Speaker 1: Six by six, let's talk to the pros. Welcome in
Speaker 1: everybody to Fantasy Prose. This is the Fantasy Baseball Podcast.
Speaker 1: Is B Joey p joe Pisapia, and today we got
Speaker 1: a brand new mock draft episode for you. We're going
Speaker 1: six by six. That's right, we're taking things to the
Speaker 1: next level. The Welsh and I are here as always,
Speaker 1: and we're going to invite a new friend to hang
Speaker 1: out with us and mock today. You know her from
Speaker 1: the sp Streamer podcast and of course she writes for
Speaker 1: fantracks HQ. She's Lauren Aurbach. You can follow her on
Speaker 1: Twitter at l k Ourbach. Lauren, thank you so much
Speaker 1: for coming to the show, hanging out with us today
Speaker 1: and doing a little mock draft with us.
Speaker 2: Guys.
Speaker 3: Thanks for having me. I'm so happy to be here.
Speaker 3: I'm so ready to mock I this. You know, baseball's
Speaker 3: back on. You know we've got hot stove action. It's
Speaker 3: turning spring. I'm I'm all ready to go. I'm ready
Speaker 3: to mock. I'm good, let's go.
Speaker 1: Well, it's it's turning very very red hot summer for
Speaker 1: the welsho can take out in the sun and getting
Speaker 1: redder and redder by the minute.
Speaker 4: I still look good. I don't. I don't look I
Speaker 4: gotta be honest with you. I was very worried about
Speaker 4: how I was going to look today because there is
Speaker 4: some video on the YouTube channel YouTube dot com slash
Speaker 4: Fantasy Pros. If anybody follows me on Twitter at is
Speaker 4: it the Welsh, they know that I have been out
Speaker 4: all week in spring training and yesterday I was a
Speaker 4: hobnobbin with some some big shots there. Take it some pictures,
Speaker 4: but I was out in the sun the entire day.
Speaker 4: And I also would like to report, Joe, Uh, this
Speaker 4: is I had a very dangerous experiment that I did
Speaker 4: all day. I then went to the Diamondbacks game. And
Speaker 4: I don't know if you know this, they have a
Speaker 4: full bats. It's probably like, well, you know that size
Speaker 4: that I just showed on the video that can be
Speaker 4: filled with adult beverages. And I did consume a full
Speaker 4: bat of adult beverage with no food in all sun
Speaker 4: during the day. And I'm happy to report I didn't
Speaker 4: end up in jail. So was it not or we
Speaker 4: got it?
Speaker 1: What's I bat? Were you're swinging there?
Speaker 4: It was? We were at least sixty four We were
Speaker 4: at least sixty four ouncer.
Speaker 1: Look at that.
Speaker 4: Oh no, I'm here, I'm alive, I'm good.
Speaker 1: I just think it's great. I get a nice little
Speaker 1: picture you and Manny machatda Machado actually smiling at it.
Speaker 1: I don't know what you paid him to do that,
Speaker 1: but it's worth every penny.
Speaker 4: Was you want to know? A really funny thing is
Speaker 4: a friend I was there with went up to him
Speaker 4: and was like, you know, hey, man, I feel like
Speaker 4: I feel like I should give you money because of
Speaker 4: the Fantasy Championships that you've won me. And he goes, oh, yeah,
Speaker 4: where is it? And he started laughing, and that got
Speaker 4: him in the d and.
Speaker 1: Then you immediately took the picture while he was quick.
Speaker 4: He's smiling, he's happy. Yeah, no, exactly, No, he was good.
Speaker 4: He was He was in a good mood, regardless of
Speaker 4: Tatis Junior, who underwent surgery the day before or actually, yeah, no,
Speaker 4: I think it was Wednesday that he did it and
Speaker 4: I was there Thursday.
Speaker 1: All right, let's get a quick take on a couple
Speaker 1: of things, because there were some major signings since we've
Speaker 1: last left. Everybody, Frank and Chris and I tried to
Speaker 1: get everything we possibly could in the last podcast, but
Speaker 1: more things happened. Laurene, what'd you think of the Chris
Speaker 1: Bryant signing to in Colorado there? What's your takeaway in
Speaker 1: terms of Fancy Valley because I'm sure we're all bumping
Speaker 1: him off because well it's Colorado, but still kind of
Speaker 1: an odd signing. When all said and done right.
Speaker 2: It definitely is.
Speaker 3: I think it is very good for Chris Bryant, and
Speaker 3: you know, fantasy managers who have him, I think that
Speaker 3: if you know you were drafting, you know, in the
Speaker 3: off season, and.
Speaker 2: You you know, banked on him, I think.
Speaker 3: That you will have a have a nice payday. In
Speaker 3: terms of real life baseball, it's the Rockies. This you know,
Speaker 3: this seven year contract. It doesn't make sense to me,
Speaker 3: but again it's the Rockies and this is a very
Speaker 3: Rocky move.
Speaker 1: I feel like, oh, very nice, nice, excellent and Welsh.
Speaker 1: Freddie Freeman is now officially a Dodger. Was kind of
Speaker 1: that foregone conclusion that lineup is absolutely stacked, but I
Speaker 1: kept saying that, yes, it's great on paper, but how
Speaker 1: many times have we seen these amazing things on paper
Speaker 1: never come to fruition And we're talking about Mounsey having
Speaker 1: an injury, Pollock and Turner or perpetually injured Bellinger just
Speaker 1: coming off a down year. I know Freddie Freeman, Mookie
Speaker 1: bets the whole thing with Trey Turner. I know it's
Speaker 1: very sexy. I know everyone's very excited about it. But
Speaker 1: is there a potential downside too that people maybe aren't
Speaker 1: I don't know, or maybe over investing in, as guess
Speaker 1: is the question.
Speaker 4: Nope, it's the most ridiculous lineup that we've seen, probably
Speaker 4: since two thousand and three. Bogman and I actually were
Speaker 4: taking a look at this earlier in the week, since
Speaker 4: the two thousand and three I think it was Yankees
Speaker 4: where it was just stacked on each spot. They're loaded, man,
Speaker 4: It's a powerhouse and I love the destination.
Speaker 1: All right. We want to remind everybody too, before we
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Speaker 1: Remember this is its own separate channel because Welsh and
Speaker 1: I are just so darn special. So on the MLB
Speaker 1: channel Leading Off starting the day before the season on
Speaker 1: April six, and then every day you're gonna get leading
Speaker 1: Off five times a week with me with the Welsh,
Speaker 1: with our friends. That's right, because we are here for
Speaker 1: you every single day. The home run contest is going
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Speaker 1: if you go join our discord at Fantasy Pros, we
Speaker 1: got a fun little BlackBook challenge going at Fantracks. I'm
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Speaker 1: our discord right now, and then keep an eye out
Speaker 1: this weekend for one of those Black Book Challenge links
Speaker 1: and I'll be drafting. That's exciting, isn't it.
Speaker 4: Well shot is very very exciting, and lots of stuff
Speaker 4: too as well. We've got like our AMA rooms that
Speaker 4: people can chat with us. Can I also say, because
Speaker 4: it's the season with drafting, very very important thing for
Speaker 4: people to do is for the next couple of weeks,
Speaker 4: when you get on the Draft Wizard, you have got
Speaker 4: to screenshot if Joe or myself are the number one
Speaker 4: analysts that love your mock draft, and you have to
Speaker 4: tweet it out Joe pizzaps seventeen is it the Welsh
Speaker 4: tweet out if we become your greatest you know, aggregate
Speaker 4: and proponent for your draft. Please do that because I
Speaker 4: want to know. I want to see your drafts of.
Speaker 1: Fore of the biggest hater like I see everyone. I
Speaker 1: always get it.
Speaker 4: Said, this person hates more than anybody.
Speaker 1: Well, in football season, I'm notorious. People will get a minus,
Speaker 1: B pluses and I'll give somebody a D and people
Speaker 1: love it. And the I'm like the code you got
Speaker 1: to crack in order to get the good team. You
Speaker 1: can get Joe to approve of your team. You've done alright,
Speaker 1: and it's hilarious. People would be running simulator. They say
Speaker 1: that the record was broken because I gave such bad
Speaker 1: draft grades out. So we'll see. We'll see what happens.
Speaker 1: So if you if we like your draft, we hate
Speaker 1: your draft, screenshot it, send it to us over on
Speaker 1: the Twitter machine. All right, So today we're doing six
Speaker 1: by six, So we decided to step it up a notch.
Speaker 1: We're gonna add quality starts at OBP along with batting
Speaker 1: average and wins, and we are going to also kind
Speaker 1: of make things a little tougher on ourselves. We're gonna
Speaker 1: we're gonna clump ourselves a little bit more into the
Speaker 1: spots that we got. Wells drafting from the five spot.
Speaker 1: I'm drafting from the eight. I'm sorry, I'm drafting from twelve.
Speaker 1: Lauren's gonna be in between at the eight because we figure, eh,
Speaker 1: it's easy. Everybody kind of knows what the top is,
Speaker 1: especially with the tetee stuff, so we're gonna kick things
Speaker 1: off in a second. So Lauren, before we do any
Speaker 1: theoretical approach, here, things that you're hoping for in this
Speaker 1: first round that make it down to you in the
Speaker 1: eighth spot.
Speaker 2: At the eight spot, I was thinking, I like the
Speaker 2: eight spot because you don't really know sometimes you know,
Speaker 2: you don't know where it falls.
Speaker 3: I like to I have kind of a bottom tier
Speaker 3: of power, kind of speed guys that I'm not going
Speaker 3: to tell you exactly because Chris is right in front
Speaker 3: of me, but oh yeah, sure we don't. But I
Speaker 3: have like a bottom tier, like and if that guy's gone.
Speaker 2: Sometimes I pivot to pictures. Sometimes I'll go big bat.
Speaker 2: It really depends.
Speaker 3: This is the point in a draft where kind of
Speaker 3: my first pick, anything.
Speaker 2: Can go well.
Speaker 1: I can tell you Welsh's Mataretica, Jose Ramirez is not available.
Speaker 1: Trey Turner went one, Juan Soto, my dude went to.
Speaker 1: Jose Ramirez went three. Now Tatis went four. Again, This
Speaker 1: is you know, theoretical Team four was out at Saint
Speaker 1: Patrick's day, last night having a few too many. So Welsh,
Speaker 1: you're up here with the one oh five spot in
Speaker 1: fifteen seconds left to go.
