WEBVTT - 10 Team Head-To-Head Mock Draft (Ep. 929) 0:00:05.280 --> 0:00:08.440 Welcome in everybody in to Fantasy Bros. MLB. This is 0:00:08.480 --> 0:00:11.080 the Fantasy Baseball Podcast. It is be Joey P Joe 0:00:11.080 --> 0:00:14.000 P's Apia And today we have a little shallow ten 0:00:14.040 --> 0:00:16.159 team five y five monk, We're gonna throw it to 0:00:16.200 --> 0:00:20.280 you at today. Not every league has twelve or fifteen people. 0:00:20.360 --> 0:00:22.439 Some are a little bit smaller and some are a 0:00:22.480 --> 0:00:24.840 little bit more shallow. And speaking of shallow, the Welsh 0:00:24.920 --> 0:00:27.320 is here joining me, hanging out here. And of course 0:00:27.400 --> 0:00:31.160 Joe A. Rico, everyone's favorite Canadian. Well, look, we're trying 0:00:31.160 --> 0:00:33.280 out new nicknames because we tried out Hollywood for you 0:00:33.360 --> 0:00:36.000 on the VP. I'm kidding, I love you, and I'm 0:00:36.000 --> 0:00:38.400 in a good mood because Pete Alonzo is now a 0:00:38.440 --> 0:00:40.800 met as of recording this, so I'm very excited about 0:00:40.840 --> 0:00:45.080 that news. Joe Rico, I'm sorry Toronto Blue Jays yet again, 0:00:45.120 --> 0:00:48.040 Whift on getting a big free agent? Are you doing 0:00:48.080 --> 0:00:48.920 okay today? 0:00:49.360 --> 0:00:51.440 I'm doing okay because if we got Alonzo, it would 0:00:51.479 --> 0:00:53.199 have made it a lot easier for Rogers to say 0:00:53.200 --> 0:00:54.960 we got a first base and we don't need Flatty, 0:00:55.040 --> 0:00:57.320 so it leaves the door more open for Vlatty. Whatever's 0:00:57.360 --> 0:01:00.000 gonna happen there. But it's not the end of the world. 0:01:00.000 --> 0:01:01.000 Old for me, it's not the end of the world. 0:01:01.000 --> 0:01:02.480 But I'm happy for you, Joe. Somebody's got to be 0:01:02.520 --> 0:01:03.000 happy here. 0:01:02.920 --> 0:01:03.680 Right I'm here. 0:01:03.760 --> 0:01:06.160 Gladdy played twelve games at third base, so they could 0:01:06.200 --> 0:01:08.479 have justified Lightie back over to third a little bit. 0:01:08.520 --> 0:01:10.480 Pete Alonzo at first, all you. 0:01:10.560 --> 0:01:13.959 Enjoyce Joe Rico's cock eyed optimism, I do. It's awesome. 0:01:14.920 --> 0:01:16.720 Yeah, that's a Canadian opt it is. 0:01:16.720 --> 0:01:19.479 I like it it is, and hopefully we're gonna bring 0:01:19.520 --> 0:01:21.800 some of that optimism into Today's draft is a five 0:01:21.959 --> 0:01:26.119 y five draft. We are ten teams only today, So 0:01:26.240 --> 0:01:28.120 what we're gonna do, We're gonna change things up a 0:01:28.120 --> 0:01:30.080 little bit in terms of how the roster is structured. 0:01:30.480 --> 0:01:33.280 We're gonna do the middle infield, corner infield, four outfielders, 0:01:33.319 --> 0:01:36.720 one util spot. We're going to do four pitcher spots 0:01:36.760 --> 0:01:39.640 for starters, two for relievers, and then three wild card 0:01:39.640 --> 0:01:41.880 pitching spots. No bench today, We're just gonna get in 0:01:41.920 --> 0:01:44.160 and out, have some fun with Draft Wizard, and of 0:01:44.200 --> 0:01:47.080 course you should be using Draft Wizard as well for 0:01:47.160 --> 0:01:50.440 all of your draft preparation. Download Draft Wizard MLB app 0:01:50.440 --> 0:01:53.240 today or go to Fantasypros dot com slash MLB Draft 0:01:53.280 --> 0:01:56.240 Wizard if you want the ultimate cheat code to winning 0:01:56.320 --> 0:01:59.280 all your drafts. You can perform multiple draft simulations. You 0:01:59.280 --> 0:02:01.920 can get expert advice. You can use the Chee Chee Creator. 