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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. We're gonna talk some pictures, We're
Speaker 3: gonna talk some bilos and sell highs. Those will been
Speaker 3: some of the later segments that you can find on
Speaker 3: YouTube and on audio. We're gonna start things off with
Speaker 3: rounding the bases as always, before we dive into some
Speaker 3: of the trending topics around in the league.
Speaker 4: Mayor, how are you doing?
Speaker 3: How are now that we're like a couple week because
Speaker 3: like that first week, it's okay, it could be.
Speaker 4: Kind of a fluke.
Speaker 3: You never know, like you know, it's really small sample size.
Speaker 3: A couple weeks in. How are your teams looking for
Speaker 3: the twenty twenty five fantasy season.
Speaker 2: It's kind of a mixed bag of everything. There's a
Speaker 2: couple leagues I'm doing really well. There's at least one
Speaker 2: league I'm doing really poorly, and the other few I'm
Speaker 2: like average, two above average. But you know, across my
Speaker 2: I think I'm in eight leagues. I'm doing fairly well
Speaker 2: in most of them, maybe one or two. I got
Speaker 2: some work to do. I'm in trouble, especially one one
Speaker 2: that we're in together. I'm near the bottom. It's my
Speaker 2: hitting that's really holding me back. I do have some
Speaker 2: players coming back that can help me soon, but it's
Speaker 2: not looking great right now.
Speaker 3: I was gonna say, you and I are in two
Speaker 3: leagues together, and I am performing very well in both
Speaker 3: of them.
Speaker 4: They are probably the two best leagues I am in
Speaker 4: this year.
Speaker 3: I have other leagues where I'm not doing so hot,
Speaker 3: including the Fantasy pros. Like in house Work League, I
Speaker 3: am in dead last.
Speaker 2: So that's are you're dead last? Me? You and Kelly
Speaker 2: were like the top three performing teams last week.
Speaker 4: Yeah, my first my first two weeks were.
Speaker 3: First of all, they counted the first half week as
Speaker 3: a full week, and I just had a bad like
Speaker 3: three days, and so that hurt me because it's a
Speaker 3: categories league.
Speaker 4: So I went like, you know, one and nine or something,
Speaker 4: and then I had.
Speaker 2: Like May, so you got to count that for this week.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I had a very poor second week. I
Speaker 3: was a good I had a good third week. But
Speaker 3: there's only so much he can bounce back, so a
Speaker 3: lot of work to do in that one. But yeah,
Speaker 3: let's let's side into some of the stuff going on
Speaker 3: around baseball. I put in you told me before we
Speaker 3: started recording that you don't really have a strong, you
Speaker 3: know take on this situation. But like we have to
Speaker 3: just mention Spencer Stryder finally returning, Like this is a
Speaker 3: guy who, prior to getting hurt, was the like as
Speaker 3: consensus of an sp one as you can get in
Speaker 3: fantasy baseball.
Speaker 4: You know, really no.
Speaker 3: Red flags at all, just you know, an elite, elite,
Speaker 3: elite fantasy ace. And Stryder went five innings, two runs,
Speaker 3: one walk, five strikeouts, gave up a home run. He
Speaker 3: threw ninety Evan pitches in his first outing back. Obviously
Speaker 3: he had a couple of reheb starts in there to
Speaker 3: build up the workload. But you know this is over
Speaker 3: a year you last saw him, and he looked like
Speaker 3: not too far off version of Spencer Strider. What was
Speaker 3: your kind of takeaway from watching that or checking the
Speaker 3: box score?
Speaker 2: Well, my first take was I actually tweeted about it
Speaker 2: how annoyed I am because I live in Georgia, where
Speaker 2: I should be able to watch the Braves, but they
Speaker 2: are not on local television because of like a you know,
Speaker 2: contract dispute, but then also blacked out on MLB TV,
Speaker 2: So the Braves are the one team I can't watch live.
Speaker 2: So I had to watch his back. I know some
Speaker 2: people were out there, they were a little concerned. The
Speaker 2: velocity was down like a mile per hour. I thought
Speaker 2: it looked fine, you know, like obviously he didn't look
Speaker 2: like the elite, elite, elite version of Spencer Strider. But
Speaker 2: I thought like, this is what a first start back
Speaker 2: looks like for a good picture, you know, like they
Speaker 2: don't always come out and throw eight shut out at inns.
Speaker 2: Sometimes you go out there he throw five innings, you
Speaker 2: don't have your best stuff and it's fine. Like he
Speaker 2: didn't get rocked. He didn't look amazing. I don't think
Speaker 2: the velocity was down enough that it's like concerning, because
Speaker 2: he still got a few fastballs up over ninety seven
Speaker 2: miles an hour. I think, I think that's going to
Speaker 2: be just fine. I think, you know, even if that's
Speaker 2: where he sits most of the season, I think he'll
Speaker 2: be okay at that. You know, it's not like he's
Speaker 2: you know, he through ninety three to ninety four. Now
Speaker 2: he's down at like ninety one, where it could be
Speaker 2: a problem. Which is kind of funny to say that
Speaker 2: now because like you know, in the nineties, you'll be like, wow,
Speaker 2: ninety one, that's great. But yeah, I know some people
Speaker 2: are a little worried. I'm not that worried. I think
Speaker 2: he looked fine.
