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Speaker 1: am Greg Sa. I's been what's going on about reggae?
Speaker 1: Thank god? It's Thursday. It's almost Friday. The NBA is back?
Speaker 1: Is it weird? It feels like a long week. It
Speaker 1: was over just day three. Try being here last. It's
Speaker 1: just day three. I came off a week off. Feels
Speaker 1: like a long pass week. Man. The NBA is back tonight.
Speaker 1: It was supposed to be maybe it still might be
Speaker 1: Opening day in training. There's supposed to be a game
Speaker 1: at three PM between the Mariners and the Oakland A's,
Speaker 1: But as of now, I got an update from our
Speaker 1: good buddy, former best friend forever, Michael Florio that it's
Speaker 1: raining in Arizona. So in Arizona. What is he in Arizona?
Speaker 1: I don't think so he just let you know that.
Speaker 1: I don't know. He probably gets like the whole like
Speaker 1: West coast like weather up. He asked if it was
Speaker 1: raining in Baltimore right now. You know Baltimo watched the weather,
Speaker 1: if we watched the weather on the news, like what
Speaker 1: kind of see like the East coast stuff, like you
Speaker 1: would never realize that in Florida Spring bays in Florida.
Speaker 1: Maybe he was consciously paying a tend the Arizona because
Speaker 1: he wants to watch the spring training game, which you
Speaker 1: know you'll get like an ending of Marco Gonzalez and
Speaker 1: then like who knows what? Cool dude? Now. I was
Speaker 1: kind of excited though, like actually had this day like
Speaker 1: marked off. I have on my calendar at home Saturday,
Speaker 1: Yankee spring training opens the calendar. What time is the
Speaker 1: game start? One o'clock against the Red Sox. It's a
Speaker 1: rivalry game. Greg yes, yes, the first broadcast is Monday.
Speaker 1: It's probably it's probably not even televised, but hey man,
Speaker 1: we're gonna before before you know it, we're gonna have
Speaker 1: some box scorers to look at in terms of some
Speaker 1: spring training baseball stuff, so that will be a lot
Speaker 1: of fun. Uh, you know, to the surprise of nobody,
Speaker 1: Diane Williamson does not play baseball. So I don't think
Speaker 1: that we're gonna be talking about him today unless you
Speaker 1: have a little something something that you want to We'll
Speaker 1: be talking about him later on the NBA Fantasy Our. Uh,
Speaker 1: we can't really say, well, you can say right now
Speaker 1: about um. You know, listen, I think it's I think
Speaker 1: all the Nike memes today are hilarious, um and deserving,
Speaker 1: is it? Definitely, dude, If this happened to any shoe brand,
Speaker 1: any if it happened to like a jersey or something
Speaker 1: that wasn't Nike, or if this happened to anybody, they'd
Speaker 1: be getting roasted. It's not just because it's Nike. It
Speaker 1: does happen to anybody, Like, dude, Nike is supposed to
Speaker 1: be the forefront of like athletic shoe apparel, and this
Speaker 1: guy tore through his shoe, like just ripped a little bit.
Speaker 1: This whole foot went through this shoe. Greg, something, what's up?
Speaker 1: Did you tear through your shoes? Seing of shoes? Right, well,
Speaker 1: yesterday we had the we had the male so I
Speaker 1: have it, so it's you have these Greg's shoe weeks.
Speaker 1: I have these, right, So honestly, the whole Zion thing
Speaker 1: happens yesterday. Right. I put my shoes on this morning
Speaker 1: and this thing is ripping a part. That's what I
Speaker 1: looked to find out if they were Nike. They are not, um,
Speaker 1: but I was just like, is it really a huge
Speaker 1: Nike thing? Like I actually could have happened to anyone, Dude,
Speaker 1: this That's what I'm saying. It could have happened to
Speaker 1: anyone if he was wearing Puma shoes or Didas or
Speaker 1: under armed. It wasn't. But that's why I say it's
Speaker 1: deserving though, Like it could have happened to anybody, like
Speaker 1: any brand, and if it did, we'd be roasting all
Speaker 1: those people too. Probably a little bit more so because
Speaker 1: it's Nike and they're like the face of everything that's
Speaker 1: kind of like sports apparel obviously sneakers, and they have
Speaker 1: like this deal with Duke and stuff and um, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean look just real quickly with Ian Williamson. I
Speaker 1: mean it was obviously, uh it sucked what happened last
Speaker 1: night to him? Um, you know, I want to make
Speaker 1: sure that he's wanted to send healthy. I know, Knicks
Speaker 1: fans are gasping everywhere because like, that's the most nixed
Speaker 1: thing ever to happen, where it's like, you know, a
Speaker 1: generational talent coming out as the first overall pick, No,
Speaker 1: the most next thing ever fish Finally, after two decades,
Speaker 1: finished with the worst record the NBA only fourteen percent
Speaker 1: chance of winning the lottery. That's the most nixt thing ever. Yes,
Speaker 1: that too, But the fact that it looks like they're
Speaker 1: going to get the number one overall pick the same
Speaker 1: chance they there's the freaking magic whatever were the calves
Speaker 1: or whatever. They still have have a better shot this
Speaker 1: year than they've had ever before in the past decades,
Speaker 1: even though they always suck. So a lot of people
Speaker 1: are gett excited about Zion and of course he gets hurt.
Speaker 1: And I actually I tweeted it out last night, Craig
Speaker 1: I said, even a drink, even if he did get
Speaker 1: even if he were hurt and like it was a
Speaker 1: serious injury. I still think he should go number one overall.
Speaker 1: Look at Joel Embiid. I also I don't think I
Speaker 1: tweeted it out, but I also was thinking the same thing.
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, maybe here's a little drops with
Speaker 1: the Nicks get like three, I'll be there that beol. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean it's unfortunate. Look a lot of NBA players
Speaker 1: coming out and showing their support of him. You shouldn't
Speaker 1: play another game, uh at Duke so on and so forth. Um, look,
Speaker 1: I can't disagree. I mean, the guys he's got, he's
Speaker 1: got insurance policy, but he wants to make money obviously
Speaker 1: going into one of these top picks in the NBA draft,
Speaker 1: So I can't blame him one. I think, you know,
Speaker 1: regardless of what he does, if he wants to come back,
Speaker 1: or even if he doesn't, I would support his decision
Speaker 1: because I mean, you kind of gotta put yourself in
Speaker 1: his shoes here unintended, but I think I think if
Speaker 1: you do that, you'd you'd easily be able to see that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you want to be there with your teammates, you want
Speaker 1: to help them out, but it is also like your
Speaker 1: livelihood like the rest of your life, so you can't
Speaker 1: really put that at stake. Let's see what happens. It
Speaker 1: doesn't look like it looks like he avoided a very
Speaker 1: serious injury. It's a mild niece. Range has doctor right. Oh,
Speaker 1: that would have been good asking about baseball stuffasking about
Speaker 1: testicular virginia. Here you talk email Virginia. So outside of
Speaker 1: Duke and Zion Williamson, we are going to be previewing
Speaker 1: the second base position today, which you know, the three
Speaker 1: positions that we've we've chosen to do to start with
Speaker 1: here the catcher, first base, and second base positions are
Speaker 1: probably the three week So here you go. Here your
Speaker 1: your position preview shows for Fantasy baseball this year. We're
Speaker 1: starting off with the three weakest positions, but we're gonna
Speaker 1: try and see how far we could get. I think
Speaker 1: yesterday we spoke for about two hours. We got like
Speaker 1: fifteen first baseman done. That's pretty good. Pretty good this year.
Speaker 1: Like outfields just a little bit, dude. Next next week
Speaker 1: it's outfield weeks week pretty much. Because you know, I
Speaker 1: kind of started my rankings last night and I have
Speaker 1: like a hundred and five first basement listed I've gone
Speaker 1: about like that's too many first basement. It's not it
Speaker 1: seems like too many a hundred and five. Right, there's
Speaker 1: thirty teams in baseball, and there's three outfluders on every team.
