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M Do Do to Do Do Do Do 0:00:52.520 --> 0:00:56.000 Do Do Do Do Do Do Do Do Do Do 0:00:56.000 --> 0:01:03.840 Do Do? Yeah? This Yes, the Fantasy Best Friends Forever. 0:01:04.160 --> 0:01:07.440 You're the Fantasy Sports Radio Network alongside Frankie Staffle. I 0:01:07.480 --> 0:01:14.000 am Greg Susman. Gregg A Happy Friday. You're gonna talk 0:01:14.040 --> 0:01:16.360 starting pitchers today. I mean it's gonna be a long, 0:01:16.560 --> 0:01:20.559 grueling process, gonna start the process of talking about starting pitching. 0:01:20.600 --> 0:01:22.560 It's probably gonna be like a three part series here, 0:01:23.080 --> 0:01:26.240 maybe even longer, who knows, but very excited, Greg, Yeah, 0:01:26.240 --> 0:01:27.560 it should be fun. Are you doing? How do you 0:01:27.560 --> 0:01:29.880 sleep last night? That is great that it had been 0:01:29.920 --> 0:01:32.840 to me. Oh I slept great? Did you yeah, I 0:01:32.840 --> 0:01:35.920 told you a little bit. That's out of my couch. 0:01:36.040 --> 0:01:38.280 Woke up in the middle of the night. Yeah, I 0:01:38.280 --> 0:01:42.080 slept her, I slept okay, Um, I like four forty two, 0:01:42.760 --> 0:01:45.560 specifically two. I woke up like the clock and I'm 0:01:45.600 --> 0:01:48.480 just like, I am awake now, I don't I'm not comfortable. 0:01:48.560 --> 0:01:53.480 I feel like gross, weird night Fromania. He's wearing the 0:01:53.520 --> 0:01:57.040 male ugs though, Yeah, that's definitely happy. Yea. The snow 0:01:57.040 --> 0:01:58.920 on the ground here in New York. Honestly, dude, I 0:01:58.960 --> 0:02:01.240 walk into freaking blizz this morning. I'm sorry. You get 0:02:01.280 --> 0:02:05.560 up later. Yeah, it was it really a blizzard, Greg not, Yeah, 0:02:05.640 --> 0:02:08.040 but it was snowing. It was snow. I didn't like 0:02:08.120 --> 0:02:10.280 wearing because it was every excuse to get his male 0:02:10.360 --> 0:02:13.000 uggs on. I'm not upset. I'm not shame by it. 0:02:13.000 --> 0:02:15.720 It's great. I mean, there's a lot of snow on 0:02:15.760 --> 0:02:20.120 the ground, I be fair, not really there is probably 0:02:20.160 --> 0:02:22.320 not even dude, I'm telling you, I'm not making that up. 0:02:22.880 --> 0:02:24.880 I think you're making it all right, that's what you think. 0:02:25.400 --> 0:02:28.680 It's fine. On the program today is Frank said, staring 0:02:28.720 --> 0:02:33.400 pictures right into it, top tier, right into it. We're 0:02:33.400 --> 0:02:36.640 gonna be joined from picture List. From at picture List, 0:02:37.000 --> 0:02:39.840 it's our guy, Nick Polk. Nick, welcome to program. What 0:02:40.040 --> 0:02:41.720 is happening? Thanks so much for having me today. I'm 0:02:41.720 --> 0:02:43.720 really excited to be here. Have you enjoyed our opening 0:02:43.880 --> 0:02:48.560 of It was great? You know I got to peer 0:02:48.560 --> 0:02:51.079 out my window and see some snow today. It was 0:02:51.120 --> 0:02:53.520 like a blizzard. I have to say, if it's anything, 0:02:53.560 --> 0:02:57.320 it's a blizzard here. Nick. Thank you. I don't you know, 0:02:57.480 --> 0:02:59.639 I'm a big fan of picture list our guy Nick 0:02:59.680 --> 0:03:02.239 Pollock on Twitter, but already starting off on the wrong 0:03:02.240 --> 0:03:08.280 foot here. He's right, Nick, let's ask you Nick night, 0:03:08.760 --> 0:03:12.280 how did you? I had a fantastic sleep. That's good. 0:03:12.960 --> 0:03:14.880 You know, it makes really it makes one of us. Nick, 0:03:15.000 --> 0:03:18.119 That's fine. A right? Uh? You said all the show today. 