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Speaker 1: Sat Francis practice stand ball ladies and gentlemen. Your pictures
Speaker 1: and catchers are reporting the Red Sox might have a
Speaker 1: new manager and we perhaps could have a new MLB
Speaker 1: playoff format. Welcome to the Fantasy BFS live on the
Speaker 1: Sports Grade TV Network. I am Frank Stanfeld, joined as
Speaker 1: always by gregs Bank. Gregory, what's going on over in
Speaker 1: the FANDUL Sports Book? How's it going? Greg pray Age, Dude,
Speaker 1: I'm doing fantastically, man. I'm happy to be here, happy
Speaker 1: to be inside the FanDuel Sports Book. I didn't want
Speaker 1: to be next to you, of course. In success I'm not.
Speaker 1: That's okay, I'm good, all right. Right, you're looking a
Speaker 1: little short in that chair, so we might have to
Speaker 1: raise you up a little bit, or you might have
Speaker 1: to grow up a little bit. I don't know if
Speaker 1: we can make that happen, but maybe window Wilkins kind
Speaker 1: of the same size. Frank, Yeah, but I didn't look
Speaker 1: that small. I don't know. You might have sunk the
Speaker 1: chair down a little bit. Here's saying a fat. No,
Speaker 1: I would never say that. Come on, Greg, Come on, man,
Speaker 1: it feels like it feels like you're saying a fat
Speaker 1: I would never say anything like that. Greg. We have
Speaker 1: a lot of interesting pictures and catchers. You're taged. I
Speaker 1: didn't even prompt him to do that either. He just
Speaker 1: did it on his own. He just went out there. Fantastic. Yeah, great,
Speaker 1: not much, man. I just sleep last night, buddy, you
Speaker 1: know what. I stlefed all right, I had some James.
Speaker 1: I was up early. This might not really having to
Speaker 1: be up early. My phone was buzzing. I just I
Speaker 1: don't know, I have Okay, I did you sleep, man?
Speaker 1: I slept all right, not bad, of course. I stayed
Speaker 1: up too late as usual, But I'll try and rectify
Speaker 1: that tonight pitcherton catchers coming up after this news update
Speaker 1: that you will hear from alex Fasana Sports Grade News upda,
Speaker 1: I am alex Fasana with your sports grid news update
Speaker 1: here on the fantasy b f f's in Major League Baseball.
Speaker 1: The Boston Red Sox will name Ron Rennicky interim general
Speaker 1: manager a day before the first scheduled workout for pitchers
Speaker 1: and catchers, sources tell ESPN. Boston entered spring training without
Speaker 1: a skipper following the abrupt and shocking departure in January
Speaker 1: of Alex Cora following Major League Baseball's investigation into the
Speaker 1: astro's sign stealing scandal, leaving new Chief Baseball Officer hium
Speaker 1: Bloom to conduct an abbreviated job search a month before
Speaker 1: spring training. Boston is expected to hold a press conference
Speaker 1: tonight to announce Rennicky as interim manager. The move was
Speaker 1: first reported by The Boston Globe the sixty three World.
Speaker 1: Rennicky arrived in Boston with alex Cora before the two
Speaker 1: thousand seventeen season, serving as bench coach. Sticking with Major
Speaker 1: League Baseball, officials are mulling significant changes to its postseason,
Speaker 1: including increasing number of teams from ten to fourteen, and
Speaker 1: adding a reality TV type format to determine which teams
Speaker 1: play each other in an an expanded wild card round.
Speaker 1: Major League Baseball it's considering a move in which each
Speaker 1: league would have three division winners and four wild card teams.
Speaker 1: Here's how it would work. Once the team's clinched the
Speaker 1: regular season ends, the division winner with the second best
Speaker 1: record would select its wild card opponent from three winners.
Speaker 1: The division winner with the worst record would then choose
Speaker 1: its opponent from the remaining two teams, and the final
Speaker 1: matchup would be the wild card winner with the best
Speaker 1: record taking on the wild card team not yet chosen.
Speaker 1: All of the selection source, it said, would be unveiled
Speaker 1: live on television the Sunday night of the final regular
Speaker 1: season games. You have a full slate of NBA, NHL,
Speaker 1: and college basketball. Some you may want to consider. The
Speaker 1: Chicago Bulls take on the Washington Wizards. Wizards are your
Speaker 1: three point favorites. The total is two thirty. The Los
Speaker 1: Angeles Clippers visit the Philadelphia seventy six Clippers are your
Speaker 1: point and a half favorites. Total is two five and
Speaker 1: a half, and the San Antonio Spurs visit the Oklahoma
Speaker 1: City Thunder. Thunder are your eight and a half point favorites?
Speaker 1: The total is to eight. I'm sorry, what's that? Oh?
Speaker 1: We have some breaking news ladies and gentlemen and your
Speaker 1: bffsh it. Apparently seems that Greg Sussman turns fifty three today.
Speaker 1: Happy birthday, Greg Sussman from your BF Frankie Stamfull alright,
Speaker 1: gonna send it back to the BFFs. What do you
Speaker 1: have to say about this? Greg Sussman is turning fifty three? Greg,
Speaker 1: how does it feel to be running around at that age? Well,
Speaker 1: frank when I saw you earlier said now, I'm game
Speaker 1: ten more years in the two hours since I last
Speaker 1: saw you. Uh so, it does not feel great to
Speaker 1: be three years old. It does feel better to be
Speaker 1: slightly younger. Happy birthday, of course to Greg Sousman. Fun fact,
Speaker 1: he has never invited me to his birthday party, and
Speaker 1: because of that, I had our producer downstairs, Sandro, create
Speaker 1: this fantastic video montage highlighting the life of Greg Susman
Speaker 1: here now on the BFS. That's a great one. That
Speaker 1: was Halloween. Greg didn't fight me there either, You were
Speaker 1: inviting you in your own party didn't come. That's the
Speaker 1: last time Greg Sustman did push ups. He likes pizza,
Speaker 1: he likes there's no doubt about that. Oh, how can
Speaker 1: we forget the Sun Games last year? That was That
Speaker 1: was last year. Greck Susman was left home alone once
Speaker 1: and there you go, the Grand Final. That's my wedding.
Speaker 1: There you go. That's right, celebrating the life of Greg
Speaker 1: Susten here on the Fantasy BFS. But no, honestly, heppy birthday, buddy?
Speaker 1: Are you doing? Can we say how it is? Frank?
Speaker 1: Can we can we say it how it is? What?
Speaker 1: What's what's really happening here? Because last Saturday you were
Speaker 1: next door to my apartment. He said, Hey, I'm coming by,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, cool, let me know when you're around.