Speaker 1: That's nine first basement, I mean outfields. That makes more sense.
Speaker 1: A hundred five first basement I did. I did about
Speaker 1: thirty five to forty at like regular positions. I think
Speaker 1: I have liket. I was like, what are you talking about?
Speaker 1: I don't even know if there are a hundred and
Speaker 1: five first basement between like and the majors. I don't
Speaker 1: know if I can find a hundred like hundred uh,
Speaker 1: you know, first base eligible players. But yeah, we're gonna
Speaker 1: talk about second based position today. Um, I don't know
Speaker 1: you is there anywhere specific you wanna you want to
Speaker 1: start at the top, like overall thoughts of the position? Well,
Speaker 1: you know, it's actually want to I think it's a
Speaker 1: pretty shallow position. Well actually I always want to at
Speaker 1: the start of the top and then kind of kind
Speaker 1: of work our way down. And it's funny because we
Speaker 1: talked a lot last week, earlier this week or last
Speaker 1: week tweet whatever, we talked about hosale to. But we
Speaker 1: didn't ask your show two weeks ago. So we spoke
Speaker 1: about jose Aw and he scared because I was here
Speaker 1: on Hosale two man, and then DR scared the f
Speaker 1: out of me. So hey, that's what he's here for totally. Um.
Speaker 1: So the question now as I look at NFBC A
Speaker 1: DP through the month of February, and the question becomes,
Speaker 1: you know the ADP s how Bias and Hosale two
Speaker 1: going back to back, they are is there a case
Speaker 1: to be me that Hive A Bias should go before
Speaker 1: Joseale to bay Well, yeah, based on last year's production,
Speaker 1: but it's not just last year's production production. We're projecting
Speaker 1: forward here with with Javier Bayas and I think if
Speaker 1: you asked, we are confirmed talking about John Williamson with
Speaker 1: DR now he's sick. Uh. I think if you ask
Speaker 1: the average fantasy baseball player, maybe even the high stakes player,
Speaker 1: because I spoke a little bit with Matt Modica about this,
Speaker 1: if you had to choose one player that's going inside
Speaker 1: the top fifteen, which player kind of scares you the most?
Speaker 1: And unfortunately these two are probably it's the second base position.
Speaker 1: It's Javier bayez Lo. Was that his career year that
Speaker 1: we just saw it, I mean, very well could be.
Speaker 1: He was other worldly last year. You know, he he
Speaker 1: was in he was in the conversation for the for
Speaker 1: the National League MVP, and rightfully so, he was out
Speaker 1: of this world good. I mean, thirty four home runs.
Speaker 1: You can't find a better five to a player than
Speaker 1: what he was last year. Javier Bias four one oh
Speaker 1: one runs, eleven RBIs one stolen basis person. I can't
Speaker 1: really argue with that. Is that gonna end up being
Speaker 1: his career year. That's really what it comes down to.
Speaker 1: And you know, I have some of my concerns. You know,
Speaker 1: I expressed my concerns with Javier Bias heading into last year,
Speaker 1: and I think I've just kind of a scepted that
Speaker 1: this is who Javier by is is and he's going
Speaker 1: to be able to overcome his swinging strike issues and
Speaker 1: and his strikeout rate issues and the fact that he
Speaker 1: hasn't walked that much. He's gonna be able to overcome that. Why,
Speaker 1: because he's done it over the past four seasons. He's
Speaker 1: never had a batting average below two seventy three. So
Speaker 1: that's his floor, his flot more batting averages to seventy three.
Speaker 1: And actually, you know, he's not only these other guys
Speaker 1: who strike out a lot and had this this wide
Speaker 1: range of possibilities. You know what his ranges. It's two
Speaker 1: seventy two ninety. That's where he's been his entire career.
Speaker 1: He's never been below two seventy three. Last year he
Speaker 1: was at two ninety. I worry a little bit about
Speaker 1: the power coming back a little bit because the bat
Speaker 1: of ball data wasn't great, like thirty five percent hard
Speaker 1: hit rate in a year where like everyone's hard hit
Speaker 1: rate was thirty five percent that was league average home
Speaker 1: run the fly ball ratio went up, So you know,
Speaker 1: I do worry about some of these things. But uh,
Speaker 1: you know what, what do I haven't projected for to
Speaker 1: seventy five homers, eight five runs, ninety five rb i s,
Speaker 1: fifteen stolen bases. That's still a near first round player.
Speaker 1: So I think my my reservations with have they last
Speaker 1: year was Joe Madden, right was Joe Madden was gonna
Speaker 1: f with him in some way, and he moved him around,
Speaker 1: he wouldn't play on certain days. Correct, and Benzo versus
Speaker 1: gonna be a thing. Benzover is great last year, but
Speaker 1: it wasn't. But it wasn't in spite of Javier Bias. Now,
Speaker 1: Bias played more than ever last year, a hundred and
Speaker 1: sixty games he appeared in, and all these stats. To me,
Speaker 1: thirty four home runs probably comes back down. You said
Speaker 1: twenty nine in your projections. Let's i'll say twenty five
Speaker 1: to thirty and maybe even a slightly less than that
Speaker 1: twenty nine number. But I think the runs, the RB
Speaker 1: I I think that's replicable, and I think, like you said,
Speaker 1: Frank the Babbit, which was a three seven last year,
Speaker 1: it's was pretty much in line with what he's done
Speaker 1: the last three years, three forty seven. It wasn't outlandish
Speaker 1: the average. Okay, so it went up a little bit
Speaker 1: to to ninety, all right, it comes back down to
Speaker 1: two eighty. Okay. He's never gonna be a high ov
Speaker 1: P guy because he doesn't walk. The strikeouts are always
Speaker 1: gonna be annoying around twenty five. But to say it's
Speaker 1: twenty six years old, that he scored more runs and
Speaker 1: have more RBIs gained a little bit of power here
Speaker 1: kind of makes sense. Now the stolen basis that one
Speaker 1: was by far a career high. I'm worried about that
Speaker 1: coming back down into that fifteen range again this year,
Speaker 1: which you're dropping them a little bit. So for me,
Speaker 1: the obvious question is, yes, was last year the pinnacle
Speaker 1: of Javier Bias. You gave all the advanced stats, you
Speaker 1: gave a line drive, right, you gave the hard hit rate,
Speaker 1: and it wasn't glaringly bad. It wasn't like, all right,
Speaker 1: this guy's not gonna do it again. But it wasn't like,
Speaker 1: al right, here's why he will do it again. Right.
Speaker 1: It's kind of in the middle there, which means he's
Speaker 1: not somebody probably want as my first round pick. He's
Speaker 1: someone i'd feel more comfortable if that's my second round pick.
Speaker 1: And if you're asking me between Jose L. Tuv And
Speaker 1: and Javier Bias, which is probably a fair question. As
Speaker 1: as we stated, what are you drafting them for in
Speaker 1: the first round. If you're looking at guys you're were
Speaker 1: comfortable with speed, theoretically, whose L two is the guy
Speaker 1: back for these injuries? You're you're you're a little bit purpose.
Speaker 1: But if you're convinced that Who's l he's a hundred
Speaker 1: percent healthy, given that the average, given the speed, I'd
Speaker 1: probably take l two A over Bias. But that's you
Speaker 1: have to be convinced that he's healthy there. If you're
Speaker 1: not convinced these different things. Ultimately that's not necessary, that's
Speaker 1: not necessarily true. Like all to it gives you a
Speaker 1: little bit of everything else. But what he gives you
Speaker 1: more of is different than Javier Bias because he's gonna
Speaker 1: give you more back. Definitely, he's not gonna give you
Speaker 1: as much power. He'll probably be closer to runs without right,
Speaker 1: So that's fine. So Valu is gonna come more home runs.
