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Yeah, 0:00:55.480 --> 0:01:15.680 all right, now, welcome your host by Roman God, Rob 0:01:15.840 --> 0:01:25.800 Sat Francis practice stand ball ladies and gentlemen. Your pictures 0:01:25.800 --> 0:01:28.840 and catchers are reporting the Red Sox might have a 0:01:28.880 --> 0:01:33.960 new manager and we perhaps could have a new MLB 0:01:34.040 --> 0:01:37.319 playoff format. Welcome to the Fantasy BFS live on the 0:01:37.319 --> 0:01:40.959 Sports Grade TV Network. I am Frank Stanfeld, joined as 0:01:41.000 --> 0:01:44.440 always by gregs Bank. Gregory, what's going on over in 0:01:44.480 --> 0:01:51.200 the FANDUL Sports Book? How's it going? Greg pray Age, Dude, 0:01:51.200 --> 0:01:53.800 I'm doing fantastically, man. I'm happy to be here, happy 0:01:53.840 --> 0:01:56.680 to be inside the FanDuel Sports Book. I didn't want 0:01:56.680 --> 0:01:59.160 to be next to you, of course. In success I'm not. 0:01:59.440 --> 0:02:02.160 That's okay, I'm good, all right. Right, you're looking a 0:02:02.160 --> 0:02:03.760 little short in that chair, so we might have to 0:02:03.840 --> 0:02:05.280 raise you up a little bit, or you might have 0:02:05.320 --> 0:02:07.200 to grow up a little bit. I don't know if 0:02:07.200 --> 0:02:10.639 we can make that happen, but maybe window Wilkins kind 0:02:10.680 --> 0:02:13.639 of the same size. Frank, Yeah, but I didn't look 0:02:13.680 --> 0:02:15.040 that small. I don't know. You might have sunk the 0:02:15.120 --> 0:02:20.080 chair down a little bit. Here's saying a fat. No, 0:02:20.200 --> 0:02:23.280 I would never say that. Come on, Greg, Come on, man, 0:02:23.440 --> 0:02:25.200 it feels like it feels like you're saying a fat 0:02:25.320 --> 0:02:28.480 I would never say anything like that. Greg. We have 0:02:28.520 --> 0:02:34.000 a lot of interesting pictures and catchers. You're taged. I 0:02:34.000 --> 0:02:35.800 didn't even prompt him to do that either. He just 0:02:35.840 --> 0:02:41.320 did it on his own. He just went out there. Fantastic. Yeah, great, 0:02:42.280 --> 0:02:47.400 not much, man. I just sleep last night, buddy, you 0:02:47.400 --> 0:02:49.640 know what. I stlefed all right, I had some James. 0:02:49.639 --> 0:02:51.240 I was up early. This might not really having to 0:02:51.240 --> 0:02:54.000 be up early. My phone was buzzing. I just I 0:02:54.000 --> 0:02:55.560 don't know, I have Okay, I did you sleep, man? 0:02:56.280 --> 0:02:58.480 I slept all right, not bad, of course. I stayed 0:02:58.520 --> 0:03:01.760 up too late as usual, But I'll try and rectify 0:03:01.880 --> 0:03:06.040 that tonight pitcherton catchers coming up after this news update 0:03:06.120 --> 0:03:17.680 that you will hear from alex Fasana Sports Grade News upda, 0:03:18.639 --> 0:03:21.800 I am alex Fasana with your sports grid news update 0:03:21.880 --> 0:03:25.240 here on the fantasy b f f's in Major League Baseball. 0:03:25.280 --> 0:03:28.640 The Boston Red Sox will name Ron Rennicky interim general 0:03:28.840 --> 0:03:31.920 manager a day before the first scheduled workout for pitchers 0:03:31.960 --> 0:03:36.000 and catchers, sources tell ESPN. Boston entered spring training without 0:03:36.000 --> 0:03:39.880 a skipper following the abrupt and shocking departure in January 0:03:39.880 --> 0:03:43.040 of Alex Cora following Major League Baseball's investigation into the 0:03:43.040 --> 0:03:47.400 astro's sign stealing scandal, leaving new Chief Baseball Officer hium 0:03:47.560 --> 0:03:50.560 Bloom to conduct an abbreviated job search a month before 0:03:50.560 --> 0:03:53.400 spring training. Boston is expected to hold a press conference 0:03:53.560 --> 0:03:57.040 tonight to announce Rennicky as interim manager. The move was 0:03:57.080 --> 0:04:00.240 first reported by The Boston Globe the sixty three World. 