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Speaker 1: I am Greg Susman. Freggie hasn't hanging, Bud, Greg, Happy Friday.
Speaker 1: That's what's hanging baby. The weekend is here, t G.
Speaker 1: I f There's nothing I can think of that I
Speaker 1: would rather do and talk about catchers with you here
Speaker 1: on a Friday. Great. Thank you, buddy. I appreciate that.
Speaker 1: I appreciate that I have to sleep last night, man,
Speaker 1: really really well. Great week of sleep. Every week I
Speaker 1: feel refreshed. The only one was Judy. You know what's it?
Speaker 1: She uh? She knocked you off the pedestal left one day.
Speaker 1: I had a great sleep overall though I felt I
Speaker 1: feel great, I was really tired this morning that I I
Speaker 1: could have slept much longer, right, that's me every morning. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I know. I was really proud of myself. I made
Speaker 1: a homemade pesto last night, no help. I showed it
Speaker 1: to Sonder downstairs. She was impressed. Judy was like, this
Speaker 1: is the best pest that you've ever made. Do you
Speaker 1: make it from scratch? That's impressive because I buy like
Speaker 1: a creamy pesto package. So I made my own babyl pesto.
Speaker 1: Put it a little bit of cream because I was
Speaker 1: in the move of the cream you got. I mean,
Speaker 1: come on, we're always in the movie. Honestly, the cream
Speaker 1: the way I did it, you didn't need it. Look
Speaker 1: at this guy a little pat on the back during
Speaker 1: the breaker I should have probably put in the air.
Speaker 1: Yeah that's why I said, you know, wait to the break, Greg,
Speaker 1: but just slide it over here. Yeah, it looks pretty good.
Speaker 1: It looks pretty good. What do you got some fresh MutS?
Speaker 1: Obviously chicken in there, bow ties, some fresh mus, chicken pesto. Man,
Speaker 1: I'm hungry now, Sorry, man, do you lunch today? I did?
Speaker 1: You don't want to? I want to know. I can't
Speaker 1: tell I had a salad. I can't tell you. She
Speaker 1: come on me funn Alex Fasano yesterday for eating savarrow.
Speaker 1: What did you eat? Can't tell you, dude, You gotta
Speaker 1: tell us. Crowd wants them out. I ate two slices
Speaker 1: of pizza from seven eleven. Oh my god, Oh my god.
Speaker 1: I was waiting for the bus in New Jersey. Greg.
Speaker 1: There is nothing around for days except seven eleven. Oh
Speaker 1: my god. I am repulsed. I can't even talk. I
Speaker 1: gotta throw with you guys down the stairs. Here's the update.
Speaker 1: Had a puke. Thank you, Greg. I am Sean Glassimakia
Speaker 1: with the RBFF Sports Grid news update. Let's head to
Speaker 1: the Arnold Palmer Invitational. They're playing that at the Bay
Speaker 1: Hill Golf Course in Orlando, Florida right now. Round number
Speaker 1: to the leader, Trollhattan six under. He has a one
Speaker 1: shot lead over three tied for second place. Rory McRoy
Speaker 1: was the leader coming in to round number two, but
Speaker 1: through eighties plus three three strokes behind in tenth place.
Speaker 1: All right, let's head over to college basketball. An upset alert.
Speaker 1: Looks like Northern Iowall will go down to Drake. They
Speaker 1: are the number one seed in the Missouri Valley Tournament.
Speaker 1: Quarterfinal action seventies seven fifty six Drake looking to put
Speaker 1: the finishing touches on a win here with sixteen seconds
Speaker 1: left in the second half. After that, the second game
Speaker 1: in the Missouri Valley Conference, you have Southern Illinois and Bradley.
Speaker 1: Bradley the five and a half point favorite one twenty
Speaker 1: four and a half your total in that one. Let's
Speaker 1: head head over to some NFL news. Austin Ekeler has
Speaker 1: agreed to a four year, fifteen million in guarantee contract
Speaker 1: that's twenty four and a half million overall with the
Speaker 1: Los Angeles Chargers. Eckler had a breakout year last season,
Speaker 1: finishing with one thousand, five hundred and fifty yards from scrimmage,
Speaker 1: including eleven total touchdowns. So once again the understricted free agent,
Speaker 1: Austin Ekeler has agreed to go back to the Chargers
Speaker 1: four year deal twenty four and a half but fifteen
Speaker 1: million in guarantees. That is according to e espn Adam Schefter.
Speaker 1: Other news making the rounds today, we had uh the
Speaker 1: Steph Kirbery come back last night the two time m
Speaker 1: v P after missing fifty eight games with a broken
Speaker 1: left hand. They finished with twenty three points in twenty
Speaker 1: seven minutes of first game Actress October, but the Warriors
Speaker 1: lost to the rot to one thirteen. And in baseball,
Speaker 1: the Los Angeles Angels have fired their long time visiting
Speaker 1: club house manager Brian Harkins after an internal investigation confirmed
Speaker 1: suspicions that he was providing fault doctoring substances to opposing
Speaker 1: pictures as according to ESPN as well. That's your BFF
Speaker 1: sports grade news update. Now back to Gregg and Frank. Guys, already,
Speaker 1: welcome back to the show. Here we're gonna talk about
Speaker 1: catchers from a fantasy baseball perspective. Today. We got a
Speaker 1: very big special interview that Greg Susman conducted. We'll get
Speaker 1: to that later on in the show as well. But
Speaker 1: like we do every day here on the BFS, we
Speaker 1: give you a little snippet of the NBA tip drill.
Speaker 1: You can find that on the sports Scrade YouTube page
Speaker 1: every single day, also on the NBA Fantasy Twitter as well.
Speaker 1: And Greg Sussman met up with Ricky Sanders of Delhi
Speaker 1: Rodad dot com earlier today to talk about tonight's NBA
Speaker 1: DFS Late at Center. We got Nikola on top tonight.
Speaker 1: You're not worried about the defensive presence of James Johnson
Speaker 1: and nas Read. I'm not worried about any defensive presence
Speaker 1: on the Minnesota Timberwolves. Right now. They have the defense
Speaker 1: that ranks dead last in defensive efficiency with you know,
Speaker 1: since Karl Anthony Towns has been out and since the
Speaker 1: Angel Russell was acquired. I mean, not only do you
Speaker 1: have this unbelievable matchup against a bad defense, but you
Speaker 1: have no Evan Fournier tonight, who's listed as doubtful. You
Speaker 1: could get a starting lineup. I don't think Terence Ross starts.
Speaker 1: He could start, but you couldn't get one with like
Speaker 1: James Ennis and Gary Clark in there alongside Buchevich. So basically,
Speaker 1: you know, Aaron Gordon not a high usage player either.
Speaker 1: Basically the entire offense could run through Nicola Bouchevich tonight,
Speaker 1: especially for you know stretches, you know, the beginning of
Speaker 1: each half where he is playing alongside the starters. I
Speaker 1: think you'll see, you know, mid thirties fits from Terence Raw,
Speaker 1: who obviously is a high usage player, but Nikola booge
Speaker 1: Fitch almost a percent rates guy across the board. He
Speaker 1: has priced at just eight four hundred. That's cheap for
Speaker 1: him in this matchup, even if Forgner was active with
Speaker 1: Pornier on the bench. I think this is just a
Speaker 1: crazy cheap price tag. Give me all the Nikola Bouchevitch tonight,
Speaker 1: all the vote tonight against the Minnesota Timberwolves. Evan Fournier
Speaker 1: could be out for the rest of the year. Vugin
Speaker 1: and Gordon are going to eat. Vucci. Main has been
Speaker 1: a mainstay for the Orlando Magic over the past couple
Speaker 1: of seasons. Obviously one of the elite players at the
Speaker 1: centered position. So you're playing over on Fandel only get
Speaker 1: one center used that spot on Vucci Main tonight. Actually,
Speaker 1: or like Timberwolves in that game, Frank, why is that?
