WEBVTT - Is Jacob Misiorowski The Consensus SP1? | 2027 ADP Predictions with Paul Sporer (Ep. 1340) 0:00:05.280 --> 0:00:08.360 What's going on? Everybody. Welcome into Fantasy pros. This is 0:00:08.400 --> 0:00:11.360 the Fantasy Baseball Podcast. I'm your host, Joe Rico, and 0:00:11.360 --> 0:00:13.159 today we're gonna have a little bit of fun. We're 0:00:13.160 --> 0:00:15.440 gonna look forward to twenty twenty seven, talk about some 0:00:15.480 --> 0:00:18.560 ADP predictions, and I have a great guest here. He 0:00:18.680 --> 0:00:22.200 is the second most noteworthy mustachioed Paul s in the 0:00:22.280 --> 0:00:25.239 baseball sphere. You could argue he's number one, but I 0:00:25.239 --> 0:00:28.160 think Paul Skins might take that got me title from 0:00:28.240 --> 0:00:31.320 mister Paul Sport. But we love him nonetheless, Paul, greaty 0:00:31.320 --> 0:00:33.199 to talk with you. Different network than we're used to 0:00:33.200 --> 0:00:35.240 talking on, and it's been a while since I've hosted 0:00:35.280 --> 0:00:36.720 you on the show. Right, well, this should be a 0:00:36.760 --> 0:00:37.560 lot of fun, my friend. 0:00:37.920 --> 0:00:39.279 It's great to be on with you. 0:00:39.520 --> 0:00:41.839 Joe. Yeah, we usually do sleeper in the bus. I'm 0:00:41.920 --> 0:00:43.839 driving the bus. I like to be in the passengers. 0:00:43.840 --> 0:00:46.680 See I can be passenger princess today and talking twenty 0:00:46.680 --> 0:00:48.240 twenty seven is gonna be fun. You know, we still 0:00:48.280 --> 0:00:50.880 have a whole second half. I know they're not equal hals, 0:00:50.880 --> 0:00:52.360 but you know we still got a whole chunk of games. 0:00:52.520 --> 0:00:55.200 Things could change, but We know some of our sick 0:00:55.240 --> 0:00:58.680 friends out here. They're gonna start doing drafts soon, and 0:00:58.240 --> 0:00:59.520 we're part of that. 0:00:59.760 --> 0:01:01.320 I don't know how early you do it. 0:01:01.440 --> 0:01:04.200 We know Justin will get on the draft tomorrow if 0:01:04.240 --> 0:01:06.280 they asked him to, So people are going to start 0:01:06.400 --> 0:01:08.920 drafting pretty soon, at least in August. I know that 0:01:08.959 --> 0:01:11.640 there's usually that meatball draft, so they're going to have 0:01:11.640 --> 0:01:14.240 to make some of these decisions right away on where 0:01:14.240 --> 0:01:16.800 everyone's going to be going in the draft next year. 0:01:17.640 --> 0:01:19.680 Yeah, it's interesting. It's like a few weeks ago, James 0:01:19.720 --> 0:01:21.440 Anderson was on the show and we did a second 0:01:21.480 --> 0:01:23.880 half redrafting Welsh and I kind of ran back the 0:01:23.880 --> 0:01:26.080 idea the other day, and now we can start looking ahead. 0:01:26.080 --> 0:01:28.680 We're going to talk about about fifteen players today and 0:01:28.760 --> 0:01:32.160 how we think they should be drafted in twenty twenty seven, 0:01:32.200 --> 0:01:34.240 and I think we'll start right at the very top here. 0:01:34.720 --> 0:01:38.039 Jacob Mazerowski and Cam Schlitzler have been the number one 0:01:38.080 --> 0:01:41.760 and number two pitchers this season, which is probably not 0:01:41.840 --> 0:01:44.959 what anybody was really expecting, especially to the degree that 0:01:45.040 --> 0:01:49.200 it is. Jacob Mazerowski is thirteen dollars clear on the 0:01:49.240 --> 0:01:52.360 auction calculator of the number two pitcher, who is Cam Schlitler. 0:01:52.800 --> 0:01:56.280 That is the difference, my god, that is the difference 0:01:56.360 --> 0:01:59.480 of a Braxton Ashcraft or a Bryce Miller, or a 0:01:59.560 --> 0:02:02.560 Gavin Williams or Kyle Harrison or even de Grom is 0:02:02.600 --> 0:02:05.760 a fourteen dollars player. So it's essentially the difference of 0:02:05.800 --> 0:02:08.760 a deGrom between the number one and number two pitchers. 