Speaker 3: So I guess the real question is how many pitchers
Speaker 3: would you rather have than him rest of season?
Speaker 4: If the season started today.
Speaker 3: You're presuming you have him for the quote unquote whole year.
Speaker 3: The rest of they going forward, where is he? I mean,
Speaker 3: I'll tell you in ECR and rest of season rankings,
Speaker 3: which isn't always updated that quickly, but for what it's worth,
Speaker 3: he's at a sorry picture thirteen.
Speaker 4: Actually it's twelve.
Speaker 3: Because Otani's ahead of him just because of the way
Speaker 3: the rankings look, but obviously a Tani we're not looking
Speaker 3: at as a picture, so so really the twelfth highest
Speaker 3: ranked picture rest of season. There are definitely names ahead
Speaker 3: of him that I would rather have him than that.
Speaker 3: The names immediately ahead of him are Michael King, Corbyn Burns,
Speaker 3: still and ceased, Jacob de Gram.
Speaker 4: I'd rather have.
Speaker 3: Him than maybe all of those guys. Cease is maybe
Speaker 3: the one that I would think about, but I definitely
Speaker 3: rather have Strider than Corban Burns from what we've seen.
Speaker 3: I mean, I think Strider is less of an injury
Speaker 3: risk than Jacob de Gram.
Speaker 4: And Michael King said, you know, some good, some.
Speaker 3: Bad, but I'm pretty sure i'd rather have Strider as
Speaker 3: like that SP eight ish range is what first jumps
Speaker 3: out to me.
Speaker 4: What do you think about that?
Speaker 2: I in my rankings, I moving him up to SP five,
Speaker 2: So SB six five, okay if you include Otani, but
Speaker 2: SP five I only have Skiens, schoolbl Crochet, and Wheeler
Speaker 2: ahead of him, and then I have Strider and then
Speaker 2: you know the rest of the rest of the list.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I wand him up.
Speaker 4: So I think that's fair.
Speaker 3: The one name that is ahead of like even Crochet
Speaker 3: that you didn't mention his logan Gilbert in ECR, he's fourth, Okay,
Speaker 3: so you have.
Speaker 4: Him right after Strider.
Speaker 3: Okay, Yeah, I think that's sale in Reagan's like it's worth,
Speaker 3: you know, thinking about more. I think I'd probably rather
Speaker 3: have Reagans than Strider, but I totally get the case
Speaker 3: for reversing those I think that's like the tier i'd
Speaker 3: have him in, and I imagine that ECR will move
Speaker 3: up with Strider, Like, what do you see a couple
Speaker 3: more starts under his belt? Because there was I know
Speaker 3: you mentioned the velocity, but like, I'm pretty thoroughly unconcerned
Speaker 3: about what we saw. What about I'll just ask you
Speaker 3: one last thing on him. Is he somebody that you
Speaker 3: would be looking to include in trades either are you
Speaker 3: worried about some kind of injury you want to sell him?
Speaker 3: It sounds like no base on where you're ranking him,
Speaker 3: or would you be saying like, hey, let's let's make
Speaker 3: it offer for him as if he is an ace
Speaker 3: like actually pay up by high to get him in
Speaker 3: your roster.
Speaker 2: So I think about this a lot with like a player,
Speaker 2: because you I'm so, if you have Spencer Strider, you
Speaker 2: probably drafted him and waited and you know now you're
Speaker 2: happy because he's here. So do you want to just
Speaker 2: get rid of him already? I think the answer is
Speaker 2: only if it's a cell high like because a lot
Speaker 2: of times, like a you know, a player that was hurt,
Speaker 2: he comes back, you start getting trade offers like pretty
Speaker 2: much imediately, and you're like, hold on, bucko, like I'm
Speaker 2: the one who drafted this guy and stashed him, like
Speaker 2: I'm gonna you know, reap the benefits. Now you're not
Speaker 2: going to trade for him. I'd be willing to sell
Speaker 2: high because you know, there's always with any picture, there's
Speaker 2: injury concern, and especially coming off of Tommy John surgery,
Speaker 2: the thing that's most likely to happen coming off of
Speaker 2: Tommy John surgery is getting Tommy John surgery again. So
Speaker 2: there's always you know, concern there. But yeah, it would
Speaker 2: have to be a cell high for me because for me,
Speaker 2: I invested at him, I drafted him, and I think
Speaker 2: a lot of people were worried that, you know, he
Speaker 2: might not return till like May or June. But then
Speaker 2: you know, as we started getting into fantasy draft season,
Speaker 2: we start to see, hey, this guy's throwing off a
Speaker 2: mound already, and it starts to think, hey, this guy
Speaker 2: might be back by mid April. And that's exactly what happened.
Speaker 2: And so you probably got a pretty good discount on
Speaker 2: him depending on like when you drafted, because he's already back.
Speaker 2: So yeah, I'm definitely holding. But you know, if you
Speaker 2: want to, you know, make me a godfather offer, you know,
Speaker 2: I'll listen.
Speaker 4: By the way, just because I'm looking.
Speaker 3: The name right after him currently in ECR is Yamamoto.
Speaker 3: I think he should be hired to like I would.
Speaker 3: I would rather have Yamamoto than like from again, from
Speaker 3: what we've seen from Corbin Burns, I couldn't have been
Speaker 3: more out on Jacob de Gram in draft season. I
Speaker 3: would rather have Galvamodo than him, just total lack of
Speaker 3: trust there. Also not like he's been you know, stellar
Speaker 3: to start the year anyway, even aside from the injury stuff.