Speaker 1: I think they're playing well right now. You're big on Nasri,
Speaker 1: their home dog. Nasri in a good spot, all right?
Speaker 1: I mean normally choosing the Timberwolves Greg in a good
Speaker 1: spot never ends. Well, it doesn't. We'll see if it
Speaker 1: does tonight. We shall see, all right. Today on the show,
Speaker 1: we're gonna review the catcher version, our final position and utility.
Speaker 1: We're gonna it's our final position of the of the season. Uh.
Speaker 1: Next wee We've got a fun week of shows plan
Speaker 1: for you. G np A Cheny will be here on Thursday.
Speaker 1: We have an auction previous Wednesday. We'll get back to
Speaker 1: the white Board series on Monday. So we got a
Speaker 1: lot of fun stuff next week. But today we start
Speaker 1: some of fun stuff because interview exact Gallant as you mentioned,
Speaker 1: which is awesome. Oh, Greg, so pumped got to talk
Speaker 1: to one of the hype guys himself, Zach Gallon. Will
Speaker 1: hear that later on in the show the final segment
Speaker 1: around three forty five pm Eastern time. Here on the show,
Speaker 1: Zac Gallen one of the Helium starting pitchers this season,
Speaker 1: one of the hype guys as we like to call him.
Speaker 1: In that group with Max Freed and Frankie Mantas, Hayes's
Speaker 1: Lazardodn Nelson Lamett, we have a good group of five
Speaker 1: or six starting pitchers that we expect to take a
Speaker 1: huge step forward this year and potentially break out. And
Speaker 1: Greg Sussman had the opportunity to speak with Zach Gallant,
Speaker 1: so we will hear that later on in the show.
Speaker 1: I'm very excited, Greg, I know you are. Frank I
Speaker 1: know how hurt you were the you weren't part of
Speaker 1: the interview. It's duty calls. You know, Craig Mish, you're
Speaker 1: in the bathroom that long. No, Craig Mish likes a
Speaker 1: joke about me taking the hot air balloon from one
Speaker 1: studio to the other. That is not true. So I
Speaker 1: was in transit on my way here, missed out on
Speaker 1: the interview. I have faith in the world. Sweet time
Speaker 1: coming from Poard authority here sweet ash time. Greg, you
Speaker 1: don't know any of the details. What do you mean
Speaker 1: I took my sweet time. You're waiting for the train.
Speaker 1: As soon as I got down there, the train came.
Speaker 1: I don't believe it. He's like, quote, I'm waiting for
Speaker 1: the one minute. I just to wait. It wasn't as
Speaker 1: soon as you got down there, that wasn't I have
Speaker 1: time this out before, Greg. Taking the train if you
Speaker 1: have one stops faster than walking from forty second Street
Speaker 1: to thirty fifth Street something in the pouring rain. You
Speaker 1: just ate seven eleven pizza. You could have walked seven blocks.
Speaker 1: I do. I could use a word, but I'm telling
Speaker 1: you I have timed it out, and it's faster. Taking
Speaker 1: the train. I tried my best. It's fascinating. The train
Speaker 1: for me. I walk. The bus came a little bit
Speaker 1: later today than usual too, so that also kind of
Speaker 1: contributed to the the late arrival. So I'm sad, but Greg,
Speaker 1: I have faith in you. You had the opportunity to
Speaker 1: talk to Zack Gallan. Shout out to Seawan Guastamakia. Producer
Speaker 1: downstairs hooked us up with the interview with Zach. Can't
Speaker 1: mean to tell you the interview that Shawn schedule for
Speaker 1: next week. Oh no, let's tell me. It's Joe Musgrove
Speaker 1: who didn't get get out of the only ending that
Speaker 1: he tried to pitch today, Greg, he did not, And
Speaker 1: it's not Joe mush Well, that would have been great.
Speaker 1: We've been trying to get Joe Musgrove on the show
Speaker 1: for like five years now. We try to get Joe
Speaker 1: must grow Wade a long time ago, we did, we didn't.
Speaker 1: Now I don't really want to talk to him, all right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: is what it is? Greg, Catcher, Catcher you're excited. No, sorry,
Speaker 1: we'll try to make it work here. Obviously, if you're
Speaker 1: playing Rhodo leagues, you have to start two catchers, which
Speaker 1: you know everyone one catcher. Sure, I mean, honestly, it
Speaker 1: might be better than starting two catchers, Greg, some of
Speaker 1: those second catchers you start are going to hurt you
Speaker 1: more than they can help you. Hopefully we can find
Speaker 1: a few sleepers that will not do that, you know,
Speaker 1: guys that will actually help you this upcoming season. But
Speaker 1: we're gonna dive into the Gary Sanchez Real Muto and
Speaker 1: kind of give you our top targets at the catch
Speaker 1: our position this upcoming season. So after the break, I
Speaker 1: think the question that we're gonna have to ask our
Speaker 1: not ask ourselves, but answer for everybody is when do
Speaker 1: you take a catcher right or in an auction? How
Speaker 1: much do you spend on a catcher? Because everybody knows
Speaker 1: the top catchers are Jay c Real Mito and it's
Speaker 1: Gary Sanchez. He has money ground. Now we'll we'll go
Speaker 1: trais right like we know this salavador for us, you
Speaker 1: know you really like it's like when do you do it?
Speaker 1: When you Jay c Real meetso is a top catcher
Speaker 1: on the board, Gary sanch is one of the top
Speaker 1: catchers on the board. When is the right time to
Speaker 1: pull the trigger? Like do you pay up at the
Speaker 1: catcher position? It's not like just like it's not unlike
Speaker 1: the quarterback spot right, like you pay up for quarterback
Speaker 1: advantage of booball you know, it's kind of similar in
Speaker 1: a stats tight end. Greg, that's fair too. Yeah, do
Speaker 1: you like taking Travis Kelsey and Rob Gronkowski for us?
Speaker 1: And maybe you like Muto should really? All right? Where
Speaker 1: do you hear? What? Probably where your Franks thoughts are
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Speaker 1: Friday hanging out. Here's our catcher show, Frank. We've been
Speaker 1: waiting all off season for this Moment's exactly right, Craig.
Speaker 1: Nothing else I'd rather do on a Friday. There's no
Speaker 1: place I'd rather be. There's nothing I would rather you
Speaker 1: not do than sing. All right, Frank through one of
Speaker 1: the catcher spot, the top catcher on the board. You
Speaker 1: don't like drafting catcher early because you feel that there
Speaker 1: is obviously not an advantage to it. But don't like
Speaker 1: tight ends where I feel like there's like a good
Speaker 1: amount of solid Like most of the guys on the
Speaker 1: screen for you right now really suck. There's not many
Speaker 1: good players on that list. Well, there are some. They
Speaker 1: can get much later. I don't take j will me
Speaker 1: so because I don't. Catchers don't play every single day,
Speaker 1: and as good as he is, they're also more prone
Speaker 1: to injury than other spots. Where do you feel comfortable
Speaker 1: taking a catcher? Usually around the definitely pass pick one hundred.