0:02:08.760 --> 0:02:12.560 Misrowski's been amazing. Schlitler has also been amazing, right and. 0:02:12.360 --> 0:02:14.400 But for him to be that far ahead. 0:02:15.120 --> 0:02:18.000 And I wonder if they are now the new schoobl 0:02:18.240 --> 0:02:20.880 and Skians to some extent at the top of draft boards. 0:02:21.360 --> 0:02:23.720 Has Scoogle done enough to move off of the number 0:02:23.760 --> 0:02:26.280 one pitcher in terms of the injury and you know 0:02:26.480 --> 0:02:28.840 he'll be in a new destination most likely yester year. 0:02:28.840 --> 0:02:31.880 Will that keep people off of him? Skeens has the 0:02:32.200 --> 0:02:34.400 you know, a couple of blows. 0:02:34.480 --> 0:02:35.880 He's been a little bit. 0:02:35.919 --> 0:02:39.600 I think we can say he's not tall Skins right now, 0:02:39.639 --> 0:02:44.040 He's not like unquestioned six plus every time out ten 0:02:44.080 --> 0:02:48.760 plus punches. He's fine. They're certainly not flailing because of him, 0:02:48.960 --> 0:02:52.200 but he hasn't. No, Ashcat's been the ace the last six. 0:02:52.040 --> 0:02:53.080 Weeks, so Yeah. 0:02:53.360 --> 0:02:56.000 As far as the Schoobl piece, I do think he's 0:02:56.040 --> 0:02:58.720 going to be off the number one spot for me specifically. 0:02:59.120 --> 0:03:01.959 This isn't like scorned lover, leave my team. I don't 0:03:01.960 --> 0:03:04.120 want to draft you, but I subscribe to the Glenn 0:03:04.120 --> 0:03:07.519 Colton and Rick Wolf the part of their smart program 0:03:07.680 --> 0:03:09.480 where they don't like to buy guys on the first 0:03:09.520 --> 0:03:12.079 year of the mega deal. They never suggest that they 0:03:12.120 --> 0:03:15.040 always fail, and I'm with him, that's not what it is. 0:03:15.360 --> 0:03:17.440 It's that you want to give a year of transition, 0:03:17.560 --> 0:03:19.959 see what happens. How's Kyle Tucker doing for you this year? 0:03:20.000 --> 0:03:21.880 And again you can find guys who are doing great. 0:03:21.960 --> 0:03:23.880 Right. It's not a one way or the other. 0:03:24.160 --> 0:03:27.959 It's that we you know, those two and myself separately, 0:03:28.000 --> 0:03:29.400 but they pioneered it. 0:03:29.400 --> 0:03:30.639 That's why I'm giving them credit. 0:03:31.120 --> 0:03:32.799 Want to step off for a year and just see 0:03:32.840 --> 0:03:35.440 what's what what's the adjustment now that you're the dude. 0:03:35.520 --> 0:03:37.600 Schoobl's been the dude. He's a two time side. I 0:03:37.600 --> 0:03:39.720 don't think he's going to be some sort of wilting flower. 0:03:40.000 --> 0:03:43.480 But Tucker wasn't some sort of you know, nobody that 0:03:43.560 --> 0:03:45.960 had to go out to LA and become something and 0:03:46.000 --> 0:03:47.320 he's folded under that. 0:03:47.480 --> 0:03:48.120 I don't know if he's. 0:03:48.080 --> 0:03:50.080 Dealing injury or whatever's going on, but he's had a 0:03:50.120 --> 0:03:52.720 bad year. What if schoobl goes out there and maybe 0:03:52.720 --> 0:03:55.520 that's just I gotta deal with this. This is tougher 0:03:55.520 --> 0:03:57.320 than I thought it would be. Whatever the case may be, 0:03:57.560 --> 0:04:00.640 I doubt he will fail, but you a most certainly 0:04:00.680 --> 0:04:03.840 won't be my number one guy. Big part of it 0:04:03.920 --> 0:04:06.360 being that reason because I don't think if he's healthy, 0:04:06.400 --> 0:04:08.880 of course that we're not worried about that. 0:04:09.040 --> 0:04:11.080 If he's injured, that's a whole different story. 0:04:11.120 --> 0:04:12.680 But if he's healthy ready to go, I think it's 0:04:12.720 --> 0:04:15.600 gonna be Miss Scooble, and then I'm gonna. 0:04:15.400 --> 0:04:15.960 Kind of go from there. 