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Speaker 1: just become best friends? Fantasy best Friends Forever? Yeah? Yeah,
Speaker 1: you need your mic on for that one, Greg Frank
Speaker 1: stand for the close out, Chris Venttra Greg's ausmen, your
Speaker 1: Fantasy best Friends Forever, our number two, locked and loaded.
Speaker 1: Final hour the week, gentleman. And then she literally goes
Speaker 1: home right after this, So things are good. That's the
Speaker 1: way to wrap up the week. Really is a nice way.
Speaker 1: Shortstop talk. I love it you see Mataca live, No,
Speaker 1: I do love metalca though blind live. I saw three
Speaker 1: Doors Down live at a free concert Norbany. I saw
Speaker 1: krypton night. I saw three doors Down live at a
Speaker 1: free concert in in Where did I go? Panama Beach, Florida,
Speaker 1: Panna City. It was free like it was. I was
Speaker 1: like I stayed. I was at right there, so I
Speaker 1: was on the beach and I was just like walking
Speaker 1: down the beach and at some places three doors, yeah,
Speaker 1: there was they do. I haven't seen three doors down
Speaker 1: three for free. Then one of the old people said,
Speaker 1: we'll do the inauguration and we don't Gearrell, We'll play anywhere.
Speaker 1: Who else? Have you seen? Live Venture? Event seven Folds
Speaker 1: my favorite band. You've seen them? I've seen them actually
Speaker 1: open up for Metallica. Yeah, White Actually they did that
Speaker 1: ye into a couple timescause they're very similar. Yeah, at
Speaker 1: MetLife I saw them. And then the greatest, one of
Speaker 1: the greatest weekends of my life. I went to a
Speaker 1: Metallica weekend two days show at an abandoned airfield in
Speaker 1: Atlantic City. It was like it was called the Oryan
Speaker 1: festival was two days. One day they played the entire
Speaker 1: album Start to Start to Finish, and then they also
Speaker 1: played the entire Ride the Lightning album then Start to
Speaker 1: Finish Metallica and on Saturday, Events seven Fold opened up
Speaker 1: for them. Amazing, They're great. Life was crazy, moss Pit
Speaker 1: and stuff. I didn't go in the Christina she came
Speaker 1: to me with that concert, We're gonna go to a
Speaker 1: show and we're gonna get down system of a down
Speaker 1: concert where it went too well. So one of the
Speaker 1: best concerts I haven't been like that. They're awesome the violin.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't mind going to a Dave Magic Band concerts. Relaxing,
Speaker 1: you get the lighters out, you know, it's chillingly. That's
Speaker 1: like that. Yeah, I mean it's a different, five different vibe.
Speaker 1: Not really my VI. I go to UH. I like
Speaker 1: mosh Pit Greg. I've also I've also been to some
Speaker 1: hip hop shows. You ever been to a hip hop show?
Speaker 1: I've seen Macmiller alive rest in Peace. I've seen like
Speaker 1: love that dude. Right, Yeah, he's great. Remember when when
Speaker 1: he passed away, you were like shaking. Yeah, it was
Speaker 1: kind of like affecting me for the whole weekend. Still
Speaker 1: kind of affects me now when I listen to him,
Speaker 1: he like kind of me and him. Are were the
Speaker 1: same age. I think he was actually a year younger
Speaker 1: than me, and I would listen to his music throughout
Speaker 1: college and stuff, and you know, I had some weird
Speaker 1: times in college. Everyone has some weird time to college, right, so, like,
Speaker 1: you know, he was a lot of like the music
Speaker 1: I would turn to, So I kind of I had
Speaker 1: a connection there with him. So Alrea on a ground
Speaker 1: they broke his heartunately. And I've also seen Kid Cutty
Speaker 1: live that was amazing. From that, al right, I gotta
Speaker 1: go to a rock shows. I've seen Black Sabbath awesome
Speaker 1: with Judas Priest testimated it was kind of like the
Speaker 1: Legends of Metal kind of thing. I wait with my
Speaker 1: dad at the Jones Beacht Theater. That was far uh
Speaker 1: cool NFL notes for you before you get back. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't listen to Judas Priest can name Judith so
Speaker 1: that's old old medal one Judath Priest song. I don't
Speaker 1: think I could name it the name of title of it.
Speaker 1: I'll know the songs nothing. He used to wear leather,
Speaker 1: that guy like very tight leather. So it kind of
Speaker 1: like bugged me out. I didn't know what I was
Speaker 1: in for with Judas Priests. Yeah, I think so Stulors
Speaker 1: GM Kevin Colbert said three yes, yes, yes, yes. Three
Speaker 1: teams reached out to far and potential Antonio Brown trade.
Speaker 1: That's interesting. Maybe they didn't name the teams. Uh and
Speaker 1: Adam Schefter just said on Sports Center that a source
Speaker 1: told him that Robert Kraft is not the biggest name
Speaker 1: caught up in the prostitution ring. So we can only
Speaker 1: hope there's interesting news one name bigger Belichick, A little,
Speaker 1: a little rubinage. This is um Florida, in Florida, by
Speaker 1: a certain club that Craft. You guys are gonna get
Speaker 1: this Bivona. Well, it's by a certain club that Craft frequents.
Speaker 1: So I'm hoping that the owner of said club is
Speaker 1: the person that was caught on tape. I think I
Speaker 1: know where you're going with this, but I really don't know.
Speaker 1: Think as possible. Is it who I think it is? Yes, Um,
Speaker 1: I'm ready to chet owner of said club. I'll say
Speaker 1: that loud, go ahead, chat, let's see. Oh yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna say that, lad. I can't do that. I'll
Speaker 1: tell you during the break. Then all right, Um, that'd
Speaker 1: be cools. You want to get back there? Yes, absolutely do,
Speaker 1: I absolutely do want to get back to Zandi Bogards.
Speaker 1: We heard Rank say and basically as I told Frank
Speaker 1: during the training on right now, by the way, guys,
Speaker 1: right as I told Franks during the break, If I
Speaker 1: end it was Xander Brogart. I'm like, I'm happy, like
Speaker 1: he looks good, certainly heads head and points leads whatnot?
Speaker 1: Zander Boks is good and I have no issue drafting him.
Speaker 1: I don't want, I don't want to say that he's
Speaker 1: someone I'm gonna go out like I'm looking to draft.
Speaker 1: But he's the best guy on the board, which I
Speaker 1: think he could be at some point. I'm happy to
Speaker 1: draft him. I have no issue draft him. Where are
Speaker 1: you and Dre Brogards? I agree? I think he's uh
Speaker 1: solid shorts. He's one of the back end top twelve.
Speaker 1: I think to me, I haven't met eleven. I believe
Speaker 1: I haven't met eight. He is the number eight short
Speaker 1: stuff off the board and the NFBCA. I'm sorry, I
Speaker 1: haven't met ten. Yeah, so I haven't met eight. So
Speaker 1: one name I'm assuming you have ahead of him venture
Speaker 1: is Carlos Correct? How come you like correct? I know
Speaker 1: Frank hasn't barely inside his thought swell and number twelve.
Speaker 1: I'd like to have the Carlo's Crezy debate. Mender will
Speaker 1: start with you, what do you like crea this year? Okay, So,
Speaker 1: like Xander, I like a lot of for what he does.
Speaker 1: But I think we've seen you know, his max potential
Speaker 1: throughout all the years, not any particularly, but I think
Speaker 1: you could see what what he is about. Uh, this
Speaker 1: is his power max. I think he's not a big
Speaker 1: time power guy. So my thing is Korea has a
Speaker 1: lot more in the you know, to prove. I think
Speaker 1: his ceiling is much higher than we we've seen last year.
Speaker 1: Last year was just a down yere I think, and
Speaker 1: I think, you know, like we said, young guys need
Speaker 1: time to grow. His first season, I mean, I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: he hit twenty homers, rbs, seventy five walks, thirteen bags.