Speaker 1: I usually wind up with one of my top seven
Speaker 1: or eight for my first catcher. Again, this is for
Speaker 1: a rotal league. In a twelve team league, I'm probably
Speaker 1: just gonna wait till towards the end and you know
Speaker 1: whoever the best value is out of a Savoneo Perez, Carson,
Speaker 1: Kelly Wilson, Contreris. If someone falls in a one catcher league, sure,
Speaker 1: I want one of my top eight guys in a
Speaker 1: two catcher league. I still want one of my top
Speaker 1: eight guys in my first catcher, and then for my
Speaker 1: second one. Look, it winds up to be top one
Speaker 1: of my top twenty. Uh, that's perfectly fine as my
Speaker 1: second catcher. I really don't put a lot of stock
Speaker 1: into the second catcher, Greg, I'm never gonna be one
Speaker 1: of the people who drafts you know, J. C. Real
Speaker 1: Muto and a Salvador Perez, Like, that's never going to
Speaker 1: be the player that I am, because, as you mentioned, Greg,
Speaker 1: you passed up on so many other position players who
Speaker 1: can contribute across the board more than likely, I mean,
Speaker 1: outside of real Muto, no one's gonna give you stolen
Speaker 1: bases at the catcher because Edition and those players are
Speaker 1: just gonna play more, right obviously, like shortstop outfield their
Speaker 1: first basement. They're going to play more than a catcher.
Speaker 1: Even you know, the catcher who plays the most, let's
Speaker 1: say like Emily and last year Wilson Ramos played a ton.
Speaker 1: You're not getting more than like a hundred and thirty games, Max. Yeah,
Speaker 1: probably more realistically, like a hundred and twenty. So look,
Speaker 1: everybody has a price. If JT. Real Muto falls to
Speaker 1: the right price, Craig and I will take it, of course,
Speaker 1: which in a fifteen team league. He felt to me
Speaker 1: in the sixth round. I took him in that draft,
Speaker 1: and I didn't mind the way when my team turned out.
Speaker 1: But more often than not, he goes in the fourth
Speaker 1: and fifth and I just can't invest a catcher position
Speaker 1: at that point because the pictures are passing up on
Speaker 1: the speed the batting average that you're passing up on.
Speaker 1: But more than likely it's after pick one hundred, I'll
Speaker 1: target my first catcher and I'll try to get someone
Speaker 1: like Salvador Perez, Wilson, Ramos, A, Carson Kelly, somebody like that.
Speaker 1: I agree with you. That's kind of the area I
Speaker 1: like to live in as well, a little bit more aggressive.
Speaker 1: My guys. Wilson traish for a long time. You know
Speaker 1: that about me, And he's going where right now the
Speaker 1: n F you say week, he is going Ye, So
Speaker 1: that is last year. I feel like it picks contraris
Speaker 1: in like the thirteenth round, and I felt good about that.
Speaker 1: I think that's really where I want to live ideally,
Speaker 1: and It's pretty similar to where you were talking about
Speaker 1: take a catcher there, but before some of the ones
Speaker 1: like I don't want are the only ones left. We
Speaker 1: have sleepers that we like. I have a whole crew
Speaker 1: of nine to eight and I all think are kind
Speaker 1: of the same. To be honest with you, I want
Speaker 1: one of my eight guys. I'm gonna take that catcher
Speaker 1: to make sure I get one of those eight guys
Speaker 1: like I like Carson Kelly that wants my starting catcher.
Speaker 1: Not really no, especially in one catcher league, right, Like
Speaker 1: I don't want Carson Kelly to be my one catcher
Speaker 1: in a two catcher league. We have talked about this,
Speaker 1: you and I that we want to spend no more
Speaker 1: than ten dollars on two catchers about in the league
Speaker 1: where we are um in the state draft. We're not
Speaker 1: going to invest high draft picks in that. We're gonna
Speaker 1: want a guy just to have me like, all right,
Speaker 1: we're comfortable with this guy. We're not going to messed heavily.
Speaker 1: And the same same remains true for me. I'm never
Speaker 1: gonna be the guy that draft shakes really leads out.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna be the guy that ras Gary Sanchez
Speaker 1: I'm just not gonna do it, Yes, because again you
Speaker 1: pass up on players who play every single day exactly
Speaker 1: and in a better chance of getting stay healthy. Yeah. Look,
Speaker 1: catchers get nicked up all the time. Remember there behind
Speaker 1: the plate, their pitches are getting fouled off their face mask.
Speaker 1: You know, there's balls in the dirt that they're trying
Speaker 1: to you know, drop down and stop from you know,
Speaker 1: being passed balls. And you look, they're constantly taking a
Speaker 1: beating back there. So they are prone to getting more
Speaker 1: of to being more injured consistently. And you know Gary
Speaker 1: Sanchez if you just want to talk about him Greg specifically,
Speaker 1: I mean he's missed a ton of time over the
Speaker 1: past couple of seasons with various different injuries, and a
Speaker 1: lot of it didn't even come you know, playing the
Speaker 1: catcher position a few times, it's just like running the
Speaker 1: first base. He's you know, suffered a few injuries. And look,
Speaker 1: real Muto is the number one catcher and fantasy and
Speaker 1: there's no doubt about it. He's been incredibly durable. Give
Speaker 1: you five, five to ten stolen bases. You look at
Speaker 1: what he did last year, Greg, and it's look, he
Speaker 1: scored ninety two runs as a catcher. I mean, that's
Speaker 1: ridiculous in the Phillies lineup. Obviously, Good Ball Park's hidden.
Speaker 1: He's in a contract. Theoris twenty five home runs last
Speaker 1: year at a massive second half eighty three r bis.
Speaker 1: His runs, RBIs and stolen basis all led catchers, Greg,
Speaker 1: So there's no doubt if you do want to pay
Speaker 1: up at the position, Real Muto is the number one
Speaker 1: guy over Gary Sanchez. Gary Sanchez to me, is just
Speaker 1: so hard to figure out because the batting average fluctuates
Speaker 1: all over the place. The plate discipline is questionable at times.
Speaker 1: He strikes out a lot, He misses time. Last year
Speaker 1: the launch angle went way up. It seemed like all
Speaker 1: he was trying to do was hit home runs. The
Speaker 1: batting average suffered as a result, only hit two thirty two.
Speaker 1: His splits were all messed up, lesson, Like, Gary Sanchez
Speaker 1: is just a weird player to figure out and something
Speaker 1: there's so much like if he has higher upside than
Speaker 1: real Muto, there's like, there's no doubt about that he
Speaker 1: has higher upside. He does. I think if Gary ever
Speaker 1: stayed healthy for like a hundred and thirty plus games, Greg,
Speaker 1: he's giving you close to forty home runs and no
Speaker 1: other catcher is doing that. It's not close. I think
Speaker 1: his upside is higher than real Muto, but his downside,
Speaker 1: his floor is way lower than Real Music had hundred
Speaker 1: six games last year. You know there's twenty games he
Speaker 1: has six four hord runs. Yeah, yeah, for sure, j
Speaker 1: zero music last year. He stays healthy the average ship
Speaker 1: you're saying, no, I still rank Real Muto number one.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying the upside for me, in my opinion,
Speaker 1: if everything were to break right right like nine percental
Speaker 1: outcomes for both of these catchers, I think Gary sanchez
Speaker 1: Is upside is higher than that of Real Muto. So
Speaker 1: if you do want an elite catcher, and you know
Speaker 1: you want one of these top two guys, and just
Speaker 1: wait a couple of rounds until after Real Muto goes again.
