WEBVTT - 10 Draft Day Bargains + Major Offseason Signings (Ep. 474) 0:00:00.560 --> 0:00:17.119 Baseball is back. Let's talk to the pros. Welcome in everybody, 0:00:17.120 --> 0:00:20.200 the fantasy pros. This is the Fantasy Baseball Podcast. And 0:00:20.440 --> 0:00:24.640 B Joey p Joe Pisapia with me is insider the Welsh. 0:00:24.680 --> 0:00:27.160 That's right, he's now an MLB insider because he's down 0:00:27.200 --> 0:00:31.280 there in spring training on the fields. He's shagging flies, 0:00:31.360 --> 0:00:33.760 he's getting dan. And we've got a great guest for 0:00:33.840 --> 0:00:37.800 you today from CBS. My dude, Frank Staffle's gonna join 0:00:37.920 --> 0:00:41.640 us and today baseball is back. When last week left you, 0:00:42.120 --> 0:00:44.680 it was a somber tone. Paul Sport and the Welsh 0:00:44.720 --> 0:00:46.760 were in a quite a dust up. It was very 0:00:46.880 --> 0:00:51.000 reminiscent of Jose Bautista and rugnett o'dor going at it. 0:00:51.320 --> 0:00:53.760 We didn't think baseball is happening. We've come back here 0:00:53.800 --> 0:00:57.840 this week with a fresh attitude. 0:00:58.080 --> 0:00:59.600 Are you gonna say I took it on the chin? 0:01:00.000 --> 0:01:00.240 Okay? 0:01:00.600 --> 0:01:02.520 No, yes, Sde I take it on the chin. I'm Batista. 0:01:02.600 --> 0:01:03.400 I took it on the chin. 0:01:04.040 --> 0:01:05.759 I think not because you took it on the chin 0:01:05.959 --> 0:01:09.319 just because Paul Sporer was swinging. Paul Sporer was swinging 0:01:09.480 --> 0:01:11.600 and he was basically didn't care what he was swinging. 0:01:11.680 --> 0:01:14.680 He was just the air, just that nothing he was. 0:01:14.800 --> 0:01:16.480 He was swinging at the air and he was and 0:01:16.520 --> 0:01:18.160 he would say, go ahead, you talk, and then he 0:01:18.160 --> 0:01:19.880 would swing again at you. And I felt like, that's 0:01:19.959 --> 0:01:21.320 kind of why he has to be a door in 0:01:21.400 --> 0:01:23.800 this that you not that you couldn't throw a punch, Mosh. 0:01:23.800 --> 0:01:26.440 I believe you're a big, strong guy. But anyway, we've 0:01:26.480 --> 0:01:29.600 got transactions to talk about, we got injuries to talk about, 0:01:29.920 --> 0:01:33.080 we have got draft day bargains to talk about. Frank Stanfel, 0:01:33.520 --> 0:01:35.199 I am so grateful to have you on the show. 0:01:35.240 --> 0:01:38.560 Everybody knows Frank. Frank is super famous. He hosts, obviously 0:01:38.600 --> 0:01:42.000 the Fantasy Baseball Today pod over at CBS. Frank, how 0:01:42.000 --> 0:01:44.280 are you feeling now that baseball is back? 0:01:45.600 --> 0:01:47.280 Relieved but also overwhelmed. 0:01:47.319 --> 0:01:49.360 There is so much going on right now in the 0:01:49.360 --> 0:01:51.840 baseball world, so we're reacting to it in real time. 0:01:51.880 --> 0:01:56.480 All these trades, signings, tatis, motorcycles. Everything's going crazy right now. 0:01:56.600 --> 0:01:58.160 But I'm happy to be here two of my favorite 0:01:58.160 --> 0:01:59.080 people in the industry. 0:01:59.360 --> 0:02:00.920 And I really do mean that. I'm not just saying 0:02:01.160 --> 0:02:01.480 are you. 0:02:02.920 --> 0:02:05.920 Are you allowed to have that beard with that hat 0:02:05.960 --> 0:02:07.600 on I thought there was a Yankee rule where you 0:02:07.640 --> 0:02:09.519 can't have that rookie beard. I'm pretty sure you gotta 0:02:09.520 --> 0:02:10.360 shave that off, Frank. 