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Speaker 1: we're gonna talk fantasy baseball for the next hour. We're
Speaker 1: gonna have fun. Um, That's that's really what it comes
Speaker 1: down to. You know. Look, we've been talking about some
Speaker 1: some players that we love for the upcoming season. Yesterday
Speaker 1: it was Valentine's Day, so we thought we'd work that
Speaker 1: in there a little bit. Just had Tim McLeod on.
Speaker 1: He drafted out of the two hole this week in
Speaker 1: the labor Mixed Draft. So we're gonna continue talking about
Speaker 1: some of this stuff. I didn't want to get some
Speaker 1: random baseball news if that's cool you Andy, that I
Speaker 1: noticed over here, I pull up rotal World. See what's
Speaker 1: going on in the baseball world. With that right behind
Speaker 1: you there there are two silhouettes and two names, one
Speaker 1: of which is yours, none of which a mind. So
Speaker 1: whatever you want to do here is I'm a nice guy, Andy,
Speaker 1: you know I want to keep you in mind. I'm
Speaker 1: not just gonna you know, I'm I'm just a film BFF.
Speaker 1: So whatever you want to do, I'll go with him. Man,
Speaker 1: you're a third BFF, you're you know, four or fourth
Speaker 1: outfield of fourth BFF, whatever you want to be. I
Speaker 1: see this report here. John Hayman of LB Network reports
Speaker 1: that the Angels are showing interest in Mike Mustock. Is
Speaker 1: pretty interesting here because Michael Mustocks, to me, strikes me
Speaker 1: as a guy who's undervalued every single season and you
Speaker 1: can't land work. I mean, I understand that it's a
Speaker 1: slow moving free agent market right now, Like all right,
Speaker 1: if we're talking about not moving not finding work, you know,
Speaker 1: Bryce Harper and Manny Matado are are the head of that,
Speaker 1: and I don't think it's a case that they can't
Speaker 1: find work. It's just there's a lot of moving parts
Speaker 1: between those two guys trying to find context tracks right now.
Speaker 1: They want to make three million dollars. They want to
Speaker 1: get you know, they want ten year contracts, So it's tough.
Speaker 1: Mike Mustock is to me, he's not looking for that.
Speaker 1: You know, the guy you know wants to get paid,
Speaker 1: whether it's a one on two year, three year, three
Speaker 1: year deal, and I think he deserves it. Andy Uh
Speaker 1: moving over too if he can sign on with the
Speaker 1: Angels here, I'm in um yeah. Like I know, it's
Speaker 1: not the greatest hitting environment out there in Los Angeles,
Speaker 1: but he's produced thirty plus home run seasons in Kaufman
Speaker 1: Stadium and in Kansas City, so that's not a great
Speaker 1: better hitter's ballpark either. If he joins the lineup with
Speaker 1: Mike Trout and you know Otani whenever he's back, and
Speaker 1: justin Upton and all right, Albert Pools isn't the player
Speaker 1: that he once was, but I can get on board
Speaker 1: with that man. I like Moustaks. I don't dislike him.
Speaker 1: I'm just trying to wrap my head around where where
Speaker 1: does he play? Because I think the big achilles Heel
Speaker 1: for the Angels is having Albert pool Holes and your
Speaker 1: d H spot is gonna be locked up. So he
Speaker 1: went and you got Zach Cozart last year. You still
Speaker 1: have Simmons there. So where does Moustakis exactly fit into
Speaker 1: the equation? I think he would probably move that Cosart
Speaker 1: the second base. As of right now, they have David
Speaker 1: Fletcher in there, okay, and he makes a lot of contacts.
Speaker 1: You also got and they don't have the best farm system,
Speaker 1: but one of the more exciting guys in their system
Speaker 1: is Louis Regifo, who's coming up as a shortstop, who
Speaker 1: you know, you might be able to plug in the
Speaker 1: second and get some speed and some average out of
Speaker 1: that and and you know, juice up the the fan
Speaker 1: base if you will. Um. So you know, if you
Speaker 1: if you're gonna move now cos art the second you
Speaker 1: kind of you kind of stall that progress from happening
Speaker 1: is basically ready to come to the majors. But like
Speaker 1: I said, you still got Simmons there, so he's he's
Speaker 1: probably not gonna supplant him a short I don't dislike
Speaker 1: Mustakas in any lineup. I mean, given what we've seen,
Speaker 1: it can be. But I just feel like he's kind
Speaker 1: of like what they already have there. Um, maybe better
Speaker 1: than what they have there, but not so much better
Speaker 1: that it's worth adding the headache of Okay, how do
Speaker 1: we how do we you know, how do we make
Speaker 1: this line of work? Now? Well, it's better than him
Speaker 1: going back to Milwaukee, right, Like, that's the only thing
Speaker 1: that I've seen. If he goes back to Milwaukee, it's
Speaker 1: a great hitters park. But then what do we do?
Speaker 1: Are we really doing Travis Shaw at second base every day? Again,
Speaker 1: is that what they're gonna do? If they If if Milwaukee,
Speaker 1: then the San Diego Padres and the Angels are really
Speaker 1: the only three teams that I've actively heard come out
Speaker 1: and have interest in Michael Stokis. I don't really get
Speaker 1: it because I think he's above average defender as well. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and and again, like I said, it could make the
Speaker 1: lineup better, But how much better are we talking? We're
Speaker 1: talking about it going from you know, like I'm looking
Speaker 1: at that thirty eight home run season with Kansas City, Yeah,
Speaker 1: two years removed from that though last year, right, and
Speaker 1: that was I think I think that I think that
Speaker 1: he could be a thirty home run bad he's a
Speaker 1: thirty home run guck. You're getting him at a pretty
Speaker 1: good price right now. I mean, let's look at where
Speaker 1: you went in this. In the labor draft, he went
Speaker 1: in the eleventh round. He went at pick four. You know,
Speaker 1: he went behind I know, you like Raphael dead Verse.
Speaker 1: This year he also went after Justin Turner and match Having,
Speaker 1: but those guys went two rounds earlier. The next third
Speaker 1: basement that went after him was Eduardo Escobar and that
Speaker 1: was two rounds later, So I think I think you're
Speaker 1: gonna have met a pretty good value right now. That's
Speaker 1: Michael stock Is, who's going in the eleventh round before
Speaker 1: we get before we get back into this labor draft. Well,
Speaker 1: we'll do that a little bit later on the show.
Speaker 1: I didn want to touch on a few more of
Speaker 1: these players Andy, that we had that we had touted
Speaker 1: as our Valentine's Day are are sweethearts, the guys that
Speaker 1: we that we love heading into the season. If you
Speaker 1: watched the Fantasy Best Friends Forever or listened over the
Speaker 1: past couple of years, you know that I have been
Speaker 1: the front of the bandwagon when it comes to Joe Muskro.
Speaker 1: Joe Musgrow is my guy. We've chanted, We've hit him
Speaker 1: up to try and get him on the show. Unfortunately declined.
Speaker 1: He actually never answered, so I can't say that he
Speaker 1: did that. He declined, but everyone's kind of buying in
Speaker 1: on Joe must Grow, and I just wanted to be
Speaker 1: known that I was one of the first ones there.
Speaker 1: But in Pittsburgh, I think that there was a lot
Speaker 1: that we saw last year to be excited about Andy.
Speaker 1: I know Matt Modica is also on Joe Muscrove. I
Speaker 1: know a lot of people are buying in here. He's
Speaker 1: always had elite control, elite command. He doesn't walk a
Speaker 1: lot of guys, and I think we saw in the
Speaker 1: second half last year he started to miss a few
Speaker 1: bats as well. He started to miss some more bats
Speaker 1: and get that strikeout right up a little bit. I
Speaker 1: don't know that he's ever going to be a strikeout
Speaker 1: for any kind of guy, but I think that he
Speaker 1: could be between eight and nine case per nine and
Speaker 1: give you good to command and also get grabbing balls.
