Speaker 1: Welcome in everybody to Fantasy pros MLB. This is the
Speaker 1: Fantasy Baseball podcast. It is me, Joey p Joe Pi's
Speaker 1: with me is the Welsh. We've got real baseball happening
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Speaker 1: is incredibly important, perhaps some might say even the most
Speaker 1: important show of the season. That's right, it's the all
Speaker 1: sleeper team. We're gonna talk about this and Welsh. This
Speaker 1: feels right. We're talking about sleepers baseball. That counts as back.
Speaker 1: Royce Lewis is hurt. It feels like we're in the
Speaker 1: thick of the season.
Speaker 2: Everything is normal. You're one hundred percent right about that.
Speaker 2: Someone had a friend texts me like, oh man, it's
Speaker 2: March and Royce Lewis gets hurt. It's baseball season. I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 2: he gets hurt in March, April, May, June, July. It
Speaker 2: all seems about the same. But you're one hundred percent rights.
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Speaker 2: actual baseball. Royce Lewis is hurt. All is kind of
Speaker 2: right in the world.
Speaker 1: I saw an amazing stat this morning when I got up,
Speaker 1: I was going to the gym and I heard I
Speaker 1: heard this come through there where it was twenty four
Speaker 1: games I think combined, where Carlos Corea, Byron Buxton and
Speaker 1: Royce Lewis were all on the field at the same
Speaker 1: time last year for the Twins. By the way, kids,
Speaker 1: the Twins are still at the top of the board
Speaker 1: for that division. I don't understand why the Cleveland Guardians
Speaker 1: eighty two and a half is the win total last
Speaker 1: year they won ninety three games. Are they ten games
Speaker 1: worse than last year? I don't think so. Smash that over.
Speaker 1: It's still plus. That's from Uncle Joey. Let's get into
Speaker 1: the all sleeper team here. Where we got the catcher,
Speaker 1: we got the infield, we got three outfielders, a couple
Speaker 1: starting pitchers, and of course a relief pitcher. We're going
Speaker 1: to go through these names on our list, but we
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Speaker 2: Also, thinking about this last year on this show that
Speaker 2: we did, we ha's some pretty great names and if
Speaker 2: you think back to the you know, the names and
Speaker 2: the values we had. Jaron Duran was on this as
Speaker 2: Jackson Merrill, I believe was on my sleeper list at
Speaker 2: that time, so you know, we didn't hit all of them.
Speaker 2: Of course, I probably had the all bust team of
Speaker 2: Logan Gill, which is lol sleeper.
Speaker 3: But we got some.
Speaker 2: We got some good ones today and I just want
Speaker 2: to let everybody know I'm going to go deeper on this.
Speaker 2: I've kind of bounced around with sleepers. I think the
Speaker 2: term sleeper is always kind of goofy because you know,
Speaker 2: there's so much information out there, there's so many people
Speaker 2: curating that it's like everybody kind of knows everybody. But
Speaker 2: I don't think the term sleeper has to just be
Speaker 2: post four hundred or three hundred players. So I've kind
Speaker 2: of bounced around just to let everybody know some guys
Speaker 2: that are even in, like you know, the one fifties
Speaker 2: that I think are still being slept on. But today
Speaker 2: I went with a deeper list. I think I've got
Speaker 2: only one player. I think technically it's two that are
Speaker 2: inside the top two fifty, but one is like right there.
Speaker 2: Otherwise we're talking threes and four hundred. This is the
Speaker 2: deep all Welsh sleeper team for me.
Speaker 1: I think I go one sub two hundred ADP guy.
Speaker 1: Everybody else's twos and threes. So let's get after it.
Speaker 1: Let's get after the names, and let's start at the
Speaker 1: catcher position. Here, we're going to go around the dime
Speaker 1: in here, Wels, who is your sleeper catcher for twenty
Speaker 1: twenty five.
Speaker 2: Well, there's a lot of names I like to draft.
Speaker 2: I think your name is probably the top guy in
Speaker 2: the sleeper market. The guy I'm drafting the most and
Speaker 2: the All Welsh team is Austin Wells. Wilson Gatres. Austin Wells,
Speaker 2: who I've talked about. Your guy is probably the top
Speaker 2: of the sleeper list. But I got one more for
Speaker 2: you in two catcher leagues that I was trying to
Speaker 2: take in a lot of spots, and this is a
Speaker 2: deeper name. ADP almost in the three hundreds at two ninety,
Speaker 2: probably being held up a little bit by like NFBC.
Speaker 2: But I'm going with Joey Bart throwback Joey Bart with
Speaker 2: Pittsburgh Pirates, who looks like he's kind of locked in
Speaker 2: to be the catcher this year. Obviously they've got Henry Davis.
Speaker 2: Henry Davis also can kind of move around play outfield positionally,
Speaker 2: But Joey Bart's having a great spring. He's hitting three
Speaker 2: point fifty seven. We're seeing a bunch of power three
Speaker 2: homers so far this spring and a six to eight
Speaker 2: walk to strikeout ratio, So I mean, you're just seeing really,
Speaker 2: really good contact numbers. He's going to be the primary catcher.
Speaker 2: He had a pretty good run at the end of
Speaker 2: last season as well, in totally had thirteen homers with
Speaker 2: the two sixty five average in like two hundred and
Speaker 2: fifty at bats last season as a whole, so I'm
Speaker 2: really feeling good about that. He ended the season with
Speaker 2: a two eighty average post All Star, breaking around just
Speaker 2: under two hundred at bats, he had seven homers, two
Speaker 2: eighty three p forty OVP. He's carrying a good season,
Speaker 2: a good second half of the season over into a
Speaker 2: really good spring on a Pirates team that I think
Speaker 2: is kind of sneaky, you know, pending where they end
Speaker 2: up putting him. There's some prime RBI opportunities with guys
Speaker 2: like Brian Reynolds and Onnell Cruz. I really like the
Speaker 2: prospects of Joey Bart potentially being able to push to
Speaker 2: be a top twelve catcher, if.
Speaker 3: Not in two catcher leagues. He is my sleeper catcher.