Speaker 1: Normally he goes in the fourth, fifth round, you can
Speaker 1: wait till the six seventh round for Gary Sanchez and
Speaker 1: you can still wind up with one of the best
Speaker 1: catchers in baseball. Great lineup, great ballpark, YadA, YadA. You've
Speaker 1: heard it a million times when it comes to the Yankees.
Speaker 1: But just know that there are a lot of moving
Speaker 1: parts for Gary Sanchez. Greg, Obviously, we live in the
Speaker 1: New York area and we watch a lot of Yankees games,
Speaker 1: and it seems like every single year there's like a
Speaker 1: timing issue with Gary Sanders because he has the and
Speaker 1: it's always like, oh, he goes into this prolonged slump
Speaker 1: because he can't get his timing down. He has the
Speaker 1: big leg kick. There are just so many moving parts
Speaker 1: when it comes to Gary Sanchez, plus you need him
Speaker 1: to stay healthy. So I'm just washing my hands of it.
Speaker 1: I'm not getting involved with either of the top two catchers. Honestly, Greg,
Speaker 1: I get it. The draft price is too high for me.
Speaker 1: I you would love to own both of these guys,
Speaker 1: right like you would love to have him on the team.
Speaker 1: But the slump with Gary Santras is incredibly frustrating. You know,
Speaker 1: we'll get hot, It'll be a nice street, that's who.
Speaker 1: Thirty batting averages will be very, very annoying. I'd rather
Speaker 1: I'd rather the forty home run guy with a similar
Speaker 1: wait play every day like your boy, Greg. Over the
Speaker 1: past week, Gary Sanchez is going to pick seventy, which
Speaker 1: is just ahead of jose A Bray. You, Victor Roeboys
Speaker 1: Nelson cruise, Luis Robert, how can you a straight face?
Speaker 1: You can't do it, say that you should take a
Speaker 1: catcher who is most likely going to miss time over
Speaker 1: players like this who are gonna give you such consistent production,
Speaker 1: good batting average Robost can give you solen basis, Luis Robert,
Speaker 1: ceiling is sky high. I can't get involved there, Greg.
Speaker 1: We would never do it. We would simply never do it.
Speaker 1: Let's continue, um, because after those two grand right, is
Speaker 1: he number three catcher as well? He is my number
Speaker 1: three catcher. It's worth mentioning, Greg. He has not caught
Speaker 1: a single game in spring training yet, as he's battling
Speaker 1: a calf injury. Not really what you want to hear
Speaker 1: from a catcher. Maybe that's okay, he's not running anywhere. Actually,
Speaker 1: it's exactly want to here for a catcher any other one.
Speaker 1: You want to hear from a catcher who is crouching
Speaker 1: all the time and he has a calf injury, He's
Speaker 1: not move Sit there, I mean crouch all right, Let's
Speaker 1: go crouch down right now and tell me what you
Speaker 1: feel in the bottom of your legs. I guarantee you
Speaker 1: it doesn't feel good. How does that calf feel right now, Greg,
Speaker 1: how does this calf feel? Keep it going a little bit? Oh,
Speaker 1: look at that. Look at this guy's got some calves here.
Speaker 1: No no, don't no, no, no, you can't put that.
Speaker 1: You can't put the hands down on the ground. Greg,
Speaker 1: stay there for about three hours and tell me how
Speaker 1: your calf feels afterwards, Greg, that will be the show
Speaker 1: for the rest of today. I'm just telling you, I
Speaker 1: don't think it's a good thing if you has Moni
Speaker 1: grandal is dealing with a calf injury as a catcher.
Speaker 1: It is some great form by Greg smen as well
Speaker 1: some mint green sneakers. He's got it all working personally, Greg,
Speaker 1: I just don't think that it's good for a catcher
Speaker 1: if they're dealing with a calf injury. What all right?
Speaker 1: He's gonna explain himself here to be fit all right,
Speaker 1: it's not work all right here. So the most catches
Speaker 1: are like really just slitting on one leg. Now, it's
Speaker 1: like he's doing right on one leg to be fair.
Speaker 1: I don't know, guys, monty grand dollars. He might like that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so maybe yeah, maybe he just sits like that, just
Speaker 1: kind of rest the calf like that. Exactly, no big deal.
Speaker 1: I'm still not a fan of that right now. It's
Speaker 1: more so given the price that you have to pay
Speaker 1: for him and the fact that he hasn't played a
Speaker 1: single game yet, so has Monty grand Dolla is going
Speaker 1: around pick nine, Greg, which is right around Nick Cassiano's,
Speaker 1: Marcela Zuna, Josh Donaldson, Rosario, Tim Anderson. How can you
Speaker 1: take grand Dollar over these guys. There's no reason too,
Speaker 1: because even if you want the advantage of tight end,
Speaker 1: I don't. Don't you want the advantage at Casher, There's
Speaker 1: not a big enough advantage that he has Monty grand
Speaker 1: Doll over some of these other players in this range,
Speaker 1: namely Contraris Garver, Ramos Perez, and Will Smith. Those are
Speaker 1: that rounds out my tier. I don't know, I don't
Speaker 1: know about yours. Like that's it. Those eight guys I have.
Speaker 1: Tier one is Real Muto and Gary sang Dame. Tier
Speaker 1: two is Yas, Monty Grandel, Mitch Garver, Salvador Perez, Wilson
Speaker 1: Kon Treres, Will Smith, and I have Wilson Rambos in
Speaker 1: that year also, and that you can argue, sure, that's fine,
Speaker 1: that's it. Those the only eight catchers I want. I
Speaker 1: don't have any year three. So if you play in
Speaker 1: a one catcher league, try to get one of those
Speaker 1: top eight catchers and then kind of just whatever fill
Speaker 1: in your second catch with one of these upside games.
Speaker 1: What I would do, I'm gonna take the last catcher.
Speaker 1: Whenever that last catchers that Wilson Robos fire him up.
Speaker 1: Greg All on the other side, I guess we'll have
Speaker 1: to find out why after the break. I like Will Smith, though,
Speaker 1: Will Smith all the Will Smith someone Will Smith on
Speaker 1: the other side. Will Smith and Wilson Ramos and Wilson
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Speaker 1: on to the Wills Wilson Contraris, Wilson Ramos, Wilson Smith.
Speaker 1: You hit all these guys. What if I want to
Speaker 1: talk about Mr garberd Is his name doesn't started with will, Well,
Speaker 1: then we should not talk about him yet, all right,
Speaker 1: all right? So the one that I have ranked the
Speaker 1: highest of the wills is actually Wilson Contreres. I have
Speaker 1: him a few spots lower than you. I have him
Speaker 1: down at six. Gregg, He's at four for me, just
Speaker 1: because I do worry about the long angle at times.
Speaker 1: He hits a lot of groundballs. Greg's do you worry
Speaker 1: about that? Career HIGs twenty four home runs. There's a
Speaker 1: lot of those. Two career high thirty seven percent hard contact.
Speaker 1: Greg didn't raise the flyball rate a little bit less.