0:02:10.919 --> 0:02:13.320 Honestly, I was growing it out until baseball was back, 0:02:13.360 --> 0:02:14.480 and now I just kind of like it. 0:02:14.520 --> 0:02:17.040 So it looks kind of rookie. I think Frank might 0:02:17.080 --> 0:02:18.960 be throwing the punches here. It's it's a Fantasy Pro 0:02:19.160 --> 0:02:21.440 sandwich with CBS in the middle. Gotta love it, love. 0:02:21.720 --> 0:02:23.359 I do, kind of. I do kind of see the 0:02:23.400 --> 0:02:24.399 rookie thing he's got. 0:02:24.600 --> 0:02:26.160 You see there is kind of rookie. Yeah. 0:02:26.440 --> 0:02:28.240 Yeah, And this is why you have to subscribe to 0:02:28.240 --> 0:02:31.600 the YouTube channel, Fantasy Pros MLB channel specifically, because I 0:02:31.639 --> 0:02:34.280 feel like when he takes the cones off, the headphones off, 0:02:34.560 --> 0:02:36.520 the hat of the beard, everything comes with it. 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Well surely failed us because he saw Fernando 0:04:27.360 --> 0:04:30.040 Tatis's brother and he didn't ask him what the deal is. 0:04:30.080 --> 0:04:31.600 And you failed to today. 0:04:32.080 --> 0:04:33.960 You know you're a failure today. Well, so I'm gonna 0:04:34.000 --> 0:04:37.119 go to you instead, Frank Tatist. This new is obviously huge. 0:04:37.200 --> 0:04:39.359 Let's say he does have the surgery. Let's live in 0:04:39.360 --> 0:04:42.240 that hypothetical world. He could miss all the way up 0:04:42.279 --> 0:04:45.320 and not be back until June. Where does this bump 0:04:45.360 --> 0:04:48.000 Fernando Tatists down in your redraft rankings right now. 0:04:48.720 --> 0:04:50.960 Yeah, So I'm currently ranking him as if he is 0:04:51.040 --> 0:04:53.120 going to have surgery and miss all that time. So 0:04:53.160 --> 0:04:56.800 I moved him down to seventeen in my shortstop rankings, 0:04:56.839 --> 0:04:59.280 which sounds like a massive drop it is. I mean, 0:04:59.320 --> 0:05:02.000 he was my number one overall player, and rightfully so. 0:05:02.040 --> 0:05:04.640 Even last year dealing with the shoulder injury, he was fantastic. 0:05:04.640 --> 0:05:07.240 He was like the fifth overall player in Rodo regardless 0:05:07.279 --> 0:05:09.279 of that. So I got him just behind Willie Damas 0:05:09.360 --> 0:05:13.080 and Dansby Swanson, just ahead of Jake Croninworth and Chris Taylor. 0:05:13.120 --> 0:05:16.120 We did a mock draft last night and he went 0:05:16.160 --> 0:05:18.920 eighty fifth overall, So I think he's kind of scaring 0:05:19.200 --> 0:05:22.599 like eighty to one twenty range right now overall. And 0:05:23.200 --> 0:05:26.440 it's just a tough situation because it's a fluid situation. 0:05:26.560 --> 0:05:29.080 There's details coming out. We don't know if he's gonna. 0:05:28.839 --> 0:05:30.480 Have the surgery, but if he does, that's where I 0:05:30.480 --> 0:05:32.080 have him ranked as of now. 0:05:32.080 --> 0:05:33.880 That's where I have him too. I moved him down. 0:05:33.880 --> 0:05:36.960 I think he's at ninety overall or somewhere there. Also, 0:05:37.000 --> 0:05:40.000 I think I have him at shortstop sixteen or fifteen. Overall, 0:05:40.000 --> 0:05:41.880 I can't remember exactly where, but I moved him basically 0:05:41.880 --> 0:05:44.240 behind Bobby Wood Junior because I think that's my threshold. 0:05:44.480 --> 0:05:46.280 It's do I want to take a full season of 0:05:46.320 --> 0:05:48.480 the rookie who I really believe in, or half a 0:05:48.520 --> 0:05:50.880 season of tatist. I think I want the rookie because 0:05:50.920 --> 0:05:52.440 I want the games. I want the volume. It's one 0:05:52.480 --> 0:05:54.400 thing in season long roto, but well, these head to 0:05:54.440 --> 0:05:56.960 head leagues, this kind of a time miss can absolutely 0:05:57.000 --> 0:06:00.560 crush you. So where have you had to adjust with tattoos? 