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Speaker 1: I am Greg, So what's going on? Reggy? Happy hump
Speaker 1: day here on a Wednesday, February continue talking about outfielders today.
Speaker 1: Should be a lot of fun, lot of hyped up
Speaker 1: guys that we need to get to and whether or
Speaker 1: not the hype should be real? Should it be in
Speaker 1: this range? How do you attack these these tears of outfielders?
Speaker 1: When do you draft him? So on and so forth.
Speaker 1: But before all that, Greg, how did you sleep last night? Bud?
Speaker 1: So great? It's great. This guy, No problems sleeping, It
Speaker 1: was sus smeicster usually black night, Frank, has that ever
Speaker 1: been a thing? A su smeister? How did I sleep
Speaker 1: last night? Actually? Not too bad, not too bad? Better
Speaker 1: than that? Did you having a while? It was? It
Speaker 1: was better, It was better than usual. How do you feel?
Speaker 1: How do you feel? Lay? Do you feel like? Feel right? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I feel I feel right. I feel yeah, energized up,
Speaker 1: I'm good to go. Kna is out of town next
Speaker 1: two nights. A lot of gears no, no, A lot
Speaker 1: of a lot of starting pictures, studying. That's that's what
Speaker 1: you got coming up here, all right. So I am, um,
Speaker 1: I'm engrossed in many things to day. Anything I know,
Speaker 1: I mean, just you know, I walk in. Greg is
Speaker 1: just in his corner. He's doing his thing. He's not
Speaker 1: talking to anybody. Usually a little bit more social, very
Speaker 1: antisocial Greg today. So he's working on a lite. He's
Speaker 1: got a lot on his mind. We got we go on.
Speaker 1: We got a lot to go down the network. A
Speaker 1: lot of a lot of planned stuff coming up down
Speaker 1: the pipeline, which is awesome. Um, working with my blue
Speaker 1: trying to plan some draft stuff. But I'm also speaking
Speaker 1: of football. Uh, Dave Gentleman and Pat Sherman, we're speaking
Speaker 1: at the Combine today. We're gonna actually do as I
Speaker 1: said yesterday, Combine show with Venture and Jim Day tomorrow
Speaker 1: for the second hour. Jim Day trying to learn how
Speaker 1: to play Fortnite needs needs Chris Venture's help, So please
Speaker 1: please get an update on that tomorrow. Yes, you know,
Speaker 1: you'll talk about the Combine, get everything down, but I
Speaker 1: want to know about Jim Day's Fortnite career and how
Speaker 1: Back's coming along as well. Sure, I'll ask him. He
Speaker 1: basically so that Pat Shermer basically came out and said, hey,
Speaker 1: we want Eli Manning back like he's pretty good. I'm
Speaker 1: just like, what the hell is going on? And then
Speaker 1: Dave Gentleman came out and I was like, yeah, I
Speaker 1: don't know yet. That's kind of interesting. Yeah, we get
Speaker 1: draft somebody, we can sign somebody. I don't know. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's kind of interesting. That's that's what Giants seven engrossed
Speaker 1: in that. There's also a testimony going on that that
Speaker 1: I've been paying attention to as well. I did see
Speaker 1: that you were watching that first thing when I walked
Speaker 1: in today. You did, did you see that some kind
Speaker 1: of political thing I thought I saw in your laptop. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the the former lawyer for President Trump is testifying at
Speaker 1: Congress today. I sorry, I expect you to have the input.
Speaker 1: I was just I'm just letting you know what. Somebody
Speaker 1: in Congress evidently just said the words liar, liar, pants
Speaker 1: on fire. So things seemed to be going great. That's
Speaker 1: where that's where our government is today, where people are
Speaker 1: saying liar, liar, that's on fire amazingly. All right, So
Speaker 1: on the show today, very exciting. We're going to go
Speaker 1: back into the out fielders where we were yesterday. Frankie.
Speaker 1: We got through a bunch yesterday, which I feel good about.
Speaker 1: We have through almost twenty. We have their nineteen out fielders.
Speaker 1: Pretty good for us. That's pretty over two hours, it's
Speaker 1: pretty good. Almost ten an hour, so that's pretty good.
Speaker 1: So hopefully we'll get to like another twenty today before
Speaker 1: you go. Frank is off tomorrow. So for the first hour,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna wrap up outfielders with Venture. He doesn't know
Speaker 1: that yet, but then our number two Venture and Jim
Speaker 1: Day will join me to talk fantasy football from the combine.
Speaker 1: What we're learning things like the Eli Manning UM press
Speaker 1: conference that we just heard about. Uh, where certain prospects
Speaker 1: you can end up. We can try to work in
Speaker 1: some guests for that as well, So we'll see if
Speaker 1: I can make that happen. But when it comes to outfielders, Frank,
Speaker 1: I want to with like guy just see a lot
Speaker 1: of hype this year if you don't mind the guy
Speaker 1: that you said came off the board pretty early in
Speaker 1: your UM Great Fantasy Baseball Invitational and someone that obviously
Speaker 1: just a couple of months ago I was very out
Speaker 1: on and I want to see if you can get
Speaker 1: me in on him. And that's y'r c l Pueak,
Speaker 1: starting outfield with the Cincinnati's in a contract year. He's
Speaker 1: going off the board right now over the last two
Speaker 1: weeks or so any n FBC at around pick seventy
Speaker 1: round Pick seventy in the NFBC over the last two
Speaker 1: weeks or so, that's right around the guys we ended
Speaker 1: with yesterday, the Lorenzo Kane, George Springer, and Tommy Fham.
Speaker 1: And then right before guys like David Doald, Marcel Ozuna,
Speaker 1: Nick Castianos, Mitchi Hannager, and Eddie Rosario. Right spot, Frank,
Speaker 1: and what do you think of y'all? C L. Peak.
Speaker 1: I don't have a problem with where he's going. I've
Speaker 1: seen him go a lot of fifth round range in
Speaker 1: fifteen team leagues. But I do think, you know, fifth
Speaker 1: six round even if you're playing a twelve team or
Speaker 1: makes a lot of sense. There's a lot of upside
Speaker 1: here with ya. C L. Pleeak. I agree that there's
Speaker 1: also some downside because of you know, he's kind of
Speaker 1: he's a personality. You know, he's he's had some you know,
Speaker 1: disciplinary issues over the past couple years with the Dodgers.
Speaker 1: I believe there was a quote that came out the
Speaker 1: past couple of days that you know, Week said, you know,
Speaker 1: I was never really trying when I was in Los Angeles,
Speaker 1: So you always have to worry about that aspect when
Speaker 1: it comes to Peek. But I if he is trying,
Speaker 1: if he is motivated, you got yourself a hell of
Speaker 1: a ballplayer here in YAC Peak and when to Cincinnati,
Speaker 1: it's a better ballpark then Los Angeles. I mean, there's
Speaker 1: no doubt about that. Pretty damn good lineup here with
Speaker 1: the Reds from Joey Vado and Scooter Jeannette and and
Speaker 1: Jesse Winker and all these other guys that were getting
Speaker 1: excited about a U. Henio Suarez y Peg is one
Speaker 1: of these guys in the middle rounds where he doesn't
Speaker 1: really hurt you anywhere. Greg, you know, he's gonna hit
Speaker 1: thirty home runs. I think he has the upside to
Speaker 1: hit thirty plus home runs this year in that ballpark.