Speaker 1: I mean he had a solid year, uh and thirty
Speaker 1: six doubles. Things kind of evened out there. I think
Speaker 1: that this can be a guy that goes to the
Speaker 1: next level. I really do, especially in this lineup. And
Speaker 1: he should get back to three fifteen average and he
Speaker 1: had seen I think he should get back to two nine.
Speaker 1: I think he could easily bounce back to that level.
Speaker 1: The walks will go back up, the homers should go
Speaker 1: up from fifteen last year. Right, he has power. This
Speaker 1: guy's a top prospect. He was supposed to be better
Speaker 1: than Francisco Lindor coming out of the minors better than
Speaker 1: Francisco Indor, and he hasn't proven it right, But I
Speaker 1: think that this guy in this lineup has much better
Speaker 1: potential than Azanda Baugard's. Now, Bolger is the more steady guy,
Speaker 1: the safer guy, I think. But I'm out. You know,
Speaker 1: most of the time I look at to play it safe,
Speaker 1: I'll take Correa after the top six guys that I
Speaker 1: believe a better than him are off the board. After that,
Speaker 1: I think a lot of guys are in a clump
Speaker 1: in a tier. And I can't dispute the upside of
Speaker 1: Carlo's career because I feel like we've seen it. There's
Speaker 1: two camps of Carlo's career this here. You either love
Speaker 1: the value that you're getting them at in the fourth round,
Speaker 1: or you're just not gonna draft him. And that's where
Speaker 1: I stand. I'm gonna do my best Dr A impersonation here.
Speaker 1: But pulling up his inside injuries page is a thirty
Speaker 1: three percent overall injury risk, which is hot, which Dr
Speaker 1: A is gonna tell you he's gonna be expected to
Speaker 1: miss about a third of his games, which he has done.
Speaker 1: If you look at the past two seasons, he hasn't
Speaker 1: played more than ten games in each of the past
Speaker 1: two years. His HPF his health performance factor is six
Speaker 1: six percent. It's above average, but that overall injury risk. Look,
Speaker 1: this is a guy that dealt with oblique and back
Speaker 1: injuries last year. It's not the same thing as Clayton Kershaw,
Speaker 1: but these things can very quickly turn into recurring injuries.
Speaker 1: And you watch Carlo's corea bat. I mean, this guy
Speaker 1: swings with ferocity like you need. You need to have
Speaker 1: your your core everything working together intact. Like if one
Speaker 1: thing goes wrong in your back or your oblique affects
Speaker 1: your performance. And that's what we saw last year. Like
Speaker 1: it is Carl's COREA hitter? Hell no, no, you know
Speaker 1: he's He's a he should be a perennial three hitter.
Speaker 1: He's extremely talented, but it affected his performance last year.
Speaker 1: Hard hit rate, He's hitting the ball on the ground more,
Speaker 1: striking out more than ever. So that's what I'm talking about.
Speaker 1: When you know, if just one thing goes wrong with
Speaker 1: the oblique or the back here, it's gonna affect his overall.
Speaker 1: He doesn't steal bases anymore either, So he's a four
Speaker 1: category contributor. When he's completely healthy. But I don't think
Speaker 1: that he's gonna be completely healthy. I'm more in the
Speaker 1: camp that he's probably gonna miss thirty or forty games
Speaker 1: at some point this year, and with the back and
Speaker 1: the oblique injury, it could affect as a performance even
Speaker 1: when he's on the field. He did affect his performance
Speaker 1: last year. The harder percentage at twenty eight point eight percent.
Speaker 1: If you trust call his career is healthy, because that's
Speaker 1: exactly what he's saying. What else is he gonna say.
Speaker 1: He's not gonna come out and say, oh, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm eighty percent. I'm still kind of dealing with it
Speaker 1: like you're gonna say he's on healthy. If you at
Speaker 1: home truly believe he's healthy, then this can be a
Speaker 1: major steal for you, and I would advise you to
Speaker 1: go out and draft him if you believe that. Me personally,
Speaker 1: I think that it's gonna be an is. I don't
Speaker 1: think that it's a major steel. You go back to
Speaker 1: two years ago, it was his his best season of
Speaker 1: the majors, right, but at two seventy four had the
Speaker 1: twenty home runs, thirteen stone bases, ninety six r V
Speaker 1: I I think the steels, like you said, are dead, Frank,
Speaker 1: I don't think you. I don't think like when you
Speaker 1: were drafting him. It wasn't his best season though before
Speaker 1: before Bass, but he was ops. That's one of like
Speaker 1: the ten best hitters in baseball games, right, that's you know,
Speaker 1: a hundred fifty but the close. But the reason I
Speaker 1: said it was because he played a hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: three games. Did not do that in twenty seventeen or
Speaker 1: flash days. Upside and he was an MVP candidate without
Speaker 1: without question with the opps a moment ago, which was
Speaker 1: what So that's what you're praying for extrapolated for a
Speaker 1: full season in that's his upside. That is clearly the
Speaker 1: up six years his downside right the injuries now. But
Speaker 1: here's the thing though, Like I would be really worried
Speaker 1: if this was an older guy. He's twenty four. I
Speaker 1: gotta give him the benefit of doubt. He's gonna be
Speaker 1: in the league for a long time. And that was
Speaker 1: any Singleton's sake years old, especially for the value might
Speaker 1: be able to get him at right now. Uh, you
Speaker 1: know it could pay off, no doubt about it. There's
Speaker 1: no doubt about it. But the crazy thing to me
Speaker 1: is I want to go back to addlebort Demandacy for
Speaker 1: a second. He's twenty three. It's not like that's like
Speaker 1: the point. The point is he's twenty three. Carlos Crazy
Speaker 1: is only twenty four, and he's been the leading for
Speaker 1: because he he was like the Glabor Torres before Glabor tourist.
Speaker 1: Absolutely not, you know, just comparing the two, because Charls
Speaker 1: Korea when he's healthy, it's probably better than Glabor. For now,
Speaker 1: we'll see what glabor tourists turned into. What guys don't
Speaker 1: just come up at you know, years old and just
Speaker 1: take the league by storm. It doesn't happen all that often.
Speaker 1: Carl's Korea and Glabor Torres. I mean, these guys are
Speaker 1: different breeds. So what I mentioned with Adelbert to modesty
Speaker 1: was he came up when the Royals were competing, Yes,
Speaker 1: and he didn't get a fair opportunity because they needed
Speaker 1: guys to perform right away. Now they're not competing, so
Speaker 1: they're gonna give him every chance to play, and he
Speaker 1: went down. And you know, you can say this about
Speaker 1: a lot of guys, but I do think it could
Speaker 1: be true. I mean, it depends on the player that
Speaker 1: you're talking about what their mindst is, but failure. Greg
Speaker 1: could be a great motivator. I think you have to
Speaker 1: when talking about ad albert'sa honesty everybody met modcom in
Speaker 1: a fantastic point and Byron must do you have that up, Frank,
Speaker 1: why is he compared to Going through his Twitter feed,
Speaker 1: he compared at albert'sa Mondescy to Byron Buxton and basically
Speaker 1: similar situations. Right, Like Byron Buckston came up, didn't work out,
Speaker 1: trying to compete whatever, got a full opportunity batting, leadoff,
Speaker 1: the whole deal on a Twins team that was supposed
Speaker 1: to be terrible, and they gave him every opportunity to play.
Speaker 1: And all this dude did, dude did was just get out.
Speaker 1: He was striking at a crazy pace at one point.