Speaker 1: You did it. I also would like to note yesterday
Speaker 1: on this very show, you mentioned the fact that Hey,
Speaker 1: tomorrow's dands be Swanson's birthday, not realizing, knowing, noticing that
Speaker 1: it's your bf's burthday. What the hell? Man? Well, to
Speaker 1: be fair, on Saturday, I was very inebriated, so I
Speaker 1: apologize for that. I definitely should have hit you up
Speaker 1: when I got to the city. So that is my
Speaker 1: bad um. And then look, I can give you a
Speaker 1: little bit of not just in the city, not just
Speaker 1: in the city next door to my apartment, Greg, I
Speaker 1: thought I would give you a taste of your own
Speaker 1: us in by shouting out Dan's by Swanson, but not
Speaker 1: shouting out your birthday considering I've never been invited to
Speaker 1: your birthday party. Uh. You I threw you a massive
Speaker 1: birthday party on your birthday on November nine this year,
Speaker 1: did I not? And that's why I'm throwing you a
Speaker 1: massive birthday party right now. Did you see that video montage?
Speaker 1: That was amazing? It was a fantastic video montage, There's
Speaker 1: no doubt about it. I will say, however, Frankie uh
Speaker 1: that this morning, when you realized it was my birthday,
Speaker 1: you felt bad and that was good enough for me.
Speaker 1: I have no idea what you're talking about. Time to
Speaker 1: move over to the new MLB playoff for Matt Greg
Speaker 1: Uh tell us when you think about this. Obviously, We're
Speaker 1: not gonna spend too much time talking about this today.
Speaker 1: I really do want to get into some of the
Speaker 1: pictures and catchers that are very interesting and fantasy baseball
Speaker 1: for the season, But I think we would be remissed
Speaker 1: not to at least mentioned talk about this at the
Speaker 1: top of the show. Here, Greg, expanding the playoff format
Speaker 1: to potentially fourteen teams with four with four wild card
Speaker 1: team is potentially making it uh. And then they would
Speaker 1: have a reality TV show, which I'm sure you would love,
Speaker 1: where they get to choose their opponents in the wild
Speaker 1: card round. It would be a two out of three
Speaker 1: game playoff in the wild card round as well, and
Speaker 1: if you finish as the number one seed, you get
Speaker 1: a first round wild card by into the divisional round.
Speaker 1: So let us know what you think about this proposed
Speaker 1: MLB playoff format, because Trevor Bauer is somebody who frankly
Speaker 1: hates it. Craig, you have to at least like the
Speaker 1: reality show part of it, right, So what do you
Speaker 1: What do you think I think of this? That's my question.
Speaker 1: I think that you are somebody who's usually up for change. Uh.
Speaker 1: If we if we can find ways to innovate the
Speaker 1: game and make the things better. I don't know if
Speaker 1: this necessarily makes it better. Um, but the reality show
Speaker 1: thing actually sounds kind of interesting to me. I think
Speaker 1: all along the wild card round should be two out
Speaker 1: of three games. Anyway, I don't think that one game
Speaker 1: should control whether or not you make it to the playoffs.
Speaker 1: After playing one sixty two games of baseball, I think
Speaker 1: that you would. I think there are parts of it
Speaker 1: that you would like and then there are other parts
Speaker 1: that you wouldn't like. Does that sound accurate? It does, Frank, However,
Speaker 1: I got me honest with you. I kept seeing all
Speaker 1: these these tweets and whatnot about us just killing the
Speaker 1: game of baseball, that half the teams are gonna make it,
Speaker 1: no one's gonna try. My initial reaction was to be
Speaker 1: against change. I like it, man. I think it's super,
Speaker 1: super fun. I think the reality show aspects was choosing
Speaker 1: your opponent, and then nobody who believes in this theory
Speaker 1: like I think there's something to be said for that.
Speaker 1: I think it's fun, and I'm all about fun. I
Speaker 1: am in I'll tell you what, these rules are better
Speaker 1: than the NBA All Star rules. I can assure you that, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's exactly what I brought up on FFC earlier today
Speaker 1: with Craig mish uh. The I understand trying to honor Kobe,
Speaker 1: which is great, but the way that they went about
Speaker 1: it is so like convoluted and random and not really necessary.
Speaker 1: Um there are you know, there are things that I
Speaker 1: do like about this at and I like the wild
Speaker 1: Card round being two out of three games. I don't
Speaker 1: think that it should just come down to a one
Speaker 1: game playoff. I understand why they do that is because
Speaker 1: they want to drive up ratings for that one specific game,
Speaker 1: so they're trying to help baseball in that regard. But
Speaker 1: at the same time, like they do that in the NFL,
Speaker 1: and they only play a sixteen game season, you can't
Speaker 1: have a one game playoff for a one hundred and
Speaker 1: sixty two game MLB season. As for all the other stuff,
Speaker 1: it's pretty wacky. I don't know that we should have
Speaker 1: fourteen teams. I don't know that we should have a
Speaker 1: reality show either, But I do like the three game
Speaker 1: playoff in the wild Card round. All right, we come
Speaker 1: back five pitchers and five catchers that are interesting in
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Speaker 1: to learn more. Welcome back. It's a VVFS my birthday
Speaker 1: edition of the program. Frank stamfle gregg saucemen hanging out
Speaker 1: with you. I am in Jersey at the Vanduel Sports
Speaker 1: Book wasting my birthday presents away and gambling. Uh. Frank
Speaker 1: Stample is not, but he wishes he was. Frankie has
Speaker 1: a hanging I'm doing very well, Greggy. Kind of wish
Speaker 1: you were here in studios so that we can have
Speaker 1: a little fun here birthday celebration. Blow up some balloons
Speaker 1: or something, but you know what you were in here,
Speaker 1: so I wasn't gonna blow up the balloons for myself,
Speaker 1: you know, just didn't make sense. It didn't feel I
Speaker 1: knew there was no way you would go out of
Speaker 1: your right in low balloons for a studio without me
Speaker 1: in it. You'd think that window Will or Brian would
Speaker 1: do it, but they haven't. That's okay, no big deal.
Speaker 1: They're new, they're they're still being trained on the party
Speaker 1: aspects over the job. But today, other than my birthday
Speaker 1: and other than Dance by Swanson's birthday, today is pictures
Speaker 1: and Catchers. So here on the BFFs, we thought, well,
Speaker 1: what should we talk about? We decided on on Pictures
Speaker 1: and Catchers because they thought it made sense. We're not
Speaker 1: just any pictures. We talked a lot about Garrett Cole,
Speaker 1: Justin very Lander, Max Scherzer, and Jacob de Graham. But
Speaker 1: today here on the program, we wanted to get into
Speaker 1: some of the I don't know, the the hotter names, right,
Speaker 1: some of these guys that you're getting a little bit later,
Speaker 1: but people are really interested in talking about and we
Speaker 1: haven't exactly gotten that opportunity to talk about that quite yet.
Speaker 1: So we wanted to start with some of these bigger names,
Speaker 1: and Franks like, oh, I like this guy, like this guy,
Speaker 1: like this guy, like this guy. Well, I want to
Speaker 1: know which which guy I'm supposed to like? And until
Speaker 1: Frank tells me, I simply don't know. So let me
Speaker 1: start with I would to call him a hype guy necessarily,
Speaker 1: but he came out last year a little bit of
Speaker 1: aura around him. It was Griffin Canning all of the
Speaker 1: Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim up and down. Hear he
Speaker 1: was a fine streamer in most locations this year. While
Speaker 1: there's a little bit more hype in general, What do you,
Speaker 1: sir think, Frank Standfeld, I mean boy Griffin Door Canning.
