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Speaker 1: Radio Network alongside Frankie Stanfell, I am Greg Sauceman. We
Speaker 1: have a champ past show today, Frankie, Yes, we do.
Speaker 1: Happy Monday, Greg, It's Monday. You know what that means,
Speaker 1: Greggy hashtag modica Monday's We got a lot going on today.
Speaker 1: I mean, there was a lot of news that broke
Speaker 1: over the weekend, even Friday after the show ended, regarding
Speaker 1: Matt Olsen, Scooter, Jeannette, over the weekend, Jose Ramirez. All
Speaker 1: these rotations look like they're being set up. We have
Speaker 1: a closer that has been named It's not Chris Ventra.
Speaker 1: We also have Mike the Rhoto cop and Matt Stryker
Speaker 1: in Studio an hour two. It is a jam packed episode.
Speaker 1: But before all that, how did you sleep last night?
Speaker 1: I feel like you slept well, I said, I slept
Speaker 1: not as great as I did last Thursday, but I
Speaker 1: went to bed with monstros smile on my face. And
Speaker 1: champs are here. The champs are here. Adam Ronan shout
Speaker 1: out to Adam rownas he he runs fantasy basketball league
Speaker 1: that we're in. I've been in the past five years.
Speaker 1: I made it to the playoffs every single year, and
Speaker 1: I've never even made it to the finals. This year,
Speaker 1: all I needed to do was add my bff as
Speaker 1: a co manager. We make it to the finals, sweating
Speaker 1: it out all the way till the last minute of
Speaker 1: the final game last night, just barely one champions. We
Speaker 1: did it. Indeed, I was. This is my second year
Speaker 1: in the league. Last year I was without you, Frank,
Speaker 1: I made it to the finals and lost. This year
Speaker 1: with you, I made it to the finals and one
Speaker 1: there was just too much knowledge between the two. Feel
Speaker 1: really feel really good. It's funny you look at your
Speaker 1: and that you know all about this, like at the
Speaker 1: end of the year, you look at your roster like
Speaker 1: this is disgusting. And that's what we did last night.
Speaker 1: We looked at the roster like these players are awful,
Speaker 1: and now we turned our attention to and they'll be
Speaker 1: We going to baseball and our next sport and our
Speaker 1: next chance at victory. Frank, Yeah, at a big price,
Speaker 1: at a big prize too. Playing for the overall in
Speaker 1: the NFPC made I know, not year, but Matt Modecon
Speaker 1: myself will be playing for the main event. Maddie Mo,
Speaker 1: how's everything going. How is your weekend? I know you
Speaker 1: made it out there to Vegas. You had a couple
Speaker 1: more NFBC drafts. How was that? How's everything going? Man? Oh,
Speaker 1: I had a blessed I really did. Uh. I'm quite exhausted.
Speaker 1: The last ten days or so, I've been like a whirlwind.
Speaker 1: My brain is, uh, pretty much been overused. I don't
Speaker 1: know if I have that capacity. So we're gonna find
Speaker 1: the cs to sometime or later this afternoon. And I
Speaker 1: have a main event with our boy Christopher Carl got
Speaker 1: another one, another one, dude? Oh, this was This was
Speaker 1: set up a while ago. So the machine. Remember last
Speaker 1: week we were talking abou him running out of batteries. Man,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know how you haven't done
Speaker 1: it yet. An ober Pool is his nicknamed the machine. Greg.
Speaker 1: He didn't want to be known as a machine, but
Speaker 1: he was. That was ESPN give the nickname the machine,
Speaker 1: not a machine, Al, but that's from the commercial. I'm
Speaker 1: pretty sure I saw an interview once with our Pools
Speaker 1: where you like they asked him like what his approach was.
Speaker 1: He was like, I see ball, I hit ball. I
Speaker 1: could be making that up, but I feel like that happened.
Speaker 1: He machine, not the machine. Alblets. All right, Um, you
Speaker 1: wanted to talk to Matt about the NFC, so you
Speaker 1: really want me to be here. I don't think so.
Speaker 1: That's not true. That's kind of what you told me. Well,
Speaker 1: how about we do this before before you even get
Speaker 1: into the main event. I do just have a quick
Speaker 1: story that I can tell you Matt. Well, Matt would
Speaker 1: would appreciate this as well. We had a home League
Speaker 1: auction we as in e and Michael Florio that we're
Speaker 1: in together on Saturday afternoon at the head Points League
Speaker 1: twelve teams. Somebody throws out, Vladimir Gutierrez was a player
Speaker 1: for the Cincinnati Ran. Do they do this purposely? This
Speaker 1: person definitely did it on purpose. Who wasn't everyone? And
Speaker 1: everyone starts it was another one of our friends. You
Speaker 1: don't know the name. I like to have you know names.
Speaker 1: So rare here in New York City as Vladimir Gutierrez.
Speaker 1: That's a at the head points league. It's a keeper league.
Speaker 1: Every immediately everyone starts beating. Do you notice that? Do
Speaker 1: you notice this immediately? No? Because I knew that Guerrero
Speaker 1: was already kept. I'm like, who's this guy like? Because
Speaker 1: if you read it quickly, it just looks like Vladimir Guerrero.
Speaker 1: So it's Vladimir Gutierrez and I'm just like, I knew
Speaker 1: he was kept already, so I didn't know how he
Speaker 1: was in the player pool. And then I read it again,
Speaker 1: I said, Gautierrez. The beatings all the way up to
Speaker 1: like seven eight bucks. And who do you know is
Speaker 1: winning the bid? Our own Michael Florida. Michael Florio wins
Speaker 1: the bid for going twice sold. What's the reaction? It was?
Speaker 1: Everyone in the chat was cracking up. And it's just
Speaker 1: funnier because like Florio myself, we're supposed to be the
Speaker 1: extra right in the league and Florio gets caught. I mean,
Speaker 1: that was just like the funniest thing. Man, Have you
Speaker 1: ever seen anything like that? Do you even know who
Speaker 1: Vladimir Gutierra is is? Because I don't, No, I do not.
Speaker 1: I didn't yet court last weekend on Luis you are
Speaker 1: h I think they said Julio. I said two dollars
Speaker 1: and I didn't even realize that. I wrote down Julio
Speaker 1: on my grand paper and five minutes later I was
Speaker 1: looking up at my computer and I see Luis is
Speaker 1: on my team's I was pretty pissed because I couldn't
Speaker 1: get out Fernando Tatts. After that, I locked up that position.
Speaker 1: I've done that too, and remember that we were we
Speaker 1: were together when I do this very angry. I was
Speaker 1: very angry at you. What are you talking? I'm not
Speaker 1: that know the story that you guys are talking about.
Speaker 1: Greig forgot about how many players we had and we
Speaker 1: were doing the g d D auction and he won
Speaker 1: one more Flora's and then I was pissed at him.
Speaker 1: That's not what I was talking about. So a year ago,
Speaker 1: this past a year ago in the summer, so two
Speaker 1: football seasons ago. The first player nominated tight end David Johnson,
Speaker 1: and I did like forty bucks on him because because
Speaker 1: it was a collusion, because like seven of them in
Speaker 1: the room knew that they were going to do it
Speaker 1: and I didn't. So David Johnson Adrian Peterson that played
Speaker 1: for the Bears, exactly right, So Adrian Peterson. So they
Speaker 1: did David Johnson. And I'm sure you have the same
Speaker 1: name though, Vladimir, and I'm sure Floria is like stunts
Speaker 1: drop like minded. It just sunk. It was only seven
Speaker 1: bucks's doing that, like that was my first round pick,
Speaker 1: and you can't come mack from you already had Eloys.
Speaker 1: So he was thinking, oh, I'm getting Eloy, and vlad
Speaker 1: is gonna be sick. You make you keep No, they
Speaker 1: didn't they because they all knew they were doing it
Speaker 1: and only like four of us didn't. And I just
Speaker 1: guy actually legitimately has the same exact name, that's right,
Speaker 1: especially if you don't know, well, if it doesn't say
Speaker 1: the position next year, I can see how you can
Speaker 1: get man. I just thought that was a funny story.
