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Speaker 1: New Jersey. I am Gregg Sauceman joined inside studio thirty
Speaker 1: four B F F Frank Stamp. What's up? Frank? Ag?
Speaker 1: What's going on? Man? Excited to be here, obviously gonna
Speaker 1: talk about short stop today. We've got a few more injuries, Gregg, surprise, surprise.
Speaker 1: That's all we get throughout spring training is injuries. What's
Speaker 1: going on with you? How did you sleep last night?
Speaker 1: You mean you mean Chris Sale does not have the flu?
Speaker 1: Is that what you're telling me? Wait? Can the flu
Speaker 1: really cause Tommy John? Because then I might need it?
Speaker 1: Is it too early to make a coronavirus joke? Probably
Speaker 1: that Christal's flu turned into it? Okay, cool? Try to
Speaker 1: make sure. I wasn't sure that wasn't the details on that,
Speaker 1: but fair enough, I won't. I slept fantastically though. I
Speaker 1: went to bed at eleven thirty ish and slept like
Speaker 1: a full amount of time for ones. And I was
Speaker 1: ready to rock this morning, looking at short stops, looking
Speaker 1: at first basement and prepare in preparation for that show
Speaker 1: coming up later this week. And I just texted you
Speaker 1: there are literally sixteen first base what I like, and
Speaker 1: there's not a single other one that I want on
Speaker 1: my team. What about Danny Santana, Greg, Danny Santana, which
Speaker 1: qualifies that every position is still somebody that I don't
Speaker 1: want on my team. Ah, well, I guess that's your loss. No,
Speaker 1: I'm not on Danny Santana either. First base is not
Speaker 1: a great position this year, Greg, shortstop a little bit better.
Speaker 1: That's the one will be previewing today. It is, it
Speaker 1: is solid. I also have to talk to you. I
Speaker 1: got a trade offer in my home league and I
Speaker 1: need your advice. Frank. I would be giving up my
Speaker 1: fourth overall pick for the tenth overall pick, and his
Speaker 1: third rounder is a keeper league. What do you think?
Speaker 1: I guess it comes down to who can you realistically
Speaker 1: get at four? And who can you realistically get a ten?
Speaker 1: But we'll talk about we'll talk about that more after this, Greig,
Speaker 1: all right, fair enough, So when we come back, we're
Speaker 1: gonna get to the NBA tip drill for tonight. You'll
Speaker 1: hear more about my trade and of course these short
Speaker 1: stops that you should did you not be drafting here
Speaker 1: in Before all of that we begin today's program. Were
Speaker 1: the news update from our guys. Hi, I am Alex
Speaker 1: Passano with your sports grid news update here on the
Speaker 1: fantasy b ff s guys in the NBA New York
Speaker 1: Knicks super fans Spike Lee, well he won't be at
Speaker 1: his usual courtside seat for the rest of the season.
Speaker 1: He appeared on ESPN's First Take this morning, and Lee
Speaker 1: said he's taking a hiatus from Madison Square Garden. A
Speaker 1: quote from Spike says, I'm coming back next year, but
Speaker 1: I'm done for the season. I'm done. Lee's comments come
Speaker 1: a day after a video circulated online showing Lee yelling
Speaker 1: at Madison Square Garden security about the entrance he used
Speaker 1: to enter the game. However, Lee and Nick's owner James
Speaker 1: Dolan could be seen shaking hands and smiling at halftime,
Speaker 1: and Lee was in his signline seat at the second
Speaker 1: half during the Knicks defeat of the Houston Rockets one
Speaker 1: to one. In Major League Baseball, the Boston Red Sox
Speaker 1: left hander Chris Sale well he's having an m r
Speaker 1: R on Tuesday after experiencing soreness in his elbow. Manager
Speaker 1: Ron Rennicky acknowledged the concern as the team awaits results.
Speaker 1: These results will be sent to doctor James Andrews for evaluation.
Speaker 1: Andrews saw Sale last August after the seven time All
Speaker 1: Star was shut down for the season with elbow inflammation.
Speaker 1: Sale had platelet rich plasma injection at the time, but
Speaker 1: avoided surgery. Uh Sale had already been notified that he
Speaker 1: will start the season on the injured list as he
Speaker 1: reported to camp with pneumonia sticking with Major League Baseball.
Speaker 1: New York Yankees general manager Brian Cashman said right fielder
Speaker 1: Aaron Judges feeling better, but we'll have more tests to
Speaker 1: determine the cause of his soreness in his right pectoral area.
Speaker 1: Judge was shut down from hitting a week before spring
Speaker 1: training with shoulder soreness. He experienced discomfort on Friday when
Speaker 1: he took batting practice for the second straight day in
Speaker 1: an indoor cage. A quote from Cashman says, he feels
Speaker 1: more now in the pack. It's moved down toward the peck.
Speaker 1: We're just trying to figure it out and determine what's
Speaker 1: bothering him. You got a full slate of NBA, NHL,
Speaker 1: and college hoops tonight. Let's go to the Hockey League
Speaker 1: where the Montreal Canadians visit the New York Islanders. Islanders,
Speaker 1: you're going to half favorite the total five and a half.
Speaker 1: The St. Louis Blues visit the New York Rangers. Blues,
Speaker 1: you're going to half favorites. The total is six. And
Speaker 1: the Nashville Predators visit the Minnesota Wild. Wild? Are your
Speaker 1: going to half favorite the total six? In this one.
Speaker 1: I'm Alex Pasano. When this has been your sports grid
Speaker 1: news update. Now back to Gregg and Frank. I'm a
Speaker 1: fantasy BFFs. All right, we're gonna get into the shortstop
Speaker 1: position today here on the Fantasy BFFs from a fantasy
Speaker 1: baseball perspective. We'll talk a little bit more about Chris Sale,
Speaker 1: but before we do all of that, we'll like to
Speaker 1: give you a little snippet of our NBA tip drill,
Speaker 1: and earlier today, Sean Guastamakia spoke with Ricky Sanders of
Speaker 1: Daily Rhoda dot com about why he is getting scary
Speaker 1: Terry in his line of senight. All right, let's start
Speaker 1: with your players. A lot of great options at point guard.
Speaker 1: You're going with Charlotte Cornet's point guard, Dario Rosier. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I think people who played Terry Rosier the last
Speaker 1: time Davantae Graham was out maybe having nightmares, but look
Speaker 1: that was the nightmare scenario. Terry Rosier played eighteen first
Speaker 1: half minutes in that game, so he was on pace
Speaker 1: to play a ton of minutes, and then the team
Speaker 1: just got absolutely blown out. They were losing by forty
Speaker 1: for most of the second half. In Indiana. They lost
Speaker 1: that game by thirty nine points, and tonight is expected
Speaker 1: to be a lot closer. They're playing at home, they're
Speaker 1: playing in San Antonio, team that's dealing with their own injuries,
Speaker 1: and it's the second end of a back to back
Speaker 1: for San Antonio. So we really do expect this one
Speaker 1: to remain competitive, and we see a lot of minutes
Speaker 1: and a lot of shots available for Terry Rosier without
Speaker 1: not just DeVante Graham, but Malik Monk as well. So
Speaker 1: his price tag probably should be, you know, one to
Speaker 1: two thousand higher in this scenario, it is not. So
Speaker 1: we're loving the price tag for Terry Rozier tonight, and
Speaker 1: we don't think you'll be having nightmares for the second
Speaker 1: straight time without Graham. I think this game will be
Speaker 1: much better from him. All right, there you have it,
Speaker 1: Terry Rosier the guy you gotta start tonight. And remember
Speaker 1: he got the three point uh contest over Fandual tonight,
Speaker 1: three thirty three thousand dollars on the line, and Frank,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna put on the line on the first time
Speaker 1: in a while because you if you have all nine
Speaker 1: of your players hit it three tonight in this contest
Speaker 1: was cost three dollars and three cents. You gotta share
Speaker 1: its twenty grand insite credit for Fandel kind of cool.
