't if Ozzy doesn't give you the
Speaker 1: power that you want. He's gonna steal base is he
Speaker 1: can fall back on that, whereas Glabor can't. So if
Speaker 1: Glabor doesn't give you the power that you're desiring, then
Speaker 1: it's not as great as a draffic. The other thing
Speaker 1: is AlSi Abbas. I think it's more of a lock
Speaker 1: tit to ninety than a Glabor torres like I think.
Speaker 1: I think as he could to ninety easy. I think
Speaker 1: they're bad. A ball profiles are pretty similar, and I
Speaker 1: think Glabor might even have more bading average upside based
Speaker 1: on what he might in that first half. I think
Speaker 1: the Glabor he was mashing Glabor probably strike out more
Speaker 1: the Nazi abbies for you in points leagues, Well, I
Speaker 1: don't do mine, we don't do minus, but you don't
Speaker 1: do so. I don't even consider strikeout you. Oh no, no,
Speaker 1: like you. That explains that whole thing. Yeah, I don't
Speaker 1: care how much they strike out kept that. I don't care.
Speaker 1: Do we gallow? Come on, we went over this. Yes,
Speaker 1: I'm afraid he's gonna just full thirth. I'm out. I'm
Speaker 1: scared of him of the Yeah, that's really funny. All right,
Speaker 1: So you got these guys in glabor toureas. Um, here's
Speaker 1: the only problem I have with Torres. I haven't ended
Speaker 1: up with him on any drafts yet, and I don't
Speaker 1: know if that I'm gonna is because have to pay
Speaker 1: the price ADP right now. So in a fifteen team draft,
Speaker 1: he's going in the fifth round. But is that where
Speaker 1: you should go? There? Should though? I think I think
Speaker 1: everything he just he has a good combination of like floor,
Speaker 1: what he showed last year, everything, everything you just told
Speaker 1: me this is probably where you should go. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: I mean I think it's Yeah, I think it's a
Speaker 1: decent price. So he's going ahead of Azzy. No, he's
Speaker 1: going to be seven behind you See, I think he's
Speaker 1: the better value there then, because he's already proven a
Speaker 1: lot more to me. Very similar to me. I think
Speaker 1: they are similar, very similar to me. I think I
Speaker 1: think you could argue that seven eight picks later, labor
Speaker 1: Tors might be the better value. Probably give me potentially
Speaker 1: another round, an entire round half around. It'll be like
Speaker 1: the swing, Like that's the only thing, like you'll get
Speaker 1: out of it, like if you're on the end instead
Speaker 1: of or rather if you're in the fourth round, right,
Speaker 1: and like you you wait and get him exactly. And
Speaker 1: that's and a lot of askings defend a roster construction
Speaker 1: of the teams around you, right, like there's what they
Speaker 1: people needed something, you guys talking me to it. I
Speaker 1: kind of understand the price a little bit here. He
Speaker 1: has a lot of Okay, So so after that, some
Speaker 1: of the names in the NFBC you're really interesting. But
Speaker 1: we mentioned Daniel Murphy pretty much at nauseam here. I
Speaker 1: want to I want to skip over him. We talked
Speaker 1: about to check it out on the man. We mentioned
Speaker 1: also a high ceiling compared to you know, I mean
Speaker 1: like people don't realize how high his ceiling could be
Speaker 1: in Colorado. That's what I'm saying, even though he's an
Speaker 1: old player and that's what he talked about yesterday. I think, um,
Speaker 1: you get some guys, you get some interesting names now.
Speaker 1: I think besides SAT's next, Musaka's Shaw, Johnny VR and
Speaker 1: Scooter Jeannette, these four guys I think dropped kind of
Speaker 1: huh he did. He's going closer to like that Daniel
Speaker 1: Murphy tire earlier on in draft correct. So I'm trying
Speaker 1: to figure out why why did you drop? So you
Speaker 1: know something I hadn't even thought of before. Uh. You
Speaker 1: kind of hear them talking about it. Scooter Jeanette want
Speaker 1: an extension from the Reds right now, definitely, and he
Speaker 1: hasn't got it. You kind of heard his name floated
Speaker 1: around in trade discussions throughout the off season, and yesterday,
Speaker 1: you know, I was talking to her good buddy, Michael Florio.
Speaker 1: He's doing the tout Wars draft. In whole draft, um,
Speaker 1: it was like the it was the eighth ord ninth,
Speaker 1: it was like the eight nine swing. He has the
Speaker 1: first pick, so it was coming towards him. I'm like
Speaker 1: Scooters that it's a good value there. I kind of
Speaker 1: like it. Like Robinson Cannot was already off the board.
Speaker 1: I said, I think Janet's pretty good, and he says,
Speaker 1: I think Jenett's gonna get traded, okay, And if he
Speaker 1: leaves the Reds line up and great American Ballpark problem
Speaker 1: obviously going to affect because what does he really do great?
Speaker 1: He only does one thing great, and that's hit for average.
Speaker 1: That's not true. He doesn't hit for a ton of parts.