Speaker 1: I like this one. And I love the post type
Speaker 1: guys too. We heard about Joey Bart for so many years,
Speaker 1: and sometimes it doesn't work out. You know, it's funny.
Speaker 1: I think for a lot of hitters too, getting out
Speaker 1: of San Francisco tends to be a good thing. I
Speaker 1: always wondered what Brandon Belt would have looked like if
Speaker 1: he played somewhere else back in the day, Right, remember
Speaker 1: Brandon when he.
Speaker 2: Was young enough, because he went and played. I think
Speaker 2: it was like Toronto and I just did no.
Speaker 1: I mean, like like in his prime, like early days,
Speaker 1: before all the injuries and stuff. I was like, man,
Speaker 1: we can just get this guy out of San Francisco.
Speaker 1: What would he look like? Yeah, the Toronto days by Yeah,
Speaker 1: he was a beat up old man.
Speaker 3: I can't do the neck thing. He had the biggest nets,
Speaker 3: like a giraffe.
Speaker 1: Not as much as Mike Glennon, but you know, I digress.
Speaker 1: My catcher is Ivan Herrera. No surprise here from the
Speaker 1: Saint Louis Cardinals. Talk about a good spring. He's having one,
Speaker 1: hitting three forty eight with a four to eighty four
Speaker 1: OBP twelve twenty three ops. He's got a homer in
Speaker 1: about thirty one played appearances as of recording this look.
Speaker 1: Last year he hit three hundred three to seventy two OBP.
Speaker 1: It's not a joke, it's not a fluke. He was
Speaker 1: a two eighty hitter in the minor leagues, a three
Speaker 1: ninety two OBP. And I think he could do a
Speaker 1: lot worse. Is he gonna have enormous power? No, it's
Speaker 1: not gonna be his game. But especially in roatle leagues
Speaker 1: where you're trying to make up some ground and batting average,
Speaker 1: what a great opportunity to do it from the catcher spot,
Speaker 1: you know. I mean, you can find some guys that
Speaker 1: will hit your twenty home runs at catcher. Finding a
Speaker 1: guy who's gonna get three hundred it's a little bit
Speaker 1: tougher to find. And now that Hivan Herrera is going
Speaker 1: to be the main guy over there, I think he
Speaker 1: is a tremendous selection here.
Speaker 2: Well we hope that's what we hope. The only thing
Speaker 2: that the Cardinals get funky sometime. Pedro Pejas is kind
Speaker 2: of floating around there. But like Herrera is the guy.
Speaker 2: And as I mentioned, this is a guy that I
Speaker 2: would have picked for this had you not, because I
Speaker 2: think like his underlying bad skills are going to be
Speaker 2: able to hold off Pedro Payos from being like any
Speaker 2: any type of the main guy. Well, they need also
Speaker 2: just not come.
Speaker 1: In more of the Cardinals later in the show. We'll
Speaker 1: talk about that my first basement. And I know we
Speaker 1: you know some leagues he's DH, but I'm going to
Speaker 1: bend the rules a little bit here. The man child,
Speaker 1: Kyle Manzardo. We've been waiting for this guy, you know,
Speaker 1: came up through the Tampa system. We talk about, you know,
Speaker 1: spring training doesn't mean anything except for the players that
Speaker 1: means everything to and I think Kyle Manzarro is one
Speaker 1: where it means something. You know, last year he was
Speaker 1: really kind of getting his feet wet here with the
Speaker 1: Cleveland Guardians. This year, he's going to be hitting right
Speaker 1: after Jose Ramirez. He's going to have a lot of
Speaker 1: opportunities to drive in runs. Huan's ahead of him as
Speaker 1: well in this lineup. This is a good spot here
Speaker 1: for Manzardo and soar the spring. The adjustments that he's
Speaker 1: made this offseason, He's talked at length about them. I've
Speaker 1: seen a few interviews with Manzarro. They're working hit in
Speaker 1: three sixty eight with a ten to seventy three ops
Speaker 1: currently three homers and seven RBI. Now he's going to
Speaker 1: strike out a little bit, but Welsh, you know, if
Speaker 1: you're looking for some power at the corner spots here
Speaker 1: or utility spots depending on your league rules, I think
Speaker 1: Manzardo is a guy that can give that to you.
Speaker 1: I could see a path for him to hit twenty
Speaker 1: five thirty homers this year. I love the spot in
Speaker 1: the batting order that matters. Who matters to you as
Speaker 1: a sleeper. Potentially, Manzarto is the thirty seventh first basement
Speaker 1: off the board three forty seven overall. Who is your
Speaker 1: first baseman? Because he is even deeper than mine.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is the deepest play. I've talked a lot
Speaker 2: about him. I would have picked common Zarto too. I
Speaker 2: think that was a good one. But the guy I've
Speaker 2: been talking a lot about qualifies it's potential in some places,
Speaker 2: maybe just outfield, he also does qualify in first base
Speaker 2: in some spots. It's Arizona Diamondbacks Peven Smith, and this
Speaker 2: has been one I've been pretty vocal about. He has
Speaker 2: got an a four fifty nine. This is eightyp's I
Speaker 2: pulled up I don't remember if this is rank or ADPs,
Speaker 2: but it's post four hundred either way. And I've again
Speaker 2: I've talked at length about, you know, the spot where
Speaker 2: he gets to be the strong side platoon guy. He's
Speaker 2: their new Jock Peterson, and he played like Jock Peterson.
Speaker 2: Great contact numbers, high contact rate, good fiftieth percentile evs
Speaker 2: of over one hundred versus Righty's, which is the strong
Speaker 2: side platoon he'll go against.
Speaker 3: Last year, he.
Speaker 2: Hit two point eighty two, crushed eight homers in just
Speaker 2: over one hundred at bats. He also played appearances. He
Speaker 2: also hit two seventy two in the second half last season.
Speaker 2: And as long as they make the commitment to keeping
Speaker 2: him in the strong side platoon, which they've pretty much done,
Speaker 2: then you know, if he gets four hundred and fifty
Speaker 2: plate appearances, you might see twenty plus homers out of him.
