Speaker 1: Ryan Reynolds here for mint Mobile. I don't know if
Speaker 1: you knew this, but anyone can get the same premium
Speaker 1: wireless for fifteen dollars a month plan that I've been enjoying.
Speaker 1: It's not just for celebrities. So do like I did
Speaker 1: and have one of your assistants assistants switch you to
Speaker 1: Midmobile today. I'm told it's super easy to do at
Speaker 1: minmobile dot com.
Speaker 2: Slash and switch upfront paymental forty five dollars for three
Speaker 2: month plan equivalent to fifteen dollars per month required intro
Speaker 2: rate first three months only, then full price plan options available,
Speaker 2: taxes and feesextra ffal terms at mintmobile dot com.
Speaker 3: Hello everybody, Welcome into the cycle. I am Ryan Warmley,
Speaker 3: joined as always by Mike Mayer. We are talking a
Speaker 3: whole bunch of stuff around in the basis here in
Speaker 3: our first segment. We'll have a couple of other shows
Speaker 3: on both audio and video where we talk about some
Speaker 3: buys and seals and waiver picks and pitching streamers and
Speaker 3: our two star pitcher competition and all the usual stuff
Speaker 3: that we do every single week. This is our first
Speaker 3: video of the cycle this week, however, where we are
Speaker 3: rounding the basis to talking about some of our favorite topics.
Speaker 3: We're going to be drafting some of our early favorite breakouts,
Speaker 3: and really the way we're framing it is breakouts that
Speaker 3: we most believe in and are buying into. We're going
Speaker 3: to talk about your early you know, you could say
Speaker 3: way too early. Really at this point is probably just early,
Speaker 3: not way too early, but your early risers and followers
Speaker 3: in your rankings. You are one of our most accurate
Speaker 3: rankers here, Fantasy Pros and anywhere based on our tracking
Speaker 3: and our accuracy competition. So we'll see how your early
Speaker 3: rankings are looking. We'll talk about some injuries, all that
Speaker 3: fun stuff. How are you doing today, Mayor.
Speaker 4: I'm doing all right. I don't know if you've ever
Speaker 4: given me a compliment like that before. You acknowledge my
Speaker 4: ranking success, so I'm doing even better now.
Speaker 3: It felt gross coming out, but it's just it's just math.
Speaker 3: Like you finish high in the rankings, it's kind of undeniable,
Speaker 3: so I can't like twist it. You know, sometimes we
Speaker 3: can argue about like who won the two star pitcher contest?
Speaker 3: Or oh this is a terrible bi low pick, Like
Speaker 3: you can't argue with the success. You are a very
Speaker 3: accurate ranker, so everybody should be paying attention to your
Speaker 3: rankings and guys that you're rising and following in those rankings.
Speaker 3: It's also, by the time this gets released, the first
Speaker 3: round at least of the draft will have happened. But
Speaker 3: it's also drafted, so we're That's kind of why I
Speaker 3: wanted to include some sort of draft version into this
Speaker 3: when we're talking about those breakouts. But you know, we're
Speaker 3: excited that you and I are sitting pretty every draft
Speaker 3: night because we are the two teams Ravens and Eagles
Speaker 3: that every year it's a guarantee whoever gets drafted, everybody
Speaker 3: somebody is going to tweet the Jesse Pinkman breaking bad meme.
Speaker 3: They can't keep getting away with this when when one
Speaker 3: of Eric DeCosta Howie Roseman makes a draft pick, it
Speaker 3: is a lot. That's the best bet you can make
Speaker 3: tonight that that will happen.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I was just tweeting, not tweeting. I was just
Speaker 4: texting with Debro before the show because he was and
Speaker 4: we'll get back to baseball in a second, but he
Speaker 4: was just he's submitting his mock draft for like the
Speaker 4: mock draft accuracy contest on Fantasy Pros and he was
Speaker 4: just kind of like, hey, does anything look off to you?
Speaker 4: Like what do you think about the Eagles pick? And
Speaker 4: I was like, I don't see Walter Nolan in your
Speaker 4: first round, and if he falls to the Eagles, you're
Speaker 4: gonna get the you know, like the same thing like that,
Speaker 4: how do they keep getting away with this? Because I
Speaker 4: you know, I like Walter Nolan's going all over the place,
Speaker 4: like some people haven't like top ten, some people haven't
Speaker 4: fallen out the first round. But I was like, if
Speaker 4: he falls to the Eagles, people are going to be furious.
Speaker 3: I'm not sure. I actually I almost had a kind
Speaker 3: of tongue in cheek. I don't think there are any
Speaker 3: two teams that have more benefit of the doubt, especially
Speaker 3: in the first round on draft day than like whoever
Speaker 3: the Raven Steak people are going to say, was this
Speaker 3: steal was very good? And the same thing for the Eagles, Like,
Speaker 3: you know, the Rams are really good at drafting on
Speaker 3: Day three, you know, they often don't have first round picks,
Speaker 3: like there's other good gms, but in terms of those
Speaker 3: first round draft picks, like this is really our time
Speaker 3: to shine, so we will. Yeah, well, I mean nobody's perfect.
Speaker 3: Let's get back to baseball, what people actually care about
Speaker 3: here on this show. We'll dive into ride in the bases. Uh.
Speaker 3: There weren't a ton of like overarching topics that I
Speaker 3: wanted to hit on, which is why we, like I said,
Speaker 3: we kind of did, like the draft, angle, r rises
Speaker 3: and followers, injuries, all kind of the general stuff. I
Speaker 3: did want to ask about one specific player, and it's
Speaker 3: James Wood. And the thing I wanted to ask you
Speaker 3: is he's obviously been very, very good this season. His
Speaker 3: profile is pretty unique. Given the stats we're seeing from him.
Speaker 3: He is tied. Actually, I don't know if this changed,
Speaker 3: maybe late last night when I was putting this together
Speaker 3: on Wednesday evening, he was tied for the second most
Speaker 3: home runs in baseball with eight already here in April.
Speaker 3: But he has a very very high ground ball rate
Speaker 3: fifty six point four percent of bat at balls. Again,
Speaker 3: that's going into last night, so I'm not sure if
Speaker 3: that changed at all. And I do know this changed.
Speaker 3: He had a zero percent pulled fly ball percentage going
Speaker 3: into Wednesday night. He did pull that eight home run
Speaker 3: last night, which I was watching because it was against
Speaker 3: the Orioles, So that is now like one point something percent,
Speaker 3: or I forget the exact number. It's no longer zero,
Speaker 3: but the point is, going into last night it was zero,
Speaker 3: and again over fifty percent of bad balls are on
Speaker 3: the ground. Are his power numbers sustainable when he is
Speaker 3: coupling both a ground ball rate and a fly ball
Speaker 3: rate going opposite field as high as he is.
Speaker 4: I think it's kind of like a catch twenty two
Speaker 4: because on the one hand, you love seeing a young
Speaker 4: hitter going the other way, especially with power the other way.
