Speaker 1: Welcome in everybody in to Fantasy Bros. MLB. This is
Speaker 1: the Fantasy Baseball Podcast. It is be Joey P Joe
Speaker 1: P's Apia And today we have a little shallow ten
Speaker 1: team five y five monk, We're gonna throw it to
Speaker 1: you at today. Not every league has twelve or fifteen people.
Speaker 1: Some are a little bit smaller and some are a
Speaker 1: little bit more shallow. And speaking of shallow, the Welsh
Speaker 1: is here joining me, hanging out here. And of course
Speaker 1: Joe A. Rico, everyone's favorite Canadian. Well, look, we're trying
Speaker 1: out new nicknames because we tried out Hollywood for you
Speaker 1: on the VP. I'm kidding, I love you, and I'm
Speaker 1: in a good mood because Pete Alonzo is now a
Speaker 1: met as of recording this, so I'm very excited about
Speaker 1: that news. Joe Rico, I'm sorry Toronto Blue Jays yet again,
Speaker 1: Whift on getting a big free agent? Are you doing
Speaker 1: okay today?
Speaker 2: I'm doing okay because if we got Alonzo, it would
Speaker 2: have made it a lot easier for Rogers to say
Speaker 2: we got a first base and we don't need Flatty,
Speaker 2: so it leaves the door more open for Vlatty. Whatever's
Speaker 2: gonna happen there. But it's not the end of the world.
Speaker 2: Old for me, it's not the end of the world.
Speaker 2: But I'm happy for you, Joe. Somebody's got to be
Speaker 2: happy here.
Speaker 1: Right I'm here.
Speaker 3: Gladdy played twelve games at third base, so they could
Speaker 3: have justified Lightie back over to third a little bit.
Speaker 3: Pete Alonzo at first, all you.
Speaker 1: Enjoyce Joe Rico's cock eyed optimism, I do. It's awesome.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a Canadian opt it is.
Speaker 1: I like it it is, and hopefully we're gonna bring
Speaker 1: some of that optimism into Today's draft is a five
Speaker 1: y five draft. We are ten teams only today, So
Speaker 1: what we're gonna do, We're gonna change things up a
Speaker 1: little bit in terms of how the roster is structured.
Speaker 1: We're gonna do the middle infield, corner infield, four outfielders,
Speaker 1: one util spot. We're going to do four pitcher spots
Speaker 1: for starters, two for relievers, and then three wild card
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Speaker 1: to the spots too. Let's see, Welsh, where are you
Speaker 1: on this draft? Is that true? Are you at number
Speaker 1: one today? You taken the easy way out?
Speaker 3: Brov the easy way out? I haven't. I don't think
Speaker 3: I've done one yet. I just figured it would be nice.
Speaker 3: I will to say this too as someone that does
Speaker 3: like fifteen I play in Scott White's twenty fourteen points dynasty.
Speaker 1: Yes, I passed that off to you. By the way,
Speaker 1: I had done that for a while about eight years.
Speaker 1: I was like, I can't do this anymore, I got
Speaker 1: to pass it to the Welsh.
Speaker 3: I've always played in like deep leagues. There is something
Speaker 3: so cathartic about just mocking and drafting in a ten
Speaker 3: team league, to the point where I've kind of held
Speaker 3: fast that I think you should play in a ten
Speaker 3: team league, especially if you're a multi league type of person.
Speaker 3: There's something so great because there is different strategy, you know.
Speaker 3: I mean, like taking some of those high end players
Speaker 3: pitching for an example. I think pitching is a place
Speaker 3: where you can't afford to go in on a Paul
Speaker 3: Schemes or a Tarik Schooble a little bit higher. The
Speaker 3: rosters are all kind of stacked. You've got to find
Speaker 3: the edges a little bit different. You can play around
Speaker 3: with some other strategies. Some players you might avoid in
Speaker 3: Rode fifteen you can play here. I just really do
Speaker 3: like ten. I wouldn't do all but ten, or my
Speaker 3: only singular league via ten, but I think it's a
Speaker 3: good mixture in the tool belt of Fantasy one. So
Speaker 3: I'm at one probably the best spot I could possibly
Speaker 3: ask for in a ten man, especially.
Speaker 1: One hundred percent, because you're getting Shoeyotani here at the
Speaker 1: top those two players. And when you're in star powered
Speaker 1: leagues ten team shallower leagues, every star a count, So
Speaker 1: that's how you get an advantage. Joe Rico is at
Speaker 1: one oh six. I'm taking the turn at one ten.
Speaker 1: We'll see how it goes wells you're on the clock.
Speaker 1: Spoiler alert, Choeotani off the board. Did you want to
Speaker 1: say anything about joeyoa and his greatness here?
Speaker 3: Well, if you guys didn't know about no, I mean,
Speaker 3: I don't care about the positional stuff. We have one
Speaker 3: util position means absolutely nothing to me. I you know,
Speaker 3: in this format of a ten team, like head to
Speaker 3: head in theory, we could be playing daily transactions and
Speaker 3: if we were, Otani's even more valuable. The pitching side
Speaker 3: doesn't come into the equation. But you know, like we
Speaker 3: have more players that are going to beef up our bench,
Speaker 3: and that's more replacement level players. So like you can
Speaker 3: afford to take pitching early, you can afford to have
Speaker 3: a util top end because I can find replacements positionally
Speaker 3: a lot easier in a ten team. So Otani is
Speaker 3: a really big advantage in ten.
Speaker 1: Okay, Bobby Wood Junior goes one O two than Aaron
Speaker 1: Judge win OO three, Jose Ramirez one oh four, Eliedo
Speaker 1: Acruz one O five than Gunner Henderson to Joe Alrico Arico,
Speaker 1: Let's talk about Gunner Henderson. There, you had won Soto Corbyn,
Speaker 1: Carol Mookie Bets, you passed on all of those guys
Speaker 1: for Gunner. Why was that?
Speaker 2: I really like the projections. I really like the up
Speaker 2: and coming miss of the Orioles lineup. The you know,
Speaker 2: if you're looking at the projection thirty two homers, seventeen
Speaker 2: stolen bases, he's going to be an asset in the
Speaker 2: batting average category as well. Lowest projection there is about
Speaker 2: two seventy, and I think you can actually take another
Speaker 2: step forward. It's easy to forget that he's still just
Speaker 2: twenty three. So if he were to go forty twenty
Speaker 2: this year in that lineup wouldn't surprise me at all.
Speaker 1: Next up, after that run of Sodo, Carol Mookie Bets,
Speaker 1: I stayed with outfielder Kyle Tucker, Chicago Cub playing for
Speaker 1: a big contract. I'm excited for the Cubs this year
Speaker 1: and Francisco Lindora two to one. Then Tatist goes right
Speaker 1: after Skeens to reach Scooble. The two big pictures go
Speaker 1: to Joe A Rico, who's on the board right now.
Speaker 1: He selected Julio Rodriguez. So let's talk about Julio and
Speaker 1: how you feel about potential for him. You passed on
Speaker 1: your boy, Vladdie, I'm a little surprised about that, and Alvarez,
Speaker 1: who I personally have above Julio this year, So let's
Speaker 1: talk about the decision making process there.
Speaker 2: So I don't have any problem going any of those routes.
Speaker 2: But I think with Julio in the middle of second round,
Speaker 2: I'm still getting somebody who, at his very worse last
Speaker 2: year was the worst version of him twenty homers, twenty
Speaker 2: four stolen bases. I do think that there is a
Speaker 2: much better version of Julio there. We've seen it even
Speaker 2: the year prior, and I think you can get back
Speaker 2: to that thirty to thirty level. You know, with the
Speaker 2: first two picks here, I might have just secured seventy
Speaker 2: homers and fifty steals with still a good batting average.
Speaker 2: The reason I'd like to take Vladie as the batting
Speaker 2: average bump, but I'm still getting a decent batting average
Speaker 2: with that security and stolen bases as well. Here. So
Speaker 2: like the first two picks, and even I like the
Speaker 2: third pick even more, but we'll wait on that one
Speaker 2: for a second.
Speaker 1: We'll wait on that one. Vlad goes next to two
Speaker 1: oh six, then your now Varez next at two oh seven.
Speaker 1: You have Jackson Churio to eight, then Freddy Freeman, then Welsh,
Speaker 1: Bryce Harper, Ronald Acunya. Man, oh man, that must feel
Speaker 1: pretty good right now. I know you gotta wait for Acunya.