0:04:00.240 --> 0:04:03.160 Rennicky arrived in Boston with alex Cora before the two 0:04:03.160 --> 0:04:07.400 thousand seventeen season, serving as bench coach. Sticking with Major 0:04:07.440 --> 0:04:12.160 League Baseball, officials are mulling significant changes to its postseason, 0:04:12.320 --> 0:04:15.360 including increasing number of teams from ten to fourteen, and 0:04:15.400 --> 0:04:18.760 adding a reality TV type format to determine which teams 0:04:18.760 --> 0:04:22.359 play each other in an an expanded wild card round. 0:04:22.560 --> 0:04:24.840 Major League Baseball it's considering a move in which each 0:04:24.920 --> 0:04:28.320 league would have three division winners and four wild card teams. 0:04:28.480 --> 0:04:30.400 Here's how it would work. Once the team's clinched the 0:04:30.480 --> 0:04:33.480 regular season ends, the division winner with the second best 0:04:33.480 --> 0:04:36.040 record would select its wild card opponent from three winners. 0:04:36.240 --> 0:04:38.280 The division winner with the worst record would then choose 0:04:38.279 --> 0:04:40.800 its opponent from the remaining two teams, and the final 0:04:40.880 --> 0:04:43.680 matchup would be the wild card winner with the best 0:04:43.720 --> 0:04:46.880 record taking on the wild card team not yet chosen. 0:04:47.080 --> 0:04:49.440 All of the selection source, it said, would be unveiled 0:04:49.480 --> 0:04:52.200 live on television the Sunday night of the final regular 0:04:52.240 --> 0:04:54.760 season games. You have a full slate of NBA, NHL, 0:04:54.839 --> 0:04:57.000 and college basketball. Some you may want to consider. The 0:04:57.080 --> 0:04:59.920 Chicago Bulls take on the Washington Wizards. Wizards are your 0:05:00.040 --> 0:05:02.599 three point favorites. The total is two thirty. The Los 0:05:02.640 --> 0:05:06.000 Angeles Clippers visit the Philadelphia seventy six Clippers are your 0:05:06.000 --> 0:05:08.400 point and a half favorites. Total is two five and 0:05:08.440 --> 0:05:11.240 a half, and the San Antonio Spurs visit the Oklahoma 0:05:11.320 --> 0:05:13.800 City Thunder. Thunder are your eight and a half point favorites? 0:05:13.880 --> 0:05:17.000 The total is to eight. I'm sorry, what's that? Oh? 0:05:17.000 --> 0:05:19.480 We have some breaking news ladies and gentlemen and your 0:05:19.480 --> 0:05:24.960 bffsh it. Apparently seems that Greg Sussman turns fifty three today. 0:05:25.000 --> 0:05:30.039 Happy birthday, Greg Sussman from your BF Frankie Stamfull alright, 0:05:30.040 --> 0:05:31.800 gonna send it back to the BFFs. What do you 0:05:31.839 --> 0:05:45.320 have to say about this? Greg Sussman is turning fifty three? Greg, 0:05:45.320 --> 0:05:50.800 how does it feel to be running around at that age? Well, 0:05:50.839 --> 0:05:54.640 frank when I saw you earlier said now, I'm game 0:05:55.160 --> 0:05:57.320 ten more years in the two hours since I last 0:05:57.320 --> 0:05:59.760 saw you. Uh so, it does not feel great to 0:05:59.880 --> 0:06:01.800 be three years old. It does feel better to be 0:06:01.920 --> 0:06:06.080 slightly younger. Happy birthday, of course to Greg Sousman. Fun fact, 0:06:06.120 --> 0:06:08.840 he has never invited me to his birthday party, and 0:06:08.880 --> 0:06:12.919 because of that, I had our producer downstairs, Sandro, create 0:06:13.000 --> 0:06:16.680 this fantastic video montage highlighting the life of Greg Susman 0:06:16.760 --> 0:06:29.599 here now on the BFS. That's a great one. That 0:06:29.600 --> 0:06:33.360 was Halloween. Greg didn't fight me there either, You were 0:06:33.400 --> 0:06:35.360 inviting you in your own party didn't come. That's the 0:06:35.440 --> 0:06:39.480 last time Greg Sustman did push ups. He likes pizza, 0:06:39.839 --> 0:06:44.280 he likes there's no doubt about that. Oh, how can 0:06:44.279 --> 0:06:48.159 we forget the Sun Games last year? That was That 0:06:48.240 --> 0:06:53.400 was last year. Greck Susman was left home alone once 0:06:53.800 --> 0:06:56.960 and there you go, the Grand Final. That's my wedding. 