Speaker 4: But on the other hand, you would love to see
Speaker 4: a little bit more like pull power and less of
Speaker 4: a ground ball rate. So I think he's still a
Speaker 4: developing hitter. I think he's still a really good hitter.
Speaker 4: I know we talked about before the season. He was
Speaker 4: someone we talked about could be a first round pick
Speaker 4: next year. And I think it's probably going to be
Speaker 4: like up and down. You're you're probably going to see
Speaker 4: some streaks like this, and then you're probably going to
Speaker 4: see some streaks where he probably goes cold. At least,
Speaker 4: you know, from a power standpoint, but a lot of
Speaker 4: the other data looks pretty good stack cast is pretty
Speaker 4: red with all you know, expected stats like really high
Speaker 4: with like exit velocity, barrel rate, hard hit percentage. They
Speaker 4: all look really really good, and so I just think
Speaker 4: we're seeing like a really good, young developing hitter who
Speaker 4: is taking balls the other way. One thing that I
Speaker 4: think is a little concerning in the profile is that
Speaker 4: he is right now, like kind of feasting on fastballs,
Speaker 4: where off speed and breaking pitches not so much. So
Speaker 4: there is a chance that that kind of comes back
Speaker 4: to bite him, especially if you're not pulling the ball.
Speaker 4: You know, you want you want to see like, you know,
Speaker 4: pulling some of those like slower pitches. Because I was looking,
Speaker 4: you know, preparing for the show. He's batting three twenty
Speaker 4: seven against fastballs, against breaking pitches, he's batting one seventy nine,
Speaker 4: and against off speed pitches batting one hundred. So that's
Speaker 4: a pretty stark contrast, and so you would want to
Speaker 4: see those numbers improve.
Speaker 3: It's even more stark if you just specifically look at
Speaker 3: four seam fastballs. It's four forty eight batting average right
Speaker 3: now on those, and if you look at the run
Speaker 3: value generated on stat cast, it's still early for this
Speaker 3: for seam fastballs, it's seven and nothing else is over
Speaker 3: two of any other type of pitch. So the forcing
Speaker 3: fastballs especially are like that's where he's doing a lot
Speaker 3: of his damage.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but I still really like him as a a
Speaker 4: young hitter and a prospect. And you know, I have
Speaker 4: him in a couple of leagues. I like that I
Speaker 4: have in one of the ESPN leagues where like every
Speaker 4: time you need Homer's I get like a notification. I'm like,
Speaker 4: oh sweet, and there James would hum.
Speaker 3: Though I have him in a few weeks as well.
Speaker 3: I wanted to highlight an article that came out a
Speaker 3: couple of days ago, so some of these numbers are
Speaker 3: now have been since updated, but on MLB dot com
Speaker 3: by Thomas Harrigan, where he kind of lays out that
Speaker 3: it's it's interesting that he's not pulling any fly balls,
Speaker 3: but it hasn't been a problem, and there's you know,
Speaker 3: a couple of different leader boards he provides. One of
Speaker 3: the interesting ones was his barrel rate on fly balls
Speaker 3: is extremely high because typically hitters who hit a lot
Speaker 3: of ground balls aren't generating a lot of barrels, so
Speaker 3: when he does hit it in the air, he needs
Speaker 3: to barrel it at a high percentage. He's at fifty
Speaker 3: five point six percent of the time this season, ten
Speaker 3: out of eighteen fly balls. Again, this is a couple
Speaker 3: of days ago, so this might have gone down. I'm
Speaker 3: just referencing the article right now. Nobody else says at
Speaker 3: that point was above fifty percent. You know, next sis
Speaker 3: was forty eight, then forty four, forty two, forty one,
Speaker 3: so he was in first by a wide margin on
Speaker 3: that range. He also has the fourth highest slugging percentage
Speaker 3: on non polled balls dating back to last season, behind
Speaker 3: only Aaron Judge, Shoheotani, and Ellie Daily Cruz. So those
Speaker 3: are a couple numbers that I wanted to highlight. I
Speaker 3: just find his profile really fascinating because I think he's
Speaker 3: really really good. Like this is not me trying to
Speaker 3: say he's not a great player. I think he is.
Speaker 3: I think he's a superstar, honestly, like in the very
Speaker 3: near future, I think he's already a fantasy stud And
Speaker 3: I think it's just really fascinating to see somebody who
Speaker 3: not only isn't pulling the ball in the air, but
Speaker 3: is also hitting a lot of ground balls like the
Speaker 3: ones that he does hit in the air he has
Speaker 3: to take full advantage of and so far this season
Speaker 3: he is. Where do you think, based on what we've
Speaker 3: seen in this first month, where would you imagine he
Speaker 3: kind of winds up for you going into next season.
Speaker 3: Let's say I see somebody that you expect to finish
Speaker 3: as like a top ten outfielder and to be a
Speaker 3: first round pick next year. Based on these early returns,
Speaker 3: does the profile were you enough that you think if
Speaker 3: there's even a little litle bit of regression on that
Speaker 3: barrel rate, on flyballs or what have you, that maybe
Speaker 3: you're looking at more of like a you know, late
Speaker 3: second high third round pick next year. What are your
Speaker 3: expectations the rest of the way.
Speaker 4: I think probably second third round consideration. I think a
Speaker 4: lot of it will also depend on how much he runs.
Speaker 4: You know, he has three stolen bases through twenty four games.
Speaker 4: If he keeps up that pace and we get kind
Speaker 4: of fifteen plus stolen bases, then that's another you know,
Speaker 4: kind of stat to kind of hang your hat on.
Speaker 4: That can can elevate him a little bit more. But
Speaker 4: I think we're still looking at probably a second round pick.
Speaker 4: It's kind of interesting. It's like the inverse of what
Speaker 4: you think with Like a lot of young hitters that
Speaker 4: come up there, you know, especially ones that hit for power,
Speaker 4: they usually are good at pulling the ball, and like
Speaker 4: learning to hit the ball the other way, especially with power,
Speaker 4: is kind of a learned trait. So he's kind of
Speaker 4: doing it backwards, and there are worse problems to have
Speaker 4: than being really good at hitting the ball with power
Speaker 4: the opposite field.
Speaker 3: Would you rather this will be the last question on him.
Speaker 3: Would you rather buy high or sell high?
Speaker 4: I think bye high?
Speaker 3: I think I agree because I think this stile and base.
Speaker 3: I mean, he had fourteen sole bases in like what
Speaker 3: three hundred and thirty played appearances last year. Like, I
Speaker 3: think that the stile and bases will rise, and you
Speaker 3: know if they stay a little low because he can't
Speaker 3: run because he's hitting homers, like, we'll take that trade off,
Speaker 3: right so exactly, So yeah, I would also look at
Speaker 3: him as a bye high. I do want to let
Speaker 3: everybody know, as I've been mentioning all month long, that
Speaker 3: if you want a chance to win a signed Nico
Speaker 3: Horner Cubs jersey for free, courtesy of our friends at
Speaker 3: Pristinaneauction Dot com. All you have to do is subscribe
Speaker 3: to the Fantasy pros MLB YouTube channel right now, drop
Speaker 3: a comment below on any video, and that's it. We
Speaker 3: will be announcing a winner right here on the podcast,
Speaker 3: so make sure to turn on those notifications so you
Speaker 3: can know when new videos are up and to claim
Speaker 3: your prize.