Speaker 1: I had to get that off. It was just like
Speaker 1: everyone in the league was just dying laughing. Um at
Speaker 1: Florio has expense, So anytime I can tell a story
Speaker 1: about Floria, a story about Florio, and I'll throw it
Speaker 1: out there. Up. I don't know where you want to start.
Speaker 1: Do you want to start with the waiver results? Do
Speaker 1: you want to start with the news, because like, there's
Speaker 1: so much stuff to get, there's a there's a lot
Speaker 1: of news, and I think I think it kind of
Speaker 1: ties into each other, and that's where I'm gonna start.
Speaker 1: Because the biggest news I thought broke yesterday evening, and
Speaker 1: that was the fact that Greg Holland was named the
Speaker 1: closer for the Arizona Diamondbacks. With waivers running, it's just
Speaker 1: a matter of hours for you guys and overnight for
Speaker 1: most of us. That was the big number, right, how
Speaker 1: much would you wind up bidding on Greg Holland? And
Speaker 1: many people expect he did Arizona to let's not necessarily
Speaker 1: go with Archie Bradley, but not necessarily go Holland either,
Speaker 1: But it was always possibilities. That's why I was kind
Speaker 1: of surprised that in all the leagues I play in,
Speaker 1: Holland was out there and he was available. Frank, was
Speaker 1: he available in your main event league? He was not.
Speaker 1: He was not available in the Main Event or the
Speaker 1: Great Fantasy Baseball with either of my nfbcay Matt in
Speaker 1: the league that Greg Holland was out there for you.
Speaker 1: How much did he go for I been on him
Speaker 1: in two leagues. When was an online championship, I put
Speaker 1: thirty four on it. I wasn't going harder than that.
Speaker 1: In my MTM Ultimate League, I did sixty one dollars
Speaker 1: and Mike Massado had the winning bit of sixty nine.
Speaker 1: And I'm kind of happy that I didn't win him
Speaker 1: because I I really I know I was Ona had
Speaker 1: stayed with some bad clothes. He was in Boxburger got
Speaker 1: thirty two saves last year. But I don't think Holland's good.
Speaker 1: I think he's done. So I did make a mistake
Speaker 1: this weekend and one of my biggest drafts. I said
Speaker 1: five on Archie Bradley, and I like Aunchie bradley skills.
Speaker 1: He should be the closure if they're looking to possibly
Speaker 1: trade him, you know, middle of the season. I think
Speaker 1: that would be wise, build up uh some value for him.
Speaker 1: But I went seven and I immediately regretted it so
Speaker 1: and I tweeted that out after I posted my team.
Speaker 1: My only regret was buying Archie Bradley. Yeah. Yeah, So
Speaker 1: so here's my thing. When I comes with Greg Holland
Speaker 1: and like, I'm kind of counterpointing that in that You're
Speaker 1: absolutely right. I was little stick with these guys, and
Speaker 1: I think they will stick with Greg Holland and give
Speaker 1: him every opportunity. I think him having a full off season,
Speaker 1: not waiting until this week to sign, and then trying
Speaker 1: to ramp up and get in there, it's gonna help him.
Speaker 1: He was obviously much better when he went over to
Speaker 1: the Washington Nationals. I didn't look at the peripherals, but
Speaker 1: it was just two years ago. Greg Collin was like
Speaker 1: the best closer in baseball, and I think it's still there,
Speaker 1: and that's why I thought it was important to get
Speaker 1: him now. I don't think it's ever overboard to to go.
Speaker 1: I don't think you should ever go overboard for a
Speaker 1: guy like this. Matt. You've said it a lot that
Speaker 1: you'd rather pay money in the draft than trying to
Speaker 1: spend all of your fab on closers. It's just it's
Speaker 1: not a winning formula. So in the leagues that Frank
Speaker 1: and I are in together, that Greg Collin was in there,
Speaker 1: it was available, and there was two of them. My
Speaker 1: number was was six one. I wanted to go to
Speaker 1: about six dollars or uh that. I didn't want to
Speaker 1: go to six percent of the bunch, exactly. I didn't
Speaker 1: want to go to ten percent. And it wasn't dis
Speaker 1: similar to where your number was, Matt, but exactly so
Speaker 1: I wanted I had that in the back of my
Speaker 1: mind that I wanted to spend six percent, about six
Speaker 1: dollars whatever it was, to try and get him. And
Speaker 1: I didn't get him. I didn't get him. That was
Speaker 1: the number, And you were actually a bit more aggressive
Speaker 1: in your mind. You wanted been a little bit more. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I wanted to go around twelve percent and want to
Speaker 1: go around a hundred and twenty. And look, I understand
Speaker 1: everyone's concerns about Greg holland the e ar A. The
Speaker 1: whip has been great. You mentioned what he did with
Speaker 1: the Washington Nationals last year. Greg, that obviously was a
Speaker 1: lot better. He pitched to a zero point eight four
Speaker 1: EARRA in twenty four games. I'm not expecting anything like that.
Speaker 1: But um, again, with the Diamondbacks closers. The past few
Speaker 1: years since Tory Lavula has been there as the manager,
Speaker 1: he's had two closures with ear A's over fours and
Speaker 1: he's stuck with those guys and each one has had
Speaker 1: at least thirty two saves. Last year Losburger with thirty
Speaker 1: two saves. The year before that it was Fernando Rodney
Speaker 1: with thirty nine saves. So for whatever reason, it seems
Speaker 1: like they want to use their best relievers, which seem
Speaker 1: like they're Archie, Bradley and Harno. They're in the setup role.
Speaker 1: They want to have those guys in the setup roles.
Speaker 1: They want to have I guess, a better bridge to
Speaker 1: the ninth ending uh than actually in the ninth ending themselves.
Speaker 1: So we speculated on this greg that they like Bradley
Speaker 1: in this role, they probably aren't going to use him
Speaker 1: as the closer um, and it seems like that's what
Speaker 1: they're going with again. Uh. In this league, we only
Speaker 1: had a role as Chapman and Shane Green as our
Speaker 1: two closers. We had Calvin Herreras like a speculative reliever.
Speaker 1: But I like to have three closers, so I was
Speaker 1: a little bit more aggressive we kind of met in
Speaker 1: the middle. I think we ended up bidding hundred and
Speaker 1: seven and I think he went for a hundred and
Speaker 1: twenty seven. It was it was close to of the budget,
Speaker 1: which wasn't an awful which means, like my original thinking,
Speaker 1: it was pretty much on point right where he was
Speaker 1: going to go for. And you heard Matt like every
Speaker 1: league is different in terms of fab he went for
Speaker 1: a lot lest He went for sixty nine dollars in
Speaker 1: Mass League, So every every league is different. You have
Speaker 1: to realize that, for example, in our g d D
Speaker 1: that he goes for thirty six dollars out of a
Speaker 1: hundred out of a hundred dollar budgets sier of your
Speaker 1: budget off the top. And I think we spent like
Speaker 1: seven we spent seven. Oh no, there was seven. Obviously
Speaker 1: we didn't end up with no. We spent three dollars.
Speaker 1: Was a bit more aggressive than you guys on him
Speaker 1: in leagues were he would have been that, you would
Speaker 1: have been that aggressive. But yeah, I'm not gonna go Now,
Speaker 1: what do you think about you know, a number like that,
Speaker 1: when you hear it, do this, I think that's too much.