Speaker 3: Like so, I think Aavamoto is another guy that should
Speaker 3: should move up a handful of spots as well.
Speaker 4: In my opinion, I.
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Speaker 3: I want to look at an article on ESPN dot
Speaker 3: com where they did their ACE rankings. This is a
Speaker 3: few days ago, but it's since our last episode of recording,
Speaker 3: and I just kind.
Speaker 4: Of wanted to run through the list and see what
Speaker 4: you thought.
Speaker 3: Obviously, this is more just general ACE discussion than you know,
Speaker 3: specifically fantasy driven but you know, obviously they're the best
Speaker 3: pictures in one are probably going to be near the
Speaker 3: top of the best pictures in the other. And since
Speaker 3: we kind of start off talking about Strider, I wanted
Speaker 3: to kind of take a step back and evaluate. You know,
Speaker 3: in the last five years, there's been a lot of
Speaker 3: changeover of who the true aces in baseball are. So
Speaker 3: I think it's an interesting time to kind of reevaluate
Speaker 3: reset and say, who are you know the guys at
Speaker 3: the top. So in the ESPN article, which you know,
Speaker 3: anybody can just go google it, they have a number
Speaker 3: one Scooball hard to deny that coming off AlSi young.
Speaker 3: Number two Paul Skeens obviously like aggressive given how little
Speaker 3: experience he is, but hard to watch him and disagree
Speaker 3: with him as that being too high. Zach Wheeler the
Speaker 3: elder Statesmen here almost thirty five years old and not
Speaker 3: the strongest start to his year like the last couple outings,
Speaker 3: but obviously we still have a lot of.
Speaker 4: Faith in him.
Speaker 3: Garrett Crochet at four, Chris Sail at five, and then
Speaker 3: Framber at six. So the list goes deeper, but that's
Speaker 3: their Tier one, the slam dunk aces. I'm guessing you
Speaker 3: will largely agree with the top five. Obviously, Sale just
Speaker 3: has kind of the question of like health, but he's
Speaker 3: coming off the CI like was awesome last year, so
Speaker 3: I think that was top five are pretty pretty valid. Framber,
Speaker 3: I did not expect to see as a Tier one ACE.
Speaker 4: What did you think about that?
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a name that jumps out, I think. You know,
Speaker 2: my first thought was like, maybe you can argue against Sale,
Speaker 2: but I was like, well, he did just win the
Speaker 2: cy Young So as much as I want to like
Speaker 2: kind of fade him this year, hard to hard to
Speaker 2: deny how he bounced back with the Braves last year,
Speaker 2: But yeah, franber Valdez, like he's a really good picture,
Speaker 2: but I don't know if he belongs in that like
Speaker 2: tier one like ace you know conversation, especially because he
Speaker 2: and like I don't want to kind of like you know,
Speaker 2: speak out against like his style of pitching, because you know,
Speaker 2: there was some really good pictures in history who you know,
Speaker 2: like relied on contact and he's not like even that extreme.
Speaker 2: But like we don't think of him as like being
Speaker 2: like super dominant with like huge strikeout numbers. He's just
Speaker 2: like a really really good pitcher, and I would say
Speaker 2: he is an ACE. But to have him this high
Speaker 2: above some of the other names on the list, I
Speaker 2: think is a little interesting. Especially even if you wanted
Speaker 2: to have him at like six after a tier break,
Speaker 2: we would have like more of an argument, But to
Speaker 2: include him in this top tier is pretty intriguing.
Speaker 3: Do you think he definitely belongs even in the top twelve.
Speaker 3: I think it's fair to call him an ace, like
Speaker 3: is he is capable of being a team's best picture.
Speaker 3: But I might get to twelve names before I came
Speaker 3: up with him, if I was sitting down and saying,
Speaker 3: like thinking true real world like these are like the
Speaker 3: aces like let alone tier one, But this list only
Speaker 3: goes twelve step, which is why I use that number.
Speaker 3: I'm not sure I would have expected to see him
Speaker 3: on the list even if he still would be inside
Speaker 3: the top you know, twenty or twenty five or whatever
Speaker 3: would get you in the range of like still an ace,
Speaker 3: but not like a slam dunk tier one type of guy.
Speaker 2: I think he belongs in the list a lot more
Speaker 2: than one of the other pictures on this list. I
Speaker 2: can tell you that I.
Speaker 3: Wonder if we agree on who that other picture is.
Speaker 3: Let's look at some more of the rest of the
Speaker 3: list in tier two and this is just labeled as
Speaker 3: the second tier aces at number seven, Cole Reagan's number eight,
Speaker 3: Logan Gilbert number nine, Corbyn Burns number ten, Dylan Cease
Speaker 3: number eleven, Christopher Sanchez and number twelve Spencer Strider, mayor
Speaker 3: I wonder which name it is that you think doesn't belong.
Speaker 2: I think we're getting a little out of ahead of
Speaker 2: our skis on this. Christopher Sanchez love to includ him
Speaker 2: in this ACE conversation, like he's been a nice story,
Speaker 2: he's been really good. I don't know that he belongs,
Speaker 2: like not even on list ahead of Spencer Strider, like
Speaker 2: what are we doing here?