Speaker 1: The runs will probably be comparable. The speed. The speed
Speaker 1: I think the RBI is kind of speed is probably
Speaker 1: gonna favor he to it. You'd think it, which so
Speaker 1: he's coming off a major Nie surcher that when we
Speaker 1: asked Dr A about it, he was worried. But that's
Speaker 1: ultimately the million dollar question if you don't worry about
Speaker 1: Howvier buys a speed. Something that brought up to me
Speaker 1: in the second half last year. If you look at it,
Speaker 1: he went three for ten, so I basically that's so bad.
Speaker 1: That's really like he went one for thirty on the season,
Speaker 1: So I think about that he only had three stole
Speaker 1: basic to ten in the second half he went three
Speaker 1: for he went terrible. You know, he went three for ten.
Speaker 1: It's not you know, I think he's probably closer to
Speaker 1: like twelve to fifteen. And that's really how many like
Speaker 1: all two days days of getting thirty store it might
Speaker 1: opinion they're not gonna have any shares of Jose altime.
Speaker 1: And I think I am either talking myself into it.
Speaker 1: I do this a lot on the show. Right he
Speaker 1: buyas over El, Yeah, I am. I'm not gonna do
Speaker 1: it because if it came down to what I would draft,
Speaker 1: Howvier buys ahead of him, I wouldn't you know those
Speaker 1: thirteen home runs that he had last year for al
Speaker 1: two obviously, unless he's had any years since two thousand
Speaker 1: and fourteen, what's the realistic for the speed last the speed?
Speaker 1: I don'tn't want to say that those thirties, the the
Speaker 1: days of thirty stone bases are gone. I don't know
Speaker 1: about gone. Last year is by far the least he's
Speaker 1: had ever. He's just gonna stop. You think he's gonna
Speaker 1: just stop running? How about this? How your bias sprint
Speaker 1: speed was in the eighty nine percentile in baseball this year.
Speaker 1: Maybe he's just gotta pick and choose a spots better.
Speaker 1: I'm saying two, they had a hot your bias Man. Realistically,
Speaker 1: I'm not taking either of these guys. I can't see
Speaker 1: a scenario where you take Javier Bias though, and you
Speaker 1: you pair him with like a Freddy Freeman. That would
Speaker 1: be an awesome start, although you know, don't you can
Speaker 1: turn about the pitching. You don't get an out fielder,
Speaker 1: you don't get a starting picture. But look, if you're
Speaker 1: someone that's confident that you can find those middle ground
Speaker 1: outfielders and you can take your your sp one and
Speaker 1: two in rounds three and four, Like, that's a scenario
Speaker 1: could he taken because you get the batting average from
Speaker 1: Freddy Freeman to kind of counteract Javier Bias if there's
Speaker 1: a little bit more volatility there than we expect and
Speaker 1: they both kind of do a little bit of everything,
Speaker 1: Like Freddie Freeman is gonna give you ten stole bases,
Speaker 1: is gonna give you twenty five runs, Like it's a
Speaker 1: really good start if you can start buy it's Freddy
Speaker 1: Freeman's pretty good. There's nothing wrong with me. It's like,
Speaker 1: you know, either guy, like if you can start buyas
Speaker 1: Freeman bias Goldschmidt pretty good. We talked um about yesterday.
Speaker 1: But you said about two man you can start by
Speaker 1: as judge, I thought about that too, but the batting
Speaker 1: average is a little bit more of a concern there.
Speaker 1: Like I trust that Freddy Freeman and Paul Goldschman are
Speaker 1: going to help me more in batting average. And judge,
Speaker 1: can you just gonna be like to seventy can you
Speaker 1: start a two bay bias sure of the middle enfield?
Speaker 1: I mean somebody can? I can't. Okay, No, Look, they're
Speaker 1: both really talented players. It's just like you lock yourself
Speaker 1: up so much if you do that early on, because
Speaker 1: then like if there's middle and fields later on, that
Speaker 1: you kind of like that. You think, are you know,
Speaker 1: falling out a good value, Like you're not gonna draft
Speaker 1: one of those guys your utility only players? Well, well
Speaker 1: that's true, yeah, I mean you can. You can make
Speaker 1: bias short stop. You can also I think you'd use
Speaker 1: them at third base as well. Alright, so maybe you can.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't. I mean again, personally, I need at least
Speaker 1: one between the outfielder and starting pitch for the first
Speaker 1: rodos in Rhodo and in points leagues. I don't really
Speaker 1: want hier Bias because he doesn't walk all right. Let's
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Speaker 1: night here in the Fantasy Sports that we're calling the shots.
Speaker 1: Keith Arizari live in studio. Our buddy Kelly A. Coin
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Speaker 1: Speaking of being a part of it, Dr A Joy's
Speaker 1: program right now is he's of course an HONORARYBFF as well.
Speaker 1: What's going on? Doctor? Um, good guys, Frank, Greg, how's
Speaker 1: your week going so far? I thought did you sleep?
Speaker 1: I really thought I didn't sleep. I didn't sleep that
Speaker 1: well last night. Doctor, I mean you didn't. You didn't
Speaker 1: ask me, but I'll answer anyway. I actually am dealing
Speaker 1: with Uh. I don't know. I need you to come
Speaker 1: examine me a little bit because I got I got
Speaker 1: like this lower back thing going on. I don't know
Speaker 1: if it's an oblique it's like my lower left back.
Speaker 1: I kind of tweaked it playing basketball every night. I'm
Speaker 1: kind of like rubbing some well up media, rubbing like
Speaker 1: freeze on it and like icy hot. It's not getting better, Doc,
Speaker 1: what'should I do? I don't know. This is very typical
Speaker 1: of a pilates injury. Are you doing excessive pilates? Probably
Speaker 1: not enough pilates. I don't know that it's a muscle strain.
Speaker 1: It's just gonna take its own time. That's basically anti inflammatory,
Speaker 1: is an ice, basically just give any Like my cavs
Speaker 1: for the last two years are still strained. I want
Speaker 1: to let you know that I haven't been able to
Speaker 1: work those muscles out. Well. You should probably, you know,
Speaker 1: like use them more often. Greg, Yeah, maybe go jogging
Speaker 1: or something. Yeah, created them up a little bit. Yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, Uh, Doc, we're mentioning all the our our
Speaker 1: own injuries. But the biggest injury in sports right now
Speaker 1: is what happened a Zion Williamson last night who fell
Speaker 1: out of his shoes and twisted his knee. And there's
Speaker 1: a massive, massive, deep breath by every Duke fan, of course,
Speaker 1: any college basketball fan, NBA fan, and particularly Knicks fans
Speaker 1: um as well. Duke said after the game that he
Speaker 1: has a mild knee sprain. You see, you saw on
Speaker 1: Twitter immediately following the game that David Chang um he
Speaker 1: would be as David changing. David Chang is a chef
Speaker 1: San Diego guy, David chout, thank you. David Chow was
Speaker 1: tweeting out that he believes from the video that it's
Speaker 1: probably a slight MCL injury and MCL spring that should
Speaker 1: have him back by the time the a CC tournament starts,
Speaker 1: or and or the n C Double A Tournament starts.