0:06:57.080 --> 0:07:01.640 There you go. That's right, celebrating the life of Greg 0:07:01.680 --> 0:07:05.760 Susten here on the Fantasy BFS. But no, honestly, heppy birthday, buddy? 0:07:06.279 --> 0:07:09.119 Are you doing? Can we say how it is? Frank? 0:07:10.520 --> 0:07:12.640 Can we can we say it how it is? What? 0:07:12.880 --> 0:07:17.960 What's what's really happening here? Because last Saturday you were 0:07:18.000 --> 0:07:20.080 next door to my apartment. He said, Hey, I'm coming by, 0:07:20.120 --> 0:07:22.520 and I'm like, cool, let me know when you're around. 0:07:23.080 --> 0:07:26.000 You did it. I also would like to note yesterday 0:07:26.080 --> 0:07:28.920 on this very show, you mentioned the fact that Hey, 0:07:28.960 --> 0:07:35.160 tomorrow's dands be Swanson's birthday, not realizing, knowing, noticing that 0:07:35.320 --> 0:07:39.760 it's your bf's burthday. What the hell? Man? Well, to 0:07:39.800 --> 0:07:43.240 be fair, on Saturday, I was very inebriated, so I 0:07:43.280 --> 0:07:46.120 apologize for that. I definitely should have hit you up 0:07:46.120 --> 0:07:47.760 when I got to the city. So that is my 0:07:47.920 --> 0:07:50.920 bad um. And then look, I can give you a 0:07:50.960 --> 0:07:53.880 little bit of not just in the city, not just 0:07:54.080 --> 0:07:58.400 in the city next door to my apartment, Greg, I 0:07:58.400 --> 0:07:59.960 thought I would give you a taste of your own 0:08:00.120 --> 0:08:02.600 us in by shouting out Dan's by Swanson, but not 0:08:02.640 --> 0:08:05.120 shouting out your birthday considering I've never been invited to 0:08:05.160 --> 0:08:10.840 your birthday party. Uh. You I threw you a massive 0:08:10.880 --> 0:08:13.480 birthday party on your birthday on November nine this year, 0:08:13.520 --> 0:08:15.520 did I not? And that's why I'm throwing you a 0:08:15.560 --> 0:08:18.560 massive birthday party right now. Did you see that video montage? 0:08:18.640 --> 0:08:23.920 That was amazing? It was a fantastic video montage, There's 0:08:23.960 --> 0:08:27.520 no doubt about it. I will say, however, Frankie uh 0:08:27.600 --> 0:08:29.800 that this morning, when you realized it was my birthday, 0:08:29.960 --> 0:08:32.160 you felt bad and that was good enough for me. 0:08:33.000 --> 0:08:34.760 I have no idea what you're talking about. Time to 0:08:34.800 --> 0:08:37.920 move over to the new MLB playoff for Matt Greg 0:08:38.360 --> 0:08:40.280 Uh tell us when you think about this. Obviously, We're 0:08:40.280 --> 0:08:42.080 not gonna spend too much time talking about this today. 0:08:42.080 --> 0:08:43.760 I really do want to get into some of the 0:08:43.760 --> 0:08:46.559 pictures and catchers that are very interesting and fantasy baseball 0:08:46.800 --> 0:08:49.760 for the season, But I think we would be remissed 0:08:49.760 --> 0:08:51.880 not to at least mentioned talk about this at the 0:08:51.920 --> 0:08:55.000 top of the show. Here, Greg, expanding the playoff format 0:08:55.040 --> 0:08:59.760 to potentially fourteen teams with four with four wild card 0:08:59.760 --> 0:09:02.800 team is potentially making it uh. And then they would 0:09:02.800 --> 0:09:05.360 have a reality TV show, which I'm sure you would love, 0:09:05.960 --> 0:09:08.080 where they get to choose their opponents in the wild 0:09:08.120 --> 0:09:10.280 card round. It would be a two out of three 0:09:10.679 --> 0:09:13.440 game playoff in the wild card round as well, and 0:09:13.440 --> 0:09:15.559 if you finish as the number one seed, you get 0:09:15.600 --> 0:09:19.120 a first round wild card by into the divisional round. 