0:06:00.560 --> 0:06:02.440 And what's your instincts? Tell you here? If you've got 0:06:02.440 --> 0:06:04.480 a draft coming up this weekend, you kind of have 0:06:04.520 --> 0:06:05.800 to make some hard choices here. 0:06:06.120 --> 0:06:07.800 Yeah, no, I'm with you, guys. I did kind of 0:06:07.800 --> 0:06:09.120 the same thing. I want to say. I've got him 0:06:09.120 --> 0:06:11.920 at like eighty six eighty seven. I also put him 0:06:11.960 --> 0:06:15.279 right below Wit And actually in the discord there's a 0:06:15.320 --> 0:06:18.560 private little Chris welsh Ama room and our boy elc 0:06:18.720 --> 0:06:21.080 and asked this exact question, and I said the same thing. 0:06:21.120 --> 0:06:24.800 I said, Listen, at this point, I believe Bobby Wood 0:06:24.839 --> 0:06:26.599 Junior is going to start the year. He's been working 0:06:26.680 --> 0:06:30.039 third base with the Majors there's an incentive now for 0:06:30.200 --> 0:06:32.520 teams to have these guys beyond the opening day roster 0:06:32.839 --> 0:06:34.840 makes all the sense in the world. So you know 0:06:34.960 --> 0:06:37.839 two and a half months. I mean we're talking like, okay, 0:06:37.880 --> 0:06:42.320 scenario is probably two maybe just under worst case scenario 0:06:42.320 --> 0:06:44.840 could be three months into the season or even beyond. 0:06:44.880 --> 0:06:46.799 I mean, what if there's also like a shoulder surgery 0:06:46.839 --> 0:06:49.920 and what that takes away? That that all that is 0:06:49.920 --> 0:06:52.400 a juice worth the squeeze. He's awesome when he's out there, 0:06:52.400 --> 0:06:54.400 but the time missed, even if it's roto, even if 0:06:54.440 --> 0:06:56.320 it's counting on the back end, I think, you know, 0:06:56.360 --> 0:06:59.760 a best ball or something is completely different. But I'm 0:06:59.760 --> 0:07:02.080 not it's super interested, though I do acknowledge this. One 0:07:02.160 --> 0:07:05.440 thing is that when I get into drafts, because someone 0:07:05.480 --> 0:07:08.039 asked me about this, I do feel like, probably after 0:07:08.080 --> 0:07:10.520 the fourth round, he's gonna be on my radar. You know, 0:07:10.560 --> 0:07:13.080 you're gonna see his name another one. I don't think 0:07:13.080 --> 0:07:15.679 we're gonna talk about him, but you know, Ronald d'cunya 0:07:15.760 --> 0:07:19.680 didn't exactly get the most rousing endorsement this past week, 0:07:19.680 --> 0:07:22.080 and we talked about him last week Joe in. Hey, 0:07:22.120 --> 0:07:23.840 you know if we're miss games. Blah blah blah. That's 0:07:23.880 --> 0:07:26.160 not happening. And then they came out and said they 0:07:26.200 --> 0:07:28.720 hope he's back by May. It could be late May. 0:07:28.960 --> 0:07:31.560 So Ronald d'acunya is in a similar situation that you're 0:07:31.560 --> 0:07:33.720 gonna be into the third round and you might see 0:07:33.720 --> 0:07:36.560 Akunya and Tatisa on your draft board. It's going to 0:07:36.640 --> 0:07:40.080 be enticing. Let somebody else be the one that does 0:07:40.120 --> 0:07:42.960 the overreach, because to Frank's point, like when he said 0:07:43.240 --> 0:07:47.120 Dansby and Willia Domis, those sound gross, those sound super 0:07:47.120 --> 0:07:50.480 gross like, but the production you're gonna get from them 0:07:50.520 --> 0:07:54.440 for three months is anything with very little risk compared 0:07:54.440 --> 0:07:57.280 to what you have with Tatis. So the sad, unfortunate 0:07:57.320 --> 0:07:58.840 news is we I think we got to dump him 0:07:58.880 --> 0:08:02.239 down past seventy five, and then you know God willing 0:08:02.280 --> 0:08:03.800 to you in the format you play in and how 0:08:03.840 --> 0:08:06.000 you can cover for him if you want to jump in. 0:08:06.760 --> 0:08:08.840 I could see on Frank's face that he was not 0:08:08.880 --> 0:08:10.800 happy about your disparaging of Willia. 