Speaker 1: Look and earlier he has a history of staying with
Speaker 1: guys and batty r rays and you know whatever. Thirty
Speaker 1: two thirty nine shapes prior. So I mean right now
Speaker 1: he's got the job right and possess possessions nine tenths
Speaker 1: of the law. So I mean I could see going
Speaker 1: maybe like one fifty is two hundred tops. I'm just
Speaker 1: not gonna pay thirty five on my budget. By the way,
Speaker 1: I don't have faith. By the way, the craziest part
Speaker 1: about this in the g d D League, the team
Speaker 1: did thirty six four up Steve Coslino. That did it.
Speaker 1: The commissioner. The next highest bid Austin's at seven. Really yeah, wow,
Speaker 1: hen we could have got him Greg next time. We
Speaker 1: just only off by thirty dollars crazy seven That was
Speaker 1: us was us at seven. Yeah. So I think you
Speaker 1: know that range of you know, between seven and twelve
Speaker 1: percent of your fab budget if your fab hasn't run yet.
Speaker 1: I think that's kind of the range. If you need
Speaker 1: to be a little bit more aggressive on your in
Speaker 1: your league and get a closer, maybe you're closer to
Speaker 1: that twelve percent if you just you know, if you want, hey,
Speaker 1: I can use the third closer. I don't really need him.
Speaker 1: Maybe you're closer to that, you know, seven or eight percent.
Speaker 1: So I think that's kind of where it's settling. And
Speaker 1: for Greg, I will say this I did in my
Speaker 1: first come, first served league, I did. I picked him up.
Speaker 1: You know, I got him. I love the best. I
Speaker 1: picked him up. And again you have to be cautious,
Speaker 1: and at least in Yahoo for instance, in this particular league,
Speaker 1: the first week goes until April seven because it counts
Speaker 1: like Sony Mars on opening Day, and then goes to
Speaker 1: the week plus. So when you in like for Hourly
Speaker 1: that we did last night, or our g D d
Speaker 1: our Pit league, rather really have three pickups for the week,
Speaker 1: and you pick up some pick up a guy right
Speaker 1: now that's going to count towards that entire week that
Speaker 1: ends that Sunday, You're gonna be very very cautious with
Speaker 1: your pickups. You have to know your league rules. So
Speaker 1: in my whole league where I did that, I only
Speaker 1: have four pickups until April seven, So I was really
Speaker 1: being very called. I was being I was really being
Speaker 1: very cautious. And a lot of people pick up players
Speaker 1: once the draft happened, put guys on the d L
Speaker 1: or put guys in there an a spot and then
Speaker 1: use pickups immediately. And I didn't do that. I just
Speaker 1: waited and was like, all right, I'll kind that come
Speaker 1: to me, and it is what it is. And I
Speaker 1: spent my first pick up on Greg Holland, UM, I
Speaker 1: thought it was worth it. Obviously, I will I will
Speaker 1: mention this. I think there's some strategy involved with setting
Speaker 1: your lineup for this first week Greg, because I know
Speaker 1: you mentioned what your league is doing for the first schedule,
Speaker 1: but I know a lot of um, a lot of
Speaker 1: websites are doing. It's really just the Thursday, Friday, Saturday,
Speaker 1: Sunday games, and there are some pictures that are not
Speaker 1: going to pitch over the weekend. So you know, with
Speaker 1: guys like uh and Warna, Rodriguez, Clevinger, even Bieber, guys
Speaker 1: who are really good it towards the back end of
Speaker 1: the rotation, they're not going to pitch this first weekend here,
Speaker 1: So they did something to pay attention to. Maybe, you know,
Speaker 1: I used to pick up a picture that you could
Speaker 1: stream first star Jake Junas, something like probably probably not
Speaker 1: Mike Fires, No, definitely not Mike Fires. Maybe a reliever
Speaker 1: or someone like that who can give you if you
Speaker 1: get that point here? How about Robbie irlin sure? Eric Lower,
Speaker 1: Eric Eric Lower, That's actually what I meant there. They're
Speaker 1: like the same guys in San Diego, except for the
Speaker 1: hype guys. But Eric Lower named Opening day started. We
Speaker 1: were going over Waivers early and Frank incredibly organized it.
Speaker 1: Sends us an email around noon yesterday. I was like,
Speaker 1: all right, here the targets and g D D. Here
Speaker 1: the targets in GSD, Like, let me know what you think.
Speaker 1: And I really appreciated how early you did it because
Speaker 1: it gave me time to actually like look and do
Speaker 1: my own research and email back. I texted Frank literally
Speaker 1: seven thousand times yesterday to like response every thousand texts
Speaker 1: or so, and then eventually I was like, we really
Speaker 1: need to do this now. He's like, oh guy, we
Speaker 1: can do this now. Like I had a lot going on.
Speaker 1: I was sitting there like this is the one Sunday.
Speaker 1: I was like, I'm my couch watching marsh Badness. I
Speaker 1: don't know it's perfect. I can look at Waivers, I
Speaker 1: can look at those guys. I'm really excited about certain things.
Speaker 1: I was telling you someone paid me to do an
Speaker 1: auction for them online so I got broken into that
Speaker 1: and we had our our home our work draft at
Speaker 1: a PM. So I just you're not They're all done,
Speaker 1: all the drafts are You're not attensive? When do we
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Speaker 1: s y Okay, let's getting some of the other big
Speaker 1: waiver wire pickups here. And Matt, who what for are you? Reggie?
Speaker 1: And the lead that you guys are alling together for
Speaker 1: the most It was Steve c Schick, who went for
Speaker 1: sixty three dollars. He was the highest bid in our
Speaker 1: NFBC event league, And I guess this is just speculating
Speaker 1: on the Chicago Cubs closer job to start the year
Speaker 1: because pedro Strope has been dealing with an injury throughout
Speaker 1: the spring. He is going to pitch to day, so
Speaker 1: see how he responds to that. But I would assume
Speaker 1: if pedro Strope is good after today and all systems
Speaker 1: go for the start of the season, he would be
Speaker 1: the closer heading into the season. But with Steve c Chick,
Speaker 1: we know that he has closing experience. The e r
Speaker 1: A has actually been great the past three years. It's
Speaker 1: been two point eight one or less over the over
Speaker 1: that span in each of the past three seasons. So
Speaker 1: I think it's just speculating here on the on the
Speaker 1: Cubs clothes in case you know something is wrong. But
Speaker 1: the second highest bid is Matt Modika Kim Beckham for
Speaker 1: fifty nine dollars. So Maddie moo, what went into getting
Speaker 1: Tim Beckham? What do you think about the Steve cisheck
Speaker 1: ad as well. I'm kind of hoping it's Carl Edwards.
Speaker 1: If they have to go somewhere besides Stroke. It could
Speaker 1: be c Check. That's fine. I don't think it's a
Speaker 1: terrible move or a good move. Kind of indifferent on
Speaker 1: that one. The Tim Beckham move for fifty dollars was
Speaker 1: we replaced Brandon Crawford with Tim Beckham. Banked the Tim
Speaker 1: Beckham stats from Japan. So and um, what's his name?
Speaker 1: Will be coming back on April fourth. I think I
Speaker 1: heard from Terry Francona our shortstop Francisco Lindor. That's the
Speaker 1: rumor of Lindor can be back opening day potentially, Josie Ramirez,
Speaker 1: that's a big story. We'll get them a little bit
Speaker 1: later on in the show. But Tim Beckham, tim Beckham,
Speaker 1: you picking him up makes sense because he shows you
Speaker 1: a little something for Seattle in those first couple of games,
Speaker 1: starting and getting on base and showing a little bit
Speaker 1: of speech, showing a little bit of power. So I
Speaker 1: like the Tim beckap Tim Beckham pick up a lot
Speaker 1: more than like the Steve Cup because again, when you're
Speaker 1: speculating on closers, now you're in Chicago where there's five
Speaker 1: guys that can do it, from Page or Strove to
Speaker 1: call Edwards the Brendan Morrow just to scheck, there's a
Speaker 1: million guys to give me the closer, Why are you
Speaker 1: gonna spend six percent of your budget on one of them?