Speaker 1: But to get the last two n l MVPs on
Speaker 1: the same roster, that seems like a pretty good situation.
Speaker 1: It is actually the last three n l MVPs because
Speaker 1: Harper won it before, so you're really doing okay there, Welsh,
Speaker 1: not too shabby.
Speaker 3: I've had I had it locked in when I picked
Speaker 3: the one spot that I was going to take ronald'cunya
Speaker 3: with this, because again I can take some shots if
Speaker 3: I'm missing him for a little bit of time, the
Speaker 3: player pool I can have as a replacement exponentially better.
Speaker 3: So I'm very comfortable with that Bryce Harper falling back.
Speaker 3: It's a one B situation at first base. I've got
Speaker 3: all the upside in the world. I've got my stolen
Speaker 3: bases that are going to be covered in a really
Speaker 3: big way. All I gotta do is just pick up,
Speaker 3: you know a little bit positionally and what I might
Speaker 3: lose for Acunya, but it is the all upside play
Speaker 3: across the board, so I am very happy with it.
Speaker 3: And I am on the clock right now.
Speaker 1: You are, so while you're on the clock, we'll continue
Speaker 1: to look through here. Raphael Dever, Zach Wheeler, Jared durand
Speaker 1: Logan Gilbert, and then Joe Rico finally got Eric Crochet
Speaker 1: away from the Welsh. That was the excitement you teased earlier.
Speaker 1: Let's discuss you had to do it.
Speaker 3: You were committed to doing this, Joe.
Speaker 2: My reputation was on the line here. I had to
Speaker 2: do it, and I did it. And I think middle
Speaker 2: of the third round for Crochet is about the market price
Speaker 2: you're gonna have to pay. I have him as a
Speaker 2: top five starting pitcher, and I absolutely love getting him here,
Speaker 2: especially because Welsh didn't go well.
Speaker 1: I mean that certainly works for me. Trey Turner, next,
Speaker 1: Kyle Schwarber, then at three Zho nine Ca Tell Marte.
Speaker 1: I took Jazz Chisholm, so building the outfield out a
Speaker 1: little bit, Jackson Merrill, I'm pounding the outfield here, and
Speaker 1: I'm somebody who tends to go offense early and offen anyway.
Speaker 1: In a ten team league, I'm gonna do it even
Speaker 1: worse because I feel like there's plenty of pitching out
Speaker 1: there that I like that I think is at a
Speaker 1: good value this year. So we'll see how that strategy
Speaker 1: plays out for me in this ten team league. After
Speaker 1: I took Jackson Merrill, Matt Olsen, then Austin Riley, Corbyn Burns,
Speaker 1: Joe Rico, you took Manny Bachado seems like a pretty
Speaker 1: good value at four h five.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he is the third basement that tends to fall
Speaker 2: a little bit in that elite tier. You know, Batting
Speaker 2: average is such an important thing for me this year.
Speaker 2: I've talked about it a lot on our shows we've done,
Speaker 2: and I think I've built a really solid base of
Speaker 2: two seventy plus hitters. I have speed, I have power,
Speaker 2: So I like that offensive base of Henderson, Machado and
Speaker 2: Julio Rodriguez quite a bit.
Speaker 1: Okay, after that selection of Machado, Wilson, Oh William contrerast
Speaker 1: that Wyatt Langford goes at four oh seven to four
Speaker 1: a weight class A Reagan's and then Welsh. You took
Speaker 1: Chris sale and Corey Seger. Let's discuss, boy.
Speaker 3: Ten team leagues just make you feel good like you
Speaker 3: ever have like fantasy depression, Like there's nothing that is
Speaker 3: more of a boost than a ten team league. And
Speaker 3: you're just like, did I just get Corey Zeger in
Speaker 3: the fifth round? Yeah? Man, I mean I still have
Speaker 3: got Chris sail In as the top five after that
Speaker 3: cy Young performance. I know age is creeping up on him,
Speaker 3: but it's, you know, strikeout monster, great team context. Corey
Speaker 3: Seger is a batting average monster. There's some injury risk
Speaker 3: I suppose now having Seger and Acunya, but I just
Speaker 3: don't care. In the ten team league, it's four high
Speaker 3: end categories for Corey Seger. So my offense is humming.
Speaker 3: I've had a little bit of an investment on the
Speaker 3: pitching side. I'm I'm feeling pretty great, boys, I'm feeling
Speaker 3: pretty great. That's a ten teams judio.
Speaker 1: That's right, all the stars, all the time. And you
Speaker 1: know what fantasy baseball, Fantasy Pieri's supposed to be so.
Speaker 1: If yeah, you like a ten team league, play a
Speaker 1: ten team league. If you're like twelve, if you like
Speaker 1: the challenge of twenty four, play twenty four. But at
Speaker 1: some point, again, you have to choose your own adventure here.
Speaker 1: Don't let somebody else run your fantasy league for you.
Speaker 1: You get in there, you figure out how you want
Speaker 1: to be done. After secret, Corey's Secret goes Hoseel two
Speaker 1: at five h two, Ozzie Albi's at five h three,
Speaker 1: O'Neil Cruz, Pete Alonso back with the Mets. Jacob de
Speaker 1: Gram at five oh six, Joe Alrico, do you believe
Speaker 1: that Jacob deGrom is going to give you twenty starts
Speaker 1: this year? I'm gonna put the number twenty.
Speaker 2: I do.
Speaker 4: I do.
Speaker 2: I am in the minority here because I see everybody
Speaker 2: talking about how they're fading. De Gram and I understand it,
Speaker 2: like the last few years have been very rough. But
Speaker 2: if you look at what happened with Chris Sale last year,
Speaker 2: with Justin Verlander a couple of years before, it doesn't
Speaker 2: mean because you're old, doesn't it doesn't mean you're just cooked.
Speaker 2: You can still have a great season. Jacob Degram off
Speaker 2: of the fresh Tommy John surgery. He's as healthy as
Speaker 2: he has been in a long time, and I think
Speaker 2: I can get one hundred and forty innings out of him.
Speaker 2: He's a top five starting pitcher for me pretty easily.
Speaker 1: Okay, after de gram pitching, run Cese Kirby, then Michael Harris, Well, no,
Speaker 1: it's my favorite guy. Blake snelled to me at five
Speaker 1: to ten, so I got my ace, and then I
Speaker 1: turned around took a third baseman, Mark Vento's because I
Speaker 1: think Ventos is going to absolutely crushing This line up
Speaker 1: in third base is a little suspect. Cavin Arrow was
Speaker 1: still floating out there. I gotta start getting some corner
Speaker 1: guys because I'm a little hurt in the infield. I
Speaker 1: got a lot of outfielders, so give me Vento's. That's
Speaker 1: where I want to go. After that selection, Devin Williams,
Speaker 1: Edwin Diaz, and then Garrett Cole. I thought about taking Cole,
Speaker 1: but I'm just gonna wait. Joe Rico, you took a
Speaker 1: closer here in Mason Miller, let's discuss his upside. Certainly,
Speaker 1: last year was a breakout season for Mason Miller. We
Speaker 1: talked about it so much in August. Excuse me, in
Speaker 1: August we talked about so much. I'm still in football
Speaker 1: mode in my brain. We stalk so much in March
Speaker 1: last year about how it just made sense to make
Speaker 1: him the closer, give him the clean innings, don't screw
Speaker 1: around with this guy, don't get him up and down
Speaker 1: a million times in the bullpen. If you're gonna put
Speaker 1: him in the bullpen, make him the closer, give him
Speaker 1: the clean inning, get at the three outs, and go home.
Speaker 1: And that was certainly a successful combination for Mason Miller
Speaker 1: last year.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's still a part of me that thinks like
Speaker 2: he should be a starter. He's too good to just
Speaker 2: relegate him to the bullpen forever in his early twenties.
Speaker 2: But I think he's a top three or four closer.
Speaker 2: I like to get at least one of these elite
Speaker 2: closers because I find in a lot of the early
Speaker 2: drafts I did I'd wait, I'd wait, I'd wait, and
Speaker 2: then I end up with Lucas Airsag and somebody eye
Speaker 2: and we see how that's gone so far. So I
Speaker 2: do like to lock down at least one guy that
Speaker 2: I can really be confident in and then maybe speculate
Speaker 2: a little bit later, but Mason Miller top five closer
Speaker 2: on an up and coming team. There's some injury risk,
Speaker 2: but I'm pretty confident that I can get thirty saves
Speaker 2: out of him.