0:08:10.880 --> 0:08:13.640 Toms back Willia Dominus, but like black, like who wants 0:08:13.680 --> 0:08:15.360 Willia Domas is like your top guy. 0:08:15.320 --> 0:08:17.360 Frank, Save it save it for Save it for the 0:08:17.440 --> 0:08:20.280 draft day bargains. Frank, save it for that. Don't worry. 0:08:20.280 --> 0:08:23.160 You can unleash on Welsh later. Let's talk about matt Olsen. 0:08:23.440 --> 0:08:28.440 Matt Olson apparently on the move, and the Oakland A's 0:08:28.440 --> 0:08:31.480 are making moves, and matt Olsen moves to the Atlanta Braves, 0:08:31.720 --> 0:08:35.000 a better home ballpark certainly for him, and then they 0:08:35.040 --> 0:08:38.199 signed to an eight year extension. Not too shabby. I mean, 0:08:38.200 --> 0:08:41.240 Matt Olson forty dingers last year, one hundred and one hundred. 0:08:41.440 --> 0:08:43.000 It's a pretty darn good player. And now all of 0:08:43.000 --> 0:08:46.480 a sudden he is moving to the Atlanta Braves. And 0:08:46.520 --> 0:08:48.520 Frank I was looking in the prop for him was 0:08:48.559 --> 0:08:50.960 thirty to one to lead the league in home runs. 0:08:51.000 --> 0:08:53.120 I was jumping on that yesterday. I think that's a 0:08:53.160 --> 0:08:55.880 fantastic one. But from a fantasy standpoint here this means 0:08:55.920 --> 0:08:58.040 if Freddy Freeman's not coming back. So how do you 0:08:58.120 --> 0:09:01.040 unpack this year for matt Olsen, this that the Braves made. 0:09:01.679 --> 0:09:03.840 Yeah, I think overall it's a net positive, right, he 0:09:03.880 --> 0:09:07.400 moves to a seemingly better ballpark, a better lineup around 0:09:07.480 --> 0:09:10.520 him as well. Interestingly enough, you look on stackcast, you 0:09:10.559 --> 0:09:13.760 scroll down, they show how many home runs he would 0:09:13.840 --> 0:09:16.560 hit in each ballpark right. So last year he hit 0:09:16.600 --> 0:09:18.920 thirty nine home runs overall, and if he played all 0:09:18.960 --> 0:09:22.160 of his games in Atlanta and all of his batted 0:09:22.160 --> 0:09:23.840 balls were hit the exact same way, he only. 0:09:23.679 --> 0:09:25.640 Would have had thirty four home runs. So I found 0:09:25.679 --> 0:09:26.240 that interesting. 0:09:26.720 --> 0:09:28.960 Overall, I still think it's a better park shift for him, 0:09:29.000 --> 0:09:30.320 it's a better lineup around him. 0:09:30.800 --> 0:09:32.040 He was awesome last year. 0:09:32.080 --> 0:09:34.559 He made huge strides in terms of strikeout rate against 0:09:34.640 --> 0:09:37.200 left handed pitching, and that's really what afforded him the 0:09:37.240 --> 0:09:40.200 ability to break out and have the best season of 0:09:40.200 --> 0:09:44.800 his career. However, I worry about guys changing leagues, especially 0:09:44.840 --> 0:09:48.320 players that are being drafted this early too. I mean, 0:09:48.360 --> 0:09:50.040 his ADP is in the middle of the third round 0:09:50.120 --> 0:09:52.559 right now, and that skill set as well. I get 0:09:52.640 --> 0:09:55.920 it the power, it's enticing, but