Speaker 1: That makes sense to me. Yeah, I wouldn't have done
Speaker 1: it either. That's obviously why I did not do it.
Speaker 1: But with Tim Beckham, I think it was a good
Speaker 1: point that Matt brought up that he gets to uh,
Speaker 1: he gets to bank those stats that already happened in
Speaker 1: Japan because it's a league, so those two games are
Speaker 1: legitimately part of the MLB schedule. So if you play
Speaker 1: in Rodo and you were able to pick up one
Speaker 1: of these guys or you had them on your roster,
Speaker 1: obviously those stats are going towards the standing. So I
Speaker 1: think it's a good job by Matt there, And I
Speaker 1: think really any any middle infield that has plus home
Speaker 1: run upside is probably going to be owned in a
Speaker 1: fifteen team league or deeper, or obviously like in an
Speaker 1: A only or an only league. So it was just
Speaker 1: two years ago that Tim Beckham twenty two home runs
Speaker 1: and a lot of people have have been running to
Speaker 1: go to go pick him up. We tried to pick
Speaker 1: him up as well in the in the G S
Speaker 1: T League, just because you know, we're dealing with this
Speaker 1: Jose Ramirez injury and Tim Beckham has shortstop and third
Speaker 1: base eligibility, so we're just kind of trying to cover
Speaker 1: ourselves in case Jose Ramirez is not good to go
Speaker 1: here on opening hopefully up next in that NFCC. In
Speaker 1: your NFEC gentleman, uh Drew Palmeras dropped and Greg Bird added,
Speaker 1: didn't really get this one because I know I'm a
Speaker 1: Palmeran's truth. Admittedly, h didn't. This one didn't make much
Speaker 1: sense to be for thirty or seven dollars. I think
Speaker 1: with Greg Bird people are expecting him to play a
Speaker 1: decent amount early on in the season as long as
Speaker 1: Aaron Hicks is on the i L because they can
Speaker 1: put Bred Gardner in center field, they can slide John
Speaker 1: Carl Stanton into left, and then they can use both
Speaker 1: of Greg Burdon Luke Void at d H and first base.
Speaker 1: So I think that that's what this owner is looking
Speaker 1: at here already wrote about it all. My patron actually
Speaker 1: Greg a little a little waiver fab recap from the
Speaker 1: weekend to see what what everyone I'm thinking what's going
Speaker 1: on through their mind. I think they're just trying to
Speaker 1: let's let's try and grab a few home runs early
Speaker 1: on in the season and then hey, you know, if
Speaker 1: something were to happen to Luke Void, I hope not,
Speaker 1: and maybe Greg Bird has some upside. I think that's
Speaker 1: the thinking here. Now, what do you think about the
Speaker 1: Greg Bird d Did you confurther that as at all? No,
Speaker 1: I actually didn't, but you know, I kind of get it.
Speaker 1: Thirty seven dollars you take a shot. I know he's
Speaker 1: on the team, so you know, if he gets an
Speaker 1: opportunity that you never know what's dots out bad uh struggles.
Speaker 1: Bird is hot, he was a fan favorite not too
Speaker 1: long ago. I just can never stay healthy and you
Speaker 1: know all that stuff. So I don't have a problem
Speaker 1: with thirty seven bucks. All right, there, you go fair
Speaker 1: enough when it comes to Greg Bird. Now I get
Speaker 1: to your bids. Guys, are your smids? I should say,
Speaker 1: Frankie and I want to start with Hanley Ramrez because
Speaker 1: you tried to. You tried to kind of convince me
Speaker 1: on Hanley in the g d D. He didn't really
Speaker 1: like push for like we gotta spend some money on him,
Speaker 1: but you wanted him as a back of bid and
Speaker 1: Handley looks like he's making the Indians team he's expected
Speaker 1: to do so, and I we questioned his path of
Speaker 1: playing time. What makes you you know Hanley Ramrez right now?
Speaker 1: I do think that he's going to play every single day,
Speaker 1: And I saw a few home did hit. I think
Speaker 1: he had like a two home run game over the
Speaker 1: weekend or recently sometime soon. And I saw that Hanley
Speaker 1: Ramirez swing the same one that he had when he
Speaker 1: was with the Red Sox. So I still think that
Speaker 1: there's a little bit left in the tank here. And
Speaker 1: the Cleveland Indians are really just grasping at shrows right
Speaker 1: now that I mean, they need as many bodies as
Speaker 1: they could get into the lineup as they possibly can.
Speaker 1: I don't have high expectations for Hanley mirrors again, he
Speaker 1: has to make of the opening day roster first before
Speaker 1: before we even know anything about playing time. But I
Speaker 1: do think if that happens, he'll be the every day
Speaker 1: d H. We'll have Carl Santana first, I'll have Jake
Speaker 1: Bowers in the outfield. I'm just trying to take a
Speaker 1: shot here, Greg, and you know he only went we
Speaker 1: think we wanted for twelve thirteen bucks out of a thousands,
Speaker 1: So this is a cheap bid. See if there's anything
Speaker 1: left in the tank. When it comes to what you
Speaker 1: think of the Handley buy there, Matt, Yeah, I don't
Speaker 1: have a problem with that one either. Look like Frank Shak,
Speaker 1: there's really no offense on this team, So if family
Speaker 1: could give them some power, give him a little boost there. Uh.
Speaker 1: The team is offensively challenged. Their pitching is phenomenal, but
Speaker 1: on the offensive side outside of a JOJ. Mayorage and
Speaker 1: a Francisco and Door, you know, who else do you
Speaker 1: really like on this team? Jake Bowers? Yeah? I mean
Speaker 1: the Bowers was the Bowers was the guy you know
Speaker 1: Macrlos Santana guy as well. People are on Martin just
Speaker 1: because he's gonna lead off and Allen or draft last night?
Speaker 1: Was that you? I did not draft Greg somebody? I
Speaker 1: believe Joe Glina did. He picks around you right last night,
Speaker 1: right right after me picks seven, I head picks. Who's
Speaker 1: the other guy that you that he picked up last night? Yeah?
Speaker 1: We also picked up Bryce Wilson, who was mentioned to
Speaker 1: be named to the Brave starting rotation. He's gonna pitch
Speaker 1: over the weekend in that first series against the Philadelphia Phillies,
Speaker 1: the Braves have come out and said that it's going
Speaker 1: to be Kyle Right going sex in the rotation and
Speaker 1: then Bryce Wilson, Kevin Galsman gonna start the year on
Speaker 1: the I l also Max Freed going to pitch I
Speaker 1: believe a fifth or sixth turn in the rotation. Very
Speaker 1: surprising over the weekend. Great two key two Saran who
Speaker 1: had been a little up and down throughout the spring,
Speaker 1: but you know, people were excited about him obviously as
Speaker 1: the prospect pedigree for the Braves. He was sent down.
Speaker 1: They're opting to go with Kyle Wright, who has shown
Speaker 1: some flashes here in the spring and he has some
Speaker 1: upside as their second starter, and then they get Bryce
Speaker 1: Wilson into rotation as the third starting pitcher for the Braves.
Speaker 1: I did read that the Braves wanted to go with
Speaker 1: all right handed starting pitching against the Phillies over the weekend,
Speaker 1: and that's why they're not using Max Free because it's
Speaker 1: a it's a right handed heavy lineup up there, so
Speaker 1: that's kind an interesting and that all three of those
Speaker 1: guys Kyle Right, Rice Wilson, and Max Freed. They all
Speaker 1: have my attention. They all my attention. I've been trying
Speaker 1: to tell you about Max Free earlier in the spring,
Speaker 1: because I think it was Freddie Freeman is like, dude,
Speaker 1: this Max Free guy, he's the truth and and he's
Speaker 1: the real deal. And he was on the point in
Speaker 1: Max Free to anybody, And I think you want to
Speaker 1: be on these three guys sooner rather than later. I
Speaker 1: would say, with what it cost you almost nothing. So, Matt,
Speaker 1: how would you rank these guys going forward? Right now?