Speaker 1: And if he does that in that lineup, which if
Speaker 1: he's in the middle of that lineup, we're looking at
Speaker 1: good counting steps. I mean, eighty five nine r b
Speaker 1: I s a pretty solid run scored as well, and
Speaker 1: he's not a zero on the base pats either. He's
Speaker 1: gonna give you twelve to fifteen stolen bases. I think
Speaker 1: the upside for Puig is, you know, to eighty thirty
Speaker 1: plus home runs, good counting stats, fifteen stolen bases. What's
Speaker 1: not's not? Like I think too, I think I think
Speaker 1: the upside could be even I think it'd be higher
Speaker 1: than that, Greg, Like, I think there's another level that
Speaker 1: hasn't been reached yet with that we haven't really seen
Speaker 1: since like his first second year when when he kind
Speaker 1: of like took the league by storm. I think two
Speaker 1: eighties probably not realistic. He had just batted over two
Speaker 1: eighties fourteen. That was five years ago already, Frankie, So
Speaker 1: I don't I don't know if two eighties realistic to me.
Speaker 1: Over the last three years to sixty three to sixty
Speaker 1: three to sixty seven, that's pretty indicative. Like that hitter,
Speaker 1: he is seventy career hitter. That is because you've had
Speaker 1: a three nineteen first two years after that it was
Speaker 1: all downhill. Yeah, but that's what that's what his upside is.
Speaker 1: That's that's where his talent level could be hadn't motivated
Speaker 1: over the past couple of years. And you have to
Speaker 1: think about it like this. You kind of a lot
Speaker 1: of back and forth between him and the Dodgers, like
Speaker 1: they wouldn't play him every day. You know, they were
Speaker 1: trying to send him messages by disciplining him and you know,
Speaker 1: not putting him in the lineup every day. He's going
Speaker 1: to play every day for the Reds. You're kind of
Speaker 1: given me the narrative that we've but like, I feel
Speaker 1: like what you're doing a little bit, frank is the
Speaker 1: narrative who we always here around Yeastale Peak and there's
Speaker 1: motivator's not motivated. He's playing for this, he's playing for that.
Speaker 1: He said, had all this playing time this year, just
Speaker 1: like you didn't get it last year. Na. We've heard
Speaker 1: this a lot when it comes to Peak with the Dodgers.
Speaker 1: Will it change with a change of scenery perhaps, or
Speaker 1: will it all be a debacle perhaps. I don't think
Speaker 1: there's any sort of guarantee. I could say this to
Speaker 1: you if the Reds. No guarantee with anyone, no doubt.
Speaker 1: But if the Reds are Reds are competing this year
Speaker 1: or trying to compete, if they fall out of contention,
Speaker 1: Peak is a prime trade candidate for somebody in the outfield,
Speaker 1: no doubt about that. If as here, I mean there's
Speaker 1: a lot of but everybody in this in this tip.
Speaker 1: I actually think that the Reds are going to be
Speaker 1: pretty good. I think that they're going to be close
Speaker 1: to a team. So you think even over that's a
Speaker 1: significantly better than his then he put a hundred two games,
Speaker 1: homer seventy seventy and fift last year games. He almost
Speaker 1: matched that. I think he has the upside to be
Speaker 1: better than that. I do. I do think that the
Speaker 1: talent is there. You know. I think again, thirty home runs,
Speaker 1: he could be eight and both at least if he's
Speaker 1: batting fift in the Red's lineup, Gregg, look at this lineup.
Speaker 1: If he's hitting right behind Votto, Suarez, Janette, which is
Speaker 1: what roster resource has right now, or even if it's
Speaker 1: kind of even if it's Janette too and Votto three
Speaker 1: and Suarez four, he's hitting between three really good players
Speaker 1: and Jesse Winker if he leaves off, even if it's
Speaker 1: not him, if it's Jose Pros, this is a great
Speaker 1: lineup and it's a lot better ballpark then playing out
Speaker 1: there in Los Angeles, and if he's motivated, I believe
Speaker 1: this is a contract year from two. It is. That's
Speaker 1: why I say he's a prime train cadet, because a
Speaker 1: contract year. Well, even if he gets traded somewhere, he's
Speaker 1: gonna be an everyday player maybe, but I don't think
Speaker 1: he's gonna getraded again. I think that. I think the
Speaker 1: Reds are gonna I think they're gonna take a step
Speaker 1: up this year and they're gonna be better. I know
Speaker 1: you've said a lot about that. The Reds in general
Speaker 1: are are going for it. I don't know that they
Speaker 1: have the pitching to get it done. Obviously, Alex Woodsonny
Speaker 1: Gray are now there. Um, But the outfield, and we've
Speaker 1: spoken about this before, there's a lot of names in here.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of guys. A player that is going
Speaker 1: to be motivated to play for a contract, you'd think so.
Speaker 1: But there's a lot of names. And I'll go through
Speaker 1: with with you for a moment if I if I
Speaker 1: may Yasuee, Scotty Chevler, Jesse Winker, Nick Senzel. They said
Speaker 1: they're going to play in the outfield, right, that's four
Speaker 1: guys right there. Winker and Cenzel are part of the future.
Speaker 1: You would think, h he's Queen's Scott Cheveler part of
Speaker 1: the future. Probably not? Probably not. Who else is on
Speaker 1: that scene, anybody? I'm kempt Kemp Kemp part of the future. No,
Speaker 1: but there's another there's another guy. There's another guy that
Speaker 1: we help them win. Now you're talking about them winning. Now,
Speaker 1: that's another guy. That's five outfielders we just named. Ke
Speaker 1: Senzel has to get playing times somewhere in no way,
Speaker 1: shape or form, in danger of not playing. He's not.
Speaker 1: We've said this before with the Dodgers. Man and then
Speaker 1: you have guys like Scott Dance, like and Andrew Tooles
Speaker 1: start for him. He's gonna play? Is playing this here
Speaker 1: for a contract? I understand. Look, I know it's narrative.
Speaker 1: Even if you don't want to go by narratives. If
Speaker 1: you look over the past couple of seasons, he's worth
Speaker 1: where he's being drafted. If he's giving you twenty five
Speaker 1: runs in fifteen stolen bases with a two six seventy averards,
Speaker 1: he's still worth being drafted where he is. And you
Speaker 1: bacon the fact that he has this immense upside if
Speaker 1: what he's saying is true about how he hasn't been
Speaker 1: trying in the Red's lineup this year playing for a contractivations,
Speaker 1: he hasn't been trying. Come on, then the seventh game
Speaker 1: of the World Series, he wasn't trying. I mean maybe
Speaker 1: he was trying hard in the playoffs, like whatever, I
Speaker 1: don't buy any of that, man, I don't buy that. Now.
Speaker 1: Dodgers messed around him for so long over the past
Speaker 1: couple of years, and maybe he was warranted. Oh maybe
Speaker 1: it probably was probably over me. But they had they
Speaker 1: kind of had like a back and forth, like definitely
Speaker 1: hate relationship to the he said the Miners got a
Speaker 1: new start Cincinnati. Look, even if it's narrative driven, I'm
Speaker 1: I'm buying it. I'm in if I'm if I'm in
Speaker 1: the fifth round and I need a second outfielder and
Speaker 1: Tommy Fam is gone. Peak is the next name that
Speaker 1: I'm looking at. You're pulling up Tweak over George Springer,
Speaker 1: over Lorenzo Cane. You just told he's the next name
Speaker 1: you're looking at after Tommy Fam and you have Springer
Speaker 1: and Cane after. It's an active target, though, and I
Speaker 1: think if you don't actually based on a DP, Tommy
Speaker 1: Fam goes after Springer and learns Okane. Anyway, it's not sure.