Speaker 1: But if he does that, batting second in the Red's order,
Speaker 1: if he could score, yeah, he needs to score. Then
Speaker 1: if he had to second in the red lineup, he
Speaker 1: score a backback years eight runs god back to back
Speaker 1: years over ninety RBIs, backs back years over twenty home runs,
Speaker 1: backs back years over a two nine five average. Walks
Speaker 1: are not great, They're fine, They're okay, they're not good.
Speaker 1: They're not good. You know, you don't care about strike guys,
Speaker 1: but like strikeouts aren't deadly this great. I looked at
Speaker 1: too him against lefties, because that was kind of always
Speaker 1: something that was in the back of my mind, like
Speaker 1: he's not good against lefty. Right in twenty for his career,
Speaker 1: he's to forty with a six thirty eight o p
Speaker 1: s last year years, So what do you say that
Speaker 1: he's good good everything. He's good, he's solid every day.
Speaker 1: He's not great at any one thing besides average. Sure
Speaker 1: at that point, being being good at everything in the
Speaker 1: seven eighth round is really good. It's basis. I haven't
Speaker 1: projected to two homers, eighty runs a d r BIS
Speaker 1: the county status counts. So what's important for him? I
Speaker 1: think that's the most important thing for him. Here's the thing, right,
Speaker 1: So I just read you my projection for Scooter Ginet.
Speaker 1: How far off is that from Robinson to eight eight,
Speaker 1: he's probably cannot right now, probably not that far off.
Speaker 1: He's probably cannot. That's the argument you can make, and
Speaker 1: you can get Robinson Canoe. The only thing is, though,
Speaker 1: Robin pick, you get Scooter Jannette at ninety right now,
Speaker 1: so thirty five pick difference? Are they really that different?
Speaker 1: What's his heart? I wonder what Scooter is hard hit? Right?
Speaker 1: Scooter's hard hit rate last year's thirty eight point eight percent.
Speaker 1: That's good for a second base. It's really good for
Speaker 1: a second baseman. So why is why does his extra
Speaker 1: base hit so like low? To me? He doesn't hit
Speaker 1: a ton of doubles. He doesn't hit a ton of
Speaker 1: Homer's doubles is not terrible, though, it's not terrible. That's
Speaker 1: on the low, and the year before that he had
Speaker 1: twenty two doubles. He's home in a five all ratio.
Speaker 1: Actually dropped home runs playing in uh playing in Cincinnati,
Speaker 1: and he hits a lot of singles. That's where you
Speaker 1: get the batting average from Scooter Jeanette. Man, No, he's solid,
Speaker 1: he's solid. You know, different Sethan rob So what did
Speaker 1: Canoe do when he came back last year? I don't
Speaker 1: have I don't have an answer. We're gonna go to
Speaker 1: do the same thing right now. But like I want
Speaker 1: to know what Canoe did when he came back. I
Speaker 1: don't want. I don't want to forget that. Robinson is
Speaker 1: a thirty six year old second base, right, Like, I
Speaker 1: don't I don't think we can forget that part. Scooter
Speaker 1: Janette came back in August, right, Yeah, Scooter Jeannette is
Speaker 1: a twenty eight year old dude in the prime of
Speaker 1: his career playing in a good ballpark. I mean, you're
Speaker 1: not gonna a good line up. You're gonna want to
Speaker 1: hear these numbers in September. I have no idea in
Speaker 1: September and October. We can bind. This is one game
Speaker 1: in October whatever. It was twenty six games, so it's
Speaker 1: it's an entire months, three with four homers and it's great. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm almost It's hard to say safer with Cano because
Speaker 1: he's thirty six. That's the problem. And you could argue
Speaker 1: the ballpark and city feels actually better than safe. COO.
Speaker 1: It's not a natty obviously, it's definitely not. It's like
Speaker 1: a slight park upgrade where I'm sorry people expecting the
Speaker 1: mess line up to be solid. They are, it's not
Speaker 1: They're gonna get on base. Nimmo and can Fot at
Speaker 1: the top of that lineup. And it was the playing
Speaker 1: every day al right? Or is he? I think he
Speaker 1: wasn't very good against lefties last year, but he does
Speaker 1: walk a lot so much or not at that before
Speaker 1: anything I heard he's gonna play every day. Yeah, he's
Speaker 1: gonna play the right field, even got Jeff McNeil. Pensylton
Speaker 1: is there everyday left center field to their second baste
Speaker 1: because why are you now? Is it lagaris and centers
Speaker 1: still from Flora's left? Unfortunately you don't have a legit
Speaker 1: center field. What do they do? His name is Kim Roxton, baby,
Speaker 1: so Robbie Cano can still play greg So what's the difference?
Speaker 1: He's been third two in this lineup New York Mats,
Speaker 1: but Scooter that's matting second in the red line up,
Speaker 1: so they're both in good spots? Is the age worth
Speaker 1: the thirty pick difference? Four career hitter hasn't been below.