Speaker 4: They pulled me back in. I am back into this.
Speaker 4: I have my relationship with Ronald Kcunya has been wild lately,
Speaker 4: where I was in the top and then I dropped
Speaker 4: him down to the thirties. But now with the conversation
Speaker 4: that he will DH April twentieth or twenty first, I
Speaker 4: am back in and I will take him top five
Speaker 4: even though he's not an OBP monster like Vladimir Guerrero was.
Speaker 4: I'll get all the stolen bases. He still sawid and
Speaker 4: he is back in that starting lineup in April ish.
Speaker 4: So that's all I wanted. So I'm back into Acune
Speaker 4: at five.
Speaker 1: Bobashek goes next, then vlad Guerrero Junior all the way
Speaker 1: at seven. What a steal, Lauren Auerbach, you are on
Speaker 1: the clock.
Speaker 3: Oh let's see wait oh wait so we okay, sorry,
Speaker 3: we're on around over two now right yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, wait, I'm still we're still a one for your pick.
Speaker 1: So why don't you talk about Bryce Harper and that's
Speaker 1: who you? Oh?
Speaker 3: I see, okay, yep, So Bryce Harper is kind of
Speaker 3: one of my last power speak guys. This isn't also
Speaker 3: we're doing OBP. So I really like this pick. It
Speaker 3: gives me a lot across the board.
Speaker 1: N all right, what's that?
Speaker 4: Well, shut, I know you're up. I'm just saying, Joe,
Speaker 4: I know I got one.
Speaker 1: I got one in the tank there. I just wanted
Speaker 1: Lauren to make sure she got her picks in there.
Speaker 1: So Bryce Parper goes and Garrett Cole, Mookie Betts, Corbyn Burns.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go ahead and take Mike Trout. We got
Speaker 1: four outfielders, two utility We are playing with corner and
Speaker 1: middle infield in this one too. So now it's a question,
Speaker 1: do I want to go hit first base early to
Speaker 1: Freddy Freeman? Do I want to go for a pitcher?
Speaker 1: Do I want to go for Raffield Devers at third base?
Speaker 1: Third base is a wasteland, So give me Raffie Devers
Speaker 1: because I'm a big fan there. Now, I don't think
Speaker 1: Mike Trout's gonna steal a ton of bases. I don't
Speaker 1: think it's gonna be rebirth of the speed of my Trout,
Speaker 1: but I do think that there's a high motivation there.
Speaker 1: I think he realized his last few years have been
Speaker 1: really frustrating for not only him but fantasy owners as well.
Speaker 1: So Mike trout to me at one twelve, I will
Speaker 1: take the shot. After that, Walker Buhler goes team eleven,
Speaker 1: double dipping on the pitching team ten takes shoey Otani.
Speaker 1: Freddy Freeman goes nine. Lauren, you are up next on
Speaker 1: the clock here.
Speaker 3: So I've met Kyle Tucker. This is he goes kind
Speaker 3: of back to back with me with with Bryce Harper.
Speaker 3: I like the power Speed combo. You've got the obp there.
Speaker 3: I like at the top of the draft to try
Speaker 3: and get a lot of that power Elite Power Speed
Speaker 3: Combo because I think it helps you in the back game.
Speaker 1: I would agree that Surezer goes next, Lewis Robert After that,
Speaker 1: Welsh is up for two oh eight with Ozzie Albi
Speaker 1: still on the board and Jordan Alvarez my goodness, and
Speaker 1: your new best friend Manny Macha.
Speaker 4: I know, I see Manny up there. I was like, oh,
Speaker 4: you know, we're good friends.
Speaker 1: Now you guys play bridge together. I guess. So.
Speaker 4: One thing that does happen in these I think good
Speaker 4: and bad is it becomes a really big hyper focus
Speaker 4: when you have any type of OBP, whether you've replaced
Speaker 4: it or added it. And I think values get nuts
Speaker 4: and sometimes we you know, guys know, they get completely
Speaker 4: thrown down. And this is one of those instances where
Speaker 4: you look and Ozzy Alby's is not a big OBP guy,
Speaker 4: but he is such a good value. So I will
Speaker 4: acknowledge one thing I'm doing early on. I'm not doing
Speaker 4: the best job of pinpointing my OBP, but I'll try
Speaker 4: to pick that up a little bit later by getting values.
Speaker 4: Albi shouldn't have dropped to me down there, So I
Speaker 4: think we can get a little bit nuts to quality
Speaker 4: starts and OVP in these formats, especially that we just added.
Speaker 4: So that was a no brainer for me to take Ozzie.
Speaker 1: All right, get your other pick ready and queued up,
Speaker 1: because I know you're back on the clock already. Machado
Speaker 1: goes right after he's scorned by you. Brandon Woodruff, Starling
Speaker 1: Marte Jacob de Gram all the way at two twelve.
Speaker 1: My goodness, that is possibly a game changer than Aaron
Speaker 1: Judge starting off the third round three h two, Jordan Alvarez,
Speaker 1: Zach Wheeler, Shane Bieber go back to back. A little
Speaker 1: pitching run here for of the last six picks. Welsh,
Speaker 1: You're up next.
Speaker 4: Well, I am looking if I want to go power
Speaker 4: or do I want to go I don't. I'm gonna
Speaker 4: continue this. I've been doing this.
Speaker 1: Oh no, five seconds, make a choice.
Speaker 4: You know what we'll do this We're gonna take I
Speaker 4: just realized I have the entire Lanta Braids team. I
Speaker 4: didn't realize that for the first time. I have the
Speaker 4: entire Atlanta Braids team without concentration. But I need some
Speaker 4: big power in there, and I really need the Braves
Speaker 4: to do well apparently in the n L.
Speaker 1: Now hopefully can get John Smoltz later on.
Speaker 4: As you know what I was going to do. I
Speaker 4: was gonna take Wit Maryorfield, but I also took Ozzie
Speaker 4: to try to get big on speed simply because I'm
Speaker 4: gonna miss it a little bit early. So that was tough.
Speaker 1: I love how quick Lauren is on the trigger. Lauren's
Speaker 1: like you two Yoko shut up, like cued up, ready
Speaker 1: to go. So matt Olsen goes Urius, goes Tim Anderson,
Speaker 1: and then Lauren, who did you select?
Speaker 3: I did take Oscar Hernandez again power speed. I will
Speaker 3: say I don't love though. I've got three three outfielders
Speaker 3: in a row, and I feel.
Speaker 2: I don't like that.
Speaker 3: I'd like to kind of get a little bit more
Speaker 3: mixed up in position wise, But I do like what
Speaker 3: he brings to the table, so we're rolling with that.
Speaker 1: I have a unique situation here where I could take
Speaker 1: Cedric Mowens and wit Merryfield and I feel like be
Speaker 1: very annoying. I feel like that's something I want to
Speaker 1: do here.
Speaker 4: I absolutely love that stuff. I think if you do that,
Speaker 4: I'm gonna If you do that, Chris Welsh might really
Speaker 4: love your draft at the end.
Speaker 1: Two thumbs Could I possibly get two thumbs up? I
Speaker 1: think it's possible. Well, after Ti Oscar went, we have
Speaker 1: Xander Bogart's, Aaron Nola sal Perez, Cedric Mullins to me,
Speaker 1: and you know what, my boy whit Meryfield Simeon's very
Speaker 1: tempting here too. But once again, those song bases are
Speaker 1: just hard to come by. I feel like I lock
Speaker 1: these two guys in here. I'm probably locking in fifty steals.
Speaker 1: That's a pretty good floor, and then I can't worry
Speaker 1: about everything else later. So Marcus Simeon goes directly after
Speaker 1: his team eleven, and that was building from the inside out.
Speaker 1: Trevor's story goes next. He doesn't have a home except
Speaker 1: on Team ten. Sandy al Contra Team nine. So Lauren
Speaker 1: Auerbach finally does take a picture. I am still holding
Speaker 1: out for one. We'll see. So who is the picture
Speaker 1: that went to your.
Speaker 3: Stat It's lance Lynn. I'm a big lance Lynn fan.
Speaker 3: I just think that he's he's durbable. He gives you
Speaker 3: those innings that you're looking for, and he plays on
Speaker 3: a great team. And I generally, actually I generally draft
Speaker 3: him a little bit sooner anyway. So I don't know
Speaker 3: if I didn't get a reach notification on that, but
Speaker 3: I think.
Speaker 1: No, no, you don't. You want to avoid those reach notifications.
Speaker 1: Believe me, they they throw these emojis at me. It's
Speaker 1: very upsetting. It hurts me.
Speaker 2: It throws me off though I'm like, oh.
Speaker 1: Oh, you could have done this. You know, I know
Speaker 1: the draft wizard sometimes watching is watching my life and
Speaker 1: judging my decisions. Robbie Ray Team seven, Team six, Austin Riley,
Speaker 1: the Welsh, who did you select in the fourth round? Here?
Speaker 4: Lucas Giolito, Sir, I went with Lucas Giolito here because
Speaker 4: I needed a starting pitcher. And it's very interesting to
Speaker 4: see that the closers did start to go, and I
Speaker 4: was monitoring that situation as we had Hater and Hendrick.
Speaker 1: I was bummed. I was hoping you get Austin Riley.
Speaker 1: He went to pick before you and just kind of
Speaker 1: make it a whole race.
Speaker 4: I mean, I cannot believe that I did that.
Speaker 1: Gildo, you selected then Hendrix Peralta, my dude Hater, Francisco Lindor,
Speaker 1: then Wander Franco to start the fifth round. Goldschmid Alonzo
Speaker 1: O'Neill back to you, Welsh.
Speaker 4: All right, well, this I think is just too good
Speaker 4: of a value here. I am I in the pitchers.
Speaker 4: I don't like the pitching situation that is going on overall,
Speaker 4: which sometimes in instances like that, you know you should
Speaker 4: jump on it. But there's one offensive player that I
Speaker 4: think is too too enticing, and that's George Springer. So
Speaker 4: again not I'm not I'm not a heavy OBP team here,
Speaker 4: but I'm heavy all the other stats. I think I'm
Speaker 4: playing well in five categories. I can't win them all
Speaker 4: and I'm not going to overpay on OBP right now.
Speaker 4: And Springer in the fifth round is.
