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Speaker 1: Mattie moo Hey, what's going on? Frank? Happy birthday too,
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Speaker 1: give up congratulations to Matt Modica for for joining the
Speaker 1: Athletic Fantasy staff. First and foremost, congrats Maddie mo Like
Speaker 1: I do for the start of, you know, the past
Speaker 1: couple of weeks of shows, I gotta I gotta ask
Speaker 1: you one very important question. How did you sleep last night?
Speaker 1: Like a baby? Actually actually had some good I usually
Speaker 1: don't sleep well, but last night, for some reason, I
Speaker 1: slept like a baby. That's great to hear. Another question.
Speaker 1: I mean, look, everyone's dying to know. I'm dying to know.
Speaker 1: You know, everyone remembers Matmodiga from last year, the work
Speaker 1: he did with the Fantasy Sports Network. I was on
Speaker 1: Rodo Experts in the morning, he was on the Frenzy.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Goon Squad. I had to steal Matt Modico
Speaker 1: away for today's show with the Fantasy BFS. Matt, how
Speaker 1: many drafts have you done so far? Because I feel
Speaker 1: like usually at this point you have like you have
Speaker 1: like fifty in your back pocket or something like that.
Speaker 1: I usually do a lot more kind of cut down
Speaker 1: so far this year and just been mapping things out, uh,
Speaker 1: trying to use uh a d P as a guide.
Speaker 1: You should never use it as a bible, but it
Speaker 1: gives you good indications. And I think we'll talk about
Speaker 1: KDS later on in the show. Yeah, KDS people are like,
Speaker 1: what the hell is a KDS. That's Kentucky Derby style,
Speaker 1: which is basically how picks are determined on the NFBC.
Speaker 1: So we'll get into that specifically. Matt. You, uh, you
Speaker 1: don't play exclusively on NFBC, but i'd imagine you you've
Speaker 1: have You've had a lot of drafts there already. Am
Speaker 1: I right? Pretty much? I'm exclusive? Then I do uh
Speaker 1: a Dynasty league, uh with the guys from Rod to
Speaker 1: Why I created that. That's really my like one and
Speaker 1: only and I will be doing the tout Wars draft
Speaker 1: and hold this year, so those would be my two, uh,
Speaker 1: my two non leagues. Yeah, so today on the show,
Speaker 1: we're gonna break down the first round of fantasy baseball.
Speaker 1: I mentioned that last week with Greg that I really
Speaker 1: wanted to do that with you kind of you know,
Speaker 1: go over all right, the top fifteen picks right now
Speaker 1: for those who play in fifteen team roto leagues. Talk
Speaker 1: about Lindor this injury, how far is he's slipping down draft.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you had any you know, drafts
Speaker 1: over the weekend where you could see kind of where
Speaker 1: Lindora is slipping to. I know that there was an
Speaker 1: industry type draft, the BARF League that Justin Mason hosts
Speaker 1: out there on the West coast, so we'll get into that.
Speaker 1: I know we have data from there to see where
Speaker 1: Francisco Lindor went and where he was drafted. Manumo, I
Speaker 1: told you I was gonna bring this up before the show.
Speaker 1: We were talking a little bit, and this is why
Speaker 1: we need to stick to fantasy. You know. I try
Speaker 1: and play some basketball here and there, try to keep
Speaker 1: my cardio up. That that's that's how I try and
Speaker 1: keep in shape. But now I got like this back injury.
Speaker 1: I got like this Clayton Kershaw thing going on where like, honestly,
Speaker 1: if Greg was here this week, maybe I'd be putting
Speaker 1: on like the d L or the ile whatever they're
Speaker 1: calling it now, but Greig's not here, so I gotta
Speaker 1: hold it down. Um, I messed on my back playing basketball. Uh.
Speaker 1: This is this is why we stick to fantasy and
Speaker 1: we don't play any sports. Matt. Yeah, you're you're too
Speaker 1: young to be injured right now during the prime of
Speaker 1: your life. I don't know if I would put it
Speaker 1: that way. I feel a lot older than I am.
Speaker 1: I gotta stop drinking or something. I don't know. I
Speaker 1: usually do you know it's sober January where I don't
Speaker 1: drink it all. I think one of these years I'm
Speaker 1: just gonna do like a sober year and I'm just
Speaker 1: gonna like, all right, screw it. I'm not drinking at
Speaker 1: all this year. But let's jump into the first round here, Matt.
Speaker 1: Like before we actually look at the ADP of the
Speaker 1: first fifteen players being drafted, what's like your initial takeaway
Speaker 1: with the first round of fantasy baseball drafts this season?
Speaker 1: My initial away is I want to be in the
Speaker 1: first half. I obviously want one or two. If I
Speaker 1: have that option, I will take it every time so
Speaker 1: I can get trout or bets Uh, picked three quite
Speaker 1: a few times this year, and I was splitting that
Speaker 1: between Lindor and a Kuna. But now both players and
Speaker 1: this is why I like to draft early. Look, there
Speaker 1: is risk, but both players have you know, warning signs.
Speaker 1: Now Lindora's obviously out for quite some time. Uh, he's
Speaker 1: getting knocked down and deserved the show. I don't know how.
Speaker 1: I don't know how severe the calf injuries. It sounds,
Speaker 1: you know, like two months he's gonna be out. So
Speaker 1: that's never a good thing with your first round pick.
Speaker 1: Do you think with a Kuna? And I love him
Speaker 1: and I'm not worried about about the sophomore slump. The
Speaker 1: only thing I'm worried about is if he's bat and
Speaker 1: clean up, how is that going to affect his slowan basis,
Speaker 1: I would love to see him back in the leadoff spot.
Speaker 1: I know he wants to be a leadoff hitter and
Speaker 1: so that's something to think about. Yeah, that definitely is.
Speaker 1: And I saw the report when they were you know,
Speaker 1: they were talking to the Braves manager and they said,
Speaker 1: you know, as of right now, they have a projected
Speaker 1: starting lineup that has ronaldacun Your batting forth, whereas last year.
Speaker 1: Most of the damage he did on the base pass
Speaker 1: in terms of running and stealing bases, You're absolutely right.
Speaker 1: Uh more so came out of the leadoff spots. So
Speaker 1: you know, I think he has the speed, he has
Speaker 1: the potential to steal you know, fifteen and twenty bases.
Speaker 1: But if you move them down don the order and
Speaker 1: he's batting clean up, you know, what do you realistically
Speaker 1: project you know, ten to twelve is that a fair projection?
Speaker 1: I mean, I think you do have to cut them significantly.
Speaker 1: I would think something in that range would sound proudy.
Speaker 1: When it comes to Francisco Lindor, I mentioned that, you know,
Speaker 1: there was an industry draft over the weekend he fell
Speaker 1: to the eight spot. Now he's dealing with a calf
Speaker 1: injury and is expected to miss seven to nine weeks,
Speaker 1: which you know that that kind of puts him right
Speaker 1: around opening day, like he might miss the first weeks.
Speaker 1: But a calf injury, especially one that right away they
Speaker 1: you know, they didn't shy away from it. They basically
Speaker 1: said right away, you know he's gonna be on the
Speaker 1: shelf for seven or nine weeks. You know, that is
Speaker 1: eye opening for me because a lot of Francisco. Lindoor's
Speaker 1: value the way that it has been this year and
Speaker 1: the way that he was being drafted. You know, before
Speaker 1: this injury, he was a top three, top four pick.