0:03:18.160 --> 0:03:19.919 We're to dive into starting pictures over the next hour, 0:03:20.000 --> 0:03:21.680 and you're the guy to do what you follow him 0:03:21.840 --> 0:03:25.040 at picture List and you're doing a fantastic job breaking 0:03:25.080 --> 0:03:28.520 all of this down and hopefully you can help us, um, 0:03:28.560 --> 0:03:30.799 you can help us kind of decide things as we 0:03:30.919 --> 0:03:33.680 debate all of these starting pictures. We've gone through every 0:03:34.000 --> 0:03:36.920 single hit or category and never starting pitchers. We're getting 0:03:36.920 --> 0:03:39.000 relievers of course next week, we assume the starting pitchers 0:03:39.000 --> 0:03:40.960 gonna take us a while to get to UM, so 0:03:41.000 --> 0:03:42.840 we don't really have a limit on it per se, 0:03:43.200 --> 0:03:46.320 but we're gonna do the best we can. Sounds great, 0:03:46.400 --> 0:03:48.720 I mean this is what I do. This is uh 0:03:48.760 --> 0:03:52.320 I talked starting pitching every single night, every single doesn't 0:03:52.320 --> 0:03:56.760 get boring, never never, There's always something to talk about, 0:03:56.800 --> 0:03:59.560 like it's never ending, right, So like again we're gonna 0:03:59.560 --> 0:04:01.480 talk about some of the top tier guys and you know, 0:04:02.200 --> 0:04:06.000 we're splitting hairs with some of these guys obviously, but 0:04:06.000 --> 0:04:09.480 but then we're not. But look, it's an interesting time, right, 0:04:09.520 --> 0:04:13.040 Like I tweeted out, there's like an awesome amount of 0:04:13.080 --> 0:04:15.480 like names that are just going today, like in spring training, 0:04:15.760 --> 0:04:18.440 like super intriguing dudes from you know, let's see what 0:04:18.480 --> 0:04:21.320 Madison Bumgunna does this time around, because he got blasted 0:04:21.400 --> 0:04:24.240 his first time around, and he's a hot topic of conversation. 0:04:24.320 --> 0:04:26.560 You know, he slept super far in my uh my 0:04:26.600 --> 0:04:29.560 great Fantasy Baseball mutation. But they're like Michael Panietz on 0:04:29.560 --> 0:04:32.920 the Mount today, like Nick Kingham, John Gray, Aaron Sanchez, 0:04:33.000 --> 0:04:37.560 like Justice Sheffield. There is an infinite amount going on 0:04:37.680 --> 0:04:40.440 right now in terms of starting pitching both you know, 0:04:40.560 --> 0:04:43.039 for fantasy baseball and then in spring training. So look, 0:04:43.320 --> 0:04:46.080 it's never ending. So that's why that's why Nick is 0:04:46.080 --> 0:04:48.719 able to talk about it every single night. Greag actually 0:04:49.120 --> 0:04:51.760 actually this morning and before every single spring training day, 0:04:51.760 --> 0:04:53.640 I tweet out the pictures that are gonna be starting 0:04:53.680 --> 0:04:55.440 for the day, and that's what we should be looking for, 0:04:56.279 --> 0:04:58.600 at least the ones that we can see on TV. Yeah, 0:04:58.640 --> 0:05:01.600 So like today, Nick Kingham law time was apparently ninety four, 0:05:02.800 --> 0:05:05.320 and that's really cool because last year he was topping 0:05:05.320 --> 0:05:09.159 out in ninety nine and see him sitting there, Oh, 0:05:09.240 --> 0:05:11.479 that can nearly exciting me. Of Sheffield going today, we 0:05:11.560 --> 0:05:15.520 have Kintana hopefully is that two. We have engine Ru 0:05:15.600 --> 0:05:18.320 Maybe that change up is back again. Robbie raised there, 0:05:18.320 --> 0:05:20.520 Maybe the curveballs were working. They'll be great. There's so 0:05:20.600 --> 0:05:22.400 much stuff to talk about and it's just spring training, 0:05:22.440 --> 0:05:25.599 so I never get bored. This is starting pitching, the 0:05:25.760 --> 0:05:29.680 best position in fantasy baseball and the best fantasy sport. 