Speaker 1: He throws like three or four different types of fastballs.
Speaker 1: He also worked in He worked in a cutter last year.
Speaker 1: That was that was That was pretty awesome. He has
Speaker 1: a changeup. So I'm I'm excited about Joe muscro Man.
Speaker 1: I think that you know, we spoke about Soroka. I
Speaker 1: think Joe Musgrove was another one of these guys that
Speaker 1: has top thirty starting pitcher upside yes, So I want
Speaker 1: to definitely want to get into must Grove, and we
Speaker 1: have to get into his teammate Josh Bell, who they're
Speaker 1: they're begging for us to touch on in the comments action,
Speaker 1: so we'll get to that as well. But one last
Speaker 1: point about mustakas before we put him to rest. One
Speaker 1: thing that really adds to his his profile. Mustaka is
Speaker 1: going back to him instruction being the third basement is
Speaker 1: the left handed bat, which can help any lineup. So
Speaker 1: I think that that works in his favor as you're
Speaker 1: talking about anywhere and any team that signs was gonna
Speaker 1: be better for it. But how he fits into that lineup? Um, anyway,
Speaker 1: going back to must Growth, this guy is he's a
Speaker 1: big dude and he throws throw something like six pitches.
Speaker 1: I know he's you know, settled in on on you know,
Speaker 1: his main arsenal and staple. But this is the guy
Speaker 1: was really excited about when the Pirates got him in
Speaker 1: the return for Derek Cole. I love him in Houston
Speaker 1: a couple of years ago. He's kind of that mid
Speaker 1: rotation bullpen kind of you know, the long the long
Speaker 1: role in Houston. Then moves to Pittsburgh and seemingly should
Speaker 1: have a spot in the rotation. The one question I
Speaker 1: have about Pittsburgh, and all my way over to the
Speaker 1: studio today, tweeted this out. Everybody seems to be high
Speaker 1: on the Pirates rotation from Archer to Tay on too
Speaker 1: must Grove to Trevor Williams, to Kingdom to to niche
Speaker 1: Keller to I mean, I just named six pictures that
Speaker 1: the Pirates have that people are enamorate, and four or
Speaker 1: five of them are getting drafted the majority of draft.
Speaker 1: But where is the offense coming from. I'm really concerned
Speaker 1: about this. The run support for these Pirates pitchers. M
Speaker 1: I mentioned this when we covered Jamison tayan in in
Speaker 1: our Baseball Show preview. I love what they can do individually,
Speaker 1: but I've a huge the Grand fan as people know,
Speaker 1: and I've just seen it too many times with Jacob
Speaker 1: to Graham that the guy goes out and throws the
Speaker 1: gym and then the team just doesn't give him any
Speaker 1: run support and lets him down. I'm not I'm not.
Speaker 1: I mean, Yank, I know I'm wearing at colors, but anyway, um,
Speaker 1: that really that really has traumatized me when it comes
Speaker 1: to starting pitchers and seeing I don't you know tayan
Speaker 1: could go out and throw eight innings and give up nothing,
Speaker 1: but other Pirates gonna even score one run for him.
Speaker 1: Where You're getting great stuff from that picture, but is
Speaker 1: it enough? And and the margin for error is so
Speaker 1: slim that it's scaring me away from pirates pictures, and
Speaker 1: and it goes back to about must Grove. What's his uh,
Speaker 1: what's his ADP right now? No, must Groves ADP right
Speaker 1: now is to nin nineteen. I mean at that at
Speaker 1: that price, like you, you have to. He's climbing draft boards.
Speaker 1: People are getting excited about Joe Musgrove. He's going how
Speaker 1: about this, he's going right after, He's going right around
Speaker 1: Forest Whitley. How many endings as Forest Whitley gonna give
Speaker 1: you this year? Wow? I mean he he's he's got
Speaker 1: to lead stuff. I can't deny that. Well, we're talking
Speaker 1: about hot but realistically, how how many endings is he
Speaker 1: gonna give you? We're talking about sus Lazardo before and
Speaker 1: and wondering when he's gonna come up for ast Whitley's
Speaker 1: in that same range. Let's say they both come up
Speaker 1: May first. I think Whitley's gonna give you more than Lozardo,
Speaker 1: but I think Lozardo will likely get you more innings.
Speaker 1: I don't know that Whitley factors in. I mean, you
Speaker 1: look at the other guys the Astros have with Josh
Speaker 1: James and not to get off on a tangent here.
Speaker 1: I mean, look, they have Josh James, they signed Wade Miley,
Speaker 1: they still have Colin mqugh. They're starting, They're they're trying
Speaker 1: to stretch out Brad Peacock as well. They have a
Speaker 1: lot of options in Houston. Yeah, so I I agree it.
Speaker 1: So when are you talking about the startable must Grove right? Um?
Speaker 1: Yeah to nineteen? How can you not? But again I
Speaker 1: worry about that pirate staff. My my logic with Musgrove
Speaker 1: would be these who draft him, hope he gets off
Speaker 1: to a good start and then try to move him
Speaker 1: and and cash. No, yes, no, we draft Joe must Grove.
Speaker 1: We don't draft, trade Joe Mustgrove, draft in trade, not
Speaker 1: draft in all, draft and trade. It's not trade Joe
Speaker 1: mustgro Draft Joe muskgro and then trade him and then
Speaker 1: trade him. Look, if Pittsburgh is one of these organizations
Speaker 1: where I feel like their lineup ever looks that great,
Speaker 1: but they just kind of figure it out. No, if
Speaker 1: you didn't think they have Adam, this is what roster
Speaker 1: Resource has. Adam Fraser, Starling, Marte, Corey Dickerson, Francisco Savelli,
Speaker 1: Colin Moran, Josh Bell, Lannie chose in't Hall Lannie Baseball
Speaker 1: and Eric Zalaz. It's not great. And they have Jungle
Speaker 1: Gan on the bench. And you know, actually, I'm really
Speaker 1: excited about Elias t S. I was hoping that they
Speaker 1: would trade away Francisco Savelli so that Elias T. S
Speaker 1: would would have the opportunity to start every day. See
Speaker 1: those those are words that should not be uttered in
Speaker 1: the Fantasy Baseball preview show. I was excited about Elias
Speaker 1: d and two catcher leagues. It's it's a terrible position.
Speaker 1: You just mentioned, though you weren't who wants to walk
Speaker 1: the pirates lineup? Never really got you excited. If that
Speaker 1: was the case. Polanco will be back at some point, right,
Speaker 1: But if that was the case, this is even worse.
Speaker 1: This is even worse than what has been and and
Speaker 1: it didn't get you excited in the past. And we're
Speaker 1: talking about uh, you know, when McCutchen was there, and
Speaker 1: and and Plancos. They find Bells there. They wanted us
Speaker 1: to talk about Bell. So let's get into Josh Bell.
Speaker 1: Let's he's actually uh, he's a favorite. He's the first
Speaker 1: base breakout candidate for our own Christmas venture. Your boy
Speaker 1: he loves Josh Bell because he he also plays in
Speaker 1: points leagues and he's looking at the plate discipline and
Speaker 1: look at look at Josh Bell, and in his major
Speaker 1: league career he is a twelve percent walk. Great, the
Speaker 1: guy has a great eye. He doesn't strike out all
Speaker 1: that much for points leagues. I can get behind it, sure, Rodo.
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know what the heck of the
Speaker 1: guy is gonna give you, to be honest, because he's
Speaker 1: gonna be a two sixty batting average guy. He gave
Speaker 1: you twenty six home runs in seventeen. He only gave
Speaker 1: you twelve last year. The twelve last year is actually
Speaker 1: a lot closer to what his minor league profile suggested
Speaker 1: that he was gonna be. Was that he was gonna
Speaker 1: be a line drive hitter. He was gonna be doubles,
Speaker 1: he was gonna walk a lot, he was gonna give
Speaker 1: you good plate discipline, he whin was gonna strike out.