Speaker 1: I saw him slide to pick eight in this draft.
Speaker 1: If this calf injury as severe as they're letting on you,
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna be able to steal t thirty bases here. Matt, Well,
Speaker 1: here's the thing. It happened now. So that's that's the
Speaker 1: that's the positive. That's you know, that's the glass half
Speaker 1: full kind of mentality where you know, I don't know,
Speaker 1: maybe he's a quick healer. I mean maybe come opening
Speaker 1: Day he's ready. He just needs to get some at
Speaker 1: bats and stuff like that. We know in the past
Speaker 1: though calf injuries can be really significant for me. It's
Speaker 1: gonna drop him down anywhere from say twelve to that
Speaker 1: fifteen range because I don't want to not get Lindor,
Speaker 1: especially if I'm picking on the turrent, I'm gonna have
Speaker 1: a hard time passing on Lindor. And so he misses
Speaker 1: only a handful of games, so he's ready for the
Speaker 1: stock of the season. You know that, I don't know,
Speaker 1: it's something we have time to monitor if you're draft them. Now,
Speaker 1: to me, there's like he's probably you know, like eleven
Speaker 1: gat people that I'm definitely taking over him. Uh, no questions. Yes,
Speaker 1: this re course in that first round, you really don't
Speaker 1: want to have to worry about anything. So if I'm
Speaker 1: not having to worry about these other stud players, I'll
Speaker 1: take them. But I mean there's a lot of question
Speaker 1: marks on a lot of players, and Lindor you know,
Speaker 1: the thirty home runs. Uh, he's gonna batch you around
Speaker 1: to eighty with the possibility. Yeah, I'm sure we'll have
Speaker 1: inside injuries on at some point this week, and I'm
Speaker 1: gonna have to ask them about this injury. You know. Typically,
Speaker 1: I know that their algorithm is, you know, with lower
Speaker 1: leg injuries, especially something like a calf. I have a feeling,
Speaker 1: this is me speculating right now that they're gonna say
Speaker 1: that he's gonna be at a very high risk for
Speaker 1: re injury when it comes to a calf strain, especially
Speaker 1: a guy that we're expecting to steal you know, anywhere
Speaker 1: from to thirty bases. So that's just my take on it. Well,
Speaker 1: we'll find out from inside injuries later on in the week.
Speaker 1: Matt I've been on the record already saying that, and
Speaker 1: I hear what you're saying about drafting in the first round. Look, you, uh,
Speaker 1: in the first half of the first round, you you
Speaker 1: get one of these elite talents. You know, first or
Speaker 1: second you're gonna get trout or bets. You know, you
Speaker 1: get one of those five outfielders that are also important.
Speaker 1: Uh in rotisserie drafts um and look, you just can't
Speaker 1: argue with the talent that's going in the first round.
Speaker 1: I have already said that, I think, and you know,
Speaker 1: I'm still doing drafts and I'm still trying to figure
Speaker 1: out where i want to be in the first round.
Speaker 1: But if I were picking my draft slot, I think
Speaker 1: I would want to be later in the first round
Speaker 1: and grab one of these aces to pair with a
Speaker 1: hitter in the second round or fights first. You know,
Speaker 1: I think I want to grab one of these legitimate aces,
Speaker 1: one of these starting pitch years in the first two rounds,
Speaker 1: one of you know, Scherzer, de Gram, Chris Sale, Corey Kluber.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you throw Justin Verlander in that mix,
Speaker 1: but I think he's pretty safe for two plus endings
Speaker 1: pitched because to me, I feel like there are more
Speaker 1: first round caliber hitters that are being drafted in the
Speaker 1: second round this year or whatever reason. Look, jose L
Speaker 1: TV was the first round player the past couple of years,
Speaker 1: and he returned that value. Now he's going in the
Speaker 1: second round. There's a reason. I mean there's you know,
Speaker 1: he's coming off an injury played gear. But there's other
Speaker 1: guys as well. There's Paul Goldschmidt. I think Aaron Judge
Speaker 1: has first round caliber talent. I think John Carlo Stanton
Speaker 1: has first round caliber talent. Getting all those guys in
Speaker 1: the second round and you can anchor your starting pitching
Speaker 1: staff by taking one of those you know, Scherzer, de Gram,
Speaker 1: Chris Sale Cluber types and then kind of you know,
Speaker 1: you're still getting a first round caliber type hitter. In
Speaker 1: my opinion, how do you feel about something like that? No,
Speaker 1: I mean every strategy is you know, if if throw
Speaker 1: it out, it can be well executed. And I can't
Speaker 1: argue what you're saying if I'm picking like eleventh or twelfth,
Speaker 1: and you know my top ten hitters are off the board. Sometimes,
Speaker 1: I mean it was happening more back in like November
Speaker 1: early December. It hasn't happened recently, although it did happen
Speaker 1: to me in my most recent draft Champions, where I
Speaker 1: got trade Turner out of eleven. Turner is a first
Speaker 1: half in the first round, painting for me the other
Speaker 1: He's one of the most secure assets you can acquire.
Speaker 1: All you have to do is stay healthy, and he's
Speaker 1: gonna score a hundred runs. He's gonna stier. Forty bases
Speaker 1: will give you double digit homer's and a solid batting image.
Speaker 1: You know, it doesn't have to be three, but if
Speaker 1: it's two eighty or around there, that's great. If i'm picking.
Speaker 1: If he's not there, I'm gonna go with the Graham.
Speaker 1: And here's why Chris Sale is the best picture in
Speaker 1: baseball in my opinion. But Chris Sale, we saw what
Speaker 1: happened to him last year. Uh, we saw the World
Speaker 1: Series and all that I know, all the all the
Speaker 1: reports are that there's a restrictions and all that. I
Speaker 1: need to see Chris Sale on the bump. I need
Speaker 1: to see him slinging it. Uh. If everything points out
Speaker 1: that he goes out of his first couple of you know,
Speaker 1: warm up sessions or he first spring training game and
Speaker 1: he looks fine, then I will reassess because right now
Speaker 1: he's he's steel at the end of the first early
Speaker 1: second round if you're getting him. But at current date,
Speaker 1: I'm not taking Sale there. I'll take the ground. My
Speaker 1: point with the first half of the draft is I
Speaker 1: can get one of these players that I really want,
Speaker 1: and for Garrett Cole is there there's enough pitching for
Speaker 1: me at that spot in the second round or early
Speaker 1: third that I can get at least one of those
Speaker 1: aces if I have the one pick. I mean, I
Speaker 1: love it because I can get Trout or you know,
Speaker 1: one or two we can try to bet and then
Speaker 1: possibly even go double aces. And I really pound that.
Speaker 1: So here's the first round as of right now according
Speaker 1: to the NFBC a DP in the month of February,
Speaker 1: so you know, there's eleven days worth of data here.