Speaker 1: Oh I'm jumping in, Greggy. Let's make it happy. We'll
Speaker 1: get a few three point shooters out there, maybe even
Speaker 1: some scary Terry. Can I interest you in Terry Rosier? Greg?
Speaker 1: Of course, Ricky Sanders had to get as many nightmare
Speaker 1: puns in as he possibly can while talking about scary Terry.
Speaker 1: Did you notice that, Greig, It's kind of what he
Speaker 1: does and you have to just calling out on it
Speaker 1: because if you don't, like, I'm gonna call Alex Passon
Speaker 1: out on platelet rather than platlet. Uh, they will just
Speaker 1: keep making the mistakes. Alex Pisano, great news update and
Speaker 1: of course the Knicks. Greg, one step forward and two
Speaker 1: steps back. Huge win last night against the Rockets. Now
Speaker 1: we've got some Spike Lee drama. This is ridiculous. The
Speaker 1: Spike Lee drama. Like I try to see bits and
Speaker 1: pieces of it. He he got pissed that he wasn't
Speaker 1: able to go in a certain entrance. Is that what's
Speaker 1: going on? Break? Yeah, apparently that's what's going on. And
Speaker 1: the Knicks released a statement earlier today saying that Spike
Speaker 1: is laughable and he's causing drama because he wants to
Speaker 1: enter through the employee entrance and they have a v
Speaker 1: I P entrance for all of their celebrities and I
Speaker 1: don't know what's going on, Greg, So wait, so it's crazy.
Speaker 1: So from when I was a member of the media,
Speaker 1: there was always an employee slash um employee slash media
Speaker 1: entrance right, and that's where all the celebrities went through.
Speaker 1: And that's where like I was in an elevator with
Speaker 1: like John Stewart right, like he was in that elevator
Speaker 1: with the media and the and the voye the v
Speaker 1: I P entrance, which is I believe for like if
Speaker 1: you're in like boxes and stuff, you could use that
Speaker 1: entrance which is on um like thirty second Street. I
Speaker 1: want to say between some of the eight I'm like
Speaker 1: that things like going through there, those line didn't stop.
Speaker 1: It's happening very strange, very strange, indeed, Greg, But r J.
Speaker 1: Barrett look pretty good last night. But now when he's
Speaker 1: talking about the wind, because I was talking about Spike Lee,
Speaker 1: I'm talking about the wind. Greg, come on, that makes
Speaker 1: meat the Rockets. Let's go Leon Rose undefeated Texas. You
Speaker 1: last night. I saw you on the bus this morning,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, what happened? Like r J. Barrett went
Speaker 1: off like, but so did Westbrook and Hardened. I don't know, man,
Speaker 1: I think they like outrebounded the Rockets by plus twenty.
Speaker 1: They had like a bunch of offensive rebounds. Hey, that's
Speaker 1: what's gonna happen with the buying him in the ass
Speaker 1: of the Yeah, there you go. Before the update, we
Speaker 1: were talking about Chris Sale. I'll get back in my
Speaker 1: situation a moment, but we talked about Chris Sale, who
Speaker 1: now not surprisingly, m are I getting said to Dr
Speaker 1: James Andrews because he has some elbow stortis. Yeah, we
Speaker 1: knew this a month ago where he reported late because
Speaker 1: he had the flu, which hurted into pneumonia, which turned
Speaker 1: too he's not starting this season on time because he
Speaker 1: had pneumonia a month ago. Well, Frank, it looks like
Speaker 1: he's not starting this season on time, not because of pneumonia,
Speaker 1: because his elbow still hurts him. Yeah, and shout out
Speaker 1: to you, Greg, because you were on this from the
Speaker 1: get go. You had him lower than anyone else that
Speaker 1: I saw in terms of starting pitcher ranks. And it
Speaker 1: makes sense, right, I mean, look, you're gonna put this
Speaker 1: guy in the i L a month before the season
Speaker 1: starts because he's dealing with a flu, He's dealing with
Speaker 1: an illness. It just never really made sense. So obviously
Speaker 1: last year visited with Dr James Andrews. Gonna do the
Speaker 1: same thing again. Now getting test on, they're gonna send
Speaker 1: those results over to Dr James Andrews, and we'll see
Speaker 1: what happens with Chris Sale. I asked you this during
Speaker 1: the break up before we started started the show, is
Speaker 1: there anywhere that you would draft Chris Sale right now?
Speaker 1: And you said no, No, I'm not drafting Chris Sale.
Speaker 1: And I think that's the right answer, Greg. The problem
Speaker 1: is if we're drafted, yeah, all the starting pitchers around
Speaker 1: him are gonna get moved up the board like Corby Castillo,
Speaker 1: Paddick more In. Those guys are all gonna become third
Speaker 1: round picks, like solidified third round picks. Listen, if we're
Speaker 1: drafting today, we're drafting tomorrow before we year. Ending from Andrews,
Speaker 1: you're not touching Cristal. You're absolutely not touching Grissell with
Speaker 1: ten foot pole. However, like if you're drafting in three
Speaker 1: weeks from now, and there's a planning in place and
Speaker 1: he could get better, then you draft him if the
Speaker 1: if the number is right, right, if the value is right.
Speaker 1: But Chris Sale, man, he's not gonna be my top
Speaker 1: fifty at this point, Like I probably just x amount.
Speaker 1: I don't want to draft him. I know next week
Speaker 1: we haven't draft next Thursday, he will not be near
Speaker 1: our team Bronna have Gean Carlos Stanton the cristal and
Speaker 1: not saying something. Yeah at least Stanton um. You know
Speaker 1: we think he's gonna be back at some point, right, Aaron, Judge,
Speaker 1: there's a there's a plan. There's no plan of a cryssale. Sure, yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, we're gonna come back. Let's dive into the
Speaker 1: shortstop position, Frankie, from top to bottom, and we gotta
Speaker 1: make sure everybody those with the top three short stops
Speaker 1: are and the sleepers and the bus and you also
Speaker 1: got to make sure that I know what we'll do
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Speaker 1: back here on the bf A scrument and Frank Staff. Well, Frank,
Speaker 1: I've an executive decision that I will take my trade
Speaker 1: talk off the air so we don't waste time instead
Speaker 1: of talking about short stops. Is that cool with you? Oh,
Speaker 1: it's perfectly I'm with me. Greg. It only took you
Speaker 1: about three years to figure out we shouldn't be talking
Speaker 1: about your team. We should rather be helping everyone out
Speaker 1: else draft their team. Greg, Well, you know, I hopeing
Speaker 1: me draft my team also helps with fuel draft their team.
Speaker 1: So whatever. Alright, so yeah, I think so it does.
Speaker 1: Let's begin their short stop pree of you, Frank, and
Speaker 1: let's start at the top where we did this a
Speaker 1: couple of weeks ago. And don't I don't want to
Speaker 1: spend so much time here, but we really narrated down
Speaker 1: to three guys that should be in your top three,
Speaker 1: and those are Francisco Lindor, Trevor Story, and Trade Turner.
Speaker 1: Three first round short stops that are going in the
Speaker 1: you know, kind of six through twelve range. I have
Speaker 1: ordered it Lindoor, Story and Turner. Do you agree I
Speaker 1: have it Lindoor Story, Turner as well. Greg and I
Speaker 1: like trade Turner. The upside of the stolen basis that
Speaker 1: he can provide Greg, but the other guys are going
Speaker 1: to give you a more consistent five category production. They're
Speaker 1: gonna give you more home runs out of Francisco Lindor,
Speaker 1: out of Trevor Story and more r bis as well.