Speaker 3: Uh? And and some of the other names who aren't
Speaker 3: on the list like that. It clearly some of the
Speaker 3: guys on here, like Strider and Sale have injury risks.
Speaker 3: So if you're not if you're willing to set aside
Speaker 3: injury risk, I think Hunter Green should be on there
Speaker 3: ahead of him. I just mentioned Yamamoto on the fantasy side.
Speaker 3: I think he I would certainly take ahead of Christopher Sanchez.
Speaker 3: I mean, I think you make cases for some of
Speaker 3: these other guys that didn't make the list, like Freed,
Speaker 3: Schwellingback King, Kirby Schwellenbach, Logan Webb even like I I mean,
Speaker 3: Garret Cole's out for the year. They mentioned him in
Speaker 3: the kind of honorable mention. But yeah, Sanchez was like
Speaker 3: like Franmber was like an eyebrow razor in tier one.
Speaker 3: Sanchez is like an eye opener on this list.
Speaker 2: Of them all. I think Strollenbag is an interesting case
Speaker 2: just because like he's had in terms of like timeline
Speaker 2: and performance, he's had kind of like this same rise
Speaker 2: as Christopher Sanchez, just better and so like, I don't
Speaker 2: know how you include Christopher Sanchez based on that track
Speaker 2: record and not Spencer Swellenbach.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that was that was surprising anybody that you would
Speaker 3: want to make the case for being higher because we
Speaker 3: talked about a couple of idioms that we thought were maybe,
Speaker 3: you know, a little too high and it should be lower.
Speaker 4: Who would you raise on this list?
Speaker 3: I mean, Strider is like kind of an obvious one
Speaker 3: because the only reason he's twelve is because of the
Speaker 3: injury stuff.
Speaker 4: Is anybody else?
Speaker 3: I mean Reagan's I wonder if he's more of like
Speaker 3: a like a fantasy Ace than a real life Ace.
Speaker 3: But I'm actually not sure my thought process and even
Speaker 3: saying that, like he is really good, he should be higher.
Speaker 2: I think you could flip Logan Gilbert and fran ber
Speaker 2: Valdez and I'd be okay with that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I wo'd agree with that too. For sure Corbyn
Speaker 3: Burns will move on after this. I just thought it
Speaker 3: was kind of an interesting article and want to get
Speaker 3: your opinion.
Speaker 4: But Burns is the one. What do you make of him.
Speaker 3: For fantasy purposes moving forward? Because his stuff has gotten
Speaker 3: worse the last few years, it hasn't mattered. He's still
Speaker 3: been a very productive fantasy pitcher. Now the first year
Speaker 3: in Arizona like off to another slow start. He's on
Speaker 3: the wrong side of thirty. This article mentions that his
Speaker 3: cutter velocity is starting to slip. I watched a lot
Speaker 3: of him obviously last year, like you know, when he
Speaker 3: was on the Orioles, and it felt like he wasn't
Speaker 3: as good as like Cy young winner in Milwaukee Corbyn Burns,
Speaker 3: but he was still like clearly an ace. I wonder
Speaker 3: if we're just like trending in the wrong direction with him,
Speaker 3: Like when you think about him the rest of season in
Speaker 3: fantasy rankings, where would you have a guy like Burns
Speaker 3: just given what we've seen to start the year.
Speaker 2: I mean, I was not very high on him coming
Speaker 2: into the year for all the reasons you just mentioned,
Speaker 2: Like we're kind of seeing like there were there are
Speaker 2: enough red flags to be concerned, right, Like we already
Speaker 2: have enough concerns about most pitchers coming into the year.
Speaker 2: I don't need extra ones. Like with some of like
Speaker 2: the kind of like declining performance last year was like
Speaker 2: the first year, like there were points leass year, like
Speaker 2: he did not look dominant at all. He struck out
Speaker 2: lesson about a printing. I still have him my top
Speaker 2: twelve for now. I don't know, I just feel like
Speaker 2: I have to like to move him down just like
Speaker 2: based on like he's still finished with like a two
Speaker 2: point nine two er last year. It's still really good,
Speaker 2: still one hundred and eighty one strikeouts in one hundred
Speaker 2: ninety four innings. But we've seen the k rate decline
Speaker 2: for what four or five years now, and some of it,
Speaker 2: like it's not like kind of like a fluke thing
Speaker 2: like some of his other like you mentioned, like velocity
Speaker 2: and other things are kind of on the decline too
Speaker 2: and have been for a while. So it doesn't seem
Speaker 2: like a temporary blit. It seems like a trend and
Speaker 2: something that you know, he's he's been really good despite it.
Speaker 2: He's kind of like you know, I don't know if
Speaker 2: you would call it like learn to pitch around it.
Speaker 2: But you know he's he's been adjusting, but you know,
Speaker 2: another slow start. I think there are reasons to be concerned.
Speaker 2: He doesn't have that deep you know, super Wall in
Speaker 2: Baltimore behind him anymore. Now he's out in the in
Speaker 2: the heat in Arizona, and uh yeah, I think there's
Speaker 2: a lot of reason to be to be worried.
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Speaker 3: Sorry, crust our next topic here. We talked a little
Speaker 3: bit last week because I had him as a pickup.
Speaker 3: It looks like the A's are shuffling their lineup around
Speaker 3: even more to make room for.