Speaker 1: The twenty six home runs in to me kind of
Speaker 1: stands out as an outlier because that didn't really mesh
Speaker 1: with his minor league profile very much. So if I
Speaker 1: were just projecting Josh Bell for this year, I would
Speaker 1: say two sixty to seventy batting average with a very
Speaker 1: good ov P, you know, three sixty three seventy ov P,
Speaker 1: Like I think it's ov P is gonna be upwards
Speaker 1: of a hundred point higher than his batting average. But
Speaker 1: the counting stats home runs, seventy five runs scored, seventy
Speaker 1: five r bi. Is that a fair projection for Josh Bell?
Speaker 1: It is? And and the problem with Josh Ball is
Speaker 1: he mentioned the walk right. He has and multiple seasons
Speaker 1: walked more than he struck out, which is great. You
Speaker 1: love to see that, but it's almost like it works
Speaker 1: against him, like he's too patient. He's six four to
Speaker 1: thirty five. I want to see that guy swinging about
Speaker 1: Joey vatdo for how many years now? But Joe Vaddo
Speaker 1: will put the ball in play as well. I mean,
Speaker 1: he had he disciplined. It seems like he wants to
Speaker 1: get a walk more than he wants to try to
Speaker 1: get wood on the ball, and and that goes against him.
Speaker 1: So I want to see him swinging bat more. I
Speaker 1: gladly take a few more strikeouts to see if he
Speaker 1: can get the bat on the ball and put it
Speaker 1: out of the park with that huge frame, he's got
Speaker 1: that's it just makes no sense. He's in an enigma
Speaker 1: and with that plate discipline, you'd think the average would
Speaker 1: be higher. It was great in the minors, he was
Speaker 1: a three. It just hasn't translated. So uh he he,
Speaker 1: you know, he might be one of these late bloomers.
Speaker 1: We talked about Luke Voit yesterday at great length and
Speaker 1: how he kind of, you know, was a quad A
Speaker 1: guy where he's great a triple A and it wasn't
Speaker 1: so great. Well, this guy's had the opportunity. Maybe maybe
Speaker 1: a little too young, maybe he's twenty six this year.
Speaker 1: I'm not totally off Josh Bell. I know Matt Moldiica
Speaker 1: a good friend of the show. You've mentioned him several
Speaker 1: times today. Uh, he's big on Josh Bell in the
Speaker 1: later rounds, just as a as a late stash guy.
Speaker 1: Uh thinks he you know, he's he's gonna put it
Speaker 1: together this season. I'm not totally off that because he's
Speaker 1: not gonna kill he's not gonna hurt you. But um
Speaker 1: as on your betch he's not gonna hurt you on
Speaker 1: your beat as my starting c I like, I don't
Speaker 1: want him as my starting corner. Infielder. If there was
Speaker 1: ever an age where he can do something that we
Speaker 1: haven't really and if we can't really project, it would
Speaker 1: be twenty six. It would be like right now. Two
Speaker 1: years ago he hit twenty six runs. He had a
Speaker 1: home run the ball ratio, and his other two uh
Speaker 1: seasons that he's been in the major leagues he's had
Speaker 1: a nine point four percent home run the flyball ratio
Speaker 1: and a nine point two percent home run to flyball race. Shoot.
Speaker 1: So you tell me which one is the outlier. Well,
Speaker 1: listen season when he hit six home runs. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: keep repeating it over and over and over again. First
Speaker 1: base is weak. He's the twenty six first basem being drafted.
Speaker 1: He's going right around Tyler White. I'd rather have Tyler White.
Speaker 1: I'd rather have Josh Bell come on, playing time, playing time,
Speaker 1: playing times there. But talent always wins out too. I'll
Speaker 1: take the talent. I'll take. Look, you're bashing the Pirates
Speaker 1: line up. I'm taking the Astros lineup here, you're right there.
Speaker 1: I actually probably take Peter Alonso, who's going right after.
Speaker 1: He was the name that I saw. You've you've worked
Speaker 1: a lot with you know, trying to project prospects and stuff,
Speaker 1: doing everything that they could to block Peter Alonso. Uh,
Speaker 1: is he gonna be up May one? I don't know
Speaker 1: who knows what the Mets are gonna do. I think
Speaker 1: he's I think Tim Tebow might be up before Peter Alonso.
Speaker 1: I think he's up May first. I think he's up
Speaker 1: May first, think Alonso. Yeah, but you mentioned projecting prospects
Speaker 1: and Josh Bell, wh who they started with. He's a miss.
Speaker 1: He's a clear miss. All signs pointed to Josh Bell.
Speaker 1: Be somebody with that frame, that plate discipline, was gonna
Speaker 1: be somebody who's gonna get you twenty five homers at
Speaker 1: minimum in the two north average he did in seen.
Speaker 1: Is it impossible for him to get back to that.
Speaker 1: I don't think so. But you know, he's he's got
Speaker 1: to lift the ball a little bit more. He's gotta
Speaker 1: be a little bit more aggressive. He's gotta swing the back.
Speaker 1: So the average also dropped. He was we come back.
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Speaker 1: if you could choose an era to grow up in
Speaker 1: or be this age, now, what error would you choose?
Speaker 1: A lot of people fifties, sixties, seventies. Yeah, that that's
Speaker 1: what I would say. If I could choose any era,
Speaker 1: I would have been like my early twenties, in the
Speaker 1: late eighties, early nineties, like that would have been my time.
Speaker 1: To me, there was like so much going on. I'm
Speaker 1: sure it was a great time to party and be alive.
Speaker 1: And not only that, I mean there was just the
Speaker 1: inception of so many different things at that point in time,
Speaker 1: like you would have seen and I always go back
Speaker 1: to these three things. You would have seen the inception
Speaker 1: of Metallica, you would have seen the inception of Fresh,
Speaker 1: Prince of bel Air, one of my favorite shows, and
Speaker 1: just Will Smith in general, I guess, and Michael Jordan's
Speaker 1: what more can you ask for? And I had tapes,
Speaker 1: had cassettes worn out, consetts of of of of everything
Speaker 1: you just made and what are cassettes? What's the what's
Speaker 1: the vhs? Right? Right? Like, who's going to know what
Speaker 1: a Blu ray was in a couple of years? Rights that?
Speaker 1: That that's short lifespan? Well watch the Goldbergs. That's a
Speaker 1: that's a great show. And it makes me feel nostalgic
Speaker 1: every time I watch it because they just referenced everything
Speaker 1: from the eighties that was. You know, I clearly remember
Speaker 1: I remember that toy, I remember that TV show, I
Speaker 1: remember I remember this happening right, everything, everything that's on
Speaker 1: that show, so good Good Times of reminisce. If you're
Speaker 1: getting myself in trouble, get myself in trouble here, Andy,
Speaker 1: Have you ever seen in Talk Alive? I have not.
Speaker 1: Would you be opposed to it? I would not. Do
Speaker 1: you have tickets? No? I don't. Are they going on tour?
Speaker 1: If they are, let's go. I'd love to get some
Speaker 1: tickets every time that they've gone on tour for the
Speaker 1: past right if you're watching, we know you're not doing
Speaker 1: anything right now. So it's Matthews Band. Let's be serious.
Speaker 1: Can you name a song by Dave Matthews Band. I
Speaker 1: feel like I should be able to say yes. No.
Speaker 1: The answer is always no. With anything involving Dave Matthews Man,
Speaker 1: the answer is always no. Andy. You're gonna make me
Speaker 1: think by default now of Greg Susman. Every time I
Speaker 1: hear Dave Matthews I'm gonna confuse the tool. It's gonna
Speaker 1: be the Greg Susman. You have to guess how many
Speaker 1: times Greg has seen Dave Matthews Band live. What would
Speaker 1: you say? Seventy three? Why are you doing that? Andy?