Speaker 1: Mike Trout, Mookie Betts, Jose Ramirez, Max Scherzer, j D Martinez,
Speaker 1: Nolan Arronado, Ronald Acuna, Francisco Lindor, Christian Yell, Its Trade Turner,
Speaker 1: Jacob Degram, Alex Bregman, Javier Bias, Chris Sale, Jose Altuve,
Speaker 1: Matt Which player in the top fifteen I guess I
Speaker 1: don't want to use the word worries you most, but
Speaker 1: who catches your eye most there? Because to me personally,
Speaker 1: it's Javier Baiez because you know, look as aggressive as
Speaker 1: he has as a swinger as he is. Last year,
Speaker 1: I was completely out on Javier Bias. The guy made
Speaker 1: me look like a fool. Anybody who was out on
Speaker 1: Javier Baiaz last year, he made you look like a fool.
Speaker 1: He was otherworldly. He was amazing to me. I just
Speaker 1: worried so much about the plate discipline, his aggressive approach.
Speaker 1: But look, he's you know this is we kind of
Speaker 1: have a sample by now, like this is who he is.
Speaker 1: He's going to be an aggressive swinger. He's gonna swing
Speaker 1: and miss a lot, but when he made contact, he's
Speaker 1: gonna make pretty good contact. And you know his ability
Speaker 1: to hit home runs and steal bases, um, you know,
Speaker 1: it's it's pretty enticing. So I get why he's going
Speaker 1: in the first round. But the plate discipline to me
Speaker 1: is just really scary. Um, you know, who who is
Speaker 1: someone in this top fifteen in the first round that
Speaker 1: that has your attention almost that maybe you're shying away
Speaker 1: from more so than anyone else. Oh, just the real
Speaker 1: quick on biased. I think that's the popular opinion. I'm
Speaker 1: kind of what the thing was. Last year, I got
Speaker 1: him at such a price, but he was he was
Speaker 1: priced to be profitable. This year, you're paying he has
Speaker 1: to live up to that. And I don't think it's
Speaker 1: just the batting average risk. I think the stolen bases
Speaker 1: are look at that second half. He was terrible on
Speaker 1: the base pass. I mean he was thrown out several times.
Speaker 1: I forget, if it was like three of tang at
Speaker 1: three stolen bases, he might have been thrown out close
Speaker 1: at ten times something like that. So if the batting
Speaker 1: average goes down, the stelling basis goes down, and you
Speaker 1: guys can't hit thirty home runs, you know you're looking
Speaker 1: at a guy who's got the UH infield eligibility all
Speaker 1: over the place. He's a triple front there. But there's
Speaker 1: a lot of you know, there's guys like Aaron Judge
Speaker 1: going in the second round, Paul Goldsmith that you're passing
Speaker 1: up over there. The other guy would be another multi
Speaker 1: eligible bull UH position player and Alex Bregman. I think
Speaker 1: the kid is a fantastic hitter. He's gonna have a
Speaker 1: fantastic career. But you know, news came out a couple
Speaker 1: of weeks back about the elbow and he wanted to
Speaker 1: win a procedure and stuff like that, So that's always
Speaker 1: gonna give you pause. I mean, I think Bragman is
Speaker 1: basically as the mirror skills of Jose Ramirez with less
Speaker 1: stolen bases. But you know, I don't really want to
Speaker 1: have to deal with that right now. I know he
Speaker 1: felt one of my friends were doing with after you
Speaker 1: got him my twenty, and yeah, there, I'm I'm more
Speaker 1: than fine. I can get my whether it's a picture
Speaker 1: or a hitter, stop my foundation and then get somebody
Speaker 1: like Bregman a twenty. I'm a lot more apt to
Speaker 1: do that. Now. We had we had Dr a On
Speaker 1: from Inside Injuries last week to ask him exactly about
Speaker 1: that same thing that you brought up, Alex Bregman and
Speaker 1: the and the elbow injury. You know, he had some
Speaker 1: loose bodies um you know, removed from that elbow. But
Speaker 1: Doc was pretty optimistic man. He said, you know, if anything,
Speaker 1: this was a proactive pro seizure. Uh and and you
Speaker 1: know he could actually see that his power can get
Speaker 1: better from this. So you know you're talking about the
Speaker 1: elite contact skills. You know, I think he had something
Speaker 1: like a four point two percent swinging shrike rate last year.
Speaker 1: It was the second best in all of baseball. You know,
Speaker 1: Greg's been doing this thing where he asked me one
Speaker 1: word to describe how I feel about a player once
Speaker 1: we get done analyzing said player. And I told him
Speaker 1: the word that I have for Alex Bregman is bowing.
Speaker 1: What do you think about that? Now, Look, there's there is,
Speaker 1: Like I said, there's a lot to lack in this
Speaker 1: kid's profile. Uh, he was fantastic hitter in college, and
Speaker 1: I mean everything has led up to him, you know,
Speaker 1: ascending to where he is now. It's just it's just
Speaker 1: something you keep in the back of your mind. I mean,
Speaker 1: the the first round is even went Lindor getting injured,
Speaker 1: you still have a stable of studge going off in
Speaker 1: this first round. Absolutely, when we get back, Matt Moodique
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Speaker 1: but it's his birthday. Happy birthday, Greg, he turns fifty
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Speaker 1: I don't know, man, that's a really fruity drink he's
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Speaker 1: I don't know what's going on here in this kid. Hey, birthday, Greg,
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Speaker 1: that when we get back, we're gonna explain what the
Speaker 1: hell k d S is and this is pretty much
Speaker 1: how draft picks are determined over at the NFBC. So
Speaker 1: take it away, Maddie, this is this is your territory.
Speaker 1: Sure real quick shout out to the production to the
Speaker 1: stars Chris Pavano for the introim music Love It KDS
Speaker 1: is it started with the Kentucky Derbys. How I don't
Speaker 1: think they still do it that way. I think I
Speaker 1: might have changed a bit, altered a bit. But you
Speaker 1: got to choose which post you wanted to go out from,
Speaker 1: so out of the fifteen draft slots you get to
Speaker 1: put in your reference. Doesn't mean you will get said preference,
Speaker 1: but it's giving you an opportunity and a chance to
Speaker 1: map out the draft board, and especially in high stakes
Speaker 1: leagues where there's no trading and stuff, it's kind of imperative.
Speaker 1: But you do want to set up how you can
Speaker 1: get your pitching as well. This Uh, aces are gonna
Speaker 1: go flying off the board. I know. Now you're looking
Speaker 1: at a DP and in in a month from now,
Speaker 1: the pictures will get pushed up. It happens every year.
Speaker 1: It's it's just the right of spring. So what you're
Speaker 1: doing right now is basically setting your foundation. Those first
Speaker 1: four or five rounds are very critical to me. And
Speaker 1: I'm not a person that preaches position scarcity. I think
Speaker 1: I'll feel the scarce. So you can look at it
Speaker 1: that way. I think you have to have a a plan.
Speaker 1: And you might want to say, you know what, everybody's
Speaker 1: gonna go for pitching, so I'm gonna back off from pitching,
Speaker 1: and that's fine, But what are you doing in those rounds?
Speaker 1: You know, follow in the first four rounds where you
Speaker 1: walked away without a picture, you're gonna need you need
Speaker 1: to pound that position pretty hard for the next you know,
Speaker 1: three rounds or so, You're really gonna need to be
Speaker 1: be aggressive in that area. I mean there's a trade
Speaker 1: off with everything, but at least you're having the ability
Speaker 1: to set up the board the way you want to
Speaker 1: and you're not walking in there blind and you know
Speaker 1: some people you're flustered, like, I don't care how good
Speaker 1: of a drafted you are. You go live, You're you're
Speaker 1: in a setting, and you know you need to stay focused.