0:02:02.000 --> 0:02:04.120 You can use all these tools and then sink your 0:02:04.200 --> 0:02:07.720 leagues for free and use the draft software in your 0:02:07.880 --> 0:02:11.120 actual drafts. That's the best way to make sure that 0:02:11.200 --> 0:02:13.400 you are getting the winning edge in every single draft 0:02:13.440 --> 0:02:16.120 you do in real time, but in the meantime use 0:02:16.160 --> 0:02:20.280 the mock draft simulator. Again, Fantasy Pros Draft Wizard MLB 0:02:20.840 --> 0:02:22.959 is ready for you to download. All right, let's get 0:02:23.000 --> 0:02:26.480 to the spots too. Let's see, Welsh, where are you 0:02:26.520 --> 0:02:28.720 on this draft? Is that true? Are you at number 0:02:28.840 --> 0:02:31.280 one today? You taken the easy way out? 0:02:31.320 --> 0:02:34.080 Brov the easy way out? I haven't. I don't think 0:02:34.120 --> 0:02:36.240 I've done one yet. I just figured it would be nice. 0:02:36.320 --> 0:02:38.880 I will to say this too as someone that does 0:02:38.919 --> 0:02:43.880 like fifteen I play in Scott White's twenty fourteen points dynasty. 0:02:44.240 --> 0:02:46.040 Yes, I passed that off to you. By the way, 0:02:46.080 --> 0:02:47.639 I had done that for a while about eight years. 0:02:47.720 --> 0:02:49.080 I was like, I can't do this anymore, I got 0:02:49.200 --> 0:02:50.040 to pass it to the Welsh. 0:02:50.320 --> 0:02:53.480 I've always played in like deep leagues. There is something 0:02:53.560 --> 0:02:56.919 so cathartic about just mocking and drafting in a ten 0:02:56.960 --> 0:02:59.560 team league, to the point where I've kind of held 0:02:59.720 --> 0:03:01.920 fast that I think you should play in a ten 0:03:01.919 --> 0:03:04.560 team league, especially if you're a multi league type of person. 0:03:04.919 --> 0:03:07.840 There's something so great because there is different strategy, you know. 0:03:07.880 --> 0:03:10.840 I mean, like taking some of those high end players 0:03:10.960 --> 0:03:12.919 pitching for an example. I think pitching is a place 0:03:12.919 --> 0:03:14.880 where you can't afford to go in on a Paul 0:03:14.919 --> 0:03:17.040 Schemes or a Tarik Schooble a little bit higher. The 0:03:17.639 --> 0:03:19.799 rosters are all kind of stacked. You've got to find 0:03:19.800 --> 0:03:22.000 the edges a little bit different. You can play around 0:03:22.000 --> 0:03:24.560 with some other strategies. Some players you might avoid in 0:03:24.639 --> 0:03:27.160 Rode fifteen you can play here. I just really do 0:03:27.320 --> 0:03:29.000 like ten. I wouldn't do all but ten, or my 0:03:29.080 --> 0:03:31.400 only singular league via ten, but I think it's a 0:03:31.400 --> 0:03:33.880 good mixture in the tool belt of Fantasy one. So 0:03:34.000 --> 0:03:37.480 I'm at one probably the best spot I could possibly 0:03:37.520 --> 0:03:40.200 ask for in a ten man, especially. 0:03:39.840 --> 0:03:43.000 One hundred percent, because you're getting Shoeyotani here at the 0:03:43.040 --> 0:03:46.440 top those two players. And when you're in star powered 0:03:46.520 --> 0:03:49.560 leagues ten team shallower leagues, every star a count, So 0:03:49.560 --> 0:03:51.600 that's how you get an advantage. Joe Rico is at 0:03:51.600 --> 0:03:53.400 one oh six. I'm taking the turn at one ten. 0:03:53.480 --> 0:03:55.560 We'll see how it goes wells you're on the clock. 0:03:56.160 --> 0:03:58.960 Spoiler alert, Choeotani off the board. Did you want to 0:03:58.960 --> 0:04:01.080 say anything about joeyoa and his greatness here? 0:04:01.880 --> 0:04:04.120 Well, if you guys didn't know about no, I mean, 0:04:04.280 --> 0:04:06.440 I don't care about the positional stuff. We have one 0:04:06.600 --> 0:04:10.680 util position means absolutely nothing to me. I you know, 0:04:10.720 --> 0:04:12.960 in this format of a ten team, like head to 0:04:13.000 --> 0:04:17.159 head in theory, we could be playing daily transactions and 0:04:17.200 --> 0:04:19.880 if we were, Otani's even more valuable. The pitching side 0:04:19.880 --> 0:04:22.680 doesn't come into the equation. But you know, like we 0:04:22.800 --> 0:04:26.240 have more players that are going to beef up our bench, 0:04:26.600 --> 0:04:30.000 and that's more replacement level players. So like