0:05:30.360 --> 0:05:32.200 So I'm ready to do this if it's the best 0:05:32.240 --> 0:05:36.080 position in fantasy baseball and in any fantasy sport. In YadA, YadA, YadA. 0:05:36.480 --> 0:05:39.440 Max is the best picture in fantasy baseball, he's the 0:05:39.440 --> 0:05:43.000 best picture in real life baseball. NFBC. He's going off 0:05:43.000 --> 0:05:44.760 the board number four. Can you make an argument that 0:05:44.800 --> 0:05:50.520 he should go off the board number one? No? I mean, okay, 0:05:50.560 --> 0:05:54.679 I'm I'm someone who preaches this A lot is wait 0:05:54.920 --> 0:05:57.920 a ton on starting pitching. I think I think entering 0:05:57.920 --> 0:05:59.960 two thousand twenty, we're gonna be talking about it being 0:06:00.120 --> 0:06:04.000 the year of starting pitching depth next year because we're 0:06:04.040 --> 0:06:07.359 not realizing how much stuff there is this year. I 0:06:07.680 --> 0:06:10.039 personally just gonna go for paths. That's why I did 0:06:10.160 --> 0:06:12.720 the other great fantacy based moremitational. I think I got 0:06:12.760 --> 0:06:14.960 Subbarino in the third round and then waited until Zach 0:06:15.000 --> 0:06:18.320 Wheeler at pick for my second guy, and I will 0:06:18.360 --> 0:06:20.200 not be going after shows. I don't think there's that 0:06:20.240 --> 0:06:22.160 necessity that a lot of people think there are. There 0:06:22.160 --> 0:06:25.080 are more, uh, there's more talent in the pool than 0:06:25.279 --> 0:06:28.240 uh than that. You don't need to go off to shows. 0:06:28.440 --> 0:06:30.400 Number one, Why not go for trout and bets. Your 0:06:30.440 --> 0:06:32.960 offense is gonna be so good just with those guys. 0:06:33.000 --> 0:06:37.640 You don't need shows or to anchor that staff. Look, 0:06:37.720 --> 0:06:40.680 I agree with you. Look you can't make the argument, Greig. 0:06:40.720 --> 0:06:43.440 I know he just wanted to be baseball. He should 0:06:43.480 --> 0:06:45.120 be going, you know, in the middle of the first round. 0:06:45.160 --> 0:06:47.760 I think his ADP is adequate right now, maybe even 0:06:47.800 --> 0:06:49.880 a little high. But you know, really, once you get 0:06:49.960 --> 0:06:52.080 Trout and Bets off the board, I think you can 0:06:52.120 --> 0:06:54.720 make an argument for like and different guys that should 0:06:54.760 --> 0:06:57.880 go between like three and twelve. You can make the 0:06:57.960 --> 0:07:00.479 argument for any one of those guys, and I don't 0:07:00.480 --> 0:07:03.120 think that you get killed for it. Like again, you 0:07:03.120 --> 0:07:05.599 can make an argument for Jose Ramirez at three, Yellow 0:07:05.680 --> 0:07:09.600 Akunya Max Sers, or if you really wanted to Nolan Arronado, 0:07:09.680 --> 0:07:12.800 like you could. There's a lot of different ways you 0:07:12.800 --> 0:07:14.840 could go once those top two guys off board. But 0:07:14.840 --> 0:07:17.880 I agree Max Chers, there should not be in that conversation, 0:07:17.920 --> 0:07:20.960 like even in points leagues where I think pitching is 0:07:21.120 --> 0:07:24.120 even more important, especially like in my league's like