Speaker 1: Max Freed, Bryce Wilson, two kids who saw all thrown
Speaker 1: there in Kyle right, how would you rank those four guys?
Speaker 1: I mean they're all talented. Uh. Who's going to get
Speaker 1: the longest leash? Uh? In this rotation? Uh? To sign?
Speaker 1: I think it's somebody that you know from watching from
Speaker 1: the last year, seen a little of the spring, But
Speaker 1: I don't know if he's ultimately a starter, and I
Speaker 1: know they're gonna give him every opportunity. Max Freed I've
Speaker 1: owned in my draft champions over the last couple of years.
Speaker 1: I didn't get Freed this weekend in any drafts or nothing.
Speaker 1: We're in FAB but I was able to uh take
Speaker 1: I took Bryce Wilson twice uh late in the reserve
Speaker 1: rounds when I was in Vegas, So I'm pulling for
Speaker 1: him that such I don't know, and uh he's supposed
Speaker 1: to be another really talented um so uh I have
Speaker 1: some Kyle right, I might have like two or three
Speaker 1: shares with him as a reserve from from the previous
Speaker 1: weekend into this weekend. So I'm really not sure to
Speaker 1: be honest with you. It's all gonna come down to
Speaker 1: early season results. Gosman's supposedly coming back, uh April tenth
Speaker 1: or something like that. He's coming back after like the
Speaker 1: second series, so he will be back in the rotation.
Speaker 1: I'm not I'm not a Cavin Gosman guy. And uh
Speaker 1: Foltevits he seems to be a laze away. So this
Speaker 1: is a nice audition for these alms. Yeah, all of
Speaker 1: the are gonna going to get the opportunity if they
Speaker 1: can perform well to start off the season. I would
Speaker 1: assume the last in the rotation that's going to be
Speaker 1: the key whoever gets off to a hot start. As
Speaker 1: Matt said, Gosman's coming back, fault, He's coming back, So
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be long for all of them. For some
Speaker 1: of them, they're gonna have an opportunity. Yeah, I'm trying
Speaker 1: to figure out who's the first one out if anything happens,
Speaker 1: pitch the worst, Yeah, I guess. I guess you can
Speaker 1: look at it that way, Like Sean Nuclem is obviously
Speaker 1: in the rotation and Gasman going to join as well.
Speaker 1: So at that point when Galsman is ready to come back,
Speaker 1: Freed Wilson or right, I assume we're pushed out, right, Matt,
Speaker 1: I don't think Nucom has a total If he mounts
Speaker 1: down these first couple of thoughts and they're out pitching him,
Speaker 1: you know, he might get you know, pushed to the
Speaker 1: pen or something. I don't think he has a superlock.
Speaker 1: I think his lock on this rotation was everybody getting injured. Makes.
Speaker 1: That's good to know, Yeah, Makes. I've been on Bryce.
Speaker 1: He's talented, don't get me wrong. He's done accounted Nukem.
Speaker 1: But until that command and control can get corrected, he's
Speaker 1: gonna be uh, you know, a boom and bust every start. Yeah.
Speaker 1: The walks are just killing huge, I mean yeah, Like,
Speaker 1: it doesn't allow him to go deep into games, drives
Speaker 1: up the pitch. Count. Uh, the strikeouts are not necessarily
Speaker 1: where they need to be for someone who walks as
Speaker 1: many batters as he does normally, you know, if you
Speaker 1: walk a lot of batters, it's it's also someone who
Speaker 1: strikes out a lot of guys. Like Robbie Ray, he
Speaker 1: can kind of mitigate some of the walk issues because
Speaker 1: he strikes out so many guys. Sehan Knucombe not nearly
Speaker 1: at that level, So something to pay attention to there.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I added Bryce Wilson in a few locations.
Speaker 1: Greg get into him at three point four four ear
Speaker 1: a one point one nine whip last year across three
Speaker 1: different levels in the minors, struck out a hundred forty
Speaker 1: three and two thirds ending his pitched. So again, all
Speaker 1: three of these guys, right and Max Freed definitely have
Speaker 1: my attention. I added Wilson a few locations because he
Speaker 1: was the only one of them. The player that you
Speaker 1: dropped in the NFEC was Dillon Potances and you you
Speaker 1: walked in here and you're like, you know what, dam
Speaker 1: man like, I don't. I don't know if that was smart.
Speaker 1: Maybe I should have dropped out Kevin Horrera. What did
Speaker 1: you think, Matt of Frankie dropping Dillon Patances, who's starting
Speaker 1: the season on the disabled list. I honestly, right now
Speaker 1: I don't have a problem with because I don't know
Speaker 1: how in jured he is. I don't think they getta
Speaker 1: rush him back. There's no need for that right now.
Speaker 1: And you know he's got a shoulder problem. Maybe maybe
Speaker 1: it's not that serious. I don't know, but I know
Speaker 1: he's out the course of it. So I think, you know,
Speaker 1: for now, I would take the shot on Wilson. What
Speaker 1: did this kid, you know, get off to a fast start?
Speaker 1: It was you know, you're gonna have to make decisions
Speaker 1: and a guy I like the Tantes as good as
Speaker 1: he is and stuff. I'm not looking at French team,
Speaker 1: So I don't know the other options he had. But
Speaker 1: you know, Handley dropped Clint Frasier. I think both moves,
Speaker 1: you know, we're good moves for them. I got MAT's approval. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he did a lot better at this than I am,
Speaker 1: so he says that I trust him. Here you go, perfect, perfect,
Speaker 1: absolutely perfect. Now one do you do not get right
Speaker 1: due to injury? Is able? And mateles So Matt Olson
Speaker 1: and we talked a bit about this on Friday. Gets
Speaker 1: hit in the hand in Japan, and it looks like
Speaker 1: he breaks his hammade bow when just he didn't even
Speaker 1: get hit. He heard its same exact injury, broken handy.
Speaker 1: That's right, he just turned the wrong way. I guess
Speaker 1: you swing the wrong way. And obviously when you swing
Speaker 1: with that much ferocity like you have an ability to
Speaker 1: hurt yourself absolutely and hurt himself he did. Because he's
Speaker 1: gonna be out for the next eight weeks or so,
Speaker 1: and when he comes back, when knows what the power
Speaker 1: will be. Disaster is this, Frank for the teams that
Speaker 1: we drafted med Olson, It's a huge disaster. You know.
Speaker 1: We spent sixteen dollars on him in a fifteen team
Speaker 1: Rhodo league and now we have to plug in our
Speaker 1: corner ringfielder, which was Yonder Alonso as our first basement.
Speaker 1: It's not great and it's slim pickings out there in
Speaker 1: fifteen team leagues too. I tweeted out over the weekend
Speaker 1: drink that the main options I would look at in
Speaker 1: deeper leagues were Mark Canna, who's I think is going
Speaker 1: to see the lion's share of the first base starts there,
Speaker 1: while while Matt Olsen is on the I L and
Speaker 1: then you also have Hanley Ramirez. He still has first
Speaker 1: base eligibility, so again, if he's gonna have an opportunity
Speaker 1: to play every day with the Cleveland with Indians. Um,
Speaker 1: that was another name that I was looking at. There's
Speaker 1: really not much. I mean, you know, outside of those
Speaker 1: two guys, there, there's um, there's there's not my guy
Speaker 1: who I had for third base, deep sleeper, and he's
Speaker 1: coming a pretty good spring. I kind of seen some
Speaker 1: people pick him up last night with I'm kind of pitched.
Speaker 1: I thought I would have had a week or two
Speaker 1: to kind of see how it goes. Uh, he's never
Speaker 1: lived up to his draft stock. But Hunter Dozer of
Speaker 1: the Royals, he's got first and third base eligibility, and
Speaker 1: he was somebody I was kind of like, you know,
Speaker 1: having on that watch list, and I was gonna really
Speaker 1: pay attention to. I mean, I owned him on all
Speaker 1: my my my draft champions of the drafting holds. But
Speaker 1: he was somebody that I was gonna keep an eye on.