you can 0:04:30.120 --> 0:04:32.479 afford to take pitching early, you can afford to have 0:04:32.520 --> 0:04:35.800 a util top end because I can find replacements positionally 0:04:35.839 --> 0:04:38.120 a lot easier in a ten team. So Otani is 0:04:38.120 --> 0:04:39.599 a really big advantage in ten. 0:04:39.839 --> 0:04:41.880 Okay, Bobby Wood Junior goes one O two than Aaron 0:04:41.960 --> 0:04:44.520 Judge win OO three, Jose Ramirez one oh four, Eliedo 0:04:44.560 --> 0:04:48.640 Acruz one O five than Gunner Henderson to Joe Alrico Arico, 0:04:48.720 --> 0:04:51.080 Let's talk about Gunner Henderson. There, you had won Soto Corbyn, 0:04:51.160 --> 0:04:53.080 Carol Mookie Bets, you passed on all of those guys 0:04:53.080 --> 0:04:54.360 for Gunner. Why was that? 0:04:55.360 --> 0:04:57.320 I really like the projections. I really like the up 0:04:57.320 --> 0:05:00.200 and coming miss of the Orioles lineup. The you know, 0:05:00.240 --> 0:05:02.640 if you're looking at the projection thirty two homers, seventeen 0:05:02.640 --> 0:05:05.240 stolen bases, he's going to be an asset in the 0:05:05.240 --> 0:05:08.440 batting average category as well. Lowest projection there is about 0:05:08.480 --> 0:05:10.800 two seventy, and I think you can actually take another 0:05:10.800 --> 0:05:12.760 step forward. It's easy to forget that he's still just 0:05:12.839 --> 0:05:15.159 twenty three. So if he were to go forty twenty 0:05:15.200 --> 0:05:18.000 this year in that lineup wouldn't surprise me at all. 0:05:18.040 --> 0:05:21.119 Next up, after that run of Sodo, Carol Mookie Bets, 0:05:21.120 --> 0:05:24.200 I stayed with outfielder Kyle Tucker, Chicago Cub playing for 0:05:24.200 --> 0:05:26.760 a big contract. I'm excited for the Cubs this year 0:05:26.800 --> 0:05:29.920 and Francisco Lindora two to one. Then Tatist goes right 0:05:29.960 --> 0:05:32.719 after Skeens to reach Scooble. The two big pictures go 0:05:32.720 --> 0:05:34.800 to Joe A Rico, who's on the board right now. 0:05:35.360 --> 0:05:39.880 He selected Julio Rodriguez. So let's talk about Julio and 0:05:40.160 --> 0:05:42.919 how you feel about potential for him. You passed on 0:05:42.920 --> 0:05:46.040 your boy, Vladdie, I'm a little surprised about that, and Alvarez, 0:05:46.040 --> 0:05:49.000 who I personally have above Julio this year, So let's 0:05:49.000 --> 0:05:52.040 talk about the decision making process there. 0:05:52.680 --> 0:05:55.440 So I don't have any problem going any of those routes. 0:05:55.440 --> 0:05:57.400 But I think with Julio in the middle of second round, 0:05:57.440 --> 0:05:59.760 I'm still getting somebody who, at his very worse last 0:05:59.800 --> 0:06:01.960 year was the worst version of him twenty homers, twenty 0:06:02.000 --> 0:06:03.880 four stolen bases. I do think that there is a 0:06:03.920 --> 0:06:06.040 much better version of Julio there. We've seen it even 0:06:06.080 --> 0:06:07.960 the year prior, and I think you can get back 0:06:07.960 --> 0:06:10.120 to that thirty to thirty level. You know, with the 0:06:10.120 --> 0:06:12.400 first two picks here, I might have just secured seventy 0:06:12.400 --> 0:06:15.080 homers and fifty steals with still a good batting average. 0:06:15.080 --> 0:06:16.719 The reason I'd like to take Vladie as the batting 0:06:16.760 --> 0:06:19.359 average bump, but I'm still getting a decent batting average 0:06:19.400 --> 0:06:21.640 with that security and stolen bases as well. Here. So 0:06:22.120 --> 0:06:23.520 like the first two picks, and even I like the 0:06:23.520 --> 0:06:24.960 third pick even more, but we'll wait on that one 0:06:25.000 --> 0:06:25.480 for a second. 0:06:25.560 --> 0:06:27.680 We'll wait on that one. Vlad goes next to two 0:06:27.680 --> 0:06:30.799 oh six, then your now Varez next at two oh seven. 