the 0:07:24.280 --> 0:07:27.120 top starting pitchers outscored the top hitters. I mean we 0:07:27.160 --> 0:07:31.080 should probably like bring that range closer, Like starting pitcher 0:07:31.120 --> 0:07:34.520 shouldn't be outscoring hitters as much as they are. But 0:07:34.760 --> 0:07:37.680 even in that like format and head to head points, 0:07:37.920 --> 0:07:42.280 I'm still taking trout and bets over maxers tend ultimately, 0:07:42.400 --> 0:07:44.760 I tend to agree, and you know I said to 0:07:44.760 --> 0:07:47.240 ask the question. Then we get to a more fun topic, 0:07:47.480 --> 0:07:49.880 and that's Chris Sale versus Jacob de Graman Frank you, 0:07:49.960 --> 0:07:51.720 in all of your drafts, you've spoken about this a 0:07:51.720 --> 0:07:54.440 lot because you were a slaved business position scarce today 0:07:54.640 --> 0:07:56.640 that you were drafting an outfielder and you're drafting your 0:07:56.640 --> 0:07:59.080 starting pitcher and you pulled the starting pitchers up the 0:07:59.120 --> 0:08:02.520 board it than take a position ultimately that you did 0:08:02.520 --> 0:08:04.960 not want to and it was from your first Best 0:08:04.960 --> 0:08:07.480 Ball draft all the way through now where you have 0:08:07.920 --> 0:08:10.600 hold up Jacob Degram. You've pulled up Chris Sale. We 0:08:10.640 --> 0:08:13.880 are in March now, this is Fantasy Baseball draft month. 0:08:14.040 --> 0:08:17.160 We're in March. Officially you have to choose one right 0:08:17.200 --> 0:08:22.080 now to draft. Who would be Chris Sale or Jacob Degram. Yeah, 0:08:22.120 --> 0:08:24.080 it's super clo close to me. Again, this is what 0:08:24.160 --> 0:08:26.680 we're talking about with splitting hairs. I worry a little 0:08:26.720 --> 0:08:29.920 bit more about And I don't even know if it's 0:08:29.920 --> 0:08:32.600 fair to say, right because like the two years before 0:08:32.720 --> 0:08:35.600 last year, like Chris Sale had gone over two endings, 0:08:35.679 --> 0:08:39.720 like each of them, what you just you watch him pitch, 0:08:39.880 --> 0:08:42.000 and as awesome as he is, you kind of do 0:08:42.040 --> 0:08:44.840 get scared just because, like as wiry as his frame is, 0:08:45.000 --> 0:08:47.360 and you know, he missed time last year. It's like 0:08:48.040 --> 0:08:50.920 me personally, I still kind of like worried that he's 0:08:51.040 --> 0:08:52.920 at more of an injury risk than a guy like 0:08:53.440 --> 0:08:55.400 Jacob Degram. I just think de Gram is safer in 0:08:55.480 --> 0:08:57.120 terms of the endings pitch. So if I'm choosing one 0:08:57.120 --> 0:08:59.200 of them, I'm taking to Graham. And you know, we've 0:08:59.200 --> 0:09:03.040 said this about some of the hitters, like Christian Yellows 0:09:03.080 --> 0:09:04.920 that's going in the first round Jose are Mira, is 0:09:04.960 --> 0:09:07.559 that even if they regress a little bit from their 0:09:07.600 --> 0:09:10.280 numbers last year, they could still pay off first round value. 0:09:10.280 --> 0:09:11.959 And I think that's a good way to sum it 0:09:12.040 --> 0:09:14.600 up with Jacob Agram right, Like he's probably not gonna 0:09:14.640 --> 0:09:16.440 be as good as he was last year. I mean 0:09:16.440 --> 0:09:18.959 he was like historically good. But even if he comes 0:09:18.960 --> 0:09:21.840 back to a you know, sub three e r A, 0:09:22.120 --> 0:09:24.160 and you know, the winds should be better because we 0:09:24.200 --> 0:09:26.320 all expect the Mets line up to be better this year, 0:09:26.480 --> 0:09:28.160 so he should get a little bit more run support. 