Speaker 1: So I just think that the five category production is
Speaker 1: going to be more consistent across the board from guys
Speaker 1: like Lindor, like a Trevor Story rather than a Trade Turner.
Speaker 1: Trevor Story Um has done something only he and Christian
Speaker 1: Yellich have done each of the past two seasons. Greg,
Speaker 1: and that's hit seventy home runs and steal fifty bases.
Speaker 1: Only Trevor Story and Uh Christian Yellich have done that
Speaker 1: in the past two seasons combined. Obviously, Uh and Lindoor
Speaker 1: last year missed some time with the calf, but it
Speaker 1: didn't matter because it came back and he was still
Speaker 1: running and doing what he always does, and obviously entering
Speaker 1: a contract year for Francisco Lindoor. I still like Trade
Speaker 1: Turner a lot, Greg, but talk about him moving down
Speaker 1: in the order a little bit as well. If he
Speaker 1: moves down to three, Yes, we'll get an uptake in RBIs,
Speaker 1: but we'll lose some run score, will lose some stolen
Speaker 1: bases as well. So because of all those reasons, I
Speaker 1: do have him third of the three. But I will
Speaker 1: also throw this out there, Greg, that Alex Bregman should
Speaker 1: probably in there as a fourth option now. So I
Speaker 1: don't have Alex Bergman at my shortstop rankings. Um, yes,
Speaker 1: Bregman is amazing and he would be fourth for me,
Speaker 1: but because we talked about him so much yesterday at
Speaker 1: third base, I just pulled it out of short stop.
Speaker 1: All right, that's fine. I mean, yeah, I still have
Speaker 1: him in my rankings. I have him fourth at shortstop,
Speaker 1: but if you prefer to put him a base, or
Speaker 1: if that's where you want to use him, or because
Speaker 1: we spoke about him yesterday, I think that makes a
Speaker 1: lot of sense. But I will just throw it out
Speaker 1: there that in most leeks, Alex Bregman does have shortstop
Speaker 1: eligibility and I don't mind using him at that position.
Speaker 1: I would have him fourth of the top four that
Speaker 1: are going in that mid to late first round area.
Speaker 1: Lindoor story trade turner Alex Bregman from me? Greg? Alright,
Speaker 1: So yeah, So we have it. We have the top
Speaker 1: four and I'm totally with you. Um. For me, it's
Speaker 1: lindoor story turner and then Bregmand Those four guys are
Speaker 1: all first round picks. And then you get to Fernando Tatis,
Speaker 1: who was our fifth shortstop for both of us. And
Speaker 1: Tatis is this guy that was amazing last year. We
Speaker 1: spent a lot of time on him over the past
Speaker 1: couple of weeks. Tatis is going where right now, Frank
Speaker 1: and how comp and argue and him bringing MC value.
Speaker 1: So Fernando Tatis right now, over the past week over
Speaker 1: at the NFBC is going at pick sixteen, So in
Speaker 1: the middle of the second round in a twelve team league,
Speaker 1: in the deep fifteen team formats over at the NFBC,
Speaker 1: he is a borderline first round pick going around the wheel. Uh.
Speaker 1: And when it comes to Fernando Tatis what he did
Speaker 1: last year, I understand a lot of people are gonna
Speaker 1: point to the babbitt, but he does make extremely hard contact.
Speaker 1: When he does make contact, the strikeouts are still an issue.
Speaker 1: Twenty nine point six percent strikeout rate from Fernando Tatis
Speaker 1: last year A babbit over four hundred, a four ten
Speaker 1: babbit to be exact, led to a three seventeen batting
Speaker 1: average last year, twenty two home runs and sixteen stolen
Speaker 1: bases in only eighty four games played. Greg, if you
Speaker 1: take Fernando Tatis, you're someone who is willing to take risks.
Speaker 1: Obviously he is a second year player. That means that
Speaker 1: you know, our picture is gonna make adjustments to him.
Speaker 1: Is he going to be able to make adjustments back?
Speaker 1: Is he going to struggle with strikeouts once again this
Speaker 1: upcoming see season. There's a lot of risk involved. I
Speaker 1: think that the floor is potentially a low one for
Speaker 1: Fernando Tatis. But Greg, he's being drafted where he is
Speaker 1: because people see a Ronald a kuna like skill set
Speaker 1: out of him, someone that can hit thirty home runs,
Speaker 1: steal twenty five bases, maybe give you a two seventy
Speaker 1: batting average. I mean, if he cuts down on the strikeouts,
Speaker 1: maybe we're talking about a two eighty hitter similar to
Speaker 1: Ronald Dacunia. So I think people know that the floor
Speaker 1: is a little bit lower in this range than some
Speaker 1: other players, Greg, but they also see that very high ceiling,
Speaker 1: a Ronald A Kunia like ceiling, and it's kind of
Speaker 1: hard to argue against because Tatis has the pedigree. He
Speaker 1: is an incredible athlete. Greg he has speed, he has power,
Speaker 1: he can do it all. It's honestly hard to argue
Speaker 1: with people if they said that Fernando Tatis does have
Speaker 1: Ronald Dacunia type upside. Yeah, I get it, and I
Speaker 1: get that Tatis is um that guy this season here
Speaker 1: going towards the end of the first round in those
Speaker 1: fifteen team leads at number sixteen, or going in the
Speaker 1: middle of the second round in the twel of team leagues.
Speaker 1: I understand the excitement around him. That's why he's at
Speaker 1: number five for me, because he does have that potential.
Speaker 1: It's interesting San Diego lineup. I'm with you here, man
Speaker 1: with Bernando to at number five for us. For he's
Speaker 1: the number four because on Bregman in there. But up
Speaker 1: next Haber bias is Xander Bogarts. I have a Bogards bias. Obviously,
Speaker 1: you're a huge Hobby Bias guy. This year. You've been
Speaker 1: all about him. You like Bogart's too, We just have
Speaker 1: them for the flops. Yeah, I have Hager bias at
Speaker 1: number five at the shortstop position. This is someone who
Speaker 1: was a borderline first round pick last year, Gregg and
Speaker 1: I don't really understand what's happened for him to fall
Speaker 1: into the third, sometimes fourth round of fantasy drafts um
Speaker 1: this season. He's been incredibly consistent the past couple of
Speaker 1: years between a two seventy three and two ninety hitter
Speaker 1: from nineteen. That's a five year sample size where he's
Speaker 1: basically hit between two seventy five and two nineties, so
Speaker 1: you don't have a wide range of outcomes. He's very
Speaker 1: safe for his batting average. He's not, you know, gonna
Speaker 1: be a plus contributor in over three h hitter, but
Speaker 1: he's also not going to hurt your batting average. And
Speaker 1: last year Greg and hund in thirty eight games. Some
Speaker 1: of those games he also played hurt he was dealing
Speaker 1: with a thumb injury. Twenty nine home runs, eighty nine
Speaker 1: runs scored, eighty five ribbies, eleven stolen bases. I just
Speaker 1: don't get it. I mean, if you don't like Javier Bias,
Speaker 1: maybe it's because you play in a points league, if
Speaker 1: you're penalized for strikeouts, or if you play in an
Speaker 1: ob P league. Yes, he is going to be devalued
Speaker 1: in those leagues. Greg And you worry about the plate discipline,
Speaker 1: but I've gotten past that because remember a couple of
Speaker 1: years ago, I tried to doubt Javier Bias because of
Speaker 1: the plate discipline, and he made me look like a
Speaker 1: complete fool. Greg. This is just who he is. He
Speaker 1: swings that pisses out pitches outside the zone. He has
Speaker 1: incredibly quick hands, incredible bat speed as well, Gonna hit
Speaker 1: for power, gonna steal you a few basses, hit in
Speaker 1: the middle of that lineup in the prime of his career.