Speaker 5: Out here, there's no one way of doing things, no
Speaker 5: one written rules, and no shortage of adventure, because out
Speaker 5: here the only requirement is having fun. Bank of America
Speaker 5: invites kids six to eighteen to golf with Us for
Speaker 5: a limited time. Sign them up for free one year membership,
Speaker 5: giving them access to discount to tea times at thousands
Speaker 5: of courses. Learn more at Bankfamerica dot com slash golf
Speaker 5: with Us.
Speaker 3: What would you like the power to do?
Speaker 5: Bank of America restrictions apply CBA dot com Slash golf
Speaker 5: with Us for complete details Covered Bright twenty twenty five.
Speaker 5: Bank of America Corporation.
Speaker 6: Does it ever feel like you're a marketing professional just
Speaker 6: speaking into the void? Boy? Well, with LinkedIn ads, you
Speaker 6: can know you're reaching the right decision makers. You can
Speaker 6: even target buyers by job title, industry company, seniority skills
Speaker 6: wait did I say job title yet, get started today
Speaker 6: and see how you can avoid the void and reach
Speaker 6: the right buyers with LinkedIn ads. We'll even give you
Speaker 6: a one hundred dollars credit on your next campaign. Get
Speaker 6: started at LinkedIn dot com slash results terms and conditions apply.
Speaker 3: All right, let's get into our kind of draft here
Speaker 3: of early season breakouts. And this is, like I said,
Speaker 3: it's not who are the best players, because obviously there's
Speaker 3: different types of breakouts and some guys we would clearly
Speaker 3: have ranked ahead of others. But this is based on
Speaker 3: how real we believe these breakouts are, how much we
Speaker 3: are buying into these being legitimate breakouts. I think we're
Speaker 3: just gonna go let's say five players each, so ten
Speaker 3: total deep. I don't think we need to go any
Speaker 3: further than that. We didn't discuss that ahead of time,
Speaker 3: but I think that's probably sufficient.
Speaker 5: Tier.
Speaker 3: Do you feel strongly about having the first pick or
Speaker 3: do you mind going second?
Speaker 4: I'll let you pick, I'll go second. Are we doing
Speaker 4: snake or just linear? Does it not matter?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 3: Two mand drafts. I think snake is dumb. The way
Speaker 3: I the way I always want to do it, is
Speaker 3: you just snake that first round. So it's like somebody
Speaker 3: gets the first pick, then the other person gets the
Speaker 3: second and third, and then you just alternate back and
Speaker 3: forth rest of the way. But I don't think there's
Speaker 3: like one clear obvious I think there's a lot of
Speaker 3: really good breakouts. So I don't think it really matters.
Speaker 3: Since you don't mind going second, I'll just go first.
Speaker 3: We're thinking, will be fine.
Speaker 4: Do you want to break him down as we go
Speaker 4: or just do the draft and then break him down.
Speaker 3: No, let's let's break him down briefly ast week. I
Speaker 3: don't think we need to spend too much time at this.
Speaker 3: Like I said, I just wanted to kind of do
Speaker 3: have a little fun with the draft here given that
Speaker 3: it is the NFL draft tonight. So I have like
Speaker 3: a dozen names written down on my sort of quote
Speaker 3: unquote big board that I really am believing in. Let
Speaker 3: me ask you this because because again, some of them,
Speaker 3: I don't know if you're going to count them, if
Speaker 3: you're going to say, oh that, because like I'm not
Speaker 3: just picking like guys that are sleepers, that are hitting,
Speaker 3: Like some of these could have been drafted inside. You
Speaker 3: know that top fifty to one hundred range, And I
Speaker 3: just think they've they're breaking out to another level.
Speaker 4: So your first pick is Gunner Henderson is what you're saying.
Speaker 3: No, not Gunner Henderson. I'm gonna go with Hunter Green
Speaker 3: as my first pick because I think I know he's
Speaker 3: coming off of a worse start, but he was picked
Speaker 3: inside the top one hundred, and he is doing a
Speaker 3: lot of what he did last year, just better. I
Speaker 3: think this elevation in his performance is better. I think
Speaker 3: if he's stays healthy, he is I would like call
Speaker 3: him a lock to be a top six to eight
Speaker 3: starting pitcher at worst, assuming health the rest of the way. Like,
Speaker 3: I think it's extremely legitimate, and so I just assuming
Speaker 3: you're willing to count that. That was one of the
Speaker 3: names I had in mind of like was already good
Speaker 3: but taking it to another level. He's my number one
Speaker 3: pick in terms of the guy I'm most believe in.
Speaker 4: Yeah, no, I'll accept it. I had him on my
Speaker 4: list too, and I had a feeling that's where you
Speaker 4: were going with the first pick. No, I agree that
Speaker 4: he's taking it to another level, and I think you
Speaker 4: know we talked about previously. My only real concern with
Speaker 4: him is injury, just because he's just throwing really hard
Speaker 4: for a really long time. And I don't just say
Speaker 4: that like in general, Like he's throwing it really hard,
Speaker 4: like at an unprecedented rate late in games, and the
Speaker 4: only people to have ever done that, including himself, have
Speaker 4: had Tommy John surgery. And so that's what makes me nervous.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a fair thing to be nervous about. But
Speaker 3: from what we've seen so far, I'm totally buying in
Speaker 3: as a very legitimate elevation of his performance. Who is
Speaker 3: your our first pick?
Speaker 4: Let's see do I want to go? I'm also looking
Speaker 4: down because I put my on my phone, so I
Speaker 4: have to glance out at my phone to pick my
Speaker 4: name's Do I want to go with the Homer pick
Speaker 4: or the other one? I'll just go with the Homer pick.
Speaker 4: I think what Christian Campbell is doing is really exciting,
Speaker 4: and I think he is a legitimate breakout just with
Speaker 4: there was some concerns in spring training that he kind
Speaker 4: of got off to a slow start. I know you
Speaker 4: don't care about spring training stats, but I just think
Speaker 4: his approach at the plate is, you know, really improving.
Speaker 4: He's like a violent swinger. I listened to a lot
Speaker 4: of the broadcast, and they talk about how even his
Speaker 4: takes look violent, like he's just like, you know, he's
Speaker 4: he has a good eye at the plate. But even
Speaker 4: when he's like when he's like taking it like a
Speaker 4: slider outside, he's like violently taking a slider outside because
Speaker 4: he's like looking to attack the ball. And so we've
Speaker 4: seen him go the other way. We've seen him like
Speaker 4: lift with power a little bit of speed too, and
Speaker 4: I just think everything he's doing, you know, I think
Speaker 4: we're gonna see him in the middle of that Red
Speaker 4: Sox line line up sooner rather than later.