Speaker 1: He's One of the problems for Wilson Contreris has been
Speaker 1: his ability to stay healthy. Greg. He dealt with a
Speaker 1: foot and a hamstring injury less season limited him to
Speaker 1: just five games, but over fifty percent groundball rate. Greg
Speaker 1: for his career, strikes out a lot career high twenty
Speaker 1: ft nine percent strike out rate last year. Wilson Contrairis
Speaker 1: is fine. Just like a few of the first basemen
Speaker 1: we were talking about yesterday. Greg, not to the same
Speaker 1: extent as like a Paul Goldschman. I don't mind getting
Speaker 1: a Wilson contres He's just fine. He is what he
Speaker 1: is to sixty hitter, twenty home runs, solid county stats,
Speaker 1: good line up to hidden good ball, vark tow hidden
Speaker 1: in Wrigley. I just think some of the other players
Speaker 1: in this range Greg have a little bit more upside.
Speaker 1: Grandall going considerably higher than Wilson Contreris. And then Mitch Garver,
Speaker 1: someone that I do like this year. I don't really
Speaker 1: like the price. But he lost his catching coach, Frank,
Speaker 1: it's Garver lost his catching coaches. True, that is a
Speaker 1: factual statement, you know. Sure, maybe that changes things for him. No,
Speaker 1: I mean I just want, well, I just want miss
Speaker 1: Garver to be able to bat, which he's very good at.
Speaker 1: He's like good at catching. Maybe he will be good
Speaker 1: a bat it he's not really great at catching, but
Speaker 1: Alex Savilla is backing him up. Greg. I don't really
Speaker 1: think he's gonna take Mitch Garver's job. Ever, had thirty
Speaker 1: one home runs last year for the Minnesota Twins, bet
Speaker 1: at two seventy three with an o BP at three
Speaker 1: sixty five, he was fantastic. Why do you like him
Speaker 1: more than Wilson? Charis Well, Gregg. It comes down to
Speaker 1: the contact that he makes, right, It just makes elite
Speaker 1: contact the catcher position. Last year you look at the
Speaker 1: stat cast page another one here basically with all the
Speaker 1: Minnesota twins Mcguelson, no Nelson, cruz Um now Josh Donaldson
Speaker 1: joining the team as well, Miss Garver rank nineties six
Speaker 1: percentile in barrel rate last year. Greg, That was not
Speaker 1: just among catchers, that was an all of baseball percentile
Speaker 1: in expected slugging percentage UM, and he was hied for
Speaker 1: seventh and all of baseball in terms of average EGXIT
Speaker 1: velocity on fly balls in line drive. So when he
Speaker 1: is hitting the ball in the in the air, he's
Speaker 1: hitting the ball extremely hard. As well, he has good
Speaker 1: plate discipline eleven percent walk great. The plate discipline is
Speaker 1: going to be a little bit better than someone like
Speaker 1: Wilson Kntreris. Like, if you worry about what you saw
Speaker 1: from miss Garver last year being a fluke, then maybe
Speaker 1: you worry about him not coming close to repeating that.
Speaker 1: But he has had some big seasons in the miners. Greg,
Speaker 1: you know back in seventeen ps in Triple A with
Speaker 1: seventeen home runs. If you remember, Nano do Fino is
Speaker 1: actually all over midch Garver like coming in every day
Speaker 1: looking at Triple A numbers like Garver is gonna be
Speaker 1: the man. Mitch Garver is gonna be the man. He
Speaker 1: has shown some upside in the past. Um in the minors.
Speaker 1: He had thirty one home runs last year, Greg, and
Speaker 1: only nine three games. So even if you worry about
Speaker 1: plate um how much he's going to play last year,
Speaker 1: only played ninety three games and was awesome in those games. Greg.
Speaker 1: One of my early well at the time, one of
Speaker 1: my early hot takes for the NCY bas was that
Speaker 1: Mitch Garver actually outproduces Gary Sanchez this season, Greig, I
Speaker 1: mean I did it last year, right, The average is
Speaker 1: way better. Yeah, you had to seventy three with p s,
Speaker 1: which is just ridiculous at the catcher position, and he
Speaker 1: led off last year against left handed pitching. Probably going
Speaker 1: to do that again this upcoming season. So you're gonna
Speaker 1: get run scored. Um. Obviously, when Josh Donalson wasn't there,
Speaker 1: you thought there was a chance that he can, you know,
Speaker 1: maybe get some time at first base, which would help
Speaker 1: with the playing time. But you know what, Donaldson there
Speaker 1: obviously mcgilson no slides over. He's just gonna He's just
Speaker 1: gonna play. Cash actually hit thirty one home runs last year.
Speaker 1: What is he gonna get? Like? Where is he at
Speaker 1: this year? Is the year before seven and a hundred
Speaker 1: three games minor league career? Wasn't like a prolific power
Speaker 1: writer r Any means he had a good season in
Speaker 1: the minors, Greig and how many games? He eight games
Speaker 1: and then hit zero and twenty three games the majors.
Speaker 1: All right, Well it comes down to team philosophy, right.
Speaker 1: Everybody on the Twins was barreling balls last year. I
Speaker 1: know that they lost their pitching coach is something that
Speaker 1: Craig has talked about on Fantasy Sports Today. Coach. He's
Speaker 1: now they're hitting the hitting coach of the Miami Marlins.
Speaker 1: So maybe we see some of the Miami Marlins. They
Speaker 1: also lost their bench coach, raised the launch angle as well.
Speaker 1: But I don't think these guys are just gonna forget
Speaker 1: what they learned last year, don't you. You're saying that
Speaker 1: this morning right either yesterday yesterday, so you're out on
Speaker 1: miss Garver Greg, it just sounds like I'm not in
Speaker 1: as miss garverge yesterday. I don't have any shares yet
Speaker 1: because he kind of still just goes a little bit
Speaker 1: too early. Short liking Greg right now, the ADP in
Speaker 1: March is one O seven. Well, even taking Salvador Perez
Speaker 1: around this spot instead. Well, the thing is with Salvado Perez,
Speaker 1: you can get him about forty picks later and he's
Speaker 1: if you have a question that Savadoor Perez, he's back,
Speaker 1: he's healthy, He's already playing, yes, and he is playing
Speaker 1: catcher as well, so he's not just d ching in games.
Speaker 1: He has caught a few in spring training so far.
Speaker 1: And look, he's coming back from Tommy John surgery. We've
Speaker 1: seen labor Torres come back from this. Don't really have
Speaker 1: much concern there. Um Die Glorius has come back from
Speaker 1: that as well. And there was a quote that stood
Speaker 1: out to me regarding Salvado Perez. He said, to miss
Speaker 1: a year, I know it's bad for the first time,
Speaker 1: but it helped me a lot healing my body. He
Speaker 1: plays every day. He plays every single day, so I
Speaker 1: actually think he might be a little refreshed season. You
Speaker 1: think they'll still play him every single day, though, I
Speaker 1: think that they're going to play him at d H
Speaker 1: as well. Sure, maybe they slide so Laer into the
Speaker 1: outfield a little bit just to get the bat of
Speaker 1: Salvado president. They could put Salad first base two. So
Speaker 1: I still think that the at bats are going to
Speaker 1: be there. Uh, not as good as in a ob
Speaker 1: P league or a points league. Doesn't walk all that much,
Speaker 1: but four straight seasons before last year with twenty one
Speaker 1: plus home runs career to sixties six hitter. He's kind
Speaker 1: of like Sekturs where he's just fine, right, it's going
Speaker 1: to hit home runs. Line up is decent, not great,
Speaker 1: but you know he's gonna play either at catcher, d H,
Speaker 1: first base. They're gonna find ways to get Salvador Perez's lineup, uh,
Speaker 1: Salvador Perez's bat in the lineup. And in terms of
Speaker 1: the price gig again going around pick one fifty, which
Speaker 1: I feel much better about taking a catcher in that
Speaker 1: range rather than I pick one hundred with Garver or
Speaker 1: even earlier with like Sanchez. Real music chairs also there
Speaker 1: he as we said, pick one oh seven. Right now,
Speaker 1: what about my guy Will Smith, who I have as
Speaker 1: my seventh rank catch. I'm really high on it because
Speaker 1: he was really good after coming up last year. He
Speaker 1: was the unquestioned starter now for the Los Angeles Dodgers.