Speaker 1: I don't know what else you need to ask for
Speaker 1: when it comes to Javier Bias. I think he and
Speaker 1: Manny Machado are the biggest values going in there early
Speaker 1: to mid rounds this season thus far. Yeah, I'm with you, man.
Speaker 1: We always try to find these guys that have the
Speaker 1: ability to be first round picks. Like you said, just
Speaker 1: a moment ago, Frank, Javier bay as Uh last year
Speaker 1: going around the first round and not much has changed.
Speaker 1: But Chado obviously had a bad year. But these are
Speaker 1: the type of players, and we've talked about this a lot,
Speaker 1: both on the on the air and off the air.
Speaker 1: We could start our team javyer Bias, mana Machado. We
Speaker 1: have two guys that don't cost you a first round pick,
Speaker 1: don't cost you a first round value in an auction,
Speaker 1: but does potentially provide you that first round value back.
Speaker 1: It's a strategy that we saw others in the auction
Speaker 1: UH utilized last year and something we want to take
Speaker 1: advantage of this year. Well, Bogarts doesn't probably necessarily fit
Speaker 1: that first round of value that Javier Bias does. Bogart's
Speaker 1: still really solid on his own end. Yeah, Zendra Bogarts
Speaker 1: is incredibly saved. Greg And I've said this before about Boguards.
Speaker 1: He reminds me of Anthony Rendon at the shortstop position.
Speaker 1: You know. I think he's someone that's not necessarily um
Speaker 1: you know, he's not going to excel at any one thing,
Speaker 1: but he's solid just across the board. I think the
Speaker 1: power comes back a little bit for Xander. Bogart's someone
Speaker 1: that might have been helped out by the juice ball
Speaker 1: last year. Wound up hitting thirty three home runs. That
Speaker 1: teems a little high for me. I'd probably project anywhere
Speaker 1: from twenty to thirty. But the batting average has consistently climbed.
Speaker 1: He's gone from two seventy three to two eight eight
Speaker 1: to three oh nine. Each of the past three seasons
Speaker 1: gave you runs and RBI's last year still hitting in
Speaker 1: the middle of a solid lineup. No more mookie bats.
Speaker 1: I get that, but they still have Devors and they
Speaker 1: still have J. D. Martinez and Fenway Park. As much
Speaker 1: as I know, Greg is still a great place to
Speaker 1: hit if you are a right handed hitter as well,
Speaker 1: so especially if you're playing a Points league. I think
Speaker 1: he gets a bump there. In the Points League. I
Speaker 1: would take Bogard's over Javier Bias. He's gonna hit a
Speaker 1: ton of doubles. He started walking more last year, about
Speaker 1: an eleven percent walk. Great for Xander Bogart's doesn't really
Speaker 1: steal many bases as he used to. You know, maybe
Speaker 1: he'll give you a handful of steels again. Greg doesn't
Speaker 1: really hurt you anywhere, just solid across the board. To me,
Speaker 1: Xander Bogart's is the Anthony Rendon of the shortstop position,
Speaker 1: and you actually get him around later than Anthony Rendow.
Speaker 1: It's funny because I liked Anthony Rendon yesterday when we're
Speaker 1: talking about third baseman, and I just love that floor.
Speaker 1: I love knowing what you were going to get. I
Speaker 1: love that comfort factor, and it is different in the
Speaker 1: Points League than it is in Rhodo and Asander Bogart
Speaker 1: certainly fits that build for me and getting him around
Speaker 1: later than Anthony Rendon here in the second or third round.
Speaker 1: I like it. Man Alexander Bogart. I think he's a
Speaker 1: really safe option at short stop position that as you
Speaker 1: mentioned at the top, it's unusually deep. We're both in
Speaker 1: on Bogart's and we're in on Javier Bias. Let's get
Speaker 1: the full streams back up here, guys of our short stops,
Speaker 1: because now we differ a little bit. So I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go with mine. For me, I got Albrotomandacy. I want
Speaker 1: to get into Bobichette, Glaber Torres and then I'll move
Speaker 1: on to the next. Frank, you have a little bit
Speaker 1: differently because you don't have adalbert Zomondacy nearly as high
Speaker 1: as I do. Um let's pull Frank's up here for
Speaker 1: a second, because Frank, he's got adl Brozo Mondesty at
Speaker 1: number nine, So it's a flip fup here. You got
Speaker 1: Gliber up there. I didn't put much Hotto on my
Speaker 1: list that's really difference, and Bobichette way lower for you
Speaker 1: at number thirteen. I've obviously been higher on the Toronto
Speaker 1: guys than you have, but why so low and sht?
Speaker 1: And where do you see Adlbertomondas here? So with Adelbert Toomondacy,
Speaker 1: I have him as my ninth shortstop off the board,
Speaker 1: just behind Labor Torres, Xander Bogart's and Javier Baias, which
Speaker 1: means I'm probably not gonna have any Adelbert Homondacy this
Speaker 1: upcoming season, Greg, because he is somebody who is creeping
Speaker 1: up draft boards right now, starting to creep into that
Speaker 1: two three turn range. Borderline second round pick is Adelbert Homondasey.
Speaker 1: People just fall in love with the speed when it
Speaker 1: comes to Mondessey, and I get that. But last year
Speaker 1: dealt with a major shoulder injury, head surgery in the
Speaker 1: off season, still has not participated in a spring training game.
Speaker 1: From all the reports that I've seen, he's going to
Speaker 1: be good to go for opening Day with the Kansas
Speaker 1: City Royals, but again, he hasn't been able to stay
Speaker 1: healthy in the majors. He's had injuries in the minor
Speaker 1: leagues as well. There's no doubting that if he does
Speaker 1: stay healthy for a hundred and forty let's say a
Speaker 1: hundred and forty plus games, he's probably gonna hit fifteen
Speaker 1: tony home runs and steal you forty five to fifty bases.
Speaker 1: And if he does that, you probably won your Roto
Speaker 1: league if you drafted him in the third round. But
Speaker 1: I think that the floor is also you know, he
Speaker 1: gets injured, he's not running as much. With Mike Matheny
Speaker 1: as the manager, the plate discipline just completely implodes. This
Speaker 1: is somebody who has a career thirty percent strike out rate,
Speaker 1: Greg and a four percent walk. Great. Maybe he's a
Speaker 1: similar player to Xavier Bias where he can maintain that,
Speaker 1: but Bias has a longer history of being able to
Speaker 1: do that than somebody like Mondescy. I understand the speed
Speaker 1: is enticing Greg, but I think that there's also incredible
Speaker 1: risk when it comes to modesty. I love it. You're
Speaker 1: all about speed average runs, and now I have a
Speaker 1: guy right higher, and you know what the speed average runs.
Speaker 1: He doesn't hit average, Gregg. He's a two hit at
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Speaker 1: here on the BFF, Gregmen and Frank Stafle for the Brant.
Speaker 1: Frankie got a little bit of a tussle there in
Speaker 1: regards to out of Romandessey. All I know is for
Speaker 1: weeks you and I have been trying to find speed
Speaker 1: to run out our lineups, and I bring up ad
Speaker 1: Albert Jomondacy. Dude only stole forty three bases last year,
Speaker 1: and I feel like you're out. Well, Greg, you mentioned
Speaker 1: that he's gonna give you batting average. He's a two
Speaker 1: fifty career hitter in the majors and that's across two
Speaker 1: d and forty nine career games. Uh. He has terrible
Speaker 1: plate discipline, doesn't walk, strikes out, and he's an injury risk.