Speaker 1: The last time he hit below to eighty was two eight,
Speaker 1: when he hit to seventy one. But isn't this another
Speaker 1: one of those between two eighty and three, right, I
Speaker 1: know teen every year. I know how good Robinson Cano is,
Speaker 1: but he isn't just another one of those things we
Speaker 1: talked about yesterday. We want to be a year later,
Speaker 1: a year earlier than yes That's why I have scooter
Speaker 1: ten and I have scooter ahead here. You he like
Speaker 1: I would rather have scooters with thirty five picks later.
Speaker 1: I get it. It's fine if they find backup plan.
Speaker 1: There's nothing wrong. There's no wrong with taking him later. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I think I have him behind scoot. I think
Speaker 1: just scooter because he's twenty eight and he's done it
Speaker 1: for two years running. Now. I think he's proven that
Speaker 1: he's gonna do this. You know, worry about him getting traded, Greg,
Speaker 1: I think it's a fair I think that's fair. But
Speaker 1: I don't If he gets traded, I don't know. I
Speaker 1: don't know that the situation gets significantly worse him. I
Speaker 1: believe in him, of course, it does a solid you
Speaker 1: know where he's going, you know anywhere he Sincinnati is
Speaker 1: one of the best parks that hidden already and he's
Speaker 1: hitting ahead of Joey Vado. How many homers is he
Speaker 1: really gonna lose? I mean it depends on where he exchange,
Speaker 1: like Colorado and they're like, oh, this is awesome. Garrett Hampson.
Speaker 1: Maybe Garret Hampson's song he does. Why Why Why is everybody?
Speaker 1: Why is everybody love with Garret Hampson. I have Garrett
Speaker 1: Hanson fourteen, Frank second, because he has he has good
Speaker 1: plate discipline. I have him sixteen, So not really that
Speaker 1: far off. Look, he had good plate discipline in the miners.
Speaker 1: He didn't really show much last year, but didn't get
Speaker 1: a fair shake. He didn't an opportunity, hasn't done anything wrong.
Speaker 1: The guy is fast. He can steal bases. Like you're
Speaker 1: looking for a middle infield that can steal bags in
Speaker 1: Roto and give you that category, especially in the Rockies lineup.
Speaker 1: He's gonna hit lower in the lineup, but he has
Speaker 1: good plate discipline every level. Throughout the miners. He's he's
Speaker 1: walked a lot, he's hit for a solid batting average,
Speaker 1: he doesn't strike out all that much, a little bit
Speaker 1: of power going to steal bases. What's not I'll ask
Speaker 1: you this, Greig, what's not security? Yeah, that's about it.
Speaker 1: Because he's gonna be in a position battle with Ryan man,
Speaker 1: and if he fled struggles, I have guys that could
Speaker 1: fill in. The Rockies do tend to be kind of yeaheah, yeah.
Speaker 1: But look, dude, the last two years Hampson in the
Speaker 1: miners right hit eleven. He had a hundred thirteen runs
Speaker 1: scored in the miners, twelve triples, eight home Like, this
Speaker 1: guy does everything really well. Stolen bases fifty one in
Speaker 1: two thousand and seventeen. Dude, this guy, And that's not
Speaker 1: even in Colorado. That's in the minor league parks. So
Speaker 1: imagine now in Colorado, the power numbers are probably gonna
Speaker 1: boost up, probably hit fifteen to twenty home. Is this
Speaker 1: guy plus four, you know, thirty bigs. That's a beautiful
Speaker 1: thing from a cheap value guy. I like this guy
Speaker 1: a lot. I don't see anything wrong. I haven't found
Speaker 1: the stat that's wrong that's bad about him. I haven't
Speaker 1: found one. Seven had a strikeout rate higher than seventeen
Speaker 1: and a half percent, other than twenty four games he
Speaker 1: had last year sevent nine percent. He hasn't been higher
Speaker 1: than that at any minor league level. The walk grade
Speaker 1: has been between nine percent and fifteen percent at every
Speaker 1: level in the minors. The batting average hasn't been below
Speaker 1: three oh one. There is a lot to like here
Speaker 1: in Colorado. That boost. You just gotta perform during the
Speaker 1: spring to win out this watching carefully against Ryan McMahon mcmah,
Speaker 1: who everyone loved last year. You guys like mcmah I
Speaker 1: don't know too much about. You can't like him. Like
Speaker 1: Ared Hampson. You can't like him? Yeah, I can't. I'm
Speaker 1: not on Yeah, so I worry about the splits. Garrett
Speaker 1: Hampson not a lefty, righty young right four years old?
Speaker 1: Should my list here? He's I wouldn't mind him as
Speaker 1: my middle infielder. I don't want him as my starting
Speaker 1: second basement. No, no, no, I had Garret Hampson to
Speaker 1: my list. Yeah. I drafted him in, you know, like
Speaker 1: one of the last rounds, and you know, keep him
Speaker 1: on my bench. Haven't we talked about in this middle TiAl?