Speaker 1: Recording the n FBC over the last two weeks, Fams
Speaker 1: at fifty nine, Springs at sixty three, Canes at sixty six. Okay,
Speaker 1: I have it in my rankings. I have Fam, Springer, Bryant,
Speaker 1: Lorenzo Cane, Pueak Pueeks after all of those guys. So
Speaker 1: he's not the next target. He's after Lorenzo Caine, He's
Speaker 1: O the four guys. Yes, Okay, so it's not My
Speaker 1: point is he's not the next active target by any
Speaker 1: means there's a lot of guys after that. I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't really I don't really want Springer like I'll
Speaker 1: take him. If he's there, maybe I should just move
Speaker 1: him up. All right, I'll do it, Greg, great, ware
Speaker 1: you moving him to I can't move Brant, Okay, right,
Speaker 1: I'll just leave there. Okay, who's right behind? Who's right
Speaker 1: behind your sale? He's not right behind Tommy fam I
Speaker 1: just put him there. You said I'm not gonna move
Speaker 1: my thought. I didn't realize you moved him and then
Speaker 1: said not moving him. After that you're yelling at me.
Speaker 1: Then fine, that's that's what you're gonna do. Move them.
Speaker 1: So you don't want your peak, you're out. I don't
Speaker 1: want I'm out. But like the guys who talked about yesterday, Springer, Kane, certainly, Bryan,
Speaker 1: I want those guys ahead of the sale peak. Okay,
Speaker 1: what does George Springer do better than the peak? Let
Speaker 1: me pull up his fans. Don't mind runs scored, that's it.
Speaker 1: Let me hold on maybe one second, and I want
Speaker 1: to have the accurate information. I'm telling you what it is. Greg.
Speaker 1: I know swort Springer score a hundred runs. That's the
Speaker 1: only category that he's better Thanagan the only category. There's
Speaker 1: nothing else. Gave me a second. Here is going to
Speaker 1: hit around the same home runs. He has the upsides
Speaker 1: to hit more home runs a bother outside from way
Speaker 1: more RB with all those out fielders there can't hit
Speaker 1: lefty seas well. I mean he does have like a
Speaker 1: reverse split thing going on. But no, it doesn't worry Like,
Speaker 1: who who are they gonna put in that so much
Speaker 1: better against left teas Greig? Are they are they gonna
Speaker 1: bench Yail Peak for Matt Camp? Yes, no they're not. Yes,
Speaker 1: it's possible. It's not possible. I'm telling you right now,
Speaker 1: it's not possible. You're not doing that. Ye Peak is
Speaker 1: playing every single day. I think you get burned by
Speaker 1: Pea this year. I think it's a big burnability factor
Speaker 1: here now that there's not for all of the guys
Speaker 1: in the area. Like that's what I like. That's what
Speaker 1: I like about like like like the Lorenzo Cane a
Speaker 1: little bit more like versus George Springer outside of runs,
Speaker 1: What is George Springer better at? Not average, But they're
Speaker 1: gonna be similar average, And I think Peak has I
Speaker 1: think the upside too, And I think you could say
Speaker 1: the same thing about Spring about two three last year. Again,
Speaker 1: Pea hasn't batted over two eight and five years, right,
Speaker 1: similar batting averages, similar batting average expect through to seventy.
Speaker 1: Let's say at A you're giving the home you're giving
Speaker 1: the home runs to. Even if that's similar, that's fine.
Speaker 1: Let's say that similar runs you're given the Springer. Yes, definitely,
Speaker 1: RBIs definitely batting fifth in the red line up ringf
Speaker 1: bringers beating leadoff. Okay, r bis for Springer stolen basis,
Speaker 1: you're definitely you definitely give thee no doubt about definitely
Speaker 1: stolen basis. Springer, what is he gonna? Pretty similar? They're similar,
Speaker 1: pretty similar, but you have RBIs and stolen basis, but
Speaker 1: they should be going into similar range, which which they are.
Speaker 1: I like Springing more because I don't think there's plain
Speaker 1: tymeles I'll take. I'll take these stolen bases with who
Speaker 1: don't it ranking first? By the way that I had,
Speaker 1: did I that Cane in front of Sringer was also
Speaker 1: Remember I have Lorenzo Cane a little bit further behind.
Speaker 1: I mean the ten home runs and thirty eight RBIs
Speaker 1: from last year. He gives you three categories that are
Speaker 1: hard to come by. Can you give you said basis?
Speaker 1: But it's a little bit harder to swallow those those
Speaker 1: ten home runs thirty d r bi's with Lorenzo King,
Speaker 1: Do you have Pweak? Who do you have after Pweak?
Speaker 1: Right after before you moved him? Do you have after
Speaker 1: Peak head right after him? Conforto? Doll, Eddie Rosario. Let
Speaker 1: me start with So Conforto is interesting because Conforto in
Speaker 1: the NFEC you get much later. You can get him
Speaker 1: thirty five picks after l Peak, David Dallas kind of
Speaker 1: right after. Let me start with Doll and then we'll
Speaker 1: get to Bed in just a moment, and I'll let
Speaker 1: you know this. Conforto is a guy that is shooting
Speaker 1: up draft boards in industry and expert drafts. You know,
Speaker 1: in your standard home league, whatever, non industry, non high
Speaker 1: stakes draft, you're probably be able to get Conforto, you know,
Speaker 1: round seven, round eight, something like that. I know Modica
Speaker 1: every like if if Conforto is available in the fifth round,
Speaker 1: Motica takes him every time. There's eight outfielders right now
Speaker 1: in the NFBC over the last two weeks that are
Speaker 1: in between ya C. L. Peak and like a good
Speaker 1: farto in the draft, which is very interesting. Like I
Speaker 1: said about five picks was a breaker right real quick.
Speaker 1: David dal Marcello, Zudo, Nick Castianos, Adye Rozario, Bitch, Hanager,
Speaker 1: Joey Gallo, Justin Upton. And here's the interesting one, Victor Roadless.
Speaker 1: You hold those eight guys. That's what we're gonna talk
Speaker 1: about when we come back. Well, Myers coming up at
Speaker 1: some point today as well. Michael Brandley and A. J. Pollock,
Speaker 1: our Nicks as well. We have a lot of guys
Speaker 1: to get to. We'll do our best here. I'm the
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Speaker 1: he he's a spot. Scott FROs is a star prospect. No,
Speaker 1: he's not sure. I'm not sure he's a that's who
Speaker 1: Wilmer Flores. I think he's a big s here. I
Speaker 1: think he's a big time proms. Look at Zach Godliess
Speaker 1: day picking up right where he left us three walks
Speaker 1: and three. Scott Ross last year was in double A.
Speaker 1: Scott Frost. By the way, yesterday Scotts had a five
Speaker 1: point nine and seven r A double A last year.
Speaker 1: So I think it's great for Scott. Hopefully one with
Speaker 1: Florence can face him every day. Greg God, it will
Speaker 1: got it Will Okay, doesn't seem David dal. I think
Speaker 1: it's a perfect name. He gets you because it doesn't
Speaker 1: even Doll was a hype guys the last year two
Speaker 1: years ago. I don't even remember two years years ago.
Speaker 1: It was two years ago. He's a huge hype guy.
Speaker 1: It's twenty two years old and I was saying, well,
Speaker 1: this guy I probably not gonna start, and he didn't.
Speaker 1: He got hurt. It was a completely lost year. Last year.