Speaker 4: Their top prospect Nick.
Speaker 2: Again.
Speaker 3: We talked about him as a pick up last week,
Speaker 3: but in the last since the last time we've recorded,
Speaker 3: we've seen you know Brent Rooker playing in the outfield,
Speaker 3: like some somebody had to move to make room between
Speaker 3: DH first and then somebody going to the outfield, and
Speaker 3: and it looks like the A's are are setting things
Speaker 3: up to make that room for him. He's been awesome.
Speaker 3: I think that while we were recording last week, he
Speaker 3: hit another home run in the minors. First base is
Speaker 3: not the strongest position in Fantasy this year. There are
Speaker 3: still some great names at the top, so like obviously
Speaker 3: you know, we're not talking about him in the level
Speaker 3: of like Vlattie, Harper, Olsen Freeman, Alonso, Josh Naylor, those
Speaker 3: are the top six. At what point do I get
Speaker 3: to a name and I'm gonna keep reading names in
Speaker 3: ECR at the position, At what point do I get
Speaker 3: to a name where you think you would reasonably consider
Speaker 3: ranking Kurts as soon as he gets called up in
Speaker 3: terms of rest of the season at first base, because
Speaker 3: the next names after Naylor, Cody Bellinger, Salvador Perez, Christian Walker,
Speaker 3: Tristan Cassis, Wilson Contreras, Jake Berger, Jan or Diez.
Speaker 2: Am I supposed to stop you or you're just gonna
Speaker 2: I thought you were.
Speaker 4: I thought you were going to stop.
Speaker 2: Okay, Tristan Cassas you I would gladly have Nick Kurtz
Speaker 2: or Tristan.
Speaker 3: Cases because that puts him as as tenth at the
Speaker 3: at his position. Now, there might be other names that
Speaker 3: you would actually you think are too low and would
Speaker 3: move up. There's a lot of guys on this list
Speaker 3: who have multiple position eligibility to you know, like Burger
Speaker 3: and parade As is eligible a third and Arias and
Speaker 3: second and stuff like that. But it sounds like you
Speaker 3: see him as a borderline top ten first baseman as
Speaker 3: soon as he gets called up.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's one of those things where it's an upside play.
Speaker 2: Like there is a lot of concern with what we've
Speaker 2: seen with the young hitters coming up in the last
Speaker 2: few years, where they, you know, just look incredible in
Speaker 2: the minors and then come up and struggle in the majors.
Speaker 2: He looks the part, you know, it's just destroying minor
Speaker 2: league pitching. And I think there's just a case to
Speaker 2: make where a lot of the players on that you
Speaker 2: just mentioned like we kind of like know what they
Speaker 2: are or we can expect the production. Like Christian Walker,
Speaker 2: someone w talk about he's off to a look a
Speaker 2: slow start, and you know, like a Jake Berger also
Speaker 2: off to a slow start, Wilson Cadreres, And then like
Speaker 2: there's hitters like Vinnie Pascentino where it's like we kind
Speaker 2: of like know what he is, Like he's a good hitter,
Speaker 2: Like I don't think there's a massive ceiling there. Nick
Speaker 2: Kurtz might have a massive ceiling, And so there's kind
Speaker 2: of like that mystery box element where you're like, you know,
Speaker 2: I'm all rank him aggressively just for the chance that
Speaker 2: you know, he kind of breaks out and you get
Speaker 2: this huge power potential because like if he looks half
Speaker 2: as good as he in the majors as he does
Speaker 2: in the miners, like we're talking about a league winner here,
Speaker 2: and so yeah, I think you have to be aggressive
Speaker 2: on him just for you know, just for the chance.
Speaker 3: So what about some of the names that are further
Speaker 3: down the list that I didn't get to because they're
Speaker 3: still ranked probably a bit too low, but who are
Speaker 3: off to strong starts, not the guys that we expected
Speaker 3: to be good and who off to slow starts. With
Speaker 3: the reverse because guys who are ranked a lot lower
Speaker 3: but who are playing well. Tyler Soderstrom Spencer Torkle, Michael Bush,
Speaker 3: Ben Rice. Where does he fade in amongst those guys?
Speaker 3: Would you rather make the upside swing with Kurtz or
Speaker 3: would you rather just bump some of those guys way
Speaker 3: up who have had early steps of a possible breakout
Speaker 3: this year?
Speaker 2: So Soderstrom is the name that jumps out that I
Speaker 2: already bumped into him up to my top ten. So yeah, Soderstrom,
Speaker 2: I think like I I in some ways based on
Speaker 2: the hot start, like we're hoping Nick Kurtz comes up
Speaker 2: and looks like Tyler Soderstrum.
Speaker 3: So oh if he plays like Soderstrom, it's an A
Speaker 3: plus Grand Slam, Like that's a win.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So in that case, like I don't want the
Speaker 2: mystery box, I want the boat, you know, Like yeah,
Speaker 2: So Sodastrim is probably the line there. Like Ben Rice,
Speaker 2: I you know, he's been a fun story. He plays
Speaker 2: in a great ballpark. I just hope that he continues
Speaker 2: to play every day. You know, you never know with
Speaker 2: who's coming back to that Yankees lineup. They already have
Speaker 2: gold Schmid in for his base, so I worry about
Speaker 2: him losing playing times again lefties, But you know, he's
Speaker 2: someone I picked up you know, we mentioned earlier in
Speaker 2: the ESPN Fantasy League for Fantay Spurs that you and
Speaker 2: I are in. I picked him up there. He's my
Speaker 2: util for now, so happy with his production. But yeah,
Speaker 2: there's a certain appeal of Nick Kurtz that you know,
Speaker 2: I think I'd rather have Kurts than some of them.