Speaker 1: Love it. You you got your one picture, you got
Speaker 1: your stud at the top. Gilido is a true ace
Speaker 1: no one. Aaronato goes directly after a team six. Then
Speaker 1: at five oh seven Alex Bregman tremendous value in the
Speaker 1: fifth round. Lauren auerback, you are up.
Speaker 3: I am. I'm going to go with Birios. I'm going
Speaker 3: to just double tap on some pictures there. And you know,
Speaker 3: I think that the the Blue Jays pictures get a
Speaker 3: little bit of bump up. Now that got you know,
Speaker 3: Matt Chapman powerhouse line.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so what you're looking for?
Speaker 1: Look, I think Barrios is a is a great selection there.
Speaker 1: And look now with let how do you feel about that, Lauren?
Speaker 1: Will you have like a stead of having that one
Speaker 1: turrace having the two one A guys and Lynnen Burrios?
Speaker 1: Do you like that strategy? I do.
Speaker 2: I don't mind it at all.
Speaker 3: And I think that you know, these guys sometimes drop
Speaker 3: a little bit because they aren't super big strikeout guys.
Speaker 2: But I you know, I don't have a problem.
Speaker 3: You know, I think that you can get some strike
Speaker 3: out guys later in the draft. I think, especially this season,
Speaker 3: I think that there are so many great arms and
Speaker 3: intriguing arms and high.
Speaker 2: Strikeout arms out there.
Speaker 3: So I'm but I like I like this, you know,
Speaker 3: I feel like this is a is a good anchor
Speaker 3: group for me.
Speaker 2: Though I like it.
Speaker 1: I agree I like it as well.
Speaker 4: You sat my soul there, Joe.
Speaker 1: That's right. Well, I'm going to do it a second
Speaker 1: time probably and actually I probably won't. I'm going to
Speaker 1: take somebody old as the hills. So after you took Burrios,
Speaker 1: Lauren Rand, euros Areine gos Katel, Martego's Aloijmenez at five eleven,
Speaker 1: then I took Joe Musgrove, and I think I'm gonna
Speaker 1: double tap the pitching here, especially as guys are dropping
Speaker 1: like flies. Everyone's shoulder hurts. It's the worst thing ever.
Speaker 1: So what I'm gonna do is take a guy and
Speaker 1: Joe Musgrove, who I believe in love the jump he
Speaker 1: made last year, I still see him as a one A,
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna take old man Charlie Morton. That's right,
Speaker 1: he's striking out two hundred guys and right now the
Speaker 1: draft stock is far too low for a player. I
Speaker 1: don't care how old he is. As long as he's
Speaker 1: still good, I don't care. And he's been good. JT.
Speaker 1: Real Muto goes Team eleven, then Team ten at the
Speaker 1: six oh three takes Corey Seeger. Nice potential value there.
Speaker 1: Rice Elglaci is at six oh four, Laura, and you're
Speaker 1: up at six oh five.
Speaker 3: I'm going to go just a big power bat with JD. Martinez.
Speaker 1: Oh lovely, that's it.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 1: He's good at baseball.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Are you somebody that that cares or doesn't care about
Speaker 1: like locking in a DH in having that person because
Speaker 1: I know some people like, oh, they don't like to
Speaker 1: do it. I'm always in the mind give me the
Speaker 1: good player, even if they are only DH eligible. How
Speaker 1: do you feel about that when you're yeah, I'm kind
Speaker 1: of on.
Speaker 2: The same page. I mean, it's you.
Speaker 3: It's a position that also you know, can get filled
Speaker 3: and depending on what your format is, I have no
Speaker 3: problem with it. And it's like, you know, I'm like, well,
Speaker 3: I need a little ooph in the in the power game,
Speaker 3: and so JD.
Speaker 2: Reynolds or JD. Martinez, you know.
Speaker 1: I don't I remember j R. Reynolds on the plot. Yeah,
Speaker 1: when I was a little, I was just a boy.
Speaker 2: It was just a lad.
Speaker 1: Kevin Gospin goes at six oh six. Welsh just misses
Speaker 1: on Byron Bucks and I can't imagine the profanity going on.
Speaker 4: I don't know if everybody heard. I just like the
Speaker 4: breath got knocked out, Like it's again, not an OVP guy,
Speaker 4: but one thousand percent my pick. So I've been a
Speaker 4: Welsh guy. He's I mean, he's one hundred percent.
Speaker 1: Well, drink your two picks here because you're kind of
Speaker 1: back to back down.
Speaker 4: Yeah. So what I got here is I'm double tapping
Speaker 4: my closers every time I've done. I've mock draft more
Speaker 4: than maybe anybody this year between in this league and
Speaker 4: Fantasy Pros, and I've come to terms with my teams
Speaker 4: come out best when I have those early closers because
Speaker 4: of the bad situation that's going on with uh you know, rotations,
Speaker 4: and you've got places like the Cardinals that won't commit
Speaker 4: that takes Guya goes out. So I took Emmanuel class A,
Speaker 4: who I absolutely love, and then I came on the
Speaker 4: back end and I got Edwin Diaz. So I've got
Speaker 4: both of my closers with gi Aledo now in a
Speaker 4: pretty powerful Atlanta Braves offense. So I feel very good.
Speaker 1: All right. In between that was Max Freed, Nick Cassianos,
Speaker 1: Chris Bryant at six eleven, josel Twov at six twelve.
Speaker 1: We'll get to Lauren's pick in a second. We're gonna
Speaker 1: run through here. So Lauren, if you need to pick,
Speaker 1: go for it, or you did already. I'll look at that.
Speaker 1: Then Chris Sale starts seven oh one, Logan Web seven
Speaker 1: oh two, Jose Abrew Hovey bay As, Edwin Diaz to
Speaker 1: the Welsh, then Castillo Mondesi the team seven. Then Lauren,
Speaker 1: would you do?
Speaker 3: Chris started the closer Domino train, and so Presley I
Speaker 3: got pressed with Ryan Presley. He's kind of like the last,
Speaker 3: my last guy that I want to walk out of
Speaker 3: the sixth or seventh round with a closer that I
Speaker 3: feel really comfortable with.
Speaker 2: That will give me a ton of of saves.
Speaker 1: All right, very good. So after Ryan Presley goes and
Speaker 1: you have g and Carl Stanton, will Smith, Jure Palanco,
Speaker 1: I took Brian Reynolds seven twelve. Oh my goodness, I
Speaker 1: like this pick so much This makes me so excited
Speaker 1: to have Brian Rewls. Now do I want to take
Speaker 1: another starting pitcher? I do. I love this guy. So
Speaker 1: if this guy played in Boston and New York, he
Speaker 1: would be a rock star and people we talk about
Speaker 1: him all the time. There's two pictures I really like
Speaker 1: on the board, or I could just go a boring,
Speaker 1: closer route. I'm gonna take believe now, screw it, not
Speaker 1: this time last time I played your game. This time
Speaker 1: I'm not. Instead, I'm gonna take h Trevor Rodgers there
Speaker 1: from the Miami Marlins, because I do believe there's another
Speaker 1: gear in this guy we have not even seen yet.
Speaker 1: So now I got my rotation. I got some solid
Speaker 1: offense here, certainly got a fair amount of stolen bases
Speaker 1: to at least to start. Brandon low goes next at
Speaker 1: eight oh two, then Jack Flaherty eight oh three, Dylan
Speaker 1: Cees eight o four. Lauren, you're back up on the clock.
Speaker 3: Oh I am back up, Okay. I mean you know what,
Speaker 3: I'm annoyed that you took Brian Reynolds.
Speaker 1: I was thanking him, so I appreciate that it. Well,
Speaker 1: you did have a chance at him, Yeah, you could
Speaker 1: have passed on.
Speaker 2: Now, I couldn't have. I wouldn't have. Wouldn't have been good.
Speaker 1: She wants to win the draft. There's no friends, Yeah,
Speaker 1: no friends. So what did you end up going with?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 2: I end up going with Jonathan India, who I love.
Speaker 3: If this is like one of the guys this season,
Speaker 3: call it a my guy sort of thing. You know,
Speaker 3: I loved his rookie season. I think he can contribute everywhere.
Speaker 3: I think he can push. Even though the Reds are
Speaker 3: have gutted their team, I think that they he can
Speaker 3: still push for one hundred runs, gives a little pop,
Speaker 3: gives a little speed.
Speaker 2: I think that he also has room to grow in
Speaker 2: his sophomore season. So I really like Jonathan India.
Speaker 1: Could not agree more. Huge fan of India. Montos Jazz
Speaker 1: chisholm you Darvish, and then Carlos Correa go next. After that,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry you. Darvish goes to the Welsh that's who
Speaker 1: took him an eight zero eight. Your thoughts on you, Darvish,
Speaker 1: and then your next pick to you Welsh.
Speaker 4: I've always a big you guy. He's my second pitcher
Speaker 4: in here with gi Alido. It's the buyback the I
Speaker 4: mean the Padres are going to need him more than
Speaker 4: I've ever need and they've got an insane rotation of
Speaker 4: guys out there. I will say I was really I
Speaker 4: in Carlos Redon and he went two picks before, so
Speaker 4: that broke my heart a little bit, but I was
Speaker 4: gonna double tap pitching. But I think there's an insane,
Speaker 4: insane good value here and I just saw him the
Speaker 4: other day at Mariners camp when I stopped over. It's
Speaker 4: Jesse Winker, Who's gonna be a good, decent obp guy
Speaker 4: for me. And Winker crushed a bomb, crushed a ball.
Speaker 4: It was one of the most ridiculous balls I've ever seen,
Speaker 4: as Julio did as well in a practice. I think
Speaker 4: he's primed for this team. Maybe he's not a thirty five,
Speaker 4: you know homer guy, if a little power suppression, but
Speaker 4: he's a big doubles guy. He's a big contact guy,
Speaker 4: and he's in the middle of a great lineup. So
Speaker 4: I think Winker was just too good of a value
Speaker 4: to pass up there. So that's where I went with
Speaker 4: the fifth pick in the ninth round.
Speaker 1: So after you Darvish Carlos Kore at eight oh nine,
Speaker 1: then Fran miil Reyes, Cody Bellingeraldest Chapman, who I almost took,
Speaker 1: but I passed on top Edmond Stars the ninth round,
Speaker 1: Christian Yeowich Rodin. As you were pointing out Mitch Hannigher,
Speaker 1: Jesse Winker, Alec Manoa, then Anthony Rendon nine oh seven,
Speaker 1: nine oh eight, you were on the clock, who'd you
Speaker 1: take there?
