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Speaker 1: in Las Vegas. I came out unscathed. Welsh not so much.
Speaker 1: But you gotta get that hand sanitizer, Welsh. It's a
Speaker 1: dirty place, Las Vegas. That's what.
Speaker 2: Well, when you go to bed at nine pm every
Speaker 2: single night, Joey, you're probably gonna do a little bit
Speaker 2: better than us in Vegas who were out a little
Speaker 2: later than nine pm.
Speaker 1: I did not go to bed at nine pm. I
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Speaker 1: start with some news here. I see the questions filtering in.
Speaker 1: We're gonna get to the questions. I want to start
Speaker 1: with some news here. I want to start with Lad
Speaker 1: Guerrero Junior because I think that is not surprising. We'll
Speaker 1: do a wellness check on Joel Rico because Vlad Guerreau
Speaker 1: did not sign an extension. What a shock with the
Speaker 1: Toronto Blue Jays. I think the guys that have a
Speaker 1: monstrous year, I think money talks. I think he started
Speaker 1: to smell it last year at the end, and it
Speaker 1: feels like Vlad is going to go out there, test
Speaker 1: that market and get paid. Welsh, I'm looking for big things,
Speaker 1: especially with Santander now in that lineup and with a
Speaker 1: hopeful bounce back of bobus Shit, I think that Toronto
Speaker 1: lineup is going to be a lot better than people realize. Also,
Speaker 1: at the top of that lineup, some questions going on
Speaker 1: who's going to lead off? Could it be Springer? It
Speaker 1: might even be Wagner, It could be Andre Samenez too,
Speaker 1: who might be in that mix. So let's talk about
Speaker 1: the Vlattie contract. Your thoughts and what you think about
Speaker 1: that leadoff spot. How valuable it is it to one
Speaker 1: of those three guys potentially?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I don't think Vlattie is going to
Speaker 2: re sign, even though he wants to be, you know,
Speaker 2: there for life. He was like, were they close? No,
Speaker 2: not even close, And the blue Jays thought they were
Speaker 2: competitive for the blue Jays. So someone's gonna come in
Speaker 2: and they're going to offer six hundred million, and it's
Speaker 2: just Blue Jays are not going to get there. And
Speaker 2: I think I don't know if to pull the trigger
Speaker 2: in the season if the season falls away from them
Speaker 2: and they know they're not going to resign. But I
Speaker 2: do think the team is strong. I think Santander is
Speaker 2: in line for a big, strong season. I'll tell you,
Speaker 2: I think he's kind of a trade target, little bit
Speaker 2: batting average, susceptible. He might hurt you. And I'm also
Speaker 2: here for the bounce back of Bobachett. You'll see in
Speaker 2: the Expert Consensus Ranks, which are available on Fantasy Pros
Speaker 2: right now. You can check out ECR. You also can
Speaker 2: see the individual rankers. I am probably one of the
Speaker 2: highest on Bobachett because I really do think he's gonna
Speaker 2: bounce back and I think he's a huge, huge benefit
Speaker 2: to your fantasy team as low as he's going. So
Speaker 2: it's a good spot kind of across the board.
Speaker 1: My friend, Yes, look Fred Dinger back here. It's good
Speaker 1: to see Freddie. Look, it is like seeing all the
Speaker 1: old friends. James, A's got a question and then we're
Speaker 1: going to go to Boston. I guess they in the
Speaker 1: American Leaguees. We've got some more stuff heating up there.
Speaker 1: James keep Sandy al Contra or Boden Francis in the
Speaker 1: sixteenth round. It's a Contra for me, it's not close.
Speaker 1: I like Francis, I'm very intrigued by him, but at
Speaker 1: the same time, I can't go that route. I mean
Speaker 1: our Contra coming back. He's had a long enough time away.
Speaker 1: He's already they named the opening day starter. That feels
Speaker 1: good to me. Welsh, where do you go here?
Speaker 2: Did you say you're al Contra?
Speaker 1: Al Contra all the way? Zero chill for me.
Speaker 2: I do like.
Speaker 1: And he's gonna get traded to this year. You know
Speaker 1: he's gonna get dealt. I'm telling you that's coming.
Speaker 2: That shift, that'll be a great thing. I will tell you.
Speaker 2: I'm not one hundred percent sure if al Contra is
Speaker 2: even gonna be like really in play for the Cubs.
Speaker 2: There's a great video that's out there. I think he
Speaker 2: I think he took Shotto Emonaga just deep in some
Speaker 2: of those early practices, and I love the tool set.
Speaker 2: It's just about opportunity for him. Here's my problem with
Speaker 2: Bowden Francis is Bowden Francis had we.
Speaker 1: Talked about the same talking about the pitcher Sandy al Contra.
Speaker 1: Who are you talking about? Oh?
Speaker 2: I think this is Do you think this is a
Speaker 2: Sandy al Contra.
Speaker 1: I've talked you assume because last year he got him cheap.
Speaker 1: So James, I'm assuming you're saying Sandy al Contra. That's
Speaker 1: I'm listening to Welsh going what Sandy doing grabbing a bat?
Speaker 1: Is he changing position?
Speaker 2: Contra? If we go to Kevin al Contra, this is
Speaker 2: Bowden Francis. I just want to point this out real
Speaker 2: quick because I agree with you. Tru this okay, Sam,
Speaker 2: don't even ask this question. This ridiculous question, James, is
Speaker 2: a ridiculous question. Sandy al Contra by four million miles.
Speaker 2: But the reason he's asking the question is because of
Speaker 2: the second half by Bowden Francis. I thought Kevin al
Speaker 2: Contra was like a real question. But he had a
Speaker 2: one eight e R in the second half, fifty eight
Speaker 2: strikeouts to eight walks, over sixty five innings Bowden did,
Speaker 2: and this pretty phenomenal stuff. I mean, you know, there
Speaker 2: were some decent strikeout numbers, especially in the second half.
Speaker 2: He's a good late keeper, but not over Sandy.
Speaker 1: Not okay, thank goodness. I was like, what I thought,
Speaker 1: maybe Las Vegas changed you.
Speaker 2: First rospect guy, I went to Contra mister Cross.
Speaker 1: That guy goes right to you know, the the youngest players.
Speaker 1: They already's talking about them. Uh okay. I did the
Speaker 1: right up for both these guys. In fancy his bow
Speaker 1: Black book on Amazon right now, you can go check
Speaker 1: that out. I do all the picture profiles, and francis
Speaker 1: stunning profile. Like I'm very excited about him this year.
Speaker 1: But look, Sandy's already be named O big day starter.
Speaker 1: Sandy is a cy young candidate. You can't go past there. Also,
Speaker 1: speaking of cy young candidates returning from Tommy John, look
Speaker 1: at this segue Sean McClanahan. Uh you saw him throw
Speaker 1: a bull No, you didn't see him through a bullpen.
Speaker 2: I didn't see it. Ap I didn't. I didn't fly
Speaker 2: to Florida.
Speaker 1: That's right there with Arizona.
Speaker 2: With all this stuff going on with planes, I don't
Speaker 2: want to get on a plane again. I'm lucky I
Speaker 2: got home at this point. But no, uh, we were
Speaker 2: talking off air, Sea Sea. Mcclanahan's really important here. I
Speaker 2: was very like timid about I loved him, one of
Speaker 2: my favorite pictures. I think I had him like number
Speaker 2: one in Dynasty two years ago that injury. He was
Speaker 2: really struggled right before the injury, probably because of the
Speaker 2: injury and then coming back, there was just still some
Speaker 2: questions like what was this going to look like? We
Speaker 2: we had had some more affirmatives about Sandy al Contra.