0:09:28.280 --> 0:09:29.800 I think the strikeouts are still gonna be there. For 0:09:29.880 --> 0:09:31.400 de Graham. So even if the e R A and 0:09:31.440 --> 0:09:33.400 the Whip like regress a little bit and come back, 0:09:33.600 --> 0:09:35.680 I still think that he could pay off first round value. 0:09:36.040 --> 0:09:39.440 In bestball leagues, I'm more apt to take starting pitching 0:09:39.440 --> 0:09:42.080 early and get those those anchors and those guys that 0:09:42.080 --> 0:09:45.720 are gonna give you any's pitched just because it's best ball. 0:09:45.800 --> 0:09:47.360 Like you're not gonna be able to make moves once 0:09:47.360 --> 0:09:49.560 the season starts, so it's a little bit different there. 0:09:49.600 --> 0:09:51.320 I'm definitely gonna want to try and get like one 0:09:51.320 --> 0:09:55.800 of these A starting pitchers, but I've kind of feared 0:09:55.880 --> 0:09:58.000 off a little bit in terms of, like when I'm 0:09:58.000 --> 0:10:01.679 doing these Rhoto drafts, I really do like that tear 0:10:01.880 --> 0:10:05.400 that you know, Paul Nick brought up about like Severino, 0:10:06.040 --> 0:10:08.640 I think, you know, if I could get two of 0:10:08.679 --> 0:10:11.880 the top starting pitchers, I think I'm all right with that. 0:10:12.559 --> 0:10:13.760 And that's kind of like what I did in my 0:10:13.800 --> 0:10:16.400 great fantasy based plantation I ended up with I didn't 0:10:16.400 --> 0:10:18.480 take a starting picture until around three. It's like Walker 0:10:18.520 --> 0:10:20.640 Bueller and I just followed it up with James Paxson 0:10:20.640 --> 0:10:23.640 in the fourth round. I'm all right with that, Like, 0:10:23.679 --> 0:10:24.800 as long as I get two of the top, like 0:10:24.840 --> 0:10:28.120 the fifteen twenties starting pitchers. I think I'm cool with that, 0:10:28.200 --> 0:10:31.600 So I'm not I've kind of like veered off of 0:10:32.640 --> 0:10:34.240 I don't think I have to have an ace like 0:10:34.280 --> 0:10:36.120 at the back end of the first round. There's so 0:10:36.160 --> 0:10:38.520 much hitting talent there too. Like trying to tell you, 0:10:38.520 --> 0:10:41.160 I was trying to tell you fifteen range like Aaron 0:10:41.280 --> 0:10:44.120 Judge and Jarcarlo Stanton and Alex Bregman and all these 0:10:44.120 --> 0:10:46.320 guys that are going in that range, it's kind of 0:10:46.320 --> 0:10:48.640 hard to argue against just like picking up two of 0:10:48.679 --> 0:10:51.880 those guys absolutely, And there's That's what to answer your question, 0:10:52.600 --> 0:10:55.040 long answer, it would take the ground over Christal all right, 0:10:55.080 --> 0:10:57.000 to go back to you, Nick answer Frank's long and 0:10:57.040 --> 0:11:01.160 whitey answer to grub Verse to Sale. If you're taking 0:11:01.200 --> 0:11:02.480 one of these guys, I know you can send you 0:11:02.520 --> 0:11:04.199 winning a pitching so you're not bring them up the 0:11:04.200 --> 0:11:07.679 board either. But if you feel or whoever's drafting fields 0:11:07.679 --> 0:11:09.160 are the best guy on the board, which one would 0:11:09.160 --> 0:11:11.400 you take? Chris Sale? Jacob de Gram? Now I'll be 0:11:11.400 --> 0:11:13.440 taking Jacob to Graham as well. Um, I think we 0:11:13.480 --> 0:11:16.320 do need to consider the fact that the Red Sox 0:11:16.440 --> 0:11:19.640 will be in a winning situation again and they will 0:11:19.679 --> 0:11:23.400 