Speaker 1: The one thing I will say, Greg, is yes, I
Speaker 1: want stolen bases, I want runs, I want batting average
Speaker 1: in the early rounds. But if you've noticed, the players
Speaker 1: that I have been off have been players that come
Speaker 1: with significant injury risk, Guys like Aaron Judge, guys like
Speaker 1: John carlos Stein. And now the same thing goes with
Speaker 1: Adlbert Homondacy. Last year, he actually hurt his shoulder sliding
Speaker 1: head first into a base. That's something he's likely going
Speaker 1: to do again this year while he's trying to steal
Speaker 1: bases and make plays happen with his legs. So I
Speaker 1: just I worry about that shoulder injury. I understand that
Speaker 1: he has incredible upside. And I have said this before.
Speaker 1: You know, obviously I'm gonna end up having like eight
Speaker 1: or nine leagues, which is his way too many because
Speaker 1: I'm a madman. But I would like one share of
Speaker 1: edible to Mondessee in case he does go off. But
Speaker 1: outside of that, he's not someone that I am willingly
Speaker 1: target that I need to have on every single one
Speaker 1: of my teams. If I'm calling out who that player
Speaker 1: is at the shortstopposition that players have here biased for me, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I listen. I like bias. I like Bogart's out of
Speaker 1: a Albergo, Monessey's after those guys, And I just thought
Speaker 1: you would say when it came to him versus claiber
Speaker 1: it's more of a roster construction type of thing. Yes,
Speaker 1: Claibor could go off, hit forty bombs, bat to eighty
Speaker 1: uh kind of rb i's and run scored. But those
Speaker 1: those stole basis forty three stole basis and just a
Speaker 1: hundred and two games last year. You we wonder as
Speaker 1: how quick you could get where is Mondes he going?
Speaker 1: I guess that's really the question we gotta ask ourselves,
Speaker 1: right where is he going? Right now? So Mondescy is
Speaker 1: going over the past week at pick thirty five, so
Speaker 1: in the at the end of the third round and
Speaker 1: a tall teamer in the middle of the third round,
Speaker 1: in a fifteen teamer going just ahead of him, Greg,
Speaker 1: we have Ozzy Albi's Austin Meadows, Glabor Torres going just
Speaker 1: behind him, Javier bayaz Um, josel Tove Kettle, Marte, Jonathan VR, Like, like,
Speaker 1: what's the difference between Adam Bertoe Mondescy and Jonathan VR, Greg,
Speaker 1: Jonathan VR is more proven that. Yeah, yeah, that's exactly
Speaker 1: what I was gonna ask you. Johnny VR going behind Mondescy.
Speaker 1: VR is ranked what a couple of spots behind Modesty
Speaker 1: in my rankings, And yeah, he has proven himself. We've
Speaker 1: also seen and the difference is like we've seen the
Speaker 1: bottom for Jonathan VR, and we've seen how inconsistent he
Speaker 1: could get. I think with Modesty, the thought, the feeling
Speaker 1: is that he's still ascending, right, like all of these
Speaker 1: things can improve, but getting VR a little bit later
Speaker 1: kind of in captures that value um and that bottom out.
Speaker 1: VR for me is my number ten third attend shortstop
Speaker 1: all aboard. I didn't keep many of my childs On
Speaker 1: in this list. Alex Bregi was not in this list either.
Speaker 1: Um Jonathan Jonathan the R. I like the R and
Speaker 1: he's in there in south center. Me. Yeah, Look, jon
Speaker 1: and VR is another one where not really a target
Speaker 1: of mine. And I understand Greg, he gives you stolen bases,
Speaker 1: but that's because I've been getting a lot of shares
Speaker 1: of Javier Bayaz, who is you know, going behind Adelberto
Speaker 1: Mondessey into my opinion, is someone who should be closer
Speaker 1: to a borderline second third round pick. So I think
Speaker 1: that there's good value on Javier Bias right now. And
Speaker 1: Jonathan VR. I have one spot behind mind to see. Greg.
Speaker 1: I think you're right. We we've seen the floor for
Speaker 1: Jonathan VR and it involves too many strikeouts, potentially getting benched.
Speaker 1: And I think we have question marks right now with
Speaker 1: Miami right like he's gonna play center fields, something he's
Speaker 1: never done before. Greg, how is Jonathan VR going to
Speaker 1: respond to that? Is he someone that's gonna be shocked
Speaker 1: around the deadline. He's on a one year deal with
Speaker 1: the Miami Marlins. Is he gonna wind up on a
Speaker 1: team where he doesn't play every single day? So I
Speaker 1: think that there are a lot of question marks when
Speaker 1: it comes to Jonathan VR. But it's hard to argue
Speaker 1: with the season he put together last year to seventy
Speaker 1: four home runs, a hundred Levin runs scored for a
Speaker 1: terrible Baltimore Orioles team, Greg, forty stolen bases. I think
Speaker 1: the speed is still gonna be there. Thirty five plus
Speaker 1: deals for for Johnny VR. The power likely comes back
Speaker 1: a little bit going from Camden Yards to Marlins Park, obviously. Uh.
Speaker 1: And I think the runs, there's no way he's replicating
Speaker 1: a hundred and eleven. Maybe he gives you five ninety
Speaker 1: runs scored in that Marlins lineup. But I do think
Speaker 1: that there are some question marks regarding VR with the
Speaker 1: the playing time. I mean, he's probably gonna play, but
Speaker 1: just a new position on the potential to be traded
Speaker 1: maybe halfway through the season. Greg, Yeah, I think those
Speaker 1: are all fair, man. I think Johnny VR is a
Speaker 1: guy that where he's going. We talked a lot about this.
Speaker 1: You don't want Johnathan v art this frist like, you know,
Speaker 1: ideal world. Yeah, you like the stolen basis, You like
Speaker 1: these are gonna be playing every single day. You like
Speaker 1: all of these things. But then you're like, so I
Speaker 1: really want to have Jonathan VR where he's going. No,
Speaker 1: you don't. And that's the problems, right he goes ahead
Speaker 1: of see he's going ahead of Bogus. It's crazy, It's
Speaker 1: it's absolutely crazy. Yeah, yeah, so you can't. I can't
Speaker 1: do it. And that's the thing for modesty and four VR.
Speaker 1: I like the idea of them. I like what they
Speaker 1: will give your team, but there's no way I am
Speaker 1: using the type of resource it requires to draft either
Speaker 1: of those players. Instead, Frank, we need to talk about
Speaker 1: pivoting that two guys. I think you want to pivot too, potentially,
Speaker 1: or Tim Anderson or a man boat Bischette. Maybe I'm
Speaker 1: buying into the Bobichette hype here. I have very very high,
Speaker 1: much higher than you do. But what do you think
Speaker 1: about Tim Anderson? And Yeah, I liked him Anderson a lot.
Speaker 1: I think he is a target of mind going in
Speaker 1: the middle rounds as a short stop if you opt
Speaker 1: to wait until that, you know, six seventh round range.
Speaker 1: Tim Anderson just entering his prime, twenty six years old. Greg,
Speaker 1: and you want to talk about batting average and soulen basis,
Speaker 1: that's exactly what Tim Anderson is going to give you,
Speaker 1: and he's not going nearly as high as some of
Speaker 1: these other players that we're talking about. You see the
Speaker 1: projections at the bottom of the screen, you know, they
Speaker 1: haven't projected for two seventies six batting average, which in
Speaker 1: my opinion, Greg is a little bit pessimistic. Last year
Speaker 1: he had three thirty five. I understand it was on
Speaker 1: the back of a three babbit, But Tim Anderson is
Speaker 1: someone who makes a ton of contact, Greg. He doesn't
Speaker 1: strike out all that much, um and last year he
Speaker 1: became a better hitter all around, starting using the entire
Speaker 1: field more, started hitting the ball at the center field
Speaker 1: more often, started hitting the ball to the opposite field
Speaker 1: more often. Tim Anderson, frankly, is just becoming a better player.