Speaker 2: Two things make me feel great. A. They already announced
Speaker 2: McClanahan is good go. They're not going to have any
Speaker 2: type of limitation. A. That's awesome for me. B Through
Speaker 2: a session just the other day, we're talking February ninety seven,
Speaker 2: ninety eight. I love seeing that he's already on the
Speaker 2: top of the v Low. It's one of the best
Speaker 2: change ups in baseball. Just getting a full season with
Speaker 2: like very minimal maybe holding back makes me feel way better.
Speaker 2: And he is a freaking steel man, and I think
Speaker 2: I had him too. Low. I'm going to take a
Speaker 2: look here.
Speaker 1: I want to say yeah, I want to say they're
Speaker 1: in that fifty range, like fifty to sixty. I think
Speaker 1: from what I saw over the weekend. I don't know
Speaker 1: if that's changed. Fifty to sixty one in the overall
Speaker 1: pitching ranks. Right now in Fantasy pros.
Speaker 2: He's won twenty five overall. That's the pitch ranks.
Speaker 1: But while you're looking for that ranking, look, look, these
Speaker 1: are two guys. Both of them I picked up in
Speaker 1: my home league last year and in the draft where
Speaker 1: I paid a buck for one and two bucks for
Speaker 1: the other one and just stashed them because I was
Speaker 1: a rebuilding team. And I'm so glad that I did,
Speaker 1: because now I've got both of those guys who could
Speaker 1: very well be aces.
Speaker 2: I think that was Sandy by the way, he was thirty.
Speaker 2: He's thirty eight, so he's higher than you were saying.
Speaker 2: But I still think that's too low. I think McClanahan
Speaker 2: legit has top twenty sp I still think there's gonna
Speaker 2: be some type of like I mean, in a full world,
Speaker 2: like you could be a top five pitcher.
Speaker 1: Oh, but like it's going to take let's wait and see,
Speaker 1: how you know, Let's let's let's wait and see him
Speaker 1: throw the hitters, and like you know, getting some game action,
Speaker 1: all that stuff, and then I agree, it's gonna be
Speaker 1: a meteorc rise in ADP for all of them. If
Speaker 1: you're in early best balls, take advantage now. If you're
Speaker 1: in early drafts, take advantage now. It's going to change.
Speaker 1: The other thing that's interesting with McClanahan too, is how
Speaker 1: this you know, new ballpark situation is going to play
Speaker 1: out for them. So being you know, away from Tampa,
Speaker 1: which was a pitcher haven, it's gonna be a little
Speaker 1: different now being outdoors in that in that ballpark. So
Speaker 1: mclann han's a good enough picture. Doesn't matter to a
Speaker 1: certain degree, but I am curious to see how it
Speaker 1: all plays out because we don't know at the end
Speaker 1: of the day, and it can't be as good probably
Speaker 1: as the situation he was pitching an indoors. So let's
Speaker 1: go to car Lows, good friend of the show. Yes,
Speaker 1: I got a question. Is Elido Cruz a number one
Speaker 1: round pick?
Speaker 2: He's trolling? He's trolling. Carlos is a troll. Carlos always trolls.
Speaker 2: I'm trying to remember who did Carlos.
Speaker 1: Troll me about the Brandon fought.
Speaker 2: No, I don't know if it was Brandon fought. Carlos
Speaker 2: definitely trolled last year the brand fought guy. It might
Speaker 2: have been, but I mean he also said all jokes aside, Uh,
Speaker 2: great season, Yes, breaking news, Elie de la Cruz is
Speaker 2: a one round pick.
Speaker 1: Or however, I think we have the graphic here? H
Speaker 1: oh it is.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's Carlos right there. He was the Brandon five. Yeah,
Speaker 2: let's read. This is what Carlos said. Go back, go back, no,
Speaker 2: go back to.
Speaker 1: Don't worry, seth, I got this one, seth ar.
Speaker 2: You want a great if you want a great pitcher
Speaker 2: performance today, Joe Musgrove, Charlie Morton, Garrett Crochet, Carlos Prasco.
Speaker 2: But if you want to lose points, listen to Welsh
Speaker 2: and go ahead and pick up Brandon fought. Oh what
Speaker 2: was the stat line after stupid Carlos said his comment
Speaker 2: six and he's seven strikeouts and boom goes to dynamite.
Speaker 2: Look at your actually do love you?
Speaker 1: I do love so good.
Speaker 2: It was a better time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this offseason was not kind to you. I mean,
Speaker 1: I guess it was tough there, tough for you there.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about Boston too. I saw Scott White had
Speaker 1: a great tweet about this, so I don't want to
Speaker 1: take credit for it, but he had a Game of
Speaker 1: Thrones related tweet. Uh. You know the line that Taiwan
Speaker 1: Lanister says, if you have to say that you're king,
Speaker 1: then you're not the king, right, so if Raphael Devers
Speaker 1: it was the same was the picture of Taiwen Lantis
Speaker 1: and it said if you have to say you're the
Speaker 1: third baseman, then you're not the third baseman. And I
Speaker 1: thought that was very clever. Alex Bregman taking grounders at third, like,
Speaker 1: it makes sense to move Devers off of there. It's
Speaker 1: going to make your team infinitely better defensively. You can
Speaker 1: put Devers at DH or you want to play Cossas
Speaker 1: at DH and Devors at first, Like, however you want
Speaker 1: to shake it, but to move Bregman to third, it
Speaker 1: opens up Christian Campbell at second base sooner than later,
Speaker 1: which I think is something that they would like to do.
Speaker 1: So will are you going to read too much into
Speaker 1: this early ground ball? I mean, are we overreacting here
Speaker 1: or is this something really that we should be kind
Speaker 1: of figuring out? Because right now, Rafael Devers is doing
Speaker 1: separate workouts in both field and cage work during his
Speaker 1: shoulder rehab, but the separate workouts, again we're not sure exactly.
Speaker 1: Is that also him maybe taking some work at first
Speaker 1: base a little bit and not wanting the public to see.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's pretty speculative. I don't know. I think
Speaker 2: the only issue out of all of this, or the
Speaker 2: thing to read into, is that Raphael Devers was adamant
Speaker 2: that he is a third baseman, and also his teammate
Speaker 2: Tristan Costs has just came in, and you know, it's like, hey,
Speaker 2: we could just like isolate these incidents and stuff like that,
Speaker 2: and cost this is like av yesk me Devas should
Speaker 2: be the third basement. By the way, we should never
Speaker 2: bring up the prospects. He's like, don't bring up Anthony,
Speaker 2: don't bring up Campbell. It just makes it messy. What
Speaker 2: I'm getting at is like Bregman playing at second and third,
Speaker 2: completely normal, Campbell running second, playing the outfield. This is
Speaker 2: all normal for flexibility, position, flexibility across the board. So
Speaker 2: it's not you know, it's nothing crazy. He did something
Speaker 2: to watch. It's gonna be a show. It's probably they
Speaker 2: should probably do some type of hard knock show and
Speaker 2: follow the Red.
Speaker 1: Why doesn't MLB do that? They got a million hours?
Speaker 2: Aren't hits art hits scrap? How HBO hard hits Baseball
Speaker 2: Boston Red Sox twenty.
Speaker 1: Need to pitch this to MLB network. Let's get on there.
Speaker 1: Let's pitch us to MLB network. We'll shoot it. We'll
Speaker 1: do it. It'll be fun. I mean, think about all.