Speaker 2: I went with McClanahan.
Speaker 3: I was eyeing Alex Alex Manoa, but I wanted to
Speaker 3: get kind of a little bit of a like higher,
Speaker 3: higher strikeout picture. I really liked, you know, what we
Speaker 3: saw out of McLanahan last season. I think that he
Speaker 3: will improve this season, you know, if he can work on,
Speaker 3: you know, a little bit more command. But he's he's
Speaker 3: a high strikeout picture. It's Tampa Bay. He is, I think,
Speaker 3: going to be their their star of the future. And
Speaker 3: so it's McLanahan for me, all right.
Speaker 1: So after McClanahan, you got Er Snell, Melcastle, justin Verlander,
Speaker 1: and now at Verlander made it full transparency. I was
Speaker 1: really hoping he was going to make it to me.
Speaker 1: I would have easily taken him, but instead I will
Speaker 1: take Bobby Witt here with nine twelve. Got my options here.
Speaker 1: I'll stay on your lawn all day if I want
Speaker 1: toang it. Now, the question is do I want to
Speaker 1: finally ball and take a reliever? A little tricky here?
Speaker 2: Would you have one yere? Now?
Speaker 1: I mean, well, they're still out there.
Speaker 4: Well, there's still there's three good ones, and then it
Speaker 4: is going to plummet.
Speaker 1: It is gonna Yeah, I know I'm gonna take one
Speaker 1: of them. I'll take Will Smith just because I know
Speaker 1: you've cornered the market on braves. I'm gonna take one
Speaker 1: away from you. I did get the reach alert though.
Speaker 1: Here we go, there's the angry emoji like this looking
Speaker 1: at me in the eighty nine percent chant that well
Speaker 1: Smith would have made it. I know, I know, but
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do it anyway. I'm gonna live in the present.
Speaker 1: Austin Meadows goes ten o two. Then we got Jared
Speaker 1: Walsh teno three, Kyle Schwarber. Great value for another player.
Speaker 1: I was thinking about, Lauren, You're on the clock.
Speaker 2: For the Yeah.
Speaker 3: I was as debating between Vado and Josh Bell. I
Speaker 3: think this is kind of the sweet spot of first basements,
Speaker 3: and I'm targeting because there's a clump of guys there
Speaker 3: that I really like. Uh, but I ended up going
Speaker 3: with Josh Bell. Uh yeah, I think that, you know,
Speaker 3: I think you know, I mean, I think it's interesting,
Speaker 3: especially now that you have I think that you have
Speaker 3: Nelson Cruz, who will be batting I think right now
Speaker 3: in front of him, and you got soda in front
Speaker 3: of him. I think the NAT's lineup is okay, but
Speaker 3: it is kind of interesting. It's not the best, but
Speaker 3: it's interesting.
Speaker 1: I think, all right, next up after that, after Josh
Speaker 1: Belly got Nelson Cruz going, than Jordan Romano going another
Speaker 1: closer Welsh. You took Max Munsey here, so you're feeling
Speaker 1: confident about the health.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean they said he would be ready. You
Speaker 4: get an extra little week that's at it on top
Speaker 4: of it, So that makes me feel a little bit better.
Speaker 4: Big power back. I want to Sharbert like super Bad.
Speaker 4: I get position flexibility with Muncie, and you know, we've
Speaker 4: had we just had multiple instances where they're not ignoring
Speaker 4: the conversation, they're talking about it. So if that's the case,
Speaker 4: I get to add Muncie on a team that I
Speaker 4: already have. Olsen and Albi's so he's more of just
Speaker 4: a flex corner guy with huge, huge power. So I
Speaker 4: feel fantastic about that pick. I don't feel fantastic but
Speaker 4: everything else, because you guys are just destroying the market
Speaker 4: here of good play.
Speaker 1: We'll see what happens. What the wizard says, you concentrated
Speaker 1: your bick. I'm going to recap these next ones. Reese
Speaker 1: Hoskins ten oh nine, Dalton Varshow another Welsh favorite ten
Speaker 1: to ten, grondal At ten to eleven, DJ Lemayhew. Then
Speaker 1: Diego starts the eleventh round, Kenley, Jansen, Wilson, Contrare's Jake Coronworth,
Speaker 1: Clayton Kershaw to the Welsh, Yes, give.
Speaker 4: Me Kershaw, He's back. You can also see maybe I'm
Speaker 4: not giving the biggest focus on quality starts or OVP
Speaker 4: with the added edition, but I am targeting like really
Speaker 4: good players on really really good teams. Kershaw is just
Speaker 4: one of those guys that I may not get. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I may not get the two hundred innings out of,
Speaker 4: but he's gonna go deeper into games. He's gonna stack wins.
Speaker 4: So even if I lose out on quality starts, I'm
Speaker 4: gonna bring back the wins and you didn't take the
Speaker 4: wins away because this is six by six. I might
Speaker 4: have fit a little bit different if this was only
Speaker 4: quality starts, but I still get the wins. I love
Speaker 4: Kershaw back with the Dodgers. It's a no brainer, all right.
Speaker 1: So after Kershaw, Brendan Rodgers, who I had my eye on, goes.
Speaker 1: Then Pablo Lopez, Lauren, you're on the clock.
Speaker 3: I kind of double tapped on the first basement with CJ.
Speaker 3: Cron there.
Speaker 2: I just I just like it. You know, Crown in Colorado.
Speaker 3: You know, it's just like an easy see It's an
Speaker 3: easy power move for me, and he's not gonna kill
Speaker 3: you in batting average.
Speaker 1: Now I am gonna pay attention to obp. After CJ. Crown,
Speaker 1: Joel Mancata Tyler, Molly goes Joey Gallo. So I'm gonna
Speaker 1: take Joey Vado at the eleven twelve And I just
Speaker 1: got not one, not two, but three claps from the
Speaker 1: draft Wizard. Thank you, Joe.
Speaker 4: I had Voto on my board. One thing I think
Speaker 4: we all screwed up on and this is just the
Speaker 4: deficiency of this Sometimes we shouldn't have let Gallo be
Speaker 4: post one hundred. Well, no, I forgot. We didn't replace
Speaker 4: average with OBP. We just added we just said that
Speaker 4: added it. That does make him a little skewy. He's
Speaker 4: just one of those guys that's such an advantage in OBP.
Speaker 4: But he still hurt your average. But Vodo was almost
Speaker 4: the pick I was debating between Munsey and Vado. So
Speaker 4: I absolutely love your pick. It's a monster.
Speaker 1: Well, thank you, my friend. I appreciate that. And I
Speaker 1: know he doesn't have a lot of friends to play
Speaker 1: with right now, he's not really hanging out with anybody,
Speaker 1: but right that was the thing. It's well now he's
Speaker 1: gonna walk a million times again too, because just don't
Speaker 1: pitch to Joey Vado, right, I mean, at the end
Speaker 1: of the day, it's time for just reaching. So I'm
Speaker 1: sure the regial arts coming here for me, but I
Speaker 1: don't care. I'm doing it anyway. So I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: ahead and take Michael Kopek here with twelve well one.
Speaker 1: I don't care where the innings are, how he gets them.
Speaker 1: I just want them on my team. Brian Hayes goes
Speaker 1: at twelve oh two. I don't know who just had
Speaker 1: a frustrated sound. Was that you Welsh.
Speaker 4: No, it's me. It's always me, apparently, Joe. If I'm
Speaker 4: not one of the analysts that doesn't loves your team
Speaker 4: at the end, I'd be shocked. I'd be shocked at
Speaker 4: he well going.
Speaker 1: I don't have enough closers for your taste would be mine.
Speaker 1: So Franberg Dansby Swanson, Lauren, you're on the clock twelve
Speaker 1: oh five? Where do you go?
Speaker 3: Chris Bassett, who is another target of mine always and
Speaker 3: I like the move also to New York for him,
Speaker 3: and he's just one of these I feel like underrated
Speaker 3: guys again. I mean, I still it's not like a
Speaker 3: super high strikeout move, but he's so consistent, he has
Speaker 3: low his era and you know, surface stats are just
Speaker 3: good and I just feel like he always goes.
Speaker 2: Under the radar.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I love Basset. Bassett was the guy I was
Speaker 1: considering too, but I just went for the sexy upside.
Speaker 1: There Willia doms goes next than Shane bos Chris Welsh,
Speaker 1: what do you do? For twelve oh eight?
Speaker 4: I went for Nathany Evaldi. Sorry, I was scrolling through
Speaker 4: here as I'm making out my next pick.
Speaker 1: Was Walking Invitation.
Speaker 4: I wasn't sure I went I can't do a good impressions.
Speaker 1: I took him, Yeah, he had so many choices. Still
Speaker 1: they got yeah, so rich, all wrong, the wrong, careful,
Speaker 1: don't don't get auto picked.
Speaker 4: I'm not getting it well. I was focused on both
Speaker 4: of those pictures here. This is a tough spot because
Speaker 4: I don't love everybody, but we're going to do this.
Speaker 4: If I can get over there, I am going to
Speaker 4: I'm going to acknowledge a little bit of the Yankee bump.
Speaker 4: I need third base. I've kind of fallen off the
Speaker 4: table a little bit. I took Josh Donaldson right around one,
Speaker 4: you know, pick like one because I needed that third
Speaker 4: basement pretty bad. And that's just more big power for
Speaker 4: this team.
Speaker 1: All right, Moore, A big power for the Welsh. You
Speaker 1: can't get enough of it, Lauren. I know you're back
Speaker 1: up on the clock real quick. I'm just gonna recap
Speaker 1: after evolved these Sunny Gray, Zach Gowan, Justin Turner, Trent Grisham.
Speaker 1: Then at thirteen starting thirteen oh one, Chris Taylor, kellenick
Speaker 1: Manaiah Ian Anderson, Josh Donaldson to Welsh. Then Suzuki goes
Speaker 1: thirteen oh six, Miles Straw thirteen oh seven, Lauren thirteen
Speaker 1: oh eight, You're on the clock.
Speaker 2: So I went with Alex Perdugo.
Speaker 3: I like the average there, I like the will BEP,
Speaker 3: I like the runs.
Speaker 2: I like Alex Erdugo here.