Speaker 1: I wanted to get the Shawan Mustakis then come back
Speaker 1: and take about odor. All right, shaw Vers Mustakis? Where
Speaker 1: are they going comparatively to each other? Frankie? Alright, so
Speaker 1: Mustakis you're getting had a pretty good value right now. Um,
Speaker 1: he's going to pick one fifty g NFBC A d
Speaker 1: P and Travis Shaw is going at nine four. All right,
Speaker 1: that's ridiculous. We were the Travis Shaw guys last year
Speaker 1: sign he signed on Monday, right, what was What was
Speaker 1: the date then? Ther So I'll look up his at
Speaker 1: BC ADP only over the past three days to see
Speaker 1: if Mustakis has climbed up draft boards over the past
Speaker 1: three days. He has. He has climbed updraft boards. He's
Speaker 1: going to pick one thirty six now, so he when
Speaker 1: he went up around he won up fifteen picks and
Speaker 1: Shaw is ninety one, so he's also climbed. Why are
Speaker 1: they that different? I don't know. They're kind of the
Speaker 1: same guy, except Shaw actually has more lefty splits that
Speaker 1: you need to worry about. Stock has actually hold his
Speaker 1: own against Like not really understanding because even if you
Speaker 1: make the argument, oh, Travishaw has dual position eligibility, Michael
Speaker 1: Stocks is also coming to have dual position eligibility. He's
Speaker 1: actually safer in my opinion, I don't get that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: in this park, this is a market inefficiency here. I
Speaker 1: don't get this one at all. Why why Sure is
Speaker 1: ahead of him? You're saying it makes sense to me?
Speaker 1: It makes no sense to private Shaw is rejected to
Speaker 1: back clean up. Michaelsock is a little bit low. He's
Speaker 1: gonna beat six. That could change. Yeah, that could change
Speaker 1: in you know, a couple of weeks. I mean, he's
Speaker 1: a thing. I was never a sure guy. Okay, I
Speaker 1: always thought he's and him last. I know you guys,
Speaker 1: and listen, he proved me wrong. But listen, raw power
Speaker 1: Stocks is the guy. And that's the That's the thing
Speaker 1: about these guys. They're raw power guys. That's their numbers.
Speaker 1: And Mustakis is the power guy, has a lot more power.
Speaker 1: In my opinion, that's where he wins the battle. I
Speaker 1: don't understand its rank right where he wins out. I
Speaker 1: was doing my second base rankings today. They don't have
Speaker 1: Michain Stocks yet, but I have him ranks inside my
Speaker 1: top ten. I have Trivi show spots. Logan sure does
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Speaker 1: by the way, uh two names you skiff actually speed guys,
Speaker 1: Johnny VRD Gordon, Yeah, VR, I have ahead of uh
Speaker 1: shaw I do as well. Really, you guys are buying
Speaker 1: back into Johnny VR. Not necessarily, it's just the storm,
Speaker 1: the landscape of stolen basis. Yeah, I'm out of this guy.
Speaker 1: You're out of him. I don't want him as a starter.
Speaker 1: You don't second basement, you know, was position. I haven't
Speaker 1: met twelve. I have met nine to ten because it's
Speaker 1: because of the landscape basis disaster. Wait, there's two guys
Speaker 1: we didn't mention that I have an eight nine that
Speaker 1: we didn't mention at all gets them a second. Then
Speaker 1: with Johnny VR, even if he struggles in Baltimore, who's
Speaker 1: who's going to take his job? Gregg, I don't know,
Speaker 1: That's what you don't. You don't have to worry about
Speaker 1: that now because when he was in Milwaukee, they actually
Speaker 1: had players that were serviceable, where if he struggled, that
Speaker 1: was a team that was contending. He's now in Baltimore,
Speaker 1: he's basically just like a fill in for a year
Speaker 1: or two until like whenever they get prospects that they
Speaker 1: could play at second base. Such a bad team. It's
Speaker 1: a bad team, but he's gonna let it lead off
Speaker 1: and he's gonna steal bases. And he's gonna have the
Speaker 1: green light because he did last year when he was
Speaker 1: in Baltimore. There's nothing holding him back. Even be struggled,
Speaker 1: he's still gonna have the opportunity to play every single day.
Speaker 1: This is the landscape of the stolen base position. I
Speaker 1: understand where Jonathan VR is going this year. Me personally,
Speaker 1: I don't know that I'm going to have him all
Speaker 1: my teams who would have to be like a roster
Speaker 1: construction thing where like I feel good about my batting average,
Speaker 1: but I need stolen bases. VR kind of kind of
Speaker 1: comes in here. If you have him none you think
Speaker 1: he could be a starting second baseman's rhoto, Yes, but
Speaker 1: points leagues he could do damage too. But I don't know.
Speaker 1: This is gross. Well, listen, he he has these names.
Speaker 1: There are eleven players with thirty plus stolen bases. Eight
Speaker 1: of those players had double the digit home runs. Jonathan
Speaker 1: VR was one of them. So it's not like every
Speaker 1: player you're gonna find that gives you stolen bases isn't
Speaker 1: gonna completely tank your power. Jonathan VR in Roto Drafts
Speaker 1: is a guy that's gonna give you thirty plus stolen bases,
Speaker 1: maybe even forty, and he doesn't completely stick your power.