Speaker 1: It's sometimes the easiest things can distract you, and you
Speaker 1: just don't want to miss an opportunity. Don't ever fight
Speaker 1: the board. If something comes to you and you have
Speaker 1: your you know your rankings, you do somebody else's rankings,
Speaker 1: however you do it. Never fight the draft board, Maddie mo. Look,
Speaker 1: it's it's taken about minutes here for me to notice.
Speaker 1: But you know I forgot for a while here that
Speaker 1: you were a Met fan and that you're wearing a
Speaker 1: Met hat. We got to represent something, you know. I'm
Speaker 1: just waiting for them to swoop in and we're here.
Speaker 1: They signed Machado or Harper. I mean, I don't understands
Speaker 1: the Yankees, Oh, you should have signed Brice Hopper like
Speaker 1: they were a free agency they should, you know, or
Speaker 1: a Machado, either one of the Chile It just you
Speaker 1: know they're a New York City team. They've done a
Speaker 1: lot of good things. But my point is with the Yankees,
Speaker 1: and until one of these players signs elsewhere, I'm just
Speaker 1: waiting to hear that. You know, last minute, the Yankees
Speaker 1: decided to drop this offer, and so and so is
Speaker 1: now remember of the Yankees, and he'll be wearing the pinstripes.
Speaker 1: So I hope that doesn't happen, but you know, hey,
Speaker 1: it wouldn't surprise me one bit either, and uh I
Speaker 1: will gladly welcome that. Did you see the Pakoda projections
Speaker 1: have have the Mets projected to uh be tied for
Speaker 1: first place in an elysis here with the Washington Nationals.
Speaker 1: What do you think about that? I don't think you're
Speaker 1: gonna be very competitive. I give I give them as
Speaker 1: a Mets fan, I think it's the Nationals division now.
Speaker 1: Uh So, I'm I'm not gonna get that high on them.
Speaker 1: I think Atlanta. I'm concerned about the pitching staff. They
Speaker 1: do not have the arms needed right now. I think
Speaker 1: they do need to go out and get an ace
Speaker 1: on that team. You know, they do have a great
Speaker 1: lineup and all that, but they need to solidify that
Speaker 1: pitching and who's gonna be closing our games with them?
Speaker 1: The Phillies have really solidified that lineup, but I think
Speaker 1: they need another picture in there as well. Mattie Moo,
Speaker 1: You know when I threw it your way to talk
Speaker 1: about KDS and kind of coming up with a plan
Speaker 1: for your Fantasy Baseball draft, one of the first things
Speaker 1: that you said is you have to have a plan
Speaker 1: for pitching. And you know, as long as I've known
Speaker 1: you the past couple of years, you've crushed it when
Speaker 1: it comes to starting pitching. I know, you know over
Speaker 1: at CTM baseball dot Com every single year you've done
Speaker 1: the starting Pitcher Index, Like that's your thing. As long
Speaker 1: as I've known you, like, you've crushed starting pitching. You know,
Speaker 1: two years ago you were all over James Paxton. He
Speaker 1: broke out last year. I know Aaron Nola and Garrett
Speaker 1: Cohler two are your favorite guys, and and those guys
Speaker 1: are performed admirably, to say the least in eighteen So
Speaker 1: what's your plan, dude, Like, what what is your plan
Speaker 1: when it comes to starting pitching? I know, you know
Speaker 1: we tell people you don't want to have a set plan.
Speaker 1: You know you don't want to have to, you know,
Speaker 1: strict of a plan going into your draft, because as
Speaker 1: I've said, you know, I would like to get a
Speaker 1: starting pitcher in the first two rounds, but if the
Speaker 1: draft shakes out where you know, there's there's a hitter
Speaker 1: value that I can't pass up in the early second round.
Speaker 1: As much as I would love to have starting pitching,
Speaker 1: like Matt said, you know, you have to be able
Speaker 1: to adjust to the draft. So I want a starting pitcher,
Speaker 1: I want a workhorse, Yes I do, But again, you
Speaker 1: have to be able to change up your draft plan.
Speaker 1: You know, if someone falls to you that shouldn't be there.
Speaker 1: How are you attacking starting pitching this year? You know,
Speaker 1: like when when are you looking to get your first one?
Speaker 1: Doesn't work that way, like how are you attaching attacking
Speaker 1: starting pitching? If I'm picking late first round, there's a
Speaker 1: good chance if the Graham's on the board, I'll walk
Speaker 1: away with him. Otherwise I'm gonna look more towards the
Speaker 1: you know, end of the second, early third and grab
Speaker 1: at least one, I mean possibly to it all. It
Speaker 1: all depends who's there. I think the values now because
Speaker 1: for me, after the top three from that four to
Speaker 1: thirteen range. You can make an argument, you know, who
Speaker 1: should be six as opposed to who should be twelve.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's really that close. And uh, and
Speaker 1: it comes down to more of a preference and which
Speaker 1: guys you trust more, say teams and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: But two guys that I think that I'll own a
Speaker 1: lot of are wooka bueller. I'm not afraid of the Dodgers.
Speaker 1: I know everybody says, oh, the Dodgers are gonna do this,
Speaker 1: do that. Look, this kid is talented. I don't put
Speaker 1: every picture in the same box. I think he gets
Speaker 1: a hundred and seventy innings. And if you can get
Speaker 1: a hundred seventy innings, I'm fine drafting him in the
Speaker 1: third round. Another one is nowhere, syndergo these guys are going,
Speaker 1: you know, little to late third round during that last
Speaker 1: tier of aces. Say and if I can get one
Speaker 1: of those two guys there and say I have two hitters,
Speaker 1: Say I didn't take a picture and I started with
Speaker 1: a walker Bueller. Okay, so I just said he's only
Speaker 1: maybe have a hundred seventy innings, So he's not getting
Speaker 1: that one ninety year or say two hundred that you're
Speaker 1: hoping for. And let's be let's be real here, half
Speaker 1: the half the pictures that didn't get to two d
Speaker 1: last year barely made it two hundred. And you know
Speaker 1: Max Scherrs is the only guy in the last two
Speaker 1: years to make it to twenty. I mean back in
Speaker 1: there was a half a dozen starting pictures that pitts
Speaker 1: the minimum of two hundred and twenty three innings. So
Speaker 1: here's my point. If I'm starting Walker Bueller and I'm
Speaker 1: and I'm all pensily him in for say a hundred
Speaker 1: and seventy innings, I will be more aggressive on my
Speaker 1: second and third picture, which is fine because I have
Speaker 1: started with the foundation of two you know, premier hitters
Speaker 1: that I have in my rankings that you know, I
Speaker 1: can't argue with you in terms of you know, Walker
Speaker 1: Bueller's skill set what he did last year two point
Speaker 1: six to e r A, you know three oh four five,
Speaker 1: three point two one x fip uh, you know every
Speaker 1: nearly ten cas per nine last wee. But what you
Speaker 1: gotta do with Walking Buller real quick is you gotta
Speaker 1: look at him post all start. Pretty like if you
Speaker 1: just look at his stats for the season, you seeing,
Speaker 1: you're seeing eleven percent UH swinging strike rate. That's not
Speaker 1: that great. So look what he's done post all stop break.