Speaker 1: He is progressing. Not someone who's going to walk. He's
Speaker 1: a lot like Javier Bias where he doesn't take walks.
Speaker 1: He's in a very very aggressive swinger as well. But
Speaker 1: I would project him for you know, a two eight
Speaker 1: d plus batting average, potentially a twenty home runs and
Speaker 1: twenty stolen bases. And normally whenever we talk about players
Speaker 1: like that, Greg, those guys are going in the second
Speaker 1: third round range, because they're gonna give you home runs
Speaker 1: and they're gonna give you steals. Last year eighteen home
Speaker 1: runs and seventeen stolen bases in only a hundred and
Speaker 1: twenty three games. The year before, in a hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty three games, twenty home runs and went the six
Speaker 1: steals for Tim Anderson. So I actually have him ranked
Speaker 1: one spot ahead of Bobashette. I understand Bobashette has more
Speaker 1: prospect pedigree and potentially more upside just all around than
Speaker 1: Tim Anderson. But Anderson has been doing this for a
Speaker 1: while now, Greg, I mean, we know he's gonna give
Speaker 1: give you home runs and stolen bases. Bobachette last year
Speaker 1: four steals, four caught stealing. What happens if they put
Speaker 1: up the red light at some point. I like what
Speaker 1: I saw at a Bobachette last year. I think that
Speaker 1: there is some power in that bat could hit for
Speaker 1: some batting average as well. But I think that there
Speaker 1: is a downside to Boba Schette that people are not
Speaker 1: really baking into his price right now where he's going
Speaker 1: as like a fifth round pick. He's actually consistently going
Speaker 1: ahead of Tim Anderson, and that's something I can't really
Speaker 1: get behind. I like both of these guys. As you said,
Speaker 1: Tim Manderson has been doing. He's twenty six, he's in
Speaker 1: the prime of his career. But then essention for Bobichette, Yeah,
Speaker 1: the floor is going to be lower, but I do
Speaker 1: think that upside is going to be higher. You look
Speaker 1: at the chett Man he had fifteen still Bason in
Speaker 1: Triple A last year in just fifty six game. You
Speaker 1: extravelate that to the major leagues, you're gonna get you're
Speaker 1: a very good shot of having at least player here.
Speaker 1: I know what Tim Anderson did, I know how good
Speaker 1: he hasn't know. The average for Tim Manderson was awesome
Speaker 1: last year. You can definitely say that, why draft Bobichette
Speaker 1: earlier when you can get the same numbers potentially for
Speaker 1: Tim Anderson Anderson safer. I think the upside the ceiling
Speaker 1: Brouchette is probably higher. And I don't want to be
Speaker 1: you here, Frank, but doesn't it kind of depend on
Speaker 1: what you're looking for. You want the higher upside guy,
Speaker 1: you go with Bichette, you want to be a little
Speaker 1: bit safety. Draft to Manderson, I see you're saying grey.
Speaker 1: But what if I told you the ADP the price
Speaker 1: difference was thirty spots in a DP right now with
Speaker 1: Bobichette going to pick sixty two and Tim Anderson going
Speaker 1: to pick nine five. If you can get Tim Anderson
Speaker 1: thirty picks later, you're telling me you're not gonna be
Speaker 1: interested in that. Great, There's no question. If you told
Speaker 1: me they were going back to back, I would say it.
Speaker 1: But thirty picks later, that's two rounds uh. In the
Speaker 1: NFBC A fifteen team leagues, we're talking almost three round
Speaker 1: in your standard draft. Yes, one thousand percent. I'll go
Speaker 1: with you Anderson there. Let me move on, Frank to
Speaker 1: a guy that we're used to seeing much earlier on
Speaker 1: the list, and that's Carlos Correa, a guy that you
Speaker 1: swore off of last year. You were right. Where do
Speaker 1: you have him here this year? I have him as
Speaker 1: my fifteen ranked shortstop, and I have a tear greg
Speaker 1: from eleven to fifteen as some middle round shortstop options.
Speaker 1: And that's here includes Manny Machado. We spoke about him
Speaker 1: a lot yesterday on our Third Base preview. Manny Machado,
Speaker 1: Tim Anderson, Bobachette, Marcus Simon and Carlos Correa. And I
Speaker 1: understand that one of these years, Carlos Correa is probably
Speaker 1: going to burn me, Greg, But until then, I'm going
Speaker 1: to continue to rank Carlos Korea lower than everybody else
Speaker 1: because the guy just cannot stay healthy. He is a
Speaker 1: lot like Aaron Judge and Stanton. He is a phenomenal athlete.
Speaker 1: He is very strong, but he has dealt with a
Speaker 1: lot of injuries to his core, Greg, from the back,
Speaker 1: the oblique, the neck. Last year he heard himself getting
Speaker 1: a quote unquote massage he landed on the I last year,
Speaker 1: seventy five games in a hundred and ten games, in
Speaker 1: a hundred and nine games in the guy cannot stay healthy. Yes,
Speaker 1: he hits the ball extremely hard. The stat CAS data
Speaker 1: is enticing. I understand all that twenty one home runs
Speaker 1: last year in only seventy five games. If the guy
Speaker 1: could stay healthy, he's probably going to hit you close
Speaker 1: to forty home runs and have a Glabor Torres type season.
Speaker 1: But until I see that again and his ability to
Speaker 1: stay healthy, Greg, then I am going to continue to
Speaker 1: rank Carlos Correa lower than everybody else because, frankly, I
Speaker 1: just don't trust his health. It's interesting. I'm right there
Speaker 1: with you with Carlos Correa, Frankie, because he hasn't played
Speaker 1: a full season since seen that's a long time ago
Speaker 1: at this point, and I have career ranked here, which
Speaker 1: I guess is lower than everybody else. But this tier
Speaker 1: of guys, for me, I don't even think it's just
Speaker 1: elemit of fifteen. When you go with like Carlos Correa,
Speaker 1: Marcus Simeon Kettle, Marte Corey seeger Ry blog, I'm Thesuria
Speaker 1: Ellis Andrews like that. This that like second column on
Speaker 1: this list on your screens. I like all of these guys.
Speaker 1: Like shortstop is really deep this year. And I really
Speaker 1: like almost all these guys inside the top twenty. Like
Speaker 1: we do this a lot of the players that hey
Speaker 1: we have to rank them here, we don't really want
Speaker 1: them for the most part on this list, frank I
Speaker 1: like all of them. Yeah, I'm with you, Gregor, and
Speaker 1: that's why the shortstop position is deeper this year than
Speaker 1: ever before. I'm Corey seeger is someone who has incredible offside.
Speaker 1: Former top prospect in baseball. We've spoken about him a lot.
Speaker 1: At Rosario, a former top prospect with the New York Mets.
Speaker 1: You want someone that could give you a little bit
Speaker 1: of pop, some speed. I think Rosario fits that mold
Speaker 1: as well. It seems like people are forgetting about names
Speaker 1: like Jean Sigura and Elvis Andrews because they're a little
Speaker 1: bit older. And we come back, we'll talk a little
Speaker 1: bit more about those players. But you're right, Greg, this
Speaker 1: position goes about twenty players deep where I wouldn't really
Speaker 1: mind getting any of those guys in my storting shortstop
Speaker 1: or maybe even targeting them as the middle infielder in
Speaker 1: deeper dress. Yeah, I'm in on them for sure. Man.