be able to baby Chris Sale in September again. I 0:11:24.160 --> 0:11:26.720 that is really concerning to see such a massive drop 0:11:26.760 --> 0:11:29.800 in velocity during the season, and we do have to 0:11:29.800 --> 0:11:33.440 take that into consideration. If you're going for a starter 0:11:33.520 --> 0:11:35.720 at the beginning of your drafts, it's about the floor, 0:11:36.280 --> 0:11:38.520 and I feel a little bit more comfortable with the GRAM. However, 0:11:38.600 --> 0:11:41.200 if you're talking about the quality of innings, if you 0:11:41.280 --> 0:11:43.520 say that it's two undered innings each for Sale and 0:11:43.559 --> 0:11:47.000 the GRAM, I'm going with Sale. But there's too much 0:11:47.120 --> 0:11:50.280 of a I don't know, a haze around Sale that 0:11:50.360 --> 0:11:52.880 I need to take to GRAM. Second. Yeah, I think 0:11:52.880 --> 0:11:54.360 that's a good way to put it to right, Like 0:11:54.400 --> 0:11:57.440 if you were guaranteed to any pitch of each of 0:11:57.440 --> 0:11:59.280 these two guys, I agree, Like I think on a 0:11:59.320 --> 0:12:02.679 perst start ending basis, pitched for Chris Sales, he's going 0:12:02.679 --> 0:12:05.920 to be better. But I just I worry a little 0:12:05.920 --> 0:12:08.960 bit more about him getting closer to the two endings, 0:12:09.280 --> 0:12:11.120 you know, for reasons that Nick mentioned. I mean the 0:12:11.120 --> 0:12:13.240 fact that are the Red Sox really gonna need to 0:12:13.240 --> 0:12:16.040 push him throughout the throughout the regular season. I mean 0:12:16.040 --> 0:12:18.880 they need him for October like they did last year, right, 0:12:18.920 --> 0:12:20.640 So I think there's just a little bit more at 0:12:20.640 --> 0:12:22.640 stake there. I will say, Jacob Degram, I don't think 0:12:22.720 --> 0:12:26.760 is risk free. This whole talk about how potentially shutting 0:12:26.800 --> 0:12:29.079 himself down or like limiting his own endings if he 0:12:29.120 --> 0:12:32.480 doesn't get a contract extension throughout the season. That's kind 0:12:32.480 --> 0:12:34.679 of scared me off a little bit as well. I 0:12:34.720 --> 0:12:37.640 think it's all. I think it's all like leverage, leverage 0:12:37.679 --> 0:12:41.040 and and so on. Yeah, I mean, look, the thing is, 0:12:41.200 --> 0:12:43.400 I think you know, when you're considering taking a starting 0:12:43.400 --> 0:12:45.439 pitcher in the first round drag, you need to consider 0:12:45.480 --> 0:12:47.720 all of these things, like if you have a report, 0:12:47.800 --> 0:12:51.360 absolutely like throw it away. So he's just taking all 0:12:51.400 --> 0:12:54.280 It's just information, right, It's just information, you know, as 0:12:54.360 --> 0:12:57.720 good as de Gram and Sale are. I just I 0:12:57.760 --> 0:13:01.360 worry about the endings um and maybe a slight injury 0:13:01.440 --> 0:13:05.440 risk and the decreased velocity with Chris Sale a little bit, 0:13:05.720 --> 0:13:07.959 and then with Jacob to ground, I do worry about 0:13:07.960 --> 0:13:11.480 like and potentially you know, limiting his endings or whatever. Um. 0:13:11.520 --> 0:13:14.960 So that's kind of why I've like kind of backed 0:13:14.960 --> 0:13:18.240 off taking a starting pitch pulling those guys up to 0:13:18.240 --> 0:13:20.680 the board where you know you can kind of you 0:13:20.679 --> 0:13:23.920 can just take two of these like so called aces 0:13:23.960 --> 0:13:26.120 like I think, I think you know is an a 0:13:27.800 --> 0:13:30.960 