Speaker 2: He's super cheap, he's absolutely free. He might have multi
Speaker 2: position qualifications. And the only worry that's out there is
Speaker 2: you've got Randall Gritchick, who's going to play the small
Speaker 2: side platoon. And then if they try to mess around
Speaker 2: and if they just say, well you want lords to
Speaker 2: come out of the you know, the outfield, and maybe
Speaker 2: DH maybe that takes a few at bats, but it
Speaker 2: does seem like they're pretty committed to it. And he's
Speaker 2: had a good spring as well. He's hitting two seventy three,
Speaker 2: He's got a couple homers, walks and strikeouts are there.
Speaker 2: It's just a very solid spring that I think they
Speaker 2: feel comfortable with it.
Speaker 3: He is three.
Speaker 2: Ninety nine, and if he does what Jock Peterson did
Speaker 2: last season, we're I mean, we're talking about more than
Speaker 2: doubling his fantasy values.
Speaker 3: So he is my deep sleeper at first base this year.
Speaker 1: Let's continue on the diamond second base. Welsh, who do
Speaker 1: you have all.
Speaker 3: Right over at second base?
Speaker 2: Scrolling back to it, I was actually shocked that you
Speaker 2: didn't pick this guy. I am going with Thiro Estrada,
Speaker 2: thiro Strada with the Colorado Rockies. I'm glad that you
Speaker 2: left him for me, because you know, picking like deeper
Speaker 2: names are not quite there.
Speaker 3: Obviously, speaking of guy's right.
Speaker 1: You want to get out of San Francisco and see
Speaker 1: what they could do in a place like Colorado. I
Speaker 1: mean that's pretty fun. Wasn't stampfl wasn't this one of
Speaker 1: his guys? On the U. I want to say, what's
Speaker 1: in Fantasy Fest? Right?
Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1: He was in my mix. I felt like, well, Frank
Speaker 1: talked about him. I don't want to talk about I'm
Speaker 1: glad you talked about him because I was gonna pick him.
Speaker 1: But in case you missed it, any of the Fantasy Fest,
Speaker 1: you can go back and watch it on the YouTube channel.
Speaker 1: We've got all the channel up there now, the playlist
Speaker 1: rather yeah, so that's all available so you can get
Speaker 1: if you haven't done any research, you haven't done any work,
Speaker 1: you can go watch that for two hours, three hours
Speaker 1: and just get like ready to go for all of
Speaker 1: your drafts. Got a great group of guests on there.
Speaker 1: But well, let's get back to estrata, because I know
Speaker 1: what Frank was talking about was, Hey, this was a
Speaker 1: guy who was really consistent last year, was very injured.
Speaker 1: Now he finds himself in Colorado and all of a
Speaker 1: sudden with a lot more upside and zero cost.
Speaker 2: Well, you talk about previous consistency, so let's throw out
Speaker 2: twenty twenty four, which it's a little bit revisionist, but whatever,
Speaker 2: he was injured the previous two seasons he had hit
Speaker 2: fourteen homers. In each of those seasons and stolen more
Speaker 2: than twenty bases in both of those seasons. Now go
Speaker 2: put him in the friendliest hitting ballpark in all of baseball.
Speaker 2: That's a really good sign. This spring also really great.
Speaker 2: He's hitting four hundred so far this spring. Solid the
Speaker 2: stolen base He's got a couple stolen bases in there,
Speaker 2: and based on that lineup, yeah, he could hit lower
Speaker 2: in it, but there's opportunities where they could pop him
Speaker 2: up higher. I think he's gonna be aggressive on the
Speaker 2: base paths. He's got an opportunity to be in that lineup,
Speaker 2: and if I can get even ten twenty, or if
Speaker 2: he plays out how he used to be, you could
Speaker 2: be looking at fifteen twenty five at an ADP that
Speaker 2: is outside the top three hundred. He's the thirty second
Speaker 2: second baseman. It is outside three nineteen. So far, he's free,
Speaker 2: and I think he's a great, great bet. We're not
Speaker 2: really chasing stolen bases quite like we used to before,
Speaker 2: but second base can get a little eh, it can
Speaker 2: get a little bit questionable when you get deeper. This
Speaker 2: is a guy with a full opportunity power potential could
Speaker 2: come up in Colorado and there's no reason they're not
Speaker 2: going to steal. You saw Brenton Doyle do it. I
Speaker 2: think you'll see thyro Astrata do it as well.
Speaker 1: My second basement is actually not gonna be playing much
Speaker 1: second base this year. He's moving to first base for
Speaker 1: the Detroit Tigers, and he's being drafted currently very late
Speaker 1: at two thirty nine overall the twenty third second baseman
Speaker 1: going off the board Cold Keith. So he's moving to
Speaker 1: first base, knocking Spencer Toorkles and out of that shot
Speaker 1: and into now the DH spot. And I just want
Speaker 1: to say, you know, the Tigers over the years have
Speaker 1: invested a lot of time, energy and money in Spencer
Speaker 1: Toarkles in so if Cold Keith is bouncing him from
Speaker 1: his everyday position, they guess what y'all should be paying
Speaker 1: attention to this.
Speaker 2: I'm shocked at Charcolson, by the way, has not been
Speaker 2: traded to because they're talking about lah Henry mLOY playing's
Speaker 2: backup at first like he's done, he's cook cooked.
Speaker 1: Well, we shall see. But right now, Cold Keith's slayd
Speaker 1: to hit fifth right now in that Tiger's lineup, which
Speaker 1: is actually pretty decent because he's going to have this
Speaker 1: Riley Green, Glaber, Torres, Kerry Carpenter mix ahead of him.
Speaker 1: Lineup placements really good for him. Again, I'm a big
Speaker 1: guy about lineup placement when it comes to productivity in fantasy.
Speaker 1: I think it's something that is under discussed a little bit.
Speaker 1: And Cold Keith is out an accid. He's sitting three
Speaker 1: hundred this spring. If you go back minor league record here,
Speaker 1: three hundred hitter in two hundred and thirty nine games
Speaker 1: of the minor leagues, A three eighty two OVP, A
Speaker 1: five twelve slugging. That, my friends, is elite. We're talking
Speaker 1: almost a nine hundred ops right there for Cold Keith.