Speaker 3: I was trying to guess who you were picking, because
Speaker 3: you kind of cut out for me when you were
Speaker 3: actually saying the name, and then I heard all of
Speaker 3: your description, and I was like trying to decide who
Speaker 3: I thought you were actually talking about, just in case
Speaker 3: our listeners also. I don't know if it was just
Speaker 3: cutting out on my internet or for everybody, just in case,
Speaker 3: can you say who you were picking again.
Speaker 4: Christian Campbell, Red Sox second baseman, slash possibly outfielder.
Speaker 3: Okay, that was what I assumed based on your description.
Speaker 3: And once I heard you say Red Sox. But like
Speaker 3: I said, because I hadn't heard for sure. I want
Speaker 3: to make sure everybody can hear that. So that's your
Speaker 3: first pick going the homer direction. I'm not going with
Speaker 3: any homer picks, by the way, mostly because there aren't
Speaker 3: really any good Orioles breakouts this year. I have a
Speaker 3: couple of names that I really like here. I'm going
Speaker 3: to go with the guy that is coming off of
Speaker 3: the best start that any of these players have had
Speaker 3: this year, and that's Max Meyer. This is somebody that
Speaker 3: we talked about, we heard discussed on fantasy fests on
Speaker 3: our live stream in March, somebody that a couple of
Speaker 3: analysts and specifically guys who really specialize on the pitching
Speaker 3: side of baseball really liked this spring that I bought
Speaker 3: into them, really liking the people who I think are
Speaker 3: smarter than that who not I think who I know
Speaker 3: are smarter than me when it comes to this stuff.
Speaker 3: So I have a lot of Max Meyer like that.
Speaker 3: I took as late round picks or you know, cheap
Speaker 3: at the end of a salary cap draft, and he
Speaker 3: had already looked really good, and now he has this
Speaker 3: fourteen strikeout, five hits, no run gem against a Reds
Speaker 3: team that had just scored twenty four runs against the
Speaker 3: Orioles like the day before, so it was a hot
Speaker 3: lineup and he completely shut them down. He looks awesome.
Speaker 3: The slider is as great as always, but he's really
Speaker 3: I think, kind of rounded out the the you know,
Speaker 3: pitch repertoire that he's been using this year in a
Speaker 3: better way than he's done in the past. He looks
Speaker 3: like a guy with top three pick pedigree who's put
Speaker 3: it all together. He needs a mid to late twenties.
Speaker 3: I am really excited about Meyer the rest of the way.
Speaker 3: I'm really curious actually to see if he's included when
Speaker 3: we're talking about I know he is included in your
Speaker 3: way too early risers and followers as a riser. I'm
Speaker 3: really curious to hear when we get to that conversation
Speaker 3: how far he's risen for you, because I think he
Speaker 3: looks really, really awesome, and I'm really happy to kind
Speaker 3: of pair him in this fake draft with Hudger Green.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that was the other name I was considering between
Speaker 4: Christian Campbell or Max Meyer, and I went with Campbell.
Speaker 4: I had a feeling you're going to go with Max
Speaker 4: Meyer just because of the recent success I don't have
Speaker 4: I don't think I have any shares of him this season,
Speaker 4: but I do have him in a couple of dynasty leagues,
Speaker 4: and so it's been very exciting to finally get a
Speaker 4: return on that investment because at one point I was like, look,
Speaker 4: just come back as a reliever, as a closer, let
Speaker 4: me get some innings out of you. And so for
Speaker 4: him to come back and look like this, it's really exciting.
Speaker 4: And it looks pretty legit so far, really nasty stuff.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it's I think it's super legit. I
Speaker 3: am buying in. Let's go to your second pick.
Speaker 4: My second pick is Tyler Soderstrom for a lot of
Speaker 4: obvious reasons. Nine home runs looks really really good. Also
Speaker 4: not related to his breakout. But I don't know if
Speaker 4: you saw he started in left field yesterday, which is
Speaker 4: exciting for his you know, potential positional eligibility. That's probably
Speaker 4: more of a Nick Kurtz thing, you know, trying to
Speaker 4: find more ways to get him into the lineup and
Speaker 4: you know, starting at first base. But yeah, I think,
Speaker 4: just like everything about his profile, I think the power
Speaker 4: is legit. That little teeny tiny ballpark or I guess
Speaker 4: it's not teeny tiny, but like the way the ball
Speaker 4: is flying out of that ballpark certainly helps. I just
Speaker 4: think we're seeing an emerging young power hitter that I'm
Speaker 4: really excited about, and I think it's it's a legit breakout.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he was on my list, nothing to add. I
Speaker 3: think you hit all the reasons why he qualifies. I
Speaker 3: almost picked him up early on in the year in
Speaker 3: a league where I really could use the help at
Speaker 3: first base, and I decided to wait, and I regret
Speaker 3: it pretty much every day. Interestingly, that I've gone two
Speaker 3: pictures and you've gone two hitters, did you feel like
Speaker 3: it was easier to find one versus the other or
Speaker 3: do you think that's just, you know, it's just happened
Speaker 3: to be how it's gone.
Speaker 4: I think it's just happened to be how it's gone
Speaker 4: because both of the pictures you named were high on
Speaker 4: my list, and it just kind of like alternated like
Speaker 4: where I went, Like, you know, I, if I went first,
Speaker 4: I may have gone Hunter Green, you know. I think
Speaker 4: it's just kind of like how it's gone.
Speaker 3: Okay, Well, my third pick, if you'll allow it, will
Speaker 3: not be a picture I don't This one is I
Speaker 3: think probably the one where I could most anticipate getting
Speaker 3: pushback of he doesn't count. I think he does count
Speaker 3: because of the power breakout. We literally just talked about him,
Speaker 3: James Would, I think he's broken out from he was,
Speaker 3: because the thing is, he was going high in drafts,
Speaker 3: but he was like relative to what he had done
Speaker 3: last year, but that was because people were anticipating the breakout.
Speaker 3: So I don't want to like count that against him.
Speaker 3: The fact that he has lived up to the anticipated breakout.
Speaker 3: It's not like he truly broke out last year, even
Speaker 3: though you know he did provide you know, nine home runs,
Speaker 3: fourteen stone bases and how the season. It wasn't like
Speaker 3: he was useless last year. But I think this is
Speaker 3: a new level. I think going from that like sixty
Speaker 3: pick range to like maybe inside the top twenty five
Speaker 3: next year is a breakout. And I think the power
Speaker 3: is legitimate, even for even talking about all the reasons
Speaker 3: we just talked about at the start of this segment.
Speaker 3: So will you allow James Would?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think it's fine, Okay, I think he's taking
Speaker 4: it to another level. And you know, like you said,
Speaker 4: he's already got eight home runs in twenty four games
Speaker 4: that are hitting nine and seventy nine games last year.