while ago. Look a lot of it comes down to 0:13:31.040 --> 0:13:34.040 roster construction too, because in the Great fantasy based prementational 0:13:34.960 --> 0:13:36.559 Rice Harper felt to me in the middle of the 0:13:36.600 --> 0:13:38.520 second round, I had picked eight. So so you know, 0:13:38.559 --> 0:13:40.560 I take Jose Ramirez first and then I get Bryce 0:13:40.600 --> 0:13:43.040 Harper in the second round. I didn't want to like 0:13:43.200 --> 0:13:46.800 take a Aaron Nola or um, you know, pull someone 0:13:46.880 --> 0:13:48.719 up else up the board there in the second like 0:13:48.760 --> 0:13:50.760 I wanted Bryce Harper, he felt to me, and that 0:13:50.840 --> 0:13:52.360 was the best player available in my opinion, So I 0:13:52.400 --> 0:13:54.400 took him, and then you kind of adjust from there, 0:13:54.440 --> 0:13:56.360 and you know, you want to get your aces after that, 0:13:56.440 --> 0:13:58.319 and you know that's what I did with Walker Bueller 0:13:58.360 --> 0:14:02.800 and James Paxson. So it's not, as I think concrete 0:14:02.800 --> 0:14:04.719 that you have to take a starting picture in the 0:14:04.760 --> 0:14:07.120 first two rounds. Maybe, as I let on early on, 0:14:07.720 --> 0:14:11.000 fair enough, fair enough, um Nick, I want to go 0:14:11.040 --> 0:14:13.240 back to you because I think as much fun as 0:14:13.280 --> 0:14:19.080 that was, whatever, do you have an opinion, I'm just 0:14:19.160 --> 0:14:22.640 here bashing everybody. I would only just you my bashing Nick. 0:14:22.680 --> 0:14:26.480 I like Nick. My opinion is like you know me, Frank, 0:14:26.520 --> 0:14:28.600 I always want to try. I always want to try. 0:14:28.720 --> 0:14:32.520 You own one of these three players I could. I 0:14:32.560 --> 0:14:34.640 don't want to rule that out. But as I've been 0:14:34.720 --> 0:14:36.080 kind of saying to you towards the end of the 0:14:36.080 --> 0:14:37.760 first round, in the early second round, there's so many 0:14:37.760 --> 0:14:41.040 good hitters that I don't want to let them necessarily go. 0:14:41.440 --> 0:14:43.160 Problem is, you don't know what you're guarantee. If you're 0:14:43.200 --> 0:14:45.240 guaranteeing me Severino around three, I would let him go 0:14:45.240 --> 0:14:47.760 out happily. I would happily let them go. I just 0:14:47.840 --> 0:14:49.800 don't know that I can do that. I like walking 0:14:49.840 --> 0:14:52.800 away with a hitter and a picture if possible. If 0:14:52.800 --> 0:14:54.120 it's not there, it's not there. I'm not going to 0:14:54.240 --> 0:14:56.000 force it. Like I'm happy to take No. One hour 0:14:56.080 --> 0:14:58.680 Nado at eight or nine, which is what we've talked about, 0:14:58.800 --> 0:15:00.440 as an eight or ninth best player on the board, 0:15:00.480 --> 0:15:02.480 and they come back around and take Artragelog Like I'll 0:15:02.480 --> 0:15:04.240 do that if there's no speed there. But like you 0:15:04.240 --> 0:15:05.760 know what I'm you know what I'm saying, right, And 0:15:05.840 --> 0:15:09.000 I'm happy to do that rather than force um the 0:15:09.120 --> 0:15:11.000 gram or sale, because I don't know that the next 0:15:11.040 --> 0:15:13.880 group is seemingly that far away, and even if they 0:15:13.920 --> 0:15:16.280 are far away right now, as you sela Jacob deGrom 0:15:16.360 --> 0:15:19.640 last year, certainly they could enter into that territory. So 0:15:19.680 --> 0:15:22.400 I don't feel um pressured to get one of these 0:15:22.440 --> 0:15:25.040 