Speaker 1: So this guy can hit. He is still very young.
Speaker 1: There's still maybe more of a plateau with the power.
Speaker 1: He's got some pop in that bat too. So at
Speaker 1: twenty two, soon to be twenty three years old, Cold
Speaker 1: Keith to me makes a lot of sense as a
Speaker 1: sleeper this year. And he gives you a little position flexibility,
Speaker 1: right you know, little first base, little second base injuries
Speaker 1: are gonna happen, So I love him as a second baseman,
Speaker 1: as your middle infield kind of situation there as you're
Speaker 1: looking in those formats, but look, just as a bench bat,
Speaker 1: even very valuable potential player, you could util you can first. Second,
Speaker 1: we'll see how the season goes for him. Next on
Speaker 1: my list at third base, Luis Ranguifo of the Los
Speaker 1: Angeles Angels of Anaheim. Now Ranguifo all of a sudden
Speaker 1: is getting some good medicals, and that's what we want here.
Speaker 1: That's the I think most important thing is the health
Speaker 1: because we all know if you're not healthy, well you
Speaker 1: got nothing. So that is what we're striving for here.
Speaker 1: And this is a guy who also qualifies in some
Speaker 1: leagues at multiple positions, qualifies the second, qualifies at third.
Speaker 1: He was dealing with the hamstring issue, but he's going
Speaker 1: to be on track for opening day. Last year, in
Speaker 1: seventy eight games, he stole twenty four bases, did it
Speaker 1: six home runs? If he can give you, let's say,
Speaker 1: thirty five steals and a dozen home runs this year,
Speaker 1: and I'm not trying to extrapol eight even ten home runs,
Speaker 1: that would be great. But he also at three hundred,
Speaker 1: find me guys with batting average with a little bit
Speaker 1: of pop and thirty steel upside, and I'm very happy.
Speaker 1: I think he is a great guy to slide in.
Speaker 1: And it's funny we wash because I'm starting to come
Speaker 1: around to some of these cheaper guys on the Angels,
Speaker 1: like Netto, like Rangifo late in drafts because they're productive hitters.
Speaker 1: The Angels are going to score some runs this year.
Speaker 1: Even though we don't like the Angels to win a
Speaker 1: ton of games, it doesn't mean they're not useful in fantasy,
Speaker 1: and they are dirt cheap at third base. Who made
Speaker 1: your all sleeper team, Welsh?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I like Luis string Guifa. I think that's a
Speaker 3: really good pick.
Speaker 2: We just wanted him to be healthy and get out
Speaker 2: there and frankly, you know now that you just sparked
Speaker 2: it for me sleeper that I'll just throw out there
Speaker 2: for people. Is a guy that could push Luise Ringifo
Speaker 2: off a third base, so he's playing other spots. Could
Speaker 2: be Christian Moore. If Christian Moore breaks, sure, he's just
Speaker 2: kind of free at this.
Speaker 1: Christian Moore and Cam Smith, those are the two guys
Speaker 1: at the hot corner too, especially that if they want
Speaker 1: Cam Smith to start taking some balls in the outfield.
Speaker 1: But he qualifies at the third base, like you know,
Speaker 1: those guys are going to enter this season at some
Speaker 1: point and maybe than you think to.
Speaker 2: Be frank like cam Smith belongs to Joe and Christian
Speaker 2: Moore to me like that, like of what we've told
Speaker 2: her about those actually would have been really good sleepers
Speaker 2: to have here.
Speaker 1: So just well we mentioned that on the show, so
Speaker 1: officially they are like the alternate third baseman, but I
Speaker 1: wanted to give somebody that, you know, I think it
Speaker 1: was a little more practical. But if you're shooting the
Speaker 1: moon here and you're in deeper leagues or those drafted holes, whatever,
Speaker 1: and you got to be rostering these guys.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and the guy that I'm picking with the Brewers
Speaker 2: is Joey Ortiz. Joey Ortiz also probably not going to
Speaker 2: be playing third base, though they're talking about all these
Speaker 2: different like combinations of maybe Orties a short, maybe ad second,
Speaker 2: they can move around, but he's a third baseman from
Speaker 2: last season. And Joy Artiz is my pick has had
Speaker 2: again not to like pick necessarily on springs and focus
Speaker 2: on springs, but we're also not looking at players that
Speaker 2: came out of nowhere.
Speaker 3: Last year.
Speaker 2: He had eleven homers, eleven stolen bases and kind of
Speaker 2: really spattered playing time. He was really bad at the
Speaker 2: back half of the season or the what was it,
Speaker 2: July and August, we're rough, hitting under two hundred, but
Speaker 2: then he picked it back up and hit like two
Speaker 2: sixty or two fifty in September. He's having a great spring,
Speaker 2: hitting three forty five tons of extra base hits. He
Speaker 2: has ten hits in spring. Six of those are extra bases,
Speaker 2: two doubles, two triples, two homers. He's also been aggressive
Speaker 2: on the bass paths. He's stolen three so far, and
Speaker 2: the walk to strikeout ratios right there. He's really showing
Speaker 2: off just a little bit more power, great plate discipline, and.
Speaker 3: He will be playing all this season. And that's like the.
Speaker 2: Really big key not to do it all the time
Speaker 2: where it's like twenty twenty, twenty twenty, but it's like,
Speaker 2: I don't think it's out of the realm of possibility
Speaker 2: that it goes one way or the other. Maybe he's
Speaker 2: a seventeen homer, fifteen stolen base guy. He could move
Speaker 2: up and down the lineup. He's got position flexibility which
Speaker 2: he might add into this season. Listen, third base also
Speaker 2: gets pretty gross. As you start to move down you're
Speaker 2: looking for like a corner infielder who's also gonna have
Speaker 2: multiple spots. Joey Ortiz, I think is a sneaky guy
Speaker 2: who could put in I really think the power could
Speaker 2: be the sneaky thing. The more that if you asked me,
Speaker 2: is he gonna steal more hit more homers? I wouldn't
Speaker 2: be shocked if he's a twenty fifteen guy this season.