Speaker 1: Got an opportunity to play, and there was a little, hey,
Speaker 1: come back guy in David dom and it took him
Speaker 1: a while, but when he finally came up for good,
Speaker 1: he produced, for the most part, sixteen home runs in
Speaker 1: seventy seven games, betting two seventy three at forty eight Ribbies,
Speaker 1: thirty one runs scored, and five stolen bases. The thought
Speaker 1: is that Will been everyday player in the outfield this year,
Speaker 1: and he plays for Colorado. So, barring Carlos Gonzalez returning
Speaker 1: to Colorado in some storm of fashion, some sort of fashion,
Speaker 1: Tal is expected to start every day, are you buying
Speaker 1: back in the hype. I like David Doll. I don't
Speaker 1: know that I love him as much as everybody else does.
Speaker 1: I mean, I kind of get it with davidal obviously
Speaker 1: he plays in Colorado. I worry about I worry about
Speaker 1: the injuries, Greg, because you know, with David Doll, he
Speaker 1: played seventy seven games last year in two thousand and eighteen,
Speaker 1: and then he played a total of nineteen games in
Speaker 1: the minor leagues, and in sten he played you know,
Speaker 1: sixty three games at the major league level. He also
Speaker 1: did play in the minor leagues that year. But I
Speaker 1: worry a little bit about the injury risk here with
Speaker 1: David dal thirty seven percent hard hit rate last year
Speaker 1: looks sixteen home runs in seventy seven games. You know
Speaker 1: everyone's looking, ah, well, you know you just multiplied that
Speaker 1: by two. He's gonna play a hundred fifty games. Is
Speaker 1: gonna hit thirty home runs in the Rockies lineup. There's
Speaker 1: definitely upside here. The battleball profile is solid, line drive
Speaker 1: ratey percent fly balls. I like David Doll. I don't
Speaker 1: know that I love him as as much as everyone else.
Speaker 1: I think I'm just a little bit more realistic with
Speaker 1: David dal Like he'll probably have a d L stand
Speaker 1: at some point this year, but twenty five home runs
Speaker 1: with a two seventy five average, ten stolen bases. He's
Speaker 1: kind of a similar player what we expect out of
Speaker 1: your pleague, except I think there's a little bit more
Speaker 1: injury risk. You know, the upside is they're playing in Colorado.
Speaker 1: He's projected to bat clean up in this lineup, so
Speaker 1: the RBI opportunities are going to be there. I will
Speaker 1: say this, he's um. He's struggled against left handed pitching
Speaker 1: so far in his career at the in the majors,
Speaker 1: he's um. He's a seven ten OPS guy against lefties,
Speaker 1: whereas he is a nine oh four ops against right
Speaker 1: handed pitching in his career. So he's got some struggles
Speaker 1: against lefties. Roster resource doesn't have him as a platoon.
Speaker 1: They expect him to play every single day. You know,
Speaker 1: I think to seventy five to eighty uh Homeme runs,
Speaker 1: ten stolen basis, solid counting stats. It's fine. You know,
Speaker 1: I like David Doll. I don't know that I love
Speaker 1: as much as everyone else. I think David is fine. Ultimately,
Speaker 1: I got we gotta haven't done this in a while,
Speaker 1: but one word to describe David dollas like it's fine
Speaker 1: to me, He's fine. There's there's nothing wrong with taking
Speaker 1: David Doll. I don't know that the upside is as
Speaker 1: high as many people or many experts want to tell
Speaker 1: you it. You want to see I want to see
Speaker 1: him stay healthy. Here's the thing. If he stays healthy
Speaker 1: for an entire year, plays a hundred fifty games, and
Speaker 1: then takes off, then you're not getting him at the
Speaker 1: same price next year. Then we're looking at davidal next
Speaker 1: year as a third round pick as opposed to where
Speaker 1: you're getting him now in the sixth round. So that's
Speaker 1: what you know. Sometimes you gotta you gotta try and
Speaker 1: buy in on the upside before before it happens. You
Speaker 1: have to take that risk. I mean, it comes down
Speaker 1: to Rochester construction. You need some other guys on your
Speaker 1: team already that are that are safer. Look, when I
Speaker 1: get to this tier a David dal in team league
Speaker 1: probably gonna end up being your outfielder too. I feel
Speaker 1: much better about him as my outfield three. And and
Speaker 1: the point I really wanted to hammer home today, Greg
Speaker 1: is when I get to this tier right, which I
Speaker 1: have it as tier four, which is kind of want
Speaker 1: kind of in this range from Lorenzo Kane, Canford, oh Doll, Rosario, Haneger,
Speaker 1: Castano's Zuna Upton, I want one of these guys to
Speaker 1: be my outfielder three. Like to me, this is the
Speaker 1: last tire before you really get into there's a little
Speaker 1: there's a few more question marks in the next tier.
Speaker 1: So I want I want at least you know, I
Speaker 1: want a really good outfielder in in rotal legue. I
Speaker 1: want someone that we spoke about yesterday in the first
Speaker 1: two rounds, maybe like a like a black Man or
Speaker 1: a Harper or one of the Yankees guys, or or
Speaker 1: Yellow or a kunya Um. But at this point in
Speaker 1: the draft, I want one of these guys to be
Speaker 1: my third outfielder, or even if I get two of them,
Speaker 1: you know, if I get to like this is the
Speaker 1: cut off where after this tire is gone, I want
Speaker 1: to have three outfielders. And I can use, you know,
Speaker 1: my Great Fantasy Baseball Invitational team as an example. I
Speaker 1: drafted Harper, I drafted Haneger. I have two outfielders. I'm
Speaker 1: we're about to be in the twelfth round. I don't
Speaker 1: have a third outfield yet, and I don't feel great
Speaker 1: about it. So if if I would have taken you know,
Speaker 1: I keep saying one of the things I regret is
Speaker 1: I took labor Touris in the fifth I should have
Speaker 1: taken one of these outfielders in the fifth round, and
Speaker 1: then I would have have I would have had like
Speaker 1: Hannegger the next round as my third outfielder, and then
Speaker 1: also would have had like doll Or Confordo, and I
Speaker 1: would have felt a lot better about that, because you know,
Speaker 1: once you get into these like Ian Desmond, Ramon Oriano,
Speaker 1: you know if you don't, you don't Dickerson, you don't
Speaker 1: love those guys. Jesse winker Uh, you know some of
Speaker 1: these players have upside, But do you really want you
Speaker 1: want to fill out your OUTFITL four and five spots
Speaker 1: with those players? Now your outfield three spot, I want,
Speaker 1: you know, I want three at the top. Let's say
Speaker 1: thirty five. As as my top three outfielders. You mentioned
Speaker 1: that Michael Confordo was around here as well. I said
Speaker 1: it was thirty five picks away when it came to
Speaker 1: the NFBC ADP as of now, but as Frank mentioned,
Speaker 1: it is rising becauld f twenty five years old that
Speaker 1: a breakout starring campaign in team where he has seven
Speaker 1: home runs in a hundred nine games, hurt his shoulder
Speaker 1: towards the end of the year, came back last year,
Speaker 1: was not the same early on due to that shoulder injury,
Speaker 1: played in a hundred and fifty three d games, though,
Speaker 1: came back in early April and wound up hitting twenty
Speaker 1: eight home runs. He walks a very good amount at
Speaker 1: thirteen over strikes out around five percent, but the average
Speaker 1: plummeted last year from eight to around two three O
Speaker 1: b P three four to three fifty. A lot of that,
Speaker 1: of course, is due to what he did early in
Speaker 1: the year, where he simply was not healthy. He's pretty
Speaker 1: much the same guy against left these in righties, which
Speaker 1: you obviously like. If you look at the first half
Speaker 1: the second half, that's where you'll find the stark difference.