Speaker 1: I like Griffin Canning, Greg and I think a lot
Speaker 1: of these pictures have something in common where they have
Speaker 1: some prospect pedigree. They didn't necessarily pan out the first
Speaker 1: time they came up to the MLB, but we have
Speaker 1: seen some flashes, and I think that is the case
Speaker 1: from Griffin Canning. He has the pedigree, as I mentioned,
Speaker 1: a former second round pick for the Los Angeles Angels
Speaker 1: of Anaheim. And he has a four pitch mix right
Speaker 1: A lot of these A lot of times we'll see
Speaker 1: these prospects come up and they'll only have two pitches
Speaker 1: that they've really, you know, mastered, and they're still working
Speaker 1: on a third pitch. He has four pitches that he
Speaker 1: uses a decent amount of the time. He has a fastball,
Speaker 1: a curve, a slider, and a change. All four of
Speaker 1: those pitches he uses at least twelve percent of the time,
Speaker 1: or at least that was the case last year. We
Speaker 1: saw some warning signs in the second half, Greg, but
Speaker 1: I think that he can, you know, kind of rectify
Speaker 1: that this upcoming season, and he's a name to watch
Speaker 1: throughout spring training and kind of see if he's worked
Speaker 1: on some of these issues. He had some struggles with
Speaker 1: walks in the second half. We saw the string swinging
Speaker 1: strike create come back a little bit. It dropped about
Speaker 1: two percent in the second half here, Greg, but overall
Speaker 1: still finishes the season his first rookie campaign ninety innings
Speaker 1: pitched with over a strikeout per ending with a nearly
Speaker 1: fourteen percent strikeout right. So the swinging misses there, it's exciting,
Speaker 1: and I think the strikeouts could be there as well.
Speaker 1: He's got to work on some of that command, as
Speaker 1: I mentioned, but that's something that you should be paying
Speaker 1: attention to throughout spring training. I like Griffin Canning and
Speaker 1: where he's going right now in in the month of
Speaker 1: February to twenty three and NFPC drafts. He's you know,
Speaker 1: you can get him as your back end of your
Speaker 1: rotation guy SP five, s P six, And I think
Speaker 1: there's some upside there with Griffin from Canning. You know,
Speaker 1: what have you seen so far when looking into him?
Speaker 1: Have I said anything that entices you when it comes
Speaker 1: to rim Canning in Greg, I think the strike guts
Speaker 1: are nice, frank Um, as you mentioned, but you look
Speaker 1: at the walks, you know about three walks per nine mediocre.
Speaker 1: I think the X fit right around where he was,
Speaker 1: uh just a few just last year, right, four point
Speaker 1: five eight e r a four point seven to five
Speaker 1: X fit, so kind of kind of right around the
Speaker 1: same number of the homeboard in the football ratio wasn't
Speaker 1: all that different for it wasn't all that below average
Speaker 1: or above average. It was, you know, lee average. I
Speaker 1: think grimmy cannon kind of is what it is. I
Speaker 1: don't know if I see the potential for him to
Speaker 1: explode all of a sudden. It's the swing and miss stuff, right.
Speaker 1: So you see that rate that he had thirteen point
Speaker 1: eight percent, and again I do worry about it's dropping
Speaker 1: about two percent in the second half, so he does
Speaker 1: have to kind of get that swinging miss back up.
Speaker 1: The fact that he has four pitches that he can
Speaker 1: use at least twelve percent of the time is very
Speaker 1: interesting to me because he has that repertoire. He has
Speaker 1: a pitch mix that he can you know, kind of
Speaker 1: keep hitters off balance here, uh, and go to four
Speaker 1: different pitches this upcoming season. Remember when he first came up,
Speaker 1: we were all excited about him because you know, you
Speaker 1: could see it when he was on the mound. He
Speaker 1: has the stuff, Greg. He kind of just has to
Speaker 1: learn how to put it all together and pitch at
Speaker 1: the major league level. But I think when you see
Speaker 1: that near fourteen percent swinging strike rate, that kind of,
Speaker 1: you know, raises some light bulbs and gets your attention here.
Speaker 1: So I think that, you know, again, if he can
Speaker 1: just kind of bring those walks back a little bit,
Speaker 1: swinging strikes bounce back, uh, someone to pay attention to
Speaker 1: throughout spring training again. But I I like the pitch
Speaker 1: mix here. And you know, he's not the player that
Speaker 1: I'm most excited about that we're going to talk about today,
Speaker 1: but he is somebody that is on my radar. I'll
Speaker 1: probably have ten teams this year, Greg, I'm probably gonna
Speaker 1: want him on let's say two or three of them.
Speaker 1: That's too many teams in general. Frank, You're right, But nevertheless,
Speaker 1: here I think that Griffin Canning. Yeah, the repertoires fair.
Speaker 1: I think he does star with four pitches, which is great.
Speaker 1: I do wonder how it will translateually as respective will
Speaker 1: strike more guys out, we'll have more success. I don't know,
Speaker 1: but I'm kind of mediocre right now when it comes
Speaker 1: to Griffin Canning like that last year started off this
Speaker 1: season really really well. Was your boy Caleb Smith bring
Speaker 1: Yankee prospect Caleb Smith? And I know you were upset
Speaker 1: last year. Uh, they didn't have more of Caleb Smith,
Speaker 1: and in fact, at the time you ended up more
Speaker 1: of the Marlin's rotation who were all pitching pretty well.
Speaker 1: Caleb Smith didn't drop off in the second half, but
Speaker 1: Caleb Smith someone that's at least we're talking about that
Speaker 1: strikeout rates awesome, Yeah, absolutely, Greg, and the first eleven starts,
Speaker 1: I mean, that's what that's what really catches your attention.
Speaker 1: Three point one oh e r A and a whip
Speaker 1: under one a zero point nine seven whip his first
Speaker 1: eleven starts of the season, thirty four percent strike out rate,
Speaker 1: fueled by a fifteen percent swinging strike rate. So we
Speaker 1: mentioned that Griffin Canny is someone that gets swinging strikes
Speaker 1: that in your fourteen percent clip and league averages right
Speaker 1: around UH ten ten and a half percent. To put
Speaker 1: that in perspective for you, Caleb Smith was even better
Speaker 1: than that. UH and he had a you know, a
Speaker 1: thirty five percent chase rate, which is higher than the
Speaker 1: league average average right around thirty. So he gets opposing
Speaker 1: batters to swing and miss, he gets him to chase
Speaker 1: pitches outside of the zone. He's got a solid fastball,
Speaker 1: he's got a slider uh and he's got a change.
Speaker 1: He's he's got a three pitch mix, not like Griffin
Speaker 1: Canny has a four pitch mix, but his three pitches
Speaker 1: are really really solid. Reminds me a lot of Patrick Corbyn,
Speaker 1: right Like, if he can just continue to use that
Speaker 1: slider even more this upcoming season, I think that we
Speaker 1: can really see Caleb Smith kind of take off. Second
Speaker 1: half was was a disaster. Once he got hurt, he
Speaker 1: dealt with like a hip injury, everything really went downhill
Speaker 1: for him. But I mentioned this to you, Greg, if
Speaker 1: he ended the season with that eleven star stretch that
Speaker 1: we saw in in the first half of the season,
Speaker 1: then he would be going about fifty six, fifty or
Speaker 1: sixty picks earlier than where he is going right now.