in a categories league, 0:09:55.920 --> 0:09:58.040 I'm typically looking for some kind of speed in my 0:09:58.120 --> 0:10:01.360 first three four rounds and points league I'm probably looking 0:10:01.400 --> 0:10:03.800 for pitching at that point, So he's just not a 0:10:03.840 --> 0:10:06.599 skill set that I typically target in that part of 0:10:06.640 --> 0:10:08.679 the draft. And I do worry that there could be 0:10:08.720 --> 0:10:11.120 a transition period here going from the American League to 0:10:11.200 --> 0:10:11.880 the National league. 0:10:11.880 --> 0:10:13.280 We saw it with Francisco Lindoram. 0:10:13.360 --> 0:10:16.440 Honestly, we've seen it with a bunch of stars basically 0:10:16.600 --> 0:10:18.360 as long as we've been playing this game. So I 0:10:18.400 --> 0:10:20.800 worry a little bit for Matt Olson. I'm not going 0:10:20.880 --> 0:10:22.120 to be the one drafting in the third. 0:10:22.040 --> 0:10:24.600 Round, all right, Welsherre, You're gonna be the one drafting 0:10:24.679 --> 0:10:27.079 with a third round seems like, you know, thirty five 0:10:27.480 --> 0:10:29.439 ninety five ninety five is a pretty good bid. That 0:10:29.520 --> 0:10:32.160 sounds like a pretty great third round player to me. 0:10:32.800 --> 0:10:35.080 Yeah, Frank said it pretty much how I would have 0:10:35.120 --> 0:10:36.720 said it as well, Like, I actually think this is 0:10:36.720 --> 0:10:39.040 a good positive for the support that's around that. I 0:10:39.040 --> 0:10:42.000 think there's a higher IRBI opportunity. There's a lot of 0:10:42.040 --> 0:10:44.840 just offensive support that's across this team. Much different team 0:10:44.920 --> 0:10:49.480 Oakland to the Atlanta Braves, but from a roster construction standpoint, 0:10:49.559 --> 0:10:52.120 that's not when I'm looking at first basement. I pass 0:10:52.200 --> 0:10:54.040 on Matt Olson all the time. If he were to fall, 0:10:54.120 --> 0:10:56.320 I'd be interested. He's not going to fall because now 0:10:56.360 --> 0:10:58.000 he's a brave. He's gotten out of Oakland and he's 0:10:58.040 --> 0:10:59.800 going to be a brave. And Franks All's right, there's 0:10:59.840 --> 0:11:02.360 a transitional thing. Another guy to thrown there, Manny Machado 0:11:02.440 --> 0:11:05.560 from a couple of years ago. We see that transitional change. 0:11:05.640 --> 0:11:08.520 I think this could be a little bit different. But 0:11:08.720 --> 0:11:10.480 you know, you say that, and you go and look 0:11:10.480 --> 0:11:12.600 at Manny Machado and all the guys they had around 0:11:12.600 --> 0:11:15.760 that he had the same thing. He's just not as 0:11:15.800 --> 0:11:18.240 fun as he is. He's not in that target range. 0:11:18.280 --> 0:11:20.559 I love Pee Alonzo, but kind of same thing. I 0:11:20.760 --> 0:11:23.160 like that big, big in power, but I would like 0:11:23.160 --> 0:11:25.000 it to fall a little bit, and Olsen does not. 0:11:25.160 --> 0:11:26.920 And the trade is not going to change anything, So 0:11:27.320 --> 0:11:31.240 net positive. I agree with draft target due to his cost, 0:11:31.480 --> 0:11:32.320 probably not for me. 0:11:33.200 --> 0:11:36.079 Shout out to Pee Alonzo. Two car flips three times 0:11:36.080 --> 0:11:37.840 in an accident, he walks away from it. 0:11:38.120 --> 0:11:39.640 He kicked a windshield out. 0:11:40.120 --> 0:11:45.080 Ab Pe Alonzo, Ladies and gentleman, that's my dude right there. 