WEBVTT - The 2023 All-Sleeper Team (Ep. 626) 0:00:00.320 --> 0:00:04.040 Wake up, it's sleeper time. Let's talk to the pros. 0:00:04.760 --> 0:00:07.280 Welcome in everybody to Fantasy pros. This is the Fantasy 0:00:07.320 --> 0:00:10.119 Baseball Podcast, and this is me be Joey b Jopi's And 0:00:10.240 --> 0:00:13.440 today we're continuing our onslaught of all teams. 0:00:13.480 --> 0:00:13.960 That's right. 0:00:14.240 --> 0:00:17.080 We had our all Breakout team yesterday with Erl Cone. 0:00:17.200 --> 0:00:19.200 Then we had our All Bus team which was very 0:00:19.200 --> 0:00:22.200 depressing with Jason Collette. But today we've got one of 0:00:22.239 --> 0:00:25.200 the greats, a legitimate journalist with us, the one, the only, 0:00:25.239 --> 0:00:28.080 Steve Gardner from USA today to help us do the 0:00:28.240 --> 0:00:32.680 all Sleeper team. And Steve Gardner, you and I mean legitimate, 0:00:32.800 --> 0:00:34.480 like you vote for the Hall of Fame. It's been 0:00:34.920 --> 0:00:37.240 year three of you doing that. I feel like when 0:00:37.280 --> 0:00:39.639 you got that ability, it was like something for all 0:00:39.680 --> 0:00:41.519 of us all of a sudden, we can vicariously live 0:00:41.600 --> 0:00:42.440 through you after. 0:00:42.240 --> 0:00:43.000 All these years. 0:00:43.080 --> 0:00:45.239 So I want to know who made your ballot for 0:00:45.479 --> 0:00:48.040 twenty twenty two slash twenty three. 0:00:48.080 --> 0:00:49.519 Who was on there? Who'd you vote for? 0:00:49.920 --> 0:00:53.200 Well? I liked I'm a big Hall guy. I didn't 0:00:53.200 --> 0:00:55.480 think I was going to be until I actually had 0:00:55.480 --> 0:00:58.680 the vote and the ballot in my hand. But I 0:00:58.840 --> 0:01:01.920 voted for nine ten This year, I voted for seven. 0:01:01.960 --> 0:01:06.320 I believe Scott Roland for one. Congratulations to him. Uh 0:01:06.480 --> 0:01:09.480 Todd Helton might make it in this next year. I 0:01:09.600 --> 0:01:13.600 voted for him, voted for Billy Wagner, voted for Andrew Jones, 0:01:14.120 --> 0:01:18.280 Gary Sheffield, Carlos Beltron first year on the ballot, and 0:01:19.000 --> 0:01:23.680 also Jimmy Rollins. So those were my guys, and I 0:01:23.720 --> 0:01:28.080 felt pretty good about it. Not not going to get 0:01:28.120 --> 0:01:32.080 into the mix with Alex Rodriguez and Manny Ramirez, those 0:01:32.120 --> 0:01:36.840 guys just because they they failed their drug test. And 0:01:37.480 --> 0:01:39.560 if you do that, you know now that Major League 0:01:39.600 --> 0:01:42.679 Baseball has been testing for that for a long long time. 0:01:43.520 --> 0:01:47.039 That's that's kind of a disqualifier for me. And so 0:01:47.120 --> 0:01:49.320 that's that's kind of how my mindset. 0:01:48.920 --> 0:01:53.120 Was, and and that is absolutely fair. Welsh knows. I 0:01:53.160 --> 0:01:55.040 can't get enough with the steroid era of baseball. I 0:01:55.080 --> 0:01:57.680 wanted all day long. I want those guys all back. 0:01:57.720 --> 0:02:01.040 Everybody, just monitor everybody, just you know, grandma falls down, 0:02:01.040 --> 0:02:02.280 breaks or hip they give us steroids. 0:02:02.280 --> 0:02:03.040 You know, I'm just saying. 0:02:03.400 --> 0:02:07.320 Maybe too, I think that's a I would say that. 0:02:07.760 --> 0:02:10.679 I do think you I'm getting part of it. 0:02:10.800 --> 0:02:13.079 But I think that's one of the problems with baseball though, 0:02:13.240 --> 0:02:16.520 is like Steve, you can have that opinion, and I 0:02:16.520 --> 0:02:18.600 think a lot of people share that, but then there's 0:02:18.680 --> 0:02:22.280 literally the exact opposite opinions, and I think having that 0:02:22.400 --> 0:02:25.120 big of a gap and that Baseball can't step in 0:02:25.320 --> 0:02:28.160 and