0:09:19.160 --> 0:09:21.520 So let us know what you think about this proposed 0:09:21.600 --> 0:09:26.040 MLB playoff format, because Trevor Bauer is somebody who frankly 0:09:26.120 --> 0:09:28.000 hates it. Craig, you have to at least like the 0:09:28.040 --> 0:09:32.560 reality show part of it, right, So what do you 0:09:32.960 --> 0:09:35.520 What do you think I think of this? That's my question. 0:09:37.040 --> 0:09:40.640 I think that you are somebody who's usually up for change. Uh. 0:09:40.679 --> 0:09:42.760 If we if we can find ways to innovate the 0:09:42.800 --> 0:09:44.679 game and make the things better. I don't know if 0:09:44.679 --> 0:09:48.080 this necessarily makes it better. Um, but the reality show 0:09:48.080 --> 0:09:50.920 thing actually sounds kind of interesting to me. I think 0:09:50.920 --> 0:09:53.840 all along the wild card round should be two out 0:09:53.880 --> 0:09:55.600 of three games. Anyway, I don't think that one game 0:09:55.640 --> 0:09:58.079 should control whether or not you make it to the playoffs. 0:09:58.120 --> 0:10:02.080 After playing one sixty two games of baseball, I think 0:10:02.120 --> 0:10:04.880 that you would. I think there are parts of it 0:10:04.920 --> 0:10:06.439 that you would like and then there are other parts 0:10:06.440 --> 0:10:13.520 that you wouldn't like. Does that sound accurate? It does, Frank, However, 0:10:13.800 --> 0:10:15.319 I got me honest with you. I kept seeing all 0:10:15.360 --> 0:10:19.000 these these tweets and whatnot about us just killing the 0:10:19.000 --> 0:10:22.240 game of baseball, that half the teams are gonna make it, 0:10:22.280 --> 0:10:25.560 no one's gonna try. My initial reaction was to be 0:10:25.640 --> 0:10:28.760 against change. I like it, man. I think it's super, 0:10:28.760 --> 0:10:31.720 super fun. I think the reality show aspects was choosing 0:10:31.760 --> 0:10:33.800 your opponent, and then nobody who believes in this theory 0:10:33.960 --> 0:10:36.040 like I think there's something to be said for that. 0:10:36.640 --> 0:10:38.800 I think it's fun, and I'm all about fun. I 0:10:38.840 --> 0:10:41.080 am in I'll tell you what, these rules are better 0:10:41.080 --> 0:10:44.240 than the NBA All Star rules. I can assure you that, Yeah, 0:10:44.280 --> 0:10:46.880 that's exactly what I brought up on FFC earlier today 0:10:46.920 --> 0:10:50.200 with Craig mish uh. The I understand trying to honor Kobe, 0:10:50.240 --> 0:10:52.120 which is great, but the way that they went about 0:10:52.160 --> 0:10:56.319 it is so like convoluted and random and not really necessary. 0:10:56.600 --> 0:10:59.000 Um there are you know, there are things that I 0:10:59.040 --> 0:11:01.480 do like about this at and I like the wild 0:11:01.480 --> 0:11:03.559 Card round being two out of three games. I don't 0:11:03.559 --> 0:11:04.959 think that it should just come down to a one 0:11:05.000 --> 0:11:07.720 game playoff. I understand why they do that is because 0:11:07.720 --> 0:11:10.360 they want to drive up ratings for that one specific game, 0:11:10.720 --> 0:11:13.440 so they're trying to help baseball in that regard. But 0:11:13.559 --> 0:11:15.680 at the same time, like they do that in the NFL, 0:11:16.040 --> 0:11:18.560 and they only play a sixteen game season, you can't 0:11:18.559 --> 0:11:20.920 have a one game playoff for a one hundred and 0:11:21.000 --> 0:11:25.040 sixty two game MLB season. As for all the other stuff, 0:11:25.320 --> 0:11:27.200 it's pretty wacky. I don't know that we should have 0:11:27.200 --> 0:11:29.160 fourteen teams. I don't know that we should have a 0:11:29.160 --> 0:11:31.160 reality show either, But I do like the three game 0:11:31.160 --> 0:11:33.560 playoff in the wild Card round. All right, we come 0:11:33.559 --> 0:11:36.760 back five pitchers and five catchers that are interesting in 0:11:36.760 --> 0:11:40.559 fantasy Baseball. 