Speaker 1: I mean, do I have to watch Baseball Seasons nineteen
Speaker 1: eighty one for the thousandth time?
Speaker 2: I mean, Thankers says they did follow last year. I
Speaker 2: don't remember.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, Fred, if we didn't see it, it doesn't matter,
Speaker 1: it didn't happen, by the way, And Carlos, we love you,
Speaker 1: by the way, we're just give your car back here
Speaker 1: in the chat here.
Speaker 2: Carlos is just enough troll, like he's just the right note,
Speaker 2: like we love Yeah, it's not too much where it's like,
Speaker 2: oh well, we're gonna have to mute you. It's just
Speaker 2: it's just playful and fun enough.
Speaker 1: I can't believe you didn't remember that Carlos was the
Speaker 1: one that gave us the Brandon Fop moment last year.
Speaker 2: I remember Carlos, I just didn't remember what the moment.
Speaker 1: Well, there producer says he wants your workout routine, so
Speaker 1: you have to give him that too. It involves it
Speaker 1: involves funians. Seth, that's what it involved.
Speaker 2: I don't like funians. Actually, let's say ironic. You pick that.
Speaker 2: That would be something I do.
Speaker 1: You know, like funny and what's wrong with you? All right,
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Speaker 1: let's get to some more questions. Rene's out of question here,
Speaker 1: Reagan's Crochet or Gilbert ooh blows. Took a lot of
Speaker 1: lumps last year on the logan Gilbert Traine just want
Speaker 1: to say.
Speaker 2: I did, I did. I did get a little bit
Speaker 2: of that, and it was relative. Renee had said, pick
Speaker 2: one of these three starting pictures to be your ace.
Speaker 2: Mine is pretty clear if you've watched any of our
Speaker 2: offseason shows. By the way, we got a litany of
Speaker 2: incredible shows already on the YouTube channel. To make sure
Speaker 2: you're locked into it.
Speaker 1: It's a big word.
Speaker 2: I'm stupid, dummy, I don't I know.
Speaker 1: A few more working out for you.
Speaker 2: All right, Well, if you've been following those videos, there's
Speaker 2: one picture I take all the time. It is Garrett Crochet.
Speaker 2: Garrett Crochet. I also I am in tout. I just
Speaker 2: took Garrett Crochet. It's a fifteen team draft and hold
Speaker 2: industry just murderers across the board of industry people, and
Speaker 2: I snapped up Crochet at the back end of the
Speaker 2: second round a little bit early, but I wanted, you know,
Speaker 2: in that format, I wanted to make sure to get
Speaker 2: the high end strikeouts. Really can't go wrong. Gilbert proved
Speaker 2: me wrong. I thought, the you know, like the fastball,
Speaker 2: you want this like big popping fastball to let the
Speaker 2: splitters really dominate. And I remember talking to Eno about
Speaker 2: this last year and he agreed with me. But then
Speaker 2: it was like, oh, well, the fastball just got better,
Speaker 2: and then the splitter was great. And Reagan's is Reagans
Speaker 2: as well. I mean, these are all really great. At
Speaker 2: least two of them high end strikeout options. Gilbert probably
Speaker 2: the lowest floor. Maybe Crochet is going to be a
Speaker 2: little bit more susceptible in a hitter friendly environment, but
Speaker 2: him also might lead the league in strikeouts, and there
Speaker 2: are tons and tons of win opportunities with this offensive
Speaker 2: support getting out of Chicago. So I love Garrett Crochet.
Speaker 2: I've got him at I think SP four in my rank.
Speaker 2: So Crochet is my pick. Are you different from me?
Speaker 1: I would still go Gilbert personally. Again, Gilbert's the most
Speaker 1: expensive probably of these three, I would think, although you
Speaker 1: never know, I mean, some of these expert drafts. You're
Speaker 1: seeing people you don't go early for Crochet. Crochet has
Speaker 1: got incredible potential. My question is, was it look want
Speaker 1: to get to one hundred and fifty innings and pass
Speaker 1: that again? And I think I think it'll be okay,
Speaker 1: like he had what one I think last year? You know,
Speaker 1: I think it'll be okay. Is it gonna be different
Speaker 1: environment for him? Will game matter more? More pressure, different
Speaker 1: kind of media, the whole that like, I mean, different
Speaker 1: kind of attention, different kind of pressure. I think he's
Speaker 1: up for it. Crochet is the big swing. I'll say
Speaker 1: this right, Crochet is the big swing. If you want
Speaker 1: to go for the moon, if you want to play
Speaker 1: it safer, it's Gilbert. Look, all three of them are good.
Speaker 1: You could even say, if it's in a salary cap draft,
Speaker 1: whoever comes cheaper it would be the best answer, because
Speaker 1: I don't think at the end of the day they're
Speaker 1: gonna be all that far apart in relative position value.
Speaker 2: And consensus ranks. Right now, it's actually the answer is Gilbert.
Speaker 2: I just want to throw.
Speaker 1: Out I'm not surprised. I mean, Gilbert would be a
Speaker 1: love choice too.
Speaker 2: I'm actually surprised about this Gilbert's four. I didn't realize this.
Speaker 2: Gilbert is SP four on the consensus ranks on Fantasy pros,
Speaker 2: Crochet is eight and Reagan's is nine. I am very
Speaker 2: pro Crochet as far as that group.
Speaker 1: A big crocheer, big big knitter, big crocheer. He loves
Speaker 1: all of it. By the way, A set sent me
Speaker 1: the link for this Red Sox thing, but it was
Speaker 1: about last year's team. I want something that's like Hard Knocks,
Speaker 1: where I'm watching two weeks of spring training and you're
Speaker 1: giving me all the stuff and all the things going
Speaker 1: on behind the sea.
Speaker 2: MLB's a free weekly live. Yeah, it catches up for
Speaker 2: the last week like hard.
Speaker 1: Right, like Hard Knocks does. That's what we want here.
Speaker 1: That's what we're looking for.
Speaker 2: Hot hits. It's Boston on Netflix.
Speaker 1: There you go. You'll get a little glitchy there. For
Speaker 1: a second, I thought I was gonna have to get
Speaker 1: Popping Welsh out there. Joey Navarro, good friend of the show.
Speaker 1: I need help for my last keeper this year, either
Speaker 1: Jackson Cheerio for a thirteenth, Devin Willis for a twenty second,
Speaker 1: or Junior Kaminara for in eighteenth. My first keeper is
Speaker 1: Ellie for a third Jackson Cheerio for me, Bro, I
Speaker 1: love what I saw in the second half. I'm not
Speaker 1: letting that guy go back to the pool. I can
Speaker 1: always find saves, Kem and Aro. Very intriguing player, but
Speaker 1: still some work to do. So it's Cheerio for me.
Speaker 1: Still good costs on all these guys, But Cheerio is
Speaker 1: my answer. What's your as wesh?
Speaker 2: It's easy runaway jack Ex and Churio. Cavin Arrow's a
Speaker 2: really good value in the eighteenth, but it's Cheerio.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I would I would agree with that. All right,
Speaker 1: let's go to Coconut. Head. Is Ali Ruchman a keeper
Speaker 1: in a twelve team, five keeper dynasty league? You know,
Speaker 1: it depends on what the rest of the roster looks like.
Speaker 1: Head like, I don't know. I mean, it's it's a
Speaker 1: tricky one for me. If it's a two catcher league.
Speaker 2: Did you say it depends what it looks like? Head?
Speaker 2: Did you go, hey, Head?
Speaker 1: You know, all right, you want to go on Coco.
Speaker 2: Coconut Maybe, Guy, I'm.