figure out and just be like, hey, you need 0:02:28.960 --> 0:02:32.799 you can't consider this or you like, I think this 0:02:32.880 --> 0:02:35.520 is what makes this whole thing messy because there are 0:02:35.600 --> 0:02:39.280 because I don't personally agree, I go on, the stats 0:02:39.280 --> 0:02:40.840 are going, the players there might have been cheating. There 0:02:40.919 --> 0:02:43.079 was cheating in the seventies in different ways and stuff 0:02:43.080 --> 0:02:45.640 like that. So to me, it's a non factor. But 0:02:45.840 --> 0:02:48.320 like that baseball doesn't come in and step in and 0:02:48.360 --> 0:02:48.760 try to. 0:02:48.720 --> 0:02:49.600 Get this fixed. 0:02:50.040 --> 0:02:53.680 It kind of stinks because then you know you're everyone's 0:02:53.680 --> 0:02:55.560 put in a weird situation. Like see, if you're putting 0:02:55.560 --> 0:02:57.840 a weird situation, especially if someone wants to do like 0:02:57.840 --> 0:02:59.480 a gotcha with the steroid guys. 0:02:59.320 --> 0:03:00.520 You just have the perfec argument. 0:03:00.560 --> 0:03:03.360 But it's like you and the next Hall of Fame 0:03:04.240 --> 0:03:08.160 writer who's voting could have completely different ideological reasons. 0:03:07.919 --> 0:03:09.280 But push it off to the piers. 0:03:09.320 --> 0:03:12.040 Now, like I think that's it, right, You're sort of 0:03:12.040 --> 0:03:14.520 you're you're allowing now the players that they played with 0:03:15.160 --> 0:03:17.960 to vote them in, and I think that is a. 0:03:17.919 --> 0:03:19.280 Perfectly good way of doing it. 0:03:19.320 --> 0:03:21.560 Also, I mean, I don't think we're gonna get this 0:03:21.600 --> 0:03:23.000 deep into the Hall of face up, but I love 0:03:23.040 --> 0:03:24.160 I can talk about this all the time. 0:03:25.000 --> 0:03:27.560 It's the players of their era, you know. 0:03:28.840 --> 0:03:32.440 Before the testing, you know, Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens. I'm 0:03:32.440 --> 0:03:35.520 perfectly fine with those guys and was perfectly fine until 0:03:35.520 --> 0:03:37.520 they dropped off the ballot. It's just that once major 0:03:37.600 --> 0:03:40.480 League Baseball finally took a stand, you know, and Bud 0:03:40.480 --> 0:03:44.560 Selig wasn't just saying go ahead, I don't see anything. 0:03:44.640 --> 0:03:47.120 We're making lots of money, you know, once you have 0:03:47.240 --> 0:03:50.160 the testing and people test positive. That to me is 0:03:50.160 --> 0:03:53.240 the difference between the Manny Ramirez and the A Rods 0:03:53.520 --> 0:03:55.240 versus the bonds Is and the Clemenses. 0:03:55.480 --> 0:03:58.080 Thank goodness, Steve Gardner voice of reason. 0:03:59.240 --> 0:04:01.360 Too, because I don't think I knew that, Steve, that 0:04:01.360 --> 0:04:04.160 that's what your stance was on those guys, because you 0:04:04.200 --> 0:04:06.880 just I think it's really important that you differentiated those 0:04:06.880 --> 0:04:09.440 two because I kind of assumed you were clumping all 0:04:09.440 --> 0:04:11.600 of that in together makes a lot of sense, makes 0:04:11.640 --> 0:04:12.720 a lot of sense to what you're saying. 0:04:13.520 --> 0:04:16.000 I don't have a line somewhere, and that's where I 0:04:16.040 --> 0:04:19.839 particularly choose to draw it, and at least that way, 0:04:20.000 --> 0:04:22.839 I try and stay consistent, and that that's what you 0:04:22.839 --> 0:04:25.839 want if you're, you know, listening to people's arguments as 0:04:25.839 --> 0:04:27.680 long as they don't you know, go all over the 0:04:27.720 --> 0:04:30.480 place and say it's it's good this way and bad 0:04:30.520 --> 0:04:33.359 that way. You just have to have some consistency. And 0:04:33.360 --> 0:04:34.560 that's what I try and do now. 