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Frank stamfle gregg saucemen hanging out 0:12:35.440 --> 0:12:38.000 with you. I am in Jersey at the Vanduel Sports 0:12:38.040 --> 0:12:41.679 Book wasting my birthday presents away and gambling. Uh. Frank 0:12:41.679 --> 0:12:44.839 Stample is not, but he wishes he was. Frankie has 0:12:44.840 --> 0:12:47.920 a hanging I'm doing very well, Greggy. Kind of wish 0:12:47.920 --> 0:12:51.240 you were here in studios so that we can have 0:12:51.280 --> 0:12:54.000 a little fun here birthday celebration. Blow up some balloons 0:12:54.040 --> 0:12:55.240 or something, but you know what you were in here, 0:12:55.280 --> 0:12:56.960 so I wasn't gonna blow up the balloons for myself, 0:12:57.000 --> 0:12:59.640 you know, just didn't make sense. It didn't feel I 0:13:00.640 --> 0:13:02.079 knew there was no way you would go out of 0:13:02.080 --> 0:13:03.839 your right in low balloons for a studio without me 0:13:03.920 --> 0:13:06.240 in it. You'd think that window Will or Brian would 0:13:06.280 --> 0:13:07.960 do it, but they haven't. That's okay, no big deal. 0:13:08.280 --> 0:13:10.800 They're new, they're they're still being trained on the party 0:13:10.840 --> 0:13:14.360 aspects over the job. But today, other than my birthday 0:13:14.480 --> 0:13:18.840 and other than Dance by Swanson's birthday, today is pictures 0:13:18.840 --> 0:13:21.800 and Catchers. So here on the BFFs, we thought, well, 0:13:21.840 --> 0:13:25.760 what should we talk about? We decided on on Pictures 0:13:25.760 --> 0:13:27.960 and Catchers because they thought it made sense. We're not 0:13:28.000 --> 0:13:30.440 just any pictures. We talked a lot about Garrett Cole, 0:13:30.559 --> 0:13:33.280 Justin very Lander, Max Scherzer, and Jacob de Graham. But 0:13:33.320 --> 0:13:35.600 today here on the program, we wanted to get into 0:13:35.600 --> 0:13:38.280 some of the I don't know, the the hotter names, right, 0:13:38.320 --> 0:13:40.400 some of these guys that you're getting a little bit later, 0:13:40.480 --> 0:13:42.520 but people are really interested in talking about and we 0:13:42.559 --> 0:13:45.680 haven't exactly gotten that opportunity to talk about that quite yet. 0:13:45.880 --> 0:13:48.160 So we wanted to start with some of these bigger names, 0:13:48.160 --> 0:13:49.760 and Franks like, oh, I like this guy, like this guy, 0:13:49.840 --> 0:13:51.560 like this guy, like this guy. Well, I want to 0:13:51.559 --> 0:13:53.839 know which which guy I'm supposed to like? And until 0:13:53.880 --> 0:13:56.839 Frank tells me, I simply don't know. So let me 0:13:57.000 --> 0:14:00.000 start with I would to call him a hype guy necessarily, 0:14:00.080 --> 0:14:02.640 but he came out last year a little bit of 0:14:02.960 --> 0:14:05.480 aura around him. It was Griffin Canning all of the 0:14:05.520 --> 0:14:08.160 Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim up and down. Hear he 0:14:08.200 --> 0:14:11.679 was a fine streamer in most locations this year. While 0:14:11.760 --> 0:14:14.360 there's a little bit more hype in general, What do you, 0:14:14.520 --> 0:14:17.840 sir think, Frank Standfeld, I mean boy Griffin Door Canning. 0:14:18.760 --> 0:14:20.840 I like Griffin Canning, Greg and I think a lot 0:14:20.880 --> 0:14:23.800 of these pictures have something in common where they have 0:14:23.960 --> 0:14:27.080 some prospect pedigree. They didn't necessarily pan out the first 0:14:27.120 --> 0:14:29.560 time they came up to the MLB, but we have 0:14:29.640 --> 0:14:32.360 seen some flashes, and I think that is the case 0:14:32.400 --> 0:14:34.720 from Griffin Canning. He has the pedigree, as I mentioned, 0:14:34.720 --> 0:14:37.560 a former second round pick for the Los Angeles Angels 0:14:37.600 --> 0:14:39.920 of Anaheim. And he has a four pitch mix right 0:14:39.960 --> 0:14:41.600 A lot of these A lot of times we'll see 0:14:41.600 --> 0:14:44.920 these prospects come up and