Speaker 4: And like you said, he was being drafted with a
Speaker 4: decent amount of draft couple this year. But it was
Speaker 4: all projection. It wasn't like based on historical performance. It
Speaker 4: was like people projecting the breakout. And now we're seeing
Speaker 4: the breakout. And so even you know, despite what we
Speaker 4: already talked about with you know, like not as much
Speaker 4: pull power, it looks like the breakout is legitimate.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm feeling great. I got the first three names
Speaker 3: on my big board, so I feel like I'm sitting
Speaker 3: pretty here. I'm glad you went with the Homer. I
Speaker 3: have been the Eric DaCosta slash Howie Roseman of this
Speaker 3: draft so far, just getting value as it falls to me.
Speaker 3: Who's your third pick?
Speaker 4: So I didn't have mine ranked. I just kind of
Speaker 4: put them in a glob and it was kind of
Speaker 4: just going to see how the draft played out and
Speaker 4: who I wanted to go with. And I'm not really
Speaker 4: sure who I want to go with now, if I
Speaker 4: want to go with my first picture or if you
Speaker 4: know what, I'll give it to someone that a lot
Speaker 4: of people had prospect fatigue about who was off to
Speaker 4: a really good start, and it looks like the numbers
Speaker 4: are legitimate, and I'll give it to Spencer. Spencer Torkulsen.
Speaker 4: I think that he's actually finally breaking out if you'll
Speaker 4: allow it. You know, someone who wo'd been waiting to
Speaker 4: break out for a while now, and I just think
Speaker 4: it's finally happening. I think a lot of the underlying
Speaker 4: numbers are backing up what's happening, and we might finally
Speaker 4: see Spencer Torkulsen as a consistent fantasy contribut and real
Speaker 4: life baseball contributor after it looked like for a little
Speaker 4: while like it might be over in terms of his
Speaker 4: future in baseball.
Speaker 3: He was on my list, totally legitimate, and I I'm
Speaker 3: really excited to see the breakout. Like he's somebody I
Speaker 3: really loved. I mean, obviously every he was a number
Speaker 3: one pick, like everybody loved him in that twenty twenty class.
Speaker 3: But I's it's very fun because it felt like he
Speaker 3: was such a sure thing with the bat and then
Speaker 3: he like you said, it looks like it might be done.
Speaker 3: Like I know you don't want to write off a
Speaker 3: guy too early, but like it was so so bad
Speaker 3: that to see him now take this step forward. Like
Speaker 3: it's been one of the more enjoyable storylines for me
Speaker 3: earlier this season. I really liked watching him.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it looked there and live up to it. Sorry,
Speaker 4: it looked at one point like the Tigers were like
Speaker 4: not even like guaranteeing a roster spot for him this
Speaker 4: this year. He had to kind of earn his way
Speaker 4: onto the team.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so I like that. Pick a lot the fourth
Speaker 3: name on my board. Again, just just take this value
Speaker 3: as it comes to although, like I said, some of
Speaker 3: your guys were on my list as well. Bryce Terrang,
Speaker 3: I think it's legitimate what he's done. If you look
Speaker 3: at his stat cast page last year, you know stuff
Speaker 3: like average exit velocity, barrel rate, hard hit rate very
Speaker 3: very blue, fourteenth percentile, third percentile, ninth percentile, bat speed
Speaker 3: second percentile. This is all very poor. It's all better
Speaker 3: this year, and some of those are a lot better.
Speaker 3: Average exit velocity is now ninetieth percentile. He's averaging ninety
Speaker 3: three miles per hour on the average exxit loss. Your
Speaker 3: hard hit rate is now seventy eighth percentile. His batting
Speaker 3: average is three fifty, but his expected batting average is
Speaker 3: three sixteen it's still over three hundred. He's been just
Speaker 3: hitting a lot better. Again, looking at some of the numbers,
Speaker 3: Like compared to last year's exit velocity was eighty seven,
Speaker 3: that's six miles per hour better on average, his max
Speaker 3: exit velocity is much better, you know. Again, the expected
Speaker 3: numbers just are a lot improved over last year. The
Speaker 3: barrel rate is like three or four times what it
Speaker 3: was last year. I think it's a very legitimate breakout.
Speaker 3: The stolen bases, I think we were probably both confident
Speaker 3: we were gonna get a lot of those regardless. Also,
Speaker 3: we just know the Brewers run so much. That's still continued.
Speaker 3: He has eight already here in the first month of
Speaker 3: the season, but he already has three home runs after
Speaker 3: hitting just seven last year. I don't know that he's
Speaker 3: gonna hit twenty, but I wouldn't be surprised if this
Speaker 3: breakout is legitimate, which I am saying that I think
Speaker 3: it is. If it gets to like twelve to fifteen,
Speaker 3: and then if you throw that in with forty five
Speaker 3: steals and a three hundred batting average like that is
Speaker 3: a real elevation of his value, and I think it's legit,
Speaker 3: especially looking at the statcast data, So I know Terrang
Speaker 3: is somebody that you were kind of thinking of as
Speaker 3: like maybe a cell high early in the season. Do
Speaker 3: you still feel that way? Do you not buy into
Speaker 3: this breakout as much as I am?
Speaker 4: Probably in between, like I probably don't buy into it
Speaker 4: as much as you do, but I do see the improvement.
Speaker 4: Like I felt like last year, I would he was
Speaker 4: like a very frequent cell high for me. I had
Speaker 4: to stop myself from writing him as a cell high
Speaker 4: like every week, and there were you know, you fell
Speaker 4: off the cli at one point. But he also stole
Speaker 4: fifty bases, so it's not like you had to remove
Speaker 4: him from your line up at any point. You know,
Speaker 4: his batting average didn't hurt you to the point where
Speaker 4: I thought it would, and he stole fifty bases, so
Speaker 4: not really much you can say about that. It's also
Speaker 4: interesting he's hitting lefties better this year. He's he's batting
Speaker 4: average against lefties over three hundred, whereas like last year
Speaker 4: that was kind of a you know, a sore spot
Speaker 4: for him. He wasn't like the worst against lefties, but
Speaker 4: he battered like two thirty something against lefties. So yeah,
Speaker 4: it's an interesting choice. You know, banking on a you know,
Speaker 4: calling a guy who stole fifty bases last year as
Speaker 4: a breakout I think is a little questionable. But you know,
Speaker 4: you did at least shy away from the stolen bases
Speaker 4: and focus more on the bat so I guess we
Speaker 4: have to allow it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, you can break out if you were
Speaker 3: just a one category contributor last year, and I think
Speaker 3: are now contributing in multiple categories, And again, it looks
Speaker 3: so much more legitimate than last year. Like even even
Speaker 3: just looking like last year's batting averages two fifty four,
Speaker 3: so I like that was like a terrible anchor to
Speaker 3: your batting average category. But this year it's just been better.
Speaker 3: I mean again, just look at the look at the
Speaker 3: blue versus you know, on a stack gass page last
Speaker 3: year versus the red list year. I think I want
Speaker 3: to highlight that I think he is legitimately a better
Speaker 3: hitter this year than last year. Even if the fantasy value,
Speaker 3: if you if you say that most of his value
Speaker 3: comes from the steals and therefore we're not expecting that
Speaker 3: to be a breakout, I can sort of see that
Speaker 3: argument against him. But like, again, his OPS is two
Speaker 3: hundred points higher than it was last year, Like the
Speaker 3: batting average is like eighty points higher. I think this
Speaker 3: is a breakout across the board, not just a steals
Speaker 3: only contributor.