Speaker 1: Any well, yeah, we we tweeted out right when it
Speaker 1: happened that it was an m c L spring. Okay,
Speaker 1: so injuries agreed, all right, what is the latest that
Speaker 1: you're seeing then? Do yeah, I mean this looks like
Speaker 1: a minor twe I mean, it doesn't look like a major. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, like a grade two or grade three. We're
Speaker 1: we're labeling it a grade one. The very fact that is,
Speaker 1: you know right off that you know he was able
Speaker 1: to put some weight on it, um and uh, you know,
Speaker 1: to us, it's a minor. It's a minor m c
Speaker 1: L sprain, probably a grade one. The m R I
Speaker 1: is going to tell everything but um, you know, the
Speaker 1: good news is is that uh um, you know, we
Speaker 1: don't think it requires any type of surgery. Although this
Speaker 1: is a two week recovery time, especially for him, they
Speaker 1: should really really take it uh uh carefully for his
Speaker 1: sake because you know the way he plays and with
Speaker 1: the fervor uh and the aggressiveness that he plays, this
Speaker 1: thing needs to be completely healed one hundred percent before
Speaker 1: he gets back out on the court. And so, uh yeah,
Speaker 1: grade one m c L two weeks. Let's see if
Speaker 1: they actually adhere to that uh m r results. I
Speaker 1: don't know if they'll ever publish them. Uh, we'll see
Speaker 1: what happens. But um, right now we're looking at a
Speaker 1: grade one. Oh there, there's absolutely no doubt in my
Speaker 1: mind that they will adhere to this. They are not
Speaker 1: rushing him back. It's like it's not like playoffs or
Speaker 1: anything like that. Like they're going to make sure he's
Speaker 1: a billion percent healthy before he's out there again. Two
Speaker 1: weeks time. Your timetable has him back to the a
Speaker 1: CC tournament has n't back in plenty of time for
Speaker 1: March madness. But Frank, you said you do not expect
Speaker 1: him to play again. Yeah, so When I said he
Speaker 1: wasn't gonna play again, that wasn't any like official report.
Speaker 1: That was just my opinion. I would be very surprised
Speaker 1: if he played again. Obviously, you need to protect himself
Speaker 1: and his future in terms of, uh, you know, where
Speaker 1: he wants to go in the NBA draft. I doesn't
Speaker 1: want to like, you know, further injure anything else. Plus
Speaker 1: like really, what else does he owe you know, Duke
Speaker 1: and the n c A A, like you know, he's
Speaker 1: making any money off this either. So you know, there's
Speaker 1: a lot of people debating that today. I don't really
Speaker 1: want to go into that, but I would be surprised
Speaker 1: if he plays another game, even if he does come
Speaker 1: back healthy. So yeah, so let me clarify, Yeah, Frank,
Speaker 1: let me clarify. He will be recovered from this injury
Speaker 1: in two weeks. If it's a Grade one m c
Speaker 1: L sprain, which was what we're predicting. What he decides
Speaker 1: to do is a different store. Yeah. I hear what
Speaker 1: you're saying there, Doc, because I agree. You know, he's
Speaker 1: gonna be healthy at some point. I think, like before,
Speaker 1: especially like the March Madness, the NBA tournament, I think
Speaker 1: it'll be healthy by then, but I would me personally,
Speaker 1: I would be surprised if he plays doc. Let's let's
Speaker 1: transition here into a little bit of a fantasy baseball.
Speaker 1: We were having some fun yesterday, unfortunately at the expense
Speaker 1: of Jose Bray. You so I gotta ask you. We
Speaker 1: were talking about he had legitimately testicular torsion last year
Speaker 1: where he needed to have surgery to save one of
Speaker 1: his testicles. Um, I hope that doesn't affect him this year.
Speaker 1: But he also dealt with a thigh injury that shut
Speaker 1: him down at the end of the season. Uh. First up,
Speaker 1: let's get your thoughts on the testicular torsion a second
Speaker 1: of the thigh injury with Jose Bray. Well, it was
Speaker 1: really a thigh infection and all of this is related,
Speaker 1: so you know, testicular torsion is a uh sort of
Speaker 1: a serious emergency because the arterial blood supply to one
Speaker 1: of the testicles gets twisted and then compromised and it
Speaker 1: has to be basically operated and and sort of detourised
Speaker 1: or removed, et cetera. Unfortunately, but there's as any risk
Speaker 1: with any surgery, there's always a chance of post operative
Speaker 1: infection and that's what uh. You know, I think the
Speaker 1: inner thigh is kind of where they operate on, you know,
Speaker 1: that's kind of in the surgical field. Uh. He talked
Speaker 1: about it coming from an ingrown hair and then infected
Speaker 1: from that point. But usually that is probably in preparation
Speaker 1: for that surgery. Unfortunately, sometimes when you have a post
Speaker 1: operative infection or infection shortly after surgery, it's always connected
Speaker 1: and and the kind of the dominoes fall and then
Speaker 1: it takes a lot longer to recover. This is not
Speaker 1: a sports related in whatever whatever he had gone through,
Speaker 1: This is all related to medical type of diagnoses and
Speaker 1: not sports injury related. He's like, so the surgery is done,
Speaker 1: the infection is cleared, it's done. He's kind of getting back.
Speaker 1: You know. All of these other injuries that he had
Speaker 1: before still keeps his injury risk pretty high. We always
Speaker 1: have said that, but from this particular injury he should
Speaker 1: be completely um, you know, recovered from because it's not
Speaker 1: really a sports injury. He's at above average. Remember is
Speaker 1: our peak threshold, So he's five percent away from being
Speaker 1: at peak health. His injury risk is a twenty seven percent,
Speaker 1: so one and a quarter, so he will get banged
Speaker 1: up this year, probably a quarter of the games. And uh,
Speaker 1: you know, but from this particular injury, he should be
Speaker 1: back up to peak health once the opening day starts.
Speaker 1: He's scared with that missing quarter of the season. Frank, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you just drop him down to rankings. I had to
Speaker 1: pull I had to pull him up to see. Uh.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's been pretty durable outside of the last year,
Speaker 1: so we'll see what happens. But I mean that does
Speaker 1: worry me a little bit. You know, I trust I
Speaker 1: trust docs analysis here, and you know, Jose Bray is
Speaker 1: one of these guys that I was actively targeting. But
Speaker 1: hearing that, you know, missing a quarter to the games
Speaker 1: or at least you know the possibility of that happening
Speaker 1: because of past injuries, it's worrisome. I mean, you can't
Speaker 1: just closs over it. I don't think so either. It's
Speaker 1: like the doctor from Inside Injuries and Doc the Cardinals
Speaker 1: have come out and said, listen, we're not happy with
Speaker 1: how Carlos Martinez his train we are not happy with
Speaker 1: the how his shoulder looks or his reacting. And fantasy
Speaker 1: owners are now really staying away from Carlos Martinez because
Speaker 1: they don't know if he's a starter, they don't know
Speaker 1: if he's a reliever, they don't know when he's going
Speaker 1: to pitch. Should we'd be scared the draft Carlos Partinez,
Speaker 1: how many red flags do you need? Three or four? Seven? So?
Speaker 1: Uh so, Number one, Uh, you know he has a
Speaker 1: long list of previous injuries. Number two is the fact
Speaker 1: that you know, landed on the d L three times
Speaker 1: last season with shoulder of leak and latch strains. Number three, um, uh,
Speaker 1: he has a he's you know, basically a throwing shoulder injury.
Speaker 1: It's great too, so it's not a tear, but it's
Speaker 1: still you know, a significant straining. And uh, you know
Speaker 1: with all of the previous injuries, the fact that it's
Speaker 1: a throwing shoulder, the fact that he's a pictuer, um
Speaker 1: gives him a twenty four HPF. I mean, this is
Speaker 1: really bad. HPF is supposed to be right now for
Speaker 1: a guy you're ready, you think is going to be
Speaker 1: good this year, probably a seventy. He's at twenty four percent.
Speaker 1: His injury risk right now is like flipping up a
Speaker 1: coin almost. And so, uh, this is a guy that, unfortunately,
Speaker 1: from a fantasy perspective, you stay away from this. Look,
Speaker 1: you didn't. You didn't need to hear much more than that.