Speaker 3: A Rico's like, Hey, I'm gonna take Lucas or sag
Speaker 3: and Luke Weaver two months ago. This is going to
Speaker 3: be amazing. Everything is looking really good. You know what,
Speaker 3: I might even take Michael Kopek to go with.
Speaker 2: Him and November drafting. Those those are the denside for sure.
Speaker 1: Yeah, like it can be all right, let's continue on
Speaker 1: here with some of the other picks. I'm up, so
Speaker 1: I'm going to go make a pick here. Well, while
Speaker 1: I'm making my pick, talk about relief picture strategy. Ten
Speaker 1: team league two mandatory RP spots. It feels like you
Speaker 1: do have to be, you know, kind of aware here
Speaker 1: of the market. But at the same time supply and demand. Again,
Speaker 1: there's less teams, so you know, twenty relievers have to
Speaker 1: be started. You have a little bit more leeway.
Speaker 3: You're definitely right about that, Like there are there are
Speaker 3: The ability to stream is gonna be a lot easier.
Speaker 3: Even in the same point though, one thing I wouldn't do,
Speaker 3: would be have too high investments sometimes where people do,
Speaker 3: like I wouldn't be, like, all right, I'm gonna I
Speaker 3: don't even to worry about it. I'm gonna take Class
Speaker 3: A and then I'm gonna take Ryan Helsley or something.
Speaker 3: Take one. I consider taking a class A or a
Speaker 3: Devin Williams or a Hater, and then I would just
Speaker 3: wait and take one of those late closers, maybe even
Speaker 3: a speculative closer like Justin Martinez or something. I would
Speaker 3: want to have one because you want to keep up
Speaker 3: with the Joneses in it. But that was kind of
Speaker 3: taken away from me. So I'm pushing it back just
Speaker 3: a tiny bit to more what you're alluding to that
Speaker 3: there is a lot more depth, and like while everybody
Speaker 3: else is filled up their first closer, I can keep
Speaker 3: getting these other positions and just get some like decent dudes.
Speaker 1: Decent dudes, that's what we're We're just decent dude.
Speaker 3: I'm always playing.
Speaker 1: Trying to have a decent conversations here. So after Mason Miller,
Speaker 1: Josh Hater, another closer, Pablo Lopez, James Wood, Marcelo Zuna,
Speaker 1: then Welsh selects Michael King and Brent Rooker. We could
Speaker 1: talk about that in a second. I know he's on
Speaker 1: the clock.
Speaker 4: C J.
Speaker 1: Abrams goes to seven oh two, than William Domas Yamamoto,
Speaker 1: Marcus Simon at seven oh five, ti Oscar Hernandez at
Speaker 1: seven oh six. Back to you, Joe ricos So, ti
Speaker 1: Oscar coming off a fabulous year for the Dodgers. No
Speaker 1: surprise there, he went back to LA. It feels like
Speaker 1: a pretty good situation. He is your second outfielder. How
Speaker 1: do you feel about to Oscar in twenty five?
Speaker 2: I feel pretty goodbout him. He's he's on the wrong
Speaker 2: side of thirty. He's getting older. But I think when
Speaker 2: you're bad and behind show, Hey, Mookie, Freddie Freeman, a
Speaker 2: hundred RBI is nearly a guarantee. Still easily got thirty
Speaker 2: homer pop. I think he's a little bit undervalued. I
Speaker 2: think he's going about around too late. So very happy
Speaker 2: to get him here.
Speaker 1: Very good. I love also being able to look at
Speaker 1: the categories and the projections here and see what I
Speaker 1: need to draft. I've got steals, I got RBI. I
Speaker 1: got to get little little run boost. That's what I
Speaker 1: need right now. I'm a little behind in the run,
Speaker 1: scored Tiaska Hernandez and Christian Walker showed to Amnaga Adley Rutchman.
Speaker 1: After Christian Walker went, I was hoping he would make
Speaker 1: it to me. He did not. Josh Naylor ends up
Speaker 1: instead for me, and then I selected Franbervaladez Welsh. I
Speaker 1: want to go back to your selections here because you
Speaker 1: took Brent Rooker and Michael King, and obviously these are
Speaker 1: two players we love going into last year and certainly
Speaker 1: look like they're poised to have good repeat seasons. Now.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the Rooker one, I'm super excited about, just massive power.
Speaker 3: Obviously we know there's a little bit of a benefit
Speaker 3: hitting in this minor league park that the A's are
Speaker 3: going to be in the athletics, by the way, not
Speaker 3: the Oakland and not doing the money jar here.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Michael King, I will tell you was a tiny
Speaker 3: bit of a pivot because I kind of thought I
Speaker 3: was going to have like another pitcher fall back to
Speaker 3: me with how this was going. I mean, but you guys,
Speaker 3: I was in the middle of that run. It was like,
Speaker 3: you know, I think what you took Blake Snell and
Speaker 3: then it was just pop up, up, up, up, Jacob
Speaker 3: de Grom was someone I kind of wanted to sneak
Speaker 3: in as an SP two simply because like a ten team,
Speaker 3: he's even more palatable. So Michael King was kind of
Speaker 3: like the consolation prize good strikeouts under three era. There's
Speaker 3: some trade rumors out there, so I think I do
Speaker 3: need to start putting a focus because I went hitter
Speaker 3: with my next couple picks. I need to put some
Speaker 3: focus on pitching. But Sale and Michael King as the
Speaker 3: first two S piece is pretty good. But I do
Speaker 3: think I am behind the curve based on what some
Speaker 3: of these other teams have been able to do with pitching.
Speaker 1: Early. Okay, I'm gonna go ahead and take one of
Speaker 1: the biggest boosts. I love that. I love when the
Speaker 1: draft wizards telling me, you know this guy's the bigger boost. Wy,
Speaker 1: don't you go ahead and take him after you took
Speaker 1: those guys here, We're going to go through the seventh round.
Speaker 1: So I took Naylor at the end of the seventh,
Speaker 1: franber Valdez at the eighth, and Rys so Iglesias at
Speaker 1: eight O two. Ryan Helsley goes next. Santandero lasted a
Speaker 1: very long time. I really debated on taking him. I
Speaker 1: instead went with another pitcher there, Lawrence Butler. Another outfielder
Speaker 1: for Joe Rico. Alex Bregman goes next than Aaron Nola,
Speaker 1: Brenton Doyle, Joiner Diaz, and then Jordan Westburg ends the
Speaker 1: eighth round Joe Rico building out the outfield. Here, you
Speaker 1: had Julio, then you have ti Oscar Lawrence Butler. That
Speaker 1: looks like a pretty nice outfield. And you weren't done there.
Speaker 1: You've continue to pound the outfield here in the next
Speaker 1: couple picks. We're going to talk about it a minute,
Speaker 1: but I like this strategy. You went BPA, you built
Speaker 1: out the pitching staff a little bit, and then you're
Speaker 1: just crushing the outfield, and that looks like a really
Speaker 1: good strategy in round seven through ten for you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, outfield is a position that does try up fairly quickly,
Speaker 2: and in a ten teamer it's not as bad. But
Speaker 2: four outfielder league, you're only forty standard and then you're
Speaker 2: talking about utility guys, so maybe forty five outfielders are
Speaker 2: going to get drafted. I'd rather lock down some of
Speaker 2: those elite targets because there are some guys at some
Speaker 2: other positions that I feel like I can target a
Speaker 2: little bit later in the corner infield first and second.
Speaker 2: Not that I want to wait too long on them,
Speaker 2: but like you said, best player available here for a
Speaker 2: lot of these outfielders, they were just too good to pass.
Speaker 1: Up, too good to pass up there. Continuing on after Butler,
Speaker 1: Alex Bregman as recording this destination unknown Aaron Nol at
Speaker 1: eight oh seven. Nice value there, I said, Doyle Diaz
Speaker 1: than Westburg and Camonaro. Welsh. You might not have gotten Crochet,
Speaker 1: but you got Camonaro. So now you have I Spurg
Speaker 1: Kaminaro adding to the infield with Corey Seeger and Bryce Harper.