Speaker 3: What were the other namess, Turklesen, Rice, Michael Bush good
Speaker 3: game a couple of days ago.
Speaker 4: I think Soderstrom is the best of that group.
Speaker 2: Like, yeah, I think it would be, and then I'd
Speaker 2: probably rather have Kurts than those other guys.
Speaker 3: The other thing about Kurtz, by the way, he is
Speaker 3: an excellent I mean in the minors, so we'll see
Speaker 3: how it develops. But like his reputation, is an excellent
Speaker 3: defensive first baseman. So once he is up, you would expect,
Speaker 3: like even if his bat is taking some time to adjust,
Speaker 3: which we have seen in recent years, that the glove
Speaker 3: will keep him in the line up every day.
Speaker 2: Last part, Sorry, speaking that before we move on talking
Speaker 2: about Tyler Soderstrom. There have been some whispers that he
Speaker 2: could play some third base, which would be really good
Speaker 2: for fantasy. If he got third base eligibility.
Speaker 3: I would be really annoying myself for not picking him
Speaker 3: up in more leagues if he becomes third base eligible,
Speaker 3: because that third base is a black hole for me
Speaker 3: on every roster I have in Fantasy this year, I
Speaker 3: did not like go heavy. Well, I've Bregmant in a
Speaker 3: couple of places, which is fine, but like outside of
Speaker 3: the leagues where I have Bregmant, I do not.
Speaker 4: Have a good third baseman anywhere.
Speaker 3: Yeah, all right, so there are last topic here in
Speaker 3: rounding the bases was going to be a different topic,
Speaker 3: and then you kind of backed out at the last second.
Speaker 3: He said, you got a little too busy, and so
Speaker 3: you changed it up. We're gonna look at some transactions
Speaker 3: from some of our SYNCD league data on Fantasy Pro.
Speaker 3: So these are teams that have sec third leagues through
Speaker 3: my playbook on Fantasy Pros, and we can get information
Speaker 3: about some of the most added players, some of the
Speaker 3: most dropped players, and some of the most traded players.
Speaker 4: We'll start with the most added. At the top of
Speaker 4: the list. We have Bobby Miller.
Speaker 3: He's number one on the list. I'm looking at some
Speaker 3: of the other pictures here.
Speaker 2: Probably going to be one of the most dropped next week.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Hesea Kintana, Hower, Molly, you know, Merril, Kelly, jakerb
Speaker 3: and some of the pictures on the list before we
Speaker 3: get to the hitters. From the picture standpoint, what do
Speaker 3: you make of those names?
Speaker 2: Well, Bobby Miller was picked up because he was He
Speaker 2: made his debut for the Dodgers, it did not go well,
Speaker 2: and he's probably going back to the miners. You know,
Speaker 2: the Dodgers have a bunch of injuries right now, but
Speaker 2: they also just have a gazillion pitchers and so they're
Speaker 2: not going to have any time for struggles. You know,
Speaker 2: I was really high on Bobby Miller a year or
Speaker 2: two ago, and it just like I don't know what happened,
Speaker 2: but the he's off the rails now. So he was.
Speaker 2: He was picked up. It's like speculative ad you know,
Speaker 2: by a ton of people. I'm sure they're like, hey,
Speaker 2: here's a good young pitcher pitching on the Dodgers, and
Speaker 2: well it didn't go well, so he's going to be
Speaker 2: one of the most dropped. Jose Kintana off to a
Speaker 2: really strong start, not striking out a ton of guys,
Speaker 2: but a really good numb two strong starts. Other than that,
Speaker 2: Tyler Molly is an interesting one. We talked about a
Speaker 2: little bit last week as a picture that we liked.
Speaker 2: There was actually a special on him on MLB Network
Speaker 2: this morning where they're kind of like talking about how
Speaker 2: he doesn't have this elite fastball, but he has an
Speaker 2: elite fastball with rate right now. I would say almost
Speaker 2: an unsustainable fastball with rate right now for a guy
Speaker 2: who doesn't have like an electric fastball. He's just kind
Speaker 2: of doing it with like smoking mirrors. So I don't
Speaker 2: know how sustainable that is, even though he's a pitcher
Speaker 2: that I like and who's pitching really well right now.
Speaker 3: Some of the hitters on the most Added players list,
Speaker 3: a couple of Rays are first and second amongst the hitters,
Speaker 3: Jonathan Ronda and Cameron Meisner. Just keeping it to those
Speaker 3: two for SUO, would you rather have between those two?
Speaker 2: Probably Aronda just for the you know, the profile there.
Speaker 2: The thing that concerns me is about like all Rays
Speaker 2: kind of in that tier in general, is that like
Speaker 2: they have so many of these guys that the second
Speaker 2: one of these guys gets cold, they're just going to
Speaker 2: rotate another guy in and just piece it together. Like
Speaker 2: and you know, I know you like, is his name
Speaker 2: Chandler Simpson? Is that his first name?