Speaker 1: He was dealing with the late injury last year. He's
Speaker 1: dealing with the shoulder injury now. I mean, these are
Speaker 1: these are recurring injuries now with with Carlos Martinez, it's
Speaker 1: a it's very worrisome you're getting him at a discount before.
Speaker 1: But I no matter how fault heart fall, how far
Speaker 1: he falls on twister there, I don't I don't know
Speaker 1: that I could. I don't think I could get it
Speaker 1: on Carlos Martinez here, Greg, you obviously know a song,
Speaker 1: baby comeback. Miguelson. No is doing it to me all
Speaker 1: over again. Man, Like every single year, I fall for
Speaker 1: the power upside of Miguels And No, you're getting him
Speaker 1: outside the top two picks right now, So you actually
Speaker 1: get like a pretty good discount here, and I like
Speaker 1: the twins lineup quite a bit. But he is he's
Speaker 1: currently walking wearing a walking boot here doc to prevent
Speaker 1: a laceration on his heel from reopening. Does this have
Speaker 1: any potential of you know, lingering into the season and
Speaker 1: becoming a nuisance. No, I mean, if this is a
Speaker 1: superficial laceration, that he got stitches on it doesn't go
Speaker 1: super deep, then uh, this is not even a sports injury.
Speaker 1: This is a grave point five in our book, and
Speaker 1: so it shouldn't doesn't cause a lot. I wouldn't be
Speaker 1: concerned about this. I mean this thing a cut. Will
Speaker 1: heal with stitches probably in two weeks, two to three weeks,
Speaker 1: and he should be good to go there. Making sure
Speaker 1: that there's no infection after that, because then that will
Speaker 1: obviously complicate things. Um, the you know, the biggest, the
Speaker 1: biggest thing for Miguel Sown and you said this, Um,
Speaker 1: you know he's uh, I mean, he's got another he's
Speaker 1: got a lot of recurring sort of a nagging all
Speaker 1: previous injuries that he's recovered from. He's at forty seven
Speaker 1: injury risk right now, and so it's like a flip
Speaker 1: of the coin. I know you have a love affair
Speaker 1: with this guy, but um, you know he's at sixty percent,
Speaker 1: so he's above average, but he's so high risk that
Speaker 1: if you're going to take him, you have to have
Speaker 1: a solid guy that you can literally replace him in
Speaker 1: your line up, because you know he may miss half
Speaker 1: the year this year, he may or he may not
Speaker 1: that's true. That's true. There's two sides every coin, There's
Speaker 1: two sides every story. So he also look, it's kind
Speaker 1: of baked into his price, so you know, you're getting
Speaker 1: him so late. And when I look at a guy
Speaker 1: like him, I just see like thirty home run upside.
Speaker 1: I think actually being around a guy like Nelson Cruz
Speaker 1: is actually gonna help him a lot in terms of
Speaker 1: like having a veteran presence around. You know, they're both
Speaker 1: from the Dominican Republic. I think that's gonna help him.
Speaker 1: Is it gonna help him stay healthy? Not too sure
Speaker 1: about that, but I do see some serious upside here
Speaker 1: with else, know, going outside the top two. Yeah, there's
Speaker 1: not much risks, right? Can he be our corner infielding? Yeah?
Speaker 1: We're in Greggy Okay, I'm all right. You know a
Speaker 1: name that we spoke about off the air, Frank earlier
Speaker 1: this week. We're like, what do you do with you Darfish? Like,
Speaker 1: what is you Darvish going to be? What was his injury?
Speaker 1: And nobody nobody knows, well, I'm hoping Dr knows. Doc
Speaker 1: is you Darvish healthy? He says he's healthy, but like
Speaker 1: he was so bad last year, but he blamed the injuries,
Speaker 1: like should we invest in this guy again? So, Um,
Speaker 1: the procedure, yeah, we could. We could spend a long
Speaker 1: time talking about you Darvish. Um, I can have power
Speaker 1: point slides, you know, we could do all of that.
Speaker 1: But to summarize it, he had a right elbow arthroscopic
Speaker 1: Debriedman surgery. UM, and so essentially a lot of you
Speaker 1: know that cleans up the cartilage in his throwing elbow. Um,
Speaker 1: it will, it will shave off some spurs, make you know,
Speaker 1: kind of you know, basically clean out like you hear
Speaker 1: about clean out procedures. That's what he's doing. Um. He
Speaker 1: had a tricept strain stress reaction at the tip of
Speaker 1: the right elbow, which means like he had a stress
Speaker 1: like basically like a stress minor stress fracture. They're all
Speaker 1: of that is healed. I can almost guarantee that all
Speaker 1: of that stuff is healed. He's had a good procedure.
Speaker 1: He's throwing batting practice. I mean this thing is uh,
Speaker 1: he's doing he's so far everything that that what we
Speaker 1: have seen and that's put into the algorithm. It's looking
Speaker 1: good for Hugh Darvish. The thing is is that he obviously,
Speaker 1: you know all of his injuries, the way he throws,
Speaker 1: the emotion, you know all of that stuff. He will
Speaker 1: have about his i r C right now is twenty
Speaker 1: eight percent. By by opening day it should drop down
Speaker 1: to fifth of the season. So he'll play, you know,
Speaker 1: like he'll start if he makes If he tries to
Speaker 1: make twenty starts, I think he'll probably make about fifteen
Speaker 1: to sixteen out of the twenty. Not bad if you're
Speaker 1: thinking about fifteen to sixteen starts of Hugh Darvish. He's
Speaker 1: above average at seventy. In two months, he'll probably be
Speaker 1: very close to peak helt so from this particular injury,
Speaker 1: he's had enough time. He's ready to go. From those
Speaker 1: he's healed, so he's at the best health that he
Speaker 1: could be at this point. But expect him not to
Speaker 1: be twenty a twenty star guy. He'll probably be right
Speaker 1: around fourteen to fifteen, all right. So you're getting him
Speaker 1: in the ninth round right now, Greg, Is that something
Speaker 1: that can interest you? Is your SP three SP four?
Speaker 1: Maybe Looking at the tout Ward Draft and Hoole Draft,
Speaker 1: he went in in round nine, just ahead of Shane
Speaker 1: Bieber and Chris Archer, So that's kind of the range
Speaker 1: he's gonna be at, like around that, you know, top thirty,
Speaker 1: top thirty five starting pitchers. So all the projections off
Speaker 1: fan graphs have them pretty similar around ten wins or so,
Speaker 1: around seven eight losses, hundred and forty innings about with
Speaker 1: the e r A at three seven I'm out. I mean,
Speaker 1: if we're just going, yeah, they haven't at around a
Speaker 1: hundred and forty innings pitched. And you know he's kind
Speaker 1: of he's always dealt with injuries. You know, he's had
Speaker 1: he's had Tommy John before and you know he's only
Speaker 1: on over a hundred and eighties six endings pitched, you know,
Speaker 1: once in the past four seasons. So yeah, you know
Speaker 1: he comes with his own risk. But that's where you're
Speaker 1: getting him as a Lady Walks for nine so bad. Well,
Speaker 1: I mean you're looking at last year specifically, look at
Speaker 1: I'm looking at the projections. I mean, he's always been
Speaker 1: a guy that's like a right around three walks for nine.