Speaker 1: More, I need some power, according to the draft Wizard
Speaker 1: as I'm looking here, So do I try to just
Speaker 1: throw it all to a wall with Jorge Solaire? That's
Speaker 1: that's asking a lot Welsh. What do you think about that?
Speaker 1: Do you think that makes me crazy? Or you think
Speaker 1: I'm not well?
Speaker 4: I mean I'm not a big Jorgey Solaire guy right now?
Speaker 1: Like that.
Speaker 4: There's some other power bats, I mean, like Hunter Renfro,
Speaker 4: like Hna Renfro is probably a power bat. I would
Speaker 4: rather go in there still be there. I'm not looking
Speaker 4: at the full boy guys, but I mean Avicel if
Speaker 4: you're willing to, you know, risk it a little bit.
Speaker 4: But Renfro is a big power guy. Grossman is still
Speaker 4: out there as well for power. Speed or a Selaier
Speaker 4: is not my uh, not my jam.
Speaker 1: At this point, but fair enough, fair enough now. I
Speaker 1: did have to make a panic pick there because I
Speaker 1: was running out of time. Too much multitasking here for me,
Speaker 1: so I did take care off with one of them
Speaker 1: because I like kirel Off anyway, So I was like, Okay,
Speaker 1: that's good because I was looking for Hunter Renfro couldn't
Speaker 1: find him. Now I find him, so I will. Let's
Speaker 1: see you.
Speaker 2: Certain about his wrists at all?
Speaker 4: Are now?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 2: K Yeah?
Speaker 4: No, I mean I think I mean his his dad's
Speaker 4: a hitting coach. By the way, I interviewed Kiroloff a
Speaker 4: couple of years ago on the show Prospect One. His dad,
Speaker 4: I mean, his dad is a pretty accomplished hitting coach,
Speaker 4: and he's a really really smart, uh player that that
Speaker 4: risk injury that just takes longer to recover from. And
Speaker 4: I kind of depleted that first season carried over into
Speaker 4: the next one. So I love him. I think he's
Speaker 4: a completely underrated player. I love the guy. But you know,
Speaker 4: I mean, it's something to monitor, but it's not a
Speaker 4: long term worry for me at least.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this is where my draft took a tank, So
Speaker 1: I'm just telling you right now. So Milanson went nine,
Speaker 1: then Lord Escuriel DoLS Garcia. I took kire Off. It
Speaker 1: was a player I like dual eligibility too. I took Renfro,
Speaker 1: gave me the region alert, so the Wizard and I
Speaker 1: are fighting again. Then Edward Rodriguez Way almost took I
Speaker 1: had I had my brothers, I would take in Rodriguez
Speaker 1: and Renfro, but I didn't. Rizzo goes next, Chapman goes
Speaker 1: after that, the newest member of the Toronto Blue Jays,
Speaker 1: because they just keep adding everybody. Lauren, you're on the
Speaker 1: clock from I know.
Speaker 2: I'm like, I get a point where I don't I
Speaker 2: don't like it.
Speaker 4: Right now, we're in a range. I can tell you
Speaker 4: you're one hundred percent range right now.
Speaker 3: So I'm going to go Andrew Bennettendi, who I also
Speaker 3: have been getting in lots of drafts. I'd like him
Speaker 3: because he's underrated. He contributes everywhere, but not like exceptionally
Speaker 3: well in one area. And I think that that, you know,
Speaker 3: Royal's lineup is kind of sneaky and interesting this season.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I would agree. That's also one of Welsh's guys,
Speaker 1: which is why you get another grunt out of Welsh.
Speaker 1: He's had a lot of Benettendee shares on the.
Speaker 4: Runs and moans and.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and then we have Louis Garcia Houston off the
Speaker 1: board right before you whils you're up for fourteen oh eight.
Speaker 4: So when I was at Padres camp the other day,
Speaker 4: one of the pleasant sights was getting to watch a
Speaker 4: couple guys throw. It was Joe Musgrove and Mike Clevenger
Speaker 4: was out there looking healthy, looking spry and just pushing
Speaker 4: balls by Manny Machado in them. And I'm going to
Speaker 4: take Mike Clevenger. I think he looked healthy, which is
Speaker 4: a big key back with the team again wins. I'm
Speaker 4: going with Darvish and Levy and right around one sixty
Speaker 4: it's a pretty if it's a value, yeah, the things
Speaker 4: it's like eighty nine percent. He would have been there
Speaker 4: a little bit later, but I think he's between that
Speaker 4: one sixty one eighty mark. And I'm trying to pick
Speaker 4: up on stolen bases there, Joey.
Speaker 1: It's frustrating, isn't it when when it mocks you, when.
Speaker 2: The mocks a double mock, it makes it.
Speaker 1: Even Yeah, there's a lot of mocking going on there.
Speaker 1: So Clevenger goes. I like the Clevenger pick personally, So
Speaker 1: I don't here what the mock wizard says to you.
Speaker 1: Carlson jungjin Ryu, Logan, Gilbert Michael CONFORDO at fourteen twelve
Speaker 1: starting fifteen oh one, Michael Brantley, Marcus Stroman Glaber, Torres,
Speaker 1: Joe Adelle, Welsh you're backup on the clock with twenty seconds.
Speaker 4: I am backup on the clock needing to make a
Speaker 4: pick pretty pretty quick here. And I don't love, I know,
Speaker 4: really all of it. All right, I'm.
Speaker 1: Gonna there is a draw with you. This is my
Speaker 1: this is my pushing to have fun this year everybody
Speaker 1: and play shallow leagues. It was like, oh, it's an
Speaker 1: all start team, so what it's fun. Fantasy is supposed
Speaker 1: to be fun. Everything doesn't have to be this challenge
Speaker 1: where you play two tight ends and twelve catchers and
Speaker 1: you have to make yourself miserable. I don't know why
Speaker 1: people do that to themselves. Damn it. Welsh yet took
Speaker 1: the guy that I wanted the most well done. So
Speaker 1: now we're evenings to Patrick said, talk about it.
Speaker 4: Talk about I'm just trying to stack up. You know,
Speaker 4: when watching some of my categories right now, I am
Speaker 4: dominant offensively and pitching, I'm doing okay, but wins in
Speaker 4: quality starts. It just doesn't like so Clevenger and Patrick
Speaker 4: Sandival sand offal breakout candidate, big strikeout candidate, just perfect
Speaker 4: for the back end of my rotation.
Speaker 1: All right, Next is Tyler Stevenson, Marcelo Zuna, Robbie Grossman.
Speaker 1: Then I'm sorry, Lauren.
Speaker 3: I'm also in this kind of like like mode of
Speaker 3: the draft, so I was like, well, I'm like, I
Speaker 3: get a little power, a little speed top of that
Speaker 3: Tigers lineup, which I like this season.
Speaker 2: So it's Robbie Grossman.
Speaker 1: All right. Robbie Grossman goes next, Then Trey Mancini Ranger Suarez.
Speaker 1: Luis Severino now puts me up on the clock for
Speaker 1: two picks. I hate this, but I'm gonna do it.
Speaker 1: I already have Charlie Morton, so I guess he needs
Speaker 1: somebody else on the ARP list with him. So we'll
Speaker 1: put Adam Wainwright, who experts say is a steal. But
Speaker 1: I mean, any chance of him repeating what he did
Speaker 1: last year is probably absolutely impossible, So I'm not even
Speaker 1: gonna I'm even gonna dignify that remark. Well, she was
Speaker 1: your favorite closer. Left of this bunch, you got Deval,
Speaker 1: kimberl Trinan Sodo Whitlock. Ah.
Speaker 4: See, this is a off spark spot here, because like,
Speaker 4: if Kimber gets traded, it's him. I might speculate Trinan
Speaker 4: has a job. See, Okay, it might be trying simply
Speaker 4: because I don't see how the Dodgers are going to
Speaker 4: bring back Kinley after the money they've spent, and he
Speaker 4: looks like he's lined in to be the closer. So
Speaker 4: I speculate on one of those two guys, and I
Speaker 4: probably go trying.
Speaker 1: You agree, Lauren tried where I was going? Yeah, I
Speaker 1: figured you know what. I was trying to hopefully steal
Speaker 1: another closer there, but instead I get the reach alert
Speaker 1: ninety chance that Blake trying would make it back to me.
Speaker 1: So there you go, everything going downhill.
Speaker 4: Closer, they're not ranking high.
Speaker 1: Hi France goes back to Tory Canabel after that, Kybert Ruiz, Lauren,
Speaker 1: you are on the.
Speaker 2: Carpe the clock.
Speaker 4: It's the worst. Like, I don't want to be.
Speaker 1: Stupid.
Speaker 2: What am I doing here?
Speaker 3: I'm gonna I'm gonna go with with Disco here with
Speaker 3: Tony Disco.
Speaker 1: Hey go Anthony Discofani sixteen oh five.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I needed another picture here. I like him.
Speaker 3: I like what they're doing in San Francisco, although now,
Speaker 3: I mean, they're bringing in all these guys in San Francisco,
Speaker 3: and I think just like with this idea that it's like, well,
Speaker 3: we'll just kind of bring these like injury prone players
Speaker 3: in and we'll just rotate them because they're not all
Speaker 3: going to last the full season. And so I feel
Speaker 3: like that's what the strategy is right now.
Speaker 1: But it could work.
Speaker 3: You know, it could And you know, I'm buying Descefani's
Speaker 3: season last year. I don't know if he'll replicate it
Speaker 3: or anything, but I think that there's there's a lot
Speaker 3: of sweet sauce going over there out there in San
Speaker 3: Francisco with the Pictures.
Speaker 1: Team seven, just a Jack Lyder clearly building a dynasty
Speaker 1: team here. Brandon Belt then Welsh. You just took one
Speaker 1: of your absolute Welsh dudes here with the next pick
Speaker 1: at sixty to oh eight.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't even realize like how much I think
Speaker 4: I've made him my guy. But I took a med
Speaker 4: Rosario I've kind of highlighted as a breakout candidate power speed.
Speaker 4: You can never have enough speed on the team. He's
Speaker 4: my last outfielder, but he also qualifies as shortstop, which
Speaker 4: I did not get so I'm gonna put him at shortstop.
Speaker 4: At this point, I was looking at Brandon Crawford, but
Speaker 4: I just wanted a little bit more of a speed
Speaker 4: push just FYI.