Speaker 1: He's gonna give you fifteen, he's gonna give you twelve.
Speaker 1: But he has power. He has power in his bat
Speaker 1: He could It depends on how HoTT he is at
Speaker 1: the time. The guy's streak, but he strikes out a lot. Look,
Speaker 1: there's he's a perfect rural player. I don't want this
Speaker 1: guy in head to head. I don't want him in
Speaker 1: points leaves because he's gonna go through weeks where he sucks.
Speaker 1: But end of season numbers, here's what I happened at
Speaker 1: two fifty homers, sixty five runs scored, fifty five rb
Speaker 1: I s thirty five stolen bases. Yeah, it's a great
Speaker 1: bench second basement. Would you would you rather have d
Speaker 1: Gordon an actor? I'd rather have I would rather have
Speaker 1: Vr because at least he doesn't completely sink you give
Speaker 1: you twelve to fifteen homers. Gordon's gonna give you two four.
Speaker 1: He's also gonna Gordon's also gonna give you a better
Speaker 1: batting average and potentially more stolen Listen they're they're close,
Speaker 1: like they're going closely. That Beyond is the perfect guy
Speaker 1: to have on your roster as a bench player because
Speaker 1: then if he gets hot, you plug him in whatever
Speaker 1: you want, because when he's hot, he could be just
Speaker 1: as good as any of the second basement. That's for
Speaker 1: a point. I mean from Rhodo, you have to draft
Speaker 1: st Yeah, under your head, who do you take? VR?
Speaker 1: D Gordon? Death is not an option? Gout into my head.
Speaker 1: I would take D Gordon, I would take It's not
Speaker 1: the wrong answer because you're looking for speed, right, the
Speaker 1: only thing when this pick, you're only looking for speed.
Speaker 1: I think Gordon gets a better shot of getting more. Wait,
Speaker 1: why are you only looking for speed? I'm getting the
Speaker 1: power elsewhere. Complete roster construction thing though Greg corrected, Sure,
Speaker 1: you're only looking for speed. But then for the rest
Speaker 1: of the draft, every other player you draft has to
Speaker 1: give you at least twenty plus homers. At least Jonathan
Speaker 1: VR is giving you twelve to fifteen. Dude, Gordon's giving
Speaker 1: you two. He's giving me ten. He's giving me ten
Speaker 1: to twelve more homers. That's it, that matters. It's two
Speaker 1: more homemers per player, which also means more abb eyes,
Speaker 1: twenty more eyes probably at least tell it matters. Greig
Speaker 1: also d Gordon stole thirty bases last year. We are
Speaker 1: still five so what if they say, if they still
Speaker 1: dealing with injury, that might affect but that might affect
Speaker 1: fifty plus stolen basis, but that could affect him in
Speaker 1: the future. He's thirty one years old. Either one of
Speaker 1: these guys are active targets of mine, Like, that's just
Speaker 1: how I'll put it in roto if you have the
Speaker 1: right roster construction. I think de Gordon is going to
Speaker 1: bounce back and do a lot of what we've seen
Speaker 1: him do in the past, which at his draft price,
Speaker 1: you're actually getting him at a discount because a couple
Speaker 1: of years years ago he was going third, fourth round.
Speaker 1: He's giving you fifty plus stolen basis. I still think
Speaker 1: that he has that upside and he's gonna give you.
Speaker 1: He's not gonna kill your batting average, probably like a
Speaker 1: two eight hitter. So I think both of these guys
Speaker 1: are fine where they're going, and if you need stolen
Speaker 1: basis at that part of the draft, you can take
Speaker 1: these guys. Me personally, they're not active targets of mine.
Speaker 1: There's two guys I think that go on my eight
Speaker 1: nine picks I should go ahead of them that I
Speaker 1: think can be starting guys. There's a guy with for
Speaker 1: getting completely because he was a solid second basement every
Speaker 1: single year, top five second basement Brian doja Are we
Speaker 1: just gonna completely throw him off? Does are done? Like?
Speaker 1: I don't understand dose has been a great I'm out,
Speaker 1: they're out on do Yeah, I'm out. Um. I think
Speaker 1: a lot of his value was tied into the fact
Speaker 1: that he was hitting leadoff for the Minnesota Twins every
Speaker 1: single year, year in and year out. I don't expect
Speaker 1: him to do that with the Washington Nationals. Here they
Speaker 1: have they have better guys that they could put at
Speaker 1: the top of the lineup. They have Trade Turner, they
Speaker 1: have Juan Soto, they have Anthony Rendon. I think he's
Speaker 1: gonna hit closer to the bottom of the lineup. And
Speaker 1: I mean, you want to talk about streaky now is
Speaker 1: one of the most streaky players. It's like either a
Speaker 1: first half where he goes off and the second half
Speaker 1: he sucks, or one year he's gonna suck in the
Speaker 1: first half and everyone basically wants to drop this guy,
Speaker 1: and then the second half. The next thing you know,
Speaker 1: he has twenty five home runs in and a half
Speaker 1: with three batting average. He's super streaky. I think everything
Speaker 1: kind of cratered for him last year. I'm not I'm
Speaker 1: not saying that he's completely done, but I don't think
Speaker 1: a lot of his value came in Minnesota as an accumulator,
Speaker 1: a guy who was in the lineup every single day,
Speaker 1: who you know was gonna score runs. A lot of
Speaker 1: his value was tied into giving you. But now the
Speaker 1: thing is he if he's batting fifth or six right now,
Speaker 1: he could just drive in runs as opposed to score runs.