Speaker 1: Way too high? He's seen them like over thirty times.
Speaker 1: But to me, like it's not horrible. I've seen Metallica
Speaker 1: seven or eight times in my life, and to me,
Speaker 1: that seems like a lot. It seems like a lot
Speaker 1: to see a band. I'd see it. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I've seen them over thirty times. How many times can
Speaker 1: you hear the same? Oh? Good violin and whatever? The dude?
Speaker 1: I can't even name a song like tailgame though, being
Speaker 1: a season ticket holder, he's he's a Dave Matthew season
Speaker 1: tickets supposed to be t g I f thank god
Speaker 1: it's Friday. It's not supposed to be pissed frank off
Speaker 1: Friday talking about Dave Matthews band. Here. You know what, Andy,
Speaker 1: I actually I got some reads I gotta do. I
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Speaker 1: let's get back into some players here. Um, let's answer
Speaker 1: some questions first. Let's let's uh, let's go to the chat.
Speaker 1: Let's go to the chat. Let's answer the people. Let's
Speaker 1: help the people. Andy, Yeah, we happened to the Malex
Speaker 1: Smith question first because the second one. Uh, probably spend
Speaker 1: a little bit more time on that one. Malex Smith,
Speaker 1: I believe we got a question about him dealing with
Speaker 1: an injury. I actually have to look this up during
Speaker 1: the break because I don't even know it came out today.
Speaker 1: At the Road of World Update February fift at eleven
Speaker 1: am per Ryan Devish on Twitter, Maleix Smithem will be
Speaker 1: held out of early defensive drills due to a right
Speaker 1: elbow injury. Andy, Malex Smith is one of these guys
Speaker 1: where if you want to attack speed later on in
Speaker 1: the draft in the middle rounds. He's a popular breakout
Speaker 1: candidate in the speed to I mean, someone that can
Speaker 1: give you a pretty good batting average. He's not gonna
Speaker 1: tank you there, give you to eight plus. He has
Speaker 1: the legs to legitimately give you, you know, forty fifty
Speaker 1: plus stolen basis this year. But now he's dealing with
Speaker 1: the right elbow injury. How much is something like this
Speaker 1: were are you? It really doesn't because it has nothing
Speaker 1: really to do with his game, um from you know,
Speaker 1: you want to be on the field, of course, So
Speaker 1: if it's gonna prohibit him from doing that, from throwing
Speaker 1: a ball, etcetera. From swinging a bat, yeah, of course
Speaker 1: you don't like it. But until more comes out and
Speaker 1: I hear more about what this injury is, I'm not
Speaker 1: overly concerned about it. Mentioned he's a left handed swinger,
Speaker 1: so uh, you know, I don't think it's affecting his
Speaker 1: swing or his power, which there's really none of to
Speaker 1: begin with. The thing I love about Malex Smith done
Speaker 1: this has been one of my favorite players, and hopefully
Speaker 1: hopefully he gets to stay in one city and for
Speaker 1: more than season, more than a couple of months, and
Speaker 1: build a career this guy is a legit hitter. He's
Speaker 1: been a three hitter in his career in the minors,
Speaker 1: and then he comes up and he's now shown he
Speaker 1: could be that at the majors. He's a he's a
Speaker 1: free runner, if you will. We like to say some
Speaker 1: guys with the bat free swingers. He's a free swinger
Speaker 1: as well. He strikes out probably more than you want
Speaker 1: to above doesn't walk as much as you want. He's
Speaker 1: under temper cent in that category, but he does put
Speaker 1: the ball in play, and then he does use his
Speaker 1: legs to get on base. So he's gonna get you
Speaker 1: that three average, and then he's a free runner in
Speaker 1: terms of that. He got great speed. He's gonna get
Speaker 1: caught a bunch of times, but the volume is going
Speaker 1: to be there that he's also going to finish as
Speaker 1: we saw last year with forty. He's that's his baseline,
Speaker 1: and hopefully he gets every day at bats now being
Speaker 1: in Seattle, and he can be a hundred and sixty
Speaker 1: game player, get you fifty plus deals and give you
Speaker 1: a two nine or better batting average, which means that's happening.
Speaker 1: I'm I'm saying he's gonna be close to scoring a
Speaker 1: hundred runs. I'm not expecting anything in the power department
Speaker 1: r B I included. So if he can give me
Speaker 1: three out of five categories though at a week outfield position,
Speaker 1: I'll take it every day. Yeah. Alex Smith one of
Speaker 1: these guys that's kind to bounce around a little bit.
Speaker 1: He's been looking for a place that he can call home.
Speaker 1: It seems like Seattle might be that opportunity. They finally
Speaker 1: gave him an opportunity last year to play a lot.
Speaker 1: You saw a career high five forty four played appearances,
Speaker 1: played in a career high one forty one games, and
Speaker 1: he mentioned that they're just gonna let him run. They're
Speaker 1: gonna let him run, run and run some more be called.
Speaker 1: Last year at forty basis he had twelve caught stealing,
Speaker 1: So they let him run fifty two times on the
Speaker 1: base pass last year and as of right now, Rosster
Speaker 1: resource has n't projected to that first in the lineup.
Speaker 1: That's what they could do if they have Malex Smith
Speaker 1: Gordon back to back. That's pretty crazy. Man. We get
Speaker 1: a lot, we get a lot of double steals out
Speaker 1: there in Seattle this year. But this is definitely something
Speaker 1: that you do want to monitor the right elbow injury
Speaker 1: for Malex Smith. Andy, I know you had another question,
Speaker 1: so I'll let you, uh, I'll let you prop that
Speaker 1: one up and also give your side of if your
Speaker 1: take on it. It's very simple. So one of the
Speaker 1: questions was Carlos Correa or Reese Hoskins points league, And
Speaker 1: I mentioned earlier if you've been listening to the whole time,
Speaker 1: I don't know what from the last segment of two
Speaker 1: segments ago, but I mentioned Carlos Carrey is my early
Speaker 1: bold prediction at the a L m v P for
Speaker 1: I think he comes back fully healthy. I think he
Speaker 1: has a lot to prove and I think he's capable
Speaker 1: of proving it. So he's he's one of those guys
Speaker 1: you can get at a slight discount this year. I
Speaker 1: think he's going on around the third fourth round. Um,
Speaker 1: that's my early pick for m v P. So how
Speaker 1: can I go against that and take somebody else? So
Speaker 1: Carlos Correa over Reee Hoskins for me. Carlos Correy going
Speaker 1: to pick fifty one point six in NFPC ADP in
Speaker 1: the month of februinary. So you're getting him, You're getting
Speaker 1: him in the fourth round of fifteen team leagues. Here, Andy,
Speaker 1: I love you, buddy, but you didn't watch last week
Speaker 1: when when when Dr A was on talk about Carlos Correa. Okay,
Speaker 1: he's very worried and very worried about Carlos Correa because
Speaker 1: Carlos Correa, this back injury, poor injuries. I know we're
Speaker 1: getting all the reports on say Carlos Correa, these are
Speaker 1: things that could very quickly turn into chronic injuries. And
Speaker 1: just giving that the torque that Carl's corea swings the
Speaker 1: bat with, he's been right around a hundred and ten
Speaker 1: games played each of the past two seasons. Look, it's
Speaker 1: a bold prediction. So I'm not gonna I'm gonna kill
Speaker 1: you for you know your a l m v P
Speaker 1: pick as a bold prediction. But I'm worried, man, I'm
Speaker 1: worried about Carlos Correa. And I realize you're getting you're
Speaker 1: getting him at a discount because you know, when when
Speaker 1: he's good, when he's healthy, everything's good to go. He's
Speaker 1: a borderline first round pick and that's where he was
Speaker 1: going last year. Now you're getting him in the fourth round. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And I totally get that, and it sound like a
Speaker 1: hypocrite if I didn't think the back played apart, especially
Speaker 1: when I've been saying for years now that it makes
Speaker 1: me stay away from Kershaw on any format, in addition
Speaker 1: to just not taking starting pitchers early. But the back
Speaker 1: would really worry me so for a batter, for an
Speaker 1: everyday player, even more so. But he's twenty four, he'll
Speaker 1: be uh twenty five at the end of the season
Speaker 1: in September. He's the face of the organization. I mean,
Speaker 1: this guy's is legit superstar. Uh. I'm believing everything he's saying.