Speaker 1: He was a top prospect for them. I know you
Speaker 1: have some worries about him and in the batting average specifically, Um,
Speaker 1: are you draftinge will Smith this year? I don't mind
Speaker 1: Will Smith. I think he's at the end of this
Speaker 1: here and again, if he falls later than everyone else,
Speaker 1: then sure, I don't mind getting him as my first catcher.
Speaker 1: And maybe he's someone we can look at in our
Speaker 1: auction league together here, Greg, but last year, UM, the
Speaker 1: batting average in the Major's to fifty three in the minors.
Speaker 1: He does have some swing and miss. He's strikes out
Speaker 1: a decent bit. His expected batting average Greg, according to
Speaker 1: stack cast was two five, so we could see the
Speaker 1: batting average crater a little bit here twenty three point
Speaker 1: seven degree average launch angle. Greg. He hits too many flyballs.
Speaker 1: He's in the Reese Hoskins category of he tries too
Speaker 1: hard to hit home runs. Do you like home runs? Yeah?
Speaker 1: But it also could affect her batting average when he's
Speaker 1: striking out and only hitting flyballs. As we saw from
Speaker 1: Reese Hoskins in the second half Life basically found exactly
Speaker 1: what I want. Right, Reese Hoskins, Cavin Bgia, Will Smith,
Speaker 1: they're all the same. Well, you're playing ob P leagues
Speaker 1: and so it's different because those guys can still be
Speaker 1: all right. But in batting average, Greg, you're looking at
Speaker 1: a solid two forty year less team. This is why
Speaker 1: in all the leagues of batting average, I share with you, right, yeah,
Speaker 1: because I gotta talk to you off from the ledge.
Speaker 1: It's okay, what teamwork is man? Right? Look, I like
Speaker 1: Will Smith and it's a good line up to hit in.
Speaker 1: I think the power is real, but I do think
Speaker 1: there's some worry over the batting average. He probably hits
Speaker 1: to thirty to two forty home runs from the catcher position.
Speaker 1: It's great, and you know he's gonna give you some
Speaker 1: RBIs obviously in that line of probably gonna give you
Speaker 1: seventy seventy five RBI, which you know a catcher is great.
Speaker 1: I will say this, Greg, if he struggles even in
Speaker 1: the least bit, they do have prospect. Yes, they have
Speaker 1: one of the top catching prospects in baseball. Isn't that
Speaker 1: what Will Smith was. He is have a ton of
Speaker 1: catching prospects, kuibert Ruise. Look at the name Greg will
Speaker 1: Smith first, All right, well, I'm telling you that kibert
Speaker 1: Ruise is in the organization and what prospects. So if
Speaker 1: he struggles, he's like Kybert Ruise is close Greg, but
Speaker 1: like will Smith was a top prospect for them, He's twenty,
Speaker 1: was but a steen years old on my sister's birthday.
Speaker 1: Kiber Ruise was actually regarded as a higher project than
Speaker 1: will Smith and he hit Listening to this power though
Speaker 1: man twenty home runs in the minors last year, fifteen
Speaker 1: the majors, he had thirty five home runs last year
Speaker 1: the powers legit, No, it is. It's awesome. But I'm
Speaker 1: just saying, like there is a downside that I think
Speaker 1: some people might not be taking into account as much
Speaker 1: as they should, because there is a recipe for this
Speaker 1: to end badly for will Smith, and it's someone who
Speaker 1: have Reese Hoskins. Again, just if he strikes out and
Speaker 1: tries too hard to hit five balls, Greg, then he's
Speaker 1: gonna wind up with a very low batting average this season.
Speaker 1: He could but the project but like all the projections,
Speaker 1: doesn't even have like a terrible batting average. Well, what
Speaker 1: do you consider terrible? Greg? What are they having for
Speaker 1: it is bad? I love that Gregg says a statement
Speaker 1: and then like retracts it. I didn't think it would
Speaker 1: be like this bad projective batting average. I like, Will Smith,
Speaker 1: you're wrong, I Will Smith, Sure, that's your guy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think one of Wilson Ramos's team is batting two
Speaker 1: thirty this year is and the problem with that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but punt batting average in your head take category. Leave,
Speaker 1: that's fine, it's so big. I don't plan to lay average.
Speaker 1: There you go, it's gonna be great. It was good trays.
Speaker 1: I'm keeping you remember, especially my keepers. Again, maybe not
Speaker 1: that we're like into baseball. Maybe you could change it.
Speaker 1: Um well, I've been into baseball for two months now.
Speaker 1: I haven't one more cash here to get too. And
Speaker 1: that is Wilson Ramos of the New York Mets. He
Speaker 1: is last catchered my tier, Frank, He's not even in
Speaker 1: this tier for you. I know we have talked about
Speaker 1: him potentially target grabbing him. I know he's kind of
Speaker 1: like in that he's fine tier for you. Is he
Speaker 1: fine enough that you're drafting. Yeah. I mean, look, he
Speaker 1: stayed healthy last year and played a hundred and forty
Speaker 1: one game insane four four played appearances, that was third
Speaker 1: among catchers. He had to eighty eight. He's going to
Speaker 1: contribute in the batting average department, which you can't say
Speaker 1: about a lot of catchers, But only fourteen home runs
Speaker 1: seventy three ribbies hits too many ground balls. So far
Speaker 1: in spring he has said that he is working more
Speaker 1: onlifting the ball and his launch angles. So look, his
Speaker 1: bat to ball skills are great. If he would just
Speaker 1: lift the ball a little bit, Greg, we might even
Speaker 1: get twenty home runs out of Wilson Ramos with a
Speaker 1: really good batting average as well. I do worry that
Speaker 1: they overworked him a little bit too much last year. Greg,
Speaker 1: he has been injury prone in the past, but he
Speaker 1: is part of this range. I don't have a problem
Speaker 1: with you including him in this tier, and I don't
Speaker 1: mind him as my first catcher either. In fantasy basebl
Speaker 1: I probably won't drost my first catcher, to be honest
Speaker 1: with you, all the other eight guys so much more.
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Speaker 1: seven of the week for all the coast was your way.
Speaker 1: So a little while ago, I got an opportunity to
Speaker 1: catch it with Zach Gallen, so jealousy. Nice guy. I
Speaker 1: like him, night guy, nice guy. He was awesome, high
Speaker 1: character Zach Gallon. Another reason to draft him this year.
Speaker 1: I want to make a lot of a team names
Speaker 1: with Gallant in it, you know, mm hmm yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna have a thing about that one. I don't know,
Speaker 1: like two Gallon ginral Ah, that's not your best Greig.