0:04:34.600 --> 0:04:35.920 I don't know if any of the names we're gonna 0:04:35.920 --> 0:04:37.760 talk about today are going to end up on the 0:04:37.800 --> 0:04:40.719 ballot for the Hall of Fame voted by Steve Gardner, 0:04:40.760 --> 0:04:42.159 but we're gonna get to some of these names because 0:04:42.160 --> 0:04:44.000 they should be on some of your draft lists. So 0:04:44.200 --> 0:04:46.159 let's start here with the All Sleeper Team. These are 0:04:46.200 --> 0:04:49.479 the again, sleepers are a notion that gets overdone, overwrought, 0:04:49.839 --> 0:04:54.160 but really players that are undervalued, underrated, maybe underappreciated, and 0:04:54.200 --> 0:04:55.800 that's what give some love here. 0:04:55.920 --> 0:04:58.440 I do want to tell you I struggled with this 0:04:58.480 --> 0:05:01.160 one because we just didn't all breakout team, and I'm 0:05:01.279 --> 0:05:04.400 not gonna lie to you guys that the all Breakout, 0:05:04.520 --> 0:05:08.200 the all Sleeper kind of live in a similar They 0:05:08.720 --> 0:05:10.960 live in a similar building. They might be on different floors, 0:05:10.960 --> 0:05:13.640 but they're in a similar building. So like, I had 0:05:13.680 --> 0:05:16.040 to work a little bit harder to not throw all 0:05:16.040 --> 0:05:17.880 the names that you guys expect. I think I did 0:05:17.920 --> 0:05:19.599 throw one that I just can't help but put on 0:05:19.640 --> 0:05:22.359 here because I think they qualify it both, but they. 0:05:22.279 --> 0:05:22.960 Kind of do. 0:05:23.560 --> 0:05:25.240 I even did this, by the way, and we've talked 0:05:25.240 --> 0:05:27.039 to this with a jillion times, I was like, what 0:05:27.200 --> 0:05:29.320 is the definition that the Internet. 0:05:28.920 --> 0:05:29.679 Says of sleeper? 0:05:29.680 --> 0:05:32.440 Because I think there's four hundred different ways killed sleepers. 0:05:32.600 --> 0:05:34.599 Because that's the problem is everybody talks about them so 0:05:34.680 --> 0:05:38.080 much that they end up becoming inflated almost and then 0:05:38.120 --> 0:05:41.040 they have to return too much of whatever that perspective 0:05:41.120 --> 0:05:43.599 value is and that becomes the trouble here. But I 0:05:43.600 --> 0:05:45.360 think this list of you guys put together is really good. 0:05:45.400 --> 0:05:47.440 So let's start with the catcher here, Welsh, why don't 0:05:47.440 --> 0:05:48.960 you kick things off with yours, which is actually a 0:05:48.960 --> 0:05:52.279 player we talked about with Frank Stample, we talked about 0:05:52.320 --> 0:05:54.520 with Aeron Con a catcher who made this team for you, 0:05:54.960 --> 0:05:55.719 Logan o'hapi. 0:05:56.279 --> 0:05:59.000 Yeah, and I think again, I don't know which one. 0:05:59.040 --> 0:06:00.920 You guys would all kind of fine, what's better the 0:06:01.000 --> 0:06:03.000 all sleeper, they all breakout team. I think he kind 0:06:03.000 --> 0:06:06.120 of fits into both. Logano Hopy, I completely agreed with 0:06:06.160 --> 0:06:08.480 it when it was brought up almost his entire minor 0:06:08.560 --> 0:06:11.160 league career. It's a sub twenty percent K percentage, good 0:06:11.240 --> 0:06:15.279 walk percentage, good batting average, has really big power. I 0:06:15.320 --> 0:06:18.080 personally love the guy. It's a unique little fact about him. 0:06:18.320 --> 0:06:20.440 He loves to talk to fans. He did this in 0:06:20.440 --> 0:06:22.680 the AFL. He would walk up, he would stand right 0:06:22.680 --> 0:06:24.520 by the nets. He would turn around, and he would 0:06:24.560 --> 0:06:27.320 start talking to people. And one time there were these 0:06:27.320 --> 0:06:29.040 two guys I'm not gonna go along about this. They 0:06:29.040 --> 0:06:30.920 were talking about Bryson Stott and they