Speaker 1: Gonna go with Coco instead. Coco. You know, for me,
Speaker 1: I if it's a two catcher league, more so, I
Speaker 1: would say probably no, for me, five keepers at a
Speaker 1: twelve team league, I gotta imagine, And again it depends
Speaker 1: on the other names out there, but I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't think that's where I'm going. How about you,
Speaker 1: it's close.
Speaker 2: I mean that's that's sixty players in a twelve team
Speaker 2: with five So sixty players off the board and of
Speaker 2: dynasty is somewhere between, probably like fifty and eighty. Depending
Speaker 2: you're looking at everybody else's ranks, you could have an advantage.
Speaker 2: I would imagine the person that has William Contreras is
Speaker 2: going to keep him, So that's one catcher off the board.
Speaker 2: But if it's like should I keep Tristan Cassis or Adley?
Speaker 2: I would take Cassius or even if you start pushing
Speaker 2: down some of the maybe a few of the younger names.
Speaker 2: So it's a fringy, yes, you can keep him, But
Speaker 2: I would say if it's a over another top fifty guy,
Speaker 2: here's a really interesting one. What about Adley versus Lawrence Butler?
Speaker 2: Because Butler was great, but he's unproved, he's unproven in
Speaker 2: a line, and it's gonna he has a half season
Speaker 2: of improvement, So are you willing to chew off Adley
Speaker 2: for that half season of Butler.
Speaker 1: I am, and I'll tell you why. Because of the
Speaker 1: ballpark shift right playing in Sacramento, I think it's a
Speaker 1: much more favorable ballpark. I really like that lineup. I
Speaker 1: like what I saw out of bla Day. I think,
Speaker 1: you know, Jacob Wilson's coming. They got all these prospects
Speaker 1: coming through there. I think this is a much longer
Speaker 1: better lineup than people realize. And I think Butler showed
Speaker 1: you big time tools right. And if it's a Roto
Speaker 1: situation too, the stolen bases are gonna matter. Like I mean,
Speaker 1: Butler was the hottest guy in baseball for what a
Speaker 1: good six weeks span in July and August. I mean,
Speaker 1: the guy was just unreal. So I'm in. I'm I'm
Speaker 1: there for Lawrence Butler, and I'll roll that dice with him. Rutchman,
Speaker 1: I gotta see. I gotta see him have a dominant season.
Speaker 1: Yet he's had a nice season and a disappointing season. I
Speaker 1: think a little bit I want to see. I want
Speaker 1: to see it'll put all together before I'm keeping him. Jordan,
Speaker 1: By the way, I love that we have so many
Speaker 1: people here already. We barely advertise this today. Everybody's here
Speaker 1: hanging out with us already. I love you people. You
Speaker 1: guys are the best. This is very long.
Speaker 2: Producers had to remind us, by the way, because we
Speaker 2: came back from Megas. Hey the Lawron's.
Speaker 1: You got a live stream on Wednesday four o'clock. We're like, oh,
Speaker 1: what you know, Well, she's all hungover. He lost all
Speaker 1: his money.
Speaker 2: At the hungover. I'm sick. You're sick in Vegas.
Speaker 1: Jordan Jordan choked by the way. You want me to
Speaker 1: call him by his last name, or you want to
Speaker 1: stick with Jordan?
Speaker 2: You know what, head and choke, let'sn't choke.
Speaker 1: Let's just chances. James would is a top twenty pick
Speaker 1: next season. I would say very good on a scale
Speaker 1: of one to five. Five being the fact that he
Speaker 1: was a he'd be a twenty A top twenty over
Speaker 1: pick next year, I would say four and a half stars.
Speaker 1: That's where I'm going there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, like I could give you like arbitrary percentages.
Speaker 2: I would say, like, you know, like forty percent chance,
Speaker 2: forty five percent chance. I mean maybe that's even a
Speaker 2: little too high. Projections are pretty favorable in James Wood's favor.
Speaker 2: I really think he's improved his back to ball skills
Speaker 2: left and he's hitting left his n righties, which I
Speaker 2: think is so key to him. Big exit velocities, strikeout
Speaker 2: numbers obviously got to come down, but like he's a
Speaker 2: big tools player, he's probably gonna easily steal twenty. I
Speaker 2: think he could be a thirty twenty guy. But in
Speaker 2: that same token, it's funny, that's how I thought about
Speaker 2: o'eil Cruz last year, and Cruz improved his batting average
Speaker 2: but was stealing more bases than hitting homers. So I
Speaker 2: don't know. I think the floor for James would twenty twenty.
Speaker 2: The ceiling could be thirty thirty, and what's the gap
Speaker 2: between that. You know, getting him outside the top twenty
Speaker 2: and inside it's pretty good. So maybe when I say
Speaker 2: forty percent doesn't sound like a lot to you guys,
Speaker 2: that is like you got to crack the top twenty.
Speaker 2: He definitely can get there. It's a pretty good high probability,
Speaker 2: and that is why I'm investing in him. Him on
Speaker 2: the upside, play Langford with a little bit of the floor,
Speaker 2: Give me one of those players in every single draft
Speaker 2: I do.
Speaker 1: We've got a celebrity of the chat friend of mine,
Speaker 1: Trevor Sikama. I can only assume this is Trevor. Trevor,
Speaker 1: how you doing, buddy? Saw you on NFL Network. If
Speaker 1: it's you, trev I know you're big sports guy. Hi.
Speaker 1: So Trevor wants to go keep Tetis for Churio. This
Speaker 1: is a very tempting here. It's very tempting to take Cheerio.
Speaker 1: But I think I would lean towards Tetus for this year,
Speaker 1: like I'm always trying to win. Right now, you could,
Speaker 1: you know, see another sophomore adjustment phase potentially here at Cheerio.
Speaker 2: But I think tech we got something better from Trevor.
Speaker 2: He gave us, He gave us more fur more information.
Speaker 2: This will help here. By the way, I thought this
Speaker 2: was when I saw it. The TJ. Sikimo is a
Speaker 2: picture for.
Speaker 1: Kama, who is a draft genius. You know there out there.
Speaker 2: No I understand, but I'm saying there's not so many
Speaker 2: Skimas out there. But there's a picture TJ. Sikima. So
Speaker 2: shout out but Tatis for thirty five, now Cheerio for
Speaker 2: twenty six. And it looks like we also got Kittel
Speaker 2: for twenty seven. These schemes for twenty in there. Yeah,
Speaker 2: so it looks like I was.
Speaker 1: Clearly watching the channel. That's all I could say from
Speaker 1: looking at this team.
Speaker 2: I feel like he's locked into maybe Skeens and Strider,
Speaker 2: and then he's choosing between Cheerio and Tatis. With that question.
Speaker 2: Based on this, I would take the discount I think
Speaker 2: with Cheerio. I really like Tatis, but I don't think
Speaker 2: Cheerio's that far off from Tatis, and that discount could
Speaker 2: be pretty big. But I also personally would probably go Tatis,
Speaker 2: Churio and Scheme.
Speaker 1: That's what I would just see that. That's what I
Speaker 1: would be doing too. I would be going Skiens to
Speaker 1: I would throw Kittel Marte back in the pile and
Speaker 1: realize its Strider. Although at nine dollars extremely tempting. That
Speaker 1: would be one where again you throw him back in there,
Speaker 1: and what you go draft him for twice as much.
Speaker 1: At least you know he isn't going to be back,
Speaker 1: you know, till good three months into the season if
Speaker 1: there's no setbacks. And I think that's always a hard
Speaker 1: thing too, because you look at a guy like Strider
Speaker 1: and you know what the upside is you've seen it.