Speaker 1: It feels like a pretty good spot there. Now you
Speaker 1: still have a Kunya who's gonna miss some time, and
Speaker 1: Brent Rookers are only the outfield. How do you feel
Speaker 1: about the outfield market here?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I got to pay attention to it. We're only
Speaker 3: doing four. I did put a heavyweight, like you said,
Speaker 3: into Westburg and Caminara. I just felt like they were
Speaker 3: the absolute best hitters. I've gone a little pitching heavy
Speaker 3: with my last two picks. I got a reliever and
Speaker 3: my third starter, which we'll talk about, but there is
Speaker 3: some value at outfield, and there's gonna be some guys
Speaker 3: you might have to take some risk on. There's some
Speaker 3: younger guys. I'm I feel pretty good about where we're
Speaker 3: at right now, Like it could go away if we
Speaker 3: start just having just boom boom boom, it just starts
Speaker 3: getting knocked off and we have an outfield run. I
Speaker 3: feel pretty confident. Whoever I run in here as a
Speaker 3: outfielder three slash two for a short period of time,
Speaker 3: I still have a solid advantage. But if I get
Speaker 3: into my brain like I do sometimes and I'm like,
Speaker 3: oh my god, this guy's too good of a value
Speaker 3: in this guy, and then I skip in this next round,
Speaker 3: I might find myself being like like, oh, now my
Speaker 3: third outfielder is you know, I mean, I know you
Speaker 3: like Brandon Nemo or something like that.
Speaker 1: Have Brandon Nimo is not a solid guy? How dare you?
Speaker 1: Especially this lineup?
Speaker 4: Now?
Speaker 1: This is I mean, this is the first time ever
Speaker 1: that three New York Mets are projected to hit more
Speaker 1: than thirty home runs of the same year. Ever, yeah, along,
Speaker 1: I've waited my whole life for that. I mean, I mean,
Speaker 1: Nimo's not one of them. But the rest of this
Speaker 1: lineup is gonna be good. I'm telling you. Everything trickles down.
Speaker 1: It trickles down. Junior Caminaro starts the ninth round, then
Speaker 1: Travis Bezana. Look at this team two guardians, Fan Oh
Speaker 1: buying in before Luis Robert Welsh. I thought you were
Speaker 1: gonna take Robert for sure.
Speaker 3: I gotta tell you, Robert would been one of the
Speaker 3: picks that was like in my queue, but I had
Speaker 3: to take the young guys. I almost took Robert. I
Speaker 3: would have taken those two guys and Robert.
Speaker 1: I would have taken Robert over Westburg me personally whatever,
Speaker 1: Sal Perez, Stephen Kwan, Brian Reynolds, Joel Rico continuing to
Speaker 1: crush Outfield, Bryce Miller, Royce, Lewis Than at nine oh nine,
Speaker 1: Max Free, I took Logan Webb as my number three.
Speaker 1: About a stead you have a picture you could possibly
Speaker 1: find I like the steadiness of my rotation here, Snell, Framber, Valdez,
Speaker 1: Logan Web guys who actually show up and make starts.
Speaker 1: What a concept. Riley Green at ten oh one. Then
Speaker 1: Davrez goes next, Batista, Luis Arise, and Joe Rico, another outfielder.
Speaker 1: So just to recap here, Ti Oscar Nandez, Lawrence Butler,
Speaker 1: Brian Reynolds say, is Suzuka Suzuki. I'm going on tilt
Speaker 1: with this outfield run that you've created, Joe Rico. I mean,
Speaker 1: I am impressed. I'm not gonna lie.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a lot of my favorite players this year, really,
Speaker 2: and they're just following even just a few picks. I mean,
Speaker 2: Butler was probably right around where he's going, but Reynolds
Speaker 2: fell a little bit later than usual. Teo fell about
Speaker 2: a round Suzuki in the tenth. I really like a
Speaker 2: lot of my guys. You know, I haven't done any
Speaker 2: of those my guys articles or anything like that, but
Speaker 2: there'll be a lot of those guys on my current
Speaker 2: team on that article or on that post or whatever
Speaker 2: ends up being.
Speaker 1: Okay, moving on to the draft board. After all these
Speaker 1: outfielders are now gone. Ten six Hunter Brown one of
Speaker 1: my favorite things. Cal Rawley goes next. Why anybody would
Speaker 1: take a catcher early? No single catcher, ten team league,
Speaker 1: I'll never know, love it, man. Whatever, that's fine. I mean,
Speaker 1: if you gotta take one, fine, take a big power guy. Okay, whatever.
Speaker 1: Luis Castillo, Duran and then Welsh of course dips the
Speaker 1: toes in the closer water here. Uh he ends up
Speaker 1: with Andreis Munios and then Spencer Schwellenbach. There you go. Look,
Speaker 1: you couldn't get Crochet, You've got the Schwellenbach. How does
Speaker 1: it feel.
Speaker 3: I'll tell you this. In a ten team league, I
Speaker 3: would have liked him as my sp four. But I'm
Speaker 3: just being a little picky here. I wanted to get Schwellenbach.
Speaker 3: Low walks, low quality of contact against him, good strikeout numbers,
Speaker 3: and I think he's another one of those guys that's
Speaker 3: gonna enable me to maybe, you know, maybe take a
Speaker 3: shot or two. There's still some amazing pictures. I mean,
Speaker 3: we are in the one tens, and if you're willing
Speaker 3: to take a little bit of risk, you know there
Speaker 3: are the returning guys. There's the the m mcclanahan's, there's
Speaker 3: the al Contras in there. There's quite a few really
Speaker 3: really great names at sp If you're willing to take
Speaker 3: the risk, which I think you should be in a
Speaker 3: ten team because we know the streamers are going to
Speaker 3: be better, I would rather have the highest upside of
Speaker 3: pictures with a little bit inherent risk than taking like,
Speaker 3: you know, boring middle line guys when I could just
Speaker 3: stream and replace. I'm that's saying like, like Logan Webb
Speaker 3: was actually a guy I really wanted, and I think
Speaker 3: he's a little bit boring, but he is super safe
Speaker 3: and he would have been a great pick. But I'm
Speaker 3: more saying like, well, I'm not gonna take these high
Speaker 3: guys to pass. I'm gonna pass on these guys and
Speaker 3: I'm gonna just try to get you know, get me
Speaker 3: a Seth Lugo a little bit later. And it's like, Eh,
Speaker 3: I'd rather play high upside in this knowing I have
Speaker 3: the ability to stream a little bit better.
Speaker 1: Okay, there you have it. There's gonna be a couple
Speaker 1: less pictures because I just doubled up by the way
Speaker 1: at the end of the board. Swelling Buck, Tyler Glassan
Speaker 1: Now Hunter Green, Freddy Peralta, Sunny Gray. There's your pitching run.
Speaker 1: Matt McClain goes to Joe Arico, will recap that pick.
Speaker 1: I know you're up on the clock in Rookie Sazaki
Speaker 1: Wilson Contrez, Cody Bellinger. Then I dip my toes in
Speaker 1: the pool of pitching. Tanner Biby Bailey Ober, there you go,
Speaker 1: two more guys. Give me all those al Central guys
Speaker 1: love it. Zach Gallan I almost took him. I was
Speaker 1: going back and forth while Welsh was talking there do
Speaker 1: I take over? Do I take Gallon? He was going
Speaker 1: back and forth. I ended up taking over the Robert
Speaker 1: Suarez Spencer Steer and back to Joe Rico for Joe
Speaker 1: Ryan so McLean and Ryan well should I had debate
Speaker 1: on the previous show. I like McLain. He is not
Speaker 1: in on it. He is not John McClain. He's a
Speaker 1: lesser McLain, but still mclan. I think people were worth drafting.
Speaker 1: You drafted him. Joe Rico eleven oh six. I still
Speaker 1: believe in Matt McClain. I think he just needs to
Speaker 1: get his reps up. In spring, had a good, you know,
Speaker 1: decent performance in the AFL, showed a little pop That's
Speaker 1: what you wanted to see. I think he gets back
Speaker 1: on track in twenty twenty five. What do you think?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: I do as well. I was updating some rankings yesterday
Speaker 2: and I moved him up a few spots in second base.
Speaker 2: Second base is pretty bad. We've talked about that. A
Speaker 2: lot this year. Joe and I are both Luis Garcia fans.
Speaker 2: But there's a couple of guys that you can target.