Speaker 1: I'm I'm buying into the offseason workout videos that I've
Speaker 1: seen posted of him lifting and working out. I I
Speaker 1: think he's smart enough to realize, um, you know that. A.
Speaker 1: I think he's a little become a little mature being
Speaker 1: the first pick in the overall in the draft, everything
Speaker 1: that's gone on in the island of Puerto Rico and
Speaker 1: feeling like, you know, he's he's holding a nation, you know,
Speaker 1: playing for them. Everything, Like all the off field stories
Speaker 1: that contribute to who Carlos Korea is. I think he
Speaker 1: embraces them. I think he welcomes them. I think it's
Speaker 1: at a level of maturity to him. So I say
Speaker 1: all that because it's a typical year old is gonna
Speaker 1: be trying to lift everything in sight and and you know,
Speaker 1: blow the roof off the gym. I think he's realizing
Speaker 1: and recognizing who he is. I'm not a bodybuilder. I'm
Speaker 1: a shortstop and I have to have that flexibility. And
Speaker 1: I don't need to try to hit fifty home runs.
Speaker 1: I can hit thirty and help my team. I miss
Speaker 1: being on the field last year. I feel like I
Speaker 1: let us down. I want to play every game this year.
Speaker 1: I want to be back, and if I have to
Speaker 1: adjust my workouts, if I have to adjust my training,
Speaker 1: my diet, whatever it comes down to, and I'm really
Speaker 1: buying into that for Carlos Correas. So with all those
Speaker 1: things considered, I do think the health is back, and
Speaker 1: I do think he'll be back on the field. And
Speaker 1: if he's on the field every day and in that capacity,
Speaker 1: you know, maybe it's not gonna be the elite numbers
Speaker 1: that we wanted, but I think they're gonna be consistent.
Speaker 1: He's gonna give you across the board five categories, maybe
Speaker 1: maybe four. We'll say four, because I'm not sure that
Speaker 1: the speed will be there, but I'm all in on
Speaker 1: Carlos Correa. And a lot has to do with this
Speaker 1: draft price. And I'll say this is upside is higher
Speaker 1: than a guy like Reese Hoskins. I'm not gonna deny that,
Speaker 1: but I think it's downside is also lower than a
Speaker 1: guy like Reese Hoskins in the Points League. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: continue to hammer this home. I like durability. I like
Speaker 1: guys that are gonna play every single day, Guys that
Speaker 1: you don't have to worry about platoons. That's definitely not
Speaker 1: the case with Carlos Correa. But the durability, the injury concerns,
Speaker 1: that is something that you do have to worry about.
Speaker 1: And Reese Hoskins, I also really do like the fact
Speaker 1: that he walks a lot. You know, thirtcent walk great
Speaker 1: last year in twenty seventeen and fifty games, had a
Speaker 1: seventeen percent walk great last year. Around this time, I
Speaker 1: was saying, Reese Hoskins, if you look at his minor
Speaker 1: league profile, really reminded me a lot of Anthony Rizzo.
Speaker 1: Rizzo was also a guy that walked a lot in
Speaker 1: the miners. He had some pop I see the same
Speaker 1: things in Reese Hoskins Double A. He had thirty eight
Speaker 1: home runs, twelve percent walk rate in seventeen Triple A
Speaker 1: before he was called up, twenty nine home runs, thirteen
Speaker 1: percent walk grate. So you're asking me in a points league,
Speaker 1: am I taking Reese Hoskins or Carl's core. I'm taking
Speaker 1: Reese Hoskins because he's gonna walk a lot. He's gonna
Speaker 1: hit a lot of home runs, like he had thirty
Speaker 1: four home runs last year. I think he actually built
Speaker 1: on that. I think the Phillies line up is better.
Speaker 1: Imagine if to add a guy like Bryce Harper or
Speaker 1: Manny Matado, so that mix as well. They all they
Speaker 1: already traded for JT. Real Muto. They signed Andrew McCutcheon. Again,
Speaker 1: the upside for Korea is higher, downside for me is lower.
Speaker 1: I'll go somewhere in between and I'll take Ree Hoskins. Well,
Speaker 1: here's here's a couple of negatives against Hoskins for me.
Speaker 1: Are we assuming that he projects to hit more home runs?
Speaker 1: I mean, you see the fifty games sample he hit
Speaker 1: the eight team. We know the power, we saw the
Speaker 1: batted ball profile, and I would he had thirty four
Speaker 1: home runs last year, I wouldn't project for him to
Speaker 1: hit more than that, Okay, I think he'll be in
Speaker 1: like the thirty two to thirty five range. Okay, so
Speaker 1: thirty two to thirty five. He didn't even top seven
Speaker 1: Davis in batting average. He was at six. He's not
Speaker 1: stealing anything, so you think you could be better than two.
Speaker 1: He's literally just giving you power. And it's not even
Speaker 1: elite power. If you're telling me thirty thirty five, I
Speaker 1: mean it's great power, don't get me wrong. It's above
Speaker 1: average power, but it's not it's not elite power. And
Speaker 1: for him to be getting drafted, where's he going, He's
Speaker 1: going on forty one overall, he's going, he's going a
Speaker 1: little bit ahead of Right now, you're paying for premium.
Speaker 1: But if you're just asking me Corea versus Hoskins, which
Speaker 1: was the original question, right right, But I'll give you
Speaker 1: the negatives, I guess Hoskins, why I'm you're supposed to
Speaker 1: be for the back and up my my conviction in
Speaker 1: Carlos Correa, Uh, you're paying too much of a premium
Speaker 1: for above average You're you're paying paying premium dollars for
Speaker 1: above average production. I'm looking at the runs in the
Speaker 1: RBI production though too. I mean, eighty nine runs last year.
Speaker 1: He's gonna get on base, so he's gonna score runs.
Speaker 1: He hits in a great hitters environment in Citizens Bank Park.
Speaker 1: I've already mentioned what they've done to the lineup. They
Speaker 1: added McCutcheon, So he's does that make his batting average it?
Speaker 1: I think that he's You don't think he's a better
Speaker 1: hitter than two six whatever he was that last year.
Speaker 1: I think he's better than that. Okay, So to sixty,
Speaker 1: which is what he hit his first year, and you
Speaker 1: look at the minor league numbers, the batting averages were
Speaker 1: a lot better. I'm I'm there with you. But we
Speaker 1: were talking about eighty one. We're talking about Josh Bell
Speaker 1: being a three and the miners and then not translating.
Speaker 1: So my only concern with that is what would you
Speaker 1: say would be the high side of optimism for batting average.
Speaker 1: He's had to seventy if everything broke right, to see
Speaker 1: everything broke right for Korea. I hear what you're saying.
Speaker 1: He can hit, okay, so to seventy give you the
Speaker 1: thirty five to seventy, he's gonna come close to a
Speaker 1: hundred runs in RBIs. Okay, he's gonna do that. Who's
Speaker 1: going gonna be in the lineup every single day? Okay?
Speaker 1: So eighty nine runs last year, ninety r BIS and
Speaker 1: the and the lineup only got better in Philadelphia. So
Speaker 1: now I'm looking Chris Davis is going after him. So
Speaker 1: we know we're getting to we know we're getting to
Speaker 1: forty seven, we know we're getting forty homers. Here's the problem, NFBC.
Speaker 1: Chris Davis with a K is utility. Only I see that.