Speaker 1: Fair enough, fair enough there. So after Rosario, kimberl Garcia,
Speaker 1: Louis Arius of the Milwaukee Brewers, and Ryan McMahon, Goo
Speaker 1: is nice value at sixteen twelve, seventeen oh one Toori
Speaker 1: schoobl Colton Wong, Eddie Rosario, Trevor Bauer at seventeen oh four,
Speaker 1: Welsh Who would you take at seventeen oh five Charlie Blackman.
Speaker 4: I went with Charlie Blackman to be my final outfielder.
Speaker 4: I've got now a Cunia Springer Winker and Charlie Blackman.
Speaker 4: Who's got Chris Bryan in there? Always betting on Colorado.
Speaker 4: I just think he's kind of a dally type of guy. Here.
Speaker 4: He's a deal and helps me a little bit in
Speaker 4: the OBP department.
Speaker 1: All right, So after that kill Bideo at Duardo Escobar,
Speaker 1: Jean Segura goes to Laura and Lauren talk about Gene
Speaker 1: Segur at seventeen oh eight.
Speaker 3: II ighting Sigura, you know he's kind of pump him
Speaker 3: in with like an Andrew Benattendi where he's gonna.
Speaker 2: Give you a production across the board with.
Speaker 3: Especially some sneaky runs, you know, leading off in Philly there,
Speaker 3: especially with you know, Kyle Schuer We're coming in, and
Speaker 3: he also, I don't you know, he's he's a good
Speaker 3: batting average play. I think he's got like a like
Speaker 3: a two to eighty five plus like career average average,
Speaker 3: so which is tough to get at this point when
Speaker 3: we are just after kind of pick two hundred. So
Speaker 3: I like him for lots of reasons.
Speaker 1: All Right, I like this next pick I'm gonna make
Speaker 1: here because it's obp and uh So I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: ahead and take Brandon Neimo and hope for once things
Speaker 1: actually go my way with this pick here. Uh So,
Speaker 1: Julio Rodriguez went after Lauren I gotta steal. How is
Speaker 1: the wizard like that that the wizard likes? Come on,
Speaker 1: my goodness, So after Sigura, Julio Rodriguez, Jake McGee, Bory Solaier,
Speaker 1: I took Jordan Montgomery, and Brandon Nimo took another starting pitcher. Again,
Speaker 1: just trying to take a good picture on a good team.
Speaker 1: I think Montgomery can get me thirteen wins with the Yankees.
Speaker 1: Took Neimo for the OBP. It seems like he's gonna
Speaker 1: play every day. From what we're here out of Mets Camp.
Speaker 1: Scott Barlow goes next at eighteen oh two, than Julie
Speaker 1: Guriel Juno Suarez at eighteen oh four. Lauren, you're on
Speaker 1: the clock for eighteen oh five.
Speaker 2: You know, John Means was sitting there for a really
Speaker 2: long time.
Speaker 3: I'm not like the biggest Means person, but I think
Speaker 3: that he does help you out and whip, and I
Speaker 3: think that he can. I don't know, I feel like
Speaker 3: he's just dropping a lot, and I don't know that
Speaker 3: he should be.
Speaker 4: So I was memes, yeah you snack, you know, I
Speaker 4: was one hundred there, I was going.
Speaker 1: So that's what I was just going to say. You know,
Speaker 1: Nick Pollock is very high on on John Beans, so
Speaker 1: I listened when Nick talks most of the time, unless
Speaker 1: he's talking about pancakes.
Speaker 4: I was talking about more heandcakes.
Speaker 1: It's yeah, yeah, gross uh Camillo Daval than Austin Hayes Welsh.
Speaker 1: You're up on the clock here for eighteen oh eight.
Speaker 4: I took Crawford. I needed at a middle infield spot
Speaker 4: that was open. I now got him, Ed Rosario and Crawford.
Speaker 4: Just if I'm playing the cheap shortstop game, which I
Speaker 4: am obviously that I thought those were really good options.
Speaker 4: I was going to go John Means, though, and then
Speaker 4: I figured that I was going to get one of
Speaker 4: these guys coming back here, and I got to decide,
Speaker 4: you know what, let's flip over here we go with Alex.
Speaker 4: Woods are always yeah, giants are always picking up wins.
Speaker 4: I get some striking gaps. It's just a it's a
Speaker 4: good final starting pitcher.
Speaker 1: For my that was my after After Crawford, you got
Speaker 1: Mitch Garverer Noelve, Marte ten or how Herman Marquez. Then
Speaker 1: in nineteen oh one, starting the nineteenth round, Hendrix Cindergard Torkosin,
Speaker 1: who I was hoping would make it back to me.
Speaker 1: It did not, but probably we sh would have taken him.
Speaker 1: Adlie Rutchman. Then you took would Alex Cobb, Brennan, Davis, Lauren.
Speaker 1: You are up next on the clock.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it all hurts right now. We're all just like guys.
Speaker 2: Okay, see here, I.
Speaker 4: Don't see a lot of good players anymore.
Speaker 2: You know, I'm gonna I'm going to round my pitching
Speaker 2: staff out here with.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna do Stephen Mattz just because I think that
Speaker 3: he is this extremely you.
Speaker 2: Know ground ball.
Speaker 3: I like that pic pitcher, and he's he's got the
Speaker 3: leagu's number one defense behind him.
Speaker 2: I think, just I don't know, rounding the staff out
Speaker 2: with Matt.
Speaker 1: I like the Matts pick. I think it's terrific. I
Speaker 1: can't believe this guy's still out there, and I love
Speaker 1: taking a shot on him as another guy that the
Speaker 1: pictureless guys we had a nice long discussion about. So
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go ahead and take John Gray and see
Speaker 1: if just getting out of Colorado is enough to get
Speaker 1: it done. So after Lauren took Matts, your Cudie goes
Speaker 1: Frank Schwindelle Ramon Loriano, and then I took John Gray.
Speaker 1: So I have another pick up here right now in
Speaker 1: terms of my needs on my roster, I have a
Speaker 1: utility spot in the middle endfield spot opened. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: leave that utility spot open here. Probably Scope was the
Speaker 1: guy that I was looking at, and I think that's
Speaker 1: the way that I'm going to go, just kind of
Speaker 1: lock in some extra power there. It's cheap. He goes
Speaker 1: into the middle infield spot for me. So I'm actually
Speaker 1: very happy with Gray. I'm bouncing back a little bit
Speaker 1: after a couple tough rounds. Nineteen to twenty finally went
Speaker 1: my way. George Kirby, My goodness, so much youth here
Speaker 1: in this draft. It just shows you once you get deep,
Speaker 1: you gotta start taking off the raids. They're going off
Speaker 1: the real Adam Duval, Joe Ryan one of Aero Cohen's favorites.
Speaker 1: Here from the show, Lauren, You're up on the clock
Speaker 1: at twenty.
Speaker 3: Five, I went with Kicky Hernandez. I think you get it.
Speaker 3: Some pop there, you get it.
Speaker 2: Tons of you know runs, So it's Kiki hit this
Speaker 2: point for me.
Speaker 1: Kiki Hernandez Ian happ David Bedner goes next, Well, you're
Speaker 1: up for twelve oh eight? Might I get years ago twelve?
Speaker 4: How did I get up again? All right, there's no
Speaker 4: good hitters. I don't need any pictures. And again the
Speaker 4: hitters are atrocious. So I am going to go with
Speaker 4: the potential Mets leadoff hitter. I got two U tail spots.
Speaker 4: I can take whoever I want. I'm gonna go with
Speaker 4: Kanna help me and run.
Speaker 1: Oh that's my selection there.
Speaker 3: I like that.
Speaker 4: Put him at the top, and and I'm gonna come
Speaker 4: back up and I think all I have is one
Speaker 4: Utah and a catcher. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well, after Conna, you got Darnault Volpi, Carlos Carrasco, who
Speaker 1: I was kind of keeping around there, Savali starts twenty
Speaker 1: one and Anniol Cruz, Taylor Rogers Christian Haave are another
Speaker 1: one of my favorite late round picks going at twenty
Speaker 1: one oh four. So while You're up at twenty one oh.
Speaker 4: Five, so I'm trying to find you know what we're
Speaker 4: gonna Okay, I was going to do this. Everyone knows.
Speaker 4: I tweeted out that Andrew Vaughn stuff last week where
Speaker 4: he was earlier in the week where he was playing
Speaker 4: second base, and that was interesting. Not that I'm gonna
Speaker 4: make that make me pivot off of him, but I'm
Speaker 4: gonna go with because I think he might be one
Speaker 4: of the better options on the board. But I'm gonna
Speaker 4: go with the little homer of a pick. I think
Speaker 4: go with Diamondbacks Josh Rojas, who is going to be
Speaker 4: at the top of the order for the Diamondbacks. He's
Speaker 4: positioned eligible across everything. He's power speed. It's just a
Speaker 4: good complimentary player for this team, assuming I'm not trying
Speaker 4: to chase any more power.
Speaker 1: I almost selected him when I took Scope, but I
Speaker 1: took the power for scope, so I like that pick.
Speaker 1: Christian Vasquez goes next. Lou Trevino goes after that, Lauren,
Speaker 1: you're up for twenty one oh eight.
Speaker 2: I am my computer is getting a wheel here.
Speaker 1: But well, you made who did I pick? It? Says
Speaker 1: Nicki Lopez? Is that who you wanted?
Speaker 2: Okay, I'm fine, I was okay, I'm fine.
Speaker 1: I'm not.
Speaker 2: I'm okay. You know, you get some steals there.
Speaker 3: I do think people are a little weary of him,
Speaker 3: just because they I don't know if they can buy
Speaker 3: into last season. But he does have good kind of
Speaker 3: quality of contact stats, and so that's good. So I
Speaker 3: think that he can maintain a batting average and get
Speaker 3: some steals. I can make a case for Nicky Lopez
Speaker 3: that works.
Speaker 4: That's fine, all right.
Speaker 1: I think I need a little bit more just power
Speaker 1: in the middle. Here is more RBI. So looking at
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go take a shot on the Bobby Doll
Speaker 1: back and see what's going on there. See if that works.
Speaker 2: He had a good day yesterday.