Speaker 4: All Right, I guess we have to allow with them.
Speaker 4: So it's my turn again. Yeah, so I feel like,
Speaker 4: I mean, I thought Spencer Torklesin was kind of like
Speaker 4: the the tier, you know, the end of the tier,
Speaker 4: but then you kind of slipt Bryce terrang in there.
Speaker 4: But I feel like I'm much more confident, obviously in
Speaker 4: the names we already listed than the names that I'm
Speaker 4: going to list going forward.
Speaker 3: I will say quickly to cut you off, like I had,
Speaker 3: like that top four that I really liked, my fifth
Speaker 3: choice on this board, like could go in eight different directions,
Speaker 3: Like I do think we're in like a club of
Speaker 3: you can make the case in a bunch of different ways.
Speaker 4: Yeah, there's a name, there's one name on my list
Speaker 4: that I do want to talk about, but I think
Speaker 4: we're going to talk about him another segment, so I'll
Speaker 4: avoid it for now. I'll go with Mackenzie Gore as
Speaker 4: someone that I think is kind of taking that next step,
Speaker 4: and I think the breakout could be legitimate. I think
Speaker 4: he may have finally figured it out. I think we're
Speaker 4: gonna still see some inconsistent stuff from him, but I
Speaker 4: think by and large the breakout is legit and that
Speaker 4: he's here to stay finally after like kind of like
Speaker 4: flirting with, you know, being a fantasy relevant contributor for
Speaker 4: a while, like on and off rosters, I think he
Speaker 4: might be here to stay now.
Speaker 3: He was the next name on my list, So I
Speaker 3: am in firm agreement with you on Mackenzie Gore. The
Speaker 3: strikeouts have been awesome, Like it started off really well
Speaker 3: and his largely continued here through the first month of
Speaker 3: the season. I am in very strong agreement with him
Speaker 3: as somebody that I think is going to be a
Speaker 3: very good, you know, fantasy starter the rest of He's
Speaker 3: not an sp one, but I think he's gonna contribute
Speaker 3: in a lot of categories that you're gonna be really
Speaker 3: happy with going forward. So I think that's a great pick,
Speaker 3: and it would have been my next pick for my
Speaker 3: fifth guy. Here. I'm looking at like the names on
Speaker 3: my list, it definitely feels like a drop off in
Speaker 3: terms of the belief I have or it's names that
Speaker 3: I wrote down that I didn't really expect you to
Speaker 3: count like I was, Like I wrote, I do think
Speaker 3: he's better than he was last year. I'm not gonna
Speaker 3: pick him because I don't think he really counts like
Speaker 3: Hunter Brown, he really broke out in the second half
Speaker 3: last year. But like, I do think he is better
Speaker 3: this year. But like somebody like him is, Like I looked.
Speaker 4: I couldn't include him, but I looked at him.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I was running. Did you feel like Shane
Speaker 3: Boz counts.
Speaker 4: He's another name I looked at. I didn't write it down.
Speaker 4: I feel like I didn't write it down for a
Speaker 4: different reason. It was more so they've kind of like
Speaker 4: slow played him a little bit this year, so like
Speaker 4: the sample size is much smaller for him than it
Speaker 4: is for some of these other pitches. So I think
Speaker 4: that's why I kind of leaned against it. But I
Speaker 4: do think what we're seeing from him is probably legit too.
Speaker 3: He's only made four starts. I mean, what stands out
Speaker 3: about him if you're leaning, you know, kind of against him,
Speaker 3: is that his worst start was the most recent one.
Speaker 3: So I mean, maybe, like I don't know if it's
Speaker 3: recent he buys because the first three starts were six innings,
Speaker 3: ten strikeouts, no runs, seven innings, six strikeouts, two runs,
Speaker 3: six innings, eleven strikeouts, one run, and then his most
Speaker 3: recent start was three and a third, five runs, three strikeouts,
Speaker 3: so it was his worst it was going up against
Speaker 3: the Akes. I like, I really, I said, I wrote
Speaker 3: him down like as a possible count. I do think
Speaker 3: the overall breakouts legitimate. I'll I'll not pick him though,
Speaker 3: I'll just pick somebody that I believe in that I
Speaker 3: like less rest of the season then, but I still
Speaker 3: do believe in the breakout and that's Casey Myes. We've
Speaker 3: talked about him on the show already, so I won't
Speaker 3: waste too much time talking about him. He's a lower
Speaker 3: level of breakout, but again, somebody with pedigree similar to
Speaker 3: Torko since a former first, you know, number one overall
Speaker 3: pick that I'm happy to see breakout because of kind
Speaker 3: of the early struggles in his career that he's had,
Speaker 3: and I just think he's going I think he's gonna
Speaker 3: be a very viable fantasy starter going forward. Two twenty
Speaker 3: two ERA and four starts this season, just eighteen strikeouts
Speaker 3: in twenty four and third inning, so that's kind of
Speaker 3: The downside of him is not getting on the strikeouts,
Speaker 3: but his whips under one. Like I said, I don't
Speaker 3: think he's gonna be like a fantasy ace, but I
Speaker 3: think the breakout as a very viable fantasy starter, which
Speaker 3: he largely I mean pretty much, not largely, he pretty
Speaker 3: much has not been throughout his career. I do think
Speaker 3: it's legitimate, So I'll have him as my fifth player.
Speaker 4: I love it. Yeah, someone we talked about. He's someone
Speaker 4: who's on my list, as you know, maybe not as
Speaker 4: much as the hot start, but still, you know, it
Speaker 4: looks legitimate for my mister irrelevant pick. I believe in
Speaker 4: our draft, I'll go with Ben Rice, who I think.
Speaker 4: I don't know if he was on your list, but
Speaker 4: I think he's here to stay.
Speaker 3: I didn't write him down, but I think I thought
Speaker 3: about him.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he's going to be helped by that ballpark. You know,
Speaker 4: any lefty with power in that ballpark is going to
Speaker 4: have some staying power. I don't know that I was
Speaker 4: the biggest Ben Rice believer coming into the season, but
Speaker 4: I do. You know, he's off to a really strong start,
Speaker 4: and it looks pretty believable to me. You know, the
Speaker 4: Yankees obviously believing them. They're batting him at the top
Speaker 4: of their lineup, and he's doing really good things and
Speaker 4: has really you know, good underlying numbers. Pate plate disipen
Speaker 4: looks really good. It's not just like hitting, you know,
Speaker 4: he's getting on base with walks and stuff, and I
Speaker 4: just think he looks like, you know, he is. He
Speaker 4: like a professional hitter who I think, you know, he's
Speaker 4: probably going to get forty home runs out of him,
Speaker 4: but I think, you know, as a Red Sox fan,
Speaker 4: he's going to be a pain in my side, probably
Speaker 4: for the foreseeable future.