Speaker 1: I love Gingeril not a creative name. How is it
Speaker 1: not to Gallon ginger That's funny? How's it funny? We're
Speaker 1: gallons in it, all right, that's it. It's not gallons,
Speaker 1: it's leaders. Greg. You buy a two leader of two
Speaker 1: gallons of ginger rail, is gonna be like a jug.
Speaker 1: This it's gonna be. You might as well take like
Speaker 1: the water cooler you have in your house. You have
Speaker 1: the little sheen with the water cooler that filled with
Speaker 1: ginger les. It's the only soda that I have in
Speaker 1: my house at all times. Me too. Let's go man
Speaker 1: that as well. The BFF of mine it is Zack Gallen.
Speaker 1: He had this to say a little bit earlier on
Speaker 1: joined now by Zack Gallen all of the Arizona diamond Backs. Zach,
Speaker 1: what's going on, man? How's it going on? Guys? It's
Speaker 1: going really really well. We appreciate you taking the time.
Speaker 1: How is your spring going? Man? Yeah, it's been good.
Speaker 1: Um weather it's been great. Uh, you know, the guy's
Speaker 1: been awesome and you know it's it's been good so far.
Speaker 1: So obviously you're in Arizona, um, playing for the Diamondbacks,
Speaker 1: and a lot different than last spring playing for the Marlins.
Speaker 1: That trade, at least for us fantasy owners, kind of
Speaker 1: came out of nowhere. What was it? Like being traded,
Speaker 1: which I'm sure was a huge shocked you too. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was kind of crazy. Um, I had pits the
Speaker 1: night before. UM, through kind of well thought. I was
Speaker 1: coming in, you know, talked about last night's outing, and
Speaker 1: you know, a couple of minutes into the conversation, I
Speaker 1: realized that's not what it was about, and they were
Speaker 1: trading me to Arizona. UM stopt packing up my apartment
Speaker 1: about eighteen hours again on the flight was pretty crazy,
Speaker 1: but you know, I'm glad to be here. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean that's you. You're a player, is getting traded and
Speaker 1: it's a business. But just pitched the night before, obviously
Speaker 1: you're just kind of a couple of starts back. That
Speaker 1: is just nuts to me. So what changed for you
Speaker 1: pitching wise going from the Marlins to the d Backs.
Speaker 1: Obviously your walks dropped, your your caper and I went
Speaker 1: up a little bit. What changed for you formulaic? I guess, Um,
Speaker 1: I pitched you on a different team. UM. I think
Speaker 1: one of the bigger things was just kind of getting
Speaker 1: with Carson Kelly got you know, I've been within St. Louis, UM,
Speaker 1: so there was some familiarity there, and you know, I
Speaker 1: kind of just was filling my way around the big
Speaker 1: leagues and been up there for a couple of months.
Speaker 1: So I think it was just you know, more so
Speaker 1: getting comfortable and you know, uh, just really getting used
Speaker 1: to the league and seeing how things were playing out.
Speaker 1: We're talking to Zach Gallant of the Arizona Diamondbacks and
Speaker 1: you mentioned you got to Arizona and you reconnected with
Speaker 1: Carson Kelly and you you have this for pitch mix. Now,
Speaker 1: you had obviously all off season to work with Carson
Speaker 1: Kelly with the d Backs. What have you worked on
Speaker 1: most of this offseason? What are you been looking on too?
Speaker 1: I guess what particular the pitch maybe uh to get
Speaker 1: better on as we head into twenties twenty. I mean,
Speaker 1: I think the biggest thing is just consistency, um, you know,
Speaker 1: just trying to limit those walks like last year. Uh.
Speaker 1: And I mean I think the biggest thing though in
Speaker 1: terms of a pitch is just working on my cutter.
Speaker 1: You know, back to the consistency and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: It's like certain games I had at certain games that
Speaker 1: didn't so, um, you know, I'd like to have it
Speaker 1: most of the games. I know. That's having all the
Speaker 1: games is a little bit. You know, it's a lot
Speaker 1: to ask for, but if I can have it for
Speaker 1: most of the games, I feel pretty comfortable about that.
Speaker 1: I think fantasy owners obviously it would feel very comfortable
Speaker 1: with that as well. Zach, what's it like? Right? We
Speaker 1: we asked this question all the time, but like, what's
Speaker 1: it like when people come up to you because you're
Speaker 1: a young dude, right, like you kind of grew up
Speaker 1: with us in this fantasy world. What was it like
Speaker 1: when you have people across screwing at you being like
Speaker 1: I need these strike ats? Man? Yeah, No, it was
Speaker 1: kind of funny. Um um when I got called up
Speaker 1: or that the night after I pitched, was you know
Speaker 1: a lot of friends and family saying, you know, congratulations.
Speaker 1: You know I was awesome to watch, But most of
Speaker 1: the messag as I got were hey, thanks for the
Speaker 1: so many points whatever it was. So I just kind
Speaker 1: of gotta laugh out of that. And you know, it's
Speaker 1: kind of cool to see because I'm kind of the
Speaker 1: same way there, and you know, fantasy football season, I'm
Speaker 1: kind of thinking, oh, man, I would love for you know,
Speaker 1: player actually give me so many points. So for me
Speaker 1: to be a similar situation and you know, it's kind
Speaker 1: of funny. Absolutely, and uh, it is funny to be
Speaker 1: on the other side of that. Like we have questions
Speaker 1: all the time, we aren't people of answering them because
Speaker 1: we're just as bad as everybody else's. But you you
Speaker 1: can actually uh impact fantasy teams way more obviously than
Speaker 1: we can. It's fantastic, um, what you've been able to
Speaker 1: do thus for in your short career. We're talking to
Speaker 1: Zack Allen all the Arizona divingbacks, and I know a
Speaker 1: question of Buddy Frank has Zach how many strikeouts are
Speaker 1: gonna have this season? Just wondering I don't know, hopefully enough.
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, I don't know, Yeah, hopefully enough. That's that's
Speaker 1: the answer. I'll get. That's that's perfect. Um. It's like
Speaker 1: just a couple more here as we wrap up with you.
Speaker 1: But I think my question is you obviously got called
Speaker 1: up mid season last year. This year you're funding for
Speaker 1: a rotation spot. I know a lot of people also
Speaker 1: included think that you're going to grab this rotation spot
Speaker 1: and it should be on your way to a pretty
Speaker 1: nice season here. What what is the mindset? How different
Speaker 1: is the mindset for you within a chance legitimately do
Speaker 1: break camp in the rotation versus in the past where
Speaker 1: you really haven't had that opportunity. Yeah, I mean it's
Speaker 1: the same but different. At the same time, you know,
Speaker 1: you still go in there, whether you have a spot
Speaker 1: or not, wanting to compete one the show where you
Speaker 1: worked on the off season, Um, how much better you got.
Speaker 1: But I will say that, I mean, you know, after pitching,
Speaker 1: it takes a little bit more of the weight off
Speaker 1: your shoulders. Knowing that you can do it. Um, they've
Speaker 1: seen you been able to do it, So I think
Speaker 1: that makes it, you know, just a little bit easier
Speaker 1: on me. But at the same time, I'm still gonna
Speaker 1: go out there, whether you know, have a spot or not.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna compete and show someone to final question for you, Zac,
Speaker 1: and that is give us one member of the Diamondbacks
Speaker 1: that not everybody's talking about right now, but they will
Speaker 1: be in just a couple of months. One member. Um,
Speaker 1: Carson Kelly. All right, your boy, Carson Kelly, You're back
Speaker 1: throwing with him and everybody. Everybody is gonna know about
Speaker 1: Carson Kelly just a couple of months from now. We
Speaker 1: appreciate the time that come back anytime. Good luck this year.