Speaker 1: Well let's hope that he has a good season for
Speaker 1: this mock draft theoretical team that I'm putting together here,
Speaker 1: catchers left because I gotta get a catcher because last round,
Speaker 1: you know me, I wait to the end, especially one
Speaker 1: catcher league. So it's Kirk, it's Elias Diaz's Sean Murphy.
Speaker 1: I don't want to take Gary Sanchez to Minnesota, as
Speaker 1: tempting as that might be, So I'll go ahead and
Speaker 1: I'll keep it simple with Murphy. He's the last man standing.
Speaker 1: I assume he's the cleanup hitter now considering what's going
Speaker 1: on there. So just to once again recap, so after
Speaker 1: Lauren was Nikki Lopez, just McKenzie goes next, Gregory Soto,
Speaker 1: Drew Rasmision, Bobby doll Back, and Sean Murphy. To me,
Speaker 1: last round, Oscar, you know a great last round pick there,
Speaker 1: Josh Young. Interesting selection there is gonna miss a lot
Speaker 1: of time. Adam Frazier a nice late selection. Then Lauren,
Speaker 1: you took your catcher who I.
Speaker 3: Took Oz, who's always like one of my like last
Speaker 3: catcher picks in one catcher leaguees because you get some
Speaker 3: average you have a little bit of pop, but it's
Speaker 3: mostly the average play.
Speaker 1: All right, Gary Sanchez goes next. You say, Kokuchi, that's
Speaker 1: a good pick at twenty two. Like that Welsh, you're
Speaker 1: up on the clock twenty two eight.
Speaker 4: I was gonna take Gary Sanchez regardless of what you said.
Speaker 4: I would have taken him with the big power in dhing,
Speaker 4: but he went two bicks before me. So I took
Speaker 4: Carson Kelly. That was him, or Max Stacey or kind
Speaker 4: of like my back end catchers. So I just went
Speaker 4: with Carson Kelly.
Speaker 1: All right, So the draft grades are out.
Speaker 3: I tell A I did not do well. I have
Speaker 3: third base open, which I thought I had covered third base, so.
Speaker 1: I had got to somebody around. Maybe you know why
Speaker 1: I blame Y.
Speaker 4: And Lopez did it again?
Speaker 1: NICKI, God, well, look you have an incomplete I've got
Speaker 1: the eighty six out of one hundred with the b Welsh,
Speaker 1: how did you end out?
Speaker 4: Do you want to know?
Speaker 1: Is it a plus plus plus?
Speaker 4: You all want to know a plus ninety nine out
Speaker 4: of one hundred. Let's wait to see the time. I'm
Speaker 4: so excited for the projection.
Speaker 1: Wonder.
Speaker 4: I wonder if I will love my own draft the most.
Speaker 1: Of t O. I love you some you right, I.
Speaker 4: Am loving me well, loving me some me today too.
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, you did win the draft, so Christopher Wells
Speaker 1: ninety nine. What a score? Team one had a ninety
Speaker 1: team eleven and ninety. I am at five with eighty seven,
Speaker 1: Lauren at seventy six. But again the third base thing,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna pretend like it's more like an eighty four four.
Speaker 3: Well you can, but I'll take the grade that I got. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I'm okay with that all right now.
Speaker 1: In terms of who liked your draft, Welsh, go ahead.
Speaker 1: Did you like your draft the most?
Speaker 4: The expert that liked my draft the most was Chris Welsh.
Speaker 4: The fantasy pros love. I love my own wealth, my
Speaker 4: own drafts, is it?
Speaker 1: The Welsh?
Speaker 4: I love my own drafts so much? I mean, let's
Speaker 4: be let's be clear, though, Can you be more locked
Speaker 4: into your own takes and not like I'm not faking here,
Speaker 4: Like I out my ranks here, I drafted it out.
Speaker 4: Not only did I love my draft more than anybody else,
Speaker 4: which is ridiculous, ninety nine out of one hundred, baby,
Speaker 4: just making a point. No big deal, No big deal, Joe.
Speaker 1: All right, well, it says that what if for me?
Speaker 1: And again I love the draft insights, so after your
Speaker 1: draft is over, it gives you all the draft insights.
Speaker 1: A top player I took was Devers because he's a
Speaker 1: top three at their position, but says, what if if
Speaker 1: I had taken Kyle Tucker, then I could have taken
Speaker 1: a third basement later and it says I would have
Speaker 1: been significantly higher, which is something that was a goal
Speaker 1: of mine, especially in college, to always get that. But Lauren,
Speaker 1: you ended up taking Tucker instead. What does your draft
Speaker 1: insight say? Going to give you your reaches? Did it
Speaker 1: give your what ifs? What are some of the things
Speaker 1: you thought were interesting here?
Speaker 3: Well, so my top players are Bryce Harper and Jad Martinez,
Speaker 3: but my what if was Nick Cassianos and had I
Speaker 3: drafted him instead of a picture, I would have been
Speaker 3: significantly higher. It says that I'm you know, I should
Speaker 3: be rooting for the Red Sox in this one because
Speaker 3: I have a ton of Red Sox. And in terms
Speaker 3: of Steele's, you know, Jean Segura, John means we talked
Speaker 3: about you know, both of those guys. I like them both,
Speaker 3: you know, as these kind of later round players and
Speaker 3: I read I guess, oh yeah, I did reach on
Speaker 3: Stephen Matt's.
Speaker 1: But I you know what, though, I like that reach
Speaker 1: on Stephen Matts. Okay, I feel like that's that's a
Speaker 1: guy who you know, left these sometimes figured out later.
Speaker 1: He's a good spot there with Saint Louis, good support
Speaker 1: around him, good defensive team too. Why not take him theirs?
Speaker 1: I see. I think that's silly. I don't think that's
Speaker 1: a reach at all. Thank you, Jo.
Speaker 3: And it says that I project to be top four
Speaker 3: and OBP, which is good, QS, which is good.
Speaker 2: We're talking about the six by six here and the
Speaker 2: best in average. And Frank Stample of CBS likes my draft.
Speaker 1: Oh well, then it must be very good. Frank Stample
Speaker 1: likes it. Frankie Boy was on the show earlier this week.
Speaker 1: My reaches were Michael Kopek and Brandon Nimo, which I'm
Speaker 1: at piece with. I'm fine with that. Those are my reaches. Well,
Speaker 1: who are your reach in your I.
Speaker 4: Only had one and it said Emmanuel Class just didn't
Speaker 4: like my closer thing.
Speaker 3: That's fine, right, I mean, I feel like you're always
Speaker 3: reaching for the for the closers.
Speaker 2: It's like you take that every day.
Speaker 1: Well, it said Will Smith was a reach for me,
Speaker 1: like you got to reach for any closer. I feel
Speaker 1: like at this point, yeah.
Speaker 4: I agree. It's funny too. It has as my what
Speaker 4: if it says, what if you drafted Vlad you could
Speaker 4: have scored significantly higher? Hey, I scored a ninety nine?
Speaker 4: How much higher can I go? So that what if
Speaker 4: is pretty fun Joe, by the way, also taking a
Speaker 4: look here my positional ranks number one overall, number one
Speaker 4: in starters, number four and hitters, and we get it.
Speaker 1: It was good, it was good, It was goody good,
Speaker 1: it was pretty good.
Speaker 2: And who said it was the best ever? Mind?
Speaker 4: Yeah, this really really smart guy name Christopher Welsh.
Speaker 1: Okay, no relation, no relation, of course, no relation an
Speaker 1: expert opinions though, Well, she's want to tell you people
Speaker 1: who liked my draft? Me I did, Joe? Guys again,
Speaker 1: brand Scott White from CBS, of course likes my draft.
Speaker 1: To Scott and I always see players the same way.
Speaker 1: But you know what else like my draft?
Speaker 4: Welsh?
Speaker 1: Scott Bogman's Yeah.
Speaker 4: You and Scott Bogman are your love affair.
Speaker 1: I'm looking at who hated my draft? Nate Markham hated
Speaker 1: my draft. A couple other he Caps hated my draft.
Speaker 1: Chris Clegg hated my draft. So Chris, what did they
Speaker 1: do to you? I like you, Chris.
Speaker 2: Braves.
Speaker 1: I guess on expert opinions just out of curiosity, morbid
Speaker 1: curiosity most likely who liked your draft and didn't like it? Lauren?
Speaker 2: Let me see here?
Speaker 3: Okay, So so Frank was like the number one, oh
Speaker 3: thumbs oh and like Pat Pat fits more so, that's
Speaker 3: that's good.
Speaker 1: Oh Pat likes it. It's good?
Speaker 3: Ye? Yeah, so those are good? Did you want me
Speaker 3: to like list all of these people here?
Speaker 1: I don't know if there's anybody fun like if well
Speaker 1: liked it or someone you know, and the expert opinions
Speaker 1: sometimes sometimes it's fun something in friends of the industry
Speaker 1: who like.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the thumbs down. Uh, Scott Pianowski. Scott Panowski does
Speaker 2: not paying draft.
Speaker 3: He did not like my Bryce Harbor pick or my
Speaker 3: Ryan Presley pick or like what Scott?
Speaker 1: Come on, come on, Scott, give her, give her a break. Scott,
Speaker 1: come on, all right, let's run through the teams here, Welsh,
Speaker 1: take us through your squad here. Let's start with Carson
Speaker 1: Kelly matt Olsen, Ozzy Albi's Brandon Crawford, Josh Donalson, Max Muncia,
Speaker 1: mid Rosario, Than in the outfield, Rondikudia, George Springer, Winker, Blackman,
Speaker 1: Conna Rojas. I'm a little worried about Winker. I gotta
Speaker 1: tell you, let's talk about the offense. Are you worried
Speaker 1: about him moving to Seattle?
Speaker 2: Now?
Speaker 4: No, I said, I'm not. I mean, like, we can
Speaker 4: talk about power suppression. But the biggest thing with Winker
Speaker 4: has always been, and this might be everyone else's take
Speaker 4: was like can he hit for power? And he's not
Speaker 4: built to be a forty home run type of a hitter,
Speaker 4: so I'm not sure we're going to have major power suppression.
Speaker 4: He goes into a little bit worse of a park,
Speaker 4: which is going to play in half the time. He
Speaker 4: makes incredibly, incredibly good contact, There's a lot of good
Speaker 4: run support around him. I think this is good. Maybe
Speaker 4: he ticks down a little bit in power, but I
Speaker 4: think the batting we're just gonna hold up, and this
Speaker 4: might be more run in RBI than we've seen in Cincinnati.