Speaker 1: It's spectacular. But at the same time, you also have
Speaker 1: to understand while he's he's going to miss a significant
Speaker 1: portion of the season. You don't know if there's a setback.
Speaker 1: And when you only have a limited amount of keepers,
Speaker 1: you keep that guy and things don't go well where
Speaker 1: it gets pushed back and he doesn't come back for
Speaker 1: another like an extra month or six weeks. That really
Speaker 1: crushes you. So I'm with Welsh cheerio tatis schemes. I
Speaker 1: keep those big three and I roll and then I
Speaker 1: figure the rest out there. Good stuff there. Here's here's
Speaker 1: another question we've got here too. This one is from Hawk.
Speaker 1: Keep Lindor in the third or Ozuna in the seventeenth.
Speaker 2: I mean those are like two different, completely scoped things.
Speaker 2: A Zuna is like just whether or not you believe.
Speaker 1: Ozuna can continue to do what he's been doing, or
Speaker 1: do you believe that Lindor continues to be a premium player.
Speaker 2: Okay, I'll give you an answer. If I'm gonna give
Speaker 2: a couple of an actually it's your job. Well I
Speaker 2: could not. I could just be like, get out of here, Hawk.
Speaker 2: If this is a low amount of keepers, I really
Speaker 2: just don't care about the discount. I'm taking Lindorf. This
Speaker 2: is like three keepers, four keepers. I'm keeping Lindor because
Speaker 2: he's the best player, middle infield, first round talent. If
Speaker 2: this is like you need to save on the discount,
Speaker 2: I guess I can't. You know what, I can't not
Speaker 2: keep Lindor here. I'm a he said, four keepers, keeping
Speaker 2: Lindor third. He's the best player. Ozuna is a really
Speaker 2: good value. I think he's gonna like, well, Lindor. I agree,
Speaker 2: it's well gonna push over the seventeenth round value. But
Speaker 2: Lindor's the play.
Speaker 1: Lindor's the play for me to give me the premium
Speaker 1: guys at a slight discount over the guys that have
Speaker 1: had good seasons. But I mean, I know Ozuna in
Speaker 1: the past too. We've seen him have good years and
Speaker 1: then disappear. You know, I don't think Lindor's disappeared. And
Speaker 1: the idea of Lindor hitting in front of one soda
Speaker 1: this year is six to midnight baby, like all day soon.
Speaker 2: It's going to destroy that rank value. But Lindor is
Speaker 2: also going to beat his and he's a first round talent,
Speaker 2: So there you go.
Speaker 1: Like that. You like concise. That's the Welsh right there.
Speaker 1: Adam points league Gunner, Henderson or Lindor. I think I
Speaker 1: know Welsh will say.
Speaker 2: Here Gunner, it's always Gunner.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I would agree here. I would agree on that
Speaker 1: one too.
Speaker 2: To Gunner and tout always Gunner.
Speaker 1: There you go, Oh so tout happened for you already.
Speaker 2: We're in it right now. I'm three rounds in sop.
Speaker 2: We're in a slow draft, OBP. I started Gunner because
Speaker 2: I took the sixth spot. I took Gunner over Jose
Speaker 2: Ramirez just for a little bit of a tiny bit
Speaker 2: of obb push, and then I decided to go crochet
Speaker 2: on the back, and then I went closer in the
Speaker 2: third round. So doing a very draft and hody type
Speaker 2: of thing.
Speaker 1: Mike was a Mike good to be back, Mike Carlos.
Speaker 1: Let's get Carlos a real thing here. So Otani and
Speaker 1: Judge are gone. Who's your number three? Bobby Wit for me?
Speaker 1: Zero chill hesitation there for me, Carlos, you ZiT o.
Speaker 2: Bobby Wit always bym Bobby Witch should be too.
Speaker 1: I was gonna say I would take him over Judge.
Speaker 1: I'm okay, I'm having some early investments this year in
Speaker 1: Bobby Witt for MVP. By the way, I'm writing this
Speaker 1: narrative about the Royals, and I think there's fatigue with
Speaker 1: Aaron Judge a little bit, just saying and I like
Speaker 1: how things are. I think Josey Ramirez and I think
Speaker 1: Bobby Witt are really intriguing, both of them because they
Speaker 1: really are the standalone guys, and I think they're gonna
Speaker 1: get a ton more of attention this year. So look
Speaker 1: at those two guys for early MVP. When you're trying
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Speaker 2: Could set it up Joe where it's like Joe and
Speaker 2: Welsh are drafting with you. You can put in Joe and
Speaker 2: Welsh's ranks. You could be powered by us, and it's
Speaker 2: like having us draft your team for better or for worse.
Speaker 1: By the way, all right, we're gonna try to bang
Speaker 1: out some more quot We did not expect this much
Speaker 1: love on February nineteenth. I gotta be honest with you,
Speaker 1: which is very exciting. It makes us very excited for
Speaker 1: what's coming here. So let's try to get through here.
Speaker 2: Christian bosses will be very happy.
Speaker 1: Is Cody Bellinger a steal at ADP. I don't want
Speaker 1: to use the word steal yet because I don't think
Speaker 1: it's quite steel, but I do think it's a value position, flexibility,
Speaker 1: love the ballpark factor for him. Two. New York's not
Speaker 1: going to be too big of a stage because Cody
Speaker 1: Bellinger does not care. So I'm in on Bellinger at
Speaker 1: his ADP. I don't know if I use the word steal.
Speaker 1: Welsh your thoughts.
Speaker 2: I'm not going to use the word steel because I
Speaker 2: think there are there's a mass quantity of first base
Speaker 2: eligible players that are going so much later than what
Speaker 2: I think their production is. Christian Walker toes the line
Speaker 2: of being a value Cassis toes the line, Josh Naylor,
Speaker 2: they're right there, and then you got Goldie Goldie in
Speaker 2: like the one forties with Bellinger in there, there's upwards
Speaker 2: of between four and six first basemen. They're just really
Speaker 2: really good value. So I'm very much into all of
Speaker 2: those guys being it. But I'm not going to single
Speaker 2: out because also Bellinger's still weird profilely stuff. We'll see
Speaker 2: if New York cures it all, but he's definitely in
Speaker 2: one of those good ones.
Speaker 1: Ark I got an answer for this question, how do you
Speaker 1: get on a mock draft live stream with the Welsh
Speaker 1: and Joey, I'll tell you by joining our discord. Go
Speaker 1: to fantasypros dot com slash chat join that bad boy,
Speaker 1: it's free, and then there's a mock draft channel in there.
Speaker 1: And then when we do the mock drafts for the shows,
Speaker 1: we'll post in there and say, hey, we need twelve
Speaker 1: people for our mock or whatever we need this. You know,
Speaker 1: high of this day, RK. If you're fast enough on
Speaker 1: the trigger, you can get in there. The football ones
Speaker 1: are insane. They literally fill in four seconds. It's crazy.