Speaker 1: We were in for you man. I appreciate thanks for
Speaker 1: having men you got it absolutely. That's Zack Gallen of
Speaker 1: the Arizona Diamondbacks. That was awesome. Great job by our
Speaker 1: Greg Susman talking with Zac Gallen, the Arizona diamond Backs
Speaker 1: starting pitch or someone we're all very excited about this
Speaker 1: year for fantasy baseball purposes. Greg and I love what
Speaker 1: he had to say in terms of working on the
Speaker 1: cutter of this offseason. You brought up the four pitch
Speaker 1: mixed that he had last year. Four seeing fastball, curveball,
Speaker 1: cutter change up, and we saw a ton of strikeouts,
Speaker 1: maybe more walks than we wanted out of Zack Gallon
Speaker 1: last year, but still had a phenomenal rookie season dominated
Speaker 1: in Triple A and someone we're all expecting to take
Speaker 1: that next step this season in fantasy baseball. So hopefully
Speaker 1: that cutter is something that he can find consistency with
Speaker 1: and help him. He also mentioned Carson Kelly, his catcher.
Speaker 1: He's my hum or eleven catcher on the board. I
Speaker 1: like Carson Kelly, dude. Yeah, Carson Kelly has a ton
Speaker 1: of power upside. I have him as my tenth catcher,
Speaker 1: so more of you know, one of those back end
Speaker 1: first catchers for me in terms of fantasy baseball. You know, look,
Speaker 1: if you're playing a two catcher league, I'm probably not
Speaker 1: gonna draft Salvador Perez and Carson Kelly because that means
Speaker 1: you're investing two of your top twelve or thirteen round
Speaker 1: picks and catchers. And that's just something I can't get
Speaker 1: behind personally, Greg. But, um, we saw the power last year, Greg,
Speaker 1: and forty eight point seven percent hard contact rad for
Speaker 1: Carson Kelly. That was that led all catchers with at
Speaker 1: least three fifty plate appearances UM matches against left handed pitching.
Speaker 1: So keep that in mind. From a DFS perspective, Greg
Speaker 1: any worry that, you know, if he doesn't perform well
Speaker 1: against right he's he only had a seven oh eight
Speaker 1: ops against right he's last year that we could see
Speaker 1: more of Steven Vote, who was the backup catch or
Speaker 1: who hits right. He's quite well. He mashes right these
Speaker 1: and that does concern me. As someone that likes Kelly.
Speaker 1: I like that he eighteen home runs in a hundred
Speaker 1: and eleven games last year. That's a good number. Um,
Speaker 1: But signy. Stephen Bote just doesn't go away with Oakland,
Speaker 1: with San Francisco, Arizona's in Milwaukee as well. It's frustrating, right, Like,
Speaker 1: you want to see a young player developed, and maybe
Speaker 1: he will, write Steven though it can be uh cut
Speaker 1: by the end of April. He doesn't matter to the
Speaker 1: future of Diamondbacks, certainly Carson Kelly does. I think if
Speaker 1: Kelly um he used to hit well, he'll stay in there.
Speaker 1: I mean, his heart hit rate was ridiculous last year,
Speaker 1: forty eight point seven percent. Like Kelly, get at the ball.
Speaker 1: I like Carson Kelly in a one catcher league as
Speaker 1: your first catcher. I'm cool with it and won't cost
Speaker 1: you nearly as much as what some of the other guy,
Speaker 1: as we were saying, would Yeah, and I think he's
Speaker 1: probably gonna hit close to twenty home runs, maybe even
Speaker 1: more than that. Remember he was regarded as one of
Speaker 1: the top catching prospects in baseball when he was with
Speaker 1: the St. Louis Cardinals. And I thought that that was
Speaker 1: a really, really good point that you brought up to
Speaker 1: Zach Gallen, and that he mentioned as well, was that
Speaker 1: he developed some more consistency when he moved over to
Speaker 1: the Diamondbacks because us Carson Kelly was catching him. Remember
Speaker 1: they actually were in the Cardinals organization together when Zach
Speaker 1: Gallen was a prospect there and then he got traded
Speaker 1: to the Miami Marlins. I believe in the Marcel Ozuna trade.
Speaker 1: So they have familiarity together and we can expect some
Speaker 1: of that to play over into this season as well
Speaker 1: here in so obviously something else that can help Carson
Speaker 1: Kelly and also Zach Gallen here, Greg, Franky, what are
Speaker 1: other sleepers here do you have? And they don't have
Speaker 1: to be a long range sleever, they could be a
Speaker 1: guy that's kind of just in this tend to twenty range.
Speaker 1: We haven't got on a chance to really talk about today.
Speaker 1: What are some other guys that you feel good about drafting?
Speaker 1: So I don't mind YODDI ere Molina surprise surprise, Frank
Speaker 1: loves the old players in fantasy baseball because they're undervalued.
Speaker 1: Sean Murphy is someone who broke out a little bit
Speaker 1: last year with the Oakland A's. Can do some nice
Speaker 1: things with the bat, you know, to seventy plus batting average,
Speaker 1: a little bit of power there as well. Jorgeil Farrow
Speaker 1: hits the ball extremely hard, Greg, but just has to
Speaker 1: learn to raise the launch angle a little bit. But
Speaker 1: you know, amongst the leaders at the hatcher position in
Speaker 1: terms of hard hit rate and average exit velocity as well.
Speaker 1: Danny Jansen struggled last year, but in an O b
Speaker 1: P format, which I know you're playing and a lot
Speaker 1: of people do. Danny Jansen has a good eye at
Speaker 1: the plate. I know that Reese McGuire is there, but
Speaker 1: Jansen played better down the stretch last season, and I
Speaker 1: am expecting a little bit more power this season out
Speaker 1: of Jansen, fifteen to twenty home runs and just dipping
Speaker 1: down a little bit lower if you're playing those deeper leagues.
Speaker 1: A second catcher um Jason Castro now starting with the
Speaker 1: Los Angeles Angels. I think he has some pop, and
Speaker 1: our guy former Yankee Greig Austin Roman a beard now
Speaker 1: expected to be the starter and everyday catcher for the
Speaker 1: Detroit Tigers. Also kind of sneakily like Sean Murphy with
Speaker 1: the Oakland Athletics. Obviously bad ballpark, but I think he
Speaker 1: played every day and he has some pop too. I've
Speaker 1: already drafted him a few times as well, so I
Speaker 1: don't I don't mind that, all right, wait a minute
Speaker 1: to go, Well, he's a minute talking about Aaron Judge
Speaker 1: who has a stress fracture in his first rib. He's
Speaker 1: gonna rest for two weeks, surgery is not off the
Speaker 1: table is not healed by that, which means he's going
Speaker 1: to have surgery. And why wait because he's idiots. He's
Speaker 1: taking Aaron Judge right now. Yeah, so you're not like,
Speaker 1: where would you actually take him? Knowing? Did they say
Speaker 1: what the timetable would be if he had surgery? No,
Speaker 1: I can't take him in the first five or six rounds.
Speaker 1: And I mean knowing what we know now, I agree
Speaker 1: with you, he's probably gonna en up having surgery. How
Speaker 1: much time is he gonna miss? Then? I don't know too.
Speaker 1: How would you spend on an auction? I just wondering.
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