Speaker 1: So people kind of forgot what he did in that
Speaker 1: first half and they get scared off by what he
Speaker 1: did in the second half. But I really do believe
Speaker 1: he was pitching through injury. Caleb Smith is somebody who
Speaker 1: I'm definitely going to be in on that I want
Speaker 1: shares of the season, even more so than Griffin Canning.
Speaker 1: In you sold Cayles smiths really really well. But the
Speaker 1: problem for me, Frank, is when you look at the
Speaker 1: numbers and you have to include the second half here,
Speaker 1: Like the photos, first level starts were awesome, but when
Speaker 1: it was all said and done, that x fit was
Speaker 1: over five, right the strikeouts for nine right around with
Speaker 1: Griffin Canning. Was he watched for nine or more than
Speaker 1: Griffin Canning was at When you look at these numbers overall, yeah,
Speaker 1: pitched more innings over a hundred fifty innings last year
Speaker 1: for Caleb Smith. Yes, sween strike rate is excellent, but
Speaker 1: those overall numbers are just not what you need. And
Speaker 1: you do wonder if the second half Caleb Smith is
Speaker 1: the real Caleb Smith. Yeah, I guess that's fair to
Speaker 1: worry to wonder for sure. And he really struggled with
Speaker 1: home runs last year one point nine four home runs
Speaker 1: per nine That is a massive amount, so he's gonna
Speaker 1: have to bring that back as well. Reminds me a
Speaker 1: lot of Matt Boyd. Right, Matt Boyd gets a lot
Speaker 1: of strikeouts but struggles with home runs. Same thing with
Speaker 1: someone like Robbie Ray. I think Caleb Smith is in
Speaker 1: that mold. The problem. You know, what good about him
Speaker 1: is you're getting him much later than pictures like that. Yes,
Speaker 1: Robbie Ray is more proven. Uh And I guess you
Speaker 1: could say the same thing about Matt Boyd, but you know,
Speaker 1: they were going at a level like Caleb Smith is
Speaker 1: going at right now at some point in the past
Speaker 1: as well. So I think Caleb Smith can get to
Speaker 1: that point. I really like what I saw in the
Speaker 1: first eleven starts, and you know, look, there's a reason
Speaker 1: why he's going as late as he is right like
Speaker 1: he was bad in the second half. I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: make excuses for him, but I'm gonna make an excuse
Speaker 1: for him Greg he was pitching through a hip injury.
Speaker 1: I don't think that he was healthy last year. I
Speaker 1: think the player that we saw in those first eleven
Speaker 1: starts was closer to the player that he could be
Speaker 1: went healthy. So that is pretty much what I'm trusting.
Speaker 1: And you're getting him super late in drafts again in
Speaker 1: the month of February is n abc A DP is
Speaker 1: two eight point eight. He's basically free at that point, Craig.
Speaker 1: That fifty two and a half percent fly ball percentage, Frankie,
Speaker 1: that's what scares me. Man, he's a fly ball pitcher.
Speaker 1: I know Marlins Park, he's a big park, but that's
Speaker 1: a really big number. The groundball percent basically half that.
Speaker 1: I don't think I'm in on Caleb Smith either. Again,
Speaker 1: these guys are late run guys. Maybe I should have
Speaker 1: more faith. I don't when it comes to Caleb Smith
Speaker 1: and when it comes to Griffin Canny. So let me
Speaker 1: try it again. Let me go with the third player
Speaker 1: and we gotta get the break in a few moments.
Speaker 1: But let me get to a guy that a lot
Speaker 1: of people are high on this season, including you, and
Speaker 1: that's Mitch Keller, forward top prospect for the Pittsburgh Pirates,
Speaker 1: and somebody that came up and stunt class year. Why
Speaker 1: do you have hope that he won't sink again. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he was got off the last year. He had a
Speaker 1: seven point one three e r A. But again, the
Speaker 1: underlying numbers tell a different story. He had a three
Speaker 1: four seven x FIT. His left on base percentage was
Speaker 1: under sixty percent, so you know runners are getting on
Speaker 1: base and they're scoring nearly forty percent of the time.
Speaker 1: League average left on base rate is around seventy. He
Speaker 1: also had a four seventy five batting average on balls
Speaker 1: and play league average is three hundred. He was incredibly
Speaker 1: unlucky last year. There's just no way around it. And
Speaker 1: like we've said with these other guys, he does have
Speaker 1: swinging miss stuff. A mid nineties fastball has, the curveball
Speaker 1: has the slider, has two breaking pitches there that he
Speaker 1: can rely on. Comes with the pedigree of being a
Speaker 1: second round pick from the Pittsburgh Pirates organization. Uh, and
Speaker 1: look at what he did in the minors as well.
Speaker 1: Thirty nine and the third endings pitched a three one
Speaker 1: two year A in a one one six whip. Greg.
Speaker 1: Hopefully I could talk to you into one of these players,
Speaker 1: and I think it's gonna be Mitch Keller. I am
Speaker 1: a feeling Miss Keller is gonna be the guy that
Speaker 1: you talked me into, because that prospect pedigree is gonna
Speaker 1: get me man. So we'll see if I can buy
Speaker 1: into Miss Keller will come back a whole lot. More
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Speaker 1: here from the Fat Nule Sports Book, Greg Sausman, Frank Stamford,
Speaker 1: it's you be a fast pictures and catchers today, So
Speaker 1: let's continue to talk about pictures and catchers. Frank. We
Speaker 1: left off on Mitch Hella, a top prospect for the
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh Pirates, came out last year and stunk. You're in
Speaker 1: the midst of trying to explain to me why it's
Speaker 1: gonna be different. Yeah, So I spoke about this a
Speaker 1: little bit before the break. It reminds me a lot
Speaker 1: of someone like Blake Snell, right, Greg who comes up,
Speaker 1: gets his first taste of the MLB uh and does
Speaker 1: not pitch well, gets she lacked, comes back the next
Speaker 1: year and starts to put it together. And we've seen
Speaker 1: this before with all different types of prospects, not just
Speaker 1: pitching prospects. Let's talk about Mike Trout right. Mike Trout
Speaker 1: came up and was not Mike Trout right away. He
Speaker 1: actually struggled quite a bit in his first season. So
Speaker 1: I think that's what we're looking at here. With Mitch Keller.
Speaker 1: There were underlying signs that were uh, you know, encouraging.
Speaker 1: The swingey strike create again was higher than league average
Speaker 1: for Mitch Keller, the average over twelve case per nine.