0:11:45.240 --> 0:11:47.840 All right. There were some trades too. The Mariners acquired 0:11:48.120 --> 0:11:52.160 outfielder Jesse Winker and third baseman a Canio Suarez from 0:11:52.160 --> 0:11:55.640 the Reds. They got Justin Dunn, Brandon Williamson, Jake Freeley, 0:11:55.720 --> 0:11:58.240 back Welsh. What do you make of this trade here? 0:11:58.280 --> 0:12:01.160 Obviously the Reds are shedding Anna Salary. Who knows if 0:12:01.160 --> 0:12:04.440 Castillo is next, but Jesse Winker and Suarez, I mean, 0:12:04.480 --> 0:12:07.080 two players that we've liked in fantasy over the years 0:12:07.080 --> 0:12:09.720 and different years. Certainly last year Waker was tremendous. But 0:12:10.280 --> 0:12:12.160 now you're moving him out of Cincinnati. What are your 0:12:12.200 --> 0:12:14.199 thoughts here on what this does to their fantasy value? 0:12:14.360 --> 0:12:16.439 Yeah, I mean, you know, it's funny. When Winker was 0:12:16.480 --> 0:12:18.160 in the minors, his big thing was he was like 0:12:18.160 --> 0:12:21.400 a high, high contact hitter who really struggled to find 0:12:21.440 --> 0:12:23.199 his power in the miners. Then when he came up, 0:12:23.280 --> 0:12:25.400 he had these short little burst where it was like, oh, 0:12:25.400 --> 0:12:27.120 he hit eight homers and one hundred and fifty eight 0:12:27.120 --> 0:12:28.640 bats and we kind of got excited. Then he kind 0:12:28.640 --> 0:12:32.520 of found himself. I don't obviously love the ballpark change 0:12:32.640 --> 0:12:35.520 for him, but I still think this is an overall 0:12:35.600 --> 0:12:39.120 positive because the Reds not a great, great team. It's 0:12:39.160 --> 0:12:41.840 a great ballpark. Seattle's not gonna be playing in Seattle 0:12:41.880 --> 0:12:44.120 for every single game, just half of them. I like 0:12:44.160 --> 0:12:46.120 the team. I like the team construction. I like it's 0:12:46.200 --> 0:12:48.160 being aggressive. He's going to hit right in the middle 0:12:48.160 --> 0:12:50.720 of the order. If you get bounced backs from guys 0:12:50.760 --> 0:12:54.120 like Jared Kelnick, you've got a running team RBI. I 0:12:54.120 --> 0:12:57.160 think it's better RBI opportunity in Seattle than there is 0:12:57.280 --> 0:13:00.560 in Cincinnati. But I think it's it's just it's kind 0:13:00.559 --> 0:13:02.280 of like middle line, Like I don't see the reason 0:13:02.320 --> 0:13:04.200 to really dump him off because of a tiny bit 0:13:04.240 --> 0:13:07.400 of a power tick down where I think run an 0:13:07.440 --> 0:13:09.960 RBI opportunity can be there. So it's just it's a 0:13:10.000 --> 0:13:11.000 flat line for me. 0:13:11.960 --> 0:13:15.360 And Frank Your Yankees acquired Josh Donaldson and Isaiah Kiner 0:13:15.360 --> 0:13:18.400 Filefa for Geo or Schella and Gary Sanchez. What are 0:13:18.400 --> 0:13:21.520 your thoughts on this one? Because Josh Donaldson in New 0:13:21.600 --> 0:13:24.120 York City, to me, is not a good marriage in 0:13:24.200 --> 0:13:27.079 terms of the media and what I know of Josh Donaldson. 0:13:27.400 --> 0:13:29.280 So I think this is a peculiar It makes sense 0:13:29.320 --> 0:13:32.080 on paper. I'm a little worried about this one in practice? 0:13:32.200 --> 0:13:35.400 Or is it just get Gary Sanchez out of town? Oh? 0:13:35.440 --> 0:13:38.199 I mean, as a Yankee fan, I was ecstatic that. 0:13:38.240 --> 0:13:41.199 I don't have to watch Sanchez try to catch balls. 0:13:41.200 --> 0:13:44.440 I mean he didn't really do much catching actually, but yeah, 0:13:44.480 --> 0:13:46.640 so throw up here Yankee perspective. I'm fine with the movie. 