0:04:16.000 --> 0:04:17.800 I'm still gonna have him too, but I'm not gonna 0:04:17.800 --> 0:04:19.400 have him in that number one spot. And I could 0:04:19.440 --> 0:04:21.839 see a Schlitzler, and I can still see Skeins getting 0:04:21.839 --> 0:04:24.159 there too. I'm not gonna throw Skeins out off of 0:04:24.200 --> 0:04:27.920 a handful of crummy stone, like two actual bad bad 0:04:28.000 --> 0:04:30.680 starts and then a handful of like you know, you're 0:04:30.720 --> 0:04:32.800 not being your a self. So I think there is 0:04:32.839 --> 0:04:35.800 a new number one and miss when healthy, and that's 0:04:35.800 --> 0:04:38.039 gonna obviously be the biggest caveat here. But we're trying 0:04:38.040 --> 0:04:39.840 to break the future. So let's go with him healthy. 0:04:40.520 --> 0:04:42.039 How do you not take him number one? With what 0:04:42.120 --> 0:04:42.479 he does? 0:04:43.800 --> 0:04:47.440 I mean, his output is reminiscent this year of the 0:04:47.480 --> 0:04:48.560 peak Patro years. 0:04:48.600 --> 0:04:49.960 That's exactly what I was gonna say here. 0:04:50.680 --> 0:04:53.480 Johan Santana type like, it's just like the peak pictures 0:04:53.480 --> 0:04:55.520 of the last twenty years. This is what we're seeing 0:04:55.560 --> 0:04:58.160 from him. A thirty three percent drake out to walk right, 0:04:58.200 --> 0:05:01.440 a point seven to six whip era doesn't matter that 0:05:01.520 --> 0:05:02.800 much to me, but the fact that it's at one 0:05:02.920 --> 0:05:08.520 sixty two is still pretty remarkable. Total twenty runs he's 0:05:08.520 --> 0:05:12.039 allowed this year in one hundred and eleven innings. He's 0:05:12.080 --> 0:05:14.640 just been outstanding. So he's healthy, he's the number one 0:05:14.680 --> 0:05:18.160 guy with a bullet or I mean, can we project 0:05:18.160 --> 0:05:19.840 forward and say, look, he's throwing one hundred and five, 0:05:19.839 --> 0:05:21.520 he's throwing one hundred and four. I just don't want 0:05:21.560 --> 0:05:23.599 to be the guy holding the bag or he does 0:05:23.680 --> 0:05:25.800 end up getting hurt. Is that a prudence strategy? 0:05:25.839 --> 0:05:28.480 You think there is prudence to that, And that's where 0:05:28.520 --> 0:05:32.480 it becomes really difficult, because you take a look at 0:05:32.480 --> 0:05:36.320 that leaderboard of the top x ten twelve velocity guys 0:05:36.720 --> 0:05:39.080 in any given year lately, and you put a little 0:05:39.200 --> 0:05:41.799 X mark next to the ones who have been injured severely, 0:05:42.240 --> 0:05:44.800 and you're gonna have eight to ten X marks on 0:05:44.880 --> 0:05:48.200 that twelve player list right like it happens all the time. 0:05:48.680 --> 0:05:51.440 And so he does feel like a ticking time bomb 0:05:51.600 --> 0:05:54.159 while also being the best picture on the planet right now? 0:05:54.279 --> 0:05:56.640 So how do you balance that? I still think he's 0:05:56.680 --> 0:05:58.240 the number one guy. I still think I could see 0:05:58.240 --> 0:06:01.120 scenarios where I myself would take him. But if somebody said, hey, 0:06:01.800 --> 0:06:03.960 when you're throwing this hard, like we know that the 0:06:04.160 --> 0:06:06.760 one hundred mile an hour throwers get hurt, this dude 0:06:06.760 --> 0:06:09.880 throwing Buco three bucko four, how is it not a 0:06:10.120 --> 0:06:12.359 guarantee that he's going to get hurt at some point? 0:06:12.480 --> 0:06:13.440 And I want to lay off. 0:06:13.480 --> 0:06:15.880 I would not clown that person if they wanted to 0:06:15.920 --> 0:06:19.200 go for a safer hitter. Nobody's safe, You're not. You're 0:06:19.200 --> 0:06:22.159 not going to get a perfect anything. Hitters are indeed 0:06:22.480 --> 0:06:24.280 safe for though that's a guarantee. 0:06:24.360 --> 0:06:27.520 Yeah, so is MS a first round pick then, assuming 0:06:27.680 --> 0:06:29.880 definite number one pitch, or you think he's a first rounder. 0:06:29.960 --> 0:06:32.760 Yeah, got gotta be for me. Like again, we're talking 0:06:32.800 --> 0:06:34.599 he's healthy coming off this year. Let's say he raises 0:06:34.600 --> 0:06:36.080 the VRA even all the way up to like two ten, 0:06:36.080 --> 0:06:37.920 which would be kind of a bumpy second half, which 0:06:37.960 --> 0:06:40.240 is crazy to think, right because he's at one sixty. 