Speaker 2: But by and large, it's a pretty weak position. You
Speaker 2: got McClain who's going to be probably right in the
Speaker 2: middle of that Red's lineup, and I think the lineup
Speaker 2: is very good, the ballpark is very good. You're getting
Speaker 2: a terrible position taken care of. So yeah, in the
Speaker 2: eleventh round, I really like Matt McClain, and then I
Speaker 2: went with Joe Ryan as my third starting pitcher, just
Speaker 2: I needed another picture. I've talked about a lot on
Speaker 2: these shows how I'm really targeting whip. I want to
Speaker 2: keep the whip in the one fifteen or lower type
Speaker 2: of range, and the projections all like him to give
Speaker 2: you something in that range.
Speaker 1: Okay, because he two to one on you. Welsh on
Speaker 1: McLean after Joe Ryan, Grayson, Rodriguezan McClanahan, Boyle Boy, those
Speaker 1: pictures sure did disappear fast. My god, think about that one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven,
Speaker 1: twelve starters after Welsh's Schwellenbach, Will Smith Mike Trout at
Speaker 1: twelve oh nine. So Welsh, you went with Christian Yellwich
Speaker 1: and Randy Rose Arena. Going back to the outfield, How
Speaker 1: does that feel and how do you feel about missing
Speaker 1: out on the picture run there?
Speaker 3: I I'm okay, there's still some great pictures. Not gonna lie.
Speaker 3: The guy that went right before you, Spencer Strider, was
Speaker 3: one hundred percent someone I was going to tag in here.
Speaker 3: I think getting like a Rokie or a Strider or
Speaker 3: a glass now is kind of fun. Even though in
Speaker 3: the low projected but high production you talked about the outfield,
Speaker 3: I just wanted to tap it. I thought there were
Speaker 3: a couple of the young guys Dylan Cruz and Jason
Speaker 3: Domingus were still out there. But you know Yelich, twenty
Speaker 3: twenty guy. Uh Randy Rosina, he knows the twenty twenty
Speaker 3: guy some batting average issues. I won one hundred percent
Speaker 3: was going to break it, though. I would have taken
Speaker 3: my trout had he fallen and he went right before me.
Speaker 3: He was the snipe right in front of me. I'd
Speaker 3: have taken him in a ten team around one twenty
Speaker 3: or so, why the hell not? Though I would have
Speaker 3: looked at like an outfield with Trout and Nakunya it's
Speaker 3: a little bit worrisome, but again there's like great deal.
Speaker 3: I might have been able to have like a billing
Speaker 3: cruise on the bench. If I had done that, it
Speaker 3: would have made me probably prioritize outfield. I had bit more,
Speaker 3: but I felt like in this format I could take
Speaker 3: on that risk. But it didn't matter. I didn't, So
Speaker 3: I just took another injured outfielder, Christian Yelich. But lots
Speaker 3: of stolen bases.
Speaker 1: Well, if you can't have Trout, take Yelich to mean,
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, I got thumbs up
Speaker 1: there on my pick. Thank you, Draft Wizard. I appreciate you,
Speaker 1: and look, Draft Wizard was going to keep you real,
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Speaker 1: on here after Rosearin Interristing Cossus, Jake Berger, Boba Schet,
Speaker 1: Matt Chapman, Ryan Walker to Joel Rico, Anthony Volpi at
Speaker 1: least Garcia at thirteen oh eight, then Spencer Streider. Then
Speaker 1: I took Luis Garcia. I'm a man of my word.
Speaker 1: I'm talking about him on the show, so I'm gonna
Speaker 1: do it. Ian Hapani another outfielder. He was the biggest boost.
Speaker 1: I took him. Jeff Hoffman goes next, then Vinie Pascuentino,
Speaker 1: Bryce Terraang. I was monitoring him, trying to figure out
Speaker 1: is that the guy I ended up going happ instead?
Speaker 1: Jack Flaherty to Joe Rico, So Joe, you got another
Speaker 1: closer here. And Jack Flaherty a guy who experienced a
Speaker 1: rebirth last year in Detroit, then got dealt came back
Speaker 1: to Detroit. Do you think that's the secret sauce for
Speaker 1: him repeating all the twenty twenty four goodness?
Speaker 4: I do.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I think you're putting him back in that situation where
Speaker 2: he was able to find success, and he's had some
Speaker 2: success for his career, but it's been a little bit shaky.
Speaker 2: So going back to a place with a pitching coach
Speaker 2: that was able to revitalize his career. His numbers last
Speaker 2: sears and were really like superstar level stuff. So I
Speaker 2: think Flarity's probably not gonna be in the cy Young running,
Speaker 2: but as the fourth starting pitcher for a ten team
Speaker 2: fantasy league, I think that that's a really solid place
Speaker 2: for him to land.
Speaker 3: I wanted him bad. I wanted that one. I was
Speaker 3: that was one that hurt a little bit. He was
Speaker 3: an absolute target. I even kind of shries like, ah,
Speaker 3: Flarity went dang it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well look you did okay with the pitchers. We'll
Speaker 1: get to yours of the second. I actually like the
Speaker 1: two you selected there, and you had a good choice
Speaker 1: of three because the guy that winner after you, I
Speaker 1: think I also would have selected Dylan Cruz goes at
Speaker 1: fourteen o six and No. One Aernado, Kevin Gossman, Brandon
Speaker 1: Nimmo all right before, Well she wants to be so
Speaker 1: disappointed while she couldn't take gee Ways.
Speaker 3: Like you not getting Michael Harris Man.
Speaker 1: I know it's right before just snipe Man.
Speaker 3: McLean and Nemo. I can't have either, oh Man.
Speaker 1: Justin Steele goes next for the Welsh along with Brian Wu.
Speaker 1: You had Rodonna in there, so Rodon went right after.
Speaker 1: I would have taken Rodnn over Wu once again, pitches
Speaker 1: for the Yankee, more offensive support there. That's my thought process.
Speaker 1: So let's walk through. You had Steel, Wu and Rodan
Speaker 1: on the board. Why was it Steel and Wu over Rodin.
Speaker 3: Well, I mean Steel, I think across the board he was.
Speaker 3: He's the number one of these guys. I like the
Speaker 3: wind agree with that. I agree with yeah, yeah, Strike,
Speaker 3: I'm in across Wu. What I really liked about it
Speaker 3: was one of lowest walk rate. You know, it's under
Speaker 3: three walk per nine. Strikeouts are not there. But this
Speaker 3: is a team that has Schwellenbach, Michael King, Chris Sayle,
Speaker 3: and this was going to help lower my whip. I
Speaker 3: mean both Schwellenbach and Wu, both guys with under five
Speaker 3: walk per nine, low quality of contact. Maybe Wu upticks
Speaker 3: the strikeouts. This was really just about kind of maintaining
Speaker 3: some of my innings, some of that whip, some of
Speaker 3: that era. Guy had a sub three era, So that's
Speaker 3: why it was easy. I thought. The context was this team,
Speaker 3: and I will tell you on the draft Wizard when
Speaker 3: you're looking, he actually was the biggest boost the number
Speaker 3: one percentage to take by experts was Carlos Redon, but
Speaker 3: Wu had the designation he was the biggest boost to
Speaker 3: my team context and I agreed with that on the
Speaker 3: low whip and low walk number. So that's why I
Speaker 3: took Wu to go with Justin Steele, and I now
Speaker 3: have five sps.
Speaker 1: Here you go. Rodn goes next fifteen oh three horner
Speaker 1: than Bogart's Tovar, Joe Rico, Sandy ALCNTRA expectations for him
Speaker 1: coming back from Tommy John. What does it look like
Speaker 1: in your mind.
Speaker 2: Considering he was healthy before the end of last season.
Speaker 2: I think that we could probably see twenty five starts
Speaker 2: out of him. Is he going to be going eight
Speaker 2: innings every time out like we saw from Sandy in
Speaker 2: the past. Probably not. They're probably going to be a
Speaker 2: bit more careful with him. And I also think there's
Speaker 2: a good chance he gets dealt at some point from Miami.
Speaker 2: Hopefully it's not to the Dodgers, but pretty much anywhere
Speaker 2: he goes is going to be a positive in terms
Speaker 2: of win projection. So as the fifth starting pitcher in
Speaker 2: the fifteenth round, I'm totally totally on board with it.
Speaker 2: I know there's some risk on my staff here for sure,
Speaker 2: but in a league this shallow, I dig.