three guy britty guys. But I do feel like it's 0:15:25.600 --> 0:15:27.600 you know, it's fine. I don't have a problem with it. 0:15:27.680 --> 0:15:32.400 Basically cool to answer your question, appreciate it as as 0:15:32.440 --> 0:15:34.880 little fun as those three guys are. I think what 0:15:35.000 --> 0:15:39.560 makes the next batch of guys much more fun is well, 0:15:40.320 --> 0:15:43.240 who goes next? Right in this crew with an a 0:15:43.320 --> 0:15:46.720 d P According to the NFBC, all within like ten 0:15:46.840 --> 0:15:52.200 spots of each other, justin Corey Kluber, Our, Nola Garrett 0:15:52.200 --> 0:15:58.240 hole Like Snell, Trevor Bauer, Luis Savaino, Carlos Grasco man 0:15:58.280 --> 0:16:01.080 like all these guys together. So excited to talk to you, 0:16:01.160 --> 0:16:04.040 Nick Pollock about how you order these guys, why you 0:16:04.160 --> 0:16:07.040 order them in which way, and when they should be drafted. 0:16:07.200 --> 0:16:10.160 We're gonna talk about the next you know, ted pictures 0:16:10.200 --> 0:16:13.320 are so we come back. Fantasy best Friends Forever. Fantasy 0:16:13.360 --> 0:16:25.200 Sports radio network Daily rodo dot Com learned from the 0:16:25.200 --> 0:16:28.920 game's best DFS players. 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Here are the Fantasy 0:18:49.359 --> 0:18:53.600 Sports Radio Network, Greg Sauceman, Frank Sample, Nick Pollock hanging out. 0:18:53.640 --> 0:18:57.240 It's Friday man, So whatever, Nick, we couldn't see you 0:18:57.960 --> 0:19:00.840 obviously while we're dancing and singing. Did you did you 0:19:00.920 --> 0:19:04.960 join along there or you just more of a reserve type. No, 0:19:05.200 --> 0:19:07.879 I was definitely dancing. It was a great time. I 0:19:07.920 --> 0:19:10.840 want to that's what I do. I want to confirm 0:19:10.920 --> 0:19:13.760 that Nick was dancing. So Sean Pavon, if you could 0:19:13.800 --> 0:19:16.640 just hit that again just to just to make sure 0:19:17.240 --> 0:19:20.000 so we can see it, and he was dancing. I'd 0:19:20.000 --> 0:19:23.000 appreciate it. All right, Let's let's get Nick on the screen. 0:19:23.000 --> 0:19:29.119 Here we go. There, that's what I do. I'm subtle. 0:19:31.040 --> 0:19:36.359 It wasn't like an out. It was too a little 0:19:36.400 --> 0:19:40.879 busson right, a little buffing right. It's a little week. 0:19:40.880 --> 0:19:42.800 It's a little weak for me, even if you're rocketing 0:19:42.880 --> 0:19:47.040 pretty sick. Joey, Oh yeah, it's um, it's actually lu 0:19:47.119 --> 0:19:51.160 Casey or for Gazy. Oh that's that's a picture list 0:19:51.240 --> 0:19:53.239 shirt where we don't know where we're gonna get from 0:19:53.280 --> 0:19:54.639 Joey lu Casey and to give it night. Is he 0:19:54.680 --> 0:19:56.600 gonna be a lu Casey? Is he gonna be a Gazy? 0:19:57.119 --> 0:20:02.560 We don't know. Martinez. Martinez would rock the crist network. 0:20:02.640 --> 0:20:06.280 He loves. He used the term he loves Lucazi Fugaz. 0:20:06.520 --> 0:20:08.480 You gotta tell him that one. Well, you gotta go 0:20:08.520 --> 0:20:10.919 to picture list dot com slash store and get one. 0:20:10.920 --> 0:20:13.160 I'm gonna show. 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And one 0:20:50.440 --> 0:20:54.920 of the most one of the most common phrases you 0:20:55.000 --> 0:20:58.040 have on your site is ACE is gonna Ace. Yes, 0:20:58.320 --> 0:21:01.000 And we are talking about aces that we hope ace 0:21:01.080 --> 0:21:04.280