Speaker 1: I remember Crazy Base noween he got out to the
Speaker 1: really really really cold start, came back actually really nice year, right,
Speaker 1: sixteen home runs, almost thirty steals. Um still stuck out
Speaker 1: s Ton, but he strikes out even more than Modesty does. Crazy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I have it up right here. It's Buckston in seventeen,
Speaker 1: from August to September, he had that you know, two
Speaker 1: months stretch where he went nuts eleven homers, thirty nine
Speaker 1: runs scored, thirty five rb i's, thirteen stolen bases, five
Speaker 1: percent great twenty seven point six k rate an Alberto
Speaker 1: Monescy August and September last year in less plate appearances
Speaker 1: in in about thirty less plate appearances, eleven home runs,
Speaker 1: the same number, thirty one runs, twenty six RBI one
Speaker 1: four stolen bases. So I think he you know, he
Speaker 1: might even be faster. You mean he might be just
Speaker 1: a better base runner than Byron Buckston number one. That speed,
Speaker 1: right in terms of sprint speed, Yeah, but I mean
Speaker 1: there's more that goes into it than just being fast.
Speaker 1: You gotta gotta know how to steal the basis. That's
Speaker 1: why he's just fast. K percentages two percent last for
Speaker 1: Alberto Mondessey. So the floor isn't as Is this why
Speaker 1: you're comparing them. They're very similar in everything that they do.
Speaker 1: Is that what you're saying? Everything what they did, what
Speaker 1: they did when they got hot towards the end of
Speaker 1: seventeen for Buckston and the end of twenty, White people
Speaker 1: loved Buxton going their their draft price the next year,
Speaker 1: like Buxton was a fourth round pick last year, Alberto honesty.
Speaker 1: This year is like a third fourth round pick, so
Speaker 1: the end of season, yes, yeah, I mean Buckston got hurt, right,
Speaker 1: or he just got sent out hurt last year? I
Speaker 1: mean last year head down, it was awful, it was awful. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he had like a broken toe. He had like something
Speaker 1: going on with his head too. Yeah. That's why what
Speaker 1: if you guys have fire Bucks on this year? I
Speaker 1: will you will for the value. Now you wouldn't be out,
Speaker 1: I think, you know. Speaking of Byron Bucks and Matt Modica,
Speaker 1: he actually drafted him in in the tout War draft round.
Speaker 1: He drafted him in round thirteen as his fourth field fifth.
Speaker 1: That's good like that, Uman, Yeah, a guy that was
Speaker 1: going to the fourth round of last year, now you're
Speaker 1: getting him in the third round. Definitely a little bit
Speaker 1: of bounce, but still years old. Tweet about it, he said,
Speaker 1: I'll do it every time, give me, give me Byron Bucks.
Speaker 1: And because we know the towns insane at that point,
Speaker 1: it's worth the risk. And that's what we were, you know.
Speaker 1: That's what will say that I will say saying about
Speaker 1: Hobby Bias last year too, at some point it's worth
Speaker 1: I will say this though, this Twins team this year,
Speaker 1: as concrostructing is trying to compete. They're trying to can
Speaker 1: paint up too with a lineup that just added Morewin Gonzalez.
Speaker 1: You can play in the outfield if you move a
Speaker 1: guy like Eddie Rosario to center field rather than left,
Speaker 1: or Max Kepler from right into center Byron Buckston. Ultimately
Speaker 1: he's not performing, could be the oddment out again as
Speaker 1: a fifth outfielder. It doesn't matter. It's not part of
Speaker 1: the conversation. I'm just saying we were looking and talking.
Speaker 1: Where does Marwin Gonzalez in on this team? Well, in
Speaker 1: the outfield maybe the answer. Let me ask you about
Speaker 1: more definitely, let me ask you about Marwin Gonzalez. Guys,
Speaker 1: he's got short he have shorts of eligibility or now
Speaker 1: I don't think he does. That's why I'm asking. Well,
Speaker 1: he does on Fantasy pros because they use Yahoo and
Speaker 1: everyone's eligible according the n FBC. He does n FECs first, second,
Speaker 1: short and outfield, So that that's correct, where's your more
Speaker 1: Gazalez be drafted? I just added him to my rankings
Speaker 1: doing this on the spot here, just trying to figure
Speaker 1: out where he would go. You he should go around
Speaker 1: like the William Das area, like kettl Marte William Damas.
Speaker 1: That's like yeah, and that's just a huge tier like
Speaker 1: I have. My Tier three is from thirteen to twenty nine. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's all clumped together though once you get to the back.
Speaker 1: I mean, you can pick any one of these guys
Speaker 1: fair enough. Okay, um, where are you on, Craig greg
Speaker 1: I like Correa, I'm not as cold as your because
Speaker 1: I think, as VENTURE said, there's a dude that you
Speaker 1: can draft. Where are you getting him in the fifth rounder? Cell?
Speaker 1: And he give you a first drum back right like that?
Speaker 1: That year he's he's twenty four years old. And if
Speaker 1: he could just stay healthy, and I know, as with
Speaker 1: our fantasy basketball team, Frank, we said that a lot,
Speaker 1: and it has exactly worked. Thank god. I trained Anthon
Speaker 1: Davis my man. Welcome to squad tonight, right um before
Speaker 1: the he debuted before okay um, if he can stay healthy,
Speaker 1: he has the ability to give you back first round
Speaker 1: value when you can get those guys in the middle rounds.
Speaker 1: I'm interested. I don't know that, I said. I like
Speaker 1: Sander Bogart's I do at Olvert's I'm honestly, I'm not
Speaker 1: exactly hoping for Like, I don't I'm not gonna take it.
Speaker 1: Let somebody. I'm gonna let somebody else do that create
Speaker 1: things in treating. Man, heways gonna board to pick fifty one.
Speaker 1: That's a fourth round of fifteen team leagues. It's a
Speaker 1: fifth round in I'm interested there, man, I'm interested in
Speaker 1: what he could bring in the top toward the top
Speaker 1: of that Houston lineup, like in the fifth round, Like
Speaker 1: that's kind of where I want my shortstop, like because
Speaker 1: you know, if he plays in the points, I'm interested, man,
Speaker 1: I listen. I mean, if you want to win your league, right, like,
Speaker 1: you gotta have it's just team, right, So you gotta
Speaker 1: take some shots somewhere. And you know somebody's gonna get
Speaker 1: hurt on your team guaranteed, multiple people will. It's guaranteed.
Speaker 1: So you're gonna have to figure that out any anyway,
Speaker 1: I'm willing to take the shot on Core in the
Speaker 1: fourth and fifth round because he could end up winning
Speaker 1: the league for me. That's how good of a player is.
Speaker 1: And that's why I'm gonna you know, I'm boasting them
Speaker 1: up the rankings a little more because I mean this guy,
Speaker 1: when he plays, he's doing damage. You know that, Like
Speaker 1: we know that it's just about beast year sucked. I mean,
Speaker 1: he's hurt. He's playing hurt. You know, when you play hurt,
Speaker 1: it's it's it's very hard. I hear what you guys
Speaker 1: are saying. Look, there's two again, there's two camps. If
Speaker 1: you guys believe that, then you might be getting one
Speaker 1: of the best values in the draft. He personally, I
Speaker 1: think he's probably gonna get banged up again at some point.
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Speaker 1: good progress, gentleman on the shortstop position. We've hit up
Speaker 1: nine of them so far. Client through, Flying Through, we
Speaker 1: spoke about Laborer. But yesterday right a second, yes, should
Speaker 1: we skipt labor We should say where we're gonna slot him? Him? Uh,
Speaker 1: I have him nine, I have him at eleven, debating
Speaker 1: if I should move well. One of the guys that
Speaker 1: I know you're probably trying to decide if you're moving past,
Speaker 1: is our guy Jeans Sagura, who, Frank, I know we
Speaker 1: came into draft season without before we do do a
Speaker 1: VP here really liking Jeans Sagura. What have you learned
Speaker 1: since you dove deep on short stops? I learned that
Speaker 1: I do like Geene Skurtt at his current price. UM,
Speaker 1: where you're getting him is, you know, about pick sixty four,
Speaker 1: So he's going in that fifth round range, a little
Speaker 1: bit later than some of the other guys that we've
Speaker 1: talked about. He's a little bit later than Korea, a
Speaker 1: little bit later than Boguards, but he's just steady man.