0:13:46.640 --> 0:13:48.640 It kind of caught me off guard. It didn't really 0:13:48.640 --> 0:13:50.560 think that they needed to upgrade third base. They get 0:13:50.559 --> 0:13:53.720 their stopgap shortstop because obviously they are very excited about 0:13:53.720 --> 0:13:56.480 the prospects that are coming. Anthony Volpi the shortstop of 0:13:56.520 --> 0:13:58.800 the future there, so they get, you know, likely one 0:13:58.880 --> 0:14:01.760 year out of Isaiah kind of le Donaldson I already 0:14:01.800 --> 0:14:04.240 liked for fantasy because it felt like he was under value. 0:14:04.280 --> 0:14:07.439 He's going around pick two hundred according to Fantasy Pros ADP, 0:14:08.160 --> 0:14:09.959 and he was really good last year. I mean, you know, 0:14:10.080 --> 0:14:12.520 hit around two fifty twenty six home runs eight twenty 0:14:12.520 --> 0:14:15.560 seven ops. He still walks a lot, strikeout rate is decent, 0:14:15.640 --> 0:14:18.240 and now the team context and the ballpark is much better. 0:14:18.280 --> 0:14:20.520 So now moving over to the Yankees, I think we're 0:14:20.520 --> 0:14:22.000 gonna start to see a little bit of attacks. I 0:14:22.000 --> 0:14:24.520 think he moves up probably like thirty forty spots in ADP, 0:14:24.720 --> 0:14:27.360 but I'd still be willing to take him there, especially 0:14:27.360 --> 0:14:29.840 with the third base position looking as bad as it is. 0:14:29.880 --> 0:14:33.160 So if you miss out on Chris Bryan and Anthony 0:14:33.160 --> 0:14:35.160 Rendon and Alex Bregman and those guys going in the 0:14:35.200 --> 0:14:38.120 middle round, I think Josh Donaldson is a great fallback 0:14:38.160 --> 0:14:39.000 option and. 0:14:38.960 --> 0:14:40.880 Then kinder Fileffa. You know, if you're playing a deeper 0:14:41.000 --> 0:14:42.640 rodo categories league. 0:14:42.400 --> 0:14:44.640 I think he could be like a ten homer, two 0:14:44.800 --> 0:14:48.800 eighty hitter, twenty plus steals, and again the context for 0:14:48.840 --> 0:14:50.640 the team is really good. So if you do play 0:14:50.640 --> 0:14:52.280 in a deeper format and you need some speed late, 0:14:52.400 --> 0:14:53.440 I think IKF is fine. 0:14:53.480 --> 0:14:55.680 I'm glad you brought him up because that was I 0:14:55.760 --> 0:14:58.960 wanted to talk about him, because I almost put him 0:14:59.000 --> 0:15:01.000 in the next section. What we're gonna talk about when 0:15:01.000 --> 0:15:04.120 we're kind of talking about bargains, not just to poke 0:15:04.240 --> 0:15:08.240 at Paul Spor and our ongoing Isaiah kind of Palifa 0:15:08.560 --> 0:15:12.000 beef or anything like that, but because he I mean, 0:15:12.000 --> 0:15:13.960 this is a guy that is going to stay on 0:15:14.040 --> 0:15:16.560 the field. He can run. If the team is going 0:15:16.600 --> 0:15:18.320 to allow him to run, he's gonna get that every day, 0:15:18.320 --> 0:15:21.320 and he's positioned his position eligibility is gonna work in 0:15:21.360 --> 0:15:23.560 his favor. Where I mean, josh Donlinson get hurts all 0:15:23.600 --> 0:15:25.320 the time, he can move over to third. The thing 0:15:25.360 --> 0:15:28.000 we don't know one hundred percent, but what if he 0:15:28.080 --> 0:15:30.720 got some catcher run again and he got that eligibility 0:15:30.720 --> 0:15:32.680 into the season. That was what was so enticing about 0:15:32.720 --> 0:15:36.040 him in Yahoo last year that I think the steel 0:15:36.080 --> 0:15:38.760 potential could uptick. And you actually, I think gave a 0:15:38.800 --> 0:15:41.520 pretty aggressive line. If he were ten ish Holmer's twenty 0:15:41.520 --> 0:15:44.960 stolen bases, he's probably I think I saw some of 0:15:44.960 --> 0:15:48.280 the roster resource depth charts like around I think seven 0:15:48.440 --> 0:15:51.120 or eight or something like that. You're gonna get run opportunity. 