0:06:31.440 --> 0:06:34.560 You have Jackson Churio to eight, then Freddy Freeman, then Welsh, 0:06:34.600 --> 0:06:37.800 Bryce Harper, Ronald Acunya. Man, oh man, that must feel 0:06:37.800 --> 0:06:39.640 pretty good right now. I know you gotta wait for Acunya. 0:06:39.720 --> 0:06:42.720 But to get the last two n l MVPs on 0:06:42.760 --> 0:06:45.440 the same roster, that seems like a pretty good situation. 0:06:46.400 --> 0:06:50.680 It is actually the last three n l MVPs because 0:06:50.680 --> 0:06:54.120 Harper won it before, so you're really doing okay there, Welsh, 0:06:54.200 --> 0:06:55.400 not too shabby. 0:06:56.120 --> 0:06:58.280 I've had I had it locked in when I picked 0:06:58.279 --> 0:07:01.080 the one spot that I was going to take ronald'cunya 0:07:01.160 --> 0:07:03.520 with this, because again I can take some shots if 0:07:03.560 --> 0:07:04.880 I'm missing him for a little bit of time, the 0:07:04.920 --> 0:07:08.920 player pool I can have as a replacement exponentially better. 0:07:09.240 --> 0:07:12.200 So I'm very comfortable with that Bryce Harper falling back. 0:07:12.240 --> 0:07:15.320 It's a one B situation at first base. I've got 0:07:15.320 --> 0:07:17.480 all the upside in the world. I've got my stolen 0:07:17.520 --> 0:07:19.640 bases that are going to be covered in a really 0:07:19.640 --> 0:07:21.800 big way. All I gotta do is just pick up, 0:07:21.840 --> 0:07:23.560 you know a little bit positionally and what I might 0:07:23.600 --> 0:07:26.080 lose for Acunya, but it is the all upside play 0:07:26.120 --> 0:07:28.200 across the board, so I am very happy with it. 0:07:28.240 --> 0:07:29.840 And I am on the clock right now. 0:07:29.960 --> 0:07:32.040 You are, so while you're on the clock, we'll continue 0:07:32.040 --> 0:07:35.000 to look through here. Raphael Dever, Zach Wheeler, Jared durand 0:07:35.000 --> 0:07:38.640 Logan Gilbert, and then Joe Rico finally got Eric Crochet 0:07:38.680 --> 0:07:41.239 away from the Welsh. That was the excitement you teased earlier. 0:07:41.360 --> 0:07:43.160 Let's discuss you had to do it. 0:07:43.640 --> 0:07:45.280 You were committed to doing this, Joe. 0:07:45.360 --> 0:07:47.360 My reputation was on the line here. I had to 0:07:47.360 --> 0:07:49.600 do it, and I did it. And I think middle 0:07:50.560 --> 0:07:53.440 of the third round for Crochet is about the market price 0:07:53.480 --> 0:07:54.680 you're gonna have to pay. I have him as a 0:07:54.720 --> 0:07:58.280 top five starting pitcher, and I absolutely love getting him here, 0:07:58.360 --> 0:08:00.920 especially because Welsh didn't go well. 0:08:01.080 --> 0:08:04.160 I mean that certainly works for me. Trey Turner, next, 0:08:04.240 --> 0:08:07.040 Kyle Schwarber, then at three Zho nine Ca Tell Marte. 0:08:07.120 --> 0:08:10.040 I took Jazz Chisholm, so building the outfield out a 0:08:10.040 --> 0:08:13.320 little bit, Jackson Merrill, I'm pounding the outfield here, and 0:08:13.560 --> 0:08:16.480 I'm somebody who tends to go offense early and offen anyway. 0:08:16.520 --> 0:08:18.960 In a ten team league, I'm gonna do it even 0:08:19.000 --> 0:08:21.320 worse because I feel like there's plenty of pitching out 0:08:21.360 --> 0:08:23.120 there that I like that I think is at a 0:08:23.120 --> 0:08:25.960 good value this year. So we'll see how that strategy 0:08:26.000 --> 0:08:28.640 plays out for me in this ten team league. After 0:08:28.680 --> 0:08:31.800 I took Jackson Merrill, Matt Olsen, then Austin Riley, Corbyn Burns, 0:08:31.880 --> 0:08:34.240 Joe Rico, you took Manny Bachado seems like a pretty 0:08:34.240 --> 0:08:35.360 good value at four h five. 0:08:36.360 --> 0:08:38.600 Yeah, he is the third basement that tends to fall 0:08:38.640 --> 0:08:42.360 a little bit in that elite tier. You know, Batting 0:08:42.400 --> 0:08:44.040 average is such an important thing for me this year. 0:08:44.080 --> 0:08:45.880 I've talked about it a lot on our shows we've done, 0:08:45.880 --> 0:08:48.240 and I think I've built a really solid base