Speaker 1: So baseball you got a little bit more time. It's
Speaker 1: more like thirty to forty seconds. So you're pretty good
Speaker 1: on there. I will tag the channel in them. We've
Speaker 1: got a bunch of those coming up, so OURK get
Speaker 1: in there. Everybody again on a discord too. Also, we're
Speaker 1: gonna have some new exciting ways to watch Leading Off
Speaker 1: live this year. Stay tuned for that. It's gonna be
Speaker 1: very exciting. No, it's not on you know, CBS or
Speaker 1: ABC or any of those major networks yet Sunday. Thanks
Speaker 1: not for hit Pieza, Pa Welsh. It's gonna be amazing,
Speaker 1: all right, TJ. Two part question here for TJ. Let's say,
Speaker 1: would you keep Gilbert for a second or quant for
Speaker 1: a twenty second and then other keepers are Ramirez for
Speaker 1: a first and Sale for a ten and then the
Speaker 1: other option here. Oh no, it's the same key. Just
Speaker 1: put it in there twice. TJ just really wanted I
Speaker 1: thought there was more information there. Look, man, you've already
Speaker 1: got Jose Ramirez, You've got Sale Gilbert and Sales incredible
Speaker 1: value there, an incredible one to two punch. I would say, yes,
Speaker 1: Kwan is a nice player, but I want impact guys,
Speaker 1: and Gilbert's an impact guy.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, Yeah, a best piece of strategy. This is
Speaker 2: at least just for me. If you have a small
Speaker 2: keeper set up anywhere from one to four, five toes
Speaker 2: of the line, I'm keeping the best players. I don't
Speaker 2: worry about money values.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 2: If you play in a keeper that's like eight, and
Speaker 2: I know eight is you're inching closer to dynasty, but
Speaker 2: you're not quite there. Eight. I'm going to care more
Speaker 2: about my values, Like, holy crap, now I have picks,
Speaker 2: you know whatever, three through five. If I'm only keeping
Speaker 2: three players or two players or four players. I'm really
Speaker 2: going to be more hyper focused on the best because
Speaker 2: Kwan and Gilbert are I think Kwan's a really good
Speaker 2: piece for your fantasy team this year. They're not close
Speaker 2: the best player. Go in with Sale Gilbert and uh,
Speaker 2: come on, you're gonna feel really good. You're gonna get an.
Speaker 1: MVP and tu Cy Young's I mean that had to
Speaker 1: help a way to start any league. I don't care
Speaker 1: what it'll be solid the big dance, I can't tell.
Speaker 1: I think it's just a little Debbie will Ferrell picture,
Speaker 1: but it could be a little I don't think it's
Speaker 1: a Jackson Holiday little Debbie.
Speaker 2: I make this really big. Let's see that is? I
Speaker 2: think little? Yeah, I think that's just a not so little.
Speaker 1: To not so little Debbie. ESPN. The ten team Rodo
Speaker 1: Keeper League can select up to ten current keeper selected
Speaker 1: Albe's Gestures and Cheerio Harris, James Wood Wheeler, Nola Schwellenbach.
Speaker 1: I could also keep Devin Williams, Royce or Heal. So
Speaker 1: who do you want to keep?
Speaker 2: So we got to add two of the three. That's
Speaker 2: how we could have asked the question. Two of these
Speaker 2: keep Devin Williams I know you have Wheeler Nola's don't do.
Speaker 1: You dirty, little minx. You you want to keep Lewis and
Speaker 1: get all dirty and twenty twenty five, I know you do.
Speaker 2: Now, I really don't making him super gross. I like Royce.
Speaker 2: He's super gross. Now. I just did a show and x.
Speaker 1: FIP and all those numbers are screamingshion this year screaming.
Speaker 2: The only thing I want to throw out is I
Speaker 2: did a show go check it out in this league
Speaker 2: where we did ranks, and we looked at all the
Speaker 2: ranks across the board, and there's a couple spots where
Speaker 2: Royce is ranked really high. I believe ESPN might be
Speaker 2: the spot that has him like crazy, crazy high. You
Speaker 2: already have three pitchers and that I think I would
Speaker 2: go with Royce and just seeing if he bounces back.
Speaker 2: I kind of think everybody hates heal a little too much.
Speaker 2: There's still big strikeout potential, but I probably would go
Speaker 2: with Royce on that one. And Devin Williams is a
Speaker 2: no brainer.
Speaker 1: All the original little Debbie right here. Oh boy, I'm
Speaker 1: looking for a bounce back. It's my second year in
Speaker 1: the league and things are gonna go much better than
Speaker 1: last year, I'm Jackson.
Speaker 2: Holiday, I'm the starting second base.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be so much better. Guys, you can depend
Speaker 1: on me this year. It's gonna be great. He's so energetic.
Speaker 1: I love that about him. Just an energetic guy. You
Speaker 1: know what, We need the energy here to do baseball season.
Speaker 1: It's a long season. It's a fresh season here. Ezekiel Tovar,
Speaker 1: Freddie wants to know what's the ceiling look like. Hey,
Speaker 1: Tovar was one of my guys last year, and I
Speaker 1: was very pleased. I thought he would be solid, and
Speaker 1: he was. He was well out performing as ADP. I
Speaker 1: think we just saw last year is pretty much what
Speaker 1: you're going to get again until the lineup gets better
Speaker 1: around him, like until things really start to pop for
Speaker 1: this offense. And I don't necessarily know that's going to happen.
Speaker 1: Mayetolia happens, and you know, Doyle has another good season
Speaker 1: and it can collectively rise him a little bit more.
Speaker 1: But I think we just saw last year is what
Speaker 1: you should expect to be buying it. I wouldn't be
Speaker 1: buying him thinking there's another level quite yet to Tovar.
Speaker 1: What do you think?
Speaker 2: Wesh, Yeah, I'm not sure like there's a part of
Speaker 2: me that my reaction was going to be, like it's
Speaker 2: like a Carlos Korea ish type, Like he runs a
Speaker 2: little bit more, but his running regressed. He was single
Speaker 2: digitsolen bases last year the power went up. You know,
Speaker 2: he uses Colorado to a decent degree. He doesn't have
Speaker 2: crazy home road splits, but he also doesn't walk. So
Speaker 2: I actually think you're looking like the ceiling is a
Speaker 2: little bit more. I would say it's thirty ten, thirty
Speaker 2: ten with like a two seventy five average, which is
Speaker 2: really good. Maybe you're starting to become Willia Damas. Maybe
Speaker 2: Willia Damas would be the ceiling for him. I'm just
Speaker 2: not so sure we get there because he still is
Speaker 2: like a frickin' whiff king thirty three point five percent
Speaker 2: whiff rate, it was bottom ten percentile of the league.
Speaker 2: He doesn't walk. Those things are not good. So I
Speaker 2: think you're kind of sealing it seeing it. But the
Speaker 2: ceiling is like a thirty ten.
Speaker 1: Great question for Christian Hernandez, what round are you guys
Speaker 1: taking your first closer? And I don't want to say
Speaker 1: round necessarily, but the pool that I'm swimming in, and
Speaker 1: you'll see it on the mock drafts. It's the Ben Joyce, Fairbanks,
Speaker 1: Jordan Romano. I want that last here because the worst
Speaker 1: thing you can do is overpay for the guys in
Speaker 1: the middle. I'm just gonna wait get that bottom third group.
Speaker 1: I'll get two guys there and then I'll play the
Speaker 1: waiver wire. Welsh just took one now in the first round.
Speaker 1: He's he's dead.
Speaker 2: I didn't take it in the first round.
Speaker 3: I did.
Speaker 2: I want to say that I'm more likely in eighty
Speaker 2: percent of my leagues, I'm gonna probably go later. I'm
Speaker 2: gonna be looking at like the Andris Munnos. Maybe I
Speaker 2: take one a little bit higher. I'll take like a
Speaker 2: somewhere between closer eight and twelve, and then maybe i'll
Speaker 2: take like one more between like fifteen and twenty. I
Speaker 2: like Jordan Romano. Ryan Walker just got confirmed on his
Speaker 2: closing role and then a later one, so I'm a
Speaker 2: little bit more invested. But in tout draft and Hold,
Speaker 2: I just took Emmanuel Classe in the third round because
Speaker 2: it's a fifteen team industry. I had a huge swing
Speaker 2: coming back. Draft and Holder a little bit different. So
Speaker 2: it's sometimes league dependent. Most of the time, it's gonna
Speaker 2: be later investments around is kind of tough to say.