0:06:39.960 --> 0:06:41.880 Two right now. But let's say he ends two. 0:06:41.760 --> 0:06:46.080 Ten, eighty nine on the whip, three hundred and ninety 0:06:46.080 --> 0:06:48.880 five thousand strikeouts. I just don't see how he's not 0:06:48.920 --> 0:06:50.240 a top five pick next year. 0:06:51.720 --> 0:06:54.080 I think, I agree, I think he is. Yeah, and 0:06:54.200 --> 0:06:56.000 that's kind of where the top pitcher has been going 0:06:56.040 --> 0:06:58.640 the last couple of years. Maybe not always in the 0:06:58.640 --> 0:07:02.200 top five, but you will see minimum picks like second, third, four, yes, 0:07:02.480 --> 0:07:04.640 with an ADP of like five or six, and. 0:07:05.160 --> 0:07:08.720 Schemes Google started to inch toward the middle back end 0:07:08.720 --> 0:07:10.240 there as hitters got pushed up. 0:07:10.520 --> 0:07:12.120 I mean, we could see that again. Because you know 0:07:12.200 --> 0:07:12.760 another thing. 0:07:12.640 --> 0:07:14.480 About this year, and that this is where miss and 0:07:14.520 --> 0:07:17.679 Schlitzler came from, is that second and third tier really 0:07:17.720 --> 0:07:21.160 paid off handsomely this year, big time. The weight on 0:07:21.240 --> 0:07:24.720 pitching strategy that Nick Poullack loves to employ in his leagues. 0:07:24.920 --> 0:07:27.120 That was the way to go this year. You could 0:07:27.200 --> 0:07:29.760 get a good ace, right. If you took Sanchez, you're fine. 0:07:29.840 --> 0:07:31.960 I took Scoogle and I'm you know, he got hurt 0:07:32.080 --> 0:07:33.920 and that wasn't great, but I'm not I'm not losing 0:07:33.960 --> 0:07:35.960 my league because of him. So there were good ones, 0:07:35.960 --> 0:07:40.560 but crochet bust schemes SP fifteen had that from day one. 0:07:40.800 --> 0:07:44.160 So I mean, it was tough this year at the 0:07:44.200 --> 0:07:46.800 top of the pitching queue, and I think that's going 0:07:46.880 --> 0:07:49.960 to bring some caution for some folks, excuse me, and 0:07:49.960 --> 0:07:51.280 they're going to want to play in that middle to 0:07:51.320 --> 0:07:53.760 find the next miss and the next Schlittler. 0:07:54.480 --> 0:07:55.960 Easier said than done, though, of course. 0:07:57.480 --> 0:07:59.800 Absolutely. Let's keep it going and we'll move to what 0:08:00.000 --> 0:08:03.520 it's been the hottest offense in Major League Baseball this year. 0:08:03.640 --> 0:08:05.920 I still say it kind of hesitantly because I don't 0:08:05.920 --> 0:08:08.440 really truly believe it, but the Washington Nationals have been 0:08:08.480 --> 0:08:10.480 the best offense in baseball this year. So let's talk 0:08:10.520 --> 0:08:14.880 about their three massive standouts. Offensively, James Wood, who, if 0:08:14.880 --> 0:08:17.840 you're looking just among hitters this season, is the number 0:08:17.880 --> 0:08:21.239 one hitter in all A Fantasy Number seven is CJ 0:08:21.400 --> 0:08:24.880 Abrams and now at number twenty two, more shockingly than even. 0:08:24.760 --> 0:08:26.040 Those two biggest shams. 0:08:26.240 --> 0:08:30.800 Yeah, Luis Garcia Junior sitting here with twenty homers almost 0:08:30.880 --> 0:08:32.880 seventy ribbis at the break in a two eighty four 0:08:32.920 --> 0:08:36.520 patting average. So I'll say James Wood's going to be 0:08:36.559 --> 0:08:40.240 a first rounder. C. J. Abrams probably a third rounder. 0:08:40.280 --> 0:08:43.200 But Luis Garcia is the one where it's like it 0:08:43.280 --> 0:08:44.680 really is going to come down to what he looks 0:08:44.679 --> 0:08:46.800 like in the second half, I think. But a top 0:08:46.840 --> 0:08:48.800 one hundred or so pick I think is on the 0:08:48.840 --> 0:08:50.520 table at this point, sport, what do you think? 