of 0:08:48.559 --> 0:08:51.800 two seventy plus hitters. I have speed, I have power, 0:08:52.200 --> 0:08:54.960 So I like that offensive base of Henderson, Machado and 0:08:55.160 --> 0:08:56.600 Julio Rodriguez quite a bit. 0:08:57.440 --> 0:09:01.040 Okay, after that selection of Machado, Wilson, Oh William contrerast 0:09:01.080 --> 0:09:04.240 that Wyatt Langford goes at four oh seven to four 0:09:04.280 --> 0:09:07.280 a weight class A Reagan's and then Welsh. You took 0:09:07.360 --> 0:09:10.800 Chris sale and Corey Seger. Let's discuss, boy. 0:09:11.640 --> 0:09:15.480 Ten team leagues just make you feel good like you 0:09:15.520 --> 0:09:18.760 ever have like fantasy depression, Like there's nothing that is 0:09:18.920 --> 0:09:20.719 more of a boost than a ten team league. And 0:09:20.760 --> 0:09:23.360 you're just like, did I just get Corey Zeger in 0:09:23.400 --> 0:09:25.800 the fifth round? Yeah? Man, I mean I still have 0:09:25.920 --> 0:09:28.680 got Chris sail In as the top five after that 0:09:29.240 --> 0:09:32.400 cy Young performance. I know age is creeping up on him, 0:09:32.400 --> 0:09:35.199 but it's, you know, strikeout monster, great team context. Corey 0:09:35.240 --> 0:09:38.439 Seger is a batting average monster. There's some injury risk 0:09:38.480 --> 0:09:40.679 I suppose now having Seger and Acunya, but I just 0:09:40.720 --> 0:09:43.480 don't care. In the ten team league, it's four high 0:09:43.520 --> 0:09:47.080 end categories for Corey Seger. So my offense is humming. 0:09:47.679 --> 0:09:50.200 I've had a little bit of an investment on the 0:09:50.240 --> 0:09:53.400 pitching side. I'm I'm feeling pretty great, boys, I'm feeling 0:09:53.400 --> 0:09:55.280 pretty great. That's a ten teams judio. 0:09:55.320 --> 0:09:57.320 That's right, all the stars, all the time. And you 0:09:57.360 --> 0:10:00.680 know what fantasy baseball, Fantasy Pieri's supposed to be so. 0:10:00.760 --> 0:10:02.319 If yeah, you like a ten team league, play a 0:10:02.320 --> 0:10:03.719 ten team league. If you're like twelve, if you like 0:10:03.760 --> 0:10:06.080 the challenge of twenty four, play twenty four. But at 0:10:06.120 --> 0:10:08.679 some point, again, you have to choose your own adventure here. 0:10:08.720 --> 0:10:11.680 Don't let somebody else run your fantasy league for you. 0:10:11.679 --> 0:10:13.680 You get in there, you figure out how you want 0:10:13.920 --> 0:10:17.760 to be done. After secret, Corey's Secret goes Hoseel two 0:10:17.720 --> 0:10:20.120 at five h two, Ozzie Albi's at five h three, 0:10:20.120 --> 0:10:24.160 O'Neil Cruz, Pete Alonso back with the Mets. Jacob de 0:10:24.200 --> 0:10:26.880 Gram at five oh six, Joe Alrico, do you believe 0:10:26.880 --> 0:10:31.040 that Jacob deGrom is going to give you twenty starts 0:10:31.040 --> 0:10:32.520 this year? I'm gonna put the number twenty. 0:10:32.920 --> 0:10:33.240 I do. 0:10:33.679 --> 0:10:33.920 I do. 0:10:34.360 --> 0:10:36.800 I am in the minority here because I see everybody 0:10:36.800 --> 0:10:40.000 talking about how they're fading. De Gram and I understand it, 0:10:40.080 --> 0:10:41.719 like the last few years have been very rough. But 0:10:41.760 --> 0:10:43.520 if you look at what happened with Chris Sale last year, 0:10:43.559 --> 0:10:45.679 with Justin Verlander a couple of years before, it doesn't 0:10:45.679 --> 0:10:47.880 mean because you're old, doesn't it doesn't mean you're just cooked. 0:10:47.880 --> 0:10:50.760 You can still have a great season. Jacob Degram off 0:10:50.800 --> 0:10:53.320 of the fresh Tommy John surgery. He's as healthy as 0:10:53.360 --> 0:10:54.800 he has been in a long time, and I think 0:10:54.800 --> 0:10:56.400 I can get one hundred and forty innings out of him. 0:10:56.400 --> 0:10:58.280 He's a top five starting pitcher for me pretty easily. 