Speaker 1: And when he came back to the Major's last year,
Speaker 1: if you remember, he came up like late May, made
Speaker 1: like three starts into June, uh, and then got sent
Speaker 1: back down because that's how bad he was. And and
Speaker 1: then when he came back in August, his final eight starts,
Speaker 1: we saw the walks really go down to about two
Speaker 1: and a half walks per nine. The case per nine,
Speaker 1: we're still over twelve per game, So you know, you'd
Speaker 1: like to see those things. A bounce back there from
Speaker 1: Mitch Keller and the swinging strike create, the chase rate,
Speaker 1: the first pitch strike percentage, all of those numbers went
Speaker 1: up when he came back his second time around. Those
Speaker 1: final eight starts for Mitch Keller last year, and I
Speaker 1: think that's something that he could build on heading into
Speaker 1: this year. The Pirates are not going anywhere this upcoming season, Greg,
Speaker 1: so I think that they're gonna give Mitch Keller every
Speaker 1: opportunity to stay in that rotation and try and figure
Speaker 1: things out at the major league level. Reminds me a
Speaker 1: little bit about Blake's now when he first got sent
Speaker 1: down and then came back and pitched better after that.
Speaker 1: I don't know that miss Keller has Blake Snell type upside,
Speaker 1: but I think based on where he's going uh and
Speaker 1: the prospect pedigree that he has, he's someone that I'm
Speaker 1: going to have on a lot of my teams as well. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think Mitch Keller the more I look at him,
Speaker 1: he looked at the top prosper pedigree. And I think
Speaker 1: you mentioned Blake Snell there and and Snell was very similar.
Speaker 1: It was he couldn't get deep into games, he didn't
Speaker 1: have an opportunity to grow, and then all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: as Mike Florio called it, he did. And Mitch Keller
Speaker 1: he's going later then he would have had to draft
Speaker 1: Blake Snell two years ago. He doesn't. He doesn't cost
Speaker 1: you all that much in draft. I think the upside
Speaker 1: is simply higher than it is for a Groof and
Speaker 1: Canning or at Caleb Smith go around the same spot.
Speaker 1: I think there's a lot to like with Mitch Keller.
Speaker 1: I'm most intrigued by Keller than the other two players
Speaker 1: you mentioned thus far. Yeah, I think that's fair. And
Speaker 1: again he's going in a similar rain show. You want
Speaker 1: to pick and choose who you want out of these prospects,
Speaker 1: these players who have upside. Mitch Keller again going around
Speaker 1: the same range as these guys, like the two twenty
Speaker 1: to forty range right now in NFBC A d P.
Speaker 1: I'll have a few of all of these players, but
Speaker 1: Mitch Keller is probably the one that I like most
Speaker 1: that we've talked about thus far. And you have ten teams, Frank, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I have ten teams, so I can kind of diversify.
Speaker 1: I could get all the prospects I want. Greg, it
Speaker 1: is worth mentioning that the draft campions that I'm doing
Speaker 1: right now, Mitch Keller is on that team. Yeah. And
Speaker 1: also it's worth mentioning you look at the r A
Speaker 1: over seven, the X fit just three and a half, right.
Speaker 1: You look at the case per nine over twelve. That's
Speaker 1: way more than Kayleb Smith and Griffin Canning. The walks
Speaker 1: right around the same number. I like Mitch Keller heck
Speaker 1: and a lot more than like Kayleb Smith and Griffin Kenny.
Speaker 1: All Right, a couple more pitchers. I want to get to,
Speaker 1: Frank before we move on to the Casher Porsche in
Speaker 1: the program. And it's player that we want to make
Speaker 1: sure fantasy owners do not forget about as a head
Speaker 1: toward their draft. It's Michael kopeck O, the Chicago White Sox,
Speaker 1: first on the scene two seasons ago. Then that time
Speaker 1: he John missed all of last year, but he should
Speaker 1: be close to ready to rock come March and April.
Speaker 1: Michael Kopeck how to do what he did when he
Speaker 1: came up the first time of the White Sox. I
Speaker 1: think it can right it. Look, this is a flamethrower,
Speaker 1: a guy that throws mid too high, upper nineties. He
Speaker 1: has the strikeout potential, and he was absolutely ridiculous at
Speaker 1: the minor league level. To like, throughout all the numbers
Speaker 1: I mentioned when it comes to like Mitch Keller and
Speaker 1: Griffin Canning and all these guys, Copeck was even better
Speaker 1: than that when he was in the minor leagues. So
Speaker 1: he pitched, you know, right around four hundred innings in
Speaker 1: his minor league career, a three oh five e r, A,
Speaker 1: a one to one whip, five hundred and fourteen strikeouts
Speaker 1: in three hundred and ninety five innings pitched. He might
Speaker 1: not have a role in the rotation right out of
Speaker 1: the gate for the Chicago Whites box. Again, he's working
Speaker 1: his way back from Tommy John. But it is worth
Speaker 1: reminding people that the Tommy John surgery he had was
Speaker 1: back in September of eighteen. So everything that I've read
Speaker 1: is that he's going to have no restrictions in uh
Speaker 1: spring training. He's gonna have an opportunity to make the rotation.
Speaker 1: They did sign Geo Gonzalez, and they have Dylan Seized
Speaker 1: penciled penciled in as their uh fifth starter in their rotation.
Speaker 1: He does come with some prospect pedigree as well. We
Speaker 1: saw a little bit of him last year and he
Speaker 1: really really struggled in the Major So all it takes
Speaker 1: his Geo Gonzalez to basically be Geo Gonzalez or Dylan
Speaker 1: Cease to struggle early on in the season, and then
Speaker 1: I think we see Michael Kopeck back in the rotation. Honestly, Greg,
Speaker 1: his upside might be the highest of all of the
Speaker 1: pictures we're going to talk about today. Uh. And he's
Speaker 1: actually going later than these names, about forty fifty picks
Speaker 1: later than some of these guys that we're talking about.
Speaker 1: And the only reason I think so is because he
Speaker 1: doesn't have a solidified spot in the rotation right out
Speaker 1: of the gate here in it's Michael Kopeck the top
Speaker 1: pitching prospect that you're drafting this year. I think he
Speaker 1: is in the mix, him and Forest Whitley. We spoke
Speaker 1: about this yesterday off air. I think people are, you know,
Speaker 1: kind of going way too far the other way when
Speaker 1: it comes to Forest Whitley right now, and he could
Speaker 1: have an opportunity in that Astro's rotation as well. They
Speaker 1: do like Jose or Kety, They're gonna give him a spot.
Speaker 1: He's the fourth starter there. And then Brad Peacock, who
Speaker 1: we've kind of seen as like a swingman in his career.
Speaker 1: Sometimes he's in the bullpen, sometimes he's in the rotation.
Speaker 1: He doesn't really go deep into games either. I think
Speaker 1: that if Forest Whitley is pitching well early on this
Speaker 1: season in the minor leagues, then he's gonna get a
Speaker 1: shot to be that fourth or fifth starter in the
Speaker 1: Astros organization. He struggled mightily last year. There's no defending
Speaker 1: Forest Whitley, but I still think the upside is there,
Speaker 1: and he was someone who pitched incredibly, incredibly well in
Speaker 1: at the Arizona Fall League as well. Greg. So it's
Speaker 1: Michael Colpeck and Forest Whitley are the two pitching prospects
Speaker 1: that I'm really looking at here in that can make
Speaker 1: an impact. Where does Brendan McKay fall in that conversation? Obviously,
Speaker 1: he is both a hitter and a picture for the Rays.