Speaker 1: In the first half he only bet at to sixteen,
Speaker 1: had eleven home runs in the second half in less games,
Speaker 1: more home runs, a better average. I think the second
Speaker 1: half is more indicative of what Michael Conforto is And
Speaker 1: for those that think that Michael Confordo could be an
Speaker 1: over thirty home run guy that could have close to
Speaker 1: a hundred RB I I don't. I don't see anything
Speaker 1: that would change my mind about that. I think the
Speaker 1: player that Conforto is and we one him to be,
Speaker 1: isn't necessarily our in judge. I don't think he has
Speaker 1: that kind of ceiling. But I do think he is
Speaker 1: a guy that he's better than he's shown as long
Speaker 1: as he can remain healthy, and I expect he did
Speaker 1: that last year. But three games last year after missing
Speaker 1: the first few in April. Once he got healthy in
Speaker 1: the second half and we know shoulder injuries ken Linger
Speaker 1: for a little while, he seemingly was back to normal.
Speaker 1: I like Michael Goodford a lot, and I think he
Speaker 1: deserves to be in this tier. Yeah. I like him
Speaker 1: a lot as well. Not gonna give you anything really
Speaker 1: in the stolen base categories, but really, what he did
Speaker 1: in that second half, I agree with you, Greg. It's
Speaker 1: closer to the player that I expect him to be,
Speaker 1: even dating back to his days in college. This guy
Speaker 1: is a professional hitter. I trust against lefties. I trust
Speaker 1: him against righties as well. I don't think that the
Speaker 1: splits are going to be, you know, all that bad idea.
Speaker 1: He's gonna play every single day for the New York Mets,
Speaker 1: a lineup that's getting some hype here in the preseason
Speaker 1: Greg with Robinson Cano and Wilson Ramos and Pete Alonso
Speaker 1: and Jeff McNeil and all these guys, it's an improved lineup.
Speaker 1: And you know that second half where he hit to
Speaker 1: seventy three with eighteen home runs, that's what you know,
Speaker 1: I think to seventy that that's kind of a spot
Speaker 1: that where living in here with a lot of these
Speaker 1: aut faelers that we're gonna talk about. To seventy to
Speaker 1: two seventy five solid doesn't really help your batting average
Speaker 1: all that much, but doesn't hurt it either. It's kind
Speaker 1: of like we're right around where you want your your
Speaker 1: batting average to be in Rohto, you know, Rhoto, you
Speaker 1: really want your average to be, you know, I two
Speaker 1: seventies to you know, to seventies six to seventy eight,
Speaker 1: around that area where I do think a lot of
Speaker 1: these out feelers that we're talking about are going to
Speaker 1: be this season, But in seventy to seventy five, I
Speaker 1: think it could be a thirty home run hitter in
Speaker 1: the second half lest year, the hard hit rate goes
Speaker 1: up to thirty percent. He was he was rushed back
Speaker 1: last year. He had major offseason surgery going from between eighteen.
Speaker 1: He kind of rushed himself back, and he was affected
Speaker 1: the batting average, the power, everything was affected early on
Speaker 1: in the season last year because of that shoulder injury.
Speaker 1: I trust more what we saw in the second half
Speaker 1: Greg as a and it's not just me carrying over
Speaker 1: the second half numbers. I think there was there's a
Speaker 1: legit reason to carry over the second half numbers because
Speaker 1: he got healthier as the season went on last year
Speaker 1: and we to see more of the real player that
Speaker 1: Conforto is. I like him really really regardless of format too,
Speaker 1: because even in points leagues, Okay, he'll strike out a
Speaker 1: decent amount, you know, but he also walks a lot.
Speaker 1: So he's gonna walk twelve thirteen percent of the time.
Speaker 1: He's a professional hitter. I trust him Greg, and you know,
Speaker 1: I actually trust him a little bit more than uh
Speaker 1: then David Dald because I think there's a little bit
Speaker 1: more uh, there's a little more injury concern exact. David
Speaker 1: Doald I get it's the course field thing. I have
Speaker 1: Conforto once spot hiher, He's he's my outfield twenty two.
Speaker 1: I would be pretty excited about him. Looking at this,
Speaker 1: I would actually prefer to have Michael Confordo the David
Speaker 1: Doll as well. I think the upsides higher, I really do.
Speaker 1: And maybe it's the injuries. Maybe, And I know the
Speaker 1: ballpark is obviously a big thing, city field versus course field,
Speaker 1: but runs twenty runs back to back years. Let's see
Speaker 1: davidal gets twenty five right, like the same sting, healthy
Speaker 1: enough and has done a little bit more. He's a
Speaker 1: little more established, he's still younger, like a good Porto
Speaker 1: just twenty five six on Friday. He has another step
Speaker 1: that he can take. And you know, I've talked about
Speaker 1: this a lot. I don't know how translatable it's gonna be,
Speaker 1: but I think, you know, Conforto having a guy like
Speaker 1: Robinson Canoe in the lineup, approven lefty, that another professional
Speaker 1: hitter in his major league career, I don't think that hurts,
Speaker 1: you know, I kind of buy in on some of
Speaker 1: these narrative things where you know, if they bring in
Speaker 1: a veteran who can be relatable for a young player
Speaker 1: to kind of learn from. I think it makes sense.
Speaker 1: I think robertson Cano being in the lineup for the
Speaker 1: Mets and having that veteran presence he's been around a
Speaker 1: long time, especially playing in New York before, Like he
Speaker 1: knows kind of what's expected of you to play in
Speaker 1: New York and perform. And I think he's gonna be
Speaker 1: able to help Kimforto. So I kind of like that too.
Speaker 1: Fan Gufts loves David duhl u Conforto. They say he
Speaker 1: hits into the shift a lot. It's a summary. Well
Speaker 1: that's kind of a trend for all left handed hitters,
Speaker 1: is you know again we you know, we kind of
Speaker 1: spoke about this yesterday where with the shift, they're putting
Speaker 1: an extra guy in right field and a lot of
Speaker 1: people are trying to hit over the shift. My Goodfordo
Speaker 1: is a guy that does hit a lot of line drives,
Speaker 1: so I try, you know, and he's a guy that
Speaker 1: I trust um a little bit more to go to
Speaker 1: all fields. I know you didn't necessarily see it last
Speaker 1: year with Kinfordo, I mean pull rate, but look, ineen,
Speaker 1: when he was actually fully healthy, hit seven home runs
Speaker 1: and a hundred and nine games. His pull rate was
Speaker 1: only he hit a lots to center field of the time,
Speaker 1: and he also went op so in Porto was a
Speaker 1: professional hitter. I know he pulled a lout last year,
Speaker 1: but as you know, as he gets further away from
Speaker 1: that surgery, you're gonna see more and more that he
Speaker 1: is a professional hitter. Where if teams are going to
Speaker 1: try and shift him, I think that he's a guy
Speaker 1: that can actually go the opposite way and kind of
Speaker 1: take what the what the what the shift is giving him.
Speaker 1: So I don't really worry about that all too much.
Speaker 1: With Kinfordo, not a high praise here for Mike would
Speaker 1: be happy Florida store right now, allow Mike, your guy
Speaker 1: last year was Nick Castianos, Big Nikki C. Who falls
Speaker 1: into this right. We had Big Nicky teen Florio gave
Speaker 1: the nickname Big Nicky T. It sounded like sound like
Speaker 1: the lead singer of a boy band. Now we got
Speaker 1: Big Nikki C. So Nick Castianos in the last two
Speaker 1: years back to back years of a hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: seven games played. His year in early similar to that
Speaker 1: year in seventeen, he had three less home runs but
Speaker 1: had fifteen more runs scored, he had twelve less r
Speaker 1: V I is probably directly recorrelated to me. Barramis in
Speaker 1: the entire season didn't really strike out, walked up. Okay,
Speaker 1: him out seven percent last year six percent the year before.