Speaker 2: If you have a couple of big power months and
Speaker 2: he's putting in some RBIs so. Joey Ortiz is my
Speaker 2: sleeper third baseman.
Speaker 1: I picked him up my home league last year, and
Speaker 1: he was very useful for me. You know, he had
Speaker 1: some moments for sure, and I was waiting for Junior
Speaker 1: Cavanaro most of the season last year, so I needed
Speaker 1: to fill some holes at the third base spot. Moving
Speaker 1: on to the shortstop position, Well, should you have over
Speaker 1: there that you think could be of value?
Speaker 2: Yeah, again, like I could play around and try to
Speaker 2: like create some as you get later, but this guy
Speaker 2: just keeps pop up and out. And I guess apologies
Speaker 2: because we've talked about him in a lot of spots.
Speaker 2: There's a little bit of an injury thing which maybe
Speaker 2: took a little bit of the flavor off the top
Speaker 2: of everybody getting excited. But I'm going with Trevor story
Speaker 2: at two fifty nine, So we're post two point fifty
Speaker 2: with Trevor's story. The injuries are still in our face,
Speaker 2: and him having that little scare the other day kind
Speaker 2: of I think re reminds everybody like, hey, at any time,
Speaker 2: this can go away. But the thing to also remember
Speaker 2: is the huge offensive potential upside. Again, looking at spring
Speaker 2: so far, because he's missed so much time. As of
Speaker 2: recent he's hitting over four hundred. We're seeing homers get
Speaker 2: out of the ballpark and they've already told us. Alex
Speaker 2: Corus said that he's going to hit inside the top
Speaker 2: five of that lineup. So again you've got Jaron Duran,
Speaker 2: Rafael Devers, Tristan Cassis, and Alex Bregman all hitting in
Speaker 2: that spot and he's going to be hitting at five
Speaker 2: most likely huge RBI opportunity. We'll see if the stolen
Speaker 2: bases come back a little bit. But as far as
Speaker 2: the offensive potential, there is real five categories that are
Speaker 2: in play. The homers are still there, he can still
Speaker 2: run some RBI in runs. This team is gonna score
Speaker 2: a bunch and if that batting average gets back. He
Speaker 2: hit two fifty five and very little last year, but
Speaker 2: prior to that he had hit.
Speaker 3: Under two forty.
Speaker 2: If he's a two sixty guy this season with all
Speaker 2: that offensive protection, two fifty is gonna look silly, but
Speaker 2: it's built in like that way because he has missed
Speaker 2: so much time. The injuries are still out there and
Speaker 2: the average is kind of sunk. But he is a
Speaker 2: real twenty twenty potential guy and not just a ton
Speaker 2: of those that like, we can really pretend and be
Speaker 2: like if this worked out and this worked out and
Speaker 2: blah blah blah, they could get this way. Trevor Story
Speaker 2: is like, he just needs to play games. If he
Speaker 2: plays games, he's gonna be close to a twenty twenty guy.
Speaker 2: And that's reality. So post two to fifty, Trevor Story
Speaker 2: is my sleeper pick.
Speaker 1: All right for me? At short stop, we're going back
Speaker 1: to San Francisco, let's go with Tyler Fitzgerald. Now, Fitzgerald
Speaker 1: last season pretty good work. Hit two eighty seventeen steels,
Speaker 1: fifteen homers, played ninety six games. In terms of where
Speaker 1: he hits in the lineup a little trickier, he does
Speaker 1: qualify at second base as well. But we're in a
Speaker 1: spot where you're looking at the future here, right, So
Speaker 1: with Jung Huli, who is going for an MRI on
Speaker 1: the back now, who knows, maybe Fitzgerald ends up playing
Speaker 1: some outfield. Maybe they starts shuffling some guys around too again,
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, maybe Fitzgerald finds himself not
Speaker 1: hitting out of the nine hole, but somewhere else. And
Speaker 1: I think that would be very intriguing for me. Another
Speaker 1: player with a good track record in the minor leagues.
Speaker 1: That's very important to me. Eight twenty three ops, two
Speaker 1: sixty five hitter. He's a guy that definitely has some speed,
Speaker 1: so we can help you out late. And I think
Speaker 1: when you're trying to make up some ground with someone
Speaker 1: bases later on, because now you really do have to
Speaker 1: load up. You know, you can't just have that one
Speaker 1: guy and be good at steals now because everybody's stealing bases.
Speaker 1: With the rules changes, you got to continue to pile upon.
Speaker 1: If you go back and watch the Ladies Mock Draft Show,
Speaker 1: you'll see me just continuing to pile on steals, pile
Speaker 1: on steals because I could, and guys like Fitzgerald are
Speaker 1: going to go a long way for that, so I'm
Speaker 1: really curious to see. I'm rooting for Jung Houley. He
Speaker 1: was originally on this team that I put together, but
Speaker 1: now the injury again has me concerned, so he's still
Speaker 1: in that back burner for me, but Fitzgerald could be
Speaker 1: a guy that benefits from that. Now we're gonna get
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Speaker 1: let's go to the outfield Welsh. Give me your three outfielders,
Speaker 1: where they're being drafted and why they made your sleeper list.
Speaker 2: All right, We've got two that are outside the two fifty,
Speaker 2: and I got one outside the four hundred range. Number
Speaker 2: one Jake McCarthy. The reason that you can wait on
Speaker 2: stolen bases is there your stolen bases plentiful later in drafts.
Speaker 2: Victor Revlis has been a very popular name I've talked about,
Speaker 2: but he's inside the top two hundred now, but Jake
Speaker 2: McCarthy McCarthy is not. He is at two forty seven,
Speaker 2: so he's like right there at that two point fifty marker.
Speaker 2: The thing I love about him too, no bad lefty splits.