Speaker 1: I mean he's getting thirty percent UH strike rate, fifty
Speaker 1: percent ground ball. The swinging strike rate went up in
Speaker 1: the second half. It was like twelve and a half percent.
Speaker 1: I mean, this is a kid that we were told
Speaker 1: was going to be elite. He arrived. You you staring
Speaker 1: the you know you saw this kid even when he
Speaker 1: got hit in the postseason. That was one of his
Speaker 1: most impressive starts to me because he was down with
Speaker 1: four knocking or whatever, and he gave the Dodgers a
Speaker 1: chance because she went out and pitched it on the
Speaker 1: four plus five innings, even being even getting sheld in
Speaker 1: that first And what I wanted to ask about it
Speaker 1: is the jump in endings uh specifically right because including
Speaker 1: the postseason last year, looking at this, he had between
Speaker 1: the miners and the majors in the regular season he
Speaker 1: had one fifty three and in another twenty three on
Speaker 1: top of that in the postseason, so you're looking at
Speaker 1: around one seventy six. The year before he didn't even
Speaker 1: get to a hundred endings pitched. This was something that
Speaker 1: We were talking about this time last year with Severino,
Speaker 1: the jump from any pitch and mind you look his
Speaker 1: his first half last year was a phenomenal, but he
Speaker 1: broke down in the second half for whatever reason, what
Speaker 1: he was tired, he was tipping pitches. Does that kind
Speaker 1: of endings jump from twenty seventeen where he didn't even
Speaker 1: throw a hundred endings and in the last year he
Speaker 1: goes all the way up to you know, including the postseason,
Speaker 1: you know, around a hundred seventy five, almost a hundred eighty.
Speaker 1: Does that worry you? No, it actually doesn't. I next said,
Speaker 1: I don't put every picture in a box and Severino,
Speaker 1: for me, that was you know it was I think
Speaker 1: it was a combination of say, tipping pitches and the
Speaker 1: fast ball command. You look at Sevorino second half, the
Speaker 1: skills were were still awesome. I mean the guy had
Speaker 1: like a three oh six fit in that second half.
Speaker 1: He's still got the strikeouts, just everything. You know, the
Speaker 1: the left on base percentage, catered babbit went boom and
Speaker 1: all that. So I think that was a combination of
Speaker 1: those two things. I don't think it was a combination
Speaker 1: of him, you know, uh for pitching, you know, having
Speaker 1: that jump. I'm not scared of it. I know everybody's
Speaker 1: gonna tell you. You You know, shy away, the dodges, the
Speaker 1: ending jump. Look, you know sheep gets sloaded. You know,
Speaker 1: draft skills, don't draft scared. Uh Walker Bueller right now,
Speaker 1: you mentioned going at the end of the third round,
Speaker 1: early fourth round in drafts? Um is he? This year's
Speaker 1: like You've basically had a few guys the past couple
Speaker 1: of years that are like your guys like this is
Speaker 1: the guy that I'm gonna get. You know, I mentioned
Speaker 1: two years ago, like James Paxson. I think every draft
Speaker 1: that you were in that you showed me you ended
Speaker 1: up getting packed. And last year you were all over
Speaker 1: Aaron Nola and you were all over Derrett Cole. Is
Speaker 1: Walker Bueller or even Synderguard in that regard? Um are they?
Speaker 1: Is that like the Matt Modica guys? This here? Are
Speaker 1: those like the ones that you're trying to get on
Speaker 1: every single team? Well, those have been the guys that
Speaker 1: have been lasting the longest, So I you know, I
Speaker 1: don't see why not. I mean synder Guard, he lacks
Speaker 1: command and he's just if he can. One of the
Speaker 1: things that frustrated with sending at last year. There's too
Speaker 1: many counts where he's up oh two or one too
Speaker 1: and he's throwing the ball. He's getting too much of
Speaker 1: the plate, like you gotta have guys chasing and you know,
Speaker 1: wasting a picture two there and get that strike care
Speaker 1: So I still think he's a he's an amazing talent,
Speaker 1: but especially if i'm picking, saying, say I had the
Speaker 1: fourth pick, and say Garrett Cola, Aaron Nola are still
Speaker 1: on the board at that point in the second round,
Speaker 1: and I get one of them, We'll say I saw
Speaker 1: at Joms, I saw jose Vermirez, and then I know
Speaker 1: Garrett Cole. I mean, if Walker Bueller is there for me,
Speaker 1: and then all the other uh so called nations are gone.
Speaker 1: Look pitches for Dodger Stadium. I've always been been an
Speaker 1: advocate of drafting Dodgers. I think that's a magical mound.
Speaker 1: It's it's you know, the National League, uh reast, My
Speaker 1: money running out is not there no more. He's he
Speaker 1: was a great framer. But I still think it's a
Speaker 1: great place to be. So if I had to double
Speaker 1: up there, yeah, if I don't double up, and Buller's
Speaker 1: my first daughter as I said, I'm gonna be more
Speaker 1: aggressive in that next year. I'm gonna try and get
Speaker 1: you know, at least one there, if not to one there,
Speaker 1: and then two from the next year. So I'm gonna
Speaker 1: have to, you know, change my plans around a little more.
Speaker 1: But I'm not gonna shy away from a guy who
Speaker 1: has fantastic skills, has the pedigree and all that, just
Speaker 1: because you know what the Dodgers have done in the
Speaker 1: past when they've had guys like rich Hill, Hungen Ryu,
Speaker 1: Alex Wood. These are guys that all broke down consistently,
Speaker 1: So I don't compare him to that. Mattie. When I
Speaker 1: was texting you last week, I was asking you, you know,
Speaker 1: the same question, like, who's that guy that you're getting
Speaker 1: on every draft? And you know a lot of the
Speaker 1: results that I've seen with you, Look, I couldn't be
Speaker 1: more pleased because it only took a few years, but
Speaker 1: everyone's finally buying in draft. Joe must Grove, Joe must Grove, Pattimo,
Speaker 1: You're finally buying in Look. He has elite command. I
Speaker 1: think at times last year he showed that he does have.
Speaker 1: He has the skills to get swinging miss is he
Speaker 1: ever gonna be you know, a strikeout per enning, you know,
Speaker 1: ten case per nine. I don't think so. But can
Speaker 1: he be eight case per nine, eight and a half
Speaker 1: case per nine something like that with elite command? Uh?
Speaker 1: And getting groundballs forty percent of the time. I look
Speaker 1: at his arsenal from last year, his pitching repertoire, and
Speaker 1: he's all over the place like he you know, he
Speaker 1: he throws a bunch of different pitches which you know
Speaker 1: are gonna keep hitters off balance. I'm looking at it
Speaker 1: here on his fan graft page with the Pirates last year,
Speaker 1: thirty three percent four team fastballent hutter uh, seventeen percent sinker.
Speaker 1: So he throws, you know, three different iterations of a fastball.
Speaker 1: He has a fourteen percent change up, twenty percent slider.