they'll only have two pitches 0:14:45.280 --> 0:14:47.600 that they've really, you know, mastered, and they're still working 0:14:47.640 --> 0:14:49.880 on a third pitch. He has four pitches that he 0:14:50.000 --> 0:14:53.440 uses a decent amount of the time. He has a fastball, 0:14:53.480 --> 0:14:56.240 a curve, a slider, and a change. All four of 0:14:56.280 --> 0:14:59.280 those pitches he uses at least twelve percent of the time, 0:14:59.480 --> 0:15:02.280 or at least that was the case last year. We 0:15:02.320 --> 0:15:04.880 saw some warning signs in the second half, Greg, but 0:15:05.000 --> 0:15:07.480 I think that he can, you know, kind of rectify 0:15:07.600 --> 0:15:09.680 that this upcoming season, and he's a name to watch 0:15:09.720 --> 0:15:13.000 throughout spring training and kind of see if he's worked 0:15:13.000 --> 0:15:15.200 on some of these issues. He had some struggles with 0:15:15.240 --> 0:15:17.440 walks in the second half. We saw the string swinging 0:15:17.440 --> 0:15:19.720 strike create come back a little bit. It dropped about 0:15:19.760 --> 0:15:22.880 two percent in the second half here, Greg, but overall 0:15:22.920 --> 0:15:27.200 still finishes the season his first rookie campaign ninety innings 0:15:27.280 --> 0:15:31.120 pitched with over a strikeout per ending with a nearly 0:15:31.240 --> 0:15:35.480 fourteen percent strikeout right. So the swinging misses there, it's exciting, 0:15:35.920 --> 0:15:38.160 and I think the strikeouts could be there as well. 0:15:38.240 --> 0:15:39.760 He's got to work on some of that command, as 0:15:39.760 --> 0:15:41.840 I mentioned, but that's something that you should be paying 0:15:41.880 --> 0:15:45.360 attention to throughout spring training. I like Griffin Canning and 0:15:45.600 --> 0:15:47.920 where he's going right now in in the month of 0:15:47.960 --> 0:15:51.920 February to twenty three and NFPC drafts. He's you know, 0:15:51.960 --> 0:15:53.560 you can get him as your back end of your 0:15:53.640 --> 0:15:57.160 rotation guy SP five, s P six, And I think 0:15:57.160 --> 0:15:59.280 there's some upside there with Griffin from Canning. You know, 0:15:59.320 --> 0:16:02.080 what have you seen so far when looking into him? 0:16:02.160 --> 0:16:04.640 Have I said anything that entices you when it comes 0:16:04.640 --> 0:16:09.160 to rim Canning in Greg, I think the strike guts 0:16:09.160 --> 0:16:11.640 are nice, frank Um, as you mentioned, but you look 0:16:11.680 --> 0:16:14.240 at the walks, you know about three walks per nine mediocre. 0:16:14.440 --> 0:16:16.880 I think the X fit right around where he was, 0:16:17.360 --> 0:16:19.680 uh just a few just last year, right, four point 0:16:19.680 --> 0:16:21.440 five eight e r a four point seven to five 0:16:21.640 --> 0:16:23.600 X fit, so kind of kind of right around the 0:16:23.640 --> 0:16:26.560 same number of the homeboard in the football ratio wasn't 0:16:26.600 --> 0:16:29.640 all that different for it wasn't all that below average 0:16:29.680 --> 0:16:32.440 or above average. It was, you know, lee average. I 0:16:32.480 --> 0:16:34.200 think grimmy cannon kind of is what it is. I 0:16:34.200 --> 0:16:35.840 don't know if I see the potential for him to 0:16:35.920 --> 0:16:39.800 explode all of a sudden. It's the swing and miss stuff, right. 