Speaker 1: I don't want this guy. You don't want I don't
Speaker 1: want you. Maybe I don't think, I don't think. Maybe
Speaker 1: should ask dr me. But you Darvish just teammate though,
Speaker 1: Brandon Morrow, because the you want the closer you'd think
Speaker 1: for Chicago are expecting within a bunch of games. Um,
Speaker 1: But they have a lot of options of who the
Speaker 1: closer could be for the Cubs. Their top options for
Speaker 1: last year was Brandon Morrow, who predictably got hurt like
Speaker 1: he always does. You want to talk about a laundry
Speaker 1: list of insuries, that's Brandy Mara. Is he healthy right now? Doc? So,
Speaker 1: our algorithm picked up on a couple of pieces of
Speaker 1: terminology coming out of the Cups camp, and it's said
Speaker 1: m R I showed no damage, but a CT scan
Speaker 1: later showed the need for surgery. So the only reason,
Speaker 1: not the only but there's very few indications that actually
Speaker 1: that happens on and the team is not telling us
Speaker 1: what that is. Um. You know, you know there's there's
Speaker 1: something in the bone. The CT scan is much better
Speaker 1: for bone evaluation, and m R is much better for
Speaker 1: soft tissue evaluation like ligaments and tendons and cartilage, etcetera,
Speaker 1: all of that stuff. So when something is not seen
Speaker 1: on m R I, but it is seen on CT,
Speaker 1: it's likely something in the bone. And so is it,
Speaker 1: uh some necrosis? Is it a you know, I'm just
Speaker 1: speculating here, guys. I don't know anything, but it's something else.
Speaker 1: Sometimes there could be a little bone tumor, it could
Speaker 1: be I don't know. They're there's all these different things
Speaker 1: that are not seen on m R I that you
Speaker 1: can see on CTT. That is a pretty big indication
Speaker 1: because essentially, besides all of the other injuries that he's had, um,
Speaker 1: you know, uh, you know, and when he missed the
Speaker 1: final three months of the season, and then finally after
Speaker 1: all this evaluation, underwent surgery. UM. You know, he had
Speaker 1: a great three elbow to breedman surgery. That's what they're
Speaker 1: calling it. UM. But I believe that the surgery is
Speaker 1: a lot was a lot more than that. UM. They're
Speaker 1: not telling us a piece of it. Basically, So his
Speaker 1: HPF is poor, it's thirty eight percent, and he's done
Speaker 1: a very very high injury risk this year, especially as
Speaker 1: a closer, with this type of elbow injury and all
Speaker 1: of these um, you know, previous injuries and the fact
Speaker 1: that they have to debreed his elbow before the season again,
Speaker 1: you know, longevity through the season and being being a
Speaker 1: sort of dominant closer in the league. It's gonna be
Speaker 1: very difficult for him to maintain that. Uh, you know,
Speaker 1: throughout the rest of the season, you could probably see
Speaker 1: him start really well, but you know, his fifth or
Speaker 1: sixth start after that, you could probably see him go
Speaker 1: downhill a little bit. There you go, Dr Ray from
Speaker 1: inside injuries. My good information this week not really positive,
Speaker 1: but hey, I mean that's what he's here for. It
Speaker 1: to deliver the good news. I mean, Doc is here
Speaker 1: to deliver the hard news. Good news on it bre
Speaker 1: you not really. He tells he's a quarter of the season,
Speaker 1: but he's but he's healed. Awesome, he's still got a
Speaker 1: test I mean that counts or something. Dr a inside injury,
Speaker 1: you know what Zion news is good? All right, Doc, Well,
Speaker 1: we'll bring it back next week. All that inside injury is.
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Speaker 1: I'll take it. Okay. So second base ranks, we've uh,
Speaker 1: it's been forty five minutes, we've been two so we're
Speaker 1: on tractor zeries paces yesterday. Then, so you have these
Speaker 1: two guys, right, Javier buys nose a are you and
Speaker 1: they are borderline first second round. Excuse me was out
Speaker 1: to man Hivier bias borderline first second round guys or
Speaker 1: turn Gathers. Say, then you have a second baseman there's
Speaker 1: in a tier of his own, and that's whit mary Field.
Speaker 1: His nfcc A DP. Over the last month or so,
Speaker 1: he's around, so he's playing in fifteen team league. The
Speaker 1: end of the second county, he played a swelfth team league,
Speaker 1: right dab smack in the middle of the third the
Speaker 1: next second bason doesn't go off the bat off the
Speaker 1: board for another thirty picks or so, whit mary Fields
Speaker 1: in a tier of his own. And I asked Frank
Speaker 1: right before he went on the air, I said, Frank,
Speaker 1: is whit mary Field worth it? Where he's getting drafted?
Speaker 1: And of course he turned that into a poll with
Speaker 1: all these guys that are kind of in the area.
Speaker 1: So I'll throw it at you again, Buddy, Is whit
Speaker 1: mary Field worth being drafted at his a DP? Yes
Speaker 1: and no. I think it's kind of an overreaction because
Speaker 1: everyone wants to find stolen bases and last year with
Speaker 1: Maryfield led the league and stolen basis with forty five.
Speaker 1: He actually attempted fifty five stolen bases, was caught ten times.
Speaker 1: But he gives you stolen basis and doesn't completely completely
Speaker 1: sink you everywhere else. Now, he is expected to bat
Speaker 1: third in the Royals lineup this year, so is there
Speaker 1: a chance that that affects his stolen base output a
Speaker 1: little bit? I have I have some concerns, but the
Speaker 1: Royals are a team that if they want to generate
Speaker 1: any offenses year, it's gonna be on the base pass
Speaker 1: Because they have Billy Hamilton's, they have Adalberto Mondescy, they
Speaker 1: have with mary Field. It's very clear what they're trying
Speaker 1: to do this year. They don't have big sluggers in
Speaker 1: this lineup. The way that they're going to generate runs
Speaker 1: is they're gonna run on the base paths, So you know,
Speaker 1: with mary Field still gonna run a lot. Am I
Speaker 1: gonna project him for forty plus long basis? Again probably not.
Speaker 1: I would probably expect more like the thirty five range
Speaker 1: for Wit mary Field doesn't completely kill you in like
Speaker 1: the power category. He's gonna be twelve to fifteen home runs,
Speaker 1: good batting average. I think he's a legitimate hitter, you know,
Speaker 1: to eight plus batting average UM. But the lineup is
Speaker 1: just not great greg So eight runs seventy r b
Speaker 1: I s you know, even if he bats third with
Speaker 1: seventy five maybe eighty eight r bis. I mean, that's
Speaker 1: on the good side of things, the good spectrum of
Speaker 1: of outcomes that can happening for Wit Maryfield. So you're
Speaker 1: looking at a good batting average to eighty runs not great,
Speaker 1: I mean, but he doesn't completely sinking. He's not liked
Speaker 1: Gordon where he us you like one or two eighty
Speaker 1: runs seventy d r bis and you know thirty five
Speaker 1: stone basis. So that's what you're looking at. Is that
Speaker 1: worthy of a second round pick? Probably not. I think
Speaker 1: it's an overreaction because people want to get stolen basis.
Speaker 1: So the sole based category I mentioned it without two
Speaker 1: bay couple of moments ago that like, do you know
Speaker 1: you're getting them? It's well worth it, I think, And
Speaker 1: as you stated Frankie, like this is the only way
Speaker 1: the roads are gonna have any any amount of success.
Speaker 1: We saw thirty four stone basis when he's seventeen from
Speaker 1: wit up to forty five last year. Is this dude's
Speaker 1: gonna steal fifty basis? Probably not, But there's nothing that
Speaker 1: I'm seeing that says you can't really replicate what he's doing. Right, Like,
Speaker 1: he's a fast dude. He's gonna score eighty runs. He's
Speaker 1: gonna have proba at least seventy r v I. You
Speaker 1: think it makes a lot of contact K percentages and
Speaker 1: been around six up the walk rate if you have
Speaker 1: to be very impressive. He doubled his walk rate nine
Speaker 1: drive rate right around thirty, so you contact. So he's
Speaker 1: gonna have a good batting average. He's gonna hit some doubles,
Speaker 1: which is gonna help you in points lead You like
Speaker 1: that he improved that walk right, Actually have what Mary
Speaker 1: Field as a key keeper in one of my home
Speaker 1: points leagues, and I'm actually kind of excited about it.