Speaker 1: Average jumped up twenty six points, directly correlated to his babbit,
Speaker 1: which jumped about fifty points. Direct correlation there. Cassiano is
Speaker 1: going in this range despite having a hard hit rate
Speaker 1: at almost forty eight percent, which obviously helps the babbit.
Speaker 1: His groundball rate dropped for one year one a year
Speaker 1: two thirty five percent, and the home run a fly
Speaker 1: ball ratio, you know, kind of similar as well. You'd
Speaker 1: like Castianos to hit a bit more home runs. Maybe
Speaker 1: he gets trained, he goes to a better part, he
Speaker 1: will do that. The Castiano is another one of those
Speaker 1: guys that I like. You know, sure, nothing wrong with
Speaker 1: the Castianos. How do you compare him to a guy
Speaker 1: like davidl and a guy like Michael Conford? So I
Speaker 1: have him a few spots behind. I think we kind
Speaker 1: of know who can Castianos is at this point. I know,
Speaker 1: you see the three sixty one bad from last year
Speaker 1: kind of jumps off the page. But forty eight percent
Speaker 1: hard hit rate and a twenty line drive rate. So
Speaker 1: Castanos is one of the best line drive pure hitters
Speaker 1: in the game right now. Where Okay, if he's hitting
Speaker 1: the ball hard and hitting that many line drives, like,
Speaker 1: of course, he's gonna have a high bad he's gonna
Speaker 1: have a high batting average. You know, the past two
Speaker 1: of the past three years he's been to eighty five
Speaker 1: or higher. I do think that's kind of that's closer
Speaker 1: to the player he is. I think he's a to
Speaker 1: eighty to nine, five to three hitters. If he would
Speaker 1: ever learn to lift the ball a little bit more
Speaker 1: and hit more flyballs, I think he has the upside
Speaker 1: to be like a three hitter with thirty home runs
Speaker 1: and a hundred RBIs. But he kind of is who
Speaker 1: he is at this point. Has nearly three thousand plate
Speaker 1: appearances the major vue level runs five and eighty five
Speaker 1: with a near three under batting average WRED category player
Speaker 1: in round six. I'm fine with it. It's good. We'll
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Speaker 1: sports where your network. I just pulled up Big Nikki
Speaker 1: ce that's Nick Castanos's Baseball Savant stat cast page. And
Speaker 1: each of the past three seasons, his expected batting average
Speaker 1: has been to eighty eight or higher. So he's been
Speaker 1: in the top seven percent of the league in that
Speaker 1: category in each of the past three years. So if
Speaker 1: you're in those middle rounds, round six, round seven range,
Speaker 1: and you know you need you want to four you
Speaker 1: want solid home runs, RBIs and runs. But someone who's
Speaker 1: actually going to help your batting average too, who's gonna
Speaker 1: give you a you know, to ninety ish batting average.
Speaker 1: Nick cas Sano says, your guy. But just no, you're
Speaker 1: not getting any stolen basis from him. But again, something
Speaker 1: that I should have stressed more throughout this draft that
Speaker 1: I'm doing right now is batting average. I I gotta
Speaker 1: I gotta scour the batting average landscape years to rout
Speaker 1: the rest of the draft because I just didn't stress
Speaker 1: it enough. So that that is me giving you my
Speaker 1: wisdom and learning from my own mistakes. Here is, if
Speaker 1: you play in a rotal league, make sure you stress
Speaker 1: outfield and batting average early on in your drafts. All right,
Speaker 1: there you go, the Castianos. One of these guys later
Speaker 1: on you can draft on the wrong. Nothing wrong with them,
Speaker 1: not wrong at all. How many times can we use
Speaker 1: the word fine to describe a player? Because I think
Speaker 1: Cassano is fine, kind of like David dal who would
Speaker 1: you have? You have dollar like ten more stone basis
Speaker 1: kind of thing you think he's like, you think he
Speaker 1: had twelve little basing David, I think, okay, definitely doable. Interesting.
Speaker 1: All right, Another guy that's around this tier is the
Speaker 1: guy that you drafted in the Great Fantasy Baseball Invitational,
Speaker 1: and it's Mitch Hanneger. Twenty eight years old. Is Mitch
Speaker 1: Hannegar now and last year was the first time in
Speaker 1: his career he played a hundred games. In fact, he
Speaker 1: played a hundred and fifty seven of them, and they
Speaker 1: were a hundred fifty seven pretty good games for the
Speaker 1: Seattle Marrigers. Wenty six hovers, ninety runs, score, ninety three ribs,
Speaker 1: eight stolen basis. He batted two eighty five, walked over
Speaker 1: ten percent at the time, struck out a bit over
Speaker 1: twenty one percent at the time. The hard hit rate,
Speaker 1: it's over league average. Live drive rabies about while his
Speaker 1: home in the fly ball ratio remained the same from
Speaker 1: seen to It's a long time for Mitch Haniger to
Speaker 1: finally break out he did last year for Seattle, if
Speaker 1: you believe it, Why is he going behind some of
Speaker 1: the guys that we've named. People are worried about the
Speaker 1: Seattle Mariners lineup, and I can't really defend it all
Speaker 1: of that much, especially when they're likely expected to trade
Speaker 1: Edwin Incarnacion at some point, but not yet. He's still
Speaker 1: on tea. Yeah, still on the team for now, right,
Speaker 1: So I'll run through this lineup. I don't I don't
Speaker 1: think it's as bad as everyone is saying. Right, So
Speaker 1: you have Malix Smith, Mitch Hanneger, j Bruce, Edwin Incarnacio,
Speaker 1: and Kyle Seger, Domingo Santana who's getting high fit and
Speaker 1: having a good spring, Omart Vias, Tim Beckham, and D Gordon.
Speaker 1: So if you look at Handegar batting second, he basically
Speaker 1: has two back to back leadoff men like once they
Speaker 1: get through the lineup, once he has D Gordon and
Speaker 1: then Malex Smith hitting ahead of him. So I still
Speaker 1: think the RBI opportunities are going to be there. Look,
Speaker 1: the lineup is not as good as it has been
Speaker 1: in years past. I realized that there's no Robinson can know,
Speaker 1: there's no Nelson Cruiz, but they've done their best to
Speaker 1: kind of replace those guys Edwin and Carnacione. He's about
Speaker 1: as close to Nelson Cruz as you're gonna get, right, Like,
Speaker 1: he's gonna probably still hit thirty to thirty five home
Speaker 1: runs this year. J Bruce a little bit worse than
Speaker 1: Robinson can know. I think we can say that. So
Speaker 1: I think people are worried about the Mariners lineup, and
Speaker 1: that's why he goes a little bit later. He's a
Speaker 1: guy who I think Handeger is safe for two seventy
Speaker 1: five to eight d batting average. You know, the hard
Speaker 1: hit rate was above league average. The county stats probably
Speaker 1: take a little bit of a step back. They were
Speaker 1: both ninety runs and ninety RBIs last year. That's probably
Speaker 1: closer to eight runs and a d r BIS this year.
Speaker 1: But you home runs with eight to ten stolen bases
Speaker 1: in a in a two seventy five batting average, He's fine.