Speaker 4: Yes?
Speaker 2: Yeah. Down in the miners, they have like a few
Speaker 2: guys who could just come up at a moment's notice
Speaker 2: and then like these guys are you know gone, So
Speaker 2: they're really kind of just for me, I would think
Speaker 2: streaming options. I know Ronda's kind of been around for
Speaker 2: a while and he's been like when he's in the lineup,
Speaker 2: he doesn't really play against lefties, but when he's in
Speaker 2: the lineup against right he's been in cleanup, which is
Speaker 2: pretty nice. And the numbers are you know, very strong
Speaker 2: to start, like, he's not gonna hit four hundred all year,
Speaker 2: but he is right now.
Speaker 3: Looking at the most dropped players list Easton Lucas, who
Speaker 3: I believe we talked about on last week's episode as
Speaker 3: a possible pickup, or at least you talked about him
Speaker 3: as a possible pickup.
Speaker 4: He is now by far the most draft player.
Speaker 3: You're Tanner Hawk obviously is dropped a lot in our
Speaker 3: in our head to head points league that you and
Speaker 3: I are both in the way the scoring works. He
Speaker 3: got negative seventeen points. Oh man start against serious and
Speaker 3: I'm facing him, which was superb for me. That was
Speaker 3: that was a joy to watch. So he's number two
Speaker 3: most dropped. There's really four names that are like, by
Speaker 3: far the most dropped.
Speaker 4: Lucas is number one by a mile, and.
Speaker 3: Then how Matt Shaw is number three, and Taiwan Walker
Speaker 3: is number four. Of those four, do you kind of
Speaker 3: agree with like the order of that and are you
Speaker 3: very willing to drop all four? I mean, obviously Shaw
Speaker 3: is not in the majors anymore, so that's an easy one.
Speaker 3: But for those three pitchers, like you know, are you
Speaker 3: are you very willing to drop those guys too.
Speaker 2: I'm pretty willing to drop them. I wouldn't have Easton
Speaker 2: Lucas as the top to drop because he was pitching
Speaker 2: well before the Star and they have like one bad
Speaker 2: start like Tanner how got obliterated And maybe he's just
Speaker 2: not the most dropped because he wasn't on enough rosters,
Speaker 2: whereas Easton Lucas was like, all right, here's a guy
Speaker 2: pitching pretty well, so now everyone.
Speaker 3: Lucas is a guy like you pick somebody up because
Speaker 3: they're doing well and they have a terrible start, and
Speaker 3: that's like, oh, if I'm going to drop somebody to
Speaker 3: make room for somebody, Like, that's a natural person to drop,
Speaker 3: so I get it with him.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and he's like a streamer Taiwan Walker. I'm a
Speaker 2: little interested that he's the most dropped. It must be
Speaker 2: like a lot of daily leagues, just because he's a
Speaker 2: two star pitcher this week, so you would think he
Speaker 2: would be more on the added side. But he did
Speaker 2: just have a bad start, which is probably why he's
Speaker 2: now on the drop list.
Speaker 3: Obviously, Justin Steele dropped as well, out for the season,
Speaker 3: so sad one. He's a fan of Fantasy pros. We're
Speaker 3: a fan of his, so that's when we are sad
Speaker 3: to see get dropped. Yeah, some of the other names
Speaker 3: like Jeffrey Springs, Zach Thine, Victor Scott, Spencer Steer, anybody
Speaker 3: stand out to you. Jackson Holliday is getting dropped a lot.
Speaker 3: He just hit a Grand Slam yesterday, so maybe too
Speaker 3: left center, I think, Yeah, it was like like I
Speaker 3: would call it more just like up the middle. It
Speaker 3: was technically oppo as opposed to a poll, but it
Speaker 3: wasn't like to left field.
Speaker 4: It was like definitely just left of center.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think Jeffrey Springs is an interesting one because
Speaker 2: he's a picture that I really liked coming into the year,
Speaker 2: gotten off to kind of a shaky start. But I
Speaker 2: think the tiebreaker there in terms of like, you know,
Speaker 2: keeping him and holding onto him is that ballpark. Because
Speaker 2: that ballpark is just home run Central right now. So
Speaker 2: I kind of don't want a guy who's gotten off
Speaker 2: to a slow start and he's just going to be
Speaker 2: in that ballpark all season, and like it's not even
Speaker 2: we're not about at April yet, Like if that's what's happening
Speaker 2: in April, like what's going to happen in July in
Speaker 2: that in that ballpark? So yeah, I kind of I
Speaker 2: can see. I would probably try to like hold in
Speaker 2: trade Jeffrey Springs, but I get it. If you can't,
Speaker 2: you just have to drop him.
Speaker 4: Number one most traded players. Marcus Simeon, what do you
Speaker 4: think about that?
Speaker 2: I get it, you know, another player of the slow start.
Speaker 2: It's it's possible, like is this it is this the end?
Speaker 2: I get it? Like that. You know there's you like
Speaker 2: the power speed potential, although the speed nevers have been
Speaker 2: down recently, you know, recent years, but there are signs,
Speaker 2: you know, he's kind of like never had like the
Speaker 2: best batted ball data. But he's you know, he's been
Speaker 2: really good the last several years, but it just seemed
Speaker 2: like the last couple of years maybe it wasn't a
Speaker 2: down year, like maybe it's just like, you know, he's
Speaker 2: not a young player and it's not not going in
Speaker 2: the right direction here.