Speaker 1: Look this, this might not be the league winning pick
Speaker 1: that you know, Venture mentioned with Carlos Korea, but at
Speaker 1: least eight batting average, eighty runs, and twenty stolen bases
Speaker 1: in each of the past three seasons. I mean, those
Speaker 1: are three categories that were constantly you know, how do
Speaker 1: we find those? Adding average, runs and stolen bases. And
Speaker 1: Jeane Sigura gives you all three of those, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: over the past three seasons, three or eight batting average,
Speaker 1: that's eighth best in all of baseball. Run scored, that's
Speaker 1: twenty one seventy stolen bases over the past three years.
Speaker 1: That's eleventh best in baseball. Makes a lot of contact.
Speaker 1: You know, he's not gonna completely He's not gonna he's
Speaker 1: not gonna completely kill your your home run either, like
Speaker 1: he's gonna give you, you know, twelve. He's a better
Speaker 1: ballpark now, and he you know, he was in he's
Speaker 1: in Citizens Bank, and he's in a great lineup. He's
Speaker 1: gonna hit at the top of that lineup. He could
Speaker 1: score a hundred runs this year and he could drive
Speaker 1: in you know, sixty seven rbs, could hit over three hundred.
Speaker 1: He's gonna doesn't strike out? What is there? Not any
Speaker 1: sort of power? What I have here is his stolen
Speaker 1: basis and have to climb three years in a row,
Speaker 1: and he's twenty eight years old in Yeah, he's gonna
Speaker 1: be twenty nights. So do they continue to decline if
Speaker 1: he gets closer to like fifteen eighteen than yeah? That's
Speaker 1: not what you Where is he but want stolen bases?
Speaker 1: He's banking second second, right. Gabe Kapler is one of
Speaker 1: these analytical, you know, analytically driven managers here, Greg where
Speaker 1: if the analytics are telling him not to run, he's
Speaker 1: not gonna run. Philly isn't run all that much last year.
Speaker 1: So but they should use him to run. I think
Speaker 1: that they will. I think he's still he'll still be
Speaker 1: safe for twenty five. I do. He's in a great lineup.
Speaker 1: So I love the safety that he provides. He's like
Speaker 1: he's gonna miss sometimes, like he's always had one DL
Speaker 1: stint per year. He's average one hundred and forty two
Speaker 1: games played over the last six years. But he's consistent
Speaker 1: with it. You no, like two, Okay, he's gonna miss
Speaker 1: twenty games. He's not missing you know, he's not playing
Speaker 1: a hundred ten like Carlos Correa. Like everyone's gonna miss
Speaker 1: a few games there. Um, I'll tell you right now
Speaker 1: why in points leagues. In points leads last year was
Speaker 1: thirteen short stop he missed. He missed more time time, right, yeah,
Speaker 1: yeah no, and he miss more time in games. He
Speaker 1: had four six total point three point three average, which
Speaker 1: is like, I actually don't think he's at solid because
Speaker 1: he's been He might be alright for head that category
Speaker 1: to give you stolen basis, but head to head points
Speaker 1: like four percent career walker eight. He makes a lot
Speaker 1: of kids, which helps, like he's not gonna give you
Speaker 1: strike out. He doesn't walk, so he hits a lot
Speaker 1: of doubles. Very aggressive swinger listen in Philly, though, I
Speaker 1: might be interested in drafting him as a nice little
Speaker 1: valley pick if you know, all my guys are gone,
Speaker 1: I don't have a short stop and we're in that tier.
Speaker 1: So Gore's really not a bad pick this year, especially
Speaker 1: in points leagues because the accounting stats should be better
Speaker 1: in Philly. Homers and maybe fifteen twenty homers. You know
Speaker 1: he's hit twenty homers before. Man, I owned him every
Speaker 1: everywhere that year with the Diamondbacks like Monster season nine, breakup,
Speaker 1: thirty three stolen bases. I don't think he has that
Speaker 1: kind of upside anymore. But you know, ventures right in
Speaker 1: Citizens Bank, can he get you know, maybe a lot
Speaker 1: better ballpark and Safeco. Man, I'm interested in Rhoto. You know,
Speaker 1: if I get him in the fifth, if somehow he
Speaker 1: felt with the sixth round, I'd love it there. But
Speaker 1: I like it in the fifth. I love it in
Speaker 1: the sixth and you and you say he missed time
Speaker 1: and he still scored over eighty runs. Last he is
Speaker 1: in a row in Philadelphia and that lineup like he
Speaker 1: could score a hundred time. What do you have I
Speaker 1: have him at twelve as the last one of that year.
Speaker 1: I have him ninth. Okay to aggressive Greg No, I
Speaker 1: don't think so, Gabor. I think that's fair. I think
Speaker 1: it's fair, and we're more than Glaber alright, absolutely continuing
Speaker 1: on our short stop short stops, one more person I
Speaker 1: think belongs in this tier. It's another guy with a
Speaker 1: question mark. He's going later than all of these guys,
Speaker 1: but I want to bring him up here, and that's
Speaker 1: Corey Seeker. Corey Seeker is a guy that was a
Speaker 1: five round pick the last couple of years, gets hurt
Speaker 1: late in Mrs A. Roundell, the playoffs, come back for
Speaker 1: the World Series. Isn't right in spring training? Isn't right?
Speaker 1: Early on last season? Uh might have even missed the
Speaker 1: beginning of the season with shoulder injuries. They had that
Speaker 1: shoulder injury, got knocked out, and then also that Tommy
Speaker 1: John major major injuries. Everything fixed. While that's what the
Speaker 1: thought process was, right, get hit major injuries from Corey
Speaker 1: seeing over the last couple of years. But back he's
Speaker 1: in camp, he's healthy, Chris, what do you do? A
Speaker 1: Cory Seeker? So I might be a little higher than
Speaker 1: a lot of people because I have secret eight. I
Speaker 1: have him behind. If he's healthy, he's a point. He
Speaker 1: needs to be healthy, right, Um, I mean obviously these
Speaker 1: rankings could change. I want to see what happens in
Speaker 1: spring training. I want to see who's playing, you know, like, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: you gotta watch him in the spring. If he's playing
Speaker 1: and he said looks healthy and he's hitting with pop,
Speaker 1: that's all you need to see. If he's got the
Speaker 1: pop back and his bat speeds good and everything, then
Speaker 1: I'm okay with jumping back on board and going right
Speaker 1: back to this guy, because he's another guy that can
Speaker 1: be right behind Corea as a top five shortstop. You
Speaker 1: know what I mean, Like he's that, he's that talented.
Speaker 1: He does everything well except he doesn't steal basis. He
Speaker 1: does everything else the pops not I mean massive, He's
Speaker 1: not like like Carlos Correa's upside is high. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: that's correct. He could hit thirty, he could hit thirties.
Speaker 1: Never hit thirty rookie year, right, so that he's Almos.
Speaker 1: You know he's turning twenty five and April, so he
Speaker 1: could grow into that power. Look, he doesn't hit enough flyballs.
Speaker 1: That's the biggest problem. He's had thirty flyball rate for
Speaker 1: his career. He hits a lot of line drives, and
Speaker 1: that's what you know, lends itself to. You know, he's
Speaker 1: gonna be a doubles hitter. He's gonna hit a lot
Speaker 1: of doubles, which you know that helps him in points leagues.