Speaker 1: So he should make up for with RBI. Is the
Speaker 1: guy has power, the guy get third. I don't think
Speaker 1: he's a very good hitter. He's not a great hitter.
Speaker 1: He's not gonna he's gonna hit like two forty. So
Speaker 1: if you hit two forty, even hitting fifth in the
Speaker 1: Washington Nationals lineup, let's let's say it's five hommers. I
Speaker 1: think he's still at homers. What does RBI total really
Speaker 1: gonna look like? I think Stolen Nationals have a pretty
Speaker 1: decent line up. If you make stolen bases anymore's gonna
Speaker 1: be ten stolen bases. He had twelve issues averages. I
Speaker 1: don't like the average sucks, but look, walks are good.
Speaker 1: Everything else is good besides the average, really, I mean,
Speaker 1: everything else pretty solid unless he hits twenty homers again,
Speaker 1: and then you don't want that. Obviously. What happened year
Speaker 1: get one E two with six yes? Right, like this
Speaker 1: the streaky players was brutal streaky, but he's bad. He's bad, right,
Speaker 1: but streaky, but his career is actually pretty consistent, Like
Speaker 1: his whole career has been pretty solid, like the last
Speaker 1: five years before last year, right, the last five years
Speaker 1: before last he was pretty solid hitter all around. I
Speaker 1: mean he hits around two six and seventy. Yeah, look, dude,
Speaker 1: he's a streaky guy. Agree to disagree? Guys, we have
Speaker 1: we have, We have got ten minutes left in the program.
Speaker 1: You have a man crush. You have a man crush.
Speaker 1: Secon base, i'nna start with you or Frank And that's
Speaker 1: Runette Odor? What makes you like odor so much? This year? Yeah?
Speaker 1: So a little sneak peak preview. I've released this on
Speaker 1: my Patreon. He's probably my main target at the second
Speaker 1: base position, and it was because rugenett o'door made improvements
Speaker 1: last year. He did things that you hadn't seen him
Speaker 1: done before. I'm not going to dispute that his his
Speaker 1: career has been a roller coaster to this point, because
Speaker 1: he's still batting average has been up and down. It's
Speaker 1: ranged anywhere from two oh four to to seventy one,
Speaker 1: So there's a lot of volatility in his batting average.
Speaker 1: But he's one of these rare breeds that has the
Speaker 1: upside to hit thirty home runs and steal you fifteen bases.
Speaker 1: And I really really like what he did last year
Speaker 1: in terms of improving his plate discipline entering. He never
Speaker 1: was higher than a four point nine percent walk rate.
Speaker 1: That was all the way up to eight percent last year.
Speaker 1: I I put out an article where he worked with
Speaker 1: Shinto Chu actively because he wanted to become a more
Speaker 1: patient hitter, a more selective hitter. He didn't chase pitches
Speaker 1: outside the strikes one as much, he didn't swing and
Speaker 1: miss as much. He did everything that you could possibly
Speaker 1: ask for out of a guy that's like in his twenties.
Speaker 1: He made all the tangible improvements that you want and
Speaker 1: on top of that, his bad a ball data is amazing.
Speaker 1: We're looking at a forty five percent hard hit rate
Speaker 1: last year from second from a second baseman. Among all
Speaker 1: the second baseman with five plate appearances, forty five percent
Speaker 1: hard hit rate was by far number one. The next
Speaker 1: closest was Jed Lowry. He better because he doesn't really
Speaker 1: do much. You know, the books improved, we've seen we've
Speaker 1: seen the upside with the batting average, and I say
Speaker 1: up side loosely because it was two seven. We're not
Speaker 1: projecting that. But I do think that if these improvements
Speaker 1: that he made from a plates perspective harry over into
Speaker 1: this year, and the fact that he hits the ball
Speaker 1: as hard as he does, I think we could be
Speaker 1: looking at a guy who hits two sixty with home
Speaker 1: runs and fifteen stolen bases. And if you bet second
Speaker 1: in the Rangers line up in that ballpark, he's gonna
Speaker 1: score runs and he's gonna drive in RBIs the Rutneado
Speaker 1: door is a top eight second basement for me this year.