Speaker 1: I see that. I'm just looking another guy's Cody Balingers
Speaker 1: going after because outfield eligibility and he's gonna play first
Speaker 1: basis here, so he's gonna have dual Elgebild, So does
Speaker 1: Cody Balance helps, so does Cody baling Cody Balance is
Speaker 1: gonna give me the same number of homers and giving
Speaker 1: me speed. What Balinger is a tough one. He's tough
Speaker 1: to figure out. I take I take Balaner over Hoskins
Speaker 1: nine out of ten times. What are Balinger to me
Speaker 1: is tough to figure out? I would just I don't know, man,
Speaker 1: I think I think there's a lot a lot more
Speaker 1: underlying numbers with Cody Balance, I think I'm gonna try
Speaker 1: and hit away from players who hit a lot of
Speaker 1: infield fly balls because those are guaranteed out. Booty Bellinger
Speaker 1: is the guy who has a lot of infield fly balls,
Speaker 1: and last year it was something that I was trying
Speaker 1: to overlook with Rathbael Devor's because I was all over
Speaker 1: Devors and he let me down. He has a lot
Speaker 1: of infield flyball. They're gonna have to go first base
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Speaker 1: at People's Pen, People's with a Z talking a little
Speaker 1: bit about Cody Bellinger before the freak. I know you
Speaker 1: want to get to flyerty in Mankato will do that
Speaker 1: as well here in the final segment. But I can't
Speaker 1: believe it's the final segment already. Yeah, man, two hours
Speaker 1: and flying. Is everybody enjoying the show? Anybody's watching the show?
Speaker 1: You guys enjoying this. I'm enjoying it. I don't know
Speaker 1: how much that that matters. I'm enjoying it. Chris ba
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Speaker 1: the closer in the chat, timing in a little bit
Speaker 1: as well. I know he's a he's a big yo
Speaker 1: on Mankada guy, So maybe he'll chime in from from
Speaker 1: downstairs and give us some of his Mankata thoughts when
Speaker 1: we get to him. But I wanted to get into
Speaker 1: Cody Bellinger a little bit here because for me, he's
Speaker 1: kind of tough to figure out this year Andy, And
Speaker 1: I don't know, maybe I'm making it tougher than it
Speaker 1: should be because look, it's a it's a twenty three
Speaker 1: year old who you know, he's gonna turn twenty four
Speaker 1: throughout the season. He already has the thirty nine home
Speaker 1: run season under his belt when he was a rookie,
Speaker 1: And what do he regrets last year he had twenty
Speaker 1: five home runs. Um, the hard hit rate came down,
Speaker 1: the home run the flyball ratio came down, the flyball
Speaker 1: rate came down, his infield flyball rate again. Infield flyball
Speaker 1: rates is something I don't want to focus a little
Speaker 1: bit more on this year because they're guaranteed out. These
Speaker 1: are gonna hurt your batting average. They're gonna hurt you
Speaker 1: big time last year sixteen and a half percent in
Speaker 1: field fly ball rate. That was nearly double from the
Speaker 1: year before in his rookie year when he was amazing,
Speaker 1: when it was eight point four percent. Something I'm also
Speaker 1: looking at with Cody Bellinger is he struggled against lefties
Speaker 1: big time last year. The year before he was much better.
Speaker 1: He he hit like two sixty seventy against lefties, and
Speaker 1: that kind of gave me confidence in him heading into
Speaker 1: the twenty eighteen season because I said, all right, you
Speaker 1: know he's not gonna platoon. He's gonna play every single day.
Speaker 1: He held his own against lefties. You look into his
Speaker 1: minor league numbers two and they're very mixed. Some at
Speaker 1: some levels he was all right against lefties. In some levels,
Speaker 1: he was very bad against lefties last year to six
Speaker 1: o ps versus left handed pitching. I'm worried, man, I'm
Speaker 1: a little worried about Bellingers. I'm gonna tell you why
Speaker 1: he shouldn't be. So you look across the board at
Speaker 1: the profile. The one thing that jumps out and the
Speaker 1: big difference to me was the soft contact increase last year.
Speaker 1: The nfield fly rate roughly been his whole career last year,
Speaker 1: not just I'm sorry two years ago seventeen was at
Speaker 1: a career low, was under ten percent for the first
Speaker 1: time on his career, going back to the minors and everything.
Speaker 1: So that's something that's been there, that's not something that was,
Speaker 1: you know, all of a sudden. He can you can
Speaker 1: look at and say that's an outlier. You can look
Speaker 1: at the goodness and say it was a positive outlier,
Speaker 1: whereas it's not really in line with his his career.
Speaker 1: The soft contact, though, is what worries me a little
Speaker 1: bout last year. Now, let's go take it back to
Speaker 1: last segment when I was talking about Carlos Correa. Take
Speaker 1: it back to yesterday when I'm talking about the psychology
Speaker 1: of things and off the field and everything you mentioned.
Speaker 1: Cody Bellinger's is what twenty three, He'll be, uh, twenty
Speaker 1: four in July, same age roughly as Carlos Correa. And
Speaker 1: I talking about the maturity with Carlos Correa. Not to
Speaker 1: say that Bellinger's immature. I think he's you know, pedigree
Speaker 1: comes from his father being a pro ballplayer, everything like that.
Speaker 1: The genes are there. Um, I think his mature he's
Speaker 1: there as well. I think last year he was never
Speaker 1: the big power guy throughout his come up. Through the
Speaker 1: minor leagues, he became the big power guy. He was
Speaker 1: part of the launch angle revolution and then jacked all
Speaker 1: these and the Dodgers are at the forefront of that revolution, right.
Speaker 1: So he comes up, he come out, buys fully into it,
Speaker 1: has this immediate success. A season for the Ages, a
Speaker 1: rookie season for the Ages. I think about a little
Speaker 1: bit too much into that. I think he's gonna go
Speaker 1: back to his roots. I think he's gonna get back
Speaker 1: to being fundamental in his roots. He's not gonna be
Speaker 1: that forty guy. Maybe he will, because we see what's
Speaker 1: going on with the with the way the balls are
Speaker 1: flying out of park now. But I think thirty home
Speaker 1: runs is fine for me. I think he's back to
Speaker 1: that to seventy average. He gives you speed at a
Speaker 1: position that doesn't really offer speed other really than engulgchment.
Speaker 1: He can give you double digit steels fifteen, maybe even
Speaker 1: flirt with twenty. He gives you the outfield eligibility as well.
Speaker 1: I am not worried at all. I think he's young
Speaker 1: enough to figure it out, and I think he will
Speaker 1: figure it out, just because of who he is and
Speaker 1: how you come up and and the pedigree and everything
Speaker 1: like that, so you put it all together. I think
Speaker 1: the corrections to his game are there. I think he
Speaker 1: humbles himself and I think he gets back to being
Speaker 1: who he is and not what we wanted him to be. Andy.
Speaker 1: I like what you did there, because I like this
Speaker 1: a lot about you know, your breakdown of players is
Speaker 1: maybe sometimes I look too much just into the statistical evidence,
Speaker 1: and you look a lot at the personal side of things,
Speaker 1: the mental side of things, And I do want to
Speaker 1: try and factor that more into my analysis because I
Speaker 1: think he made some good points last year. I I
Speaker 1: evaluated a player like Javier bay Is solely based on
Speaker 1: statistical evidence, and I hated him because he swung him
Speaker 1: in this too much and he struck out a lot
Speaker 1: and he didn't walk and I didn't see how, you know,
Speaker 1: his batting average was going to be sustainable, and then
Speaker 1: he went out and made me look completely foolish people.