0:10:59.120 --> 0:11:05.079 Okay, after de gram pitching, run Cese Kirby, then Michael Harris, Well, no, 0:11:05.160 --> 0:11:07.520 it's my favorite guy. Blake snelled to me at five 0:11:07.559 --> 0:11:08.920 to ten, so I got my ace, and then I 0:11:08.960 --> 0:11:11.160 turned around took a third baseman, Mark Vento's because I 0:11:11.240 --> 0:11:13.600 think Ventos is going to absolutely crushing This line up 0:11:13.600 --> 0:11:15.719 in third base is a little suspect. Cavin Arrow was 0:11:15.720 --> 0:11:18.320 still floating out there. I gotta start getting some corner 0:11:18.360 --> 0:11:20.079 guys because I'm a little hurt in the infield. I 0:11:20.120 --> 0:11:22.280 got a lot of outfielders, so give me Vento's. That's 0:11:22.280 --> 0:11:25.600 where I want to go. After that selection, Devin Williams, 0:11:25.720 --> 0:11:28.959 Edwin Diaz, and then Garrett Cole. I thought about taking Cole, 0:11:29.040 --> 0:11:31.200 but I'm just gonna wait. Joe Rico, you took a 0:11:31.240 --> 0:11:36.280 closer here in Mason Miller, let's discuss his upside. Certainly, 0:11:36.360 --> 0:11:39.280 last year was a breakout season for Mason Miller. We 0:11:39.440 --> 0:11:42.360 talked about it so much in August. Excuse me, in 0:11:42.400 --> 0:11:44.720 August we talked about so much. I'm still in football 0:11:44.760 --> 0:11:48.720 mode in my brain. We stalk so much in March 0:11:49.080 --> 0:11:51.360 last year about how it just made sense to make 0:11:51.400 --> 0:11:54.000 him the closer, give him the clean innings, don't screw 0:11:54.000 --> 0:11:55.679 around with this guy, don't get him up and down 0:11:55.720 --> 0:11:57.240 a million times in the bullpen. If you're gonna put 0:11:57.280 --> 0:11:59.320 him in the bullpen, make him the closer, give him 0:11:59.360 --> 0:12:02.160 the clean inning, get at the three outs, and go home. 0:12:02.240 --> 0:12:05.760 And that was certainly a successful combination for Mason Miller 0:12:05.840 --> 0:12:06.280 last year. 0:12:06.840 --> 0:12:08.319 Yeah, there's still a part of me that thinks like 0:12:08.360 --> 0:12:10.120 he should be a starter. He's too good to just 0:12:10.240 --> 0:12:12.680 relegate him to the bullpen forever in his early twenties. 0:12:12.720 --> 0:12:15.480 But I think he's a top three or four closer. 0:12:15.840 --> 0:12:18.080 I like to get at least one of these elite 0:12:18.120 --> 0:12:20.000 closers because I find in a lot of the early 0:12:20.040 --> 0:12:21.839 drafts I did I'd wait, I'd wait, I'd wait, and 0:12:21.840 --> 0:12:24.719 then I end up with Lucas Airsag and somebody eye 0:12:24.720 --> 0:12:26.600 and we see how that's gone so far. So I 0:12:26.600 --> 0:12:28.800 do like to lock down at least one guy that 0:12:28.840 --> 0:12:31.040 I can really be confident in and then maybe speculate 0:12:31.040 --> 0:12:33.200 a little bit later, but Mason Miller top five closer 0:12:33.240 --> 0:12:35.440 on an up and coming team. There's some injury risk, 0:12:35.520 --> 0:12:38.040 but I'm pretty confident that I can get thirty saves 0:12:38.040 --> 0:12:38.760 out of him. 0:12:39.040 --> 0:12:41.640 A Rico's like, Hey, I'm gonna take Lucas or sag 0:12:41.640 --> 0:12:43.480 and Luke Weaver two months ago. This is going to 0:12:43.559 --> 0:12:45.560 be amazing. Everything is looking really good. You know what, 0:12:45.559 --> 0:12:47.400 I might even take Michael Kopek to go with. 0:12:47.400 --> 0:12:50.880 Him and November drafting. Those those are the denside for sure. 0:12:51.400 --> 0:12:54.680 Yeah, like it can be all right, let's continue on 0:12:54.840 --> 0:12:56.720 here with some of the other picks. I'm up, so 0:12:56.760 --> 0:12:58.839 I'm going to go make a pick here. Well, while 0:12:58.880 --> 0:13:02.240 I'm making my pick, talk about relief picture strategy. Ten 0:13:02.280 --> 0:13:05.280 team league two mandatory RP spots. It feels like you 0:13:05.360 --> 0:13:07.640 do have to be, you know, kind of aware here 0:13:07.760 --> 0:13:10.800 of the market. But at the same time supply and demand. Again, 0:13:10.920 --> 0:13:13.480 there's less teams, so you know, twenty relievers have to 0:13:13.480 --> 0:13:15.120 be started. You have a little bit more leeway. 