Speaker 1: It next up here after our contra code, I Senga
Speaker 1: fifteen oh seven, Jason Dominguez, then Louis Heel at fifteen
Speaker 1: oh nine. I went with another starting pitcher, Seth Lugo
Speaker 1: at fifteen to ten, and then I took Jackson Holiday
Speaker 1: at sixteen oh one. I'm believing and I needed a
Speaker 1: guy in the middle infield. I'm looking around. I'm like,
Speaker 1: if everything breaks right for Holiday this year, he could
Speaker 1: be a monstrous player. This was everybody's cash bet, easy
Speaker 1: chalk guy for Rookie of the Year last year. I
Speaker 1: know it didn't work out. Let's not give up altogether.
Speaker 1: Can we just have a little bit more patience with
Speaker 1: these guys? But I really like getting Lugo where I
Speaker 1: got him to last year, one hundred and eighty one
Speaker 1: strikeouts a three era. He was my breakout pitcher in
Speaker 1: last year's black book that I wrote up, and guess
Speaker 1: what turned out to be pretty pretty spot on there.
Speaker 1: So Holiday goes next for me? Then, KNOWHOPI Donovan erseg
Speaker 1: at sixteen oh four JT Real Muto to Joe Rico.
Speaker 1: Now Joe I gotta say real Muto's age, declining power,
Speaker 1: all that really worries me. Why go for the catcher
Speaker 1: here instead of maybe building out some more pitching. I
Speaker 1: don't know outfield, hear you've got on lock, but why
Speaker 1: real Muto? What do you see in him this year
Speaker 1: that makes you excited about drafting him?
Speaker 2: So I did a write up on him the other day.
Speaker 2: It is a bit of a concern. At his age,
Speaker 2: you don't really know what you're going to get. But
Speaker 2: he's still a ten percent barrel rate, forty six percent
Speaker 2: on the hard hit, seventy ninth percentile sprint speed, so
Speaker 2: I think he can give you some steals. He's still
Speaker 2: in a very good lineup. He's not going to lose
Speaker 2: playing time to Garrett Stubbs, so I think you're still
Speaker 2: getting one hundred and twenty hundred and thirty games out
Speaker 2: of him in this kind of format. I do like
Speaker 2: to wait pretty far on catcher, but sixteenth round, you know,
Speaker 2: I think I've waited long enough here. I'm happy with
Speaker 2: real Mudo where I got him.
Speaker 1: Okay, continuing on with the draft board here after real Muto,
Speaker 1: Jery Jones, Goes Walker, Jenkins, Goldschmid, ten or Scott then Wels.
Speaker 1: You took Diaz and Neto. Let's talk about those two selections.
Speaker 1: Another closer here and zach Netto one of your favorite things.
Speaker 3: Well, definitely my cue the top of where I was
Speaker 3: going absolutely sniped in front of me. Jerry Jones and
Speaker 3: Paul Goldschmid were going to be the back to back picks.
Speaker 3: I'm now trailing in strikeouts a little bit with you.
Speaker 3: Schwellenbach projections aren't insane. Brian wu brings it down. I
Speaker 3: really really wanted Jerry Jones, love him two plus pitches
Speaker 3: that have one hundred and thirty plus stuff plus rating.
Speaker 3: And Paul Goldschmid I thought was a crazy value here
Speaker 3: and I could have used him at corner endfield. Both
Speaker 3: of those got swapped on me, so a little bit disappointed,
Speaker 3: but I get my second closer and Alexis Diez. I
Speaker 3: really like the red potential contention this year, and zach
Speaker 3: Neto kind of an acuna thing, get to miss a
Speaker 3: potential amount of time, but a ten team league with
Speaker 3: a twenty thirty guy at my middle infield, I feel very,
Speaker 3: very comfortable with.
Speaker 1: After those two selections from the Welsh Chase de Lauter
Speaker 1: Boy Team two is building that dynasty team up there.
Speaker 1: Let's go to Kirby Yates again. This is why I'm
Speaker 1: waiting on closer. Kirbyates, I can go to the seventeenth
Speaker 1: round here, Alec Bohm, Kakuchi goes next. Jo Rico took
Speaker 1: Mason Win. Nice selection there, Langoliers esak Paridis van Juenio Suarez.
Speaker 1: I was hoping praise made it to me. He did not,
Speaker 1: so I double tapped closer here and guess what McGill
Speaker 1: was still out there? I took Ben Joyce Pete Fairbanks,
Speaker 1: so I like the upside of the strikeout ability of
Speaker 1: Joyce there in Fairbanks. Again, I wait till seventeen and eighteen.
Speaker 1: I got my two closers. I feel good about that.
Speaker 1: Picrow Armstrong goes next, Xavier Edward, Dick Casiganos, and then
Speaker 1: Sanchez Joe Rico. I know you're on the clock, so
Speaker 1: I'm gonna pause things for you because we want to
Speaker 1: talk about Mason Win and Christopher Sanchez Win, a guy
Speaker 1: that wells should I both like a Ton and Sanchez
Speaker 1: another guy that we both feel is being very undervalued.
Speaker 1: It's interesting because you know, I feel like everyone's talking
Speaker 1: about Lozardo and you know, all that stuff because he's
Speaker 1: now in Philadelphia, but kind of ignoring the season that
Speaker 1: Sanchez had a little bit.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Lozardo, I don't know, I don't know if to
Speaker 2: spend I don't know. I used to think Lozardo was
Speaker 2: the next like superstar going when Cy Young's at this point,
Speaker 2: I'm not sure, Chris so she's.
Speaker 1: Only like, what did we say, well the other day
Speaker 1: when he's like twenty seven or something like that, We're like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, I can't. But he's still so young.
Speaker 3: And coming off of like he's like a year removed
Speaker 3: from like a pretty monstrous, like big strikeout season thing.
Speaker 3: You know. The hope is that, I mean stanfle had
Speaker 3: him as a sleeper, and you hope that, you know,
Speaker 3: Lazard is going to be able to kind of bounce
Speaker 3: back with with Phillies.
Speaker 1: You can continue to filibuster if you like about Sanchez Joe.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So, but both, I mean with Santa's and win with
Speaker 2: both of them. They're both huge targets of mine. Sanchez
Speaker 2: is going to be adding a pitch he was already
Speaker 2: really good, and there's actually an update that Eno did
Speaker 2: to stuff plus and Chris Anches comes out looking quite
Speaker 2: a bit better than he did before. I think his
Speaker 2: stuff is now in like the one eight, one or
Speaker 2: nine range when it was like around one hundred before.
Speaker 3: Probably work on the change up too, just stuff plus
Speaker 3: always he always talked about I mean to cut you off,
Speaker 3: but like stuff plus. Always struggled with changeups and how
Speaker 3: to rate them, and eno talked about it all the time.
Speaker 3: So my I haven't even looked at it yet. My
Speaker 3: assumption would be that they found another rhythm algorithm of
Speaker 3: how to start pushing change ups because that's Chris. I
Speaker 3: love the Chris Sanches because that's Chris Sanchez's bread and butter.
Speaker 3: Now he's adding a new pitch in that cutter, but
Speaker 3: it's it is change up strikeout craziness. So I would
Speaker 3: assume if they figured that out, that's going to boost
Speaker 3: that stuff plus.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they have this change up stuff plus at one
Speaker 2: eighteen and he's one oh four overall and that was
Speaker 2: not captured before. And he was fantastic last season. Adding
Speaker 2: a pitch as well this year should do wonders for him.
Speaker 2: Even if it doesn't, even if we just got a repeat,
Speaker 2: I love it. And then Mason win I also a
Speaker 2: huge fan of Mason Win and we got a kind
Speaker 2: of interesting report the other day that he's looking to
Speaker 2: really start running a lot this year. So if we
Speaker 2: saw thirty five forty stolen bases from Win, I don't
Speaker 2: think that would really surprise anybody. To go along with
Speaker 2: everything else, he already does pretty good batting average asset,
Speaker 2: non zero power, good defense, going to keep them on
Speaker 2: the field. So I love these two picks. I don't
Speaker 2: know how you guys let me get them in round
Speaker 2: eighteen and nineteen, but thank you, Trash.
Speaker 1: You're crushing at jo Rico, all right, you know you're
Speaker 1: on the clock again, So let's you go Ranald the Lopez,
Speaker 1: Robbie Ray at eighteen oh seven McGill, then Luke Weaver,
Speaker 1: Welsh goes, Ryan Pepio and Brandon Fought fought a guy
Speaker 1: that we talked about, you know, just the last show
Speaker 1: we did where you know, all the XCRA, all the
Speaker 1: you know, FIP numbers are all better than what the
Speaker 1: era was, and I keep saying the fought smelt down
Speaker 1: in the second half was just a matter of tax
Speaker 1: and fatigue and innings. And I think he'll be perfectly
Speaker 1: fine after building that up. What do you think?