Speaker 1: Where we talked yesterday that they never are very sure
Speaker 1: what they're doing where just Brenda McKay fall in that conversation.
Speaker 1: So I would rank him behind both of those guys,
Speaker 1: both Forest Whitley and Michael Kopeck, even though Brendan McKay
Speaker 1: has a spot in the rotation from day one, or
Speaker 1: at least that's what we assume as of now heading
Speaker 1: into spring training with the Tampa Bay Rays. I think
Speaker 1: that he got rushed last year. Greg. If you remember,
Speaker 1: he really climbed through every level of the miners really quickly.
Speaker 1: Where he started off in double A, he tore it
Speaker 1: up there with a one point three zero e ar A.
Speaker 1: Then they promoted him to Triple A. He made about
Speaker 1: six seven starts there and he had a zero point
Speaker 1: eight four e r A. And I guess at that
Speaker 1: point the Rays organization is looking at him and saying, look,
Speaker 1: how can we defend keeping him down? He's just dominating
Speaker 1: at every level. But I think he almost got rushed
Speaker 1: a little bit too much to the major league too
Speaker 1: quickly here last year. And he doesn't have the same
Speaker 1: type of swinging miss stuff as some of these other
Speaker 1: starting pitch as we spoke about so far today, I
Speaker 1: don't even think he has the same type of upside.
Speaker 1: I think he kind of pens out somewhere as like
Speaker 1: an SP three or an SP four from a major
Speaker 1: league level, from a major league standpoint, like real life baseball.
Speaker 1: So I don't think he has as much upside. He
Speaker 1: might be a little bit safer in the long term,
Speaker 1: but even heading into the season, I think some of
Speaker 1: these other names on this list, in fact, every other
Speaker 1: name on this list probably has more upside than someone
Speaker 1: like Brendan McKay, and where you're taking him, you kind
Speaker 1: of want some of that upside. Obviously, Kellery Man, he's
Speaker 1: my number one guy. I think Brenda McKay is fun, right,
Speaker 1: you want that switch pitcher, hitter type of player I
Speaker 1: like Rennie. I might have McKay honestly second after Um
Speaker 1: because I think the upside might be a little bit
Speaker 1: higher than for Brenda McKay, who is still twenty four
Speaker 1: years old, than Caleb Smith, who was approaching thirty UM,
Speaker 1: So I might Brendan McKay above Caleb Smith kind of
Speaker 1: closer to to Griffin Canning. There's a go about it.
Speaker 1: Mitch Keller is my guy here this year. Yeah, that's fair.
Speaker 1: I think I like Mitch Keller the most out of
Speaker 1: this group as well. If I were ranking it right now,
Speaker 1: I would go Mitch Keller at the top. I would
Speaker 1: go Caleb Smith, then Griffin Canning UH, and then I
Speaker 1: would probably have both Michael Copeck and Forest Whitley ahead
Speaker 1: of Brendan McKay as well, just because I think that
Speaker 1: the upside UH is higher this upcoming season. But I
Speaker 1: could definitely be proved wrong Brendan McKay pitches anywhere close
Speaker 1: to how he did in the minor leagues last season. Greg, alright,
Speaker 1: there you go, Brendan McKay. Let's see him explode in
Speaker 1: the full major league season that he's going to have.
Speaker 1: All right, Frank, are there any pictures you want to
Speaker 1: talk about? It? Just pictures and catcher's day. We're gonna
Speaker 1: be want to the catchers, But there any other picture
Speaker 1: you want to make sure we mentioned now. I think
Speaker 1: we've got to a lot there, even through a little
Speaker 1: curb ball with Forest Whitley in there as well, I
Speaker 1: think it's worth mentioning both him and Michael Kopeck as
Speaker 1: the prospects starting pitchers that you want to target late
Speaker 1: in your draft this upcoming season or even in keeper
Speaker 1: leagues right where you want to take a shot on
Speaker 1: these guys, maybe in the middle to later rounds. I
Speaker 1: think Forest Whitley is a name to pay attended to
Speaker 1: as well. But we've got about twenty minutes left here
Speaker 1: on the show, Greg, so I would like to get
Speaker 1: to some catchers. It is pictures and catchers week here
Speaker 1: on the Fantasy BFS. I would say week week week,
Speaker 1: stretching pictures and catchers day long. You know, Greg, sure
Speaker 1: that that that's fair. But it's not my birthday all
Speaker 1: week long. It's a dual celebration. I make sure we
Speaker 1: have time to celebrate me to the catchers. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: actually the video the guy I was. I was proud
Speaker 1: of that video, Frank, I'm sure Sandro is downstairs as well.
Speaker 1: Yeah he should be. Scandro working his ass off on that.
Speaker 1: And it was a beautiful video. See Sean, Like Sean
Speaker 1: is proud, Sandro is proud, Alex is doing a great job.
Speaker 1: Everyone's doing a great job today. I'm in a great mood,
Speaker 1: fantastic mood. So I will stop just speaking randomly on
Speaker 1: the Catcher's NOWT like that one minute to go. It
Speaker 1: wasted all this time, Frank, I have two catches on
Speaker 1: my fantasy team right now that I could keep. One
Speaker 1: is Wilson Contraires in the eleventh round. The other is
Speaker 1: Will Smith and tenth round. What do I do? I
Speaker 1: would go with Wilson Contraires personally, just be called Is.
Speaker 1: We've seen him do it for longer, Greg, and we're
Speaker 1: gonna talk about Will Smith when we come back after
Speaker 1: the break. I like him. I think that he showed
Speaker 1: a lot of uh interesting talent from last year based
Speaker 1: on what he did in the Majors and the Miners
Speaker 1: combined thirty five home runs from the catcher position between
Speaker 1: the Miners and the major leagues last season here, Greg,
Speaker 1: but we will stick Trais is someone that we've seen
Speaker 1: do it for much longer, Greg, and he's been so
Speaker 1: consistent at the catcher position. So if you are deciding
Speaker 1: between one of these two guys, I would lean with
Speaker 1: Wilson Trais we come back, I'll tell you why you
Speaker 1: actually should like Will smithy as well, because he's awesome.
Speaker 1: That's that was easy. He's getting jiggy with it. Also
Speaker 1: a great answer, But Frank will have better ask here
Speaker 1: is in a moment, we'll talk more catchers here in
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Speaker 1: by DMB. For my birthday, Frank, this is fantastic. This
Speaker 1: is the show should be Who I know how to
Speaker 1: throw a birthday party? Or one? Greg? Let's go? You
Speaker 1: really do? Man? Do you want? Do you know what
Speaker 1: I'm doing for my birthday? I told Sonder this um
Speaker 1: a few months ago. I know he doesn't remember because
Speaker 1: it's not important, but you know what I'm doing tonight? Uh,
Speaker 1: You're gonna go out to dinner with my Cardono obviously
Speaker 1: for your birthday. I am not. I had lunch with
Speaker 1: my Cardano, so I don't have to go out to
Speaker 1: dinner with him now for um. So for Judy's birthday
Speaker 1: back in November. I bought her tickets to see Hamilton's
Speaker 1: the Broadway Show for her birthday. But I bought those
Speaker 1: tickets to see the show on my birthday, so we're set.