0:16:39.840 --> 0:16:41.840 So you see that rate that he had thirteen point 0:16:41.920 --> 0:16:44.520 eight percent, and again I do worry about it's dropping 0:16:44.520 --> 0:16:47.480 about two percent in the second half, so he does 0:16:47.560 --> 0:16:49.320 have to kind of get that swinging miss back up. 0:16:49.320 --> 0:16:51.000 The fact that he has four pitches that he can 0:16:51.080 --> 0:16:53.840 use at least twelve percent of the time is very 0:16:53.880 --> 0:16:56.000 interesting to me because he has that repertoire. He has 0:16:56.040 --> 0:16:58.320 a pitch mix that he can you know, kind of 0:16:58.600 --> 0:17:00.920 keep hitters off balance here, uh, and go to four 0:17:00.920 --> 0:17:03.800 different pitches this upcoming season. Remember when he first came up, 0:17:03.920 --> 0:17:06.240 we were all excited about him because you know, you 0:17:06.240 --> 0:17:07.840 could see it when he was on the mound. He 0:17:07.920 --> 0:17:09.800 has the stuff, Greg. He kind of just has to 0:17:09.840 --> 0:17:12.119 learn how to put it all together and pitch at 0:17:12.160 --> 0:17:13.960 the major league level. But I think when you see 0:17:13.960 --> 0:17:16.800 that near fourteen percent swinging strike rate, that kind of, 0:17:16.840 --> 0:17:20.000 you know, raises some light bulbs and gets your attention here. 0:17:21.560 --> 0:17:24.080 So I think that, you know, again, if he can 0:17:24.160 --> 0:17:26.400 just kind of bring those walks back a little bit, 0:17:26.680 --> 0:17:29.439 swinging strikes bounce back, uh, someone to pay attention to 0:17:29.520 --> 0:17:32.280 throughout spring training again. But I I like the pitch 0:17:32.359 --> 0:17:34.920 mix here. And you know, he's not the player that 0:17:34.960 --> 0:17:37.440 I'm most excited about that we're going to talk about today, 0:17:37.480 --> 0:17:40.280 but he is somebody that is on my radar. I'll 0:17:40.280 --> 0:17:42.800 probably have ten teams this year, Greg, I'm probably gonna 0:17:42.840 --> 0:17:44.600 want him on let's say two or three of them. 0:17:46.640 --> 0:17:52.960 That's too many teams in general. Frank, You're right, But nevertheless, 0:17:53.119 --> 0:17:56.040 here I think that Griffin Canning. Yeah, the repertoires fair. 0:17:56.119 --> 0:17:57.879 I think he does star with four pitches, which is great. 0:17:58.200 --> 0:18:00.719 I do wonder how it will translateually as respective will 0:18:00.760 --> 0:18:03.080 strike more guys out, we'll have more success. I don't know, 0:18:03.440 --> 0:18:05.360 but I'm kind of mediocre right now when it comes 0:18:05.359 --> 0:18:07.600 to Griffin Canning like that last year started off this 0:18:07.640 --> 0:18:10.480 season really really well. Was your boy Caleb Smith bring 0:18:10.520 --> 0:18:13.159 Yankee prospect Caleb Smith? And I know you were upset 0:18:13.240 --> 0:18:15.879 last year. Uh, they didn't have more of Caleb Smith, 0:18:15.920 --> 0:18:17.600 and in fact, at the time you ended up more 0:18:17.600 --> 0:18:19.800 of the Marlin's rotation who were all pitching pretty well. 0:18:20.000 --> 0:18:22.439 Caleb Smith didn't drop off in the second half, but 0:18:22.560 --> 0:18:25.000 Caleb Smith someone that's at least we're talking about that 0:18:25.000 --> 0:18:29.040 strikeout rates awesome, Yeah, absolutely, Greg, and the first eleven starts, 0:18:29.040 --> 0:18:31.240 I mean, that's what that's what really catches your attention. 0:18:31.320 --> 0:18:34.000 Three point one oh e r A and a whip 0:18:34.080 --> 0:18:36.800 under one a zero point nine seven whip his first 0:18:36.800 --> 0:18:40.360 eleven starts of the season, thirty four percent strike out rate, 0:18:40.440 --> 0:18:43.639 fueled by a fifteen percent swinging strike rate. So we 0:18:43.680 --> 0:18:46.359 mentioned that Griffin Canny is someone that gets swinging strikes 0:18:46.359 --> 0:18:49.320 that in your fourteen percent clip and league averages right 0:18:49.359 --> 0:18:51.960 around UH ten ten and a half percent. To put 0:18:51.960 --> 0:18:54.480 that in perspective for you, Caleb Smith was even better 0:18:54.560 --> 0:18:56.600 than that. UH and he had a you know, a 0:18:56.600 --> 0:18:59.159 thirty five percent chase rate, which is higher than the 0:18:59.200 --> 0:19:02.720 league average average right around thirty. So he gets opposing 0:19:02.720 --> 0:19:05.560 batters to swing and miss, he gets him to chase 0:19:05.600 --> 0:19:09.160 pitches outside of the zone. He's got a solid fastball, 0:19:09.200 --> 0:19:11.400 he's got a slider uh and he's got a change. 