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, I agree, it was like a six in
Speaker 3: the seven era in the final two months of the year.
Speaker 3: New pitching coaches in there to fit some stuff. His
Speaker 3: sweeper is one of the best pitches in one hundred
Speaker 3: and forty three stuff plus before the update. I don't
Speaker 3: know what the new update looks like. He's got to
Speaker 3: probably work through that fastball sinker adjustment, maybe throw more
Speaker 3: change ups this year so he can get left handed
Speaker 3: hitters out, but good strike up potential. Dude Walked lowered
Speaker 3: his walks down to a round five, which is really elite.
Speaker 3: So I'm very optimistic about Brandon Fott and then Peppio Again,
Speaker 3: I'm just trying to stack some strikeouts in here. There
Speaker 3: weren't a ton of high end strikeout guys. I definitely
Speaker 3: was hoping Chris Sanchez would be one of those players
Speaker 3: that he can boost up, even though he's not a
Speaker 3: big strikeout guy. But my rotation is done because we're
Speaker 3: not doing a bench here, so I've got my closers
Speaker 3: and my starters here. I'm left with just catcher and
Speaker 3: a corner infielder to finish this off.
Speaker 1: Ryan Presley goes next. Nick Kurtz than Sean Manaya nice
Speaker 1: value at nineteen oh four, jeorks in profar one of
Speaker 1: our favorite things at nineteen oh five. I want him
Speaker 1: to get there. Zach Eflin guy that Welsh likes. Now.
Speaker 1: Eflyn is a guy that I am not excited about.
Speaker 1: Welsh was pointing out his value. So Joe, clearly this
Speaker 1: time it's two to one again and it's me on
Speaker 1: a player. So let's talk about Zach Eflin. Why you
Speaker 1: drafted him here at nineteen oh six.
Speaker 3: Get them.
Speaker 2: I still think the skills are very, very good. Was
Speaker 2: he what we were hoping for this season? Not really
Speaker 2: coming off of what he did in twenty twenty three
Speaker 2: he was fantastic, but he's still very good. Like I
Speaker 2: think people view it as a disappointment, but he's a
Speaker 2: three five nine ERA and a one fifteen whip. I mean,
Speaker 2: as my last pitcher, if he can just do that again,
Speaker 2: I'll I'll happily take it. But I think that the
Speaker 2: strikeouts we've seen the potential for him to be in
Speaker 2: the load to mid twenty So even if he's not
Speaker 2: a huge strikeout guy, I'm getting those ratio secured. And
Speaker 2: that's been a huge, huge thing for me. My whip
Speaker 2: is projected at one point one to three right now,
Speaker 2: and I absolutely love that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I gotta work on my categories again. This is
Speaker 1: what you used Draft Wizard for. And if you don't
Speaker 1: like a pick you make in the simulator, you can
Speaker 1: just back it out if you didn't like the runs
Speaker 1: that happened to you, and make another selection and you
Speaker 1: start to learn and shape your draft strategy. That's the
Speaker 1: whole point. So again, use the ultimate cheat code. It's
Speaker 1: Draft Wizard. Let's go to the next selection. After you
Speaker 1: took e Flyn Christian Campbell off the board, Louis Ringeifo.
Speaker 1: So then Bednar carry Carpenter goes to me at nineteen ten,
Speaker 1: looking forward to his season this year. Shane ba is
Speaker 1: looking forward to him also breaking out waiting. We've all
Speaker 1: been waiting for Shane bas all these years, even my
Speaker 1: last pitcher there, Bryson Stott goes next. Jose Barrios, Estevez,
Speaker 1: Joe Rico, Ryan Mountcastle. I was just talking about the
Speaker 1: other day. I said, I'm worried that he gets squeezed
Speaker 1: at some point. If Kobe Mayo starts at a really
Speaker 1: good year at Triple A, are you worried that at
Speaker 1: some point Mountcastle might not have every day at bats
Speaker 1: available to him.
Speaker 2: I don't worry about that so so much. I think
Speaker 2: that he's still probably one hundred and twenty two one
Speaker 2: hundred and forty game type of range. It is a thought,
Speaker 2: isn't something I'd really seriously considered that he could lose
Speaker 2: playing time. I think considering his age, he's still just
Speaker 2: twenty seven years old. He's showing elite power in the past,
Speaker 2: and they are making some changes out in the left
Speaker 2: field wall this year bringing it in not necessarily for him,
Speaker 2: but I think Mountcastle can really be a beneficiary there
Speaker 2: and hit twenty five to thirty home runs still be
Speaker 2: a good batting average asset. So it is something I
Speaker 2: hadn't really considered, to be honest with you, Joe. But
Speaker 2: if you know, if a couple of those prospects start
Speaker 2: to really start hitting the cover off the ball, then
Speaker 2: they're gonna have to make some hard choices there. Baltimore
Speaker 2: has just a surplus of prospect still. I would have
Speaker 2: thought they would have traded it for pitching at this point,
Speaker 2: but that's what that' yeah.
Speaker 1: I would have thought so too. I mean, I don't
Speaker 1: have thought they did it last year, but they did not.
Speaker 1: It was very bizarre. I thought they should, like, you
Speaker 1: were all in, you have the record, you had the playoff.
Speaker 1: You needed some more help in the in the pitching staff.
Speaker 1: I don't know why. I mean, I've only got so
Speaker 1: many spots for all these guys, so I know they
Speaker 1: move nowherby, but like, come on, like you've got so
Speaker 1: many of these guys, not every one of them is
Speaker 1: gonna hit. But my also think with Mancastle, he's been
Speaker 1: there a while. Ventual you're gonna have to pay him,
Speaker 1: so he's gonna be odd man out. There's already some
Speaker 1: trade rumors this offseason too, and that's where kicking the
Speaker 1: tires on him at first base and some other people too.
Speaker 1: I just it's gonna be really interesting to see Malcastle
Speaker 1: also the last couple of years a little bit in
Speaker 1: decline on some of those numbers too, Tyler O'Neil, Hodge,
Speaker 1: Rasmusin Todge Bradley at twenty oh nine, and then you
Speaker 1: took Tolia at twenty ten, Tyler Stevenson, Jordan Romano, Nick Pavett,
Speaker 1: A Bowden, frances Justin Martinez, Joe Rico took Josh Young
Speaker 1: Welsh Tolio, a guy that you've been targeting. You got him.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about it.
Speaker 3: Very very excited about Totalia dropping here. I think it's
Speaker 3: thirty five plus home run potential. Obviously, batting average is
Speaker 3: going to be a question, but this from Colorado split
Speaker 3: stuff in there insane like seventeen percent baril fifty percent
Speaker 3: hard hit rate. Great for a ten team league, especially
Speaker 3: when I let me look at it right now. I'll
Speaker 3: tell you the number or I was. I was projected
Speaker 3: as the number one batting average. I moved to three. Boy,
Speaker 3: I'm very excited to talk about this score.
Speaker 1: I'm sure you are.
Speaker 3: I'm very very excited. Guys. I will say this, if
Speaker 3: we were doing bench and more, I would not have
Speaker 3: taken my final catcher. I would have taken Matt Shaw
Speaker 3: and done a little bit more value. But I had
Speaker 3: to take a catcher. But yeah, Totia made a ton
Speaker 3: of sense. Tyler Stevenson is my catcher. Made a ton
Speaker 3: of sense. And guys, this scorecard makes a ton of sense.
Speaker 3: I'm very excited for you to read it off. Joe, Oh,
Speaker 3: I touched it. The score well, I.
Speaker 1: Had an a plus the last time we draft in
Speaker 1: a big boy and girl league, which was a twelve
Speaker 1: teamer in the ten team. I got a D plus.
Speaker 1: Draft Wizard hated me, and I know why. It gave
Speaker 1: me reaches on guys like Jackson Holiday. It gave me
Speaker 1: reaches on Mark Vientos. I mean, like, I understand, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna get my guys regardless. But again, you have to
Speaker 1: listen to some of the projections sometimes and make sure
Speaker 1: you understand what's going on there. So I did not
Speaker 1: do well here on the draft today. According to Draft Wizard,
Speaker 1: I am just the ninth out of tenth. However, the
Speaker 1: Welsh perfect and Joe Rico number two. So you guys
Speaker 1: really carried the torch today. Welsh who liked your draft?