Speaker 1: I have him for I believe a tenth round. So
Speaker 1: my buddy actually before the show, G chatted me and
Speaker 1: he's like, hey, I have with mary Field as a
Speaker 1: third round keeper at the three eight twelve league in
Speaker 1: the three eight spot. What do I do it? Will?
Speaker 1: It comes down to what the rest of his keepers
Speaker 1: look like. So it's like, if you have no one
Speaker 1: else and you just want to assure that you get
Speaker 1: with Maryfield, then sure, but there's no value there. That's
Speaker 1: not great value. I think you're right. He hasn't shut
Speaker 1: you out all that much about sixteen. Um, I think
Speaker 1: what we're seeing is pretty replicable. The bad it was
Speaker 1: was pretty high at two at just three or eight
Speaker 1: the year before. He doesn't have a bit of a
Speaker 1: split thing to verse right E's he's two eighty two
Speaker 1: and with a seven fifty o ps. But against lefties
Speaker 1: he's three fifty seven, so he crushed it. He's adequate
Speaker 1: against rights and he crushes left I mean, but he's
Speaker 1: getting sink you. You know, it's not like he's dreadful.
Speaker 1: Do you think some of the reason that you're not
Speaker 1: get head over heels for this dude because he's like
Speaker 1: thirty years old. Um, there's a bad team. I'm more
Speaker 1: worried about the Royals lineup than I am the age
Speaker 1: thing because just looking at his skills, you know he's
Speaker 1: improved the plate discipline. He hits the ball hard. I
Speaker 1: think he's a legitimate hitter. I think he's a good hitter.
Speaker 1: I do have some concerns about the Royals lineup. If
Speaker 1: I'm being honest, I don't think it's good. It's terrible.
Speaker 1: It's probably the worst team in baseball. But you know,
Speaker 1: if he does bat third. Last year, I think he
Speaker 1: was more so like batting first and second. If he
Speaker 1: does that third, you might you might lose some stolen basis,
Speaker 1: but you'll gain some RBI. Maybe he's closer to eight
Speaker 1: RBI this year. You're looking there was reasons you have
Speaker 1: to win Mary Fils, not for the r v I.
Speaker 1: You don't care about the r V I theoretically care
Speaker 1: on the steels. Yeah, I mean you want a little
Speaker 1: bit of everything. That's what you won't win Mary Phil
Speaker 1: four because he doesn't sink you in any specific spot.
Speaker 1: So last year he added first a hundred twelve of games,
Speaker 1: still thirty nine of his forty six bass in the
Speaker 1: leadoff spot. That in second he stole four basis, I
Speaker 1: was in thirty two games, Um he did not that third.
Speaker 1: Last year he had fourth, fifth, and six. Obviously, primarily
Speaker 1: it wasn't that leadoff spot where has thirty still basis,
Speaker 1: I would be worried about moving down to the order
Speaker 1: of hurting that hurting his ability to run if it
Speaker 1: were on another team, though, right, like stolen bases are
Speaker 1: are generally they're based off of motive, whether or not
Speaker 1: you want to do it, and team philosophy. The Royals
Speaker 1: team philosophy, they're gonna run. I looked this up the
Speaker 1: last night because I was doing research on Adalberto Mondessey
Speaker 1: over the past five years. Adald Berto Mondessey, Yeah, he's
Speaker 1: kind of like this year's Byron Bucks and which Matt
Speaker 1: Modikea made that that last night It was pretty much spot.
Speaker 1: I saw all that. But over the past five years,
Speaker 1: the Royals have the third most stolen basis, they're a
Speaker 1: team that's gonna run. Like their team philosophy, they do
Speaker 1: back that up. So I understand why some people might
Speaker 1: worry about wit mary Field moving down in the lineup,
Speaker 1: and it might affect him, But if you were another team,
Speaker 1: I would worry a little bit more. The Royals. Their
Speaker 1: team philosophy is they're gonna run. Who's he going around?
Speaker 1: So with mary Field in a DP, I do like
Speaker 1: the fact that he has dual position eligibility to he
Speaker 1: has second base and outfield, so that obviously helps you
Speaker 1: for Rhoto, you get you get him back to with
Speaker 1: the shallowest positions both second base and outfield rohto, which
Speaker 1: helps wit. Mary Field is going right around. He's going
Speaker 1: ahead of Blake Snell, Won Soto, Ris Bryant, Trevor Bauer,
Speaker 1: Anthony Rizzo, Luis Savarino, and really back to back with
Speaker 1: Andrew Benintendie, which I don't really love either of those. Guy, Dude,
Speaker 1: I think I have a really big ben Intende shuk.
Speaker 1: I gotta figure out why you off on them. I
Speaker 1: think I want let's do it right now. Let's did
Speaker 1: you say a basement? Frank? What is there to like
Speaker 1: about ben in Tendi? You think a Mason right now?
Speaker 1: I was not prepared for that, all right. I'm always
Speaker 1: ready to like rip this guy apart. Dude, what why
Speaker 1: do you have been at Dundee? For real? He struggles
Speaker 1: against left handed pitching. I'm a guy who looks a
Speaker 1: lot into splits because I want my players to play
Speaker 1: every ring, and I want them when they're in the
Speaker 1: lineup every single day. You know, I don't want like, Okay,
Speaker 1: they're facing you know, three lefties in a row, so
Speaker 1: I know for the next three days and intend he's
Speaker 1: gonna suck. Basically, and his bad ball data last year.
Speaker 1: The average hard hit rate last season was thirty five percent.
Speaker 1: In a year where everybody's average eggs and velocity and
Speaker 1: hard hit rate was going up, this was many bicips.
Speaker 1: Are you serious? At the gym pro? Now I can
Speaker 1: win four percent home run the fly ball ratio. Everyone's
Speaker 1: still kind of waiting for this guy to break out.
Speaker 1: Like last year was supposed to be the third year
Speaker 1: breakout was third season at the major league level. Now
Speaker 1: it's gonna be his fourth year. I realized he's you know,
Speaker 1: he's gonna still only turn twenty five this year in July.
Speaker 1: He's gonna score a lot of runs. He's gonna lead
Speaker 1: off for the Red Tucks. I get it. But like
Speaker 1: for people who think he's gonna be like this five guy,
Speaker 1: it's not gonna happen. He's been twenty one runs and
Speaker 1: he's been sixteen, so I think that's where he's gonna
Speaker 1: be again. I think he's gonna be, you know, eighteen
Speaker 1: and twenty stolen basis, eighteen to twenty home runs and
Speaker 1: probably the stolen basis too in that same range. I
Speaker 1: don't really buy the batting average either to ninety for
Speaker 1: a guy that had a twenty percent hard hit rate.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I just don't buy it. And he
Speaker 1: struggles throughout his entire career against lefties. In his career
Speaker 1: against left handed pitching, he is a to thirty four
Speaker 1: hit or with a six forty one OPS. That's your
Speaker 1: second round pick two thirty four six OPS. Against against
Speaker 1: right he's he's too with an eight fifty five OPS.
Speaker 1: He hasn't lived up to expectations, and he's still going
Speaker 1: where he's going higher than he was last year. He's
Speaker 1: going in the third round list. You're right around Christian Yellowch.
Speaker 1: He hasn't lived up to expectations, and he's only going
Speaker 1: at a higher draft prices was at this time last year.
Speaker 1: I don't get it. That's why ben intend I think
Speaker 1: people just I think the split conversations fair, but I
Speaker 1: think people look at what they was gonna hit, thirty
Speaker 1: homers and score, so people see that you gave that.