were like, ooh, 0:06:30.960 --> 0:06:32.960 did you know the Bryson Stott is blah blah blah 0:06:33.000 --> 0:06:36.120 this in Baseball America's ranks, And Logano Hoppy turned around 0:06:36.160 --> 0:06:38.440 to these gentlemen just sitting there in the stands watching 0:06:38.440 --> 0:06:40.719 this game, and he goes, that's too low, and Logo 0:06:40.720 --> 0:06:42.600 Hoppy's like, that's too low for Bryson Stott, And I 0:06:42.839 --> 0:06:44.040 just I always got a kick out of that is 0:06:44.080 --> 0:06:46.520 my weird anecdotal thing with o'hapi. But like in his 0:06:46.560 --> 0:06:48.719 own right, he was such a talented and is such 0:06:48.720 --> 0:06:52.520 a talented player. He hit fifteen homers with the Phillies 0:06:52.520 --> 0:06:55.040 in double A last year and eleven with the Angels. 0:06:55.040 --> 0:06:55.840 There's big power. 0:06:55.880 --> 0:06:59.280 It's being undersold by projections. I personally believe the low 0:06:59.360 --> 0:07:02.080 k rate gives him a really good low baseline, and 0:07:02.120 --> 0:07:05.000 he's essentially almost had a two hundred ice so it's 0:07:05.000 --> 0:07:07.960 probably around one ninety his entire career that that really 0:07:07.960 --> 0:07:10.320 can equate to twenty plus homer and power if he 0:07:10.360 --> 0:07:12.880 can take over the gig from Max Stassy. I think 0:07:12.960 --> 0:07:15.360 he's a massive sleeper. He goes outside of like the 0:07:15.400 --> 0:07:17.600 top twenty in catchers. He's a no brainer in two 0:07:17.600 --> 0:07:19.720 catcher leagues, and if you fall flat kind of in 0:07:19.720 --> 0:07:22.360 a fifteen team, I would try to pick him up 0:07:22.400 --> 0:07:23.800 and see if he can take a majority of the 0:07:23.840 --> 0:07:26.560 gig because he's got twenty plus homer and power in him. 0:07:26.720 --> 0:07:27.120 Easy. 0:07:27.560 --> 0:07:30.000 Now, Steve, you got a veteran on your list, which 0:07:30.040 --> 0:07:32.680 is great because I love that because to me, sleepers 0:07:32.680 --> 0:07:34.920 are not always just the young players. The improven player. 0:07:35.000 --> 0:07:37.960 Sometimes it's undervalued veterans, and yours is Yasmani Grandal. 0:07:38.800 --> 0:07:43.680 Yeah, I liked him for several years just because of 0:07:43.760 --> 0:07:47.000 the plate patients and the ability to hit for power, 0:07:47.160 --> 0:07:49.640 and he had none of that really last year. It 0:07:49.680 --> 0:07:52.840 was just a lost season for him, injuries to the back, 0:07:53.000 --> 0:07:56.920 the knee, everything. But from all indications he's healthy this spring. 0:07:57.320 --> 0:08:00.680 And the White Sox had injury up and down the 0:08:00.760 --> 0:08:03.280 roster last year, so it was kind of a lost season. 0:08:03.600 --> 0:08:09.520 You know, there was the Tony LaRussa experiment, experience, whatever 0:08:09.560 --> 0:08:11.640 you want to call it. It wasn't great for the 0:08:11.680 --> 0:08:15.080 White Sox, so I think everybody suffered there. And you 0:08:15.120 --> 0:08:17.880 look at Grundal, He's got a track record for power, 0:08:17.920 --> 0:08:23.120 had four consecutive twenty plus homer seasons from twenty sixteen 0:08:23.160 --> 0:08:26.680 to twenty nineteen, and then hit twenty three of them 0:08:27.040 --> 0:08:30.520 in twenty twenty one. So he's still got the power 0:08:31.480 --> 0:08:34.520 and if he's healthy, a this is a solid White 0:08:34.559 --> 0:08:37.559 Sox lineup, and I think he's getting overlooked outside of 0:08:37.600 --> 0:08:40.760 the top two hundred for sure, and I think he's 0:08:40.800 --> 0:08:43.560 somebody that you could definitely get late and be very 0:08:43.600 --> 0:08:44.000 happy with. 0:08:44.520 --> 0:08:46.560 I'm fascinating to see what that White Sox lineup is 0:08:46.559 --> 0:08:49.040 when it's healthy, and now that Tony L. Russ is 0:08:49.080 --> 0:08:50.959 not in the dugout, I kind of want to see 0:08:51.000 --> 0:08:51.960 the combination. 