Speaker 1: Even a couple of years ago when he was going
Speaker 1: in the second round for Rhodo, I wasn't in just
Speaker 1: because again he doesn't really stand out, like if he
Speaker 1: stays healthy in the Dodgers line up. Betting second. He
Speaker 1: could score a hunt runs, definitely, and I have him
Speaker 1: one spot higher than Korea, and people might be screaming
Speaker 1: at me, what Korea's upside is higher? They're both injury prone.
Speaker 1: When we spoke to dr Ay, I asked us this question,
Speaker 1: who's more likely to have a reoccurring injury here here?
Speaker 1: And he said Carlos Karrea because he's the beak in
Speaker 1: the black the bag. And frankly I agree with him,
Speaker 1: because yes, these were recovering from Tommy John as a hitter.
Speaker 1: Labor Torres also recovered from Tommy John last year as
Speaker 1: a hitter. Didn't have any effects on him hip surgery.
Speaker 1: All right, it's a little bit more to worry about there,
Speaker 1: a little bit more special power with the hip. Yeah, definitely.
Speaker 1: So look, I don't know that him or Carl's Correa
Speaker 1: is our active targets of mine. If it were like
Speaker 1: if they were both available somehow in the sixth round,
Speaker 1: if I was just you know, choosing between them, I
Speaker 1: would take Corea. But at their current draft price, you're
Speaker 1: getting Correa later, you know, you're getting Seeger later to
Speaker 1: three rounds later. I would rather take the value on seegers.
Speaker 1: They're both injury risks. I'd rather take the value on
Speaker 1: see in a draft, though, and you're let's say, in
Speaker 1: the fourth round and you know Seeger and career available.
Speaker 1: Are you gonna say I'm skipping Korea because I know
Speaker 1: I could get Seeger two rounds right there and take
Speaker 1: that chance. Then you lose out on Seeger, and I
Speaker 1: feel like you don't want to miss out. I don't
Speaker 1: think you want to miss that. Yeah, Like there's a
Speaker 1: top twelve venture. We've talked about this at the top
Speaker 1: of the show. You missed out on those guys, then
Speaker 1: my thirteen and fourteen and hose Is, Jose Peraza and
Speaker 1: Paul DeJong. Really, I don't want one of those guys
Speaker 1: in my story. Short, I can't miss out on those guys.
Speaker 1: I can't. I want them to be my middle infielder.
Speaker 1: So in that back end, the interior's saying, it's like Korea, Seeger,
Speaker 1: Glaber Zander out of birth though, and Sigora, Yes, all
Speaker 1: right after that, Yeah, you're right, it's a huge drop off.
Speaker 1: There's like I'm to Manson, that's just me in a second.
Speaker 1: But it's really interesting because people draft some of these
Speaker 1: guys go very very early right, Lindor Turner, Regman Bayes
Speaker 1: Machado story. I mean, these guys are all gonna be
Speaker 1: off the board by the end of the second round.
Speaker 1: And then it's like, whoa, those are legitimately six guys.
Speaker 1: I just named half of half of the starting shortstops
Speaker 1: in the first two. It's not well deep in the
Speaker 1: sense of the top twelve, fine, but the first six
Speaker 1: are gone, and then it's so then all of them
Speaker 1: are gone by pick eighty four. It's crazy, that's easy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So this is knowing, This is knowing your draft spot
Speaker 1: or status. Right, Like, what do you do do you
Speaker 1: open up that next year after the first six? Do
Speaker 1: you wait until the end to make sure you get
Speaker 1: the last one? Frank? How would you play that? In
Speaker 1: a no, no, no, no, no, no, no. First six
Speaker 1: are gone. You don't have a short stop, right, you
Speaker 1: don't have any of the first six. Because the guys
Speaker 1: that go to the first two acts, right, the next
Speaker 1: six are out there. They go from anywhere from pick
Speaker 1: forty one, which is in the coretyn FBC Adalberto Mondescy
Speaker 1: to pick eighty four. Of course, guys, about forty picks,
Speaker 1: when do you jump into short stop? Because you just
Speaker 1: said I have to get one of these guys. I
Speaker 1: cannot wait for the parazas that Tim Anderson's jerks and profiles.
Speaker 1: I can't do that. So you need one of those guys.
Speaker 1: Do you wait and say whichever the last one left is,
Speaker 1: I'll take him. Do you go out and get your guy?
Speaker 1: What is your plan when it comes to those six players?
Speaker 1: So again, seeger Korea and Modesty are not really active
Speaker 1: targets of mine. But okay, in the fifth round, if Boguards,
Speaker 1: Sigura or Glabor Torres were there, I would I would
Speaker 1: jump on one of those guys. You would not. You
Speaker 1: would not wait to see who falls to you. You
Speaker 1: would make the selection. Yeah. Look, ideally I wouldn't want
Speaker 1: to use as early as a fifth round pick on
Speaker 1: maybe maybe Boguards. But I don't think I want to
Speaker 1: use my fifth round pick on Cigura or Torres. I
Speaker 1: you know, maybe i'd risk it and try and wait
Speaker 1: till the sixth round and see if one of those
Speaker 1: guys falls back to me. You know, that's just me,
Speaker 1: just kind of fishing for value. But again, yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean you you don't want to play chicken, right, You
Speaker 1: don't want to play shortstop chicken here, unless you know,
Speaker 1: if you're right with a guy like Corey Sigert as
Speaker 1: you're starting shortstop, then okay, if you miss out on
Speaker 1: one of these guys, maybe the six seventh round you
Speaker 1: can just take Corey Seeger and it's your fallback option.
Speaker 1: But I think you don't want to play chicken, then
Speaker 1: I'm probably taking Boguards or Cigura in round five. I
Speaker 1: think the scary thing is that you have to watch
Speaker 1: out four because there's twelve guys we just named, right,
Speaker 1: that's easy, it's you have. This is really pay attention
Speaker 1: to your draft. You gotta pay attention on the Bregman,
Speaker 1: Bias and mac Chato teams because those guys in the
Speaker 1: are gonna have the billion much how soon enough to
Speaker 1: play multiple positions where you can draft another shortstop, and
Speaker 1: that's somebody else is to draft the shortstop. The team
Speaker 1: that drafts Trevor's story Albert tom honesty isn't most likely
Speaker 1: the jumping back in the shortstop little so quickly. Theoretically,
Speaker 1: it's the people that draft Bregman, Machado and Bayaz and
Speaker 1: figure out where they draft comparatively where you draft to
Speaker 1: make sure you get a shortstop just in case. That's
Speaker 1: just paying attention. What would you do, Chris in the scenario,
Speaker 1: I would try to jump on either Corea or Seeger.
Speaker 1: I like those two in the well see here goes
Speaker 1: two rounds later. As you said, Frank, would you what
Speaker 1: would you rather do? Krey in the fifth or See
Speaker 1: in the seventh? Theory more likely to have to use
Speaker 1: a fourth round page if you in the fourth the sixth, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'd rather go see in the sixth. Yeah, if I
Speaker 1: If that's possible, you know I would do that. It
Speaker 1: all depends to like what I need on the board
Speaker 1: at that time and stuff. Well, well, guy, I like there.