Speaker 1: Why is Joe Musgrove one of these guys that you're
Speaker 1: you know, that you're trying to jump in on. You
Speaker 1: know a lot of people talk about race serried. You know,
Speaker 1: when when pitchers end up with race series, he's able
Speaker 1: to make a lot out of him. It's a pretty
Speaker 1: good pitchers ballpark out there in Pittsburgh. You know, I've
Speaker 1: long been a fan of Joe Musgrove, even when you
Speaker 1: know Michael Florio and everyone else is basically, you know,
Speaker 1: pounding my head against the wall and saying, dude, what
Speaker 1: do you see in this guy? I was the first one,
Speaker 1: there was one there, you were the first, and now
Speaker 1: you won't be the last. Uh. But there's there's a
Speaker 1: lot to like with him. I mean, look at those
Speaker 1: skills post Lsober. He was a guy I had on
Speaker 1: a lot of teams last year. It was frustrating at times,
Speaker 1: and then it started to seem like he clicked and
Speaker 1: he in that second half, his first pitch, his chase
Speaker 1: rate were rarefied at it. He was among what you
Speaker 1: would call the the if you look at what he
Speaker 1: was able to do. He got a thirty seven percent
Speaker 1: chase around se first pitch and the swinging strike rate
Speaker 1: is coming. So I mean, those are three things you
Speaker 1: really gotta like. And he's in a range for me.
Speaker 1: For me, Musgrove was the top forty picture this year.
Speaker 1: So maybe that's aggressive, but I am aggressive by nature. Uh.
Speaker 1: He's in a six pack of pictures that I call them.
Speaker 1: You know, the Shane Bieber is the Tyler Glass now, uh,
Speaker 1: musgroveheny E rod Nick Pavetta. I want to get you know,
Speaker 1: one or two of those arms there that they all
Speaker 1: of them have uh extreme potential to hit, and they're
Speaker 1: not all going to hit. But if I can get
Speaker 1: at least one, I have a chance. If I can
Speaker 1: get to I have a better chance. But I think
Speaker 1: all those names I just mentioned are gonna you know,
Speaker 1: they keep uh quietly creeping up the draft boards and
Speaker 1: we'll continue that over the next month. And I love
Speaker 1: that idea, man, that that's six pack. You're choosing guys
Speaker 1: that stand out to you from a skill perspective. You know,
Speaker 1: maybe you didn't see it in the results, but you
Speaker 1: see it in the skills, the underlying numbers. Guys that
Speaker 1: can take that next step forward. Last year, outside the
Speaker 1: top thirty starting pitchers, the guys that were that we
Speaker 1: were looking at and talking about the same exact way
Speaker 1: lakes now, Patrick Corbyn, Jamison Tyne, those are all guys
Speaker 1: that are being drafted inside the top twenty starting pitchers
Speaker 1: this year. Those are the starting pitchers that we're looking for.
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Speaker 1: to call if you have a question for Maddie mo
Speaker 1: or myself regarding fantasy baseball this season, starting pitchers, the
Speaker 1: first round, where should you be drafting? We've covered all
Speaker 1: of it today, but if you have a question, feel
Speaker 1: free to call in. And I'm being told that we
Speaker 1: do have a question. We have a caller on the line.
Speaker 1: It is Stephen in Massachusetts. What's going on? Stephen? Hey, Frankie,
Speaker 1: what's up? Macamodika? How are you guys doing? Doing well?
Speaker 1: Whats hey? I have two questions if you guys have time, Yeah,
Speaker 1: what's up? Alright? So my first question it's on our comments.
Speaker 1: If you guys remember last year when he was at
Speaker 1: first he was looking good and then he started the
Speaker 1: struggle and so the team, because of his injury, they
Speaker 1: wanted to move him out in the bullpen. I was
Speaker 1: just wondering, are you guys don't worried, like if you
Speaker 1: guys dive right back in and let's say that he
Speaker 1: kind of struggles like he did last year, and they
Speaker 1: can try to, uh put him in the bullpen like
Speaker 1: in case sit there in the same situation some last year,
Speaker 1: whether that like trying to like you know, like go
Speaker 1: for that playoff push and like everybody else in the
Speaker 1: bullpen just kind of struggling. Are you worried about that?
Speaker 1: I'll start this one off and I'll throw it Matt
Speaker 1: Modiqa's way. I know last year he was dealing with
Speaker 1: a lat injury on and off all season long, uh,
Speaker 1: and he struggled with command. Look, he's a guy that
Speaker 1: always struggles with command, but I mean it was much
Speaker 1: worse last year than ever before. So you have to wonder,
Speaker 1: you know, was the lat injury something that was causing
Speaker 1: him to have that lack of command as long as
Speaker 1: you know, for as long as he did last season.
Speaker 1: I do think that when he's healthy, we kind of
Speaker 1: know who Carlos Martinez is. Look, he can he can
Speaker 1: rack up and a strikeout per ending. He's gonna walk
Speaker 1: a lot of guys. The whip is gonna be you know,
Speaker 1: in the one point to one point to five range.
Speaker 1: But he's a guy that can pitch to you know,
Speaker 1: a sub three six e r a and you know
Speaker 1: you can only say that about uh, you know, you know,
Speaker 1: starting pitchers in baseball. I think as long as he's healthy,
Speaker 1: he's going to remain in the starting rotation. Modica. What
Speaker 1: do you think about Carlos Martinez this year? Yeah, I
Speaker 1: think you uh, you hit hit on a lot of
Speaker 1: your points. The one especially, he's got to be healthy.
Speaker 1: We know he's always struggled with command. He's been a
Speaker 1: guy I've always liked, and this year, you know, you're
Speaker 1: getting him at the discount, and it's a deserved discount.
Speaker 1: I'm kind of willing to give him a bit of
Speaker 1: a mulligan. I think, you know, as long as he
Speaker 1: enters camp healthy, he's in that rotation, and they want
Speaker 1: him to be in that rocation. I think they need
Speaker 1: him to be in that rotation as well. So where
Speaker 1: you're where you're where he's going off, which is probably
Speaker 1: outside the top thirty starting pitchers in drafts. Uh, it's
Speaker 1: a spot where I think it's it's a reasonable get.
Speaker 1: You have some upside here. You know you're gonna be
Speaker 1: looking at guys where he's going, and he's probably might
Speaker 1: be going a little later. But then say, like Chris Archer,
Speaker 1: Robbie Ray types, and these are all guys that do
Speaker 1: have the upside to uh get you what you're not
Speaker 1: paying their previous price. Steve, you had another question, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you Alex ras and uh Brent Honeywell. I know if
Speaker 1: those guys were battle on injury with their arms last year. Um,
Speaker 1: you guys want to try diving in as like a
Speaker 1: late round flyer, like somebody that maybe towards like when
Speaker 1: they come back. You know, what's that they're coming back
Speaker 1: that you want to pick them up? Or should you
Speaker 1: just look at them as like the ra instead for
Speaker 1: value for this season. I think I'm more inclined to
Speaker 1: jump in on Alex Reys. I haven't done enough drafts
Speaker 1: to honestly tell you where he's going, so I will
Speaker 1: ask Matt Modica about that. But you know, look, he's
Speaker 1: coming back from a major injury. I think his upside
Speaker 1: is higher than Brent Honeywell's. I do think that both
Speaker 1: guys have upside, And you know, maybe Brent Brent Honeywell
Speaker 1: is more of these guys for the second half of
Speaker 1: this year, maybe more so the full season of twenty
Speaker 1: as you mentioned. But even if Alex Reyes is starting
Speaker 1: and pitching well, he's gonna have an Ennings cap, right, Matt, Like,
Speaker 1: I can't imagine him going more than twenty Ennings, Max.