0:08:51.640 --> 0:08:53.559 Of that and see what this team comes. 0:08:53.960 --> 0:08:56.640 Yeah, yeah, all right, let's get to the first basement here, Welsh, 0:08:56.679 --> 0:08:57.440 want you kick things off. 0:08:57.440 --> 0:09:00.680 Who made your first base list for the sleeper team 0:09:00.679 --> 0:09:01.319 of twenty. 0:09:01.040 --> 0:09:02.240 Three qualifies that? 0:09:02.320 --> 0:09:04.880 Think it multiple of the breakout or sleeper conversation, but 0:09:05.000 --> 0:09:06.560 I'm going to do it, especially when you look at 0:09:06.600 --> 0:09:09.599 ADP here it is Miguel Vargas, and we've talked a 0:09:09.679 --> 0:09:12.560 ton about him. This is in that rookie camp. Miguel 0:09:12.640 --> 0:09:16.319 Vargas shows up at first base as the twenty ninth 0:09:16.360 --> 0:09:19.800 first baseman, still with an overall ADP outside the top 0:09:19.800 --> 0:09:21.800 two hundred, the only place I think a CBS where 0:09:21.800 --> 0:09:24.280 he's inside the top one hundred. Also, I don't think 0:09:24.320 --> 0:09:26.040 i've seen this across where we've talked a lot about 0:09:26.080 --> 0:09:27.599 like projections and stuff. 0:09:27.400 --> 0:09:29.440 That there's the bat and the bat X. 0:09:29.440 --> 0:09:31.520 By Derek Cardy and the BATEX I think has a 0:09:31.520 --> 0:09:35.480 few more ballpark factors. Miguel Vargas breaks his system because 0:09:35.520 --> 0:09:39.000 in the bat the normal bat, he's projected twenty homers 0:09:39.200 --> 0:09:42.079 with ten stolen bases. The bat X is thirteen homer, 0:09:42.200 --> 0:09:45.000 six stolen bases with a really really high batting average, 0:09:45.000 --> 0:09:47.439 low strikeouts. Again, I love playing that, and he's a 0:09:47.480 --> 0:09:49.120 cheat code because he's qualify at second base. 0:09:49.160 --> 0:09:50.480 He's gonna have that gig all year. 0:09:50.720 --> 0:09:53.280 Miguel Vargas had that little I think it was a 0:09:53.280 --> 0:09:55.760 hairline fracture in his wrist or his finger, and he 0:09:55.800 --> 0:09:58.280 hasn't been swinging and he's still getting walked like. He's 0:09:58.320 --> 0:10:01.240 just such a unique individual, who's gonna steal, who's going 0:10:01.280 --> 0:10:03.880 to hit homers. He might not be your traditional first basement, 0:10:03.880 --> 0:10:06.040 but how often can you get double digit stolen bases 0:10:06.080 --> 0:10:08.680 out of a first baseman who will also quite qualified 0:10:08.720 --> 0:10:10.199 a position you're going to move him out. So if 0:10:10.200 --> 0:10:12.960 you want to talk about sleepers, getting a guy for 0:10:13.120 --> 0:10:16.560 a high powered offense, I'll have multi position eligibility and 0:10:16.840 --> 0:10:20.120 is a really really high floor prospect. Getting him outside 0:10:20.120 --> 0:10:23.560 the top two hundred is big time sleeper team stuff. 0:10:23.840 --> 0:10:26.520 So I'm gonna pick micgal Vargas as my first basement here. 0:10:26.880 --> 0:10:29.320 All right over to you, your first basement for twenty 0:10:29.360 --> 0:10:31.720 twenty three. All sleeper team is who's Steve. 