Speaker 1: You gave that number of the whole run of fly
Speaker 1: ball ratio a year after being eleven percent in his
Speaker 1: first season being six and a half percent, and thinking like,
Speaker 1: if that could just jump up to an average rate
Speaker 1: if hits the ball a little bit harder, Fenway is
Speaker 1: not good for left handed power, and we haven't seen
Speaker 1: telling indication that it's going to jump either. I'm just
Speaker 1: telling you why if he if he had a even
Speaker 1: if his hard hit rate went up a little bit,
Speaker 1: it's never been great. He's thirty hard hit rate for
Speaker 1: his career, so it doesn't hit the ball all that
Speaker 1: hard at a time when everybody is hitting the ball hard.
Speaker 1: If it went up to thirty seven percent last year,
Speaker 1: at least, you know, let me see some kind of improvement.
Speaker 1: I'm out on Ben intent he's gonna score runs. That's
Speaker 1: like he's gonna leave off for the Red Sox. I
Speaker 1: understand he's gonna he's gonna score a hundred runs and
Speaker 1: he's I don't I don't think that. I don't buy
Speaker 1: the two nine batting average. So you know, if he's
Speaker 1: a two seventy five hitter with a three fifty O
Speaker 1: b P. He's gonna score over a hundred runs. He'll
Speaker 1: give you twenty homers, twenty stone bases. Is that worthy
Speaker 1: of a second round pick? Maybe I'm wrong, Maybe maybe
Speaker 1: that is worthy? Is it? I don't know. Yes, I
Speaker 1: lean towards like, if I'm choosing between him and Blackman,
Speaker 1: I'll still take black Men. I agree with that. I
Speaker 1: told you that I would take this guy over with
Speaker 1: I don't really want either. I'm probably taking a starting
Speaker 1: picture there, because think about it. If you start in
Speaker 1: the early first round, you're gonna take a hitter first.
Speaker 1: You're gonna take a Jose Ramirez or an outfielder, or
Speaker 1: you're gonna get like j D. Martinez or Christian Yellow,
Speaker 1: someone like that, Ronald cun You're gonna come back in
Speaker 1: the second round. You're gonna be deciding between these hitters.
Speaker 1: Or hey, do I double down on starting pitching. Let
Speaker 1: me get my SP one on my SP two in
Speaker 1: the first three rounds, or at least it's grab one
Speaker 1: starting pitcher. At this point in the draft, you're looking
Speaker 1: at it the way I get I'll tell you the
Speaker 1: way the way I get Andrew, the way I get
Speaker 1: Andrew BENINTENDI He's like, if a draft, let's say Josie
Speaker 1: Ramirez in the first round, right, follow follow that up
Speaker 1: with the best starting pitcher on the boards in the
Speaker 1: second round and the third round, ben Intendi is the
Speaker 1: best half of their left That's how I get ben
Speaker 1: Intendi in my team. But he's going at ADP twenty eight,
Speaker 1: so he's going in the second round in twelve team draft.
Speaker 1: He's not in the twelve team or he's That's exactly
Speaker 1: the Hoosier mirror spot right the fourth pick overall, Like
Speaker 1: that is literally the Hosier mirror. You would start your
Speaker 1: draft like Josie Ramirez starring vetcher in a fifteen team lea,
Speaker 1: you can do Jose ramiroor is Benintendie and then come
Speaker 1: around and get your first starting pitcher, which would be
Speaker 1: like Bower or Severino. There's probably a lot of people
Speaker 1: that like that start, and that is that's I don't know,
Speaker 1: that's a bad start. I'm out on ben Intendi. He's
Speaker 1: really into the split thing. U split things that kills you.
Speaker 1: I think, Okay, is he still gonna lead off when
Speaker 1: they face a tough lefty? James Paxson is gonna lead off?
Speaker 1: I don't know who the other choices to lead off.
Speaker 1: I don't think I have best lead off, probably not.
Speaker 1: Why not? Maybe people in on Bogarts. I was, I
Speaker 1: was kind of crunching numbers on shortstops last night. Um yeah,
Speaker 1: I think people are kind of in on him. He's
Speaker 1: you know, he has like a fourth fifth front price tag.
Speaker 1: I was actually talking to you a little while ago.
Speaker 1: I still in hometown Heller me like his production has
Speaker 1: been so up and down every single season, kind of
Speaker 1: hard for me to trust. And I am I just
Speaker 1: a Red Sox hater. I don't know. So it's like
Speaker 1: T D. Martinez, I like Mookie Bets, my Red Sox hater,
Speaker 1: like Nathan Vivaldi. I'd like to think I'm not a
Speaker 1: Red Sox tater. So I still look at a hometown
Speaker 1: Heller before and he had three Red Sox on his
Speaker 1: He's a Met fan, but he had three Red Sox
Speaker 1: on his team last year. Mets Jaguars fan. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: an interesting life. So he had Mookie Bets, Andrew ben
Speaker 1: and Tende and Zenner Bogarts on his team last year.
Speaker 1: And like any time you played in whenever the Red
Speaker 1: Sox scored, and they scored every night. We're just like
Speaker 1: I'm crossed, and it was every single there you go.
Speaker 1: There's a strategy for you. So I asked, as I
Speaker 1: should I do that? Because if you, if you had
Speaker 1: Bet gets second pick in draft, first come back to
Speaker 1: Benintendie to start your draft like this, you get a
Speaker 1: little bit of every category. You get two outfielders in
Speaker 1: a Rhoto draft. Is you have no discrepancy. This is
Speaker 1: why I'm asking you in my league have the first
Speaker 1: overall pick. It's a keeper league. I'm keeping, I'm drafting,
Speaker 1: and um, Mookie bets first overall. Do I come back
Speaker 1: and draft ben Intendie in the second? No? Because he
Speaker 1: sucks against lefties. And that's the answer, Greg, Oh already
Speaker 1: then fair enough. It seems like you like ben Intendi
Speaker 1: a little bit more than me. I do like ben
Speaker 1: Inenni a little bit more than that. Is that is
Speaker 1: a fact? Do we can see the second? Sure you
Speaker 1: mentioned what mary Field is kind of like in a
Speaker 1: tier of his own. He's the only one who goes
Speaker 1: in the UH in the third round of drafts, and
Speaker 1: then there's kind of a drop off here. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: he goes around pick twenty nine and NFBC and then
Speaker 1: the next guy up is Azzi Albis who goes at
Speaker 1: pick fifty seven. So yeah, there's there's quite a big
Speaker 1: drop there, like picks picks and dropped from from what
Speaker 1: mary Field to Ausi Albui's great Azzi Alb's labor tour
Speaker 1: is Daniel Murphy. They go all in or around the
Speaker 1: same round. I know we talked a lot about Daniel Murphy,
Speaker 1: and to me, I want Daniel like Daniel Murphy's is
Speaker 1: target of mine this year, and I gotta make sure
Speaker 1: that I get him. I'm not worried about the knee.
Speaker 1: I saw some people talking about this on Twitter last
Speaker 1: night in the Fantasy Baseball industry. Year later. You know
Speaker 1: he had bone on bone last year. Greg, that's bad.
Speaker 1: That's who we need to ask talk about next week.
Speaker 1: Daniel Murphy. How healthy he's gonna be this year because
Speaker 1: he's another year older. I don't want to be the
Speaker 1: guy who's kind of like Coop wooing Daniel Murphy. I
Speaker 1: guess this is the episode where I hate everybody, but
Speaker 1: and I don't hate Danie Murphy. I want to like
Speaker 1: he's in Colorado. How can you not like it? He's
Speaker 1: a contact hitter who hits, line, drives and doubles. He's
Speaker 1: gonna be in Colorado. How can you not like that?
Speaker 1: But when you're older, bone on bone with a knee,
Speaker 1: I think it's a little bit more concerned with Daniel
Speaker 1: Murphy that people are leaving on. He learned this yesterday.
Speaker 1: You learned this over now. No, No, I've actually had
Speaker 1: a written down in my notes. I tweeted something out
Speaker 1: and everyone killed before they break come back for its
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