Speaker 3: Other names are the most traded list. Christian Walker We're
Speaker 3: going to talk about a little bit more in our
Speaker 3: next video. Kien Parris. That makes sense. The guy kind
Speaker 3: of comes out of nowhere and is playing amazingly well.
Speaker 3: Those guys are often good trade candidates. Corman Burns, who
Speaker 3: talked about already Gunner Henderson. I get actually just how
Speaker 3: so low his start has been. But you know, people
Speaker 3: are gonna want to buy into the stud Chris Sale
Speaker 3: Casey my is coming off his first not great start
Speaker 3: here of the season, has been traded a lot. Boba
Speaker 3: Schett somebody that I really liked investing in in draft season.
Speaker 3: You get further down the list, you know, Rookie Sasaki
Speaker 3: an interesting one. Jacob Wilson an interesting one. Raphael Devers
Speaker 3: who stands out to you amongst kind of anybody really
Speaker 3: on the list.
Speaker 2: Sales an interesting one. You know, he probably a lot
Speaker 2: of these trade conversations started, you know, a starter or
Speaker 2: two ago when he was like still like kind of
Speaker 2: like not looking great and people were seeing it if
Speaker 2: they good buy low, which I gets he's someone like
Speaker 2: if I had I would be open to trading, but
Speaker 2: I'm also like, you know, I'm always willing to buy
Speaker 2: low if you're trying to like sell below market value,
Speaker 2: and I'll take a swing, and you know, see if
Speaker 2: he turns it around. And so far it seems like
Speaker 2: he's going to Boba Shitt I think is an interesting one,
Speaker 2: just because like it seemed like heading into the season,
Speaker 2: he was like the hot name in the industry that
Speaker 2: everyone's at all like he's gonna have a bounce back year,
Speaker 2: he's gonna be great, and he has gotten off to
Speaker 2: a pretty good start. But I do wonder like he's
Speaker 2: probably it doesn't think he's gonna run anymore. And so
Speaker 2: I wonder how many of these fantasy managers are kind
Speaker 2: of like, can I cash in on this hot start, like,
Speaker 2: you know, for this player who might be like dare
Speaker 2: I say a little overrated at at the moment, Even
Speaker 2: though I like Boba Shitt but it's like it's like, yeah,
Speaker 2: he's bad in like three or five, but he also
Speaker 2: has no horme runs and those deals, so it's kind
Speaker 2: of like an empty three or five from a fantasy perspective,
Speaker 2: So I could see that being like a sell high situation.
Speaker 3: One player that I was actually surprised isn't on the
Speaker 3: list and we'll wrap up after this was Jung Hu
Speaker 3: Lee of the Giants, who has been good. I mean,
Speaker 3: he's got three home runs and three som bases. His
Speaker 3: ops is over one thousand, he's hitting three thirty eight,
Speaker 3: he's got ten doubles on the season, just twelve strikeouts
Speaker 3: through seventeen games. I mean, he's not a player that
Speaker 3: we've never heard of before, but I feel like we
Speaker 3: haven't really talked about him, like really ever on this show,
Speaker 3: but he's been very good. I was kind of thinking
Speaker 3: we might see him on a most traded list and
Speaker 3: we don't.
Speaker 4: Is he somebody that.
Speaker 3: You would be looking to maybe consider selling high on
Speaker 3: or would you buy high if you don't have him.
Speaker 3: Are you a believer in what he's done so far
Speaker 3: this year? Or is he just more of a hold
Speaker 3: and you know, ride the hot streak?
Speaker 2: While you can, Well, it's interesting that you bring it
Speaker 2: up because he's an am. I looked pretty hard at
Speaker 2: this week when writing the Bilo cell high blurbs I
Speaker 2: had to write for the article, and I remember actually
Speaker 2: going from Marcus Simon's page on stackcast to Jung Huli's page,
Speaker 2: and I was shocked with how much red is on
Speaker 2: Jung Huli's page, And so I was like, well, maybe
Speaker 2: he's not the biggest sell high, Like maybe some of
Speaker 2: this is legit. I don't think it's legit looking enough
Speaker 2: that i'd be willing to buy high, but I think
Speaker 2: if you have him, there's some promising underlying very bright
Speaker 2: red data here that seems like some of it's legit.
Speaker 2: We'll see how long it lasts. But it's like, so
Speaker 2: far it doesn't seem like overly fluky. It's like obviously
Speaker 2: still an incredibly small sample size, and if you want
Speaker 2: to like make me a really good offer, I'd probably
Speaker 2: sell high. But just a lot of times when I'm
Speaker 2: looking at the article, I'm looking for a cell high
Speaker 2: for kind of like an obvious reason, whether it's like
Speaker 2: injury concerns or like, I think these numbers are kind
Speaker 2: of fluky whereas him, I didn't. I didn't end up
Speaker 2: picking him as my cell high just because it looked
Speaker 2: like some of the underlying data looked really good.
Speaker 3: We're wrapp things up there, be sure to check out
Speaker 3: the rest of the cycle. We'll be hitten to some
Speaker 3: bilo cell highs, some waiver ads, some picture stuff in
Speaker 3: a couple of episodes dropping on both video and audio
Speaker 3: over the rest of the weekend.
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