Speaker 1: But people to be scooping him up already. I give
Speaker 1: you the deep sleeper, Frank we own him. Was that
Speaker 1: Wilmer Flora's man. Wil Flora he doesn't have first base eligibility.
Speaker 1: That could work out. And you know, I'm not so
Speaker 1: worried about the playing time issues with Wilmer Flora's anymore
Speaker 1: great because I was kind of looking into this. And
Speaker 1: you know, even if you think, all right, Adam Jones
Speaker 1: being a fourth outfielder, kettle Marte is gonna play every day,
Speaker 1: like maybe they moved kettle Marte into the middle infield
Speaker 1: or whatever in days where they want Adam Jones in
Speaker 1: the lineup. I think Jake Lamb is gonna sit again.
Speaker 1: Let's lefties, and we know when Wilmer Flora's is really
Speaker 1: good against lefties and he could play first base, So
Speaker 1: I feel pretty safe about one more. Flour Is is
Speaker 1: playing time right now, Greg, I'll throw another one out there,
Speaker 1: just especially over the first month, this might actually be
Speaker 1: work out well. In conjunction with Madelson's injury. Is Ryan
Speaker 1: Healy the Seattle Mariners because he's gonna play a lot
Speaker 1: due to the injury to Kyle Seeger, and I believe
Speaker 1: he has first and third base eligibility. So Ryan Healey, Look,
Speaker 1: he doesn't have tremendous upside, but seems like he's gonna
Speaker 1: play every day, at least for the first month while
Speaker 1: Kyle Seager is out for the Mariners. Obviously, if you're
Speaker 1: playing shallower leagues, if you know Nico Goodrum is out there,
Speaker 1: I think Ryan O'Hearn is a player that's actually kind
Speaker 1: of similar to Matt Olsen. You know, maybe he'll hit
Speaker 1: two forty, two fifty, but give you a lot of pops.
Speaker 1: So looking at Ryan O'Hearn um, Julie Gurry Yell, I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm just looking at the almost added players right now
Speaker 1: and Yahoo at first base Justin Smokes like that. If
Speaker 1: Jackson Smoke is out there and you're looking to replace
Speaker 1: at Olson, that's not a pet move. You can get
Speaker 1: him in like a shallower league. Obviously it's not gonna happen. No, No,
Speaker 1: you're not, it's not. But like Justin Smoke totally. If
Speaker 1: I were playing for mad Olson and Justice one of
Speaker 1: the backup guys, we liked the first base spot in
Speaker 1: a draft that we didn't get mad Olson and did
Speaker 1: Now I wish we didn't, But we'll take a break.
Speaker 1: More Waiver Wire talk with Matt Moldega Matt Striker coming
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Speaker 1: Frank standfle Matt Moodiki here, what do you do? This song?
Speaker 1: That's how a little like shoulder shimming right there. This
Speaker 1: strikes me as a song that if Greg hears us
Speaker 1: at a wedding and he's hammered, he just goes with
Speaker 1: the notes. Man doesn't do it. Doesn't do it for you?
Speaker 1: Were you Madimo, I'd have to be heavily into kid.
Speaker 1: You dance a little bit under the influence of drugs,
Speaker 1: your alcohol. Man. One day we'll get you in. We'll
Speaker 1: get you in here in studio. We'll have you do
Speaker 1: too with us. Do you have to be to do
Speaker 1: that that I'd do with you? Guys? I appreciate it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: tried to end it. A lot of people don't like
Speaker 1: to like to dance with us singer dance. We tried
Speaker 1: to get Nick Pollock picture list dance. I mean, if
Speaker 1: I was a good dancer, I would do it. I'm
Speaker 1: just you know the thing is, Matt, you just gotta
Speaker 1: believe you're a good dancer. And if you believe, it's
Speaker 1: a matters. I think Elaine Bennett should just proved that
Speaker 1: she did. She did. Has frank do you know who? Line?
Speaker 1: Bennett has no idea that was hit the Google machine,
Speaker 1: the Google machine to find out who Laine Beness is.
Speaker 1: Okay in Bennett, Oh, she's from Seinfeld. I wasn't a
Speaker 1: big Seinfeld I never have been. Clearly, that's that's not
Speaker 1: even her real name, just lost a huge portion. That's
Speaker 1: her character. Her name is n even Elaine shows it
Speaker 1: shows it, you know, Frank, literally, here you go. Played
Speaker 1: by Julia Louise Jesus Julia Louis Dreyfuss. Sure. She's also
Speaker 1: stars in the in the HBO program The First Woman President.
Speaker 1: She's the first woman president and first woman Vice President?
Speaker 1: Did I lose you as a as a Frank of
Speaker 1: Stanford as well? I don't want Seinfeld? I dontkay, Frank
Speaker 1: you want do you like Seinfeld yet? Yeah? It's funny,
Speaker 1: not like a huge Seinfeld nut. That's funny. I feel
Speaker 1: like most people who like our nuts. Yeah, like I
Speaker 1: hear Gabe all the time when it shows randomly remember
Speaker 1: that time from Seinfeld? Yeah, I don know, I don't remember.
Speaker 1: It is a lot too, Yeah, totally so. Nevertheless, Lane
Speaker 1: Vennis Laane Vennece, Julia Louis Dreyfuss, President, United States. Leave
Speaker 1: it there all right? Um, where do you want to
Speaker 1: go next rank where where? Where you guys you want
Speaker 1: to talk about like some twelve team guys that were, yeah,
Speaker 1: let's do it, available and bid on sure? Do do?
Speaker 1: Do you have any Yeah? Yeah, no, I have something. Sorry.
Speaker 1: The online Championship ones Hunt the Strictland was available in
Speaker 1: one of mine. I went three forty five I think
Speaker 1: or something like that, and then you went for three.
Speaker 1: That hurts. By twenty Chris Paddock was available in one
Speaker 1: of my twelve team onlines. The runner up bid was
Speaker 1: three sixty three and I got him before eleven. So
Speaker 1: you guys know, I'm all in on Paddick. So it's
Speaker 1: pretty good. It looks like as of right now, Chris
Speaker 1: Paddick is going to be in the roof here. They
Speaker 1: haven't officially announced that yet, but my all indications it
Speaker 1: seems like both he and ma Strom are going to
Speaker 1: be in the padre's rotation to start the seas. Some
Speaker 1: aggressiveness there from San Diego. Hopefully that lends itself to
Speaker 1: Fernando Tatis being up. I think that teacher is coming
Speaker 1: sooner than later. I've tried to get a lot of
Speaker 1: kids at him as well on leagues where I could
Speaker 1: kind of stash him. I agree, Matt. I gotta ask
Speaker 1: you this, what's the difference between Hunter Strickland and Greg Holland.
Speaker 1: Where you're so in on Hunter Stricklans at the point
Speaker 1: where you're going to spend you know, almost thirty five
Speaker 1: percent of your budget, but you're not you on Greg Holland.
Speaker 1: Because I don't think they're that dissimilar. They're both named
Speaker 1: the closers for their respective locations. I understand maybe the
Speaker 1: Diamondbacks have better options behind Holland, but I don't think
Speaker 1: either Holland or Strickland are really going to provide great
Speaker 1: ear a and whip. But they are closers. So why
Speaker 1: such a big discrepancy between I had Strickland last season.
Speaker 1: I fabbed him like that first weekend or so, whatever
Speaker 1: it happened, he was there. I know it was early on,
Speaker 1: and you know, up until he punched the wall he
Speaker 1: would have you know, he kind of really cost himself
Speaker 1: by doing that. He really you know, he screwed up
Speaker 1: himself with that. He cost him that season, and you
Speaker 1: know he found his way to Seattle. There's no competition
Speaker 1: there for him. He's already banked to saves uh and
Speaker 1: I don't know. Look, if he's really good, I don't
Speaker 1: think he's gonna be like, you know, an upper echelon enclosure.