Speaker 1: I might just take Corea, you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: if he's my favorite guy on the board left. If not,
Speaker 1: then I'll wait. Greg. We've talked a lot about position scarcity,
Speaker 1: and I think what I'm learning is by the fifth round,
Speaker 1: I'm probably gonna have two out feelers, two starting pitchers,
Speaker 1: and a short stop. You don't want to play pre
Speaker 1: plan your draft too hard, but you want to have
Speaker 1: a plan. Well, it's interesting because I know that in
Speaker 1: a draft earlier this month, you played first base Chicken
Speaker 1: caught in a Best Ball draft and I ended up with,
Speaker 1: you know, Miguel Cabrera, And like Tyler White, doesn't that
Speaker 1: concern you a little bit by by saying, hey, I'll
Speaker 1: probably have two Outfie, there's two pitchers in short stop,
Speaker 1: first base. You know, I think that there are other positions,
Speaker 1: like there are other players at positions, at least that
Speaker 1: we've talked about so far. You know, when we talk
Speaker 1: about catchers, I said, you know, eight ninth round, I
Speaker 1: could target my first guy. You have to worry about
Speaker 1: that first base j B. You can you know, sometimes
Speaker 1: you get him in the sixth round. If not, I'll
Speaker 1: wait a little bit. You know, I could get a
Speaker 1: guy like Matt Olsen. That's what you're trying to seventh round, Like,
Speaker 1: there are targets that I get a little bit later
Speaker 1: at first base. I'm a right with that. I think
Speaker 1: the talent though of the first place, isn't that seconds
Speaker 1: second base is a little a little more interesting. But there,
Speaker 1: you know, there are guys here. If I if I
Speaker 1: get Robinson Cano in the eighth round, I know you're
Speaker 1: like him. I'm all right with that. If I get
Speaker 1: Scooter Jeanette in the seventh round, if I get if
Speaker 1: I get Mike Mustakis in an eighth, ninth round, I'm
Speaker 1: cool with that like that. You know, so far, what
Speaker 1: I've learned is, you know, I don't really have to
Speaker 1: I don't have to have a second basement by the
Speaker 1: fifth round. Like if I don't end up with Daniel
Speaker 1: Murphy or Ozzy Albie's is at the end of the world.
Speaker 1: For some people, it might be for me, no, because
Speaker 1: I mean there's still guys here again Jeanette Cano and
Speaker 1: to any extent, you know, Mike Musaki is too if
Speaker 1: I get him as my second basement, Like, I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna have him a second base right away to start,
Speaker 1: you know, ten games into the season. But I'd be
Speaker 1: all right with one of those guys. So, just talking
Speaker 1: about what we did with the shortstop position, I think
Speaker 1: I want one of those guys, Like I'm either going
Speaker 1: to target Trevor Story in the second round or I'm
Speaker 1: gonna try and get a guy like Boguards or in
Speaker 1: their sex right. No, I know what you're saying. I
Speaker 1: mean the outfield. The strategy outfield pitches through two starting
Speaker 1: pitches to al Now that's based on five outfield Um.
Speaker 1: See the thing is for me like I feel like
Speaker 1: those first three, four or five rounds, I'm just going
Speaker 1: best available. I'm just literally taking the best player at
Speaker 1: that point. Then I worry about skiing at all. I mean,
Speaker 1: look at this best bull drift. I said, you know
Speaker 1: what effort I'm taking Trey Turner and Javier Bayas completely against.
Speaker 1: You came in today and you said, oh snap, we
Speaker 1: gotta start five out. I'll be all right, I don't
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Speaker 1: the NBA and for Vandal guys. Founds wanted me to
Speaker 1: the program that it's our short stop preview episode and
Speaker 1: this next years. Like to me, I look at it like,
Speaker 1: all right, clump of guys, it's a clump of dudes.
Speaker 1: Your guy Jose Praza, Greg, I'd like Jose was great
Speaker 1: last year for me. Is your starting shortstop. Of course,
Speaker 1: of course you went down, so I needed a short
Speaker 1: stop whose prazza became my guy? Yeah, you're gonna have
Speaker 1: no starting short this year. No, I wanted the twelve guys.
Speaker 1: You just discussed this, frank, Yeah, you want one of
Speaker 1: those first of all you guys? Is going that late? Yes?
Speaker 1: Is a DP? Do you know what? Have it up
Speaker 1: in fro front of me? You've already seen it. It's
Speaker 1: in front of me early man to he was good.
Speaker 1: It's good last year, pretty pretty big price. And man,
Speaker 1: you want to call it? Guys, you were for the
Speaker 1: last three weeks stopping your feet. I d Elvis Andrews,
Speaker 1: Jeff Andrews, and you come in after doing research on shortstops,
Speaker 1: like I've got a cool on Elvis, and ye know what,
Speaker 1: I wasn't like my flag on Els or anything? All right, Man,
Speaker 1: got a fracture, double Give the guys, Give the guys
Speaker 1: a break, a fracture, double life. I don't I don't
Speaker 1: like him anymore. What happened? Where? Where did you? Why
Speaker 1: did you like him? Why do you not? Now? Yeah?
Speaker 1: So I I had a lot of two years ago
Speaker 1: fresh in my mind. Um, which was obviously his standout
Speaker 1: season when he had twenty home runs and eight RBI
Speaker 1: and bases it was ridiculous. Let a lot of people
Speaker 1: win championships two years ago, and look, you hit the
Speaker 1: ball harder than ever that year. And you know he
Speaker 1: is home run the ball ratio eleven point six percent,
Speaker 1: clear outlier. You know, his career is five point one
Speaker 1: percent or run the ball ratio. So I think I
Speaker 1: had a lot of that still fresh in my mind
Speaker 1: and thought, like, all right, where he was going, Like
Speaker 1: you're getting him at a great discount. He's gonna have
Speaker 1: third as of right now in the Rangers line up.
Speaker 1: Come to the conclusion that it's it's not that great
Speaker 1: all together they're here. But look, the stolen bases were
Speaker 1: way down last year too. And I know he was hurt, um,
Speaker 1: you know, he was dealing with that fractured elbow. But
Speaker 1: five stolen basis three called stealing in nineties seven games.
Speaker 1: He's turning thirty one in August. Us this here too,
Speaker 1: like this is when stolen bases decline. Speed is gonna
Speaker 1: start to go here, man. So yeah, I mean that's
Speaker 1: I just don't really see much upside here with Alvis Andrews.
Speaker 1: So I'm kind of I'm taking a step back here.
Speaker 1: He does make a ton of contact, he doesn't strike
Speaker 1: out that much. The walk grade is decent, it's not great.
Speaker 1: He doesn't do anything. I'm worried about the stolen basis, right, Like,
Speaker 1: if he doesn't give you the five stone basis, then
Speaker 1: he comes back closer to like fifteen the entire season. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so I have his projection at like two seventy homers,
Speaker 1: seventy runs, seven rbi, fifteen stone basis. Like, he's fine,
Speaker 1: but there's a bunch of guys in this range that
Speaker 1: do this exact thing. This tier, it's filled with a
Speaker 1: bunch of players who we're gonna give you ten fifteen
Speaker 1: home runs and the fifteen stolen bases. Take your pick
Speaker 1: on any of them. Because it's or Polanco, it's Andleton Simmons,
Speaker 1: it's Elvis Andrews, it's Marcus Simeon your pick, They're all
Speaker 1: gonna do close to the same exact thing. It's Tim
Speaker 1: Anderson and does do a little bit more than these loves.
Speaker 1: Why is it manager? You love him? Chris Well with
Speaker 1: the with the eyeball test in particular, when I was
Speaker 1: watching him, Dude, this guy has such I feel like,
Speaker 1: has such raw power in him, even though he doesn't
Speaker 1: look like he should. He has power, and I think
Speaker 1: it's gonna come sooner or later. He's only twenty five
Speaker 1: years old, um, and he's shown glimpses of it throughout
Speaker 1: his career, right, but he hasn't really shown that big
Speaker 1: breakout yet. You know what I mean? The average it's
Speaker 1: to forty last year from to fifty seven from Uh,
Speaker 1: the stolen bases went up twenty six. Stolen bags only
Speaker 1: caughte eight times. So that's the upside thing. You can expect.
Speaker 1: They expect twenty plus from him maybe next year. Uh.
Speaker 1: And listen, successful on the bass pets strikes out a lot,
Speaker 1: but whatever, I don't care about that that much. Walks
Speaker 1: doesn't walk obviously, I don't like that. But how about
Speaker 1: does he doubled his walk right from the year before
Speaker 1: it was still only five percent. It was dirty walks
Speaker 1: he had before. It's terribly Yeah, but listen, that's the
Speaker 1: only thing that he really does poorly is walks. I
Speaker 1: think he's gonna boost that average up. This guy was
Speaker 1: a well above three hundred career average ary minor leagues.