Speaker 3: The only other honorable mention that I wanted to throw
Speaker 3: out as somebody that I considered who was on my
Speaker 3: lists and didn't. There are other names on my list,
Speaker 3: but they were more just like down in case I
Speaker 3: had to get there.
Speaker 4: I want to see the name that I have.
Speaker 3: Well, well, I don't know if it will because I
Speaker 3: don't know if he'll count him as a breakout. I
Speaker 3: feel like we have maybe not talked enough about Wyatt Langford.
Speaker 3: I know he had the injury for like a week
Speaker 3: and a half in the middle of April there, but
Speaker 3: like even with that missed time, I mean He's only
Speaker 3: has fifty one at bats this season. He has six
Speaker 3: home runs and four stolen bases. He's batting just under
Speaker 3: three hundred, his ops is over a thousand. There was
Speaker 3: so much hype for him last year and he still
Speaker 3: was being drafted somewhat aggressively, like similar to James Wood.
Speaker 3: I think people were anticipating a step forward. But I
Speaker 3: don't feel like I don't know that we've really mentioned
Speaker 3: his name so far, despite this really strong start to
Speaker 3: the season. Like, I've been really impressed with year two
Speaker 3: Wyatt Langford, and I think this is a legitimate step foward,
Speaker 3: and he is like stepping into his era of being
Speaker 3: like a Shreue fantasy stud rather than a guy with
Speaker 3: hype that we're excited about.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and he was hurt for a little while too,
Speaker 4: so he missed him time and kind of like disappeared
Speaker 4: from the spotlight. Yeah. I think a lot of this
Speaker 4: is just kind of like everyone's like, all right, finally,
Speaker 4: this is what we expected last year.
Speaker 3: So like, but I don't want to like diminish it
Speaker 3: just because we were expecting it a year ago. Like
Speaker 3: it it's an impressive step forward.
Speaker 4: Yeah, No, I think it's it's borderline because you know,
Speaker 4: you did see the flash last year, but not you know,
Speaker 4: it was late.
Speaker 3: So yeah, so, and that's why I didn't include him,
Speaker 3: But I wanted to at least throw his name out there. Yeah,
Speaker 3: it was the guy that you wanted your honorable mention.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I know we have to wrap up, but I
Speaker 4: wanted to mention someone I want to talk about. I
Speaker 4: don't necessarily believe in the breakout, which is why I
Speaker 4: didn't put him on my list, but Petrol Armstrong is
Speaker 4: someone that we probably need to mention just because of
Speaker 4: the run that he's on right now. I thought I
Speaker 4: have some concerns about, you know, the overall profile there,
Speaker 4: but you know, he's off off to like a really
Speaker 4: fun start for the Cubs and for Cubs fans. I
Speaker 4: think some of the production is a little fluky, just
Speaker 4: based on like how hard he's hitting the ball, and
Speaker 4: like some of these home runs, like the one he
Speaker 4: hit the other day was like just it looked like
Speaker 4: a pop fly that like happened to get out like
Speaker 4: to left center. So I think you're going to see
Speaker 4: some inconsistent production there. But I think I don't just
Speaker 4: because of how hot he is right now, I don't
Speaker 4: know that we can talk about breakouts without mentioning what
Speaker 4: he's doing, Otherwise the YouTube comments will get really mad
Speaker 4: at us. But I didn't include him because I don't
Speaker 4: necessarily believe as much in his breakout as I do
Speaker 4: with the other names on this list.
Speaker 3: Please let us know in the comments, guys, breakouts that
Speaker 3: you believe are very legitimate that we that we should
Speaker 3: have given a shout out to in this segment if
Speaker 3: we forgot them, And let us know whose kind of a
Speaker 3: team of breakouts you like better. Reminder, I got Hunter Green,
Speaker 3: Max Meyer, James Wood, Bryce Terrang and Casey miz Mayor
Speaker 3: had Christian Campbell, Tyler Soderstrom, Spencerhtorical Sin, Mackenzie Gore and
Speaker 3: Ben Rice. And remember, it's not who has the better
Speaker 3: group of players, it's whose breakouts are we most believing in.
Speaker 3: We went a little long on that segment, so we'll
Speaker 3: go quickly through our other two segments here. On rounding
Speaker 3: the bases, I just want to throw out some latest
Speaker 3: injury updates. I thought it was hilarious. I pulled up
Speaker 3: I like to just pull up the ESPN like MLB headlines,
Speaker 3: and I do the same on MLB dot Com when
Speaker 3: prepping for the show, just to make sure there's so
Speaker 3: much baseball going on, we're also prepping for the NFL Draft.
Speaker 3: I just want to make sure there was nothing I
Speaker 3: forgot or like totally missed, And all the top headlines
Speaker 3: were about pitcher injuries. So I figured, let's just quickly
Speaker 3: run through these the top headlines. This was as of
Speaker 3: last night. Blake Snell to pause throwing after discomfort, no
Speaker 3: MRI for Christians, Christopher Sanchez, o's Grayson Rodriguez is a
Speaker 3: lot injury, is weeks from throwing. Edwin Diaz is good
Speaker 3: after exiting Mets win with hip issue. The other are
Speaker 3: lesser important names, but then you also threw in a
Speaker 3: non pitcher, Corey Seeger injury as well. So just because
Speaker 3: we want to go quickly here, any of those standout
Speaker 3: as surprising or impactful? I mean, obviously these are some Sanchez, Snell,
Speaker 3: Grayson when he's healthy, like, these are some quality names.
Speaker 3: Edwin Diaz RP one for a lot of people, Like,
Speaker 3: what are your kind of takeaways from these headlines?
Speaker 4: My takeaway is what are we doing with Christopher Sanchez
Speaker 4: not getting an MRI here? Like, like, what's the downside
Speaker 4: and getting an MRI, like I left with.
Speaker 3: I always laugh, Yeah, we know, it's probably not necessary.
Speaker 3: I'm like, you're rich, just do it, Like why not?
Speaker 4: Look, yeah, I was listening to the CBS guys and
Speaker 4: they said, like maybe because he's on the road and
Speaker 4: they're just kind of like delaying until give him an
Speaker 4: MRI when he's back, which I hope, so because like
Speaker 4: why not. Like the guy left with like his velocity
Speaker 4: was down. He left with fore arm soreness. As we
Speaker 4: all know from the last fever years, your forearm was
Speaker 4: connected to your Tommy John and so like like that's
Speaker 4: like the worst case scenario, like if you just like
Speaker 4: they're like, ah, he's fine running back out there, and
Speaker 4: then like now you need Tommy John surgery. Wild that
Speaker 4: they're not giving him an MRI.