Speaker 1: And maybe when it comes to players that have this
Speaker 1: kind of prospect pedigree, they're this young, you just kind
Speaker 1: of buy into the fact that they're gonna progress and
Speaker 1: they're gonna be better, and Okay, Yeah, there was some
Speaker 1: statistical evidence that showed that, you know, they backtracked a
Speaker 1: little bit last season. But failure is a great motivator
Speaker 1: or anything in life, and especially you know in sports
Speaker 1: at the at the at the major league level. You know,
Speaker 1: Cody Balinger, you mentioned he was humbled a little bit
Speaker 1: last year. So maybe that's something that I should look into.
Speaker 1: Here's what I have is my projection for toft home
Speaker 1: runs eighty runs scored, ninety RBI, tend stolen basis. Now
Speaker 1: that's that's conservativeative. My projection four to fifty thirty two
Speaker 1: home runs, eighty five runs, ninety rb I five stone basis.
Speaker 1: I take ballingers and in both of those scenarios, vatting
Speaker 1: a marriage is not gonna be far off. I think
Speaker 1: Reece Hoskins is a little safer for the home runs.
Speaker 1: I think the runs will be close. I think the
Speaker 1: RBIs will be close. I might actually give a slight
Speaker 1: favor to actually Reee Hoskins. Uh, Cody Baling is probably
Speaker 1: gonna give you a couple more stone basis. He's gonna
Speaker 1: give you, you you know, five to ten more stone bases
Speaker 1: at least at least, which is a big difference, especially though,
Speaker 1: I don't think the fact that they're going this close
Speaker 1: it's a it's a bad it's like a bad take
Speaker 1: by the fantasy baseball industry. I think they should be
Speaker 1: going this close. Absolutely, it should be. But I definitely
Speaker 1: think that my money would be on Bellinger over Hoskins
Speaker 1: if you're given the choice of the two and and
Speaker 1: just one other player. I wanted to kind of point
Speaker 1: to in what you were saying about, you know, being
Speaker 1: young enough to figure out you know, penalized for the
Speaker 1: past season a kind Gary said, it's still being the
Speaker 1: first catcher taking off the board because the position is
Speaker 1: is so depleted. Right, he had an awful His upside
Speaker 1: is to seventy to eighty hitter with thirty runs from
Speaker 1: the catcher position is the upside, right, But that's here
Speaker 1: where he was last year, saw his downside, but it
Speaker 1: didn't it didn't affect him in any way, shape or
Speaker 1: form and how people are drafting. So why would you
Speaker 1: do that for other players like Bellinger. I'm not saying
Speaker 1: you in particular, I'm saying hypothetically, why would you He's
Speaker 1: going in the third round right now, right Bellinger? Last
Speaker 1: year he was going in the second That he hasn't
Speaker 1: he hasn't fallen that that was a bad example. But
Speaker 1: if if you know, if we're using the argument against Hoskins,
Speaker 1: you can relate what you're saying right now to a
Speaker 1: guy like Joann Mancada, who you wanted to talk about.
Speaker 1: Because for me, statistically, there's a lot of bad with
Speaker 1: Moncada because he strikes out a lot. He swings and
Speaker 1: misses thirty three percent strikeout right last year. I mean,
Speaker 1: this isn't just bad, this is really bad. Like we're
Speaker 1: talking about one of the worst in all baseball. He
Speaker 1: has swinging miss issues. Like he he swings extremely hard.
Speaker 1: He made hard contact and that's why you see his
Speaker 1: batting average is too thirty. It would be even lower
Speaker 1: if if it weren't for the quality of contact that
Speaker 1: he makes. Because whenever he makes contact, you know he
Speaker 1: has high battis. He can sustain that because he hits
Speaker 1: the ball as hard as he does. But he has
Speaker 1: a thirty three strikeout right and it worries me. There's
Speaker 1: nothing that I can look at statistically, Andy, that would
Speaker 1: allow me to project Joan Moncada to have anything higher
Speaker 1: than a two forty batting average. There's nothing there's nothing
Speaker 1: statistically because I looked at every single monthly breakdown. I
Speaker 1: looked at his splits by month. I looked at first
Speaker 1: half for a second half. It didn't get better. His
Speaker 1: plate discipline. His plate discipline is not bad. Let me
Speaker 1: not say it that way, because he walks a lot,
Speaker 1: but in terms of strikeouts, it did not get better.
Speaker 1: So the only way that I could project for you know,
Speaker 1: if you are on the optimistic side of projecting you
Speaker 1: on Mancady, you might say he has the upside to
Speaker 1: hit two fifty two sixty with thirty home runs and
Speaker 1: twenty stone basis. Maybe that's like, is you know, his
Speaker 1: top percentile outcome this year for you on Moncada. But
Speaker 1: the path to him getting there would be him doing
Speaker 1: something that we've never seen him do before Andy, which
Speaker 1: is which comes back to statistical evidence that I have
Speaker 1: from him versus a maybe what you're about to say,
Speaker 1: the fact that he has the prospect pedigree. It's not
Speaker 1: just the prospect pedigree. And I hear all the arguments
Speaker 1: against Mancada. I mean, he led the league last year
Speaker 1: and strike outs with to seventeen. The argument is already
Speaker 1: strikes out too much. Yes, he does, but I'll get
Speaker 1: into that in a moment. The other argument is he
Speaker 1: can't get lefties. It splits are bad, but which is
Speaker 1: weird because you have a switch hitter. Yes, and and
Speaker 1: people say that he should just pick a side and
Speaker 1: stick to it. But here's the other thing with that.
Speaker 1: The sample size might be small prior to last year.
Speaker 1: You only have fifty four games in seventeen, just a
Speaker 1: handful at eight. You know when he when he was
Speaker 1: still a Boston in sixteen, So it's not what he
Speaker 1: was last year with a undred forty nine. But if
Speaker 1: you're looking at the splits against lefties, that was really
Speaker 1: last year. It's not last year injected, I should say, um,
Speaker 1: career wise, it looks bad, But if you go back
Speaker 1: to seen he was pretty even split right these first lefties.
Speaker 1: I don't think last year was really true representation of
Speaker 1: what he is as a hitter. I think the handstring
Speaker 1: issues plagued him as well. I think when you talk
Speaker 1: about a guy who has speed in his game and
Speaker 1: then you take that away, you're an unfamiliar territory, You're
Speaker 1: you're you're in uncharted waters, like where you don't have,
Speaker 1: you don't feel you have your full compliment. Think about
Speaker 1: when you wake up in the morning and you have
Speaker 1: a slight headache, it's not a pounding headache. I got
Speaker 1: a call out of you know, call sick out of
Speaker 1: work over I drink. I drank a couple of beers, right,
Speaker 1: and you don't feel yourself. You feel like, as somebody
Speaker 1: asked me to do this, I can do it, but
Speaker 1: not how I feel comfortable doing it. I think when
Speaker 1: you take a speed guy like Moncada and you take
Speaker 1: away his hamstring and his ability to feel comfortable with
Speaker 1: that speed, I think it changes the outlook. And this
Speaker 1: was his first full season. Now we're talking about the strikeouts.
Speaker 1: He hit uh little put my number here? Um, where
Speaker 1: were where is it? He had a strike at rate,
Speaker 1: but he batted three O nine over the final twenty
Speaker 1: five games of the season, and that was still striking
Speaker 1: out thirty percent of the time. Point of the quality
Speaker 1: of contact that he makes My point with that is
Speaker 1: the high average eggs of velocity. I don't care about
Speaker 1: the case as much. He can hit three hundred while
Speaker 1: striking out thirty percent of the time, He's probably he
Speaker 1: could do it. I know it's a short period of
Speaker 1: games a month whatever. We're talking to a whole different thing.
Speaker 1: It's a D fifty games. Can you strike out thirty
Speaker 1: percent of the time and hit three d as? I think, no,
Speaker 1: you can't hit three. But he would be Aaron Judge, right,
Speaker 1: Aaron Judge who strikes out percent of the time but
Speaker 1: maintains a to eight batting average because he hits the
Speaker 1: ball as hard as he does. I could see Monk
Speaker 1: kind of getting to that point, but he still needs
Speaker 1: to drop it at least a little bit. It can't bet.