0:10:31.840 --> 0:10:37.240 Well, it's Brandon Belt, another old veteran and another injury 0:10:37.320 --> 0:10:42.240 problem from last year. But I like the situation. Everything 0:10:42.360 --> 0:10:44.840 seems to be lining up well for him going from 0:10:44.920 --> 0:10:49.120 San Francisco to Toronto. Number One, Apparently the knee is fine. 0:10:49.840 --> 0:10:52.280 They're still trying to bring him along kind of slowly 0:10:52.320 --> 0:10:56.640 this spring, but you know, all indications are he feels fine, 0:10:57.080 --> 0:10:59.720 and you know, coming off a lost season last year, 0:11:00.200 --> 0:11:03.000 twenty nine home runs two years ago, you know in 0:11:03.040 --> 0:11:06.240 San Francisco. Now he comes to Toronto, where they brought 0:11:06.280 --> 0:11:09.880 the fences in, especially for left handed power, it's going 0:11:09.960 --> 0:11:12.880 to be wonderful. It's going to be enticing for him, 0:11:13.080 --> 0:11:14.840 and the fact that he's going to be able to 0:11:14.920 --> 0:11:19.400 DH and do that against primarily right handed pitching. So 0:11:19.760 --> 0:11:24.480 you know, he's got a barrel rates and up with 0:11:24.520 --> 0:11:28.680 the top players in the major leagues. I think ninety 0:11:28.720 --> 0:11:32.400 fourth percentile barrel rate in twenty twenty one, ninety six 0:11:32.520 --> 0:11:37.000 percentile last year. Despite the injuries. He knows how to 0:11:37.080 --> 0:11:40.880 hit it, and I think in Toronto that's a great 0:11:40.920 --> 0:11:43.440 place for Brandon Belt to land. So even though he's 0:11:44.160 --> 0:11:47.199 thirty four something like that. I think he's got a 0:11:47.200 --> 0:11:49.920 shot at possibly even hitting thirty homers this year. 0:11:50.360 --> 0:11:51.880 Brandon Belt's a fascinating case. 0:11:52.040 --> 0:11:55.080 I always wonder if he had stayed healthy and not 0:11:55.160 --> 0:11:57.720 played in that ballpark for his career, what Brandon Belt 0:11:57.760 --> 0:11:59.520 might have been because in the minor leagues, this was 0:11:59.520 --> 0:12:01.920 a guy who you know, that rare elite three four 0:12:02.080 --> 0:12:04.520 five slash where three hundred and four hundred OVP five 0:12:04.600 --> 0:12:06.240 hundred slugging. You know, when you see that in a player, 0:12:06.320 --> 0:12:09.080 that usually a special indicator. And most of the players 0:12:09.080 --> 0:12:10.640 that have that in the minor leagues they tend to 0:12:10.640 --> 0:12:12.280 become really good players in the major leagues. And you 0:12:12.280 --> 0:12:14.440 look back at what Brandon Belt was doing back then 0:12:14.480 --> 0:12:15.440 and what he could have been. 0:12:15.360 --> 0:12:18.040 And some of those classic what if stories. 0:12:18.040 --> 0:12:20.559 But you're right in Toronto, perhaps a player that's being 0:12:20.880 --> 0:12:24.679 grossly underappreciated, undervalue too and in deeper leagues should pay 0:12:24.679 --> 0:12:27.000 attention to, especially with corner being so tough this year. 0:12:27.040 --> 0:12:29.520 I mean, corner is a yeah, you get it's very 0:12:29.559 --> 0:12:32.600 top heavy at first and third. That's all you can 0:12:32.640 --> 0:12:34.400 say about it. All right, let's continue all of the 0:12:34.400 --> 0:12:36.520 infield here. Let's go to second base. Welsh, you are up, 0:12:36.640 --> 0:12:39.840 who is on the second base side for you? In 0:12:39.880 --> 0:12:40.959 the all sleeper realm? 0:12:41.679 --> 0:12:43.959 I went deeper than I think I've probably gone. I 0:12:43.960 --> 0:12:45.840 guess on these last couple of names, this is a 0:12:45.840 --> 0:12:48.679 guy that I find myself drafting really at every single 0:12:48.679 --> 0:12:51.760 spot that I possibly can in deeper leagues. If I 0:12:51.800 --> 0:12:54.520 miss out on second base, middle, infield, he's a target. 0:12:54.559 --> 0:12:57.840 And it's Colton Wong with the Seattle Mariners fifteen and seventeen. 0:12:57.960 --> 0:13:01.160 Quietly last year with Milwaukee while hit two fifty one 0:13:01.520 --> 0:13:04.480 projection see double digits on both sides again, does not 0:13:04.520 --> 0:13:06.800 strike out a whole bunch is another thing you can consider. 