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Speaker 1: up or shortstop preview here today, let's take to the
Speaker 1: second half. You mentioned Corey Seeger, Uh. You mentioned guys
Speaker 1: like Gregorious, Jean Siagura, even on med Rosario. I think
Speaker 1: it's a really nice value here this season, and you
Speaker 1: talked about which guys you want shortstop and who you
Speaker 1: made me target as a middle infielder. Why don't you
Speaker 1: bring that down for us. Who do you want and
Speaker 1: accept that you're starting shortstop and who would you much
Speaker 1: prefer to have as a middle infielder. So I don't
Speaker 1: really mind any of these guys as a starting shortstop again,
Speaker 1: going twenty deep, Elvis Andrews, Jean Siagura, met Rosario, Jorge Polanco,
Speaker 1: Corey Seeger. I actually have a few leagues where deeper
Speaker 1: formats fifteen team leagues where I already have Jean Siagura
Speaker 1: and Elvis Andrews as my starting shortstops. So I don't
Speaker 1: really mind any of those guys, but I'll just start
Speaker 1: off with Corey Seeger as someone who I am targeting here,
Speaker 1: and we spoke about him in the past. Greig last
Speaker 1: year in the off season coming off elbow hip surgeries,
Speaker 1: got off to a really slow start in April last year,
Speaker 1: where he hit two thirty six with only two home
Speaker 1: runs a thirty seven percent hard contact rate. From May
Speaker 1: one on last year, he had to eighty two home
Speaker 1: runs a forty three point six percent hard contact And
Speaker 1: if he does that over the course of a hundred
Speaker 1: forty a hundred and fifty games, then we're probably looking at,
Speaker 1: you know, a two eighty hitter plus home runs, hitting
Speaker 1: in a really good Dodgers line up, where the runs
Speaker 1: and r BIS, the county stats are going to be there.
Speaker 1: He's not gonna give you anything in terms of stolen bases, Greg.
Speaker 1: So this is the point of the draft where you
Speaker 1: really have to look at what you need. And if
Speaker 1: what you need is a good batting average, and you
Speaker 1: need a little bit of pop and you need some
Speaker 1: runs and RBIs, then Corey Seeger is your guy, and
Speaker 1: if you need some stolen bases, then perhaps you're looking
Speaker 1: in a different direction someone like Rosario, Jean Sigura, and
Speaker 1: Elvis Andrews. I do have Rosario ranked the highest of
Speaker 1: those three just because he's the youngest, if we're being honest, right,
Speaker 1: like Elvis Andrews a little bit older, past thirty years old,
Speaker 1: still still thirty bases last year. I don't know that
Speaker 1: he's gonna come close to doing that once again. Probably,
Speaker 1: you know, I think a fair projection for Andrews ten
Speaker 1: to twelve home runs, twenty stolen bases. Uh. Jean Sigura
Speaker 1: I think could be a fifteen fifteen player, good ballparks,
Speaker 1: still really good line up with the Phillies. Greg, I
Speaker 1: meta Rosario, he's gonna give you steals. The problem is, Greg,
Speaker 1: he plays for the Mets. And I'm not trying to
Speaker 1: be funny, and I'm not trying to just like, you know,
Speaker 1: poke holes here for the sake of it. But it's
Speaker 1: when it comes to a meta Rosario, he's gonna bat
Speaker 1: near the bottom of that lineup, and throughout straping he
Speaker 1: has been batting leadoff a lot. But I just think
Speaker 1: if Jeff McNeil and Brandon Nimo are healthy, that the
Speaker 1: Mets want those two guys at the top of the
Speaker 1: lineup because they are better O b P bets uh,
Speaker 1: and they're going to get on base. In a meta
Speaker 1: Rosario's major league career, he has a four point four
Speaker 1: percent walk creed and a three oh five O b P. Yes,
Speaker 1: the batting average is very good, but he's someone who
Speaker 1: doesn't get on base very much. And if we're talking
Speaker 1: about the steals when it comes to Rosario, Greg, I
Speaker 1: get that he had nineteen last year and he really
Speaker 1: improved in the second half, but he had ten caught
Speaker 1: stealing inten he had eleven caught stealing in two thousand
Speaker 1: and eighteen. Greg, what happens if this guy keeps running
Speaker 1: into outs and they just tell him to stop running,
Speaker 1: then what is he gonna give you? What is the
Speaker 1: med Rosario's value? Then? So he is someone that I
Speaker 1: do worry about potentially getting the red light at some
Speaker 1: point because he just gets caught stealing too much. Greg, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's way too much. Man, ten ten times two years
Speaker 1: ago or ten it was last year, eleven times two
Speaker 1: years ago. It's simply way too much to get caught
Speaker 1: stealing but factly, twenty four steals two years ago and
Speaker 1: got caught eleven times. Eighteen he got caught ten times.
Speaker 1: That's wild, and he just converts some of those into
Speaker 1: actual soul in bases, you're getting the guy that has
Speaker 1: thirty steals, which is obviously tough to come by. I
Speaker 1: am fine with him as my middle endfielder. I don't
Speaker 1: want him as my story short Stoff Cory Seger. You
Speaker 1: mentioned all the reasons why we think he could he
Speaker 1: could bounce back this season as he's some money healthy.
Speaker 1: Diego Greus is a weird one for me out there
Speaker 1: in Philadelphia because like he's like nobody likes him, right.
Speaker 1: They moved him all around the dime and they want
Speaker 1: Scott carry in Uh or Jeane Sigurrett rather with the
Speaker 1: Philadelphia With the Philadelphia Phillies, They've moved him all around
Speaker 1: the diamond. And I'm just so confused by this Phillies
Speaker 1: infield king Gary Sigura and Ded Like, I don't know
Speaker 1: if I should want all of them not want all
Speaker 1: of them. And they're all gonna play every day. Who's
Speaker 1: gonna be the most valuable, Who's hitting at the top
Speaker 1: of the lineup? Can you help me out well, Gre,
Speaker 1: I do think that Scott Kingery. I think all three
Speaker 1: of them are going to play quite regularly for the
Speaker 1: Phillies this upcoming season. Greg and Scott Kingery likely gonna
Speaker 1: play second. They have d D at shortstop. They have
Speaker 1: Jeane Scura slated to play third base right now, but
Speaker 1: it is worth mentioning that they have a top prospect
Speaker 1: with the name of Alec Bomb who is getting closer
Speaker 1: and closer, and they really really like this rank. We're
Speaker 1: not on an airplane right now, Greg, we are on
Speaker 1: the air waves, but Alec Bomb is someone who they
Speaker 1: do like. Yeah, yeah, I got it, I got it, Greg.
Speaker 1: But Alec Bomb is someone they like. So if he
Speaker 1: comes up, then I think that's when we start to
Speaker 1: have some issues with playing time for these guys. But
Speaker 1: at least for the first couple of months, I think
Speaker 1: that everyone's pretty safe. The problem with d D Greg
Speaker 1: is I want to like him, but he doesn't really
Speaker 1: excel in the areas that you need him to. Except
Speaker 1: it right, like, he's gonna hit twenty five home runs,
Speaker 1: which is fine, and you know he gives you some
Speaker 1: out of position power at the shortstop position, but he's
Speaker 1: probably gonna hit to fifty to sixty, not gonna give
Speaker 1: give you any stolen basis. And you know this is
Speaker 1: something I've said in the past, right, I do like
Speaker 1: to get some steals out of my shortstop, out of
Speaker 1: my middle infield position. Uh, and guys like Elvis Andrews
Speaker 1: and Jean Sigura are going to do just that. While D. D.