Speaker 1: He's going to hit eventually. I think he's just it's
Speaker 1: taking him longer than most. You know, sometimes it takes
Speaker 1: guys a while to get into that groove. But you're
Speaker 1: seeing glimpses of he hit twenty homers, twenty eight doubles,
Speaker 1: seventies seven runs scored. The lineup is not great, so
Speaker 1: I'm not expecting too much on the Cantex sets. But
Speaker 1: I think he can boost those homers up to twenty
Speaker 1: five and and it doubles up to thirty five. I
Speaker 1: think he could steal twenty bags, uh and maybe forty
Speaker 1: walks if he's lucky, and and back to eighty. Here's yes,
Speaker 1: I think that average is definitely going on. Here's the
Speaker 1: thing that I think he's sold out the batting average
Speaker 1: to try and hit for more power, so will bounce
Speaker 1: out eventually. If you were able to get on base more,
Speaker 1: it wouldn't be twenty five stole bases, it would be
Speaker 1: forty sto basis if that's what we always want. Forty
Speaker 1: stolen bass season in double A. And we're still kind
Speaker 1: of holding onto that last year, right because in sold
Speaker 1: fifteen we're like, all right, well, you know, this guy's
Speaker 1: never gonna be a great bass dealer, all Greg. If
Speaker 1: I told you, if I asked you, how many players
Speaker 1: do you think with last year, what would you say
Speaker 1: in all of baseball? I'd probably say like six six six.
Speaker 1: It was only ten alright, a little bit higher, but
Speaker 1: still there was only ten people in all baseball last
Speaker 1: year that Anderson was one of those guys. He was.
Speaker 1: It's gonna sound a little crazy, but based on his
Speaker 1: a DP last year, I went back and looked at
Speaker 1: my Great Fantasy Baseball Invitational draft from a year ago.
Speaker 1: I finished first in my league at a hundred and
Speaker 1: thirty seven points in a fifteen team league. I dominated it.
Speaker 1: I finished fourth in the overall. I got Tim Anderson
Speaker 1: as my starting shortstop last year. In the sixteenth round.
Speaker 1: He was a league winner. He gave you in round
Speaker 1: sixteen he was a league winner less and he's still
Speaker 1: going pretty. I think he's sold out a little bit
Speaker 1: of a batting average. He was consistently over three D
Speaker 1: in the minor leagues, but he didn't hit for any power.
Speaker 1: I think he's sold out some of the batting average
Speaker 1: right now in order to hit for some power. I
Speaker 1: will say I think his batting average should be better
Speaker 1: than his home run. The five ball ratio has been
Speaker 1: the same the past two years. He's starting to hit
Speaker 1: more line drives, hit the ball in the air a
Speaker 1: little bit more. I think he should probably be closer,
Speaker 1: like a two fifty maybe two sixty hitter. I don't
Speaker 1: know that I buy the power completely. You know, I
Speaker 1: think he might settle in right around twenty. He's like,
Speaker 1: I think, the biggest issue and trust the speed. You know,
Speaker 1: his Sprincepe was the biggest issue for me looking at
Speaker 1: Tim Manderson is a split, A big split guy. Frank, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I have I have those as well. I mean in
Speaker 1: his career he's three or seven verse left easi's two
Speaker 1: verse two twenty four games right these last year. I
Speaker 1: wrote my notes here, not great, Bob to twenty four
Speaker 1: against righties last year. Obviously, the majority pictures you faces
Speaker 1: are right. That's based on his career to forty like,
Speaker 1: still not great, but he should have been better than
Speaker 1: two twenty four significantly. But if that normalizes to where
Speaker 1: he's been at in his career, then that's where the
Speaker 1: batting a marriage is gonna come overall. That's what I'm
Speaker 1: saying about Hoskins the other day. You know, Okay, to
Speaker 1: twenty four against rights. It looks really bad the two
Speaker 1: forty career hitter versus rights. So if that normalizes back
Speaker 1: up fourteen points and the majority of pictures that are rights,
Speaker 1: then he's gonna be more of a two fifty two
Speaker 1: sixty hitter. And that's where I think he should be.
Speaker 1: I think he could be even better than that. To
Speaker 1: be honest, Look, you don't want this guy in me personally.
Speaker 1: You don't want this guy in points because he strikes
Speaker 1: out a lot and he doesn't walk. But in Rhodo,
Speaker 1: if I missed out on the top twelve short stops,
Speaker 1: he might be my target as my starting short stop.
Speaker 1: And it's nothing against Jose Praz. I think parraz is fine.
Speaker 1: But Tim Anderson, I think he is the guy that
Speaker 1: can at tifty to sixty. And I'm saying there's a
Speaker 1: lot of potential by that. I'm but I'm just buying
Speaker 1: the power is going to settle it around there. I
Speaker 1: think he's gonna be twenty. You know, there might even
Speaker 1: be more stolen base upside. Maybe you could still thirty bases.
Speaker 1: So so here's the thing in points. Leagues unlike yours
Speaker 1: that doesn't have strikeout don't have a right. So I
Speaker 1: like him because of that. Fine. Would rather have Posey
Speaker 1: praz and that kind of league and affords the leaves
Speaker 1: like that doesn't really strike out, doesn't walk either, doesn't
Speaker 1: strike out, so he doesn't strike out, but he strikes out.
Speaker 1: I'd rather have Tim. I'd probably take Parrazaza. Praza only
Speaker 1: stole three less basses last year and four yeah, and
Speaker 1: he had twenty. Right, Yeah, I think there's a little
Speaker 1: more power. Listen. Definitely, I trust the power more with Tim. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I agree with that for sure. I think him and
Speaker 1: you've got to do more of the eyeball test with him.
Speaker 1: He's got crazy bat speed and could pop a lot
Speaker 1: of Homer's if he you know, it all depends if
Speaker 1: everything clicks for him. He's giving up average for power now.
Speaker 1: He needs thinks to click from what because he needs
Speaker 1: to be like a two sixty hitter if he wants to,
Speaker 1: you know, stay around long enough to do everything that
Speaker 1: he's been built in talking. I think he has upside
Speaker 1: under If Tim Anderson it's to sixty home runs and
Speaker 1: thirty stolen babes, beautiful, He's gonna be a lead winner.
Speaker 1: Why can't. I mean, he's getting better every year. What
Speaker 1: about the groundball percentage, Frank, he's been decreasing it, but
Speaker 1: he's turning in his direction every year it is. But
Speaker 1: look he's gone, he's gone. That's a that's a big difference.
Speaker 1: Groundball rate by six percent. He raised his his flyball
Speaker 1: rate by five percent, and he raises line drive percentage
Speaker 1: a little bit, only one percent. But he doesn't hit
Speaker 1: any infield fly balls. You know, That's something I've been
Speaker 1: looking at. Those are automatical line drives this guy. And
Speaker 1: here's the thing, though, I'm okay with Yeah, I'm okay
Speaker 1: with sacrificing five homers middle infield target Tim Anderson or
Speaker 1: hold the young well flor I'm I'm down. I'm doubt
Speaker 1: to sacrifice five homers for the year. If he adds
Speaker 1: ten doubles or something like that in points leagues, that's okay.