0:19:11.440 --> 0:19:13.359 He's he's got a three pitch mix, not like Griffin 0:19:13.400 --> 0:19:15.800 Canny has a four pitch mix, but his three pitches 0:19:15.840 --> 0:19:19.800 are really really solid. Reminds me a lot of Patrick Corbyn, 0:19:19.880 --> 0:19:22.600 right Like, if he can just continue to use that 0:19:22.640 --> 0:19:25.840 slider even more this upcoming season, I think that we 0:19:25.880 --> 0:19:29.200 can really see Caleb Smith kind of take off. Second 0:19:29.240 --> 0:19:31.440 half was was a disaster. Once he got hurt, he 0:19:31.520 --> 0:19:35.000 dealt with like a hip injury, everything really went downhill 0:19:35.040 --> 0:19:37.119 for him. But I mentioned this to you, Greg, if 0:19:37.160 --> 0:19:39.960 he ended the season with that eleven star stretch that 0:19:40.040 --> 0:19:42.240 we saw in in the first half of the season, 0:19:42.560 --> 0:19:45.080 then he would be going about fifty six, fifty or 0:19:45.160 --> 0:19:47.680 sixty picks earlier than where he is going right now. 0:19:47.880 --> 0:19:50.119 So people kind of forgot what he did in that 0:19:50.240 --> 0:19:51.919 first half and they get scared off by what he 0:19:51.960 --> 0:19:54.000 did in the second half. But I really do believe 0:19:54.160 --> 0:19:57.080 he was pitching through injury. Caleb Smith is somebody who 0:19:57.080 --> 0:19:59.000 I'm definitely going to be in on that I want 0:19:59.000 --> 0:20:01.359 shares of the season, even more so than Griffin Canning. 0:20:01.359 --> 0:20:07.160 In you sold Cayles smiths really really well. But the 0:20:07.200 --> 0:20:09.000 problem for me, Frank, is when you look at the 0:20:09.080 --> 0:20:12.080 numbers and you have to include the second half here, 0:20:12.080 --> 0:20:14.680 Like the photos, first level starts were awesome, but when 0:20:14.680 --> 0:20:16.479 it was all said and done, that x fit was 0:20:16.880 --> 0:20:19.960 over five, right the strikeouts for nine right around with 0:20:20.040 --> 0:20:22.560 Griffin Canning. Was he watched for nine or more than 0:20:22.600 --> 0:20:25.160 Griffin Canning was at When you look at these numbers overall, yeah, 0:20:25.200 --> 0:20:27.480 pitched more innings over a hundred fifty innings last year 0:20:27.480 --> 0:20:31.840 for Caleb Smith. Yes, sween strike rate is excellent, but 0:20:31.880 --> 0:20:35.199 those overall numbers are just not what you need. And 0:20:35.240 --> 0:20:37.960 you do wonder if the second half Caleb Smith is 0:20:38.040 --> 0:20:40.639 the real Caleb Smith. Yeah, I guess that's fair to 0:20:40.640 --> 0:20:43.840 worry to wonder for sure. And he really struggled with 0:20:43.880 --> 0:20:46.320 home runs last year one point nine four home runs 0:20:46.320 --> 0:20:48.400 per nine That is a massive amount, so he's gonna 0:20:48.440 --> 0:20:50.480 have to bring that back as well. Reminds me a 0:20:50.480 --> 0:20:52.440 lot of Matt Boyd. Right, Matt Boyd gets a lot 0:20:52.440 --> 0:20:55.119 of strikeouts but struggles with home runs. Same thing with 0:20:55.160 --> 0:20:58.080 someone like Robbie Ray. I think Caleb Smith is in 0:20:58.080 --> 0:21:00.520 that mold. The problem. You know, what good about him 0:21:00.560 --> 0:21:02.880 is you're getting him much later than pictures like that. Yes, 0:21:02.960 --> 0:21:05.119 Robbie Ray is more proven. Uh And I guess you 0:21:05.119 --> 0:21:07.479 could say the same thing about Matt Boyd, but you know, 0:21:07.560 --> 0:21:10.159 they were going at a level like Caleb Smith is 0:21:10.200 --> 0:21:12.359 going at right now at some point in the past 0:21:12.400 --> 0:21:14.760 as well. So I think Caleb Smith can get to 0:21:14.840 --> 0:21:17.639 that point. I really like what I saw in the 0:21:17.640 --> 0:21:20.720