Speaker 1: I look, I don't know when doubts the talent of
Speaker 1: this kid. And it was a shame what happened last year.
Speaker 1: But I have a hard time drafting right now unless
Speaker 1: I unless I'm saying like a Yahoo league where I
Speaker 1: could stash him in the thing for like rookies or
Speaker 1: you know, minor leaguers, stuff like that, I don't. I
Speaker 1: don't know what I'm gonna get. There's other pictures. I mean,
Speaker 1: the rookie pictures I want to be after. I want
Speaker 1: to own is Jesus uh Lazardo. He's the guy I
Speaker 1: want to own. The best prospect is Whitley. I'm I
Speaker 1: don't know. Maybe it's just a gut feeling him on.
Speaker 1: I think he's gonna get cold upon sooner than later.
Speaker 1: I know a lot of people projecting that eight inning range.
Speaker 1: I'm I'm taking me over. I think they call on him.
Speaker 1: So it's a long season. Somebody's gonna get hurt. I
Speaker 1: watched the kid live in the NFL, and they saw
Speaker 1: past November this is the real deal. And I mean
Speaker 1: I'm really excited for him. We told the same thing
Speaker 1: last year in one compuller. You know, maybe we'll we'll
Speaker 1: see him sometime in the second half a bit. Things changed,
Speaker 1: that changed quickly. Houston was looking to possibly have him
Speaker 1: in there before the mentioned last year. They were talking
Speaker 1: in the preseason that you can play a role. So,
Speaker 1: I mean, there's there's actually quite a few rookie arms
Speaker 1: and its skipping my uh blood process at the moment
Speaker 1: that I'm gonna get all the Alex Ran others, I
Speaker 1: don't really know how much he's gonna get. I mean,
Speaker 1: how many innings are they gonna get. I don't think
Speaker 1: he comes anywhere near if I if that's possible that
Speaker 1: I'm in on Alex race, Yeah, but no one's gonna
Speaker 1: know for sure. So yeah, it's a good call there
Speaker 1: for Maddie Mo. You're getting a few starting picture prospects
Speaker 1: that he's looking at this year. I don't doubt the
Speaker 1: talent when it comes to those guys. Thanks for your call,
Speaker 1: Steve in Massachusetts. Uh, hey, thanks guys. Thanks man. Uh
Speaker 1: Maddie Mo, Man, I wish I could talk to you
Speaker 1: for like two more hours. It's just about like the
Speaker 1: starting pictures because it's like so much I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: like talk to you about here. But there were two
Speaker 1: players that specifically that I wanted to ask you about
Speaker 1: that Greg wanted to make sure that I that I
Speaker 1: asked you about today. You mentioned that six pack of pictures,
Speaker 1: and I noticed that this player wasn't in there. You
Speaker 1: told me that you think you're in on this player.
Speaker 1: And I've seen a few drafts where you've drafted him.
Speaker 1: It's Tyler Glass now, and you know, we've heard his
Speaker 1: name a lot over the past couple of years. One
Speaker 1: of the top pitching prospects in baseball when he was
Speaker 1: with the Pittsburgh Pirates. He can never quite figure it out.
Speaker 1: You know. He's a really really big guy, so it's
Speaker 1: hard for him to repeat his mechanics over and over,
Speaker 1: which has led to command issues. Frankly, you know, to
Speaker 1: to to put it frankly, Um, you know, while he
Speaker 1: has not a starting pitcher, they've you know, messed with him,
Speaker 1: putting him back and forth between bullpen and being a
Speaker 1: starting pitcher. He's a little bit of upside. Last year
Speaker 1: when he was traded over to Tampa Bay. Tampa Bay
Speaker 1: is one of you know these analytical, forward thinking organizations
Speaker 1: that I think can get the most out of Tyler Glass. Now,
Speaker 1: it's just can he have okay enough command to bring
Speaker 1: back value in fantasy baseball where you know he's not
Speaker 1: killing your whip and you know in those games where
Speaker 1: he's walking three, four five guys that he's not blowing
Speaker 1: up your e r A either. So are you feeling
Speaker 1: right now on Tyler Glass? Now? I mentioned he you know,
Speaker 1: I remember you didn't mention him as one of those
Speaker 1: six He wasn't. Yeah, he's in that six pack. And
Speaker 1: here's the thing I say first about it. It's all
Speaker 1: those guys I mean looking Pavetic people look like after him.
Speaker 1: We're all excited about what Povetic can do. And he
Speaker 1: had almost a five r A last year. Shane Beoble,
Speaker 1: who I love. He got hit hard last year. That
Speaker 1: was his fault. But I think those corrections will be made. Uh.
Speaker 1: And you know, guys like Irad gotta stay healthy. Even
Speaker 1: must Grove has gotta clear that health, Hurtle. But what
Speaker 1: the thing I like about Glass now is the upside
Speaker 1: is there? Is it gonna happen? I don't know, but
Speaker 1: it's in that one fifty plus range. Or around that
Speaker 1: range where you're looking to buy upside. He only has
Speaker 1: two pitches, and you you saw when he went to
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay the curve bowl got increased. The fast bowl
Speaker 1: it's still like six, but it was like sevent prior
Speaker 1: to the move there. If he could somehow get a
Speaker 1: third pitched, it's passable. This is a guy that you
Speaker 1: could you can see with the talent, the strikeout ability,
Speaker 1: you know, and you can get a winfull of riches.
Speaker 1: It may not work out. It may not work out
Speaker 1: for half the guys I mentioned in the six pack,
Speaker 1: but this is where you're going for that upside where
Speaker 1: you've you've built a foundation on your rotation and now
Speaker 1: you're now you're trying to hit checkpot. So yeah, I
Speaker 1: think last times a guy to target, Uh, you have
Speaker 1: to go in. I wouldn't you know. That's why don't
Speaker 1: wait on pitache and build the floor and have that
Speaker 1: floor and then last now is definitely acceptable. Guy's a
Speaker 1: lot to like. He's in Tampa. I know he's gotta
Speaker 1: face the Yankees and Red Sox, which is uh something
Speaker 1: you never really look forward to. But yeah, by by
Speaker 1: the possible upside here because the skills look nice. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Tyler last down when he went over to Tampa Bay
Speaker 1: last year, he lowered his his fastball usage from seventy
Speaker 1: two and a half percent when he was out in Pittsburgh.
Speaker 1: And I know that's something that the Pirates their organization,
Speaker 1: that's like an organizational like theory of theirs that they
Speaker 1: really like to pump the fastball. That's why when you
Speaker 1: see guys like Garrett Cole move over to Houston starts
Speaker 1: throwing more of his breaking stuff. That's how he's able
Speaker 1: to you know, have as much success as he did.
Speaker 1: So Tyler Glass comes over to Tampa Bay last year,
Speaker 1: lowers his fastball usage, the slider usage goes up fourteen percent.
Speaker 1: He was at the slider last year percent with the curveball.