Speaker 1: I'm glad you brought up Judge and and I'll say why.
Speaker 1: And we're talking about this with Bellinger, and it's about
Speaker 1: players making adjustments. I think the biggest adjustment Judge made
Speaker 1: to bring him to m v P levels was saying,
Speaker 1: I'm not a home run hitter. I'm I'm a gap
Speaker 1: to gap doubles hitter, like a Michael Confordo. And he
Speaker 1: stopped trying to hit the ball out of the park.
Speaker 1: And just because he's so big, he started making better
Speaker 1: contact and the ball would travel out of the park.
Speaker 1: That's what changed for me and Aaron Judge's game. I'm
Speaker 1: hoping Mancata can makes similar changes and strides He's not
Speaker 1: a high average guy. He showed he could be in
Speaker 1: the minders, but this is this is an elite pedigree
Speaker 1: of player. He's still just twenty four years old. He's
Speaker 1: got the power, he's got to speak combo. But I'm
Speaker 1: looking forty from him, not this year at least maybe
Speaker 1: maybe if he can put it together this year and
Speaker 1: give me and I think he can do that, and
Speaker 1: let's move out right, and if you're getting him where
Speaker 1: you're getting him, that is that is maybe arguably hands
Speaker 1: down the best value in drafts. If he turns in
Speaker 1: a two fifty two sixties season at second base, you're
Speaker 1: probably winning majority of your league's for for where you're
Speaker 1: gonna draft him. He's going to pick one sixty three
Speaker 1: right now. The second baseman that are going just ahead
Speaker 1: of him, or I mean, i'll include you know what,
Speaker 1: they're actually pretty far ahead. Ryan Dozer is going thirty
Speaker 1: spots ahead of you a Mancata should they be that
Speaker 1: far apart. He is a starting second baseman for me,
Speaker 1: which means he'd be in the top twelve. We're looking
Speaker 1: at the standard twelve team league. He's he's currently the
Speaker 1: fourteenth second baseman. Guys, right, in front of him, Brian Dojer,
Speaker 1: I can't stand um nothing personally, just you know, as
Speaker 1: far as let's say, what did he do? Did you like?
Speaker 1: As far as fantasy baseball player, I can't stand the guy.
Speaker 1: I think his two good seasons were the outliers for him.
Speaker 1: If you look at his career, he had two good seasons,
Speaker 1: one really good one. He's always like either a first
Speaker 1: or second half guy. To Dojer like, he goes on
Speaker 1: these amazing runs and like his end of season numbers
Speaker 1: look pretty good. I'm with you, man, like I don't
Speaker 1: want anything to do with Brian Doeser. I don't think
Speaker 1: the second base position is very good Ryan Dozer than Scope.
Speaker 1: A lot of people are gonna look at these guys
Speaker 1: as bounce back Cane that it's I'm not really in Moncada.
Speaker 1: You know, you go back and forth because I drafted
Speaker 1: him last year and he burned me a little bit.
Speaker 1: But I mean, you gotta be able to erase that
Speaker 1: from your mind. You gotta be able to say, all right,
Speaker 1: it's a new year prospect pedigree, Like I think you
Speaker 1: know he has league winning potential. I feel like a
Speaker 1: second base in that I am on is rugnett O Door, like,
Speaker 1: that's the guy that I'm gonna be on because he
Speaker 1: made conscious adjustments last year and we we saw but
Speaker 1: you get the same thing from Moncata and only thirty
Speaker 1: spots later, So that's a full two round. I've seen
Speaker 1: o Door hit thirty home runs, but you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying, he's done it twice. I hear you. But
Speaker 1: maybe okay, all right, So I mean like right now
Speaker 1: o'dor is going on and Mankad is going one sixty three.
Speaker 1: But again o'door, I've seen him hit thirty home runs
Speaker 1: and that. But with this new approach, if he's a
Speaker 1: little bit more patient, maybe he's not trying to just
Speaker 1: hit home runs all the time. Even if Odor hit
Speaker 1: to fifty with twenty five home runs and fifteen stolen bases,
Speaker 1: I think he could get there because you know, we've
Speaker 1: already seen him hit the thirty home run park and
Speaker 1: he made you know, he made conscious adjustments last year.
Speaker 1: So but the guy that I'm on at the average
Speaker 1: one from two seventy one to two oh four, two
Speaker 1: O four, I mean that was two years ago, right
Speaker 1: in twenty years seven second thirty home run season two
Speaker 1: oh four I mean, and though that's an outlier in
Speaker 1: Odoor's career, everything else is higher than that. But he's
Speaker 1: probably in that year, not in the lineup if the
Speaker 1: Rangers are doing anything. I mean, the fact of the
Speaker 1: matter is they weren't competitive. So yeah, we can afford
Speaker 1: to row this guy out and just let him swing
Speaker 1: for the fences. We don't care if it's two oh
Speaker 1: four or one ninety six, like it didn't matter at
Speaker 1: that point. Um, you're right, though. The second base position
Speaker 1: is another one that I don't feel is particularly deep.
Speaker 1: It's why jose Al two of it for me is
Speaker 1: still you can argue first round there. I know he's
Speaker 1: kind of slipped out of the first round, but I
Speaker 1: have enough time knowing what he's giving. Yeah, I'm not
Speaker 1: on all astros not named Tyler A Night or Alex Bregman. Well,
Speaker 1: I'm how to even even get into my my Flaherty
Speaker 1: uh Rant. Why he's my first picture of it. We'll
Speaker 1: have you on again before the seasons. We'll see what
Speaker 1: happened abut it real quick. We do have Stephen Massachusetts.
Speaker 1: I don't know if we have enough time. We have
Speaker 1: two minutes, Steve, can you make it quick? For us
Speaker 1: A four four three six seven nine, Stephen, Massachusetts. If
Speaker 1: you can make it quick, we will be able to
Speaker 1: answer your question here. What's going on? Man? That was
Speaker 1: pretty fast, Steve, Uh, what what do you What do
Speaker 1: you guys think about him? Uh? In the two minutes
Speaker 1: that you have left? Who was that? We didn't We
Speaker 1: didn't Yo see Yo see Kukushi the guy from Seattle,
Speaker 1: the Japanese guy that just picked up. What do you
Speaker 1: guys think about him? We actually spoke about him earlier
Speaker 1: on in the show. You go back and you can
Speaker 1: get a more extensive breakdown of how we feel about him. Uh.
Speaker 1: And he actually really likes him a lot. He's gonna
Speaker 1: have a one fifty one hundred sixty ennings cap this year.
Speaker 1: But we do think that in those endings pitched, he's
Speaker 1: gonna be a pretty serviceable pitcher. I don't know that
Speaker 1: I want him as one of my top three pitchers
Speaker 1: in fantasy right around that market. Anything after that, like
Speaker 1: is my sp four. I don't I don't hate it
Speaker 1: right around that mark. But Steak, thank you for the call,
Speaker 1: and and we are up against the time. But if
Speaker 1: you go back, I forgot what segment is. Maybe the
Speaker 1: second segment. Go back to the beginning of second We
Speaker 1: sent a lot of great things today two hours. Really
Speaker 1: does I hope you had fun the past few days? Man?
Speaker 1: I did? I did? I think it was a little circumstances.
Speaker 1: Did I think we did not? Right? I walked into
Speaker 1: the gauntlet? But you know it was, it was? It was.
Speaker 1: Today was a little better. We have you on again too.
Speaker 1: We'll have you on with Greg. I mean, Greg's probably
Speaker 1: not gonna listen to this, so between me and you,
Speaker 1: we can make fun of him for being a Dave
Speaker 1: Matthews band. So next time, double team. We're gonna double
Speaker 1: team Greg, Dave Matthews Tailgator. Want to thank Andy Singleton
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