Speaker 4: So I'm not that worried. Plus, you know, it was
Speaker 4: one little small look but looked awesome yesterday. He just
Speaker 4: looked awesome in those backfields. I mean he looks like
Speaker 4: the pros pro of hitters.
Speaker 1: It's a very good team, Welsh. I mean, I gotta
Speaker 1: be honest with I'll look at it right now.
Speaker 4: And the pitching staff you like on the strength go
Speaker 4: on my five Pianowski actually liked mine. He was one
Speaker 4: of mine, and you were one of my, like my
Speaker 4: team guys on the.
Speaker 1: Experts, Yeah, Gilito, Darvish, Kershaw, Avaldi. I love the Clevenger pick.
Speaker 1: I love the Santaval pick, would Edwin Diaz Casse. I
Speaker 1: mean that that's a good that's a good staff right there.
Speaker 1: I'd go to war with that. Lauren. Uh, you got
Speaker 1: Darvayez a catcher, c J. Crown India, Nikki Lopez? Who
Speaker 1: do you want to take at their base?
Speaker 2: Who should anyone?
Speaker 4: Maybe in Toronto?
Speaker 1: Maybe?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Sure?
Speaker 3: I mean you know what, though, like I was looking,
Speaker 3: I had written down like that the categories. Apparently I
Speaker 3: cannot write down properly because I missed the third base thing.
Speaker 3: And then I had like two extra I had like
Speaker 3: Ben and Tendy, who I love, but he didn't fit anywhere,
Speaker 3: and neither the Kiki Hernandez, So I somehow wrote something
Speaker 3: down wrong, and I think this contributed to my score.
Speaker 2: So I'm sitting here with a blank third baseman.
Speaker 1: You just make a trade. It's fine, Josh Bell jeans Ager.
Speaker 1: I like the Ben Attendi pick. And of course in
Speaker 1: the outfield loaded Harper, Tucker, Tiascar, Hernandez, jad Martinez, verdugo
Speaker 1: E Grossman from an offensive standpoint third base joking Lee Aside,
Speaker 1: I mean this dog will hunt as far as I'm concerned.
Speaker 1: How do you feel about this massive outfield you got here?
Speaker 3: I like it, you know, I was saying I didn't
Speaker 3: really love because I think those were like my one
Speaker 3: through four, one through three picks, just getting picking up outfielders.
Speaker 2: But you know it plays.
Speaker 3: I'll take it because they're all really good power speed
Speaker 3: combo guys.
Speaker 1: All right. And then after that the rotation is lance Lynn, Barrios, McClanahan,
Speaker 1: Chris Bassett, John Means, if means gets right, this is
Speaker 1: a really solid staff because these are guys who are
Speaker 1: gonna go out there, take the ball before day and
Speaker 1: just give you a good quality starts. And that's why
Speaker 1: you're leading quality starts. And some doubt about it. DeSclafani,
Speaker 1: Stephen Matts, Ryan Presley in there as well. So I
Speaker 1: like this team. So Key Key Hernandez, Andrew Benintendi on
Speaker 1: the bench, Keeky can play third base, tell them to
Speaker 1: grab it?
Speaker 2: Sure? Why not?
Speaker 1: You know? Yeah, all right, let's let's let's pick this
Speaker 1: one apart Sean Murphy, Joey Vado, wit Meryfield, Bobby Wit, Junior,
Speaker 1: Raffield Devers, Alex Kirilov, Jonathan Scope and the outfield Mike Trout,
Speaker 1: Cedric Mullins, Brian Reynolds, Hunter Renfro, Bobby Zawback, Brandon and
Speaker 1: Nimo Welsh. What are your thoughts on the offense here
Speaker 1: for Joey P.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean I thought, like you got You've got
Speaker 4: power bats that I don't usually chase, and chase guys
Speaker 4: like doll Back and Renfro to.
Speaker 1: Make up for I was behind.
Speaker 4: Yeah, no, and I get that. I just I don't
Speaker 4: love to play that game, so I try to be cognizant.
Speaker 4: I hate to play the behind game. But like I
Speaker 4: love the core of this team. I love the stolen
Speaker 4: bases that you have with Wit, I love the pick.
Speaker 4: Trout is just such a monster for OBP. I mean,
Speaker 4: you're dominant with stolen bases, you've got great batting average,
Speaker 4: you're probably playing well in to you, but then it's
Speaker 4: like the guys like the Dollback and Renfro maybe bring
Speaker 4: you down a little bit. But I think this is
Speaker 4: a really, really great offense and I'm very much in
Speaker 4: for two dominant stolen bass guys. And you did that
Speaker 4: with Mullins and Wit.
Speaker 1: Joe Musgrove, Charlie Morton, Trevor Rodgers, Michael Kopek, Adam Wainwright,
Speaker 1: Jordan Montgomery, John Gray, will Smith and Blake Trying. And
Speaker 1: what are your thoughts on the pitching staff here, Lauren,
Speaker 1: that I have assembled for this mock draft.
Speaker 2: I love it. I like it a lot. You know,
Speaker 2: I'm you.
Speaker 1: Hate it Tuesday for the fest.
Speaker 2: I do like it.
Speaker 3: I think I'm a big Charlie Morton fan and Muscrove
Speaker 3: fan and Trevor Rodgers. I think is going to have
Speaker 3: a really fabulous, fabulous year this this season.
Speaker 2: I don't know where did you get When did you
Speaker 2: get Waynwright?
Speaker 1: Do you know like late?
Speaker 3: Okay, Yeah, I'm curious to see what happens with with
Speaker 3: Wayne this season. But I think that if it was
Speaker 3: late is, you know, as long as you know, like
Speaker 3: you weren't paying for I think last season, I think
Speaker 3: it's it's totally fine, but I have no idea what's
Speaker 3: gonna happen with him this season.
Speaker 1: And I like the Jordan Montgomery pick and I think
Speaker 1: that fifteen okay good.
Speaker 2: Yeah, then that's yeah, I think that's good.
Speaker 1: Believe me. He scares the crap o me, so it's okay.
Speaker 3: Well yeah, I mean, I just it's like, I'm curious
Speaker 3: to see what happens. And I think John Gray, I
Speaker 3: think we're all looking forward to seeing, like what's happening
Speaker 3: with John Gray, you know, once he's out of Colorado.
Speaker 3: And I do think that that Texas rotation is kind
Speaker 3: of interesting, although I guess they did recently bring in
Speaker 3: some new pieces, so I don't know how it will
Speaker 3: ultimately turn out.
Speaker 2: But like with Dane Dunning and you have Nick Martinez,
Speaker 2: they just brought it. I love Spencer Howard this this season.
Speaker 1: They've got talent. This does a matter of can they
Speaker 1: harness it? And I gotta say I saw John Gray
Speaker 1: interviewed on MLB Network. I don't know why Welsh wasn't
Speaker 1: doing this interview, but they were interviewing John Gray from
Speaker 1: from the camp, and he just seemed like it's such
Speaker 1: a good spe like He's like, it just gets feel
Speaker 1: like this weight was lifted off of the guy. And
Speaker 1: I'm just curious mentally how that affects him potentially.
Speaker 3: I think, I mean, did you see that he came
Speaker 3: to camp? You know how like with your kids, you
Speaker 3: can have like the chalkboard that says my.
Speaker 1: Name is Oh, yeah, I saw that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, actually, yeah, it was so funny. I talked to
Speaker 4: him for a little bit. I was there on that day.
Speaker 4: He is one of the nicest guys on the planet.
Speaker 4: So when I saw that, I was like, oh, that
Speaker 4: makes sense because he's just such a nice guy. By
Speaker 4: the way, I just want to throw this in breaking news.
Speaker 4: Luke Voight was just traded to the Padres, So throwing this.
Speaker 1: In here interesting. Luke Voyd to the Padres so there.
Speaker 2: He needed to get out of out of the Yankees.
Speaker 1: This is why you get the news desk, AAP of
Speaker 1: fantasy pros. You know exactly what's going on. That's how
Speaker 1: Chris learns everything about his life, about baseball, football, everything.
Speaker 1: It's all there. And Lauren's gonna come back and join
Speaker 1: us on Tuesday because we've got the Fantasy Fest coming
Speaker 1: up Tuesday six to ten pm Eastern. We're gonna have
Speaker 1: mock drafts. We're gonna have fun. Lauren's gonna be their
Speaker 1: Welsh bogmin Nick Pollock's gonna join us, Frank Stample gonna
Speaker 1: join us, Casey Bubba's gonna join us. It's a who's who.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be a fun time. So if you want
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Speaker 1: have new friends in the industry. Laura a great job
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Speaker 1: So your first Fantasy pro show, how to go for you?
Speaker 1: Feeling okay?
Speaker 2: That's good. I'm happy to be coming back.
Speaker 3: It was great. You guys are great hosts. You felt
Speaker 3: very comfortable and it was fun.
Speaker 2: It was all good. Thumb two thumbs up.
Speaker 1: See Welsh, we are fun, no matter what my mom's
Speaker 1: told you.
Speaker 4: So much fun, so much fun.
Speaker 1: That's what we will have lots of follow Welsh on
Speaker 1: Twitter for more pictures of Manny Machado at is it
Speaker 1: the Welsh as well? Maybe you can get some other.
Speaker 4: Should I take a picture with today? Should I try
Speaker 4: to get my Should I try to get Bobby with.
Speaker 4: I'll try to get Bobby, try and get Bobby with.
Speaker 1: But I want you to also continue this trail of.
Speaker 2: Getting Nicky Lopez. You know what.
Speaker 4: I've talked with Nikki before. I will try to get
Speaker 4: you know what. We're gonna go for Nicky little piss.
Speaker 4: Also for my in this league crew. We'll try to
Speaker 4: get out of Berto as well. We'll try to see
Speaker 4: if we can get some pictures.
Speaker 1: I watch you miserable guys in baseball to smile. That's
Speaker 1: what because you did. But shadoh that's great. I'll want
Speaker 1: you to do it.
Speaker 4: Does Modessy smile?
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know. He's always on the
Speaker 1: eye l I never see him nick that'll do it
Speaker 1: for us. But the story of the game goes on
Speaker 1: for Lauren and Welsh. I'm Joey b. We'll see you
Speaker 1: next time. Kids.
Speaker 4: Be peace.