Speaker 2: He can hit Bert versus both. He's got really good
Speaker 2: contact numbers. He's aggressive on the base paths. The thing
Speaker 2: that could maybe halt out is you know what this
Speaker 2: team wants to do with that. They just still have
Speaker 2: a heavy outfield rotation. They didn't trade Alec Thomas, they
Speaker 2: still got a lot of guys. But McCarthy has just
Speaker 2: proven to be a guy that's going to be out
Speaker 2: there all the time. And the stolen base is the
Speaker 2: ten to thirty potential you can get out of him
Speaker 2: with great, great defense, He's just not going to come
Speaker 2: off the field a bunch so cheap stolen bases. I
Speaker 2: love the prospects of getting Jake McCarthy number two. Garrett Mitchell,
Speaker 2: who I've talked about a bunch. Garrett Mitchell comes in
Speaker 2: at two sixty four on this he's the sixty ninth outfielder.
Speaker 2: Jake McCarthy was the sixty second, so we're really down
Speaker 2: there and Garrett Mitchell, this is a true twenty potential guy.
Speaker 2: If you want to extrapolate last season, eight homers, eleven
Speaker 2: stolen bases.
Speaker 3: He hit two fifty.
Speaker 2: Five just under two hundred at bats, So if you
Speaker 2: were to extrapolate that, you're looking at twenty four homers
Speaker 2: in over thirty stolen bases. So at twenty thirty season, obviously,
Speaker 2: that's going to be hard to put together. He has
Speaker 2: bad strikeout numbers, and I can be honest with these. Again,
Speaker 2: he's having a great spring. You're seeing the power go,
Speaker 2: you're seeing aggressive bass pass. He's out there, he's healthy,
Speaker 2: but he's still striking out a bunch. So if that
Speaker 2: had come down, I think we would be talking about
Speaker 2: Sky's the limit.
Speaker 3: Type of stuff. But it's still over thirty percent.
Speaker 2: Strikeout rate, but he walks double digit percentage of the time,
Speaker 2: good barrel numbers, and I think he's going to carry
Speaker 2: that over into the season. If he can stay healthy,
Speaker 2: you're gonna get stolen bases, You're gonna get power. He's
Speaker 2: probably the best combination, and I think he is just
Speaker 2: a free play. And then finally, my deep outfield play
Speaker 2: here at outside four hundred, outside the top one hundred outfielders.
Speaker 2: When you look over on Fantasy pros, Victor Scott the second,
Speaker 2: My boy, Victor Scott. You're talking post hype sleeper. As
Speaker 2: everybody he loved Victor Scott. Last year it was kind
Speaker 2: of a big failure. And this season, taking it into spring,
Speaker 2: he's hitting three seventy one. He's showing off his power,
Speaker 2: thirteen hits, five extra base hits, two homers, triple couple doubles.
Speaker 2: OBP is almost five hundred, and he's attempted seven stolen bases.
Speaker 2: In forty two plate appearances, he's stolen five. Ali Marmarle
Speaker 2: has talked about how awesome his transition into this offseason
Speaker 2: has been. He was working on gaining muscle this past season.
Speaker 2: He's trying to hit consistently, and the guys behind him,
Speaker 2: like Mike Siani, stunk, so obviously the Cardinals could do
Speaker 2: something weird. But Victor Scott looks like he is primed
Speaker 2: to take that spot at in center field for the Cardinals. Now,
Speaker 2: he might hit lower in the lineup, but he's one
Speaker 2: of the most aggressive base stealers in all of baseball.
Speaker 2: If he plays the whole season and he hits for average,
Speaker 2: you're probably looking at a guy that's going to steal
Speaker 2: forty to fifty bases, and I might be underselling him.
Speaker 2: It's just all going to be about being consistent, and
Speaker 2: he's showing that this spring. I love the prospects Victor
Speaker 2: Scott again, another guy that you can get cheap stolen
Speaker 2: bases from, and he looks primed to take that spot
Speaker 2: unless the Cardinals ruin it. So again I am going
Speaker 2: with Jake McCarthy, Garrett Mitchell, and Victor Scott as my
Speaker 2: three sleeper outfielders.
Speaker 1: Well, we asked me he had a overlap there because
Speaker 1: I had Garrett Mitchell on my list too, so I
Speaker 1: think he was also another guy that we talked about
Speaker 1: on the Sleeper Show too, So you know, I'm not
Speaker 1: going to reiterate. I'm with Welsh everything he said. All
Speaker 1: the good reasonings there, and you can go back and
Speaker 1: watch Fantasy Fest too, because I want to say, was
Speaker 1: he on Towers list? He was on somebody else's no.
Speaker 3: I Bubba really liked. Oh you know, it's funny about
Speaker 3: this too.
Speaker 2: I just want to point out we really tried to
Speaker 2: not have the same guys. Now you I put the
Speaker 2: next guy you're gonna say on my list and then went,
Speaker 2: oh crap, you had it. I didn't even see Garrett Mitchell.
Speaker 2: Garrett Mitchell's a crew play. The next guy in your
Speaker 2: list is a crew play as well. I took him
Speaker 2: off because you had him.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, look, I got two other outfielders. One is
Speaker 1: Matt Waalner at two sixty six, right around Garrett Mitchell,
Speaker 1: and he's again platoon wise on the correct side of
Speaker 1: that applatoon for more at bats, but at the same
Speaker 1: time hitting leadoff here for the Twin teams. That's important.
Speaker 1: It's a lot of runs score potentially. He does have
Speaker 1: some power again, more of a bat that you're looking
Speaker 1: later in the drafts is more of a util bat
Speaker 1: because you want those outfielders to play every day like
Speaker 1: Garrett Mitchell. I would take because I think he's gonna
Speaker 1: be every day player as Wellner. I'm not exactly sure yet,
Speaker 1: although as the Twins' injuries will continue to mount, because
Speaker 1: that's what happens with the Minnesota Twins every single damn season.
Speaker 1: Maybe there will be some more at bats for him.