Speaker 1: Who hate? Who could possibly hate your draft? I mean
Speaker 1: it was perfect. You got one hundred. Love this, Oh,
Speaker 1: I've ever seen that before.
Speaker 3: I've never seen I've never gotten a hundred ever draft.
Speaker 3: Also also to point out Joe at two got an
Speaker 3: eighty eight. I've never seen a twelve point difference between
Speaker 3: first and second. I got a perfect one hundred out
Speaker 3: of one hundred. It loved Otani and Harper obviously, it
Speaker 3: said steals for Zachnetto and Tyler Stevenson getting him three
Speaker 3: rounds later. I was projected to be top three and runs, average,
Speaker 3: strikeouts and the best in the league of runs, RBI,
Speaker 3: stolen bases and wins and get this, Joe piece of
Speaker 3: Pia loved my draft more than any single person on
Speaker 3: the planet. Joe Piezapia was one, I was two, Kelly
Speaker 3: Kirby was three, Ario Cohen was four. Guess who hated
Speaker 3: my draft more than anybody?
Speaker 1: Uh, Joe Rico may Joe.
Speaker 3: Arico hated a perfect draft.
Speaker 1: We gotta get a picture of Joe here too. Why
Speaker 1: is it just like a stupid little profile egg thing.
Speaker 3: One hundred out of one hundred? Joe Rico says, no, thanks,
Speaker 3: I don't want that. Also, Dalton Dell Don Chris Towers
Speaker 3: Pianowski didn't like Ryan Peppio apparently, but Joe piece of
Speaker 3: Pia love Joe Rico hate. I'm in a pretty good spot.
Speaker 3: I do love this team quite well.
Speaker 1: It's funny because it says I didn't like my own draft,
Speaker 1: and I'll be honest, I don't love it. I don't
Speaker 1: think it's a D. I think it's a B minus.
Speaker 1: Maybe this time around I haven't done any ten teamers,
Speaker 1: so a little bit of a learning curve there, but
Speaker 1: of course we're gonna have a huge advantage having with Tony.
Speaker 1: It's two guys already. However, thumbs up for me. These
Speaker 1: are some pretty good people. Joe Rico. I don't know
Speaker 1: if you heard of him. He gave me a thumbs up.
Speaker 1: Scott White, one of the best of the business. Scott Pianowski.
Speaker 1: So I got both Scotts and Kelly Kirby. All right,
Speaker 1: here are Wonky Penguin, our resident penguin. So if those
Speaker 1: are the people liking my draft, then I think D
Speaker 1: plus is not fair. Jill Rico, who liked your draft?
Speaker 1: Who hated your draft? What was the summary for you?
Speaker 1: What should you have done differently?
Speaker 2: Well, there's a goofy looking guy who works for Fantasy Pros,
Speaker 2: who has a backwards hat on right now, who happened
Speaker 2: to like my draft more than anybody else. And it
Speaker 2: was me.
Speaker 1: I thought it was Derek Brown. Okay, yeah, Well.
Speaker 2: Derek starts doing baseball rankings then then we'll know.
Speaker 1: I had this to Welsh. I think we should have
Speaker 1: Derek and Andrew come on a show. Just use Draft
Speaker 1: Wizard they know nothing and see how they do. I
Speaker 1: think that would be really.
Speaker 3: I think that's a great idea to get the they
Speaker 3: don't even know the player.
Speaker 1: The player, but just using draft wizards, see if they
Speaker 1: can outscore us. I think that would be very interesting.
Speaker 2: And then you get to that we should do it,
Speaker 2: and then me and Bubba can do a football podcast
Speaker 2: next year Streaky Friday. So yeah, I like my draft. Dalton, Delton,
Speaker 2: Scott Pianowski, I got the Yahoo love. Brad Kamara from Roe,
Speaker 2: Oballer also liked it. Who did not like it? Number
Speaker 2: one Joe Pizipia did not like it. Kelly Kirby, Ariol
Speaker 2: Cohen and Scott White also didn't like my draft. So
Speaker 2: I'm torn here because some of the some of my
Speaker 2: favorite people, some friends of mine, don't like my draft.
Speaker 2: But eighty eight I'll take an eighty eight.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, let's look at the tail of the
Speaker 1: tape here, review these rosters real quick. Here. I'll just
Speaker 1: run through mine again because I'm the worst. Alva is
Speaker 1: a catcher who I love this year, so I've talked
Speaker 1: about him much. Josh Naylor always great, Lewis Garstia one
Speaker 1: of my favorite things Lynndor, Jazz Chisholm, Mark Viento's, Jackson, Holiday,
Speaker 1: Kyle Tucker, Jackson, Merril, Bridley, Greenian have Kerry Carpenter. Look,
Speaker 1: maybe I don't have like enough star power. I don't
Speaker 1: have Ronald Cunya and Otani, but at least my guys
Speaker 1: are going to be playing in April Blake, Snell, Framber, Valdez, Logan, Webb, Tanner, Bibby.
Speaker 1: It's a great rotation Ober Lugo and Boz, then Fairbanks
Speaker 1: and Joyce. I'd go to war with this. This is
Speaker 1: not a D plus team. Sorry, I might have to
Speaker 1: redo some of my rankings here and check this out.
Speaker 1: Joe Rico, you are second place, j t Romuto, Mountcastle, McLain,
Speaker 1: Gunnar Henderson, Machado, Young, Mason Winn and the outfield Killer Rodriguez,
Speaker 1: Hernandez t Oscar. That is Lawrence Butler, Brian Reynold, Sega Suzuki,
Speaker 1: the staff, Garrett Cruschet, Jacob Degrond, Joe, Ryan, Jack Flaherty,
Speaker 1: Mason Miller, Ryan Walker, Al Contra, Sanchez and e Flyn.
Speaker 1: What's the biggest strength of this team, Joe, in your opinion.
Speaker 2: I think it is the outfield depth. Even if there
Speaker 2: is somebody who potentially bust let's sa Lawrence Butler is't
Speaker 2: what we're thinking he's going to be or something, then
Speaker 2: I can swap in somebody from the utility. And it's
Speaker 2: a ten team league, so that that waiver wire goodness
Speaker 2: is definitely going to be there for the taking because
Speaker 2: we only drafted in total, like two hundred players or something,
Speaker 2: so there are going to be a lot of great
Speaker 2: available players throughout the season. I took some risks with
Speaker 2: my starting pitching crochet and to grob. Some people love it,
Speaker 2: what some people would hate it, but it is risky
Speaker 2: for sure. But if those two both throw one hundred
Speaker 2: and sixty innings, then I should be cooking with gas.
Speaker 1: Speaking of cooking with gas or load of the helium
Speaker 1: or whatever, because Welsh is floating right now. Tyler Stevenson,
Speaker 1: Bryce Harper, Jordan Westburg, I don't know. I'm still not
Speaker 1: there on Westburg. I gotta get there. I gotta watch
Speaker 1: more team Corey Seeger, Junior, Cameronio, Toolia, Neto Rondo, Kunia,
Speaker 1: Brent Rooker, Randy Rose, Arena, Christian Yelich. I mean, how
Speaker 1: can you get one hundred having Christian Yelich on a team.
Speaker 1: I don't care when you drafted. I don't see that.
Speaker 1: Whatever shoey Otani is your util And then you've got
Speaker 1: Chris Saale, Michael King, Schrellenbach Steel, Brian wu Pepio, Brandon Fought,
Speaker 1: Andres Munio's Lexis Dias Welsh is a very good team.
Speaker 1: I don't think it's a hundred, but I would give
Speaker 1: it an A. I would give it.
Speaker 3: I'll give you a tip here if you'd like, I
Speaker 3: could use one read my ranks. Yeah, yeah, I know.
Speaker 3: If you go, I know you got to. It's really
Speaker 3: difficult get ranks and stuff. If you'd like and you'd
Speaker 3: like to score better, you can actually just set a
Speaker 3: cheat sheet and you can put my ranks for your
Speaker 3: drafts moving forward, and then you could just use off
Speaker 3: of my list because we put together a little bit
Speaker 3: better of a team. I'm just saying.
Speaker 1: But Draft Wizard is for everyone.
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Speaker 1: is probably I don't know. I don't know. I would
Speaker 1: put my team right there with you, buddy, I don't know.
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