0:08:50.840 --> 0:08:54.440 I certainly think so, and I don't necessarily know exactly 0:08:54.520 --> 0:08:56.040 how I feel about that right now. 0:08:56.240 --> 0:08:57.680 I enter it with some trepidation. 0:08:58.000 --> 0:08:59.800 And yet I look at somebody who will be turning 0:08:59.840 --> 0:09:02.680 two seven, so certainly not old. Has been around the 0:09:02.679 --> 0:09:05.280 block multiple times. That's the thing. Like, this guy has 0:09:06.000 --> 0:09:09.600 years under his belt already. This is his seventh year. 0:09:09.679 --> 0:09:11.880 Now they're not all full seasons. Abuck thirty nine, two 0:09:11.920 --> 0:09:14.120 forty seven, plaited appearances in the first two, but then 0:09:14.160 --> 0:09:16.600 three seventy seven, forty two, five, twenty eight, five, twenty 0:09:16.600 --> 0:09:19.280 six and already three nineteen this year. This guy has 0:09:19.320 --> 0:09:22.160 tons of experience, and he took a major step forward. 0:09:22.160 --> 0:09:24.160 He already has a career high in homers this year. 0:09:24.800 --> 0:09:26.120 I don't know how you don't get him up there, 0:09:26.120 --> 0:09:29.040 because there's some there's some viability to this too. Now 0:09:29.040 --> 0:09:30.840 there are some things that you could poke holes in. 0:09:31.080 --> 0:09:33.120 He has no idea that if you take four balls 0:09:33.160 --> 0:09:35.040 that you get a walk. He doesn't even know that 0:09:35.120 --> 0:09:37.320 rule yet. But when you're hitting like this, I'm not 0:09:37.360 --> 0:09:39.760 going to crush you for it. Fifteen percent. Hey rate 0:09:40.080 --> 0:09:41.920 tells me that you don't need to walk. You know 0:09:41.920 --> 0:09:43.520 how to make contact, you know how to go get 0:09:43.520 --> 0:09:46.319 your pitches. So don't you know, sometimes we want to 0:09:46.360 --> 0:09:48.520 force these guys to walk like a Tim Anderson type. 0:09:48.520 --> 0:09:50.920 I remember saying if you could just walk ten percent, 0:09:51.160 --> 0:09:53.600 but you forget about how that would like fundamentally change 0:09:53.640 --> 0:09:55.520 who they are. Would they give up on pitches that 0:09:55.520 --> 0:09:57.520 they could normally hit. So I don't need to change 0:09:57.600 --> 0:10:00.199 Luis Garcia from that standpoint. But he's gonna end the 0:10:00.280 --> 0:10:03.600 year almost assuredly with thirty bombs, right, that's only ten 0:10:03.679 --> 0:10:05.839 more of the rest of the way. You certainly hope 0:10:05.880 --> 0:10:08.679 he's pushing closer to thirty five and the two eighty 0:10:08.720 --> 0:10:12.280 four average show batting average these days is impossible. Wind 0:10:12.320 --> 0:10:14.240 about mine on the sleeper and the bus in the 0:10:14.280 --> 0:10:17.080 main this year, I'd kill for two eighty four. So 0:10:17.280 --> 0:10:19.520 the fact that he brings that average with it, I 0:10:19.559 --> 0:10:22.320 think it will make Luis Garcia Junior a top one hundred, 0:10:22.440 --> 0:10:25.520 barring just a complete collapse a fade like let's say 0:10:25.559 --> 0:10:27.600 he has a one thirty seven ops plus right now, 0:10:27.720 --> 0:10:30.440 Let's say he ends closer to one twenty eight one 0:10:30.440 --> 0:10:33.079 point thirty, so shaves a handful of points off hits 0:10:33.120 --> 0:10:35.079 two eighty and those thirty three homers. 0:10:35.640 --> 0:10:36.400 That's top one hundred. 0:10:36.400 --> 0:10:38.200 Pick I think, especially with this offense, because people are 0:10:38.200 --> 0:10:41.160 gonna be excited about them next year, especially if they 0:10:41.200 --> 0:10:43.199 do something crazy like make a playoff run, which I 0:10:43.240 --> 0:10:45.280 don't think they're going to, but if they somehow snuck in, 0:10:45.520 --> 0:10:47.520 I think that would add to their cachet. 