Speaker 1: This is the fine tier. Like if you're really worried
Speaker 1: about the Mariners line up, and that's why you're probably
Speaker 1: taking somebody else in this range over him. And to
Speaker 1: be fair, you know that the only big concern here, Reggie,
Speaker 1: that you're concerned with the Mariners line up. That's it,
Speaker 1: That's all you got, Yeah, I mean, what else is
Speaker 1: wrong with him? Nothing? That's on my point that he's
Speaker 1: really good. Yeah, there's nothing else that worries me about him.
Speaker 1: He's but like okay, in games in seventeen, he was
Speaker 1: an eighty three OPS player. Last year in a hundred
Speaker 1: fifty seven games, he was player. It's kind of who
Speaker 1: he is. But the other but the other guys that
Speaker 1: you the other guys that you mentioned, David Dald major
Speaker 1: injury concerns and the Rockies are always flifty, but higher
Speaker 1: upside and better line up. Sure, yeah, yeah, they're kind
Speaker 1: of similar in their line is terrible. Well, I have
Speaker 1: hanneger one so could for you like the line up
Speaker 1: and you think the upside higher again, I guess yeah,
Speaker 1: he's still younger, you know, Hannager is not old by
Speaker 1: any means either. All right, a little bit older than
Speaker 1: I thought. Kind of a late bloom prospects here. Um
Speaker 1: came over in the what was that right from the
Speaker 1: from the Diamondbacks. Yeah, and he was Hannager was a
Speaker 1: guy in the minor leagues who this is kind of
Speaker 1: who he was to like you know, twenty like a
Speaker 1: little bit of pop, a little bit of speed. I
Speaker 1: don't expect a lot of stolen bases, you know, eight
Speaker 1: to ten. But again, like if he has de Gordon
Speaker 1: and Malex Smith hitting ahead of him, there's still gonna
Speaker 1: be some RBI opportunities here. That's why I don't want
Speaker 1: to That's why there's my trade off. Like all their
Speaker 1: pieces come like all star break around, like you know,
Speaker 1: trade deadline that they might get some of these guys.
Speaker 1: They won't give it to Hannegar. He's fine, that would
Speaker 1: like him before as my outfielder. Three though, So you
Speaker 1: know in the if you're in those middle rounds and
Speaker 1: you can get or doll or even you know me personally,
Speaker 1: I would love to get Tommy fam Or if you
Speaker 1: could get fam We Lorenzo Kane or you know, could
Speaker 1: four to or dollars or outfield too. I think a
Speaker 1: guy you know coming back around maybe the next round
Speaker 1: or two, if you could get Casteano's or Hanniger, someone
Speaker 1: in that like those guys, is your outfield three. I
Speaker 1: think that's really good roster construction. I like that a lot.
Speaker 1: I can see us in our auction, by the way,
Speaker 1: just drafting two of these guys as our outfield two
Speaker 1: and three. Realistically, Yeah, I can see us doing that well,
Speaker 1: assuming they don't get too much hype. We'll take you
Speaker 1: like him a lot. Marcelo Zuna is an interesting name
Speaker 1: that that's going around here as well. Frankie Um as
Speaker 1: soon as another A little more concerned here with me. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Morricello is soona. He's kind of a mystery right now.
Speaker 1: You don't that's he hasn't been on the field, So
Speaker 1: that's my shoulder surgery. Morricello Zuna is very good. Last
Speaker 1: year is eerily similar to the Marlins, like earily similar,
Speaker 1: played in at eight games in each year, hit exactly
Speaker 1: twenty three home runs in each year to sixty six average.
Speaker 1: It's when you say sixteen to eighty average. Looking at
Speaker 1: these numbers, do you think that the player that we
Speaker 1: saw last year, the player we saw that sixteen is
Speaker 1: the real Marzello Zuna or is it the breakout guy
Speaker 1: that we saw played a hundred fifty nine games, seventeen
Speaker 1: almost forty home runs with almost a hundred thirty rives
Speaker 1: batting over three hundred. Like, what do you make of
Speaker 1: Marzello Zuna. I do think he's better than what he
Speaker 1: showed last year, but he has to be healthy, which
Speaker 1: you know, maybe this is one of the questions for
Speaker 1: dr A Tomorrow. Um. You know, we haven't seen Marcello
Speaker 1: Zuna in spring training yet and Cardinals manager Mike Schiltz
Speaker 1: said on Monday that the timeline for Ozuna is to
Speaker 1: play left Uh, the timeline for Ozuna to play left
Speaker 1: field is quote unclear, So that is that's worrisome. Again,
Speaker 1: he had offseason shoulder surgery in October. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: shoulder is something that could affect the power, and I
Speaker 1: think that was something that he was kind of playing
Speaker 1: through last year too. I think he's better than what
Speaker 1: he told last season, but he has to be healthy.
Speaker 1: Do I know that right now? I don't like if
Speaker 1: I knew he was healthy though, based on what he
Speaker 1: did last year right like he was playing through injury.
Speaker 1: He had a forty hard hit rate. Greig, you know
Speaker 1: that that's that's elite, that's very good. You know, a
Speaker 1: forty percent hard hit rate, although he still hits a
Speaker 1: lot of ground balls. His home run A fly ball ratio,
Speaker 1: given the fact that he hit the ball as hard
Speaker 1: as he did, should have been higher than four. So
Speaker 1: I think he's probably closer to a thirty home run hitter.
Speaker 1: And the Cardinals line up with Paul Gelschman in it,
Speaker 1: it's a very good lineup, so Izunna expected to back
Speaker 1: clean up here. He he has upside to be, you know,
Speaker 1: to eighty to ninety with thirty home runs and a
Speaker 1: hundred RBIs he has a little bit more or category
Speaker 1: upside than some of these other players in this range.
Speaker 1: But I have him behind all of them just because
Speaker 1: I don't I don't really know much about the shoulder
Speaker 1: right now. I don't. I don't think anybody does. So
Speaker 1: I think that kind of injury risk and I guess
Speaker 1: ambiguity he's the word. Um is why I have him
Speaker 1: ranked behind the rest of these guys. I would agree,
Speaker 1: I would argue that his upside is higher than some
Speaker 1: of them. Well, we've seen it. Well, I don't think
Speaker 1: you can argue because you've seen it before. He runs
Speaker 1: a hundred and thirty r V I like we know
Speaker 1: it is. There's a lot of question marks when it
Speaker 1: comes to mar Marzilla Zoo who never ultimately see some
Speaker 1: very comfortable in St. Louis. Last year the phone line
Speaker 1: six seven nine, let's go to Stephen Massachusetts. What's up Steve?
Speaker 1: He do we have Steve? Steve? A Hey, Steve, what's
Speaker 1: up man? What's up? Man? Hey? What's going on? Guys?
Speaker 1: And I noticed that you guys are talking about I'll
Speaker 1: feel this, So I wanted to know what you guys thought.
Speaker 1: I'm like these guys because I noticed that you guys
Speaker 1: are trying to like talk about rocks that construction for it.
Speaker 1: So what about like guys like Austin Meadows, Uh Ian
Speaker 1: happ and uh Brandon numo because I know you guys
Speaker 1: are talking about conflorido and uh what you could do? What?