Speaker 1: Hamilton's tonight. Is that a good thing? Are you excited
Speaker 1: about that? Yeah? How old? This is awesome, man, it
Speaker 1: would be great Boozy Gray going to see Hamilton's on
Speaker 1: his birthday. No surprises there. It was a present for
Speaker 1: Judy's birthday. Man. They would come on like it was
Speaker 1: a president for her birthday. It was a nice thing
Speaker 1: to do. The only thing I screwed up on was
Speaker 1: I didn't check the Maryland schedule. They play at home
Speaker 1: against Nebraska tonight, and Sean, I'll trow this to you, man,
Speaker 1: because because you're in touch with this, seventeen and a
Speaker 1: half points is way too many points for Maryland to
Speaker 1: ever be favorite. That is correct, But Nebraska stinks. They
Speaker 1: lost by eleven at home to Michigan without their point guards,
Speaker 1: so it's possible. I don't think Maryland has been anybody
Speaker 1: by seventeen points. Maybe Marquette in in Orlando. Great, great, dude.
Speaker 1: I love the braw especially the rask in the first half.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, all right, we want to catch yours
Speaker 1: because no many cares anymore. Alright, Franks just like staring off,
Speaker 1: be like, I move on now, all right, let's get
Speaker 1: back to will Smith. You like Will Smith, but you're
Speaker 1: telling me yesterday you don't like him at this value?
Speaker 1: Why is that? Because Wilsmith was great? Way he came
Speaker 1: up last year about I believe why don't you like
Speaker 1: Will Smith where he's going? But you do like him
Speaker 1: as the player? Yeah? I like the player Will Smith.
Speaker 1: The problem is he's going ahead of Salvador Perez right now, Greg,
Speaker 1: and I don't think that that should be the case.
Speaker 1: And we're gonna talk about Salvador Perez uh in just
Speaker 1: a little bit. I like what I saw from Will
Speaker 1: Smith last year. Again, he had thirty five home runs
Speaker 1: combined between the miners and the major leagues. He actually
Speaker 1: struggled against left handed pitching. Is weird because he's a
Speaker 1: right handed batter and he actually crushed left handed pitching
Speaker 1: in the minor leagues last season. He had two eighty
Speaker 1: one with an ops over a thousand against left handed
Speaker 1: pitching in the miners last year, so I would expect
Speaker 1: him to improve against left handed pitching in the majors
Speaker 1: in two in One of the problems we see here
Speaker 1: Greg is he hit to fifty three. His expected batting
Speaker 1: average was twenty five, and the reason for that is
Speaker 1: his launch angle was actually just way too high. Like
Speaker 1: we want people to hit fly balls, we want them
Speaker 1: to hit line drives and raise their launch angle, especially
Speaker 1: if they've you know, hit too many groundballs in the past.
Speaker 1: The problem is his average launch angle was twenty three
Speaker 1: point seven degrees and he had a a flyball percentage
Speaker 1: over fifty three per cent, So he was basically going
Speaker 1: up there swinging for the fences every single time uh
Speaker 1: he was at the disc. So I think he has
Speaker 1: to bring that down a little bit this season. He
Speaker 1: actually has good plate discipline. He had right around a
Speaker 1: ten percent walk great Greig twenty six and a half
Speaker 1: percent strikeout rate. You don't like that. I think that
Speaker 1: could actually come down a little bit. Based on his
Speaker 1: swinging strike rate. He actually didn't swing and miss all
Speaker 1: that much, so I think his strikeout rate is gonna
Speaker 1: come back a little bit. And overall, the player that
Speaker 1: I'm expecting this upcoming season around a two forty batting
Speaker 1: average twenty two, twenty five home runs. Uh, you know,
Speaker 1: seventy seventy five r B. I s. I think that
Speaker 1: that's a good player, but I think that Salvador Perez
Speaker 1: can actually be better than that. So I just don't
Speaker 1: agree with Will Smith going ahead of Salvador Perez right now, Greg,
Speaker 1: I'm glad you brought it up. That's exactly the question
Speaker 1: I was gonna ask you, would you rather have Will
Speaker 1: Smith or Salvador Perez? Of course, Perez obvious the entire
Speaker 1: season last year with an injury. Uh, this year, he'll
Speaker 1: come back and not just play casher, which is something
Speaker 1: that as you excited. Yeah, he's gonna play a little
Speaker 1: d H. He's gonna play a little first base as well. Greg,
Speaker 1: and I was reading an article on The Athletic last
Speaker 1: night about the Royals projected opening day roster, and I
Speaker 1: came across this quote from Salvador Perez to miss a year,
Speaker 1: I know it's bad for the first time, but it
Speaker 1: helped me a lot healing. It helped me heal my body.
Speaker 1: So this is someone who played so much. If you remember,
Speaker 1: you know, he was like indestructible. He's basically playing every
Speaker 1: single day. He had four hundred and seventy one or
Speaker 1: more at bats in sixth straight seasons, so you know
Speaker 1: that takes its toll on your body. He's coming off
Speaker 1: Tommy John surgery. We've seen a lot of hitters actually
Speaker 1: come back from Tommy John and it hasn't affected them
Speaker 1: all that much, like Labor Torres for example, has been
Speaker 1: perfectly fine. And I think that could be the case
Speaker 1: for Salvador Perez this upcoming season. I think the year
Speaker 1: off is actually gonna do him a ton of help, Greg,
Speaker 1: because again, this is someone that was beat up catching
Speaker 1: every single day for the Royals. You'll get some extra
Speaker 1: at bats at d h at first base as well.
Speaker 1: He has twenty one plus home runs in four straight
Speaker 1: seasons a career to sixty five hitter as well. I
Speaker 1: think he personally that he's just gonna be better than
Speaker 1: Will Smith. So I don't really agree with Will Smith
Speaker 1: going ahead of him right now. Salvador Perez is actually
Speaker 1: one of my main catcher targets his upcoming season. Greg. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Perez healthier now rested, as you said, and always pretty good,
Speaker 1: and the fact that he plays every freaking day at catcher.
Speaker 1: He's so much um, so much more than so many
Speaker 1: other catchers give you and it just kills you. You
Speaker 1: get that too forty batting average, not enough home runs,
Speaker 1: too many couch and then you don't get the guy
Speaker 1: to play every day. At least Prez will be out there.
Speaker 1: Whether it's at catcher first phase, we don't care. He's
Speaker 1: catcher eligible, which is the most important thing. Let's move
Speaker 1: all do some of these. I guess not top five, six,
Speaker 1: seven guys, the catchers that you're getting a little bit later,
Speaker 1: but maybe you're considering as second catchers in two catcher leagues.
Speaker 1: Maybe just somebody that you have a good feeling on.
Speaker 1: And last year for many fantasy owners, Frank, that guy
Speaker 1: was Omar Nevayez for the Seattle Managers. But he's not
Speaker 1: Seattle anymore. He's in Milwaukee. We know what Yasmani Grandal
Speaker 1: did yet last season four at the Milwaukee burs Why
Speaker 1: can't Navarre's study yet. So I was looking into Omar
Speaker 1: Nurvayas and I already owned him on one of my
Speaker 1: Draft Champions leagues. I kind of will regret the pick
Speaker 1: right now and I want to go back and change it.