0:13:16.400 --> 0:13:18.760 You're definitely right about that, Like there are there are 0:13:19.000 --> 0:13:21.160 The ability to stream is gonna be a lot easier. 0:13:21.600 --> 0:13:23.800 Even in the same point though, one thing I wouldn't do, 0:13:24.080 --> 0:13:26.640 would be have too high investments sometimes where people do, 0:13:26.679 --> 0:13:28.000 like I wouldn't be, like, all right, I'm gonna I 0:13:28.040 --> 0:13:29.720 don't even to worry about it. I'm gonna take Class 0:13:29.720 --> 0:13:31.640 A and then I'm gonna take Ryan Helsley or something. 0:13:31.840 --> 0:13:34.840 Take one. I consider taking a class A or a 0:13:34.840 --> 0:13:37.280 Devin Williams or a Hater, and then I would just 0:13:37.400 --> 0:13:39.520 wait and take one of those late closers, maybe even 0:13:39.559 --> 0:13:42.880 a speculative closer like Justin Martinez or something. I would 0:13:42.880 --> 0:13:44.680 want to have one because you want to keep up 0:13:44.679 --> 0:13:47.200 with the Joneses in it. But that was kind of 0:13:47.200 --> 0:13:49.120 taken away from me. So I'm pushing it back just 0:13:49.160 --> 0:13:51.200 a tiny bit to more what you're alluding to that 0:13:51.520 --> 0:13:53.760 there is a lot more depth, and like while everybody 0:13:53.800 --> 0:13:56.079 else is filled up their first closer, I can keep 0:13:56.120 --> 0:13:59.240 getting these other positions and just get some like decent dudes. 0:13:59.679 --> 0:14:02.040 Decent dudes, that's what we're We're just decent dude. 0:14:02.040 --> 0:14:02.960 I'm always playing. 0:14:02.720 --> 0:14:05.960 Trying to have a decent conversations here. So after Mason Miller, 0:14:06.000 --> 0:14:09.439 Josh Hater, another closer, Pablo Lopez, James Wood, Marcelo Zuna, 0:14:09.480 --> 0:14:12.760 then Welsh selects Michael King and Brent Rooker. We could 0:14:12.760 --> 0:14:14.160 talk about that in a second. I know he's on 0:14:14.200 --> 0:14:14.480 the clock. 0:14:14.559 --> 0:14:14.800 C J. 0:14:14.960 --> 0:14:18.800 Abrams goes to seven oh two, than William Domas Yamamoto, 0:14:19.000 --> 0:14:22.080 Marcus Simon at seven oh five, ti Oscar Hernandez at 0:14:22.080 --> 0:14:24.400 seven oh six. Back to you, Joe ricos So, ti 0:14:24.440 --> 0:14:27.400 Oscar coming off a fabulous year for the Dodgers. No 0:14:27.480 --> 0:14:30.360 surprise there, he went back to LA. It feels like 0:14:30.400 --> 0:14:33.080 a pretty good situation. He is your second outfielder. How 0:14:33.080 --> 0:14:34.680 do you feel about to Oscar in twenty five? 0:14:35.400 --> 0:14:37.320 I feel pretty goodbout him. He's he's on the wrong 0:14:37.360 --> 0:14:39.040 side of thirty. He's getting older. But I think when 0:14:39.040 --> 0:14:42.400 you're bad and behind show, Hey, Mookie, Freddie Freeman, a 0:14:42.520 --> 0:14:45.640 hundred RBI is nearly a guarantee. Still easily got thirty 0:14:45.680 --> 0:14:48.120 homer pop. I think he's a little bit undervalued. I 0:14:48.120 --> 0:14:50.040 think he's going about around too late. So very happy 0:14:50.040 --> 0:14:50.680 to get him here. 0:14:51.320 --> 0:14:53.320 Very good. I love also being able to look at 0:14:53.320 --> 0:14:55.200 the categories and the projections here and see what I 0:14:55.240 --> 0:14:58.040 need to draft. I've got steals, I got RBI. I 0:14:58.080 --> 0:15:00.440 got to get little little run boost. That's what I 0:15:00.480 --> 0:15:02.040 need right now. I'm a little behind in the run, 0:15:02.120 --> 0:15:06.600 scored Tiaska Hernandez and Christian Walker showed to Amnaga Adley Rutchman. 