Speaker 3: Agreed, I'm considering this like something close to a lost
Speaker 3: season for Grayson Norriguez wasn't optimistic, you know, update rous recently,
Speaker 3: but like I mean, by the time he's actually assuming
Speaker 3: everything goes well, by the time he's actually able to
Speaker 3: contribute to your fantasy team, it's I'm assuming it's gonna
Speaker 3: be like July like that the raid. This is going so,
Speaker 3: and you know, Blake Snell, obviously you don't like to
Speaker 3: see a guy pause throwing with discomfort. And then you
Speaker 3: wrote down Corey Seeger like I.
Speaker 4: Said, yeah, that one happened late, and it's just like, well,
Speaker 4: there's another shortstop yeah in.
Speaker 3: There too, all right, And then we'll wrap up here
Speaker 3: with your way too early risers and followers. Some of
Speaker 3: these names we've already hit on, so you can go
Speaker 3: quickly through them and maybe just spend a little more
Speaker 3: time on the names that we haven't already discussed. Let's
Speaker 3: start with the risers, and I will just read some
Speaker 3: of the names that you wrote down that we've already
Speaker 3: talked about, Spencer Torakles and Tyler Soderstrom, Max Meyer, Hunter Green,
Speaker 3: Christian Campbell. We're all just drafted so we know you
Speaker 3: like them. If you want to quickly hit on maybe
Speaker 3: how far they've risen, you can. But those names we've
Speaker 3: already kind of dived into.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't want to go through how far they've risen,
Speaker 4: just because it might take me a while to look
Speaker 4: back and forth because I didn't write down how far
Speaker 4: they've risen. But what I did beforehand was I took
Speaker 4: my draft rankings, and I put them next to my
Speaker 4: rest of season rankings, and I just kind of like
Speaker 4: ran you know, I ran it through trying TBT just
Speaker 4: to see all. I was like, how about who's moved
Speaker 4: the most here? Just kind of figured like that was
Speaker 4: the fastest way to do it. There were some other
Speaker 4: names that like, you know, maybe they got hurt so
Speaker 4: they got they got you know, dropped off the list.
Speaker 4: So I didn't include guys like that, but I included
Speaker 4: the guys that you mentioned, like they've like you know,
Speaker 4: shot up my list. Tyler Schroderstrom for obvious reasons, Dorklesin
Speaker 4: for obvious reasons. Max Meyer. You know, we've all we've
Speaker 4: talked about these guys the tooth that weren't on my
Speaker 4: that we didn't talk about. They're not really breakout candidates,
Speaker 4: which is why we didn't talk about him. Trevor's story
Speaker 4: was off to like an incredible start, someone that I
Speaker 4: grabbed late in a lot of drafts. But I've had
Speaker 4: to move up in my rankings just because he's off
Speaker 4: to a really good start. Obviously they concerned there, which
Speaker 4: Trevis story is always injury, but it is you know,
Speaker 4: encouraging to see him, you know, hitting in the middle
Speaker 4: of that lineup, hitting for power, stealing bases, going the
Speaker 4: other way off to really you know, strong start. And
Speaker 4: then Nico Horner, who I kind of had buried in
Speaker 4: my rankings just because he was hurt coming into the year,
Speaker 4: and I was like, I don't know when we're gonna
Speaker 4: see Nico Horner. I don't know if he's gonna run
Speaker 4: as much when he comes back. And it was like boom,
Speaker 4: he's ready for the start a season and he looks
Speaker 4: like the Nico Horner of old. And so I've had
Speaker 4: to shoot him back up my rankings because he looks
Speaker 4: really good and he's producing, you know, better than a
Speaker 4: lot of other second basement. But I had ranked ahead
Speaker 4: of him coming into the year.
Speaker 3: How about your followers?
Speaker 4: So followers, no breakouts on the followers list for obvious reasons,
Speaker 4: but I had Lane Thomas Spencer Steer, Mark Ventos, Tristan Cassas,
Speaker 4: Michael Tolia, Matt Shaw, and Rokie Sasaki. Rookie Sasaki is
Speaker 4: probably the most interesting name there just he's someone who,
Speaker 4: like throughout draft season who was like, you know, I
Speaker 4: had him ranked here, had him ranked here, like moving
Speaker 4: him up and down. I didn't know what to expect,
Speaker 4: and then we got like a kind of a glimpse
Speaker 4: of him over in the Overseas series and I was like,
Speaker 4: all right, it looks pretty good. But now you know,
Speaker 4: it's like some things look good, some things look not
Speaker 4: so good, and so I've had to have to, Like
Speaker 4: I think right before the season, I like moved him
Speaker 4: up a little bit in my rankings, I've had to
Speaker 4: drop him down just based on like what I'm seeing.
Speaker 4: Lane Thomas is someone I wasn't really high on coming
Speaker 4: into the year. I feel like, always felt like he
Speaker 4: was just kind of like a I've still had to
Speaker 4: drop him just because I've had to drop him into
Speaker 4: rankings and he's like borderline droppable and fantasy because of
Speaker 4: how bad he's been. Spencer Steer similar thing. He's someone
Speaker 4: I was high on, but I've had to drop because
Speaker 4: he's just off to like a horrible start. I tweeted
Speaker 4: abut him yesterday and I got a couple of replies
Speaker 4: of people saying, you know, I just don't think that
Speaker 4: shoulder's right. I think he's still hurt. Maybe that's the case.
Speaker 4: I don't know. Mark Vandos is someone I was pretty
Speaker 4: interested in coming into the season. I've had to drop
Speaker 4: him off after his slow start, although he has been
Speaker 4: heating up a little bit more of late. Same thing
Speaker 4: for Tristan Kassas, I was hoping he would be like
Speaker 4: a value at first base. He got off to an
Speaker 4: atrocious start. He's changed his batting stance recently. It might
Speaker 4: be a little bit better. But first base is kind
Speaker 4: of surprisingly deep now because of some of the names
Speaker 4: we've already talked about, like Toorkal San and Sworderstrom and
Speaker 4: Nick Kurtz coming up, that you just pretty much don't
Speaker 4: have to roster him in most leagues right now. Michael Tolia,
Speaker 4: I knew was a risk coming into the season, but
Speaker 4: I was hoping to get some power out of him
Speaker 4: not getting out there. Matt Shaw, obviously we talk about
Speaker 4: on this show. Everyone's excited about him. He got up
Speaker 4: to such a slow star that he's already down in
Speaker 4: the minors, so he's an obvious follower on my rankings.
Speaker 3: All right, we'll go ahead and wrap up. There be
Speaker 3: sure everybody to check out please our parts two and three.
Speaker 3: We'll be talking some buys and sells, some waiver pickups,
Speaker 3: and some streaming pictures as well. For Mayor, I'm Ron Warman.
Speaker 3: Thanks for tuning in to this part of the cycle,
Speaker 3: so we'll see you again for the other parts. Thanks
Speaker 3: for listening to the Fantasy Pros Fantasy Baseball podcast. If
Speaker 3: you love the show, the best freeway to support us
Speaker 3: is by leaving a positive review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify.
Speaker 3: Follow us on x, Instagram, and TikTok at Fantasy Pros,
Speaker 3: and subscribe to our YouTube channel at YouTube dot com
Speaker 3: slash Fantasy Pros MLB