0:13:07.080 --> 0:13:10.319 Hitting theoretically at the top of a Seattle lineup, I 0:13:10.320 --> 0:13:12.400 think really works in his favor. And I think the 0:13:12.480 --> 0:13:14.840 run totals could come up. I don't think the RBIs 0:13:14.840 --> 0:13:16.400 will come up. I think he could run a little 0:13:16.400 --> 0:13:19.400 bit more. We talk about, you know where will all 0:13:19.440 --> 0:13:23.679 these new found stolen bases come from? Top middle bottom? 0:13:23.720 --> 0:13:25.599 I think those middle guys really stand out to me 0:13:25.640 --> 0:13:27.520 as players that could move into a next level of 0:13:27.559 --> 0:13:30.360 stolen bases. Would not be shocked if Colton Wong dropped 0:13:30.360 --> 0:13:32.800 into twenty And if you've got fifteen to twenty. 0:13:32.440 --> 0:13:33.000 Out of him. 0:13:33.320 --> 0:13:35.720 Even if you got even if you've got fifteen fifteen 0:13:35.840 --> 0:13:38.839 or ten to fifteen, either of all of those will 0:13:38.960 --> 0:13:41.680 break the adp that he is coming at. Where it's 0:13:41.720 --> 0:13:43.599 in like the two fifties. 0:13:43.120 --> 0:13:45.520 Just a twice two second base line on Fantasy Pros. 0:13:45.559 --> 0:13:47.280 And if you want to see that again fantasypros dot 0:13:47.320 --> 0:13:50.160 Com slash rankings, you could see the rankings there for 0:13:50.200 --> 0:13:52.680 the MLB and two forty nine. I agree with you 0:13:52.720 --> 0:13:55.000 in those rural formats where you're looking with the spots 0:13:55.000 --> 0:13:57.240 for corner guys, I mean a middle infielders, why not. 0:13:57.720 --> 0:14:00.360 Twenty eight second basement. When you look at the get 0:14:00.400 --> 0:14:01.959 on Fantasy Pros here, and. 0:14:01.920 --> 0:14:03.560 If he hits at the top of that order, Welsh, 0:14:03.600 --> 0:14:04.320 that's the big key. 0:14:04.440 --> 0:14:05.280 That's a game changer. 0:14:05.320 --> 0:14:07.120 That's the game changer with Coulton long Oh, and again 0:14:07.160 --> 0:14:08.960 doesn't strike out a whole bunch, he can walk, makes 0:14:09.040 --> 0:14:11.760 pretty solid contact, and you're in the spot here where 0:14:11.800 --> 0:14:14.360 this team likes to run. They're gonna other than not 0:14:14.440 --> 0:14:16.280 quite the powerhouse, and maybe some of these other teams are. 0:14:16.360 --> 0:14:18.480 I think there's a little bit of manufacturing that happens 0:14:18.520 --> 0:14:21.960 in general. But what if Kelnick is rocking, Julio keeps going, 0:14:22.240 --> 0:14:24.400 and you've got Colton Wong near that top of the lineup. 0:14:24.440 --> 0:14:27.000 It's a recipe for a huge sleeper at the middle 0:14:27.080 --> 0:14:29.080 endfield at a position that not everybody likes. 0:14:29.080 --> 0:14:31.480 At second pace, and when you're practicing all those mock 0:14:31.560 --> 0:14:34.280 drafts over the draft Wizard at Fantasy Pros, I mean, 0:14:34.320 --> 0:14:35.840 this is a great opportunity for you to go and 0:14:35.840 --> 0:14:37.200 look for some of these guys too and see who 0:14:37.240 --> 0:14:38.120 the ADPs. 0:14:37.720 --> 0:14:39.320 Are, especially if in those deeper leagues. 0:14:39.360 --> 0:14:41.200 I mean to me, that's why it's such a great tool, 0:14:41.240 --> 0:14:42.720 because you could really start to find some of these 0:14:42.720 --> 0:14:45.240 guys where they're buried in ADP. 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Apps are great. 0:15:02.760 --> 0:15:06.520 It's an app for everything except for you know, for 0:15:06.680 --> 0:15:08.120 what isn't there an app for at this point? 0:15:08.160 --> 0:15:10.520 Welsh At this point, I mean there's apps. 0:15:10.600 --> 0:15:11.040 That's one. 0:15:11.080 --> 0:15:12.640 Appetizers, that's what weird. 0:15:13.200 --> 0:15:16.480 There you go, well the sleep, there you go. All right, 0:15:16.560 --> 0:15:18.320 So let's uh, it's continue on here. Let's get you 0:15:18.320 --> 0:15:20.920 a second basement here for your team? Who is it, 0:15:21.680 --> 0:15:22.360 Steve Gardner? 