0:10:48.960 --> 0:10:52.160 I mean, yeah, if their bullpen was even somewhat competent, 0:10:52.200 --> 0:10:54.000 and even the rotation. I mean, this really just comes 0:10:54.040 --> 0:10:57.600 down to the pitching. But that walk remark about Garcia 0:10:57.679 --> 0:10:59.120 is one of the funniest things I've heard her say 0:10:59.120 --> 0:11:01.120 on a show in the last couple of years. It's 0:11:01.120 --> 0:11:04.360 actually hilarious too, because he has walked fifteen times this year. 0:11:04.679 --> 0:11:07.400 He's walked one hundred and twenty three times in his career. 0:11:07.480 --> 0:11:10.840 Won twenty three. James Wood James Wood has walked seventy 0:11:10.880 --> 0:11:12.640 nine times this season. 0:11:13.720 --> 0:11:16.160 Barry Bonds has a season with over one hundred and 0:11:16.200 --> 0:11:19.520 twenty three IBB's I believe that one of those mega 0:11:19.600 --> 0:11:22.280 years like that is crazy, but again he makes it 0:11:22.280 --> 0:11:24.760 where Louis Garcia Junior does, so hats off to him 0:11:24.760 --> 0:11:27.400 on that. It is crazy though, how some of these 0:11:27.400 --> 0:11:29.840 guys are just like now, I'm here to swing, and 0:11:29.880 --> 0:11:32.760 you know what, it is definitely working. But who could 0:11:32.760 --> 0:11:35.000 have seen this coming? You know, if you did, I'll 0:11:35.040 --> 0:11:36.839 take your word for it, but send me a note 0:11:36.840 --> 0:11:38.960 on Twitter or something, let me know what you saw, 0:11:39.000 --> 0:11:41.360 because I saw a guy who fell off big from 0:11:41.400 --> 0:11:44.240 twenty four when he hit two eighty two with eighteen 0:11:44.280 --> 0:11:46.200 and twenty two, that was a really nice season. Twenty 0:11:46.240 --> 0:11:48.200 twenty four was, but then he kind of said, I'm 0:11:48.240 --> 0:11:50.760 a little bit of a fluke. Sixteen fourteen was okay, 0:11:51.000 --> 0:11:53.959 but two fifty two on the average and sub two 0:11:54.080 --> 0:11:56.600 ninety OBP had me scared. I was running for the 0:11:56.640 --> 0:11:58.480 hills on Garcia, I got that one wrong. I'll raise 0:11:58.480 --> 0:12:00.280 my hand on that one. But if you were in 0:12:00.360 --> 0:12:03.200 on him preseason, like you didn't just luck into him 0:12:03.280 --> 0:12:05.040 and you saw something, please let me know because I 0:12:05.200 --> 0:12:07.280 would love to know what I missed with him. But 0:12:07.320 --> 0:12:10.160 I'm enjoying watching him and the Nats. I've watched way 0:12:10.160 --> 0:12:13.200 more Nats games this year, pretty much since their heyday 0:12:13.400 --> 0:12:15.920 when they when they had strass and they were competitive. 0:12:16.200 --> 0:12:20.680 I've probably watched twenty games of theirs, which I don't 0:12:20.679 --> 0:12:24.079 think I did in the last three years combined Joe, They're. 0:12:23.920 --> 0:12:29.040 A fun team. I mean, I love Foster Griffin. I was, Yeah, 0:12:29.160 --> 0:12:31.800 the loudest mouth about Kate Cavally was me heading into 0:12:31.800 --> 0:12:33.319 the season, and he's kind of figured it out a 0:12:33.320 --> 0:12:35.640 little bit. But they've been a fun offense. Like this 0:12:35.679 --> 0:12:38.200 team as a unit, I mean, Curtis Mead they figured 0:12:38.200 --> 0:12:40.640 out this year. He bear had that hot run earlier 0:12:40.640 --> 0:12:42.840 this season too. It's been it's been a fun team. 0:12:42.840 --> 0:12:46.199 And Luis Garcia. I was kind of interested in draft season. 0:12:46.200 --> 0:12:48.920 I had him on two fab teams and then looking 0:12:48.960 --> 0:12:51.320 back on it, so through the start of the season 0:12:51.400 --> 0:12:54.160 through May first, he had a sixty seven w RC 0:12:54.320 --> 0:12:57.240 plus he had one homer, two steals, he was hitting 0:12:57.280 --> 0:13:01.080 two forty three. He made games that was three So 0:13:01.160 --> 0:13:02.840 first one hundred and eight played appearances. 