Speaker 1: And here's why. Right So I looked into Omar Narvayez.
Speaker 1: As a left handed batter, he really struggled against lefties
Speaker 1: last year, a two seven batting average at six o
Speaker 1: p s. Against right handed pitching, he was a two
Speaker 1: eighty nine hitter with an eight thirty six o p s.
Speaker 1: So there's a chance that we could see him a
Speaker 1: platoon from the catcher position as well. He wound up
Speaker 1: hitting two seventy eight last year with an expected batting
Speaker 1: average GREG of just two fifty four. His average eggit
Speaker 1: velocity was not very exciting, and he wounded up hitting
Speaker 1: twenty two home runs. He had a great season. You
Speaker 1: know that I was on Revilla's last year. I had
Speaker 1: him basically everywhere. He hit twenty two on runs last year,
Speaker 1: and the year before that he hit nine home runs.
Speaker 1: The year before that he hit two home runs. He
Speaker 1: kind of strikes me as someone that was helped out
Speaker 1: by the juiced ball last year, which is something you know,
Speaker 1: we're gonna try and have to figure out how to
Speaker 1: quantify this upcoming season. Greg but Omar revised his profile.
Speaker 1: Strikes me as somebody who was helped by the juice
Speaker 1: ball last season. I think he could still have a
Speaker 1: fine year, maybe like a two sixty two seventy hitter
Speaker 1: fifteen sixteen home runs, which is fine from a catcher too,
Speaker 1: But if you're expecting him to come close to what
Speaker 1: he did last year, I don't think that that's going
Speaker 1: to happen. Are we so sure you're going to have
Speaker 1: the juice ball? How it affected over to bas Omar
Speaker 1: Devias his game? Are you so sure that the juice
Speaker 1: ball is going anywhere? No, we're not sure. I mean
Speaker 1: that's something to pay attention to throughout spring training. You
Speaker 1: know a lot of people Greg say, uh, spring training
Speaker 1: is meaningless. I think this is actually one of the
Speaker 1: storylines we have to pay attention to throughout spring training.
Speaker 1: If you remember during the playoffs last year, I went
Speaker 1: to a few Yankee postseason games and there were a
Speaker 1: few balls that died on the warning track, where in
Speaker 1: the regular season those balls would have been way out
Speaker 1: in Yankee Stadium. So I think we saw them already
Speaker 1: go back to the regular ball that they were using
Speaker 1: in your year's past in the postseason last year. So
Speaker 1: I think that the assumption is they're probably gonna use
Speaker 1: that same ball heading into But you're right, there's no
Speaker 1: way for us to know exactly I like everybody. Honest, man,
Speaker 1: I think he's a guy that you you don't really
Speaker 1: have to spend anything on. And I think you're getting
Speaker 1: him cheap enough. Those home runs maybe if they were
Speaker 1: inflated the average man two seventy eight for a catcher.
Speaker 1: You have to like that that that bit wasn't crazy
Speaker 1: at three oh six. I think the hard hit percentage
Speaker 1: you wanted to be hired. It's a big bugaboo for me.
Speaker 1: Under thirty for hard hit percentage. For Devaiyaz, I assume
Speaker 1: a home run, a fly ball ratio is high. Sixty
Speaker 1: percent wasn't crazy. So I like Devas. I think he
Speaker 1: doesn't costume about and I think you should be happy
Speaker 1: that you owned on the few teams that you do already. Frankie, Yeah,
Speaker 1: like he's fine as a catcher too. I don't know
Speaker 1: that I would want him to be in the catcher one.
Speaker 1: And you know, here's what I will say, touching on
Speaker 1: you know what you said, I think it's okay. I
Speaker 1: think it's okay. It's a catcher one. And what you
Speaker 1: said about the batting average and the babbit, he is
Speaker 1: someone who always hits a lot of line drives a
Speaker 1: twenty seven and a half percent line drive right for
Speaker 1: his career, and last year that was a scent. Again,
Speaker 1: he is someone that year in and year out makes
Speaker 1: hits a ton of line drive. So obviously that's gonna
Speaker 1: help with the babbit, that's going to help with the
Speaker 1: batting average. I just want to see him play better
Speaker 1: against left handed pitching this upcoming season. If that's the case,
Speaker 1: then he probably can maintain this to seventy five maybe
Speaker 1: a two eighty batting average. The catcher that I pushed
Speaker 1: on us as our second catcher and all the leaves
Speaker 1: we were together is Frank was Francisco but Here, and
Speaker 1: he didn't do very very well in his first season
Speaker 1: San Diego to play enough this year he is projected
Speaker 1: to be the starting catcher. Is that enough for you
Speaker 1: to invest? Yeah, I'm interested in Francisco ma Here, especially
Speaker 1: in these two catcher leagues and in these fifteen team
Speaker 1: rotal leagues where you know you're gonna be deep diving,
Speaker 1: scraping the bottom of the barrel. Anyway, when it comes
Speaker 1: to the catcher position, assuming you spend up, assuming you
Speaker 1: don't spend up on someone like a JT. Real Muto
Speaker 1: or a Gary Stinchez. But you're looking at upside for
Speaker 1: at the position, and he's still just twenty four years old.
Speaker 1: He doesn't turn twenty five until October, so in his
Speaker 1: age twenty four season, and he's someone that I still
Speaker 1: believe does have upside. Greg last year in seventy nine games,
Speaker 1: he hit two sixty five and we saw what he
Speaker 1: did at the minor league level as well. He was
Speaker 1: someone who hit at every single level. Of the miners
Speaker 1: was Francisco Mahe had eight home runs, is twenty seven
Speaker 1: runs scored, twenty two r b I s. But it
Speaker 1: was hard for him to get into a flow last
Speaker 1: year because he was constantly splitting time with Austin Hedges,
Speaker 1: and Hedges is still there. He's probably going to just
Speaker 1: be mainly the backup catcher this upcoming season. But I
Speaker 1: think this is the year that the Padres kind of
Speaker 1: unleash Francisco Mihia and everyone wants a piece of the
Speaker 1: Padre's lineup right now, Manny Machado and you know, with
Speaker 1: Fernando Tatis Jr. And all the other names in that lineup,
Speaker 1: everyone wants a piece of the Padre's lineup. It seems
Speaker 1: like we almost have like prospect fatigue when it comes
Speaker 1: to Francisco Mihia, and I think because of that, you're
Speaker 1: getting him at a discount. I believe this is the
Speaker 1: first year that he is going to start and play
Speaker 1: full time regularly for the Padres. It wouldn't surprise me
Speaker 1: if he hits like two seventy with close to twenty
Speaker 1: home runs this upcoming season, which might actually working work
Speaker 1: out to be better than Omar Nervaiez in ten second
Speaker 1: Carson Kelly. The power potential is real. He comes with
Speaker 1: prospect pedigree as well. Just please, Diamondbacks give him the
Speaker 1: opportunity to play every day. Get Steven vote out of here. Greg,
Speaker 1: He's Franks NFL. My name is Greg sas Thank you
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