Speaker 1: I love him a lot more than in Rhodo than
Speaker 1: I do in points leagues because I worry about, like, Okay,
Speaker 1: is the walk right going to carry over. I hope
Speaker 1: that it does, and if it does, he actually will
Speaker 1: be better for points leagues because in years past he
Speaker 1: strikes out a lot, he doesn't walk. But if those things,
Speaker 1: you know, if they come closer to each other, where
Speaker 1: he starts walking more and continues to strike out a
Speaker 1: little bit less, and he is going to get better
Speaker 1: as like a Points league player. As of right now,
Speaker 1: he's a main Rhoto target of mind, especially at his
Speaker 1: draft price, where in years past this was a guy
Speaker 1: you had to pay up for. Now you're getting him
Speaker 1: at pick. Definitely been a Rhodo player than points sleeper
Speaker 1: the park. I'll give you that. The lineup looks pretty
Speaker 1: bad to me. That Texas Rangers line is not It's
Speaker 1: not a great line. I try to tell you that, Frank, yesterday,
Speaker 1: you're telling me, if he bats second in that line up,
Speaker 1: he still can't. He can't score eight, score eighty, and
Speaker 1: he'll come close to a d r B. I Sup,
Speaker 1: all right? That was your man. That was your man crush.
Speaker 1: That you your man crush? Is you on he come? So?
Speaker 1: You know? I like young guys obviously, I like top prospects.
Speaker 1: I like anybody. Listen, I've been watching For a few
Speaker 1: years now. I've been following him to, you know, see
Speaker 1: how his career progresses. He's a big time prospect. He
Speaker 1: had a terribly year last year about thirty five strikes
Speaker 1: out a ton. Uh. But here's the thing things I
Speaker 1: do like that's saying out to me. Obviously, sixties seven
Speaker 1: walks last year, eight at bats. I like that. A
Speaker 1: young player in his first full season to walk almost
Speaker 1: seventy times. I think that's a big green flag to
Speaker 1: have that type of play discipline. I know he strikes
Speaker 1: out a lot, but that's just gonna be the type
Speaker 1: of player that he is. He's gonna be a power hitter,
Speaker 1: walks a lot, almost a true three, true outcome guy,
Speaker 1: but also hit a lot of doubles, and I think
Speaker 1: the average will go up. I think eventually, you know,
Speaker 1: he'll adjust to the league. He's still, once again, another
Speaker 1: young guy, twenty three years old. He's gonna be twenty
Speaker 1: four in May. But listen in the minors to career
Speaker 1: batting average, I think he just needs to adjust once again.
Speaker 1: I think he needs the time to adjust. Especially a
Speaker 1: guy who strikes out a lot, He's gonna need the
Speaker 1: time to adjust. But one positive thing right away is
Speaker 1: the plate discipline, and I think once he catches up
Speaker 1: and cuts down the strikeouts, you're gonna see a whole
Speaker 1: different Monkada. And this happens with a lot of young
Speaker 1: guys you know, coming to lead, that have power like this.
Speaker 1: Hopefully he just doesn't turn out to a Byron Buckson
Speaker 1: and we have to wait, you know, years and years
Speaker 1: and years before he actually shows his true true self.
Speaker 1: But I think eventually you're gonna see a ton like
Speaker 1: across the board stolen bases as well. I think you're
Speaker 1: gonna see him still twenty basses possibly this shift fifteen
Speaker 1: to twenty, I mean one years, still forty five bases
Speaker 1: in the miners. So this is the guy that could
Speaker 1: do it all. We just haven't seen it come together yet.
Speaker 1: So I'm expecting that, and you're getting him at a
Speaker 1: decent value. I think nobody's really talking about him. People
Speaker 1: will hype about him last year coming into the year.
Speaker 1: Right coming into the last year, I think the young
Speaker 1: guy and now kind of people forgot because you know,
Speaker 1: he had such a bad year. But I think this
Speaker 1: is when you see a guy rebound. This is when
Speaker 1: you see a guy you know, make his his growing,
Speaker 1: you know, his growth. Maybe he won't have his big
Speaker 1: breakout season, but I think he's definitely going to improve.
Speaker 1: You know a lot of those numbers, the average should
Speaker 1: go up and and the doubles, the homers, all that
Speaker 1: should go up year. This this has Javier Baia has
Speaker 1: written all over it. It does look like a Javier
Speaker 1: biass And he's calling a shot this year with with
Speaker 1: Joan Moncada, and he's going to pick seven, So you're right,
Speaker 1: I mean he's going later than Odor some other second
Speaker 1: bas like he's going after a med Rosario. Should Mancata
Speaker 1: be going after a lot of people are excited about Rosario.
Speaker 1: I get they like the stolen base upside and stuff
Speaker 1: like that's er Stocks is going at one thirty six
Speaker 1: and Mankada is going at you're gonna him twenty picks later.
Speaker 1: I mean that those are the second basement in that range,
Speaker 1: you know, in in kind of like the middle rounds.
Speaker 1: And look, he hits the ball extremely hard, ninety point
Speaker 1: six mile power average eggs of last it's forty second
Speaker 1: in baseball. Remember that's coming from a second baseman. Forty
Speaker 1: second average eggs velocity in baseball. He makes like, the
Speaker 1: quality of contact that he makes is really good. And
Speaker 1: I tried to make arguments from Moncatta last year. Remember
Speaker 1: me and Flourida used to get into shouting matches at
Speaker 1: each other, yelling about you on Moncada. I said he
Speaker 1: could be the league winner. He didn't do it last year.