Speaker 2: I don't know, like probably like the eighth or ninth
Speaker 2: or something like that. Love this.
Speaker 1: I prepared all this other stuff thinking that, you know,
Speaker 1: it's just gonna be you made today, and look at
Speaker 1: all these people, look at all.
Speaker 2: This, No, we gotta roll questions. Maybe I love this Sean.
Speaker 1: Malone, Churio or Altuve for Dynasty three Outfielder League and
Speaker 1: already have Judge and Julio, So so what have a
Speaker 1: great out field? Have three number one outfielders? Don't invest
Speaker 1: in guys who are in their mid thirties, you know,
Speaker 1: at this stage in their careers. I just I don't
Speaker 1: think it's necessary. Show like I understand the thought process
Speaker 1: which are like, hey, I've already got to elite outfielders
Speaker 1: in theory, but Julio again needs to put together a
Speaker 1: whole good season. I would be having Julio, I'll be
Speaker 1: having Cherio, I'll be having Judge and not overthinking this one.
Speaker 1: How about you Welsh?
Speaker 2: It's not even close. I also like that it's he
Speaker 2: was spelled similar to the tasty long treat of a chiro. Ah,
Speaker 2: have you had it? When the last time he had
Speaker 2: a churo.
Speaker 1: Actually, I will tell you. First of all, I love cheero's.
Speaker 1: Second of all, there's a breakfast place near me, Bridgewater Cafe.
Speaker 1: Shout out a Bridgewater Cafe. Maybe they'll give me a DiscT.
Speaker 1: Probably not, but great breakfast spot. They do a little
Speaker 1: like dessert breakfast thing where it's like a churo bowl.
Speaker 1: It's a bowl made out of churros basically, and they
Speaker 1: put the vanilla ice cream in there. Oh it's so good.
Speaker 2: Well that sounds amazing. I feel like my history with cheerros.
Speaker 2: I haven't had one in forever. I'm like, oh my god,
Speaker 2: that looks great, and then I have it and I'm
Speaker 2: like that was underwhelming. So I haven't had one.
Speaker 1: And in Philly great place too, a Mexican restaurant that
Speaker 1: I like to go to in Philadelphia where on the
Speaker 1: menu they have a churro that's got chocolate piped inside
Speaker 1: of it too, so when you open it up or
Speaker 1: you bite into it, it's like oozing chocolate. Yeah. I mean,
Speaker 1: I would think we out in Arizona. You're getting good cheerros.
Speaker 1: What the hell's going on? Man?
Speaker 2: I haven't had one a long time, don't know I
Speaker 2: shall look around.
Speaker 1: I don't know. You gotta get out more.
Speaker 2: We got cheerio, We got cheerio.
Speaker 1: Not enough churros here on the show. We're gonna get more.
Speaker 1: All right, let's get a Scott's question here, Hunter Brown, Glass,
Speaker 1: Now Freed or Louis Castillo need to e ra a
Speaker 1: whip K's wins and quality starts.
Speaker 2: These are good choices.
Speaker 1: So this is the wheel of health, is what this
Speaker 1: is with Freed and Glass.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 2: I love Glass.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 2: My problem for Glass now here is to me, he
Speaker 2: is a de gram light And what I mean by
Speaker 2: that is no. But this is what I mean by
Speaker 2: it is South funny.
Speaker 1: I just you just call it me, that's all.
Speaker 2: When he's pitching, he's incredible. He's like a top twelve
Speaker 2: sp But the injury things are out there. So for
Speaker 2: me personally, I'm taking the upside of Glass. Now, I'm
Speaker 2: not interested in Max Freed in New York. Hunter Brown
Speaker 2: definitely could be the pick. I think I might go
Speaker 2: safety with Luis Castillo. There's some trade rumors out there,
Speaker 2: but you're still in one of the best ballparks. Tiny
Speaker 2: ish regressiony stuff, but like I love the staff. They
Speaker 2: did pick up a few pieces on offense, the ballpark
Speaker 2: is gonna maintain some stuff. I think Castillo actually provide
Speaker 2: you a little bit of a floor. Glass now is
Speaker 2: a huge upside. Hunter Brown is probably the best upside
Speaker 2: without the injury like Glass Now. But I'm gonna take
Speaker 2: it upside as Glass Now floors Castillo. I wouldn't kill
Speaker 2: you if he did. Hunter Brown and Castillo either, but
Speaker 2: I'm just a my glass down.
Speaker 1: So Freed is the outside looking in.
Speaker 2: Yeah, freeda isn't He's fourth on this list to me?
Speaker 1: I agree, this would that would be my three as
Speaker 1: well if you throw out. And again, when I wrote
Speaker 1: up the Black Book Picture Profiles, you know, digging deep
Speaker 1: into Hunter Brown season, God, that first month was just
Speaker 1: so bad. We're talking about e Rain, You're six. I mean,
Speaker 1: people are dropping him. The rest of the year was
Speaker 1: magical for that guy. The Houston Ashers are still gonna
Speaker 1: be a competitive team. Uh So, Castillo and Brown definitely
Speaker 1: for me, and then Freedom Glass. So it is it
Speaker 1: is just rolling the dice with the health of those guys.
Speaker 1: I'll roll the dice with the Dodger guy and just hope,
Speaker 1: I mean, we'll ever see one hundred and eighty inning
Speaker 1: season from Tyler Glasstan Welsh.
Speaker 2: Ever, I mean, if we do, we'll probably never see
Speaker 2: another season after that. The arm will just like strassog
Speaker 2: esque too.
Speaker 1: It's like, you know, we're you're just waiting and waiting,
Speaker 1: and he has that one glorious year and it puts
Speaker 1: it all together. But it's tough. Here's a good one
Speaker 1: from Adam Devers, Riley or Machado and why oh oh,
Speaker 1: Adam Taskmaster look at.
Speaker 2: Very aggressive there. I would go with Raphael Devers on
Speaker 2: this one. Why I know it's very aggressive. I love
Speaker 2: the ballpark. He is the third baseman. By the way,
Speaker 2: They've got more run support in front. I'm not gonna
Speaker 2: whether he's hitting in front of Bregman or Bregman's hitting
Speaker 2: in front of him. There's more run support. Duran, you know,
Speaker 2: took such a big step up. You've got a crazy amount.
Speaker 2: If you're looking at his hitting profile of like top ten,
Speaker 2: top five percent tile of the league, one of the best,
Speaker 2: and hard hit, thirteen percent barrel rate batting average, his
Speaker 2: expected batting average supported his actual batting average. So you've
Speaker 2: got high average, high runs, high RBI, high homers. I
Speaker 2: think Riley has some of that with some injury stuff,
Speaker 2: and Machado's on the I think he's looking in on
Speaker 2: both of these two guys. To me, this is Devers,
Speaker 2: Riley and then Machato. I think Riley and Devers could
Speaker 2: be maybe a coin flip. And maybe you don't like
Speaker 2: Devers because of the weird stuff going on. Maybe the
Speaker 2: team throws him at DH and then he struggles mentally,
Speaker 2: like I could see all that stuff. But I think
Speaker 2: Devers has been just a pillar of consistency and him
Speaker 2: and Riley are a big coin flip.