Speaker 1: That's basically almost evening itself out said. I don't like
Speaker 1: Jose right, No, I mean, dude, shortstops are not known
Speaker 1: for eating the ball. That I just I mean, look,
Speaker 1: he was a great hitter in the minors. I mean,
Speaker 1: he's it feels like he's a late bloomer. He's still
Speaker 1: only twenty four years old. And he's turning at the
Speaker 1: end of April this year. But he's a career hitter
Speaker 1: at the minor league level, makes a lot of contact,
Speaker 1: he doesn't strike out. I don't dislike Jose Praza. I
Speaker 1: think what I might not like. I'm gonna look this
Speaker 1: up here, is he's going to hit towards the bottom
Speaker 1: of the lineup with the Reds. Last year he had
Speaker 1: the opportunity second year. Is that gonna happen again? Why
Speaker 1: wouldn't it? Why would he hit second though he doesn't walk.
Speaker 1: It seems weird to me because they probably don't have
Speaker 1: a viable second basement. No, Scooter, Jat's gonna second unless
Speaker 1: he gets traded. Now we're talking a lot of if, if,
Speaker 1: sans and butts. Jose At adding seventh, Greg seventh, that
Speaker 1: is going to especially when you look at him scoring
Speaker 1: eighty five runs last year. That's because he was batting
Speaker 1: towards the top of the lineup. You put him seventh.
Speaker 1: I I'm moving him down, he said before they have
Speaker 1: Winker leading off in Votto said before fifty games batting
Speaker 1: lead off last year for Proz he had too eighty
Speaker 1: six in those games. Still ten bases betting second. Seventy
Speaker 1: two games, he hit two. He had three h three
Speaker 1: with ten stolen based stolen bit coming first or second
Speaker 1: when he was batting seven. That was in two games,
Speaker 1: So it's a small San Francis the one guy who
Speaker 1: could be targeting in the middle of fields, butts Paul
Speaker 1: de Young? How come? Yeah, for sure, Paul de Young.
Speaker 1: There's a lot to like. I think people are sleeping
Speaker 1: on him a little bit because he was hurt last
Speaker 1: year and only played a hundred and fifteen games, But
Speaker 1: the power numbers were still there, and you know, he
Speaker 1: he's actually projected to hit near the top of the
Speaker 1: Cardinals lineup. Rosster resource has him hitting second, just ahead
Speaker 1: of guys like Paul Wiltman and Marcelo Zona. That's gonna
Speaker 1: be a pretty good spot to be in terms of
Speaker 1: scoring runs. There's definitely some pop there. Uh. Hard hit
Speaker 1: rate actually went up last year thirty eight point seven
Speaker 1: percent and yety percent for a short stop. To me,
Speaker 1: he's you know, he's not gonna steal a basis, but
Speaker 1: the profile reminds me a lot of Trevor story Light. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he doesn't playing corns field a story He's not gonna
Speaker 1: steal any basis. He's like Trevor story Light minus stolen basis.
Speaker 1: But he strikes out a lot. The walk rate not
Speaker 1: you know, he improved it last year seven point three percent.
Speaker 1: He's a better hitter than hitting two four. He's not
Speaker 1: too eighty five from two years ago. He could be
Speaker 1: to sixty with twenty five home runs, good runs scored
Speaker 1: and good RBIs in the Cardinals lineup. Yeah, what's not
Speaker 1: to like about? Paul? Are your fallback? You missed out
Speaker 1: on the top twelve? Tim Anderson and Paul de young
Speaker 1: goose are your fall backs right there? Like moving Jose
Speaker 1: Prosy down as we speakers in a hundred and fifteen games,
Speaker 1: these are numbers that could turn into thirty homers, thirty
Speaker 1: five doubles, something like that. That's solid across the boards.
Speaker 1: Now my number short stop and pulled the fourteen holding on.
Speaker 1: He's not gonna lose his job most likely at that.
Speaker 1: I mean, he does have options remaining. But like jet Jerko,
Speaker 1: Colton wands always in a line kind of like Yiromonos
Speaker 1: there do they all? Right? So if he struggles, and
Speaker 1: you know, they're a team that that wants to be competitive,
Speaker 1: The Cardinals great division. By the way, it's excellently central.
Speaker 1: It's Cincinnati Reds besides very But the thing is we
Speaker 1: say that about the Pirates every year, and every year,
Speaker 1: you know, they're over five pictures do well usually. You know,
Speaker 1: that's something that I would like to tarry. I would
Speaker 1: like to see what there season total for wins is
Speaker 1: the Pirates last year? I said, I liked it. It
Speaker 1: was like at seventy eight and a half they went over.
Speaker 1: I mean, they never get any respect. You can look
Speaker 1: at all right now because I have a tribute question
Speaker 1: for Venture right now, right Venture, You're you're the big
Speaker 1: doubles guy. He telling me all abou doubles. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: love doubles. Can you name the eight players that had
Speaker 1: more than forty four more doubles last year? Without look
Speaker 1: forty four? I'm not Yeah, I'm looking Jose Ramirez, Jose
Speaker 1: ramire As is your first strike. He didn't have overt
Speaker 1: four doubles, not having over do I know he had? Um? Yeah,
Speaker 1: they do turn into bombs. He had thirty eight doubles. Um,
Speaker 1: we had a ton of doubles last year. I mean,
Speaker 1: this is hard though. You're the doubles guy. I mean
Speaker 1: I know who hits a lot of doubles them, I'll
Speaker 1: name the guys that hit a lot of doubles. I guess, yeah,
Speaker 1: so I want to know. I'm literally of course they am.
Speaker 1: Um uh no, secret didn't last year? I got one
Speaker 1: Freddy Freeman number seven forty four exactly. Actually there's one
Speaker 1: from Frank pointing for Frank venture. You want someone who
Speaker 1: plays a lot of games, Yeah, Freddy Freeman played like
Speaker 1: a hundred six. Brian Roberts used to hit a ton
Speaker 1: of doubles. It's not on this last Yankee. Great, you
Speaker 1: just said Mookie Betts. That would have been right. Oh
Speaker 1: how do we forget Mooky Martinez while we're at it,
Speaker 1: He's not try another team in mookies double only and
Speaker 1: only a hundred and what was a hundred thirty five
Speaker 1: thirty eight games last year? From Bogart's six on myself
Speaker 1: into him. I just told you, man, and then he
Speaker 1: run down another second basement, third basement forty four. Nick
Speaker 1: Castianos had four six doubles. You're a guy, this is
Speaker 1: an easy one. I'm surprised not that you got best. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Mi yell and do hard forty seven double? Remember all
Speaker 1: he did was double double double double dobirates over under
Speaker 1: tootal Greg we see it at seventy seven and a
Speaker 1: half like that over yeah, Caesar's Palace over the two
Speaker 1: wins last year for the team, Mookie Bess was three,
Speaker 1: number two in all LV. This one was hard. It's
Speaker 1: probably I haven't talked about him it all yet. Escobar
Speaker 1: fallback option as a middle middle infielder in points leagues
Speaker 1: because he hits a lot of double forty eight doubles
Speaker 1: last he's gonna hit at the top of the Diamondbacks line.
Speaker 1: He's the guy that probably won't turn that into homers.
Speaker 1: Why is this guy on twenty home runs the past
Speaker 1: two years? Don't sleep? Why is this guy off of
Speaker 1: everybody's radar? No, it is. I mean that doesn't really
Speaker 1: do anything. Besides, he's gonna hitting average is not good.
Speaker 1: Sixty hitters seventy two last year. He's an Arizona now
Speaker 1: to score some runs. Seventy five run as a middle
Speaker 1: eight doubles list homers. You gotta like that, Like you
Speaker 1: know what, I think people are sleeping on a little
Speaker 1: bit of year walks Chris Taylor. Yes, that's a guy
Speaker 1: I haven't ye. I think people are sleeping on. Chris Taylor,
Speaker 1: no one can give you fifteen fifteen and a really
Speaker 1: good Dodgers player league doubles last year. Alex Bregman brag,
Speaker 1: Chris Bench, Thanks hopping on Land, Franky stand full and
Speaker 1: Chris Shawn downstairs and Mavona as well. So much for
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Speaker 1: we hope.