Speaker 1: So look, if he could become fastball curveball, uh slider,
Speaker 1: I think that that's something you know that can I
Speaker 1: think that's Look, it's one thing in the starting pitch
Speaker 1: of PU I J. And there's one point I kept
Speaker 1: hammering on the guys with, you know, the slider curve
Speaker 1: combination or a slider change. If you didn't have that,
Speaker 1: but having that combination of two off speed pitches is
Speaker 1: imperative to succeed. And you'll notice with all the pitches
Speaker 1: when they first start out as young starting pitches, you're
Speaker 1: throwing that fastball around six at a time. Then it
Speaker 1: goes down to like the fifties and then around fifty
Speaker 1: percent at a time. So that's the evolution of it.
Speaker 1: It's you know, can you succeed with two pitches? That's
Speaker 1: really difficult as a stout it if you can get
Speaker 1: a third that you can throw that threshold at tempercent threshold,
Speaker 1: that's key. And that's why he was wrestling between being
Speaker 1: a starting pitcher and a relief picture because you're exactly right.
Speaker 1: You know, when a guy can only throw two starting pitchers,
Speaker 1: that's when you see those kind of pitchers kind of
Speaker 1: transition into being bullpen arms and become relievers because again,
Speaker 1: you know, if you're gonna be a starting pitchcher, you
Speaker 1: can't be as predictable as only having two pitches. You
Speaker 1: need to have a third pitch. So hopefully Tyler Glass
Speaker 1: now can continue to build on what he did last
Speaker 1: year in terms of, you know, building that third pitch
Speaker 1: when he was in Tampa Bay. Mattimo, all right, let's
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Speaker 1: Jim Day, Maddie, I've seen you. You're back. You were
Speaker 1: back on the Luis Castillo bandwagon. And you know I
Speaker 1: bring up Luis Castillo to Greg and you know he
Speaker 1: gets he gets all up in arms. Jesus, We're gonna
Speaker 1: do the same thing with Luise Castillo as we did
Speaker 1: last year. Look, he's one of those guys that got
Speaker 1: burned by Luise Castio last year. There was a lot
Speaker 1: of people. I mean, he was one of the helium arms,
Speaker 1: as you like to call him. You know that he
Speaker 1: was just getting you know, driven up draft war at
Speaker 1: the you know, at the end of draft season he
Speaker 1: was being drafted as a top twenty five starting pitcher.
Speaker 1: The first half he let a lot of people down.
Speaker 1: The second half was a lot better. You know, I
Speaker 1: tweeted this out. If you look at his month by
Speaker 1: month split, it's he was a headache. I mean, one
Speaker 1: month he had an ear a over five, the next
Speaker 1: month in the ear under three. You know, I know
Speaker 1: in September he had an ear under two. So look,
Speaker 1: skills are there? I see that you're buying back in
Speaker 1: on Louise Castillo. Why is that? Here's why he's if
Speaker 1: you just look at the first half and in the
Speaker 1: second half he made adjustments, he got I mean he
Speaker 1: got obliberated in that first half. The second half he
Speaker 1: was on the leaderboard amongst am unqualified pictures all over
Speaker 1: the place from X fit to e r A uh
Speaker 1: swinging strike percentage walks, I mean he had a K
Speaker 1: minus UH walks percentage at just above that is very good.
Speaker 1: He has two pitches that generate whiffs. This is a
Speaker 1: talented um. I mean I was having an argument about
Speaker 1: a team. I had my auction championship that I won
Speaker 1: last year in the NFBC and finished fourth overrule the
Speaker 1: two pictures I paid for with Collos Carrasco and then
Speaker 1: Louis Castillo, and at the break, Collos Carrasco had a
Speaker 1: four twelve e r a, UH Castillo was over five.
Speaker 1: Yet I was still able to win because you gotta
Speaker 1: played the season. The second half stats matter as well.
Speaker 1: You don't cut talented players. Castill made made Cognizon adjustments
Speaker 1: at the break. He loved the fastball. You should just
Speaker 1: look his fastball is not good, and that to be
Speaker 1: being kind, but he loved that ten percent. He increased
Speaker 1: his secondary pitches by ten percent, so that was a tradeoff.
Speaker 1: You sort results. I think that trend continues. UH. Guys
Speaker 1: like him, even if he has a Barrios who hasn't
Speaker 1: made that full leap yet, I think he's ready for it.
Speaker 1: I think, you know, you gotta give a little faith
Speaker 1: on this one, but I think that next step is coming,
Speaker 1: and it's coming now, and I want to be in
Speaker 1: on him. With Louise Castillo. It's just so frustrating for
Speaker 1: me because why and this comes with like really any
Speaker 1: fantasy for like it happens in football the time to
Speaker 1: you know it happens in fantasy baseball. It's like some
Speaker 1: of these guys are just stubborn, Right, Look, he falls
Speaker 1: in love with his fastball. Everyone sees he lights up
Speaker 1: the radar gun, he throws per hour. But if it's
Speaker 1: clear the year before that he performed so well when
Speaker 1: he was using the slider and the changeup so much,
Speaker 1: why does he start off the first half of the
Speaker 1: season last year throwing the fastball over. I don't expect
Speaker 1: you to have the answer to that, Madimo, But it's
Speaker 1: like a rhetorical question that I just never understand that
Speaker 1: if pictures, or if running backs or you know whatever,
Speaker 1: in any sport, if they have something that's working, why
Speaker 1: don't they go back to it? Right? Like, why did
Speaker 1: it take him? Why did it take him half a
Speaker 1: season to realize that he should be using his secondary
Speaker 1: stuff more? Well, that could be coaching phosophies too. You know,
Speaker 1: at certain times in fantasy football, you know it's you're
Speaker 1: drafting the coaching staff two and the schemes that they're
Speaker 1: gonna run, so with him, that could have been I
Speaker 1: forget who just went over there. I know who it is.
Speaker 1: I can't think of top of my head right now. Uh,
Speaker 1: they got a new pitching coach. I'm really excited about him.
Speaker 1: Uh that's another thing. And in the second half of
Speaker 1: the year, Festball, thank you. The festball velocity uh spiked
Speaker 1: he you know, it was you know, and his fastball
Speaker 1: was you know, it was up there. In the second half.
Speaker 1: He was tied with Jacome the Ground for third for
Speaker 1: the season. He was tied with Blake Snell for the sixth. So, look,
Speaker 1: he's got the velocity he needs to make the festball work.
Speaker 1: If he makes the fast it doesn't have to be
Speaker 1: a fantastic pitch for him, it just has to be
Speaker 1: somewhat near average. It's been garbage and what he has
Speaker 1: a secondary. This is a kid that could easily easily
Speaker 1: be you know what you saw in that second half. So,
Speaker 1: I mean, everybody kills him for that first half, rightfully,
Speaker 1: So I owned him, But you gotta give him credit
Speaker 1: for what he did in the second half. And I
Speaker 1: see a lot of analysts not doing that. Matt Modica
Speaker 1: Monday's we're gonna make this a thing. We're gonna have
Speaker 1: fun with this. You know, I don't know if it's
Speaker 1: gonna be an entire show. We're gonna try and get
Speaker 1: Modica on every Monday. Here a segment, he you're a
Speaker 1: segment there. We'll have some fun. We'll talk fantasy baseball
Speaker 1: with Matt. Thank you so much, Modica for coming on.
Speaker 1: Appreciate it. Thank you again, man, thanks for having me.
Speaker 1: Happy birthday, so happy birthday, Greggy. Coming up next, Fantasy
Speaker 1: Football Frenzy with Jim Day Chris vent Stra. Appreciate everyone
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