0:13:02.960 --> 0:13:05.720 Yeah, this is what makes this game so hard because 0:13:05.720 --> 0:13:07.880 anybody who would have cut him there, I'd have said, hey, 0:13:07.960 --> 0:13:10.480 you gave it a month, like and that's that's all. 0:13:10.679 --> 0:13:12.600 That's all I asked people to do with like their 0:13:12.640 --> 0:13:15.600 breakout picks, give them some time to see where they're at. 0:13:15.720 --> 0:13:17.800 But you can't hold people endlessly. 0:13:18.040 --> 0:13:20.200 And we sign our boys, uh justin and I sign 0:13:20.200 --> 0:13:22.360 our boy Scott Pianowski all the time. When when he 0:13:22.400 --> 0:13:24.600 says if you never make a cut that you regret, 0:13:24.800 --> 0:13:27.280 you're probably being too tight. You're probably keeping guys too 0:13:27.360 --> 0:13:31.680 long and likely sinking with too many ships, he's saying 0:13:31.679 --> 0:13:35.480 that you're being too passive not cut everyone after two weeks. 0:13:35.800 --> 0:13:38.439 But again, you could have waited five six weeks here 0:13:38.480 --> 0:13:41.280 with Louis Garcia and it didn't really get going even 0:13:41.360 --> 0:13:44.680 until about the first ten twelve days into May when 0:13:44.679 --> 0:13:46.719 you had a two homer game on May twelfth. So 0:13:47.080 --> 0:13:50.160 that's another thing too, is that Louis Garcia's probably not 0:13:50.240 --> 0:13:52.760 on most of the teams that drafted him, especially in 0:13:52.800 --> 0:13:54.000 your tens and twelves. 0:13:54.840 --> 0:13:57.960 Yeah, since May first, it's a nine to eighty two ops. 0:13:58.000 --> 0:14:01.720 It's a one to sixty four wrc lous nineteen homers. 0:14:02.440 --> 0:14:05.800 I mean, like just unbelievable production and completely agree with 0:14:05.840 --> 0:14:07.840 the piano man, one of our favorites here. You're gonna 0:14:07.840 --> 0:14:09.000 have to try and get him on. Although now that 0:14:09.000 --> 0:14:11.160 it's football season, I've I've probably missed my window. 0:14:11.200 --> 0:14:11.280 Bo. 0:14:11.520 --> 0:14:14.280 You'll see we could be focused. He could be focused 0:14:14.280 --> 0:14:15.240 on the old hand egg. 0:14:16.240 --> 0:14:18.400 You will see him at that at some point here 0:14:18.440 --> 0:14:20.320 on the channel in the future. But before we keep 0:14:20.320 --> 0:14:22.720 it going today, one to remind he gives about my playbook. 0:14:22.720 --> 0:14:25.320 With my playbook, you'll instantly identify the best pickups available 0:14:25.320 --> 0:14:27.880 in your league when every trade with our trade analyzer, 0:14:27.880 --> 0:14:30.200 and see the most optimal lineup every day based on 0:14:30.200 --> 0:14:32.680 our projections and your specific scoring settings. You can sink 0:14:32.720 --> 0:14:35.760 your league at fantasypros dot com slash MLB my playbook, 0:14:35.920 --> 0:14:38.600 or download the Fantasy Pros app for personalized expert advice. 0:14:38.720 --> 0:14:40.160 If you're looking to get a little sneak peak a 0:14:40.160 --> 0:14:43.440 couple of days free, it's fantasypros dot com slash free 0:14:43.440 --> 0:14:46.240 for our premium tools. On the site. Let's keep it 0:14:46.320 --> 0:14:49.160 going here spor really fun conversation. I do love this. 0:14:49.240 --> 0:14:51.880 I know it's not the most practical for people today, 0:14:51.960 --> 0:14:54.400 but I think it's a really fun conversation to look 0:14:54.440 --> 0:14:57.240 forward and see something yapping guys next sek just get 0:14:57.240 --> 0:14:58.720 the bit, see. 0:14:58.560 --> 0:14:59.120 All start break. 0:14:59.120 --> 0:15:00.560 I know there's one game time, which, by the way, 0:15:00.640 --> 0:15:03.360 is pretty unfair to the Phillies and Mets. I never 0:15:03.480 --> 0:15:05.440 liked for a couple of years they did it where 0:15:05.520 --> 0:15:07.960 everyone had Thursday off. It's not the end of the world. 