Speaker 1: Gregorious is fine, he just doesn't really contribute where you
Speaker 1: need to need him to contribute. Graig No, he doesn't, Gregorious.
Speaker 1: We've talked a lot about the categories that you were
Speaker 1: looking for from your shortstop. Grigorious does not exactly give
Speaker 1: you what you need. We got about six minutes left.
Speaker 1: Let's get to our sleeper shortstops that we like this year,
Speaker 1: and we begin Frankie with our guy. Can't say bowing
Speaker 1: an airplane, but you can't say come home. Carter Kiboon,
Speaker 1: he's back with the Washington Nationals. Could have a starting
Speaker 1: role Elier this year. He's like going let us down
Speaker 1: two years. Al all right, well, I hope not, greg
Speaker 1: After I spent all of my fat budget last year
Speaker 1: in the NFBC main event on Carter Key Boom fat,
Speaker 1: we both did it. We were all in on Key Boom. Yeah,
Speaker 1: keep Boom went our fat budget last year. Greg, it
Speaker 1: did not work out very well. Uh, look, keep Boom
Speaker 1: another one where he's not really gonna give you any
Speaker 1: stolen basis, but could potentially give you batting average. Greg
Speaker 1: a career to eighties seven hitter in the minors with
Speaker 1: an eight o ps. Uh, someone that could provide you
Speaker 1: some power. There have been some whispers, some comparisons, uh,
Speaker 1: comparing Carter key Boom too in Anthony Rendon within the organization.
Speaker 1: I don't know that he has that type of upside,
Speaker 1: and he still needs to get better as a fielder, Greg,
Speaker 1: because if he continues to commit errors, then he's gonna
Speaker 1: find himself on the bench once again. That is Carter
Speaker 1: key Boom. Uh. He's likely going to play third base
Speaker 1: for the Washington National so he'll have third base eligibility
Speaker 1: and short stop there. Greg. The two names that I'm
Speaker 1: looking at, we wanted them to be a thing for
Speaker 1: a while. That is Dan's by Swanson and Willie adamas
Speaker 1: Dance by Swanson. Last year, Greg in eighty five games
Speaker 1: in the first three months of the season. Through June,
Speaker 1: he was hitting two sixty nine with an eight fifteen ops,
Speaker 1: fifteen home runs, and seven stolen bases. That was that
Speaker 1: about the midpoint of the season, so that would have
Speaker 1: put him on pace for thirty home runs fifteen stolen bases.
Speaker 1: He wound up hurting his foot, and over the next
Speaker 1: forty two games. The final forty two games that he played,
Speaker 1: Greg he hit to thirteen with a six eleven o
Speaker 1: p s. I do think a lot of that was
Speaker 1: attributed to him getting hurt and potentially playing through some injury. Obviously,
Speaker 1: wouldn't project him to thirty home runs with fifteen stolen bases, Greg,
Speaker 1: But let's not forget the pedigree that Dan's by Swanson has.
Speaker 1: I don't think it's he is someone that, if everything
Speaker 1: breaks right, can hit two sixty give you twenty home runs,
Speaker 1: maybe ten stolen bases. Obviously in a really good lineup
Speaker 1: with the Atlanta Braves, UH and then William Domains. Last year,
Speaker 1: Greg got off to a slow start from May one
Speaker 1: on hit two six five with nineteen home runs, fifty
Speaker 1: six runs scored, forty eight ribbies, and three stolen bases.
Speaker 1: So kind of gives you a little bit of a
Speaker 1: D D. Gregorious five, except you're getting him way literate
Speaker 1: later than Deeed Gregorious. If that's someone that you want
Speaker 1: to target as your middle infielder, greg Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: that Carter Key, Boom, Gansby, Swansing, William Damas. All of
Speaker 1: these players have that sleeper pedigree, have that early round
Speaker 1: pick pedigree of former or current top prospects. I think
Speaker 1: all makes sense as middle infielders as late round picks.
Speaker 1: I also want to throw in our guy who are
Speaker 1: in Mateo now of the A's out of options, You're
Speaker 1: putting this out to me a lot. He's in the
Speaker 1: mix with Franklin Bruno at the second base position for
Speaker 1: the A's. Moteto has got some speed as well. He
Speaker 1: cost you nothing, So if you were looking for a
Speaker 1: middle infielder or Mateo with the Oakland A's could make
Speaker 1: some sense. All good with that. Yeah, I like Jorgey Mateo,
Speaker 1: greg He's probably more of a reserve round of roster
Speaker 1: player where you know you take him in a deeper
Speaker 1: league and you just kind of stash him for now.
Speaker 1: He is out of options again with the Oakland A's.
Speaker 1: Is it gonna be him? Is it gonna be Burretto?
Speaker 1: Maybe they play Tony Kemp at second base. There's a
Speaker 1: lot up in the air with the Oakland A's right now.
Speaker 1: I kind of wish that they would just d f
Speaker 1: a him, Greg and give him the opportunity to latch
Speaker 1: on with like the Detroit Tigers, where he'll just play
Speaker 1: every single day and probably give you like twenty five
Speaker 1: stolen bases. That would be awesome. I think that is
Speaker 1: within the range of outcomes last year. Or Hey, Mateo
Speaker 1: in the minors hit two eight nine with nineteen home
Speaker 1: runs and twenty four steals. That's a valuable player. I
Speaker 1: get it, it's in the minor leagues. He hasn't done
Speaker 1: that at the major league level yet, Greig, But I
Speaker 1: think if you just gave this kid a shot somewhere,
Speaker 1: he'll probably hit you like to fifty with twenty stolen bases,
Speaker 1: which would be valuable in a deeper league. Al Right,
Speaker 1: should we play rocket short stops? I'll name a couple
Speaker 1: of you. Just give me a quick thought here the
Speaker 1: last minute and a half. Let's go all right, let's
Speaker 1: play Jory Polanco. Y Polanco is somebody that I don't
Speaker 1: mind as a back end shortstop or middle endfielder going
Speaker 1: to give you a all ad batting average and runs scored.
Speaker 1: For sure, hitting a top one of the best lineups
Speaker 1: in the league with the Minnesota Twins, but outside of
Speaker 1: batting average and runs, not really going to contribute much else.
Speaker 1: Graig Luisaias. Luisa Rias is someone that I am interested
Speaker 1: in and I have grabbed in a few Draft champions
Speaker 1: so far. Former top prospect with the San Diego Padres,
Speaker 1: now with with the Milwaukee Brewers, broke his hammate bone,
Speaker 1: but is taking batting practice this week. Should expect him
Speaker 1: back earlier on in the season. I think if everything
Speaker 1: goes all right with him, he's someone that can help
Speaker 1: you in the batting average department. Finally, Paul de Young,
Speaker 1: hold the young man. How do we go this whole
Speaker 1: show without talking about Paul de Young. He's having a
Speaker 1: torrid spring right now, greg hitting. He already has three
Speaker 1: home runs, uh, and he's gonna give you power. He's
Speaker 1: a lot like add Gregorious, except I think he give
Speaker 1: you even more power than a DD right. He give
Speaker 1: you like thirty home runs and he started running last
Speaker 1: year too, had a terrible slump in the second half
Speaker 1: of the season, but if he rectifies that, I do
Speaker 1: think he's someone that can have a breakout ish season
Speaker 1: this year. Greg, tomorrow we move on to the second basement,
Speaker 1: stick around for that. Next it's for rall coast to
Speaker 1: coast here at the Metal Lands. He s Frank Staffle,
Speaker 1: I'm Greg Souceman. We'll do it all going tomorrow. We
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