0:15:51.160 --> 0:15:53.760 He's gonna be kind of devoid in RBI. I think 0:15:53.880 --> 0:15:56.680 posts like two point fifty or wherever he is. He's 0:15:56.800 --> 0:15:58.240 kind of a I don't know if I want to 0:15:58.280 --> 0:15:59.720 go as far as bargain. That's why I didn't put 0:15:59.800 --> 0:16:01.920 him in, but I think he's close to that. If 0:16:01.920 --> 0:16:03.520 you're looking for a little bit deeper league in a 0:16:03.520 --> 0:16:06.480 middle infield for an uptick and stolen bases, and I 0:16:06.480 --> 0:16:08.240 don't know, God knows, man, he could jump into a 0:16:08.280 --> 0:16:10.520 little bit more power. Maybe he gets pushed up in 0:16:10.560 --> 0:16:12.520 the lineup if there's injuries. I mean, there's a lot 0:16:12.520 --> 0:16:15.280 of possibilities with him and his position eligibility is really 0:16:15.280 --> 0:16:16.880 going to help, and he might get some more spots 0:16:16.880 --> 0:16:17.560 with the Yankees. 0:16:18.520 --> 0:16:21.040 One year deal for Nelson Cruz for the Nationals. This 0:16:21.080 --> 0:16:23.280 makes sense to me, Guys, because if you're the Nationals, 0:16:23.280 --> 0:16:25.760 you give Soto some support there for a few months, 0:16:25.760 --> 0:16:28.040 and then you trade them off and basically you spent 0:16:28.160 --> 0:16:30.160 money to get prospects, right, I mean Welsh that that's 0:16:30.160 --> 0:16:31.720 pretty much what his cruise deal is, isn't it? 0:16:32.160 --> 0:16:34.440 Well? I mean, I think on paper for US is 0:16:34.440 --> 0:16:37.360 what it looks like. But he mentioned that the reason 0:16:37.480 --> 0:16:40.000 he came here was because he was sold maybe a 0:16:40.000 --> 0:16:42.240 bill of goods, but he was sold that the team 0:16:42.520 --> 0:16:45.080 still plans to make more moves, that they still plan 0:16:45.360 --> 0:16:47.800 to make this team competitive. And I know, yeah, I 0:16:47.840 --> 0:16:51.160 could see that. Oh that that's smug, like I right, like, 0:16:51.200 --> 0:16:54.320 look that you just give er. But I would say 0:16:54.320 --> 0:16:57.360 this though, so many more of the fringe teams are 0:16:58.160 --> 0:17:00.160 that's a really good roberts Niro. By the way, that 0:17:00.160 --> 0:17:02.480 looks like Facebook Robert D. Niro. If there was ever 0:17:02.520 --> 0:17:05.720 a reason besides my baseball ism, Ken Griffy eight bit 0:17:05.800 --> 0:17:08.840 hat to look at is Joe's de Niro face right now. 0:17:08.840 --> 0:17:13.720 But the fringe teams in each division are more palatable 0:17:13.720 --> 0:17:17.159 to potentially jump into the playoffs now with expanded that. 0:17:17.280 --> 0:17:19.280 I don't think the Nationals, I don't think it's silly, 0:17:19.320 --> 0:17:21.639 it's regardless of us looking at the dumb roster, but 0:17:21.680 --> 0:17:23.199 look at the pitching that they have. This is a 0:17:23.240 --> 0:17:25.960 team that is kind of pot committed to make a 0:17:26.000 --> 0:17:28.360 stab at it unless they can unload. And guess what 0:17:28.480 --> 0:17:29.880 they showed us, They're not going to take a stab 0:17:29.920 --> 0:17:32.040 at it because they signed Nelson Cruz. I think they 0:17:32.119 --> 0:17:33.520 still got a bullet or two to make, and I 0:17:33.560 --> 0:17:34.920 think they're going to make a run. So you say 0:17:34.960 --> 0:17:37.879