Speaker 1: Uh you? I think you broke out Conda last year
Speaker 1: like he had some decent stats. Are you guys going
Speaker 1: going in on any of those guys out on I
Speaker 1: and Hap. I will tell you this. Austin Meadows is
Speaker 1: a hype guy right now. He is climbing up draft
Speaker 1: boards very quickly, and I know Roster Resource has him
Speaker 1: as a platoon player right now. He is a lefty,
Speaker 1: but he actually held his own against left handed pitching
Speaker 1: last year, and they traded away Chris Archer to get
Speaker 1: both him and Tyler Glass. Now, in my opinion, I
Speaker 1: think they're gonna play him every day. I don't really
Speaker 1: worry about the platoon Alston Meadows, and he showed me
Speaker 1: a little bit last year. Like remember, he was pretty
Speaker 1: hot for a for a decent amount of time with
Speaker 1: the Pirates last season. I think he's a player who
Speaker 1: can give you fifteen twenty in both home runs and
Speaker 1: stolen bases, and I think the batting average is not
Speaker 1: gonna hurt. I think he's gonna be like to seventy
Speaker 1: issue or maybe two seventy five. So he's someone who
Speaker 1: is climbing up draft boards right now and there's a
Speaker 1: lot of hype behind and I am in I like him.
Speaker 1: I don't want him as one of my top three outfielders. Ideally,
Speaker 1: if I get him as like my outfield four to
Speaker 1: make some shot on the upside there, I'm not doing
Speaker 1: it because strikes out a lot. I have the playing
Speaker 1: time concerns with the Chicago Cubs. I need to see
Speaker 1: more from Ian Hap first. And the other name you
Speaker 1: mentioned was Brendan Nimo. Like Brandon Nimo a lot in
Speaker 1: points leagues and OBI p leagues, because I was tweeting
Speaker 1: out some stats yesterday about Nimo. He was elite greg
Speaker 1: against right handed pitching. Some of these numbers at six
Speaker 1: o p s against right handed pitching last year, four
Speaker 1: twenty four on base percentage, so walk great. I like
Speaker 1: him a little bit more on points leagues. He's got
Speaker 1: to get better against left handed pitching. If I'm ranking
Speaker 1: those three, it's it's Austin Meadows gap, Brandon Nimo huge gap,
Speaker 1: and then Ian had fair enough. We appreciate that. We
Speaker 1: appreciate the time. Stephen. I wanted to one more outfielder,
Speaker 1: Frank before we hit the break that's in this to
Speaker 1: me in this area, and then we'll bring that draw
Speaker 1: on and we'll talk and maybe have another special gap
Speaker 1: as well. Eddie Rosario was a forgotten man last year, bros.
Speaker 1: That was was that a thing that was the thing
Speaker 1: that was made at my at my drafts last year,
Speaker 1: my buddy bit drafted him one league and then four
Speaker 1: draft him another one. They said, we are quote Rosario, bros. Everyone.
Speaker 1: It was the guy that lasted like ten rounds too
Speaker 1: long in my draft. I remember sitting next to the
Speaker 1: person that drafted. It was like, this guy really here, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't really want him. I don't really want theim.
Speaker 1: We waited like five more rounds. He's like, I'm just
Speaker 1: gonna take him, and it's any Rosario. I did not
Speaker 1: take him first. Next year, we took him. Back to
Speaker 1: back years. Home runs, back to back years, batting essentially
Speaker 1: to ninety doesn't really walk, struck out seven only seventeen
Speaker 1: points six or seven of the time, r b I
Speaker 1: s and runs similar to the last two years. You
Speaker 1: gotta get them eight to ten stolen bases or so.
Speaker 1: In a better Twins line of Eddie Rosario is what
Speaker 1: he is, which is pretty dang good. Why is he
Speaker 1: in this range? Why is he behind some of these guys?
Speaker 1: Why do you believe he is? He's dragging where he
Speaker 1: should be drafted. So with Eddie Rosario, it's the tale
Speaker 1: of two seasons. If you look at the first half
Speaker 1: orts the second half last year, three eleven hitter with
Speaker 1: nineteen of his twenty four home runs in the first half,
Speaker 1: second half five home runs to forty batting average. We
Speaker 1: we want to see consistency from first half to second half.
Speaker 1: I like this Twins line up a lot. I've already
Speaker 1: been on record saying that, so maybe I'm a little
Speaker 1: bit more excited about Eddie Rosario than others. But again,
Speaker 1: great back to back years of two eighty eight or
Speaker 1: better batting average. He'll chip in, you know, eight to
Speaker 1: ten stolen bases. I think if he can find some
Speaker 1: of that consistency from the first half to the second half,
Speaker 1: he could be closer to a thirty home run hitter. Uh.
Speaker 1: He doesn't struggle against lefties either, as a left handed
Speaker 1: bat eight four against lefties last season two. There's a
Speaker 1: lot to like here. You know, normally, when when I
Speaker 1: look at a left handed bat, I want to make
Speaker 1: sure that you know that they're not pulling the ball
Speaker 1: all too much. And at their they don't struggle against lefties. Um,
Speaker 1: so you don't have to worry about that. I just
Speaker 1: need to see consistency more from the from the first
Speaker 1: half of the second half. But I like the Twins
Speaker 1: lineup a lot. Um. I like him a little bit
Speaker 1: more in Rhodo because he doesn't really walk all that
Speaker 1: much for points leagues. He's right around a five percent
Speaker 1: walk right for his career. But batting average is gonna
Speaker 1: be really good man right around two ninety. I like him.
Speaker 1: How do you feel about Eddie ros Areo? So last year,
Speaker 1: as I said, I didn't have no injuries, I didn't
Speaker 1: want any twins guys, I didn't like him. But now
Speaker 1: he's done it two years in a row, and a
Speaker 1: lot of that's trying to compete. I think he's real. Like,
Speaker 1: why wouldn't you like any Rosario with these numbers? I
Speaker 1: have him just ahead of Hanneger and Cassiano. Is that
Speaker 1: too aggressive? I don't think it is. I don't think
Speaker 1: it is. I think I like the Twins line exactly
Speaker 1: what I was gonna say. You obviously like the Twins
Speaker 1: line of more than marriage that everything else with him
Speaker 1: and Hanneger is pretty similar, except you're going to get
Speaker 1: a betting average better batting average for embody Rosario. I
Speaker 1: don't get it weird, Like it's cold in Minnesota early
Speaker 1: on in the season, but he was so good in
Speaker 1: the first half last year, so in the months where
Speaker 1: it warmed up, he got worse. I know what that
Speaker 1: means anything, It doesn't really. Yeah, the ball doesn't fly
Speaker 1: out well in Minnesota in the early months, especially anywhere
Speaker 1: in the al Central right like Chicago Chicago in the
Speaker 1: early months, the ball should not fly out that well.
Speaker 1: So the fact that nineteen one runs in the first
Speaker 1: half last year and then kind of slowed down. I'm
Speaker 1: pretty excited about anywhars Areo. I like him, man, I
Speaker 1: like him in this range too. I think he's just
Speaker 1: the unheralded dude. And you know, if David dal wasn't
Speaker 1: in Colorado, like I'd probably move them ahead of him.
Speaker 1: I just don't say the same thing Dollar or Mitch
Speaker 1: Haniger or David Dollar ANYWARS area. I mean, I probably
Speaker 1: don't have ANYARS area. I know, I know, I know.
Speaker 1: I think that's what's getting everybody like. These are all again,
Speaker 1: these are all fine outfielders in this range where if
Speaker 1: you miss out on fam or Springer or Lorenzo Kane,
Speaker 1: try and snake two of these guys to be your
Speaker 1: outfield two and your three. There's so many outfielders to
Speaker 1: talk about it. So how many we've done, like seven
Speaker 1: so far on to three or four or five, six, six,
Speaker 1: we've done six, a lot more to come. Let's try
Speaker 1: and get through like top forty at least here, Yes
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