0:15:06.800 --> 0:15:08.600 After Christian Walker went, I was hoping he would make 0:15:08.640 --> 0:15:10.800 it to me. He did not. Josh Naylor ends up 0:15:10.800 --> 0:15:13.600 instead for me, and then I selected Franbervaladez Welsh. I 0:15:13.640 --> 0:15:15.560 want to go back to your selections here because you 0:15:15.640 --> 0:15:19.680 took Brent Rooker and Michael King, and obviously these are 0:15:19.680 --> 0:15:22.040 two players we love going into last year and certainly 0:15:22.040 --> 0:15:24.360 look like they're poised to have good repeat seasons. Now. 0:15:25.240 --> 0:15:28.640 Yeah, the Rooker one, I'm super excited about, just massive power. 0:15:28.680 --> 0:15:30.600 Obviously we know there's a little bit of a benefit 0:15:30.720 --> 0:15:32.880 hitting in this minor league park that the A's are 0:15:32.880 --> 0:15:35.120 going to be in the athletics, by the way, not 0:15:35.200 --> 0:15:37.400 the Oakland and not doing the money jar here. 0:15:37.480 --> 0:15:37.640 Yeah. 0:15:37.680 --> 0:15:39.560 Yeah. Michael King, I will tell you was a tiny 0:15:39.600 --> 0:15:42.480 bit of a pivot because I kind of thought I 0:15:42.560 --> 0:15:45.080 was going to have like another pitcher fall back to 0:15:45.120 --> 0:15:46.800 me with how this was going. I mean, but you guys, 0:15:47.000 --> 0:15:48.440 I was in the middle of that run. It was like, 0:15:48.480 --> 0:15:50.480 you know, I think what you took Blake Snell and 0:15:50.480 --> 0:15:52.080 then it was just pop up, up, up, up, Jacob 0:15:52.120 --> 0:15:54.040 de Grom was someone I kind of wanted to sneak 0:15:54.040 --> 0:15:57.200 in as an SP two simply because like a ten team, 0:15:57.240 --> 0:15:59.920 he's even more palatable. So Michael King was kind of 0:15:59.920 --> 0:16:04.000 like the consolation prize good strikeouts under three era. There's 0:16:04.040 --> 0:16:06.320 some trade rumors out there, so I think I do 0:16:06.400 --> 0:16:08.280 need to start putting a focus because I went hitter 0:16:08.360 --> 0:16:09.920 with my next couple picks. I need to put some 0:16:09.960 --> 0:16:12.400 focus on pitching. But Sale and Michael King as the 0:16:12.440 --> 0:16:14.080 first two S piece is pretty good. But I do 0:16:14.120 --> 0:16:16.480 think I am behind the curve based on what some 0:16:16.520 --> 0:16:18.320 of these other teams have been able to do with pitching. 0:16:18.360 --> 0:16:20.560 Early. Okay, I'm gonna go ahead and take one of 0:16:20.600 --> 0:16:22.120 the biggest boosts. I love that. I love when the 0:16:22.160 --> 0:16:25.080 draft wizards telling me, you know this guy's the bigger boost. Wy, 0:16:25.120 --> 0:16:27.760 don't you go ahead and take him after you took 0:16:27.800 --> 0:16:31.320 those guys here, We're going to go through the seventh round. 0:16:31.360 --> 0:16:33.520 So I took Naylor at the end of the seventh, 0:16:33.640 --> 0:16:36.200 franber Valdez at the eighth, and Rys so Iglesias at 0:16:36.200 --> 0:16:39.400 eight O two. Ryan Helsley goes next. Santandero lasted a 0:16:39.480 --> 0:16:41.600 very long time. I really debated on taking him. I 0:16:41.600 --> 0:16:44.560 instead went with another pitcher there, Lawrence Butler. Another outfielder 0:16:44.560 --> 0:16:47.760 for Joe Rico. Alex Bregman goes next than Aaron Nola, 0:16:47.840 --> 0:16:51.200 Brenton Doyle, Joiner Diaz, and then Jordan Westburg ends the 0:16:51.240 --> 0:16:54.000 eighth round Joe Rico building out the outfield. Here, you 0:16:54.120 --> 0:16:56.840 had Julio, then you have ti Oscar Lawrence Butler. That 0:16:56.880 --> 0:16:59.000 looks like a pretty nice outfield. And you weren't done there. 0:16:59.400 --> 0:17:01.480 You've continue to pound the outfield here in the next 0:17:01.520 --> 0:17:03.160 couple picks. We're going to talk about it a minute, 0:17:03.200 --> 0:17:07.119 but I like this strategy. You went BPA, you built 0:17:07.119 --> 0:17:09.120 out the pitching staff a little bit, and then you're 0:17:09.160 --> 0:17:11.120 just crushing the outfield, and that looks like a really 0:17:11.160 --> 0:17:13.920