Speaker 1: But the better he does this first half, there's a
Speaker 1: better chance he's going to get traded. But uh, if
Speaker 1: I can get you know, as many shaves as I
Speaker 1: can get, I'll take that, right how I just I
Speaker 1: don't think the velocity is there. I know it's only
Speaker 1: experience training. I know he pitched the better in Washington.
Speaker 1: That was with no pressure or nothing like that. He
Speaker 1: was once a you know, top and just really picture
Speaker 1: in general. I mean, he was really really good. I
Speaker 1: think those days are over. What do you think about
Speaker 1: that discrepancy with Greg Holland going for around of of
Speaker 1: fab and we're talking about Greg Holland in that you know,
Speaker 1: eight to twelve percent range. Do you think it should
Speaker 1: be that far apart? Because personally I don't. I don't either.
Speaker 1: UM to me, the only reason Hunter Strickland is going
Speaker 1: for so much more because we saw it everybody. It
Speaker 1: was a game that everybody's two games in Japan. Everybody
Speaker 1: saw you do get those saves retroactively, So I understand
Speaker 1: wanted to get two saves off the bat too. Obviously
Speaker 1: every safe helped. They were isolated games where everybody's like
Speaker 1: it was the only the only thing people could watch
Speaker 1: or read about. If Greg Holland got to stay in Japan,
Speaker 1: be the same thing, absolutely the absolutely the same thing.
Speaker 1: I also think that's a little bit different. And I
Speaker 1: said this last week. Why I really like Hunter Strickland
Speaker 1: more than some other guys, um is that somebody else there.
Speaker 1: There's nobody else there in Seattle outside of Hunter Strickle
Speaker 1: to pick up saves, and as you said, Frank, like, yeah,
Speaker 1: if he sucks, they'll find somebody else. But with Arizona,
Speaker 1: if Holland struggles out of the game, and initially we
Speaker 1: know Archie Bradley's there, we know Horondo's there, and even
Speaker 1: if they don't want to do it, they will be Fortunately,
Speaker 1: Like I'm looking at the past two years and the
Speaker 1: least has been so long, absolutely right, and it seems like,
Speaker 1: for whatever reason Fox got off to a nice start
Speaker 1: last year, are so hesitant to put Archie Bradley and
Speaker 1: in the closest role. They really like him in that
Speaker 1: setup role. So it's just if they never haven't shown
Speaker 1: it over the past two years. I just and it's
Speaker 1: not that Hunter Strickland is going for too much, Like
Speaker 1: that's fine if you want to spend. But if that's
Speaker 1: the case, my thinking is maybe Greg Holland should go
Speaker 1: for more than what we're talking about, Like maybe he
Speaker 1: should be I think the real problem with Holland's people
Speaker 1: saw how bad he was last year, and this spring
Speaker 1: hasn't been any better than Vlo has been down. He's
Speaker 1: only pitched like four rennings and they haven't been good.
Speaker 1: So I think you have to compound that. And you're correct,
Speaker 1: Oh everybody saw with Hickland, Pitt and get too saved.
Speaker 1: But also the fact that Schrickland really has nobody there.
Speaker 1: Seattle wants him to be good so they can trade him.
Speaker 1: He's like, that's right, that's right. That's another thing too.
Speaker 1: Though you might only get half a season out of
Speaker 1: Hunter A figure out the second half. That's That's exactly exactly,
Speaker 1: um Man. I was gonna say that. I'm gonna say
Speaker 1: this relate the the Chanisco News, Rancisco. I feel it, Man,
Speaker 1: did you end up with chance that's going on any
Speaker 1: of your team? Because I feel like you didn't know
Speaker 1: If you want to talk with Wires, I had a
Speaker 1: drop chance in at least three leagues. Uh, he was
Speaker 1: my dollar catcher, and I replaced him in each one
Speaker 1: with Nick Huntley, who should be getting the majority of
Speaker 1: the starts in Oakland. Why not? Why not gonna find
Speaker 1: someone with a pulse? I told you all about Chancisco.
Speaker 1: I'm wondering why they why don't they want him up?
Speaker 1: Is it like it's like a service time things year?
Speaker 1: So I figured like his clock had already been started. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but look at they're able to go back. That was
Speaker 1: really interesting, right. Ian Happs into the minor leagues does
Speaker 1: not make the team for the Chicago Cubs and deeper leagues.
Speaker 1: You know, yes, he would be in the lineup because
Speaker 1: of his defense. That's great. But anyway, so Ian Happ,
Speaker 1: who was always a fantasy draft darling last year, people
Speaker 1: really like he'd have going in the last season, let
Speaker 1: you down and then doesn't make the team out of
Speaker 1: camp this year. I know John Lester's like, I gotta
Speaker 1: talk to him, and it's not the end. She's a
Speaker 1: speed bump and like Tyler Wade for the Yankees. But
Speaker 1: Ian Happed, Um, I wonder if his best. I wonder
Speaker 1: if his best his best chance of playing times getting
Speaker 1: traded guys, potentially build up your value down in the
Speaker 1: miners again, build the confidence backed up. He's got to
Speaker 1: work out a few things. Obviously struck out a ton
Speaker 1: last year. That's the biggest issue for Ian happened, you know,
Speaker 1: even two years ago when he came up and kind
Speaker 1: of uh, you know, took the league by storm, and
Speaker 1: everyone was excited about Ian Half. I mean, the strikeouts
Speaker 1: have always been an issue, so that's something that he
Speaker 1: does have to work on. Um, but you're right, I
Speaker 1: mean people were very excited about Ian Half a year
Speaker 1: ago around this time, and it just hasn't worked out.
Speaker 1: We've seen, you know, a couple of players like this.
Speaker 1: It takes time for Joe Madden to warm up to
Speaker 1: them and let them play every day. For Javier Bayez,
Speaker 1: for a long time, you know, we were worried because
Speaker 1: he wasn't he's gonna play every day, we didn't know,
Speaker 1: and then last year he finally did. So. Um, Look,
Speaker 1: if you can figure things out and the miners figure
Speaker 1: out the strikeouts, I think he'll be back and eventually
Speaker 1: he'll earn playing time, or if not, he'll build it
Speaker 1: himself up in the minors and he'll end up being
Speaker 1: traded somewhere, Greg, You're right, um, and then you know,
Speaker 1: hopefully end up with a place to play every day
Speaker 1: on another Yeah, and I think that needs to be
Speaker 1: the goal for him, probably for the clubs at this point.
Speaker 1: But again, injuries changed everything and who knows how long
Speaker 1: all those guys will remain healthy and how Swoarber was
Speaker 1: gonna find his spot and how effective will he be.
Speaker 1: And I think there's a lot of question mare is
Speaker 1: there three day second baseman. He's a million years old, right,
Speaker 1: It hasn't Russell will be back at some point from
Speaker 1: his suspension, so I think I think for his long
Speaker 1: term growth it is probably the best thing for him.
Speaker 1: But get every day at bats if somebody goes down
Speaker 1: or he's playing really well, and they do want to
Speaker 1: put him in the lineup. So yeah, like Frank said,
Speaker 1: he there are some things he still needs to correct.
Speaker 1: I found that track at the end of last year.
Speaker 1: I started getting on him and that was a mistake
Speaker 1: he let let off with the first pitch at the
Speaker 1: home run. But I don't think we've heard the last
Speaker 1: for me and happen. So we'll see, all right, We'll
Speaker 1: see what it comes to e and half and once
Speaker 1: again does not make the Chicago Cubs out of the
Speaker 1: spring training Who else you got in the twelve team
Speaker 1: leagues match? He picked up Pablo Lopez, the guy I
Speaker 1: was trying to get one or three of those Marlin's arms.