0:15:22.760 --> 0:15:27.480 I'm going with Tyro Estrada again. You know, Uh, wels 0:15:27.560 --> 0:15:30.200 Go's a little bit deeper. I'm a little shallower this 0:15:30.320 --> 0:15:32.800 time and a little younger than my other two's. Uh 0:15:32.960 --> 0:15:35.520 that I that I've picked so far. He's entering age 0:15:35.560 --> 0:15:40.000 twenty seven season, and I don't think he's getting anywhere 0:15:40.040 --> 0:15:42.120 near the love that he should have. I'll tell you 0:15:42.200 --> 0:15:45.480 a quick story from last year. I had Tyro Estrada 0:15:45.600 --> 0:15:50.280 in the f SGA Champions League and was looking to 0:15:50.360 --> 0:15:52.680 make a trade to get some more pitching. I had 0:15:52.680 --> 0:15:55.800 Carlos Korea as well on that team, and I was 0:15:55.800 --> 0:15:58.440 looking to see who I could trade, and in checking 0:15:58.440 --> 0:16:03.360 out their stats was right there in terms of productivity 0:16:03.640 --> 0:16:06.200 with Carlos Korea, and I was like, you know what, 0:16:06.520 --> 0:16:09.760 I could trade Carlos Korea, get pitching and just plug 0:16:09.880 --> 0:16:13.600 Estrata in as my shortstop and I'll be fine. And 0:16:13.880 --> 0:16:16.760 it worked out tremendously. I think I got like Blake 0:16:16.840 --> 0:16:19.800 Snell for Carlos Korea. Blake Snell went on a heater 0:16:19.920 --> 0:16:23.280 the second half of the season and carried me to 0:16:23.360 --> 0:16:26.520 a championship. Can I say that here with the humbly 0:16:27.600 --> 0:16:32.320 all day. Maybe that wasn't the key to It wasn't 0:16:32.360 --> 0:16:35.560 the only thing. But I still think even looking at 0:16:35.600 --> 0:16:39.120 his his stats and where he's sitting, I had to 0:16:39.120 --> 0:16:41.960 move him up in my rankings. I was even undervaluing 0:16:42.080 --> 0:16:46.200 him in my rankings this year. So yeah, first year, 0:16:46.280 --> 0:16:48.360 last year, played more than fifty five games for the 0:16:48.400 --> 0:16:52.360 first time, had fourteen homers, twenty one steals. Now he's 0:16:52.400 --> 0:16:54.600 got the job all to himself. He doesn't have to 0:16:54.640 --> 0:16:57.200 worry about anybody looking over his shoulder. He could be 0:16:57.240 --> 0:17:00.520 a twenty twenty guy. And you know, he's I think 0:17:00.960 --> 0:17:04.480 one to fifty somewhere in there in terms of ADP's. 0:17:04.760 --> 0:17:07.200 That's a pretty good guy to have on your roster. 0:17:07.280 --> 0:17:10.000 And he can play also shortstop or second So I'll 0:17:10.040 --> 0:17:13.080 slot him here at second base and be very happy. 0:17:13.440 --> 0:17:15.320 You know, the power is something with him that I'm 0:17:15.600 --> 0:17:17.800 slightly concerned with. But if you look at the minor 0:17:17.880 --> 0:17:19.679 league track record, he had two eitighty six for his 0:17:19.680 --> 0:17:22.280 minor league career five hundred plus games, so that's a 0:17:22.280 --> 0:17:23.000 pretty good sample. 0:17:23.040 --> 0:17:23.720 So there might be an. 0:17:23.640 --> 0:17:25.960 Upticken batting average that we haven't seen yet as well. 0:17:26.280 --> 0:17:28.280 I think I might buy that before more of the power. 0:17:28.320 --> 0:17:28.800 But you're right. 0:17:28.800 --> 0:17:30.920 I think Estrado's one of those players that people last 0:17:30.960 --> 0:17:32.879 year kept waiting for the bottom of drop out and 0:17:32.880 --> 0:17:34.879 it just never quite did. And he was just a 0:17:34.960 --> 0:17:37.720 very productive player and there's certainly opportunity for him this year. 0:17:37.880 --> 0:17:39.840 Let's go over to third base to the hot corner. 0:17:40.040 --> 0:17:42.920