Speaker 1: He kind of made me look stupid. So well, yeah, listen,
Speaker 1: if he cuts, if he just cuts down the strikeouts
Speaker 1: right right, the batting average will go up to two
Speaker 1: sixty because the quality of contact that he makes. If
Speaker 1: he just swings and mrs less, let's down the strikeout
Speaker 1: rate by five percent, his batting and will go up
Speaker 1: to sixty and the contact that he makes, those balls
Speaker 1: are gonna fly out a little bit more because he's
Speaker 1: obviously making more context. So if he just what was
Speaker 1: this strikeout right by five percent, we could be talking
Speaker 1: about mankat as a two sixty hitter with close home
Speaker 1: runs and and maybe tent and I think the ceiling
Speaker 1: potential for this year could be to seventy thirty homers,
Speaker 1: you know, RBIs and runs scoring that lineup. I'm not
Speaker 1: exactly sure, but I'm hoping you know, a D plus
Speaker 1: aubis maybe around eight plus run squad. I mean scored
Speaker 1: seventy three runs last year. That's that's that's a lot
Speaker 1: for a guy that had a two thirty five you
Speaker 1: know what I mean, don't strike out as much. He'll
Speaker 1: be on base more two. Yeah, I think all those
Speaker 1: numbers are just bound to go up. Listen, there was
Speaker 1: scouts talking about this guy being like the next Mini
Speaker 1: Ramirez type hitter when he was coming up. We can't
Speaker 1: just forget about that just because he had one bad
Speaker 1: year and the guys twenty three years old. He's still,
Speaker 1: you know, a top prospect. He's still a young guy
Speaker 1: coming up into the league. So I think you gotta
Speaker 1: give him a chance, especially at the value're gonna get him,
Speaker 1: because if once he does break out, you ain't get
Speaker 1: him at this value ever again. So now's the time
Speaker 1: to buy into him. You know what I'm saying. His
Speaker 1: sprint speed was in the eighty nine percentile last year's
Speaker 1: he's a great athlete. That's sell you again on you
Speaker 1: on one card six five. I want them more as
Speaker 1: my middle infielders than I do as myself. No, no, not.
Speaker 1: If I can get him as my middle infielders, maybe
Speaker 1: I could buy in on that, But again, it's gonna
Speaker 1: have to be the right roster construction. I don't want
Speaker 1: them in my points leads because I get penalized for
Speaker 1: strike outs. Bench for doesn't. But if you play in
Speaker 1: best Ball like on fan tracks, you don't get penalized
Speaker 1: for strike outs there either. Right, maybe that's the spot
Speaker 1: where you want a little advice and your Best Ball draft.
Speaker 1: There you go, I'm about to pick I think soon,
Speaker 1: actually beautiful two minutes left here in the program. A
Speaker 1: couple of other second basement I think of, Nope, one
Speaker 1: of the first prospects I think off the board, like
Speaker 1: for getting lad like lads, a top player whatnot. I'm
Speaker 1: talking about a guy that isn't glad Yack Hampsen. Is
Speaker 1: Nick Senzil. I'm really interested in nick senzilation for the
Speaker 1: Reds to move scooterslay in centerfield. They already have like
Speaker 1: eight out scooters and fielder. It sucks. I'd fielder. They
Speaker 1: really not know because it's Chevler, Winker and Pewig Week.
Speaker 1: I don't think they like Scotty Shoveler. Yeah, these guys
Speaker 1: aren't real true center fielder's either is nick Sen's because
Speaker 1: his second baseman, he's a third base and he could
Speaker 1: be the athlete to do. I have no idea. I mean,
Speaker 1: you don't know. I don't know what these other guys
Speaker 1: to be. Here's a center fieler. If you want him
Speaker 1: to be, here's what we got on send. You should
Speaker 1: be excited about Nick Senzelo. It's just like I'm playing time.
Speaker 1: That's the problem. If he's good enough the fund a
Speaker 1: plance in twenty seventeen, the minds he had fourteen bags,
Speaker 1: ninety seven, forty nine walks, not terrible, fourteen homers, forty doubles,
Speaker 1: one runs scored. You gotta like he could be And
Speaker 1: I'm like, unlike Moncada, he doesn't have a strikeout issues,
Speaker 1: he doesn't have a sense a lot. But he has
Speaker 1: to play in the majors first, Yes he does. That's
Speaker 1: the problem. Nick Senzlo going at pick two eighteen. So
Speaker 1: any any other second basement, Frank, before you wrap up,
Speaker 1: shout out to shout out to Jake Siey. He's been
Speaker 1: older Lords Gurrielle and I kind of looked into him
Speaker 1: and I think he's a guy that could you know
Speaker 1: to seventy to about Kettle Martell again as well, Caesar Hernandez.
Speaker 1: He's My ninth always Caesar Hernandez if he's batting, George
Speaker 1: hoping the lineup. You want to own Searani, especially in points,
Speaker 1: especially points things. Chris Fetcher, Frank Stample, I'm Greg Sousman.
Speaker 1: George stops tomorrow. Sure, I hope