Speaker 1: Like I'm Devers too, but in a draft, if you're
Speaker 1: gonna get Machado cheaper than the three and around later, Okay, Yeah,
Speaker 1: if you talk about value, I'm looking at it from
Speaker 1: the value of taking into account what you just said
Speaker 1: about dev which is is he a little frustrated, is
Speaker 1: he a little annoyed? Is he you know, is he
Speaker 1: taking this personally? Okay, Devers is the choice for me too.
Speaker 1: But if I can just wait another round and pick
Speaker 1: up a chaddo, I'll do that. And typically you can.
Speaker 1: Here's one from Linden Ozuna or Rooker for head hand
Speaker 1: Redraft League.
Speaker 2: So in Redraft, I love Rooker, I like, how'm I
Speaker 2: don't find myself taking a lot of Ozuna, To be
Speaker 2: honest with you, there are a couple of util players
Speaker 2: out there that get that out. But like I don't
Speaker 2: even necessarily care about the minor league ballpark. There are
Speaker 2: some openings there. Left field is five feet shorter, so
Speaker 2: that's going to be a benefit for Brent Rooker. I
Speaker 2: believe centerfield is either the same or five feet shorter. Also,
Speaker 2: you've got a warmer weather, so the ball could travel
Speaker 2: a little bit. And those are just things that are
Speaker 2: propping up a guy that just hit almost three hundred
Speaker 2: with almost forty homers and eleven stolen bases. I think
Speaker 2: his profile is really great. I'd love for the strikeouts
Speaker 2: to come down, but I think everything is shining. I
Speaker 2: kind of want to take him in tout coming up
Speaker 2: here pretty soon, even if it's a fourth or fifth
Speaker 2: round pick. So this is a really easy Britain Rooker.
Speaker 2: You should always like how people used to treat stolen bases.
Speaker 2: I kind of think you should treat power given the opportunity.
Speaker 2: And Rooker comes with average, which is really nice.
Speaker 1: Rooker is going like this right now, and I think
Speaker 1: Ozuna is already at that plateau. And for those of
Speaker 1: you for listen, yeah yeah, you tell only. But also
Speaker 1: you know, I think, like I said, who has the
Speaker 1: bigger opportunity to maybe drop off next year? I don't
Speaker 1: think it's Rooker. I think it would be Ozuna that one.
Speaker 1: That's how I'm looking at that situation of the two.
Speaker 1: Let's get one more in here from a fellow Joe.
Speaker 1: Joe wants to know Joe Newell, Guys, I have to
Speaker 1: keep one of the following pitchers, Schwelly Ober or Bryce Miller.
Speaker 1: Please advise. This is a tough one. It's Ober for me.
Speaker 1: I like where the trend is going. The XCR was
Speaker 1: better than the era last year. I feel like Welsh
Speaker 1: is gonna say Schwellenbach there. But I don't know if
Speaker 1: there's a wrong answer here. I think this is just
Speaker 1: what you think of these players. Swellenbach was very solid
Speaker 1: after a little bit of a shaky begin to the season,
Speaker 1: and I think Bryce Miller is still very good. I
Speaker 1: think Miller waiting for that next gear to kick in there,
Speaker 1: and maybe it will and maybe it won't. In twenty
Speaker 1: twenty five, Where are you going? If you got one
Speaker 1: pick here? Joe yeah, I should say.
Speaker 2: I was about to say, are you asking yourself, Joe?
Speaker 2: Are you talking in the third person?
Speaker 1: So when you're thinking about all of the Joe's out
Speaker 1: there and you're thinking about the pitching options, Joe, No,
Speaker 1: But what do you think wash about this?
Speaker 2: Who are we taking? Ricky? Who's Ricky? Well?
Speaker 1: Ricky?
Speaker 2: Ricky's going to answer this? I miss Ricky. They're all
Speaker 2: between like six picks of each other in ECR. By
Speaker 2: the way ranks, Bryce Miller is the number one OBErs
Speaker 2: number two, Schwellenbach is three. I I think Bryce Miller
Speaker 2: is the safest. I actually talked to Brace Miller. I
Speaker 2: got to get out to a camp and he's adding
Speaker 2: a third and I joked with him because if anyone
Speaker 2: has following my content, I talked to him two years
Speaker 2: ago and he said, I've got two sliders now, and
Speaker 2: he's like, I'm throwing the bullet and I'm throwing the sweeper,
Speaker 2: and he explained it. Now this year he's throwing a
Speaker 2: cutter and that's like there's very of a cutter into
Speaker 2: a slider. So it's like he's got the cutter, he's
Speaker 2: got the the bullet, which is like a more punch.
Speaker 2: It's just like, how many versions of this same pitch
Speaker 2: are you going to keep throwing? What I'm getting at
Speaker 2: is I love the tinkering he maintains low eras you
Speaker 2: know this, the split finger could be more of a
Speaker 2: strikeout pitch if he could get it there. I think
Speaker 2: he's this safe option here. My ceiling plays Schwellenbach, though
Speaker 2: I am in love with Schwellenbach high with and K percentages,
Speaker 2: throws ten five pitches ten percentile more of the or
Speaker 2: more of the time. I think the K numbers are
Speaker 2: going to rise. I think he has a chance to
Speaker 2: be like a top twenty sp They're all close enough
Speaker 2: that maybe I could just saye Schwellenbach. But I do
Speaker 2: think Bryce Miller's value is like right there and ironically
Speaker 2: over to me is the third of that list. So
Speaker 2: you make your choice, follow Joe, follow safety, or follow
Speaker 2: my upside.
Speaker 1: One more for you for Trevor, because I know we'll
Speaker 1: have the bug Trevor to come on draft shows in
Speaker 1: the next three weeks. Uh, you have a Moto for
Speaker 1: eighteen dollars or urroghetty for three YEA, agreed, So there
Speaker 1: you go, two for two.
Speaker 2: I mean the getty the good strikeout numbers and that
Speaker 2: that rotation might be a good value. But yeah, my
Speaker 2: motor's price isn't like too much.
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Speaker 1: doesn't like funny in something we found out, So I'll
Speaker 1: have to bring some other kind What chips you to
Speaker 1: bring into the draft?
Speaker 3: Welsh?
Speaker 2: Doritos, well, I will.
Speaker 1: I saw the cheeseburger flavored Dorito's in the store the
Speaker 1: other day and I was a little curious, but then
Speaker 1: I did not pick them up.
Speaker 2: I think the mainstay is is Cheddar, but cool ranch
Speaker 2: is like one. I like nacho cheese, like nacho cheese. Yeah, sorry,
Speaker 2: you cheese. I mean it's the stuff you.
Speaker 1: Doing out there.
Speaker 2: I will say though the cheese sun chips or the
Speaker 2: cheddar the harvest cheddar yard, yes, are super super underrated.
Speaker 1: Can I?
Speaker 2: I love this request that was out here before you
Speaker 2: get us out of here? In apologies, we didn't answer
Speaker 2: everybody's question, but I think there's a great way we
Speaker 2: should leave this show. Okay, and the Goose says, will
Speaker 2: the leading off theme song be back this year? And
Speaker 2: if you guys don't know, maybe some draft people don't
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Speaker 1: Think Seth, nobody need it. You know you can get
Speaker 1: rid of Mike's comment here take that down because we
Speaker 1: don't have a close screen today. So maybe we'll say goodbye,
Speaker 1: play the theme song and get out here.
Speaker 2: I think so.
Speaker 1: I think so do all right, that'll do it for us.
Speaker 1: I'll play the theme song, Seth, you just sit back
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