Speaker 1: It's it's amazing how now all of a sudden we're
Speaker 1: all in the marlin zoms. They do have that good bullpark.
Speaker 1: Pablo Lopez, Richards, and Caleb Smith. They all went for
Speaker 1: pretty reasonable. I overben On Lopez. I think I've been
Speaker 1: a hundred and nine dollars, so I was like, seventy
Speaker 1: dollars too much, But I did want to pair him
Speaker 1: up with Paddock and make a make a little mini
Speaker 1: ace there. So we'll see. Let me start with Pablo Lopez,
Speaker 1: because you're right, matt As, we've gotten live, and I
Speaker 1: would we've gotten closer to the start of the season.
Speaker 1: More and more experts that I'm seeing are very much
Speaker 1: in on this Marlin's rotation, particularly the young guys like
Speaker 1: Pablo Lopez. We've seen kind of get picked up everywhere.
Speaker 1: Frank Um Lopez is one of them. Trevor Richards who
Speaker 1: went undrafted in some twelve team leagues He's another one.
Speaker 1: We think we picked him up in a fifteen team
Speaker 1: league and three dollars out of a hundred, So Trevor
Speaker 1: Richards got some love. I've been on Sandy Alcantara for
Speaker 1: one like, I think he has some talent. We saw
Speaker 1: that against the Mets September. It was Caleb Smith has
Speaker 1: stuff here and he's looks good in the spring too.
Speaker 1: So he suffered a big injury last year, but it
Speaker 1: looks like he's bounced back. He's gonna be in the rotation.
Speaker 1: I really enjoyed that the Marlins are are going through
Speaker 1: a youth movement here and allowing a lot of these
Speaker 1: pictures to be in the rotation. To start the year,
Speaker 1: they released Dan Streli. They announced that they're gonna use
Speaker 1: Wake and Chenna believe in a bullpen roll. So as
Speaker 1: of now, the rotation is Jose Urania and then these
Speaker 1: four guys that we're talking about, Pablo Lopez in the rotation, uh,
Speaker 1: Trevor Richards obviously, and then we got Sandy al Kanzara,
Speaker 1: who was the main piece that came over in the
Speaker 1: Marcelo's in the trade with the Cardinals, and then Caleb
Speaker 1: Smith who came over in the trade with the Yankees
Speaker 1: as well. So and this team released Dan Australia today
Speaker 1: like they just released the good do whatever you want.
Speaker 1: So that was surprised he was. Dan Stralie is someone
Speaker 1: that we've seen the effective as a major league picture.
Speaker 1: Maybe not as a fantasy stud, but he's had some
Speaker 1: value and it's certainly as a major league picture he's
Speaker 1: had a value as well. I think Dan Stralia end
Speaker 1: up somewhere soon too, Yeah, he might. I'm much more
Speaker 1: intrigued than these any dance really just because the unknown.
Speaker 1: We don't know what we could get from these guys.
Speaker 1: But you know, if I were just ranking them here, Greg,
Speaker 1: I would probably go Pablo Lopez, Trevor Richards, Lopez over Richards, Yes,
Speaker 1: Caleb Smith, and then Sandy Alcanzara. Get it, Mattimo, how
Speaker 1: would you rank those those four Marlins? Pitch? Yeah, Lopez
Speaker 1: is gonna be number one. Everything that I'm you know,
Speaker 1: and I've seen some really good articles about, you know,
Speaker 1: Lopez being the possible breakout player the volume. I saw
Speaker 1: him pitch uh a week or so ago against the Nationals,
Speaker 1: and I was really impressed that it was all in
Speaker 1: spring training. But Uh, Trevor Richards and Caleb Smith. It's
Speaker 1: kind of a coin to us for me there. Uh.
Speaker 1: Then with Richards is the fastball really isn't good? That
Speaker 1: change up is crazy good. Uh. And Caleb Smith, as
Speaker 1: you guys just mentioned, he was good last year and
Speaker 1: then he got injured and stuff. He's pitching really well too.
Speaker 1: So I mean, just to show you how crazy it's,
Speaker 1: it's it's come from, you know, last week in New
Speaker 1: York to this weekend in Vegas and one of my
Speaker 1: big leagues, I had picked fifteen and on the nineteen
Speaker 1: twenty tarn I went Richards and Smith, you know. And
Speaker 1: I don't know if that's the winning way to win
Speaker 1: a fantasy league with a with a couple of Marlins,
Speaker 1: but I did it. Yeah, they might combine for ten
Speaker 1: wins this year, Maddie Mo, but hopefully they give you
Speaker 1: good d R, a good whip, and some good strikeouts. Also,
Speaker 1: I don't think that you should feel too badly about
Speaker 1: your Pablo Lopez bid because in my Great Fantasy Baseball
Speaker 1: Invitational he went for a hundred and twelve dollars, so
Speaker 1: pretty close to what you were being there for Lopez.
Speaker 1: And you know, there's a lot of people excited about it.
Speaker 1: I don't think you should beat yourself up for for
Speaker 1: overspending on the Yeah, I'd rather get the guy every time.
Speaker 1: I'll be honest with you. I know sometimes and it's tough.
Speaker 1: Like you mentioned before, what what was it the Greg
Speaker 1: Holland been in the g d T and there was
Speaker 1: three sixty or three thirty five to seven or thirty
Speaker 1: six to seven. You know that's gonna happen. But you
Speaker 1: know there's a reason you thought to bid, so you
Speaker 1: really can't concern yourself what the next bid was. No, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it is what it is. You go ahead and get
Speaker 1: your guy. And you and you've always said that's matt
Speaker 1: to me. Whether it comes to fab or whether it
Speaker 1: comes to an auction, really doesn't matter how much you spend.
Speaker 1: You kill yourself over it, but we'll get your guy,
Speaker 1: and when you do, you'll be happy about it. The
Speaker 1: last thing that I really wanted to touch on here
Speaker 1: with Maddie Moo. I know he has a lot of
Speaker 1: shares of Ronald Dacuna, and it officially came out that
Speaker 1: he's going to back clean up for the Atlanta Braves
Speaker 1: and and Enter and c are taking a lead off
Speaker 1: against right handed pitching, while Ozzy Albi is going to
Speaker 1: lead off against lefties. Maddie Moo, what do you think
Speaker 1: this does for Ronald Lacuna, Because to me, the first
Speaker 1: thought is stolen bases might not live up to the
Speaker 1: expectation we had for for Ronald. Yeah, it's in twelve
Speaker 1: and you got to look at a two ways the
Speaker 1: stolen basis. I agree, I would, you know, probably cut
Speaker 1: them in half. But on the other side, the runs
Speaker 1: A bat it in and stuff should go up. Now
Speaker 1: you're gonna get more of a run producer. I got
Speaker 1: him in our main event last week with the six
Speaker 1: pick Mandy Saxon. But the guy I owned the most
Speaker 1: and I kind of pivoted from Racuna to Yellick is
Speaker 1: Christian Yellick. But I look, I think Accouon is gonna
Speaker 1: be fine. He's gonna steal double digit paces. It's just
Speaker 1: that stolen base upside I think is capped where maybe
Speaker 1: we thought it was, you know, thirty to twenty, possibly
Speaker 1: maybe it's thirty plus homers. Now was twelve to fifteen
Speaker 1: stolen bases, which is still very good. And then and
Speaker 1: you know, now you up the RB I total. So
Speaker 1: now you got more of that, like a power hitter
Speaker 1: with speed as opposed to that leadoff guy that was
Speaker 1: gonna get you two runs the home runs on the
Speaker 1: stolen basis, So you just need to adjust that way.
Speaker 1: Matt Modica, make sure you follow him on Twitter at
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Speaker 1: coming out soon? What are you working on? A? Yeah,
Speaker 1: this week, I hope to have a portfolio piece and
Speaker 1: on Sunday will be the first UH to start picturing
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