Speaker 1: Either way, it's a good scenario. And the third guy
Speaker 1: in there is Alec Burlson, who is a guy that
Speaker 1: last year off the waiver wire. I don't know how
Speaker 1: many times we did waiver wire bits. I did waiver
Speaker 1: wire videos and Perlson was in it, and people just
Speaker 1: weren't picking them up. He ended last year playing one
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty two games right twenty one homer, seventy
Speaker 1: at RBI, scored seventy runs, had nine steals for good measure,
Speaker 1: hit two sixty nine. This year, he's gonna primary DH,
Speaker 1: but he's Dell. Qualifies at outfield, qualifies at first base,
Speaker 1: so he qualifies everywhere. And again I think he is
Speaker 1: just a very nice player to have. I likened him
Speaker 1: last year statistically, not compwise physically, but statistically to Ben Zobrist.
Speaker 1: Ben Zobrist every year was going to give you fifteen
Speaker 1: home runs, seventy five to seventy five, maybe just fall
Speaker 1: shy of ten stolen bases or somewhere in that range.
Speaker 1: Hit about two sixty five to seventy five, maybe a
Speaker 1: two to eighty on a good year. But he was
Speaker 1: just gonna be there and be productive and probably qualify
Speaker 1: at a bunch of different spots, little outfield, little infield.
Speaker 1: Those guys are really useful, and Burlson could be one
Speaker 1: of those guys. But the real trick here is figuring
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Speaker 1: All right, Welsh, let's get to the pitchers on our list.
Speaker 1: Give me three starter and a reliever for a good
Speaker 1: measure on our All Sleeper team for twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2: All right, starting with Walker Buehler, who has got a
Speaker 2: two twenty six rank here SP sixty nine on the list,
Speaker 2: way down there. Obviously, last season in the regular season
Speaker 2: with what he got over five ERA did not look
Speaker 2: good in seventy five innings. He definitely bounced back during
Speaker 2: the playoffs, which I think is a big key. And
Speaker 2: then if you take the innings he had last year
Speaker 2: with the playoff innings, I think it really pushes him
Speaker 2: in a really good direction to be able to get
Speaker 2: significant innings this year on a Red Sox team that
Speaker 2: I think is gonna win a lot, and I think
Speaker 2: Walker Buehler, as much as I'm in on Garrett Crochet,
Speaker 2: Walker Buehler is going to be a piece of that.
Speaker 2: He's had a couple starts in spring. He's looked good.
Speaker 2: Two starts, five innings, he struck out seven, he's only
Speaker 2: walked one. He's given up four hits and one earned run.
Speaker 2: The stuff is there, the fastballs back. I just think
Speaker 2: it's a really like I am hyper focused on Garrett
Speaker 2: Crochet clearly, but like he's a really good bet and
Speaker 2: he's a really good bet for a source of wins
Speaker 2: as well and a lot of run support, and I
Speaker 2: think outside the top two hundred we're still sleeping on him.
Speaker 2: Number two Tom Tomo, Yuki Sugano with the Baltimore Orioles.
Speaker 1: Easy for me to say, I've been doing really good.
Speaker 2: We got we got Sigano. There, Sigano. It's been pretty simple.
Speaker 2: He's just been striking everybody out in spring. He really
Speaker 2: hasn't been hit. He's an older pitcher, I believe thirty
Speaker 2: five years old. The league is not caught up to him.
Speaker 2: These guys usually, especially coming over coming over from like
Speaker 2: Japan and whatnot, you'll see these guys have some early success.
Speaker 3: Until the league catches up.
Speaker 2: But I'm kind of optimistic with where the strikeout numbers
Speaker 2: are and how he's hiding the ball that you know
Speaker 2: we might get a season long run. Looks like they're
Speaker 2: going to push innings. They need him because Grayson's out.
Speaker 2: So Sigano, with a rank out almost outside the three
Speaker 2: hundreds at two ninety seven SP eighty eight is my
Speaker 2: number two starting pitcher, and number three is with the
Speaker 2: Atlanta Braids, Grant Home, who is three h seven pitcher
Speaker 2: ninety three is being converted into a starting pitcher and
Speaker 2: from a relief pitcher. And the thing that's working really
Speaker 2: well is he's upticked his change up and his changeup
Speaker 2: has put up some really great different stuff. Plus metrics
Speaker 2: have graded out that that change up to be really high.
Speaker 2: And it was like a pitchy through one percent of
Speaker 2: the time last year. So far in spring it looks
Speaker 2: like it's around like eight percent. And what's so great
Speaker 2: about that is with his slider and curveball, those had
Speaker 2: forty percent with rates last season. Now you throw a
Speaker 2: change up there that's going to get high WIF rates.
Speaker 2: His fastball sitting ninety four ninety five, he's got three
Speaker 2: punch out pitches. He's walking a little bit, but he
Speaker 2: is free right now and he might stack some wins
Speaker 2: with Atlanta, and we might see some strikeouts pile up
Speaker 2: as well. So I'm going to go with a deep
Speaker 2: play in Grant Homes and then finally my relief pitcher.
Speaker 2: We're going deep here for a guy that does not
Speaker 2: have a solidified closer role, but I truly think he can.
Speaker 2: It is aj Puck at two seventy four on the
Speaker 2: overall thirty two as far as relief pitchers go, and
Speaker 2: I've just been pretty steadfast, regardless of seeing Justin Martinez
Speaker 2: throw n you know, one hundred and three or whatever
Speaker 2: in every single game. At the end of the day,
Speaker 2: AJ Puck has been phenomenal this spring, and I think
Speaker 2: he's going to be their fireman. So there will be
Speaker 2: some times where he's not gonna get some saves. They
Speaker 2: might even just list out Justin Martinez as the guy,
Speaker 2: but he can get a little erratic. I think AJ
Speaker 2: Puck is going to walk out of this team being
Speaker 2: the leader in saves. I would not be shocked to
Speaker 2: see over twenty. I'm not putting my expectations in that
Speaker 2: he's gonna lead the league, but he's going after all
Speaker 2: of the big guys. He's towards the end of your draft,
Speaker 2: and if you've already gotten two established closers, I think
Speaker 2: AJ Puck is a great bet on a guy that's
Speaker 2: either a gonna take the job or b be a
Speaker 2: guy that's gonna get a decent amount of saves and
Speaker 2: really help your ratios with big strikeouts. So AJ Puck
Speaker 2: is my reliever and my starters again. Walker Buehler, Tomo
Speaker 2: Yuki Sagano and Grant Holmes.