0:15:08.000 --> 0:15:09.680 I know they're paid hands. I mean, I'm not saying 0:15:09.720 --> 0:15:12.880 feel bad for the players. There's a little unfair that 0:15:13.040 --> 0:15:15.280 two teams have to play when everyone else gets another 0:15:15.360 --> 0:15:17.360 day off. I don't know about all that, but anyway, 0:15:17.520 --> 0:15:19.120 we're still on break here, so I agree with you. 0:15:19.160 --> 0:15:21.840 It's not super practical for your fantasy purposes right now, 0:15:21.920 --> 0:15:23.240 but we're having fun this week. 0:15:24.000 --> 0:15:26.840 People demand baseball, and God gives them the Mets, so 0:15:26.920 --> 0:15:28.920 that's what you get, folks. And they just said that 0:15:29.000 --> 0:15:30.800 opening day next year is going to be March twenty 0:15:30.800 --> 0:15:34.080 fourth or something, so it's like we're starting early. It's 0:15:34.080 --> 0:15:37.040 the earliest and major League history, so oh my're not. 0:15:37.640 --> 0:15:39.360 So if you're like in the World Series next year, 0:15:39.400 --> 0:15:41.240 you're gonna have the shortest amount of time that you've 0:15:41.240 --> 0:15:43.520 ever had. So they're just kind of really caring about 0:15:43.520 --> 0:15:44.600 the breaks that guys are getting. 0:15:44.640 --> 0:15:48.800 It seems well, but that assumes we start on time. 0:15:49.560 --> 0:15:50.280 This does assume. 0:15:50.640 --> 0:15:53.080 I hate to say that, but you gotta be practical. 0:15:53.760 --> 0:15:56.920 Keep our fingers crossed. I hope we will. Let's talk 0:15:56.920 --> 0:15:58.600 about some catchers and we'll go to your neck of 0:15:58.640 --> 0:16:01.640 the woods here for one of them. Catchers have been 0:16:01.720 --> 0:16:03.560 unbelieve and it's been talked about a lot this season, 0:16:03.560 --> 0:16:07.160 but there's seven twenty dollar catchers. There's twelve catchers who 0:16:07.160 --> 0:16:11.320 are at least ten dollars. It's been unbelievable. Hunter Goodman 0:16:11.440 --> 0:16:12.960 is the name that we're gonna start with here, and 0:16:13.040 --> 0:16:15.960 Dylan Dingler, the two of them. I am really curious 0:16:16.000 --> 0:16:17.800 to wonder where they go next year because I think 0:16:17.840 --> 0:16:19.560 Ben Rice is going to be super expensive and he's 0:16:19.600 --> 0:16:23.160 been great. Liam Hicks probably won't be super expensive, just 0:16:23.200 --> 0:16:28.360 because this is his first time doing it. Langeliers, Contrerez, Herrera, Baldwin, 0:16:28.360 --> 0:16:30.200 They're all gonna be expensive, but they were already kind 0:16:30.200 --> 0:16:34.120 of expensive. Goodman was in that same realm of kind 0:16:34.160 --> 0:16:37.600 of expensive. But he's also just surpassed expectations for me 0:16:37.720 --> 0:16:40.760 this season. Twenty seven homers already, he had thirty one 0:16:40.880 --> 0:16:44.040 all of last year, fifty nine runs scored, he only 0:16:44.080 --> 0:16:46.120 had seventy three all of last year. And he's able 0:16:46.120 --> 0:16:47.920 to hit for a good batting average behind the dish, 0:16:47.920 --> 0:16:50.440 which is pretty rare. And then your boy Dylan Dingler, 0:16:50.680 --> 0:16:55.000 a twenty six dollars catcher, nineteen homers, sixty RBI. He's 0:16:55.000 --> 0:16:58.360 already a four win player in eighty seven games this year, 0:16:58.360 --> 0:17:01.520 looking like a super day in real life perspective. So 0:17:01.760 --> 0:17:03.520 what are we thinking? I guess we could take it 0:17:03.560 --> 0:17:06.000 from a more macro level too. It catchers in general, 0:17:06.160 --> 0:17:08.399 what's gonna happen with their prices? But Goodman and Dingler, 0:17:08.440 --> 0:17:10.200 I'm particularly interested to hear your thoughts here. 0:17:10.680 --> 0:17:12.760 I really think Goodman is going to jump up. He 0:17:12.840 --> 0:17:15.240 was seventy two in the main. I think he's gonna 0:17:15.280 --> 0:17:18.119 jump up into this year's Shae Langelier's territory, which was 0:17:18.160 --> 0:17:20.800 like picks forty to fifty range. I think that's gonna 0:17:20.800 --> 0:17:22.640 be where he's at. He's not gonna be the number 0:17:22.640 --> 0:17:24.840