Speaker 1: By the way, just a reminder, Grant Holmes qualifies at
Speaker 1: RP in a lot of spots too, So if you're
Speaker 1: trying to game the system, Larbit, don't forget for those
Speaker 1: mandatory RP leagues. You could also play Holmes. There. Nick
Speaker 1: Pollock on our Pitching Guide Ultimate Pitching Guide number two
Speaker 1: that we did, he went on a nice little die
Speaker 1: tribe about Grant Holmes two and he really liked him.
Speaker 1: So you can check out what Nick said on the
Speaker 1: show here again, so on the YouTube channel, you can
Speaker 1: go find it there, just click on the videos. I
Speaker 1: love the Puck one too, because I'm with you one
Speaker 1: hundred percent. He's another one of my favorite lake closers,
Speaker 1: you know me. Joey p loves the lake closer give
Speaker 1: me the light class. Oh and Walker Buller's another one too.
Speaker 1: I just took Walker Buehler in the rat Slam too,
Speaker 1: and they draft in Hold again. It's all upside and
Speaker 1: he's looking pretty good in this spring all right. So
Speaker 1: for me, here are my starting pitchers at two twenty
Speaker 1: five overall. Gavin Williams of the Cleveland Guardians. I know
Speaker 1: every expert. It feels like he's talking about Gavin Williams
Speaker 1: and you know what, it's still not enough. I was
Speaker 1: in a draft last night and Gavin Williams are far
Speaker 1: too late and guess who took him? This guy And
Speaker 1: right now, if you're looking at what he's doing this spring,
Speaker 1: it's not good. It's dominant eight innings so far, giving
Speaker 1: up US five hits. He has sixteen strikeouts and two walks. Welsh,
Speaker 1: Oh my, Gavin Williams is ready. And the fact that
Speaker 1: you've got Gavin Williams and Bobby at the top of
Speaker 1: this rotation. Eventually you hope at some point Bieber comes back.
Speaker 1: But they don't have to all be seven hitting pitchers.
Speaker 1: You know, these guys can be six hitting pitchers and
Speaker 1: turn it over that's that incredible bullpen and still be
Speaker 1: very successful this year. There's still a lot of bridge
Speaker 1: to win. Even if Williams is babied a little bit.
Speaker 1: Nick Lodolo at two thirty, overall, lefties take a little
Speaker 1: bit longer in the pressure cooker, just historically speaking, when
Speaker 1: you look at it, and Lodolo I think is on
Speaker 1: that precipice of being a guy that you could really
Speaker 1: see taking a big step forward he cost you very
Speaker 1: little to find out. He pitches on a very young,
Speaker 1: exciting team, also having a decent spring and Lodolo I
Speaker 1: think is another one of these pictures that I'm looking
Speaker 1: to take a step forward this year. And if he doesn't,
Speaker 1: you cut him, it's not a big deal. But I
Speaker 1: think he has real sleep or potential. We saw the
Speaker 1: strikeout of building the minor leagues and it is high.
Speaker 1: Max Meyer of the Miami Marlins one of our favorites
Speaker 1: on the show historically three overall. Talk about free maybe
Speaker 1: he's free fifty two. That's what he is. He is
Speaker 1: another one who's going to be limitated, like is he
Speaker 1: gonna get to one hundred and fifty innings? Maybe? But
Speaker 1: can he give me one hundred and twenty quality ones?
Speaker 1: I think the answer is yes, and he will to that.
Speaker 2: Lance Brasdowski from the Fantasy Fest checkout the breakout.
Speaker 3: I watched dance. Lance talked about Max. I watched, so
Speaker 3: that's ann to push.
Speaker 1: Even I watched the channel. I mean, come on, even
Speaker 1: if I'm not on, I'm watching the shows because I
Speaker 1: want to hear it. Lance. Lance was terrific. That was
Speaker 1: another mussy one, But Max Meyer another one where we've
Speaker 1: been waiting and he was so electric a couple of
Speaker 1: years ago, then the injuries, then the mismanagement last year.
Speaker 1: I think we're finally done with all of that and
Speaker 1: he's gonna have this rotation spot locked up. So Max, Meyra, Lodolo,
Speaker 1: Gavin Williams, those are my starters, and Jordan Romano at
Speaker 1: two seventeen my closer, and I think Vermano is just
Speaker 1: being forgotten, a very steady closer, very solid for the
Speaker 1: Blue Jays for years again health issues. Now find himself
Speaker 1: with the Phillies in a spot where he's gonna get
Speaker 1: plenty of opportunities for saves because that pitching staff is
Speaker 1: great one through five, potentially really good. And now you're
Speaker 1: talking about handing over a lot of leads, and I
Speaker 1: think the Phillies are gonna win that division, and that's
Speaker 1: a met fan saying it. I think the Braves will
Speaker 1: still continue to get guys back, they might get hot late,
Speaker 1: but I think this is the Phillies division to lose.
Speaker 1: So give me Jordan Romano. So here are the names
Speaker 1: on my all sleeper team for twenty twenty five. Ivan
Speaker 1: Herrera at ketcher, Kyle Manzarto at first base, Cold Keith
Speaker 1: at second, Luis Rengifo at third, then at short, Tyler
Speaker 1: Fitzgerald of the San Francisco Giants. My outfield Alec Burlson,
Speaker 1: Garrett Mitchell, Matt Wallner, the pitchers Gavin Williams, Niic Lodolo,
Speaker 1: Max Meyer and Jordan Romano closing Welsh's all sleeper team
Speaker 1: for twenty twenty five. Joey Bart at ketcher, Peven Smith
Speaker 1: at first, Estrada, Tario Estrada at second, Joey Ortiz at third,
Speaker 1: Trevor Story at short. The outfielders Jake McCarthy, Garrett Mitchell
Speaker 1: as well. Victor Scott loved that one for the steals.
Speaker 1: And then the pitchers Walker Bueller, Sagano, Grant Holmes and
Speaker 1: Ajpocket closing things out. But those are our names. Who
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